February the 15th 1739-40. In the house of Representatives.
The within Petition read and Voted the Petition be dismissed.

Read and the Question put whether the Council Concurr'd with the representatives vote.

A list of Names of all the Soldiery that Is under my Čomand from Sixteen years old and upward as the Law Directs.

A true Coppy of the List Rool taken ye Last Training Day and Coppyed out July ye 29th 1740 Total 86

Joseph Drew Clerk

Daniel Meader's Petition, Feb. 11, 1745.

To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Govenor & Commander In Chief in & over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire the Honble His Majestys Council & House of Representatives in General Assembly Convened the 11th Day of Feb 1744-5

The Humble Petition of Daniel Meader of Durham in the Province of New Hampshire in behalf of himself & the People called Quakers Inhabitants of Durham afores Shews

That your Petition' was Chosen Constable of the Said Town at their annual Meeting in March 1743 for that year & at the same time One Isaac Clarke was chosen a Constable or Collector of the Minister Rate thereby Intending to Exonerate the Constable of the Town (properly so called) from that service.

That since that Choice M Hugh Adams has Recovered a Judgment ag y s Town at the Court of Appeals for a considerable sum of Money wh the Town was obliged to Raise, a Meeting was called & a vote was past for Raising a sum of Money but Expres'd in a Covert disguised manner purposely concealing the use & design to which it was to be applied with an Intent as your Petitioner Conceives both to oblige him to Collect it & the Quakers to pay a part of it who are Exempted by law from paying any part of money Raised to the use for with this was Really designed-And pursuant hereto a list of Rates was made wherein all Denominations were taxed towards the sum voted as aforesaid & artifice & contrivance used to get it into the hands of your Petitioner & to oblige him to Collect the money.

That as the Laws of the Province do not oblige any man or men to pay towards the Support of any way of Worship but that which he or they attend much less will they Compel any man to Collect money for the Support of that mode of worship from which he dissents and the money adjudged to M' Adams aforesaid & which has been Collected (with other money) and since paid to him Comes within the meaning of the Province Laws granting Liberty of Conscience & other Privileges respecting Religious worship as any sum to be raised for any ministers yearly Salary.

Wherefore y' Petition' Humbly prays that as the Quakers have not yet paid the part of said Rates which they were assessed they may be Exempted & discharged from paying the same and he Exonerated from the burthen of making such Collection And farther as your Petioner conceives the Collecting any part of Said Rates was an unjust Imposition on him he Prays that he may be paid by the Said Town a Quantum Meruit for that Service and he will as in Duty bound Ever pray &c DANIEL Meder.

Petition of Joseph Thomas and other inhabitants of Dur

ble

ham.

To the Hon the House of Representatives for the Province of New Hampshire in General Assembly Convened Nov 1755.

Humbly Shows. Sundry of the Inhabitants of the Town of Durham in Said Province That they apprehend themselves aggrieved By the Return made by two of the Select men of Said Town of the Person said to be Chosen to Represent the Said Town in the Last Election for That they Conceive upon a fair Examination of the Facts Relative thereto, it will be found That Joseph Thomas their Late Representative was really the Person Legally chosen & Ought to have been so Returned.

That the true State of the Case is thus, upon Reading & Counting the Written Votes put in it appeared that Lieut Stephen Jones had one more Vote than Said Thomas upon which there appeared a Sufficient Number (who being Doubtful whether it could be so upon a fair Examination) Desired a Poll to Put the matter beyond Dispute which was accordingly Granted the Event of which was that there were thirty nine Polls in favour of said Thomas & thirty two Polls in favour of said Jones-whereupon the Moderator Declared the said Thomas the Person Elected & Directed the Clerk to make the Entry accordingly-Yet so it is that the said Jones is Returned as the Person Elected & said to be Notified to attend accordingly all which upon an Impartial Inquiry will Turn out as your Petition apprehend to be a Misrepresentation & a bold Infringement upon the Rights & Libertys of the Electors & worthy of Inquiry & Exami" wherefore your Petitioners Humbly pray the Premises may be taken under Consideration by this Hon House & Such a Resolution form'd thereupon as shall be found upon Examina" to be agreeable to the Truth of the Different

facts & allegations Produced & made by the Different Parties Concern'd and your Petition" Shall Pray &c.

