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able Leven. We desire the Committee & Selectmen & the Principal Inhabitants of the Neighboring Towns would attend at M' Bliss's Inholder in Lebanon, on Monday the 30th of October 1780 for this purpose

Nehemiah Estabrook ) Committee Simeon Peck

Elisha Lathrop

Elihu Hyde

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A Coppy of a Letter sent to the adjacent Towns

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Select

Men

Attest Elijah Dewey Jun

[Relative to Vermont Controversy, 1782.]

State of New Hampshire Grafton County

Lebanon 15: May 1782

To the Honble the Council and General Assembly of the State of New Hampshire

We the Subscribers Did prefer A Petition to your Honours Dated at Lebanon 15th Decem1 1778. Setting forth Some Difficultys & grievances we Laboured under,-& praying for Redress in the premices,-We Recd an Answer to Said Petition from the Comtee of Safety Dated 8th Jan 1779 informing us that the General Assembly had Resolved to take up & Consider the matter and Endeavour to Redress our Grievances,-Recommending to us to pay no Obedience to any Authority but what was Derived from the Legeslature of New Hampshire, which Recommendation we have Steadily Adheared to-and have publickly Remonstrated against the Illegal & irregular proceedings of the Town in Town Meeting, as will Appear by A Remonstrance herewith Exhibitted, which was Laid before the Town &c

We would inform your Honours we have always Stood Ready to pay our Equal proportion of the Taxes Call for by the Authority of New Hampshire, but by Reason of being over powered by Numbers Could Never obtain to have A Regular List made up to have our Tax proportioned or any Legall officer to Collect, by which means the money haith Died in our pockets,

We now putting Confidence in your Great wisdom and Goodness being fully purswaded that you will Compasionate & hear the prayer of your Distressed Leage Subjects, Do now again most Earnestly Petition to your Honours to Consider our Case, and grant us Such Releife in the premises as in your wisdom you Shall think Just & Reasonable, So as that your Petitioners may be as Little Sufferers as possible by the Disorderly & Dis

obedient Conduct of the Town, and the Great Evils and Disadvantages they have involved themselves in by not Continuing Loyal Subjects of the State, and paying their Taxes in Season— Jesse Heath Charles Hill

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[Disputed Jurisdiction, 1782.]

Com tee

To the Honble the Gen" Assembly of the State of New Hamp To be Holden at Portsmo in sd State, the third Wednesday of Dec' Instant,—

May it please Your Hon'

We the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Lebanon in the County of Grafton in Sa State; having taken into Consideration the Several Resolves of the Honble the Continental Congress, Respecting the Disputes that have Arisen about the Jurisdiction of the State of N: Hampe over the Hampe Grants (So Called) are of the Opinion that S Resolves, implicitly declare it to be the Opinion of that August Body, that that part of Sd Grants Lying East of Connecticut River (in which we are included) Should be under the Jurisdiction of the State of New Hampe; with which we Readily Comply; and Acknowledge the same; Yet, Nevertheless for us to be Obliged to pay the back State Taxes; for the time being that we have been unconnected with the State of New Hampre in matters of Government, we Look upon it to be a Hardship, & Trust that your Hon" will Consider us in that matter; & as there is a Considerable Number of the inhabitants of this Town that wholly Deny the Jurisdiction of N: Hampe,-if your Hon" should find yourselves Laid under the Disagreeable Necessity of using Coercive measures, with Opposers, to your Authority we Hope that your Hons will make a Specifick Difference between them & Us, & we as in Duty bound Shall Ever pray

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township, which will be subject to taxation-and the College will ever own stock and other ratiable property whereby the sd Freeholders are apprehensive that they shall be obliged to do a great, if not the greatest part towards supporting the poor, and discharging other town expences, which they feel unable ever to perform—

7. That it would be unprecedented to seperate any from a particular Corporation, they had joined without their consent either explicit or implicit

[See Hanover papers, ante.—ED.]

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[Relative to the Collection of Taxes.]

To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire now setting in Concord—

The petition of the Select Men of the Town of Lebanon in the County of Grafton Humbly sheweth

That from the year 1777 till the year 1781-sundry sums of money were from time to time voted by said Town for defraying necessary Town charges, and for defending ourselves on the Frontier against the Common Enemy, that tax bills were from time to time made out agreeable to said Votes, but Collected only in part, untill the year 1781 when at a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of said Town M' Constant Storrs was appointed to Collect the aforesaid Taxes, and they were accordingly Committed to him to Collect-That as said Bills were made on Inventories not conforming to the then Laws of this State, though at the same time makeing the Average to each person so taxed very nearly the same, as the law in that Case would have done, and were made by the General Order Vote, and direction of the people of sd Town, yet as we apprehend it unsafe to proceed to collect said Taxes unless the said Collector is duly authorized so to Do

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Honours would pass such act or resolve as may enable said Collector to complete the Collection of sd Bills

And your Petitioners as in Duty bound will ever pray— Concord 12th of

June 1783

David Hough,

in the behalf of s Select Men

[6-35] [Relative to the Incorporation of Dresden, 1783.]

