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ered & ordered that the Treasurer in issuing his future warrants Obą serve the same & conform the same accordingly till a new Proportion shall be made.

In Council Eodem Die,
Read & Concurr'd.

M. Weare, Clr.

T. Atkinson Jr. Secry.
Assented,

J. WENTWORTH.

15 Dec 1767.

Petition for a new County.

To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq. Captain General & Commander in Chief in and over His Majestys Province of New Hampshire &c. and to the Honorable His Majestys Council and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled on the 15 Day of Dec', Anno Domini 1767; Humbly shews Josiah Willard, Benjamin Bellows, Daniel Jones, Samuel Chase Agents for the Towns of Hinsdale, Winchester, Richmond, Swanzey, Chesterfield, Westmoreland Keene, Gilsum, Monadnock N° 4, N° 5 & N° 6, Alestead, Walpole, Marlow, Charlestown, New Burnet, Claremont, Newport, Cornish, Croydon, Plainfield, Lebanon, Hanover, Canaan, & Lime that there are are about Eight Hundred Families in the abovementioned, Towns between the height of Land and Connecticut River in said Province who continually are at very great Expence in sending their Deeds to the publick Records for said Province, Prosecuti'g of suits at Common Law, proving of wills & settling intestate estates and many other inconveniences your Petitioners labour under by reason of their being so for distant from the several Courts & Offices proper to settle the same. Your Petitioners therefore in behalf of themselves and Constituents humbly pray that the Western part of said Province of New Hampshire adjoining to Connecticut River may be erected into a distinct County with such Priviledges & Immunities as shall be necessary for the well Regulating of the same, & that from Connecticut River the bounds of said County may be extended East to the Monadnock mountains & from ye Line of the province North as far as the North Line of Lime or otherwise as your Excellency & Honors shall think fit, all which is Humbly submitted by

JOSIAH WILLARD

B. BELLOWS
SAM CHASE
DAN JONES.

Petition of Doct. Josiah Pomroy for permission to inoculate for small pox.

To His Excellency, John Wentworth Esq. Captain Generall & Governour in Chief in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire and to the Honorable his Majestys Council. The petition of Josiah Pomroy of Hatfield in the County of Hampshire, Humbly shews and gives your Excellency and Honors to be informed that your Petitioner is about to remove to Hinsdale in said Province of New Hampshire with a view to perform the Office of a surgeon and Physician in its severall Branches and since Innoculation for the small pox has been practised with so much success & with such advantage to mankind, your petitioner is desirous of pursuing that Branch of His Profession at Hinsdale aforesaid provided he can do it under the protection of your Excellency & Honors, as Hinsdale is a convenient place for the Purpose above mentioned and the Inhabitants are willing to have it pursued Your petitioner therefore Humbly prays that he may have Liberty granted him by your Excellency and Honors to erect a Hospital for the purpose of Innoculation under such restrictions as your Excellency & Honors in Great Wisdom shall think proper. All which is humbly submitted by your Excellency & Honors most Obe Humble Serv

[No date.]

JOSIAH POMROY.

HOLDERNESS.

[Holderness was first granted by charter, Oct. 10, 1751, to John Shepard and others. ED.]

Petition of Samuel Livermore for two rights of Land. To His Excellency John Wentworth Esquire Captain General, Governour and Commander in Chief in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire &c.

The petition of Samuel Livermore of Portsmouth in the Province aforesaid Esq' Humbly sheweth, That in and by His Majestys Grant or Charter of New Holderness in said Province, There was given and Granted unto William Cammell and William Garrow each of them a Right or share in said Town under Certain Conditions in said Charter Mentioned, which Conditions the said Cammell and Garrow Have Totally

Neglected to fulfill, Whereby They have Forfeited their said Rights or shares and his Majesty is become Resiezed thereof Your Petitioner Therefore prays your Excellency would grant your Petitioner the said Two Rights or shares of Land under such Conditions & Quit Rents to His Majesty as your Excellency shall think fit.

And your Petitioner as he is in Duty bound shall Ever Pray &c. SAMUEL LIVERMORE.

Portsmouth June 18th 1770.

Deposition of Samuel Eaton.

