Petition for a Justice of the Peace. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Governor & Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire Whereas the Town of Boscawen in said Province has ever since it's first Settlement been destitute of a Commissionated Justice of the Peace, Such an officer being often needed (more especially since our Late favourable Incorporation by your Excellency) we the Subscribers & Inhabitants of said Town Pray Your Excellency to Commissionate Mr. George Jackman Jun' of said Town to be Justice of the Peace he having deserved well for several years Last past in the acceptable discharge of public Trust to him Committed And your Petitioners Shall as in Duty bound ever Pray Boscawen January 29th 1766 [Bow was incorporated 20 May 1727, by New Hampshire.-ED.] Bow Remonstrance against Rumford Petition, 1749. Province of New Hamp To his Excelency Benning Wentworth Esq Capt. General Governour & Comander in Chief in & over his Majestys Province afores & To the Honble his Majtys Council for said Province Humbly shew the Selectmen of the Township of Bow in the Province aforesaid in behalf of the said Town & the Proprietors thereof that they have been Informed that a Petition is Preferred to your Excelency & Hon's Desiring therein that the Inhabitants on a Tract of Land called Pennycook may be Incorporated and Infranctized with Town Previledges &c & that the bounds mentioned in the said Petition (as your Petitioners are Informed) makes great Infringement on Land belonging to & within the Charter of the s Town of Bow Wherefore your Petitioners Humbly Pray that the said Petition from the People at Pennycook may not be granted as asked for and that the Proprietors of Bow may have opportunity to shew to your Excelency & Hon's The unreasonableness of the said Petition and your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray &c GEORGE VENSEYGUR (?) Selectmen ABRAM TILTON februry ye 7th Day 1749-50 of Bow. Perambulation of the town lines of Bow. The purambleation of the Lines of the town of Bow as surveyed by me the Subscriber on or about the year 1749. I began at the Reputed Bound of the town of Chichester at the head of Notingham & from thence Run north west four miles to the head of Epsom then there marked a maple tree with the word Bow & Sundry Letters and from said tree which I Called the East Corner of said Bow I Run north west four miles to the west Corner of Chichester y' north east one mile to Canterbury South corner then north west five miles on said Canterbury y South west nine miles which Runs to North west of Rattle Snake hill and most of the pond that Lays on the north west side of said hill and said Line Crosses Hopkinton Road so called and takes part of said town in then we marked a tree & Run South East five miles and marked a tree y" one mile South west then South East four miles y" north East nine miles to where we began WALTER BRYANT P. S. I Crossed marrimack River within two mile of Canterbury Line an found all the Inhabitance to the South of Canterbury & East Marrimack which are in Rumford to be in Bow Province of Petition of the Town of Bow, 1753. To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esqr Capt General Governour & Commander in Chief in & over sd Province and to the Honourable his Majesties Council & House of Representatives of the aforesd Province now convened in General assembly at Portsmouth in said Province as they stand Prorogued to the 30" Day of October A. D. 1753 We the Subscribers Humbly Beg leave to inform your Excellency and Honours that att a meeting of the Free holders and Inhabitants of the town of Bow in sd Province held the 25th Day of July last past persuant to a special act of this General Assembly for the calling sd meeting we were chosen Selectmen for sd. town for this currant year; And that since that time we have Received two Severall warrants from this Province Treasurer the first Dated May 30th 1753 and the other Dated the 26th Day of July 1753 by the first of which we are commanded in his Majesties name to assess the Sum of sixty Pounds on Said Inhabitants and by the other the sum of thirty one Pounds four Shillings. And tho' we are Ready, (and that with cheerfulness) To obey Every order of government yet that we are at a loss as to the Boundaries of sd. Bow and consequently Dont Know who the Inhabitants are that we are to assess sd sums upon, that the Prop's of Bow in Running out the Bounds of sd town have as we conceive altered their Bounds several times, and further that one of those Gent that purchased Capt. Tufton Masons Right to the Lands in sd Province has given it as his opinion that sd Props have not as yet Run out the Bounds of sd town agreable to their charter But that their South East side line should be carried up about three quarters of a mile further toward the northwest and there is lately (by his order) a fence erected a long some miles_ near about sd place Designed (as we suppose) as a Division Fence between sd Bow and land yet claimed by sd Purchasers and that on the other hand the Inhabitants of Penycook formerly Erected into a District by a special act of the General Assembly of this Province (Tho they object nothing against submitting to order of Government) Refuse to give us An Invoice of their Estates (That is such of them as we have asked for the same) aledging that they Dont lay in Bow and that this sd assembly did as good as declare in sd District act So that upon The whole we humbly conceive (unless the pleasure of this Court is first made known Relating to the aforesd. affairs) that should we proceed to assess the afores sums on such as we may have concei are the Inhabitants of sd Bow that many would Refuse to pay the Sums that should be so assessed on