porate into a Town & Body Politic all those who Dwell within the Limets and bounds with the Lands agreably to the Plan herewith Committed-Granting to them all the Rights Previledges & Emunities Equal to Other Towns In said State-for which your petitioners as in Duty bound will ever pray—

If the Representation of our Affair herein Given should not be satisfactory to the Honourable Court; we would humbly Ask the feavour that a Committe might be Appointed by the Hon Court to Come and View our Situation and make Repourt thereof and we the Subscribers will pay the Charge thereof if the Hon1e Court Sees fit we should

[6-227] [Report of a Committee of Conference, 1785.]

We the Subscribers being a commette chosen by the Petitioners of the North westerly part of the Town of Lyndeborough to meet a commette Chosen by the Town of Lyndeborough to see if the too Commettes in behalf of the parties could come into any method of agreement for the preasant agreable to the advice of Hon' Commettee from the General Court conserning A petition witch now lies in the General Court the prayer of witch petition is that the s North west part together with the strip &cc be incorporated into a town We the Comette do say in Behalf of the petitioners that we are willing to Remain together with the Town for the Term of three years from the 7 day of Next September 1785 Provided we draw four fifths of what money we pay toward our Revna Ministers Sallery in money or preaching By a Vote of the

Town-Nevertheless it is to be allways understood that the Hon' Court Commette at this Session Report that the petitioners of the s Northwesterly part &cc be set off Either as a town or parish as they shall think Best at the end of the Term we have prefixed and also that the Hon' Court pass a Vote that our agreement with the Easterly part of s town be not altered by the town within said term, Furthermore that if by reason of sume advers providence it should be come Necessary to build another Meeting house or any Extraordinery Expence should arise in the town within said term witch we trust will not be the Case we say we do not hearby Oblige our selves to such Expence—

Lyndeborough Febr 2d 1785

Jno Savage
Joseph Herrick Commete

[6-230] [Remonstrance to a Division of the Town.]

To the Honorable the Councel & House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire in General Court Assembled

The petition of the Inhabitants of the town of Lyndeborough by their Committe-Humbly sheweth

That Whereas the town has been served with a Copy of a petition of a number of the Inhabitants of this Town Requesting that they with a particular part of the town of Lyndeborough therein Mentioned May be set of & Incorporated with Duxbury School Farm Mileslip with a part of Amherst into a Town &c &c And Calling upon the town of Lyndeborough to Appear & shew Reasons If any they have why the prayer of said petition should not be Granted At their Next sessions on the second Thursday Whereupon the town being Legally Assembled Voted & Choose a Committe to Appear & Assign Reasons Accordingly

We therefore the Committe beg leave in the Name & behalf of the Town Humbly to Represent the following Reasons why the prayer of s petition should not be Granted & that part of Lyndeborough therein Mentioned set of & Annexed to Duxbury School farm &c.

That in the year 1765 When the Town was Small but few Inhabitants About 40 families in all when we Attempted to build a Meeting house & settle the Gospel among us-Frequently when Town Meetings were Called & we attempted to Agree upon a Particular Spot of Ground for the Meeting house

to Stand upon-They Voted Against Our proceedings & threw in Protests offering the Following Reasons-Viz That the place Voted is not Commodious for building a Meeting upon-And that they were not able to Support a Minister—And in 1766 after the Meeting house Spot Was fixed upon for their Accommodation they Cordially Agreed with the other Inhabitants to proceed in building a Meeting house & settling the Gospel in Town-And Accordingly the town did Unanimously proceed in 1768 to build a Meeting house on s Spot to Accommodate s petitioners in particular & to settle the Gospel in s Town which was done with Great Uninimity & which still Continues-And as sd Meeting house stands at a Great distance from the Center of the Town Not More than two Miles from the East line Measuring from the Meeting house And at least five miles from the west line of sa town-And the Meeting house has been handsomely & Decently finished at the no Small Cost & charge of the Town, And as the Town is settling fast in the North North west, West, & South, west part some of the Inhabitants have now the Travil of 4, 5, 6 & 7 Miles as their Roads Run to Attend Publick Worship; And If sd part of Lyndeborough Shd be set of such Inhabitants from sd parts of the Town will Immediately Call for a Remove of the Meeting house or to be set off by themselves into Seperate Parishes to the Destruction of the Town Whereas the Cost & Charge of Building & furnishing the Meeting house & settling the Gospel is hardly Got Over by the Inhabitants in General as they are Now Compact together-Altho there has been the Greatest harmony & Concord thro' the Whole Charge Moreover that from the North East of the Meeting house to the East line of the Town the Land is poor & not Capable of making Settlements & in all Probability will Never be Improved And as from this Circumstance It will fully Appear that the Meeting house was settled in its Present Place to Accommodate sa Petitioners Your Hon" will Easily See the Unreasonableness of their being set off from the Town

