Schoot Lot with William Stark of said Dunbarton if he would purchase Lot number twelve in the fourth Range for the use of the School. Which Lot number twelve the said Stark afterwards purchased for his own use, but hath never conveyed the same for the use of the school according to the Condition of said Vote. Afterwards at a suppos'd Meeting of the Inhabitants of Dunbarton afores (which meeting was called within Six Days after the Warrant therefor issued and the same Warrant put up in a very private Place) it was voted by a few of the Inhabitants that James Stinson of said Dunbarton should have the Lot Number Twelve called the School Lot in Exchange for fifty acres off the Easterly End of Lot Number Eleven In the third Range and the half of said Easterly End of Lot Number Twelve in the same Range In Consequence of which Vote obtained in an unfair and private manner The said Stinson petitioned your Excellency and Honors setting forth the purport of the same vote and that an Exchange of said Lots would be a mutual Benefit. Wherefore your Excellency and Honors Resolved that upon the said Stinson's making and Executing to the Selectmen for the use of the Town of Dunbarton afores a Deed of the afores fifty acres of the easterly End of the Lot Number Eleven in the third Range and half of Lot Number Twelve in the same Range for the use and support of a school in said Dunbarton forever, that then the Town afores should be empowered to appoint some person or Persons to make to said Stinson his Heirs and Assigns forever a good and valid Deed of the said Lot Number Twelve in the fourth Range Since which said Resolve the Inhabitants of said Town have at two legal Meetings voted not to exchange said Lot N° 12 as they apprehend they have no legal Title to the same but that the Lot number nine in the third Range remain the School Lot in said Town as it was laid originally for that purpose and that if they were Owners of the Lot Number twelve in the third Range called the School Lot would not exchange the same because it is much better situated and of double the Value of the Land proposed to be given by said Stinson in exchange. But as every Method is and hath been taken to persuade and terrify the People of said Dunbarton to vote in exchange of said Lot agreeable to said Resolve whereby the Peace of the Town hath been much disturbed and if the Inhabitants should make a Deed thereof to said Stinson they must necessarily expose themselves to a suit. Wherefore your Petitioner humbly prays that the same Resolve may be made null and void that an order may be passed hereon to stop any further Proceedings upon the same Resolve untill your Excellency's and Honors final order herein and your Petitioner as in Duty bound will ever pray &c. CALEB PAGE. Province of In Council May 12th 1774 New Hamp This Petition was read & ordered to be sent down to the Geo King D. Sec Province of In the House of Representatives May 12th 1774 Voted That the Petitioner be heard on this Petition on the Second Day of the Siting of the General Assembly next after the tenth day of June next and that the Petitioner Serve the Selectmen of Dunbarton and James Stinson named in this Petition with a Copy of this Petition and Order that they may have Opportunity to Shew Cause why the Prayer of the Petition Should not be Granted, and further Voted That all Proceedings on the Resolve mentioned in this Petition be stayed in the mean time. M. Weare Clr In Council May 13th 1774. Geo King D Sec3. DUNSTABLE. [This town was granted and settled under the authority of Massachusetts and remained under that Government until the divisional line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts was established in 1741. The original grant embraced a large tract of territory, including Dunstable in Massachusetts, parts of the towns of Tyngsborough, Ms., Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield and Merrimack in New Hampshire. The name of the town was changed to Nashua by an act of the Legislature, which passed 8 December, 1836. The date of its incorporation by New Hampshire is 1 April, 1746. ED.] Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Pine Hill, Dunstable. Province of New Hamp We the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Westerly part of Dunstable called Pine Hill, Have Bought the Several Places or Farms that we now Possess, Since the Said Inhabitance Petitioned His Excy &c to be annexed to Holles and the Several Persons we Bought of Sign'd said Petition, which Petition we humbly pray may be granted (as we expected it would be) when we purchased our Farms Dunstable Nov. ye 22d 1763 13 JOSEPH TAYLOR JAMES HILL JAMES TAYLOR ABRH KEYZER Extract from the Votes of a town meeting in Dunstable. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Dunstable in the Province of New Hamp' Regularly Assembled on monday ye 5th of December 1763 An extract from the Vote of said meeting. Whereas John Willoughby Benja Parker, Elnathan Blood amos Philips Jonathan Hubbard Gershom Hubbard & Daniel more Complain that they have no Benefit of the money they pay for Preaching in this Town by Reason of the Distance they live from the meeting House Therefore Voted that they be released from Paying any money that shall be raised for Preaching in this Town for Three years from this day for their polls & Estates if they continue to own their Real Estate where they now live Except the Town should move the meeting house to the Center of travel & Provided they attend Mr Emersons ministry at Holles during said Term Copy from Dunstable Record, Exam &c Dunstable Dec. 6 1763. JONATHAN LUND Town Clerk Petition of inhabitants of West Parish of