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Fishing place at Ameskeegg by taking into their Town a small gore of Land at the head of Chester, running so far between the river of Merrymack and the head of Chester untill it takes in the said Fishing place, they having measured it beforehand for that purpose, their Ingrossing to themselves ye sd Fishing place will not only be greatly prejudicial to Chester but also to the other New Towns. Y' Petitioners therefore Humbly pray That yo Honours will be pleased to appoint a Committee to run the said Lines and Settle the bounds between the said Towns in such a manner as is Customary and yo' Petition's as in duty bound Shall ever pray Jan 6th 1725-6

In Coun. Jan'y 8th 1725-6.

HEN SHERBURNE

THOMAS PACKER

Committee

For themselves and in behalf of

SAM INGALLS
JOHN SANBORN

The Petition of Chester Committee this day Presented to ye board by Mr Thom Packer Praying the Honble ye Lt Gov & Council to appoint a Committee to run out & Settle ye Divisional lives & boundaries between that town & Lond Derry for the reasons therein set forth, being read It is Ordered That the hearing upon the said Petition be on Tuesday y 25 Inst. at ye Coun Chamb. in Port and that the Petitioners serve ye Selectmen of the sd Town of Londo Derry with a Copy thereof & of this order in the mean time that they may have an opportunity to shew y Reasons (if any they have) why the Prayer of s Petition may not be granted.

To be heard a Tuesday fortnight.

R Waldron Clark Con.

Chester Committee Petition-Minutes of Council thereon, Jan 25, 1725.

Present in Coun. Jan 25, 1725.6

Prov. N. Hamp Lt. Gov Mark Hunking, K. Wibird Esq'

The Committee of Chester appearing to prosecute their Petition for a Committee to settle ye divisional line between y Town & LondonDerry which was filed ye 8th Instant & Messrs Cargil & Rob' Boyes appearing in behalf of ye sa Town of London Derry & both partys being fully heard It is ordered That the Prayer of ye Petition be granted & that Mr. James Stevens be ye Surveyor to lead y Course & y Mr Benja Barker Jn Calton be ye Persons to carry y chain & that Capt. Jno Gillman & Mr. Edward Hale go on wth one chain man & ye other wh ye other & keep ye Tally who are likewise to take care & see that due & just allowance be made in y" measure in all cases where they shall Judge it requisite and that this busyness be performed between this time & ye middle of June next & reported into ye secretarys office immediately after ye Completing thereof & yt ye Charge of ye Čommittee be paid by ye 2 Towns Jointly & yt ye su Committee be sworn to ye faith' discharge of y Duty of y' respective trusts according to ye form annexed

Petition of Selectmen of Chester 15 Oct. 1726.

To the Honble John Wentworth Esq' Lieut" Goven' Comand in Chief in & over His Majties Prove of New Hamp And to the Honble the Council for Said Province.

The Humble Petition of Clemt Hughes, Rob Smith and John Sanborn Selectmen of the Town of Chester Humbly Sheweth

That Capt Tobias Langdon, Capt Tim° Gerrish & John Smith appointed by yo' Hon's sometime Since to be a Comittee to run y Head Line of Exeter (wch is the Dividing line between s Exeter & Chester afores) did not attend the Directions of y' Honours in that affair but followed the Directions of ye Select men of said Exeter therein, and having run s line to ye sd Selectmens mind, made their return to ye sd Selectmen instead of doing it to yo' Hon's so that that line is as yet unsettled to the great prejudice of the afores Town of Chester

Yo' Petition's Therefore Humbly pray yo' Hon's to appoint a Comittee to run the two miles that Exeter is to run upon a W by N. point above Dover and from thence upon a Straight line to a Beach Tree (on Kingston Side Line) appointed & marked in the year 1718 to be ye bounds for Exeter on y side, by the Grand Comittee appointed by the Genal assembly to fix ye bounds of each Town within this Province which Straight line is ye Dividing line between Exeter & Chester, And that yo' Hon's would please to Direct Said Comittee to run said Line with all Convenient Speed and yo' Petitions as in duty bound Shall Ever pray

Portsm° Oct 15th 1726.

