[The following soldiers order their wages to be paid to the town: Benja Libbey, for six months in 1781. [R. 2-20] [Samuel Saunders orders his wages to be paid to Jn° Nicholls; John Taylor orders his to be paid to Joseph Badger; Mary Parry orders the wages due her, as heir to her son, Samuel Parry, deceased, to be paid to Benning Pickering, and the selectmen certify that she is heir to said Samuel.] [4-90 [Return of Ratable Polls, 1785.] State of New Hamp In the House of Representatives Nov 5th 1783. Voted, That the Selectmen of each Town & Place within this State be directed to return under oath to the Assembly of this State at their next Session the exact number of Male Polls from twenty one years of Age & upwards paying for themselves a Poll Tax within the said Towns and Places in Order to apportion the Representation of this State according to the new Constitution No 252 Polls In the Town of Gilmantown Paying for themselves a Poll Tax in the year 1783-being the age of Twenty One Years Gilmantown December the 12 1783 state of Newhampshire strafford ss Gilmantown, Decem' ye 13th 1783 Then the above Named Edward Gilman and Joseph Parsons Personally appearing made solemn oath that the account of the Number of Polls in the Town of Gilmantown by them Exhibited as above is Just and true according to the best of their Judgment sworn before Joseph Badger Justice of Peace [4-91] [Petition for a Magistrate, 1788.] To His Excellency the President of the state of New hampshire and Honourble the Council of sd state the Petition, of us Inhabitants of the town of Gilmantown,— Humbly sheweth-that the town, of Gilmantown, is a Large tract of Land as Large as three six mile towns and that the southeast part of said town are fully settled with Inhabitants and that there is no Justice of the Peace within about five miles of them, and it would be very Convenient to have one in that part of the town, Your petitioners therefore pray Your Excellency and Honours that Capt Joseph Parsons may be appointed to that office he being in our opinion, a suitable person for the office and Lives in the most Convenient place to serve the people of that part of the town, and Your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall Ever pray &c Dated at Gilmantown, Decem' y 22d 1788 [Joseph Parsons was appointed January 28, 1789.—Ed.] [4-92] [Petition to have Courts held at Norway Plains, 1789.] To His Excellency the President the Honble Senate and the Honble the House of Representatives of the state of New hampshire In General Court Assembled June ye 4th 1789 The Petition of us the subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Gilmantown, in the County of strafford Humbly sheweth that all the Courts of said County are now Held at Dover and Durham, which places are at the Very Lower End of the County and many of the Inhabitants of the County have to travel from a Great Distance some fifty and some sixty miles which is a Great hardship upon the people Therefore Your petitioners pray Your Excellency and Honours that all the Courts of said County may be moved to norway plain, in Rochester in s County where we apprehend to be the most Convenient place as all the Roads seem to Center there and a Convenient place for publick Buildings and Good accommodations for the Court And Your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall Ever pray &c [On three other petitions of the same date and wording are the following names :—ED.] Jacob Currier Jonathan Sargent Jacob Rowe Jacob Tucker Isaac Currier Samuel Mudget John Nelson James Ladd Jonathan gilman John Bean Ju Dudley Hutchinson John Swett John elkins Sam1 Fifield Winthrop Giluman Samuel Smith Micajah Morrill Samuel Greeley Joseph young Zebediah Wattson Ebenezr Page Jr Joseph young Ju' Antipas Gilman Samuel Gilman Dudley Prescott Israel Farrar Nath Wilson Ruben osGood Daniel Rowell Nathan Heart Nathaniel Gilman Benjamin Richardson Thomas morill wintrip Barret Matthias Weeks Ju Elish Sweat Joseph Jones Nathaniel Tilton Caleb Bean Noah Dow Edward Gilman Ju Ephraim Bickford Samuel Prescott Abner Clough Thomas Flanders Ju' John Tilton Samuel Tilton Lowel Sanborn Philbrick Row Levi Gilman Stephen Gale Samuel Jewett Josiah Rundlett Benjamin thurstan Jacob Rundlet Malachi Daveis John Gilman Jun John Mash John Wadleigh Jona flagg thomas foster John Bean William Parsons Jr Charles Currier Jeremy Connor Dudley Gilman Samuel Gilman Jr David Clough Joseph Richardson John Lang Weeks Caleb James Jeremi Richardson Jur Benjamin Weeks Thomas Sewall Jonathan Morrison Eben' Eastman Benja Richardson Samuel Young John Edgerly Simeon Hoyt Jonathan Rundlet John Bradbury wintrop Gilman Joshua Mudget Edward Bean Jonathan Thing winthrop Thing [4-96] [Action of Town relative to Gilmanton Academy, 1792.] At a Legal Town meeting held by the freeholders and other Inhabitants of Gilmanton on Thursday the Eighth day of March 1792 Voted to Choose a Committee to Consist of Twenty men to take under their Consideration the appropriating the School Right in said Town for a Publick Academy to be set up in some Convenient place in said Town and to make report at the adjournment of this present meeting Co' Antipas Gilman Mj Samuel Ladd Thomas Cogswell Esq L' Samuel Folsome Gilman Dr Jonathan Hill Co' Badger Col Greeley Capt Joseph young Thomas Taylor Benja Weeks Esq William Price Joseph Parsons Esq' Hon Joseph Badger Esq John Shepard Esq' L' Dudley Thing Josiah Avery Micajah Morrill Moses Page Revd M' Smith and Mr Powers were Chosen for the above Committee Voted to adjourn this present meeting to the first monday in May Next at Two of the Clock in the afternoon Monday May 7th 1792 pursuant to the adjournment met Voted to Except the Committes Report respecting the appropriating the School Right to the benefit of an Academy in said Town and is as follows April 19th 1792 at a meeting of the Committee to Consider of the propriety and advantage of Establishing an Academy in Gilmanton Voted 1st that it is the sense of the Committee that establishing an Academy in this Town would be useful to the Inhabitants and beneficial to the Publick 2ly Voted as it has been Represented to the Committee that the value of five Hundred pounds would be subscribed by Individuals for the above purpose therefore under these Considerations We the major part of your Committee do agree and it is our Opinion that the appropriation of the School Right towards |