Samuel Follet James Davis Se Anthony Jones Reuben Hill Nathanel Stevens John Leathers [6-48] [Paul Giles recommended, 1789.] State of New Hampshire To his Excellency the President and the Hon the privy Council of said State The Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Lee, finding great inconveniences arise from the want of a Civil magistrate near the Centre of business in said Town, would request your Excellency & Honor that some suitable person may be Commissioned of the peace-and if it would not appear too assuming, would beg leave to mention Capt Paul Giles as a man calculated to give universal satisfaction to the Inhabitants in said Office Your Excellency's & Honors attention to this request will greatly oblige Your very humble Servants LEMPSTER. The township was granted Jan. 1, 1753, to Samuel Clark Pain and others, by the name of Dupplin. This grant was made four days later than the grant of Acworth, and probably for the same purpose. No settlements were made under this grant, neither were any attempted or expected. A re-grant of the territory was made Oct. 5, 1761, to Benadam Gallop and others. The conditions of this grant were not fulfilled in the matter of settlements, and another grant was made Jan. 5, 1767, to Dudley Woodbridge and others, in sixty-seven equal shares. Settlements were made under this grant, by people from Connecticut, about the year 1770; and in January, 1772, there were eight families in town, not enough, however, to comply with the conditions of the grant, and on the 21st day of that month the time for completing the settlement was extended three years. See petition, Vol. IX, p. 466. By an act passed Dec. 27, 1791, the north-east part of the town was set off, and, with portions of Unity, Newport, Fishersfield (Newbury), Wendell (Sunapee), incorporated into the town of Goshen. The jurisdictional line between this town and Washington was settled by an act approved Nov. 27, 1812. [6-49] [Relative to the Town's Quota of Soldiers, 1783.] To the Honourable General Assembly to be holden at Concord on tuesday the Twenty Eighth Day of this present October, we your Humble and Dutiful petitioners the Town of Lempster beg leave to lay before your Honours a matter Respecting an Extent now Against s Town for Sixty pounds the One half of which we pray may be taken of and we flatter our Selves that when your Honours Understand the matters as they are you will Release s Town therefrom the matters of fact are as follows that Some time in the Year 1778 we Received Orders from his Hon General Bellows to Join in with the Town of Acworth and Raise one man for three Years or during the war to serve for Both Towns and Accordingly we Agreed with one Mathew Grear for three years and paid s Grear About forty Pounds as our half of his bounty and Cap' Keyes of Acworth Agreed to go with the sa Grear to the muster master and have him mustered and set to the Town of Lemster but Contrary to that had him set to the Town of Acworth and Returned for them and the sd Grear in a few months After inlisted During the war whereby the Town of Lemster were intitled to the one half of s Grear and in 1782 Each Town made a Return of sa Grear to the Committee of Safety and sa Committee gave Us a Citation for s Acworth to Appear and give Reasons if any they have why the Town of Lemster should not hold s Grear but Advises us to Agree with sa Acworth and we went and Agreed with the Selectmen of Acworth to have one half of sd Grear Credited to sd Lemster and the Other half to sd Acworth Carried their Certificate for that purpose but the sd Comittee said they could not Divide a man and so Laid the whole of sa penalty on the Town of Lemster and now we Request no more of your Honours Only to Divide s Extent and The sd Lemster to pay but One half as they that were of Acworth Requested the Honble Committee of Safety to, And we your Dutiful Petition Shall Ever pray Allen Willey Jabez Beckwith Select Men [In H. of Rep., Nov. 8, 1783, the foregoing petition was granted.-ED.] [6-52] [Return of Ratable Polls, 1783.] The Number of Ratable Polls in the Town of Lemster Twenty one years old & upwards is fifty three to be Returned persuant to the with in Order taken by us [6-53] Allen Willey Jabez Beckwith Select Men [Civil Magistrate wanted, 1785.] To the Houn1e Council Gentlemen as their is a Veakency in Lancaster for a Justice of the peace I as a Representative for that Town have taken Sum pains to Inquiar who is the fittest person for that Office, and the people Differ Sum in Sentiment-But Capt william Cary and mr Elijah frink is held up to Vew-as proper persons Either of them for that office Leaven it to your Honours to Apint One of them as you in your wisdom think fit— Concord febuary 17th 1785 [6-54] [Assessment List, 1787.] Daniel grout To J T. Gilman Esq' Treasurer for the State of New Hampshire-A copy of the proportion of the Foreign Domestic & State Debt-for the Town of Lemster made by us the Subscribers Lemster June 5, 1787 Allen Willey Freegrace Booth James Bingham Andrew French Allen Willey Asa Hebard Elizabeth Jackson Select men Andrew Dodge Charles Miner David Roberts Hezekiah Huntley Jabez Beckwith Israel Smith Joshua Booth Joseph Beckwith Tho Scovil Eben' Spaulding Joseph Wilcox Russel Miles Hr Eliph Barkers Heirs Jacob Spaulding [The original return shows the amounts assessed against each man.-ED.] [6-55] [Relative to Town Boundaries, 1788.] To the Hon1 General Assembly of the State of New Hampshire to be convened at Concord on wednesday the 13th day of June Instant. The Petition of the proprietors of the Towns of Lemster & Marlow Humbly sheweth-that the Eastern line of sd Towns being in such a Situation that they cannot be Affixed So as to give satisfaction without an Order from Your Hon"— therefore the prayer of Your Petitioners is that the Hon' Court make order that the Surveyor Gen' or his Depy or a committee be Appointed to settle Sd lines at the expence of Sa proprietors or any other way your Hon' Shall Judge best to Answer the Above purpose and Your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray— Lemster Jan 14, 1788. Allen Willey Elijah Frink Lemuel Miller Samel Royse Sam" Canfield Proprietors [6-58] [Opposition to the North-east Corner Petition, 1790.] Lemster May 17, 1790 We the subscribers inhabitants of Sa Lemster are opposers to the Petition which was presented to the General Court at their last Session praying that part of Sd Town might be taken off and incorporated with part of Sundry other Towns mentioned in Sa Petition Jabez Beckwith Phinehas Abell Elijah Bingham Tim Miner James Bingham |