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Information from Plaistow.

To his Excelency Benning Wintworth Esq' Govenour & and to the Honourable his majesties Councill and to the Honourable House of Representatives in generall Court assembled &c.

this is to Inform your Excelency and Honours that we the Subscribers Inhabitance of the town of Plastow do Judge it highly Reasonable and we think it will be for the peace of s town of Plastow to set of our brethren at the northwest Part of s town and annex them to the town of Hampstead the Line to Run from the pine in Cloughs meadow (so called) South Westerly to a white oak tree near Cornit Ingalls Barn thence on the Southerly Side of his Land to his South West Corner Bounds, and from thence still South westerly to the bridge over Providence Brook near John Curriers house agreeable to their Petition as witness our hands

Dated Plastow April ye 11: 1766

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Joseph Page against the division of Plaistow 1767. To the General Court for the Province of New hampsher I would inform your Honers that it is my Desier that the Town of Plastow might Be cept to Gether as it is at this Day for the Reasons of my signing a Pettition that I signed that was Entered in the General Court June 26 Last Past was Because thay told me that a Part of the Town of Plastow was a Going to Be Ennexed to the Town of Hampsted which I am very much a Gainst my Desier is that it may Be left to Gether as it is at this Day JOSEPH PAGE.

Plastow february 16, 1767.

Eben Eaton against the division of Plaistow 1767. To the General Court for the Provence of New hampsher

I would inform your Honours that it is my Desier that the Town of Plastow might be cept to Gether as it is at This Day for the Reason of my signing a Petton that was Entred in the Gineral Court Last June was Be cause I was over Persuaded, After Consideration I se it will be Grately to the Towns Damage there fore I Desier your Honers that you would not Grant said Pettons: not the suner for my signing s Pon But my Desier is that the Town of Plastow may Be cept to-Gether as it is at this Day.

Plastow March 7 1767.

Province of New Hamshire

To the Honorable Generill Court

EBENEZER EATTON.

May it please your Honores that whereas Some time past I Signed a petition that the Town of Plastow Might be Divided being then Misinformed this therefore is to Desier your Honores Not to take any Notice of My Name in that petition for I am of the opinion tis Best for the Town to remain as it is at present

Your Honores Humble Servant

Plastow Aprill 13th 1767.

JOSEPH PARKER.

Petition of inhabitants of Plastow for annexation.

Province of

New Hampshire}

To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Governor & Commander in Chief in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire &c to the Honourable his Majestys Council and House of Representatives of said Province in General Court Assembled: the Memorial of a Number of the Inhabitants of Plastow in said Province Humbly sheweth

That whereas by an act of the general Court Part of the Town of Plastow hes Lately been Set off, and made a new and Destinct Parish, and whereas Several Persons included in Said New Parish Have Petitioned to be annexed to the Town of Plastow we the Subscribers Inhabitants of said Plastow beg leave to inform your Excellency & Honours of the Reasons why we Pray their Petition may be granted.

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We beg Leave to acquaint you that if Said New Parish does Not Contain a greater Quantity of Lands than is Left in said Town of Plastow, as we are not Certain but it does, yet it is very well Known that the Lands in yo former taking a just Es

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timate of Quantity and Quality together are by far more valuable then Those of the latter, upon which account we in this Town are certainly laid under very great Disadvantages. Permit us further to observe to your Excellency & Honours that near one-half if not ye Majority of the Inhabitants of Said Plastow are either Professed Babtists or so far favourers of them as usually to Concur with them in opposing and Counteracting every necessary Measure Respecting either the Support of our Minister or ye Peace & good order of ye Town so that without Some Helps, we see no Probable or even possable way in which either the one or ye other can be Continued among us in any tolarable Degree.

We ask leave moreover to inform the Honourable Court that the North Parish in Haverhill in Massachusetts Province have hetherto ever Sence our first Incorporation into a Town Shared with us in Ministerial Charges and Privileges and appear willing to Continue with us in Case the fore said Petition be granted, so that their may be a better Prospect of Peace & order in Said Plastow; whereas if we Continue in our Present weakened and Devided State we have the greatest Reason to fear they are fully Determined to Seperate from us; in Consequence of which Seperation we are at once irrecoverably Deprived not only of their Proportion of ye ministerial Tax, but Dispossessed of ye Parsonage Buildings & land, the greatest Part by far of which lies in Said North Parish, and which we have hitherto enjoyed only by Vartue of our Connection with Them we Therefore earnestly Pray your Excellency and Honours to take the affair under Consideration and grant Such Relief for the Said Petitioners and for us as you in your wisdom Shall Think best and we as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray

Plastow Dec' ye 3, 1767.

