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lis which not to impeach the Authority, as a Town we take it exceeding hard

not to magnify Our good Deed, we must remind your honours of our faithfully answering every Requisition thro' a Series of Hardships in the past Calamitous Times we have not been Deficient a pound of Beef neither has a man been Wanting on our part, even the man in Dispute with what we give him the Supplies of his family Exclusive of this last Trouble cannot be computed at less than £100 Lawful money

Your honours are Sensible of the Grievous burden of Taxes our People are under which we bear with Patience as appropriated in Defence of a Righteous Cause, but add to all this, for the People of Hollis to bear the Odious name of being Corrected for Deficiency while Innocent, this may it please your honours causes us to sigh deeply at heart and is it not enough to fetch Tears from our Eyes You alone Gentlemen can rectify this matter and as the Eyes of Servants are to their masters, or rather as the Eyes of Children full of Grief, are to their Tender Parents so our Eyes are to you, while we Esteem it a Blessing of heaven that we have those at the head of Our affairs who are ready to hear and we have not in our hearts to Suppose your honours would willingly see us injured, Wherefore we implore your kind interposition in this matter which so nearly concerns us and that no advantage may be taken by reason of our Papers being out of Our hands for we are not disputing a Nice Point in the Law nor are we able to for we are illiterate men and want nothing but Justice if we offend by Speaking too much we willingly ask Pardon and desire to Acquiesce in your Determination while with duty & Respect we rest your honours most Obedient & Humble ServantsHollis Oct 21" 1783.

Wm Cumings

Solomon Wardwell
Ebenezer Jewet

Selectmen of

of

Hollis

[5-131] [Relative to Articles of Confederation, 1783.]

Hollis Oct 13th 1783, the inhabitants of the Town of Hollis aforesaid with the freeholders being met on adjournment after having maturely debated matters under Consideration

Voted, that our Representative use his influence in making the propos'd alteration, respecting the eighth Article in the Confederation of Perpetual union taken from the Records— Attest Wm Cumings Town Clek

Hollis Oct 30th 1783—
Hon Council & House for N. HampE-

[5-132] [Petition of Certain Persons to be set off to Raby, 1783.]

To the Town of Hollis

The Petition of us the Subscribers Inhabitence of the Westerly Part of sd Hollis, Humbly Sheweth that by Reson of many Inconvenences We Labour under by Living in such a Remote part of Hollis so fare from meting and at such a Distence from the other Inhabitence of sa town that We are Deprivd in a great measure of the prevelege of Schoolling and by Reson of the Badness of the Rods it is Verey Deficult for sum of us to git to the Town of Hollis and at sum Sesons of the year it is Even impracticable Except We first goo into the town of Raby and travel Sum Ways in the same before We Enter Hollis again—

and as we live much more Compact with the Inhabitence of Raby and think it mite be more Convenent for us to belong to the town of Raby to which if we ware set of it is Lickly the sd Inhabitence of Raby and us your Petitioners mite both Injoy the preveleges of preaching and Schoolling-&c-in a more ful and ample manner then Ither thay or us can under our present Sittuation we theirfore beg you to take our Case into your Wise consideration & if you in your Wisdom can see fit that you would give your Consent to have a part of the westerly part of Hollis set of to Raby-(that is that part that Raby formely expected) Begining at the Sandy bank so cold at Nissitisit River and from thence a North pint by the Nedel acrost Hollis which we humbly conseve would not be a great Dammag to Hollis But Verey advantagus to the town of Raby-and us your Petitioners

December-5-1783

James McDonels

jesse parkins

John Cumings

Simeon Senter

James mcDaniels Jun Phinehas Bennet Jr Joshua Smith

[The foregoing petition did not meet with success, and another in similar language, dated "Hollis Oct 15-1785," was sent to the legislature, signed by the following men :

James McDonell
Jesse parkins
Thomas Lawrence

Simeon Senter
Joshua Smith

Ezekiel Proctor

Ebns' Gilson Joshua Smith Jur Phinehas Bennet.

The petition was opposed by Hollis, as may be seen by the following document, but the petitioners, assisted by the inhabitants of Raby, succeeded in procuring the passage of an act, Feb. 17, 1786, setting off a strip three quarters of a mile wide from the west side of Hollis, and annexing the same to Raby.-ED.]

[5-136] [Opposition of Hollis to the Petition of Raby, 1785.]

