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A Bank of paper currency.

At a Legal meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the Town of Goffes Town held August 21st 1786-It was unanimously Voted to have a Bank of paper Currency made and at the adjournment of said Meeting held Sept 4th Current, Voted that this their Remonstrances for the same be accepted. and To be presented by their Deligate as such.

Signed in behalf of the Town.

Alex' Walker, Clerk.

GOSPORT otherwise STAR Island.

[This place was incorporated 24th Dec., 1715, under the administra tion of Lieut.-Governor George Vaughan. ED.]

Petition to be exempt from paying Province tax. To his Excellency Sam11 Shute Esq. Captain Generall, Governor & Commander in Chief in & over his Majesties Province of New Hamp. &c.

To the Honourable the Council & Representatives Conven'd in Gen11 Assembly now Sitting in Portsmo in sa Province:

The petition of Richard Yeton one of the Selectmen of Starr Island upon the Isles of Shoales in behalfe of the Inhabitants thereof most humbly sheweth

That the selectmen of the s Island have not Expressed any contempt to the Authority by their omitting to make an assessment on the people thereof pursuant to the (?) or warrant & therefore humbly prays that Your Excellency and the Honourable Assembly would pass a favourable construction thereon & also prays that Your Excellency & this Honourable Assembly would be pleased to consider the following pleas in favour of their being Excused from the Province Tax:

The people are very few in number & most of them are men of no Substance, live only by their daily fishing and near one third of them are single men and threaten to remove and leave us, if the tax be laid which will prove our utter ruine if our fishermen leave us.

The charge and expence which they are at in the support of the ministry is as great as the people can bear at present it having cost them but lately the sum of Two Hundred pounds for that end in building a Meeting house-which is not yet all paid.

The Government have here tofore encouraged them that

they should be exempted from paying Province Taxes whilst they Exprest their forwardness in so good Service.

Though the Inhabitants have been very much richer and more numerous and their Trade greater than at present yet they were not then rated, nor the Inhabitants on the Island, in the Massachusetts Government. They live on a Rock in the Sea and have not any priviledge of right in common Lands, as other Inhabitants in the respective Towns have.

They have defended themselves in the time of Warr Agst the publick enemy at their own Expence both for forts and souldiers whose wages they have paid, and finally all other Towns in this Province have been larger and more numerous before they were taxed to the province rate.

I do with a Humble Confidence assure your Excellency and the Honourable Assembly that we shall ever express a Loyalty to his Majesty and a ready obedience to the command of the Government, but considering our poverty with the foregoing pleas in our favour, I do humbly pray that you will please to excuse us from the present tax, and when we shall be better capable shall readily bear our proportion of the publick charge -& So yo' Petitioners shall ever pray-as in duty bound &c & Subscribes

22 April 1721.

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RICH YETON.

Petition of Selectmen for remission of taxes. Province of To his Excellency Benning Wentworth New Hampshire Esq Captain General Governour and Commander in Chief in and over the said Province, The Honble his Majestys Council and House of Representatives in General Assembly Conven'd Jan'y 4, 1760

Humbly shew, Henry Carter, Richard Talpey and Charles Miller all of Gosport within said Province in behalf of themselves and the other inhabitants of said Gosport That the said Inhabitants have allways chearfully paid their Province Tax with Great Willingness and pleasure, so long as they were of ability and untill the four last years when their Circumstances in life became so low (being only a few poor fishermen) and the necessaries for living being Excessively dearer at the place of their aboad one half more than at any other part of the Province with the Great Difficulty of Transporting the same there togeather with their other great charge, Supporting the Gospel Ministry among them the fewness of the Inhabitants & their

poverty and their few within four years last past being Greatly Reduced they having had thirty Two Ratable poles within that time left them to serve the King or Removed to other places, Six of which had familys and their is but few very few young men among them and the neighbouring islands in the MassBay altho Very short of our number have on accont of their poverty been Exempted from tax for Twenty years last, and altho Warrants from the Treasurer have come to the Selectmen of said Gosport to assess the inhabitants for their part year after year yet the select men did only the first year assess them and on finding that was not paid, the poverty of the Inhabitants and some Great Incouragement from some of the Honble General Court That on shewing forth the Difficulties Aforesaid the same might be Remited and since they have not made any assessm1 for Province Tax and that that was made was never colected, and now the same amounts to a Very Considerable sum and if their very poor and few Remaining Inhabitants should be Oblidged to pay the same it would Greatly tend to their Ruin for the few Remaining young men would remove from them rather than Pay any part to such back taxes as were due before some of them were Oblidged by law to pay any, and their would be none but a few old helpless persons left. And We would here beg leave to observe to this Honble Court that had we had a Representative in Court at the time the proportion was made Gosport might not have been Tax'd but altho we were always inform'd that We were allow'd the Liberty of Sending one member to Represent us in said Court yet we never ask'd it Knowing it would be a great Cost to the Province, More than any advantage of Tax that could possibly be expected from the Inhabitants, for which Reason we never made any Enquiry into that matter.

