about a Week Past & the Time is too Short to Sell the Lands Seacondly because Maj' Breed Batchellor who is Proprietors Clerk has absconded and Joyned the Enemy (tho we have Searched) we cannot find the Plan or Records of the Proprietors Rights or the Publick Lotts therefore as the Greater Part of the Township is Owned by Persons Living Out of Town and Unknown to us We Cannot Make the Rates according to Law Without a Plan of the Town We Shall Endeavour to Git One from the Lord Proprietors Records— Likewise We Would Request Your Honours to aquaint Us Whether the Late adition to an Act Entitled an act to assess Real and Personal Estates Viz all Other Real Estate Either Lands or Buildings Not Included in the first act is Likewise to be Rated in all Other Town and Parish Rates as Apprehend Was the Intent of the act but by a Clause in the act Seems Doubtful to Some what was Intended and Your Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray Packerfield Feby 9th 1778 John Brown Amos Skinner Select Men of [7-253] [Relative to Estate of Thomas Packer, etc., 1780.] To The Honourable Council and House of Representatives, of the State of New Hampshire, In general Court Assembled. May it please your Honors. The Petition of the Select Men of the Town of Packerfield humbly Sheweth.-Whereas the last general Assembly of this State was pleased to pass an Act, to Suspend the payment of the Taxes of the Lands of mr Thomas Packer, until the Dispute with respect to the last Will And Testament of his late Father, Thomas Packer Esq', is determined Which Act or Order of the said general Assembly involves the Town in much Difficulty. as by this Means We are prevented Settling with the Treasurer of this State, And receiving the Money ordered by Law to be paid by Sd Treasurer for the Beef which this Town has provided And Sent to the Army. Therefore Your Petitioners humbly pray That your Honors would be pleased, to pass an Act or Order, That the Sd Suspended Tax, Should Answer So much with the Sd Treasurer, that the Town may draw their Proportion of Money for the Beef which the Town has provided. And your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall ever pray Packerfield Decem' 30th 1780. William Barker | Select Men of the town of Packerfield [7-254] [Return of Ratable Polls, 1783.] Pursuant to A Vote of the General assembly of the State of New Hampshire Directed to us we Return Ninety Male poles paying a pole tax for them Selves within the Town of Packerfield Packerfield November 10th 1783 To the General assembly of the State of New Hampshire [7-257 [Relative to a division of the Town for the formation of Sullivan, 1786.] To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives for the State of New Hampshire in General Court Conveand At Portsmouth December A. D. 1786 The petition in behalf of the Town of Packersfeild Humbly Sheweth that your petitioners have ben Servd With a Copy of a petition and order of Court thereon signed by a number of the Inhabitants of the Towns of Gilsom Stoddard & keen Seting forth in Sa petition that the Situation of a number of the Inhabitants of the Towns aforesaid Togather with Part of the inhabitants of the Town of Packerfeild is such that they Cannot be accomedated with Privileges Equal to the other Inhabi tants of their respective Towns, one Part of which Ascertion your Petitioners absolutely Deny Because there is not one Inhabitant on the Land in packersfeild Praid for in Said Peti tion Althoug at a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Packerfield in the month of March A. D. 1784 There was a Petition Sign by a Number of the Inhabitants of the Towns of Gilsom Stoddard and Keen Preferd in Said meeting praying that the Town of Packerfeild would Vote off a Certain part of Packerfeild to be Erected into a Town S part to Contain Two Miles East and west and Two miles and a half North and South which would Contain one Eighth Part of Said Packerfeild and from the reasons offered at that Time and through inadvertency of the People the prayer of Said Petition was granted upon Conditions that all the respective Towns Concern ware mutually agreed thereto (Sence Which Period) not supposing that the petitioners referd to would obtain their request before the general Assembly) have proceeded to agree upon a Center for Erecting a meeting House and have made provision for the Same therefore if the Prayer to the Inhabitants of the town of Gilsom and others Preferd to the General Court Should be Granted it will be a means of removing the Present Center and frustrate our Design in Building a House for Public Worship and thro the Town into the uttermost Confusion imaginable and as we look upon your Honours as Guardians of the State your Petitioners flatter themselves that your honours in your known Wisdom Will not Erect a New Town on the ruins of older ones therefore your Petitioners pray that the prayer of the petition referd to may not be granted As in