[5-44] [Petition for an Issue of Paper Money, 1784.] State of Newhampshire To his Excellincy the Presidant the honourable the Senate and house of Representatives for Said State in general assembly Convened The petition of us the Subscribers being inhabitants of Said State Most humbly Shueth that your petitioners with others the inhabitants of this State Labour under great Inconveanancy for want of a Courancy or medium Sufficient To transeact the Common busness between Man and man But more Espeically for the payment of publick taxes in this State and as the State is greatly in debt and have Issued their State Nots to a Large amount for the Interest of which they are annually Taxed as well as for part of the principal and wheras the State is also Caulled upon and Taxed for a Very Large Sum for the payment of interest on Contenental Loan office Certificates issued in this State the payment of all which is Rendered Next To imposable for the Scarcety of money-Notwithstanding your petitioners are Desireous to Discharge their publick Debets with the Strictest honour And integrity that Nature of Things will admit your petitioners therefore Pray your Excellincy and honours would ammediatly Make and issue a Sum or bank of paper money Sufficient to pay of and Discharge all Such State Notes and Contenantal Loan office Certificats issued in this State as aforesaid and that Said paper money might Be made a Tender in all past or future taxes in this State and answer in all payments in the publick Treasury and in all payments in all private Contracts whatSoever-or otherwise Releave your petitioners as to your Excellincy and honours in your wisedom Shall Seem meet and your petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever pray [Some of the foregoing were students at the college, and not residents of Hanover.-ED.] [5-45] [Relative to a Road through Town, laid out by a Legislative Committee, 1786.] To the Honourable the General Court of the State of New Hampshire The petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover in the County of Grafton Humbly sheweth That in the oppinion of your petitioners, the County road as laid by the states Committee through said town of Hanover, May be altered to great advantage to the public in general as well as to this Town in particular, as we are fully persuaded we can show where a road may be laid through said Town on more suitable land for the purpose both on account of the Hills and dryness of the Land, and the distance of which from the College to the Southeastly corner of said Town will not be so great as where ye road is now laid by more than one mile & half-That this alteration will save ye Town great expence in making said road, and as the Committee who laid said road had not the Benefit of viewing this place, Your petitioners would Humbly pray your Honours to take this matter into your wise consideration, and to appoint an Impartial Committee to look into the aforesaid matter and act thereon as may be most conducive to the public good And your petitioners and in Duty bound shall ever pray Nath' Babbit A committee in behalf [5-47] [Petition for a Grant to make a Canal, etc., 1792.] To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Newhampshire to be convened at Dover June 1792 The Petition of Ebenezer Bruster Aaron Hutchinson & Rufus Graves Humbly sheweth That whereas the rendering Connecticut river navigable for boats is an object of the greatest Importance to the Inhabitants of that Country and ingrosis the attention of all the states thro' which the river passes and grants have actually been obtained for locking all the falls below the Towns of Lebanon & Hanover in this State And whereas the erecting of a Bridge over said river against one or other of said Towns would also be of great advantage to said Country and the public in general, and your Petitioners being disposed to undertake said Business provided they can meet with sufficient encouragement-Pray your Honors to grant to them their heirs and assigns forever the exclusive priviledge of cuting a Cannal and locking all the falls between the south line of Lebanon and the north Line of Hanover aforesaid and of erecting a Bridge within the limmits aforesaid Under such regulations and restrictions as your Honors shall Judge prop er and your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray Hanover June 1st 1792 Ebenezer Brewster [In H. of Rep., the foregoing petition was referred to a committee, who made the following report:-ED.] [5-46] State of New Hampshire In the House of Representatives June 13th 1792 The Committee on the petition of Ebenizer Brewster and others reported, That the prayer thereof be so far granted, as that the petitioners have leave to cut canals and lock all the falls in Connecticut River between the mouth of Mink brook in Hanover and the eddy below the lower bar of White River falls in Lebanon, and likewise the privilege of building a toll bridge over said River in any place within the limits aforesaid, not to interfere with private property, or the grant of any ferry, with out compensation to the owner; and that they have leave to bring in a bill accordingly-Which report having been read and considered it was voted that the same be received and accepted Sent up for Concurrence Jno Sam Sherburne Speaker [They were incorporated by an act passed June 20, 1792. -ED.] [5-48] [Isaac Rogers's Petition for a Ferry, 1794.] To the Honourable The General Court of the state of New Hampshire to be holden at Amherst the first Wednesday in June 1794 The Petition of Isaac Rogers of Hanover in the County of Grafton in s state; humbly sheweth, that there is no public ferry kept over the River Connecticut from Brewsters ferry in Lime so call to the Colledge ferry in the lower part of sa Hanover, the distance of About nine miles, that there is About four miles of sa river opposite to the upper part of s Hanover, which remains ungranted; that your petitioner Owning the land Adjoining to s river within the Aforesaid ungranted part; and where a ferry will be most Convenient; He therefore pray that Your Honours would Grant to him his heirs and assigns the Exclusive right of keeping a ferry over sd river, from Lime for three miles down sa river; and Your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray Hanover May 28th 1794 Isaac Rogers The Subscribers select Men of Hanover are satisfied that the facts stated in the within petition are true that the s Ferry will be A public benifit are desireous the prayer of the within petition may be granted Joseph Curtiss) Select Att a Legal Meeting held March 8th 1790 Voted that Gideon Smith of Hanover have the Approbation of the Ferry True Copy Attest Joel Brown T. Clerk This may Certify the Honourable General Court that I Gideon Smith have sold the land Adjoining s river to the Above petitioner and humbly pray that the Above Grant be made to the within Petitioner Gideon Smith HAVERHILL. The township was granted May 18, 1763, to John Hazzen and 74 others, some of whom were from Haverhill, Mass., and the town derived its name from that place. It had previously borne the name of Lower Cohos, and was a favorite place with the Indians, who had a fort on the bank of the river, near where Capt. John Hazzen settled in 1764. By an act approved June 21, 1815, the town was divided into two parishes. Samuel Morey of Orford, Jonathan. Merrill of Warren, and Samuel Hutchins of Bath, were appointed to run the divisional line between the two parishes. Among its prominent men prior to 1800 was Hon. Moses Dow, a native of Atkinson, and a graduate of Harvard college in 1769. He was elected a member of congress by the legislature of this state in 1784, but declined the honor. He was a member of the New Hampshire senate in 1784, and of the council in 1785 and 1786, and again in 1792, and was a judge of the court in Grafton county at the time of his death, March 31, 1811, aged 64. [5-49] [Petition for a Ferry, 1772.] To his Excellencey John Wentworth Esq' Captain General Governor and Commander in Cheif in and over the Province of New Hampshire and vice Admiral of the Same In Coun cill The Petition of Thomas Johnson of Newbury in the County of Gloucester & Province of New York, humbly Sheweth that by Charter, there is but one Ferry, Across Connecticut River in Haverhill in the County of Rockingham, by Charter allowed to be kept, which by said Charter ought to be kept within one mile of the Point of the little Ox Bow (so Call'd) as said |