[5-216] [Certificate of Nails made, 1789.] The State of New Hampshire Cheshire ss To whom it may concern— We the Subscribers the major part of the Select Men of the Town of Keene in said County of Cheshire do hereby certify that Ezra Hervey of Keene afores Nailer has bona fide made or caused to be made at his Workshop in Keene aforesaid between the months of october AD 1787 and December AD 1788 -two hundred thousand of four penny wrought nails-In Witness whereof We do hereto set our hands & seals this 25th Day of December AD 1789 Dan' Kingsbury Cheshire ss Dec' 23th 1789-I the subscriber being the nearest Justice of the peace to the above named Ezra Hervey, do certify that the said Hervey has bona fide made or caused to be made in his Work Shop in Keene afores the above number of nails within the Time abovesd Jany 12, 1790 Tho Baker Just pac Received an Order on the Treasurer for six pounds as a bounty on nailmaking in behalf of Ezra Harvey Isaac Griswold [Similar certificates were presented in favor of the following, for the purpose of obtaining the bounty offered by the state: Elijah Baker, 400,000 ten-penny wrought nails in 1790. Ezra Harvey, 200,000 four-penny wrought nails in 1790. 400,000 66 1791. Elijah Baker, 100,000 ten-penny wrought nails in 1791. 300,000 66 1792. Ezra Harvey, 400,000 four-penny wrought nails in 1792. —ED.] [5-231] State of New-Hampshire Cheshire ss. At a legal Meeting of the Freeholders and others Inhabitants of the Town of Keene held Aust 25th 1794-Honble Dan' New comb Esq' was chosen to Represent said Town in General Court the present Year instead of Jeremiah Stiles Esq' resigned. Keene Aust 25th 1794 Attest Lock. Willard T. Clerk E Dunbar Selectmen KENSINGTON. The township was set off from Hampton Falls, April 1, 1737, and "erected into a distinct parish" by its present name, which is probably derived from some English town. John Weare, Joseph Wadley, and Ezekiel Dow were authorized to call the first meeting. A mistake was made in describing the bounds in the act above referred to, which was rectified by an act passed the 26th of the following August. Rev. Jeremiah Fogg was settled as parish minister in November, 1737, and remained until he died, December 1, 1789. Kensington was a populous town at the breaking out of the Revolution. The following are the names of their men in the First N. H. Regiment: Joseph B. Hoit, entered March 21, 1781; discharged December, 1781. Orson Lock, entered April 14, 1777; discharged September 19, 1777. The latter was killed. [R. 2-143] [William Evens, of Kensington, states that he was a soldier in Capt. Folsom's company in the summer of 1759, and lost his gun, for which he asks to be paid. The petition was dismissed.—ED.] [R. 2-144] [Samuel Elliot, of Kensington, says he was in the service in 1760, went as far as Wentworth's ferry, and came home from there by permission of his officer, notwithstanding which he was returned as a deserter by Capt. Marston. He wants to be righted. The petition was dismissed March 13, 1761.-ED.] [R. 2–145, 146, 147] [In a petition dated June 9th, 1763, Benjamin Page, of Kensington, stated that he had two sons, minors, in the army in 1759, in Capt. Samuel Folsom's company, one of whom died, and the other was wounded. He asks for their wages, and presents the following certificate:-ED.] Kensington June ye 9th 1763 To the Honourable House of Representatives— This is to Signify to your Honours my Judgment and opinion of Samuel Page Son of Benjamin Page of this Parish he was in the army in the year 1759 and Came home sick with the purging Called the Camp Disorder and wasted and Died with the same in about six weeks after he came home I visited him as a physician in the time of his Languishment and according to the Best of my Judgment he died with the Camp Disorder and likewise would Signify to you that Jeremiah Page Son of Benjamin Page Being at oswego the same year that his Brother was and that he was wounded in actual Service By Reason of which he hath lost the Spring of his great Toe which is greatly to his Damage Benjamin Rowe [He was allowed £4-17-6 sterling.—ED.] [5-232] [Petition for a Grant of Land.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Governour & Commander in Chief in & over His Majer Province of New Hampsher in New England and to the Hon His Majey Council Humbly Shew your Petitioners Inhabitants of the Parish of Kensington in sd Prove That your Petitioners do themselves (many of them) Stand in need of Tracts of Land for to settle on & Improve, and your other Petitioners have Either Sons or such as they are Concerned to provide for, who Stand in need of the Same.-That most of your Petitioners have not had any Share & the other but a small Share in any Grants of Townships which have been Already Made. And your Petitioners Hope (as they are Part of an Ancient Town which has paid a Large Share of Taxes in the Support & Defence of the Government; & do (themselves) still pay more Taxes then Some other Parishes that Have y Privilege of a Representative) That they Shall be Remembered with the other Parts of the Town (which are now Petitioning your Excellency) in such Grants of out-Lands as may now be made We therefore Pray Your Excellency that we may have a Grant of such a Quantity of Land as may accomodate the Number of your Petitioners, according to what is usually allowed in Grants of Townships. We also Request that the Grant may be adjoyning to those that may be made to the other Parts of the Town or that we may be otherwise provided for as your Excellency & Honours shall Judge Best-And your Petitioners Shall Ever Pray [5-234] Simon Batchelder [Ebenezer Brown's Complaint, 1778.] M' pickerin this is to inform you that the in habitance of Dear field has past and re past through My land with out leav or lisance wich is a grate Damage to me you must thnk by Sides a great Charge that I have bin att I am obloyegd to Make three Mils and a Quarter of fence be Sides loosing my land and 2 hundred pounds expencis and I think No Man of reson Can Say that is not a damage they have returnd Me Som land for my satisfaction but I will not take it for it is within My bounds be fore but I will not take land for it if thare ever So much kinsington May the 20 1778 Ebenezer Brown [5-235] [Petition for a Paper Currency, 1785.] To the Honble the Gen' Court of the State of Newhampshire to be held at Concord by Adjournment on the third Wednesday of Oct' current The petition of the Inhabitants of the parish of Kensington, in the County of Rockingham & State of Newhamps' Humbly sheweth, That by reason of the extream scarcity of a Circulating medium, that business of almost all kinds have ceas'd, or must shortly cease, to the Distress of your petitioners, & the Community at large Therefore your petitioners Humbly beg that your honours would Emit a quantity of paper money sufficient to Discharge the State Debt, or Devise some way or means whereby the outstanding Taxes may immediately be paid into the Treasury, that the Treasurer may thereby be enabled to discharge sa Debt; or otherwise relieve your petitioners as you in your great wisdom shall think meet, & your petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray Kensington Oct 14th 1785 Abraham Sanborn) Committee in behalf of the parish John Page Isaac Fellows of Kensington This Committee was chosen by a large Majority of the parish for the above purpose— Atest Moses Shaw jr Parish Clerk [See Vol. XI, p. 127.—ED.] [5-236] [Return of Ratable Polls, 1783.] State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss. Pursuant to a vote of the General Court of said State We the Subscribers do hereby return the number of male polls of |