At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hollis Sept 15th 1785

Voted that this Town will oppose the Petition preferr❜d to the Gen' Court, by the Town of Raby, That Daniel Emerson Esq. be fully impower'd to oppose said Petition, also voted that Noah Worcester Esq. Capt Dow Ens. Jerem1 Ames William Cumings & Capt Goss, be a Committee to State the matter fairly and give said Emerson Instructions in writing relative to the same, taken from the Town Records

True Copy Attest William Cumings Town Clerk To Daniel Emerson Esq. Representative for the Town of Hollis

Agreeable to the above votes of the Town of Hollis, impowering You to Oppose the Petition of the Town of Raby, & us to give you Instructions thereon, You are hereby instructed to oppose said Petition-in behalf of the Town of Hollis, for the following Reasons (viz).

first as the said Petitioners represent their Weakness and inability to Support the Gospel or maintain Schools, it cannot be supposed that the addition of nine families Settled on such a Tract of Land as they Represent unfit for Cultivation if Granted could remove the Difficulties of which they complain

24 as they represent in said Petition, that they at their Incorporation had reason to expect some further help from said Town of Hollis, that we know of no Reason that they had to expect any such thing unless it was by some mistake in their own Measure as they themselves measured it before the incorporation, that the Town of Hollis never measured nor Joined in Measuring until after the Incorporation, That the Votes of the Town of Hollis, previous to said incorporation of Raby were design'd to fix the meeting House in the Sentre of the Town east & west, which Votes of said Town were confirmed by the Charter of the Town of Raby

3d That as they in their Petition request to begin at the Great Sand Bank so Called, and run a Paralel line with the Town of Raby opposite to their Northeast Corner, then a closing line to their Northeast Corner, which if granted will leave a Tract of land with a Number of inhabitants on the same about two miles Square, belonging to Hollis, at the northerly end of Raby extending as far west as the west line of Raby excepting the width of the mile Strip

4th That the meeting-House in Hollis now stands on a plat of Ground which it seems nature form'd for that purpose being pleasantly Situated, that the Town has been at a Great Expence

in laying Out and making Roads to accommodate the same, which well convenes the Inhabitants from all parts of said Town That if said Petition should be granted, consequently, the meeting house would not be in the sentre of the Town-which may probably cause an uneasiness in the Easterly part of ye Town, which might cause the Town to live in Contention or lay them under the disagreeable Necessity of building a New meeting house, and of being at a Vast expence to accommodate Roads, to the same, which never can be done with that Convenience that it now is—

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[Petition for Magistrate, 1784.]

To his Excellency the president and Honble Council of the State of New Hampshire

We the subscribers principal Inhabitants of the Town of Hollis, By this our petition

humbly Shew: That whereas the Inhabitants of said Town are numerous: Business frequently Arises which requires thet Aid of an assistance of two Justices. Unus Quorum: for wan of whom we are often put to great Inconveniency besides Trav eling to a distance to get our Business accomplished. There fore we desire that we might be Indulg'd the priviledge of having two Justices in sa Town and that one of them might be of the Quorum; and as Daniel Emerson Jun' our Representitive for the time being; Is a person of Fidelity & Trust universally esteem'd and one who (we conceive) will give the greatest Content we beg Leave to recommend him to your favour, And that he might be appointed and commissioned as a Justice of the peace; in Addition to the present, and as In Duty bound shall ever pray

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Benjamin Emerson
Benja Colburn
Samuel Hayden
Oliver Bowers
Levy Hardy
Joseph Haskell
Joshua Smith
Fifield Holt
John Willoughby
John Phelps
Sam" Jonson
Benj Farley third
Jonas woods
Amos Eastman

Joseph Haywood
Jonathan Dix
Isreel kinney

Joseph Lasley
Abijah Smith

Benja Astin
Silas Spaulding
Oliver Bowers Ju'
Benjamin Nevens

Jonas Leslie
Francis Blood
Jacob Jewet Ju
Sam Willoughby
Samuel Wright
Lemuel wright
Caleb Farley Jur
Wm Cumings

Jonathan Eastman
Josiah Woodbury
Cyrus Proctor
John attwill Jun
William Brooks

[This resulted in the appointment of Dea. Emerson as requested. ED.]

HOOKSETT.

This town was incorporated by an act approved July 2, 1822, and was composed of portions of the towns of Chester, Dunbarton, and Goffstown; set off from those towns in answer to a petition from the inhabitants. The name "Isle au Hooksett" and "Isle au Hooksett Falls" was attached to the locality many years before the incorporation and naming of the town, but the editor is unable to ascertain its derivation. As long ago as 1746, a pond in the north part of Chester was called "Isle Hook's pond," by one of Capt. Ladd's scouts, who says they camped near it. It is now known as Lakin's pond. I am inclined to think the locality was named by Indians or Canadian French.

The following documents do not relate to Hooksett as a town, but to the locality, and for that reason are given in this place.

A slight change was made in the boundaries of the town Jan. 5, 1853, when a small tract was severed from Hooksett and annexed to Allenstown.

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