Pursuent to the foregoing Notification a publicke Toun meeting was holden at the Meeting House at Cochecho in Dover July 19, 1742. And Capt Tho' Willet Esq. was chosen Moderator of the sd meeting & And the Request of the Westerly part of the Town for Raising money for the support of ye Ministry in that part of the Town for six months as mentioned in the above notification was then heard considered & put to Vote & it Passed in the Negative. A true copy attested, Dover May 5th 1743. Pr. Paul Gerrish, Town Clerk. Bounds of the West end of Dover. These may certify That the Bounds the Inhabitants of the West End of Dover petitioned might be the bounds of a parish and Petitioned for is as follows viz. Beginning at the Bridge over Johnsons Creek so called where the dividing Line between Dover & Durham crosses the Country road & from thence running as the s road runs until it comes even with Joseph Jenkins his house & from thence to run on a north West & by North course until it comes to the head of the sd Township which Boundarys would comprehend the estates & Inhabitants of your Petitioners Living in Dover & the making a parish there will &© & A copy of the Bounds mentioned in the above Petition Attested Pr. Theodore Atkinson. The Petitioners for a Parish in Madbury & what they paid in the year (1) Accompanying the foregoing is a list of inhabitants of Dover and tax assessed to a new Parish. ED. In the House of Representatives Aug. 24th 1744. The within petition read and the Parties on both sides heard, And the Return of the Committee appointed by the Gen' Ass for the viewing of the Town of Dover, Read, and the House having considered thereon, Voted provided the petitioners procure an Orthodox minister or ministers to preach to them at that part of the Town of Dover called Madbury, Six months or more in a yeare during ye space of three years to comence from the first of ye next. That then there be Raised by the town of Dover & paid by the select men or Town Treasurer of the said Town of Dover annually to the said Minister or Ministers the sum of one hundred & twenty pounds (Old Tenor) after the Rate of twenty pounds p month as the preaching is Performed annually for the said three years and that the petitioners have liberty to bring in a Bill accordingly. James Jeffry Clr. Ass In Council Decemb. 21, 1744. The parties heard on the within Petition & the Vote of the Houses above Considered & non concur'd. Nemine contradicente. Theod. Atkinson Secy Prov New Hamp (1) "Wherefore to remedy the above Grievances your Humble petitioners Humbly pray That your Excellency & Hon's would be pleased by an Act of General Assembly to Invest us with the Privilidges and pow ers of a Town, and a small matter to enlarge our Boundarys according or near our first petition viz. to begin at a place in Quochecho river called the gulf and from thence on a Straight Line to the Southern side of Varneys Great Hill & from thence to run on a North West point of the compass to the end of the Township and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall &c" The above is Paragraph of a Petition signed Paul Wentworth & many others free holders & Inhabitants of the Parish of Sumersworth, Dated May the 19th 1743 & then preferred to the General Assembly of the Prov. aforesd Attest, Theodore Atkinson, Secry. (1) This paper apparently belongs to Somersworth. ED. MARLOW. [Marlow was chartered Oct. 7, 1761. ED.] } Province of New Hampshire His Excellency the Governour & His Majesties HonMarlow, January ye 7th 1772. These may Certifye ourable Councel the foloing a count are of the Names of the Heds of famelys, Now dwelling in this Toun and of the Single men now dwelling here. Wee the Subscribers selectmen of the Town Marlow Do hereby certify that the names of the famelys above mentioned and singel men Sam" Comstock Timothy Owen are now Residents and dwelers here the others have been making preparation to come on as above mentioned Nathan Huntley) Selectmen of Marlow Petition for extension of Charter. To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq. Capt. General & Commander In chief of his Majesties Province of New Hampshire. May it please you excellency, Wee the Subscribers proprietors in the township of Marlow in the Provence aforesd being Notefyed to appear byfore your Excellency to shew Reasons why the delinquent Rights & Shares in said township should not be Declared forfet we therefore Beg leave to Represent to your Excellency that we soon begain the settlement in the said Township and lay'd out considerable Sums therefor & the same was in a hoopfull way of being Spedely settled & the conditions of the grant complied with & that the proprietors or most of them lay'd out apart of their proportions or shares in the said Township & that sum time after the Laying out s Township & the proprietors a settling & sd town was in a flurishing state and likely Soon to be settled & the conditions fulfild the proprietors of a large Tract of land in the s provence of New Hampshire call Masons patten caused their line of their patent to be Run & assertained whereby it appeared that more than one mile in Breadth through said town ship was Included in the pattent aforesaid whereby the proprietors of said Township were thrown into the uttermost consternation many of the settlements which were then begun falling within the aforesaid pattent and the property in the town much lessened and many of the Setlers went of & others who were going on Discouraged that we have been at grate Expence and endevered to settle with the proprietors of said pattent for the Lands. included in there grant but have been hitherto unsuccessful notwithstanding which discurigements we have not given over the thoughts of making our settlements in sd Township and are prosecuing our settlements as fast as poseeble under which discouragements we hope the rights in s Township which are not settled will not be declared forfeit but humbly pray the Grant & charter of said Township may be confirmed to us & the charter thereof extended & we shall do our uttermost Indevours that the settlement shall be made according to the conditions of the said charter & grant & we as In duty bound shall ever pray Dated december 30th 1771. Original Proprietors. Jacob Canfield Ephraim Brockway Nehemiah Royce William Matson Geo: King John Bettenham Proprietors by purchase. Nathan Huntly 2 Rites Sam Royce Right. Gustin} Ezra Selden Agent for John McCurdy Benjamin Lee ble MERRIMACK. [Incorporated 2 April, 1745. ED.] Petition for a tax on non-resident lands. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Gov' & the Hon his Majestys Council & House of Representatives in Generall Assembly Convened at Portsmouth the 9th of April 1754. The petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Merrimack Humbly Shews. That their settlement is in its Infancy the greatest part of the Inhabitants settled since the late war and have been at Large Expence in clearing and making of roads that they have Built & Have to maintain three great Bridges over Souheeg River besides many over severall other large Streams in that Town at the Expence of near a Thousand pounds besides other necessary Town charges which has all been Loaded on the few Inhabitants there settled and are now a going to erect a meeting house in s town the Burden whereof will be exceeding Heavy & a discouragement to persons settling there if the tax must wholly be Raised on Poles and estates. That theres a considerable quantity of unimproved Lands in sd Town owned by non-resident Gentlemen who has never been at any expence in Bringing forward the settlement or Otherways whereby the Inhabitants has been eased; That the |