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Early State Papers
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New Hampshire
Including the Constitution of 1784, Journals of the Sen
ate and House of Representatives, and Records
OF THE President and Council from June
1784 TO June 1787,
with an appendix
Containing an Abstract of the Official Records Rela
tive TO the Formation, Promulgation, Consider
ation, AND Adoption of the Federal Con
stitution, AND Illustrative Notes.

VOLUME XX.

ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR,

EDITOR AND COMPILER.

MANCHESTER:
JOHN B. CLARKE, PUBLIC PRINTER.
I 891 .

JOINT RESOLUTION relating to the preservation and publication of portions of
the early state and provincial records and other state papers of New Hampshire.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
That His Excellency the Governor be hereby authorized and empowered, with
the advice and consent of the Council, to employ some suitable person and fix his
compensation, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri
ated, to collect, arrange, transcribe, and superintend the publication of such portions
of the early state and provincial records and other state papers of New Hampshire
as the Governor may deem proper ; and that eight hundred copies of each volume
of the same be printed by the state printer, and distributed as follows : namely,
one copy to each city and town in the State, one copy to such of the public libraries
in the State as the Governor may designate, fifty copies to the New Hampshire His
torical Society, and the remainder placed in the custody of the state librarian, who
is hereby authorized to exchange the same for similar publications by other states.
Approved August 4, 1881.

To A. S. Batchellor, Editor of State Papers :
You are authorized to collect, arrange, transcribe, and superintend the publica
tion of the New Hampshire Town Charters, as recommended in the section num
bered one, in the Report ofthe Committee ofthe Governor and Council, submitted
and adopted in May, 1889;* and the Journals of the Assembly, Provincial Con
gress, Legislature and Councils of New Hampshire, previous to the year 1800, as
recommended in the section numbered two in said report.
You are also authorized to include in said work such rolls of the soldiers of New
Hampshire in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars as may be available,
and which have not already been published in the volumes edited by Isaac W.
Hammond, Esq.
You will also cause such explanatory notes and citations, tables of contents and
indexes, with such illustrative papers, maps and plans as you may deem useful, to
be prepared and made a part of your work.
This I deem proper to be done, and I give these directions in accordance with
the provisions of the joint resolution relating to the preservation and publication of
portions of the early state and provincial records and other state papers of New
Hampshire, approved August 4th, 1 881.
Given under my hand at Concord this i6th day of October, A. D. 1890.
D. H. GOODELL,
Governor.
*This report is printed in the preface to Vol. XVIII, this series.

PREFACE.

The temporary constitution, adopted bythe revolutionary assembly
of New Hampshire in 1776, was superseded in 1784 by a new consti
tution. This instrument gave the State a government which was still
largely parliamentary. It provided for a chief executive, but gave
him no veto on legislation, and surrounded him with a council chosen
by and from the legislative branch. At the time of the adoption of
the constitution, the people of the American states had come to a fulj
realization of the impotence of the confederacy which had been
formed under the Articles of Confederation, and of the necessity for
a more efficient organic law for the union. This epoch has been
well described as the "critical period in American history." The ex
perience of New Hampshire at this time was not essentially different
from that of the other American states. The performance of some
of their most important federal duties could not be enforced upon the
states, and domestic conditions were deplorable. The burdens im
posed by the war were oppressive. A depreciated, fluctuating, and
insufficient currency was a potent factor in the demorahzation of
business. Interstate commerce was at the mercy of conflicting legis.
lation from as many legislatures as there were states, and foreign
trade was subject to all the caprices of foreign avarice and intrigue.
In this and the two succeeding volumes the legislative journals and
executive records will be given entire, for the period beginning with
the inauguration of government under the constitution of 1784 and
ending with the close of the political year 1792-93, when a new con.
stitution "took place." The Town Papers, edited by the late Isaac
W. Hammond, being voluraes XI, XII, and XIII of the fuh series of
which the present volume is a continuation, and Mr. Hammond's vol-

preface. 5
umes XVII and XVIII of Miscellaneous State Papers, contain much
illustrative matter which is contemporaneous with these journals. The
Hammond volumes are freely cited in this work. Their contents
are an essential part of the record, and the influences that then moved
legislation cannot, in most instances, be discerned without reference
to the petitions, remonstrances, and other documents which their
editor comprehensively described as "Town Papers" and "Miscella
neous Papers." The public and private acts which were the product
of the legislation of this period, so far as can now be ascertained, were
never published in full. The more important laws of a general and
permanent nature were included in compilations, such as the Revised
Laws of 1792. All the acts both of a public and private nature are
supposed to be contained in Mss. volumes in the office of the Secre
tary of State. The State has furnished a valuable key to these in the
" Index to the Laws of New Hampshire," edited by the late Dr. Ed
ward Aiken, and published under the direction of the Secretary of
State. In the preparation of the volume of journals and executive
records now presented, an arrangement has been pursued which
places them in convenient and natural order for reference. No elim
ination of any part of the record has been permitted. The original
printed journals have not been found for ah the sessions in the three
years from June, 1784, to June, 1787. Where such printed journals
were accessible they have been consulted and compared with the Mss.
journals, (a complete series of which has been preserved for the
period during which the constitution of 1786 was in force,) and ah
material differences indicated by the use of brackets or otherwise.
The records of the executive council for this period were never before
printed. It should be noted in reference to the records of the president and
council, that the numbering of the official Mss. volumes begins with
the political year 1784-85. The nominations as weh as confirmations
and other official acts of that body for two years, are contained in a
single volume, which is numbered and described as " i R & C."
After the close of the second political year, a separate record of
nominations was kept in a volurae which is designated " i B. N."
The record book which contains the other contemporaneous acts of
the presiden't and council is designated " 2 P. & C."

O PREFACE.
Following the method of Mr. Hammond in previous volumes — a
method with which those who consult the work are presumed to be
famihar — an index of names and an index of places are separately
given. These wih indicate the page on which every name of person
and place mentioned in the book may be found. In addition to
these, indexes of subjects and of biographical notes have been pro
vided. The star paging in the margins indicates the volume and
page of the Mss. records from which the copy is made. The object
of this work is to give the full official record through as long a period
of time as possible within the space allowed, and thus to make it
more generally available for the public use. This view may not en
tirely preclude, but it necessarily restricts, the appendage of elabo
rate historical or critical notes. Tables of officials and biographical
notes and citations accompany the text, and are intended, like the
indexes, as aids to those who, as officials or as students, may have
occasion to use the work. In its preparation the official co-operation
of His Excellency Governor David H. Goodell and the members of
his council, and of His Excellency Governor Hiram A. Tuttle and
the members of his council, has been cordially extended, and is ac
knowledged with pleasure. Mr. Otis G. Hammond has been an effi
cient assistant. Every needed service within their power has been
afforded by the official custodians of contemporaneous state records
and references. It has been necessary, however, to make the largest
use of the archives preserved in the office of the Secretary of State.
The Hon. Ezra S. Stearns, the present Secretary, has not only af
forded in the work every official courtesy, but he has given it the
benefit of his excellent judgment and his thorough knowledge of the
general and documentary history of the state.
THE EDITOR.

GENERAL CONTENTS.

Constitution of 1784 ....
State officers, 1784-5 ....
Senate Journal, June session, 1784
Members of House, 1784-5 .
House Journal, June session, 1784
Senate Journal, October session, 1784 .
House Journal, October session, 1784 .
Senate Journal, February session, 1785
House Journal, February session, 1785
Records of President and Council, 1784-5
State officers, 1785-6 ....
Senate Journal, June session, 1785
Members of House, 1785-6 .
House Journal, June session, 1785
Senate Journal, October session, 1785 .
House Journal, October session, 1785 .
Senate Journal, February session, 1786
House Journal, February session, 1786
Records of President and Council, 1785-6
State officers, xj^e-j ....
Senate Journal, June session, 1786
Members of House, \^%6-^ .
House Journal, June session, 1786
Senate Journal, September session, 1786
House Journal, September session, 1786
Senate Journal, December session, 1786
House Journal, December session, 1786
Records of President and Council, 1786-7
Appendix ......

• 9-30
• 31-36
• 39-53 57-61
62-89
• 93-1 1 5
1 19-160
163-183 187-223
229-297 299-301
305-330
333-337 338-388 391-410
413-452 455-483487-546 549-569
571-575 579-605
609-612
613-668 671-683
687-713 717-747 751-801
805-835 839-880

A CONSTITUTION

CONTAINING a

BILL OF RIGHTS, AND FORM OF
GOVERNMENT.

Agreed upon by the Delegates of the people of the State of New
Hampshire, in Convention, held at Concord, on the first Tuesday of
June, 1783 ; submitted to, and approved of, by the people of said
State ; and established by their Delegates in Convention, October 31,
1783-
PART I.
THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
Article I.
All men are born equally free and independent ; therefore, all
government of right originates from the people, is founded in consent,
and instituted for the general good.
II. All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights ;
among which are the enjoying and defending life and hberty — ac
quiring, possessing and protecting property — and in a word, of seek
ing and obtaining happiness.
III. When men enter into a state of society, they surrender up
some of their natural rights to that society, in order to insure the
protection of others ; and, without such an equivelant, the surrender
is void.

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IV. Among the natural rights, sorae are in their very nature un
alienable, because no equivelant can be given or received for them.
Of this kind are the Rights of Conscience.
V. Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship
God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and reason ;
and no subject shah be hurt, molested, or restrained in his person,
liberty or estate for worshipping God in the manner and season
most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience, or for his
religious profession, sentiments or persuasion ; provided he doth not
disturb the public peace, or disturb others in their religious worship.
VI. As morality and piety, rightly grounded on evangelical prin
ciples, wiU give the best and greatest security to government, and
will lay in the hearts of men the strongest obligations to due sub
jection ; and as the knowledge of these, is most likely to be prop
agated through a society by the institution of the public worship of
the Deity, and of public instruction in morality and religion ; there
fore, to promote those important purposes, the people of this state
have a right to empower, and do hereby fully empower the legisla
ture to authorize from time to time, the several towns, parishes
bodies-corporate, or religious societies within this state, to make ade
quate provision at their own expense, for the support and mainte
nance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality :
Provided ->wtivithstanding, That the several towns, parishes, bodies
corporate, or religious societies, shall at all times have the exclusive
right of electing their own public teachers, and of contracting with
them for their support and maintenance. And no portion of any one
particular religious sect or denomination, shall ever be compelled to
pay towards the support of the teacher or teachers of another per
suasion, sect or denomination.
And every denomination of christians demeaning themselves quiet
ly, a.nd as good subjects of the State, shall be equally under the pro
tection of the law : and no subordination of any one sect or denom
ination to another, shall ever be established by law.
And nothing herein shah be understood to affect any former con
tracts raade for the support of the ministry ; but ah such contracts
shah remain, and be in the same state as if this constitution had not
been made.
VII. The people of this State, have the sole and exclusive right of
governing themselves as a free, sovereign and independent State,
and do, and forever hereafter shah exercise, and enjoy every power,
jurisdiction and right pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not
hereafter be by them expressly delegated to the United States of
America in Congress assembled.

THE BILL OF RIGHTS. I I
VIII. All power residing originally in, and being derived from
the people, all the magistrates and officers of government, are their
substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them.
IX. No office or place whatsoever in government, shall be heredi
tary — the abilities and integrity requisite in all, not being trans
missible to posterity or relations.
X. Governinent being instituted for the common benefit, protec
tion, and security of the whole coramunity, and not for the private
interest or emolument of anyone man, family or class of men ; there
fore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public
liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are
ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought, to reform the old, or
establish a new government. The doctrine of non-resistance against
arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd ; slavish, and destructive of
the good and happiness of mankind.
XI. All elections ought to be free, and every inhabitant of the
State having the proper qualifications, has equal right to elect, and
be elected into office.
XII. Every member of the community has a right to be protected
by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty and property; he is there
fore bound to contribute his share in the expense of such protection,
and to yield his personal service when necessary, or an equivelent.
But no part of a man's property shall be taken from him, or apphed
to public uses, without his own consent, or that of the representative
body of the people. Nor are the inhabitants of this State controlla
ble by any other laws than those to which they, or their representa
tive body have given their consent.
XIII. No person who is conscientiously scrupulous about the
lawfulness of bearing arms, shall be compelled thereto, provided he
will pay an equivelent.
XIV. Every subject of this State is entitled to a certain rem
edy, by having recourse to the laws, for all injuries he may re
ceive in his person, property or character, to obtain right and justice
freely, without being obliged to purchase it ; completely, and without
any denial ; promptly, and without delay, conformably to the laws.
XV. No subject shah be held to answer for any crime, or offence,
unth the same is fully and plainly, substantially and formally de
scribed to him ; or be compeUed to accuse or furnish evidence
against himself. And every subject shah have a right to produce ah
proofs that may be favorable to himself : To meet the witnesses
against him face to face, and to be fully heard in his defence by
himself and counsel. And no subject shah be arrested, imprisoned,
despohed, or deprived of his property, immunities, or privileges,

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put out of the protection of the law, exiled or deprived of his hfe,
liberty, or estate, but by the judgment of his peers or the law of
the land.
XVI. No subject shall be liable to be tried, after an acquittal, for
the sarae crirae or offence. — Nor shall the legislature make any law
that shaU subject any person to a capital punishment, excepting for
the government of the army and navy, and the militia in actual
service, without trial by jury.
XVII. In criminal prosecutions, the trial of facts in the vicinity
where they happen, is so essential to the security of the life, hberty,
and estate of the citizen, that no crime or offence ought to be tried
in any other county than that in which it is committed ; except in
cases of general insurrection in any particular county, when it shall
appear to the judges of the superior-court, that an impartial trial can
not be had in the county where the offence may be committed, and
upon their report, the assembly shall think proper to direct the trial
in the nearest county in which an impartial trial can be obtained.
XVIII. All penalties ought to be proportioned to the nature of
the offence. No wise legislature will affix the same punishment to
the crimes of theft, forgery, and the like, which they do to those of
murder and treason ; where the same undistinguishing severity is
exerted against ah offences, the people are led to forget the real dis
tinction in the crimes themselves, and to commit the most flagrant
with as httle compunction as they do those of the lightest dye. For
the same reason a multitude of sanguinary laws is both impolitic and
unjust. The true design of all punishments being to reform, not to
exterminate raankind.
XIX. Every subject hath a right to be secure from all unrea
sonable searches and seizures of his person, his houses, his papers,
and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this
right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported
by oath, or affirraation ; and if the order in the warrant to a civil offi
cer, to make search in suspected places, or to arrest one or more
suspected persons, or to seize their property, be not accompanied
whh a special designation of the persons or objects of search, arrest
or seizure ; and no warrant ought to be issued but in cases, and with
the formalities prescribed by the laws.
XX. In all controversies concerning property, and in all suits
between two or more persons, except in cases in which it has been
heretofore otherwise used and practised, the parties have a right to a
trial by jury ; and this method of procedure shall be held sacred un
less m causes arising on the high seas, and such as relate to mariners
wages, the legislature shall think it necessary hereafter to alter it

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XXI. In order to reap the fullest advantage of the inestimable
privilege of the trial by jury, great care ought to be taken that none
but qualified persons should be appointed to serve ; and such ought
to be fully compensated for their travel, tirae and attendance.
XXII. The Liberty of the press is essential to the security of
freedom in a State ; it ought, therefore, to be inviolably preserved.
XXIII. Retrospective laws are highly injurious, oppressive and
unjust. No such laws, therefore, should be made, either for the de
cision of civil causes, or the punishment of offences.
XXIV. A well regulated militia is the proper, natural, and sure
defence of a State.
XXV. Standing arraies are dangerous to liberty, and ought not
to be raised or kept up without the consent of the legislature.
XXVI. In all cases, and at all tiraes, the military ought to be
under strict subordination to, and governed by the civil power.
XXVII. No soldier in time of peace, shall be quartered in any
house without the consent of the owner ; and in time of war, such
quarters ought not to be made but by the civil magistrate, in a man
ner ordained by the legislature,
XXVIII. No subsidy, charge, tax, irapost or duty shall be estab
lished, fixed, laid or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without
the consent of the people, or their representatives in the legislature,
or authority derived from that body.
XXIX. The power of suspending the laws, or the execution of
them, ought never to be exercised but by the legislature, or by
authority derived therefrom, to be exercised in such particular cases
only as the legislature shall expressly provide for.
XXX. The freedom of deliberation, speech, and debate, in
either house of the legislature, is so essential to the rights of the
people, that it cannot be the foundation of any action, complaint, or
prosecution, in any other court or place whatsoever.
XXXI. The legislature ought frequently to assemble for the
redress of grievances, for correcting, strengthening and confirming
the laws, and for making new ones, as the common good raay
require. XXXII. The people have a right in an orderly and peaceable
manner, to assemble and consult upon the common good, give in
structions to their representatives ; and to request of the legislative
body, by way of petition or remonstrance, redress of the wrongs done
them, and of the grievances they suffer.
XXXIII. No magistrate or court of law shah demand excessive
bail or sureties, impose excessive fines, or inflict cruel or unusual
punishments.

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XXXIV. No person can in any case be subjected to law martial,
or to any pains, or penalties, by virtue of that law, except those em
ployed in the army or navy, and except the militia in actual service,
but by authority of the legislature,
XXXV. It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every
individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an
impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It
is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as impartial as the
lot of huraanity will admit. It is therefore not only the best policy,
but for the security of the rights of the people, that the judges of the
supreme (or superior) judicial court should hold their offices so long as
they behave weh ; and that they should have honorable salaries, ascer
tained and established by standing laws.
XXXVI. Econoray being a most essential virtue in all States,
especially in a young one ; no pension shall be granted, but in con
sideration of actual services, and such pensions ought to be granted
with great caution by the legislature, and never for more than one
year at a time.
XXXVII. In the governraent of this State, the three essential
powers thereof, to wit, the legislative, executive and judicial, ought
to be kept as separate from, and independent of each other, as the
nature of a free government wih admit, or as is consistent with that
chain of connexion that binds the whole fabric of the constitution in
one indissoluble bond of union and amity.
XXXVIII. A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles
of the constitution, and a constant adherence to justice, moderation,
teraperance, industry, frugality, and all the social virtues, are indis
pensably necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and good
governraent ; the people ought, therefore, to have a particular regard
to all those principles in the choice of their officers and representa
tives : And they have a right to require of their law-givers and mag
istrates, anexact and constant observance of them in the formation
and e.xecution of the laws necessary for the good administration of
government.

THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT. 1 5
PAET II.
THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
The people inhabiting the territory formerly called the Province of
New Hampshire, do hereby solemnly and rautually agree with each
other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent
Body-politic, or State, by the name of the State of New Hampshire.
THE GENERAL-COURT.
The supreme legislative power within this State shall be vested in
the senate and house of representatives, each of which shall have a
negative on the other.
The senate and house shall asserable every year on the first
Wednesday of June, and at such other times as they may judge
necessary ; and shall dissolve, and be dissolved, seven days next pre
ceding the said first Wednesday of June ; and shall be stiled The
General Court of New Hampshire.
The general court shall forever have full power and authority to
erect and constitute judicatories and courts of record, or other courts,
to be holden in the name of the State, for the hearing, trying and
determining all manner of crimes, offences, pleas, processes, plaints,
actions, causes, matters and things whatsoever, arising, or happening
within this State, or between or concerning persons inhabiting or re
siding, or brought within the same, whether the same be criminal or
civil, or whether the crimes be capital, or not capital, and whether the
said pleas be real, personal, or mixed ; and for the awarding and issu
ing execution thereon. To which courts and judicatories are hereby
given and granted full power and authority, from time to time to ad
minister oaths or affirmations, for the better discovery of truth in any
matter in controversy, or depending before them,
And farther, full power and authority are hereby given and
granted to the said general-court, from time to time, to make, ordain
and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws,
statutes, ordinances, directions and instructions, either with penalties
or without ; so as the same be not repugnant, or contrary to this con
stitution, as they may judge for the benefit and welfare of this State,
and for the governing and ordering thereof, and of the subjects of
the same, for the necessary support and defence of the government
thereof ; and to name and settle annually, or provide by fixed laws,

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for the naming and settling all civU officers within this State ; such
officers excepted, the election and appointment of whom, are here
after in this form of government otherwise provided for; and to set
forth the several duties, powers and limits of the several civil and
military officers of this State, and the forms of such oaths or affirma
tions, as shall be respectively adrainistered unto them for the execu
tion of their several offices and places, so as the same be not repug
nant or contrary to this constitution ; and also to impose fines, mulcts,
iraprisonraents and other punishments ; and to impose and levy pro
portional and reasonable assessraents, rates and taxes, upon all the
inhabitants of, and residents within the said State, and upon all
estates within the same ; to be issued and disposed of by warrant
under the hand of the president of this State for the time being, with
the advice and consent of the council, for the public service, in the
necessary defence and support of the governraent of this State, and
the protection and preservation of the subjects thereof, according to
such acts as are, or shall be in force within the same.
And while the public charges of governraent, or any part thereof,
shall be assessed on polls and estates in the raanner that has hereto
fore been practiced; in order that such assessraents may be made
with equality, there shall be a valuation of the estates within the
State taken anew once in every five years at least, and as much
oftener as the general-court shall order,
SENATE,
THERE shall be annually elected bythe freeholders and other in
habitants of this State, qualified as in this constitution is provided,
twelve persons to be senators for the year ensuing their election ; to
be chosen in and by the inhabitants of the districts, into which this
State may from tirae to time be divided by the general-court, for that
purpose; And the general-court in assigning the nuraber to be
elected by the respective districts, shah govern themselves by the
proportion of public taxes paid by the said districts ; and timely make
known to the inhabitants of the State, the hmits of each distrfct, and
the number of senators to be elected therein ; provided the number
of such districts shall never be more than ten, nor less than five.
And the several counties in this State, shall, until the general-
court shall order otherwise, be districts for the election of senators,
and shall elect the following number, viz ; Rockingham, five — Straf
ford, two. — Hillsborough, two, — Cheshire, two, — Grafton, one
The senate shall be the first branch of the legislature ¦ And the
senators shall be chosen in the following manner, viz. — Every male

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inhabitant of each town and parish with town privileges in the several
counties in tiiis State, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, pay
ing for hiniJllf a poll tax, shall have a right at the annual or other
meetings o^he inhabitants- of said towns and parishes, to be duly
warned and holden annually forever it the month of March, to vote
in the tow-n or parish wherein he dwells, for the senators in the
county or district whereof he is a meraher.
And every person qualified as the constitution provides, shah be
considered an inhabitant forthe purpose of electing and being elected
into any office or place within this State, in that town, parish and
plantation where he dweUeth and hath his horae.
The selectmen of the several towns and parishes aforesaid, shall,
during the choice of senators, preside at such meetings impartially,
and shall receive the votes of all the inhabitants of such towns and
parishes present and qualified to vote for senators, and shah sort and
count the same in the meeting, and in presence of the town-clerk,
who shall make a fair record in presence of the selectmen, and in
open meeting, of the narae of every person voted for, and the num
ber of votes against his name ; and a fair copy of this record shall be
attested by the selectmen and town-clerk, and shall be sealed up and
directed to the secretary of the State, with a superscription express
ing the purport thereof, and dehvered by said clerk to the sheriff of
the county in which such town or parish lies, thirty days at least,
before the first Wednesday of June ; and the sheriff of each county,
or his deputy, shall deliver all such certificates by him received, into
the secretary's office, seventeen days at least, before the first
Wednesday of June.
And the inhabitants of plantations and places unincorporated,
qualified as this constitution provides, who are or shall be required to
assess taxes upon theraselves towards the support of government, or
shall be taxed therefor, shall have the same privilege of voting for
senators in the plantations and places wherein they reside, as the in
habitants of the respective towns and parishes aforesaid have. And
the meetings of such plantations and places for that purpose, shall be
holden annually in the raonth of March, at such places respectively
therein, as the assessors thereof shall direct : Which assessors shall
have like authority for notifying the electors, collecting and returning
the votes, as the selectmen and town-clerks have in their several
towns by this constitution.
And that there may be a due raeeting of senators on the first
Wednesday of June, annually, the president and three of the council
for the tirae being, shall as soon as may, examine the returned copies
of such records ; and fourteen days before the said first Wednesday

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of June, he shaU issue his summons to such persons as appear to
be chosen senators by a majority of votes, to attend and take their
seats on that day : Provided nevertheless, That for the first year the
said returned copies shall be examined by the president and five of
the council of the former constitution of governraent ; and the said
president shall in like raanner notify the persons elected, to attend
and take their seats accordingly.
The senate shaU be final judges of the elections, returns, and
qualifications of their own raerabers, as pointed out in this constitu
tion, and shall on the said first Wednesday of June annually, deter
raine and declare, who are eiected by each district to be senators by a
majority of votes : and in case there shall not appear to be the full
nuraber returned elected by a raajority of votes for any district, the
deficiency shall be supplied in the following raanner, viz. The mem
bers of the house of representatives and such senators as shaU be de
clared elected, shall take the naraes of such persons as shall be found
to have the highest nuraber of votes in each district, and not elected,
araounting to twice the nuraber of senators wanting, if there
be so many voted for ; and out of these shall elect by joint ballot the
number of senators wanted for such district : and in this manner all
such vacancies shall be filled up in every district of the State,. and in
like manner all vacancies in the senate, arising by death, removal out
of the State, or otherwise, shall be supplied as soon as raay be after
such vacancies happen.
Provided nevertheless. That no person shall be capable of being
elected a senator, who is not of the protestant religion, and seized of
a freehold estate in his own right, of the value of tivo hundred
poitnds, lying within this State, who is not of the age of thirty years,
and who shall not have been an inhabitant of this State for seven
years immediately preceding his election ; and at the time thereof he
shall be an inhabitant of the district for which he shaU be chosen.
The senate shaU have power to adjourn themselves, provided such
adjournment do not exceed two days at a time.
The senate shall appoint their own officers, and determine their
own rules of proceedings. And not less than seven members of the
senate shah make a quorum for doing business ; and when less than
eight senators shah be present, the assent of five, at least, shall be
necessary to render their acts and proceedings valid.
The senate shall be a court with fuh power and authorhy to hear
and determine all irapeachraents made by the house of representa
tives, against any officer or officers of the State, for misconduct or
mal-administration in their offices. But previous to the trial of any
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sworn, truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in ques
tion according to evidence. Their judgment, however shah not ex
tend farther than removal from office, disqualification to hold or
enjoy any place of honor, trust or profit under this State ; but the
party so convicted, shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial,
judgment, and punishment, according to the laws of the land.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
There shall be in the legislature of this State, a representation of
the people annually elected and founded upon principles of equality :
— and in order that such representation may be as equal as circura
stances will admit, every town, parish, or place, entitled to town
privileges, having one hundred and fifty rateable male polls, of
twenty-one years of age, and upwards, may elect one representative;
if four hundred and fifty rateable polls, may elect two representatives ;
and so proceeding in that proportion, making three hundred such
rateable polls the mean increasing number for every additional
representative. Such towns, parishes or places as have less than one hundred and
fifty rateable polls, shall be classed by the general-assembly, for the
purpose of chusing a representative, and seasonably notified thereof.
And in every class formed for the above-mentioned purpose, the first
annual meeting shall be held in the town, parish, or place wherein
most of the rateable polls reside ; and afterwards in that which has
the next highest number, and so on annually by rotation, through the
several towns, parishes, or places, forraing the district.
Whenever any town, parish, or place entitled to town privileges
as aforesaid, shall not have one hundred and fifty rateable polls, and
be so situated as to render the classing thereof with any other town,
parish or place very inconvenient, the general-asserably may upon
application of a majority of the voters in such town, parish, or place,
issue a writ for their electing and -sending a representative to the
general-court. The members of the house of representatives shall be chosen an
nually in the month of March, and shall be the second branch of the
legislature. All persons qualified to vote in the election of senators, shall be
entitled to vote within the town, district, parish or place where they
dweh, in the choice of representatives. Every member of the house
of representatives shall be chosen by ballot ; and for two years at
least next preceding his election, shah have been an inhabitant of
this State, shah have an estate within the town, parish or place
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pounds, one half of which to be a free-hold, whereof he is seized in
his own right ; shall be at the time of his election, an inhabitant of
the town, parish, or place he may be chosen to represent; shall be of
the protestant religion, and shall cease to represent such town, parish,
or place iraraediately on his ceasing to be qualified as aforesaid.
The travel of each representative to the general-assembly, and re
turning home, once in every session, and no more, shall be at the ex
pense of the State, and the wages for his attendance, at the expense
of the town, parish, or places he represents ; such members attending
seasonably and not departing without licence. All intermediate
vacancies in the house of representatives, may be filled up from time
to tirae, in the sarae manner as annual elections are made.
The house of representatives shall be the grand inquest of the
State, and all impeachments made by thera, shall be heard and tried
by the Senate.
All raoney bills shall originate in the house of representatives, but
the senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.
The house of representatives shall have power to adjourn them
selves, but no longer than two days at a time.
A majority of the members of the house of representatives shall be
a quorum for doing business : But when less than two thirds of the
representatives elected shah be present, the assent of two thirds of
those members shall be necessary to render their acts and proceed
ings valid.
No raember of the house of representatives or senate, shall be
arrested or held to bah on mean process, during his going to, return
ing from or attendance upon the court.
The house of representatives shah choose their own speaker,
appoint their own officers, and settle the rules of proceedings in their
own house. They shaU have authorhy to punish by imprisonment,
every person who shall be guihy of disrespect to the house in its
presence, by any disorderly and contemptuous behavior, or by
threatening, or ill treating any of its merabers ; or by obstructing hs
deliberations ; every person guilty of a breach of its privileges in
making arrests for debt, or by assauhing any member during his at
tendance at any session ; in assaulting or disturbing any one of its
officers in the execution of any order or procedure of the house, in
assaulting any witness, or other person, ordered to attend by and
during his attendance of the house, or in rescuing any person arrested
by order of the house, knowing them to be such. The senate, presi
dent and councU, shall have the same powers in like cases ; provided
that no_ imprisonment by either, for any offence, exceed ten days.
The journals of the proceedings of both houses of the general-court
shall be printed and published, immediately after every adjournment

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or prorogation ; and upon motion made by any one member, the yeas
and nays upon any question, shall be taken and entered in the
journals.
EXECUTIVE POWER.
PRESIDENT.
THERE shall be a supreme executive magistrate, who shall be
sthed. The PRESIDENT of the STATE of NEW HAMP
SHIRE ; and whose title shah be HIS EXCELLENCY.
The PRESIDENT shall be chosen annually; and no person shall be
eligible to this office, unless at the time of his election, he shall have
been an inhabitant of this State for seven years next preceding, and
unless he shall be of the age of thirty years ; and unless he shall at
the same time, have an estate of the value of five liundred pounds,
one half of which shall consist of a free-hold in his own right within
the State ; and unless he shall be of the protestant religion.
Those persons qualified to vote for senators and representatives
shall within the several towns, parishes or places, where they dwell,
at a meeting to be called for that purpose, some day in the month of
March, annually, give in their votes for a president to the selectraen,
who shall preside at such meeting, and the clerk in the presence
and with the assistance of the selectmen, shall in open meeting sort
and count the votes, and form a hst of the persons voted for, with
the number of votes for each person against his name, and shall
make a fair record of the same in the town books, and a public
declaration thereof in the said meeting ; and shall in the presence of
said inhabitants, seal up a copy of said list attested by him and the
selectmen, and transmit thfe same to the sheriff of the county, thirty
days af least before the first Wednesday of June, or shall cause re
turns of the same to be made to the office of the secretary of the
State seventeen days at least, before said day, who shall lay the same
before the senate and house of representatives on the first Wednes
day of June, to be by them examined ; and in case of an election by
a majority of votes through the State, the choice shah be by them
declared, and published : But if no person shah have a majority of
votes, the house of representatives shall by ballot elect two out of
four persons who had the highest number of votes, if so many shall
have been voted for ; but if otherwise, out of the number voted for ;
and make return to the senate of the two persons so elected, on
which the senate shall proceed by ballot to elect one of them, who
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The president of the State shall preside in the senate, shall have a
vote equal with any other raember ; and shall also have a casting vote
in case of a tie.
The president with advice of council, shall have full power and
authority in the recess of the general-court, to prorogue the same
from time to tirae, not exceeding ninety days in any one recess of
said court ; and during the session of said court, to adjourn or pro
rogue it to any tirae the two houses raay desire, and to call it to
gether sooner than the tirae to which it raay be adjourned, or pro
rogued, if the welfare of the State should require the same.
In cases of disagreement between the two houses, with regard to
the time of adjournraent, or prorogation, the president with advice of
council, shall have a right to adjourn or prorogue the general-court,
not exceeding ninety days, at any one time, as he raay determine the
public good may require. And he shall dissolve the same seven days
before the said first Wednesday of June. And in case of any infec
tious distemper prevaUing in the place where the said court at any
tim.e is to convene, or any other cause whereby dangers may arise to
the healths or lives of the merabers, frora their attendance, the
president may direct the session to be holden at some other the most
convenient place within the State,
The president of this State for the time being, shah be comman
der in chief of the array and navy, and all the raihtary forces of the
State by sea and land ; and shall have full power by hiraself, or by
any chief comraander, or other officer or officers, from time to time,
to train, instruct, exercise and govern ttie militia and navy ; and for
the special defence and safety of this State, to assemble in martial
array, and put in warlike posture, the inhabitants thereof, and to lead
and conduct thera, and with thera to encounter, expulse, repel, resist
and pursue by force of arras, as well by sea as by land, within and
without the limits of this State, and also to kill, slay, destroy, if ne
cessary, and conquer by aU fitting ways, enterprize and means, aU.and
every such person and persons as shall, at any time hereafter, in a
hostile manner attempt or enterprize the destruction, invasion, detri
ment, or annoyance of this State ; and to use and exercise over the
army and navy, and over the militia in actual service, the law-martial
in time of war, invasion, and also in rebeUion, declared by the legisla
ture to exist, as occasion shall necessarily require : And surprize by ah
ways and means whatsoever, all and every such person or persons,
with their ships, arms, araraunhion, and other goods, as shall in a
hostUe raanner invade, or atterapt the invading, conquering, or annoy
ing this State : And in fine, the president hereby is intrusted with
all other powers incident to the office of captain-general and comman
der m chief, and admiral, to be exercised agreeably to the rules and

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regulations of the consthution, and the laws of the land : Provided
that the president shall not at any time hereafter, by virtue of any
power by this constitution granted, or hereafter to be granted to him
by the legislature, transport any of the inhabitants of this State, or
oblige them to march out of the limits of the same, without their free
and voluntary consent, or the consent of the general-court, nor grant
commissions for exercising the law-martial in any case, without the
advice and consent of the councU.
The power of pardoning offences, except such as persons raay be
convicted of before the senate by impeachraent of the house, shall
be in the president, by and with the advice of the council : but ' no
charter of pardon granted by the president with advice of council,
before conviction, shall avail the party pleading the sarae, notwith
standing any general or particular expressions contained therein,
descriptive of the offence or offences intended to be pardoned.
All judicial officers, the attorney-general, solicitor-general, all
sheriffs, coroners, registers of probate, and all officers of the navy
and general and field-officers of the militia, shall be nominated and
appointed by the president and council ; and every such noraination
shall be made at least seven days prior to such appointment, and no
appointment shall take place, unless three of the council agree
thereto. The captains and subalterns in the respective regiments
shall be nominated and recommended by the field-officers to the
president, who is to issue their commissions immediately on receipt
of such recommendation.
No officer duly commissioned to command in tbe militia, shall be
removed from his office, but by the address of both houses to the
president, or by fair trial in court-martial, pursuant to the laws of the
State for the time being.
The commanding officers of the regiraents shall appoint their adju
tants and quarter- masters ; the brigadiers their brigade majors, the
major-generals their aids ; the captains and subalterns their non-com
missioned officers.
The president and council shall appoint all officers of the con
tinental army, whom by the confederation of the United States it is
provided that this State shall appoint, as also all officers of forts and
garrisons. The division of the militia into brigades, regiments and companies,
made in pursuance of the militia laws now in force, shall be consid
ered as the proper division of the militia of this State, unth the same
shall be altered by some future law.
No monies shall be issued out of the treasury of this State, and
disposed of (except such sums as may be appropriated for the re-

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deraption of biUs of credit or treasurers' notes, or for the payment of
interest arising thereon) but by warrant under the hand of the presi
dent for the time being, by and with the advice and consent of the
council, for the necessary support and defence of this State, and for
the necessary protection and preservation of the inhabitants thereof,
agreeably to the acts and resolves of the general-court.
All public boards, the commissary-general, all superintending offi
cers of public magazines and stores, belonging to this State, and all
commanding officers of forts and garrisons within the same, shall
once in every three raonths, officially, and without requisition, and at
other times, when required by the president, deliver to him an ac
count of all goods, stores, provisions, ammunition, cannon with their
appendages, and small arms with their accoutrements, and of all
other public property under their care respectively ; distinguishing
the quantity, and kind of each as particularly as may be ; together
with the condition of such forts and garrisons ; and the commanding
officer shall exhibit to the president, when required by him, true and
exact plans of such forts, and of the land and sea, or harbour or har
bours adjacent, .^
The president and councU shall be compensated for their services
from time to tirae by such grants as the general-court shall think
reasonable. Permanent and honorable salaries shall be established by law for
the justices of the superior-court.
_ Whenever the chair of the president shall be vacant, by reason of
his death, absence frora the State, or otherwise, the senior senator
for the tirae being, shall, during such vacancy, have and exercise ah
the powers and authorities which by this constitution the president
is vested with when personally present.
COUNCIL.
Annually on the first meeting of the general-court, two members
of the senate and three from the house of representatives, shall be
chosen by joint baUot of both houses as a council, for advisino- the
president m the executive part of governraent, whom the presi
dent for the time being, shall have full power and authority to con
vene from time to time, at his discretion, and the president with the
counsellors, or three of them at least, shaU and may from time to
time hold and keep a council, for ordering and directing the affairs of
the State according to the laws of the land.
The qualifications for counsellors, shall be the same as those re
quired for senators. The members of the council shall not intermed-

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die with the making or trying impeachments, but shall themselves be
impeachable by the house, and triable by the senate for mal-conduct.
The resolutions and advice of the council shall be recorded in a
register, and signed by the members present, and this record may be
called for at any time, by either house of the legislature, and any
member of the council may enter his opinion contrary to the resolu
tion of the majority.
And whereas the elections appointed to be made by this constitu
tion on the first Wednesday of June annually, by the two houses of
the legislature, may not be completed on that day, the said elections
may be adjourned from day to day untU the same shall be completed.
And the order of the elections shall be as follows : The vacancies in
the senate, if any, shall be first filled up ; the president shall then be
elected, provided there should be no choice of him by the people,
and afterwards the two houses shall proceed to the election of the
councU. SECRETARY, TREASURER, COMMISSARY-GENERAL, AC
The secretary, treasurer, and commissary-general, shall be chosen
by joint bahot of the senators and representatives assembled in one
room. The records of the State shall be kept in the office of the secre
tary, who may appoint his deputies, for whose conduct he shall be
answerable, and he shall attend the president and council, the senate
and representatives, in person or by deputy, as they may require.
COUNTY-TREASURER, &C.
THE county-treasurers, and registers of deeds shall be elected by
the inhabitants of the several towns, in the several counties in the
State according to the method now practised, and the present laws of
the State ; and before they enter upon the business of their offices,
shall be respectively sworn faithfully to discharge the duties thereof,
and shah severally give bond with sufficient sureties, in a reasonable
sum for the use of the county, for the punctual performance of their
respective trusts. JUDICIARY POWER.
THE tenure that all commission officers shah have by law in their
offices, shall be expressed in their respective commissions. All judi
cial officers, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, shah held their
offices during good behavior, excepting those concerning whom there
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is a different provision made in this constitution : Provided never
theless. The president, with consent of council, may remove them
upon the address of both houses of the legislature.
Each branch of the legislature, as well as the president and coun
cil, shall have authority to require the opinions of the justices of the
superior court upon iraportant questions of law, and upon solemn
occasions. In order that the people raay not suffer frora the long continuance
in place of any justice of the peace, who shall fail in discharging the
important duties of his office with ability and fidelity, all commissions
of justices of the peace shall become void, at the expiration of five
years frora their respective dates ; and upon the expiration of any
commission, the sarae may, if necessary be renewed, or another per
son appointed, as shall most conduce to the well-being of the State,
The judges of probate of wills, and for granting letters of administra
tion, shah hold their courts at such place or places, on such fixed
days, as the convenience of the people may require. And the legisla
ture shall, frora tirae to time, hereafter ap])oint such times and places,
untU which appointments, the said courts shah be holden at the times
and places which the respective judges shall direct.
Ah causes of marriage, divorce and alimony, and all appeals frora
the respective judges of probate, shall be heard and tried by the su
perior-court, until the legislature shall by law make other provision.
CLERKS OF COURTS.
THE clerks of the superior-court of judicature, inferior courts of
common pleas, and general sessions of the peace, shall be appointed
by the respective courts during pleasure. And to prevent any fraud
or unfairness in the entries and records of said courts, no such clerk
shall be of counsel in any cause in the court of which he is clerk, nor
shall he fill any writ in any civil action whatsoever.
DELEGATES TO CONGRESS,
THE delegates of this State to the congress of the United States,
shaU some time between the first Wednesday of June, and the first
Wednesday of September annually, be elected by the senate and
house of representatives in their separate branches, to serve in con
gress for one year, to commence on the first Monday in November
then next ensuing. They shaU have commissions under the hand of
the president, and the great seal of the state ; but may be recalled at
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same manner, in their stead ; and they shall have the same qualifi
cations, in all respects, as by this constitution are required for the
president. No person shall be capable of being a delegate to congress for
more than three years in any term of six years ; nor shall any person
being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United
States, for which he, or any other for his benefit, receives any salary,
or emolument of any kind.
ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE, &C.
KNOWLEDGE and learning, generaUy diffused through a com
raunity, being essential to the preservation of a free governraent ; and
spreading the opportunities and advantages of education through the
various parts of the country, being highly conducive to promote this
end ; it shall be the duty of the legislators and magistrates, in all
future periods of this government to cherish the interest of literature
and the sciences, and all seminaries and public schools, to encourage
private and pubhc institutions, rewards and immunities for the pro
motion of agriculture, arts, sciences, comraerce, trades, manufactures
and natural history of the country ; to countenance and inculcate the
principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private
charity, industr}' and econoray, honesty and punctuality, sincerity,
sobriety, and all social affections, and generous sentiments among
the people.
OA TH and subscriptions ; exclusion from offices ; commissions ;
writs ; cofifirmation of lazus ; habeas corpus; the enacting stile ; con
tinuance of officers , -provision for a future revision of the constitution,
&c. Any person chosen president, counsellor, senator, or representa
tive, mUitary or civil officer (town officers excepted) accepting the
trust, shall, before he proceeds to execute the duties of his office,
raake and subscribe the following declaration, viz.
/, A, B., do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and
declare, that the State of New-Hampshire is, and of right ought to be,
a free, sovereign and independent State ; and do swear that I will
bear faith, and true allegiance to the same, and that I will endeavor
to defend it against all treacherous conspiracies and hostile attempts
whatever: And I do furtlier testify and declare, that no man or body
of men, hath or can have, a right to absolve mc from the obligation of
this oath, declaration or affirmation ; and that I do make this acknowl
edgment, profession, testimony and declaration, honestly and truly,
according to the common acceptation of the foregoing words, without
any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatever.
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/, A, B., do solemnly and sincerely swear and affirm, that I will
faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties iiicum-
bent on 7ne as according to the best of my abilities,
agreeably to the rules and regulations of this constitution, and the laws
of the State of New-Hampshire. So help me GOD.
Provided always. When any person chosen or appointed as afore
said, shall be of the denomination called quakers, or shah be scrupu
lous of swearing, and shah decline taking the said oaths, such shaU
take and subscribe them omitting, the word " swear, " and likewise
the words "So help me God" subjoining instead thereof, " This I do
under the pains and penalties of perjury. "
And the oaths or affirmations shah be taken and subscribed by the
president before the senior senator present, in the presence of the
two houses of assembly ; and by the senate and representatives first
elected under this constitution, before the president and three of the
council of the former constitution, and forever afterwards before the
president and council for the time being and by the residue of the
officers aforesaid, before such persons, and in such manner as from
time to time shall be prescribed by the legislature.
All commissions shall be in the name of the State of New-Hamp
shire, signed by the president, and attested by the secretary, or his
deputy, and shah have the great seal of the State affixed thereto.
All writs issuing out of the clerk's office in any of the courts of
law, shall be in the name of the State of New-Hampshire ; shall be
under the seal of the court whence they issue, and bear test of the
chief, first, or senior justice of the court ; but when such justice shall
be interested, then the writ shall bear test of some other justice of
the court, to which the same shall be returnable ; and be signed by
the clerk of such court.
All indictments, presentments and informations shah conclude
against the peace and dignity of the State.
The estates of such persons as may destroy their own lives, shall
not for that offence be forfeited, but descend or ascend in the same
manner, as if such persons had died in a natural way. Nor shall any
article which shall accidentally occasion the death of any person be
henceforth deemed a deodand, or in any wise forfeited on account of
such misfortune.
All the laws which have heretofore been adopted, used and ap
proved, in the province, colony, or State of New-Hampshire, and
usuahy practised on in the courts of law, shall remain and be in fuh
force untU altered and repealed by the legislature ; such parts thereof
only excepted, as are repugnant to the rights and hberties contained
in this constitution : Provided that nothing herein contained, when
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construed to affect the laws already made respecting the persons or
estates of absentees.
The privilege and benefit of the habeas corpus, shall be enjoyed in
this State, in the most free, easy, cheap, expedhious and ample man
ner, and shall not be suspended by the legislature, except upon the
most urgent and pressing occasions, and for a time not exceeding
three months.
The enacting stUe in making and passing acts, statutes and laws,
shall be — Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General-Court convened.
No president, or judge of the superior court, shall hold any office
or place under the authority of this State, except such as by this con
stitution they are admitted to hold, saving that the judges of the
said court may hold the offices of justice of the peace throughout the
State ; nor shall they hold any place or office, or receive any pension
or salary, from any other State, government, or power whatever.
No person shall be capable of exercising at the same time, more
than one of the following offices within this state, viz. Judge of pro
bate, sheriff, register of deeds ; and never more than two offices of
profit, which may be held by appointment of the president, or presi
dent and council, or senate and house of representatives, or superior
or inferior courts ; military offices, and offices of justice of the peace
excepted. No person holding the office of judge of the superior court, secre
tary, treasurer of the State, judge of probate, attorney-general, com
missary-general, judge of the maritime court, or judge of the court
of admiralty, military officers receiving pay from the continent or this
State, excepting officers of the militia occasionally called forth on an
emergency ; judge of the inferior court of common-pleas, register of
deeds, president, professor or instructor of any cohege, sheriff, or
officer of the customs, including naval-officers, shall at the same time
have a seat in the senate or house of representatives, or council ; but
their being chosen or appointed to, and accepting the same, shah
operate as a resignation of their seat in the senate, or house of rep
resentatives, or council ; and the place so vacated shall be filled up.
No person shall ever be admitted to hold a seat in the legislature,
or any office of trust or importance under this government, who, in
the due course of law, has been convicted of bribery or corruption, in
obtaining an election or appointment.
In all cases where sums of money are mentioned in this constitu
tion, the value thereof shall be computed in silver, at six shillings and
eight pence per ounce.
To the end that there may be no faUure of justice, or danger arise
to this State from a change of the form of government, all civil and

30 CONSTITUTION OF 1 783,
military officers, holding commissions under the government and
people of New-Hampshire, and other officers of the said government
and people, at the time this constitution shall take effect, shall hold,
exercise and enjoy all the powers and authorities to thera granted
and committed, until other persons shall be appointed in their stead.
All courts of law in the business of their respective departments, and
the executive, and legislative bodies and persons, shall continue in
full force, enjoyment and exercise of all their trusts and employ
ments, until the general-court, and the supreme and other executive
officers under this constitution, are designated and invested with
their respective trusts, powers and authority.
This form of government shall be enrolled on parchment, and de
posited in the secretary's office, and be a part of the laws of the land,
and printed copies thereof shall be prefixed to the books containing
the laws of this State, in all future editions thereof.
To preserve an effectual adherence to the principles of the consti
tution, and to correct any violations thereof, as well as to make such
alterations therein, as from experience may be found necessary, the
general-court shall at the expiration of seven years from the time this
constitution shall take effect, issue precepts, or direct them to be
issued from the secretary's office, to the several towns and incorpo
rated places, to elect delegates to meet in convention for the purposes
aforesaid : The said delegates to be chosen in the same manner, and
proportioned as the representatives to the general-assembly ; pro
vided that no alteration shaU be made in this constitution before the
same shaU be laid before the towns and unincorporated places, and
approved by two thirds of the qualified voters present, and voting
upon the question.

THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT, 3 1

IN CONVENTION
HELD AT CONCORD,
THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF OCTOBER,
1783-
The returns from the several towns being examined, and it appear
ing that the foregoing BILL OF RIGHTS and FORM OF GOV
ERNMENT, were approved of by the PEOPLE ; the same are here
by agreed on and established by the DELEGATES OF THE
PEOPLE, and declared to be the CIVIL CONSTITUTION FOR
THE STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, to take place on the first
Wednesday of June, 1784; and that in the meantime the general-
court under the present government, make all the necessary arrange
ments for introducing this CONSTITUTION, at that time, and in
the manner therein described. NATHANIEL FOLSOM, President, P. T.
Attest, J, M, SEWELL, Secretary.

NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS.

STATE OFFICERS, 1784-5.

executive DEPARTMENT.
MESHECH WEARE, Hampton Falls, President.
Council.
JOHN McCLEARY, Epsom, i
FRANCIS BLOOD, Temple, | Chosen from the Senate.
JOSEPH BADGER, Gilmanton, )
NATHANIEL PEABODY, Atkinson, \Chosen from the House
MOSES CHASE, Cornish, j "f Representatives.
EBENEZER THOMPSON, Durham, Secretary of State.
JOSEPH PEARSON, Exeter, Deputy Secretary.
JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN, Exeter, State Treasurer.
JOSEPH PEARSON, Exeter, Paymaster of Pensions.
ELEAZER RUSSELL, Portsmouth, Naval Officer.
JUDICIARY.
Superior Court of Judicature.
SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Holderness, Chief Justice.
JOSIAH BARTLETT, Kingston, \
WILLIAM WHIPPLE, Portsmouth, \ Puisne Justices.
LEVERETT HUBBARD,' Portsmouth, )
JOHN SULLIVAN, Durham, Attorney-General.
NATHANIEL ADAMS, Portsmouth, Clerk.
I. John Dudley, of Raymond, succeeded Judge Huhbard by appointment, Dec. 20, 1784,

34 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784-85
Court Maritime.
JOSHUA BRACKETT, Portsmouth, Judge.
COMMISSION TO REVISE THE LAWS OF THE STATE,
SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Holderness,
JOSIAH BARTLETT, Kingston.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Durham.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT,
His Excellency MESHECH WEARE, Hampton Fahs,
Captain-General, Commander-in-Chief, and Admiral.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Durham, Major-General.
JONATHAN MOULTON, Hampton,
JOSEPH CILLEY, Nottingham,
JOHN HALE, Holhs,
BENJAMIN BELLOWS, Walpole,
Corps of Light Horsemen.
NATHANIEL PEABODY, Atkinson,
SUPPLY CLAPP, Portsmouth, Commissary-General.
' Adjutant-General.
STATE SENATE.
June 2, 1784, to June i, 1785.
MESHECH WEARE, Hampton Fahs, President.
'WOODBURY LANGDON, Portsmouth,
President Pro Tem, or Senior Senator.
JOHN McCLEARY, Epsom,
JOSEPH GILMAN, Exeter.
TIMOTHY WALKER, Concord,
JOHN LANGDON, Portsmouth.

/¦ Brigadier- Generals.

For the County
of Rockingham,^

I , The regimental field officers are named in the following pages, _ It is not certainly known as to the incum
bent of tiie office of adjutant-general at this time. See Potters MiUtary History of New Hampshire, Adju
tant-General's Report, 1866, Vol, II, p, 372, By the terms of the Constitution of 1784, the mcumbents of
existing offices were continued until successors should be provided, or other disposition of the duties pertaining
to them should be made under the new government. Hence it is difficult to trace the succession in several im
portant offices during the revolutionary period, and the first few months of the constitutional period.

STATE OFFICERS, 1784-85. 35
County of (JOHN WENTWORTH,' Dover.
Strafford, \ EBENEZER SMITH, Meredith.
County of ("FRANCIS BLOOD, Temple,
HiUsoro' \ MATTHEW THORNTON, Merrimack.
County of f SIMEON OLCOTT,^ Charlestown.
Cheshire 1 ENOCH HALE,' Rindge,
County of { MOSES DOW, HaverhUl,
Grafton \
EBENEZER THOMPSON, Durham, Acting Secretary.
The senators chosen by votes of the people in the election of 1784,
were for the County of Rockingham, John McCleary and Joseph
GUman ; for the County of Strafford, John Wentworth and Ebenezer
Smith ; for the County of Hillsborough, Francis Blood ; for the County
of Cheshire, Simeon Olcott ; for the County of Grafton, Moses
Dow,
These senators-elect all appeared and took the oath of office on the
first day of the session.
The next day in joint convention the senators wanting were
elected, as follows : For the County of Rockingham, Woodbury
Langdon, Timothy Walker, John Dudley ; for the County of Hills
borough, Matthew Thornton ; for the County of Cheshire, Benjamin
Bellows, Subsequently John Dudley and Benjarain Behows declined to
accept office, and John Langdon was chosen for Rockingham and
Enoch Hale for Cheshire.

DELEGATES TO CONGRESS.
To serve for one year from the first Monday in November, 1784.
Constitution of 1 784, ante p. 26.
Names, Date of Appointment, Residence.
ABIEL FOSTER, Junen, 1784, Canterbury.
JONATHAN BLANCHARD, June 11, 1784, Dunstable.
I, John Wentworth, who was senator at this time, was formerly known as John Wentworth Jr, He was
a son of Judge John 'Wentworth, who died May i8, 1781. 5 N. H, Hist, Soc, Collections, 240,
2. Biography, Saunderson's History of Charlestown, 485,
3, Stearns's History of Rindge, chapters 50 and 56 and p, 183, and passim. Enoch Hale subsequently
became a permanent resident of Walpole,

36

NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784-85

JOHN LANGDON,'
MOSES DOW,^
PIERSE LONG,
SAMUEL LIVERMORE,
ELISHA PAYNE,

June II, 1784,
June II, 1784,
Nov, 2, 1784,
Nov. 3, 1784,
Nov. 3, 1784,

Portsmouth. Haverhill.
Portsmouth. Holderness. Lebanon.

DELEGATES FROM THIS STATE IN ACTUAL ATTENDANCE UPON THE
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
1784,
ABIEL FOSTER, Canterbury
JONATHAN BLANCHARD, Dunstable.
1785.
ABIEL FOSTER, Canterbury,
PIERSE LONG, Portsmouth.
I. Declined.
2. Declined. See Letter, Hammond Town Papers, Vol. XII. p. 182.

THE JOURNAL OF THE SENATE

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

CONTAINING THK

PROCEEDINGS FROM JUNE 2 TO JUNE 15, 1784

JOURNAL OF SENATE.

*i-i * WEDNESDAY, June 2^ 1784,
Being the day appointed by the new Constitution for the annual
meeting of the General-Court, the Honorable Meshech Weare, Esq,
late President of the Council, being unable to attend, the Honor
able y(7.y^'rt/^ Bartlett, Esq, the senior member of the said Council, at
tended at Concord, (the place appointed) and a certificate signed by
the Honorable Mesliech Weare, Esq, the late said President, was
read, by which it appeared that the following persons were duly
chosen Senators for the year ensuing, by the votes of the people, viz.
The Honorable
John McClary, ^ I For the County of Rockingham.
Joseph GUman, Esqr s. J ^ °
John Wentworth, j ^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^ Strafford.
Ebenezer Smith, Esqrs. \ •'
Francis Blood, Esq. For the County of Hillsborough.
Simeon Olcott, Esq. For the County of Cheshire.
Moses Dow, Esq. For the County of Grafton,
All which members-elect being 'present, were sworn agreeably to
the Constitution, by the Honorable Josiah Bartlett, Esq, (three
others of the late Council being present) and they respectively signed
the oath & declaration, and then adjourned till to-raorrow, 8 o'clock
A, M, THURSDAY, June 3^ 1784
Met according to adjournraent.
It appearing from the returns of the votes for Senators, that there
were of the number fixed by the Consthution, three for the County
*The journals of the Senate and House for the political year 1784-5. contained in this volume, except the
Senate Journal for the February Session, are copies of the contemporary ofificial publications made according
to the directions of the constitution, and now in the Slate Library, The State has no copy of the original
printed journal of the Senate for the session of February, 1785, The copy herein given is taken from the
manuscript record in the office of the Secretary of State, The star pages in the margin correspond with the
pagination of the manuscript journals in the custody of the State Secretary, — [Editor,

40 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
of Rockingham, one for the County of HiUsborough, and one for the
County of Cheshire wanting, no person having a majorityiof.votes
therefor —
* 1-2 * Therefore, the Senate and House of Representatives assera
bled together in the said Representatives room, and made
choice of the Honorable Woodbury Langdon, Timothy Walker and
John Dudley, Esq'rs, for the County of Rockingham ; the Honorable
Matthew Thornton, Esq. for the County of HUlsborough ; the Honor
able Benjarain Bellows, Esq, for the County of Cheshire,^ to be
senators for the year ensuing. And then proceeded to examine the
votes returned for a President, and upon examining the same, it
appeared that His ExceUency Meshech Weare, Esq. was chosen by a
great majorhy of votes, and was accordingly declared President of
the State ; the meeting of the Senate & House of Representatives.
was then adjourned tih tomorrow 8 o'clock, A. M.
A vote appointing a committee, to join a committee of the board,
to consider of, and make such provision as they shah judge necessary
for the entertainment of the Rev. gentlemen, the clergy, who may
this day attend at this place, was brought up, read & concurred, and
Mr. Olcott and Mr. Dow joined,
FRIDAY, June 4*^, 1784.
The Honorable Woodbury Langdon and Timothy Walker, Esq'rs.
attended, and after taking the oaths and signing the same agreeably
to the Constitution, they took their seats at the board.
A vote appointing a committee to join a committee of the Senate
to wait on the Rev, Mr. Samuel McClintock, and present him with
the thanks of the General-Court for his performance, and request of
him a copy of the discourse dehvered this day, in order to have it
printed, was brought up, read and concurred, and Mr. Langdon and
Mr. Dow Joined.
A vote for Mr. McClintock to receive out of the treasury fifteen
pounds as a compensation for his excellent discourse, delivered before
the Senate and House of Representatives, on the commencement of
the new Constitution, and that the President give order accordingly,
was brought up, read and concurred,
* 1-3 * A vote that the Honorable Josiah Bartlett, Esq, be requested
to tarry in this place a few days, to assist in the qualifications.
of such Senators and Members of the House of Representatives as
are not already qualified, was brought up, read and concurred.
The Senate then joined the House of Representatives, and by
joint ballot made a choice of Ebenezer Thompson, Esq. as Secretary

1784] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE,

41

to serve in that office until another shall be chosen in his room, who
was sworn agreeably to the Constitution by the Hon. Josiah Bart
lett, Esq,
The Honorable Woodbury Langdon, Christopher Toppan and
Moses Leavitt, Esq'rs were then appointed to wait on his E.xcehency
Meshech Weare, Esq. and deliver him the declaration of his election.
The Senate then withdrew.
The Secretary having signified to the Senate that he had appointed
Joseph Pearson, Esq, his deputy, the said Pearson was sworn agree
ably to the Constitution by the Honorable Josiah Bartlett, Esq.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of, and report what method shall be taken in the absence of the
President to forward public business, was brought up, read and con
curred, and Mr. Wentworth, Mr, Walker and Mr. Smith joined.
Adjourned to eight o'clock, A. M.
SATURDAY, June 5'^ 1784,
Met according to adjournment.
The Senate and House met, and agreed to adjourn to Monday
next, 3 o'clock, P. M. and then the Senate returned to their own
room.
* A vote to accept the report of a committee for proceeding * 1-4
on public business, the absence of the President notwith
standing, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider what business is necessary to be done this session, and report
thereon, was brought up. read and concurred, and Mr. Smith, Mr.
Walker, Mr. Olcott, Mr. Gilman and Mr. Dow joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Timothy Walker, Esq. and report thereon, —
Also, of the petition of Sarah Little, was brought up, read and con
curred, and Mr. Wentworth and Mr. Olcott joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of sundry inhabitants of New-London," and
report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, and Mr. Blood
and Mr. Dow was joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to re
ceive of the Rev. Mr. McChntock a copy of his election sermon, and
procure six hundred copies to be printed and lodged in the Secre
tary's office, to be distributed, was brought up, read and concurred,
and Mr. Langdon joined. ^Ham, xiii. 5,

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NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784

A vote for a commhtee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Benjamin Baxter, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, and Mr. Olcott joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Col, Thomas Tash, and all similar matters,
and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, and Mr,
GUman and Mr, Walker joined.
A vote directing the Board of War to lay their accompts before
the General-Court, for settlement, at the next session, was brought
up, read and concurred.
* 1-5 * A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate,
to draft all such bUls as may be ordered to be brought in
this session, was brought up, read and concurred, and Mr. Wentworth,
Mr, Olcott and Mr. Dow joined,
A vote to hear the petition of Sarah Little, on the second Wednes
day of next session, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote to grant the prayer of the pethion of Timothy Walker,
Esq. and giving him leave to bring in a bUl accordingly, was brought
up, read and concurred.
Adjourned, 'till Monday next, 3 o'clock, P. M..
MONDAY June f^ 1784
Met according to adjournraent.
The Senate joined the House of Representatives, and agreed to
adjourn the raeeting of the Senate and House 'tih tomorrow,
3 o'clock. The Senate then returned to their own room.
A vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Aaron Brown, and report thereon, was brought
up, read and concurred, and Mr. Walker joined.
A vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Sherburne Dearborn, and others, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, and Mr. Smith joined.
A vote to hear the petition of Hezekiah Wilkins on the second
Thursday of the next session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a coraraittee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to
report what raethod they judge proper to be taken with respect to
the Continental bills in the Treasury, and in the hands of individuals,
was brought up, read and concurred, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Blood, Mr. Dow
and Mr. Walker joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of R, Freeman, in behalf of the town of Han
over, and all sirailar matters, and report thereon, was brought up,
read and concurred, and Mr, Smith and Mr. Dow joined.

1784] journal of the senate. 43
* A vote to hear the petition of the inhabitants of New * 1-6
London before the General-Court, on the second Thursday
of the next session, and that they in the mean time cause the sub
stance of the petition and order of Court thereon, to be printed in the
New Hampshire Gazette, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of James Robinson, and all simUar matters, was
brought up, read and concurred, and Mr. GUman and Mr. Olcott
joined. Adjourned till tomorrow 8 o'clock A. M.
TUESDAY June 8"^ 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
The Honorable Matthew Thornton, Esq. one of the Senate elect,
attended, and after taking the necessary oaths, took his seat at the
board, A vote to hear the petition of Jeremiah Tibbetts, on the first Fri
day of their next session, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the accompt of Major Jonathan Child, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and concurred, Mr. Gilman and Mr. Walker was
joined. A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Bartholomew Goyer, and report thereon was
brought up, read and concurred, Mr. Blood and Mr. Thornton was
joined, A vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of John Holbrook, and the petition of Joshua
Lamkin, and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred.
Mr. Dow and Mr, Walker was joined.
The President elect being absent, after several arguraents, it was
agreed that the Secretary should take the minds of the Senate, rela
tive to the method of determining the person who should be esteemed
and act as senior Senator ; and it being agreed to determine the
question by bahot, the ballots were taken, and the Honorable
Woodbury Langdon, Esq, was appointed by a majority of votes, who
took the chair accordingly,
* The Senate then joined the House according to adjourn- * 1-7
ment, and proceeded to the choice of a Treasurer : and the
ballots being taken, h appeared that the Hon, John Taylor Gilman,
Esq, was unanimously chosen, to serve in that office untU another
should be chosen in his stead.

44 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
The Senate and House then proceeded to the choice of a Commis
sary General, and the bahots being taken, it appeared that Col, Sup
ply Clapp was chosen to that office, to continue until another should
be chosen in his room. The meeting of the Senate and House ad
journed till tomorrow, 9 o'clock, A. M, then to meet in the Assem
bly Roora. The Senate then retired to their own room,
A vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider the petition of Charles Bowen, and all simUar matters, and
report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, Mr. Blood and
Mr. Thornton was joined,
A resolve to enable the towns of Gilsura and Surry to hold a meet
ing to choose a Representative, they having lost their meeting by
misfortune or neglect, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Capt. John Moore, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred. Mr, Gilraan and Mr, Walker was
joined, A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Major Jonathan Wentworth, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, Mr. Walker and Mr,
Smith was joined,
A vote for a coraraittee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of the selectmen of Winchester, and all simUar
raatters, and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred.
Mr, Olcott and Mr. McClary was joined.
A vote for a coramittee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Elizabeth Balla[r]d, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Wentworth and Mr, Blood
was joined.
A vote for a coraraittee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Joshua I. Prince, and all similar matters, and
report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, and Mr. Went
worth and Mr. Thornton was joined,
* 1-8 * A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate,
to consider of the pethion of Robert Gerrish, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, Mr. GUman and Mr.
Dow joined.
A vote for a commhtee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider the pethion of Elizabeth Combs, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, Mr. Blood and Mr. McClary joined.
Adjourned 'tih to-morrow 8 o'clock A. M.

1784] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 45
WEDNESDAY June 9"^ 1784,
Met according to adjournment.
A vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Richard York, Jr in
behalf of Robert Macklin, and giving him leave to bring in a bill
accordingly, was brought up, read and concurred.
The Hon, John Dudley, Esq, attended the Senate, and declined
accepting a seat according to his appointment.
The Senate then met with the house of Representatives, in the
said Representatives room, and proceeded by joint ballot to the
choice of a Senator, in the stead of the Hon. John Dudley, Esq. who
had declined to accept said office ; and the ballots being taken, it
appeared that the Hon. John Langdon, Esq, was chosen by a majority
of votes.
The Senate and House of Representatives then proceeded by joint
ballot, to elect five persons as a Council for his Excellency the Presi
dent, agreeably to the Constitution, —
The ballots being taken for the first Counsellor, it appeared that
the Hon. John McClary, Esq, was chosen by a majority of votes. —
The ballots being taken for the second Counsellor, it appeared that
the Hon, Francis Blood, Esq. was chosen by a majority of votes, 
The ballots being taken for the third Counsellor, it appeared that
Joseph Badger, Esq, was elected by a majority of votes.
* The meeting of the Senate and House adjourned 'tih 3 * 1-9
o'clock, P. M.
The Senate then retired to their own room.
A vote to hear the petition of Jonathan Child, Esq, in behalf of
Jonathan Mason, on the first Friday of their next session, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to hear the petition of James Richardson, before the Gen
eral Court, on the first Friday of their next session, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Tristram Dalton and
Nathaniel Tracy, for dividing Apthorp into two towns, and giving
them leave to bring in a bih accordingly, was brought up, read and
concurred. A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the accompt of Joshua Lamkin and John Holbrook, and re
port thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, and Mr. Went
worth joined.
A vote for granting the prayer of the petition of Lieut. John
Moore, and allowing him depreciation on his wages from the i'* of

46 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
January, 1777, to the 13*^ of September, 1778, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider the petition of Lieut. Daniel McMurphy, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and concurred. Mr. McClary and Mr, GUman
joined. A vote to hear the pethion of Elisha Allis, before the General
Court, on the second Wednesday of next session, was brought up,
read and concurred.
At 3 o'clock, P. M., agreeable to adjournment, the Senate and
House of Representatives met to ballot for the two remaining Coun
seUors, and the baUots being taken, it appeared that Nathaniel Pea
body, Esq, was elected the fourth Counsellor by a majority of votes.
 The ballots being taken, it appeared that Moses Chase, Esq.
was chosen the fifth Counsellor by a majority of votes.
Adjourned 'till toraorrow, 9 o'clock.
The Senate then returned to their own room,
* i-io * A vote that the Hon. Woodbury Langdon, Esq, President
pro. tem. of the State, be, and he hereby is, authorized and re
quested to administer the oaths necessary to qualify the persons ap
pointed a Council for the President of said State, to act in said office,
was ^ent down for concurrence by Mr. Olcott.
A vote to hear the petition of Richard Cutts Shannon before the
General Court, on the second Wednesday of the next session, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the abstract of Brigadier-General James Reid, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred. Mr. McClary and Mr.
Dow joined.
A vote to hear the petition of Joshua Lamkin, and John Holbrook,
before the General-Court, on the first Friday of the next session, was
brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till toraorrow, 8 o'clock, A. M.
THURSDAY, June io^ 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
A vote directing the Treasurer to issue a State Note to Reuben
Kidder, for seventeen pounds, nineteen shUlings, in lieu of one form
erly raade out for said Kidder, and which was consumed by fire, was
brought up, read and concurred.
An act to enable Timothy Walker, Esq. as guardian of Paul Rolfe,
to sell and convey certain lands belonging to his said Ward for his.

1784J journal of the senate. 47
support and education, having been read three times,  voted, that
the same be enacted.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of a petition, signed Josiah Brown, Chairman of a Convention,
and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Thorn
ton and Mr. Blood joined.
* A vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Oliver Ash- * i-i i
ley, and giving him leave to bring in a bill, to enable him to
keep a ferry over Connecticut River, was brought up, read and con
curred. A vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate, to
consider what each member of the General Court shall receive per
day for attendance ; and also what shall be paid for travel, was
brought up, read and concurred. Mr, Smith, Mr. McClary and Mr.
Walker joined.
A vote for Lieut. Daniel McMurphy to receive out of the Treas
ury, Twenty pounds, and the remainder by a note in coramon form of
what is due to him, as an half pay wounded officer, was brought up,
read and concurred, and warrant granted.
A vote giving leave to the town of Boscawen to send a member to
the General Assembly was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a commhtee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition and accompt of" Samuel Eraerson, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Smith and Mr.
GUman joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Amos Whittemore, and other inhabitants of
Lyndeborough, and the papers accompanying the same, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Olcott, Mr.
Smith and Mr. Thornton was joined.
A vote to abate one eighth of the tax or proportion of the town of
Claremont, as established by the last valuation, until a new propor
tion shah be made in the State, was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned till to-morrow, 8 o'clock, A. M.
FRIDAY, June ii* 1784.
Met according to adjournment,
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider what aUowance shah be made to such of the late Hon. Coun
cU, who attended to qualify the Members of this Court, according to
the Constitution, was brought up, read and concurred, and Mr.
McClary joined.

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"¦•^ I-I 2 * An act for paying the interest and sinking part of the prin
cipal of this State's debt, having been read three times, voted that
the sarae be enacted.
An act for raising the sum of twenty-five thousand pounds, for
the use of this State the present year, having been read three tim.es,
voted that the sarae be enacted.
A vote appointing the Hon. Abiel Foster, Jonathan Blanchard,
John Langdon and Moses Dow, Esq'rs. Delegates to represent this
State in Congress for one year, from the first Monday in November
next, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to
norainate suitable persons for a Coraraittee to revise the laws of this
State, and prepare such bills as they may judge necessary for that
purpose ; and also any bUls directed by the General Court, was
brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Thornton and Mr. Wentworth
joined. A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Abigail Clayes, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Dow and Mr. Blood joined.
A vote on the petition of Major Jonathan Wentworth, giving him
leave to discharge a bond he formerly gave for excise, in State secur
ities, was brought up, read and non-concurred.
An act to vacate a deed given by Robert Macklin to Richard Foss,
of certain land in Brentwood, having been read three times, voted
that the sarae be enacted.
A vote for a coramittee to join a coramittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Benjamin Butler, Esq, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Blood and Mr Olcott
joined.
* I-I 3 * A vote for hearing the petition of Benjamin Sumner before
the GenerahCourt this day, was brought up, read and con
curred. A vote for a coramittee to join a coramittee of the Senate, to con
sider what business is yet necessary to be done this session, and
when and to where the Court shah adjourn, was brought up, read and
concurred. Mr. Smhh, Mr. Walker, Mr. Gilman and Mr. Went
worth joined.
A vote for a comraittee to join a comrahtee of the Senate to
nominate proper persons to whom Dediraus's shall issue, to enable
them to qualify such officers as may be appointed in this State was
brought up, read and concurred. Mr Gilman, Mr. Wentworth' Mr
Thornton, Mr. Olcott and Mr Dow joined. ' "
A vote granting to Benjarain Sumner the exclusive right of keep-

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ing a ferry over a certain part of Connecticut river, and giving him
leave to bring in a bih accordingly was brought up, read and con
curred. A vote to pay the accompt of Thoraas Bartlett, Esq. for his service
as a Special Justice of the Superior Court, amounting to five pounds,
nine shUlings, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Ephraim HUdreth, and all similar matters,
and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, Mr, Gil
man and Mr, Dow joined.
A resolve directing the Treasurer of this State, in what manner
and form he shah issue certificates for paying the interest on State
securities, was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned till to-morrow, 8 o'clock A, M.
* SATURDAY, June 12'^, 1784. * 1-14
Met according to adjournraent.
An act to establish an equitable method of making rates and taxes,
and determining who shall be legal voters in town and parish affairs,
and also for repealing certain acts herein-after-mentioned, having
been read three times, it was voted that the same be enacted.
A vote for the petition of James Robinson, (praying to have an
exclusive right to keep a ferry over Merrimack river, from Bow to
Pembroke) to be heard before the General-Court on the first Friday
of next sessions, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of William Gallup, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Smith and Mr. Walker joined,
A vote ascertaining the manner of paying the Members of the
General-Court, and their several officers, was brought up, read and
concurred. A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of , and report, what method shall be taken, respecting the old
Continental money in the hands of individuals, was brought up, read
and concurred and Mr, Walker joined.
A vote of the House for paying the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq. six
pounds, and the Hon, Woodbury Langdon, Esq, thirty shUhngs, for
their services in attending the General Court, (as merabers of the late
Council) to administer the necessary oaths to the members of this
Court, was brought up, read and concurred with this amendment,
that there be paid to the Hon. Woodbury Langdon, Esq. three
pounds instead of thirty shillings above voted, was sent down for
concurrence by Mr. Walker, and brought up concurred.

50 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
A vote to hear the petition of sundry inhabitants of Lyndeborough
(praying to have a new parish erected) on the second Wednesday of
the next session, was brought up, read and concurred.
*I-I5 * A vote appointing Joseph Gilman, Esq. Capt. Josiah Gil
man and Joseph Pearson, Esq, a committee for settling the
accompts of the State with the United States, with Stephen Gorham,.
Esq. Coraraissioner of the United States, and directing them to make
a tender to said Gorham, of the Continental bills in the Treasury of
this State, towards our debt to the United States, at the rate of forty
for one, agreeably to the resolves of Congress, was brought up, read
and concurred,
A vote to abate the tax on a place called Hoit's Gore, it appear
ing that said Gore was included in the town of Grafton, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Elizabeth Ballard, and
giving her leave to bring in a bUl, enabling her to sell certain lands
of her minor children, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to pay the accompt of Samuel Eraerson, for his service in
the army, as assistant to the New Hampshire Commissary, amount
ing to three hundred fifty eight pounds, seventeen shiUings, and
seven pence ; and directing the Treasurer to issue a note on interest
for said sum, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote appointing the Hon. Senior Senator and the Hon. Speaker
of the House, Commissioners to administer the necessary oaths to
the persons appointed a Council to his Excellency the President, was
brought up, rea<J and concurred.
A vote, that when the business of this session is over, the General-
Court will adjourn to meet at Portsmouth, on Wednesday, the 20*
day of October next, at three o'clock P, M,, was brought up, read
and concurred,
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider what ahowance shah be made to the Committee who waited on
his Excellency, the President, to inform him of his election, and
report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, and Mr, Went
worth joined.
A vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Leonard Whiting,
and giving him leave to bring in a bUl to restore him to his law in an
action which he prosecuted against Benjamin Whiting, an absentee,
was brought up, read and concurred.
* 1-16 * A vote to pay Derrick Oxford, a soldier, who served three
years in Col. CiUey's regiment, his pay as other soldiers
have been paid, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Benjamin Butler,
Esq, and giving him leave to pay a certain part of a debt he owes the

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State for excise, in State securities, was brought up, read and con
curred. A vote to pay Deacon James Knowles, thirty-eight shillings for his
service as a special justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
for the County of Strafford, was brought up, read and non-concurred.
A vote appointing the Hon. Samuel Livermore, Josiah Bartlett
and John Sullivan, Esqr's. a committee to revise the laws of this
State, and to draw such bills as they may judge necessary, and
report the same next session, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote to pay the accompt of John Calfe, Esq. amounting to four
pounds, five shillings and six pence, for recording the Journals of the
House of Representatives, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to accept the report of the committee on the petition of
James Robertson, giving him leave to pay a sum of paper money into
the treasury for taxes, and directing the treasurer to rectify a mis
take with said Robertson, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to allow certain constables sums of money paid to Jonathan
Child, Esq, as Purchasing Commissary, in the County of Grafton,
was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote to abate part of the taxes for several years past to the town
of Piermont, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote to hear the petition of Jonathan ChUd, Esq, (who prays to
be restored to his law in an action prosecuted against him by Jona
than Moulton, Esq.) on the first Friday of next session, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A vote appointing the Hon. George Atkinson, John Pickering and
George Gains, Esq'rs. a committee to prepare a device and inscrip
tion for a Seal for this State, and lay the same before the Court next
session, and that in the mean time, the Seal used under the late Con
stitution be made use of, was brought up, read and concurred.
* Benjamin Bellows, Esq. one of the Senators elect, at * 1-17
tended and declined to accept of the office.
The Senate and House then met in the Representatives room to
ballot for a Senator, in the room of Benjamin Behows, Esq. and the
ballots being taken it appeared that the Hon. Enoch Hale, Esq, was
chosen by a majority of votes.
The Senate then returned to their own room.
A vote appointing the Members of the Council and several other
persons in the State, to be commissioned to administer the necessary
oaths to all persons who may be appointed to offices in the State,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to remit to Aaron Brown the interest promised on a bond
given by him to the Treasurer of the State, for excise in the County
of Hillsborough, was brought up, read and concurred.

52 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
A vote on the petition of the Selectmen of Dearing, appointing
John Duncan, Esq, Capt, Joseph Symonds and Mr. Robert Wahace,
a committee to determine the proper place for a meeting house, to be
erected on in said Dearing, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to pay the accorapt of Caleb Buswell, amounting to forty
shillings, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote that Mr. Wight have and receive out of the treasury thirty
shillings for his services as chaplain to the General Court this ses
sion, was brought up, read and concurred.
* 1-18 A vote that the Hon. Woodbury Langdon, Esq. * Christo
pher Toppan, Esq. and Moses Leavitt, Esq. have each forty
shillings out of the treasury, for their time and expences in notifying
his Excellency the President of his election, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A vote to put off the hearing of the petition of William Dana until
the second Tuesday of next session, was brought up, read and con
curred, A vote to adjourn 'till Tuesday next, ten o'clock, A, M,, then to
meet at the Court House in Exeter, was brought up, read and con
curred.
TUESDAY, June 15* 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
The Senate and House of Representatives assembled in the Rep
resentatives' room, and the oaths necessary, agreeably to the Consti
tution, were administered to His ExceUency the President, by the
Hon. Woodbury Langdon, Esq. Senior Senator, in presence of the
two Houses of Assembly.
The Senate then returned to their own room.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. In Senate, June 15, 1784,
Resolved, that the soldiers who enlisted in this State to serve in
the Continental army, and who actually performed the service accord
ing to theh several engagements for two years, or for any term of
time less than two years, agreeably to any Act, Resolve or
*i-i9 vote* of the Legislature of this State, and who have not
been rewarded and paid according to any such Act Re
solve or Vote, shah be fully recompensed and paid as much as
promised, as soon as their respective claims can be ascertained and
their accompts settled. '

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And the committee on soldiers accompts are hereby directed to
certify to the President the baUance due as aforesaid to any such sol
dier, after deducting the town bounties and supplies, in the same
manner as the accompts of those who served three years or during
the war were settled.
And the President on receipt of such certificate, is requested to
give order for the Treasurer to issue notes for the principal and cer
tificates for the interest, in the same manner as notes and certificates
were issued for those soldiers who served three years or during the
war. And be it further resolved, that such towns as have not sent in
their accompts for bounties and supplies for such soldiers as engaged
for a less term of time than three years ; have liberty to send in the
same to the Committee appointed to settle depreciation 'till the 15"'
day of September next, and that no accompts for bounties and sup
plies be by them allowed, but such as are properly vouched or
attested to by the Selectmen. Sent down for Concurrence,
M, WEARE, President.
In the House of Representatives,
the same day. Read and Concurred,
GEORGE ATKINSON, Speaker
*The foregoing is a true Journal of the Votes and Proceed- * 1-20
ings of the Senate at the first session of the General Court
for the year 1784,
Attest: E. THOMPSON, Sect'y.

THE JOURNAL OF THE
House of Representatives

CONTAINING THE

PROCEEDINGS FROM JUNE 2 TO JUNE 15, 1784

JOURNAL
OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FROM JUNE 2 TO JUNE 15, 1784.

Chap lai

Hon. George Atkinson, Portsmouth, Speaker.
John Calfe, Hampstead, Clerk.
Moses Shaw, Kensington, Assistant Clerk.
Rev  Wight, 1
Rev  Shuttleworth,
Rev, Joseph Buckminster, Portsmouth,
Rev, Samuel Haven, Portsmouth,
Rev, Samuel McClintock, Greenland,
Preacher of the Election Sermon
REPRESENTATIVES,
[From the official printed publication of the House Journal, p, 2, J
The fohowing Gentlemen were returned as Representatives from
the several Towns and Places set against each of their Names, agree
ably to the New Constitution,
Towns and Places represented. Names of Representatives.
i George Atkinson, Esq.
George Gains, Esq.
John Pickering, Esq.

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[1784

Towns and Places represented,
Exeter ,
Londonderry ,
Chester ,
Newington Greenland NewcastleRyeNorth Harapton
Harapton
Hampton Falls
Seabrook
Stratham Kensington .
South Harapton
East Kingstown
KingstownBrintwood Epping ,
Newmarket
Nottingham ,
Deerfield Northwood )
Epsom V
Allentown j
Chichester \
Pittsfield J ¦
Canterbury 1
Northfield /
Loudon ,
Concord PerabrookCandia ,
Raymond Poplin
HawkeSandownHampstead
Atkinson PlaistowNewtownSalem
Windham

Names of Representatives,
Mr Jedediah Jewett.
Col, Daniel Runnels.
Mr. Archibald McMurphy,
Capt. John UnderhiU,
Ephraim Pickering, Esq,

^ Samuel Jenness, Esq,
Moses Leavitt, Esq.
Christopher Toppan, Esq.
Capt, Jonathan Leavitt,
Mark Wiggin, Esq.
Mr. Moses Shaw.
Joseph Merrill, Esq,
Capt, John Eastman,
Capt, Levi MorrUl.
Capt, Seth Fogg,
Col, James Hill,
Col, Thomas Bartlett,
Jeremiah Eastman, Esq,

Major John Cram.
Capt, Jeremiah Clough,
Major Nathan Batcheldor
Timothy Walker, Esq.
Samuel Daniels, Esq.
Col. Nathaniel Emerson.
Mr. John Scribner.
Reuben Clough, Esq,
Nathaniel Peabody, Esq.
Capt. John AUen.
James Betton, Esq.

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Towns and Places represented.
Pelham .
Dover
Durham .
Somersworth ,
Rochester Barrington Sanborntown
Gilmantown .
LeeMadburyMeredith
New Hampton
SandwichTamworth Moultonborough ^
Tuftonborough '
Wolfeborough
Ossipee-Gore BamsteadNew Durham
New Durham-Gore
Wakefield )
Middleton V .
Effingham )
Conway Eaton Burtonand Location
Nottingham- West
Litchfield
Derryfield
Dunstable Merrimac
Bedford
Goffstown Holhs .
Amherst Raby \
Mason J
New Ipswich
Duxbury MUe Slip
Wihon .

Names of Representatives.
Mr. Jacob Butler.
Capt. Jaraes Calfe.
Mr. Ebenezer Smith.
Major Jonathan Wentworth.
James Knowles, Esq.
Capt. Joshua Foss.
Mr. John Sanborn.
Gen, Joseph Badger.
Dr. James Brackett,

Daniel Beede, Esq,
Col. Bradbury Richardson.
Col. Thomas Tash.
Capt. David Copp.
Col. David Page.
Capt. Samuel Marsh.
Capt. Benjamin French.
Mr. James Martin.
Robert McGregore, Esq.
Capt. Daniel Emerson.
Mr. Robert Means.
Benjamin Mann, Esq.
Mr. Ephraim Adams.
Capt. Philip Putnam.

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[1784

Towns and Places represented,
Lyndeborough
Teraple ' )
Peterborough Shp )
Peterborough )
Society Land J
Hancock )
Antrim V
Dearing )
Henniker \
Hillsborough J
New Bradford
New Boston
FrancestownWeare ,
Hopkintown
Dunbarton \
Bow j
Salisbury
Boscawen FishersfieldPerrystown '
WarnerNew London
Andoverand Gore
Charlestown
Alstead ,
Keene ,
Swanzey
Richraond
Jaffrey .
Winchester
Westmoreland Chesterfield
Rindge ,
Walpole Claremont
Cornish /
Grantham (
NewportCroydon
Wendeh Unhy

Names of Representatives,
Capt, Levi Spaulding.
Mr. Francis Cragin,
Mr, Matthew Wallace.
John Duncan, Esq.
Lieut. Robert WaUace.

Mr. Jonathan Dow.
Mr. Aaron Greeley.
Mr. David Storey.
Capt. Matthew PettingUl.
Capt, Francis Davis.

Elijah Grout, Esq.
Major Amos Shephard.
¦ Mr. Benjamin Hall.
Major Elisha Whhcomb.
Major Oliver Capron,
Mr, William Smiley,
Mr. Simon WUlard,
Mr. Joseph Wilbore.
Col. Samuel King,
Capt. Benjamin Sumner.
Moses Chase, Esq.
Mr. Stephen Powers.

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Towns and Places represented,
Acworth 1
Lempster >
Marlow )
Surry )
Gilsom )
Stoddard
Washington Dubhn \
Packerfield J
Marlborough FitzwilliamProtectworth HinsdaleHolderness ^
Campton !
Thornton (
Morristown J
Plymouth \
Rumney >
Wentworth )
New Chester
AlexandriaCockermouth Enfield ^ '
Canaan |
Cardigan ^
DorchesterGrafton HanoverLebanon
Lyme 1
Orford /
HaverhUl Piermont
Warren Coventry
Bath LymanGunthwait
Apthorp Lancaster
Northumberland j
StratfordDartmouth Colburn
Cockburn

Names of Representatives,
Lieut. David Grout.
Lemuel Holmes.
Capt. Jacob Copeland.
Mr. Reuben Morss.
Mr. Samuel KendaU.
Moses Baker, Esq.
Col, Joseph Senter.
Carr Huse, Esq.
William Ayers, Esq.
Mr. Russell Freeman,
Elisha Payne, Esq.
Major Jonathan Child.
Col. Timothy Bedel.

>

Capt. John Young,

state of new HAMPSHIRE, IN AMERICA,

A

JOURNAL

Proceedings of the Honorable House of Representatives
of the State of New Hampshire, at their first session
UNDER the new CONSTITUTION ; BEGAN AND HELD AT CONCORD,
on the FIRST Wednesday in June, being the second day of
SAID MONTH, IN THE EIGHTH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF
THE United States of America, Anno Domini, One Thou
sand Seven Hundred and Eighty Four,

WEDNESDAY, June 2, 1784.
The Members elected assembled at time and place, agreeably to
the precepts issued for that purpose. The Hon. Josiah Bartlett,
Esq ; President, P. T. with three of the Honorable Council, came in
and administered the proper oaths agreeably to the Constitution ;
they then withdrew, and motion was made for the appointment of a
chairman, and the Hon. Joseph Badger, Esq ; was chosen for that
purpose. The ballots were then called for and taken for the choice of a
Speaker, and upon counting it appeared that the Hon. George At
kinson, Esq ; is chosen Speaker of this House,

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The baUots were then taken for the choice of a Clerk, and upon
counting it appeared that John Calfe, Esq ; is chosen Clerk of this
House, Voted, That Mr, John Pickering, Col, Tash, Mr, Duncan, Mr, Wil
bore, and Col, ChUd, be a Committee to make inquiry relative to the
choice of Senators for this State, and report thereon to this House,
On motion made for the choice of an Assistant-Clerk,
Voted, That Mr, Moses Shaw, be Assistant-Clerk of this House,
Adjourned to eight o'clock tomorrow raorning,
* THURSDAY, June 3, 1784 * 12 : 575
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col, Peabody, Col, Walker, Mr, Adams, Mr. Pick
ering and Mr. Means, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall appoint, be a committee to consider of and make such provision
as they shall judge necessary for the entertainraent of the reverend
gentlemen of the clergy who may this day attend at this place.
Sent up by Col. Tash,
Read the returns on several precepts for the choice of Representa
tives, The honorable Senators elected by the people at large, and the
House being met, agreeably to the Constitution, to fill up the vacan
cies in the Senate, by joint baUot made choice of the Hon, Wood
bury Langdon and Timothy Walker, Esq'rs. Senators for the County
of Rockingham ; after which, adjourned to four o'clock, P. M,
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col, Toppan, Mr Pickering, and Col, Payne, with such
of the Senate as they shall appoint, be a committee to wait upon the
Rev, Mr. McClintock, and present him with the thanks of the Gen
eral-Court for his performance, and request of him a copy of the dis
course delivered this day, in order to have it printed.
Sent up by Mr. McMurphy,
The Senate and House being again met according to adjournment,
to fill up the vacancies in the Senate, &c, by joint ballot made choice
of the Hon, John Dudley, Esq ; Senator for the county of Rocking
ham ; the Hon. Matthew Thornton, Esq ; for the County of HUlsbor
ough ; and the Hon, Benjamin Bellows, Esq ; for the
county of Cheshire, *They then proceeded to count the * 12 : 576
votes for a President, and it appeared that His Excel
lency, Meshech Weare, Esq ; had a majority of votes ; whereupon he
was declared President of this State, and published accordingly.
After which, adjourned to eight o'clock to-morrow morning.

64 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [^784
FRIDAY, June 4, 1784,
The House raet according to adjournraent.
Voted, That the Rev, Mr. McClintock, have and receive out of the
Treasury the sura of fifteen pounds, as a compensation for his excel
lent Discourse delivered before the Senate and House of Representa
tives on the commencement of the new Constitution, and that the
President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Capt. Allen.
Voted, That Col. Peabody, Gen, Badger, Mr, McGregore, Major
Gains, and Col. Payne, be a coraraittee to prepare and lay before this
House such rules as they raay think necessary for the regulation and
government thereof
Votcd, That the Hon, Josiah Bartlett, Esq ; be requested to tarry
in this place for a few days to assist in the qualification of such Sen
ators and merabers of the House of Representatives, as are not
already qualified.
The Senate and House being again met to elect necessary officers,
agreeably to the Constitution, by joint ballot, made choice of the
Hon. Ebenezer Thompson, Esq ; Secretary for this State, unth
another shall be appointed in his stead.
They then agreed to appoint the Hon, Woodbury Langdon, Esq ;
Christopher Toppan, Esq ; and Col. Moses Leavitt, a committee to
wait on His Excellency Meshech Weare, Esq ; and deliver to him the
declaration of his election as President of this State,
After which agreed to adjourn and meet again at eight o'clock to
morrow morning.
* 12: 577 * Upon reading and considering the petition of the Se
lectmen and others, inhabitants of New Boston, against
the adraission of Jonathan Gove, to a seat in this House, returned as
representative for said town ; and it appearing after a full hearing of
the parties, that the said Gove, had been convicted of uttering and
passing counterfeit money, knowing the same to be such, which in
the opinion of this House disqualifies hira for a seat therein, —
Therefore, Voted, That he be not admitted a meraber of this House ; and that
a copy of this vote be raade out and sent to the selectmen of New-
Boston, in order that a person may be elected to represent said town
in General-Court agreeably to the Constitution.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P, M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Col. Peabody, Gen. Badger, Mn Marsh, Major Whit
comb, and Col, Senter, with such of the Honorable Senate as they
shah join, be a committee to consider of and report to this House,

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what method shall be taken in the absence of the President in order
to forward the public business.
Sent up by Capt, Pettingill,
Voted, That Dr, Brackett, Capt. Pickering, Col, Runnels, Col, Pea
body, and Mr, E, Grout, with such of the honorable Board as they
shall join, be a comraittee to consider of the account of Charles
Bowen, and all similar matters : Also, of all petitions of sick and
wounded officers and soldiers, and report thereon,
.Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
Voted, That Col. Bartlett, Mr. Jewett, and Mr. Mann, with such
of the honorable Senate as they shah join, be a coramittee to con
sider the account of Robert Gerrish, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr, McMurphy,
Adjourned to eight o'clock to-morrow morning,
* SATURDAY, June 5, 1784. *I2: 578
The House met according to adjournment.
The committee to consider of and report what method shall be
taken in the absence of the President, to forward the public business,
reported as their opinion, that the Legislature may and ought to pro
ceed to transact the important business to them committed, and
compleat the same as soon as may be, the absence of the President
notwithstanding. Signed, J. Wentworth, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be re
ceived and accepted.
Sent up by Capt. Underhih.
Voted, That Col. Hill, Mr, Pickering, Gen. Badger, Capt. Putnam,
Mr, Hah, and Col, Payne, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider what business is most neces
sary to be first entered upon and done at this session, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr, Cram,
Voted, That Mr, J, Pickering, Mr. Betton, and Mr, Jewett, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shah join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of the Hon, Timothy Walker, Esq ; Also of
the petition of Sarah Little, and report thereon.
Sent up bv Col, Hill,
Voted, That Mr. Chase, Col. Payne, Mr Wallace, Mr. Knowles,
and Mr Jenness, with such of the honorable Senate as they shah
join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Levi Harvey, and
others, inhabitants of New-London, and report thereon.
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Voted, That Col, Peabody, Major Wentworth, Capt. Spaulding,
Major Shephard, and Col, Senter, with such of the Honor-
* 12 : 579 able Senate as they shall join, be a committee to * con
sider of the pethion of Joshua-Jewett Prime, and all
similar matters, and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt. Emerson,
Voted, That Mr, E, Pickering, Mr, Grout, and Col, Bartlett, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shah join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of Benjamin Baxter, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr Jenness.
Voted, That Mr, Pickering and Major Gains, with such of the hon
orable Senate as they shah join, be a committee to receive from the
Rev, Mr. McClintock, a copy of the discourse by him delivered at
the commencement of the New Consthution, and procure six hun
dred printed copies of the same, forty of which they are to present
the Rev. Mr. McClintock with, the remainder to be lodged at the
Secretary's office, to be distributed, one to each member of the Gen
eral Court, one to each minister, and one to each town and parish
within this State,
Sent up by Mr, Jenness.
Voted, That Capt. Copp, Col, Runnels, and Major Whitcomb, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee
to consider of the petition of Col, Thomas Tash and all simUar mat
ters, and report thereon.
Sent up by Col. Tash.
The Senate and House being again met to elect the necessary offi
cers, agreeably to the Constitution, after some conversation on the
matter, agreed to adjourn to Monday next at three o'clock, P. M.
Voted, That the Board of War be directed to lay their accounts
before the General Court at their next session, in order for a settle
ment. Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
Voted, That Mr, J, Pickering, Mr. Smith, Col, Peabody, Col.
Payne, and Major Gains, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to draught all such public bills
* 12 : 580 as may be thought necessary to be passed at this session,
and lay * the same before this House,
Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Upon reading and considering the petition of the Hon, Timothy
Walker, Esq ;
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the pethioner
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
Sent up by Col. Tash.
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Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the second Wednesday of their next session, and that in
the meantime she cause that the substance of the pethion and order
of Court thereon, be published in the " New-Hampshire Gazette,"
three weeks successively, that any person or persons may there ap
pear and shew cause (h any they have,) why the prayer thereof raay
not be granted.
Sent up by Mr. Wallace,
Adjourned to Monday next, at three o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, June 7, 1784.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Mr. Jewett, Capt. Copp, and Capt, Spaulding, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shah join, be a coramittee to
consider of the petition of Sherburn Dearborn, and others, and report
thereon. Sent up by Major Wentworth.
Voted, That Gen. Badger, Major Gains, and Capt, Mann, whh
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to
consider of the petition of Aaron Brown, and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt. Foss.
Voted, That Col. Peabody, Major Whitcomb, Major Gains,
Mr. Smith, and Mr. Adams, with such of *the honorable * 12 : 581
Senate as they shall join, be a committee to consider of
the petition of R. Freeman, in behalf of the Town of Hanover, and
all similar matters, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr, Ayers,
Voted, That Mr. Duncan, Mr. Beede, and Mr. Betton, with such
of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Elizabeth Combs, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Duncan,
The Senate and House being again met according to adjournment,
to elect necessary officers agreeably to the constitution, but there
being some of the members of the Senate and House absent, those
met agreed to adjourn tUl tomorrow three o'clock, P. M,
Voted, That Major Wiggin, Capt, Copp, Mr, Duncan, Mr Hah,
and Mr. Freeman, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider of the petitions of James Robertson
and all similar matters, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Mann.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Hezekiah Wilkins,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the second Thursday of their next session, and that in the

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meantirae he cause that Ebenezer Charapney, Esq ; be served with a
copy of the petition, and order of the Court thereon, that he may
then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted ; and that the service of the execution be stayed
until the determination of the General-Court,
Sent up by Col. King,
Voted, That Col, Peabody, Major Gains, Mr. Mann, Col. Child,
and Mr Jewett, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join,
be a committee to consider of and report what method
* 12 : 582 they judge proper to be taken with * respect to the Con
tinental bills now in the Treasury, or in the hands of indi
viduals belonging to this State.
Sent up by Col. Child,
Upon reading and considering the petition of Levi Harvey, and
others, inhabitants of New London,
Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon before the General-
Court, on the second Thursday of their next session ; and that in the
mean time the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition
and order of Court thereon, be published three weeks successively in
the "New-Hampshire Gazette," that any person or persons raay
then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer there
of raay not be granted.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness,
Adjourned to eight o'clock to-morrow morning.
TUESDAY, June 8, 1784
The House met according to adjournment.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jeremiah Tibbetts,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the first Friday of their next session ; and that in the mean
time, the petitioner cause that the substance of the petition and order
of Court thereon, be pubhshed three weeks successively in the " New-
Hampshire Gazette," that any person or persons may then appear
and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not
be granted.
Sent up by Mr. Foss.
Voted, That Mr Jewett, Mr, McMurphy, Mr, Pickering, Col,
Peabody, and Col, Bartlett, whh such of the honorable Senate as
they shall join, be a comraittee to consider of the account of Major
Jonathan Child, and papers accompanying the same, and report
thereon,
* 12 : 583 Sent up by Mr. Child.*
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and lay before this House, a resolve impowering the Treasurer to
issue certificates for the interest on securities issued by this State ;
which certificates are to be received at the Treasury in payment of
all public taxes : And also to issue certificates for fifteen per centum,
of the principal of all State securities owned by the inhabitants there
of, if requested ; which last mentioned certificates are to be received
in payment of any taxes prior to the current year, and to be worded
accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Duncan,
Yoted, That General Badger, Mr, Jewett, and Mr. Young, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of Bartholoraew Goyer, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
Yoted, That Mr. Young, Gen. Badger, Col. Payne, Mr Jewett, and
Col. Runnels, with such of the honorable Senate, as they shall join,
be a committee to consider of the petition of John Holbrook ; also
the petition of Joshua Lamkin, and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt, Underbill,
Yoted, That Mr, Betton, Col, Runnels and Mr, Daniels, with such
of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to con
sider of the petition of Capt. John Moore, and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt, Spaulding.
Voted, That Mr. McGregore, Mr. Beede, and Col, Senter, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of the selectmen of Winchester, and all simi.
lar matters, and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt. PettingUl.
Voted, That Capt, Foss, Mr. Jenness, and Mr. Knowles, with such
of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to consider
of the petition of Major Jonathan Wentworth, and report there
on. Sent up by Major Wentworth,-* * i : 584
Yoted, That Mr. Jenness, Capt. Spaulding, and Mr. Mar
tin, with such of the honorable Senate as they shah join, be a cora
mittee to consider of the petition of Elizabeth Ballard, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr. Greeley. '
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Mr. McMurphy, Col, Payne, Gen, Badger,
Col, King, Mr, Duncan, and Col. Toppan, with such of the honorable
Senate as they shall join, be a committee to consider what each
member of the honorable Senate and House of Representatives, and
their officers, shall receive per day for their attendance at this ses
sion, and in what manner ; also, how much they shah receive per mUe
for their travel to and from the General Court, and report thereon.

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Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
Whereas on the fifth day of April last past, a precept issued to
the selecttnen of Surrey and Gilsom, in the County of Cheshire, di
recting them to notify a meeting of the male inhabitants of tzuenty-
one years of age and upwards, paying each one for himself a poll-
tax in Surrey and Gilsom, giving them fifteen days notice to meet
at some convenient place in Surrey, sometime before the mo7ith of
June current, to elect one person qualified agreeably to tlie directions
of the New Constitution, to represent said Surrey and Gilsom in
General-Assembly , now sitting at Concord ; and whereas by acci
dent or mistake, no meeting was ever legally warned for the election
of such Representative, whereby said towns have lost the opportunity
of sending a Representative till the next annual election, -ujiless
specially impotvered for tliat purpose ;
Wherefore be it Resolved, By the Senate and House of
* 12 : 585 Representatives in General-Court convened,* that the
selectmen of Surrey and Gilsom, be and hereby are im
powered and directed to notify and warn said inhabitants, giving
them fifteen days notice, to raeet in some convenient place in said
Surrey, sometirae before the first day of September next, to elect by
ballot one person qualified agreeably to the directions of the present
Constitution, to represent said Surrey and Gilsom in the General-
Assembly, until the first Wednesday of June next ; and that said
Selectraen are hereby directed to make true return to the House of
Representatives, of the person so elected, at their next session, and
to notify him to attend accordingly.
Sent up by Capt. Fogg,
The committee for preparing rules for the regulation and govern
ment of the House, reported the following, which were read and
considered, received and accepted,
RULES AND REGULATIONS AGREED UPON FOR THE GOVERN
MENT OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
FIRST.
That as h is essential to the public interest, so it shall be consid
ered and enjoined as the incumbent duty of each member of this
House seasonably and punctually to attend in his place, and not to
absent himself without leave. SECOND.
That freedom of deliberation, speech and debate in the House, be
aUowed to each member thereof ; yet if any member by misbehavior

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in speech or action, in the House, shall give just cause of offence to
another, he shall for the first offence be fined at the discretion of the
House, and for the second be admonished, third.
That every member when he would make a motion, speak to a
matter in debate, or for any other purpose whatever, shall rise from
his seat and address himself to the Speaker ; but on being called to
order by the Speaker, or any other member, he shall be
silent ; though if such * silenced meraber shall think him- * 12 : 586
self injured thereby, the Speaker shall take a vote of the
House thereon, to whose decision such raeraber shall submit on pain
of displeasure, FOURTH,
That no member speak more than twice to a subject in debate, 'till
each member (if he pleases) shall offer his opinion,
FIFTH,
No motion shall be debated, until the sarae shall be seconded,
SIXTH,
When a motion is made and seconded, if desired by any meraber,
h shall be reduced to writing before any debate shall be allowed
thereon, SEVENTH,
While a question is before the House, no raotion shall be received,
unless to amend or commit the same, or to postpone the considera
tion of the main question, or for having the yeas and nays entered
on the journal, EIGHTH,
If a question in debate contains several points, any member may
have the same divided. NINTH.
That no vote passed in the House shah be reconsidered by a num
ber inferior to that present, when it was passed.
TENTH,
That if the House shaU adjudge that any person returned as a
member is not duly qualified to have a seat therein, agreeably to the

72 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
Constitution, h shall at any tirae be in the power of such part of the
House as are competent, to pass a valid vote or resolve to dismiss
such person giving notice to the town or district from which he came
to choose another in his stead. ELEVENTH.
That every member having been present at a debate, and the vote
thereon being chahenged, or the yeas and nays being caUed for, shall
be obliged when cahed upon by the speaker to vote on one side
or the other of the question, unless special reasons be assigned,
the validity of which shah be determined by the
* 12 : 587 House.* TWELFTH,
That no meraber speaking by leave shall be interrupted by another
but by rising to call to order or to correct a raistake.
THIRTEENTH.
That every biU offered to the House shall be read three times, and
that there be two adjournments before it pass to be enacted.
FOURTEENTH.
That no bill be sent to the Senate Board without notice thereof
being first given to the House by the Speaker, and the title thereof
being read. FIFTEENTH,
That no raember norainate raore than one person for one commit
tee, provided the person by him nominated shall be chosen.
SIXTEENTH,
That no raember be on raore than two coraraittees at the same
time, unless by his own consent ; and no meraber chosen on any
committee shall have liberty to nominate another person for the same
comraittee, SEVENTEENTH,
That no petition be received by the House but from a member
thereof, and on motion made for that purpose.
EIGHTEENTH,
Every morning the minutes of the preceeding day shall be read in
the House previous to their entering upon any new business.

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NINETEENTH.
That no person except members of the General Court be admitted
above the bar of the House without permission of the Speaker, or
special invitation from some member of the house.
Adjourned to three o'clock P. M,
Met accordingly.* * 12 : 588
The Senate and House being again met to elect officers
agreeably to the Constitution, by joint bahot made choice of the
Hon. John-Taylor Gilman, Esq ; Treasurer for this State, to continue
until another shall be appointed in his stead. They then proceeded
to the choice of a Commissary General, and by joint ballot made
choice of Col. Supply Clapp, Commissary General for this State, to
continue until another shall be chosen in his stead. They then
agreed to adjourn to nine o'clock to-morrow raorning.
Voted That Mr. Betton, Major Wentworth, Mr Adaras, Capt.
Sumner, and Col. Senter, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider of a petition signed Josiah
Brown, Chairman of Convention, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Freeman,
Upon a hearing on the petition of Richard York, in behalf of Rob
ert Macklin,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
Sent up by Capt, Morrill,
Ajourned to eight o'clock tomorrow morning,
WEDNESDAY, June 9, 1784.
The House met according to adjournment.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Major Jonathan
Child, in behalf of Jonathan Mason, praying for a grant of a ferry
over Connecticut river,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Tuesday of their next Session ; and
that in the mean time the * petitioner cause the substance * 12 : 589
of the petition and order of Court thereon, to be pub
lished three weeks successively in the " New Hampshire Gazette;; "
also serve the selectmen of Lyme with a copy thereof, and order
thereon, that they or either of them, or any person or persons, may
then appear and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer there
of may not be granted.
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An act to enable Timothy Walker, Esq ; as guardian of Paul Rolfe,
to seh and convey certain lands belonging to his said ward, for his
support and education, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col, Peabody and Capt. Copeland.
The Senate and House being again met according to adjournment
to elect officers agreeably to the Constitution, by joint bahot made
choice of the Hon. John Langdon, Esq ; a Senator for the county of
Rockingham, in the room and stead of the Hon. John Dudley, Esq ;
who declined accepting. They then proceeded to the choice of a
Council, and by joint ballot made choice of the Hon, John McClary,
Francis Blood, and Joseph Badger, Esqrs, three of the Councilors for
this State; then adjourned to three o'clock P, M,
The House then proceeded to business agreeably to the order of
the day.
Upon a hearing on the petition of Tristram Dalton and Nathaniel
Tracy, Esq'rs,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioners
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
Sent up by Capt. Foss,
Upon a hearing on the petition of Oliver Ashley,
Yoted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bih accordingly. Sent up by Mr.
* 12 : 590 Means,*
Upon reading and considering the petition of Peter Green,
Esq ; in behalf of James Richardson,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the first Friday of their next session ; in the mean time the
petitioner cause that Benjamin Whitcomb, of Gunthwait, be served
with a copy of the petition, and order of Court thereon, that he may
then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted.
Sent up by Capt. Fogg.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Elisha Ellis,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time, the petitioner cause that Tyxhall Cleveland, or his
attorney Mr. Benjamin West, be served with a copy of the petition
and order of Court thereon, that they or either of them may then
appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted.
Sent up by Major Wiggin,
Voted, That Mr. Chase, Mr Pickering, and Major Whitcomb, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to

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consider of the account of Joshua Lamkin and John Holbrook, select
men of Strafford, and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Cram,
The committee on the petition of Capt, John Moore, reported as
their opinion that the prayer of the petition be granted, and that the
Committee on depreciation be ordered to make up depreciation to
the petitioner as a Lieutenant from the first day of January 1777,
to the 13''' day of September 1778,
Signed, Joseph Gilman, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Col, Runnels,* * 12 : 591
Voted, That Mr. Adams, Major Gaines, and Capt.
Clough, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a
committee to consider of the petition of Lieut. Daniel McMurphy,
and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Richard-Cutt Shan
non, Esq ;
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time the petitioner cause that Moses Thurston, of Hollis,
be served with a copy of the petition and order of Court thereon, that
he may then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer
thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by Capt. Spaulding.
The Senate and House being again met according to adjournment
proceeded to elect the remainder of the Council agreeably to the
Constitution, and by joint ballot made choice of the Hon. Nathaniel
Peabody and Moses Chace, Esq'rs for the other two Counsellors for
this State. They then adjourned 'till to-morrow morning nine o'clock.
The committee to consider the petition of James Robertson,
reported, that the Treasurer be directed to credit the town of Ches
terfield with the sum of ninety-nine pounds seven shilhngs and two
pence, in part of their tax for the year 1 780, and debit said town with
the sum of fifty five pounds seventeen shihings and ten pence for
theyear 1 781, and that he debit the State with the sum of thirty
three pounds nine shillings and four pence being the difference ;
and further that he be directed to receive of the pethioner, sixteen
hundred and thirty eight dollars and one third of a doUar of the old
Continental money, at the rate the State tax was liquidated at for the

76 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
* 12 : 592 * year 1780 ; provided he at the same time pay the bal
lance of the tax due for said year 1780, all which is sub
mitted. Signed, Joseph Gilman, for the Committee.
Wihch report being read and considered,
Yoied, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. WaUace,
Yoted, That Mr. Adams, Col, Tash, Capt, Fogg, Mr, Eastraan,
and Major Batcheldor, with such of the honorable Senate as raay be
joined, be a coramittee to consider of the abstract of Brigadier- Gen
eral James Reed, and the resolves of Congress accompanying the
same, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. WaUace.
The coramittee on the petition of Joshua Lamkin and John Hol
brook, reported, that a day of hearing be appointed, whereupon
Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon before the General
Court on the first Friday of their next session, and that in the raean
time the petitioners cause that the substance of the petitions and
order of Court thereon, be published three weeks successively in the
"New Hampshire Gazette," that any person or persons may then
appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof raay
not be granted.
Sent up by Col. King.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Reuben Kidder,
Yoted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the Treasurer
be directed to issue another note and certificates of equal sums and
date with those lost ; the petitioner giving security that if the note
and certificate, or either of them, should hereafter be presented for
payraent, that he will account for those now issued.
Sent up by Mr. Ayers.
Adjourned to eight o'clock to-morrow morning.

* 12: 593- * THURSDAY, June 10, 1784.
The House met according to adjournment.
Read and debated on several public bills.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
An act for raising the sum of twenty five thousand pounds, for the
use of this State, the present year, was read a third time and passed
to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Bartlett and Mr. Jewett,
The committee on the pethion of Lt. Daniel McMurphy, reported

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that the prayer of the petition be so far granted, as that an order on
the Treasury be issued in favor of the petitioner, for twenty pounds,
and a note in common form for the ballance. Signed, J, Gilman, for
the committee. Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr, Jenness,
Upon reading and considering the petition of Henry Gerrish, and
others, inhabitants of Boscawen,
Yoted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that a precept
issue accordingly.
Sent up by Capt. PettengiU.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Major Jonathan
Wentworth, Voted, That upon his (the said Wentworth's) paying into the Treas
ury the sum of thirty two pounds, in State securities, with the inter
est due thereon, that the Treasurer be directed to cancel or deliver
up the bond which he has in his office, signed by said Wentworth,
which was given for excise in the year 1774,
Sent up by Major Wentworth,
The committee on the petition of Joshua-Jewett Prime, and all
similar matters reported, that the said Joshua-Jewett Prime, and all
others under like circumstances have and receive the wages engaged
them by the State, for their services in such manner as
other soldiers have* been paid ; what they have already * 12 : 594
received being first deducted. Signed, J. Wentworth, for
the committee. Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the committee
on soldiers' accounts be directed to certify to the President the bal
lance due to each soldier ; and that the President on the receipt of
such certificates, give order that the Treasurer issue notes and cer
tificates accordingly.
Sent up by Capt. Spaulding.
An act for paying the interest and sinking the principal of this
State's debt, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Bartlett, and Mr. Jewett.
An act to vacate a deed given by Robert Macklin, to Richard Foss,
of certain lands in Brintwood, was read a third time and passed to
be enacted.
Sent up by Col, Bartlett and Mr Jewett,
Voted, That Major Gaines, Col. Bartlett, and Mr Freeman, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of Mr. Samuel Emerson, and report thereon.
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78 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
Voted, That Mr Betton, Mr. Payne, Col. Bartlett, Col. Senter, and
Mr Duncan, whh such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a coramhtee to consider of the petition of Amos Whittemore, and
others, inhabhants of Lyndeborough, and the papers accompanying
the same, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr Martin,
The comraittee on the petition of R. Freeman, and ah similar mat
ters, reported as their opinion that the town of Claremont, be abated
one eighth part of their proportion as established by the last
valuation, and until another be made ; and that the
* 12 : 59s Treasurer * take order accordingly. Signed, M. Dow, for
the committee. Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Capt, Mann,
Upon reading and considering the petition of Joseph Hoyt, and
others, Voted, That the proportion placed to Hoyt's Gore, in the last pro
portion act, be abated, as it appears that said Gore was taken into
the town of Grafton, and proportioned therewith.
Sent up by Mr, Ayers.
Adjourned to eight o'clock tomorrow morning.
FRIDAY June ii, 1784.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act to establish an equitable method of making rates and taxes
and determining who shall be legal voters in town and parish affairs ;
and also for repealing certain acts herein after mentioned, was read
a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col, Runnels and Mr, Emerson,
Voted, That General Badger, Mr Dow, and Mr, Adams, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to con
sider what allowance shall be made to such of the late honorable
CouncU who attend to qualify the honorable members of the Senate
and House of Representatives agreeably to the Constitution of this
State. Sent up by Capt. Ahen,
The committee on the petition of R, Freeman, and all simUar mat
ters, reported as their opinion, that the town of Piermont, be abated
in ah taxes and assessments for the year 1777, 1778, anti 1779, two
fifths part ; and for the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, one quarter
part ; and in their proportion as last established, one fifth part ; which
is to continue unth a new proportion shah be established. Signed,
M. Dow, for the committee.

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Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the Treasurer
govern himself accodingly.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness.* * 12 : 595
Voted, That the Hon. Abiel Foster, Jonathan Blanchard,
John Langdon, and Moses Dow, Esquires, be and they hereby are
appointed delegates to represent this State in the Congress of the
United States, for the term of one year from the first Monday in
November next, unless sooner relieved or recalled by the General
Court of this State, with all the powers and privileges which other
delegates from this State have heretofore had and enjoyed, agreeably
to the Confederation of the said United States ; two of whom only,
are to attend at one ahd the same time.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Voted, That Gen, Badger, Mr, McMurphy, Mr. Adaras, Mr SmUey,
and Col. Runnels, with such of the honorable Senate as may be
joined, be a committee to consider of the petition of Abigail Clayes,
and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt. Mann.
Voted, That Mr. Means, Col. Toppan and Gen, Badger, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a coinmittee to nomi
nate to this House suitable persons for a committee to revise the laws
of this State, and prepare such bUls as they may judge necessary for
that purpose ; also, any bills which they may be directed by the Gen
eral Court to prepare, and lay the same before this House at the next
session, or as soon as may be.
Sent up by Capt, Mann,
Voted, That Col, Toppan, Col. Bartlett, and Mr, Adams, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider
ofthe petition of Benjamin Butler, Esq; and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Gaines.* * 12 : 597
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Col. Payne, Gen. Badger, Mr,
Duncan, and Mr, Sumner, with such of the honorable Senate as may
be joined, be a committee to consider what business is yet necessary
to be done at this session, and at what time, and to what time and
place, this GenerahCourt shall be adjourned, and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Gains.
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Benjamin Sumner, which
was to have been yesterday before the General-Court, be heard
as soon as may be before said Court.
Sent up by Major Gains.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Leonard Whhing,
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80 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^784
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave
to bring in a bih accordingly.
Sent up by Mr. Cram.
Voted, That Mr Pickering, Mr. Knowles, Mr, Means, Mr Hall,
and Col. Payne, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a coramittee to nominate to this House proper persons to whom
dedimuses shall issue to enable them to qualify such officers as may
be appointed in this State,
Sent up by Mr Cram,
Upon a hearing on the petition of Capt. Benjamin Sumner,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
Sent up by Mr, Cram,
Votcd, That Mr. Jewett, Mr, Means, and Mr. Emerson, with such
of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to consider
of the petition of Ephraira Hildreth, and all sirailar raatters, and re
port thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Greeley, Adjourned to three o'clock, P, M,
* 12 : 598 Met accordingly.
Voted, That the account of Thomas Bartlett, Esq ; amounting to
five pounds and nine shiUings, be allowed and paid out of the Treas
ury by order of the President,
Sent up by Col. Bartlett.
Voted, That Col, Runnels, Mr Jewett, and Mr, McMurphy, whh
such of the honorable Senate as they shaU join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of WiUiam Gallop, and report thereon.
Sent up by Col. Leavitt.
Whereas in a7id by an act passed January i6* 1782, etititled an act
for liquidating the public securities of this State, adjusting the interest
on the same, and authori-jing the Treasurer to issue 7iotes payable in
gold or silver, thc new notes therein directed to be issued are dated
July 31=' 1782, and it being very inconvenient that thc notes which may
hereafter be issued in pursuance of said act, should bear date at that
time ;
Therefore Resolved, That the form prescribed for said notes be so
far altered as that the notes shall hereafter be dated July 31" 1784
instead oi July 31^' 1782, and certificates for the interest be issued
accordingly ; any law of this State to the contrary notwhhstanding;
Sent up by Major Cram,
Voted, That the Hon, Joseph Gilman, Esq ; Capt, Josiah Gilman
and Joseph Pearson, Esq ; the coraraittee for settling the accounts of

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this State, with Stephen Gorham, Esq ; commissioner for settling the
accounts between this and the United-States, be directed to make a
tender to the said Stephen Gorham, Esq ; of all the Continental bills
of the old emission now in the Treasury of this State, towards our
Continental debt, at the rate of forty for one, agreeably to a resolve
of Congress,
Sent up by Col. Tash,* * 12 : 599
Voted, That Col, Peabody, Col, Page, and Mr, Jenness,
with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee
to consider of and report what method shall be taken respecting the
Continental money now in the hands of individuals belonging to this
State. Sent up by Col. Leavitt.
The committee appointed to consider what allowance the mem
bers of the Senate and House of Representatives, and their offi
cers, shall receive for their wages and travel, &c. reported " That
the members of the Senate have and receive out of the Treasury six
shillings per day for their attendance, and four pence per mile for
their travel to and from their homes, that the members of the House
of Representatives have and receive out of the Treasury the same
travel as the members of the senate and six shUlings per day for
their attendance, for which last sum each member of the House shall
have a right to give the Constable of town or towns they represent,
an order upon the Treasurer, which order shall be received at the
Treasury toward the tax of the town or district each member repre
sents, and the Treasurer be directed to charge the amount of such
orders to the respective town and district in the next tax bill ; that
the Secretary have nine shillings per day, and the Deputy-Secretary
seven shillings and six-pence per day, and allowance for travel as
members ; that the Clerk of the House have nine shUlings per day,
and allowance for travel as a member ; that the Assistant-Clerk have
one shilling and sixpence per day, over his pay as a member. Signed,
John McClary, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the Secretary
and Clerk make up the respective rolls accordingly ; and that the
Clerk of the House be made up one day extraordinary for raaking up
the roh ; and that the President give a general order for the payment
of said rolls.
Sent up by Capt, Ahen.* * 12 : 600
Upon reading and considering the petition of James Rob
ertson, Yoted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court
on the first Friday of their next session, and that in the raean time the

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petitioner cause that the Selectmen of Pembrook, and the Selectmen
of Bow, each be served whh a copy of the pethion and order of Court
thereon, that they or ehher of them, may then appear and shew cause
(if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by Mr. Grout.
The coramhtee to whom was referred the petition of Amos Whit
temore, and others, reported that the petitioners be heard thereon
before the General Court on the second Wednesday of their next sit
ting ; and that in the mean time they give notice to the towns of
Lyndborough and Peterborough, by serving the selectmen of each
town with a copy of said petition and order of Court thereon ; and
also the like notice to the major part of the proprietors of said MUe
Slip, at least forty days before said day of hearing. Signed, S, Ol
cott, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr, Sanborn,
Voted, That the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq ; have and receive out
of the Treasury, the sum of six pounds, and the Hon, Woodbury
Langdon, Esq ; one pound ten shillings, for their service in attending
to qualify the members of the Senate and House, agreeably to the
Constitution ; and that the President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Mr, Sanborn.
The comraittee to consider of the petition and account of Mr. Sam
uel Emerson reported, that the account of Samuel Emerson, amount
ing to three hundred and fifty eight pounds seventeen
* 12: 601 shillings and seven pence, deducting* all such sums as
he has received at Camp, or the Board of War, or Treas
urer ; and when the Committee on Claims have adjusted the same,
that the ballance be paid him out of the Treasury, by order of the
President, in a note with interest in common form, as other officers
are paid. Signed, Joseph Gilman, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be receved and accepted.
Sent up by Col. Peabody.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Elizabeth BaUard, of
WUton, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that she have leave
to bring in a bUl accordingly.
Sent up by Col, Peabody,
Adjourned to seven o'clock to-morrow morning.

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SATURDAY June 12, 1784,
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That when the business of this Session is finished, the Gen
eral-Court be adjourned to meet again at Portsmouth, on Wednesday
the twentieth day of October next, at three o'clock P. M.
Sent up by Col. Peabody.
Voted, That the account of James Knowles, Esq ; amounting to
one pound eighteen shihings and eight pence, be allowed and paid
out of the Treasury by order of the President,
Sent up by Capt. Allen.
The commhtee on the account of Major Jonathan ChUd, reported
that the four fohowing receipts given by Major Jonathan ChUd, be
received, viz. One given to Azariah Webb, for five thousand three
hundred and ninety two pounds ten shiUings ; Ephraim Morey, one
thousand one hundred and forty pounds twelve shihings six pence ;
Abel Sawyer, five hundred and forty seven pounds ten shilhngs ; and
Amasa Bugbee, for nine hundred and seventy nine pounds seventeen
shUlings. Signed, Joseph GUman, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Capt. Allen.
The vote of yesterday respecting the allowance to the Hon.
Josiah Bartlett, and Woodbury Langdon, Esq'rs, came* * 12 : 602
back from the honorable Senate for the following amend
ment, viz. That there be paid to the Hon. Woodbury Langdon, Esq ;
three pounds, instead of thirty shilhngs, voted ; which amendment
was read and concurred by the House.
Voted, That the honorable the senior Senator, and the honorable
the Speaker of the House, be and hereby are authorized and im
powered to administer the oaths necessary to qualify the persons
appointed a Council for the President of this State, to act in said
office. Sent up by Major Gains.
Voted, That Capt. Copp, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Chase, with such of
the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider
what allowance shall be made to the committee who waited on his
Excellency the President to inform him of his election, and report
thereon. Sent up by Capt. Mann.
The committee on the petition of R. Freeman, and all similar mat
ters, reported as their opinion, that the town of Hanover be abated
one third part of all their taxes and assessments previous to the cur-

84 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
rent year. Signed, M, Dow, for the commhtee. Which report be
ing read and considered.
Voted, That h be received and accepted.
Sent up by Col, Peabody.
The committee to nominate suitable persons for a committee to
revise the laws of this State, and prepare such bihs as they may judge
necessary for that purpose ; and also any bihs which they may be
directed by the GenerahCourt to prepare, and lay the same before
this House at the next session, or as soon as may be, reported, that
the Hon, Samuel Livermore, Esq ; the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq ;
and the Hon, John Sullivan, Esq ; are suitable persons for a commh
tee to revise the laws of this State, and transact the other
* 12: 603 business above* mentioned. Signed, J, Wentworth, for
the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the Hon. Sam
uel Livermore, Esq ; the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq ; and the Hon.
John SuUivan, Esq ; be and they hereby are appointed and authorized
to transact the business above mentioned.
Sent up by Mr, Young,
Voted, That the account of John Calfe, Esq ; amounting to four
pounds five shillings and six pence, be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, by order of the President, Sent up by Col. Peabody.
The committee on the petition of William Gallop, reported, that
Derrick Oxford be allowed full pay for three years, the term for which
he inlisted, in the same manner that other three-years men have been
paid. Signed, E Smith, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Col. Peabody.
Upon reading and considering the petition of B, Butler, Esq ;
Voted, That on his, the said Butler's, paying into the Treasury the
sum of three hundred and fifty two pounds, sixteen shiUings and six
pence, in specie, with what he has already paid, and the remainder of
what is due on the bond mentioned in said petition, in State securi
ties ; the Treasurer is hereby directed to receive said securities, and
cancel or deliver up said bond, signed by the said Butler, and others.
Sent up by Col, Bartlett,
Upon reading and considering the pethion of Major Tonathan
Child, Voted, That the pethioner be heard thereon before the General-
Court on the first Friday of their next session, and that in the mean
time the pethioner cause that Col, Jonathan Moulton, of Hampton,
be served with a copy of the petition and order of Court thereon, that

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he may then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why
the prayer thereof may not be granted,* and that all * 12 1604
further proceedings against the said Child, with respect
to the execution mentioned in said petition, be stayed, and that the
said ChUd be not liable to satisfy and discharge said execution until
the decision of the General Court be obtained on said petition.
Sent up by Mr. Freeman,
Voted, That Mr, Jewett, Mr. Knowles, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Grout, and
Major Baker, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be
a committee to consider of the petition of Thomas RusseU, and
others, agents for Piermont, Orford, Lyme, Hanover, and Lebanon ;
also of the petition of John Young, in behalf of sundry towns in the
County of Grafton, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Freeman,
Voted, That the Hon, George Atkinson, Esq ; John Pickering,
Esq ; and George Gains, Esq ; with such of the honorable Senate as
may be joined, be a coramitee to prepare a device and inscription for
a seal for this .State, and lay the same before this House at their next
session ; and that the seal used under the late Constitution, be made
use of until another is provided.
Sent up by Capt, Foss,
The committee on the petition of Aaron Brown, reported that the
prayer thereof be granted ; and that the Treasurer be directed to give
up the bond mentioned in said petition, the interest due thereon not-
withstading. Signed, Timothy Walker, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Capt. Foss,
The committee to nominate proper persons to whora dedimuses
shall issue to enable them to qualify such officers as may be appointed
in this State, beg leave to report as their opinion, that the honor
able the Privy Counsellors, or any two of them, within
any county * in this State ; the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, John * 12 : 605
McClary, Samuel Penhallow, and George Atkinson, Esq'rs,
within the county of Rockingham ; the Hon, John Wentworth, John
Plummer, Joseph Badger, and Ebenezer Smith, Esqrs, within the
County of Strafford ; the Hon, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Dana,
Jeremiah Page, and Robert McGregore, Esq'rs, within the county of
HUlsborough ; the Hon. Benjamin BeUows, Simeon Olcott, Benjamin
Hall, and Daniel Newcombe, Esq'rs, in the county of Cheshire ; the
Hon. Samuel Livermore, Charles Johnston, Samuel Emerson, Moses
Dow, Elisha Payne, and Bezaleel Woodward, Esq'rs, within the county
of Grafton, be commissioned ; either two of whom within the respect
ive counties, to be and hereby are vested with fuh power to administer

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the oath of ahegiance, and the oaths of office appointed by the Con
sthution, to any civil or raUhary officers that may be appointed.
Signed, M, Thornton, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. Jewett,
Adjourned to half past two o'clock P, M.

Met accordingly.
The commhtee on the pethion of Josiah Brown, chairman of a con
vention, reported that the certificates to be issued for the fifteen per
cent, wiU answer a better end than the bank of paper money men
tioned in said pethion ; that the Clerk's fees, and the fees for writs
are too high, and the Juror's fees too low. Signed, F. Blood, for the
committee. Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. McMurphy,
The Senate and House being again met to elect a Senator in the
room and stead of the Hon, Benjamin Bellows, Esq ; who
* 12 :6o6 declined accepting ; and the ballots being taken, it* ap
peared that the Hon. Enoch Hale, Esq ; is chosen a Sen
ator for the county of Cheshire.
Upon reading and considering the petition of the Selectmen of
Dearing, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that Capt. Joseph
Symonds, John Duncan, Esq ; and Mr. Robert Wallace, be a commit
tee at the charge of the petitioners, to fix upon the place for building
a meeting house in said Dearing,
Sent up by Mr, Wallace,
An act authorizing and impowering Leonard Whiting, Esq ; to levy
or extend an execution recovered by him, upon the estate of Benjamin
Whiting, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr, Jewett and Mr Means.
An act to divide the town of Apthorp, in the county of Grafton,
and incorporate the sarae into two several towns, was read a third
time and passed to be enacted,
Sent up by Col, Peabody, and Col, Runnels,
Voted, That the Hon, Woodbury Langdon, Esq ; Christopher Top-
pan, Esq ; and Moses Leavitt, Esq ; have and receive out of the
Treasury, forty shillings each, for their time and expences going to

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notify his Excellency the President, of his election ; and that the
President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Major Shephard,
Voted, That Mr, Wight, have and receive out of the Treasury, by
order of the President, thirty shillings, for his services as chaplain to
the General-Court this session.
Sent up by Mr, Shephard,
Voted, That the account of Caleb Buswell, amounting to forty
shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, by order of the
President, Sent up by Mr, Shephard,
* Voted, That the extents issued by the Treasurer against * 12 :6o7
the towns of Piermont, Orford, Lyme, Hanover, Leba
non, Bath, Lyman, Landaff, Gunthwait, Apthorp, Lancaster, North
umberland, Stratford, Dartmouth, Cockburn, Coleburn, Canaan, En
field, Grafton, Cardigan, Dorchester, Cornish and Claremont, be not
served until the close of the next session of the General Court,
Sent up by Col, Runnels,
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Wihiam Dana, which
was to have been on Tuesday next, before the General-Court, be post
poned to be heard before the said General Court, on the second Tues
day of their next session ; of which all concerned may take notice
and govern themselves accordingly.
Sent up by Col, Runnels,
Voted, That the GenerahCourt be now adjourned to meet again at
the Court-House in Exeter, on Tuesday next, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon. Sent up by Mr. Wahace,
The foregoing vote being concurred by the Senate, the House ad
journed accordingly.
TUESDAY, June 15, 1784.
The House met according to adjournment.
The Senate and House being met in the Assembly-Chamber, his
Excellency the President being present, took and subscribed the oath
of aUegiance and oath of office, in presence of both Houses, agreea
bly to the Consthution ; the President and Senate then returned to
the CouncihChamber, After which the following vote was sent down
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88 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
State of New Hampshire.
In Senate, June 15, 1784,
Resolved, That the soldiers who inlisted in this State to
* 12:608 serve in the Continental army, and who* actually per
forraed the service, according to their several engage
ments for two years, or for any less terra of tirae than two years,
agreeably to any act, resolve, or vote of the Legislature of this
State, and who have not been rewarded and paid according to any
such act, resolve or vote, shall be fully recompenced and paid as much
as promised, as soon as their respective claims can be ascertained and
their accounts settled ; and the committee on soldiers accounts are
hereby directed to certify to the President the ballance due as afore
said to any such soldier, after deducting the town bounties and sup
plies in the same manner as the accounts of those who served three
years or during the war, were settled ; and the President on the re
ceipt of such certificate, is requested to give order for the Treasurer
to issue notes for the principal, and certificates for the interest, in
the same manner as notes and certificates were issued for those sol
diers who served for three years or during the war.
And it is further Resolved, That such towns as have not sent in
their accounts for bounties and supplies for such soldiers as engaged
for a less term than three years, have liberty to send in the same to
the comraittee appointed to settle depreciation, 'tiU the fifteenth day
of September next ; and that no accounts for bounties and supplies
be by them allowed, but such as are properly vouched, or attested to
by the Selectmen, Sent down for concurrence,
* 12 : 609 M, Weare, President.*
In the House of Representatives,
The same day read and concurred.
Voted, That Mr Benjamin Bigelow, have and receive out of the
Treasury thirty pounds, for which he is to account as Agent- Victu
aller to the troops now at Piscataqua harbour, and that the President
give order accordingly.
Sent up by Mr Jenness.
Voted^ and Resolved, That the Treasurer within this State, for the
time being, be and hereby is impowered and directed to advertise the
chizens thereof, to bring in to him, if they shah see cause, before the
first day of September 1784, all the Continental money of the old
emission now owned by them ; and that the said Treasurer, in behalf
of the State, give a receipt therefor to the owners thereof, to account
with them respectively for whatever sum or sums shall be allowed
therefor in said State.
Sent up by Mr, Jenness.

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The Secretary came down and informed the House that his Excel
lency the President has adjourned the General-Court to Wednesday
the twentieth day of October next, at three o'clock in the afternoon,
then to meet at the Court House in Portsmouth, agreeably to the
agreement of both branches of the Legislature, and this House is
accordingly adjourned.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE

CONT.4INING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM

OCTOBER 20 TO NOVEMBER ii, 1784.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

*i:2o *STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
At a Session of the General-Court, holden at Portsmouth, on
Wednesday, the 20*^ day of October, 1784, being the day to which
the General Court stood adjourned.
Present in Senate,
His Excellency Meshech Weare, Esquire, President.
The Honorable Woodbury Langdon,
John McClary,
Timothy Walker, )> Esquires.
Ebenezer Smith, and j
Francis Blood, )
The Honorable John Langdon, Esq, who was chosen a Senator by
joint ballot, in the stead of the Honorable John Dudley, Esq, who
declined accepting said office, attended, and after taking the neces
sary oaths, and signing the same agreeably to the Constitution, took
his seat at the Senate-Board. THURSDAY, October 21, 1784.
Present as yesterday ; but not a quorum to proceed to business.
An address of the ministers of the Congregational churches, mem
bers of several associations in the State of New-Hampshire, was
presented to his ExceUency the President, by a comraittee of several
associations in said State, FRIDAY, October 22, 1784,
Present as yesterday : Also, the Honorable Joseph Gilman, Esq,
attended, and then the Senate proceeded to business.

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* I :2i * STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
In Senate, October 22, 1784,
A vote, that the Honorable Timothy Walker, and the Honorable
Woodbury Langdon, Esquires, with such of the Honorable House of
Representatives as they may join, be a committee to draught an
answer to the address of the ministers of the congregational churches,
members of several associations in the State of New-Hampshire^
presented to his Excellency the President of said State, and to the
General- Court, by a committee of several associations in said State,
was sent down for concurrence by Mr, Blood ; and, in the House of
Representatives, was concurred. The members joined were Mr.
Knowles, Mr. Adams and Mr. Smiley.
A vote on the petition of Sarauel Connor, praying that a deed of
his whole estate given by hira to his chUdren, may be raade null and
void, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate on the
petition of Isaac Tucker, praying that he may receive the wages and
bounty due to his son, who died on the 6"^ of July, 1 782, was brought
up, read and concurred. The members joined were Mr. Smith and
Mr. Blood.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of John Simpson, setting forth, that he was
wounded at Bunker-Hill, in 1775, and that he was put on the roll of
pensioners for three years ; but for reasons unknown to him
* I : 22 was not kept on said roll,* and therefore prays his case may
be taken under consideration, was brought up, read and con
curred Mr. GUman and Mr. Walker were joined.
A vote, that the hearing on the petition of Major Jonathan Child,
be postponed untU Wednesday next, was brought up, read and con
curred, A vote, to postpone the hearing of the petition of Jeremiah Tib
betts unth Friday, the 29"' of October current, was brought up, read
and concurred,
A vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider the propriety of passing an act in addition to an act intitled,
" An act for the equal distribution of insolvent estates," and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, Mr, Woodbury Lang
don and Mr, Smith were joined.
A vote to postpone the hearing of the petition of Lamkin and
Holbrook untU Wednesday next, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con-

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sider of the pethion of Edward Dimpsey (who prays that he may re
cover a demand against the estate of Stephen Holland, an absentee)
and aU similar matters, and report thereon, was brought up, read and
concurred. Mr. John Langdon and Mr. Gilman were joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of the Selectmen of Conway, (praying
for an abatement of taxes) and all similar matters,* and re- * i : 23
port thereon, was brought up, read and concurred. Mr
Smith and Mr, Blood were joined,
A vote, to postpone the hearing of the petition of James Robert
son to the second Wednesday of the next session, was brought up,
read and concurred.
_A vote, that Col. Peabody and Col, Toppan, be added to the com
mittee on John Simpson's petition, and ah petitions of sick and
wounded officers and soldiers, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote fora committee to join a committee of the Senate, on the
petition of Samuel LoweU, (who prays that he may be paid for his
losses when a prisoner) and report thereon, was brought up, read and
concurred. Mr. McClary and Mr. Blood were joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Major Jonathan Child, in behalf of Lieuten
ant James Gould, (who says, that a sum of money was twice deducted
by mistake, in a settlement with him) and report thereon, was brought
up, read and concurred, and Mr. Gilman joined.
A vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider and report what they may judge necessary to be done respecting
horse thieves, &c. was brought up, read, concurred, and Mr. Walker
and Mr. Woodbury Langdon were joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider the several matters contained in his Excellency's message, re
ceived this day, and report thereon, was brought up, read,
concurred, and Mr. Langdon,* Mr. Gilman, and Mr. McClary * i : 24
were joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Lieutenant Moses Belding, (who engaged in
the service of New-Hampshire, as a Lieutenant, and who prays for
depreciation equal to what others of the same rank had) and all simi
lar matters, and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred,
and Mr. Smith joined.
A vote to hear the petition of the inhabitants of Effingham, &c,
relative to a road, &c, on the second Wednesday of their next session,
was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow, eight o'clock, A. M,

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SATURDAY, October 23, 1784.
Present as yesterday,
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to
draught a proclaraation for a general thanksgiving throughout the
State, and lay the same before this House, was brought up, read, con
curred, and Mr. Walker and Mr. Gilman were joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of and report on the petition of Elisha Wihbore (who says that
he lost an horse at the invasion of Royalton, and therefore prays for
satisfaction,) was brought up, read, concurred, and Mr, Blood joined.
A vote, that Joseph Pearson, Esq. be, and he hereby is appointed
Pay-Master of the Pensioners of this State, was brought up, read
and concurred,
* I : 25 A vote requiring the Honorable John Tayler* Ghman, Esq.
Treasurer, and Capt, Josiah Gilman, to attend the General-
Court at Portsmouth, during this session, with necessary papers, to
transact business for the public, was brought up, read and concurred
with this amendment, that they attend as long as the General-Court
shall think necessary, and sent down for concurrence. Brought up
concurred. Adjourned "till Monday next, three o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, October 25, 1784
Met according to adjournment. Present in Senate,
His ExceUency Meshech Weare, Esq. President.
The Honorable Woodbury Langdon, ^
John McClary, |
Joseph Gilman, | „
Timothy Walker, iLsquires,
John Langdon, [Senators,
Ebenezer Smith, and j
Francis Blood. J
A vote for both Houses to meet in committee to-morrow morning,
to take under consideration the matters contained in his ExceUency's
Message to the General Court, was brought up read and concurred.
A vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the accompt of Richard Hart, Thoraas Martin, John Pierce,
Joseph Pierce, Jonathan Warner and Mark H. Wentworth, Esquires,'

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and report thereon, was brought up, read, concurred, Mr, Blood, Mr.
McClary and Mr Walker were joined.
A vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Joseph Taylor, and report thereon was
brought up, read, concurred, and Mr. Smith joined.
A petition of the inhabitants of Charlestown, in the county of
Cheshire, praying to be erected into a poll parish, agreeably to a vote
of said town, with a vote thereon, that the petitioners should
be heard on said petition, on the second * Wednesday of * i : 26
ne.xt session, and that in the mean time they serve the
Selectmen of said Charlestown with a copy of their petition and order
of Court thereon, was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow, nine o'clock, A. M.
TUESDAY, October 26, 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday ; — also, the Honorable John Wentworth
attended. A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to take
under consideration a resolve of the General-Court, passed June 15,
1784, and report thereon, was brought up, read, concurred, and Mr.
Gilman and Mr. Wentworth joined.
A petition of Jonathan Chase, to have the title of certain land in
Cornish, (of which he had lost the deed) confirmed to him, was
brought up with a vote thereon, giving the petitioner a hearing there
on before the General Assembly, on the second Wednesday of next
session, was brought up, read and concurred.
Sundry petitions from towns on Connecticut River, praying for an
abatement of their taxes, &c. in consideration of services, was brought
up with votes thereon, that the petitioners should be heard before a
coramittee of the house, joined by a coramittee of the Senate. Ac
cordingly said votes being read, Mr. Langdon, Mr. Smith, and Mr.
Blood were joined.
A petition of Thomas Kemp and Nathan Wesson, late lieutenants
in a regiment of artihery, in the continental service, praying
for an aUowance for their * services, with a vote for a com- * i : 27
mittee to be joined by a coramittee of the Senate to report
thereon, was brought up, read, concurred, Mr. Gilman and Mr.
Walker were joined.
Upon reading a representation of Joseph GUman, Esq. in behalf
of the committee appointed by this State to settle accompts with
Stephen Gorham, Esq. Commissioner of the United States, setting

98 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
forth, that said Commissioner thinks himself not authorized to credh
this state with the additional wages, or bounties paid to General
Stark's brigade, in 1777, pay allowed to volunteers to Rhode-Island,
in the year 1778 for horses, interest charged on depreciation, paid
the continental troops in the years 1777 and 1778 : —
Yoted, That his Excehency the President be desired to lay the
matter before the Congress of the Unhed States, and request that
said Commissioner should be instructed to ahow said charges to this
State, which vote was sent down for concurrence by Col. Smith, and
brought up concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a coraraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the raeraorial of the Rev, Mr, Evans, and report thereon, was
brought up, read, concurred and Mr, John Langdon and Mr. Went
worth were joined.
A vote that John Sirapson, a wounded soldier, receive half-
* I : 28 pay * until further order of the General-Court, was brought
up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-raorrow, nine o'clock. A, M,
WEDNESDAY, October 27, 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
A petition of the inhabitants of the town of Washington, praying
for leave to assess unimproved lands in said town, to enable them to
repair their highways, was brought up, with a vote for the petitioners
to be heard thereon before the General-Court, on the second Wednes
day of next session, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the ration-roll of Sergeant James Blake's scouting party for
the year 1782, and report thereon, was brought up, read, concurred,
and Mr. Gilman joined.
A vote to postpone the further consideration of the petition of
Joshua Lamkin and John Holbrook, was brought up, read and con
curred. A petition of the inhabitants of Seabrook, praying for some altera
tion in the charter of said parish, was brought up, with a vote there
on, that the petitioners be heard before the General-Court
* I : 29 on Tuesday next, and that in the mean time, the * substance
of said petition be posted up at each of the meeting-houses
in said parish, which was read and concurred.
A vote for Lieutenant Jonathan Emerson to be paid depreciation
as other officers of his rank, until he was discharged from the service,
was brought up, read and concurred.

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A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of John Hale, Esq. and report thereon, was
brought up, read, concurred, and Mr. Wentworth joined.
A vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate, to
report what method they shall think proper to be taken to do j ustice
to those persons who are possessed of notes issued by this State in
the year 1775, was brought up, read, concurred, and Mn McClary
and Mr. Langdon were joined.
A vote to allow John Colburn depreciation of wages as other sol
diers, whUe in service, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for Archibald McMiUan to receive ten shUlings per month,
from June lo"', 1783, 'till further order of the General Court, in con
sequence of his suffering by a wound received at Bunker-HUl, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to pay the accompt of Elijah Blodgett, which he expended
to get cured of a wound received on the Western frontiers, amount
ing to eighteen pounds, twelve shiUings, was brought up, read and
concurred. *A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, * i : 30
to consider what method shall be taken respecting the for
warding delegates to Congress, and report thereon, was brought up,
read, concurred, Mr. Woodbury Langdon and Mr. McClary were
joined. A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider what is most convenient to be done respecting the sending pre
cepts to districts in this State unrepresented, was brought up, read,
concurred, Mr. Walker and Mr. John Langdon were joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to report
what amendments and alterations are necessary to be made in the
laws relative to proprietary matters, was brought up, read, concurred,
Mr. Wentworth, Mr. Woodbury Langdon and Mr. Sraith were joined.
A vote for a comraittee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Abraham Perkins, Esq. and Thomas Stow
Ranney, and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to allow Sarah Little, wife of Francis Little, late of Ports
mouth, an absentee, to bring in a bUl to enable her to sell a
house and land, belonging to her* said husband, to pay his * i : 31
debts and support her family, was brought up, read and con
curred. A vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Elijah Allis, and giv
ing him leave to prosecute an action formerly comraenced against
one TyxhaU Cleaveland, in the county of Cheshire, (in which action
he was non-suited by mistake) was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con-

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sider of the propriety of an alteration in the several regiments of
militia in this State, and report thereon, was brought up, read, con
curred, and Mr. Walker, Mr. Smith, and Mr. McClary were joined.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow, nine o'clock, A. M.
THURSDAY, October 28, 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday,
A Petition of the trustees of Dartraouth college, praying for leave
to carry on a lottery, to raise three hundred pounds clear, to assist in
erecting a new edifice for the use of the said college, was brought
up, with a vote thereon, granting the prayer of said petition, and
giving leave for a bill to be brought in for that purpose, which was
read and concurred,
* I : 32 * A vote on the petition of Edward Dimpsey, regulating
sundry matters relative to confiscated estates, was brought
up, read and concurred,
A vote to pay the accompt of Nicholas NicoUe, for sundry services
for the State, amounting to five pounds, eighteen shilhngs' and two
pence, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote, on the petition of a number of the inhabitants of Lynde
borough, who prayed to have a parish erected out of part of said
Lyndeborough, and part of Peterborough, that Timothy Walker, Esq.
Deacon Ephraim Adaras, and Captain Daniel Eraerson, be a commit
tee to view the premises, and raake report to the General Court, was
brought up, read and concurred,
A pethion of Josiah Sanborn, representing that he had suffered a
loss by depreciation of the paper biUs, in having a note renewed at
the Treasury Office, for raoney lent the State, and praying redress,
was brought up with a vote granting the prayer of his pethion, which
was read and concurred,
A vote to put off the hearing of the petition of Richard Cutts
Shannon from yesterday to this day, was brought up, read and
concurred,
* I : 33 * A vote to hear the petition of George Place on Thurs
day next, before the General Court, and that in the mean
time, he cause the selectmen of Rochester to be served with a copy
of his said petition and order of Court, was brought up read and
concurred, ' '
A vote to hear the petition of Paul Harford on Thursday next
before the General Court, and that in the mean time he cause the
selectmen of Rochester to be served with a copy of said petition and
order of Court, was brought up, read and concurred.

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IOI

A vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Major Jonathan
ChUd, and give him leave to bring in a bill to vacate a judgment of
the Superior Court against him in favour of Col, Jonathan Moulton,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for the Reverend Israel Evans, late chaplain to the New-
Hampshire brigade, to be paid depreciation of wages, was brought
up, read and concurred,
A vote to pay Noah Worcester, Esq. forty-eight shUlings and eleven
pence, the balance of his account for services done the State, was
brought up, read and concurred,
* A vote for paying the Lieutenants Thomas Kemp and * i : 34
Nathan Wesson, of the Artificers in the Continental
Army, and Ephraim Blood and William Blood, soldiers in said cora
pany, the depreciation of their wages, they having been reckoned to
the quota of this State, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote to grant the prayer of the pethion of Samuel Connor, under
certain restrictions, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to grant the prayer of the pethion of Hezekiah Wilkins,
and giving him leave to bring in a bill to restore him to his law in an
action commenced against him by one Ebenezer Champney, was
brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'tUl to-morrow, nine o'clock. A, M,
FRIDAY, October 29, 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A vote to pay the Accompt of George Long, for time and expences
at Halifax, in business of the State, araounting to seventeen pounds,
four shillings and ninepence, halfpenny, was brought, up read and
concurred. A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to
draught and lay before the General-Court all public bills
ordered to be brought in this * session, was brought up, read, * i : 35
concurred, and Mr. Wentworth joined,
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to revise
the impost act, and prepare a bUl, and lay the same before the Court,
was brought up, read, concurred, Mr. J. Langdon and Mr. Wentworth
were joined.
A vote for paying the ration-roll of Serjeant James Blake, amount
ing to twelve pounds each man, being twelve in number, on their pro
ducing a certificate from Captain Jeremiah Eames that they have not
received it of him, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con-

102 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
sider of the petition of Pelham, and other petitions of a similar nat
ure, was brought up, read, concurred, Mr. Walker and Mr. Blood were
joined. A vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Ephraim Hildreth and John Robinson, and
report thereon, was brought up, read, concurred and Mr. McClary
joined. A vote for a comraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Williara Badger and Abigail Badger,
* 1 : 36 and all similar* matters, and report thereon, was brought
up, read, concurred. Mr, W, Langdon and Mr, McClary were
joined, A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Jonas Minot, in behalf of Daniel Davis, and
report thereon, was brought up, read, concurred, and Mr. W. Langdon
and Mr. McClary were joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the accompt of Doctor Hall Jackson and Doctor John Jack
son, was brought up, read, concurred, and Mr, J. Langdon and Mr,
Gilraan were joined.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow, nine o'clock. A, M,
SATURDAY, October 30, 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A vote to accept a report of the committee on the petition of Doc
tor John Hale, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote on the petition of Abraham Perkins, &c. giving him leave
to bring in a biU to enable him to collect sundry taxes in Epping, un
paid to Daniel Gordon, deceased, late constable of said Epping, was
brought up, read and concurred.
* I : 37 * A resolve to confirra the annual meeting of the inhabitants
of the Gore, (so caUed) in the County of Strafford, held in
March last, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the raeraorial of the Rev. Jeremy Belknap, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, and Mr. J, Langdon and
Mr, Walker were joined,
A vote to pay Lieutenant James Gould, of Hanover, eighteen
pounds, fourteen shiUings and eight pence, for so much deducted by
mistake frora his half-pay, as a wounded officer, was brought up, read
and concurred.

1784] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE, IO3
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to nom
inate managers for Dartmouth college lottery, was brought up, read,
concurred, and Mr. W. Langdon and Mr. Gilraan were joined.
A vote to put off the hearing of the petition of Jereraiah Tibbetts
until Wednesday next, was brought up, read and concurred.
The petition of Benjamin Bellows, Esq, and others, guardians of
the children of Philip Eastman, late of Walpole, deceased, praying
for leave to sell the real estate of said deceased, for the
benefit of their * wards, was brought up, with a vote, for an * i : 38
hearing thereon, before the General Court, on the second
Thursday of next session, which was read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till Monday next, three o'clock, P. M,
MONDAY, November i, 1784,
Met according to adjournment.
Present as on Saturday last.
A Resolve of the General Court, allowing depreciation to those
soldiers who served two years, or for any term of timeless than three
years in the army, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to allow Lieutenant Moses Belding the depreciation of his
wages, &c, as was allowed to other officers of his rank, until the first
day of September 1778, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to request his Excellency the President, with advice of
Council, to issue a proclamation, appointing Thursday, the second
day of Deceu^ber next, to be observed as a day of public thanksgiv
ing, was brought up, read and concurred,
* A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, * i : 39
to consider of the petition of Zebulon Crane, and all others
of a simUar nature, was brought up, read and concurred, Mr. W,
Langdon and Mr. Walker were joined.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow, nine o'clock, A. M.
TUESDAY, November 2, 1784
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday,
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Ehsha Payne, jun, and others, praying that
an highway may be laid out from Dartmouth college to Boscawen in
this State, was brought up, read and concurred with this amendment,
that said commhtee make report on any simUar matter they judge
necessary. Mr, Walker and Mr, Smith were joined ; which was sent
down for concurrence.

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A vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the pethion of Sarah Chapin and Justus Chapin, (praying
for leave to seh land belonging to minors) was brought up, read and
concurred, and Mr, Wentworth joined,
* I : 40 * A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate,
to consider of what business is yet necessary to be done
this session, was brought up, read and concurred, Mr. W. Langdon
and Mr. Walker were joined.
A resolve regulating sundry matters in the business of the Naval-
Office, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Richard Cutts Shan
non, and giving hira leave to bring in a bih accordingly, was brought
up, read and non-concurred.
A vote for a coraraittee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of a letter presented to the General Court by John Sullivan,
Esq. relative to his pay as a delegate to Congress, was brought up,
read and concurred, and Mr. Wentworth and Mr. Blood were joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the accorapt of Colonel Supply Clapp, and report thereon was
brought up, read and concurred, Mr. Gilraan and Mr. W. Langdon
were joined. A vote for a coramittee to join a comraittee of the Senate,
* I : 41 to prepare a resolve to carry into effect,* a report of a com
mittee respecting a settlement with those soldiers who
served in the Continental array for any terra short of three years,
and lay the same before the Court, was brought up, read and con
curred. Mr. GUman and Mr. J. Langdon were joined.
A vote appointing Pierse Long, Esq. a delegate to represent this
State in Congress, m the room of John Langdon, Esq. who has de
clined accepting that office, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to put off the hearing of the petition of Levi Harvey, and
other inhabitants of New-London, until the second Thursday of next
session, was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'tUl to-morrow, nine o'clock. A, M,
WEDNESDAY, November 3, 1784,
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
An Act in addition to an act, entitled " an act to enable George
Kezar to review an action of entry on disseizin against Rich-
* I : 42 ard Malony," having been read * a third time, it was voted
that the same be enacted.

I784J JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. IO5
An act to enable Sarah Little to sell a certain house and land
thereto belonging, situate in Portsmouth, having been read a third
time, it was voted, that the same be enacted.
An act to vest the exclusive right of keeping a ferry over a certain
part of Connecticut river, in Benjamin Suraner, of Claremont, in the
County of Cheshire, his heirs and assigns, having been read a third
time, it was voted, that the same be enacted.
An act to vest the sole and exclusive right and privilege of keeping
a ferry over a certain part of Connecticut river, in Oliver Ashley, of
Claremont, in the County of Cheshire, his heirs and assigns, having
been read a third time, it was voted, that the sarae be enacted,
A vote to pay the accompt of John S, Dearborn, amounting to
fifty-four shillings : also the accompt of John Gross, araounting to
fifty-four shUlings, for their services in attending the Superior Court
as State witnesses, was brought up, read and concurred.
*A vote for all precepts that issue to the town cahed Gunth- * i : 43
waite, shall be directed to Gunthwaite alias Concord, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A vote appointing Samuel Livermore, Esq. one of the delegates to
represent this State in Congress, was brought up, read and con
curred. A vote appointing Elisha Payne, Esq. one of the delegates to rep
resent this State in Congress, was brought up, read and concurred, f
A vote appointing a coramittee to join a coramittee of the Senate,
to consider of the propriety of directing the Loan-Officer in this State
to issue certificates for the interest on Loan-Office certificates, agree
ably to resolves of Congress, &c, was brought up, read and concurred,
and Mr. J. Langdon and Mr, Walker were joined.
The petition of the inhabitants of a place called Ossipee-Gore,
praying for leave to bring in a bill to incorporate said place, was
brought up, with a vote granting the petitioners an hearing on said
petition on the first Friday of next session, which was read and con
curred. An act for granting hberty to set up and carry on a lottery to raise
money, for the purpose of erecting an edifice in the township of Flan-
over, for the use and benefit of Dartmouth college, was read a third
time, and voted that the same be enacted.
A vote to allow the soldier, who over and above doing his
duty as a soldier, shah take proper * care of the light-house * i : 44
at New-Castle, forty shillings per month, besides his wages
as a soldier, was brought up, read and concurred.
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I06 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, ['784
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of R, Freeman, in behalf of the town of Han
over, relative to the taxes of said town, was brought up, read and
concurred, and Mr, Walker and Mr. Blood were joined.
A vote to pay the rolls of Meshech Bell, commander of the troops
stationed at New-Castle, one amounting to fifty-one pounds, twelve
shillings, and the other to seventy-two pounds, was brought up, read
and concurred.
Adjourned 'tih to-raorrow, nine o'clock, A. M,
THURSDAY, November 4, 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A vote for a comraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate, to take
under consideration the requisition of Congress, of the 18* of AprU,
1783, respecting this State's quota of the one million and five hun
dred dollars, and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred,
and Mr. GUman and Mr. J. Langdon were joined.
A vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Jeremiah Tibbets,
and giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly was brought up,
read and concurred.
A vote to accept the report of the committee for a device and in
scription for a public seal for this State, viz. a field encom-
* I : 45 passed with* laurels, round the field in capital letters,
SIGILLUM REIPUBLICAE NEO HANTONIENSIS,
1784. on the field a rising sun, and a ship on the stocks with Ameri
can banners displayed ; and that said seal be two inches in diameter,
was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote that Ephraim Hildreth and John Robinson each have and
receive out of the treasury, a State note for five pounds, with interest
from the fifth of April, 1782, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote, that the accompt of Moses Woodward, commissary of pris
oners, be referred to the coraraittee on Col. Supply Clapp's accompt,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a coraraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate, to con
sider at what time, and to what time and place, the General Court
shall be adjourned : Also, at what place the General Court shaU raeet
in June next : Also, what pay for travel and attendance the members
of court shall receive this session, was brought up, read and con
curred, and Mr. Walker, Mr. Sraith and Mr Wentworth were joined.
A vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate to con
sider what aUowance shaU be raade his ExceUency the President as

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a Salary for the current year : Also, what pay the Honorable Council
shall receive for their travel and attendance on his Excellency in the
recess of the General Court, was brought up, read and con
curred.* Mr. J. Langdon, Mr. GUman and Mr. Smith were * i : 46
joined. An act to divide the town of Apthorp, in the County of Grafton,
and State aforesaid, and incorporate the sarae into two several towns,
was read a third time, and voted that the same be enacted.
A vote to hear the petition of sundry inhabitants of Hillsborough,
in the County of HUlsborough, on the second Wednesday of next
session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the accompt of Benjamin Bigelow, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, Mr. W. Langdon and Mr. Walker
were joined.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the accompt of Melcher and Osborne, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Gilman and Mr. Wentworth
were joined.
A vote appointing a committee to consider what methods are best
to be taken for the regulation of commerce until said regulations
shall be established by Congress, was brought up, read and con
curred, and Mr. W. Langdon and Mr. Gilman were joined.
A vote to hear the petitions of Charles Tinden and John Payne,
(praying for leave to keep ferries over Connecticut river) on the first
Friday of next session, was brought up, read and non-concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow, nine o'clock, A. M.
FRIDAY, November 5, 1784.
* Met according to adjournment. * i : 47
Present as yesterday.
A vote granting the prayer of the petition of George Place, and
giving him leave to bring in a bill, was brought up, read, and non-
concurred. A vote to allow sundry towns for money paid Major Jonathan
Child, as Comissary, &c. was brought up, read and non-concurred,
A vote to hear the petition of Major Jonathan Palraer, on the sec
ond Friday of next session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote on the petition of Gain Armour, was brought up, read and
non-concurred. A vote on the petition of the selectmen of Merrimack (praying to
be credited for a certain soldier) to be considered by a commhtee,
was brought up, read, and non-concurred.

I08 NEW _IJAM^SHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
A vote to pay the accompt of John Duncan, Esq. for holding a
meeting in an un -incorporated town by order of the General Court,
araounting to eighteen shillings, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote referring the petition of Joseph Roberts, (who prays for
relief on acccount of the loss of his arm in the expedition against
Penobscot) to a committee, was brought up, read and concurred, and
Mr. Blood was joined.
A vote granting an hearing on the petition of Ebenezer Torrey,
was brought up, read and non-concurred.
* I : 48 A vote for a committee to join a committee * of the Senate,,
to consider of the propriety of ordering the Treasurer to is
sue sraall certificates for paying soldier's ballances, was brought up,
read and concurred. Mr. Gilraan and Mr. Walker were joined.
A vote for a coramittee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of the town of Raby, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, and Mr. Gilman joined,
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of ,Capt, Jotham Blanchard, and report thereon
was brought up, read and concurred. Mr. W. Langdon and Mr,
Walker were joined.
A vote for a coramittee to join a comraittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the accompt of Elijah Grout, Esq. and report thereon, was.
brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Gilman and Mr. Blood were
joined. A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Major Jonathan Wentworth, and report there
on, was brought up, read and concurred. Mr, Walker and Mr. Sraith
were joined.
The petition of Mark H. Wentworth, Esq. praying for leave to
bring in a bill to enable him to pay the taxes, and take care of the
lands in this State, belonging to Messieurs Thomlinson, Trecothick
and Apthorp, was brought up with a vote granting the prayer of said
petition, which was read and concurred,
* I : 49 An act to alter the tirae of holding the * annual town-meet
ing in the town of Meredith, was read a third tirae, and
voted that the same be enacted.
An act to invest the United States in Congress assembled, with
addhional powers for a limhed time, was read a third time, and voted
that the same be enacted.
The petition of Mary Hart, setting forth, that her chUdren has a
smah right in the estate of James Clarkson, deceased, which she sup
poses will be for their interest to be sold, and praying for leave to
dispose thereof, was brought up, with a vote giving leave for an hear-

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ing thereon, before the General Court, on the first Friday of next
session, which was read and concurred.
An act for restoring Jonathan Child to his law, was read a third
time, and voted that the same be enacted.
Adjourned 'tih to-morrow, nine o'clock, A. M.
SATURDAY, November 6, 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
An Act to annul and make void a certain deed said to be executed
by Samuel Connor to Jeremy Connor and others, was read a third
time and voted that the same be non-concurred,
A vote, that the General Court, when the business of this session
is done, shall adjourn to meet at Concord, on the second Wednesday
of February next : That the General Court for the next year shah
meet at Portsmouth : That the members of the General Court and
their officers, shall receive the same pay for travel and atttendance as
was allowed last session, was brought up, read and concurred,
*A vote directing the Secretary and Clerk to make out pay- * i : 50
rolls for the travel of the members of Senate and House
of Representatives at this session as soon as may be, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A vote directing precepts to be issued to the towns and districts
in this State for the choice of representatives for the next year, was
brought up, read and non-concurred.
The petition of Asa Pratt and others, inhabitants of the State of
Vermont, setting forth, that they served as soldiers in Whitcomb's
corps of rangers, and praying to be paid for depreciation of wages,
was brought up, with a vote referring the same to the consideration
of a committee, which was read and concurred, and Mr. Gilman and
Mr. M'^Clary were joined to the committee.
An act in addition to an act entitled "an act to authorize the sev
eral Judges of Probate within this State, to liquidate the sums paid
into the treasury by trustees of confiscated estates, by them appoint
ed to adjust the claims of the creditors against said estates, which
have or shall be returned into the treasury-office by commissioners
appointed by said judges respectively, and to authorize the President
of the CouncU to give orders for the payment, of such claims accord
ingly," was read a third time, and voted that the same be enacted.
A vote that Mr. Woodbury Langdon, Mr. Nathaniel Peabody and
Mr. John Pickering, be a committee to wait on the rever
end the ministers, a committee of several associations in* * i : 51
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110 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
answer to their address to the legislature, was sent down for concur
rence, and brought up concurred.
A resolve, that those soldiers who enlisted, in the years one thou
sand seven hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand seven hundred
and seventy-eight, and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine,
to serve in the continental array, in the line of this State, for any
terra of time less than three years, shall be allowed depreciation, and
that their accompts be made up and settled on the same principles as
those soldiers who engaged for three years or during the war, were
made up and settled, was read and voted, that the same be sent down
for concurrence. The aforesaid was brought up concurred,
A vote to enroll Reuben Spencer for half-pay, he having lost the
use of one of his legs, whUe a soldier in the service of this State, was
brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till Monday next, 3 o'clock, P. M,
MONDAY, November 8, 1784,
Met according to adjournment.
Present as on Saturday last.
The petition of Col, Supply Clapp, in behalf of George Boyd, Esq.
praying that the said Boyd raay ha/e leave to return from London, to
his family in this State, was brought up, with a vote there-
* I : 51 on, granting leave for* said Boyd to return to this State,
and tarry twelve months, to settle his accompts, &c. which
was read and concurred.
A vote granting the prayer of the pethion of Elisha Payne, jun.
and others, for laying out a road from Boscawen to Hanover, and
giving them leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A resolve for hindering vessels belonging to the subjects of Great
Britain from iraporting into this State, or exporting therefrom, any
merchandise from or to the British Settlements in America, untU
they shall give leave for the subjects of this State to trade in the
same raanner, was read and voted, and the same was sent down for
concurrence. Adjourned 'till to-morrow, nine o'clock. A, M.
TUESDAY, November 9, 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
Present his Excellency and seven members.
An Act to empower Abraham Perkins, of Eoping, to collect cer
tain taxes, was read a third time, and voted that the same be en
acted.

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A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the allowance necessary to be made his Excellency the Presi
dent, prior to the taking place of the new constitution, was brought
up, read and concurred, and Mr, M'^Clary and Mr, J. Langdon were
joined. A resolve regulating and ascertaining the* manner that the * i : 53
Loan-Officer in this State shall pay interest due on Loan-Of
fice certificates, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to pay the balance (when it is ascertained by the President)
of the accompt of Benjamin Bigelow, for beef supplied the troops at
Piscataqua harbour, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote enabling the Treasurer to issue certificates for the payment
of balances due to soldiers, and for redeeming sraall notes, not ex
ceeding forty shillings, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to advance the Honorable Abiel Foster, Esq, one hundred
and twenty pounds, to enable hira to proceed to Congress, to be ac
counted for by him, was brought up, read and concurred.
An act in addition to an act, entitled " an act for establishing an
equitable method of making rates and taxes, and determining who
shall be legal voters in town and parish affairs," passed June the
12*, Anno Domini, one thousand, seven hundred and eighty, was
read a third time, and voted that the same be enacted.
An act in addition to an act entitled " an act for making and es
tablishing a new proportion of the public taxes, among the several
towns, parishes and places within this State, and to authorize the
Treasurer to issue his warrants for levying the same annually,"
passed April the 17*, one thousand, seven hundred and
eighty-four, having been read a * third time was voted that * i : 54
the same be enacted.
An act to enable the inhabitants of the parish of Seabrook, denom
inated Presbyterians, to cah a meeting for transacting their parish
and ministerial business, was read a third time and voted that the
same be enacted.
A vote allowing the members of council nine shillings per day,
when they are called to attend his ExceUency the President, in the
recess of the General Court, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote desiring his Excehency the President to write to the dele
gates of this State, at Congress, desiring that they use their utmost
endeavors to get a decision of Congress on the decree of the court of
appeals respecting the capture of the ship Lusanna, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A vote to pay the accompt of Doctor Hah Jackson, araounting to
forty-eight potmds, for medicine and attendance on soldiers at vari
ous times, was brought up, read and concurred.

112 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
A vote to pay his ExceUency the President, two hundred pounds,
or his salary for the current year, was brought up, read and con
curred. Adjourned 'till to-morrow, nine o'clock, A. M.
WEDNESDAY, November io, 1784.
Met according to adjournment.
Present,
His ExceUency Meshech Weare, Esq. and seven members,
* I : 55 A vote that the Honorable Pierse Long, Esq,* have and re
ceive out of the treasury, one hundred and twenty pounds,
to enable hira to proceed to Congress, and for which he is to be ac
countable, was brought up, read and concurred.
An act in addition to an act, entitled, " an act to authorize and im
power the proprietors of any common and undivided lands, to call
meetings of their respective proprietors, and to levy and collect such
sum or sums of money on the said lands as they may judge neces
sary ; and also to transact all their common and public affairs ; "
passed the third of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-one, having been read a third time, was voted
that the same be enacted,
A vote to allow Abigail Clayes, widow of the late Capt. Elijah
Clayes (who was killed in the pubhc service) a certain allowance
agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the twenty-fourth of August
1 780, was brought up, read and concurred.
An act enabling Mark H. Wentworth, Esq. to act as formerly for
the heirs and representatives of Trecothick and Thomlinson, of Lon
don, under all the various firms that house hath since taken ; as also
by virtue of a late power received by him from said heirs, &c. dated
January, A. D. 1784, signed Samuel Colker, John Trecothick and
East Apthorp, administrators, having been read a third time, was
voted that the same be enacted.
An act to restore Elisha Allis, of Hatfield, in the county of Hamp
shire, and commonwealth of Massachusetts, to his law, hav-
* I : 56 ing been read a third time, was * voted that the same be
non-concurred.
An act to confirm to Jeremiah Tibbetts, the title of certain lands in
the county of Strafford, having been read a third time, was voted
that the same be enacted,
A vote to hear the petition of Thoraas Pinkham, (praying to be re
stored to his law in two actions prosecuted against him by Margaret
Frost) on the first Tuesday of next session, was brought up, read and
concurred.

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A vote on the petition of Roger Enos (praying for the privilege of
keeping a ferry) was brought up, read and concurred.
The petition of Sarah Ross, (praying for leave to sell certain land
for her subsistence, which is incumbered by an entail) was brought
up with a vote to hear the same on the first Tuesday of next session,
read and concurred,
A vote granting leave to Major Jonathan Wentworth, to discharge
a balance due from him to the State on a bond given for excise, in
State notes, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the accompt of Robert Gerrish for printing for the State and
report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred and Mr, W,
Langdon and Mr. Walker were joined,
A vote allowing Phebe Colburn, widow of Lt. Col, Andrew Col
burn (who was killed in the battle at Saratoga) half pay, &c, agree
able to a resolve of Congress, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote that persons be appointed to receive and examine the ac
compts of all such towns and individuals in the counties of
Cheshire and Grafton, who* pretend to have demands * i : 57
against the State, &c, was brought up, read and non-con
curred, A vote for the accompts of Mark H, Wentworth, and others for
sundry charges for the defence of Piscataqua harbour in 1775, to be
settled by his Excellency the President and Council, was brought up,
read and non-concurred.
An act in addition to an act entitled " an act for establishing a
light-house," passed April the ninth, one thousand seven hundred
and eighty-four, having been read a third time, was voted that the
same be enacted.
A vote to grant the widow of the late Capt. Zechariah Beal, who
died in the public service, an allowance agreeable to a resolve of
Congress, was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow, nine o'clock, A. M,
THURSDAY, November ii, 1784
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday,
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the accompts of Major Jonathan Child, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and concurred. Mr. Smith and Mr. Gilman were
joined. A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider what allowance shaU be made the Secretary for his service, prior

114 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
to the current year, was brought up, read and concurred, Mr Walker
and Mr, Blood were joined.
* I : 58 A vote for a commhtee to join a commhtee of* the Senate,
to prepare a biU for the better observation of the Lord's-
day, and lay the same before the General Court next session, was
brought up, read and concurred, Mr. W. Langdon and Mr, Gilman
were joined,
A vote to pay the accompt of John Calfe, Esq, amounting to four
pounds three shiUings and six pence, for recording the journals of the
house and copying the same for the press, was brought up, read and
concurred, A vote that Supply Clapp, Esq, commissary-general, be and is em
powered to sell a quantity of damaged powder at Charlestown, in
this State, was brought up, read and concurred.
A vote to pay Lt, Jaraes Wedgwood the depreciation of wages, &c.
while he belonged to the Continental army, was brought up, read and
concurred, A vote to settle and regulate the mUitia throughout the State, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A vote directing the Treasurer to attend the General Court at
their next session, on the second Wednesday of February next, was
brought up, read and concurred,
A vote to pay Robert Gerrish seventy-five pounds, in full of his
accompt for printing, was brought up, read and concurred,
A vote to pay the accompt of Melcher and Osborne, amounting to
seventy-nine pounds twelve shilhngs, for printing, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the manner in which the excise shall be sold for the
* I : 59 year ensuing, and * by whom, was brought up, read and con
curred, Mr, Walker and Mr, Smith were joined,
A vote for paying Ebenezer Thompson, Esq, twenty pounds in
full for his service as Secretary, prior to the present constitution, was
brought up, read and concurred,
A vote to pay Col, Supply Clapp his accompt for monies advanced
and service as comissary of prisoners, amounting to five hundred and
ninety-five pounds four shUlings, was brought up, read and con
curred, A vote to pay the account of Capt. Josiah Gilman amounting to
six pounds eleven shillings, was brought up, read and concurred.
An act in addition to an act entitled " an act for the equal dis
tribution of insolvent estates, " having been read a third time, was
voted that the same be enacted.

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An act for laying out a public road to Dartmouth College, was read
a third time and voted that the same be enacted,
A vote to pay the accompt of John Williams, amounting to four
pounds as door-keeper to the General Court, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A vote appointing Nathaniel Peabody, Joseph Gilman and Thomas
Odiorne, Esq'rs, a committee for the County of Rockingham ; John
Wentworth, Jonathan Wentworth and Caleb Hodgdon, Esq'rs, a
committee for the County of Strafford ; Francis Blood, Robert
Means and Moses Nichols, Esq'rs, a committee for the
county * of HUlsborough ; Simeon Olcott, Elijah Grout and * i : 60
Samuel Hunt, Esq'rs, a committee for the county of Ches-
shire ; Timothy Bedel, Charles Johnston and Moses Dow, Esq'rs for
the county of Grafton, to make sale of the excise in the several
counties of this State for the current year, agreeably to the laws of
the State, the one half to be sold for cash, the other half for orders
on the Treasurer for cash, and that the said excise be sold before the
first day of February next, was brought up, read and concurred.

JOURNAL

OF THE

House of Representatives

CONTAINING THE

PROCEEDINGS FROM OCT. 20 TO NOV. 11, 1784,

A JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS

HON.BL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
At their second Session under the New Constitution, begun &
holden at Portsmouth, on the third Wednesday in October, being the
Twentieth day of said month. Anno Dom, One thousand seven hun
dred and eighty-four, and in the ninth year of the Independence of
America. WEDNESDAY, October 20, 1784.
Sundry Members met according to adjournment; but there not
being a quorum to transact business, adjourned to nine o'clock to
morrow morning.' THURSDAY, October 21, 1784
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col. Peabody, Mr Jewett, Gen, Badger, Mr, Duncan,
Major Whitcomb, Major Baker and Mr. Adams, with such of the
honorable Senate as may be joined-, be a committee to take under
consideration the several matters contained in his ExceUency's mes
sage this day received, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Scribner,
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Capt. Pickering, Dr. Brackett, Mr. Betton, Col. Run
nels, and Col. HUl, with such of the honorable Senate as may be

120 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
joined, be a committee to consider of the petition of John Sirapson,
and of all petitions of sick and wounded officers and soldiers, and
report thereon. Sent up by Mr, Wahace.
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Jereraiah Tibbetts,
which was to have been before the General-Court to-morrow, be post
poned to Friday the twenty-ninth of October current, pursuant to
the request of the CouncU for both parties ; and all persons con
cerned, are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Sent up by Capt. Foss,
* 12 : 611 * Upon reading and considering the petition of Samuel
Connor,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on Thursday next ; and that in the mean time, the petitioner
cause that Jereraiah Connor, Joseph Connor, Eliphalet Connor, Maria
Dudley, and Sarah Elliott, be served each with a copy of the peti
tion, and order of Court thereon, that they or either of them may
then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer there
of raay not be granted. Sent up by Mr, Young.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Edwards Bucknam,'
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time the petitioner cause that Jeremiah Eames, Esq, and
the owner or owners of the land on the easterly side of the river, at
the place petitioned for, be served with a copy of the petition, and
order of Court thereon, at least three weeks before the tirae of hear
ing, that he or they may then appear and show cause (if any they
have) why the prayer thereof raay not be granted.
Sent up by Mr, Young.
Voted, That Mr Jewett, Col. Toppan, and Col, Bartlett, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Isaac Tucker, and all sirailar raatters, and
report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Young,
Upon reading and considering the petition of David Danforth, and
others, inhabhants of Washington, praying that the unimproved
lands in said town, may be taxed for repairing highways.
Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the General-
Court on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time the petitioners cause that the substance of
* 12:612 the petition, and order of Court thereon,* be pubhshed
three weeks successively in the New Hampshire Gazette,
that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any
they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
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^ Voted, That Capt. Spaulding, Mr. McMurphy and Capt, Copp,
with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a coramittee
to consider of the petition of Samuel Lowell,' and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt, Copeland.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-raorrow morning.
FRIDAY, October 22, 1784.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Major Jonathan ChUd,
which was to have been this day before the General-Court, be post
poned until Wednesday next ; of which all concerned are to take no
tice and govern themselves accordingly. Sent up by Major Child.
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Gen. Badger, and Mr. Jenness, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a coramittee to con
sider of the petition of Edward Dimpsey, and all similar matters, and
report thereon. Sent up by Col. Richardson.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Thomas Parsons,
Esq. and others, praying that the Masonian proprietors may be called
upon to make and repair a passable road through Ossipee Gore,
Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time the petitioners cause that the substance of the peti
tion, and order of court thereon, be published three weeks succes
sively in the New Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons
may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer
thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Col, Leavitt.
* Voted, That Col, Bartlett, Mr. Adams, and Col, Run- * 12 : 613
nels, with such of the honorable Board as they shall join,
be a committee to consider of the petition of Lieut, Moses Beld
ing, and all simUar matters, and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Whitcomb.
Voted, That Col. Peabody, Mr. Betton, Mr. Duncan, Col, Runnels
and Mr. Wallace, with such of the honorable Senate as may be
joined, be a committee to take under consideration and report what
they may judge necessary to be done respecting horse-thieves, and
for the encouragement of those persons who may prosecute therefor :
Also, for the encouragement of those who may prosecute persons
concerned in forgeries of any kind, &c. Sent up by Col, Tash.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P, M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Mr. Pickering, Col. Peabody, Major
Gains, and Gen. Badger, with such of the honorable Senate as may
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122 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
be joined, be a comraittee to consider of the propriety of passing an
act in addition to an act, entitled an act for the equal distribution of
insolvent estates, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Wilbore.
Yoted, That Major Gains, Mr. Jenness, and Capt. Fogg, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a coraraittee to con
sider of the petition of Major Jonathan Child, in behalf of Lieut.
Jaraes Gould, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt. Young.
Yoted, That Col. Toppan, Gen. Badger, Mr. Mann, Mr. Chase, and
Col. Bedel, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be
a comraittee to consider of the petition of the selectmen of Conway,
and all simUar matters, and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt. Young.
* 12 : 614 * Voted, That the hearing on the petition of James Rob
ertson, which was to have been this day, before the Gen
eral-Court, be postponed to the second Wednesday of their next
session ; of which all persons concerned are to take notice and gov
ern themselves accordingly. Sent up by Capt. Young.
Voted, That Col. Peabody, and Col. Toppan, be added to the com
mittee on John Simpson's petition ; and on all petitions of sick and
and wounded officers and soldiers. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
'* The following vote came down from the honorable Senate for con
currence :
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
In Senate, October 22, 1784.
Yoted, That the Hon. Timothy Walker, and the Hon. Woodbury
Langdon, with such of the honorable House of Representatives as
they may join, be a comraittee to draft an answer to the address of
the rainisters of the congregational churches, merabers of several
associations in the State of New-Harapshire, presented to his Exceh
lency the President of said State, and the General-Court, by a com
mittee of several associations in said State.
Sent down for concurrence. Joseph Pearson, Deputy-Secretary.
Which vote was read and concurred, and Mr. Knowles, Mr. Adams
and Mr. Smiley, joined. Returned by Col. Tash.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jonathan Chase,
Esq, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the Generah
Court, on the second Thursday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time, the petitioner cause that Dr Clement March and Mr.
Stephen March, mentioned in said petition, each be served with a

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copy thereof, and order of Court thereon, that they, or either of
them, may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the
prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Col. Bedel,
* Yoted, That the hearings on the petitions of Joshua * 12 : 615
Lambkin, and John Holbrook, which were to have been
this day before the General-Court be postponed to Wednesday next ;
•of which all persons concerned are to take notice and govern them
selves accordingly. Sent up by Col. Bedel,
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
SATURDAY, October 23, 1784.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Major Wentworth, Capt. Mann, and Col. Leavitt,
with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a coraraittee
to consider of the petition of Thomas Kemp, and Nathan Wesson,
and report thereon. Sent up by Col, ChUd,
Voted, That Col. Bartlett, Col. Bedel, and Col. Hill, with such of
the honorable Senate as they may join, be a committee to consider
of the petition of Joseph Taylor, and report thereon. Sent up by Col. Child.
Voted, That the Hon, Abiel Foster, Esq. have and receive out of
the Treasury, by order of the President, the sum of one hundred
and twenty pounds, to enable him to proceed to Congress, and for
which he is accountable. Sent up by Col. Tash.
Voted, That the Hon. John-Taylor Gilman, Esq, Treasurer, and
Capt. Josiah Gilman, one of the Committee on Claims, be requested
to attend the General-Court at Portsmouth, during this session, with
necessary papers to transact business for the public.
Sent up by Capt, Young.
Returned from the Senate for the following amendraent : "That
they attend as long as the General-Court think necessary," Which
amendment was concurred and the vote returned.
Voted, That Joseph Pearson, Esq, be and he hereby is appointed
Pay-Master of the pensioners in this State.
Sent up by Capt. Young.
* Yoted, That the Hon, George Atkinson, George Gains, * 12 : 616
and John Pickering, Esq'rs, with such of the honorable
Senate as may be joined, be a Committee to draught a Proclamation
for a general Thanksgiving throughout this State, and lay the same
before this House, Sent up by Capt, Young,
Voted, That Col, Bartlett, Col, Peabody, Capt Calfe, Mr R, Wal
lace, Major Shephard, Major Baker, and Mr. Mann, with such of the
honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to take under

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consideration the pethion of Thoraas Russell, and others, agents for
sundry towns in the counties of Cheshire and Grafton ; also the
petition of John Young, in behalf of sundry towns in said county of
Grafton, and report thereon. Sent up by Col. Child.
Voted, That Col, Bedel, Capt. KendaU, and Col. Tash, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Elisha Wilbore, and report thereon.
Sent up by Col. Tash.
Adjourned to Monday next, three o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, October 25, 1784.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Upon reading and considering the petition of General Robert
Enos, praying for the privilege of a ferry a-cross the river Connecti
cut, Voted, that the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean tirae, the petitioner cause that the Selectmen of Plainfield
be served with a copy of the petition, and order of Court thereon,
that they may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the
prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Capt. Sumner.
* 12: 617 * Upon reading and considering the petition of William
Henry, and others, inhabitants of Charlestown, praying
that a poll parish may be erected in said Charlestown,"
Voted, that the petitioners be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time the petitioners cause that the selectmen of Charles
town be served with a copy of the petition, and order of Court
thereon, that they may then appear and shew cause (if any they have).
why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Mr. Wilbore.
Voted, That Mr Jewett, Col, Bedel, and Major Whitcomb, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to
consider of the petition of Benjamin Heath,^ and all similar matters,
and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Wilbore.
Voted, That this House resolve themselves into a comraittee of the
whole, in conjunction with the honorable Senate, to-morrow morning,
(if they see fit) to take under consideration the matters contained in
his ExceUency's message, agreeably to the report of a committee
frora both Houses. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
Voted, That Col. Peabody, Gen. Badger, Col, Toppan, Col. HiU,
and Mr. Adaras, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,,
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be a committee to consider of the accounts of Richard Hart, Thomas
Martin, John Pierce, Joseph Pierce, Jonathan Warner, and Mark H.
Wentworth, Esq'rs. and report thereon. Sent up by Major Gains.
Voted, That Mr. Pickering, Gen, Badger, Mr, R, Wallace, Major
Whitcomb, and Col. Payne, with such of the honorable Senate as
may be joined, be a committee to take under consideration a resolve
of the General-Court, passed June 15, 1784, and report what altera
tion they may judge neccessary. Sent up by Major Gains.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
TUESDAY, October 26, 1784.
The House met according to adjournment,
*The honorable Senate and House being met in Com- * 12 : 618
mittee of the whole, agreeably to the vote of yesterday,
the Hon, John Langdon, Esq. was appointed Chairraan, proceeded
to consider of the matters contained in his Excellency's message to
both Houses. — In the first place took under consideration a resolve
of Congress (mentioned in said message) of the 18"" of AprU, 1783,
respecting this State's quota of one mihion five hundred thousand
dollars ; and after some conversation on the matter, agreed to post
pone the further consideration thereof for the present. — Proceeded
to consider the recommendation of Congress respecting the return of
Refugees, the restoration of property, &c. and after much conversa
tion thereon, agreed to appoint a sub-committee consisting of nine
persons ; and that Mr. J. Pickering, Mr. Duncan, Hon, Woodbury
Langdon, Col. Payne, Mr. Blood, Gen, Badger, Col. Peabody, Col.
Walker, and Mr, Gilman, be a committee to report what they may
judge proper to be done respecting the raatter. — Then proceeded to
consider of a resolve of Congress of the 30"' of April last, respect
ing commerce, and came to the following vote :
Voted, That an act be passed to invest the United-States in Con
gress assembled, with full power for a limited time ; and that the re
maining part of that paragraph in his E.xcehency's message, be
referred to a committee chosen by the two Houses in their separate
branches. The committee then rose with leave to sit again, and the
Speaker resumed the chair.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
The committee on sick and wounded officers and soldiers, reported
as their opinion that John Simpson, is entitled to half pay from the
time his first three years half pay ceased ; and his pay be
made up by the officer appointed for that * purpose, until * 12 : 619
further order of Court, in the usual manner.
Signed, Joseph GUman, for the comraittee.

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Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col, Peabody.
Voted, That Mr. Adams, Mr. J. Pickering, and Major Gains, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to
consider of the memorial of the Rev. Mr. Evans, and report thereon.
Sent up by Col, Peabody.
Upon reading and considering the petition from Dartmouth-Col
lege, praying for the liberty of a Lottery for raising three thousand
pounds, clear, for the purpose of erecting proper buildings, &c.
Motion was made for granting the prayer of said petition ; and the
yeas and nays being cahed for, were as follows :

YEAS.
Geo. Atkinson, Esq,,
Major Gains,
Mr, Pickering,
Capt, Underbill,
Mr, Jenness,
Col. Toppan,
Capt, Leavitt,
Mr. MerrUl,
Capt. Eastraan,
Capt, Morrill,
Capt, Fogg,
Mr. Eastraan,
Major Cram,
Col, Emerson,
Mr, Scribner,
Mr, Clough,
Mr, Butler,
Capt, Calfe,
Mr Smith, NAYS.
Mr. Jewett,
Mr McMurphy,
Col, Leavitt,
Mr, Shaw,
Col, Bartlett,
Mr, Daniels,
Col, Peabody,

YEAS.
Mr. Chase,
Mr, Powers,
Major Baker,
Mr, Ayers,
Mr, ChUd,
Mr, Young,
Mr, Betton,
Mr. Brackett,
Major Wentworth,
Mr. Knowles,
Capt. Foss,
Mr, Sanborn,
Col. Richardson,
Col, Tash,
Col, Page,
Mr McGregore,
Capt, Eraerson,
Mr Mann,
Mr Adams, NAYS.
Gen, Badger,
Mr, Beede,
Capt, Copp,
Capt, Marsh,
Capt. French,
Mr Martin,
Capt, Putnam,

YEAS.
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. Pettingill,
Mr. Grout,
Major Shephard.
Major Whitcomb,.
Mr, Smiley,
Mr, Willard,
Mr. Wilbore,
Mr. Sumner,
Mr Morss,
Mr. Kendall,
Mr. Huse,
Mr. Freeman,.
Col, Bedel,
Col, Runnels,
Col, HUl,

NAYS,
Capt, Spaulding„
Mr, Wallace,
Mr Dow,
Mr, Greeley,
Mr Storey,
Mr, Copeland,
Capt, Pickering.

Fifty-five YEAS,  Twenty-one NAYS,

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* So that the motion prevailed for granting the prayer of * 1 2 : 620
said petition ; and the petitioner hath leave to bring in a
bUl accordingly. Sent up by Capt, Pickering,
The following vote was sent down for concurrence :
In SENATE, October 26, 1784,
Upon reading a representation of Joseph Gilman, Esq. in behalf
of the committee appointed by this State to settle public accounts
with Stephen Gorham, Esq. Commissioner of the United-States, set
ting forth that said Commissioner thinks himself not authorized to
credit this State with the additional wages or bounties paid to General
Stark's brigade in 1777; pay allowed to volunteers to Rhode-Island,
in the year 1778, for their horses; interest charged on depreciation
paid the Continental troops in the years 1777 and 1778 ;
Voted, That his Excellency the President be desired to lay the
matter before the Congress of the United-States, and request that
said Commissioner should be instructed to allow said charges to this
State. Sent down for concurrence. E. Thompson, Secretary.
The sarae day read and concurred, and returned by Major Whit
comb. Voted, that Col. Toppan, Gen. Badger, Mr. Duncan, Mr, Chase,
and Col, Bedel, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a committee to consider of what is most convenient to be done
respecting sending precepts to the several districts in this State, that
are now destitute of representation : Also, to report what they judge
necessary to be done respecting issuing precepts annually for the
choice of Representatives. Sent up by Capt. Foss.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
* 12 : 621 * WEDNESDAY, October 27, 1784.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Mr. Smith, Col, Toppan, and Col, Peabody, with such
of the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a committee to con
sider and report what they think proper to be done with the notes
issued by this State, in the year 1775 ; and that are now in the hands
of individuals. Sent up by Capt. Foss,
The coramittee on sick and wounded &c, reported, as their opinion,
that John Colburn, a serjeant in Capt. House's corapany, who was fur
loughed by Gen, Poor, at Valley-Forge, February 9, 1778 ; and who,
from the evidence now laid before the committee, was by extreme
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enlisted was expired, ought to be made up in the books for his depre
ciation, notwithstanding his having been returned as a deserter
Signed, J, Gilman, for committee.
Which report having been read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Capt, Foss.
The comraittee on sick and wounded &c. having considered the
petition of Archibald McMUlan, wounded at Bunker-HiU, in the year
1775, are of opinion that he should receive ten shillings per month,
from June lo, .1783, 'tUl further order of Court.
Signed, J. GUman, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Capt, Foss.
The committee on sick and wounded, &c., on considering the peti
tion of Elijah Blodget, wounded on the western frontiers, reported
as their opinion that the said Blodget, be allowed eighteen pounds
twelve shillings, in full for his account. Signed, J. Gilman, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, that it be received and accepted. Sent up by Capt. Foss.
* 12 : 622 * Yoted, That Col. Bartlett, Col. Peabody, and Col, Top-
pan, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a committee to consider what method shall be taken respecting
forwarding delegates to Congress, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Adams,
Voted, That Col. Hih, Mr, J, Pickering, and Capt, Leavht, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to
consider of the pethion of Abraham Perkins, Esq, and Thomas-Stow
Ranney, and report thereon. Sent up by Major Gains.
Voted, That Col. Bartlett, Capt. Calfe, Capt. Foss, Mr. Means, and
Capt. Marsh, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be
a comrahtee to consider of the petition of John Hale, Esq. and report
thereon. Sent up by Col. Runnels.
Voted, That Mr. Pickering, Col. Toppan, Major Gains, Mr. Smith,
and Mr. Jewett, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a comrahtee to consider of and report what amendment they
think necessary to be made in the laws respecting proprietary mat
ters ; also, in the last proportion act, and the act for establishing an
equitable method of raaking rates and taxes, &c. Sent up by Col. Tash.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Sarah Little,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
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Sent up by Col, Tash and Capt, Calfe.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Elisha Ellis,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
Sent up by Col. Tash and Capt, Calfe,
* Upon hearing and considering the petitions of Joshua * 12 : 623
Lambkin, and John Holbrook,
Yoted, that the further consideration thereof be postponed.
Sent up by Col, Tash and Capt, Calfe,
Voted, that Col, Runnels, Col, Payne, and Col. Hill, with such of
the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider
of a ration roll of Serjeant James Blake's scouting-party in the year
1782, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt. Young.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Edmund Noyes, and
others, inhabitants of Seabrook,
Voted, that the petitioners be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on Tuesday next ; and that the petitioners cause that the
substance of the petition, and order of Court thereon, be posted up
at the door of each meeting-house in said Seabrook, on Sunday next,
that any person or persons may appear, and shew cause (if any they
have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Voted, That Col. Peabody, Col. Leavitt, Gen. Badger, Mr. Smith,
Mr, McGregore, Capt, Putnam, Major Whitcomb, Mr Chase, Major
Baker, and Mr. Young, with such of the honorable Senate as may be
joined, be a committee to consider of the propriety of an alteration
in the several regiments of this State, and report what number they
judge necessary, with the limits or number of towns each regiment
shall contain. Sent up by Major Whitcomb.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M,
Met accordingly.
The committee on Moses Belding's petition and aU similar matters,
having considered the petition of Lieut, Jonathan Emerson, reported
as their opinion, that the said Lieut. Jonathan Emerson, be made up
the depreciation of his wages as other officers of his rank, until he
was deranged. Signed, Ebenezer Sraith, for the coraraittee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr, Jewett,
* Upon reading and considering the petition of Josiah * 12 : 624
Sanborn, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the Treasurer
be directed to receive the note last raentioned in said petition, and

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issue a new note equal to the value of the money when it was put
into the Treasury, and certificates for the interest due thereon in
common form. Sent up by Mr, Jewett.
Upon reading and considering the petition of George Place,
Voted, That the pethioner be heard thereon before the Generah
Court on Thursday next ; and that the petitioner cause_ that the
selectmen of Rochester, be served with a copy of the petition and
order of Court thereon, as soon as may be, that they may then appear
and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not
be granted. Sent up by Mr, Jewett,
Upon reading and considering the pethion of Paul Harford,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General-
Court, on Thursday next ; and that the petitioner cause that the
selectmen of Rochester, be served whh a copy of the petition and
order of Court thereon, as soon as may be, that they may then
appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted. Sent up by Mr, Jewett,
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Amos Whittemore,'
and others.
Voted, That a coramittee be appointed, consisting of three persons,
and that the Hon, Tiraothy Walker, Esq, Mr, Ephraira Adams, and
Capt, Daniel Emerson, be the comraittee, (at the expenee of the peti
tioners) to view the situation of said petitioners ; also, the situation
of the towns of Lyndeborough, and Peterborough, and report to this
House their opinion respecting the granting the prayer of said peti
tion. Sent up by Capt, Martin.
* 12 : 625 * Yoted, That the hearing on the petition of Richard-Cutts
Shannon, Esq. which was to have been this day before the
General-Court, be postponed 'till to-raorrow ; of which all persons
concerned are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Sent up by Mr. Betton.
The comraittee on the petition of Edward Dirapsey, reported that
by an act passed March 25, 1782, it is (araongst other things) pro
vided that the coraraissioners appointed to receive and exaraine the
clairas against confiscated estates, shall raake out a list of such claims,
and shall lodge the same with the Judge of Probate for the County
where such estate lies, who is directed to send an attested copy
thereof to the Treasurer, who is to pay the same in notes, as
expressed in said act ; but, as by an article in the Constitution, it is
expressly declared that no monies shall be issued out of the Treasury
of this State, and disposed of, except in certain cases therein men
tioned, (neither of which, in the opinion of your committee) includes
the present case ; we therefore recoraraend that a bill be brought in
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directing the list to be lodged at the Secretary's office, and that the
President issue his order in usual form. Signed, J. Gilman, for the
committee. Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Betton,
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
THURSDAY, October 28, 1784,
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That the account of Nicholas Nichohe, araounting to five
pounds eighteen shilhngs and two pence, be allowed and paid out of
the Treasury, by order of the President, Sent up by Mr Martin,
The committee on the petition and memorial of the Rev, Mr,
Evans, reported as their opinion, that the request be granted so far
as it respects depreciation, and that he have order therefor accord
ingly. Signed, John Wentworth, for the coramittee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and. accepted.
Sent up by Mr Willard.
* Upon hearing and considering the petition of Richard- * 12 : 626
Cutts Shannon, Esq.
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr, Pickering.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Major Jonathan
ChUd, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr. E. Pickering.
Adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Hezekiah Wilkins,
Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Major Child.
Voted, That the ballance of the account of Noah Worster, Esq.
amounting to two pounds eight shiUings and eleven pence, be allowed
and paid out of the Treasury, by order of the President.
Sent up by Capt, Marsh.
The committee on the petition of Thomas Kemp, and Nathan
Wesson, Lieutenants in a company of artificers, and artillery, in
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as their opinion, that the said Kemp and Wesson, having produced
such vouchers as make it appear that they are to be considered as a
part of this State's quota of the late army, are therefore entitled to
the depreciation of their wages while in the service, and that they be
raade up for their time in the books whUe in the service ; and that
the President issue orders for payment. Your committee further
recoraraend, that Ephraim Blood and William Blood, soldiers in said
company, inlisted to serve during the war, be likewise made up for
their depreciation ; the other soldiers in the roll having engaged for
a less tirae than three years, do not come within the resolve of Con
gress, Signed, Timothy Walker, for the committee.
* 12 : 627 * Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr Mann.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Samuel Connor,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted under certain restric
tions, which are to be mentioned in the bill to be brought in for
vacating the deed. Sent up by Capt, Fogg.
Yoted, That Mr. J. Pickering, Col. Toppan, and Col. Peabody, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to
revise the Impost Act, and prepare and lay before the House a bUl
for that purpose. Sent up by Capt, Fogg.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-raorrow morning.
FRIDAY, October 29, 1784
The House met according to adjournraent.
The comraittee on the ration roll of Serjeant James Blake's scout
ing party, reported that the Serjeant and his men, be aUowed twelve
pounds each, for billeting themselves, and that the President give
order accordingly, on their producing a certificate from Capt. Jere
miah Eames, that they have not received it of him.
Sent up by Col, Runnels,
Voted, That the account of George Long, amounting to seventeen
pounds four shiUings and nine pence half penny, be aUowed and paid
out of the Treasury, by order of the President. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
\oted,T\\-A.\. Mr. Smith, Col. Payne, Mr Pickering, Col Bartlett
and Mr, Beede, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a comraittee to draught and lay before this House, ah such public
bills as may be thought necessary to be passed this session,
Tr 7 n^i ^ X. , '^^^'^ "P by Ml", Jewett,
Voted, That Gen. Badger, Col. Peabody, Mr. M. Wahace, Capt
Suraner, and Col. Bedel with such of the honorable Senate as may

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be joined, be a committee to consider and report what they think
necessary to be done with the old continental money now in the
Treasury, and in the hands of individuals in this State.
Sent up by Col. Tash.
* Voted, that Col. Toppan, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Betton, Mr. * 12 : 628
McGregore and Capt. Calfe, with such of the honorable
Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider of the petition
of the selectmen of Pelham," praying that an act be passed for the
better observation of the Lord's-day, and sundry other petitions of a
similar nature, and report a bUl for that purpose, if they think neces
sary. Sent up by Major Gains.
Voted, That Dr. Brackett, Major Baker, and Mr. Emerson, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a comraittee to
consider of the accounts of Dr. Hall Jackson and Dr. John Jackson,
and all similar matters, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Wilbore.
The committee on the petition of Abraham Perkins, Esq, and
Thomas-Stow Ranney, reported that the prayer thereof be granted.
Which report was read and considered, received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. Wilbore.
Voted, That Mr. Jewett, Major Whitcomb, and Col Runnels, with
such of the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a committee to
consider of the petition of Jonas Minot, agent for Daniel Davis, and
report thereon. Sent up by Major Gains.
The committee to consider of the petition of Col. John Hale,
reported as their opinion, that the prayer thereof be granted.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Wallace.
The committee on the petition of Major Jonathan Child, in behalf
of Lieutenant James Gould, reported that the prayer thereof be
granted, and that the president draw an order on the Treasurer in
favor of the petitioner, for eighteen pounds fourteen shih
lings and eight pence, the sum * deducted, when his Doc- * 12 : 629
tor's bill was settled. Signed, J. Gilman, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Tash,
Voted, That Mr. Jewett, Capt. Leavitt, and Capt. Pickering, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to
consider of the petition of Ephraim Hildreth, and John Robinson,
and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Greeley.
Voted, That Major Wentworth, Col. Payne, Mr. Chase, Col. Bart-
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134 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
lett and Capt. Mann, with such of the honorable Senate as may be
joined, be a committee to consider of the petition of William Badger,
and AbigaU Badger, and all similar matters, and report thereon.
Sent up by Col. Tash.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P, M.
Met accordingly.
Whereas the selectmen of the Gore, (so called) in the county of
Strafford, have petitioned the General-Court, setting forth that the
inhabitants of said Gore, in March last, held a meeting and chose all
officers, as usual to assess and collect their taxes ; but as their power
of holding meetings ceased with the late proportion act, their pro
ceeding was void : Wherefore, they prayed that the choice of officers,
and other proceedings at said annual meeting might be established :
Therefore Resolved, That the meeting held in said Gore, in March
last, be established and the officers chosen to assess and collect their
taxes, are hereby fuUy authorized and impowered to transact the
necessary business of their respective offices, as fully as if said pro
portion act had continued in force through the year ; and the officers
chosen at said raeeting, are hereby impowered to call a raeeting for
the purposes aforesaid, some time in March next, and the officers for
the respective years to call raeetings annually to choose such neces
sary officers, until a new proportion of the State taxes shall be made.
Sent up by Capt. Pickering.
* 12!; 630 * Voted, That Mr. J. Pickering, Gen. Badger, Col. King,
Col. Peabody, and Mr. McMurphy, with such of the hon
orable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to nominate to this
House proper persons to be appointed Managers of the Dartraouth-
CoUege Lottery. Sent up by Major Pickering,
Yoted, That the hearing on the petition of Jereraiah Tibbetts,
which was to have been this day before the General-Court be post
poned to Wednesday next ; of which aU persons concerned, are to
take notice and govern theraselves accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Freeman,
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Jonathan Mason,
Yoted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr, Freeraan.
Yoted, That Mr. J, Pickering, Mr Sraith, Col, Peabody, Col, Hill
and Col, Bartlett, whh such of the honorable Senate as raay be
joined, be a committee to consider of the raemorial of the Reverend
Mr. Jeremy Belknap, and report thereon. Sent up by Col. Bartlett.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-raorrow morning.

