That the Parrish of Greenland for severall years past since they have been set of from Portsmouth have not had the Bennefit of having a voat in makeing choice of any person to sit in the Gen Assembly, and therefore are humbly of opinion that they are much Grieved in not having any person to Represent them in Gen" Assembly nor any Vote in the choice of any other: Therefor yr humble Petitioners most humbly prays For themselves and in Behalfe of said parrish of Greenland That your excellencie & hon" &c will as in y' wisdom you shall see meet to make such order act or Law so that your Petitioners may have the liberty of other Towns or precincts to have the choice of some one of their Freeholders to Represent them in the Gen11 Assembly & your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray May the 10th 1732. In the house of Representatives. JOSHUA WEEKS Voted, that the prayer of the Petition be answered and that his Excellencie be desired to Issue out a precept for an assembly man to appeare at the next sessions in the fall May the 12th 1732. In council May 13, 1732 Read & Concurred R Waldron, Sec'y I assent to the foregoing vote, May 15, 1732. James Jeffry, Clr. AssTM J. BELCHER GROTON-formerly COCKERMOUTH. [Groton was incorporated 7th Dec., 1796. It was granted by the name of Cockermouth, Nov. 22, 1766. ED.] Petition of John Hale and Samuel Hobart for a re-grant. To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq. Captain General, Governor & Commander in Chief in & over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire. In Council December 4th 1771. The memorial of John Hale & Samuel Hobart, for themselves & a number of Others his Majestys subjects, Purchasers from the Grantees of a Tract of Land in the Province aforesaid of the Contents of about six miles square, which was granted 22 Novemb' 1766, by the name of Cockermouth on Certain Conditions therein specified, and the said Grantees have not been able to comply therewith, for sundry ReasonsThe great Difficulty the first settlers have undergone, for want of Roads through other Towns adjacent & the discouragements they have met with, by a long & expensive Law suit with the Proprietors of Plymouth &c and the time of settlement being now elapsed whereby part of the said Town becomes Forfeited & reverts to his Majesty Your memorials humbly Pray that they may be favour'd with a Regrant of said Tract of Land & further time to settle the same in such manner as your Excellency & Honours shall see fit, & to Exclude such delinquent Proprietors of the Former Charter as have not done their proper share of Duty, and upon the usual conditions and your Memorials as in Duty Bound shall ever pray. JOHN HALE Memorial of James Goold and others about a Petition of Samuel Livermore. Province of To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq. CapNew Hamp S tain General Governor & commander in chief in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire and the Honourable his Majestys Council, most humbly sheweth That your petitioners are Inhabitants in the Easterly part of Cockermouth that most of us have lived there a considerable number of years, with our families-that we have been at great cost & Expence in clearing and cultivating the land, building houses making Roads, Bridges &c all which we chearfully performed, and sundry of us have made such Improvements that by the produce thereof with a common blessing we are able to Git a comfortable support-That when we first Began our settlement we proceeded in a Regular manner having in the first place (most of us with the other proprietors) Purchased a Charter of his Excellency the late Governor of the Township of Cocker mouth, which Town ship sundrey years before that time had been surveyd and Lay out as by a plan by which we purchased said Town will appear and many of which Bounds According to said plan are plainly to be seen to this day, which bounds are Agreeable to the Late plan or map of the Province made by Docter Langdon and Major Blanchard, which are plainly to be seen to this day, & that we are all settled fairly & clearly within the old lines & Boundaries of said Cocker mouth where we Expected to enjoy the Benefit of our Labour peaceably and Quietly, and with an Encorragement and expectation of having the Gospel settled amongst us & as Good and Loyal subjects to our King having as far as in our power complyed with his Royal Instructions with Respect to the settlements that we have made where we now dwell—And Whereas Samuel Livermore Esq has Petitioned your Excellency & Honours praying that the Westerly line of Plymouth may be Extended westerly to a place called Fletchers cornor which is a mile or more farther west than the antient & proper Line of Plymouth and which would be Takeing off a mile of Cocker mouth and is the Land where we all Live: If the prayer of said Petition should be Granted and by which means we and our Houses and all our Improvements would be taken off from Cockermouth, and by that Means we should loose all that we have in the world & we & our familys be Reduced to poverty, We Humbly