Your Petitioner Therefore most heartily relying on the Prudence Justice and Wisdom of this Honerable Body of men and that they will prefer Public good to Private Pique and rather discourage Such Applications as Can Only Tend to impede and Obstruct the Ordinary State Business And Tend to promote Such Petetions in numberless Instances, he therefore humbly hopes the Said Order Respecting the Laying out the Said Road made and Establish by the Court of Sessions for the County of Hillsborrough may not be Altered But any Petition for the Same may be dismis'd-and Your Petetioner as in duty bound Shall Ever pray &c We the Subscribers being in habitants of Said Nottinghamwest have perused the foregoing Petition and think it Contains a very fair representation of the matter wherefore we do hereby Signify our desire that the road lay'd out by the Said Committee may be opened and repared as ordered in the Said report Alexander Caldwell John Pettingill Samuel Caldwell henry hucy Samuel Nathe merrill Juner George Thomas Pollard Samuel WillTM Burns Benjm Marshal Andrew Sceavey Henray Marshel Isaac Merrill Friend moody James Caldwell [5-161] [Deposition relative to foregoing, 1783.] Abraham Page of Lawfull age Testifieth and Saith that he is knowing to a Town Road being laid out and Iproved as a Road in Nottingham West which Road went a cross a part of the Westerly End of Flukers Lot So called which Lot Thomas Caldwell now Resides on and your Deponant further Saith that he looks upon the Road that the Courts Comtee lately laid out through Jonathan Searles Land will be a great Damage to S Searles, he and his famaly being in Low circumstances and very unable to fence Sd Road Nottingham West November 3th Day 1783 Abraham Page [5-160] [Depositions of Cummings, Cross, and Hale, 1783.] Ebenezer Cuming Peter Cross and John Hale all of Lawfull age Testify and Say that they are well acquainted with a Road that the Courts Committee has lately laid out through Jonathan Searles Land to Thomas Caldwells, that Said Road goes on Said Searles land upwards of one Hundred and Twenty rods upwards of Eighty of which is unfenced, and your Deponants look upon S Road if kept as an open Road to be of great Damage to Said Searles, as he and his famaly is in Low Circumstances and unable to fence s Road as also it will Expose a great quantity of his apples of being lost by reason of falling into S Road, and that their is an open Road Laid out across the Lot that said Caldwell Lives upon that is the Easterly End of said Lot Nottingham west November 3th Day 1783 State of New Hampshier Hillsborough ss nottingham west November 3th Day 1783 Ebenezer Cmigs then the above & hear named Dec. Ebenezer Cumings & Left Peter Cross & John Hale & Cap' Abraham Page all personally appeard and after Due Caution and Careful axamination made Solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition by them Respectivly Signed and that is all they knew of the matter they relate to which tistimonys were taken to be used at the General Court now Seting at Concord taken at the request of Jonathan Searles the Petitioner the adverse partie nameley Thomos Caldwell was present at Time of Caption Sworn out of Court Asa Davis Justice of peace Before me [5-159] [Statement relative to Building the Road, 1783.] Where as we the Subscribers are well acquanted with the Dispute that hath for a long time subsisted betwixt Jonathan Searls and thomas Caldwell Both of Nottingham West respecting a Road from said Caldwell' by said Searls House into the country Road leading from Henry Hucy to Alexander Caldw We think it highly reasonable on account of Both Caldwell' and Searles Benefit and the Neighbours in general that s road shold be opned and whereas the said Searls seems to be unwilling on account of the cost in building the fence on which account we have no desire said Searls should be burdened in Testamony whereof we promise that on condition the above said road should be opened in Order to help said Searls to make said fence each one of us for ourSelves will work or Cause to be wrought at said fence the Time afixed to Each of our Names Nottingham west October 30th 1783 To the Honble the council and house of Representatives for y state of Newhampshire in general assembly convened at Concord the First thursday of November Annoque Domini 1783— The Petition of Nathaniel Sceavy of Nottingham West in the county of Hillsborrough and state aforesaid Blacksmith Most Humbly sheweth, that whereas Jonathan Searls of Nottingham aforsaid did in the month of June 1783, prefere a petition to the Honble council and assembly of the state aforsaid praying that the report of a committee of the Honble the Court of General Session of the peace for the county aforsaid Respecting a road laid out by said committee of two rods wide from Thomas Caldwell House as the road was then trod by s Searls' House into the country road—and the order of the aforsaid court thereon, might be Nullified and said road be made subject to gates and bars-which will be Verry Injurious to your petitioner and many others.-Your petitioner have Built a House and settled on a piece of Newland about seventy Rods south of said Caldwell and is determined to work at the Blacksmith Trade and have not the lest prospect of the priviledge of a road as a Town Inhabitant any other way only by the aforsaid Road therefore your petitioner Most humbly prays your Honours will Establish the aforsaid committees report and order of the honble court of session thereon or grant your petitioner such other helps as to your Honours in your Wisdom shall seem just and Equal and your petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray November 3d 1783 Nathaniel Sceavy [R. 2-116] [Petition of Sarah Bradbury, 1780: addressed to the General Assembly.] The petition of Sarah Bradbury of nottinghamwest In said. state widow Humbly shueth that your petitioner's Husband entered Into the Contanantal army about three years ago and that he Died on His Return from a march to the Indean Cuntry with general Sullivan Last fall that your petitioners så husband has had the Caracter of Doing the Duty of a faithful good soldier both In the most of the Last french war and the present war with great Bretton In the Capasity of a Sargent. Nottinghamwest february 10th 1780 Sarah Bradbery [She further stated that she was left with a family of small children, and asked for assistance.-ED.] [R. 2-118] [Petition of Richard Cutter, Soldier, 1784.] The Petition of Richard Cutter of Nottingham-West Humbly Sheweth That your Petitioner was a soldier in Cap Samuel Darbin Company of Colo Stephen Peabody Regiment in the year 1778, from the tenth Day of June to the first Day of January, which is six months and twenty Days-That your Petitioner for all that service, received only one months pay, from the hands of the Muster Master Colo Noah Lovewell-That your Petitioner has very frequently requested his wages of Cap' Darbin (who had the money from the state to pay the Soldiers) but never could obtain a farthing, nor ever expects to. Therefore beg your Honors to make him a compensation for the afores Services: Nottingham-West March 18th 1784 Rich Cutter [5-157] [Asa Davis recommended for a Magistrate, 1785.] State of New Hampshire Hillsborough To his Excelency the President of Said State, and honorable Council Convened the humble petition of us the Subscribers of Nottingham-West in Sa County, Sheweth that whereas by our new Constitution we under Stand that all Commissions both Civel & military are now Vacated, and that a new arrangement is to take place we your petitionrs in be half of Sd Town Humbly pray that your Excelency, and hon's, in role Asa Davies Esq' to Continue as Justice of the peace for Sa County and Town as he has given general Setisfection in S office, and as in duty bound Shall pray, Dated Notingham west Jan" ye 26 yr 1785 James Wason Thomas Wason Wid Sary binney Robert petane Samuel Caldwell John Smith Peter Youngman [5-156] [Petition for an Incorporation of a Library, 1797.] To the Honorable the Senate and house of Representatives in General Court Convened at Portsmouth November 1797 Humbly Sheweth that the under Signed Inhabitants of Nottingham west with their associates, have been at Considerable Expence in purchasing Books in order to astablish a Library in Said Nottingham-but finding themselves under Some Disadvantages for the want of an incorporation pray your Honours that they with Such others as may hereafter Join them, may be incorporated into a body Politic for the purpose aforesaid, and |