Inasmuch as ye Charge of preaching setleing A Minister Clearing Mending ways Bulding Brigis &c-Haith ben all Defrayd by a Land Tax which Haith ben very Expenceive and of Long Continuance. Wharefore your petitioners Humbly pray that your Exelency and Honours would Not Lay so Heaviey and as we humbley Conceve Unnesary A Burdon on Us, all which is Humbley Submited by your Exelency & Honours Moust Humble Servents Daited at Ipswich April 25, 1763 [7-188] [Relative to paying a Committee to locate the Meeting-House, 1768.] Gentlemen I am to let you know that the General Assembly are Informed that you hitherto Neglect and Refuse to pay the Committee Sent by the General Assembly to Establish the Place where your Meeting House is to Stand The Cost of which Committee by the Vote of the Assembly you were Order'd to pay And your Refusing so to do seems to be in Contempt of that Authority I am therefore to let you know that the General Assembly Expect that without Delay you pay said Committee their Demands And such Other Charges as may have Arisen in Consequence of your neglect hitherto Portsmouth New Hamps In the House of Representatives May 26, 1768 To the Selectmen of New Ipswich By Order M Weare Cl N B. Said Comtees Accot is three Pounds Sixteen Shillings [A committee, consisting of Col. John Goffe, Dr. John Hale, and James Underwood, was appointed Sept. 22, 1767, to locate the meeting-house. This was done in answer to a petition of a portion of the inhabitants. Said committee located it "where the Meeting House now is."-ED.] [7-189] [Petition to have Amherst made the Shire Town of the County, 1769.] To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq, Cap' Gen' Governor & Commander &c of the Province of new Hampshire, To the Honorable his Majestys Council and Asembly of said Province We Inhabitants of New Ipswich in said Province Beg Leave to Return your Excellency and Honors our most hearty Thanks for the prudence & Wisdom you have Exhibited in forming the lines of middle County so agreeable to Nature, We think it is Done to the best advantage; and Humbly Thank your Excellency & Honors for appointing Amherst Shire Town as we think the County may be well accommodated there— And pray that there may not be one Town more Annexed to this County, for if it should we think it would give Birth to Confusion-We as in Duty bound will ever pray Dated April 10th 1769 Aaron Kidder John Preston Peltiah whittemore Levi Adams [7-190] Kendall Briant Stephen Adams John walker Francis Fletcher [Vote of Town relative to Lots, 1772.] At a meeting of the Proprietors of the Township of New Ipswich in ye County of Hillsborough in ye Provence of New Hampshire-Held at the House of Josiah Rogerses Inholder in Said New Ipswich on the thirtyeth Day of December A D: 1772 It was voted to Raise fifty three Pound Lawfull money to pay those Persons who have Suffered by haveing there Lotts Cutt by Sliptown & Rindge Linds as Voted to Each Sufferer by the Proprietors also Voted to Chuse a Committee to Prefer a Petition to the General Court for to Enable the Proprietors to Colect the money they have Voted to Raise to pay those Persons who have Suffered by haveing there Lotts Cutt by Slip town and Rindge Lines and the Charge that Shall arise by Effecting that matter to final Determination as His Excellency and Honours Shall Diecrict Chosen for Said Committee Reuben Kidder Esq' Capt Benjamin Hoar & Isaac Appleton attes pr [7-191] Isaac Appleton Proprietors Clerk [Petition relative to same.] To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majestys Provence of New Hampshir, and to the Honourable His Majestys Council, and House of Representatives in General Court assembled at Portsmouth The Petition of the Proprietors of the Township of New Ipswich in the County of Hillsborough in Sd Provence Humbly Sheweth That your Petitioners at there first Settlement Lotted out and Devided the whole of the Land in Said Township and. Some time after it was Discovered that a Number of Sa Lotts ware run over the Line of Said Township in to the Township of Temple and of Rindge the whole of the Land being Devided in the Said Township of New Ipswich it is not in the Power of Sa Proprietors to make up those Rights in Land therefore Said Proprietors at there meeting Leagally Held for that Purpose Voted to make up those Rights that had been Partly taken into Temple and Rindge as afforesaid equal to other Rights by Giveing them that is each Sufferer the Value of the Land so Cutt off in money and accordingly Voted fifty three Pound Lawfull money which Sum is as Sa Proprietors Judge the Value of the Land which is so Lost as afore Said but as Sd Proprietors apprehend that they are not able by Law to Colect the money Voted for the Use above Said therefore you Petitioners Humbly pray your Excellency and Honours to take there Case under your wise Considaration and Lay the above Said Tax on the Lands in Said Township of New Ipswich for the Use above Said with the Cost your Excellency and Honours Shall Judge will nessarily arise or other wise Grant Relief as your Excellency and Honours in your Wisdom Shall See meet and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever pray NB the Proprietors when they Raised money have made it there practice that the third and fouth Devetion have paid ondly Equel to one 1st & 2d Devision that is 2 66 acre Lott have paid but one third part of the Taxes of a Right [7-197] [Petition for Pay for Service in the War.] To the General Court of the State of New-Hampshire Humbly shew the Inhabitants of the Town of New-Ipswich in said State, that they been since the commencement of the late American War at very great expence, and have been singular sufferers thereby, without receiving any compensation or consideration whatever, either from this State or this Continent therefor The said Inhabitants therefore humbly offer the Account in the Schedule herewith exhibited, for the mature deliberation and allowance of this Honorable Court, as containing not a single Article for which they have received the least value-They are ready, if this Honorable Court should judge necessary, to produce Vouchers for a further support of the Charges in said Account, if the Subscriptions and Oaths thereto, or the present attestations are not sufficient.-And therefore the said Inhabitants humbly pray that this Court would allow the said Account as it now stands, or that a day may be given as this Hon'ble Court shall appoint; and that the proof of the Articles and Charges in said Account may be admitted and if proved beyond a possibility of a doubt to this Hon'ble Court, that they would grant the same, is all the said Inhabitants wish for or desireAnd as in duty bound will ever pray— Noah Cooke— in behalf & by order of the Committee of said Town chosen for the above purpose [R. 3-37] Persons that went to Cambridge in April A. D. 1775, on the alarm of the battle at Concord, their time and expenses: |