Conceive that Granting the prayer of Mr Livermores Petition is only to Serve the Particular Interest of a few Individuals who are Interest in the Common Land in Plymouth, Who cannot by any Means have any Just Right to our Land for they have already much more land than is Given them by their Charter without this addition, and Plymouth as a Town Do not appear to be Benefitted by the addition, and are not Desirous of any such Thing, and Whereas Mr John Fenton appears to joyn with Mr Livermore in said Petition, by Consenting that it should be Granted setting forth that he is a patintee of Three Thousand acres in the Land Petitioned for &c, We humbly Conceive that they have been laying their schemes to gether in order to injure and hurt us and to Take away from us our Substance, which we humbly conceive we are Justly Intitled to by virtue of our fulfilling his Majestys Instructions. No Doubt but Mr Fenton has a just Right to Three Thousand acres of his Majestys un Cultivated ungranted Land, but not any Right to our Houses and Improvements, any more than he has to our persons to be slaves to him-Wherefore we most humbly pray your Excellency & Honours attention & Consideration on this matter which is of Great Importance to us and that you would be pleased to Interfere and protect us in the peaceable and Quiet Enjoyment of our Infant settlement in the Wilderness and that you would not Grant the prayer of that Petition, nor put it Into the Power of Mr Livermore or Mr Fenton or any other person to Molest or Destress us and we as in Duty bound shall ever pray James Goold, Ebenezer Melven Thomas Nevens [No date.] Ebenezer Melven Jr Jonas Hobart Thomas Neven Jr Samuel Farley HAMPSTEAD. [This town was incorporated 19 of January, 1749. ED.] Petition for a Parish. To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Governor and Commander in Cheif In and Over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire in New England, And to the Honourable His Majesties Council and house of Representatives in General Court Assembled, Jan 1, 1743-4 The Humble petition of the subscribers Inhabitants in the Province aforesd, Sheweth. That the greater part of your Petitioners are Inhabitants of the Land in Controversie between Kingstown and Haverhill— That one part of us hold our Land of Haverhill and the other of Kingstown. That However the Right of the soil may be disputed, we are without Dispute of New Hampshire Government. That your Petitioners are at such a Distance from every Parish Meeting house as Renders our attending publick Worship upon the Sabbath in any of our Neighbouring Congregations Exceeding Difficult, and to many of us quite Impracticable. That we are therefore obliged to procure some person to preach to us or else to live without the Benefit of that Ordinance. May it therefore please your Excellency and Honours to take our case under your Wise consideration, and either Vest us with Parish Powers with the following bounds viz. Begining at a Crocked red oak tree standing in London Derry line from thence runing Eastwardly three miles on Bryants line Thence Northwardly to a bridge called Capt Ingalls Bridge thence westerly so as to comprehend the Dwelling house of one Jacob Wells from thence to the Corner Beach tree on Chester line and from thence upon London Derry line to the bounds first mentioned, Or If this may not at present be granted at least to pass an Act to Impower us for a time to assess and Levie Taxes upon the inhabitants within the bounds above sd for the support of the Gospel and other Incident Charges and your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray. John Hoog William Moulton William Stevens Michell Johnson Hugh Tallant Nathaniel Harriman Subscribers. Samuel Worthen, Jr Samuel Watts Beniamin Philbrick Jonathan Kimball Ezekiel Little John Johnson William Eastman Daniel Johnson Zecheriah Johnson William Hancock Steven Emerson Beniamin Emerson Caleb Heath David Heath In the House of Representatives Apr 18th 1744. The within Petition Read and Voted that the Petitioners (at their own charge) serve the Selectmen of Kingston with a Coppy of this Petition and the Votes thereon that they may appeare the third day of the sitting of the General Assembly after the first day of May next. James Jeffrey Cler. Assm Vote of Kingston, setting off certain persons for a new Parish, &c. Prov. of New Hamp. At a Legall meeting of the Inhabitants & freeholders of Kingstown held the 24th of September, 1746, 1st Levt John Swett was chosen moderator of that meeting. 2d Voted, That we do hereby as far as in us lieth sett off of Kingstown above 'sd with a certain Tract of Land in s town for a Distinct Parish or Precinct Bounded as followeth viz: begining at the Beach tree which is the Dividing Boundary between London Derry and Chester s Tree standing on ye west line of s Kingstown and Running Southerly on s Kingstown said Line as heretofore settled between s London Derry & s Kingstown to the Islands Pond (so called) then Running East and B South three miles. Then Northerly Till a North & B West Course will strike s Kingstown |