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SATURDAY, October 30, 1784,
The House raet according to adjournment.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Capt. John Neal,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the President
give order that the Treasurer receive said orders, and indorse the
sum total on the bond, signed by said Neal Sent up by Capt. Pickering.
Voted, That Col. Payne, Capt. Putnam, Mr. Jewett, Major Shep
hard, and Mr. Jenness, with such of the honorable Senate as may be
joined, be a committee to consider of the petition of Zebulon Crane,
and all similar matters and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Shephard.
* Upon reading and considering the petition of Asahel * 12 : 631
Bundy, Peter Eastman and Benjamin Bellows, Esq'rs.
Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Thursday of their next session ; and that in the
meantime, the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition and
order of Court thereon, be pubhshed three weeks successively in the
New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons raay then appear
and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. Sent up by Major Shephard.
The comraittee appointed to take under consideration a resolve of
the General-Court, passed June 15, 1784, beg leave to report that to
carry the design of the General-Court, in said resolve, into effect, it
is necessary that a vote or votes to the following purpose, should be
passed, viz.
That all the soldiers who enlisted in this State, in the years i 'jjj,
1778, and 1779, to serve in the Continental army for two years, or
any term of time less than three years, shall be allowed depreciation.
Their accounts to be made up by a coraraittee to be appointed for
that purpose, in the sarae manner as the accounts were made up for
those soldiers who were engaged for three years, or during the war,
to be subject to the same charges and deductions ; the interest to
commence at the expiration of the year in which any such soldier was
discharged ; that on application to said comraittee by any such sol
dier, a certificate shall be raade out, of the sum due, and when interest
shah commence ; and that on the President's receiving such certifi
cate, he issue his order on the Treasurer, in the sarae manner as he
draws in favor of those soldiers who were engaged during the war.
Signed, J. GUman, for the Committee,
Which report being read and considered,
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Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
* 12 : 632 * The coraraittee on the petition of Lieut. Moses Belding,
&c. reported that the said Lieut. Moses Belding, be made
up the depreciation of his wages as other officers of his rank, until
the first of September, 1778, the time he was deranged ; and that the
President give order accordingly. Signed, Ebenezer Smith, for the coraraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, that it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
Adjourned to Monday next, three o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, November i, 1784.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col, Toppan, Gen. Badger, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Grout,
and Col. Payne, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a coraraittee to consider what business is yet necessary to be trans
acted at this session, and report thereon. Sent up Col. King.
Voted, That Thursday the second day of Deceraber next, be ob
served and kept as a day of public Thanksgiving throughout this
State ; and that his Excellency the President (with advice of counsel)
be requested to issue a Proclaraation for that purpose.
Sent up by Major Gains.
Yoted, that Col. Payne, Col. Toppan, Mr Jewett, Gen, Badger, and
Mr, Chase, with such of the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a
comraittee to consider of the petition of Elisha Payne, jun. and others,
and report thereon. Sent up by Capt, Young.
Voted, That Mr. Dow, Mr. Ayer, and Capt, Leavitt, with such of
the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider
of the petition of [Sarah Chapman and Justus Chapraan, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr. Eastraan.
Voted, That Col. Leavitt, Mr. Jewett, and Mr. Betton, with such
of the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a comraittee to con
sider of the petition of] the Selectmen of Merrimack, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr. Marsh.'
* 12 1633 *The comraittee chosen at the last session of the Gen
erahCourt, for preparing a device and inscription for a
Seal for this State, reported, that the device be a field encompassed
with laurel, round the field in capital letters, SIGILLUM REIPUB
LICAE NEO HANTONIENSIS, on the field a rising sun, and a
1- The portions of two paragraphs enclosed in brackets are not in the raanuscript journal, but are found
in the offlcial copy printed at the time. It will be observed also that the name of the party here mentioned
as Cfuipman is given as Chapin in the Senate record.

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ship on the stocks, with American banners displayed, and that said
seal be two inches diameter :
Which [device and] inscription being considered.
Voted, That the same be received and accepted, and that the said
committee procure the seal as soon as may be.
Sent up by Capt, Sumner.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow raorning.
TUESDAY, November 2, 1784.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act to vest the exclusive right of keeping a ferry over a certain
part of Connecticut-river, in Benjamin Suraner, of Claremont, in the
county of Cheshire, his heirs and assigns, was read a third time, and
passed to be enacted. Sent up by Major Gains and Mr, Knowles.
An Act to vest the sole and exclusive right and privilege of keep
ing a ferry over a certain part of Connecticut river, in Oliver Ashley,
of Claremont, in the county of Cheshire, his heirs and assigns, was
read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Major Gains and Mr. Knowles.
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Major Gains, and Col, Peabody, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to
consider of the propriety of passing a resolve respecting the [goods
on board the] ship Arthur, and report thereon. Sent up by Major Gains,
An Act to enable Sarah Little, to sell a certain house and land
thereto belonging, situate in Portsmouth, was read a third tirae and
passed to be enacted. Sent up by Mr, Powers and Capt, Calfe,
* The coramittee to consider of the propriety of passing a * 1 2 : 634
resolve respecting the goods on board the ship Arthur, re
ported a resolve, which was read and considered, received and accepted.
Sent up by Col. Toppan.
An Act, in addition to an act, entitled an act to enable George
Kezar, to review an action of entry and disseizin, against Richard
Melony, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Powers and Mr. Calfe.
Voted, That Major Gains, Gen. Badger, Mr, Means, Major Whit
comb, Mr, Freeman, with such of the honorable Senate as may be
joined, be a committee to consider of a letter of Gen, John Suhivan,
and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Powers.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P, M.
Met accordingly,
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138 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
Voted, that Mr. McMurphy, Mr. Jewett, and Major Gains, whh
such of the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a coramittee to
consider of the account of Col. Supply Clapp ; also what allowance
shall be made him for his services, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr, Young,
Voted, That Mr. Smhh, Major Whitcomb, and Col. Bartlett, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a coraraittee to
prepare a resolve to carry into effect a report of a coraraittee of Sat
urday last, respecting a settleraent with those soldiers who served in
the Continental army, for any term short of three years, and lay the
same before this house. Sent up by Major Whitcorab.
An Act to divide the town of Apthorp, in the county of Grafton,
and State aforesaid, and incorporate the same into two several towns,
was read a third tirae, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col, Peabody and Mr. Smith.
* 12 : 63s * Voted, That the Hon, Samuel Livermore, Esq. be and
he hereby is appointed a delegate to represent this State,
in the Congress of the United States, in the room and stead of the
Hon, Jonathan Blanchard, Esq, who declined accepting said trust ;
and that he represent this State until the first Monday in Noveraber
next, unless sooner relieved or recalled by the General-Court of this
State, with all the powers and privileges which other delegates from
this State have heretofore had and enjoyed, agreeably to the Confed
eration of the United States, Sent up by Mr, Greeley,
Yoted, That the Hon. Pierse Long, Esq; be and he hereby is ap
pointed a delegate to represent this State, in the Congress of the
United-States in the room and stead of the Hon, John Langdon,
Esq ; who declined accepting said trust ; and that he represent this
State, untU the first Monday in November next, unless sooner re
lieved or recaUed by the General-Court of this State, with all the
powers and privUeges which other delegates frora this State have
heretofore had and enjoyed, agreeably to the Confederation of the
United-States. Sent up by Mr. Greeley,
Yoted, That the Hon, Elisha Payne, Esq ; be, and he hereby is
appointed a delegate to represent this State, in the Congress of the
United-States, in the room and stead of the honorable Moses Dow,
Esq ; who declined accepting said trust ; and that he represent this
State, until the first Monday in November next, unless sooner re
lieved or recalled by the General-Court of this State, with all the
powers and privUeges which other delegates frora this State, have
heretofore had and enjoyed, agreeably to the Confederation of the
United-States, Sent up by Mr. Greeley.

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Voted, That Major Gains, Col, Bedel, and Mr Jewett, with such of
the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider
of the propriety of giving the treasurer order for the pay
ment * of small ballances due to soldiers, in certificates, * 12 : 636
to avoid the trouble of issuing notes therefor : Also to
consider the propriety of paying sraall notes, by issuing certificates
for the sarae, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr, Duncan,
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Levi Harvey, and
others,' inhabitants of New-London, which was to have been before
the General-Court, on Thursday last, be put over to the second
Thursday of the next session, and that in the mean tirae the peti
tioners give notice thereof, by publishing this vote in theNew Harap
shire Gazette, three weeks successively. Sent up by Major Gains.
The vote of yesterday appointing a coraraittee on the petition of
Elisha Payne, jun. and others, came down from the honorable Senate,
for the following amendment, " That they report on any sirailar
matters they judge necessary ; " Which amendraent was read and
concurred. Upon hearing and considering the petition of Wihiam Dana, pray
ing for a grant of a ferry over Connecticut river.
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Col, Payne.
Yoted, That Col, Runnels, Mr, Adaras, Mr Betton, Col, Peabody
and Mr, Smiley, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a committee to consider of the propriety of directing the Loan-
Officer in this State, to issue certificates, for the interest on Loan-
Office certificates, agreeably to the resolves of Congress ; and
whether the inhabitants of any other State, who are holders of cer
tificates and notes, issued in this State, shall be entitled to receive
interest on Loan-Office certificates, also, the fifteen per cent, on State
Securities, Sent up by Col, Payne,
* Voted, That the last precept issued by the Treasurer, * 12 : 637
directed to the Selectmen of Gunthwait, be altered and
directed to the Selectmen of Concord, alias Gunthwait ; and that ah
precepts to be issued in future to said Selectmen, and their successors,
be directed accordingly, until further order of the General-Court.
Sent up by Col, Payne.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
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140 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [.^7^4
WEDNESDAY, November 3, 1784,
The House met according to adjournraent.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jacob Jewett, jun.
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the Generah
Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the raean tirae the petitioner cause that Samuel Stearns of Plymouth,
be served with a copy of the petition, and order of Court thereon,
that he raay then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the
prayer thereof raay not be granted ; and that all further process
against said Jewett, be stayed until the determination of the General-
Court, Sent up by Col. Peabody.
Yoted, That the account of John S. Dearborn, amounting to two
pounds fourteen shUlings ; also the account of John Gross, araount
ing to two pounds fourteen shillings, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury, by order of the President. Sent up by Col. Peabody.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jacob Brown, and
others,' inhabitants of Ossipee-Gore, praying for an incorporation,
&c. Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the first Friday of their next session ; and that in the
mean tirae, the petitioner cause that the substance of the petition,
and order of Court thereon, be published three weeks successively
in the New Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons raay then
appear and shew cause, (if any they have) why the prayer thereof raay
not be granted. Sent up by Mr. Eraerson.
* 12 1638 * Voted, That Mr Knowles, Col. HiU, and Capt, Mann,^
with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a
committee to consider of the petition of James Betton, Esq, in be
half of Gain Armor, and all simUar raatters, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Eraerson.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Ebenezer Torrey,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General-
Court, on the first Friday of their next session ; and that in the raean
time the petitioner cause that David Leonard, and Abel Leonard,
each to be served with a copy of the petition and order of Court
thereon, that they or ehher of them, may then appearand shew cause
(if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted, and
that all further process against the said Torrey, be stayed untU the
decision of the General-Court thereon. Sent up by Capt, Young,
Voted, That Col, Bartlett, Col. Tash, Mr. McGregore, Mr. Chase,
and Col Bedel, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
1 xiii. Ham, Town Papers, 139. %Marsh in the printed journal.

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be a comraittee to consider of the pethion of R, Freeman, in behalf
of the town of Hanover, and all similar matters, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr, Freeman.
An Act for granting liberty to set up and carry on a lottery to
raise raoney for the purpose of erecting an edifice, in the township of
Hanover, for the use and benefit of Dartmouth-Cohedge, was read a
third time, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col, Payne and Mr. Freeman.
Voted, That the pay rolls of Meshech Bell, Lieutenant and Com
mandant, stationed at New-Castle, one araounting to fifty-one pounds
twelve shillings, and the other to seventy-two pounds,
which completes the pay of said * officer and men to the * 12 : 639
20*^' of October 1784, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury to the said Lieut, Bell, and that the President give order
accordingly. Sent up by Major Wiggin.
Upon reading and considering the petition of John Hall,'
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General-
Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time the petitioner cause that the selectmen of Goffstown,
be served with a copy of the petition and order of Court thereon,
that they may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why
the prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Mr. Young.
Voted, That two pounds per month, be allowed and paid to the
person who has attended, or may in future attend the Light-House at
New-Castle, over and above his pay as a soldier, provided he do his
duty as a soldier ; and that the commanding-officer be directed to
make up a roll for the time past, and in future, agreeably to this vote,
and that the President give order for payraent accordingly.
Sent up by Mr. Knowles.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
The coramittee on the petitions of Thomas Russell, and John
Young, in behalf of sundry towns in the counties of Cheshire and
Grafton, reported as their opinion, that persons be appointed to re
ceive and examine in the recess of the Court, the accounts of all such
towns, and individuals, in the counties of Cheshire and Grafton,
which pretend to have any deraands against this State for services
done during the late war, which have not been already allowed ; also,
inquire into all sums or articles that have been advanced or supplied
such towns, or individuals, and report thereon, speciaUy, at the next
session of the General-Court, Signed, Woodbury Langdon, for the coramittee.
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142 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
* 12 : 640 Which report being read * and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, with this araend
ment — " That the persons to be appointed, shall receive and exara
ine the whole of such accounts as may be presented from any and
every town in this State, as well as the towns who have petitioned."
Sent up by Mr, Jenness,
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Jeremiah Tibbets,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bUl accordingly. Sent up by Col, Toppan,
Adjourned to nine o'clock toraorrow raorning.
THURSDAY, November 4, 1784.
The House met according to Adjournment,
An Act to invest the United-States in Congress assembled, with
additional powers for a limitted time, was read a third tirae, and
passed to be enacted. Sent up by Col, Peabody and Mr, Sraith,
An Act, in addition to an Act, entitled an Act, to authorize the
several Judges of Probate, within this State, to liquidate the sums
paid into the public Treasury by Trustees, of confiscated estates, by
them respectively appointed, to adjust the clairas of the creditors
against said estates, which have been, or shall be returned into the
Treasury-Office, by commissioners, appointed by said Judges, respect
ively, and to authorize the President of the Council, to give orders
for the payraent of such claims accordingly, was read a third time,
and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Col, Peabody and Mr, Smith,
An Act to annul and make void a certain deed said to be executed
by Sarauel Connor to Jereraiah Connor, and others, was read a third
tirae, and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Col. Peabody and Mr Sraith.
* 12: 641 * The Committee on the petition of Ephraira HUdreth
and John Robinson, reported as their opinion, that the
said John Robinson and Ephraim Hildreth, have and receive a State
note each, for five pounds, with interest, from the fifth of AprU 1782.
Signed John McClary, for the coramhtee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Capt. Spaulding,
Voted, That Col, Peabody, Gen, Badger, Mr. Duncan, Col Toppan
and Mr, Jewett, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a committee to take under consideration the requisition of Con-

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gress [of the i8* of AprU, 1783,] respecting this State's quota of the
one million and five hundred thousand dollars, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr, Scribner.
Votcd, That Col, Peabody, Major Wentworth, Mr, McGregore, Mr,
Chase, and Col. Payne, with such of the honorable Senate as may
be joined, be a committee to consider at what time, and to what time
and place, this General-Court shah be adjourned ; also, what pay for
travel and attendance, the members of the honorable Senate and
House of Representatives, and their officers shall receive at this
session ; and also at what place the General-Court shall meet in June
next, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt. Young.
Voted, That the account of Mr. Moses Woodward, Commissary of
Prisoners, be referred to the committee on Col. Supply Clapp's ac
count, and that they report thereon. Sent up by Col, Tash.
Voted, That Major Gains, Capt, Emerson, Mr Grout, Col, ChUd,
and Capt, Copp, with such of the honorable Senate as raay be joined,
be a committee to consider what allowance shall be made his Excel
lency the President, as a salary for the current year ; also, what pay
the honorable Council shall receive for their travel and attendance on
his Excellency in the recess of the General Court, and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Shephard,
* Yoted, That Col Toppan, Mr, Butler, Major Gains, Col, * 12 1642
Hill, and Mr, Means, with such of the honorable Senate
as may be joined, be a coramittee to consider what raethods are best
to be taken for the regulation of coramerce in this State, until such
time as the regulation thereof may be established by Congress,
Sent up by Col, Bedel.
Upon reading and considering the petitions of Charles Tilden, and
John Payne, praying for the privilege of a ferry over Connecticut
river Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon before the General-
Court, on the first Friday of their next session ; and that in the mean
tirae, the petitioners cause that the selectmen of Lebanon, be served
with a copy of the petition[s] and order of Court thereon, that they,
or either of them, may then appear and shew cause (if any they have)
why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Mr Knowles,
Voted, That Major Wiggin, Col, Runnels, and Col, HUl, whh such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a comraittee to consider
of the account of Mr. Benjamin Biggelow, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Knowles.
Voted, That Col Peabody, Col, Runnels, and Col. Bartlett, with
such of the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a coramittee to
consider of the account of Melcher and Osborne, and report thereon.
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Voted, That Capt, Foss, Mr. Ayer, and Mr, Jewett, with such of
the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a comraittee to consider
of the petition of the selectmen of Raby,' and report thereon.
Sent up by Col. King,
Upon reading and considering the petition of Robert McClure,^ and
others, inhabitants of Hillsborough,
* 12 : 643 Voted,'^ That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the
General-Court, on the second Wednesday of their next
session ; and that in the meantime the petitioners cause that Sarson
Belcher, of Boston, in the Comraonwealth of Massachusetts, be
served with a copy of the petition, and order of Court thereon, that
he raay then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer
thereof raay not be granted ; and that all further process be stayed
until the decision of the General-Court, Sent up by Capt, Spaulding.
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed to receive the four following
receipts, signed by Major Jonathan Child, viz. One given to Azariah
Webb, for five thousand three hundred and ninety two pounds ten
shUlings ; one to Ephraim. Morey, for one thousand one hundred and
forty pounds twelve shillings and six pence ; one to Abel Sawyer, for
five hundred and forty seven pounds ten shillings ; and one to Ama-
see Bugbee, for nine hundred and seventy nine pounds seventeen
shillings ; and that the same be credited to the Collector or Collect
ors, who present the sarae, first calculating the sums by the scale of
depreciation. Sent up by Major Child,
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Yoted, That the account of John Duncan, Esq. amounting to
eighteen shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, by order
of the President. Sent up by Mr. Powers,
An Act for restoring Jonathan Child to his law, was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Mr Young, and Mr, McMurphy.
Voted, That Mr. Jewett, Col. Hill, and Capt. Copp, with such of
the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a coramittee to consider
of the account of Elijah Grout, Esq. as Coramlssary at Charlestown
and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Grout.
Adjourned to nine o'clock tomorrow morning,
' xi. Ham, Town Papers, 244, 245. a xii. Ham, Town Papers, 207,

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FRIDAY, November 5, 1784,
The House met according to adjournment,
* Upon hearing and considering the petition of George * 12 : 644
Place, Votcd, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bih accordingly. Sent up by Col, Runnels,
Upon reading and considering the pethion of Col. Supply Clapp, in
behalf of George Boyd, Esq ;
Yoted, That the prayer thereof be so far granted, as that the said
Boyd, have liberty to return to this State, and continue therein, for
any term of tirae, not exceeding one year, frora the time of his
arrival. Sent up by Col, Runnels.
Voted, That Major Gains, Col. Bedel and Mr. Jewett, with such of
the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider
of the petition of Jotham Blanchard, and report thereon.
Sent up Mr. Wilbore,
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jonathan Palmer,
Votcd, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Friday of their next session ; and that in the
meantime, the petitioner cause that Col. Stephen Evans, be served
with a copy of the petition and order of Court thereon, that he may
then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted, and that the execution be stayed until the de
cision of the General-Court. Sent up by Capt, Copp.
Voted, That Gen. Badger, Major Wentworth, and Capt, Calfe, with
such of the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a coramittee to
consider of the petition of Joseph Roberts, jun. and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr, Freeraan,
Upon reading and considering the petition of Mary Hart,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard * thereon, before the * 12 : 645
General-Court, on the first Friday of their next session ;
and that in the raeantirae, the petitioner cause that the substance of
the petition and order of Court thereon, be published three weeks
successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or per
sons may then appear and shew cause, (if any they have) why the
prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Major Gains,
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
An Act to alter the time of holding the annual meeting in the
town of Meredith, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Runnels and Mr, Jenness,
Voted, That Col. Runnels, Major Wiggin, and Col, Bartlett, with

146 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of Major Jonathan Wentworth, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr Ayer
Upon reading and considering the petition of Mark Hunking
Wentworth, Esq,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
Adjourned to nine o'clock tomorrow morning,
SATURDAY, November 6, 1784,
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act to impower Abraham Perkins, of Epping, Esq. to coUect
certain taxes, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr, Powers and Mr. Scribner,
The committee to consider at what time, and to what time and
place the General-Court shall be adjourned ; also, what pay for travel
and attendance at this session, the raerabers of said General-Court
shall receive, reported as their opinion, "That this Court adjourn
next Wednesday, if the public business shall be finished, then to
meet at Concord, the second Wednesday in February next. That the
General-Court which is to be chosen next March, be di-
* 12 1646 rected to meet at Portsraouth, And that* the raembers
of the Senate, and House of Representatives, and their
officers, receive the same pay for their travel and attendance, as was
allowed at the last session," Signed, Timothy Walker, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr, Chase.
Voted, That the Secretary and Clerk, be directed to raake out pay-
roUs, for the travel of the honorable merabers of the Senate, and
House of Representatives, at this session, as soon as raay be, and
that the President be requested to give orders on the Treasury, for
the payment of said rolls. Sent up by Col. King.
Yoted, That his Excellency the President have, and receive out of
the Treasury, the sum of two hundred pounds, for his salary for the
current year.' Sent up by Major Shephard,
The foUowing resolve came down from the honorable Senate for
concurrence :
^ In the MSS, Journal, this resolve and the one following transposed.

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State of Nczv Hampshire,
In Senate, November 6, 1784,
Whereas in the years 1777, 1778, and 1779, a number of raen in-
listed to serve in the Continental army, in the line of this State, for
a term of time less than three years, many of whom were promised
depreciation ; and it appearing reasonable that the soldiers who faith
fully performed the service for which they severally engaged, should
be equally rewarded for the sarae :
Resolved, That all the soldiers of the above description, be and
hereby are allowed depreciation; and that in every respect, their ac
counts be made up and settled upon the sarae principles as the
accounts of those soldiers who inlisted to serve for three years or
during the war, were raade up and settled ; and the committee on
soldiers accounts are hereby impowered to make up said accounts, and
on their certifying the ballance due to any such soldiers, his Excel
lency the President is hereby requested to issue his warrant for the
same on the Treasurer, who shall issue a note for the principal and
a certificate for the interest, in the usual form.
M, Weare, President.
Sent down for concurrence,
*In the House of Representatives, — The same day * 12 1647
read and concurred. Sent up by Col. Toppan,
Voted, That Mr, Duncan, Major Whitcomb, and Mr, Jewett, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to
consider of the petition of Asa Pratt, and others, soldiers in Major
Whitcomb's late corps of rangers, and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Shephard.
The committee on the petition of Lieut, Moses Belding, and all
similar matters, reported as their opinion, that Lieut, James Wedg
wood receive depreciation unth the first day of AprU 1778 ; and that
the comraittee on soldier's accounts, raake him up accordingly.
Signed, Ebenezer Smith, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the President
give order for payment accordingly, .Sent up by Mr. Dow.
The coraraittee on the petition of Reuben Spencer, reported as
their opinion, that the petitioner is entitled to half pay frora the time
his whole pay ceased, and that he be enrolled accordingly, to continue
until further order of the General-Court, A number of accounts

148 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
were laid before the coramittee, but as they were not accorapanied
with proper vouchers, are not considered in the above report.
Signed, J. Gilman, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Young.
Adjourned to Monday next three o'clock, P, M.
MONDAY, November 8, 1784
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act to enable the inhabitants of the parish of Seabrook, de
norainated Presbyterians, to call a raeeting for transacting their par
ish and ministerial business, was read a third tirae, and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Capt, Underbill and Mr, Ayer.
* 12 1648 * An act, in addition to an act, intitled an act for estab
lishing an equitable method of raaking rates and taxes,
and determining who shall be legal voters in town and parish affairs,
passed June 12, 1784, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Capt. Underbill and Mr, Ayer.
An act, in addition to an act, intitled an act for making and estab
lishing a new proportion of the public taxes among the several towns,
parishes and places within this State, and to authorize the Treasurer
to issue his warrants for levying the same annually, passed AprU
17*, 1784, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Capt. Underbill and Mr, Ayer.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Giles Seaward,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, to-morrow morning ; and that in the raeantirae the petitioner
cause that the Hon. Woodbury Langdon, Esq. be served with a copy,
of the petition, and order of Court thereon, that he may then appear
and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. Sent up by Capt, UnderhUl,
The comrahtee on the pethion of Ehsha Payne, jun. and others,
reported as their opinion, that the prayer thereof be granted ; and that
a committee be appointed accordingly.
Signed, Timothy Walker for the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that a bih be brought
in for that purpose. Sent up by Mr, Powers,
Adjourned to nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
TUESDAY, November 9, 1784,
_ The House met according to adjournment.
An Act, in addition to an act, inthled an act, to authorize and im-

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power the proprietors of any common and undivided lands, to call
meetings of their respective proprietors, and to levy and coUect such
sum or suras of money on the said lands, as they may
judge necessary, and also to transact all their* common *i2 : 649
and public affairs, passed the third of July, in the year of
our Lord, 1781, was read a third time, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Capt. Emerson and Capt. Spaulding.
Whereas the United-States in Congress asserabled, on the 15*
day of January, Anno Domini 1784, resolved that the interest which
has, or may become due on Loan-Office certificates, bearing date be
tween the first day of Septeraber 1777, and the first day of March
1778, is not subjected to any depreciation, and did at the sarae tirae
make order respecting the payraent thereof, as also, for liquidating
and paying certain interest due on Loan-Office certificates of other
descriptions. And whereas this State by their act passed in General-
Court June 11"', 1784, hath provided for a partial payment, of a part
of the interest aforesaid, and it being n*cessary that some further
provisions be made in the premises :
Therefore, Resolved, That the Loan-Officer in this State, be and he
hereby is impowered to issue certificates, for the interest due on all
monies loaned to the United States, at said Loan Office, in this State,
belonging to the inhabitants thereof, unth the 28"" day of February
last, calculating the said interest, by the resolve of Congress, of the
15*- of January 1784, so far as said resolve respects the same, and
the remainder of said interest agreeably to the other resolve of Con
gress, of the 28* of June, 1780, deducting only where partial pay
ment hath been made, m consequence of the act of the General-
Court of the II* of June last, as afore-mentioned.
And it is hereby further Resolved, That all certificates for interest,
issued by the said Loan-Officer, by virtue and in consequence of the
foregoing resolve, as also, all certificates that hath been, or shall be
issued by the Loan-Officer aforesaid, for interest due on any of the
Loan-Office certificates, issued at said Office, or other liquidated
debts, agreeably to said resolve of Congress, of the 15* of January,
1784, or to the other resolve of Congress, passed the 15"" of April
last, shall be taken and received by the several Collectors of taxes,
within this State, and by the Treasurer thereof, in the
same manner as the* certificates issued by said Loan- * 12 ,-650
Officer, for the partial payment of the interest of certain
Loan-Office certificates, by virtue of the act of the General-Assem
bly, of said State, afore-mentioned, are directed to be taken and re
ceived by any act or resolve of said General-Court. Sent up by Capt. Foss

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The comraittee on the account of Mr Benjamin Biggelow, reported
that the sarae be allowed. Signed, Woodbury Langdon, for the coramittee.
Which report being read and considered,
Votcd, That it be received and accepted, and that the account of
the said Biggelow, amounting to one hundred and fourteen pounds
twelve shUlings and one penny, be allowed ; and that after the sum
or sums he has received are deducted, the President give order for
the payment of the baUance. Sent up by Capt, Foss.
{^Voted, That Mr John Pickering, Col Tash, Mr Means, Major
Whitcomb, and Col, Payne, with such of the honorable Senate as may
be joined, be a coraraittee, to consider what aUowance shall be made
his Excellency the President, for his services prior to the taking place
of the present Constitution. Sent up by Mr. Ayer.]
The committee to consider of the propriety of giving the Treas
urer order for the payment of small ballances due to soldiers, in cer
tificates, &c, reported, " that all orders drawn on the Treasurer for
ballances due to soldiers for depreciation, not exceeding the sura of
forty shillings, shall be paid by a certificate sirailar to those that are
ordered to be issued for payment of interest on State securities :
Also, that the Treasurer be authorized to receive such soldiers notes
as were issued for any sura not exceeding forty shillings, and give
certificates of the above description therefor,"
Signed, J, Gilman, for the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the President
give order that the Treasurer govern himself accordingly.
Sent up by Capt, Fogg,
The coramittee on the petition of WUliam Badger, and simUar mat
ters, having considered the petition of AbigaU Clayes, widow of the
late Capt, Clayes, reported as their opinion, that the prayer thereof
be granted so far as it is consistent with the resolve of
* 12 : 651 Congress of August * 24, 1784.
Signed, F, Blood, by order of the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that she be enroUed
and paid agreeably to said resolve. Sent up by Mr. Grout,
Voted, That his Excellency the President be desired to write to
the_ Delegates of this State in Congress, to embrace the first oppor
tunity to move Congress for a decision upon the remonstrance of this
State to Congress, touching the decree of the Court of Appeals, re
specting the Lusanna, and cargo, captured and brought into this
State by the private armed vessel McClary, Sent up by Mr. Groul.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.

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Met accordingly.
The committee for considering the account of Dr. Hall Jackson,
reported as their opinion, that Dr. Jackson, receive forty-eight pounds,
lawful money, which shall be considered in full of his account.
Signed, John Langdon, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the President
give order for the payment of said forty-eight pounds.Sent up by Mr, Grout.
Voted, That the Hon, Council have and receive nine shillings per
day for their attendance on his Excellency the President in the recess
of the General-Court, and four pence per mile travel to and from
their homes ; that the Secretary and Deputy-Secretary, be allowed
the same for travel and attendance in the recess, as when the Gen
eral-Court is sitting ; and that pay-rolls be made up frora time to tirae
accordingly ; and that the President give order for the payraent
thereof. Sent up by Major Whitcomb,
An act to confirm to Jereraiah Tibbets, the title of certain land in
the county of Strafford, was read a third time, and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Mr, Ayer, and Mr, Butler,
* An act to restore Elisha Ellis, of Hatfield, in the county * 12 : 652
of Hampshire, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to
his law, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Ayer and Mr, Butler.
The coraraittee to consider what allowance shall be raade his Ex
cellency the President, for his services prior to the taking place of
the present Constitution, reported as their opinion, that the President
receive one hundred pounds, which shall be considered in full for his
service for the time aforesaid. Signed, John McClary, for the coramittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Young,
Voted, That the honorable the Treasurer, be directed to attend the
GenerahCourt at their next session, at Concord, on the second
Wednesday of February next, with such papers, &c, as may be nec
essary to transact public business. Sent up by Mr, Young.
An act, in addition to an act, intitled an act for establishing a light
house, passed Aprjl 9*, 1784, was read a third time and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Mr, Jewett and Col, Bartlett.
An act enabling Mark-Hunking Wentworth, Esq, to act as for
merly for the heirs and representatives of Trecothick and Thomlin
son, of London, under ah the various firms that house hath since
taken ; as also by virtue of a late power received by him from said

152 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
heirs, &c, dated the first of January, 1784, signed Samuel Colker,
John Trecothick, and East Apthorp, Administrators, was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Mr. Jewett and Col, Bartlett,
An act, for repealing an act, intitled an act for preventing the
subjects of his Britanic Majesty, and all other persons inimical to
the United-States of North-America, from prosecuting actions, serv
ing as jurors, or acting as town officers within this State,
* 12 : 653 passed Noveraber 28, 1781, was * read a third time and
passed to be enacted. Sent up by Mr. Jewett and Col. Bartlett.
Voted, That Pierse Long, Esq. have and receive out of the Treas
ury, by order of the President one hundred and Twenty pounds to
enable him to proceed to Congress and for which sum he is account
able as a Delegate, Sent up by Mr Jewett.
Voted, That the committee for draughting Bills prepare and lay be
fore this House a Resolve directing the Treasurer to receive all Cer
tificates that are issued in this State for Interest on monies loaned
to this or the United States in payment of any State Taxes that now
are or may hereafter be due to this State. Sent up by Col. Bartlett.
Adjourned to nine o'clock tomorrow morning,
WEDNESDAY, November io, 1784,
The Plouse met according to adjournment.
The Coramittee on the Petition of Major Jonathan Wentworth re
ported as their opinion that Major Jonathan Wentworth be allowed to
pay the remainder of the Principal and Interest due upon his Bond now
in the Hands of the Treasurer in State Securities, he the said Went
worth having already paid to said Treasurer about three quarters of said
Bond in hard raonejf. Signed, Tiraothy Walker, for the Coramittee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the Treasurer on
receipt of said securities cancel or dehver up said Bond.
Sent up by Major Wiggin,
The Committee to whom was referred the propriety of Altering
the Regiments of MUitia in this State, &c. Reported as their opinion
(viz,). That there be Established a Regiment of Light Horsemen to
consist of six companies, of sixty-four men each exclusive of Cora
raission officers (viz.J Two Companies in the County of Rockingham
and one Company in each of the other Counties, The Commander
of said Regiment to have the Rank of Brigadier-General, and the
other officers with the usual Grades.
* 12 : 654 * And that the remainder of the MUhia of the State be
divided into Regiments as follows (viz) :

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153

No. I to consist of
Portsraouth,Greenland, Newington, Stratham. No. 2.
Dover,
Durham, Somersworth,
Madbury, Rochester,
Barrington, Lee. No. 3,
Hampton,Hampton-falls,North-Hampton,Rye, Seabrook,
Kensington, No, 4,
Exeter,Newmarket, Epping,Brentwood, Poplin, No. 5,
Dunstable,
Amherst, Holhs,
Nottingham- West,
Litchfield,Merrimack,MUe-Slip, School-farms,Raby. No, 6,
Winchester,Richmond,

No, 6 Cont'd.
Swanzey,Keene,Gilsum, No. 7,
Plaistow, Hampstead, Salem,
Atkinson, Sandown, No. 8.
Londonderry,
Windham, Pelham. No. 9,
Goffstown,Dunbarton,
Weare, New-Boston,Bedford, Francestown,Antrim, Deering, No, 10,
Barnstead, Gilmanton,
New-Durham,
New-Durham-Gore, .Sanbornton,
Meredith,New-Hampton, No, II,
Concord,^Pembroke,Canterbury,
Bow, Loudon,Northfield,AUenstown,

No. 12,
Rindge,
Jaffrey, Dublin, Packersfield,Marlborough, Fitzwilliam. No. 13.
HaverhiU,Orford,Piermont,
Bath,Wentworth,Warren, Coventry,Peeling. No. 14,
Plymouth,Rumney,
Alexandria, Campton,Holderness,
New-Chester, Cockermouth,
Thornton, No, 15,
Cornish,Plainfield, Claremont,
Grantham, Protectworth,Croydon,Newport,
Wendeh, *No. 16, * 12 : 655
Charlestown,Acworth, Unity, Lempster,

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[1784

No, 16 Cotit'd,

No, 20.

No, 23. — Con.

Walpole,

Kingstown,

Hancock,

Alstead,

Hawke,

Society-Land.

Marlow,

East-Kingstown,

Washington,

South-Hampton,

No. 24.

Stoddard,

Newtown.

Lebanon,
Hanover,

No. 17.

No, 21.

Lyrae,

Chester,

Hinsdale,

Enfield,

Candia,

Chesterfield,

Grafton,

Raymond.

Westmoreland,

Canaan,

Surrey,

Cardigan,

No. 18.

Dorchester,

Nottingham,

No, 22.

Deerfield,
Salisbury,
No. 25,
Epsom,
Boscawen,
Lyraan,
Chichester,
Andover,
Landaff,
Pittsfield,
Hopkinton,
Lincoln,
Northwood.
New-London,
Concord, alias (
Warner,
thwait,
No, 19.
Sutton,
Cockburn,
Moultonborough,
Fisherfield,
Franconia,
Sandwich,
New-Bradford,
Littleton,
Tamworth,
HUlsborough,
Dahon,
Wolf borough.
Henniker.
Lancaster,
Middleton,
Dartraouth,
Tuftonborough,
No. 23,
Northumberland,
Wakefield,
Mason,
Stratford,
Effingham,
Wilton,
Coleburn,
Ossipee-Gore,
New-Ipswich,
Piercy.
Conway,
Temple,
Eaton,
Peterborough,
Burton,
Peterborough-Slip,
Locations.
Lyndeborough,
Gun-
Signed, Tiraothy Walker, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Young.
* 12 : 656 * The Yeas and Nays being called for the foregoing report,
were as follows :
Yeas. — M" M'^Murphy, Col° Toppan, Cap' Leavitt, M" Shaw,
Cap' MorriU, Cap' Fogg, Maj" Batcheldor, Coh Emerson, M" Scrib
ner, M" Clough, Col° Peabody, M" Means, M" Duncan, Maj" Shep-
1784] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1 55
hard, M" Smiley, M" Willard, Coh King, M" Chase, M" Morss, Maj'
Baker, Coh Payne, Coh Bedel M" Butler, M" Smith, Maj" Went
worth, M" Knowles, M" Sanborn, Gen' Badger, Doct" Brackett, M"
Bedee, Coh Richardson, Cap' Marsh, Cap' French, M" Macgregore,
Cap' Spaulding, M" Storey, M" Whhcomb, Maj" Capron, M" Wilbore,
Cap' Sumner, Cap' Copeland, M" Kendall, M" Ayer, M" Freeman,
Cap' Young.
Nays. — Maj" Gains, Maj" Wiggin, Coh Bartlett, Maj" Cram, Cap'
Calfe, Cap' Foss, Col" Tash, Cap' Copp, Cap' Putnara, M" Cragin, M""
M, Wahace, M" R. Wallace, M" E. Grout, M" D. Grout.
Yeas 45, Nays 14,
Voted, That M"- Smhh, Coh Bartlett, & M" Cragin, whh such of
the Honb' Senate as may be joined, be a Committee to Consider the
Account of Mr. Robert Gerrish and report thereon
Sent up by M" Scribner.
Upon the reading and Considering the Petition of John Pickering,
Esq" in behalf of Sarah Ross, ^
Voted, That the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General-
Court on the first Tuesday of their next session, and that in the mean
time, the Petitioner cause that the substance of the Petition and
order of Court thereon, be published three weeks successively in the
New-Hampshire Gazzette, that any person, or persons, may then ap
pear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may
not be granted. Sent up by M" Scribner.
* Upon reading and considering the Petition of Thomas * 12 : 657
Pinkham, Voted, That the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General-
Court on the first Tuesday of the next Session ; & that in the mean
time, he serve Margaret Frost with a Copy of said Petition and order
of Court thereon that she may then appear and shew cause (if any
she hath) why the prayer thereof may not be granted, and that Exe
cution be stayed in the mean time. Sent up by Col" Bartlett,
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M,
Met accordingly.
Voted, That his Excellency, the President, and the Honb' the
Council, are hereby authorized and appointed, to examine and Settle
the accounts of Richard Hart, Thomas Martin, John Pierce, Joseph
Pierce, Jonathan Warner, & Mark H. Wentworth, Esq" ; and that the
President give order for the payment of the Sums due to said Cred
itors. Sent up by Cap' Marsh,
The Committee on the Petition of Phebe Colburn, relict of Lieut,
Coh Andrew Colburn, deceased. Reported, that the prayer thereof be
granted. That half pay be made up agreeably to the Resolve of Con-

156 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
gress August 24"", 1780, and that his Excellency the President give
order that the Treasurer issue a Note, or Notes, accordingly.
Signed, J, GUman, for Committee,
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by M" Jenness.
The Coraraittee on the Petition of William Badger & Abigail, his
wife, who was the widow of Zechariah Beale, late a Captain in the
New Hampshire line, Reported, that the prayer thereof be so far
granted as is consistent with the Resolve of Congress of the 24"^ of
August, 1780, and that his Excellency the President give order to the
Treasurer to issue notes accordingly, and that Interest commence at
the Date of his Excellency's order. Sign^ J, GUman, for the Committee.
Which report being read & considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Coh Bartlett.
* 12 : 658 * The Coraraittee on the Petition of Elisabeth BeU, relict
of Cap' Frederick-Mordant Bell, late a Captain in the New-Hampshire
line, reported, that the prayer thereof be granted ; That half pay be
made up agreeably to the Resolve of Congress of the 24"" of August,
1780, and that his Excellency the President give order that the
Treasurer issue a Note or Notes, accordingly.
Signed, J, GUman, for the Comrahtee,
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by M" McMurphy.
Voted, That Col° Bedel, Col° Bartlett and Col° Toppan, whh
such of the Honb^ Senate as raay be join'^, be a committee to con
sider of the Accounts of Maj" Jonathan Child and report.
Sent up by Col° Bartlett.
The vote of this day for dividing of the MUhia of this State into
Regiments was returned for the following amendraent : (viz) That the
Towns proposed to Contain the Regiment No. 12, be numbered 23,
and the Towns proposed to be No, 23, be numbered 12 ; on which
proposed amendraent the yeas and nays were required, and are as
follows (viz)
Yeas, — Maj" Gains, M" J. Pickering, Coh Toppan, Maj" Crara, M"
Scribner, M" Betton, Gen' Badger, M" Bedee, Col° Richardson, Coh
Tash, M" Cragin, M" Storey, M" Powers, Maj" Child, Cap' MorrUl,
Cap' Fogg, Coh HiU, Coh Bartlett, M" Jenness, Cap' Calfe, M" Smith,
Cap' Marsh, Cap' Emerson, M" Adaras, Cap' Spaulding, M" Duncan,
Col° King, M" P'reeman.

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Nays, — M" Shaw, Col° Emerson, M" Clough, Coh Peabody, Maj"
Wentworth, Maj" Whhcomb, Cap' Sumner, M" Kendall, Coh Payne,
Cap' Copp, M" Macgregore, M" R, Wallace, M" Grout, M" Capron,
M" Willard, M" Chase, M" Badger, M" Young,
28 yeas i8 nays
So the raotion for amendment was lost, there not being two thirds
of the members present in favor of it and it was returned to the
Senate,
* Adjourned to nine o'clock to-raorrow morning * 12 : 659
THURSDAY, November ii, 1784,
The House met according to adjournraent.
An Act for laying out a public road or highway to Dartmouth-
College, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr, Grout and Mr. Young.
An act, to repeal an act, intitled an act for laying an Impost Duty
on sundry goods imported into this State, and for laying an Irapost
Duty on certain goods and merchandize which may be imported into
this State, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr Grout and Mr. Young,
An act, in addition to an act, intitled an act for the equal distribu
tion of insolvent estates, was read a third time and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Mr. Grout and Mr, Young.
Voted, That Mr. Bedee, Col, Toppan, and Mr, Jenness, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a comraittee to consider
what allowance shall be raade the Secretary for his services, prior
to the taking place of the present Constitution, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Young,
Voted, That Mr. J. Pickering, Mr. Atkinson, Col. Peabody, Col.
Toppan, and Mr. Smith, with such of the honorable Senate as raay
be joined, be a coramittee to prepare and lay before this House, at
their next session, a bill for the better observation of the Lord's day,
and such other public bUls as they judge necessary to be passed at
said session. Sent up by Mr. Young.
Voted, That the account of John Calfe, Esq. amounting to four
pounds three shillings and six pence, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury, by order of the President, Sent up by Major Child.
Voted, That Supply Clapp, Esq, Comraissary-General, be and he
hereby is irapowered to raake sale of some damaged powder, now in
the care of Elijah Grout, Esq. at Charlestown, and any other damaged
powder belonging to this State. Sent up by Major Child.
*The committee on the petition of Pratt and others, re- * 12 :66o
ported, that as they were not returned by Major Whit-

158 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
comb, as belonging to this State, nor are considered by Congress as a
part of this State's quota, the prayer of the petition cannot be granted.
Signed, J, Gilman, for the committee.
Which report was read and considered, received and accepted.
The committee to consider of the letter of General John Sullivan,
reported as their opinion that he be ahowed one hundred and ten
pounds, in addition to what has been already allowed for his services
at Philadelphia, as Agent for this State,
Signed, John Langdon, for the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted; and that the jPresident
give order accordingly. Sent up by Mr, Jenness.
The coramittee to consider of the account of Robert Gerrish, re
ported as their opinion, that the sura of fourteen pounds fourteen
shUlings and six pence, should be deducted from the account of said
Gerrish, for over charges ; and that the ballance being seventy five
pounds, should be allowed and paid out of the Treasury in full for
said account, and that his Excellency the President give order accord
ingly. Signed, Woodbury Langdon, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Major Wiggin.
The committee to consider of the account of Melcher and Os
borne, [reported, that the account of the said Melcher and Osborne,]
amounting to seventy-nine pounds twelve shillings, be allowed and
paid out of the Treasury, and that his Excellency the President give
order accordingly. Signed, J, GUman, for the coraraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr, M'^Murphy.
Voted, That Col Peabody, Capt. Copp, Capt. Putnam, Mr. E.
Grout and Col. Payne, with such of the honorable Senate as may
be joined, be a committee to consider in what manner the Excise
shall be sold, and by whora ; also to report the conditions of sale.
Sent up by Col. Bedel.
* 12: 661 * Yoted, That the account of John Wihiaras, amounting
to four pounds, be allowed and paid out of the Treasur)^
by order of the President, Sent up by Maj, Child!
Voted, That the account of George Gains, Esq,, araountino- to
thirteen pounds, thirteen shUlings, be allowed and paid out of'^the
Treasury, by order of his ExceUency the President, p"~«
Sent up by Maj," Child,'
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Voted, That the account of Capt, Josiah Gilraan, amounting to six
pounds eleven shUlings, be aUowed and paid out of the Treasury, by
order of his ExceUency the President. Sent up by Maj. Child.
The committee on the account of Col. Supply Clapp, reported that
he be ahowed, five hundred and ninety-five pounds, four shillings, in
full for monies advanced by him, and for his services as commissary
of prisoners, and that his Excellency the President give order accord
ingly. _ Signed, Woodbury Langdon, for the coramittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Maj, ChUd,
The committee on the account of Capt, Moses Woodward, reported
that he have and receive out of the Treasury, twenty-three pounds
eleven shiUings and six pence, in fuU for the ballance of his account
as comraissary, and that his Excellency the President, give order
accordingly. Signed, Woodbury Langdon, for the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Maj, Child.
The coraraittee to consider what aUowance shall be raade the Sec
retary for his services prior to the taking place of the present Con
stitution, reported that he be ahowed twenty pounds, in full for his
services, prior to the taking place of the New Constitution.
Signed, Timothy Walker, for the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that his Excellency
the President give order accordingly. Sent up by Mr, Sraith.
* Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M. * 12 : 662
Met accordingly.
The coramittee to consider in what manner the Excise shall be
sold, 8z:c, reported as their opinion, that Nathaniel Peabody, Joseph
Gilman, and Thomas Odiorne, Esq'rs, be a comraittee for the County
of Rockingham ; that John Wentworth, Jonathan Wentworth, and
Caleb Hodgdon, Esq'rs, be a committee for the county of Strafford ;
that Francis Blood, Robert Means, and Moses Nichols, Esq'rs, be a
committee for the county of Hillsborough ; that Simeon Olcott,
Elijah Grout, and Samuel Hunt, Esq'rs, be a comraittee for the county
of Cheshire ; That Timothy Bedel, Charles Johnston, and Moses
Dow, Beq'rs, be a committee for the county of Grafton ; to raake sale
of the Excise in the several counties of this State for the current
year, agreeably to the laws of the State,  The one half of said

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Excise to be sold for cash, the other half for orders on the Treasury
for cash. Signed, Tiraothy Walker, for the coramittee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the said Excise
be sold before the first day of February next. Sent up by Major Gains,
The Secretary came down and informed the House, that his Ex
cellency the President has adjourned the General-Court, to the sec
ond Wednesday of February next, then to meet at Concord, agreea
bly to the vote of both branches of the Legislature.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM

FEBRUARY lo, 1785, TO FEBRUARY 24, 1785

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
* At a Session of the General Court, began and held at * 2 : i
Concord on Wednesday the Ninth Day of February, Anno Domini,
One thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Five, and of the Sover
eignty and Independence of the United States of America the Ninth.
Present in Senate,
The Honorable Woodbury Langdon, ^
John M<=Clary, |
John Langdon, [j,
Tiraothy Walker, ' "
Ebenezer Smith and
Francis Blood,
* THURSDAY, February io'\ 1785. * 2 : 2
Present as yesterday with the addition of -the Hon. Matthew
Thornton, and Joseph Gilman, Esquires. The Honorable Enoch
Hale, Esq" attended, and after having the usual Oaths adrainistered
to him, took his Seat at the Board,
His Excellency the President not being able to attend the Senate,
the Honorable Woodbury Langdon, Esq" Senior Senator took the
Chair. A Vote that M" GUman, M" J. Langdon, and M" Smith be a Com
mittee to join such of the Honorable House of Representatives as
they shall appoint, to Consider of business necessary to be done this
Session, and report thereon, was sent down for Concurrence by M"
Blood ; and was brought up concurred and joined.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the memorial and petition of Daniel Rindge and Others,
Merchants in Portsmouth, and ah Sirailar Matters, and report there
on, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" J, Langdon and
M" Thornton were joined.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of Moses Burbank and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred and M" Blood and M" Smith were
joined.

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A Vote to pay George Atkinson, Esq" ten pounds, two Shillings,
for a State Seal, which he provided, was brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote to pay John Sparhawk, Esq" Four pounds, for two books
for records for the Secretary's office, was brought up, read and Con
curred.
* 2 : 3 * A Vote on the Petition of the town of Hancock, appoint
ing a Coramittee to Fix a place for their Meeting House to
Stand on, was brought up read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Doctor Edmund Chadwick, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Thornton and
M" Blood were joined.
A Vote for a Coramhtee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
draught all public bihs that raay be wanted this Session was brought
up, read and Concurred ; and M" J. Langdon was joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Commhtee of the Senate, to
examine into the State of the treasury, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Gilman and M" J, Langdon
were joined,
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of the agents of the
Proprietors of Tamworth, Moultonborough, and Sandwich, and giv
ing them leave to bring in a bUl authorizing a Committee to Settle
the boundary lines of said towns, was brought up, read and Con
curred, A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of John Wendell Esq" and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Walker and M" Smith
were joined. Adjourned 'till tomorrow, nine o'Clock, A, M.
FRIDAY, February ii, 1785.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday,
* 2 : 4 An Act to establish a Seal, to be used as a great Seal of *
this State, having been read three times, it was voted that
the same pass to be Enacted ; was sent down for Concurrence by
M" Blood and M" Smith ; and was brought up Concurred.
A Vote to grant Samuel Houston, late one of Gen, Washington's
life guard, the depreciation of Wages as other Soldiers have been
paid, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote granting the Prayer of the Petition of the Inhabitants of

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Rye, and giving them leave to send a Representative exclusive of
New Castle, was brought up, read and Concurred,
A Vote on the Petition of Joseph Lee, was brought up, read and
non Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petitions from Kingstown, Sandown, Rye &c, and
report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Blood,
M" MClary, M" Smith and M" Hale were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petitions from New-Ipswich, Temple &c. was brought
up, read and Concurred ; and M" M'=Clary, M" Smith, M" Blood and
M" Hale were joined,
A Vote to hear the Petition of the Selectmen of Winchester on
the Second Thursday of Next Session, was brought up, read and
Concurred, A Vote to grant the Prayer of the Petition of Elizabeth Butler,
and giving her leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of the Selectmen of Conway, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" M'^Clary and
M" Smith were joined, *
A Vote to hear the Petition of Several Inhabitants of the
towns of Wolfborough, and Middletown, on the Second * *2 : 5
Wednesday of next Session, was brought up, read and Con
curred, A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Samuel Lowell and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Smith and M" Hale were
joined. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the best method to Settle with those towns for supplying
Soldiers families, who have not been paid, was brought up, read and
concurred ; and M" Thornton and M"" Gilman were joined,
A Vote to pay the roll of Lt. Meshach Bell, amounting to Sixty
pounds ; also his accompt for wood amounting to four Pounds, was
brought up, read and Concurred,
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Jonathan Elliot and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred,
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the petition of Cap' Moses Woodward and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Walker, M" Gil
man and M" J. Langdon were joined.

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A Vote that the Committee for drafting bills, prepare and lay be
fore this house a biU for preventing constables. Collectors and Others
trading on pubhc Monies, &c, was brought up read and Concurred,
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Jeremiah Prescott,
and giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly was brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Mary Hart and giv
ing her leave to bring in a bill to enable her to seU a Certain interest
belonging to her Children, for their Support was brought up, read
and Concurred.
* 2 : 6 * A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of the Inhab
itants of Ossipee-Gore, and giving them Leave to bring in
a bill for a corporation of said Place, under sertain restrictions, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned 'till toraorrow, nine o'clock, A. M.
SATURDAY, February 12, 1785,
Met according to Adjournraent,
Present as Yesterday,
An Act ascertaining the rates at which coined Silver and gold, and
English half pence and Farthings' may pass with in this State, having
been read three times, it was Voted that the Sarae pass to be enacted,
A Petition of Soloraon Robbins, praying for the grant of an exclu
sive right to keep a ferry over Connecticutt river, was brought up
with a vote thereon ; that the Petitioner be heard on his said Petition
on the Second Thursday of next Sitting of the General Court, which
was read and Concurred,
A Vote to grant Jonathan Eliott, late a Soldier in this State's Ser
vice, in the year one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six, a
raonth's pay, which had been neglected to be paid, was brought up,
read and Concurred,
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the accompt of Robert Gerrish and report thereon was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Walker were joined,
A Vote to pay the accompt of John Duncan Esq" for his time and
expences in holding raeetings in Several unincorporated places, by
order of the General Court, amounting to three Pounds eighteen
Shillings, was brought up, read and concurred,
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate to
consider of the Petition of Lt, Daniel M'^Murphy, and report thereon,
was brought up read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Jaraes Saunders, on the Second
Wednesday of next Session, was brought up, read and Concurred.

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A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate
to Consider of the Petition of Enoch Hale Esq" and re
port * thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" * 2 : 7
Walker and M" Thornton were joined,
A Vote granting the prayer of the Petition of Doctor Edmund
Chadwick, aUowing him depreciation of wages for a certain time as a
Surgeon in the army, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote allowing Samuel LoweU, Six pounds on accompt of his
Sufferings and Sickness, While a Prisoner in the late war, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote on the Petition of Simeon Barrett and Isaac Barrett pray
ing that said Isaac may be Impowered to Collect certain taxes in
Nottingham West, unpaid to their late Father who was Constable of
said town, granting the Prayer thereof, and giving them leave to
bring in a bill according, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Charity Lund on the First Friday
of next Sessions, was brought up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned tiU Monday, 3 o'clock P. M,
MONDAY February 14, 1785,
Met according to adjournment.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of Peter de Sausse, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred and M" Walker and M" Olcott were
joined. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider what Sum shall be raised as a Tax for the Current
year, &c. was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Blood,* * 2 : 8
Mr. J. Langdon, M" Olcott and M" Sraith were joined.
A Vote to abate the tax of the town of Conway one fifteenth part
for the years one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty two, and one
Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty three, was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
consider of the Accorapt of Elijah Grout Esq" and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" J. Langdon and M" Gilman
were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
consider the Petition of the Selectraen of Marlow, and ah SimUar
matters, and report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ;
M" Thornton, and M"' Hale were joined,
A Vote to grant the Prayer of the Petition of the Inhabitants of

l68 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [178S
Kingstown and Others, regulating several Matters in the mUitia, was
brought up read and Concurred.
Adjourned tiU toraorrow, nine o'clock. A, M.
TUESDAY, February 15, 1785,
Met according to adjournment.
Present as last week, with the addition of M" Olcott,
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Comraittee cf the Senate, to
consider of a letter from Daniel Newcomb Esq" and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Thornton, M" Hale and M"
J. Langdon were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the accompt of Jonathan Child, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" J, Langdon and M" GUman
were joined,
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider what is necessary to be done respecting the new emission
money, issued by this State, and Outstanding, was brought
*'2:9 up, read and Concurred; and M" Olcott and M" M'^Clary*
were joined,
A Vote to pay the Accorapt of Robert Gerrish for Printing the
journals of the house of Representatives at their first Session in
June, 1 784, araounting to thirty two pounds ten shillings was brought
up, read and concurred,
A Vote granting the Prayer of the Petition of Peter de Sausse
and giving him leave to bring in a bill to naturalize hiraself and
family, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of Capt. Lerauel Holraes, and report there
on, was brought up, read and concurred ; and M" Blood, and M"
Sraith and M" Walker were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of James Turner, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Olcott and M" GUman were
joined. A Vote for a Committee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
consider of the propriety of appointing Surveyors of land in this
State, was brought up, read and concurred ; and M" GUman and M"
Smith were joined,
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
consider of the accompt of Benjamin Bigelow, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and concurred ; and M" Blood, and M" J, Lang
don were joined.

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A resolve that those certificates which have been appropriated to
be received in payment of Several and Particular taxes, shall be re
ceived by the Treasurer, in Payment of all taxes now due, or shall
here after be due to this State ; excepting the Second tax issued in
1 78 1 to be paid in paper Bihs, called the new emission, was sent down
for Concurrence ; and was brought up concurred.
A Vote to put of [f] the hearing of the Petition of Thomas
Pinkham * untill the first Tuesday of next Session, was * 2 : lo
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the balance of the Accompt of Elijah Grout Esq""
amounting to Sixty Six Pounds four shillings and three Pence, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of the Selectmen of Cornish and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred; and M" Gilraan and
M" Smith were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
nominate a Committee to wait on the Legislature of the State of
Massachusetts and confer with them about measures to be taken rel
ative to commerce, &c, was brought up, read and concurred ; and M"
Olcott and M' M'^Clary were joined,
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Sarah Ross, and
giving her Leave to bring in a bUl accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote to pay the accompt of Cap' Aaron Kinsraan araounting to
five Pounds four shillings, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate to
Consider of the table of fees, and report thereon, was brought
up, read and concurred ; and M" Thornton, M" J. Langdon, and M""
M'^Clary were joined.
Adjourned till tomorrow, nine o'clock, A. M.
WEDNESDAY, February 16, 17S5
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the bUl brought in for Laying an Impost, &c, was brought
up, read and Concurred, and M" Olcott, M" Walker, and M" Gilman
were joined.
A Vote to aUow James Turner, late a Soldier in Col. Jack
son's* Regiment, the like depreciation of wages as other * 2 : 1 1
Soldiers have received, was brought up, read and Concurred.
12

170 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
A Vote to pay Samuel Fowler, Thirty ShUlings, as an express to
Charlestown, was brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act for the naturalization of Peter de Sausse, Ilulia, his wife
Mary Este, his daughter and Adrian his Son, was read a third time,
and voted that the Same be enacted.
An act authorizing and Impowering Leonard Whiting Esq" to levy
or extend an Execution recovered by him upon the estate of Benja
min Whiting, Esq" was read a third time and voted that the Same be
Enacted. An Act to Corarait the sole adrainistration of the Estate of Jere
miah Prescott, late of Epping, deceased. Intestate, into the hands of
his Son, Jeremiah Prescott, was read a third time, and Voted that
the same be Enacted.
An act Impowering Ehzabeth Butler to Prosecute actions in her
own Name, was read a third time, and voted that the Same be en
acted. An Act to Impower Isaac Barrett, of Nottingham West, to coUect
certain taxes in said town, having been read a third time, it was
Voted that the Same be Enacted.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of Benjarain Bigelow, for provisions
and Other Necessaries For the Soldiers at the fort at New Castle,
amounting to Forty pounds twelve ShUlings and One Penny, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to put off the hearing of the Petition of Thomas Parsons
and Others, to the Second Friday of next Session was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of John Holbrook, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Blood and M" Wentworth
were joined. Adjourned 'tUl tomorrow, nine o'Clock, A. M.
*2:i2 * THURSDAY, February 17, 1785,
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday : whh the addhion of M" Wentworth,
An Act to alter and estabhsh the times and Places of holding the
Several Courts of Judicature within this State, was read a third time
and voted that the same be Enacted,
A Vote directing the Treasurer to receive paper bills of the new
emission, frora the holders, and give certificates therefor, at the rate
of one Pound for three of said new Eraission and that said Certifi
cates be received for taxes, &c, was brought up read and non Con
curred,

1785] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE, I7I
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
norainate three Proper Persons to be appointed a Committee to revise
the table of fees for this State, was brought up, read and Concurred ;
and M" Wentworth, M" Walker and M" J, Langdon were joined,
A Vote giving Leave to the Inhabitants of sundry towns at upper
Cohos (so called) to Send a Representative to the General Court,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote appointing John Langdon and Christopher Toppan Es
quires, a Committee to wait on the General Court of the Common
wealth of Massachusetts, and Confer with them relative to sundry
matters relative to Commerce, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of Ebenezer Torrey, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Wentworth and M"
Blood were joined.
A Vote granting; the prayer of the Petition of James Robertson,
and giving him leave to bring in a bill allowing him the exclusive
privilege of keeping a Ferry over Merrimack river, within certain
limits, was brought up, read and Concurred.
* A Vote on the Petition of several Inhabitants of the town * 2 : 1 3
of Hillsborough, granting the prayer thereof, and giving
them leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brough [t] up, read and
Concurred. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of the Petition of Thomas Simpson, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Wentworth and M" J.
Langdon were joined.
A Vote, that Thursday the 14"" day of AprU next be Observed as
a day of Public Fasting, humiliation and prayer throughout this
State, and that the president issue a proclamation for that purpose ;
was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote Granting leave to the town of Washington to bring in a
bill to enable them to levy a tax on Lands of non-residents, to enable
them to repair their Highways, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to put of the hearing of the Petition of Colonel Jonathan
Chase, untU the first Tuesday 'of next Session, was brought up, read
and Concurred. Adjourned 'till to-raorrow, nine o'clock.

172 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178$.
FRIDAY, February i8, 1785.
Met according to adjournment
Present as yesterday.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Cora[ra]ittee of the Senate, tO'
consider of a letter frora General Sullivan, and report thereon, was.
brought up, read and Concurred : and M" Gilman and M" Blood were
joined. A Vote to grant the Prayer of the Petition of the guardian of the
heirs of PhUip Eastman, late of Walpole, deceased, in this State,
giving them Leave to bring in a bill to enable them to Sell
* 2 : 14 the Estate of said deceased, was brought up, read and *
Concurred.
A Vote to give leave to the Inhabitants of New London in this.
State to bring in a bill to enable them to raise a tax in said town to
purchase highways, &c. was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate to
draught Instructions for the coramittee appointed to confer with the
General Court of Massachusetts, was brought up, read and Con
curred ; and M" Olcott, M" Walker and M" Thornton were joined.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate to con
sider of the Accompt of Solomon Wheeler, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Wentworth and M" Smith
were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of the Selectmen of Dunbarton, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Smith and
M" Walker were joined.
A Vote for the Treasurer to receive of the Constables of Marlow
and Alstead, Sundry sums of the Old continental bills Collected for
taxes in the year 1781, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of a proposed bill to ascertain the right and to Confirm the
property of Certain lands in Several Townships in this State, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Olcott and M" Walker were
joined. A Vote to hear the Petition of Thomas Bartlet, Esq" (praying for
Leave to seh certain Lands of his wards) on the Second Wednesday
of next Session, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for the trustees on confiscated estates, who have pro
ceeded in the sale of part of such estates to Immediately
* 2 : 1 5 seh * the remainder, and render an Account as soon as may
be, was brought up, read and Concurred.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 1 73
A Vote for a committee to join a Committee of the Senate to Con
sider of the Petitions of John Stark, Esq" and George Jaffrey, Esq"
and report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M"
Walker, M" Olcott and M" Smith were joined.
A Vote to pay Thomas Bickford, the balance of his Accompt
amounting to thirty-nine pounds, fourteen Shillings and Six Pence,
was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay John Holbrook Forty-five pounds, in fuh of all his
claim for supplying Soldiers at the uper Cohos, during the late war,
was brought up read and Concurred.
A Vote lo Exchange the numbers of the regiments of militia num
bered twelve and twenty-three as last arranged, was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to Con
sider of the Petition of Daniel Reynold's, and others, Captains in the
Service of this State in the Late war, was brought up, read and con
curred ; and M" Smith and M" Thornton were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coramittee of the Senate to nom
inate two persons, one of whom to be appointed to preach a Sermon
at the meeting of the next General Court, was brought up, read and
Concurred : and M" Thornton and M" Langdon were joined.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate to con
sider what business is yet Necessary to be done this Session, and
when this Court shall adjourn ; also what pay the members of the
Court shall receive this Session for their travel and attendance, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" M'^Clary and M"
Walker * were joined. * 2 : i6
A Vote to allow the town of Keen, three Pounds one ShU
ling and Six Pence half penny, hard money, and twenty-seven Shil
lings and eleven Pence, new emission, for taxes laid on the estate of
Elijah Williams, an absentee, for the years one thousand Seven Hun
dred and Eighty-one and one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty
two ; also, twenty two Pounds nineteen shiUings and three Pence
three Farthings, Silver Money, and ten pounds nine ShiUings, new
emission, for taxes on land of Josiah Pomeroy, an absentee, for the
years, one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-two, and One thou
sand Seven hundred and Eighty three and that the same be dis
counted out of the taxes due from said town, was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote to allow the town of Hollis out of their Taxes Seventeen
Shillings and two pence one farthing, for taxes laid on land of Col
WiUiam Brown, an absentee in the year one thousand Seven Hundred
and Eighty two, was brought up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned tUl to'morrow, nine o'clock.

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SATURDAY, February 19, 1785.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote that M" Walker and M" Hale be a Committee to join a
Committee of the Honorable House, to consider of the Propriety of
appointing sorae one of the Printers in this State to be the State
Printer and of the Method of agreeing with such Printer to do the
business in the best and Cheapest manner, was sent down for Con
currence by M" Wentworth.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate
* 2 : 17 to Consider of the petition of the Selectmen of Plainfield,*
and to report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ;
and M" Wentworth and M" Olcott were joined,
A Vote that Joseph Roberts, jun" who lost his arm in the expedi
tion against Penobscot, be enrolled to receive half pay, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to restore Ebenezer Torrey to his law in a certain case
wherein he was defaulted, and giving him Leave to bring in a bill ac
cordingly, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for Thomas Simpson, (who was wounded at the battle on
Behmus's heights) to be allowed one quarter part of his wages from
the time of his being Struck off the Pension list to this time, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for Jonathan Emerson (who was wounded at the battle on
Behmus's heights) to be enrohed for half-pay from the Present time,
was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate to ex
araine what towns or places were neglected in the last proportion of
taxes, and report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and
M" GUman and M" Smith were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petitions of William Moulton and Nathan Ordway,
and report thereon, was brought up, read and non Con-curred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate to
Consider of the Pethion of Jereraiah Spencer, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Olcott and M" Went
worth were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to con
sider of the Pethion of Cap' James Martin and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Blood and M" M'^Clary were
joined.

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* A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Sen- * 2 : i8
ate to Consider of the Petition of Elijah Blodget, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Langdon and
M" Olcott were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to Con
sider of the Petition of R, Freeman in behalf of the town of Han
over, and report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred, g; M"
Wentworth and M" Smith were joined.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Timothy Walker and Others on the
Second Friday of next Session, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote on the Petition of the Selectraen of Plainfield, directing
sundry raatters relative to the raising of the State taxes in said town,
was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of Benjamin Davis, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Thornton and M" Hale were
joined. A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Committee of the Senate to Con
sider of the Petition of Leonard Whiting, Esq" and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" J. Langdon and M" Olcott
were joined.
A Vote to pay Gen. John Sullivan, in addition to what has been
already Voted him for his Service, as a delegate to Congress And
agent for the State, &c. the sum of one hundred and ten pounds, was
brought up, read and Concurred."
Adjourned tUl Monday next three o'Clock, P. M.
MONDAY, February 21 1785.
Met according to adjournment.
The Whole Senate were Present,
An Act to Impower Sarah Ross of Portsraouth, widow to sell the
Interest in a Certain dwelling house, and Land, Situate in
Portsmouth * aforesaid, was read a third time, and voted that * 2 : 19
the sarae be Enacted.
An Act to Impower Mary Hart, of Portsmouth, widow, to sell the
Interest of her two Children, minors, under the age of twelve years
having been read a third time, and Voted that the Same be Enacted.
A Vote that the paper bills, called the new emission money issued
by this State, not yet redeemed, shall be received by the Treasurer
of this State, towards the payment of all taxes due, or that shall be
hereafter due, at the rate of three of said new emission for one silver
1 Ham. Miscl. Prov, Papers, Vol, xviii, 748,

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dollar, on the Principal only no Interest on said bills to be calculated,
was sent down for Concurrence, and brought up Concurred,
A Vote fora Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate to nom
inate proper persons to devise proper Checks for Impressing new
blank notes, to redeem the State Securities now outstanding, and to
superintend the press, and see said blanks struck of &c, was brought
up, read and Concurred ; and M" Gilraan and M" Dow were joined.
Adjourned till tomorrow nine o'clock A, M.
TUESDAY, February 22, 1785,
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote to allow Cap' Daniel Reynolds and Others, Captains in a
regiraent raised in this State, and who served in the State of Rhode
Island in the year one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight
the depreciation of wages as officers in the Continental army have
been Paid, was brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act to incorporate a place called Ossipee Gore, in the County
of Strafford, was read a third time, and Voted, that the same be en
acted.
* 2 : 20 * An Act to Irapower a Coraraittee to settle and fix the
boundaries and lines between the township of Sandwich and
Moultonborough and Sandwich and Tamworth, having been read a
third tirae was voted that the sarae be enacted.
An Act to enable the Selectmen of Washington to tax Certain
Lands in said town, for the Purposes therein raentioned, having been
read a third tirae, it was Voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to con
sider of the Petition of Sarauel Atkinson, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and non-Concurred.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate to con
sider what exercise is best to be used by the railitia of this State, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Sraith, M" Dow and Mj
Walker were joined,
A Vote to hear the Petition of the Selectmen of Merrimack, on
the first Tuesday of next session, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the grants necessary to be raade to the President, Secretary,
Attorney General, Justices of the Superior Court, and Comraissary-
General, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" M'^Clary, M"
Dow and M" Blood were joined.
A Vote that the Rev. Jereray Belknap be appointed and requested

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to preach a Sermon at Portsmouth, on Thursday the Second of June
next, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the propriety of the repealing of the whole, or part of
an Act of the late Province, prescribing forms of Oaths in Certain
Cases, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Olcott and M"
Wentworth were joined.
* A Vote for adding M" Duncan and M" Adams to the com- * 2 : 21
mittee for draughting bills, was brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote for paying the accompt of Nicholas NicoUe, araounting to
four Pounds Six ShUlings and four Pence, was brought up, read and
Concurred. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider what allowance shall be made the Rev. gentlemen, who have
been Chaplains for the General Court the present year, was brought
up, read and Concurred ; and M" Wentworth was joined.
A Vote that the pay for travel and attendance of the General Court,
and their officers shall be the Same as at the last Court, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay Jeremiah Eames for himself and Elijah Blodget,
twenty-one pounds twelve ShUlings, for so much paid by them in 1781
to Indians of Cohos, for Conducting persons there who had been
Prisoners in Canada, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to make an allowance to Cap' Lemuel Holmes, of thirty
Pounds toward his sufferings while a Prisoner at new York, to be
accounted, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Gen. John Stark and George Jaff
rey, Esq" on the Second Thursday of next Session, was brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the wages of John George, and Robert Jones Sol
diers, who served at Coos, in the year one thousand Seven Hundred
and Eighty two, was brought up, read and non-Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the sen
ate * to Consider of the Petition and raemorial of Jedediah * 2 : 22
Jewett and report thereon, was brought up, read and Con
curred : and M" Walker and Mr. J, Langdon were joined.
A resolve for Settling the bounties and Supplies of Soldiers fami
lies for such Soldiers who served in the Continental army, a term of
time less than three years, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of Col. Henry Gerrish, and Others, and re
port thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Walker
and M" Thornton were joined.

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A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Accorapt of Doctor Henry Codraan, and others and
report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Walker
and M" Thornton were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of the Selectmen of Swanzy, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred; and M" Hale and M"
Blood were joined.
A Vote to grant the exclusive right of keeping a Ferry over Mer
rimack River, in Concord, to Lemuel Tucker, was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Leonard Whiting, on the Second
Wednesday of next Session, was brought up, read and non-Concurred.
An Act to repeal part of an Act passed in the fourth year of the
reign of the late King George the First, entitled " an Act for the es
tablishing forms of Oaths," was read a third time and Voted that the
same be Enacted.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to Con
sider of the Petition of Israel Morey, Esq" and report thereon, was
brought up, read and non-Concurred.
Adjourned till tomorrow nine o'clock, A. M.
*2: 23 * WEDNESDAY, February [23] 1785,
Met according to adjournment
Present as yesterday
A Vote to enable Henry Gerrish and Others to bring in a bill for
raising by Lottery, Sixteen Hundred dollars to be laid out in clearing
the rocks in Merrimack River, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of James Houston, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Dow and M" Smith were
joined. A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of Ephraim Adams, in behalf of John
Thoraas, and report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ;
and M" Wentworth and Mr. Dow were joined.
A Vote to pay Joseph Jones, Collector of proprietors taxes for the
town of Rumney, twenty-one pounds nine Shillings for taxes assessed
on lands in said town of Samuel Holland Esqr's an absentee, was
brought up, read and Concurred,
An Act to Impower the guardians of the heirs of Philip Eastraan,
late of Walpole, deceased, to sell all the real Estate of the said Heirs

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for the payment of debts, and the Support of the said Heirs, was
read a third time, and Voted that the same be enacted.
An Act to enable the inhabitants of New London, to tax certain
lands for the purposes therein me[n]tioned, having been read a third
time, it was Voted that the same be Enacted.
An Act to vest the exclusive Privilege of keeping a ferry over a
Certain part of Merrimack River, in James Robertson of Bow, was
read a third time, and voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote that the Hon. John Sullivan Esq" Attorney Gen
eral * of this State, to receive out of the treasury. Seventy * 2 : 24
five Pounds as a Salary for the Current year, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that Ebenezer Thompson, Esq" Secretary of this State
have and receive forty pounds, as a Salary for the Current year, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the balance of the Accorapt of Major Jonathan
Child, against the State, amounting to Seventy-five pounds ten Shil
lings and nine Pence, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay John T. Gilman, Esq" Treasurer of the State two
hundred and forty Pounds, in full for his Salary, &c. for the Current
year, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to Con
sider of the Accompt of John Young and report thereon, was brought
up, read and Concurred ; M" Olcott and M" Blood were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
nominate Six persons, three of whom to be appointed a Committee
to settle the Accompts of the Treasurer, the board of war and Col
lector of rum tax, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Walker,
M" Blood and M" Dow were joined.
An Act for raising the sum of twenty Thousand Pounds for the
use of this State the present year, having been read a third time, it
was voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote to enroll Samuel Fugard, a Soldier in the late war agreea
ble to a resolve of Congress, of the 23""^ of April 1782 was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate to con
sider of the Petition of John Wheelock, President of Dartmouth
College, and report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ;
and M" Hale and M" Thornton were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate
to Consider* of a letter frora John T. GUman, Esq" Treas- * 2 : 25
urer of the State, and report thereon, was brought up, read
and Concurred ; and Mr. J. Langdon and M" Olcott were joined.

l80 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
A Vote to accept the report of the Committee to consider of what
Standards are most proper to be used by the mUitia, And what exer
cise shall be Practised by said Militia, was brought up, read and Con
curred, A Vote to have fifteen hundred of Baron St[e]uben's exercise
printed and disposed among the militia of this State, was brought
up, read and non-Concurred.
A Vote appointing Joseph Gilman, Nathaniel Peabody and John
Parker, Esquires, a Committee to devise proper Checks to be used in
the Bills to be issued to redeem the State Notes was brought up, read
and Concurred, Adjourned tUl to-morrow, nine o'clock A. M.
THURSDAY, February 24 1785.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday
An Act to vest the exclusive privilege of keeping a Ferry over a
Certain part of Merriraack River, in Lemuel Tucker, of Concord,
his heirs and assigns, was read a third time, and voted that the same
be Enacted.
A Vote giving instructions to John Langdon and Chri.stopher Top-
pan, Esq;rs to govern them in their raessage to the General Court of
the Massachusetts, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Committee of the Senate to con
sider of the Petition of David Corser, and report thereon, was brought
up, read and Concurred ; and M" Dow and M" Gilraan were joined.
A Vote to hear the Petition of the Coraraittee of Cocker-
* 2 : 26 raouth,* on the Second Friday of next Session, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to accept the report of the Coraraittee on the petition of
the Selectraen of Dunbarton, respecting John Stinson, was brought
up, read and Concurred,
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Accompt of Timothy Walker, Esq" and report there
on, was brought up, read and Concurred ; and M" Dow and M" Went
worth were joined.
A Vote to ahow the Rev. Docter Haven, the Rev. M" Buckminster,
and the Rev. M" Shuttlesworth, thirty ShUlings each for attending and
Praying with the General Court within the year Past, was brought
up, read and Concurred,
A Vote desiring the judge of Probate of WUls, &c. for the County
of HiUsborough, to aUow Six Months longer to the Creditors of

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Zacheus Cutler, an absentee, to exhibit their Clairas to the corarais
sioner on said Estate, was brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act for paying the Interest, and part of the Principal of the
Public Securities of this State, and issuing new notes, also for paying
a further Interest on Continental Securities having been read a third
time, was voted that the same be Enacted.
A Vote on the Petition of John Wheelock President of Dartmouth
College ; was brought up, read and non-Concurred.
A Vote for granting John T. Gilman, Esq" for his service as Treas
urer, for Salary, Clerks, Office hire expences attending the General
Court, &c. the Sum of three Hundred and thirty Pounds annually
from June 12"" 1783 to June 12"" 1785, he accounting for all former
grants, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the accompt of Nicholas NicoUe, for his time ex
pences and horse hire, in transporting papers belonging
the * Secretary's Office, from Exeter to Concord, amount- * 2 : 27
ing to four pounds three Shillings and Eight Pence, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote appointing the Hon. Josiah Bartlet Esq" John Parker and
John Calfe, Esq'rs a Committee to examine the Accompts of the
treasurer, Board of War, and Collector of rum tax, in the recess of
the General Court, and make report next Session, was brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Nathaniel Foster, on the Second
Wednesday of next Session, was brought up, read and Concurred,
A resolve impowering his Excellency the President to give order to
the treasurer, to allow all Receipts given by Jonathan Child to the
Collectors of the County of Grafton, in consequ[e]nce of orders the
Said Child received from the Comraittee of Safety, dated September
&^ 1783 which the said Child hath accounted for, agreeable to his
Orders, as by this Accompt now on file in the Secretary's Office may
appear, was brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act for raising by a Lottery, the Sum of Sixteen Hundred
dollars, to be laid out on the Falls in Merrimack River, for the raore
easey Conveyance of timber down the Same, having been read a
third tirae, was Voted that the Same be Enacted.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of Tiraothy Walker, amounting to
twenty pounds, for the Use of Rooms, &c. for the General Court
from the i^' of June 1784, to 25 February 1785, was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of John Calfe, Esq" for recording and
copying for the Press, the journals of the house of Representatives,
was brought up, read and Concurred.

1 82 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
A Vote on the Petition of Roger Enos was brought up, read and
non-Concurred. A Vote to pay the Accompt of the Hon. Samuel Livermore for at
tending the General Court this Session, draughting bills, &c. the sum
of twelve pounds, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that the Hon. Tiraothy Farrar, Esq" be added to
* 2 : 28 the * Coraraissioners for the County of Hillsborough, to ad
minister the Oaths as by law appointed, to the Civil and
military officers within said County, and he is hereby impowered, to
gether with one of the Council, or one of the Commissioners to ad
minister the said Oaths, agreeable to the Constitution and the Laws
of said State ; and that Ebenezer Thompson Esq" be added to the
Coraraissioners for the County of Strafford, and Joseph Gilman Esq"
be added to the Commissioners for the County of Rockingham, and
James Woodward, Esq" be added to the Commissioners for the County
of Grafton, for the Purposes and in the Manner above mentioned, was
sent down for Concurrence, and was brought up, Concurred,
A Vote to pay the Accompt of Caleb Buswell for waiting on the
House of Representatives this Session, amounting to three Pounds
three Shillings, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote on the Petition of Jedediah Jewett, was brought up, read
and non-concurred,
A Vote that Either of the Members of Council, with either of the
Comraissioners be appointed to administer the Necessary Oaths to
Officers civU and military in this State, was brought up, read and
Concurred, A Vote to hear the Petition of David Corser on the Second
Wednesday of next Session, was brought up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned till tomorrow nine o'clock. A, M.
FRIDAY, February 25, 1785.
Met according to adjournment.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of Joseph Pearson, Esq" for paper and
Other things. Purchased for the State amounting to three Pounds
eleven ShUlings, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of Nicholas NichoUe, for his tirae and
Expences, waiting on the Senate this term, amounting to three pounds
three Shihings, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Ebenezer Torrey, on the
* 2 : 29 Second * Tuesday of next Session, was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A resolve that the sums due on the Several roUs to the Represen
tatives respectively for attendance in the General Court since the first

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Wednesday in June last, be Charged to Several towns and districts
they represent, in the tax bill ordered the present Session ; and that
Orders drawn by the persons therein naraed, be received in discharge
of the taxes of the Several towns and districts they represent, was
sent down for Concurrence and brought up. Concurred.
A Vote that the General Court be now adjourned, to meet again at
the State House in Portsmouth, on the 24 day of May next, agreea
ble to a Vote of a Committee on Necessary business, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
The foregoing is a true Journal of the Votes & proceedings of the
Senate at the last Session of the General Court for the year 1784 —
Attest E Thorapson Sec"^

JOURNAL OF THE
House of Representatives
CONTAINING THE
PROCEEDINGS FROM FEB. 9 TO FEB. 25, 1785.
13

* 12 : 663
*A JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
HON.BL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
or THE
state OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,

At their Third Session under the New Constitution, begun and
holden at Concord, on the second Wednesday in February, being the
ninth day of said month, Anno Domini, One thousand seven hundred
and eighty five, and in the ninth year of the Indepeiidence of America.
WEDNESDAY, February 9, 1785.
Several Members met according to adjournment, but there not
being a nuraber sufficient to transact business, agreed to adjourn 'till
tomorrow morning nine o'clock,
THURSDAY, February io, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Mr, Means, Gen, Badger, Mr. Green,
and Mr. Jewett, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join,
be a committee to consider of the meraorial and petition of Daniel
Rindge, Esq. and others, merchants in Portsmouth, and all sirailar
matters, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr, Jewett,
The following vote came down from the honorable Senate for con
currence :

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State of New Hampshire.
In Senate, February lo, 1785,
Voted, That Mr GUman, Mr. J. Langdon, and Mr. Smith be a
comraittee to join whh such of the honorable House as they shall ap
point, to consider of the business necessary to be done at this session,
and report thereon. Sent down for concurrence, E, Thompson, Secretary.
Which vote was read and concurred, and Major Gains, Col. Top-
pan, Mr, Smith, Mr. Macgregore, and Gen, Badger joined.
Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Col. Runnels, and Col. HUl, whh such of
the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider
of the pethion of Moses Burbank, jun. and all sirailar matters, and
report thereon. Sent up by Col Runnels.
Upon reading and considering a pethion from Hancock, Voted,
That John Duncan, Esq. Capt. Levi Spaulding, and Dr. John
Young, be a committee, at the expenee of the petition-
* 12 :664 ers * to agree on a place for building a meeting-house in
said Hancock, and report their proceedings to the Gen
erahCourt. Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
Voted, That Major Gains, Mr. Smhh, Mr. Means, Major Shep
hard, and Col Senter, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a coramittee to consider and report what they think
necessary to be done with the old Continental money now in the
Treasury, and in the hands of individuals in this State.
Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
Voted, That the account of the honorable George Atkinson, Esq,
amounting to ten pounds two shUlings, be allowed and paid out of
the Treasury, by order of the President. Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
Voted, That the account of John Sparhawk, Esq. amounting to
four pounds, be aUowed and paid out of the Treasury, by order of the
President. Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
Voted, That Col. Hill, Mr. Jewett, and Capt. Spaulding, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider
of the petition of Simeon Barret, and Isaac Barret, and all similar
matters, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt, Marsh.
Voted, That Mr, Betton, Col. Runnels, Mr, Duncan, Mr, Dow, and
Mr, Chase, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be
a coramittee to take under consideration, and report what they raay
judge necessary to be done respecting horse thieves, and for the en
couragement of persons who may prosecute therefor ; also, for the
encouragement of those who may prosecute persons concerned irt
forgeries of any kind. Sent up by Col, Runnels.

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Voted, That Col. Runnels, Mr. Betton, and Col. Toppan, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider
of the petition of Samuel Houston," and all similar matters, and re
port thereon. Sent up by Col, Runnels,
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M,
Met accordingly.
* Voted, ThatMr. Jewett, Mr, Pickering, and Mr. East- * 12 : 665
man, with such of the honorable Senate as they may join,
be a committee to consider of the petition of Dr, Edmund Chadwick,
and report thereon. Sent up by Mr, Eastman.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Nathaniel Folsom,
Samuel Folsom, and Jonathan Moulton, Esq'rs, Voted, That the
prayer thereof be granted ; and that the petitioners have leave to
bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Major Pickering.
Voted, That Major Gains, Gen. Badger, Mr Macgregore, Mr.
Smith, and Mr. Jewett, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a comraittee to examine into the state of the Treasury,
and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Wallace.
Yoted, That Mr. J. Pickering, Mr. Smith, Mr. Green, Major Gains,
and Col. Peabody, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to prepare and lay before this House, all such
public bills as may be thought necessary to be passed this session.
Sent up by Mr. WaUace.
Upon reading and considering the petitions from the towns of
New-Castle and Rye, Voted, That [the prayer of said Petitions be
granted and that] the town of Rye, have the privUege of electing a
Representative, seperate from the town of New-Castle. Sent up by Mr, Scribner.
Voted, That Gen, Badger, Mr. Duncan, and Col. Hill, with such of
the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to consider
of the petition of John Wendell, Esq. and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Gains.
The committee on the petition of Samuel Houston,^ and all similar
matters, reported, that the prayer of said Houston's petition be
granted ; and that he be made up for depreciation by the coraraittee
appointed for that purpose, in the usual manner.
Signed, Timothy Walker, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received
and accepted. Sent up by Col, Runnels,
Voted, That Major Pickering, Mr Jewett, and Col. Runnels, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to
'- xii. Ham, Town Papers, 464, 2, xii, id.

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consider of the petition and account of Mr Joseph Leigh, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr Jewett.
* 12 : 666 *Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning,
FRIDAY, February ii, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act ascertaining the rates at which coined silver and gold, and
Enghsh half-pence and farthings, raay pass within this State, was
read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col, Leavitt and Mr, Jackman.
Upon reading and considering the petition of the Selectmen of
Winchester, Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the Generah
Court, on the second Thursday of their next session ; and that in the
mean time the petitioners serve the owners of the several dams on
AshewUlot-river, in Winchester and Hinsdale, with a copy of the
petition, and order of Court thereon, that they, or either of them,
may appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted. Sent up by Major Gains.
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Major Gains, Col. Runnels, Mr, Betton,
Capt, Morrill, Mr. Eastraan, Col Eraerson, and Mr. Means, with
such of the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a committee to
consider of the petitions frora Kingstown, Sandown, and Rye, and
report thereon. Sent up by Col. Leavitt.
Voted, That Mr Green, Mr. McMurphy, Mr. Jewett, Col. Senter,
and Mr, Jenness, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join,
be a coraraittee to consider of the petitions from New-Ipswich," Peter
borough, Temple, Lyndborough,^ Wilton, Mason, Peterborough-Slip,
Hancock, and Society-Land, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Means,
Upon reading and considering the petitions from Lancaster, North
umberland, Stratford, Dartmouth, Piercy, and Cockburn, praying for
the privilege of a Representative, Voted, That the prayer thereof be
granted, and that a precept issue accordingly. Sent up by Major Gains.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Elizabeth Butler,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that she have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Major Gains,
* 12 : 667 * Upon reading and considering the petition of the inhab
itants of part of the towns of Wolfborough and Middle-
town, Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the Gen-
^ lii. Ham, Town Papers, 742, 2, ^ii, id, 522,

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eral-Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that
in the mean time the petitioners cause that the substance of their
petition, and order of Court thereon, be published in the New-Hamp
shire Gazette, three weeks successively ; and also serve the Selectmen
of Wolfborough and Middletown, with a copy of the petition and
order of Court, that they, or any person or persons, may then appear
and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not
be granted. Sent up by Capt, Copeland.
Voted, That Col. Senter, Capt. Marsh, and Gen. Badger, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of the Selectmen of Conway, and all sirailar
matters, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt, Copeland.
Voted, That the Pay-roll of Lieut. Meshech Bell, Commandant at
New-Castle, amounting to sixty pounds ; also the account of said
BeU, amounting to four pounds, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury, by order of the President. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Voted, That Capt. Copp, Col, Runnels, Mr, Duncan, Mr. Kendall,
and Major Baker, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider in what way or manner the towns
who advanced bounties to soldiers, or supplies to their farailies, agree
ably to acts or votes of the General-Court, and have not been paid
therefor, shall be paid ; and report thereon. Sent up by Capt, Copeland,
Voted, That Major Wiggin, Mr. Betton, and Mr. Robert Wallace,
with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee
to consider of the petition of Samuel Lowell,' and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt. Copeland.
Voted, That the committee for draughting bills, prepare and lay
before this House, a bill for preventing Constables, Collectors, and
others, trading on public monies ; also any other bihs mentioned in
the report of the committee on necessary business, that are not al
ready drawn. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
* Voted, That Mr. Green, Capt. Leavitt, and Major Whit- * 1 2 : 668
comb, with such of the honorable Senate as they may join,
be a committee to consider of the petition and accounts of Capt,
Moses Woodward, and report thereon. Sent up by Major Wiggin.
Voted, That Mr. Jewett, Major Wentworth, and Col. Runnels,
with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee
to consider of the petition of Jonathan Ehot,=' and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Wiggin.
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Voted, That Mr R. WaUace, Mr. McMurphy, and Mr. Smiley,
with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee
to consider of the petition of the Selectmen of Rindge," and report
thereon. Sent up by Major Pickering,
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jeremiah Prescott,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted ; and that he have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Major Pickering.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Mary Hart, Voted,
That the prayer thereof be granted ; and that she have leave to bring
in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Capt. Copp.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of the inhabitants of
Ossipee-Gore, Voted, That the prayer thereof be so far granted, as that the peti
tioners have leave to bring in a bill for an incorporation, under cer
tain restrictions to be therein mentioned. Sent up by Capt. Copp.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Samuel Potter, Voted,
That the prayer thereof be granted ; and that the Treasurer, by order
of the President, issue a new note of the same tenor with the one
lost ; he, the said Potter, giving sufficient bond that in case the said
lost note shall ever be produced to the Treasurer, the said new note,
shall be given up, or the value thereof paid into the Treasury,
Sent up by Capt. Spaulding.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Solomon Robbins,^
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Thursday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time the petitioner cause that the substance
* 12 : 669 * of the petition, and order of Court thereon, be published
three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette ;
and also cause that a copy of said petition, and order of Court
thereon, be posted up in sorae public place in the town of Westmore
land, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause
(if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by Capt. Copeland.
The committee on the petition of Jonathan Eliot,^ a soldier in Col,
Wyman's regiment, reported, that the prayer thereof be granted;
and that the President give order on the Treasurer for the sura of
forty shiUings. Signed, J. Gilman, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col, Runnels.
Upon reading and considering sundry petitions and an address from
the inhabhants of New-Boston, respecting Dr. Jonathan Gove,
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Voted, That said petitions be disraissed.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-raorrow raorning,
SATURDAY, February 12, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act to establish a Seal to be used as the Great Seal of this
State, was sent down from the Senate for concurrence, was read three
times and concurred. Sent up by Col. Runnels and Major Wiggin.
Voted, That Col. Runnels, Mr, Betton, and Capt, Copeland, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of Enoch Hale, Esq," and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr, Jenness.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Henry Little, in be
half of Jaraes Saunders,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time the petitioner cause that Dr, Thaddeus Butler, be
served with a copy of the petition and order of Court thereon, that
he may then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer
thereof may not be granted. Sent up Mr Jenness.
Voted, That Major Gains, Col. HUl, and Col, Runnels, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Lieut. Daniel McMurphy, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr, McMurphy,
*The committee on the petition of Simeon Barret and * 12 : 670
Isaac Barret, reported that the prayer thereof be granted ;
he, the said Isaac Barret, giving bonds to the Selectmen of Notting
ham-West, conditioned that he wiU pay in to the several Treasurers,
the sums which his father was ordered to pay, and that the said Isaac
have leave to bring in a bUl accordingly.
Signed, Francis Blood, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Capt, Spaulding,
Voted, That the account of John Duncan, Esq, amounting to three
pounds eighteen shilhngs, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury,
by order of the President, Sent up by Major Shephard,
Yoted, That Col Peabody, Col, HiU, Major Pickering, Mr Chase,
Mr. Duncan, Mr Martin, and Mr. Wallace, with such of the honora
ble Senate as they shall join, be a committee to take under consider-
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194 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [l78S
ation the Table of Fees, and report what alterations they judge
necessary. Sent up by Mr. Martin.
Voted, That Capt, Allen, Mr, Adams, and Col, Hill, with such of
the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a coraraittee to consider
of the account of Robert Gerrish, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Wallace.
The committee on the petition of Samuel Lowell," reported as their
opinion, that he be allowed six pounds, (on account of his sickness
and sufferings whilst a prisoner) and that the said sum be paid out of
the Treasury, by order of the President,
Signed, Enoch Hale, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Runnels.
The committee on the petition of Dr Edmund Chadwick, reported,
that the prayer thereof be granted. Signed, M, Thornton, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the committee
on depreciation, settle his accounts accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Eastman.
* 12 : 671 * Voted, That Mr. Hah, Major Wiggin, and Mr. Adams,
with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a
committee to consider of the account of Mr. Thomas Bickford, and
report thereon. Sent up by Capt, Foss.
Adjourned to Monday next, three o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, February 14, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
The comraittee on the petition of the Selectmen of Conway, re
ported as their opinion, that the town of Conway be abated one fif
teenth of their taxes for the years 1782 and 1783,
Signed, Ebenezer Smith, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Capt. Fogg.
Voted, That Col. Peabody, Gen. Badger, Mr. Means, Mr. Chase,
and Major Baker, with such of the honorable Senate as may be
joined, be a committee to consider of the petition of Peter Du Sausse,
and report thereon. Sent up by Capt. Fogg.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Charity Lund, Voted,
That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the GenerahCourt, on
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the first Friday of their next session ; and that in the mean time the
petitioner cause that the guardian of James McClure, be served with
a copy of the petition, and order of Court thereon, that he may then
appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof raay
not be granted. Sent up by Mr, Grout.
Yoted, That Col. Peabody, Gen. Badger, Mr. Duncan, Col. Payne,
Capt. Sumner, Mr, Smith, and Mr, Jewett, with such of the honora
ble Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to consider what sura is
necessary to be raised for the exigencies of the current year ; also, to
consider what part of the State securities shall be paid, and in what
manner, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr, Grout,
Voted, That Col Hill, Capt, French, Mr. Martin, Mr, Chase, and
Col, Tash, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a
committee to consider of the petition of the Selectmen of Marlow,"
and all similar matters, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr, Grout,
* Voted, That Mr, Chase, Mr. Jewett, and Col. Leavitt, * 1 2 : 672
with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a
committee to consider of the account of Ehjah Grout, Esq, Commis
sary at Charlestown, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Capron,
Upon reading and considering the petition of Nathaniel Foster, of
Swanzey, praying to be restored to his law in a certain case.
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time the petitioner cause that Nathaniel Hih, of Swanzey,
be served with a copy of the petition and order of Court thereon,
that he may then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the
prayer thereof may not be granted ; and that all process against said
Foster be stayed until the decision of the General-Court.
Sent up by Mr. Capron.
The committee to consider of the petitions frora Kingstown, San
down, and Rye, reported as their opinion, that Rye be rejoined to the
first regiment, and that South-Hampton be rejoined to the third reg
iment ; and that Sandown be rejoined to the Kingstown regiment (so
called) and that the said Kingstown regiraent, be restored to the
number seven ; and the regiment now called number seven, be put
to number twenty. Signed, Francis Blood, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Major Shephard.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
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TUESDAY, February 15, 1785.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That Major Gains, Major Wentworth, Capt. French, Major
Whitcomb, and Mr. Freeman, with such of the honorable Senate as
may be joined, be a committee to consider of a letter from Daniel
Newcomb, Esq. and all similar matters and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Child.
Yoted, That Mr, Greene, Col, Toppan, Major Whitcomb, Mr. M.
Wallace, and Mr. Jewett, with such of the honorable Sen-
* 12 : 673 ate as they* shall join, be a committee to consider of the
accounts of Major Jonathan Child, as Comraissary, and
report thereon. Sent up by Major Child.
Yoted, That Gen. Badger, Major Gains, Mr Smith, Mr. Means and
Col, Hill, with such of ttie honorable Senate as they shall join, be a
comraittee to consider what is necessary to be done respecting the
new emission money issued by this State, and report thereon.
Sent up by Col, Child.
The committee on the petition of Peter Du Sausse, praying that
an act of naturalization, might be passed in favor of himself and
family, reported, that the prayer thereof be granted ; and that the
petitioner have leave to bring in a bill for that purpose.
Signed, Timothy Walker, for the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Capt, Spaulding.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Leonard Whiting,
Esq, praying for liberty to extend an execution recovered against the
estate of Benjamin Whiting, Esq, of Holies, an absentee.
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted ; and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bUl accordingly. Sent up by Capt, Spaulding,
The committee on the account of Robert Gerrish, reported, that
the account of said Gerrish, amounting to thirty-two pounds ten
shUhngs, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury,
Signed, Tiraothy Walker, for the Coramittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Col. Hih.
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Major Whitcomb, and Col. ChUd, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the pethion of Capt, Lemuel Holmes, and aU similar
matters, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. M. WaUace.

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_ Voted, That Major Wentworth, Capt, Allen, and Major Pickering,
with such of the honorable Senate as they shah join, be a committee
to consider of the petition of Jaraes Turner, a soldier in Capt, Scott's
corapany, Col, Jackson's regiraent, praying for depreciation, and re
port thereon. Sent up by Mr. M, Wallace,
* Voted, That Col, Peabody, Major Wentworth, Mr, * 12: 674
Means, Capt. Sumner, and Col. Payne, with such of the
honorable Senate as they shaU join, be a commhtee to consider of the
propriety of appointing Surveyors of Land in this State, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr, Jenness.
Voted, That Major Wiggin, Mr, Pickering, and Col. Senter, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the account of Mr. Benjamin Biggelow, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M,
Met accordingly.
An Act to impower Isaac Barrett of Nottingham -West, to collect
certain taxes in said town, was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. Sent up by Mr. Jewett, and Major Wentworth.
An Act impowering Elizabeth Butler, to prosecute actions in her
own name, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Jewett and Major Wentworth.
Voted, That the hearing of the petition of Thomas Pinkham,
which was to have been this day, before the General-Court, be post
poned to the third Tuesday of their next session ; and all persons
concerned are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Sent up by Major Wiggin.
* The committee on the account of Elijah Grout, Esq. re- * 12 : 675
ported, that he be allowed sixty-six pounds four shillings
and three pence, in full for the ballance due on said account.
Signed, J. Gilman, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Mr Greeley.
The committee on the petition and memorial of a number of mer
chants, traders and others, inhabitants of the town of Portsmouth,
reported as their opinion, that the Legislature of this State choose a
committee of two or three persons to confer with the Legislature of
the Comraonwealth of Massachusetts, with respect to the trade and
commerce carried on between the subjects of the said Commonwealth
and those of this State, urging the necessity of peace and harraony
among the whole ; and that, that Commonwealth's laying duties on

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goods, wares and merchandizes belonging to subjects of this State,
will have a manifest tendency to disunite them.
Signed, J. Langdon, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that Col. Toppan,
Mr. Chase, and Major Gains, with such of the honorable Senate as
they shall join, be a committee to nominate to this House proper
persons for a coraraittee for the before- raentioned purpose.
Sent up by Capt. Copeland.
* 12 1676 * Voted, That Col. Toppan, Mr. Jewett, and Mr.
Green, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall
join, be a coraraittee to consider of the petition of the Selectraen
of Cornish, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt, Copeland.
Voted, That the account of Capt. Aaron Kinsman, amounting to
five pounds four shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. Sent up by Col. Leavitt.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Sarah Ross, praying
for liberty to sell a certain house and land in Portsmouth,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted ; and that she have
leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Col. Leavitt.
An Act to commit the sole administration of the estate of Jeremiah
Prescott, late of Epping, deceased, intestate, into the hands of his
son Jeremiah Prescott, was read a third time, and passed to be en
acted. Sent up by Mr. Green, and Col Leavitt.
An Act authorizing and impowering Leonard Whiting, Esq. to
levy or extend an execution recovered by him, upon the estate of
Benjarain Whiting, Esq. was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. Sent up by Mr. Green, and Col. Leavitt.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, February i6, 1785.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
An Act for the naturalization of Peter Du Sausse, Julia Du
Sausse, his wife, Mary Esta, his daughter, and Adrian
* 12 : 677 * his son, was read a third time, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Capt, Holraes, and Mr. McMurphy.
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Mr Betton, Mr. Means, Mr. Duncan,
Col. Payne, Mr Green, and Major Gains, with such of the honorable
Senate as they shaU join, be a coramittee to take under consideration
the bill presented, for laying an Impost Duty on wares, merchandize,
&c, and report what alterations they raay judge necessary.
Sent up by Capt. Holmes.

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An Act to alter and establish the tiraes and places of holding the
several Courts of Judicature within this State, was read a third time,
and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Mr Green, and Mr. Smith.
The following Resolve came down from the honorable Senate for
concurrence ; State of New Hampshire.
In Senate, February i6, 1785.
Whereas the certificates issued by this State, for payment of inter
est due on securities given by this State, and also on loan-office cer
tificates (so called) being for money loaned to the United-States, and
likewise those issued for payraent of fifteen per Centura of the debts
owed by this State, have been appropriated to be received in pay
ment of several particular taxes as set forth in the acts and resolves
for issuing the same ; which hath been found inconvenient, and a
great hindrance to the speedy collecting of taxes :
Therefore, be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Represent
atives, in General-Court convened, that all certificates that have been
issued, or shall be issued by this State, for payment of interest due
on securities given by this State, or on raoney loaned to the United
States, or in payment of the principal or any part thereof due from
this State, shall be received by the Treasurer in payment of all taxes
now due, or shall hereafter be due to this State, excepting the second
tax issued in the year 1781, and ordered to be paid in paper bills
called the new eraission, or in such future taxes where the sarae shall
be specially ordered to be paid otherways.
Sent down for concurrence.
Woodbury Langdon, President, P. T.
The sarae day read and concurred. Sent up by Major Wiggin.
*The coramittee on the petition of James Turner, re- * 12 1678
ported, that the petitioner be allowed his depreciation ac
cording to the prayer of his petition, in the same manner as has been
allowed to others in like cases. Signed, Simeon Olcott, for the coramittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the coraraittee
on depreciation govern theraselves accordingly. Sent up by Major Shephard.
Voted, That the account of Samuel Fowler, Esq. amounting to
one pound ten shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, by
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The comraittee on the petition of the Selectmen of Marlow," and all
simUar matters, reported that the Continental paper money coUected
by the Constable or Constables of said Marlow ; as also by those of
Alstead and Acworth, according to their several sums, sworn to, be
received into the Treasury of this State, in the same manner as
others have been received in similar circumstances.
Signed, M, Thornton, for the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Betton.
The committee on the account of Benjarain Biggelow, reported that
said account, araounting to forty pounds twelve shillings and one
penny half-penny, be allowed. Signed, Francis Blood, for the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Major Gains.
Voted, That Mr. Knowles, Mr. Adaras, and Capt, Copp, which
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of John Holbrook, and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Wiggin.
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Thomas Parsons, Esq,
and others, which was to have been this day before the General-
Court, be postponed to the second Friday of their next session ; of
which all persons concerned, are to take notice and govern themselves
accordingly. Sent up by Major Wiggin
* 12 : 679 *Adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Agreeably to the order of the day, sundry petitions were heard,
and the consideration of said petitions postponed untU to-morrow
morning. Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
THURSDAY, February 17, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col. Hih, Major Gains, and Mr. Betton, whh such of
the honorable Senate as they shah join, be a commhtee to nominate
three proper persons to be appointed a committee to revise the Table
of Fees for this State, in the recess of the General-Court, and re
port thereon the next session of said Court. Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
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An Act for the more speedy determination of actions wherein
foreigners are concerned, was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. Sent up by Mr. Duncan, and Major Wiggin.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of James Robertson,
praying for the privilege of a ferry a-cross Merrimac-river, from Bow
to Pembrook, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted ; and that the peti
tioner have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Capt, Copeland.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Robert McClure," and
others, praying that a certain severance of land formerly raade in
HUlsborough, may be established.
Voted, That the prayer of said petition be granted ; and that the
petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Capt. Copeland.
Upon hearing and considering the petition from the inhabitants of
the town of Washington, praying that uniraproved lands may be
taxed for repairing highways,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted and that the petitioners
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Capt. Copeland.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of sundry inhabitants
of Charlestown, praying for liberty for a poll parish,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be not granted.
Voted, That the Hon. John Langdon, Esq. and Christopher Top-
pan, Esq., be and they hereby are appointed a committee to repair to
the General-Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as soon as
conveniently may be, and confer with said Court, on the matters men
tioned in the vote of Tuesday last. Sent up by Mr, Betton,
* Voted, That Mr. Greene, Capt, Leavitt, and Col, Run- * 12 : 680
nels, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join,
be a comraittee to consider of the petition of Ebenezer Torrey, and
report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Betton,
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Col, Jonathan Chase,
which was to have been this day, before the General-Court, be post
poned to the first Tuesday of their next session ; of which all persons
concerned are to take notice and govern theraselves accordingly.
Sent up by Major Gains.
Voted, That Thursday the fourteenth day of April next, be observed
and kept as a day of Public Fasting Humiliation and Prayer, through
out this State, and that his Excellency the President be desired to
issue a Proclamation for that purpose. Sent up by Major Gains.
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Voted, That Mr. Jenness, Col. Bartlett, Mr. Pickering, Capt. Fogg,
and Capt, Calfe, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined
be a coraraittee to consider of the petition of Capt. Thos. Simpson,
and all similar matters and report thereon. Sent up by Major Gains.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Upon motion whether a Serraon shall be preached at the com
mencement of the next General-Court, which is to raeet at Ports
mouth, in June next, the Yeas and Nays were required, and are as
follows, viz.
Yeas. — Major Gains, Mr. Duncan, Col. Peabody, Mr. Jewett, Mr,
Storey, Mr, Betton, Capt. Underbill, Major Shephard, Mr. Smith,
Mr, Pickering, Mr Smiley, Capt. Copp, Mr. Jenness, Mr. Powers,
Mr. Martin, Col. Toppan, Mr. Morss, Mr. Means, Mr. Green, Mr.
Freeraan, Capt. Spaulding, Mr. Daniels, Col. Child, Mr. R. Wahace,
Capt, Allen, Major Wiggin, Mr. Jackman, Capt. Calfe, Col Hill, Mr.
Hall, Mr. Knowles, Col. Bartlett, Mr. WUlard, Capt. Marsh, Mr.
Eastman, Mr, Grout, Capt. Emerson, Capt, Clough, Mr, Ayer, Capt.
Putnara, Major Batcheldor, Col. Payne,
Nays. — Col. Runnels, Major Whhcomb, Col. Tash, Mr. McMur
phy, Mr Sanborn, Col, Page, Col, Leavitt, Mr Wilbore, Mr, Cragin,
Mr, Shaw, Capt, Holmes, Mr, M. Wallace, Mr. MerriU, Major Baker,
Mr Greeley, Capt. Eastman, Mr. Huse, Mr Grout, Capt, MorriU,
Capt. Fogg, Major Capron, Major Wentworth, Mr. Clough, Capt.
Sumner, Capt. French, Capt. Foss, Mr, Chase, Mr. Adams, Gen.
Badger, Capt, Copeland, Mr, Dow, Mr, Bedee, Col. Senter, Capt. Pet
tingill, Col. Richardson, Mr. Scribner
42 Yeas, 36 Nays.
* 12 : 681 * So the raotion prevailed.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Asahel
Bundy, and others (guardians for certain rainors) praying for liberty
to sell lands belonging to their wards,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioners
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Major Shephard.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Levi Harvey, and
others, praying that the [unimproved Lands of] non resident owners
of lands in New- London, may be taxed to the highways,
Yoted, That the prayer thereof be granted ; and that the pethion-
ers have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, exempting only the lands
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An Act to impower a committee to settle and fix the boundaries
and lines between the townships of Sandwich and Moultonborough,
and Sandwich and Tamworth, was read a third time, and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Major Shephard and Major Wiggin.
The committee on the account of Mr, Thomas Bickford, reported,
that the said Bickford be allowed thirty-nine pounds fourteen shil
lings and six pence, in full for the ballance of his account.
Signed, Enoch Hale, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Major Gains.
Yoted, That Gen. Badger, Col. Peabody, Col, Hih, Col, Bartlett,
and Mr. Jewett, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a committee to take under consideration a letter from Gen. Sulli
van, and the matters therein referred to, and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Gains.
Adjourned to nine o'clock tomorrow morning,
* FRIDAY, February i8, 1785. * 12:682
The House raet according to adjournment.
The committee on the petition of the Selectmen of Marlow," and
all similar matters, reported, that the several sums of the old emis
sion Continental money as collected, returned, and sworn to by the
Constables of said town of Marlow, Alstead and Acworth, viz. From
Abisha Tubs of Marlow, aforesaid, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy dollars and five shiUings ; from Rufus Huntley, of said Mar
low, two thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars ; from Zebulon
Crane, of Alstead, aforesaid, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-
nine pounds five shUlings ; from Nathan Fay, of said Alstead, eleven
hundred and ninety-six pounds eight shillings , and from William
Markham, of Acworth aforesaid, three hundred and ninety-seven
dollars, be received by the Treasurer of the State, on account of the
several taxes for which the same was collected.
Signed, M. Thornton, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Major Shephard,
Voted, That Mr, Greene, Col, Peabody, Col. Hill, Mr, Smith, and
Mr. Beede, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be
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a comrahtee to consider of a proposed biU to ascertain the right and
confirra the property of certain lands in several townships in this
State, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Greeley.
Voted, That Col, Bartlett, Col, Peabody, and Major Wiggin, with
such of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a coramhtee to
consider of the account of Solomon Wheeler, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr, Greeley.
The committee on the pethion of John Holbrook, reported, that
the said Holbrook's petition be granted ; and that he be aUowed
forty-five pounds, in full of aU claims against the State, on account
of supplying soldiers, &c. Signed, J, Wentworth, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That h be received and accepted, and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Major ChUd.
* 12 1683 *The coramittee on the letter of Daniel Newcomb, Esq.
reported, that the Trustees upon confiscated estates, who
have been legally appointed by the several Judges of Probate within
this State, who have proceeded and sold any part of said confiscated
estates, that they immediately advertise and make sale according to
said law, of all reraainder of such estates as they have inventoried,
and settle their accounts with the Judges of Probate in their respect
ive counties, as soon as may be.
Signed, M, Thornton, for the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Thoraas Bartlett,
Esq, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time he cause that the substance of the petition, and order
of Court thereon, be published three weeks successively in the New-
Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and
shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
Voted, That Major Gains, Col. Payne, and Col. Hill, with such of
the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to draught
such instructions as they raay judge necessary to give the Hon, John
Langdon, and Christopher Toppan, Esq'rs, a coramittee to the Gen
erahCourt of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Sent up by Capt. Copp.
Voted, That Col, Runnels, Mr. Greene, Gen. Badger, Mr, Duncan,
Major Gains, and Col, HiU, with such of the honorable Senate as

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may be joined, be a committee to consider of the petition of the
Selectmen of Dunbarton," and report thereon. Sent up by Mr McMurphy.
Voted, That Col. Runnels, Mr. Greene, Gen. Badger, Col, Toppan,
Col, Payne, Capt, Sumner, and Mr. Means, with such of the honora
ble Senate as they shall join, be a committee to consider of the peti
tion of Gen. John Stark ; also the petition of George Jaffrey, Esq.
in behalf of the Masonian Proprietors, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. McMurphy,
* The committee on the petition from New-Ipswich,^ * 72 : 684
and sundry other towns, reported, that the prayer of the
petition be granted ; and that the regiment numbered twenty-three in
the late arrangement, be numbered twelve ; and that the number
twelve, be nurabered twenty-three. Signed, John McCleary, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr McMurphy.
Voted, That Col, Peabody, Col. Tash, Mr. Duncan, Major Whit
comb, and Col. Senter, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Daniel Run
nels, Samuel Dearborn, and Ezekiel Gile, Captains in the army in
the year 1778, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr, McMurphy,
Voted, That Col, Toppan, Mr, Knowles, and Mr. Greene, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
nominate to this House two proper persons, out of whom one to be
appointed to preach a Sermon at the meeting of the General-Court,
at Portsmouth, in June next. Sent up by Major Wiggin,
Adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Mr. Smith, Mr. Means, Mr. Chase, and
Col. Payne, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be
a committee to consider what business is yet necessary to be done at
this session, and at what time, and to what time and place this Gen
eral-Court shall be adjourned ; also, to consider what pay the mem
bers of the honorable Senate and House of Representatives, and
their officers, shall receive for their travel and attendance at this
session, and report thereon. Sent up by Major Wiggin,
An Act to impower Mary Hart, of Portsmouth, widow, to sell her
interest of her two children, minors, under the age of twelve years,
was read a third time, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Major Wiggin and Mr. Smith.
1- xi. Ham, Town Papers, 564, 2, xii, id, 742,

206 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [l78S
An Act to impower Sarah Ross, of Portsmouth, widow, to sell her
interest in a certain dwelling house and land situate in Portsmouth,
aforesaid, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Major Wiggin and Mr. Sraith.
* 12:685 * Voted, That the town of Keene, be allowed out of
their State taxes, three pounds one shilling and six pence
half-penny, lawful money, and one pound seven shillings and eleven
pence, new emission, being for the taxes laid upon Elijah Williams's
land for the years 1781 and 1782, he being an absentee from this
State ; and that the President give order accordingly, agreeably to
a resolve of said State. Sent up by Major Gains,
Voted, That the town of Holies, be allowed out of their State
taxes, seventeen shiUings and two pence farthing, being for taxes laid
upon Col, William Brown's land, in said town, in the year 1782, he
being an absentee from this State ; and that the President give order
agreeably to a resolve of said State, Sent up by Major Gains,
Voted, That the town of Keene, be allowed out of their State
taxes, twenty-two pounds nineteen shillings and three pence three
farthings, silver money, and ten pounds nine shillings, new emission
money, being for the taxes laid upon lands of Josiah Pomeroy, for the
years 1781 and 1782, he being an absentee from this State ; and that
the President give order accordingly, agreeably to a resolve of this
State. Sent up by Major Gains.
The committee on the petition of Ebenezer Torrey, praying to be
restored to his law in a certain case, reported, that the prayer thereof
be granted ; and that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
Sent up by Capt, Foss.
Voted, That Major Gains, Mr. Greene, and Capt. Pickering, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a comm.ittee to
consider of the petition of the Selectmen of Plainfield, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr Dow.
The committee on the pethion of Capt. Thomas Simpson, reported,
that the said Thoraas Simpson, be allowed one quarter part of his
wages, frora the time of his being struck off the pension hst, to the
present day, in full. Signed, J. Wentworth, for the commhtee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Capt. Foss.
* 12 : 686 * The committee on the pethion of Thomas Simpson, and
all similar matters, reported, that the prayer of the peth
tion of Jonathan Emerson, be so far granted, as that he be enrolled
for half pay from the present time.
Signed, J. Wentworth, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.

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Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by CajDt, Foss.
The committee on the petition of Thomas Simpson, and all sirailar
matters, reported, that the prayer of the petition of Joseph Roberts,
jun. be granted ; and that he accordingly be enrolled for half-pay to
commence at this day. Signed, J. Wentworth, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Capt. Foss.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
SATURDAY, February 19, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Mr. Jewett, and Col. Payne, with such of
the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to examine
what towns or places were neglected in the last proportion of taxes,
and report thereon. Sent up by Capt. Foss.
An Act to enable the Selectmen of Washington to tax certain
lands in said town for the purposes therein mentioned, was read a
third time, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Capt. Copeland and Mr. Jenness,
An Act to incorporate a place called Ossipee-Gore, in the county
of Strafford, was read a third time, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Capt. Copeland and Mr Jenness,
Upon reading and considering the petitions of Timothy Walker,"
Esq, and others, praying that sundry towns in the county of Rock
ingham, may be disannexed from said county, and annexed to the
county of Hillsborough,
Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Friday of their next session ; and that in the
mean time the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition,
and order of Court thereon, be published three weeks
successively in the New* Hampshire Gazette, that any * 12 : 687
person or persons may then appear and shew cause
(if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by Mr. Hah.
The committee on the letter from Gen. John Sullivan, reported,
that he be allowed one hundred and ten pounds, in addition to what
has been already allowed him for his services at PhUadelphia, as Agent
for this State, in the years 1781 and 1782,^
Signed, J, Gilman, by order of the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col, Hill,
'- xi. Ham. Town Papers, 400, '^' xviii. Ham, Mise, Papers, 748,

208 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1785
Voted, That Major Gains, Col, Bartlett, and Mr, Chase, with such
of the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a committee to consider
of the petition of R, Freeraan, in behalf of the town of Hanover,
and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Freeman.
Voted, That Mr, McMurphy, Major Wentworth, and Capt, Sum
ner, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a com
mittee to consider of the petition of Jeremiah Spencer," and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr. Greeley.
Voted, That Mr. Means, Mr. Jenness, Mr, Knowles, Mr. Beede,
and Mr. Adams, with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join,
be a committee to consider of the petitions of Williara Moulton, and
Nathan Ordway, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr, Greeley,
Voted, That Major Wiggin, Col, Page, and Col. Bartlett, with such
of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to con
sider of the petition of Capt, Jaraes Martin, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Macgregore.
[Voted tha.t M" M'^Murphy, M" Mann, & Maj" Baker with such of
the Honb^ Senate as they shall join be a coramittee to consider of the
Petition of Leonard Whiting Esq" and report thereon.
Sent up by M" Chase.]
Voted, That Mr. Greene, Major Gains, Capt. Foss, Col Runnels,
and Mr, Jackraan, with such of the honorable Senate as may be
joined, be a committee to consider of the petition of Capt. Samuel
Atkinson, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr Macgregore.
Voted, That Mr. McMurphy, Mr. Mann, and Major Baker, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of Elijah Blodget, and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt. Foss.
* 12 : 688 * The committee on the petition of the Selectmen of Plain-
field, reported, that the present, or any future Selectmen,
ought to, and shall tax the present and future inhabitants of Plain-
field, as though the demands were for the time being ; and that the
Treasurer be directed to suspend issuing his extent against said
Plainfield, until the next sitting of the GenerahCourt.
Signed, S. Olcott, for the commhtee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Chase.
Voted, That Mr. Adams, Capt, Calfe, and Capt. Sumner, whh such
of the honorable Senate as they shaU join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Benjamin Davis, and others, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr, Chase,
^- xi. Hara. Town Papers, 375.

1785] journal of the house of REPRESENTATIVES, 2O9
Voted, That the additional pay-roll of travel, to sundry members
of the House of Representatives, for June session, 1784, amounting
to two pounds nine shiUings and four pence, be allowed and paid out
of the Treasury, by order of the President. Sent up by Mr Jenness.
Upon reading and considering the petition of the Selectraen of
Merrimac," Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the first Friday of their next session ; and that in the
mean time, the petitioners cause that the Selectmen of Amherst, be
served with a copy of the petition, and order of Court thereon,
that they may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why
the prayer thereof raay not be granted. Sent up by Mr, Jenness,
Adjourned to Monday next, three o'clock, P. M,
MONDAY, February 21, 1785.

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The House met according to adjournment.
The committee on the petition of Captains Daniel * 12:689
Runnels, Samuel Dearborn, and Ezekiel Gile, in behalf of
theraselves, and their subalterns, respecting wages and depreciation
due to them as officers in the service of their country, in the year
1778, are of opinion, that bythe resolves of the State, and orders
issued to those officers, they are entitled to receive the same pay as
officers of their rank in the Continental army ; Therefore report, that
said Runnels, Dearborn, and Gile, and their subalterns, be settled
with in the manner, and paid the same wages and depreciation as
Continental officers of equal grades who served that season, deduct
ing only the sums already paid them respectively ; and that the cora
mittee on depreciation, &c, take order thereon, and govern themselves
accordingly. Signed, Enoch Hale, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Major Wiggin,
Voted, That Col. Peabody, Gen, Badger, and Col, Toppan, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
nominate three proper persons to devise proper checks for irapressing
new blank notes to redeem the State securities now outstanding ;
also, to superintend the press, and see said blanks struck off ; and
that they also nominate proper persons to countersign the same,
agreeably to a bill presented to this House, and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Wiggin.
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210 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178$
The coraraittee on the pethion of CajDt, Lemuel Holmes, reported,
that he the said Holraes, by reason of his great sufferings whUe in
captivity, and the difficulties he has met with in having his accounts
settled by Congress, have and receive out of the public Treasury
thirty pounds, to be Ioy hira accounted for on settlement.
Signed, Timothy Walker, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Capt. Holmes.
The fohowing vote came down from the honorable Senate for con
currence : State of New Hampshire,
In Senate, February 21, 1785.
* 1 2 : 690 * Voted, That the paper bUls called the new emission * money
issued by this State, not yet redeemed, shall be received
by the Treasurer of this State, towards payraent of all taxes now
due, or that shall be hereafter due, at the rate of three of said new
emission for one sUver dollar on the principal only ; no interest on
said bUls to be calculated.
Sent down for concurrence, E. Thompson, Secretary.
The same day read and concurred. Sent up by Capt. Emerson.
Voted, That Col, Bartlett, Gen. Badger, Mr. Macgregore, Major
Shephard, and Major Baker, with such of the honorable Senate as
may be joined, be a cornmittee to take under consideration what
standard or banners, are raost proper to be used in the several regi
ments in this State ; also what exercise is best to be practised by the
militia of this State ; and also, to consider of some more convenient
method of swearing the Captains and Subalterns than is now pointed
out. Sent up by Major Wiggin.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
TUESDAY, February 22, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That the Rev. Jeremy Belknap, be and hereby is appointed
and requested to prepare and preach an Election-Sermon at Ports
mouth, on Thursday the second day of June next ; and that the Pres
ident be desired to give the necessary information thereof.
Sent up by Mr Wallace.
Voted, That Col, Peabody, Col, Toppan, and Mr. Smith, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a coramittee to take
under consideration the propriety of repealing the whole, or any part

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of an act of the late province, prescribing the form of oaths to be
taken by civU officers, &c. and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Wallace.
Voted, That Col. Bartlett, Capt. Copp, Capt. Putnam, Mr. Chase,
and Mr, Freeman, with such of the honorable Senate as may be
joined, be a committee to consider what allowance shall be made his
Excellency the President for his past services ; also, to consider what
allowance shall be made to the honorable the Judges of
the* Superior-Court, the Attorney-General, the Secre- * 12: 691
tary, the Treasurer, and the Commissary-General, and
report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Wallace.
Yoted, That Mr. Duncan, and Mr. Adams, be added to the com
mittee for draughting public bills. Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jeremiah Eames,
Esq. in behalf of himself and Elijah Blodget, praying that they raay
be allowed seventy-two dollars, which they paid for the redemption
of four persons, inhabitants of the United-States, who had been in
captivity. Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted ; and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Capt, Foss.
Voted, That Mr. Knowles, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Hall, whh such
of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to con
sider what allowance shall be raade the reverend gentleman of the
Clergy, who have been Chaplains to the General-Court, the present
year, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
An Act to vest the exclusive privilege of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Merrimac-River in James Robertson, of Bow, was
read a third time, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr, Jenness and Mr, McMurphy.
An Act to enable the inhabitants of New-London, to tax certain
lands for the purposes therein mentioned, was read a third time, and
passed to be enacted. Sent up by Mr Jenness and Mr. McMurphy.
An Act to impower the guardians to the heirs of Philip Eastman,
late of Walpole, deceased, to sell all the real estate of said heirs, for
the payment of debts, and the support of said heirs, was read a third
time, and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Mr. Jenness and Mr. McMurphy.
An Act to enable Ebenezer Torrey, of GuildhaU, to re-enter an
action brought against him by David Learned, and Abel Learned,
and judgment obtained thereon by default ; and to impower the said
Torrey, to have a hearing upon the merits of the action, was read a
third time, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness and Mr. McMurphy.

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*I2 : 692 * Voted, That the account of Nicholas NichoUe, amounting
to four pounds six shiUings and four pence, be allowed
and paid out of the Treasury, by order of the President,
Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Voted, That the pay for the travel and attendance of the members
of the honorable Senate and House of Representatives, and their
officers for the present session, be the same as at the last session ;
and that the Secretary and Clerk raake up the rolls accordingly, and
certify the same to the President, who is requested to give order for
the payment of said rolls. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Resolved, That the coraraittee on soldiers accounts make up the ac
counts for bounties paid by the several towns in this State, to sol
diers who engaged to serve in the Continental army in the years
^777 < ^77^^ and 1779, for a less term of tirae than three years, and
who actuaUy perforraed the service for which they engaged ; and
also, that they make up the accounts for supplies to soldiers families,
from the first day of January, 1780, to the 21st of June, 1783, at
which time the supplies were ordered to be stopped ; and that no ac
counts be allowed, but such as are well vouched or attested to by the
Selectmen, and have been lodged with the Committee of Claims,
agreeable to votes of the General-Court ; and that the President be
authorized to draw orders on the Treasurer in favor of such towns as
shall produce a certificate from the committee on soldiers accounts,
of the sums due for bounties and supplies advanced by any town, in
consequence of, or agreeable to any act, vote, or resolve of the Gen
eral-Court, and that the same has been deducted from the soldiers
wages. Sent up by Capt. Calfe.
Yoted, That Mr. Benjarain Biggelow, have and receive out of the
Treasury, thirty pounds, lawful raoney by order of the President ; he
the said Biggelow, to be accountable therefor, as Agent-Victualler.
Sent up by Capt, Calfe,
* 12:693 * The committee on the petition of James Martin, re
ported, that the prayer thereof be granted.
Signed, Francis Blood, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the President
give order on the Treasurer for the payment of Robert Jones, and
John George, soldiers in Capt. Ebenezer Webster's company, at
Coos, in the year 1782, Sent up by Mr, Smith,
Adjourned to three o'clock, P, M,
Met accordingly.
The coramittee on the petitions of General John Stark and George
Jaffrey, Esq, reported, that the second Thursday of their next ses-

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sion be assigned for a public hearing on said petitions ; and that in
the mean tirae the Secretary be directed to publish the substance of
said petitions, and order of Court thereon, six weeks successively in
the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then
appear and shew cause why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Signed, Timothy Walker, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Sraith.
An Act for raising the sum of twenty-two thousand pounds, for
the use of this State, for the present year, was read a third time, and
passed to be enacted. Sent up by Mr, Smith, and Col, Runnels,
An Act to repeal part of an act passed in the fourth year of the
reign of the late King George the first, intitled " An Act for the es
tablishing forms of oaths," was read a third time, and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Mr. Sraith, and Col. Runnels.
Voted, That Major Whitcorab, Capt, Underhih, and Capt, Foss,
with such of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a comrait
tee to consider of the account of Dr, Henry Codraan, and report
thereon. Sent up by Col. Runnels.
Voted, That Col. Peabody Gen. Badger, Mr. Greeley, Capt.
Holmes, and Major Baker, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider of the meraorial of Mr. Jede
diah Jewett, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt, Young,
* Voted, That Gen. Badger, Col. Toppan, Col Bartlett, * 12 : 694
Major Pickering, and Mr, Smith, with such of the honor
able Senate as they shaU join, be a committee to consider of the peti
tion of Israel Morey, Esq, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt, Young,
Voted, That Mr. Greene, Mr Macgregore, Col, Peabody, Mr M,
Wallace, and Col. Runnels, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Henry Ger
rish," Esq. and others, and report thereon. Sent up by Col, Runnels,
The committee to consider of the petition of Leonard Whiting,
Esq. reported, that the said Whiting, have a hearing before the
General Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and
that in the mean time, he serve Richard-Cutts Shannon, Esq, with a
copy of the petition, and order of Court thereon ; and also publish
the substance of the same, three weeks successively in the New-
Hampshire Gazette, Signed, Simeon Olcott, for the committee,
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214 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [l785
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Capt. UnderhiU.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Lerauel Tucker,"
praying for the privUege of a ferry over Merrimac-River, — Voted,
That the prayer thereof be granted ; and that he have leave to bring
in a bih accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Greene.
Voted, That Capt, Ahen, Col, Payne, Mr, Scribner, Major Wiggin,
and Mr, Hall, with such of the honorable Senate as may be joined,
be a committee to consider of the petition of the Selectmen of
Swanzey, and report thereon. Sent up by Major Whitcomb.
Voted, That Col. Hill, Mr. McMurphy, and Capt. Allen, with such
of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of James Houston,^ and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt. Young.
Voted, That Mr. Knowles, Mr. SmUey, and Capt, Eraerson, with
such of the honorable Senate as they shaU join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of Ephraim Adams, in behalf of John
Thomas, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt, Young
* 12:695 * Upon reading and considering the petition of Col,
Joseph Senter, in behalf of Joseph Jones of Rumney,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted. Sent up by Capt, Young.
The committee on the petition of Henry Gerrish,^ Esq. and others,
reported that the prayer thereof be so far complied with, as that a
lottery be granted to raise sixteen hundred dollars clear of expenee ;
and that the petitioners have leave to bring in a bill for that purpose.
Signed, Timothy Walker, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col, Peabody,
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, February 23, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That the Hon. John Sullivan, Esq. Attorney-General for
this State, have and receive out of the Treasury, by order of the Presi
dent, seventy-five pounds, as a salary for the current year.
Sent up by Col, Peabody,
Voted, That the Hon. Ebenezer Thompson, Esq. Secretary for this
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State, have and receive out of the Treasury, forty pounds, as a salary
for the current year ; and that the President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Col, Peabody.
Voted, That the Hon, John-Taylor Gilman, Esq, Treasurer for
this State, have and receive the sum of two hundred and forty
pounds, in full for his services, the use of his office, pay of his Clerk,
&c, for the present year ; and that the President give order accord
ingly. Sent up by Col, Peabody.
Whereas in and by an act passed the 13th of April, 1784, it is
enacted that the annual meeting in the town of Surry, shall be held
on the first Monday in March annually ; but as the inhabitants have
not had notice thereof, and the said first Monday so nigh, that legal
notice cannot be given of the business necessary to be transacted at
said meeting :
Therefore Resolved, That the meeting for the present year, be
held on the fourth Tuesday of March next ; and that the present
Selectmen give notice of the time, place and design of said meeting ;
and the officers chosen at said meeting, are to give notice that the
annual meeting in said town is to be held on the first Monday in
March annually, in future. Sent up by Capt, Holraes.
* The committee on the accounts of Major Jonathan * 12 :696
Child, after exaraining the whole of the sarae, reported,
that there is a ballance of seventy-five pounds ten shillings and nine
pence, due to said Child as per account current ; and that the Presi
dent give order for the payment of the same.
Signed, John Langdon, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Child.
The committee to draught such instructions as they may judge
necessary to give the Hon. John Langdon, and Christopher Toppan,
Esq'rs, Commissioners from this State to the honorable the General-
Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, beg leave to report as
their opinion, that the following resolve pass the Court, and be
dehvered to said Langdon and Toppan, as their instructions.
Whereas the commercial interests of the subjects of the Common
wealth of Massachusetts, and those of this State, are so reciprocal
and interwoven with each other, that it is necessary some laws and
regulations should be adopted that may be of mutual benefit and
advantage in regulating trade as well by sea as by land ; and that
such impost acts as have been passed in either or both of said States,
to the prejudice of trade or the revenue of either State, or the sub
jects thereof be revised and put on a fair and equitable basis for
both :

2l6 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [l78S
Therefore Resolved, That the said Langdon and Toppan, be and
they are hereby appointed Commissioners for this State, to repair to
the honorable the General-Court of the Commonweahh of Massachu
setts, and there propose and consult on such laws and regulations as
shall be judged necessary and convenient for the reciprocal and
mutual advantage of each State ; and that the said Mess, Langdon
and Toppan, will endeavor to obtain a repeal of aU such laws and
regulations of trade as may be injurious or inequitable to either State,
or the subjects thereof or in any ways embarass a free and open
trade between each other. Sent up by Capt. Young.
* 12: 697 * Voted, That Mr. Pickering, Mr. M. Wallace, and Mr
Macgregore, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider of the account of Capt. John
Young, and all similar matters, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt. Young.
Yoted, That Col. Toppan, Gen. Badger, Capt. Putnam, Major
Shephard, and Mr. Ayer, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to nominate to this House six persons, out
of whom, for three to be appointed a comraittee to settle the accounts
between this State and the Treasurer, the Board of War and Col.
Joshua Wentworth, collector of the Rum Tax, in the recess of the
General-Court. Sent up by Major Gains.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M,
Met accordingly.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Samuel Fugard,"
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted ; and that he be enroUed
agreeably to a resolve of Congress, of the 23d of April 1782, and
paid accordingly. Sent up by Capt, Young.
Yoted, That Col. Bartlett, Capt. Copp, Mr. Macgregore, Mr.
Chase, and Capt. Young, with such of the honorable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider of the petition from the Trus
tees of Dartmouth-College, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt, Young,
The comraittee to consider what Standard or Banners are most
proper to be used in the several Regiments of this State ; also, what
exercise is best to be practised by the railitia of this State ; and also,
to consider of sorae convenient raethod of swearing the Captains and
Subalterns, &c, reported, that the exercise to be used in the several
Regiments of Militia in this State, be that which is coraraonly caUed
Baron Stuben's, and lately published and used in the Continental
array ; and that an act or resolve be passed irapowering any Magis
trate within the hmits of his coraraission, to administer the constitu-
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tional oaths to the Captains and Subalterns of the Militia; and that
the consideration of what Standard or Banners shall be made use of,
be postponed until the Major-General can be consulted upon the
subject. Signed, Ebenezer Smith, for the coramittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Col, Bartlett.
* Voted, That Col HiU, Mr. Smhh, Mr. Emerson, * 12:698
Capt. Sumner, and Col. Senter, with such of the honorable
Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to consider of a letter from
John-Taylor Gilman, Esq, Treasurer, and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt. Spaulding.'
Voted, That fifteen hundred copies of Baron Stuben's exercise,
(lately practised in the Continental array) be printed and dispersed
to the commission officers of the militia in this State, and that the
Secretary be requested to see the same performed, as soon as con
veniently may be. Sent up by Col. Leavitt.
An Act, for paying the interest and part of the principal of the
public securities of this State, and for issuing new notes. Also for
paying a further interest on Continental Securities, was read a third
time, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Major Wiggin and Major Wentworth.
An Act, to vest the exclusive privilege of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Merrimac-river, in Lemuel Tucker,^ of Concord, his
heirs and assigns, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Major Wiggin and Major Wentworth.
Voted, That Joseph Gilman, Nathaniel Peabody, and John
Parker, Esq'rs, be and they hereby are appointed a comraittee to
devise proper checks for impressing new blank notes to redeem the
State securities now outstanding ; also, to superintend the press and
see said blanks struck off. Sent up by Major Wiggin.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-raorrow raorning.
THURSDAY, February 24, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
The coramittee on the petition of the Selectmen of Dunbarton,*
reported, that the Sheriff of the county of HiUsborough, be and he
hereby is impowered to apprehend the body of John Stinson, now
resident at said Dunbarton, who was an absentee from this State,
and joined hiraself in arms with our enemies, who returned to said
Dunbarton, more than one year last past ; that the said sheriff do
1- See House Journal June ^^,fost. ^-xi. Ham, Town Papers, 401.
15 3. xi. Ham, Town Papers, 564,

2l8 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [l78S
* 12 : 699 as soon as may be * convey the body of the aforesaid
John Stinson, to the gaol in Portsmouth, in the county of
Rockingham, in order that he afterwards, as soon as may, be trans
ported to some port in his Britannic Majesty's dominions, by some
person at said Portsmouth, at the expenee of this State, that said
Stinson may not return to this State again.
Signed, M. Thornton, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that George Gains,
Esq. be appointed to get a passage for the said Stinson.
Sent up by Mr. Storer
Upon reading and considering the petition of Richard-Cutts Shan
non, Esq, and others, a committee of the proprietors of Cocker
mouth, Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the Generah
Court, on the second Friday of their next session ; and that in the
mean time, the petitioners cause that the proprietors of Plymouth, be
served with a copy of the petition, and order of Court thereon ; also,
cause that the substance of said petition and order, be published
three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any
person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have)
why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Mr, Dow.
Voted, That Col. Payne, Col. Bartlett, and Mr. Duncan, with such
of the honorable Senate as may be joined, be a committee to consider
of the petition of David Corser, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr Greene.
The committee to consider what allowance shall be made the
reverend gentlemen of the Clergy, who have been Chaplains for the
General-Court the present year, reported, that the Rev. Dr. Haven,
the Rev, Mr. Buckminster, and Mr. Shuttlesworth, be allowed five
dollars each, for their services as Chaplains.
Signed, Timothy Walker, for the comraittee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Greene.
Yoted, That Col Bartlett, Col. Toppan, and Mr Ayer, with such
of the honorable Senate as raay be joined, be a comraittee to consider
of the account of the Hon. Tiraothy Walker, Esq. and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr, Greene,
The committee on the petition of Benjamin Davis, and others,
reported, that the Judge of Probate of Wills for the
* 12 : 700 county of Hillsborough, * be directed to give six months
more to the coraraissioners on the estate of Zaccheus

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Cutler, for hearing and examining any further claim that raay be
exhibited, giving notice of such further aUowance.
Signed, M, Thornton, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col Child.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of the trustees of Dart
mouth-College, Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Friday of their next session ; and that in the
mean time, the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition, and
order of Court thereon, be published three weeks successively in the
New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then
appear, and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted. Sent up by Mr Ayer.
An Act for raising by a lottery, the sum of sixteen hundred dollars,
to be laid out on the falls of Merrimac-River, for the more easy
conveyance of timber down the same, was read a third time, and
passed to be enacted. Sent up by Mr. Ayer, and Mr. Adams.
The committee on the Treasurer's letter, having conversed with
him on the subject of his salary &c. reported, that whereas he has
been at extraordinary expenee in keeping a Clerk for the purpose of
consolidating notes, issuing certificates for interest and principal of
the same, &c. that he be allowed annually, one hundred and fifty
pounds, for his salary, ninety pounds for responsibility of office, and
extra expenee for hiraself and Clerk attending the General-Court, and
ninety pounds, as a salary for his Clerk, annually, from the 12th day
of June 1783 to the 12th day of June 1785, which shall be considered
in full for the above, he accounting for all sums that have been
granted him within said term. Signed, John Langdon, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Smith.
Voted, That Col Toppan, Mr, Chase, and Col, Leavitt, with such
of the honorable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to con
sider of the petition of David Carr," and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Pickering.
* Voted, That the account of Nicholas Nichohe, amount- * 12 : 701
ing to four pounds three shillings and eight pence, for time,
horse-hire, and expenee, in transporting the Secretary's files to Con
cord, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, by order of the Presi
dent. Sent up by Mr. Mann.
^- Ham, Town Papers, 217,

220 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [^785
Voted, That the Hon, Josiah Bartlett, John Parker, and John
Calfe, Esq'rs, be a committee in the recess of the General-Court to
settle the accounts between this State and the Treasurer of said
State, the Board of War, Col, Joshua Wentworth, Collector of the
rum tax, and with Ephraim Robinson, and report at the next session
of the GenerahCourt. Sent up by Mr, Mann.
Yoted, That Mr. Mann, Mr. Jewett, and Mr. Smhh, whh such of
the honorable Senate as they shah join, be a committee to consider
of the petition of Asa Herrick, and report thereon.
Sent up by Capt. Spaulding.
Voted, That the copperplate notes issued by this State, in the year
1775, and now outstanding be received, by the Treasurer in payraent
of all State taxes, equal to silver or gold ; and that there be no inter
est aUowed on said notes. Sent up by Capt. Spaulding.
Resolved, That the President give order to the Treasurer to allow
aU receipts given by Col. Jonathan Child, to the Collectors of the
county of Grafton, in consequence of orders the said Child received
from the Committee of Safety, dated September 1780, which the said
Child, hath accounted for agreeably to his orders, as by his account
now filed in the Secretary's office may appear. Sent up by Major ChUd.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
The comraittee on the account of Timothy Walker, Esq. reported,
that the said Tiraothy Walker, be allowed twenty pounds, in full of
his account. Signed, J, Wentworth, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
The committee to consider what ahowances shaU be made to the
honorable the Judges of the Superior-Court, reported, that the hon
orable the Chief Justice have the sum of one hundred and eighty
pounds for the term of one year from the date of his
* 12 : 702 *comraission ; and that the honorable the Puisne Judges,
have the sura of one hundred and sixty-five pounds, each,
for said terra ; and that the Clerk of said Court, collect and pay the
fees accruing to said Judges, in the course of their business as they
arise ; and that he return an exact account of the same, into the
Secretary's office, every quarter ; and that the araount of such fees
be considered as part of said suras, and deducted therefrom ; and
that the President give orders to the several Judges, upon the
Treasurer, for their respective baUances, quarterly.
Signed, John McClary, for the commhtee.

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Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
Voted, That the account of John Calfe, Esq, amounting to six
pounds, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, by order of the
President. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
Upon reading and considering the petition of General Roger Enos,
praying for the privilege of a ferry a-cross Connecticut-River, —
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Wednesday of their next session ; and that in
the mean time, the petitioner cause that the Selectmen of Plainfield,
be served with a copy of the petition, and order of Court thereon,
that they may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the
prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Mr. Eastraan.
Voted, That the account of Samuel Livermore, Esq. amounting to
twelve pounds, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, by order of
the President. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
The comraittee on the memorial of Mr. Jedediah Jewett, having
considered the matters to them referred, and examined the papers
relative thereto, and nothing appearing but that the said Jewett, in
behalf of the State, had to the best of his abUities, hon
estly and faithfully transacted the business * committed * 12 : 703
to his trust, as mentioned in his memorial, reported, that
the said State receive of said Jewett, the note of hand herewith
exhibited against David HiUhouse, amounting to two thousand two
hundred and ninety-seven pounds twelve shihings and seven pence,
with the deeds and other papers accompanying the same ; and that
the said Jewett, have credit therefor, in settling his public account.
The committee further reported, that sorae proper person or persons
be appointed to collect the pay for said note.
Signed, Timothy Walker, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that Mr. Jedediah
Jewett, be appointed to call on the said Hillhouse, as soon as may
be, and use every prudent method for the recovery of the debt due to
this State, from the said Hillhouse. Sent up by Major Wentworth.
Voted, That the account of Caleb Buswell, amounting to three
pounds three shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, by
order of the President. Sent up by Major Wentworth.
Voted, That either of the honorable Council, with either of the
Commissioners appointed to adrainister the necessary oaths to the
several officers in this State, be and hereby are authorized to admin
ister said oaths to the several officers respectively. Sent up by Major Pickering.

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The committee on the petition of David Corser, reported, that a
day of hearing be appointed. Signed, M. Dow, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted ; and that the petitioner
be heard thereon before the General-Court, on the second Wednes
day of their next session ; and that in the mean time, the petitioner
cause that Samuel Corser, of Boscawen, be served with a copy of the
petition, and order of court thereon, that he may then appear and
shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted ; and that the execution against the said David, be not served
until the decision of the General-Court. Sent up by Mr. Greene,
Voted, That the account of Nicholas NichoUe, amounting to three
pounds three shillings, be allowed and paid out of the public Treas
ury, by order of the President, Sent up by Mr. Greene.
* 12 : 704 * The following vote came down from the honorable
Senate for concurrence.
State of New Hampshire.
In Senate, February 24, 1785,
Resolved, That the sums due on the several rolls to the members
of the House of Representatives, respectively, for attendance in
General-Court since the first Wednesday in June last, be charged to
the several towns and districts they represent in the tax bUl ordered
the present session ; and that orders drawn by the persons therein
named, be received in discharge of the taxes of the several towns and
districts they represent. Sent down for concurrence. E, Thompson, Secretary.
In THE House of Representatives,
The sarae day read and concurred. Sent up by Major Whitcorab.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Ebenezer Torrey, —
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General-
Court, on the second Tuesday of their next session ; and that in the
meantirae the petitioners cause that David Learned, and Abel
Learned, mentioned in said petition, be served each with a copy of
the pethion, and order of Court thereon, that they, or ehher of them,
may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer
thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Major Whhcomb.
Adjourned to eight o'clock to-morrow morning.

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FRIDAY, February 25, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That the account of Joseph Pearson, Esq, amounting to
three pounds eleven shillings, be aUowed and paid out of the Treas
ury, by order of the President. Sent up by Major Whitcomb.
The following vote came down from the honorable Senate for con
currence : State of New Hampshire.
In Senate, February 25, 1785.
Voted, That the Hon. Timothy Farrar, Esq, be added to the Com
missioners for the county of HUlsborough, to administer the oaths as
by law appointed, to the civil and military officers within said
county ; and he is hereby impowered, together with
*one of the Council, or one of the Commissioners, to * 12 : 705
administer the said oaths agreeably to the Constitution
and the Laws of said State ; and that Ebenezer Thompson, Esq, be
added to the Commissioners in the county of Strafford ; and Joseph
Gilman, Esq, be added to the Commissioners in the county of Rock
ingham ; and James Woodward, Esq, be added to the comraissioners
in the county of Grafton ; for the purposes, and in the raanner above-
mentioned. Sent down for concurrence, E. Thompson, Secretary.
The same day read and concurred. Sent up by Mr. Ayer.
Voted, That his Excellency the President, with advice of Council
give directions, and pass such orders as they judge necessary, for
facUitating the settlement of the accounts between this State and the
United-States. Voted, That the General-Court be now adjourned, to meet again at
the State-House in Portsmouth, on the twenty-fourth day of May
next, agreeably to a report of the comraittee on necessary business.
Sent up by Mr. Wiggin.
The Secretary carae down, and gave information that he was
directed by his Excellency the Vice-President, to inforra the House
that agreeably to a vote of the GenerahCourt, he hath adjourned the
Court to the twenty-fourth day of May next, then to raeet at the
State-House in Portsmouth ; and this Court is accordingly adjourned.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

A REGISTER OF RESOLUTIONS AND ADVICE
OF COUNCIL
BEGUN AT THE FIRST SESSION IN JUNE, 1784,

AN EXTRACT FROM THE CONSTITUTION,

CONTAINING A

BILL OF RIGHTS, AND FORM OF GOVERNMENT,
ETC., ETC,

" The Resolutions and Advice of the Council shall be recorded in a
*' Register^ aitd signed by the Members present^ and this record may be
" called for at any tiine, by either house of the Legislature^ and any
^^ Member of the Cou7tcil may enter his opinion contrary to the resolu-
" tion of the majority ^
Note. — In an article in the "Granite Monthly,'' New Hampshire Magazine, Vol. lo, p. 194, "New
Hampshire in 1784," many interesting facts are given concerning the inauguration and personnel of the
state governinent of the first year under the new constitution. Many of the men connected with the admin
istration of state affairs atthis time had been prominent in the Province and Provisional Revolutionary Gov
ernments. As to such, many biograjDhical notes will be found by reference to the preceding volumes of this
series and to Chandler E. Potter's Military History of New Hampshire, in the report of the Adjutant-General
of New Hampshire, 1866, vol. 2, and the report of the same officer for 1868. — Editor.

I p. & C. : 3
*STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

June, 1784. A Register of the Resolutions and Advice of
THE Council, who were chosen agreeably to the New Con
stitution OF said State to assist His Excellency the Pres
ident IN THE executive PART OF GOVERNMENT, AT THE FIRST
Session in June, 1784, Concord, June the 8* 1784.
June 8. His Excellency Meshech Weare, Esq'',' the President,
being absent by reason of sickness, the Honorable Woodbury Lang
don, Esq"" " was appointed by the Senate to preside as Senior Senator
in the absence of his Excellency, and who, by & with advice of
Council, issued the following Orders, drawn on the Treasurer of said
State, agreeable to sundry Votes and Acts of the General Court, viz ,
in favor of :
Lieut. Daniel M'^Murphy, one for Twenty pounds, and
one for a Note on Interest payable, &c., for Twenty
Pounds in fuh, for half pay to 16 May 1784 as an Inva
lid Pensioner. '^ Vote of Court, 10 June . , . 40,, o„ o
Thomas Bartlett, Esq"', for five pounds nine, acting as
a special Justice, 'p Vote of 11 June . . . • S,. 9„ o
John Calfe, Esq"', for four pounds, five shilhngs & six
pence, recording Journal of the House. "^ Vote of 1 2 June 4„ 5„ 6
Caleb Buswell, forty shillings, as Door-keeper, ^
Vote of the 12 June . . . . . . . 2,, o,, o
Benj^' Bigelow, Thirty pounds to be accountable as
Agent Victuaher. ^ Vote 15 June, 1784 . . . 30,, o„ o
* I P, &C. :4 * June 15, 1784.
At a Counch holden at Exeter the 15 June, 1784,
Present
His Excehency Meshech Weare, Esquire President,
The Hon"^ John Mdary,^
Francis Blood,
Nath^ Peabody, &
Moses Chase, Esq''= Members of Council,
1 Biography, N, H. Hist, Soc, Collections, Vol, 5, p, 243-
2- Biography, Adams's Annals of Portsmouth, 330,
3- This name, now generally spelled McClary. is, with only an occasional exception, McCleary in the auto
graph on the mss, records of the President and Council,

230 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1/84
His Excellency requested the advice of Council relative to drawing
Orders on the Treasurer ;
Upon which the Counch unanimously advised His Excellency to
issue his Orders on the Treasurer, agreeable to all Acts, Votes, and
Resolves that have been passed by the Legislature of said State
authorizing the same. Signed, John M'^Cleary.
Francis Blood.
Nath' Peabody.
Moses Chase
June 15. The following orders were drawn on the Treasurer, viz. :
in favor of the town of Londonderry (to be paid by discount out of
the State Taxes) for Six pounds eight shillings travel
money pd Soldiers as '^ Acco' . . . . . 6„ 8„ o
D° James Knowles, for thirty two shillings, counting
votes for Counsellors , , . . . . . i„ I2„ o
D° in favor of the town of Windham (to be paid by
discount out of the State Taxes), for fifty shillings, travel
money as '^ Acco' ....... 2,, io„ o
D° in favor of Robert Cunningham, for Seventeen
pounds one shilling, 6 mo, service in 1780 17,, i„ o
* I P, & C, : 5 * 1784, June, His Excellency informed the Council
that he should need their advice on the last Tuesday
in June current, and accordingly desired their attendance at Exeter
on said Day, at 3 o'clock P. M.
The following orders were drawn on the Treasurer, viz,, in favor of :
Samuel Knox, for Twenty four pounds ten shilhngs,
for Depreciation to 1780  24,, io„ o
D° Jeremiah Fairfield, for seventeen pounds thirteen
shillings & seven pence, a six months' man in 1780 , 17,, 13,, 7
D° Robert Forrest, for fourteen pounds eight shih
lings, Dep'° in 1778 & 1779  14,, 8„ o
And for Twenty three pounds sixteen shilhngs & ten
pence, Dep'" in 1780  23,, i6„ 10
And for Three pounds fourteen shhlings and eight
pence, Dep'" in 1 78 1  3„ 14,, 8
[June] 16, D° in favor of Moses Davis, for twenty
three pounds fifteen shillings and sixpence, Deprecia
tion in 1780  . 23,, IS,, 6
D° in favor of L' John Moore, for one hundred &
one pounds twelve shillings & nine pence, Dep'" in
1777 & 1778  ioi„ I2„ 9
[June] 18. D° in favor of Aaron Smhh, for Twenty
one pounds in fuh, for half pay to June I, 1784 . . 21,, o„ o

1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 23 1
[June] 19. D° in favor of Daniel Ritter, for Seven
teen pounds seventeen shills% Dep'" in 1777, '78 & '79 17,, 17,, o
[June] 21. D° in favor of Tho^ Blake, Lieut., for
One hundred & Twenty three pounds eighteen shilhngs
& six-pence Dep'" in 178 1  123,, 18,, 6
[June] 24. D° in favor of Nich' Leathers, for Three
pounds fourteen shin'gs&8^ Dep'" in 1 78 1 3,, 14,, 8
*iP.&C. :6 ^1784, June 25, Minius Griffin, for Six
teen pounds nine shillings and four
pence, Dep'" in 1777 & 78  i6„ 9,, 4
D° in favor of Benjamin Jenness, for eight pounds
one shills & 4'^, 6 mo. Service, 1781 . , . . 8„ i„ 4
At a Council holden at Exeter on the 29 of June, 1784,
Present
His Excellency Meshech Weare, Esq"", President
The Hon. John McClary,
Joseph Badger,
Nath' Peabody, &
Francis Blood, Esq'^ Members of Counch,
His Excellency the President laid before the Council an Ordinance
of the Congress of the United States dated May 29, 1784, recom
mending it to the Supreme Executive Authority of each State to issue
their Proclamations for apprehending a person calling himself Cheva
lier de Longchamps, who had committed a violent Assault and Bat
tery on the person of M^ Marbois, Consul General to his most Chris
tian Majesty, and at the same time laid before them a Letter from
the President of s"* Congress of the 31 of May last informing him that
said Longchamps was apprehended & confined in the City of Phila
delphia. On which his Excellency the President desired the advice of his
Counch, Whether it was necessary for him to issue a Proclamation
agreeable to the Ordinance of Congress .-'
On which the Council unanimously advised his Ex
cellency, as said * Longchamps, was apprehended, they * i P. & C. : 7
thought that to issue a proclamation was unnecessary. Signed John M'^Cleary.
Joseph Badger.
Nath' Peabody.
Francis Blood.
His Excellency issued an order on the Treasurer in
favor of Nath' Church for Sixty five pounds in full of
half pay as an Invalid to i June, 1784. . . . 65,, o„ o

232 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^4
June 30""- Present as Yesterday.
Pursuant to a Vote of the General Court, His Excel
lency the President issued a warrant, drawn on the
Treasurer to pay the Roll of Attendance & travel of
the Senate at the late Session of the General Court,
amounting to Seventy pounds seven shillings . . 70,, 7,, o
Pursuant to a Vote of the General Court of 1 1"' of
June, 1784, His Excellency issued an Order on the
Treasurer for the payraent of the Roll for the travel of
the house of Representatives the last Session, with the
wages of the Clerk & assistant Clerk of said House,
amounting to One Hundred and Sixty three pounds two
shillings & four pence .... 163,, 2,, 4
*i P. & C, : 8 * June 30. In pursuance of the before-
mentioned Vote, His Excellency drew a
warrant on the Treasurer directing him to pay the Roll
of the House of Representatives for the last Session,
amounting to three hundred and Twenty six pounds two
shillings, by accepting Orders for discharge of Taxes
due from the respective Towns & Districts they repre
sent, and directing said Treasurer to charge the same
to the respective Town & Districts in the next tax Bill 326,, 2,, o
Ordered the Treasurer to issue a Note on Interest in
favor of John M, Coy, for seventeen pounds eleven
shillings in full for half pay as an Invalid to i Nov"',,
1779, at which time his half pay ceased • ¦ , 17,, ii„ o
The following Orders were issued & drawn on the
Treasurer of s"* State, viz., in favor of Ezekiel Procter,
for Twelve pounds one shihing and four pence, Depre-
ciat"in 1781  12,, i„ 4
D° The Town of Madbury for Twenty pounds two
shilhngs & 4d, Bounty p'' Geo. Ham in 1777 . . 20,, 2,, 4
D° in favor of Tho" Beal, for Twenty pounds nine
shillings & nine pence, Depreciat" in 1780 , , . 20,, 9,, 9
D° In favor of Simon Winslow, for seventeen pounds
six shills' & nine pence, 6 "° Service in 1780 . .17,, 6„ 9
Adjourned 'till tomorrow, 9 o'clock.
* I P- & C, : 9 * THURSDAY, July i, 1784,
Present as Yesterday.
Upon application made bythe Treasurer; his Excellency desired
the advice of Council, what directions were necessary to give the

1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL, 233;
Treasurer for his Rule to carry into execution the Act of the General
Court of the 1 1 June last for paying the Interest and sinking part of
the Principal of this State's Debt; on which the Council advised that
as the said Act enabled and directed the Treasurer to issue Certifi
cates for Interest and also for fifteen ^ Cent of the Principal of the
Securities of this State, owned by the Inhabitants thereof, that it-
was necessary where the Treasurer was not satisfactorily convinced
that the Securities offered were owned by the Inhabitants of this.
State, that he refuse issuing Certificates unless the person or persons.
requesting the same make Oath that such Security or securities so
offered were, bona fide, the property of some Inhabitant or Inhabit
ants of this State. Signed John M'^Cleary..
Joseph Badger.
Nath' Peabody.
Francis Blood.
M"" Jedidiah Jewett apphed to his Excellency for direction, how he
should proceed in endeavoring to obtain the pay for a
number of this State's * Cattie which he sold one Hill- * i, P, & C, : lo
house of Connecticutt, on which his Excellency &
Council were of opinion, that they were not authorized to give any
directions in the matter.
His Excellency the President directed the Council to attend him
again on the last Tuesday of July current at Exeter at 3 o'clock, P. M.
July 2, The following orders were issued, viz,, in favor of Morril
Shephard for sixteen pounds, three shillings & two
pence, Depreciat" in 1781 . . . . . . i6„ 3,, 2
[July] 5.
D° Will™ Pettingill, for seven pounds three shhlings,
Depreciat" in 1780 . . . . . . • 7„ 3„ o.
[July] 6.
D° in favor of Edward Evans, for Eighteen pounds
in fuh of half pay to 5 July, 1784 . . . . i8„ o„ o
[July] 10.
D° Nich^ Kenniston, Seventeen pounds two shihings
& sixpence, 6 ™° service 1780  17,, 2,, 6
[July] 20,
D° Joseph How, for twenty pounds eighteen shillings
& five pence, Dep'" 1781 .
D° David Kennison, for seventeen pounds two shil
lings & sixpence, 6 ™° Service 1 780 ....
D° Daniel Brown, for five pounds half pay to i July,
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* I P. & C, : 1 1 *At a Counch holden at Exeter on Tuesday, the 27""
of July, 1784, Present
His Excellency Meshech Weare, Esq"^ President.
The Honor'''= John M. Cleary,
Joseph Badger,
Nath' Peabody,
Francis Blood, Esq''" Counsellors.
Several matters under consideration.
Adjourned till tomorrow morning, 9 o'clock, A. M.
Wednesday, July 28, 1784. Present as Yesterday. His Excellency
the President informed the Council that the time the Soldiers enlisted
for, to guard Piscataqua Harbour was expired, and desired their advice
relative to what ought to be done in that respect. On which the
Council advised his Excellency to issue Orders to Lieut. Meshech
Bell to enlist Six men to serve under his Command until the first day
of January next on the same Terms as those who served last year, to
do duty at said Harbour and at the light-House. And that said Bell
be authorized & directed to superintend the Light House and see
that a Light be kept agreeably to the Law in that behalf provided.
Signed John M'=Cleary.
Francis Blood.
Joseph Badger.
Nath' Peabody.
* I P. & C. : 12 * STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Exeter, July 28th, 1784.
To Lieut. Meshech Beh : You are hereby authorized & directed to
enlist Six able bodied, effective men to serve under your Command at
the old Fort called William and Mary, at New Castle, until the first
day of January next, who are to have the same wages & rations as
those who served the last year under your Command. You are to use
your utmost Endeavor to see that the laws respecting Trade & Nav
igation are complied with, and to obey such orders as you may receive
from me or the Commander in Chief for the time being or the Naval
Officer of the State agreeably to law. And in particular you are to
see that sufficient lights are kept in the light House according to law.
By Advice of Counch, M. Weare, President.

I784J record of president AND COUNCIL, 235
The following Orders were drawn on the Treasurer, viz,, in favor
of: Eliph' Griffin, father of Jon" Griffin, deceased, for
thirteen pounds sixteen shillings, for Dep'" due to Jon*
in 1781  13,, i6„ o
D° in favor of Hon. W'' Langdon, Esq,, for forty
shillings, time & expenses to notify the President of
his Election . . . . . . . . . 2,, o„ o
D° the Hon. W^ Langdon, Esq., for three pounds,
service to qualify the Members of Senate & House.
¦^ Vote II June, 1784  3,, o„ o
[July] 28, Judge Livermore, Eighteen pounds fifteen
shillings, as Chief Jusf^^ from 25 March to 25 June,
1784. f Vote of Court, 27 Dec, 1783 i8„ 15,, o
* I P. & C. : 13 * July 29, Nath' Burbank, for thirteen
pounds two shills" and eight pence,
Depreci'" in 1781  13,, 2,, o
D" in favor of the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq"', for Six
pounds, for services in attending to qualify the Mem
bers of Senate & House. 1^ Vote of ii"* June, 1784 . 6„ o„ o
D° in favor of Abner Gage, an Invalid, for fifty nine
pounds, half pay to i May, 1784  59,, o„ o
THURSDAY, JuLy 29'^ 1784.
Present as Yesterday.
Pursuant to a. Vote of Gen' Court of the 25 of
June, 1782, His Excellency the President drew an Order
on the Treasurer to pay the Financier of the United
States or his order the Sum of Ten Thousand Dollars 3000,, o„ o
His Excellency the President informed the Council that he should
need their advice & assistance again on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember next, and desired their attendance at Exeter on said day ac
cordingly. Aug. II, The following Orders were drawn on the Treasurer,
viz., in favor of :
Jacob Scaggell, for Twelve pounds eight shill^" &
eight pence, Dep'" in 1781  12,, 8„ 8
[Aug.] 13.
Sam' Potter, an Invalid, for Seven pounds sixteen
shillings, half pay to Aug. 10, 1784 . 7,, i6„ o
* I P. & C. : 14 *Aug. 16, D° in favor of Nicholas
Kennistone, 6"° man in 1780, for
Seventeen pounds two shihings and six pence . ¦ 17,, 2,, 6

236 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
[Aug.] 21, D° in favor of John Clough, for five
pounds two shillings & eleven pence, Dep'" in 1780 . 5„ 2„ ii
[Aug.] 23, D° in favor of James Knokes, a Six months
man in 1 78 1, for Eight pounds  8„ o„ o
D° in favor of L' Andrew M. Gaffey, for thirty two
pounds, one third of monthly pay to i day of Nov""
1783  32,, 0„ o
D° in favor of Eli Ghnes, for Six pounds thirteen
shillings & eight pence, 3™° man in Capt. Webster's
Co., in 1782 . . , . . . . 6„ 13,, 8
D° in favor of John Gibson, for seven pounds and
nine pence, Capt. Stone's Co., Coos, 1780 . . • ?!> 0„ 9
[Aug.] 24, D° in favor of Arch'' Clark, deceased, for
Six pounds nineteen shillings & five pence, Deprec'" in
1 78 1, granted to Abra™ Morrison, Adm""' . . . 6„ 19,, 5
[Aug.] 25, D° Abra™ Morrison Administrator to the
Estate of Arch'' Clark, deceasd, for Eleven pounds
three shillings & four pence, a mistake made yesterday
in settling the Depreciation due to said Clark . . ii„ 3,, 4
[Aug.] 28, D° Jonathan Foster, for Eight pounds six
teen shihings & one penny, 3""° man in Capt. Bar
ron's Co,, in 1780  8„ i6„ I
[Aug.] 30, D° in favor of the Rev. Mr. M'^Clintock,' for
fifteen pounds, for his Election Sermon 15,, o„ o
* I P. & C. : 15 [30] of * Sept. D° in favor of Timothy
Kimball, for seventeen pounds, eighteen
shillings and eight pence, for Depreciation in 1780 . 17,, i8„ 8
D" in favor of Capt. Jon'' Cass, for Six pounds sixteen
shillings & six pence, an overcharge for New Emission
in 1781, f vote of 8 Ap' 1784  6„ i6„ 6
D° in favor of Mary S. Tokel, wid" of Rob' S.
Tokel, for Nineteen pounds ten shilhngs & ten pence,
for Depreciation to 1780 .,,.., 19,, io„ 10
D° in favor of John Bonner, for fourteen pounds two
shihings & eight pence, for Depreciation in 178 1 . 14,, 2,, 8
[TUESDAY,] Sept. 7'^
At a Council holden at Exeter on Tuesday, the 7"^ of September,
1784, Present
His Excellency Meshech Weare, Esq'', Presid'.
The Hon, John M, Clary,
Joseph Badger,
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1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 237
The Hon. Nath' Peabody,
Francis Blood,
Moses Chase, Esq'^", Counsellors.
Took under consideration sundry matters relative to organizing the
MUitia and also the nomination of Officers. Adjourned 'tih tomor
row, 9 o'clock A. M.
WEDNESDAY, Sept-^ 8'^ 1784.
Present as yesterday, and the same matters under consideration.
Adjourned till tomorrow,
* I P. & C. : 16 * THURSDAY, September the g^\ 1784.
Met according to adjournraent.
Present as yesterday, and the same matters under consideration.
An Order on the Treasurer was granted in favor
of Joshua Heath, father of Moses Heath, for sixteen
pounds three shhhngs & five pence, for Depreciation
in 1781  i6„ 3„ 5
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Moses Leavitt, Esq''
forty shillings, time and expenses going to notify his
Excellency the Presid' of his Election . . . .2,, o„ o
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Stephen Colby Thirteen
pounds two shillings & eight pence, for Depreciation
in 1781  13,, 2„ 8
FRIDAY, September 10"', 1784.
Present as yesterday, and took under consideration sundry matters
relative to civil officers.
SATURDAY, Sept'' ii, 1784.
Present the same as yesterday and the same matters under consid
eration. Ordered the Treasurer to pay Robert Fenny Sixteen
pounds fourteen shillings and one penny, for Wages,
Bounty, &c., as a 6™° man in 1780 . . . .16,, 14,, i
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Wih™ Pettigrew twenty
three pounds fifteen shihings and two pence, for Depre
ciation in 1780  23,, IS,, 2

238 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^4
And two pounds eighteen shihings & eight pence,
for depreciation in 178 1 . . . 2,, i8„ 8
* I P. & C. : 17 * 1 1 Sept. 1784, Ordered the Treas'' to
pay the travel & attendan'=^ of the Hon,
Counch between 15 June and 11 Sep', amo'sto Seventy
two pounds 18/2 .....-•• 72)1 i8„ 2
Sept, 13, An order on the Treas' was granted in
favor of Henry Springer, for eighteen shillings & four
pence, Deprec'" in 1780 . . • • • . o„ i8„ 4
Ordered the Treas' to pay by discount out of the
State Taxes to Phillip Warren or Bearer Seven pounds
sixteen shihings & four pence, for Wages in Capt.
Stevens Co., 3™° Service in 1780  7„ i6„ 4
[Sept.] 20. An order on the Treas"' was issued in
favor of Boston Pickering, for Seventeen pounds eight
shilhngs & seven pence, 6^° Service in 1780 . -17,, *8„ 7
An Order on the Treas"' was issued for a Note on In
terest payable in one year from the date thereof, in fa
vor of M''" Sarah Adams, wid° of the late L' Coh
W. Adams, for One Hundred & eight pounds in full
for seven years half pay. "^ Vote of Court of 26 June,
1782  io8„ o„ o
[Sept.] 21, ordered the Treas"" to pay by discount
out of the State Taxes to Joseph Stephenson or Bearer
fourteen j)ounds twelve shillings, for Wages, &c., in 6
™'' Service in 1780  14,, 12,, o
[Sept,] 23. Ordered the Treas' to pay Betty Tate,
"Wid" of Mark Tate, Seventeen pounds two shillings
& six pence, Deprec'" in 1777 & 1778 , . . . 17,, 2,, 6
Ordered the Treas'' to pay George Montgoraery Nine
teen pounds eight shillings, Deprec'" in 1781 . . 19,, 8„ O
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Will™ Gregory sixteen
pounds nineteen shillings and two pence, Depreciat"
in 1781  i6„ 19,, 2
* I P. & C. : 18 * Sept. 29, Ordered the Treasurer to
issue a Note on Interest payable in
one year from the date thereof in favor of Maj'' Samuel
Sherburne for Ninety pounds in full, for half pay to
Sept I I'h, 1784  90,, o„ o
Ordered the Treasurer to pay by discount out of the
State Taxes to Dearborn Loverin or Bearer Six pounds
four shihings, 3™° service Defence of western frontiers 6„ 4,, 0
Oct. 8. An order was issued in favor of Anna
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1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL, 239
forty eight pounds in fuh, for seven years half pay, "^
vote of Court  48,, o„ o
[Oct.] 9, An order was issued on the Treasurer in
favor of Robert M'^Knight for eleven pounds seventeen
shillings & nine pence. Depreciation 1 78 1 . . . ii„ 17,, 9
[Oct.] 14, Ordered the Treasurer to pay Timothy
Ricker four pounds sixteen shihings, for Depreciation in
1780  4„ i6„ o
[Oct.] 16, Ordered the Treasurer to pay Paul Cook
or Bearer four pounds three shihings & four pence, in
3™° Service Capt. Woodraan's Corapany, in 1781 . , 4,, 3,, 4
Ordered the Treas' to pay by discount out of the
State Taxes to Joseph Dearborn six pounds four shil
lings, 3™° Service in 1781 . . .6,, 4,, o
*i P. &C. :i9 *Oct. 18. An order on the Treas
urer was granted for a Note in favor of
W™ Hastings for Twelve pounds in full of half pay to
Oct" I, 1784  I2„ o„ o
[Oct.] 21, 1784, Ordered the Treasurer to pay M'
Henry 'Wight thirty shhlings, for his Service as Chaplain
to the General Court last Session . . . . i„ io„ o
[Oct.] 25, Ordered the Treas"' to pay by discount
out of the State Taxes to Joshua Richardson or Bearer
Eight pounds sixteen shillings & one penny, Capt,
Barron's Co. in 1780 ....... 8„ i6„ i
[Oct.] 26, Ordered the Treas"' to pay the Hon. Jon
athan Blanchard Esq"" Twenty four pounds, being the
Bah^ of his Ace' as a Member of Congress from 26 of
January 1784 to 28"" of Aug' following. '^ Vote of 19
Dec, 1783  24,, o„ o
Ordered the Treasurer to pay the Hon. Abiel Foster,
Esq., One Hundred & Sixty Eight pounds eighteen shil
lings, being the Bah^ of his Acco' as a Member of
Congress frora the 8"" July 1783 to the 23'' of June,
1784. f Votes of IS Jany 1782 and the 19"' of Dec""
1783  i6o„ i8„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Elijah Blodgett eighteen
pounds twelve shillings, for expenditures curing a Wound
¦^ vote of Court 27 Oct" 1784 . .18,, 12,, o
* I P. & C. : 20 * Oct. 28, Ordered the Treas' to issue
a Note in favor Serg' John Colburn
for Seventy one pounds, for Depreciation to 1780 . 71,, o„ o
And also another for Eleven pounds two shUlings,
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Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note in favor of Josiah
Hardy for fourteen pounds twelve shillings, Depreci'" in
1781 
Ordered the Treas' to pay John Stone fifteen pounds
two shillings & 4d, Deprec'" 1781
D° Stephen White, Eighteen pounds five shillings &
ten pence .........
And Stephen Richardson nineteen pounds ten shil
lings & eleven pence, for Deprec'" in 1781 .
Ordered the Treas' to pay Solomon Harris Twenty
three pounds fourteen shillings and two pence, for De
prec'" in 1780 
And Twenty pounds sixteen shillings, Dep'" 1781 .
Ordered the Treas' to pay Nich" Nicoll five pounds
eighteen shillings & 2d, Expenses & Concord . . ^„ 1
Ordered the Treas' to pay the following soldiers, viz*. :
Randall M'^Allister, Eleven potinds eighteen shillings
and 8'', for Deprec'" 1780 
Christ" Marsh, Seven pounds, Dep'" 1777
John Holmes, Eight pounds fourteen shillings &
eight pence, Dep'" 1777 
Joel Fox, four pounds ten shillings, Dep'" to 1780 .
Elisha Adams, 6""" man in 1781, five pounds six shih
lings & eight pence .......
Isaac Stearns, Seventeen pounds one shilling & ten
pence. Depreciation 1781 .
*iP, &C, :2i *Oct. 1784, John Dole, Seventeen
pounds four shihings, for Depreciation
in 1781 .........
Jonathan Morse, Fifteen pounds three shihings and
2(1, Depreci'" in 1781 
Stephen Noble, six™" man in 1780, Sixteen pounds
fourteen shillings & i"^
Whliam Durrah, Fifteen pounds two shillings & 5^
Dep'" to 1780 
And Twenty nine pounds four shihings and six pence,
Depreciat" in 1780 .......
Amos Spafford, nineteen pounds ten shillings & ten
pence, Dept" in 178 1 
Samuel Spear, Twenty four pounds, for Depreciation
in 1780 
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Ordered the Treas' to pay by discount out of the
State Taxes, to the Selectraen of Lyndeborough Three
pounds, being travel raoney paid four Soldiers to Spring-
held  3„ o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay the Rev'' Israel Evans five
hundred & seventy one pounds seventeen shillings
& six pence, for Depreciation to 1780 . . . 571,, 17,, 6
Also One Hundred fifty four pounds seventeen shil
lings and six pence, for the year 1780 . . . . IS4,, 17,, 6
Ordered the Treas' to pay the following Soldiers, viz. :
To Maj. Jason Wait, Seventy seven pounds two
shilhngs & six pence, Deprecia'" in 1781 . . . 77,, 2,, 6
To Lieut. Thomas Kemp, one hundred and fifty five
pounds thirteen shills 4'', Deprecia'" to 1780 . . ISS„ I3" 4
Also fifty nine pounds, Deprec'" in 1780 S9,, o,, o
* I P. & C. : 22 * To Moses George, Ten pounds four
shillings and six pence Depreciat'" 1 78 1 io„ 4,, 6
To Abner Preston, Twenty nine shillings and five
pence, Deprec'" for 1780 . . . . . . i,, 9,, 5
Oct. 30, I 784, Tojames Adams, Adminis" Noah
Parkis in Capt. Stone's Corapany in 1780, the sum of
Ten pounds nineteen shillings & eleven pence . . io„ ig,, 11
To Lieut Jonathan Eraerson, eighty eight pounds
eleven shUlings, for Deprec'" in 1780, but should have
been given for Depre'" to 1780 ..... 88„ ii„ o
To Serg' David Hall, Six pounds two shillings &
seven pence, for Deprecia'" in 1780 . . . ¦ 6„ 2,, 7
To Benjamin Smith, nine pounds, for Depreciation
in 1 781  9,, o„ o
To Amos Baker, Seventeen pounds twelve shUlings
& nine pence, Deprec'" in 1781 . . . . . 17,, 12,, 9
To L' Nathan Wesson, in Flower's Reg, Artif'
one hundred & sixty four pounds, for Depreciat" in
1778 & 1779 
Also Fifty nine pounds, for Depre'" in 1780
Ordered the Treas' to pay Lt, James Gould Eighteen
pounds fourteen shihings & eight pence, being the sum
deducted when his Doct'" Bih was settled, $ vote of
Court of 20 Oct" 1784 
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Rob' M-'Clurgh Eight
shillings & four pence, Dep'" in 1780 . . . .0,, 8,,
Ordered the Treas' to pay the fohowing orders, viz., in favor of :

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Wilder WiUard, for the sum of forty six pounds ten
shillings & six pence, for Depreciation to 1780 . . '
Also seven pounds three shihings 7^ Deprec'" in
1780 
D° Lt. Moses Belding, Ninety Eight pounds three
shillings & six pence, Depre'" to 1780 ....
*i P. &C. :23 *D° John Perkins, four pounds three
shillings & four pence, Capt. Wood
man's Company, 3™" service in 178 1 ....
D° John Palmer, four pounds three shillings & four
pence, Capt Woodman's Corapany, 3™" service in 1781
D° Aaron Buzzell, Six pounds four shillings, Capt.
Smith's Co. at the West ward in 1781 ,
D" Flip'" Cromwell, Seven pounds two shillings, De
prec'" in 1777 ........
D° Derrick Oxford, forty nine pounds eleven shillings
& two pence, Depre'" to 1780 .....
And eight pounds three shUlings for 1780
D° Stephen Scranton, Sixteen pounds, seventeen shil
lings & seven pence, Deprci'" in 1780 ....
And Twenty pounds eight shillings for 1781
D" Jon* Hazelton, Twenty nine pounds nine shillings
& five pence, Deprci'" to 1780 .....
Twenty four pounds for 1780 .....
And Twenty pounds sixteen shillings for 1781
D° John Lock, Seven pounds four shillings & four
pence ..........
Reuben Baldwin, Seven pounds four shillings & four
pence ..........
Paul Stickney, five pounds five shillings .
John Goold, four pounds fifteen shillings & eight
pence ..........
Eph™ HUdreth, four pounds fifteen shUlings &
eight pence and ........
John Goold Jun', four pounds fifteen shilhngs &
eight pence, Capt. Thomas' Company, 3™" Service in
1781  4„ IS,, 8
*iP. &C. :24 *Nov. 3, 1784. D° Joseph Green,
Twenty pounds sixteen shillings, De
prci'" in 1781  20„ i6„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Will™ Whipple Esq' Thirty
five pounds for his Services as one of the puisne Jus
tices of the Sup' Court from 20"" March to 20"' Sept.,

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1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 243
1784. f vote of Court of 27''' Dec', 1783 . • 3S„ o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note with Interest in
favor of Sam' Emmerson for Two hundred & six
pounds twelve shillings & five pence, due Jan. y I"', 1780 . 206,, 12,, 5
Also one hundred and twenty one pounds thirteen
shillings & nine pence, due i Jan>' 1781, being the bah'=
of his Acco'. "^ vote 12 June, 1784 .... 121,, 13,, 8
Ordered the Treas' to pay David Bradley sixteen
pounds two shUlings & nine pence, for wages, &c,, in
Capt, Paines Co in 1780 . . . . . 16,, 2,, 6
Ordered the Treas' to pay by discount to the Se
lectmen of New Ipswich five pounds Travel money paid
sundy soldiers to Springf'' . . . . . 5,, o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay the Pay-roll of the Travel
of the House of Representatives, amounting to one
hundred and eighty two pounds seventeen shillings &
fourpence  , , 182,, 17,, 4
Ordered the Treas' to let the Hon, Abiel Foster,
Esq,, have and receive out of the Treasury one hundred
& twenty pounds to enable him to proceed to Con
gress, for which he is accountable , 1 20,, o„ o
* I P. & C. : 2S *Nov. 9. Ordered the Treasurer to
pay the Roll for the Attendance &
travel of his Excellency's Council from is"" of June to
the II Sept., 1784, amounting to fifty two pounds
nineteen shillings ....... S2,, 19,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Noah Worcester, Esq.
forty eight shilhngs & eleven pence, Service in attend^
ing Sup' Court, 'f vote Oct. 28'^ 1784 . . .2,, 8„ 11
Ordered the Treas' to pay John Duncan, Esq,,
eighteen shillings, journey, &c., to Campbell's Gore to
call a meeting. Vote s, Nov', 1784 . . . .0,, i8„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Geo. Long seventeen
pounds four shillings and nine pence J'', Expenses, &c,,
to Halifax, '^ Vote of 29 Oct"', 1784 .... 17,, 4,, 9^^
Ordered the Treas' to pay by discount to Araos
Spafford or Bearer seventeen pounds thirteen shUlings
& 6^ for wages, &c,, in 6™° Service 1780 . . . 17,, 13,, 6
Ordered the Treas' to pay by discount to the Se
lectmen of Dunbarton thirty three shillings & eight
pence, travel money p^ D' Jamerson & L. Gitchel
in Capt. Boyes Co  i,, 13,, 8
Pursuant to an Act of i"' March, 1783, Ordered the
Treas' to issue a Note in favor of Martin Ashley for

244 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
forty pounds fifteen shihings, being his demand as set
tled by the Commissioners on the Estate of Josiah Pom
eroy, an Absentee, & a return thereof made by the
Judge of Probate for the County of Cheshire into the
Secretary's Office .... 40,, 15,, o
*iP, &C, :26 *Nov, 10, Ordered the Treas' to
pay Col, Christ" Toppan forty shil
lings, time and expense to notify His Excellency of
his Election, Vote, June 12, 1784 , . . ¦ 2,, o„ o
Nov. II. Ordered the Treas' to pay the Roll of
the Travel & Attendance of the Hon. Senate second
Session, amounting to seventy six pounds fifteen shil
lings & ten pence ....... 76,, 15,, 10
Ordered the Treas' to pay Hezekiah Sartwell Twenty
one shUlings & four pence. Depreciation to 1781 . i,, i„ 4
Ordered the Treas' to pay by discount out of the
State Taxes to the Selectmen of North Hampton fifty
four pounds & sixpence. Bounties & Supplies to
Soldiers Families. ^ acts in 1782 & 1783 . . S4,> o,, 6
Ordered the Treasurer to pay the Roh of the House
of Representatives for their attend'== at the second
Session in 1784, amounting to five hundred & four
pounds twelve shillings ...... S04,, 12,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay (by discount) Enoch But
ler, Jerem'' Avery, & Theo'** Marstin or bearer
four pounds ten shillings & four pence each, for
wages, &c., in Cap' Parson's Company, 3™° Service in
1781  13,, io„ 6
Ordered the Treas' to pay Humphrey Hunt thirty
three pounds one shilling, Depre'" to Jan. I"', 1780 . 33,, i,, o
Ordered Richard Boynton Twenty three pounds four
shillings  23,, 4,, o
And Mark Wentworth Twenty one pounds six shil
lings for Deprect" to Jan i"', 178 1 .... 2I„ 6„ 0
Ordered the Treas' to pay His Excellency one hun
dred pounds, for Services prior to the present Constitu
tion, f vote 9 Nov., 1784 . . . ioo„ o„ o
*iP. &C. :27 *Nov. II. Ordered the Treas' to
let the Hon. Pierse Long, Esq'., have
& receive one hundred and twenty pounds, to enable
him to proceed to Congress, for which sum he is ac
countable. '^ Vote Nov. 10, 1784 . . . . 120 o o
Ordered the Treas' to pay the Hon. John Calfe,
Esq'., four pounds three shihings & six pence, records

1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 245
Journals & copying the same for the press, &c.
f vote 1 1 "'Nov, 1784  4„ 3„ 6
Ordered the Treas' to pay Robert Gerrish Seventy
five pounds, for printing, &c., in full of his Acco'
dated Ports™", 8 Nov', 1784. ^ vote of 11 Nov',
1784  7S„ o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Secretary Thompson
Twenty pounds in full for his Services prior to the taking
place of the new Constitution ..... 20,, o„ O
Ordered the Treas' to pay Cap' Josiah Gilraan Six
pounds eleven shillings, Expenses, &c., attending Court
at Concord & Portsmouth in 1784. '^ vote 11 Nov',
1784  • ¦ • . 6„ ii„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay John Williams four pounds
as Doorkeeper to the General Court. '^ vote 1 1 Nov',
1784  . . . 4„ o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay John Wight twenty one
pounds eighteen shillings . , , . . . 21,, x8„ o
And Joseph Muzzy Twenty one pounds eighteen shil
lings, for Depreciation to Jan^ i"', 178 1 21., i8„ o
* I P. & C. : 28 * Nov. 1 1 , Ordered the Treasurer to pay
Lieu' Meshech Bell Seventy two pounds 72,, o„ o
Also fifty one pounds twelve shillings, the amount of
two pay Rohs up to the 20"* Oct°|i784. "^ vote of Court
of the 3'^ Nov', 1784  51,, 12,, o
[Nov.] 1 7, Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note in favor
of the wid" Abigail Clayes for the sum of three Hun
dred & sixty pounds in full for half pay from the 1 5
Nov' 1779 to the 15 Nov' 1784. ^ vote of the 10
Nov', 1784  360,, o„ o
[Nov.] 18, Ordered the Treas' to pay Jon* Bean
four pounds eleven shillings & two pence, Deprci'"
1780  . 4„ ii„ 2
Also John Newraan sixteen pounds seven shillings
& six pence, Dept" 1781  i6„ 7,, 6
[Nov.] 22, Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note in favor
of L' Joseph Huntoon for twenty four pounds in
full for quarter pay as an Invalid from 14 Nov' 1783
to 14 Nov' 1784 .  24,, o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Judge Livermore Eighteen
pounds fifteen shillings, for his salary from 25 June to
2S Sept., 1784, by a Vote of Court of 27 Dec', 1783 . i8„ is„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Stephen Keyes Thirty
pounds nine shUlings, Dep'" to 1780 . . . 30,, 9,, o

246 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
Also Nine pounds sixteen shUlings, for Depreciation
in 1780  9" 16" o
[Nov,] 24. Ordered the Treas' to pay Jude Hah four
teen pounds sixteen shillings, Dep'" for 1780 . . 14,, i6„ O
Wihiam Bryant Twenty pounds sixteen shillings,
Dep'" 1781  20,, i6„ o
Uriah Fox Twenty three pounds nine shillings, for
Depreciation in 1780  23,, 9,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Stephen Keyes for Dep'"
to 1780, Thirty pounds nine shiUings .... 30,, 9,, o
And nine pounds sixteen shUhngs for Depretc" 1781,
entered above . . . . . . . ¦ . 9,, i^" ^
* I P, & C, : 29 * STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
A Proclaraation.
Whereas there is reason to apprehend that there are, in different
parts of the United States, Articles of Quarter Master's and Military
stores, Cloathing, &c,,the property of the United States, which have
accidentally faUen into the hands of private Citizens, or remained in
the possession of persons formerly but not at present in Office, of
which the Heads of the several Staff Departments have no account ;
The Committee of the States, taking this matter into considera
tion, have recommended to the Executives of the several States to call
on the Citizens of their respective States to make returns forthwith
of every Species of Public Property which may be in their possession.
I do therefore, with advice of Council, issue this Proclamation, and
do hereby call on each and every Citizen of this State who may have
any public Property in his possession forthwith to make Return thereof
into the Secretary's Office, that so a Return maybe made to Congress
as speedUy as raay be agreeably to said recommendation.
Given under my hand this sixteenth day of Nov', in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty four, and of the
Sovereignty & Independence of the United States of America the
Ninth. M. Weare.
By his Excellency's comraand, with advice of Council.
Joseph Pearson, Dep. Sec'y.
*iP. &C. :30 * STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A Proclaraation.
Whereas by the Constitution & form of Governraent estabhshed
in this State, it is provided that the President of the State, the Sen
ators and Representatives shah be chosen annually in the month of

1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 247
March, at the annual or other Meetings of the Inhabitants to be duly
warned for the purposes aforesaid, which provision it is thought ren
ders it necessary to issue precepts for their election, as has been here
tofore, practiced.
Therefore to prevent any faUure least any Selectman should wait in
expectation of receiving a Precept, and thereby neglect inserting rea
sonable Notice in their warrants for their annual Meetings, or calling
meetings particularly for the purposes afore mentioned, I have issued
this Proclaraation hereby requesting all Selectmen or any others who
may be authorized to call Meetings in particular Places for the pur
poses aforesaid to pay diligent Attention to the directions in the plan
of Government for warning and regulating said Meetings, and to
make return into the Secretary's Office, and they are hereby informed
that no Precepts will be issued.
Given under ray hand this Twenty fourth day of
Nov', * in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven * i P. & C. :3i
hundred and eighty-four, and of the Sovereignty and
Independence of the United States of America the Ninth. M. Weare.
By His Excellency's Comraand. Joseph Pearson, Dep. Sec'y.
Ordered the Treas' to pay William Bryant Twenty
pounds sixteen shillings, for the year 1 78 1 . , . 20,, i6„ o
D" Uriah Fox Twenty three pounds nine shillings,
Dep'" to Jany, 1781  23,, 9,, o
D" Jude Hall, fourteen pounds sixteen shUlings,
Dep'" for 1780  14,, 16,, o
D" Peter Sraith Seven pounds two shillings & eleven
pence, for Depreciation for 1780 , , . . . 7,, 2,, 11
[Nov.] 28. D° Christ" Challis five pounds twelve
shillings & eight pence, for 1780. . . . , S„ 12,, 8
D° Benj* AUd five pounds two shillings & eight
pence, 6 ™° man in 1781 . . . . . . S,, 2,, 8
Nov. 8, Ordered the Treas' to pay the Hon.
Josiah Bartlett, Esq., thirty five pounds, for his services
as one of the puisne Justices to Nov' 14, 1784. "^ vote
27 Dec, 1783  3S» o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Benj, Biggelow fifty four
pounds twelve shillings & one penny, Balh^ of his
acco' for sundries supply'' Lt. Bell's Co. at New
Castle  .... 54,, I2„ I
D" Daniel Philbrick seven pounds two shillings &
eleven pence, for 1780 . . . . . . . 7,, 2,, 11

248 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
* I P. & C, : 32 * Dec. 8, 1784. At a Council holden at Exeter on
Wednesday, the 8"' day Decem"', 1784,
Present, — His Excellency Meshech Weare, Esq', Pres'.
The Honi^'* John M. Clary,
Joseph Badger,
Francis Blood, Esq'".
As there was not a fuh Board, the nomination of civU officers was
postponed till tomorrow. THURSDAY, the 9"" Decem', 1784.
Present as Yesterday. Also the Hon'''^ Nath' Peabody, Esq.,
took his seat at the CouncU Board. Took into consideration the
nomination of Civil Officers. FRIDAY, 10"' Decem', 1784.
Present as Yesterday.
Also the Hon, Moses Chase, Esq', attended, Continuedthe nom
ination of civil officers.
Ordered the Treas' to pay Jacob Baldwin, a six
months man in 1781, five pounds four shilhngs . . S„ 4,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay the following Orders, viz., in favor of :
David Jewell for thirteen shillings and nine pence,
for Dep'" in 1780  o„ 13,, 9
D° Kendell Parsons Twenty pounds nineteen shillings
& six pence, Dep'" in 1780, one year man . . . 20,, 19,, 6
* I P. & C. : 33 * SATURDAY, 11'" Dec', 1784,
Took into consideration the further nomination of civU & mUitary
officers. Ordered the Treas' to pay the fohowing orders, viz., in favor of :
Joseph Clark in Capt 'Woodman's Co., 3™° men in
1 78 1, for four pounds three shillings & four pence . 4,, 3,, 4
D° Joseph Herd for four pounds three shiUings &
fourpence  4,, 3,, 4
D° Geo, Averitt for forty pounds two shillings &
five pence, for Dep'" to 1780  40,, 2,, 5
Also six pounds eight shUlings & eight pence in
1780  6„ 8„ 8

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RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL,

249

Lydia Alley, wid" of Daniel, for twenty one pounds,
for Deprec'", 1780  21,, o,, o
D" Isaac Hanson,' for (Deprec'" ending in 1780,)
Twenty two pounds nine shillings and seven pence , 22,, 9,, 7
Adjourned till Monday next,
MONDAY, 13"' Dec, 1784.
His Excellency & his five CounseUors, Met according to adjourn
ment. Ordered the Treas' to pay Melcher & Osborne Sev
enty nine pounds twelve shillings in full of their ac
compt for printing for the State from April 6"" to Oct"
25*, 1784  79" 12,, o
D" WUliam Wallace five pounds six shillings & eight
pence, Dep*" in 1780 ....
*i P. &, C. : 34 * Ordered the Treas' to pay James
Peraberton ' Twenty two pounds eleven
shillings & eight pence, for Depreciation in 1780.

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His Excellency & Council proceeded to business.
Ordered the Treas' to pay the following Soldiers, viz
William Palmer Nine pounds six shilhngs & six
pence, Deprec'" in 1780 . ....
Francis Coombs Ten pounds & one penny, for Dep"
in 1780 
And Seven pounds & nine pence, Deprecia'" in 1781
James Rawhns ' Twenty one pounds eighteen shil
lings & eleven pence, Dep'" 1780
Jerathmeel Bowers ' Twenty one pounds eight shil
lings & three pence ......
Caleb Stiles, Jun',' Twenty one pounds eight shil
lings & three pence ......
Eph™ Pierce' Twenty one pounds eight shilhngs &
three pence ........
Grant Powers ' Twenty one pounds eight shUlings &
three pence ........
Caleb Stiles ' Twenty one pounds eight shihings &
three pence .... ....
Joseph Stearns ' Twenty one pounds eight shillings &
three pence ........ ^•One year men.
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Jacob Hobart ' Twenty one pounds eight shihings &
three pence & 
Simeon Foster ' Twenty one pounds eight shiUings &
three pence ......
* I P. & C. : 35 * Ordered the Treas' to pay by dis
count James Blake or Bearer Twelve
pounds .........
Caleb Marshal Twelve pounds & . . . .
James Burnside Twelve pounds, for billeting money
•on Sergeant Blake's ration Roll, Coos, 1782 . ¦ 12,, o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay the Selectmen of Hol
lis Six pounds six shillings, biUeting money to Spring
field, 1 78 1. "§ an Act passed July 4, 1781 . . .6,, 6„ o
WEDNESDAY, 1$'^ Dec', 1784.
His Excellency & Council continued the appointment of Civil &
military Officers. THURSDAY, the 16"' Dec', 1784.
Present as yesterday & the same matters under consideration.
Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note on Interest pay
able in one year from the date thereof in favor of John
Simpson for Sixty nine pounds in full for half pay from
I"' of Jany 1779 to I Oct" 1784. ^ vote 26 Oct", 1784 69,, o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Moses Knight eighteen
shillings & four pence, Dep'" 1780 . . . . o,, i8„ 4
Ordered the Treas' to pay John Gross fifty four
shUlings, Service in attending Sup' Court as State evi
dence  2,, 14,, 0
Also to pay John S. Dearborn fifty four shiUings for the
same service, ^ vote 3 Nov', 1784 . 2,, 14,, o
* I P. & C. : 36 * Ordered the Treas' to pay Moses
Knight eighteen shUlings & four pence,
Dep'" 1780  o„ i8„ 4
the ahove is entered on the preceding page.^
FRIDAY, 17"^ Decem', 1784.
His ExceUency & CouncU continued the appointment of CivU &
military Officers.
Ordered the Treas' to pay Marget Pitman, mother
', One year men, "¦ See note 2 at the end of this record.

1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 25I
of Joseph Pitman, Twenty one pounds eleven shillings
& six pence, for Depreciat" to 1780 .... 21,, ii„ 6
Directed the Treas' to receive a Note in favor of
Josiah Sanborn & issue anew Note & Certificates
for the Interest due thereon, agreeably to a vote of
Court of the 28"" Oct", 1784.
Ordered the Treas' to pay Col. Supply Clap five
hundred & fifty pounds ...... 550,, o„ o
Also forty five pounds four shillings, being in fuh of
his acco' as Commissary of Prisoners. "^ vote 1 1"'
Nov', 1784  45,, 4„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Elias Tarlton five pounds
seventeen shillings & four pence, for attending the
Light House at Fort Point from 22 July to 20"' Oct",
1784. f vote 3d Nov, 1784  S„ 17,, 4
SATURDAY, 18"' Decem', 1784,
His Excellency & Council present.
* I P. & C. : 37 * Ordered the Treas' to pay Doc" HaU
Jackson forty eight pounds in full for
Medicine and attendance on the Troops stationed at
Piscataqua Harbour frora Jany, 1780 to Feby, 1784 . 48,, o„ o
MONDAY, 20"' Dec, 1784,
Present as on Saturday last.
Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note in favor of
Samuel Wadsworth for eight pounds fourteen shilhngs
& eleven pence, his Demand as settled by the Com
missioners on the Estate of Josiah Pomeroy, an ab
sentee  8„ 14,, II
His Excellency the President, & Council, on the fifteenth Instant
completed the nomination of the persons hereafter named for Officers
Civil & Military, and the same having been wrote down on loose
papers were accidentally omitted to be entered in the Journal on that
day, viz.:
Hon'''* Samuel Livermore, Esq', Chief Justice,
Hon''''^ Josiah Bartlett, ) t- t, ¦ t ^- r
William Whipple, f'^^'^' P^'.^ne Justices of
John Dudley j the Superior Court.
fjQjjbie John Sullivan, Esq', Attorney General.

