sion was granted July 20, 1769, in answer to a petition from Abraham Thompson, of Connecticut, agent for the original grantees. But few settlements were made in town prior to the Revolutionary war, there being but ten ratable polls in 1777. By an act approved July 13, 1854, all that portion of the town lying west of Gardner's mountain was severed from Lyman, and incorporated into a town by the name of Mon roe. Gold, copper, and lead have been found in this town, and mined to some extent. [6-194] [Petition for an Extension of the Charter.] To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Captain General Governor & Commander in Chief in & over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire in Council The petition of Abraham Thompson of New Haven in the Colony of Connecticutt, Agent & Trustee for the original grantees of the Township of Lyman in the said Province of New Hampshire, Humbly sheweth-that your petitioner & his constituents obtained of the Late Governor of said Province, a Charter for the said Township of Lyman, and have proceeded to survey & allot the same and have also made some Settlements thereon but your petitioners have been greatly impeded in their progress by the unexpected Divisional Line, making Connecticut River the Boundary between the province of New York & New Hampshire, as your petitioners were Proprietors in several Towns on the western Side of said river on which they had made great Improvements, that this sudden & unexpected Determination threw them into great consternation, and they have been greatly harrassed by the Governor of New York, which with other expensive Discouragements, they have been unable to bring forward the Settlement of said Township so soon as they expected, but are determined to make a progress therein on the Ensueing Spring-Wherefore your Petitioner in behalf of himself & his Constituents the other Grantees of said Township of Lyman, humbly pray that Your Excellency & the Honble Council would be pleased to renew their Charter for said Township of Lyman or lengthen out the Time for settling the same, assuring y Excelly & Honours, that we shall not fail to comply with the same, and further we pray to be relieved on the Premises as Y' Excellency & Hon" in your Wisdom, shall think may most conduce to Answer the Prayer of their Petition, and Your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray Abraham thompson Agent for the Grantees of Lyman [The foregoing petition was granted July 20, 1769.—ED.] [6-191] [Relative to Taxes.] The Honourable Representatives and Counsel of the State of New-Hampshire,-We the Inhabitants of the Town of Lymon County of Grafton and State aforesaid, Petitioneth an Abatement in Our Taxes from the year 1776 to this present time Humbly shewing Reasons why, said Town in 1776 were Eight in Number and Taxd £0:-12. 6, in 1777 the like Number were Tax £60-15-10, the Same Number in 1778 were Tax £121-11-8, in the above Mention 1776, 1777, and 1778 Our Situation was such and the Number of Inhabitants so Small we Could not call a Town Meeting, at this time we are Eighteen in Number and Taxd £379-10-0, Ten out of said Eighteen for three years past have paid Taxes in Other Towns for which they can produce Lawful Certificates, Consiquently the Eight Setlers first Mention will have all the tax to pay we have Sent a True Invoise as Our Polls and Ratable Estate Stood in April 1777, by said Invoise your Honours will find said Taxes too high as we were Scarcely able to Maintain Ourselves And Roads through said Lymon, if your Honours see cause or think it prudence to abate said Tax according to said invoise we shall Cherefully pay said Tax if not said Setlers must fall a Sacrifice to said State, and as said Town of Lymon is not Incorporated or said Incorporation lost or Misplace we your Humble Petitioners Desire you would Appoint Cap' Nathan Hodges of said Lymon to call a Town Meeting to Chuse Town Officers, that we may be Enabled to assess s Taxes and Lawfully gather the Delinquent Tax of s Town as your Petitioners are bound in Duty and Ever pray Solomon Parker Solomon Parker Jr Job molten obadiah Eastman [6-192] [Town Invoice, 1777.] An Invoice of the Town of Lyman April 1777 [6-193] [Petition for Abatement of Taxes, 1779.] To the Honorable the Representatives and Council of the State of New Hampshire— The petition of the Selectman of the Township of Lyman in the County of Grafton and State aforesaid-Sheweth That Your Petitioners being Inhabitants of said Town-In the Year 1776 we were only Eight in Number and Taxed 12/6 In the Year 1777 being the like Number and Taxed £60, 15s 10d, also the like Number in the Year 1778 and Taxed £121, 11s, 8d-In those Years we were not a sufficient Number