Petition to be set off as a Parish. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq: Captain General and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire; To the Honourable His Majesty's Council, and the Honourable House of Representatives. The Petition of the Inhabitants of the Westerly part of the Town of Plastow Sheweth, that by reason of the many & great difficulties they undergo in attending the Publick Worship of God, at the Meeting House where it now stands, through the great distance of their dwellings therefrom, and that MeetingHouse is not large enough to Acommodate more than One Half of the Inhabitants of said Town And as it would be greatly to the Benefit of your Petitioners and prevent Strife and Discord among the Inhabitants, and also tend to the advancement of the Gospel, your Petitioners humbly request that the Westerly Half of said Town may be set off as a Distinct Town, or Parish, the Dividing Line to run as followeth, Viz. Beginning at the North East corner of Benjamin & Ebenr Hale's Land, from thence running a straight Line to the Bridge near Ebenezer Eaton's, from thence running by the Brook unto the Road near David Bryant's and from thence running by said Road unto the Province Line. Your humble Petitioners desire your Excellency and Honours to take our Case into your wise Consideration and grant us that Relief and Benefit which to your Wisdom Shall Seem meet. And your Humble Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray Plastow May ye 20 1766. N. Peabody Daniel Richards Josep hill ordway John Dow John Dow Jr. Jesse Page Benjamin Richards Stephen Knight Moses Whittaker Provee of In Council June 26th 1766 read & ordered to be Sent down to the Honble Assembly T. ATKINSON Junr. Secy. Province of New Hamp Voted That the Petitioners be heard thereon the Second Day of the Siting of the General Assembly after the first Day of September next and that the Petitioners at their Own Cost Cause the Selectmen of Plastow to be Served with a Copy of this Petition and Order of Court that they may Shew Cause if any they have why the Prayer thereof should not be Granted In the House of Representatives June 26th 1766 The within Petition being Read and Considered In Council Eodem Die M. Weare Cl T. Atkinson Secy. At a Legal Town meeting Holden at the meeting house in Plastow October ye 9, 1764 Capt. Jonathan Carlton was Chosen moderator Then Voted That the meeting house Should Stand Whare it Now is Ten years A True Coppy Taken out of the Town Book of Records JONATHAN KIMBALL Town Clerk Plastow November ye 3, 1766. Daniel Hadley against the division of Plaistow, 1766. To the General Court for the Provence of New Hampshire I would Inform your Honours that it is very much against my mind that the town of Plastow Should Be Devided or made into two Towns or Parishes for the Petition that was Entred with your Honnors the 26 Day of June Last that I signed I was over Persuaded to sign the Constabel Promising me that if I would signe said Petition he would [wait] a Grate while one me for my Rates which I then owed to him. Plastow December 12th 1766. DANIEL HADLEY. Joshua Emery against the division of Plaistow. To the General Cort for the Provence of New Hampshire: I would inform your Honnors that it is my mind that the town of Plastow should be cept to Gether as it is at this Day and the reason of my signing a pettition that I signed that was Entred in the Cort June 26 Last past was Because they told me that a part of our town was a Going to be Enexed to Hamsted which I am very much a Gainst. But I should be very willing that they that Have Signed to Go to Hamsted might have Liberty to pay their minester Rate at Hamsted for eight or ten year if it is their Desier. Plastow Jenuery 1, 1767. JOSHUA EMERY, New Hampshire. In the House of Representatives Aug 26, 1767 The Petitioners being heard on this Petition and also the Objections heard and Considered. Voted That the Prayer of the Petition be Granted and that the Petitioners have liberty to bring in a Bill accordingly. In Council, August 28 h 1767 M. WEARE Cl T. ATKINSON Jun' Secy. Memorial or letter of sundry inhabitants of Haverhill to the town of Plaistow, 1767. BRETHEREN-though By ye Devition Line Between the provinces we were Seperated from you yet By indulgence from ye masechusets we have continued to worship with you & cherfully to pay our proportion towards the maintainance of ye Gospel & after the Death of our former minister we united with you in the Settlement of another whom we Justly Esteem & Venerate and in considisention to a Number who apeared uneasy about the Situation af the meeting House we united with you in the choice of a committee & were at considerable Expence in Hopes to Give them Satisfaction. They Not Being Easy Have obtened a Devition af your Town Taking away By farr the Best Part of the Land