mer in the new Hampshier Ridgiment Command by Col John Goffe in the Company Commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Marston and came from number four about the 20th of november last and got home to my own house the 29th of said november, and well when I came home and after I had been at home eleven days I was taken sick and brook out with the small pox which was verey shoking and destresing to me and to my family who all left me and went to a house at a distance and no body with me for some days but onely Ceazer Long. [He was attended by Dr. Emery and Tristram Redman. Supplies were furnished by Major Moulton, for all of which he presents a bill amounting to £10, 8, 3, new tenor, which was ordered to be paid, and charged to the expedition fund. ED.] [4-216] [Relative to Small-Pox, 1758] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esqr Captain General & Commander in Chief in & over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire And to the Honorable his Majesties Council And the General Assembly of this Province now Conven'd May it please Your Excellency & the Honorable Council & the General Assembly The Humble Petition of the Minister & Two Selectmen of Hampton Town, Humbly Sheweth Whereas it hath pleased God in his Sovereign Providence to send the Small pox among us, & we have the Greatest Reason to fear it will soon spread into divers parts of the Town If Speedy & Effectual Care be not taken to prevent it-And though The Select Men have Impressd several houses to remove suspected persons into, according to Law-Yet they have been resisted by the owners of those houses-& their Lives threatned-So that the Major Part of the Select Men are discoraged & Determind to do Nothing further. And our present Danger being extremely great-We do therefore most humbly & Earnestly Entreat that the Legislature of this Province now assembled, would be pleased Imediately to appoint & empower some sutable persons to Come Imediately & remove these Infected persons to Sutable places, One of which lives so near to the Meeting house, that the publick worship of God must be broken up if not remov'd, & the other person Living close upon the Country Road in the Heart of The Town-which will prevent all Travellers as well as Endanger Considerable Neighborhoods-We do therefore earnestly beg the Imediate help of You Our Civil Fathers, According as You in your Great Wisdom Shall see fitt, And so Your Petitioners shall ever pray &c Hampton May 30: 1758 Ward Cotton John Weeks-Two of ye NB: One is supposed to have broke out yesterday & the other is expected to Break out every Day [4-218] [Vote of Town relative to Ministerial Rates, 1768.] Province of Newhampshire at a Legal meeting of the freeholders & Inhabitants of the town of Hampton held at the meeting House In said town on tuesday the twenty-first Day of March 1768 I voted Christ' Toppan Esq' is Chosen moderator for said meeting 11th voted to Excuse, mr Amos Coffin & stephen Page from Paying their ministers Rates for the three years PastHampton march 27th 1770 a true Copy attest- [4-219] Joseph Dow: town C1 [Relative to a Lottery, 1790.] We the Subscribers being informed that there is a Town Meeting Called in Hampton to see if the Town will Vote to petition the General Court for Liberty to raise a sum of money by Lottery Sufficient to Raise Hampton Causeway to such a hight as to make it Safe and Convenient passing at highwater when the Tides are high and as we have been informed that some persons have Doubted whether the owners of the marsh and Meadow Laying above said Causeway would Consent that it should be raised we being owners of said Marsh & Meadow have no objection but are desirous that it may be done Provided there be sufficient sluceways for the water being Sensable of the very great advantage it would be to travellers Especially to Strangers the passing over which Causeway often times is not only Dificult but dangerous & at some times Impracticable December the 14th 1790 To the Select men of Hampton to be Communicated to the Town at the meeting Anos Coffin Samuel Drake Cotton Ward John Taylor Simeon Shaw Josiah Shaw Stephen Coffin Reuben Dearbon Benjamin Shaw David Bachelder Joseph Dow Caleb sanborn Mickel dalton James Wedgwood John Drake [4-220] [Vote of Town relative to a Lottery, 1790.] State of Newhampshire Rockingham ss at a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hampton held at the meeting-House In said Town on monday the 27th Day of December 1790 Voted unanimous to Petition the General Court at their next session for a Grant of a Lottery, in order to Collect a Sum of money Sufficient to pay the Cost of Raising the town Causeway in said Hampton so High as to prevent High Tides & freshets overflowing the Same Voted Joseph Dow Philip Towle Josiah Moulton Jonathan Garland Josiah Dearbon John Fogg & Cotton ward be & hereby are Impowered a Committee (in behalf of said Town) to prepare a Petition and present the Same to the General Court for the purpose as above mentioned— Hampton Jan 3a 1791— a Copy attest Joseph Dow: town Clerk [4-221] [Petition for Authority to raise Money by Lottery to repair a Bridge, etc., 1791.] State of New Hampshire To the Honble The Senate, & House of Representatives in General Court Convened, January 5th 1791Respectfully Shews, The Subscribers, in behalf of the Inhabitants of Hampton; that the main Road from Boston, to Portsmouth, in passing through said Town, crosses one main Branch of Hampton River, & Salt Meadow Ground, for about half a Mile in length; over which the Inhabitants of said Town by much labor, & Expence have built a bridge & a Causeway, & have kept the same in as good Repair, as could possibly be expected considering the smallness of the Town, & the very great Expenditures it required-Nevertheless by high Tides & Freshets, it is frequently rendered impassable, & at other times dangerous, & difficult for Travellers; & as the Cost of raising said Causeway to such an height as to make it safe & convenient passing at all Seasons, would exceed the Abilities of the Town, & considering the great Advantage it would be to the publick to have it done; Induces us to petition your Honors for Liberty to raise a sufficient Sum by Lottery to effect it, under such Regulations, and Restrictions as you may think proper, & your Petitioners as in Duty bound will ever pray [In H. of Rep., Jan. 22, 1791, the foregoing petition was granted, with the proviso that any surplus should be the property of the state.-ED.] [4-222] [Relative to aforenamed Lottery, 1791.] State of New Hampshire To the Honble the Senate & House of Representatives in General Court Convened June 7th 1791— Respectfully shews That a petition was presented to the General Court at their last Session by Joseph Dow Esq' and others a Committee in behalf of the Town of Hampton praying for liberty to raise a Sufficient sum of money by Lottery to raise Hampton Causway-the prayer of which Petition was granted by the then Honble House but was ordered to lay by the Honble Senate the Subscriber begs leave to request of your Honos that you would take the Subject matter of said petition into your Consideration & make such order thereon as you may think proper and as in duty bound will ever pray Christo Toppan in behalf of the Committee The Committee on petitions for Lotteries, Report that the Committee for the Inhabitants of the Town of Hampton have leave to Introduce a bill to Raise by lottery the Sum of Eight hundred pounds, under such Restrictions as the Court shall direct, for the purposes afores which is submitted by Daniel Emerson Jr for the Com [4-223] [Relative to Church Matters, 1796.] State of New-hampshire To the honourable Senate & House of Representatives for said State in General Court convened at Exeter the first Wednesday of June 1796— Humbly shew the subscribers inhabitants of Hampton in the county of Rockingham and state aforesaid, That they always have been and are conscientiously of the congregational persuasion which has been the established mode of public Worship in said Town ever since the first settlement thereof untill very lately-When about one third of the church and a major part of the congregation, professing themselves Presbyterians, called & Settled a Minister of the presbyterian order, notwithstanding the rest of the church and congregation dissented therefrom. The dissentients being conscientiously of a different persuasion, and desirous of worshipping their creator in a social manner, according to the dictates of their conscience; have since the unhappy separation took place, provided a house for public worship and procured preaching at their own expence, and being anxious to join with the church of congregationalists in said Town, in settling a minister of their own persuasion Your petitioners pray that they with the congregational church there may be erected into a Poll Parish and vested with such rights and privileges as other parishes have and exercise, and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c |