252 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
* I P. & C, : 38 * COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM.
Hon'"'= Nathaniel Folsom, 1 j, j^^^.^^^ ^^ ^^^
Nathaniel Peabody, U^f^erior Court of Cora-
Tiraothy Walker, f^^ pi^^^_
Abiel Foster, J
Nathaniel Peabody, Esq', having dechned to accept of the above
office, John Calfe, Esq', is nominated for one of the Justices of said
Court, John Parker, Esq', Sheriff,
Hon''''= Philips White, Esq', Judge of Probate, &c,
William Parker, Esq', Register of Probate,
COUNTY OF STRAFFORD,
Hon"'* George Frost, "^ j, , j^^^.^^^ ^^ ^j^^ j^_
Iohn Plummer, tr- r- ^rr- „
i,, c- -ll. >terior Court ot Common
Ebenezer Smith, ( p^^^^
Thomas Cogswell, J
Theophilus Dame, Esq', Sheriff.
Hon'''* Joseph Badger, Esq', Judge of Probate, &c.
John Wentworth, Esq', Register of Probate.
* I P. & C. : 39 * COUNTY OF HILLSBOROUGH.
Hon""'* Timothy Farrar, 1 -r- > -r ^- r ^u
c- i-'-r-i Esq rs, justices of the
Samuel Dana, Irr-/" .. r
¦c- • iDi J > Interior Court of
Prancis Blood, (^ t,i
¦I-., -D 1 J Common Pleas.
Ebenezer Rockwood, J
Hon'''* Jonathan Blanchard, Esq', Judge of Probate,
COUNTY OF CHESHIRE.
Hon'''* Simeon Olcott, It-, t ^- r ^i
Samuel Ashley, I f'^ ''¦ J^^^ices of the
Benjarain Bellows, ^J^f^rior Court of
Francis Sraith, J Common Pleas,
Samuel Hunt, Esq', Sheriff.
Thomas Sparhawk, Esq', Judge of Probate,
COUNTY OF GRAFTON,
Hon'''* Ehsha Payne, ^ t- . t •
Samuel Emerson, 1 ^.^ '^.^' J^i^^ices of the
Beza" Woodward, ^J^ferior Court of
James Woodward, J Common Pleas.
William Sirapson, Esq', Sheriff.'
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Hon, Charles Johnston, Esq', Judge of Probate.
Moses Dow, Esq', Register of Probate,

* I P. & C. : 40

* OFFICERS OF THE MILITIA.
Hon'''* John Sullivan, Esq', Major General.
Joshua Wentworth,'
Joseph Cilley,
John Hale,
Benjamin Bellows,
Joshua Wentworth, Esq', declining to accept the office of a Brig
adier Generah Woodbury Langdon, Esq', is norainatedfor that office.

I Esq'rs, Brigadier
[Generals,

First Regiment.
Pierse Long, Colonel,
Mark Wiggin, Lieu' Colonel.
George Gains, Major,
Stephen March, Second Major.
Third Regiment.
Moses Leavit, Colonel.
Jonathan Crara, Lieut, Colonel,
Joseph Clifford, Major.
John Dearborn, Second Major.

* Fifth Regiment.
Noah Lovewill, Colonel.
Sarauel Chase, Lieu' Colonel.
James Ford, Major,
Robert Meins, Second Major,

Second Regiment.
Theophilus Dame, Colonel,
John M-^Duffee, Lieu' Colonel,
Jonathan Wentworth, Major.
James Carr, Second Major.
Fourth Regiment.
James Hill, Colonel.
Eliphalet Giddings, Lieu' Colonel
Porter Kimball, Major.
Benjamin Brown, Second Major.
* I P. & C. : 41
Sixth Regiment.
Reuben Alexander, Colonel.
Oliver Capron, Lieu' Colonel.
Davis Howlett, Major.
Elisha Whitcomb, Second Major.
* I R &C. :42

*Eighth Regiment.
George Reid, Colonel.
Daniel Reynolds, Lieu' Colonel
Daniel Colburn, Major.
Jaraes Gilraan, Second Major.
Tenth Regiment.
Ebenezer Smith, Colonel.
Joseph Badger, Jun', Lieut' Colonel.
Chase Taylor, Major.
Richard Sinkler, Second Major.

Ninth Regiment.
Moses Kelley, Colonel.
Samuel Page, Lieu' Colonel.
WiUiara Boyes, Major,
Eleventh Regiment.
Thomas Stickney, Colonel,

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[1784:

* I P, & C, : 43
Thirteenth Regiment. * Fourteenth Regiment.
Moses Dow, Colonel. David Webster, Colonel.
Joshua Howard, Lieu' Colonel. Moses Baker, Lieu' Colonel.
Azariah Webb, Major. Alexander Craige, Major.
Obadiah Clement, Second Major. Richard Shepard, Second Major.
Fifteenth Regiment, Sixteenth Regiment,
Jonathan Chase, Colonel. WUliam Heyward, Colonel.
Samuel Ashley, Lieutenant Colonel. Amos Shepard, Lieu' Colonel.

Moses Whipple, Major.
Joseph Kiraball, Second Major.
* I P. & C, : 44
Seventeenth Regit-nent.
Nathaniel Emerson, Colonel.
William White, Lieu' Colonel,

Nineteenth Regiment,
Jonathan Palmer, Colonel.
Nathan Hoit, Lieu' Colonel,
Jacob Smith, Major
Joshua Heath, Second Major
Tiventy-second Regi-mcnt.
Henry Gerrish, Colonel.

Josiah Goldsmith, Major.
Silas Wright, Second Major.
* Eighteenth Regiment,
Thomas Bartlett, Colonel,
Michael M'^Clary, Lieu' Colonel,
Joseph March, Major,
John Harvey, Second Major,
Twenty-first Regiment.^
Samuel King, Colonel,
George Aldrich, Lieu' Col",
Joseph Burt, Major.
Jonathan Sraith, Jr., Second Major.
Tzventy-fourth Regiment.
Ebenezer Brewster, Colonel,
Ebenezer Green, Lieu' Col".
Edmund Freeman, Major,
Samuel Jones, Second Major.

I P. & C, : 45

* Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Joseph Whipple, Colonel,

Edward Bucknam, Lieu' Colonel,
John Young, Major,
Asa Bayley, Second Major,
Corps of Light Horsemen.
John Langdon, Esq', Brigadier,
Justices of the Peace & of the Quorura throughout the State :
Hon'='* Sarauel Liverraore, Josiah Bartlett, Williara Whipple, John
Dudley, Thomas W, Waldron, John SuUivan, Matthew Thornton,
1 Ham, Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. xviii, 742 ,

1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 255
Nathaniel Folsom, Ebenezer Thompson, Jonathan Blanchard, Samuel
Ashley, Benjamin BeUows, John M'^Clary, Francis Blood" Joseph
Badger, Nathaniel Peabody, Moses Chase, Woodbury Langdon,
George Atkinson, Jon* Moulton, Moses Dow, Esq'rs.
* Justices of the Peace & of the Quorum for the * i P, & C. : 46
County of Rockingham :
Richard Downing, Sarauel Penhallow, Philips White, Tiraothy
Walker, John Langdon, Samuel Emerson, Abiel Forster, Joseph
Cilley, John Bell, Sarauel Hale, Esq'rs.
Justices of the Peace for the County of Rockingham :
Samuel Little, Christopher Toppan, WUliam Knight, Noah Emery,
William Parker, Archelaus Moore, John Calfe, John Pickering,
Thomas Bartlett, Richard Bartlett, Joseph GUman, Mark Wiggin,
Enoch Coffin, Robert Wilson, James Gibson, William MorrUl, Sara
uel Weare, Josiah Adaras, Michael M'^Clary, John Blunt, Eph™
Pickering, Joseph Dow, Winthrop Gove, Abrah""
Perkins, Peter Green, John Crara, Nathan Batchel- * i P. & C, : 47
dor, Josiah Gage, John Bryent, Samuel Moores, Jer
eraiah Eastman, Jonathan Jenness, George Gains, Peter Clements,
Clement March, Samuel Daniel, John T, Gilman, George Reid, Josiah
Gilman Jun' Jeremiah Gilman, Joseph Pearson, Arch'' M'^Murphy,
Jeremiah Fogg, Joseph March, Josiah Flagg, Jabez Hoit, John Allen,
Joseph Parsons, Samuel Gilman, John Neal, Jonth" Greely, Jr,, Eben
ezer Clifford, Matthias Bartlett, Richard Jenness, Moody Morse,
James Gilraore, Thomas Page, Solomon Wheeler, Esq'rs.
Justices of the Peace & of the Quorum for the * i P, & C, : 48
County of Strafford :
George Frost, Otis Baker, John Plummer, Moses Carr, Ebenezer
Smith, Esq'rs.
Justices of the Peace for the County of Strafford :
Henry Rust, Ichabod Rollins, John Wentworth, Joseph Sias, Sol
omon Emerson, Simeon Dearborn, Valentine Mathes, John Garland,
Daniel Beede, James Knowles, Hercules Mooney, David Page, David
Gilman, Joseph Roberts, John Tasker, Thomas Cogswell, Joshua
Wingate, Joseph Badger, Jr, Benning Moulton, Samuei Hale, Jun'
Esq'rs, Justices of the Peace & of the Quorum for the * i P, & C. : 49
County of Hilsborough :
Jonathan Lovewell, Matthew Patten, James Underwood, John
Hale, Timothy Farrar, Jeremiah Page, Moses Nichols, John Stark,
Esq'rs,

2S6 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1784
Justices of the Peace for the County of Hilsborough :
George Jackman, Isaac Andrews, Robert M*Gregore, Joseph Bart
lett, Noah Worcester, Wihiam Smith, John Robie, Joshua Bayley,
Benjamin Mann, John Cockran, Jun', John Duncan, Moses Little,
Peter Clark, William Abbott, Jr., Jonathan Weare,
* I P, & C, : 50 *Ebenezer Rockwood, John Preston, Jonathan Searle,
Joseph Gerrish, Daniel Eraerson, Samuel PhUbrick,
Samuel Marsh, Esq'rs,
Justices of the* Peace & of the Quorum for the County of
Cheshire :
Samuel Chase, Siraeon Olcott, Enoch Hale, Esq'rs,
Justices of the Peace for the County of Cheshire :
Francis Smith, Thomas Sparhawk, Joseph Greenwood, Thomas
Baker, Calvin Frink, Moses Whipple, John Hubbard, Charles Hun
toon, Abel Stevens, Absolem Kinsbury, Daniel Newcomb, Michael
Cressy, John Bellows, Jonathan Hildreth, Oliver
* I P. & C. : 5 1 *Capron, Sanford Kingsbury, Oliver Ashley, John
DooUttle, Lemuel Holmes, 'William Ripley, Samuel
Kendall, Sarauel Griffin, Jacob Copeland, Esq'rs,
Justices of the Peace & of the Quorura for the County of
Grafton :
Samuel Emerson, Beza' Woodward, Elisha Payne, Joseph Whip
ple, Esq'rs,
Justices of the Peace for the County of Grafton :
Daniel Brainard, Charles Johnston, Enoch Page, Francis Worces
ter, James Woodward, Edward Bucknam, Jeremiah Eames, Joshua
Copp, Thomas Russell, Joshua Tolford, Carr Huse, Davenport
Phelps, Moses Baker, Jon* Child, WUliara Ayer, John
* I P. & C, : 52 Rogers, *Jon* Blake, Ehhu Hide, Jacob Hurd, Noah
Worcester, Jr., Jon* Freeraan, Jesse Johnson, Jun',
Esq'rs. Coroners for the County of Rockingham :
Jeremiah Libbey. Richard Champney, Siraon Wiggin, Jonathan
Garland, Samuel Folsom, Simeon Jenness, Simonds Seccombe, Henry
Butler, James Gray, Jonathan Eastman, Joseph Gregg, Moses Shaw,
Jacob Chase, John Dow, Jun', Daniel Page, Nehemiah Wheeler, Na
thaniel Kiraball, William Doty, Eliphalet Poor, Robert Young.
* I P, & C, : 53 *Coroners for the County of Strafford :
Andrew Torr, Joseph Stevens, John Cate, Jabez
Dame, Edward Gilman, Nathan' Shannon, Timothy Medar, James
Hassey, John GUraan, Thomas Chadbourne, Avery Hall, Eleazer
Davis, James Brackett, Sarauel Kielle,

1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL, 257
Coroners for the County of HiUsborough :
Augustus Blanchard, Jonathan Eastman, Zacheus Chandler, Sam
uel Haywood, John Hogg, Ebenezer Webster, Joseph Syraonds,
Sarauel Kiraball, Elias Boynton, Sarauel Moore, Ja
cob M<=Gaw, * Timothy Wortley, James Caldweh, Jon- * i P, & C, : 54
athan Martin, Abel Kiraball, William Forsyth,
Coroners for the County of Cheshire :
George Kimball, Isaac Hammond, James Philbrick, Daniel Chase,
Samuel Trott.
Coroners for the County of Grafton :
James Brown, Joshua Harris, Alexander Craige, Russeh Freeman,
Nathaniel Rogers, Uriah Stone, Joshua Young, Daniel Heath, Wih
iam George, Jesse Young, James Sawyer.
The foregoing nomination was made by advice of CouncU.
John M"Cleary.
Francis Blood,
Joseph Badger,
Nath'l Peabody.
Moses Chase,
* Tuesday, December 21", 1784, Present, His Exceh * t P. & C. : 55
lency & the whole of the Council.
Proceeded on the consideration of the appointment of officers,
Wednesday, December 22'^, 1784, Present as yesterday, and the
sarae Business under Consideration,
Thursday, December 23'', 1784, Present as yesterday, and the
same Business under Consideration.
Friday, December 24"', 1784, Present as yesterday, and the same
Business under consideration.
Saturday, December 25"', 1784. Present as yesterday.
His Excellency the President & Council appointed the Persons
hereafter named to the respective offices. Civil & MUitary, as herein
set down, viz. :
Hon'''* Samuel Livermore, Esq', Chief Justice,
Hon'''* Josiah Bartlett, ) tt . o • t ^•
\TiT-n- \%ru- 1 I Esq rs. Puisne Justices
William Whipple, V r ^, e • /-
T h F) HI (of the Superior Court,'
Hon'''* John SuUivan, Esq', Attorney-General,
_ '; This Court was constituted with the same membership as the one existing at the termination of the pro
visional government, except that Judge Leverett Hubbard (a lawyer) was superseded by Judge John Dudley.
Chief Justice Livermore was the only lawyer in the new Court, Judge Bartlett was a physician. Judge Whip
ple a merchant, and Judge Dudley a man of general business, wh ch had included farraing, miihng, and mer
chandising. All, however, had been of great service to the State in the cause nf independence, John Dud
ley's efforts had been less conspicuous, perhaps, than those of Livermore, Bartlett, and Whipple, who were
all nearly as well known in the Continental Congiessas in New Hampshire, but there is no doubt that he had
devoted himself most assiduously to the common cause as a member of the Committee of Safety, and well

2S8 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [17^4
* I P. & C. : 56 * COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM.
Hon"'* Nathaniel Folsom ^ ^ , j^^^^j^^^
Nathaniel Peabody, I ^ "^^^ ^^^^^.^^ ^ourt
Timf hy Walker, (^ Comraon Pleas.
Abiel Foster, J
Nathaniel Peabody, Esq', declining to accept the office of a Justice
of the Inferior Court as above naraed, John Calfe, Esq', is appointed
to that office,
John Parker, Esq', Sheriff,
Hon"'* Philips White, Esq', Judge of Probate, &c.
William Parker, Esq', Register of Probate.
COUNTY OF STRAFFORD,
Hon"'* George Frost, ^ j.^^^^j^^^ ^^ ^^^ j^,
John Plummer I J^^j^^ ^^^^ ^^
Ebenezer Smith f Common Pleas.
Thoraas Cogswell, J
Theophilus Dame, Esq', Sheriff.
Hon. Joseph Badger, Esq', Judge of Probate, &c,
John Wentworth, Esq', Register of Probate.
* I P, & C. : 57 * COUNTY OF HILLSBOROUGH.
Hon"'* Timothy Farrar, ^ p , T^jg^ices of
arauel Dana, I ,^1 t i • /- *.
T^ • -m J >the Interior Court
Prancis Blood, i r r- -di
y,, T, 1 J of Common Pleas.
Ebenezer Rockwood, j
Hon. Jonathan Blanchard, Esq', Judge of Probate, &c,
COUNTY OF CHESHIRE.
Hon"'* Siraeon Olcott, ^ ,
c 1 A Ul Esq rs. Justices ot the
Sarauel Ashley, I t x ¦ V , r /"
Benjarain Bellows, ^Ii^f^rior Court of Com-
Francis Smith, J "^°" ^^^^'-
Samuel Hunt, Esq'', Sheriff.
Thomas Sparhawk, Esq'', Judge of Probate, &c.
deserved the approval of his countrymen. It is s^id that during the Revoluiionary period he gave practically
his whole time to his ofEcial duties. Bartlett and Whipple were both signers of the Declaration of Independ
ence, and the several authors of Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence give a biographical
sketch of each. The latest biography of Judge Livermore is the Historical Address of Hon. Charles R.
Coming, Proceedings of the Grafton and Cobs Bar Association, Vol. i., p. 365 ; see also Vol- ii., p. 95, and
Collections of the N. H. Historical Society, Vol. v., p. 221. A biographical sketch of Judge Dudley is given
in Farmer and Moore's Historical Collections, Vol. ii., p. 42. An article on Josiah Bartlett in the " Granite
Monthly," Vol- vii., p. 353, by Hon. Danie! Rollins, is the result of much research. New and interesting
points on the life and character of Dr. Bartlett were also adduced in the proceedings at the dedication of the
Amesbury monument in 18S7. Many passages in the Memoir of Jeremiah Mason, the Life of Plumer, and
the life of Jeremiah Smith give contemporary opinions and criticisms of the courts of this period, as viewed
from the standpoint of the leading lawyers. The comments of Mr. Plumer (Life, p. 152) on the character of
Judge Dudley are particularly interesting and suggestive.

1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 259
COUNTY OF GRAFTON.
Hon"'* Charles Johnston, Esq', Judge of Probate, &c.
Moses Dow, Esq', Register of Probate, &c.
* MILITIA OFFICERS. * I P. & C. : 58
Hon"'* John Sullivan, Esq', Major GeneraL
Joshua Wentworth, ^^j
Joseph Cilley, 1 Esq'rs, Brigadier
John Hale, (Generals,
Benjamin Bellows, J
Joshua Wentworth, Esq', declining to accept the office of a Briga
dier General, The Hon"'* Woodbury Langdon, Esq', is appointed to
that office. First Regiment,
Pierse Long, Esq', Colonel, Portsmouth,
Mark Wiggin, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Stratham.
George Gains, Esq', Major, Portsmouth.
Stephen March, Esq', Second Maj', Greenland.
Second Regiment.
Theophilus Dame, Esq', Colonel, Dover,
Joseph M*Duffee, Esq', Lieu* Colonel, Rochester.
Jonathan Wentworth, Esq', Major, Somersworth.
James Carr, Esq', Second Major, Somersworth.
Third Regiment.
Moses Leavit, Esq', Colonel, North Hampton,
Jonathan Cram, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Hampton Falls,
Joseph Clifford, Esq', Major, Kensington.
John Dearborn, Esq', Second Major, Hampton.
* Fourth Regiment, * i P. & C, : 59
James Hill, Esq', Colonel, Newmarket.
Eliphalet Giddings, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Exeter.
Porter Kiraball, Esq', Major, Brentwood,
Benjamin Brown, Esq', Second Major, Epping,
Fifth Regiment.
Noah Lovewell, Esq', Colonel, Dunstable,
Samuel Chase, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Litchfield.
James Ford, Esq', Major, Nottingham West.
Robert Meins, Esq', Second Major, Araherst.

260 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^4
Sixth Regiment.
Reuben Alexander, Esq', Colonel, Winchester.
Oliver Capron, Esq', Lieu' Coh, Richmond.
Davis Howlett, Esq', Major, Keene.
Elisha Whhcomb, Second Maj', Swanzey.
Eighth Regiment.
George Reid, Esq', Colonel, Londonderry,
Daniel Reynolds, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Londonderry.
Daniel Colburn, Esq', Major, Pelham,
James GUman, Esq', Second Maj', Windham.
Ninth Regiment.
Moses Kelley, Esq', Colonel, Goffstown.
Samuel Page, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Weare.
William Boyes, Esq', Major, New Boston,
* I P. & C, : 60 *Tentli Regiment.
Ebenezer Smith, Esq', Colonel, Meredith.
Joseph Badger, Jun', Esq', Lieu' Coh, GUmantown,
Chase Taylor, Esq', Major, Sanborntown.
Richard Sinkler, Second Major, Barnstead,
Eleventh Regiment.
Thomas Stickney, Esq', Colonel, Concord,
Thirteenth Regiment.
Moses Dow, Esq', Colonel, Haverhill,
Joshua Howard, Esq', Lieu' Col°, Haverhill,
Azariah Webb, Esq', Major, Piermont,
Obadiah Clement, Esq', Second Maj', Warren,
Fourteenth Regiment.
David Webster, Esq', Colonel, Plyraouth.
Moses Baker, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Campton,
Alexander Craige, Esq', Major, Rumney.
Richard Shepard, Esq', Second Maj', New Holderness.
Fifteenth Regiinent.
Jonathan Chase, Esq', Colonel, Cornish.
Samuel Ashley, Jun', Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Claremont.
Moses Whipple, Esq', Major, Croydon.
Joseph KimbaU, Jr., Esq', Second Maj', Plainfield.

1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 261
Sixteenth Regiment.
WUliam Heyward, Esq', Colonel, Charlestown,
Amos Shephard, Esq', Lieu' Col°, Alstead,
Josiah Goldsmith, Esq', Major, Walpole.
SUas Wright, Esq', Second Major, Stoddard.
* Seventeenth Regiment, * i P. & C, : 6l
Nathaniel Emerson, Esq', Colonel, Candia,
WUham White, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Chester,
Eighteenth Regiment.
Thomas Bartlett, Esq', Colonel, Nottingham,
Michael M*Cleary, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Epsom.
Joseph March, Esq', Major, Deerfield,
John Harvey, Esq', Second Major, Northwood.
Nineteenth Regiment.
Jonathan Palmer, Colonel, Wakefield,
Nathan Hoit, Lieu', Colonel, Moultonborough.
Jacob Smith, Maj', Sandwich.
Joshua Heath, Second Major, Conway.
Twenty-first Regiment.
Samuel King, Esq', Colonel, Chesterfield,
George Aldrich, Esq', Lieu' Col°, Westmoreland.
Joseph Burt, Esq', Major, Westmoreland.
Jonathan Smith, Esq', Second Maj', Surrey.
Twenty- second Regiment.
Henry Gerrish, Esq', Colonel, Boscawen,
Twenty Fourth Regiinent.
Ebenezer Brewster, Esq'., Colonel, Hanover.
Ebenezer Green, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Lyrae.
Edmund "P'reeman, Esq', Major, Lebanon.
Sarauel Jones, Esq', Second Major, Canaan.
* Twenty Fifth Regiment. * i P, & C, : 62
Joseph Whipple, Esq', Colonel, Dartraouth,
Edwards Bucknara, Esq', Lieu' Colonel, Lancaster.
John Young, Esq', Major, Concord as Gunth.
Asa Bayley, Esq', 2'"', Major, Landaff.

262 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^4
Corps of Light Horsemen.
Hon. John Langdon, Esq', Brigadier General.
Justices of the Peace & of the Quorura throughout the State '
Hon. Sarauel Livermore, Esq', New Holderness.
Josiah Bartlett, Esq', Kingstown.
William Whipple, Esq', Portsmouth.
John Dudley, Esq', Raymond.
Thomas W. Waldron, Esq', Dover.
John SuUivan, Esq', Durham.
Matthew Thornton, Esq', Merrimac.
Nathaniel Folsom, Esq', Exeter
Ebenezer Thompson, Esq', Durham.
Jonathan Blanchard, Esq', Dunstable,
Sarauel Ashley, Esq', Claremont.
Benjamin Bellows, Esq', Walpole.
John M*Cleary, Esq', Epsom.
Francis Blood, Esq', Temple.
Joseph Badger, Esq', GUmantown.
Nathaniel Peabody, Esq', Atkinson.
Moses Chase, Esq', Cornish,
Woodbury Langdon, Esq', Portsmouth.
George Atkinson, Esq', Ditto.
Jonathan Moulton, Esq', Hampton.
Moses Dow, Esq', Haverhill.
* I P. & C, : 63 * Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum for the
County of Rockingham :
Richard Downing, Esq', Newington,
Samuel Penhallow, Esq', Portsmouth,
PhUlips White, Esq', South Hampton,
Tiraothy Walker, Esq', Concord,
1- The list of civil and military appointments made under the Constitution of 1784 by President Weare
and Council is probably the best index we have as to who were then regarded as representative men in the
State, Gov, William Plumer prepared biographical sketches of many who are named in these appointments.
His work is contained in five manuscript volumes, which his descendants have placed in the custody of the
New Hampshire Historical Society at Concord, A printed index to these biographies may be found in the
Proceedings of the Society, Vol. i,, p, 435- As to those who were connected with military imairs, the student
is referred to the biographical notes m Potter's Military History of New Hampshire, The index to the first
part of Judge Potter's notes is in the Adjutant General's Report (N, H,), 1866, Vol, ii,, p, xvii ; to the second
part. Adjutant General's Report (N. H,), 1868, p, xv. Many similar biographical notes are scattered along
through the preceding volumes of this series of Province and State Papers, The Town Histories are availa
ble as a source of much biographical data. The best catalogue of local New Hampshire history is the Bibli
ography of New Hampshire, " Granite Monthly," Vol, iv,, p, 2S8 Ct88i), Valuable titles could now
be added to that list, as several important contributions to our loca! history have been since brought out. Some
valuable biographical material is contained in the recently published histories or gazetteers of the several coun
ties. They, however, devote more attention to modern biography than to that which pertains to the period
covered by these journals. The Life of William Plumer, by his son, Boston, 1857; tlie Life of Jeremiah
Smith, LL, D., by John H, Morrison, Boston, 1845 i the Life of John Sullivan, by Thos, C, Amory, Bos
ton, 1868, throw much light on the men and measures of the times in which the distinguished subjects of tbose
works were active in public affairs.

784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL, 263
John Langdon, Esq', Portsmouth,
Sarauel Emerson, Esq', Chester.
Abiel Foster, Esq', Canterbury.
Joseph CiUey, Esq', Nottingham.
John Bell, Esq', Londonderry.
Sarauel Hale, Esq', Portsraouth.
Justices of the Peace for the County of Rockinghara :
Samuel Little, Esq', Hampstead,
Christopher Toppan, Esq', Hampton,
William Knight, Esq', Portsmouth,
Noah Emory, Esq', Exeter.
William Parker, Esq', Exeter,
Archelaus Moore, Esq', Canterbury.
John Calfe, Esq', Hampstead,
John Pickering, Esq', Portsmouth.
Thomas Bartlett, Esq', Nottingham.
Richard Bartlett, Esq', Perabrooke.
Joseph GUman, Esq', Exeter,
Mark Wiggin, Esq', Stratham,
Enoch Coffin, Esq', Epping.
Robert Wilson, Esq', Chester,
* James Gibson, Esq', Pelham, * i P, & C, : 64
William Morrill, Esq', Brentwood.
Samuel Weare, Esq', Harapton Falls,
Josiah Adaras, Esq', New Market.
Michael M*Cleary, Esq', Epsom.
John Blunt, Esq', Newcastle.
Ephraim Pickering, Esq', Newington.
Joseph Dow, Esq', Hampton.
Winthrop Gove, Esq', Seabrook,
Abraham Perkins, Esq', Epping,
Peter Green, Esq', Concord,
John Cram, Esq', Pittsfield.
Nathan Batcheldor, Esq', Loudon.
Josiah Gage, Esq', Pelham,
John Bryent, Esq', Bow,
Samuel Moores, Esq', Candia.
Jeremiah Eastman, Esq', Deerfield,
Jonathan Jenness, Esq', Northwood,
George Gains, Esq', Portsmouth,
Peter Clements, Esq', Atkinson.
Cleraent March, Esq', Greenland.
Samuel Daniel, Esq', Pembrook,

264 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1784
John T. Gilraan, Esq', Exeter
George Reid, Esq', Londonderry.
Josiah Gilman, Junr, Esq', Exeter
Jeremiah GUman, Esq', Plastow.
Joseph Pearson, Esq', Exeter.
Arch'' M*Murphy, Londonderry.
Jeremiah Fogg, Esq', Kensington.
*i P. & C, : 65 * Joseph March, Esq', Deerfield,
Josiah Flagg, Esq', Chester
Jabez Hoit, Esq', Chester.
John Allen, Esq', Salem.
Joseph Parsons, Esq', Rye,
Samuel Gilraan, Esq', Newmarket,
John Neal, Esq', Londonderry.
Jonathan Greely, Jun', Esq', East Kingston.
Ebenezer Clifford, Esq', Kensington.
Matthias Bartlett, Esq', Newtown.
Richard Jenness, Esq', Deerfield.
Moody Morse, Esq', Salem,
James Gilmore, Esq', Windham,
Thomas Page, Esq', Hawke.
Solomon Wheeler, Esq', Kingstown,
Justices of the Peace and of the Quorura for the County of Strafford.
George Frost, Esq', Durham,
Otis Baker, Esq', Dover.
John Plumraer, Esq', Rochester.
Moses Carr, Esq', Somersworth.
Ebenezer Smith, Esq', Meredith,
*i P, & C, : 66 * Justices of the Peace for the County of Strafford.
Henry Rust, Esq', Wolfborough,
Ichabod Rollins, Esq', Somersworth,
John Wentworth, Esq', Dover,
Joseph Sias, Esq', Lee,
Solomon Emerson, Esq', Madbury.
Simeon Dearborn, Esq', Wakefield.
Valentine Mathes, Esq', Durhara.
John Garland, Esq', Barrington.
Daniel Beede, Esq', Sandwich.
Thoraas Parsons, Esq', Effingham-.
James Knowles, Esq', Rochester.
Hercules Mooney, Esq', Lee.

I784J RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 265
David Page, Esq', Conway.
David Gilraan, Esq', Taraworth.
Joseph Roberts, Esq', New Durham Gore.
John Tasker, Esq'., Barnstead.
Thomas Cogeswell, Esq', GUmantown.
Joshua Wingate, Esq', Dover.
Joseph Badger, Jun'., Esq', Gilmantown.
Benning Moulton, Esq', New Hampton.
Samuel Hale, Jun', Esq', Barrington.
* I P. & C. : 67 * Justices of the Peace & of the Quorum for the
County of Hilsborough.
Jonathan LoveweU, Esq', Dunstable.
Matthew Patten, Esq', Bedford.
James Underwood, Esq', Litchfield.
John Hale, Esq', Holies.
Tiraothy Farrar, Esq', New Ipswich.
Jeremiah Page, Esq', Dunbarton.
Moses Nichols, Esq', Amherst.
John Stark, Esq', Derryfield.
Justices of the Peace for the County of Hilsborough.
George Jackman, Esq', Boscawen.
Isaac Andrews, Esq', Hilsborough.
Robert McGregore, Esq', Goffestown.
Joseph Bartlett, Esq', Sahsbury.
Noah Worcester, Esq', HoUes.
William Smith, Esq', Peterborough.
John Robie, Esq', Weare.
Joshua Bayley, Esq', Hopkinton.
Benjamin Mann, Esq', Mason.
John Cockran, Jun', Esq', New Boston.
John Duncan, Esq', Antrim.
Moses Little, Esq', Goffstown.
Peter Clark, Esq', Lyndeborough.
Wihiam Abbott, Jun', Esq', Wihon.
Jonathan Weare, Esq', Andover.
Ebenezer Rockwood, Esq', WUton.
John Preston, Esq', New Ipswich.
* Jonathan Searle, Esq', Mason. * i P. ^ C. :|68
Henry Gerrish, Esq', Boscawen.
Daniel Eraerson, Jun', Esq', Hollis.
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Samuel PhUbrick, Esq', Weare,
Samuel Marsh, Esq', Nottingham West.
Justices of the Peace, & of the Quorura for the County of Cheshire.
Samuel Chase, Esq', Cornish.
Simeon Olcott, Esq', Charlestown.
Enoch Hale, Esq', Rindge.
Justices of the Peace for the County of Cheshire,
Francis Sraith, Esq', Plainfield.
Thomas Sparhawk, Esq', Walpole.
Joseph Greenwood, Esq', Dublin.
Thomas Baker, Esq', Keene.
Calvin Frink, Esq', Swanzey.
Moses Whipple, Esq', Croydon.
John Hubbard, Esq', Charlestown.
Charles Huntoon, Esq', Unity.
Abel Stevens, Esq', Grantham.
Absalom Kingsbury, Esq', Alstead.
Daniel Newcombe, Esq', Keene.
Michael Cressey, Esq', Chesterfield.
John Bellows, Esq', Walpole.
Jonathan Hildrith, Esq', Chesterfield,
Oliver Capron, Esq', Richmond.
* I P. & C, : 69 * Sanford Kingsbury, Esq', Claremont.
Oliver Ashley, Esq', Claremont.
John Doolittle, Esq', Westmorland.
Lemuel Holmes, Esq', Surry.
WiUiara Ripley, Esq', Cornish.
Samuel Kendall, Esq', Fitzwilliam.
Samuel Griffen, Esq', Packersfield.
Jacob Copeland, Esq', Stoddard.
Justices of the Peace & of the Quorum for the County of Grafton.
Samuel Emerson, Esq', Plyraouth,
Beza' Woodward, Esq', Hanover,
Elisha Payne, Esq', Lebanon,
Joseph Whipple, Esq', Dartmouth,
Justices of the Peace for the County of Grafton,
Daniel Brainard, Esq', Rumney,
Charles Johnston, Esq', Haverhil.

784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 267
Enoch Page, Esq', Wentworth.
Francis Worcester, Esq', Plymouth,
James Woodward, Esq', Haverhil.
Edwards Bucknam, Esq', Lancaster.
Jeremiah Eames, Esq', Northumberland.
Joshua Copp, Esq', Warren.
Thomas RusseU, Esq', Piermont.
* Joshua Tolford, Esq', Alexandria. * i P, & C. : 70
Carr Huse, Esq', New Chester.
Davenport Phelps, Esq', Orford.
Moses Baker, Esq', Campton,
Jonathan Child, Esq', Lyme.
William Ayer, Esq', Canaan.
John Rogers, Esq', Plymouth.
Jonathan Blake, Esq', Landaff.
Elihu Hide, Esq', Lebanon.
Jacob Hurd, Esq', Bath,
Noah Worcester, Jun', Esq', Thornton,
Jonathan Freeman, Esq', Hanover,
Jesse Johnson, Jun', Esq', Enfield.
Coroners for the County of Rockingham.
Jeremiah Libbey 1 t> 4. ^u
i, . , J ^, -' y Portsmouth.
Richard Champney J
Simon Wiggin, Stratham.
Jonathan Garland, Hampton.
Sam' Folsom, Exeter.
Simon Jenness, Rye.
Simonds Seccomb, Kingstown.
Henry Butler, Nottingham.
James Grey, Epsora,
Jonathan Eastman, Concord,
* Joseph Gregg, Londonderry. * i P, & C. : 71
Moses Shaw, Kensington.
Jacob Chase, Chester.
John Dow, Jun', Atkinson.
Daniel Page, Deerfield.
Nehemiah Wheeler, Epping.
Nathaniel Kimball, Plaistow.
William Duty, Salera,
Eliphalet Poor, Hampstead.
Robert Young, Pelham.

268 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178.
Coroners for the County of Strafford.
Andrew Torr, Dover,
Joseph Stevens, Durham,
John Cate, Barrington.
Jabez Dame, Rochester,
Edward GUman, Jun', Gilmantown.
Nathaniel Shannon, Moultonboro'.
Timothy Medar, Tamworth.
James Hearsey, Sandborntown.
John GUman, Meredith.
Thomas Chadbourne, Conway.
Avery Hall, Wakefield.
Eleazer Davis, New Durham Gore.
Jaraes Brackett, Lee.
Samuel Kielle, Madbury.
* I P. & C. : 72 * Coroners for the County of HUsborough.
Augustus Blanchard, Amherst.
Jonathan Eastman, Holies.
Zacheus Chandler, Bedford.
Samuel Heywood, New Ipswich.
John Hogg, Dunharton.
Ebenezer Webster, Salisbury.
Joseph Symonds, Hilsborough.
Samuel Kimball, Henneker.
Elias Boynton, Temple.
Samuel Moore, Peterborough.
Jacob McGaw, Merrimac.
Timothy Wortley, Weare.
James Caldwell, New Boston.
Jonathan Martin, Wilton.
Abel Kiraball, Hopkinton.
William Forsyth, Dearing.
Coroners for County of Cheshire.
George KimbaU, Charlestown.
Isaac Hammond, Swanzey.
James PhUbrick, Rindge.
Daniel Chase, Cornish.
Samuel Trott, Walpole.

1784] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL, 269
* Coroners for the County of Grafton, * i P, & C. : 73
Jaraes Brown, Stratford.
Joshua Harris, Canaan.
Alexander Craige, Ruraney.
Russell Freeman, Hanover.
Nathaniel Rogers, Orford.
Uriah Stone, Piermont,
Joshua Young, Haverhill.
Daniel Heath, New Chester.
William George, Plymouth.
Jesse Young, Concord as Gunth''.
James Sawyer, Landaff,
The foregoing appointments were made by and with advice of
Council John McCleary
Francis Blood
Joseph Badger
Nath' Peabody
Moses Chase.
* I P. & C. : 74 * Dec'. 1784 Ordered the Treas' to pay the fol
lowing Soldiers viz
Michael Sudrick Twelve pounds, sixteen shillings &
eight pence and ........
John Gray Sixteen pounds, one shilling and one penny
— Deprecia'" ' in 1781
William Ferguson fifteen pounds six shillings & one
penny — Dep'° in 1 779 
The selectmen of Barrington Six pounds twelve shil
lings — travel money paid sundry Soldiers to Spring
field in 1781. as '^ acco' on file .....
Benjamin Perkins four pounds three shillings & four
pence — 3 '"° Service in 178 1
Joseph Davis, Seventeen pounds one shilling & six
pence — Deprecia'" in 1 78 1 .
Thomas Colby Seven pounds twelve shillings, 6 "'°
man in 1781 ........
^- The " depreciation '* which was so frequently under consideration at this period was the difference in
the nominal value of the paper emission of the govemment and its real value as measured by the specie stan-
liard. When the ratio was as seventy to one, tne purchasing power of the paper currency was inconsiderable,
and, as the ability to recompense the soldiers and others who had suffered from this cause came to the States
with the return of peace and a measure of prosperity, it was but just that their claims should engross a liberal
share of the attention of the General Court.

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Thomas Severance, five pounds three shillings &
threepence — Depreciation 1780 . , , . 5,, 3,, 3
Jonathan Buzzell, Twentythree pounds sixteen shil
lings & 6'', Dep'° 1780  23,, i6„ 6
and five pounds one shilling and four pence for De
preciation in 1781 .  S» i„ 4
Enoch Dockum Sixty two pounds fourteen shillings
previous to 1780 ........ 62,, 14,, o
Two pounds nineteen shillings — for 1780 . . 2,, 19,, o
and fourteen pounds eight shillings & eight pence
for Depreciation in 1781 . . . . . 14,, 8„ 8
Ebenezer Scribner fath' of Ebeh' Scribner Seventeen
pounds eleven shUlings & six pence for the year
1781  17,, II., 6
*i P. & C, : 75 * Edward Leathers, fath' of Edw^
Leathers Seventeen pounds two shil
lings and four pence for Depreciat" in 1777 & 1778 . 17,, 2,, 4
Samuel Dalton Twenty six shillings & eight pence
for Deprecia'" in 1780  i„ 6„ 8
[Dec] 29 Ordered the Treas' to Issue a Note on Inter
est payable in one year from the date thereof in favor
of Abigail Badger late the wid° of the late Capt. Beal
for one hundred & eighty pounds .... i8o„ o„ o
Also one in favor of Wihiam Badger guardian to the
Children of the late Capt, Beal for Three hundred and
Twenty four pounds in full for Seven years half — '^
vote of 10 Nov' 1784  324,, o„ o
Ordered the Treasurer to issue a Note in favor L'
John Orr for Sixty pounds in full for hah pay as an In
valid Pensioner from 27 Sept. 1783 to 27 Dec' 1784 — 6o„ o„ o
1785. Jan. 4, — Ordered the Treasurer to pay the
Heir of Isaac Carkin Eleven pounds fourteen shillings,
& four pence for 1779  ii„ 14,, 4
Twenty three pounds thirteen shUlings for Dep'" in
1780 
and thirteen pounds thirteen shillings in 1 78 1 .
Also to pay the Heir of the late Ephraim Stevens,
Fifty pounds ten shillings & five pence for Depreciation
in 1777 1778 & 1779 
And five pounds five shillings & four pence
Ordered the Treas' to pay the travel & attend* of the
Hon. CouncU from Nov' 8 to Dec' 28'" 1 784 araounting
to fifty two pounds nineteen shiUings .... 52,, 19,, 0

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* I P. & C. : 76 * January 5, 1785, Ordered the
Treasurer to pay the Hon. Leverett
Hubbard Esq. seventy pounds in full for his Services as
one of the Puisne Judges of the Sup Court for the
year 1784  70,, o„ o
The following orders were drawn on the Treasurer in favor of
Jacob Judkins for Seven pounds nine shillings &
four pence .,,.,,.,.
Nicholas S. Hoyt for Six pounds seventeen shUlings
& four pence, 6 ™° Men in 1 78 1 
[Jan] II. The heirs of Job Jenness for five pounds
five shillings — Deprecia'" in 1777 ....
Zechariah Quinby for Twelve pounds four shillings
& three pence — Deprec'" in 1 78 1 ....
Will™ Rhines for Sixteen pounds ten shillings & eight
pence, Deprec'" in 1781
Josiah Eastman for fourteen pounds eighteen shil
lings & eight pence, Dep'" in 178 1 ....
[Jan.] 13. Jacob Annes for Six pounds eight shil
lings Sz: five pence — 3™° Man in 1780 —
Edw"* Burrows for four pounds, three shills & four
pence — 3"° man , . . . . . ' .
Joseph Stevens for four pounds three shUlings &
four pence — 3""° Man .......
Glocester Watson for three pounds nine shills & ten
pence .........
And to Jon^ Quinby for four pounds six shills & eight
pence for Deprec'" 1780
* I P. &. C. : 77 * January 14 — 1785.
Simon Hutchins for thirty two pounds six shill^^ —
Dep*" in 1777 & 1778 
I ys. WiUiam Hunt for Eighteen pounds six shils &
eight pence .........
I ys. Jon^ Morse for Twenty pounds eight shillings &
five pence .........
I ys. Tho^ Hardy for Twenty pounds eight shils^ &
five pence for Depre'" in 1778 & 79 .
[Jan.] 19. Joseph Eaton Kenniston for six pounds
two shiUings, 3""" Manin 1 78 1 
[Jan.] 20, Samson Buttes for four pounds eighteen
shillings & four pence 3"° Seiwice ....
Tho^ Williams for Six pounds two shUs= & eight
pence — 6""° Man in 178 1 

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The Town of Wakefield for Twenty pounds seventeen
shillings & one penny, for provisions supplied sol'''^ in
1778 & 79 . .  20,, 17,, I
[Jan.] 22. The heirs of Joshua Wilson for Twenty
three pounds sixteen shillings & six pence for the
year 1780 .........
& Twenty pounds sixteen shih= for 1781 .
The Heirs of John Small for Thirty pounds and eight
pence, for Dep'" to 1 780 ......
& Six pounds fourteen shils & eight pence for Dep'"
in 1780 
Tho^ Hanscomb for thirteen pounds seventeen shils^
for Dep'" in 1777 & 78 
The Heirs of Jon^ Doe Eighteen pounds eleven shU
Ungs & eight pence for Depreciation in 1777 &
1778  i8„ ii„ 8
* I P. & C. : 78 * January 22, 1785,
Timothy Kimball Twenty pounds sixteen shUs= for
Deprec'" in 1 78 1  20,, i6„ o
* January 24, 1785,
Ordered the Treasurer to issue a Note in favor of
Lieut, Andrew M*Gaffey for Thirty two pounds in full
for one third of monthly pay as an Invalid pensioner
from the i Nov' 1783 to i Nov' 1784 .... 32,, o„ o
[Jan,] 26, Also to issue a Note in favor of Samuel
Boyd for Six pounds in fuh as an Invalid Pensioner from
the 3 Dec 1783 to 3"' Dec' 1784 at los per month , 6,, o„ 0
[Jan,] 28. The Treasurer was ordered to pay the fol
lowing sums viz. in favor of Eliphalet Norris for Twenty
Eight shUlings and two pence for Deprec'" in 1780 . i„ 8„ 2
Jon^ Taylor for nine pounds seventeen shillings &
four pence .... ....
Ammi Choate nine pounds seventeen shUlings &
four pence .........
Joseph MorriU Eight pounds one shiUing & fourpence
— and — •••......
Benjamin Libbey Seven pounds eight shils^ being 6""°
Soldiers in 1781 .
Also John Cotton Eight pounds twelve shUlings for
the like service in 1781  8 12 0

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[Jan,] 30, Jethro Barber Seventeen pounds fifteen
shillings for Depreciation in 1781 . , , , 17,, 15,, o
Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note in favor of Hugh
Dunshee for thirty two pounds eleven shillings & six
pence with In' frora 7"' AprU 1780. Adjust""' of his
Deraand against the estate of Col. Step" Holland as
certified by the Judge of Probate. ^ Act of i March,
1783 • ^  32,, ii„ 6
* I P. & C. : 79 * January 30"' 1785,
Betsey Chase wid° of Nathaniel Chase for fourteen
pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, for Depre'" in
1777 & 78 
Twenty five shillings & five pence for 1780 .
And fifty three shillings & eleven pence for the
year 1781 
Mary Straw the Sister of Benj^ Straw for Twenty two
pounds seven shillings for Depreciation in 1777 &
1778 
[Jan.] 31. Ordered the Treas' to pay John Mclntyer
five pounds three shillings & three pence
And Samuel Mitchel Eighteen pounds eight shiUings,
Depreciat" in 1780 .......
Ordered the Treasurer to issue a Note on Interest
payable in one year from the date thereof in favor of
Jon^ WooUey for Twelve pounds in full for half pay as
an Invalid pensioner from i Jan^ 1784 to i Jan^ 1785 . 12,, o,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Eph" Alley Twenty two
pounds seventeen shillings & eight pence — Dep'" in
1779 & 1780  22,, 17,, o
February i=' 1785.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay the foUowing Sums
viz : in favor of
The Heirs of John Smith for five pounds eleven shh
lings & ten pence, Dep'" in 1778 & 1779 . . • S„ II,. 10
Twenty three pounds sixteen shiUings & six pence
for the year 1780  23,, 16,, 6
And Twenty pounds fourteen shUlings & five pence
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* I P. & C, : 80 * February 2'' 1785.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay the following suras,
viz in favor of
Levi Stickney for five pounds eleven shillings and
fourpence, Deprecia'" in 1780 .....
Zechariah Kelsy Seven pounds nineteen shUlings for
Depreciation in 1780 .......
Jane Crawford Heir of Robert Crawford Twenty one
pounds seven shillings & sixpence for Depreciation in
1777 & 78 
Benjamin Barnett Eight pounds thirteen shil^^ &
seven pence ........
And John Barnett Eight pounds, thirteen shillings
& seven pence — 3"° Men in Capt. Runnels Company .
Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note on Interest in
favor of Aaron Smith, Ens", payable in one year from
the date thereof for twenty seven pounds in full for
half pay from the i June 1784 to the i Feb^ 1785
[Feb.] 7. Ordered the Treas' to pay John Rowen
nine pounds two shiUings & five pence, Depreciation in
1780 
Samuel Saunders Seventeen pounds three shillings &
fourpence — Dep'" in 1781 .
[Feb.] 12. Samuel Kempton Seventeen pounds fif
teen shillings & one penny. Dep in 178 1
[Feb,] 14, Charles Lynde, Eight pounds sixteen shil
lings & eight pence, Dep. in 1777 ....
William Laiken an Invalid, twelve pounds in full for
half pay to 4 Dec 1 784 
* I P. & C. : 81 * February 15, 1785.
Phinehas Wright fifty pounds two shUlings & one
penny, Dep'" to 1780 ......
and seven pounds nine shihings and eight pence in
1780 
Andrew Kanghow eight pounds eighteen shillings
& eight pence  8„ i8„ 8
and William Ordway nine pounds thirteen shiUings
&fourpence — 6 "" raan in 178 1 . . . .9,, 13,, 4
[Feb] 16 Reuben Spencer an Invalid Ninety six
pounds in full for half pay from 1=' Jan^ 1777 to i Jan^
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WUl™ Eastraan Six pounds eight shiUings & eleven
pence — Dep 1780  6„ 8„ 11
Barth° Stevens Twenty six shUlings & eight pence,
Dep'" in 1780 
Joseph Hoit five pounds six shils & 6^ .
Nathan Carter five pound six & six pence 3 ™° Men
[Feb] 17. Henry Snow deceasd forty six pounds
6 shiUings & four pence — Dep' to 1780
James Barnes five pounds nine shiUings & nine
pence — Dep'" in 1780 
Benj^ Dole fifteen pounds five shills^ & seven pence.
Dep' in 1 78 1
Jeremiah Carter five pounds six shUlings & six pence
3 ""= man 
Arch'' McMillan an Invalid six pounds in full as
pensioner at 10^ ^ ™° to the 10"' June 1784.
Amos Royce fourteen pounds twelve shUlings —
Dep'" in 177781 1778 
Joel Royce seven pounds fifteen shilh^ & eleven
pence, Dep'" in 1780 .......
* I P. & C, : 82 * February 18"' 1785
Samuel Danforth five pounds sixteen shUlings. Dep'"
in 1780  5,, 16,, o
Jaraes Jackson fath' of Daniel, nineteen pounds six
shUlings & eight pence, Dep'" in 1777 & 78 . . 19,, 6,, 8
Wih" Lear the fath' of Will™ Twenty pounds ten
shills^ — Dep'° in 1777 & 78  20,, io„ o
Will™ Grant fath' of Daniel, Eight pounds , . 8„ o„ o
Charles Sargent father of John, Sixteen pounds sev
enteen shillings & five pence. Dep. 1781 . . . 16,, 17,, 5
Ordered the Treas' to pay the Hon'''* George Atkin
son ten pounds, two shillings arao' of his [bill] for pro
viding a State Seal ....... io„ 2,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay John Sparhawk four
pounds for two books, '^ vote 10 Feb^ . . -4), o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay the Roll of L' Meshech
Bell araounting to Sixty pounds ; .... 6o„ o„ o
Also his Acco' for wood amounts to four pounds. '^
vote of II Feby 1785  4,, o,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Jon^ Eliott forty shiUings
¦^ vote of 12 Feby 1785  2,, o„ o

276 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [178S
Ordered the Treas' to pay John Duncan Esq' Three
pounds eighteen shillings for time & expenses in hold
ing raeetings in unincorporated places, 'p vote 12
Feby 1785  3„ i8„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Sarauel Lowell Six pounds
¦^ vote 12 Feb, 1785  6„ o„ o
Also Ehjah Grout Esq. Sixty six pounds four shU
lings & three pence. Bah* of his Acco' '^ vote 1 5""
Feby 1785  66„ 4„ 3
Also Capt. Aaron Kinsraan five pounds four shil
lings amount of his Acco' 'p vote of 15"' Feby 1785 . S„ 4„ 0
* I P. & C. : 83 * 18 February 1785.
Ordered the Treas' to pay Samuel Fowler thirty shil
lings — Journey to No, 4 in 1777 — . . . • i,, io„ 0
John Holbrook forty five pounds in full of all his
Claims for supplying Soldiers at Coos, f! vote 18 Feby
1785 
I year, Simon Pope, Twenty two pounds four shil
lings & eight pence — Dep' 1780 ....
I year. Oliver Clough Twenty two pounds thirteen
shillings — Dep'° in 1 780 
Samuel Sargent nine pounds six shiUings & four
pence. Dept" in 1780 
The Town of Keene Three pounds one shilling & six
pence J penny hard money ......
& one pound, seven shillings & eleven pence New
Emission for taxes laid on the Estate of Elijah WUhams
an Absentee for the year 1781 & 1782 ....
Also Twenty two pounds nineteen shihings & three
pence | silver money .......
& ten pounds nine shillings New Emission for taxes
on land of Josiah Pomeroy an Absentee for the years
1782 & 1783  io„ 9„ 0
The Town of Hollis seventeen shiUings & two pence
i for taxes laid on land of Col. Will™ Brown an Ab
sentee in 1782  o 17,, 2i
19 Feby 1785 Ordered the Treas' to pay John Swan
Eleven pounds eighteen shiUings & eight pence De
prec'" in 1780  11^^ i8„ 8
James Taggart thirteen pounds six shUls & eight
pence Dep'" in 1780  13,, 6„ 8

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WUl™ Grant, Ten pounds thirteen shiUings & seven
pence — Dep'" in 1780 ......
Addition travel Roll of Gen' Court forty nine shU
lings & four pence ....
*iP. &C, :84 *I9"> Feby 1785, Mary Bearce
wid° of Andrew Bearce ten pounds
five shUls & nine pence Dep 1777 ....
Ehphalet Sias Six pounds eight shillings & eight
pence — Capt. Smith's Co 1781 ,
22'' Feby 1785, David Hazeltine eleven pounds two
shils^ & seven pence, Dep' in 1780 ....
and to Humphrey Cram Eleven pounds six shUlings
& eight pence for the same year .....
L' Tho^ Simpson an Invahd fifty seven pounds thir
teen shiUings & four pence at one quarter part of
monthly pay from 21 Sept. 1782 to 18'" 1785. '^ vote
18 Feby 1785 
Nich^ NicoUe eighty six shils & four pence
24"^ February 1785. Hugh Montgoraery father of
Martin, thirteen pounds seven shUlings & seven pence
for Depreciation in 1777 & 1778 ....
Daniel Shepherd five pounds six shils^ & six pence
3 ™° Man in 1781 
Bridget Hudson Wid° of Benjarain Hudson thirty
two shillings Dep'" in 1777 ......
Jon* FuUer Seven pounds eighteen shils^ & five pence
— Dep'" in 1777 
3 March 1785, Submit Bartlett the mother of Moses
Gould Eight pounds thirteen shillings & two pence for
Depreciation in 1777 & 1778 .....
Asa Shurtliff fifteen pounds two shillings Six months
Man in 1780 . 
Paul Sanborn fifty shiUings & eight pence Deprecia
tion in 1780 ... 
* I P. & C. : 85 * 3'' March 1785.
John Rogers Eight pounds five shUlings & seven
pence for Dep'" in 1 78 1  8„ 5,, 7
Ordered the Treas' to pay the Rohs for travel &
Attendance of the Gen' Court at the Sessions in Feby
last ; The Senate Roll Amounting to Eighty one pounds
eight shUhngs and four pence . . . . . 8i„ 8„ 4

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& the travel Roh of the House amounting to One
Hundred & thirty three pounds five shUlings & eight
pence .....••••'
To pay Jeremiah Eames for himself Sz; Elijah Blod
get Twenty one pounds twelve shilhngs for so much paid
to Indians at Coos in 178 1  21,, 12,, o
To pay Capt, Lemuel Holraes Thirty pounds toward
his sufferings whUe a prisoner at New York to be ac
counted for ,.....••• 30,, o„ o
To pay Joseph Jones Col" of Proprietors taxes_ for
the Town of Ruraney Twenty one pounds nine shillings
for Taxes on lands of Sarauel Holland Esq. an Ab
sentee . . . . . • • • • 21,, 9„ o
To pay Ebenezer Thompson Esq, Secretary forty
pounds as a Salary for the current year — . . . 40,, o„ o
To pay Maj' Jon^" ChUd, Seventy five pounds ten
shillings Sz: nine pence. The balance of his Acco'
against this State  7S„ ^o,, 9
To pay the Rev"' M' Shuttleworth thirty shUlings as
Chaplain to the Gen' Court in Feb'y 1785 . . • i„ io„ o
To pay Nicholas Nichole four pounds three shillings
& eight pence, transportation of public papers frora
Exeter to Concord Sz:c expen Ace"' . . . • 4„ 3,, 8
To pay Timothy Walker Esq. Twenty pounds — . 20,, o„ 0
* I P. & C. : 86 *4"' March, 1785.
To pay John Calfe Esq, Six pounds for recording and
copying for the press, the Journals of the House of
Representatives. ^ vote of 24 Feb, 1785 , . .6,, o,, o
To pay the Hon, Judge Livermore Twelve pounds for
attending the Gen' Court & draughting Bills &c, "^
vote of 24 Feb, 1785, Order drawn in Feby last but
not called for till May 3*, Enter^ twice thr" mistake , 12,, o„ 0
To pay Caleb Buswell sixty three shillings for atten
dance as Doorkeeper on the House of Rep , , -3,, 3,, o
To pay Joseph Pearson Seventy one shillings for
money advanced by him for use of the State , . 3,, 1 1 „ o
To pay Nicholas NicoUe sixty three shillings for
time & expenses in waiting on the Senate in Feby
178S  3„ 3„ 0
To pay Elizabeth White wid° of Jaraes White Twenty
two pounds seventeen shUlings and sixpence — Dep'" in
1777 & 1778  22,, 17,, 6

1785] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 279
To pay Elizabeth Daniels Wid* of Nath' Daniels
Seven pounds Sz: ten pence, Dep. in 1777 Sz: 1778. , 7,, o,, 10
To pay Jaraes Bowley fifty five shillings and ten
pence, Dep'" in 1780,  2,, 15,, 10
and twenty pounds fifteen shihings Sz: two pence
in 1781  20,, 15,, 2
To pay Mary WoodaU the Sister of Tiraothy Wood-
all fourteen pounds, nineteen shillings and eight pence,
Depret" in 1777 & 1778  14,, 19,, 8
To pay Samuel Wentworth father of Daniel Went
worth Nineteen pounds eighteen shillings S: eight pence,
Dep in 1777 & 1778  19,, i8„ 8
4th March 1785, Ordered the Treasurer to pay
Timothy Curtis, Twenty four pounds fourteen shihings
& eight pence for Dept" in 1777 Sz: 1778 . . . 24,, 14,, 8
To pay Lucy Fay Wid° of Joseph Fay twenty eight
pounds ten shillings for Depreciation in 1 777 . . 28,, io„ o
To pay Sargent Amasa Parker thirty one pounds
four shillings. Dep'" in 1781 . . . . . 31,, 4,, o
* I P. Sz: C. : 87 * 5"' March, 1785.
Ordered the Treas' to pay Edmund Chadwick Surgeon,
one hundred & sixty eight pounds sixteen shillings
for Dep'" in 1 777 Sz: 1 778  i68„ i6„ o
To pay the heir of Thomas Duncan twenty two
pounds two shils^ for Dep'" in 1777 & 1778 . . . 22,, 2,, o
To pay the heir of Luther Wheatley five pounds six
shils= for Dep'" in 1 777  5„ 6„ o
[Nov.] 9. Ordered the Treasurer to pay Charles
McCoy a 6™° Man in 1780 Seventeen pounds fourteen
shillings for wages &c . . . . . . . 17,, 14,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay the heir of John Dorr
Seven pounds eleven shillings & four pence, Dep'" in
1777  • . 7., II., 4
Ordered the treas' to pay Sam' Hodgdon nineteen
[pounds] one shilling Dep'" in 1780, . . . . 19,, i„ o
and eighteen pounds sixteen shillings for Deprec'" in
1781  18,, 16,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Joseph Stevenson fifteen
pounds nineteen shillings Sz: four pence for Depreciation
in 1781  15,, 19,, 4
[Nov.] 16. Ordered the Treas' to pay His Excellency

280 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. ['785
Two hundred pounds for his Salary for the present year,
¦p vote of 9"^ Nov' 1 784  200,, o„ o
[Mar] 17. Ordered the Treas' to pay the following
snms in favor of, Benjamin Putnam Twenty two pounds,
eighteen shillings & eight pence for Dep'" in 1780 . 22,, 18,, 8
John Row Twenty pounds eight shils, Dep'" 1781 . 20,, 8„ o
Capt. Daniel Reynolds one hundred Sz: twenty one
pounds one shils & six pence for Dep'" in 1778 . . 121,, i,, 6
Capt" Ezekiel Gile one hundred & twenty pounds
fourteen shUh^ for Dep'" in 1778. C^ vote of Feby
1785-)  I20„ 14,, o
* I P. Sz: C, : 88 * March 17'" 1785.
Ordered the Treas to pay the following sums viz :
To L' Brackett Towle eighty one pounds one shil
ling Sz: eight pence for Dep'" in 1 778 .... 81,, i„ 8
To Lieut. Jonathan Leavitt Eighty one pounds six
shillings for Dep'" in 1778  8i„ 6„ 0
To L' Jacob Elliot Seventy five pounds eighteen shil
lings and eight pence. Dep'" 1778 . . . . 75,, 18,, 8
To Robert McMurphy L', Sixty pounds, fifteen shil
lings & seven pence for Dep'" in 1778 . . . . 6o„ 15,, 7
To Capt, Samuel Dearborn, One hundred and twenty
one pounds one shilling and sixpence for Dep'" in 1775 121,, i„ 6
To Col. Geo. Reid Sixty three pounds two shillings
and four pence for Deprec'" in 1 78 1 .... 63,, 2,, 4
To Isaac Davis Twenty pounds ten shiUings Sz: nine
pence for Dep'" in 178 1  20,, io„ 9
To Samuel Houston fifty eight pounds nine shillings
for Depreciation in 1777, 1778, & 1779 • • • S8„ 9,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Gen' Sullivan, Three hun
dred Sz: twelve pounds nineteen shihings Sz: seven
pence. Bah* of his ace* as Delegate Sz:c to Congress in
1780 & 81. f vote of Feby 1785 .... 312,, 19,, 7
To Abraham Senter for Deprec'" to 1780 forty one
pounds eight shillings  41,, S„ o
Sz: for 1780 seventeen shillings St four pence . . o„ 17,, 4
To Josiah Calley for Dep'" in 1780 thirty seven shih
lings & four pence  i^, 17^^ 4
To John Taggart for Dep'" in 1780 twelve shillings
Sz: six pence  o„ 12,, 6
To Henry Sellingham for Dep'" in 1778 Sz: 1779 nine
teen pounds two shUhngs Sz: five pence . . . 19,, 2,, 4

1785] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 28 1
and for Dep'" in 1780 Six pounds, eight shillings &
nine pence . . . . . . . . . 6„ 8„ 9
* Wednesday March 16''' 1785. Agreeably to a sum- * i P. & C. : 89
mons from his Excellency the President the Hon*"'*
John McCleary, Joseph Badger, Francis Blood & Moses Chase,
Esqr's of the Council attended at Exeter, His Excellency the Presi
dent being sick did not attend.
Thursday March 17"' His Excellency the President not being able
to attend, the council present as yesterday spent the day in adminis
tering the oaths to such officers civil & military as attended for that
purpose. Friday March 18"^ the CouncU present as yesterday with the addi
tion of the Hon'* Nath' Peabody Esq', Sz: having received a Summon
from His Excellency the President requiring their attendance on him
at Hampton Falls repaired to that place.
Hampton Falls, the same day, present His Excellency the Presi
dent and the whole of the Council. And nominated the foUowing
named persons for officers Civil & Military as respectively set down
viz : Timothy Ladd, Eliphalet Poor, and Samuel Jenness Esq'=, as
Justices of the Peace for the County of Rockingham.
WiUiam Weeks Esq' as a Justice of the Peace & of the Quorum
for the said County of Rockingham,
* I P, & C. : 90 Samuel Eraerson '^ C Justices of the In-
Elisha Payne I ^ > I ferior Court of Com-
Bezaleel Woodward j " j mon Pleas for the
James Woodward J [County of Grafton.
David Webster Esq' Sheriff for the County of Grafton.' Jaraes
Underwood Esq' for one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas for the County of Hillsborough in the room & stead
of Samuel Dana Esq' who was appointed and declined accepting that
office. Jereraiah Page Esq' for one of the Justices of the Inferior
Court of Coraraon Pleas for the county of Hilsboro in the room Sz:
stead of Ebenezer Rockwood Esq' who was appointed and declined
accepting that office. Nathaniel Peabody Esq' Brigadier General to
comraand the Corps of Horsemen, to which nomination the subscrib
ers did advise and consent. Francis Blood,
Joseph Badger,
Moses Chase.
Further proceeded in the nomination and nominated Moses Kelley
Esq' as Sheriff for the County of HiUsborough.
19 !¦ Biography, Farmer and Moore, Historical Collections, vol. 3, 270.

282 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
* I P. & C. : 22 * Francis Blood Esq' as Colonel of the Twelfth
Regiment. Phillip Putnam Esq' as Lieutenant Col°
of said Regiraent. Ezra Town Esq' as Major of said Regiment.
Samuel Gregg Esq' as second Major of said Regiment, to which
nominations the subscribers did advise Sz: consent. John McCleary,
Joseph Badger,
Nath' Peabody,
Moses Chase.
Then proceeded & nominated John Calfe Esq' for Colonel of the
seventh regiment of mUitia. David Quimby Esq' for Lieu' Col" of
said Regiment. Phillip TUton Esq' for Major of said Regiment.
Joseph Tilton Esq' for second Major of s'' Reg' Benjarain Stone
Esq' for Colonel of the Twentieth Regiment of Militia. Abraham
Dow, Esq' for Lieut. Coh of s'' Reg'. Ezekiel GUe Esq' for Major
of s'' Regiment. Moses Little Esq' for second major of s"^ Reg'.
Aaron Kinsman Esq' for Colonel of the Eleventh Regiment of
MUhia —
Jereraiah Clough Jun' Esq', for Lieut. Col° of s'' Reg'
Jaraes Cockran Jun' Esq', for Major of s'' Regiment.
Joseph Tilton Esq', for Second Major of s"^ Regiment.
* I P. Sz: C. : 92 * Daniel Reynolds Esq', for Colonel of the Eighth
Regiment of Militia.
James GUmore Esq', for Lieut. Colonel of said Regim'.
Joseph Gregg Esq', for Major of said Regiment
John Hardy Esq', for second Major of said Reg'
Stephen Dearborn Esq', for Major of the Seventeenth Regiment of
Militia.  Norris Esq', for second Major of said Reg'.
Daniel Rand Esq' for Colonel of the Twenty-Third Regiment of
Militia, Jedidiah Sanger for Lieu' Col° of said Regiment.
Sylvanus Reed Esq', for Major of said Regim'
 Roberts Esq', for Second Major of said Reg'.
Jonathan Priest Whhcomb Esq' for Second Major of the Sixth
Regiment of Mihtia, in the roora Sc stead of Ehsha Whitcomb Esq'
who was appointed & declined accepting that office.
Henry Gerrish Esq', for Colonel of the Twenty Second Regiment
of Militia.
Ebenezer Webster Esq', for Lieu' Col* of said Reg'
Joshua Bayler Esq', for Major of said Regim'
Robert WaUace Esq', for Second Maj' of s'' Reg'
Jonathan Moulton Esq', for a Brigadier General of the Mihtia in

1785] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 283
the room & stead of the Hon'''* Woodbury Langdon Esq', who was
appointed & declined to accept of that office.
* I P. & C. : 93 * Hon'* Joshua Brackett Esq',' for Judge of the
Court Maritirae.
Micah Lawrence Esq', for Register of Probate for the County of
Cheshire. Sarauel Dana Esq', for Register of Probate for the County of
Hilsborough. Moses Hook Esq', Jeremiah Clough Jun' Esq', Thomas Gilman
Esq', Nathaniel Batcheldor Esq', Levi Dearborn Esq', Moses Leavitt
Esq', Benjarain Butler Esq', Simon Wiggin Esq', Jonathan Leavitt
Esq', Elisha Brown Esq', as Justices of the Peace for the County of
Rockingham. Thomas Tash Esq', John Leavitt Esq', Jacob Brown Esq' Jabez
Dame Esq', David Copp Esq', & John Smith the 3'' Esq', as Justices
of the Peace for the County of Strafford.
Nathaniel Bean Esq', Asa Davis Esq', Ebenezer Webster Esq',
John Hogg Esq', Matthew Pettingil Esq', Zephaniah Clark Esq', as
Justices of the Peace for the County of Hilsborough.
Daniel Grout Esq', Daniel Kimball Esq', as Justices of the Peace
for the County of Cheshire.
Russell Freman Esq', Joseph Skinner Esq', Sz: Joseph Senter
Esq' as Justices of the Peace for the County of Grafton.
* I P. Sz: C. : 94 * Daniel McDuffee, Jonathan Adams, David
Page, Peter Tilton, and Caleb Sanborn, Esq'rs, as
Coroners for the County of Rockingham.
Joseph Burt & John Colburn as Coroners for the County of
Cheshire. John McCleary
Francis Blood
Joseph Badger
Nath' Peabody
Moses Chase.
Saturday March 19"' 1785 The whole Council attended at Exeter
for the purpose of Adminiss the oaths to Officers CivU & MUitary.
Monday March 21^' 1785 attended at Exeter for the same purpose as
on Saturday last.
Tuesday March 22^ 1785 attended at Exeter for the same purpose
as yesterday.
Wednesday March 22'' 1785, All the Members of CouncU attended
on His ExceUency the President at Hampton Falls, and took into
consideration the nominations made last week.
1- Biography, Farmer and Moore, Historical Collections, Vol. II,, p. 17; Adams, Annals of Portsmouth,
p. 321 ; Plumer, Mss, Biography, Vol, IV. p, 234,

284 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [178S
Thursday March 23^ 1785, present as yesterday & proceeded in the
consideration of the persons, nominated for offices.
* I P. & C. : 95 * FRIDAY, March 25"' 1785.
At Hampton Falls. Present His Excellency the President & all
the CounciL
The persons hereafter named having been under nomination more
than seven days, are appointed to the several offices as respectively
set down.
John Calfe Esq' Colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Militia.
David Quimby Esq', Lieut, Colonel of said Regim'
Phillip Tilton Esq', Major of said Regiment
Joseph Tilton Esq', Second Maj' of said Regiment.
Benjamin Stone Esq', Colonel of the Twentieth Reg' of Militia.
Abraham Dow Esq', Lieu' Col° of said Regim'
Ezekeal Gile Esq', Major of said Regiment.
Moses Little Esq', Second Major of said Regim'
Aaron Kinsman Esq', Colonel of the Eleventh Regiment of
Militia. Jeremiah Clough Jun' Esq', Lieu' Colonel of said Regiment.
James Cockran Jun', Major of said Regiment
Joseph Tilton Esq', Second Major of Said Reg'
Daniel Reynolds Esq', Colonel of the Eighth Reg' of Mihtia.
James GUmore Esq', Lieu' Col* said Regim'
Joseph Greeg Esq', Major of said Regiment.
Thomas Hardy Esq', Second Major of Said Reg'
* I P. Sz: C, :96 * Stephen Dearborn Esq', Major of the Seven
teenth Regiment of Militia,
 Norris Esq', Second Major of said Reg'
Daniel Rand Esq', Colonel of the Twenty-third" Regiment of
MUhia, Jedediah Sanger Esq', Lieu' Colo' of said Regim'
Sylvanus Reed Esq', Major of said Regim'
Richard Roberts Esq', Second Major of said Reg'
Jonathan Priest Whitcorab Esq', Second Major of the Sixth Regh
ment of MUitia in the roora Sz: stead of Elisha Whhcomb Esq' who
was appointed to that office Sz: dechned accepting thereof.
Henry Gerrish Esq', Col* of the Twenty-Second Regiment of
MUitia. Ebenezer Webster Esq', Lieu' Col* of said Reg'
Joshua Bayley Esq', Major of said Regiment
Robert WaUace Esq', Second Major of s'' Reg'
!• Altered to the 12th.

1785] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 285
Jonathan Moulton Esq', a Brigadier Gen' of the Militia in the
room & stead of the Plon'''* Woodbury Langdon Esq' who was ap
pointed Sz: declined accepting that office.
Hon'''* Joshua Brackett Esq', Judge of the Court Maritirae.
Micah Lawrence Esq' Register of Probate for the County of
Cheshire. * Sarauel Dana Esq', Register of Probate for the * i P. &: C. : 97
County of Hilsborough.
Moses Hook, Jeremiah Clough Jun', Thoraas Gilman, Nathaniel
Batcheldor, Levi Dearborn, Moses Leavitt, Benjamin Butler, Siraon
Wiggin, Jonathan Leavitt Sz: Elisha Brown Esq'rs, Justices of the
Peace for the County of Rockingham.
Thomas Tash, John Leavit, Jacob Brown, Jabez Dame, David
Copp Sz: John Smith 3^ Esq'rs Justices of the Peace for the County
of Strafford.
Nathaniel Bean, Asa Davis, Ebenezer Webster, John Hogg, Mat
thew Pettingale & Zephaniah Clark Esq'rs Justices of the Peace for
the County of Hilsborough.
Daniel Grout & Daniel Kimball Esq'rs, Justices of the Peace for
the County of Cheshire.
Russell Freeman, Joseph Skinner, & Joseph Senter Esq'rs, Jus
tices of the Peace for the County of Grafton.
Daniel McDuffee, Jonathan Adams, David Page, Peter Tilton, Sz:
Caleb Sandborn Esq'rs coroners for the County of Rockingham,
Joseph Burt &: John Colburn Coroners for the County of Cheshire.
To which appointments the Subscribers did advise Sz: consent.
John McCleary
Joseph Badger
Moses Chase
Nath' Peabody
* Further appointed, Moses Kelley Esq', Sheriff * i P. Sz: C. : 98
for the County of Hilsborough.
Francis Blood Esq', Colonel of the Twelfth ' Regiment of MUitia.
Philip Putnam Esq', Lieu' Col° of said Regim'. Ezra Town Esq',
Major of said Regim' Sarauel Gregg Esq', Second Major of said
Regiment. To which appointments the subscribers did advise Sc
consent. John M*Cleary
Joseph Badger
Moses Chase
Nath' Peabody
^* Altered to the 23d.

286 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS, [1785
Also appointed
Timothy Ladd, Eliphalet Poor, & Sarauel Jenness Justices of the
Peace for the County of Rockingham, Williara Weeks Esq' Justice
of the Peace & of the Quorura for said County of Rockingham.
Samuel Emerson, Elisha Payn, Bezaleel Woodward James Wood
ward Esq'rs, Justices of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the
County of Grafton, David Webster Esq', Sheriff of the County of
Grafton.
* I P. & C. : 99 * James Underwood Esq', one of the Justices of the
Inferior Court of Comraon Pleas for the County of
Hilsborough in the roora Sz: stead of Samuel Dana Esq' who was ap
pointed Sz: dechned accepting that office.
Jeremiah Page Esq', one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas for the County of Hilsborough in the room & stead
of Ebenezer Rockwood Esq', who was appointed & declined accept
ing that office,
Nathaniel Peabody Esq', Brigadier General to command the Corps
of Horsemen.
To which appointments the Subscribers did advise Sz: consent
Francis Blood
Joseph Badger
Moses Chase.
Saturday March 26"' 1785, All the Council met at Exeter and
spent the day in regulating sundry matters relative to comraissionating
the Several Courts offices &c. His Excellency the President in
formed the Council that a difficulty had arisen about the dehvery of
military Commissions. The field officers of the Regiments of Militia
in the distant parts of the State urging that it was
* I P. Sz: C. : 100 almost * irapracticable for them to appoint their
Captains Sz: Subalterns Sz: return their names season
ably to the President for Coraraissions to issue Si: strongly requested
that Blank commissions might be delivered for the said purpose.
And desired the advice of CouncU thereon upon which question
the CouncU advise that the Secretary be directed to deliver to a field
officer, or order, or to either of the CouncU, Blank MUitary Commis
sions, & take receipts therefor, Sz: proraising to return the same, or to
make a proper return of the names of the persons to whom the said
commissions may be made out, & dehvered with their respective
grades, to the President of the State on or before the 17"" of May
next, John McCleary
Joseph Badger
Francis Blood
Moses Chase
Nath' Peabody

1785] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 287
His ExceUency the President Sz: Council nominated the following
persons to the several oflfices hereafter respectively mentioned viz. :
Daniel Campbell of Amherst, & Rob' Wilson of Peterbor* for
Coroners for the County of HUsbor° Stephen Chase of Chester a
Coroner for the County of Rockinghara. Daniel Sanborn of San
borntown for a Justice of the Peace for the County of Strafford
Stephen March of Greenland, John White of Plaistow Sz: John
Scribner of Poplin for Justices of the Peace for the County of
Rockingham. Also nominated Supply Clapp for Colonel of the
Corps of Light Horse. To which norainations the subscribers did
advise & consent Also to the nomination of Benjamin Emerson
Jun' of Hampstead, James Towle of Hawke, Coroners for the
County of Rockingham. John McCleary
Francis Blood
Joseph Badger
Moses Chase,
* March 22"^ 1785. * i P. & C. : loi
Ordered the Treas' to pay the following sums viz :
To Jeremiah Andrews father of WUliam Andrews
for Deprec'" to 1780 six pounds eight shillings . . 6„ 8„ o
To Samuel Welman for Depre'" in 1780 twentythree
pounds four shillings  23,, 4,, o
To James Turner for Dep'" to 1 780, Forty one pounds
seventeen shillings Sz: eight pence . . . . 41,, 17,, 8
for 1780 Twenty three pounds thirteen shillings &
fourpence  23,, 13,, 4
& for 1780 Twelve shilhngs  o,, 12,, o
[Mar] 23. To Hugh Jameson for Deprec'" in 1778
Si 1779 twenty pounds fifteen shillings Sz: seven pence . 20,, 15,, 7
To Reuben Wheeler for Deprec'" in 1780 five pounds
three shihings & three pence  S„ 3,. 3
[Mar] 24. To Benjarain Bigelow forty pounds
twelve shillings Si: one penny half penny for provisions
&c for the soldiers at — Fort Point— 16 Feb. 1785 . 40,, 12,, ii
To Tho" Bickford thirty nine pounds fourteen shil
lings and six pence in full for the balance of his ace*
as commissary — "^ vote 1 8"^ Feby 1785 . . . 39,, 14,, 6
To Robert Gerrish, Thirty two pounds ten shUhngs
for printing the Journals of the House of Representa
tives of the first Session f vote 15"^ Feby 1785 . . 32,, io„ o

288 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
To the Rev'' M' Buckminister thirty shillings as
Chaplain to Gen' Court f vote Feby 1785 . . i„ io„ o
To Rev* Doct' Haven thirty shillings as Chaplain to
Gen' Court ^ vote Feby 1785  i„ io„ 0
To John T. Gilman Esq. Three hundred Sc thirty
pounds from 12 June 1783 to 12 June 1784 as Treas' 330,, 0„ 0
To John T, Gilraan Three hundred Sz: thirty pounds
as Treas' frora 12 June 1784 to 12 June 1785 . . 330,, 0„ 0
To the Selectraen of Brintwood, Eighty six pounds
fifteen shillings & seven pence for Bounties & Supplies
since 1779 • • • •  86„ 15,, 7
To the Selectraen of Strathara thirty two pounds
nine shillings for Supplies advanced in 1780 & 1781 . 32,, 9,, o
[Mar] 27, Ordered the Treas' to pay the Travel 8i
attend** of theHon CouncU from March 16 to March
27 amo's to forty six pounds sixteen shill & four d . 46,, i6„ 4
* I P. & C. : 102 * March 25"' 1785.
Ordered the Treas' to pay the following suras viz :
To WiUiara Kendall thirty one pounds nine shiUings
and one penny, Depre'" to 1780 .....
Sz: five pounds four shillings for Deprec'" in 1 780
To Peter Webster for Deprec'" in 1780 Twenty two
pounds seventeen shUlings & four pence
To Bartholoraew Goyer for Deprec'" in 1780 Twenty
one pounds nineteen shiUings Sz: eight pence
To Jacob Gould for Dep'" in 1780 Nineteen pounds
one shilling Sz: four pence ......
To Abel Jewett for Dep'" in 1780 Twenty two
pounds, seventeen shillings &. four pence
To Hezek'' Weathersbee for Dep'" in 1780 fifteen
pounds seventeen shillings Sz: three pence .
To Asael Powers for Dep'" in 1780 Nineteen pounds,
two shiUings Sz: six pence 
To Eleazer Taft, Nine pounds one shiUing Sz: ten
pence, 3 ™° Man in Capt. Whhtier's Co.
To James Lewis one y'" Man in 1779 & 1780 Twenty
pounds five shUlings Sz: four pence ....
To Nathan Martin for Dep'" in 1780, Twenty pounds
five shillings & eight pence
April r' 1785— Ordered the Treas' to pay the foh
lowing sums

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To Joseph Perkins for the Deprec'" in 1780 Twenty
one pounds fifteen shillings Sz: eight pence
To Peter Barter for Deprec'" in 1781, Sixteen pounds
two shillings Sz: three pence .....
To Tho= Jaraeson for Dep'" to 1780 forty pounds
seven shUlings Sz: ten pence ..... 40,, 7,, 10
To Hart Balch for Dep'" to 1780 sixteen pounds five
shillings & nine pence .*....
* I P. & C. : 103 * April 8"' 1785.
Ordered the Treas' to pay the following suras viz :
To Hussey Hoag Thirty two shillings Sz: five pence
for Depreciation in 1780 . . . . . . i„ 2,, 5
[Apr] II. Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note on In
terest payable in one year frora the date thereof in favor
of Josiah Magoon a Pensioner for Eighteen Pounds
from II AprU 1784 to 11 Ap' 1785 .... i8„ o,, o
[Apr] 1 5. Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note on In
terest in favour of L' James Gould for forty-eight
pounds in full for half pay as an Invalid from 1 5"" March
1784 to 15 March 1785  48,, o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note on Interest in
favor of Jonathan Chapraan for Twelve pounds in full
for half pay as an Invalid frora AprU i, 1784 to AprU
I" 178s  12.. 0„ o
[Apr.] 18"' Ordered the Treas' to pay the Heir of
Williara Abbot Eight pounds eight shillings Sz: eight
pence for Depreciation in 1780 . . . . . 8,, 8„ 8
[A,pr.] 20. Benjarain Cressey fifteen pounds nine
teen shillings Sz: five pence for Deprec'" in 1780 . . 15,, 19,, 5
[Apr.] 21. Peter Cook Nine pounds two shillings for
Depreciation in 1780 . . . . . . . 9,, 2,, o
William Willie Twenty pounds eleven shillings and
four pence for Dep'" in 1780 ..... 20,, ii„ 4
Josiah Willie Twenty pounds four shillings and eight
pence for Dep'" in 1780  20,, 4,, 8
[Apr.] 22. Jacob Sillingham Twenty pounds four
shiUings and two pence for Dep'" in 1778 & 1779 . . 20,, 4,, 2
and six pounds eight shUlings & nine pence for De
preciation in 1780 . . . . . . . 6„ 8„ 9
[Apr.] 23. The Selectmen of Barnstead one hun
dred and nine pounds fourteen shUlings St: eight pence
for Bounties Sz: Supplies to Soldiers families . . 109,, 14,, 8

290 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178S
[April] 25. William Rowe for Depreciation to 1780
forty five pounds ........ 45,, o„ o
and Six pounds eight shihings, & six pence for Dep'"
in 1780  6„ 8„ 6
* I P. Sz: C. : 104 * April 26"' 1785.
Ordered the Treas' to pay the following Sums viz :
To Ephraim Davis father of John Davis deceas''
Twenty one pounds four shils" for Dep'° in 1777 Si: 1778 21,, 4,, o
To Edmund Colby Sixteen pounds eighteen shiUings
Sz eight pence for Deprec'" in 178 1 . . . . i6„ i8„ 8
[Apr.] 27. To Jonathan Conant seven pounds two
shUlings Sc eleven pence for Dep'" in 1780 . . -7., 2,, 11
To James Young Six pounds six shillings Sz: eight
pence for Deprec'" in 1780' . . . . . . 6„ 6„ 8
Ordered the Treasurer to pay by discount out of the
State Taxes to Moses Kelsa or Bearer Six pounds thir
teen shihings as 3 "" man in Capt. Smiths C° 1781 . 6„ 13,, o
May 2'' 1785. Ordered the Treas' to pay Clement
Jackson father of Clement Jackson late of the 3'' N.
H. Reg' Ten pounds ten shillings Sc eight pence, for
Dep'" in 1777  io„ io„ 8
[May] 3. To pay the Hon. Judge Livermore twelve
pounds for travel Sc attendance on the Gen' Court re
vising the laws Sz: draughting bills ^ vote 24 Feby 1785 I2„ o„ o
To pay the Hon, Judge Livermore Eighteen pounds,
fifteen shillings for his Salary from 25 Sept, 1784 to 25
Dec' 1784, 'f vote Dec' 1783  i8„ 15,, o
[May] 5. Ordered the Treasurer to issue a Note
in favor of Samuel Fugard a Pensioner at five Dol.
¦^ month for thirty six pounds in full as an invalid
from 3 Nov' 1782 to 3* Nov' 1784, ^ vote of Feby 1785 36,, 0„ 0
[May] 5, To pay Rob' Parker for Deprec'" in 1780,
Nine pounds fourteen shillings and four pence . . 9,, 14,, 4
To pay, [by discount] John Bryant a six ™° man in
1781, Seven pounds four shillings . . . .7,, 4,, o
[May] 6. To pay the Selectmen of Derryfield by
discount Twenty pounds for Bounties & Supplies adv*"* 20,, o„ 0
I- The following paragraph appears in the text immediately following the item as to the payment to James
Young, with cross marks over it indicating that it was stricken out by the recording officers, viz. :
" Ordered the Treasr to issue a Note on Interest payable in one year from the date thereof in favor of
Daniel Buzzell, for Twelve pounds in full for half pay as an Invalid from
" Not granted,"

1785] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 2gi
*iP. Sz:C. :i05 * May 7"' 1785.
Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note in favor of L'
Daniel M*Murphy for forty six pounds in full for half
pay from 16 May 1784 to i May 1785 . . . 46,, o„ O
To pay Ebenezer Newman for Dep'" in 1780 thirty
three shillings and four pence . . . . . i„ 13,, 4
[May] 10. Ordered the Treas' to pay the following
orders viz : in favor of Raraa Eraery for Deprec'" in
1780, Twenty one pounds three shillings . . . 21,, 3,, o
[May] II. Benj^ Davis five pounds seven shillings
and ten pence in Capt. Heads Co. 3 ™° Service . . 5,, 7,, 1,0
[May] 12. Abiel Chandler Eleven pounds eleven
shils^ for Depreciation in 1781 . . . . . ii„ ii„ o
[May] 14. Elizabeth Stevens wid° of Will™ Stevens
fourteen pounds four shils= for Deprec'" in 1777 Sz: 1778 14,, 4,, o
[May] 1 7. Ordered the Treas' to pay by discount out
of the Taxes to the Town of Rindge Sixty three pounds
three shillings & ten pence. Bounties paid to soldiers
who engaged for a less terra of tirae than three years 63,, 3,, 10
[May] 19. Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note on In
terest payable in one year from the date thereof in
favor of Phebe Colburn wid° of the late Lieut Col"
Andrew Colburn of 3" N. H. Reg. for Seven hundred
& fifty six pounds in full for seven years half pay
from 19 Sept. 1777 — "^ vote 10 Nov. 1784 . . 756,, o,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Nathaniel Bachellor thir
teen pounds twelve shillings for Dep'" in 1780 . . 13,, I2„ o
Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note on Interest pay
able in one year from the date thereof in favor of Wil
liam Spaulding for twelve pounds in fuU, for half pay
as an Invalid from AprU i 1784 to Ap' i, 1785 . 12,, o,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Simon GUman five
pounds nineteen shihings & three pence for Dep'" in
1780  5„ 19,, 3
Gilmantown for Supplies to Soldiers families Nineteen
pounds ten shUlings Sz: seven pence .... 19,, io„ 7
D° Joseph Hale Eighteen pounds thirteen shiUings Sz:
four pence for Depreciation in 1781 18,, 13,, 4
* I P. &: C. : 106 * Monday May 16"^ 1 78 5 — Agreeably to a Sum
mons from His Excellency the President, The Hon.
John M*Clary, Joseph Badger, Francis Blood and Moses Chase Esq'%
Members of the Council attended at Exeter, His ExceUency, the

292

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President being sick did not attend. Tuesday May 17"' 1785, His
ExceUency the President being unable to attend at Exeter, the
Hon'''* Council waited on His Excellency at Hampton Falls. Pres
ent His ExceUency ' and aU the Council. And then proceeded to ex
amine the returned Copies of the votes for Senators by which re
turns it appeared that the Hon. Joseph GUraan John Langdon, Sz:
John M*Cleary Esq'rs were chosen Senators for the County of Rock
ingham by a majority of votes ; John Wentworth Esq. was chosen a
Senator by a majority of votes, for the County of Strafford. And
Moses Chase Esq. was chosen a Senator by a majority of votes for
the County of Cheshire, to whom summones were respectively issued,
being the only persons, which by the return'd votes, appear'' to be
chosen Senators in the respective counties of this State, as by the
nuraber of votes set down in the general List against the names of
the respective Candidates wUl appear.
Wednesday May 18"' 1785. Present as yesterday.
His Excehency Sz: CouncU proceeded to make the following appoint
ments pursuant to norainations made in March last viz : Daniel
Campbell of Araherst Sc Robert WUlson of Peterborough, Coroners
for the County of Hillsborough. Stephen Chase of Chester a Cor
oner for the County of Rockinghara, Benjarain Emerson Jun' of
Hampstead and James Towle of Hawke, Coroners for the County of
Rockingham,* I P. & C, : 107 * Daniel Sanborn of Sanborntown a Justice of
the Peace for the County of Strafford.
Stephen March of Greenland, Sr John Scribner of Poplin, Justices
of the Peace for the County of Rockinghara.
Supply Clap a Colonel in the Corps of Light Horse.
To which appointraents the subscribers did advise and consent.
John M'=Cleary
Francis Blood
Joseph Badger
Nath' Peabody
Moses Chase.
Further appointed John White of Plaistow a Justice of the Peace
for the County of Rockinghara.
^ In Amory's Life of John Sullivan (1868), p, 200, it is statedthat President Weare resigned hk of&ce
towards the close of his term. The pay-roll indicates that he was in attendance upon the duties of his oflice
as late as May 21, 1785, which was very near the close of the political year, and there is nothing ou the
record to indicate that he did not complete his full term of office.

1785] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 293
To which appointment the Subscribers did advise Sc consent.
John M*Cleary '
Francis Blood "^
Joseph Badger '
Moses Chase.
* I P. S: C. : 108 * May 19'" 1785
An order was issued in favor of John T. GUman Esq.
for the Balance of his account amounting to one hun
dred and eighty two pounds ten shillings Sc seven pence
for services as Delegate to Congress in 1782 & 1783. '^
votes Jany 15 1782 Sz: Dec. 19, 1783 .... 182,, 10,,'" 7
Ordered the Treas' to pay Benjamin Smith thirty
three shillings and one penny for Depre'" in 1780 . i,, 13,, i
and twenty pounds sixteen shillings for Dep. in 1781 20,, i6„ o
[May] 21. Ordered the Treas' to issue a Note on In
terest payable in one year frora the date thereof in
favor of Serg' Aaron Copp an Invalid for the sura of
fifty four pounds in full for half pay from May 21, 1782
to May 21, 1785  54,, o„ o
Ordered the Treas' to pay the travel and attendance
of the Hon. Council from 16 May to 21 May 1785 with
some extra travel Sz: attendance by direction of his Ex
cellency as per Roll will appear — amo' fifty three
pounds seven shillings ...... 53,, 7,, o
Ordered the Treas' to pay Sarah Kiraball Wid* of the
late Capt. Benj^ KimbaU for his Depreciation of wages
to 1780 the Sum of one hundred & seventy five pounds
six shillings & seven pence ...... 175,, 6„ 7
[May] 30. Ordered the Treas' to pay Benj^ Dole
the brother of John Dole a soldier of the i N. H. Reg'
Nine pounds two shillings and eight pence for Depre'"
in 1780  9„ 2„ 8
Ordered the Treas' to pay Corrydon Chesley who
married the wid° of Benj" Tate four pounds ten shil
lings & eight pence for Dep'" in 1781 . . . . 4,, io„ 8
Ordered the Treas' to pay Nathan Fish sixteen
pounds five shiUings & nine pence, Depreciation to
1780  19,, S„ 9
*• Biographical Note, Bouton, Province and State Papers, Vol. 10, p. 32.
2- Biographical Sketch, Blood's History of Temple, p. 205.
• Joseph Badger was the first of the family of that name in Gilmanton. Memoir, N. H. Hist. Soc. Collec
tions, Vol. 6, p. 125. His son, Joseph Badger, was councilor, 1790, and served nine terms in that office*
Plumer Mss. Biography Vol. 4) p* 483.

294 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. \_^7^5
Ordered the Treas"" to pay Nath^ Patten thirteen
pounds seventeen shillings for Depreciation in 1778 &
1779  3i» i7» o
& eleven pounds nine shillings & three pence for
Dept^ in 1780  ii„ 9,, 3
Note i. — With this term of office as the first President of the State of New Hampshire, Meshech
Weare closed a career of public service covering a period of forty-five years. His death occurred on the
14th day of the following January, 1786. According to Jeremy Belknap, the historian, Meshech Weare,
''though not a person of original or inventive genius, had a clear discernment, extensive knowledge,
accurate judgment, a calm temper, modest deportment, an upright and benevolent heart, and a habit of pru
dence and diligence in discharging the various duties of public and private life."
Note 2. — The repetition of the paragraph on p. 250, anie, relative to John Dearbom and Moses Knight,
which occurred in the record of Dec 17, 1784, in the MSS., was not followed in this work, as that repetition
appeared to be a clerical error.

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STATE OFFICERS, 1785-6.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
JOHN LANGDON, Portsmouth, President.
Council.
NATHANIEL PEABODY, Atkinson, l
MATTHEW THORNTON,Merrimack, j Chosen from the Senate.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Durham, ) ^
AMOS SHEPHARD, Alstead, I Chosen from the House
MOSES DOW, Haverhill, i '^ Representatives.
EBENEZER THOMPSON, Durham, Secretary of State.
JOSEPH PEARSON, Exeter, Deputy Secretary.
JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN, Exeter, State Treasurer.

For the County
of Rockingham.

\

STATE SENATE.
June 17?,^, to June 1786.
JOHN LANGDON, Portsmouth, President.
f JOHN McCLEARY, Epsom,
President Pro Tem. or Senior Senator.
GEORGE ATKINSON, Portsmouth.
JOSEPH GILMAN, Exeter.
NATHANIEL PEABODY, Atkinson.
JOSHUA WENTWORTH, Portsmouth.
I JOHN WENTWORTH, Dover.
I OTIS BAKER, Dover.
MATTHEW THORNTON, Merrimack.
EBENEZER WEBSTER, Salisbury.
I MOSES CHASE, Cornish.
I JOHN BELLOWS, Walpole.
j FRANCIS WORCESTER, Plymouth.

Strafford County.
Hillsboro' County.
Cheshire County. Grafton
County.

300 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^7^$
The Senators elected by the people for this Legislature, were for
the County of Rockingham, John M'^Cleary, Joseph Gilman, John
Langdon ; for the County of Strafford, John Wentworth ' ; for the
County of Cheshire, Moses Chase.
The vacancies resulting from failures of popular elections were on
the third of June filled in joint convention, by election as follows :
For the County of Rockingham, George Atkinson, Nathaniel Pea
body ; for the County of Strafford, Otis Baker ; for the County of
Hillsborough, Matthew Thornton, Ebenezer Webster ; for the County
of Cheshire, John Bellows ; for the County of Grafton, Francis
Worcester. The House made choice of John Langdon and George Atkinson
as the constitutional candidates, between whom the Senate should
make choice of President, no election having been made by popular
vote. The Senate on the 8"* day of June elected John Langdon to
the presidency. The vacancy in the Senate which thus resulted was
filled in joint convention on the 7"' day of June by the election of
Joshua Wentworth.

MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
His Excellency JOHN LANGDON, Portsmouth,
Captain-General, Commander-in-Chief, and Admiral.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Durham, Major-General.
JOSEPH CILLEY, Nottingham,
JONATHAN MOULTON, Hampton,
GEORGE REID,= Londonderry,
BENJAMIN BELLOWS, Walpole,
MOSES DOW, Haverhill, . Brigadier-
JONATHAN BLANCHARD, Dunstable, I '^^^^''^^'f-
Corps of Light Horsemen.
NATHANIEL PEABODY, Atkinson, J
JEREMIAH FOGG, Kensington, Adjutant-General
SUPPLY CLAPP, Portsmouth, Coinmissary-General
<;.'. w°^!^*''''S, f- '^^ i"" "'"j ?°K- .Coll^'^'ions 240. He was formerly known as John Wentworth, Jr.
Wen^vorth°Jr '^''""'°^>'' """^ ^ Appl=to=. Cyc. of Am. Biography, 436, Titles, John Wentworth and John
"- Biography, 5 Plumer, MSS. Biog. 70.

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STATE OFFICERS, 1 785-86.

301

DELEGATES TO CONGRESS.
To serve for one year from the first Monday in November, 1785.
Names of Delegates. Residence. Date of Election.
WOODBURY LANGDON, Portsmouth, June 21, 1785
PIERSE LONG, Portsmouth, June 21, 1785
NATHANIEL PEABODY,* Atkinson, June 21, 1785
GEORGE ATKINSON, Portsmouth, June 21, 1785
TIMOTHY WALKER, Concord, Nov. 5, 1785
SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Holderness, Nov. 5, 1785
+ DELEGATES FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE IN ACTUAL ATTENDANCE AT
CONGRESS IN
1785-
ABIEL FOSTER, Canterbury.
PIERSE LONG, Portsmouth.
1786.
SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Holderness.
PIERSE LONG, Portsmouth.
JUDICIARY.
Superior Court of Judicature.
SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Holderness, Chief Justice.
JOSIAH BARTLETT, Kingston, ^
WILLIAM WHIPPLE, t Portsmouth, \ Puisne Justices.
JOHN DUDLEY, § Raymond, j
JOHN SULLIVAN, Durham, Attomey -General.
NATHANIEL ADAMS, Portsmouth, Clerk.
Court Maritime.
JOSHUA BRACKETT, Portsmouth, /«^^^.
* Nath'l Peabody was recalled by vote of the Legislature June 14, 1786.
t The forra of Credentials is given in xviii. Ham. State Papers, 733.
X Woodbury Langdon, Portsmouth, was appointed February, 1786, to fill the vacancy causedby the death of
WiUiam Whipple, which occurred Nov. 28, 1785.
§ John Dudley was appointed Dec. 20, 1784, and succeeded Leverett Hubbard, who was not reappointed
by the President and Council under the new Constitution. See Judge Hubbard's letter, xviii. Ham. State
Papers, p. 763.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM

JUNE I, 1785, TO JUNE 23, 1785.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

* 2 : 29 * At the first Session of the Second Court under the new
Constitution, begun and held at Portsmouth, on the first
Wednesday in June, being the first day of said Month, in the ninth
year of the Independence of the United States of America, Anno
Domini, one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty five
WEDNESDAY, June i, 1785.
Being the day appointed by the Constitution, for the meeting of
the General Court, five being the Whole number of the members
elected by the People for Senators, for the ensuing year, attended
and took the Oaths, viz.
The Honorable John M'^Clary ) -t- ^1 /- ^ r
¦i u /-•! ( For the Countv of
Joseph Gilman > t^ 1 • 1.
TIT J T? r^ I Rockingham
John Langdon Esq" J °
John Wentworth Esq'' for the County of Strafford
Moses Chase Esq" for the County of Cheshire.
*2:30 * THURSDAY, June 2, 1785.
Present as Yesterday
The Members present met with the house of Representatives in
the said Representatives Chamber, in Order to proceed in filhng up
the Vacancies in the Senate ; Choice of Secretary, Treasurer, and
Commissary-General, agreeable to the Constitution ; and agreed to
adjourn till tomorrow ten o'clock, A. M., then to Meet again in said
Chamber
[The Joumals of the Senate and House for the political year 17S5-6 are copies of the manuscriiJt in the office
of the Secretary of State. There are no contemporary printed journals for this period accessible, except a
fragment of that of the House for the February Session, 17S6. — Ed.]

306 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^5
FRIDAY, June y^ 1785.
Present as Yesterday
Met in the Representatives Chamber, agreeable to adjournment,
and Proceed in Balloting for Senators ; by which it appeared that the
following Gentlemen were Chosen viz.
THE HON George Atkinson Esq" ) For the County
Nathaniel Peabody Esq" j of Rockingham
Otis Baker Esq", for the County of Strafford
Matthew Thornton Esq" t for the County
Ebenezer Webster Esq" j of Hillsborough
John Bellows, Esq" for the County of Cheshire
Francis Worcester Esq" for the County of Grafton
The Vacancies in the Senate being filled up, proceeded to the
Choice of a Secretary ; and the ballots being taken, it appeared that
Ebenezer Thompson, Esq" was Elected to that Office
The ballots being taken for a Treasurer, it appeared that the Hon.
John T. Gilman, Esq" was unanimously chosen to that Office
The ballots being taken for a Commissary-General, it appeared
that Supply Clap Esq" was unanimously Chosen for tbat office
*2:3i * The Senate then retired to their Own room, and the
Hon. George Atkinson, Nathaniel Peabody, and Ebenezer
Webster Esq"^ attended and took the Oaths.
At four o'clock, the Senate met with the House, and Proceeded to
examine the Votes returned for a President ; and after making out a
list of all the votes returned, agreed to adjourn the meeting 'till to
morrow ten o'clock, A. M. and then the Senate retired to their own
Room. The members present adjourned 'till to morrow nine o'clock
A. M. SATURDAY, June 4"^ 1785.
Present as Yesterday
Met with the House, and on Examination of the list of Votes for
a President, it appeared that the whole Number amounted to Seven
thousand and Seventy nine ; and that no one person had a Majority.
The Votes for the Hon. George Atkinson, Esq" amounted to 2755
John Langdon Esq" 2497
John Sullivan Esq" 777
Josiah Bartlett Esq" 720
Being the four highest Numbers voted for ; adjourned till Mondav
next three o'clock P. M.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 3O7
The Senate then retired to their Own room, and adjourned to
Monday next three o'clock, P. M. MONDAY June 6"" 1785.
Present, The Hon. John M<=Clary John Langdon George
Atkinson Nathaniel Peabody, Esquires * John Wentworth * 2 : 32
Moses Chase and Ebenezer Webster. Otis Baker, Esq" one
of the Members elect, also attended ; and after taking the Oaths,
took his seat at the Board Matthew Thornton, Esq" one of the
Members elect, attended and took the Oaths, &c.
The Senate then Met with the Representatives in their Room,
and agreed to adjourn the further meeting until tomorrow four o'clock,
P. M.
The Senate then retired to their own room, and adjourned until
tomorrow eight o'clock, A. M. TUESDAY, June 7'*" 1785.
Present as Yesterday
The Senate met with the Representatives in their Chamber, and
agreed to adjourn their further Meeting for the Choice of officers un
til nine o'clock A. M.
They then retired to their own room, and adjourn'd 'till tomorrow
nine o'clock A. M. WEDNESDAY June 8* 1785.^
Present as Yesterday, except
M" Wentworth. — also, Francis Worcester, Esq" one of the Mem
bers elect attended and took the Oaths, &c. M" Prentiss, with
Others, brought up a Vote, by which it appeared that the Honorable
House of Representatives, had balloted for a President, agreeable to
the Constitution ; and from the four who had the highest Number of
Votes from the People, had elected the Hon. John Langdon, Esq"
the Hon. George Atkinson Esq" as Candidates for that office M"
Langdon and M" Atkinson then withdrew from the Senate
Charaber, and the Members * present proceeded to ballot * 2 : 33
for a President agreeable to the Constitution, the ballots
being taken, it was found that the Hon. John Langdon, Esq" had
Seven votes, and the Hon. George Atkinson, Esq" one vote for that
office so it appeared that the Hon. John Langdon, Esq" was elected
President of this State, for the year ensuing.

308 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^5
The Senate then Proceeded to the appointment of a Senior Sen
ator ; and the ballots being taken, it appeared that the Hon. John
M'^Clary, Esq" was Chosen to that Office
The Senate then met with the Representatives in their Chamber,
and agreed to adjourn their further Meeting until to-morrow nine
o'clock A. M.
The Representatives attended with the Senate in the Senate
chamber, and the President elect took the Oaths agreeable to the
Constitution, before boath Houses, and was declared President of the
State, by the Hon. John M'^Clary Esq" Senior Senator.
Adjourned 'till tomorrow eight o'clock A. M.
THURSDAY, June 9* 1785.
Met according to adjournment.
Present His Excellency John Langdon, Esq" President
The Hon. John M'^Clary, Joseph Gilmore, Nathaniel Peabody,
George Atkinson, Otis Baker, Senators
John Wentworth, Matthew Thornton, Ebenezer Webster,
* 2 : 34 * Moses Chase, Francis Worcester, Esq'rs
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate,
to wait upon the Rev. M" Belknap, and return him the thanks of the
General Court for the very Ingenious discourse delivered before
them, and request a Copy for the Press, was brought up read and
Concurred : M" Atkinson was joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Accompt of the Selectmen of Packersfield, and re
port thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred : M" Gilman and
M" Chase were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to re
vise the table of Fees, and report such alterations and amendments as
they may judge Necessary, was brought up, read and Concurred ;
M" Thornton, M" Worcester and M" Gilman were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the necessity of forming and equiping a Regiment of
Artillery within this State, &c. was brought up read and Concurred :
M" Peabody and M" Baker, were joined
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to con
sider of the number of Light horse men necessary in this State, the
method of raising and equiping them, &c, was brought up ; read and
Concurred : M" Peabody and Mr Baker were joined.
A Vote that the accompt of Edmund Quincy, amounting to

1785] journal of THE SENATE. 3O9
twenty Seven Shillings, for paper for the use of the State, be allowed
and paid, was brought up, read and Concurred.
* A Vote to hear the Petition of Joseph Kimbal, (who prays * 2 : 35
for the exclusive right of keeping a ferry over a Certain
Part of Connecticut River,) on the Second Wednesday of next Ses
sion was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Thomas Odiorne, Eliphalet Ladd
and John Taylor Gilman, in behalf of the new Parish in Exeter,
(who pray to have certain regulations relative to Some Parsonage
lands in said Exeter) on the first Friday of next Session, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
The Senate then met with the Representatives in their Chamber,
agreeable to adjournment, and proceeded to ballot for a Senator for
the County of Rockingham, in the room of His Excellency John
Langdon, Esq" promoted to the Chair, the ballots being taken, it ap
peared that the Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Esq" had a Majority of Votes.
The Senate then retired to their own room.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Jonathan Mason, on the Second
Wednesday of next Session, he praying to have a Grant of the exclu
sive right of keeping a ferry over a Certain part of Connecticut-
River, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of the Selectmen of Dearing (praying
leave to bring in a bill to enable them to tax the lands in said town
for certain purposes) on the Second thursday of next Session, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
The petition of the town of Hancock, praying leave to bring
in a bill to enable them to tax all the lands in said * town, * 2 : 36
for the purpose of erecting a meeting House, was brought
up, with a vote thereon, for hearing the Petitioners on the Second
thursday of next Session ; which was read and Concurred.
A Vote of the house of the Eighth Instant, for postponing the
hearing of Petitions from that day to this Instant, being the ninth,
viz. the petition of Wolfborough and Middletown, of J. Saunders
and Hugh Little, Nathaniel Foster and Col. Thomas Bartlett, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A petition of Sarah Kimball, praying to be a^^-~iwed the half
pay of her late Husband, (who lost his hfe in the Army) agreeable
to a resolve of Congress, was brought up, with a vote thereon, for a
Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to consider of the
Same, and report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred : M"
Gilman and M" Webster were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Ezekiel Worthen, and all Similar Mat-

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ters, and report thereon : was brought up, read and Concurred : M"
Atkinson and M" Gilman were joined.
A Vote to postpone the hearing of the Petition of David Corser,
until the Second Wednesday of next Session was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote directing the Treasurer of this State, to attend the Gen
eral Court at their present Session, with such papers, &c. as may be
necessary to transact public business, was brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Memorial of the Rev. M" Belknap, and
* 2 : 37 * report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M"
Atkinson and M" Thornton were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
prepare and lay before the General Court a bill for the better Obser
vation of the Lord's Day : was brought up, read and Concurred ; M"
Worcester and M" Thornton were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
brigade the several regiments of Militia in this State was brought
up, read and Concurred : M" Peabody M" Thornton and M" Webster
were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of a large number of the Inhabitants of this
State, praying that Some method may be devised for the repairing
Newmarket Bridge, and report thereon, was brought up, read and
Concurred : M" Atkinson and M" Gilman were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Joshua Young, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred M" M'^Clary and M" Chase were
joined. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petitions of sick and wounded Officers and Soldiers,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Peabody, M" Thornton, and
M" Gilman were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate
to Call on George Gaffrey Esq" and receive from him
* 2 : 38 *the weights and measures which were formerly used as a
Standard, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Atkin
son was joined.
A Vote to postpone the hearing on the Petition of Charity Lund,
until the first Friday of next Session was brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to

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Consider what Standards or banners will be most proper for the re
spective Regiments within this State, was brought up, read and Con
curred : M" Peabody and M" Webster were joined.
The Petition of Micah Reed, praying for a grant of the exclusive
right of keeping a Ferry over Some part of Connecticut River, was
brought up, with a Vote thereon, for hearing the Petitioner on the
Second tuesday of next Session ; which was read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of James Gray, and all Similar Matters,
and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred; M" Went
worth and M" Peabody were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Benjamin Baxter, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred : M" Worcester was joined.
A Vote for hearing the Petition of Benjamin Miller and others
praying that Certain lands may be disannexed from Newington, and
annexed to Portsmouth was brought up with a vote thereon for hear
ing the Same, on the i $* of June Current ; which was read and Con
curred. *A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the * 2 : 39
Senate to Consider of the Petition of the Selectmen of
Bedford and report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ;
M" Webster and M" Chase were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of the Petition of Woodbury Langdon, Esq" and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" M'^Clary and M"
Wentworth were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of the Petition of the Selectmen of Cornish, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Gilman and M"
Peabody were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
take under Consideration an act of this State, passed June 12"" 1784
establishing a method of making rates and taxes, and to report such
alterations as they Judge necessary was brought up read and Con
curred : M" Gilman and M" Atkinson were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of John Pickering Esq" in behalf of Elisha
Reed, and Other Inhabitants of the towns of Plainfield and Cornish,
and report thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Baker
and M" Peabody were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
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was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Gilman and M" Webster
were joined. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate,
* 2 : 40 * to Consider of the Petition of Moses Dow, Esq" and
Others in behalf of Several towns in the Counties of Graf
ton and Cheshire and report thereon, was brought up, read and Con
curred ; M" Worcester and M" Chase were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Samuel Jones, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred ; M" Chase was joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the proper Measures for forming and arranging the
alarm list in this State, was brought up, read and concurred ; M"
Thornton and M" Peabody were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to re
vise the Militia Laws of this State, and report thereon, was brought
up, read and Concurred ; M" Peabody and M" Thornton were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Jonathan Eastman of Walpole, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" J. Wentworth was
joined. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the petition of Daniel Rand, Jedediah Sanger, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Peabody, M"
Thornton, and M" Baker, were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consult with the honorable Committee appointed to revise the Laws
of this State, respecting that business, was brought up, read and
Concurred; M" Wentworth was joined.
A Vote to postpone the hearing of the Petition of Thomas Pink
ham until tuesday next, was brought up, read and Concurred.
* 2 : 41 * A Vote to pay the Accompt of John Duncan Esq" amount
ing to twenty four Shilling, for holding a meeting at Peter
borough .Slip, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to put of the hearing of the Petition of the Selectmen of
Merrimac, until thursday next, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pay John M'^Duffee, Esq" for his services as a Special
Justice of the Superior Court, eight pounds eight Shillings, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of James Betton, Esq" for services for
the State, amounting to three pounds five shillings and two pence,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of John Donaldson, and Mary his wife, and

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report thereon, was brought up read and concurred ; M" Worcester
and M" Gilman were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider the most expedient measures to be taken for collecting the
residue of the fines, laid on Several Towns in this State, for their de
ficiencies in raising Soldiers, was brought up, read and concurred ;
M" John Wentworth, M" Peabody and M" Atkinson were joined.
The petition of the town of Raby, praying that some part of the
town of Hollis, may be disannexed from said Hollis, and annexed to
Raby, was brought up, with a vote thereon, granting the Petitioners
a hearing on said petition, on the first Friday of next Session, which
was read and concurred.
A resolve lengthening out the time for recording grants,
* Charters and locations of Land, for the term of One year * 2 : 41
from this time, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
nominate four persons, out of whom two are to be chosen to join with
the Hon. Christopher Toppan Esq" already appointed to Confer with
the General Court of the Massachusetts, respecting the Commerce
between this State and that, was brought up, read and Concurred ;
M" Joshua Wentworth and M" Atkinson were joined.
A resolve enabling Justices of the peace to administer the Oaths
to sundry officers. Agreeable to Constitution, was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the petition of Ebenezer Flagg, and all Similar Matters,
was brought up, read and concurred ; M" Thornton was joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Joseph Leigh, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Gilman and M" Atkinson were
joined. Joshua Wentworth, Esq" attended, and after having the Oath ad
ministered to him by his Excellency the President, took his seat at
the Board.
The Senate then met with the House in their room, on the hearing
of sundry Petitions, and for the Choice of officers, &c. and agreed to
adjourn their further meeting until to-morrow, ten o'clock, A. M.
The Senate then retired to their Own room, and adjourned 'till to
morrow, eight o'clock, A. M.
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FRIDAY, June io"" 1785.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
* 2 : 43 * The Senate met with the House in their room, and spent
the forenoon in hearing the parties on sundry Petitions.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider what allowance shall be made those members of the Late
Council, and Senior Senator, who attended to administer the neces
sary Oaths to the members of this Court, was brought up, read and
Concurred ; M" Joshua Wentworth and M" Baker were joined.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Thomas Bartlet
Esq" and giving him Leave to bring in a bill accordingly was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote to postpone the hearing of the petition of the Selectmen
of Merrimac, to the Thursday of their next Session, was brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote on the Petition of Middletown, appointing a Committee to
view the Premises, and putting of the Hearing until the Second
Thursday of next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
The Senate then met with the House in their Chamber, to vote for
the Several persons to compose a Council, agreeable to the constitu
tion ; and the ballots being taken, it appeared that the Hon. Nathaniel
Peabody, Esq" had a Majority of votes for the first Councillor, the
ballots being taken, it appeared that the Hon. Matthew Thornton
Esq" was chosen second Councillor, by a Majority of votes The bal
lots being taken, it appeared that the Hon. John Sullivan Esq" was
chosen by a Mj ority of votes, the third Councillor. The Ballots be
ing taken, it appeared that Col. Amos Shephard, was chosen the
fourth Councillor by a Majority of votes, The ballots being taken, it
appeared that Col. Moses Dow was chosen fifth Councillor by a Ma
jority of votes. Then the Senate retired to their own room.
2:44 *A Vote Granting the prayer of the Petition of James
Saunders and giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly,
was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote appointing Woodbury Langdon, Esq" and John Spar
hawk Esq" (with Christopher Toppan, Esq" before chosen) to be a
Committee to confer with the General Court, of Massachusetts, on
the Subject of the Commerce between the two States, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that M" Joshua Wentworth, M" Peabody and M" Gilman be
a Committee to join with such of the Honorable House as they shall

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appoint, to consider of the business most necessary to be Immedi
ately proceeded on, by the General-Court, and make report thereon,
was sent down for Concurrence by M" Worcester.
The Senate met with the House in the Representatives Chamber,
and agreed to adjourn their further Meeting for the Choice of offi
cers, until tomorrow, ten o'clock, A. M. they then retired to their Own
room. Adjourned 'till to-morrow eight o'clock A. M.
SATURDAY, June ii* 1785.
The Senate assembled.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote that M" Gilman, M" John Wentworth, and M" Peabody, be
a Committee to prepare and lay before the Senate the draught of an
Answer to His Excellency's Address to both Houses, of the ninth
Instant. A Vote that M" Joshua Wentworth, and M" Peabody, be a Com
mittee to join with such as the honorable House, shall appoint, to
prepare and lay before the General-Court a draught for instructions
to guide the naval officer in the Execution of his Office, relative to
the Ship of war belonging to His most Christian Majesty
now laying in * Piscataqua harbour, was Sent down for Con- * 2 : 45
currence by M" Chase.
A Vote to allow Capt. Ezekiel Worthen, and the Subalterns of his
company, who served at Rhode Island in the year 1778 depreciation
of wages as Officers of the same grade- in the Continental army have
been paid, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote of the House of the tenth Instant, was brought up for
postponing all public hearings appointed for that day until this day ;
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to accept the report of the Committee on the Petition of
Woodbury Langdon Esq", granting him leave to bring in a bill for
the repeal of the Act referred to in his Petition, so far only as re
spects him as attorney to Peter Levius, Esq" was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote to allow Cap* Simon Marston, and the Subalterns of his
company, who served at Rhode Island, in the year 1 778, deprecia
tion of wages, as the Officers in the Continental army have been al
lowed ; was brought up.
Adjourned 'till Monday next, three o'clock, P. M.

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MONDAY, June 13"" 1785
The Senate assembled.
Present His Excellency the President
The Hon. John McClary, Nathaniel Peabody, Matthew Thornton,
Joshua Wentworth, Ebenezer Webster Esquires, Francis
* 2 : 46 Worcester, Moses Chase and * George Atkinson.
A Vote to hear the petition of Richard-Cutts Shannon,
Esq" and Others, a Committee of the proprietors of Cockermouth,
on the Second Thursday of next Session, was brought up, read and
Concurred. A Vote to allow the Widow Hannah Peabody, depreciation of
wages for the Service of her late Husband Col. Stephen Peabody, at
Rhode Island, in the year 1778, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay Cap" Peter Drowne, Depreciation of wages for him
self and Subalterns, for their Service at Rhode Island, in the year
1778, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to allow M" Woodbury Langdon, four pounds four Shil
lings ; M" Joseph Badger, four pounds, four shillings ; and M" Fran
cis Blood five pounds nine Shillings ; for their Service in attending
this Session, to Qualify the Members of this Court by administering
the Oaths, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote appointing Cap' Thomas Martin, in the room of Woodbury
Langdon, Esq" (who had declined to accept) one of the Committee
to Confer with the General-Court of Massachusetts, on the subject
matter of commerce, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Francis Borland, and others ; the petition
of Wilham Pearne, and the petition of Jonathan Warner Esq" and
Others ; and report thereon ; was brought up, read and Concurred ;
M" Atkinson and M" Wentworth were joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of John Smith, on the Second Thurs
day of next session, was brought up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned till tomorrow eight o'clock A. M.
* 2 : 47 * [TUESDAY,] June 14, 1 785.
The Senate assembled
Present as Yesterday.
With the addition of M" Gilman, M" Baker and M" Wentworth.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Major John Young, on the second
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A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Samuel Cutts, Esq" and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" M'^Clary and M" Webster
were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of William Simpson, and report thereon,
was brought up read and Concurred ; M" Atkinson, and M" Thornton,
were joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Elisha Reed, and Others, inhabi
tants of Cornish and Plainfield, in the afternoon of this day, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Selectmen of Packerfield, twenty two Pounds
eight Shillings and three Pence, for taxes on the Confiscated estate
of Breed Batcheldor, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
draught the bills reported Necessary by the Committee and lay the
same before the Court, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M"
Joshua Wentworth, M" Gilman and M" John Wentworth were
joined. A Vote to allow Thomas Pratt, (who was wounded at the
battle of Bunker Hill) Fifteen Shillings per month * from * 2 : 48
the time his pay as a Soldier ceased, until further Order of
the General Court, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Phebe Colburne, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Wentworth and M" Gilman
were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to ex
amine how far the Committee on settleing the Accompts between this
and the United States, have proceeded, and make report, was brought
up, read and Concurred ; M" Joshua Wentworth, M" Baker, and M"
Peabody were joined.
A Vote to pay the town of Bedford, the wages of Robert Jones,
and John George, for their Services as Soldiers at Cohes, in the year
1782, was brought up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned 'till tomorrow, nine o'clock, A. M.
WEDNESDAY, June 15* 1785.
The Senate assembled.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote to Grant the prayer of the petition of Thomas Pinkham,
and giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up,
read and Concurred.

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A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Ehhu Stevens, and Others, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Chase and M"
Atkinson were joined.
A Vote that Joseph Gilman, Nathaniel Peabody, and John Parker,
Esq'rs, a Committee appointed to devise proper Checks for Impress
ing new blank Notes to redeem the State Securities ; also, to devise
proper Checks for Impressing blank Certificates to be used for the
payment of Interest due on said notes, was sent down for Concur
rence, by M" Webster.
*2:49 * A Vote on the petition of Benjamin Jaquish, (who
prayed to be restored to his Law in a Certain Case, was
brought up, read and non-concurred.
A Vote to postpone the Consideration of the Petition of Eben
ezer Torrey, until the Second Wednesday of next Session of the
General Court, was brought up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned 'till tomorrow nine o'clock, A. M.
THURSDAY, June i6«" 1785.
The Senate assembled.
Present as Yesterday, Except M" Baker
An Act to repeal an Act passed the 29"" of November 1 777, to
prevent the transfer of real Estates belonging to persons inimical to
the United States, so far as said Act respects the power of attorney,
given by Peter Levius Esq" to Woodbury Langdon Esq" having been
read a third time, it was voted that the same be enacted.
An Act to impower Thomas Bartlett, Esq" of Nottingham, guar
dian to Ebenezer Cotton, and Ezekiel Fisk, minors, heirs of Eben
ezer Fisk, late of Epping, physican deceased, intestate, to make and
Execute a good and Lawful deed of sale, of Certain lands lying in
Epping and Brintwood, having been read a third time, it was voted
that the same be enacted.
A Vote that the resolve authorizing Justices of the Peace to ad
minister the Oaths, agreeable to constitution, to military Officers, &c.
be immediately printed, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to allow Thomas Green (who was wounded at Bunker
Hill) eighteen Shillings per month, 'till further order of the
* 2 : 50 General Court was brought up, read * and Concurred.
A Vote to pay Cap' Nathan Sanborn, who was wounded at
Behmus-Heights, twenty Shillings per month, until further Order of
the General Court, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to allow Sarah Kimball, widow of Benjamin Kimball, late

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a Captain in the New Hampshire line, who was killed by accident,
the half pay of a Captain for Seven years, was brought up, read and
Concurred. Adjourned till to-morrow nine o'clock, A. M.
FRIDAY, June 17"", 1785.
The Senate assembled.
Present as Yesterday — With addition of M" Baker
A Vote to postpone the hearing of the Petition of Brigadier Gen
eral Stark, to the Second Wednesday of next Session was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote containing Sundry regulations of the Militia was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to allow Jonathan Eastman, depreciation of wages for Six
months Service of his Son Samuel Eastman, who died in the army,
was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to allow John Donaldson and Mary his wife, half pay,
agreeable to the resolve of Congress, of the twenty fourth of August,
1780, for her late husband Richard Shortridge, who was a Captain in
the New Hampshire line, and died in the army, was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A vote to pay Reuben Spencer, a Soldier, his Accompt
for expences in having his thigh amputated. Amounting* *2: 51
to Sixty eight pounds fourteen Shillings and one Penny,
was brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act directing and regulating the appointment and Choice of
Petit Jurors, having been read a third time, it was voted that the
Same be enacted.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
draught and lay before the Court, a bill for punishing horse thieves,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Peabody and M' John
Wentworth were joined.
A Vote to allow Peter Akerman, a Soldier wounded at the battle
of Behmus Heights, in 1777, twenty Shillings per month, from the
time his pay Ceased as a Soldier, until further Order of the General
Court, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay Gowen Armour, a Sum for depreciation of money
lent by him to the State, which he lost by having his note renewed
(as per Scale) was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay Joseph Kimball, a Sum (as per Scale) for deprecia
tion of money lent the State, which he lost by renewing his note,
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A Vote to pay Ebenezer Flagg, a Sum of money (as per Scale) for
depreciation of Money lent the State, which accrued by his having
his note renewed, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote giving leave for a bill to be brought in for setting up and
Carrying on a lottery, to raise three hundred Pounds, for the purpose
of building a bridge over Sugar River, in the town of Claremont, in
the County of Cheshire, was brought up, read and Concurred.
* 2 : 52 *A Vote to allow Thomas Haines, a Soldier wounded in
the Army, twenty four Shillings per month, until further Or
der of the General Court, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote giving particular directions to the Naval Officer, respect
ing the Ship of his most Christian Majesty now in this harbour, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the regulations for the Order and discipline of the Militia,
presented by Major General Sullivan, was brought up, read and Con
curred ; M" Peabody and M" Webster were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Accompt of the Selectmen of Portsmouth and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred. M" Worcester, M"
Baker and M" John Wentworth were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the petition of Joshua Young, and report thereon was
brought up, read and Concurred : M" Worcester and Mr. Gilman
were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Accompts of John Peirce, Mark H. Wentworth,
Richard Hart, Jonathan Warner, and report thereon, was brought
up, read and Concurred ; M" Peabody, M" Thornton, and M" Joshua
Wentworth were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the report of the Committee chosen at the last Session
to Settle the Treasurer's Accompt, and report thereon, was brought
up, read and Concurred ; M" Joshua Wentworth and M" Baker were
joined.
* 2 : 53 *A Vote to pay the Accompt of John M<^Clary, Esq" for a
journey to Concord, &c. to administer Oaths to Officers, &c.
amounting to thirty-one Shillings and four pence, was brought up,
read and Concurred.
On Motion, Voted. That the Owners of Portsmouth Library (so
called) have leave to deposit the books belonging to said Library
with the Cases that contain them, in the Senate Chamber, in such
part or parts as shall be most Convenient, and the least incommode
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A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider what business is yet necessary to be done this Session,
when the Court shall adjourn ; and to what time and Place they shall
adjourn to, and what allowance shall be made the members of Court
&c. this Session, for their time & travel, was brought up, read and
Concurred ; M" Peabody M" Worcester, and M" Joshua Wentworth
were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the accompt of Enoch Barker, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Peabody and M" Chase were
joined. A Vote to pay Alexander Parkman, thirty Shillings, for his jour
ney to notify Col. Thornton and Major Bellows of their appointment
as Senators, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A vote to hear the Petition of Benjamin Trip, on the Second Fri
day of their next Session, was brought up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned 'till tomorrow, nine o'clock, A. M.
SATURDAY, June i8, 1785.
The Senate assembled.
Present as yesterday
* A Vote to accept the report of the Committee appointed * 2 : 54
to Consider the report of the Committee on the Treasurer's
Accompt, and for appointing a Committee to Carry said report into
Execution, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Joshua Went
worth and M" Gilman were joined.
A Vote on the petition for repairing Newmarket bridge, was
brought up, read, and non concurred.
A Vote to pay Joseph Leigh (late Commissary and Sub-Clothiei;
for this State, in the army. Seventy one pounds Seventeen Shillings,
for depreciation of his wages in the year 1780, was brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Daniel Gookwin, and all Similar matters,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Thornton and M" Joshua
Wentworth were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee t)f the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of John Prentice, and Archibald M'^Murphy
Esq'rs, in behalf of the town of Londonderry, was brought up, read
and Concurred ; M" Atkinson and M" Baker were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of a bill presented for giving and granting to the United

322 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^5
States in Congress assembled, full power to regulate Commerce, was
brought up, read and Concurred; M" Atkinson, M" Gilman and M"
Wentworth were joined
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the petition of the Selectmen of New Ipswich, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Peabody, M" Ba
ker, and Mr. Webster, were joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of the Selectmen of Warren, on the
Second Wednesday of next Session, was brought up, read and Con
curred. A vote to pay Capt. Abraham Burnham, three pounds
*2 : 55 twelve Shillings,* for a journey to Plymouth, to notify M"
Worcester of his appointment as a Senator, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned 'till Monday next, three o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, June 2o'^ 1785.
Met according to adjournment.
Present His Excellency John Langdon, Esq" President. The Hon.
John M'^Clary, Joseph Gilman, George Atkinson, Nathaniel Peabody,
Joshua Wentworth, Otis Baker, Matthew Thornton, Ebenezer Web
ster, Moses Chase, and Francis Worcester, Esquires.
A Vote to pay Samuel Cutts, Esq" forty five pounds, in full of all
demands, and deductions that have been made in his Accompt in
former settlements, was brought up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned 'till tomorrow eight o'clock, A. M.
TUESDAY, June 21, 1785.
The Senate assembled.
Present as yesterday.
An Act for the admeasurement of Board, and for regulating the
tale of Shingles, Clapboards, Hoops, and Staves, and for Other pur
poses therein mentioned, having been read a third time it was voted
that the Same be enacted.
An act for restoring James Saunders to his law was read a third
time, it was voted that the Same be nonconcurred.
In Senate, June 21, 1785.
* 2 : 56 * Voted, That Mr. Gilman M" Atkinson, and M" Joshua
Wentworth, with such as the Honorable House shall join,
be a Committee to report what period shall be affixed, beyond which,

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no demands which are now due, and which are properly a Conti
nental Charge, will be allowed, was sent down for Concurrence, by
M" Chase ; and brought up, concurred.
In Senate June 21, 1785.
Voted, That M" Thornton, M" Atkinson, and M' Joshua Went
worth, with such of the Honorable House as they shall join, be a
Committee to consider of, and report some Speedy and effectual
method for the revision of the laws of this State, was Sent down for
Concurrence, by M" Peabody, and brought up Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of John Betton, and David Patterson,
on the first friday of next Session, was brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of, and report on the petition of Joseph Taylor, was brought
up, read and Concurred : M" M'^Clary and M" Worcester joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the petition of Cap' Titus Salter, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Baker and M" Peabody
were joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Henry Kennistone, on the Second
Wednesday of next Session, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A vote to accept the report of the Committee on the petition of
the Selectmen of Cornish, which report was, that one eigth part of
all the State taxes, from 1780, to 1784, inclusively, should be abated,
except one small Tax in 1781, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote Ordering a deduction out of the rum tax, for 1 78 1 , in favor
of Lemster, Croyden, and Marlow, was brought up, read and non-
concurred. A Vote appointing Major George Gains, Sealer of weights and
measures, for this State, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote accepting the report of the Committee on the petition of
Benjamin Dole, was brought up, read and Concurred.
*A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Sen- * 2 : 57
ate, to Consider of the petition of Col. Hobart, and to report
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Thornton and M
Joshua Wentworth were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the pay roll of M. Bell, Commandant of the Fort at New-
Castle, also, the Accompt of Benjamin Biggelow, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Baker and M" Peabody
were joined.
An Act regulating Pilotage in the port of Piscataqua, was read a

324 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^T^S
third time, and voted that it pass to be enacted ; which was sent down
for Concurrence, by M" Chase and M" Baker.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of Josiah Gilman Esq" amounting to
eighty seven pounds Six Shillings, was brought up, read and con
curred. A Vote appointing the Hon. Woodbury Langdon, Esq" a delegate
to Congress, for the term of one year, from and after the first Mon
day in November, next, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote appointing the Hon. Peirse Long Esq" a delegate to Con
gress, for the term of one year, from and after the first Monday in
November next, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote appointing the Hon. Nathaniel Peabody, Esq" a delegate
to congress, for the term of one year, from and after the first Monday
in November next, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote appointing the Hon. George Atkinson Esq" a delegate to
Congress, for the term of one year, from and after the first Monday
in November next, was brought up, read and Concurred.
Adjourned 'till tomorrow, eight o'clock, A. M.
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 1785.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
nominate to this house, three proper persons, out of whom
* 2 : 58 for one to be * appointed a Surveyor, agreeable to a recom
mendation of Congress, was brought up, read and Con
curred : M" Thornton, M" Atkinson and M Gilman were joine
A Vote to accept the report of a Committee on the petition of
Daniel Rand and Jedediah Sanger, re[s]toring the regiment now
Called twenty three to its former rank, and be hereafter called and
known by number twelve ; and that the regiment now called number
twelve, be hereafter called and known by number twenty three, and
to continue 'till some future arrangement be made, was brought up
read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of J. Whipple in behalf of E. Buck-
man, on the Second Wednesday of next Session, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote that Major Pickering and Major Kimbal, be added to the
Committee on the Accompt of Enoch Barker, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Accompt of Melcher and Osborne, and report thereon,
was brought up, read and concurred ; M" Gilman and M" Wentworth,
joined.

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A Vote to pay the Accompt of Jeremiah Libby, amounting to nine
Shilhngs and eight pence, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of Josiah Bartlet, John Calfe and John
Parker, Esq"rs, amounting to fourteen pounds fifteen Shillings, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that the treasurer be directed to pay to the persons named
in an abstract, the Sums set against each of their names amounting
in the whole, to thirty nine pounds ten Shillings new emission, and
four hundred and eighty Six pounds ten shillings and eight pence, in
Specie ; and that the president give order accordingly, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
*A Vote to pay the accompt of the Hon. E. Thompson * 2 : 59
Esq" amounting to fifteen pounds Eighteen shillings, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Amos Hagar, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and Concurred ; M" Gilman and M" Atkinson were
joined. A Vote to pay the Accompt of George Gains Esq" amounting to
thirteen pounds thirteen Shillings, was brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote to hear the petition of Ephraim Pickering, Esq" in behalf
of John Pickering, jun" on the Second Wednesday of their next Ses
sion, was brought up, read and Concurred.
In Senate, June 22, 1785.
Resolved, That all notes which shall be issued by the Treasurer,
from and after the 31'" day of July next shall bear that date ; and
that all notes which shall be issued in favor of any invalid pensioner
shall be in the form prescribed by the act passed the 24"" day of Feb
ruary last, entitled An Act for paying the Interest and part of the
principal of public Securities, &c. And the Treasurer is hereby fur
ther directed, that on his receiving any Order from the President, for
depreciation of wages due to officers widows, he shall issue a certifi
cate for twenty Seven and three Quarters, per Centum, of each such
Order, and a note for the remainder, also a Certificate for the Inter
est as usual ; which resolve was sent down for Concurrence, by M"
Webster, and brought up concurred.
In Senate June 22'"'* 1785.
* Voted, That the. Committee for revising the laws, be * 2 : 60
desired to prepare a navigation Act, and present the Same

326 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^5
to the Senate or house tomorrow eight o'clock; which vote was sent
down for concurrence.
A Vote to pay the Hon. Samuel Livermore Esq", amounting to
Nineteen pounds fourteen Shillings, for revising the Laws &c. was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of John Calfe, Esq" amounting to
four pounds ten Shillings, for recording the journals of the house,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to receive and accept the report of the Committee on the
accompt of the Selectmen of Portsmouth, amounting to one Hun
dred and Seventeen Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Six pence far
thing, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq"
amounting to ten pounds two shillings, for revising the laws, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of Lieut. Meshech Bell, amounting to
fifty Shillings, for wood for the use of the fort, was brought up, read
and Concurred Adjourned 'till tomorrow eight o'clock, A. M.
THURSDAY, June 23, 1785.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
An Act for the better Observation and keeping the Lord's Day,
was read a third time, and it was voted that the same be enacted.
An act permitting a lottery to raise money for the purpose
* 2 : 61 of erecting a bridge over Sugar River, in Claremont, *was
read a third time, and it was voted that the same be En
acted. A Vote to pay Nathaniel Adams, Esq" three pounds eighteen shil
lings, the amount of his Accompt for engrossing Acts was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Samuel Baley, on the Second
Thursday of their next Session, was brought up, read and Conc"^
A Vote to pay Robert Gerrish, one hundred and Six pounds the
amount of his accompt for printing, to June 18, 1785, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay Melcher and Osborne, ninety one pounds one shil
ling, the amount of their Account for printing to June 10, 1785, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote appointing a Committee to examine every Accompt, con
tract, or demand, between this State and Col. Samuel Hobart, and to

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report to the General Court at their next Session, was brought up,
read andr Con curred.
A Vote to pay Michael Whidden, eight pounds eight Shillings for
providing a dinner, &c. was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that the members of the Senate, have and receive out of the
treasury. Six Shillings per day, for attendance, and four pence per mile,
for travel to and from home ; that the members of the house of Rep
resentatives, have the same travel as the members of the Senate, and
Six Shillings per day for their attendance, for which last sum, each
member may give the Constable of the town he represents, an Order
on the Treasurer, which order shall be received at the treasury towards
the tax of the town or districts each member represents, and
the treasurer is directed to Charge such order * to such town * 2 r62
or district in the next tax Bill, that the Secretary have nine
shillings per day, and allowance for travel as members; that the
clerk have nine shillings per day, and allowance for travel as a mem
ber ; that the assistant Clerk have eighteen pence over his pay as a
member, was brought up read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Accompt of Benjamin Biggelow, amounting to
forty-eight pounds five shillings and five pence half pence, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the roll of Lieut Meshach Bell, amounting to ninety
five pounds six shillings and eight pence, was brought up, read and
concurred. An Act to vest the United States in Congress assembled, with full
power to regulate trade, and enter into treaties of commerce, was
read a third time, and it was voted, that the same be enacted.
A Vote to accept the report of the Committee on the Account of
Messieurs Thomas Martin, John Peirce and Joseph Peirce, that there
be allowed and paid to them, the sum of one hundred and ninety two
pounds, in full of said Accompt was brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote that Mark H. Wentworth Esq" have and receive the sum
of four hundred pounds, towards what is due to him on Accompt
presented to the General Court against the State, was brought up,
read and concurred.
An Act for the regulation of Navigation and Commerce, was read
a third time, and it was voted that the same be enacted.
An act to regulate Flax seed, Potash and Pearl ash, for exportation,
was read a third time, and it was voted, that the same be enacted.
* A Vote appointing the last thursday in November next to * 2 : 63
be observed as a day of General Thanksgiving, was brought
up, read and Concurred.

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A resolve suspending an Act now in force, laying an Impost on
certain Goods, &c. was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote Impowering George Gains Esq" to provide necessaries for
the light-house, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote accepting the report of a Committee on the Petition of
Cap' Titus Salter, that on his returning the Orders drawn on the
Treasurer (by the late Committee of Safety in his favor) into the
Secretary's office, that the President be desired to draw an Order or
orders on the treasurer, to the Amount of the Order so drawn ; also,
that the President draw on the treasurer for the balance due on those
pay rolls for his Company, which have been paid by him, and for
which he has not received Orders ; and that he receive Interest for
the sums due ; and that the President give order accordingly, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that the Commissary General be directed to deliver to Col.
Joseph Whipple, fifty pounds weight of powder from the magazine in
Portsmouth, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to accept the report of a Committee on the Accompt of
Enoch Barker ; that it be referred to the honorable Superior Court,
and that they be impowered to direct so much of said Accompt as
may appear reasonable, to be paid out of the fines and forfeitures
arising in the County of Cheshire was brought up, read and Con
curred. In Senate, June 23, 1785.
Yoted, that a Captain be appointed to take the Command of Fort
William and Mary, and that he inlist Six good and effective
* 2 : 64 men to serve under him ; that the Captain * have Six pound
per month, the Soldiers forty Shillings per month, each,
with an addition of forty Shillings per month, to the men who take
Care of the light house ; the pay to Commence from the date of the
Captain's Commission ; the Soldiers, from the time of their muster ;
which vote was sent down for oncurrence by M" Wentworth.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
procure Six hundred printed copies of the Rev. M" Belknap's Elec
tion Sermon, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote impowering his excellency, with advice of Council, to
draw orders on the treasurer, in case of exigencies, for any sum or
sums, the whole amount not exceeding one hundred pounds, was
brought up, read and Concurred
A resolve repealing a Vote or resolve of the General Court, of the
twenty Second of february last, respecting the mode of discipline
for the militia of this State, and establishing the regulations con-

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tained in a book, entitled. Regulations for the orders of discipline of
the troops of Newhampshire, was brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that Joseph Pearson Esq" have and receive out of the
treasurer, fifty pounds, for which he is to be accountable, was brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that all persons having demands on the Treasury, which
are properly a Continental Charge, have notice in the New Hamp
shire Gazette, to exhibit the same before the last day of next Session
of the General Court, as none can be allowed after that time, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that the Committee on Continental Accompts already im
powered, be continued, with liberty to hire one or more Clerks ; that
said Committee be impowered to Settle all Accompts that may be
necessary for the Settlement of Accompts with the United
States, and Certify the same to the President and * Coun- * 2 : 65
cil ; that said Committee be impowered to set a price to
articles where no value is already affixed ; that said Committee be
fully impowered to settle and close the accompts between this and
the United States, and where doubts arise, to apply to the Pres
ident and Council for directions, was brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote to pay the balance of the Accompt of Nicholas Nicolle
amounting to fifty Seven Shillings, was brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote that Benjamin Biggelow, have and receive out of the treas
ury, thirty pounds, to be accounted for in furnishing rations to the
Officers and Soldiers at Fort William and Mary, was brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the accompt of John Williams, amounting to four
pounds nineteen Shillings, for attendance on the General Court, was
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay David Brewster, eleven pounds, in full of his Ac
compt for repairing the State Housp, was brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote directing the treasurer and Committee on Claims to attend
on the General Court at their next Session was brought up, read and
Concurred. A Vote that not more than two of the Members elected to repre
sent this State in Congress, take a seat at the same time ; and that
the President, with advice of Council, be Impowered to draw an
order on the treasurer, for any sum not exceeding one hundred and
twenty pounds to each delegate that shall go forward to Congress, or
for either of the delegates now at Congress, for which they are to be
accountable, was brought up, read and Concurred.

330 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^5
A Vote that when the business of this Session is fin-
* 2 : 66 ished, that * his Excellency the President with advice of
Council, be desired to adjourn said Court, to meet at Con
cord on the third Wednesday in October next, at three o'clock in the
afternoon, was brought up, read and Concurred.
The foregoing is a true Journal of the Senate at the Second Ses
sion of the General Court for the Year 1785.
Attest E. Thompson Sec'y

JOURNAL

House of Representatives

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS

FROM JUNE I TO JUNE 23, 1785.

JOURNAL

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JUNE I TO JUNE 23, 1785.

Hon. John Sullivan, Durham, Speaker.
John Calfe, Hampstead, Clerk.

Rev. Samuel Haven, D. D., Portsmouth, )
Rev. Joseph Buckminster, " j

Chaplains.

Rev. Jeremy Belknap, D. D.," Dover,
Preacher of the Election Sermon.
REPRESENTATIVES.
CFrom the official printed publication of the House Journal, p. 168.)

PortsmouthExeter .
Londonderry
Chester .
Newington

i George Gains, Esq.
John Pickering, Esq.
John Sparhawk, Esq.
Josiah Gilman, Esq.
( John Prentice, Esq.
) Archibald McMurphy, Esq.
Col. William White.
Ephraim Pickering, Esq.

1 Biographical Sketch of Dr. Belknap, Farmer and Moore Hist. Coll. Vol. i, p. 37.

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[1785.

Greenland
Rye
North Hampton
Hampton Hampton Falls
SeabrookStratham
Kensington .
South Hampton
East Kingstown
Kingston
Brintwood Epping .
NewmarketNottingham
Deerfield Northwood Epsom
Allentown Chester PittsfieldCanterbury ")
Northfield j
Loudon .
Concord
Pembrook Candia .
Raymond \
Poplin J
Hawke )
Sandown )
Hampstead
Atkinson ^
PlastowNewtonSalem .
Wyndham Pelham .
Dover .
DurhamSomersworth Rochester
Barring-ton

William Weeks, Esq.
Samuel Jenness, Esq.
Col. Moses Leavitt.
Christopher Toppan, Esq.
Mr. Abner Sanborn.
Mark Wiggin, Esq.
Mr. Moses Shaw.
Nathaniel Batcheldor, Esq.
Capt. John Eastman.
Capt. Levi Morrill.
Mr. William Plummer.
Col. James Hill.
Col. Thomas Bartlett.
Mr. Moses Barnard.

Mr. Charles Glidden.
Nathan Batcheldor, Esq.
Peter Green, Esq.
Richard Bartlett, Esq.
Col. Nathaniel Emerson.

Thomas Page, Esq.

Joseph Welch, Esq.
Mr. Caleb Dustin.
James Betton, Esq.
Mr. Jacob Butler.
Col. John Waldron.
Hon. John Sullivan.
Major Jonathan Wentworth.
James Knowles, Esq.
Joshua Foss, Esq.

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SandborntownGilmantown .
LeeMadbury MerridethNew-Hampton Sandwich
Tamworth Moultonborough
TuftonboroughWolfborough Ossippee-GoreBarnsteadNew Durham
New-Durham Gore
Wakefield )
Middleton } .
Effingham ConwayEatonBurton Location Nottingham-West .
LitchfieldDerryfieldDunstableMerrimackBedford .
GoffstownHolies .
Amherst Raby Mason
New-Ipswich
Duxbury "1
Mile Slip I •
Wilton .
Lyndborough
Temple Peterborough Slip
Peterborough \
Societyland j

Capt. William Harper.
Joseph Badger, Esq.
Dr. James Brackett.

David Gilman, Esq.

Mr. Reuben Libbey.

Thomas Tash, Esq.

Col. Andrew McMillan.
Samuel Marsh, Esq.
Capt. Benjamin French.
Mr. Timothy Taylor.
Mr. James Martin.
Robert M'^Gregore, Esq.
Daniel Emerson, Esq.
Mr. Robert Means.
Capt. Samuel Douglass.
Mr. Ephraim Adams.
Col. Philip Putnam.
Capt. Levi Spaulding.
Mr. Francis Cragin.
Mr. Matthew Wallace.

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[178S

Hancock,Antrim
Dearing Hinneker Hillsborough
New-Boston
Weare .
Hopkinton
Dunbarton "[
Bow j
Salisbury
BoscawenFishersfield
Sutton
Warner New-London
Andover Gore Charlestown
Alstead Keene .
SwanzeyRichmond
Jaffrey .
WinchesterWestmoreland Rindge .
Walpole ClaremontCornish
GranthamNewport Croydon
AcworthLempsterMarlowWendell Unity Surry
Gilsum
Stoddard
Washington Dublin Packersfield

I

John Duncan Esq.
Mr. Robert "Wallace.

Mr. Jonathan Dow.
Mr. Benjamin Darling.
John Bryant, Esq.
Mr. Robert Smith.
George Jackman, Esq.
Mr. Matthew Harvey.

Mr. Elijah Grout.
Col. Amos Shepherd.
Mr. Benjamin Hall.
Maj. Elisha Whitcomb.
Mr. Jonathan Gaskill.
Mr. John Gilmore.
Capt. Simon Willard.
Mr. Samuel Works.
Mr. Edward Jewett.
Capt. Levi Hooper.
Capt. Benjamin Sumner.
Mr. Nathan Young.
Mr. Stephen Powers.
Mr. Elijah Frink.

Capt. Lemuel Holmes.
Capt. Jacob Copeland.
Samuel Griffin, Esq.

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337

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Marlborough Fitzwilliam Plainfield
Protectworth
Hinsdale HoldernessCampton
Thornton Lincoln
Franconia J
Plymouth J
Rumney >
Wentworth )
New-Chester
Alexandria CockermouthEnfield ^
Canaan Cardigan
Dorchester Grafton HannoverLebanon
Lime
OrfordHaverhillPiermont
Warren [
Coventry J
Bath Lyman
LandaffConcordLittleton |
Dalton J
La[n] caster
Northumberland Stratford
DartmouthPiercyCockburne
Coleburn

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Mr. Alexander Parkman
Mr. Samuel Kendall.
Maj. Joseph Kimball.

Noah Worcester, Esq.

Capt. Abraham Burnham.

Mr. Ebenezer Hoyt.
Mr. Russell Freeman.
Elisha Payne, Esq.
Col. William Simpson.
Moses Dow, Esq.

Major John Young.

Col. Joseph Whipple.

* 1 2 : 706
*A JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS

HON.BL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

state of NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
Journal of the Proceedings of the Honbl House of Representa
tives of the State of New Hampshire at the first Session of the
Second House under the new Constitution, begun and holden at
Portsmouth on the first Wednesday in June, being the first day of
said month in the ninth year of the Independence of the United
States of America, Anno Dom 1785. WEDNESDAY, June i, 1785.
The members elected assembled at the State House in Portsmouth'
agreeably to appointment His Excellency Meshech Weare Esq"' be
ing absent. The Honb' Woodbury Langdon Esq"^ Senior Senator with
the Honbk Council, administred the proper oaths agreeable to the
Constitution, after which motion was made for the appointment of a
Chairman and the Hontf John Pickering Esq'' was chosen for that
purpose. Motion was then made for the choice of a Speaker and the ballots
being taken it appeared that the Honb' John Sullivan Esq"" is chosen
Speaker of this House.
Voted, That Maj"" Gains, & Col° Toppan, be a Committee to make
such provision as they judge necessary for the entertainment of the
Revr""^ Gentlemen of the Clergy who may this day attend at this.
place.

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Voted, That service begin at eleven of clock to morrow morning
and that the Committee be desired to give the Revr""^ M'' Belknap
notice thereof. The filling up the Senate postponed till to morrow.
Adjourned till eight of clock tomorrow morning.

THURSDAY, June 2, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Motion was made for the choice of a Clerk, and the ballots being
taken and counted it appeared that John Calfe Esq"" is chosen Clerk
of this House.
Read the returns from the several towns and districts for the
choice of Representatives for the present year.
Adjourned to four of clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That the following rules be accepted for the regulation and
government of this House.
i^- That as it is essential to [the]' public interest, so it shall be
considered and enjoyned as the incumbent duty of each member of
this House seasonably & punctually to attend in his place & not to
absent himself without leave.
2"'* That freedom of deliberation speech and debate in the House
be alowed to each member thereof, yet if any member by misbeha
vior in speech or action in the House shall give just cause of offence
to another he shall for the first offence be fined at the discretion of
the House and for the second be admonished.
* 3"''^ That every member when he would make a motion, * 1 2 : 707
speak to a matter in debate, or for any other purpose
whatever shall rise from his seat and address himself to the Speaker,
but on his being called to order by the Speaker or any other mem
ber, he shall be silent, though if such silenced member shall think
himself injured thereby, the Speaker shall take a vote of the House
thereon, to whose decision such member shall submit on pain of dis
pleasure. 4* That no member speak more than twice to a subject in debate,
till each member if he pleases shall offer his opinion.
5* No motion shall be debated until the same shall be seconded.
6* When a motion is made and seconded if desired by any mem-

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340 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^785
ber it shall be reduced to writing before any debate shall be allowed
thereon. 7'h While a question is before the House, no motion shall be re
ceived unless to amend or commit the same or to postpone the con
sideration of the main question or for having the yeas & nays entered
on the journal.
8* If a question in debate contain several points any member may
have the same divided.
9* That no vote passed in the House shall be reconsidered by a
number inferior to that present when it passed.
10* That if the House shall judge that any person returned as a
member is not duly qualified to have a seat therein agreeably to the
Constitution it shall at any time be in the power of such part of the
House as are competent to pass a valid vote or resolve to dismiss
such person giving notice to the Town or District from which he
came to choose another in his stead.
1 1* That every member having been present to [at] a debate and
the vote thereon being challenged or the yeas & nays being called
for, shall be oblidged when called upon bythe Speaker to vote on one
side or other of the question, unless special reason be assigned the
validity of which shall be determined by the House.
12"^ That no member Speaking by leave shall be interrupted by
another but by rising to call to order or to correct a mistake.
13"^ That every bill offered to the House be read three times and
that there be two adjournments before it pass to be enacted.
14* That no bill be sent to the Senate board without notice there
of being first given to the House by the Speaker and the title there
of being read.
15* That no member nominate more than one person for one
Committee provided the person by him nominated shall be chosen.
16* That no member be on more than two Committees at the same
time unles by his own consent and no member chosen on any Com
mittee shall have liberty to nominate another person for the same
Committee.
* 12:708 * 17"' That no petition be received by the House but
from a member thereof and on motion made for that
purpose. 18"' Every morning the minutes of the preceeding day shall be
read in the House previous to their entering upon any new business.
19"^ That no person except members of the General Court shall
be admitted above the bar of the House without permission of the
Speaker or special invitation from some member of the House.
Took under consideration the returns from Bedford & Merrimac

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also the returns from Fitz Willian & Marlborough, the three former
were accepted the other to lay for consideration till to morrow
morning. The consideration of the objections against the member from New
Boston postponed till to morrow morning.
The Honb' Senators elected by the people at large and the House
met agreeably to the Constitution to fill up the vacancies in the Sen
ate &c agreed to postpone the elections till tomorrow morning at ten
o'clock. The House then adjourned till eight of clock to morrow morning.
FRIDAY, June 3 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Took under consideration the return from Marlborough which was
to lay for consideration till this morning and after full consideration
thereof. Voted, that the member returned by the Town of Marlbor
ough be not admitted to a seat in this House.
John Pickering Esq' entered his protest against the proceedings of
this House respecting the admission of the members from Bedford
Merrimack & Fitz William & dismission of the member from Marl
borough which protest is on file.
The objections against the members returned from New Boston
was again taken under consideration but the member consenting to
resign his seat. Voted, that the town of New Boston be notified
thereof by the Clerk writing to the Selectmen informing them of his
resignation & that the town may send another member if they see
cause. Voted, that M'' Prentice, Col° Toppan & M"' Dow, be a Committee
to make enquiry relative to the choice of Senators for this State and
report thereon.
* Voted, that the Honb' the Treasurer of this State be * 12 : 709
directed to attend the General Court at their present
Session with such papers &c as may be necessary to transact public
business. Sent up by Cap' Gilman
The HonW Senate and House being again met to elect Senators &
other necessary officers agreeably to the Constitution, by joint ballot
made choice of the Honb' George Atkinson & the Honb^ Nathanael
Peabody Esq"" Senators for the County of Rockingham, the Honb'-
Otis Baker Esq' for the County of Strafford, the Honb' Matthew
Thornton & the Honb' Ebenezer Webster Esq'" for the County of
Hillsborough, the Honb' John Bellows Esq' for the County of Chesh
ire and the Honb' Francis Worcester Esq' for the County of Grafton.

342 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178S
They then proceeded to the choice of a Secretary and by joint bal
lot made choice of the Honb' Ebenezer Thompson Esq' Secretary for
this State until another shall be appointed in his stead. They then
proceeded to the choice of a Treasurer and by joint ballot made
choice of the Honb' John Taylor Gilman Treasurer for this State
until another shall be appointed in his stead. They then proceeded
to the choice of a Commissary General and by joint ballot made
choice of the Honb' Supply Clap Esq' Commissary General until an
other shall be appointed in his stead. The Senate then withdrew
and the House proceeded on business.
Voted, that M' Pickering, Col° Toppan and Col° Gilman with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to wait upon
the Rev"i M' Belknap and return him the thanks of the General Court
for the very ingenious [sermon] delivered yesterday and request a
Copy for the press. Sent up by Col° Toppan.
Adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
On motion made for the choice of an assistant clerk. Voted, that M
Moses Shaw be assistant Clerk of this House.
Voted, that Maj' Gains, Col" Leavitt, Col° Bartlett, Col° Shephard
and Col° Waldron, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join
be a Committee to consider what standard or banners will be most
proper for the respective regiments within this State and report
thereon. Sent up by Col° Simpson.
Yoted, that Maj' Gains, M' Jon^ Dow, & Maj' Pickering with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to call on
George Jaffrys Esq' and receive from him the weights & measures
which were formerly used as a standard of weights and measures for
the late province now State of New Hampshire. Sent up by Col° Simpson.
* 12 1710 '^ Voted, that Cap' Francis Matthews returned as a
member to represent the towns of Wakefield, Middle-
ton, & Effingham not being chosen agreeably to the constitution be
not admitted to a seat in this House.
The Honb' Senate and House being again met, proceeded to open
the returns from the several towns within this State for a President
and after forming a list of the same agreed to adjourn to ten of clock
tomorrow morning, and the House proceeded on business.
Voted, that Col° Toppan, Col° Waldron, M' Duncan, Cap' Holmes,
and Col° Payne with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
a Committee to examine and cast the return of the votes for a Presi
dent and report thereon to this House as soon as may be.
Sent up by Col" Simpson.

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Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Charity Lund which was
to have been this day before the General Court be postponed to the
first Friday of their next Session of which all persons concerned are
to take notice & govern themselves accordingly. Sent up by Col°. Waldron.
Voted, that Col° Payne, Col° Putnam, & Col° Dow with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of Joshua Young and report thereon. Sent up by Maj' Young.
Yoted, that M' Gilman, Col° Bartlett, M' Marsh, M' Grout, and
M' Macgregore with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
„a Committee to consider of the Petition of Cap' James Gray and all
similar matters and report thereon. Sent up by M' Freeman.
Adjourned to nine of clock to morrow morning.
SATURDAY, June 4, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, that the Selectmen of Middleton be notified that the district
of Wakefield, Effingham & Middleton is unrepresented in this House
and that they may proceed to call a Meeting giving legal notice to
the Inhabitants of said District qualified to vote for a representative
to elect a person to represent them in the General Court.
Voted, that the Selectmen of Portsmouth be notified that the seat
.of a member for that town has become vacant by the election of the
Honb' George Atkinson Esq' as a Senator and that they may pro
ceed to call a meeting & make choice of a member to represent them
in this House.
Voted, that the Selectmen of Atkinson be notified that the seat
of a member for the District of Atkinson & Plaistow has
become * vacant by the election of the Honb' Nathanael * 12 : 711
Peabody Esq' as a Senator and that they may proceed
to call a meeting of said district & make choice of a member to rep
resent them in this House.
Upon reading and considering a Petition from a number of the
Inhabitants of the parishes of Raymond and Poplin shewing that by
mistake their meeting for the election of a representative in March
last being illegally called prevented their choosing a representative.
Therefore prayed that they might have liberty to call a meeting for
that purpose, whereupon, Voted, that the Selectmen of Poplin be and
they hereby are authorized to call a meeting giving legal notice to the
inhabitants of said Poplin & Raymond to meet in said Poplin to elect
. a representative for said district.

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The Senate and House being again met in the assembly Chamber
for the election of officers agreeably to the constitution, after some
conversation agreed to adjourn to Monday next at 3 o'clock P. M,
The House then proceeded to business.
Voted, that Col° Bartlett, M' Pickering, Col° Tash, Col" Waldron,
M' Duncan, M' Means, Cap' Sumner, M' Hall, M' Dow, & Col°
Payne, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Com
mittee to consider of the memorial of the Rev"'^ M' Belknap and
report thereon. Sent up by Cap' Foss.
Voted, that M' J. Gilman, M' Brackett, M' Macgregore, Maj'
Whitcomb, & Col° Whipple, with such of the Honb' Senate as they
shall join be a Committee to consider of all Petitions from sick and
wounded officers & soldiers and report thereon. Sent up by Cap' Foss.
Voted, that Col" Bartlett, Col° Wiggin, Doct' Brackett, Col° Gil
man & Col° Toppan with such of the Honb' Senate as may be joined
be a Committee to consider of the Petition of a large number of the
Inhabitants of this State praying that some measure may be devised
for repairing New Market Bridge so called and report thereon.
Sent up by Maj' Young.
Voted, that M' Duncan, M' J. Pickering, & M' Adams, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to prepare &
lay before this House a bill for the better observation of the Lords-
day. Sent up by Col° Bartlett
Voted, that Col° Bartlett, Genl Sullivan, Col° Putnam, Col° Shep
hard Col" Dow, M' Green, Col° Waldron, Cap' Marsh, Maj' Whit
comb, a'nd Col° Whipple with such of the Honb' Senate
* 12 : 712 as they shall join be a * Committee to brigade the several
Regiments of Militia in this State and report thereon.
Sent up by Col° Bartlett.
The Committee to examine & cast the returns of the votes for a
President, reported that the whole number of Votes, was seven thou
sand and seventy-nine. That two thousand seven hundred & fifty
five are for George Atkinson Esq', That two thousand four hundred
& ninety-seven are for John Langdon Esq' That there is seven
hundred & seventy-seven for Genl John Sullivan and seven hundred
ana twenty for Josiah Bartlett Esq' the remaining three hundred &-
thirty are for several persons.
Adjourned to Monday next at three of clock P. M.
MONDAY, June 6, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, that Col° Payne, Col" Gilman, Col° Toppan, Col° Waldron;,

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 345
& Maj' Whitcomb with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join
be a Committee to consider of the Petition of John Pickering Esq" in
behalf of Elisha Reed and others, Inhabitants of Plainfield & Cornish
and report thereon. Sent up by Col° White
Voted, that Col° Gilman, M' M. Dow, Col° Wiggin, M' Betton, &
Maj' Gains with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider of the Petition of the Honb' Woodbury Lang
don Esq' and report thereon. Sent up by Col° White.
Voted, that M' Emerson, M' Betton, & M' Knowles, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of Benjamin Baxter and report thereon. Sent up by Col° White.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Jonathan Warner,
Esq' Jonathan Shillaber, & Benjamin Miller, Voted, that the Petition
ers be heard thereon before the General Court on Wednesday the
fifteenth day of June Current and that in the mean time the Petition
ers cause that the Selectmen of Newington be served with a Copy of
the Petition and order of Court thereon that they may then appear
and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not
be granted. Sent up by Col° White.
Voted, that Cap' French, Cap' Morrill, & M' J. Gilman with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to
* consider of the Petition of the Selectmen of Bedford^ & * 12 : 713
report thereon. Sent up by Col" White.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Micah Reed^ pray
ing that the privilege of a ferry may be confirmed to him, his heirs
& assigns across the river Conecticut against his dwelling house.
Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the second Tuesday of their next Session & that in the
mean time the Petitioner cause that the substance of the Petition and
order of Court thereon be published three weeks successively in the
New Hampshire Gazzette and also cause that a Copy of said Petition
and order thereon be posted up in some public place in the town of
Westmoreland three weeks successively before the day of hearing
that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any
they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by Col° White.
Voted, that M' Pickering, Col° Payne, & Col° Bartlett, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to wait on the
Honb' John Langdon, & Christopher Toppan, Esquires, a Commit
tee appointed by the General Court at their last Session and inform
them that it is the desire of said Court that they proceed as soon as
1- xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 204. ^. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 186. 3. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 670.
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conveniently may be on the business pointed out in a Resolve of the
twenty-third of February 1785. Sent up by Maj' Wentworth.
Voted, that Col" Toppan, Col° Badger, M' Wallace, M' Frink, &
Col° Simpson, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider of the Petition of the Selectmen of Cornish
and all similar matters and report thereon. Sent up by Maj' Wentworth.
Yoted, that M' Pickering, Col° Payne, & Mr. Prentice, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to take, under
their consideration an Act of this State passed June 12"" 1784, enti
tled an Act to establish an equitable method of making rates & taxes
&c and report such alterations or amendments as they may judge
necessary. Sent up by Maj' Wentworth.
Voted, that M' Emerson, Col° Leavitt, M' Macgregore, Cap' Holmes
& Col° Tash, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider of the Petition of Benjamin Dole,' also the
Petition of Joel Russell & Mary RusselP and all similar matters and
report thereon. Sent up by Maj' Wentworth.
* 12: 714 *The Honb' Senate and House being again met on
the business of electing officers agreeable to the Consti
tution, after some Conversation thereon, agreed to adjourn till to
morrow four o'clock in the afternoon.
The House then adjourned to 8 o'clock to morrow morning.
TUESDAY, June 7, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
State of New Hampshire ~j
Hillsborough ss. V
Hancock May 3''' 1785 j
Your Committee appointed to fix on the place for building a Meet
ing House in said Hancock having been & viewed the ground and
heard the pleas beg leave to report. That the place agreed on for the
aforesaid purpose is on the plain at the south end of Norway pond
(so called) there marked out and shewn to the inhabitants, which is
submitted. Signed, John Duncan, Levi Simpson, J. Young, which
report being read and considered, Voted, that it be received and
accepted. Voted, that Genl Sullivan, Col° Dow, M' Prentice, Col° Waldron,
& Col° Bartlett, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
a Committee to revise the Militia Law of this State and report such
alterations & amendments as they shall judge necessary.
Sent up by Col° Whipple.
1- xii. Ham. Town Papers, 298. ^ xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 330.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 347
Voted, that M' J. Pickering, Col° Waldron, M' Means, Maj' Whit
comb, Col° Dow, Col° Toppan, M' Knowles, Cap' French, Cap' Sum
ner, & Col° Payne be a Committee to enquire into the conduct of the
Council the past year and report the result of their enquiry to this
House as soon as may be.
Voted, that M' Duncan, Maj' Kiraball, & M' Betton, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coraraittee to consider of
the Petition of Sarauel Jones and report thereon. Sent up by Col° Whipple.
Voted, that M' J. Gilman, Cap' Holmes, & Col° Gilman, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of Jonathan Eastman of Walpole and report thereon.
Sent up by Col° Whipple.
Voted, that Col° Leavitt, Col° Tash, M' Jackman, Cap' Holmes, Sz;
Col° Whipple, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Comraittee to consider of the Petition of Moses Dow Esq' and others
in behalf of sundry towns in the Counties of Grafton & Cheshire &
report thereon. Sent up by Col° Whipple.
* Voted, that Genl Sullivan, Col° Dow, M' Prentice, * 12 1715
Col° Waldron, and Col° Bartlett, with such of the Honb'
Senate as they shall join be a Comraittee to consider of the proper
measures for forraing and arranging the alarm list in this State.
The method of appointing officers for that body. To whom they are
to raake returns & by whora to be coraraanded when in the field and
report thereon. Sent up by M' Green.
Voted, that Col° Bartlett, Genl Sullivan, Col° Putnam, Col° Shep
hard, Col° Dow, M' Green, Col" Waldron, Cap' Marsh, Maj' Whit
comb & Col° Whipple with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall
join be a Committee to consider of the Petition of Daniel Rand &
Jedediah Sanger & report thereon. Sent up by M' Green.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
The Speaker being absent, raotion was raade for the choice of a
Speaker Proterapore and Christopher Toppan Esq' was chosen for
that purpose.
Voted, that Col° Bartlett, Maj' Wentworth, M' Hall, Cap' East
man, Sc Col° Wiggin, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join
be a Comraittee to consider of the Petition of Cap' Ezekiel Worthen
and all sirailar raatters and report thereon. Sent up by Col° Tash.
Voted, that the Honb' John M'^Duffee, Esq' have and receive out
of the Treasury by order of the President the sura of eight pounds
eight shillings in full for his service as a Special Justice of the
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348 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. ['785
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Col° Jon" Chase which
was to have been this day before the General Court be postponed to
Thursday next of which all concerned are to take notice and govern
themselves accordingly. Sent up by Col° Tash.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Thomas Pinkham,
which was to have been this day before the General Court be post
poned to Tuesday next of which all persons concerned are to take
notice & govern themselves accordingly. Sent up by Col° Tash.
Voted, that the account of John Duncan Esq' amounting to one
pound four shillings be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. Sent up by Col° Tash.
* 12 : 716 * Voted, that Col° Payne, Col° Dow, M' J. Pickering,
M' Green, & M' Prentice, with such of the Honb' Sen
ate as they shall join be a Committee to consult with the Honb'
Committee appointed to revise the Laws of this State, respecting
that business. Sent up by Col° Tash.
Voted, that the ballance of the account of James Betton Esq'
amounting to three pounds five shillings and two pence be allowed and
paid out of the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Col° Tash.
The Honb' Senate and House being again met on the business of
electing officers agreeable to the Constitution, agreed to a further
adjournment till to morrow raorning at 9 o'clock.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of the Selectmen of Mer
rimac which was to have been this day before the General Court be
postponed to Thursday next of which all persons concerned are to
take notice and govern theraselves accordingly. Sent up by Cap' Martin.
Adjourned to eight o'clock to raorrow raorning.
WEDNESDAY, June 8"^ 1785.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Yoted, that M' Adams, Col" Bartlett, & M' Green with such of the
Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of the
Petition of Sarah Kimball and report thereon. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of the Selectmen of
Dearing ' praying for the priviledge of levying a Tax on the propri
etors Lands for the purpose of building a Meeting house. Voted,
that the Petitioners be heard thereon before the General Court on
1. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 495.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 349
the second Thursday of their next Session and that in the mean time
the Petitioners cause that the substance of the Petition and order of
court thereon be published three weeks successively in the New
Hampshire Gazzette that any person or persons may then appearand
shew cause if any they have why the prayer thereof should not be
granted. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Seth Hadley, and
Enos Knight,' in behalf of the inhabitants of Hancock praying for
the power of levying a Tax for the purpose of building a House of
Public Worship, Voted, that the Petitioners be heard
thereon before the General Court * on the second Thurs- * 12 : 717
day of their next Session and that in the mean tirae they
cause that the substance of the Petition and order of Court thereon
be published three weeks successively in the New Harapshire Gazette
that any person or persons raay then appear & shew cause why the
prayer thereof raay not be granted. Sent up by M' Pluraraer.
Voted, that Gen' Sullivan, Col° Dow, M' Prentice, Col° Waldron,
and Col° Bartlett, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join
be a Committee to consider of the number of light horseman neces
sary in this State, the method of raising and forming thera, and of
the proper arms and accoutrements for that Corps & report thereon.
Sent up by M' Jenness.
Voted, that Gen' Sullivan, Col° Dow, M' Prentice, Col° Waldron,
and Col° Bartlett, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join
be a Comrriittee to consider of the necessity of forraing and equipping
a Regiment of Artillery in this State, and of the measures most
proper for procuring the necessary apparatus for that Corps and re
port thereon. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Jonathan Mason
praying for the priviledge of keeping a Ferry over Connecticut river
at the town of Lyme, Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon be
fore the General Court on the second Wednesday of their next Ses
sion and that in the mean time he cause that the Selectmen of Lyme
and Orford be served with a copy of the Petition & order of Court
thereon that they may then appear and shew cause if any they have
why the prayer thereof raay not be granted. Sent up by M' Jenness.
The House proceeded by ballot to the election of two out of four
persons who had the highest nuraber of votes in the State as Candi
dates for President agreeably to the Constitution, and elected the
Honb' John Langdon, Esq' & the Honb' George Atkinson Esq' as
candidates for that office. Sent up by Col° Bartlett & M' Prentice.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of David Courser which
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350 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. ['785
was to have been this day before the General Court be postponed to
the second Wednesday of the next Session of which all persons con
cerned are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Sent up by M' Gilman.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Thomas Odiorne,
Eliphalet Ladd, and J. T. Gilman in behalf of the New Parish in
Exeter, Voted, that the Petitioners be heard thereon be-
* 12 : 718 fore the General Court * on the first Friday of their
next Session and that in the mean tirae the Petitioners
cause that the substance of the Petition and order of court thereon
be published three weeks successively in the New Hampshire Gazette
that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause if any
they have why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by M' Gilraan.
Voted, that Col° Wiggin, Maj' Kiraball, & M' Smith with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Comraittee to consider of
the account of the Selectraen of Packersfield and report thereon.
Sent up by M' Gilman.
Voted, that Col" Gilman, Col" Toppan, M' Betton, M' J. Dow, &
M' J. Gilman, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to revise the table of fees and report to this House such
alterations and araendraents as they shall think necessary.
Sent up by M' Gilraan.
Votcd, that the hearing on the Petitions of Wolfeborough &
Middleton' James Saunders & H. Little, Nath' Foster, and Thomas
Bartlett, which were to have been this day before the General Court
be postponed till to morrow of which all persons concerned are to
take notice and govern themselves accordingly. Sent up by M' Gilman.
Voted, that the account of Edmund Quincy amounting to one
pound seven shillings for paper delivered the Secretary for the use of
the State be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the
President. Sent up by M' Gilman.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Maj' Joseph Kim
ball ^ praying for the priviledge of a Ferry over Connecticut river at
the town of Plainfield, Voted, that the Petitioner be heard there
on before the General Court on the second Wednesday of their
next Session and that in the raean time the Petitioner cause the sub
stance of the Petition and order of court to be pubhshed in the New
Hampshire Gazzette three weeks successively & also that the Select-
i-xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 737. 2. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 205.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 351
men of Plainfield be served with a Copy thereof that they or any
person or persons may then appear and shew cause if any they have
why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Sent up by M' Gilman.
Col° Thornton & Col° Peabody frora the Honb' Senate carae down
and inforraed the House that the Senate had proceeded to the elec
tion of a President agreeably to the Constitution and
had *made choice of the Honb' John Langdon Esq' as * 12 : 719
President of this State and left the following copy of
their proceedings, (viz)
In Senate June 8"' 1785, M' Prentice with others brought up a
vote by which it appeared that the Honb' House of Representatives
had ballotted for a President agreeably to the Constitution and from
the four who had the highest number of votes from the people had
elected the Honb' John Langdon Esq' & the Honb' George Atkin
son Esq' as candidates for that office. M' Langdon & M' Atkinson
withdrew frora the Senate chamber and the merabers present pro
ceeded to ballot for a President agreeably to the Constitution. The
ballots being taken it was found that the Honb' John Langdon Esq'
had seven votes and the Honb' George Atkinson Esq' one vote, so it
appeared that the Honb' John Langdon Esq' is elected President of
this State for the year ensuing.
Copy frora the minutes, E. Thompson, Secretary.
Whereupon the Senate & House being assembled in the Senate
Chamber his Excellency the President attended and subscribed the
declaration & took the oath of office agreeably to the constitution be
fore both Houses of Assembly.
The Representatives then returned to their charaber.
The Honb' Senate and House being again raet on the business
of electing officers agreeably to the Constitution after some conversa
tion thereon agreed to adjourn to nine of clock to morrow morning.
The House then adjourned to eight o'clock to-morrow raorning.
THURSDAY, June 9.
The House met according to adjournment.
The Honb' Senate and House met according to adjournment on
of the business of electing officers & proceeded to the election of a
Senator in the roora of the Honb' John Langdon Esq' who is elected
President and by joint ballot made choice of the Honb' Joshua
Wentworth Esq' for that office, the Senate then withdrew and the
House proceeded to business.
Voted, that M' Knowles, Col" Dow, M' J. Gilman, M' M<^Murphy

352 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178S
& M' Duncan with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Coramittee to consider of the Petition of Joseph Leigh and report
thereon. Sent up by M' Plummer.
Voted, that Maj' Gains, Col° Payne, Col" Dow M' Plummer and
M' M Wallace with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider of the Petition of Ebenezer Flagg and all
similar matters and report thereon. Sent up by M' Plummer.
* 12 : 720 * Voted, that Col° Toppan, Col° Tash, M' Adams, Cap'
Sumner, Col° Dow, Maj' Gains, Col° Waldron, M'
Duncan, Maj' Whitcomb, and Col° Payne, with such of the Honb'
Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider and report the
most expedient raeasures to be taken for collecting the residue of the
fines laid on the several towns in this State for their deficiencies in
raising their respective quotas of men for the Continental array.
Sent up by M' Freeman.
Resolved, that the several justices of the Peace within this State
be and they hereby are impowered within the limits of their respec
tive commissions to administer the Constitutional oaths to the field
officers Captains, Subalterns already appointed, or that may hereafter
be appointed in the several regiments within this State, and also to
all coroners & Deputy Sheriffs and that any two justices of any
court in this State be impowered to administer said oaths to the re
spective Clerk or Clerks of such court and that they respectively
raake proper returns of the same into the Secretary's office within six
months next after the administration of the same.
Sent up by Maj' Wentworth.
Voted, that Col° Simpson, Col° Bartlett, & M' Betton, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to nominate
four proper persons out of whom two are to be chosen to join with
Christopher Toppan Esq' already appointed to confer with the Gen
eral Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts respecting the
Commerce between this State & said Coraraon wealth agreeably
to the report of a Committee on the Meraorial of Sundry merchants
made to the General Court on the 1 5"' of F'ebruary last.
Sent up by Col° Simpson.
Whereas an act entitled an Act for recording grants Locations, &
Charters of land in this State granted by the late Governors thereof
Benning Wentworth & John Wentworth Esquires is expired and a
further time appears necessary for that purpose.
Therefore Resolved that a further time of one year from and
after the passing of this Resolve be allowed for the purpose afore
said Sent up by Col° Simpson.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 353
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Swallow Tucker
James Campbell and Robert Seaver in behalf of the town of
Raby,' * Voted, that the Petitioners be heard thereon before * 12 : 721
the General Court on the first Friday of their next ses
sion and that in the mean time the Selectmen of Hollis be served
with a Copy of the Petition & order of Court thereon that they may
then appear and shew cause if any they have why the prayer thereof
may not be granted. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
Voted, that M' Adams, Col° Bartlett, & M' Green, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of John Donaldson & Mary Donaldson & all similar
raatters and report thereon. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Agreeable to the order of the day The Plonb' Senate and House
met and heard the parties concerned in sundry petitions.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of the Selectraen of Mer
rimac be postponed to the second Thursday of the next Session of
which all persons concerned are to take notice and govern themselves
accordingly. Sent up by M' Young.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Little & Saunders be
postponed till to raorrow.
The Senate and House being again raet on the business of electing
officers 'agreed to adjourn till 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
The House then proceeded to business.
Voted, that the further consideration of the several Petitions
heard this after noon be postponed till to morrow.
A Copy of his Excellencys address to both Houses was brought
down and delivered by the Secretary, which is in the following words
(viz) Gentlemen of the Senate & Gentleraen of the House of Repre
sentatives. Being elected by your suffrages to the office of Supreme executive
Magistrate of this State, I take this opportunity to express my ac
knowledgements for this token of your confidence. The approbation
of a free and virtuous people can never fail to yield me the highest
satisfaction : this is the noblest reward for public services and this
Gentlemen by a strict adherence to the principles of the Constitution
and continued endeavors to promote the public good it shall be my
study to merit ; while pursuing this path I cannot doubt of your
assistance and aid.
1* xi. Ham. Town Papers, 244, 245, & Nos. 183 & 184. Town Papers, Vol. I., collection of 1880, in office
ot Sec'y of State.

354 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
As the prosperity of a State must ever greatly depend on a union
araong the people, I shall think it one of the most
* 12 : 722 happy circurastances * of ray life to be any ways instru
mental in healing any political dissentions that may
exist among the citizens of this State, and in promoting that general
harmony & unanimity of sentiraent which is so essential to the sup
port of governraent.
The public papers as they come to my hands shall from time to
tirae be laid before you and I shall ever be happy in making any
coraraunications the public good may require.
Permit me Gentlemen to recommend an early attention to the
important business of the State in preference to the affairs that only
respect Individuals, that the business of the public by being post
poned to the latter end of the Session may not be in danger of suf
fering from want of due deliberation.
The encouragement of agriculture and our own manufactures, the
providing of funds for paying the interest of our foreign & domestic
debts and the support of pubhc credit in general are raatters of the
highest iraportance, perhaps will more directly contribute to promote
these desirable ends than a well regulated commerce ; this gentlemen
you will probably think has been too long neglected, as the conse
quences of an inattention to it are too glaring to pass unobserved.
As the increase of our specie the value of our Lands the employ
ment & subsistance of a large part of the community is so immedi
ately connected with a due regulation of trade, you will permit me to
recoraraend this raatter to your iraraediate attention whether this
shall be left generally with congress, or whether the ruinous situation
to which our trade is already reduced by the restrictions of the Brit
ish Legislature demands your direct and instant interference your
wisdom will determine.
The laying out & keeping in repair necessary public roads ; the
establishment of post riders from the sea coast through the different
parts of the State may be of great public utility, and serve to pro
mote an intercourse between town & country which may be greatly
beneficial to both.
Gentlemen, ray hearty concurrence shall not be wanting in every
measure that may tend to promote the welfare of this State and give
dispatch to the business of the public.
Council Chamber, June 9"^ 1785. John Langdon.
Adjourned to eight o'clock to morrow morning.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 355
* 12. : 723 * FRIDAY, June io, 1785.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
Voted, that Gen' Sullivan, M' Pickering, & M' Dow, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to take into con
sideration & draught an answer to his Excellencys address to both
Houses delivered yesterday. Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Voted, that Col° Payne, M' Plummer, & M' Macgregore, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider
what allowance shall be made the late Senior Senator & those mem
bers of the late Council who attended to administer to the merabers'
of the General Court the necessary oaths required by the Constitu
tion. Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of the Selectmen of Merri
mac which was to have been this day before the Gen' Court be post
poned to the second Thursday of their next Session of which all
persons concerned are to take notice and govern themselves accord
ingly. Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Thomas Bartlett
Esq' Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted & that he have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Wolfeborough &
Middletown" Voted, that a farther consideration thereof be put off to
the second Thursday of the next Session of the General Court —
That Ebenezer Smith Esq' of Merrideth, Daniel Bedee Esq' of Sand
wich Col° Moses Baker of Campton be a Coraraittee to repair in the
raean time to the towns of Middletown & Wolfeborough & view the
situation of those towns respecting the divisions prayed for in said
Petition, at the expense of the Petitioners and make report to the
General Court at their next Session. Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Voted, that a Precept be sent to the district of Peterborough Slip
& Temple to irapower thera to raake choice of a person to represent
the inhabitants of that district in the General Court in the roora of
the Honb' Francis Blood Esq' who having accepted his appointment
as a Justice of the Court of Comraon Pleas for the County of HiUs
borough cannot constitutionally have a seat in this House.
Agreeable to the order of the day the Honb' Senate & the House
met and heard the parties concerned in sundry Petitions.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
*The House proceeded to elect by ballot two persons * 12 : 724
out of four nominated by a Committee appointed for
1- xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 737.

356 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1785
that purpose to proceed to Boston to confer with the General Court
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts respecting the commerce
between the two states, when the ballots were counted it appeared
that Woodbury Langdon Esq' & John Sparhawk Esq' were chosen
to join with Christopher Toppan Esq' already appointed for that
purpose. Therefore, Voted, that Woodbury Langdon Esq' & John Sparhawk
Esq' with Christopher Toppan Esq' (before appointed) be a Corarait
tee to confer with the General Court of the Coraraonwealth of Mas
sachusetts on the subject of any Acts passed in the Coraraonwealth
which affect the coramerce of this state & that said Gentleraen be
notified of their appointraent and requested to proceed on that busi
ness as soon as raay be and that they be fumished with instructions
similar to those given to a former Committee appointed for that pur
pose. Sent up by Col° Bartlett.
Upon hearing and considering the Petition of Henry Little in be
half of James Saunders, Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted
and that the Petitioner have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
Sent up by M' Young.
The Senate & House being again met for the purpose of electing
counsellors, and the ballots being taken and counted it appeared that
the Honb' Nathaniel Peabody Esq' the Honb' Matthew Thornton
Esq' the Honb' John Sullivan Esq' Col° Amos Shephard & Col° Mo
ses Dow were elected Counsellors for this State, they then adjourned,
and the House proceeded to business.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of John Young, Voted,
that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the
second Friday of their next Session & that Moses Dow Esq' be
served with a Copy of the Petition & order of Court thereon and that
in the mean time the executions against said Young in favour of
Daniel Cross and Jonathan Hale be stayed till a decision of the Gen
eral Court on said Petition. Sent up by Maj' Young.
The Comraittee on the Petition of Cap' Ezekiel Worthen reported
as their opinion that the prayer thereof be granted and that the Com
mittee on Depreciation take order thereon and govern themselves
accordingly, and raake up the depreciation & interest for him and
his subalterns in the same manner as is made up to
*I2: 725 officers in the Continental *Army, Signed Geo. Atkinson
for the Committee, which report being read and consid
ered, Voted, that it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Gilman.
The Honb' Senate and House being again met on the business of
electing officers adjourned till ten of clock toraorrow morning.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 357
Voted that the public hearings which were to have been this day
be put off till tomorrow at lo o'clock of which all persons concerned
are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Adjourned to eight o'clock to morrow morning.
SATURDAY, June ii, 1785.
The House met according to adjournraent.
The public letters received by the President since the last Session
of the General Court were read.
The following vote carae down from the Honb' Senate for concur
rence. In Senate June ii"", 1785. Yoted, that M' Joshua Wentworth
and M' Peabody be a Committee to joyn with such of the Honb'
House as they shall appoint to prepare and lay before the General
Court a draught for instructions to guide the naval officer in the exe
cution of his office, relative to the ships of war belonging to his most
Christian Majesty now lying in Piscataqua Harbour.
Sent down for concurrence, E. Thompson, Sec'y.
Read & concurred and Maj' Gains, Col° Toppan, & Col° Dow
joined. The Committee on the Petition of Cap' Siraon Marston', Reported,
as their opinion that the prayer thereof be granted, & that the Cora
raittee on Depreciation take order thereon and govern themselves
accordingly and make up the depreciation and interest for him and
his subalterns, Signed, Geo. Atkinson for the Committee, which
report being read and considered. Voted, that it be received and
accepted. Sent up by M' Pluraraer.
A vote frora the Honb' Senate appointing a Committee to joyn a
Coramittee of this House to consider of the business most necessary
to be immediately proceeded on by the General Court & make report
thereon, was brought down, read and concurred, & Col° Toppan, Col°
Badger, M' Duncan, M' Grout & Col° Payne, joyned.
Sent up by M' Plummer.
The Comraittee on the Petition of Woodbury Langdon, Esq' re
ported as their opinion that the prayer thereof ought to be granted &
that he have leave to bring in a bill for the repeal of the Act referred
to in the Petition so far only as it respects him as Attorney to Peter
Levius Esq' Signed, J. Wentworth, for the Committee, which re
port being read and considered Voted, that it be received and
accepted. Sent up by M' Griffin,
^- xi. Ham. Town Papers, 487.

358 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^785
* 12 : 726 * The Committee on the Petition of the Selectmen of
Bedford,' Reported as their opinion that the prayer of
the Petition be granted Signed Eben' Webster, for the Committee,
which report being read and considered. Voted, that it be received
and accepted. Sent up by Cap' Foss.
The Committee appointed to consider what allowance shall be
made the late Senior Senator and the raerabers of the late Council
who attended to adrainister the oaths required by the Constitution to
the members of the General Court, Reported. " that the Honb'
Woodbury Langdon Esq' be allowed four pounds four shillings, the
Honb' Joseph Badger, Esq', four pounds four shillings [&] the Honb'
Francis Blood Esq' five pounds nine shillings and eight pence for
said service. Signed Jos" Wentworth for the Committee which re
port being read and considered. Voted, that it be received and ac
cepted. Sent up by Col° Wiggin.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Richard Cutt Shan
non Esq' & others^ a Committee of the Proprietors of Cocker
mouth, Voted, that the Petitioners be heard thereon before the Gen
eral Court on the second Thursday of their next Session and that in
the mean time the Petitioners cause that the Proprietors of Plymouth
be served with a Copy of the Petition & order of Court thereon —
also cause that the substance of said Petition & order of Court there
on be published three weeks successively in the New Hampshire
Gazzette that any person or persons may then appearand shew cause
if any they have why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by Col° Wiggin.
The Coraraittee on the Petition of Hannah Peabody, reported,
" that depreciation & interest be made up for her late husband Col°
Stephen Peabody in the same raanner as is made up to the officers of
the same rank in the Continental Army and that the Comraittee on
depreciation take order and govern theraselves accordingly. Signed
Geo. Atkinson for the Coramittee, which report being read and con
sidered, Voted, that it be received and accepted, — and that the
President give order accordingly. Sent up by Col° Wiggin.
The Committee on the Petition of Peter Drowne ^ reported as their
opinion " that the prayer thereof be granted & that the Committee
on depreciation raake up depreciation & interest for him and his
subalterns in the same manner as is made up to the officers in the
Continental Array Signed, Geo. Atkinson, for the Comraittee,
which report being read and considered Voted, that it be received
and accepted. Sent up by Col° Wiggin.
* 12:727 *The Committee appointed to draught an answer to
'¦¦ xi. Ham. Town Papers, 186. 2- xii. Ham. Town Papers, 78. 3. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 702.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 359
his Excellency's address reported an answer accordingly which being
read it was voted to be presented and is as follows (viz)
May it please your Excellency,
The appointment of a Gentleraan to the chief seat of this Govern
ment who has ever distinguished himself as a patriot and a states
man cannot fail to afford the highest satisfaction to the representa
tives of a free & virtuous people : Your Excellency may therefore
rely on that aid and assistance which your important station may de
mand and our constitutional powers will enable us to afford.
We have considered with attention the several matters pointed out
in your Excellency's address and being deeply sensible that the great
ends of Government cannot be promoted without a general harmony
and unanimity of sentiment among the citizens of a state & espe
cially among those who are intrusted by the people with the conduct
of their public affairs, Your Excellency may rest assured that no
efforts on our part will be wanting to assist you in carrying your in
tentions into execution.
Such coraraunications as we raay receive frora & such public
papers as raay be laid before us by your Excellency will be duly at
tended to.
The public affairs of the State being of so much raore importance
than those matters which relate only to the interest of individuals
the former will undoubtedly have our earliest attention.
As the increase of our specie, inhancing the value of our lands
establishing our national credit and subsisting a large number of our
fellow citizens will greatly depend on a proper regulation of our com
merce the encouragement of our own raanufactures and discouraging
the consuraption of foreign articles, an early attention to those ob
jects to prevent the increase of an evil already too sensibly felt in
this State cannot fail to take place. The regulations of public roads
and establishing post riders to keep up a proper coramunication be
tween the different parts of this State will be attended to as soon as
possible. We are well assured that your Excellency's concurrence will not be
wanting in any measures which may tend to promote the welfare of
the State, and we beg leave to assure your Excellency that nothing
shall be neglected on our part to promote the public interest and dis
charge the trust reposed in us. John Sullivan, Speaker.
Voted, that Col° Bartlett and Col° Gilman be a Comraittee to wait
on his Excellency and present him with the foregoing answer.
* Voted, that the public hearings which were to have * 12:728
been this day be postponed to Tuesday next of which all
persons concerned are to take notice & govern themselves accordingly.
Adjourned to Monday next at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

360 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1785
MONDAY, June 13"' 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, that Cap' Thoraas Martin, be and he hereby is appointed
and requested to proceed to the General Court of the Coraraon
wealth of Massachusetts in the room & stead of the Honb' Wood
bury Langdon Esq' who has declined accepting said trust.
Sent up by M' Plummer.
Voted, that Col° Toppan, Col" Badger, M' Duncan, M' Grout, &
Col° Payne, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider of the Petitions of Francis Borland & others,
the Petition of William Pearne, & others also the Petition of Jona
than Warner Esq' and others merchants & inhabitants of the town of
Portsmouth and report thereon. Sent up by M' Duncan.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of John Smith, Voted,
that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the
second Thursday of their next Session and that in the mean time the
Petitioner cause that the Selectmen of Peterborough be served with
a Copy of the Petition and order of court thereon that they may then
appear and shew cause if any they have why the prayer thereof may
not be granted, and that all proceedings of the Superior Court be
stayed in the mean tirae. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Benjamin Jacquith,
Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court
on the second Friday of their next Session and that in the mean
time the Petitioner cause that the adverse party be served with a
Copy of the Petition and order of Court thereon that he may then
appear and shew cause if any he hath why the prayer thereof may
not be granted. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Yoted, that Maj' Gains, Col° Gilman, Cap' Spaulding, Maj' Whit
comb & M' Freeman with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall
join be a Comraittee to consider of the Petition and account of Sara
uel Cutts Esq' and report thereon. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Voted, that Col° Toppan, Col° Payne, & M' [J.] Gilraan, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider
of the Petition of Col° William Simpson & report thereon.
Sent up by M' Jenness.
* 12 : 729 *Adjourned to eight of clock to morrow morning.
TUESDAY, June 14, 1785.
The House met according to adjournraent.
The Coraraittee on the Petitions of sick and wounded officers &
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in the New Hampshire regiment, Reported that the said Thoraas
Pratt be allowed and paid the sura of fifteen shillings lawful money
per month to be coraputed beginning at the tirae that his whole pay
as a soldier ceased and to continue till further order of the General
Court, and that he be enrolled as an invalid pensioner accordingly.
Signed, Nath" Peabody for the Comraittee, which report being read
and considered. Voted, that it be received and accepted.
Sent up by M' Plummer.
The Comraittee on the Petition of John Pickering Esq" in behalf
of Ehsha Reed & others inhabitants of the towns of Plainfield and
Cornish, Reported that a day of hearing be granted, Signed, Nath"
Peabody for the Committee, which report being read and considered
Voted, that it be received and accepted and that the Petitioners be
heard thereon before the General Court in the after noon of this day,
— agreebly to the consent of parties. Sent up by M' Plummer.
Voted, that M' J. Pickering, Col" Gilman, M' R. Wallace, M' Jew
ett & Col" Payne with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
a Committee to draught and lay before this House the several bills
mentioned in the report of the Coramittee on necessary business.
Sent up by M' Pluraraer.
Voted, that M' J. Gilman, M' Brackett, M' Macgregore, Maj' Whit
comb & Col° Whipple with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall
join be a Committee to consider of the Petition of Phebe Colbourne
and all sirailar matters and report thereon. Sent up by M' Plummer.
Voted, that M' J. Pickering, Cap' Emerson, Col" Bartlett, Col° Gil
man, and Col° Dow, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join
be a Committee to examine how far the Committee for settling the
accounts between this State and the United States have proceeded
in the settlement with Stephen Gorham Esq' Commissioner for the
United States and report thereon. Sent up by M' Plummer.
The Committee to consider of the Account of the Selectmen of
Packersfield, Reported that the account of the Selectmen of Packers-
field amounting to twenty-two pounds eight shillings & three pence
as liquidated by the scale being the tax on the estate of
Breed Batcheldor [Esq']* an absentee be allowed and *I2 : 730
that the President draw an order for that sura to be dis
counted out of the tax due from said town for the year 1780. Signed,
Joseph Gilman, for the Committee, which report being read and con
sidered, Yoted, that it be received and accepted. Sent up by M'
Plummer. Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
^ xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 204.
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362 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178S
Met accordingly.
Voted, that Col" Payne, M' Adams & Maj' Kimball with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of Ehhu Stevens and others and report thereon.
Sent up by Col° Waldron.
Agreeably to the order of the day attended on the hearing of sev
eral Petitions.
Upon hearing and considering the Petition of Thomas Pinkham
Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted, & that he have leave to
bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by M' Jackman.
The further consideration of the Petition of Elisha Reed and oth
ers postponed till to morrow morning.
Voted, that the consideration of the Petition of Ebenezer Torrey
be postponed to the second Wednesday of the next Session of the
General Court and that in the mean time the Petitioner cause that
David Learned & Abel Learned each be served with a Copy of the
Petition and order of Court thereon that they or either of them raay
then appear and shew cause if any they have why the prayer thereof
may not be granted. Sent up by M' Sanborn.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, June 15'" 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act to impower Thomas Bartlett, Esq', of Nottingham Guar
dian to Ebenezer Cotton & Ezekiel Fisk, minor heirs of Ebenezer
Fisk late of Epping, Physician Deceased, intestate to make and
execute a good and lawful deed of sale of certain lands lying in Ep
ping & Brentwood, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by M' Prentice and M' Jenness.
An Act to repeal an act entitled, An Act to prevent the transfer
or conveyance of the estates & property of all such persons who have
been or shall be apprehended upon suspicion of having been guilty of
Treason Misprison of Treason or other inimical practices
*I2: 731 respecting this State* the United States, any or either
of them, and also for securing all lands within this State
as well of such persons as have traiterously deserted or may hereafter
desert the common cause of America and have gone over to or in any
way or manner joined our enemies as of those who belong to or reside
in Great Britain passed Nov™'' 29"" 1777 as far as said Act respects
the power of Attorney given by Peter Levius Esq' to Woodbury
Langdon, Esq' was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by M' Prentice & M' Jenness.

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An act to prevent incroachraents upon highways was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. Sent up by M' Prentice & M' Jenness.
Upon the second reading of a bill intitled An Act for chusing
Grand Jurors and directing their services. Motion was made for ex
punging the following clause "And be it further enacted that the
Sherriff of each County respectively is hereby authorized upon or
ders given by said Courts to return Grand Jurors detalibus circum-
stantibus as occasion shall require and the said Courts shall judge
necessary and the Sherriff is hereby directed to do the same accord
ingly" and the yeas & nays being called for in determining said
motion were as follows, (viz)

Yeas.
Jn° Pickering,
Wm White,
W™ Plummer,
Tho» Page,
Tho= Tash,
Sam' Douglass,
Jn" Duncan,
Jon" Dow,
Elijah Grout,
Jon» Gaskill,
Simon Willard,
Edward Jewett,
Elijah Frink,
Ab"» Burnam,
Elisha Payne,
John Young,

Yeas.
Jn° Prentice,
Moses Shaw,
Tho» Bartlett,
David Gilman,
Samuel Marsh,
Ephraim Adams,
Robert Wallace,
Robert Smith,
Amos Shepherd,

Nays.
Geo Gains,
W"" Weeks,
Col" Leavitt,
Mark Wiggin,
Moses Barnard,
James Betton,
Jon" Wentworth,
Joseph Badger,
Reuben Libbey,

Jn° Gilman, [Gilmore] James Martin,

Sam' Works,
, Stephen Powers,
Joseph Kimball,
Ebenezer Hoyt,
W™ Simpson,

Phillip Putnam,
Ge° Jackman,
Benj" Hall,
Levi Hooper,
Nathan Young,
Jacob Copeland,
Sam' Kendall,

Nays.
Jn" Sullivan,
Sam' Jenness,
Abner Sanborn,
Levi Morrill,
Nath Emerson,
Jn° Waldron,
James Knowles,
James Brackett,
Dan' Emerson,
Levi Spaulding,
Benj" Darling,
Matthew Harvey,
Elisha Whitcomb,
Benj™ Sumner,
Lemuel Holmes,
Sam' Griffin,
Noah Worster,
Joseph Whipple.

31 Yeas, — 35 Nays.
So the motion was lost.
An act for laying out highways was read a third time and passed
to be enacted. Sent up by Maj' Weeks and Maj' Gains.
*The following vote came down from the Honb' Senate * 12 : 732
for concurrence
New^Harap. }l" S^"^^^ J""^ ^S'" 1785-
Voted, that Joseph Gilman, Nath' Peabody, & John Parker, Es
quires, a Committee appointed to devise proper checks for impress
ing new blank notes, to redeem the State Securities now outstanding.
Also devise proper checks for impressing blank certificates to be used
for the payment of interest due on said notes.
Sent down for concurrence. Signed, E. Thompson, Sec'y.
The same day read and concurred. Sent up by Cap' Marsh,

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[1785

Upon motion made for an addition to the bill entitled an act for
chusing of Grand jurors and directing their services in the following
words " Provided that no talisman shall be put on any Grand jury
until twelve of the Grand Jurors chosen and returned by the towns
as this Act directs shall be present in Court ready to be impaneled."
The Yeas & Nays being called for were as follows, (viz)

Nays.
Jn" Sullivan,
Ge" Gains,
Abner Sanborn,
Moses Bernard,
Jon" Wentworth,
W" Harper,
Reub" Libbey,
Phillip Putnam,
Benj™ Darling,
Matthew Harvey,
Elisha Whitcomb.
Benj" Sumner,
Jacob Copland,
Noah Worster. [Worcester.}

Yeas. Yeas. Nays.
Jn" Pickering, Jn" Prentice, W"" Weeks,
W™ White, Eph"" Pickering, Sam' Jenness,
Christ" Toppan, Moses Shaw, Moses Leavitt,
Nath' Batcheldor, Levi Morrill, Mark Wiggin,
W" Plummer, Tho' Bartlett, Jn" Waldron,
Charles Glidden, Nath' Emerson, James Knowles,
Tho= Page, Caleb Dustin, James Brackitt,
James Betton, Joshua Foss, James Martin,
David Gilman, Thomas Tash, Levi Spaulding,
Sam' Marsh, Sam' Douglas, Ge" Jackman,
Eph"" Adams, Rob' Wallace, Benj"* Hall,
Jon" Dow, Jn" Bryant, Levi Hooper,
Rob' Smith, Elijah Grout, iNathan Young,
Amos Shepherd, Jon" Gaskill, Sam' Kendall,
Jn" Gilmore, Simon Willard, Joseph Whipple,
Sam' Works, Kd-w^ Jewett,
Stephen Powers, Elijah Frink,
Sam' Griffin, Joseph Kimball,
Ab" Burnam, Ebenezer Hoyt, •
Russell Freeman, Elisha Payne,
John Young,
41 Yeas, 29 Nays.
So the motion prevailed for making said addition.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
* 12 : 733 *An Act directing & regulating the appointraent and
choice of Petit Jurors was read a third time and passed
to be enacted. Sent up by Col° Waldron, & Col° Bartlett
Read several Public Bills & debated thereon.
Resumed the consideration of the Petition of Elisha Reed,' &
Voted, that said Petition be dismissed.
An Act for chusing of Grand Jurors and directing their services
was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col° Waldron, & Col" Bartlett.
Voted, that the Public hearings on Petitions which were to have
been this day before the General Court be postponed till to morrow
of which all concerned are to take notice and govern themselves
accordingly. !• xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 204.

