we being as Yet much Straightned for want of Comonage and your petitioners Shall Ever pray Elias Stileman Francis Tucker Selectmen [7-149] [Precept for Election of Assemblymen, 1695.] New hampshire To the Constables of New Castle By Virtue of a presept from the Honorable John Usher Esq Ltt Governor and Comdr in Cheif of sd province & In his Majest Name you are here by required and Comanded on wedensday next Ensueing at ten of ye Clock in ye forenoon to assemble all the free houlders of your Town att some useall Place of meeting then there to make Choice of Two suficient able men to Represent your Town in a Generall assembly to be held att New Castle one the fiveteenth of this Instant Being wensday next Ensueing att tow of the Clocke in the Afternoon, There to attend his Majests Servis in the assembly and so De diem in diem, Dureing There Sestion Or Sestions and Make Return of the Persons Names so Chosen to me on weddensday Next by on of the Clocke in the after Noon wth this presept here of faile not at yo' Perrill Dated New Castle in the province aforsd May the 11th 1695 New Castle y 15th May 1695 per Theo' Attkinson sheriff Then Att A Generall Town meeting of ye Freeholders According to the within precept were Chosen For Assembly men Elias Stileman and James Rendle per Thomas Marchel Constble [7-151] [Summons to Assemblymen, 1698.] I have Summands Theoda Atkcason and william Seevy which are chouse last fridday at newcastell for a simbly men as witnes my hand Henry Treuethan constabell Newcastell De sembar the 27: 1697 [7-152] [Seal] [Warrant for Militia Muster, 1697.] New Castell December y 11th 1697 By vertue of A warant ffrom John Usher Esq' Lift Gov' &c. You are hereby Required in his Majsts Name fforthwith warne the Soldiers on the Great Island to appeare at his Majsts ffoart William and Mary at one of the Clock in the after noone Compleat in theire Armes there to attend theire dutey untill ffarther order Given under my hand and Seale To Jacob Rendell Ensigne [7-153] Shadrach Walton Cap [Return of Assemblymen, 1698.] Province of Newhampshire Pursuant To A precept from The Sheriff of This province Dated ye 23d Dec: 1698 Directed To The Selectmen of New Castle To Sumon ye freeholders of The Sd Town To Choose and Depute one or more men As The Law Directs To Represent Sd Town In A General Court or Assembly To be held and kept Att New Castle on Thursday ye 5th Jan Next Ensueing These may Certifie That Accordingly The freeholders were Sumoned on ye 30th Dec. And Accordingly Mett and Then Did Legally Choose and Elect James Randell and Theodore Attkinson To Represent Sa Town In Sd Assembly According To The precept Above mentioned And That Those Soe Chosen have been notified Thereof and Sumoned To Appear According to Sd precept by The Constable of This Town who hath Subscribed This Return As A Testimony thereof Theodore Atkinson John Foss Select men Jacob Rendell Constable [7-154] [Col. Romer, relative to Fort William and Mary, 1704.] To the Honble Her Majts Councell of New Hampsh: In America The Memoriall of Coll: Woolfgang Wm Romer Her Majestyes Cheife Engineer &c Whearas It hath pleased his Excellency Gover Dudley to write m' Secretary Story A leter relateing to Her Maje1 fort Wm & Mary-And the Reasons why It Is highly neccessary that for Her Maj Service and the Security of the Inhabitants of this province the S ffort Shuld be out of hand ffinished and that the Councell Shuld let me have all such men As I Shuld want, and alsoe being Notifyed by m' Secretary to be this Day with the Honorable Councell, I thought It my Duety to Inform your Hon that I am not In A Capacity by Indisposednes to Appear there to Tender this Memoriall to that Honble board And as his Excellency mentioned in his leter of the 11th Inst that the french fforces by Sea and land Are Designed to Invade this part of America and therefore urged In his leter to finish the ffort abovenamed forthwith out of hand And As winter Is Soe near At hand I hope this board will one And Other take into Serious Consideration; If I had had the Dispose of the Complement of laborers and CarpendTMs As I Demanded Eleven weeks Since I beleave the ffort by this time had been finished, and I Dobt not At all If Every body Imployed will Doe his Duety As I my Self Doe (without Jactance) have don with all the zeale Imaginable and A Slaveish Service, I Can Doe It Still and finish It In thirty laboring Days provided that his Excellencyes orders be Executed And that the board let me have thirty six laborers And twelve Carpenders that understand workmanship and If m' Westbrook Doth not Deceve me About Some small mater of Timber yet behind which he promised In his last Contract and that Cap' Icabod plaisted Sends me 275 peices for Spiles which Is yet behind of his promiss to me Eleven months Agoe Likewise Cap' Pickrin Is yet behind In his promis of Spiles some of Seven some Eight feet long; I have one thing more to Offer to this board which Is that his Excellencyes order may be put In Execucon Which he made last time he was Att S ffort Concerning the laborers and work men In Generall, That they Shuld be Punished In Case they Did not perform there Duety And behaveed themselves Uncivilly Against me with five Dayes labor after there ten Dayes