Dunstable for a garrison and men. Province of New Hamps. Dunstable June 18th 1744. Wee the Subscribers Inhabitants of the West Parash in the District of Dunstable do hereby authorize & desire Mr James Stewart in our Names and Behalf to make proper application to the Governmant of New Hampshire Setting forth our being Situated on the Frontier and Exposed to the Enemy and the Necessity we are in of a Guard & pray for a Sutable & Seasonable Relef thare Viz: at meeting of the Inhabitance of the west in Dunstable Regularly assembled and Voted & chose Samuel Cumings moderator. Voted & chose James Stewart to Represent the parish at New Hampshire Voted to Request six garrisons and five and twenty soldiers. Josiah Hobard -? McDaniels Petition for protection against Indians. To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Capt. General and Govenor in chief in & over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire in New England - The Honourable the Council & House of Representatives in General Court convened. The Memorial and Petition of James Stuart in the Name and behalf of the Inhabitants of the West Parish and District of Dunstable in the said Province Humbly Sheweth the said Parish has been Settled by his Majesties Subjects about fourteen years and a Gospell Minister ordained above a year that the Settlers had an Eye at enlarging his Majesties Dominions by going into the Wilderness as well as at their own Interest that many Thousand of pounds has been spent in clearing and cultivating the Land there and some thousands more in building houses Barns & fences the breaking up of which Settlement will not only ruin the Memorialists but greatly diserve his majesties Interest by encouraging his Enemies to encroach on his diserted Settlements and be also hurtfull to the Province by contracting its borders and drawing the war nearer the Capital That it was by a long and Importunate Intercession of this Province (and not of the Memorialists seeking) that they are cast under the immediate care of this Government which they conceive gives them so much the better right to its protection that as war is already declared against France and a Rupture with the Indians hourly expected your Memorialist unless they have spedy help will be soon oblidged to forsake their Settlements how Discervicable soever It May be to the Crown Dishonourable to the Government hurtfull to the Province and ruinous to themselves Wherefore your Memorialists Most humbly supplicate your Exelency the Honourable Council & House of Representatives to take the Premises into your wise & mature consideration and to grant them such Seasonable Relief as May Enable them to Subsist in the War & secure against the Ravage & Devastations of a blood thirsty & Merciless Enemy and your Memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray. Dated att Portsmouth June ye 22, 1744. JAMES STEWart. Petition in relation to a certain tract of land. To his Excellency Bening Wentworth Esqr. Governour & Comander in Chief in & over his Majestys province of New Hampshire in New England, and to the Honoble his Majestys Council for said Province Humbly Shew the Inhabitants of the Town of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex in the province of the Massachusetts Bay That in the Year Sixteen hundred and Sixty by Vertue of an order of the Generall Court of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, There was laid out a Tract of Land on the western Side of Merrimack River for the use of the School of Charlestown aforesaid Containing One Thousand Acres More or Less at a place Call'd by the Indians Souhaganack and within the Bounds of old Dunstable a Coppy of which Laying Out and the Bounds thereof is hereunto annext. That in the Year Sixteen hundred & Seventy one The Town of Charlestown obtained a Deed for the Same Land from three Indians Then Inhabitants near Merrimack River a Coppy of which Deed is Also hereunto Annext. That by the late Burning of the Boundary line Between the province of the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire the Said Tract of Land falls within the province of New Hampshire Wherefore the s Inhabitants pray your Excellency and Honours That when you shall be pleased to Take Under Consideration the making any Grants of Confirmation the Said Tract of Land may be Confirmed to the Proprietors or at least no ways Infringed Upon by any New Grants that the Proprietors May be held in their Just Rights that the Needless Expence of Law Suits may be prevented and Your petitioner as In Duty Bound Shall ever pray &c Aug. 4, 1742. JOHN FOYE In the behalf of the said Inhabitants Indian Deed. To all People to whom these Presents shall come Greeting. Know ye that we Nimrod alias Ohkohhan Son of Robin Indian and Wunnuntogin Son of Pahphomo-hammunt Indian and John, Indian alias Jahkananunguiss son of wassarmemit, now Inhabitants of Naamcock on Merrimack River near Patucket, for and in consideration of a valuable sum of money to us and to each of us well and truly paid by the Selectmen of Charlestown in the behalf of their Town, the receipt whereof we do by these presents acknowledge and therewith to be fully Satisfied contented and paid and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof do fully clearly and absolutely acquit release and discharge the said Selectmen and Town of Charlestown their heirs and assigns forever by these presents have granted bargained and sold aliened enfeoffed and confirmed and by these presents do fully clearly and absolutely grant bargain and sell alien enfeoffe and confirm unto the said Selectmen and Town of Charlestown one parcel of Land containing by estimation one |