[7-75] [Relative to Division of State Tax.] We the Subscribers Selectmen of Middleton find the proportion of Middleton to be four pounds one Shilling & Nine pence £4: Is: 9d and have Devided the Same and find the North part to be and the South part to be Middleton December: y 8: 1794 £2: 6s: od 1:15: 9 The town was formed of territory taken from the northwest part of Hollis, the south-west part of Amherst, all that portion of the "mile slip" not included in Brookline, and an ancient grant made by Massachusetts to the school at Duxbury, called "Duxbury School Farm." It was incorporated Jan. 11, 1794, at which time it received its present name. The mile slip referred to was a strip of land about one mile wide, lying west of the old Dunstable grant; the southern portion of which had been incorporated with Raby (Brookline) in 1769. An attempt was made by some of the inhabitants resident thereon in 1779, and again the following year, to get these tracts of land incorporated into a town; but it was opposed by Amherst, and was not successful. In 1792 the south-west part of Amherst succeeded in getting erected into a parish, after which the town gave its consent by vote to its entire separation, which removed the most serious obstacle to the formation of Milford. An addition was made to the town Dec. 20, 1842, by the annexation of another portion of Amherst. Another addition was made June 27, 1873, of territory taken from Lyndeborough. [R. 2-282] [Asa Lewis, Soldier.] To Nicholas Gilman Esq' Receiver General for the Colony of New Hampshire In obedience to the Late Congress for this Colony this may Certify that Asa Lewis of Duxbury School farm was in the Continental Army in ye year 1775 and is Inlisted and gone into the Service this year for which Reason Please to Allow Stephen Blanchard Collector for the afored farm the sum of Two Shillings six pence and one farthen Lawfull Money it being the sum one single Pole Pays to the Colony Tax For value Rec Sir Pleas to Pay to Josiah Munro all the wages that is Due to Me as a Soldier in the First New Hampshire Regt for the three years Service and my arrearage of Clothing and this order shall be a full Discharge from me Mile Slip Jan 12th 1785 Test-Sarah Bridges To the Treasury of the State his John McIntire mark [7-81] [Petition for an Incorporation, 1779.] To the Honble the Council and Gentlemen of the Honble House of Representatives in General Assembly at Exeter convened March the 1779. The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of Duxbury Farm and Mile Slip in the County of Hillsborough, and State of New Hamp whose names are hereto subscribed. Sheweth That they are not suficiently numerous to settle and maintain a Gospel Minister, and it is not likely they ever will That they are situate between the Towns of Amherst and Wilton but at such a distance from their Meeting-houses, that the aged and infirm are utterly unable to attend public Worship, and it is a great Inconvenience to the rest. That divers of the Inhabitants of said Towns of Lyndsborough and Amherst, who live near the said Duxbury Farm and mile Slip labour under the same disadvantage, and as by reason of the largeness of the said Towns, and number of the Inhabitants, they can well be spared, are very desirous of being seperate from their said Towns, and annexed to said Duxbury Farm and Slip. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray Your Honors to take their said Case into your serious Consideration and that (if in your great Wisdom you shall see proper) your Pet's may be at liberty to bring in a Bill, in order to annex a certain part of said Amherst and Lyndborough and the Inhabitants thereof to the said Duxbury Farm and Slip, Viz' in Amherst Beginning at the northwest corner of a lot belonging to william Peabody Jur lying on amherst west line thence an East point 396 Poles being the width of six lots to the northeast Corner of a lot belonging to from thence a southerly point to the East End of the house of John Burn then south to the south line of amherst then by s line to the east side of the mile slip and in Lyndsboro Beginning at the northeast corner of Duxbury-school-farm and running a westerly point by the north end of s farm and mile slip to the east line of wilton then running north by s wilton to the northeast corner of s wilton thence a East point to amherst west line thence a southerly point by amherst west line to the northeast corner of Duxbury school farm And that the whole may be Erected into a Township with such Priviledges and Immunities as are Enjoyed by other Towns within the said State. And your Pet's as in duty bound will ever pray &c [7-76] [Remonstrance to foregoing, 1779.] To the Honourable the Council and House of Representatives in New-Hampshire Whereas certain persons belonging to Duxbury School-Farm, Amherst, Lyndeborough & the Mile Slip in their Petition to Your Hons of March last, pray'd that they might be Erected into a Township as in Said Petition expres'd and obtain'd an Order for a hearing before the Gen' Assembly on the second Thursday of their next sessions after the 17th of June AD 1779, and We being Residents & Proprietors of the said Mile-Slip, Humbly pray that the prayer of said Petition may not be Granted at Present, as We think if it should it would Greatly Embaras & perplex us. We therefore pray that said Petition may be dismissed. Stephen Blanchard Stephen Blanchard Jun' 6 Persons N: B: We non Resident Proprietors in the within named Amherst & Mile-Slip; join in the prayer of the within Petition, & pray that said Amherst & Said Mile-Slip may remain as they are, until some more Convenient season. [A similar petition was signed by William Peabody. -ED.] [7-78] [Remonstrance from Amherst.] State of New Hampshire To the Honble the Council & House of Representatives for the State aforesd. Whereas the Inhabitants (or certain of them) of Duxbury Farm, otherwise called Duxbury School-Farm, and Mile Slip in the County of Hillsborough in this State, in march last, did prefer a Petition to your Honours praying that they might be erected into a Township together with certain Parts of Lyndeborough & Amherst in sd State in their Petition set forth, &c-We the Subscribers, being Residents and Proprietors in that Part of Amherst which they in their sd Petition pray may be incorporated with, & a Part of, their proposed Township; humbly pray that we may not be set of to, & incorporated with, the s proposed Township; but that we may be permitted to remain in our present State, as we humbly conceive that it is much more for our Interest & Convenience to remain, at present, as we are, and not be incumbered and perplexed with the Charges & Incumbrances necessarily attending the erecting a new Township -which is humbly submitted-by Benjamin Hopkins James Russell Benjamin Hopkins junior Jonathan Grimes Josiah Sawyer Ju his Thaddeus X Grimes mark Joseph Crosby Ebenezer Hopkins John Burns John Burns June Nathan Hutchinson of Lyndeborough 16teen with Wm Peabody [7-79] [Petition for an Incorporation, 1780.] To the Honorable the Council and House of Representatives for the State of New Hampshire to be Convend at Exeter on the first Wednesday of June Next the Petition of the Subscribers Humbly Sheweth-That Your Petitioners are Inhabitants of the Southwesterly part of Amherst in the County of Hillsborough; that the Inhabitants of the one Mile Slip and Duxbury School farm labour under many Disadvantages for want of an Incorperation, and of themselves are too few in Number at present to Support a Minister of the Gospel if they ware Incorporatedand Are at too Great a Distance from the Places of Publick Worship in the Neighbouring Towns to Attend with any Conveniancy-that Your Petitioners live very far from the Place of |