Wherefore We humbly pray the Consideration of this Honble Court on the premises-and that you will be pleas'd to pass such act or Resolve to take of the said Back taxes and that we may be exempt for the time to come, or grant such other Relief therein as in your Great Wisdoms shall Seem meet unto you-and then We from such Incouragement shall have Great Reason to hope that instead of our few becoming fewer we shall increase in our numbers and be able to pay Province Taxes with Great Willingness when we shall have it in our ability— And by being heard in this our Request We shall as in Duty Bound Ever Pray

HENRY CARTER

RICHARD TALPEY Selectmen
CHARLES MILLER

In Council Jany 4th 1760

Read & ordered to be sent Down to the Honble Assembly
Theodore Atkinson, Secy.

Province of

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New Hamps. In the House of Representatives June 5th 1761.

This petition being Read-Voted-That the prayer thereof be granted & that the sum of five hundred & Twelve pounds Eight shillings & one penny New Tenor that appearing to be the sum due from Gosport for the province Tax be Remitted, & that the Treasurer be hereby Intitled to Charge the said sum to the Province

£512,, 8,, 14 New Tenor

In Council June the 16th 1761,
Read & Concurr'd

Theo' Atkinson Secry

A. Clarkson, Clerk.

Consented to

B. WENTWORTH.

Petition for a Lottery, for protecting the Harbor. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Capt General, Governor & Commander in Chief in & over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire, The Honble his Majestys House of Representatives for said Province in General Assembly conven'd the 25th day of June

Anno Domini 1766.

The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of Gosport in the Province of New Hampshire and others whose Interest is Concern'd Shews

That the situation of the Road & harbour at Gosport Aforesaid is well known to be exposed to the Violence of Winds & seas in many cases & Events which frequently occur by which they often sustain much Loss & Damage which they would gladly Prevent it by any means Feasible:

That it has been Judg'd a Pier or Bason might be so contrived and Built as to be in a Great Measure a security in this Case and a means of great saving to your Petitioners & Preservation of their Property

That to make such a work Effectual a Larger Sum woud be demanded than your Petitioners by any means coud raise but as it woud be of very General Utility in its Consequences they flatter themselves the scheme for carrying on such a Building woud meet with suitable Encouragement from many other Persons besides your Petitioners & those who have connections with them.

Wherefore your Petitioners Humbly Pray that they may have leave to set up & carry on a Publick Lottery to raise money for the End aforesaid and for that Purpose to bring in a bill containing such Limitations & Restrictions as shall be

tho't necessary but with such extent & Authority as shall be Sufficient to effect the Design & your Petitioners in Duty bound

shall ever Pray &c.

Jno Tuck

Henry Carter

Richard Talpey

John Varrel

William Michamore
William Holbrook
Henry Shapley
Richard Talpey, Jr
Henry Talpey
Daniel Rindle
James Hickey
Samuel Varrel
Samue! Varrel, Jr
John Down
John Down, Jr
Samuel Downe
Jeremiah Lord
Jos. Damrell
Peter Robinson
John Walpey,

Ambrose Perkins
John Barter
Wm Sanderson
George Walpey
Josiah Sanderson
Henry Shapleigh, Jr
Joseph Muchamore
Elamuel Muchamore
Benj Muchamore
Sam' Muchamore
Arthur Rendle
Arthur Rendle, Jr
George Rendle
John Rendle
Edwd Bowdey
Henry W. Andrews
S. Mathews

Jn' Newton

Stephen Pierce

Province of In Council June 28th 1766.

Ja' Ward
Rich Langford

Wm Bickam
Sam' Healy
John Puriell

Sam Currier

Samuel Muchmore
Gregory Puriell
Sam Cutts
Daniel Rindge
Geo. Boyd
Nath Adams
Jonathan Warner
Thomas Wentworth
John Sherburne
D. Sherburne
Sam Warner
Titus Salter

Abraham Trefethen
Hugh Hall Wentworth
Wm Knight

Temple Knight

Samuel Sherburne
Geo: Janvrin
Sam Dalling
John Flagg
Joseph Whipple
James Stoodly
Rich. Hart
John Moffat
W Whipple
Jno Parker

H. Wentworth
John Penhallow
Thos. Bell
Samuel Moffatt
D. Pierce

Paul March

New Hamp Recd & order'd to be sent down to the Honble Assembly. T. Atkinson Jun. Secry.

Province of

New Hampsh} In the House of Representatives, July 3a 1766.

Voted-That the Petitioners be heard on this petition the second day of the sitting of the general assembly after the first of September next and that the Petitioners at their own cost cause the substance of this Petition and Order of Court to be Published three weeks successively in New Hampshire Gazett that any Person may appear and Shew cause why the Prayer thereof should not be Granted

M. Weare, Cler.

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