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Joseph Brown

Gershom Hobart

James Barnes

Phineas Lovejoy
Peter Stearns
Jotham Cumings
Stephen Webster jun.
Jonathan Blodget

Peter Dearborn
Paul Wells

Benjamin Wells

Zebediah Richardson

George Patterson
Zachariah Parker

Solomon Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler
James Ryan
Ephraim Kelse
Nahum Powers
Jacob Marsh

John Webber

Province of New Hampe

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Petition for a re-survey of land &c.
To His Excellency John Wentworth Esqr.
General Governor and Commander in chief
in and over his Majestys Province of New
Hampshire, The Honourable his Majesty's
Council and house of Representatives in
General Assembly Convened.

The Petition of us the Subscribers being a Committee chosen by the Proprietors of Plymouth Humbly Sheweth, That the Corner boundary of Four Townships viz: Plymouth, Campton, Rumney and Cockermouth depends upon a certain Point or End of a Line, Nineteen Miles in Length, upon a Certain Point of Compass from a Certain Tree at Connecticut River. That the Severall Partys have at their own Private Cost made Several Surveys but do not agree one with another, Either in Length of Line or point of Compass, which throws the said Townships into Great Confusion and uncertainty, Concerning their Boundaries, and Greatly Retards the Settlement of the Land. Wherefore your Petitioners pray the advisement of This Honourable Court and that a Committee may be appointed to survey the said Nineteen miles and thereby to Establish the said Corner Boundary.

And your Petitioners as in Duty bound will Ever pray &c. Portsmouth December 20th 1770

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S. LIVERMORE Committee MOSES LITTLE for Plymouth Province of In the House of Representatives Dec 22d 1770 New Hampe Voted that the Petitioners be heard on this Petition on the fourth Day of the Siting of the General Assembly after the first Day of March next and that the Petitioners Cause the Substance of this Petition and Order of Court to be Published in the New Hampse Gazett six weeks that any person may shew Cause why the Prayer of the Petition should not be Granted.

In Council Jany 18th 1771

Read and concurred

M. Weare CI

Geo King Dep Sec.

Province of New Hampshire

In the House of Representatives March 26 1771.
The Within Petition Considered and Voted that
it be Dismissed

M. Weare Clr.

Petition for a representative.

To His Excellency John Wentworth Esqr. Captain general governor & commander in chief in & over said province of New Hampshire &c. &c.

The petition of us the Subscribers freeholders & inhabitants of Plimouth in the county of Grafton in the Province aforesaid,

Most Humbly Sheweth

that the said town of Plimouth is one of the best inhabitted towns in said County and one of the towns appointed by y law of this province for holding the courts of Justice in, and that no representative hath hitherto been chosen within the said County to sit in the General Assembly of this province. They therefore pray your Excellency's consideration of the premises, and that the said petitioners may be admitted to the privilege of sending a representative to the next General Assembly & your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c.

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VOLUME VI.

PORTSMOUTH TO WOLFEBOROUGH.

PORTSMOUTH.

[This is one of the oldest towns in the State, having been settled in the year 1623. Its Indian name was Pascataquack, and the first English name was Strawberry Bank. It was incorporated by the name of Portsmouth, 28 May 1753, by the Colony of Massachusetts, under whose government the people of New Hampshire then were. The inhabitants in their petition for incorporation say, "the name of this plantation at present being Straberry Banke, accidentally so called by reason of a banke where strawberries was found in this place": They humbly desired "to have it called PORTSMOUTH, being a name most suitable for this place, it being the river mouth and good harbor as any in this land." JOHN FARMER, Esq.]

Orders relating to a School.

Portsmo 16 Nov 1708. Notwithstanding the pious care of the Governor Council and Assembly of this Province in Raysing a free Gramar Schoole for the province to be kept in the town of Portsmouth being the head of the Government & their good provision for the maintainance of the master:

The Council are now Informed that there is no provision made by the Toun of Portsmouth for a Schoole house for the receipt of the master and schollars :

Ordered, that the selectmen of the toun of Portsmouth be notifyed of their neglect herein, and that they forthwith provide a suitable house for the said schoole to be kept, that the schollars may not lose their time within three days next coming upon the penalty of forty pounds to be levyed upon their persons & estates as other fines & charge into the treasury to be expended in the building of a good schoole house for the future service, that the aforesaid good and religious Act of the Assembly be not evaded & eluded.

