Josh Young

Josh. Smart
Ichabd Johnson
Thos Stevenson
Benja Chapman
Micah Emerson
Josa Frost
Winthp Smith
Benjn Mead
John Mead

John Smart

Timy Murray

John B. M. Hanson
Josh Thomas
Ebenr Tasker

John Edgerly Junr

Danl Rogers
Bradstreet Doe
Josa Crummet

John Smith

Jams Smith Junr

Stephn Jenkins

Stephn Wille Jur.

Saml Doe

Zebuln Doe Jur.
John Laya
Ephr Folsom
Jona Edgerly

John Folsom Jun.
Nicholas Hartford
John Hartford
Ebenr Durgin
Jacob Foss
Winthrop Wiggin
Philip Pain

Josh Glanvill
Benjn Taylor
James Cram
Danl Sawyer

Josh Ham

Enoch Remmick

John Burleigh Junt.

Ichd Bracket

Philip Fowler

Jeremy Bryent
John Pickering

Province of In the House of Representatives Feb 23 1768 The foreNew Hamp

going Petition being Considered

Voted That the Petitioners have Liberty to bring in a Bill for a Lottery to Raise money for building the Bridge mentioned in the Petition, to be subject to the Restrictions and Regulations Mentioned in the Act for Granting Liberty for building said Bridge by Subscription Pass'd in the year 1747 M. Weare Cl

In Council Feb 24 1768

Read & Concurr'd

Geo King Dep Sec

Act to raise money by Lottery for a Bridge over Exeter

River.

Anno Regni Regis Georgii Tertii magnæ Brittanniæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ octavo.

An Act for granting Liberty To Set up & Carry on a Public Lottery to raise Money for the Building & Maintaining a Bridge over Exeter River so called from Stratham to New Market in This Province. Whereas in & by an Act passed in The twentieth year of his late Majesty's Reign Liberty was granted for the building a Bridge over said River at a Place & in The Manner therein expressed which not having been Carried into Execution many of the Inhabitants of this province have lately petitioned the General Assembly setting forth the great Benefit it would be to the province in general if that Design was executed, which has hitherto been delayed for want of Money & praying Leave to raise Money by a public Lottery for that purpose, which having been duly Considered & the Proposal appearing to be for publick Advantage

Be it therefore enacted by the Governour, Council & Assembly that

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the persons hereinafter named be & hereby are authorized & permitted to set up & Carry on a publick Lottery to raise Money for the End aforesaid in so many Classes & Drafts as they shall judge proper not exceeding in the whole the Sum of one Thousand Pounds Lawful my of said province provided the said Lottery be drawn & finished within the Term of Two Years from the passing of this Act. And Andrew Wiggin & Walter Bryent Esq Deac" Stephen Boardman, Cornet Thomas Wiggin, Lieut Joseph Young & Lieut. John Burley, or the major part of them are hereby appointed to be managers of said Lottery who shall be under oath to be administered by any Justice of the peace to the faithful Discharge of that Trust & shall duly pay all benefit Tikets according to the Tenor & True Meaning of their Scheme & shall refund all sum and sums of Money that shall be paid for Tickets in Case the said Lottery shall not be drawn and Compleated within the Term aforesaid. And the said Managers or the Major part of them are hereby appointed & authorized to apply the Money which they shall so raise by Causing the said bridge to be built agreable to the Act aforesaid with this Difference that The Passage of twenty eight feet shall be where the deepest Water is instead of the Passage of forty five feet as mentioned in said Act & the forty five feet to be in the next birth on the side of New Market, and the Passage for Vessels may be made in any manner that shall be more Convenient than that propos'd in said Act & they shall Cause the said Bridge to be finished within one year after the said Lottery shall be finished & they shall be allowed

their reasonable Demand for their Time & Trouble as the General Assembly shall Judge proper to whom they shall render their Account of their proceedings & all Charges & Demands Concerning the Premises & if any money shall remain after the Bridge shall be finished it shall be applied for the Support & Repairs thereof as the General Assembly shall Order.

And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid that there be a Convenient high Way each side of said Rivers from the Country Road to said Bridge when built in the Town of Stratham, to begin where the South East end of said Bridge shall be & from thence to run South easterly Thro' the Land of Andrew Wiggin Esqr. to the Country Road as the Road now goes, & in New Market To begin where the North West End of said Bridge shall be & from thence to run Northwesterly a straight Line to the Country Road near the Southerly side of Philip Fowlers Garden, the said Road in both Towns to be three Rods wide & to be under the same regulations as tho' it was laid by the quarter Sessions.

The owners of the Land giving the Land for that purpose which they have engaged To do provided they may have Liberty to hang & Maintain Two Gates on each side which Liberty is hereby granted. Province of

New Hampen the House of Representatives February 26th 1768.