them and consequently that we should be thrown into so many Law suits as would in all probability Ruine us as to our Estates. Therefore we humbly crave that your Excellency & Honours would take the afores affairs under your wise and mature consideration and fix the Boundaries of sd Bow or otherwise give us such directions as you shall think proper and so submitting the whole affair to your Excellency & Honours to do as you in your great wisdom shall think fit not doubting that you will give us such directions as if followed by us we may obey the commands laid on us by this court without the lest detriment to ourselves And your Petitioners as in duty Bound shall ever pray MOSES FOSTER Bow Octob' y 26th 1753 JOHN COFFIN RICHARD EASMAN Selectmen DAVID ABBOT WILLIAM MOOR Prov. N. Hamp. Jany 10th 1754 In Council read & concurred & ordered to be sent Down to the Honble assembly Theodore Atkinson Secy Province of New Hamps} In the house of Representatives January the 12 1754 Voted that the Petitioners be heard on the within Petition on the Thirty first Day of January Instant if the General assembly be then Sitting if not then on the third Day of the Sitting of the General assembly next after the first Day of february next and that the Petitioners at their own Cost serve Moses Leavit Esqr Clerk of the Proprietors of Bow with a Copy of this Petition & of the Orders thereon that the sd Proprietors of Bow if they see Cause may appear & Shew Cause if any they have why the prayer of the Petition should not be Granted Matthew Livermore Clerk In Council July 12th 1754 read & concurred Theodore Atkinson Secy Province of In the House of Representatives feby 20th 1754 One of the Selectmen of Bow bringing This Petition into the House and suggesting that there had not been convenient opportunity to serve the Clerk of the Propriety of Bow with a Copy of the Petition &c. & praying that the Petitioners might have a further time appointed for being heard Voted that the Petitioners be heard on their Petition on Friday next if the General assembly be then sitting if not then on the third day of the sitting of the General assembly next after & that they serve the Select men of the Proprietors of Bow with a Copy of this Petition & of the order thereon that ye sd Proprietors of Bow if they see Cause may appear & shew Cause if any they have why the prayer of the Petitions should not be granted Eodem Die, In Council read & concurred Matthew Livermore Clerk Theodore Atkinson Secy Warrant from the Treasurer of the Province, 1753. Province of To the selectmen of Bow in the Province of New Hamp New Hamps for the Current year of our Lord (1753) Pursuant to acts of General assembly of said Province pass'd in the Current year of his Majesties Reign, namely "To an act entitled an act for granting unto his most Excellent Majesty a Tax upon the Polls & Estates within this Province for raising the sum of twelve Thousand five hundred pounds new Tenor for the ends & purposes in this act mentioned and to an act entitled an act for a new proportion of the Province Tax, to each Town & Parish within this Province of New Hamp hereafter mentioned," You are therefore in his Majesty's name hereby required by an equal & impartial assessment, to raise & levy upon the Polls & Estates (Rateable by law) within said Bow, the sum of sixty pounds in new tenor Bills of Credit, on this Government, and Committ a list thereof to the Constable or Constables of said Bow; Requiring & directing the said Constable or Constables to Collect & pay the said sum in said Bills of Credit to the Treasurer of said Province for the time being, on, or before, the last day of December next (viz) 1753 You are also Required some time before the last day of December aforesaid, to make a Return, to the said Treasurer, of the name or names, of the said Constable, or Constables, to whom you shall committ said List & the sum or sums, by him or them, Respectively to be paid, as aforesaid. Dated at Portsmouth, this thirtieth day of May, in the twenty sixth year of his Majesty's Reign Annoque Domini 1753 Province of Geo. Jaffrey Treas Warrant to the Selectmen of Bow, 1753 To the Selectmen of Bow in the Province of New Hampshire: Pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of said Province pass'd in the eighteenth year of his Majesty's Reign Entitl'd "An act for granting to his most Excellent Majesty the sum of thirteen thousand pounds for promoting an Expedition against Louisbourg, and for putting his Majesty's Province in the best posture of Defence in the present war-" You are therefore in his Majesty's name hereby required, to make an equal & impartial assessment on all Polls & Estates, Rateable by law, within said Bow, amounting to the sum of Thirty one pounds four shillings, Bills of Credit, Emitted by virtue of said act, and Committ a list thereof to the Constable or Constables of said Bow, requiring and Directing the said Constable or Constables, to Collect & Receive from the Inhabitants of said Bow their Respective assessments of said sum, the payment whereof may be made by said Inhabitants (if they see fit) in said bills of Credit, according to their Several Denominations, or in coined Silver at six shillings & eight pence pr ounce Troy weight of Sterling alloy, or in Coin'd Gold at four pounds eighteen shillings pr. ounce, or in the following sorts & species of Goods, being of the produce or manufactures of sd Province at the price to each sort & specie herein Respectively affixed (namely) Merchand Hemp per ct. Winter & first fare Isle Sable Cod fish per qtl " £2:15 Barr Iron per cwt 2 Barley pr. Bushell Indian Corn pr Bushell Beef per. lb. 0:3 Merch white pine Boards per M 2:5 You are also to Require the said Constable or Constables to Collect |