have not forfeited by any misconduct as they humbly Con ceive. That at the time the arrangement was made, we are informed that the two Representatives from the said Northeasterly regiment were both necessarily absent from Court, and so had not an opportunity of laying the matter properly before them, which we conceive is the reason that the arrangement passed as it did, as we have too high an opinion of the wisdom & justice of the Legislature of the State, than to suppose that it would have been passed in the manner it was, had the matter been properly laid before them : We therefore pray that your Honours will be pleased to take the matter of this petition into your wise Consideration, and if it shall seem to you proper, make some alteration in the lines Deviding the said former Regiment; And that you will be pleased to restore to the Northeasterly regiment their former rank of the seventh regiment, to which we humbly conceive they are justly intitled; And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c Jabez Eaton Nathanael Morrill Willum Gorg Joseph Colins Juner Israel Dimond Juner Joseph Judkins Joshua Huntoon Sam french Edward Greeley John Clefford fifield Abraham French John Judkins Richard Sleeper Joseph Woodman Peter Sanborn Benjamin Sleeper Benjamin Sleeper Junr Rezia Beede Daniel Bacheller Benjamin Magoon Simon Magoon Daniel Smith Daniel Smith Junr William Sanborn Benjamin Sanborn Noah Sanborn Peter Fifield Amos Judkins Robert S. French Jacob Ordway Peter Abbot Jonathan Sleeper John Sleeper benjamin hubbard Gideon Webster Amos Burman James Noyes Jonathan Pollard Calab Sever Philip Davis webster Davis Benj" webster Sulla- Enoch Sanborn way Thomas Severance Isaac Pollard Jethro Sanborn Obadiah Sanborn Jer, Towle James Towle This may Certifie that it appears to us the subscribers That John Phillbrick of this Town has Really & Bonafidely made in his black smiths shop in said Town since the seventh Day of February 1789 One Hundred & Nine Thousand well wrought tenpenny Nails & also Twenty eight Thousand & eight Hundred sixpenny Nails Kingstown oct 3d 1791 This may Certifie that I have no Doubt but that the said Philbrick Really & bonafide made the Nails mentioned in the Above Certificate Oct° 7 1791 Simmons Secombe Justice of peace Received an Order on the Treasurer for five pounds John Philbrick LANCASTER. This township was granted July 5, 1763, to David Page and others, and named for a town in Massachusetts. The following September, David Page, Jr., and Emmons Stockwell cut a path through from Haverhill to the township, built a camp, and wintered there; and in 1764, the senior Page and his family, with Edwards Bucknam, and others, moved in and commenced settlements. The conditions of the grant, however, were not fully complied with, and on the 20th of September, 1769, an extension was granted. Indian depredations during the Revolutionary war caused most of the inhabitants to leave: others came when peace was restored, so that the town contained twenty-four families in 1787. By an act approved June 22, 1819, the tract of land known as Barker's Location was annexed to Lancaster. This was a tract of 3,020 acres, which was granted to Capt. Joshua Barker, Oct. 21, 1773, for service in the French war. The farm of E. Winchester was severed from Stark and annexed to this town Dec. 4, 1840. Lancaster was still further enlarged by the annexation of a portion of Kilkenny, Dec. 15, 1842. It is now one of the most flourishing towns in the northern part of the state. [6-6] [Petition of David Page for more Land, 1773.] Province of New Hampsh To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Captain General, Governor & Commander in Chief & to the Honble His Majesty's Council of said Province That your petitioner having been at great trouble & Expence in first attempting & since prosecuting the settlements at Upper Coho'os on Connecticut River which then was forty Miles distant from any other settlement, and that with incredible fatigue he has often travelled that wilderness Country back & forth to bring on his own with several other Familys having five of his own Children married & settled about him who have made considerable progress - besides frequently assisting others to explore the New Roads-by which means his small stock & substance is almost exhausted & himself impoverished in his old Age-He prays your Excellency & Honors Consideration. that for his Assistance & Releif in his present Difficultys-he may be favourd with a Grant of some vacant Tract of Land if to be found in that part of the Country, as to Your Excellency & Honours may seem meet, and your petitioner as in Duty bound will ever pray, &c. &c. Portsmouth 22d Jan 7 1773 [6-52] [Relative to Representative, 1775.] David page To the Honarabel Provincial Congress conveaned at Exeter Dec. 20, A D 1775.— Respected Gentlemen-we would take this opportunity to inform your Honorable House That the nine Towns in the upper Cohos have not complied with the precept of the last Congress issued to them for the election of a Representation the reasons of which conduct are these-first, the neady circumstances of the peple render it impossible for them to be at the expence of supporting one 2 the distance of the inhabitance and difficulty of communacation is so greate that it prevented a general attendance in the meeting for to chuse a representative we write to your honorable house as individuals but at the same time as being well acquainted with the minds of the people it is their universal desire not to be taxed to defray aney Expence of delegates maintaing this principel that their ought to be no taxation without representation we are with the highest respect for your house much respected Gentlemen your most obedient humble Selectmen for The town of Lancarster servants Lancarstar Dec 14th 1775 David Page} [6-7] James Brown} Select men for The town of Stratford Josiah Walker inhabitant of Stratford [Return of Ratable Polls, 1783.] State of New Hampshire Grafton ss :— Lancaster, Decm 2d 1783 The Number of all the male Poles from twenty one years old |