Province of In Council June 26th 1766 Read & Ordered to be Sent down to the Honble Assembly New Hamp T. ATKINSON Jun' Sec'y. Province of New Hamps} In the House of Representatives June 26th 1766. Voted That the Petitioners be heard on the within Petition the second Day of the siting of the General Assembly After the first Day of September next and that the Petitioners at their Own Cost Cause the Selectmen of Plastow to be Served with a copy of this Petition and order of Court that they may shew Cause if any they have why the Prayer thereof Should not be Granted In Council Eodem Die Read & Concurr'd M. WEARE Clk. T. Atkinson Junr. Secry. To the Selectmen of the town of Plastow :-Gent" We the Subscribers Desire that you would Put into the warning of our Next Town meeting To See if the Town will Joyn with that Part of our Parish that Live on the South Side of the Province line to Chuse a Committee to fix a place for a meeting House To Stand that shall be most convenient for the stown & Parish in so Doing you'll much oblige your Humble Petitioners. It is by the Desire of Several that hav'nt yet signed. Request of the Inhabitants of Plaistow to the Selectmen, 1764. To the Selectmen of the Town of Plastow, Gents. We the Subscribers Desire that you would forthwith warn a meeting of the Inhabitants of sd town & Put into the warning of s meeting to see if the Town will Joyn with that Part of our Parish that live in Haverhill & vote that the meeting House for our s" Parish Shall Stand in the Center of the same: if not voted; 2 To see if our town will vote to Sett a meeting House in the Center of sd town: if not voted 3 To see if the town or Parish will Chuse a committee to Place the meeting House for us according to their Discretion In so Doing you'll greatly oblige your Humble Petitioners MOSES BELKNAP. Sep 18th 1764 Ezeknap Belknap Moses Kelly David Currier Joseph Hale Tristram Knight Oliver Knight Enoch Noyes Benja Hale Benj Stone John Trusell Jonathan Hunt Abner Plumer Peter Harriman John Harriman Stephen Whittaker Thomas Whitaker Samuel Little Joseph Little Leonard Harriman Jon Poor Daniel Poor Jun. Petition to be set off as a Parish. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq: Captain General and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire; To the Honourable His Majesty's Council, and the Honourable House of Representatives. The Petition of the Inhabitants of the Westerly part of the Town of Plastow Sheweth, that by reason of the many & great difficulties they undergo in attending the Publick Worship of God, at the Meeting House where it now stands, through the great distance of their dwellings therefrom, and that MeetingHouse is not large enough to Acommodate more than One Half of the Inhabitants of said Town And as it would be greatly to the Benefit of your Petitioners and prevent Strife and Discord among the Inhabitants, and also tend to the advancement of the Gospel, your Petitioners humbly request that the Westerly Half of said Town may be set off as a Distinct Town, or Parish, the Dividing Line to run as followeth, Viz. Beginning at the North East corner of Benjamin & Ebenr Hale's Land, from thence running a straight Line to the Bridge near Ebenezer Eaton's, from thence running by the Brook unto the Road near David Bryant's and from thence running by said Road unto the Province Line. Your humble Petitioners desire your Excellency and Honours to take our Case into your wise Consideration and grant us that Relief and Benefit which to your Wisdom Shall Seem meet. And your Humble Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray Plastow May ye 20 1766. N. Peabody Joseph Parker Ebenezer Eaton James Noyes Mary Hale Daniel Richards Moses Belknap Eben Hale Tristram Knight 1 John French John Dow John Dow Jr. Benjamin Richards Stephen Knight Moses Whittaker Daniel Hadley Provee of In Council June 26th 1766 read & ordered to be Sent down to the Honble Assembly T. ATKINSON Junr. Secy. Province of New Hamp Voted That the Petitioners be heard thereon the Second Day of the Siting of the General Assembly after the first Day of September next and that the Petitioners at their Own Cost Cause the Selectmen of Plastow to be Served with a Copy of this Petition and Order of Court that they may Shew Cause if any they have why the Prayer thereof should not be Granted In the House of Representatives June 26th 1766 The within Petition being Read and Considered In Council Eodem Die M. Weare Cl T. Atkinson Secy. At a Legal Town meeting Holden at the meeting house in Plastow October y° 9, 1764 Capt. Jonathan Carlton was Chosen moderator Then Voted That the meeting house Should Stand Whare it Now is Ten years A True Coppy Taken out of the Town Book of Records JONATHAN KIMBALL Town Clerk Plastow November yo 3, 1766. Daniel Hadley against the division of Plaistow, 1766. To the General Court for the Provence of New Hampshire I would Inform your Honours that it is very much against my mind that the town of Plastow Should Be Devided or made into two Towns or Parishes for the Petition that was Entred with your Honnors the 26 Day of June Last that I signed I was over Persuaded to sign the Constabel Promising me that if I would signe said Petition he would [wait] a Grate while one me for my Rates which I then owed to him. Plastow December 12th 1766. DANIEL HADLEY. Joshua Emery against the division of Plaistow. To the General Cort for the Provence of New Hampshire: I would inform your Honnors that it is my mind that the town of Plastow should be cept to Gether as it is at this Day and the reason of my signing a pettition that I signed that was Entred in the Cort June 26 Last past was Because they told me that a part of our town was a Going to be Enexed to Hamsted which I am very much a Gainst. But I should be very willing that they that Have Signed to Go to Hamsted might have Liberty to pay their minester Rate at Hamsted for eight or ten year if it is their Desier. Plastow Jenuery 1, 1767. JOSHUA EMERY. New Hampshire. In the House of Representatives Aug 26, 1767 The Petitioners being heard on this Petition and also the Objections heard and Considered. Voted That the Prayer of the Petition be Granted and that the Petitioners have liberty to bring in a Bill accordingly. In Council, August 28 1767 M. WEARE Cl T. ATKINSON Jun' Secy. Memorial or letter of sundry inhabitants of Haverhill to the town of Plaistow, 1767. BRETHEREN-though By ye Devition Line Between the provinces we were Seperated from you yet By indulgence from ye masechusets we have continued to worship with you & cherfully to pay our proportion towards the maintainance of ye Gospel & after the Death of our former minister we united with you in the Settlement of another whom we Justly Esteem & Venerate and in considisention to a Number who apeared uneasy about the Situation af the meeting House we united with you in the choice of a committee & were at considerable Expence in Hopes to Give them Satisfaction. They Not Being Easy Have obtened a Devition af your Town Taking away By farr the Best Part of the Land your Numbers Being hereby Greatly Deminished many of those Left Being of a Sectarien Spirit. these and many other things Being considered we cant But Earnestly Entreat that as you value the interest of Religeon you would by Every proper method seek Imediate Releaf from those who we trust will Delight to promote Both your Civill & Sacred interest. Otherwise we fear you will be So Devided that we shall be obleged to Seperate from you & seek to be united to Some other Neighbor Sosiety the most Distant tho't of which we heartily Deplore Being perfectly Satisfied with our Beloved pastor who has Devoted Himself to ye work of ye Gospel ministry among us & in whose ministry you & we have Enjoyed the utmost Satisfaction & Delight. We are your sincere & affectionate well wisher. To y Town clerk for plastow to be comuncate to ye inhabitants of plastow. Haverhill North parish Decembr 10th 1767 |