Person has to agree with several for his particular Lot & some of those are minors with whom no valid agreement can be made & the Proprietors of Bow are willing those who have made any considerable Improvements there (tho' they have done it in Judgment of Law in their own wrong) should enjoy the Fruit of their Labour That quieting the Possessors (who have improved as afores") on equitable Terms will tend much to promote the Settlement of said Township raise ye Value of of the Land & save the great Expense which inevitably attends Contention which desirable end cannot be obtained by any way that your Petitioners can discover unless the laying out of some of sd. Home Lots by the Prop's of Bow should be annulld & vacated which seems to be necessary to do Justice to some of the owners by reason of the mistake aforesaid as well as for the other Ends before proposed Wherefore your Petitioners Humbly pray that the laying out of the said Lots the Return & Record thereof as done by ye said Proprietors of Bow (or so many of them as may be necessary for y ends aforesaid) may be entirely annulled, & vacated that your Petitioners or some others may be enabled to lay out other unimproved Lands in said Township sufficient to be a just equivalent to the owners of s Home Lots under the said Proprietors That the Land so laid out for said Home Lots may be taken, deemed & adjudged as common Land so far as relates to them or those claiming under them that they may be authorized to dispose thereof as they might have done if it had not been by them laid out as aforesaid in order for the proposed accommodation & agreement or so far as is Necessary to answer ye desirable Ends proposed and that your Petitioners may have Liberty to bring in a Bill accordingly and they shall as in Duty bound ever pray &c In Council July 6, 1757 BENJ NORRIS D. PIERCE read & ordered to be sent down to the Honble Assembly Theodore Atkinson Secy. Province of In the House of Representatives Jan 7, 1757. Ordered that the Petitioners be heard thereon the second Day of the Sitting of the Genal Assembly next after the first Day of February Next & That the Petitioners at their own Cost & Charge cause the substance of this Petition with this order of court thereon to be published in the New Hamp' Gazette two weeks successively that any Person or Persons may appear at said Hearing & shew Cause if any they have why the prayer thereof should not be Granted In Council Eodem Die read & concurred Andrew Clarkson Clerk Theodore Atkinson Sec. Province of New Hamps In the House of Representatives Feb 3d 1757 This petition being read & its appearing that the order of Court had been Comply'd with, No person appearing against said Petition, & Bow Committee the petitioners being fully heard thereon therefore Voted That the prayer of the petition be granted & that the Petitioners have Liberty to bring in a Bill accordingly In Council Eodem Die R. Wibbird Secy. Andrew Clarkson Clerk Inventory of Bow and Canterbury 1761. An Invoice of the Polls, Stocks and improved Lands in the Township of Bow, (1) taken by us the Subscribers according to the best of our knowledge (1) The township of Bow, at this time, included a large part of Rumford. See Hist. of Concord, pp. 219, 220.-ED. An Invoice of the Polls, Stocks and improved Lands in the Township of Canterbury taken by us the Subscribers according to the best of our knowledge. Petition of Edwd Russel & others. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Captain General, Governor & Commander in Chief In and over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, To the Hone his Majesty's Council and House of Representatives for said Province, Convened in General Assembly June 12th 1764 The Petition of Edward Russell, Solomon Heath and Thomas Chandler all of Bow in said Province Humbly Sheweth That the Petitioners have lately Settled themselves on some of the Uncultivated Land in said Town of Bow where they still remain Hardly able to support themselves and Fam ilies That the Petitioners understand there is a Very Great Province Tax laid on the Inhabitants of Said Town of Bow the last year, this Present year & the next year for their Delinquency for the space of seven or Eight years last past a Proportion of which Tax if Laid on the Petitioners would almost Ruin them and oblige them to Quit their Said Settlements. Wherefore the said Petitioners Humbly pray your Excell'y & Hon's to take their Circumstances under Consideration