humbly pray your Honors will appoint a proper Committee with full powers, to look out survey and Establish a Public road from Durham falls, directly to Concord as near straight as the nature of the Land will admit, or take such other order, as your Honors may conceive most for the public good, Novem1 28th 1791 – The committee on the within petition report That a proper committee be appointed with full powers to look out survey and establish a public road from Concord to Durham falls and to Newmarket bridge and shall direct what Compensation shall be made to any individuals injured by the road running thro' their Lands the expences and time of said committee shall be paid by the state and all other expences of laying out & maintaining said Road shall be defrayed as the Law in such cases directs - The Committee beg leave to report the annexed Bill James Sheafe for the Com® [8-52] [Petition of Mary Tufton Mason.] State of New To the Honble the Senate and House of RepresentaHampshire S tives now in General Court convened in Portsmouth in said State. The Petition of Mary Tufton Mason of Bugden in the County of Huntington in Great Britain, Widow and Relict of John Tufton Mason Esq' deceased Humbly sheweth, That your Petitioner being appointed Sole Executrix of the last Will and Testament of said deceased, caused the proper Copy thereof to be filed in the Register's Office of the Court of Probate for the County of Rockingham, as he had estate here to be administered upon-That Doctor Nath' Appleton Haven hath applied to said Court for administration on said Estate with the will annexed, and it hath been granted him. — That it has so happened from the absence of your Petitioner's Agent and other causes, that this has been done without her knowledge or that of her Agent until after the time allowed for appealing from that Decree granting Administration was closed. That this is evident to the satisfaction of the said Haven, who therefore joins his consent with her desire that she may have liberty granted her yet to appeal from said Decree to the next Superior Court to be holden in said County, the foregoing accidental Lapse of time notwithstanding Wherefore she prays your Honours to order and enact that She may yet have Liberty to take out an Appeal from said Decree, (giving bond to prosecute it) to Said next Superior Court, as the Supreme Court of Probate, and enter and prosecute said appeal as tho' taken out in time And She as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c Portsmouth Dec 7th 1791. Thos Martin Attorney to the said Mary Tufton Mason I hereby agree to the foregoing Representation, and consent that an Appeal as aforesaid should be granted State of New Hampshire Nath A. Haven. In the House of Representatives Dec' 9th 1791 Upon reading and considering the within petition voted that the prayer thereof be granted and that a Bill be brought in accordingly Sent up for Concurrence William Plumer Speaker In Senate the same day read & concurred J. Pearson Sec [8-53] [James McGregore, Commissioner of Claims.] Portsmouth Dec' 7th 1791 Sir In pursuance of the trust reposed in me as one of the Commissioners for stateing & proveing the Claims of this State against the United States, I on the 25th day of October last called upon Mr Woodbury Langdon (who was then in this Town) for information respecting the progress that had been made towards a Settlement of our Accounts and what further steps were necessary to be taken on the part of the State to procure them Justice, his answer I think was that he neither knew the State or me in the bussiness and that he should make no communications to me upon the subject if I was then a little surprised at this answer I cannot help saying, that I am much more so upon being informed by a friend in Philadelphia that he M1 Langdon - In was at this time for our use furnished by the Board with a Memorandum of the Vouchers wanting to ascertain our various claims consequence of Mr Langdon's reply I imedeatly wrote Mr Smith to procure from the other Gent" join'd in the Commission the necessary information and I now do myself the honour to inclose for the information of your Excellency and the Honbl Legislature a Copy of the Report of the Commissioners upon the subject - From the time I was honour'd with this appointment I have paid verry particular attention to its duties and alth deprived of the assistance of the other Gentlemen who were appointed to Act with me in this bussiness, the vouchers to support the most considerable part of the charges said to be unsupported are nearly ready to go forward, some part of the articles of charge yet unproved may I conceive be so explain'd by Resolves of the Legislature and other Documents as to gain a