Such let us Avoid them with detestation. we are your friends and Brethren in Christ. London Derry April ye 19th 1737 James Adams John Jamison Daniell mac Dufie John mcLaughlin Thomas gregg John Anderson Samuel mckeen James Gregg Pathrick taggart John Gregg Robertt Anderson Andrew Cochran John Scobey Robert morison Hugh moor Hugh mountgorey Robart kendey William Aiken James Rodgers thomas tyson [6-103] [Return of laying out a Highway. 1738.] Provence of Newhampshire Londonderry May: 15: 1738 then laid out a highway in said town begining at that Cross highway that goeth along by Patrick Duglas and William Adamss and so Runing Down the line betwixt s Duglas and adams as far as his land goeth and so along betwixt s Duglas and James Callwell upon the line betwixt them to Chaster line and so Runing aCross the End of sa Duglas land upon Chaster line to Chaster Laid out highway note that said highway is to be two Rhods Wide one Rhode off s Duglas land and the other off the sa Adams land and sa Callwells land laid out by the select men of Londonderry Rob Wear Select Men Recorded the 28th of May 1738 atru Copeay per Moses Barnett town Clark We of the Inhabitence of Londondary and hath Ben Survers of the Within Said Road Dothe asertifey that it is not good Land for A Contra Road-Neither Cane it bee Made a good high way for the year 39 Willm Murdoc [6-105] [Petition from Persons formerly belonging to Dracut for a Parish, 1741.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Governor and Commander in Chief In and over His Majestys Province of New Hampshire in New England, and Vice Admeral of yo Same, To the Honerable His Majestys Council, for said Province The Petition of the Subscribers being Inhabitants and Proprietors of a Tract of Land formerly belonging to ye Town of Dracutt in ye County of middlesex and Province of ye Massachusitts Bay but Now of ye Province of New Hampshire afore Said Most Humbly Sheweth That whereas your Petitioners Inhabitants of ye Place afore mentioned being Latly Sepperated from ye Province of ye Massachusitts Bay, by the Settlement of ye Boundary Line, are Labouring under many Great and Greavous difficulties, and disadvantiges at present, and divers of us having suffered many wronges and Injuries by yo Inhabitants of Dracutt who still pretend to have Jurisdiction over us, and are Dayly Expecting many other Difficulties to arise, And being distetute of a House Convenient for ye Publick worship of God, and being divested of ye previledge of acting as a Town, and as we being Entirely willing and Content to yeld all due obedience and submission to ye Government of New Hampshire, so we desire in all humble wise to be protected thereby Therefore Your Petitioners Most Humbly pray that your Excellency and Honers will take our Case into your wise Consideration so far as to Erect us into a Destinct and Sepperate Township vested with all such powers and previledges as other Towns in this Province enjoy encluding all those Lands on y North of y province Boundary Line which was formerly granted by ye province of ye Massachusitts Bay to ye Town of Dracutt according to ye Boundarys thereof, (which your petitioners humbly Conceive may prove an Effectuall Remedy for many of our Greavences) as Your Petitioners by Duty bound Shall Ever Pray zechariah coburn Josiah Gage Moses Gage Daniel Gage Amos Gage Simon Beard Joseph Wyman Thomas Gilmor thomas Sherla Isaac littelhall edward wyman Ebenezer Richardson Henry Richardson Joseph Wood John forgison Alexander Forguson [The foregoing was accompanied by "An abstract taken from a Plat of Dracutt Township as it was laid out by Cap" Jon Danforth ye 26: 3d 1702" Said plan is No. 106, in manuscript volume.—ED.] [Londonderry Bounds.] The Bounds of Londonderry being ten miles Square or so much as amounts to ten miles Square and no more begining on the north east angle at a Beech tree marked which is the southeast angle of Chester and running from thence due south on Kingston line four miles and an half and from thence on a west line one mile and three quarters & from thence south six Miles and a half & from thence west northwest, nine miles and an half and from thence north eleven miles and an half & from thence north north east three miles from thence South South west to the south west angle of Chester and from thence on an east south east line bounding on Chester ten miles unto the Beech tree first Mentioned [6-107 is a plan of the town, endorsed "Greggs Plat of Land."-ED.] [6-109] [Relative to a Road, 1743.] Province of New Hampshire Londonderry May ye 24th 1743. These may Certifie that I the Subscriber, am Hartly Satisfied and willing that the town of Londonderry, shall enjoy and Improve the Road laid out by the Select men of that town about five years aggo leading from the Cross Road that goes aCross my land, and from thence runing upon the land of Patrick Douglas Willm Adams & my Self, untill it meet with the Road that the town of Chester have laid out to the line between Chester and Londonderry; Provided they will pay me for what land the Road takes according to the prise I paid for it when I Bought it As Witness my hand the day & year above James Caldwell [6-110] [Certificate of Service of a Notice, 1742.] Londonderry ffebry 6th 1741/2 These may Certifie Whome it may Concern that William Gregg of said town hath served us the Subscribers with the Copy of Pettition of Severall people in this town that hath suplicated the Honourable Court at Portsmouth to be sett off as a parish by themselves and we have Notified the people Acordingly and their is none that makes any Obiection that they should not be sett off Except three or foure that belongs to the New parish that hath land Lying in the Bounds of your petitioners Wittness our hands John Barnett Thomas Cochran David vance Robert McCurdy Robtt Cochran Selectmen [6 111] [Report of a Committee on Roads, 1743.] Province Newhamp' Persuant to a Vote of the General Court Bareing Date May 26th 1743, to us the Subscribers a Committee Appointed by the Gen" Court to goe up to Chester, and London Derry to view a highway fformerly laid out by Chester and London Derry and Recorded in Each Town, and also aNother way petitioned for by Chester and to Make report of your Doeings therein to the General Court att their Next sessions-We haveing been up, and View'd Both Ways and Doe find that the Way fformerly laid out from Derry to Chester is the Most Conveniant way for the Accomidation of both the towns aforesaid and for Other Travelers, in General Sept 22d Day, 1743 John Downing, Jur' Committee Richerd Jennes [In H. of Rep., Sept. 22, 1743, the report was accepted, and the road established as recommended by the committee. -ED.] Londondery May the 11 1743 I the Subcraber doth Sartifey that I have receved No Sattisfaction for my Land for highway to Chester Nor is the said Rode not opned nor Repared As wittenes my hand Parick Douglass [6-112] [Petition for a Reduction of the Number of licensed Taverns in Town, 1758.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Captain, General, Governor, & Commander, in Chief, in & Over his Majesty's, Province of New-Hampshire, The Honourable his Majesty's Council, & House of Representatives, in General, Assembly, Convened. The Humble Petition, of the Subscribers Inhabitants of Londonderry & Province aforeSaid, Humbly Sheweth, That the Number, of Taverns, are so Multiplied, in Londonderry Aforesaid, they are become a Snare to the Youth, & of Evil Tendency, to every Age of Injudicious persons, & if they are All Continued (or which is worse Increased) we fear they will More & More Debase, & Debauch, the Manners & Morals of All such persons as Abovesaid. Therefore Your Petitioners Humbly pray, that for the future there may be but four Taverns, & Retailers, Alowed in Londonderry, aforeSaid, & the Inn-holders, to be Chosen by A majority, of Votes at the Annual Meeting, & so Annually Untill the Circumstances, of the Town Requires a greater, Number, & them that are pro Tempore, to be under such Regulations, in Respect to Travellers, Towns-Men Sabbath-Days, & |