Conveniency and advantage of your Humble Petitioners and Wee as in Duty bound will Ever pray Dated June 5th 1787 State of New Hamp of Andover In the House of Representatives June 16 1787 Upon reading & Considering the within Petition/, & the Report of a Committee thereon./ Voted that the Petitioners be heard before the General Court on the third Wednesday of their next Session & that in the mean Time the Petitioners Cause the Substance of the petition & Order of Court thereon to be published three Weeks successively before the Setting of Said Court (in one of the New Hampshire Newspapers) that any Person or persons may then appear & shew Cause if any they have why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Sent up for Concurrence John Sparhawk Speaker In Senate the same day read and concurred } J Pearson Secy State of New Hamp1 In the House of Representatives Feb 9th 1788 upon hearing and Considering the Petition of Henry Gerish Esq and others Voted that the prayer thereof be So far Granted as that the Courts be held in future in the Center of Sd County instead of being held in Amherst as hertofore Done & that the Petitioner have Leave to bring in a Bill accordingly at this or the Next Sessions Sent up for Concurrence Thos Bartlett Speaker In Senate Feby 12 1788 read & concurred with this amendment, that instead of all the Courts being held in the Centre of the County, one term of the Superior Court and two terms of the Inferior Court of Common pleas and two Terms of the Court of General Sessions of the peace annually be removed from Amherst and held in such Town in the Northerly part of the County as will be most convenient for the inhabitants. Sent down for Concurrence State of Newhamp' S J. Pearson Sec In the house of Represtives Jano 6 1789 upon reading & considering the within petition voted that the prayer thereof be so far granted as that they have a half-shire Town in the Northern part of Said County & that Jonathan Gove M Cyrus Baldwin Capt" Charles Barrett Col: Eben Webster & Mr Levi Harvy be a Committee at the cost of the petitioners to view the Situation of the County of Hillsborough & report in what Town they think proper that the Courts Shall be held for the northern part of Said County & make their Report to the General Court at their next Session Thos Bartlett Speaker Sent up for Concurrence In Senate Jany 8 1789 read & concurred [7-116] J Pearson Sec [Resolve of the Massachusetts Senate, instructing the Governor in regard to suppressing the rebellion of insurgents, together with a list of the names and residences of the insurgents, June 25, 1787.ED.] [7-117] [Extract from Nicholas Gilman's Letter.] Extract of a Letter from the Honorable Nichols Gilman Esq Dated Philadelphia Septem' 3d 1787 Although this Letter is not meant to be addressed to the Public, I beg your Excellency will suffer me to mention a matter in which I conceive the Interest of the State to be so much concerned that I cannot omit it, though I should subject myself to the imputation of meddling in matters that do not immediately concern me, It is respecting the domestic Debt. I find many of the States are making provision to buy in their Quota's of the final Settlements, and I must ardently wish that the Towns in New Hampshire may be so far awake to a sense of their Interest as to part with their property freely in order to purchase their several Quota's of the public Securities now in circulation, while they are to be had at the present low rate; which is in this place, at two shillings and six pence on the pound. If they suffer the present opportunity to pass, and we should be so fortunate as to have an efficient Goverment, they will be obliged to buy them of Brokers, Hawkers Speculators & Jockeys, at six or perhaps at eight times their present value. I know your Excellency is well aware of the danger the people are in of suffering through their unwillingness to pay taxes, but perhaps if they were fully sensible of the measures that are pursuing in other States, it might operate as a new incentive to an immediate exertion [7-119] [Petition for Road from Barnstead to Northwood.] State of New To the Honble Senate, and House of Representatives Hampshire for said State convened in Portsmouth the 5th day of December 1787 — Humbly shews the Subscribers, Inhabitants of said State, that the road (commonly called the Province road) laid out from Durham to Cohos is in some part thereof so incumbered with hills Rocks &c as to be almost impassible for loaded Waggons which hath occasioned the produce of the Northwestern part of the State to be transported into the Massachusetts although at a far greater distance than the Market Towns in this State. That a road may be made from Barnstead across a corner of Pittsfield to the main road in Northwood which would very much remedy the aforesaid inconveniences, that the distance from the province road in Barnstead (in the way proposed) to the main road in Northwood is not more than four miles, that private persons hath looked out and done considerable in learning the same and that it is capable of being made an excellent Waggon road, & will Shorten the travel to Portsmouth five or Six Miles & will in their opinion if effected be the means of bringing the produce of that part of the Country to our own Markets which now go out of the State. Wherefore they pray that an Act may be passed appointing Jonathan Clark Esq' of Northwood, Col° Richard Senkler of Barnstead, and Capt Reuben Hill of Lee a Committee & to impower them or the Major part of them to lay out by metes & bounds a highway as shall seem most convenient to them from the main Country road in Northwood to the province road in Barnstead, And when they have laid out and Marked the Same that they Notifie the Selectmen of the Towns of Northwood, Pittsfield and Barnstead respectively to clear and make the same a good Waggon road as soon as may be, And in case said Selectmen, or either of them shall neglect to perform the same for the Term of Six Months after such Notice said Committee proceed to do the same themselves, and be entitled to recover All the Reasonable expences they may be at on said road with cost of prosecution of such deficient Selectmen. And your Petitioners as in duty bound will pray &c — Portsmouth December 5th 1787 Jn° Sullivan Reubin morgin State of Newhamp Sam1 Lane Jun' Joseph Tilton Moses Baker Jona Robinson In the house of Representatives Dec 15 1787 Upon reading & Considering the foregoing petition voted that the prayer thereof be granted & that the petitioners have Leave to bring in a Bill accordingly at this or the next session. Sent up for Concurrence In Senate the same day read & concurred. Thos Bartlett Speaker J. Pearson Sec [7-120] [Petition for Organization of Alarm Company.] To the Honble the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire in General Assembly convened at Portsmouth on the fourth Wednesday of January 1787 The Petition of a Number of the free citizens of New Hampshire Humbly Shews That notwithstanding its well known that the Alarum Companys of the State of New Hampshire are in part Composed of Men of the first Character in the State. Yet it must be acknowlidged by every impartial descerning Spectator that their present situation is truly Humiliating. It is or should be a Military Maxim That no Subordinate Officer should have the Command of Different Military Corps at one and the same time (the Alarum companys without dispute differ much from the Trainband both as to Duty and Organiziation) The Officer who Commands different Corps will naturally pay more attention to one than the other and he will be very ready to give the preeminance to the most active and Numerous part of his Command. Hence the Alarum Companys will undoubtedly be either very much neglected or when put upon duty with the Trainband will be placed at the most disagreeable Posts. Nor is there the least prospect of the Commanders of Sd Companys being ever promoted which every one must allow is anough to damp the Spirit of any Good Officer Especialy when he sees himself liable to be Commanded in some future time by Officers who now are of an inferior Rank. We therefore Pray That your Hon's would Consider of the matter and either put Sd Alarum Companys into Brigates & Divisions by themselves that they may be Commanded by Brigadiers & Maj' Generals of their own and be in Subordination to none but the Commander in Chief or any other way your Hons in your Wisdom may see best so that That Class of men who are Constituted of those who hold & have held many of the first posts of Honour & Trust in ye State and who have the Seniority both as to Age and Merit may at least be put upon as Respectable a footing as any of the Militia in the State. And we as in Duty bound will ever Pray Deerfield Decembr 7th 1787 Thos Jenness William Mudget Joseph Hilton Ezekiel Gilman Nathanael Bachelder Ebenezer Tilton Samuel Bachelder osa marston John Avry Simon Marston Joseph True Jeremiah Meloon Samuel Prescott Morse Pearson |