Gambar halaman
PDF
ePub

with a place for his Publick worship more convenant than it can be for us to be compeled to joyne with them we your petitioners have been at charge to promote ye Gospel of christ peaceably and it will be very prejudicial for us to stand in such a Relation with them.

[blocks in formation]

To his Excelency Benning Wentworth Esq' Capt. General and Governour in Chief in and over his Majesties province of New Hampshire in New England &c.

Whereas the Secy by your Excelency command Did Recommend a letter to us y Select men of South Hampton Dated June ye 14th 1748 Signifying that ye Inhabitants of Almsbury District have set forth their unhappy Situation and they are Desirous y y town would Set off a sufficient Number of Inhabitants to their assistance or else they would be an next to South Hampton &c that is what ye town cant in no wise agree to yt ye District should be an next to y° town for ye Reasons Fowlering. 1st we apprehend that them men wont be Contented without a Nother Minister and two Ministers is what we cant possable Support among such a Small number of people and upon such a Narrow Strip of Land and we have several poor people among us and we have for several years past been involved in a soar and a greivious war wh has Created a great charge and what will be the Result there of we know not and it has pleased Almighty God in his all wise providence to visite many families among us with a soar and Long sickness which has caused great Expence for Physicians Nursing and other Nesicaries.

2ly there wear thirty men or there about among us who at yo first erected our meeting house and laid out between three and four hundred pounds in that way and them men gave it up to y town for y towns use to make peace, so our contending brethren at y west end of ye town paid Nothing toward that charge and we have built a passonage house and barn and fenced our passonage and there were Cartain men among us that Duge

a well for our Minister and Stoned it and there wear other generous men built a pound and gave that to y° town for yR towns use, so our Contending brethren paid Nothing toward Either of them and we have laid out a great Deal of money in purchasing high ways in ye town and we have got a high way that Leads Directly from our meeting house up among y Inhabitants at ye west end of ye town and we have built a spacious bridge over ye River and made it a fine way and it is traveled by many of his Majesties good Subjects and our Contending brethren have no Need to complain for want of a way for they may come to meeting with the neighbors if they would and this may Inform your Excellency that these Extraordinary Charges we have been Exposed to.

3ly if ye District should be annext to South Hampton we humbly Conceive that they will make a Majority and then they will oblige us to help them and pay our proportion with them in finishing their Meeting house which is only a frame with a few boards on it.

And build them a parsonage house and barn and Dig a well and buy them a parsonage and fence it which will in this Day Cost of our money near four thousand pounds old tennur as it has been Computed.

Now for these men of the District to Desire to be annext to South Hampton and make us bear such an Extraordinary charge with them when they never paid ye thousandth part of a penny toward our Extraordinary Charges it appear to us to be an actually cheat and a piece of oppression and it is very unadequate and if your Excelency should be pleased to grant them men their Disire in this thing it would make a prodigious Quarrel and prove the Dissolution and Confution of our town and our Latter end will be worse then our beginning for ye annexing of them men to South Hampton cant be for the good of ye town, it Directly and surely tends in y° Natural Course of things to our utter Ruin and Destruction, the Subversion of our Constitution and it Deprives us of our just Rights and it lays Such a heavey yok upon our necks that we nor our children Cant bear.

4 our Contending brethren the Cheif men that oppose us signed our petition with us and we never Intended to make but one parrish and since they Retrograded and gon back from what they sign'd with us and if they had set their meeting house one mile or there about higher up in ye District they might have men enoufe to Joyn with them to make a good parrish and not have broke up South Hampton, but our contending brethren with some others of y° District have set up a frame of a meeting house just over ye Line at ye west end of our town where it would sut them and they think we are bar

barous to Disire them to assemble with us and yet they would tak of a Number from us against their wills who sets Down easy with us and Count that no barbarity at all and if our Contending brethren think it hard to joyn with us against their wills then Consequently they may think it hard for our brethren who set down easy at ye first and went on chearfully with us in all our Extraordinary charges to be forced to Joyne with them against their wills and so we will force no man to go off from us but give every man his liberty to go or stay and since your Excellency has desired that we would set off a sufficient number to their assistance we Know no Number more sufficient to go off than they that are willing

RICHARD COLLINS jun.