CLEMENT HUGHES
ROB SMITH
JOHN SANBORN.

Province

New Hlaingshire}

Report on Petition for a road.

Pursuant to a Vote of the General Court Bareing Date May 26th 1743 To us the Subscribers a Committee appointed by the General Court to go up to Chester and Londonderry to View a highway formerly Laid out by Chester and Londonderry and recorded in Each Town and also a Nother way Petitioned for by Chester, and to make Report of our Doeings therein to the Genal Assm att their next sessions

Wee haveing been up and Viewed Both Ways and Doe find that the way formerly Laid out from Londonderry to Chester, Between the lands of Mess James Colwell and Patrick Duglass to Derry Northeasterly line And then on a Straight line through the land of Brown of

Chester to meet the Road, that leads by Deacon Dearbourns to Chester Meeting house is the Most Convenient way for accommodation of Both

Towns aforesaid and for Travellers in General Dated this 22d Day of Sept. 1743.

In the House of representatives May 26th 1743.

John Downing Jr.
Geo Walton
Richard Jennes

The within Petition read & a former Petition of the Select men of Chester read relating to the same affairs and the Petitioners & the Select men of Londonderry respondents heard by the Council and

Voted That their be a Comittee Sent to View the highways Viz That which is Laid out & that which is Petitioned to be Laid out and the s Comittee to make returne to the General Assembly at their next Sessions which place is most proper for a high way and upon the Comittees returne to Consider who Shall pay the Charge And that George Waldron & richard Jennes Esq be a Comittee from this House to Joyn such as the Honble the Council Shall appoint to do the Service above s James Jaffrey Cler Assm

Eodem Die
In Council read & Concurrd & Joseph Sherburne & John Downing
Esq' added to the Comittee above s

Eodem Die

Assented to

Theod Atkinson Secy.

Copy Ex"

B. WENTWORTH

Theodore Atkinson Secy.

In the House of Representatives 7br 23d 1743
The within Return read, and accepted And

Voted That the Highway, as therein mentioned & Described, be the Kings High way, and that all obstructions in or on said high way be Removed, and that the same be allowed to be a Publick Road, and that the Petitioners of Chester pay the Charg of the Comitee that went on the Spot Each pson thirty Shillings (old Tenor) pr Diem for their Labor & Charge, And that the said Petitioners of Chester pay the said Charge to some or one of the said Comitee within thirty days after the Date hereof.

In Council September 23d 1743

read & Concured

Eodem Die

James Jeffrey Clr Assi

Theodore Atkinson Secy

Assented To B. WENTWORTH

Memorandum the High Way Laid out and Recorded from Chester to Londonderry by Sam Browns the length is one mile and a Half and sixty Rhods

The way by Kars mills as was showed to us but not Laid out was two miles and fifty two Rhods

dated at Chester August y 234 1743

Sam Emerson Chare men
Thomas Cochran upon oath

The Highway that is Laid out and Recorded, went acrost Samuel Browns Land as we measured; He Promised to give said Land for à High way to the town of Chester without any other Satisfaction than not to Have s High way goe by his house

The way by Karrs mills as we measured went first acrost James Col

wells Land (2ly acrost Capt Morses Land-3'y acrost John Karrs Land (4 acrost John Karr Junr's, Land (51y acrost Rob Gillcreast Land (61s acrost John Karr Junr's Land.

Chester Petition in relation to the Ministry.