Again that in the Northwest part of the Town there is a Large Range of Mountains About two Miles from the Meeting house And a Great Number of Inhabitants Now settled on the West & North west part of the Town beyond those Mountains And in all probability the whole Tract will be settled in the Course of a few Years, when it is Likely they will be set off by Themselves—And If the Prayer of the Aforesaid Petitioners Shd be Granted & the Land therein Mentioned be set off And in Process of Time the west Part of the Town likewise It will leave a Poor Parish indeed such an One as Cannot by any means Support the Gospel & Other Necessary Charges

We therefore Submit these Considerations to Your Hon"

Wisdom to Do therein as to Justice Shall Appertain And as in

Duty Bound Shall Ever pray

Levi Spaulding

Benjamin Cram Committe
David Badger)

[The project did not succeed.-Ed.]

[6-220]

[Return of Ratable Polls, 1783.]

To the General Court of the State of New Hampshire

The Number of Polls from twenty one Years Old and upward paying Taxes in the Town of Lyndeborough is one Hundred and Sixty Six

Lyndeborough December 12 1783

To the Treasurer of the State of New Hampshire

Sir please to pay to Capt Levi Spaulding what is due to Me for My Service in the Army of the United States

Lyndeborough—y 27th 1784.

Benj Smith

This Certefieth that the above Order was given to Cap' Levi Spaulding by Benja Smith

The Bounty advanced by Lyndeborough to William Shaw a private 1 Regiment is seven pounds six shillings & six pence, which has been deducted from his depreciation

Ex per Josiah Gilman Ju

[Lyndeborough Men in First N. H. Regiment.]

[Nathaniel Batchelder entered March 20, 1777; discharged March, 1780.

Samuel Barrons entered May 1, 1778; discharged May 20, 1780.

Reuben Dunnel entered March, 1777; discharged March, 1780.

Israel Hale entered Feb. 26, 1781; discharged October, 1781.

John McIntire entered March 8, 1777; discharged March 20, 1780.

Moses Ordway entered March 8, 1780; discharged December, 1781.

John Putnam entered February, 1781; discharged December, 1781.

John Rowe entered April 15, 1777; discharged 1780.

Benjamin Smith entered March 14, 1777; discharged December, 1781.

David Smith entered March 14, 1777; discharged Jan. 1, 1780.

William Shaw, entered July, 1777; discharged February, 1778.

Edward Spaulding entered February, 1781; discharged December, 1781.

Joseph Wilson entered Jan. 15, 1771; discharged December, 1781.]

[6-226]

[Relative to Military Affairs, 1785.]

To the Honble General Court of the State of New-Hampshire The Petition of the subscribers, Inhabitants of the Town of New-Ipswich, Peterborough Temple, Lyndeborough, Wilton, Mason, Peterboro'-Slip, Hancock & Society-land in behalf of our-selves and the Towns we belong to

Humbly sheweth

That by a vote of the General Court, passed the last sessions the Inhabitants of the Towns above mentioned were constituted the 23d Regiment of Militia: and that the Towns of Rindge, Jaffrey, Dublin, Packersfield, Marlborough and Fitz william were constituted the 12th Regiment, retaining the Number which they had, when connected with the greater part of the Towns