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cumstances at this day are very difficult indeed by reason of the extreme scarcity of Money; taxation is almost an insupportable burden, nevertheless your petitioners will exert every Nerve, with the greatest alacrity for the due observance of all your laws & regulations, but as it hath been a Custom heretofore to reward those that have done service or expended Money in the Common cause for the Defence of the State, we take encouragement therefrom, and most ardently pray your honors to take our Circumstances under your wise Consideration and make us some allowance for our former Services as set forth in this petition, or otherwise as your honors shall think proper. And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray— Landaff Jan" y 25th ADom. 1786

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Jon Blake

for Said James Sawyer Inhabitants. Selectmen

[Relative to Representative Class, 1788.]

State of New Hampshire County of Grafton

To the Honble the Senate & house of Representatives to be convened at Concord on wednesday the fourth day of June

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The petition of Nathaniel Hovey, Jonathan Blake, John Clark, Nathaniel Webber, James Snow, Jeremiah Hutchins, Jacob Hurd, John Cleaveland, Henry Hancock and John Merrill in behalf of themselves & the inhabitants of the Towns of Landaff and Bath in said County, humbly shews-That the difficulties and inconveniences attending the said Towns being classed with Gunthwait, Lymon, & Littleton to chuse a Representative, are numerous and almost insuperable, on account of the great distance the people have to travel, (more especially those that live in the extreme parts of said Towns,) to attend the meetings held for that purpose, at a season of the year when the Roads are generally extreme bad and the Rivers open or about breaking up, so that it is very dangerous and sometimes almost impossible to pass over them For which reasons and others that might be ennumerated, the choice of our Representatives heretofore has been very unequal and commonly made by a small number. The situation of the Contry is such & the people live so remote from each other that they never can assemble together in any one place in this District as now formed, without much fatigue & difficulty; and the said Towns of Landaff & Bath having at least one hundred & forty one legal voters therein, and are so well situated to form a District that might be attended with many advantages, and the people

favoured with many privileges that they cannot otherwise enjoy; therefore your petitioners most ardently entreat your honors to take the premises under your wise consideration and grant lib-. erty for the inhabitants of said Landaff & Bath to send a Representative to the general Court of said state, and that the meetings for electing one, might be held annually at the dwelling house of Capt Jeremiah Hutchins in said Bath-or otherwise as you may think proper And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c

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[R. 2-176] [Landaff claims Edward Marden, Soldier.]

State of New Hampshire

To the Hon General Court of said State to be Convened at Portsmouth on the first Day of Feby next by adjournment

The Petition of the Inhabitants of Landaff humbly sheweth— That when the Requisition for soldiers was made to the State said Inhabitants being inform'd that they ware cal'd on to furnish one man for three years or during the war at great expence hir'd one Edward Mardin then lately come to Town, to serve and answer for their Proportion of said Requisition.That through some mistake said Mardin was returned for Northumberland, without the knowledge of said Mardin, Landaff, or Northumberland, That said Mardin was never an Inhabitant of Northumberland.

Landaff Jany 21st 1786.—

Jon Blake for s Inhabitants

[The town presented a sworn statement of Marden's, certifying that he was hired by Landaff and paid £30; was never an inhabitant of Northumberland. The committee reported in favor of Landaff, which was adopted. Marden served in Whitcomb's corps.-ED.]

[R. 2-180] [Relative to a Bunker Hill Soldier, etc.]

