appointed to view the said river and the landings on Each side in order to finding a more convenient place to build anew so as to prevent the like Misfortune wth ye former and Make a report of their doings at ye next Sessions and yo petition Shall ever pray &c June 1st 1723. RICH WALDRON BENJ WENTWORTH Selectmen In Coun June 1st 1723. Voted That Six Indifferent Persons be chosen a Committee To survey lamprey River and Report to His Honour the Lieu' Govt and Council as soon as conveniency will permit ye Most commodius place for building a bridge a Cross said River and that Col Walton M Ew1 Ayres & Mr. Benja Thomas be three of ye Committee to Joyn wth ye Gentlemen whom ye house shall appoint Rich Waldron, Cler Con. Eoden Die In the house of Representatives Voted a Concurrence with the above vote (with this Proviso) yt ye Petitioners pay ye Charges of the Comittee and that Coll Peter Weare Coll John Plaistow Esq and yt W More be three of y Comittee for ye end afores1 James Jeffrey Clr Asst. Petition and complaint against Richard Waldron Esq. Province of New Hampshire J To His Excellency William Burnet Esq' Governour and Comander in Chief in and over His Majties Province of New Hampshire &c and to the Hone His Majesties Council for said Province The Petition of us the Subscribers Inhabitants of the s Province Most humbly Sheweth That divers of your Pet's for upwards of Forty years, others for Thirty, have been Setled upon a certain Tract or Neck of Land in Dover in the Province afores being duly put into possession thereof by the Freeholders of sd Town as by their Votes will appear; all which time was partly spent in Subduing the Indian Enemy and partly in Subduing and Cultivating the wild Land so given and granted to them, That after such a length of time when your Petitioner had with much blood and Labour reduced the Former to reason, and the latter to profit, and expected to enjoy the Sweet of all their Encounters and pains in the year 1719 Richard Waldron Esq" as Adm' to the Estate of his Father Richard Waldron formerly of s Dover Esq' dec'ed brought his action against your Petitrs and others for the Recovery of one Moiety of said Neck of Land pretending one half thereof was granted to him by the Selectmen of that Town so long ago as the 5th of the 10th Month 1652 and the other half to William Furbur and others, whereas it's Evident from the Votes of sd Town many years after that William Furbur and the whole Town Esteemed that Grant when the said Town was under the Massachusetts Government of no Validity For the sWilliam Furbur in 1693-4 attests to Votes and Grants of the Freeholders of Dover afores of part and parcels of the s Land; however at a Superior Court the sd Waldron Recovered the s Moiety and upon an appeal before the Honble the Lieut. Governor and Council the appellants making De fault the Judgement of the Superior Court was Confirmed; the reason of such Default is easily accounted for so that by sa Judgement the sd Waldron was to hold in Common one Moiety of s Neck with yr Pets and others; That some time after the sd Waldron brought his writ of Partition to hold his part in Severalty, and accordingly the 12th day of April 1728 a Jury went on the s Neck and divided the same, giving the upper part thereof to sd Waldron and your Pet's the lower half where their Settlem's Orchards and Improvements were made, as by their return under their hands and Seals will appear, which was most equal & Just, & virtually agreing with the Judgement of the Honble the Lieut. Governour and Council upon the appeal that the s Waldron might not be profited by your Pet's buildings; but the s Waldron being thus in part defeated of his Expectation, by management under the colour of Law & practice, but not warranted by either, as upon a hearing before your Excellency and Hon will evidently appear, procured another Jury in September Following to make the Division De Novo, who without making themselves acquainted with the Tract and the Survey thereof as the Former Jury had done, at once and without any trouble Confirmed the Divisional lines the Former Jury had made and Established the Same, but gave the lower half where Stood your Petr Houses Barns Orchards and all their clear Land to sd Waldron and gave them the upper half which the Former Jury had given to Waldron so that your Pet's after upwards of thirty years labour and the Expence of much blood and the sweat of their Brows are thereby with their wives and Children drove into the wild wilderness, and all this so done under the Shew of Justice and Equity within a civilized Gov ernment. Your Pet's therefore persuade themselves from your Excellencies Superior and most distinguishable abilities and vertues, and from the Experienced Justice and Equity seated in Your Excellency and Hon's, that they shall have a short day assigned them to be heard by their Council on the premises, and that they shall receive Such redress and relief as to Law Justice and Equity shall appertain And the Pets as in duty bound will ever pray &c April 4th 1729. ELISHA CLARK JAMES WELLMET HOWARD HENDERSON Petition of the Inhab. of the N. E. part of Dover for a Parish. To his Excellency William Burnet Esqr. Captain General and Governour in Cheif in and over his Majesties province of New Hamp the Honourable his Majesties Council and the