Thomas Tuttle Thomas Kinnison Joseph Emerson ett Josiah Durgin Joshua Burnham Ens" Jonathan Cap Timothy Emer son Joseph Follet Walter Philbrook Daniel Smith Thomas Hill Dodifer Plummer A true Coppy Attest— David Munsey Jun' Deacon Joshua Burn ham John Williams Jun' William Callwell Widow Lois Pinkum Lieut Winthrop Frost [The original list contains the amount of "Foreign Debt, Domestic Debt, State Debt," assessed against each man.[ED.] [6-46] [Notice of a Meeting of Alarm-men, 1787.] State of New Hampshire The Gentle-Men belonging to the alarme List in the Parish of Lee are Desired to attend at the House of Elijah Cartlan in said Parish on Tuesday the Seventeenth Day of April Current at Two of the Clock in after Noon, For to Chuse the Necessary officers for to Command said Company Nottingham April 4th 1787 Thos Bartlett: B. General [Officers Chosen at said Meeting.] Strafford ss Lee April 17th 1787 at a Meeting Duly Notified & heald in Lee on the said 17th Day of april for the Choise of officers to Command the Company of alarame List in said Town the Votes being Called for & Brought in it appeared that George Tuttle was Chosen to Command said Company Capt John Layn for the Second officer M' Josiah Dow for the third officer attest Tho' Bartlett B. G [6-47] [Fob Runnels recommended for a Magistrate, 1789.] State of New Hampshire-Strafford ss We the Subscribers Do humbly petition that his Excelency and the hono Senate would Anominate and Appoint Lieu Job Runels of Lee to Be a Civil Magistrate in the Lower part of the Parish there being No justice of the piece within five Miles of the above Named & therefore we do humbly pray that your honours would Grattify our desires— Dated at Lee this 19th December AD 1789 Richard Elliot Jno Footman Jonathan Runals Christo' Faxon Amos Furnald Sam' Burley Valentine mathes Sam1 Hill Ebenezer Randel Clement Davis John Clough To his Excellency the President and the Hon the privy Council of said State The Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Lee, finding great inconveniences arise from the want of a Civil magistrate near the Centre of business in said Town, would request your Excellency & Honor that some suitable person may be Commissioned of the peace-and if it would not appear too assuming, would beg leave to mention Capt Paul Giles as a man calculated to give universal satisfaction to the Inhabitants in said Office Your Excellency's & Honors attention to this request will greatly oblige Your very humble Servants LEMPSTER. The township was granted Jan. 1, 1753, to Samuel Clark Pain and others, by the name of Dupplin. This grant was made four days later than the grant of Acworth, and probably for the same purpose. No settlements were made under this grant, neither were any attempted or expected. A re-grant of the territory was made Oct. 5, 1761, to Benadam Gallop and others. The conditions of this grant were not fulfilled in the matter of settlements, and another grant was made Jan. 5, 1767, to Dudley Woodbridge and others, in sixty-seven equal shares. Settlements were made under this grant, by people from Connecticut, about the year 1770; and in January, 1772, there were eight families in town, not enough, however, to comply with the conditions of the grant, and on the 21st day of that month the time for completing the settlement was extended three years. See petition, Vol. IX, p. 466. By an act passed Dec. 27, 1791, the north-east part of the town was set off, and, with portions of Unity, Newport, Fishersfield (Newbury), Wendell (Sunapee), incorporated into the town of Goshen. The jurisdictional line between this town and Washington was settled by an act approved Nov. 27, 1812. [6-49] [Relative to the Town's Quota of Soldiers, 1783.] To the Honourable General Assembly to be holden at Concord on tuesday the Twenty Eighth Day of this present October, we your Humble and Dutiful petitioners the Town of Lempster beg leave to lay before your Honours a matter Respecting an Extent now Against s Town for Sixty pounds the One half of which we pray may be taken of and we flatter our Selves that when your Honours Understand the matters as they are you will Release s Town therefrom the matters of fact are as follows that Some time in the Year 1778 we Received Orders from his Hon' General Bellows to Join in with the Town of Acworth and Raise one man for three Years or during the war to serve for Both Towns and Accordingly we Agreed with one Mathew Grear for three years and paid sd Grear About forty Pounds as our half of his bounty and Capt Keyes of Acworth Agreed to go with the s Grear to the muster master and have him mustered and set to the Town of Lemster but Contrary to that had him set to the Town of Acworth and Returned for them and the sd Grear in a few months After inlisted During the war whereby the Town of Lemster were intitled to the one half of s Grear and in 1782 Each Town made a Return of sa Grear to the Committee of Safety and sa Committee gave Us a Citation for s Acworth to Appear and give Reasons if any they have why the Town of Lemster should not hold s Grear but Advises us to Agree with sa Acworth and we went and Agreed with the Selectmen of Acworth to have one half of sd Grear Credited to sd Lemster and the Other half to sd Acworth Carried their Certificate for that purpose but the s Comittee said they could not Divide a man and so Laid the whole of sd penalty on the Town of Lemster and now we Request no more of your Honours Only to Divide s Extent and The s Lemster to pay but One half as they that were of Acworth Requested the Honble Committee of Safety to, And we your Dutiful Petition Shall Ever pray— Allen Willey Select Men [In H. of Rep., Nov. 8, 1783, the foregoing petition was granted. ED.] [6-52] [Return of Ratable Polls, 1783.] The Number of Ratable Polls in the Town of Lemster Twenty one years old & upwards is fifty three to be Returned persuant to the with in Order taken by us [6-53] Allen Willey Jabez Beckwith Select Men [Civil Magistrate wanted, 1785.] To the Houn1le Council Gentlemen as their is a Veakency in Lancaster for a Justice of the peace I as a Representative for that Town have taken Sum pains to Inquiar who is the fittest person for that Office, and the people Differ Sum in Sentiment-But Capt william Cary and mr Elijah frink is held up to Vew-as proper persons Either of them for that office |