Duty Bound Shall ever pray Solomon Wardwell Pelatiah Day Packersfeild Decem' 1st 1786 Select men of the town of Packerfeild [The north-west part of the town was severed, and with portions of Gilsum and Keene incorporated into the town of Sullivan.] [7-259] [Petition of Ruth Batcheller, concerning her Husband's confiscated Estate, 1789.] State of New-Hampshire. To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives In general Court assembled. May it please your Honors. The Petition of Ruth Batchelor of Packersfield, humbly sheweth. That your Petitioner is the Widow relict of Breed Batchellor Esq' late of Sa PackersfieldDeceased. Who in the Time of the Controversy with Britain, was dissatisfied with the Measures the States Adopted, in order to obtain their Liberties, and delivering themselves from the hands of the Britons, And therefore Left his Wife, Children & Estate, and went to the British Army. Upon which the whole of his Estate, real & personal was Confiscated. And your Petitioner with her Children, was left in distressing Circumstances, her Children being then Small, And unable to earn their Liv ing, tho your Petitioner, by the Indulgence of the honorable Judge of Probates, has been for some Years past, indulged with the Improvement of the Home Farm, which when mr Batchellor left it was new And ruff, the Fences made Chiefly of Timber, which now are mostly rotten And Decayed. And the Buildings are greatly decayed & impaired. By which our Habitations are rendered uncomfortable, And the profits of the Farm are greatly lessened and rendered insufficient to afford the Family, with all their Labour & Industry a Comfortable Support. Therefore your Petitioner humbly Prays that your Honors would take into your serious Consideration the Case of a poor widow And a Number of Fatherless Children, and grant the said Home Farm to your Petitioner & her Children And to their Heirs forever. That they may be encouraged to repair the Buildings & Fences, by which the Farm may be rendered Capable of affording the Family a Support, And Your Petitioner as in Duty bound, shall ever pray.— Packersfield June 2d, 1789. Ruth Batcheller [In H. of Rep., June 12, 1789, it was voted that Mrs. Batcheller have the use of the estate free of rent until the matter was finally settled.-ED.] [7-261] [Certificate of Number of Ratable Polls, 1794.] This Certifies that their is in the Town of Packersfield one Hundred and forty two Male Poles of twenty one Years of age and upwards paying a pole tax for them-Selves Packersfield June ye 2d 1794 Sam' Griffin) Select Men This Certifies that at a legal Town Meeting held in the Town of Packersfield on the twenty eighth Day of April Last the Inhabitants Voted unanimously that the Selectmen of Said Town Petition the General Court at their next Session for leave to Send a Representative Packersfield June ye 2d 1794— [7-262] Sam' Griffin T. Clerk [Relative to Representative, 1794.] To His Excellency the Governer the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire to be Convened at Amherst on the first wednsday of June nextHumbly Sheweth your Petitinors Inhabitants of the Town of Packersfield have for Some Years past been Classed with the Town of Dublin for Representation that Said Dublin have now Come of age and Send a Representative for them Selves by which means your Petitinors not having a Sufficient Number paying a pole Tax for them Selves are left Unrepresented Therefore Pray your Honors to take our Case into your wise Consideration and grant us releafe in the Premises Either by Classing or Granting us leave to Send a Representative by our Selves and your Petitinors as in Duty bound Shall ever pray &c Packersfield June yo 2a 1794— Sam' Griffin Select Men NEW BOSTON The township was granted by the government of the Massachusetts bay, March 20, 1735, O. S., to John Simpson and others, who were soldiers, or heirs of soldiers, engaged in the Canada expedition of 1690. An arrangement was made December 24, 1752, whereby the Masonian proprietors relinquished their claim on the territory, including a large tract in addition to the Massachusetts grant, which addition was incorporated with Francestown in 1772. New Boston was incorporated with town privileges February 18, 1763, and Col. John Goffe, of Bedford, authorized to call the first meeting. June 18, 1836, the farm of Isaac Parker, situated in the north-east corner, was severed from this town and annexed to Goffstown. Some of the grantees and settlers were from Boston, Mass., and named this town in memory of their former home. The men in the First N. H. Regt., in the Revolution, from this town were John Jordon, Thomas McNeil, Benjamin Stone, and a negro named Peter Brewer: the latter died in the service. [R. 3-9] [John Burns, Soldier, 1760.] The memorial of John Burn of a Plantation called New-Boston in the Province of New-Hampshire: Humbly Sheweth that I was an Inlisted Soldier in the Hampshire Regiment for the |