JOS THOMAS

ELIPHALET DANIEL
JONATHAN DUrgain
BENJ JENKINS

Province of

New Hamp.

Petition for a highway.

To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Captain General and Governour in chief in and over his MajestR Province of New Hampshire & To the Honourable his Majesty Councill & House of Representatives in General Court Convened This Eleventh Day of February A. D. 1768

The Petition of us the Subscribers being Inhabitants and Freeholders of Durham, Newmarket and Towns adjacent Most Humbly Sheweth That at his Majesty's Ccurt of General Sessions of the peace begun & held at Portsmouth within and for the said Province of New Hampshire on the first Tuesday of September last, Your Petitioners humbly Petitioned said Court of Sessions for a "High way of two Rods wide to be laid out from the Bridge at Lamprele River To the Road leading from Durham Point to Durham Falls in The following manner viz. beginning at the County Road at said Lamprele River near Joseph Hams Dwelling House & to Run as the Path now Runs through lands of Walter Bryant Esq' and Abraham Bennett To lands of Samuel Smith at the Gate at the Head of said Smiths Pasture from thence running between said Smith & Bennitts Land to the afores" path at the Head of said Smiths lane and Down said Smiths Lane To the End thereof. Thence running between said Smith & Bennitts land & Through Said Smiths land as The path now goes To Lands of Joseph Chesle Thence Through the Several Lands of Said Chesley The heirs of Ebenezer Smith Esq Deceased and John Smith to lands of Thomas Stevenson & through said Stevensons land between his House & Barn To lands of Joseph Footman & through said Footmans Land to lands of Dependance Bickford & John Durgin and through said Bickford & Durgins land To & through Lands belonging To the said Heirs of Ebenezer Smith To Mathes' Creek (so called) near the Mill and over the said Creek between lands of the Honourable Peter Levius Esq' and John Kent To Lands in possession of John & Joseph Drew Thence running between said Levius & Drews Land To a Road Leading from Durham Point to Lamprele River"-and

at the Court of General Sessions holden at said Portsmouth in December last The Petitioners prayed for a Committee To view the Several Lands Through which said Road was Intended to be laid out and To Report To the said Court of Sessions Thereon but the Court refused To send a Committee or to grant the prayer of the said Petitioner and accordingly the Petition was Dismissed by means whereof your Petitioners are much aggrieved as the said Way if laid out would much Commode your Petitioners as well as his Majestys Subjects in general. Wherefore your said Petitioners Most humbly pray that your Excellency & Honours would Take The matter under your Consideration & Cause the said place to be viewed & if the said way should appear to be necessary & Convenient Then To order the Said Way to be laid out and opened in such way & manner as your Excellency and Honours shall in your great wisdom Think fit and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound will Ever pray

Feb. 11 1768.

David Davis
Moses Edgerly Jr.
Truworthy Durgin Jun

Stephen Wille Jun
Nath Norton

George Bickford

Volentine Mathes

John Mead

Ede Hall Bergin

Zebulon Doe Jun.

Jonathan Doe

Edward Smith

Bradstreet Doe

James Cram
Tho Stevenson
Joseph Drew
John Drew

Joseph Wormwood Jr.
Dep. Bickford
Francis Mathes

John Edgerly
John Smith

George Tuttel
Tim Murray
John Mundro

Province of In the House of Representatives Feb 18th 1768
New Hamp. The within Petition being Read

Voted That the Petitioners be heard on this Petition the third Day
of the Siting of the General Assembly next after the tenth Day of
March next and that they at their own Cost Serve the Selectmen of
Durham with a Copy of this Petition and Order of Court that they
May Shew Cause why the Prayer thereof should not be Granted
M. Weare Clr.

In Council Feb 19th 1768

Read & concurr'd

Geo. King Dep. Sec

Province of In the House of Representatives March 15th 1768
New Hamp. The Parties being heard on this Petition and the matter
Considered-

Voted That Andrew Wiggin Esq' Capt. Eliphelet Merrill and Capt. Ezekiel Worthen be a Committee to View the Road Petitioned for to hear what any Persons Concern'd may offer and make Report to the General Assembly as soon as may be. The Cost of the Committee to be Paid by the Petitioners

M. Weare CI"