was out, soe that I may not be Exposed to such Rude and Unmanerly behavier As I Mett with this week-when I told one of them viz. Robert Smart of Exeter wh was ordered on his not Doeing his Duety he answeared me, he would See Comon law for It first &c: I hope the board will Observe that I Dont live In this Meletary Execution of her Majte Service In building Her ffort Under the Comon law Which would be Altogeather Irronias and Contrary to the practice of urope & other parts of the world Which Is all what I have to offer Att present New Castle y 16 Sept 1704 [7-155] Wolfgang Wm Romer [Col. Romer's Memorial, 1705.] To the Honble Her Majties Councill now Assembled at Portsmouth. May it please Yo' Hon I find my selff oblidged to notefye to Yo' Hon's that there is 6 or 7 weecks worck more to do at Her Majties Fort willm & Mary and that all materials in the major part are ready at hand there, for that finishing part, and whereas the Assembly, by their last Sessions, could not rayse anny supply of mony for that service, which is ye only obstackle that His Excell could not resolve on that head, I therefore by just raysons generously resolved in order to take that obstackle away of no mony in the Treasury to advance the mony necessary out of my one Estate. Now to promote this important affaire for ower Great Queens service & the Publick interesst, I therefore desire Yo' Hon's that You will please to make an effectuall adres to His Excell that he may be pleased to order matters thus, that I may under a due protection finishe the Fort as aforesaid, and to consider that whereas there is no mony granted: sume worck halff finished, together with ye damage by the last violent storm & high water donne, will be of verry bad consequence, if not althogether in every respect prouve fatall; (which if should happen the fault can not be myn :) in cas it should not be finished at present & the damage as before hinted mended, which all I leave to Yo' Hon's Serious considerations, and I shall alwais remain the Same as have been hittheronto This Is to sertifie whome it may Conserne that Mr Sam" penhollow Treasurer hath supplyed several labourers att Her Majestys fort W and Mary full allowance Victuals and Drinck one hundred and twenty six days. Wittnes G. Redknap Engener [7-157] [Relative to a Bridge, 1719.] Province New Hampshire To His Excellency Sam" Shute Esq' Cap Gen' & Gov' in Cheife in & over his Majts Sd Province & Vice admirall of the Same & to the Honble The Councill & house of Representatives Now Setting in Gen" Assembly— The Memoriall of Sundry His Majties Loyall & Good Subjects of ye town of New Castle Most Humbly Remonstrates That Whereas the Governm' in ye Reigne of our Late Soveraigne King Charles ye 2d of Blessed Memory, Did Under the wise & good Conduct of Edward Cranfeild Esq' then Gov' of Sd Province, order Erect & build a Bridge Over yt branch of Pisca River Cal'd y ferry or fording place of Little Harbour, and that for ye Gen" Good & Benifitt of all his MajTM Good Subjects, in Saving Six Miles travill at least, from Hampton to York & So further East, as also a Much better & Safe Road in time of Warr & also that His Majts Fort on the Island May be Soon Releiv'd in Case of an Attack from forreign Enemies, as also to prevent that Common & frequent Practice of Wronging ye King of thee Revenues & Pt Duties Lay'd on Goods Imported Whereby his Majts Governm' Might (& ought) to be Supported, & that to Ease to all his Majts Well Meaning Subjects in ye Province, the Which Bridge Did then prevent, (until the Providence of God did by a Very Great Storme &c break & Carry away S Bridge,) Since which his Majty & all his Good & faire Dealing Subjects hath been Much Impeded & hurt in their Just Duty & trade by Unfair Dealers Stealing into that Creek to Defraud the King & ye Province of ye Duty & Impost, and for as much as our late L' Gov' & Comand' in Cheif, Coll Usher, with the Consent of ye Councill, Did Incorporate the Inhabitants of G' Island & Sandy beach into a town Cal'd New Castle, with Severall priveledges, as per Charter Inrold, whereby We are Oblig'd by Law to Repair all Bridges and high Waies within Sd Boundaries, of ye Charter & for as Much as y Said Inhabitants found Upon Serch that they Ought to Repair or Rebuild S Bridge, they Did in March 1712 Raise Mony by Publick Subscription to Cary on So Good a Work, but finding ye People So poor y' Could Not Accomplish Sd Work themselves, Whereupon Severall Worthy Gen' of this & ye Neighbouring Province Subscrib'd their hands & Promised large Mony to help Carry on So Good A Work, & Accordingly y Greatest part of ye timber, was Got & brought Nigh the place on Rafts, but was by Some Wicked & Unwarrantable hand Cutt Loose & turn'd a Drift, & we his Majts Good Subjts & yo Country in Generall, Much hurt, & was then & hath been Ever Since threatned y' if we went on, they would Cutt it Down Even in a Publick Manner & by force & Arms, Upon which we Remonstrated the Matter to our late Gov' Coll Dudley, whose Act on the Matter we Now Lay before you, where you will See the first part, or Introduction to ye Petition, we have been Serv'd With, by Sd papers, proved to be false & quite the Reverse 2ly As to the Query in Sa Petition, its Very Strange & odd |