This bill having been read three times it passed to be Enacted

In Council March 3* 1768

P. Gilman Speaker

This Bill was read three times & pass'd to be enacted

Geo King Depy. Secy

Assented to

J'WENTWORTH

To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq Governor & Commander in chief in & over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire the Hon His Majestys Council & House of Representatives for said Province in General Assembly Convened the 31 day of March 1772

The Humble Petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of New Market Stratham & other places in said Province Shews,

That they find by experience that the Plan for building a bridge of New Market Lower Ferry place is not so well suited for that Design as the upper ferry place called the New fields, that the Tydes by reason of the Several points of Land runs so much across the River that the Rafts will almost unavoidably be thrown on to the Piers which will necessarily occasion damage either to the Piers or the rafts add to this the Length of the distance to be built will occasion near double the cost that wou'd be necessary to compleat the work above. That your Petitioners humbly conceive that every advantage for Effecting Such a design, is so evidently on that side of the Question which of the two places is the best in Preference of the upper place, that your Petitioners are at a Loss what reasons determined the case as it is. That as the place where it is begun is fixed by an act, your Petitioners Suppose it cannot be changed without another act for that purpose otherwise the People concerned would have altered the design have erected it at the New Fields & it is probable have finished it there by this time. That it is supposed with the advantage of the materials already provided three hundred and fifty pounds will be sufficient to finish it that they have Set on foot a Subscription to Raise that sum which on the View of a Change of the Place will be soon full that if Liberty shall be granted to Erect the bridge at the Newfields there will appear a number of Persons to give sufficient Security that the whole work shall be compleated within One Year after such Liberty shall be granted.

Wherefore your Petitioners most Humbly Pray that they may have Liberty to Erect the bridge Proposed at the place called the New Fields may have the Property of the materials already provided as they are we suppose paid for or given gratis to the Public for the use of the undertakers or those who were to carry on the work and that they may have leave to bring in a bill accordingly and they will as in duty bound ever pray &c

James Hill
Aaron Moses

Henry Wiggen

Nathn Rogers

Ebenezar Stanwood

Jonathan Colcord

John Neal

Michael Shute
Robert Pike Junr

Josiah Adams

Samuel Gilman Junr
Edmund Chase

May 22 1772 In the House of Representatives upon Reading this Petition

Voted that the Petitioners be heard thereon on the and that the Petitioners

of June next

Relating to a highway in New Market.

Pursuant to a Vote of the General Assembly appointing us the Subscribers to make Inquiry Relating a Certain High way in the Parish of New Market as Set forth in a a Petition to the General Assembly &c. We have on the 20 of March 1766 Viewed Said High way & fully heard the Parties Concerned there on and do agree to Report as followeth Viz: that the High way above Mentioned ought to be & Remaine as follows. Beginning at a Gate about twelve Rods to the North West of Piscasuk Bridge then Running Northerly as the Way was formerly Laid out and as it now goes through the Land of Joseph Hall Esq. and through the Land of James Marston & through the Land of Edward Colcorde as it now Goes to Joseph Lovering's Land then Beginning by Lovering's Land on the west Side of Said way and Running through the Same as followeth North ten degrees West thirty two rods then north fourteen degrees west twenty two rods to Jacob Ames Land then North forty degrees West thirty Rods to a Stone Bridge, over a small Brook the way to be two Rods wide and on the North Easterly side of said Line through Lovering's land to the stone bridge then north eight degrees east fifty eight rods to Stephen Lyfords land the way to be on the westerly side of said line then North nineteen Degrees East thirty four Rods as the way is now fenced out then North forty two Degrees East twenty four Rods then North forty nine Degrees East thirty five Rods to Nath Ames his Land then North forty five Degrees East Sixteen Rods then North Sixty Seven Degrees East thirty Rods then North twenty two Degrees East twenty two Rods as the way is now fenced out to Jacob Ames Land then through Said Ames his Land North twenty two Degrees East ten Rods then North thirty one Degrees East Sixteen Rods then North fourteen Degrees west twenty Rods on a Strate Line to Josiah Hiltons South Corner Keeping the way as it now goes till it Comes to a High way formerly Laid out the way to be on the Westerly side of said Line throw Said Ames' Last mentioned

Land.

Never the Less since the Said Jacob Ames has by an agreement with the Seleet men Partly fenced the Road from Said Last mentioned Bridge on the Westerly Side of his orchard up a steep hill if the Said Jacob Ames will within thirty days from the tenth day of July next Cause the Said way on the Westerly Side of his orchard to be made Passable in the Judgment of the Selectmen of Said New Market then we think it ought to go on the west side and if not to go through his Land as above said And also that there be paid unto the Person whose names here after mentioned for their Lands by the Select men of the above Said New Market.