strong probability of their admission, whilst a smaller number from particular circumstances must remain unsupported I wou'd beg leave to suggest to your Excelly whether there would not be a propriety in sending forward the Accounts and Vouchers now nearly ready as soon as may be and would ask direction with regard to the mode of forwarding them as they are original papers and of the last importance to the State such further information which I have received upon the present situation of the claims of the different States as may be proper I am ready to communicate haveing the Honor to be with the utmost respect Your Excellencys Most Obed' & Verry Humb' Servt James Macgregore His Excellency Josiah Bartlett Esquire Presedent of the State of New Hampshire [8-57] [Petition of Dudley B. Hobart of Exeter.] To the Honorable the Senate and House of representatives for the State of New Hampshire Humbly sheweth Dudley Bradstreet Hobart of Exeter in said State, that he is come into possession of the rolling, plating, slitting mill, & furnace lately erected in said Exeter, that said works were well constructed and finished to answer the end for which they were made but the scarcity & high price of iron in this State, has rendered the works of but little value either to the publick or the owner, more particularly because the owner was not able after building said works, to furnish a sufficient stock to carry them on with advantage, And as your petitioner has lately come into possession of said works, & is desirous of improving them to his own as well as the publicks advantage, Humbly prays the honorable Court to Assist him in this Necessary business, by the loan of three Hundred pounds for two years (by his giving sufficient security for the same) which he is persuaded will enable him to make the works of publick as well as private utility. And your petitioner as in duty bound Dudley B. Hobart prays Exeter Jany 3rd — 1792. [Ratable Polls in New Hampshire.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. II., p. 320.] Secys Office March 12th 1792 Dear Sir In compliance with your request of the 3d Inst1 after spending several days in searching the files books &c the only num ber of Rateable Polls which are to be found in my Office from 1742 to 1773, are as follows Viz — 5,172 Rateable Polls in A D 1742 no return from Nottingham Barrington & Gosport 6,392 do A D 1753 11,964 do A D 1767. 13,853 do A D 1773 - Whether 5 or 6 times the Number of Rateable Polls will give the number of the People with any degree of certainty, am at a loss to say in A D 1775 the N° of People were computed to be 82,200 Should have inclosed a copy of the petition of the Insurgents Convention for paper money, could it have been found I suppose it is in the possession of the Clerk of the House of Reps I am, with all due sentiments of Esteem & Respect Dear Sir Revd Mr Jeremy Belknap — Joseph Pearson [A note in another handwriting, reads, "The number of ratable polls in 1732 was 2946. — Recd in Secys Office, 1830." — ED.] [8-60] [General Bellows' Resignation.] May it please your Excellency— Walpole May 15th 1792 As I have stood in the Military line some years and the old age says "Young men for War" I have thoughts of resigning my Military Commission, that some Younger and better Qualified Officer (of which I am Conscious there maney) may take it - In a time of peace it is requisite that men of Activity and Military Talents be Employed, to form the Militia for Actual service if war should arise, and as there are men of this Description as I apprehend Superior to myself in that Department and who take delight in the Employ, you will therefore be pleased to Accept of my Resignation and confer the post upon some one whom it belongs and will fill it better I am with due respect Your Excellencys most Obedient Humbl Servt His Excellency Josiah Bartlett Esq' Resignation Not accepted J. Bartlett [8-61] [Stephen Harriman's Statement.] Hopkinton may: 18: 1792 To Thos Bartlet Chogsweel & maj' Holms Esq Sirs I Have been accuesed of making Sum mistake in ye Calculation in ye Paper I gave to you I will alow I may have Don So in ye 3 towns which I Devided, Part to be Reconed one way & Part to be Reconed another way, which I ded according to my own Judgment or my amajanation at that time: I may have Errored Some Small matter in that Enstance but otherways I Challinge ye wholl County to make it appear other ways than what I have Represented to your Honours in ye writing which I deliverd to you— and Concerning ye South Part of ye County it is well Known that almost ye wholl if not Quite ye wholl of ye Said South Part must Travel 7 or 8 miles further to get to warner then to get to Either of ye other Placeses in Nomination |