Governor Wentworth’s 1771 grants of land to Dartmouth and Wheelock contained this interesting condition:

That all White and other Pine Trees fit for Masting our Royal Navy be carefully preserved for that use & none to be cut or felld without our special License for so doing first had & obtained on penalty of the forfeiture of the Right of the Grantee in the Premises his Heirs & Assigns to us our Heirs and Successors as well as being subject to the Penalties prescribed by any present as well as future Act or Acts of Parliament.¹John Wentworth, Grant to Dartmouth College and Eleazar Wheelock (19 December 1771), in Albert Stillman Batchellor, ed., State of New Hampshire. Town Charters Granted within the Present Limits of New Hampshire (Concord, N.H.: Edward N. Pearson, Public Printer, 1895), 87-88.

Wheelock apparently got into some trouble later when pines fit for masting were discovered downriver with his blaze on them.

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