No 38: 39: 142: 143: 234 235 are the Northernmost rights in the six ranges of the Town of Barrington & 1: 88: 89: 189: 190 with 277 are near if not the most Southern Lotts of said town.

Petition for power to raise money, &c. Province of}

Province of

To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Governor and Commander In Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire in New England the Honble His Majesty's Council and House of Representatives for Said Province in General Court Convened

The Humble Petition of Thomas Wright Mercht & Daniel Jackson Shop keeper both of Portsmouth in said Province being the Surviving Agents of the Proprietors of the Township of Barrington in the Province aforesaid Shews

That: the Laws of this Province Respecting Proprieties of Townships or other Common & undivided Lands are very Defective & Insufficient in many Regards to Enable the Proprietors as a Distinct Body from the Inhabitants of the Towns where they Live to Transact & carry on the Business of Such Proprieties But in Particular with respect to the Speedy Collecting & levying Such Sums of Money as have at any time been Granted & Voted by the Propriety which very much Clogs & Embarrasses their affairs & Greatly Retards the Settlement of New Town ships and thereby in a Great Measure Defeats the Good Purposes of Granting Such Townships Since there is no making a Settlement without raising money and many Persons get in to be Proprietors who will not Voluntarily pay their proportion of the Charges

That: the Proprietors of the Said Township of Barrington are Involved in the same Difficulties of other Proprieties in the aforesaid Regards and in Special with Respect to that Important Article of Raising Money having Several Sums in

Arrearage which tho' they have assessed & apportioned upon the Proprietors are not paid in but Either Remain uncollected or are in the Constables hands and that thro' a Defi ciency of the Laws upon which the Propriety is formed

Wherefore your Petitioners in behalf of their principals most Humbly Pray that an act may be now past to Enable the Collector or Constable of the Said Propriety to Collect & Levy their arrearages in the same Summary way the Constables of Towns may do and give the said Proprietors the same Remedy against their Delinquent Collectors or Constables and also to make Effectual Provision for Raising & Levying money upon themselves for the future in such an Expeditious method as the nature of their affairs Require & Your Petitioners as in duty Bound Shall Ever Pray &c

March 4th 1741

THOMAS WRIGHT
DAN JACKSON

In the House of Representatives March the 12th 1741. the within Pe

tition Read and

Voted, That the Prayer of the Petition be so far granted, That for the future, the Proprietors be Enabled to make Notes & Raise money on themselves and that the Collectors & Constables be enabled to gather the same, and that the Proprietors Shall have the same Remedy against their delinquent Collectors & Constables as other Towns have and that the Petitioners have liberty to bring in a Bill accordingly

In Council March 20th 1741
The above Vote read & Concurred

James Jeffrey Classem

March 22

Theod Atkinson Secy.

Assented to.

B. WENTWORTH

Petition of Thomas Shepard.

To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of New Hampshire, The Honorable his Majestys Councill and house of Representatives in General Assembly convened—

The Petition of Thomas Shepherd in Behalf of himself and the other Inhabitants of the Two mile Streak (so called) in the Township of Barrington in said Province most humbly shews That there are sixteen families settled within the said Two mile Streak, containing upwards of ninety Persons in all That the Situation of the Same is such that the Inhabitants are very much exposed unto the Indian Enemy

That the summer past the laboring People there were obliged to leave their wives and children at home naked & defenceless whilst they went out about their business of husbandry having no Soldiers there to guard and protect them