Sumner v. Conant
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment, to recover a lot of land in Barnard, numbered 165. The plaintiff claimed to derive title from Benning Wentworth, as one of the original grantees of said town of Barnard. On the trial of the cause, the plaintiff gave in evidence a copy of the charter of the town of Barnard, which grants the town in sixty-nine equal .shares to the persons therein named. After naming other grantees, the shares of Gov.
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Ejectment, to recover a lot of land in Barnard, numbered 165. The plaintiff claimed to derive title from Benning Wentworth, as one of the original grantees of said town of Barnard. On the trial of the cause, the plaintiff gave in evidence a copy of the charter of the town of Barnard, which grants the town in sixty-nine equal .shares to the persons therein named. After naming other grantees, the shares of Gov. Wentworth are mentioned as follows: “ His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq., a tract as marked in the plan, ‘B. W/ to contain five hundred acres, which is to be accounted two of the…
1Opinion of the CourtRoyce, J.
The charter grants the township of Barnard, to be divided into sixty-nine equal shares. And to the list of sixty-three individual grantees, named on the back of the charter, are added certain grants or reservations for public and pious uses, amounting to four shares, and to “ his Excellency, Penning Wentworth, Esq. a tract, as marked in the-plan £ B. W.,’ to contain five hundred acres, which is to be accounted two of the within shares.” This is the language in which the governor’s rights, under the provincial grants of New *18Hampshire, are generally described. And it is certain that in every…
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