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The Comraittee on the Meraorial of the Revr'' M' Belknap, having
seen and conversed with him find that he is indebted to the printer
of his History of this State the sum of one hundred pounds, which
he is unable to pay and which if not paid will discourage him from
proceeding to compile a second volume, and as they highly approve
the first, they beg leave to propose that each member of the House
be entitled to receive from M' Belknap at the expense of the State,
one whole bound book at the price of ten shillings each & fourteen
to the dozen for the use of the districts they respectively represent,
and that whatever sum remains to make up the sura of one hundred
pounds be allowed and paid to the Revr^ M' Belknap by an order on
the Treasury Signed, Geo Atkinson, for the Committee, which
report being read and considered. Voted, that it be received and
accepted. " Sent up by Col" Simpson.
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to morrow morning.
THURSDAY, June i6, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, that the Resolve of the ninth instant irapowering Justices
within the liraits of their respective Commissions to administer the
Constitutional oaths to officers therein raentioned, be printed in hand
bills and distributed to the several towns in this State as soon as may
be. Sent up by Col° Simpson.
Read and debated largely on a bill called the Lumber Act.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Col° White took out of the files M' Flagg's Petition respecting
Col" Websters will.
*The Committee appointed to consider of the Petitions * 12 : 734
of sick & wounded &c having heard Thomas Green on his
Petition and viewed the wound referred to in said Petition, Reported
that the said Thomas Green have and receive the sum of eighteen
shillings per month, beginning at the time when his pay as an inva
lid ceased and to be continued till the further order of the General
Court and that the same be charged in account against the United
States agreeably to the resolve of Congress of the 26"' of August
1776 and that he be enrolled accordingly. Signed, Nath" Peabody
for the Committee, which report being read and considered, Voted,
that it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Jenness.
The Committee on the Petition of sick & wounded &c having
heard Cap' Nathan Sanborn' respecting the subject matter of his
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Petition & viewed the wound therein mentioned, with the certificates
& vouchers concerning the same. Reported that the said Cap' Na
than Sanborn be paid the sum of twenty shillings per month begin
ning at the time when his pay as an oificer ceased and to continue
till further order of the General Court and the same be charged to
the United States in pursuance of a Resolve of Congress of the 26"'
of August 1776 and that he be enrolled as an invalid pensioner ac
cordingly. Signed, Nath" Peabody for the Committee, which report
being read and considered. Voted, that it be received and accepted.
Sent up by M' Jenness.
The Coraraittee on the Petition of Sarah Kimball widow of Ben
jamin Kimball late a Captain in the first New Hampshire Regiment
in the Continental Army, Reported that the President order the
Treasurer to issue a note for half pay agreeable to a Resolve of Con
gress passed August 24"' 1780 the interest to commence from the
date of the order Signed, Joseph Gilman for the Comraittee which
report being read and considered, Voted, that it be received and
accepted. Sent up by M' Jenness.
The Committee on Petitions of sick and wounded officers and sol
diers having considered the Petition of Reuben Spencer an invalid
pensioner with his account current and the several papers certificates
and vouchers accompanying the same. Reported that the
'" 12 : 745 said Reuben Spencer be allowed and paid the sum of * six
ty-eight pounds fourteen shillings and one penny lawful
money in full for his account exhibited against the United States,,
Signed by order of the Comraittee per Nath' Peabody, which report
being read and considered. Voted, that it be received and accepted.
Sent up by M' M<^Murphy.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Gen' John Stark which
was to have been before the General Court on the second Thursday
of the present Session be heard on the second Wednesday of the
next Session and that in the mean time the Secretary be directed to
publish the substance of the Petition and order thereon six weeks
successively in the New Hampshire Gazzette that any person or
persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the
prayer thereof raay not be granted. Sent up by Col" Leavitt
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to morrow morning.
FRIDAY, June 17"' 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
The Comraittee on the Petition of Jonathan Eastman' of Walpole,
Reported, that the Committee for settling Depreciation, make up
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depreciation for six months service performed by Samuel Eastman,
Signed John M"=Cleary, for the Committee which report being read
and considered Voted, that it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Col° Leavitt.
The Committee on the Petition of John Donaldson & Mary Don
aldson his wife late widow of Cap' Richard Shortridge late a Cap
tain in the New Hampshire hne of the Continental Army, Reported
that the prayer thereof be granted and that the President order the
Treasurer to issue Notes agreeably to a Resolve of Congress of the
24"" of August 1780, Interest to commence frora the date of the
order, Signed Joseph Gilman for the Committee, which report being-
read and considered, Voted, that it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Col° Leavitt.
The Several Coraraittees appointed to Brigade the Regiments of
Militia to form and arrange the Corps, of Light Horse, to form a
regiraent of Artillery and to arrange & regulate the alarm list. Re
ported, the following Resolve.
Resolved, that the first, third, fourth, seventh & twen
tieth regiments constitute one Brigade. * The Second, * 12 : 736
tenth, eighteenth, & nineteenth, shall constitute another
Brigade, The eighth, eleventh, seventeenth, and twenty-second,
another Brigade, — the fifth, ninth, twelth, and twenty-third,
another Brigade, — The sixth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and twenty-first,
another Brigade, — The thirteenth, fourteenth, twenty-fourth, and
twenty-fifth another Brigade.
That the Commander in chief assign to each Brigadier already ap
pointed or that may hereafter be appointed the particular Brigade
which he is to coramand and alter or change the command as he may
think proper, and that he by advice of a Major part of the General
officers raay alter the said Brigades from time to time as occasion
may require.
That there be two Regiments of Light Horse of five Companies
each, each Company to consist of one Captain, two Lieutenants, one
Cornet, four sarjeants the first of whora to be the clerk and sixty-four
privates. That there be one Colonel, one Lieutenant Colonel, one
Major, one Adjutant, & one Quarter Master, to each regiraent and
that the whole be under the command of a Brigadier General of the
Horse who shall himself be subject to the comraand of the Major
General and other his superior officers.
That the Brigadier General of the Light Horse have liberty to en
list under the direction of the Captain General any number of inde
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subject to do duty with the train band who shall be independant of
said Regiment and subject only to the command of the Brigadier of
the Light Horse aud his comraanding officers.
The Coramanding officers of said independant Corapanies to have
the same rank as officers in the alarm list, — that there be one Regi
ment of Artillery consisting of eight Companies, each company to
consist of one Captain, one Captain Lieutenant, two Lieutenants,
four sarjeants, the first of whom to be the clerk, four Bombadiers,
included in rank and file, twenty-five Cannoniers, and one Drum and
fife, three of which Companies shall be raised within the Limits of
the Brigade next the Sea Coast and annexed thereto and one Com
pany to be raised within the Liraits of and annexed to each of the
other Brigades, each Corapany to be furnished with two field pieces,
with the necesary apparatus.
* 12 : 737 * That his Excellency the Captain General be requested
to write Congress desiring the Loan of sixteen pieces of
brass Artillery and eight Araraunition waggons from the nearest
Continental park, for the return of which on request frora Congress
or the Secretary of war this State shall be answerable.
That the Alarm list be formed and regulated agreeably to the Act
for regulation of the Militia passed the eighteenth of March, 1780.
That the Brigadiers within their several districts, and in case there
should be no Brigadier then such field officers as the Major General
shall direct immediately set up notifications at some publick House in
each district notifying all those belonging to the alarm list within
those districts to appear for the purpose of electing their officers and
shah preside at said election, the return of which appointment shall
be made to him and transraitted by him to the Captain General who
is to make out commissions accordingly, Signed, Nath" Peabody for
the Comraittee, which report being read and considered, Voted, that
it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Pickering.
Voted, that M' Prentice, Col" Tash, M' Emerson, M' Grout, and
M' Worster with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to draught and lay before this House a bill for punishing
Horse thieves. Sent up by M' Worcester.
Upon reading and considering a Petition from the Inhabitants of
the town of Marlborough praying for the Priviledge of sending a
Representative, Yoted, that the prayer thereof, be granted so far as
that the said town of Marlborough have liberty to send a Represent
ative till further order of the General Court.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of the inhabitants of
New Market ' setting forth that at the last annual meeting held in
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New Market for the choice of a Representative a Vote was obtained
to dissolve said Meeting without any choice being made, contrary to
the minds of a great number of inhabitants wherefore they prayed
that the Selectraen might be irapowered to call a raeeting to make
choice of a Representative to represent said town in the General
Court the current year, Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted, &
that the Selectmen be erapowered accordingly.
The Committee on the Petitions from sick and wounded officers
and soldiers having heard Peter Akerman respecting the subject mat
ter of his Petition, viewed his wounds, with the papers
and * certificates relative to the same. Reported, that by * 12 : 738
the Resolve of Congress of the 26"^ of August 1776 he
is entitled to have and receive the sum of twenty shillings per raonth
from the time his pay as a soldier ceased till further order of the Gen
eral Court and that he be enrolled as an invalid pensioner and orders
be issued for the payraent accordingly and that the monies so paid
be charged against the United States. Signed, Nath' Peabody for
the Committee which report being read and considered, Voted, that
it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Worster.
The Committee on the Petition of Ebenezer Flagg and similar
matters having considered the Petition of Joseph Kimball', Reported,
that the prayer thereof be granted and that the President give order
upon the Treasurer accordingly. Signed, M. Thornton, for the Com
mittee, which report being read and considered, Voted, that it be re
ceived and accepted. Sent up by M' Frink.
The Committee on the Petition of Ebenezer Flagg and all similar
matters having considered the subject matter of the Petition of the
said Ebenezer Flagg reported that the prayer thereof be granted and
that the President give order upon the Treasurer accordingly.
Signed M. Thornton for the Committee, which report being read and
considered. Voted, that it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Frink.
The Committee on the petition of Ebenezer Flagg and all sirailar
matters, having considered the Petition of Gawen Arraor Reported,
that the prayer thereof be granted and that the President give order
upon the Treasurer accordingly. Signed M Thornton for the Cora
mittee, which report being read and considered, Voted, that it be re
ceived and accepted. Sent up by M' Frink.
The Committee on the Petitions of sick & wounded officers and
soldiers having heard Thomas Haines respecting the subject matter
of his Petition and viewed the wound therein mentioned with the dis
charge and certificate relative to the same. Reported that he be paid
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the sum of twenty-four shillings per month from the time his wages
as a soldier ceased till further order of the General Court and the
monies so paid and advanced to be charged in account against the
United States in consequence of the resolve of Congress
* 12 : 739 of the 23"' of April 1782, and that he be enrolled * as an
invalid pensioner accordingly. Signed, Nath" Peabody,
for the Coraraittee which report being read and considered. Voted,
that it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Adams.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Elihu Stevens and
others inhabitants of Claremont praying for the liberty of a Lottery
to raise a sura of money for the purpose of building a bridge over
Sugar river, Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted, and that the
Petitioners have leave to bring in a bill for raising by a Lottery the
sum of three hundred pounds to be free from any charge or expenee
to the State. Sent up by M' Adams.
The Coraraittee on Instructions to Guide the Naval officer in the
execution of his office relative to the ship of war belonging to his
most Christian Majesty now lying in Piscataqua Harbor reported that
whereas the ship Lapories commanded by the Chevalier de Ferries
now taking on board a cargo of masts heretofore purchased for his
most Christian Majesty be exempted from any duties whatever.
Therefore your Comraittee report that the Naval officer be directed
not to make demand therefor. Signed Joshua Wentworth, for the
Committee which report being read and considered. Voted, that it be
received and accepted. Sent up by M' Betton.
Voted, that Col° Bartlett, Col" Badger, Maj' Wallace, Col° Shep
hard, & Col" Dow, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join
be a Comraittee to consider of the Regulations for the order & disci
pline of the troops of New Harapshire presented by the Honb' John
Sullivan Esq' Major General and report thereon. Sent up by Col° Waldron.
Voted, that Col° Leavitt, Col° Gilraan, Cap' Marsh, M' Holmes,
and Col" Dow with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Comraittee to consider of the Account of the Selectmen of Ports
mouth and report thereon. Sent up by Col" Waldron.
Voted, that M' J. Gilraan, Col° Bartlett, M' Grout, Col" Leavitt,
and Col" Wiggin, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
a Coraraittee to consider of the Petition and Account of Joshua
Young and report thereon. Sent up by Col" Waldron.
* 12 : 740 *The Coraraittee on the Petition " of a large nuraber of
Inhabitants of this State praying that some raethod raay
be devised for repairing new market bridge, Reported, that the former
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act respecting the bridge be repealed, and that an act pass enacting
that in future the said bridge be repaired and supported in manner
following (viz) that the end on newraarket side so far as the hoist be
repaired and supported at the expenee of the said town of New Mar
ket and the end on Strathara side be repaired and supported at the
expense of said Stratham so far as the hoist and that the hoist be
repaired and supported at the expenee of the towns of Portsmouth
Greenland & Rye, Portsmouth to pay three quarters of said expenee,
— Greenland & Rye the other quarter for and during the term of ten
years and no longer. Signed, Geo. Atkinson for the Coraraittee,
which report being read and considered, Voted, that it be received
and accepted. Sent up by Maj' Wiggin.
Voted, that M' Betton, M' J. Pickering & Col" Bartlett, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coramittee to consider of
the report of the Committee chosen at the Session in February last
to settle the accounts between the Treasurer and the State & report
thereon. Sent up by M' Betton.
Voted, that Mr. Prentice, Col° Waldron, M' Adams, M' Works, &
Col° Simpson, with such of the Honb" Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider of the Accounts of John Pierce, Mark H.
Wentworth, Richard Hart, & Jonathan Warner, Esq'^ and all similar
matters and report thereon. Sent up by M' Prentice.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Benjamin Tripp,
Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court
on the second Friday of their next Session and that in the mean time
the Petitioner cause that Jonathan M. Sewall and Oliver Whipple
Attornies to Matthew Robinson mentioned in said Petition be served
with a Copy of the Petition and order of Court thereon that they or
either of thera may then appear and shew cause if any they have why
the prayer thereof may not be granted, and that all further process
against said Tripp be stayed until the decision of the General Court.
Sent up by M' M<=Murphy.
*Adjourned, to 3 o'clock P. M. * 12 : 741
Met accordingly.
Voted, that the account of the Honb' John M'^Clarey, Esq' araount
ing to one pound eleven shillings and four pence for a journey to
Concord, Horse hire &c be allowed and paid out of the Treasury and
that the President give order accordingly. Sent up by Col° Sirapson.
Voted, that M' Green, Col° Waldron, Maj' Wallace, Cap' Holmes
& Col" Dow, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider what business is yet necessary to be done at
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this court shall be adjourned — also to consider what allowance shall
be made to the merabers of the Honb' Senate, the House of Repre
sentatives and their officers for travel and attendance at this Session
and report thereon. Sent up by M' Batcheldor.
Voted, that M' [Col°] Gilman, M' Prentice, and M' Hall, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider
of the account of Enoch Barker and report thereon.
Sent up by M' Batcheldor.
Voted, that the account of Alexander Parkman amounting to thirty
shillings be ahowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the
President. Sent up by Cap' Foss.
The Committee appointed for considering the report of the Com
mittee on the settlement of the Treasurers Account, Reported, that
the certificates issued by the late and present Treasurer dated, July
31^' 1782 amounting to nine thousand nine hundred & sixteen pounds
sixteen shillings and eleven pence, also the certificates issued by the
present Treasurer dated July 3P' 1783, amounting to five thousand
six hundred and eighty-seven pounds seventeen shillings and ten
pence — likewise sundry certificates dated July 31^' 1784. Issued for
interest on Notes & orders araounting to three thousand two hundred
& sixty nine pounds fourteen shillings. Sundry certificates dated
July 31^' 1784 issued for fifteen p' cent of the principal on State notes
amounting to twelve thousand nine hundred & ninety six pounds ten
shillings and ten pence — also sundry consolidated notes amounting
to six thousand one hundred and seven pounds five shillings and eight
pence, — also three thousand four hundred and fifty-six pounds eleven
shillings. Depreciation notes, — Bounty notes, four thousand, nine
hundred & sixty pounds. Likewise nineteen thousand one hundred &
thirty-six pounds, nine shillings in notes given for money
* 12 : 742 borrowed and for purchasing * horses also the receipts for
bounties for kilhng wolves amounting to two hundred &
ten pounds nineteen shillings be burnt by a Committee to be ap
pointed for that purpose. That the old and the new eraission
received by the Committee on the settlement of the present Treasur
ers accounts be deposited in the hands of the Treasurer he giving a
proper receipt therefor. — Thatthe certificates issued bythe Conti
nental loan officer in this State be deposited with the present Loan
Officer upon his giving a proper receipt for the same and that all the
other vouchers and papers respecting the Treasurer's account be
lodged in the hands of the State comptroller on his giving a proper
receipt therefor. — Signed, Joshua Wentworth, for the Committee
which report being read and considered, Voted, that it be received
and accepted and that M' J. Gilman, Col" Bartlett, and Cap' East-

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man, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Com
mittee for the purpose mentioned in this report. Sent up by Cap' Foss.
The Coramittee on the Petition of Joseph Leigh, reported that he
be allowed seventy-one pounds seventeen shilhngs for depreciation in
the year 1780 and that the President order the Treasurer to issue a
Note for that sum and certificates for the interest in the same man
ner as Notes and certificates are issued to the officers & soldiers in
the New Harapshire line, the interest to commence June i^' 1780,
Signed Joseph Gilman for the Committee, which report being read
and considered, Voted, that it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Cap' Hooper.
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to morrow morning.
SATURDAY, June 18 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, that M' Pickering, M' Prentice, & Gen' Sullivan with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Comraittee to consider of
a bill presented for giving and granting to the United States in Con
gress assembled full power and authority to direct and regulate the
trade and Commerce of this State and report such alterations as they
shall judge necessary. Sent up by Col° Badger.
An Act for restoring James Saunders to his Law was read a third
time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Maj' Kimball & Cap' Burnam.
* Whereas it is provided by the constitution that the * 12 1743
field officers shall nominate their Captains & subalterns &
that the President shall immediately upon receiving their appointment
and recommendation make out Commissions for them — and as great
difficulty must attend making application to his Excellency in all cases
and upon every emergency and when made can answer no other pur
pose but the obtaining Commissions on appointments already raade
and which he has no power to alter,
Therefore, Resolved, that it is the sense of this House that his Ex
cellency the Captain General may in all cases when it shall appear to
him necessary, deliver out to the Comraanding officer of any Regi
ment blank Commissions for his Captains and Subalterns taking a
receipt therefor and obligation to fill up the same agreeable to the
voice of the major part of the field officers to make return of the
names of the Captains & subalterns by him Coraraissioned and to
return such blank Commissions as may remain on hand.
Sent up by Col° Badger,

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Voted, that M' Green, M' Worster, & Cap' Harper, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coramittee to consider of
the Petition of John Prentice & Archibald M'^Murphy Esqr= in be
half of the Selectmen of Londonderry and report thereon.
Sent up by Col° Badger.
Voted, that Col° Joshua Wentworth deduct the same proportion
out of the Rum tax for 1781 for the towns of Lerapster, Croydon, &
Marlow that the Treasurer was ordered to do out of other taxes for
the same year. Sent up by Col" Badger.
An Act for the admeasureraent of boards and for regulating the
tale of shingles, clapboards, hoops, & staves and for other purposes
therein mentioned was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Maj' Kimball & Cap' Burnam.
Voted, that Maj' Weeks, Cap' Foss, M' Emerson, M' Frink, & Col"
Whipple with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Com
mittee to consider of the Memorial of the Selectmen of New Ips
wich' and all similar matters and report thereon. Sent up by Col° Badger.
Voted, that M' Emerson, M' Adams, & M' Sanborn, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of Daniel Gookins^ and all similar matters and report
thereon. Sent up by Col" Badger.
* 12: 744 * Upon reading and considering the Petition of the
Selectraen of Warren, Voted, that the Petitioners be
heard thereon before the General Court on the second Wednesday
of their next Session and that in the raean tirae the Petitioners
cause the selectraen of Wentworth and Piermont to be served with a
Copy of the Petition and order of Court thereon that they or either
of them may then appear and shew cause if any they have why the
prayer thereof raay not be granted. Sent up by M' Betton.
Voted, that the Account of Cap' Abrahara Burnara amounting to
three pounds & twelve shillings for tirae, horse hire and expenee in a
Journey frora Portsmouth to Plymouth on public business be allowed
and that the President give order on the Treasurer for said sum.
Sent up by Maj' Wentworth.
The Committee on the Petition and Account of Samuel Cutts
Esq' Reported, that the said Sarauel Cutt Esq' be allowed forty-five
pounds in full of all demands and deductions that have been made in
his account in former settlements, Signed, John M'^Cleary, for the
Committee, which report being read and considered. Voted, that it be
received and accepted. Sent up by Col" Wiggin.
Adjourned to Monday next at 3 o'clock P. M.
1- xii. Ham. Town P.ipers, 742. '¦ xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 87.

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MONDAY, June 20 1785.

The House met according to adjournment.
The Committee appointed to consider what allowance the members
of the Senate and House of Representatives & their officers shall re
ceive for their wages and travel Sec at this Session Reported, that the
members of the Senate have and receive out of the Treasury six shil
lings p' day for their attendance & four pence p' mile for their travel
to and from their homes, — That the members of the House of Repre
sentatives have and receive out of the Treasury the same travel to and
from their homes as the raembers of the Senate, and six shillings p'
day for their attendance for which last sum each member of the
House shall have a right to give the Constable of the town or towns
they represent an order upon the Treasurer which order shall be re
ceived at the Treasury towards the tax of the town or district each
member represents and the Treasurer is directed to charge the
amount of such orders to the respective towns & districts in the
next tax bill, — That the Secretary have nine * shillings
p' day and the Deputy Secretary seven shillings and six * 12 : 745
pence p' day and allowance for travel as merabers.
That the Clerk of the House have nine shillings p' day and allow
ance for travel as a meraber. That the assistant clerk have one and
six pence p' day over his pay as a member, — Signed, Nath" Peabody
for the Committee, which report being read and considered, Voted,
that it be received and accepted, and that the Secretary and Clerk
make up the respective Rolls accordingly, — and that the Clerk of
the House be made up one day extraordinary for raaking up the
rolls and that the President give a general order on each roll, for the
payment of said rolls. Sent up by Col° Wiggin.
Upon motion made that the following clause be added to the bill
for the better observation of the Lords day (viz) " And if any per
son charged with the breach of this Act shall he acquitted upon trial
he shall recover cost against the complainant " upon which motion
the yeas and nays were called for, and are as follows.

Yeas.
M' Jenness,
Maj' Wiggin,
M' Plummer,
M' Glidden,
Col" Waldron,
Cap' Foss,
Col" Badger,
M' J. Dow,

Yeas.
Col" Leavitt,
Cap' Morrill,
M'' Bernard,
M' Green,
Maj' Wentworth,
Cap' Harper,
M' Libbey,
M' Smith,

Nays.
Maj' Gains,
Maj' Pickering,
M' Shaw,
Cap' Eastman,
M' N Batcheldor,
M' Knowles,
Col" Gilman,
M' M Wallace,

Nays.
M' M"Murphy,
Maj' Weeks,
Maj' Batcheldor,
Col" Bartlett,
M' Betton,
Cap' Emerson,
M' Adams,
M' R Wallace,

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[1785

Yeas.
M' Harvey,
Maj' Whitcomb,
M' Gilmore,
M' Works,
M' Sumner,
Maj' Kimball,
Cap' Burnam,
M' M Dow.

M' E Grout,
M' Gaskill,
M' Willard,
M' Hooper,
M' N Young,
j\l' Worster,
M' Hoyt,
M' J Young,

Nays.
M' Darling,
M' Jackman,
M' Jewett,
M' Holmes,
M' Griffin,
M' Freeman,

Nays.
M' Br3'ant,
Col" Shephard,
M' Powers,
Cap' Copland,
M' Kendall,
Col" Payne.

32 Yeas, — 28 Nays.
So the raotion prevailed. Read several public bills.
Adjourned to eight o'clock to morrow raorning.
TUESDAY, June 21, 1785.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of John Betton &
David Patterson, Yoted, that the Petitioners be heard thereon before
the General Court on the first Friday of their next Session and that
in the mean time the Petitioners cause that M' James Macgregore of
Londonderry be served with a Copy of the Petition and
* 12: 746 order of Court * thereon that he may then appear and
shew cause if any he hath why the prayer thereof may
not be granted and that the execution be stayed till the decision of
the General Court, Sent up by Col" Waldron.
Voted, that M' J. Gilman, Col" Gilman, & Col" Dow, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a comraittee to consider of
the Petition of Joseph Taylor and report thereon. Sent up by Col" Waldron.
An Act for raending and repairing highways in this State was read
a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col" Waldron & M' Jenness.
A vote appointing M' Gilman, M' Atkinson, & M' Joshua Went
worth with such as the Honb' House shall join a Committee to
report what period shall be affixed beyond which no demands which
are now due and which are properly a Continental charge will be
allowed, was sent down from the Honb' Senate for concurrence, was
read and concurred and M' J Gilman, Col" Waldron, Maj' Wallace,
Cap' Hooper, and Col" Payne joined. Sent up by M' Pluraraer.
The Comraittee on the Petition of the Selectmen of Cornish Re
ported they have examined the inventories returned bythe Selectmen
of said towns for the years 1779 and 1783 and are of opinion that
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1783. and 1784 for which precepts is.sued from the Treasurers office
except a small Tax in 1781 for interest on new emission money
which was ordered to be paid in specie should be abated and that the
Treasurer take order accordingly, Signed, Joseph Gilman for the
Committee, which report being read and considered, Yoted, that it
be received and accepted. Sent up by Col" Wiggin.
A vote appointing M' Thornton, M' Atkinson, M' Peabody & M'
Joshua Wentworth with such of the Honb' House astheyshaU join a
Committee to consider of and report some speedy and effectual method
for the revision of the laws of this State was brought down frora the
Honb' Senate for concurrence, was read and concurred and Col" Payne,
M' Green, Maj' Whitcorab, Col" Simpson, Col" Dow, Col" Gilman, &
Maj' Gains, joined. Sent up by Col" Wiggin.
Voted, that Col" Wiggin, Cap' Foss, Maj' Pickering, M' Adams,
& M' Holmes, with such of the Honb' Senate as they
shall join be a * Comraittee to consider of the account of * 12 : 747
Cap' Titus Salter, & report thereon. Sent up by Col" Wiggin.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Henry Kinniston,
Voted that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court
on the second Wednesday of their next Session and that in the raean
tirae the Petitioner cause that Cap' John Drew of Barnstead be served
with a Copy of the Petition and order of Court thereon that he may
then appear and shew cause if any he hath why the prayer thereof
may not be granted. Sent up by Col" Wiggin.
The Committee on the Petition of Benjamin Dole ' for wages due
to John Dole in one of the New Hampshire Regiments in the service
of New Hampshire in the year 1775 Stationed near Cambridge in
the Massachusetts Bay Reported that if it shall be found by the Com
mittee on Continental Accounts that his wages have not been paid,
that on a certificate from them to the Secretary the President be
desired to issue his order on the Treasurer for the sum which shall
be found due. Signed, Joseph Gilman for the Committee, which
report being read and considered. Voted, that it be received and
accepted. Sent up by M' Plummer.
Voted, that George Gains Esq' be and he hereby is appointed sealer
of weights and raeasures for this State until another shall be ap
pointed in his stead and that he be sworn to the faithful discharge of
the trust reposed in him, and that he be requested to call on George
Jaffrey Esq' for the standard of weights & measures belonging to this
State and take charge of the same. Sent up by M' Plumraer.
Voted, that Col" Gilman, Col" Wiggin, & M' Batcheldor, with such
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378 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. ['785
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coramittee to consider of
the pay roll of Meshech Bell Commandant at New Castle, also the
account of M' Benjamin Biggelow and report thereon.
Sent up by Maj' Young.
Yoted, that Maj' Gains, Maj' Pickering, & M' Betton, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coraraittee to consider of
the Petition of Col" Samuel Hobart and report thereon.
Sent up by Maj Young.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, that the Account of Josiah Gilman Esq' amounting to
eighty-seven pounds six shillings be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Col" Gilman.
* 12 : 748 * Voted, that the Honb' Woodbury Langdon Esq' be and
he hereby is appointed a Delegate to represent this State
in the Congress of .the United States for the term of one year from
and after the first Monday in November next unless sooner relieved
or recalled by the General Court of this State with all the powers
and privileges which other Delegates from this State have heretofore
had and enjoyed agreeably to the confederation of the United States.
Sent up by Col" Gilraan.
Voted, that the Honb' Nathanael Peabody Esq' be and he hereby
is appointed a Delegate to represent this State in the Congress of
the United States for the term of one year from and after the first
Monday in November next unless sooner relieved or recalled by the
General Court of this State, with all the powers & priviledges which
other delegates from this State have heretofore had and enjoyed
agreeably to the confederation of the United States.
Sent up by Col" Gilman.
Voted that the Honb' Pierce Long Esq' be and he hereby is ap
pointed a Delegate to represent this State in the Congress of the
United States for the term of one year from and after the first Mon
day in November unless sooner relieved or recalled by the General
Court of this State with all the powers & priviledges which other
delegates from this State have heretofore had and enjoyed agreeably
to the confederation of the United States. Sent up by Col" Gilraan.
Voted, that the Honb' George Atkinson Esq' be and he hereby is
appointed a Delegate to represent this State in the Congress of the
United States for the terra of one year from and after the first Mon
day in Noveraber next unless sooner relieved or recalled by the Gen
eral Court of this State with all the powers & priviledges which other
delegates frora this State have heretofore had and enjoyed agreeably
to the Confederation of the United States. Sent up by Col" Gilman.

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The Committee on the Petition of Daniel Rand & Jedidiah Sanger
having considered the matters to them referred Reported, that the
vote or Resolve of the late General Court passed the
*eighteenth of February 1785 altering the rank and num- * 12 : 749
ber of two regiments of militia mentioned in said Petition
be repealed, and that the regiment now called number twenty-three
be restored to its former rank and be hereafter called and known by
number twelve agreeably to the late arrangeraent of the militia made
the tenth of November 1784 and that the regiraent now called num
ber twelve be hereafter called and known by nuraber twenty-three
agreeably to said arrangeraent raade the 10"' of November 1784, —
and so continue until some future arrangeraent be made. Signed,
Nath" Peabody by order of the Coramittee which report being read
and considered, motion was made to receive and accept the same,
and the yeas and nays being called for were as follows (viz)

Yeas.
Maj' Weeks,
M' Plummer,
Mr Glidden,
M"- Knowles,
M>^ Brackett,
M' Smith,
M' Grout,
M"- Gilmore,
M' Jewett,
M"- N Young,
M-^ Holmes,
Maj' Kimball,
Col" Dow,
M' J. Young.

Yeas.
Col" Leavitt,
Col" Bartlett,
Maj' Batcheldor,
Cap' Foss,
Col" Gilman,
M' Dariing,
M' Jackman,
Col" Shephard,
M' Willard,
M' Hooper,
M' Powers,
M' Griffin,
M' Worster,
M' Burnam,

Yeas.
Col" Wiggin,
M' Barnard,
Col" Waldron,
Cap' Harper,
M' Bryant,
M' Harvey,
Maj' Whitcomb,
M' Works,
M"' Sumner,
M' Frink,
M' Kendall,
M' Hoyt,
Col" Whipple.

Nays.
Maj"' Gains,
Majf Pickering,
M' Batcheldor,
Cap' Eastman,
Cap' Morrill,
M' Green,
Maj' Wentworth,
Col" Badger,
Col" Tash,
Cap' Emerson,
M' Adams,
M"- M Wallace,
M' R. Wallace.

41 Yeas, 13 Nays So the report was accepted.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Samuel Bayley'
praying for the priviledge of a ferry over Connecticut river. Voted,
that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the
second Thursday of their next Session and that in the mean tirae
the Petitioner cause that the substance of the Petition and order of
Court thereon be published in the New Harapshire Gazette three
weeks successively — also serve the selectraen of Lebanon with a
Copy of said Petition and order thereon that they or any other per
son may then appear and shew cause if any they have why the prayer
thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Col" Bartlett.
* Voted, that Col" Bartlett, Col" Waldron, Sz: Cap' Sum- * 12 : 750
ner, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
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380 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1785
a Committee to nominate to this House three proper persons out of
whom for one to be appointed a surveyor, agreeably to a recommend
ation of Congress. Sent up by Col" Bartlett.
An Act permitting a Lottery to raise raoney for the purpose of
erecting a bridge over Sugar river in Clareraont, was read a third
tirae and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Col" Bartlett & Col" Whipple.
Adjourned to 8 of clock to morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Edwards Bucknam '
praying for the priviledge of a ferry over the river Connecticut, Voted
that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the
second Wednesday of their next Session and that in the mean time
the Petitioner cause that the substance of the Petition and order of
Court thereon be published three weeks successively in the New
Hampshire Gazette also cause that the Selectmen of Northumber
land be served with a Copy of the Petition and order of Court thereon
that they or any other persons may then appear and shew cause if
any they have why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by M' Jenness.
Voted, that Col" Waldron, M' Emerson, & Maj' Pickering be a
Committee to consider of the account of M' Ephraim Robinson and
report thereon.
Voted, that M' Green, Col" Bartlett, & Col" Dow with such of the
Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of a bill
presented for giving & granting to the United States in Congress
assembled full power and authority to direct and regulate the trade
and commerce of this State & report such alterations as they shall
judge necessary. Sent up by M' Jenness.
* 12: 751 *An act for the better observation and keeping the
Lords day was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. Sent up by Maj' Weeks & M' Jenness.
Voted, that M' Plummer, Col" Wiggin, and Col" Bartlett, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the account of Melcher and Osborne and report thereon.
Sent up by Maj' Weeks.
Voted, that Maj' Kimball, and Maj' Pickering, be added to the
Coraraittee on the account of Enoch Barker. Sent up by Maj' White.
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Voted, that the account of Josiah Bartlett, John Calfe, and John
Parker Esquires, amounting to fourteen pounds, fifteen shillings be
allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President.
Sent up by M' Plummer.
Yoted, that the account of Jeremiah Libbey amounting to nine
shillings and eight pence for raoney paid for postage of public letters
be ahowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President.
Sent up by M' Plummer.
Voted, that the account of the Honb' Ebenezer Thompson Esq'
amounting to fifteen pounds, eighteen shillings be allowed and paid
out of the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of John Pickering Jun'
Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court
on the second Wednesday of their next Session and that in the mean
time the Petitioner cause that Cap' John Drew of Barnstead be
served with a Copy of the Petition and order of Court thereon that
he may then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer
thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of the Honb' Matthew
Thornton Esq' Yoted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before
the General Court on the second Friday of their next Session & that
in the mean time he cause that Robert Smith named in said Petition
be served with a Copy thereof and order of Court thereon that he
may then appear and shew cause if any he hath why the prayer
thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
* Voted, that Cap' Foss, M' Plummer, and M' Glidden, * 12 : 752
with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider of the Petition of Amos Hagar and report
thereon. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
Voted, that the account of George Gains, Esq amounting to thir
teen pounds thirteen shillings be allowed and paid out of the Treas
ury by order of the President. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
An Act for regulating Pilotage in the port of Piscataqua came
down from the Honb' Senate for concurrence was read three times
and voted, that it be enacted. Sent up by Col" Bartlett & Col" Whipple.
The Committee on the account of the Selectmen of Portsraouth,
Reported that they have exarained said account and find it well
vouched and reasonably charged and that the araount of said account

382 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1785
being one hundred and seventy pounds seventeen shillings, & six
pence be allowed. Signed, Otis Baker for the Coramittee, which
report being read and considered, Voted, that it be received and
accepted, & that the President give order on the Treasury for said
sum. Sent up by M' Worster.
Voted, that the account of the Honb' Samuel Livermore Esq'
amounting to nineteen pounds fourteen shillings be allowed and paid
out of the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Mr. Worster.
Yoted, that the account of the Honb' Josiah Bartlett, Esq' amount
ing to ten pounds, and two shillings be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Voted, that the account of John Calfe Esq' amounting to four
pounds ten shillings be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Voted, that M' Ephraira Robinson have and receive out of the
Treasury three shillings and seven pence 1/2 penny in full for the
ballance of his account and that the President give order accord
ingly. Sent up by Cap' Burnham.
An act to annul and make void two judgeraents of Court obtained
by Margaret Frost against Thomas Pinkham was read a third time
and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Col" Simpson & Cap' Foss.
* 12 : 753 *An act to vest the United States in Congress assembled
with fuh power to regulate trade and enter into treaties
of Commerce was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col" Simpson & Cap' Foss
Yoted, that the account of Lieut" Meshech Bell, amounting to two
pounds ten shillings be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order
of the President. Sent up by Cap' Burnham.
The following resolve came down from the Honb' Senate for con
currence N?w hLp=" I ^^ Senate June 22"" 1785.
Resolved, that all notes which shall be issued by the Treasurer
from and after the thirty-first day of July next shall bear that date
and that all notes which shall be issued in favour of any invalid pen
sioner shall be in the form prescribed by the act passed the 24"^ of
February last intitled "an act for paying the interest and part of the
principal of public securities of this State &c and the Treasurer is
hereby further directed that on his receiving any order from the
President for depreciation of wages due to any officer or soldier or for
half pay to officers widows he shall issue his certificate for twenty-

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seven and three quarters per centum of such orders and a note for
the remainder also a certificate for the interest as usual.
Sent down for concurrence. John Langdon President.
The sarae day read and concurred. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to morrow morning.
THURSDAY, June 23, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act to regulate flax seed pot ash and pearl ash for exportation
was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col" Bartlett and Col" Simpson
Voted, that the account of Nathanael Adaras Esq' amounting to
three pounds eighteen shillings be allowed and paid out of the Treas
ury by order of the President. Sent up by Col" Simpson.
The Committee to consider of the Petition of Col" Samuel Hobart
Reported that John Parker Esq' Thomas Odiorne Esq' and George
Gains Esq' be a Committee to examine every contract & deraand be
tween this State and the said Sarauel Hobart and raake report to the
General Court at their next Session, Sign'' M Thornton for the Com
mittee which report being read and considered, voted that it be
received and accepted. Sent up by M' Jenness.
*The Committee on the Account of Melcher & Os- * 12 : 754
borne for printing Reported that the same be allowed and
paid by an order on the Treasurer Signed, Joseph Gilman for the
Committee which report being read and considered, Voted, that it be
received and accepted and that the President give order accordingly
for the sum of ninety one pounds one shilling being the amount of
said account. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Yoted, that the account of Robert Gerrish araounting to one hun
dred and six pounds ten shillings be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by M' Jenness.
An Act for the regulation of Navigation and coramerce was read a
third tirae and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Maj' Gains & Cap' Burnara.
Voted, that the account of Michael Whidden amounting to eight
pounds eight shillings be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
The Coraraittee on the Pay Roll of Lieut" Meshech BeU Command
ant at New Castle, reported that the same is right cast and amounts
to the sum of ninety-five pounds six shillings & eight pence. Signed
Otis Baker for the Comraittee which report being read and consid-

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ered Voted, that it be received and accepted and that the President
give an order on the Treasurer for the payment of said sum.
Sent up by Maj' Gains.
Yoted, that the account of Benjamin Biggelow araounting to forty
eight pounds five shihings and five pence half penny be allowed (as
p' report of Committee) and that the said sura be paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Maj' Gains.
The Committee on the account of Mess' Thoraas Martin, John
Pierce and Joseph Pierce having examined and considered the same
with the papers. Vouchers, and evidence offered in support thereof,
Reported as their opinion that there be allowed and paid to the said
Thomas, John and Joseph out of the Treasury the sum of one hun
dred and ninety-two pounds lawful raoney in full of said account.
Signed, Nath' Peabody by order of the Coramittee, which report be
ing read and considered. Voted, that it be received and accepted and
that the President give order accordingly. Sent up by M' Knowles.
Voted, that Mark Hunking Wentworth Esq' have and receive out
of the Treasury by order of the President the sum of four hundred
pounds lawful money towards what is due to him on an account pre
sented to the General Court against the State and that the settle
ment of said account be postponed to the next Session of said Court.
Sent up by M' J. Gilman.
* 12: 755 * The Committee on the Petition of Cap* Titus Salter
reported that on his returning the orders drawn on the
Treasurer by the late Committee of safety in his favour into the Sec
retary's office, the President be desired to draw an order or orders on
the Treasurer to the araount of the orders so returned, also that the
President draw on the Treasurer for the ballances due on those pay
rolls for his Corapany which have been paid by him and for which he
has not received orders. Signed Otis Baker for the Committee
which report being read and considered. Voted, that it be received
and accepted and that he receive interest for the sums due and that
the President give order accordingly. Sent up by Doct' Brackett.
Voted, that his Excellency the President be desired to write to our
delegates at Congress informing them that Nathanael Adams Esq'
who was appointed a surveyor has declined accepting said appoint
ment and that the General Court norainate Cap' Ebenezer Sullivan
for that purpose. Sent up by M' Knowles.
Adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Yoted, that the last Thursday in Noveraber next be observed
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and that his Excellency the President with advice of Council issue a
proclamation seasonably for that purpose. Sent up by Maj' Young.
Whereas the act now in force laying an impost on certain goods
wares & merchandizes therein mentioned imported into this State
may obstruct a free coramerce between this State and the Common
wealth of Massachusetts — Therefore Resolved, that the operation of
said act shall be suspended so far as it respects any goods wares &
merchandizes belonging to any citizens of the said Commonwealth of
Massachusetts that may be iraported into this State, Pi-ovided the
Legislature of said Commonwealth in their present Session repeal
their impost act so far as it respects the citizens of this State.
Sent up by Maj' Young.
Voted, that M' Sparhawk, M' Libbey, M' Adams, M' Kimball, and
Col" Simpson with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider at what tirae and to what tirae and place this
General Court shall be adjourned and report thereon.
Sent up by Maj' Young.
Voted, that George Gains, Esq' be and he hereby is impowered to
purchase for the use of the light house at New Castle all the oyl and
Cotton that may be wanting from tirae to tirae and that he receive
the money or monies for that purpose frora the Naval officer of this
State giving a receipt for the same who is hereby directed
to pay the sarae out of *the light raoney and that the * 12 : 756
said Gains be accountable by taking receipts frora the
Captain of the Fort for any articles delivered hira.
Sent up by Doc" Brackett.
Upon reading and considering the Memorial of Col° Joseph Whip
ple, Voted, that the Commissary General be directed to deliver to
the said Col" Whipple fifty-pounds of powder from the magazine in
Portsraouth to be spent on the road which he is eraployed to repair
between Sawco river and a branch of Connecticut river.
Sent up by M' Plummer.
The Committee on the account of Enoch Barker, Reported as their
opinion that it be referred to the Justices of the Honb' Superior
Court and that they be irapowered to direct so rauch of said account
as raay appear to thera reasonable to be paid out of the fines and for
feitures arising in the County of Cheshire, Signed Nath' Peabody for
the Comraittee which report being read and considered. Voted, that
it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Pluraraer.
The Committee to examine how far the accounts with the Cora
missioner for the United States are proceeded in towards a settlement
having conversed with one of the Present Committee appointed to
the settlement of said accounts and find they are in forwardness to a

386 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. ['785
close, the reason of their not being compleated on principles of large
advances by this State to the United States which could not be ad
mitted by the Commissioner without further instructions and many
other obstacles which rendered an adjustment irapracticable, but very
lately the Commissioner has received other instructions which may
obviate the difficulty.
Therefore your Comraittee beg leave to report as their opinion
that the Committee already impowered be continued .with liberty to
hire one or more clerks to assist in the completion of a settlement
with the Coraraissioner and that the same Committee be impowered
to settle all such accounts that may be necessary for the settlement
of accounts with the United States and certify the same to the Presi
dent Sc Council for concurrence and on their approbation the Presi
dent give order for paying or receiveing ballances which may be
found due.
And there being many articles charged by this State to the United
States to which no value is affixed that the said committee be im
powered to set a price to each and every such article, equitably be
tween this and the United States — and that the said Comraittee be
fully irapowered on the part and in behalf of this State to settle &
close the accounts between this and the United States, —
* 12: 757 and where * doubts shall arise in cases not particularly
provided for by votes Resolves or acts of this State that
they apply to the President & Council and that they be impowered
to direct therein. Signed Joshua Wentworth, for the Comraittee,
which report being read and considered, Yoted, that it be received
and accepted. Sent up by Maj' Young.
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to morrow morning.
FRIDAY, June 24, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, that the account of Joseph Pearson Esq' amounting to sev
enty-two pounds one shilling & six pence 1/2 be allowed and paid
out of the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Col" Gilman.
Voted, that the account of John Williams amounting to four pounds
nineteen shillings be allowed and paid out of the treasury by order of
the President. Sent up by Col" Gilraan.
Voted, that the Treasurer and Comraittee on claims be directed to
attend the General Court at their ne.xt Session with such books &
papers as are necessary to transact public business. Sent up by Col" Gilman.

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Voted, that the account of David Brewster araounting to eleven
pounds be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the
President. Sent up by Maj' Young.
The following vote came down from the Honb' Senate for concur
rence N?w Hamp' j '^^ ^^^^^^ J"^^ 24'" 1785.
Voted, that a Captain be appointed to take the command of Fort
William & Mary and that he inlist six good and effective men to
serve under him, — That the Captain have six pounds p' month, the
soldiers forty shillings p' month each with an addition of forty shil
lings p' month to the man who takes care of the light house, — the
pay to commence from the date of the Captains commission, the sol
diers from the time of their muster.
Sent down for concurrence. J Pearson D. Sec'y.
The same day read and concurred. .Sent up by Maj Young.
Voted, that when the business of this Session of the General
Court is finished that his Excehency the President with advice of
Council be desired to adjourn said Court to meet again at Concord
on the third Wednesday in October next at three o'clock in the
afternoon. Sent up by Maj' Young.
* Voted, that M' Joseph Pearson Esq' have and receive * 12 : 758
out of the Treasury fifty pounds for which he is to be ac
countable and that the President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Maj' Young.
Voted, that the ballance of the account of Nicholas Nicollee
amounting to two pounds seventeen shillings be allowed and paid out
of the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Maj' Young.
Voted, that M' Benjamin Biggelow have and receive out of the
Treasury by order of the President thirty pounds to be by him ac
counted for in furnishing rations to the officer & soldiers at Fort
William and Mary. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Voted, that of the members elected to represent this State in Con
gress not more than two take a seat in Congress at the same time
and that the President with advice of Council be impowered to draw
an order on the Treasurer for any sum not exceeding one hundred
and twenty pounds to each delegate that shall go forward to Con
gress or for either of the delegates now at Congress, if there should
be occasion for the same they being accountable therefor.
Sent up by Maj' Young.
The Committee to consider what period shall be affixed, beyond
which no demands which are now due and which are properly a Con-

388 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
tinental charge be ahowed. Reported that all persons having de
mands on the Treasury which are properly a Continental charge
have notice in the New Hampshire Gazzette to exhibit the same be
fore the last day of the next session of the General Court as none
can be allowed after that time, — Signed Joseph Gilraan for the Com
mittee, which report being read and considered, Yoted, that it be re
ceived and accepted and that the Secretary publish the same accord
ingly. Sent up by M' Dow.
Voted, that his Excellency the President with advice of Council
be impowered in the recess of the General Court to draw orders on
the Treasurer in case of contingencies of any kind for any sum or
sums, the whole amount not exceeding one hundred pounds.
Sent up by M' Dow.
Voted, that John Sparhawk & John Pickering Esq'^ with such of [as]
the Honb' Senate [as they] shall join be a Committee to procure six
hundred printed copies of the Revr'' M' Belknaps Election Sermon
forty of which they are to present to him the remainder to be lodged
in the Secretary's office to be distributed one to each
* 12 : 759 member of the * General Court one to each minister and
one to each town and parish within this State.
Sent up by Col" Dow.
Resolved, that a vote or resolve of the General Court passed the
22'' of February last respecting the mode of discipline for the Mili
tia of this State be and hereby is repealed, — And that the regula
tions contained in a book intitled " Regulations for the order and dis
cipline of the troops of New Hampshire by John Suhivan Major
General" be and hereby are established as the rules and orders for
regulating and disciplining the Militia within this State and that
Major General John Sullivan have and receive out of the Treasury
forty-five pounds to be accounted for, and that the President be im
powered to grant an order accordingly, and that twelve hundred
printed copies of said Book be delivered to the Captain General to be
by him distributed among the officers as he may think proper.
Sent up by M' Dow.
The Secretary came down and gave information that he is directed
by his Excehency the President to inform the Honb' House that he
hath with advice of [the] Council adjourned the General Court to the
third Wednesday in October next 3 o'clock in the afternoon to meet
at Concord agreeably to the desire of both branches of the Legisla
ture. And they are adjourned accordingly.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM

OCTOBER 19 TO NOVEMBER 10, 1785.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

At a Session of the General Court, begun and held at Concord,
on Wednesday, the 19'-'' day of October, Anno Domini, 1785, and of
the Sovereignty and Independance of the United States of America
the tenth.
Present His Excellency John Langdon, Esquire President
The Honorable John M"Clary, "l
George Atkinson, 1 ^ ^ Senators
Ebenezer Webster, & j ^
Frances Worcester, J
Also John Bellows Esq' a member of the Senate, for the County of
Cheshire. THURSDAY, October 20'", 1785.
Present as Yesterday.
With the addition of the Hon. Joseph Gilman, Nathaniel Pea
body, Otis Baker and Moses Chase Esquires, — The Hon. John
Bellows, Esq' after having the Necessary Oaths administered to him,
took his seat In Senate.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of a Message this day from his Excellency the President to
both houses, and also to report the business most Necessary to be
entered on brought up, and Concurred ; and M' Atkinson,
* M' Gilman and M' Peabody joined. * 2 : 67
A Vote to hear the Petition of Joseph Drew, on the first
Friday of next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to bear the Petition of Zebulon Marsh, on the Second
Wednesday of next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote appointing a Committee to join a Committee of the Sen
ate, to consider of the Petition of John Johnson, and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred ; and M' M"Cleary joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to

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consider of the petition of the Inhabitants of Chester, and report
thereon, brought up, read and Concurred and M' Peabody and M'
Baker joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
consider of the petition of L' Jaraes Crorabie, and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Baker and M' Behows
joined. A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of the Selectmen of Cardigan, and report
thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' 'M"Cleary and M'
Chase joined.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Benjamin Bellows, Esq' on the sec
ond Wednesday of next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the account of John Sparhawk and Thomas Martin,
amounting to ten pounds Sixteen Shihings brought up, read and
Concurred. FRIDAY, October 2i^ 1785.
Present as Yesterday
* 2 : 68 * A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Comraittee of the
Senate, to Consider of the Petition of the Inhabitants of
the town of Rochester and ah Similar matters, brought up, read and
Concurred, and M' Atkinson, M' Behows, M' Peabody and M' Mc
Cleary joined.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Sundry Persons respecting of New raar
ket Bridge brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Gilraan M' Baker
and M' Atkinson joined.
A Vote to pay the roll of Cap' Meshech Bell, amounting to eighty
pounds, brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the Petition of the Inhabitant of the town of Cardi
gan, and report thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M'
Webster joined.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the raost expeditious method of revising the Laws of this
State, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Atkinson, M' Pea
body and M' Gilraan joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of William Glidden, and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Gilman joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Joseph Morrison, and the petition of Hugh

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Montgomery and all Similar raatters and report thereon, brought up,
read and Concurred, and M' Peabody and M' Bellows joined.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Samuel McClintock, on the Second
Wednesday of next session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the Petition of Charity Lund and Others, and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Gilraan joined.
*A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coramittee of the * 2 : 69
Senate, to confer with a Coramittee chosen by the Cora
raonwealth of Massachusetts, respecting Coramerce, brought up, read
and Concurred; and M' Gilman joined.
SATURDAY, October 22"'' 1785.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Betty Hickey ; and also the petition of
the Selectmen of Londonderry, and all Similar matters, brought up,.
read and concurred, and M' Webster and M' Peabody joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the Petition of Leonard Whiting,
and giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the Petition of the Selectraen of
Effingham, and giving them leave to bring in a bill accordingly,
brought up read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of the Inhabitants of the town of Burton ;
and report thereon, brought up, read and concurred, and M' Wor
cester and M' Baker, joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Col. Henry Gerrish, on Thursday
next, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Robert Wise, on thursday next,
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
prepare and lay before the Court a bill to Carry into effect a resolve
of Congress, of the 7"' of June 1785 respecting Invalids, brought upy
read and Concurred, and M Gilraan joined.
*A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Comraittee of the Sen- * 2 : 70
ate, to view the fort at the Entrance of Piscataqua harbour,
and report thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Atkin
son joined.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate,, to re-
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394 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^785
vise the table of fees for this State, and report thereon, brought up,
read and concurred, and M' Gilman and M' Bellows joined.
A vote for the Senate (if they see fit) to meet in committee with
the house of Representatives on Monday next, to take under Consid
eration the State of our public affairs, brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the account and Petition of Joseph Bass, and report
thereon brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Baker joined.
MONDAY, October 24"^ 1785
Present as on Saturday Last.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of John Johnson, brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of John Pickering, Esq' in behalf of
the Selectmen of New Castle, (praying for an abatement of the taxes
of said town) on the first tuesday of next Session, brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Elisha Payne, Esq' and Others, (who
pray to have a town erected out of Parts taken of from the towns of
Lebanon, Hanover, Enfield, and Canaan,) on the first tuesday of next
session, brought up, read and Concurred. TUESDAY, October 25'\ 1785.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the petition of Moses Woodward and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act adjourning the Inferior Court in the County of
* 2 : 71 Rocking*hara, and Court of General Sessions of the Peace,
having been read a third time, voted that the same be en
acted. The remainder of the day Spent in Comraittee of both Houses.
WEDNESDAY, October 24'\ [26] 1785.
Present as Yesterday
An Act to Irapower Cap' Carr Leavitt to Collect a Certain tax In
Effinghara, having been read a third time ; voted that the sarae be
enacted.

1785] journal of the senate. 395
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate, to
exaraine into the State of the treasury, also to Consider of a method
for Collecting out Standing debts due to the State, brought up, read
and Concurred, and M' Gilraan and Mr Bellows joined.
A Vote to pay the balance of the Account of Benjamin Bigelow,
amounting to Eighteen pounds ten Shihings and three pence,
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Neheraiah Kelly and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Peabody and M' M"Cleary
joined. A Vote for the hearings on the Petition of John Pickering, and on
the Petition of Henry Kennestone which were ordered for this day,
to be post poned to the Second Wednesday of next Session, brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the account of Colonel Thoraas Bartlett, amounting
to one pound twelve Shillings, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for the treasurer to discount with the Selectraen of Al
stead, two pounds two shillings and eleven pence, for a tax laid on
the e[s]tate of Siraon Baxter, an absentee, brought up, read and Con
curred. *A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coraraittee of the Sen- * 2 : 72
ate, to consider of the Petition of Mary Gove and report
thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Baker joined.
THURSDAY, October 27"^ 1785.
Present as yesterday, with the addition of M' Thornton.
A Vote for the hearings on the Petition of David Courrier, on the
petition of Major Joseph Kimball and the petition of Ebenezer Tor
rey, which were ordered for this day to be postponed to some future
day in this Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of William Parker, and
giving him Leave to bring in a bill to restore a Certain action in law,
lost by mistake, brought up ; read and Concurred.
A Vote to postpone the hearing on the petition of the Selectmen
of Warren, until the second Thursday of next session brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote for Settleing the account of the State and Samuel Hobart,
Esq' and for paying hira a balance of three hundred and eighty Seven
Pounds four Shillings and Six pence, with Interest, brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of the Selectmen of

396 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1785
Cardigan and giving them leave to bring in a bill accordingly, brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote granting to Edwards Bucknam, the exclusive right of keep
ing a ferry over a certain part of Connecticut River, brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Oliver Lawrence, on the Second
thursday of next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
FRIDAY, October 28"^ 1785.
Present as Yesterday
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Comraittee of the Sen-
*2:73 ate, to consider of *the petition of Lemuel Holmes, and
report thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M'
Baker joined.
A Vote for postponing the hearings on petitions ordered for the
27"" Instant, until this day, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that the Petition of Jonathan Chesley, in behalf of the
town of Barnstead be heard on the first friday of next Session,
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of John Smith, and giv
ing him leave to bring in a bill accordingly, brought up, read and
Concurred. An Act to restore Leonard Whiting Esq' to his Law, having been
read three times. Voted, that the same be enacted.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Charity Lund, so
far as hath been recommended by the Committee (who examined the
same) and giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly, brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote to postpone the hearing of the petition of General John
Stark, until the Second Wednesday of next Session, brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote to postpone the hearing of the petition of Samuel Baley,
to the first tuesday of next Session brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to postpone the hearing of the petition of Benjamin Trip,
until the Second Friday of next Session, brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote to postpone the hearing of the petition of Major John
Young, to some day next week, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of the Inhabitants of
the town of Dearing, and giving them leave to bring in a
* 2 : 74 bill * accordingly, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of the Inhab-

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itants of the town of Hancock, and giving them leave to bring in a
bhl accordingly, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Joshua Foss Jun' in behalf of the
town of Barrington, on the Second Thursday of next Session,
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the petition of Ebenezer Britton, The petition of Daniel
Moore the petition of Ephraira Adams, and the petition of John
Thomas and report thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M'
Thornton and M' Webster joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of sundry Inhabitants of the town of Unity
and report thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and Mr Mc
Cleary joined.
A Vote to pay the account of John Parker, Thomas Odiorne and
George Gains, Esq'rs araounting to four pounds ten shillings brought
up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Timothy Balsh, and report thereon
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Gilman and M' Bellows
joined. A Vote to accept the report of a Coraraittee appointed to lay out
a public road frora the river road in Boscawen, to Connecticut river,
near Dartmouth College, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Daniel Murray, and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred and M' Chase joined.
* A Vote granting the prayer of the Petition of Jonathan * 2 : 75
Mason, and giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly,
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
consider of the petition of Phebe Colburn, and report thereon,
brought up read and Concurred, and M' Thornton and M' M"Cleary
joined. A Vote to pay the account of Tiraothy Wa[l]ker, Ebenezer Smith
and Henry Gerrish, Esq'rs amounting to thirty nine pounds ten Shil
lings, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of the Wardens of Queen's Chapel in
Portsmouth, on the Second Thursday of next Session, brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Nicholas Austin, on the Second
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398 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. ['785
SATURDAY, October 29"' 1785.
Present as Yesterday
A Vote for Lieutenant Joseph Huntoon to receive half pay from
the time he was reduced, until further order of the General Court,,
and a Certificate for the Interest of the pay which has been with
held, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of the Inhabitants of New Chester, on
the Second friday of next Session brought up read and Concurred.
A Vote to put of the hearing on the petition of the proprietors of
Cockermouth, to the Second Wednesday of next Session of the Gen
eral Court, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the petition of Lieutenant Sarauel Potter, and
* 2 : 76 report thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' * Bel
lows joined.
MONDAY, October 31^' 1785.
Present as on Saturday last, except M' Baker.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the petition of Daniel Fowle, and report thereon, brought
up, read and Concurred, and M' Peabody and M' Gilman joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of David Clough, on the Second Wed
nesday of ne.xt Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Noah Cook, on Wednesday next,
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay M' Jonathan Burr, thirty Shihings, for his service as
Chaplain to the General Court this Session, brought up, read and
Concurred. A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Elijah Weed, and report thereon, brought
up, read and Concurred, and M' Webster joined.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Account of Colonel David Webster, and report
thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Bellows and M'
Thornton joined.
A Vote to alter the time of the holding the annual Meeting in the
town of Hillsborough, and giveing them leave to bring in a bill accord
ingly, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate, to
consider of the Account of Melcher and Osborne, for printing for the

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State and report thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M^
Gilman joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of the Selectraen and Other Inhabitants of
the town of HUlsborough, and report thereon, brought up, read and
Concurred and M' Atkinson joined.
* A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Comraittee of the * 2 : 77
Senate to Consider of the Petition of Nathaniel Bugbee,
and report thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Webster
joined. TUESDAY, November i=' 1785.
Present as Yesterday
A Vote to hear the petition of Solomon Robbins, on the second
Thursday of next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote directing the Secretary to Send to Exeter for sundry papers
wanted by the Court, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to con
sider what allowance shall be made the Officers of the civel list of this
State, for their respective service the Current year, brought up, read
and Concurred, and M' M"Cleary and M' Thornton joined.
An Act to irapower Jonathan Tilton of Kensington, to enter a
coraplaint at the Superior Court of Judicature to be holden at Ports
mouth, within and for the County of Rockinghara on the fourth
tuesday of April next having been read a third tirae, voted that the
same be enacted. WEDNESDAY November 2"'' 1785.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote that the hearing on the Petition of Micah Reed which was
Ordered to be on the first Instant, be on this day brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Colonel Plercul'es Mooney and all
similar Matters, and report thereon, brought * up, read and * 2 : 78
Concurred, and M' Atkinson and M' Thornton joined.
A Vote to pay the balance of the account of Abiel Foster, Esq'
for his Service as a delegate at Congress, amounting to three hun
dred and ninely Pounds, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Swallow Tuckers, and
Others for disannexing a part of the town of Holies, and annexing

400 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1785
the same to the town of Raby, and giving the petitioners leave to
bring in a bill accordingly, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Williara Fowler, and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Thornton, and M' Bellows
joined. A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of the Selectraen of
Hillsborough, and giving thera leave to bring in a Bill, to restore
them to their Law, in an action brought against thera by one John
M'Clintock, brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act to annul and make void, two jud[g]ments of Court obtained
by Margaret Frost, against Thomas Pinkham having been read three
times, voted that the same be Enacted.
THURSDAY, November 3"' 1785.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote that the hearings on the Petition of Brigadier General
John Stark, and the Petition of Micah Reed, which were to be heard
on the Second instant, be heard on this day, brought up, read and
Concurred. A resolve directing the Treasurer, in his precept for taxes to the
town of Walpole, to add the sum of Sixty three pounds five shillings,
being the amount of beef Supplied the State in behalf of said town,
by Benjamin Bellows Esq and Others, brought up, read and Con
curred.
* 2 : 79 *An Act to establish a Certain Judgment of the Quarter
Session of the Peace, for the County of Hillsborough, in
favor of John Smith against the Selectmen of Peterborough, having
been three times read, voted that the sarae be Enacted.
An Act to alter the tirae of holding the annual town meeting in
the town of Hihsborough, was read a third time, and voted that the
Same be Enacted.
An Act in addition to, and an amendment of an Act passed the
General Court of this State, the twenty second of February last
e[n]titled "An Act to enable the Selectmen of Washington, to tax
certain lands in said town, for purposes therein mentioned," having
been read a third time, voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
consider of the business, yet necessary to be done at this Session, at
what time, and to what place the General Court shall adjourn ; also
to consider what allowance shall be made the raembers of Court, for
their travel and attendance this Session, brought up, read and Con
curred, and M' Gilman and M' Peabody joined.

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An Act for repealing an Act of this State, e[n]titled "An act to
make void aU attachments, which has been or hereafter shah be laid,
or made on the Estates of persons who have left this State, or any
of the United States, and gone over to the eniraies, of the said States,
since the Corameceraent of hostilities by Great Britain, or on the
estates of any Inhabitants or Subject of Great Britain having been
read three times, votcd that the same be enacted.
A Vote to hear the petition of Barnabas Barker, on *the * 2 : 80
Second Tuesday of next Session, brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote giving leave for a resolve to be brought in, to enable David
Gilman, Esq' to notify a town raeeting of the Inhabitants of the town
of Burton, to Choose necessary town Officers, brought up read and
Concurred. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Ebenezer Green Esq' and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Peabody and M' Thornton
joined. A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
prepare and lay before the Court sundry bills, brought up, read and
Concurred, and M' Atkinson joined.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of D. Fowle Esq' and also how and in what
raanner public Advertizeraents shall in future be printed, brought up,
read and Concurred, and M' Peabody and M' M"Cleary joined.
An Act to revoke a letter of gaurndianship granted by the Honour
able Judge of Probate, for the County of Hillsborough appointing
Samuel Forster gaurdian of James M"Cluer having been read three
times, voted that the sarae be enacted.
Voted that the Senate and House of Representatives raeet in
Coraraittee (as soon as raay be) to Consider of sundry matters if it be
agreeable to the House, sent down for Concurrence by M' Worcester.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Noah Cook, and
giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly, brought up, read and
Concurred. An Act impowering the Sele[c]tmen of Hancock, to assess the
lands in said Hancock, for the purpose of building a raeeting house
in said Hancock, having been read a third tirae, voted that the same
be enacted.
An Act irapowering the Selectmen of Dearing, to assess *2:8i
the lands in said Dearing, for the purpose of building a
meeting house in said town.
A Vote to pay Colonel David Webster, in full of his account, for

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going to serve extents on sundry towns, in the County of Grafton,
the sura of twenty pounds brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Account of John Ward Gilman and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' M"Cleary joined.
A resolve directing the Treasurer of this State, to issue extents
against delinquent towns in certain cases ; also for issuing Notes, to
pay bounties for Soldiers, promised to the towns who procured Sol
diers in the year 1 781; and the year 1782 agreeable to the Act of
Court, brought up, read and Concurred.
FRIDAY, November 4"' 1785.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of John Morrison, and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' M"Cleary joined.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of a bill, before the house relative to highways, and report
thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Peabody and M'
Bellows joined. A Vote to grant to Micah Reed of Westmoreland, the ex-
* 2 : 82 elusive right of keeping a ferry over a Certain part of * Con
necticut River, and giving hira leave to bring in a bill
accordingly, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote directing the treasurer of this State, to issue a note in
favour of Thomas Odiorne, to make up a deficiency lost in one given
up, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to allow Thomas Bugbee, depreciation of wages, as other
Soldiers in like circurastances have received, brought up, read and
Concurred. A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Nehemiah Kehy,
and discharging said Kelly from Exeter goal, brought up, read and
Concurred. A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
consider of the Account of Joseph Pearson, Esq' and report theron,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Peabody and M' M"Cleary
joined. A Vote to advance Benjamin Bigelow, out of the treasury, thirty
pounds, which he is to accotint for as agent victualler, brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote to add Colonel Christopher Toppan to the Committee, on
necessary business, brought up, read and Concurred.

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A Vote to hear the petition of George Clark on the Second Tues
day of next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Benjarain Crombie, on the Second
Tuesday of next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Account of Benjamin Huntoon, and Benjamin
Pettingal, amounting to one pound Seven shilhngs, for taking an In
ventory of a place called Kiersarge Gore, brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote appointing Timothy Walker, Esq' one of the delegates
to represent this State in Congress, brought up, read and Con
curred. * A Vote to pay Capt. Daniel Moore, twenty seven pounds, * 2 : 83
for his services and losses in the expedition against Rhode
Island in the year 1778, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote appointing Sarauel Liverraore, Esq' one of the delegates,
to represent this State in Congress, brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote that one Quarter Master, shall be appointed in each com
pany of light horse, brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act for establishing a former town raeeting, held in Cardigan,
having been read three tiraes, voted that the sarae be enacted.
An Act to vest the exclusive privilege of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Connecticutt river, in Jonathan Masson of Lirae his
heirs and assigns having been read three times, voted, that the same
be enacted.
SATURDAY, November 5"^ 1785.
Present as Yesterday, except M' Atkinson.
A Vote that the board of war, and Collector of rum, prepare and
lay their accounts before the General Court, on the Second day of
next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Solomon Willard, and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Bellows and M' Thornton
joined. A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Richard Jenness Esq', and report there
on, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Peabody and M' M"-
Cleary joined.
* A vote granting the prayer of the petition of J. Pren- * 2 : 84
tice, in behalf of Joanna Chapman, and giving her leave to
bring in a bill accordingly, brought up, read and Concurred.

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A Vote desiring his Excellency the President, to write to John
Peirce, Esq' pay raaster General requesting him to Send an Account
of what sums are to be charged the Soldiers, in Col. Hazen's and
Col. Warner's regiments, brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to grant John Thoraas, ten pounds, in full for a horse lost
in the war, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that the towns of Lincoln and Franconia may be set off
from the district, including Campton Thornton and New Holderness
for the purpose of Choosing a representative, and joined to some
other district, brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Col Brewster, and all similar Matters and
report thereon, brought up, read and concurred, and M' Peabody and
M' Behows joined.
A Vote to pay the Account of Robert Gerrish, amounting to one
hundred and Seven Pounds ten shillings, for printing for the State,
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote that the Senate and House of Representatives, and their
Officers, have and receive the same allowance for travel and attend
ance at this Session, as they were voted last Session, and that the
Secretary and Clerk make up the rolls accordingly, brought up, read
and Concurred.

MONDAY, November 7"> 1785.
Present as Yesterday
_ An Act to restore Noah Cook, of New Ipswich, in said State, to
his law, having been read a third time, voted, that the same be en
acted. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Sen-
* 2 : 85 ate, to consider * of the account of Nathaniel Peabody and
Joseph Gilraan, Esquires, and report thereon, brought up,
read and Concurred, and M' Thornton and M' M"Cleary joined.
A Vote to pay the Account of Melcher and Osborne, in full of
this day^ araounting to eighty one pounds four shillings, for printing
for the State, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of the Petition of Cap' Sumner, and report thereon, brought
up, read and Concurred, and M' Webster joined.
A Vote to postpone the hearing on the petition of Major John
Young, to some day next week, brought up, read and Concurred.
A_ Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
consider of and devise some method for Supplying the Delegates of

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this State, at Congress, with monies for their necessary expenditures,
and report thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Mc
Cleary, M' Thornton and M' Peabody joined.

TUESDAY, November S"- 1785.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the account of Joseph Gilman; Esq' and report thereon,
brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Peabody and M' M"Cleary
joined. A Vote to pay the Account of Nathaniel Peabody and Joseph
Gilman, Esquires, amounting to seven pounds fourteen shillings for
expences at the sale of the excise for the County of Rockingham,
brought up, read and Concurred.
* A Vote to accept the report of the Committee on the * 2 : 86
Petition of Col. William Simpson, so far as the treasurer
take Order to credit the town of Orford, for the suras mentioned
therein, at the same rates, as though the said sums had been paid to
the treasurer by those collectors respectively, at the dates of those
receipts, provided said receipts agree with the Schedule exhibited by
Major Child, for the Settlement of his public account, brought up,
read and Concurred.
A Vote that the members of the Hon. Council, be allowed nine
shillings per day, and the same travelling fees, as the members of the
General Court, and their Secretaries the same as was allowed thera
the last year, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the Account of John Ward Gilraan araounting to
twelve pounds, for engraving for the State, as per his account,
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote directimg the Treasurer to credit the town of Keene on
their outstanding taxes, for the year 1 781, eleven pounds seventeen
shillings and one farthing, new emission raoney, and Sixteen shil
lings and five pence, Silver money, it being for taxes levied on the
estates of D' Josiah Pomeroy and Elijah Williams, absentees frora
said town, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coramittee of the senate, to
Consider of the Petition of James Taylor and John Young, and re
port thereon, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Bellows
joined. A Vote to pay Ebenezer Brewster, Esq' by discount out of taxes,
the sum of ninety three pounds two shillings and Seven pence, and

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also Interest on such part of his account, as is charged for beef
and flour, brought up, read and Concurred.
* 2 : 87 * A Vote to accept the report of the Committee ap
pointed to Consider of the petition of Richard Jenness,
Esq' one of the administrators of the Estate of Richard Jenness,
Esq' deceased, allowing said administrators to pay and discharge the
bond mentioned in his said petition in the following raanner, viz. by
discounting out of said bond, at the date thereof, the araount of the
balance due from the Estate of John Wentworth, Esq' late governor
of the province of new Hampshire, to said deceased, as the same
shah be certified by the judge of Probate, and that the remainder of
said bond be reckoned with Interest from the tirae promised for pay
ment, and received by the Treasurer in public Securities of this
State, brought up, read and Concurred,
A Vote to hear the petition of the Inhabitants of Harastead on
the Second Wednesday of next Session, brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote to hear the Petition of David Corser and Others on the
Second Wednesday of next Session, brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
report a plan for employing a person to ride post through the State ;
also to consider in what manner the excise shall be Collected in
future, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Gilman and M' Pea
body joined.
The bill to prevent the bodies of debtors from being Imprisoned,
&c. having been read and debated, voted that a message be sent to
the house, proposing the following addition to the bill, " Pro-
* 2 : 88 vided nevertheless, that nothing in this * Act shall extend to,
or be construed to extend so as to effect any Securities bot
toraed on silver or gold, which may be given from, and after the first
day of January ne.xt ; sent down by M' Peabody, and was brought up,
by M' Dow and M' M"Murphy, with a Verbal raessage, that the house
adhere to their forraer vote ; the bih was sent down again with the
following proposed amendment.
To be and Continue in force, for and during the term of two years
and no longer, which amendraent was agreed to by the house.
An Act to prevent the bodies of Debtors from being taken in exe
cution, when real and personal Estate can be found, or is tendered to
satisfy the demand, having been read a third time it was voted that
the same be enacted.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Williara Fowler, on the Second
tuesday of their next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.

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WEDNESDAY, November 9"' 1785.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote irapowering the President with advice of Council, to draw
Orders on the treasurer in favor of Delegates, for such sura or suras
as raay be judged expedient, taking Care not to advance raore than
one Hundred pounds, to any one delegate on his first entering on the
business of his appointment, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Moses Dow Esq' in
behalf of the inhabitants of Rumney and Plymouth and giving them
leave to bring in a bill accordingly, brought up read and Concurred.
A Vote that James Taylor and John Young, on their getting cer
tificates from the Coramittee, on depreciation for what is due to
them, the President shall give orders for their receiving notes for the
same, brought up, read and concurred.
*A Vote fora Committee to join a Coraraittee of the * 2 : 89
Senate, to norainate proper persons, for a Coraraittee to re
ceive and exaraine all accounts that may be laid before them where
the State is concerned, brought up, read and Concurred, and M' Pea
body, M' Chase and M' Thornton joined.
A Vote that the town of Claremont, have credit for Samuel
Green Ahen, as one of their quota of Soldiers, brought up read and
Concurred. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of the petition of Silvester Tiffany, and the petition of
Joshua Young, and all Similar Matters, brought up, read and Con
curred, and M' Bellows and M' M"Cleary joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Isaac Butterfield on the Second
Thursday of next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Several persons, relative to the
Situation of New raarket bridge, on the Second Wednesday of the
next Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of the town of Hillsborough on the
second thursday of next Session brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Peter Green, Esq' in behalf of
Jacob Doyne, on the Second Wednesday of next Session, brought up
read and Concurred.
A Vote desiring his Excehency, to write to the Several Executives
in the Union and request to know whether their assemblies have, or
are likely to join with this and Massachusetts, in their com
mercial opposition * to Great Britain whether they have em- * 2 : 90
powered Congress to regulate commerce, or have passed, or
probaly will pass acts Sirailar to those enacted by this and the Massa-

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chusetts State in June last respecting navigation and Commerce, and
lay such Inforraation before the General Court, at their next Session,
as he shall receive, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote directing the Treasurer to proceed' in the most expeditious
manner, for Collecting outstanding taxes, by calling on delinquent
constables and CoUectors, or issuing extents as occasion may require,
brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act to empower Sarauel Pilsbury to Collect certain taxes in
the town of Londonderry, having been read a third tirae, voted that
the sarae be enacted.
A Vote to pay the account of John Calfe, Esq' araounting to six
pounds six shUlings and four pence, brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act for the recovery of Sraall debts, in an expeditious way and
raanner, having been read a third time, voted that the same be en
acted. A Vote that Thoraas Bartlet, Christopher Toppan, and John Pren
tice, Esq'rs for the County of Rockingham, that John Waldron,
John Wentworth and Otis Baker, Esq'rs for the County of Strafford,
Robert Means, Moses Nichols and Robert McGregore Esq'rs for the
County of Hillsborough, Siraeon Olcott, John Bellows, and Benjarain
Suraner, for the County of Cheshire, Moses Dow, William Sirapson,
and Elisha Payne Esq'rs for the County of Grafton, be committees
in their respective Counties, to raake sale of the excise in their said
Several Counties, forthe Current year, agreeable to the laws of this
State brought up, read and Concurred
A Vote to pay WUliam Dana, twelve pounds fifteen shil-
*2:9i lings * and four pence, for his Service as Commissary for
recruits at Amherst, in the Year 1782, brought up, read and
Concurred. A Vote to pay Joseph Pearson, Esq' the balance of his account
amounting to Seventy Seven pounds seven Shillings, brought up,
read and Concurred.
THURSDAY, November 10"' 1785.
Present as Yesterday.
A resolve appointing Joseph Gilman and Josiah GUman Esq'rs
comraissioners, jointly or severally, to settle ah accounts between
this State and individuals, was passed and sent down for Concur
rence, by M' McCleary, which resolve was brought up. Concurred by
the House.
A Vote to pay Tiraothy Balsh, twenty five pounds, in full for his
services for Carrying public papers, &c, brought up, read and Con
curred.

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A Vote to prolong the time for receiving demands against the
State, which are a Continental Charge, until the last day of the next
Session of the General Court, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay the account of Joseph Gilraan, Esq' amounting to
forty nine pounds and five shillings, for the use of a room for the
Secretary's office, &c, to November 1785, brought up, read and Con
curred. A Vote to pay Major Isaac Fry, fifty-eight Shillings for two drums
he procured for the State, brought up, read and Concurred.
An Act in addition to and amendraent of an Act entitled " An
act for repealing all the laws heretofore made by the province, Col
oney or State of New Hampshire, relating to kUling Wolves, and for
fixing the preraiuras hereafter to be given for killing those
Animals, passed * the Seventeenth of January 1782," hav- * 2 : 92
ing been read a third time, voted, that the sarae be enacted
A Vote to pay the account of Caleb Buswell, araounting to five
pounds five shillings, for his service, as doorkeeper to the house of
Representatives brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to allow Cap' Ebenezer Green, wages and depreciation
while in service, and during his being an hostage, brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote to postpone the further consideration of the petition of
Major John Young, to the Second Wednesday of next Session,
brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote to establish post riders through several parts of this State,
also, granting one Hundred pounds for said purpose ; that his excel
lency the President, with advice of councU, appoint post masters and
post riders, also to fix the postage of letters brought up, read and
Concurred. A resolve authorizing the Several Judges of Probate, to lengthen
the time ( not exceeding Six raonths ) for receiving the Clairas of the
creditors on the confiscated estates of absentees from this State,
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote directing the Coraraittee for selling the excise in the
County of Rockinghara, hke wise to sell some Medicines belonging
to the State, now in the care of the board of war, brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote directing the Secretary to furnish the printers of New
Hampshire newspapers, with a Copy of all public acts that have been
passed this Session, brought up, read and Concurred.
A Vote allowing James Norris, eleven pounds and Six pence for
several journies by order of the State, as per his account brought up,
read and Concurred.
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* 2 : 93 * A Vote to hear the Petition of Oliver Wright, on the
Second Wednesday of the next Session, brought up, read
and Concurred.
A Vote desiring his Excellency the President with advice of Coun
cil, to adjourn the General Court to Wednesday the first day of Feb
ruary next, then to raeet at Portsraouth and that the General Court,
which is to meet on the first Wednesday of June next, shall be hold
en at Concord, brought up, read and Concurred.
A true Journal Attest E Thompson Secy

JOURNAL
OF THE
House of Representatives
OCTOBER 19 TO NOVEMBER 10, 1785.

A JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS

HONB.L HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
At their Session began and holden at Concord in said State on
Wednesday the igth day of October Anno Dom 1785 and in the ninth
year of the Independance of America.

*

13:1 * WEDNESDAY, October 19, 1785,

Several Members met but there not being a quorum to transact
business, agreed to adjourn to nine o'clock to morrow morning.
THURSDAY October 20 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Joseph Drew, Voted,
that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the
first Friday of their next Session and that in the mean time the Pe
titioner cause that Jonathan Ham of Madbury be served with a copy
of the Petition and order of Court thereon that he raay then appear
and shew cause (if any he hath ) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. Sent up by M' Mc Murphy.
Voted that M' Prentice, M' Pickering, Col" Whipple, Col" Toppan,
Col" Payne, Col" Shephard, & Col" Green with such of the Honb'
Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of a Message
from his Excellency this day received and report the business neces
sary first to be entered upon and done at this session.
Sent up by M' M" Murphy.

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Voted that Maj' Gains, Col" HUl, & Maj' Weeks with such of the
Honb' Senate as they shah join be a Comraittee to consider of the
Petition of John Johnson, a prisoner in Portsraouth Goal and report
thereon. Sent up by Col" McMillan.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Zebulun Marsh,
Voted that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court
on the Second Wednesday of their next Session and that in the mean
tirae the Petitioner cause that Edward Hilton of New Market be
served with a copy of the Petition & order of Court thereon that he
raay then appear and shew cause ( if any he hath ) why the prayer
thereof raay not be granted. Sent up by Col" McMillan.
* 13 : 2 * Voted that M' Duncan, M' Wallace, & M' Smith, witb
such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Comraittee
to consider of the Petition of the Inhabitants of New Chester ' and
report thereon. Sent up by Col" McMillan.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted that M' Betton, M' Duncan, & Col" Hih with such of the
Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coraraittee to consider of the
Petition of the Selectraen of Cardigan ^ & report thereon.
Sent up by Col" Bartlett.
Voted that Maj' Weeks, Doct' Bracket, M' Betton, M' Bartlett, and
Maj' Whitcorab with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
a Coraraittee to consider of the Petition of Lieu' Jonathan Crombie
and all similar matters and report thereon. Sent up by Col" Bartlett.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Gen' Benjarain Bel
lows, 3 praying for the privilege of a Ferry, Voted, that the Petitioner
be heard thereon before the General Court on the Second Wednes
day of their next Session and that in the mean tirae the Petitioner
cause that the substance of the Petition & order of Court thereon be
published in the New Hampshire Gazette, three weeks succes
sively, — also cause that a Copy of said Petition & order be posted
up in some public place in the Towns of Westmoreland & Walpole
three weeks at least before the tirae of hearing that any person or
persons raay then appear and shew cause if any they have why the
prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Col" Welch.
Voted that the aecount of John Sparhawk, Sc Thoraas Martin Esqr*
amounting to ten pounds, si.xteen shillings be allowed and paid out
of the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Col" Welch.
Voted, that M' Sparhawk, Col" Bartlett Maj' Gains, M' Adams,
and Maj' Weeks, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
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a Coraraittee to consider of the Petition " of a Number of the Inhabi
tants of the County of Rockingham respecting a bridge over Exeter
River at the Town of New Market & report thereon.
Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
* Voted, that Col" Hih, Col" Bartlett, & M' Adams, with * 13 : 3
such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee
to consider of the Petition of the Inhabitants of Cardigan^ & report
thereon. Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Voted, that Maj' Gains, M' McMurphy & Col" GUman with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coramittee to consider of
the Petition of William Glidden ^ & report thereon.
Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Voted, that Maj' Weeks, M' Duncan, Col" Gilman, Maj' Whitcomb,
M' Eraerson, Col" Putnam, Col" Payne, M' Bryant, M' Young & M'
Jackraan with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Com
mittee to consider of a Petition from the town of Rochester * and
all simUar matters and report thereon. Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Voted, that the Pay Roll of Cap' Meshech Bell coraraandant at
New Castle araounting to Eighty pounds be allowed & paid out of
the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by M' Bryant.
Voted, that Gen' Sullivan, Col" Bartlett, M' Duncan, Col" Payne,
& Col" Gilman with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider of the raost expeditious method for revising
the Laws of this State, & report thereon. Sent up by M' Bryant.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to morrow morning.
FRIDAY, October 21, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, that M' Prentice, Col" Bartlett, M' Adams, M' Jenness and
Maj' Whitcomb with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
a Committee to consider of the Petition of Joseph Morrison, & Hugh
Montgoraery and all simUar matters & report thereon.
Sent up by Col" Green.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of, the Revr'' Samuel
McChntock, Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the
General Court on the Second Wednesday of their next Session and
that in the mean time he cause that James Nudd & Margaret, his
wife, also Thomas Dearborn & Susanna his wife be served with a
Copy of the Petition & order of Court thereon that they or either of
1- xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 34. 2. ^iii. Ham. Town Papers, 122. '• Id. 94. •¦ Id. 341.

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them raay then appear and shew cause if any they have why the
prayer thereof raay not be granted. Sent up by M' Pickering.
* 13 :4 -^ Votcd, that Col" Green, M' Marsh, & Col" Payne, with
such of the Honb' Senate as they shah join be a Committee
to consider of the Petition of Charity Lund, Williara McClure, Thoraas
McClure and Sarauel Foster and report thereon. Sent up by M' Pickering.
Voted, that this House resolve theraselves into a Coramittee of the
whole in conjunction with the Honb' Senate if they see fit to take
under consideration as soon as may be the requisition of Congress of
the 27''' of September last. Sent up by M' Pluraraer,
Upon hearing and considering the Petition of Swallow Tucker'
and others Inhabitants of Raby — Voted, that the prayer thereof be
granted and that the Petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accord
ingly. Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, that John Sparhawk, Esq' & the Honb' Joshua Wentworth
Esq' with such other person as the Honb' Senate shall appoint be a
Comraittee to confer with the Committee chosen by the Legislature
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts concerning the regulation of
Commerce and report thereon. Sent up by Maj' Pickering.
Voted, that M' Dow, Col" Hill, & Col" GUman, with 'such of the
Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coramittee to consider of the
Petition of Betty Hickey, also the Petition of the Select raen of Lon
donderry and all sirailar raatters and report thereon.
Sent up by M' McMurphy.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Leonard Whiting
Esq' Yoted that the prayer thereof be granted and that he have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by M' McMurphy.
The Coraraittee on the Petition of Charity Lund & others reported
that an Act or Resolve pass the General Court revoking the said let
ter of Guardianship. — Signed, Joseph GUman, for the Committee,
which report being read and considered. Voted, that it be received
and accepted & that the said Charity hath leave to bring in a bUl
accordingly. Sent up by M' WaUace.
* 13 : 5 * Voted, that Col" Green, Col" Gilraan & M' Duncan with
such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee
to consider of the Petition of the Inhabitants of Burton ^ and report
thereon. Sent up by M' Wallace.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to morrow morning.
'• xi. Ham. Town Papers, 244, 245. ^i- xi. Ham. Town Papers, 7.

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SATURDAY, October 22 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of the Selectmen of
Effingham praying that Cap' Carr Leavitt may be empowered to col
lect the taxes in Effingham which were committed to John Leavitt
Esq' now deceased to Collect. Voted, that the prayer thereof be
granted & that the Petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accord
ingly. Sent up by M' Wahace.
Upon reading and considering the Petitions of Henry Gerrish
Esq' ' & Robert Wise praying for the priviledge of a Ferry across
Merrimac River frora Northfield to Salisbury, Voted, that the Peti
tioners be heard thereon before the General Court on Thursday next
and that in the raean tirae the Petitioners cause that the Selectmen
of Northfield, also the Selectmen of Salisbury be served with a Copy
of the Petitions & orders of Court thereon that they may then appear
and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not
be granted. Sent up by M' Foss.
Voted, that Enoch Barker have and receive out of the Treasury-
Nine Pounds in full for his journey to Charlestown on public busi
ness, horse hire, expenses, etc., and that the President give order
accordingly. Sent up by M' Foss.
Voted, that Gen' Sullivan M' Pickering, & Col" Green with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to prepare
and lay before this House a bill to carry into effect a Resolve: of
Congress of the 7"" of June 1785, Respecting Invalids. Sent up by M' Foss.
Yoted, that M' Betton, Col" Toppan, & Col" Whipple be a Com
mittee to wait on the Committee appointed by this State to settle
the accounts between this and the United States and obtain intelli
gence how far they have proceeded in the settleraent of said accounts
and report to this House.
* Voted, that Col" Toppan, Maj' Gains, & Col" Bartlett, * 13 : 6
with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Com
mittee to view the Fort at the entrance of Piscataqua Harbour and
report to this Court at their next Session what repairs they judge
necessary. Sent up by M' Prentice.
Voted, that this House Resolve themselves into a Committee of
the whole in conjunction with the Honb' Senate if they think fit to
raeet on Monday next to take under consideration the state of our
public affairs and report thereon. Sent up by M' Prentice.
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Voted, that Gen' Sullivan, M' Sparhawk, M' Duncan, M' Hall, &
Col" Payne with such of the Plonb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to revise the table of fees for this State and report a bUl
for that purpose. Sent up by M' Prentice.
The Committee on the Petition of John Johnson, reported that the
prayer of said Petition be granted and that the Petitioner be dis
charged when he has paid prison charges. — Signed John McClary,
for the Committee, which report being read and considered — Voted,
that it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Batcheldor.
Voted, that the account of Doct' Mark How araounting to four
pounds one shUhng and eight pence, for visits and raedicines to Con
tinental Soldiers be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of
the President. Sent up by M' Batcheldor.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Elisha Payne Esq',
and others ' praying that part of Lebanon, Hanover, Enfield, and
Canaan may be erected and Incorporated into a town. Voted, that
the Petitioners be heard thereon before the General Court on the first
Tuesday of their next Session and that inthe mean time the Petition
ers cause that the substance of the Petition and order of court thereon,
be published in one of the New Hampshire papers three weeks suc
cessively — also cause that the Selectmen of Lebanon, Hanover,
Enfield and Canaan be served seasonably with a Copy of said Petition
& order thereon that any person or persons may then appear and
shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. Sent up by M' Batcheldor.
* 13 :7 * Voted, that M' Sparhawk, Col" GUman, M' Cragin, M'
Works, & Col" Whipple with such of the Honb' Senate as
they shall join be a Coramittee to consider of the Petition & account
of Maj' Joseph Bass and all similar raatters & report thereon.
Sent up by M' Batcheldor.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of the Inhabitants of
New Castle praying for an abatement of a part of their State Tax,
Voted, that the Petitioners be heard thereon before the General
Court on the first Tuesday of their next Session. Sent up by Cap' Harper.
Adjourned to Monday next at 3 o'clock P. M.

MONDAY, October 24"' 1785.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, that M' E. Pickering, Col" Payne, and Col" GUman, with
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such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to con
sider of the Petition of Cap' Moses Woodward and report thereon.
Sent up by M' Wallace.
Agreeably to a Vote of Saturday last, the Honb' Senate and House
being met in a Committee of the whole to take under consideration
the State of our Pubhc affairs — His Excehency, John Langdon, Esq'
appointed chairman — first took into consideration whether the oper
ation of the Navigation Act passed the last Session should be sus
pended ; and after much debate thereon agreed to postpone the de
termination thereof till tomorrow raorning — The Committee then
rose with leave to meet again, and the Speaker resumed the chair.
The House then adjourned to 9 o'clock tomorrow raorning.
TUESDAY, October 25"' 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act for adjourning the Inferior Court in the County of Rock
ingham and Court of General Sessions of the Peace was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Col" Green and M' Knowles.
An act to empower Cap' Carr Leavitt, to collect a certain Tax in
Effingham, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col" Green and M' Knowles.
The Honb' Senate & House being again raet in Coramittee of the
whole His Excellency the President in the chair proceeded
to the further consideration of the * Suspension of the Op- * 13 : 8
eration of the Navigation Act and came to the following
vote — Voted, that the operation of said Act be not suspended —
Proceeded to consider of the propriety of corresponding with the
other States in the union respecting the Regulation of Commerce
and came to the following vote thereon — Voted, that His Excel
lency the President be desired to write the several Executives in the
union & request to know whether their Assemblies have, or are likely
to join with this State & Massachusetts in their comraercial opposi
tion to great Britian — whether they have empowered Congress to
regulate Commerce or have passed, or probably will pass Acts simi
lar to those enacted by this & the Massachusetts States in June last
respecting Navigation & Commerce and lay such inforraation before
the General Court at their next Session.
Proceeded to consider of Sundry Petitions for relieving the dis
tresses of the Inhabitants of this State, relative to the want of a cir
culating raedium of trade, or for devising some method of discharg
ing debts — and after some debate thereon agreed to postpone the

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further consideration thereof, till 3 o'clock in the afternoon — the
Comraittee then rose with leave to sit again, and the Speaker resuraed
the chair. The House then adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act to restore Leonard Whiting Esq' to his law was read a
third time and passed to be enacted. Sent up by M' Prentice & Col" White.
The Honb' Senate & House being again raet in Comraittee of the
whole His Excellency the President in the chair again took under
consideration to devise sorae raethod for relieving the difficulties the
Inhabitants of this State labour under for want of a circulating raedi
ura of trade and the emitting of paper money being petitioned for,
a vote was cahed whether paper money should be emitted by this
State and it was unanimously voted in the Negative. Nextly took
under consideration whether creditors should be obliged to take real
or personal estate in satisfaction for Executions and carae to the fol
lowing vote.
* 13 : 9 * Voted, that when a debtor shall offer real or personal es
tate in satisfaction for an execution his body shall be exempt,
if he consent that the creditor shall have his choice what part of the
said debtors estate he will take. The Committee then took under
consideration the propriety of ordering the Treasurer to issue extents
for outstanding taxes and after some debate thereon, agreed to post
pone the further consideration thereof, till tomorrow morning and the
Speaker resumed the chair.
The House then adjourned to 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, October 26, 1785.
The house raet according to adjournraent.
The Honb' Senate and House being again met according to ad
journment His Excellency the President in the chair proceeded to
consider further of the propriety of issuing extents for outstanding
taxes and agreed that a committee be appointed in the separate
branches of the Legislature, to enquire of the Treasurer respecting
outstanding Taxes and report the sums outstanding and the length of
time they have been due.
Then took under consideration to devise some method that holders
of public property and money should be obliged to account and that
the most speedy method should be taken to close the public accounts
of this State, and Voted, that a person or persons be appointed by
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1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 42 1
Voted, that Col" Green, Col" Payne, Col" Peabody, Gen' Sullivan,
& M' Prentice be a Sub Coramittee to prepare and lay before this
Coramittee a Bill to carry into effect a vote of yesterday respecting
obliging creditors to take real or personal estate in satisfaction of Ex
ecutions. The Committee then rose with leave to sit again and the
Speaker resumed the chair.
Voted, _ that M' Sparhawk, M' Duncan, Col" Payne, Col" Waldron,
& M' Frink, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to enquire of the Treasurer what suras are now due for
outstanding Taxes and what length of time they have been due, also
to consider what method shall be taken for collecting what is due for
deficiencies of Soldiers and in what raanner the State shall pay the
Twenty pounds promised to those towns or classes who procured
their soldiers agreeably to an Act of this State passed January 12"'
1 78 1 and report thereon. Sent up by Col" Gilman.
* Voted, that the ballance of the account of Benjamin * 13 : 10
Biggelow amounting to eighteen pounds ten shillings &
three pence be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the
President. Sent up by M' Foss.
Voted, that Col" McMUlan, Col" Toppan, Sz; Col" GUman, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of Nehemiah Kelley and report thereon. Sent up by M' Foss.
Voted, that the town of Alstead be allowed two pounds two shil
lings & eleven pence out of their State Taxes, it being for the Tax
laid on lands of Simon Baxter an Absentee and that the President
give the Selectmen of Alstead an order on the Treasurer for said
sum. Sent up by M' Foss.
Voted, that the hearings on the Petitions of John Pickering, Jun'
& Henry Kinniston, which were to have been this day before the
General Court be postponed to the second Wednesday of the next
Session and that all persons concerned are to take notice and govern
themselves accordingly. Sent up by Col" Waldron.
Voted that the account of Thomas Bartlett Esq' araounting to one
pound twelve shillings be ahowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. Sent up by Col" Waldron.
Voted, that Col" Bartlett, Maj' Gains & Cap' Spaulding with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of Mary Gove, also the Petition of Jaraes Taylor' and
report thereon. Sent up by Col" Waldron.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
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422 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178S
Met accordingly.
The Comraittee appointed the 23'' of June last to examine every
account contract and deraand between this state and Col" Saniuel
Hobart and raake report to the General Court at their next Session.
Reported that they have carefully exarained said accounts and find a
ballance of three hundred & eighty seven pounds four shillings & six
pence lawful raoney due to said Sarauel Hobart — We also
* 13 : II find that there is now *in the hands of said Hobart Seven
teen hundred & twelve pounds of ungranulated powder
belonging to this State.
Also that there is in the hands of said Hobart Sixty Six pounds
five shillings & six pence paper money of the old emission being a
ballance of a pay roll now due to soldiers, — we beg leave further to
observe that the above ballance has been due upwards of five years
& that Interest be allowed upon it. John Parker ~|
Signed Thomas Odiorne > Committee.
George Gains, j
Which report being read and considered, — Voted, that it be re
ceived and accepted and that the President give order on the Treas
ury for the said sum of Three Hundred & Eighty seven pounds four
shillings and six pence with the interest for the same for said five
years and that Christopher Toppan Esq' & Joseph Gilraan Esq' be a
Coraraittee to take into custody the ungranulated Powder now in the
hands of Col" Hobart and dispose of the same to the best advantage
for the use of this State, — and that on Col" Hobart's producing to
the Treasurer the paper money above mentioned & making Oath be
fore said Treasurer that it is the identical money which he received
from the State for the payment of Soldiers, the Treasurer is directed
to take the same giving him a receipt therefor which shall be a dis
charge to the said Hobart for said sum. Sent up by M' Plummer.
Voted, that the hearings on the Petition of the Selectmen of War
ren which was to have been this day before the General Court be
postponed to the second Thursday of the next Session of which all
persons concerned are to take notice & govern themselves accord
ingly. Sent up by M' Pluraraer.
Voted, that the hearings on the Petitions of David Courser Maj'
Joseph Kiraball ' & Ebenezer Torrey which were to have been this
day before the General Court be postponed to some future day in
this Session. Sent up by M' Plummer.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of William Parker Esq',
Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted & and that he have leave to
bring in a bUl accordingly. Sent up by M' Plummer.
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*Agreeable to the order of the day heard the Petitions * 13 : 12
of Jonathan Mason and Edwards Bucknam, but the deter
mination postponed tUl to morrow.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
THURSDAY, October 27, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
The committee on the Petition of the Selectmen of Cardigan,' Re
ported that the prayer of said Petition be granted and that the Peti
tioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. — Signed, John Mc
Clary for the Comraittee, which report being read and considered,
Yoted, that it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col" Wiggin.
Upon hearing and considering the Petition of Jonathan Mason
praying for the priviledge of a Ferry. — - Voted, that the prayer there
of, be granted so far as that he have the priviledge of a Ferry to
extend from Col" Greens ferry as far as the South line of Orford and
that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Col" Wiggin.
Upon hearing and considering the Petition of Edwards Bucknam ^
praying for the priviledge of a Ferry, Voted, that the prayer thereof
be granted and that the Petitioner have leave to bring in a bill
accordingly either at this or the next Session. Sent up by Col" Wiggin.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Oliver Lawrence
and Benjamin Cummings, Voted, that the Petitioners be heard there
on before the General Court on the Second Thursday of their next
session, and that in the mean time the Petitioners cause that the
substance of the Petition and order of Court thereon be published
three weeks successively in the New Hampshire Gazette that any
person or persons may then appear & shew cause (if any they have)
why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Col" Wiggin.
Agreeably to the order of the day heard several Petitioners on
their Petitions.
*Upon hearing and considering the Petition of the Se- * 13 : 13
lectmen of Dearing' praying for liberty to raise a Tax on
the whole of the lands in said Town, for the purpose of buUding a
Meeting House & purchasing a Ministerial Lott. — Voted, that the
prayer thereof be so far granted as that a Tax be levied for the pur
pose of buUding a meeting house only & that the Petitioners have
leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by M' Jenness.
'-¦ xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 122. ^xii. Ham. Town Papers, 353. =¦ xi. Ham. Town Papers, 495.

424 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1785
Upon hearing and considering the Petition of the Inhabitants of
Hancock' praying for liberty to raise [levy] a Tax on the whole of the
Lands in Hancock for the sole purpose of building a Meeting House,
Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted & that the Petitioners have
leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Jonathan Chesley,
Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court
on the first Friday of their next Session and that in the mean time
the Petitioner cause that Cap' John Drew of Barnstead be served
with a Copy of the Petition and order of Court thereon that he may
[then] appear and shew cause if any he hath why the prayer thereof
may not be granted and that the Execution be stayed till the de
cision of the General Court. Sent up by Cap' Harper.
Voted, that Col" Bartlett, M' Foss, M' Eraerson, M' Kendah, & M'
Dow, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coramit
tee to consider of the Petition of Lemuel Holmes Esq' and report
thereon. Sent up by Cap' Harper.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Barnabas Barker, —
Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the second Tuesday of their next Session and that in the
mean time the Petitioner cause that the Substance of the Petition
and order of Court thereon be published three weeks successively in
one of the New Harapshire papers, also cause that Jehosaphat Grout
mentioned in said Petition be served with a Copy of the Petition and
order thereon that he or any other person or persons may then ap
pear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof raay
not be granted. Sent up by M' Dow.
* 13 : 14 *Agreeably to the order of the day heard John Smith
on his Petition but the deterraination thereon was post
poned till toraorrow raorning.
Voted, that the hearings on several petitions which were to have
been this day, be postponed till toraorrow of which all persons con
cerned are to take notice & govern theraselves accordingly. Sent up by M' Dow.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to morrow mornine-. o
FRIDAY, October 28 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Took under further consideration the Petition of John Smith which
was postponed to this morning and, voted, that the prayer thereof
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be granted and that the Petitioner have leave to bring in a bill accord
ingly. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Gen' John Stark be
postponed to the second Wednesday of the next Session of the Gen
eral Court of which all persons concerned are to take notice & govern
themselves accordingly. Sent up by M' Griffin.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Maj' John Young ' be
postponed to some day in the next week. Sent up by M' Griffin.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Benjamin Tripp be post
poned to the second Friday of the next Session of the General Court
of which ah persons concerned are to take notice and govern them
selves accordingly. Sent up by M' Griffin.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Samuel Bayley "^ be post
poned to the first Tuesday of the next Session of the General Court
of which all persons concerned are to take notice and govern thera
selves accordingly. Sent up by Cap' Burnhara.
Voted, that the Account of John Parker, Thomas Odiorne, &
George Gains, Esq' amounting to four pounds & ten shillings be
allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President.
Sent up by Maj' Gains.
* Upon hearing and considering the Petition of Henry * 13 : 15
Gerrish Esq'' praying for the priviledge of a Ferry over
Merriraac River, Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted and that
he have leave to bring in a bUl accordingly. Sent up by M' Foss.
Voted, that Cap' Suramer, Col" Toppan, & M' Frink with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of the Inhabitants of Unity and report thereon.
Sent up by M' Foss.
Voted, that Maj' Pickering, Col" Gilraan, M' Jackraan, M' GUraore
& Gen' Dow with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join, be a
Committee to consider of the Petition of Timothy Balch ¦• and report
thereon. Sent up by M' Foss.
Upon reading and considering the Petiti6n of Joshua Foss, Esq'
in behalf of the Inhabitants of Barrington, Voted, that the Peti
tioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the second
Thursday of their next Session and that in the mean tirae the Peti
tioner cause that the substance of the Petition and order of Court
thereon be published three weeks successively in one of the New
Hampshire papers that any person or persons may then appear and
shew cause if any they have why the prayer thereof should [raay]
not be granted. Sent up by M' Foss.
^' xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 183. 2. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 386. 3. ^i. Ham. Town Papers, 205.
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426 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178S
Voted, that M' Prentice, Col" Bartlett, & Col" HUl with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petitions of Cap' Daniel Moore, John Thomas, Ephraim Adams
& Lieut. Ebenezer Britton' and ah similar matters and report
thereon. Sent up by M' Foss.
Upon reading and considering the Petition" of the Warden of
Queens Chapel in Portsmouth, Voted, that the Petitioners be heard
thereon before the General Court on the Second Thursday of their
next Session and that in the mean time the Petitioners cause that
the substance of the Petition and order of Court thereon be posted
up three public days on one of the Chapel doors, that any person
may appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer there
of may not be granted. Sent up by Maj' Young.
* 13 : 16 * The Committee appointed to lay out a public Road from
the River Road in Boscawen to Connecticut River at or
near Dartmouth College, Reported the fohowing return, (viz) begin
ning at Dartraouth Cohege, thence Southeasterly nearly as the road
is now trod about three raUes to where a bridge forraerly stood over
Mink brook on Eleazer Hihs Land thence south about eighteen
degrees East to Lebanon line as now spotted, thence nearly on the
same course to the road by Clap Sumners House, thence easterly as
the road is now trod to Col" Paynes House thence nearly on a
straight course to the road between PhiUip Paddlefords House and
Barn in Enfield, thence as the road is now Spotted to Col" Payne's
House in Enfield, thence on the road as now trod to Elijah Paddle
fords House, thence south sixty-eight degrees east to the road as
now trod, thence in said road to the spotted line about fifteen rods
from Nathaniel Hoveys Sugar Camp, thence on said Spotted line to
Mascom River in Canaan, thence nearly on a straight course to the
bridge over Mud pond brook thence as the road is now trod about ten
rods, thence on a straight course to the road by Eleazer Scofields
House, thence in said road as now trod to Grafton line thence on a
straight course to a stump three rods to the south of Joseph Beans
barn, thence straight to a stump four rods to the north of Resolve
Mattersons House, thence straight to the road as now trod, thence in
the road to the path that leads to Cardigan, thence on a straight course
to the road by Jonathan Nichols's House thence nearly as the road is
now trod to Cap' Joseph Hoyts House, thence nearly as the road is
now spotted through Alexandria and New Chester to Benjamin
ScUly's House in Andover, thence straight (leaving John Sawyers
House three rods to the North) to the road as now trod, thence by
said road to the bridge over Ragged Mountain brook thence nearly
^' xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 670. -• Idem, 297.

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on a straight course to a stake three rods to the south of Sim
eon Connors Barn, thence on a straight course to the * road * 13 : 17
by Josiah Scribners House, thence in said road to a Beach
tree marked E, thence straight about seventeen rods across Lieu'
John Roe's Land to the road, thence in said road to Benjamin
Huntoons House in Salisbury, thence on a straight course to the
road between John Gale's House and Barn, thence in said road
about twenty rods, thence on a straight course by the side of Anna
Fifields House to the road thence in said road to a stake opposite
Joseph French's House, thence on a straight course to the road be
tween Samuel Scribner's House and Barn thence in said road to a
stake four rods to the east of Lieu' John Pearson's House, thence
straight to Andrew Bohonnens House, thence foUowing the old road
east of Jacob Bohonnens House, to the road as now trod, thence in
said road about ten rods, thence straight to the bridge over the Mill
brook, thence in said road to the bridge by Abel Tandy's House
thence nearly as the road forraerly went by the west end of Simon
Wodlys house, thence South easterly about eighteen rods to a stake
by the road as now trod, thence in said road to a stake twenty-five
rods short of Edward Eastmans corner, thence on a straight course
(leaving said Eastmans House to the west) to the road as now trod,
thence in said road to the easterly side of John Bowens land, thence
southerly on said Bowens land by Lieu' Robert Smith's Land thirty-
eight rods thence southeasterly on as straight a course as the land
will admit of to Stirrup Iron Meadow brook nearly as the road is now
spotted, thence by said spotted road to Boscawen line thence as the
road is now cut out to the river road in Boscawen near Col" Henry
Gerrish's House. Said road to be four Rods broad.
Concord, October 26"* 1785, Signed, Timothy Walker 1
Ebenezer Sraith, V Committee.
Henry Gerrish. j
Upon reading and considering the foregoing report, Voted, that
it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Bryant.
* Adjourned to three o'clock P. M. * 13 : 18
Met accordingly.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Nicholas Austin ' in
behalf of the Inhabitants of the second division of Middletown in
the County of Strafford, Voted, that the Petitioners be heard there
on before the General Court on the Second Wednesday of their next
Session & that in the mean tirae the Petitioners cause that the Se
lectraen of Wolfborough and the Selectmen of Middletown be served
^ xii. Ham. Town Papers, 598.

428 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
with a copy of the Petition and order of Court thereon that they or
either of them may then appear and shew cause (if any they have)
why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Maj' Young.
Yoted, that the account of Timothy Walker, Ebenezer Smith &
Henry Gerrish Esquires amounting to thirty-nine pounds, ten shU
lings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the Presi
dent. Sent up by M' Bryant.
Yoted, that M' GUman, M' Brackett, M' Macgregore, Gen' Dow,
& Maj' Whitcorab, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shaU join
be a Comraittee to consider of the Petition of Phebe Colburn and
report thereon. Sent up by M' Bryant.
Voted, that M' Jenness, Col" Hih & M' Sanborn, with such of the
Honb' Senate as they shaU join be a Comraittee to consider of the
Petition of Daniel Murray and report thereon. Sent up by M' Bryant.
The Committee on the Petition of the Inhabitants of New Ches
ter ' reported that a day of Hearing be appointed & that the Peti
tioners give due notice thereof. Signed Nath' Peabody, for the Com
mittee, which report being read and considered. Voted, that it be re
ceived and accepted and that the Petitioners be heard before the
General Court on the Second Friday of their next Session and that
in the mean time the Petitioners cause [that] the substance of the
Petition and order of Court thereon be published three weeks succes
sively in one of the New Hamp' papers that any person or persons
may then appear & shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer
thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Maj' Gains
* 13 : 19 * Upon reading and considering the Petition of the In
habitants of New Market & others '' respecting removing
New Market Bridge, Voted, that the Petitioners be heard thereon be
fore the General Court on the Second Wednesday of their next Ses
sion and that in the mean time the Petitioners cause that the sub
stance of the Petition and order of Court thereon be published three
weeks successively in one of the New Hampshire papers that any
person or persons raay then appear and shew cause (if any they have)
why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Maj' Young.
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Richard Cutt Shannon
Esq'3j for Cockermouth be postponed to some future day in this Ses
sion. Adjourned to 9 o'clock to raorrow morning.
I. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 200. 2. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 34. 3. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 78.

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SATURDAY, October 29 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act for restoring James Saunders to his Law was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. Sent up by M' Prentice & Col" Green.
The Committee on the Petition of Lieu' Joseph Huntoon, Re
ported that he receive half pay from the time he was reduced until
further order of the General Court, and that he be put on the roll of
Pensioners accordingly. Signed, Otis Baker, for the Committee, which
report being read and considered. Voted, that it be received and ac
cepted and that he receive a certificate for the interest of [the] pay
that has been withheld and a note for the Principal. Sent up by M' Sanborn.
An Act to irapower Jonathan Tilton of Kensington to enter a
Complaint at the next Superior Court of Judicature to be holden at
Portsmouth within and for the County of Rockingham on the fourth
Tuesday of April next, was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. Sent up by M' Betton and M' Macgregore.
An Act in addition to and araendment of an Act passed the Gen
eral Court of this State the twenty-second of February last, entitled
an Act to enable the Selectmen of Washington to tax certain lands
in said town for purposes therein mentioned, was read a third time
and passed to be enacted
Sent up by Col" Simpson and M' Plumraer.
* Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of the Propri- * 1 3 : 20
etors of Cockermouth ' be postponed to the Second Wed
nesday of the next Session of the General Court which may be held
at Concord, of which all persons concerned are to take notice and
govern themselves accordingly. Sent up by M' Sanborn.
Voted, that M' GUman, Col" Hill, & M' Betton with such of the Honb'
Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of the Petition
of Samuel Potter and report thereon. Sent up by M' Sanborn.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of David Clough,
Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the second Wednesday of their next Session and that in the
mean time the Petitioner cause that Joanna Heath & Bond Little
mentioned in said Petition be served with a Copy of the Petition and
order of Court thereon that they may then appear and shew cause (if
any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted and that
all further process against said Clough be stayed till the decision of
the General Court. Sent up by M' Foss.
I. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 78.

430 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^785
Upon reading and considering the Petition ' of the Inhabitants of the
town of HiUsborough praying that liberty [may] be granted for taxing
all unimproved Lands in said town for repairing highways. Voted,
that the Petitioners be heard thereon before the General Court on the
Second Thursday of their next Session and that in the mean time
the Petitioners cause that the substance of the Petition and order of
Court thereon be published three weeks successively in one of the
New Hampshire Papers, that any person or persons may then appear
and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. Sent up by M' Foss.
Voted, that Col" Bartlett, Col" Gilman, M' Marsh, M' Frink, &
Col" Payne, with such of the Honb' Senate as they
* 13 : 21 * shall join be a coraraittee to consider of the Petition of
Daniel Fowle Esq' also his letter to the Speaker & report
thereon. Sent up by M' Foss.
Upon reading and considering the petition of M' Noah Cook,
Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court
on Wednesday next and that in the mean time the Petitioner cause
that General John Stark be served with a Copy of the Petition and
order of Court thereon that he raay then appear and shew cause if
any he hath why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by M' Foss.
Adjourned to Monday next at 3 o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, October 31, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, that M' Jonathan Burr have and receive out of the Treas
ury thirty shillings for his services as Chaplain to the General Court
the present Session and that the President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Cap' MorriU.
Voted, that M' GUraan, Maj' Pickering and M' Jewett, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shah join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of Elijah Weed for the town of Unity and report there
on. Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Voted, that Col" Toppan, Col" Waldron, M' Emerson, Maj' Whit
comb & M' Worcester with such of the Honb' Senate as they shaU
join be a Committee to consider of the Petition and account of Col"
David Webster and report thereon. Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Voted, that Maj' Gains Col" Sirapson, & Col" Green with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shah join be a Committee to consider of
I. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 209.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 43 1
the Petition of the Selectmen & others Inhabitants of Hillsborough '
and report theron. Sent up by M' Batcheldor.
Upon reading and considering a Petition frora the Selectmen and
others Inhabitants of Hillsborough ^ praying that the time of hold
ing their annual Meeting be altered, Voted, that the prayer thereof
be granted and that the Petitioners have leave to bring in a bill ac
cordingly. Sent up by M' Batcheldor.
* Voted, that M' Betton, M' Foss, & M' GUman with * 13 : 22
such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Comrait
tee to consider of the Petition of Nathanael Bugbee, & report there
on. Sent up by M' Batcheldor.
Voted, that Maj' Gains, Col" Gilman, M' Duncan, Col" Payne, &
M' Batcheldor with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider of the account of Melcher & Osborne and
report thereon. Sent up bp M' Batcheldor.
Voted, that M' Pickering, Col" Badger, M' Adams, Maj' Whitcomb
& M' Worster with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Comraittee to consider what allowance shall be raade the officers of
the CivU list of this .State and report thereon. Sent up by Cap* Burnham.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Solomon Robbins ^
praying for the privilege of a Ferry over Connecticut River, Voted,
that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the
Second Thursday of their next Session and that in the mean time
the Petitioner cause that the Selectmen of Westmoreland be served
with a Copy of the Petition and order of Court thereon that they
may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer
thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Cap' Burnham.
Voted, that the Secretary be directed to send forthwith to Exeter
for the Election Sermons, Journals of the last Session and any other
public papers that are in the office at Exeter. Sent up by Col" Welch.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
TUESDAY, November i, 1785.
The House met according to adjournraent.
An act to estabhsh a certain Judgraent of the Quarter Sessions of
the Peace for the County of Hillsborough in favour of John Sraith
against the Selectmen of Peterborough was read a third time and
passed to be enacted. Sent up by Col" Hill & Maj' Pickering.
1. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 209. ^. Idem, 208. 3. xiii. Ham. Town Papers. 66g.

432 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
* 13 : 23 * Voted, that Maj' Pickering, M' Betton, & M' Adams
with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Com
mittee to consider of the petition of Col" Hercules Mooney & all
similar matters and report thereon. Sent up by Col" Green.
The Honb' Senate and House being again met in Comraittee of
the whole, His Excellency the President in the Chair, Took under
consideration the report of the Sub Coramittee of the 26"" ultirao re
specting obliging creditors to take real or personal estate in satisfac
tion of execution and after sorae debate thereon agreed to rise with
leave to sit again and the Speaker resuraed the chair.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, that the ballance of the Account of the Honb' Abiel Foster
Esq', amounting to Three Hundred & ninety pounds be allowed and
paid out of the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Col" Green.
The Honb' Senate and House being again met in Comraittee of
the whole His Excellency the President in the chair, took under fur
ther consideration the report of the sub Comraittee and came to the
following vote. Voted, that the report be referred to the consider
ation of the Legislature in their separate branches the Committee
then rose with leave to sit again and the Speaker resumed the chair.
Yoted, that the hearing on the Petition of Micah Reed ' which
vi^as to have been this day before the General Court be postponed
tih tomorrow of which all concerned are to take notice and govern
theraselves accordingly. Sent up by Col" Green.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock toraorrow raorning.
WEDNESDAY, November 2, 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act impowering the selectmen of Hancock' to assess the
Lands in said Hancock for the purpose of buUding a Meeting House
in said Hancock, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col" Wiggin & Maj' Pickering.
An Act irapowering the Selectmen of Dearing 3 to assess the
lands in said Dearing for the purpose of building a Meeting House
in said Town, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col" Wiggin & M' Pickering
* 13 : 24 * An act for repealing an Act of this State intitled an Act
to make void all attachments which have been or hereafter
shah be laid or made on the Estates of persons who have left this
.. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 670. ^. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 156. 3. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 495.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 433
State;or any of the United States and gone over to the enemies of
the said States since the Coramencement of Hostilities by Great
Brittian or on the Estates of any Inhabitant or Subject of Great
Brittain, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col" Wiggin & Maj' Pickerin g.
Voted, that Col" Bartlett, Col" Waldron & M' Knowles, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shah join be a Coramittee to consider
of the Petition of WiUiara Fowler, and report thereon.
Sent up by Cap' Foss.
The Honb' Senate and House being again met in Committee of
the whole His Excellency the President in the chair, Voted, to recon
sider the vote of yesterday respecting, referring to the consideration
of the Legislature in their separate branches the report of the sub
Committee which obliged creditors to take real or personal estate in
satisfaction of execution, and refer to their consideration a bill to pre
vent the bodies of debtors from being taken in execution when real or
personal estate can be found or is tendered to satisfy the demand,
took under consideration several raatters respecting the public affairs
of this State and after debate thereon agreed to refer the whole to
the Legislature in their separate branches. The Committee then
rose and the Speaker resumed the chair.
The Committee appointed on the Petition of the Selectmen and
others Inhabitants of Hillsborough reported that the Selectmen of
Hillsborough have leave to bring in a bill to restore them to their
Law, Signed Geo. Atkinson, for the Comraittee, which report being
read and considered, Voted, that it be received and accepted.
Sent up by M' Smith.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
* An act to alter the time of holding the annual Town * 13 : 25
meeting in the Town of Hihsborough,' was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. Sent up by M' Wallace & Cap' Spaulding.
Whereas the General Court by their vote, passed the 14"" day of
April 1784 ordered the Treasurer of this State in his precept to the
town of VValpole for State Taxes the last year to add the sura of
sixty-three pounds five shillings being the araount of beef supplied
by Benjarain Behows Esq', and interest for the sarae of which vote
the Treasurer was not notified.
Therefore, Resolved, that the Treasurer of this State be directed
to add the said sura to the State Taxes for the Town of Walpole for
the current year and insert the same in his precept to said town ac
cordingly. Sent up by Cap' Harper.
^' xii. Ham. Town Papers, 208.

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[1785

Voted, that the hearings on the Petitions of Gen' John Stark and
Micah Reed ' which was to have been this day before the General
Court be postponed till to morrow raorning of which all persons con
cerned are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Sent up by Cap' Harper.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock tomorrow raorning.

THURSDAY, November 3, 1785.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
Voted, that Maj' Gains, Col" GUraan, M' Dow, Cap' Suraner, and
Col" Payne, with such of the Honb' .Senate as they shall join be a
Coraraittee to consider what business it yet necessary to be done at
this Session and at what tirae, and to what tirae and place this
Court shall be adjourned, also to consider what allowance shall be
made to the members of the Honb' Senate & House of Representa
tives & their officers for their travel and attendance at the present
Session and report thereon. Sent up by M' Worster.
An Act to prevent the bodies of debtors from being taken on ex
ecution when real or personal estate can be found or is tendered to
satisfy the demand, was read a third time and the yeas and nays be
ing required whether it should pass to be enacted, were taken and
are as follows, viz.,
* 13 : 26 Yeas.
Josiah Gilman, Esq'
W" Weeks, Esq''
Sam' Jenness, Esq',
Col" Moses Leavitt,
Mark Wiggin Esq'
M' Moses Slia-w,
Nath"' Batcheldor Esq'
Cap' John Eastman,
Cap' Levi Morrill,
Col" James Hill,
Col" Thomas Bartlett,
M' Moses Barnard,
M' Charles Glidden,
Maj' Nathan Batcheldor,
Peter Green, Esq'
Thoraas Page, Esq'
Joseph Welch, Esq'
James Betton, Esq'
M' Jacob Butler,
Col" John Waldron,
James Knowles, Esq'.

Yeas.
Cap' Joshua Foss,
Cap' W™ Harper,
Col" Joseph Badger,
David Gilman, Esq'
Col" Andrevi' McMillan,
Sam' Marsh Esq'
Cap' Benj" French,
M' Timothy Taylor,
M' James Martin,
Cap' Levi Spaulding,
Jn" Duncan, Esq'
M' Robert Wallace,
M' Jonathan Dow,
M' Robert Smith,
Ge" Jackman, Esq'
M"- Matthew Harvey,
Elijah Grout, Esq',
Amos Shephard, Esq'
M' Benj-" Hall,
Maj' Elisha Whitcomb,
M' Jonathan Gaskill.
¦¦xiii. Ham Town Papers, 670.

Yeas.
M' John Gilmore,
Cap' Simon Willard,
M' Samuel Works,
M' Edward Jewett,
Cap' Levi Hooper,
M' Nathan Young,
M' Stephen Powers,
M' Elijah Frink,
Cap' Lemuel Holmes,
Cap' Jacob Copland,
Sam' GriiBn, Esq'
M' Alexand' Parkman,
M' Samuel Kendall,
Noah Worster, Esq'
Cap' Abraham Burnham,
M' Ebenezer Hoyt
M' Russell Freeman,
Elisha Payne, Esq'
Col" William Simpson,
Moses Dow, Esq'
Maj' John Young.

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Nays. Nays. Nays.
Hon' John Sullivan Esq' Christopher Toppan, Esq' M' Robert Means,
George Gains, Esq' M' Abner Sanborn, Cap' Samuel Douglas
John Pickering, Esq' M' William Plummer, M' Benjamin Darling,
John Sparhawk, Esq' Richard Bartlett, Esq' John Bryant, Esq'
John Prentice, Esq' Col" Nath" Emerson, Cap' Benjamin Sumner,
Eph™ Pickering, Esq, Daniel Emerson, Esq'
64 Yeas — 1 7 Nays — So it passed to be enacted.
Sent up by M' Jenness & M' Plummer.
An Act to revoke a letter of Guardianship granted by the Honb'
Judge of Probate for the County of Hillsborough appointing Samuel
Foster Guardian of Jaraes McClure, was read a third time and passed
to be enacted. Sent up byM' Jackman & Cap' Hooper.
The Committee on the Petition of the Inhabitants of Burton,' Re
ported that Col" David Gilman be appointed to call a raeet
ing * of the Inhabitants for the purposes mentioned in said * 13 : 27
Petition, Signed, Francis Worster, for the Committee,
which report being read and considered, Yoted, that it be received
and accepted and that the Petitioners have leave to bring in a Re
solve for that purpose. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Thomas Odiorne,
Esq' Voted, that the prayer of said Petition be granted and that the
President give order that the Treasurer issue a note equal in value
with the note taken up. Sent up by Cap' Burnham.
Voted, that Cap' GUman, M' McMurphy & Gen' Dow with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Comraittee to consider of
the Petition of Col" Ebenezer Green and report thereon.
Sent up by Cap' Burnham.
Voted, that Col" Hill, Col" Simpson, & Col" Gilman, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coraraittee to consider of the
account of John Ward Gilman and report thereon. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
Voted, that Gen' SuUivan, M' Sparhawk, & M' Pickering with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to draught a
bill or bills for the encouragement of Industry and Frugality, also any
acts for regulating commerce and Navigation and for laying duties on
Articles imported into this State or exported therefrom, and report
thereon. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
The Comraittee appointed to enquire into the State of the Treas
ury reported that they have conferred with the Treasurer and have
1. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 7.

436 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
been by hira inforraed that he has received several payments since
the settleraent of his account in June last but that they are very in
considerable corapared with the suras then due, which then stood as
fohows for the year 1775, ;£52-3-io, for 1776, ;^87-6-ii, for 1777,
£6i2-2-i„ for 1778, ;£844-7-2, for 1779, i;i654-8-io, for 1780,
;£2i95-7-ii, for 1781, ;^4262-io-7, for 1782, ^37901-13-8, for
1783, ;^366io-2-4, for 1784, ;£'22735-3-2, Araounting in the whole
to ;!^ 1 0697 5-6- 10.
* 13 : 28 * That there was then due for fines against several towns
and places for deficiency of Soldiers ordered to be raised
to corapleat this States quota of raen in the years 1781 and 1782
.£13009-4-4 for which extents have been issued and returned not sat
isfied. That by the returns raade it appears that there was mustered in the
year 1781 Two hundred and eighty-four men and in the year 1782
there was mustered one hundred & six men for each of which men
there was promised a Bounty to the towns who procured them of
twenty pounds payable in four years with interest from the time such
soldiers passed muster, Amounting in the whole to ;£'78oo-o-o Exclu
sive of interest. For collecting the suras due for the above bounties
and payment for deficiencies of Soldiers, Your Comraittee report the
fohowing Resolve, Signed, Joseph Gilman, for the Comraittee, which
report being read and considered. Voted, that it be received and
accepted. Resolved, that the Coramittee of clairas immediately make up a
Compleat account of aU soldiers who were raised to fill up the Conti
nental Battalions in the years 1781 and 1782 and that on application
of any Selectmen or Representative of any town or place which raised
Soldiers for the service above said they shall give a certificate of the
same with the time or times when such soldier or soldiers passed
muster, and that His Excellency the President be and hereby is im
powered to draw orders on the Treasury for the same which orders
shall be received by the Treasurer in payraent for any State Taxes &
for any sums due for deficiency of Soldiers for the said years 1781
and 1782. And it is further, Resolved, that the Treasurer forthwith
issue Extents against all towns and places who were deficient in rais
ing their quota of Soldiers in the said years 1781 and 1782.
Sent up by Col" Waldron.
Voted, that Col" Bartlett, Col" Gilraan, Cap' Marsh, M' Frink, and
Col" Payne with such of the Honb' Senate as may be joined be a
Committee to consider of the Petition of Daniel Fowle
* 13 : 29 Esq' the price of pubhc advertisements in * future and in
what papers the same shah be printed & report thereon.
Sent up by Col" Waldron.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 437
The Committee on the Petition and Account of Col" David Web
ster Reported, that Twenty pounds be aUowed the said Col" Webster
in full of his account & that the Treasurer be directed to add to the
taxes of the next year on those towns, (mentioned in Col Websters
Petition who were incorporated at the time the extents issued) their
proportion of the above said sum of twenty pounds. Signed M
Thornton, for the Committee, which report being read and consid
ered, Voted, that it be received and accepted & that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Col" Waldron.
Voted, that M' Benjamin Biggelow, have and receive out of the
Treasury the sum of thirty pounds for which he is to be accountable
as agent Victualler and that the President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Maj' Gains.
Voted, that Cap' Gilman, Col" GUman & Col" Bartlett, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of John Morrison and report thereon. Sent up by M' Foss.
Upon hearing and considering the Petition of Noah Cook Voted,
that the prayer thereof be so far granted as that he be restored to his
Law, and have leave to make an addition to his declaration, that the
true merits of the original action may be tried any want of a formal
demand made previous thereto, or other defect in for of proceeding
notwithstanding and that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly
and that the Execution against said Cook be stayed in the mean time.
Sent up by M' Foss.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Micah Reed ' pray
ing for the priviledge of a Ferry, Voted, that the prayer thereof be
granted and that the Petitioner have leave to bring in a bUl accord
ingly at this or the next Session. Sent up by M' Foss.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to morrow morning.
FRIDAY, November 4, 1785.
The House raet according to adjournment.
* Voted, that M' Pickering, M' Prentice, & Col" Green * 1 3 : 30
with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Committee to consider of a bill presented for annuUing, changing, or
altering highways and such alterations & amendments as they judge
necessary. Sent up by Cap' Foss.
An Act to vest the exclusive priviledge of keeping a Ferry over a
certain part of Connecticut river in Jonathan Mason of Lyme, his
heirs and assigns, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col" Bartlett & M' Prentice.
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An act for establishing a forraer town meeting held in Cardigan,
was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col" Bartlett & M' Prentice.
The Committee on the Petition of Nehemiah Kelley reported that
the prayer of said Petition be granted and that the said Kelley be
discharged from the demand mentioned in said Petition on his paying
prison fees. Signed, Nath" Peabody, Per order of the Coraraittee,
which report being read and considered. Voted, that it be received
and accepted. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
The Comraittee appointed to consider of the Petition of Nathanael
Bugbee, Reported, that the Committee for settling depreciation be
directed to make up depreciation to the said Nathanael Bugbee for
the time he was in service, Signed Ebenezer Webster, for the Com
mittee which report being read and considered, Voted that it be
received and accepted and that the Committee on depreciation gov
ern themselves accordingly. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
The Coraraittee on the Petition of Williara Sirapson Esq" re
ported that the prayer of said Petition be granted and that the Treas
urer take order to credit the town of Orford for the sums mentioned
therein at the same rate as if the said sums had been timely paid into
the Treasury, Signed, Geo. Atkinson for the Committee, which report
being read and considered, Voted, that it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
The following vote came down from the Honb' Senate for concur
rence
*^ I '^ ' '^ I ^ StS-tG of )
New Hamp"' \ ^" ^^"^^^ November 4'" 1785.
Voted, that the Senate and House of Representatives meet in
Committee as soon as may be to consider of sundry matters if it be
agreeable to the House.
Sent down for concurrence, E. Thompson, Secy.
The foregoing vote read & concurred.
The Honb' Senate and House being met in Committee of the
whole to consider of sundry raatters, His ExceUency the President
appointed Chairman, Took under consideration the propriety of revis
ing the proscribing laws of this State and, Voted, to recommend to
the Legislature in their seperate branches to appoint a Comraittee for
that purpose, also Voted, that a Coraraittee be appointed in the Sep
arate branches to report a plan for estabhshing a Post rider. The
Committee then rose and the Speaker resumed the chair.
Voted, that M' Prentice, Col" GUman, M' Macgregore, Maj' Whit
comb & Gen' Dow with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join,
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be a Committee to consider of the Account of Joseph Pearson Esq'
and report thereon. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
Voted, that the Honb' Sarauel Livermore, Esq' be and he hereby
is appointed a Delegate to represent this State in the Congress of the
United States in the roora and stead of the Honb' Woodbury Lang
don Esq' who declined accepting said trust and that he represent this
State until the first Monday in November 1 786 unless sooner relieved
or recaUed by the General Court of this State with aU the powers and
privUedges which other Delegates from this State have heretofore
had and enjoyed, agreeably to the confederation of the United States.
Sent up by M' Hoyt.
Voted, that the Honb' Tiraothy Walker Esq' be and he hereby is
appointed a Delegate to represent this State in the Congress of the
United States in the roora and stead of the Honb' Geo. Atkinson
Esq' who declined accepting said trust, and that he represent this
State until the first Monday in November 1786 unless
sooner relieved or recalled by the General * Court of this * 13 : 32
State with all the powers and priviledges which other dele
gates from this State have heretofore had & enjoyed agreeably to the
confederation of the United States. Sent up by M' Hoyt.
Voted, that the account of Benjamin Huntoon & Benj*" Pettingill
amounting to one pound seven shUlings for taking and returning to
the State an Inventory of Kierserge Gore be allowed and paid out of
the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by M' Hoyt.
Voted, that Col" Green, Col" Toppan, & M' Betton, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of Richard Jenness Esq' and report thereon.
Sent up by M' Hoyt.
The Comraittee to consider of the Petition of Cap' Daniel Moore
and others reported that the said Daniel Moore receive twenty-seven
pounds in full satisfaction for his services & losses. Signed M Thorn
ton, for the Committee, which report being read and considered,
Yoted, that it be received and accepted and that the President give
order on the Treasurer for said sum. Sent. up by M' Hoyt.
Whereas no provision is made for appointing Quarter Masters in
the Light Horse to be established in this State, Therefore, Resolved,
that in each Corapany of Horse raised or to be raised in this State
whether Independant Companies or Companies annexed to a Regi
ment there shall be one Quarter Master, to be appointed in the same
manner as Captains and Subalterns in the respective Corps and to be
Commissioned by the President accordingly. Sent up by M' Hoyt.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of George Clark, Voted
that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the

440 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1785
second Tuesday of their next Session and that in the mean time the
Petitioner cause that the Selectmen of the East Parish of London
derry be served with a Copy of the Petition and order of Court there
on that they or either of them may then appear and shew cause if
any they have why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by M' Hoyt.
* 13 : 33 * Upon reading and considering the Petition of Benjamin
Crombie Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before
the General Court on the Second Tuesday of their next Session and
that in the mean time the Petitioner cause that the Substance of the
Petition and order of Court thereon be published three weeks succes
sively in one of the New Harapshire papers that any person or per
sons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the
prayer thereof raay not be granted. Sent up by M' Hoyt.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, that Col" Toppan be added to the Comraittee on necessary
business, adjournraent &c. in the roora of Maj' Gains who is absent.
Sent up by M' Hoyt.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Joanna Chapman
praying that Samuel Pillsberry may be appointed a Collector to col
lect certain taxes which were committed to her late husband John
Chapman deceased, to collect, Voted, that the prayer thereof be
granted & that the Petitioner have leave to bring in a bUl accord
ingly. Sent up by M' Jewett.
Voted, that the board of war and Collector of Rura be directed to
prepare their accounts with the State and lay thera before the Gen
eral Court on the second day of their next Session, and that the Sec
retary be requested to send a Copy of this vote to the board of war,
and another to the collector of Rura as soon as may be.
Sent up by M' Jewett.
Voted, that M' McMurphy, Col" Waldron, M' Duncan, M' Holmes
& Col" Simpson with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
a Comraittee to consider of the Petition of Solomon Willard ' and
report thereon. Sent up by M' Jewett.
The Committee on the Petition of WUliara Glidden = late a soldier
in Col". Hazzens regiment. Reported, that his ExceUency the Presi
dent be desired to write to John Pierce Esq' Paymaster General
requesting him to send an account of what sums are to be charged to
the soldiers in Col Hazzens & Col" Warners regiment who were
returned from the war office as belonging to the New
* 13 : 34 Harapshire *line and that on receiving such information
the Committee proceed to make up the depreciation in the
I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 690. 2. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 94.

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usual raanner. Signed Joseph GUraan, for the Committee, which
report being read and considered. Voted, that it be received and
accepted. Sent up by M' Hall.
Yoted, that Gen' Dow, Maj' Whitcomb, & M' Duncan, with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coraraittee to consider of
the Petition of Col" Ebenezer Brewster ' & aU siraUar matters and
report thereon. Sent up by M' Hall.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Campton, Thornton
& New Holderness '' praying to be disannexed from Franconia & Lin
coln for chusing a Representative, Voted that the prayer thereof be
granted. Sent up by M' Hall.
The Committee on the Petition of Cap' Daniel Moore and all simi
lar matters Reported, that the prayer of the Petition of Ephraim
Adams in behalf of John Thomas be granted and that he be allowed
ten pounds in full for the said horse by him lost as set forth in said
Petition, Signed M Thornton for the Comraittee which report being
read and considered, Voted, that it be received and accepted and that
the President give order accordingly. Sent up by M' Hall.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to raorrow raorning.
SATURDAY, November 5"' 1785.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
An act for assessing unimproved lands for making and repairing
Highways and bridges, was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. Sent up by M' Gilman & M' Duncan.
An act to restore Noah Cook of New Ipswich in said State to his
law was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by M' Gilman & M' Duncan.
Voted, that the account of Robert Gerrish amounting to one hun
dred and seven pounds & ten shillings (for printing) be allowed and
paid out of the Treasury by order of the President.
Sent up by M' Plummer.
* Voted, that when the business of this Session is fin- * 13 : 35
ished that his Excellency the President be desired to ad
journ the General Court to the second Wednesday in January next
then to raeet at Concord. Sent up by Cap' Burnara.
Voted, that the members of the Honb' Senate & House of Repre
sentatives and their officers have & receive the same allowance for
travel and attendance at this Session as was allowed at the last Ses
sion & that the Secretary and Clerk make up the rolls accordingly.
Sent up by Cap' Burnara.
1. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 173. 2. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 251.

442 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
Voted, that the hearing on the Petition of Maj' John Young'
which was to have been some day this week before the General Court
be postponed to sorae day in next week of which all concerned are to
take notice and govern theraselves accordingly. Sent up by M' Foss.
Adjourned to Monday next at 9 o'clock A. M.
MONDAY, Nov'" 7"' 1785.
Several Members met according to adjournment, but there not be
ing a quorum for transacting business adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
The Committee to consider of the account of Melcher & Osborne
Reported that there be allowed and paid eighty one pounds, four
shihings in fuU, Signed, Joseph Gilman forthe Comraittee, which re
port being read and considered. Voted, that it be received and ac
cepted and that the President give order accordingly. Sent up by M' Foss.
Voted, that Cap' Gilman, Col" Wiggin, & Col" Welch with such of
the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Coramittee to consider of
the Petition of Cap' Benjamin Sumner & report thereon.
Sent up by M' Foss.
Voted, that M' Dow, Maj' Batcheldor, & M' Foss, with such of the
Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of the
account of the Honb Nath' Peabody Sc Joseph Gilman Esq' and re
port thereon. Sent up by M' Foss.
* 13 : 36 * Voted, that Cap' Gilraan, Col" Payne, Col" Waldron,
M' Jackraan, & M' Hall with such of the Honb' Senate as
they shall join be a Committee to consider of and devise some
raethod for supplying the Delegates frora this State to the Congress
of the United States with raonies for their necessary expenditures
and report thereon. Sent up by M' Pluraraer.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of the town of Bath
voted that the Petition lay for consideration till the next Session of
the General Court and that no extent issue against the town of Bath
until a decision on said Petition. Sent up by M' Pluraraer.
Voted, That Col" Eraerson, M' Bryant, & Maj' Whitcorab, with
such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Comraittee to con
sider of the account of the Honb' Joseph GUman Esq' and report
thereon. Sent up by Maj' Young.
The Coraraittee on the account of the Honb' Nath' Peabody &
Joseph GUraan Esq' reported that the account be allowed, Signed M.
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5785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 443
Thornton for the Committee, which report being read and considered,
Voted, that it be received and accepted and that the President give
order on the Treasurer for seven pounds fourteen shillings, the
amount of the account. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
The Committee to consider what allowance shall be made to the
officers of the civil list of this State, Reported, in part that the mera
bers of the Honb' CouncU be allowed nine shUlings p' day and the
same traveUing fees as the merabers of the General Court and their
Secretaries the same as was allowed thera [the] last year. Signed John
McClarey for the Committee, which report being read and considered
Voted, that it be received and accepted and that the Secretary raake
up the pay roll accordingly. Sent up by Cap' Burnara.
The Coramittee on the account of John Ward Gilman reported
that the account of the said John W. Gilraan araounting to twelve
pounds for engraving &c be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury, signed John McClarey forthe Coraraittee * which * 13 : 37
report being read and considered, Voted, that it be re
ceived and accepted & that the President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
The Comraittee on the Petiton of Col" William Simpson ' Re
ported that the prayer of the Petition be so far granted that the
Treasurer take order to credit the town of Orford for the sums men
tioned therein at the same rates as though the said sums had been
paid to the Treasurer by those CoUectors respectively at the dates of
those two receipts, provided said receipts agree with the schedule ex
hibited by Maj' ChUd for the settleraent of his public accounts.
Signed, Geo. Atkinson, for the Comraittee, which report being read
and considered. Voted, that it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Cap' Burnara.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock tomorrow raorning.
FRIDAY, [TUESDAY] November 8'" 1785.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Yoted, that the account exhibited by the Selectmen of Keen of
Taxes levied on the land of Doct' Josiah Pomeroy & Elijah Williams
(absentees from this State) in the year 1781 araounting to eleven
pounds seventeen shillings and one farthing of the new eraission &
sixteen shillings & five pence silver money be allowed and that the
Treasurer be directed to credit the town of Keene the suras above
mentioned on their taxes for said year and that the President give
order accordingly. Sent up by M' Hall.
^- xii. Ham. Town Papers, 506.

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Voted, that Col" Bartlett, Cap' Gilman, & Col" Waldron with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shaU join be a Comraittee to consider of
the Petition of James Taylor and John Young ' and report thereon.
Sent up by M' HaU.
Voted, that the hearings on the Petitions of David Corser, Maj'
Joseph KirabaU, "^ Sc Ebenezer Torrey which were to have been this
Session of the General Court be postponed to the second Wednesday
of their next Session and that all persons concerned are to take
notice and govern themselves accordingly. Sent up by Col" Bartlett.
* 13 : 38 * The Committee of both houses appointed to consider
of the Petition of Richard Jenness Esq', one of the Ad
ministrators of the Estate of Richard Jenness Esq' deceased, reported
that the prayer of the Petition be so far granted, that the adminis
trators of said deceased's estate be ahowed to pay and discharge the
bond mentioned in said Petition in the foUowing raanner (viz) first by
discounting out of the sura raentioned in the condition of said Bond
at the date thereof the araount of the ballance due from the estate of
John Wentworth Esq' late Governor of the late province of New
Hampshire to the estate of the forenamed Richard Jenness deceased
as shall be certified by the Judge of Probate, and that the remainder
of the sum mentioned in the condition of said Bond after deducting
the above mentioned ballance be reckoned with the interest thereof
from the time of payraent raentioned in said bond raay be paid &
discharged by paying the araount of said sums in the hke sum of the
public securities of this State and that the Treasurer of said State
take order for settling said Bond accordingly. Signed, Nath' Pea
body p' order of the Committee which report being read and consid
ered. Voted, that it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Knowles.
The Comraittee of both Houses appointed to consider of the Peti
tion of Ebenezer Brewster Esq' ^ &c reported, that the prayer of the
Petition be so far granted as that the account of the said Brewster
herewith exhibited for diverse supplies furnished the Militia on an
Alarm amounting to the sum of ninety-three pounds two shiUings &
seven pence lawful money be allowed and paid by discount of Taxes
due to the Treasury of this State and that interest be allowed on the
sums in said account charged for the articles of beef and fiour & that
his Excellency the President give order accordingly. Signed Nath'
Peabody by order of the Coramittee, which report being read and
considered, Voted, that it be received and accepted. Sent up by M' Knowles.
* 13 : 39 *Adjourned to half after 2 o'clock P. M.
I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 183. 2. Idem, 205. 3. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 173.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 44S
Met accordingly.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of the Inhabitants of
Harapstead ' praying to be classed with Plastow and Atkinson for a
Representative, Voted, that the Petitioners be heard thereon before
the General Court on the second Wednesday of their next Session
and that in the mean time the Petitioners cause that the Selectmen
of Plastow & Atkinson be served with a Copy of the Petition and
order of Court thereon that they may then appear and shew cause
(if any they have) why the prayer thereof raay not be granted.
Sent up by Col" Bartlett.
Voted, that Col" Bartlett, Col" Waldron, M' Means, Col" Shepherd
and Col" Simpson with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join
be a Committee to report a plan for establishing Post riders, also to
consider in what raanner the Excise on Spirituous Liquors shall be
collected in future and report thereon. Sent up by Col" Bartlett.
An Act for opening and raaking passable a highway from Dart
mouth College to Boscawen, was read a third tirae and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Col" Bartlett & Col" Waldron.
Voted, that Col" Bartlett, Col" Waldron, M' Duncan, Col" Shep
herd and Col" Simpson with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall
join be a Comraittee to take under consideration a Petition from sun
dry towns in the county of Grafton & all similar raatters, and that
they norainate proper persons to be appointed a Committee to receive
and exaraine in the recess of the General Court all accounts that may
be laid before them, also consider how far the power of the Coramit
tee shall extend towards a settlera.ent of such accounts as may be
presented and report thereon. Sent up by Col" Toppan.
The Committee on the Petition of Cap' Benjamin Suraner, Re
ported that the town of Clareraont have credit for Sarauel Green
Allen who was a soldier in the first New Hampshire Regiment and
is not claimed by any other town. Signed Ebenezer Webster, for the
Comraittee, which report being read and considered, Voted, that it be
received and accepted. Sent up by Cap' Sumner.
*The act to prevent the bodies of Debtors from being * 13 : 40
taken in Execution when real or personal estate can be
found or is tendered to satisfy the deraand, carae down frora the
Honb' Senate for araendraent and the yeas & nays being deraanded
whether the following Proviso should be added to the Act " Provided
nevertheless that nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to
extend so as to effect any securities bottoraed on sUver or gold which
maybe given from and after the first day of March next" — The
yeas and nays were as follows. I. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 92.

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[1785

Col" White,
Maj' Wiggin,
M' Barnard,
Col" Welch,
Cap' Harper,
Col" Badger,
M' Martin,
Cap' Spaulding,
M' Wallace,
M' Grout, Nays.
M' Prentice,
M' McMurphy,
M' E. Pickering,
M' Shaw,
M' Plummer,

Yeas.
Maj' Weeks,
Maj' Batcheldor,
Col" Waldron,
M' Knowles,
M' Foss,
Col" McMillan,
M' Adams,
M' Duncan,
M' J. Dow,
M' Smith, Nays.
Col" Bartlett,
M' Ghdden,
Col" Green,
M' Bartlett,
Col" Emerson,

Yeas.
Col" Shephard,
Maj' Whitcomb,
M' Jewett,
M' N. Young,
M' Frink,
Cap' Holmes,
M' Hall,
M' Gilmore,
M' Works,
Cap' Hooper, Nays.
M' Taylor,
M' Macgregore,
M' Means,
M' Bryant,
M' Willard,

« Yeas.
M' Powers,
M' Parkman,
M' Worster,
Cap' Burnam,
M' Hoyt,
Col" Payne,
Gen' Dow,
M' Darling.
38 yeas.

Nays.
Cap' Sumner,
M' Kendall,
.M' Freeman,
Col" Simpson,
Maj' Young,
M' Batcheldor.

38 Yeas, 21 Nays, so the question was lost there not being two
thirds of the raerabers in favor of it.
The Comraittee on the Petitions of James Taylor, & John Young,'
Reported that the prayer of the Petitions be granted and that on
their getting a certificate from the Comraittee on Depreciation for
what is due the President give order for their receiving notes for the
Principal and certificates for the interest due thereon. Signed, John
Bellows for the Coramittee, which report being read and considered
Yoted, that it be received and accepted. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
* 13 : 41 * Upon reading and considering the Petition of Moses
Dow Esq'^ and others praying for Liberty to raise two
hundred pounds by a lottery for finishing a bridge over Bakers river
in Plyraouth, Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted and that the
Petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, at the next Ses
sion. 5ent up by Cap' Burnam.
The Coramittee on the Petition of WiUiam Fowler, reported that
the prayer of the Petition be so far granted as to give a day of hear
ing on said Petition at the next Session of the General Court and in
the raean time the adverse party be notified. Signed, M Thornton,
for the Comraittee, which report being read and considered. Voted,
that it be received and accepted & that the Petitioner be heard
thereon before the General Court on the Second Tuesday of their
next Session and that in the raean tirae he cause that George Jaffry
Esq' be served with a Copy of the Petition and order of Court there
on that he may then appear and shew cause if any he hath why the

J. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 183.

2. Idem, 228.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 447
prayer thereof may not be granted and that execution be stayed tUl
the decision of the General Court. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
The Comraittee of both Houses appointed to consider of and advise
some method of [for] supplying the delegates of this State to the Con
gress of the United States with money for their necessary expendi
tures, Reported in part as their opinion that his ExceUency the Presi
dent be impowered with advice of Council from time to time as occa
sion may require to draw orders on the Treasurer in favour of said
Delegates respectively for any sum or sums that may be judged expedi
ent, taking care not to advance more than one hundred pounds to any
one delegate on his first entering on the business of his appointraent,
and that in all after draughts not to exceed the ballance, supposed to
be due as wages to any respective delegcte. Signed, John McClarey,
for the Committee, which report being read and considered. Voted,
that it be received and accepted. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, November 9"^ 1785.
The House met according to adjournment.
*An act to impower Samuel Pilsberry to collect certain * 13 : 4?
Taxes in the Town of Londonderry was read a third time
and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Maj' Weeks & M' Plummer.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Ebenezer Farns
worth,' and others inhabitants of Charlestown (praying to be set off as
a town parish or precinct) Voted, that the Petitioners be heard there
on before the General Court on the Second Thursday of their next
Session and that in the mean time the Petitioners cause that the Se
lectmen of Charlestown be served with a Copy of the Petition and
order of Court thereon that they may then appear and shew cause if
any they have why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by M' Wallace.
Agreeably to a report of the Committee of the whole, Voted, that
his Excellency the President be desired to write the several execu
tives in the Union & request to know whether their assemblies, have
or are likely to join with this State and Massachusetts in their Com
mercial Opposition to Great Britain, whether they have impowered
Congress to regulate commerce or have passed or probably will pass
Acts sirailar to those enacted by this and the Massachusetts State in
June last respecting Navigation and Coramerce and lay such informa
tion before the General Court at their next Session. Sent up by M' Dow.
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448 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
Voted, that M' McMurphy, M' Prentice, & Col" Green, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shaU join be a Committee to consider
of the Petition of Sylvester Tiffany also the Petition of Joshua
Young and aU sirailar matters and report thereon. Sent up by Col" Welch.
An Act for the recovery of smaU debts in an expeditious way and
manner, was read a thii'd time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Maj' Weeks and M' Plummer.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Isaac Butterfield '
praying for the privilege of a ferry over a certain part of Con
necticut river. Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon
* 13 : 43 * before the General Court on the second Thursday of their
next Session and that in the mean time the Petitioner
cause that the Selectmen of Westmoreland be served with a Copy of
the Petition and order of Court thereon that they may then appear
and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof raay not
be granted. Sent up by Col" Welch.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Jacob Doyne, Voted,
that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the
Second Wednesday of their next Session and that in the mean time
the Petitioner cause that the substance of the Petition and order of
Court thereon be published three weeks successively in one of the
New Hampshire papers that any person or persons may then appear
and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not
be granted. Sent up by M' Dow.
Voted, that the Treasurer be directed to proceed in the most expe
ditious raanner for collecting out standing Taxes by calling on delin
quent Constables and collectors or issuing extents as occasion raay
require. Sent up by M' Dow.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, that Thoraas Bartlett, Christopher Toppan, & John Pren
tice Esquires for the County of Rockinghara, That John Waldron,
John Wentworth & Otis Baker Esquires for the County of Strafford,
that Robert Means, Moses Nichols & Robert Macgregore, Esquires
for the County of Hihsborough, that Siraeon Olcott, John BeUows, &
Benjamin Suraner Esquires for the County of Cheshire, That Moses
Dow, William Sirapson, and Elisha Payne Esquires for the County of
Grafton, be Coraraittees in their respective counties to make sale of
the Excise in the several counties of this State for the Current year
agreeably to the laws of this State, that they sell the excise at Pubhc
Vendue in the usual manner for cash only to be paid one half by the
!• xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 671.

1785] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 449
first day of AprU next and the remaining half by the first day of
October next, The Committees to make sale of the Excise before the
first day of February next. Sent up by M' E. Pickering.
* Voted thcit the account of John Calfe, Esq' amounting * 13 : 44
to six pounds six shillings & four pence for recording the
journals, Copying for the press &c be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by M' Freeman.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Maj' Isaac Frye,
Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted and that the President give
order on the Treasurer for the sum of twelve pounds fifteen shiUings
& four pence the amount of the account of William Dana mentioned
in said Petition who served as Comraissary to the recruits mustered
at Amherst in the year 1782. Sent up by M' E. Pickering.
The Committee of both Houses appointed to consider and report
upon the account of Joseph Pearson Esq' reported that the ballance
of said account be allowed and paid out of the Treasury & that his
Excellency the President give order accordingly. Signed, Nath' Pea
body for the Committee, which report being read and considered,
Voted, that it be received and accepted, — the ballance of said ac
count araounting to seventy-seven pounds, seven shillings.
Sent up by M' E. Pickering.
Voted, that a Post be established frora Portsmouth through Exeter
Nottingham, Concord & Plymouth to Haverhill and frora thence down
Connecticut river to Charlestown frora thence through Keene, Am
herst and Exeter to Portsraouth and frora Portsraouth through Ex
eter, Araherst, Keene and Charlestown to Haverhill and to return by
Plymouth, Concord, Nottingham & Exeter to Portsmouth and so on
alternately. That another Post be established from Portsmouth through Dover
to Wakefield from thence to Taraworth around Winnepisseokee Lake
through Gilraanton, Barnstead, Barrington, & Dover to Portsmouth,
that one hundred pounds be granted for the above purpose, that his
Excellency the President be impowered by and with advice
of Council * to appoint Post masters and post riders and to * 13 : 45
pay them for their services, also from time to time to fix
the Postage of letters. Sent up by Col" Shepherd.
The Coraraittee of both Houses appointed to consider of the Peti
tion of Col" Ebenezer Green late a Captain in the Array of the
United States reported that the prayer of said Petition be so far
granted that the Coraraittee on Depreciation &c be irapowered and
directed to settle and ballance the account of said Green for wages
and Depreciation allowed hira by the Resolve of Congress while in
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450 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1785
changed in the same manner as officers of this State line are settled
with and that he be paid accordingly. Signed, Nath" Peabody by
order of the Comraittee, which report being read and considered,
Voted, that it be received and accepted. Sent up by Maj' Young.
Voted, that the account of Joseph Gilman Esq' araounting to forty-
nine pounds & five shiUings be allowed agreeably to report of a
Coramittee of both Houses and that his Excellency the President
give order to the Treasurer for said sura. Sent up by Col" Shepherd.
The Comraittee on the Petition of Timothy Balch ' reported that
he be allowed twenty-five pounds in full for his services for carrying
public papers &c &c as set forth in his Petition. Signed, Joseph Gil
man for the Coramittee, which report being read and considered.
Voted, that it be received and accepted and that the President give
order accordingly. Sent up by Col" Shephard.
Whereas the General Court at their last Session voted that no de
mands that were then due & which were a continental charge should
be allowed unless exhibited by the last day of this Session which time
is found to be insufficient.
Therefore, Voted, that the time for receiving said claims be pro
longed to the last day of the next Session of the General Court and
that notice be given in the raean time in one of the New Harapshire
papers. Sent up by Col" Shephard.
* 13 146 * M' WUliara Plummer entered his protest against the
Act passed this day entitled An Act for the recovery of
smah debts in an expeditious way and manner, which protest is on
file. Adjourned to half past 8 o'clock to-morrow raorning.
THURSDAY, November io"- 1785.
The House met according to adjournraent.
Yoted, that Maj' Isaac Frye be allowed and paid two pounds, eight
een shillings for two druras which he purchased for the use of the
troops of the New Harapshire line and that his ExceUency the Pres
ident give an order on the Treasurer for said sum.
' Sent up by Maj' Gains.
Yoted, that his ExceUency the President with advice of the Coun
cU be desired to adjourn the General Court to Wednesday the first
day of February next then to meet at Portsraouth and that the Gen
eral Court which is to meet in June next shall be holden at Concord.
Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
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Voted, that the account of James Norris amounting to eleven
pounds & six pence be allowed and paid out of the Treasury &
that his Excellency the President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.
Voted, that the account of Caleb Buswell amounting to five pounds
five shillings be aUowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of
the President. Sent up by Cap* Spaulding.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Oliver Wright,
Voted, that the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the Second Wednesday of their next Session and that in
the mean tirae he cause that the Trustee to the estate of Breed
Batcheldor (an absentee) be served with a Copy of the petition and
order of Court thereon that he may then appear and shew cause (if
any he hath) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by M' Duncan.
* Upon reading [hearing] and considering the Petition of * 1 3 : 47
Maj' John Young,' Voted that the further consideration
thereof be postponed to the second Wednesday in the next Session
of the General Court of which all persons concerned are to take
notice and govern themselves accordingly but that there be no further
stay of execution. Sent up by Maj' Young.
An act in addition to and [in] amendment of an act entitled An Act
for repealing all the laws heretofore made by the province Colony or
State of New Hampshire relating to killing wolves and for fixing the
preraiuras hereafter to be given for killing those animals passed the
17"' day of January A. D. 1782 was read a third time and passed to
be enacted. Sent up by M' Macgregore & Col" Wiggin.
Voted, that the Committee for selling the Excise in the County of
Rockingham be directed to make sale of some medicines belonging
this that are at Exeter under the care of the Board of War.
Sent up by Col" Bartlett.
The foUowing resolve came down from the Honb' Senate for con
currence
New nlrapshire \ '^ Senate, Nov' g- 1785.
Resolved, that Joseph Gilraan and Josiah Gilman, Esquires be and
hereby are appointed Comraissioners jointly or severally to settle all
accompts between this State and Individuals, and that they or
either of them in the absence of the others are hereby authorized
to caU on the holders of property and money belonging to this
State for immediate settleraent and in case of neglect to prosecute
delinquents to final judgraent & execution and that they receive
I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 183*

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orders on the Treasurer & certificates for State Taxes for any
sum that shall be found due, and that they pay any sum or sums
they raay receive into the Treasury taking the Treasurers receipt
therefor, and that when there shaU appear to be a ballance due on
the settleraent of any account to any person founded on any Act,
Vote or Resolve of the General Court or order of the late Com
mittee of Safety that on the said Commissioners or either of them
certifying on the account of such sum due, his Excellency the
President, with advice of Council be impowered to draw an order
on the Treasurer for the same.
Read & Concurred. Sent up by Col" Bartlett.
* 1 3 : 48 * Whereas it has been represented to the General Court
that the time already allowed to the Creditors on the
estates of the several absentees from this State which have been
confiscated has proved insufficient to answer the purposes designed
and a further time appearing reasonable and necessary.
Therefore be it Resolved that the several Judges of Probate
within their respective Counties in this State be and they hereby
are impowered to grant a further time (where it shall appear reas
onable) not exceeding six months frora the passing this Resolve,
and the several Commissioners already appointed and such as shall
hereafter be appointed by the said Judges of Probate are hereby
authorized and impowered to receive and exaraine said claims within
the time allowed in this Resolve. Sent up by Cap' Burnam.
Voted, that the Secretary be directed to furnish the Printers of
New Hamshire News papers with a Copy of all public Acts that
have been passed this Session as soon as conveniently may be, that
the Printers may have the opportunity of printing the sarae.
Sent up by M' Foss.
The Secretary carae down and gave inforraation that he was
directed by his Excehency the President to inforra the Honb' House
that agreeably to the desire of both Houses he has adjourned the
General Court to Wednesday the first day of February then to
raeet at Portsraouth.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM

FEBRUARY i TO MARCH 4, 1786.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

*2:93 * STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
At a Session of the General Court holden at Portsraouth on
Wednesday, February first one thousand seven hundred & Eighty
six being the day to which the General Court stood adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, February i, 1786.
Present in Senate.
His Excellency John Langdon Esq' President.
The Hon. John McClary
Joseph Gilraan
Nathaniel Peabody
George Atkinson
Joshua Wentworth
Otis Baker
Matthew Thornton
Ebenezer Webster Esq'=
His Excellency the President laid before the Honorable senate
sundry coraraunications received since the last session.
Adjourned till to morrow, nine O'Clock, A. M.
In Senate, THURSDAY February 2, 1786.
Present as Yesterday,
*with the addition of the Honorable Francis Worcester, * 2 : 94
Esq'

Senators.

456 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786

In Senate, February 2"'' 1786.
Resolved, That the Treasurer attend the General Court in their
present Session, with such Books and Papers as are necessary, send
down for concurrence by M' Webster : Brought up concurred.
Adjourned 'tUl to morrow, Nine O'Clock A. M.
FRIDAY, February 3'' 1786.
Present as Yesterday
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the senate to
take under consideration a message frora his Excellency, and report
the business necessary first, to be entered upon, Sz: done this session,
was brought up read and concurred, M' Peabody, M' Baker, & M'
Gilman were joined.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow nine O'Clock, A. M.
SATURDAY, February 4"' 1786.
Present as Yesterday
with the addition of M' Bellows.
A Vote to hear the Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Weare, on
the third Wednesday of the next Session, was brought up, read and
Concurred. A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of the Petition of Martha Wait, & report thereon was brought
up, read & concurred : M' McClary & M' Joshua Wentworth were
joined. A Vote to hear the Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Northuraber-
land, on the third Wednesday of the next Session, was brought up,
read & Concurred.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Mary Conant, and all Sirailar raatters and
report thereon was brought up, read & concurred : M' Thornton and
M' Chase were joined.
A Vote for a Comraittee to Join a Coramittee of the Sen-
* 2 : 95 ate to consider the Petition of WUliam *Adaras, and aU
sirailar matters and report thereon, was brought up read &
concurred : M' Baker and M' Webster were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to Con
sider of the Petition of Mary Lear & report thereon, was brought
up, read & Concurred : M' Joshua Wentworth was joined.

1786] journal of the senate. 457
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Coraraittee of the senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Benjamin Sumner, and all simUar matters,
was brought up, read and concurred : M' Peabody, M' McClary, & M'
Gilman were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Jonathan Warner, Esq' & report thereon,
was brought up, read & concurred : M' Thornton & M' Joshua Went
worth were joined.
Adjourned tUl Monday next, three O'Clock P. M.
MONDAY, February 6"' 1786.
Present as on Saturday, except M' Baker.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Committee of the senate to
Consider of the Petition of Jonathan Chase Esq' and report thereon
was brought up, read concurred : M' Thornton & M' Webster were
joined. A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Benjamin Dearborn, & report thereon,
was brought up read & Concurred : M' Atkinson, M' Joshua Went
worth, and M' Gilman were joined.
A Vote that this House resolve themselves into a Coramittee of
the whole, in conjunction with the Honorable senate, if they think
fit, to meet to raorrow raorning to take under consideration
the Estate of our Public affairs, & report thereon *was * 2 : 96
brought up read & concurred.
A resolve that when any matter shall be referred to a Coramittee
of the General Court, the Committee raay report at the Session in
which the sarae was Referred, or at any other Session of the sarae
Court, was brought up, read & concurred.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Sarauel Martin, & Others, in behalf of
Concord, Alias Gunthwaite & sirailar matters, & report thereon, was
brought up, read & concurred : M' Chase & M' Worcester were
joined. Adjourned 'tih to morrow. Nine O'Clock, A. M.
TUESDAY, February 7"' 1786.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Major Joseph Kiraball, & report thereon,
30

458 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
was brought up read and concurred : M' Bellows and M' Joshua
Wentworth were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of the Petition of Thomas Christie, & report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred : M' Atkinson & M' Chase were
joined. A Vote to pay the account of John Hubbard Esq' araounting to
forty shillings, was brought up, read & concurred.
Adjourned 'tih to-raorrow Nine O'Clock, A. M.
WEDNESDAY February 8"' 1786.
Present all the senate.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Account of Lieut. David Bryent, and report there
on, was brought up, read & concurred : M' McClary joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the Petition of Sarauel Griffen,
in behalf of the Town of Packersfield, & giving hira leave to bring
in a Bill, was brought up, read and Concurred.
* 2 : 97 * A Vote of the House of Yesterday, for putting off ah
public hearings before the House, untill this Day, was
brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'tih to-raorrow, Nine O'Clock, A. M.
THURSDAY, February 9th, 1786.
Present as Yesterday.
A Resolve to adjourn the Inferior Court of Coraraon Pleas and
Court of General Sessions of the peace in the County of Strafford
untU the second Week in March next, was brought up, read & con
curred. A Vote of the House of Yesterday, to put over all the hearings on
Petitions then before the House, until this day, was brought up, read
& concurred.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
consider the Petition of David Daniels and all SiraUar raatters, was
brought up read & concurred ; M' Joshua Wentworth & M' John
Wentworth were joined.
A Vote to Postpone the hearing of the Petition of the Rev. Sam
uel McClintock, untU Wednesday next, was brought up, read & con
curred. A Vote for a Committee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of the selectmen of Hampton, & report

1786] journal of THE SENATE. 459
thereon, was brought up, read and Concurred : M' Atkinson M'
Webster & M' McClary were joined.
Adjourned 'tih to-morrow. Nine O'Clock, A. M.
FRIDAY, February loth, 1786.
Present as Yesterday.
An Act to vest the exclusive Privilege of keeping a Ferry
over Connecticut River in Edwards Bucknam * of Lancas- * 2 : 98
ter, in the County of Grafton his heirs, & assigns, was read
a third time, and Voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote that the hearings of the Petitions of Elisha Payne David
Clough, David Courser and Jacob Doyne, which were to have been
heard before the General Court on the Ninth Instant, be postponed
untU the third Wednesday of the next Session of the General-Court
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the hearings on the remaining Petitions, which were
to have been this Week, before the General Court be put over until
Tuesday next, was brought up, read & concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate to
consider of a Bill presented for the repair of Newraarket Bridge, and
report thereon, was brought up, read & concurred : M' Peabody,
M' John Wentworth & M' GUraan were joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Edward Smith, on Friday next was
brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Zebulon March and
giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up, read
& concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Joseph Kiraball, and
giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up, read,
and concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Benjarain Bellows
Esq' and giving hira leave to bring in a Bill accordingly, was brought
up, read & concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Sarauel Bayley and
giving hira leave to bring in a BiU accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
* A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Ebenezer * 2 : 99
Torrey & giving hira leave to bring in a Bill accordingly,
was brought up, read & concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of John Pickering Jun' and also the Petition
of Henry Kenistone, was brought up read & concurred : M' John
Wentworth & M' Baker joined.

460 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
A Vote to pay the Account of Thomas shannon amounting to seven
pounds, fifteen shillings & four pence for expences of the several
coraraittees for selling the excise frora the year 1783 to 1786, inclu
sively, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
consider of the Petition of Cap' Moses Woodward : and also the
Account of Col. Supply Clap, and report thereon, was brought up,
read & concurred : M' McClary & M' Joshua Wentworth were
joined. A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Oliver Lawrence and report thereon,
was brought up, read & concurred : M' GUman, M' Peabody and M'
John Wentworth were joined.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
bring in a bill for regulating the times & places of holding the
Probate Courts in this State, was brought up, read and concurred :
M' John Wentworth and M' GUman joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the Senate to
Consider the Petition of John Neal and Jaraes McGregore : also
the Petition of Charles Clapham, was brought up, read &
* 2 : IOO concurred : M' * Peabody and M' Bellows were joined.
A Vote to pay the Account of Samuel Penhallow, Esq'
amounting to three pounds, for his services as a special Justice of the
Superior Court, was brought up, read & concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of the Petition of the Selectraen of New-Castle : and also
the Petition of the selectraen of Warren, and report thereon, was
brought up read & concurred : M' Thornton and M' McClary were
joined. Adjourned 'tiU Nine O'Clock tomorrow morning.
SATURDAY, February nth, 1786.
Present all the Senate.
Both Houses raet in Comraittee, and spent the forenoon on sundry
matters. MONDAY, February 13th, 1786.
A Vote to ahow the Account exhibited by the Selectraen of Al
stead, amounting to sixteen shilhngs & seven pence, for Taxes on
the Estate of Simon Baxter, an absentee, was brought up read and
concurred.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 461
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of a Vote passed the last Session of the General-Court Es
tablishing a Post frora Portsmouth through several Towns in this
State and report such alterations as they may Judge necessary, was
brought up, read & concurred : M' Atkinson, M' Peabody and M'
Chase were joined.
*A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the * 2 : lOI
Senate, to Consider of the Petition of Jonathan Woodcock,
and similar matters and report thereon was brought up read and con
curred : M' Bellows and M' Joshua Wentworth were joined.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of John Young, and giv
ing him leave to bring in a Bill accordingly, was brought up read &
concurred. An Act for the Opening and making passable a High-way from
Dartmouth College to Boscawen was read a third time & Voted that
the same be enacted.
Adjourned till to morrow, Nine O'Clock, A. M.
TUESDAY, February 14th, 1786.
Present all the senate.
Both Houses met in Comraittee, and spent the Day.
WEDNESDAY, February 15th 1786.
Present all the senate.
A Vote for the Public hearings which were to have been on the
Twenty fourth Instant before the General Court to be heard this day,
was brought up, read & concurred.
An Act to Confirm a donation that the Pious design of the donor
may not be prevented was read a third time & Voted that the same
be Enacted. Adjourned 'tiU to-morrow. Nine O'Clock, A. M.
* THURSDAY, February i6th, 1786. * 2 : 102
Present all the senate, except M' Joshua Wentworth.
A Vote to postpone the hearing on the Petition of George Clark
until the third Wednesday of the next Session was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Oliver Wright and
giving him leave to bring in a BUl accordingly, was brought up read
& concurred.

462 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
A Vote that all the hearings on Petitions before the House on the
1 5th Instant should be postponed to Tuesday next was brought up
read and concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of the Church Wardens
of Queen's-Chapel, in Portsmouth & giving thera leave to bring in a
bill accordingly was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
Consider of the petitions of the Towns of Lebanon, Plainfield, &"
and report thereon was brought up read and concurred : M' Thornton,
M' McClary and M' John Wentworth joined.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Barnabas Clark &
giving him leave to bring in a BUl accordingly, was brought up read,
and concurred.
A Vote to allow the Town of Marlborough fifteen shillings and ten
pence three farthings, for taxes on Land of Elijah Williams, an ab
sentee, was brought up, read & concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the senate, to
Consider of the petition of Joanna Chapman, and report
*2: 103 * thereon was brought up read and concurred: M' John
Wentworth was joined.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of John Pickering Jun'
also of the Petition of Henry Kenistone, and giving each of them
leave to bring in a BUl accordingly, was brought up read & con
curred. A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coraraittee of the senate, to
Consider of the Petition of Hugh Tallent, and report thereon was
brought up read and concurred : M' John Wentworth joined.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate to
consider the Petition of Azariah Webb and report thereon was
brought up read & concurred : M' Atkinson was joined.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of the Petition of the selectraen of Newport, and report
thereon was brought up read and concurred : M' Baker was joined.
A Vote to hear the Petition of susanna Dodge on the third
Wednesday of the next Session, was brought up read & concurred.
Adjourned tih to raorrow. Nine O'Clock, A. M.
FRIDAY, February 17th, 1786.
Present all the senate, except M' BeUows.
An Act to incorporate a Certain part of Plolles with the Inhabi
tants of Raby, was read a third tirae, and Voted that the sarae be
enacted.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 463
*A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Williara * 2 : 104
Fowler and giving hira leave to bring in a BUl accordingly,
was brought up read and non-concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the Petition of Henry Gerrish and
giving hira leave to bring in a Bill accordingly was brought up read,
and non-concurred.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Committee of the senate to con
sider of the Petition of David Currier & report thereon was brought
up read and concurred : M' Gilman & M' Webster were joined.
A Vote that Col. Joshua Wentworth deduct the seventh part of the
rum tax for 1781, for the Towns of Lemster & Croydon ; and the
fourth part out of the Tovvn of Marlow was brought up read and con
curred. A Vote to suspend the operation of the Navigation act (so called)
for a Certain time, was brought up read & non-concurred.
A Vote to allow the Town of Piermont, towards their taxes five
thousand three hundred & Ninety three pounds ten shillings, of Con
tinental bills, paid Major Jonathan Child to buy beef, in the year
1780 was brought up, read & concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Daniel Gookin, was
brought up read and non-concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Hugh Tallent and
giving him leave to bring in a Bill accordingly, was brought up read
and concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Jacob Copland for
crediting the Town of stoddard with a quantity of Beef was brought
up read & concurred. Adjourned 'tiU to raorrow Nine O'Clock, A. M.
*SATERDAY, February i8th,i786. * 2 : 105
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coraraittee of the senate to Con
sider of the Petition of Jereraiah Eames Esq' and others in behalf of
sundry Towns in the upper Coos (so caUed) was brought up read and
concurred : M' Worcester & M' Webster were joined.
A Vote that M' Joshua Wentworth & M' Baker be a Comrait
tee to join with such of the Honorable House as they shall appoint
to Consider of some proper raethod for issuing proclamations annu
ally for holding public days of fasting, and also Public Days of
thanksgiving, and to bring in a bill or resolve for the purpose, was
sent down for concurrence —
Adjourned 'tUl Monday next, three O'Clock P. M.

464 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
MONDAY, February 20th, 1786—
Present as on Saturday, except M' Baker M' John Wentworth &
M' Webster.
A Vote that Thursday the sixth Day of AprU next, be observed
and kept as a Day of Public fasting throughout this State : and that
his Excellency the President, with advice 0/ Council issue a Proclama
tion for that purpose, was brought up read, and concurred.
Adjourned 'tUl to-morrow. Nine O'Clock.
TUESDAY, February 21" 1786—
*2 : 106 Present all the senate except M' John Wentworth* and
M' Bellows.
An Act to alter the tirae of holding the annual Meetings in the
Town of Packersfield, was read a third time, and Voted that the
same be enacted.
A Vote granting the prayer of the Petition of Edward Sraith and
giving him leave to bring in a BiU accordingly, was brought up read
and concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the senate to Con
sider of the Petition of Plainfield, Labanon Cornish Hanover and
Canaan, Also the Petition of Bath & report thereon was brought up
read, and concurred : M' Joshua Wentworth, M' Peabody, M' Thorn
ton & M' Gilman were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the senate to Con
sider what sum is necessary to be raised for the expenditures of the
Current Year, Also in what manner it shall be paid, and report a
supply Bill for that purpose was brought up read & concurred : M'
Atkinson, M' McClary and M' Peabody were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coramittee of the senate to
Consider of the Petition of Doctor Jonathan Gove & report thereon
was brought up read & concurred : M' Baker, M' Joshua Wentworth,
and M' Webster were joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the senate to
Consider of the Petition of Major John Young and report thereon
was brought up read & concurred : Mr. Webster was joined.
An Act to impower the Superior Court of Judicature, to render
compleat and perfect Judgment for Damages & Costs in
* 2 : 107 an Action* brought at said Court by Zebulon Marsh
against Edward HUton, and to award Execution thereon
was read a third tirae and Voted that the same be enacted.

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A Vote that the Town of Wendell be credited the sum of sixty
pounds for one Long, a Continental soldier, together with the Interest
charged, brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to except the report of the Coramittee on the Petition of
the Town of Newport, Viz. That the Treasurer be ordered to Credit
said Town for fifty-four pounds, agreeably to an order signed by the
President in favour of said Newport, with Interest on said Order for
three Years & seven months amounting to Eleven pounds eleven
shillings & Eight pence was brought up read, and concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Comraittee of the senate, to
Consider of the Petition of General Jaraes Reed, and report thereon
was brought up read & concurred : M' Thornton & M' Peabody were
joined. A Vote to accept the report of the Coramittee on the Petition of
Joseph Kimball, in behalf of the Town of Plainfield, that the Treas
urer receive the paper Bills raentioned in said petition, and account
for thera at the value of the araount in the year 1779, was brought
up read & concurred.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Committee of the senate
to Consider of the Petition of Hugh McKeen,* and others, * 2 : 108
and all similar matters and report thereon was brought up
read and concurred : M' Baker & M' Webster were joined.
A resolve that the Comraissinors on the Estate of Breed Batchel
dor an absentee, are impowered to receive, consider and allow the
Claim of Oliver Wright with Interest, in Case they find the same
just notwithstanding the Execution is returned satisfied was brought
up read and concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Orford be Credited for four soldiers, each
sixty pounds together with the Interest charged in an extent issued
against said Town they satisfying the sheriff for his fees was brought
up read & concurred.
Adjourned 'tUl to morrow, Nine O'Clock, A. M.
WEDNESDAY, February 22^ 1786.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote to ahow Jonathan Woodcock the Depreciation of his wages
and that the Committee appointed for that purpose govern them
selves accordingly, was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to allow Sylvanus Reed the Depreciation of his Wages
was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to allow the account of the selectmen of Londonderry
amounting to twenty two pounds four shillings & Eleven pence for
taking care of one John Disney, was brought up read & concurred.

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A Vote to allow the BaUance of the Account of Betty Hickey
amounting to thirteen pounds eleven shUlings for boarding Robert
Crow, Deceased, was brought up read & concurred.
*2: log * A Vote for a Committee to join a Coraraittee of the
Senate to Consider of the Petition of Henry Fields and
all sirailar matters and report thereon was brought up read & con
curred : M' Joshua Wentworth was joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Allen Willard on the third Tues
day of the next Session was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate, to
Consider of the Petition of John Pierce, and report thereon was
brought up read and concurred : M' Thornton, M' Peabody & M'
Joshua Wentworth were joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Jaraes Hubbard (who prays for the
exclusive privilege of keeping a ferry) on the third Tuesday of the
next Session was brought up read & concurred.
An Act in Addition to an Act entitled "an Act to establish an
equitable raethod of making rates & taxes, and deterraining who
shall be legal Voters in town and parish affairs, and also for repeal
ing certain acts herein after raentioned, & to explain certain clauses
thereof," was read a third tirae & Yoted, that the sarae be enacted.
A Vote on the Petition of Jeremiah Eames & others praying, that
the Privilege of a ferry over Connecticut River might be granted to
Thoraas Burnside, be re-considered : and the prayer of said Petition
be granted : and that the Petitioner have leave to bring in a BiU ac
cordingly was brought up read and concurred.
* 2 : 1 10 * A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Coramittee of the
Senate to considei- of the Petition of John WendaU Esq'
& report thereon was brought up read & concurred : M' Joshua
Wentworth & M' Chase were joined.
A Vote to hear the Petition of the selectmen of Hillsborough on
the third Wednesday of the next Session, was brought up, read &
concurred. A Vote on the Petition of Thoraas Christy, that he have and re
ceive out of the Treasury, two hundred & twelve pounds Eleven
shillings & six pence for Money loaned the state, was brought up
read and Concurred.
A Vote for a Coramittee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of what allowance shall be made to the Officers of the civU
List the merabers of the General Court &c and when this Court shall
be adjourned, and report thereon was brought up read and concurred :
M' McClary M' Joshua Wentworth, & M' Atkinson were joined.
An Act to enable the Parishioeners of the Episcopal Church of

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Queen's Chapel in Portsmouth to levy and assess parochial Taxes on
the Pews in said Chapel, as well as on the Polls, & Estates of said
Parishioners and to direct the raode of collecting the sarae having
been read a third tirae Yoted that the sarae pass to be enacted, was
sent down for concurrence & brought up concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-raorrow nine O'Clock, A. M.
THURSDAY, February 23", 1786 —
Present as on Saturday except M' Bellows.
A Vote to abate the Towns of Lancaster, Northumber
land, Dartmouth & Startford ; all Taxes due frora said Towns * 2 : 1 1 1
prior * to the year 1784, was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Calvin Frink on the third Wednes
day of the next Session was brought up, read and nonconcurred.
An Act to Confirra the Title of a certain tract of Land in Rindge
to Barnabas Barker, his heirs & assigns, having been read three
times & Voted that the sarae be Enacted.
A Vote to pay the Account of Christopher Toppan Esq' amount
ing to fifty five shillings & six pence for a Journey to vew the fort,
also a Journey to Exeter at the sale of Excise was brought up read
& concurred.
A Vote to pay the Account of Thoraas Bartlett Esq' araounting
to three pounds fifteen shillings & six pence as one of the Coramittee
to view the fort, also for a Journey at the sale of Excise was brought
up read & concurred.
A Vote to pay the Account of General Joseph Badger, araounting
to three pounds Nineteen shillings, fora Journey to Plymouth &c was
brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to pay the Account of David Swett, amounting to Eight
een shillings for taking an invoice of Campbell's-Gore, was brought
up read & concurred :
A Vote to pay the Account of Williara Plummer amounting to
twelve shillings for Drawing articles for sale of Excise, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pay the Account of Benjarain Lamson amounting
to three pounds fifteen shillings for Expences at the sale
* of Excise was brought up, read & concurred. * 2 : 112
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coraraittee of the
Senate to consider of the raemorial of Lemuel Holmes, Esq' and re
port thereon v/as brought up read & concurred M' John Wentworth
& M' Chase were joined.

468 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
An Act in addition to an Act directing the admission of Town
Inhabitants having been read a third time Voted that the sarae be
non-concurred. An Act to repeal an Act, entitled " An Act to prevent the Bodies
of Debtors being taken in Execution when real or Personal Estate
can be found, or is tendered to satisfy the Demand having been read
three times Voted that the same Pass to be Enacted was sent Down
for Concurrence.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Jonathan Moulton
Esq' and giving him leave to bring in a Bill accordingly was brought
up read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till to morrow. Nine O'Clock, A. M.
FRIDAY, February 24th, 1786.
Present as Yesterday
A Vote of the House of Yesterday, to Postpone the hearing on
the Petition of Benjarain Trip until this Day was brought up read
& concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coramittee of the Senate, to
Consider of sorae raethod for repairing and making passable the
Roads leading from Portsraouth to Connecticut River and report
thereon was brought up read & Concurred.
*2: 113 * A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of John
Peirce in behalf of John Fisher Esq', and giving him leave
to bring in a Bill accordingly was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Mary Conant and
giving her leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up read
& concurred.
An Act laying a fine on delinquent sheriffs, & Town Clerks having
been read a third time it was Voted that the same be Enacted.
Adjourned 'tiU to morrow. Nine O'Clock, A. M.
SATURDAY, February 25th, 1786.
Present as Yesterday —
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Joshua Foss Jun'
and giving him leave to bring in a Bill accordingly was brought up
read and concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Benjamin Tripp and
giving him leave to bring in a bUl accordingly was brought up read &
non-concurred.

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An Act to vest the exclusive Privilege of keeping a ferry over a
Certain part of Connecticut River, in Samuel Bayley having been
read a third time, it was Voted that the same be enacted.
An Act to vest the Privilege of keeping a ferry over a certain
part of Connecticut River in Benjamin Bellows, of Walpole, his heirs
& assigns having been read a third time it was Voted that the. same
be enacted.
* An act to vest the exclusive PrivUege of keeping a * 2 : 114
ferry over a certain part of Connecticut River in Joseph
Kimball of Plainfield his heirs & assigns, having been read a third
time, it was voted that the same be Enacted.
A Vote to Credit the Town of Unity for one Man in their quota
of the late Continental soldiers was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Coraraittee of the senate to
consider of the Petition of Jaraes Knowles Esq' in behalf of the
town of Rochester was brought up read and concurred, and M' Baker
was joined.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Coraraittee of the senate, to
consider of the Petition of John Wendell Esq' and report thereon
was brought up, read & concurred : and M' Atkinson & M' McClary
were joined
A Vote to pay Jonathan Warner Esq' one hundred & forty four
pounds thirteen shUlings & five pence in full for his Demand on the
state for a Vessel used as a fire ship in the late War was brought up
read & concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Comraittee of the senate, to
consider of the Petition of Nathan Barlow & report thereon was
brought up, read and concurred : M' John Wentworth was joined.
Adjourned 'tiU Monday next three O'Clock, P. M.
MONDAY, February 27th 1786
Present all the senate except M' GUman & M' Bellows.
*A Vote that the Town of Surry be credited for the *2 : 115
whole amount of the beef delivered John Miller being
three thousand and three hundred Weight and that the Treasurer
Credit the Town accordingly, was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote for a Committee to join a Committee of the Senate to
consider of the Petition of Colonel Simon Willard and the selectrnen
of swanzey also the Petition of Alexander Parkman & report thereon
was brought up read & concurred : M' Baker was joined.
An Act for laying out high-ways was read a third tirae & Voted
that the same be enacted.

470 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
An Act for raending & repairing high-ways in this State was read
a third time and Voted that the sarae be enacted.
An Act to prevent encroachraents upon high ways was read a third
tirae & Voted that the same be Enacted.
An Act for repealing sundry Laws of this State relative to high
ways, was read a third time & Voted that the same be Enacted.
An Act to restore Henry Kennisan to his right in certain Land in
Barnstead was read a third time, & Voted that the sarae be Enacted.
An Act to restore Hugh TaUent to his Law, having been read a
third tirae & Voted that the sarae be Enacted.
An Act to restore John Pickering Jun' to his right to Certain
Land in Barnstead was read a third time & Voted that the same be
Enacted.
* 2 : 1 16 * Adjourned 'tih tomorrow. Nine O'Clock, A. M.
TUESDAY, February 28th, 1786.
Present as Yesterday —
An act to vest the exclusive privilege of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Connecticut river, in Moses Chase his heirs & assigns,
having been read a third tirae voted that the sarae pass to be
Enacted was sent down Concurrence & brought up concurred.
A Vote to accept the report of the Committee on the petition of
Azariah Webb Esq' in behalf of the Town of Piermont, Viz. that
the said Town be Credited for three Continental soldiers, the sum of
sixty pounds each with the Interest thereof, on settlement of the
Account charged against said Town of Piermont, for deficiency of
soldiers was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that the town of Orford be allowed & Credited the sura of
sixty pounds & the Interest thereof on settlement of the account
charged against said Town for the Deficiency of soldiers & that the
Treasurer take order accordingly was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to accept the report of the Comraittee on account of
Richard Hart, that there be allowed & paid to the said Hart one hun
dred & twenty five pounds ten shiUings & seven pence in full of said
account, was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that the Treasurer issue a Note in favor of sarauel Potter
of equal value to that said to be burnt, he giving bond to return the
Latter into the Treasurer in case it shah ever be found was brought
up read & concurred.
*2:ii7 * An Act to vacate the Proceedings on an Execution
against Joseph Kelley, was read a third time & Voted, that
the sarae be enacted.

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An Act to annul and made void a Judgment of Court obtained
against Ebenezer Torry by David Larned & Abel Larned was read
a third time & Voted that the sarae be Enacted.
A Vote that Col. James Hacket of Exeter, Col. James HiU of
Newraarket, & M' Andrew Wiggen Jun' of Stratham be & they are
hereby appointed a Coramittee to direct the repair of Newmarket
bridge agreeable to an Act of this state for repairing said bridge &
that they be a Comraittee until another shall be appointed in their
stead was brought up read & concurred.
An act to regulate the price & assize of bread was read a third
time & Voted that the same pass to be enacted — sent down for
concurrence. An Act to prevent the keeping of large quantities of Gun powder
in private houses in Portsmouth, & for appointing a keeper of the
Magazine belonging to said Town, having been read a third time &
Voted that the same be enacted.
An Act to discount an Execution of Israel Morey against the Pro
prietors of Piermont, was read a third time, and it was Voted that
the same be enacted.
An Act to restore John Fisher Esq' his property within this state
was read a third tirae and it was Voted that the sarae be enacted.
* An Act to restore John Young to his Law was read * 2 : 118
a third time and Voted that the same be enacted.
An act for granting a Lottery to finish a Bridge over Baker's
River, so called in Plymouth was read a third time, and it was Voted
that the same be enacted.
An Act to regulate the repair of Newraarket Bridge over Exeter
River frora Strathara to Newmarket and directing the manner in
which the same shall be repaired in future was read a third time &
Voted that the sarae be enacted.
A Vote to accept the report of the Coramittee on the Petition of
Plainfield, &c and similar matters that the Town of Lirae be Credited
for three Continental soldiers, and that they be allowed the sura of
sixty pounds for each of said Men with the Interest thereof on the
settlement of the account the state has against said Lime, for defi
ciency of soldiers, was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Josiah Willard on the third Wednes
day of the next session was brought up read & concurred.
An Act to facilitate the payment of out standing taxes was read a
third tirae & Voted tha.t the same be Enacted.
An Act for supplying the Treasurer of this State with ten thousand
five hundred pounds, for the purpose of discharging the specie part
of a requisition of Congress of the Twenty seventh of September
last said to be this State's quota of the Interest of the foreign Debt

472 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
of the United States was read a third tirae & Voted that the same
be Enacted.
*2: 119 *A Vote for a Committee to join a Coraraittee of the
Senate to Consider of the Petition of Moses Dow Esq.
in behalf of HaverhiU and Pierraont and report thereon was brought
up read and concurred M' Worcester was joined.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Committee of the senate to
Consider of the resolve of Congress of the fifteenth of February,
1786 and report thereon was bro't up read and concurred M' At
kinson was joined.
Adjourned 'tiU to morrow. Nine O'Clock, A. M.
WEDNESDAY, March i^' 1786.
Present all the senate — Except M' McClary, M' GUman and M'
Bellows.
A Vote for a Coraraittee to join a Coraraittee of the Senate to
Consider of the Account of Moses Chase Esq' and all sirailar raatters,
and report thereon was brought up read & concurred M' John Went
worth was joined.
A Vote for a Committee to be added to the Coraraittee on the Pe
tition of Jonathan Warner Esq' was brought up read and concurred :
M' Webster was joined.
A resolve that the selectmen of New Bradford be authorized and
impowered to assess and Collect all the outstanding taxes remaining
against (raaking a distinct list for each year) in one tax in the usual
form upon the Lands in said Town by the Lots, and that no extents
issue against said Town either for soldiers or said taxes until the first
of January next, and that the extent now against said Town be stayed
'till said first of January was brought up read & concurred.
*2:i20 *A Vote to pay the Account of Dr. A. R. Cutter
araounting to Twenty six pounds one shilling was brought
up read & concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Rochester be allowed the pay for Daniel
Alley, and that the Treasurer deduct the sarae frora the sum said
Town is called on for was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Croydon be Credited sixty pounds with
the Interest thereof on the extent against said Town they paying
the Sheriff's fees was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to pay the account of Dr. Nathaniel Kidder araounting to
four pounds two shillings & one penny was brought up read & con
curred.

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A Vote to pay Benjamin Knight ten pounds and six pence for sur
geon's bill and for nursing 8z;c was brought up read & concurred
A Vote to pay the ballance of the account of Mark Hunking
Wentworth Esq' araounting to three hundred & Ninety three pounds
Nine shillings was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to pay the account of Sarah Little araounting to seven
pounds one shUling & three pence was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to pay the pay-roll of Cap' Meshech Bell araounting to
eighty pounds, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pay the account of Cap' Meshech Bell, amounting to
four pounds ten shillings, for wood at the fort was brought up
read and concurred.
*An Act to restore Benjamin Cumraings to his share * 2: 121
in the real Estate of his late Father, having been read a
third tirae it was Voted that the sarae be Enacted.
An Act to vest the exclusive privilege of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Connecticut river in Thoraas Burnside his heirs and
assigns was read a third time and Voted tha.t the same be enacted.
A Vote to accept the report of the Coraraittee on a Petition in be
half of the Town of Bath that said Town be Credited for WUliam
Grirashaw sixty pounds with the Interest thereof, also that the said
Town of Bath be entitled to receive twenty pounds for procuring
said soldier, was brought up read and concurred.
A resolve that the Town of Bath be abated four fifth of all taxes
and requirements against them previous to the year 1780 and half
of all taxes &c for 1780, 1781, 1782 & 1783, and four ninths of all
taxes &c founded on the last proportion — act was brought up read &
concurred. A resolve that the Town of Cardigan be abated to thirds (includ
ing former abateraents) of all Taxes &c previous to the last proportion
act was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to accept the report on the Petition of Jonathan Warner
Esq. and that he have leave to bring in a bUl accordingly was brought
up read & concurred.
A Vote that his Excellency the President, have and receive out of
the Treasury two hundred pounds, as salary from the first of June
1785 to June 1786 was brought up read and concurred.
* A Vote for a Committee to join a Coraraittee of the * 2 : 122
Senate to Consider of the memorial of Noah Emery Jun'
and all sirailar raatters, and report thereon was brought up read and
concurred : M' John Wentworth was joined.
A Vote to pay the account of Col. Benjamin Sumner amounting
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474 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
to thirty shiUings for seUing the Excise in the County of Cheshire
was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to accept the report of the Committee on the Petition of
John Wendell Esq' that the Judge of Probate be directed to adjust
and settle the said WendeU's deraands against said Wentworth's Es
tate aUowing interest as prayed for in said Petition was brought up
read & concurred.
A Vote to pay the baUance of the account of Cap' Moses Wood
ward as Commissary of Prisoners amounting to two hundred and
sixty Nine pounds nineteen shillings & five pence in fuU of all his
deraand and that he be allowed to return into the Treasury sixty
three dollars, new eraission bills was brought up read & concurred.
Adjourned 'till tomorrow Nine (D'Clock.
THURSDAY, March 2^ 1786.
Present as Yesterday.
An Act to tax the Lands in Barrington for repairing highways was
read a third tirae and Voted that the sarae be Enacted.
A Vote that M' Atkinson M' Thornton & M' Baker be a Commit
tee with such of the Honorable house as they shall join to
* 1 : 123 nominate three proper Persons out of whora * to chuse one
to deliver a serraon at the next election was sent down for
Concurrence by M' Webster & brought up concurred.
A Vote on the Petition of John Neal & Jaraes McGregore that they
receive out of the Treasury the sura of thirty pounds, and that his
Excellency give order accordingly was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the Petition of John Combs relative
to a Note was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote allowing the Township of Coventry sixty pounds and the
Interest thereof for a recruit in Hazen's Regiment and that the
Treasury take order accordingly was brought up read & concurred :
A Vote that his Excellency the President with advice of the Hon
orable Council be requested to remove frora the Office of Justice of
the Peace & special Justice of the Superior Court for the County of
Rockingham Jeremiah GUman Esq' of Plastow as a Person unsuit
able to fill those important offices was sent down for concurrence by
the Deputy secretary, and bro't up concurred — It is to be remem
bered that his Excellency the President and those of the senate who
are members of the CouncU did not act on the above Vote.
A Vote that the Town of Landaff be abated and Credited one fuh
Moiety of all Taxes and requisition appointed thereto previous to the
last proportion act taking place and that the Town of Landaff be

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abated on sixth part of the proportion assigned thereto
* in the last proportion Act from the passing thereof until * 2 : 124
a new proportion be made was brought up read and Con
curred. A Vote to accept the report of the Comraittee on the Petition of
Lebanon that no extent issue against said Town until the first of
January next and that the Treasurer receive from Robert Colburn
sixty six pounds twelve shillings in New Hampshire bills and Credit
said Town for the norainal amount in discharge of outstanding taxes
was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Grafton be abated for taxes and requisi
tions frora 1777 to 1780 two thirds and from 1780 to 1783 one half
of said taxes and requisitions and that the extent now against said
Town for soldiers be stayed and no other extent be issued until the
first day of January next was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Warren be abated twelve pounds thirteen
shiUings & five pence in their proportion of ratable Estate as set to
them in the last proportion Act and added to Piermont and Went
worth, and that the sum of six pounds twelve shillings & six pence
be added to Piermont : and that the sura of six pounds & Eleven
pence be added to Wentworth was brought up read and Concurred.
A Vote that no extent issue against the Town of Orford for out
standing taxes untU the first Day of January next was brought up
read and Concurred.
* A Vote to allow the Town of Hanover, sixty pounds * 2 : 125
each for five soldiers by thera procured & the Interest
thereof : and that said Town be abated two^ fifth parts of all the
taxes previous to the Last proportion act taking place : and that the
said Town have a further aUowance sufficient to discharge the whole
of the extent or charge for the deficiency of soldiers : and that the
Treasury receive from Jonathan Freeraan, Esq. four hundred & thirty
four pounds fourteen shUlings in New Hampshire bills and Credit
said Town for the nominal amount thereof in Discharge of outstand
ing taxes & that no extent issue against said Town 'tUl January next
was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to ahow the Town of Marlborough for a recruit and inter
est for the same they paying for the service of the extents was
brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Claremont have Credit for a recruit the
sum of sixty pounds with Interest was brought up read and con-
currred. A Vote to vest the exclusive privUege of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Connecticut River in Micah Reed his heirs and assigns
was read a third tirae & Voted that the sarae be Enacted.

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A Vote that Solomon Cole an invalid have one third of his Monthly
pay from the time his whole pay ceased, was brought up read & con
curred.
* 2 : 126 * A Vote that the Town of Plainfield be abated of their
Taxes Viz. from the Doomage 1777 to 1780 one half : from
1780 to 1783 two fifths: and frora 1783 untU a new proportion four
Ninths ; and that no extent be issued against said Town untU the
first Day of January next, was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that W. Adaras, W. Brooks, D. Araes, S. Hobard [Hubbard]',
J. Brooks, and J. Taylor, privates in Cap' Chapraan's Corapany, Col.
Hower's regiraent of artillery and artificers be allowed the deprecia
tion of their Wages if they have not already received it frora Massa
chusetts was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to allow half pay to Gen. Jaraes Reed comraencing the
thirty first December 1780 agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the
Twenty sixth Day of August 1776 was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Lyman be abated one half of all their
Taxes up to the last proportion act : and one quarter of all taxes &"
'till another proportion shall take place, was brought up read & Con
curred. A Vote that no extent issue against the Town of Canaan for out
standing taxes and if any has issued they be stayed 'till the first of
January next was brought up read & Concurred.
A Vote on the Petition of Cornish that said Town be abated of the
Taxes &" by doomage from the year 1777 to 1780, one half, from
1780 to 1783 one fourth, including what has already been abated &
from 1783 to a New proportion four ninths, and the extent now
against said Town be stayed and none issue 'tUl the first Day of Jan
uary next, was bro't up read & concurred.
* 2 : 127 * A Vote that the Town of Lyman be aUowed the sum
of sixty pounds with the Interest thereof was brought up
read & Concurred.
A Vote that Stephen Richardson have one third of monthly pay
to commence when his whole pay ceased was brought up read and
concurred. A Vote that the Rev. Doctor Samuel Langdon be requested to
preach the Election Sermon at Concord on the first Wednesday of
June next and that his ExceUency the President be desired to give
the said Doctor Langdon seasonable notice thereof was brought up
read & concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Swanzey be allowed pay for Araasa Par
ker with the Interest thereof : and that the Town of Winchester be
I. See vote of 4th March.

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allowed for Moses Powers twenty pounds with Interest from the
Time of muster was brought up read and concurred.
A resolve that the Town of Lyraan be abated one half of all their
taxes &c up to the last proportion and that the selectraen are impow
ered to levy and assess the remainder in two tax bUls &c Also that
the selectmen are irapowered to levy any & aU reraaining tax or taxes
from the proprietors of said Town in the sarae manner as other taxes
of non residents proprietors are collected, and that no ex
tent issue against *said Town till the first Day of January * 2 : 128
next, and that said abatements be considered to exclude
said Town from all demands prior to the passing this resolve, was
brought up read and concurred.
adjourned 'till to morrow Nine O'Clock, A. M.
FRIDAY, March 3'' 1786.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote that the Town of Concord Alias Gunthwaite be Credited
for Josiah Pratt a Continental soldier the sum of sixty pounds with
the Interest thereof was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that the Petition of Unity lay 'till the next Session ; that
no extent issue against said Town ; and that they have an oppor
tunity to return an inventory, was brought up read z .id concurred.
A Vote Jo pay John Calfe Esq' five pounds ten shillings the amount
of his account for recording & Copying &c was brought up read and
concurred. A Vote to pay Jesse Johnson thirty six shillings for a Book to re
cord journals &c was brought up read and concurred.
A Resolve that the selectmen of Concord Alias Gunthwaite be im
powered to assess any suras of money that may be due from said
Town from the Year 1775 to the year 1783, inclusively on the lands
of the Proprietors of said Town in the Present year's Tax bill, and
that all extents &c be stayed 'till the first Day of January next was
brought up read and concurred.
* A resolve that the selectmen of the several towns, dis- * 2 : 1 29
tricts, and parishes within this state are required to make
a return of all the Inhabitants within their respective districts to the
Secretary of this State on or before the second Wednesday of June
next was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Comraittee of the senate to
Consider of the Accounts of the Printers was bro't up read and con
curred : M' Atkinson joined.
A Vote that Benjarain Biggelow receive out of the Treasury thirty

478 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
pounds for which he is to be accountable, was brought up read and
concurred. A Resolve that the Town of Chester be allowed for two recruits
Pelham two Northampton one Portsmouth one and Seabrook one
twenty pounds each as bounty, &c -^^ig brought up read and con-
currred : and re-considered, ordered to lay 'till next Session.
A Vote that Joshua Bell receive one half of his monthly pay from
the time his whole pay ceased was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Hampton be allowed seventy one pounds
one shilling and eight pence for Interest due on an extent & twenty
pounds and Interest thereon was brought up read and Concurred. re-
Considered and ordered to lay 'till next Session.
* 2 : 1 30 * A Vote to pay the ballance of the account of Benjamin
Biggelow araounting to fifteen pounds for supplies at the
fort was brought up read and Concurred.
An act for altering the tirae of holding the Inferior Court of Com
raon pleas, holden by Law on the first Tuesday of June annually at
Portsraouth in & for the County of Rockinghara, was read a third
tirae and Voted that the sarae be Enacted.
An act to amend and relieve against a Mistake made in the Levy
of an Execution in favor of Jonathan Warner, Esq' against WUham
Reeve and others was read a third time and Voted that the sarae be
enacted. A Vote directing the Treasurer to attend the General Court at
Concord in June next was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that the secretary receive twenty pounds for his Salary
frora June 1785 to June 1786 was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to pay David Bryent twenty four shillings for notifying
several companies to fill up their respective quota of soldiers was
brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that the Treasurer have one hundred & fifty pounds as sal
ary, seventy-five pounds for responsibility of Office, and sixty pounds
for Clerk in fuU from the twelfth Day of June 1785 to the twelfth
Day of June 1786 was brought up read and Concurred.
A Vote to pay John Sparhawk Esq' five pounds seventeen shUhngs
& five pence for sundries for the use of the State was brought up
read and concurred.
*2:i3i *A Vote to pay the Rev. Doctor Sarauel Haven and
the Rev. M' Joseph Buckminster three pounds each for
their kind services as Chaplains to the General Court the Current
year was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the Petition of B. Dearborn and
giving hira leave to bring in a bill for that purpose at this or next
Session was brought up read and concurred.