and Relieve them from paying any Proportion of the said Tax In such manner as Your Excell'y & Hon's shall in your Great Wisdom & Clemency see fit. And your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c EDW RUSSELL for Himself and Behalf of ye Rest Province of In Council June 14th 1764 New Hamp Read & Ordered to be sent down to the Hon'ble House Province of In the house of Representatives June 14th 1764 Voted that the petitioners be heard thereon the Second Day of the sitting of the Gen' Assembly after the first day of Aug. next & that the petitioners at their own Cost Serve the selectmen of Pembrook Ezra Carter Esq' & Capt. Jno Chandler of said Bow who are by Act appointed to make the Assessments for the Tax Referred to in the within petition with a Copy of this petition & order of Court thereon that they may appear & Shew Cause if any they have why the prayer thereof should not be Granted and further it is Resolved that the Collectors appointed for Collecting said Tax shall forbear Collecting the proportion assessed on the within Petitioners untill the time herein appointed for a hearing H. Sherburne Speaker In Council June 15, 1764 read & concurred T. Atkinson Jun Secy. Province of In the house of Representatives Jan ye 9, 1765, A. M. New Hamps} This petition being Read Voted That the prayer thereof be Granted & that the petitioners have leave to bring in a Bill accordingly A. Clarkson Clerk Petition of Joseph Baker & Philip Eastman. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' governor and Commander in Chief in & over his majesty's Province of New Hampshire The Honble his majestys Council and house of Representatives for said Province in general Assembly Conven'd the First Day of May A. d. 1764. The Humble Petition of Joseph Baker & Philip Eastman Sence it has Pleas'd your Honours to Appoint us the Subscribers to Collect the Tax that was Appointed for the Inhabitants of Bow to Pay into The Treasury we would inform your Honours That we Have Taken the utmost Care to Collect the money but we have not as yet Collected The whole and we would Beg your Patience a Little while Longer and we will assure your Honours that we will Do our utmost Endeavor to to fulfill your command, furthermore we would Inform your Honours that there is within the Lines of Rumford about Twenty Poles who say that They are without Esq Bryent's Line that he Ran in the year forty Nine & for that Reason They Refused to give in their Envoises Gentlemen we Conceive that we Shall be very much hurt By Neglecting our own Business and we should be very glad if your Honours would Take it into your wise Consideration and order the Assessors to Put them into our Lists and Bestow it upon us or help us in any other way which your honours in your grate wisdom Shall Think Best and your Petitioners Shall Ever Pray JOSEPH BAKER PHILIP EASTMAN. Theodore Atkinson Secy Petition of Selectmen of Bow to be eas'd from being Rated with Concord, Aug 28, 1767. To His Excelency John Wentworth Esq' Captain General Governor and Commander In Chief In and over His majesties Council and House of Representatives Convened in General Assembly The Petition of the Selectmen of Bow in Behalf of themselves and Inhabitants of s Bow Exclusive of such as are Set of into Parishes; Humbly Sheweth that we Have Town officers agreeable to Bow Charter and are Ready and willing to assess Collect and Pay our Proportion of Publick Charges with other Towns In this Province your Petitioners Have Been and are Now Greatly abused by being Rated with Concord for Their Select men are ye major Part of the assessors and they make the Rate as they see fitt. Wherefore the sd. Petitioners Humbly and Earnestly Prays your Excelency and Honours to take their Distressed Carcomstances under Consideration and Releave Them From Being Rated any Longer with Concord in Such manner as your Excelency and Honours Shall in your Great wisdom and Clemency see Fitt and Your Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray SAMUEL ROGERS In Council August 28th 1767 Select men of Bow BRENTWOOD. [Brentwood, formerly part of Exeter, was incorporated 26 June, 1742. We the Subscribers Do hereby signifie that we Realy Expected and also Desired to stand by the Act of the General Court in making of us a Parish But yet we perceive that the honble Corte have bin Enformed by Sundry Parsons that the major Part of the Parish are Dissatisfy'd in what is done in that afair this is to Shew it is not so. |