Province of In the House of Representatives July 5th 1766 Voted New Hamp and Resolved That the foregoing Report be accepted allowed and Confirmed M. Wear CI In Council Eolem Die read & Concurred. T. Atkinson Jun. Sec. Petition of Selectmen of New Market and others for a Province of New Hamp highway. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Capt General, Governour, and Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire: The Hon His Majestys Council and House of Representatives in General Assembly Convened 25 June 1765. The humble Petition of the Selectmen of New Market & others sheweth, That the Selectmen of New Market aforesaid on the 18 Day of August 1763 laid out a High Way Two Rods wide in New Market aforesaid thro' the Lands of Several Persons; and made a Return thereof (which was recorded on the Towns Records) to General Sattisfaction. But it has sence been discovered that thro' the Inadvertency of the Surveyor there was a Mistake made in several of the courses of said Way between the Gate near Piscassick Bridge and Josiah Hiltons South West Corner so that instead of the Returns Directing it in such convenient Places as was then intended and agreed on it directs it to such Places as are very Inconvenient and almost Inaccessible to the damage of some and great Dissatisfaction of others. Wherefore your Petitioners Pray your Excellency and Hon' to interfere in the Premises and appoint and send a Committee to investigate the Inconveniency Thereof and Provide a Remedy Therefor by determining the Particular Place or Places where said Way shall go. And your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever Pray. Hubartus Mattoon Daniel Hilton Joseph Merrill Sam Hilton JOHN BURLEIGH ISRAEL GILMAN JR. Selectmen James Marston Winthrop Hilton Jun Sam Pease Robart Barber Jr. Stephen Gilman read & ordered to be sent Down to the Honble The Assembly Province of In the house of Representatives July 3' 1765 This petiNew Hamps tion being heard Voted That the petitioners be heard thereon nex friday if the Gen Assembly be then sitting if not then on the second day of their sitting nex after & that he cause the Parties whose lands the said Road Runs thro', to be Serv'd with a Copy of said petition & this order of Court thereon that they may appear & Shew Cause if any they have why the prayer thereof Should not be Granted. In Council Eodem Die read & Concurred T. Atkinson Jun Sec A. Clarkson Clerk Province of In the House of Representatives Nov 28, 1765 The ParNew Hampe ties being heard on the within Petition Voted That Col John Wentworth Andrew Wiggin & Richard Jenness Esq be a Committee they or any two of them to make Inquiry Respecting the Highway mentioned in this Petition and the Return of the same and where the same ought to be laid for the Publick benefit and what satisfaction Ought to be made for any Lands through which the same may Pass, and to make Report to the General Assembly as soon as may be. The charge of the Committee to be Paid by the Parish of New Market M. Weare Cl In Council Eodem Die read & Concurred T. Atkinson Jun. Sec NEW IPSWICH. [Incorporated 9 September, 1762. ED.] Votes of a Town meeting in N. Ipswich, Oct. 8, 1764. Att a Town meeting held at the Meeting House in Ipswich in the Provence of New Hampshier on Monday y Eighth Day of October A. D. 1764 Voted to Set a New Meeting House on the Commonage Near Whear the Meeting House Now Stands. Chosen to Bound the Meeting House Spot Benjamin Adams Reuben Taylor and Reuben Kidder Voted to accept the Spot as it is Markt out by Said Gentlemen. Att a Legal meeting of the Town of New Ipswich in the Provence of New Hampshire held in Said Town at the meeting House on the twenty third Day of April A. D. 1767, Voted to Buld a meeting House next summer. Voted to Buld the Meeting House on the place where it was formerly Stakte out by a Committee. At a Legal Meeting of the Town of New Ipswich in the Provence of New Hampshier held at the meeting House in s Town on the twentyeth Day of May A. D. 1767 Voted to Confirm the Vots Past at the Last Town Meeting. A True Coppy of the Vote past in New Ipswich Respecting a place to Buld a meeting House on. Isaac Appleton Town Clerk. Attest pr. Petition of the inhabitants of New Ipswich for a Committee to settle a plan for a meeting house. To His Excellency John Wentworth Esqr. Cap' Gener1 Governor & Commander In Chief In & over his Majesty's Province of New Hamp the hone his majesties Council & house of Representatives for said Province In General Assembly Convened. The humble Petition of us the Subscribers freeholders & Inhabitants of the Town of Ipswich in said Province Shews That the Inhabitants of said Town are about to Build a meeting house for the public Worship of God there & have Lately had a meeting for that Purpose that it appears the said Inhabitants are no Ways Likely to agree on a suitable place to set the same that may in any manner accomad'e