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That they are in great fear that the Indians will destroy some of them the approaching Spring and Summer, if they tarry there, unless the Government Allows them Some Protection. That in Case the said Inhabitants move in, it will give the Enemy an advantage besides that thereby your Petitioners Plantation where they raise Considerable Provision will lay unimproved

Wherefore your Petitioners most humbly Pray your Excellency and Honours to take their Case under Consideration and to allow them such a number of Soldiers & for such time as you shall judge reasonable, and your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray, &c.

Feb 23 1747

In Council March 8th 1747.

THOMAS SHIPHERD.

read & ordered to be sent Doun to the Honble House.

Theodore Atkinson Secy

Petition of John Macmath & Thos. Shepard. May it please y Excellance wee make bould To Truble yr Excellance & y honourable Council taking into Consideration our Dangerous Condition of our Enimys the Want of what men you shall think proper to Steate One the two Garresons at Twomill Streik In Barrington being Oblidged to Leave our Wemen & Children Exposed in Said houses Otherwise our Cropes must Suffer Our Dependence Is One y' Excellance & that you will Not lett us be any longer in Such a Condition being the Needfull and are ever y' Excellances humb' Servants J. W. MACMATH

Two Mill Streak

In Barrington

Jan the 15 1747.

THOS SHEEPHARD

Petition of Selectmen of Barrington, &c. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq Governer & Commander in Chief of his majestys Province of New Hampshire &c &c

Sir

Barrington Feb. 10th 1762

Whereas The Town of Barrington has for Some years past paid a Considerable Province Tax and has upwards of 120 Poles in it, which we humbly hope Intittles us to ask the favour That we may Chuse one Assembly man to Represent Said Town in ye General assembly

Therefore Pray your Excellency would Vouchsafe to Grant the Town of Barrington a Liberty to Chuse such a Representative to appear for us in ye General assembly of this Province; Which favour we shall soe duely Esteem and as in Duty Bound ever pray for the Supporters of our Privelidge

JOHN GARLAND

ELEAZER YOUNG Selectmen.
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PAUL HAYES
JOHN HAYES

HEZEKIAH HAYES
MARK HUNKING
FRANCIS WINKLEY Jun

Portsmouth Feb. 19th 1762

Upon the within Petition I have thought it for His Majestys Service to Incert in the Kings writ the Town of Barrington which please to fill up that they thereby may send a precept to the Select men in time to make Choice of a proper person to represent them in the next General assembly

I am Sir Your hum Servt

To the Honble The Atkinson Esq

B. WENTWORTH

At our Anual Town meeting held at The meeting house In Barrington on Wednesday The 28th day of march 1770 our Petition Relating to Parish orders has Been Notified and Read in Said meeting. Barrington March the 29th 1770.

James Marden

Toun Clerk.

At a Town meeting held at the meeting house in Barrington on Thursday The first Day of march 1770 according to Notification Then Voted Deacon John Garland & Liutenant Samuel Brewster as a Committee or agents to Pertition The General Court for Paresh Powers to Transact our affairs Relating to a minister Seprate from other affairs of The Town and from other Sosieties Now Subsisting in Town Barrington, March the 19th, 1770.

Attest James Marden

town Clerk

Garland & Brewster's Petition in behalf of the town of Barrington, March 1770.

To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq', Governor & Commander in Chief in & over the Province of New Hampshire the Honble his Majestys Council & House of Representatives in General Assembly convened. March 22 1770

The Humble Petition of John Garland and Samuel Brewster both of Barrington in said Province as agents for Barrington aforesaid Shews

That there are in said Town a number of the Inhabitants who call themselves Quakers a number who are Separatists from all Denominations of Christians and also a number of members of the Church of England besides the Common Denomi

nation called Congregationalists. That there is no settled minister of that order nor any other in said Town at Present but frequently Lay Teachers come there and Encourage Separations & Divisions and as they all belong to the Town whenever there is a Town meeting to consider of Settling a minister as the Law of the Province Directs, they all attend & Sometimes out Vote the others & Introduce the greatest disorder & Confusion

