line where it crosses the mill Brook (so called) as heretofore settled between s Kingstown & s Chester & from thence viz where s Line Crosses s mill Brook to run Southerly on s line to the Beach tree first mentioned.

This is a true copy taken out of Kingstown Book of Records.

Attest

Jed. Philbrick, Town Clerk.

Petition of Richard Hazzen, &c., about support of Rev. James Cushing.

To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Governour & Commander in Cheif in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire in New England & to the Honble his Majesties Council & House of Representatives in Generall Court assembled at Portsmouth for sd Province, May 1748. Humbly Shews.

Richard Hazzen for himself and in behalfe of the Inhabitants of that Part of Haverhill district commonly called Timberlane.

That the Inhabitants of said Timberlane have for the greatest part of fifteen years past at a verry great cost and charge hired a minister to preach amongst them and at the same time been Excused from paying any thing towards the support of the Rev Mr James Cushing.

That the Revd Mr Cushings Hearers (Exclusive of said Timberlane) live about two thirds of them on the North Side of the Boundary Line and in this Province and the other third on ye other side on which side lyes also the greatest part of his Personage or Glebe Lands

That at a meeting of the District in November last Pursuant to the selectmens warrant It was agreed & Voted that the inhabitants living on this side of y line (meaning those who lived out of Timberlane limits) should pay the Rev Mr Cushing Two Hundred pounds for his support this year, Old Tenor on consideration of the Depreciating of the money &c which would have been a small matter more than what they paid last year.

That some time afterwards at a Legall meeting of the afore sd Districts, The inhabitants of Timberlane were by vote set off from Mr Cushings Parish and near the same lines which a committee Sent By your Excellency & the Honble Council thought proper to be done as appears by their Report.

That notwithstanding the meaning & intent of the afore s Vote respecting Mr Cushings Support by which the Inhabitants of Timber lane ought to have been excused from paying any thing thereto & after they were set off from Mr Cushings

Parish as much as the District had a power to do, The assessors have rated us to Mr Cushing and thereby made their own Taxes much less than last year, & taken away our money from us which we should have had to pay our own minister

That we have been thereby necessitated to make a Rate amongst Our selves to pay our minister but as we had no legall power to do it some refuse to pay, so that we are now in a verry deplorable Condition unless your Excellency & Honours will Interpose on our behalfe.

We therefore Humbly & Earnestly request your Excellency & Honours to compassionate our circumstances & give Such Orders that we may be excused from paying to ye Revd Mr James Cushing & at the same time that he may not be cheated and defrauded of his honest due, & that we may be Impowered to raise a Tax amongst our Selves to pay our own minister or that you will afford us Such other Relief as to your Excellency & Honours shall think best for us.

And for your Excellency & Honours your Humble petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c

RICHARD HAZZEN for himself & in behalf of yo Inhabitants of Timberlane. May 12th 1748.

Petition of Edward Flint and others to be annexed to Hampstead.

To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Governour & Commander in Chief in & over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire in New England & to the Honble the Councill of said Province,

Humbly Shews,

The petition of Edward Flynt, Samuel Stevens & others the Subscribers that your petitioners Liveing in that part of Haverhill District commonly called Timberlane have always together with the other Inhabitants chearfully paid their Taxes & when a petition was preferr1 by the said Inhabitants to your Excellency & Honours to be incorporated into a Township, your petitioners signed ye said petition & hoped that when the Township was incorporated that not only your petitioners Houses but their estates also would have been taken within y charter being much more for the Interests of your petitioners than to be put any where Else.

But so it is may it please your Excellency & Honours that by the Charter of Hampstead lately Granted, your petitioners Estates are so Divided that near one half lye within the Town of Hampstead & the other half is left out notwithstanding

their Lands have for many years past been fenct in and improved & being so Divided & Split by the said Lines it is to the verry great damage of your petitioners

We therefore earnestly request your Excellency & Honours to annex our whole lands to Hampstead according to our first petition.

And for your Excellency & Honours your Humble petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c.

EDW FLINT

SAM STEVENS
NEHEMIAH STEVENS

DAVID STEVENS

SAM STEVENS
W STEVENS

JOSEPH STEVENS

Hampstead,

February 14th 1749.

HAMPTON and HAMPTON FALLS.

[Hampton belonged originally to Massachusetts, and was settled by people from that Colony, in 1638. In 1680, it was separated from Massachusetts and joined to New Hampshire. Hampton Falls was incorporated as a Parish in 1712. ED.]

Petition of Selectmen about taxes.

