Saml Young James Dudley John Brown Josiah Moody Zechariah Judkins William Smith Israel Smith John Roberts Jr his Joseph Z Atkinson mark James Robinson Stephen Leavit Sealey Leavit Benja Gilman Nicholis Dudley, Jr Joseph X Taylor John Farrar Samuel Magoon Benony Gorden William Graves, Jr Edward Ladd John Lufkin Israel Yonng Samll Richardson Caleb Gilman, Jr Jacob Smith IN GREENLAND. Wm Sympson Jno Weeks Danll Allin Jr Nathan Johnson, Jr Wm Walles Kingston, Hampton Falls, Chester, Stratham,. Exeter, Kensington, Greenland, Total, 42 146 72 22 63 262 27 55 689 Reasons offered against a new district. Whare as thare is a Petition Exhibeted to his Excelency Jonathan Belcher Esq. Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his Majesties provinc of New Hampsher in New England and to ye Honble Counsell and Gentelmen of ye Hous of Representatives for sd province By Sundry of ye Inhabitants of ye Est part of ye Town of Kingstown and Sundry of ye Inhabitants of ye West part of Hampton Falls parish to be set of a perticuliar Destrict or precenct with Preveliges and Limets as in s petition is exprest, and your excellency ye Honble Councell and Gentleman of ye Hous of Representatives in your grate wisdum Justes and Clemency has ordred y1 ye parish of Hampton Falls and ye toun of Kingstown shold be sarv'd with a copy of sd petition and to appear ye secund Day of ye next Fall session to shew Reasons if any they have why ye prayer of sd petition shold not be granted for which we of sd Hampton Falls are veary thankfull for your grate wisdom prudenc and Justes in that affair, and we under writen deligates for sa Hampton Falls parish Leaveing our Neiburs at Kingston to spake for themselves shall with submission give ye following Reasons why ye prayer of sd petition shold not be granted: firstly-Becaus yt thare is but about twelve of ye petitioners y1 belongs to our parrish and sum of them youngmen and has no Fammilies and sum Dwelt in the other parish in Hampton when sd petition was prefered and not above three or four families y' we know of y' has Long Dwelt in y' part of our parish and for y' Reason cold not be for a Long time under Defeculties & Deprived of ye Despensation of ye Gospell and be in such a famishing condition as they say they have ben in. 2dly Becaus Considering ye Grateness of ye number of ye Inhabitants yt Dwels in yt part of our parish petitioned for yt has not petitioned which we suppose to be about thirty and sum of them has dwelt Longer in y part of sd parish than any of sd petitioners has and has larger families who are uterly avearce to sd petitioners procedings and Conduct in y1 afair and for such a considerable number of our Inhabitents as afore sd to be carried away against their wills we humbly conseave to be a Intolerable hard ship and will Rither have a tendency to caus Devisions and anamosities then to advance ye Glory of God, &c. 3' Said petitioners Desirs yt their Request may be Granted for y Reasonablenes of it-But for such a miner part as a fore said to Endeavour to Cary of such a Larg tract of Land from our parish as Exprest in s petition, which is all most half our parish and ye Inhabitants with it against their wills we humbly conseave to be very unreasonable and absurd-And for these Reasons and many others yt might be given we Doubt not but your Excelency the Hon1 Councell and Gentlemen of ye House of Representatives in your grate wisdum Justes and Clemency will se Reason sufficient not to grant sd petitioners thair Request for which we of Hampton Falls shall Ever Remain veary thankfull. NATH HEALEY Remonstrance against a new district. We the subscribers His Majestys most duty full & Loyall subjects dweling within yt destrict or precinct petitioned for In ye East part of Kingstown & ye west part of Hampton-Do with Humble submission declear ourselves positively against the thing as wrong & very hurtfull to Church and common wealth supposing it to be hatched up by two or three disafected persons without our knowledge and consent & Humbly pray it may not be granted. Shadrach Ward John Prescut Robrd Row Nathanel Prescut John Bachelder Richard Sanborn Beniaman Cram Wadley Cream Danel Kely Jonathan Tilton John Page Thimothy Huchsien Edmund James Ebenezer Prescut Jonathan Rowe James Prescut Philemon Blake Samuel French Theofeolos Grifen Petition of persons formerly of Massachusetts to be annexed to Hampton Falls. To his Excelency Bening Wintworth Esq. Governor and Commander in cheif In and over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire and the Honorable the Counsel now setting in said Province. The Humble address and Petition of His Majesties Legal and deutifull Subjects whose names are hereunto Subscribed which did belong to the Esterly part of Salisbery but now by the Settlement of the Province Lines Fall into New Hampshire most Humbly sheweth that your petitioners are Informed that those which did belong to the westerly Part of Salisbury and some of Almsbery which by said Line falls into New Hampshire Intends to Petition that all those Persons that did belong to Salisbery and Almsbery & are now taken Into New Hampshire might be made in to a twown ship or Parish by themselves & not annexed to any other, and have Presumed so far as to set up a frame for A Meeting House in the Westerly Part which if it should be granted would be very Pregeditial to your Petitioners who live most of us above six miles from. said meeting house so y' those of us that frequent yt way of Worship Could not attend the worship of God with our wifes and families as we out to doo and for all other affairs belonging to a town or Parish of all things that are notified at said meeting house we shall have no knowledge of them which may be greatly to our Damage and a great Dificulty & Troble to select men and Constables and all such affocirs. We Therefore Humbly Pray that we may not be joyned to them but may be Annexed to Hampton Falls or some other way as in your wisdom you may think meet and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever Pray. Petition of inhabitants of N. E. part of Hampton to be exempted from minister's tax. To His Excellency Bennin Wentworth Esq. Governor and Commander in Chief In and over his Majesties Provence of New Hampshire in New England and to the Hounorable the Councel and house of Representatives of said Province In General Assembly Convened-November ye 16th 1742 The Humble petition of us the Subscribers Most Humbly sheweth-that the houses and habitations of your petitioners are in the north eastly part of the town of Hampton at or near Littel Bores Head near Lettel River or near the Sea and that we live most as near upon a Line to the meeting house at the town as to that at North hill and that it is much easier for us to go to meeting at the town than to North Hill by reason of the Goodness of the way to the town and there not being any way for us to go to meeting at north hill nor ever like to be unless we travil much farther than to go to the meeting house at the town: Your petitioners Humbly pray that your Excellency and Honours would be pleased to take this petition into consideration and in your grate Goodness exempt us from paying to the support of the ministry at North hill and that we may still remain and be taxed to the support of the ministry and the other Publick charges of the town as we used to be and your pititioners as in duty bound shall ever pray John Batchelder Mosies Lampre In the House of Representatives 9br, 25th 1742 The within Petition Read and considered & voted to be Dismissed James Jeffry Clr. 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