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There haveing been sundry more Inhabitants Liveing among our Inhabitants who have Petitioned the town that they might be sett off to our Parish; who accordingly granted their Request & in their capacity set them off to us yet we apprehend that we have not sufficient Power to Execute the Law upon them in case there should be occasion for it particularly in regard of our Taxes; also there are others settled & a settling among us who are far more Convenient to us than to the town: & again there are considerable of Lands intermixed with ours which is not inhabited & belongs chiefly to out Town men, which we have no power to Rate: further when any persons come to settle as Tenants upon the Lands so intermixed as above s which may be Likely to be a publick charge, & so may in time be a great Burthen to your s Parish, we have no power to warn them off or Restrain them under these & other difficulties, which your Excellency & Hon's in your wisdom may discover: Wee now again Humbly apply ourselves to your Excellency & Hon's praying that you will be pleased to perfect that which yet concerneth our full settlement & sure establishment by fixing some line of division between our s parish & the Town of Kingstown according to your great Wisdom & Goodness & Justice, Respecting both us & our Brethren & friends in the town.

And so shall wee as in duty Bound ever pray.

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Feb. 2 1739-40

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The within petition Read and Voted That the Petitioners serve the selectmen of the West part of Kingstown with a copy of the petition, at the petitioners charge & that they appeare to be heard the twelfth of y Curr' to Shew Cause why the Prayer of the Petition may not be granted

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James Jeffry Clr. Assm.

In the House of Representatives Feb 13th A D. 1739-40

J. BELCHER.

The within Petition read, and the parties heard by their Council and the House Having considered thereof, Voted, That Mr Thomas Packer & Capt Edward Hall be a committee of this House to Joyn with Such as the Honble the Council shall appoint to go & view Boath parts of the Town of Kingstown, In the recess of the assembly and according to the best of their Judgm to be where it will be most convenient for a Line between the Easterly pish & the old pish (or westerly part of the sd Town) may be made the said Committee to make their return to

the Gen Ass the third day of the next sitting of the Gen" Assembly & yt the petition's pay the whole charge.

In Coun. Feb. 15th 1739-40.

James Jeffry, Clr. AssTM

Read and concurrd & R. Waldron aud Eph Dennet Esq. appointed to Joyn in the service above.

Same day

Rich Waldron, Secry

Assented to

J. BELCHER.

Remonstrance against a new Parish.

To his Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq. Captain General & Governor in Chief in & over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire the Honourable his Majesties Council & Representatives in General Court assembled.

The Humble Petition of the Subscribers a Committee for the first Parish in Kingston, Humbly sheweth

Whereas at the Last session of the Honble Court a number of the Inhabitants of the East part of Kingston did prefer a Petition to the honble House signifying their willingness and ability to support the ministry and a school & here upon were set off their families Persons & estates as a distinct Parish Notwithstanding they were gratified in this thir Request they have been Incessiant in their Demand upon the First Parish Particular to run a line Between the Two meeting houses which we understand by their explanation of themselves could be no other way adjusted than by taking The Half Distances Between the two said Meeting Houses on the Salisbury Rhode thence running due north to Exeter Line and South to Almsbury Bounds And to add thirteen men to their number But conscious of our poverty and Exposed situation we let them know that we apprehended their Demands were very unreasonable inasmuch as we had many more Poor Persons amongst us then were with them who had bin Impoverished by the warrs, Haveing bin obliged to sell the best of their Lands to their fathers in their Extremity for very small consideration To support their familys and we have had great Rumours of a war and are very much Exposed and must be obliged to keep Garrisons which besides the Exposing of our Lives and fortunes would be to us the loss of Each mens Labours one Day in a week Nearly which would Something Exeed Their Parish rates Besides the charges of supporting the ministry in our own Parish.

Nevertheless we offred them Sutch a line as would circumscribe their Estates with the Estates of the thirteen above mentioned and all the Vacant lands intermixed with theirs

which upon their request we have set off to the said East Parish. This grant we have made them in hopes they would have been Easy tho we are fully sencible that their might be named some one farm in their Parish of Greater Income than some twenty livings amongst us. If we speak of the petition now lying before your Excelly And Hon we apprehend y we ought to Expose their Designs Tho not Exprest for a line to Incompass their estates we do not oppose but Should be free to settle Imediately & would have done it without trouble to the Hon Legislature But to have Persons and familys torn of from us or mens Estates torn to Peices and divided meerly to gratify their unreasonable restless & insatiable desires is all that we would humbly Remonstrate against and Earnestly Request your Excell & Hon in your Great wisdom and compassion prevent & fix such a line Between us as shall incompass their estates and leave ours intire to this first parish and your humble Pettioners shall ever Pray, &c.