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A Vote that the merabers of the Honorable senate and House of
Representatives & their Officers have the sarae pay as at the last Ses
sion of the General Court was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that John McCoy receive the one half of his Monthly pay
frora the tirae his whole pay ceased was brought up read & Con
curred. A Vote to pay M' Daniel Huraphreys four pounds four shillings.
for engrossing bills was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote for Josiah Powers to receive half pay frora the time his.
whole pay ceased was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that General Sullivan receive seventy five pounds as At
torney General the Year past was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that soloraon Todd receive half pay frora the tirae his.
whole pay ceased 'till further order, was brought up read and con
curred. *An Act to vest the exclusive privilege of keeping a ferry *2 : 132
over a certain part of Connecticut river in Soloraon Rob
bins, his heirs and assigns was read a third tirae and Voted that the
same be enacted. adjourned 'till tomorrow, Nine O'clock, A. M.
SATURDAY, March 4th, 1786.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote to pay John Prentice thirty five shillings for time expences.
&c selling Excise was brought up read and concurred.
An Act for raising the sura of ten thousand pounds for the use of
this state the present year was read a third tirae and Voted that sarae.
be enacted.
An act to establish certain Impost Duties on various foreign ar
ticles imported into this State was read a third tirae and Voted that
the same be enacted.
A Vote that the Town of Plainfield be abated of their taxes. Viz.
frora the Doomage 1777 to 1780, one half from 1780 to 1783 two
fifths; and from 1783 until a New proportion four Ninths and that
no extents be issued against said Town until the first Day of January
next, was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that W. Adams, W. Brooks, D. Araes, S. Hubberd, J.
Brooks and J. Taylor privates in Cap' Chapman's Company, CoL
Howers Regiment artillery & artificers be allowed the Depreciation
of their Wages if they have not already received it frora Massachu
setts was brought up, read & concurred.

480 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^786
A Vote to allow half pay to Gen. James Read commencing the
thirty first Deceraber 1780 agreeably to a resolve of Congress of the
Twenty sixth of August 1776 was bro't up read & concurred.
*2 : 133 *A Vote that the Town of Lyman be abated one half of
aU their taxes up to the last proportion act, and one quarter
of all taxes &= 'tUl another proportion shah take place was brought
up read & concurred.
A Vote that no extent issue against the Town of Canaan for
outstanding taxes, and if any has issued they be stayed 'tih the
first of January next was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote on the Petition of Cornish that said Town be abated of the
Taxes &c by Doomage from the year 1777 to 1780 one half; from
1 780 to 1 783 one fourth including what has already been abated &
from 1783 to a New proportion, four Ninths ; and that said Town be
allowed sixty pounds with interest and that the extent now against
said Town be stayed and none issue 'tiU the first Day of January
next, was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Lyman be aUowed the sura of sixty
pounds with the Interest thereof was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that Stephen Richardson have one third of raonthly pay
to coramence when his whole pay ceased was brought up read & con
curred. A Vote that the Rev. Doctor Sarauel Langdon be requested to
preach an Election serraon at Concord on the first Wednesday of
June next and that his Excellency the President be desired to give
the said Doctor Langdon seasonable notice thereof was brought up
read & concurred. A Vote that the Town of Swanzey be allowed pay for Am-
*2 : 134 asa Parker with the Interest thereof ; and that *the Town
of Winchester be allowed for Moses Powers twenty pounds
with Interest from the time of Muster, was brought up, read and con
curred. A Resolve that the Town of Lyman be abated one half of all their
taxes &c up to the last proportion, and that the selectmen are im
powered to levy and assess the reraainder in two tax bills &c also
that the Selectmen are irapowered to levy any & all reraaining tax
or taxes frora the proprietors of said Town in the same raanner as
other taxes of non-resident proprietors are collected : and that no ex
tent issue against said Town 'till the first Da};- of January next ; and
that said abateraents be considered to exclude said Town from all de
mands prior to the passing this resolve was brought up read Sc con
curred. Adjourned till tomorrow. Nine O'Clock, A. M.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 48 1

FRIDAY, March 3'', 1786.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote that the Town of Concord Alias Gunthwaite be Credited
for Josiah Pratt a Continental soldier the sum of sixty pounds with
the Interest thereof was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that the Petition of Unity lay till the next Session ; that
no extent issue against said Town that they have an opportunity to
return an inventory was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to pay John Calfe Esq' five pounds ten shillings the araount
of his account for Recording Copying &c was brought up, read &
concurred. *A Vote to pay Jesse Johnson thirty six shillings fora *2:i35
Book to Record Journals &c was brought up read and con
curred. A resolve that the selectraen of Concord Alias Gunthwaite be ira
powered to assess any sums of raoney that may be due from said
Town from the Year 1775 to the Year 1783 inclusively on the Lands
of the proprietors of said Town in the present year's tax bill and that
all extents &c be stayed till the first Day of January next was brought
up read & concurred.
A resolve that the selectmen of the several Towns districts & Par
ishes within this State are required to make a return of all the Inhab
itants within their respective districts to the secretary of this State
on or before the second Wednesday of June next, was brought up
read & concurred.
A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Committee of the senate to Con
sider of the accounts of the Printers was brought up read and con
curred. M' Atkinson joined.
A Vote that Benjarain Biggelow receive out of the Treasury thirty
pounds for which he is to be accountable, was brought up read and
concurred. A Resolve that the Town of Chester be aUowed for two recruits
Pelham two Northampton one Portsmouth one & Sea
brook one twenty pounds each as *a bounty &c was *2:i36
brought up read & concurred ; and re-considered, ordered
to lay 'till next session.
A Vote that Joshua Bell receive one half of his monthly pay from
the time his whole pay ceased was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Harapton be allowed seventy one pounds
one shilling & Eight pence for Interest due on an extent & twenty
pounds & Interest thereon was brought up read & concurred, re-con
sidered and ordered to lay 'till next Session.

482 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
A Vote to pay the ballance of the account of Benjamin Biggelow
amounting to fifteen pounds for supplies at the fort was brought up
read & concurred.
The foregoing pages under the date of March 3'' recorded twice by
means of a Mistake in a printed Journal from which this was Copied.
SATURDAY, March 4"" 1786.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote to pay John Prentice thirty five shiUings for time expences
&c selling Excise was brought up read & concurred.
An Act for raising the sum of ten thousand pounds for the use of
this State the Present year was read a third time and Voted that the
same be enacted.
An Act to establish certain Impost Duties on various foreign arti
cles iraported into this State was read a third tirae & Voted that the
sarae be enacted.
*2 : 137 *A Vote that M' Atkinson and M' Baker with such of the
Honorable House as they shall join be a Comraittee to
norainate three proper Persons as Coraraissioners on the part of this
State to raeet such other Coraraissioners as raay be appointed by any
other of the States for regulation of Coramerce was sent Down for
Concurrence by M' Baker.
A Vote to hear the Petition of Laban Gates on the third Wednes
day of the next Session was brought up read & concurred.
A Resolve to establish Posts was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to pay Reuben Libbey his Wages if not already paid was
brought up read and concurred.
A Resolve that no extents be issued against the Town of Littleton,
Wendell and Dalton until the Session of the next General Court was
brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Abraham Libbey so
far as that the fine be remitted, was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to pay David Brewster's account amounting to Eighteen
pounds four shillings & Nine pence for Joiner's work done in the
State House,' was brought up read and concurred.
* 2 : 138 *A Vote to pay George Gains Esq' six pounds seventeen
shillings for Wood &c was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to pay John Williams Eight pounds one shilling as a Mes
senger to the General Court was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote to pay Daniel Fowle Esq' three pounds for printing two
hundred and fifty resolves each half a sheet, was brought up read and
concurred.

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A Vote appointing Commissioners on the part of this State to meet
such Commissioners as shall be appointed by any other of the United
States for the regulation of Commerce was brought up read and con
curred. A Vote appointing Col. Joseph Whipple an Impost Officer for this
State, was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to pay Daniel Fowle twenty six pounds sixteen shillings,
and Robert Gerrish Ninety pounds in full of their Accounts for print
ing was brought up read & concurred.
A Vote that his Excellency the President with advice of Council
be desired to adjourn the General Court to the last Wednesday of
May next, then to meet at Concord was brought up read & con
curred. The Deputy Secretary by his Excellency's command adjourned the
General Court to the last Wednesday of may next, then to raeet at
Concord. * The foregoing is a true Journal of the Votes & Pro- * 2 : 139
ceedings of the Senate at a session of the General Court.
Attest E. Thompson, Sec'^.

JOURNAL

House of Representatives

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM

FEBRUARY i TO MARCH 4, 1786.

13:49 ''JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

HON.BI. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

OP THE

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
At their Session begun and holden at Portsmouth on Wednesday
the first day of February A. D. 1786 and in the tentli year of the
Independance of America.
WEDNESDAY, February i^' 1786.
Several merabers met at the Court House in Portsraouth agreeably
to adjournraent but there not being a quorum to transact business
adjourned to 10 o'clock to morrow morning.
THURSDAY, February 2°'^ 1786.
Several raembers raet but there not being a quorum for transacting
business agreed to adjourn to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly but there not being a quorura.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to raorrow raorning.
FRIDAY, February 3"' 1786.
Several members raet according to adjournraent but not a quorura
for transacting business. Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.

488 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Met accordingly.
Votcd, that M' J. Pickering, M' Sparhawk, Col° Waldron, Col° Top-
pan, & Col° HUl, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
a Committee to take under consideration a Message from his Excel
lency (this day received) and report the business necessary first to
be entered upon and done at this Session. Sent up by Col° Green.
The following Resolve came down from the Honb' Senate for con
currence In Senate, February 2"'' 1786.
Resolved, that the Treasurer attend the General Court in their
present Session with such books and papers as are necessary ._
Sent down for concurrence. John Langdon, President.
The foregoing resolve read and concurred. Sent up by Col° Green
Read the public Letters received in the recess of the General
Court. Adjourned to 9 o'clock to raorrow morning.
SATURDAY, February 4"'i786.
The House met according to adjournraent.
Resolved, that when any raatter shall be referred to a Coraraittee
of the General Court the Comraittee raay make their report at the
Session in which the sarae was referred or at any after Session dur
ing the continuance of the sarae General Court. Sent up by M' McMurphy
* 13 : 50 * Upon reading and considering the Petition of a number
of the Inhabitants of Weare ' praying that a Parish may be
sett off within certain bounds invested with town privileges, Yoted,
that the petitioners be heard thereon before the General Court on the
third Wednesday of the next Session thereof and that in the mean time
the Petitioners cause that the Selectmen of Weare be served with a
Copy of the Petition and order of Court thereon that they raay then
appear and shew cause if any they have why the prayer thereof may
not be granted. Sent up by M' Dow.
Voted, that Col° Bartlett, Maj' Whitcomb, & M' Jenness, with
such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to con
sider of the petition of Martha Wait "^ and all sirailar raatters and
rejaort thereon. Sent up by M' Dow.
Votcd, that M' Prentice, M' Dow, & M' Emerson, with such of the
Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Comraittee to consider of the
Petition of Mary Conant and all sirailar matters and report thereon.
Sent up by M' Dow.
I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 640. z. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 376.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 4^9
Voted, that Col° Shephard, Maj' Gains, M' J. Pickering, M' GUraan,
& Maj' KimbaU, with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be
a Committee to consider of the Petition of William Adams and all
similar matters and report thereon. Sent up by M' Frink.
Upon reading and considering the Petition of Jeremiah Eames
Esq' and others praying for the privilege of a Ferry over Connecti
cut river Voted, that the petitioners be heard thereon before the
General Court on the third Wednesday of the next Session thereof
and that in the mean time the Petitioners cause that the Selectmen
of Northumberland & Stratford, be served with a Copy of the Peti
tion and order of Court thereon and that the sarae be seasonably
posted up in some public place in said town that any person or per
sons may then appear and shew cause if any they have why the
prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by M' Frink.
''Voted, that Maj' Weeks, Cap' Suraner, Maj' Whit- * 13 : 51
comb, ]\Iai' Pickering & Col° Gilman, with such of the
Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of the
petition of Mary Lear and all similar matters and report thereon.
Sent up by M' Frink.
Voted, that Col° Leavitt, M' J. Gilman, Col° Bartlett, Col" Shep
hard & M' Jewett with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join
be a Committee to consider of the petition of Cap' Benjamin Sumner
and all similar matters and report thereon. Sent up by M' Jenness.
Voted, that Col° Bartlett, Genl SuUivan, & M' Prentice, with such
of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a Committee to consider of
the Petition of Jonathan Warner Esq' & report thereon.
Sent up by Col" Welch.
Adjourned to Monday next at three of clock P. M.
MONDAY, February 6 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col. Gilman, Col. Badger, Mr [E.] Pickering Mr Duncan
and Capt. Hooper, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be
a committee to consider of the petition of Jonathan Chase Esq. and
report thereon. Sent up by Mr McMurphy.
Yoted, That Col. Payne, Gen. Sullivan, Mr [J.] Pickering, Col. Toppan
and Gen. Dow, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a
coramitte to consider of the petition of Mr Benjamin Dearborn, and
report thereon. Sent up by Capt. Copeland.
Yoted, That this House resolve theraselves into a coramittee of the
whole, in conjunction with the hon. Senate, if they think [see] fit, to
:I2

490 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
raeet to-raorrow raorning, to take under consideration the state of our
public affairs, and report thereon. Sent up by Capt. Copland.
Voted That Mr J. GUman, Gen. Dow, Col. Gilman, Mr Emerson
and Mr Grout, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a
committee to consider of the petition of Samuel Martin ' and others,
inhabitants of the town of Concord, alias Gunthwait, and aU similar
raatters, and report thereon. Sent up by Maj Young.
^13: 52 * Yoted, That Col. Leavitt, Col. Payne and Col. HiU,
with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a com
raittee to consider of the petition of Thoraas Cristy and report there
on. Sent up bv Mr McMurphy
Voted, That Mr. E. Pickering, Mr Copland, Col.' Sirapson, Mr. J.
Dow and Mr. Prentice, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall
join, be a coraraittee to consider of the petition of Major Joseph Kim
baU,^ and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
Adjourned to nine oclock toraorrow raorning.
TUESDAY, February 7, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That the account of John Hubbard, Esq. amounting to two
pounds, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, by order of the
President. Sent up by Capt. Burnam.
Voted, That Gen. Dow, Mr Betton and Major Kimball, with such of
the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to consider of the
account of Lt. David Bryant, and all sirailar raatters, and report
thereon. Sent up by Capt. Burnam.
The hon. Senate and House being met in coraraittee of the whole,
agreeable to the vote of yesterday, His Excellency John Langdon,
Esq' appointed Chairman, — First took under consideration the re
port of the comraittee on his Excellency's message, and the business
iirst to be entered upon ; the first clause in said report [to be consid
ered,] was the requisition of Congress, of the 27"' of September,
1785 ; [and] after some debate on said requisition, agreed to postpone
the further consideration thereof, till the afternoon : — the committee
then rose with leave to sit again, and the Speaker resumed the chair.
The House then adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, that the public hearings which were to have been this day,
^before the General-Court,] be postponed 'till to-morrow, of which aU
persons concerned, are to take notice, and govern themselves accord
ingly. Sent up by Capt. Burnam.
I. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 406. 2. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 205.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 49 1
* Upon reading and considering the petition of Sarauel * 13 : 53
Griffin, Esq. in behalf of the selectraen of Packersfield,
praying for liberty to bring in a biU for altering the time of holding
the annual meeting in said town.
Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Capt. Burnam.
The hon. Senate and House being again raet in coraraittee of the
whole. His Excellency the President in the chair, again took under
consideration the resolve of Congress, of the 27th of Septeraber,
1785, and voted to postpone the further consideration thereof, 'till to
morrow. — Read several public bUls (reported by the coraraittee
chosen at the last session) left thera for the consideration of the Leg
islature, in their seperate branches, — Took under consideration a re
monstrance and petition of a [considerable] number of the inhabitants
of this State, relative to the want of a circulating raediura of trade.
— Repeal of Navigation act, &c, and after sorae debate thereon,
postponed the further consideration thereof until tomorrow raorning:
— the comraittee then adjourned 'tUl to-raorrow raorning, and the
Speaker resuraed the chair.
The House then adjourned to nine o'clock toraorrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, February 8, 1786.
The house met according to adjournraent.
An act to vest the exclusive priviledge of keeping a ferry over Con
necticut River in Edwards Bucknam ' of Lancaster, in the county of
Grafton, his heirs and assigns, was read a third tirae and passed to
be enacted. Sent up by Mr. Duncan and Mr. [Cap'] Burnara.
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of the Reverend Sarauel
M'Clintock, which was to have been this day, before the General-
Court be postponed to Wednesday next, agreeable to the request of
both parties ; and that they take notice and govern theraselves ac
cordingly. Sent up by Col. Toppan.
The hon. Senate and House being again raet in coraraittee of the
whole, according to adjournment, [His Excellency the President in
the chair,] agreed to adjourn 'till to-morrow morning, on account of
a number of public hearings appointed for this day.
* Agreeable to the order of the day, heard several parties * 13 : 54
on their petitions ; the determination of which was post
poned 'till the afternoon. Adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
!¦ xii. Ham. Town Papers, 353.

492 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Met accordingly.
Proceeded to the hearings on sundry petitions, which were ap
pointed to be heard on this day, but the determination was post
poned. Voted, That the hearings on the petitions of several persons,
which were to have been this day, be postponed 'till to-raorrow, of
which, all persons concerned are to take notice, and govern them
selves accordingly. Sent up by Col. Toppan.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow raorning.
THURSDAY, February 9, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That Major Pickering, Col. Badger, Mr McGregore, Major
Whitcomb and Gen. Dow, with such of the hon. Senate as they shah
join, be a comraittee to consider of the petition of the aelectmen of
Hampton, and report thereon. Sent up by Col. Toppan.
Whereas, a number of the members of the General-Court are
under necessity of attending the Inferior-Court of Common Pleas,
in the County of Strafford, on the third Tuesday of February cur
rent, and the public business before the General-Court, requiring the
attendance of all its raerabers. Therefore,
Resolved, That the said Inferior-Court of Coraraon Pleas, be ad
journed to the second Tuesday in IMarch next, and the Court of Gen
eral Sessions of the Peace for said county, to the first Thursday ne.xt
following the second Tuesday aforesaid, and all writs and processes,
returnable to either of said Courts, raay be returned, taken up, and
proceeded on by said Courts respectively, at the tirae to which they
stand adjourned, and all persons concerned are to take notice, and
govern theraselves accordingly. Sent up by Mr Eraerson.
Voted, That Major Gains, Col. Waldron, Mr Duncan, Maj. Whit
comb and Col. Payne, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall
join, be a coraraittee to consider of the petition of David Daniels,
and all similar matters, and report thereon. Sent up by Col. Toppan.
* 13 : 55 * Voted, That the hearings, on the petitions of Elisha
Payne, Esq. David Clough, David Courser, and Jacob
Doyne, which were to have been this day, before the General-Court,
be postponed to the third Wednesday of the ne.xt Session of the
General-Court, of which, all persons concerned, are to take notice,
and govern themselves accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Plummer.
The hon. Senate and House being again met in committee of the
whole, according to adjournment, [His Excellency the President in

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the chair,] agreed to adjourn 'till to-morrow morning, on account of
the public hearings appointed for this day.
Agreeable to the order of the day proceeded to the hearing of
sundry petitions, but carae to no deterraination.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Proceeded to the hearing of several parties on their petitions, but
the deterraination postponed 'tih to-raorrow.
Voted, That the hearings on the reraainder of the petitions which
were to have been this week before the General-Court, be postponed
to Tuesday next, of which, all persons concerned, are to take notice,
and govern themselves accordingly. Sent uj) by Mr. Plummer.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
FRIDAY, February io, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act to confirm a donation that the pious design of the donor
raay not be perverted, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Wentworth and Capt. Marsh.
Voted, That Col. Waldron, Mr. Prentice, Mr. Pluraraer, Col.
Payne and Gen. Dow, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall
join, be a coraraittee to consider of a bill presented for the repair of
Newraarket Bridge, and report such alterations and araendraents as
they raay judge necessary. Sent up by Capt. Douglass.
* Upon reading and considering the petition of Edward * 1 3 : 56
Sraith, voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before
the General-Court, on Friday next, and that sorae time before Tues
day next, the petitioner cause that Capt. Joseph Kelley of Notting
ham West, be served with a copy of the petition and order of court
thereon, [by giving the Sarae to him or leaving the Sarae at his usual
place of abode,] that he may appear and show cause (if any he hath)
why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Gen. Dow.
' Voted, That Mr. M'Murphy, Col. Gilraan, Mr. Wallace, Capt. Cop
land and Col. Whipple, [with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall
join] be a coraraittee to consider of the petitions from New-Castle,
also the petition of the selectmen of Warren (praying for abate
ment of taxes) [and report thereon.] Sent up by Capt. Spaulding.
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Upon hearing and considering the petition of Samuel Bayley,'
praying for the priviledge of a ferry, voted. That the prayer thereof
be granted, and that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
Sent up by Mr. Page.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Gen. Benjamin Bel-
lows% praying for the privUedge of a ferry, voted, That the prayer
thereof be granted, and that he have leave to bring in a bUl accord
ingly. Sent up by Mr. Page.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Zebulon Marsh
praying that the Justices of the Superior-Court of Judicature may
be enabled to make up a certain judgement in an action heretofore
given in his favour, voted, that the prayer thereof be granted, and
that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Page.
3 Upon hearing and considering the petition of Major John Young;''
praying to be restored to his law in a certain action, voted. That
the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to bring in a
bUl accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Page.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Ebenezer Torry,
praying to be restored to his law in a certain action,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Page.
The hon. Senate and House being [again] raet in coraraittee of the
whole, agreeable to adjournraent. His Excellency the President, in
the chair, adjourned to three o'clock, P. M. and the Speaker resumed
the chair.
*I3:57 * Upon reading [hearing] and considering the petition
of Major Joseph KimbaU^, praying for the priviledge of
a ferry, voted. That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have
leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Page.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Nicholas Austin,*
respecting sorae of the inhabitants of Middletown, Voted, That the
petition be dismissed.
Upon hearing [and considering] the petition of Oliver Lawrence,,
and Benjarain Cummings,
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Gen. Sullivan, and Col. Payne, be a
comraittee to consider of said petition, and report thereon. [Mss. re
port their Opinion on said Petition.] Sent up by Major Gains.
Upon hearing the petitions of John Pickering [Jun'] and Henry
Kenniston, Voted, That Col. Bartlett, Mr. McMurphy and Mr. Means,.
2. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 386. i. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 608.
3. This paragraph and the one following are reversed in the manuscript.
4. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 183. 5. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 205. 6. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 737-

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with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to
consider of the [said] petition and report thereon. Sent up by Major Gains..
Voted, That Col. Sirapson, Col. Payne and Col. Shepherd, with
such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to con
sider of the petition of John Neal and James McGregore, Esq. alsa
[and] the petition of Charles Clapham, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
Yoted, That Mr. E. Pickering, Col. Payne and Col. Gilraan, with
such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to con
sider of the petition of Capt. Moses Woodward ; also, the account
of Col. Supply Clap, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
Voted, That the account of Thoraas Shannon, araounting to seven
pounds fifteen shiUings and one penny one farthing, be allowed and
paid out of the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Col. Badger.
Yoted, That the account of Samuel Penhallow, Esq. araounting to
three pounds for his attendance as a Special Justice of the Superior-
Court, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the Pres
ident. Sent up by Col. Badger.
Yoted, That Col. Wentworth, Mr. Prentice, Major Wallace, Major
Whitcorab and Col. Payne, with such of the hon. Senate as they
shall join, be a coramittee to bring in a bill for regulating the tiraes.
and places for holding the several Courts of Probate within this state.
Sent up by Col. Badger.
* Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M. * 13 : 58.
Met accordingly.
The hon. Senate and House being [again] raet in coramittee of the
whole, agreeable to adjournment, His Excellency the President, in;
the chair, again took under consideration the propriety of repealing the
Navigation Act, and came to the following vote : Voted, That Gen.
SuUivan, Gen. Peabody, Mr J. Pickering, Col. McClary, President
Langdon, Mr. Sparhawk and Col. Simpson, be a sub-comraittee to.
consider of said act and report thereon. The committee then rose,.
with leave to sit again, and the Speaker resumed the chair.
The House then adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
SATURDAY, February ii, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
The hon. Senate and House being again met in comraittee of the
whole, His Excellency the President, in the chair, resuraed the con>-
sideration of the propriety of repealing the Navigation Act, and

496 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Voted, That said act be not repealed in chief. Voted, That Gen. Pea
body, Gen. Sullivan, Gen. Dow, Col. Wentworth, Mr. Sparhawk, Mr
Prentice and Col. Payne be a sub-comraittee to take under consider
ation the said Navigation Act, and report such alterations and
amendments as they raay judge necessary :
Proceeded to take under consideration the requisition of Congress,
of the 27th of September, 1785 ; and after some debate thereon,
agreed to postpone the further consideration thereof 'till the commit
tee raeet again. The coramittee then rose, with leave to sit again, and
the Speaker resumed the chair.
Voted, That Col. Bartlett, Gen Sullivan, Major M^eans, Capt. Sum
ner and Col. Whipple, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall
join, be a coraraittee to consider of a vote passed the last session
of the General-Court, for establishing a Post from Portsmouth,
through certain Towns in this State, and report such alterations and
amendments as they may judge necessary. Sent up by Mr. Griffin.
Voted, ThatMr. J. GUraan, Mr. Adams, and Mr. KendaU, with
such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Jonathan Woodcock, and all similar matters,
and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Griffin.
* 13 : 59 * Yoted, That the account exhibited by the selectmen of
Alstead, araounting to sixteen shillings and seven pence,
for taxes on the estate of Simon Baxter, an absentee, be aUowed by
discount, out of the taxes due from said Alstead, and that the Treas
urer govern hiraself accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Griffin.
Adjourned to Monday next three o'clock P. M.
MONDAY, February 13, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Read several bills for the first time.
Read a petition frora sundry [Several] towns and voted that said
petition and all simUar matters be considered in comraittee of the
whole. Adjourned to nine o'clock tomorrow raorning.
TUESDAY, February 14, 1786
The House raet according to adjournraent.
The hon. Senate and House being again raet in coraraittee of the
whole, his Excellency the President, in the chair, again took under
consideration the requisition of Congress, of the 27"' of September,
1785, and after some debate thereon, came to the following vote :

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Voted, That Gen. Peabody, President Langdon, Gen. Sullivan, Gen.
Dow, M' J. Pickering, Col. Payne and Col. Bellows, be a subcomrait-
tee to consider of [the] said requisition, also, [to] consider of ways and
raeans for complying with said requisition, and report a bill for that
purpose. Proceeded to consider of a petition from the towns of
Plainfield, Lebanon, Cornish, Hanover, Canaan and Cardigan ; and
after some debate thereon, postponed the further consideration
thereof 'tiU the afternoon : The committee then rose, with leave to sit
again, and the Speaker resumed the chair.
The House then adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
The hon. Senate and House being again met in coramittee of the
whole, His Excellency the President, in the chair, resumed the con
sideration of the petition of Plainfield, &c. and
Voted, To refer the further consideration thereof, to a committee of
both houses, [appointed] in their separate branches: — the cora
mittee then rose, with leave to sit again, and the Speaker resuraed
the chair.
* Agreeable to the order of the day, heard several par- * 1 3 : 60
ties on their petitions, but came to no determination thereon.
Yoted, That the reraainder of the petitions, which were to have
been heard this day, be postponed 'till to-raorrow, of which, all persons
concerned, are to take [due] notice, and govern themselves accord
ingly. Sent up by M' Foss.
Adjourned to nine o'clock toraorrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, February 15, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act to incorporate a certain part of Holies, with the inhabit
ants of Raby, was read a third time, and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by M' Pickering and M' McMurphy.
Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Major Whitcomb, Col. Waldron, Mr.
Means and Gen. Dow, be a committee to nominate to this House
fourteen proper persons, out of whora, for seven to be appointed a
coraraittee to consider of the petition of Plainfield, Lebanon, Cor
nish, &c.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of the wardens of
Queen's Chapel,' [in Portsraouth,]
Yoted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that they have
leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Col. Green.
Voted, That the hearing, on the petition of George Clark, which was
I. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 297.

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to have been this session, be postponed to the third Wednesday of
the next session of the General Court, and that in the mean time,
the petitioner cause that the selectmen of the east parish of London
derry, be served with a copy of the petition and order of court there
on, that they may then appear and shew cause ( if any they have) why
the prayer thereof raay not be granted. Sent up by Col. Green.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of William Fowler, ¦
praying to be restored to his law in a certain action of trespass, in
which George Jaffrey, Esq. recovered of the petitioner three shillings
and nine pence daraage, and upwards of ninety pounds cost,
*i3:6i which was recovered on a review at the Superior * Court
of Judicature, in March 1774, raotion was made that the
prayer of the petition be granted, and the yeas and nays being re
quired were as follows :

Yeas.
Col. White,
Mr. Jenness,
Col. Bartlett,
Mr. Glidden,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Dustin,
Mr. Knowles,
Capt. Harper,
Mr. [Docf] Brackett,
Mr. Marsh,
Mr. Adams,
Capt Spaulding,
Mr. M. Wallace,
Mr. Jackman, Nays.
Col. Toppan,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Plummer,
Col. Hill,
Mr. Bartlett,
Mr. Betton,
Col. Gilman,
Col. Tash,
Mr. McGregore,
Capt. Douglass,
Mr. Darling,

Yeas.
Mr. Grout,
Mr. Willard,
Mr. Frink,
Mr. Griffin,
Maj. Kimball,
Mr. [Gen>] Dow,
Mr. Sanborn,
Capt. Eastman,
Mr. Barnard,
Maj. Batcheldor,
Col. Welch,
Col. Waldron,
Mr. Foss,
Col. Badger, Nays.
Mr. Smith,
Maj. Whitcomb,
Capt. Sumner,
Mr. Freeman,
Col. Whipple,
Maj. Gains,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. Prentice,
Mr. E. Pickering,
Maj. Weeks,
Mr. Butler.

Yeas.
Mr. Libbey,
Mr. Taylor,
Col. Putnam,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. J. Dow,
Mr. Harvey,
Col. Shepherd,
Capt. Hooper,
Capt. Copland,
Mr. Kendall,
Mr. Hoyt,
Mr. Young,

Nays.
Col. McMillan,
Capt. French,
Mr. Emerson,
Mr. R. Wallace,
Mr. Bryant,
Mr. Hall,
Mr. Jewett,
Col. Payne,
Col. Simpson,

Yeas 40, — Nays 3 1 .
So the prayer of said [the] petition was granted, and the petitioner
hath leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Col. Green.

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Upon hearing and considering the petition of Oliver Wright, Voted,
That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to bring
in a biU [Resolve] accordingly. Sent up by Col. Green.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Agreeable to the order of the day, heard several parties on their
petitions, but the determination was postponed 'tUl tomorrow raorn
ing. Voted, That the remainder of the hearings which were to have
been this day before the General-Court, be postponed to Tuesday
next, of which, all concerned, are to take notice, and govern them
selves accordingly. Sent up by Col. Green.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to morrow morning.
* THURSDAY, February 16, 1786. ^13:62
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Gen. Sullivan, Gen. Dow, Col. Shepherd, Col. Top-
pan, Major Wallace, Mr. J. Gilman and Mr. J. Dow, with such of the
hon. Senate as they shall join, be a committee to consider of the pe
tition of Plainfield, Lebanon, &c. and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
Voted, That the account exhibited by the selectmen of Marlbor
ough, amounting to fifteen shillings and ten pence [three farthings]
for taxes on lands of Elijah WiUiaras, Esq. an absentee, be allowed by
discount out of the taxes due frora said Marlborough, and that the
Treasurer govern hiraself accordingly. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Barnabas Barker,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to
bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
The coraraittee appointed by the General-Court, on the 17"" of
June last, for carrying into effect the report of a coraraittee appointed
for considering the report of the coramittee on the settleraent of the
Treasurer's accounts, respecting burning certificates &c. Reported,
That they have received from the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq. one of
the comraittee for settling the Treasurer's accounts, certificates and
notes as follows, viz.
In certificates, dated July 31^' 1782, for nine thou,sand, nine hun
dred and sixteen pounds sixteen shillings and eleven pence : In certi
ficates dated July 31=' 1783, five thousand, six hundred and eighty-
seven pounds seventeen shUlings and ten pence : In certificates
dated July 31=' 1784, three thousand, two hundred and sixty-nine
pounds fourteen shillings.

500 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l/SS
The above certificates were issued for interest and orders.
In certificates dated July 31^' 1784, twelve thousand nine hundred
and ninety-six pounds ten shillings and ten pence, issued for payraent
of fifteen per cent on State Securities.
* 13:63 * STATE NOTES.
Consolidated Notes, for six thousand one hundred and seven
pounds five shillings and eight pence.
In Depreciation Notes, three thousand four hundred and fifty-six
pounds eleven shUlings.
[In] Bounty Notes, four thousand nine hundred and sixty pounds.
Notes for raoney borrowed, and horses purchased, reported by the
committee, nineteen thousand one hundred and thirty-six pounds nine
shillings. We have likewise received from the committee. Notes as follows,
not reported by them. No. 134, one Note of [for] seven hundred
pounds ; one ditto No 125 for three thousand three hundred pounds ;
both these Notes were given for horses purchased ; three Bounty
Notes of [at] five pounds each ; Two Notes for money borrowed, viz.
one for sixteen pounds, the other for six pounds nine shiUings, amount
ing to twenty-two pounds nine shillings : likewise sundry Notes, on
which not more than forty shillings were due, redeemed by Certifi
cates agreeable to an act of the State araounting to fifty-four pounds
six shillings and ninepence — AU which Notes and Certificates we
have caused to be burnt in our presence.
We have delivered in the Treasurer's [Treasury] office sixteen
thousand one hundred dollars, old Continental Currency, and eight
een thousand three hundred and fifty-three dollars of the New Emis
sion, for which we have taken a receipt.
We have delivered to Nathaniel Gilraan, Esq. Loan-Officer, five
thousand five hundred and eighty-two pounds six shillings and eight
pence in Certificates, issued [by hira] for payment of Interest on Loan-
Office certificates ( which have been redeemed by the Treasurer ) and
for which we have taken his receipt : — These receipts, together with
aU the vouchers and documents, respecting the Treasurer's accounts
that have been delivered to us by the committee, we have delivered
to Josiah Gilraan, Esq. ComptroUer of accounts and one of your com
mittee. Exeter, July i" 1785. Signed Joseph Gilraan,
Thomas Bartlett,
Josiah GUraan, jun.
Which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received
and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.

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* Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. J. GUraan and Major * 13 : 64
Gains, with such of the hon. Senate as they shaU join, be
a committee to consider of the petition of Col. Azariah Webb,' and
report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Voted, That Col. Hill, Mr. Adams and Col. Bartlett, with such of
the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to consider of the
petition of Major John Young,^ and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Yoted, That Mr. Betton, Mr. Darling and Mr. Frink, with such of
the hon. Senate as they shall join be a coraraittee to consider of the
[petition of the] selectmen of Newport, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
The coramittee to consider of the petition of David Daniels, &c.
reported, That the sale of the estate of the said David Daniels, men
tioned in his petition, be suspended until the first day of June next,
he paying to the Sheriff of Strafford, in whose hands the extent
against hira now is, the full one half of the amount thereof, on or be
fore the first day of March next, and the residue on or before the said
first day of June signed John Wentworth, for the committee ; which
report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and ac
cepted. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Voted, That Mr. J. Pickering, Mr. Sparhawk, and Col. Simpson
with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of Joanna Chapman, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
The comraittee on the petition of John Pickering, jun. and Henry
Kenniston, reported, That they find the facts set forth in the peti
tions of [the] said Pickering and Kenniston, well established, that the
sales of the lands therein raentioned were unfair and illegal, and that
the said sales ought to be vacated, That the petitioners ought to be
restored to their respective possessions, and that they have leave to
bring in a bUl [or bills for that purpose] accordingly, signed John
Wentworth, for the committee, which report being read and consid
ered, Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
* Voted, That Major Young, Gen. Dow, and Mr. McGre- * 13 : 65
gore, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a
committee to consider of the petition of Hugh TaUant, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Susanna Dodge,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General-
Court on the third Wednesday of the next session, and that in the
I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 194. i- xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 183.

502 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
mean tirae, the petitioner cause that James Taggart and the owner of
the land ( mentioned in said petition ) be served with a copy of the
petition and order of Court thereon, that they, or either of them may
then appear and shew cause ( if any they have ) why the prayer there
of may not be granted. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Debated on public bills.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to morrow morning.
FRIDAY, February 17, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
An Act for laying a fine on delinquent Sheriffs and Town Clerks,
was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Waldron and Major KirabaU.
Upon a second reading of a bill entitled, "An act to encourage the
erecting of raiUs for slitting, rolling, and plating iron ; Furnaces for
casting iron ; Furnaces for making steel and glass, and to encourage
and promote the manufacturing of nails within this State."
[On] motion [was] made for an amendraent in the last clause in
[of] said bih which is,
'And be it further enacted. That it shall and may be lawful for aU
and every person or persons (native or foreign) to ship, 'lade, enter,
transport or export out of this State into any part of the world in
amity with the United States, glass, wrought steel and every kind of
wrought iron, and cast iron free from any custora or iraposition what
ever," which araendraent proposed, was in the following words (to
follow the word foreigner) except vessels owned by the subjects of
Great Britain, which exception shall continue no longer than till a
treaty of coraraerce shall take place between the United States and
Great Britain : — The yeas and nays being called on the proposed
araendment, were as follows :
* 1 3 : 66
Yeas. Yeas. Yeas.
Mr. J. Pickering, Maj. Whitcomb, Mr. Adams,
Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Jewett, Capt. Spaulding,
Mr. E. Pickering, Mr. Griffin, Mr. M. Wallace,
Capt. Eastman, Mr. Kendall, Mr. Smith,
Col. Hill, Gen. Dow, Mr. Grout,
Col. Welch, Maj. Gains, Mr. Gilmore,

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503

Yeas.
Mr. Taylor,
Mr. Means,
Col. Putnam,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. Jackman,

Mr. McMurphy,
Maj. Weeks,
Capt. Morril,
Mr. Ghdden,
Capt. Marsh,
Mr. McGregore.

Capt. Copland,
Mr. Parkman,
Col. Payne,
Col. Whipple,

Nays.
Mr. Prentice,
Col. White,
Col. Leavitt,
Col. Wiggin,
Mr. Plummer,
Mr. Barnard,
Col. Green,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Betton,
Col. Waldron,
Mr. Knowles,
Capt. Harper,
Dr. Brackett,
Mr. Libbey,

Nays.
Col. McMillan,
Capt. Douglass,
Mr. Darling,
Mr. Harvey,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. N. Young,
Col. Simpson,
Gen. Sullivan,
Mr. Jenness,
Col. Toppan,
Mr. Shaw,
Col. Bartlett,
Maj. Batcheldor,
Mr. Bartlett,

Yeas 34, — Nays 42.

Nays.
Mr. Dustin,
Mr. Butler,
Col. Wentworth,
Mr. Foss,
Col. Badger,
Col. Gilman,
Col. Tash,
Capt. French,
Mr. J. Dow,
Mr. Bryant,
Mr. Hall,
Capt. Sumner,
Mr. Hoyt,
Maj. Young.

So it passed in the negative.
[On] Motion [was then] made to accept the said last clause in said
biU as it stands : — The yeas and nays being required were as fol
lows, (viz.)

Teas.
Gen. Sullivan,
Col. White,
Mr. Leavitt,
Mr. Sanborn,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. T. Bartlett,
Mr. Glidden,
Mr. Green,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Betton,
Mr. Waldron,
Mr. Knowles,
Mr. Badger,
Mr. Gilman,
Mr. Tash,
Mr. Douglass,

Yeas.
Mr. Darling,
Mr. Harvey,
Mr. Gilmore,
Mr. Sumner,
Mr. Kimball,
Mr. Hoyt,
Mr. N. Young,
Mr. Works,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Prentice,
Mr. Plummer,
Mr. Dustin,
Mr. Harper,
Mr. J. Dow,
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. Barnard.

Mr. Butler,
Mr. Brackett,
Mr. Bryant,
Mr. Toppan,
Mr. Batcheldor,
Mr. Wentworth,
Mr. Libbey,
Mr. Hall,
Mr. Wiggin,
Mr. R. Bartlett,
Mr. Foss,
Mr. McMillan,
Mr. Simpson,
Mr. J. Young,

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Nays.
Maj. Gains,
Mr. N. Batcheldor,
Mr. Morrill,
Mr. French,
Mr. Adams,
Mr. M. Wallace,
Mr. Grout,
Mr. Frink,
Mr. Parkman,
Mr. Whipple,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. McMurphy,
Mr. Hill,

Nays.
Mr. Taylor,
Mr. Putnam.
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. Shepherd,
Mr. Holmes,
Mr. Kendall,
Mr. J. Pickering,
Maj. Works,
Mr. Welch,
Mr. i\IcGregore,
Mr. Spaulding,
Mr. Smith,
^Ir. Whitcomb.

Nays.
Mr. Copland,
Mr. Payne,
Mr. E. Pickering,
Mr. Eastman.
Mr. Marsh,
Mr. Means,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Jackman,
Mr. Jewett,
Mr. Griffin,
Mr. Dow,

Yeas 46, — Nays 17.
So it was accepted as it stood.
*I3 : 67 * Whereas, an act passed at the session of this Court held
in June last, entitled, " An act for the regulation of Navi
gation and Coraraerce '' was passed upon a supposition that the other
States in the union would adopt the sarae, which not being as
yet done, Therefore,
Voted, That the operation of the said act be and hereby is sus
pended until aU the other New England States and the State of New
York shall adopt simUar acts, and that a bill be brought in accord
ingly. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
An act to alter the time of holding the annual meetings in the
town of Packersfield, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Waldron and Mr. [Maj'] Kimball.
The comraittee on the petition of Daniel Gookin,' reported that
depreciation be raade up to him for his wages from 6th of May i777i
to March 19th, 1779, on the difference of wages of Sergeant and
Ensign, if it has not been already done, signed, M. Thornton for the
committee, which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be
received and accepted, and that the committee on depreciation gov
ern themselves accordingly. Sent up by Mr. McMurphy.
The coramittee on the petition of Col. Azariah Webb,"" reported
that the town of Piermont be allowed the sum of five thousand three
hundred and ninety-three pounds, ten shillings, old continental mon
ey [currency,] towards their outstanding taxes as it appears that said
sura was paid! to Major Jonathan ChUd, by said Webb, Constable of
said town. Anno [Domini,] 1780, and that said ChUd has credited the
sarae sura in his account settled, although his receipt for the same is
lost (provided it shall appear by the Treasurer's Books that said sum

x> xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 87,

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has not been heretofore [before] allowed) and that his Excellency the
President, give order accordingly. Signed, George Atkinson for the
coraraittee ; which report being read and considered. Voted, That it
be received and accepted. Sent up by Gen. Dow.
Voted, That Major Whitcorab, Col. Bartlett, and Col. HUl, with
such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to consid
er of the petition of David Currier, and report thereon.
Sent up by Gen. Dow.
Voted, That Col. Joshua Wentworth deduct the seventh part out
of the rum tax of [for] 1781, for [from] the towns of Lerapster
and Croyden, and the fourth part out of the town of
Marlow, *as the Treasurer was ordered out of their other * 13 : 68
taxes for the sarae year, as may [more] fully appear from
the Journals of the General-Court of October 1783, and AprU 1784.
Sent up by Capt. Copland.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jacob Copland, in be
half of the town of Stoddard, praying that an order might [may] is
sue directing the Treasurer to cancel the beef tax against said town
for the year 1 780, as the whole of said beef was paid, and they took a
receipt therefor, which receipt is lost, though the credit in.tbe receiv
er's book is full in favor of said town, Voted, That the prayer there
of be granted, and that the President issue an order accordingly.
Sent up by Capt. Copland.
The coramittee on the petition of Hugh TaUant, praying to be re
stored to his law in a certain action, reported that the said TaUant
have leave to bring in a bill for staying the execution against him and
for restoring him to his law as prayed for in his petition, signed John
Wentworth for the committee, which report being read and consid
ered, Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Capt. Copland.
Adjourned, to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
An act to impower the Superior-Court of Judicature to render
complete and perfect judgement for damages and costs, in an action
brought at said Court by Zebulon Marsh against Edward Hilton, and
to award execution thereon, was read a third time and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Major Young and Capt. Marsh.
An Act to encourage the Erecting of Mills for Slitting, rolling and
plating Iron — Furnaces for raaking Steel and Glass, & to encourage &
promote the Manufacturing of Nails within this State, was read a
third time and passed to be Enacted. Sent up by Maj' Young & Cap' Marsh.
Agreeable to the order of the day, heard the petition of Edward
33

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Sraith, but the deterraination thereof was postponed 'till to-raorrow
raorning. Adjourned to 9 o'clock to raorrow morning.
* 13:69 * SATURDAY, February 18, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Yoted, That Gen. Dow, Col. Bartlett and Mr. McGregore, with
such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to consid
er of the petition of Jereraiah Eames, Esq. and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Whipple.
The comraittee on the petition of Plainfield, Lebanon and other
towns on Connecticut River, reported the following resolve : Where
as, it is represented that sundry towns on the east side of Connecti
cut River, within that territory (coramonly called the New Hamp
shire Grants) furnished supplies of men, provisions and other articles
to the Continental Array, and in the necessary defence of the fron
tiers, which for want of seasonable and regular returns, and for want
of opportunity on their part to avail themselves of such other evidence
(as the nature of their different circurastances adrait no allowance for
said articles or adjustraents of their clairas has yet taken place) and
that raany of those towns have been dooraed to pay taxes far exceed
ing the suras which their inventories would warrant if thev had been
seasonably returned and lodged, which owing to a varietyof causes,
was not done : And whereas, extents are now out against a number
of those towns, and others are about to issue against many of the re
maining towns without any adjustment of their deraands for allow
ance or deterraination upon their claims of exemption from any part
of said tax :
And whereas, a fair and equitable adjustment of their respective
demands and decision upon their various claims will tend to perpetu
ate that harmony and confidence among the good subjects of this
State, which now so happily subsists between them, and is so essen
tial to give energy to a republican government :
And as the various clairas are too coraplicated to receive an equit
able decision, or have a fair and candid exaraination, [deterraination]
upon all of thera during the session of this Court,
Therefore, Resolved, That the Hon. John SuUivan, John Calf and
Moses Dow, Esq's, be and hereby are appointed Commis-
* 13 : 70 sioners during the session of this Court, and in the * recess
thereof, to hear and consider the claims of the several
Towns aforesaid, and report to the General-Court, at this session, or
at the next session thereof, on the first Wednesday of June next, and

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507

that they give seasonable notice in one of the New-Harapshire Pa
pers, of the times and places for hearing and deterraining the several
[and] respective clairas of said Towns, which cannot be adjusted dur
ing this session ; and that no further Extents be issued against said
Towns until further order of the General-Court, and that the execu
tion of those already issued, be suspended untU the third Wednesday
of June next. Also,
Resolved, That Josiah Gilman, Esq. be and hereby is appointed
Agent for the State, whose business it shall be to appear in behalf of
the sarae, at the several times and places which may be notified as
aforesaid, for the examination of the said claims to offer any objec
tions, in behalf of the State, against the allowance of any demands
which he may think unjust or unreasonable. Sent up by Major Young.
The Hon. Senate and House being again met in comraittee of the
whole, his Excellency the President, in the chair, took under consid
eration the report of the sub-coramittee, on the requisition of Con
gress of the 27th of September, and after sorae debate thereon,
agreed to refer the consideration thereof to the legislature in their
separate branches ; after which his Excellency the President, with ad
vice of Council, requested the opinion of the two branches of the leg
islature, whether the seat of the chief Justice is becorae vacant by his
accepting a Commission under the authority of this State, as a Dele
gate to the Congress of the United States.
After referring the consideration [thereof] to the legislature in
their separate branches — The comraitte [then] rose, with leave to
sit again, and the Speaker resumed the chair.
Upon a hearing on the petition of Edward Smith, raotion was
made that the petition be disraissed : —
The yeas and nays being required were as follows, (viz.)

Yeas.
Gen. Sullivan,
Maj. Gains,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Col. Toppan,
Col. Welch,
Mr. Butler,
Mr. Gilman,
Mr. Marsh,
Mr. M"Gregore,
Nays.
Mr. McMurphy,
Mr. Sanborn,
Mr. Batcheldor,

Mr. R. Wallace,
Mr. Frink,
Mr. Griffin,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Plummer,
Mr. Barnard,
Mr. N. Batcheldor,
Mr. Dustin,
Capt. Harper,
Nays.
Col. Shepherd,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. N. Young,

* 13 :7i
Yeas.
Mr. McMillan,
Mr. Taylor,
Mr. Adams,
Mr. Grout,
Capt. Copland,
Col. Payne,
Maj. [M' J.] Young,

Nays.
Mr. Douglass,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Duncan,

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[1786

Nays.
Mr. Hill,
Mr. Betton,
Maj. Wentworth,
Col. Badger,
Mr. Libbey,
Mr. Putnam,
Mr. M. Wallace,
Mr. J. Dow,
Mr. Smith,

Nays.
Mr. Holmes,
Mr. Hoyt,
Mr. Jenness,
Col. Wiggin,
Capt. Morrill,
Mr. Glidden,
Col. Waldron,
Mr. Foss,
Mr. Brackett,

Nays.
Mr. Darling,
Mr. Harvey,
Maj. Whitcomb,
Mr. Gilmore,
Mr. Powers,
Mr. Kendall,
Maj. Kimball,

Yeas 25 — -Nays 34 — So it passed in the negative. [So the Mo
tion did not prevail.]
Motion was then made that the prayer of said petition be granted,
and the yeas and nays being required, were as follows, (viz.)

Yeas.
Mr. McMurphy,
Mr. Sanborn,
Mr. Batcheldor,
Col. Hill,
Mr. Betton,
Mr. Wentworth,
Col. Badger,
Mr. Libbey,
Mr. Putnam,
Mr. M. Wallace,
Mr. J. Dow,
Nays.
Maj. Gains,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. Plumraer,
Mr. Batcheldor,
Mr. Dustin,
Col. Gilman,
Mr. Marsh,
Mr. McGregore,

Mr. Smith,
Col. Shepherd,
Mr. Gilmore,
Mr. Powers,
Mr. Kendall,
Mr. Hoyt,
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. Wiggin,
Capt. Morril,
Mr. Glidden,
Col. Waldron,
Nays.
Mr. R. Wallace,
Mr. Frink,
Mr. Griffin,
Mr. Young,
Gen. Sullivan,
Mr. Shaw.
Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Butler,

Yeas.
Mr. Foss,
Mr. Brackett,
Capt. Douglass,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. Darling,
Mr. Harvey,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. N. Young,
Mr. Holmes,
Mr. Kimball.
Nays.
Col. McMillan,
Mr. Taylor,
Mr. Adams,
Mr. Grout,
Capt. Copland,
Mr. Payne,

Yeas 33 — Nays 22 — So the prayer thereof was granted, and the
petitioner hath leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Major Young.
Adjourned to Monday next at three o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, February 20, 1786
The House met according to adjournment.
* 13 : 72 * Voted, That Thursday the sixth day of AprU next, be
observed and kept as a Day of Public Fasting throughout

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 509
this State, and that his ExceUency the President, with advice of Coun
cil, issue a Proclaraation for that purpose. Sent up by Mr. J. Dow.
The committee on the petition of Benjarain Suraner, and all similar
matters, to whom was referred the petition of Jonathan Blake,' [Esq']
in behalf of the town of Landaff, reported, that they find one Edward
Marden was hired, and did actually serve as a soldier in Whitcomb's
corps, during the war, for and in behalf of the said town of Landaff;
and the said Marden not belonging to the quota of any other town,
the committee are of opinion, that said town have credit for said
Marden, the sura of sixty pounds, and the interest thereof, as charged
in an extent lately issued against said town for the deficiency of one
soldier, the said town paying the Sheriffs fees, and that the Treas
urer take order accordingly ; signed Nathaniel Peabody, for the com
mittee, which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be re
ceived and accepted. Sent up by Mr. J. Dow.
An act to confirm the title of a certain tract of land in Rindge, to
Barnabas Barker, his Heirs and Assigns, was read a third tirae and
passed to be enacted. Sent up by Mr. Sparhawk and Mr. Pickering.
Voted, That Col. Payne, Mr. Duncan and Col. Wiggin, with such
of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a committee to consider of
the petition of John WendaU, Esq. and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Foss.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Joshua Foss, Esquire,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to
bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Foss.
Adjourned to nine o'clock tomorrow raorning.
TUESDAY, February 21, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
Voted, That Mr. [J.] GUraan, Mr. R. Wallace and Gen. Dow, with
such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee
* to consider of the petition of Plainfield, Lebanon, Cor- *I3:73
nish, Hanover, Canaan, and Cardigan : also the petition of
Bath and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Sparhawk.
Voted, That Major Gains, Gen. Sullivan, Mr. Taylor, Major Whit
comb, Col. Payne, [Mr. Pickering] and Gen. Dow, with such of the hon.
Senate, as they shall join, be a coramittee to consider what sum is
necessary to be raised for the expenditures of the current year ; also,
in what manner it shall be paid, and report a supply bill for that pur
pose. Sent up by Mr. Sparhawk.
I. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 364.

510 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Voted, That Col. White, Col. Waldron, Major Means, Mr. Jewett
and Col. Payne, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a
comraittee to consider of the petition of Doctor Jonathan Gove and
report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Parkman.
Voted, That three hundred copies of the act for laying a fine on de
linquent Sheriffs and Town Clerks, be printed in hand-bUls and dis
persed as soon as raay be ; one to each town and parish, and one to
each raeraber of the legislature, and that the Secretary be desired to
see the sarae accomplished. Sent up by Mr. Parkman.
The coramittee on the petition of Major Joseph KirabaU, in behalf
of the town of Plainfield, reported, that the Treasurer receive the pa
per bills mentioned in said petition, and account for them at the val
ue of the araount in the year 1779, Signed Joshua Wentworth for the
coraraittee ; which report being read and considered. Voted, That it
be received and accepted, and that the Treasurer govern himself ac
cordingly. Sent up by Mr. Parkman.
The coraraittee on the petition of the town of Newport, reported,
That the Treasurer be ordered to credit said town for fifty [four]
pounds, agreeable to an order signed by the President, in favour of
Newport, with the interest thereon, [on said Order] for three years
and six [seven] raonths, amounting to eleven pounds eleven shiUings
and eight pence, signed Otis Baker for the comraittee, which report
being read and considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. Parkman.
Voted, That Mr. McMurphy, Mr. Foss, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Kendall
and Col. Sirapson, with such of the hon. Senate as they
*I3:74 shall * join, be a coraraittee to consider of the petition of
Hugh M'Kean and Alexander Brown, also the petition of
John MUls, [and others, and all Similar matters] and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Parkman.
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Major Weeks, Major Whitcomb, Mr. Ad
aras, and Mr. M. Wallace, with such of the hon. Senate as they shaU
join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Gen. James Reed,
and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Parkman.
The Committee on the petition of Benjamin Suraner, and all simi
lar raatters, to whom was referred the petition of the Selectmen of
the town of WendaU ' (formerly called Saville) reported, that they
find Williara Lang, a Continental Soldier for the war, who appears to
have been an inhabitant of said town, and does not appear to have
been clairaed by any other town ; your comraittee are therefore of
opinion that said town of WendaU be credited the sura of sixty pounds
for said Lang, together with the interest charged in the extent for
I. xiii. Ham Town Papers, 500.

1786] journal of THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 5II
one raan, they satisfying the Sheriff for his fees, and that the Treas
urer take order accordingly : Your comraittee beg leave further to
report that the selectraen of said WendaU, claira one Williara Sisco,
who was hired by the town of Croydon, into the service, and returned
during the war.
That by the rules established by the General-Court for deterrain
ing double returns of soldiers, the town of WendaU cannot be credited
for said WiUiam Sisco, unless the town of Croydon rehnquish their
claim to him : signed Joseph GUman, forthe comraittee, which report
being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Parkman.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
An act in addition to an act entitled, "An act to establish an equit
able method of making Rates and Taxes, and determining who shall
be legal Voters in Town and Parish affairs, and also for repealing cer
tain acts herein after mentioned " and to explain certain clauses
thereof ; was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.'
Sent up by Mr. Sparhawk and Col. Sirapson.
* The committee on the petition of Benjamin Sumner, *I3: 75
and simUar matters, to whora was referred the petition of the
Selectraen of Orford,^ reported That the Town of Orford be credited
for Jonathan Pratt, Thomas Hazeltine, Ezra Gates and Michael Salter
(Continental Soldiers, not claimed by any other Town) sixty pounds
each, together with the interest, for four Soldiers charged in an Ex
tent issued against said Town, they satisfying the Sheriff for his fees,
and that the Treasurer take order accordingly ; signed Joseph Gilman
for the committee, which report being read and considered, Voted,
That it be received and accepted, [and that the Treasurer govern him
self accordingly.] Sent up by Captain Spaulding.
Whereas, Oliver Wright, of Packersfield, in the county of Chesh
ire, and state aforesaid, hath petitioned the General Court, represent
ing that he recovered judgement, sued out execution and levied the
sarae on certain lands belonging to Breed Batcheldor, late of Packers-
field, aforesaid, Esq. at the tirae of his absconding and going to the
eneray ; but the sarae land was before confiscated, which the said
Wright did not then know, and has been since sold by the agent ap
pointed by the [this] State for the use thereof, by which means he
can receive [recover] no benefit by his levy : Wherefore, he prayed
[for] leave to exhibit his said execution to the Commissioners ap
pointed to receive the clairas against said Batcheldor's estate, and
I In the MS. this vote is entered before the adjournment. 2. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 134,

512 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
that they might be enabled to consider and allow the same ; which
request appearing reasonable : Therefore it is hereby
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened. That said Comraissioners are hereby impowered to
receive, consider and allow said claim, with interest, in case they find
the sarae just, notwithstanding the said execution is returned satis
fied in manner aforesaid. Sent up by Captain Spaulding.
An act to encourage the iraportation of coined gold and silver into
this state, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Major Young and Mr. Sraith.
An act to encourage [the] Artificers and Manufacturers of [and
in] Wool, Iron, Steel, Brass and other raetals : Silk and Hair, to come
and reside in this State, and to pursue those branches of business
which will promote the interest thereof, was read a third time and
passed to be enacted. Sent up by Young and Mr. Smith.
* 1 3 : 76 *An act to encourage the creating [erecting] and contin
uing Mills for making Oyl, Iron-Works, Slitting-Mills, MiUs
for Rolling Iron, Plating-Forges, Steel Furnaces, manufacturing
Houses, Furnaces for Casting Iron, Furnaces for Refining Iron,
Fulling MiUs, Press Houses, Paper-Mills and Powder Mills, was
read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Major Young and Mr. Smith.
An act to encourage the raising of Sheep, Flax and Hemp, and to
encourage the manufacturing of Woolen and Linen Cloth, and mak
ing Sail-Cloth, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. E. Pickering and Mr. McMurphy.
An act for advancing the settlement of this State, and for repeal
ing an act passed the fourth year of the reign of George the First,
entitled, "An act directing the admission of Town Inhabitants, was
read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. E. Pickering and Mr. McMurphy.
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Col. Badger, Mr. Means, Mr. HaU and
Gen. Dow, with such of the hon. Senate as they shaU join, be a com
mittee to consider of the petition of John Pierce, in behalf of John
Fisher, Esq. and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
Upon reading and considering the petition of the selectmen of
Hillsborough, and other inhabitants of said town, praying to be re
stored to their law in a certain cause. Voted, That the petitioners be
heard thereon before the General-Court, on the third Wednesday of
the next session thereof, and that in the raean tirae the petitioners
cause that John McClintock, named in the petition, be served with a
copy of the petition and order of Court thereon, that he may then
appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof may
not be granted. Sent up bv Mr. Prentice.

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The Comraittee on the petition of Thoraas Cristy, reported, that
the said Cristy have and receive out of the Treasury of this State,
the sum of two hundred and twelve pounds seventeen shUlings and
six pence, and that his Excellency the President, give order accord
ingly ; signed George Atkinson for the committee ; which report be
ing read and considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
*The comraittee on the petition of Jonathan Woodcock, * 13 : 77
reported, that he be allowed depreciation of [on] wages, and
[that] the coramittee appointed for that purpose govern themselves
accordingly ; signed Joshua Wentworth, for the comraittee ; which
report being read and considered, Voted, That it be received and ac
cepted. Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
Voted, That the account of the selectraen of Londonderry, araount
ing to twenty-two pounds, four shUlings and eleven pence, be allowed
and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President.
Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
Voted, That the account of Betty Hickey amounting to thirteen
pounds eleven shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
Voted, That Mr. Adams, Mr. McGregore and Mr. Prentice, with
such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to consid
er of the petition of Henry Fields, and all sirailar raatters, and report
thereon. Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Alien WiUard,'
praying for the priviledge of a ferry over Connecticut-River, Voted,
That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General-Court, on
the third Thursday of the next session thereof, and that in the
raean time the petitioner cause that the Selectmen of Hinsdale, be
served with a copy of the petition and order of court thereon, that
they raay then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the
prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by M' Prentice.
Upon reading and considering the petition of James Hubbard,^
praying for the priviledge of a ferry [over Connecticut-River], Voted,
That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General-Court, on
the third Thursday of the next session thereof, and that in the raean
tirae the petitioner cause that the Selectraen of Hinsdale be served
with a copy of the petition and order of court thereon, that they
raay then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer
thereof raay not be granted. Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
On raotion raade to re-consider the vote of the 4th instant, ap-
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514 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^7^6
pointing a day of hearing on the petition of Jereraiah
* 13: 78 * Earaes, Esq. and others, praying that the privUedge
of a ferry over Connecticut River, might be granted to
Thomas Burnside.
Voted, That said vote be re-considered, that the prayer of said
petition be granted, and [that] the petitioner have leave to bring in
a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Sylvanus Reed,'
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the coraraittee
on depreciation govern themselves accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
Voted, That the hearings on the petitions which were to have
been this day, be postponed 'till to-morrow raorning.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, February 22, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Read several Public Bills, and debated thereon.
Adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Calvin Frink, Esq.
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General-Court,
on the third Wednesday of the next session thereof, and that in the
raean tirae the Petitioner cause that Daniel Newcorab, Esq. Attor
ney to Aaron Whitney, be served with a copy of the petition and
order of court thereon, that he raay then appear and shew cause (if
any he hath) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up by Captain Spaulding.
An act to encourage the raaking of Tar and Pitch, and procur
ing Turpentine, within this State, was read a third time and passed
to be enacted. Sent up by Major Weeks and Mr. Pickering.
An act to encourage the raising Wheat, Corn and Grain, within
this State, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Plumraer and Capt. Marsh.
An act to encourage the iraportation of Drugs and Wood, used in
dying Cloths, Artificers Tools, Spanish-Wool, Raw Silk, and other
Raw Materials, was read the [a] third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mi-. Plummer and Capt. Marsh.
* 13 : 79 * An act in addition to an act, directing the admission of
Town Inhabitants, was read a third time and passed to
be enacted. Sent up by Major Weeks and Mr. Pickering.
I. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 675.

1786] journal of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 515
Voted, That Col. Bartlett, Mr. Duncan, Mr. J. Pickering, Mr. J.
Dow, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Green and Mr. Freeman, with such of the
hon. Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to consider what
business is yet necessary to be done at this session, and when this
court shall be adjourned ; also, consider what aUowance shall be
raade his Excellency the President, for his services the current year,
and what salary shaU be given the hon. Judges of the Superior-Court
of Judicature, and what allowance to the Officers of the CivU List ;
Likewise to consider what aUowance shall be made the hon. Council
for their travel and attendance in the recess of the General-Court;
and the Members of the hon. Senate and House of Representatives,
and their Officers, for their travel and attendance at the present ses
sion, and report thereon. Sent up by Major Young.
Voted, That Mr. E. Pickering, Col. Tash and Mr. Frink, with such
of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to consider of
the Memorial of Lemuel Holmes, Esq. and all similar matters and
report thereon. Sent up by Major Young.
The comraittee on the petition of Jereraiah Eames, Esq. reported,
That having considered the petition and Representations of the
towns of Northumberland, Lancaster, Dartraouth and Stratford,
find that the said four towns are situated on the extreme northern
frontiers of this state, and that they were at the commencement
and through the duration of the late war, at a great distance from
other settled towns :
That they were much exposed to the enemy, and frequently at
tacked by [the] scouting parties from Canada, and had many of
their inhabitants carried away and kept [a] long [time] in captivity ;
That the settlement and cultivation of said towns were discour
aged and retarded, and that the greatest part of their Young Men
went into the Continental Array, and the rest deserted said towns :
That the inhabitants of said towns had spent a great part of their
time in scouting and buUding forts and other services, in defence of
said frontier, and that their continuing their settlements and services,
were of great advantage to the state, and prevented the
great expenee that would have attended the * keeping up * 13 : 80
a frontier, had they deserted their habitations.
Your coramittee, therefore, [beg leave to] report, as their unani
raous opinion, that said towns be discharged from all Arrearages
of Taxes for Soldiers, Beef, Rura, and other requisitions on them
by this state, prior to the year 1784; and that the Treasurer be
directed to discharge the same accordingly ; and that said abate
raent or discharge of Taxes, be considered as a full satisfaction
for all accounts of scoutings, alarras, &c. which said towns may have

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[1786

against the state to the present time : signed Francis Worster, for
the committee : which [report] being read and considered, Voted,
That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Sanborn.
Agreeable to the order of the day, heard several parties [persons]
on their petitions, but the determination thereon was postponed.
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Benjamin Tripp, which
was to have been this day, be postponed 'till to-raorrow.
[Adjourned to 9 o'clock to raorrow morning.]
THURSDAY, February 23, 1786.
The House met [according to adjournment] at nine o'clock A. M.
An act to establish certain Irapost Duties on various foreign
articles, imported into this state, was read a third tirae, and the
yeas and nays being called, whether it should pass to be enacted,
were as follow, viz.

Gen. SuUivan,
Maj. Gains,
Mr. Pickering,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. E. Pickering,
Maj. Weeks,
Col. Wiggin,
Mr. Plummer,
Col. Hill,

Yeas.
Col. Bartlett,
Mr. Brackett,
Col. Gilman,
Mr. Libbey,
Col. McMillan,
Mr. N. Young,
Mr. Frink,
Capt. Copland,
Mr. Griffin,

Yeas.
Mr. Parkman,
Mr. Kimball,
Mr. Freeman.
Col. Payne,
Col. Simpson,
Maj. [Mr. J.] Young,
Col. Whipple.

Nays.
Mr. Willard,
Mr. Works,
Mr. Harper,
Mr. Badger,
Mr. Powers,
Mr. Holmes,
Mr. Kendall,
Mr. Hoyt,
Mr. Prentice,
Mr. McMurphy,
Col. White,
Mr. Jenness,
Col. Leavitt,
Col. Toppan,
Mr. Sanborn,
Yeas 25 — Nays 43 ¦
was lost.]

Nays.
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. [N"] Batcheldor,
Capt. Eastman,
Capt. Morrill,
Mr. Barnard,
Maj. Batcheldor,
Col. Welch,
Mr. Butler,
Col. Waldron,
Mr. Knowles,
Gen. Dow,
Mr. Marsh,
Mr. Taylor,
Mr. McGregore,
Mr. Emerson,

Nays.
Mr. Means,
Mr. Adams,
Col. Putnam,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. M. Wallace,
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. R. Wallace,
Mr. J. Dow,
Mr. Smith,
Mr. Harvey,
Mr. Grout,
Col. Shepherd,
Mr. Gaskill.

So it passed in the negative, [the raotion

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 517
* 13 : 81 Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Prentice, Gen. Sullivan,
Col. Waldron, Mr. Means, Mr. McGregore, Col. Shepherd,
Mr. Frink, Col. Payne and Gen. Dow, [with such of the Honb' Sen
ate as they shaU join] be a coraraittee to take under consideration a
bill to establish certain Irapost Duties on various foreign articles im
ported into this State, and report such alterations and araendraents
as they may judge necessary.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That the account of Benjamin Lamson, amounting to three
pounds fifteen shUlings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. , Sent up by Col. Green.
Voted, That the account of WiUiara Plumraer, amounting to twelve
shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the
President. Sent up by Col. Green.
Voted, That the account of Thomas Bartlett, Esq. araounting to
three pounds fifteen shillings, be aUowed and paid out of the Treas
ury by order of the President. Sent up by Col. Green.
Voted, That the account of Christopher Toppan, Esquire, amount
ing to two pounds fifteen shillings and six pence, be allowed and
paid out of the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Col. Green.
Voted, That the account of the hon. Joseph Badger, Esq. amount
ing to three pounds nineteen shillings, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury, by order ofthe President. Sent up by Col. Green.
[ Voted, that the Account of David Swett amounting to Eighteen
ShiUings be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the
President — Sent up by Col° Green.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jonathan Moulton,
Esq. Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the Peti
tioner have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
Sent up by Mr. E. [Maj'] Pickering.
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Benjamin Trip, which
was to have been this day, before the General-Court, be postponed
'till to-morrow, of which, all concerned are to take notice and govern
theraselves accordingly. Sent up by Mr. [Maj'] Pickering.
Adjourned to nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
* FRIDAY, February 24, 1786. * 13 : 82
The House met according to adjournment.
An act to establish certain Impost Duties on various foreign arti
cles, iraported into this state, was read a third time and passed to be
enacted Sent up by Mr. J. Pickering and Mr. Sparkawk.

5l8 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
An act for encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation,
and for raising a Revenue on articles exported from this state, was
read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. J. Pickering and Mr. Sparhawk.
An act to regulate the repair of the Bridge over [the] Exeter-River,
from Stratham to Newmarkett, and directing the raanner in which
the sarae shall be repaired in future, was read a third time and passed
to be enacted Sent up by Mr. J. Pickering and Mr. Sparhawk.
Voted, That Col. James Hackett of Exeter, Col. James Hill of
Newraarkett, and Mr. Andrew Wiggin, jun. of Stratham, be and they
hereby are appointed a coraraittee to direct the repair of Newmar
kett -Bridge, agreeable to an act of this state, for repairing said
Bridge, and that they be a committee until another shall be appointed
in their stead. Sent up by Mr. J. Pickering.
An act to encourage the raanufacturing of Linseed-Oyl, within this
state, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Hill and Mr. Plummer.
DI": Voted, That Col. Bartlett, Col. Green, Gen. Sullivan, Col. Badger,
Mr. Means, Mr. Cragin, Mr. HaU, Mr. Frink, Col. Payne and Gen.
Dow, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a committee
to consider of some method for repairing and making passable the
roads leading frora Portsmouth to HaverhUl, and other towns on Con
necticut-River, and report thereon. Sent up by Captain Spaulding.
An act to encourage the breeding and feeding of Cattle, was read
a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col HiU, and Mr. Plummer.
An act to encourage the raising of Tobacco, was read a third time
and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Col. Wentworth and Mr. McGregore.
* 13 : 83 *A Bill, entitled an act to repeal an act, entitled, An act
to prevent the bodies of Debtors being taken in execution,
when real or personal estate can be found or is tendered to satisfy
the demand, was sent down frora the hon. Senate for concurrence,
and the yeas and nays being required, whether said biU should be en
acted, were as follow, (viz.)
Yeas. Yeas. Yeas.
Maj. Gains, Mr. E. Pickering, Mr. Means,
Mr. [J.] Pickering, Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Sumner,
Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Plummer, Mr, Whipple.
Mr. Prentice, Mr. McGregore,
Nays. Nays. Nays.
Gen. Sullivan, Mr. Hall, Maj. Batcheldor,
Mr. Jenness, Mr. Gilmore, Mr. Glidden,

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JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SI9

Nays.
Col. Wiggin,
Capt. Eastman,
Col. Bartlett,
Mr. Batcheldor,
Col. Welch,
Maj. Wentworth,
Mr. McMurphy,
Col. Leavitt,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Morrill,
Mr. Barnard,
Col. Green,
Mr. Butler,
Mr. Knowles,
Mr. Harper,
Col. Gilman,
Mr. Adams,
Col. McMillan,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. J. Dow,

Nays.
Mr. Jewett,
Mr. Frink,
Mr. Griffin,
Mr. Kimball,
Col. Payne,
Maj. Young,
Mr. Badger,
Mr. Libbey,
Mr. Marsh,
Col. Putnam,
Mr. M. Wallace,
Mr. Smith,
Mr. Whitcomb,
Mr. Willard,
Mr. N. Young,
Mr. Holmes,
Mr. Parkman,
Mr. Hoyt,
Col. Simpson,
Maj. Weeks,

Yeas II, — Nays 66.

Nays.
Col. Waldron,
Mr. Brackett,
Mr. Taylor,
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. Grout,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Powers,
Mr. Kendall,
Gen. Dow,
Col. Toppan,
Col. Hill,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Foss,
Col. Tash,
Capt. Spaulding.
Mr. Harvey,
Col. Shepherd,
Mr. Works,
Capt. Copland,
Mr. Freeman,

So it passed in the negative.
The [report of the] Committee on the petition of Doctor Jonathan
Gove, reported. That the petition lay 'till next session, which report
being rejected.
Motion was made that the prayer of the petition be so far granted
as that the sentance against [said] Dr. Gove, be nullified, and he have
leave to bring in a bill accordingly, on which motion, the yeas and
nays being called were as follow, viz.

Yeas.
Gen. Sullivan,
Mr. J. Pickering,
Mr. E. Pickering,
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. [Nil] Batcheldor,
Mr. Plummer,
Mr. Glidden,
Mr. Knowles,
Mr. Harper,
Mr. Brackett,
Col. Tash,
Mr. McGregore,
Mr. J. Dow,
Mr. Grout,

Yeas.
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. N. Young,
Mr. Frink,
Mr. Kimball,
Mr. Freeman,
Col. Simpson,
Mr. Prentice,
Maj. Weeks,
Col. Toppan,
Capt. Morrill,
Mr. Bartlett,
Col. Welch,
Mr. Foss,
Mr. Badger.

Yeas.
Mr. Libbey,
Mr. Taylor,
Mr. Means,
Mr. Harvey,
Mr. Hall,
Mr. Works,
Mr. Sumner,
Mr. Powers,
Mr. Griffin,
Mr. Hoyt,
Col. Payne,
Mr. [J.] Young,

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[1786

*I3:84

Nays.

Maj

. Gains,

Col.

Leavitt,

Col.

Bartlett,

Mr.

Page,

Col.

Waldron,

Col.

Putnam,

Mr.

Cragin ,

Nays.
Col. Shepherd,
Mr. Gilmore,
Capt. Copland,
Mr. McMurphy,
Col. Hill,
Maj. Batcheldor,
Mr. Butler,

Nays.
Mr. Marsh,
Capt. Spaulding,
Mr. M. Wallace,
Maj. Whitcomb,
Mr. Jewett,
Mr. Kendall.

Yeas 40, — Nays 20.
So it passed in the affirraative. [So the motion prevailed.]
Sent up by Col. Green.
'The Comraittee on the petition of John Pierce, respecting the es
tate of John Fisher, Esq. reported,
That the prayer thereof be granted, under proper restrictions, to
be provided for in the act, and that he have leave to bring in a bih
for that purpose ; signed M. Thornton for the coraraittee ; which re
port being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and ac
cepted. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
The coramittee on the petition of Mary Conant, reported, that
the prayer thereof be granted, [and] that the petitioner have leave to
bring in a bill accordingly, at this or the next session of the Gen
eral-Court ; signed M. Thornton for the coraraittee ; which report
being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
An act to vacate the proceedings on an execution against Joseph
Kelley, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Major Weeks and Mr. Sumner.'
The bill for laying a fine on delinquent Sheriffs and Town Clerks,
which passed the [this] House the 17th instant was sent down from
the hon. Senate, [not concurred] with a bill of the same title, but
somewhat different in the enacting clauses ; which was read a third
tirae and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Major Weeks and Mr. Sumner.
Agreeably to the order of the day proceeded to a hearing on the
petition of Benjamin Trip, and
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Major Weeks.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
I. In the MS. this vote and the one following are entered in the afternoon session.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 521
* SATURDAY, February 25, 1786. * 13 : 85
The House raet according to adjournraent.
An act to vest the exclusive priviledge of keeping a ferry over
a certain part of Connecticut-River, in Benjamin Bellows ' of Wal
pole, his heirs and assigns, was read a third time and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Col. Gilman, and Major Young.
An act to restore Hugh TaUant to his law, was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Col. Gilman and Major Young.
An act to vest the exclusive privUedge of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Connecticut-River, in Jcseph Kimball " of Plainfield,
his heirs and assigns, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Sparhawk and Mr. Duncan.
An act to restore Henry Kenniston to his right in certain land in
Barnstead, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. GUman and Major Young.
An act to restore John Pickering, jun. to his right to certain land
in Barnstead, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Gilman and Major Young.
An act to vest the exclusive priviledge of keeping a ferry over
a certain part of Connecticut-River, in Samuel Bayley ^ of Leba
non, his heirs and assigns, was read a third time and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Mr. Pickering and Mr. Adams.
An act to facilitate the payment of outstanding taxes, was read
a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness and Col. Bartlett.
An act for supplying the Treasury of this State with ten thousand
five hundred pounds, for the purpose of discharging the specie part
of the requisition of Congress of the 27th of Septeraber last, said
to be this State's Quota of the interest of the foreign debt of the
United States, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness and Col. Bartlett.
An act for laying out high ways, was read a third time and passed
to be enacted. Sent up by Col. Leavit and Col. Wentworth.
* An act to prevent encroachments on high ways, was * 13 : 86
read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Leavit and Col. Wentworth.
"•An act for raending and repairing [the] high ways in this State, was
read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Leavit and Col. Wentworth.
I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 608. 2. Idem, 205. 3. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 386.
34 4. This vote and the one preceding are reversed in the MS.

522 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
An act for repealing sundry laws of this State, relative to high
ways, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Col. Leavit and Col. Wentworth.
The committee on the petition of Elijah Weed, in behalf of the
town of Unity, reported.
That the prayer thereof be so far granted that the town be
credited for one Jonathan PettengiU, (a Continental Soldier, not
claimed by any other town) the sum of sixty pounds, with the inter
est charged on an extent against said town for one man, and that the
Treasurer take order accordingly. The committee further reported,
that the Sheriff's fees shall be paid by said town ; signed Ebenezer
Webster for the comraittee ; which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Pickering.
The coraraittee on the petition of Jonathan Warner, Esq. reported,
That the prayer thereof be granted and that the petitioner have
leave to bring in a resolve [BUl] accordingly : signed, M. Thornton
for the coraraittee : which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Pickering.
Voted, That Col. Bartlett, Col. Green, and Mr. [M.] WaUace, with
such of the hon. Senate as they shaU join, be a coraraittee to con
sider of the petition of John Wendell, Esq, and report thereon.
Sent up by Mr. Libbey.
The coraraittee on the account of Richard Hart, having examined
the same with the vouchers offered in support thereof, reported.
That there be aUowed and paid out of the Treasury, to the said
Richard Hart, the sura of one hundred and twenty-five pounds ten
shillings and seven pence, in full of said account ; signed, Nathaniel
Peabody per order of the coramittee ; which report being read and
considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Libbey.
Yoted, That Col. GUman, Mr. J. Gilraan and Mr. Eraerson, with
such of the hon. Senate as they shaU join, be a comraittee to consider
of the petition of Nathan Barlow, and report thereon.
Sent up. by Mr. Libbey.
13: 87 *The coramittee on the account of Jonathan Warner,
Esq. reported.
That there be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, to said War
ner, the sum of one hundred and forty-four [fifty four] pounds thir
teen shillings and five pence, in full of said account ; signed Nathan
iel Peabody per order of the coramittee ; which report being read and
considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that his Excellency
the President give order accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Libbey.

*

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 523
Voted, That Mr. J. Gilman, Col. Waldron and Mr. WiUard, with
such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to con
sider of the petition of James Knowles, Esq. and report thereon.
Sent up by .Mr. Libbey, [R. WaUace.J
Yoted, That Col. McMillan, Mr. McMurphy and Mr. M. Wallace,
with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of Siraon Willard ' and the Selectmen of
Swanzey^ : also the petition of Alexander Parkman, and report there
on. Sent up by Mr. R. WaUace.
The committee on the petition of Lerauel Holraes, Esq. reported,
That the Town of Surry be credited for the whole amount of
Beef delivered John Millan, being 3300 lb. and that the Treasurer
credit said town accordingly : signed Moses Chase for the comraittee ;
which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. R. Wallace.
The vote of yesterday respecting Dr. Jonathan Gove, was returned
by [carae down frora] the hon. Senate not concurred : whereupon,
Voted, That the said Doctor Gove, be heard on his petition, before
the General-Court, on the third Wednesday of the next session
thereof. Sent up by Mr. R. Wallace.
Adjourned to Monday next, at ten o'clock, A. M.
MONDAY, February 27, 1786.
Several raerabers raet according to adjournment, but there not
being a quorum for transacting [to transact] business, adjourned to 3
o'clock, P. M. Met accordingly.
An act for granting a Lottery to finish a Bridge over Baker's River
(so called) in Plyraouth, was read a third tirae and passed to be
enacted. Sent up by Col. Waldron and Col. Sumner.
* An act to prevent the keeping of large quantities of * 13 : 88
Gun-Powder, in private houses in Portsmouth, and for ap
pointing a keeper of the Magazine, belonging to said town, was read
a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Sparhawk and Mr. McMurphy.
[An Act to restore John Young to his Law was read a third time
and passed to be Enacted —
Sent up by M' Sparhawk and M' McMurphy.]
An act to annul and make void a Judgment of Court obtained
against Ebenezer Torrey, by David Larned and Abel Larned, was
read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Sparhawk and Mr. McMurphy.
1. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 529. z. Idem, 528.

524 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
The committee on the petition of Samuel Potter, reported, That
the Treasurer issue to the Petitioner, a Note of equal value to that
said to be burnt, he giving bond to return the latter into the Treasury,
in case it shall ever be found ; signed Otis Baker, for the committee ;
which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Badger.
The comraittee on the petition of Benjarain Sumner and all similar
raatters, to whora was referred, a petition in behalf of the Town of
Orford,' reported, That the said town of Orford be allowed and cred
ited for one John Lapish (a Continental Soldier in the New-Hamp
shire regiment,) the sum of sixty pounds, and the interest thereof, on
settlement of the account charged against said town, for the de
ficiency of Soldiers, and that the Treasurer' take order accordingly:
signed Nathaniel Peabody, for the comraittee ; which report being
read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. Prentice.
The Coraraittee to whom was referred the petition of Azariah
Webb,^ Esq. in behalf of the town of Piermont, reported, [beg leave
to report as their Opinion] That said town be credited for three Con
tinental Soldiers, viz. William Lurvey of Warner's Regiment, David
Ladd and Josiah Blodgett, both of Whitcomb's Corps, the sum of
sixty pounds each, with the interest thereof on settlement of the
account, charged against said town of Pierraont for defi-
* 13:89 ciency of soldiers, and that the * Treasurer take order ac
cordingly : signed Nathaniel Peabody for the committee ;
which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received
and accepted. Sent up by Col. Badger.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow raorning.
TUESDAY, February 28, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act to discount an execution of Israel Morey, against the pro
prietors of Piermont, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. McMurphy and Mr. Jenness.
An act to vest the exclusive priviledge of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Connecticut-River, in Thomas Burnside,^ his heirs
and assigns, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. McMurphy and Mr. Jenness,
[M' Bartlett & Maj' KimbaU.]
An act to restore to John Fisher, Esq. his property within this
State, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Bartlett and Major KimbaU.
I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 134. 2. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 194. 3. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 90.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 525
Upon reading [hearing] and considering the petition of the select
men of HiUsborough, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted,
and thet the Petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, at
this or the next session of the General-Court. Sent up by Mr. Parkman.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Solomon Robbins,'
Yoted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petition
er have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Parkman.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Gen. John Stark,
Voted, That a disinterested coraraittee be appointed to run out the
lines of Mason's Patent, and that said committee give public notice
of the time of running said lines, that any person concerned may at
tend if they see cause, and that said comraittee report to the General-
Court as soon as raay be. Sent up by Mr. Griffin.
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Col. Payne, Mr. E. Pickering, Mr.
Frink, Mr. McGregore, Col. Shepherd and Mr. Dow, with such of the
hon. Senate as they shall join, be a committee to norainate to this
House, twelve proper Persons, out of whom, for three to be appointed
a committee to run the lines of Mason's Patent.
Sent up by Mr. Griffin.
*Upon reading and considering the petition of Josiah *I3:90
Willard,^ Voted, That the Petitioner be heard thereon be
fore the General-Court, on the third Wednesday of the next session
thereof, and that in the raean tirae the Petitioner cause the Select
men of Westmoreland, to be served with a copy of the petition and
order of court thereon, that they or either of thera raay then appear
and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof raay not be
granted ; Also,
That the petition of Isaac Butterfield, ' be heard at the sarae time.
Sent up by Capt. Spaulding.
The Comraittee on the petition of Plainfield, Lebanon, &c. re
ported. That the town of Lyme be credited for three Continental Men, viz.
Abner Barlow, Henry Tibbets and Jaraes Rosebrooks of Whitcorab's
Corps ; and that said town be allowed [the sum of] sixty pounds, for
each of said men, with the interest thereof, on the settlement of the
account the State has against said Lyme for deficiency of Soldiers ;
signed Joshua Wentworth for the committee; which report being
read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the Treasurer
govern hiraself accordingly. Sent up by Capt. Spaulding.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 669. z. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 668. 3. Idem, 671.

526 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Mr. Green, Col. Tash, and Mr. Prentice, v^ith such of
the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to consider of
the petition of Moses Dow, Esq. in behalf of Haverhill and Pierraont,
and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Nathan Young.
An act to repeal that part of an act passed in June, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Eighty-five, entitled, "An act for regulating
Navigation and Comraerce as far as the said act respects the Subjects
of [any foreign prince or power, except the Subjects of] Great-Brit
ain, and to suspend the operation of the said act, so far as the same
respects the Subjects of Great-Britain, for the tirae hereinafter men
tioned, and to repeal all other Laws heretofore passed for laying
Duties on Exports and Imports, and for laying Tonnage, Poundage,
Powder and Light-Money was read a third tirae and passed to be en
acted. Sent up by Col. Gilman and Mr. McMurphy.
* 13 : 91 * Voted, That Gen. Sullivan, Col. Whipple, Col. Toppan,
Mr. Sparhawk, Col. Payne, Col. McMUlan and Mr. Pren
tice, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee
to consider of the Resolve of Congress of the 15th of February 1786,
this day received, and report thereon. Sent up by Mr. Brackett.
An act to tax the lands in Barrington, for repairing high ways
therein, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Foss and Mr. Marsh.
An act to restore to Benjamin Cumraings, his share in the real es
tate of his late Father, was read a third tirae and passed to be en
acted. Sent up by Mr. Foss and Mr. Marsh.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-raorrow raorning.
WEDNESDAY, March i, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col. Gilman, Mr. WaUace and Col. Bartlett, with such
of the hon. Senate as they shaU join, be a comraittee to consider of
the account of Moses Chase, Esq. and all simUar raatters, and report
thereon. Sent up by Col. Sirapson.
Voted, That Major KimbaU, Mr. Holmes, Col. HiU and Major
Young, with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be added to
the comraittee on the petition of Jonathan Warner, Esquire.
Sent up by Mr. Duncan.
The Coraraittee on the petition of Mark H. Wentworth, Esq. hav
ing exarained and considered the sarae with the papers, vouchers and
evidence offered in support thereof, Reported, That there be aUowed

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and paid out of the Treasury to the said Wentworth, the sum of sev
en hundred and ninety-three pounds nine shiUings lawful money, in
fuU of said account, signed Nathaniel Peabody by order of the com
raittee ; which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that after deducting
four hundred pounds already received, that his Excellency the Presi
dent, give order for the payraent of the remainder, being three hun
dred and ninety-three pounds nine shUlings. Sent up by Col. Hill.
[The Committee on petitions of sick and wounded Officers and Sol
diers, having considered the petition of Benjamin Knight, late a sol
dier in Capt. B. Stone's Company, in Col. Scammel's Regiraent, frora
this State, in the Army of the United States, Reported, That the
prayer of said petition be granted, and that the sums therein men
tioned, being ten pounds and six pence, charged for a Surgeon's bill,
and for nursing and attending said Knight ; when a soldier aforesaid
be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, and that his Excellency the
President give order accordingly ; signed M. Thornton for the com
mittee; which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be
received and accepted. Sent up by Col. HUL]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the town of Croyden.
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the [said] town
of Croyden be credited sixty pounds, with the interest thereof,
on the extent against said town (they having raade * it to * 1 3 : 92
appear that one William Sisco, served in the Continental
Army for said town) they paying the Sheriff's fees, and that the
Treasurer govern hiraself accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
The committee on the petition of James Knowles, Esq.
Reported, That the town of Rochester be allowed the pay for
Daniel Alley, and that the Treasurer deduct the same, with interest,
from the sura the said town is called on for; signed Otis Baker, for
the comraittee ; which report being read and considered. Voted, That
it be received and accepted, and that the Treasurer govern hiraself
accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
The coramittee on Lieut. Crorabie's petition and all siraUar raatters.
Reported, That the accounts of Doctor Nathaniel Kidder, araounting
to four pounds two shillings and one penny, be allowed and paid out
of the Treasury by order of the President : signed M. Thornton for
the coraraittee ; which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
"^ Voted, That the account of Capt. Meshech BeU, amounting to
four pounds and ten shUlings, be allowed and paid out of the Treas
ury by order of the President. Sent up by Mr. Dow.
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528 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. ' [1786
Voted, That the Pay-RoU of Capt. Meshech Bell, amounting to
eighty pounds, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of
the President. Sent up by Mr. Dow.
The committee on Lieut. Crorabie's petition and [all] sirailar mat
ters. Reported, That the account of Sarah Little araounting to seven
pounds one shiUing and three pence, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President ; signed M. Thornton, for the
coramittee ; which report being read and considered, Yoted, That it
be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Dow.
The comraittee on Lieut. Crorabie's petition and [all] sirailar mat
ters. Reported, That the account of Doctor A. R. Cutter, amounting
to twenty-six pounds one shilling, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President, signed, M. Thornton, for the
comraittee ; which report being read and considered. Voted, That
it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Frink
* 1 3 : 93 * Resolved, That the Selectmen of the town of New-
Bradford, be and hereby are authorized and impowered to
assess and collect all the outstanding Taxes reraaining against said
town (raaking a distinct list for each year) in one Tax, in the usual
form, upon the Lands in said town by the Lots, and that no extents
issue against said town either for Soldiers or said Taxes, untU the
first of January next ; also, that the extent now against said town be
stayed 'tiU said first of January. Sent up by Mr. Frink.
Resolved, That the town of Cardigan, be abated two thirds (includ
ing the abatements which have heretofore been made) of all taxes
and requirements upon thera previous to the last proportion act ; and
the Selectmen of said town for the ensuing year be and hereby are
authorized and impowered to assess and collect all the outstanding
taxes reraaining against said town and not already assessed up to the
tirae of the said proportion, raaking a distinct list for each year, in
usual form, and that the Constable, for the year ensuing, proceed in
coUecting the same, in the same manner as other taxes, and that the
extents against said town for deficiency of soldiers be also abated.
No extents for outstanding taxes be issued against said town until
the first day of January next. Sent up by Major WaUace.
The coraraittee to whom was referred a petition in behalf of the
town of Bath, having considered the sarae, [Reported] beg leave to
report. That the said town be credited for Williara Grirashaw, a Conti
nental Soldier, late belonging to Hazzen's Regiment, the sum of
sixty pounds, with the interest thereof, that the same be allowed in
settlement of the charge against said town for deficiency of Soldiers,
and that the Treasurer take order thereon and govern hiraself ac
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The committee further reported, [as their Opinion] That the said
town of Bath is entitled to receive a twenty pound bounty for procur
ing the said Soldier; signed Joshua Wentworth, for the coramittee;
which report being read and considered, Yoted, That it be received
and accepted. Sent up by Major Wallace.
Resolved, That the town of Bath be abated four fifths of all the
taxes and requireraents [against thera previous to] for the year 1780,
and one half of all taxes and requireraents for the years
* 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783, and four ninths of all taxes * 13 : 94
and requireraents founded upon the last proportion act, un
til a new one shall take place.
And the Selectmen of said town, for the current year, are hereby
impowered to levy and assess all the remainder of the said taxes
and requisitions in one tax-bill, distinguishing each year's tax by
itself up to the present year and commit the same to the Consta
ble who is hereby authorized to collect it in the usual manner.
And it is further Resolved, That it shall and may be lawful
for the Selectmen of said town to levy and assess the unimproved
Lands in future upon the Lots in said town by the Number and
Range, any law to the contrary notwithstanding ; and that all extents
against said town for outstanding taxes and deficiencies of soldiers
be stayed until the first day of January next. Sent up by Mr. Dow.
Voted, That his Excellency the President, have and receive out
of the Treasury the sum of two hundred pounds as a salary frora
June 1785 to June 1786. Sent up by Col. Welch.
Voted, That the hon. the Chief-Justice of the Superior-Court,
have and receive out of the Treasury the sura of one hundred and
fifty pounds per year in future as a salary, he accounting for the fees
he raay receive from time to tirae within each year.
Sent up by Col. Welch.
Voted, That the hon. the Puisne Justices of the Superior Court,
have and receive out of the Treasury the sura of one hundred and
thirty pounds each per year in future, they severally accounting for
the fees they may from tirae to time receive within each year.
Sent up by Col. Welch.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
The committee on the petition of Jonathan Warner, Esq. Reported,
That the prayer thereof be so far granted, that the execution alluded
to be considered only as satisfied for so much as was due on the
mortgage given by Stilson to Reeves at the time of the
levy mentioned, and that said Stilson shall * have liberty *I3:95
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530 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
, proper at any tirae within one year frora this terra : and that the pro
ceeding upon this petition shall not preclude said Stilson frora any
action or remedy he raight have had or is now entitled to, for or on
account of any proceeding on the execution aforesaid, and that the
Petitioner have leave to bring in a bUl accordingly ; signed M. Thorn
ton for the comraittee ; which report being read and considered,
Yoted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Gilman.
Voted, That Mr. J. Gilman, Major Gains, and Major Whitcomb,
with such of the hon. Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the memorial of Noah Emery, jun. Esq. and all similar
matters, and report thereon. Sent up by Col. Gilman.
Voted, That the account of Col. Benjarain Sumner, amounting to
one pound [&] ten shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury
by order of the President. Sent up by Col. GUman.
The committee on the petition of Capt. Moses Woodward, Re
ported, That they find a balance due to him, as Commissary of Pris
oners, of two hundred and sixty-nine pounds, nineteen shillings and
five pence one farthing, in full of his demands, and that he be allowed
to return into the Treasury sixty-three dollars New Eraission bills ;
signed Joshua Wentworth for the committee ; which report being
read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the President
give order accordingly. Sent up by Capt. Marsh.
The Committee on the petition of John Wendell, Esq. Reported,
That the Judge of Probate be directed to adjust and settle said Wen
dell's demand against said Wentworth's estate, allowing interest as
prayed for in said petition ; signed George Atkinson, for the com
mittee ; which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be re
ceived and accepted. Sent up by Capt. Marsh.
The [report of the] comraittee on the petition of John Neal and
James McGregore, Esquires, which was in favor of their having an
order on the Treasury for forty pounds, being rejected,
Voted, That they have and receive out of the Treasury thirty
pounds, and that the President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Mr. McGregore.
' The Comraittee to whora was referred a petition in behalf of the
tovvnship of Coventry,^ having considered the same, exarained the
Books, Papers, &c. find that one Edward Clark was furnished by
said Town to serve as a Continental Soldier, in Hazzen's Regiment
during the war ; therefore.
Reported, That the said town of Coventry be allowed and credited
sixty pounds, and that the interest thereof on settlement of the ac-
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count or charge against the sarae for deficiency of Soldiers, and that
the Treasurer take order thereon accordingly, signed Nathaniel Pea
body by order of the committee, which report being read and consid
ered. Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. McGregore.
* Upon reading and considering the petition of John * 1 3 : 96
Combs, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and
that the Treasurer [take notice and] govern himself accordingly.
Sent up by Mr. McGregore.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
THURSDAY, March 2, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
The committee to whom was referred a petition in behalf of the
town of Hanover, having maturely considered the same, find that
[said Town did furnish] Medad Taylor and James Winton, for the
first New-Hampshire Regiment ; John Pendall for the second New-
Hampshire Regiment ; Elisha Brown for Hazzen's Regiraent, and
Luther Lincoln of Crane's Regiraent, being in the whole five Conti
nental Soldiers ; therefore,
Reported, That the said town of Hanover be credited and allowed
sixty pounds for each of the aforesaid five soldiers and the interest
thereof, on settleraent of the charge against said town for deficiency
of soldiers.
The Coraraittee further reported. That [the] said town of Hanover
be abated two fifth parts of all [the] taxes and requisitions charged
against the same previous to the last proportion act taking place and
that the said town of Hanover have, also, a further allowance and
abatement, sufficient to discharge the whole of the extent or charge
against said town for their deficiency of Continental Soldiers, and
any raonies which have been paid on that score, be allowed towards a
discharge of taxes, after making the aforementioned deductions; and
that the Treasurer be impowered and directed to receive frora Jona
than Freeman, Esq Agent for said Hanover, four hundred and thirty-
four pounds fourteen shiUings, in New-Hampshire Bills, being raoney
collected for taxes in said town, agreeable to a precept issued for that
purpose, and credit said town for the Norainal Araount thereof in
discharge of outstanding taxes ; said bills having lain in the hands
of the Treasurer of said town in the different suras and years raen
tioned in the deposition of Jonathan Freeraan and Russell Freeman,
Esquires, herewith exhibited, and that no extent issue against said

532 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
town for arrearages of taxes until the first day of January next :
signed Joshua Wentworth for the comraittee ; which report being
read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. Freeman.
* 13 : 97 * The Comraittee on the petition of Lebanon.
Reported, That having fully considered the same, they
are of opinion, that no extent issue against said town untU the first
day of January next, and that the Treasurer be impowered and di
rected to receive from Robert Colbourn, Agent for said town, sixty-
six pounds twelve shiUings, in New-Harapshire biUs, being raoney
collected for taxes in said town for the Norainal Araount thereof, in
discharge of outstanding taxes; signed Joshua Wentworth, for the
comraittee ; which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Freeman.
The comraittee on the petition of the town of Grafton, Reported,
That having fully considered the sarae, they are of opinion that the
said town be abated for taxes and requisitions, frora 1777 to 1780,
two thirds; and from 1780 to 1783, one half of said taxes and requi
sitions, and that the extent now against said town for soldiers be
stayed, and no other extent be issued until the first day of January
next; signed Joshua Wentworth for the committee; which report
being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Freeman.
The committee to whom was referred a petition in behalf of the
Proprietors and Inhabitants of the township of Landaff,' having con
sidered the same.
Reported, That the said town be abated and credited for the amount
of one full moiety of all taxes and requisitions apportioned thereto
previous to the last proportion act taking place ; and that the Treas
urer take notice thereof and allow the sarae in settling the balances
due from said town.
The comraittee- further reported as their opinion. That the said
town of Landaff, be abated one sixth part of the propor-
* 13 : 98 tion assigned thereto [in the *last proportion Act, from
the passing thereof] until a new proportion be raade among
the several towns in this State ; and that the Treasurer take order
thereon and deduct the same accordingly ; signed Francis Worster for
the comraittee ; which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Major Whitcomb.
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The comraittee on the petition of the town of Warren, Reported,
That the [said] town of Warren be abated twelve pounds thirteen shil
lings and five pence, in their proportion of Rateable Estate, as set to
them in the last proportion act, and to continue until a new one shall
take place, being for what was taken off frora said town by a settle
ment of lines by a committee appointed by the General-Court for that
purpose, and addded to the towns of Pierraont and Wentworth ; and
that the sum of six pounds, [&] twelve shUhngs and six pence, part of
said sura be added to the rateable estate of said Pierraont ; and the
sura of six pounds and eleven pence, the reraainder of said sum be
added to the amount of the rateable estate of said Wentworth ; and
that the Treasurer take notice thereof and govern himself according
ly; signed M. Thornton, for the coraraittee; which report being read
and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent ujD by Col. Green.
The coraraittee on the petition of Orford.
Reported, That no extent issue against said town for outstanding
taxes until the first day of January next ; signed Joshua Wentworth
for the coramittee ; which report being read and considered, Voted,
That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Green.
The committee on the petition of William Adaras, and similar mat
ters, Reported, That having considered thereof, they are of opinion
that William Adams, William Brooks, David Ames, Solomon Hobert,
John Brooks and Jacob Taylor, who were privates in Capt. Nathan
Chapman's Company, Col. Flower's Regiraent of Artillery and Ar
tificers in Continental service, be allowed depreciation of their wages
in the sarae manner as the soldiers in the New-Hampshire Line have
been, provided they have not already received it from the Common
wealth of Massachusetts, and the committee for raaking up
depreciation take order accordingly : * signed Ebenezer * 1 3 : 99
Webster for the coramitte; which report being read and
considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Green.
*An act to vest the exclusive priviledge of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Connecticut-River, in Moses Chase, his heirs and as
signs, was sent down from the hon.' Senate for concurrence, was read
three times and concurred. Sent up by Col. Payne and Col. Bartlett.
The comraittee on the petition of Alexander Parkman, in behalf of
the town of Marlborough,
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534 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Reported, That the said town be allowed pay for Calvin Good-
enough, a soldier hired by [thera] the said town, together with inter
est on the same, they paying the necessary cost of serving the
extent, and that the Treasurer take order accordingly : signed Otis
Baker, for the coraraittee ; which report being read and considered,
Yoted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Green.
An act to vest the exclusive privUedge of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Connecticut-River in Micah Reed,' his heirs and as
signs, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by CoL Green and Mr. Emerson.
The committee on the petition of Benjamin Sumner,^ Esq.
Reported, That the town of Clareraont, be allowed and credited for
one Amos Ames, a Continental Soldier in the late Corps commanded
by Gen. Hazzen, the sum of sixty pounds, with the interest thereof
in settlement of the account against said town for deficiency of sol
diers, and that the Treasurer take order thereon ; signed, Nathaniel
Peabody for the comraittee ; which report being rekd and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Payne.
The comraittee on the petition of Plainfield ^
Reported, That [the] said town [of Plainfield] be abated of their
taxes, (viz.) frora the doomage 1777 to 1780 one half; frora 1780 to
1783 two fifths ; and from 1783 until a new proportion be taken, four
ninths ; and that no extents be issued against said town for arrear
ages, untu the first day of January next ; signed, Joshua Wentworth
for the coraraittee ; which report being read and considered. Voted,
That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Payne.
* 13 : IOO *The comraittee on the petitions of sick and wounded
Officers and Soldiers, having considered the petition of
Soloraon Cole, a wounded Soldier, late belonging to one of the New-
Harapshire Regiments,
Reported, That the said Soloraon Cole, have and receive one third
of his raonthly pay, to coraraence at the tirae his [whole] pay, as a
Soldier ceased, and to be continued tUl the further order of the Gen
eral-Court, and that he be enrolled as an invalid Pensioner accord
ingly ; signed Nathaniel Peabody, for the coraraittee ; which report
being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by CoL Payne.
The coraraittee having considered the petition of Jaraes Reed,
late a Brigadier General in the Array of the United States of
America, I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 670. z. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 375. 3. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 204.

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Reported, That they find by a Resolution of Congress, passed
Deceraber 14th 1781, that said Reed was entitled to receive the
depreciation of his pay, frora the time of his appointraent to the
first day of August 1779, and one hundred and- twenty-five dollars
per raonth, as wages from the [said] first day of August 1779, to the
last day of December 1780, with an allowance for detained Rations,
as mentioned in said Resolution ;
The committee further reported, That by the vouchers and cer
tificates herewith exhibited, the said Reed by the establishment
raade by Congress of the 26th of August 1776, is entitled to receive
one half his monthly pay, since the last day of December 1780, as an
invalid Pensioner ; signed M. Thornton, for the coraraittee ; which
report being read and considered, motion was raade to have it received
and accepted, and that his Excellency the President, give the orders
necessary to carry the same into effect ; on which motion, the yeas
and nays being called, were as follow :

Gen. Sullivan,
Maj. Gains,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. Plummer,
Mr. Glidden,
Col. Waldron,
Mr. Knowles,
Capt. Harper,
Mr. Brackett,
Mr. Libbey,
Col. McMillan,
Col. Wiggin,
Mr. Harvey,
Mr. Hall.

Yeas.
Mr. E. Pickering,
Maj. Weeks,
Mr. Shaw,
Col. Hill,
Col. Welch,
Maj. Wentworth,
Mr. Foss,
Mr. Badger,
Col. Gilman,
Col. Tash,
Mr. McGregore,
Col. Putnam,
Col. Shepherd,
Mr. Willard,

Yeas.
Mr. Kimball,
Mr. Freeman,
Mr. Payne,
Col. Simpson,
Mr. J. Young,
Mr. Works,
Mr. N. Young,
Mr. Frink,
Mr. Griffin,
Mr. Sumner,
Mr. Powers,
Mr. Holmes,
Mr. Kendall,

Nays.
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Emerson,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. J. Dow,

Nays.
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Parkman,
Mr. McMurphy,
Capt. Morrill,
Mr. Bartlett,

3: IOI

Nays.

Mr. Adams,
Mr. M. Wallace,
Maj. Whitcomb,
Mr. Jewett.

Yeas 41 — Nays 14 — [So the motion prevaUed for accepting the
report. Sent up by Mr. Dow.'
The committee on the [petition of the] town of Lyman,' [Petition"
Reported, That [the] said town be abated one half of all their taxes
and apportionments, up to the last proportion act, and one quarter of

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536 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
aU taxes,&c. until another proportion shall take place : signed Moses
Chase, for the committee ; which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Dow.
The following vote carae down frora the hon. Senate for con
currence, In Senate, March 2d, 1786.
Yoted, That Mr, Atkinson, Mr. Thornton and Mr. Baker, be a
coraraittee, with such of the hon. House as they shall join, to nom
inate three proper persons, out of whora to chuse one to deliver a
Serraon at the next Election. Sent down for concurrence.
Joseph Pearson, Deputy Secre'ry.
Read and concurred, and Major Gains, Mr. Adaras and Major
Weeks, joined. Sent up by Mr. Dow.
[The Committee on the Petition of Canaan Reported that no ex
tent issue against said Town for outstanding Taxes and requisitions,
and if any has issued, they be stayed until the first day of January
next — signed Joshua Wentworth for the Comraittee, which report
being read and considered, Voted that it be received and Accepted.
Sent up by M' Dow.J
The coraraittee on the petition of Cornish.
Reported, That said town be abated of the taxes and requisitions,
by doomage from the year 1777 to 1783, one fourth, including what
has already been abated; and from 1783 to a new proportion being
taken, four ninths, and that said town be allowed sixty pounds, with
the interest thereof, for Daniel Putnam, a Continental Soldier in the
first New-Harapshire Regiraent, and that the extent now against said
town for deficiency of Continental Soldiers, be stayed, and
* 13: 102 none issue for deficiency of other taxes, until *the first
day of January next, signed Joshua Wentworth for the
coraraittee ; which report being read and considered,
Yoted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Dow.
The committee on the petitions of sick and wounded Officers and
Soldiers, having considered the petition of Stephen Richardson, a dis
abled Soldier, late belonging to one ofthe New-Hampshire Regiments,
Reported, That the said Stephen Richardson have and receive one
third of his monthly pay, to commence at the time his whole pay, as
a Soldier ceased, and to be continued tUl further order of the Gen
eral-Court, and that he be enrolled as an invalid Pensioner, accord
ingly ; signed Nathaniel Peabody, for the comraittee ; which report
being read and considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Mr. Dow.
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.

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Met accordingly.
The comraittee to whom was referred a petition in behalf of the
town of Lyman,' respecting Continental Soldiers
Reported, That [the] said town be allowed for Thomas Piper, a Con
tinental Soldier, in General Washington's guards, furnished agreeable
to the requisition of the State, the sum of sixty pounds, and the in
terest ; and that the Treasurer credit the same in settling the charge
against said town for deficiency of Soldiers ;• signed Nathaniel Pea
body by order of the comraittee ; which report being read and con
sidered, Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Major^ Kimball.
The foUowing vote came down from the hon. Senate for con
currence. In Senate, March 2, 1786.
Voted, That his Excellency the President, with the advice of the
hon. CouncU, be requested to remove from the Office of Justice of
the Peace, and Special Justice of the Superior-Court, for the county
of Rockingham, Jereraiah Gilman, Esq. of Plastow, as a person un
suitable to fill those important offices. Sent down for concurrence.
Joseph Pearson, Deputy Sec'ry..
The sarae day read and concurred. Sent up by Major Kimball.
* Agreeable to a vote [of] this day, Resolved, That the * 13 : 103
town of Lyraan be abated one half of all the taxes and
apportionraents as heretofore affixed to said town, up to the last
proportion act taking place.
And the Selectmen of said town, for the current year, are hereby
impowered to levy and assess the reraainder of [the] their taxes in
one tax-bill, distinguishing for each year by itself, and corarait the
same to the Constable who is hereby irapowered to collect the sarae.
And it appearing that the Inhabitants of said town have done
much more than their proportion in defending themselves in the late
war, and the Proprietors having done but little toward said service ;
and said Selectmen are hereby impowered and directed to levy and
cause to be collected, any and all reraaining tax or taxes, frora the
Proprietors of said town in the same manner as other taxes of Non
resident Proprietors are collected ; and that no extent issue for any
demands against said town until the first day of January next, and
that the abatements mentioned this day, be considered to exclude
said town from all demands against the state prior to the passing
this Resolve. Sent up by Major Whitcorab.
Voted, That the Rev. Doctor Samuel Langdon be requested to
prepare to preach an Election Sermon at Concord on the first
35 ^* xii. Ham. Town Papers, 496.

538 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Wednesday in June next ; and that his ExceUency the President
be desired to give the said Dr. Langdon seasonable notice thereof.
Sent up by Major Whitcomb.
The coraraittee on the petition of Siraon Willard,' and the Select
men of Swanzey- Reported that the Town of Swanzey be allowed
pay for Amasa Parker, a Soldier hired by said town, with the inter
est thereon, they paying the expense which has attended the serving
the extent ; and that the town of Winchester, be allowed pay in the
sarae raanner for Moses Powers, a Soldier, hired by thera, and that
the Treasurer govern hiraself agreeably thereto ; signed Otis Baker
for the coramittee ; which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the said town of
Winchester be allowed twenty pounds with the interest thereof from
the time the said Powers was raustered. Sent up by Major Whitcomb.
* 13 : 104 *The committee to whom was referred the petition of
Sarauel Martin and others,^ in behalf of the town of Con
cord, alias Gunthwaite, Reported, That said town be credited for Jo
siah Pratt, a Continental Soldier in Hazzen's Regiment, the sum of
sixty pounds, with the interest thereof, on the settleraent of their
account for deficiency of soldiers, and that the Treasurer take notice
thereof and govern himself accordingly ; signed Moses Chase for the
coraraittee ; which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Plummer.
An act to vest the exclusive priviledge of keeping a ferry over a
certain part of Connecticut-River, in Solomon Robbins,* his heirs
and assigns, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Mr. Works.
The coraraittee on the petition of the Selectraen of Harapton,
Reported, That the town of Hampton be aUowed the sum of sev
enty-one pounds one shilling and eight pence, for interest due on the
extent against said town for deficiency of soldiers ; and the sum of
twenty pounds and interest thereon, for the bounty of one Soldier,
found by said town, and that the Treasurer govern himself accord
ingly ; signed George Atkinson for the comraittee ; which report be
ing read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Bartlett.
An act to enable the Parishioners of the Episcopal Church of
Queen's Chapels in Portsmouth, to levy and assess the parochial
taxes on the Pews in said Chapel, as well as on the PoUs and
I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 529. 2. Idem, 528. 3. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 406.
4. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 669. 5. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 297.

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Estate of said Parishioners, and to direct the mode of coUecting
the same, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Major Whitcomb and Col. Whipple.
An act to amend and relieve against a mistake made in the levy of
an execution in favour of Jonathan Warner, Esq. against WUliara
Reeve and others, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
Sent up by Major Whitcorab and Col. Whipple.
* Voted, That the account of Daniel Humphreys, amount- * 13 : 105
ing to four pounds four shillings, be aUowed and paid out of
the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Col. Bartlett.
The committee on the petition of the Inhabitants of Unity,
Reported, That the petition lay until the next session of the Gen
eral-Court, and that no extent 'till then issue against the Inhabitants,
that they [may] in the raean tirae have opportunity to return an inven
tory ; signed Ebenezer Webster, for the coraraittee ; which report
being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Col. Bartlett.
Voted, That Col. Hill, Col. Payne, and Col. Putnara, be a commit
tee to consider of the petition of Gould French, and report thereon.
The comraittee to whom was referred a petition of Concord,' alias
Gunthwait, Reported, That said town be abated one half of all their taxes and
apportionraents up to the year 1779, and five sevenths for the years
1780, 1 78 1, 1782, and 1783, and one fourth part of all taxes [and ap
portionraents] from the last mentioned year until a new proportion
shall take place : signed Francis Worster for the comraittee ; which
report being read and considered.
Resolved, That the same be received and accepted, and that the
Selectraen of Concord, alias Gunthwait, be irapowered and directed
to assess and order to be collected, any sura of Money that raay be
due frora said town, from the year 1775, to the year 1783, inclusively
according to the foregoing report on the lands of the Proprietors of
said town in the present year's tax ; and that aU extents for past taxes
and requisitions be stayed until the first day of January next ; and
that said Selectmen are hereby impowered and directed to assess and
order to be collected said tax or taxes to said Proprietors for said sum,
in the sarae raanner as the Law directs, for collecting taxes of Non
resident Proprietors, and that no account for building Forts and
turning out in alarras, for a short tirae, be hereafter allowed to said
town. Sent up by Mr. Pluraraer.
Adjourned to nine o'clock to-raorrow raorning.
I. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 406.

540 NEW HAMPSPIIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
* 13: 106 * FRIDAY, March 3, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That the account of Jesse Johnson, Esquire, amounting to
one pound sixteen shUlings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury
by order of the President. Sent up by Mr. McGregore.
Voted, That the account of John Calfe, Esq. amounting to five
pounds ten shiUings and four pence, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Mr. McGregore.
Voted, That Col. Gilman, Mr. McMurphy and Major Wallace,
with such of the hon. Senate as they shaU join, be a committee to
consider of the accounts of Daniel Fowle, Esq. and [also the account
of] Mr. Robert Gerrish, Printers, and report thereon.
Sent up by Major Gains.
Whereas it appears to this House, that there was eight men raised
by several towns, the latter end of the year 1782, and were passed
muster by Major Caleb Robinson at Exeter, by perraission of the
Coramittee of Safety, and were delivered to the Continental Officers,
as all other Soldiers were, in January 1783 ; and no bounty of twenty
pounds has yet been allowed to said towns for the men aforesaid ;
and as the town of Hampton has been allowed the bounty for Levi
Francis, of twenty pounds ; and it being reasonable that all those
towns should be allowed in like circurastances ; Therefore,
Resolved, That the town of Chester be allowed for two men, viz.
Thomas Downing & Charles Breed, and the Town of Pelham be al
lowed for two raen viz. Nathaniel Martin and Samuel Brown ; and
the town of North-Hampton be aUowed for Tristram S. Conor ; and
the town of Portsraouth for John Morss ; and the town of Seabrook
be allowed for Winthrop Willie, twenty pounds, each as a bounty for
procuring said raen, as fully as if they had been mustered in Decem
ber 1782, any forraer Resolve to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sent up by Major Gains..
Voted, That the balance of the account of Mr. Benjamin Biggelow,
amounting to fifteen pounds and two pence half-penny, be allowed
and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President.
Sent up by Mr. Sparhawk.
* 13 : 107 * Voted, That Mr. Benjamin Biggelow have and receive
out of the Treasury, thirty pounds, for which he is to be
accountable, as Agent Victualler to the troops at New-Castle, and
that his Excellency the President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Mr. Sparhawk.
The comraittee on the petitions of sick and wounded Officers and
Soldiers, having considered the petition of Joshua Bell, a disabled

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Soldier, in Capt. Livermore's Company, [&] Col. Scamrael's Regi
raent, in the late Army of the United States, Reported, That the
said Joshua Bell, have and receive one half of his monthly pay,
from the tirae his whole pay ceased, till further order of the Gen
eral-Court, and that he be enrolled accordingly ; signed M. Thornton,
for the committee, which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Major Gains.
An act for altering the time of holding the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas, holden by law on the first Tuesday in June annually,
at Portsmouth, in and for the county of Rockinghara, was read a
third tirae and passed to be enacted. Sent up by Major Gains and Mr. Green.
Resolved, That the Selectraen of the several Towns, Districts,
and Parishes, within this State, be and hereby are, required to make
a return of all the Inhabitants within their respective Districts, to
the Secretary of this State, on or before the second Wednesday in
June next, (viz) the whole number of White and other free Citizens
and Inhabitants, of every age, sex and condition, including those
bound to servitude for a term of years, and also in a separate col
umn or class, all other persons not coraprehended in the foregoing
description, except Indians not paying taxes. Resolved, That the
Selectmen of any Town, District or Parish, who shall neglect their
duty herein, shall forfeit and pay to the Treasurer [of this State] for
the use of said State, the sum of five pounds. Sent up by Mr. Sparhawk.
Voted, That the account of [Lieut.] David Bryant, araounting to
one pound four shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
"" Voted, That the account of John Sparhawk, Esq. * 13 : 108
araounting to five pounds seventeen shUlings and seven
pence, be aUov/ed and paid out of the Treasury, by order of the Presi
dent. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
Voted, That the hon. John Taylor Gilraan, Esq. Treasurer for this
State, have and receive one hundred and fifty pounds for a Salary ;
seventy-five pounds for Responsibility of Office ; and extra Expenee
for hiraself and Clerk, attending the General-Court from time to time ;
and sixty pounds as a Salary for his Clerk, from the 12th day of June
1785, to the 1 2th day of June 1786, which shall be considered in full
for Office hire, fire wood, candles, &c. and that the President give
order accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
Voted, That the hon Ebenezer Thompson, Esq. have and receive
out of the Treasury twenty pounds as a Salary, as Secretary for the

542 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
[this] State from June 1785 to June 1786, and that his Excellency the
President give order accordingly. Sent up by Mr. Jewett.
Voted, That the hon. John Sullivan, Esq. have and receive out of
the Treasury seventy-five pounds for doing the duty of Attorney
General the year past, by the special appointment of the Superior-
Court and Court of General Sessions, and that his ExceUency the
President give order accordingly. Sent up by Col. GUman.
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed to attend the General-Court
at Concord in June next, with such Books and Papers as may be nec
essary for transacting public business. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Yoted, That the Clerk of this House, imraediately after this [the]
Session is ended, raake out a fair copy of the Journals thereof, and
deliver thera to Mr. Fowle, and have thera printed in Quarto as the
Journals of Congress are usually done.
The committee on the petitions of sick and wounded Officers and
Soldiers, having considered the petition of John McCoy, a
Marine in the frigate Rawleigh, in the service of the
*I3 : 109 *United States, in an action with the British ship of war
Druid, received a wound which has rendered him inca
pable of getting a livelihood.
Reported, That the said John McCoy have and receive the one half
of his raonthly pay from the time his whole pay ceased, 'till further
order of the General-Court, and that he be enroUed accordingly ;
signed M. Thornton, for the committee ; which report being read and
considered, Yoted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
The coraraittee on the petition of Mr. Benjamin Dearborn, Re
ported, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to
bring in a bill accordingly, at this or the next session.
Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Whereas a Resolve of this Court, which passed at the last session
thereof, for establishing Posts in this State, is found insufficient to
answer the good purposes thereby intended ;
Therefore, Resolved, That the aforesaid Resolve respecting
the establishment of Posts, passed the ninth day of November last,
and every part and clause thereof be, and hereby are repealed.
And that the President and Council, for the time being, shall have
full power and authority to agree with and appoint a Post-Master-
General for this State, and direct him where to establish Post-Offices
upon the roads hereafter mentioned, and to change such places where
they raay find it most convenient for the good subjects of this State ;
And they shall have liberty to agree with, and employ or direct the
Post-Master- Gen eral to employ a proper number of Riders, so that
News-Papers, Letters and Mails may be transported in the most

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 543
easy, safe and expeditious manner, to the various parts of the State,
through the several towns following, viz. One Post to leave Ports
mouth on Monday and proceed thro' Exeter, Nottingham, Concord
and Plymouth to Haverhill, and Orford and Hanover, and from thence
to return thro' Boscawen, Northfield and Canterbury to Epsom,
thence to Newmarket and Portsmouth.
Another Post to set out frora Portsraouth on Thursday, the next
week, and proceed through Exeter, Kingston, Chester, Lon
donderry and Litchfield to Araherst, and to return
*through Dunstable, Salem, Plastow and Kingston to *i3:iio
Portsraouth. The above two Posts to ride one week to
Hanover, and the next week to Amherst alternately. Another Post
to receive the Mail at Amherst and proceed through Keene to
Charlestown and return through Hillsborough to Amherst.
And another Mail to set out weekly, on Monday, from Portsmouth,
and proceed through Stratham, Newmarket, Durham, Dover, Roch
ester, Wakefield and Ossippee to Conway, and to return through Tam
worth, Moultonborough, Meredith, Gilraanton, Barnstead and Bar
rington to Portsraouth. Resolved, That one hundred pounds be and
hereby is granted for the payraent of the above Post-Riders ; and the
President and Council are irapowered, frora tirae to time, to affix the
rate of postage of Letters. Sent up by Col. Wiggin.
Voted, That the Members of the hon. Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, and their Officers, have the same allowance for travel
and attendance as at the last session of the General-Court, and that
the Secretary and Clerk make up the respective rolls accordingly.
Sent up by Col. Wiggin.
Voted, That the Rev. Doctor Samuel Haven, and the Rev. Joseph
Buckminster, have and receive out of the Treasury, three pounds to
each of thera, for their kind services as Chaplains to the General-
Court the current year, and that the President give order accordingly.
Sent up by Col. Wiggin.
The committee on the petitions of sick and wounded Officers and
Soldiers, having considered the petition of Solomon Todd, a disabled
Soldier, late belonging to one of the New-Hampshire Regiraents,
Reported, That the said Soloraon Todd have and receive one half
of his monthly pay, to commence at the tirae his whole pay, as a
Soldier ceased, and to be continued tUl further order of the General-
Court, and that he be enrolled as an invalid Pensioner [accordingly] ;
signed M. Thornton for the comraittee; which report being read and
considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted.
Sent up by Col. Wiggin.
*Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M. * 13 : 1 1 1

544 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Met accordingly.
The committee on the petitions of sick and wouned Officers and
Soldiers, having considered the petition of Josiah Powers, a disabled
Soldier in one of the New-Hampshire Regiraents,
Reported, That the said Josiah Powers, have and receive one half
of his monthly pay, to commence at the time his whole pay, as a Sol
dier ceased, and to be continued till further order of the General-
Court, and that he be enrolled as an invalid Pensioner accordingly ;
signed M. Thornton for the committee ; which report being read
and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Mr. Marsh.
An act for raising the sura of ten thousand pounds, for the use of
this [said] State the present year, was read a third time and passed
to be enacted. Sent up by Mr. Marsh and Mr. Plummer.
The comraittee on the petition of Col. Herculus Mooney, Reported,
That the Officers and Soldiers, raentioned in the [said] petition, be
allowed and paid their depreciation ; signed George Atkinson for the
committee ; which report being read and considered,
Yoted, That it be received and accepted, and that the committee
on depreciation govern themselves accordingly. Sent up by Col. Wiggin.
Voted, That the account of John Prentice, Esq. amounting to one
pound fifteen shillings and three pence, be allowed and paid out of
the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Col. Bartlett.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Abrahani Libbey.
Yoted, That the prayer thereof be so far granted, as that the fine
Le remitted. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Leban Gates, pray
ing to be restored to his law in a certain case,
Voted, That the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General-
Court on the third Wednesday of the next session thereof, and that
in the raean tirae he cause that Ichabod Orrasbee raentioned in said
petition, be served with a Copy thereof and order of Court thereon,
that he may then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the
prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up by Mr. Jenness.
* 13 : 112 *Adjourned to eight o'clock to-morrow morning.
SATURDAY, March 4, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Reuben Libbey.

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Voted, That the prayer thereof be so far granted, as that the Peti
tioner be paid for his services, if not already paid.
Sent up by Mr. E. Pickering.
Voted, That the account of [Col°] David Brewster, amounting to
eighteen pounds four shillings and nine pence, be allowed and paid
out of the Treasury by order of the President. Sent up by Mr. E. Pickering.
Voted, That the account of George Gains, Esq. amounting to six
pounds seventeen shUlings, be aUowed and paid out of the Treasury,
by order of the President. Sent up by Mr. E. Pickering.
Resolved, [ Voted,'] That no Extents be issued against the towns
of Littleton, Wendell and Dalton, until the next session of the Gen
eral-Court. Sent up by Col. Hill.
Voted, That the account of John WiUiams, amounting to eight
pounds one shilling, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, by or
der of the President. Sent up by Col. HiU.
Voted, That his Excellency the President with advice of Council,
be desired to adjourn the General-Court to the last Wednesday of
May next, then to raeet at Concord. Sent up by Col. Hill.
Voted, That the account of Daniel Fowle, Esq. amounting to three
pounds, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the Pres
ident. Sent up by Col. HUl.
Voted, That the hon. Joshua Wentworth, Esq. John Sparhawk and
Thomas Martin, Esq'rs, be and hereby are appointed Coraraissioners
on the part of this State, to raeet such other Coraraissioners as shall
be appointed by any other of the United States, for the Regulation
of Commerce. Sent up by Mr. Jenness. [Maj' Gains]
* Voted,'^ That Maj' Gains, Col° Green & Col° Bartlett * 13 : 1 13
with such of the Honb' Senate as they shall join be a
Comraittee to Norainate a proper person to be appointed an Irapost
Officer in this State. Sent up by M' Jenness.
The committee on the account of Daniel Fowle, Esq. [and Robert
Gerrish, printers,]
Reported, That the said Daniel Fowle, have and receive out of the
Treasury, the sum of twenty-six pounds sixteen shillings ; and [the
said] Robert Gerrish, the sum of ninety pounds, in fuU of their ac
counts, and that his Excellency the President [be desired to] give
order accordingly ; signed George Atkinson, for the comraittee ;
which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. Sent up by Col. Hill.
Voted, That Col. Joseph Whipple, be and hereby is appointed Ira-
I. This vote occurs here in the manuscript.

546 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
post-Officer for this State, and that his Excellency the President is
desired to Commission him accordingly. Sent up by Col. HUl.
The Secretary carae down and gave inforraation, that he was di
rected by his Excellency the President to inforra the hon. House,
that agreeably to the desire of both Houses, he had adjourned the
General-Court, to the last Wednesday of [in] May next, then to meet
at Concord.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,

A REGISTER OF RESOLUTIONS AND ADVICE
OF COUNCIL
BEGUN AT THE FIRST SESSION IN JUNE, 1785.

PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL.
REGISTER OF RESOLUTIONS AND ADVICE.

* I p. & C. : no *PoRTSMouTH, June 14* 1875.
Present his Excellency John Langdon Esq' President, The Hon'''®
John SuUivan, Nath' Peabody, Matthew Thornton, Moses Dow, &
Amos Shepard Esq'^ Members of the Council.
His Excellency the Presid* asked the advice of Council relative to
his drawing orders on the Treasury.
Upon which the Council Unanimously advised his Excell'^y to issue
his orders on the Treasurer agreable to all Acts, Resolves, & Votes
that have been passed by the Legislature of said State, Authorizing
the same. Nath' Peabody.
M. Thornton.
Amos Shephard.
Jn° SuUivan.
Moses Dow.'
* I P. & C. : 1 1 1 *ExETER August 2^, 1785.
Present his Excellency the President & all the CouncU.
Capt. Ebenezer Sullivan having been nominated by the House of
Asembly at their last Session as Surveyor for this State to assist in
laying out the new States, but being done at the close of the Session,
was by some means left incompleat, and the Necessity of having a
person Iraraediately appointed for that business being Obvious The
CouncU Advise, that his ExceUency request our Delegates in Con-
I. Biographical Sketch, Bittinger's History of Haverhill, p. 254. See also Granite Monthly, Vol. 10, p.
229; ChUds's Gaz. Grafton Co., 271.

550 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
gress to Nominate said SuUivan to Congress as the Surveyor for this
State in the Room of M' Nathaniel Adams who has declined.
Nath' Peabody
Jn° Sullivan
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard
M. Thornton
The President with Advice of Council proceeded to Norainate Sun
dry persons for Offices, both civil and Military as follows viz.
The Hon''' John Sherburne Esq' of Portsmouth for a Justice of the
Peace & of the Quorum throughout the State Oliver Whipple Esq'
of Portsmouth and Jesse Johnson of Hampstead for Justices of the
peace for the County of Rockingham.
WiUiam Harper, and Joshua Foss Esq'^, for Justices of the peace
for the County of Strafford.
* I P. & C. : 112 * Nenian Aiken, Esq' of Deering, Tiraothy Gib
son Esq' of Heneker, Levi Spaulding Esq' of
Lyndborough, Matthew Wallace Esq' of Peterborough, and Augus
tus Blanchard, Esq' of Amherst for Justices of the peace for the
County of Hillsborough.
Roger Gilmore Esq' of Jaffrey, Josiah Stevens Esq' of Newport,
Edward Jewett Esq' of Rindge, Jonathan Arnold Esq' of Winchester
& Reuben Alexander Esq' of Winchester Justices of the peace for
the County of Cheshire.
Charles Johnstone Esq' for a Justice of the Quorum for the County
of Grafton.
Samuel Todd Esq' of Orford, Edmund Shattuck Esq' of Cocker
mouth, Eben' Green Esq' of Lirae for Justices of the Peace for the
Count}) of Grafton.
Nathaniel Adams Esq' of Portsraouth for a Notary Public.
Luther Araes of Keen for a Coroner for the County of Cheshire
James Gould of Hanover for a Coroner for the County of Graf
ton —
* I P. & C. : 1 13 * Beza' Woodward for second Justice of the Infe
rior Court of Common Pleas for the County of
Grafton. James Woodward for 3^ Justice of the aforesaid Court Ezekiel Ladd
for 4* Justice of said Court.
Samuel Penhallow Esq' of Portsmouth & Jereraiah Gilman Esq' of
Plastow in the County of Rockinghara John McDuffee of Rochester,
& Caleb Hodgdon of Dover in the County of Strafford, Joseph
Syraonds of Hillsborough & Joshua Bayley of Hopkintown in the
County of Hillsborough, Calvin Frink of Swanzey, and Jonathan Ar-

1785] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 551
nold of Winchester in the County of Cheshire, Moses Baker of Camp
ton & Joseph Senter of Plymouth in the County of Grafton, Special
Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature.
Benjamin Stone of Atkinson and John BeU of Londonderry Spe
cial Justices of the Inferior Court of Coramon Pleas for the County
of Rockingham.
Joseph Sias of Lee John Waldron of Dover Sc John Smith the 3"*
of Durham for Special Justices of the Inferior Court of Comraon
pleas for the County of Strafford.
Augustus Blanchard of Amherst for a Special Justice of the Inferior
Court of common pleas for the County of HUlsborough.
* Thomas Baker of Keene, & Absolam Kings- * i P. & C. : 1 14
bury of Alstead for Special Justices of the Inferior
Court of common pleas for the County of Cheshire.
Jeremiah Eames of Northumberland and Joshua Copp of Warren
for Special Justices of the Inferior Court of Coraraon pleas for the
County of Grafton.
George Reid Esq' of Londonderry for a Brigadier General of the
Militia. Jonathan Wentworth Esq' of Soraersworth for Leuit' Colonel of
the Second Regiment of Militia.
David Place Esq' of Rochester for Major of the second Regiment
of MUitia.
John Bellows Esq' of Walpole for Colonl of the Second Regiment
of Light Horse.
Peter Green Esq' of Concord for Leiutenant Colonel of the Second
Regiraent of light Horse.
Joseph Hutchins Esq' of Haverhil for Major of the Second Regi
ment of light Horse.
Thoraas Thorapson Esq' of Portsraouth for Colonel of the Regi
ment of Artillery.
James Hackett Esq' of Exeter for Leiut' Colonel of the Regiment
of Artillery.
Caleb Hodgdon Esq' of Dover for second Leu' Col° of s'' Regi
ment. Samuel Atkinson of Boscawen for Major of said Regiment.
* Samuel Young Esq' of Concord Alias Gunth- * i P. &C. : 1 1 5
wait for Second Major of said Regiment of Artillery.
Meshech Bell Jun' of New Castle for Captain of the Fort at said
New Castle. Advised by Jn° Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
Amos Shephard
Moses Dow

552 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. ['^7^5
The President with advise of Council further proceeded and Nom-^
inated Moses Dow Esq' for a Brigadier General of the Militia.
Josiah Dearborn Esq' of Harapton Second Major of the Third Reg
iment of Militia.
John Dennett Esq' of Portsmouth for Major of the first Regiment
of Militia.
Joseph Parsons of Rye for Second Major of the first Regt. of
Mihtia. Jn° Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
Araos Shephard
August 3"^ 1 775 Present his Excellency the President & all the
Council.
*iP. &C. :ii6 *The President asked the Advice of CouncU
Relative to his giving orders for firing Salutes, &c
on which Question the Council advised that his Excellency give or
ders for firing Salutes, hoisting Coulers &c at the Fort, & in the Har
bour on particular occasions for comraeraorating Anniversary Nation
al events, or in Honour of dignified Strangers, or otherwise as to him
may seem proper. Nath' Peabody
Jn° Sullivan
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard
August 4"' 1785, Present His Excellency the President & all the
Council. Several Matters under consideration.
* I P. & C. : 1 17 * Exeter August lo"' 1785
Present his Excellency the President & all the CouncU.
Appointed the persons hereafter named to Offices civil & MUitary
— viz —
The Hon'''^ John Sherburne Esq' of Portsmouth a Justice of the
peace & of the Quorura throughout the state.
Oliver Whipple Esq' of Portsmouth, and Jesse Johnson Esq' of
Hampstead Justices of the peace for the County of Rockingham.
WUliara Harper Esq' of Sandborntown and Joshua Foss Esq' of
Barrington Justices of the peace for the County of Strafford.
Nenian Aiken Esq' of Deering, Timothy Gibson Esq' of Henne
ker, Levi Spaulding Esq' of Lyndeborough, Matthew Wallace Esq'
of Peterborough and Augustus Blanchard of Araherst, Justices of
the peace for the County of Hillsborough.

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SS3

* Nathaniel Adams Esq' of Portsmouth a Notary * i P. & C. • 118
Public. Luther Ames Esq' of Keene a Coroner for the County of Cheshire.
James Gould Esq' of Hanover a Coroner for the County of Grafton.
Beza' Woodward Esq' of Hanover second Justice of the Inferior
Court of Common pleas for the County of Grafton.
James Woodward Esq' of Haverhil third Justice of afors'^ Court —
Ezekiel Ladd, Esq' of Haverhil fourth Justice of said Court.
Samuel Penhallow Esq' of Portsmouth & Jeremiah Gilraan Esq' of
Plastow, in the County of Rockinghara, John M'^Duffee Esq' of Roch
ester, and Caleb Hodgdon Esq' of Dover in the County of Strafford
Joseph Symonds Esq' of HiUsborough- & Joshua Bayley Esq' of Hop
kintown in the County of Hillsborough, Calvin Frink Esq' of Swanzey
& Jon^ Arnold Esq' of Winchester in the County of Cheshire, Moses
Baker Esq' of Campton and Joseph Senter Esq' of Plymouth in the
County of Grafton, Special Justices of the Superior Court of Judica
ture. Benjamin Stone Esq' of Atkinson and John BeU Esq' of London
derry Special Justices of Inferior Court of comraon pleas for the
County of Rockingham.
* Joseph Sias Esq' of Lee John Waldron Esq' of * i P. & C. : 119
Dover & John Smith 3'' Esq' of Durham Special
Justices of the Inferior Court of Coramon pleas for the County of
Strafford Augustus Blanchard Esq' a Special Justice of the Inferior Court
of comraon pleas for the County of Hillsborough.
Thoraas Baker Esq' of Keen and Absolara Kingsbury Esq' of
Alstead Special Justices of the Inferior Court of common pleas for
the County of Cheshire.
Jeremiah Fames Esq' of Northumberland and Joshua Copp Esq'
of Warren Special Justices of the Inferior Court of Common pleas
in the County of Grafton —
George Reid Esq' of -Londonderry a Brigadier General of the Militia.
Jonathan Wentworth Esq' of Somersworth Leiu' Colonel of the
second Regiment of Militia.
David Place Esq' of Rochester Major of the second Regiment of
Militia. John Bellows Esq' of Walpole Colonel of the second Regiment of
light Horse.
Peter Green Esq' of Concord Leiutenant-Colonel of the second
Regiment of light Horse.
Joseph Hutchins Esq' of HaverhU Major of the Second Regiment
of light Horse.
36

554 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l78S
* I P. & C. : 120 * Thomas Thompson Esq' of Portsraouth Colonel
of the Regiraent of Artillery.
James Hacket Esq' of Exeter Leiut' Colonel of the Rigiment of
ArtUlery. Caleb Hodgdon Esq' of Dover second Leiu' Col° of the ArtiUery.
Samuel Atkinson Esq' of Boscawen Major of the Regiraent of Ar
tillery —
Sarauel Young Esq' of Concord Ahas Gunthwait second Major of
the Regiraent of ArtUlery.
Meshech Bell Jun' of New Castle Captain of the Fort at said
New Castle.
Josiah Dearborn Esq' of Hampton second Major of the Third
Regiraent of Militia. Advised by Jn° Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard
August ii"' 1785 — Present as Yesterday.
The President with advice of Council further proceeded and
Appointed Moses Dow Esq' of Haverhil a Brigadier General of
the Militia. John Dennett Esq' of Portsraouth Major of the first
Regiraent of Militia.
* I P. & C. : 121 * Jose^Dh Parsons Esq' of Rye second Major of the
first Regiraent of Militia. Jn° Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
Amos Shephard
August 12"' 1785 — Present as Yesterday.
Cap' Ebenezer Sullivan having signified to the president & Coun
cil by Jn° Sullivan Esq' that he shall decline Accepting the Appoint
ment of Surveyor to assist in laying out the new States.
Therefore the Council advise his Excellency to Inform our Del
egates in Congress as M' Edward Dowse has been Recoraraended
by his ExceUency Governor Bowdoin & the Geographer of the united
States as a person quallified, they have no objection to their nomi
nating hira or any other person to Congress for that Business as will
in their opinion be most likely to serve the interest of this & the
other of the united States. Advised by — Jn° Sullivan
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard.
* I P. & C. : 122 * August 13"' 1785 Present as Yesterday.
His ExceUency the President requested the advice

1785] RECORD OF ^PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 555
of the Council respecting his authority to direct the Masters of Ves
sels coraing into the port of Piscataqua to wait on him with their
papers immediately on their arrival. —
The CouncU gave it as their opinion that His ExceUency as Ad
miral & Comraander in Chief of the Navy has a constitutional right
to order all Masters & Coraraanders of vessels coming into any
port in this State to attend upon him with their papers upon their
arrival, and advise him to exercise that authority whenever he raay
judge necessary. Advised by — Jn° SuUivan
Nath' Peabody
Moses Dow
Araos Shephard.
The President with advice of Council direct the Coramittee for
Settling the Araounts of this State with M' Gorham Coraraissioner
appointed in behalf of the united States to employ a clerk or clerks
agreeably to the Vote of the General Court of the 24"' of June last,
to assist them in drawing out & Stating the Account of this State
against the united States. And that the Comraittee proceed to Set
tle said accounts with the Coramissioner as soon as possible leaving
such of the particular Matters in dispute between them which have
been Stated to the President & Council & which they
cannot agree upon For further * directions. *iP. &C. :i23
Advised by John Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard
Septeraber 6"' 1785 — Pursuant to direction of his Excellency the
President for the Council to raeet hira at Portsmouth —
Present his ExceUency the President & the Hon" John Sullivan &
Matthew Thornton Esq'^ of the Council
7"' Present as Yesterday.
8"' Present as Yesterday waiting for the other Members of Coun
cil. The President Received a Letter frora M' Peabody Inforraing
that his health was such he could not Attend the Council
*<J L. s. [- State of New Harapshire. * i P. & C. : 124
'^-Y—' By His ExceUency John Langdon Es
quire President of the State of New Harapshire.
It having been raade to appear to rae, that Diederick Leertouwer
hath been duly recognized by the United States of Araerica, in

556 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^785
Congress asserabled, as Consul of their High Mightinesses the
States General of the United Netherlands, for the States of New
Hampshire & Massachusetts, to reside at Boston.
I do therefore, by and with Advice of Council, by these presents,
raake known to all concerned, that the privileges, pre-erainence and
authority legally belonging to the character and quality of ¦ the
Consul as aforesaid, are due to the said Diederick Leertouwer
within the Jurisdiction of this State, and that I have ordered this
Exequatur, or Notification of his quality to be recorded in the
Secretary's Office.
Given under ray hand & the Seal of the State, this seventh day
of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
& eighty five, and in the tenth year of the Independence of the
united States of Araerica. John Langdon.
By His E.xcellency's Coraraand
Joseph Pearson, Dep'^' Sec^
* I P. & C. : 125 *CoNCORD, October 22", 1785.
Present his Excellency the President, the Hon'''® John Sullivan,
Nath' Peabody, & Araos Shephard Esq'^ of the Council.
Norainated the persons hereafter naraed for Officers Civil & Mil
itary as respectively Set down viz.
David George of Concord, Jaraes Aiken of Londonderry Went
worth Cheswill of New Market, for Coroners in the County of Rock
inghara —
Neal Mclntire of Portsmouth, for a surveyor of Flax seed.
Doc" John Jackson of Portsmouth for an Assay Master of Pot Ash
& Pearl Ash —
Benjamin Sias Esq' of Loudon, Jeremiah Bryent Esq' of New Mar
ket, for Justices of the Peace in the County of Rockingham.
John Waldron Esq' of Dover, and James Brackett Esq' of Lee for
Justices of the peace in the County of Strafford.
John Wheatley Esq' of Lebanon for a Justice of the peace in the
County of Grafton.
Daniel Gould of Lyndborough for a Coroner in the County of Hills
borough. Elijah Frink of Lempster in the County of Cheshire for a Justice
of the peace in that County.
Timothy Emerson of Durhara for Second Major of the Second
Regiment of MUitia.
Jereraiah Fogg Esq' of Kensington for Adjutant General of the
MUitia.

1785] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 557
*George Aldrich, for Colonel of the 21^' Regiment. * i P. & C. : 126
Joseph Burt, for Lieutenant Col° of Ditto, Jonathan
Smith for Major of D° Ebenezer Britton for 2^ Major of D°
Davenport Phelps for Major of the 2^ Regiment of light Horse.
To which norainations the subscribers did advise and Consent.
Jn° Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
Araos Shephard
Moses Dow
On the sarae day proceeded and Norainated
Jaraes Betton Esq' of Windhara for a Justice of the peace in the
County of Rockinghara Richard Cutts Shannon, for a Justice of the
peace in the County of Hillsborough.
Jonathan Blanchard Esq' for a Brigadier General of the MUitia.
To which norainations the Subscribers did advise and Consent.
Jn° Sullivan
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard
* Further proceeded and nominated *i P. & C. : 127
Amos Shepard Esq' of Alstead for a Justice of
the peace, in the County of Cheshire. Nath' Peabody
Jn° Sullivan
Moses Dow
Further proceeded and nominated
Enoch Sawyer Esq' of Goffstown for a Justice of the peace in the
County of HiUsborough. Jn° Sullivan
Moses Dow
Araos Shephard
Further proceeded and Norainated
Araos Cogswell for Colonel of the first Regira' of light Horse.
Williara Brewster for Leiut Col' of s'' Reg'
Jon^ Cass for Major of said Regiment. Advised by Nath' Peabody
Jn° Sullivan
Moses Dow
Araos Shephard
* Concord November 3'' 1785. * i P. & C. 128
Present his Excellency the President and all the CouncU. In pur
suance to the foregoing Nominations the following appointraents were
made, viz.

558 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178S
David George of Concord, Jaraes Aiken of Londonderry, and
Wentworth Cheswell of New Market Coroners for the County of
Rockingham. Neal Mclntire of Portsraouth, surveyor of Flaxseed.
Doct' John Jackson of Portsraouth Assay Master of Pot Ash &
Pearl Ash.
Benjamin Sias Esq' of Loudon, & Jereraiah Bryent Esq' of New
Market Justices of the peace for the County of Rockingham.
John Waldron Esq' of Dover, Jaraes Brackett Esq' of Lee Justices,
of the peace for the County of Strafford.
John Wheatley Esq' of Lebanon a Justice of the peace for the
County of Grafton.
Daniel Gould of Lyndborough a Coroner for the County of Hills
borough. Elijah Frink of Lerapster a Justice of the peace for the County of
Cheshire. Tiraothy Emerson of Durham, Second Major of the Second Reg
im' of Militia.
*iP. &C. :i29 * Jeremiah Fogg Esq' of Kensington Adjutant
General of the Militia.
George Aldrich of Westmoreland, Colonel of the Twenty first
Regiment of Militia
Joseph Burt of Westmorland, Leiut' Col" of Ditto.
Jonathan Sraith of Surry Major of said regiment.
Ebenezer Britton of Westmorland Second Major of said Regiment.
Davenport Phelps of Orford Major of the Second Regiraent of
light Horse.
To which appointments the Subscribers did advise & consent.
Jn° Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard
Further proceeded and Appointed
Jaraes Betton Esq' of Windhara a Justice of the peace for the
County of Rockingham.
Richard Cutts Shannon Esq' a Justice of the peace for the County
of Hillsborough.
Jonathan Blanchard Esq' a Brigadier General of the Militia.
To which Appointments the Subscribers did Advise & Consent.
Jn° Sullivan
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard

1785] record of president and council. 559
* Further proceeded & appointed * i P. & C. : 130
Amos Shepard Esq' of Alstead, a Justice of the
peace for the County of Cheshire. Jn" SuUivan
Nath' Peabody
Moses Dow
Further proceeded and Appointed
Enoch Sawyer Esq' of Goffstown a Justice of the peace for the
County of HUlsborough. Jn° SuUivan
Moses Dow
Araos Shephard
At Concord, October 31=' 1785 Present his ExceUency the Presi
dent, M' Sullivan, M' Peabody, M' Thornton, M' Dow and M' Shep
pard. The following Nominations were made —
Samuel Douglass of Raby, a Coroner for the County of HUlsbor
ough. Henry Gerrish Esq who was appointed Colonel of the 22^ Reg' of
Militia came before the President and Council and resigned the Cora
raand of said Regiment, which resignation is accepted.
Nominated Ebenezer Webster Colonel of the 22'' Regiment.
Joshua Bayley Esq' Lieut' Col' of said Regiment, Robert Wallace
Esq' Major of said Regiment, Enoch Gerrish Esq' Second Major of
said Regiment. Moses Dow
Amos Shephard
M. Thornton
' * Novem' 4"' 1785 Present his Excell")' the Pres- * i P. & C. : 131
id' and all the Council.
Appointed Amos Cogswell Esq' of Dover Colonel of the first Regi
ment of light Horse.
William Brewster Esq' of Portsmouth Lieu' Colonel of s'' Regi
raent. Jonathan Cass Esq' of Exeter Major of said Regiraent.
Advised by Jn° SuUivan
Nath' Peabody
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard
Noveraber 7"' 1785 Present his ExceUency the President, M' Pea
body, M' Thornton, Mr. Sheppard and M' Dow, appointed Sarauel
Douglass Esq' of Raby a Coroner for the County of Hillsborough.
Ebenezer Webster Esq appointed Colonel of the 22'' Rigiraent and
Joshua Bayley Esquire Lieut' Colonel of said Regiment.
Novem' 8th 1785 Present as before

560 NEW HAMPSHIRE .EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Robert Wallace Esq' Appointed Major of the 22'' Regiment and
Enoch Gerrish Esq' Second Major of said Reg' Moses Dow
Araos Shephard
M. Thornton.
* I P. & C. : 133 * Concord Nov' 9"' 1785.
Present His Excellency the President and the Honorable Matthew
Thornton, Nath' Peabody, Moses Dow and Araos Shephard Esq'=
His Excellency the President requested the Advice of Council rel
ative to drawing Orders on the Treasurer in favor of Delegates or
any other persons —
Upon which the Council unaniraously advised his Excellency to
issue his Orders on the Treasurer agreeable to all Acts, Resolves &
Votes passed by the Legislature of this State authorizing the sarae —
M. Thornton
Nath' Peabody
Amos Shephard
Moses Dow
* I P. & C. : 134 * State of New Hampshire.
[L. S.J By His Excellency John Langdon Esq' President
of the .State of New Harapshire —
It having been made to appear to me, that the Sieur Ducher is ap
pointed by his Most Majesty as agent (during the absence of M. Tos-
can) to discharge the functions of Vice Consul a,t Portsmouth.
I do therefore by and with advice of Council by these presents,
raake known to all concerned that the privileges, pre-eminence &
authority legally belonging to the Character and quality of Vice Con
sul (during the absence of M. Toscan aforesaid) are due to the said
within the Jurisdiction of this State & that I have caused this Exe
quatur or Notification of his quality to be recorded in the Secretary's
Office —
Given under ray hand & the Seal of the State this eleventh day of
February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred &
Eighty six & in the tenth year of the Independence of the United
States of Araerica — John Langdon.
By His Excellency's Coraraand. E. Thorapson Esq.
* I P. & C. : 135 * Portsmouth Feb^ 13"' 1786.
Present his Excellency and all the Council. The Council advise
his Excellency the President to request the opinion of the two

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 56I
branches of the legislature, whether the seat of the Chief Justice,
is become vacant by his accepting a Coramission under the Authority
of this State as a Delegate to the Congress of the United States.
M. Thornton
Jn° Sullivan *
Moses Dow
Araos Shephard
Portsmouth Feb'^ 13"', 1786.
Present his Excellency the President & all the Council.
Norainated Nathaniel Dudley of Raymond for a Justice of the
peace for the County of Rockinghara.
Andrew INPMillan Esq' of Conway for a Justice of the peace for
the County of Strafford.
also James Carr Esq' and John Rollins Esq' for Justices of the
peace for the County of Strafford.
Samuel Douglass Esq' of Raby, Siraeon Curaraings Esq' of Mer
rimac, Aaron Greely Esq' of Hopkinton John Orr Esq' of Bedford &
Benjarain Wadley Esq' of Sutton for Justices of the peace for the
County of Hillsborough.
Alexander Parkraan Esq' of Marlboro', Henry IngaUs Esq' of
Richraond, Joseph Rounseval Esq' of Washington, Elijah Grout Esq'
of Charlestown for Justices of the peace for the County of Cheshire.
Ebenezer Hoit Esq' of Grafton for a Justice of the peace for the
County of Grafton.
* John Morrison of Windham & Samuel Charaber- * i P. & C. : 136
lin of Loudon for Coroners for the County of Rock
inghara. Josiah Main of Rochester for a Coroner for the County of Straf
ford. John Colburn Jun' of Lebanon for a Coroner for the County of
Grafton. Sarauel Buss of Jeffrey for a Coroner for the County of Cheshire.
Joshua Howard Esq' of HaverhU for Colonel of the 13"' Regi
ment. Azariah Webb Esq' of Piermont for Leiut' Colonel of Ditto.
Obadiah Clement Esq' of Warren for a Major of Ditto.
The foregoing nominations advised by M. Thornton
Nath' Peabody
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard
Jn° Sullivan

562 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
His Excellency, with Advice of Council, further proceeded and
norainated The Hon Woodbury Langdon Esq a Justice of the Superior
Court. Jonathan P. Whitcorab first Major of the 6"' Regiraent of Militia.
Major Alex''' Craige of Rumney for a Justice of the peace for the
County of Grafton.
Cap' Abraham Burnhara of Ruraney for a Coroner for the County
of Grafton. Advised by M. Thornton
Araos Shephard
Nath' Peabody
*iP. &C. :i37 * At a CouncU holden at Portsraouth Feb^ 18"'
1786, Present his Excellency & all the Council —
Nominated Joshua Weeks of Greenland for a Justice of the peace
for the County of Rockingham. Advised by M. Thornton
Amos Shephard
Moses Dow
further proceeded & norainated Daniel Rindge of Portsra" for a
Justice of the Peace & of the Quorura thro' the State.
Joseph Peirce of New Durhara Gore for a Justice of the peace for
the County of Strafford.
Nathan Young of Granthara for a Justice of the peace for the
County of Cheshire.
Samuel Hale of Barrington for second Major of the second Regi
ment of MUitia.
Samuel Works of Westmorland for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Cheshire. M. Thornton
Amos Shephard
Nath' Peabody
Jn" Sullivan.
Further proceeded & nominated
Nathan Hoit of Wolfbor" for a Justice of the Peace for the County
of Strafford. John Shepard of Amherst for d° for the County of
Hillsbor". Joseph Demerit & Jon^ Clark of Northwood for Justices
of the peace for the County of Rockinghara. Ebenezer Hunting of
New London for a Coroner for the County of Hillsbor". Amos
Shepard for Col. of 16"' Reg' Militia. Josiah Goldsmith Lieut.
Col of d°- Silas Wright for Maj' of d°. Tim° Fletcher for 2^ Maj' of
d°. John Prentice of Londonderry for a Just" Peace for County
of Rockingham. Benjarain West of Charlestown for a Justice of the
peace and of the Quorura for the County of Cheshire — Samuel Wil
kins of Araherst for a Justice of the peace for the County of Hills-
bor". John Fairfield of Lirae for a Coroner for the County of Graf-

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 563,
ton & Timothy Taylor of Merriraac for a Justice of the peace for the
County of Hillsbor". Moses Dow
Jn° Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
* Portsmouth: Feb'^ 20"' 1786. * i P. & C. :i38
Present all the Council — appointed,
Nathaniel Dudley Esq' of Rayraond a Justice of the peace for the
County of Rockinghara.
Andrew McMillan Esq' James Carr Esq' and John Rollins Esq'
Justices of the peace for the County of Strafford.
Samuel Douglass Esq', Aaron Greeley Esq' Simeon Cummings
Esq' John Orr, Esq' and Benjamin Wadley Esq' Justices of the peace
for the County of Hillsborough.
Alexander Parkman Esq' Henry Ingalls Esq' Joseph Rounsevil
Esq' and Elijah Grout Esq' Justices of the Peace for the County of
Cheshire —
Ebenezer Hoit Esq' a Justice of the Peace for the County of Graf
ton. John Morrisson Esq' and Samuel Chamberlin Esq' Coroners for the
County of Rockingham —
Josiah Main of Rochester a Coroner for the County of Strafford.
John Colburn Jun' a Coroner for the County of Grafton.
Sarauel Buss a Coroner for the County of Cheshire.
Joshua Howard Esq' Colonel of the 13"' Regiraent — Azariah Webb
Esq' Leiu' Colonel of Ditto. Obadiah Cleraent Esq' Major of Ditto.
Advised by M. Thornton
Nath' Peabody
Moses Dow
Araos Shephard
John Sullivan
*At a CouncU holden at Portsraouth Feb 25"' 1786 * i P. & C. : 139
Present His Excellency & Council except Gen' Sul
livan and appointed
The Hon. Woodbury Langdon Esq a Justice of the Superior Court.
M. Thornton
Amos Shephard
Nath' Peabody
Moses Dow
further proceeded and appointed Joshua Weeks of Greenland a
Justice of the peace for the County of Rockinghara. M. Thornton
Araos Shephard
Moses Dow

564 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
At a CouncU holden at Portsmouth Feb^' 27"^ 1786, Present his
Excellency the President, The Hon M. Thornton A Shephard, N.
Peabody, Moses Dow.
proceeded & appointed Jonathan P. Whitcomb first Major of the
6"' Regiment of Militia.
Maj' Alexander Craige a Justice of the peace for the County of
Grafton & Capt. Abraham Burnham of Ruraney for a Coroner for the
County of Grafton.
Daniel Rindge Esq a Justice of the peace & of the Quorum
throughout the State — Joseph Peirce of New Durham Gore a Justice
of the Peace for the County of Strafford. ¦ — Nathan Young of Gran
tham a Justice of the Peace for the County of Cheshire — Samuel
Hale of Barrington 2^ Maj' of 2"^ Reg' of Militia, & Samuel Works of
Westmorland a Justice of the Peace for the County of Cheshire.
M. Thornton
Araos Shephard
Nath' Peabody
Moses Dow
Jn° Sullivan
* I P. & C. : 140 * At a CouncU holden at Portsra" March^ 1=' 1786
present His Excellency and all the Council.
His ExceUency with Advice of Council proceeded and appointed,
Nathan Hoit of Moultonborough a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Strafford — John Shepard of Araherst a Justice of the
Peace for the County of HiUsborough — Joseph Deraerit & Jonathan
Clark of Northwood Justices of the peace for the County of Rock
ingham, Ebenezer Hunting of New London a Coroner for the County
of HiUsborough Amos Shepard a Col° of the 16"' Reg' of Militia.
Josiah Goldsmith a Lieut Col" of d°. SUas Wright a Maj' of d°, and
Tiraothy Fletcher a second Maj' of d°
Advised by Moses Dow
Jno Sullivan
Nath' Peabody.
Further proceeded and appointed,
John Prentice Esq' of Londonderry a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Rockingham. Moses Dow
Jn" Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
Further proceeded Sc appointed,
Benjamin West of Charlestown a Justice of the peace & of the
Quorum for the County of Cheshire.
* I P. & C. :i4i Sarauel Wilkins of Araherst a Justice of * the peace
for the County of HiUsborough John Fairfield of

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 565
Lime a Coroner for the County of Grafton and Timothy Taylor a
Justice of the peace for the County of Hillsborough. Moses Dow
Jno Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
At a CouncU holden at Portsmouth Febry 27 1786, Present His E.x-
cellency the President The Hon. M. Thornton, A. Shepard, & N.
Peabody Esq. Counsellors —
Norainated Robert Means of Amherst for a Justice of the peace
for the County of HiUsborough Jn° SuUivan
Nath' Peabody
M. Thornton.
Araos Shephard
At a Council holden at Portsraouth March 6"' 1786 present His Ex
cellency the President, The Hon Matthew Thornton Gen' Sullivan
Gen' Peabody & Col Shepard Esq'^ Appointed
Robert Means of Araherst Esq. a Justice of the peace for the
County of HiUsborough. M' Jeremiah Libbey Postmaster General
for this State. Jn° Sullivan
Nath' Peabody
M. Thornton
Araos Shephard
* Portsmouth March 6, 1786 * i P. & C. : 142
To Jeremiah Libbey
Sir ; His Excellency the President with Advice of
Council having appointed you Postmaster General for said State, You
are hereby requested to put the several Posts in motion through this
State as soon as possible, as far as circumstances will adrait agreeably
to a Resolve of said State passed March 4, 1786 To the above the
CouncU did advise & consent. M. Thornton
Nath' Peabody
Araos Shephard
Exeter May 18"'-
Present his Excellency The Hon'^'^ Matthew Thornton, Nathaniel
Peabody & Araos Shepherd Esq'^ of the CouncU —
This being the day appointed to hear Leiu' Col° Jereraiah GUman
on the Subject Matter of the address of both Houses of the Legisla
ture to the Pres' & Council moving for said Gilraan to be dismissed
frora the CivU offices he holds under the State for reasons set forth
in said Address —
Col° Gilman appeared and it was agreed to put over the hearing tiU
to Morrow 10 "clock A M

566 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
proceeded and norainated Isaac Teraple of Alstead for a Coroner
for the County of Cheshire ; John Weeks of Greenland for a Coroner
forthe County of Rockinghara, & Sara' Fowler of Boscawen was
norainated Feb. 25 last for a Justice of the peace for the County of
Hillsbor" oraitted thro raistake — M. Thornton
Jn" SuUivan
Amos Shephard
* I P. & C. : 143 *May 19"' 1786 — Present as Yesterday —
Leut Col" GUman appeared and after a full hearing
of his defence there being but Three of the Council present agreed
that the determination of the Subject of said Address lay for consid
eration until the Sixth day of June at Concord where the CouncU is
Sumraoned to attend. Spent the reraainder of the day in raaking
out lists of Votes returned for Senators —
Adjourned till Monday next )0 oClock A M
May 22'' 1786 Present as last Week & proceeded on Entering the
returned Votes for Senators.
His ExceUency the President inforraed the Council that the Rev'^
D' Langdon who was Appointed by the General Court to preach the
Next Election Sermon by Accident had fractured his Thigh which
would render him incapable of performing that Service, and Asked
the advice of Council relative to the appointment of some other per
son to Preach said Sermon. To which the subscribers advised that
his Excellency would desire the Rev'' Doc' Sam' Haven to prepare a
Sermon & to Attend Sz: preach the Same before the General
Court at Concord on the thursday next following
* I P. & C. : 144 * the first Wednesday in June next — and in case Doc'
Haven should decline that then his ExceUency re
quest the Rev'' M' Buckminister to perform that Service. M. Thornton
Amos Shephard
Nath' Peabody
May 23'' 1786 present as yesterday.
The following persons appointed Surveyors of Luraber agreably to
an Act of this State passed June 21=^' 1785, viz
!John Beck
Samuel Briard
Sam" Hutchins
f Benjarain Pierce
Dover < Thoraas Shannon
( David Folsora
Durhara j John Sraith 3" Esq'
( Sarauel Yeaton

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New Market | ™"'' ^'l^''' ^sq'
[ William Odiorne
I Siraeon Ladd
Exeter ^ J^"^^^ Rundlett
] Eph' Robinson
I^Nath' Giddinge jun'
* Soraersworth < John Rollins Esq * x P. & C. : 145
Advised by M. Thornton
Nath' Peabody
Araos Shephard
At a Council held at Concord on the 6"' of June 1786, Present His
Excellency John Langdon Esq President The Hon. John SuUivan,
Matthew Thornton & Araos Shephard Esquires.
Col Jereraiah GUman having been notified agreeably to a Resolve
of Council of the 3'' of March last to appear at Exeter on the 18"'
day of May last to show cause if any he had, why he should not be re
moved from the Offices of Justice of the peace and Special Justice of
the peace Superior Court agreeably to an Address of both Branches
of the Legislature and the said Gilraan having appeared agreeable to
notification at Exeter on said 18''' day of May and being fully &
the Determination thereof postponed to this day. His Excellency the
President asked the Council whether they would consent, that the
said Gilman should be reraoved frora holding the Offices of a Justice
of the peace and Special Justice of the Superior Court Agreeably to
said Address of the two Houses and be notified thereof by him ac
cordingly, which is consented by us, M. Thornton
Araos Shephard
Jn° SuUi\'an
Concord June 7"' 1786.
This day the resignation of Jeremiah Gilman Esq was delivered
to his Excellency the President by the hands of Col Joseph Welch
dated June 3'' 1786.
* His Excellency the President and three of the * i P. & C. : 146
Council in pursuance of foregoing nominations made
the following appointments viz'
Isaac Temple of Alstead a Coroner for the County of Cheshire ;
John Weeks of Greenland a Coroner for the County of Rockingham
and Samuel Fowler of Boscawen a Justice of the peace for the
County of HiUsbor". Advised by M. Thornton
Jn" Sullivan
Amos Shephard

568 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
At a Council holden as aforesaid,
His Excellency the President requested the Advice of Council rel
ative to raaking provision for the gentlemen of the Clergy who raay
attend the Election ;
Whereupon the Council advise His Excellency that a Dinner be pro
vided at the public Expenee on Thursday next for the gentlemen of
the Clergy, who may think proper to attend the Election — And that
the President, Council & Speaker of the House with such other
Members frora the- two Branches as they shall think proper, dine in
Corapany with the Clergy, the Expense of which to be defrayed as
the two Branches raay think proper to order.
Agreeably to the above advice, M' Honeyford was desired to pro
vide a Dinner for fifty persons on Thursday next — M. Thornton
Jn" Sullivan
Amos Shephard

* I p. & C. : 147

* PRESIDENT & COUNCIL, ATTENDANCE ROLLS, 1785-6.

I. Mr. Amory says, Life of John Sullivan, p. 209, that lie declined the office of Councillor, to wliich he was elected for the political year 17S5-6. The record does not
verify ihis statement, but shows that he served in that capacity during the entire year. Amory also stales, iu the same place, that Gen. Suhivan resigned the offices of At
torney-General and Major-General of the militia, March 4, 17S6.

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ON
STATE OFFICERS, 1786-87.

EXECUTIVE DEP.4.RTMENT.
JOHN SULLIVAN,' Durham, President.
Cojincil.

\ Chosen from the Senate.

JOSHUA WENTWORTH, Portsmouth,
AMOS SHEPHARD, Alstead,
CHRISTOPHER TOPPAN, Hampton, \
MOSES DOW, Haverhih, ( Chosen from the House.
ROBERT MEANS,^ Amherst, )
I. The works named below are the principal authorities on the life, character and services of Gen. Sullivan :
The Military Services and Public Life of Major-General John Sullivan, by Thos. C. Amory, Boston, Mass.,
1868; Sketch and Historical Address on Sullivan's Indian Expedition, 1779, Rev. David Craft, published by
authority of the State of New York, 1887 ; Gen. Sullivan not i Pensioner of Luzerne, with the Report of the
New Hampshire Historical Society, Vindicating Him from the Charge made by George Bancroft (Reprinted
in Proceedings of the N. H. Hist. Soc., Vol. i, p. 94), Boston, A. Williams and Company, 1S75 5 Centennial
Memoir of Alajor General John Sullivan, 1740^1795, presented at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 2,
i8;?6, by Thos. C. Amory, — reprinted from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Philadel
phia, 1879 ; Major General John Sullivan, A Vindicatiran of his Character as a Soldier and Patriot, by Thomas
C. Amory, Esq., Morrisania, N. Y., 1867; John Sullivan, Plumer, MS. Biography, Vol. 3, p. 567; Bell's
Historjf of Exeter, p. 356; Life of John Sullivan, by O. W. E. Peabody, Spark's Am. Biography, 2d Ed.
Series lii.; TheNew Hampshire Spy^ Portsmouth, first issued Oct. 24, 17S6, by George Jerry Osborne, the
personal organ of Gen. Sullivan and during his administration the official paper. Its articles reflect his views
and doubtless nota few were from his pen. The Gazette and Mercury of Portsmouth and the Freetna?^ s
Oracle of Exeter contain much political and controversial matter to which Gen. Sullivan and his rivals, direct
ly or by their friends, were contributors.
2. Robert Means, son of Thomas Means, was born in Stewartstown, Ireland, August 28, 1742, and died in
Amherst, N. H., January 24, 1823. He came to this country in company with Jacob McGaw, afterwards of
Merrimack, in 1766. They were weavers and carried on the business in Amherst and Merrimack several
years, but both at length abandoned that occupation, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. Both became
wealthy and influential citizens. Means was active in Mihtia matters after the Revolution and commanded a
cavalry regiment, hence he was afterwards known as Col. Means.
Col. Means married Mary McGregore, daughter of Rev. David McGregore of Londonderry, by whom he
had nine children. Among them were Mary, b. Oct. 20, 1777, married Hon. Jeremiah Mason, Nov. 6, 1799.
Elizabeth, b. Sept. 8, 1779, married Rev. Jesse Appleton. They were parents of Jane Means Appleton, the
wife of President Fiank Pierce. Nancy, b. Oct. 28, 1783, m. (i) Hon. Caleb Ellis. (2) Hon. Amos Lawrence.
Hon. William Gordon Means, now a resident of Andover, Mass., was a grandson of Col. Robert and Mary
McGregore Means and the son of Col. David McGregore Means and Catherine Atherton Means, sister of
Hon. Charles H. Atherton. D. F. Secomh^ A tttkor of ike History of A mherst.

572 XEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE P.IPERS. [17^6
JOSEPH PEARSON,' Exeter, Secretary of State.
Deput-^i Secretary.
JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN, Exeter, State Treasjirer.
JEREMIAH LIBBEY,' Portsmouth, Post Master.
JOSEPH WHIPPLE,^ Portsmouth, Lnpost Officer.
ELEAZER RUSSELL, Portsmouth, Naval Officer.
NATHANIEL GILMAN, Exeter, Continental Loan Officer
STEPHEN GORHAM,^ Exeter, } ^^^^ ^^^i^S^^ '^'^"
JOSEPH PEARSON, Exeter, Paymaster of Pensions.
JUDICIARY.
Supreme Court of Judicature.
Chief Justice, SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Holderness.
C JOSIAH BARTLETT, Kingston.
Puisne Justices, I JOHN DUDLEY, Raymond.
I WOODBURY LANGDON, Portsmouth.
Attorney-General, JOHN PICKERING,s Portsmouth.
Clerk, NATHANIEL ADAMS, Portsmouth.
I. State Secretary Pearson was of Exeter. He continued in office until 1S05, then he resumed his resi
dence at Exeler. Bell's History of Exeter, 396.
2. Mr. Libbey was appointed Postmaster-General for this Slate, but it is doubtful if he ever exercised the
duties of that office. There is correspondence in a previous volume of this series which indicates that the State
office which was to be established was regarded by the Continental post-office department as incompatible with
the office held under the latter authority, xviii. Ham. State Papers, 765, 771.
3. Col. Joseph Whipple wasa native of Kittery, Me , and was in early life engaged in trade. He became
largely interested in lands in the reg on which is now the southerly part of Coos County. He was one of the
earliest settlers and the largest landowner In Dartmouth, now Jefierson. His name is prominent in the his
tory and romance of the vicinity. B. G. Willey, White Mountain History, p. 70. In 1776, 1777, 177S, 1782,
1783, 17S5, he was the representative of his legislative district which at first included all of the territory of the
present Cobs County and parts of Grafton and Carro'l. Being identified with the leaders of public aifairs in
the southeastern part of the State, he was undoubtedly very influential in setting bounds to the political dis
affection that prevailed in the Connecticut valley towns while the war was in progress. President Weare ap
pointed liim Colonel of the 25th Regt. of Militia in_i7S4. After the organization of the state government
under the constitution, he was (March 4, 1786,) a pointed Impost officer at Portsmouth and served the State in
that capacity till the federal government went into operation in 1789. He was tlien made collector of the port
at Portsmouth by President Washington. This appointinent was dated Aug.3._ Col. Whipple conunued in
office under it till July 6, 1798, when he was removed for political reasons by President Adams, and Thomas
Martin appointed in his stead. Granite Mofttkly^ Vol. 6, p. iir ; Life of Jeremiah Smith, p. 140. In a let
ter relating to his removal from_ office written to Col. Whipple, Judge Smith said: "To your politeness as a
gentleman, integrity, zeal and intelligence as an officer, I could most cheerfully bear witness. But these are
not called in question." President JefEerson restored Col. Whipple to the office of collector Apr. 5, i8ot. He
was the incumbent thereafterwards^ continuously till his death at an advanced age in 1816. He foresaw the
importance of diversified industries in the State and devoted a considerable amount by his will to be employed
in the encouragement of manufacturing in New Hampshire.
4. The General Court of this State protested in January, 17S7, against the removal of Mr. Gorham from his
office, xviii. Ham. Misc. State Papers, 786.
5. Appointed Feb- 27, 1786. Benjamin West of Charlestown was appointed June 22, 17S6, but did not ac
cept, and Mr. Pickering continued in the office. Biographical sketches of the latter, Adams s Annals of Ports
mouth, 332 ; Brewster's Rambles about Portsmouth, second series, p. 103; Bell's History of Exeter, p. 356;
Plumer's MS. Biog. Vol. 43 P* 317-

1786] STATE OFFICERS 1 786-87. 573
Court Maritime.
Judge, JOSHUA BRACKETT, Portsmouth.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
His Excellency JOHN SULLIVAN,'
Captain-Gcnertil, Commande7--in-Cliief, and Admiral,
Aids to his Excellency zvith the Rank of Lieut. Colonel.
JAMES CARR, Somersworth.
JONATHAN RAWSON, Dover.
ISAAC FARWELL, Charlestown.
SAMUEL SHERBURNE, Portsmouth.
SAMUEL ADAMS, Durham.
ELEAZER WHEELOCK, Hanover.
First Division.
BENJAMIN BELLOWS,^ Walpole, Major-General.
Second Division.
JOSEPH CILLEY,3 Nottingham, Major-General
Brigadier-Generals.
JONATHAN MOULTON, Hampton.
GEORGE REID, Londonderry.
MOSES DOW, Haverhih.
JONATHAN BLANCHARD, Dunstable.
JONATHAN CHASE, Cornish.
THOMAS BARTLETT, Nottingham.
I. General SuUivan labored zealously to have the Militia so well organized and established thatit would be
a pillar of safety for the State. He was in a position in the legislature to exercise an important infiuence in
shaping the first system of miHtia laws adopted after the revolution, and as Major General Commanding, and
subsequently as President and Commander-in-chief, he gave the military department the full benefit of his ex-
periencBj example and influence. He prepared a text-book in tactics; and his urgent appeals to the various
classes that he desired to enlist actively in maintaining an efficient militia organization are characteristically
able documents, replete with timely statements of fact and skillful and well directed argument. Amory, Life
of Sullivan, (Ed. i86S,) p, 307.
^. Biography in Address of Henry W. Bellows, D. D.,at Walpole, Oct. 11, 1854, p. 43.
3. Biography, by Gov. Wm. Plumer, printed from his MSS. in the custody of the N. H. Historical Society,
by Bradbury P. Cilley, i8gi.

For the County

574 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l/SS
SUPPLY CLAPP, Portsmouth, Commissary-General.
JEREMIAH FOGG,' Kensington, Adjutant-General.
STATE SENATE.
June 7, 1786, to June 6, 1787.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Durham, President.
'JOHN McCLEARY,' Epsom,
President Pro Tem. or Senior Senator.
JOSEPH GILMAN,3 Exeter.
of Rockingham."^ JOSHUA WENTWORTH.'f Portsmouth.
GEORGE ATKINSON,^ Portsraouth.
JOHN BELL,* Londonderry.
Strafford /JOHN McDUFFEE,' Rochester.
County. \ OTIS BAKER,^ Dover.
Hillsboro' f MATTHEW THORNTON,? Merrimack.
County. \ EBENEZER WEBSTER,'" Sah.sbury.
Cheshire f JOHN BELLOWS," Walpole.
County. \ AMOS SHEPHARD,'^ Alstead.
Grafton ( ELISHA PAYN'E,'3 Lebanon.
County. (
I. Biographical Sketch and Diary, Gen. Sullivan's Indian Expedition, 1779, published by authority of the
State of New York, 1SS7, p. 92.
2. Biographical Note, Bouton Prov. and State Papers, Vol. 10, p. 33.
3. Biographical Notice, Bell's History of Exeter, p. 419.
4. Biographical Notice, Brewster's Rambles about Portsmouth, First Series, p. 114.
5. Biographical Notice, 3 Plumer, MS. Biog., 285. **-
6. Biographical Sketch, Parker's History of Londonderry, p. 216.
7. Biographical Sketch, History of Strafford County, p. 743.
S. Otis Baker was bom in Brookfield, Mass., in 1727, the sou of Thos. Baker of Northampton. His mother,
Christhie Otis, was a daughter of Richard Otis of Dover, who was slain in the Indian massacre at that place
June 27, 16S9. This daughter was carried captive to Canada and after her return, married Capt Thos. Baker.
Otis Baker was originally named Otis A rchalaus Slierrington Baker, but upon arriving at full age lie dropped
all but the plain Otis Baker. The mature years of his life were spent at Dover where he died Nov. 6, iSoi.
See 5 N. E. Hist. Genealog. Society Register, pp. 177 et seq. Note especially pp. 195 and 204. Jokti R.
Ham, M. D,
9. Memoir, i Farmer and Moctre's Hist._Coll. Vol. i, p. 87.
10. Biographical Notice, History of Salisbury, p. 829, and passitn.
II. Biographical Sketch, Address of Henry W. Bellows, D.D., at Walpole, Oct. 11, 1854, p. 54.
12. Mr. Shephard was a Senator fifteen terms beginning with the first political year under the constitution of
17S4. Manual of the State Senate by George C. Gilmore, passim.
13. Several errors relating to Col. Elisha Payne and his son Elisha Payne, Jr., have been passed along in
historical publications for many years. Elisha Payne, Jr., has been erroneously mentioned as having been a
State Senator. The junior Payne was not of constitutional age for election to the Senate till 1793. Therefore
there can be no question that it was the senior Payne who was Senator in 1786 and 1787. His residence was
at Lebanon and not at Haverhill as is sometinies stated in the official successions. The appellation " Col.
Payne '' which appears all through the record is not descriptive of the junior Payne, who was a young man,
graduating from Dartmouth College in 1784. The senior Payne, however, was Lieut. Colonel of Col. Jona
than Chase's regiment in the Revolutionary period. Gov. Plumer referred to Payne as inactive in the consti
tutional convention of 1791 and 1792, on account of the infirmities of age. (Life of Plumer, 122.) This cor
rects the biographical note in 10 Bouton Prov. and State Papers, 37, wherever Elisha Payne, Ji., is named as
the member from Lebanon. Biography by Wm. H. Cotton, Proceedings, Grafton and Coos Bar Association,
Vol. I, pp. 497, 632 ; Frederick Chase's History of Hanover, passim.

1786]

STATE OFFICERS I 786-87.

575

The Senators chosen by vote of the people in the election of 1786,
were for the County of Rockingham, John McCleary, Joseph Gilman,
and Joshua Wentworth ; for the County of Strafford, John McDuffee
and Otis Baker ; for the County of Hihsborough, Matthew Thornton ;
for the County of Cheshire, John Bellows.
These Senators-elect all appeared and took the oath of ofifice on the
first day of the session, except Senator Baker, who came in June 9.
The ninth of June, in joint convention, the Senators wanting were
elected as follows ;
For the County of Rockingham, George Atkinson, John Bell.
For the County of Hillsborough, Ebenezer Webster.
For the County of Cheshire, Amos Shephard.
For the County of Grafton, Elisha Payne.
DELEGATES TO CONGRESS.
To serve for one year from the first Monday in Nov., 1786.

Names of Delegates.
JOHN LANGDON,
PIERSE LONG,
JOHN PICKERING,'
ABIEL FOSTER,^
JOHN SPARHAWK,
NICHOLAS GILMAN,

Residence.
Portsmouth, Portsmouth,
Portsmouth,Canterbury, Portsraouth, Exeter,

Date of Election.
June 14, 1786.
June 14, 1786.
June 14, 1786.
June 14, 1786.
June 27, 1786.
June 27, 1786.

DELEGATES FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE IN ACTUAL ATTENDANCE AT
CONGRESS IN
1786.
SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Holderness.
PIERSE LONG, Portsmouth.
1787.
JOHN LANGDON, Portsmouth.
NICHOLAS GILMAN, Exeter.
COMMITTEE TO REVISE THE LAWS OF THE STATE.
JOHN PICKERING, Portsmouth.
DANIEL HUMPHREYS, Portsmouth.
I. Declined after appointment on part of the House.
2. Appointed on part of the House but the Senate non-concurred.

JOURNAL OF, THE SENATE.
CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM
JUNE 7 TO JUNE 27, 1786.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

* At Concord Wednesday June 7, 1786. *2 : 139
Being this day appointed by the Constitution for the annual Meet
ing of the General Court six of the members elected by the people foj
the ensuing year attended and took the Oaths Viz.
The Hon. John M'Clary ~) t- ^u /- ^ c
T •' , ,--1 -' J ( For the County of
Joseph Gilman and r t? Ir' h
Joshua Wentworth, Esq'^ j ^
John M'Duffee Esq"" for the County of Strafford.
Matthew Thornton for the County of Hillsborough.
John Bellows Esq' for the County of Cheshire.
The merabers present raet with the House of Representatives in
the said Representatives Chamber, and proceeded to count the votes
for a President agreeable to the Constitution ; and agreed to adjourn
till to-morrow morning 7 O'Clock then to raeet in in said Chamber.
THURSDAY, June 8* 1786.
Met according to adjournment ; and proceeded in examining the
returns for a President after which a Committee of three viz. Chris
topher Toppan, John Pickering and Amos Sheppard Esquires with
the addition of John Calf and Joseph Pearson Esq"'"' were chosen to re
examine said Returns. Agreed to adjourn 'till 4 O'Clock P. M.
4 O'clock P. M. met in committee agreeably to adjournment and
the committee appointed to re-examine the Votes not being ready to
report adjourned 'till to-raorrow 8, O'Clock.
* FRIDAY, June 9* 1786. * 2 : 140
Present as yesterday with the addition of M"' Baker who attended
and took the oaths and his seat in Senate.

S80 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Met in committee agreeable to Constitution the committee ap
pointed to re-examine the Votes returned for a President reported
that they had compared the returns with the entries in the Secretary's
record thereof and them to agree, the comraittee have likewise cast
the number of Votes returned and entered and find the whole amount
to be eight Thousand, five hundred and sixty seven. Three thousand
and six hundred of which were for his Excellency John Langdon Es
quire and four thousand three hundred and nine for the Honourable
John Sulhvan Esq'' The remainder being Six hundred and fifty
eigh[t] were for sundry other persons, so it appears to your comit
tee, that the Honourable John Sullivan Esq"' is elected President by a
Majority of fifty one votes. Which report being Read voted that the
sarae be accepted.
The Senate then retired to their own Room and proceeded to the
choice of a Senior Senator, the ballots being taken it appeared that
the Honourable John M'Clary Esq' was chosen to that Office.
The Senate then joined the House in comraittee and the necessary
oaths were administered to his Excellency John Sullivan Esq' as Pres
ident by the Honourable John M'Clary Esq"' Senior Senator and the
said Senior Senator declared before both houses of the Legislature
that his Excellency John Sullivan Esquire was duly elected President
of this State for the year ensuing by the free suffrages of the people.
The Senate then retired to their own Room and after some time
joined again in Comraittee and proceeded to the choice of Senators to
fill the vacancies. The ballots being taken it appeared that the Honourable
*2:i4i George Atkinson Esquire is elected * Senator for the
County of Rockingham.
The Ballots being taken for the other Senator for the County of
Rockingham. It appears that the Honourable John Bell Esquire is
chosen to that Office.
The Ballots being taken for a Senator for the County of Hillsbor
ough it appeared that the Honourable Ebenezer Webster Esquire is
chosen to that office.
The ballots being taken for a Senator for the County of Cheshire
it appeared that the Honourable Amos Shepard Esquire was chosen to
that Office.
The Ballots being taken for a Senator for the County of Grafton,
it appears that the Honourable Elisha Payne Esquire was chosen
to that Office.
The coraraittee then adjourned with Leave to raeet again in the af
ternoon. The Senate then retired to their own Roora.

1786] journal OF THE SENATE. $8 1
A Vote to grant the prayer of the Petition of Elizabeth Wentworth
and giving to bring in a bill accordingly brought up read and con
curred. A Vote for a Coraraittee to consider of the Petition of Archibald
M'^Millian and sick and wounded Officers and Soldiers and report
thereon brough[t] up read concurred and M' Thornton Joined.
A Vote for a comraittee to Join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of the Selectmen of Portsmouth and report there
on brought up read and concurred. M' M'^Clary and M' Baker
joined. The Senate met with the House in Committee * Agree- * 2 : 142
ably to adjournment and proceeded to the choice of Council
lors for the year ensuing.
The Ballots being taken the Honourable Joshua Wentworth Esquire
was chosen a Councillor.
The Ballots being taken the Honourable Amos Shepard Esquire was
chosen a Councillor.
The Ballots being again taken, it appeared that the Honourable
John Langdon Esquire was chosen a Councillor, who declined to
accept, proceeded to take the Bahots & it appeared that Robert
Means Esquire was chosen a Councillor.
The Ballots being again taken it appeared that Christopher Toppan
Esquire was chosen a Councillor.
The Ballots being again taken it appeared that the Honourable
Moses Dow Esquire was chosen a Councillor.
The Ballots being taken for a Secretary, it appeared that Joseph
Pearson was chosen to serve in that Office.
Adjourned till to-morrow, and then the Senate retired to their own
Chamber, and adjourned to 9 O'Clock A. M.
SATURDAY June id* 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present aU the Senate except M"" Atkinson, M' Beh, M"' Webster
and Mr. Payne.
His Exceh encys Message to both branches was read and sent down
witb the public papers received since last Session.
The Senate met with the House in committee agreeable to adjourn
ment to the choice of a Treasurer.
*The Ballots being taken it appeared that John T. Gil- * 2 : 143
man Esquire, was unanimously chosen to that Office for
the ensuing year.
Next proceeded to the Choice of a Commissinary General and the

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bahots being taken, it appeared that Col. Supply Clapp was chosen
for the year ensuing.
Adjourned to meet again on Monday next 4 O'Clock P. M. The
Senate then retired to their own roora.
A Vote to hear the petition of Jaraes Saunders on the third Wed
nesday of of the next Session, was brough(t) up read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the Petition of John Glidden on the third Wednes
day of their next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of John Roche on the twentieth of
June current, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of John Penhahow Esquire and others and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred M' Gilman M' M'^Clary
and M' Behows were joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to take
under consideration the Message of his Excehency the President and
prepare and lay before the house in an Answer thereto ; also to con
sider what business is necessary to be first entered upon and done this
Session an report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, M"^
Gilman M' Wentworth and M"" Thornton were joined.
* 2 : 144 * A Vote, one the petition from the Town of Warren
that the petitioners have leave to bring in a resolve to es
tablish their proceedings of a Town meeting so far as it respects the
choice of Town Officers, was brought up, read and concurred, ad
journed tih Monday next 3 O'Clock P. M.
MONDAY June 12* 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as on Saturday last with the addition of M' Webster.
State of New Hampshire.
In Senate, June 12* 1786.
Voted that M' M'Clary & M-" Shepard with such of the Honourable
House as they shall Join, be be a coraraittee to devise standards for
the respective Corps of Horse and foot in this State and report thereon,
sent down for concurrence by M' Shepard, brought in concurred.
A Vote that this House refsolves themselves into a committee in
conjunction with the Honourable Senate (if they see fit) to consider
of a Letter from the Honourable Samuel Liverraore Esquire and any
other raatters they raay Judge necessary when raeet, was brought up,
read and concurred.

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A Vote for a comraittee to Join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the partition of the Selectmen of Acworth and all similar
matters and report thereon, was brought up read and concurred, M'
Wentworth Joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Adam Babcock and report thereon, was
brought up read and concurred M"" Thornton and M' Shepard were
Joined. * A Vote to hear the petition of Jonathan Elkinson * 2 : 145
Tuesday the 20* day of June current, was brought up read
and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to Join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Amos Dow and report thereon, was brought
up read and concurred, M' M'^Duffee Joined.
The Senate and house met in committee according to adjournment
and agreed to adjourn to raeet again on To morrow and then the Sen
ate retired to their own Room.
Adjourned tiU to-morrow 8. O'Clock A. M.
TUESDAY, June 13'" 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote for a committee to Join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Thomas Davis and report thereon was brought
up read and concurred, M' M'^Duffee Joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of the Selectmen of Charlestown on
the third Wednesday of their next Session was brought up read and
and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate to con
sider the petition of Samuel Chase Esquire and others. Also the pe
tition of Joseph Tilton Jun'' and report thereon, was brought up read
and concurred M' Ghman M' Thornton M' Behows and M' Payne
were joined.
A Vote for a committee to Join a Committee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Simeon Dearborn Esq' and report thereon
was brought up read and concurred, M' Webster joined. * 2 : 146
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Resolved that the brigades of Malitia now coraraanded by the
following Brigadiers, viz. Cihey Moulton and Reid constitute one

584 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^6
division, and be commanded by a Major General to be appointed
agreeably to the Constitution for that purpose ; and that the Brigates
now commanded by the following Brigadiers viz. Behows Dow and
Blanchard constitute another division and be commanded by a Major
General to be appointed as aforesaid. Sent down for concurrence.
by M' Webster, Brough[t] up concurr'd June 20"' 1786.
A Vote for a committee to Join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider what is best to be done with the old Continental Currency now
in the Treasury and in the hands of Individuals of this State, and
report thereon, was brought up read and concurred. M' 'Wentworth
and M' Gilman were joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to
draught a bill for regulating the times and places for holding the sev
eral Courts of Probate within this State, was brought up read and
concurred M' Thornton and M' Wentworth joined
A Vote to ahow the account of John Melcher amounting to three
pounds six shillings and four pence for printing, was brought up read
and concurred.
A Vote to allow and and pay the Rool of Capt. i\I. BeU amounting
to eight pounds, was bro't up read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Thomas Stevens on Wednesday the
21^' day of June current was brought up read and concurred.
* 2 : 147 * A Vote for a committee to Join a committee of the
Senate to consider of the petition of Mary Conner and
Joseph Drew and report thereon, was brought up, read and concur
red, M' Baker joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Enoch Richardson and others and report
thereon, was brought up read and concurred, M' Bellows joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Williara Thoraas on the third
Wednesday of their next Session was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of the Selectraen of Packersfield on the
third Thursday of their next Session was brought up read and con
curred. A Vote for a coraraittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the account of Benjamin Biggelow and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, M' Baker and M' Wentworth joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Elizabeth Lamson on the third
Wednesday of their next Session was brought up read and con
curred. A Vote for a Comraittee to join a Comraittee of the Senate to
consider of the petition of Martha Wait and report thereon, was
brought up read and concurred, M' Shepard joined.

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A Vote to hear the petition of Thoraas Davis on the third
Wednesday of their next Session was brough[t] up read and con
curred. Adjourned 'till to-morrow 8 O'Clock.
WEDNESDAY, June 14"^ 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
* An Act to empower M'" Elizabeth Wentworth to con- * 2 : 148
vey her Estate to her Children and Grand Chhdren and to
enable them to hold the same was read a third time, and Voted, that
the be enacted.
A Vote that the Honourable Nathaniel Peabody Esquire who was
appointed a Deligate from this State to the United States for the
current year, be recall'd and that his excellency be desired to notify
him thereof, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Henry Gerrish on the third Wednes
day of the next Session was brought up, read and concurred.
A Resolve suspending the Luraber Act (so called)- untill the second
Wednesday of the next Session of the General Court, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to take
under consideration the impost Act and report thereon, was brought
up read and concurred; M' Wentworth and M' Bellows joined.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to ex
amine the late recquisitions of Congress and report what is further
necessary to be done in order to comply with said requisitions, was
brought up, read and concurred : M' Wentworth and M' Gilman
joined. A Vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of the account of Isaac Williams and all similar matters and
report was brought up read & concurred M' M'^Clary and M' Gilman
Join'* * A Vote appointing the Honourable Peirce Long Es- * 2 : 149
quire a Deligate to Congress for the Term of one year
from and after the first Monday in November next was brought up
read and concurred.
A Vote appointing the Honourable John Langdon Esquire a Deli
gate to Congress for the term of one year frora and after the first
Monday in Noveraber next, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote appointing the Honourable John Langdon Esq' and M'
Jaraes Sheafe Comraissioners (in addition to the comissioners already
appointed) on the part of this State to meet such commissioners as
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are, or raay be appointed by any other of the united States, for the
regulation of coraraerce, two only of said coraraissioners to attend at
one and the said tirae was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote appointing M' Epraim Robinson, John Calfe Esquire and
Thoraas Odiorne Esquire a committee to settle the Accounts between
this State and the Treasurer of said State and report thereon to this
house at their next Session, was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate to take
under consideration the appointing and payment of Jurors and like
wise the table fees for this State and report such alterations and
amendraent as they may Judge necessary, was brought up read and
concurred ; M' Bellows and M' Thornton Joined.
* 2 ; 150 * A Vote for a comraittee to join a coraraittee of the
Senate to consider of the petition of Hercules Money
Esq' and report thereon, was brought up read and concurred : M'
Baker joined.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Stephen Dole in be
half of the town of Bedford and that the petitioner have leave to
bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up, read and concurred.
An Act inventing Benjamin Dearborn with the exclusive right of
raaking and selling certain Articles therein specified, having been
read a third tirae. Voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote to hear the petition of Sarson Belcher, by his Attorney's
Samuel Dana and Edward Livermore on the third Wednesday of
their next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a coraraittee to join a coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Daniel Gale and report thereon, was brought
up, read and concurred : M' M'^Clary and M' Webster were joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of John Blunt Esq' on the third
Wednesday of th^ next Session, was brough[t] up, read and [con]-
curred. A Vote to accept the report of the petition of Thomas Clark"
that the prayer of said petition be so far granted that he receive his
wages and depresiation as other Soldiers have received, deducting
what he has already received] was brought up, read and concurred.
the concurrence reconsiderecl| and Voted that the report be recom
mitted, sent down for concurrence.
* 2 : 1 5 1 * A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of * Archa
bald M'^Millin and that the Petitioner receive pay accord
ingly brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider whether Interest shall be allowed on Pierces Certificates (or the
final Settleraent Securities that are ordered to be received into the
Treasury of this State and in what manner it shall be done and re-

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port thereon and whether the Treasurer shall receive any on which
the Interest has been paid, was brought up, read and concurred ; M'
Wentworth, M' Ghman and M' McClary joined.
A Vote that the Town of Acworth be allowed for three thousand
four hundred and twenty five pounds of beef including what is al
ready allowed by the Treasurer, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote appointing John Sparhawk Esq' a deligate to Congress for
the term of one year from and after the first monday in Nov' next,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote appointing Abiel Foster Esquire a Deligate to Congress
for the term of one year from and after the first Monday in Novem
ber next, was brought up, read and non-concurred.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate to
draught and lay before this House such public bills as may be thought
necessary to be enacted this Session, was brought up, read and con
curred ; M' Thornton and M' Shepard joined.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate to State
the reasons why it is not practable to make a bank of paper Money,
was brought up, read and concurred : M' Wentworth M' Webster
M' Bellows M' Baker M' Payne were joined.
* A Vote to hear the petition of Leonard Whiting on *2: 152
the third Thursday of the next Session, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Sarah Catharine
Moffat and giving her leave to bring in accordingly, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of the Selectmen of
Winchester and giving them Leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was
brought up, read and non-concurred.
A Vote for coraraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of the Selectraen of Protectworth and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred ; M' M'^Clary and M'
Webster joined.
A Vote that Whliara Moreland be set at Liberty frora his Confine
ment in Araherst Goal, was brought up, read and concurred.
The Honourable George Atkinson Esquire attended and took the
Oaths as Senator. Adjourned 'tih to-raorrow 8 O'Clock.
THURSDAY, June i5'\ 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present all the Senate except M' Bell.
An Act to enable Phillip White and Mary his Wife to seh the real
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588 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [17^6
the deceased and support of his children, having been read a third
tirae, Yoted that the sarae be enacted.
*2: 153 *A Vote for a coraraittee to join a coraraittee of the
Senate to consider ways and means for furnishing a Dele
gate with money to forward him to Congress and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred : M' Atkinson M' Bellows and M'
Baker joined.
A Vote to pay the Account of Samuel Dalling amounting to sev
enteen pounds four shillings for the of a Vessel ; was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of the Selectraen of Dorchester and Sirailar
Matters and report thereon, was brought up read and concurred. Col.
M'^Duffee joined.
A Vote to allow half pay to Ezra Gates to coraraence at the tirae
his whole pay ceased till further order of the Court and that he be
enrolled accordingly, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to allow Uriah Stone half pay frora 4* day of November
1785 (time his half pay ceased) till further order, and that he be en
rolled accordingly, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Lerauel Smith on third Thursday
of their next Session, was brough[t] up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to
consider of the petition and Account of Nathaniel Rogers and
report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Shepard
joined.
* 2 : 1 54 ** A Vote to hear the petition of Azariah Webb on the
third Wednesday of the next Session, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Elipalet Hale on the third Wednes
day of the next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of the Selectraen of Unity, on the
third Wednesday of the next Session, was brough [t] up read and con
curred. A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of Senate to consider
what shah be done with the Coper Plate Notes in the hands of indi
viduals &c &c. was brought up read and concurred, M' Gilraan joined.
A Vote for a coraraittee to join a coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Reuben Middleton and report thereon, was
brought up read and concurred, M' M'^Duffee joined.
A Vote that John Pickering and Daniel Humphreys Esq'^ be a
committee to revise the Laws of this State and report frora tirae to
time as they may prepare the same, was brought up, read and con
curred.

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A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Thomas Fuller and
that the Treasurer issue a new Note equal in value to the one con
sumed and a Certificate for twenty three shillings and ten pence to
the said Thoraas Fuller, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a comraittee of the Sen
ate to consider of the petition of * Charles Huntoon Es- *2:i55
quire and other inhabitants of Unity and report thereon,
was brought up read and concurred, M' Shepard joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of the inhabitants of Washington on
the third Wednesday of the next was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of the Inhabitants of Charlestown &c.
on the third Thursday of the next Session, was brought up read and
concurred. The Honourable Elisha Payne attended and took the oaths as a
Senator. A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Mary Conner and
giving her leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Nathaniel Hall and
Ebenezer Brewster and that the petitioners give security in coramon
form for paying the sum the excise was sold for, into the Treasurer
was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Joseph Parker and
that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up read
and concurred.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider the petition of John Wheatley and report thereon, was brough[t]
up, read and concurred M' Atkinson joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Hercules
Mooney Esq' and that the committee * On depreciation *2:i56
goven themselves accordingly, was brough [t] up read and
concurred. A Vote for a committee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of the Selectraen of Chesterfield and all similar
matters and report thereon, was brought up read and concurred, M'
M'^Duffee and M' Payne joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of David Page Esquire and examine whether
there is any Law of this State, that whl relieve hira and if not, to re
port a bill for that purpose, was brought up read and concurred, M'
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Voted, That M' Atkinson M' Thornton and M' Wentworth with
such of the Honourable House shall join be a comraittee to take un
der consideration the Letter dated the 3'^ of May last Received from
foreign affairs and report thereon, was sent down for concurrence by
Elisha Payne Esq'
A Vote that Martha Wait receive half pay, agreeable to a resolu
tion of Congress of the 24* August 1 780 from the time of her late
husbands Death untill the time of her inter-Marriage with her second
husband, and that the guardian for the Children of said Wait do re
ceive half pay from the tirae of the said Martha's interraarriage unthl
the term of seven years is compleated. The money that appears due
from the said Joseph Wait, to this State being first [dejducted, was
brough[t] up, read and concurred.
* 2 : 157 "* A Vote to allow the Account of Daniel Fowle Esquire
amounting to ninety five pounds for printing the Journals
of the House of Representatives February Session, was brought up
read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to pay to the Loan Officer
one Million three hundred eighty seven thousand five hundred and
fifty Dollars of the old continental paper currency now in the Treas
ury, taking his Receipt therefor, was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to postpone the hearing on the petition of Cockermouth to
the third Wednesday of the next Session, which may be held at Con
cord, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to accept the report of the coramittee on the petition of
John Penhallow Esquire and others that his Excellency the President
be desired to write to the president of the State of Pensylvana fully
stating the matter in despute referr'd to in the petition, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of the Selectmen of AUenstown and report
thereon, was brought up read and concurred, M' Payne joined.
A Vote that the Secretary take order to record the Copy of the
Charter of Lebanon, was brought up read and concurred.
Adjourned tih to morrow 8 O'Clock, A. M.
* 2: 158 * FRIDAY, June 16* 1786.
Met according to adjournraent.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote that the Town of Protectworth be abated twelve pounds

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six shillings on an Extent against them for a Soldier, was brought up
read and cononcurred.