To the Speaker of the house of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire Now Seting att Concord

Sir: Should thare be any moshon on thursday Nex to See if the a Sembly will in Corperate in to a Destinct town a Sarting tract of Land lying on Conotocut River so called being part of Hanover and part of Lebanon by the name of Drisdon I Beg Sir-you would in forme the Honorobel house that thare is a potishon or praor to Sd house not to Encorperate in to a Destinct town the Lands potishond for last seting of a Sembly those that signed a Ganst incorporation owne more than one half the ratobol land Contand in the potishon for incorperation you Sir and the house in General are Sensobol the Coledg Lands and Ofosors of Coledge are not taxt Sir thare is not much if any more one hundred and seventy acors under Emprovement taxabol lands in Sd tract potishond for inCoperation Sir we heare thare was an order of Cort upon thare Potishon that the matter should be heard and Reson shone if any why it should not be in Coperated and that the order of Cort should be publeshed in the publick papers we have No knowledg of the orders being Complyd with Sir; the Reson of my troughbling you with this letter was, I was Desired to a tend Cort and see that the potishonors protest a ganst in Coperation was lade be fore the honorabel house when I Sot out better than a fortenate a Go from home Expected to a Returnd home time anough to a ben Down by the Day and Left the Potishon with the Signors being wethor bound find I Cant Comply with thare requst I feare thay will have opertunity to send thare potishon on with thare reasons why thay would wish not to be in Coperated in to a Distinct town

Sir, tho you are a Stranger to me the Stashon or place you stand in is Sofishont Evidence to me that you are Gentelman of Vorasoty and must feale for Every Injured Sufforer in the State in which asembly that you are the Speaker of that Body that we under God have no whare Els to look for help in matters of this nature

Sir-if you think that we are not to poore to be Notest having but small interest Liabol to pay what Ever is put upon us without ever having a Voice in Representation Liabol to make and mend the Rodes threw all the Coledg land with out thare help which Rods are Verey bad and the few and poor inhabotonc will be oblige to make and mend or Suffer the penalty of Law for Not Doing it that you will att least Continue oure trial or delay incorporating said town untill the Next Seshon, att which time Hanover and Lebanon will be reprosented as thay are not Know as thay Consider it—

if a Sembly under the Consideration that we Cant by Reson of the rods being bloct and Som other matters that the house ought to Know upon oure trial that Cant be said before the a Sembly this Seshon if thay in thare wisdom would Give us

a heare ing att the nex Seting we should think oure Selvs in Duty bound to pray

December 20th 1783

Gideon Tiffan in behalf of Signors a ganst in Copration of Dresdon

[6-36] [Relative to the Incorporation of Dresden, 1783.]

Know all men by these Presents-That we the Subscribers Freeholders of the town of Lebanon in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire do by these presents severally constitute & appoint Joseph Tilden of sd Lebanon our lawfull Attorney in all causes moved or to be moved for us or against us in our respective names to appear plead & pursue to final Judgment and Execution-Particularly to repair to the General Assembly of s State to sit at Concord in sa State in December instant, & in our names to oppose the granting the prayer of a Petition presented to the s Assembly at their last Session, by Bezaleel Woodward and others, requesting the Incorporation of a part of said Lebanon & a part of Hanover in said County into a distinct town-In our names to appear at any Session of the said Assembly, & there to transact any matter or matters to prevent the s Incorporation, that we might respectively do were we personally present-with full power of substitution

In witness whereof we have hereto respectively set our hands & Seals the 19th day of December Anno Domini 1783— Joseph Tilden Jr Rufus Baldwin Rufus Baldwin Ju Joel Tilden Samuel Baldwin

Charles Tilden

Stephen Tilden

[The scheme for the incorporation of Dresden did not succeed. See Hanover papers, ante.-ED.]

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[William Dana for a Ferry, 1784.]

To the Hone the General Assembly of the State of New Hampshire to sit at Exeter in March in the Year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & eighty four

Humbly shews William Dana of Lebanon in the County of Grafton in sd State-That he was one of the first settlers in s Lebanon, that he has suffered greatly by the passing of persons thro' his land, in going over Connecticut river, to Hartford in the State of Vermont (so call'd)—That the privilege of a ferry

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