Sinking the Bills of Publick Credit of This State of the Square Form So Called May Be Repealed and the above Said Bills Pass as Spacified in the Face of the Same or Untill the above Sa Bills May be Called in By a Tax as you in your wisdom Shall See Fit and your Humble Potitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray At a Town Meeting held at Mason Dec' y* 15: 1777 The abov Potition Being Read ye Town unanimously Voted That Sa Potition Be Presented to the Gen' Cort By the hand of y Representitive of Sa Town Attest [7-48] Benjamin Mann Town Clark In obedience to a Vote Passed in the general Court Directing the Selectmen of the Several towns in this state to Return the number of male Poles from twenty one years old and upward paying for themselves a Pole Tax in order to apportion the Representation according to the New Constitution we do hereby Return for the town of mason one Hundred and forty male poles paying for themselves a Pole Tax in Sa mason mason December ye 5th 1783 Elijah Keyes Selectmen [Sworn to before Benjamin Mann, justice of the peace. ED.] [7-49] [Vote relative to Paper Currency, 1786.] At a Legal Town meeting held in Mason (by adjournment) on Fryday ye 8th Day of Dec 1786 Voted not to have Paper Money on the Plan proposed by the general Court No. 17-& not one appeard for it on s Plan: No: Eleven Not for Paper Money on any plan: and three for paper Money on some Plan. Mason Dec' ye 8th 1786. Coppy Attest William Eliot Town Clerk To Benjamin Mann Esq' Representative for sd Mason & Raby. [See Vol. XI, page 130.—ED.] [R. 2-267] [Soldiers' Orders.] To Nicholas Gilman Esq' Treasurer Sir Please to pay Benjamin Mann Esq' the whole of my wagers & milage that is made to me on Capt William Barron Pay role for a three months Campeign in the year 1780 and it shall Discharge you from me Mason September the 9th 1782. Joshua Richardson To whome it may concern this may certify that Jn00 Richardson in my Roole For 1780 is Joshua William Barron Capt [R. 2-268] To Mr John Taylor gillman Treas' For the State of New Hamp Sir Please to Pay the Bareor Benjamin Mann The wages that appears Due to me For the months January Feb' March & april in the year 1780 as a Soldier in the Continental army in ye 3 new hampshire regt Lt Coll Company and his Receipt Shall be a Discharge For the Same per me, also the arears of Clothing Mason June ye 1st 1784 David Hall MEREDITH. The town was incorporated by the governor and council December 30, 1768, at which time it received its present name. Previous to its incorporation it was known by the name of New Salem, some of its early settlers being formerly residents of the town of Salem. It was within the bounds of Mason's Patent, and as incorporated included the present town of Laconia. By an act approved December 30, 1799, Stone-dam and Bear Islands were annexed to this town. A division of the town took place July 14, 1855, the south-easterly portion being incorporated into a town by the name of Laconia. By an act approved July 3, 1873, a portion of Meredith was annexed to Centre Harbor. [7-51] [Petition for an Incorporation, 1768.] To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Captain General Governor & Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire, & The Hon: His Majesty's Council The humble Petition of David Lawrence Esq' and Ebenezer Smith Gent" in behalf of themselves and others Proprietors & Inhabitants of NEW SALEM (in the Province aforesaid) upon Winipisiokee Pond. Sheweth That 17 Families have actually Settled and are now resident in New Salem aforesaid, and four other Families are preparing to go, & reside there. That they humbly apprehend they are ripe for an Incorporation; and an Investment with Town Priviledges, which will greatly assist the present Settlement, and accelerate its Completion as they can thereby make proper Highways, & have power to chuse Town Officers &c They therefore pray your Excelley & Hon" to take the premises into your Consideration, and that they may be incorporated accordingly And your Pets will ever pray &c Portsmouth 16th June 1768. David Lawrence Ebenezer Smith [The foregoing petition was granted, and the town incorporated by the name of Meredith, December 30, 1768.— ED.] [7-54] [Soldiers' Orders.] meredith December ye 15th 1777 S Pleas to pay Col° Ebenezer Smith the full Sum of the Rations Due to me the Subscriber as an Ensign in your Regiment in Gen' Starks Brigade-and you will oblige your Humble Serv Robert Bryant Ensign To Colo Thomas Stickney-of Concord [R. 2-268] To the paymaster of the continental men Pleas to pay Ebenezer Smith the whole of Pay due to me up to the first of the year 1782 I being soldier in the Newhampshire line in Colonel Reids regiment and you will oblige your Humble Serv New Salem January 27th 1785 To the Treasurer of the State of New Hampshire Sir please to pay Daniel Cook or his order all that is due to my late husband Nathaniel Chase deceased who was a Soldier in the 2d N H R, and was killed in 1781 This Certifies that Betsy Chase the above signer is the Widow & sole heir to the aforesaid Nath' Chase deceased who was a Continental Soldier from New Salem Phineas Gorden Town Clarke [R. 2-270] [Relative to William Maloon, Soldier.] The deposition of Nathaniel Wadleigh of lawful Age testifies & Says that William Mallon was in the Service in the Contental Army as one of the six months men in the first New Hampshire Regiment in Captain Farewells Company in the year 1781-& I suppose that he had his discharge at the same time that I & the Rest had our discharge & he & myself Came out of Camp together & further saith not Meredith March 12th 1791 Nathaniel Wadleigh [Sworn before Ebenezer Smith.-ED.] [7-52] [Petition for a Change of Day of Annual Meeting, 1784.] State of Newhamps Strafford ss meredith march the 25th 1784 at a Legal town meeting this day holden the Second article in the warning of Said meeting Voted to Petition the General Court to alter day of holding the annual town meeting of Said town from the first monday of april to the Second monday of march for the futer and that Ebenezer Smith be a Committee for that purpose a true extract from the minuites of sa meeting attest Ebenezer Smith town Clerk [The date of annual meeting was changed, by an act passed November 5, 1784, to the second Monday in March. -ED.] [7-56] [Petition of the Baptist Society for an Incorporation, 1797.] To the Senate and house of Representatives of the state of Newhampshire Convened at Concord June 1797 Humbly Sheweth the Petition of the undersigned that they are and have been a Religious Society in the town of Meredith for a Number of years Past Known by the Name of the Baptist Society and have Erected a meeting house and ordained a Leading teaching Elder But we Labour under Some Disadvantages for Not being Incorporated into a Body Poletick so far as to manage our Parroshall affairs and Being unconnected with the other Society in said town we your Humble Petitioners pray this Honorable Court to Pass an act to Encorporate Said Society with full Power to transact their own matters as Concern them at any time as are Incident to a Religious Society we Desire that said Incorporation may be such that any Person or Persons may hereafter have Liberty at any time to Joyn this Society or withdraw them selves therefrom as they may see fit and as in Duty Bound we your humble Petitioners Shall Ever Pray |