State of New
Hampshire.

I In Senate June i6"' 1786.

Votcd that M' Atkinson and M' Payne with such of the Honour
able House shall join be a committee to consider and report to the
Court what mode will be proper to pursue in the future appointment
of Special Justices in the Several Counties in this State, Sent down
for concurrence by M' RLDuffee, brought up concur'd.
A Vote appointing Archabald M'Murphey, Hon John M'Duffee
Esq' Daniel Emerson, Esq' Captain Jeremiah Sthes and the Hon.
Charles Johnston, Esquire, a coramittee on the one part of the State
to enquire and exaraine whether any of the uniraproved Lands in this
State are the property of this State, and report their opinion thereon
at the General Court at their next Session, was brought up, read and
concurred. A Vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate to pre
pare Instructions for the destruction of the comraittee chosen to ex
amine whether any of the unimproved lands in the State are the pro
perty of the State, and lay the same before this house, was brought
up read and concurred, M' Webster and M' Shepard joined.
A Vote that the Town of Dorchester ought to be abated
the one half of their Taxes for the year * 1777, 1778, and * 2 : 159
1779, which abatement in the whole araounts to ;^37..4..6
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of John Kean on the third Friday of
the next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a coraraittee to Join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Elisha Brown and report thereon, was brought
up, read and concurred, M' Baker Joined.
A Vote that the Selectmen- of Portsmouth have a day of hearing
on their petition relative to a rod at the next Session of the General
Court, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition and abstract of Captain Ezra Town and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Webster Joined.
A Vote, that the Treasurer be directed not to receive any final Set
tlement Securitys on which Interest is indorsed, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider the petition of Elizabeth Wallingford and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, M' Gilman and M' Atkinson joined.

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A Vote that David Page Esquire is fully impowered to proceed to
the Collection of the proprietors taxes in Conway for-
* I : 160 merly * committed to his care, was brought up, read and
[con]curred.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of a Receipt signed by Jonathan Chhd, was brought up, read
and concurred, M' M'=Duffee joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Croydon on the third Friday of the
next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate to take
under consideration an act for the recovery of small debts &c. was
brought up, read and concurred. M' Thornton and M' Webster joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of John Dustin on Tuesday next, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that Reuben Middleton have ;^48 and Interest from May
1778 for wages &c. was brought up, read and concurred, warrant
granted. A Vote for a comraittee to Join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Mary Robinson and Asa Robinson and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Baker joined.
A Vote adding several persons to the committee on the petition of
A. Babcock, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to
consider of the petition of Jonathan Chase and all sirailar matters
and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Payne
joined.
* 2 : 161 * A Vote to accept of the report of the Comraittee on
the petition of Samuel Chase and others and that the third
Thursday of the next Session be the day for hearing said petition,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote directing the Treasurer to receive coper plate bills in pay
ment of all taxes payable in certificates, was brought up read and
concurred. A Vote that the account of Losses sustain'd at the orders be re
ferred to the comraittee on Nathaniel Rogers petition was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote that a Delegate going to Congress receive an order on the
Treasurer for ^^90 forthwith, and that the said Treasurer appropriate
the first money he receives to discharge the same ; but not to meddle
with the hard raoney tax laid on for the current year, was brought up,
read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate to con
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are to be supported and report thereon, was brought up, read and
concurred, M' Atkinson M' Wentworth and M' Webster joined.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a coramittee of the Senate to
consider of the petition of Nathan Caswell in behalf of Littleton
and report thereon, was brought up read and concurred, M' Payne
joined. *A Vote, that Town of Unity be abated the seventh *2: 162
part of their Taxes from the year 1780 to the last propor
tion, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the Selectraen of AUenstown be abated and allowed
out of the Extent against them for the deficiency of Continental sol
diers the sum of forty two pounds, was brought up, read and con
curred. A Vote for a coramittee to Join a committee of the Senate to con
sider what Public business is yet necessary to be done at this Session,
and at what tirae and to what time and place this Court shall be ad
journed ; also to consider what allowance shall be made the members
of the Honourable Senate and house of Representatives and their
officers for their travel and attendance this Session, was brought up
read and concurred : M' Atkinson, M' Payne and M' M'^Duffee joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the account of Eliphalet Baldwin and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, M' Bellows and M' Webster joined.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Jonathan Chase, and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, M' M"=Clary M' Bellows and M'
Payne joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of several of the Inhabitants of Swan
zey on the third Thursday of the next Session, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Sen
ate to revise the Militia Laws * Of this State and report * 2 : 163
thereon, was brought up read and concurred, M' Shepard
M' Wentworth and M' Payne joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Elisha Payne Es
quire and Jesse Johnson and giving them leave to bring in a bill ac
cordingly, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to allow depreciation frora the time he inlisted up to April
1778 ; and that the committee on depreciation govern themselves ac
cordingly, was brought up, read end concurred.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of Elisha Brown Esq'
and giving hira leave to bring in a bhl accordingly, was brought up,
read and concurred.

594 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
A Vote for a committee to Join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Ezra Chhd and all Similar matters, was
brought up, read and concurred. M' Payne and M' Baker joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Jonathan Chapraan
and giving him leave to bring in a bih accordingly, was brought up,
read and concurred. Adjourned 'till to-raorrow 8. O'Clock A. M.
SATURDAY, June 17* 1786 —
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
Adjourned 'tih Monday next 3. O'Clock, P. M.
* 2 : 164 -^ MONDAY, June 19"' 1786—
Met according to adjournment.
Present all the Senate except Honorable John Bell, Otis Baker,
J. M'Duffee, and E. Webster Esquires.
A Vote for the regulation of Post Riders, was brought up read
and concurred, reconsidered and concurred with this araendment that
the rout of the western post be reversed every fortnight. Sent down
for concurrence, brought up concurred.
A Resolve that the Honorable Charles Johnston and Jeremiah
Page Esquires and Moses Chase Esq' be a committee to run out all
such lines as may be necessary to be run in order to settle and Estab
lish the Lines and boundaries between sundry Townships agreeably
to their respective Charters and find the same by certain monuments
&c. was brough[t] up, read and concurred.
A Vote that Benjarain Biggelow have and receive thirty pounds to
be by him accounted for as agent victular for the Troops of New-
Castle, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Phebe Colburn and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, M' Bellows and M' Payne joined.
In Senate, June 19'-'^ 1786.
Whereas it appears that raising Independent Companies
* 2 : 165 of Light Horse greatly * Interfere with and obstructs the
compleating the regiments of Light Horse in this State.
Therefore Voted that his Excellency the President with advice of
Council be requested to recall commissions already issued for raising
such Independant corapanies. And that his E.x'cehy the President

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be desired to prevent any commissions for that purpose being issued
untni the further order of the General Court. Sent down for con
currence. Brought up concurred.
An Act to vest the United States in Congress assembled with full
power to regulate commerce, having been read a third time, voted
that the same be enacted.
_ A Vote for a coraraittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider the raemoral of Nahum Baldwin Esquire and report thereon
was brought up, read and concurred, M' Payne joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Samuel Adams on the third Thurs
day of the next Session, was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that M' Betton be added to the coramittee for draughting
Public bills was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pay the Account of Robert Gerrish amounting to
£,69..-^,..^ for printing Journals of Senate Acts of February Session,
was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
*A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the *2: i66
Senate to consider of the petition and account of Joshua
Young issuing commissary, and report thereon, was brought up, read
and concurred, M' Payne and M' Behows joined.
An Act to empower Sarah Catharine Moffat Widow to make par
tition of lands in Tuftonborough belonging to her rainor Children
and to sell certain Lands for their support and Education, having been
read a third time. Voted that the sarae be enacted.
Adjourned 'till to-raorrow 8 O'Clock. —
TUESDAY, June 20"^ 1786 —
Met according to adjournment.
Present all the Senate except the Hon. John Bell Esq.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the Laws Respecting the Sale of the Estate of Persons De
ceased for the payment of Debts and report such alterations as they
may judge necessary, was brought up, read and concurred : M"^
Thornton and M' Atkinson joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to take
under consideration sundry bills which passed the House last Session
and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred : M' Atkin
son and M' Payne joined.
A Vote for a committee to Join a comraittee to consider of the
petition of John Grandy ; also to consider whether any
alterations are necessary to be raade in the act to * Pre- * 2 : 167
vent the bodies of Debtors from being taken on Execu-

596 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
tion &c. and report thereon was brought up, read and concurred ; M'
Wentworth and M' Bellows joined.
An Act in addition to, an amendment of an act for the more expe
ditious method of making partition of land and other real estate held
in comraons, having been read a third time. Voted that the sarae be
enacted. A Vote to allow Isaac Williams twenty three pounds two shillings
and eight pence in full for his account as issuing Comraissary, was
brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote to hear the petition of John Clark of Londonderry on the
third Thursday of their next Session was brought up, read and con
curred. A Vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Jonathan Clark and report thereon, was
brought up read and concurred, M' Shepard joined.
A Vote that his Excellency with advice of Council be desidered to
appoint such person or persons as they may judge proper to be em
ployed as Post Riders agreeably to a vote of the General Court
passed this Session, was brough[t] up read and concurred.
A Vote to postpone the hearing on the petition of the Selectmen
of Hihsborough to the second Tuesday of their next Session, was
brought up, read and concurred.
* 2 : 168 * A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee to wait on
the Reverend Doctor Haven and present hira with the
thanks of the General Court for his performance at Concord, and
reques of him a Copy of the discourse delivered on the 8* of June
current in order to have it printed, was brought up, read and con
curred, M' Wentworth and M' Atkinson joined.
An Act to empower Joseph Parker to sell certain lands and build
ings in New-Ipswich, having been read a third time. Voted that the
same be enacted.
An Act to empower Mary Conner to sell a Lot of Land therein
described, having been read a third time, voted that the sarae be en
acted. A Vote to postpone the hearing on the petition of John Dustin tih
Friday next, was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to Join a coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Isaac Tucker and report thereon, was brought
up, read and concurred, M' Gilman and M' Bellows joined.
A Vote on the petition of Jonathan Elkins, that the Judgment and
ah subsequent proceedings be nullified that the petitioner be restored
to his Law and have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was
brough[t] up, read and concurred.
Adjourned to 8 O'Clock to-morrow morning.

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WEDNESDAY, June 21^' 1786.
* 2 : 169 * Present as Yesterday
A Vote hear the petition of Jonathan Parker Jun' on
the second Tuesday of their ne.xt Session was brought up, read and
concurred. A Vote so far granting the prayer of the petition of John Roche
as that the default be taken off and that the said Roche be author
ized to appear and defend to final Judgraent and Execution in behalf
of Robert Rogers and that the petitioner have leave to bring in a bill
accordingly, was brought up, read and concurred.
An Act to erapower Nathaniel Hall and Ebenezer Brewster ad
ministrators to the Estate of Ebenezer Green, late of Lyrae in the
County of Grafton Esquire Deceased to collect the excise in the
County of Grafton for the year 1786. having been read a third tirae,
Voted that the sarae be enacted.
A Vote allowing ^£20 each, to several Towns for procuring Sol
diers, was brought up, read and non cononcurred.
A Vote to allow the Town of Harapton, ^^47..!.. 6 for Interest due
on Extent &c. was brought up, read and non-concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of John Clark in behalf of Northwood
on the second Tuesday of their next Session, was brough[t] up read
and concurred.
A Vote that Nahum Baldwin have liberty to pay and discharge
the execution against him for the palance of the account
* Already settled with Interest from the time of Settle- * 2 : 170
ment with the Court of Probate in State Notes (or Securi
ties) was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Jonathan Gove this day was
brought up, read and concurred, with this amendment, that the hear
ing be on the third Wednesday of the next Session of the General
Court ; and that in the mean time the petitioner cause the substance
of the petition and order of Court thereon to be pubhshed three
Weeks successively in one of the New-Harapshire Newspapers, and
also in the paper printed at Windsor in Vermont that any person or
persons may then appear and shew cause if any they have why the
prayer of said petition should not be granted. Sent down for concur
rence by M' M'Duffee.
A Vote to grant the prayer of the petition of David Croser and
that the petitioner have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider in what manner the Extent for the deficiencies of the rum Tax

598 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
in 1 78 1 shall be collected and what shall be received for pay, and re
port thereon, was brought up, read and concurred ; M' Bellows and
M' Gilraan joined.
An Act to encourage the manufacturing of Linseed Oil within
State, having been read a third tirae. Voted that the sarae be enacted.
Adjourned 'till to-raorrow 8. O'Clock, A. M.
THURSDAY, July [June] 22"^, 1786.
* 2 : 171 *Meet according to adjournraent.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote to hear the petition of the Inhabitants of Pelhara on the
second Wednesday of the next Session, was brought up, read and
concurred. An Act to prevent the destruction of Salraon in Amraonusick
River, having been read a third time, Voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote that Noah Sinclare receive 1 5/ P' Month as an Invahd to
begin at the time his whole pay ceased till further order, was brought
up read and concurred.
A Vote to postpone the hearing on the petitions of Elisha Payne
Esquire David Clough and George Clark, on the third Wednesday of
their next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pospone the hearing on the petition of Jacob Doyne 'till
to-morrow, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote appointing a coraraittee to proceed to Goffstown at the ex-
pence of Thoraas Stevens and view the Land & buildings now in the
possession of Moses Little Esq' which said Stevens pray'd to be put
in possession of and report, was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote that Nehemiah Peirce is entitled to half pay from the time
his whole pay ceased, thi further order, was brought up, read and
concurred.
* 2 : 172 A Vote appointing a comraittee to proceed * To Weare
at the Expenee of the petitioner of the Easterly part of
said Town and report their opinion Respecting a Division of said
Town, was brought up, read and concurred.
An Act to authorize Richard Sraith of Seabrook to collect certain
Taxes therein mentioned, having been read a third tirae. Voted that
the same be enacted.
An Act to restore Jonathan Elkins to his Law having been read a
third time, voted, that the same be enacted.
An Act to alter the holding the annual Town Meeting in the Town
of Bedford, having been read a third time. Voted that the same be
enacted.

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An Act to empower Samuel Pillsbury, to compleat a return on an
Execution levied on certain lands in Londonderry, having been read
a third time, voted, that the same be enacted.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of a Letter from the Treasurer June 21"' 1786 and report there
on, was brought up read and concurred, M' Gilman and M' Atkinson
joined. A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Allen Whlard and
that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly at this or the next
Session, brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to accept the report of the comraittee on Table of Fees
and that a coramittee for draughting public bills prepare and Lay be
fore this house a bill for carrying the same into effect, was brought
up read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition * Of Laban * 2 : 173
Gates and giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly
at this or the next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Jaraes Rundlett, Also the petition of Enoch
Barker and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred : M'
M-^Clary M' Baker jnd M' Thornton joined.
A Resolve, that the Treasurer be directed to receive from persons
residing in this State such Continental bills as raay be brought into
the Treasury before the first day of February next, provided they
will swear that such bills were actually in possession of and owned by
sorae Citizen of this State on the 22"^ of June 1786 &c. &c. was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Elizabeth Wallingford on the third
Thursday of the next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote, that the Town of Chesterfield be allowed out of the fines
against said Town for deficiencies of Men ;£72 for Silas Roy a Sol
dier not returned for any Town. And that the Treasurer credit said
Town accordingly, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition frora Sutton and New London, on
third Wednesday of their next Session, was brought up read and
concurred. A Vote for a comraittee to join a committee * Of the * 2 : 174
Senate to consider of the petition of General John Stark
and report thereon was brought up, read and concurred, M' Bellows
and M' M<^Duffee joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of David Bagley and
that his Excellency give a new order for ;^6o. was brought up, read
and concurred. Adjourned 'till to morrow 8 O'Clock A. M.

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FRIDAY, June 23'^ 1786.
Met according to adjournraent.
Present as Yesterday.
An Act to prevent unnecessary costs to debtors by creditors bring
ing actions of Debt on Judgment where such creditors might have
availed themselves of Executions on the same Judgraents, was read
a third time, Yoted, that the sarae be enacted.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Daniel Richardson
and that the Treasurer be directed to receive the said final settle
ments as though the Interest had not been paid thereon, was brought
up, read and non-concurred.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Lydia Wallingford and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, M' Thornton joined.
An Act to encourage the Iraportation of Drugs and wood used in
dying Cloths, Artificers tools, Spanish Wool, raw Silk and other raw
materials, having been read a third time. Voted that the same
be enacted.
* 2 : 175 * An Act to empower John Roche to appear and defend
a suit now pending at the Inferior Court in Amherst,
brought by Joseph Blanchard against Robert Rogers Esquire, having
been read a third time. Voted that the sarae be enacted.
A Vote to pay the account of the Honorable John Calf, Esq'
amounting to seven pounds eleven shillings and two pence for record
ing warrant granted.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a committee to consider of the pe
tition of the Honorable John Bellow Esquire and all Similar matters
and report thereon, was brought up read and concurred, M' Went
worth and M' Payne joined.
A Vote to pay the Account of Ebenezer Thorapson Esq' and Jo
seph Pearson amounting to ;^54..i2..o was brought up, read and con
curred, warrant granted.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Mary and Asa Rob
inson and giving them leave to bring in a bill accordingly at this or
the next Session, was brought up read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to pre
pare an address to be presented to his Excellency for the removal of
Nathaniel Peabody Esquire, from the comraand of the Brigadier
General of the light horse in this State, was brought up, read and
concurred : M' Baker and M' Payne joined
An Act for the Support of Invalids, having been read a third tirae,
voted that the Same be enacted.

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*A Vote to pay the Account of Edward Livermore *2:i76
amounting to eighteen Shillings for engrossing Acts, was
brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Resolve, that any person or persons holding this States Notes
on Interest have Liberty to bring in said Notes to the Treasurer who
is hereby directed to receive the same and issue Certificates therefor,
which certificates shall be received in payment of all taxes prior to
the year 1786, was brought up, read and Non-concurred.
An Act for the appointraent of Special Justices, having been read
a third time, Yoted that the sarae be enacted. Sent down for con
currence by by M' Webster, brought up, concurred.
A Vote accepting the report of the coramittee on the petition of
John Dustin viz. that the prayer thereof is so far granted, that he
have liberty of the oath for the Ease and relief of prisoners for debt
if nothing shall appear to the Justices before whora he raay be ad
raitted to swear, raore than the creditor or his Attorney or agent
holding a Deed as mentioned in his petition, was brought up, read
and concurred.
An Act in Explication of an Act to prevent the bodies of debtors
from being taken on execution when real or personal Estate can be
found or is tendered to satisfy demand, having been read a third time,
Voted, that the same be enacted.
A Resolve, that Daniel Gile a Deputy Sheriff &c. at Keen toward
John Grandy Jun' in Goal for debt is contriary to an act
of said State &c. * And that said Gile or the keeper of * 2 : 177
said Goal be directed to receive of said Grandy, any real
or personal Estate which said Grand may tender &c. was brought up,
read and concurred.
An Act to empower Constables to serve all writs, preciepts and
executions, having been read a third time. Voted that that the same
be Non-concurred.
A Vote that John Pickering Esquire be apponted agent to call on
the Comptroller of Accounts and obtain information of the balances
due from Individuals and to call on said Individuals in the course of
Law, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the Treasurer Issue Extents for outstanding Taxes
&c. was brough[t] up, read and concurred.
In Senate June 23'' 1786
a petition of a number of Towns on Connecticut River, was read
and recommended to the Honorable House for their consideration.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Jedediah Sanger and others and report there
on, was brought up, read and non-concurred.
Adjourned till to morrow 7. O'Clock, A. M.
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602 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
SATURDAY, June 24* 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday
A Resolve that the operation of the act entit[l]ed an act
* 2 : 178 for the regulation of Navigation and comraerce passed *June
23"* 1785 be and hereby is suspended till all the States in
the Union pass similar acts, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to accept of the report of the committee to devise stand
ards for the Troops of this State, was brought up, read and con
curred. An Act to encourage the importation of coined Gold and Silver into
this State, was read a third time, and voted, that the same be enacted.
A Vote that his Excellency the President be desired to write to the
President of Congress for the Checks on Notes commonly called final
Settlements, or copies of the original Records or both as he shall
think proper &c. &c. was brought up, read and concurred.
An Act to restore David Coser to his Law having been read a
third time. Voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote, giving instructions to the comraittee to enquire whether
any of the uniraproved Lands in the State, are the property of said
State or not, was brought, read and concurred.
A Resolve appointing Absolura Peters to call a Meeting of the In
habitants of the Town of Warren, was brought up, read and con
curred. A Vote to pay Josiah Gilraan Esquire ;^88..3..6 araount of ac
count for sett[l]eing depreciation to June 1786, was brought up, read
and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote to pay Joseph Cutler fifteen pounds in State Se-
*2:i79 curity in full for an horse lost * At Rhode Island, was
Ijrought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
An Act to vest the exclusive right of keeping a ferry over Con
necticut River in Allen Willard, his heirs and assigns, having been
read a third time, voted that the sarae be enacted.
An Act to restore Laban Gates to his Law in a certain action,
having been read a third time, voted, that the same be enacted.
A Vote that the Committee viz. John M<^ Duffee Charles Johns-
ston Archabald M'^Murphey Daniel Eraerson and Jeremiah Sthes
Esquires have and receive out of the Treasury five pounds each in
order to furnish them to proceed on the Business assigned them, was
brough[t] up, read and Concurred, warrant granted.
An Act in amendraent of an addition to an Act entitled an act to
prevent the destruction of Salmon, Shad, and Alewives in Merri-

1786] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 603
mac River passed the ninth day of April AD 1784, having been read
a third time. Voted, that the same be enacted, brought up, concurred.
A Vote to pay the balance of the account of Benjamin Hannaford
for the election Dinner, amounting to ;^5..2..8 was brought up, read
and concurred warrant granted.
A Vote accepting the report of the committee on the petition of
Ezra Child agent for bath, was brought up, read and concurred, ex
cepting the forty pounds for building of forts &c.
*A Vote that the members of the Honorable Senate * 2 : 180
and house of Representatives and their Officers have the
same allowance for travel and attendance at this Session as was al
lowed last year &c, was brought up, read and concurred.
An Act for forming and regulating the Mhitia within this State
and for repealing all the Laws heretofore made for that purpose, hav
ing been read a third time, voted that the same be enacted.
Adjourned to Monday next 10, O'Clock A. M.
MONDAY, June 26* 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote appointing a committee to take under consideration sun
dry petitions praying for an allowance for expenditures in the late
war ; also the petition of Nathaniel Rogers, for losses at the Cedars,
and all similar raatters, and to report at the next Session, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote appointing John Sparhawk Esq' and the Honorable John
Langdon Esq' a comraittee to agree with the printers to print Jour
nals &c. &c. was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that his Excellency with advice of Counch be desired to
adjourn the General Court to the first Wednesday in January next
then to raeet at Exeter, was brought up, read and concurred with this
amendraent, that they adjourn to Portsraouth instead of Exeter, re
considered, and non-concurred.
* A Vote, that the President with advice of Council be * 2 : 181
requested to appoint a day of public thanksgiving, was sent
down for concurrence : broug[ht] up concurred.
Adjourned to 8. O'Clock A. M.
TUESDAY, June 27^ 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a committee to Join a coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of the requisition of Congress of the 27 of September 1785,

604 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
and report their opinion respecting the collecting and payment of the
FacUities required, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Went
worth M' Gilman and M' Behows joined.
A Vote appointing Honorable Nicholas Gilman Esquire a Deligate
to represent this State in the Congress of the United States for the
terra of one year from and after the first Monday in November next
was brought up, read and concurred.

State of New
Hampshire.

[ In Senate June 27*, 1786.

Resolved that the Treasurer of the State and the commissioners of
continental Accounts be and hereby are impowered to pursue such
measures as they may Judge most expedient relative to for taking in
final settlement securities ; and^ also for issuing out or disposing of
any Interest Certificates, now in the Treasury and render an Account
of their proceedings to the General Court at the next Ses-
*2:i82 sion and that * They frora time to time advise with the
President and Council upon the measures to be adopted.
Sent down for concurrence, brought up concurred.
A Resolve that the president with advice of Council be impowered
and requested to contract with a post Rider or Riders to travel
through this State, was brought up read and concurred.
An Act for repealing certain acts of this State passed prior to the
4"' day of March last for levying duties on impost, tonnage and
poundage and for raising powder and light Money. Sent down for
concurrence by M' Webster.
A Vote to hear the petition of Charles Clapham on the second
Tuesday of their next Session, was brough[t] up, read and concurred.
A Vote that each and every person presenting a petition-to the
General Court in future shall pay to the Clerk of said Court one Dol
lar for each petition so presented and received and that the Clerk be
accountable for the money, was brought up, read and concurred.
An Act for appropriating certain raonies arising by Acts of this
State, having been read a third time. Voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote that when the Business of this Session is finished that his
Excellency the President with advice of Council be desired to ad
journ the General Court to the second Wednesday In November
next then to raeet at Exeter was brought up read and unaniraously
concurred with this amendment that the General Court raeet at Exe
ter on the first Wednesday of Septeraber Next. Sent down for con
currence, brough [t] up concurred.

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* 2 : 183 * In Senate, June 27"' 1786.
Resolved that upon every petition brough[t] the Senate on
any private affair in which any individuals were interested, the
person preferring the same, shall before it is read in the Senate pay
to the Secretary the sum of six Shillings for which he is accountable.
Sent down for concurrence, by M' Ghman, brought up concurred.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to issue Certificates for 25
p' Cent was brought up read and Non-concurred.
A Vote to pay James Norris eight pounds eigteen shillings and
eight pence, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote that Christopher Toppan and Josiah Gilman Esquires be a
committee to agree with Colonel Samuel Hobart to granulate the un
granulated powder now in the hands of said Hobart provided he will
do it a price they may think reasonable and receive part thereof for
his pay, was brought up, read and concurred.
An Act to enable Mary and Asa Robinson of Pembroke to sell the
real Estate of Peter Robinson who is incompetent to do the same,
was read a third time, and voted, that the same be enacted.
A Vote to pay Williain Duncan twenty four shillings amount of
his account for candles &c. was brought up, read and concurred ;
warrant granted.
A Vote appointing Lemuel Holmes Esq' * One of the *2:i84
committee on the petition of Cornish &c. in the room and
stead of Major Robert Wallace, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pay the account of Caleb Buswell amounting to four
pounds ten shillings as messenger to the Honorable house, was
brough[t] up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
His Excellency the President sent the Secretary to the House to
acquaint them, that he, with advice of of Council, had adjourned the
General Court to the first Wednesday in September next to meet at
Exeter at 3 O'Clock P. M. Attest Joseph Pearson Sees'.

JOURNAL

House of Representatives

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM

JUNE 7 TO JUNE 27, 1786.

House of Representatives
FOR THE YEAR 1786-7.

Hon. John Sullivan, Durham, Speaker, (June 7 to June 9).
Hon. John Langdon, Portsraouth, Speaker, (Frora June 9, when Mr.
Sullivan was declared elected President, and vacated the speaker
ship). John Calfe, Harapstead, Clerk.
Moses Shaw, Kensington, Assistant Clerk.
Rev. Samuel Haven, D. D., Portsmouth, ^ I
Rev. Joseph Buckminster, Portsmouth, \ Chaplains.
Rev. Isaac Mansfield, Exeter. j
REPRESENTATIVES.
(From Osborne's N. H. Register, 1787.)
iHon. John Langdon, Esq.
John Pickering, Esq.
John Sparhawk, Esq.
Exeter ..... Mr. Ephraim Robinson.
T J 1 ( Col. Daniel Runnels.
Londonderry . . . j Archibald McMurphy, Esq.
Chester .... Capt. John Underhhl.
Rye ..... Samuel Jenness, Esq.
North Hampton . . . Col. Moses Leavitt.
Hampton .... Christopher Toppan, Esq.

6io

NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS.

[1786

Haraptonfahs )
Seabrook )
StratharaKensingtonSouth Hampton
East Kingston
KingstonEpping .
Nottingham
Deerfield Chichester \
Pittsfield j
Canterbury )
Northfield J
Concord
PembrokeCandia .
HawkeSandown
Atkinson )
Plaistow j
Salera
Windham Pelham .
Dover .
DurhamSoraersworthRochester
Barrington Gilraanton
LeeSandwich
TamworthMoultonboro'
Tuftonboro'Wolf boro' 1 -
Ossipee j
Barnstead New Durham
Wakefield )
Middletown [
Effingham )

Ens. Elisha Brown.
Col. Mark Wiggin.
Mr. Moses Shaw.
Joseph Merrill, Esq.
Solomon Wheeler, Esq.
Mr. Jonathan Ehiott.
Lt. Jno. Gile.
Mr. Moses Barnard.
John Cram, Esq.
Mr. Asa Foster.
Mr. Jno. Bradley.
Samuel Daniels, Esq.
Col. Nathaniel Emerson.
Moses Hook, Esq.
Col. Joseph Welch.
Capt. Amos Dow.
James Betton, Esq.
James Gibson, Esq.
Col. Jno. Waldron.
Ebenezer Thompson, Esq.
John Rollings, Esq.
Jaraes Knowles, Esq.
Maj. Samuel Hale.
Col. Joseph Badger.
Dr. James Brackett.
Daniel Beede, Esq.

Capt. Nathaniel Ambrose.
Mr. Jonathan Chesley.
Simeon Dearborn, Esq.

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Conway ")
Eaton I
Burton j '
Locations J
Nottingham West
Dunstable Merrimack
Bedford .
GoffstownHolhs .
Amherst RabyMason
New Ipswich
Wilton .
Lyndeborough
Temple Peterboro' Slip
Peterboro'Society Land
Hancock ~|
Antrim V
Deering J
HennikerHihsboro'
Weare .
Hopkinton
DunbartonBowSalisbury
BoscawenFishersfieldSutton
Warner Charlestown
Alstead .
Keene .
SwanzeyRichmond
Jaffrey .
Winchester
Westmoreland Chesterfield
Walpole Claremont

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, Col. Andrew McMhlan.
Samuel Marsh, Esq.
Col. Noah Lovell.
Capt. William Barron.
Mr. Stephen Dole.
Lieu. William Page.
Daniel Emerson, Esq.
Maj. Robert Means.
Benjamin Mann, Esq.
Dr. John Preston.
Col. Philip Putnam.
Levi Spalding, Esq.
Francis Cragin, Esq.
Capt. Samuel Cunningham.
John Duncan, Esq.
Maj. Robert Wallace.
Capt. George Hadley.
Aaron Greeley, Esq.
Mr. James Cleraent.
Capt. Robert Smith.
George Jackman, Esq.
Zephaniah Clark, Esq.
John Hubbard, Esq.
Absalom Kingsbury, Esq.
Capt. Jeremian Stiles.
Mr. Abraham Rendall.
Mr. Jonathan Gaskell.
Mr. John Ghmore.
Capt. Daniel Ashley.
Capt. Samuel Works.
Moses Smith, Esq.
Enoch Hale, Esq.
Mr. Sanford Kingsbury.

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[1786

Cornish Granthara
Newport Croydon
Acworth Lempster V
Marlow J
Surry )
Gilsum (
Stoddard
Washington Dublin \
Packersfield j
FitzwilliamPlainfield Holderness ^
Campton |
Thornton LincolnFranconia Plymouth )
Rumney >
Wentworth )
New Chester
Alexandria Cockermouth Enfield CanaanCardigan
Dorchester GraftonHanover
Lebanon Lyrae
OrfordHaverhill
Piermont Warren Coventry Bath Lyman
Landaff [Littleton]Concord
Dalton

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Mr. Dudley Chase.
Mr. Jeremiah Jenks.
Mr. Silas Mack.
Mr. Lemuel Holmes.
Capt. Jacob Copeland.
Stephen Araes, Esq.
Samuel Kendall, Esq.
Maj. Joseph Kimball.
Hercules Mooney, Esq.
Capt. Absalom Peters.
Joshua Tolford, Esq.
Jesse Johnson, Esq.

Capt. Aaron Storrs.
Maj. Edmund Freeraan.
Joseph Skinner, Esq.

Moses Dow, Esq.

Maj. John Young.

*JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS '^13:114

OF THE

HON.BL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OF THE

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
At their Session began and held at Concord, on Wednesday
the Seventh Day of June, Anno Domini 1786, and in the Tenth
Year of the Independence of America. *
WEDNESDAY, June 7, 1786.
Seventy of the members elected, raet, and after producing the re
turns of their [choice] having been chosen, and taking the necessary
oaths, proceeded to the choice of a chairraan, and John Pickering,
Esq. was chosen for that purpose.
Motion was then made for [They then proceeded to the choice of]
a Speaker, and the ballots being taken and counted, it appeared that
the honourable John Sullivan, Esq. was chosen Speaker.
Motion was then made for the choice of a Clerk, and the ballots
being taken, it appeared that John CalfCj Esq/ was chosen Clerk.
The honourable Senate and House being met in the assembly
chamber proceeded to count the votes for a President, and after tak
ing down in a list [counting] the votes from the County of Rocking
ham, agreed to adjourn to 7 o'clock to-morrow morning.
[The House then adjourned to 7 o'Clock to morrow morning.]

6l4 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
THURSDAY, June 8, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
The honourable Senate and House being met in the assembly
chamber, proceeded to count the remainder of the votes, [and finished
the list] in the presence of both houses. A comraittee was then ap
pointed to examine and compare the returns with the list made in
presence of the said two houses, and report whether there be any
mistake in said list. The two houses then adjourned 'till the after
noon [to 4 o Clock P M]
The House then adjourned to 4 o'clock P. M. Met accordingly,
and being joined by the honourable Senate, after some debate, the
two branches adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow morning.
On motion being raade for the choice of an Assistant Clerk, Mr.
Moses Shaw was chosen for that purpose.
The house then proceeded to exaraine the returns of raembers from
the several towns and districts.
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow morning.
* 13: IIS * FRIDAY, June 9, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Proceeded to examine the remainder of the returns of the raembers
of the honourable House [from the Several Towns &c]
The honourable Senate and House being again met in the assembly
chamber, the coraraittee appointed to re-examine the returns for a
President made the following report, viz, —
The committee appointed to ascertain the number of votes for
President of this state, having corapared the returns with the entries
in the Secretary's record thereof find them to agree. The com
mittee have likewise re-cast the number of votes returned and entered,
and find the whole amount to be eight thousand five hundred and
sixty seven, three thousand and six hundred of which were for his
Excehency John Langdon, Esq. and four thousand, three hundred
and nine for the honourable John Sullivan, Esq. the remainder, being
six hundred and fifty eight were for sundry persons ; so it appears to
your comraittee that the honourable John Sullivan, Esq. is elected
President by a majority of fifty-one votes.
The honourable Senate then withdrew, and the House [then] pro
ceeded to the choice of a Speaker pro tempore, and John Sparhawk,
was chosen for that purpose.
The honourable Senate returned, and the necessary oaths were ad
rainistered to his Excehency John Sullivan, Esq. as President, by the

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honourable John M'Clary, Esq. senior senator, and the said senior
senator declared before both houses of legislature that his Excellency
JOHN SULLIVAN, Esq. was duly elected President of this state
for the ensuing year by the free suffrages of the people.
The Senate then withdrew, and the House proceeded to the choice
of a Speaker, as the chair had become vacant by the removal of his
Excellency John Sullivan, Esq. and the ballots being taken for that
purpose, the honourable John Langdon Esq. was unanimously chosen
Speaker of this House.
The honourable Senate again returned and joined in comraittee for
filling up the vacancies in the honourable Senate, and the honourable
George Atkinson, and the honourable John Bell, Esquires, were
elected to fill up the vacancies in the county of Rockinghara. The
honourable Ebenezer Webster, Esq. for the county of Hillsborough.
— The honourable Amos Shepard, Esq. for the county of Cheshire,
and the honourable Elisha Payne, Esq. for the county of
Grafton. The Senate then withdrew, * and the House * 13:116
proceeded to business.
Voted, That the honourable Mr. Langdon, Col. Waldron, Doctor
[M'] Preston. Mr. Kingsbury and General Dow, be a committee to
prepare and lay before this House rules to be observed for the fu
ture regulation thereof.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Elizabeth Wentworth,
praying for liberty to convey her estate to her children and grand
children, who are absent from this state, Voted, That the prayer there
of be granted, and that she have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
[Sent up by Maj' Young]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Joshua Copp, Esq.
and others,' respecting the choice of town officers in thetown of War
ren at their last annual meeting. Voted, That the petitioners have
leave to bring in a [Bill or] resolve to establish the proceedings at
said meeting as far as it respects the choice of town officers.
[Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Mr. Dearborn, Col. Welch, Major Young,
and Dr. Bracket, with such of the honourable senate as they shall
join be a coraraittee to consider of the petition of the selectmen of
Portsmouth and report thereon. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Doctor Preston, Doctor Brackett, Mr. Mann, Captain
Ashley and Mr. Jenness, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Archibald
I. xiii. Ham Town Papers, 624.

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M'^Millan ; also [of] all petitions of sick and wounded officers and sol
diers, and report thereon. — [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
Upon a hearing respecting members returned by the town of Con
cord, to serve in the General Court the ensuing year, Voted, That it
is the opinion of this house that neither of the merabers returned
were legally chosen, therefore are not entitled to a seat in this House,
and that notice be given to the selectmen of Concord, that their seat
in the House of Representatives has become vacant, and that they
have liberty to call a meeting for the choice of a representative to
represent said town in the General Court until the first
* 13 : 117 Wednesday in June next, they, *(the said selectraen) giv
ing legal notice of the tirae, place and design of said
meeting. The honourable Senate and House being again met in the asserably
charaber for the purpose of electing officers, agreeably to the consti
tution, proceeded to the choice of counsellors, and the ballots being
taken, it appeared that the honourable Joshua Wentworth, Esq. was
chosen a counsellor.
The ballots being again taken it appeared that the honourable
Araos Shepard, Esq. was chosen [Counsellor.] The ballots being
again taken [it appeared that] the honourable John Langdon, Esq.
was chosen [Counsellor,] who dechning to accept, the ballots were
again taken and [it appeared that] the honourable Robert Means,
Esq. was chosen [Counsellor.] The bahots being again taken [it ap
peared that] the honourable Christopher Toppan, Esq. was chosen
[counsellor.] The ballots being [were] again taken, [it appeared
that] the honourable Moses Dow, Esq. was chosen [Counsellor.]
The ballots were then called for the choice of a Secretary and
[it appeared that] Joseph Pearson, Esq. was chosen for that purpose.
The [honourable] Senate and House then adjourned [agreed to ad
journ] until to-morrow.
The House then adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow raorning.
SATURDAY, June io, 1786.
The House met according to adjournraent.
Upon reading and considering the petition of James Saunders,
praying to be restored to his law in a certain action. Voted, That the
petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the third
Wednesday of their next session and that in the meantirae the peti
tioner cause that Dr. Thaddeus Butler be served with a copy of the
petition and order of court thereon, or that the said copy and order
be seasonably left at his last and usual place of abode, that he may

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then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted, and that the cause now pending at the Superior
Court between said parties be continued till the decision of the Gen
eral Court. [Sent up by Maj' Young.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of John Glidden, pray
ing to be restored to his law. Voted, That the petitioner be heard
thereon before the General Court on the third Wednesday of their
next session and that in the mean time the petitioner cause that the
adverse party be served with a copy of the petition and order of court
[thereon], that [the] said adverse party may then appear and shew
cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof raay not be granted.
[Sent up by Maj' Young.]
* His Excellency's message was in the following words : * 13 : 1 18
Gentlemen of the honorable Senate and Gentlemen of
the House of Representatives.
The free and unsolicited suffrages of my fellow citizens having
called me to the chief seat of government at a time when our trade
is embarrassed, our finances deranged, and for want of a sufficiency
of circulating cash, even the requisitions of Congress but in part
coraplied with, duty and inclination lead me to recommend for your
consideration those raeasures which appear to be most likely to pro
raote the public good ; and to join you in adopting and enforcing such
as you shall judge best calculated to preserve the publick faith, to en
courage industry and frugality, and to relieve the people frora their
present difficulties.
To answer which purposes, if any measures more effectual than
promoting agriculture, discouraging the consumption of foreign lux
uries ; encouraging the manufactures of our own country, and giving
[a] free course to the exportation of those articles which our soil or
[and] industry may produce, had offered themselves to my view I
should have proposed them for your deliberation, but as those will
probably prove the most efficacious I beg leave to call your attention
to objects so worthy of your notice, in full confidence that your wis
dom will direct to such laws and regulations as will answer the expec
tations of your constituents, and advance the interest of our common
country. The laws now in force respecting navigation and comraerce being
thought by some to militate with pubhck comraercial treaties, and sup
posed by others not calculated to answer the good purposes for which
they were intended, raay deserve your serious consideration.
The unfortunate events which prevented the sale of lumber the last
year, occasions large quantities, manufactured before passing the late
act for regulating the size thereof, to remain still in the hands of the
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6l8 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
industrious labourers and honest purchasers, and cannot now be ex
ported or disposed of without violating said act, perhaps the injury
which individuals must suffer by the operation of that law at this
time may merit a suspension of it to some future period.
The opening roads and encouraging an intercourse between the
several parts of this state are objects which I persuade myself will be
deemed too important to pass unnoticed.
*I3:II9 *As our national character and even our political exist
ence depend, in [a] great measure, upon the [a] punctual
compliance with the requisitions of Congress, nothing can be raore
necessary than [the] adopting measures which will answer the de
mands and wishes of that honourable body, with as little delay as
the nature of things will adrait.
As a well regulated railitia is the most safe and natural defence of
this country, and from its importance merits every possible attention
and encouragement ; perhaps a review of the raihtary systera in this
state raay deserve your notice at this time.
A revision of the laws of this state, and particularly those which
relate to duties on articles imported are too iraportant to escape your
observation. Gentleraen, the well known abilities, and patriotic spirit of the
members in the respective branches of the legislature, afford to the
publick the raost pleasing prospect of the happy effects of their wise
deliberations in this session, while their candor encourages rae to hope
for every necessary aid and constitutional support which the nature
of my office may require.
Permit me to assure you. Gentlemen, that the happiness which I
feel in raeeting raembers of such knowledge and integrity in this
asserably, will be augraented by every opportunity which I raay have
to prove my readiness to join you in any measures for advancing the
interest of the state, and relieving the distresses of our fellow
citizens. Given at the Council Chamber in Concord, the loth day of June,
1786. JOHN SULLIVAN.
Yoted, That Col. Toppan, Col. Waldron, Mr. Preston, Mr. Hub
bard and Gen. Dow, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to take under consideration the message of his
Excellency the President, this day received, and prepare and lay be
fore this house an answer thereto, also consider what business is nec
essary to be first entered upon and done at this session and report
thereon. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
Voted, That the honourable Mr. Langdon, Col. Toppan, and Major
Hale, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 619
committee to consider of the petition of John Penhallow, Esq. and
others, and report thereon. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
*Upon reading and considering the petition of Captain * 13 : 120
John Roach and Elisabeth Roach, Voted, That the peti
tioners be heard thereon before the General-Court on Tuesday the
20th [day] of June current, and that in the mean time the petitioners
cause that Major Joseph Blanchard be served with a copy of the pe
tition and order of Court thereon, that he may then appear and shew
cause, [if any he hath] why the prayer thereof may not be granted,
and that all further proceedings against the said Rogers, be stayed
until the decision of the General Court. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
The honourable Senate and House being again met in the assem
bly chamber for electing officers, agreeably to the constitution, pro
ceeded to the choice of a Treasurer, and the ballots being taken it
appeared that John Tayloe Gilraan, Esq. was unanimously chosen
Treasurer for the ensuing year. They then proceeded to the choice
of a Commissary-General, and the ballots being taken it appeared
that Col. Supply Clap, was chosen for that purpose. They then ad
journed to Monday next, at 4 o'clock P. M., and the House proceeded
to business. Voted, That Col. Leavitt, Mr. Dearborn, and Mr. Duncan, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of the selectraen of Acworth,' and all similar
matters, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Robinson.]
The committee appointed to prepare and lay before this house
rules to be observed for the future regulation thereof, reported the
following, viz.
1st. That as it is essential to the publick interest, so it shall be
considered and enjoined as the incumbent duty of each meraber of
this house seasonably and punctually to attend in his place, and not
to absent himself without leave.
2d. That freedom of deliberation, speech and debate in the House
be allowed to each member thereof, yet no member shall by speech
or behaviour in the House give just occasion of offence to another.
3d. That any raeraber disposed to make a motion or speak to a raat
ter in debate, shall rise frora his seat and address the Speaker, but on
being called to order by the Speaker or any raember, he shall be silent;
yet if such silenced member shall conceive himself injured
thereby, the Speaker shall take a vote of the house * there- * 13 : 121
on, and such member shall submit to their determination.
4th. No meraber shall speak more than twice to any subject in de
bate, until each member have an opportunity to offer his opinion.
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620 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
5th. No motion from one meraber shah be received [or debated]
unless seconded by another.
6th. When a motion is regularly before the House, it shah at any
time be reduced to writing at the request of a meraber.
7th. When a motion is before the House, no other motion shah be
received, unless to amend, divide, corarait, postpone, reduce the same
to writing, or to have the yeas and nays entered on the journals.
Sth. Any coraplex motion before the House may be divided at the
request of a raeraber.
9th. No bill, resolve or vote, shall be reconsidered when there is a
less number of members in the House than there was at the passing
the same.
10. When it shall appear that any person returned as a member is
not chosen agreeably to the constitution, he shaU be dismissed, and
the town or district which he came to represent shall be notified
thereof in order for a new election.
nth. Every member being present at a debate upon any question
or motion, shall give his vote thereupon, unless excused for satisfac
tory reasons offered to the House.
1 2th. No raember, speaking by permission, shall be interrupted by
another, but by a call to order, or for correcting a mistake.
,13th. No bill shall pass to be enacted until it has been read three
times ; shall not be debated [at] the first reading ; shall not be read
without an adjournraent betwixt each time of reading.
14th. No bih, resolve or vote, shall be sent up to the Senate with
out the Speaker giving notice thereof, by reading such resolve or
vote, or the title of the bih, and no bill shall be sent up to the Sen
ate by less than two merabers.
1 5th. No member shall be upon more than two committees at the
same time without his consent, nor shall any member nominate more
than one person for the sarae coraraittee, provided the person by him
nominated shah be chosen, nor shall any after being himself ap
pointed, nominate another for the same comraittee.
1 6th. No petition shall be received by the House, but by a raem
ber thereof, and upon motion raade for that purpose.
* 13 : 122 *i7th. No person except a raeraber of the General Court,
shall be adraitted above the bar of the House, but by the
invitation of the Speaker.
I Sth. The Journals of the House for the preceding day shall be
read every raorning previous to entering upon new business.
19th. No member of the House shall take himself off from acting
as such in order to espouse the cause of a contending party, in the
capacity of an advocate, without first obtaining leave of the House
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20th. Every non observance of the foregoing rules shall be no
ticed at the discretion of the House on considering all the circum
stances :
Which report being read and considered, Voted, That it be received
and accepted, and that said rules be observed for the future regula
tion of this House.
Adjourned to Monday next at 3 o'clock P. M.
MONDAY, June 12, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Col. Putnara, Mr. Eraerson, Mr. Spar
hawk, and Mr. Hubbard, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Adara Bab
cock, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Stiles.]
Voted, That this House resolve themselves into a comraittee of the
¦whole, in conjunction with the honourable Senate, if they see fit, to
consider of a letter frora the honourable Samuel Liverraore, Esq. and
any other matters they may judge necessary when raet.
[Sent up by M' Sthes.]
Yoted, That Col. Welch, Major Hale, and Mr. Gibson, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to con
sider of the petition of Captain Araos Dow, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Duncan.]
The following vote carae down from the honourable Senate for con
currence : State of ) j^ Senate June 1 2* 1 786
New Hamp' | -' ' -
Voted, That Mr. M'Clary and Mr. Shepherd, with such of the hon
ourable House as they shall join, be a coraraittee to devise standards
for the respective corps of horse and foot in this state, and report
thereon, [was] Read and concurred, and Col. Runnels, Col. Leavitt,
Col. Mooney, Col. Waldron, and Col. Putnam joined.
[Sent up by M' Duncan.]
*Upon reading and considering the petition of David * 13: 123
Page,' Esq. of Conway, representing that [in] the warning
for caUing a meeting for the choice of a representative to represent
the district of Conway, Eaton, Burton and Locations, the warning did
not mention the whole of the towns in said district, in consequence of
which mistake, no representative was chosen ; therefore prayed that
the selectmen of Burton might be empowered to call a meeting of [the
I. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 422.

622 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
inhabitants of] said district to raake choice of a representative to rep
resent them in the General Court of this state the current year ;
whereupon Voted, That the prayer of said petition be granted, and
that the selectmen of said Burton have liberty to call a meeting of the
inhabitants of said district for the foregoing purpose, they the said
selectmen giving legal notice of the time, place and design of said
meeting. Upon reading and considering the petition of Jonathan Elkins,.
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before General Court on
Tuesday the 20th day of June current, and that in the mean time the
petitioner cause that the adverse party be served with a cojiy of the
petition and order of the Court thereon, that he may then appear and
shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. The honourable Senate and House being met in committee of the
whole, agreeably to a vote of this day, his Excellency John Sullivan
Esq. appointed chairman, proceeded to consider of a letter from the
honourable Samuel Liverraore, Esq. [and came to the following
vote :]
Voted, That it is the desire of this comraittee that the honourable
Mr. Liverraore proceed to Congress, as soon as he conveniently can,
to represent this state in Congress agreeably to his coraraission for
that purpose. Took under consideration a petition frora Mr. James.
MacGregore, and after some debate thereon, agreed to postpone the
[further] consideration thereof to some future opportunity. The com
mittee then rose with leave to sit again, and the Speaker P. T. re
sumed the chair.
The honourable Senate and House being again met for appointing
officers, agreeably to the constitution, adjourned thi to-morrow.
The house then proceeded to read [the reading of] the publick let
ters received in the recess of the General Court.
Yoted, That Mr. Foster, Col. Runnels, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Betton and
Major Wallace, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join,
be a committee to consider of the petition of Martha Wait,' and re
port thereon. [Sent up by M' Duncan.]
* 13 : 124 * Upon reading and considering the petition of Thomas
Stevens, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon be
fore the General Court on Wednesday the 21st [day] of June current
and that in the mean time the petitioner cause that Moses Little,
Esq. of Goffestown be served with a copy of the petition and order
of court thereon, that he may then appear and shew cause (if any he
hath) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
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Upon reading and considering the petition of Elisabeth Lamson,
praying to be restored to her law in a certain action, Voted, That the
petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the third
Wednesday of their next session, and that in the mean tirae the pe
titioner cause that Jonathan Tilton, of Kensington, be served with a
copy of the petition and order of court thereon, that he raay then ap
pear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof raay not
be granted ; and that the e.xecution against said Elisabeth be stayed
until the decision of the General Court. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Williara Thomas,
praying for the privilege of a ferry, Voted, That the petitioner be
heard thereon before the General Court on the third Wednesday of
their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioner cause that
a copy of the petition and order of court thereon be posted up in some
publick place in the town of Chesterfield three weeks successively,
that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any
they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
[Sent up M' Chesley.]
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow morning.
TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Upon reading and considering the petition of the selectmen of
Charlestown, praying for the privilege of a ferry ; Yoted, That the
petitioners be heard thereon before the General Court on the third
Wednesday of their next session, and that in the mean time the peti
tioners cause that the substance of the petition and order
of court thereon, be published three weeks * successively * 13 : 125
in one of the New Hampshire papers, that any person or
persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the
prayer thereof raay not be granted. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Mr. Marsh and Mr Knowles, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to con
sider of the petition of Thomas Davis, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Maj' Young.]
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Mr. Holraes and Mr. Wheeler, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of Siraeon Dearborn, Esq. and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Holraes.]
Voted, That Mr. Gibson, Mr. Pickering, Mr. M'Murphy, Major
Wallace, Major Hale, honourable Mr. Langdon, and Mr. Bedee, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a coramittee to

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consider of the petition of Samuel Chase, Esq. and others,' inhabi
tants of the westerly part of this state, also the petition of Joseph
Tilden, jun'r. and report thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Marsh.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the selectmen of
Packersfield, Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon before the
General Court on the third Thursday of the next session, and that in
the raean tirae the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition
and order of court thereon, be published three weeks successively in
one of the New-Harapshire papers, that any person or persons raay
then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer there
of may not be granted. [Sent up Maj' Cram.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the selectraen of Win
chester, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the pe
titioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by Maj' Cram.]
Voted, That Mr. Emerson, Mr. Bedee, and Major Crara ; with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Enoch Richardson and others and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Duncan.]
Voted, That the pay roh of Capt. Meshech Bell, amounting to
eighty pounds, be allowed and paid out of the treasury by order of
the President. [Sent up by Doct' Brackett]
* 13 : 126 * Voted, That the account of John Melcher, amounting
to three pounds [and] six shillings and four pence, for print
ing, be allowed and paid out of the treasury by order of the Pres
ident. [Sent up by Col° Welch.]
Voted, That Mr. M'Murphy, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Gibson, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a coramittee to
consider of the account of Mr. Benjamin Bigelow, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Dole.]
Yoted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Major Hale, Mr. Duncan, Capt. Stiles
and General Dow, with such of the honourable Senate as they shah
join, be a committee to consider what is best to be done with the old
continental currency now in the treasury, and in the hands of indi
viduals [of] in this state, and report thereon. [Sent up by Maj' Kimbah.]
Voted, That Mr. Pickering, Col. Waldron, Capt. Marsh, Mr. Chase
and Major Freeraan, with such of the honourable Senate as they shah
join, be a committee to bring in a bih for regulating the tiines and
places for holding the several courts of Probate within this state.
[Sent up by Maj' Kiraball]
Voted, That General Dow, Doctor Bracket, and Mr. Betton, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a coramittee to
'• xi. Ham. Town Papers, 452.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 625
consider of the petition of Mary Connor and Joseph Drew, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Merrill.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Thomas Davis, Voted,
That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the
third Wednesday of their next session, and that in the raean tirae the
petitioner cause that Moses Austin be served with a copy of the peti
tion and order of Court thereon, that he may then appear and shew
cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
[Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Whereas an act passed the General Court of this state June 21st
1785, intitled, an act for the admeasureraent of boards, and for regu
lating the tale of shingles, clapboards, hoops and staves, and for other
purposes therein mentioned, which act did take place the first day of
this present raonth ; and whereas it is now found that
large quantities of luraber are now lying * upon hand which * 1 3 : 1 27
cannot be exported while this act continues in force ;
therefore, in order to allow the citizens of this state time to export
the luraber now on hand : Resolved, that the aforementioned act be,
[and hereby is] suspended until the second Wednesday of the next
session of the General Court [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Resolved, That the operation of the act, intitled, an act for the
regulation of navigation and commerce passed June 23, 1785, be and
hereby is suspended till all the states in the union pass similar acts.
[Sent up by Maj' Wiggin.]
Voted, That Col. Welch, Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Betton, Capt. Smith
and Col. Lovell, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to take under consideration the impost act,
passed the last session of the General Court, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Maj' Cram.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Henry Gerrish, Esq.
praying for the privilege of a ferry. Voted, That the petitioner be
heard thereon before the General Court on the third Wednesday of
the next session, and that in the mean time the petitioner cause that
the selectmen of Salisbury and the selectmen of Northfield be served
with a copy of the petition and order of court thereon, that they, or
either of them, may then appear and shew cause (if any they have)
why the prayer thereof raay not be granted. [Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
Voted, That Col. Runnels, Mr. Duncan and Mr. M'Murphy, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the account of Mr. Isaac Williams, and all similar raat
ters, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.

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Met accordingly.
An Act to impower Mrs. Elisabeth Wentworth to convey her es
tate to her chhdren and grand children, and to enable them to hold
the same, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by Col° Wiggin and M' Stiles.]
The honourable Senate and House being again met for the pur
pose of electing officers, agreeably to the constitution, agreed to ad
journ 'thi to-morrow.
The honourable Senate and House being again met in committee
of the whole ( his Excellency the President in the chair), proceeded
to consider of the petitions of a large number of the in-
* 13 : 128 habitants * of this state, praying for the redress of griev
ances, and after debating on several matters contained in
the petition presented, agreed to postpone the further consideration
thereof for the present. The committee then rose with leave to sit
again, and the Speaker resuraed the chair.
The coraraittee to prepare and lay before this House an answer to
his Excellency's message, reported the following :
May it please your Excellency,
When the Representatives of the free citizens of this state, see
the supreme executive seat of government filled by a gentleman of
known and approved abhities in the civil and railitary departments of
life, they are animated with the raost agreeable sensations ; and your
being called into so high a station by the free suffrages of a virtuous
people, encreaseth our joy in proportion to the wisdom, zeal and sta
bility, which have rendered you conspicuous in many exalted offices
in this and the United States.
The low state of our treasury and finances, the great scarcity of a
circulating medium, and the embarrassments of commerce, we view
as matters of great concernraent, requiring our raost serious atten
tion. The establishraent of the publick credit, the proraoting industry,
economy and agriculture, increasing our own manufactures, enlarging
our trade and navigation, upon principles of equality, encouraging ex
portation, and discouraging the importation of unnecessary and super
fluous commodities, are matters of iraportance, demanding our earliest
notice. The revision of our laws, especially those for making the mhitia
useful and reputable, and raaking such new laws as may be necessary
for opening publick roads to distant parts of the state, should be duly
attended to.
For confirming and enlarging the happiness of citizens, and render
ing your Excellency's administration easy and honourable, and secur-

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 627
ing the constitutional rights of our fellow subjects, should be the
greatest objects of our deliberation.
JOHN SPARHAWK, Speaker Pro. Tera.
* Voted, That Mr. Betton and Col. Runnels, be a cora- *I3 : 129
mittee to wait on his Excellency, with the foregoing an
swer [to his Excellency's message.]
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow morning,
WEDNESDAY, June 14, 17S6.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Capt. Stiles, Mr. Sparhawk and Mr, Robinson, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
examine the late requisitions of Congress, and report what is further
necessary to be done in order to comply with said requisitions.
[Sent up by M' Sparhawk.]
Voted, That the honourable Nathaniel Peabody, Esq. who was ap
pointed a Delegate from this state to the Congress of the United
States, for the current year, be recalled, and that his Excellency the
President be desired to notify him thereof. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Voted, That the honourable John Langdon, Esq. be and he hereby
is appointed a Delegate to represent this state in the Congress of the
United States, for the term of one year from and after the first Mon
day in November next, unless sooner relieved or recalled by the Gen
eral Court of this state, with all the powers and privileges which other
Delegates frora this state have heretofore had and enjoyed, agreeably
to the confederation of the United States. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Voted, That the honourable Pierce Long, Esq. be and he hereby is
appointed a Delegate to represent this state in the Congress of the
United States for the terra of one year frora and after the first Mon
day in Noveraber next, unless sooner relieved or recalled by the Gen
eral Court of this state, with all the powers and privileges which other
Delegates frora this state have heretofore had and enjoyed, agreeably
to the confederation of the United States. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
The honourable John Pickering, Esq. was chosen a Delegate to
Congress, but declined accepting said trust.
Voted, That the honourable Abiel Foster, Esq. be and he hereby
is appointed a Delegate to represent this state in the Congress of the
United States for the term of one year, from and after the first Mon
day in November next, unless sooner relieved or recalled by the Gen-

628 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
eral Court of this state, with ah the powers and privileges
* 13 : 180 * which other Delegates from this state have heretofore
had and enjoyed, agreeably to the confederation of the
United States. [Sent' up by Col° Runnels.]
Voted, That the honourable John Sparhawk, Esq. be and he hereby
is appointed a Delegate to represent this state in the Congress of the
United States for the term of one year from and after the first Mon
day in November next, unless sooner relieved or recalled by the Gen
eral Court of this state, with all the powers and privileges which other
Delegates from this state have heretofore had and enjoyed, agreeably
to the confederation of the United States. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Voted, That the honourable John Langdon, Esq. and Mr. James
Sheafe, be and they hereby are appointed commissioners in addition
to the commissioners already appointed on the part of this state, to
meet such commissioners as are or shall be appointed by any other of
the United States, for the regulation of commerce. Two only, of said
comraissioners to attend at the sarae time. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Voted, That Mr. Duncan, Major Hale, Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Gibson
and Major Wallace with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to take under consideration the appointing and
payment of Jurors, also of the table of fees for this state, and report
such alterations and amendments as they raay judge necessary.
[Sent up by M' Cram.]
Voted, That Mr. Ephraim Robinson, John Calfe, Esq. and Thomas
Odiorne, Esq. be and [they] hereby are appointed a comraittee to set
tle the accounts between this state and the treasurer of said state,
and report thereon to this House at their next session.
[Sent up Mr. Cragin.]
Voted, That Col. Waldron, Mr. Sparhawk, and Mr. M'Murphy, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shaU join, be a coraraittee to
consider whether interest shah be allowed [on] Pierce's certificates, or
the final settlement securities, that are ordered to be re-
* 13 : 131 ceived into the treasury of this state, and in what * man
ner it shall be done, and report thereon, and whether the
treasurer shall receive any on which the interest has been paid.
[Sent up by Gen' Dow.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Mr. Stephen Dole in
behalf of the town of Bedford,' praying that the time of holding the
annual meeting in said town may be altered agreeable to a vote of
I. xi. Hara. Town Papers, 1S7.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 629
said town : Voted that the prayer thereof be granted, and that the pe
titioner have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by Gen' Dow.]
Voted, That Col. Waldron, Col. Toppan and Mr. Kendah, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Herculus Mooney, Esq. and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Dole.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Sarson Belcher, of
Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Voted, That the pe
titioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the third Wed
nesday of their next session, and that in the raean time the petitioner
cause that the substance of the petition and order of court thereon be
published three weeks successively in one of the New-Hampshire
news papers, also cause that the substance of the petition and the
order thereon be posted up in some publick place in the town of Pe
terborough, three weeks prior to the day of hearing, that any person
or persons may appear and shew cause why the prayer of said petition
may not be granted. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
An act investing Benjamin Dearborn with the exclusive right of
making and selling certain articles therein specified ; was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by Maj' Hale and Cap* Spaulding.]
Voted, That Mr. Chesley, Mr. Emerson and Mr. Greeley, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Daniel Gale, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Hubbard. ]
Upon reading and considering the petition of John Blunt, Esq.
praying to be restored to his law in a certain action. Voted, That the
petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court on the third
Wednesday of their next session, and that in the mean
time* the petitioner cause that Jacob Sheafe, Esq. of * 13 : 132
Portsmouth, be served with a copy of the petition and or
der of Court thereon, that he may then appear and shew cause (if any
he hath) why the prayer thereof may not be granted, and that the ex
ecution against said Blunt be stayed unth the decision of the General
Court. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
The committee on the petition of Ezra Gates, a wounded soldier
in the New-Hampshire line, reported. That he be allowed half pay, to
commence at the time his whole pay ceased, [and to continue] till
further order of [the General] Court, and that he be enrohed accord
ingly : Signed M. Thornton, for the committee. Which report being
read and considered, Voted, that it be received and accepted.
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630 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Upon reading and considering the petition of Archibald M'^Millan,
a wounded soldier. Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and
that he be enrohed for half pay. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
The coraraittee on the petitions of sick and wounded officers and
soldiers, having considered the petition of Thomas Clark, [to them
referred] reported. That the prayer of said petition be so far granted,
,that he receive his wages and depreciation as other soldiers have
received, deducting what he has already received ; Signed M. Thorn
ton, for the coramittee. Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the committee on
depreciation govern themselves accordingly. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
An act to enable Phillip White, and Mary, his wife, to sell the real
estate of Ebenezer Conant, deceased, for the payment of the debts of
said deceased, and support of his children, was read a third time, and
passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Dole and Mr. Jackman.]
The comraittee on the petition of the selectraen of Acworth,' re--
ported. That said town be allowed three thousand, four hundred and
twenty five pounds of beef, including what is already allowed by the
Treasurer: Signed Joshua Wentworth, for the comraittee. Which
report being read and Considered, Voted, That it be received and
accepted. [Sent up by M' Mann.]
* 13 : 133 * Voted, That Mr. Pickering, General Dow, and Mr.
Sparhawk, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a coramittee to draught and lay before this House, such
publick bills as may be thought necessary to pass to be enacted at
this session. [Sent up by M' Smith.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Captain Leonard
Whiting, Yoted, That the petitioner be heard thereon, before the
General Court, on the third Thursday of their next session, and that
in the raean tirae the petitioner cause that the selectmen of Concord,
alias Gunthwait, be served with a copy of the petition and order of
Court thereon, that they may then appear and shew cause (if any they
have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted, and that no lands
in said town be sold for taxes, until the decision of the General
Court. [Sent up by M' Eraerson.]
Voted, That Mr. Pickering, Major Hale, Doctor Preston, Mr.
Kingsbury, and Mr. Storrs, with such of the honourable Senate as
they shall join, be a coramittee to state the reasons why it is not prac
ticable at this tirae to raake a bank of paper money.
[Sent up by Col" Leavitt]
^- xi. Ham. Town Papers, 5.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 63 1
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Col. Toppan, and Col. Waldron, be a com
mittee to enquire of the Treasurer what sum is now due for outstand
ing taxes, also the amount of the certificates and orders now in the
hands of individuals, together with the amount of notes issued, that
have not been taken up, and report to this House.
The honourable Senate and House being again met, for the pur
pose of electing officers, agreeably to the constitution, agreed to ad
journ 'till to-morrow.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Sarah Catharine Mof
fatt, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that she have
leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Voted, That John Pickering and Daniel Humphreys, Esquires, be
a committee to revise the laws of this state, and report the laws so
araended to the General Court, at their future sessions, from time to
time, as they prepare the same. [Sent up by M' Sparhawk.]
* The coramittee on the petition of [Capt.] Amos Dow, *" 13 : 134
in behalf of William Moreland, reported, That the said
William Moreland, be set at hberty from his confinement in Amherst
gaol : Signed John M'^Duffee, for the coramittee. Which report be
ing read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by M' Dow.]
Voted, That Col. Emerson, Capt. Smith, and Mr. Robinson, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of the selectmen of Protectworth, and report
thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Smith.]
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow raorning.
THURSDAY, June 15, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col. Runnels, Mr. Chesley, and Mr. Jenks, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Charles Huntoon, Esq. and others, inhabitants
of Unity,' and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Stiles.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jonas Fairbank, and
others, Yoted, That the petitioners be heard thereon before the Gen
eral Court, on the third Thursday of their next session, and that in
the mean time the petitioners cause that the selectmen of Charles
town, Walpole and Alstead, be served with a copy of the petition and
order of Court thereon, that they may [then] appear and shew cause
(if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
[Sent up by M' Hubbard.]
^* xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 579.

632 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
The committee on the petition of Colonel Herculus Mooney, pray
ing for an allowance of [for] depreciation, reported. That the prayer
of said petition be granted. [Signed Otis Baker for the committee.]
Which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received
and accepted, and that the comraittee on depreciation govern thera
selves accordingly. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Joseph Parker and
Lucy Farwell, Yoted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the
petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by Mr. Holmes.]
* 13 : 135 * Upon reading and considering the petition of Lemuel
Sraith, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon be
fore the General Court, on the third Thursday of their next session,
and that in the mean time the petitioner cause that Michael Went
worth, Esq. and Martha, his wife, be served with a copy of the peti
tion and order of Court thereon, that he raay then appear and shew
cause (if any he hath [they have] ) why the prayer thereof may not
be granted, and that the execution against said Smith, be stayed
until the decision of the General Court. [Sent up by Maj' KimbaU.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of John Dinsmore, and
others, inhabitants of Washington, Voted, That the petitioners be
heard thereon before the General Court, on the third Wednesday of
their next session, and that in the mean tirae the petitioners cause
that the selectmen of Washington, be served with a copy of the peti
tion and order of Court thereon, that they may then appear and shew
cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
[Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
Voted, that Mr. Cragin, Captain Storrs, Major Hale, Mr. Emerson,
and Mr. Chase, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join,
be a committee to consider of the petition of the selectmen of Dor
chester,' and all similar matters, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Johnson.]
The committee on the petition of Mary Connor and Joseph Drew,
reported, That the prayer of said petition be granted, and that the
petitioner have leave to bring in a bill accordingly : Signed Otis
Baker, for the committee. Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Knowles.]
Voted, That Col. Badger, Col. Toppan, and Major Kimball, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of John Wheatly,^ and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Knowles.]
J. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 502-503 2. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 387.

1786] journal of THE HOUSE 'OF REPRESENTATIVES. 633
The committee on the petitions of sick and wounded officers and
soldiers, having considered of the petition of Uriah Stone, reported.
That he receive half pay per raonth, to coraraence frora the fourth
day of November, 1785 (which was the tirae his pay ceased at Rhode
Island) till further order of Court : Signed M. Thornton, forthe cora
mittee. Which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be
received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
* Yoted, That Col. Toppan, Col. Wiggin, and Major * 13 : 136
Cram, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider of, and devise ways and means for
furnishing a delegate with money to forward him to Congress, and re
port thereon. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Nathaniel Hall and
Ebenezer Brewster, praying that they may be authorized to collect
the excise in the county of Grafton in the room and stead of Eben
ezer Green, Esq. deceased who was purchaser of the excise. Voted,
That the prayer of said petition be granted, they giving security in
common form for paying the sura the excise was sold for ihto the
Treasury. [Sent up by Maj' Young.]
Voted, That the account of Captain Samuel Dalling, amounting to
seventeen pounds and four shillings, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the selectmen of
Unity,' Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon before the Gen
eral Court on the third Wednesday of their next session, and that in
the mean time the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition
and order of Court thereon be published three weeks successively in
one of the New-Hampshire news-papers, also cause that the selectmen
of Brentwood be served with a copy of the petition and order, that
they or any other person or persons raay then appear and shew cause
(if any they have) why the prayer thereof raay not be granted.
[Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Thomas Fuller, Voted,
That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the Treasurer issue a
new note equal in value to the one consuraed, and a certificate for
twenty three shihings and ten pence, to the said [Thoraas] Fuller.
[Sent up by M' Dow.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Eliphalet Hale,^ pray
ing for the privilege of a ferry. Voted, That the petitioner be heard
thereon before the General Court on the third Wednesday of their
next session and that in the raean time the petitioner
* cause that a copy of the petition and order of Court * 13 : 137
thereon, be posted [up] in some pubhck place in the town
41 I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 579. 2. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 346.

634 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
of Chesterfield three weeks successively before the day of hearing,
that any person or. persons may then appear and shew cause why
the prayer thereof may not be granted. [Sent up by Maj' Cram.]
Voted, That Col. Wiggin, Major Young and Mr. Dearborn, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of Reuben Middleton,' and report thereon.
[Sent up by Cap' Mann.]
Voted, That Mr. Preston, Mr. Betton, and Mr. Duncan, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to con
sider what shall be done with the copper plate notes, issued by this
state, that are now in the hands of individuals, also any paper bihs
that has been issued by this state, and that has not been called in,
and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Kendall.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Col. Azariah Webb,^
praying for the privilege of a ferry. Voted, That the petitioner be
heard thereon, before the General Court on the third Wednesday of
their next session, and that in the raean tirae the petitioner cause that
the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon, be published
three weeks successively in one of the New-Harapshire [news] papers,
also cause that a copy of the petition and order thereon be posted up
in some publick place in the town of Piermont, at least three weeks
successively before the day of hearing, that any person or persons
may appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted. [Sent up by M' Stiles.]
Voted, That Mr. Bedee, Mr. Kingsbury, Mr. Works, Mr. Robin
son and Mr. Holraes, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider of the petition and account of Na
thaniel Rogers, jun. and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Mr. Jackman, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Chesley, Mr. Works,
and Mr. Storrs, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider of the petition of the selectmen of
Chesterfield,^ and all sirailar matters, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
* 13 : 138 * Voted, That General Dow, Col. Toppan, and Mr. Bet
ton, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a coraraittee to consider of the petition of David Page,* Esq.
and examine whether there is any law of the state that will relieve
him, and if not, to report a bill for that purpose. [Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
On motion made for the repeal of an act, intitled, an act for the re
covery of smah debts in an expeditious way and manner, passed No-
I. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 206-207. 2. xiii. id. 194. 3. xi. id. 345. 4. xi. id. 422.

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635

vember 9th, 1785.
lows, viz.

The yeas and nays being called for, were as fol-

Yeas.
Hon. J. Langdon,
Mr. Pickering,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. Robinson, Nays.
Mr. Runnels,
Mr. M'Murphy,
Mr. UnderhiU.
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. Leavitt,
Mr. Toppan,
Mr. Brown,
Mr. Wiggin,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Merrill,
Mr. Gile,
Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Cram,
Mr. Daniels,
Mr. Emerson,
Mr. Hook,

Yeas.

Mr. Wheeler,
Mr. Ehot,
Mr. Foster,
Mr. S. Hale,
Nays.
Mr. Welch,
Mr. Dow,
Mr. Betton,
Mr. Gibson,
Mr. Waldron,
Mr. Knowles,
Mr. Badger,
Mr. Gilmore,
Mr. Works,
Mr. M. Smith,
Mr. Kingsbury,
Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Mack,
Mr. Holmes,
Mr. Copland,
Mr. Ames,

Yeas.
Mr. Bedee,
Mr. Chesley,
Mr. Lovell,
Mr. Emerson,
Nays.
Mr. Bracket,
Mr. Ambrose,
Mr. Dearborn,
Mr. Marsh,
Mr. Barron,
Mr. Dole,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Mann,
Mr. Preston,
Mr. Putnam,
Mr. Spaulding,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Cunningham,
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. Wallace.
Mr. Hadley,

Y^s.
Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. Chase,
Mr. Mooney,
Mr. Ashley.
Nays.
Mr. Greeley,
Mr. Clement,
Mr. Smith,
Mr. Jackman,
Mr. Stiles,
Mr. Rendall,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Tolford,
Mr. Skinner,
Mr. Kendall,
Mr. Johnson,
Mr. Young,
Mr. Kimball,
Mr. Storrs,
Mr. Peters,
Mr. Freeman.

16 Yeas — 64 Nays. So the motion was lost.

The coramittee on the petition of the selectmen of Protectworth,
reported. That the town of Protectworth be abated twelve pounds six
shillings on an extent against thera for a soldier : Signed John
M'Clary, for the coraraittee. Which report being read and consid
ered, Voted, That it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by M' Sraith.]
*The coramittee on [for] devising ways and means for * 13 : 139
furnishing a delegate with money, to forward him to Con
gress, reported. That the Delegate receive an order on the Treasurer
for the sum of ninety pounds forthwith, and that said Treasurer ap
propriate the first raoney he receives, to discharge the same, but not
to meddle with the hard money tax laid on for the current year:
Signed George Atkinson, for the committee. Which report being
read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by M' Smith.]
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed to pay to the Loan-Officer,
one million, three hundred eighty-seven thousand, five hundred and
fifty dollars, of the old continental paper currency now in the Treas
ury, which is the ballance due from this state to the United States,
taking his receipt therefor. [Sent up by M' Wallace.]

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Voted, That the account of Daniel Fowle, Esq. araounting to nine
ty-five pounds for printing, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury
by order of the President. [Sent up by Maj' Wahace.]
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of the Proprietors of
Cockermouth, which was to have been yesterday, be postponed to
the third Wednesday of the next session of the General Court, which
may be held at Concord, of which ah persons concerned, are to take
notice and govern theraselves accordingly. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Voted, That Col. Wiggin, Doctor Brackett and Mr. Dow, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee
to consider of the petition of the selectmen of Ahenstown, and re
port thereon. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
A vote came down frora the honourable Senate appointing Mr. At
kinson, Mr. Thornton and Mr. Wentworth, with such of the honour
able House as they shall join, a committee to take under considera
tion the letter dated the third of May last, and received from the
minister of foreign affairs, and report thereon, [carae down for con
currence ;] was read and concurred, and Mr. Langdon, Mr. Toppan,
Mr. Foster, Mr. Bedee and General Dow, joined. [Sent up by Maj' Crara.]
The committee on the petition of Martha Wait,' reported. That
she receive half pay, agreeable to a resolution of Congress,
* 1 3 : 140 passed * the 24th of August, 1 780, from the tirae of her late
husband's death until the tirae of her interraarriage [with
her second husband and that the Guardians for the children of said
Wait do receive half pay frora the time of said Martha's Intermarriage]
until the term of seven years is corapleated, the money that appears
due from the said Joseph Wait to this state, being first deducted :
Signed Araos Shepherd, for the committee. Which report being
read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, and
that the committee on depreciation govern themselves accordingly.
[Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
The committee to consider of the petition of John Penhallow, Esq.
and others, reported, That his Excellency [the President] be desired
to write to the President of the state of Pennsylvania, fully stating
the matter in dispute referred to in the petition : Signed Joseph Gil
man, for the coramittee. Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. [Sent up by Cap' Copeland.]
Voted, That the town of Alstead be notified that the seat of their
Representative has become vacant by the removal of their member
to the honourable Senate, and that the selectmen of said Alstead
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have liberty to call a meeting for the choice of a Representative,
they giving legal notice of the time, place and design of said
meeting. The comraittee on the petition of John Wheatly,' reported. That
the Secretary take order to record the copy of the charter of Leba
non, herewith sent in" lieu of the original, which we have compared
with said copy, and finding the original not raaterially rautilated, have
no doubt the copy is right: Signed George Atkinson, for the com
mittee. Which report being read and considered, Voted, That it be
received and accepted. [Sent up by Cap' Underbill]
Voted, That Archibald M'Murphy, Esq. honourable John M'Duf
fee, Esq. Daniel Eraerson, Esq. Captain Jeremiah Stiles, and the
honourable Charles Johnston, Esq. be and they hereby are appointed
a comraittee on the part of this state, to enquire and examine whether
any of the unimproved lands in this state are the property
of this * state, and report their opinion thereon to the Gen- * 13 : 141
eral Court at their next session. [Sent up by Cap' Underhih.'
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Mr. Bedee, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Hubbarc
and Capt. Peters, with such of the honourable Senate as they shal
join, be a comraittee to prepare instructions for the direction of
the committee chosen to examine whether any of the unimproved
lands in this state are the property of the state and lay the same
before this House. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow morning.
FRIDAY, June 16, 1786.
The House met according to adjournraent.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Stephen Barker,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on the third Friday of their next session, and that in the mean
time the petitioner cause that the substance of the petition and order
of Court thereon, be published three weeks successively in one of the
New-Hampshire newspapers, that any person or persons raay then
appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted. [Sent up by M' Emerson.]
The coramittee on the petition of the selectraen of Dorchester,^
reported, as their opinion that said town of Dorchester, ought to be
abated one half of their taxes for the years 1777, 1778, and 1779,
which abatement in the whole amounts to thirty seven pounds, four
shhlings and six pence : Signed John M'Duffee, for the committee.
1. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 387. 2. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 502, 503.

638 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Which report being read and considered, Yoted, That it be received
and accepted. [Sent up by Cap' Peters.]
The coraraittee on the petition of the selectmen of Portsmouth,
reported, That the petitioners have a day of hearing at the next ses
sion of the General Court, and in the mean time, all process relative
to said road be stayed, and that the adverse party be served with a
copy of the petition and order of Court thereon : Signed John
-M'Clary, for the committee. Which report being read and consid
ered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the third Fri
day of the next session, be the day for hearing said petitioners.
[Sent up by Cap' Underbill.]
Yoted, That Col. Mooney, Major Young, and Mr. Page, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Elisha Brown, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Cap' Underhih.]
* 13 : 142 *The following vote carae down from the honourable
Senate for concurrence :
In Senate, June i6th, 1786.
Voted, That Mr. Atkinson, and Mr. Payne, with such as the hon
ourable House shall join, be a comraittee to consider of, and report
to the Court, what mode will be proper to pursue in the future ap
pointment of special justices in the several counties inthis state:
Was read and concurred, and Mr. Pickering, Mr. Sparhawk, and Col.
Waldron, joined. [Sent up by M' Cunningham.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of John Dustin, a pris
oner in Portsmouth gaol. Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon
before the General Court on Tuesday next, and that in the mean
time the petitioner cause that John Prentice, Esq. Attorney to the
creditor, be served with a copy of the petition and order of Court
thereon, that he may then appear and shew cause why the said Dus
tin may not be liberated from his confinement. [Sent up by M' Dole.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the selectmen of
Croyden, Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon before the
General Court on the third Friday of their next session, and that in
the mean time, the petitioners cause that the selectraen of Acworth,
be served with a copy of the petition, and order of Court thereon,,
that they raay then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why
the prayer thereof may not be granted. [Sent up by M' Freeman.}
Voted, That Mr. Chesley, Mr. Robinson, Major Wallace, Captain
Sthes, and Captain Storrs, with such of the honourable Senate as

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they shall join, be a committee to take under consideration an act for
the recovery of small debts in an expeditious way and manner, passed
November 9th, 1785, and report such alterations as they raay judge
necessary. The coramittee to consider whether interest shall be allowed on
Pierce's certificates, &c. and whether the Treasurer shall receive any,
on which the interest has been paid, reported. That the Treasurer be
directed not to receive any final settleraent securities, on which inter
est is endorsed : Signed Joshua Wentworth, for the com
mittee. Which report being read and * considered. Voted, * 13 : 143
That it be received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Lovell.]
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Gen
eral Court convened, That the honourable Joseph Gilman and Josiah
Gilman, Esquires, and Samuel Tinney, surgeon, be and hereby are
appointed to examine all claimants as invalids, and to report whether
the person producing a certificate, [setting forth] that he is an inva
lid, be such in fact, and if such, to what pay he is intitled, and there
upon shall give to the invalid a certificate, specifying to what pay he
is intitled, and transrait a copy to the person who is appointed by this
state, to reoeive and record the same according to a resolution of
Congress, of the seventh of June, 1785.
And it is hereby further resolved, by the authority aforesaid, That
Jdfeeph Pearson, Esq. be and hereby is appointed to make a corapleat
list of all the officers, soldiers, or seamen, resident in this state, who
have served in the army or navy of the United States, or in the mili
tia in the service of the United States, and have been disabled in such
service so as to be incapable of railitary [railitia] duty, or of obtaining
a livelihood by labour ; in which list shall be expressed the pay, age,
and disabhity of each invalid, also the regiment, corps, or ships to
which he belonged, and a copy of the same shall be transmitted to
th.e office of the Secretary at War, within one year after the pass
ing this resolve, and a like descriptive list of the invalids resident
in this state, shall from year to year be annually transmitted by
him to the office of the Secretary of War, agreeably to the afore
mentioned resolution of Congress. [Sent up by Maj' Kiraball]
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Major Freeman, and Mr. Mann, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee
to consider of a receipt, signed by Jonathan Chhd, assistant cora
mlssary of purchases, which he gave to the town of Lyme, in
November, 1780, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Cram.]
Voted, That Col. Welch, Mr. Hook, and Mr. Ghe, with such of
the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to con
sider of the petition and abstract of Captain Ezra Town, and re
port thereon. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]

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* 13: 144 * Voted, That Mr. Betton, Mr. Wheeler, and Captain
Smith, with such of the honourable Senate as they shah
join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Elizabeth Wal
lingford, and report thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Barron.]
The committee on the petition of David Page,' Esq. reported.
That they have examined the laws in force, authorizing and reg
ulating proprietors meetings, and are of opinion, that the peti
tioner is fully irapowered by them to proceed in the collection of
the proprietors taxes in Conway, formerly comraitted to his care:
Signed George Atkinson, for the committee. Which report being
read and considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by M' Knowles.]
The committee on the petition of ReulDcn Middleton,^ reported.
That the said Reuben Middleton have forty eight pounds, and in
terest on said sura, frora the first day of May, 1778, in full for
wages, and being in captivity : Signed John M'Duffee, for the com
mittee. Which report being read and considered. Voted, That it
be received and accepted. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
Voted, That Mr. Kendall, Mr. Jackman, and Mr. Dole, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of Mary Robinson, and Asa Robinson,
and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Kendall]
Voted, That the account of losses sustained at the Cedars, and
all sirailar raatters that raay be presented this session, be referred
to the comraittee on Nathaniel Rogers's petition. [Sent up by M' Stiles.]
Voted, That Mr. Hubbard, Col Badger, and Mr. Gilraan, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to
consider of the petition of Jonathan Chase, and all similar raatters,
and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Sthes.]
Voted, That Doctor Preston, Mr. Robinson, General Dow, and
Mr. Copland, be added to the coraraittee on the petition of Adam
Babcock. [Sent up by Cap' Mann.]
*i3: 145 *The committee on copper-plate money. Sec. reported,
That the Treasurer be directed to receive [the] said cop
per-plate bills, in payraent of ah taxes payable in certificates ; as
to the other paper bills eraitted by this state, and now outstand
ing, your committee are not agreed : Signed Joseph Gilman, for
the committee. Which report being read and considered, Voted,
That it be received and accepted, and that the said copper-plate
bihs be received without any interest being allowed thereon.
[Sent up by M' Greeley.]
i. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 422. a. Idem, 206, 207.

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The committee on the petition of Samuel Chase,' Esq. reported,
That they recoraraend a day of hearing to be granted sorae time
in the next session of the General Court, and that in the mean
time the petitioner cause [that] the substance of the petition [to] be
published in one of the New-Harapshire news papers : Signed Jo
seph Gilman, for the committee. Which report being read and
considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the
third Thursday of the next session, be the day for the hearing on
said petition. [Sent up by M' Cleraent]
Voted, That General Dow, Captain Barron, Col. Leavitt, Col.
Waldron and Mr. Gibson, with such of the honourable Senate as
they shall join, be a coinmittee to consider of the petition of John
Grandy ; also consider whether any alterations are necessary to be
made in the act to prevent the bodies of debtors frora being taken
on execution, &c. and report such as they may judge necessary.
[Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Yoted, That Col. Toppan, Col. Badger, Col. Lovell, Captain
Ashley and General Dow, with such of the honourable Senate as
they shall join, be a committee to consider what alterations are
necessary in the establishment of post-riders, and how the post-
riders -are to be supported, and report thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Barron.]
The committee on the petition of the selectmen of AUenstown,
reported, That the town of AUenstown be abated and allowed out
of the extent against them for deficiency of a continental soldier,
the sum of forty-two pounds : Signed Elisha Payne, for the cora
mittee. Which report being read and considered. Voted, That it
be received and accepted. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
*The coraraittee on the petition of the selectmen of * 13 : 146
Unity reported. That the said town of Unity be abated
the seventh part of their taxes from the year 1780 to the last
proportion : Signed Amos Shephard, for the committee. Which
report being read and considered, Yoted, That it be received and
accepted. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Voted, That Mr. Chase, Mr. Jenness, and Col. Leavitt. with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Nathan Casweh^ in behalf of the inhabitants
of Littleton, and report thereon. [Sent up by Maj' Young.]
Voted, That Mr. Pickering, Col. Waldron, Captain Marsh, Mr.
Sthes and Mr. Johnson, with such of the honourable Senate as
1. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 452. 2. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 578, 579.
3. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 425.

642 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. ' [1786
they shall join, be a comraittee to consider what publick business
is yet necessary to be done at this session, and at what time, and
to what time and place this Court shall be adjourned ; also to
consider what ahowance shall be made the members of the hon
ourable Senate and House of Representatives, and their officers,
for their travel and attendance at the present session, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Voted, That Mr. Barnard, Mr. Gibson and Captain Sraith, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee
to consider of the petition and account of Ephraim Baldwin,' and
report thereon. [Sent up by M' Merrill]
Voted, That Mr. M'Murphy, Mr. Cram, Mr. Greeley, Mr. Storrs,
and Major Wallace, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Jonathan
Chase, Esq. and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Merrill]
The comraittee on the petition of Elisha Brown, reported. That
the prayer of said petition be granted : Signed Otis Baker, for the
coraraittee. Which report being read and considered, Yoted, That
it be received and accepted, and that he have leave to bring in a
bill accordingly. [Sent up by Maj' Cram.]
* 13 : 147 * Upon reading and considering the petition of Elisha
Payne and Jesse Johnson,^ Esquires, Yoted, That the
prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioners have leave to
bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by M' Clement.]
Yoted, That Major Hale, Major Wallace, Col. Welch, Major
Kimball and Mr. Emerson, with such of the honourable Senate as
they shall join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Ezra
Child, and all similar matters, and report thereon. [Sent up by Maj' Young.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Joanna Chapraan,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Voted, That General Dow, Col. Toppan, Col. Putnara, Col. Welch,
and Mr. Robinson, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a coraraittee to revise the railitia laws of this state, and re
port thereon. [Sent up by M' P'reeman.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Amariah Curtiss,
and others, from Swanzey, Voted, That the petitioners be heard
thereon before the General Court on the third Thursday of their
next session, and that in the mean time, the petitioner cause that
the selectmen of Swanzey be served with a copy of the petition
and order of Court thereon, that they raay then appear and shew
i. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 347. 2. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 3S8.

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cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
[Sent up by M' Page.]
The committee on the petition of sick and wounded officers and
soldiers, having considered the petition of Thomas Clark to them
referred; Reported, That the said Thomas Clark be ahowed de
preciation from the tirae he inlisted to April, 1778: Signed M.
Thornton, for the coramittee. Which report being read and con
sidered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the com
mittee on depreciation govern theraselves accordingly. [Sent up by M' Mann]
Adjourned to 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.
SATURDAY, June 17, 17S6.
The House met according to adjournraent.
An act to impower Sarah Catharine Moffatt, widow, to make
partition of lands in Tuftonborough, belonging to her
minor children, *and to sell certain land for their sup- * 13 : 148
port and education, was read a third time, and passed
to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Chesley and M' Jenness.]
An act to vest the United States in Congress assembled with
full powers to regulate coramerce, was read a third time, and passed
to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Chesley and M' Jenness.]
An act to irapower Joseph Parker, of New Ipswich, to sell cer
tain lands and buildings in New-Ipswich, was read a third tirae
and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Chesley and M' Jenness.]
The coramittee for revising the table of fees, reported certain
alterations and araendraents ; which were read and considered, re
ceived and accepted : Whereupon, 'Hoted, That the committee for
draughting publick bills, prepare and lay before this House, a bhl
for carrying the same into effect. [Sent up by M' Young.]
The committee on the account of Benjamin Biggelow, reported.
That he be allowed twelve pounds in full of his account : Signed
Otis Baker, for the comraittee. Which report being read and con
sidered, Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the
President give order for the payment of said sum.
[Sent up by M' Foster.]
Voted, That the account of Robert Gerrish, amounting to sixty
nine pounds, three shillings and four pence (for printing) be allowed
and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President.
[Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Samuel Adams, of
Jaffrey, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the

644 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. {_^7^^
General Court on the third Thursday of their next session, and
that in the raean tirae the petitioner cause that the adverse party
be served with a copy of the petition and order of court thereon,
that he raay then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why
the prayer thereof may not be granted, and that the execution
against the said Adams be stayed until the decision of the Gen
eral Court. [Sent up by M' Clement.]
* 13 : 149 *The committee to consider what alterations are ne
cessary in the establishment of post-riders, reported. That
one post leave Portsraouth on Monday and proceed through Exeter
Nottinghara, Concord and Plyraouth to Haverhih, thence down the
river road to Charlestown, thence through Keene, Araherst, Mer
riraac, Londonderry, Chester and Exeter to Portsraouth, which
tour is to be perforraed once every fortnight.
That another post set off every other Monday frora Portsmouth
and from thence proceed through Newmarket, Durhara, Dover, Roch
ester, Wakefield, Ossippee Gore and Tamworth to Moultonborough ;
thence through Merrideth, Gilmantown, Barnstead, Barrington and
Dover to Portsmouth ; That the Resolve now in force respecting the
post-riders be repealed, and that the further provisions for the sup
port of the post-riders be postponed to ne.xt session : .Signed George
Atkinson, for the coraraittee. Which report being read and consid
ered. Voted, That it be received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Cunningham.]
The committee on the petition of Isaac Williams reported, That he
be allowed twenty-three pounds, two shillings and eight pence, in full
of his account as Issuing-coraraissary, and that the President give or
der accordingly : Signed John McClary, for the coraraittee. Which
report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and ac
cepted. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Voted, That Captain Peters, Mr. Mann, Col. Waldron, Mr. Robin
son, and Col. Badger, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a coraraittee to consider of the petition and account of
Joshua Young, issuing-commissary, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Merrill]
Whereas the proprietors of Lebanon, and the proprietors of En
field, have petitioned the General Court, setting forth that divers dis
putes and suits [controversies] have arisen, or are likely to arise be
tween said proprietors for want of a due estabhshment of the hues
and boundaries betwixt said townships, and praying that certain per
sons, to be by them agreed upon and norainated, may be
* 13 : 150 authorized and impowered to run out said * lines, and to
make and establish said boundaries : Therefore, be it

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Resolved, and it is hereby resolved. That the honourable Charles
Johnston, and Jeremiah Page, Esquires, and Moses Chase, Esquire, be
and they are hereby appointed a coramittee to run out all such lines
as may be necessary to be run out in order to settle and establish the
lines and boundaries betwixt said townships, agreeable to their re
spective charters, and fix the same by certain monuments.
And it is further Resolved, That if any person has settled on land
under the grant of either of [the afore] said townships, [which] shall
fall within the other township, such person shall be quieted in his said
lands and possessions by such town within which he so falls ; and the
proprietors under whom such person settled shall make restitution to
the proprietors of the other town for such lands according to the value
th-ereof at the tirae of beginning such settlement, in such a way and
manner as said committee shall order and direct. And said com
mittee shall make report of all their doings, touching the preraises to
the General Court as soon as raay be, and the same being allowed [of]
by said Court, shall be a final settlement of said lines and boundaries,
and a bar to all controversies concerning the sarae which have arisen
or hereafter may arise. [Sent up by M' Cram.]
Adjourned to Monday next at 3 o'clock P. M.
MONDAY, June 19, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act in addition to and amendment of an act, for the more expe
ditious method of making partition of land and other real estate, held
in common, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Crara & M' Dearborn.]
Voted, That Mr. Benjamin Biggelow, have and receive out of the
Treasury, by order of the President, the sum of thirty pounds, to be
by him accounted for as agent-victualler for the troops at New-
Castle. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
*Voted, That Major Hale, Mr. Hubbard, and Mr. Ches- * 13 : 151
ley, with such of the honourable Board [-Senate] as they
shah join, be a committee to consider of the petirion of Phebe Col
bourn, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of John Clark,' praying
to be restored to his law in a certain action, Voted, That the petition,
er be |ieard thereon before the General Court, on the third Thursday
of the [their] next session, and that in the mean time the petitioner
cause that John Thompson, mentioned in said petition, be served with a
copy of the petition and order of Court thereon, that he may then ap-
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pear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof raay not
be granted, and that the execution against the said Clark, be stayed
until the decision of the General Court. [Sent up by M' Clement.]
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Mr. Badger, and Mr. Gibson, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a committee to con
sider of the memorial of Nahum Baldwin, Esquire, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Clement.]
Yoted, That Captain Storrs, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. Dearborn, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a committee to
consider of the laws respecting the sale of the estate of persons de
ceased, for the payment of debts, and report such alterations as they
may judge necessary. [Sent up by M' Storrs.]
Voted, That Mr. Betton, be added to the committee for draughting
bihs. [Sent up by M' Kendah.]
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow morning.
TUESDAY, June 20, 1786.
The House met according to adjournraent.
The following vote carae down from the honourable Senate for
concurrence : In Senate, June 19th, 1786.
Whereas it appears that raising independent companies of Light
Horse, greatly interferes with and obstructs the compleating the reg
iments of Light Horse in this state : Therefore,
Voted, That his Excellency the President, with advise of Council
be requested to recall all commissions already issued for rais
ing such independent companies, and that his Excellency
* 13 : 1 52 * the President be desired to prevent any coraraissions for
that purpose being issued until further order of the Gen
eral Court. [Was] read and concurred. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Mr. Bedee, Col. Loveh, Mr. Chase, and
Captain Peters, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join,
be a committee to take under consideration sundry bills, which passed
the House the last session, and were not concurred, and report such
of them to the House as they may judge necessary to be passed this
session. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
An act to impower Mary Connor, to seh a lot of land therein des
cribed, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Dearborn & M' Stiles.]
The report respecting post-riders, came down from the honourable
Senate for the following araendraent, viz, "That the rout of the west-

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 647
ern post be reversed every fortnight." Which amendment was read
and considered, received and accepted. [Sent up by Col" Wiggin.]
Voted, That Major Hale, Col. Wiggin, and Major Young, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to con
sider of the petition of Jonathan Clark,' and report thereon.
[Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Doctor Jonathan
Gove, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General
Court on this day. [Sent up by Maj' Young.]
Voted, That Mr. Gilmore, Mr. Araes, and Mr. Cunninghara, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to
consider of the petition of Jedediah Sanger,^ and others, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Gilraore.]
Voted, That his Excellency the President, with advice of Council
be desired to eraploy such person or persons as they raay judge prop
er to be eraployed as post-riders, agreeably to a vote of the General
Court, passed this session. [Sent up by M' Duncan.]
* 13: 153 * Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Toppan, and Mr.
Preston, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to wait upon the Reverend Doctor Haven, and
present him with the thanks of the General Court, for his perforra
ance at Concord. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
The following resolve came down frora the honourable Senate for

concurrence :

State of
New Hamp'

I In Senate, June 13th, 1786.

Resolved, That the Brigades of raihtia coraraanded by the follow
ing Brigadiers, viz. Cilley, Moulton, and Reed, constitute one divis
ion, and be commanded by a Major-General, to be appointed agree
ably to the constitution, for that purpose : And that the Brigades now
coraraanded by the fohowing Brigadiers, viz. Behows, Dow, and Blan
chard, constitute another division, and be commanded by a Major-
General to be appointed as aforesaid. [Which resolve] was this day
read and concurred. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Yoted, That the hearing on the petition of the selectmen of Hhls-
borough, which was to have been to-morrow, be postponed to the sec
ond Tuesday of their next session, agreeably to the request of both
parties. [Sent up by M' Cram.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
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648 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [178
Met accordingly.
Whereas it appears to this House, that there was eight soldiers,
[men] raised by several towns the latter end of the year 1782, and
passed muster by Major Caleb Robinson, at Exeter, by perraission of
the committee of safety, and were delivered to the continental officer
as all other soldiers were, in January, 17S3, and no bounty of twenty
pounds has yet been allowed to said towns :
Therefore Resolved. That the town of Chester be allowed for two
men, viz. Thomas Downing, and Charles Breed ; and the town of Pel
ham be allowed for two men, viz. Nathaniel Martin, and Samuel
Brown ; and the town of North Hampton be allowed for Tristram S.
Connor ; and the town of Portsmouth for John Moore ; and the town
of Harapton for Levi Francis ; and the town of Seabrook
* 13 : 154 *be allowed for Winthrop Willie ; twenty pounds each,
for [as] a bounty for procuring said raen as fully as if they
had been mustered in December, 1782 ; any former resolve to the
contrary notwithstanding. [Sent up by Col° Toppan.]
Yoted, That the town of Harapton be allowed the sum of forty-
seven pounds, one shilling and six pence, for interest due on the ex
tent against said town for deficiency of soldiers, and that the Treas
urer govern himself accordingly. [Sent up by Col° Toppan.]
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of John Dustin, which was
to have been this day, be postponed to Friday next, and that in the
mean tirae, the petitioner cause that John Prentice, Esq. of London
derry, be notified thereof, that he raay then appear and shew cause
(if any he hath) why the prayer of said Dustin's petition should not be
granted. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
An act to impower Nathaniel Hall, and Ebenezer Brewster, admin
istrators to the estate of Ebenezer Green, late of Lyme, in the County
of Grafton, Esquire, deceased, to cohect the excise in the county of
Grafton for the year 1786 ; [was read a third time,] and passed to be
enacted. [Sent up by M' Duncan & M' Dearborn.]
Upon hearing and considering the petition of John Roach, and
Elizabeth Roach, Voted, That the prayer thereof be so far granted as
that the default be taken off, and the said John Roach, be authorized
to appear and defend to final judgment and execution in behalf of the
said Robert Rogers, and that the petitioner have leave to bring in a
bih accordingly. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Upon reading [hearing] and considering the petition of Jonathan
Elkins, Voted, That the judgment and all subsequent proceedings be
nuhified ; that the petitioner be restored to his law, and that he have
leave to bring in a bhl accordingly. [Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.]

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* Voted, That the town of Durham be notified that the * 13 : 155
seat of their Representative has become vacant by the re
moval of their member to the Suprerae Executive seat of Governraent,
and that the selectraen of said Durham have liberty to call a meeting
for the choice of a Representative, they giving legal notice of the
time, place and design of said meeting.
Voted, That Mr. Betton, and Col. Runnels, with such of the hon
ourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to consider of the
petition of Isaac Tucker,' and report thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Peters.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jonathan Parker, jun'r.
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court
on the second Tuesday of their next session, and that in the mean
time the petitioner cause that Jonathan Blanchard, Esquire, of Dun
stable, be served with a copy of the petition and order of Court there
on, that he may [then] appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why
the prayer thereof may not be granted. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
The comraittee on the petition of Jonathan Clark, reported. That
the petitioner have a day of hearing on his petition : Whereupon,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court
on the second Tuesday of their next session, and that in the mean
time the petitioner cause that the selectmen of Nottingham be served
with a copy of the petition and order of Court thereon, that they raay
then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof
may not be granted. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, June 21, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Major Hale, Captain Dole, Mr. Ren-
dah, Mr. Tolford, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider in what raanner the extents for the
deficiencies of the rum tax granted in the year 1 781, shall be cohected,
and what shall be received for pay, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Duncan.]
[ Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Col. Waldron, Mr. Prentice, Mr. Kings
bury, and General Dow, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to consider of the petition of the inhabi
tants of Piermont, and all sirailar raatters, and report thereon.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Josiah Gage, Esquire,
and others, inhabitants of Pelhara," Yoted, That the petitioner be
heard thereon before the General Court on the second Tuesday of
42 1. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 321. 2. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 151.

650 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^786
their next session, and that in the mean tirae the petitioners cause,
that the selectmen of the town of Pelham, be served with
* 13 : 156 a copy of the petition *and order of Court thereon, that
they may then appear and shew cause (if any they have)
why the prayer thereof raay not be granted. [Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.]
Agreeable to the order of the day, proceeded to hear several parties
on their petitions. Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
The coraraittee on the meraorial of Nahum Baldwin, Esquire, re
ported, That the meraorialist have liberty to pay and discharge the
execution against him for the bahance of the account already settled,
with interest from the [tirae of] settleraent with the Court of Pro
bate in state notes (or securities): Signed Elisha Payne, for the
coraraittee. Which report being read and considered. Voted, That
it be received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
An act to encourage the raanufacturing of Linseed Oil within this
state, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Jenness & M' Jackman.]
[Agreeably to the order of the day, heard several petitioners.]
Upon reading [hearing] and considering the petition of David
Courser, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he
have leave to bring in a bhl accordingly. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Isaac Butterfield,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have liberty
to bring in a bill accordingly, at this, or the next session.
[Sent up by Maj' Young.]
An act to impower Samuel Pihsbury to complete a return on an ex
ecution levied on certain lands in Londonderry, was read a third time,
and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Betton & Col° Runnels.]
Yoted, That Daniel Eraerson, Robert Wallace and James Gibson,
Esquires, be [and they hereby are appointed] a committee to proceed
to Goffstown, at the expense of Mr. Thomas Stevens, and view the
land and buildings now in the hands of Moses Little Esquire, of said
Goffstown, which the said Stevens prayed to be put into possession
of, and report their opinion respecting the sarae at the next session
of the General Court. [Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
* 13 : 157 * Voted, That the honourable Ebenezer Webster, Rob
ert Wahace and John Duncan, Esquires, be and they here
by are appointed a comraittee to proceed to Weare, at the expense of
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and view the situation of said town, and [of] the [said] petitioners,
and report their opinion respecting a division of said town, at the
next session of the General Court. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
An act to authorise Richard Sraith, of Seabrook, to collect certain
taxes therein raentioned, was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. [Sent up by Cap' Storrs & M' Betton.]
Yoted, That the hearing on the petition of Jacob Doyne, which was
to have been this day, be postponed till to-raorrow, of which all per
sons concerned are to take notice, and govern theraselves accord
ingly. [Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
Yoted, That the hearings on the petitions of Elisha Payne,' Es
quire, David Clough, and George Clark, which were to have been this
day, be postponed to the third Wednesday of the next session of the
General Court, of which all persons concerned are to take notice and
govern theraselves accordingly. [Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to morrow morning.
THURSDAY, June 22, 1786.
The House met according to adjournraent.
The committee on the petitions of sick and wounded officers and
soldiers, &c. having considered the petition of Noah Sinclear, to them
referred, reported. That he be entitled to receive fifteen shillings per
month to begin at the tirae his whole pay ceased, and that he be en
rolled accordingly, which pay is to be continued, thi further order of
Court : Signed M. Thornton, for the comraittee. Which report be
ing read and considered, Yoted, That it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by M' Foster.]
An act to restore Jonathan Elkins to his law, was read a third time
and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by Maj' Young & Cap' Spaulding.]
' An act to alter the day of holding the annual raeeting in the town
of Bedford, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by Maj' Young & Cap' Spaulding.]
* An act to prevent the destruction of Salraon in Am- * 13: 158
manusuck river, was read a third tirae and passed to be
enacted. [Sent up by Maj' Young & Cap' Spaulding.]
The coramittee on the petitions of sick and wounded officers and
soldiers having considered the petition of Neheraiah Pierce, to them
referred, reported. That the said Pierce is intitled to half-pay, from
the time his half-pay ceased, and that it be continued unth further or
der of Court : Signed M. Thornton, for the committee. Which
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652 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and ac
cepted. [Sent up by M' Foster.]
Voted, That the members of the honourable Senate and House of
Representatives and their officers, have the same allowance for travel
and attendance at this session as was allowed for travel and attend
ance the last year, and that the Secretary and Clerk make up the [re.
spective] rolls accordingly. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Voted, That when the business of this session is finished [ended],
that his Excellency the President, with advice of council be desired
to adjourn the General Court to the first Wednesday in January next,
then to meet at Exeter. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
The comraittee to take under consideration an act for the recovery
of sraall debts in an expeditious way and raanner, reported, That for
all actions brought before a Justice of the Peace, for more than forty
shillings, the said Justice at the request of either party, shall call for
a Jury, and that an appeal at the request of either party shall be
granted to the Inferior or Superior Court, at the option of the party :
Signed M. Thornton, for the committee. Which report being read
and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, with this.
amendment, that an appeal at the request pf either party be granted
to the Superior Court and that a bhl be brought in for that purpose.
[Sent up by M' Ashley.]
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Col. Waldron, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Holmes
and Mr. Skinner, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a comraittee to consider of a letter from the Treasurer, dated
June 21, 1786, and report thereon : [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
* 13: 159 * Upon hearing and considering the petition of Allen
Willard,' praying for the privilege of a ferry. Voted, That
the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner have leave to-
bring in a bhl accordingly, at this or the next session.
[Sent up by M' Ashley.]
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Laban Gates, Votedy
That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioner have leave
to bring in a bih accordingly. [Sent up by M' Ashley.]
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Col. Welch and General Dow, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a committee to consid
er of the petition of General John Stark, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Col" Runnels.]
Whereas James Macgregore, of Londonderry, hath petitioned the
General Court, setting forth, that he comraenced an action or plea of
debt, against Joshua Furber, of Northwood, before a justice of the
peace, for sundry breaches of law, and hereby deraanding of the said
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Furber, ten pounds damages, as accruing on said breaches of law :
at the hearing of which action, the said Furber plead that a justice of
the peace had no right to take cognizance of any cause where the
damages alleged araount to raore than forty shillings ; notwithstand
ing which, said justice overruled said plea, and gave judgment in the
said MacGregore's favor, for ten pounds damage and cost of suit :
from which judgment the said Furber appealed to the Inferior Court
of Comraon Pleas, holden at Portsmouth, in and for the county of
Rockingham, on the last Tuesday of May last ; which said Inferior
Court adjudged that the said Furber's plea was good, and that a jus
tice of the peace ought not to take cognizance of any action, wherein
the damage alleged, [or the sums deraanded] exceeds the sum of forty
shillings : — Whereupon judgment was entered up against him the said
MacGregore, for the said Furber's cost ; notwithstanding a late act
of this state, passed the ninth day of November last, intitled, "An
act for the recovery of sraall debts in an expeditious way and manner ;"
whereby the said Macgregore conceived hiraself to be greatly injured,
and prayed for direction and redress in the premises.
Therefore, Resolved, That said act is a constitutional law of this
state, and ought to be observed as such.
And be it iurther Resolved, That the judgment of * the * 13 : 160
Inferior Court aforesaid be and hereby is rendered null
and void, and that the said Macgregore shall have liberty, and he is
hereby impowered to enter his said action at the Superior Court of
Judicature, to be holden at Exeter, in and for said county of Rock
ingham, on the third Tuesday of Septeraber next, and that said Mac
gregore be impowered to prosecute, and the Justices of said Superior
Court to sustain, hear ^nd determine said action, in the same man
ner as though the sarae action had been appealed frora said Inferior
Court of Common Pleas, to said Superior Court of Judicature in us
ual form, any law, usage or custom, and the judgment aforesaid not-
-with Stan ding. [Sent up by M' M<=Murphy.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock. P. M.
Met accordingly.
An act to impower constables to serve all writs, precepts and exe
cutions, was read a third time, and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Duncan & M' Cram.'
An act for the support of invalids, was read a third time andpassec
to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Jenness & Cap' Spaulding.^
Whereas there is in the Treasury of this state, several mhlions of
dollars of the old continental currency [emission], more than this
state's proportion, and large sums of the like money are said to have
been a long time lying in the hands of many of the citizens of this

654 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
state, all of which ought to be passed to the credit of this state in the
Continental Treasury account.
Therefore, Resolved, That the Treasurer of this state be directed
to receive from any person or persons residing within this state, any
and all such Continental bills as may be brought into the Treasury
before the first day of February next, provided such person or per
sons shall make oath before the Treasurer that such bills were actual
ly in the possession of, and owned by some citizen of this state on the
22nd day of June, 1786, or provided that the possessors of such bills
shall go before some Justice of the Peace, and raake oath that he or
she was on the day above mentioned possessed of bills to such an
amount, and the Justice shall give a certificate of the [sums] sarae,
which shall be produced to the Treasurer when such bills
* 13 : 161 are * offered : in every such case the Treasurer shall give
receipt for the sarae, and the holder or possessor shall be
entitled to receive out of the Treasury the sum due to him, to be com
puted by such scale or rate as Congress raay hereafter order, as soon
as Congress shall have credited this state for the whole araount of
such bills according to such scale or rate, to be by thera fixed.
[Sent up by Maj' Young.]
Voted, That Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Dearborn, and Mr. Daniels, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of James Rundlett, also the petition of Enoch
Barker and Jaraes Rundlett, and report thereon. [Sent up by Maj' Young.J
The committee on the petition of Ezra Chhd, agent for Bath, re
ported. That the town of Bath be credited and allowed the sum of
seventy-two pounds, for one Samuel Parker, matross in the third artil
lery regiment, not allowed to any town in this state, and that they be
allowed and abated out of their outstanding taxes the sura of forty
pounds in full of their accounts for services in scouting, building of
forts, and for alarras in the late war ; that all taxes up to the valua
tion taken in 1783, be laid on the lands in said town, exclusive of the
pohs, and other rateable estate, in the way and raanner provided by a
resolution of the General Court, in March last, and that the petitioner
be heard before the General Court some day in the next session respect
ing the taxing the lands of non-residents for making and repairing
high ways : Signed Ehsha Payne, for the committee. Which report
being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted,.
and that the petitioners be heard thereon before the General Court
on the third Wednesday of the next session, and that in the mean
time the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition respect
ing said tax, and order of Court thereon, be published three weeks

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successively in one of the New-Harapshire news papers, that any per
son or persons may then appear, and shew cause (if any they have)
why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
[Sent up by M' Greeley.]
* Upon reading and considering the petition of the se- * 13 : 162
lectmen of Warner, Voted, That the prayer thereof be
granted, and that his Excellency the President, be desired to receive
and destroy said order of eighty pounds, and give a new order for
sixty pounds to [the] said selectmen. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Upon reading and considering the petitions from Sutton and New-
London, Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon before the Gen
eral Court on the third Wednesday of their next session, and that in the
mean time, the petitioners cause that a copy of the said [the] petitions
and order of Court thereon, be posted up in some publick place in the
town of Sutton, also in the town of New-London, at least three weeks
successively before said day of hearing, that any person or persons may
then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer [there
of] of said petitions may not be granted. [Sent up by M' Knowles.]
The committee on the petition of Elizabeth Wahingsford, reported.
That a day of hearing be granted on the petition, and that in the mean
time, the further proceeding on the judgraent be stopped : Signed
George Atkinson, for the coramittee. Which report being read and
considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the pe
titioner be heard thereon before the General Court, on the third
Thursday of their next session, and that in the raean tirae, the peti
tioner cause that the adverse party be served with a copy of the pe
tition and order of Court thereon, that they may then appear and
shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
The committee on the petition of the selectmen of Chesterfield,'
&c. reported. That the town of Chesterfield be ahowed out of the
fines against said town for deficiencies of men, the sum of seventy-
two pounds, for Silas Ray, a continental soldier, not returned for any
town in this state : Signed John M'Duffee, for the committee. Which
report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and ac
cepted, and that the Treasurer credit said town accordingly.
[Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
The vote on the petition of Doctor Jonathan Gove, appointing
yesterday for a hearing on his petition, came down for the fohowing
amendment, viz. that the hearing be on the third Wednesday of the
next session of the General Court, and that in the raean time the pe
titioner cause the substance of the petition and order of
Court thereon, to be published three weeks * successively * 13 : 163
I. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 345.

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[1786

in one of the New-Hampshire news-papers, and also in the paper
printed at Windsor, in Vermont, that any person may then appear
and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer [thereof] of said
petition may not be granted.
Which amendment was read and concurred.
Voted, That each and every person presenting a petition to the
General Court in future shall pay to the clerk of said Court one dol
lar for each petition so presented and received, and that the Clerk be
accountable for the money so received. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
On motion raade that all persons holding publick securities of this
state, shall have liberty to apply to the Treasurer for certificates for
the same, which certificates shall be received for all taxes prior to the
year 1786 : The yeas and nays being called for, were as follows, viz.

Yeas.
Mr. UnderhiU,
Mr. Toppan,
Mr. Eliot,
Mr. Cram,
Mr. Knowles,
Mr. Chesley,
Mr. Barron,
Mr. Mann,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Greeley,
Mr. Young, Nays.
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. Brown,
Mr. Wiggin,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Merrill,
Mr. Emerson,
Mr. Welch,
Mr. Betton,
Mr. Waldron,

Yeas.
Mr. Leavitt,
Mr. Wheeler,
Mr. Gile,
Mr. Foster,
Mr. Ambrose,
Mr. Dearborn,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Spaulding,
Mr. Cunningham,
Mr. Clement,
Mr. Smith, Nays.
Mr. Bedee,
Mr. Means,
Mr. Putnam,
Mr. Wallace,
Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. Ames,
Mr. Freeman,
Mr. Sparhawk,

Yeas.
Mr. Stiles,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Works,
Mr. Chase,
Mr. E. Hale,
Mr. Mack,
Mr. Copland,
Mr. Kimball,
Mr. Peters,
Mr. Johnson,

Nays.
Mr. Robinson,
[Mr. Runnels],
Mr. M'Murphy,
Mr. Daniels,
Mr. Hook,
Mr. Dow,
Mr. Gibson,
Mr. Badger,

Mr. Rendall,
Mr. Ashley,
Mr. M. Smith,
Mr. Kingsbury,
Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Holmes,
Mr. Kendall,
Mr. Mooney,
Mr. Tolford,
Mr. M. Dow.

Nays.
Mr. D. Emerson,
Mr. Preston,
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. Hadley,
Mr. Clark,
Mr. Gilmore,
Mr. Storrs,
Mr. Skinner.

41 Yeas, — 34 Nays.

So the motion prevailed. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Daniel Richardson,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the Treasurer be
directed to receive the said final settlements as though the interest
was not paid thereon. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
* 13 : 164 * Adjourned to 7 o'clock to-morrow morning.

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FRIDAY, June 23, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
An act to impower John Roach to appear and defend a suit now
pending at the Inferior Court in Amherst, brough by Joseph Blan
chard against Robert Rogers, Esq. was read a third tirae and passed
to be enacted. [Sent up by Cap' Spaulding & M' Chesley.]
An act to encourage the importation of drugs and wood used in
dying cloth, artificers tools, Spanish wool, raw shk, and other raw
materials, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by Cap' Spaulding & M' Chesley.]
An act to prevent unnecessary costs to debtors, by bringing actions
of debts on judgraents, was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. [Sent up by Cap' Spaulding & M' Chesley.]
The Speaker and Speaker-Proterapore being absent, motion was
made for the choice of a Speaker-Proterapore, and John Preston, Es
quire, was chosen for that purpose.
Yoted, That Captain Spaulding, Major Hale, and Mr. Rendall, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to
consider of the petition of Lydia Wahingsford, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Yoted, That Col. Runnels, Mr. Betton, and Mr. Ashley, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of the honourable John Behows, Esquire, and all
similar raatters, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Cram.]
Voted, That the account of John Calfe [Bellows], Esquire, amount
ing to seven pounds, eleven shillings and ten pence, be allowed and
paid out of the Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Cram.]
Voted, That the ballance of the account of Benjamin Hannaford,
amounting to five pounds, two shillings and eight pence, be allowed
and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Cram.]
An act in explanation of an act, intitled, "An act to prevent the
bodies of debtors being taken on execution, when real or personal es
tate can be found, or is tendered to satisfy the demand," was read a
third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Duncan & M' Johnson.]
* The committee on the petition of Mary Robinson, and * 13 : 165
Asa Robinson, reported. That the prayer of said petition,
be granted and that the petitioners have leave to bring in a bill ac
cordingly, at this or the next session : Signed Otis Baker, for the

658 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
comraittee. Which report being read and considered. Voted, That
it be received and accepted. [Sent up by Mr. Johnson.]
Resolved, That the conduct of Dan Gile, deputy-sheriff and gaol
keeper at Keen, in said state, toward John Grandy, jun. a prisoner in
said gaol for debt, is contrary to the true intent and raeaning of an
act of said state, passed the eighth day of Noveraber, 1785, intitled,
"An act to prevent the bodies of debtors frora being taken on [in]
execution when real or personal estate can be found, or is tendered
to satisfy the demand."
And the said Gile, or the keeper of said gaol, is hereby directed to
receive of the said Grandy, any real or personal estate which the said
Grandy may tender for satisfying the execution by which he is now
detained in said gaol, and proceed to appraise [off] the sarae in the
way pointed out and directed by said act, in full satisfaction of said
execution and discharge the said Grandy therefrom.
Provided nevertheless, that if the creditor in said execution named,
shall decline accepting such real or personal estate before the same
may be appraised in manner aforesaid, and liberate said Grandy from
confinement upon the same, the said execution shall carry interest
agreeably to said act. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Voted, That Col Hale, Mr. Dearborn, and Mr. M'Murphy, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
prepare an address to be presented to his Excellency the President,
for the removal of Nathaniel Peabody, Esq. from the command of
Brigadier-General of the Light-Horse in this state, and lay the same
before this House. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Voted, That the account of Ebenezer Thompson and Joseph Pear
son, Esquires, amounting to fifty-four pounds twelve shillings, be al
lowed and paid out of the treasury, by order of the President.
[Sent up by Mr. Greeley.]
Voted, That the account of Edward S. Livermore, Esq. amounting
to eighteen shillings, be allowed and paid out of the treasury by or
der of the President. [Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
* 13 : 166 * Whereas the cry for paper money has been great
araong the people at large within this state, principally to
enable thera to pay their outstanding taxes : for the reraedy whereof.
Be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, in
General Court convened, and it is hereby Resolved, That any person
or persons holding this state's notes on interest, have liberty to bring
in said notes to the Treasurer of this state, who is hereby directed to
receive the same and issue certificates therefor, which certificates
shall be received in payment of all taxes prior to the year, 1786.
[Sent up by M' Copland.]

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Upon hearing and considering the petition of John Dustin, Voted,
That the prayer of the petition be so far granted, that he have liberty
of the oath for the ease and relief of prisoners for debt, if nothing
shah appear to the justices before whom he may be admitted to swear,
more than the creditor, or his attorney or agent holding a deed, as
mentioned in his petition. [Sent up by Mr. Freeman.]
Voted, That his Excehency the President, with advice of Council,
be desired to adjourn the General Court to-morrow at twelve o'clock.
[Sent up by M' Freeman.]
An act to encourage the iraportation of coined gold and shver into
this state, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Freeman & M' Jenness.]
An act to restore David Coser to his law, was read a third time and
passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Freeman & M' Jenness.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That the account of Josiah Gilman, Esq. amounting to
eighty-eight pounds, three shillings and six pence, be allowed and
paid out of the Treasury, by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Mack.]
Voted, That'jthe account of John Morrison, amounting to fifteen
pounds, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the
President. [Sent up by M' Mack.]
* Voted, That John Pickering, Esq. be, and he hereby * 13 : 167
is appointed agent in behalf of this state, to call on the
comptroller of accounts for said state, and obtain information of the
balance due from individuals to the state, and proceed forthwith to
call on delinquents for the suras due, in the common course of law.
Also to call on the several Judges of Probate within this state, for
balances due on estates that have been confiscated.
[Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.]
Voted, that the Treasurer be directed to issue his extent or extents
for the outstanding taxes, which became due, or ought to have been
paid into the Treasury, on or before the first day of January, [Anno
Domini,] 1784, by any town, parish, precinct, or place within this state,
immediately on the expiration of four months from this day, and that
the Treasurer be directed to issue his extent against any town, parish,
place, or precinct for any outstanding tax within said time, as he may
judge necessary. [Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.]
The committee to devise Standards for the respective corps of
horse and foot in this state, reported. That the field of the flag, be a
dark purple on a white ground ; an oval shield in the middle, encircled
with laurel, within which is to be the following device, viz. A man

660 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
armed at ah points in a posture of defence, his hand on his sword,
the sword half drawn — the raotto — FREEDOM NOT CON
QUEST — thirteen silver stars dispersed over the field of the stand
ard, and properly arranged, so as to encircle the device and raotto —
The number of each regiment to be marked on its standard.
The standard of the light-horse and arthlery the sarae except the
device. — On that of the horse, is a raan to be on horse back, com
pleatly armed, with his hand on a pistol— And the device of the ar
tihery, a cannonier in uniform, with a lighted match, standing near a
field piece, properly pointed, and the raotto the sarae as for the horse
and foot before raentioned.
For the alarra companies, standards are to be the same, only in
stead of being nurabered, the words, alarm corapany, are to be on the
flags of the standard : Signed John M'Clary, for the coraraittee.
Which report being read and considered, Voted, That it be received
and accepted. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
* 13: 168 *The coraraittee appointed to prepare instructions for
the committee chosen to examine whether any of the un
improved lands in the state, are the property of said state or not, re
ported as fohoweth, viz. Said committee is directed to obtain the
best information respecting the legality of all the grants of lands within
the state of New-Hampshire : Also, enquire whether the lines of the
Masonian Patent, so called, have heretofore been legally settled or
only run ex-parte : Likewise examine how far the several grantees of
lands lying within this state have fulfilled the conditions of their sev
eral grants, and report the most proper method for said state to pur
sue in establishing the title to the uniraproved lands within the same
to said state : Signed Amos Shepherd, for the coramittee. Which re
port being read and considered, Yoted, That it be received and ac
cepted. [Sent up by M' M<^Murphy.]
Adjourned to 7 o'clock to-morrow morning.
SATURDAY, June 24, 1786.
The House met according to adjournraent.
The coraraittee on the Treasurer's letter, beg leave to report, as
their opinion : That in adding the sums due to the members of the
House, for their attendance in Court, to the specie tax, the Treasurer
acted prudently, and that his conduct be approved of by the Court :
— That his Excellency the President be desired to write to the Presi
dent of Congress, for the checks of the notes, comraonly called final
settlements, or -copies of the original records, or both, as he shall
think proper. — That the form of the certificates to be issued for the
payment of interest on state notes, be as follows, viz.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 661
Treasury Office, 1 .-.^ \ t i
State of New-Hampshire, / (^°- ) J"')' 3 ist, 1786.
I John Taylor Gilman, Treasurer of the State of New Hampshire,
do hereby certify, that there is due [from said State] to
lawful money, and the several Constables and Collectors, within this
State, are hereby directed to receive this Certificate in
payment of ah * assessments and taxes, which are pay- * 13 : 169
able in facilities, and the same shall be so received by the
Treasurer of this State. Witness my Hand, Treasurer.
Signed Joseph Gilman, for the committee. Which report being
read and considered, Voted, that it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by Cap' Peters.]
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed to issue certificates for
twenty-five per cent, of the principal of ah state securities (in addi
tion to the certificates for interest) to any person or persons that are
holders of said securities that may request the same, and that said
certificates be received in payment of all state taxes which are pay
able in fachities. [Sent up by Cap' Peters.]
The committee to draught an address to be presented to his Excel
lency the President, for the removal of Nathaniel Peabody, Esq.
from the command of Brigadier-General of the light horse in this
state, reported the following address, which was received and ac
cepted. Voted, That the following address be presented to his Excellency
the President :
The address of the Senate and House of Representatives to his
Excellency the President, shews, that the appointment of Nathaniel
Peabody, Esq. to the office of Brigadier-General of the light horse,
has given the good citizens of this state much uneasiness, and we
fear will retard (if not entirely hinder) the arrangement and forming
that important corps, as gentlemen of character and fortune will not
serve under him. We therefore request that your Excellency, with
advice of council, will remove the said Peabody from that important
and necessary command, in order that it may be filled with a person
more to acceptance. [Sent up by Col" Runnels.]
[In consequence of a petition from Warren, the following resolve
was passed :]
Resolved, That Captain Absalom Peters be, and he hereby is ap
pointed, authorized and impowered, to call a meeting of the inhabi
tants of the town of Warren, in this state, for the purpose of choos-

662 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
ing a town clerk, selectraen and other town officers according to law ;
and that said Peters post up a warning for said raeeting as soon as
convenient, therein expressing the purpose of the same,
* 13 : 170 and that said warning be posted up in sorae * publick
place in said town fifteen days before the day of said
meeting, and that said Peters attend and open said meeting, and pre
side as moderator of the same through the whole elections.
[Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Voted, That there be a committee [appointed, consisting] of two to
be chosen by the honourable Senate, and three to be chosen by the
House, to take under consideration the petition of Dudley Chase and
others ; also the petition of Nathaniel Rogers, praying an ahowance
for losses sustained at the cedars ; and ah simhar matters, [as they
may have opportunity,] also that they sit in the recess of the General
Court and report at the next session. [Sent up by Maj' Wahace.]
An Act to restore Laban Gates to his law in a certain action, was
read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by Col° Wiggin & Maj' Cram.]
An act to vest the exclusive right of keeping a ferry over Connect
icut river in Ahen Willard,' his heirs and assigns, was read a third
tirae and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by Col° Runnels & M' Jenness.]
The committee on the petition of Ephraim Adams and Joseph Cut
ler, reported. That Joseph Cutler be allowed fifteen pounds in state
security, in full for said horse, raentioned in the petition : Signed E.
Payne for the coraraittee. Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted. [Sent up by Col° Welch.]
Voted, That John Sparhawk, Esq. and the honourable John Lang
don, Esq. be and hereby are appointed a committee to agree with a
printer or printers, to print two hundred copies of the journals of the
proceedings of the House of Representatives, also a like number of
journals of the Senate, one of which is to be sent to each town, and
three hundred and fifty copies of the publick acts passed this session,
one for each town, one for each member, one for each state in the
union, and the remainder for the several courts in this state ;
That the journals be printed in quarto, or otherways, as they think
it best. [Sent up by Col" Wiggin.]
* 13 : 171 * Voted, That the state comraittee, viz. Archibald
M'^Murphy John M'^Duffee, Daniel Emerson, Jeremiah
Stiles, and Charles Johnston, Esquires, have and receive out of the
Treasury, five pounds each, in order to furnish them to proceed to
^' xii. Ham. Town Papers, 218, 220.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 663
the business assigned them, and that the President give order ac
cordingly. [Sent up by Cap' Sthes.]
Whereas the places of holding the Probate Court in the several
counties in this state, has been found [to be very] inconvenient to
the citizens of this state :
Wherefore be it Resolved, That the Courts of Probate be held in
the several places in the several counties hereafter raentioned, viz.
ROCKINGHAM,
Portsraouth, Exeter, Londonderry, and Perabrook, alternately ; to
commence at Portsraouth on the third Wednesday of September
next. /
STRAFFORD.
[viz] Dover, five months on the following days, viz. second Tues
day of [in] September and the third Tuesday in February, April
June and November ; Rochester the third Wednesday in December,
January, and March, Gilmanton, the third Tuesday in May and July,
Moultonborough, the third Tuesday in August ; Wolfborough, third
Wednesday in October.
HILLSBOROUGH,
[viz] At Amherst, six months, viz, the first days of the sitting of
Courts of Comraon Pleas and Superior Court ; Hopkinton, the first
Wednesdays of the other six months.
CHESHIRE,
[viz] Keen, Charlestown, Cornish, and Jaffrey, alternately ; to be
gin the first Tuesday of October next, at Keen.
GRAFTON,
[viz] Haverhih, eight months ; Plymouth, two raonths ; Hanover,
two months : to commence the first Tuesday of December next, and
that a copy of this resolve be transmitted to the Judges of the Pro
bate for the several counties in this state, and that they take notice
and govern themselves accordingly. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]

664 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
* 13 : 172 * An act for forming and regulating the militia within
this state, and for repealing all the laws heretofore made
for that purpose, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by Col° Wiggin & Col° Runnels.]
The coramittee on the Petition of John Bellows Esq. in behalf of
Samuel Fuller, reported. That the said John Bellows have an order
on the Treasurer for the sum of Five thousand four hundred and ten
pounds, ten shillings, continental money, to be consolidated by the
continental scale, to receive the same in State's security with in
terest, the sarae being due December 13th, 1779. And also. That
the said John Bellows, on account of Benjamin Bellows, Esq. have
an order on the Treasurer for the sura of ninety pounds, for pastur
ing continental cattle, the same being due Noveraber 15th, 1779 ; the
same to be consolidated as above, with interest, and to be in full for
pasturing said cattle : Signed E. Payne, for the comraittee. Which
report being read and considered. Voted, That John Bellows, Esq. be
allowed and paid out of the Treasury of this state whatever sum or
sums the United States shall credit this state for, in consequence of
a certificate or certificates mentioned in the above petition.
[Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
Voted, That Josiah Ghman, Esq. of Exeter, Thoraas Bartlett, Esq.
of Nottingham, Robert Wallace, Esq. of Hillsborough, Capt. Abra
ham Burnham, of Rumney, and Mr. Ephraim Robinson, of Exeter,
be and they hereby are appointed a comraittee to take under consid
eration the petitions of the towns of Cornish, Plainfield, Lebanon,
and all simhar matters from towns, places, and [from] individuals in
this state ; Also, the petition of Nathaniel Rogers and others, pray
ing an allowance for losses sustained at the Cedars ; and all similar
matters, and that they sit, and report during this session as they may
have opportunity: Also, that they sit in the recess of the General
Court and report at the next session. [Sent up by Col° Leavitt.]
Adjourned to Monday next, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
* 13 : 173 * MONDAY, June 26, 17S6.
The House met according to adjournment.
Read several publick bihs, and debated thereon.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
An act in amendment of, and addition to an act, intitled, "An act
to prevent the destruction of salmon, shad, and alewives, in Merri
raac river," passed the ninth day of April, A. D. 1784, was read a
third tirae and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Kingsbury & M' Johnson.]

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 66$
An act for the appointment of special justices was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Kingsbury & M' Johnson.]
Adjourned to 7 o'clock to-raorrow raorning.
TUESDAY, June 27 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col. Toppan, Major Hale, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Kings
bury, and General Dow, with such of the honourable Senate as
they shah join, be a comraittee to consider of the requisition of
Congress of the 27th of September, 1785, and report their opinion
respecting the cohecting and payment of the facilities required.
[Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
The following vote came down from the honourable Senate for
concurrence :
State of New ) t c- t ,1, o^
Hampshire. 1 ^^ Senate, June 24* 1786.
Voted, That his Excehency the President, with advice of Counch,
be requested to appoint a day, to be observed as a day of publick
Thanksgiving throughout this state, the approaching fah, and issue
a proclamation for that purpose. Was this day read and concurred.
[Sent up by Maj' Cram.]
Voted, That the honourable Nicholas Gilman, Esq. be and [he]
hereby is appointed a delegate to represent this state in the Congress
of the United States, for the term of one year, from and after the
first Monday in November next, unless sooner relieved or recalled by
the General Court of this state, with all the powers and privileges
which other delegates from this state have heretofore had and enjoyed,
agreeably to the confederation of the United States.
[Sent up by Maj' Cram.]
"'Upon reading and considering the petition of Charles * 13 : 174
Clapham, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon be
fore the General Court, on the second Tuesday of their next session.
[Sent up by Col° Waldron.]
On reading and considering the first clause of an act, intitled,
" An act for supplying the Treasury with the sum of seventy thou
sand, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and one third of a dol
lar, for the purpose of discharging that part of the requisition of
Congress, of the 27th of September, 1785, which is to be paid in
facihties, and to impower the Treasurer to pay into the hands of
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[1786

the Loan-Officer of this state, the sum of ten thousand, [&] five hun
dred pounds, which was assessed by an act of this state, passed
February 28th, 1786; the preamble of which bill and the said first
clause, was in the following words :
Whereas Congress, by their requisition aforesaid, have requested
from this state one hundred and five thousand dohars, which by said
requisition is said to be that part of the interest which is this
state's proportion of the foreign and doraestic debt, whereof ten
thousand five hundred pounds, was assessed by the act passed Feb
ruary 28th, 1786, and the residue remains still to be raised :
Therefore, be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
tives, in General Court convened, that the sum of seventy thousand,
two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and one third of a dollar,
be and hereby is granted to be paid into the Treasury of this state,
in certificates, issued for interest on continental securities, on or be
fore the first day of January, 1787, which sum shall be assessed and
levied on the polls and rateable estates within this state, agreeably
to the last proportion of taxes for the several towns and places in this
state, and the Treasurer of this state is hereby directed and required
forthwith to issue his warrants for collecting and paying the same
into the Treasury, on or before the first day of January
* 13 : 175 next : on which clause, the *yeas and nays being called for,
were as follows :

Yeas.
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Foster,
Mr. Waldron,
Mr. Knowles, Nays.
Mr. McMurphy,
Mr. Toppan,
Mr. N. Emerson,
Mr. Gibson,
Mr. Dearborn,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Spaulding,
Mr. Wallace,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Cram,
Mr. Hadley,

Yeas.
Mr. S. Hale,
Mr. Chesley,
Mr. Means,
Mr. Preston,

Nays.
Mr. Smith,
Mr. Ashley,
Mr. Peters,
Mr. Freeman,
Mr. Young,
Mr. Clement,
Mr. Gilmore,
Mr. Kendall,
Mr. Johnson,
Mr. Dow,
Mr. UnderhiU,

17 Yeas.

Yeas.
Mr. Putnam,
Mr. Jackman,
Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. E. Hale,

Nays.
Mr. Brown,
Mr. Elliott,
Mr. Bradley,
Mr. Hook,
Mr. Bedee,
Mr. Barron,
Mr. D. Emerson,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Leavitt,
Mr. Wiggin,
Mr. Barnard,

Yeas.

44 Nays.

Mr. Kingsbury,
Mr. Chase,
Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Mooney,

Nays.
Mr. Daniels,
Mr. Welch,
Mr. Ambrose,
Mr. Dole,
Mr. Mann,
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. Greeley,
Mr. Clark,
Mr. Ames,
Mr. Tolford,
Mr. Skinner.

So the said clause [in said bhl] was rejected, [and the BiU lay.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 667
Met accordingly.
Resolved, That his Excellency the President, with advice of coun
cil be impowered and requested to contract and agree with a post-
rider or post-riders to travel through this state, in the rout voted
in the House of Representatives, 17th of June [Instant] current, and
amended June 20th. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
Resolved, That the Treasurer be, and [he] hereby is directed not
to allow any interest in future on the sums due to the several towns
and places within this state, for bounties for procuring soldiers, fur
ther than up to the present time. [Sent up by Cap' Peters.]
The fohowing vote came down from the honourable Senate for
concurrence.

State of New
Hampshire

\ In Senate June 27"' 1786

Resolved, That the Treasurer of this state, and the commission
ers of continental accounts, be and hereby are impowered to pur
sue such measures as they may judge most expedient for
taking *in final settlement securities, and also for issuing * 13 : 176
out or disposing of any interest certificates now in the
Treasury, and render an account of their proceedings to the Gen
eral Court at the next session, and that they frora time to time
advise with the President and Council upon the measures to be
adopted. Was read and concurred. [Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
An act for regulating the fees of certain officers within the state,
and to prevent debtors from being loaded with expensive costs, was
read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Chesley & M' Johnson.]
Voted, That when the business of this session is finished, that his
Excellency the President, with advice of Council be desired to ad
journ the General Court to the second Wednesday in Noveraber
next, then to raeet at Exeter [Sent up by M' Emerson.]
An act for appropriating certain monies arising by acts of this
state, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Emerson & M' Foster.]
Voted, That the account of Jaraes Norris, amounting to eight
pounds, eighteen shillings and eight pence, be allowed and paid out
of the Treasury, by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Dearborn.]
An act to enable Maryand Asa Robinson, of Pembrook, to seh the
real estate of Peter Robinson, who is incompetent to do the same,
was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Dearborn & M' Knowles.]

668 new HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1/86
Voted, That the honourable Christopher Toppan, and Joseph Gil
man, Esquires, be and they hereby are appointed a committee to
agree with Col. Samuel Hobart, to granulate the ungranulated pow
der, now in the hands of the said Hobart, provided he will do it at a
price they may think reasonable, and receive a part thereof for
his pay. [Sent up by Col° Leavitt.]
* 13 : 177 *The following vote came down from the honourable
Senate for concurrence :

State of New-
Hampshire.

[ In Senate, June 27th, 17S6.

Resolved, That upon every petition brought before the Senate, on
any private affairs, in which any individual or individuals only are in
terested, the person preferring the same, shall before it is read in the
Senate, pay to the Secretary the sum of six shillings, for which he is
to be accountable. [Was read and Concurred —
Sent up by Col° Leavitt.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Joseph Hall Bart
lett, Voted, That in all [the] actions brought by appeal to the Inferio'r
Court of Coramon Pleas, in the County of Rockingham, that exceed
forty shillings, which the Court did not sustain, there be no further
process until further order of the General Court.
[Sent up by Col" Wiggin.]
Voted, That the account of Caleb Busweh, amounting to four
pounds, ten shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, by
ordeir of the President. [Sent up by M' Gibson.]
The vote for adjournment to the second 'Wednesday in November
next, came down [from the honourable Senate] for an amendment, that
instead of said second Wednesday in Noveraber, that they meet on
the first Wednesday of September next : [Which] was read and con
curred. [Sent up by M' Kingsbury.]
Voted, That Lemuel Holmes, Esquire, be and he hereby is appoint
ed one of the coraraittee on the petitions of Cornish, Lebanon, &c.
in the room and stead of Major Robert Wallace, who declines ac
cepting said trust. [Sent up by M' Kingsbury.]
Voted, That the account of Wihiam Duncan, amounting to one
pound, and four shihings, be ahowed and paid out of the Treasury,
by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Emerson!]
The Secretary came down and informed the House, that he was
directed by his Excehency the president, to give inforraation, that he
has adjourned the General Court to the first Wednesday in Septem
ber next, then to meet at Exeter ; and the General Court is accord
ingly adjourned.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM

SEPTEMBER 6 TO SEPTEMBER 23, 1786.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

*At a Session of the General Court holden at Exeter on * 2 : 184
Wednesday September 6'^ 1786, being the day to which the
General Court stook adjourned. Present in Senate,
His Excellency John Sullivan Esq' President. The Honorable
John M'^Clary, Joseph Gilman, Joshua Wentworth, Otis Baker, John
M'^Duffee, John Bellows, and Amos Shepard Esquires. The Honor
able John Bell Esq' attended and took the necessary oaths as
Senator. Adjourned 'tih to-morrow 9 O'Clock, A. M.
THURSDAY, September 7"' 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
* Present as yesterday with the addition of M' Webster. * 2 : 185
A 'Vote for a comraittee to join a comraittee of the Senate
to consider of the petition of Peter Pierce and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred and Mr. Bell joined.
A 'Vote that Col. John Waldron of Dover and Major Samuel Hale
of Barrington be added to the committee to take under consideration
the petitions of the Towns of Cornish Plainfield, Lebanon &c. who
were appointed at the last Session, and that said committee set dur
ing the present Session and at such tiraes as they think fit in the re
cess of the General Court untill the second Monday of next Session
and that no accounts be received after said day, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A 'Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider what business is necessary to be entered upon and done at this
Session and report thereon, brought up, read and concurred, M' M'=-
Clary, M' Wentworth, and M' Gilman joined M' Bellows and M' Ba
ker joined.

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A 'Vote for a coramittee to join a comraittee of the Senate to devise
ways and raeans for forwarding one or more Conimissioners to attend
the Convention at Annapolis, on commercial matters, was brought
up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'tih to-morrow, 9 O'Clock, A. M.
* 2 : 1S6 * FRIDAY, September 8*^ 17S6.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A "Vote that the House resolve themselves into into a committee
of the whole in conjunction with the Honorable Senate, to take
under consideration the requisition of Congress of the 27"' of Sep
tember and 2^ of August last and any other matters that may be
thought necessary, was brought up, read and concurred.
A "Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Charles Henzell and
giving him leave to bring a bill or resol[v]e accordingly, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A 'Vote to hear the petition of Wilham Read, who prays for the
privilege of a ferry, on the second Tuesday of the next Session, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A "Vote for a comraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of the Selectmen of Conway and all similar mat
ters and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred. M' Ba
ker and M' Webster joined.
A "Vote to hear the petition of John Stuart who prays to have cer
tain Deeds made null and void, on Thursday the 14 Instant, was
brought up, read and concurred.
Spent the afternoon in coramittee of the whole on the Subject of
paper Money and adjourned to raeet again. The Senate then retired
to tneir Chamber and adjourned till to-morrow 9 O'Clock, A. M.
* 2 : 1S7 * SATURDAY September 9"' 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a coramittee of the Senate to ex
amine into the situation of the accounts between this State and the
United States, and report how far the committee on Continental ac
counts have proceeded in a settlement of the sarae with M' Gorham
Coraraissioner for the United States, was brought up read and con
curred M' Wentworth joined.

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A 'Vote for a committee to Join a committee of the Senate to con
sider ¦ of an Extent issued by the Treasurer against the Town of
Charlestown and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred,
W Webster joined.
A 'Vote on the hearing on the petition of Charles Clapham (which
was to have been on the 2^^ Tuesday of this Session) be on Thursday
next, was brought up, read and concurred.
The Senate met in committee of the whole on the subject of paper
Money. Adjourned 'thi Monday next, 3 O'Clock P. M.
MONDAY September ii'^, 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as on Saturday last except the Honorable Otis Baker.
A "Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Sen
ate to consider * Of the property of receiving any sum of * 2 : 188
money with petitions that may be presented to the General
Court also how much shall be paid &c. was brought up, read and con
curred M' Gilman and M' Wentworth joined.
A 'Vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider the Account of Col. Supply Clap and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, M' Webster joined.
A 'Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petitions from Harastead, Plastow and Akinson and re
port thereon, was brought up, read and concurred M' M'Clary and
M' Gilman joined. Adjourned 'till to-morrow 9 O'Clock A. M.
TUESDAY September 12"' 1786.
Met according to adjournraent.
Present as yesterday with the addition of Honorable O. Baker.
A 'Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to
consider of a Bill presented the last Session for complying with the
requisition of Congress of 27 September 1785 and report such alter
ations and amendments as they may be necessary, was brought up,
read and concurred; M' Wentworth and M' Gilman joined.
A "Vote for a committee to joined a committee of the Senate to
consider of the petition of Joseph Whipple Esq' and report thereon,
was brought up, read andconcurred ; M' M'^Duffee Joined.
*A'Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Sen- * 2 : 189
ate to examine the shedue for the last proportion of Taxes

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and report whether the Town of Claremont is overtaxed, also report
on all similar matters was brought up, read and concurred, M' Shep
ard joined.
A 'Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Josiah Willard, so
far as is consistent with the certificate signed by M' Tickenor late
commissary of purchases, and that the said Willard receive his pay
in State Notes with interest frora November 1779, and that the pres
ident give order accordingly, was brought up, read and concurred.
In Senate, September 12"" 1786.
The Senate propose the following araendraents in the vote of the
Honorable house on the petition of John Bellows Esq' viz.
That the committee on Continental accounts receive and liquidate
the Demand and give him a Certificate of what is due and charge the
same to the United States and that upon said Behows's producing
such Certificate to the president, he shall with advice of Council give
an order on the Treasurer for the same ; to be paid in a State Note
or Notes with interest from the time due. Sent down for concurrence,
brough[t] up concurred.
* 2 : 190 *A"Vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Sen
ate to consider of the petition of Samuel Boyd and report
thereon was brought up, read and concurred, M' M'Clary joined.
A "Vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate to ex
araine the Table of fees and make such alterations and amendments
as they may judge necessary and report a bill for that purpose was
brought up, read and concurred : M' Bell joined.
A "Vote for a coraraittee to join a committee of the Senate to ex
amine whether there is any Law now in force to prevent persons
from going on and improving lands which are the property of this
state and if not prepare a resolve for that purpose, was brought up,
read and concurred ; M' Bell joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Saral Chapin and
that she have leave to bring in a bill accordingly ,was brought up, read
and concurred.
A "Vote on the petition of Samuel Boyd an Invahd, that his pay be
made up. Equal to thirty shihings per Month from the time he was
enrohed to the thirty first day of July last, was brought up, read and
concurred. A "Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the papers presented in behalf of Experience Triskett and
report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred; M' M'^Clary
joined. Adjourned 'till to morrow 9 O'Clock, A. M.

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* WEDNESDAY, September 13"' 1786. * 2 : 191
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A "Vote to hear the petition of Hampstead, Plastow, Atkinson, on
the third Wednesday of the next Session, was brought up, read and
concurred. A "Vote for a coramittee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the accounts of John Morrison and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred ; M' Wentworth and M' M'^Clary
joined. An Act to restore the property and possession of the Estate of
Charles Henzell Esquire and enable hira to improve or convey the
same, having been read a third time, voted that the same be enacted.
A "Vote granting the prayer of the petition of the Inhabitants of
Henniker and that Major Isaac Chandler of Hopkinton, Nenian Akin
Esquire of Dearing, M' Samuel Coldwell of Weare be and and they
hereby are appointed a coramittee (at the expenee of the petitioner to
view the situation of said Inhabitants and fix upon a place for build
ing a House for public Worship and report thereon, was brought up,
read and concurred. Adjourned to 9, O'Clock to morrow morning.
THURSDAY, September h"- 1786.
* Met according to adjo\irnment. * 2 : 192
Present as yesterday.
A 'Vote to postpone the hearing on the petition of Josiah Gage and
others to the second Tuesday of their next Session, was brought up,
read and concurred. In Senate Septeraber 14"' 1786.
An Act in addition to and araendment of an Act entitled, an Act
for forming and regulating the Militia within this State and for re
pealing ah the Laws heretofore made for that purpose, having been
read a third time, Yoted that it pass to be enacted, sent down for con
currence. An Act for supplying the Treasury with seventy thousand two
hundred and seventy seven Dollars and one third of a Dollar for the
purpose of discharging that part of the requisition of Congress of the
twenty seventh of September 1785 which is to be paid in Fachities,
having been read a third tirae, voted that the sarae be enacted.

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A 'Vote to postpone the further consideration of the report of the
sub-committee of both houses on a plan for emitting a paper currency,
to the next Session of the General Court, and that printed Copies of
said plan be sent to the Selectmen of the several Towns and places
in this State and that they are hereby requested to call legal Meet
ings of the Inhabitants of the several towns and places to give their
opinion on said plan, and the number for and against said
* 2 : 193 alterations, and that certified Copies from * The Selectmen
or the Town Clerk of the several .Towns and places be
returned to the next Session of the General Court, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A 'Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider what business is yet necessar}'' to be done at this session, at
what tirae and to what time and place this Court shall be adjourned.
Also what allowance shall be raade the members of the Honorable
Senate and house and their Officers for travel and attendance and re
port thereon, was brought up, read and concurred : M' M'^Clary M'
Bellows and M' Bell joined.
A "Vote to pay the account of John Morrison amounting to fifty
eight pounds nine shillings as Clerk to the committee on Continental
Accounts, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
Adjourned 'tih to-morrow 9, O'Clock A. M.
FRIDAY September I5'^ 17S6.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
A 'Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to take
under consideration the Act for the recovery of small debts in a more
expeditious way and raanner and report such alterations and amend
ments as they raay jud[g]e necessary, was brought up, read
* 2 : 194 and concurred, M' Behows, *M' Webster, and M' Shepard
joined.
A 'Vote to hear the petition of Jaraes Banks and Thomas Lewis on
the third Thursday of the next Session, was brought up, read and
concurred. A 'Vote appointing a committee to view the road commonly trav
elled frora Conway to the uper Coos and report their Opinion what
method is best to be taken for the repair of said Road ; and whether
any lands through which the ro[a]d passes should be sold for said pur
pose, was brought up, read and concurred, with this amendraent, that
the said coraraittee be and hereby are erapowered to dispose of so
much of said Lands if any their be belonging to the State as wih be

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sufficient to repair said road and execute vallid conveyances thereof
and apply the money to that purpose and render an account to this
Court. An Act in compliance with the Treaty of Peace between the United
States and his Britannic Majesty and with the recommendation of
Congress of the 14"' of January 17S4, founded thereon, having been
read a third time. Voted that the same be enacted.
Adjourned 'tih to morrow, 9 O'Clock, A. M.
SATURDAY September 16'" 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
A "Vote to hear the petition of the Towh of Keene, Pack
ersfield &c. on the third Wednesday of next * Session, was * 2 : 195
brought up, read and concurred.
A "Vote appointing Colonel Edward Bucknam Colonel John M<^Duf-
fee and Colonel Andrew M'^Mihen a committee to view the road lead
ing from the Town of Conway to the uper Coos &c. was brought up,
read and concurred.
A "Vote to hear the petition of George Hart on the third Thursday
of the next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A 'Vote to hear the petition of Daniel Loring on the third Wednes
day of the next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.'
A Vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Colonel Nathan Hoit and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred : M' Baker and M' M'^Clary joined.
A. Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to take
under consideration the report of the committee appointed to settle
the accounts Between the Treasurer and this State and report what
is necessary to be done with the Notes, Certificates &c. was brought
up, read and concurred, M' Gilman joined.
A Vote that the President give order for the payment of an ab
stract amounting to ;^856..i2..2. was brought up, read and con
curred. *A Vote accepting the report of the Comraittee on the * 2 : 196
Treasurers account with State, was brought up, read and
concurred. A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider what is necessary to be done respecting a petition complaining
of the conduct of the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Wentworth M' Bel
lows and M' Shepard joined.
Adjourned 'till Monday next 3. O'Clock, P. M.

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MONDAY September iS*^, 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Jaraes Rundlet, Also the petition of Enoch
Barker and Jaraes Rundlet, likewise the account of Enoch Barker
and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred : M' M'^Duf-
fee joined. In Senate, September 18"' 1786.
Resolved, that for all outstanding Taxes payable in Certificates, the
Treasurer be and hereby is directed to receive final Settlement Secu
rities on which no Interest has been paid, at the rate of six shillings
and eight pence on the pound. And those on which Interest has
been paid up to the thirty first day September 17S4 at the rate of
five Shihings on the pound untill further orders of the Gen-
* 2 : 197 eral Court anything * In the Act passed February 28'^
1786 to the contrary notwithstanding, Sent down for con
currence, brought up, concurred.
A Vote that his Excellency with advice of Council be empowered
to draw On The Treasury in case of emergency for any sum or sums
not exceeding £100 and that he account for the sums so drawn, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to ahow Colonel H. Mooney 12 £ for an Horse lost at Ti
conderoga in 1 77 1, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant
granted. Adjourned 'tih to-morrow 9, O'Clock, A. M.
TUESDAY September 19'^ 1786.
Met according to adjournraent.
A Vote that the vote of last Session respecting allowing Depreci
ation to Officers of Col. Longs Regiment be reconsidered, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote, that the Treasurer of this State be directed not to cah on
Colonel Hoit for £140 said to be in the hands of S. Dearborn untih
further order of the General Court, was brought up, read and con
curred.

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New ™mpThire j ^^ Senate Sept. 19'" 1786
Resolved, that the President with advice * Of Council be * 2 : 198
and hereby is erapowered to exorainate and appoint an Ad
jutant General of the Militia in this State, and that the said Adju
tant General have the rank of Brigadier General, and that he have
power to appoint on Deputy in each Division of the Mhitia by war
rant, each of whom to hold the rank of Major, Sent down for concur
rence. A Vote for a coinmittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the Account of Benjamin Biggelow and report thereon, was
brought up, read concurred, M' Bell and M' Baker joined.
A Vote that the committee on Continental Accounts be and here
by are impowered to hire a proper person as Clerk to assist in said
Office and to agree with said Clerk what wages he is to receive for his
Service but not to exceed eight Shihings p' Day, was brought up
read and concurred.
A Vote that the pay-roll of Elias Tarlton araounting to forty nine
pounds be paid out of the Treasury by order of the president, was
brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-raorrow, 9, O'Clock, A. M.
WEDNESDAY, September 20,"' 17S6.
Met according to adjournment.
A Vote to accept the report of the comraittee appointed to con
sider what is to be done with Notes, Certificates &c. and
that Josiah * Gilman Esquire M' Ephraim Robinson and * 2 : 199
Colonel Toppan be a committee to see the report carried
into effect, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Effingham .and report thereon, was brought
up, read and concurred ; M' Baker and M' M'^Clary joined.
A Vote that all persons holding public Securities of this State shall
have liberty to apply to the Treasurer for Certificates for the same,
who is hereby authorized to issue in whole or in part for said securi
ties presented, as the bearer may request which Certificates are to be
received into the Treasury in payment of all outstanding Taxes prior
to the year 1786 the New Emission Tax and the specie tax for 1781
excepted, was brought up, read and Non-concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Piermont on the third Wednesday
of the next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.

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A Vote that his Excellency the president be desired to call forth a
sufficient number Militia to protect the General Court in their present
Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned.
THURSDAY, September 2i^ 1786.
* 2 : 200 *A Vote that the hearings on the remainder of the pe
titions which were to have been heard this Day be pos-
poned till to-morrow, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the President be requested to return the thanks of
both houses to the brave Officers and Soldiers of the Militia for the
great Zeal and Alacrity they have discovered in supporting the con
stitutional Authority of the State and for displaying a Spirit of pa
triotism and public "Virtue, which while it affords the highest satisfac
tion to the Legislature merits the acknowledgements of every good
Citizen of the State, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a coraraittee to join a committee to take under consid
eration what method shall be taken with the prisoners taken this day
and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Gilman,
M' M-^Clary, M' M-^Duffee M' Bellows and M' Wentworth joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of the Inhabitants of
Effingham and that the Treasurer govern himself accordingly.
Adjourned till to morrow 9. O'Clock, A. M.
FRIDAY, September 23"^, [22'*] 1786.
A Vote to hear the petition of Jeremiah Sthes on the second
Tuesday of the next Session, was brought up, read and con
curred.
* 2 : 201 *A Vote that the prisoners be examined before both
branc[h]es of the Legislature in the Senate Charaber as
soon as may be was brought up, read and concurred with this amend
ment, that the examination of the Prisoners be in the meeting house,
brought up concurred.
A Vote appointing a Committee to view the situation of the Town
of Washington and agree upon a place for sitting a house for public
worship and report thereon to the General Court, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of the Selectraen of
Charlestown and giving them leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was
brought up, read and concurred.

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An Act for altering, repairing and making fit for the passing of
Carts and Waggons, the road from the Town of Conway to the upper
Coos ; and also for cutting a new road from the said Road which is
now used, to the Town of Gunthwait or to the Town of Littletown
formerly called Anthrop [Apthorp], was read a third time, voted that
the same be enacted. Adjourned 'till to-morrow 9, O'Clock.
SATURDAY, September 23^ 1786.
Met according to adjournraent.
Present as Yesterday.
In Senate September the 23^, 1786.
Resolved, that there be an addition of three Companies
to the first Regiment * Of Light Horse commanded by * 2 : 202
Colonel Amos Cogswell, sent down for concurrence by Col
Shepard brough[t] up concurred.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to Issue Certificates for 25
p' Cent of the principal of all State Securities in addition to the Cer
tificates for interest to any person or persons that are holders of said
Securities that may request the same and that said Certificates be re
ceived in payment of all State Taxes which are payable in facihities
was brought up, read and concurred with this amendment, that 15 in
stead of 25 p' Cent, sent down, brought up, concurred.
A Vote that the President with advice of Counch be desired to ad
journ the General Court to the second Wednesday in December next
then to meet at Concord, was brought up, read and concurred with
this amendment to meet at Portsmouth instead of Concord.
An Act to authorize impower Ebenezer Harvey of Chesterfield in
said State to compleat the Collection of taxes in said Town for the
years 1781, and 1783, was read a third time, and voted that the same
be enacted.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Elizabeth Lamson
and giving her leave to bring in a bill at this or the next Session, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pay Jaraes Folsom 43/6 in full for a Case for State
papers, was brought up, read and concurred : warrant granted.
*A Resolve authorizing the Selectmen of Warren to * 2 : 203
take an Inventory of the Polls and Estates in said Town,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the Treasury be directed to use his discretion with re
spect to Issuing Extents, was brought up, read and concurred.
u

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State of New-Hampshire.
In Senate September 23"^, 1786.
Voted that ]oh^cv M'^Kean [James] Cockran, Thoraas Cotton, John
Gregg and David Batcheldor now in custody for disordily and con-
teraptuous behavour to the Legislature be confined in prison for the
space of eight days at the expiration of which the President with
advice of Council may either deliver thera over to the civh authority
or order their release. Sent down for concurrence.
Voted that the President with advice of Counch be empowered and
requested to agree with post-Riders of agreeably to a vote of the Gen
eral Court of 27"' June last unthl the next Session, sent down for
concurrence, brought up concurred.
A Vote to allow and pay the account of the Hon. John Calf Es
quire amounting to £7,.9..o. was brought up, read and concurred,
warrant granted.
* 2 : 204 *A Vote to pay the Account of Minas Daniels araount
ing to four pounds as messenger to the Honorable house,
was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote to pay the account of John Nichols amounting to four
pounds as Messenger to the Hon. Senate, was brought up, read and
concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote that the Treasury be directed not to issue any extent
against the Excise raaster the County of Rockingham for the year
17S6, untill the next Session of the General Court, was brought up,
read and Non-concurred.
A Vote on the petition of State Prisoners was brought up, read and
Non-concurred. An Act in addition to an Act entitled an Act for forming and reg
ulating the mhitia within this State and for repealing all the Laws
heretofore raade for that purpose, having been read a third time vpted
that the same be enacted.
A Resolve that there shall be 3 Regiments of Light Horse instead
of 2 as p' a forraer resolve &c. was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pay Benjarain Biggelow forty pounds in full for his ac
count for provisions &c. was brought up, read and concurred, warrant
granted. A Vote that the hearings on petitions frora Towns and in-
* 2 : 205 dividuals which * Were appointed to be heard on the third
Week of the present Session, be postponed to the same
days of the third Week in the next Session and that the Secretary
give early notice thereof, was brought up, read and concurred.

1786] journal of the senate. 683
A Vote that the Town of Lyme have credit on their Tax for the
year 1779 for £(^^^..^1 after said sum is liquidated, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Resolve that his Excellency be impowered to draw out of the
Treasury the sum of ;^200 to be by him advanced as he shall think
fit towards payment of the necessary Expenditures in calling in the
Militia to suppress the late insurection to be respectively accounted
for by those who shall receive the same on settlement of their by the
General Court, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote, that the President may call forth a sufficient number of
the Militia, to quell any Riot, Insurrection or attempt the Courts of
Justice, or to release any prisoners was brought up, read and con
curred. A Vote to release Caleb Smith one of the prisoners in Exeter Goal,
was brought up, read concurred.
A Vote that John M'Kean, James Cochran, Thomas Cot
ton, John Gregg and David Batcheldor now in * Custody ''' 2 : 206
for disordily, contemptuous and riotous behavour to the
Legislature be delivered over to the Superior Court in order that they
may be indicted and tried for a riot, and a riot only ; and that the Su
perior Court be desired to proceed accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
His Excellency the President sent the Secretary to Honorable
house to acquaint them that he, with advice of Council, had adjourned
the General Court to the second Wednesday in December next then
to meet at Portsmouth. Attest Joseph Pearson Sec^.

JOURNAL

OF THE

House of Representatives
CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM
SEPTEMBER 6 TO SEPTEMBER 23, 17S6.

* JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS * 13 1178

OF THE

HON.BL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OF THE
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
At their Session began and held at Exeter, on Wednesday,
the Sixth Day of September, Anno Domini, 1786, and in the
Eleventh Year of the Independence of America.
WEDNESDAY, September 6, 1786.
Several [of the] merabers attended at the Court House in Exeter,
according to adjournraent, but there not being a quorum for
transacting business, agreed to adjourn to eight o'clock to-raorrow
morning. THURSDAY, September 7, 1786.
Several merabers met according to adjournraent, but there not
being a quorum, agreed to adjourn to half after two o'clock in the
afternoon. Met according to adjournment, and there being several members
present more than in the forenoon, made a quorum, and proceeded
to business. Voted, That Mr. Betton, Col. Runnels, and Mr. Knowles, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to
consider of the petition of Peter Pearse, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Maj' Young.]

688 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Voted, That the hearings on the petitions from towns and
individuals in this state, which were appointed to be heard on the
third week of the present session, be postponed to the same days
of the third week of the next session of the General Court, and
that the Secretary give early publick notice thereof, that all persons
concerned may govern themselves accordinglv. [Sent up by M' McMurphy.]
Yoted, That Col. John Waldron, of Dover, and Major Samuel Hale,
of Barrington, be added to the committee to take under consideration
the petition of [from] the towns of Cornish, Plainfield, lebanon,
&c. who were appointed at the last session of the General Court, and
that said committee sit during the present session, and at such times
as they think necessary in the recess of the General Court, and until
the second Monday of the next session, and that no accounts be
received after said day, and that said comraittee report as soon as
may be. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
* 13: 179 * Voted, That Mr. Pickering, Mr. Robinson and Mr.
M'Murphy, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shah join, be a committee to devise ways and means for forward
ing one or more coraraissioners from this state to attend the conven
tion at Annapolis, on commercial raatters, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Gibson.]
Voted, That the honourable Mr. Langdon, Mr. Pickering, Col.
Badger, Col. Welch and Mr. Betton, with such of the honourable
Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to consider what business
is necessary first to be entered upon, and done at this session, and
report thereon. [Sent up by Maj' Young.]
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow raorning.
FRIDAY, September 8, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
Voted, That this House resolve theraselves into a coramittee of
the whole, in conjunction with the honourable Senate, as soon as
may be, (if they think [see] fit) to take under consideration the re
quisition of the Congress of the 27th of September 1785, and second
of August 1786. and any other matter that may be thought necessary
when met. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of William Read, pray
ing for the privhege of a ferry. Voted, That the petitioner be heard
thereon before the General Court, on the second Tuesday of their
next session, and that in the mean time the petitioner cause that the
selectmen of Litchfield and Merrimac, be served with a copy of the

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petition and order of Court thereon, that they, or either of thera may
then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer there
of may not be granted. [Sent up by Cap' Barron.]
Voted, That Mr. Gibson, Mr. Betton, Mr. Jenks, Mr. Johnson and
Mr. Bedee, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be
a committee to consider of the petition of the selectraen of Conway
and all similar matters, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Cap' Barron.]
* Upon reading and considering the petition of John * 13:180
Stuart, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon on
Thursday the 14th instant, and that in the raean time the petitioner
cause that Thomas Stuart and Samuel Stuart, mentioned in said peti
tion, be served with a copy of the petition and order of Court there
on, that they raay then appear, and shew cause (if any they have) why
the prayer thereof may not be granted. [Sent up by Cap' Barron.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Captain Charles
Henzell, Voted, That the prayer of said petition be granted, and that
he have leave to bring in a bill or resolve accordingly. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
The honourable Senate and House being met in coraraittee of
the whole, agreeably to a vote of this day, his Excellency the
President appointed Chairman, proceeded to the consideration of
the requisition of Congress of the 27th of September, 1785, res
pecting a compliance with that part thereof which cahs for a tax to
be paid in facilities, and came to the following vote : — Voted to com
ply with said requisition, — Proceeded to consider the requisition of
Congress of the 2d of August, 1786, and Yoted, To postpone the fur
ther consideration thereof to the next session of the General Court.
They then proceeded to consider of the petitions from sundry
towns and places in this state, praying for a redress of grievances,
paper-money,' &c. and after sorae debate thereon, agreed to postpone
the further consideration thereof till the afternoon ; the committee
then rose with leave to sit again, and the Speaker resumed the chair.
Adjourned to half after 2 o'clock P. M. [in the afternoon.]
Met accordingly.
The honourable Senate and House [of Representatives] being
again met in committee of the whole, his Excellency the President
in the chair, resumed the consideration of the petitions from sundry
towns and places in this state, respecting a paper currency and after
much debate thereon, came to the fohowing vote :
Voted, That his Excehency the President, the honourable.
Speaker, Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. M'Murphy, Col. Welch, Col. Run
I. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 122, 319, 488.

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nels. Col Bell, Col. Wentworth and Col. Waldron, be a sub-com
mittee to consider of the propriety of making a quantity
* 13: 181 of paper-money *for a circulating medium of trade, and
if [said coraraittee agree] agreed [to by said comraittee] to
emit the same, to report the sum they raay judge necessary to be
emitted, the way and manner of issuing the same, together with
the raanner in which the same shall be redeeraed, &c. [after some
further debate.] They [then] voted to reconsider the foregoing
vote, and [voted] to postpone the further consideration thereof till
to-morrow. The coraraittee then rose with leave to sit again, and
the Speaker resuraed the chair.
The House then adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
SATURDAY, September 9, 1786.
The House then met according to adjournraent.
Voted, (That Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Preston and Mr. Hubbard, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
exaraine into the situation of the accounts between this state and
the United States, and report how far the comraittee on continental
accounts have proceeded in a settlement of the same with Mr. Gor
ham, commissioner for the United States. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Col. Badger, Col. Waldron, Mr.
M'^Murphy and Mr. Hubbard, with such of the honourable Senate as
they shall join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Joseph
Whipple Esq. and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Voted, That Col. Leavitt, Col. Runnels and Col. 'Wiggin, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of an extent issued by the Treasurer, against the town of
Charlestown, and report thereon. [Sent up by Col° Welch.]
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Mr. Pickering and Mr. Gibson, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to con
sider of the propriety of receiving any sura of raoney with petitions
that [they] may be presented to the General Court ; Also, how rauch
shall be paid, to whom, and how appropriated, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Page.]
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Charles Clapham, which
was [appointed] to have been on the second Tuesday of this session
of the General Court, be on Thursday next, the vote for postponing
the publick hearings not-withstanding. [Sent up by Col° Waldron.]

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*The honourable Senate and House being again met in * 13 : 182
committee of the whole, his Excellency the President in
the chair, resumed the consideration of the matter of paper-money,
and voted to appoint a sub-comraittee, consisting of nine persons,
to report the best plan they can devise for emitting paper-money,
and that the committee consist of the fohowing persons, viz.
His Excehency the President, Col. Bell, Col. Shepard, Col. Bel
lows, Col Runnels, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Betton, Col. Welch and Mr.
M'^Murphy, and that said comraittee report thereon Wednesday
next. Yoted, That the honourable Speaker, [M' Langdon] Mr. Picker
ing, Col. Wentworth, Mr. Sparhawk and Col. M'^Clary, be a coramit
tee to prepare a bill for carrying into effect the articles of the defini
tive treaty [of peace] and report thereon. The committee then rose
with leave to sit again, and the Speaker resuraed the chair.
Adjourned to Monday next, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, September ii, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Mr. Hubbard, Mr. McMurphy, and Mr. Young, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the account of Col. Supply Clapp, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Cap' Smith.]
Voted that Mr. Preston, Col. Toppan, and Mr. Betton, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petitions from Harastead, Plastow and Atkinson,' res
pecting representation, and report thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Barron.]
Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Thompson, Captain Sraith, Major
Ashley and Mr. Storrs, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a coramittee to consider of the propriety of fining those
towns and places in this state that are entitled to the privilege of
sending a representative, but neglect the same, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Col° Lovell]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
TUESDAY, September 12, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
* An act to restore the property and possession of the * 13 : 183
estate of Charles Henzell, Esq. and enable hira to ira-
I. xi. Ham Town Papers, 13 t, 132.

692 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
prove or convey the sarae, was read a third tirae and passed to be
enacted. [Sent up by Maj' Young & M' Greeley.]
Voted, That General Dow, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Gibson, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee
to consider of a bill presented at the last session, for complying
with the requisition of Congress of the 27th of September, 1785,
and report such alterations and amendments as they may judge
necessary. [Sent up by Col° M'^Millan.]
Voted, That, Mr. Knowles, Mr. Thompson and Mr. Chase, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
examine the Schedule for the last proportion of taxes, and report
whether the town of Clareraont is over taxed : also report on all sim
ilar raatters. [Sent up by Col° Leavitt.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Sarah Chapin and
Justus Chapin, Voted, that the prayer thereof be granted, and that
the petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of sundry inhabit
ants of Keen, Packersfield, Gilsom and Stoddard, Voted, That the
petitioners be heard thereon before the General Court, on the
third Wednesday of their next session, and that in the mean time
the petitioners cause that the selectmen of the towns of Keen,
Packersfield, Gilsom and Stoddard, each be served with a copy of
the petition and order of Court thereon, that they [or either of them]
may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer
thereof may not be granted. [Sent up by Cap' Barron.]
The honourable Senate returned the vote of the last session in
favor of John Bellows, Esq (which was not then concurred) for the
following amendment : That the committee on continental accounts
receive and liquidate the deraand and give hira a certificate of what
is due, and charge the same to the United States, and that upon said
Behows's producing such certificate to the President, he shah, with
advice of Council, give an order on the Treasurer for the same, to be
paid in a state note or notes with interest frora the time due, which
araendment was read and concurred. [Sent up by Gen' Dow.]
* 13: 184 *Upon reading and considering the petition of Josiah
Willard,' Voted, that the prayer thereof be so far granted as
is consistent with the certificate signed by Isaac Tichner, late com
missary of [the] purchases, and that the said Wihard receive his pay
in state notes, with interest from November, 1779, and that the Pres
ident give order accordingly. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
I. xiii. Ham. To'wn Papers. 668.

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Voted, That Mr. Thompson, Mr. Gibson and Mr. M<^Murphy, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee
to consider of the petition of Samuel Boyd, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Clement]
Voted, That Mr. Thompson, Mr. Dearborn and Col. Welch, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a committee to
exaraine whether there is any law now in force to prevent persons
from going on and improving lands which are the property of the
[this] state, and if not, to prepare a resolve for that purpose.
[Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Doct. Preston, Mr. M-^Murphy, Col.
Badger and Mr. Duncan, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to examine the Tables of Fees for this
state, and miake such alterations and amendments as they judge ne
cessary, and report a bill for that purpose. [Sent up by M' Kingsbury.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Whereas a vote passed the General Court of this state the 22d. of
June last, calling on each and every person presenting a petition to
said Court, to pay to the Clerk one dollar, for which he was account
able. Also a vote of the 27th, requiring the person preferring a
petition to the Senate on any private affair in which any indi
vidual or individuals only are interested, to pay the Secretary six
shilhngs, for which he was accountable, are found inconvenient.
Therefore, Resolved, That the aforementioned votes be reconsidered, and that
upon every petition presented to this house on any private affair, in
which any individual or individuals only are interested, the person
preferring the sarae shall, before it is read, pay to the Clerk
six shillings lawful money, and that the Clerk at the close of
each session account for all sums so received, to the Treasurer of
the state. [Sent up by Col° Welch.]
* Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Col. Runnels and Mr. * 13 : 185
Wheeler, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider of the papers presented in behalf of
Experience Triskett, and report thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Storrs.]
The coramittee on the petition of Samuel Boyd, reported, that
the prayer of the petition be granted, and that his pay be made
up equal to thirty shihings per raonth, from the time he was en
rolled, to the 31st day of July last, agreeable to a resolution of
Congress, of the 23d [day] of April, 1782: Signed John McClarey,
for the committee. Which report being read and considered. Voted,

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That it be received and accepted, and that the paymaster of [the]
invahds certify the sum due, and that the President give order [ac
cordingly] for payment in usual forra. [Signed Joseph Gilman for
the comraittee which report being read and considered, Voted, that
it be received and accepted — Sent up by M' M'^Murphy.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, September 13, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
The committee on the petitions of Hamstead, Plastow and Atkin
son,' reported as their opinion, that a day of hearing be appointed
in the next session ; Whereupon, Voted That the petitioners be
heard thereon before the General Court, on the third Wednesday
of their next session, and that in the raean tirae the petitioners
cause that the substance of the petitions and order [of Court] thereon,
be posted up in some publick place in each of said towns three weeks
successively, prior to the day of hearing, [that any person or persons
may then appear, and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer
thereof may hot be granted. Sent up by Cap' Underhih.]
Voted, That Mr. Duncan, Mr. Preston, and Col. Runnels, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee
to consider of the accounts of John Morrison, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Cap' Underbill]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the inhabitents of
Hinnekar, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that Major
Isaac Chandler, of Hopkinton, Ninean Akin, Esq. of Dearing, and
Mr. Samuel Caldwell, of Weare, be and they hereby are appointed a
coramittee, at the expenee of the petitioners, to view the situation of
said inhabitents and fix upon a place for buhding a house for publick
worship, and report thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Underbill]
* 13 : 186 *The honourable Senate and House being again met in
comraittee of the whole, his Excellency the President in
the chair. The sub- committee appointed to devise the best plan for
emitting paper-money, brought in a report, which was read several
times, and after some debate thereon, agreed to postpone the further
consideration thereof until the afternoon. The committee then rose
with leave to sit again, and the speaker resumed the chair.
The House then adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Col. Runnels, Major Means, and Col. Leavitt, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shaU join, be a committee to
I. xi. Ham. Town Papersj 131-132.

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consider of the petition of the inhabitants of Effingham, and report
thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Peters.]
The honourable Senate and House being again met in committee
of the whole, (his Excellency the President in the chair) resumed
the consideration of the report of the sub-committee on a plan for
emitting a paper-currency, and after debating thereon, came to the
following vote :
Voted, To postpone the determination on said report to the next
session of the General Court, and that printed copies of said plan be
sent to the selectmen of the several towns and places in this state,
and they are hereby requested to call legal meetings of the inhabit
ants of the several towns and places to give their opinions on said
plan, and the nurabers for and against it, or any alterations they may
think best to make, and the numbers for and against such alterations,
and that certified copies from the selectraen or town Clerk of the
several towns and places be returned to the next session of the Gen
eral Court. The coramittee then rose with leave to sit again, and
the Speaker resumed the chair.
Motion was then made to accept the foregoing report of the cora
mittee of the whole, and voted that said report be accepted.
[Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Josiah Gage, and
others, which was to have been this day before the General Court, be
postponed to the second Tuesday of their next [session,] of which all
persons concerned, are to take notice and govern themselves ac
cordingly. [Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
* Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow raorning. * 13 : 187
THURSDAY, September 14, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act for supplying the Treasury with the sura of seventy
thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dohars and one third of
a dollar, for the purpose of discharging that part of the requisition
of Congress of the twenty-seventh of Septeraber, 1785, which is
to be paid in fachities, was read a third time, and passed to be
enacted. [Sent up by Cap' Copland & Cap' Peters.]
Voted, That the vote of yesterday for accepting the report of a
comraittee of the whole on the plan reported by the sub-comraittee,
and for sending out the same for the opinion of the people at large,
be reconsidered.
The honourable Senate and House being again met, in committee
of the whole (His Excehency the President in the chair) again took

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[1786

under consideration the report of the sub-comraittee, on the plan
for emitting a paper currency, and raotion was made for reconsid
ering the vote of yesterday, which passed in comraittee of the whole,
and after debating thereon. Voted, To adhere to the vote of yester
day : the coramittee then rose with leave to sit again, and the
Speaker resuraed the chair.
Motion was then raade to accept the report of the coramittee of
the whole respecting the plan for a paper currency, and the yeas and
nays being called for, were as follows : [viz.]

Yeas.
Hon. J. Langdon, Esq.
Col. Runnels,
Mr. Jenness,
Col. Toppan,
Mr. Brown,
Mr. Elliott,
Mr.. Gile,
Mr. Cram,
Mr. Foster,
Mr. Bradley,
Capt. Dow,
Col. Putnam,
Mr. Spaulding,
Col. Cragin,
Capt. Cunningham,
Mr. Duncan,
Capt. Hadley,
Mr. Greeley,
Nays.
Mr. Robinson,
Col. Leavitt,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Wheeler,

Yeas.
Mr. Clement,
Mr. Jackman,
Mr. Clark,
Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. Betton,
Mr. Gibson,
Mr. Knowles,
Col. Badger,
Mr. Bedee,
Capt. Ambrose,
Mr. Chesley,
Col. McMillan,
Mr. Marsh,
Col. Lovell,
Capt. Barron,
Mr. Dole,
Mr. Page,
Major Means,
Nays.
Mr. Barnard,
Col. 'Welch,
Mr. Thompson,
Mr. Rendall,

Yeas.
Mr. Mann,
Mr. Preston,
Mr. [A.] Kingsbury,
Capt. Ashley,
Capt. Works,
Mr. Smith,
Mr. S. Kingsbury,
Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Mack,
Mr. Holmes,
Capt. Copland,
Mr. Ames,
Major Kiraball,
Col. Mooney,
Capt. Storrs,
Major Freeraan,
Mr. Skinner.

Nays.
Mr. Chase,
Mr. Peters,
Mr. Johnson,
Major Young.

S3 yeas.

12 Nays.

So the report was accepted. [Sent up bv M' Dole.]
* 13 : 188 * Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Col. Waldron, Major Means,
Mr. A. Kingsbury, and Captain Peters, with such of the hon
ourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to consider [of] what
business is yet necessary to be done at this session, anda.t what time,
and to what time and place this Court shah be adjourned, also con
sider what allowance shall be raade the raembers of the honourable
Senate and House of Representatives, and their ofificers, for travel
and attendance at the present session, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Dole.]

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697

Upon reading and considering the petition of Thomas Clark,
and others, inhabitants of Piermont, Voted, That the petitioners be
heard thereon before the General Court, on the third Wednesday of
their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause
that the selectmen of Piermont, be served with a copy of the petition,
and order of Court thereon, that they raay then appear, and shew
cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof raay not be granted.
[Sent up by Cap' Underbill]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Agreeably to the order of the day, proceeded to hear the parties
on John Stuart's petition, and after a full hearing thereon, Voted, To
disraiss said petition.
An act, in addition to and [in] araendment of an act, intitled "an
act for forming and regulating the militia within this state and for
repealing all the laws heretofore made for that purpose," came down
from the honourable Senate for concurrence, was read, and non-con
curred. The coramittee on the accounts of John Morrison, for writing Con
tinental accounts, reported. That the said Morrison be allowed and
paid out of the Treasury nine shillings per day, from his first enter
ing that service, agreeably to the accounts tendered, amounting to
fifty eight pounds nineteen shillings, Signed Joshua Wentworth, for
the committee. Which report being read and considered. Voted,
That it be received and accepted.
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed to receive [the]
final settlement securities (on which interest has * not been * 13 : 189
paid) at the rate of six shillings and eight pence on the
pound, in payment of out standing taxes agreeably to an act of this
state, until further order of the General Court. [Sent up by Maj' Means.]
An act in compliance with the treaty of peace, between the United
States, and his Britannick Majesty, and with the recommendation
of Congress, of the 14th of January, 1784, founded thereon, was
read a third time, and the yeas and nays being called for, were as
follow :

Yeas.
Hon. Mr. Langdon,
Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. Dearborn,
Mr. Preston,
Capt. Cunningham,
Col. Toppan,
Mr. Brown, 45

Yeas.
Mr. Elliott,
Mr. Foster,
Mr. Bradley,
Col. Welch,
Col. Waldron,
Mr. Thompson,
Mr. Knowles,
Maj. Hale,

Yeas.
Mr. Bedee,
Capt. Ambrose,
Mr. Chesley,
Mr. Duncan,
Capt. Smith,
Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. [A.] Kingsbury,
Mr. Rendall,

Yeas.
Capt. Ashley,
Capt. Works,
Mr. Smith,
Mr. Chase,
Col. Mooney,
Capt. Storrs,
Maj. Freeman,
Maj. Young.

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Nays.
Col. Runnels,
Mr. McMurphy,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Merrill,
Mr. Wheeler,
Mr. Gile,
Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Daniels,
Capt. Dow,

Nays.
Mr. Gibson,
Col. Badger,
Mr. Marsh,
Capt. Barron,
Mr. Dole,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Emerson,
Mr. Mann,
Mr. Spaulding,

32 Yeas,
So it passed in the negative.

Nays.
Capt. Hadley,
Mr. Greeley.
Mr. Cleraent,
Mr. Jackman,
Mr. Clark,
Mr. S. Kingsbury,
Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Mack,
Mr. Holmes,
- 34 Nays.

Nays.
Capt. Copland,
Mr. Ames,
Mr. Kendall,
Maj. Kimball,
Capt. Peters,
Mr. Johnson,
Gen. Dow.

Adjourned to 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
FRIDAY, September 15, 1786.

The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That General Dow, Mr. Duncan, Mr. M<=Murphy, Colonel
Toppan, and Colonel Waldron, with such of the honourable Senate
as they shall join, be a committee to take under consideration the
act for the recovery of sraall debts in an expeditious way and manner,
and report such alterations and araendraents, as they may judge
necessary. [Sent up by Col° Welch.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the selectmen of
Chesterfield,' Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the
petitioners have leave to bring in a bhl accordingly. [Sent up by M' Smith.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jaraes Banks,
* 13 : 190 and Thoraas Lewis, Voted, That the petitioners be * heard
thereon before the General Court, on the third Thursday
of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause
that the substance of the petition and order of court thereon, be
published three weeks successively, in one of the New-Hampshire
newspapers, that any person or persons may then appear and shew
cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
[Sent up by M' Dole.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of David "Wnson and
Susannah Wilson, Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon
before the General Court, on the third Thursday of their next
session, and [that] in the mean tirae the petitioners cause that a copy
of the petition and order of Court thereon, be posted up in some
publick place in the town of Winchester, three weeks successively,
prior to said day of hearing, that any person or-persons may then ap-
I. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 345. '"-s..

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pear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may
not be granted. [Sent up by Col° Badger.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Motion was made to reconsider the vote of yesterday, respecting
the act for complying with the treaty of peace, and Voted, That the
said vote of yesterday be reconsidered.
An act in compliance with the definitive treaty of peace between
the United States, and his Britannick Majesty, and with the recom
mendation of Congress, of the 14th of January, 1784, founded there
on, was read a third time, and the yeas and nays being cahed for,
were as follow, viz.

Yeas.
Hon. Mr. Langdon,
Mr. Pickering,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Jenness,
Col. Toppan,
Mr. Brown,
Col. Wiggin,
Mr. Eliott,
Mr. Gile,
Mr. Cram,

Yeas.
Mr. Foster,
Mr. Bradley,
Col. Welch,
Mr. Betton,
Col. Waldron,
Mr. Thompson,
Mr. Knowles,
Maj. Hale,
Mr. Bedee,
Mr. Ambrose,
Mr. Chesley,

Yeas.
Mr. Dearborn,
Col. M-^Millan,
Col. Lovell,
Major Means,
Mr. Preston,
Col. Putnam,
Col. Cragin,
Capt. Cunningham,
Mr. Duncan,
Capt. Smith,
Mr. Clark,

Yeas.
Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. [A.] Kingsbury,
Mr. Rendall,
Mr. Ashley,
Capt. Works,
Mr. Smith,
Mr. Chase,
Col. Mooney,
Maj. Freeraan,
Mr. Skinner,
Maj. Young.

* Nays.
Col. Runnels,
Mr. McMurphy,
Col. Leavitt,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Merrill,
Mr. Wheeler,
Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Daniels,
Capt. Dow,

Nays.
Mr. Gibson,
Col. Badger,
Mr. Marsh,
Capt. Barron,
Mr. Dole,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Emerson,
Mr. Mann,
Capt. Hadley,

Nays.
Mr. Greeley,
Mr. Cleraent,
Mr. Jackman,
Mr. Gilmore,
Mr. S. Kingsbury,
Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Mack,
Mr. Holmes,
Capt. Copland,

Nays.

13: 191

Mr. Ames,
Mr. Kendall,
Maj. Kimball,
Capt. Peters,
Mr. Tolford,
Mr. Johnson,
Gen. Dow,

34 Nays.

44 Yeas, -
So it passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Sparhawk & Cap' Hadley.]
Voted, That all persons holding publick securities of this state,
shall have liberty to apply to the Treasurer for certificates for the
same, who is hereby authorized to issue certificates in whole or in
part for said securities presented, as the bearer may request [require],
which certificates are to be received into the Treasury in payment

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of ah taxes prior to the year 1786 — The New-Emission tax, and the
[specie] tax for 1781, excepted. [Sent up by Col° Badger.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
SATURDAY, September 16, 1786.
The House met according to adjournraent.
Voted, That Colonel Edwards Bucknara, of Lancaster, Colonel
John M<^Duffee, of Rochester, and Colonel Andrew M'^Millan, of
Conway, be a coraraittee to view the road leading frora the town of
Conway to the Upper Cooss, and cause the sarae to be repaired (or
altered where necessity requires) and made fit for carriages ; and also
[to] cut a new road from the said road, which is now used to the town
of Apthorp or Gunthwait, if they shall find the same [to be] of pub
lick utility, and necessary for the inhabitants of that part of the
state, and that they seh of the unappropriated lands belonging to
this state, near unto, or through which said road shall pass, as shah
be sufficient to make the road passable with "carts and waggons, and
that a bhl be brought in for that purpose. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Voted, That Mr. Thompson, Colonel Badger, and Colonel Runnels,
with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a com
mittee to consider of the petition of Col. Nathan Hoit, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
* 13 : 192 * Upon reading and considering the petition of George
Hart, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before
the General Court, on the third Thursday of their next session, and
that in the mean time the petitioner cause that Neheraiah Furber,
and Mary Furber, be served with a copy of the petition, and order of
Court thereon, that they raay then appear, and shew cause (if any
they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
[Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Upon reading end considering the petition of Daniel Loring, Voted,
That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court, on
the third Wednesday of their next session, and that in the mean
time the petitioner cause that Asahel Goodenough, of East-Sudbury,
[in the] county of Middlesex, and commonwealth of Massachusetts,
be served with a copy of the petition and order of Court thereon,
that he may then appear and shew cause (if any he hath) why
the prayer thereof raay not be granted ; and that all further pro
ceedings against [the] said Loring, be stayed until the decision of
the General Court. [Sent up by Gen^ Dow.]
The coraraittee appointed by the General Court in their session in

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June last, to settle the accounts between the Treasurer and the state,
reported as follows, viz.
State of New Hampshire, Exeter, August 17, 1786.
We the subscribers, a comraittee appointed by the General Court,
[at their session] in June last, to settle the accounts between the
Treasurer and the state, beg leave to report. That we have care
fully exarained the account of the notes and certificates issued by the
Treasurer, frora the twenty-third [day] of May, 1785, (the day to
which he was settled with by a forraer committee) to the day of this
[the] date hereof, viz. An account of notes issued, dated July 31st,
1784, and numbered from 4603 to 4656 inclusive, amounting to one
thousand, eight hundred, [and] thirty-four pounds, eighteen shillings ;
also, an accountof sundry notes of particular dates, from May 23d,
1785, to July 31st, 1785, nurabered from 169 to 187 inclu
sive, amounting to one thousand, two * hundred and * 13 : 193
twenty-two pounds, nine shillings and nine pence ; also,
an account for notes [issued] dated July 31st, 1785, numbered from
I to 2444 inclusive, amounting to one hundred and four thousand,
one hundred and seventy-four pounds, six shillings and one penny.
We have also examined an account of certificates issued for inter
est, dated July 31st, 1784, and numbered from 2783 to 2902 inclusive,
amounting to six hundred [and] eighty-three pounds, one shilling and
nine pence ; [also an account of certificates issued for fifteen per cent.
¦of the principal of notes, numbered from 2798 to 2919 inclusive,
amounting to eight hundred and eighty-five pounds, seven shillings
and nine pence ;] also, an account of certificates dated July 31st, 1785,
issued for interest, and fifteen per cent, of the principal of notes, and
numbered from i to 3421 inclusive, amounting to twenty-seven thou
sand, five hundred and seventy-three pounds, one shihing. All which
issues of notes and certificates are accounted for by receipt, for inter
est, and fifteen per cent, of [the] principal paid and indorsed on sun
dry notes, and by producing old notes taken up agreeably to acts and
resolves of the General Court, [and by orders drawn by the President
of the state agreeably to acts and resolves of said Court.]
We have likewise received of the Treasurer sundry certificates
which he has received for taxes &c. which were issued by the late and
present Treasurer, dated July 31st, 1782, araounting to four hundred
and fifty eight pounds, three shillings ; also, sundry certificates issued
by the present Treasurer, dated July 31st, 1783, araounting to seven
hundred and ninety-four pounds, three shillings and one penny ; also,
sundry certificates dated July 31st, 1784, for interest on notes and

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orders, araounting to four thousand eight hundred and six pounds,
eleven shillings and eight pence ; also, sundry certificates dated July
31st, 1784, issued for fifteen per cent, of the principal on state notes,
araounting to four thousand, seven hundred and eighty-one pounds,
twelve shillings ; also, certificates dated July 31st, 1785, issued for
interest, and fifteen per cent, of the principal of state notes and or
ders, araounting to eighteen thousand, seven hundred and twelve
pounds, eleven shhlings and ten pence ; also, sundry certificates, July
31st, 1786, for interest on state notes, amounting to two
* 13 : 194 * hundred and forty-four pounds, fifteen shhlings and ten
pence ; also, certificates for interest, issued by the Con
tinental Loan-Officer of this state, araounting to seven thousand, four
hundred and sixty one pounds, four shillings and six pence ; also
fifty-three thousand, four hundred and eighteen dollars, in bills of
the new eraission of this state ; also, certificates issued by the Board
of War, for cloathing, amounting to eight pounds, three shilhngs
and six pence.
We have likewise received sundry consolidated notes, which were
received for taxes, viz. One note dated July 31st, 1782, which after
deducting 15 per cent, paid, amounts to one hundred and thirty-seven
pounds, two shillings and one penny ; and sundry notes dated July
31st, 1785, amounting to one thousand, two hundred and twenty-four
pounds, sixteen shillings and eight pence ; also sundry notes which
were taken up, and for which new notes and certificates have been is
sued, viz. Consolidated notes, araounting to one hundred and thirty
thousand, two hundred and ninety-one pounds, two shilhngs and nine
pence ; depreciation notes, amounting to one hundred and thirty-five
pounds, fifteen shihings and one penny ; bounty notes, four hundred
and forty-five pounds ; and notes for raoney borrowed, and horses
purchased, araounting to two thousand, five hundred and eighty
pounds ; also, certificates issued by the collectors of beef cattle, in
theyear 1782, araounting to two hundred and fifty seven pounds,
fourteen shhlings and one penny; also receipts for bounties for kill
ing wolves, araounting to three hundred and twenty-seven pounds,
fourteen shillings ; also, continental final settlement notes, amounting
to twenty three thousand, nine hundred and ninety [Dollars] and
1^ dohars ; also, copper plate interest bills of this state,
* 13 : 195 amounting to eleven pounds, ten shillings : — *Ah which
we have secured and are ready to deliver as the honour
able Court shall please to order.
The account in bills of the new emission herewith exhibited is weh
vouched ; There is now outstanding of the second new emission tax
for the year 1781, the sura of two thousand four hundred and twenty-

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nine pounds, two shillings and six pence, in said bills, which is to be
charged to the Treasurer in a new account.
The charges in the hard raoney account, are also well vouched, and
amount to one hundred sixty-three thousand, six hundred and twenty-
six pounds, five shihings and eight pence ; and we find due for the
outstanding taxes, ninety thousand two hundred and fifty-two pounds,
sixteen shillings and five pence, (including the tax for the current
year) which is to be charged to the Treasurer in a new account. The
balance due from the Treasurer is sixty eight pounds, eighteen shil
lings and six pence, three farthings ; we have left in the hands of the
Treasurer sundry orders and rolls on which he has paid the sum of
one thousand nine hundred and two pounds, and seven pence for
which he is to be debited in his new account. There is also due to
the state on excise bonds, now in his hands, the sum of two thousand,
seven hundred and fifteen pounds, seven shillings and six pence, (in
cluding the excise for the current year) for which he is to be account
able. We have received an excise bond, signed by Joseph Thoraas
and others, dated March, 1773, which has been paid and ought to be
given up. We also find due to the state frora sundry towns, for de
ficiency of soldiers, five thousand four hundred and seventy-seven
pounds, one shilling and one penny. The account in continental
money is also well vouched and the Treasurer has paid into the hands
of the continental Loan Officer, one mihion, three hundred [and]
eighty-seven thousand, five hundred and fifty dollars (agreeably to a
vote of the General Court, of the 15th of June 1786) as
per receipt; * there is also in the hands of the Treasurer, * 13 : 196
three million, eight hundred and ten thousand, two hun
dred and eighty dollars of said continental money for which he is
accountable. We beg leave to observe that the whole of the accounts have been
kept regular and fair, and that the transacting of the business (con
sidering the variety and multiplicity thereof) must have been attended
with much labour and care.
THOMAS ODIORNE, )
Signed JOHN CALFE, V Committee.
EPHRAIM ROBINSON,)
Which report being read and considered, Yoted, That it be received
and accepted. [Sent up by M' Robinson.]
Yoted, That Mr. Thompson, Major Hale, and Mr. Chase, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to take
under considerarion the report of the committee appointed to settle
the accounts between the Treasurer and this state, and report what

704 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
is necessary to be done with the notes, certificates, &c. that the com
mittee received of the Treasurer, [and report thereon.]
[Sent up by M' Robinson.]
Voted, That the President give order for the payment of the ab
stract of sums unpaid on certain rolls therein mentioned, (which rolls
the committee to settle with the Treasurer received from him)
amounting to eight hundred, fifty-six pounds, twelve shillings and
two pence. [Sent up by M' Robinson.]
Voted, That Mr. Hubbard, General Dow, Major Means, Mr. Mann,
and Col. Wiggin, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider what is necessary to be done respect
ing a petition that was preferred at the last session, complaining of
the conduct of the inhabitants of the state of "Vermont,' and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Chase.]
The committee to take under consideration the act for the recovery
of smah debts in an expeditious way and manner, and report such
alterations and araendraents as they judged necessary, reported. That
the said act stands in need of no alterations or amend-
* 13 : 197 raents : Signed John Bellows, for the comraittee. * Which
report being read and considered. Voted, That it be re
ceived and accepted. [Sent up by M' Foster.]
Voted, That when the business of this session is finished, that his
Excellency the President with advice of Council be desired to ad
journ the General Court to the second Wednesday in December next,
then to meet at Concord. [Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
Adjourned to Monday next, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, September 18, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Preston, and Mr. M-^Murphy, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of James Rundlet ; also the petition of Enoch
Barker, and Jaraes Rundlet, likewise the account of Enoch Barker
and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Voted, That his Excellency the President with advice of council,
be impowered to draw on the Treasury in case of emergency, for. any
sum or sums not exceeding one hundred pounds, and that he account
for the sums so drawn. [Sent up by M' Foster.]
Voted, That Col. Hercules Mooney be allowed twelve pounds for a
horse, saddle and bridle, lost in the retreat frora Ticonderoga, in July,
1777, and that the President give order on the Treasurer for [the pay
raent of] said sum. [Sent up by M' Foster.]
i. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 452.

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The following resolve came down frora the honourable Senate for
concurrence. New hImp°shire | ^"^ Senate, Septeraber i8th, 1786.
Resolved, That for all outstanding taxes payable in certificates, the
Treasurer be, and hereby is directed, to receive final settlement se
curities, on which no interest has been paid, at the rate of six shh
lings and eight pence on the pound and those on which the interest
has been paid up to the 31st day of December, 1784, at the rate of
five shillings on the pound, until further order of the General Court ;
any thing in the act passed February 28, 1786, to the contrary not
withstanding. Signed, JOHN SULLIVAN, President.
[Which Resolve] Was read and concurred.
[Sent up by M' Foster.]
*The committee on the petition of Col. Nathan Hoit, * 13 : 198
reported. That the Treasurer of this state be directed not
to call on Col. Hoit for said sum of one hundred and forty pounds,
said to be in the hands of said Dearborn, until further order of the
General Court : Signed John M'Clary, for the committee. Which
report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and ac
cepted. Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-raorrow morning.
TUESDAY, September 19, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That the vote of the last session, respecting aUowing depre
ciation to the ofihcers of Col. Pierce Long's Regiment, be re-consid
ered ; the said regiment having been discharged before the Conti
nental scale of depreciation. [Sent up by M' Marsh.]
Read and debated on bills to be enacted.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That the committee on continental accounts be, and they
hereby are impowered to hire a proper person as a Clerk, to assist in
said office, and to agree with said Clerk, what wages he is to receive
for his service, but not to exceed eight shhlings per day.
[Sent up by Maj' Young.]

706 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Mr. Gibson and Mr. Emerson with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the account of Mr. Benjamin Bigelow, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
Voted, That the pay roll of Elias Tarlton, araounting to forty-nine
pounds, lawful raoney, be ahowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. [Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
The coraraittee appointed to consider what is to be done with notes,
certificates, &c. &c. which have been received by the coramittee ap
pointed to settle the Treasurer's accounts, reported, That the state
notes and certificates issued for interest, and fifteen per cent, of the
principal, and also, the copper-plate money which have been received
by hira for taxes, be burned. — That the certificates which
* 13 : 199 were issued * by the Loan-Officer for payraent of the in
terest on loan-office certificates, which have been received
by the Treasurer, the new eraission bills, and final settleraent secu
rities, be lodged with the Treasurer ; that all orders which have been
received for taxes, as well as all other publick papers, be lodged with
the coraraittee [Commissioner] on accounts ; that a coramittee be ap
pointed for the above purpose, and that they take proper receipts for
all the above papers : signed Joseph Gilman, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received
and accepted, and that Joseph Gilraan, Esquire, Mr. Robinson and
Col. Toppan, be a coraraittee to see the foregoing report carried into
effect. _ [Sent up by Cap' Sthes.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow raorning.
WEDNESDAY, September 20 1786.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
An act to authorize and impower Ebenezer Harvey, of Chester
field, in said state, to compleat the collection of taxes in said town,
for the years one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and one
thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, was read a third tirae, and
passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Young & M' Kingsbury.]
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed to issue certificates for
twentyfive per cent, of the principal of all state securities in addition
to the certificates for interest to any person or persons that are hold
ers of said securities that may request the same, and that said certi
ficates be received in payment of all state taxes which are payable in
facilities. [Sent up by M' Copland.]
Voted, That James Folsom, Jun. be ahowed forty-three shihings

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and six pence, in full for his account for a case for state papers, and
that the President give order on the Treasurer for said sum.
[Sent up by M' Copland.]
Adjourned to three o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of William Thomas,'
praying for the privilege of a ferry [over a certain part of Connecti
cut river,] Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that [he]
the petitioner have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, at this or the
next session. [Sent up by Cap' Stiles.]
* Upon hearing and considering the petition of Elisa- * 13 : 200
beth Lamson, praying to be restored to her law in a cer
tain action. Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the
petitioner have [hath] leave to bring in a bill accordingly at this or
the next session. [Sent up by Cap' Stiles.]
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Col. Waldron, Mr. Duncan, Captain
Stiles and General Dow, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a comraittee to consider of a petition signed [by] Joseph
French^ and Richard Adams, ^ and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Duncan.]
Voted, That Captain Stiles, Col. Toppan and Col. Hale, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of Col. Jedediah Sanger,* and others, and re
port thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Stiles.]
An Act for altering, repairing, and raaking fit for the passing of
carts and waggons, the road from the town of Conway to the upper
Cooss, and also for cutting a new road frora the said road which is
now used to the town of Gunthwait or to the town of Littleton,
formerly called Apthorp, was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. [Sent up by Cap' Stiles & M' Chesley.]
Agreeably to the order of the day, proceeded to hear several parties
on their petitions ; agreed to postpone the determination thereof till
to-morrow. Voted, That the hearings onthe remainder of the petitions [which]
were to have been this day, be postponed until to-morrow, of which
all persons concerned are to take notice, and govern theraselves ac
cordingly. [Sent up by M' Kingsbury.]
Adjourned for two minutes, then to meet in the Senate chamber.
Met according to adjournraent [accordingly].
Voted, That his Excellency, the President, be desired to cah forth
a sufificient number of the railitia to protect the General Court in their
present session. [Sent up by M' Hubbard.]
I. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 346. 2. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 93.
3. xii. id 479. 4. xiii. id. 514.