John Hall

Thomas Follamsbe

Nathaniel Bartlet

Ezekiel Gile

Peter Dow

Abraham Chase

Josiah Copp
Isaac Heath
Nathanel Smith
Daniel Gile
Benja Kimball
Benjamin Davis
Nathan Gile
David Carleton
John Heath

John Bradley
Moses Bartlett
John Chaney

Ephraim Emerson
Dustin Chaney
David Bryant
Nicolas White
Jonathan Kimball
Benjamin S. Pettengill
Benj Hale
Jacob Trussel
Nathaniel Knight
Joseph Knight
John Knight
Abel Mirrill
Abel Mirrill Jun
John Mirill
Humphrey Noyes
Humphrey Noyes Jun
Robert Greanough
Moses Greanough

Richard Greanough

Ebenezer Eatton

Aaron Coop

James Little

Nathaniel Peabody
Stephen Noyes

Jonathan Stevens Jun
John Brown

Samuel Little
Nathaniel Little

John French
Joseph French
Ebenezer Knight
Joseph Knight Jun
Joshua Knight
Mical Chaplen
Enoch Noyes

James Noyes
Robert Heath

Joseph Noyes
Thomas Noyes
Caleb Noyes
Asa Page
James White
Ebenezer Johnson
Joseph Parker
Sam Lowel
John Lowel

Richard Brown

Daniel Poor
William Brown

Benj Philbrek Jun.

Eben Chaplen
Jonath Poor
Josiph Daves
Tristram Knight
John Knight Junr
Jonathan Stevens
Oliver Knight
Elipalet Knight
Stephen Knight
Jonathan Whitaker

John Dow

John Dow Jun.
Moses Dow

Jonathan Page
Daniel Page
Benj Richards
Daniel Richards
Joseph Richards
Bradley Richards
Edmund Page
Jesse Page

Nath Page

Benj Emory

Eldad Ingals

John Ingals

Joseph Hills Ordway Stephen Dole

John Dole
Richard Heath
Thomas Little
Thomas Little Jun.
John Kelly
Moses Kelly
William Kelly
Reuben Mills
Jonathan Eatton
John Webster
Israel Webster
Daniel Poor
David Poor
Jeremiah Poor
Daniel Merrill
Moses Page
James Page
Joseph Page
John Webster Jun.
Jonathan Webster
Timothy Page
William Webster
Samuel Webster
Daniel Whittaker
Daniel Hadley
David Currier
Joseph Hale
Timothy Page Jun.
Eb Page
Natha Wats
Nath' Burpey
Jeremiah Burpey
John Morrill
Micajah Morrill
Stephen Whittker
Moses Whittker
Thomas Whittker
Benj Richards Jun.
Joseph Emerson
Benj Philbrick
Josep Philbrick
Joseph Parmer
Thomas Chaney
Asa Harriman
Joseph Chanler
Moses Poor
Joshua Kelly
Moses Belknap
Ezkiel Belknap
Jacob Page
Mical Tinney
John Emorson
Joseph Little
Joshua Emory
Benj Emory
James Mirrill
Timothy Ladd

Asa Haseltine
Currier

Thare is 130 mens Heads above sixteen in the west end of the town of Plastow.

Thare is Eighty Seven Famelys in the West of the Town of Plastow.

Petition of Sundry Persons to be Polled from Atkinson to

Province of New Hampshire)

Plastow.

To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq Capt. general Governor and Commander in Cheaf in and over his Majestys Province aforesaid &c and to the Honourable his Majestys Council and House of Representatives in general Court assembled at Portsmouth

The Petition of us the Subscribers Humbly Shews where as there has been Latly Part of Plastow set off and made a New and Seperate Parish Bounded according to Cartain Lines. which goes by the Name Atkinsonton in which we with our Estates falls into ye Said New Parish our Prayer and Request to this Honourable Court above mentioned is that whereas we have heretofore assisted in Building a meeting house a Pasonneg house and have Now a minister Settled in Plastow according to our Principles and Minds Therefore our Desier and Request is that we with our Estates may be set off from Said New Parish and be anexed to the old Parish or Town of Plastow that we might be and Remain as heretofore

we therefore Pray that your Excellency and Honours will Take The mater under Consideration and grant such Relief for those who Desier to be set off as afore said as you in your wisdom Shall Think best and we as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray

Plastow Sept. 1767.

James White
Moses Greenough

Jonathan Eatton

John Webster

Israel Webster

Jonathan Webster

William Webster

Daniel Whitaker

Moses Page
Daniel Poor
Jonathan Page
John Webster J'.
Daniel Poor Junr.
Stephen Noyse
Samuel Kimball

Province of In the House of Representatives Sep. 24th 1767 New Hampshire The within Petition being Read and Considered

Voted That the Petitioners be heard thereon the third day of the Siting of the General Assembly after the first Day of November next and that they serve Mr. Thomas Noyes who is appointed to call the first meeting in said Atkinson with a Copy of this Petition And Order That Objections may be made to granting the Prayer of the Petition if any there be M. WEARE.

In Council Eodem Die

Read & Concurr'd

T. Atkinson, Secy.

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