tys Province of New Hampshire & that the said Town of Plaistow be no longer Chargeable with his support and likewise favour us on account of y charges we have been at in time past or such other way & manner as your Excel & Hon shall think best to relieve ye s' Town & the Pet" as in duty bound shall ever pray &c. Plaistow May y 17 1774 In Council May 18, 1774. JOSEHH WELCH DAVID STEVENS EZEKIEL GILE Selectmen & Overseers of y Poor of Plaistow The Petition was read and ordered to be sent down to the Honble Assembly Geo. King, Dep. Sec. In the House of Representatives May 19th 1774 The within Petition Read & Considered and Voted that it be Dismissed. M. Weare, Clerk PIERMONT. Petition of the Comice of Piermont to the Governor. Province of To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq' CapNew Hamps tain General Governor and Commander in chief in and over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire. The Petition of us the Subscribers being a Committee of the Proprietors of Piermont in said Province, Humbly Sheweth That in the year 1765, The said Proprietors had a Grant of said Township under certain conditions of settlement to be performed in Five years from the date of said Grant, and that your Petitioners have laid out and expended Large sums of money in Cultivating said Town & have settled Fourteen Families Thereon, but nevertheless, Through badness of Roads, and the Impossibility of obtaining Provision in that part of the Country and also by means of the said Petitioners being Employed a Considerable part of their time in Transacting the Publick business of the Province, they have not been able fully to comply with the conditions of the charter of said Town, and Therefore Humbly Pray your Excellency would Grant a further Reasonable Time to the said Proprietors, to Fulfill the same and your Petitioners as in Duty bound will ever pray &c. Portsmouth December 22 1770 Mark H. Wentworth Jonathan Warner John Tuften Mason Esq Geo. Jaffrey Rich Jenness Jon Moulton D. Warner D. Peirce Christo Toppan PLYMOUTH. Petition for leave to send a Representative. Province of To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq New Hampshire Captain General Governor and ComGrafton ss mander in Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire &c. The Petition of the Free holders of the Town of Plymouth within the County of Grafton aforesaid, Humbly Sheweth That your Petitioners some months past preferred a Petition to your Excellency praying for the privilege of a Representation for said Town of Plymouth, in the Legislative Authority in said province, Agreeable to the Right inherent in them, as Englishmen and Freeholders. That said Petition by some means or other was dismissed. That your humble Petitioners again earnestly Pray your Excellency would take this petition under your wise consideration and grant them that privilege they think their Just Due by issuing a Precept for the choice of a proper person to represent them in the General Assembly Their Interest now suffering much for want of that most invaluable Privilege And your humble Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever Pray &c. John Fenton David Nevens SAM EMERSON JAMES HARVELL Selectmen Ebenezer Hartshorn William Nevens Jonas Ward Edward Evans Moses Dow Onesiferous Marsh Elisha Bean Samuel Marsh Joseph Smith Saml Derben Thomas M'Cluer Joseph Brown Gershom Hobart James Barnes Phineas Lovejoy Peter Dearborn Benjamin Wells Zebediah Richardson Solomon Wheeler John Webber Petition for a re-survey of land &c. Province of } Province of To His Excellency John Wentworth Esqr. General Governor and Commander in chief in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire, The Honourable his Majesty's Council and house of Representatives in General Assembly Convened. The Petition of us the Subscribers being a Committee chosen by the Proprietors of Plymouth Humbly Sheweth, That the Corner boundary of Four Townships viz: Plymouth, Campton, Rumney and Cockermouth depends upon a certain Point or End of a Line, Nineteen Miles in Length, upon a Certain Point of Compass from a Certain Tree at Connecticut River. That the Severall Partys have at their own Private Cost made Several Surveys but do not agree one with another, Either in Length of Line or point of Compass, which throws the said Townships into Great Confusion and uncertainty, Concerning their Boundaries, and Greatly Retards the Settlement of the Land. Wherefore your Petitioners pray the advisement of This Honourable Court and that a Committee may be appointed to survey the said Nineteen miles and thereby to Establish the said Corner Boundary. And your Petitioners as in Duty bound will Ever pray &c. Committee MOSES LITTLE for Plymouth Province of In the House of Representatives Dec' 22d 1770 Voted that the Petitioners be heard on this Petition on the fourth Day of the Siting of the General Assembly after the first Day of March next and that the Petitioners Cause the Substance of this Petition and Order of Court to be Published in the New Hampsre Gazett six weeks that any person may shew Cause why the Prayer of the Petition should not be Granted. In Council Jan 18th 1771 Read and concurred Geo King Dep Sec. M. Weare CI Province of New Hampshire) In the House of Representatives March 26 1771. M. Weare Clr. Petition for a representative. To His Excellency John Wentworth Esqr. Captain general governor & commander in chief in & over said province of New Hampshire &c. &c. The petition of us the Subscribers freeholders & inhabitants of Plimouth in the county of Grafton in the Province aforesaid, Most Humbly Sheweth that the said town of Plimouth is one of the best inhabitted towns in said County and one of the towns appointed by y law of this province for holding the courts of Justice in, and that no representative hath hitherto been chosen within the said County to sit in the General Assembly of this province. They therefore pray your Excellency's consideration of the premises, and that the said petitioners may be admitted to the privilege of sending a representative to the next General Assembly & your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c. VOLUME VI. PORTSMOUTH TO WOLFEBOROUGH. PORTSMOUTH. [This is one of the oldest towns in the State, having been settled in the year 1623. Its Indian name was Pascataquack, and the first English name was Strawberry Bank. It was incorporated by the name of Portsmouth, 28 May 1753, by the Colony of Massachusetts, under whose government the people of New Hampshire then were. The inhabitants in their petition for incorporation say, "the name of this plantation at present being Straberry Banke, accidentally so called by reason of a banke where strawberries was found in this place": They humbly desired "to have it called PORTSMOUTH, being a name most suitable for this place, it being the river mouth and good harbor as any in this land." JOHN FARMER, Esq.] Orders relating to a School. Portsm° 16 Nov 1708. Notwithstanding the pious care of the Governor Council and Assembly of this Province in Raysing a free Gramar Schoole for the province to be kept in the town of Portsmouth being the head of the Government & their good provision for the maintainance of the master: The Council are now Informed that there is no provision made by the Toun of Portsmouth for a Schoole house for the receipt of the master and schollars : Ordered, that the selectmen of the toun of Portsmouth be notifyed of their neglect herein, and that they forthwith provide a suitable house for the said schoole to be kept, that the schollars may not lose their time within three days next coming upon the penalty of forty pounds to be levyed upon their persons & estates as other fines & charge into the treasury to be expended in the building of a good schoole house for the future service, that the aforesaid good and religious Act of the Assembly be not evaded & eluded. May &c (as early as 1709). Upon the vacancy of the School by Mr. Gambling's desire to be discharged, the Council have taken it into Consideration of calling a new school ma who would very gladly submit to yo'r Excel Recommodation of Mr Dudly Broadstreet; but fearing he would not be every way soe agreable have therefore by the good character they have had of Mr. Dan Ringe of Ipswich, to give him a call and agree with him for 4 years According to the Act-humbly desiring y Excell' concurrence therewith. [See Act referred to, Prov. Pap., Vol. III. pp. 364, 365. ED.] |