ment they seem to have a claim to your Excellency's favour in this respect preferable to any others: Wherefore your Petitioner Humbly prays as aforesaid that your Excellency would be pleased to make a Grant of the s Lands to the Persons afores in Proportion & according to their Respective claims & the Proportion & Division made as aforesaid, and that the same may be incorporated by the Name of Swansey & Intitled to the Rights and Privileges of other Towns in said Province of New Hampshire, and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c. Portsmouth, June y 27th 1753. Nath Hammond William Grimes Benjamin Grant William Car Elijah Graves Samuel Belding Eliakim King Jonathan Woodcock Joshua Graves Abner Graves David Belding Timothy Brown James Heaton, jun. William Heaton Nath Hills Jonathan Woodcock, jun. Jonathan Hammond Thomas Nuten Ebenezer Hills John Prat Timothy Prat Joseph Hammond Asa Grant WM. SYMES. Christopher Grant Ebenezer Arms Nath' Gun Wiget Gun Daniel Gun Ben" Sheldin Oliver Hammond Sam MacClennen TAUNTON. Petition relating to No. One or Taunton town (1) on the West Side of Connecticut river, 1751. To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq Gov' in & over said Province and to the Honble his Majesties Council within the same: That The Petition of the subscribers humbly sheweth : your Petitioners or most of us owned under a grant of the Massachusetts each of us one Right or share in a Township on the West side of Connecticut River commonly called & known by y Name of No. One or Taunton Town, on yo west side of said River, but since the Running of the Line between y Provinces it lyeth in ye Province of New Hampshire; and are desirous of making a speedy and effectual settlement there: Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray, that your Excelency & Honnours would be pleased to grant to each of us a Right in sa Township upon the conditions that your Excellency and Honnours grants others the King's Subjects, and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray, &c. Joseph Hubbard Joseph Ashley John Hunt John Taylor Andrew Gardrer, jun Anthony Peirce James Jewell Manassah Devell Simon Hunt William Wilson Billy Willard Caleb How Jonathan Willard James Hills Josiah Willard, jun Robert Usher Samuel Cummings Josiah Brown (1) See MS. Town Papers, Vol. VI. pp. 385, 386, inverted. ED. [Formerly called East-Town; incorporated by its present name, August 30, 1774. ED.] At a Proprietors meeting Leagely warned and held at the house of Capt. David Copp in East-Town so called by the proprietors of said East-Town, the 28th day of June, Anno Domini, 1774; And the proprietors at said meeting, Voted, That this Tract or Township of Land comonly called EastTown be Incorperated, and the said proprietors at said meeting, Voted, That Capt. David Copp, Capt. James Garvin & John Gage be a Commitee or agents to wait on the Governor & Counsel to gite the said Township Incorporated. A true Coppy Province of New Hampshire Petition for Incorporation. To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq Capt. General, Governor and Commander in Chief of said Province and the Honourable his Majesty's Council: Humbly shews, David Copp, James Garvin and John Gage that at a Proprietors Meeting held a. East-Town so called on the 28th day of June last your Petitioners were Voted a Committee to Petition your Excellency and Honors for an Incorporation of said Tract or Township: Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the said Township beginning at the North-East corner of the Township of Rochester at Newichwanick River, and from said River running westerly by the head line of Rochester five miles, and from that extent upon a strait Line parallel with the General Course of the said River as a strait line may be run at the said River & continuing the breadth of five miles adjoining said River & bounds of the Province so far northwardly as to make equal to six Miles square in such form as that the head or northerly Boundary shall be a Line paralell with the head line of Rochester, and the westerly side Line to be strait from Rochester Line to the head Line of said Tract of Land, may be incorporated and invested with such powers & Privileges as other Towns in this his Majesty's Province usually have & enjoy; and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray. Portsm❞ 29th August, 1774. DAVID COPP JAMES GARVIN. WARNER. [Formerly No.1, or New Amesbury, generally written New Almsbury, was granted by the Province of Massachusetts,_in_1735, but incorporated by New Hampshire, September 3, 1774. ED.] Petition of No. 1, or Essex Almsbury, now Warner, 1742. To his Excelli Benning Wentworth, Esq' Gov' in Chief in & over his Majesty's Province of New hampshire; To the hon his Majesty's Council The humble petition of Capt. Thomas Rowell & Joseph Jewell in the name & by order of the proprators of a Township called No One, in the Line of Towns from Rumford to Connecticut River, Humbly shewing: That where-as the Province of the Massachusetts in the year 1735, granted sewerall Townships & laid them out from Rumford to Connecticut River, among the Rest your Petitioners for services done, obtained a Grant of a Township of six miles square: Since which time your petitioners have laid out Two Divisions of Lots & Built a Saw mill thereon & cleared considerable of their Lots & done considerable in order for settling: But so it is, that by the determination of his Majesty in Council upon the Boundary Line between the Province of the Massachusetts & New Hampshire, the said Township lieth to the Northward of the s Boundary Line, & in the Government of New Hampshire : Wherefore we your Excely's & Hon's most Humble Petitioners looking upon ourselves as suitable objects of favour & compassion as any of his Majesty's subjects, would therefore humbly pray your Excel & Honors to take our case into your most wise & just consideration & alow & confirm unto your most Humble petitioners the afores Town ship & give us such suitable & convenient time for bringing forward the setelment as your Excel & Hon's in your great wisdom shall judge most fitt & convenient: And your petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray. Essex Almsbury, May the 12: 1742. THOMAS ROWELL Bounds. The Bounds of a Township, called New Almsbury, granted December 24th 1767, To Jonathan Barnard, &c. Viz. Beginning at a place called and known by the name of Contoocook, thence running North fifteen degrees West six miles, then running from each end of this line west five degrees South six miles, then crossing and running over on a strait course from one end of these last mentioned lines, at the end of the said six miles to the other, so as to make up the Quantity of six miles square and no more Attest, Geo. Jaffrey, Prop' Cler. Meeting of Inhabitants. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of New Almsbury, so called, legaly worn'd and held at their meeting house on Tuesday ye 29th day of March A. D. 1774, at one of the clock in the afternoon, Voted at the above said meeting that wee should be glad to have the town incorporated. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of New Almsbury so called legaly worn'd & held at the meeting house on Monday y 25 day of July A. D. 1774, at one of the clock in the afternoon, Voted at said meeting that Capt. Francis Davis should go and gitt the town incorporated. A true Copy taken of the Society Book of Records Attest Daniel Flanders, Clark for said Society. Petition for Incorporation, by Francis Davis. Province of New Hampshire S To his Excellency John Wentworth, Esquire, Captain General, Governor & Commander in Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire And to the Honorable his Majesty's Council: The Petition of Francis Davis humbly shews:-That at a legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Township of New |