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The inhabitants of Neweberry having been moved to leave their plantation, they have granted them Winnacunnet, or any other plantation upon Merrimack below the first falls, & to have six miles square, & those that are now inhabitants, & shall remove within one year, shall have three-years immunity (as Concord hath).* The three years beginning the first of the first month next. MGC
For reasons unknown, the Newbury inhabitants did not settle Winnacunnet under this order.
*immunity from taxation by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Although Bachiler and company asked for permission to settle Winnacunnet less than a year later, this deal was not offered to them. Hampton was assessed a colony rate in 1640.
