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acting all other town affairs & afterwards some time in the Month of March annually untill further orders of the Gen1 Assembly & that he have liberty to bring in a bill accordingly A. Clarkson Clerk.

Petition relating to taxation, &c., 1764.

To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esqr. Governor & Commander in Chief of His Majesties Province of New Hampshire, To the Hon. His Majesties Council of said Province, & General Court Convened October the second day Anno Dom. 1764

Whereas Edward Russel & others have petitioned your Excellency & Honours to be freed from paying any part of those arrearages of Taxes ordered to be assessed upon Bow & whereas so much Notice was taken of said Petition as that the Petitioners were ordered to serve us the Subscribers with a Copy thereof, in order that we may shew Cause, if any we have why the prayer thereof should not be granted

These are therefore to inform your Excellency & Honours that there are Forty one Poles with the Estates which they possess within the Limits of Bow as described in the Act of Taxation referred to in the said Petition which are exactly similar to these Petitioners, and also Sixty or more Poles with the Estate which they now possess which were Minors & so not liable to be Taxed when the Rates were supposed to be due for which this Tax is Ordered, but have since come of age & so Rated as frm the List appears.

To Ballance which increase there has been a yearly drain of Inhabitants from us it is out of our Power to ascertain the Number but we are well persuaded from what we Know of the affair that if it could be done it would bear some near proportion to the advance-These have all left the Town, & many of them the Province in each of which Cases they are equally exempt from our power of Taxing them. And we humbly submit it to your wise determination whether there is not the same reason that these other persons should be freed as that the petitioners should Which if the Case, we are well assured that it will be absolutely impossible for the small remainder to pay the whole of said Tax.

We are Your Excellency's & Honours most Humble Ser

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Petition of Concord to be annexed to Hillsborough County. To His Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Capt General Governor and Commander in chief in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire the Honble his Majesty's Council & House of Representatives in General Assembly convened the 18th day of Jan' Anno Domini 1774

The Petition of Andrew McMillan Esqr. Agent For the Inhabitants of the Town of Concord in the County of Rockingham and Province aforesaid, Humbly sheweth

That said Town of Concord is Forty miles from Exeter and Fifty five miles from Portsmouth where the Courts of Justice are held for said County of Rockingham, and the Inhabitants of said Concord very little if any thing benefited by the late Division of this Province into Five Counties.

Secondly that many of the Inhabitants of the Towns in the north part of the County of Hillsborough have applied to your Petitioner's Constituents and earnestly desired that the inconveniences they labour under may be represented to your Excellency and Honours by a Petition which they say are

First as there is but one Superior Court of Judicature in a year held in said County of Hillsborough and Prisoners committed for capital Crimes must lay in Goal sometimes Eleven nine or six months according to the time they are committed before it can be known whether they are or are not guilty; and in case they should be acquitted your Petitioners constituents, humbly apprehend it a great Pity that they have suffered so long and if found guilty they thing it a grievous burthen to maintain such bad Subjects so long at the expense of poor, honest industrious beginners in the Wilderness.

Secondly Creditors in General in said County of Hillsborough who incline to sue at any time except July term in said County are obliged to indorse their notes &c over to Persons who live in the County of Rockingham or other Counties & some to the Massachusetts and the expense is as great as before they were a County. Thirdly the place where the Courts are held in said County of Hillsborough is at such a Distance from them that they are of opinion that the Inhabitants of the south part of said County will not oppose their having Justice done in that respect.

Fourthly that the situation of the Town of Concord is such that it will accommodate all the Inhabitants of the upper or Northerly part of the said County of Hillsborough and give them general satisfaction

Therefore the said Inhabitants of the Town of Concord by their said Agents humbly pray your Excellency & Honours that said Town of Concord may be annexed to the County of Hillsborough and that there may be annually held there one

Superior Court of Judicature one Inferior Court of common pleas one Court of general Sessions of the peace for said County or otherwise act in the premises as your Excellency & Honours Wisdom for the benefit of his Majesty's Subjects shall direct and your Petitioners by their said Agents as in Duty bound will ever pray &c

Portsm° Janty 18th 1774.

In Council Jany. 19, 1774.

AND MCMILLAN

Read and ordered to be sent down to the Honble Assembly

In the House of Representatives Jany 19th 1774
Upon reading the foregoing Petition

Geo King D. Sec

Voted that the Petitioner be heard thereon on the third day of the Sitting of the General Assembly after the first day of March next and that in the meantime the Petitioner cause the Substance of this Petition and order of Court thereon to be printed three weeks successively in the New Hampshire Gazette that any person may have opportunity to appear & Shew cause why the prayer of said Petition Shou'd not be Granted J. Wentworth Speaker

In Council Jany 20, 1774.

The within vote was read & concurrd

Geo King, D. Sec.

CONWAY.

[Conway began to be settled in 1764; the grant of the township was

made, Oct. 1, 1765. ED.]

CONWAY, &c.

A list of the original Proprietors of Conway, the Number of the Lots by Whom Claimed, the Lots settled, under whom they first Improved, the Lots Improved, the Lots not Improved.

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the State of the Rights

Settled 2 Familys under Col Frye
Do First Improved under Brown
Do First Improved under Brown
Settled under Brown 2 Familys on this lot
Do Brown began the Improvement on this lot
Settled under Conway

Settled under Conway
Settled under Brown

Settled under Brown

Settled under Brown

Two Familys settled under Brown
Settled under Conway

Do about 30 acres improved

Settled under Conway

one Family on his original Right for this Right

Improved for Pasture some Trees Fell

Improved Largely by Brown

Improved by Hazen Osgood 1st improvement

under Brown

Considerable Improvement, the
Greatest part was made under Brown
Improvement made under Brown

2 acres of Trees Fell

2 acres of Trees Fell

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A list of the original Proprietors of Conway, the Number of the Lots by Whom Claimed, the Lots settled under whom they first Improved, the Lots Improved, the Lots not Improved.

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the State of the Rights

Improved ist begun under Brown

House Frame up and Boarded Improvement
by Herreman

Improvement 1st began By Brown
Improvement under Conway
Improvement under Conway

Improvement under Conway

Improved under Conway

Improved under Conway by cutting some wild
Hay

Improved and three sons as Settlers

Improvement made

Improvement made

One house one bann 10 acres of Plow land
Cuts about 5 Load Hay one Tennent

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Exchanged A for Common land first Improved under Brown

Clement March Esqr

Tho Bragg

Francis Carr

John Tufton Mason Esq.

John Tufton Mason Esqr.

Honble John Temple Esq'

John Lang

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Moses Eastman

Honble John Temple Esqr

John Lang

Moses Eastman

No Improvement

Do

Do

Capt. Eastman informs me they cut some hay

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