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APPENDIX.

Petition of Hadley and Kidder addressed to the General Assembly, 1759.

The Humble Petition of Benja Hadley & John Kidder of Derryfield in said Province, by their Attorney John Goffe Esq Shews, That your Petitioners, Viz, Benja Hadley had a servt Viz, John Whicherweed, & John Kidder a Brother Viz, Benjamin Kidder, on whose estate the said John has administered, who voluntarily Inlisted themselves in the service & pay of this Governmt under the Command of Capt Richard Emary In the year 1757 In the Expedition against Canada, & were at Fort Wm Henry where after a Seige of seven Days, said Fort surrendered, after which the Indians took their Guns from them stripped them of all the Cloaths they had Excepting what was lost at the surrender of said fort, & Carried to Canada, and at the end of four months residence there, & many Complicated sufferings they were sent to Rochell In Old France, where they died In Goal, a perticular acct of their Losses Is herewith Exhibited.

Wherefore your Petitioners by their Attorney John Goffe Esq Humbly prays That their Circumstances & Losses of so much Time &c to their master & surviving heirs, may be Considered & that your Excellency & Honours would in your Great Wisdom & Goodness Grant them a Quantum Meruit or such Gratuity as may In some Measure Compensate for the Misfortunes aforesaid, & they will as In Duty Bound Ever pray &c John Goffe

In Behalf of Benj" Hadley & John Kidder

[Goffe presented a power of attorney from John Kidder and Benjamin Hadley on printed forms (Nos. 251 and 252), and the following bills.-Ed.]

Things that Sargent Benjamin Kidder had & Lost at the Surrender of fort William Hennery which I fitted him out with

(Viz) one New duble brested Jacot of nub Cloth

Do one flowered Sarge

1 pair of Leather briches

£10- 0-0

2- 0-0 3-15-0

15- 0-0

1 Gunworth 10 dollars

2 pair of Stockens 3£ old Tenor 2 pair Shoes
15/ new tenor a pair

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3 shirts viz one fine £3 2 woolin a 2/4

one pair Trousers

Hanker chife flowered

7-8-0

1-10-0

1-10-0

Total New Tenor

45-13-0

True accompt Errors Excepted per

John Goffe attor.

which I am Ready to attest to if Required

[Hadley's account is similar, and amounts to £21, 10, 0. It was sworn to before John Goffe, January, 1759.]

Letter from Col. John Goffe to Gov. Wentworth relative to Trespasses and some Sharp Practice at an Election in Derryfield, 1766.

Derryfield, Sept. 1st, 1766.

May it please your Excellency

I went at the Request of Masons Proprietors to the Society Land between Pettersborah & Hillsborah to see where the Trespassers had ben at work & whose Lots they had Improved upon & found they had cleared, at least cut a grate deal of Timber down, had built a camp upon Solly & Marches & on Meservey & Blanchards and your Excellencys Lots on the west side of Contucook River they have don a grate deal of work fenced it all In with a Considerable Good Runing fence have built a camp on it & altho' no body was their when we were their yet we are prity sure that Doct Perry is the man that has Trespassed upon your lot & petty it is that he should not be

prosecuted as he Is the Ringleader of all the Rest, the [re], and as son as they Git to work again I have 2 men Ingaged to see them at work & acquaint me with their names.-The Land is Exceeding Good but I think your Excellencys is superior to any at that part of the Society Land and that maid them fellows Covet it it is certainly worth mony-I intended to have wated upon your Excellency when the Infer Cort set but I hurt my self when up their with heat and laying out in the Wet so that I have not ben well sence I came from their.Your Excellency may Remember that we In Derryfield petitioned the Gen" Cort for an act to call a town meeting for the choice of town officers which when I cal'd John Hall with Colo Barr who have strived all that is in their power to Injure me of late & at the meeting Col° Barr cam on porpos to affront me & Col° Barr Hiered voters for John hall with Large promises and Webster a Trader at Chester hall Hierd I have by good Information to come to Threaten his detters in town, if they did not vote for Hall he could not stay upon them &c, so that upon the whole with their Influence hall obtained eighteen voters be side him self and there was eighteen voters on the opposite side of the most substantial men in town so that when they had don all they could that could not git hall any office without voting for himself nor none that was chosen that day & several Recd Deeds from Col° Barr & others that day to make them voters which I suppose held them no longer than that Night for I am confident they would not Trust them A shilling ever expecting to Git it.—And as soon as the meeting was over John Hall told Esq" Sheepard the moderator that he had Beat Goffe now & he would have a commission of the peace In spite of anybody that should oppose it for Col° Bar & Maj Emerson and Mr Webster with his friends at the Bank would procure it for him—now may it please Your Excellency if such an Insulting fellow (for I have heard him Insult the whol Govert) many times and a man that has Live 30 or forty years upon a place & could never Raise half his provision, to Git that post would strive for to make mony by it and put the people into confusion for work he dont Incline to & is allway contriving unjust ways to maintain his luxery & I am very sure

your Excellency never will Give a commission to a man that wants it for no other end than to Revenge and Git mony by it. Therefore I Beg your Excellencys favour that John Hall nor non for him may prevail in that Respect.*

I am your Excellencys most Humble
& Devoted Servant

His Excellency Governor Wintworth

Relative to the Alewive Fishery, 1776.

John Goffe

Province of New Hampshire-Hillsborough ss

Derryfield Feb" the 5th Day 1776

This may Certifi the Members of the Gennaral Assembly in and for said province, that the Alewive fishery in Great Cohas Brook in said Derryfield would be of Great Service to the Inhabitants of Said Town, and Likwayes to the Inhabitants of the Adjasent Towns, alowing that the Incumbrance Ware Removeed which are on said Brook, therfor We Your Humble Peteceners, prays that Your Honners, would take the following Articuls by us Signed unto your Searous Concedration

11y that all Incumbrances on said Brook be with all speed Removeed in order that said fish may have a free Liberty to pass and repass at all proper Secons in said Brook from Merrimack River to Massapeepek Pond

21y that no seen neat be put in to the Mouth of said Brook or Near to it in order to cach Aney of said fish, and that no scoop neat poot or wire be put in to said Brook, in aney part within sixty Rodes from the mouth of said Brook, under the paneltyes of paying three pounds for each fish Cached within said Bounds

3ly our Disire is that the said fish may have free liberty to pass and repass in said Brook for the Insuing year without molestacion that they May increase their nomber, under the above like penelty.

*Colonel Goffe in his statements has reference to the sharp practices carried out at the dual town meetings held in March, 1766. See Records, page 112.-ED.

41y that there be Men chosen and sworn to Inspact and see that the above Articuls be Ubserved, and that they may have full power of Substitution to prosecut all and Every affenders of said articuls to fineal Judgment and Execution, and your petitioners as in Dyt Bound Shall Ever pray

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