those petitioners for a town ship in Quamscot as for y° generality of ye said petitioners are poor people and several of them according to ye best of our knowledg instead of defraying any town charge are reather likely to be a town charg themselves. Your earnest desirers to his Excellency the Governour & Councell Sitting at portsmo this 23 day of Aprill, 1715 Wee the Representatives for ye town of Hampton pray that where as there is a petition of a Company of persons for a township at a place called Quamscock we pray there may be no proceeding in ye matter before the westward line of Hampton be run for that Sundry of ye petitioners are persons y' have no Land of their own but have entered into hampton mens Land laid out into lots to perticular men & possessed more than 60 or 70 years since & there being severall writs against some of them ye above s petitioners Causes them to endeavor to gett a grant of other mens possessions &C Your humble Servants Joseph Smith Peter Weare Joshua Winget [4-2012] Wears Petition for a Township 8br 3d 1717. Too His Excelency Samuel Shute Esq' Govern' in Cheeff of His Majesties Province of New Hampsheir, &C. & to the Honourable the Council of said Province May Itt Please your Excellency and your Hon" In as much as ther is a great quantity of Land in this Prov ince unsettled & nowayes belonging to any particular Township we ye subscribers do become your humble & ernest Petitioners that A certain Tract thereof may be granted & Layd out for y Regular settelmt of A Township for us & our Heirs & other His Majets Loyal & good Subjects-The Bounds of which Township we desire may Run from ye Massachusetts Line 12 miles Norward & so 12 mils squar in ye Chestnut Countrey Commonly so called-In granting of which Petition your Excellency will greatly oblidge your Humble Servants Joseph Tilton Benjamin Pearkins Jacob Garland Sener Josep Page John Sherburn Son Nat' Bachelder jur Abraham Drack Ichabod Robie Roger Shaw David moulton Jno Nay Jonathan Cass Josep Cass Tho: Marston Sen James Perkins Abel Ward Sam' Cass Nat Bachelder Sen' Moses Downer Benja Tole Josh Lane [The foregoing are Hampton and Hampton Falls names. The petition was presented to the council October 3, 1717, by George Jaffrey, in behalf of Major Peter Weare.—ED.] [4-205] [Warrant for Parish Meeting, 1719.] This is to give notice to ye ffreeholders of Hampton that they meet on Munday the second day of March next att yo old meeting house in Hampton att eight A clock in y morning to choose Town officers &c.-And ye freeholders of ye old parrish to consider then & order about Raising the new meeting house and order something about ye seates, & glass of y old meeting house. ffebruary 21st 1718/19 Nath' Sargent Justice of Peace [4-204] [Falls Men present at said Meeting.] Att y meeting of ye freeholders of Hampton March y 1 1718/19 men there present of ye fales side & voted with rest of y freeholders to choice of Town officers [4-206] [New Parish Men present at said Meeting.] Wee whos naims are hear under Subscribed being at ye town meeting ye 2th of March 1718/19 did vote for Chusing town officers and thought it was our Duety and according to act of y honerble Governer & Councell and have Reson to think all our people that was thair at the town meeting acted in ye same Nath' Bachiler Sen' Joseph Tilton Joseph Swett Joseph Cass Samuel Shaw Nathan Longfellow Jonathan Philbrook The above Subscribers are all the Leding men allmost in the new parish & of Estats Save M' hilard who is Redy to Subscribe but is at Boston which is a princble man [4-207] [Petition for Grant of a Township, 1731.] To his Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq' Governour and Commander in Cheif in and over his Maiesties Province of New Hamp' and to the Honourable his majesties Council the Petition of sundry Inhabitants of the Town of Hampton in the sa Province humbly sheweth That most of the Towns and Parishes within the province of New Hamp' have been favoured respectively with Charters for considerable tracts of his Majesties Wast Lands within this province for the making of new Towns proper to them, and though it was proposed in the time of granting these Charters that a Charter should be granted to the Inhabitants of the Town of Hampton, yet through neglect due notice was not given to the greatest part of the Inhabitants of that town to seek after a right in any of the new Towns or in any entire body of Land for their proper use, most of whome have done very great service in this his Majesties province as souldiers against the Indian enemy but have not been favoured with any share in the new grants, at which they are extremely grieved, and therefore earnestly pray for help from your Excellency and Honours, and pray that you will please to grant your Petitioners who are represented by the subscribers and a List of their names hereto annexed, a Tract of Wast Land within this province to be embodied into a Town as the other new Towns be, or that whereas your Petitioners are informed that the Charter of Chichester is forfeited by the Proprietors by their neglect of fulfilling the conditions thereof, which Town was originally designed for the Town of Hampton that your Excellency and Honours will please to make them a grant thereof, and yo' Petitioners will punctually comply with the conditions to be set thereon and shall ever pray as in duty bound &c May 1731. Joseph Towle Thomas Marston March y 23 1731 an account of the mens names that petitioned for a new Township [In council, May 5, 1731. "Suspended till next Session."-ED.] [4-209] [Bill of Expense for Constructing a Pillory, 1732.] for Time and expense for the Pillorey that wee caused to be built att Hampton In June Last Past by order of his Majesties Court of sessions then sitting their the wholl charg forty Shillings Jonathan Marston Select men Hampton June 1732 [In H. of Rep., April 29, 1733, 25 shillings was allowed. -ED.] [4-210] [Petition of North Hill Inhabitants relative to paying Ministerial Rates: addressed to Gov. Belcher and the Assembly, 1738.] The Petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of the North Part of Hampton in said Province humbly Sheweth That your petitioners labour under great difficulty as to attending the Public |