Pursuent to the foregoing Notification a publicke Toun meeting was holden at the Meeting House at Cochecho in Dover July 19, 1742. And Capt Tho' Willet Esq. was chosen Moderator of the s meeting & And the Request of the Westerly part of the Town for Raising money for the support of y Ministry in that part of the Town for six months as mentioned in the above notification was then heard considered & put to Vote & it Passed in the Negative. A true copy attested, Dover May 5th 1743 Pr. Paul Gerrish, Town Clerk. Bounds of the West end of Dover. These may certify That the Bounds the Inhabitants of the West End of Dover petitioned might be the bounds of a parish and Petitioned for is as follows viz. Beginning at the Bridge over Johnsons Creek so called where the dividing Line between Dover & Durham crosses the Country road & from thence running as the s road runs until it comes even with Joseph Jenkins his house & from thence to run on a north West & by North course until it comes to the head of the s1 Township which Boundarys would comprehend the estates & Inhabitants of your Petitioners Living in Dover & the making a parish there will & & A copy of the Bounds mentioned in the above Petition The Petitioners for a Parish in Madbury & what they paid in the year Joseph Rines Nath Davis Daniel Young Samuel Davis Jr William Twombly 3rd Henery Bickford (1) Accompanying the foregoing is a list of inhabitants of Dover and tax assessed to a new Parish. ED. In the House of Representatives Aug. 24th 1744. The within petition read and the Parties on both sides heard, And the Return of the Committee appointed by the Gen Ass for the viewing of the Town of Dover, Read, and the House having considered thereon, Voted provided the petitioners procure an Orthodox minister or ministers to preach to them at that part of the Town of Dover called Madbury, Six months or more in a yeare during yo space of three years to comence from the first of ye next. That then there be Raised by the town of Dover & paid by the select men or Town Treasurer of the said Town of Dover annually to the said Minister or Ministers the sum of one hundred & twenty pounds (Old Tenor) after the Rate of twenty pounds p month as the preaching is Performed annually for the said three years and that the petitioners have liberty to bring in a Bill accordingly. James Jeffry Clr. Ass In Council Decemb. 21, 1744. The parties heard on the within Petition & the Vote of the Houses above Considered & non concur'd. Nemine contradicente. Theod. Atkinson Secy Prov New Hamp (1) "Wherefore to remedy the above Grievances your Humble petitioners Humbly pray That your Excellency & Hon's would be pleased by an Act of General Assembly to Invest us with the Privilidges and pow Pursuent to the foregoing Notification a publicke Toun meeting was holden at the Meeting House at Cochecho in Dover July 19, 1742. And Capt Tho' Willet Esq. was chosen Moderator of the sa meeting & And the Request of the Westerly part of the Town for Raising money for the support of ye Ministry in that part of the Town for six months as mentioned in the above notification was then heard considered & put to Vote & it Passed in the Negative. A true copy attested, Dover May 5th 1743. Pr. Paul Gerrish, Town Clerk. Bounds of the West end of Dover. These may certify That the Bounds the Inhabitants of the West End of Dover petitioned might be the bounds of a parish and Petitioned for is as follows viz. Beginning at the Bridge over Johnsons Creek so called where the dividing Line between Dover & Durham crosses the Country road & from thence running as the s road runs until it comes even with Joseph Jenkins his house & from thence to run on a north West & by North course until it comes to the head of the s1 Township which Boundarys would comprehend the estates & Inhabitants of your Petitioners Living in Dover & the making a parish there will & & A copy of the Bounds mentioned in the above Petition The Petitioners for a Parish in Madbury & what they paid in the year ers of a Town, and a small matter to enlarge our Boundarys according or near our first petition viz. to begin at a place in Quochecho river called the gulf and from thence on a Straight Line to the Southern side of Varneys Great Hill & from thence to run on a North West point of the compass to the end of the Township and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall &c" The above is Paragraph of a Petition signed Paul Wentworth & many others free holders & Inhabitants of the Parish of Sumersworth, Dated May the 19th 1743 & then preferred to the General Assembly of the Prov. aforesd Attest, Theodore Atkinson, Secry. (1) This paper apparently belongs to Somersworth. ED. MARLOW. [Marlow was chartered Oct. 7, 1761. ED.] Province of January These New Hampshire} His Excellency the Governour & His Majesties Hon ourable Councel the foloing a count are of the Names of the Heds of famelys, Now dwelling in this Toun and of the Single men now dwelling here. Wee the Subscribers selectmen of the Town Marlow Do hereby certify that the names of the famelys above mentioned and singel men Sam" Comstock |