To the Honourable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened

Humbly shews-James Mitchell of Landaff in said State, that in June 1775, he furnished his Brother William Mitchell, then a soldier, with a valuable Gun and some other articles (to the amount of four pounds) necessary for the then intended expedition against the British Troops in Boston which gun and other articles were lost at the Battle at Bunker Hill, where the said William lost his Life-that in September 1777 he hired one Amos Hastings, and in July 1778 one Stephen Hall, to go into the service of the United States for him, for which your petitioner gave them about eleven pounds as a Bounty expecting that at some future period some equitable mode would be devised for reimbursing those, who had contributed more than their proportion in defence of their Country-for all which your petitioner has received no kind of compensation-Your petitioner begs leave further to shew, that in September 1778, at the special desire of Major Henry Moore, then a Collector of Cattle for the use of the army, he purchased thirteen oxen and gave his notes for the same, amounting to six hundred and sixty five pounds payable in six weeks; expecting within that time to receive the money of the said Moore;-that he was put to great expence in keeping and driving the said oxen, and was kept out of the money so long, and so distressed by law suits for it, that your petitioner sustained a loss of one hundred and fifty pounds at least, and was obliged to sell his Farm for a sum much below its value.

Jany, 234 1794

James Mitchell

[6-4] [Petition for Authority to tax Non-Residents, 1789.] To the Honble the Senate & House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire in General Court convened

Humbly shews the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the Town of Landaff in the County of Grafton and State aforesaid, that the Public Highways leading through said Town are in a very bad condition, and in many places almost and totally impassible, that the expence of making altering and repairing said Highways will be large,—that whatever has hitherto been done in making & repairing Highways in said Town has been at the expence of the Inhabitants & Residents in said town, without any expence to Nonresidents—

Your petitioners therefore pray your Honors to pass an Act

authorizing the raising of a Tax of three cents per acre on Resident & Non-resident Lands in said Landaff for the purpose of making altering & repairing highways within said Town & your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray

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was granted. Senate concurred.-ED.]

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To the Honourable Senate & House of Representatives to be convened at Exeter on the first wednesday of December A. D. 1799 Most Humbly sheweth

That the selectmen of Bath presented a certificate to us the undersigned Selectmen of Landaff purporting that there was entered on their valuation for the year 1799 more than one Hundred & fifty rateable male polls of twenty one years of Age and upwards, and that they should not join with Landaff & Lincoln in sending a representative to the General court in future-therefore your petitioners (at the request of the inhabitants) of sd Landaff most humbly pray that an act pass that the Towns of Landaff Franconia and Lincoln be classed together for the purpose of sending a representative to the general court in future-and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray

Joseph Morrill) Selectmen

Ezra Chandler

Peter Carlton

of Landaft

[In H. of Rep., Dec. 27, 1799, the foregoing request was granted. Landaff was classed with Franconia and Lincoln. -ED.]

LANGDON.

The town was formed from territory taken from the towns of Charlestown and Walpole, and incorporated Jan. 11, 1787. It was named in honor of Hon. John Langdon, at that time. speaker of the house of representatives.

Settlements were made on territory now in this town by Seth Walker in 1773, and by Nathaniel Rice and Jonathan Willard the year following. Rev. Abner Kneeland, who was ordained over a Universalist church here in 1805, was one of the leading men in that denomination in New England for some years, and published a periodical devoted to his peculiar tenets, called the Boston Investigator. In 1795 the town might have been extended to Connecticut river, but it refused, by vote, to accept the proffered addition.

[6–20] [Petition for Authority to tax Non-Residents, 1789.]

State of New Hampshire May 27th 1789

To the Honble Senate and house of Representatives Conveined at Concord June 4th 1789

The petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Langdon Humbly Sheweth

That your petitioners are few In number and inhabit a new Town or District of land a considerable part of which Is owned by nonresident proprietors and that they are not able to make the necessary public Roads and Bridges and in particularly a Bridge over Cold River so called which is very Rapid and in the Spring and Fall at high water is not passible and the Expence of build the Bridge and making said roads exceeds the ability of your petitioners They therefore most Humbly pray your Honors to Impower them to Leavy a Tax of one penny on each acre of the non resident proprietors Land in said town for the purposes aforesaid or grant your petitioners such other Relief as you in your Wisdon shall think Propper and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall ever pray

John Prouty

Ezra Read

Select Men for and in behalf of the Inhabitants

Jeremiah Howard) of the Town of Langdon

Langdon May 27th 1789

The Committee on the within petition Report a Tax of one

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