that would much Beter Accomodate Travelers to Boston Portsmouth or any other Port then the place now Used but the Town by Reason of so many Other Bridges are not Able to Build one at said place as the Cost would be considerable; we therefore your Humble Petitioners pray in the Name and behalf of the Town that your Honours in your Wisdom would Order and Appoint Some way that we may have Some Assistance Either by Granting a Publick Lottery or any other way which your Honours Shall think proper it being a Road much Used from Different parts of the Contry with which if your Honours Do Comply your Humble Petetioners as in Duty Bound Shall ever pray Keen May 14th 1778 Jeremiah Stiles Simeon Clark Select men NB: It is Suposed that the Sum of 6500 Dollars would be a Suficient Sum to make a Good Bridge and Causway at Said place [5-204] [Relative to a Lottery for the Purpose of Building a Bridge, 1778.] To the Honorable the Council and House of Representitives of the State of New Hampshire the Petition of the Subscribers being Select men of the Towns of in said state in Behalf of said Towns Humbly Sheweth Whereas your Petitioners are Informed That the Town of Keen have Petitioned praying Your Honours to Grant them Assistance by a Lottery to Enable them to Build a Bridge over a Certain Rapid Stream Known by the Name of the East Branch We therefore your Petitioners being Senseable of the Great Benefit that would Accrue to the Publick thereby, and at the Time Knowing the multitude of Bridges and Casways which the Inhabitance of said Town Are Obliged to Build and Keep in Repair and the Charges of the Same by Reason of Freshets which often happens and also the Great Probability of a Bridge standing Safe in the place which is proposed, together with the Good Accomodation of the place to Every Publick Road-We therefore humbly Pray that the Petition of said Town of Keen may be Granted Being of Opinion that it will be a Great Publick Benefit it being a Place which may be passed in high water with much more Safety than the old Road that Lead thro' Intervails and Low Grounds-which Petition if your Honours in your wisdom think proper to Grant, we Your Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall ever pray. [I fail to find any action of the legislature on this matter. -ED.] [5-206] [Relative to Trial of several Royalists, 1777.] Walpole Sept 9th 1778 The State of New Hampshire To Nath" S. Prentice D' agreeable to their order of the 22th Augt Last past Directing me to pay Cap Benj" Floods pay Roll To Cash paid Cap' Benj Flood toward Sa Roll, £29, 10, o as pr. Receipt To Cash paid by Col° Benja Bellows out of the money Lent toward Carring on gun making in his hands as p' receipt 47, 2, 6 Total of the Roll £76, 12, 6 Return of the names of the Persons found guilty of missdemenors against the States by a Special Session held at Keen June 1777 as p' minutes on file with the sum find & order thereon Ordered that the several Persons find for Misdemenor, Recognize in the sum of £500 as Principal with Two Surties to be of a Peacable Behaviour towards the State & to be Confind within certain Limits untill this Court or Sum other Authority shall Discharge them therefrom order that Capt Benja Flood Receive £12-out of the finemoney to Billit his guard with he to acct therefor— order that the Remainder of the fines be Reposited in the hands of Nath' S. Prentice Esq to wait the County Sessions order thereon a Coppy from the minutes on file Nath' S. Prentice Clerk of sd Sessions [Some of the evidence used at said trial may be found in Vol. VIII, page 593. Ebenezer Harvey, Pomeroy, and King were ordered to confine themselves to the limits of their farms in Chesterfield, but were released from said. bonds and limits April 7, 1778, by recommendation of the committee of safety of said town.-ED.] [5-207] [Jeremiah Stiles chosen Magistrate, 1777.] At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitance of the Town of Keen on January the 14th 1777-Voted that Capt Jeremiah Stiles of this town be in Nomination for a Justice of the Peace for this County Attest Ichabod Fisher Town Clerk To the Honorable Council and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire-Humbly Shews, We the subscribers, Inhabitants of the Town of Keene in the County of Cheshire, beg leave to inform your honours, that Cap' Jeremiah Stiles, at a legal meeting of this Town, as may appear by the copy of the vote hereto annexed, was unanimously nominated for a Justice of the Peace: And, for reasons, not known to us, is not appointed. Keene, October 12, 1779 Abraham Wheeler James Wright * Zadok Wheeler Benjamin Osgood David Willson Daniel Willson Abraham Wheeler iu Ephraim Wright John Houghton Ebenezer Cook Benjam Osgood Ju Davis Howlett Isaac Griswold Alpheus Nims [They requested his appointment, and it was granted. ED.] [R. 2-132] [Deserters from the Army, 1777.] Deserted from Capt John Griggs's Company in Cor Scammills Rig Epraim Hall 24 years of age Six feet high Dark hair Blew Eyes Light Colered Cloths formerly belonged to Lyn: Whosoever will take up Sa Deserter and Return him to his Company att Keen or No 4: in the State of New Hampshire shall have a harnsom Reward and all Nesesary Charges Paid by me Keen May ye 5th 1777 John Griggs Capt [He also advertises for one Nathan Gale, "21 yers 6 feet Hi Well Set Dark hair."—ED.] of age [R. 2-133] [Documents relative to Capt. Samuel Weatherbee, 1778.] I Davise Howlett of Keen in the County of Cheshire and Province of Newhampshire, testifieth and saith that Eighty five men appeared on mount Independence that belonged to Cap* Sam" Weatherbees Company in the year 1776 and that two other men enlisted by s Capt Weatherbee, Namely Roswell Shephard who Died of the Small Pox as I was informed and Tho Wilder who to my knowledge Did Die of the Small Pox before march Keen feb 10-1778 Davis Howlett Lieu' [Sworn to before Isaac Wyman.—ED.] [Col. Wyman's Certificate.] This may Certifie whome it may Concern that Capt Sam Weatherbe First & Largest Return of his Company was 84 men Test Isaac Wyman [R. 2-134] [Deposition of Ebenezer Putnam.] Charlestown Jan 23th 1778 Deposition of Eben' Putnam Being of Lawful age Doth testify and say that some time in July 1776 Cap' Weatherbee ask me what I would give him to Discharge me: I told him Nothing where uppon he told me that he would Discharge me for Twenty Dollars or five weeks work I told him I would give it then he turned about and went and got a man to go in my Rhoom and I set of to go home but Before I got home I got sick of My Bargain and went and told him I would go My Self and pay him for his trouble for gitting the man he told me if I would go and tell the man that I would go into the Service that should pay the s Capt for his trouble after I was Inlisted I ast the Capt if he was willing that I should take the Small Pox he said No by No means for perhaps we may be call for before you will be Ready to march then I was advis by Cap Geer and Mr Olcott to ask Colo Hunt advise about the matter where upon he said he would advise any man that was a going to Enocolate as he thought it was not safe to go without Ebenezer Putnam Sworn before Benja Bellows. [R. 2-135] [John Hart's Discharge, 1776.] Charlestown august 6th 1776— These may Certify That in Consideration of Ten dollars To me In hand paid by John Hart I do hereby discharge him from my Company in The Continential Service in Col Wymans Regiment of the New hampshire forces as witness my Hand Sam" Wetherbe Capt [R. 2-137] [This document is the resignation of Major Timothy Ellis, dated Keene, October 19, 1779.—ED.] [R. 2-138] [Substitute for Nehemiah Town, 1780.] These may certifie That I Josiah Reed of Chickaby in Springfield in Consideration of Certain agreements Between Nehemiah Town of Keen in the State of Newhampshire and myself have Engaged and do hereby Engage to serve in his Room & Stead in the Newhampshire Lines for the Town of Keen for the space of six months as witness my hand at Springfield July y 20th 1780 Josiah Read |