RICHARD CURRIER

BENJAMIN BROWN

Select men

of

South Hampton

South Hampton papers Setting off 28 persons to a New

[blocks in formation]

Town.

South hampton July the 18th 1748 To his Excelency Bening Wentworth Governor &c.

After Returning you hearty thanks for your care and kindness toward us we once more make bold to trouble you with a few lines &c.

And first of all wee woold mention to your Excelency the Late proceeding of South hamton in a meeting on the 7th instant at which meeting they past a voat as folloeth (without the Least regard or reference to your Excelencys Direction in your Late Letter) with a plasable pretence of christianity gieves Liberty to all persons that lieve att the west end of the town to pole of within thirty days with their Estates that they now have in which they have no regard to any Lands or Estate own'd by any persons that are not inhabitants in the town notwithstanding there is Considerable of Lands ownd by persons that are not inhabitants who have been with us in all our trouble and charg and we doubt not but that they woold be yet with us had they the Liberty.

but however South hamton might flater themselves that few or none woold pole off on such a footing as they put it yet by the good provedence of God wee whose names are under written by your Excelencys leave are resolved to pole off in order to be incorporated in to a Parrish with those of the des

trict within the Limets or boundaries of the Come Reporte unless your Excellency Should provide better for us.

[blocks in formation]

P. N. Hamp

Robert Martin

James George

David Colby
Zacheus Colby
Jonathan Kimball
Aaron Currier
Tho' Jewel
Phillip Challis

Daniel Goodwin
Tho' Greenfield
Nathanel Ash

Abraham Merrill

David Goodwin

Zebulon Farren

John Eliot

These Certify that the List of the mens names above mentioned were entred with his Excellency the Govern

our & lodged in the Secy's office the 2a day of August 1748.

Attestr

Theodore Atkinson Sec

On the Charter is to be Enter'd the Vote of South Hampton July 7th 1748

Polled off July 18 1748

Polled off Aug 1748

28 persons

2 more

30

To his Excellency Benning Wenworth Esq' Capt. General and Governor in Chief in and over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire in New England and to the Honourable his Majesties Council in General Court Assembled.

the petition of the Inhabitants of South Hampton humbly Sheweth that whereas it was voted at a Meeting held at South Hampton July ye 7th 1748 that all ye Inhabitants that lives at ye west end of this Town that have a mind to go off shall have ye liberty to poll off themselves and their Estats and Joyne with their Neighbors in ye District for a parrish in all affairs and there was no provision made in that vote for them that polld off to make and keep their proportion of ye high ways in good Repair

Wherefore we your humble petitioners humbly Addresses this Honourable Court and pray that when ever this Honourable Court shall poll them men off to Joyne with y District that they may be orderd to make and Repair their proportion of y highways in y town as they have Done in time past and that ye new parrish may at their Election Day for chusing parrish offeciers Elect one Surveyor or more to order that affair

and keep y ways in good Repair from time to time as occasion may Require.

So shall we as in Duty bound ever pray &c.

[blocks in formation]

Jon Watson & Roger Easman pole off from South Hampton to the New Town.

}

Province of South Hamton August 1, 1748 New Hampshire To his Excelency Bening Wintworth GovExcelente Sir

ernor &c.

we having tak into Consideration the ill sircumstances that we mus be under in Case we should not take the Liberty to pole of when we may, we Resolve with y Excelencies leve agreable to the Liberty Granted us by the voate of South hamton July 7th 1748 to pole off and desire therefore that our names may be rec'd on file by your Excelency and you yett further oblig your humble Serv

JONATHAN WATSON
ROGER ESMAN

Selectmen of South Hampton about New Town's Petition & Charter, &c.

To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Capt. General and Governour in chief in and over his Majesties province of New Hampshire in New England and to the Honourable his Majesties Council

The Petition of Sundery of the Inhabitants of South Hampton Humbly Sheweth that whereas it was voted at a meeting held at South Hampton July the 7 1748 that all those persons that lives at y west end of this Town that have a mind to Go

« SebelumnyaLanjutkan »