The Deposition of Samuel Eaton of New Holderness who Testifies & Says that he had Lived in New Holderness about Five years and has been acquainted with said Town ever since the first settlement Thereof, and that William Cammell and William Garrow both being Grantees in said Township have not nor either of them Cultivated any land in said Town nor done any thing Towards the settlement of their Rights Therein or any part thereof and further this Deponent saith not. Samuel Eaton.

Province of

May 30th 1770. The said Samuel Eaton personNew Hampshire) ally appeared and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition, Taken In perpetuam Rei

Memoriam Before us.

John Newmarch Justices of the
Reuben Kidder peace, unis Quorum

Deposition of Thomas Vokes.

The Deposition of Thomas Vokes of New Holderness who Testifies and says that he has Lived at said New Holderness about Three years, and has been acquainted with said Town ever since the first settlement thereof and that William Cammell & William Garrow both being grantees in said township have not nor Either of them cultivated any land in said Town nor done anything towards the settlement of Their Rights Therein or any part Thereof, and Further this depo' saith not

his Thomas X Vokes mark

Test. Richd Cutts Shannon.

Province of New

May 31st 1770. of the foregoing Rie memoriam. Before us,

The Said Thomas Vokes person-
Deposition, Taken In Perpetuam

John Newmarch Just Peace
Wentworth } unis Quoram

Petition of Proprietors for extension of their grant. To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq. Captain General Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His Majestys Province of New Hampshire, In Council

The Petition of Hercules Mooney and divers others, Proprietors of New Holderness, whose names are hereunto subscribed, Most humbly shews:

That the said Proprietors have clear'd much land in the said Township, and made considerable Improvement there, but have not hitherto been able to comply strictly with the Terms of the charter. That as the said Proprietors have nothing more at Heart than to compleat the settlement of said Town, and have already got twenty Families there and hope soon to see it in a flourishing Situation, They most humbly pray your Excellency (with advice of His Majestys Council) That such further time may [be] given to your Petitioners and the rest of the proprietors to compleat the said settlement as to you in your great wisdom shall seem meet. And your Pet as in duty bound shall ever pray &c.

Hercules Mooney John Sheperd Thomas Ellison

Archelaus Miles

Andrew Baker

William McCrillis

Portsmouth 221 Jan'y 1772.

Jacob Shepard
Charles Bamford
Charles Bamford Jr
Francis Drew

Daniel Evans

Petition to send a Representative.

Province of New Hampshire

To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq. Capt General Governour & Commander in Chief of said Province of New Hampshire &c, &c.

The petition of the Subscribers being Freeholders & Inhabitants of New Holderness in the County of Stratford in said province of New Hampshire, Humbly sheweth that no more than four of the towns in said County send representatives to the General Assembly & that none of those are situated in the upper part of said County, That the upper part of said County is increasing & has lat ly increased, with Surprising rapidity & that the Priviledge of sending representatives to the general assembly always has been & is Esteemed a great incouragement to the inhabitants of this province, and as the said town of New Holderness is likely to become the most considerable town in that part of said county, your petitioners humbly pray the said priviledge of sending a representative to the next

general assembly, may be extended to them, and your petitioners as in Duty bound, shall ever pray &c.

New Holderness, January 31st 1774.

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[This town was originally a part of Dunstable, being, as early as 1743 the West Parish of that town. It was incorporated 3 April, 1746. ED.]

Petition for a Committee to locate the Meeting-house. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Gov" & The Honble His Majestys Council & House of Representatives in Gen' Court assembled &c.

The petition of Stephen Aims of Holles in Behalf of himself and Sundry other of the Inhabitants of the said Town Humbly sheweth: That the Inhabitants of that part of Old Dunstable were by the Massachusetts about seven years ago Incorporated into a parrish taking about three miles more eastward than their town line now Runs:

That while under that Incorporation a meeting house place was agreed on justly situated as was then apprehended tho' a meeting house was not then Erected. The Settlement being new the additional Inhabitants settled as near that place for the sake of being in the middle of a town as they could:

That by the late Incorporations here about three miles of the East end of the Parish is taken to Dunstable which Brings the East line of Holles within one mile & an half of where the meeting house place was agreed to as afores

That the west line of the town is near upon Five miles to the West of s Place and some Inhabitants already settled to

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