a Very Considerable Number of the said Inhabitants & best Land, that much Uneasiness has already arisen on account thereof & more Likely to Insue and Shou'd that be the Case, May be the Means of hurting or Preventing a further Settlement of the Lands now Wild in said Town. That your Petitioners under a Sence of the Great Benefit Arising from a Peaceable Neighbourhood Now in the Infant State of said Town, Most humbly pray that your Excellency & honors wou'd Interpose & Take their peculiar Circumstances Into Consideration & that they may have a Committee to repair to Said Town & View the Same & Report a proper place which We pray may be final, or Give Such Other Relief as your Excellency and honors shall see Meet and your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall ever pray. June 25 1767 Benj. Safford Joseph Pollard James Chandler Hezekiah Cory Wido Mary Foster John Welar Simeon Wright Abraham Bennet Benj Gibbs Allen Breed Thomas Heald Thomas Spaulding Samuel Kenney Andrew Conn Samuel Wheeler Thomas Adams James Taler? Jesse Calton Simeon Hildreth Province of In the House of Representatives August 19th 1767 Voted That the Petitioners be heard on this Petition the Second Day of the Siting of the General Assembly after the 20th Day of September next, and that the Petitioners at their own Cost serve the Selectmen of said Ipswich with a Copy of this Petition and Order of Court, And also Cause the Substance of the Petition And Order of Court to be printed three weeks in the New Hampshire Gazett That any Person may appear and Shew Cause why the Prayer thereof Should not be Granted In Council Augest 20th 1767 Read and Concurred Province of New Hamps T. Atkinson Jun. Sec. M. Weare Clr In the House of Representatives Sept 22d 1767 Upon hearing the Petitioners on the foregoing Petition and also a Comtee on behalf of the Town against the Petition it appears that Sending a Comtee will be most likely to Settle Peace in the town Therefore Voted That Col John Goffe John Hale and James Underwood Esqrs. be a Committee to Determine the most Suitable Place for Erecting a Meeting House in said Town and to make Report to the General Assembly as soon as may be. In Counci! Sept 24th 1767 T. Atkinson Jun. Sec. M. Weare Celt Agreeable to the Within Vote We have been at the Town of New Ipswich have fully heard and Considered what has been offered by all Concerned Examin'd the Town Votes and View'd the Situation of the Town and from all Circumstances are fully Sattesfied that the place where the meeting House now is in said Town is the best situation for it to be Continued in will best accommodate the Town and be most agreeable to the Greatest part of the Inhabitants and accordingly we beg Leave so to Report February 18h 1768 John Goffe Acc't of the Pay of Petitioners & Non Petitioners. In a Rate of three Hundred Pound the Petitioners with those that Voted with them aganst Bulding a meeting House on the Spot where the Town Voted to Build it Pay Eighty foure Pound one Shilling, the other Inhabitance Pay two Hundred fifteen Pound nineteen Shillings to the same Rate Exclusive of the Poles Province of New Hamp In the House of Representatives Feb 19th 1768 Voted That the foregoing Report of the Committee be accepted and the Place for Setting the meeting House in said Ipswich Established agreeable thereto, and further Voted That the accomp' of said Committee for their time and Expence in that Business amounting to three Pounds sixteen Shillings Lawfull money be allowd and Paid them by the Selectmen of said Ipswich, who are Directed to assess the Inhabitauts for the Same. In Council eodem die Read & Concurr'd Geo King Depy Sec M. Weare Clr Assented to J'WENTWORTH NOTE.-On MS. p. 105, of Vol. 5, is a plan of lots in New Ipswich, not here inserted. ED. NEWTOWN. [Incorporated 6 December, 1749. See South Hampton. ED.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq" Governour and Commander in Chief in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire in New England and to the Honourable his Majestys Council for said Province. The Petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of that part of the Town of Amesbury that lyeth to the Northward of the Boundary line between the Province of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay by the late Settlement of the S Line and to the Southward of Shapleys Line so called most humbly shews That your Petitioners understand that about sixty persons in Number who live in that part of Salisbury that lyeth between the two afores lines and that part of Amesbury afores have petitioned your Excellency and Honours for a Township .of seven miles in Length as mentioned in their Petition. That your Petitioners are included within the bounds of said Town ship. That the meeting house they have Erected for themselves is so situated as that it is no ways convenient for your Petitioners. That many of those who signed their Petition |