holders of the Township of Jeffrey, most Humbly ShewsThat your Petit's are at great inconveniencies as to the situation of said Vacant Tracts unincorporated, that the Tract called the Slip on the Southerly side of said Peterborough, & the Tracts on the Northerly side called the Society is neither of them near half sufficient to make a Corporated town or parish, and y' petitioners pray your Excellency & Honours to Divide the said Township of Peterborough into two parts by a Westerly line extending from the middle of the East Boundary to the middle of the West Boundary of said town, so that the Southerly part of said Peterb" may be annexed to the aforesaid Slip, together with four teir of Lotts taken off from the Easterly part of Jeffrey which will make one valuable Township, and your Petit's pray your Excellency & Honours to add to the North part of Peterb® about Three miles north of the now north Boundary extending by a west line from the west Boundary of Francestown till it meets with a line extending North from the North-West corner of said Peterb' so that one other Compleat Township may be made, & your petit's pray your Excellency & Honours to Incorporate said towns by the lines aforesaid which will much Facilitate the Settlement of the vacant Lands which now lye uncultivated in the aforesaid Towns and Vacant Tracts besides much contributing to the Enjoyment of their Civil & Religious Rights & Priviledges and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound will ever pray. To His Excellency John Wentworth Esqr. Captin General Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire and Vice Admiral of the same and also to the Honourable his Majesties Council. the Request of your Petitioners Humbly Sheweth That whereas your Excellency and Honours Petitioners (viz) Petterborough and petterborrough Slip So called together with some of the inhabitants of the town of Jaffrey Are Desirous of obtaining four hundred Rods off the East End o. Jaffrey : Now we the Subscribers your Petitioners are of the mind that if Petterborrough Be Divided according to their Request and added to the petterborrough Slip it will Be accomodated Both in quantity and qualaty for as Compleat a town as the town of Jaffrey as it now Stands Likewise in the West End of s Jaffrey there is a Number of Baptists are now Embodyd into a Society and we Expect that they will Enjoy their Prevelidges without interuption also in the north West part of stown is included Most part of the Grand Monadnock Mountain and some Great ponds and other uninhabitable Lands (Viz) to the amount of Between two and three thousand Acres. Also Near the Center of sd town is Laid out ten acres of a Common and some Considerable of Labour Done upon it and a Burying yard laid out and Some people interred there also the Roads are opened By sa Center so as to accommodate a Meetting House. Now if Such a Division Should take place it will unavoidable Deprive us of many Valuable priviledges Such as Maintaining the Gospel and otherwise. For Which Reasons aforementioned we your Humble Petitioners Request your Excellency and Honours indulgence in Letting us Enjoy the aforesaid Town of Jaffrey as it now Stands Bounded, therefore trusting to your Excellency and holders of the Township of Jeffrey, most Humbly ShewsThat your Petits are at great inconveniencies as to the situation of said Vacant Tracts unincorporated, that the Tract called the Slip on the Southerly side of said Peterborough, & the Tracts on the Northerly side called the Society is neither of them near half sufficient to make a Corporated town or parish, and y' petitioners pray your Excellency & Honours to Divide the said Township of Peterborough into two parts by a Westerly line extending from the middle of the East Boundary to the middle of the West Boundary of said town, so that the Southerly part of said Peterb" may be annexed to the aforesaid Slip, together with four teir of Lotts taken off from the Easterly part of Jeffrey which will make one valuable Township, and your Petit's pray your Excellency & Honours to add to the North part of Peterb® about Three miles north of the now north Boundary extending by a west line from the west Boundary of Francestown till it meets with a line extending North from the North-West corner of said Peterb' so that one other Compleat Township may be made, & your petit's pray your Excellency & Honours to Incorporate said towns by the lines aforesaid which will much Facilitate the Settlement of the vacant Lands which now lye uncultivated in the aforesaid Towns and Vacant Tracts besides much contributing to the Enjoyment of their Civil & Religious Rights & Priviledges and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound will ever pray. Peterborough Slip Gilbert McCay John McAllester John Davis James McNee James Millikin Solomon Coleman David Moore Henry Sallanham John Swan John Taggart Josiah Crosby Andrew Conn Jeffrey. James Heywood John Priest Peterborough William McNee William McNee Jun. John Richey John Taggart Robert Smith John Swan Junr. Samuel Hogg Thomas Morison Jun. John Morison John Smith Thomas Morison William Smith John Scott James Cunningham William McCoy Samuel Miller Samuel Miller Jun. Hugh Willson To His Excellency John Wentworth Esqr. Captin General Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire and Vice Admiral of the same and also to the Honourable his Majesties Council. the Request of your Petitioners Humbly Sheweth That whereas your Excellency and Honours Petitioners (viz) Petterborough and petterborrough Slip So called together with some of the inhabitants of the town of Jaffrey Are Desirous of obtaining four hundred Rods off the East End of Jaffrey : Now we the Subscribers your Petitioners are of the mind that if Petterborough Be Divided according to their Request and added to the petterborrough Slip it will Be accomodated Both in quantity and qualaty for as Compleat a town as the town of Jaffrey as it now Stands Likewise in the West End of s Jaffrey there is a Number of Baptists are now Embodyd into a Society and we Expect that they will Enjoy their Prevelidges without interuption also in the north West part of s town is included Most part of the Grand Monadnock Mountain and some Great ponds and other uninhabitable Lands (Viz) to the amount of Between two and three thousand Acres. Also Near the Center of s town is Laid out ten acres of a Common and some Considerable of Labour Done upon it and a Burying yard laid out and Some people interred there also the Roads are opened By si Center so as to accommodate a Meetting House. Now if Such a Division Should take place it will unavoidable Deprive us of many Valuable priviledges Such as Maintaining the Gospel and otherwise. For Which Reasons aforementioned we your Humble Petitioners Request your Excellency and Honours indulgence in Letting us Enjoy the aforesaid Town of Jaffrey as it now Stands Bounded, therefore trusting to your Excellency and honours fidelity we your Petitioners Shall as we are in Duty Bound Ever Pray. Jaffrey April ye 8th 1774 William Mitchell Francis Wright Solomon Grout Oliver Hale John Gilmore his Dennis X Organ? mark Samuele Sherwin Peter Warren Joseph Hodge Samuel Milliken Elded Hetbreth? John Smiley Jonathan Stanley Isaac Baldwin Jason Hemmenway Thomas Adams Isaac Wesson Elias Hathorn William Fisher Robert Gilmore Baptists, Jefrey Henry Coffeen Jonathan Jewett David Goodell John Henderson David Stanley PLAISTOW AND ATKINSON. [See Atkinson.] Selectmen of Plaistow's Petition about a Constable. To His Excellency Bening Wentworth Esqr. Capt. General and Governor In chief In and over His Majesties Province of New hampshire, To the Honor Council and Representatives in said Provance, in Gen' Assembly Convened, ye 3d day of Dec' 1754. The Petition of the Subscribers to your Excellency and |