to Incorporate or call Town Meetings so we could not possibly have Constables Collectors & but at this present Time are Eighteen in Number and Taxed £379, 10s od for the Payment of which all our Live and Trading Stock will not be sufficient to satisfy the same We own we have been delinquent in the Payment of the above Taxes not from any Disrespect to the State but from the Poverty which those few Inhabitants endured at that Time we are and will be always willing to Assist the States in every thing, great Part of Us having been in the Service, Ten out of the Eighteen for these Three Years past have paid Taxes for their Poll for which they can produce Certificates from other Towns and States, The Consequence will be the Poor People of this Town must of Course fall a Sacrifice with every thing they Possess and be brought to Entire Ruin if they are Obliged to Answer the above Demand Therefore we Your Honours Petitioners hopes you will take the same into your Wise and Serious Consideration and grant such Relief in the above Request as in your Wisdom may seem most meet And your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall Ever Pray & Nathan Hodges Thomas mcConell Selectmen We the Poor Distressed Inhabitants of said Town begs your Honours will Gratify the Selectmen in the above Request [6-195] [Report of a Committee relative to a Soldier, 1786.] The Committee to whom was referd a Petition in behalf of the Town of Lyman respecting Continental Soldiers having considered the same beg leave to report as their Opinion that said Town be allow'd for Thomas Piper a Continental Soldier in Gen' Washingtons Guards (furnished agreable to the requisition of the State) the sum of sixty pounds & the interest and that the Treasurer Credit the same in settling the Charge against said Town for deficiency of Soldiers Submitted per Nath' Peabody By order of the Committee [In H. of Rep., March 2, 1786, the foregoing report was accepted and adopted. Council concurred.-ED.] [6-196] [Relative to Soldiers furnished for the War.] State of New Hampshire Grafton ss Jan 19th 1786 To the Hon' Gen' Court of said State to be Conven'd at Portsmouth on the first Wednesday of February next by adjourn ment The Petition of the Town of Lyman Humbly shewethThat at the commencement of the Late war with Great Britain - Notwithstanding the many Imbarrisments we then laboured under, by Reason of being Expos'd to our Enemy & A number of the Inhabitants of said Town Inlisted and went into the service for short Campaigns That a number of said Inhabitants did Inlist into said service for three Years and Dureing the war-that in the year of our Lord 1781 your petitioners Received the Apportionment of this States Quota of Soldiers in said service (and Notwithstanding we conceiv'd we were Doom'd much to high) found we had abundantly more than our proportion in service-and proceeded to make return thereof to the Secrety-conceiving that we were not cald on to send the Number as affixed to us if we had already said number in the service of the war That notwithstanding (and to our Great surprise) we are Inform'd that there are now an Extent out against us for want of our proportion of Soldiers in said service when we in fact suppos'd that we had done as much more than our proportion, as to free us at least from paying any Tax during the war, That in addition to our many Distresses-in the Year 1776 Every family and person in Town Had to moove out of the Town and keept Garrison untill they found they might as well be Kill by the Enemy as Die by famine, then mooved to Town again where they have ever since continued-and endeavoured by every possable means in Honesty to acquire a living That if your Honours see fit to grant us some Relief according as the Nature of our case Requires it will prevent our leaving Town-as all the personal property in said Town is Not sufficient to pay the Demand that the State has against us— Lyman Jan 19th 1786 At a meeting of the Inhabitants of said Town Voted that Captain Nathan Hodges-be appointed an agent to repair to the General Court at their next Session and the foregoing petition is voted to be laid before said Court and request the agen of our Representative touching said petitionand Doubt not but Every attention will be paid thereto that the Nature of our case Requires, and your Petitioners will Ever pray & [6-197] william Clough [Petition of Non-Residents, 1787.] State of New Hampshire To the Hone Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened at Portsmouth by Adjournment The Petition of John Penhallow Samuel Cutts & John Wendell Esq in behalf of themselves and Others Non Resident Prop" of the Township of Lyman in the County of Grafton unto your Honours humbly shews |