Wherefore Your Petitioners humbly Pray that they whose sentiments are in the Congregational way & such others as will join them may be erected into a Parish & Authorized to Transact all affairs relating to Settling & maintaining a Minister of the Gospel & other affairs relative thereto according to Law by themselves exclusive of all others who will not join with them as members of the Same Parish or Society and that they may have leave to bring in a bill accordingly and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever Pray &c

Province of

JOHN GARLAND
SAMUEL BREWSTER

New Hampshire} In the House of Representatives March 22a 1770

Voted That the Petitioners be heard on this Petition on Friday the thirtieth Day of March Instant if the General assembly be then Sit ing and if not Then on the Second Day of their siting next after And that they Cause the Substance of the Petition and Order to be Posted up at the Meeting house in said Barrington and if a Town meeting Shall be held in said Town before that Day then the same to be read at said meeting that any person may Shew Cause why the prayer thereof Should not be Granted

In Council eodem Die

Read & Concurred

M. Weare Cl

Geo. King D. Sec

Province of New Hamps

In the House of Representatives March 30, 1770

The Petitioners being heard on this Petition and no Objection made by any Person and the Prayer of the Petition appearing to be Reasonable Voted That the Prayer of the Petition be Granted and that the Petitioners have liberty to bring in a Bill accordingly

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M. Weare Clr

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BEDFORD.

[This town was granted by Massachusetts in 1733, and continued under the gov ernment of that Province until 1741. It was first called Narraganset, No. 5, afterwards Souhegan East. It was incorporated by the name of Bedford, 19 May, 1750. -ED.]

Souhegan People's Petition for aid, &c.

(Now Bedford.)

Souhegan East June 12 1744 We the Inhabitants of Souhegan East Apprehending our selves Exposed to Immenent Danger both from the French & Indian Enemys & being in no capacity to make a proper Stand in case of an assault from do constitute & appoint Mr. John Chamberlin our Delegate requesting him in yt capacity with all possible speed to repair to Portsmouth & to represent our Deplorable case to his Excellency our Governor and ye general assembly and request of them such aids both in respect of men & military stores as to their great wisdom may seem meet and which may put us in a capacity to repel all attempts of our sd enemies

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A List of the names of the families of the Inhabitants of

Souhegan East upon Merrimack River.

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To Inable the Inhabitants on a Tract of Land on the West Side of Merrimack River, to raise a reasonable Tax for the Support of a Minister of the Gospel &c & to make choice of fit persons to collect the Same

It is ordered by His Excelency with the advice of His Majestys Council That on day of April next Capt John Goffe holds the first Town meeting giveing Ten days Notice thereof to the Inhabitants.

Petition of Presbyterians in Bedford.

To His Exell'y Benning Wentworth Esqr Governor & Comander In Chief of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire and to the Honourable His Majesty's Counsil assembled at Portsmouth May ye 10th 1750.

The Humble Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of Souhegan East so called Sheweth

That your Petitioners are the Major part of sd. Souhegan that your Petitioners as to our particular persuasion in Christianity are Generally of the Presbyterian Denomination That your petitioners through a variety of Causes having been Long Destitute of the Gospel are now Desirous of taking the proper steps in Order to have it Settled among us in the way of Discipline which we judge to tend most to our Edification That your Petitioners not being incorporated by Civill authority are in no Capacity to Raise those Sums of money which may be needfull in order to our proceeding in the above Important affair.

May it therefore Please your Excell'y & Hon's to take the Case of your Petitioners under Consideration and to Incorporate us into a town or Destrick or in Case any part of our Inhabitants should be taken off By any Neighbouring Destrick to Grant that those of our persuasion who are Desirous of Adhering to us may be Notwithstanding Excused from supporting any other Parish Charge than where they Consciencously

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