Information from Plaistow. To his Excelency Benning Wintworth Esq' Govenour & and to the Honourable his majesties Councill and to the Honourable House of Representatives in generall Court assembled &c. this is to Inform your Excelency and Honours that we the Subscribers Inhabitance of the town of Plastow do Judge it highly Reasonable and we think it will be for the peace of s town of Plastow to set of our brethren at the northwest Part of s town and annex them to the town of Hampstead the Line to Run from the pine in Cloughs meadow (so called) South Westerly to a white oak tree near Cornit Ingalls Barn thence on the Southerly Side of his Land to his South West Corner Bounds, and from thence still South westerly to the bridge over Providence Brook near John Curriers house agreeable to their Petition as witness our hands Dated Plastow April ye 11: 1766 Joseph Page against the division of Plaistow 1767. To the General Court for the Province of New hampsher I would inform your Honers that it is my Desier that the Town of Plastow might Be cept to Gether as it is at this Day for the Reasons of my signing a Pettition that I signed that was Entered in the General Court June 26 Last Past was Because thay told me that a Part of the Town of Plastow was a Going to Be Ennexed to the Town of Hampsted which I am very much a Gainst my Desier is that it may Be left to Gether as it is at this Day JOSEPH PAGE. Plastow february 16, 1767. Eben Eaton against the division of Plaistow 1767. To the General Court for the Provence of New hampsher I would inform your Honours that it is my Desier that the Town of Plastow might be cept to Gether as it is at This Day for the Reason of my signing a Petton that was Entred in the Gineral Court Last June was Be cause I was over Persuaded, After Consideration I se it will be Grately to the Towns Damage there fore I Desier your Honers that you would not Grant said Pettons: not the suner for my signing s Pon But my Desier is that the Town of Plastow may Be cept to-Gether as it is at this Day. Plastow March 7 1767. Province of New Hamshire To the Honorable Generill Court EBENEZER EATTON. May it please your Honores that whereas Some time past I Signed a petition that the Town of Plastow Might be Divided being then Misinformed this therefore is to Desier your Honores Not to take any Notice of My Name in that petition for I am of the opinion tis Best for the Town to remain as it is at present Your Honores Humble Servant Plastow Aprill 13th 1767. JOSEPH PARKER. Petition of inhabitants of Plastow for annexation. Province of New Hampshire} To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Governor & Commander in Chief in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire &c to the Honourable his Majestys Council and House of Representatives of said Province in General Court Assembled: the Memorial of a Number of the Inhabitants of Plastow in said Province Humbly sheweth That whereas by an act of the general Court Part of the Town of Plastow hes Lately been Set off, and made a new and Destinct Parish, and whereas Several Persons included in Said New Parish Have Petitioned to be annexed to the Town of Plastow we the Subscribers Inhabitants of said Plastow beg leave to inform your Excellency & Honours of the Reasons why we Pray their Petition may be granted. : We beg Leave to acquaint you that if Said New Parish does Not Contain a greater Quantity of Lands than is Left in said Town of Plastow, as we are not Certain but it does, yet it is very well Known that the Lands in yo former taking a just Es 3 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA timate of Quantity and Quality together are by far more valuable then Those of the latter, upon which account we in this Town are certainly laid under very great Disadvantages. Permit us further to observe to your Excellency & Honours that near one-half if not ye Majority of the Inhabitants of Said Plastow are either Professed Babtists or so far favourers of them as usually to Concur with them in opposing and Counteracting every necessary Measure Respecting either the Support of our Minister or ye Peace & good order of ye Town so that without Some Helps, we see no Probable or even possable way in which either the one or ye other can be Continued among us in any tolarable Degree. We ask leave moreover to inform the Honourable Court that the North Parish in Haverhill in Massachusetts Province have hetherto ever Sence our first Incorporation into a Town Shared with us in Ministerial Charges and Privileges and appear willing to Continue with us in Case the fore said Petition be granted, so that their may be a better Prospect of Peace & order in Said Plastow; whereas if we Continue in our Present weakened and Devided State we have the greatest Reason to fear they are fully Determined to Seperate from us; in Consequence of which Seperation we are at once irrecoverably Deprived not only of their Proportion of ye ministerial Tax, but Dispossessed of ye Parsonage Buildings & land, the greatest Part by far of which lies in Said North Parish, and which we have hitherto enjoyed only by Vartue of our Connection with Them we Therefore earnestly Pray your Excellency and Honours to take the affair under Consideration and grant Such Relief for the Said Petitioners and for us as you in your wisdom Shall Think best and we as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray Plastow Dec' ye 3, 1767. John Hall Thomas Follamsbe Nathaniel Bartlet Ezekiel Gile Peter Dow Abraham Chase Josiah Copp John Bradley Ephraim Emerson Richard Greanough Ebenezer Eatton Aaron Coop James Little Nathaniel Peabody Jonathan Stevens Jun Samuel Little John French James Noyes Joseph Noyes Richard Brown Daniel Poor Benj Philbrek Jun. Eben Chaplen John Dow John Dow Jun. Jonathan Page Nath Page Benj Emory Eldad Ingals John Ingals Joseph Hills Ordway Stephen Dole John Dole Asa Haseltine Thare is 130 mens Heads above sixteen in the west end of the town of Plastow. Thare is Eighty Seven Famelys in the West of the Town of Plastow. Petition of Sundry Persons to be Polled from Atkinson to Province of New Hampshire) Plastow. To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq Capt. general Governor and Commander in Cheaf in and over his Majestys Province aforesaid &c and to the Honourable his Majestys Council and House of Representatives in general Court assembled at Portsmouth The Petition of us the Subscribers Humbly Shews where as there has been Latly Part of Plastow set off and made a New and Seperate Parish Bounded according to Cartain Lines. which goes by the Name Atkinsonton in which we with our Estates falls into ye Said New Parish our Prayer and Request to this Honourable Court above mentioned is that whereas we have heretofore assisted in Building a meeting house a Pasonneg house and have Now a minister Settled in Plastow according to our Principles and Minds Therefore our Desier and Request is that we with our Estates may be set off from Said New Parish and be anexed to the old Parish or Town of Plastow that we might be and Remain as heretofore we therefore Pray that your Excellency and Honours will Take The mater under Consideration and grant such Relief for those who Desier to be set off as afore said as you in your wisdom Shall Think best and we as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray Plastow Sept. 1767. James White Jonathan Eatton John Webster Israel Webster Jonathan Webster William Webster Daniel Whitaker Moses Page Province of In the House of Representatives Sep. 24th 1767 New Hampshire The within Petition being Read and Considered Voted That the Petitioners be heard thereon the third day of the Siting of the General Assembly after the first Day of November next and that they serve Mr. Thomas Noyes who is appointed to call the first meeting in said Atkinson with a Copy of this Petition And Order That Objections may be made to granting the Prayer of the Petition if any there be M. WEARE. In Council Eodem Die Read & Concurr'd T. Atkinson, Secy. |