To the Honorable yo Lieut Governer and Counsell &c: with the Assembly now sitting att New Castle

The humble petition of us ye Select men of Hampton Sheweth

That y' petitioners by warrant from y Treasurer to make an assessment of 230 1bs and y' through a mistake in making y Rate have made it 04 1b short of sd Sums and y time being now out according to s Warrant and yo' petitioners not having power to Asses ye Remainder Humbly pray yo" Honors to impower y Treasurer to Grant a warrant to us y sd select men & Commissio and yo' petitions will forthwith Make y° Rate for ye Remainder, & yo petitioners will by y blessing of God never be wanting to pray for your HonTM

JOHN MOULTON
ABRA. GREEN

JN° DEERBARNE

PETER WEARE

May ye 20th 1695.

THOS PHILBRICK
PHILEMON DALTON
JN° TUCKE

Selectmen of Hampton

Voated, That ye Selectmen are Impowered to make assessment on

their Inhabitants according to there petition for adjusting that Rate past by ye Assemble

John Pickerin, Clark

Petition of Abraham Drake and others about a tract of land in Kingstown.

To his Excellency Joseph Dudley Esq. Capt. Generall and Governour in Cheif in & over Her Majestys province of the Massatusetts Bay & New Hampshi' &c

The petition of y selectmen of ye Town of Hampton in New Hampshire in behalf of ye freeholders & Comissioners of yes town Humbly Sheweth

That your petitioners this last sumer had Judgment given in favour of Mr Peter Wear at two Courts the Charge where of cost them more than 50 pounds, for not laying out a Tract of land at a place formerly called New-plantation since called Kingstown which s Grant was to John Marston who sold all his Rights in Hampton unto one Deacon Page more than 40 years since which s Page hath ever since enjoyed his Rights & devisions of lands in Hampton above s untill this last sumer ye said Peter Weare produced a pretended deed of conveyance from yes John Marston Writen & Signed at Andover & ye same day acknowledged by his Father Nathaniell Wear Esq. in New Hampshire by s John Marston, which Deed is much to be suspected for a fraudilent Deed, for yt if ye said John Marston were living at ye time of ye Date of s Deed which is much questioned, yett certainly he was dead before any such instruments appeared, and it is farther evident by testimonies of ye Reaverent Mr Barnard minister of y° town together with other principle men of Andover, yt ye sd John Marston by Reason of age had not been able for some years before his death to go to ye publick worship not of a disposeing mind & memory much less able to travill in so short a time to acknowledge a deed in New Hampshire when there were so many justices in his way thether, besides severall other testimoneys who are of ye si John Marstons neer Relation who heard him say y Mr Wear had been at him to sell him a piece of land at New plantation, but he would not do it. Wee therefore lay this our humble petition before your Excellency, together with ye Above mentioned Evidences and pray y as ye said Nathaniell Weare Esq is in publicke place of trust, and whose signing an acknowledgment is of more vallue than two creadable Witnes & without which no Deed by Law can be executed nor Re

corded, we pray yt ye said Esq. Weare may answer possitively whether he ever saw ye said John Marston of Andover in this province of New Hampshire since ye Date of ye said Deed made to his son Peter Wear by s Marston, that so ye truth may appear, it being y truth of all Testimony or Record y' makes them vallued, and ye said Esq. Wear hath been summoned to y Court & paid his charge, yet will Say nothing but puts to prove possetively y' Marston did not grant to his son Peter or y' he was not in ye province of New Hampshire to acknowledge it &c. The proceeding to y finding out y truth wee have no cause to dought but your Excellency will Justly do & your petitioners shall ever pray as in duty bound

ABRAHAM DRAKE
JOIN MOULTON
PETER JOHNSON

SAMUEL Dow

Dated 13th of November 1708.

Certificate of Nathaniel Weare.

16 November 1708.

Selectmen

Nath' Weare Esq. being Exam before his Excellency the Governor and Council Whether he took the acknowledgment of one John Marston, formerly of Andover decd to a Deed of Conveyance from the said Marston to Peter Weare dated the thirteenth day of May one thousand seven hundred and seven and now produced in court, and where the said Marston was when he acknowledged the said Deed and at What time.

Mr Weare Answered that he being at Andover the 13th day of May 1707 he went to the House of the said John Marston about noon and exhibited the above said Deed to the said John Marston since decd he being then in his Right senses and the said Marston did then & there of his own free & voluntary Will acknowledge the same to be his act and Deed.

Examd before publick Councill the 16th Nov 1708.

Chas. Story, Secretary.

Certificate of Jabez Smith.

Hamon May 17th 1721.

Mr Greenough Sir. We Received yr Order of Assembly & in Obedience to sd Order We Gave Notis to y Freeholders In said town to meet this Day att three of ye Clock After Noon & accordingly thay did meet & the Order of Assembly was red to them & ye Constable Desired them to Bring in there Vots, but thay Brought none in.

Sir I am yours to Sarve,

Jabez Smith in behalf of y* Select men.

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