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A leagel meeting held by ajornment ye 26th day of October voted that those men her under writen both thay & theire Estates shall be set of to the east Parish in this town to pay both ther town rate minister & school Rate there which being according to there own petition & de sire.

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This is a true copy taken out of Kingstown book as ates by me

Tristram Sanborn town clerk for Kingstown.

A Leagel anual town meeting held in Kingstown march ye 6th 1739 rly Leftenant John Sweet was chosen moderator for that meeting. 4ly It was put to voate to see wheather they wod set of the Est parish of s town by a line and it went in the negative

This is a true copy Taken out of Kingstown Book of reacords as atest by me,

Tristram Sanborn, Town clerk for Kingstown

To Samuel Winslow Jedidiah Philbrick & John Huntoon Selectmen : Kingstown Septemb' the 1st 1740. Whereas the Gen Assembly of this province have stated & Settled he Boundary between the Parishes in this town establishing & fixing

the persons & their estates or parts of their Estates, whose Estates or part of them fall to the East of s Boundary to the first Parish Providing they shall within one month Give under their hands to the selectmen their desire to remain with the s first parish.

These are to Certifie you the Select men that its our desire & design to be accounted of & do duty and Enjoy priviledge in s first Parish as witness our hands.

John Swett

Tristram Sanborn

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William X Buswell

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Cornelius Clough
William Long
Simon French.
Samuel Eastman
Ebenezer Eastman
Isaac Clifford
Elisha Swett

Peter Sanborn
Jidediah Philbrick
Abraham Sanborn
Ebenezer Stevens, Jr
William Buswell, Jr
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Philip X Moodey
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Jonathan Blake

Richard Long

Benj Judkins

Moses Sleeper
Benjamin Sleeper
Joseph Clifford
Jonathan Sleeper
Samuel French
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John x Moodey
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Thomas Sleeper
Nathaniel Smith
Joseph Young
Nathanael French, Jr
Samuel Fifield
Jonathan Sanborn
Benjamin Magoon
Benjamin Stevens
David French
John Sleeper

Samuel Judkins

John Judkins

Tristram Sanborn Tert.

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Petition of Jedidiah Philbrick for partition of real estate. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Governor & Command in Chief in & over His Majestys Province of New Hampshire The Hon His Majestys Council & House of Representatives in Gen Assembly Convened Dec. 1st 1743.

The Humble petition of Jedidiah Philbrick of Kingstown in sd Province as Agent or Attorney for Mary Sewall widow, Jonathan Bradley & Susanna his wife & Samuel Bradley & Mary his wife & Josiah Foulsam, Shews, That John Foulsam Late of Exeter in said Province Yeoman Deceased Died In

testate Siezed of a Considerable Estate (the administrat" of wch was Granted to the sd Mary Sewall being then the widow Relict of the s deceased) & left issue the said Susanna, Mary, Josiah, & another Child since Deceased. That three of the said Children were young when their said father died & the s Josiah was born after wards the bringing up of which children & the Debts Due from the s Dec with sickness funeral Charges & other necessary Expenses Call'd for most if not all the personal Estate But so it happens that the said Adm' is not able to Render any Certain acco1 of her Administra" Especially as it is near twenty years since it was Granted. That by her Industry & Labour she has preserved the Real Estate which now Remains to be divided & which all parties are desirous to have done but as ye said Josiah is not of full age it cant be done Effectually by their agreement and the Court of Probate is of opinion that it cant be Legally done by the Authority of that Court because by Law an acc must be Rendered before Distribution can be made for tis the Surplus only that is to be Divided. Besides tis also a Doubt whether that court can Intermeddle after administra" has been so Long granted wherefore to Remedy all which your Petitioner in behalf of his Constituents Humbly prays that a Special Act may be passed Authorizing Some indifferent persons to make a compleat & final Partition of the said Real estate Among the said Interested par

ties and to order that the same so made be Recorded in some of the Public Records and your Petitioner as in Duty Bound shall Ever Pray &c.

JEDEDIAH PHILBRICK.

The within Pe

In the House of Representatives Xber the first 1743. tition Read and Voted that the prayer of the Petition be granted and that Messrs Benja Thing Capt Daniell Gilman & Levt John Gillman be a Comittee to make Division of said Estate according to Law and that the Petitioners have liberty to Bring in a Bill accordingly

December 2d 1743.

In Council, Read & Concurrd.

Eodem Die

James Jeffrey Clr. Ass

Theod. Atkinson Secry.

Assented to

B. WENTWORTH.

Petition for a further hearing on Haverhill petition for a new Parish.

To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Governor and Commander in chief of his Majestys Province of New Hampshire in Council.

The Petition of Eben' Stevens & Jedediah Philbrick Agents

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