your Numbers Being hereby Greatly Deminished many of those Left Being of a Sectarien Spirit. these and many other things Being considered we cant But Earnestly Entreat that as you value the interest of Religeon you would by Every proper method seek Imediate Releaf from those who we trust will Delight to promote Both your Civill & Sacred interest. Otherwise we fear you will be So Devided that we shall be obleged to Seperate from you & seek to be united to Some other Neighbor Sosiety the most Distant tho't of which we heartily Deplore Being perfectly Satisfied with our Beloved pastor who has Devoted Himself to ye work of ye Gospel ministry among us & in whose ministry you & we have Enjoyed the utmost Satisfaction & Delight. We are your sincere & affectionate well wisher. To ye Town clerk for plastow to be comuncate to y inhabitants of plastow. Haverhill North parish Decembr 10th 1767 Benja Clement Isaac Snow Caleb Cushing Nathanel Johnson Mark Emerson Nathel Rolfe Jonathan Eatten William Bryant Richard Harriman William Attwod Moses Cushing. Information from Plaistow. To his Excelency Benning Wintworth Esq' Govenour & and to the Honourable his majesties Council and to the Honourable House of Representatives in generall Court, assembled &c. this is to Inform your Excelency and Honours that we the Subscribers Inhabitance of the town of Plastow do Judge it highly Reasonable and we think it will be for the peace of s town of Plastow to set of our brethren at the northwest Part of s town and annex them to the town of Hampstead the Line to Run from the pine in Cloughs meadow (so called) South Westerly to a white oak tree near Cornit Ingalls Barn thence on the Southerly Side of his Land to his South West Corner Bounds, and from thence still South westerly to the bridge over Providence Brook near John Curriers house agreeable to their Petition as witness our hands Dated Plastow April ye 11: 1766 Nicolas White James White Thomas Follamsbe Thomas Stevens Samuel Kimball Dustin Chaney John Chaney James Chaney John Bradly Joseph Harriman junr John Heath Abner Harriman Moses Jackman Benjamin Kimball Humphery Noyes John Hall Daniel Whitaker Joseph Page against the division of Plaistow 1767. To the General Court for the Province of New hampsher I would inform your Honers that it is my Desier that the Town of Plastow might Be cept to Gether as it is at this Day for the Reasons of my signing a Pettition that I signed that was Entered in the General Court June 26 Last Past was Because thay told me that a Part of the Town of Plastow was a Going to Be Ennexed to the Town of Hampsted which I am very much a Gainst my Desier is that it may Be left to Gether as it is at this Day Plastow february 16, 1767. JOSEPH PAGE. Eben Eaton against the division of Plaistow 1767. To the General Court for the Provence of New hampsher I would inform your Honours that it is my Desier that the Town of Plastow might be cept to Gether as it is at This Day for the Reason of my signing a Petton that was Entred in the Gineral Court Last June was Be cause I was over Persuaded, After Consideration I se it will be Grately to the Towns Damage there fore I Desier your Honers that you would not Grant said Pettons: not the suner for my signing sd Pon But my Desier is that the Town of Plastow may Be cept to-Gether as it is at this Day. Plastow March 7 1767. Province of New Hamshire To the Honorable Generill Court EBENEZER EATTON. May it please your Honores that whereas Some time past I Signed a petition that the Town of Plastow Might be Divided being then Misinformed this therefore is to Desier your Honores Not to take any Notice of My Name in that petition for I am of the opinion tis Best for the Town to remain as it is at present Your Honores Humble Servant Plastow Aprill 13th 1767. JOSEPH PARKER. Petition of inhabitants of Plastow for annexation. Province of New Hampshire To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq Governor & Commander in Chief in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire &c to the Honourable his Majestys Council and House of Representatives of said Province in General Court Assembled: the Memorial of a Number of the Inhabitants of Plastow in said Province Humbly sheweth That whereas by an act of the general Court Part of the Town of Plastow hes Lately been Set off, and made a new and Destinct Parish, and whereas Several Persons included in Said New Parish Have Petitioned to be annexed to the Town of Plastow we the Subscribers Inhabitants of said Plastow beg leave to inform your Excellency & Honours of the Reasons why we Pray their Petition may be granted. We beg Leave to acquaint you that if Said New Parish does Not Contain a greater Quantity of Lands than is Left in said Town of Plastow, as we are not Certain but it does, yet it is very well Known that the Lands in y° former taking a just Es |