Representatives of the sd province in General Assembly Con vened The Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of the North East part of the Town of Dover, humbly sheweth-That the Dwelling places of yo' Petitioners are at a great distance from the houses of the Public Worship of God in the Town of Dover where your Petitioners live by which their attendance thereon is rendered very difficult more especially to the women and children of their families and that in the Winter Season and in Stormy weather So y they cannot pay that Honour and Worship to God in publick as it is their hearts desire they could, therefore for the advancing the Interest of Religion and for the Accomodation of yo' Petitioners It is humbly prayed by them that Your Excellency and the Honourable Assembly will please to sett them off as a Parrish for the Maintaining the Public worship of God amongst themselves and that they be dismiss'd from the Town of Dover as to the Supporting of the Settled Minister there, And that the Bounds of that their Parish may begin at the Gulfs a place so called at Cochecho river, and from thence to run to Varney's Hill and from thence the Town bounds on a North West point of the Compass & Your Petitioners Shall ever Pray as in duty bound &c Paul Wentworth Elazar Wyer? Lowe Roberts Jeremiah Rawlings James Hales Thomas Hobbs William Streley? Thomas Nock John Roberts Samuel Randall Ephraim Ricker Moses Tebbets William Downs John Tebbets Benj Peirce Mahonan Recker Zacheriah Nock Philip Stacpole Ebenezer Garland Richard Wintworth Joseph Wintworth Tho Wallingford April the 25th 1729 In the house of Thomas Tebbets Jabez Garland In the house of Representatives. The within Petition being read Voted the Petitioners serve that part of the Town of Dover that they Desir'd to be set off from with a Copy of this Petition to appeare at the General Assembly Wednesday next the Show Cause (if the can) why the prayer of the Petition Should not be Granted In Council Eod" die Read and Concurred with R. Waldron Cler Con Petition of Eleazer Weare in behalf of Inhabts of N. E. part of Dover. To His Excellency William Burnit Esq' Goven' and Commander in Chief in and over his Majesties Province of New Hamp & to the Honourable the Council and Representatives in Gen' Assembly convened. The Humble Petition of Eleazer Weare in the behalf of the Inhabitants of the North East part of the Town of Dover Sheweth That the Inhabitants of the afores North East part of the Town of Dover upon their Petition by them Subscribed presented to your Excellency and to the Honourable Assembly that they might be set off as a Separate Parish did obtain an order that their Petition Should be heard on Wednesday the Ninteenth day of April last and that the Inhabitants of the Parish of Dover should be notified to attend the Same on the sd day, yet so it happens that the s day is past and yet the Inhabitants of Dover not notified nor any hearing of the sa Petition had. Your Petitioner therefore prays that your Excellency and this Honourable Assembly would please to appoint a Day that so the afores Petition May be heard and that the Town of Dover be notified to make answer if any Your Petitioner shall shall ever pray as in duty bound Dover 1 May, 1729 In the House of Representatives ELEAZER WYER Voted That the prayer of this petition be granted & the Town of Dover be notified by the petitioners Serving the Selectmen with a Copy of the Petition & that the Town be Directed to Send some person or persons to represent them & give reasons if any they have why the pray of the s Petition should not be granted & to appear the Eighth day of Inst May or if the Assembly be not then sitting then to appeare the Second day of the Sitting of next Gen1 AssTM May 1st 1729 In Council May 2d R. Waldron Cler. Con. James Jeffrey Cl Assm Petition of Paul Gerrish and others of Dover, relating to frauds and forgeries. To the Honourable John Wentworth Esq' L' Gov Comand In Chief in and over His Majestys Province of New Hampshire To the Honble the Council and House of Representatives convened in General Assembly for Said Province The humble Petition of Paul Gerrish of Dover in New Hampre aforesaid and several of the principal Inhabitants of said Town Most humbly Sheweth That for these two years last past the said Paul Gerrish has been Clerk of the said Town of Dover and since the books of the said Town have been in the said Gerrish's hands, he has discovered a Great deal of Corruption (or forgery as he apprehends acted and done in the said books) as he supposes by those persons (or their permission) whose hands they formerly have been in, and that said principal Inhabitants of said Town are Stil of opinion that there are now through the ill actions formerly done a great many forged grants stil produced and bro't to the lot layers of said Town to be laid out who with great reason suspecting them refuse to lay them out and on their refusal those persons who have got those grants apply to the next Town Lot lay's who lay such grants out, whereby the Town of Dover is very greatly damnified and set in confusion and if some remedy cannot be found out for their relief will be almost ruin'd-They Therefore most humbly Pray That yo' Hon' and the Gen' Assem will take the premises under your mature Consideration and make such |