To his Excellency Jonathan Bolcher Esq' Governour & In and Over His Majesties Province of New Hampshire, The Honorable His Majesties Council and House of Representatives in General Court now Assembled at Portsm

The Petition of the Town of Chester Humbly Sheweth That whereas after the Revd Mr Eb' Flagg was settled in said Town by Vote according to ye directions of the Law to be the Gospel Minister, A considerable number of persons Petition the General Court for an explanation of the law of Liberty Supposing they being Presbeterians were exempted from paying to Mr Flag which was then explain'd in their favour. Since which they have accordingly proceeded in a cordial manner, and have endeavourd to take the best method the present Circumstances will admit to Rais money for the Respective ministers, as follows at a Town Meeting warn'd for that purpose when met they Voted Separately Mr Flaggs Salary; and the Presbeteryans voted a Salary for the Rev" Mr. Jn° Wilson their Minister the Selectmen Sign'd the Respective warrants to ye Constable or Collectors to collect the Same if this Method be agreeable we Humbly pray yo' approbation. But if anything_in_our proceedings hitherto is short of what is Necessary in the Law we humbly entreat a favourable construction and pray that the presbeterians may be Qualify'd Lawfully to proceed for the future. Also if it be Necessary for Mr Flags hearers to proceed in any other method than hitherto pray for particular direction as to yo' Excellency and Honours shall appear needful Also we pray that ye day of the annual meeting may be altered to som other day of ye week to escape interfering with the Fast? which will oblige yo' Humble Petitioners

JOHN CALFE

JOHN TOLFORD

Selectmen

EPHRAIM HASSELTINE of Chester
ENOCH COLEBY

Province of In the House of Representatives

New Hampshire the within Petition Read &

Vot That the Prayer of the within Petition be granted in the following manner Viz.

Vot That the Two Congregations in Chester viz: that are called Congregationalists and those that are called Presbyterians have power to act Seperate in Raiseing money for Support of y Ministers Respectively for Defraying the Charges of building & Repairing their meeting

houses and that they have power to Chuse Wardens Seperate to assess all persons and their Estates belonging to their Respective Congregations as aforesaid Toward Defraying Such Charges as shall be Raised for the aforesaid uses Seperate in Just & Equall Proportion, to such Tax & Taxes as they shall Vote from time to time at their Respective Meetings And that they have power to Choose Collectors Seperate to Collect the said Taxes and that they have Liberty to bring in a bill accordingly and that John Calf, Eph Hazilton Enoch Coleby, be impowered to call the first meeting for the Congregationalls and that Capt Sam Ingolls John Tolford John Carr be impowr'd to call ther fist meeting for Presbetering meeting

August 6th 1740

In Council Eodem Die

Read & Concurred

James Jeffrey Clr Assm

Ricd Waldron Secy

Same day Assented to

J. BELCHER

Petition for aid of soldiers.

To the honourable Captins of Chester Greeting

Whereas there is a Considerable number of famelis scattered in the wilderness in the out skirts of Chester Some lives four miles and a half some three and a half (& 6 from any help) we are so scattered that we think we are very unfit to live as we have dund nevertheless we would be willing to imitat something of the spirit of the people of Zebulon and Naphtleen who Joperded their lives in the high places of the field and whereas we have a velow for our loss and libertise we Earnestly beg that your honours would look upon us in our Destrees and help with some suldiars a certain number we are not willing to name your selves Knowing our surcumstances and how it is with us believes you will help us this way more then we with prudence could name and in so doing your Poore pettioners will ever Pray if no help Coms we must leave our houses and homs and goe lik scattered Sheep.

James Besford
David McCluer

John Precut

Jebesh French

Jonas Clay

John Clay
David McClure
Jacob Basford

To the Hon1e Cap's of Chester, greeting.

Whereas we ye Subscribers live Remote from the town and for some years past have been obliged to leave our places for want of a sufficient number of men to Keep a garrison which has been greatly to our damage and we being desirous to live here if we can have three or four men to help support a garrison

We Remain yours to serve,

Ithamar Cary

Zachariah Butterfield

Stephen Webster

Aaron Butterfield

Philip Grifen
Joshua Hall
Allet Bary

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