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Blake's Gore

BLAKE'S GORE.CHARTER OF BLAKE'S GORE .Blake's Gore.THE GOVERNOR COUNCIL AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE Freemen of the State of Vermont .To all People to whom these Presents shall come Greeting : .Know Ye that Whereas Timothy Blake and his Associates our worthy Friends have by Petition requested a Grant of a tract or Gore of unappropriated Lands within this State for Settlement situate lying and being between the towns of Sharon and Straiford in the County of Orange within this State Bounded as followeth .Beginning at the northeasterly Corner of Sharon. Then running north sixty five degrees and thirty minutes west six miles and eighteen Chains to the northwesterly Corner of Sharon — Then north thirty nine Degrees east to Strafford Line — Then easterly in the Line of Strafford and Thetford to the bounds began at. — .We have therefore thought fit for the due Encouragement of their laudable design and for other valuable Considerations us hereunto moving And Do by these presents in the name and by the Authority of the Freemen of the State of Vermont give and grant the Gore or tract of Land above bounded and described unto the said Timothy Blake and to the several persons hereinafter named his Associates viz' Daniel Gilbert, James Carpenter Andrew Downer, Abel Buel, Nathaniel Brown, Aaron Seekens, Benjamin Litley, Zebulon Flanders, Samuel Lad, William Currier, Theodore Dam, John Harris, John Henry Camber and James Carpenter Jun''. And that the said Gore or tract of Land be and is hereby annexed unto and hereafter shall be taken and reputed a part of the Town of Strafford and the inhabitants which do or shall hereafter inhabit said Gore shall be entitled to have and enjoy all the priviledges and immunities that the other inhabitants of Strafford aforesaid do and ought by Law and the Constitution of this State to exercise and enjoy. To have and to hold the said granted Premises with all the Priviledges and Appurtenances thereto belonging and appertaining unto the said Grantees and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever as Tenants in Common and not as Jointenants upon the following Conditions and Reservations (viz') that each Proprietor in the Gore before described his heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate five Acres of Land and build an house of at least eighteen feet square on the Floor or have one Family settled on each respective right within the term of three Years next after the second Thursday of October which will be in the Year of our Lord 1787 on penalty of the Forfeiture of each respective right or share of Land in said Premises not so improved or settled And that the same revert to the freemen of this State to be by their representatives regranted to such persons as shall appear to settle and cultivate the same .And that all Pine Timber on the Premises suitable for a Navy be reserved for the use and benefit of the Freemen of this State. .In testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of this State to be affixed in Council this eighteenth day of June Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty five and in the ninth Year of the Sovereignty and independence of this State. . .Tho. Chittenden .By His Excellency's Command .Micah Townsend Secry.

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Mary Blake

11 Mar 1787 – 6 Mar 1794

Strafford, Orange County, Vermont, USA

Plot info: 43.85738, -72.40802

Abigail Bean Brown

16 Dec 1765 – 1843

Strafford, Orange County, Vermont, USA

Absalom Brown

2 Oct 1759 – 13 Jul 1837

Strafford, Orange County, Vermont, USA

Nathaniel Brown

1725 – 7 Nov 1804

Strafford, Orange County, Vermont, USA

Miriam Sargent Flanders

1748 – 1808

Strafford, Orange County, Vermont, USA

Zebulon Josiah Flanders

15 Aug 1737 – 1798

Strafford, Orange County, Vermont, USA

Plot info: 43.83385, -72.43038

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Tabitha Raymond Seekins

1751 – 1840

Swanville, Waldo County, Maine, USA

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