May &c (as early as 1709). Upon the vacancy of the School by Mr. Gambling's desire to be discharged, the Council have taken it into Consideration of calling a new school ma who would very gladly submit to yo'r Excel Recommodation of Mr Dudly Broadstreet; but fearing he would not be every way soe agreable have therefore by the good character they have had of Mr. Dan Ringe of Ipswich, to give him a call and agree with him for 4 years According to the Act-humbly desiring y Excell concurrence therewith.

[See Act referred to, Prov. Pap., Vol. III. pp. 364, 365. ED.]

Petition for a grant of land.

To his Excellency Sam' Shute Esq' Capt. Gen' & Comander in Chief in & over his Maj'ties Province of New Hamp', and to the Hon the Council for said Province:

The humble Petition of the selectmen of the Town of Portsm within the Prov of New Hamp'-Humbly sheweth: That the former Select men for the s Town of Portsm sometime since Petition'd to your Excellency and Hon to have a small tract of land granted to the Inhabitants of s Portsmouth at the head of Dover, wh was granted, and upon view of the sd tract of land and mature consideration thereon your Petition's find that it will not answer for the intended Settlement.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray to have the liberty to withdraw the sd Petition and to have a tract of land granted for a Township to the Inhabitants of Portsmouth whom we represent, of six miles front and eleven miles back into the woods to be divided among the s Inhabitants in proportion to their rates agreable to a vote past at a Town meeting of the s inhabitants in March last past, beginning four miles and half from Dover North east corner bounds upon Dover head line, then to run from the s1 head line upon a South west point half a point northerly two miles for the depth of the Land granted to the Iron works; Then the said Tract to begin at the end of the s two miles and run upon the Same point Eleven miles into the woods, and from thence upon a parallell line wth Dover head line six miles to New Boston northerly corner, and from the end of the two miles afores six miles upon a parallell line wth Dover head line to New Boston easterly line which makes an oblong or Long square tract of Land as is laid down in a plot here annext: And your Petitions as in duty bound will ever pray.

Selectmen

THOS PEIRCE
JOHN CUTT
JOSEPH MOULTON
for the toun of Portsm

The prayer of the petition granted.

May 4, 1722.

R. Waldron, Cler. Con.

Request to the Selectmen of Portsmouth.

To the Select men of the town of Portsm° in New Hampshire: Gentlemen: Whereas in an Act of this Province (of y' 4th year of his Majesty King George) entituled an Act for yo better regulating of Town and Proprietary Meetings, among other things, It is enacted in the words following: "That when and so often as ten of the free

"holders of any Town shall signify under their hands to the select"men their desire to have any matter or thing inserted into a warrant "for calling a town meeting, the Selectmen are hereby required to "insert y Same in the next warrant they shall issue for y calling a "Town meeting "

And Whereas at a thin meeting of the said Toun held by adjourm in said Toun, the 7th of September, 1724, several votes were past as we conceive without due consideration, respecting the three nooks & gores of land mortgaged to Maj' Wm. Vaughan, which votes (in our opinion) are unreasonable & unjust, and to us a great greivance, & (as we are given to understand) very disagreeable and y mind of ye toun in general:

contrary to

Therefore, We the subscribers & freeholders of ye said Town, do now by these Presents signify to you y' it is our desire to have ye said. votes reconsidered at ye next town meeting, in order to have y subject matter thereon more maturely & deliberately discussed & repass'd upon to y end that strict justice may be done, our grievance removed & y town contented touching ye premises; and accordingly do earnestly pray that the same be inserted into the next warrant (alias notification) which you shall issue for ye calling a town meeting Pursuant to the afores (in part recited) Act.

In testimony of our desire as aforementioned we have hereunto set our hands.

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Petition in relation to a meeting house at the Plains. To his Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq. Governor and Commander in chief in and over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire in New England, and to the Honourable the Council and House of Representatives convened in General Assembly.

The Petition of Sundry his Majestys loyal Subjects, Freeholders & Inhabitants of the Southwesterly Part of the town of Portsmouth in said Province:

Most humbly sheweth: That about seven years agoe several of your Petitioners with some others (at a vast expence) erected a House for the Publick worship of God at the Plains (so called) in said Portsmouth; and from the month of January 1725 to March 1727, defray'd the charge of constant preaching in the said house, paying their full Proportion of the Parish Tax for the support of the Gospel Ministry at the Bank at the Same time: But that Burthen bearing a little too heavy, the Proprietors of the said house and others commodiously situated for attending the Publick worship there, at length requested the Parish to which they belong'd to exonerate them from any further levys towards the subsistance of the Reverend Mr. Fitch, which they (like well-dispos'd & true Christian brethren) by a unanimous vote dated the 4th of

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