MONADNOCK NO. 7. Petition for an Act of Incorporation. To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq Capt General Governor & Commander in chief in & Over the Province of New Hamp The Honble his Majesties Council for said Province. Humbly shew, Jonathan Blanchard & Oliver Parker agents Legally chosen for the Freeholders & Inhabitants of that Tract of Land in said Province Known by the name of Monadnock number seven. That your petitioners Entred into and upon the premises under a Title from the Proprietors of Masons Right so called & have with great Toil & Labour form'd very considerable settlements therein. That the Tract of land afores contains about six miles square, & is well situated for a Township that they have built a Meeting house & have had preaching occasionally for eighteen months Last past that they Labour under difficulties for want of an Incorporation which if obtained would greatly Promote the Public good. Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray they may be Incorporated into a Body Politick to have continuance & be Invested with all the Powers Priviledges & Immunities that other Towns in said Province by Law Exercise & enjoy, And your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall ever pray. JOHN BLANCHARD NEW BOSTON. [New Boston was granted by Massachusetts, Jan. 14, 1736. Incorporated by New Hampshire, Feb. 18, 1763. ED.] Petition about minister and school lots. To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq Captain General Governor & Commander in Chief in & over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire & The Honourable his Majestys Council & House of Representatives in General Assembly convened. The petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants, proprietors & freeholders in the Township of New Boston in the province aforesaid Humbly shews That when the proprietors of said New Boston Drew their Respective shares and the shares for publick use, The Lott Number Sixty one was drawn, for the use of the first settled minister & his heirs forever, & the Lott Number fifty three was drawn for the use of school, Both Lotts in the Second Division. And whereas the said Lott N° 61 is far from the Center of said Toun, & yet the nearest of any Lott belonging to said Ministers Right, & the Lott N° 53, tho one mile from said Center is much more convenient, & your Petitioners having been long Destitute of the Gospel ministry & having now a prospect of settling a gentleman to our great satisfaction, & being exceeding, desirous to accommodate him in the best manner possible, the Inhabitants aforesaid at a Legal meeting Held in New Boston aforesaid the third day of Dec. Last past, Voted unanimously to exchange said Lotts (viz) that the abovesaid Lott N° 53 shall forever hereafter be the property of the first settled minister in said New Boston to him & his heirs & Assigns forever, & that the Lot n" 61 shall forever hereafter be for the use of the school there, this Vote on condition that your Excellency & Honours confirm it & for the Reesons aforesaid the petitioners Humbly pray your consideration on the premises & that either the abovesaid Vote may be confirmed or the exchange made in such a manner as will secure the property to the minister & school forever & your Petitioners as in duty Bound will ever pray New Boston 25 Feb. A D. 1768. Province of In the House of Representatives March 4th 1768. Voted, That the pray' of this petition be Granted & that the petitioners have leave to bring in a Bill or Resolve for establishing the same accordingly In Council Eodem die, Read & concurred. Province of Geo. King, Depy Secy. M. Weare, Clr. New Hampshire In the House of Represent March 7th 1768. The petition of sundry persons Inhabitants of New Boston was this day again taken under Consideration by which it is Represented, That when the Lots were sever'd belonging to the respective shares of the proprietors of said Township the Lot numbered sixty one was drawn to the share appropriated to the use of the first settled minister & his heirs forever and the lot Numbered fifty three was drawn to the share appropriated to the use of a school which might be changed greatly to the advantage of the First Minister which was now likely to settle in said Town whom they were Desirous to Encourage. They therefore Pray'd that they might be authorized to make said exchange and that the Votes they had passed for that Purpose be confirmed and it appearing that the settling of a minister of the Gospel in any New Township to his & the Peoples satisfaction tends much to the Increase of Inhabitants and the property of such Town. Therefore it is considerd & hereby Resolved and Voted That the votes of the said Inhabitants for making said exchange be & hereby are confirmed for this purpose and that the lot Number Sixty one in second division in said Township be & hereby shall be adjudged taken & held as part of the share of land there belonging to said school right & share, and the Lot numbered fifty three in the said division in said Township shall be adjudged taken & held as part of the share & right appropriated & belonging to the first minister of the Gospel in said Township, each of said Lots so to be adjudged taken & held to be given granted & so appropriated in exchange for the other to be held to & for the Respective uses aforesaid forever. In Council Eodem die, Geo. King Depy. Secy. P. Gilman, Speaker. J' WENTWORTH. Petition for a tax on certain lands. To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq Captain General, Governor & Commander in Chief in & over his majesties Province of New Hampshire & Vice admiral of the same & The Honourable his Majestys Council & House of Representatives in Generall Assembly convened. The subscribers Inhabitants of New Boston in the county of Hillsborough in said Province, Humbly shews, That when your petitioners settled the Reverend Mr Solomon Moore all the Inhabitants on that tract of Land then called New Boston Addition, joined with us in calling, settling paying &© & we expected would have done so for many years. But they are now by your Excellency and Honours sett off by the name of Frances Town & pay no more with us. 2ly The Roads in New Boston are very numerous & the Land very hilly & Rocky & we have many large Bridges to build & support over large streams. Finally the Province tax the ministers Sallary, the Roads & Bridges, oppress the few Inhabitants many of which are new beginners & advances the none Resident Land Therefore your Petitioners Humbly pray your Excellency & Honours that an Act may be made to tax all the Land in New Boston, Improved & not Improved, Resident and None Resident, The Land belonging to the purchasers of the Patent of John Tufton Mason Esq. Excepted, at one penny Lawful money pr acre pr annum, for six years next coming to be applied to the uses afores', and your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray & New Boston Oct 25th A D. 1773. William Booyes John Cochran Jr George Cristey Daniel McMillan, Jr John McMillan Jr Archibald Mcallester Robert White Alexander Willson John Cochran Reuben Smith John Gordon Abraham Cocran James Willson Jr We the above Subscribers authorize & appoint the Honourable Mathew Thornton Esq our agent to present this petition to his Excellency John Wentworth Esq Captain General, Governor & commander in chief in & over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire & the Honourable his Majestys councel & House of Representatives & get the prayer thereof granted if possible and we the Petitioners Beg the Favour of the Hon'ble Mathew Thornton Esq to Except the trust we Repose in him. In Council Jan. 13, 1774. Read & ordered to be sent down to the Honble Assembly Province of New Hampshire. In the house of Represents January 14th 1774. Voted, That the petitioners cause the substance of this petition to be printed in the New Hampshire Gazzette three weeks successively that any person having any Objections may be heard thereon the third day of the sitting of the Gen Assembly next after the 15th of February next. In Council Eodem die. William Parker, Cler. Assem Geo. King. Petition to raise taxes to finish the Meeting house. To his Excellencey Benning Wentworth The proprietors of the Township of New Boston in said Province Most humbly Remonstrate, That the said Proprietors have raised the frame of a house for the publick worship of God in said Town and is not in a capacity to Raise money to compleat and finish the same by which Inability said frame remains uncovered and if it continues so any space of time uncovered will be damaged if not wholy ruined wherefore they pray this Honorable Court to take there case into their wise consideration and enable them to Raise such sum or sums of money from time to time as shall be judged necessary by a majority of votes of said proprietors for the compleating and finishing said House, and any other affairs of said Proprietors (for the benefit of the Inhabitants of said town and proprietors) on each person or persons owning lands in said Townships and to enable said proprietors to sell so much of such delinquent owners of land in said Town (excepting those Rights owned by the purchasers of Tufton Mason Esq claime in said Province) not as yet improved by said |