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* 13: 201 * Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning, then to
meet at the meeting-house.
THURSDAY, September 21, 1786.
Several raerabers raet according to adjournment, but there not
being a quorum for transacting business, agreed to adjourn to three
o'clock, P. M. Met accordingly.
The committee on the account of Mr. Benjamin Bigelow, reported.
That he have the sum of forty pounds, in full of his account : Signed
John Beh, for the committee. Which report being read and consid
ered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the President
give order accordingly. [Sent up by M' M'^Murphy.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the selectmen of
Charlestown, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the
petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, at this or the
next session. [Sent up by M' Wheeler.]
Voted, That the President be requested to return the thanks of
both Houses to the brave ofificers and soldiers of the militia, for the
great zeal and alacrity they have discovered in supporting the con
stitutional authority of the state ; and for displaying a spirit of pa
triotism and publick virtue, which, while it affords the highest satis
faction to the legislature, merits the acknowledgeraent of every good
citizen of this state. [Sent up by M' Duncan.]
Voted, That the honourable Mr. Langdon, Col. Badger, Mr. Means,
Major Ashley, General Dow, Col. Toppan, Col. Putnam, Mr. Gibson
and Mr. Preston, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to take into consideration what method shall be
taken, respecting [with] the prisoners taken this day, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Foster.]
Upon hearing [reading] and considering the petition of Captain
Jeremiah Sthes, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before
the General Court, on the second Tuesday of their next session, and
that in the raean tirae the petitioner cause that the executor to the
estate of Col. Sarauel King, deceased, be served with a copy of the
petition and order of Court thereon, that he may then appear, and
shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. [Sent up by Maj' Young.]
* 13 : 202 *The coramittee on the petition of the inhabitants of
Efifingham, reported. That the prayer thereof be granted :
Signed John M'Clary, for the comraittee. Which report being read

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and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the
Treasurer govern himself accordingly. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
[Upon reading and considering the Petition frora the Inhabitants
of Washington, Voted, that M' Gibson, M' Robinson, and M' Dun
can be a Committee to consider of said Petition and report thereon.]
Votcd, That the petitions which were to have been heard this day
before the General Court, be postponed till to-morrow, of which all
persons concerned, are to take notice, and govern themselves accord
ingly. [Sent up by Col° Welch.]
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed to credit the town of Lyme
on their tax for the year 1779, the amount of a receipt, signed by
Jonathan Child, Assistant-Commissary of purchases, dated November
1st, 1780, of nine hundred and nine pounds, four shillings, after
[liquidating] having liquidated said sum by the scale of depreciation.
[Sent up by M' Skinner.]
Upon hearing and considering the petition from "Washington, Voted,
That Major Robert Wallace, of Hinnekar, Capt. Joseph Simonds, of
Hhlsborough, and Major Silas Wright, of Stoddard,, be a coramittee,
at the expenee of the town of Washington, to view the situation of
said town, and agree on a place for sitting a house of publick worship
in said town, and report thereon to the General Court.
[Sent up by M' Skinner.]
Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow morning.
FRIDAY, September 22, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That the vote of yesterday, appointing a committee to ex
amine the prisoners, be reconsidered, and that the said prisoners
taken yesterday, be examined before both branches of the legislature
in the Senate chamber as soon as may be.
[Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
* Voted, That the Treasurer of this state be directed to * 13 : 203
use his discretion with respect to issuing extents against
the several towns and places in this state, for all outstanding taxes
due to said state, the vote of the last session to the contrary not
withstanding. [Sent up by Doct' Preston.]
The vote of this day, respecting examining the prisoners in the
Senate chamber, came back for the following araendraent, viz. "That
the examination of the prisoners be in the meeting house ;" which
amendment was read and concurred. [Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
Whereas the General Court, on the twenty-fourth [day] of June last,
passed a resolve irapowering Captain Absalom Peters, to cah a meet-

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ing of the inhabitants of the town of Warren, for the purpose of chus
ing a town clerk, selectraen, and other town officers ; but said resolve
did not authorise said selectmen to take an inventory of the said
town, which by law ought to be taken in the month of April annually,
by reason whereof sorae difificulties may ensue :
Therefore, Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives,
That the selectraen in said town, who have been or raay be chosen
pursuant to said resolve, be and they [hereby] are authorised and im
powered to take an inventory of the polls and estates in said town,
which shall be as valid as if taken in the month of April last,
and to do and execute the duty and ofifice of selectmen, in
all things as though they had been chosen at their annual March
meeting. [Sent up by Gen' Dow.]
Whereas by a resolve of the General Court, passed the seventeenth
day of June, Anno Domini, 1785, it was Resolved, That there should
be two regiments of light-horse raised by this state, and organized as
therein set forth, and whereas it is found necessary that there should
be three regiments of light-horse raised in this state, instead of the
two regiments before mentioned :
Therefore be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representa
tives, That there should be three regiments of light-horse raised in
this state, instead of the two regiments mentioned in the
* 13 : 204 aforesaid resolve, to wit. One regiment in the easterly *part
of this state, one in the centre upon [the] Merrimac river,
and one upon [the] Connecticut ri^'er, which regiments shall consist of
the same number of companies each, and each company to consist of
the sarae number and rank of officers, and the same number of pri
vates mentioned in the aforesaid resolve. [Sent up by M' Dearborn.]
Agreeably to the vote of this day, both branches of the legislature
being in the meeting-house, [met] proceeded to the examination of
the prisoners taken yesterday, and after examining Captain French,
Major Cochran, Captain M'^Kean, David Batcheldor, Captain Cochran,
and Ensign Cotton, [they were returned to gaol,] and a determination
respecting them postponed 'till the afternoon.
The Senate then returned to the Senate chamber.
The House then adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Both branches of the legislature being again raet. Voted, That
General Nathaniel Folsom, General Joseph Cihey and General George
Reid, be a committee to exaraine the prisoners taken yesterday, [who
are now in gaol,] and report to this legislature as soon as may be.
After receiving a verbal report from said coramittee, the prisoners
which were not examined in the forenoon were brought before

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both branches of the legislature, and after a full examination, a num
ber of them were set at liberty. The two branches then agreed to
hold a conference in the Senate chamber as soon as possible. The
Senate then withdrew, and the House adjourned for two minutes,
then to meet in the Senate chamber, and met accordingly. Pro
ceeded to a conference on the matter of releasing prisoners, and
agreed to release a number more to-morrow morning [after calling
thera before both branches.]
The House then adjourned to 8 o'clock toraorrow morning, then
to meet at the meeting-house.
SATURDAY, September 23, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Both branches of the legislature being again met in the meeting
house, the prisoners were brought in that were to be released, and
after being inforraed by his Excellency [the President] of
the nature of their crirae, &c. were also * informed that in * 13 : 205
consideration of their penitence they were forgiven, and
liberated accordingly. They then proceeded to consider what was
best to be done with the reraainder of the prisoners, who appeared
more active and guilty than those already forgiven ; after which Cap
tain French and Major Cochran were brought forward, who appeared
very penitent, and were set at liberty ; three of the other prisoners
were also forgiven. The Senate then withdrew, and the House pro
ceeded to business.
Voted, That the thanks of this House be presented to his Excel
lency the President, for his firra, zealous and decisive exertions in
suppressing the late audacious insurrection of a body of unprincipled
men against the legislative authority of this state, and assure his ex
cellency, that his conduct in the whole affair, meets their highest
approbation and esteem. [Sent up by M' Dearborn.]
Voted, That Caleb Smith, one of the prisoners in Exeter gaol,
be released, and that his Excellency the President give order ac
cordingly. [Sent up by M' Dearborn.]
The following vote carae down from the honourable Senate for
concurrence :
New HrMpTniRE | ^^ Senate, September 23, 1786.
Resolved, That there be an addition of three companies to the first
regiment of light-horse, commanded by Col Amos Cogswell.
JOHN SULLIVAN, President.
[Sent up for concurrence.]
Was read and concurred.

712 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
The vote for issuing twenty-five per cent, of the principal of state
securities, &c. came down for the following amendment, " that it be
fifteen instead of twenty-five per cent." Which amendraent was read
and concurred.
Resolved, That his Excehency the President be irapowered to draw
out of the Treasury the sum of two hundred pounds, to by him ad
vanced as he raay [shall] think fit, towards payment of the necessary
expenditures in calling in the railitia to suppress the late insurrec
tion ; to be [respectively] accounted for by those who shall receive
the sarae, on settlement of their accounts by the General Court.
[Sent up by Cap' Stiles.]
Votcd, That in any high handed riot, insurrection, or attempt to
obstruct the Courts of Justice, or to release any person in this state,
the President may, and is fully impowered to call forth a
* 13 : 206 sufficient number of the militia to * quell the same, and to
preserve the peace and good order of the [this] state.
[Sent up by Cap' Sthes.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the prisoners confined
in gaol for disorderly and contemptuous behavior to the legislature.
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that his Excellency
the President give order for the release of said prisoners.
[Sent up by Col" Welch.]
An act in addition to an act, intitled, " an act for forraing and reg
ulating the railitia within this state, and for repealing all the laws
heretofore made for that purpose," was read a third tirae and passed
to be enacted. [Sent up by Col° Welch & M' Page.]
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed not to issue any extent
against the excise-master in the county of Rockingham for the year
1786, until the next session of the General Court.
[Sent up by M' Kingsbury.]
Voted, That the account of Minas Daniels, amounting to four
pounds, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the
President. [Sent up by M' Kingsbury.]
Voted, That the account of John Nicols, araounting to four pounds
be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President.
[Sent up by M' Kingsbury.]
Voted, That the account of John Calfe, Esq. araounting to seven
pounds, nine shhlings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. [Sent up by M' Kingsbury.]
The following votes carae down frora the honourable Senate for
concurrence :

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^HlSpTniRr }^^ S^^^™ September 23d, 1786
Voted, That John M'^Kean, James Cochran, Thomas Cotton, John
Gregg, and David Batchelder, now in custody for disor
derly and contemptuous behavior to the * legislature, be * 13: 207
confined in prison for [the space of] eight days.
Was read and [but not] concurred.
Voted, That the President, with advice of Council, be impowered
and requested to agree with post riders agreeably to a vote of the
General Court, of the 27th of June last, until the next session.
Was read and concurred. [Sent up by M' Eliott.]
Voted, That John M'^Kean, James Cochran, Thomas Cotton, John
Gregg, and David Batchelder, now in custody for disorderly, con
temptuous and riotous behavior to the legislature, be delivered over
to the Superior Court, in order that they raay be indited and tried for
a riot, and a riot only, and that the Superior Court be desired to pro
ceed accordingly. [Sent up by M' Wheeler.]
The Secretary carae down and [inforraed] gave information that
he was directed by his Excellency the President, to inform, that He,
with advice of Council, has adjourned the General Court to the
second Wednesday of December next, Then to meet at Portsmouth
[and it is accordingly adjourned].
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JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.
CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM
DECEMBER 13, 1786, TO JANUARY 18, 1787.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE.

*At a Session of the General Court holden at Portsmouth * 2 : 206
on Wednesday December 1 3"" 1 786, being the Day which
the General Court stood adjourned.
Present, His Excellency John Sullivan Esq' President.
Of the members of the Honorable Senate attended by reason of
bad traveling.

THURSDAY, December 14''' 1786,

Present
His Excellency John Sullivan Esq' President.
The Honorable George Atkinson Esq'
Adjourned 'till to-morrow —

* FRIDAY December 15*^ 1786. * 2 : 207
Present as Yesterday.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow 9 O'Clock A. M.
SATURDAY December i6"' 1786.
Present as Yesterday.
Adjourned 'tih Monday next 3 O'Clock P. M.

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MONDAY December 18'^ 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq' President.
The Honorable Joseph Wentworth
George Atkinson
Otis Baker
John M-^Duffee
Ebenezer Webster
John Bellows
Amos Shepard
Elisha Payne.
Adjourned 'till 9 O'Clock A. M.
TUESDAY December 19'^ 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday with the addition of the Honorable Joseph
Gilman Esq' A 'Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Sen-
*2:2o8 ate to consider * Of the Petition of Major Samuel Jones
and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred :
M' Webster joined.
A 'Vote, that the Treasurer be directed to attend the General Court
in their present Session at Portsmouth with such books and papers
as necessary for transacting public Business, was brought up, read
and concurred. State of New Hampshire.
In Senate December 19"' 1786.
Voted, That the honorable Joshua Wentworth Elisha Payne Joseph
Gilman and John Bellows Esquires, with such of the Honorable
House as they may join, be a comraittee to consider of his Excellen
cy's Message and report thereon ; and also of any other important
Business which raay require the attention of the General Court in
their present Session, was sent down for concurrence, by Col. Shep
ard, brought up, concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow 9, O'Clock A. M.

1786] journal of the senate. 719
WEDNESDAY December 20"' 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday with the addition of the Hon'''^ M. Thornton.
A 'Vote that the Reverend Doctor Haven and the Reverend M'
Buckminister be required to attend the General Court as Chaplains
alternately during the present Session, was brought up, read and
concurred. *A 'Vote that the allowance for travel and attendance for * 2 : 209
the members of the Honorable Senate and house of Rep
resentatives and their Ofificers be the same at the last Session as was
allowed in June last and that the Secretary and Clerk make up the
rolls accordingly and that the President give order for payment in the
usual way, was brought up, read and concurred.
A 'Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the Petition of the Selectmen of Marlborough and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred : M' M'^Duffee joined.
A 'Vote to pay the account of John Morrison amounting to four
teen pounds for writing with the committee on Continental Accounts,
was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
State of New Hampshire.
In Senate December 20"' 1786.
A 'Vote that M' Shepard and M' Payne with such of the Honoura
ble House as they may join, be a committee to consider of the peti
tion of the Selectmen of Walpole, and report thereon, was sent down
for concurrence, by M'^Duffee brought up joined.
A 'Vote, that the Meeting house in Washington be set
on a spot of ground *A few roads Southeast of the pond * 2 : 210
agreea[ble] to a 'Vote of said Town passed September 6"'
1779, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the most Speedy and effectual means for printing the Acts
Resolves and Journals of the General Court of the two last Sessions
and in future and report thereon, was brought up, read and con
curred ; M' Wentworth joined.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow 9, O'Clock A. M.

720 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
THURSDAY December 21=' 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A "Vote to accept the report of the committee appointed to estab
hsh the boundaries between the Town of Lebanon and Enfield, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A "Vote for a comraittee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of an Inventory presented from the Town of Littleton which
was a part of which was formally called Anthrop and report what pro
portion Littleton or Dalton ought to be taxed, was brought up, read
and concurred : M' Gilraan joined.
A "Vote for a committee to join a committee to consider of the
petition of Peter R. Stevens, and report thereon, was brought up,
read and concurred : M' Thornton joined.
A Vote that the power granted to the President by a
* 2 : 21 1 vote of the General Court of the *23d of September last
respecting calling forth the Militia to quell any high handed
Riot &c. be discontinued, was brought up, read and concurred.
A "Vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate to take
under consideration a Resolve of the General Court passed 22"^ Sep
tember la[s]t respecting an addition to the Light Horse and report
their opinion respecting said addition and prefix on a time when the
Light horse shall be equipped, was brought up, read and concurred
M' Webster M' Shepard and M' Payne joined.
A 'Vote to pay the account of Major Jonathan Cass amounting to
twenty-two Shihings for sending an Express to carry arrests to sev
eral Officers, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A "Vote that the House Resolve themselves in a coramittee of the
whole, in conjunction with the Honorable Senate, to meet at 3
O'clock P. M. to take under consideration the Requisitions of Con
gress for an augmentation of Troops &c. and any other matter that
may be thought necessary when met, was brought up, read, and non-
concurred.

State of
New Hampshire

> In Senate Dec. 21^' 1786

A Vote that the Senate will go into a conference with the Honor
able House, if they see fit, this afternoon at three of the
* 2 : 212 Clock, was sent down by M' Payne * Brought up, con
curred.

1786] journal of the senate. 721
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to receive from Nahum
Baldwin Esquire State Notes (or Securities) in discharge of the Exe
cution against him agreeably to a Vote of the General Court of the
21 June last, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Lucy Fay, and report thereon, was brought
up, read and concurred : M' Bellows joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Enoch Richardson and E. Odell and ah simi
lar matters, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Gilman and M'
Bellows joined.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a coramittee of the Senate to take
under consideration the Impost and excise Acts now in force and
report a bill making such alterations and araendraents as they may
Judge necessary in the former acts and ascertaining the method of
collecting in future and how the profits shall be appropriated, was
brought up, read and concurred : M' Payne M' Gilraan and M' At
kinson joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the returns respecting paper Money &c. was brought up, read
and concurred M' Thornton and M' M'^Duffee joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee to consider of the pe
tition of David Place and all similar raatters and repdrt thereon,
was brough[t] up, read and con"^ M' Thornton & M' Shepard
joined. *Adjourned 'tih to-morrow 9, O'Clock A. M. * 2 : 213
FRIDAY, Decmeber 22'' 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday with the addition of M' Bell.
An Act to empower the Superior and Inferior Courts respectively
to hear and determine upon all matters and causes for restoring per
sons to their Law, was sent down for concurrence by M' M'^Duffee.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a coramittee of the Senate to
draught a letter to Congress requesting that the tirae may be length
ened in which the Continental Commissioners may continue to re
ceive the claims of this State against the united States untill April
next, was brought up, read and concurred. M' Atkinson and M' Went
worth joined.
A Vote that M' Gilman, M' Wentworth and M' Payne, with such
of the Honorable house as may join be a committee to examine and
report this State Qota of the foreign and domestic Debt of the

722 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
United States, and also the araount of the State debt and what the
proportion of each would be to the respective Towns in this State,
was sent down for concurrence, by M' Webster, brought up con
curred. An Act to impower the Several Towns and Parishes in
*2:2i4 this State to chuse new Constables and Collectors * In
room of such Constables and Collectors as have deceased
or may hereafter decease, or have absconded, or shall hereafter ab
scond without compleating the collecting of the Taxes committed to
them ; And to authorize such new Elected Constables and Collectors
to complete such Collection, was sent down for concurrence by M'
Bellows, brought up concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Jacob Copland, and
that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition from the Town of Winchester and Chesterfield
and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Shepard
joined. A Vote to hear the petition of Samuel Thompson on the second
Tuesday of January next, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the account of Larason and Ranlet for printing and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred. : M' Wentworth joined.
Adjourned thi to-morrow 9. O'Clock A. M.
SATURDAY, December 23^ 1786.
Met according to adjournraent.
Present as Yesterday.
*2:2i5 A Vote granting the prayer of the petition * Of Her
cules Mooney in behalf of the Inhabitants of New-Hamp
ton and giving thera leave to bring in a bih accordingly, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Mary Hart and giv
ing her leave to bring in a bill accordingly was brought up, read and
concurred. A Vote to hear the petition of Williara Gregg on the second Tues
day of January next, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a coraraittee to join a coramittee of the Senate to take
under consideration the Table of Fees and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred : M' Payne and M' Bellows joined.
Adjourned 'tih Monday next 3 O'Clock P. M.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 723
MONDAY, December 25"' 1786
Met according to adjournment.
Present as on Saturday last except M' M'^Duffee.
An Act to restore Elizabeth Lamson to her Law having been read
a third time, Voted, that the same be enacted,
A Vote to pay the Account of John Sparhawk Esquire amounting
to thirty four Shihings in fuh for Wood &c. was brought up, read
and concurred, warrant granted.
*A Vote that John Pickering be added to the committee * 2 : 216
for draughting Impost and Exise bills, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to ex
amine whether there is any Laws now in force to empower the Se
lectmen to assess any arrearerages of taxes against Towns which have
been called upon by the State for Taxes in "Years past and an assess
ment has been neglected and report thereon, was brought up, read
and concurred, M' Baker joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Abigail Hall and all similar raatters and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, Mr Bell joined.
Adjourned till to-morrow 9. O'Clock A. M.
FRIDAY, December 26"' 1786.
Met accordinging to adjournment.
Present all the Senate except Col John M'^Clary.
A Vote that all the acts and Resolves be printed as heretofore, and
the Journals in Octavo. Acts and resolves at two pence half penny
p' Sheet and the Journals at five pence p' Sheet to be paid in Specie.
un appropriation to be made of monies on the impost revinue, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to Comply with the requisition of Congress of the twenti
eth of October 1786 respecting 260 men proportioned to this State,
was brought up, read and concurred.
*A Vote, for a coraraittee to join a comraittee of the *2: 217
Senate to consider of the petition of Enoch Barker and
James Rundlet, and their accounts was brought up, read and con
curred, M' Payne joined.
Adjourned tih to-morrow 9. O'Clock A. M.

724 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
WEDNESDAY, December 27'^ 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote that Lucy Fay is entitled to seven years half pay agreeably
to the resolves of Congress &c. was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to postpone the public hearings which were to have been
this day, to Friday next, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Major Joseph Kimball, was brought up, read
and concurred : M' Wentworth joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of the inhabitants of
Pelham and giving them leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was
brought up read and concurred.
A Vote to pospone the hearing on the petition of James Sanders
'tih Wednesday next, was brought up, read and concurred.
* 2 : 218 *A Vote, granting the petition of Jonathan Clark in be
half of Northwood and that the Treasurer be directed to
Credit the Town of Northwood the sura of sixty pounds on any tax
prior to the year 1786, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the Petition of George Clark and
giving hira leave to bring in a bih or a resolve accordingly, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote, granting the prayer of the petition of Wihiara Barns, and
give him leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote to pospone the hearings which were to have been this day,
'till to-morrow, was brought up, read and concurred.
THURSDAY December 28'^ 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
An Act to vest the United States in Congress assembled with full
power to regulate Trade and enter into treaties of comraerce, which
was sent down for concurrence, was brought up concurred.
Adjourned 'tih to-raorrow 9. O'Clock A. M.
FRIDAY December 29"' 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
*2: 219 *A vote to pospone the hearings which were to have

1786] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 725
been on the 28"' Instant, till to-morrow, was brought read and con
curred. A Vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate, to con
sider of the petition of Daniel Loring and report thereon was brought
up, read and concurred, M' Bellows joined.
A Vote so far granting the prayer of Ezra Child Agent for bath as
that the Selectmen have liberty to tax the Lands in said Town three
farthings p' Acre for three years, and that the petitioner have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly ahowing the Non-residents the Liberty
of working out each one his or her proportion of the tax, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of several Inhabitants
of Piermont and giving thera leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a comittee of the Senate to con
sider of the account of Col. Benjarain Stone and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred M' M'^Duffee joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Elipalet Hale and
giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly was brought up, read
and concurred.
* A Vote that the Senate will go into a conference with * 2 :220
the Honorable house if they see fit, to take under consid
eration the State of our public affairs was sent down for conference.
A Vote to coraply with the requisition of Congress of the second
of August last, and that a bih be brought in accordingly was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Sarauel Hobart and
Epraim Robinson and giving them leave to bring in a bill accordingly
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Stephen Barker and
giving him leave to bring in a bhl accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote to pospone the hearings which were to have been this day,
'tih to-morrow &c. was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow 9. O'Clock A. M.
SATURDAY, December 30'^ 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote that the Treasurer of this State to Issue Two Notes in the
name of John Whitehorn, one for 25;^ the other for 28;^ in Lieu of

726 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^786
two Notes dated July 31=' 1785, on which one years Interest has
been paid and that he is intitled to receive i $£ p' Cent of the prin
cipal of the new Notes, was brought up, read and concurr^.
*2:22i *A Resolve that George Clark pay the whole of his
Ministerial Tax to the west parish in Londonderry from
of passing this Resolve, any Law, usage or Custom to the contrary,
the time was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Major M'^Queston and report thereon was
brought up, read and concurred, M' Payne joined.
An Act to enable the Executors of the Last Will of Abiathar
Wenn, Decea"^ to sell a certain tract of Land in Nottingham-West
which belonged to the testator, having been read a third time, voted
that the same be enacted.
An Act to impower the Inhabitants of New Harapton to chuse a
Constable or the Selectraen for the tirae being to appoint a Collector
and give hira a warrant for the Collection of outstanding taxes, hav
ing been read a third tirae, voted that the same be enacted.
An Act for altering the tirae of holding the anual Meeting in the
Town of Stoddard in said State having been read a third tirae, voted
that the same be enacted.
An Act to exempt Sundry persons herein after raentioned
* 2 : 222 * F"rom serving in the Train Band, having been read a third
time, voted that it pass to be enacted, which was sent
down for concurrence, brough[t] up concurred.
An Act for supplying the Treasury of this State, with the sum of
Seventy six thousand, two hundred and Sixty eight Dollars in Specie
and fifty six Thousand four hundred and fifty two Dollars in Indents
on the pubhc Securities of the Liquidated debt of the United States
for the purpose of discharging the Requisition of Congress of the
second day of August 1786, having been read a third time, voted
that the same be enacted.
A Vote to postpone the hearings which were to have been this day
'till monday next, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote so far granting the prayer of the petition Jonas Fairbanks
and others as that the petitioner have leave to bring in a bih at this
or the next session, to incorporate part of the towns of Walpole and
Charlestown into a Town, was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'tih Monday next 3 O'Clock P. M.

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MONDAY, January i^', 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Sen
ate to consider * Of a bill presented for the encouragement * 2 : 223
of erecting shtting Mhls &c, and report such alterations
&c. was brought up, read and concurred : M' Wentworth and M'
Ghman joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Benjamin Dearborn, and report thereon was
brought up, read and concurred M' Baker joined.
A Vote that there be a corapany of Independant light Horse,
raised and Oflficered in the Town of Portsmouth and the vicinity ; to
consist of sixty four privates and eight non-comraissioned Officers ;
and to be commanded by a Captain Lieutenant and cornet to have
the same Rank as the Captain, Lieutenant and Ensign have in the
Alarm List : and that his Excellency the President with advice of
Council appoint a commission thereon accordingly , was sent down for
concurrence, brought up, concurred.
An Act to enable Mary Hart to sell the Interest of her chhdren of
her late husband James Hart, in the estate of their Grandfather
Thomas Hart Deceased having been read a third tirae Voted, that
the sarae be enacted.
A Vote to postpone the hearings which were to have been this
day, 'thi to-raorrow, was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow 9 O'Clock A. M.
TUESDAY, January 2^ 1787.
*Met according to adjournment. * 2 : 224
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Samuel Adams and
giving him leave to bring in a bill to make void the Judgment given
at the Superior Court in consequence of a Report of Referrees and to
empower the said Superior Court to hear and determine in the same
manner as though said Action had not been referred, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to receive of Samuel Jones
the sum of £$'^7 Continental Dollars as if the sarae had been paid
previous to the 23*^ of July 17S1, was brought up, read and con
curred.

728 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1787
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to Issue to Ebenezer Far-
nura a new Note for 26£ 17 j and certificates equal in value to a
Note lost, he the said Farnura giving Security that if the lost Note
shall be found that he wih be accountable for the Note and Certifi
cates to be issued in consequence of this Vote, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to pay Whliam M'^Queston
for the use of Robert Thompson Esquire £1$, which was paid into
the Treasury of the State by Sarauel Chase Esquire as rent for the
farra of said Thompson ; Also that said Chase who was agent and re
ceiver to the State be ordered to pay to said M'Queston as aforesaid
the sum of 22;£. . 10/ as the remainder of the rent of said farm, ex
cepting the charge and expenee, that the said Chase was
* 2:225 at * Leaving out said Farm to be deducted out of said
;£22.. 10/ and in case they cannot agree on the Demand of
said Chase the same to be adjusted and allowed by the Judge of
Probate in the County of Hhlsborough, was brought up, read and
concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote that Daniel Loring be restored to his Law, as it appears
that sundry Articles of Charge were not considered of By the Ref
errees, was brought up, read and concurred.
A "Vote granting the petition of Benjamin Harly of Raby so far as
respects the Town of Hollis and giving him leave to bring in a bill
accordingly, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to postpone the hearings which were to have been this
day, 'till to-morrow was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow 9, O'Clock A. M.

WEDNESDAY, Jan^ t,^, 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote that Robert Gerrish, John Melcher and George J. Os
borne, each have an order on the Treasurer for ;£io each to be by
them accounted for in their accounts for printing and that the Treas
urer be desired to call on the Impost Officer or Naval Offi-
* 2 : 226 cer * For Specie to discharge said Orders as soon as may
be and that the President give Order accordingly, was
brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of a certificate in favour of David E. Boynton, and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Atkinson joined.

1787] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 729
A Vote that each and every Justice of the peace in the County
where he resides, be and hereby is impowered to administer an Oath
or affirmation to any person or persons who is the owner or possessor
of any Certificates of Liquidated Debts, (other than Loan Office
Certificates) that the said Certificates are bona fide the property of
the State or of a Citizen or Citizens of the State, or of some corpo
rate body or Charitable Institution within the sarae and to give said
person or persons a Certificate describing the certificate or certificate
alluded to in such Oath or affirraation in such manner as shah be
necessary to identify the sarae, that the Continental Loan Officer be
at no loss in issuing Indents for the Interest of said Certificates, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to hear the petition of Jonas Cutting on the third Wednes
day of the next session was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of James Sanders and
giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote to pospone the hearing on the petition of Wil
liam Gregg thi the third * Wednesday of the next Session, * 2 : 227
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pospone the hearing on the petitions of the Selectmen
of Packersfield, Henry Gerrish Esquire, Colonel Webb, A. Curtis,
Jonathan Parker, Williara Read, and Captain Stiles, untih the third
Wednesday of the next .Session, was brought up, read and con
curred. A Vote to pospone the hearing on the petition of the Selectmen
of Portsmouth till to-morrow was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Thomas Lewis and
giving him leave to bring in a bih accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Jaraes Banks and
giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote appointing a comraittee to view a tract of Land being
in the northeast corner of Keen, &c &c and report to the General
Court next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned tih to-morrow 9. O'Clock A. M.
THURSDAY, January 4"', 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
* An Act to erect a Poh Parish in Pelham, having been * 2 :228
read a third time, voted that the same be enacted.
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730 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l787
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of the Selectmen of
Portsmouth and giving them leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that M' M'^Murphy, M' Thompson, M' Emerson, M' Hale
and M' Peters with such of the Honorable Senate as may be joined
be a committee to take under consideration the unimproved Lands
within this State, and report what raethod shall be taken to assertain
what part of said Land are the property of this State, was brought
up, read and concurred : M' M'=Duffee and M' Payne joined.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of of John Parker Esq' and others, was brought
up, read and concurred : M' Shepard joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of the Selectmen of
Exeter and giving them leave to bring in a bill or bills accordingly,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Samuel Thompson,
and giving him leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote that a bill be presented appointing some person to call a
Meeting of the Inhabitants of Gunthwait to chus assessors to pro
portion the outstanding Taxes on the Lots of the propri-
* 2 : 229 etors and Inhabitants * Of Gunthwait to Levy, collect and
pay the same into the Treasury and that preceipts in future
be directed to Gunthwait, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the proceedings of the late General Court and report there
on, was brought up, reaci and concurred, M' Bellows M' Payne and
M' Shepard joined.
A Vote for a coraraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Samuel Bean and report thereon, was brought
up, read and concurred, M' Wentworth joined.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of George Frost Esquire in behalf of the Town
of New-Castle and report thereon, was brought up, read and con
curred : M' Wentworth joined.
A Vote to hear the petition of Thoraas Pinkhara on the third
Wednesday of the next Session, was brought up, read and Non-con
curred. An Act to restore Stephen Barker to his Law, having been read a
third time, voted that the same be enacted.
Adjourned 'tih to-morrow 9. O'Clock A. M.

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FRIDAY, January 5"' 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
* Present as yesterday. * 2 : 230
A Vote that the petition of B. Dearborn be granted for
fourteen years instead of twenty one "Years and that he have leave
to bring in a bill accordingly,' was brought up, read and concurred,
with this amendment that he have a patent for the water engine and
the scales but not for the Steelyard.
A Vote to hear the petition of John Cushing on Tuesday next and
also that Colonel Samuel Sherburne be served with a copy of said
petition, was brought up, read and concurred.
An Act to abolish part of the Inferior Courts and Courts of Ses
sions within this State and thereby to prevent unnecessary expenee
to the good subjects of the same, having been read a third time,
voted that it pass to be enacted. Sent down for concurrence.
An Act to empower Samuel Hobart and Ephraim Robinson
Esquires to collect the outstanding State and Town Taxes of the
Town of Exeter for the year 1786, having been read a third time,
voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote for a committee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Jedidiah Sanger and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred : M' Wentworth joined.
A Resolve that the Treasurer of this State receive the drafts or
orders drawn by the continental Board of Treasury in fa
vour of the subjects of this State in part * Or in whole of * 2 :23i
the ;£ 10,500 as aforesaid; always observing the draughts
or orders already drawn by said Board of Treasury and presented to
the Loan Officer of this State for payraent previous to this resolve
and that the draughts or Orders drawn by the Continental Board of
Treasury when so received by the Treasury of this State be by him
passed to the Loan Officer of this in part or in whole of the ;^io,50o
as aforesaid, taking the Loan Officers Receipt for the account there
on, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote fora committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the propriety of estabhshing a Post Rider from Portsmouth
to any part of this State and report thereon, was brought up, read
and concurred : M' Webster joined.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to receive of Nahum Bald
win Esq' sixty pounds in Certificates which he has Sent by Major
Means and that the credit said Baldwin forty pounds on the Bond he
has in his Office against said Baldwin, being Certificates he received
at the same rate of Debtors to an absentees Estate, was brought up,
read and concurred.

732 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l787
A Vote to abate the Town of New-Castle one half of their Tax for
theyear 1782, and that the Treasurer govern himself accordingly,
was brought up, read and concurred.
* 2 : 232 An Act to conforra the Title of * Jaraes Banks to cer
tain Lands in Packersfield, having been read a third time,
Voted, that the same be enacted.
An Act to restore Samuel Adaras to his Law, having been read a
third time voted that the same be enacted.
An Act to enable Sarah Chapin to sell the real Estate of Hiram
Chapin late of Surry in said State, Deceased, having been read a
third time, voted, that the sarae be enacted.
State of New Hampshire.
In Senate January 5"' 1787.
The proceedings of the late Court Martial appointed by the Presi
dent in consequence of both Branches of the Legislature being read
and fully considered. Voted, that the said proceedings appear to be
regular, fair, and canded, and that an address be presented to the
president and Council to carry the same into Execution according to
the respective sentinces and recommendation, excepting only that
part of the sentence which tends to quahfy any of said Officers from
holding civil and Military Commissions in future ; and also excepting
the whole of the sentince against Lieut. Thomas M'^Clary who ap
pears to have been providentially prevented from attending the Court
martial. Sent down for concurrence, brought up, con-
*2 : 233 curred, with this amendraent Excepting *The whole sen
tence against Nathaniel Weare which was read and con
curred. Adjourned 'thi to-morrow 9. O'Clock A. M.
SATURDAY January 6"' 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
An Act in addition to an Act entitled an act for opening and mak
ing passable a highway frora Dartmouth College to Boscawen, having
been read a third time. Voted that the same be enacted.
State of New Hampshire.
In Senate January 6"" 1787.
Voted, that the President be requested to return the thanks of the
Senate to the Honorable Paul Wentworth Esquire for the Map of

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this State, which he has had the generosity to present them with,
and to assure him that the Senate are deeply impressed by this mark
of politeness and respect.
A Vote that the Execution recovered by Michael Wentworth and
Martha his Wife against Lemuel Smith be stayed for the term of
one year, was brought up, read and concurred with this
?Amendment that the Execution be stayed untill the last * 2 : 234
day of Aprh next and no longer, araendraent concurred.
Adjourned tih Monday next 3 O'Clock, P. M.
MONDAY January 8"' 1787.
Met according to adjournraent.
Present as Yesterday.
A Vote, that the Vote on the petition of the Selectmen of Ports
mouth of Thursday last be reconsidered and that a rehearing be
granted and that the petitioner be heard before the General Court on
Wednesday morning next, was brought up, read and Non-concurred.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Colonel Supply Clap and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, M' Wentworth joined.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the propriety of abollishing any part of the terras of the In
ferior Court and Courts of the General Sessions of the peace and
report a bill if they think proper, was brought up, read and con
curred : M' Thornton M' Bell aud M' Payne joined.
A Vote that the account of James Rundlet be refered to the com
mittee on the account of Col. Supply Clap, and that they report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred.
*A Vote that Samuel Bean be allowed ten pounds in full * 2 : 235
for his services as post Rider and that the Postmaster Gen
eral be directed to pay him in a State Note lodged in his hands for the
purpose of paying Post Riders, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a coraraittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider what sum is necessary to be raised for the expenditures of the
current year ; Also what Salaries shall be allowed the Officers of the
civil list and report thereon was brought up, read and concurred, M'
Wentworth M' Beh and M' Atkinson joined.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of the Selectmen of
Walpole and giving thera leave to bring in a bih accordingly, was
brought up, read and concurred.
An Act to restore Jaraes Saunders to his Law, having been read
a third tirae, voted, that the same be enacted.

734 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l787
An Act to restore Samuel Thompson to his Law, having been
read a third tirae, voted that the same be enacted.
Adjourned 'till to-raorrow 9. O'Clock A. M.
*2: 236 *TUESDAY, January 9'^ 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday except the Honorable John MClary and John
Bellows Esquires.
A Vote for a committee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of a Letter frora Virginia respecting commissioners on Com
mercial matters, was brought up, read and concurred, M' Wentworth
joined. An Act to direct the mode for the assessing and cohecting of the
Taxes against Gunthwait, having been read a third time, voted that
the same be enacted.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to Issue a new Note or
Notes to his Excellency John Sullivan Esquire for the sum of 4300
Dollars and that he be entitled to receive Certificates for the Interest
from from January 1=', 1780 he giving caution agreeably to his Letter
dated this day that if said Interest is not allowed by Congress he wih
replace the Certificates in the Treasury of this State, on demand,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to accept a report of a committee on the petition of John
Parker and others. Managers of Dartmouth College Lottery and that
a bill be brought in accordingly was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Sen-
* 2 : 237 ate to consider of the petition of *The Selectmen of Swan
zey and report thereon, was brought up, read and con
curred : M' M<^Duffee joined.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Andrew M'^Millan in behalf of the Town of
Conway and report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred, M'
M'^Duffee joined.
A Vote for a coraraittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Mess'^ Jaraes and Williara Sheafe and report
an address to Congress on the Subject matter of said petition, was
brought up, read and concurred : M' Wentworth joined.
A Vote for a committee to join a coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of the Inhabitants of Middletown and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred M' M'^Duffee joined.
A Vote on the petition of the Selectraen of Bedford granting the
prayer thereof and giving thera leave to bring in a bill accordingly,
was brought up, read and concurred, with this araendraent, that the

1787] journal of THE SENATE. 735
Selectmen of Bedford appoint sorae proper person to collect said
Taxes, sent down brought up, concurred.
Adjourned tih to-raorrow 9 O'Clock A. M.
* WEDNESDAY January io"', 1787. * 2 : 238
Met according to adjournraent.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Doctor Jonathan
Gove so far as that the Sentence against said Gove be reversed, and
that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Ehzabeth Walling
ford and giving her leave to bring in a bih or a resolve, accordingly,
was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of a resolve respecting Probate Courts and report thereon, was
brought up, read and concurred, M' Thornton, M' Payne and M'
Wentworth joined.
An Act for the support of Invalids having been read a third tirae,
voted that the sarae be enacted.
A Vote to pay Col. Supply Clap thirty three pounds eight shihings
and one penny as a balance of his account which is to be in fuh ; also
twenty pounds in full for his services as a coramissionary General to
the 12 of June 1787, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant
granted. An Act to invest the exclusive priviledge of keeping a ferry
over a certain part of Connecticut River in Eliphalet
* Hale of Chesterfield his heirs and assigns, having been * 2 : 238
read a third time voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote that Jaraes Rundlet be allowed nine pounds sixteen Shil
lings and two pence in full of his accounts was brought up, read and
concurred, warrant granted.
An Act to vest the privilidge of keeping a ferry over a certain part
of Connecticut River in the Inhabitants of Charlestown, having been
read a third time, voted that the sarae be enacted.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of the Selectmen of Plainfield ; also the peti
tion of Samuel Fairbrook and all Sirailar raatters and report thereon
was brought up, read and concurred : M' M'^Duffee joined.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Col. Jonathan Rawson and report thereon
was brought up, read and concurred M' Thornton joined.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow 9. O'Clock A. M.

736 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l787
THURSDAY, January ii'^, 1787.
* 2 : 240 * Met according to adjournraent.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote accepting the report of the coraraittee on ascertaining the
wase or uniraproved Land belonging to the State, and that a bill or
bills be brought in accordingly, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pay his Excellency John Sullivan Esq', Nine pounds
twelve Shillings for cash advanced for standards, was brought up,
read and concurred with this amendment, that the Treasurer be di
rected to give his Excellency the President an order on the Naval
Officer for the aforesaid sum, sent down, brought up, concurred, war
rant granted.
An Act to incorporate a town by the name of Langdon, having
been read a third time, voted that the same be enacted.
A Vote to accept the report of the comraittee on the table of Fees
(excepting what relates to Sheriffs fees) which is not to be included
in the bill, was brought up, read and concurred.
An Act to vest in Benjamin Dearborn the excluse right of making
and vending certain Engines and Scales for fourteen years, having
been read a third time voted that it pass to be enacted with this
amendraent that the said Dearborn, within one Month frora the
passing of this act lodge in the Secretarys Office a model of each of
the machines aforesaid or a draft of each of thera, with a full De
scription of them and the principles upon which they are constructed,
was sent down for concurrence by M' Payne See N" 36.
* 2 : 241 * State of New Hampshire.
In Senate, January ii"", 1787.
Voted that the Senate are willing to go into a Conference with the
honorable house of Representatives this afternoon if they see fit, to
take under consideration the mode of discharging the pubhc debt,
was sent down for concurrence by M' Webster.
Adjourned 'tih to-raorrow 9, O'Clock A. M.
FRIDAY, January 12"' 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote for a comraittee to join a coraraittee of the senate to con
sider of the petition of John Penhahow Esquire and others, was brought
up, read and concurred, M' Thornton joined.

1787] journal of the senate. 737
An act to appoint new Managers for Dartraouth Cohege Lottery,
having been read a tbird time. Voted, that the same be enacted.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Charles Claphara ahd report thereon, was
brought up, and concurred M' Webster and M' M'Duffee joined.
An act to empower the several Towns Districts and Individuals
within this State to pay their Quotas of the State and
Federal Debt and * To entitle such as pay the Same to a * 2 : 242
discharge therefrom, having been read a third time. Voted
that the same be Non-concurred.
An Act for regulating the Guaging of Cask, having been read a
third time voted that the same be enacted.
In Sen.^te, January 12'^', 1787.
A Vcte that Clap Sumner of Lebanon be and is hereby appointed
out of the committee to carry into effect an act for opening and mak
ing passable a Road or highway from Dartmouth College to Boscawen
in the place of Elisha Payne, resigned, was sent down for concur
rence, brought up, concurred.
A Vote for a coramittee to join committee of the Senate to con
sider what method shall be taken to supply the Officers and Soldiers
at New-Castle, was brought up, read and concurred : M' Wentworth
joined. A Vote to accept the report of the committee on the petition of
Mess'^ James and William Sheafe, that an attested copy of the peti
tion and order of Court thereon be delivered to the Delegates of this
State, and that they be desired and instructed to represent to Con
gress, the manner of seizure and condemnation of the said Brigantine
and Cargo and move Congress to instruct their Minister at the Court
of London to demand restoration or compensation for the
said Brigantine and Cargo seized and * Condemned con- * 2 : 243
trary to the Laws of Nations and of Trade, was brought
up, read and concurred.
An Act to disannex a certain tract of Land lying in the Town of
Holhs and annex the same to the Town of Raby having been read a
third time voted, that the same be enacted.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider what allowance shall be made to the General Court, tirae of ad
journment &c. was brought up, read and concurred M' Wentworth
M' Thornton and M' Payne joined.
An Act for the Extending the powers and authority of the mari-
tine Court in this State, having been read a third tirae voted .that the
sarae be enacted.

738 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l787
A Vote for a coramittee to join a coramittee of the Senate to con
sider of the bills for the apportionment and payment of the foreign
domestic Debt, and report such a bhl as they may think proper, was
brought up, read and concurred : M' Wentworth, M' Gilman and M'
Payne joined.
A Vote that the Town of Conway be abated fifty pounds out of
the Taxes in full for losses sustained by freshets was brought up,
read and concurred.
An Act to empower the Selectmen of Bedford to appoint some
proper person to Cohect Taxes in the Town of Bedford for the year
1 783 having been read a third voted that the same be enacted.
* 2 : 244 * A Vote that the statement of the accounts between
this and the United States and Stephen Gorham Esquire
Continental Commissioners Receipt for the vouchers handed into
Court by Joseph Gilman Esquire be referred to the committee ap
pointed to draught a Letter to Congress, was sent down for concur
rence. An Act to erapower the Selectmen of Exeter to collect the out
standing Taxes for the Town of Exeter for the year 1783, 1784, 1785,
having been read a third time, voted that the sarae be enacted.
A "Vote for a coramittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of an Extract of a pay roll presented by Col. Evans and report
thereon, was brought up, read and concurred : M' Webster joined.
An Act to vest in Benjamin Dearborn the Exclusive right of mak
ing and vending certain Engines and Scales for fourteen years, hav
ing been read a third tirae, voted that the sarae be enacted.
A Vote for a coramittee to join a committee of the Senate On the
petition of Lydia Wallingford Alias Cogswell and report thereon,
was brought up, read and concurred : M' Thornton and M' Went
worth joined. Adjourned 'tih to-morrow 9. O'Clock A. M.

SATURDAY, January 13"', 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as Yesterday.
* 2 : 245 *A Vote to accept the report of the Coramittee respect
ing an Addition to the Light horse, that the said additions
ought to be confined and established. That the Regiraent on Merri
raac River including the County of Hillsborough and the Towns of
Merrideth, Ghraantown, Barnstead, Chichester, Epsom and Aliens-
town, and the Towns lying between those and Merrimac River.

1787] journal of the senate. 739
That the Companies in the Regiment on Connecticut River includ
the County of Cheshire and three Towns deep frora Connecticut
River in the County of Grafton that the eastern regiraent include the
County of Rockingham and Strafford excepting the Towns taken off
as aforesaid. That the Officers of Light Horse, shall not inlist more
than eight men from any one Company of the Militia and none but
such as keep one or more horses and are of sufficient ability to equip
themselves and that they make a return of the names of the persons
by them already inlisted to the respective Captains out of whose
company they have been inlisted within three raonths after such
inhstment and that the President be requested to call upon the Offi
cers to equip themselves and see that their men are equipped as soon
as 'possable, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to nom
inate six persons out of whora three to be appointed a
committee to ascertain, settle & fix the western * Line of * 2 : 246
the Masonian Patent, the names of which committee are
to be put into a bill now under consideration, was brought up, read
and concurred. M' Webster and M' Baker joined.
A Vote that the pay roll of Col. Amos Cogswell be ahowed and
payed out of the Treasury, amounting to ;^33 was brought up, read
and concurred, warrant granted. Roll sent to the Treasurer.
An Act to impower the Assessors of the first parish in the Town
of Exeter to appoint a CoUector of out standing Taxes, having been
read a third tirae voted that the same be enacted .
An Act to enable Daniel Loring and Ashel Goodenow to refer all
Demands between them to Referees, having been read a third time,
Voted that the same be enacted.
An Act to enable Elizabeth Wallingford to renew her action,
against Samuel Sherburne Esquire and others at and before the Su
perior Court, having been read a third time, voted that the same be
enacted. A Vote that the account of the Merabers of the Court Martial
amounting to ^41.. 3.. o. The account of Col. Jonathan Rawson
amounting to £a,.. ws.. 6d. the account of Major Jonathan Cass
amt. £^. 8.. 2 the account of Col. Joseph Welch Amounting to
.;^i.. 4.. o. The account of Robert Smith amounting to £2.. 13..
8. Also the account of James Clement amounting to £1.
5.. 6. *Be allow and paid, was brought up, read and con- * 2 : 247
curred, warrant granted.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to the Town of Plainfield
eight pounds twelve shhlings in any Tax payable in Certificates for
the Tax on the right of Benning Wentworth for the years 1777,
1778, 1779, and 1780, was brought up, read and concurred.

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A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Josiah Butler and report thereon was brought
up, read and concurred, M' Webster joined.
A Vote, that the Treasurer be directed to receive of Charles Clap
ham the amount £i6o. in State Securities in part payment of his
Bond, was brought up, read and concurred.
An Act to impower John Bellows Anras Allen and Thoraas Bel
lows to sell certain Lands, coveyed by Nathaniel Brooks to Thomas
Brooks his Son and to apply the monies thence arising to the support
and maintenance of the said Nathan Brooks, having been read a third
time, voted that the same be enacted.
An Act to establish a certain highway laid out in Portsmouth by
the Selectmen thereof, having been read a third time, voted that the
same be Enacted.
* 2 : 248 A Vote that the Treasurer be directed * To receive of
the Town of Plainfield ;^30.. 9/ in this State paper bills
excepting any of said Bills may be counterfeit red[u]cing the sarae by
the Scale at the last of Deceraber 1777 and credit said Town for the
sarae, when reduced in any Tax payable in certificates, was brought
up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'tih Monday next 3 O'Clock, P. M.
MONDAY, January 15'^ 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote to pay the account of John Melcher, amounting to fifteen
pounds for printing Rev'd Doctor Havens Election Serraon, was
brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote, that the Merabers of the Honorable Council have and re
ceive 9/ p' Day each for attendance, and travel as Merabers of Sen
ate and House, when called together, was brought up, read and con
curred. A Vote that the Members of Senate and house have 6/ p' Day
each and four pence per Mile travel &c. was brought up, read and
concurred. A Vote for a Committee to Join a comraittee of the Senate to con
sider of a Vote of 20'*" June 1783, Respecting New-Durham Gore and
report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred : M' M'=Duffee
joined.
* 2 : 249 An Act to disannex certain persons * Herein after-
named from the Township of Peirraont and annex these
with their Estates to Wentworth, having been read a third time
Voted that the sarae be enacted.

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A Vote to pay the account of Christopher Toppan Esquire araount
ing to eighteen Shhlings for receiving and burning State Notes, was
brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote to pay the account of Ephraim Robinson araounting to
£9.. 4.. 6. as coraraittee on Town and State accounts, was brought
up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote to pay the Account of Major Samuel Hale amounting to
£6.. 2.. o. as one of a committee on Town and State accounts, was
brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote to pay the balance of the Account of John Calfe Esquire
for settling the Treasurers Accounts &c &c amounting to £2.. 2..
2. as per Account, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant
granted. A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the Account of Col. Williara Brewster and report thereon,
was brought up, read and concurred. M' M'^Duffee joined.
A Vote to pay the balance of the account of E. Robin
son amounting to seventy four * Shihings and one penny * 2 : 250
half penny was brought up, read and concurred.
State of New Hampshire.
In Senate January 15"", 1787.
A Vote that in addition to the Officers already ahowed for the In
dependant Compa [nies] of Hors at Portsmouth there shah be a second
Lieutenant but considered as Junior Officer, And a Quarter Master
ranking with the Cornett but as younger in comraand, sent down for
concurrence, brought up concurred.
An Act to Entitle the Selectraen of Bath to raise the sura of three
Farthings on eah Acre of Land in said Bath for three years for the
purpose of making and repairing the highways and Bridges in said
Town, having been read a third time. Voted that the same be enacted.
A "Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Lois Johnson, and report thereon was brought
up, read and concurred. M' Thornton joined.
Adjourned till to-morrow 9, O'Clock A. M.
TUESDAY, January I6'^ 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote for a committee to join a committee of the Sen
ate to consider of the petition of Joshua * Young and *2:2Si

742 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [^787
report thereon, was brought up, read and concurred : M' Payne
joined. A Vote to hear the petition of Sarah Purcell on the second Tues
day of the next Session, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Resolve that the Treasurer of this State be and hereby is di
rected stih to receive into the Treasury Facilities Issued by the Con
tinental Loan Officer for the interest of the liquidated debt of the
United States towards satisfying the requisition of Congress of Sep
teraber 27"^ 1785 untill further order of Court was brought up, read
and concurred.
An Act for ascertaining the waste Land belonging to this State,
having been read a third time, voted that the sarae be enacted.
An Act in addition to and amendraent of the Acts establishing the
Table of Fees having been read a third tirae, Yoted that the sarae be
enacted. A Vote to pay the account of Thomas Bartlett Esquire amounting
to £\6.. 9/ Attending Coramittee to exaraine Town accounts, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the money produced from the Light at New-Castle be
appropriated to purchase subsistence, fuel &c. Also the Monthly
pay of Elias Tarlton of forty shillings for attending said
* 2 : 252 Light and that the naval Officer be directed * To pay into
the hands of the Coraraissionary General Monies for the
aforesaid purpose &c. provided the light raoney is sufficient And that
the officers and Soldiers be paid their wages by an order on the
Treasurer &c. was brought up, read and concurred.
Adjourned 'tih to-raorrow 9. O'Clock A. M.
WEDNESDAY, January 17'^, 1787.
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote to pay the Roh of Captain Andrew Wiggin araounting to
twenty six pounds eighteen shihings, was brought up, read and con
curred. A Vote to pay Abigah Hale Widow of the Col. Hale have the de
preciation of his wages &c. and also seven years half pay, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the Secretary have ;^2ofor his Salary from June 1786
to June 1787 was brought up, read non-concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition of Jonathan Rawson
and giving hira leave to bring in a bill or resolve accordingly, was
brought up, read and concurred.

1787] journal of the SENATE. 743
A Vote to hear the petition of a committee of Peterborough Slip
on the second Tuesday of next Session, was brought up, read and
concurred. * A Vote, that his Excellency the President with advice * 2 : 253
of Council be requested to Issue a proclaraation appoint
ing Thursday 12 Aprh next as a day of public fasting, was brought
up, read and concurred.
A Vote to ahow New-Durham-Gore Twelve pounds for their beef
Tax and twenty five shillings for their Rum Tax, was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote for a coraraittee to join a coraraittee of the Senate to con
sider of the petition of Sarah Little, was brought up, read and con
curred, M' Wentworth joined.
An Act to reverse a judgraent of the Superior Court of Judica
ture against Jonathan Gove, having been read a third tirae, voted
that the sarae be -enacted.
A Vote that that two Persons be appointed to represent this State
in Convention at Philadelvhia in May next, was brought up, read and
non-concurred. A Vote to pay E. Robinson Jun' 42/ for copying acts for the Press
was brought up, read and non concurred.
A Vote for a coramittee to Join a committee of the Senate to con
sider of the account of Soloman Wheeler, was brought up, read and
concurred : M' Baker joined.
A Vote to pay the the account of John Waldron Esquire
amounting to five * Pounds nineteen Shillings and eight * 2 : 254
pince, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant
granted. A Resolve that the Inferior Court of comraon please be and they
hereby are irapowered to vocate and annul the Judgraent rendered a
June terra 1785 in the Action of Seth Fogg and wife against Thoraas
Drake, And that they cast Interest upon the Note declared on under
Judgment a February Term, and issue Execution accordingly, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed not to Issue any Extent
from Taxes due from Cornish, Plainfield, Orford, Piermont, Littleton,
and Dalton, prior to the year 1784 untill the next Session of the Gen
eral Court, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the Town of Lyme have credit in any Tax prior to
theyear 1784 payable in Certificates the sum of ;^i68„ 13,, 7, was
brought up, read and concurred, with this amendment, that the above
said sum is in full of all Demands that the said Town of Lyme hath
against the State, sent down, brought up concurred.

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A Vote for a committee to Join a committee of the Senate to
Assertain the amount of the debt of this State, also this States pro
portion of the debt of the United States both foreign and Doraestic
and report thereon, as soon as raay be was brought up, read and con
curred. M' Wentworth M' Gilraan and M' Shepard joined.
* 2 : 255 * A Vote that the Town of Lebanon have credit in any
tax prior to the year 1784, the sura of ^^203,, 8„ 10 was
brought up, read and concurred, with this araendraent that the afore
said sum be in fuh of all demands that the Town of Lebanon hath
against the State.
A Vote that the Town of Hanover have credit in any Tax prior to
the year 1784 the sum of ;£252„ 6„ 11 was brought up, read and
concurred with this amendment that the aforesaid sum be in full of
ah deraands that the said town of Hanover hath against the State.
A Vote that Lydia Wallingford Ahas Cogswell be allowed half pay
as the Widows of Officers who died in the land service, provided it
can be ascertained that Congress whl adrait the same as a charge
against the United States, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the Attorney General have ;^50 annually as a Salary
to commence in April next, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that Nathan Fay have an order on the Treasurer for
twenty three Shillings and ten pence for the Tax and charge on S.
Baxters Land in Alstead for 1780 being an absense, was brought up,
read and concurred warrant granted.
* 2 : 256 * A Vote that the Chief Justice of the * Superior Court
be allowed as a Salary annually one hundred and fifty
pounds he accounting for the fees, was brought up, read and con
curred. A Vote that a Puisne Justice of the Superior Court be allowed
;^I30 pounds each as a Salary annually they accounting Severally for
their fees, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that John T. Gilman have and receive .£230 in full for his
Salary &c &c from June 12"' 1786 to June 12'^ 1787 was brought up,
read and concurred.
A Vote that his Excehency the President have and receive ;£200
as a Salary from June 1786 to June 1787 was brought up, read and
concurred, warrant granted for £-^0.
A Vote to accept the report of a comraittee for draughting to Con
gress respecting the Continental Coraraissioners on accounts, and
that the President be requested to forward a Copy of the same to
Congress as soon as may be, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Resolve appointing any two of the deligates to congress as Dep
uties to assemble in Contion a Phhadelpia in May next, was brought
up, read and concurred with this amendment, that the said Deligate

1787] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 745
shah proceed to join the Convention aforesaid in cas Congress shall
signify to them that they approve of the said convention as advan
tageous to the Union and not an infringement of the powers granted
to Congress by the Confederation, sent down by M' Wentworth, brt.
up con"^.
*A Vote that the Treasurer be directed so far as it * 2 : 257
respects the beef Tax, to stay Execution against the Town
of Swanzey untih the first Wednesday of June next, was brought up,
>^read concurred.
A Vote, appointing Sarauel Bean, a Post Rider for the term of one
year, was brought up, read and non-concurred.
A Vote for a committee to consider of a Motion made that State
Notes be received in payment of all Taxes prior to 1786 was brought
up, read and non-concurred.
Adjourned 'till to morrow 9. O'Clock A. M.
THURSDAY January 18"' 1786. [7]
Met according to adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
A Vote to pay the Roh of Captain Titus Salter amounting to £so,
was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote to pay the account of John Williams amounting to £9..
15.. 8 as door keeper, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant
granted. A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to send out each Towns
proportion of the foreign Domestic and State debt and that the Se
lectmen of the several Towns proportion the same to the Inhab
itants, was brought up, read and concurred, with this
*Amendment, that a Copy of the proportion List to and * 2 : 258
among the Inhabitants of the respective Towns and dis
trict be lodged with the State Treasurer and that upon any Towns
district or individual paying his or her proportion of either or all
the debts aforesaid he shall give him, her or them a Receipt therefor,
which shall discharge such person. Town or district from being after
wards taxed for or toward the principal or Interest of the debt so
paid, sent down for concurrence, brought up concurred.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to receive Orders drawn on
the Board of Treasurer on the Loan Officer agreeably to the Resolve
of 5"' January current and keep the same in the Treasury thi the
prior Orders are paid, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote granting the prayer of the petition from Madbury and that
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746 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l787
they have liberty to send a Representative to the General Court in
future, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pay the Account of Daniel Humphreys Esquire amount
ing to £4,. 12.. o for drafting bills &c. was brought up, read and
concurred, warra' granted.
A Vote to pay the Reverend Doctor Hav«n Reverend M' Buck
minster and the Reverend M' Mansfield three pounds each as Chap
lin, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
* 2 : 259 A Vote that the petition of Rundlet and * Barker was
brought up, read and concurred except that part which re
spects the excise, warrant granted for ;£io. in favour of E. Barker.
A Vote on the petition of John Stevens that he have a hearing
before the Justice in some future day and that in the mean time the
Execution against the petitioner be stayed until he be heard before
said Justice and that a Resolve be brought in accordingly, was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote to pay the Account of Otis Baker Esquire amounting to
six Shillings, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote that the Puisne Justices of the Superior Court. [Marginal
note, "Entered before."]
A Vote, that the Treasurer be directed not to issue any extent
against the Excise Masters in the County of Rockingham unthl the
next Session, was brought up, read Non-concurred.
A Vote, that Lois Johnson is entitled to any sum that may appear
due to her late husband &c. was brought up, read and concurred with
this amendment, that the coraraittee on Clairas ascertain and certify
the sum due and that the President give Order accordingly.
* 2 : 260 * Resolve restoring John Evans to his Law &c. was
brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the committee on petitions be directed to keep the
Accounts they have received from Towns &c. and continue to receive
Accounts from Towns &c. untill further order was brought up, read
and concurred.
A Vote, that the President give order that the Selectraen of Mid
dletown draw the wages of Abrahara Mathews as made up, in Capt
Smiths Roll, was brought up, read and concurred.
A Vote that the Treasurer be directed to receive the Money from
Josiah Butler reducing the same by the Scale of Depreciation to the
last of the year 1780 was brought up, read and concurred.
^ An Act for raising Seven Thousand two hundred pounds in facili
ties and three thousand pounds in Specie, for the use of the State
the current year, having been read a third time, voted that the same
be enacted.

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A Vote that the Reverend Doctor Langdon be desired to deliver
an Election Sermon at Concord in June next, but if it should so hap
pen that he cannot attend, the Revered M' Buckminster is desired to
prepare for the above purpose and that the President give informa
tion to the said Revered Gentlemen, was brought up, read and con
curred. A Vote that the time for the Selling the Excise the present year
shall be on or before the first day of March next &c &c was brought
up, read and concurred.
*A Vote, to pay Joseph S. Gilman twenty nine pounds * 2 : 261
eight Shillings in full for his Services in tbe State Com
mittees Office, was brought up, read and concurred, warrant granted.
A Vote, that his Excellency the President with advice of Council
be desired to adjourn the General Court to-morrow twelve O'Clock
(if the business be then compleated) untih the twenty ninth day of
May next and that the General Court which is to meet in June next
meet at Concord was brought up, read and concurred.
Agreeably to the above vote, his Excellency the President by ad
vice of Counch, adjourned the General Court to the 29"' of May next.
Attest Joseph Pearson, SeC.

JOURNAL

House of Representatives

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM

DECEMBER 13, 1786, TO JANUARY 18, 1787.

* 13 : 2o8
*A JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

HONB.L HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

OF THE

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
At their Session, began and holden at Portsmouth, Wednesday,
the thirteenth Day of December, Anno Domini, 1786, and in the
Eleventh Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
WEDNESDAY, December, 13, 1786.
Several raembers met [at the Court-house in Portsraouth, according
to adjournment ;] but there not being a quorum to transact business,
agreed to adjourn to nine o'clock to-raorrow raorning.
THURSDAY, December, 14, 1786.
Several members met according to adjournment, but there not be
ing a quorura, agreed to adjourn to 3 o'clock P. M. — Met accordingly
but there not being a quorum, then adjourned 'till to-morrow at three
o'clock P. M. FRIDAY, December 15, 1786.
The members which attended yesterday, with several others raet,
but there not being a quorum to transact business, agreed to adjourn
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752 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
SATURDAY, December i6, 1786.
[Present as yesterday.]
[Several members met according to adjournment but there not be
ing a quorum] Agreed to adjourn to Monday next, at three o'clock
P. M. MONDAY, December 18, 1876.
The merabers which attended on Saturday, with some others, met,
[Several merabers met according to adjournment] but there not being
a quorum, agreed to adjourn to nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
TUESDAY, December 19, 1786.
A Nuraber of the [Several] members raet according to adjourn
ment, but there not being a quorum for transacting business, agreed
to adjourn to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
And there being several raerabers present more than in the fore
noon, made a quorum, and proceeded to business.
Voted, That Col. Runnels, Mr. Betton, and Major Young, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of Major Samuel Jones, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Voted, That the Treasurer of this state be directed to
* 13: 209 * attend the General Court in their present session [at
Portsraouth] with such books and papers as are necessary
for transacting publick business. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Toppan, Mr. Means, Mr. Thomp
son, Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Leavitt and Mr. Young, with such of the
honourable Senate as they shah join, be a committee to consider what
business is necessary first to be entered upon and done at this session,
and report thereon. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
The foregoing vote not being concurred, the following was sent
down from the honourable Senate for concurrence.
Yoted, That the honourable Joshua Wentworth, Elisha Payne,
Joseph Gilman, and John Bellows, Esquires, with such of the hon
ourable House as they may join, be a committee to consider of his
Excehency's message, and report thereon, and also of any important
business which may require the attention of the General Court this
present session ; which vote was read and concurred, and Mr. Betton,

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 753
Mr. Toppan, Mr. Hale, Mr. Thorapson, Mr. Means, Mr. Hubbard and
Mr. Young joined. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, December 20, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That the allowance for travel and attendance for the mem
bers of the honourable Senate and House of Representatives, and
their officers, be the same at the last session as was allowed for the
session in June last, and that the Secretary and Clerk make up the
respective rolls accordingly, and that the President give order for
payment for the same in the usual way. [Sent up by M' Rawlings.]
Voted, That the account of John Morrison, amounting to fourteen
pounds for writing Continental Accounts be ahowed and paid out of
the Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Robinson.]
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Duncan, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to
consider of the petition of the selectmen of Marlborough, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Yoted, That the Rev. Doctor Haven, and the Rev. Mr. Buckmin
ster, be requested to attend the General Court as Chaplains alter
nately, during the present session of said Court.
[Sent up by M' Clement.]
* Yoted, That the return made by the comraittee for * 13 :2io
establishing the lines or boundaries between the towns of
Lebanon and Enfield be received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
The committee appointed at the last session of the General Court
to agree on a place for setting a raeeting-house in Washington re
ported. That the raeeting-house in said town be set on a spot of
ground a few rods southeast of the pound, agreeable to a vote of said
town, passed Septeraber 6th, 1779: Signed, Robert Wallace, Joseph
Syraonds, Silas Wright, committee. Which report was read and
considered, received and accepted. [Sent up by Maj' Wahace.]
Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Duncan, and Mr. Chase, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the most speedy and effectual means for printing the acts,
resolves and journals, of the proceedings [of the General Court] of
the two last sessions, and in [the] future, and report thereon.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
A vote appointing the committee to consider of the petition of the
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754 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. {.^7^^
concurrence ; was read and considered, and Mr. Kingsbury, Mr. Rol
lins and Mr. Ashley, joined. [Sent up by Col° Hale.]
Voted, That Mr. Emerson, Mr. Chesley, and Mr. Bedee, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of an inventory presented from the town of Littleton, which is
a part of what was formerly called Apthorp, and report what propor
tion of Littleton and Dalton (which is the other part of Apthorp)
ought [each] to be taxed. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Read a large nuraber of returns respecting paper money.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-raorrow morning.
THURSDAY, December 21, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Col. Runnels, Col Waldron, and Col. Badger, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to
consider of the petition of Peter Roswell Stephens,' and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Chase.]
* 13: 211 * Upon reading and considering the petition of the
selectmen of Bedford, Voted, That the prayer thereof be
granted, and that they have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
[Sent up by M' Dole.]
Voted, That the powers granted to the President by a vote of the
General Court of the 23d of September last, respecting calling forth
the mhitia to quell any high-handed riot, &c. be discontinued.
[.Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.]
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Chesley, Mr. Hubbard
and Mr. Johnson, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a comraittee to take under consideration a resolve of the
General Court, passed the 22d of September last, respecting an addi
tion to the light-horse, and report their opinion respecting said addi
tion, and prefix [on] a time when the light-horse shah be equipped.
[Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Voted, That the account of Major Jonathan Cass, amounting to
twenty-two shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President [and that the President give order accord
ingly. Sent up by M' Jackman.]
Voted, That this House resolve themselves into a coramittee of the
whole, in conjunction with the honourable Senate, if they see fit, to
meet at three o'clock, P. M. to take under consideration the requisi
tion of Congress of the 2d of August last ; also the requisition for
an augraentation of troops, &c. and any other matter that may be
thought necessary when met. [Sent up by M' Duncan.]
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Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Mr. Waldron, Mr. Preston, [M' Emer
son] Mr. Hale and Mr. Mooney, with such of the honourable Senate
as they shall join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Enoch
Richardson, and others, also the petition of Ebenezer Odell, and ah
simhar matters, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Copland.]
^•Voted,That Mr. Robinson, Mr. Leavitt, and Mr. Pe- * 13: 212
ters, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Lucy Fay, and
report thereon. [Sent up by Col° Hale.]
Yoted, That the Treasurer of this state be directed to receive from
Nahum Baldwin, Esquire, state notes (or securities) in discharge of
the execution against hira, agreeably to a vote of the General Court,
of the 2ist of June last. [Sent up by Maj' Means.]
Voted, That the votes of the 22d and 27th of June last, respect
ing petitioners paying a dollar with each petition presented to the
General Court, be reconsidered. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Daniel Warner, Vot
ed, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court, on
the third Wednesday of the [their] next session, and that in the mean
time the petitioner cause that Captain Joseph Kelley, of Nottingham
West ; also, the administrators to the estate of David Putnam, de
ceased, be served with a copy of the petition and order of Court
thereon, that they, or either of them, raay then appear and shew
cause why the prayer thereof may not be granted, and that all further
proceedings on the matter contained [mentioned] in said petition, be
stayed until the decision of the General Court. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
A vote of the Senate to go into [a] conference with the House at
three o'clock in the afternoon, carae down [frora the Honb' Senate]
for concurrence : was read and concurred. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
The honourable Senate and House being met in the assembly
chamber, went into a conference on several publick matters. After
the honourable Senate withdrew, the House debated largely on the
requisition of Congress, of the second of August last, and agreed to
postpone the further consideration thereof till to-raorrow morning.
Voted, That Mr. Toppan, [Honb'] Mr. Langdon, Mr. Thompson,
Mr. Duncan, Major Means, Mr. Betton, and Mr. Hubbard, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to take un
der [into] consideration the impost and excise acts now in force in this

756 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
State, and report a bill making such alterations and amend-
* 13 : 213 ments as they may judge necessary in the former *acts,
and ascertaining the mode [method] of collecting in [the]
future, and how the profits shall be appropriated. [Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Col. Badger, Mr. Means, Mr. Kings
bury and Mr. Young, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a comraittee to exaraine the returns from the several
towns respecting paper money, and make an arrangement of the
nurabers for and against the plan proposed by the Court, also of the
numbers for and against any other other plan proposed, and report
thereon. [Sent up by Col" Hale.]
Voted, That Mr. Brackett, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Preston,
and Mr. Betton, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider of the petition of David Place, and
ah similar matters, and report thereon. [Sent up by Mr. Greeley.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to morrow raorning.
FRIDAY, December 22, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That [Honb'] Mr. Langdon, Mr. Pickering, and Mr. Spar
hawk, with such of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a
comraittee to draught a letter to Congress, requesting that the time
may be lengthened in which the Continental Commissioner may con
tinue to receive the claims of this state against the United States
unth Aprh next. [Sent up by M' Ames.]
Again took under consideration the requisition of Congress, of the
second of August last, and after debating thereon, agreed to postpone
the further consideration thereof for the present.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
A vote came down from the honourable Senate appointing Mr.
Gilraan, Mr. Wentworth and Mr. Payne, with such of the honourable
House as they may join, a committee to examine and report this
state's quota of [the] foreign and domestic debt of the United States ;
and also the amount of the state debt, and what the proportion of
each would be to the respective towns in this state. "Was read and
concurred and Mr. Pickering, Mr. Waldron, Mr. Wahace, Mr. Hub
bard and Mr. Skinner joined. [Sent up by M' Betton.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jacob
* 13 : 214 Copland, * Esquire, in behalf of the town of Stoddard,
praying that the time for holding the annual meeting in

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said town, may be altered frora the last Thursday to the first Monday
of March annually, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and
that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Sarauel Thompson,
praying to be restored to his law, in a certain action. Voted, That the
petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court, on Tuesday
the second day of January next, and that in the mean tirae the peti
tioner cause that William Wallace, of Northwood, be served with a
copy of the petition and order of Court thereon, that he may then
appear, and shew cause, (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof may
not be granted, and that all further proceedings against said Thomp
son be stayed until the decision of the General Court.
[Sent up by M' Bradley.]
Voted, That Mr. M'Murphy, Mr. Hale, and Mr. Wahace with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of a petition frora the towns of Winchester and Chesterfield,
and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Yoted, That Mr. Gibson, Mr. Wahace and Mr. Leavitt, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the account of Lamson and Ranlet, for printing,, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.

SATURDAY, December 23, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Upon reading and considering the petition of the inhabitants of
New-Hampton, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that
the petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
[Sent up by Maj' Kiraball]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Mary Hart, Voted,
That the prayer thereof be granted, and that she [the Petitioner]
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by Mr. Brackett.]
*Upon reading and considering the petition of Col. * 13 : 215
Wihiam Gregg, praying to be restored to his law. Voted,
that the petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court, on
Tuesday the second day of January next, and that in the mean time
the petitioner cause that John Anderson, of Londonderry, be served
with a copy of the petition and order of Court thereon, that he raay
then appear and shew cause, (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof

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may not be granted, and that the execution against said Gregg be
stayed until the decision of the General Court.
[Sent up by the Col° Runnels.]
Yoted, That the honourable Mr. Langdon, Mr. Betton, Mr. Pres
ton, Mr. Gibson, and Mr. Pickering, with such of the honourable sen
ate as they shah join, be a comraittee to take under consideration the
table of fees for this state, and report a bih for raaking such altera
tions and araendraents as they shah judge necessary. [Sent up by M' Holraes.]
Adjourned to Monday next, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
MONDAY, December 25, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That the account of John Sparhawk, Esq. amounting to
thirty -four shhlings, be allowed and paid out of the treasury by order
of the President. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
An act to impower the several towns and parishes [in this state,] to
chuse new constables and collectors in room of such constables and
collectors as have [been] deceased or may hereafter decease, or have
absconded, or shall hereafter abscond, without corapleating the col
lection of the taxes coraraitted to them, and to authorize such new
elected constables and collectors to complete such collection, was
read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Young & M' Peters.]
An act to restore Elizabeth Lampson to her law, was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Young & M' Peters.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Ebenezer Farnum,
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed to issue to [the] said
* 13 : 216 Farnum, a new note and certificates equal in value *to
the notes lost, and equal [in value] to what he might have
drawn if said note had not been lost, he the said Farnum giving
security that if the lost note shall be found, that he whl be accountable
for the note and certificates to be issued in consequence of this note.
[Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Voted, That Mr. Pickering, Mr. Toppan, and Mr. Young, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join be a coramittee to
examine whether there are any laws now in force, to irapower select
men to assess any arrearages of taxes against towns which have been
called upon by the state for taxes, in years past, and an assessment
has been neglected, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Foster.]
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Mr. Leavitt, and Mr. Peters, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to con-

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759

sider of the petition of Abigail Hale, and all similar matters, and re
port thereon. [Sent up by M' Foster.]
Voted, That Mr. Pickering be added to the comraittee for draught
ing impost and excise acts. [Sent up by M' Bradley.]
The act for the recovery of small debts in an expeditious way and
manner, was again taken under consideration, and the vote being
called [for], whether said act is a constitutional act, [and] the yeas
and nays being required, were as follow, viz.

Yeas.

Yeas.

Yeas.

Yeas.

Mr. Runnels,

Mr. Spaulding,

Mr. Hadley,

Mr. S. Kingsbury,

Mr. iI'Murpliy,

Mr. Wallace,

Mr. Smith,

Mr. Putnam,

Mr. Wiggin,

i\Ir. Clement,

Mr. Preston,

Mr. Holmes,

Mr. Shaw,

iMr. Marsh,

Mr. Greeley,

Mr. Kimball,

Mr. Duncan,

Mr. Betton,

Mr. Jackman,

Mr. Gilmore,

Mr. Eliott,

Mr. Gibson,

Mr. Hale,

Mr. Jenks,

Mr. Gile,

Mr. Badger,

Mr. Mack,

Mr. Copland,

Mr. Barnard,

Mr. M'Millan,

Mr. Ames,

Mr. Peters,

Mr. -Welch,

Mr. Dole,

Mr. Tolford,

Mr. Freeman,

Mr. Barron,

Mr. Emerson,

Mr. Skinner,

Mr. Johnson,

Mr. Page,

]Mr. Cragin,

Mr. A. Kingsbury,

Mr. Young,

Nays.

Nays.

Nays.

Nays.

Hon. Mr. Langdon

, Mr. Bedee,

Mr. Dow,

Mr. Ashley,

Mr. Pickering,

Mr. Foster,

Mr. Chesley,

Mr. Chase,

Mr. Brown,

Mr. Bradley,

Mr. Lovell,

Mr. Mooney,

Mr. Wheeler,

Mr. N. Emerson,

44 Yeas — 14 Nays.
[So it passed in the affirmative.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.

TUESDAY, December 26,

1786.

13:217

The House met according to adjournment.
The committee on the petition of the selectmen of Walpole re
ported, but the report was rejected.
Voted unanimously. That this House return their most cordial
thanks to Paul Wentworth, Esquire, [of London] for his generous
donation to Dartmouth College, and for the map of this state, pre
sented by hira to this House.
Voted, that the thanks of this House be given the honourable
Daniel Rindge, Esquire, for his kind care of the maps presented, and
polite conduct to this House, and that it is the request of the House
that the honourable Mr. Rindge would submit to his friend Paul
Wentworth, Esq. a copy of the above vote.

760 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
The comraittee on printing the acts, resolves, and journals of the
General Court the two last sessions, reported, That the acts and re
solves be printed as heretofore, and the journals in octavo.
The committee having treated with the printers, who agree to
print the acts and resolves, at two pence halfpenny per
sheet ; and the journals at five pence per sheet, to be paid in specie.
The comraittee beg leave to add, that an appropriation may be made
of monies on the impost revenue, sufficient to pay the printers for
the aforesaid purpose : Signed Joshua Wentworth, for the commit
tee. Which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be re
ceived and accepted. [Sent up by M' Brackett.]
Voted, That the honourable Mr. Langdon, [Speaker] Mr. Pickering
and Mr. Badger, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join,
be a comraittee to draught an address to Congress, stating the situation
of the publick affairs of this state and the improbabhity of ever sup
plying the Treasury of the United States, unless sorae raethod can
be devised for regulating the coramerce of the said United States ;
Also, to request an allowance for the old continental currency now in
the Treasury of tliis state.
Voted, To comply with the requisition of Congress of the 20th of
October, 1786, respecting raising the two hundred and sixty men pro
portioned to this state. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
* 13:218 * Voted, That Mr. Betton, Mr. Robinson, and Mr.
Marsh, with such of the honourable Senate as they shah
join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Enoch Barker and
James Rundlet, [Also, The petition of James Rundlet] and the ac
count of Enoch Barker, and report thereon. [Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Whereas the collection of outstanding taxes prior to the year 1 786,
has becorae necessary for the support of the federal union and the gov
ernraent of this state, and as a discrimination in the periods for the
collection thereof ought to be raade according to the time in which
they become due : Therefore,
Voted, That unless the outstanding taxes due, prior to the year
1784, be paid into the state Treasury on or before the last day of
March next, the Treasurer be desired and directed to issue extents
therefor. And unless all outstanding taxes prior to the year 1785,
be paid into the Treasury on or before the last day of June next, the
Treasurer be desired to issue extents therefor as the law directs.
And that unless all outstanding taxes for the year 1785, be paid by
the last day of October next, the Treasurer be directed to issue ex
tents therefor.

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Upon which vote, the yeas and nays being called [for], were as fol
low, viz.

Yeas.

Yeas.

Yeas.

Yeas.

Hon. John Langd

on Mr. Bradley,

Jlr. Sparhawk,

Mr.

Hadley,

Mr. Pickering,

Mr. N. Emerson,

Mr. Robinson,

Mr.

Greeley,

Mr. M'Murphy,

Mr. Hook,

Mr. Dearborn,

Mr.

Smith,

Mr. UnderhiU,

Mr. Waldron,

Mr, Dole,

Mr.

Jackman,

Mr. Brown,

Mr. Thompson,

Mr. Means,

Mr.

Hubbard,

Mr. Wiggin,

Mr. Rollins,

Mr. Mann,

Mr.

A. Kingsbury,

Mr. Merrill,

Mr. S. Hale,

Mr. Preston,

Mr.

Stiles,

Mr. Eliott,

Mr. Brackett,

Mr. Putnam.

Mr.

E. Hale,

Mr. Barnard,

Mr. Bedee,

Mr. Spaulding,

Mr.

¦Voung,

Mr. Foster,

Mr. Chesley,

Mr. Wallace,

Nays.

Nays.

Nays.

Nays.

Mr. Jenness,

Mr. Gilmore,

Mr. Leavitt,

Mr.

Ashley.

Mr. Toppan,

Mr. Chase,

Mr. Gile,

Mr.

Jenks,

Mr. Welch,

Mr. Mack,

Mr. Gibson,

Mr.

Holmes,

Mr. M'Millan,

Mr. Ames,

Mr. Marsh,

Mr.

Kimball,

Mr. Page,

Mr. Mooney,

Mr. Emerson,

Mr.

Peters,

Mr. Cunningham,

Mr. Johnson,

Mr. Cragin,

Mr.

Freeman.

Mr. Clement,

Mr. Skinner,

Mr. Rendall,

39 Yeas — 27 Nays. So it passed in the affirmative.
[Sent up by Cap' Marsh.]
* Agreeable to the order of the day, proceeded to a *i3:2i9
hearing on petitions.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Josiah Gage,' Esq.
and others praying for a poll parish in the town of Pelhara. Voted,
That the prayer thereof be granted, and [that] the petitioner have
leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by M' Wheeler.]
Voted, That the hearings on petitions which were to have been this
day before the General Court, be postponed to Friday next, of which
all persons concerned are to take notice and govern themselves ac
cordingly. [Sent up by Col° Lovell]
The coramittee on the petition of Lucy Fay, reported that she is
intitled to seven years half pay of an ensign, agreeably to resolves of
Congress : Signed John Bellows, for the comraittee. Which report
being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted,
and that on a certificate from the pay-master, the President give order
for the issuing of notes and certificates in comraon form.
[Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Voted, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Gibson and Mr. Chase, with such of the
19
^' xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 151.
762 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to consider of
the petition of Major Joseph Kimball, and report thereon.
[Sent up Maj' Kimbah.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, December 27, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That the Clerk of this House write to the Clerk of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the county of Rockingham, and
request of him, a copy of the proceedings of [the] said [Inferior]
Court in each action brought before them by appeals frora [the] Jus
tices of the Peace, in cases which exceed forty shillings.
Voted, That the vote of this House of the 24th of June last, re
specting the reraoval of Nathaniel Peabody, Esq. from the office of
Brigadier-General of the light-horse, (which was not concurred by
the honourable Senate) be reconsidered and made null and void.
[Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
* 13 : 220 * Agreeably to the order of the day, proceeded to the
[a] hearing on petitions.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of John Blunt, Esq.
Voted, That said petition be dismissed.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Upon reading and considering the petition of Williara Burns and
Abigah Burns, also the petition of Isaac Merrhl, Voted, That the
prayer thereof be granted, and that the petitioners have leave to
bring in a bih accordingly. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Jonathan Clark,'
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted and that the Treasurer be
directed to credit the town of Northwood, the sura of sixty pounds
on any tax prior to the year 1786. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Jaraes Saunders, which
was to have been this day [before the General Court], be postponed to
Wednesday next, of which all persons concerned are to take notice,
and govern themselves accordingly. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
Upon hearing and considering the petition of George Clark,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to
bring in a bhl or resolve accordingly. [Sent up by M' Betton.]
Upon hearing and considering [of] the petition of the selectmen of
Unity,' Voted, That the said petition be dismissed.
1. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 95. 2. xiii. Id, 57S, 579.

1786] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 763
Voted, That the [remainder of the] hearings which were to have
been this day before the General Court be postponed till to-morrow,
of which all persons concerned are to take notice and govern them
selves accordingly. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow raorning.
THURSDAY, December 28, 1786.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
Whereas, George Clark, of Londonderry, in said state, having peti
tioned the General Court of this state, setting forth that it is incon
venient for him to attend publick worship in the east par
ish of said Londonderry, * and whereas he has heretofore * 13 : 221
attended at the meeting-house in the west parish of [in] said
Londonderry, and praying that he may pay his ministerial tax to the
west parish in said Londonderry, the prayer thereof appearing reason
able : Be it therefore resolved, that the said George Clark pay the
whole of his ministerial tax to the said west parish in Londonderry
from the time of passing this resolve, any usage or custora to the
contrary notwithstanding. [Sent up by M' Betton.]
Agreeably to the order of the day, proceeded to a hearing on peti
tions but came to no determination.
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted.., That Robert Gerrish, John Melcher, and George Jerry
Osborne, each, have an order on the Treasury for ten pounds each,
to be by thera accounted for in their accounts for printing, and that
the Treasurer be desired to call on the impost officer or naval officer,
for specie to discharge said orders as soon as may be, and that the
President give order accordingly. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Again proceeded to a hearing on petitions.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of John Glidden, Voted,
That the determination be postponed until to-raorrow morning.
Upon hearing and considering the petition from Bath, respecting
taxing non-residents lands for repairing highways. Voted, That the
petition be so [far] granted [as] that the selectmen have liberty to tax
the [whole of the] lands in said Bath three farthings per acre, for three
years, and that the petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accord
ingly, allowing the non-residents the liberty of working out each one
his proportion of the tax. [Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.]
Upon hearing [reading] and considering the Petition of Thomas
Clark, and others. Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and
that the petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
[Sent up by M' Spaulding.]

764 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
* 13 : 222 * Voted, That Mr. Toppan, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Means,
with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be
a comraittee to consider of the Petition of Daniel Loring, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Eliphalet Hale,'
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to
bring in a bhl accordingly. [Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
Voted, That the hearings [on petitions] which were to have been
this day before the General Court, be postponed until to-raorrow, of
which all persons concerned are to take notice, and govern theraselves
accordingly. [Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
Voted, That Mr. Ashley, Mr. Gibson, and Col. Runnels, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee
to consider of the account of Col Benjarain Stone and report thereon..
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
[Sent up by M' Spaulding.}
FRIDAY, December 29, 1786.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act to vest the United States in Congress assembled, with fuh
power to regulate trade, and enter into treaties of commerce, was
sent down from the honourable Senate for concurrence; was read
three tiraes and enacted. [Sent up by M' Preston and M' Emerson.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Samuel Hobart and
Ephraim Robinson, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and
that they have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by Cap' Smith.]
Voted, to comply with the requisition of Congress, of the second
of August, 1786, and that a bill be brought in accordingly.
[Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That the treasurer of this state be directed to issue two
state notes in the name of John Whitehorn, one of twen-
* 13 : 223 ty-five pounds, the other for twenty-eight * pounds, in lieu
of two notes of [the] like sums, which were issued at the
Treasury, dated July 31st, 1785, and on which one year's interest has
been paid, which notes are destroyed, and that he be intitled to re
ceive 1 5 per cent, of the principal of the new notes, in the sarae man
ner as though said notes had not been destroyed. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
1. xi. Hara. Town Papers, 346.

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An act for altering the time of holding the annual meeting in the
town of Stoddard, in said state, was read a third time and passed to
be enacted. _ [Sent up by Cap' Copland & Cap' Spaulding.]
An Act to impower the inhabitants of New-Hampton, to chuse a
constable, or [the] selectmen for the time being, to appoint a collector,
and give him a warrant for the cohection of outstanding taxes, was
read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by Cap' Copland M' Spaulding.]
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Mr. Welch, and Mr, Betton, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of a certificate in favor of David E. Boynton : Signed Tiraothy
Pickering, Quarter-Master-General, for ninety-two dohars and ff, and
report thereon. [Sent up by M' Ghraore.]
Proceeded to a hearing on petitions agreeably to the order of the
day. Upon hearing and considering the petition of Leonard Whiting,
Esquire, Voted, That Mr. Duncan, Mr. M-^Murphy, Mr. Badger, Mr.
Dearborn, and Mr. Hubbard, be a coramittee to report on said peti
tion. Upon hearing and considering the petition of Stephen Barker,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to
bring in a bhl accordingly. [Sent up by Maj' Young.]
Voted, That the remainder of the hearings which were to have
been this day before the General Court, be postponed until to-mor
row, of which all persons concerned, are to take notice and govern
themselves accordingly. [Sent up by M' Wheeler.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
* SATURDAY, December 30, 1786. * 13 : 224
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That Mr. Means, Mr. Gibson, and Mr. A. Kingsbury, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the petition of Major M'^Question, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Cap' Peters.]
An act to enable the executors of [the last wih of] Abiathar Winn,
deceased, to sell a certain tract of land in Nottingham-West, which
belonged to the testator, was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. [Sent up by Col" Putnam & M' Peters.]
Agreeably to the order of the day, proceeded to a hearing on peti
tions. Upon hearing and considering the petition of Jonas Fairbank.
Voted, That the prayer of said petition be so far granted as that the

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petitioners have leave to bring in a bill at this or the next session, to
incorporate those parts of the towns of Charlestown and Walpole,
into a town agreeably to the prayer of the petition, and votes of the
[said] towns of Charlestown and Walpole. [Sent up by Col° Hale.]
An act for supplying the Treasury of this state with the sum of
seventy-six thousand, two hundred and sixty eight dollars, in specie;
and fifty-six thousand, four hundred and fifty-two dollars, in indents
on the public securities of the liquidated debt of the United States,
for the purpose of discharging the requisition of Congress, of the sec
ond [day] of August, 1786, was read a third time and passed to be
enacted. [Sent up by Cap' Spaulding & M' Barron.]
An act to enable Mary Hart, to sell the interest of the children of
her late husband Jaraes Hart, in the estate of their grandfather
Thoraas Hart, deceased, was read a third tirae and passed to be en
acted. [Sent up by M' Kimbah & M' Robinson.]
Voted, That the hearings which were to have been this day before
the General Court, be postponed to Monday next, and that [of which]
all persons concerned, are to take notice and govern themselves
accordingly. [Sent up by M' Works.]
* 13 : 225 * Adjourned to Monday next, at 2 o'clock P. M.
MONDAY, January i, 1787.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, that Mr. Thorapson, Mr. Preston, and Mr. Duncan, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of a bill presented for the encouragement of erecting [of] slit
ting mills, iron works, &c. and report such alterations and amend
ments as they shall judge necessary. [Sent up by Mr. Knowles.]
Voted, That Mr. Welch, Mr. Putnam, and Mr. Wallace, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Benjamin Dearborn, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Knowles.]
Agreeably to the order of the day proceeded to a hearing on peti
tions. Upon hearing and considering the petition of Samuel Adams,
Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to
bring in a bhl to make void the judgment given at the Superior
Court, in consequence of a report of referees, and to impower said
Court to hear and determine in the sarae raanner as though said
action had not been referred. [Sent up by Col" Hale.]

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The fohowing vote carae down from the honourable Senate for con
currence :
State of New Hampshire.
In Senate January ist, 1787.
Voted, That there be an independent company of light horse,
raised and officered in the town of Portsmouth and the vicinity, to
consist of sixty-four privates, and eight non-commissioned officers ;
and to be coraraanded by a Captain, Lieutenant, and Cornet, to have
the sarae rank as Captain, Lieutenant, and Ensign, have in the alarm
list, and that his Excellency the President, with advice of the Coun
cil, appoint and coraraission them accordingly.
was [The same day] read and concurred. [Sent up by M' Bradley.]
The committee on the petition of Major Samuel Jones, reported,
that the Treasurer of this state be directed to receive of the said
Samuel Jones, the sum of five hundred and thirty-seven
continental dollars, as raentioned in his the said Jones' *pe- * 13 : 226
tition, as if the same had been paid previous to the 23d of
July, 1781 : Signed Ebenezer "Webster, for the committee. Which
report being read and considered, Yoted, That it be received and
accepted. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Voted, That the hearings which were to have been this day before
the General Court, be postponed unth to-morrow, of which all per
sons concerned are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
[Sent up by Cap' Copland.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-raorrow morning.
TUESDAY, January 2, 1787.
The House raet according to adjournment.
The coraraittee on the petition of Major Wihiam M'Question,
reported. That the Treasurer be directed to pay to said M'Question
for the use of Robert Thompson, Esq. fifteen pounds lawful raoney,
which was paid into the Treasury of this state by Samuel Chase,
Esq. as rent for the farm of said Thompson ; also that the said Chase,
who was agent and receiver to the state, be ordered to pay to_ said
M'Question as aforesaid, the sum of twenty-two pounds ten shihings,
as the remainder of the rent of said farra, excepting the charge and
expenee that [the] said Chase was at, in leasing out said farm to be
deducted out of said twenty-two pounds ten ; and in case they cannot
agree on the demands of said Chase, the same to be adjusted and

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allowed by the Judge of Probate in the county of Hhlsborough :
Signed Elisha payne, for the committee. Which report being read
and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Whereas several precepts for taxes have been sent to the town of
Gunthwait which have been assessed by persons who call themselves
selectraen for [of] Concord, thereby depriving the proprietors of Gunth
wait frora paying their proportion of said tax, for reraedy whereof.
Voted, That a bill be presented, appointing some person to call a
meeting of the inhabitants of Gunthwait to chuse assessors to pro
portion the outstanding taxes on the lots of the proprie-
* 13 : 227 tors *and inhabitants of said Gunthwait, and levy, collect
and pay the same into the Treasury, and that precepts in
future be directed to Gunthwait, that nothing in said act be construed
to effect the title of land in said place : anything to contrary notwith
standing. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Whereas a nuraber of persons, inhabitants of Keen, Packersfield,
Gilsom, and Stoddard, petitioned the General Court, praying that a
tract of land, being north-east corner of said Keen, and south-west
corner of Stoddard, the north-west corner of said Packersfield and the
south-east corner of said Gilsom, might be incorporated into a town
agreeably to a plan presented ; which petition was ordered to lie ;
and that in the mean time a committee be appointed to view the prem
ises. Wherefore, Voted, That Lemuel Holmes, Esq. of Surry, Cap
tain Samuel Works, of Westmoreland, and Absalom Kingsbury, Es
quire of Alstead, be a coramittee to repair to the premises, view the
sarae, and report their opinion to the next session of the General
Court : Said coraraittee are to cause the selectmen of said towns to
be notified of the tirae and place of their meeting, that they may
attend if they see cause. The expenee of said comraittee to be paid
by the petitioners. [Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.]
The comraittee on the petition of Daniel Loring, reported. That
the petitioner be restored to his law, as it appears to your committee
that sundry articles of charge were not considered of by the referees :
Signed John Bellows, for the committee. Which report beino- read
and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
_ Agreeably to the order of the day, proceeded to a hearing on pe
titions. Upon hearing and considering the petition of James Banks, Voted,
That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to bring
in a bhl accordingly. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]

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Upon hearing and considering the petition of Thomas Lewis, Yoted,
That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he have leave to bring
in a bih accordingly. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
* Upon hearing and considering the petition of Benja- * 13 : 228
min Farley, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted as
far as respects the town of Holies, and agreeably to the vote of said
town, and that the petitioner have leave to bring in a bill accordingly.
[Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Yoted, That the hearings on petitions which were to have been
this day before the General Court, be postponed until to-morrow, of
which all persons concerned are to take notice, and govern them
selves accordingly. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Jonas Cutting, Voted,
That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court, on
the third Wednesday of the next session of said Court, and that in
the mean time the petitioner cause that Josiah Whitney, mentioned
in said petition, be served with a copy of the petition and order of
Court thereon, that he may then appear, and shew cause (if any he
hath) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, January 3, 1787.
The House met according to adjournraent.
An act to restore Stephen Barker to his law, was read a third tirae,
and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Hale & M' Bedee.]
An act to erect a poll parish in Pelhara,' was read a third time and
passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Hale & M' Bedee.]
An act to exempt sundry persons herein-after-mentioned, frora serv
ing in the train band, was sent down from the honourable Senate
[to be Enacted]. Was read a third time [three times] and enacted.
[Sent up by M' Hale Sz: M' Bedee.]
Read the proceedings of a [the late] General Court-Martial [which
lays for consideration.] Adjourned, to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
* Voted that each and every justice of the peace within the * 1 3 : 229
country where he resides, be and hereby is irapowered to ad-^
minister an oath or affirmation to any person or persons who is the own
er or possessor of any certificates of liquidated debts (other than loan-
office certificates) that the said certificates is bona fide, the property
of the state, or of a citizen or citizens of the state or of some corpo
rate body or charitable institution within the same ; and to give said
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770 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1787
person or persons a certificate, describing the certificate or certifi
cates alluded to in every such oath or affirraation, in such raanner as
shall be necessary to identify the sarae, that the Continental Loan-
Officer may be at no loss in issuing indents for the interests of said
certificates. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Agreeably to the order of the day proceeded to a hearing on peti
tions. The committee on the petition of Benjamin Dearborn, reported. That
the petition be granted for fourteen years instead of twenty-one years :
Signed Otis Baker, for the comraittee. Which report being read and
considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that he have
leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by M' Works.]
Upon reading [hearing] and considering the petition of James
Saunders, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by M' Spaulding.]
Upon reading [hearing] and considering the petition of Samuel
Thorapson, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that he
have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by M' Bradley.]
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of Col. "Williara Gregg,
which was to have been yesterday before the General Court, be post
poned to the third Wednesday of the next session of said Court,
agreeably to the desire of both parties, and that the execution against
said Gregg be stayed until the decision of the General Court.
[Sent up by M' Jenness.]
* 13 : 230 * Yoted, That the hearings on the petitions of the select
men of Packersfield,' Henry Gerrish,' Esquire, Colonel Az
ariah Webb,3 Amariah Curtis, Jonathan Parker, Whliam Reed, and
Captain Jeremiah Stiles, which were to have been this session, be
postponed to the third Wednesday of the next session of the General
Court, of which all persons concerned, are to take notice and govern
themselves accordingly. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Voted, That the hearing on the petition of the selectraen of Ports
mouth, be postponed until to-raorrow raorning, of which all persons
concerned are to take notice, and govern themselves accordingly.
[Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-raorrow raorning.
THURSDAY, January 4, 1787.
The House raet according to adjournment.
Voted, That Mr. M'Murphy, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Emerson, Mr,
Hale and Mr. Peters, with such of the honourable Senate as they
I. xii. Ham. Town Papers, 639. -a. xi. Ham. Tovvn Papers, 203. 3. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 194.

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shall join, be a coramittee to take under consideration the situation
of the unimproved lands within this state, and report what raethod
shall be taken to ascertain what part of said lands are the property of
this state. [Sent up by M' Jackman.]
[Upon reading and considering the petition of Thomas Pinkham,
Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the General Court,
on the third Wednesday of the next session of said Court, and that in
the mean time the petitioner cause, that Robert Lapish, of Durham,
be served with a copy of the petition and order of court thereon, that
he may then appear, and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer
may not be granted.]
"Upon hearing and considering the petition of the selectmen of
Portsmouth, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that the
petitioner have leave to bring in a bill accordingly. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
Voted, That Mr. Pickering, Mr. Preston and Mr. Rollins, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to con
sider of the petition of John Parker, Esq. and others, managers of the
Dartmouth College Lottery, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Cragin.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the selectmen of Ex
eter, also [of] the petition of the assessors of the first parish in said
Exeter, Voted, That the prayer of the petition be granted, and that
the petitioners have leave to bring in a bill or bihs accordingly.
[Sent up by M' Robinson.]
Voted, That Mr. Preston, Mr. Young, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Waldron
and Major Hale, with such of the honourable Senate as they shah join,
be a committee to consider of the proceedings of the late General
Court-Martial, which were yesterday laid before the General Court,
and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Robinson.]
* Voted, That Mr. Hale, Mr. Gibson and Mr. Robinson, * 13 : 231
with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a
comraittee to consider of the petition of George Frost,' Esq. in be
half of New-Castle, and report thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Smith.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Mr. Betton, Mr. Gibson and Mr. Bedee, with such of
the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a comraittee to consider
of the petition of Sarauel Bean, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Voted, That Captain Stiles, Mr. Toppan, and Mr. E. [Col°] Hale,
with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee
I. xii. Ham Town Papers, 38.

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to consider of the petition of Col. Jedediah Sanger,' and others, and
report thereon. [Sent up by by Stiles.]
The comraittee on paper-raoney returns, reported. That four hun
dred persons voted for the plan [proposed by the Court,] six hundred
[and] ninety-seven against it ; eight hundred and thirty-seven for
various alterations and araendmends ; [and] one hundred [and] thirty-
one [against] the various alterations [and araendraents], and one
thousand two hundred and thirty-eight against paper money on any
plan. [Signed M. Thornton for the Committee.]
On motion, can the legislature consistently with the constitution
and their oaths, pass an act raaking paper bills of credit a tender to
discharge private contracts raade prior to the passing such act, the
motion being put. Voted, unanimously in the negative.
On the motion whether paper money be emitted on any plan that
has been proposed, Voted in the negative.
Upon a raotion for granting the prayer of Doctor Jonathan Gove's
petition. Voted, That the prayer thereof be so far granted, as that the
sentence against said Gove be reversed, and that he have leave to
bring in a bhl accordingly ; the yeas and nays were then called for,
and are [were] as follow :

Yeas.

Yeas.

Hon. Mr. Langdon, Mr. Foster,
Mr. Pickering, Mr. Bradley,

Mr. Cunningham,
Mr. Wallace,
Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Betton, Mr. Stiles,
Mr. Jenness, '^ 13 : 232 *Mr. S. Hale, Mr. Rendall,
Mr. Brown, Mr. Brackett, Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Wiggin, Mr. M'^Millan, Mr. Ashley,
Mr. Shaw, Mr. Page, Mr. E. Hale,
Mr. Elliott, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Chase,
Mr. Barnard, Mr. Means, Mr. Kimball,

Yeas.
Mr. Ames,
Mr. Mooney,
Mr. Peters,
Mr. Tolford,
Mr. Johnson,
Mr. Freeman,
Mr. Skinner,
Mr. "i^oung.

Nays.
Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Runnels,
Mr. M Murphy,
Mr. Wheeler,
Mr. Gile,
Mr. Hook,

Nays.
Mr. Gibson,
Mr. Waldron,
Mr. Rollins,
Mr. Bedee,
Mr. Chesley,
Mr. Mann,

35 Yeas,  22 Nays.

Nays.
Mr. Preston,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Greeley,
Mr. Smith,
Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. Kingsbury,

Nays.
Mr. Gilmore,
Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Mack,
Mr. Copland,

So it passed in the affirmative.
[Sent up by M' Works.]

Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning
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FRIDAY, January 5, 1787.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act to impower Sarauel Hobart and Ephraim Robinson, Es
quires, to cohect the outstanding state and town taxes of the town
of Exeter for the year 1 786. Was read a third time and passed to
be enacted. [Sent up M' Johnson & M' Kimball]
Upon reading and considering the petition and raemorial of John
Cushing, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before the
General Court on Tuesday next, and that in the mean time the peti
tioner cause that Col Samuel Sherburne be served with a copy of
said [the] petition and order of Court thereon, that he raay then ap
pear and shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof raay not
be granted. [Sent up by M' Cunninghara.]
Whereas, in and by the act of this state, passed [on] the twenty
eighth day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-six, it is enacted. That ten thousand five hundred
pounds [to] be raised on the poles and estates of the inhabitants of
this state, and that the sarae be paid into the Treasury of this state
in specie for the use of the United States ; and whereas the receiv
ing the drafts or orders drawn by the [Continental] Board of Treasury
on the Loan-Officer of this state, payable to the subjects of this
state, in payment or discharge of this state's tax as afore
said, and that the receiving of the * draughts or orders * 13 : 233
into the Treasury of this state in lieu of specie, raay
greatly facilitate the payraent, and discharge of said tax :
Resolved, That the Treasurer of this state receive the draughts or
orders drawn by the Continental Board of the Treasury in favour of
the subjects of this state, in part or in whole of the ten thousand five
hundred pounds as aforesaid, always observing the draughts or orders
.already drawn by said Board of Treasury, and presented to the Loan-
Officer of this state for payment previous to this resolve, and that
the draughts or orders drawn by the Continental Board of Treasury
when so received by the Treasurer of this state, be by him passed to
the Loan-Officer of this state, in part or in whole of the ten thousand
five hundred pounds as aforesaid, taking the Loan-Officer's receipts
for the amounts thereof. [Sent up by M' Cunningham.]
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed to receive of Nahura Bald
win, Esquire, sixty pounds in certificates, which he has sent by Major
Means, and that he credit said Baldwin [forty pounds on the Bond he
has in his Office against said Baldwin] ; being certificates he received
at the same [rate,] of debtors to absentees estates. [Sent up by M' Means.]

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Upon mention made to reconsider a vote that passed last evening,
respecting granting the prayer of Doctor Jonathan Gove's petition.
Voted, Not to reconsider said vole. The yeas and nays were then
called for, and are as follow, viz.

Yeas.
Mr. Runnels,
Mr. Hook,
Mr. Bedee,
Mr. Emerson,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Jackman,
Mr. Jenks,

Mr. M<:Murphy,
Mr. Gibson,
Mr. Chesley,
Mr. Preston,
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. Mack,

Yeas.
Mr. Leavitt,
Mr. Waldron,
Mr. Dearborn,
Mr. Mann,
Mr. Greeley,
Mr. Kingsbury,
Mr. Copland,

Yeas.
Mr. Wheeler,
Mr. Thompson,
Mr. Marsh,
Mr. Spaulding,
Mr. Smith,
Mr. Gilmore,

Nays.
Hon. Mr. Langdon,
Mr. Pickering,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. Brown,
Mr. Wiggin,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Merrill,
Mr. Eliott,
Mr. Gile,
Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Foster,

Nays.
Mr. Bradley,
Mr. Welch,
Mr. Betton,
Mr. Knowles,
Mr. Brackett,
Mr. S. Hale,
Mr. Lovell,
Mr. McMillan,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Means,
Mr. Putnam,

Nays.
Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. Toppan,
Mr. Cunningham,
Mr. Wallace,
Mr. Clement,
Mr. Stiles,
Mr. Rendall,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Ashley,
Mr. Works,

Nays.
Mr. E. Hale,
Mr. Chase,
Mr. Holmes,
Mr. Ames,
Mr. Mooney,
Mr. Kimball,
Mr. Peters,
Mr. Johnson,
Mr. Freeman,
Mr. Skinner,
Mr. Young.

27 Yeas,  44 Nays.
So it is [was] not [to be] reconsidered.
* 13 : 234 Yoted, that Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Means, and Mr. Marsh,
with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be
a committee to consider of the propriety of establishing a post-rider
from Portsmouth to any part of this state, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Col° Runnels.]
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Lemuel Sraith, Yot
ed, That the execution recovered by Michael Wentworth, and Mar
tha, his wife, against said Smith, be stayed for the terra of one year.
The yeas and nays being demanded, were as follow :

Yeas.
Mr. Runnels,
Mr. Brown,
Mr. Hook,
Mr. Gibson,
Mr. Thompson,
Mr. Brackett,

Yeas.
Mr. Stiles,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. E. Hale,
Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Ames,
Mr. Peters,

Yeas.
Mr. Gile,
Mr. Merrill,
Mr. Eliott,
Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Welch,
Mr. Waldron,

Yeas.
Mr. Clement,
Mr. Jackman,
Mr. Rendall,
Mr. Gilmore,
Mr. Chase,
Mr. Mack,

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775

Yeas.
Mr. Dearborn,
Mr. Emerson,
Mr. Putnam,
Mr. Duncan,
Mr. Smith,
Nays.

Yeas.
Mr. Tolford,
Mr. Freeman,
Mr. Skinner,
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. Wheeler,
Nays.

Hon. Mr. Langdon, Mr. Foster,
Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Bradley,

Mr. Leavitt,
Mr. Toppan,
Mr. Wiggin,
Mr. Shaw,

Mr. Betton.
Mr. S. Hale,
Mr. McMillan,

Yeas.
Mr. Knowles,
Mr. Chesley,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Mann,
Mr. Cragin,
Nays.
Mr. Preston,
Mr. Cunningham,
Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. Ashley,
Mr. Marsh,

Yeas.

Mr. Kimball,
Mr. Mooney,
Mr. Johnson.

Nays.
Mr. Spaulding,
Mr. Kingsbury,
Mr. Young,
Mr. Means,
Mr. Lovell,

42 Yeas.  21 Nays.

So it passed in the affirmative. [Sent up by M' Bradley.]
The vote on Benjarain Dearborn's petition was returned by the
honourable Senate for the following amendment : "that he have a
patent for the water engine and the scales, but not the steelyards ;"
which araendraent was read and concurred.
[Sent up by M' Bradley.]
^Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M. * 13 : 235
Met accordingly.
An act to confirm the title of Thomas Lewis to certain lands in
Packersfield, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Spaulding and M' Chesley.]
An act to confirm the title of James Banks to certain lands in
Packersfield, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Spaulding and M' Chesley.]
[An act to enable Sarah Chapin to sell the Real Estate of Hiram
Chapin, late of Surry in said State, deceased, was read a third time
and passed to be Enacted. Sent up by M' Spaulding & M' Chesley.
Voted, that an address of both houses be presented to the Presi
dent and Council for the removal of Cap' James Cochran, Cap' Ela
Dow, Cap' John M'^Kean, Lieu' Jonathan Clough, Lieu' Asa Robin
son, and Ensign Thoraas Cotton from office. Sent up by M' Peters.]
The committee on the petition frora New-Castle, reported. That
the town of New-Castle be abated of their tax for the year 1782 one
half : Signed Joshua Wentworth for the coramittee. Which report
being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted,
and that the Treasurer govern himself accordingly. [Sent up by Col° Hale.]
The committee on the petition of James Runlet, also the petition
of Enoch Barker and James Runlet, and the account of Enoch
Barker, reported. That ah gaol keepers for the tirae being, be ex-

776 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1787
empted from paying excise on spirituous liquors, from the first day of
October last, and in future. — Also report, that in our opinion, the
time prefixed by law, after the coraraitment of poor prisoners for
debt, before they are ahowed to take the oath prescribed for poor
debtors, is too long, and ought to be liraited to a shorter time. On
the account of Enoch Barker, reported, that he be allowed and paid
out of the treasury the sum of ten pounds, in full of said account :
Signed Elisha Payne, for the committee. Which report being read
and considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that
the President give order on the Treasurer for the payraent of said
ten pounds to said Barker ; and that a bhl be brought in respecting
prisoners confined for debt. [Sent up by Col° Hale.]
* 13: 236 *Voted, That Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Waldron, and Mr.
Ashley, with such of the honourable Senate as they shah
join, be a coramittee to consider of the petition of the selectmen of
Swanzy,' and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Yoted, That Mr. Pickering, Mr. Sparhawk, and Mr. Langdon, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to
consider of the petition of Mess'rs. Jaraes and Whliam Sheafe, and
report an address to Congress on the subject raatter of said petition.
[Sent up by M' Bradley.]
The following vote came down from the honourable Senate for con
currence : In Senate, January 5, 1787.
The proceedings of the late Court-Martial, appointed by the Presi
dent in consequence of the direction of both branches of the legis
lature, being read and fuhy considered. Voted, That the said pro
ceedings, appear to be regular, fair, and candid ; and that an address
be [presented to the] President and Council, to carry the same into ex
ecution, according to the respective sentences and recommendations,
excepting only that part of the sentence which tends to disqualify
any of said officers from holding civil and military commissions in
future, and also excepting the whole of the sentence against Lieuten
ant Thomas M'Clary, who appears to have been providentially pre
vented from attending the Court-Martial.
Read and concurred with this amendment ; " excepting the whole
of the sentence against Lieutenant Nathaniel Weare."
[Sent up by M' Wiggin.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow raorning.
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SATURDAY, January 6, 1787.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act in addition to an act, intitled "an act for opening and mak
ing passable a highway from Dartmouth Cohege to Boscawen," was
read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Holraes and M' Leavitt.]
Voted, That Mr. Samuel Bean be, and he hereby is appointed a post-
rider, for the term of one year: to ride frora Portsmouth to Ches
ter, Londonderry, Amherst and Concord, and to return
*by the way he may chuse, and that he be intitled to ah * 13 : 237
perquisites he may receive therefor ; that [he] be not in-
titled to any reward from the state, unless for carrying state papers,
which may be committed to his care. [Sent up by M' Jenness.]
The coramittee on the petition of Sarauel Bean, reported. That he
be allowed ten pounds, in full of his services as post-rider, and that
the Postmaster-General be directed to pay hira in a state note, lodged
in his hands for the purpose of paying post-riders : Signed Joshua
Wentworth, for the comraittee. "Which report being read and con
sidered, Voted, That it be received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Dole.]
Voted, That the vote on the petition of the selectmen of Ports
mouth, of Thursday last, be reconsidered, and that a rehearing be
granted, and that the petitioners be heard before the General Court
on Wednesday morning next, and that all persons concerned take no
tice and govern themselves accordingly. [Sent up by M' Dole.]
Voted, That Mr. Dearborn, Mr. Wheeler, and Major Hale, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the account of Col. Supply Clap, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Sthes.]
Voted, that Mr. Dearborn, Mr. Wheeler, and Major Hale, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the account of Jaraes Runlet, and report thereon.
[Sent up by Col° Leavitt.]
An act to restore Sarauel Thompson to his law, was read a third
time, and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Greeley and M' Spaulding.]
An act to direct the mode for the assessing and collecting of the
taxes against Gunthwait, was read a third time, and passed to be
enacted. [Sent up by M' Greeley and M' Spaulding.]
An act to restore James Saunders to his law, was read a third time,
and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Greeley and M' Spaulding. ]
Adjourned to Monday next, at 2 o'clock, P. M.
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MONDAY, January 8, 1787.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
* 13 : 238 * Voted, That Mr. Thorapson, Mr. M'Murphy, Mr. E.
Hale, Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Johnson, with such of
the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a coraraittee to consider
of the propriety of abolishing any part of the terms of the Inferior
Courts and Courts of General Sessions of the Peace, and report a bih
if they think proper. [Sent up by M' Jackman.]
Yoted, That Mr. Gibson, Mr. Bedee, Mr. Eraerson, Mr. Ashley,
and Mr. Freeraan, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a coramittee to consider what sum is necessary [to be raised]
for the expenditures of the current year, also what salaries shall be
ahowed the officers of the civil list within this state, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the selectmen of
Walpole, Yoted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that they
have leave to bring in a bih accordingly. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Yoted, That Mr. E. Hale, Mr. Chase and Mr. Waldron, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a coraraittee to con
sider of the petition of Col. Andrew M'Millan,' in behalf of the in
habitants of Conway, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' McMillan.]
Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Means, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to
consider of a letter from the Executive of "Virginia respecting com
missioners on coraraercial matters, and report thereon.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-raorrow morning.
TUESDAY, January 9, 1787.
The House raet according to adjournment.
On reading and considering a resolve of congress of the 31st of
August, 1786, also a letter from his Excellency John Sullivan, Esq.
Votcd, That the Treasurer be directed to issue a note or notes to his
Excellency John Sullivan Esquire, for the sum of four
* 13 : 239 thousand three hundred dollars, and *that he be intitled
to receive certificates for [the] interest from January ist
1780, he giving caution, agreeably to his letter dated this day, that if
said interest is not ahowed by Congress he whl replace the certificates
in the Treasury of this state on demand. [Sent up by M' Kimball]
1. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 421.

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The comraittee on the table of fees reported. That the sheriffs
fees for levying execution in personal actions, for the first twenty
pounds, should be nine pence on the pound ; frora twenty to forty
pounds, four pence on the pound ; from forty to an hundred pounds,
two pence on the pound ; and for ah above an hundred pounds, one
penny on the pound : That the fees of the petit jury at the Superior
Court, shall be as follows, [Viz.] In every civil cause, the foreraan
shall have two shhlings and six pence ; and each other juror two shil
lings : The foreman at the Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions,
shall have two shillings ; and each other juror one shilling and six
pence : That the Clerk of the Court of Comraon Pleas in this state,
instead of the fees now taken, shall only be entitled to the following
fees, for the articles herein mentioned, viz. For the entry of an
action one shhling, for recording verdict six pence, judgment nine
pence, for every recognizance nine pence, copies of all cases and papers,
eight pence a page, containing two hundred [and] twenty-four words,
and for a copy less than such a page four pence, for every execution,
one shilling, continuance six pence, satisfaction for judgment four
pence, writ of protection nine pence, for each venire two pence, writ
of possession one shilling and six pence, entering appearance three
pence, examining bill of cost four pence, and filing each paper a half
penny : Clerk of the Quarter Sessions, for the following articles,
shall only demand the following sums, for discharging recognizance
six pence, for copies of cases as before raentioned, filing papers the
sarae as in [at] Coraraon Pleas ; and that a bill be brought in accord
ingly : Signed Elisha Payne, for the committee. Which report being
read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, (except
ing what relates to sheriffs fees) which is not to be included in said
bih. [Sent up by M' Waldron.]
* An act to vest the privhege of keeping a ferry over a * 1 3 : 240
certain part of the Connecticut river, in the inhabitants
of Charlestown, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by Col" Waldron and Maj' Hale.]
The committee on ascertaining the waste or unimproved lands be
longing to the state, reported. That they recommend that a bih be
brought in, appointing and fully authorizing a coraraittee to settle and
ascertain the western line of a tract of land, originahy granted to
Captain John Mason, coramonly called the Masonian line. That the
said committee agree with the owners or claimants of said grant in
running, marking, and estabhshing said line in such way and manner
as they may rautually agree. But in case the said owners or claira
ants, and the coramittee should not agree in settling said line, that
then the committee proceed to run and mark said line, agreeably to

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the tenor and construction of the original grant or grants of the
same, and make report thereof to the General Court. The coramit
tee recoraraend, that some court be particularly impowered, or a new
court erected to try and determine all raatters relative to the perform
ance or non-performance of charter conditions of lands granted in
this state, known by the name of King's grants : And as soon as such
court shah be authorized or erected, that the Attorney-General be di
rected from time to time, as the General Court shall think proper, to
summon before said Court the owners or claimants of such granted
towns or located lands as the said General Court shall suppose defi
cient in performing their respective charter conditions, to shew cause
why their said lands should not be declared forfeit, and to obtain be
fore said Court an equitable determination thereon : Signed Elisha
Payne, for the coraraittee. Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that a bill or bhls be
brought in accordingly. [Sent up by Cap' Works.]
* 13: 241 * Voted, That M.X. Robinson, Mr. Thorapson, and Mr.
Chase, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider of the petition of the inhabitants of
Middletown, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Dearborn.]
The committee on the petition of John Parker, Esquire, and oth
ers, raanagers of Dartraouth College Lottery, beg leave to report,
That President John Wheelock, Esquire, Elisha Payne, Bezaleel
Woodward, and Ebenezer Brewster, Esquires, be appointed managers
of the lottery, instead of the petitioners, agreeably to said petition,
and that the time for carrying on said lottery be lengthened out :
Signed Amos Shepard, for the committee. Which report being read
and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that a
bill be brought in accordingly. [Sent up by M' Elliott.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Agreeably to the order of the day proceeded to a hearing on Mrs.
Walhngford's petition.
Upon hearing and considering the petition of Elizabeth Walling
ford, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that she have
leave to bring in a bhl accordingly. [Sent up by M' Stiles.]
The vote for granting the prayer of the petition of the selectmen
of Bedford, came down [from the Honb' Senate] for the following
amendraent, " that the selectmen of Bedford appoint some proper
person to collect said taxes ; " which amendment was read and con
curred. _ [Sent up by M' Stiles.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.

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WEDNESDAY, January io, 1787.
The House raet adcording to adjournment.
An act to vest in Benjamin Dearborn, the exclusive right of raak
ing and vending certain engines and scales, for fourteen years, was
read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Emerson & M' Holmes.]
Voted, That Mr. Toppan, Mr. Chesley, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Rendah,
and Mr. Johnson, with such of the honourable Senate
*as they shah join, be a coraraittee to consider of a raotion * 13 :242
made " that state notes be received in payment of all out
standing taxes prior to the year 1786," and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' McMillan.]
Voted, That seven thousand, two hundred pounds, be raised in fa
chities, payable for the interest of this state's debt ; and two thou
sand, eight hundred pounds in specie, for the supply of the Treasury
for the current year, and that a bih be brought in for that purpose.
[Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Voted, That his Excellency the President, have and receive out of
the Treasury the sum of two hundred pounds, as a salary from June,
1786, to June, 1787. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Voted, That John Taylor Gilraan, Esquire, have and receive out of
the Treasury of this state two hundred and thirty pounds, in full for
salary, responsibility of office, hire of clerk, attending the General
Court from time to time, office hire, firewood, candles, &c. from June
1 2th, 1786, to June 12th, 1787. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Mr. Waldron, Mr. Greeley, and Mr. Smith, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to consid
er of an extract of a pay roll presented by Col. Stephen Evans, and
report thereon. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
The committee on the petition of Col. Andrew M'Millan,' in behalf
of the inhabitants of Conway, reported, That the town of Conway be
allowed out of their rateable estate for land, cattle and horses, the
sum of eighteen pounds, until another valuation is proportioned
through the state : Signed John M'=Duffee, forthe committee. Which
report being read and considered, Voted, That it be received and ac
cepted, and that the Treasurer govern himself accordingly.
[Sent up by Cap' Spaulding.]
* The coramittee on the account of James Rundlet, report- * 13 : 243
ed. That he be allowed nine pounds, six [teen] shillings and
two pence, in full of said account : Signed Joshua Wentworth, forthe
I. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 421.

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committee. Which report being read and considered, Voted, That it
be received, and accepted, and that the said sum be paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by Mr. Ghe.]
The committee appointed to consider of the accounts of Col. Sup
ply Clap, reported. That after having carefully examined the sarae
and vouchers, that they find a balance due on said accounts to said
[Supply] Clap, of thirty-three pounds, eight shihings and one penny,
which is to be in full ; also, twenty pounds in full for his service as
Commissary-General, up to the 12th of June, 1787 : Signed Joshua
Wentworth, for the committee. Which report being read and con
sidered. Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the Presi
dent give order accordingly on the Treasury for said sums.
[Sent up by M' Jackraan.]
An act to irapower the selectraen of the town of Exeter to collect
the outstanding taxes of the town of Exeter for the years 1783, 1784,
and 1785, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Robinson & M' Spaulding.]
Voted, That Joseph Pearson, Esquire, have and receive out of the
Treasury the sum of twenty pounds, for his salary as Secretary, from
June, 1786, to June, 1787, and that the President give order accord
ingly. [Sent up by M' Waldron.]
Voted, That Mr. M'Murphy, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Wahace, Mr.
Chase, and Mr. Young, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a comraittee to consider of a resolve respecting Probate
Courts, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' "Waldron."
An act for the support of invalids, was read a third time and passed
to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Emerson & Cap' Peters.'
An act to incorporate a town by the name of Langdon, was read a
third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Young & M' Hale.]
* 1 3 : 244 * An act to vest the exclusive privilege of keeping [a ferry]
over a certain part of the Connecticut river, in Eliphalet
Hale,' of Chesterfield, his heirs and assigns, was read a third time
and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Freeraan & M' Young.]
Voted, That the account of his Excellency John Sullivan, Esquire,
amounting to nine pounds, twelve shillings, for cash advanced for
standards, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the
President. [Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Voted, That Mr. Means, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Gilraore, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to con
sider of the petition of the selectmen of Plainfield ; also the petition
of Samuel Fairfield, and all simhar matters, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Greeley.]
I. xi. Ham. Town Papers, 346.

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Voted, That Mr. Young, Mr. Ghmore, and Mr. Freeraan, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to con
sider of the petition of Col. Jonathan Rawson, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Upon reading and considering the petition and account of Nahum
Baldwin, Esq., Voted, That it is the opinion of this House, that the
state ought not to pay the prison charges against Whliara Moreland,
but that the county of Hhlsborough pay the sarae.
Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Hubbard, and Mr. Wiggin, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a coramittee to
consider of the petition of John Penhallow, Samuel Cutts, and John
Wendell, Esquires, and report thereon. [Sent up by M' Cunningham.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
THURSDAY, January ii, 1787.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act to enable the selectraen of Bath to raise the sura of three
farthings on each acre of land in said Bath annually, for the terra of
three years, for the purpose of raaking and repairing the highways
and bridges, in said town, was read a third time and passed to be
enacted. [Sent up by M' Stiles & M' Young.]
* An act for extending the powers and authority of the * 13 : 245
Maritime Court in this state, was read a third time and
passed to be enacted. [Sent up M' Johnson & M' Kimball]
Read and debated on publick bills.
The committee on the petition of Messieurs Jaraes Sheafe and Wil
liam Sheafe, reported. That an attested copy of the petition and
order of Court thereon, be delivered to the delegates for this state, and
that they be desired and instructed to represent to Congress the
manner of seizure and conderanation of the brigantine and cargo and
move Congress to instruct their minister at the Court of London, to
demand restoration or compensation for the said brigantine and cargo,
seized and conderaned contrary to the laws of nations and trade ;
Signed Joshua Wentworth, for the comraittee. Which report being
read and considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by W Kimball]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Thorapson, Mr. R. Smith, Mr.
Holmes and Mr. Freeman, with such of the honourable Senate as
they shall join, be a committee to consider what allowance shall be

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[1787

made to the members of the honourable Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, and their officers, for their travel and attendance at the
present session ; also what business is yet necessary to be done at
this session, and at what time this court shall be adjourned, and at
what place the court shall raeet in June next, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Dole.]
An act to impower the selectmen of Bedford to appoint some
proper person to collect taxes in the town of Bedford for the year of
our Lord 1785, was read a third time, and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Jenness & M' Dole.]
An act to appoint new managers for Dartmouth College Lottery,
was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Marsh & M' Mann.]
* 13 : 246 *An act for the regulating the gauging of casks, was
read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Marsh & M' Mann.]
An act to impower the several towns, districts, and individuals
within this state, to pay their quotas of the state and federal debt,
and to entitle such as pay the same to a discharge therefrom, was
read a third time, and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Chase & M' Kimbah.]
An act to enable Daniel Loring and Asahel Goodenough, to refer
all demands between them to referees, was read a third tirae and
passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Ashley & M' Greeley.]
Upon a second reading and considering an enacting clause in a
bill, intitled, an act to reverse a judgraent of the Superior Court of
Judicature, against Jonathan Gove ; The yeas and nays were called
for, and are as follow, viz.

Yeas.
Hon. Mr. Lang
Mr. Pickering,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Underbill,
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. Toppan, .
Mr. Wiggin,
Mr. Merrill,
Mr. Eliott,

Yeas.
don, Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Foster,
Mr. Bradley,
Mr. Welch,
Mr. S. Hale,
Mr. Brackett,
Mr. M-^Millan,
Mr. Freeman,
Mr. Page,

Yeas.
Mr. Means,
Mr. Cunningham,
Mr. Rendall,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Ashley,
Mr. Works,
Mr. [E] Hale,
Mr. Chase,
Mr. Holmes,

Mr. Ames,
Mr. Kimball,
Mr. Mooney,
Mr. Peters,
Mr. Tolford,
Mr. Johnson,
Bir. Skinner,
Mr. Brown,
Mr. Young.

Nays.
Mr. McMurphy,
Mr. Leavitt,
Mr. Wheeler,

Nays.
Mr. Rollins,
Mr. Bedee,
Mr. Chesley,

Nays.
Mr. Dearborn,
Mr. Marsh,
Mr. Dole,

Nays.
Mr. Hadley,
Mr. Greeley,
Mr. Smith,

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Nays. Nays. Nays. Nays.
Mr. N. Emerson, Mr. Jackman, Mr. [D] Emerson, Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Hook, Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Mann, Mr. Mack,
Mr. Waldron, Mr. Kingsbury, Mr. Preston. Mr. Kimball.
Mr. Thompson, Mr. Gilmore, Mr. Cragin,
37 Yeas,  27 Nays.
So it passed in the affirmative.
*The vote respecting ahowing his Excehency the Pres- * 13 : 247
ident nine pounds twelve shillings, for cash advanced for
standards, and that he have an order on the Treasurer for said sum,
came down from the honourable Senate for the following amendraent :
" That the Treasurer be directed to give his Excellency the Presi
dent an order on the Naval-Officer for the aforesaid sum," which
amendment was read and concurred. [Sent up by M' Jackman.]
Yoted, That the account of John Melcher, amounting to fifteen
pounds, (for printing Election Serraons) be ahowed and paid out of
the Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Jackraan.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow raorning.
FRIDAY, January 12, 1787.
The House raet according to adjournjlnent.
Voted, That Mr. Welch, Mr. Chesley, Mr. Preston, Mr. Kendall,
and Mr. Young, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a committee to consider of the petition of Charles Clapham,
and report thereon. [Sent up by Maj' Kiraball]
Voted, That Mr. Jenness, Mr. Robinson and Mr. M'^Murphy, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to
consider what raethod shall be taken for supplying the officers and
soldiers at New-Castle, with subsistence, fuel &c., and how their
wages shall be paid, also consider the petition of Elias Tarlton, and
report thereon. [Sent up by Cap' Underhih.]
An act to reverse a judgment of the Superior Court of Judicature,
against Jonathan Gove, was read a third time and passed to be en
acted. [Sent up by M' Johnson & M' Peters.]
An Act to disannex a certain tract of land lying in the town of
Hollis [from said Hollis], and annex the sarae to the town of Raby,
was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Waldron & M' Dearborn.]
The coramittee on Conway petition, reported, That the
town of Conway be abated fifty pounds out of the taxes * in * 1 3 : 248
full for losses sustained by the late freshets in said town

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of Conway : Signed John M'^Duffee, for the coraraittee. Which
report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and
accepted, and that the Treasurer credit said town accordingly.
[Sent up by M' M-^Mhlan.]
A vote carae down frora the honourable Senate appointing Clap
Suraner, of Lebanon, one of the coramittee to carry into effect an
act for opening and raaking passable a road or highway frora Dart
mouth College to Boscawen, in the place of Elisha Payne, resigned.
Was read and concurred. [Sent up by Col° Wiggin.]
Voted, That Mr. Wiggin, Mr. Chase, Mr. Young, Mr. Sparhawk
and Mr. Foster, with such of the honourable Senate as they shall
join, be a coraraittee to consider of the bills for apportionraent and
payment of the foreign, domestic and state debt, which were under
consideration of the General Court the last evening, and [report] such
a bill as they may judge proper. [Sent up by M' Young.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That seven thousand eight hundred pounds be raised in
facilities, payable for the interest of this state's debt, six hundred
pounds of which is for the purpose of paying bounty certificates for
killing wolves, and two thousand eight hundred pounds in specie, for
the supply of the Treasury for the current year, and that a bih be
brought in for that purpose. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
The following vote came down from the honourable Senate for
concurrence : In Senate, January nth, 1787.
Voted, That the statement of the accounts between this state and
the United States, and Stephen Gorham, Esq. Continental Commis
sioner's, receipt for the vouchers handed into court by
* 13 : 249 Joseph Gilman, Esquire, be referred to *a [the] commit
tee appointed to draught a letter to Congress, was read
and concurred. [Sent up by M' Page.]
Voted, That the account of the raerabers of the Court-Martial
araounting to forty-one pounds, three shillings : The account of Col
Jonathan Rawson, of four pounds, eleven shillings and six pence ;
the account of Major Jonathan Cass, of four pounds, eight shihings
and two pence; the account of Col. Joseph Welch, of one pound four
shillings ; the account of [Cap'] Robert Smith, of two pounds, thirteen
shihings and eight pence ; also the account of James Clement, of
one pound, five shihings and six pence, be allowed and paid out of
the Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Sthes.]

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Voted, That the pay-roll of Col. Araos Cogsweh, amounting to
thirty-four pounds, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order
of the President. [Sent up by M' Knowles.]
Voted, That Mr. Robinson, Mr. Emerson, and Mr. Hale, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a committee to con
sider of the petition of Lydia Wallingford, alias Cogsweh, and report
thereon. _ [Sent up by M' Knowles.]
The coramittee appointed to take under consideration the resolve
of the General Court, of the 22d September last, respecting an addi
tion to the light-horse, beg leave to report. That the said addition
ought to be confirmed and established : That the regiraent on Merri
mac river, including the county of Hhlsborough, and the towns of
Merideth, Gilmanton, Barnstead, Chichester, Epsom, and Ahens
town, and the towns lying between those and Merrimac river ; that
the companies in the regiment on Connecticut river include the
county of Cheshire, and three towns deep from Connecticut river in
the county of Grafton ; that the eastern regiment include the county
of Rockingham and Strafford, excepting the towns taken
of as above said ; that the officers of the light * horse shall * 13 : 250
not enlist more than eight men from any one company of
the militia, and none but such as keep one or more horses, and are
of sufficient ability to equip themselves ; and that they make a return
of the names of the persons by them already enlisted, to the respect
ive Captains, out of whose company they have enlisted, within three
months after such enlistment, and that the President be requested to
call upon the officers to equip themselves, and see that their men are
equipped as soon as possible : Signed Amos Shephard, for the com
mittee. Which report being read and considered, Voted, That it be
received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
An act to irapower the assessors of the first parish in the town of
Exeter, to appoint a collector of outstanding taxes, was read a third
time and passed to be enacted. [Sent up by M' Johnson & M' Waldron.]
The committee on the petition of Major Joseph Kimball, reported.
That the Treasurer be directed to receive of the town of Plainfield,
thirty pounds, nine shillings, in this state's paper bihs, excepting any
of said bills that may be counterfeit, reducing the same by the scale at
the last of December, 1777, and credit said town for the same (when
reduced) in any tax payble in certificates : Signed John M'Duffee, for
the committee. Which report being read and concurred. Voted,
That it be received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Hubbard.]
The committee on the petition of Samuel Fairfield, reported. That
the Treasurer be directed to credit the town of Plainfield, three

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pounds twelve shillings, in any tax payable in certificates, for the tax
on the right of Benning Wentworth, for the years 1777, 1778, 1779,
and 1780: Signed John M'Duffee, for the comraittee. Which report
being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by M' Hubbard.]
* 13 : 251 * Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow raorning.
SATURDAY, January 13, 1787.
The House met according to adjournment.
An act to establish a certain highway laid out in Portsmouth, by
the selectraen thereof, was read a third tirae and passed to be en
acted. [Sent up by M' Eraerson Sz: M' Jenness.]
An act in addition to and amendment of the acts establishing a
table of fees, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Emerson & M' Jenness.]
Voted, That Mr. Thompson, Mr. Kingsbury, and Mr. Welch, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a coraraittee to
norainate to this House six proper persons, out of whom three to be
appointed a coraraittee to ascertain, settle and fix the western line of
the Masonian patent (so cahed) ; the names of which comraittee are
to be put into a bill now under consideration. [Sent up by M' Wallace.]
An act to enable Elizabeth Wallingford to renew her action against
Sarauel Sherburne, Esquire, and others, at and before the Superior
Court, was read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Wallace & M' Hubbard.]
Voted, That the Chief Justice of the Superior Court be allowed,
as a salary annually, one hundred and fifty pounds, he accounting for
the fees he may frora tirae to time receive, and that the same be paid
out of the Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by Cap' Stiles.]
Voted, That the Puisne Justices of the Superior Court be allowed
one hundred and thirty pounds each, as a salary annually, they ac
counting severally for the fees they may from time to time receive,
and that the same be paid out of the Treasury by order of the Presi
dent. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
* 13 : 252 * An act to irapower John Bellows, Amasa Ahen, and
Thomas Behows, to sell certain lands conveyed by Na
than Brooks to Solomon Brooks, his son, and to apply the raonies
thence arising to the support and maintenance of the said Nathan
Brooks, was read a third time and passed to be enacted. On which
billthe yeas and nays were deraanded by Major Young, for the fol
lowing, which he offered as his reason for so doing :

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Whereas the selectraen of Walpole have petitioned the General
Court, at the present session. Praying to be authorized to sell lands
of Nathan Brooks, conveyed to Soloraon Brooks by said Nathan, and
a bill being brought in for that purpose at the same session, where
the application was made without giving any notice to any person to
shew cause why the prayer of said petition raight not be granted ;
which bill, for the reason aforesaid, I object to being passed, and re
quest the yeas and nays upon the question for passing the bill, and
that the foregoing be entered as reasons for so doing. John Young.
Portsmouth, January 11, 1787.
The yeas and nays being called for were as follows :

Yeas.
Hon. Mr. Langdon,
Mr. Pickering,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. McMurphy,
Mr. Jenness,
Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Foster,
Mr. Bradley,
Mr. N. Emerson,
Mr. Welch,
Mr. Rollins,

Mr. Brackett,
Mr. Chesley,
Mr. Dearborn,
Mr. McMillan,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Mann,
Mr. Putnam,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Cunningham,
Mr. Jackman,
Mr. Hubbard,

Yeas.
Mr. Toppan,
jNIr. Brown,
Mr. Wiggin,
Mr. Merrill,
Mr. Eliott,
Mr. Kingsbury,
Mr. Stiles,
Mr. Rendall,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Ashley,
Mr. Works,

Yeas.
Mr. E. Hale,
Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Ames,
Mr. Kendall,
Mr. Mooney',
Mr. Peters,
Mr. Tolford,
Mr. Johnson,
Mr. Skinner.
Mr. Kimball,

Nays.
Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Wheeler,
Mr. Hale,

Nays.
Mr. D. Emerson,
Mr. Hadley,

43 Yeas.

Nays.
Mr. Clark,
Mr. Chase,

¦9 Nays.

Nays.
Mr. Mack,
Mr. Young,

So it passed in the affirmative.
[Sent up by Col° Hale & Col« Welch.]
* 13: 253 *The comraittee on the petition of Charles Clapham
reported. That the Treasurer be directed to receive of
Charles Clapham the araount of one hundred and sixty pounds, in
state securities, in part payraent of his bond : Signed Ebenezer Web
ster, for the committee. Which report being read and considered,
Voted, That it be received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
An act for raising seven thousand two hundred pounds, in fachities,
and three thousand pounds in specie, for the use of this state the cur
rent year, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Skinner & M' Rendah.]
Voted, That Mr. Means, Mr. Eraerson, and Mr. Peters, with such

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of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to con
sider of the petition of Josiah Butler, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Skinner.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That the Members of the honourable Senate and [Honb']
House of Representatives have six shillings per day each, and four
pence per raile travel to and from their homes ; that the Secretary
and Clerk [have nine shihings p' day and travel as Members and the
Assistant Clerk one shilling & Six pence p' Day raore than his pay
as a Meraber, that the Clerk be allowed one day extraordinary for
raaking up the Rolls — and that the Secretary and Clerk] raake up
the respective rolls accordingly : and that his Excellency the Presi
dent give order on the Treasurer for the payraent of said rolls in the
usual way. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
An act to disannex certain persons herein after named, frora the
township of Piermont and annex them with their estates to Went
worth, was read a third time and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Holraes & M' Young.]
Voted, Tbat Mr. Robinson, Mr. Thompson and Mr. Dearborn,
with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be
* 13 : 254 a * coraraittee to consider of a vote of the General Court
of June 20th, 1783, respecting New-Durhara-Gore, and
report thereon. [Sent up by Mr. Chesley,]
Adjourned to Monday next, at 9 o'clock A. M.
MONDAY, January 15, 1787.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
Voted, That the raerabers of the honourable Council have and re
ceive nine shhlings per day each, for their attendance in Council and
that they be ahowed for travel as raembers of the Senate and House,
when called together in the recess of the General Court, and that the
Secretary make up a roh accordingly, and that the President give
order for the payment thereof. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Voted, That the Attorney-General, have and receive out of the
Treasury, fifty pounds annually [as a Salary], to commence in April
next, and that the President give order accordingly. [Sent up by M' Barnard.]
Yoted, That the balance of the account of John Calfe, Esquire,
araounting to two pounds, two shhlings and two pence, be allowed
and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President.
[Sent up by M' Hubbard.]

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Voted, That Mr. M'Murphy, Mr. Emerson and Mr. Jackraan, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a comraittee to
consider of the account of Col. "Whliam Brewster, and report
thereon. [Sent up by M' Hubbard.]
Yoted, That the balance of the account of Ephraim Robinson,
amounting to three pounds, fourteen shillings and one penny half
penny be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order of the
President. [Sent up by M' Hubbard.]
Voted, That the account of Ephraim Robinson, amounting to nine
pounds four shillings and six pence, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury by order of the president. [Sent up by M' Merrhl]
* Voted, That the account of Major Samuel Hale * 13 : 255
amounting to six pounds, two shillings, be allowed and
paid out of the Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by Maj' Hale.]
Yoted, That the account of Ephraira Robinson, junior, amounting
to forty-two shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Voted, That the account of Christopher Toppan, Esquire, amount
ing to eighteen shillings, be ahowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
An act for ascertaining the waste land belonging to this state, was
read a third tirae and passed to be enacted.
[Sent up by M' Kiraball & M' Hale.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
Voted, That Mr. Johnson, Mr. Young and Mr. Chesley, with such
of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coramittee to con
sider of the petition of Lois Johnson,' and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Young.]
Voted, That Mr. Preston, Mr. Eraerson, and Mr. Foster, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shah join, be a coramittee to
consider of the petition of Josiah Young, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Young.]
A vote came down from the honourable Senate for appointing a
second-heutenant and a quarter master for the independent corapany
of light-horse, in Portsraouth. Was read and concurred.
[Sent up by Col° Hale.]
Resolved, That the Treasurer of this state be and hereby is di
rected stih to receive into the treasury, facilities issued by the Con
tinental Loan-Officers for the interest of the liquidated debt of the
I. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 662.

792 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1787
United States toward satisfying the requisition of Congress of the
27th of September, 1785, until further order of the General Court.
[Sent up by M' Wiggin.]
* 13 :256 * Upon reading and considering the petition of Sarah
Purcell, Voted, That the petitioner be heard thereon before
the General Court on the second Tuesday of the next session of said
Court, and that in the mean tirae the petitioner cause that the hon
ourable Woodbury Langdon, Esquire, be served with a copy of the
petition and order of Court thereon, that he may then appear and
shew cause (if any he hath) why the prayer thereof may not be
granted. [Sent up by M' Cragin.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
TUESDAY, January 16, 1787.
The House raet according to adjournraent.
The comraittee on the petitions of the towns of Cornish, Plainfield,
&c. reported. That they have corapared the account of Hanover with
other towns, and find that they have expended three hundred and
sixty-three pounds, six shillings and eleven pence more than their
proportion, according to the best of the committee's judgment ;
Signed Ephraim Robinson, Lemuel Holmes, Sarauel Hale, John Wal
dron, [committee.] Which report being read and considered. Voted,
That it be received and accepted, excepting one hundred and eleven
pounds, which was paid nine six months men, for wages and travel
when serving in "Vermont, and that the Treasurer discount out of the
taxes against the town of Hanover, prior to the year 1782 [1784,
the sum of] two hundred [and] fifty two pounds six shillings and
eleven pence, and that the matter respecting said six months men,
be left to the consideration of a future legislature. Sent up by M' Knowles.]
Read and debated on [a] publick bill [bills].
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M.
Met accordingly.
The coraraittee appointed to consider of the supplying the officer
and soldiers at New-Castle, with subsistence &c. also to consider of
the petition of Elias Tarlton, reported, That the money
* 13: 257 produced from the light at New-*Castle, be appropriated
to purchase subsistence, fuel oyl, wickyarn, and to pur
chase provision, to pay [up] the back rations due to the officer and
soldiers ; also the monthly pay of Elias Tarlton, of forty shillings, for
attending said light ; and that the Naval-Officer be directed to pay
into the hands of the Comraissary-General monies for the aforesaid

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purposes, provided the revenue of hght-money is sufficient, and the
said Comraissary apply the same accordingly, and account with the
General Court therefor, and that the officer and soldiers be paid their
wages by an order on the treasury : Signed Joshua Wentworth, for
the committee. Which report being read and considered. Voted,
That it be received and accepted ; and that if the revenue exceed the
aforesaid purposes, that the surplus be applied to the repair of the
light-house, and for repairing a barrack for the soldiers at the fort.
[Sent up by M' Greeley.]
Voted, That two proper persons be appointed to represent this
state in the convention to be held in [at] Philadelphia, in May next,
and that [said] the Delegates be chosen by joint bahot of both
Houses, and that a bill be brought in to ascertain the powers of said
Delegates. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
An act to impower [impowering] the Superior Court of Judicature
[of this state] to hear and try any causes respecting or relating to
the forfeitures of lands granted in the late province of New-Hampshire
by the Supreme Executive power thereof, or that may hereafter be
granted by this state for non-performance of the conditions of such
grants to determine and give judgment therein, that such forfeiture
is or is not incurred ; and to judge and decree as a Court of chancery
in certain of the causes aforesaid, was read a third tirae and passed
to be enacted ; Upon which there was handed in by a raeraber a
paper with the following words : " Upon the third reading
* of a bill appointing a Court of Escheats, I beg leave to * 13 : 258
enter my protest against said bih, because the same ap
pears to be unconstitutional; as the subject has not a trial by jury
as heretofore used and practised ; and secondly, because it looks back
and the subject is not tried by law which did exist at the time of
perforraance or non-perforraance, and it thereby legalizes an unlaw
ful act, and raakes a lawful act unlawful ; and also that by said act,
the lawful and only lawful owners of lands raay be precluded a trial.
For the foregoing reasons I request the yeas and nays upon [the]
said bill, and request the foregoing may be entered on the journals.
John Young.
Agreeably to said request the yeas and nays were called [taken],
and were as follow : [viz.]
Yeas. Yeas. Yeas. Yeas.
Hon. Mr. Langdon. Mr. Foster, Mr. Means, Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Pickering, Mr. Bradley, Mr. Mann, Mr. Works,
Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Preston, Mr. [E.] Hale,
Mr. Robinson, Mr. Welch, Mr. Putnam, Mr. Jenks,
Mr. M'Murphy. Mr. Waldron, Mr. Cragin, Mr. Mack,
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[1787

Yeas.

Yeas.

Yeas. Yeas.

Mr. Jenness,

Mr.

Thompson,

Mr.

Cunningham, Mr. Holmes,

Mr. Leavitt,

Mr.

S. Hale,

Mr.

Hadley, Mr. Ames,

Mr. Toppan,

Mr.

Brackett,

Mr.

Greeley, Mr. Kendall,

Mr. Merrill,

Mr.

Chesley,

Mr.

Jackman, Mr. Kimball,

Mr. Wheeler.

Mr.

Dearborn,

Mr.

A. Kingsbury, Mr. Peters,

Mr. Eliott,

Mr.

Page,

Mr.

Stiles, Mr. Tolford,

Mr. Gile,

Mr.

. Emerson,

Mr.

Rendall, Mr. Skinner.

Mr. Barnard.

Nays.
Nays.
Nays.
Mr. Clark,
Mr. Mooney,
Mr. Young.
13
49 Yeas. — • 3 Nays.
So it passed in the affirmative.
[Sent up by M' Hubbard & M' Emerson.]
259 * The comraittee on the petition of the selectmen of
Swanzy,' reported, That as there is a great difficulty re
specting the assessment for the deficiency of beef in the town of
Swanzey, the Treasurer be directed so far as respects said beef tax, to
stay the extent against said town until the first Wednesday in [of]
June next : Signed John M'Duffee, for the comraittee. Which re
port being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and ac
cepted, and that the Treasurer govern hiraself accordingly.
[Sent up by M' Robinson.]
The committee on a vote of the General Court, of June 20th, 1783
respecting New-Durham Gore, reported. That the Treasurer ought to
allow the said New-Durhara Gore, in consequence of the vote of the
General Court, of June 20th, 1783, twelve pounds, on their beef tax,
and one pound, five shillings, for their rura tax : Signed John M'Duf
fee, for the comraittee. Which report being read and considered.
Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the Treasurer gov
ern hiraself accordingly. [Sent up by M' Chesley.]
Voted, That the account of John Waldron, Esq. araounting to five
pounds nineteen shillings and eight pence, be allowed and paid out
of the Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Wheeler.]
Voted, That the account of Thoraas Bartlett, Esq. amounting to
sixteen pounds, nine shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treas
ury by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Chase.]
Voted, That Mr. M'Murphy, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Wiggin, with
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to
consider of the account of Solomon "Wheeler, Esq. and report there
on. [Sent up by M' Wiggin.]
1. xiii. Ham. Town Papers, 528.
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The coramittee on the petition of Abigail Hale, reported.
That she have the depreciation of Col. Nathan Hale's *wa- * 13 : 260
ges, as other officers, to the time of his death, first deduct
ing what suras he may have received frora the State Coramlssary of
prisoners, &c. They further reported. That she is entitled to seven
years half-pay of a Colonel by a resolution of Congress : Signed
Amos Shephard, for the committee. Which report being read and
considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the
committee on depreciation, and the paymaster of invalids govern
[theraselves accordingly.] [Sent up by Col" Hale.]
Voted, That the pay-roh of Captain Andrew Wiggin, amounting to
twenty-six pounds, eighteen shhlings, be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by Col° Hale.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
WEDNESDAY, January 17, 1787.
The House met according to adjournraent.
Upon reading and considering a petition frora Peterborough-Slip,
Voted, That the petitioners be heard thereon before the General
Court on the Second Tuesday of their next session, and that in the
mean time the petitioners cause that the selectraen of Jaffrey, also
the selectmen of Peterborough, be served with a copy of the petition
and order of Court thereon, that they raay then appear and shew
cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof raay not be granted.
[Sent up by M' Cragin.]
Voted, That his Excellency, the President, with advice of Council,
be requested seasonably to issue a proclamation, appointing Thurs
day, the twelfth day of April next, a day of publick fasting through
out this state. [Sent up by M' Cragin.]
Yoted, That Mr. Pickering, Mr. Putnam, and Mr. Sparhawk, witli
such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be a coraraittee to
consider of the petition of Sarah Little, and report thereon.
[Sent up by M' Holmes.]
* The committee on the petition of Col. Jonathan Raw- * 13 : 261
son, reported. That the prayer of the petition be granted,
and that he have leave to bring in a bill accordingly : Signed M.
Thornton, for the comraittee. "Which report being read and consid
ered. Voted, That it be received and accepted. [Sent up by M' Cragin.]
The coramittee on the petition of the towns of Cornish, Plainfield,
&c. reported, That the town of Lyme have expended one hundred
and sixty eight pounds thirteen shihings and seven pence, raore than

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their proportion, when compared with some other towns : Signed
Ephraim Robinson, John Waldron, Samuel Hale, Lerauel Holraes,
Coraraittee. — Which report being read and considered, Voted, That
it be received and accepted, and that the Treasurer credit the [said]
town of Lyrae, in any tax prior to the year 1784 (payable in certifi
cates) said sum of one hundred and sixty-eight pounds, thirteen shil
lings and seven pence. [Sent up by M' Wheeler.]
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed not to issue any extent for
taxes due from Cornish, Plainfield, Orford, Piermont, Littleton, and
Dalton, prior to the year 1784, until the next session of the General
Court, as there is not time to adjust and settle the accounts exhib
ited by said towms against the state, this session. [Sent up by M' Kimball]
The committee on the petition of Joseph Kiraball, and similar mat
ters, reported. That Nathan Fay, have an order on the Treasury for
one pound, three shillings and ten pence, for the tax and charge on
Simon Baxter's land, in Alstead, for 1780, he being an absentee:
Signed John M'^Duffee, for the committee. Which report being read
and considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted.
[Sent up by M' Kimbah.]
* 13 : 262 * Upon hearing and considering the report of the com
mittee to whora was referred the petition of Jonathan Raw-
son, in behalf of Seth Fogg and wife. Resolved, That the report of
said committee be accepted, and that the Inferior Court of Common
Pleas, be and they hereby are irapowered to vacate and annul the
judgment rendered at June term, 1785, in the action Seth Fogg and
wife, against Thomas Drake and that they cast the interest upon the
note declared on, render judgment at February terra, as [if] of that
terra, and issue execution accordingly : any law, usage, or custora to
the contrary notwithstanding. [Sent up by M' Kimbah.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of Lydia Wallingford,
ahas Cogsweh, Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and that
she be allowed half pay as the widows of officers who died in the land
service, provided it can be ascertained that Congress wih admit the
sarae as a charge against the United States. [Sent up by M' Cragin.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M.
Met accordingly.
The coraraittee on the petition of the towns of Cornish, Plainfield,
&c. reported. That they have examined the account of Lebanon, and
find on an average with some other towns, they have expended two
hundred and three pounds, eight shillings and ten pence more than
their proportion, exclusive of the men they sent into "Vermont :

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Signed Ephraim Robinson, Samuel Hale, Lemuel Holmes, commit
tee. Which report being read and considered, Voted, That it be re
ceived and accepted, and that the Treasurer be directed to credit
the said town of Lebanon the above sum in any taxes against said
town prior to the year 1784. [Sent up by M' Cragin.]
* Voted, That Mr. Chase, Mr. Preston and Mr. Toppan, * 13 : 263
with such of the honourable Senate as they shall join, be
a committee to ascertain the araount of the debt of this state, also
this state's proportion of the debts of the United States, both foreign
and doraestick, and report thereon as soon as may be.
[Sent up by M' Works.]
The committee for draughting a letter to Congress, respecting the
Continental Commissioner on accounts, reported a letter as on file :
which report was read and considered, received and accepted.
[Sent up by M' Works.]
Voted, That Joseph Smith Gilman, be allowed the sum of twenty-
nine pounds, eight shihings, in full for his service in the State Com
mittee's Office, and that the President give order on the Treasurer
for said sum on said Gilraan's making oath to said account.
[Sent up by M' Emerson.]
The votes in favour of Lebanon, Lyme and Hanover, came down
from the honourable Senate for the following amendment, " that the
sum granted to each of said towns be in full of all deraands [they
have] against said [the] State," Which amendraent was read and
concurred. [Sent up by M' Works.]
Resolved, That any two of the Delegates of this state to the Con
gress of the United States, be, and hereby are appointed and author
ized as deputies from this state to raeet such deputies as may be ap
pointed and authorized by other states in the Union, to assemble in
convention at Philadelphia on the second day of May next, and to join
with them in divising and discussing ah such alterations and further
provisions as to render the federal Constitution adequate to the exi
gencies of the union, and in reporting such an act to the United
States in Congress, as when agreed to by thera and duly confirraed
by the several states, whl effectually provide for the sarae ; but in
case of the death of any of said deputies, or their dechning
* their appointraents, the executive is hereby authorized to * 13 : 264
supply such vacancies, and the President is requested to
transmit forthwith a copy of this resolve tothe United States in Con
gress, and to the executive of each of the states in the union.
[Sent up by M' Johnson.]
The foregoing resolve was returned [came down] frora the [Honb'J
Senate for the fohowing amendment, "that the said Delegates shah

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proceed to join the convention aforesaid in case Congress shall sig
nify to thera that they approve of the said convention as advanta
geous to the union, and not an infringement of the powers granted
to Congress by the confederation. Which amendment was read and
concurred. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed to send out each town's pro
portion of the foreign, [&] domestick, and state's debt, and that the
selectraen of the several towns proportion the same to the inhabitants
that they may avail themselves of the final settlements while they
may be had at the present low rate. [Sent up by M' Johnson.]
Upon a [the] third reading of a bhl, intitled, an act to irapower the
several towns, districts and individuals, within this state, to pay their
quotas of the state and federal debt, and entitle such as pay the same
to a discharge therefrom. The yeas and nays were called for, and
are as follow, [viz.]

Yeas.
Mr. Leavitt,
Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Barnard,
Mr. Rollins,
Nays.
Mr. Welch,
Mr. Waldron,
Mr. Thompson,
Mr. Preston,
Mr. Cragin,
Mr. Greeley.
Mr. Hubbard,
Mr. Rendall,
Mr. Ashley,

Yeas.
Mr. Hale,
Mr. Chesley,
Mr. D. Emerson,
Mr. Mann, Nays.
Mr. Mooney.
Mr. Ames,
Mr. Dearborn,
Mr. Page,
Mr. Means,
Mr. Putnam,
Mr. Robinson,
Mr. McMurphy,
Mr. Toppan,

Mr. Jackman,
Mr. Works,
Mr. E. Hale,
Mr. Chase, Nays.
Mr. Cunningham,
Mr. Clark,
Mr. Kingsbury,
Mr. Gaskill,
Mr. Mack,
Mr. Kendall,
Mr. Johnson,
Mr. Skinner,
Mr. Bradley,

Yeas.
Mr. Jenks,
Mr. Kimball,
Mr. Tolford,
Mr. Young.
Nays.
Mr. Foster,
Mr. Gile,
Mr. Eliott,
Hon. Mr. Langdon,
Mr. Pickering,
Mr. Sparhawk,
Mr. Wiggin,
Mr. Merrill,
Mr. Wheeler.

16 yeas. — 36 nays.

So it passed in the negative [was negatived].
* 13 : 265 * Voted, That his Excellency the President, with advice
of Council, be desired to adjourn the General Court to
morrow at twelve o'clock (if the business be then completed) until
the twenty-ninth day of May next, and that the General Court which
is to meet in June next, raeet at Concord. [Sent up by M' Gill]
Resolved, That the time for selling the excise the present year,
shah be on or before the first day of March next, and that Christo
pher Toppan and Ephraim Robinson, Esquires, be and hereby are
appointed a committee to seh the excise within the county of Rock
ingham ; Ebenezer Thompson and John Rollins, Esquires, be and

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hereby are appointed a committee for selling the excise in the county
of Strafford ; Robert Means and Daniel Eraerson, Esquires, be and
hereby are appointed a committee for selling the excise within the
county of Hhlsborough ; that Enoch Hale and John Hubbard, Es
quires, be and hereby are appointed a committee to sell the excise
within the county of Cheshire ; and that Charles Johnston and Absa
lom Peters, [Esq'] be and hereby appointed a committee to sell the
excise within the county of Grafton the present year ; and that the
committees respectively advertise and sell the same excise for the
most it will fetch, in like manner as it was last year.
[Sent up by M' Toppan.]
Yoted, That the Rev. Doctor Langdon, be desired to prepare to
deliver an election serraon at Concord, in June next, but if it should
so happen that he cannot attend at tirae and place, the Rev. Mr.
Buckminster is desired to prepare for the above purpose, and that the
President be desired to give information to the said Reverend gentle
men of the desire of the General Court. [Sent up by M' Wiggin.]
Adjourned to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.
THURSDAY, January 18, 1787.
The House met according to adjournment.
Voted, That the account of John Williams, amounting to nine
pounds, fifteen shhlings and eight pence, be allowed and paid out of
the Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Wiggin.]
* Voted, That the Reverend Doctor Haven, the Rever- * 13 : 266
end Mr. Buckrainster, and the Reverend Mr. Mansfield.
have and receive out of the Treasury, three pounds each, for their
services as Chaplains to the General Court the year past, and that
the President give order accordingly. [Sent up by M' Wiggin.]
Voted, That the account of Daniel Huraphreys, Esquire, araount
ing to four pounds twelve shillings [for draughting Bills], be allowed
and paid out of the Treasury by order of the President. [Sent up by M' Hale.]
Yoted, That the Treasurer be directed to receive orders drawn by
the Board of Treasury on the Loan Officer, agreeably to the resolve
of the fifth of January current, and keep the sarae in the Treasury
thi the prior orders are paid. [Sent up by M' Hale.]
The vote of yesterday respecting proportioning to the several
towns in this state their quota of the foreign, domestic, and state
debt, came down frora the honourable Senate for the fohowing
amendment, "that a copy of the proportion list, to and amongst the

800 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1787
inhabitants of the respective towns and districts, be lodged with the
state Treasurer, and that upon any town, district or individual paying
his or their proportion of either or all the debts aforesaid, he shall
give him, her or them, a receipt therefor, which shall discharge such
person, town or district from being afterwards taxed for or toward
the principal or interest of the debt or debts so paid." Which amend
raent was read and concurred. [Sent up by M' M'^Murphy.]
The [A] vote of the 5th instant respecting the staying for one year
the execution recovered by Michael Wentworth and Martha his wife,
against Lemuel Smith, came down from the honourable Senate for
the following amendment, "that the execution be stayed until the
last day of April next and no longer" Which amendraent was read
and concurred. [Sent up by M' Sparhawk.]
* 13 : 267 Voted, That the account of Otis Baker, araounting *to
six shillings, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by
order of the President. [Sent up by M' Holmes.]
Yoted, That the pay-roll of Captain Titus Salter, amounting to
eighty-five pounds, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury by order
of the President. [Sent up by M' M-^Murphy.]
Upon reading and considering the petition of the inhabitants of
Madbury, praying for liberty to send a representative to the General
Court [in future]. Voted, That the prayer thereof be granted, and
that they have leave to bring in a bill accordingly, [send a Repre
sentative to the General Court in future. Sent up by M' Hale.]
Upon hearing and considering the petition of John Stevens, Voted,
That the petitioner have a hearing before the justice in sorae future
day, and that in the mean time the execution against him be stayed
unth he be heard before said justice, and that a resolve be brought in
accordingly. [Sent up by M' Cunningham.]
Voted, That the Treasurer be directed not to issue any extent
against the excise master in the county of Rockingham, unth the
next session of the General Court. [Sent up by M' Wiggin.]
The committee on the petition of Lois Johnson,' reported. That
the petitioner is intitled to any sum that may appear due to her hus
band, from the time of his enlistment to the time of his death :
Signed M. Thornton, for the committee. Which report being read
and considered, Voted, That it be received and accepted, and that the
comraittee on claims ascertain and certify the sum due, and that the
President give order accordingly. [Sent up by M' Ehott.]
Whereas John Stevens of Newington, in the county of Rocking
ham, and state aforesaid, yeomen, was prevented by a violent storm
frora appearing and pleading to a certain plea of the case founded on
I. xiii. Hara. Town Papers, 662.

1787] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 8OI
a groundless deraand bro't by John Pickering, Jun'r, of said Newing
ton, yeoraen, before Mark Wiggin, [Esq'] on the i ith day of Decera
ber, 1786 by which means the said Stevens was defaulted, judgment
awarded and execution issued ; wherefore the said Stevens prayed
that he might be restored to his law, which appearing
reasonable, therefore '^Resolved, That the said Stevens be * 13 : 268
and hereby is restored to his law, and that the said judg
ment and execution be, and hereby are vacated, and made void, and
that the said justice may receive any plea exhibited by said John Ste
vens in answer to said suit, and upon reasonable notice given, in
writing, by said justice to the plaintiff in said suit, of a day and time
of trial that said justice may proceed to hear and determine said
cause in the same manner as if a plea had been given on the day of
trial, and that either party grieved by said determination may have
liberty to appeal to the next Inferior court, after trial ; any law,
usage or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding. [Sent up by M' Sparhawk.]
Voted, That the committee on the petitions of Cornish, Plainfield,
&c. be directed to keep in their possession the accounts they have
received from towns and individuals in this state, and that they con
tinue to receive accounts from towns or individuals [in this state] until
further order of the General Court. [Sent up by M' Ames.]
The committee on the petition of the inhabitants at Middletown,
reported, in part. That the President give order that the selectmen
of Middletown draw the wages of Abraham Matthews, as made up in
Captain Jacob Sraith's roll, amounting to six pounds, four shillings,
lawful money : Signed John M'^Duffee for the committee. Which
report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received and
accepted. [Sent up by M' Foster.]
The committee on the petition of Josiah Butler, reported, That the
prayer thereof be granted, and that the Treasurer be directed to
receive the money, reducing [it] by the scale of depreciation to the last
of the year 1780: Signed Ebenezer Webster, for the committee.
Which report being read and considered. Voted, That it be received
and accepted, and that the Treasurer govern hiraself accordingly.
[Sent up by M' Wiggin.]
Adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M. but a number sufficient for transact
ing business did not appear [in the afternoon.]
*The Secretary came down frora the honourable Senate * 13 : 269
and gave information that he was directed by his Excel
lency the President, to inform, that the General Court is, by advice
of Council, adjourned to the 29th day of May next, then to meet at
Concord.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

A REGISTER OF RESOLUTIONS AND ADVICE
OF COUNCIL.
BEGUN AT THE FIRST SESSION IN JUNE, 1786.

PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL.
REGISTER OF RESOLUTIONS AND ADVICE.

* STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. * i B. N. : i
At a Council holden at Concord June 13'*' 1786.
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President.
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Amos Shepard and Christopher
Toppan, Esquires —
Proceeded and nominated. —
Joseph Rounsevil for a Justice of the Peace for the County of
Cheshire. —
Samuel Fowler of Boscawen for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hhlsborough.
Joseph Demerit } both of Northwood for Justices of the Peace for
Jonathan Clark \ the County of Rockingham.
Henry Ingahs for a Justice of the Peace for the County of
Cheshire. —
Nathaniel Rogers of Orford for a Coroner for the County of Graf
ton. —
John Colburn Ju' of Lebanon for a Coroner for the County of
Grafton. —
Daniel Ashley for a 2"^ Maj' of 6"' Reg' Mhitia.
To which norainations we did advise & consent. —
Josh^ Wentworth.
Christo' Toppan.
Amos Shephard.
* At a Counch holden at Concord June 14"' 1786. * i B. N. : 2
Present His Excehency John Sulhvan Esq. President.
The Hon. John Wentworth Amos Shepard, Christo' Toppan and
Moses Dow Esquires

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Proceeded and nominated,
George Williamson Livermore for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Grafton. —
Benjarain Bellows Esq first Major General
Joseph Cilley Esq for second Major General.
Isaac Temple of Alstead for a Coronor for the County of
Cheshire. Abraham Burnham of Rumney for a Coroner for the County of
Grafton. —
Alexander Craige of Rumney for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Grafton.
John Fairfield of Lime for a Coroner for the County of Grafton.
Benjarain West Esq : for Attorney General
Oliver Whipple : for d°
John Prentiss Esq ; for d°
Daniel Humphreys of Portsmouth for a Notary Pubhc in this
State. — Uriah Stone for 2^ Major of 13* Regiment.
* I B. N. : 3 * Edmund Freeman for L' Col. of 24* Regiment.
Samuel Jones for Major of 24"' d°
Nathaniel Wheatly ) one of whom for 2'^ Maj. of 24"' Reg. left for
Walter Fairfield ) consideration June 5 1787.
Consented to by Josh^ Wentworth.
Christo' Toppan.
Moses Dow.
Amos Shephard.
At a Counch holden at Concord June 15* 1786.
Present, His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Amos Shepard, Christo' Toppan, &
Moses Dow Esq —
Proceeded and nominated —
The Hon. John Langdon Esq. for a Justice of the Peace & of the
Quorum throughout the State.
John Goss ) r , , J ,^ . . ,. „
Wihiam Barron 1 """^ °^ ^^°™ *° ^^ ^ ^^J^of S* Reg.
Consented to by Josh^' Wentworth.
Christo' Toppan.
Moses Dow.
Amos Shepard
* I B. N. : 4 * At a Counch holden at Concord June 17"' 1786.
Present, His Excehency John Suhivan Esq, President.
The Hon. Josh^ Wentworth, Araos Shepard and Moses Dow
Esquires.

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 807
Nominated —
John Morrison of Windham for a Coroner for the C'^ of Rocking
ham. Doct' John Currier of Warner for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hillsborough. —
Maj' Samuel M'^Connel of Pembroke for a Coroner for the County
of Rockingham —
Col. Joseph Welch of Plastow for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Rockingham.
Samuel Worcester of Wentworth for a Coroner for the County of
Grafton. — Consented to by Josh^ Wentworth
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard.
At a Council holden at Concord June 22"^ 1786
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan, Amos Shepard,
Robert Means, Moses Dow Esquires.
Norainated the following persons to the respective
* Offices hereafter mentioned viz — * i B. N. : 5
John Weeks of Greenland for a Coroner for the County
of Rockingham. —
Benjamin Wadley of Sutton for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hillsborough. —
Ebenezer Hunting of New London for a Coroner for the County
of Hillsborough. Consented to by us Josh* Wentworth.
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow
Robert Means
Amos Shephard.
At a Counch holden at Concord June 23"^ 1786.
Present, His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan, Robert Means,
Amos Shepard & Moses Dow Esquires
Proceeded & nominated —
Samuel Heywood for a Coroner for the County of Hihsbor°
Timothy Gibson of Henniker for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hhlsborough. —
Sarauel Bradford of Hillsbor" for a Coroner for the County of
Hillsborough. * Samuel Hale Esq for a special Justice of the Supe- * i B. N. : 6

8o8 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
rior Court in the County of Rockingham in certain Causes to be
mentioned in the Coraraission —
Daniel Ringe Esq for d°
Samuel Brooks Esq for d°
Doct' Amrai R. Cutter for d°
Col Jonathan Chase j ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ B^j ar Qen'
Col. Reuben Alexander ) "
Col. Theo^ Dame )
Col. Eben' Smith > one of whom for Brigd' Genl.
Col. Tho^ Bartlett )
L' Col. Moses Baker for Col. of 14* Regiment.
Alex'i' Craige for L' Col. of 14* Reg'
Capt Benj'' Gould for Maj' of d°
Capt Michael Dwyer for 2'' Maj. of d°
To which Nominations we do advise and consent. Josh^ Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow
Robert Means.
Amos Shephard
* I B. N. : 7 *At a Counch holden at Concord June 24"' 1786.
Present ; His Excellency John Sullivan Esquire The
Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Robert Means, Amos Shepard Moses Dow
& Christo' Toppan Esq'^
Nominated —
John Fabyan of Newington for a Coroner for the County of Rock
ingham. —
To'^huf Wi'jf at ^ ^^^'^ ^°^ Special Justices of the Superior
J s ua mg , Court in the County of Strafford in certain
Ebenezer Ihompson I r- <- -u ,.¦ j ¦ r^ r,
/-> 1 1- TT J 1 Causes to be mentioned in Coras"
Caleb Hodgdon J
joJhua Bayley"^' j ^^^ Special Justices of the Superior Court
JohnShepird ^m the County of Hillsbor° m certam

Cyrus Baldwin Esq'= J '^^^"^^ ^° ^^ raentioned in Coras".
Calvin Frink '\ For Special Justices of the Superior
John Behows I Court in the County of Cheshire in cer-
John Hubbard [tain causes to be mentioned in Comrais-
Sanford Kingsbury Esq'M sion.
Moses Baker 1 t:- o • i t • r , o
Joseph Senter Special Justices of the Supenor
Elisha Payne & ( ^'^^^^ i" ^^^ County of Grafton in cer-
Joseph Hutchins Esq'= J ^^'"^ '^^""^^ ^° ^^ raentioned in Coras"

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 8O9
* Rev'^ Wellman for a Justice of the Peace for the * i B. N. : 8
County of Cheshire — Consented to by Josh'' Wentworth.
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow
Robert Means
Amos Shephard.
At a Council holden at Exeter July 7"' 1786.
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq. President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth Christo' Toppan, and Robert Means
Esq'^ — proceeded and Nominated Phhip Towle of Hampton for a
Coroner for the County of Rockingham.
Consented to by Josh^ Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Rob' Means
At a Counch holden at Exeter July 8"' 1786
Present as yesterday.
Norainated William M"=Queston for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hillsbor" — By us Josh'' Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Rob' Means.
*At a Counch holden at Exeter Sept 13"' 1786. * i B. N. :9
Present His Excellency John Suhivan Esq' President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Robert Means, Amos Shepard & Mo
ses Dow Esquires.
Proceeded & nominated
Asa Pattee for second Major of 24"' Regiment mhitia.
Consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Moses Dow
Robert Means
Amos Shephard.
At a Council holden at Exeter Sept h"' 1786 —
Present His Excehency John Suhivan Esq President The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan, Robert Means, Amos Shep
ard & Moses Dow Esq'^
The following persons were nominated, one of whom to be Captain
of the Fort William & Mary, viz' Capt" Titus Salter, Capt" William
Morris, Capt John Gardner, & M' George P>ost,
* Also Capt. Job Haskell of Pitsfield for a Coroner* i B. N. : 10
for the County of Rockingham. —
Doct' Abraham Holland of Walpole for a Justice of the peace for
the County of Cheshire. —
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8 10 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Deae" James Hosley of Hancock for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hihsbor".—
James Sraith, Eliph' Sraith & Wentworth Cheswell, one of whom
for a Jusf^^ Peace for the County of Strafford —
Elijah Ring of Chichester, for a Justice of the Peace for the Coun
ty of Rockingham.
Azariah Webb for Col. of 13"' Reg' in the roora of Joshua How
ard who has resignd.
Obadiah Cleraents for L' Col. of 13"' Reg'
Uriah Stone for Major of 13"' Reg'
Joshua Young for second Major of 13"^ Reg'
• Samuel Ashley Jun' for Col. of 1 5"' Reg' in the room of Jonathan
Chase promoted. —
Moses Whipple for L' Col. of 1 5"' Reg'
Joseph Kimbal for Maj' of 1 5th Reg*
Diah Spaulding for 2<^ Maj' of 15'^ Reg'
Michael M'^Clary for Col. of 18"' Reg' in the room of Thomas Bart
lett promoted. Joseph March for L' Col. of 18"' Reg'.
* I B. N. : II Joseph Harvey for Maj' of 18'^ Reg'.
Henry Butler for 2^ Maj' of 18"' Reg'.
Avery Hall of Wakefield for a Justice of the peace for the County
of Strafford.
Aaron Hutchinson of Lebanon for a Justice of the peace for the
County of Grafton. — Consented to by us Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow
Rob' Means
Amos Shephard.
At a Counch holden at Exeter 15"' Sept 1786.
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth, Christ" Toppan, Robert Means, Araos Shepard
& Moses Dow Esq'=
Proceeded and nominated,
John Orr of Bedford \ for Justices of the Peace for the
Simeon Curaraings of Merra'^ J County of Hillsbor"
Capt Ohver Holmes of Francestown for a Justice of the Peace for
the County of Hhlsborough. Consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow
Amos Shephard.
Rob' Means.

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 8 II
*At a Council holden at Exeter i6 Sept 1786 * i B. N. : 12
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq. President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan, Robert Means, Araos
Shepard & Moses Dow Esq'^
Norainated Col. Nathan Hoit for a Justice of the Peace Strafford.
Robert M'^Gregore for a Col. of 9''' Reg' Mhitia, Capt.  Fifield
Esq for L' Col. of d°
i^,. HI 1 °^^ °^ whora for i^' & the other for 2^ Major —
Henry Prescott \ one of whora for a Justice of the Peace for the
George Frost \ C*'' of Rockinghara.
John Dutton of Hillsborough for a Coroner for the County of
Hihsbor".— Consented to by Josh* Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Amos Shepard
Rob' Means
At a Council holden at Exeter Sept. 19"' 1786
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq. Presid' The Hon
Joshua Wentworth Christ" Toppan, Robert Means, Amos Shepard
& Moses Dow Esq"'
Proceeded & nominated,
Siraeon Dearborn of Wakefield for a Justice & of the Quorum for
the County of Strafford.
* Aaron Wingate of Rochester for a Justice of the * i B. N. : 13
Peace for the County of Strafford.
James Gibson of Pelhara \ one of whom for a Justice of the
Tim° Ladd of Salem & > Quorum for the O-1 of Rockingham.
James Betton of Windham )
Consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means
Amos Shepard
Moses Dow.
At a Counch holden at Exeter Sept 25 — 1786.
Present His Excehency John Sullivan Esq. President.
The Hon : Joshua Wentworth Chris'" Toppan & Moses Dow Esq'^
Nominated Joshua Atherton of Amherst for a Justice of the Peace
for the County of Hhlsbor" Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow
* At a Counch holden a Portsmouth Dec 22'i 1786. * i B. N. : 14
Present His Excehency John Sullivan Esq President.

8l2 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christ" Toppan, Amos Shepard &
Robert Means Esq'= —
Proceeded and norainated.
Capt Robert Sever of Raby for a Coroner Hhlsborough.
Obadiah Mooney of Canterbury, for a Cor' Rockingham.
Capt Israel Town of Stoddard for a Justice of P'^^ Cheshire
Capt John Brewster of Rochester for a Cor"' Strafford.
Joseph Gilman Esq. of Exeter for a Justice of the Peace & of the
Quorura for the County of Rockinghara.
Col. Aaron Kinsraan of Concord for a Justice Rockinghara.
Advised to by Josh" Wentworth
Araos Shepard
Christo' Toppan
Rob' Means
At a Council holden at Portsmouth Dec 23"^ 1786
Present His Excellency John Sulhvan Esq. President.
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christ" Toppan Amos Shepard &
Robert Means Esq'^ —
Nominated Jonathan Dow of Gilmantown for a Coroner for the
County of Strafford
Eli Wilkins of Amherst for a Justice of the Peace Hillsbor"
To which Nominations we do advise Josh^ Wentworth
Amos Shepard
Christo' Toppan
Rob' Means
* I B. N. : 15 *At a Counch holden at Portsmouth Dec 29"' 1786
Present His Excehency John Suhivan Esq President
Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christ"' Toppan, Robert Means &
Amos Shepard Esq'^
Proceeded and nominated, Joseph Parsons for Maj. of the i Reg'
of Militia Capt George Hart for 2^ Maj' of i. Reg' Militia.
Maj' Jon" Cass for Major ) ?^t°^ "^^T ^° '''''^^^'f ^^^ ^^9 "^^"J
Capt David McGregore t? ^^ ^^^^^^ agreeably to a Resolve of
^ ) Congress.
Capt Sam' Cherry ^
Capt William Morris |
Capt Josiah Munroe V Four of whom for Captains of d"

Col. Jon" Rawson
L' Daniel Gookin
Ebenezer Odell for Lt.

Advised to by Josh" Wentworth
Amos Shepard
Christ" Toppan
Rob' Means

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 813
Then proceeded & norainated.
Timothy Johnson for Surgeon
Joseph Cogsweh for Surgeons Mate
Hugh Orr of Hancock for a Coroner for C'^ of Hihsbor"
Advised to by Josh" Wentworth
Amos Shepard
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means
* At a Council holden at Portsraouth Jan^ 4"' 1787 * i . B N. : 16
Present His ExceUency John Sulhvan, Esq. Presid'
Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan, Araos Shepard, &
Robert Means Esq'^
Proceeded and nominated.
Neal M<^Gaffey
Robert B. Wilkins
Ebenezer Brewer <. r r • ., . t^ ¦
Isaac Griswah > ^°' Lieutenants or Ensigns.
Joseph Boynton
Charles Clapham
Jon" Cilley for Capt. or L'.
John Adams for L'. or Ens"
Rich'l Coughlin K . ^ ^
Sara' Britton j^°^ ^ °^ ^^^
Moses Leavit Neal for L' or Ens"
Joseph S. Ghman { . ^
Nath' Parker j ^°^ "^"^
Doct' Will"" Parker for Surgeon.
John Fogg for Surgeons Mate.
John Haven Esq. of Wakefield for a Justice of the Peace for the
Cy of Strafford.
Jon" Johnson of Sutton for a Coron' in y" C'>' of Hillsbor".
David Sterritt of Francestown for a Just. Peace for the County
of Hillsborough.
Dudley Chase of Cornish for a Just. Peace for the County of
Cheshire. —
John Bellows of Walpole for a Justice of the Peace and of the
Quorum for the County of Cheshire. Advised to by Josh" Wentworth.
Amos Shepard.
Christo' Toppan.
Rob' Means.

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* I B. N : 17 * At a Counch holden at Portsmouth, Jan^ 1 1"' 1787.
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq. President.
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christopher Toppan, Araos Shepard
& Robert Means Esquires.
Proceeded and norainated.
Paul Ayer of Chesterfield for a Coron' C'^ of Cheshire.
Robert Duncan of Concord for a subaltern in the Continental
Troops. Advised by Josh" Wentworth
Amos Shepard
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means.
At a Council holden at Portsra" Jan^ I3'^ 1787. —
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq Presid'.
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christopher Toppan Araos Shepard
& Robert Means Esq'^
Norainated
Deveuport Phelps for Col. y
Williara Page for L' Col > 3^1 Reg' of Light Horse.
Aaron Ames — for Maj' )
Col. Edmund Freeman for a Just. Peace for the O^ of Grafton.
Peter Green Esq. for Col. 2'^ Reg' Light Horse.
Robert Means Esq. for L' Col. d" —
Capt. W" Duncan for Maj' of d°
Michael Wentworth Esq. for Capt" of Independ' Co. of Light
Horse. —
Nicholas Gilman Esq. for Adj' General.
Advised to by Josh" 'Wentworth
Araos Shepard
Christo' Toppan.
* I B. N. : 18 * At a Counch holden at Portsra" Jan^ is'*", 1787.
Present His Excehency John Sullivan Esq Presid'.
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christ" Toppan Araos Shepard &
Robert Means Esq'^ —
Proceeded and norainated.
Hall Jackson as first Lieut"' "^
James Sheafe sec'i Lieut. ! of an Independent of Light
Clement Storer Cornet or L' [ Horse in Portsmouth.
John Sheafe Q" Master or Cora'
Jon" Rawson
loseph Peirce
W" King V '^^^ °^ whom for a Register of Probate for the
Eben' Smith f bounty of Strafford.

Amos Cogswell J

1787] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 815
Jon" Smith, of Surry for L' Col. of the 21 Reg' in the room of
Joseph Burt, resignd.
Eben' Britton of Westmorland for Maj' of d" in the roora of Maj'
Sraith advanced. Advised by Josh" Wentworth.
Christo' Toppan.
Araos Shepard.
Robert Means.
At a Council holden at Portsra" Jan^ 18"' 1787.
Present His Excellency John Suhivan Esq. Presid*.
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth Christ" Toppan Araos Shepard &
Robert Means Esq'^ —
proceeded & nominated.
Andrew M"Clary ^
George W. Livermore Vfor Ensigns Troops to be raised
John Neal Jun' j
Weare Drake of Effingham for Justice of the peace for the County
of Strafford.
* Ebenezer French of South Hampton for a Cor- * i B. N. : 19
oner for the County of Rockingham. —
Benj" Haskill for 2'* Maj' of 2i=« Reg'.
L Col Jon" Wentworth for Col of 2^ Reg' in the room of Col
Darae resignd
Maj David Place for L' Col of d" in the room of Jon" Wentworth
advanced Maj' Samuel Hale for Maj' of d" in the room of David Place ad
vanced. — Advised by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Araos Shepard.
Robert Means.
At a Counch holden at Portsmouth 23'' Jan^ 1787.
Present His Excehency John Sullivan Esq President The Hon
Joshua Wentworth Christopher Toppan & Amos Shepard Esq'= —
Nominated —
Nath' Cooper of Dover for a Register of Probate for the County
of Strafford. — -
Nath' Kidder of Newmarket for a Justice of the Peace for the Coun
ty of Rockingham. advised to by Josh" Wentworth
Amos Shepard
Christo' Toppan.
*At a Council holden at Portsmouth Feby 27-1787. * i B. N. : 20
Present His Excehency John Sullivan Esq Presid'

8l6 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
The Hon Joshua Wentworth Christ" Toppan and Robert Means Es
quires —
Proceeded and nominated
John Dennet for Col. of the first Reg' of Mhitia.
Joshua Merrow for second Major of the 2'^ Reg'
John Harvey for L' Col of the 18"' Reg' in the room of L' Col
Joseph March resignd
Henry Butler for Maj' of d" in the room of John Harvey advanced.
Moses Chase for 2^ Maj' of d°
John Burnam Hanson for a Justice of the Peace for the County of
Strafford. —
Capt" Thomas Shannon for a Register of Probate for the County
of Strafford.
L' Charles Glidden ) of Northfield
Archelaus Mhes, Sone of whom for a Justice of the Peace —
Reuben Whittier, ) Rockingham —
Maj' Joseph Parsons for L' Col of i^' Reg'
Capt" Eph"' Pickering for Maj' of d".
Capt Samuel Langdon for 2^ Maj' of d" —
Advised by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Rob' Means —
At a Counch holden at Portsraouth Feb^ 28"' 1787 —
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President The Hon
Joshua Wentworth Christopher Toppan & Robert Means Esquires. -
Proceeded and nominated —
Samuel Chamberlain Jun' Loudon for a Jus"= for Rockingham.
Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Rob' Means. —
* I B. N. : 21 *At a Counch holden at Exeter May 22'i-i787 —
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq Presid'
The Hon. Christ" Toppan Robert Means & Amos Shepard Esq'^ —
Proceeded & nominated.
John Prentice Esq' for Attorney General —
Nehemiah Rand of Lyndsbor" for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hihsborough. Adjourn'i 'tih To-morrow, 9, "'Clock, A. M.

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 817
WEDNESDAY, May 23^ 1787.
Present as yesterday —
proceeded and nominated.
Silas Mack of Marlow for a Justice of the Peace for the County of
Cheshire — Advised to by Christo' Toppan
Araos Shepard
Rob' Means. —
* 2 P. & C. 2
New Hamp' ( ^^ ^ Counch holden at Concord June 13. 1786
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq' President The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth, Amos Shepard and Christopher Toppan Esq'^
His Excellency the President requested the advice of Council rela
tive to his drawing Orders on the Treasurer.
Whereupon the Council advised His Excellency to issue his Orders
on the Treasurer agreeably to all Acts, Resolves & Votes that have
heretofore been passed or shall bfe passed by the Legislature of said
State authorizing the same during the present Session of the Gen
eral Court. Advised by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Amos Shepard.
At a Council holden at Concord June 22'' 1786
Present His Excehency John Sullivan Esq' President The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth, Christopher Toppan, Amos Shepard, Robert
Means and Moses Dow Esquires.
*Appointedthefollowingpersonstotherespective*Of- * 2 P. & C. : 3
fices hereafter mentioned, having been norainated
agreeably to Constitution viz
Joseph Rounsevh of Washington Esq a Justice of the Peace for
the County of Cheshire.
Samuel Fowler Esq of Boscawen a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hihsborough.
Joseph Demerit 1 of Northwood Esq" Justices of the Peace for the
Jonathan Clark ) County of Rockingham.
Henry Ingahs Esq' a Justice of the Peace for the County of
Cheshire. Nathaniel Rogers of Orford Esq a Coroner for the County of
Grafton. John Colburn Jun' of Lebanon a Coroner for the County of Graf
ton.

8l8 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Daniel Ashly Esq second Major of the 16"' Regiment of Militia
George Wihiamson Livermore Esq a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Grafton.
Benjamin Behows Esq' first Major General
Joseph Cniey Esq' second Major General
Isaac Temple of Alstead a coroner for the County of Cheshire.
Abrahara Burnhara of Rumney Esq a Coroner for the County of
Grafton.
* 2 P. & C. : 4 *Alexander Craige of Ruraney Esq' a Justice of the
Peace for the County of Grafton.
John Fairfield Esq of Lime a Coroner for the County of Grafton.
Benjarain West Esq' Attorney General
Daniel Humphreys Esq' a Notary Public in this State.
Uriah Stone 2"^ Maj' of 13"' Regiment of Militia.
Edmund Freeraan Esq' L' Col of 24"' Reg' of Mhitia.
Samuel Jones Esq Major of the 24"' Regt Militia
To which Appointraents We do advise & consent. Josh" Wentworth.
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow
Rob* Means
Araos Shephard.
At a Counch holden at Concord June 23'' 1786
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President The Hon
Joshua Wentworth, Araos Shepard, Christopher Toppan, Robert
Means & Moses Dow Esq'^
His Excehency the President requested the advice of Counch, rel
ative to granting Coraraissions to Adjutants Quartermasters & Brig
ade Majors. Upon which His Excehency was advised to grant Com
missions to said Adjutants Quarter Masters & Brigade Majors.
By us Amos Shephard
Robert Means
Moses Dow.
* 2 P. & C. : 5 *Appointed The Hon John Langdon Esq a Justice
of the Peace and of the Quorum throughout the State.
Advised & consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow
Robert Means
Amos Shephard.
At a Council holden at Concord June 24"' 1786
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq' President. The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth, Robert Means, Amos Shepard, Moses Dow &
Christopher Toppan Esq'^

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 819
¦The fohowing Persons having been nominated more than seven
days, proceeded to appoint John Morrison Esq of Windham a Coro
nor for the County of Rockingham.
Samuel M'^Connel Esq of Pembroke a Coronor for the County of
Rockingham. Joseph \yelch Esq of Plastow a Justice of the Peace for the Coun
ty of Rockingham. Advised by — Josh" Wentworth.
Christo' Toppan.
Rob' Means.
Amos Shephard.
Moses Dow.
*At a Counch holden at Exeter July 6"' 1786 * 2 P. & C. : 6
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christopher Toppan and Robert
Means Esq'^
And took into Consideration a Resolve of Court of 27"' of June
1786 relative to final Settleraent Securities &c and adjourned to 7
oClock tomorrow morns.
At a Council holden at Exeter July 7"' 1786.
Met according to adjournment.
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan and Robert Means Esq'^
The Council advised, that Jeremiah Libbey Esq be requested to
superintend the Post Office and Post-Riders established by virtue of
a Resolve of the General Court of the 19"' of June last, and that he
continue to direct the same unth the next Session of the General
Court. That M' Samuel Dearborn be appointed Rider on the Northern
Rout and is to give bond for his faithful performance of the Trust, to
the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the time being, and
upon said Dearborns lodging such bond with M' Libbey and taking
the Oath of Office, he is to furnish him with the necessary directions
& instructions for the regulation of his Conduct as Post-Rider.
*The Counch further advise that M' Sara' Bean be * 2 P. & C. : 7
continued to perforra as Post-rider on the western
Rout, until the next Session of the General Court and that M' Lib
bey give him the necessary Instructions for regulating his Conduct ;
and that he furnish Samuel Dearborn with an Order for ten pounds
and take a receipt for the same — And that he take a Receipt from
M' Bean for the twenty pounds paid him by Order in June last, if
not already done. Advised to by us. Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means.

820 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1/86
The Counch advise His Excellency the President to request the
Treasurer to eraploy some person to repair to Boston as soon as con
venient and procure frora the Loan Officer there, the proper Checks
and Records for enabling him to determine whether the final Settle
ment Securities brought to his Office are genuine or counterfeit.
Advised by — Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means.
* 2 P. & C. : 8 *The Council advise His Excellency that a letter be
wrote to Major Amos Morrih, Regimental Agent for
this State, to prepare his amount of Services in that Department and
lay the sarae before the General Court for examination and allowance
at their next Session on the first Wednesday of September next, and
that he at the sarae tirae, deposit with the Suprerae Executive of this
State, the Certificates which reraain in his hands agreeably to the Re
solves of Congress of the 3'' of Noveraber 1783 and the 29"' of May
1785 Advised by — Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means.
At a Council holden at Exeter on July 7"' 1786
Present His Excehency John Sullivan Esq' President The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth, Christopher Toppan and Robert Means Esq'^
The following ' persons, having been nominated more
* 2 P. & C. : 9 than seven days proceeded and * appointe4,
Samuel Heyward Esq a Coroner for the County of
Hillsborough. Timothy Gibson Esq of Henniker a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hillsborough.
.Moses Baker Col of the 14"' Reg' of Militia.
Alexander Craige Lieut Col. of D".
Benjarain Gould Major of D°.
Michael Dwyer second Major of D". not to be coras""!
John Fabyan Esq. of Newington a Coroner for the County of Rock
ingham. Advised to by — Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means.
Adjourned 'till to-morrow.
SATURDAY, July 8"' 1786 —
Met — Present as yesterday.
Upon reading and considering a letter from the Commissarv Gen
eral.

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 821
_ The Counch advise, that His Excehency the President give direc
tions to the Commissary General, to repair and put in Order the
brass Field Pieces belonging to the State, and
* deliver the same when repaired with their Appara- * 2 P. & C. : lo
tus into the hands of the Colonel of Artihery taking a
Receipt therefor :
Also that he direct the Commissary General to cohect all the pub
lic Arms and Accoutrements within this State into proper Magazines
and have the same put in proper order, keeping an exact Account of
the number and quantity and the persons and places from which the
same may be received.
And also that he request the Comraissary General, to cohect all
the public Araraunition, Military Stores and Munitions of War, into
the proper Magazines, and that he be particularly careful to keep
Accounts of the places from whence, and the perscns from whom
received, and that the Comraissary General be directed to use the
proper means to prevent the Powder in the Magazines from being
damaged — Advised by Josh" Wentworth.
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means.
*At a Council holden at Exeter Sept. 13"' 1786 * 2 P. & C. 11
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq Presi
dent The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Robert Means, Amos Shepard
and Moses Dow Esquires.
His Excellency the President laid before the Hon. Council a letter
from the Board of Treasury and a letter from the Hon'''= S. Liver
more Esquire. Also several Depositions &c.
And then proceeded and appointed
Samuel Worcester Esq. of Wentworth a Coroner for the County
of Grafton.
John Weeks Esq of Greenland a Coroner for the County of Rock
inghara. * Jonathan Chase Esq. a Brigadier General. * 2 P. & C. : 12
Thoraas Bartlett Esq a Brigadier General.
Phhip Towle Esq of Harapton a Coroner for the County of Rock
ingham. Wihiam M'^Question of Litchfield Esq a Justice of the Peace for
the County of Hillsborough. By us Josh" Wentworth
Moses Dow
Robert Means
Amos Shephard.
At a Council holden at Exeter 14*'' Sept 1786
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President The Hon.

822, NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1786
Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan, Robert Means, Amos Shepard
& Moses Dow Esq'^
Appointed —John Goss Esq 2^ Major of 5"' Regiment —
Advised by Josh" Wentworth
' Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow
Robert Means
Amos Shephard.
* 2 P. & C. : 13 *At a Counch holden at Exeter Sept 19"' 1786
Present His Excehency John Suhivan Esq Presid'
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan Robert Means &
Moses Dow Esq'^
Proceeded and appointed
r- 1 ti 1 t- o 1 Special Justices of the Superior Court in the
Samuel Brooks Esq & ( County of Rockinghara in certain Causes to
Ammi R. Cutter Esq J^^ mentioned in their Coraraissions.
Benjamin Wadley Esq of Sutton a Justice of the County of Hills
borough. Ebenezer Hunting Esq of New London a Coroner for the County
of Hillsborough Advised to by us Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Rob* Means
Amos Shephard
Moses Dow.
* 2 P. & C. : 14 *At a Counch holden at Exeter Sept 25"' 1786.
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq' President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christ"' Toppan and Moses Dow Esq'^
Appointed the persons hereafter named, having been nominated
seven days or raore, to the respective offices Civil Sr Military as
herein set down viz :
Titus Salter Capt" of the Fort Williara & Mary
Job Haskell of Pitsfield a Coroner for the County of Rockingham.
Deae" James Hosley of Hancock for a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hillsborough.
Azariah Webb Esq Col. ^
Obadiah Clements L Col I ^ .^ Rgff' Militia
Uriah Stone Maj' j^ 01 13 Keg Miutia
Joshua Young Esq 2 Maj j
Samuel Ashley Jun' Esq Col of 1 5''' Reg' Mhitia — Clairraont.
Moses Whipple Esq L' Col of Do — Croydon.
Joseph Kiraball. Maj of do — Plainfield
Diah Spaulding 2^ Maj of do — Cornish.
Michael MClary Esq Col 18"' Reg'.
Joseph March Esq L' Col of 18"' Reg'

1786] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 823
Joseph Harvey Maj' of i8"' Reg'
Henry Butler, 2^ Maj' of 18 Reg'.
Avery Hall of Wakefield Esq a Justice of the Peace for the Countv
of Strafford. ^
Aaron Hutchinson of Lebanon Esq a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Grafton.
*John Orr of Bedford & \ Esq'^ Justices of the Peace * 2 P. & C. : 15
Simeon Cummings of > for the County of Hihsbor-
Merriraac ) ough.
Cap' Nathan Hoit Esq of Moultonb" a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Strafford.
George Frost Esq of New Castle a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Rockingham
John Dutton Esq of Hillsbor" a Coroner for the County of Hihs
bor". Consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow.
His Excellency requested the Advice of Council relative to draw
ing Orders on the Treasurer.
Whereupon the Council advise His Excellency to issue his Orders
on the Treasurer agreeably to all Acts, Resolves & votes that have
been passed by the Legislature of this State.
Advised Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow.
At a Council holden at Exeter Sept 26"' 1786
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq Presid' The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth Christ"' Toppan, & Moses Dow Esq'^
AppointedSimeon Dearborn of Wakefield Esq a Justice of the Peace and of
the Quorum for the County of Strafford.
*Aaron Wingate of Rochester a Justice of the *2P.&C. :i6
Peace for the County of Strafford. Advise to by us Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow.
The Council advise.
That Samuel Bean be further employed to ride as Post on the
western Rout and that Nahum Akerman be eraployed to ride as Post
on the northern Rout until the next Session of the Gen' Court,
at the rate of One Hundred pounds '^ Annum Each, and in Case that
either of them should fail, that his Excellency the President, be ad
vised to employ some trusty person or persons in their stead, and

824 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1/86
notify the Postraaster General of the sarae, that he may take bonds
accordingly ; and that the President direct the Postmaster General
to Settle with Samuel Bean for his former services, at the rate of one
Hundred pounds a year reckoning a ten pound Order, for which he
has received the Cash, as twenty pounds. Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Moses Dow.
* 2 P. & C. : 1 7 * Exeter Sept 26"' 1 7?,6.
His Excellency, with advice of Counch, ordered the
following proclamation to be printed.
By His Excellency
John Sullivan Esquire,
President of the State of New Harapshire
A PROCLAMATION, for a
General Thanksgiving.
It being the indispensible Duty of States, as well as Individuals, to
take Notice of the Mercies of our divine Benefactor, and express
their grateful Sense of the same ;
I have thought fit, by and with the Advice of Council, to appoint,
and do hereby appoint Thursday the twenty third Day of November
next, to be observed as a Day of public Thanksgiving throughout
this State : recommending to Ministers and People of every Denomi
nation in the same, to assemble on said Day, and in a social Manner
to confess, and implore the divine Forgiveness of our past Trans
gressions; acknowledge our Unworthiness of the
* 2 P. & C. : 18 Smiles of Providence, in * blessing the Labour of our
Hands, causing the Earth to bring forth her Increase,
and crowning the present Year with Goodness ; to intreat the Con
tinuance of the Favour of GOD : that he would still be the Health
of our Countenance and establish the Work of our Hands ; that he
would bless the Great Council of the Nation, dwell in all our Towns ;
bless our Seminaries of learning, raultiply Grace, Mercy & Peace to
the Churches of our Lord Jesus Christ ; inspire our Rulers with Wis
dora, directing all Orders and Ranks to a strict Adherence to the
Constitution ; that he would graciously be pleased to prevent all Ani
raosities, and continue to restrain the Wrath of Man when pointed
against Goyernraent.
All servile Labour is forbidden on said Day.
Given at the Council Chamber in Exeter this twenty sixth Day of
September, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand, Seven Hundred

1787] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 825
& Eighty Six and in the Eleventh Year of the Independence of the
United States of America Jn" Suhivan.
By His Excellency's Command,
with Advice of Council,
Joseph Pearson, Secretary.
*At a Council holden at Portsmouth Dec' 22'' 1786. * 2 P. & C. : 19
President His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Amos Shepard, Chris'" Toppan &
Robert Means Esq'^
Proceeded and appointed
Rob' McGregore Col 9"' Reg' of Militia.
Nath' Fifield L* Col of 9*^ D"
Oliver Holraes Maj' of D°
John Dunlap 2'' Maj' of D"
Joshua Atherton Esq of Araherst a Justice of the Peace for C'^ of
Hihsbor". Advised & consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Araos Shepard
Christo' Toppan.
Rob* Means.
At a Council holden at Portsraouth Dec 23'' 1786.
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq' President Hon. Joshua
Wentworth, Christo' Toppan, Robert Means, & Araos Shepard Esq'^
Appointed Elijah Ring Esq of Chichester a Justice of the Peace
for the County of Rockinghara.
To which appointraent we do advise & Consent. Josh" Wentworth.
Amos Shepard.
Christo' Toppan.
Robert Means.
*At a Council holden at Portsmouth Jan5'4 — 1787. * 2 P. & C. : 20
Present His Excellency John Suhivan Esq President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christopher Toppan Robert Means &
Amos Shepard Esq'^
Proceeded & appointed, the fohowing persons to the respective
Offices hereafter mentioned, having been nominated agreeably to
Constitution, viz :
James Betton Esq of Windham a Justice of the Peace and of the
Quorum for the County of Rockingham.
Robert Sever Esq of Raby a Coroner for the County of Hills
borough. Obadiah Mooney Esq. of Canterbury a Coroner for the County of
Rockingham 53

826 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [l787
Israel Town Esq of Stoddard a Just. Peace County of Cheshire
John Brewster Esq of Rochester a Coron' for the C'^ of Straf
ford. Joseph Ghraan Esq. of Exeter a Justice of the Peace & of the
Quorum for the County of Rockingham.
Aaron Kinsman Esq of Concord a Just' Peace for C'^ Rocking
ham. Jon" Dow Esq. Gilmantown a Coroner for C'^ of Strafford.
Eli Wilkins Esq of Amherst a Justice of the Peace for the County
of Hillsborough Consented to by Josh" Wentworth.
Amos Shepard.
Christo' Toppan.
Robert Means.
* 2 P. & C. : 21 *At a Counch holden at Portsmouth Jan^ 8, 1787
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christ" Toppan Amos Shepard &
Robert Means Esq'^
The fohowing persons having been norainated agreeably to Consti
tution proceeded & appointed thera to the respective Offices here
after raentioned, viz :
Maj' Jon" Cass a Major to coraraand the Continental Troops to
be raised agreeably to Resolve of Cong^^
Cap* Sarauel Cherry^
Cap' W"' Morris I r- <- • f t^o
/- r T • -u T\/r r Captains for D°
Cap' Josiah Munroe ^
L' Daniel Gookin J
Hugh Orr Esq of Hancock a Coroner for the County of Hihsbor
ough. Advised & consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Araos Shepard
Robert Means.
At a Council holden at Portsmouth Jan^ ii"" 1787
Present His Excellency John Suhivan Esq President The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan, Amos Shepard & Robert Means
Esq'^ The following persons having been norainated agreeably to Consti
tution proceeded & appointed thera to the respective Offices here
after raentioned viz :
Ebenezer Odell ^
Chirks Ckpham I Lieutenants for the Continental Troops to be

Rob' B. Wilkins
Isaac Griswah

raised

1787] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 827
*Ebenezer Brewer ^ * 2 P. & C. : 22
Sam' Britton > Ensigns for D"
Joseph S. Gilman j
His Excehency the President requested the Advice of Council rel
ative to drawing Orders on the Treasurer. Whereupon the Council
advise His Excehency to issue his Orders on the Treasurer agreeably
to all Acts, Resolves & Votes that have heretofore been passed or
shall be passed by the Legislature of this State authorizing the same
during the present Session of the General Court.
Dudley Chase Esq of Cornish a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Cheshire. Advised and Consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Amos Shepard
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means
At a Council holden at Portsmouth Jan^ 13"' 1787
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan Amos Shepard &
Robert Means Esq'^
His Excellency the President requested the Advice of Council rel
ative to carrying the Sentences of a late Court Martial into Execu
tion agreeably to an Address of Both Houses.
Whereupon the Council advise His Excellency that he carry the
same into effect conformably to said Address Josh" Wentworth
Amos Shepard
Christo' Toppan
Robt Means.
At a Council holden at Portsraouth Jan'' 13"' 1787 * 2 P. & C. : 23 *
The resignation of Noah Worcester Esq as a Justice
of the Peace for the County of Grafton was received and accepted.
Proceeded and appointed
Joseph Parsons Esq Maj' of the i Reg' Militia
George Hart Esq 2'' Maj' of D"
John Haven Esq of Wakefield a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Strafford.
Jonathan Johnson Esq of Sutton a Coroner for the County of
Hillsborough. David Sterrit Esq of Francestown a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Hhlsbor"

828 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1/87
John Behows Esq of Walpole a Justice of the Peace & of the
Quorum for the County of Cheshire. advised to by Josh" Wentworth
Amos Shepard
Christo' Toppan
At a CouncU holden at Portsra" Jan^ 18"* 1787
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth Christ" Toppan Amos Shepard &
Robert Means Esq'^
His Excellency the President by Advice of Council adjourned the
General Court to the 29"* of May next.
proceeded & appointed
Doct' William Parker Surgeon ) r^ ,.• n -r <. u • j
T,. , , T u c n/r «. ^ Contin" Troops to be raised
Timothy Johnson Surgeons Mate J ^
Robert Duncan of Concord, Ensign for Troops to be raised.
Paul Ayer Esq of Chesterfield Coron' for the County of
Cheshire.
* 2 P. 8: C. : 24 * The Hon Joseph Gilraan Esq' one of the Corarait
tee on Continental Accounts applied to His Excel
lency & Council for directions respecting his corapleating the
entries in the Books which are arranged for that purpose. Upon
which the Council advised His Excellency to desire M' Gilman to
proceed & make the Entries agreeably to said Arrangeraents.
Advised to by Josh" Wentworth
Araos Shepard
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means
At a Council holden at Portsmouth 22'' January 1787
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President. The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth Christopher Toppan and Araos Shepard Esquires.
The following persons having been norainated agreeably to Consti
tution proceeded & appointed thera to the respective Offices here
after raentioned, viz :
Deveuport Phelps Col"~j
Wihiara Page L' Col V 3 Reg' Light Horse
Aaron Ames Major j
Peter Green Esq Col" |
Robert Means Esq L' Col > 2 Reg' Light Horse
Capt W"- Duncan Esq Maj J
Michael Wentworth Esq Cap' of an Ind"' Co. of Light Horse
Nicholas Gilman Adj' Gen' rank for after consideration.

1787] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 829
*2P. &C. :25
* HaU Jackson L' ]
James Sheafe 2 L' I of an Independent Company of Light
Clement Storer Cornet j Horse in Portsra"
John Sheafe Q' Master j
Jon" Smith L' Col. of the 21 Reg' in the room of Joseph Burt re
sign'' Ebenezer Britton Maj of d° in the room of Maj Smith advanced
Nath' Cooper Surveyor of Lumber at Dover
Advised & consented to by us Josh" Wentworth
Amos Shepard
Christo' Toppan
At a CouncU holden at Portsmouth 23'' Jan^ 1787
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq President
The Hon Joshua Wentworth, Christo' Toppan & Amos Shepard
Esq'= The President represented to the Council that a nuraber of Deputy
Impost Officers are appointed in this State upon the several Roads
leading into the same, and that by an Act of Massachusetts passed
the 17"* of November last & which took effect the first day of Jan
uary current all Excise Articles brought frora that Commonwealth
into this State are exempted from Excise upon the Importer or Im
porters producing a Certificate under the hand of the Naval Officer,
Collector or other Officer of the Customs in the State to which said
Goods are exported, that he or they have appeared & made Oath
that the said Goods have been bona fide brought into such State &
a Doubt having arisen in the minds of the Impost
Officers whether they can * legally adrainister said * 2 P. & C. : 26
Oath & by means thereof many have applied to
Justices of the Peace for such Certificates whereby the Revenue of
this State is greatly defrauded.
Whereupon the Council conceiving that the Authority of admin
istering such Oaths is incident to the Office of the Impost Officer
& his Deputies, advise that the President inform the Impost Offi
cer to direct his Deputies to administer the Oaths to the Importers
of Goods & give Certificates thereof unth the Gen' Court shall think
proper to order the contrary.
The President requested the Advice of Council respectmg the
payment of Col Longs Order drawn in favor of Martha Parot for
two hundred & forty six pounds eighteen shillings L. M. being the
balance of President Langdons Order in her favor, which yet remains
unpaid. Whereupon the Council advise that the President recom
mend to the Treasurer to give an Order upon the Excise Masters for
payment of the aforesaid Draught.

830 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1/87
Appointed, Neal M"Gaffey Lieut' of the Contenental Troops to be
raised, in the room of Charles Claphara resign'd.
His Excellency requested the Advice of Council relative to the
Standard of Pot, & Pearl Ash.
* 2 P. & C. : 27 Whereupon the Council advise * that the Stand
ard for Pearl Ash be coraposed of alcaline salts with
out any ralxture of Lirae or other foreign Bodies. Pot Ash to be at
least seven eighths of pure alcaline salts.
advised & consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Amos Shepard
Christo' Toppan
At a Council holden at Portsmouth Feby 27"' 1787
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq Presid'
The Hon. Joshua Wentworth Christo' Toppan & Robert Means
Esquires Proceeded & appointed
Jon" Wentworth Esq Col. of the second Regiment of Militia in the
room of Col Dame resigned.
David Place Esq. L' Col. of d" in the roora of Col Jon" Wentworth
advanced. Samuel Hale Esq for Major of d"
Weare Drake Esq of Effingham a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Strafford.
Ebenezer French Esq of South Harapton a Coroner for the County
of Rockingham.
Benjamin Haskell second Maj' of 21 Regiment.
Advised & consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Rob' Means.
* 3 P. & C. : 28 *At a Council holden at Portsmouth 27"' Feb^ 1787
The Resignation of Col Peirce Long, L' Col Mark
Wiggin & George Hart 2'' Major as field Officers of the first Reg',
was received and accepted.
His Excehency the President laid before the Hon. CouncU sundry
Communications from Goven' Bowdoin relative to a Rebellion in the
Coraraonwealth of the Massachusetts.
Whereupon the Council advised His Excellency to issue the fol
lowing Proclaraation, viz :
State of New ) By His Excellency John Sullivan Esq' President
Hampshire j of the State of New Harapshire.
Whereas Daniel Shays of Pelham & Luke Day of West Springfield
in the County of Hampshire, Adam Wheeler of Hubbardston in the

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record of president AND COUNCIL.

831

County of Worcester, & Eli Parsons of Adams in the County of Berk
shire, all in the Commonwealth of the Massachusetts, stand charged
with having been Principals in & Supporters of a wicked and unnat
ural Rebehion against the Commonwealth aforesaid & with having
openly & traitorously raised a war against the same, with intent to
subvert & overthrow the Constitution and form of Government
thereof, and it is suggested, that to avoid Justice Sz; to screen them
selves from the punishraent due to their offence, they have secreted
themselves within this State, and His Excellency the Governor of
said Commonwealth, having agreeably to the fourth Article of the
Confederation & perpetual Union of the United States, demanded,
that they be delivered up & removed to the said
Common-* wealth which alone can have jurisdiction of * 3 P. & C. : 29
the Offence.
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the Advice of Council to
issue this Proclaraation, hereby requiring all Judges, Justices, Sher
iffs, Grand jurors, Constables, and other Officers, civil and railitary
and also recoramending it to all other good Subjects within this State
to use their utmost Endeavours for discovering Sz; apprehending
the said Shays, Day, Wheeler Sz; Parsons Sc them Commit to any of
the Common Goals in this State, so that they raay be secured Sz;
delivered over to the Authority of the aforesaid Commonwealth,
hereby engaging that a reward of One Hundred Sc fifty pounds will
be paid by the said Commonwealth to the person or persons who
shall apprehend & secure the said Shays Sz; one hundred pounds
for each of the other beforementioned Offenders. And all persons
are hereby strictly enjoined and requested not to harbour, conceal,
secrete or entertain either of the said Offenders.
And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the said Common
wealth has also by virtue of the said fourth Article of Confederation
Sz; perpetual Union, demanded the foUowing persons charged with the
Crime of Treason in raising a rebellion and levying war against the
aforesaid Commonwealth, viz.

Names.
Nathan Smith
John Kelsey
Adara Wheeler
Norraan Clark
Abraham Gale
Jon" Holman
Daniel Shays
Thomas Grover
Luke Day
Daniel Gray

Place of abode.

I Shirley

Hubbardston
I PrincetonTempleton PelhamMontague
West Springfield

County.
Middlesex
Worcester

Hampshire

832

NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS.

[1787

Uxbridge
BarreGrafton
SpencerHubbardston
Hardwick South Brimfield
West Springfield
Westfield Chesterfield
Whateley
Worthington
Amherst Greenfield
ConwayCharlemont
Shutesbury
PrincetonSutton
Worcester Shrewsbury Pitsfield

Couaty.
Worcester

Hamp^

Names. Place o£ abode.
Doct' Sam' Willard
Hezekiah Chapman
Moses Smith
Thomas Bicknale
Oliver Watson Jun'
Sarauel Slocum
Benj" Convers
John Hazeltine
Capt Fisk
Elijah Day
Captain Sackett
Captain Jewele
Capt Brown
Samuel Morse
Cap' Bihings
Obed Foot
Cap' Dinsmore
Cap* HUl
John Powers
Joseph Sargent Princeton Worcester
James Freeland
Daniel Baird
Aaron Smith
Daniel Sacket Pitsfield ' Berks^
Daniel Hubbard " "
Joseph Fairfield " "
Jared Ingersole " "
Rufus Allen Samuel Rust Pitsfield "
^ 3 P. & C. : 30 * Thomas Gould "
Leicester Grosvenor Windsor "
William Davis ") y Windsor "

Tho^ Robinson
Hezekiah Green
John Wiley
Robert Wiley
Joseph Chamberlain
Benj" Chamberlain
Eliph' Chamberlain
Eph" Cleveland
Andrew Spafford
Phinehas Watkins
Aaron Bingham

> Dalton

Partridgefield

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RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL.

833

Names.
Eli Parsons
Reuben Kinsman
WUl™ Whiting Esq
John Hubbard
Jesse Mason
John Nutting
James Perry
David Valentine
Matthew Randah
Job Pierce
Hezekiah Hix Jun'
Deliverance Bennet
Gideon Pond
Pardon Pierce

"Place of abode.
> Adams Great Barrington
Sheffield
Lunenborough Pepperel
Easton
> Freetown Rehoboth
DartmouthMansfield Swanzey

County.
Berks^

u
Middlesex
Bristol do do
dododo

Also said to have concealed themselves within this State to avoid
being brought to trial for the aforesaid atrocious Off'ence. These
are therefore to require all the Officers civil Sz; military within this
State, and I do hereby, with advice of Council
* recommend to all other good Subjects within the * 3 P. Sz; C. : 31
same to use their Endeavours to apprehend the said
Offenders and them to commit to some common Goal in this State,
that they may be conveyed to the said Commonwealth & delivered
over to the authority of the same, to receive the punishment due to
their offence — And all the good Subjects of this State are hereby
strictly enjoined not to harbour, conceal or' entertain any of the said
offenders as they will answer it at their peril —
Given at the Council Chamber at Portsmouth this Twenty seventh
day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hun
dred S: Eighty Seven Sz in the Eleventh year of the Independence
of the United States of America.
Also a Proclamation for a fast was presented and consented to by
Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means
At a Council holden at Exeter March 5*'' 1787
Present His Excellency John Suhivan Esq Presid' The Hon.
Joshua Wentworth, Christ" Toppan, Robert Means Esquires.
proceeded and appointed
John Dennet Esq Col. of the first Reg' of MUitia
Joshua Merrow Esq. 2'^ Major of the 2'^ Reg' Militia.
John Harvey Esq L' Col of 18"' Reg' D"

834 NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY STATE PAPERS. [1/87
Henry Butler Esq Major of iS"- Reg' D"
Moses Chase Esq 2^ Maj of D"
Joseph Parsons Esq Lieut Col of i" Reg* Militia
Ephraim Pickering Esq Major of d"
* 3 P. Sz C. : 32 * Samuel Langdon Esq Second Maj' of 1=' Reg'
Advised Sz consented to by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Robert Means.
The Opinion of the Council being asked. Whether the balances
due to the Judges of the Superior Court, if apphed for, shall be made
up to the seventeenth of January last when the vote passed granting
them their present Salary.
Whereupon the Council advise that Orders for said balances may
be made out upon application — Advised by Josh" Wentworth
Christo' Toppan
Rob' Means
* 3 P. Sz C. : 33 * At a Council holden at Exeter May 21=' 1787
Present His Excelency John Sullivan Esq President
The Hon Christopher Toppan, Robert Means and Amos Shepard
Esq'^ Proceeded to examine the returns for Senator for the year ensuing.
Adjourned till tomorrow half after eight oClock, A. M.

TUESDAY, May 22'1 1787.
Present as yesterday.
Proceeded to examine the returns for Senators.
Appointed,
Jaraes Sraith Esq' of Newraarkett a Justice of the peace for the
County of Rockinghara.
John B. Hanson Esq of Dover a Justice of the Peace for the Coun
ty of Strafford. Adjourned 'till Tomorrow 9 o'Clock, A. M.
WEDNESDAY May 23'' 1787.
Present as Yesterday
Appointed
Charles Glidden Esq of Northfield a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Rockingham.

1787] RECORD OF PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL. 83 5
His Excellency the President, requested the Advice of CouncU,
whether he can agreeably to a vote of the 17"' of January 1787, draw
Orders, if applied for, on the Treasurer for the quarterly payment of
the Salaries of the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature.
Whereupon the Council give it as their opinion, that His Excel
lency cannot agreeably to the spirit Sz meaning of s^ vote, draw
Orders for the quarterly payment of s^ Salaries.
Advised to by us Christo' Toppan
Araos Shepard
Robert Means.
*At a CouncU holden at Concord June 5"' 1787 * 3 P. Sz C. : 34
Present His Excellency John Sullivan Esq Presi
dent The Hon Christopher Toppan, Robert Means and Araos Shep
ard Esq'^
proceeded and appointed
John Prentice Esq' Attorney General.
Samuel Charaberlain Jun' of Loudon a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Rockingham
Nehemiah Rand Esq' of Lindeborough a Justice of the Peace for
the County of Hillsborough.
SUas Mack Esq of Marlow a Justice of the Peace for the County
of Cheshire. Advised to by us Christo' Toppan
Amos Shepard
Robert Means

APPENDIX.

Notes containing Extracts from the State and Federal Archives,
Citations to Authorities and Biographical Memoranda, Illustra
tive of the History of the Relations of New Hampshire to the
Adoption of the Constitution of the United States.

APPENDIX.

NOTE ONE.
Convention for the Regulation of Commerce, to be holden at An
napolis, Md., on the First Monday in September, 1786, upon the
Invitation of the Legislature of Maryland, in which the Legis
lature OF Virginia joined, through the Management of Mr. Mad
ison, BY their Vote in January, 1786.
It was a provision of the appointment by the General Court of New Hamp
shire, that only two of its commissioners were to attend at the same time
but it is not known that the State was actually represented at ah in that con
ference or convention. commissioners FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Joshua Wentworth,' Portsmouth, chosen March 4, 1786.
John Sparhawk " " " "
Thomas Martin = " " " "
John Langdon " " June 14, "
James Sheafe " " " "
Historical authorities relative to this convention and the convention at
Philadelphia the subsequent year which formed and promulgated the Federal
Constitution are cited in the following :
I. Bibliography and Reference List of the History and Literature Relative
to the Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, 1787-88. By
Paul Leicester Ford, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1888.
2. Adams's Manual of Historical Literature, page 635.
3. Critical Period of American History, John Fiske, page 216.
4. History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the
Proraulgation ofthe Constitution ofthe United States, vol. i, page 26.
I. See Joshua Wentworth's Letter relative to this Mission, XVIII. Hammond's Miscellaneous Papers
(N. H.) 772.
2. Thoraas Martin was a prominent merchant at Portsmouth. Brewsters Rambles about Portsmouth,
second series, page 90.

840 APPENDIX.
NOTE TWO.
The Convention of 1787, Holden at Philadelphia, which Promul
gated the Constitution for Consideration by the States.
Action by the General Court of New Hampshire in Response to
the Invitation to Join in the Convention.
Vote of January 16, 1787.
" Voted, That two proper persons be appointed to represent this state in the
convention to be held in Philadelphia in May next, and that the Delegates
be chosen by joint ballot of both Houses, and that a bill be brought in to
ascertain the powers of said Delegates."
It appears by a memorandum, attached to the record at the end of the
printed journal of tiie House for this session, that the Senate non-concurred
in the above vote. Vote of January 17, 1787.
"Resolved, That any two ofthe Delegates of this state to the Congress of
the United States, be, and hereby are appointed and authorized as deputies
from this state to meet such deputies as may be appointed and authorized by
other states in the union, to assemble in convention at Philadelphia on the
second day of May next, and tp join with them in devising and discussing
all such alterations and further provisions as to render the federal Constitu
tion adequate to the exigencies of the union, and in reporting such an act
to the United States in Congress, as when agreed to by them and duly con
firmed by the several states, will effectually provide for the same ; but in case
of the deatli of any of said deputies, or their declining their appointments,
the executive is hereby authorized to supply such vacancies, and the Presi
dent is requested to transmit forthwith a copy of this resolve to the United
states in Congress, and to the executive of each of the states in the union.
The foregoing resolve was returned from the Senate for the following
amendment, " that the said Delegates shall proceed to join the convention
aforesaid in case Congress shall signify to them that they approve of the said
convention, as advantageous to the union, and not an infringement of the
powers granted to Congress by the confederation.
Which amendment was read and concurred."
The Delegates designated " by the above votes to attend the Convention,
were as follows ; —
John Langdon, Portsmouth.
Pierse Long, "
John Sparhawk, "
Nicholas Gilman, Exeter.
1. In Amory's Life of Sullivan, p. 226, Langdon, Atkinson, Livermore, and Bartlett are named as the del
egates to Congress and to the Federal Convention. The record does not confirm the statement.

appendix. 841

A Vote of the Continental Congress, passed February 21, 1787.
"¦Resolved, that in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient, that on the
second Monday of May next, a convention of delegates, who shall have been
appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and ex
press purpose of reviewing the articles of Confederation, and reporting to
Congress and the several legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein,
as shall when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the States, render the
Federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the pres
ervation of the Union." — Journals of Congress, Vol 12. p. 14.
In the House, June 14, 1787.
" Voted, That a conference be had with the honorable Senate, if they
see fit, as soon as may be, in the Assembly Chamber, to take into considera
tion some method for forwarding Delegates to Congress and the Convention
at Philadelphia, and any other matter that may come under their considera
tion." The Senate concurred the same day.
" In the House June 15, Voted, that Mr. N. Peabody, Mr. Odlin, Mr. Blan
chard, Mr. Dix, and Mr. Holmes, with such of the honourable Senate as they
shall join, be a committee to devise ways and means for forwarding Dele
gates of this State to Congress and the Convention at Philadelphia, and
report thereon."
The Senate concurred the same day.
Mr. Bellows, Mr. Bayley and Mr. Bell were joined.
In the House June 22, "Voted, That this House join with the honorable
Senate if they see fit, to chuse four persons by joint ballot, either two of
whom to represent this state in the Grand Convention now sitting at Phil
adelphia. ' '
This vote was brought up on the 23'^ in the Senate, read and concurred,
and concitrrence reconsidered.
In the House, June 26, ''Voted, That this House join with the honourable
Senate, if they see fit, to elect by joint ballot (as soon as maybe) Delegates
to represent this State in the Convention sitting at Philadelphia."
The Senate on the fame day non-concurred in this Vote.
June 27. In the House.
" An act for appointing deputies from this State to the Convention pro
posed to be holden in the city of Philadelphia in May, 1787, for the pur
pose of revising the federal constitution, was read a third time and passed
to be enacted." 51

842 APPENDIX.
The same da^, in the Senate.
" An Act for appointing deputies from this State, to the convention, pro
posed to be holden in the city of Philadelphia in May, 1787, for the purpose
of revising the federal constitution, having been read a third time,
Voted tiiat it pass to be enacted."
Commissioners Appointed from this State to Meet in a Convention
Proposed to be Held at Philadelphia in May, 1787, to take under
Consideration the Revision of the Articles of Confederation of
the Untied States, &c.
Chosen by Concurrence of the Senate in Votes originating in the House
June 27, 1787.
John Langdon, Portsmouth.
Benjamin West, Charlestown.
John Pickering, Portsmouth.
Nicholas Oilman, Exeter.
Mr. Langdon and Mr. Gilraan were the two New Hampshire delegates
who actually attended the Federal Convention. The session of that body was
well advanced before they appeared. Their first attendance in the conven
tion was on the 23d of July. The representation of this state even at that
late day was secured only by urgent appeals from abroad and extraordinary
effort at home. The finances of the State were in a deplorable condition
and it is impossible to realize at the present time what an undertaking
it was to provide cash for any considerable public enterprise. It was
currently reported in the newspapers of the day that the expenses of Mr.
Gilman and himself were defrayed by Mr. Langdon from his private purse.
(Historical Address of Hon. J. W. Patterson, 2 N. H. Hist. Soc. Pro
ceedings, 28.) Mr. Langdon and Mr. Gilman signed the instrument as
promulgated from the convention. The History of the Celebration of the
Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution, before
cited, gives biographies and copies of authentic portraits of the members
of this body. Those devoted to Mr. Langdon and Mr. Gilman are on pages
142 and 146. At the time of that service Mr. Gilman was but twenty-five
years of age. Though he died at a comparatively early age, he filled a large
measure of public service in the most exalted stations to which the people of
his own State could assign him.
Of the delegation named January 17, !>]?>¦], Fierse Long was a delegate
to the New Hampshire Convention of 1788 and voted for ratification.
John Sparhawk died before the first Session of the New Hampshire Con
vention. John Langdon, by a subsequent appointment, as before stated, attended the
Federal Convention, was subsequently a member of the State Convention,
and in both was an efficient supporter of the Constitution.

appendix. 843
Nicholas Gilman was one of the delegates named January i 7 and again
June 27. His attitude towards the proposed Constitution was the same as
that of Mr. Langdon, his colleague, but he was not a member of the State
Convention of 1788.
John Pickering was elected a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention
June 27, but did not attend. He was a member of the State Convention
and voted for ratification.
Benjajnin West, like Mr. Pickering a non-attending delegate, elected to
the Federal Convention June 27, was a member ofthe State Convention and
voted for ratification. Some interesting particulars in regard to his service
in the State Convention are given by Mr. Mason in the extract from the
latter's memoir which is quoted in a subsequent note.

NOTE THREE.
The Ratification of the Constitution on the Part of New Hamp
shire.
New Hampshire ratified the Constitution of the United States, June 21,
1788. As the consent of nine States was requisite, to make the instrument
the organic law for the ratifying States, the action of this State made the
federal government a fact. Four days afterwards Virginia gave consent.
Her Legislature had not then been informed of the action of New Hamp
shire. Though the final vote of the one did not affect the action of the
other, yet both undoubtedly had great influence on the result in New York.
However desirable it was to have the consent of that great commonwealth, it
was not now indispensable.
The Journal of the New Hampshire convention is given, with a roll of
membership and biographical notices of members, in Bouton's Province and
State Papers (N. H.) Vol X. p. i. The credentials of the members are in
the files of the Secretary of State at Concord. The most satisfactory history
ofthe convention, however, is that of Hon. Joseph B. Walker, published in
1888, Boston : Cupples & Hurd. This excellent work has much interesting
collateral matter, including several new biographies of members, as well as
notes and illustrations pertinent to the subject.
Other historical and biographical publications which deal especially with
this convention and its membership, are the following :
(1.3 Centennial Address, by Hon. James W. Patterson, before cited.
(2.) New Harapshire and the Federal Convention, by W. F. Whiteher,
XI. Granite Monthly, 203.
(3.) Biography of Samuel Livermore, by Hon Charles R. Corning, Pro
ceedings of the Grafton and Coos Bar Association (N. H.), Vol. i, p. 365.
(4). Biography of Elisha Payne, by Hon. Wilham H. Cotton, Id, pp.
497, 632.

844 appendix.
(5.) Biography of Wihiam Simpson, XI. Granite Monthly, 367 ; Jesse
Johnson, Id. 396, XII. /a'. 510 ; Samuel Young, XIL Id. 36 ; Isaac Patterson,
Id. 39, 97; Joseph Hutchins, Id, 59; John Weeks, Id. 340; Jonathan
Freeman (Hanover in the Convention of 1788), XI. Id. 310.
(6.) Chapter X. of Tlie Republic of Republics, Ed. 4, by C. P. Centz,
Barrister (pseudonym). " Nevv Hampshire Federalizes Herself. The Ninth
to Ratify. Vote, 57 to 46. Date, June 21, 1788." These quoted words
are the title of the chapter, which discusses the act of the State and its legal
and political effect from the standpoint of the advocates of the extreme doc
trine of state sovereignty. The volume is of 606 pages, a work of much
research, published 1881. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
(7.) The newspapers of the state at this period, which contain more
or less of comment and discussion on the issues involved in the proposed
changes in government were : "Freeman's Oracle and N. H. Advertiser,"
Exeter; " N. H. Gazette and General Advertiser," Exeter; " N. H. Mer
cury," Portsmouth; " N. H. Recorder and Weekly Advertiser," Keene;
"N. H. Spy," Portsmouth.
(8.) The two political years from June, 1786, to June, 1788, during which
John Sullivan was President of the State, constituted the period in which the
principal events connected with the formation, discussion, and adoption of
the constitution transpired. [Amory's Life of John Sullivan (1868), p.226.]
By a misprint, Hon. James W. Patterson, in his address on the occasion of
the New Hampshire Historical Society's celebration of the centennial anni
versary of the ratification of the constitution by New Hampshire, at Concord
on the 2ist of June, 1888, before cited — is made to say that John Langdon
was President ofthe State in 1787. In the permanent publication ofthe so
ciety's proceedings, Mr. Patterson will cause the error to be corrected, and
mention of it is made here at his request.
(9.) In Bancroft's History of the United States, Vol, 6, Part 2, which is
devoted to the History of the Formation of the Constitution, in narrating
the action ofthe New Hampshire convention of 1788, the author, on p. 409,
mentions Woodbury Langdon in an account of the New Hampshire conven
tion debate. Judge Woodbury Langdon was not a delegate. In that con
nection the name of Rev. Dr. Samuel Langdon should appear instead. The
latter was a delegate representing Hampton Falls and Seabrook. He had
been from 1774 to 1780 president of Harvard CoUege. He had also served a
pastorate of twenty-seven years with the North church at Portsmouth. Bio
graphical sketch, 3 Plumer MSS. Biog. 653.
(10.) In the table of delegates, Bouton State Papers, Vol. 10, p. 7, a
slight misassignment of Capt. Isaac Patterson as representative for Franconia
and Lincoln, has occasioned error in the treatment of the local history which
is related to the personnel of the convention. At this time the class of towns
formerly constituted of Haverhill, Pierraont, Warren, and Coventry (now
Benton) had been divided. Haverhill and Coventry were a separate class
for purposes of representation. Piermont and Warren constituted another
class. Franconia and Lincoln were still another. Neither of these classes
was represented in the first session of the convention. With the exception

appendix. 845
of the class whicii consisted of Conway, Eaton, Burton, (now Albany) and
the Locations, which was partly in Strafford County and was represented by
David Page, Grafton county vvas unanimous for the adoption of the constitu
tion, so far aswe may judge by the recorded vote at the second session. At
this second session, however, Col Joseph Hutchins appeared for Haverhill
and Coventry with a negative vote, and Capt. Isaac Patterson for Piermont
and Warren, with an affirmative. The Franconia and Lincoln class was not
represented. This statement is based on an examination of the original
credentials which are on file in the ofifice of the Secretary of State. See cor
respondence on this subject, XII. Granite Monthly, 97 ; Sketch of Captain
Patterson, Id. 39.
(11.) The well known historians of New Hampshire, Belknap and Barstow,
devote space to the subject of the federal constitution. The work of the
latter is particularly worthy of reference, as it contains the speech which is
said to have been delivered in the state convention by Joshua Atherton, in
which he opposes the constitution notably on the ground that it counte
nanced the institution of slavery.
(12.) Gov. Plumer, though not a member of the New Hampshire Con
vention, was active and prominent in public affairs at the time the constitu
tion was under consideration. The members were his contemporaries, and he
was familiar with the attitude taken by those who took a leading part in the
discussion of the question. He comments freely upon these matters in his
biographies of the men of that period. All of his sketches of members of
the convention yield interesting points on this subject, and his treatment of
the relations of Samuel Livermore, John Pickering, the Langdons, Joshua
Atherton, John Sullivan, Benjamin West, Pierse Long, John Taylor Gilman,
Josiah Bartlett, Joseph Badger and Benjamin Bellows to the contest for the
ratification of the instrument by this State is very useful to the student of
this branch of constitutional history.
(13.) Mr. McMaster, in his History of the People of the United States,
Vol. I, 484, 487, in discussing the relations of New Hampshire to the excit
ing events which preceded the practical end of the controversy over the es
tabhshment of the new government by the long delayed but finally favorable
action of New Hampshire, Virginia, and New York, places the responsibility
for the unexpected opposition to the constitution in our convention upon
the country members. He says: "Such a host of country members came
bidden to vote against the ' New Roof ' that after struggling for a week the
Federalists were glad to consent to an adjournment till the third Wednesday
in June."
Nearly all the delegates might properly be regarded as country members,
and if any opposition were to arise, it must have come from those who made
up almost the entire raembership. Portsmouth, with a population of 4,720
and three members, was strong for raising the " New Roof," while London
derry, Vidth 2,622 population and two members, was adverse. No other town
had more than one delegate. Those which were represented by one delegate
each, and which voted for the constitution, numbered forty and had an aggre
gate population by the census of 1790 of 43,37o- The similar towns whose

846 appendix.
delegates voted against ratification, numbered thirty, and had a population
of 38,712. A few representatives of such towns are recorded as not voting.
There were five of these towns, and their population was 5,112. The small
towns or the towns of sparse population, which were classed for purposes of
representation, are assigned for, against, and not voting, as follows : Forty-
seven towns in sixteen classes, with an aggregate population of 20,685, gave
sixteen votes for the constitution ; thirty-seven towns in fifteen classes, with
an aggregate population of 18,126, gave fifteen votes against it; nine towns
in four classes, with an aggregate population of 5,549, though represented,
did not vote.
The following figures are also deduced from the census of 1790, and are
given as bearing directly on the question of the relative population of dis
tricts voting affirmatively and negatively, and the responsibility of the so-
called "country members" for the opposition to the adoption ofthe consti
tution. The total population represented by the affirmative vote was 68,776;
by the negative vote, 59,640; not voting, 10,661. The average population
of towns voting affirmatively was 764; negatively, 900; not voting, 761.
The average constituency of delegates voting affirmatively was 1,166 ; nega
tively, 1,265; not voting, 1,185.
The vote for the constitution more largely preponderated in the county of
Rockingham, and within the immediate circle of Portsmouth and Exeter in
fluence, than in the central and western counties; but Grafton, as before
shown, which was the most northern, the most remote, the most sparsely peo
pled, and probably as essentially a country constituency as any part of the
State, was all but unanimous for adoption. If a township map of the state
were to be colored, according to the vote in this convention, it would have
very little significance as regards the territorial distribution or location of
those for and against. It is not probable that many members came to the
convention under specific instructions. The reasoning which moved indi
viduals must be sought in the traditionary reports of the debates and the
contemporary controversial literature. These are, however, unsatisfactory
avenues in which to seek definite evidence as to what moved the minds and
controlled the judgment of the scores of members who were not heard in
debate or regarded as oracles. Why the response of the one was yea and
the other nay was not regarded as a matter of any moment after the event.
It was sufficient to know and remember what the Livermores and the Ather-
tons thought ofthe constitution. Just back of this period was a confedera
tion that had been sufificient in war but was now impotent in peace. The
new constitution promised to regulate commerce and to realize the national
unity which in some form had found a place in the anticipation of every in
telhgent American. But did not the new constitution exact too great a price
for what it could confer ? The people and their representatives in conven
tions to consider the proposed constitution naturally were divided in opin
ion. In New Hampshire, as elsewhere, reason obtained the mastery over
doubt, and the experience ofa century has so vindicated the prophetic judg
ment of the fathers of the constitution that we are at a loss to-day to under
stand why any one should not have seen in their prophecy all that we have
realized in the full fruition.

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847

NOTE FOUR.

Biographical Sketches of Three Representative Men of the Con
stitutional Period,— Benjamin West, Elisha Rvyne, and John
L.\ngdon. BENJAMIN WEST.
" Mr. West was by far the first, best lawyer, and in all respects the most re
spectable man in that region of country. He was educated, I believe, at
Princeton College, New Jersey, and commenced the practice of law at Charles
town before the close of the Revolutionary War. He had good natural powd
ers of mind, a quick and clear perception, a delicate taste, highly refined, a
sound judgment, and lively imagination. His style of speaking was simple,
natural, smooth, and mild ; always pure and neat, and sometimes elegant,
with a good person, clear and pleasant voice, much earnestness and apparent
sincerity, — he was, altogether, a most persuasive speaker. In arguing cases
of complicated and doubtful evidence before a jury, I have seldom if ever
heard his superior. In the discussions of questions of law and in argumenta
tion of mere abstract propositions he was less powerful; indeed, for the dis
cussion of questions of law he was deficient in law learning. This he was
fully sensible of, and attributed it to his having quitted the study when he
began the practice of the law. He said the elder Judge Livermore, who had
been Attorney-General of the province before the Revolution, was Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court ; that, liaving no law learning himself, he did not
hke to be pestered with it at his courts ; that when he (Mr. West) attempted
to read law books in a law argument the Chief Justice asked him why he read
them ; if he thought that he and his brethren did not know as much as those
musty old worm-eaten books ? Mr. West answered, " These books contain
the wisdom of the ancient sages of the law." The reply was, " Well, do you
think we do not understand the principles of justice as well as the old wigged
lawyers of the dark ages did ? " and thus his law books were laughed out of
court. This was surely but poor encouragement for the dry study of law
books. " Mr. West was remarkable for his modesty and diffidence ; he never rose
to speak on any important occasion without such excitement as caused a ner
vous tremor. I have heard him say that his feelings, arising from diffidence,
were so distressingly oppressive, that he never rose on such occasions, when he
would not willingly have given three times the amount of his fees to have
been excused. He was a member of the Convention of New Hampshire for
adopting the Constitution of the United States, where, from his known tal
ents, much was expected from him. There was much discussion and the re
sult, about which he was very anxious, was a long time held in doubtful sus
pense ; yet, though strongly urged, such was his dififidence that he could not
be induced to speak.
" In social intercourse his manners were simple, but always courteous and
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his manner of living was simple, exceedingly neat, and approaching to ele
gance ; he indulged in a liberal hospitality, entirely free from all ostentation.
In short, he was a gentleman in the true and best sense ofthe term. — Memoir
of Jeremiah Mason, pages 28-30.
Biographical Sketches of Eminent Lawyers, Statesmen, and Men of Let
ters, by Knapp, — Benjamin West, page 245; Sanderson's History of
Charlestown, N. H., page 596.
See Morrison's Life of Jeremiah Smith, page 166, for estimates of Mr.
West by Judge Smith and Daniel Webster.
Mr. West was a member of the famous Hartford Convention of 1814.
Barstow's History of New Hampshire, page 372. See Memoir of Judge
Wilde, Memorials of Deceased Judges, Alumni of Dartmouth College, by
Judge Nathan Crosby, page 9. ELISHA PAYNE.
The conclusion ofthe struggle for independence, the settlement of the dis
puted boundary between New Hampshire and Vermont at the westerly bank
of the Connecticut river, and the adoption of a definite form of government
in this state raised many difficult questions affecting particularly the towns
in the western part of the state, which had disputed the authority of the pro
visional government. It was to be expected that municipalities and individ
uals everywhere would urge demands for services, loans, and expenses in the
public defence. The western New Hampshire towns and their inhabitants
were not exceptions to the general movement for re-imbursement and relief.
They were, however, embarrassed by the fact that their political attitude had
been for years, and in an exceedingly critical period, hostile to the control
ling party in the state, and that the same element which they had antago
nized was still potential in public affairs. Under these circumstances, it was
essential to their interests that their representatives should possess legislative
aptitude and diplomatic skill for the successful management of interests that
were sure to be antagonized for reasons which, if not valid, were at least
plausible. Among the able men who appeared from this section, none was better
equipped for the task than Col. Elisha Payne of Lebanon. He was educated
to the law in Connecticut, and came into Grafton county thoroughly im
bued with Connecticut ideas as to the rights of towns as independent
units of government and as to what should be the relations of towns to the
state. The temporary New Hampshire constitution of 1776 was drawn in
conformity to theories that were widely at variance with his conceptions of
the methods and province of government. Notwithstanding the fact that he
was named for important offices under the new state government, notably
that of associate justice ofthe superior court of which Meschech Weare was
chief in 1776, justice of the Grafton County Common Pleas later in the same
year, and chief justice ofthe same court in 1779, he held aloof, and became
a chief mover in the enterprise of establishing a state to be constituted of
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disaffected towns on the east side of the river to the prospective state of Ver
mont, or a sufificient number of Vermont towns to New Hampshire to carry
the balance of power to the Connecticut river. In 177S, he was a member
of the Vermont legislature, representing a constituency on the east side of
the river, and was a member of the executive council. In 1781 he vvas chief
justice and his name appears on the ofificial tables as the only incumbent of
the ofifice for that year. (Daniel Chipman's Vermont Reports, page vi. ;
Slade's Vermont State Papers, 564; Records Governor and Council of Ver
mont, vol I, page 275.) He was also lieutenant governor and major gen
eral of the militia.
His party, however, could not control the resources with vvhich to sustain
an armed attempt to establish the autonomy of a state with boundaries
making such extensive encroachments on what had been assigned to Nevv
Hampshire by royal authority.
President Weare, General Sullivan, Judge Livermore, and their coadju
tors, were successful in turning the sentiment of Congress against the claims
of Vermont to territory east of the river. Colonel Payne recognized the
logic of events and with patriotic good sense accepted the situation. His
biographer vvell says, " He vvas no vulgar conspirator, no fomenter of useless
and groundless discontents, and accepted in good faith the result of the con
test he had so ably waged." He was now in position to turn these changed
relations to the mutual advantage of the parties lately in contention. He
wisel)- improved this opportunity. In a brief time the animosity which at
tended this affair had subsided.
All through the period of important legislative development and consti
tutional change vvhich intervened between 1783 and 1794, Colonel Payne
held a conspicuous place in the public service. In 17S4 and 1785 he was a
representative, and m .1784 was appointed by the legislature a delegate to
the Continental Congress. He formally accepted this appointment, but it
does not appear that he actually attended at any session of that body. In
1786 and 17S7 he vvas a state senator. In 1788, he was a delegate to the
state Convention vvhich ratified the federal constitution. Judge Livermore
was the acknowledged leader of the party which sought the acceptance of
the proposed constitution. The fact that the delegation from the Grafton
county tovvns vvas practically unanimous in support of Mr. Liverraore (Cor
respondence, XII " Granite Monthly," 97) gives us the right to assume that he
received timely and valuable assistance, not only from those with whom he
exercised a large influence through his own personality, but also from those
who had long regarded Colonel Payne as a political mentor.
He was oiie of the ten persons who were named for chief justice of the
superior court in the executive council July 16, 1789, from vvhom John
Pickering first and afterwards Josiah Bartlett, was chosen.
He was a member of the most important committee in the convention
which promulgated the state constitution of 1793, but at this time he had
become less' active and aggressive in dealing with questions of public pohcy
than in his earlier political experience. Mr. Plumer, commenting on the
personnel of the committee, says, " the infirmities of age made Payne inact-

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ive." He came into this state in middle age. During the succeeding
twenty-five years of his life he was influential in public affairs. In the con
structive period of our political and constitutional history he vvill be recog
nized as one who made an impress on his times by his knowledge of the prin
ciples of government, and liis ability to mold the opinions of men and
shape events by the peculiar force and individuality of his character.
"SOME ACCOUNT OF JOHN LANGDON."
BY JOHN langdon ELWYN.
John Langdon vvas born in the month of December, 1739 : in a house,.
such as is provincially still called a garrison house, near the head of the
small inlet of the sea, at the mouth of vvhich established itself the first per
manent colony, it is said, of the English on the Piscataqua in the spring :
1623 : certainly the second, 1631. The stream of the early history of New-
England has been so corrupted by the subsequently predominant Puritan
faction, who troubled themselves about nothing that did not go to their own
glory, in their phrase, the glory of God, that one half the vvorld think this
coast was unvisited till about the time it vvas honored with their presence ; in
all likelihood the English came to the Piscataqua for fifty years before : Cor
nish fishermen did not print their voyages then more than Yankee fishermen
do now. The site of the house of: 1631 : is rather less than three miles
below where he was born, and is perfectly well known : indeed it is not to
be mistaken, and the choice of it would have raised the reputation of a
Phenician navigator. For an ocean settlement on an Indian sliore, near the
best harbor of the States, its situation is superb. It has got along, without a
monument, more than two hundred years ; this promontory ; and, like
enough, will tvvo hundred more: " Akte epi procchouse, epi platei Helles-
ponto, Hos ken felephanes ek poniophin andrasin eie ; Tois hoi nun gegaasi,
kai hoi metopishen esontai." A little stronger effort followed the first : 1631 :
and discovered the perseverance of Ambrose Gibbon : we believe a native of
the county of Devon. His letters to his employers, in his hardships, show
him to have been an honest, faithful Englishman. His daughter Rebecca
married Henry Sherburne, one of his companions : and was we suppose the
mother of Elizabeth Sherburne.
From the simple and affectionate custom of burying the dead upon their
little farms, gravestones are common about the creek : but the earliest
graved is that of Captain Tobias Langdon, vvho ovvned the garrison house at
the head of the creek : and is buried hard by. This Tobias was born here
on Sagamore's creek: 1666 : and was the son of another Tobias Langdon
who came here, when precisely we do not know ; but he was living very
early where his son was born and married to Elizabeth Sherburne, daughter
of Henry Sherburne, above named : to vvhom was granted this land round
the head of the creek. This sequestered district has seen few changes of
property ; and three or four thousand acres on the Southern side of Saga
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have inhabited it more than two hundred years. West of England names
vvere comraon with the breed that helped to settle the fishing stations of the
coast : such roots as Langdon, Landon, Sloper, Soper, Lear, Fowey, Cham-
pernowne, Bampfylde, Peveril, Pulsifer, Polkinghorne, Penhallow, Trevethen,
Treworgy, are chiefly of un-Saxon original. Langdon the Cornishman was
one of the smaller settlers and died young: July 27th, 1664: leaving this
only child. His widow married Tobias Lear and lived hard by : where their
descendants stayed till nearly our day.
This little Piscataqua colony had neither a religions nor a political purpose,
and nothing to do with its Puritan neighbours. Governour Winthrop attri
butes Gorges and Mason's failing to make money by their plantation, to
God's rightful anger with the professed enemies of the Puritans of the Bay.
Indeed their proceeding to settle a clergyman of the Church of England :
1640 : the 3-ear of the impeachment of Thomas Wentvvorth, Earl of Strafford,
(a name which has domestic sound from its being given by the New-Hamp
shire AVentworths to the noble County of Strafford) in the thunder-storm of
English fanaticism and rebellion, betokened no more of the Commonwealth
than the Saints : their chapel was built some time before. It has occasioned
much discussion, and some Calvinistic writers of the last century, in their zeal
to purify New-England's maiden Calvinism from such a stain as these poor fish
ermen's proceedings, have tried to get over the fact by raaintaining that his
flock neither knevv nor cared of vvhat religion their pastor was to be. It
seems that the Massachusetts Puritans, without a shadow of right, they have
howled ever since about losing their own charter afterward, with their usual
arrogant, intolerant and usurping temper, did think it worth while to in
stantly take advantage of something wrong about the man, to come and
drive him out of the country : it seems that to the Church of England he
notoriously belonged : had been preaching at the Isles of Shoals, the largest
fishing station on the coast : also near Portland ; where tradition says he vvas
settled and had a church : it seems that Thomas Walford, one of the church
wardens, had been driven out of the Bay before : and Henry Shurburne; th,e
other, subsequently registers his name, with his spn-in-law Sloper's, Tobias
Langdon being dead, as refusing to subscribe to the support ofa noted Puri
tan, with the appropriate name of Moody : this looks like the memory of
insult : and the whole transaction shows they meant to set up the altar of
their fathers, and the violence of their neighbors interfered to throw it down.
We do not wonder at it : had we come to such a place as Eastern Massachu
setts, to exhilarate ourselves with the union of Church and State, we should not
ourselves have let these Samaritans escape our vigilance, when it would knock
our project on the head : and our good New-England disputants of the^ last
century did not tell, for they were too ignorant to know, what the Puritans
feared, that throughout England away from London and left to themselves,
much more in the paradise of novelists, the West of England, in the after
ward great Rovalist Counties of Cornwall and Devon, a majority of the sim
ple and lowly English, such as, unlike them, these people were, might look
back on the charities, the sports and the holidays, and have too much natural
proneness to the religion, so congenial to the proud but so condescending to

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the humble, the glorious religion of the Church of Rome. The Puritans'
Democratic Principle, vve suppose, did not then rise so much above the pitch
of other mens' as some of their descendants are always telling us it did : at
any rate they did not leave their great projects of permanent civil and relig
ious freedom for that to take care of: a solicitude not peculiar to them.*
Tobias Langdon married Mary Hubbard of Salisbury in Massachusetts,
and left two daughters and seven sons. He died: 1724-25: in the begin
ning of 1725 : having arisen to be Selectman, Captain, and Deacon of the
North Church. His youngest son John tilled the ground of his forefathers,
and, near our door, he is buried with his wife, by the side of his father.
His hfe has not given much stimulus to history : but he left the name of an
honest, strong and good-natured yoeman. He was many years chairman of
the board of Selectmen. We plead guilty without shame, to a liking to lo
cal histories and genealogies and reverence for a gravestone. Our creek
must, from the town records and deeds and wills, for the little yeomanry and
humble fisherman had them all, have been better peopled a century and
a half ago than now. Already in this youthful land, dark and heavy forests
shroud their cellars, apple-trees and gravestones. We have often wished
that Ambrose Gibbon or Henry Sherburne, the born subjects of EUzabeth,
or Captain Tobias Langdon and his seven stately sons, or Ambrose Sloper
and his seventeen children, or even the African slaves, them they had then,
they leave them in their wills, and unerring local tradition still points to
negro graves, could for once stand up before us and tell us what they did do
in the long, long time they were here. The Boston road near by, goes over
some graves ; whose they are nobody knows nor cares : but the little heaps
of earth are not yet worn down by the wheels of stage-coaches : and we
have lately seen an ancient tomb, of an honored family in our colonial his
tory, of the Cuttses and the Vaughans, lying open in the heart of a village
of eight thousand people, with its lettered marble that its poor owners took
pains to bring from across the Atlantic, more than a century ago, broken to
pieces, and their thigh-bones, jaw-bones and sculls lying scattered on its
floor. A few miles off, caring for the rights neither of living or dead, a
railway goes, not over, under a family burying-place. The forefathers, of
course, found it time to start : and Paddy shovelled the bones into his horse-
cart vvith great joy. That he should make Francis Drakes, such is the in
herited name of tvvo hundred years, throw such somersets :
" The piratical liero : how he would have stamped on
The sands and the swamps and the rocks of Old Hampton;
That he round the world should be fii-st to make sail.
That the bones of his children might be sold to * * * * * *
Had Essex and Raleigh, and Spenser and JNIountjoy
Known how Ireland's revenge would at last novv have found joy.
Though their nerves to be sure vvould have mn a slight shiver
That our English bones even here at Little River
When Boston folks Railways so furiously ran on,
And o'er our graves Yankees must needs lay their plan on,
Be kicked out of their way by the wild men of the Shannon."
* Jenness's " Isles of Shoals," p. 143.

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Paddy has found and will find it harder to dig out the other Cromwelhans
that robbed fairer meadows from Catholics there than Heathens had to give
them here : " Oh CromweU ! your curse rests on Ireland vve know :
Sure enough, it's there yet; but here 'tis not so :
For all that we see you conquered in vain.
If Paddy's to dig us all up in Long Lane.
"When we see him cut up our children's best meadow,
What good is't to think how his blood ran in Tredagh ?
How raany your troopers shot, threw into brooks.
That Saint's children might grow into Barons and Dukes ;
If vve must pay up here for Paddy's complaints.
That three-fourths of Ireland you gave to your Saints :
Shut him up by law in the Kingdom of Connaught,
And knocked out his brains when he dared to come out.
This your Great Act of Grace, you so nobly did call.
For you'd talk'd pretty hard about killing them all !
(Such a loss to the world would never have been yet.
Were Paddy extinct vve no Railways should get.
Any more than cotton and sugar should vve grow,
Without the cowhide on the back of the negro.)
Come out ! he's got here ; in a horse-cart now I go.
Tossed in by this tattered breech from County Sligo.
Those you kept there in Ireland got much better fare.
After seizing the lands of Fitzgerald, Kildare,
They with New-England wisdom, when Charles was took back.
Swore they never belonged to our Puritan pack.
And again on the turn, left poor James in the lurch.
Stood out for the Dutchman, and Protestant church ;
And when all was o'er and the King lost his own.
Grew to great Orange nobles to hold up the throne.
We came to Witch Creek, Ballyhack and Drake's Plain,
But Paddy must follow ; we're at it again :
We bum down his convents : he spoils our gravestones.
And gluts his revenge upon Cromwellian bones."
Doggerel raay be history in Ireland or here : this is in both.
John Langdon born : 1707 : married Mary Hall of Exeter, whose mother
we believe, was a Woodbury of Beverly. The legend has it that he took her
very young : and his brother Joseph, the progenitor of most of our neigh
bours of various names, one of his wives, yet younger : the eldest being four
teen. This simple epitaph raises many strange thoughts : " Here lyes y"
body of Mrs. Mary Sloper, wife of Captain Henry Sloper, who dyed : 1718 :
aged sixteen years." Mrs. Langdon had a clever family of four daughters and
two sons : of which John Langdon was the second. Her father, Josiah Hall
of Exeter, her mother's genealogy vve have not happened to stumble on, was
the son of Kingsley Hall, one of its leading citizens, and Ehzabeth Dudley,
daughter of Samuel Dudley, the son of Thcmas Dudley, second governour of
Massachusetts Bay. We have had no trouble to ascertain so much of a New
Hampshire pedigree, reaching through humble life to the reign of Elizabeth.
Mr. Langdon was of the oldest New-England stock : and though born more
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Feuds disquieted the parental councils. Her boys' spending their energy
upon their native swamps and gravelly knolls, vvhich did not shock the En
glish yeoman's instinct of the one, roused her country's spirit from its slum
bers in the other. Their bringing up was taken from his hands : what she
thought learning she tried to get for her boys ; that they might fulfil the
purpose for which she knevv her countrymen born, to get from home as quick
as possible and rise in the world. A right German thirst after knowledge
had as much to do with their talk about education then as now : but self-
neglecting never tainted their character : laborious efforts to get what will
not turn to worldly advantage are doubtless wicked : but ambition nor self-
love has no right to every other principle of action's name when it chooses
to take it. Still the poor farmer's wife, on so barren a spot, straining to give
her children all the chance she could, has something in it prophetic and
noble. Tilling the ground, unfortunately for the real progress of, taken
together, the clever country which encompasses the Piscataqua, was not the
turn of our forefathers: we recollect the favour it found, vvhen ready gains
cursed New England in the twenty years war. But the English built ships
of fifty guns here in the reign of William and Mary, and their prospect of
beating their neighbours' sons by a sort of back-blow, was too brilliant for
parents to dwell with much fondness on their own's staying to hoe Indian
corn and cut salt grass here in Ballyhack, till they slept with their fathers,
with one unmarked stone at their head and another at their foot, full of
years, labours, simplicity and rum. There were no charms to the eternal
and hereditary hoe : "von einer heldenhand zur andern erbt sich der unbe-
siegte stahl. ' ' The Piscataqua country was m full communication with the
rest of the British empire and identified with the English navy. John was
sent to the school of the celebrated Major Samuel Hale. He there learned
most of what he ever learned, except from the world : some progress he
unquestionably made, for his industry was tolerable and his memory truly
uncommon. He never, during our knowledge, was seen to read : but like
others, vvhose libraries have been limited, he sometimes startled by his aston
ishing memory of particular books : some of which probably made part of the
scanty collection his mother could get hold of, and them he read when
young. However some would dispute his ever having heard of the book, we
have heard him spout Pope's Homer to children when past seventy. The
passages, vve think, required only the Dual number : he spouted them with
great spirit. He had really some knowledge of Latin. Art, ambition and
gayety marked his boyhood.
John Langdon, with his brother, turned from his paternal acres to a count
ing-house. He then went to sea, like many others of the time, as captain,
supercargo and owner of vessels of his ovvn building. We believe, he in sea
men's phrase, crept in at the cabin window, and had no experience of sea
manship except as a commander. This, however short a cut to mastering a
profession, seems to do well in practice to this day, to judge from its fre
quency : for against the notion that the way to learn to command is to learn
to obey, it is conceded, that though it take twenty years to make a good sea
man, a much better captain of a' ship than common may be made in six

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months. The navigation of JSTew-England was very active, the English lion
saw his whelps spring vvith his ovvn instinct on their first prey : and it is
unquestionable that the ratio of increase of people and business in the colo
nies for a few years before the American vvar was as great as it has ever been
in the United States. During this period of his life, he was in London
repeatedly, where he formed an acquaintance with a young gentleman from
the County of Devon, then an under clerk in a Portsmouth house, who after
ward grew into the late well-known wealthy Mr. Robert Pulsford, of London.
We ourselves saw Mr. Pulsford, when between eighty and ninety years of
age, who spoke of hira as stih a youngster, recalled their early friendship and
the dreams of his youth : extolled the manly beauty of Mr. Langdon : had
he seen him in his eightieth year, he would have learned the difference be
tween youth and age.
He soon found himself whirled in a current which turned out to be that of
the American war : he was born a Provincial and had not sprung from the
¦close aristocracy of the little colony : his political instinct was undeceivable :
he joined the popular party. His first attempt on the stage of rebellion was
no failure : and took place in Deceraber, 1774 : when he helped to seize the
English military stores in a fort of the Piscataqua, as soon as news was
brought from Boston of the English order in council in relation to their
exportation by Mr. Revere. Surrounding a fort with five men in it by four
hundred, will come with difficulty under the head of a military movement ;
but it was a political date. The getting one hundred barrels of gunpowder
and the arms vvas something : we forget how many barrels General Washing
ton said was all the city of New-York could furnish about those days : but
the weakest of all English ministries in talents, majorities and active power,
had not energy enough to have fortified and kept this noble naval station.
This measure must have prevented any resistance, ruinous to themselves, on
the part of the royalists of the colony, who, with offices and prophetic fears
of democracy and the high popularity of the governour Wentworth, who,
born in New-Hampshire, devoted his youthful energy to her advancement,
and was said to live in it in those days at the rate of thirty thousand dollars
a year, were in secret some party or other ; bound the people of the river to
the popular party ; and shown the public that a man was ready to go all
lengths, who was supposed to know his own interest better than common,
and, a somewhat animating circumstance to his followers in the leader of a
revolutionary party, even in that golden age of virtue, who was supposed to
have a good deal to lose. It is represented by strong authority, that this
political measure was wholly Mr. Langdon's : but we are not disposed to
argue the question.
In : 1775 : he was sent delegate to the Congress at Philadelphia, which he
attended as appears from its journals, and was chairman of committees : his
name is first signed to the petition to the King : he was sent thence to Ticon
deroga, in company with Livingstone and Paine, as a committee of Congress,
to look to the state of Schuyler's army, the safety of Ticonderoga, provide
for the listing of troops and instigate the Canadians to revolt : in which last
object the committee seem to have failed. In January : 1776 : he was chosen

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delegate again. This congress put out its Declaration of Independence of
the English crown. We have looked up the certificate of his election as del
egate, which seems to explain his name's not being affixed to it like some
others' names not there : it vindicates him to some extent from the charge
of wanting the right instinct of notoriety. " Colony of New Hampshire,
&c., January 23d : 1776: Voted that Josiah Bartlett, John Langdon, and
William Whipple, Esquires, be and hereby are appointed delegates to repre
sent this colony in the continental Congress at Philadelphia, for the term of
one year frora this time, any one of them in the absence of the other to have
full povver to represent this colony, and that not more than two of them
attend at one time," &c. This was presented by Whipple: and his and
Bartlett's being in Congress explains its wanting Mr. Langdon's name. Ab
sent he was of course, for he was engrossed in business for Congress in the
ofifice of continental agent, to which he had just been appointed. Matthew
Thornton, whose name is put to it, was neither present, nor chosen a dele
gate till September 2d : 1776 : and then for a year from the date of his elec
tion, which appears from his certificate, presented : November 4 : 1776 : and
three names are at war with the vote of the colony. Mr. Langdon some
way or other missed having his name immortalized in this celebrated docu
ment, the historical importance of which, is exceeded by none, though a
certain effeminate crispness of arrangement and language does not just suit a
national proclamation, expected by everybody, to be sustained by other
courses than talking, and the reasons of which nobody wanted to have any
explanation of at all.
Mr. Langdon was now employed in building and fitting out ships of war
for Congress, as Speaker of the House of Representatives for New Hampshire,
committee of safety man, banker, and if the truth be known, we suppose
something of a money-finder and manager-general, in this quarter, for Con
gress, throughout the war. He built, amongst others, and fitted out the
sloop of war Ranger, in which Jones started on his dashing career. The
American part ofthe Chevalier's crew, with which he took the Serapis, sailed
with him from Portsmouth, though a majority of his crew, on that occasion,
seem to have been foreigners, from the roll. Mr. Langdon also built the
only ship of the line built by Congress; intended for the heroic chevalier,
but given to the King of France, and taken by Lord Howe in the battle of
the channel ; we think so : somebody has told us that she was known to the
English by the name of L'Impetueux ; we have no means of ascertaining the
subsequent history of this Portsmouth ship : if she was the ship afterwards
known by that name, long the flag-ship of Sir Edward Pellew, she vvas the
one ahowed to be the most perfect of her class in the English navy ; vve be
lieve, however, she vvas not the ship so long Lord Exmouth's. Mr. Langdon
had a turn for ships, and was master of that business. He had also upon his
hands the frequent presence of French ships of war in the river. (To show
the exactness of rural memory, an old neighbour, past eighty, told us that
French seamen used to come up to the creek to her dwelling in those days,
every word she caught from them, she kept good French sixty years without
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rafters by the head, to cut through their necks with a cutlass, and see the
turkeys flounder and their blood spout on her floor, was not like to have
been a story forged by her, and looks the twilight of that glorious day of
liberty which burst on the great nation with so much lustre and so soon.)
Mr. Langdon also made war on his Majesty on his private account : and
found time to go as an officer of volunteers to the campaign of Saratoga and
to Rhode Island : a rare and probably intentional pattern of modesty in one
of the most conspicuous gentlemen of the popular party, when Congress was
embarrassed and perplexed in the extreme with the conflicting pretensions of
its own officers to comraand. He was eraployed in every sort of business for
the popular party. People unacquainted with his local reputation, may rest
assured that without arraying the facts, we can give no idea of how much he
did, without notoriety or rerauneration. He was now in the vigor of his
years. His turning the public mind in our little State, in favor of launch
ing a small domestic force under Stark and Whipple, which gave rise to the
affair of Bennington, aud turned into one of the most fortunate currents of
events for the popular party of the American War, is the most noted of his
numerous services : rather an anomalous incident to a life the reverse of mil
itary. Stark, a capital battalion officer, if not in the sharp operations of modern
war, a great deal more, was unemployed at home : at variance with his for
mer masters with good reason. It was idle in people taken up with organ
izing rebellion upon the basis of popular principles, to expect their subordi
nates not to set their claims upon public opinion. Stark vvas faithful as well as
turbulent and vain. He resented the insult by not telling Congress of his vic
tory and refusing to obey its officers, but turned from disaffection to his party.
Similar folly on thepart of Congress helped to drive Arnold into the most in
defensible of all sorts of treason. The popular reputation of both stood justly
high : the services of neither to their party in the field could be gainsaid.
Both should have been promoted, or broken for some specified charge. Ar
nold Congress did not like to touch, for it involved the notoriousness of a
dishonest, villainous life, in a very brilliant officer's being perfectly known
to it while it employed hira. Stark it dared not touch at all ; though he was
just such a man as it raust have hated. His reputation with his soldiers and
with his people, was not of a sort for Congress to tamper with. Both errors
of Congress helped the cause by the way. Stark's being loose from it, got
him this independent comraand, so lucky a casualty for the popular party,
and the horror produced by Arnold's treason, was taken advantage of to
confound the ignominious villainy of treating with one party whilst in
high coramand for another, with a very different sort of transgression, and
hold up the thunder of the public wrath over a change of political opinion ;
the popular party had now no changes to fear hke those of the Marshals of
the Empire. But to our story.
Burgoyne made his snail-like absurd expedition. It would seem rather
strange that some hogsheads of rum, a private gentleman's plate, whose for
tune vvas not more than would be a competence for a well to do sort of trades
man now, and three thousand dollars, could turn the doubtful current of
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events, bring to pass so brilliant and unexpected a little triumph in the field,
lead to surrounding an army, and so enlighten Europe as to the look of the
game, that the most powerful of subsisting monarchies could not forbear to
have a hand in it. Such is the New Hampshire legend. The success of
Congress's troops was moderate : Washington's vvell founded and heroically
carried through system of concentration and secresy was misunderstood ; New
Hampshire had furnished her men and they were gone. The original burst
of speed of fiery patriotism was to give place to the severe rate of serious and
prolonged vvar. The popular party of New Hampshire felt no particular call
to back Stark, neglected by thegreat men of the earth, when they themselves,
from his temper both petulant and unyielding, or their leaders, were glad to
get him out of the way. Mr. Langdon had, all his life, the skill to do what
people in the end would be pleased with, without his associates getting a pre
tence to pick objections. Wary by nature, he may have seen that it was not
only too late to go back, but that it was the very time to go forward : he was
looked on as a dispassionate and safe man ; one that the politically timor
ous might follow without risk to themselves, and that would make a ticklish
business go down with the friends of the young and eager as well as them.
His voice went a good way. Burgoyne's back door campaign, when uniting
such an army with the other, by the straight road of the ocean, would have
crushed Washington, was of course, the whole of it, on the part of the Eng
lish ministry, what Congress should have prayed for ; and under the circum
stances, he could be waited upon by a force from New Hampshire and Ver
mont, and struck at pleasure, if such a force were worth a copper, with no
chance of returning the blow, except he separated his army or changed the
design of his operations ; doing either of which was certain ruin : vvhat looked
bold was the safest thing in the world. If Mr. LangdOn did not see this
and went with the stream as to the danger, it throws into the strongest light
his devotion to his party : and at this political, if not military crisis, as the
legend has it, then Speaker of the Representatives, he thus addressed the
House : the words we take from the life of Stark : for we never heard Mr.
Langdon speak about the business in the course ofour lives. " Gentlemen :
I have three thousand dollars in hard money : I will pledge my plate for
three thousand more : I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall
be sold for the most it will bring. "These are at the service of the State. If
we succeed in defending our firesides and homes, I may be remunerated ;
ifwe do not, the property will be of no value to me. Our old friend Stark,
who so nobly maintained the honour of our State at Bunker's Hill, may be
safely entrusted with the conduct of the enterprise, and we will check the
progress of Burgoyne. " The speech is probably made : but a raan's being
ready to give his whole fortune, who loved money, argues a heroic devotion
to his party, and has mute eloquence enough in itself : or a political pres
ence of mind and confidence that it would carry the day, very advantageous
to his party at that season. How much was given and how much repaid we
have never ripped up : it was, we suppose, the fair price of political power.
The right nail was hit on the head : and three of the most meritorious for
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Stark was taken up by a man that could do it : New Hampshire and her
neighbors arraed their sons and sent thera to the field themselves : Burgoyne
detached some German troops, nobody knows what for, except to give these
a chance to catch and destroy them, and get everybody to rise that had not
risen before ; and come out that was waiting to see vvhich was the strongest
side:^ New-England laughed at her fears of his veterans, nine-tenths of the
English part of which, like enough, had never fired a gun in their lives, and
were the people least fit for military service of all England : all New-Eng
land rose ; his army vvas surrounded ; a shock given to the notion of the su
periority of the English in the field, from which, when they were become vet
erans, with all their subsequent triuraphs, they did not recover throughout
the war : and Louis the Sixteenth began his judicious and fortunate reign
with revenging the Commissioner of Dunkirk, to have his ships, his money
and his armies called for by his natural allies as if they were theirs, to be jock
eyed by them in a clandestine peace with the people he quarrelled with in
their cause, to make a very distinguished finish to the reign so sagely begun,
and send the people, that even he saw were starting an avalanche, to ask the
charity of that England they were so furious to humble. Rum vvas in those
days a currency : not because people were raore drunkards than now : but
because vvhat could be kept without hurt, was less bulky for its worth, which
could be bartered in sraall fixed quantities and the market rate of which ev
ery body knevv, was a better one than beef, lumber or hay. Paper money
would not go, and bullion they had little, for the return voyages were with
goods and rum. Our fathers though did drink. Congress prescribed to its
sailors half a pint a day and without stint in time of action : and the custom
of paying labourers their wages entirely in rum, which was common about
here before and after, does not argue a very fortunate social organization.
Stark's trophies that he sent New-Hampshire of his victory are said to have
been lost sight of and sold at auction : and the letters from Gen. Washing
ton and others to Mr. Langdon and the leading men here, in the gloom of
the American war, to the amount of a couple of bushels, to have been sold to
a pedlar to grind into pasteboard. This last story is rather tough : but two
French pieces of cannon are made an excuse for keeping from a Portsmouth
Company of Arthlery a couple of new ones ; useless as cannon and trophies
of Louisburgh. This is true and the other is said to be. Since this was first
written, these guns fortunately for the company, burst : the New-Hampshire
General Court, not France, replaces the guns.
About this time Mr. Langdon buried his father, of which the litde we ever
heard him say was creditable to the honest yeoman, but adorned this period
of his life, by getting married at the age of thirty-eight, for the first and only
time, to Miss Elizabeth Sherburne, then sixteen : a young lady of the oldest
Stock of Strawberry Bank ; one like himself of the numerous descendants of
the earliest Sherburnes; and likewise of the Wentworths, Cuttses and other
names beside her own, who thought themselves better than other folks in the
httle colony. But her family was not distinguished however for loyalty to
the crown. Her uncle, Henry Sherburne, had long been mainspokesman
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ten years in succession, and representative twenty, delegate to the first gen
eral Congress ever held in the colonies, which was at Albany : 1754 : and sO'
on : a political genius in a small sphere, but grew to as large a top as the soil
would allow : her father, though an officer of the crown, joined the popular
party : her brother [John] Samuel Sherburne, afterward member of Congress
and Judge, when young, a man of showy talents, walked on a wooded leg for
them for the rest of his life : a cousin [Edward] was killed at the battle of
Germantown : and William Whipple, one of the most thorough-going of the
popular party, was her mother's first cousin and married to her mother's sis
ter : which worthy lady, an inmate of our family in our youthful days, had
not, on the verge of ninety, recovered from her indignation at making the
peace of: 1783 : or any other peace with England at all : and proud of her
descent from a Cromwellian officer, a colonist of the County of York, of the
name of Hammond, took it hard our honoured father's refusing to name one
of his five sons after the Protector and in sport naming him after the Pre
tender. Her worthy husband was bred a seaman, went to see the coast of
Guinea, signed the declaration of independence, rose to some reputation as
an officer, where he was known, was delegate to (Congress more times than
one, and after these preparatory studies, became Mr. Justice Whipple. This,
marriage of Mr. Langdon's, notwithstanding the difference of age, was the
happiest it has been our fortune to see. Mr. Langdon's only brother, though
his name is on the town records, as protesting against some of the early pro
ceedings ofthe popular party, also joined it in the American war and the
Republican party of the United States, but though on friendly terms with
his brother, did not much co-operate with him through life. He, and not
Mr. John Langdon, amongst other exploits, built the fine house in the vil
lage : now a hotel. In temper he was indeed not like his brother ; being as
fond of the struggle as the other of success : but an equally remarkable per
sonage, and of pawerful talents. He was delegate to Congress, in the latter
part of the American war : honoured us by serving us in various offices here :
and became Mr. Justice Langdon : without the least law-education; being
about the best Judge of his day. He seldom condescended to hold a court :
and resigned and accepted the office of commissioner to examine and deter
mine the accounts of the States : on the threat of an impeachment, it is said :
if he did, the most unhke himself act of his hfe, that he should have troubled
himself about it. The Langdons seem to have had similar likings from the
beginning : for he married the daughter of Henry Sherburne. He was in
England during the American war, and is said to have been courted for the
sake of information by Lord George Germain. There is possibly some foun
dation for the story, though accounts of the adventures of the heroes of a lit
tle world away from home are not always entitled to much attention, for
Woodbury Langdon's imposing address and extraordinary beauty set a mark
upon hira, and in him Lord Sackville must have found a congenial spirit,
just about as acute, haughty and ambiguous as his own. Whether he under
took to teh the English ministry, as Doctor Franklin did, that no man in the
colonies, at first, thought of separating them from England, we never heard.
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¦whom, and to his sisters, his conduct was perfect. The house in which she
lived and died we pulled down last year ; and though it usually had held a
-very large family, no death had taken place in it since hers ; a period of more
than fifty years.
The long, melancholy, perplexed and unfathomable drama of the Araer
ican war was past : the separation from England was effected : the new-born
nation feasted with England's humiliation : and the officers of a little stand
ing army looked for the glory of the whole. The names of most of the great
men, conspicuous at its beginning, of most of the raetaphysical politicians so
vehement, had gradually died into an echo : such organization as its latter
days had shown, military or civil, had been in the hands of George Wash
ington and Governeur Morris. Mr. Langdon had been immersed where he
could get little fame, in such naval scheraes as the resources his party could
spare, gave hira to execute : with the dying efforts of the central govern
ment he had little to do : the people's war had been transferred to the South.
His being out of Congress keeps us frora knowing how he had been affected
toward General Washington : it is plain from his subsequent manner of pro
ceeding that he would stand by such a man, when he thought what he called
his country, would lose if he let it alone. The conspiracy prematurely ex
ploded by some officious people came from no organized party : there is no
trace of it. But the simultaneous resting of so many names greater than
Mr. Langdon's, is not to be cleared up by thinking that patriots liked ever
to forego consummating things themselves. Congress's standing army had
been suffering cruelly and its officers were to be turned off to starve : the
phases of historick proclamations, senatorial careers and so forth had been
followed by another ; but whether the little standing army went through half
as much from bare feet and tattered breeches, or its officers from spending
the vigour of life, as the getters up of the American war did because they
were not in the foreground and the others were, we do not know : whoever
reads deeply into the documents of that war, finds General Washington, now
and then, in a very lowering atmosphere ; or reads and understands his
letters, finds him not so far from imperious and plain-spoken when he thought
he was right ; a somewhat awkward customer to refuse obedience to : in con
tact with whom the self-love of other patriots did not snuff a very exhilarat
ing vapour. We believe Mr. Langdon to have been one of the very few,
that favoured him in such times, then and afterward again connected with a
great many men of political consequence in the war. A nutshell kicked out
of history, holds some of our political history of the last sixty years. Who
were known, suspected or like to have been scorched by General Washing
ton's glory, or chilled by itK reflection frora his satellites, to have felt in
truth, the presence of the Camp and the approach of the Palace, were after
ward found among Mr. Jefferson's friends.
In the dark and wearisome days about which nobody reads, from its tri
umphant close to the process of gestation of the constitution of the United
States, Mr. Langdon was either Speaker of its House of Representatives, or
President of this State : its leader without party. He was, we believe, also
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office or other. He was chosen delegate to the convention called to fabricate
a constitution for the United States, chosen President of the State again, del
egate to the New-Hampshire convention to accept ic, succeeded with others
in getting it accepted by New-Hampshire, which being the ninth State, it
went into operation on her acceptance, as appears from the congratulatory
letter written to him of General Washington : he was then directly chosen
Senator of the United States, which office he held twelve years. The first
Congress met at New York : 1789 : he was chosen President of the Senate for
the occasion, and there being neither President nor Vice President installed,
the remark that he vvas the first acting President of the United States, is of
course true. As President of the Senate he informed President Washington
of his election, by the hands of Charles Thomson formally in the following
letter : " Sir : I have the honour to transmit to your Excellency the informa
tion of your unanimous election to the office of President of the United
States of America : suffer me, Sir, to indulge the hope, that so auspicious a
work of publick confidence will meet with your approbation, and be consid
ered as a pledge of the affection and support you are to expect from a free
and enlightened people. I am, Sir, with sentiments of respect, your obedi
ent servant, John Langdon." It is creditable to him to have sent in those
days so simple a letter : his Democratic spirit had more than budded ; for the
rest of the proceedings with respect to Washington, not the first blossom of
his party's folly, had the cast of an accession to the crown. Mr. Langdon,
unlike some of his strongest friends, before and after, was one of the most
effective vindicators of the policy of this new step of establishing the con
stitution in the States : so far he belonged to President Washington's party :
with many of this party, however, he did not mean a triumph at the people's
expense: whether the -selection Washington made ofa young gentleman
afterward of some notoriety, was to conciliate an influential man, vve do
not know : but Mr. Tobias Lear vvas a sort of connexion, and his ancestors
had lived on Sagamore's creek, immediately adjoining the Langdons from
the first : both were descended from Elizabeth Sherburne : and Mr. Lear's
father's mother was sister to Mr. Langdon's mother : scandal was glad to get a
chance to surmise more, without a shadow of truth, and a real relationship
subsisted. Mr. Lear's penetration and vigilance were soon properly estimated
by President Washington's friend, Mr. Jefferson. Mr. Langdon, when first
in the Senate, was thought to lean to President AVashington's politicks, though
his intimacy with a list of other great names of the American war had not
been broken off: by his political courage, the best fitted for tempestuous
seasons, he was likewise, by his instinctive good breeding and finished gen-
tlemanliness, the best fitted man in the world to float without dispute or
censure through the changeable and intricate : the softness of his demeanour
was that of the Gauhsh river described by the immortal Julius in his " de
bello gallico" : "jlumen est quod per fines influit incredibile lenitate : ita ut
oculis, in utram partem fluat, judicari non possit.'' His earliest votes in the
Senate we do not know according to book : not having got hold of the
journal complete in the New-Hampshire State library : but Mr. Langdon
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road from hiraselfi He soon afterward becarae one of those, in whora his
countrymen pretended to wonder at the unknown phenomenon of a gentle
man's being a Democrat (rather a startling sentiment by the vvay to come
from most of them, we suppose the intoxication over night was followed in
the morning by distaste of the same liquor), till his party carried the dav, to
be held up ever since by the men that were ready to hang them, as models
of political virtue in the days of trial. His long service as Senator soon
fell, when past his fiftieth year, upon the stormiest of political times, in which
it was his fortune to be found in very fierce opposition to most of those with
whom many have been most proud to be numbered.
Different reasons led different raen and different reasons led the same
men to their finally mortal resistance to President Washington's scheme
of politicks, though the full curl of the surf did not rise till after his ad
ministration was closed : some of these reasons were not Mr. Langdon's,
though his intimate acquaintance from the beginning of the American war
vvith some people whose reasons they were, might have exposed him to their
imputation. The establishment of their constitution found in the bosom of
the United States a great raany raen of political consequence, and uncom
monly able men, in no extraordinary degree gratified with the development
of the passion of hero-worship in their republick with respect to its long real
and novv official head : or the prospect of its consequences to the character
stamped on their government, setting out on its career. Why historians
have not found out that the disaffection to him and his circle during the
American war is worth historical inquiry, though subsequently disclaimed
from various reasons, not the force of his party nor the popularity of the
political principles most of them were suspected to hold and ultimately
showed : why they persist in treating it as a golden age, is none of our busi
ness. If the reverend publisher of his correspondence, which is the only
history of the American war which is true, would tell all he knows, we might
learn soraething about it. The war was going to be finished, not by the en-
thusiastick rising of a people, not by the triumph of ideology, but the beaten
track of a standing army, requisition, taxation, publick debt, secret state-
policy, the overshadowing alliance of a despotick power : and to the glory of
one raan. The vvar made superficial statesmen talk more about the virtue of
subordination to a central government, (they were wrong, for twenty dic
tated peaces would not have reabsorbed the colonies in the empire,) than any
war that ever took place, when it was expected to prove that a fierce love of
freedora (the growth of our soil), and the spontaneous efforts of such chil
dren were not to be subdued : and when plenty looked for its showering
down laurels on so many provincial leaders, had overwhelmed one man with
more praise from the whole world, than ever was given so cordially, sincerely,
and so justly before. This was not the intended catastrophe of the piece.
There were other reasons to doubt whether the further elevation of General
Washington and the triumph of his friends would fill with satisfaction every
secret heart : when historians draw from the height to which the distresses
of the central governraent finally reached, conclusions of the real weakness
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human nature in the aspirations of equality, disposed to draw other conclu
sions that when some ambitious and far-seeing men saw that this war was to
bring to a party of which General AA'ashington was the head the glory, they
left them to fight it for themselves. In party-language, at the establishment
of the constitution, they found themselves not " the Men " : the incense of
the war they meant for their own nostrils had gone to other people's : the
constitution was established by those people in their own despite : with a
man at their head, whom they envied and had wanted to ruin, the pride of
his country and the glory of his age, the same people stood triumphant and
enthroned. Disinclination to President Washington's administration would
have subsisted, if he and his friends had promulgated Any principles of civil
government. Better reasons than some of these, were said to open Mr. Langdon's eyes
to the swiftness vvith which the current of events in which he was whirled
was hurrying his republick to the cataract of monarchical government. The
popularity of President Washington glared like the mid-day sun : he was a
monarch without the name: the incense burnt to it disgusted himself. His
pre-eminence as the noblest of his nation might be supported, but not its
being turned to a political machine for getting people used to the method,
ushering the disguised forms and tempting them to stamp with the simplicity
and concentrated energy of absolute power, a new government. This it was
thought, it was Known some of his party meant to try to do with it. The
United States were about as ready to sit down here as the eaglet is to give
up flying, vvhen he has struck his first prey, when the screams of his victim
and the rushing of his plumage are ringing in his ears, and he knows that he
is an eagle. Nor was President Washington so prudent and guarded in his
language and correspondence as he might have been, in the military notions
of discipline and coercion he had always breathed so boldly to provincial
authorities, in his panegyricks upon his own party, or the invectives he
launched at the other. His correspondence is a perpetual attack upon the
genius of democratick government. "He put more faith in coercion than
persuasion : the opposition to his constitution he impatiently ascribed to
unprincipled men : he found more wickedness than ignorance in the conduct
of the States; or those that had too much influence over them." So he
said. Centralizing this incongrous confederation, its patronage to be man
aged by the sattellites of a court, the provincial deputies to be drawn to a
great town, to make sport of their boorishness and take advantage of their
inexperience, surpassed the power of the men he kept about him ; but they
touched a very vibrating string. Strong reasons, and some thwarting, not
indulgence of his ambition, must have concurred with Mr. Langdon's con
duct here. He was master of the principles of money : and to no man did
nature ever give with a less sparing hand every gift, or stronger instinct to
use them, that would impower their owner to wreath, insinuate and please ;
to command success in such a sphere. He vvas born for a court. Mr. Jeffer
son, vvho as a philosophick democrat hated soldiers', orators' or financiers'
ineddling with the march of the Democratick Principle, soon discovered a
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Mr. Langdon professed his first doubts to have been raised by what he saw
hiraselfi In the faction that soon appropriated President Washington, some
villainy he saw, more tendency to vvhat in the end must have called upon
villainy to complete and support it : and boundless folly. We must give
some force to his pertinaciously expressed opinion, with every allowance for
the after-heat of party, or his mistaking the real nature of vain and noisy
men like John Adams or the bantering and ironical Secretary of the Treas
ury. But we will make no half-defence of Mr. Langdon here. We will not
seek to extenuate that for vvhich we honour him. Let both parties have equal
audience. The views of the party in power contradicted the great scheme
of politicks which every democratick heart burned to establish. He had a
right to attack them. Its course went to plunge the States into the very
evils they had been twenty years boasting to Europe they could and meant
to keep clear of. He was bound to sound the alarm. We have no pity for the
men he helped to put down. If they thought this course best for the States,
they were dishonest men : for their right to choose principles of government
for themselves, they, these very men had written on the flag of a rebellion,
whose success was shaking to its deepest foundation every government in the
world, with it in their mouths they had cried to their country, the world and
their God, had sworn to live and to die : if they meant to be dishonest men ;
had meant it always ; they were bunglers and let the cat out of the bag too
soon. To get the boundless future of such a nation out of such hands, so
incapable or so wicked, it makes no difference which, it was full time. Mr.
Langdon at first acted for himself: watching some of the party, but friendly
and intiraate with President Washington. He had gradually joined himself
to Mr. Jefferson's fortunes, and when thoroughly, remained his unflinching
political supporter for the rest of his life. He had some political connexion
with Mr. Jefferson before the last went to France . this had not been in the
way of his thorough-going co-operation with General Washington and his
friends in establishing the new government.
President Washington had no metaphysical principles of government.
The European pamphleteer of the present day, after sixty years of movement,
would say : " That though there be no shadow of proof that he thought a less
Democratick plan than yours could execute itself amongst you ; yet he turned
with contempt from the fancy of the day that the propensities of the seed of
Adam were to be suspended by thirty-nine men's scheming him out a gov
ernment : he knew the fallen human race too well to harbour doctrines which
were nothing but the old song of the perfectibility of man, which his heart
told him was an imposture and an impious cheat : but he must have seen in
their right light the presumptuous spirits that took upon themselves to stop
or turn to the uses of an order the torrent he and they had busied themselves
to let loose : he must have seen, through the smoke of the incense that stifled
him, that the rebellion of the colonies was the commencement of a move
ment : he could not be such a fool as to expect that he and his friends were
to have a monopoly of it to themselves : with all his belief in order and form,
he must have been conscious, whatever he said and however he acted, that
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untnixed despotism of the publick will, which, whenever it pleased, vvould
rise and sweep away its own establishments and every thing else it pleased
away with them." If President Washington knew that what he had seen in
that his day, vvas but the promise of more to come : that the establishment of
his constitution here, vvas but a pause in a drama acting in the vvorld : an
episode ; the fruit of an accident, the confidence of a nation in him : he
might not have tried to make that constitution, and the financial schemes
foisted on us through it by a faction, stop the Principle's heavings, which
had thrown up the new republick, himself, and his constitution with him.
But our friend has not read the correspondence of the first President of the
United States. If he did know this, he should have acted, as a politician,
then on what he knew : not have forced on his country what he knew it did
not want to have ; when a democracy can only thrive upon food it chooses
for itself. His own popularity was the basis of the new government : it
made the constitution and upheld it. This he never discovered or vvas hon
estly loath to believe. The French revolution took him by surprise ; its
tumultuous and murderous harangues filled him vvith astonishment : their echo
here, the attacks upon himself and the discontent about his policy, he could
not understand and laid to foreign emissaries and the malice of unprincipled
men. Like the worthy farmer of Kentucky wondering to see his sons and
negroes die in his field, ignorant that the Indian Cholera might get, Had
Got to the United States. When we read that he took the trouble to affect
to make the French government or the young men who meant to govern
France by pillage and murder, think that he wished well to their revolution ;
that he positively took offence at Genet and confounded his froth with the real
course of that great tragedy, that he looked for a French army in the South
ern States, that he charged the growth of the Democratick party to Demo
cratick societies and Democratick demagogues, and saw no deeper than Thai :
when we see the noble old man stemming the fresh swiftness of the currrent
with his own virtues, the financial schemes of his Secretary of the Treasury
and the constitution of the United States (!) we do not wonder that nothing
but his hastened death saved such a party-leader from seeing the ruin of his
party. Can vve blame Mr. Langdon for leaving, as a politician, such a party
to its destinies ? No : vve cannot : if he had ever espoused its principles.
As little as a man of honour : for every body knows he never had.
Mr. Langdon said, Mr. Jefferson said, and many others that ought to have
knovvn, that the conduct of a faction showed plain enough, that in their
hands the constitution of the general government and systems it enabled
them to mature, some of vvhich the first ought to knovy something about, for
he voted in company with them for most of them himself, vvould fasten on
the republick vvhat they and none better knevv it had pledged itself to the
world to abhor. Most of them, the first ones, went upon a principle in ear
nest and some avowed it : others did not. Honest in nature many of them
were : they meant to cheat the nation for its own good. They Dared not
leave a government out of stipulated, known and tried hands ; they Dared
not trust the people with political power. Very good : a not very doubtful
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courage in this regard too. Hamilton spoke out. He stands up before us
unarraigned for hypocrisy. " Inconsistency ? We must recommend him to
the mercy of the court. If his precocious part in the American war be damn
ing proof of his having ever aided and abetted in putting out such a doctrine
as that a people is fit to govern itself, of having waved aloft himself the in
cendiary's torch, the jury is so satisfied that he does not raean to put out such
doctrines again, that vve hope his sentence will be light." President Wash
ington tried to suspend his decision. But President Washington now made
two raistakes that were fatal indeed. Notwithstanding this constitution was
carried through with the utmost difficulty, a feather just turning the scale,
with such a popularity as, were it never so well founded, must have had some
human fluctuations, with all this of his on one side of the beam, he pro
ceeded to raise on it a system of policy, which he thought vital to his people
doubtless, but vvhich, but for him, they would have never dreamed of setting
up. Such an effort to force the fortunes of his country, shows his unacquaint-
ance with the most essential principles of successful democratick government.
And more : he neither expected, nor at first understood the French revolu
tion and the spirit it sent stalking abroad, and ascribed the whole trouble,
one half of which was temporary, to Democratick principles ; and their prop
agator here, the Democratick Party. From his letters he was at last shocked,
exasperated and frightened. We should like to see a record of his reflexions
the last tvvo years of his life. Instead of attacking him in form, the forbear
ance toward him was extraordinary ; and shows his power : the father of his
country and the head of a faction was paid more deference than tlie good
will alone ofa party nothing but his known hostility kept dovvn, was hke to
pay him : but it was too much to look for, that no eyes should ever be evil
towards the impregnable strong hold, which their enemies had got into, and
from which they played such heavy artihery upon them : or that in the re
publick he had himself helped to establish, no bad men should be found, to
hate him for the virtues that had placed him above them. Hamilton saw the
worthy President's popularity would not do the business : even that could
not carry the weight and threatened to treat such trainers to a break-down :
Robespierre and Marat did not frighten enough, and unfortunately the beau
tiful truths they issued from the bosora of the French tribune, seem to charm
more than they amazed. The secretary of the treasury sav^ love nor fear
would answer : he had a scheme. Unquestionably a scheme of governing
them well, wihing or no to be so, is ai discovery of interest to the human race :
phhosophers have been trying these five thousand years to find such a spe-
cifick ; Alexander Hamilton said he had found it : and it turned out to be
the old one every body knew of before, of Corruption, to be administered in
the lately discovered vehicle of the modern Credit System. Different char
acters have been huckstering with it ever since : he meant to cheat the peo
ple for their good; the others for their own. He wanted a strong gov
ernraent for his confederation and he thought he knew his countrymen too
weh to act on aught but their love of gain : when he said so, he at least de
serves the credit of impatient and out-spoken honesty. His successors pro
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constitution, the vvorking such machines by such people as he handed them
over to for any body's good but their own, such principles as that soon slept
with their fathers, through funding, banking, assumption, internal improve
ment, American system and railway systems, with the same contempt of all
constitutions and common law. The inspired high priest of Mammon did
not guess so badly that the Spirit of evil would pick out that personage for
his vicar on this part of the earth : though he lived not to see the worship of
his master established in the land. He should have survived the persecution
and dispersion of his brotherhood, to see on every hill and in every grove
the smoke of that idol's altars ; to see the nation that broke them to pieces
kneeling to adore : to see them once and again dragging to the sacrifice
their country and their rights, amidst the triumph of their enemies, the pity
of their friends and the contempt of the whole world. Of a truth the Tempt
er knows his trade, keeps up with Transatlantick revelations in the art of gov
ernment, suits his wares to the market, and has his delusions ready for every
country as well as every age. The course of this nation is not to confusion
and agrarianism, but to the lust of gain and its frantick idolatry : to laugh
at those of others and bow down before darker idols of its own. So
much for the Hamilton party : Mr. Langdon soon opposed it : though a man
that loved money, at an age when it gets the upper hand, that was prone to
banking and funding, to whom such atmospheres vv"ere familiar and congen
ial, that knew how to make it and keep it, and felt no envy of others that
did so too.
Another party took the broad ground that the time was at last come to try
metaphysical principles of government : and were for proceeding to do it :
that the world must sometimes be badly governed they knew as well as other
people ; but for this they saw no remedy in a great deal of governing : they
were for letting loose the Democratic Principle to work for itselfi They said
it was folly to try to half-develop a principle, to which they could see no
earthly bound, and in tampering with which they were ten times as like to
go wrong as right. Some said it Ought to be let loose ; others said They
were bound to, for every body had heard their Promise to let it loose : oth
ers knew it was let loose Already, and were looking to see, like the fisherman
in the tale, the gloomy and unearthly grandeur of the genius growing in the
air before their eyes. They did not think they were men to conjure that
spirit back into his box. They were for acting as pure, abstract Democrats,
as far as they could : some hoping, and some knowing that nothing could
permanently do any thing with it. The idea of people that had thrown off
the government they vvere born under to setup a democracy's binding them
selves with their eyes open, or keeping such a bond made with them shut,
after they had got them open again, one might suppose vvould never have
entered the head of any man of common sense, a bond n< t to do whatever
they had a mind to whenever they pleased : and this party took up the only
honest ground there was. Unfortunately for the historick harmony of their
conduct with the purity of their ideas, to establish one Principle, they went
into partnership with an element ofthe other in its strongest form. To this
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and notoriety : Mr. Langdon joined it from political instinct and the love
of pleasing : their conduct was governed by imperative circumstances.
For a third party, stronger in itself and more straight-forward in action
than either, with never a traitor in its camp, soon taught the last the differ
ence between theory and instant practice ; joined it to itself and has dictat
ed the policy of this great republick. The League so contradictory to look
at, had in it some ingredients of affinity to each other : in both Parties the
country interest predominated. The same class seems, much of it, to have
ranked itself in this League amongst us that in England so long endured de
voted to the faith of Rome, then Royalist, High Church, Jacobite and Tory,
which last it is chiefly still ; the party of the towns leaning the mean while to
Calvinistick, Republican, Whig and Radical. The great interest at the bot
tom of the League, its enemies have been known to urge, might see in a con
nexion with the propagators of the Democratick Principle, and the warm at
tachment they professed to it themselves, a chance to answer those who might
ask them to turn their propagandist spirit to themselves. Be that as it may,
they retorted with great success and no small truth, that the minutely-pene
trating tyranny of the counting-house was more galling to a democrat than
hereditary distinctions. Well then : it Js obviously impossible that such an
important modification of the Democratic Principle as the hereditary slavery
of the common people could subsist in half the United States without a
marked influence upon their parties. The zealous endeavors of the great
South to establish the triumph of the Democratic Principle in the abstract,
for which the world owes it so much, would be accompanied with the quali
fication that the corapact, of whicli our constitution was the happy fruit,
should not expose them to any premature and untoward extension of it to
themselves. To the great South is the republic consequently chiefly under
obligation, and to the fortunate warmth of sensibility and clearness of argu
ment with which it propagated its doctrines for estabhshing the principle, so
essential to the harmonious vigor of a confederated government, that the mu
nicipal policy of each State must be kept from the uncalled-for interference
on the part of a majority of the others. The struggle in Europe in which
five mihion of men lost their lives, the slaughter of her peasants, the storm
ing of her cities, the burning of her towns, the guillotining men, women and
children if they stayed at home to interfere with the government, and shoot
ing them if they went off, which might give strength to the enemy, they
loudly cheered : and this is upon record : " Such people justly suffered ; they
oppose (not the application of the Principle, that we do too, but the Princi
ple itself) a Principle : the price shows the value of the goods." The great
South had espoused the same principle and propagated it every where but at
home with a zeal which left no doubt that their not doing it there too was
regard for the interest of the African race. The States Rights Party is the
growth of the South. The State of New- York amongst the others once talked
it ; but we can remeraber when in New-Hampshire we found it unknown,
and a task to explain it. The States Rights doctrine is the growth of the
South : and joking apart, it deserves the thanks of the republick, whatever its
motives, for upholding it as it has done. This is but part of the deep obh-

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gation the republick must be sensible of. An agricultural people by custom
and compulsion, their healthier nerves the sooner warned it of the progress
of the infectious atmosphere of the counting-house in the confederation ;
they pronounced the whole American Credit system an anaconda, by which
they and their children were to be charmed, slimed, devoured and digested.
Here they did get on the same road vvith the Party above named : which
without their povverful aid looked unlike to move their wheel. A lasting al
liance took place between them and the Democratic Party against the com
mon enemy : their union brought into being the great Republican party.
The uniting what seemed to have so little affinity has been laid to the match
less political chymistry of Mr. Jefferson : hastily ; for it lasts to this day.
The great Republican party Mr. Jefferson, and with others Mr. Langdon,
made, carried through and upheld to their last hour. To such raen the praise
of political sagacity is justly due : those that felt most trouble of mind about
the central government'snot being enough felt throughout the confederation,
have long since owned their blunder : and love of the enchanted land seems
not like to be left unimplanted by education, of the whole of it ; or to weak
en with time ; or pride for its grandeur lessen with the growth of its power.
To the Republican leaders of ninety-six the praise of political sagacity is
justly due : it is loudly and sincerely given. But asks the startled European
liberal: "did not calling the League a Democratick party ever strike you
hke sporting with that holy name ? What say you gentlemen, Deraocrats of
ninety-six? Speak out I" "We did not call it a Democratic party: we
called it a Republican party : we know as well as you do that of all Aristo-
cratick systems, ours is the deepest rooting, the loftiest shooting, the widest
branching, the rankest, most baneful and deadly weed ; unelevated by the
danger, unnerved by the effort to tame men of our own race ; a nobiess with
the most servile of God's creatures for its peasantry : we know too that the
world will not take for an answer the single fitness of the men for menial of
fices and rustick toil, their unfitness for political power ; the rest of the world
does not dispute that that may be given to all who Are fit for it ; and we
know that we hold and proudly have sworn that Political power should be
given to All people, whether they be Fit to use it or No : we know all this :
if this League of which African slavery is the basis, grow to a historick party,
and that take the name of Democratick, and turn the enemies' cannon on
ourselves, we have not yet given it ; our intestine rivals have nothing to say :
vve found a slavery we hope will be extinguished ; they, with equal preten
sions to purity to their own country at first, and to every other stdl, are try
ing to bring a new one in, the most insulting, the most subtle, the most per
fect, the most hopeless and most hateful of all." "Well then: this is the
only answer you can make, but it does not enable me to answer the defiance
of my antagonist to prove that Democratick government has ever subsisted."
Mr. Langdon was no casuist ; though most of his sworn friends were South
ern gentlemen, and most of its gendemen were his friends and of his party.
we never heard him ihustrating the Democratick nature of African Slavery. '
This league however was forming its hne of battle under a Democratick
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party was thrown on the defensive. Mr. Langdon held his ground : with
Mr. Jefferson he had courage enough to maintain his principles in the tre
mendous confusion vvhich disturbed the judgement of alraost all, ground the
sharp weapons of party-warfare to their keenest edge, and gave plenty of sin
cerity, depth and fury to the strife. For both parties it vvas a clever, stir
ring rahying-word. But nothing was raore preposterous than to couple the
leaders of the Republican party with the guillotining convention of Paris, on
one ground. The pure States Rights Party was a raajority of the Republi
can party : the National Assembly took upon itself to destroy every sort of
provincial government and prerogative in France. France was in the hands
of the ruffians that wielded the mob of Paris : Robespierre, master of France,
could not have escaped their vigilance and got out of France, had he tried ;
as there is reason to think he had sense enough to have done if he could.
To keep off a centralized democracy, wielded by an oligarchy, was the pro
fessed purpose of the Republican party with Mr. Jefferson at its head (we
truly believe Mr. Jefferson, though far from a faultless personage, to have
deeply loved his country and have rested his reputation on the durable suc
cess ofthe great experiment. Partly because he found it made to his hand,
partly because he spied, where no others choose to look for it, a practicable
and good curb in the mouth of pure democracy, we believe the leader held
to his heart so warmly these convenient allies. The States Rights doctrine
is essentially a conservative principle. He saw in it an invulnerable cham
pion for ever of the rights of minorities. If it expel him from his band of
metaphysical democrats, it exalts him to a prophetic patriot). While some
were proscribed as Federalists here, for seeking to aggrandize the central gov
ernment at the expense of the States, the democratick party of the young re
publick held different notions, and guihotined them there, under the same
name, on the charge of seeking to aggandize the provinces at the expense of
the central government (Robespierre, Danton, Billaud and Company) repre
senting the people. From Mr. Langdon the rhetorick nor glory of " La Re
publique une et indivisible," the career of the head of the great French mil
itary democracy nor the splendours of the imperial throne, never wrung an
applauding word. But he saw no cause to haul down the flag he had sent up.
The name of Jacobin could not drive him from his Democratick ground.
From his choice of party to his twelfth year of senatorship, neither the flat
tering friendship of President Washington, the sophistry nor the courting of
his secretary of the treasury, from whom he said he received the highest cora
pliraent he ever did in his life, the fury of John Adams's reign, the drawing
rooms of Philadelphia, of which he vvas said to be a distinguished ornament,
nor the long, the long discouragement of a minority, ever dictated a vote of
this well-tried Democrat. What completes the whole, though the honor af
terward paid him, by a great and triumphant party, for this pohtical career
of his as a senator, was boundless wherever he was known, and though for
twelve years he was the gayest of raen, and conceded to be one of the most
engaging and elegant men and finished gentlemen in the most exclusive cir
cles in the United States, we never knew him to speak of this part of his life,
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whom popularity vvas the breath of his nostrils, wants to be seen at intervals
swimming against a strong stream, to set him off. We are strangely given
to question, all of us, the sincerity of people who are always on the strongest
side. Most of us have a strange craving to see, in some period or other, of
every body's history, a real desperate resistance ofthe man to superior odds:
to see what he is, we suppose. Some of us, if the truth must be told, love
more a series of furious rallies than a very smooth stream of triumphs ; and
love to see courageous self-defence when it is surest to fail Though he
knows the dogs must tear him to pieces, when does the stag look so hand
some as when he turns to bay ? Mr. Langdon was in New Hampshire when
the alien and sedition laws were passed : he lost no time in making known
his judgment concerning them. He likewise stood stanchly against the war
like drift of President Adams's majorities, getting sometimes into a minority
of five, in which there found himself with him a young gentleman whose after-
conspicuousness as,a captain and statesman, he may or may not have fore
seen. Mr, Langdon vvas very happy in nursing the destinies of every party
he joined. Investigation of his political life but discovers some overlooked
debt his country owes him. In this Republican conservatory his fortunate
hand helped to ripen the Democratic bud which afterward dazzled us vvhen
it blew into such a gorgeous flower. This young gentleraan was the Honor
able Andrew Jackson of Tennessee. The gentleman who voted with him
against the treaty, however, was the celebrated Mr. James Jackson, of Geor
gia, a native Englishman ; of whom we should have more account, as besides
his talents, he vvas beyond all dispute the earliest, most consistent, thorough
bred, and unapproachable Democrat of the whole party. Mr. Langdon was
not a speaking senator : from temper, a characteristick dislike to argument
and comparisons, and an unfortunate anti-democratick notion, now exploded,
that it demanded more education than he had had. And too with their dis
gust at the trappings of royalty and hatred of excessive refinement, both of
the great republicks seemed unexpectedly to look for a rhetorick enchased
and ornamented to a degree which that den of aristocrats, England, scoffed
at and despised. He had pretty much forgotten at his age all but his own
business and the concerns of his constituents and his country ; and vvould not
have shone in a forum crowded to suffocation with Ciceros. Be that as it
may, he did not try to do what so many stood ready to do for him : whether,
indeed, if its Congresses were thickly sown vvith men of his cast, men vvhose
character and standing are become fixed and known, if, however paradoxical
it may seem, its Congresses were made up more of people who owed their
being sent there to any other merit or remarkable quality on the face of the
€arth, than such as would most naturally inspire a confidence of their mak
ing a figure after they got there, the great republick would lose by the ex
change, is still an uncertainty. What he did say in publick was to the pur
pose. His messages and letters are good. A phrase in one of them of trust
in the destinies of his party, a few months before Mr. Jefferson's triumph,
" that we should yet be saved," has long since got to be current political
coin of the realm. Drawing towards the close of his senatorship, order was
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off here as the sun of Jefferson rose above the horizon. Mr. Langdon was
accustomed to bring things to a complete and perfect period ; he had reached
his sixty-second year, how restlessly he would have borne the triumph of the
Federal party, we do not know ; he saw his friend triuraphant and left the
scene. His station was just his own ; looked to by a party in power, adored
by the multitude where he vvas known, still as ever an amiable and fortunate
private gentlemen, and where he could leave off vvhen it looked to every
body that he might have gone much farther.
Had he kept on with unaltered pace at sixty-two, and ambition had growm
out of the victory of his party ; it would have been, what he never elsewhere
did, doing things in an outrageous degree : he had none of that sullen en
ergy, the force of vvhose blows grows with the struggle, which always must
go on to deeper stakes : much less did he want to talk and act politician for
ever, and die on the fourth of July: his life was ripening, and he turned to
the land of his fathers. He was becorae a sort of citizen of Philadelphia,
where he had passed much of his time for more than twenty-five years, and
was better knovvn than any where else, and he came back to Portsmouth,
meaning to leave Nevv Hampshire no raore. We believe he never left it
after, except on the last illness of his sister, the wife of Governor James Sul
livan of Massachusetts. His relatives seemed to like the Democratick carap ;
for his niece raarried Governor Williara Eustace, of the same State and
party. Mr. Langdon never was prone to talking in his retirement, of the
numerous scenes in which he had been no looker on. But of secret springs,
of what raade the American war and protected it, of what fabricated the
constitution and reared on it its funding and banking domes, what picking
and compounding of ingredients made the great Republican party ; he had
thorough knowledge : 'the heroes and demigods of our Iliad and Odyssey ; he
knevv thera ah. Had he taken the secretaryship of the Navy, vvhich some
body says Mr. Jefferson offered him about this time, we know nothing about
it, it vvould have given a different cast to his friend's naval policy. He
meant to leave off for good : this project he did not altogether execute; but
the rest of his political career belongs to his native State, in which it was as
brilliant as the theatre could make it.
He served as raember of the House of Representatives of this State for
four years consecutively. He was then induced to become candidate for the
office of its governor : after a well contested election he was chosen : and re
elected three times. His popularity in New Hampshire it is not easy to tell :
it was all-pervading, unattackable and irreversible : it subsists to this day.
He had declined running again : 1809 : the consequence was the immediate
election of a candidate of the other party. Mr. Langdon went so far to
please his friends as to come to the post once more ; won the race for his
friends, and another heat still in a canter : 1811. This reappearance on the
political turf was against his wishes. About these days, vvhat we never heard
of till we happened to see it in an old newspaper, the stanchness of his sup
port of all Mr. Jefferson's policy may have been questioned by somebody,
for he takes the strange step of coraing out with a manifesto in its favour.
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his Democratick zeal. He however, vve think, sometime after contributed to
set up a since well-known and powerful defender of the Democratick faith,
then a young printer at Concord. His enemies possibly may have doubted,
or his friends not have known that he was already beginning to think of
things they never dreamed of in a man so worldly. He declined the almost
unanimous caucus nomination at Washington of his party for Vice President
of the United States, and Elbridge Gerry took his place. He served, how
ever, as elector and voted for Mr. Madison as late as: 1812. This was the
last act of his political life : he was seventy three years old ; and now he re
ceived a blow from which he never rallied, the death of Mrs. Langdon,
though the youngest by twenty-two years. This man, whose history, for
forty political years may be embraced in the simple statement that he was a
party man usually in the fullest sense of the word, was feeling what the sim
plest hearts are not always willing to own. "It is not affectation : my mind
of itself turns to nothing but the world I am hastening to and the days of
my childhood : it may be the imbecility of age, but seventy years I have
almost forgotten ; the tall youth, that left home vvith fifty dollars in his
pocket, the ocean on which he made his fortune, the senate-rooms, the
counting-rooms and the ball-rooms where he passed so much of his life, are
to me the history of a stranger : I hear my mother's voice as I am playing at
the door in the chips of the house I was born in : when by myself I turn to
the days of my childhood." These dreams were not laid to Mr. Langdon's
charge, but give reason enough for his leaving his party to itself. He had
lived long enough to see scattered colonists growing to a mighty nation, to
see more tributary streams meet than ever yet met in the deep and single
current of one nation's fortune, he had played his part for just forty )'ears ;
and he thought it full time for the fathers to leave the children to own and
defend their awful inheritance for themselves. Politicks were for the living,
not for the dead. They were no longer his business on the threshold of the
grave : and religion had taken their place.
When Mr. Langdon to his masterly comprehension of less momentous
concerns proceeded to add a clear perception of these we do not know : but
here his and his friend Mr. Jefferson's journeys vvere widely apart. We
cannot ourselves remember vvhen he was not, unobstrusively, but strongly and
proudly devout. Without much austerity, though once in a while its unex
pected presence showed it was not put on, he worshipped at the then national
altar of New-England Calvinism. His eyes remained unclouded to the
political or other virtues of his friends by their different sentiments with re
spect to a thing which all must think of more importance than all others,
that think it of importance at all. A great majority of his spiritual friends
vvere pohtical antagonists and his next-door neighbour and pastor : another
next-door neighbour was an active political ally and even a companion
though suspected of a very hovering faith. In his religion still reigned the
premeditated purpose, the deliberate arrangement and the polished and wary
deference of the man of the world. Two people could not vvell believe in
each others sincerity and soundness of mind both, one of whom hoped with
all his soul that he was a Christian, and the other treated the gospel as an

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imposture ; and his personal friendship for one great man, who of all others did
most, right or wrong, to set aside all public acknowledgement of belief in the
gospel, a doctrine which, with all horror at the union of church and state,
in people that believe its truth we do not profess to understand, shows that
he looked upon politicks as a political business of life, in which his friend's
worldly judgment raight be good, if in nothing else. We cannot reconcile
the matter ourselves, though others would find it so easy : but we believe
Mr. Langdon to have been sincere in his religion. His religious phasis was
the noblest of his life : no loss of friends, no loss of fortune, no disappoint
ment drove him from the world ; it was the deepest harmony of a long and
well-spent life, the serenest calm of masculine old age. After we remember
him, the ceremony of family worship came over as surely as the morning and
the evening, and his avoidance of loose and profane conversation was that of
his sect. But he could not hide himself in the cloak of Geneva. A bound
less benevolence of heart, a strength of domestick affection and the love of
pleasing, so strangely mixed in him with other things, burst through every
garb he chose to put on to the last breath he ever drew.
He wound up his raaritime concerns at the exact tim.e the great fortunes
of New-England began to be made, and substituted no professed employ
ment for them. He took to being neither farmer nor countrygentleman.
He had not enough raoney for the last ; but in a country that would suffer
the growth of such a plant, he was not unqualified by nature for attempting
the character with some success. The first he never showed any turn for :
though over fond of owning land, troubling himself about fruittrees and such
like^ which fill up time and talk, but cost little and have nothing to do with
farming, with a lurking turn for horses and extraordinarily given to talking
to country people. An ever-working, never-ending activity, a Saxon energy
against odds, deep running in deep ground, was not Mr. Langdon's distin
guishing characteristick : though he had these qualities full as much as often
does much good. He never understood a large agricultural operation, nor,
after he left his father's house, lived out of some town or other, great or
little, that we know ofi No one could converse with him or with men of his
sort here in that day, without perceiving that they thought that every thing
but comraerce and speculation was other people's business, not theirs. What
fortune he had hiraself he had made by traffick. His youth fell on the
straining growth of colonial navigation, his middle age on the American
war : then came publick life, he was at home a sort of absentee : then came
the twenty years war : there was but one thing thought of in the way of
business, in that day of little seaports, built up as quick as the ships and rot
ting as soon, of barn-like houses stuck upon gravelly hills stripped of their
forests, straight rounded turnpike-roads, the West Indian trade, the youth of
New-Hampshire drawn frora the plough to die in Deraarara, swaggering,
drara-drinking, trotting-horses and Lorabardy poplars, which vve piously
hope will not come back again.
Though fond of money, Mr. Langdon's benevolence reached farther than
tenderness to other people's heresies and expanded vvith his years. One
might have thought that some early crimes were to be expiated by ecclesias-

878 APPENDIX.
tical and charitable gifts. His genius for the counting house enabled his
enemies to lay this to ostentation. They were wrong : it was the love of
pleasing ; a well in his heart that never ran dry. After he was come back
from Philadelphia, he rejoiced to entertain all the corapany that honoured
Portsmouth with their presence : at his own table he vvas hiraself: every man
that ever graced it, from President Washington to the farmer from Winni-
pisauky, or the Calvinist from Andover, was sure to leave him a personal, if
not a political friend for life ; and few ever withstood him that he meant to
gain. But the last twenty years of his life were not passed in much com
pany : his wife, a widowed sister vvho had buried eight sons, whose husband
had been a Royalist, and who had lived in the cities of Boston and New
York throughout English occupation of them and vvas a mine of Royalist
history, and some of his grandchildren, making his family. Mr. Langdon
was one of those men upon whom nature chooses to shower her gifts of per
son and manners with an uncommonly generous hand : his enemies said
they were the best part of the man : to deny them was impossible. His
natural good-breeding reached the limits of the science, and he passed
through forty years of politicks without the tradition of a personal quarrel.
His gentlemanliness vvas completely finished, and stood rubrick in the courtly
circles of President Washington's reign : Presidency we mean ; but it was the
same thing. His politeness was irresistible, and of its effects, innumerable
humerous stories remain. John Langdon, it was said, could more certainly
make a friend for life of a man in refusing to lend him money, than his
brother Woodbury in granting his prayer. But it vvas an armour of proof,
which dazzled and repelled all familiarity of itself: vvhen he was called the
worst sort of a Jacobin, no man was ever familiar with Governor Langdon.
The politest, the most filled with real general good-will of any man in the
world, nobody was ever more embarrassed by any one's presence than his,
that went to ask hira a favour. Most of those great men, in whose urns vve
shall ever worship the ashes of such daring antagonists of the artificial in
equalities, such victorious champions of the destined and eternal equality of
man assumed an august elevation of air and behaviour, an Asiatick stateli
ness (impracticable, at least unknown in the imperial capitals of the old
world) ; a symbol of just pride in the favour of the people. He mixed vvith
it an intoxicating condescension : if it deserve that name ; for he did not
think, as some in courting the people, it vvould please all of them to lower
himself: this is a compliment of a dangerous nature, and may act upon
wrong associations of ideas : he paid them another compliment, and affected
to raise them all to a level of himself : in getting hearts in return for polite
ness and political virtues, he was absolutely unrivalled. As the fashion of
the day, he travelled always in his own carriage or on horseback : the chariot
is worth description, but the worthy Governor riding into the country vvith
holsters and housings to his saddle, much more ; though a good horseman,
with a turn for them he said he got from father and grandfather both, with
an orthodox taste in thera uncommon in a Nevv Englander, with cocked hat
and boots, the crooked, calveless legs of the mounted African follovving,
with leather-breeches and innumerable watch-seals, making a strange foil to

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879

the celebrated limbs of his principal. Cyrus, who was a Jersey negro and a
Royalist, was as weh known in New Hampshire as the Gove'rnor himself;
died in his house, and was followed by him and all of us to his grave in the
same churchyard where his master lies ; the celebrated and superb Doctor
Joseph Buckminster attending in person. Though not so handsome a man
as his brother, Mr. Langdon was so uncommonly well-looking as to be re
marked and recollected wherever he went. We cannot remember him such
ourselves; but he was unquestionably of very perfect symmetry and rather
large stature : fresh but not very fair, vvith blue eyes, a strong, straight Eng
lish nose, like the portraits of the English Edwards, particularly King Edward
the first, and lost no tooth till past seventy. After seventy he failed, his
wife's death aggravated it, but the taper burned in the socket and he did not
die, and then ofa sort of bronchial consumption, till Septeraber : 1820: hav
ing nearly completed his eightieth year.
We have thus given, all we profess to, " some account of John Langdon."
His part in the world vvas not that which justifies a stately biography. Our
judgment of some things he was raixed up with will not meet with commen
dation and we do not expect it. We have certainly tried to keep from over
praising kindred blood. Against him, it is certain, that all his worst ene
mies made out to say, and political ones he had plenty, was, in despair of
getting people to care for what they raked up against him, that bitter pill for
an enemy to take down, was, that instead of following up rigid principles
with the most sorrowful deviations from them through life like many, Mr.
Langdon on the contrary performed the feat of uniting with benevolence,
uprightness and religion, an instinctive, refined and consumraate, knowledge
of the world. He did so. But ; though being still the most really amiable
and benevolent man in the world, the fondest of pleasing and of giving way,
he never lost sight of his real interest in his life ; though he loved political
power and laid hands on it ; though he loved money and knew how to get
it ; yet all his offices were forced on hira, with age he grew careless of money
and too generous for his means, and more than half of his long life, and
his knowledge of business in traffick's most palray days, he gave up to his
Country and his Party. We cannot make up a life of hira. It degenerates
into general eulogy. A little river makes ten times as much noise, dancing
down rocks from one barren plain to another, bringing nothing and leaving
nothing, as one of the wandering horse-ponds of the West, so quiet to see,
floating slowly, arching themselves with such monstrous foliage and flooding
such gorgeous raeadows. There are tempers which could have shown us,
with such chances as he had, plenty of contrasts and broken schemes, hero
isms to brag of and absurdities to laugh at : and of biography these things
are the soul. His right to praise rests not more on what he did than on
what he did not : he never incurred of his own act a calamity nor a mortifi
cation in the course of his life ; he never got anything on his hands to ex-
plain or make up for ; he never showed his talents in getting himself out of
difficulties he got himself into : we can say in a word what we always stand
ready to lay to the charge of such men : that is ; the want of sincerity. And
to some it is done raost justly. But it is not satisfactory proof of a raan's

880 APPENDIX.
having a false heart, that nothing he ever did in his life, can be made by his
enemies to stand as wrong before the world. Whatever the motives of his
actions may have been, through every season and adventure of his long and
varied life, not only were they full of worldly wisdom, but more than is
conimon they were generous, manly and good. Must some suspect him, be
cause he was just what every body wanted to be himself, and got what every
body vvanted to have himself in so delightful and so exquisite a way? But
what is the court before which, and who are the men by whom for this he
stands arraigned ? Are they the men to argue that trying to withstand the
world is the path on which the great and good should always be found ? that
useless virtues should be instilled? success despised and our interest scorned?
If they be, we have less to answer. Who schools such doctrines here ? Utili
tarianism does not hold them : hers is the national worship, and she fears no
rival faith.
Though he is of the " Hian gens," the direct descendant of the first band
of Enghshmen that brought to New-Hampshire their laws and their blood,
we will not quote for him three lines from the noblest of dirges, that his
political friends, if they tell the truth, would think so well to be fitted to
John Langdon : we will leave the imperial hexameters to go back to Rome's
homelier Latin, for a real domestick epitaph, the very sound of which suits
better what we remember of our worthy ancestor : they are simple and beau
tiful in themselves and seem written for our Republick's Senator too, though
found, almost in our age, in the Roman Scipio's tomb :
Gnaivo prognatus fortis vir sapiensque
Quoius forma virtuti parissuma fuet ;
Consul, Censor, Aedilis quel fuet apud vos ;
Hone oinom ploirume consentiont Romane
Duonorom optumom fuise virom.
In yet homelier English :
Of honest stock : courage and wisdom crowned
The man who still good as he looked was found ;
Whom all its honours to his country bound :
Best of the best in his New-Hampshire home :
A better Consul from Patrician Rome
Was never carried to the Scipios' tomb.

CORRECTIONS.

Page 57. for K^-^- ¦ Wight, read Rev. Henry -[Vight.
Page 549, for 7575, read 77^5.
Page 572, for Supreme, read Superior.
Page 572, for then, in note I, read -uihen.
Page 574, iorprst, in note 12, read third.
Page 574, for -wherever, in note 13, read ¦wherein.
Page 592, after orders, in twelfth paragraph, insert [Cedars].
57

INDEX,

INDEX

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORANDA.

Atkinson, George  574
Badger, Joseph  293
Baker, Otis  574
Bartlett, Josiah  258
Bell, John  574
Belknap, Jeremy  333
Bellows, Benjamin  573
Bellows, John  574
Blood, Francis  293
Brackett, Joshua  283
Cilley, Joseph  573
Dow, Moses  549
Dudley, John  258, 301
Fogg, Jeremiah  574
Foster, Abiel  575
Gilman, Joseph  574
Gorham, Stephen  ,  572
Hale, Enoch  35
Langdon, John  850
Woodbury  229, 301
Libbey, Jeremiah  572
Livermore, Samuel  258

McCleary, John  293, 574
McClintock, Samuel  236
McDuffee, John  574
Means, Robert  571
Olcott, Simeon  35
Payne, Elisha  574
Peabody, Nathaniel  301
Pearson, Joseph  572
Pickering, John  572, 575
Plumer, William  262
Reid, George  300
Shephard, Amos  574
Simpson, William  252
Smith, Jeremiah  262
Sullivan, John  262, 569, 571, 573
Thornton, Matthew  574
Weare, Meshech  229, 292, 294
Webster. David  281
Ebenezer  574
Wentworth, John  35, 300
Joshua  574
West, Benjamin  572
Whipple, Joseph  572

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

Accounts, Board of War  42, 66
179, 181, 216, 220, 403, 440
State Treasurer  179, 181
216, 220, 320, 321, 371, 372, 499
586, 628, 677, 701-704
Tax Collectors  179, 181
216, 220, 403, 405, 440
Towns  746, 801
United States  50, 80, 97
127, 223, 317, 329, 361, 38s, 417
555, 672, 690, 721, 738, 744, 756
786, 797
Address, answer to Presidents. ..359, 626
of Congregational Churches . .93, 94
109, 122
of President  353, 617
to Congress  760
to President  661
Adjutant-General. 556, 558, 679, 814, 828
Agriculture, etc., encouragement of. . .518
Attorney General, names of  :i2< 301
572, 806, 816, 818, 835
Authority of President  555, 704, 712
720,754, 817, 823, 827, 829, 83s
Balances due to soldiers  139, 150
Boards, measurement of, etc  322
374. 625
Boundaries, town  203, 311
313. 355. 399. 462, 594, 644. 720
737. 740, 753. 785. 790
Bounties  191. 212, 402
Bread, price of  47'
Bridges  370, 371. 380. 392, 407. 4i5
428,441,446,459,471,493,518 523, 741, 743-
British subjects, not to hold office, re
peal  152
Casks, gauging of  737. 7^4
Census and inventories  477, 481, 54i
710, 720, 754.
Chaplains  753

Chaplains, compensation of.211, 218, 430
478, 543, 746, 799.
Charters, time for recording  313, 352
Churches  309, 348, 349, 401
423, 424, 432, 694, 709, 719, 753
address of Congregational  93, 94
109, 122.
Queen's Chapel, Portsmouth  397
426, 462, 467, 497, 538.
Commerce, commissioners of. . . .482, 483
545, 585, 628, 672, 688, 734, 778
regulation of  107, 143, 321
327, 373, 380, 382, 407, 419, 447
504, 526, 595, 643, 724, 760, 764
with Massachusetts. .. .169, 171, 172
197, 201, 215,313, 314, 316, 352
356, 360, 393, 416.
Commissioners to administer oaths... 85
182, 221, 222.
Confiscated Estates, attachments on. .401
432-
claims against  130, 409
444,452,465,474,511,530,796
income from  109, 142
sale of  172, 204, 318, 362
taxes on  206, 317
361, 405, 421, 443, 462, 496, 499
Congress, additional power to  108
125, 142.
address to  760
requisitions of  490, 491
496, 507, 585, 603, 627, 665,672
673, 688, 689, 692, 695, 720, 723
725, 742, 754-756, 760, 766, 792
Congressmen, method of forwarding. 99
128, 387, 622.
names and app'ts of  35. 301
324, 378, 403. 439. 575. 585. 587
604, 627, 628, 665.
recalled  585, 627
supply of money to 329, 404, 407, 442
447. 588, 592. 633. 635-
Constitution (State) of 1784  9-31

888

INDEX.

Consuls  556. 560
Convention (Federal) of 1788  743
744.793,797-
Coroners, names of  256
267-269, 283, 287, 550, 553, 556
558, 559. 561-564. 567. 805-809
811-814, 817-823, 825-828, 830
Councillors, names of  33, 299
314, 356, 571, 581, 616.
salaries of. See Salary.
Counties, alteration in  207
Court, Inferior, Justices  252, 258
281, 286, 550, 551, 553.
Maritime  737, 783
name of Judge  34, 283, 301, 573
Mardal  732, 771, 776, 827
Superior, Justices  33, 251
257. 301. 553. 572.
Courts, abolishment of  731, 733, 778
time and place  170, 199, 460
478, 492, 495, 541, 584, 624, 663
Debts, State. See Money Matters.
due to State  394, 601, 659
recovery of . .408, 420, 421, 432, 433
445, 448, 450, 468, 592, 600, 634
639. 652, 657, 676, 698, 704, 759
Debtors, imprisonment of. .406, 420, 433
434. 445. 468, 518, 595, 6or, 641
657-659.
Elections  246
Estates, Confiscated. See Confiscated
Estates.
sale of  595, 646
Excise. See Taxes.
Fast Day  171, 201, 464, 508, 743, 795
Fees, for petitions  604, 605, 656, 668
673, 690, 693, 755.
regulation of  667
Table of  169, 171. 193, 200, 308
350, 394, 418, 586, 599, 628, 643
674. 693, 722, 736, 742, 758, 779
788.
Ferries  47-49. 73, 105, 107, 113
120, 124, 137, 166, 171, 178-180
201, 211, 214, 217, 221, 309, 311
345. 349. 350. 379. 396. 402. 403
414. 417. 423. 425. 431. 437. 448
459, 466, 469, 473, 475, 479, 489
491.494. 513. 514. 521,524. 533
534, 602, 623, 625, 633, 634, 652
662 672, 688, 707, 735, 779, 782
Fines. . .313, 352, 468, 502. 510, 520, 691

Fish, protection of  598, 602, 651, 664
Flax-seed, surveyor of  556. 558
Foreigners  201
Guardianship revoked  401, 416, 435
Gunpowder in private houses  523
Highways  103, 115, 121
157, 172, 363, 397, 402, 426, 437
445. 461, 469. 470. 521. 522, 591
677. 732. 737. 740, 777, 786, 788
encroachment upon. . . .363, 470, 521
repair of  120, 171, 201
202, 376, 385, 430, 441, 468, 470
474, 518, 521, 526, 676, 681, 700
707, 741, 763, 783.
History of New Hampshire, Belknap's365
Horse-thieves, punishment of  121
188, 319, 368.
Importation and manufactures, encour
agement of. . .502, 505, 512, 514, 518
598, 600, 602, 657, 659, 727, 766
Impost. See Taxes.
Impost officer  545, 572
Incorporation of townships  207, 497
726, 736, 768, 782.
Insolvent estates, distribution of. .94, 114
121, 157.
Invalids, support of  782
Judge of Maritime Court  34, 283
301. 573-
Jurors  363, 364, 586, 628
Justices of Inferior Court  252, 258
281, 286,550, 551, 553.
of Superior Court  33, 251
257. 301. 553. 572-
of Peace, names of  254-257
262-267, 281, 283, 286, 287, 550
552, 556-559. 561-567, 805-807
809-823, 825-828, 830, 834, 835
of Peace to administer oaths. . . .313
318, 352, 365, 729, 769.
salaries of. See Salary.
special, names of  312
495. 550. 551. 591. 601, 638, 665
807, 808, 822.
Lands, common  112, 148, 596, 645
forfeitures of  793
permission to sell  46, 50
74, 103, 105, 113, 137, 172, 175
178, 198, 206, 211, 318, 362, 585

INDEX.

889

587, 595, 596, 605, 615, 626, 630
643, 646, 667, 726, 727, 732, 740
765, 766, 775, 788.
State  591, 602, 637
674. 693, 730, 735, 742, 779.791
taxes on unimproved  120
171, 179, 201, 202, 207, 211, 309
348, 349. 430. 441 .
title to  172, 204
467. 470, 501. 521, 691, 732, 775
Laws, militia  312, 593
603, 642, 664, 675, 682, 697, 712
proprietary  99, 128
revision of  34, 48, 51
79, 84, 312, 323, 348, 377, 392
415, 438, 588, 631.
Light-house  113, 385, 742, 792
Lotteries  100, 103
105, 126, 141, 178, 181, 214, 219
320, 326, 370, 380, 446, 471, 523
73-^- 737,77^, 780, 784.
Lumber Act  585, 625
Manufactures and importation, encour
agement of  502, 505
512, 514, 518, 598, 600, 602, 657
659, 727, 766.
Map of State  732, 759
Masonian Patent  525, 660
739. 779. 788.
Messenger to House  682
to Senate  682
Military Matters :
Alarm List  312, 347
Artillery  308, 349, 368
Court Martial  732, 771, 776, 827
Light Horse  308, 349
367, 403, 439, 594, 646, 681, 682
710, 711, 720, 727, 738, 741, 754
762, 767, 787, 791.
Military Stores  246, 821
Militia, alterations in  100, 129
152, 156, 173, 195, 205, 324, 379
Militia, brigaded  310, 344
367, 583, 647.
Militia Laws  312, 593, 603, 642
664, 675, 682, 697, 712.
Militia, regulation of. ..114, 167, 664
675, 682, 697, 712.
Officers, manner of appointment.. 373
818.
names of  34, 253, 259-262
282, 284, 286, 300, 551-554, 556-
564, 573, 805, 806, 808-816, 818
820-823, 825-830, 833, 834.

oaths of  210, 216
Salutes  552
Soldiers, balances to  139, 150
bounties to  191, 212, 402
compensadon to short-term .52, 88
103, 104, no, 135, 138, 147.177
Standards  180, 210, 216
311,342, 582, 602, 621, 659, 736
Tactics and regulations  176
180, 210, 216, 217, 319, 320, 328
370. 388.
Money Matters :
Claims against State  141, 322
. 329. 376, 387, 408, 409, 450, 507
Coin  166, 190, 512, 602, 659
Continental Currency  42, 49
50,68,81, 88, 132, 172, 188, 200
203, 584, 590, 599, 624, 635, 653
727, 760.
Copper-plate notes  588, 592
634, 640, 706.
Debts due State  394, 60 1 , 659
Loan Ofiice certificates  105
III, 139, 149, 500, 731, 742, 745
773, 791, 820.
Medium of trade  419, 420, 491
Money, public  191
New Emission. ... 168, 170, 175, 210
Old Emission  422
Paper money  587, 630, 672, 676
689-691, 694-696, 721, 756, 772
Raising of Money  48, 76
179. 213. 471. 479. 482, 509, 521
544, 665, 675, 695, 726, 746, 766
773, 781, 786, 789.
State debt, notes, securities, etc.. .48
49, 69, 77, 80, 99, 127, 152, 176
180, 181, 195, 209, 217, 220, 232
318, 325, 363, 372, 382, 500, 586
591, 601, 602, 604, 628, 631, 656
658, 660, 661, 667, 679, 681, 697
699, 705, 706, 712, 721, 729, 736-
738, 744, 745,756,769,784,786
797-799.
State's quota  106, 125, 142, 471
State Treasury  395, 435
Naturalization  168, 170, 196, 198
Naval Office  104
Naval Officer, instructions to  315
320, 357, 370.
Navigation, encouragement of  518
Navigation Act (State)  325, 327, 383
419. 435, 463. 491. 495. 504. 526
602, 625.

890

INDEX.

Notaries Public, names of  550
553, 806, 818.
Oaths, administered by J. P  313, 318
352, 365, 729, 769.
commissioners to administer  85
182, 221. 222.
forms of  177, 178, 211, 213
to military officers  210, 216
Parishes  201, 488,729,761,769
Patents. 586, 629, 731, 736, 738, 775. 781
Pensioners, list of  639
Pilotage, act to regulate  323, 381
Portsmouth Library  320
Post Routes, Riders, etc  406. 409
438, 445, 449, 461. 482, 496, 542
592, 594, 596, 604, 641, 644, 646
647, 667, 682, 731, 733, 745, 774
777, 819, 823.
Postmaster General (State)  565, 819
Potash, Pearlash, etc., regulation of. .327
383, 830.
Assay Master  556, 558
Presbyterians  1 1 1 , 148
President, address of.  353, 617
address to  661
authority of  555, 704, 712
720, 754, 817, 823, 827, 829, 835
and council, salaries of. See Salary.
Printing, State  174, 401, 436, 760
Public property. . .246, 420, 422, 451, 821
Registers of Probate, names of  283
814, 815.
Representatives, liberty to send .746. 800
names of  57-6i, 333-337, 609-612
salaries of. See Salary.
Requisitions of Congress. See Congress.
Riot and Rioters  680, 682
683. 707-713. 720, 754.
Rules of House  70-73, 339, 619-621
Salary, of members of House and Sen
ate  47, 49, 69, 81
212, 222, 327, 375, 404, 441. 479
515, 543, 603, 652, 719, 740, 790
of President and Council, State Offi
cers, Judges, etc.. 106, in, 143
146, 151, 211, 214, 215, 219, 220
327. 375. 399. 405. 431. 433. 478
515, 529, 541, 542, 735, 740, 742
744. 781, 782, 788, 790.
Seal of the State  51.85
106, 136, 164, 193.

Seizure of vessel  737, 783
Senators (State), names of.  34, 299
306,341, 351, 574, 580, 615.
salaries of. See Salary.
Sermons, election  202
205, 210, 328, 342, 388, 474, 476
480, 536, 566, 596, 740, 747, 799
Shays' Rebellion  830-833
Sheriffs, delinquent  502, 510, 520
names of  281,286
State, claims against. See Money Mat
ters.
debt. See Money Matters.
debts due to  395, 601 , 659
Officers, names of  33-36"
299-301, 306, 342, 344, 349, 351
571-575, 619.
salaries. See Salary.
printing  174, 401, 436, 760
seal  51.85, 106, 136, 164, 193
Treasury  395, 435
Sunday, observation of  310, 326
344. 375. 380.
Surveyors  168, 197
324, 380, 384, 549, 554.
Taxes, abatement of  47, 50, 51
78, 83, 97, 106, 323, 374, 376
394, 418, 463. 467. 473-477. 479
480, 493, 504-506, 515, 528, 529
531-537. 539. 590. 59'. 593. 635
637, 641, 654, 732, 738, 739, 743
744. 762, 775. 781. 785. 794-
act to determine  49, 78
III, 148, 311, 346, 466, 511.
arrearages of  758
certificates and notes received for. 152
169, 199, 656, 658, 661, 678, 745
781.
collection of  394, 408, 417
419-421, 440, 447, 448, 472, 521
532. 592. 597. 598. 640, 649, 651
681, 706, 709, 722, 723, 726, 730
731. 734. 738, 739. 758. 760, 765
768, 773, 777, 780, 782, 784, 787
collectors' accounts  179, 181
216, 220, 403, 405, 440.
excise  50, 51, 115, 158, 159, 406
409, 445, 448, 597, 633, 648, 682
712, 721, 723, 747, 755, 759, 776
798, 800.
on exports  518, 526
impost  lor, 132
157, 169, 198, 328, 385, 435, 479

INDEX.

891

482, S16, 517, 526, 585, 604, 625
721, 723, 755, 759, 829.
on unimproved lands  120, 171
179, 2ot, 202, 207, 211, 309, 348
349. 430. 441-
permission to assess  1 20, 1 7 1
179, 201, 202, 207, 211, 309, 348
349. 401, 423. 424. 429. 432. 472
474. 477. 4S1. 526, 528, 529, 725
741, 763. 783-
Thanksgiving  .96, 103
123, 136, 327, 384, 603, 665, 824
Tities to lands  172, 204
467, 470, 501, 521, 691, 732, 775
Town boundaries  203, 311
313. 355. 399. 462, 594, 644, 720
737. 740, 753. 785. 790-
Clerks, delinquent  502, 510, 520
inhabitants  468, 512, 514
Town-meetings  343, 369, 401

435. 438, 582, 598, 602, 615, 621
649, 661, 695.
time changed  215, 398, 431
433, 464, 491, 628, 651, 726, 765
Towns classified  404, 441, 445
Townships, new  394
418, 598, 650, 726, 736, 768, 782
Trade, export  502
medium of  419, 420, 491
with British settlements  no
Treaty of peace, compliance with  677
691, 697, 699.
Treasury (State)  ,  395, 435
United States, property of  246
Vessels, seizure of  737, 783
Weights and measures, sealer of. 323, 377
Wolves, killing of  409, 451

INDEX OF TOWNS, PLACES, ETC.

Acworth  6i, 153, 200, 203
336, 583. 587. 612, 619, 630, 638
Adams, Mass  831, 833
Albany (Burton)  59, 154, 335
393. 401, 416, 435. 611, 621, 845
Alexandria . . .61, 153, 267, 337, 426, 612
AUenstown  58, 153
334. 590, 593, 636, 641, 738, 787
Alstead  60
154, 172, 200, 203, 261, 266, 299
336. 395. 421, 460, 496, 551, 553
557. 559. 566, 567, 571, 574, 611
631, 636, 744, 768, 796, 806, 818
Alton (New Durham Gore)  59, 102
134, 153, 265, 268, 335, 562, 564
740, 743, 790, 794.
Amherst  59, 153, 209, 259, 265, 268
287, 292, 335, 408, 449, 543, 550
-552. 562, 564. 565. 571. 587
611, 631, 644, 657, 663, 777, 811
812, 825, 826.
Amherst, Mass  832
Ammonusic River  598, 651
Andover  60, 154, 265, 336, 426
Andover, Mass  878
Annapolis, Md  672, 688
Antrim  60, 153, 265, 336, 611
Apthorp (Littleton and Dalton). . .45, 61
86, 87, 107, 138, 681, 700, 707
720, 754.
Ashuelot River  190
Atkinson. . .33, 34, 58, 153, 262, 263, 267
299-301, 334, 343, 445, 551, 553
610, 673, 675, 691, 694.
Baker's River  446, 471, 523
Barnstead. .. .59, 153, 260, 265, 289, 335
377, 381. 396. 424. 449. 470. 521
543, 610, 644, 738, 787.
Barre, Mass  832
Barrington . . .59, 153, 264, 265, 268, 269
334. 397, 425. 449. 474. 526, 543
552, 562, 564, 610, 644, 671, 688

Bath. .61, 87, 153, 267, 337, 442, 464, 473
509. 528, 529, 603, 612, 654, 725
741, 763, 783.
Bedford. .59, 153, 265, 268, 311, 317, 335
340, 341, 345, 358, 561, 586, 598
611, 628, 651, 734, 738, 754,780
784, 810, 823.
Bemis Heights  174, 318, 319
Bennington, Vt  857
Benton (Coventry) 61, 153, -3-37, 474, 530
612, 844, 845.
Beverly, Mass  853
Boscawen  47, 60, 77, 103, 1 10, 154
222, 261, 265, 336, 397, 426,427
445. 461. 543. 551. 554, 566, 567
611, 732, 737, 77-], 786, 805, 817
Boston. Mass  144, 556, 629, 855
Bow  49, 60, 82, 153, 179, 201, 2ir
263,336,611.
Bradford (New Bradford) . . .60, 154, 472
528.
Brentwood  48, 153, 259, 263, 362, 633
Brentwood (Brintwood).. 58, 77, 28S, 318
334.
Brintwood (Brentwood) .58, 77, 288, 318
334-
Brookline (Raby).. 59, io8, 153, 313, 335
353. 400, 416, 462, 497, 559, 561
611, 728, 737. 785, 812, 825.
Bunker Hill. . . .94, 99, 128, 317, 318, 858
Burton (Albany) . .59, 154, 335, 393, 401
416, 435, 611, 621, 845.
Cambridge, Mass  377
Campbell's Gore (Windsor)  243, 467
Campton. 61, 153, 260, 267, 337, 355, 404
441. 551. 553. 612.
Canaan. . .61, 87, 154, 261, 267, 269, 337
394, 418, 426, 464, 476, 480, 497
509, 536, 612.
Candia  58, 154, 261, 263, 334, 610
Canterbury. 35, 36, 58, 153, 263, 301, 334
543, 575, 610, 812,825.

894

INDEX.

Cardigan (Orange). .61, 87, 154, 337, 392
396, 403, 414, 415. 423, 426, 438
473. 497. 509. 528, 612.
Cedars  603, 640, 664
Charlemont, Mass  832
Chariestown  35, 60, 97, 114, 124, 144
153, 157, 195, 201, 261, 266, 268
336, 417, 447. 449. 543. 561, 562
564. 573. 583. 589. 611, 623, 631
644, 663, 673, 680, 690, 708, 726
735. 766, 779. 842. 847.
Charlestown School Farm  153
Chester.. .58, 154, 261, 263, 264, 267, 287
292, 333. 334. 392. 478. 481. 54°
543, 609, 644, 648, 777.
Chesterfield  60, 75, 154, 261, 266, 589
599, 611, 634, 655, 681, 698, 706
722, 735, 757, 782, 814, 828.
Chesterfield, Mass  832
Chichester  58, 154, 610, 738, 787, 810
825.
Claremont.. .47, 60, 78, 87, 105, 137, 153
260, 262, 266, 320, 326, 336, 370
380, 407, 445, 475, 534. 6n, 674
692, 822.
Cockburne (Columbia) . .61, 87, 154, 190
337-
Cockermouth (Groton and Hebron). . .61
153, 180, 218, 316, 337, 358, 398
428, 429, 550, 590, 612, 636.
Colburne (Colebrook). . .61, 87, 154, 337
Colebrook (Colburne) .. .61, 87, 154, 337
Columbia (Cockburne).. .61, 87, 154, 190
337-
Concord  9, 31, 34, 39, 58, 62, 70, 109
151, 153, 163, 178, 180, 181, 187
217, 219, 240, 245, 260, 262, 263
267, 278, 301, 320, 330, 334 371
387, 388, 391, 410. 413. 429. 441
449. 450. 476, 480, 483, 537. 542
543. 545. 546. 551. 553. 556, 558
559, 566, 567, 579, 590, 596, 610
613, 616, 618, 636, 644, 681, 704
747. 777, 798. 799. 801, 805-808
812, 814, 817, 818, 826, 828, 835
844-
Concord (Lisbon)  105, 139, 154, 261
269, 337, 477, 481, 490. 538. 539
551, 554, 612, 630, 768.
Connecticut River  47, 49, 73, 97, 105
124, 137, 139, 143, 166, 221,309
345. 349. 350. 379. 380, 385, 396
397, 402. 403. 426, 431. 437. 448
449, 459, 466, 468-470, 473. 475

479. 489. 491, 506, 513. 514. 518
521, 524, 533, 534, 538, 601, 602
662, 707, 710, 735, 739, 779, 782
787. 848.
Conway. . .59, 95, 122, 154, 167, 191, 194
261, 265, 268, 335, 543, 561, 592
611, 621, 640, 672, 676, 677, 681
700, 707, 734, 738, 778, 781, 785
845.
Conway, Mass  832
Coos  212, 236, 250, 276, 278, 317
Cornish  33, 60, 87, 97, 153, 169, 198
260, 262, 266, 268, 299, 311, 317
336, 345. 346. 361. 376. 464. 476
480, 497, 509, 536, 573, 605, 612
663, 664, 668, 671, 688, 743, 792
795, 796, 801, 813, 822, 827.
Coventry (Benton). 61, 153, 337, 474, 530
612, 844, 845.
Croydon .60, 153, 260, 266, 323, 336, 374
463, 472, 505, 511, 527, 592, 612
638, 822.
Dalton.. 154, 337, 482, 545, 612, 720, 743
754-
Dalton (Apthorp)  45, 61, 86, 87, 107
138, 754-
Dalton, Mass  832
Danville (Hawke).. 58, 154, 264, 287, 292
334. 610.
Dartmouth (Jefferson).. .61, 87, 154, 190
261, 266, 337, 467, 515.
Dartmouth, Mass  833
Dartm.outh College. . . .100, 103, 105, 115
126, 134, 141, 157, 179, 181,2x6
219. 397, 426, 445. 461. 732. 734
737. 759. 771, 777, 780, 784, 786
Deerfield  58, 154, 261, 263, 264, 267
334. 610.
Deering. . . .52, 60, 86, 153, 268, 309, 336
348, 396, 401, 423, 432, 550, 552
611, 675, 694.
Derryfield (Manchester). 59, 265, 290, 335
Dorchester  61, 87, 154, 337, 588, 591
612, 632, 637.
Dover  35, 59, 153, 259, 262, 264, 265
268, 299, 333, 334, 449, 543, 550
551. 553. 554. 556. 558. 559,566
573, 574, 610, 644, 663, 671, 688
815, 829, 834.
Dublin  61, 153, 266, 336, 612
Dunbarton.. . .60, 153, 172, 180, 205, 217
243, 265, 268, 336, 611.

INDEX.

895

Dunstable.. 35, 36, 59, 153, 259, 262, 265
300, 335. 543.~573.611, 649.
Durham  33-35. 59. 153. 262, 264, 268
299-301, 333, 334, 543, 551, 553
556, 558, 566, 571, 573, 574, 609
610, 644, 649, 771.
Duxbury [School Farm] . . . .59, 153, 335
East King.ston  58, 154, 264, 334, 610
Easton, Mass  833
East Sudbury, Mass  700
Eaton  59, 154, 335, 611, 621, 845
Effingham  59. 95. i54. 264, 335, 342
343. 393. 394. 417. 419. 610, 679
680, 695, 708, 815, 830.
Enfield . ..61, 87, 154, 267, 337, 394, 418
426, 612, 720, 753.
Epping . .58, 102, no, 146. 153, 170, 198
259, 263, 267, 318, 334, 362, 610
Epsom  33, 34, 58, 154, 261-263, 267
299. 334. 543. 574. 738. 787-
Exeter.. 33, 34, 52, 58, 87, 153, 181, 229-
231, 233-236, 248, 259, 262-264
267, 278, 281, 283, 286, 291, 292
299. 309. 333. 350. 399. 402, 449
451. 467. 471. 518. 540. 543. 551
554, 559. 567. 572. 574. 575. 603
-605, 609, 644, 648, 652, 653
663, 664, 668, 671, 687, 730, 731
738. 739. 771. 773. 782, 787, 809
-812, 819-824, 826, 833, 834
840, 842, 846, 853.
Exeter River  415, 471, 518
Fishersfield (Newbury) .60, 154, 336, 6n
Fitzwilliam. . .61, 153, 266, 337. 341, 612
Fort Point  251, 287
Fort William and Mary . . . .234, 328, 329
387, 809, 822.
Francestown  60, 153, 810, 813, 827
Franconia. . .337, 404, 441, 612, 844, 845
Franconia (Morristown)  61, 154
Freetown, Mass  833
Freemont (Poplin)  58, 153, 287, 292
334. 343-

Gilmanton  33, 59, 153, 260, 262, 265
268, 291, 335, 449, 543, 610, 644
663, 738, 787, 812, 826.
Gilsum  44, 61, 70, 153, 336, 612, 692
768.
Goffstown  59, 141, 153, 260, 265, 335
557. 559' 598. 611, 622, 650.

Grafton  50, 61, 78, 87,
475. 532. 561, 612.
Grafton, Mass 
Grantham  60, 153, 266,
612.
Great Barrington, Mass. . . .
Greenfield, Mass 
Greenland  57, 58, 153,
292. 334. 371. 562,
807, 821.
Groton (Cockermouth) .61,
316, 337, 358, 398,
590, 612, 636.
Guildhall, Vt 
Gunthwaite (Lisbon)  6
139, 154, 261, 269,
538, 539. 551. 554.
707. 73°, 734. 768,

154. 337. 426

 832
336, 562, 564

 833
 832
259, 263, 287
563, 566, 567
153, 180, 218
428, 429, 550

 211
I, 74, 87, 105
477, 481. 490
630, 681, 700
777-

Halifax, N. S 
Hampstead. .. .57, 58, 153,
292. 333. 334. 406,
609, 673, 675, 691,
Hampton ..34. 58, 84, 153,
267, 300, 334, 458,
538. 540. 552, 554.
609, 648, 809, 821.
Hampton Falls. .33, 34, 58,
281, 283, 284, 292,
Hancock. 60, 154, 164, 188,
346, 349, 397, 401,
810, 813, 822, 826.
Hanover. .42, 61, 67, 83, 85
106, no, 141, 154,
266, 267, 269, 337,
475. 497. 509. 531.
573, 612, 663, 744,
Hardwick, Mass 
Harvard College 
Hatfield, Mass 
HaverhiU.. 35, 61, 153, 260,
269, 299, 300, 337,
526, 543, 551, 553,
573, 612, 644, 663,
Hawke (Danville) .58, 154,
334. 610.
Hebron (Cockermouth) . . . .
218, 316, 337, 358,
550, 590, 612, 636.
Henniker  60, 154,268,
611, 675, 694, 709,
Hill (New Chester)  61,
337. 398. 414. 426,

 IOI, 243
263, 267, 287
445. 550, 552
694.
259, 262, 263
478, 481,492
571. 573.597
153, 259, 263
334, 610, 844
190. 309. 336
424. 432.611
, 87, 102, 105
175, 208, 261
394, 418, 464
543. 550. 553
792, 797.
 832
 844
 112, 151
262, 266, 267
449. 472, 518
554. 561, 571
844,' 845.
264, 287, 292

.61, 153, 180
398, 428, 429
336, 550. 552
807, 820.
153. 267, 269
428, 612.

896

INDEX.

Hillsborough. .60, 107, 144, 154, 171, 201
265, 268, 336, 398-400, 407, 430
431, 433. 466, 512, 525, 543, 550
553. 596. 6n, 647, 664, 709, 807
811, 823.
Hinsdale  61 . 154, 190, 337, 513
Holderness. .33, 34, 36, 61, 153, 301, 337
572. 575. 612.
Holderness (New Holderness). .260, 262
404, 441.
Holies (HoUis).. .206, 265, 268, 335, 399
462, 497, 769.
Hollis  34, 59, 75, 153, 173, 250, 265
276,313,353. 6:1,728, 737,785
HoUis (Holies).. .206, 265, 268, 335, 399
462, 497, 769.
Hopkinton . . .60, 154, 265, 268, 336, 550
553, 561, 6n, 663, 675, 694.
Hoyt's Gore  50,78
Hubbardston, Mass  831, 832
Hudson (Nottingham West)  59, 153
167, 170, 193, 197, 259, 266, 335
493, 611, 726, 755, 765.
Isles of Shoals  851
Jaffrey. . .60, 153, 336, 550, 561, 611, 643
663. 795-
Jeiferson (Dartmouth). . .61, 87, 154, 190
261, 266, 337, 467, 515.
Kearsarge Gore  403, 439
Keene. . .60, 153, 173, 206, 260, 266, 276
336, 405, 443, 449, 543, 550, 551
553, 601, 611, 644, 658, 663, 677
692, 729, 768.
Kensington  57, 58, 153, 259, 264, 267
300, 334, 399, 429, 558, 574, 609
610, 623.
Kingston.. 33, 34, 301, 334, 543, 572, 610
Kingston (Kingstown).. 58, 154, 165, 168
190, 195, 262, 264, 267.
Lancaster  61, 87, 154, 190, 261, 267
337. 459. 467. 49'. 515. 700, 707
Lancaster (Upper Coos)  171
173, 177, 463, 676, 677, 681, 700
707.
Landaff. .87, 154, 261, 267, 269, 337, 474
509, 532, 612.
Langdon  736, 782
Lebanon  36, 61, 85, 87, 143, 154, 261
266, 267, 337, 379, 394, 418, 426
462, 464, 475, 497, 499, 506, 509
521, 525, 532, 556, 558, 561,574

590, 612, 6yj, 644, 664, 668, 671
688, 720, 737, 744, 753, 786, 797
805, 810, 817, 823, 848.
Lee  59, 153, 264, 268, 335, 551, 553
556, 558, 610.
Lempster  61, 153, 323, 336, 374, 463
505. 556. 558. 612.
Lincoln  154, 337, 404, 441, 612, 844
845-
Lisbon (Concord)  105, 139, 154, 261
269, 337, 477. 481, 490. 538. 539
551. 554. 612, 630, 768.
Lisbon (Gunthwaite)  61, 74, 87, 105
139, 154, 261, 269, 477, 481, 490
538. 539. 551. 554. 630, 681, 700
707. 730. 734, 768, 777-
Litchfield  59, 153, 259, 265, 335, 543
688, 821.
Litdeton  154, -3-37, 482, 545, 593, 612
641, 681, 707, 720, 743, 754, 796
Littleton (Apthorp). . .45, 61, 86, 87, 107
138, 681, 700, 707, 720, 754.
London, Eng  no, 112, 151, 737, 759
783. 855.
Londonderry  58, 153, 230, 260, 263
264, 267, 300, 321, 333, 374, 376
393, 408, 416, 440, 447, 465, 498
513. 543. 551. 553. 556. 558,562
564, 573, 574, 596, 599, 609, 644
648, 650, 652, 663, 726, 757, 763
777. 845-
Loudon  58. 153, 263, 334, 556, 558
561, 816, 835.
Lyman.... 61, 87, 154, 337, 476, 477, 480
535. 537, 612.
Lyme  61, 73, 85, 87, 154, 261, 267
337. 349. 403. 437. 471, 525. 550
562, 565, 597, 612, 639, 648, 683
709, 743. 795. 797. 806, 818.
Lyndeborough  47, 50, 60, 78, 82, 100
130, 154, 190, 241, 265, 335, 550
552, 556, 55S, 611, 816, 835.
Lunenburg, Mass  833
Madbury  59, 153, 232, 264, 268, 335
413. 745. 800.
.Manchester (Derryfield)  59, 265,
290. 335 ¦
Mansfield, Mass  833
Marlborough  6i, 153, 337, 341, 368
462,475.499.533.561.719.753
Marlow  61, 154, 167, 172, 195, 200
203, 323. 336. 374. 463. 505. 612
817, 835.

INDEX.

897

Mascom River  426
Mason  59, 154, 190, 265, 335, 6n
Meredith.. 35, 59, 108, 145, 153, 260, 264
268, 335. ¦355. 543. 644, 738. 787
Merrimack  35, 59, 107, 136, 153, 176
209, 262, 268, 299, 312, 314, 335
340, 341, 348, 353, 355, 561,563
574, 611, 644, 688, 810, 823.
Merrimack River. . .49, 171, 178-181, 201
211, 214, 217, 219, 417, 425, 602
664, 710, 738, 787.
Middleton.... 59, 154, 335, 342, 343, 350
Middleton (Middletown). .. 165, 190, 309
314. 355. 427. 494. 610, 734, 746
780, 801.
Mile Slip  59, 82, 153, 335
Mink Brook  426
Montague, Mass  831
Morristown (Franconia)  61, 154
Moultonborough. . .59, 154, 164, 176, 203
261, 268, 335, 543, 564, 610, 644
663, 823.
Mud Pond Brook  426
Nelson (Packersfield).. .61, 153, 266, 308
317. 336, 350, 361, 458, 464, 491
504, 511, 584, 612, 624, 677, 692
729, 732, 768, 770, 775.
New Boston. . .60, 64, 153, 192, 260, 265
268, 336, 341.
New Bradford (Bradford) . . .60, 154, 472
528.
Newbury (Fishersfield) . 60, 154, 336, 611
New Castie. . .58, 105, 106, 141, 165, 170
189, 191, 234, 247, 263, 323, 378
383, 385. 394. 415. 418, 460, 493
540, 551, 554, 594, 645, 730, 732
737. 742. 771. 775. 785. 792. 823
New Chester (HUl)  61, 153, 267, 269
337, 398. 414. 426, 428, 612.
New Durham  59. 153, 335, 610
New Durham Gore (Alton). .59, 102, 134
153, 265, 268, 335, 562, 564, 740
743. 790. 794-
New Hampton  59, 153, 265, 335, 722
726, 757, 765.
New Holderness (Holderness). .260, 262
404, 441,
Newington  58, 153, 262, 263, 311, 333
345, 800, 808, 820.
New Ipswich  59, 154, 165, 190, 205
243, 265, 268, 322, 335, 374, 404
441, 596,611, 643.
58

 334
154, 264
278, 855
543, 610
259, 334
154, 190
489,515
562, 564
805, 817
 346
263, 267
543. 573

New London  41, 43, 60, 65, 68, 104
139, 154, 172, 179, 202, 211, 336
562, 564, 599, 655, 807, 822.
Newmarket. . .58, 153, 259, 263, 264, 310
321. 334. 344. 368, 370, 392, 407
414. 415. 428, 459, 471, 493, 518
543. 556. 558, 567. 644. 815. 834
Newport  60, 153, 336, 462, 465, 501
510, 550, 612.
Newton 
Newton (Newtown)  58,
New York  177,
Northfield.... 58, 153, 334, 417,
816, 834.
North Hampton .. .58, 153, 244,
478, 481, 540, 609, 648.
Northumberland  61, 87,
267, 337. 380, 456. 467.
551. 553-
Northwood. . .58, 154, 261, 334,
597, 652, 724, 757, 762,
Norway Pond 
Nottingham . . .34, 58, 154, 261,
300, 318, 334, 362, 449,
610, 644, 649, 664.
Nottingham West (Hudson)  59, 153
167, 170, 193, 197, 259, 266, 335
493, 611, 726, 755, 765.
Orange (Cardigan)  61, 87, 154, 337
392, 396, 403, 414, 415, 423, 426
438, 473, 497, 509, 528, 612.
Orford  61, 85, 87, 153, 267, 269, 337
405, 423, 438, 443, 465, 470, 475
511, 524, 533, 543, 550, 558,612
743, 796, 805, 817.
Ossipee  543, 610
Ossipee (Ossipee Gore). 59, 105, 121, 140
154. 166, 176, 192, 207, 335, 644
Packersfield (Nelson)  61, 153
266, 308, 317, 336, 350, 361, 458
464, 491, 504, 511, 584, 612, 624
677, 692, 729, 732, 768, 770, 775
Partridgefield, Mass  832
Peeling (Woodstock)  153
Pelham  59, 102, 133, 153, 260
263, 267, 334, 478. 481. 540. 598
610, 648, 649, 724, 729, 761, 811
Pelham, Mass  830, 831
Pembroke  49, 58, 82, 153, 201, 263
334, 605, 610, 663, 807, 819.
Penobscot  108, 174

INDEX.

PeppereU, Mass  833
Percy (Stark)  154, 190, 337
Perrystown (Sutton)  60, 154
Peterborough  60, 82, 100, 130, 154
190, 265, 268, 287, 292, 335, 360
400, 431, 550, 552, 611, 629, 795
Peterborough Slip (Sharon)  60, 154
190, 312, 335, 355, 611, 743, 795
Philadelphia, Penn ...158, 207, 231, 743
744,793. 797. 840-843, 855.
Piermont  51, 61, 78, 85, 87, 153, 260
267, 269, 337, 374, 463, 470-472
475. 504. 524. 526, 533. 561. 612
634, 649, 679, 697, 725, 740, 743
790, 796, 844, 845.
Piscataqua Harbor  88, in, 113, 234
251, 315, 323, 357, 370, 381, 393
417, 555-
Piscataqua River  850
Pittsfield. 58, 154, 263, 334, 610, 809, 822
Pittsfield, Mass  832
Plainfield  124, 153, 174, 175, 206,208
221, 260, 266, 311, 317, 337, 345
350, 361, 462, 464, 465, 469, 471
476, 479, 497, 499, 506, 509, 510
521, 525, 534, 612, 664, 671, 688
735, 739. 740. 743. 782, 787. 792
795, 796, 801, 822.
Plaistow. .58, 153, 264, 267, 287, 292, 334
343. 445. 474. 537. 543. 55o. 553
610, 673, 675, 691, 694, 807, 819
Plymouth  61, 140, 153, 218, 260, 266
267, 269, 299, 322, 337, 358, 374
407, 446, 449, 467, 471, 523, 543
551, 553. 6i2, 644, 663.
Poplin (Fremont)  58, 153, 287, 292
334. 343-
Portland. Me  851
Portsmouth.. 33-36, 50, 57, 89, 93, 96, 99
105, 109, 119, 123, 137, 146, 153
163, 175, 177, 183, 187, 197, 198
205, 206, 210, 2i8, 223, 245, 259
262, 263, 267, 299-301, 305, 311
320, 326, 328, 333, 338, 343, 360
370, 371. 374. 381, 385. 397. 399
410, 414, 426, 429, 449, 450, 452
455. 461, 462, 467. 468, 471, 478
481, 487, 496, 497, 518, 523, 538
540, 541. 543. 549-554. 556. 558
-560, 562-566, 571-575. 581. 591
603, 609, 615, 629, 638, 644, 648
653, 663, 681, 683, 713, 717, 718
727. 729-731. 740, 741. 751, 752
767. 770. 771. 774. 777, 788, 789

791, 806, 811, 812, 814, 816,825
-830, 833, 839, 840, 842, 844, 845
Princeton, Mass  831, 832
Princeton College  847
Protectworth (Springfield)  61, 153
337, 587, 590, 631, 635.
Raby (Brookline)  59, 108, 153, 313
335, 353, 400, 416, 462, 497, 559
561, 611, 728, 737, 785, 812, 825
Ragged Mountain Brook  426
Raymond  33, 58, 154
262, 301, 334, 343, 561, 563, 572
Rehoboth, Mass  833
Richmond  60, 153
260, 266, 336, 561, 6n.
Rindge  35, 60, 153, 192
266, 268, 291, 336, 467, 509, 550
Rochester  59, 100, 130,153,259
264, 268, 334, 415, 472, 527, 543
550,551, 553, 561, 563, 574,610
644, 663, 700, 811, 812, 823, 826
Royalston, N.S  96
Rumney  61, 153
178, 214, 260, 266, 269, 278, 337
407, 562, 564, 612, 664, 806, 818
Rye  58, 153, 165, 189, 190, 195
264, 267, 334, 371, 552, 554, 609

Saco River  385
Sagamore's Creek  850
Salem  58, 153, 264, 267
334, 543, 610, 811.
Salisbury  60, 154, 265, 268
299, 336, 417. 427. 574. 611, 625
Salisbury, Mass  852
Sanbornton  59, 153
260, 268, 287, 292, 335, 552.
Sandown  68, 153
165, 190, 195, 334, 610.
Sandwich  59, 154, 164
176, 203, 261, 264, 335, 355, 610
Saratoga  113, 857
Saville (Sunapee)  510
Seabrook  58, 98, in, 129, 148, 153
263, 334. 478. 481, 540, 598. 610
648, 651, 844.
Sharon (Peterborough Slip)  60, 154
190,312,335, 355, 611,743, 795
Sheffield, Mass  833
Ships, etc. :
Arthur  137
Chevalier  856
Druid  542

INDEX.

899

Ships, etc. :
Lapories  370
L'Impeteux  856
Lusanna  in, 150
M=Clary  150
Ranger  856
Raleigh  542
Serapis  856
Shirley, Mass  831
Shrewsbury, Mass  832
Shutesbury, Mass  832
Society Land  60, 154, 190, 335, 611
Somersworth  59, 153, 259
264. 334. 551. 553,567, 573. 610
South Brimfield, Mass  832
South Hampton  58, 154
195, 262, 334, 6io, 815, 830.
Spencer, Mass  832
Springfield  241, 250
Springfield (Protectworth)  61, 153
337. 587. 590. 631, 635.
Stark (Percy)  154, 190, 337
Stirrup Iron Meadow Brook  427
Stoddard  61, 154
261, 266, 336, 463, 505, 612, 692
709, 726, 756, 765, 768, 812, 826
Stratford  61, 75, 87
154, 190, 269, 337, 467, 489, 515
Stratham  58, 153, 259, 263, 267
288, 334, 371, 471, 518, 543, 610
Sugar River  320, 326, 370, 380
Sunapee (Saville)  510
Sunapee (Wendell)  60, 153, 336
465, 482, 510, 545.
Surry  44, 61, 70
154, 215, 261, 266, 336, 469, 523
558, 612, 732, 768, 775, 815.
Sutton  336, 561
599, 611, 655, 807, 813, 822, 827
Sutton (Perrystown)  60, 154
Sutton, Mass  832
Swanzey  60, 153, 178
195, 214, 260, 266, 268, 336. 469
476, 480, 523, 538, 550, 553, 593
611, 642, 734, 745, 776, 794-
Swanzey, Mass  833
Tamworth  59, 154, 164, 176, 203, 265
268, 335, 449, 543. 610, 644.
Temple  33. 35. 60
154, 165, 190, 268, 335, 355, 611
Templeton, Mass  831
Thornton  61, 153, 267
337, 404, 441, 612.

Ticonderoga  678, 704, 855
Tuftonborough  59, 1 54
335, 595. 610, 643.
Unity  60, 153, 266, 336
397. 425. 430, 469. 477. 481. 522
539, 5S8, 589, 593, 633, 641, 762
Upper Coos (Lancaster)  171, 173
177, 463, 676, 677, 681, 700, 707
Uxbridge, Mass  832
Wakefield  59, 154, 261, 264
268, 272. 335, 342, 343, 449, 543
610, 644, 810, 811, 813, 823, 827
Walpole  34, 60, 103, 154
172, 178, 211, 261, 262, 266, 268
299. 300, 312, 337, 347, 366, 400
414.433. 469, 521. 551. 553. 573
574. 611, 631, 719. 726, 733, 753
759. 765. 789, 809, 813, 828.
Warner  60, 154, 336, 611, 655, 807
Warren  61, 153, 260, 267
322, 337, 374, 395, 422, 460, 475
493 533, 551,553. 561. 582, 602
612, 615, 661, 681, 710, 844, 845
Washington  61, 98, 120, 154
171, 176, 201, 207, 336, 400, 429
561, 589, 612, 632, 680, 709, 719
753. 817-
Weare  60, 153, 260
265, 266, 268, 336, 456, 488, 598
611, 650, 675, 694.
Wendell (Sunapee)  60, 153, 336
465, 482, 510, 545.
Wentworth  61, 153, 267, 337
374. 475. 533. 612, 740, 790, 807
821.
Westmoreland  60, 154, 192
261, 266, 336, 402, 414, 431, 448
525, 558, 562, 564, 6n, 768, 815
Westfield, Mass  832
West Springfield, Mass  830-832
Whateley, Mass  832
Wilton  59, 82, 154, 190
265, 268, 335, 611.
Winchester  44, 60, 69
153, 165, 190, 260, 336, 476, 480
538. 550. 551. 553. 587, 611, 624
698, 722, 757.
Windham  58, 153
230, 260, 264, 334, 557. 558. 561
610, 807, 811, 819, 825.
Windsor (CampbeU's Gore)  243, 467
Windsor, Mass  832

900

INDEX.

Windsor, Vt  597, 656
Winnipiseogee Lake  449, 878
Wolfeborough  59, 154
165, 190, 264, 309, 335, 350, 355
427, 562, 610, 663.

Woodstock (Peeling)  153
Worcester, Mass  832
Worthington, Mass  832

INDEX OF NAMES OF PERSONS.

Abbott, William  289
William, Jr  256, 265
Ackerman, Nahum  823
Peter  319, 369
Adams, Elisha  240
Ephraim  59. 63. 67, 73, 75
78, 79, 83, 94, 100, 119, 121, 122
124, 126, 128, 130, 139, 156, 177
178, 194, 200, 202, 208, 211, 214
219. 335. 344. 348, 352, 353,362-
364, 370, 371, 374, 375, 377. 379
385. 397, 414, 415, 426, 431, 432
441, 446, 496, 498, 501, 502, 504
507, 508, 510, 513, 516, 519, 521
535, 536, 662.
James  241
John  813, 865
Jonathan  283, 385
Josiah  255, 263
Nathaniel  33
301, 326, 383, 384, 550, 553, 572
Richard   707
Samuel. .573, 595, 643, 727, 732, 766
Sarah  238
W  238, 476, 479
WUliam  456, 489, 533
Aiken, James  556, 558
Nenian  550, 552, 675, 694
Aid, Benjamin  247
Aldrich, George  254, 261, 557, 558
Alexander, Reuben. . .253, 260, 550, 808
AUen, Amasa  74o, 788
John  58, 64, 78, 81
83, 194, 197, 202, 214, 255, 264
Rufiis  832
Samuel Green  407
Alley, Daniel  249, 472, 527
Ephraim  273
Lydia.  249
Allis, Elijah  99
Elisha  46, 112
Ambrose, Nathaniel  610, 635
656, 666, 696, 697, 699.

Ames, Aaron  814, 828
Amos  534
David  476, 479, 533
Luther  550, 553
Stephen  612, 635, 647, 656
666, 696, 698, 699, 756, 759, 761
772, 774, 784, 789, 794, 798, 801
Anderson, John  757
Andrews, Isaac  256, 265
Jeremiah  287
WUliam  287
Annis. Jacob  271
Apthorp, Charles  io8
East  112, 152
Armour, Gawen  107, 140, 319, 369
Arnold, Benedict  857
Jonathan  550, 553
Ashley, Daniel  6n, 615, 624
635, 641, 652, 656, 657, 666, 691
696, 697, 699, 708, 754, 759, 761
764, 771, 772, 774-776, 778, 784
789, 798, 805, 818.
Martin  243
Oliver  47, 74, 105, 137, 256, 266
Samuel  252, 254, 255, 258, 262
Samuel, Jr  266, 810, 822
Atherton, Joshua  8n, 825, 845
Atkinson, George  5', 53. 57. 62, 85
123, 126, 157, 164, 188, 255, 262
275. 299-301, 306-308,310,311
313, 316-318, 321-325, 341, 343
344. 349. 351, 356-358. 365. 371
376-378. 391-393. 398, 401. 403
433. 438. 439. 443, 455, 457-459
461, 462, 464, 466, 469, 472, 474
477, 481, 482, 505, 513, 530, 536
538, 544, 545, 574, 575, 580, 581
587-591, 593, 595, 596, 599, 615
635-638, 640, 644, 655, 717, 718
721, 728, 733.
Samuel  176, 208, 551, 554
Austin, Moses  625
Nicholas  397, 427, 494

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INDEX.

903

Batchelder, Breed. 317, 361, 451, 465, 511
David  682, 683, 710, 713
Nathan  58
154, 202, 255, 263, 334, 375, 379
434, 442, 446, 498. 503. 507, 508
516, 518, 520.
Nathaniel  283
285, 291, 334, 364, 372, 375, -377
379, 418, 431, 434, 446, 503, 504
507, 508, 516, 519.
Baxter, Benjamin  42, 66, 311, 345
Simon . ,395, 421, 460, 496, 744, 796
Bayley, Asa  254, 261
Joshua  256, 265
282, 284, 550, 553, 559, 808, 841
Samuel. .379, 425, 459, 469, 494, 521
Beal, Captain  270
Thomas  232
Zachariah  113, 156
Bean, Jonathan  245
Joseph  426
Nathaniel  283, 285
Samuel  730
733, 745, 77^,777, 819,823.
Bearce, Andrew  277
Mary  277
Beck, John  566
Bedel, Timothy  61
115, 122-124, 126, 127, 132, 139
140, 143, 145, 15s, 156, 158,159
Beede, Daniel  59, 67, 6g
126, 132, 155-157, 202, 203, 208
255, 264, 355, 610, 623, 624, 634-
637, 646, 656, 666, 68g, 6g6, 6g7
6g9, 754, 759, 761, 769, 771. 772
774, 778, 784.
Belcher, Sarson  144, 586, 629
Belding, Moses  95
103, 121, 129, 136, 147, 242.
Belknap, Jeremy  102, 134
176, 210, 308, 310, 328, 333, 339
342. 344. 365. 388.
BeU, EUzabeth  156
Frederick Mordant  156
John  255, 263
551. 553. 574. 575. 580. 581.587
594, 595, 615, 671, 674, 676, 679
690, 691, 708, 721, 723, 72,3, 841
Joshua  478, 481. 540
Meshech  106, 141
165, 191, 234, 245, 247, 275, 323
326, 327, 378, 382, 383, 392.415
473. 527. 528, 584. 624.
Meshech, Jr  551, 554

BeUows, Benjamin  34, 35, 40
51, 63, 85, 86, 103, 135, 252, 253
255, 258, 25g, 262, 300, 3g2, 400
414. 433. 459. 46g, 494. 521. 573
584, 647, 664, 806. 818, 845.
John  256, 266
2gg, 300, 306, 321, 341, 3gi-3g5
397. 398. 400, 402-405, 407, 408
446, 448, 456, 458, 460-462, 464
467, 469, 472. 497. 551. 553. 574
575. 579. 582-588, 593-596, 598-
600, 604, 657, 664, 671, 674, 676
677, 680, 6gi, 6g2, 704, 71S, 721
722, 725, 730, 734, 740, 752, 761
768, 788, 808, 813, 828, S41.
Thomas  740, 78S
Bennett, Deliverance  833
Betton, James  58. 65, 67, 69, 73, 78
119, 121, 126, 130, 131, 133, 136
139, 140, 156, 188-lgi, ig3, ig6
lg8, 200-203, 312, 334, 345, 347
348, 350, 352, 363, 364, 370, 371
374. 375. 378, 414. 417. 42g. 431
432. 434, 439. 490. 498. 501, 503
508, 510, 557, 558, 5g5, 610, 621
622, 624, 625, 627, 631, 634, 635
640, 646, 64g-65i, 656, 657-, 687-
6gi, 6g6, 699, 752, 754-756, 758-
760, 762, 763, 765, 771, 772, 774
775, 811, 835.
John  323, 376
Bickford, Thomas  173, 194, 203, 287
Bicknall, Thomas  832
Bigelow, Benjamin  88
107, III, 150, 168, 170, 197,200
212, 229, 247, 287, 323, 327, 329
378, 384. 387, 395, 402, 421, 437
477. 478. 481, 482, 540, 584, 594
624, 643, 645, 679, 682, 706, 708
Billings, Captain  832
Bingham, Aaron  832
Blaite, James  98, loi, 129, 132, 250
Jonathan  256, 267, 509
Thomas  231
Blanchard, Augustus  257
268, 550-553.
Jonathan  35, 36, 48, 79
138, 239, 252, 255, 258, 262, 300
557. 558. 573. 584, 647, 64g.
Joseph  600, 6ig, 657, 841
Jotham  108, 145
Blodgett, Elijah  gg
128, 175, 177, 208, 211, 23g, 278
Josiah  524

904

INDEX.

Blood, Ephraim  loi, 132
Francis  33, 35, 3g, 41-
45, 47, 48, 74, 86, 93-97, 102
104, 106, 108, 114, 115, 125, 150
159, 163-165, 167, 168, 170-172
174, 176, 178, 179, 193, 195,200
212, 229-231, 233, 234, 337, 348
352, 255, 257, 258, 262, 269, 281-
283, 285-287, 2gi-2g3, 2g5-2g7
316,355, 358.
William  loi, 132
Blunt, John  255
263, 586, 62g, 762.
Bohonnen, Andrew  427
Jacob  427
Bonner, John  236
Borland, Francis  316, 360
Bowdoin, Governor  554, 830
Bowen, Charles  44, 65
John  427
Bowers, Jerathmeel  24g
Bowley, James  27g
Boyd, George  no, 145
Samuel  272, 674, 6g3
Boyes, Captain  243
William  253, 260
Boynton, David E  728, 765
Elias  257, 268
Joseph  813, 826
Richard  244
Brackett, James  5g, 65
119, 126, 133, 155, 256, 268, 335
344, 361, 363, 364. 379. 384. 385
414. 428, 498, 503, 508, 516, 519
526, 535, 556, 558, 610, 615, 624
635. 636, 756, 757, 760, 761, 772
774, 784. 789. 794-
Joshua  34, 283, 285, 301, 573
Bradford, Samuel  807
Bradley, David  243
John  610
666, 696, 697, 699, 757, 759, 761
767. 770. 772. 774-776, 784. 789
793. 798-
Brainard, Daniel  256, 266
Breed, Charles  540, 648
Brewer, Ebenezer  813, 827
Brewster, David  32g
387. 404. 482, 545-
Ebenezer  254, 261, 405
441, 444, 58g, 5g7, 633, 648, 780
John  812, 826
William  557, 55g, 741, 7gi
Briard, Samuel  566

Britton, Ebenezer  397
426, 557, 558, 815, 829.
Samuel  813, 827
Brooks, John  476, 479, 533
Nathan  740, 788, 78g
Brooks, Nathaniel  740
Samuel  808, 822
Solomon  788, 78g
Thomas  740
William  476, 47g, 533
Brown, Aaron  42, 51, 67, 85
Alexander  510
Benjamin  253, 259
Captain  832
Daniel  233
Elisha.. .283, 285, 531, 591, 593, 610
635, 638, 642, 656, 666, 696, 697
6gg. 759. 761. 772. 774. 784. 78g
Jacob  140, 283, 285
James  257, 269
Josiah  47, 73, 86
Samuel  540, 648
WUliam  173, 206, 276
Bryant, John  290, 336, 364, 376, 379
415, 427, 428, 435, 442, 446, 498
503-
William  246, 247
Bryent, David  458, 478, 490, 541
Jeremiah  556, 558
John  255,263
Walter  567
Buckminster, Joseph . . .57, 180, 218, 288
333. 478, 543. 566, 609, 719, 746
747. 753. 799. 879-
Bucknam, Edwards. . ..120, 254, 256, 261
267, 324, 380, 396, 423, 459, 491
677, 700.
Bugbee, Amasa  83, 144
Nathaniel  39g, 431, 438
Thomas  402
Bundy, Asahel  135, 202
Burbank, Moses  163
Moses, Jr  188
Nathaniel  235
Burgoyne, General  857
Burnham, Abraham  322, 337, 363, 364
373. 374. 376, 379. 382, 383,425
431. 434. 435. 438, 439. 441. 443
446, 447, 452, 4go, 491, 562, 564
664, 806, 818.
Burns, Abigail  762
William  763
Burnside, James  250
Thomas  466, 473, 514, 524

INDEX.

90s

Burr, Jonathan  398, 430
Burrows, Edward  271
Burt, Joseph. 254, 261, 283, 285, 557, 558
815, 829.
Buss, Samuel  561, 563
BusweU, Caleb. 52, 87, 182, 221, 229, 278
409, 451, 605, 668.
Buder, Benjamin.. 48, 50, 79, 84, 283, 285
Elizabeth  165, 170, 190, 197
Enoch  244
Henry.. .256, 267, 810, 816, 823, 834
Jacob . . . .5g, 126, 143, 151, 155, 334
434. 4g8. 503. 507. 508, 516, 5ig
520.
Josiah  740, 746, 7go, 801
Pierce  873
Thaddeus  ig3, 616
Butterfield, Isaac ., . . . .407, 448, 525, 650
Buttes, Sampson  27 1
Buzzell, Aaron  242
Jonathan  270
Caldwell, James  257, 268
Samuel  675, 6g4
Calfe, James.. 5g, 123, 126, 128, i2g, 133
137, 145, 155, 156, 202, 208, 212
John.... 51, 57, 63, 84, 114, 157, 181
220, 221, 22g, 244, 252, 255, 258
263, 278, 282, 284, 325, 326, 333
339' 381, 382, 408, 449. 477. 481
506, 540, 579, 586, 600, 609, 613
628, 657, 682, 703, 712, 741, 790
Calley, Josiah  280
CampbeU, Daniel  287, 292
James  353
Capron, Oliver  60, 155, 157, 195, 202
253, 256, 260, 266.
Carkin, Isaac  270
Carr, David  219
James  253, 259, 561, 563, 573
Moses  255,264
CarroU,   873
Carter, Jeremiah  275
Nathan  275
Cass, Jonathan. . .236, 557, 559, 720, 739
754, 786, 812, 826.
Caswell, Nathan  593, 641
Cate, John  256, 268
Chadbourne, Thomas  256, 268
Chadwick, Edmund . . .164, 167, 189, 194
279.
Challis, Christopher  247
Chamberlain, Benjamin  832
Eliphalet   832

Chamberlain, Joseph  832
Samuel  561, 563
Samuel, Jr  816, 835
Champney, Ebenezer  68, loi
Richard  256, 267
Chandler, Abiel  291
Isaac  675, 694
Zaccheus  257, 268
Chapin, Hiram  732, 775
Justus  104, 136, 692
Sarah. . .104, 136, 674, 692, 732, 775
Chapman, Hezekiah  832
Joanna  403, 440, 462, 501, 642
John  440
Jonathan  289, 457, 594
Justus  136
Nathan  131, 476, 479, 533
Sarah  136
Chase, Betsy  273
Daniel  257, 268
Dudley. .612, 624, 632, 635, 641, 646
656, 662, 666, 692, 696, 697, 6gg
703. 704. 753. 754. 759. 761. 772
774. 778. 780, 782, 784, 786, 78g
7g4. 797, 798. 813, 827.
Jacob  256, 267
Jonathan .g7, 122, 171, 201, 254, 260
348, 48g, 573. 5g2, 5g3, 640, 642
808, 810, 821.
Moses  33, 46, 60, 65, 74, 75, 83
122, 126, 127, i2g, 133, 136, 140
143. 146. 155. 157. 188, ig3-ig5
ig8, 202, 205, 208, 2ii> 216, 2ig
229, 230, 237, 248, 255, 257, 262
269, 281-283, 285-287, 291-293
295-297. 299, 300, 305, 307, 308
310-312, 315, 316, 318, 321-324
391, 3g2, 3g7, 407, 456-458. 461
466, 467, 470, 472, 523, 526, 533
536. 538, 594, 645. 816, 834.
Nathaniel  273
Samuel. .253, 256, 25g, 266, 583, 5g2
624, 641, 728, 767.
Stephen  287, 2g2
Cherry, Samuel  812, 826
Chesley, Corydon  2g3
Jonathan . . .3g6, 424, 610, 623, 62g-
631, 634, 635, 638, 63g, 642, 643
645, 646, 64g, 656, 657, 666, 667
693, 696, 697, 699, 707, 709, 752
754. 759. 761. 762, 768, 769, 771
772, 774, 775, 781, 784-786, 789
-791. 793. 794. 798-
CheswiU, Wentworth  556, 558, 810

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INDEX.

907

498. 503-505. 507. 508, 516, 519
520, 612, 632, 634-636, 640, 650
651, 656, 658, 695, 696, 6g8, 6gg
704, 706, 707, 709, 722, 755, 756
759. 765. 767, 772. 774-
Copp, Aaron  293
David  59, 66, 67, 83
121, 126, 143-145. 155. 157. 158
igi, ig2, 200, 202, 204, 211, 2l6
283, 285.
Joshua  256, 267, 551, 553, 615
Corser, David  180
182, 218, 222, 310, 34g, 406, 422
444, 45g, 4g2, 597, 602, 650, 659
Samuel  222
Cotton, Ebenezer  318,362
John  272
Thomas  682, 683. 710. 713, 775
Coughlin, Richard  813
Cragin, Francis  60
126, 155, 156, 202, 335, 418, 498
503, 504, 507, 508, 516, 518-520
535, 611, 628, 632, 635, 656, 666
696, 6gg, 759, 761, 771, 772. 774
775. 785. 789, 792. 793. 795-798
Craige, Alexander  254, 257, 260
269, 562, 564, 806, 808, 818, 820
Cram , Humphrey  277
John  58,65,75,80
126, 155, 156, 255, 263, 610, 624
625, 628, 633-636, 639, 642, 645
647, 653, 656, 657, 662, 665, 666
696, egg.
Jonathan  253, 25g
Crane, Colonel  53 1
Zebulon  103, 135, 203
Crawford, Jane  274
Robert  274
Cressey, Benjamin  28g
Michael  256, 266
Crombie, Benjamin  403, 44o
James  392, 527, 528
Jonathan  4^4
CromweU, Eliphalet  242
Cross, Daniel  356
Crow, Robert  466
Cummings, Benjamin  423
473. 494. 526. ^ ^ ^ -
Simeon  561, 563, 810, 823
Cunningham, Robert  230
Samuel  611
635, 638. 644, 647, 656, 6g6, 697
699, 761. 772-775, 778. 783. 784
789, 794. 798. 800.

Currier, David  395, 463, 505
John  807
Curtis, Amariah  642, 729, 770
Timothy  27g
Cushing, John  73 1. 773
Cutler, Joseph  602, 662
Zaccheus  181, 2ig
Cutter, Ammi Ruhamah  472
528, 808, 822.
Cutting, Jonas  72g, 76g
Cutts, Samuel  317
322, 360, 374, 783.
DaUing, Samuel  588, 633
Dalton, Samuel  270
Tristram  45 . 74
Dame, Jabez  256, 268, 283, 285
Theophilus  252
253, 258, 25g, 808, 815, 830.
Dana, Samuel  85
252, 258, 281, 283, 285, 286, 586
William  52, 87, 139, 408, 449
Danforth, David  120
Samuel  275
Daniels, David  458, 4g2, 501
Elizabeth  27g
Minos  682, 712
Nathaniel  27g
Samuel  .... 58, 6g
126, 202, 255, 263, 610, 635, 654
656, 666. 698, egg.
Darling, Benjamin . . . -336, 363, 364, 376
379. 435. 446. 498. 501. 503. 508
Davis, Asa  283, 285
Benjamin  175, 208, 218, 291
Daniel  102, 133
Eleazer  256, 368
Ephraim  290
Francis  60
Isaac  280
John  290
Joseph   269
Moses  230
Thomas  583,585, 623, 625
William  832
Day, p:iijah  832
Luke  830, 831
Dearborn,   705
Benjamin  457
478, 489, 542, 586, 62g, 727, 731
736, 738, 766, 770.775,781.
John  253, 25g
John S  105, 140, 250
Joseph  239

908

INDEX.

Dearborn, Josiah  552, 554
Levi  283, 285
S  678
Samuel  205, 209, 280, 819
Sherburne  42, (>7
Simeon  255
264, 583, 611, 615, 6ig, 623, 634
635, 645, 646, 648, 654, 656, 658
666, 667, 6g3, 6g7, 699, 710, 711
761, 765, 774, 775, 777, 7S0, 784
785, 789, 7go, 7g4, 7g8, 811, 823
Stephen  282, 284
Susanna  415
Thomas  415
Demerit, Joseph  562, 564, 805, 817
Dennett, John  552, 554, 8i6, 833
Dimpsey, Edward  g5, 100, 121, 130
Dinsmore, Captain  832
John  632
Disney, John  465
Dix, Nathan  841
Dockum, Enoch  270
Dodge, Susanna  462, 501
Doe, Jonathan  272
Dole, Benjamin  275
3g3, 311, 333, 346, 377.
John  240, 2g3, 377
Stephen  586, 611, 624, 628-
630, 635, 638, 640, 64g, 666, 6g6
6g8, 6gg, 754, 75g, 761, 777.784
Donaldson, John  312, 3ig, 353, 367
Mary  312, 3ig, 353, 367
Doolittle, John  .256, 266
Dorr, John  27g
Doty, William  256, 267
Douglass, Samuel  335
363, 364, 435, 4g3, 4g8, 503, 507
508, 55g, 561, 563.
Dow,   631, 633, 635, 636, 666
Abraham  282, 284
Amos  V '583, 610
621, 631, 656, 6g6, 6gS, 699, 75g
Ela  775
John, Jr  256, 267
Jonathan  60, 78
126, 147, 188, 202, 206, 218, 336
341, 342, 344, 350, 355, 363, 364
375. 388, 406, 416, 424, 434, 442
446-448, 498, 49g, 503, 508, 5og
515, 516, 519, 525, 527-529, 535
536, 812, 826.
Joseph  255, 263
Moses  35, 39-44, 46, 48
49, 78, 7g, 84, 85, 115, 136, 138

i5g, 176, 178-180, 222, 253-255
25g, 260, 262, 299, 300, 312, 314
337. 343-349. 351, 352. 356. 357
361. 370, 371. 376, 377. 379. 380
388, 407, 408, 425, 428, 434, 435
438, 441, 446, 448, 472, 489, 490
492, 493. 496-499. 501, 502, 504-
506, 509, 512, 516-519, 526, 549-
552, 554. 555. 557-565. 569. 571
581, 584, 612, 615, 616, 618, 624
628-630, 634, 636, 640-642, 647
649, 652, 656. 665, 692, 698-700
704. 707. 708,710,805-811,817-
8ig, 821-824.
Downing, Richard  255, 262
Thomas  540, 648
Dowse, Edward  554
Doyne, Jacob  407
448, 459, 492, 5g8, 651.
Drake, Francis  852
Thom.as  743, 7g6
Weare  815, 830
Drew, John  377, 381, 424
Joseph  3gi, 413, 584, 625, 632
Drowne, Peter  316, 358
Ducher, Sieur  560
Dudley, Elizabeth  853
John  33, 35, 40, 45, 63, 74, g3
251, 254, 257, 262, 301, 572.
Maria  120
Nathaniel  561, 563
Samuel  853
Thomas  853
Duncan, John  52, 60, 63
65-67, 6g, 70, 78, 7g, 85, 86
108, ng, 121, 125-127, 133, 136
139. 142, 144. 147. 154. 156, 166
177, 188, i8g, igi, 193, 195, 198
300-202, 204, 205, 211, 218, 243
256, 265, 276, 312, 336, 342, 344
346-348, 352, 357, 360, 363, 414-
416, 418, 421, 431, 434, 440, 441
445. 446, 451. 489. 491, 492, 503
504. 507-509. 515. 516, 5ig, 521
526, 611, 6ig, 621, 622, 634, 625
628, 634, 635, 637, 647-650, 652
653. 656, 657, 666, 6g3, 6g4, 696-
6gg, 7o7-7og, 753-755. 759. 761
765, 766, 774, 775.
Robert  814, 828
Thomas  279
William  605, 668, 814, 828
Dunlap, John  811, 825
Dunshea, Hugh  273

INDEX.

909

Durrah, Stephen  240
Du Sausse, Adrian  170, ig8
Juha  170, ig8
Mary Este  170, ig8
Peter  167
168, 170, 194, 196, 198.
Dustin, Caleb  334
364, 498, 503, 507, 508.
John  592
596, 601, 638, 648, 659.
Dutton, John  811, 823
Dwyer, Michael  808, 820
Eamei, Jeremiah  loi, 120
132, 177, 211, 256, 267, 278, 463
466, 489, 506, 514, 515, 551, 553
Eastman,  . . .136, 189, 190, 194, 221
Edward  427
Jeremiah  58, 126, 202, 255, 363
John  58
126, 202, 334, 347, 372, 375, 37g
434. 4g8. 502, 504. 516, 519.
Jonathan  256
257, 267, 268, 313, 319, 347, 366
Josiah  271
Peter  135
PhUip  103, 172, 178, 211
Samuel  3ig, 367
WiUiam  275
Elkins, Jonathan  5g6
5g8, 622, 648, 651.
Elkinson, Jonathan  583
EUiott, Jacob.  280
Jonathan  165, 166
igi, ig2, 275, 610, 635, 656, 666
6g6, 6g7, 699, 713, 759. 761, 772
774, 780, 784, 789, 794, 798. 800
Sarah  120
EUis, Elisha  74. 129, 151
Emerson,  *  I33
140, 217, 345. 346, 368, 374. 380
415, 424,- 430, 488, 490, 492, 498
516, 522, 534, 535, 621, 624, 629
630, 632, 637, 642, 665, 667, 668
6g8, 6gg, 706, 730, 754, 755, 764
770. 774, 775, 778. 781. 782, 787
788, 790, 793, 794, 797-
Benjamin  287
Benjamin, Jr  292
Daniel  59, 100, 126, 130
143, 149, 156, 202, 210, 214,256
335. 361. 363. 375. 379. 435, 59'
* There being more than one man of this name in the House, at this time, it is not known to the Editor
which one is referred to, when the designation is merely " Mr."

602, 611, 635, 637, 650, 656, 662
666, 759, 761, 785, 789, 798, 799
Daniel, Jr  265
Jonathan  g8, 129, 174, 206, 241
Nathaniel  58, 66, 78, 80, 126
154, 157, igo, 254, 261, 334, 363
364, 435, 442, 446. 610, 631, 63s
656, 666, 75g, 761, 785, 78g.
Samuel  47, 50, 77, 82, 85, 243
252, 255, 256, 263, 266, 281, 286
Solomon  255, 264
Timothy  556, 558
Emery, Noah  255, 263
Noah, Jr  473, 530
Rama  3gr
Enos, Robert  124
Roger  113, 182, 221
Eustace, William  875
Evans, Edward  233
Israel  g8, loi, 126, 131, 241
John  746
Stephen  145, 738, 781
Exmouth, Lord  856
Fabyan. John  808, 820
Fairbanks, Jonas  631, 726, 765
Fairbrook, Samuel  735
Fairfield, Jeremiah  230
John  562, 564, 806, 818
Joseph  832
Samuel  787
Walter  806
Farley, Benjamin  76g
Farnsworth, Ebenezer  447
Farnum, Ebenezer  728, 758
Farrar, Timothy.. 182, 223, 252, 255, 258
265.
Farwell, Isaac  573
Lucy  632
Fay, Joseph  27g
Lucy  27g, 721, 724, 755, 761
Nathan  203, 744, 796
Fenny, Robert  237
Ferguson, William  269
Ferries, Chevalier de  370
Fields, Henry  466, 513
Fifield, Anna  427
Nathaniel  8n , 825
Fish, Nathan  2g3
Fisher, John  468, 471, 512, 520, 524
Fisk, Captain  832
Ebenezer  318, 362

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Fisk, Ezekiel  318, 362
Flagg, Ebenezer. .313, 320, 352, 365, 36g
Josiah  255, 264
Fletcher, Timothy  563, 564
Flower, Colonel . .131, 241, 476, 47g, 533
Fogg, Jeremiah. . .255, 264, 300, 556, 558
574-
John  813
Seth. . .58, 70, 74, 122, 126, 132, 150
154, 156, ig4, 202, 743, 7g6.
Folsom, David  566
James  681
James, Jr  706
Nathaniel  31, i8g, 252. 255, 258
262, 710.
Samuel  i8g, 256, 267
Foot, Obed  832
Ford, James  253, 25g
Forrest, Robert  230
Forsyth, WUliam  257, 268
Foss, Joshua  5g, 67-6g, 74, 85, 120
126-128, 144, I4g, 150, 155, ig4
202, 206-308, 211, 213, 334, 344
358. 364, 372-375, 377, 379, 381
382, 417, 421, 424-426, 42g-43i
433, 434, 437, 442, 446, 452, 4g7
4g8, 503, 508-510, 5ig, 526, 535
550. 552.
Joshua, Jr  3g7, 468
Richard  48, 77
Foster, Abiel. .. .33, 36, 48, 79, in, 123
239, 243, 252, 255, 258, 263, 301
399. 432. 575, 587, 627.
Asa  610, 622, 62g, 635, 636, 643
651, 652, 656, 666, 667, 6g6, 6g7
6gg. 704. 705. 708, 758. 759. 761
772. 774, 775, 784, 786, 789. 791
793. 798. 801.
Jonathan  236
Nathaniel  181, ig5, 3og, 350
Samuel  401, 416, 435
Simeon  250
Fowle, Daniel. . . .3g8, 401, 430, 436, 482
483. 540, 542, 545. 590. 636.
Fowler, Samuel.. .170, igg, 276, 566, 567
805, 817.
William .400, 406, 433, 446, 463, 498
Fox, Joel  240
Uriah  346, 347
Francis, Levi  540, 648
Franklin, Benjamin  860
Freeland, James  833
Freeman, Edmund. . . .254, 261, 612, 624
635, 638, 639, 642, 656, 659, 666

696, 697, 6gg, 759, 761, 772, 774
775. 778. 782-784, 806, 814, 818
Jonathan  256, 267, 475, 531, 844
Russell. 42, 61, 67, 73, 77, 78, 83, 85
106, 126, 134, 137, 141, 145, 155
156, 175, 196, 202, 208, 211, 257
26g, 283. 285, -^-iT, 343, 352, 360
364. 376, 434. 446. 449. 498. 515
516, 5ig, 531, 532, 535.
French, Benjamin.. 5g, 126, 155, ig5, ig6
202, 335, 345, 347, 434, 4g8, 503
504.
Captain  710, 711
Ebenezer  815, 830
Gould  539
Joseph  427, 707
Frinic, Calvin  256, 266, 467, 514, 550
553. 808.
Elijah. . .336, 346, 363, 364, 369, 374
379. 421. 425. 430. 434. 436. 446
489, 498, 501. 504. 507. 508, 515
-519. 525. 528, 535. 556. 558.
Frost, George. . . .252, 255, 258, 264, 730
771, 809, 811, 823.
Margaret  112, 155, 383, 400
Frye, Isaac  409, 449, 450
Fugard, Samuel  179, 216, 290
Fuller, Jonathan  277
Samuel  664
Thomas  589, 633
Furber, Joshua  652
Mary  700
Nehemiah  700
Gage, Abner  235
Josiah.. .255, 263, 649, 675, 695, 761
Gains, George . .51, 57, 64, 66-68, 75, 77
7g, 83, 85, 121-123, 125, 126, 128
133, i36-i3g, 143, 145, 155, 156
158, 160, 188-igo, ig3, ig6, ig8
200-204, 206, 208, 216, 218, 253
255. 259, 263, 323, 325, 328, 333
338. 342. 345. 352. 357. 360, 363
364, 375, 377-379. 381, 383-385
397, 414, 415. 417. 421. 422,425
428, 430, 431, 434, 435, 437, 440
450. 482, 48g, 4g2, 4g4, 4g5, 4g8
501. 502, 504, So7-5og, 516, 518
520, 530, 535, 536, 540, 541, 545
Gale, Abraham  831
Daniel  586, 629
John  427
Gallop, William  49, 80, 84
Gardner, John  809

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Goodenough, Asahel  700, 73g, 784
Calvin  534
Gookin, Daniel  321
374, 463, 504, 812, 826.
Gordon, Daniel  102
Gorham, Stephen  50, 81, g7, 127
361. 555. 572. 672, ego, 738, 786
Goss, John  806, 822
Gould, Benjamin  808, 820
Daniel  556, 558
Jacob  •  288
James  g5
102, 122, 133, 241, 28g, 550, 553
John  242
John, Jr  242
Moses  277
Thomas  832
Gove, Jonathan  64
ig2, 464, 510, 5ig, 523, 5g7, 647
655. 735, 743. 772, 774. 784,785
Mary  395.421
Winthrop  255, 263
Goyer, Bartholomew  43, 6g, 288
Grandy, John  5g5, 641
John, Jr  601, 658
Grant, Daniel  ,275
William  275, 277
Gray, Daniel  831
James  256, 267, 311, 343
John  26g
Greeley, Aaron  60, 6g, 80
126. 133, 13S, ig7, 202, 304, 208
213, 561, 563, 611, 625, 627, e2g
632, 633, 635, 636, 640, 642, 645
648, 655, 656, 658, 666, 688, 6go
eg2, 6g6, 6g8-7oo, 755, 756, 75g
761, 763, 772, 774, 777, 781-784
7g3- 7g4. 798-
Jonathan, Jr  255, 264
Green, Ebenezer  254, 261, 401
409, 435. 449. 550. 597. 633. 648
Hezekiah  832
Joseph  342
Peter  74, 187, 189-igi
ig6, ig8, igg, 201-204, 206, 208
213, 214, 218, 222, 255, 263, 334
344. 347. 348. 353. 37 L 374. 375
377, 37g. 380, 407, 413, 415-417
4ig, 431, 423, 42g, 430, 432, 434
437. 439. 446. 448. 488, 497-49g
503. 515. 517-520, 522, 526, 533
534. 541. 545. 551. 553, 814,828
Samuel  445
Thomas  318, 365

Greenwood, Joseph  256, 266
Gregg, John  682, 683, 713
Joseph  256, 267, 382, 384
Samuel  283, 285
William  723, 72g, 757, 770
Gregory, William . .  238
Griffin, Eliphalet  235
Jonathan  235
Minius  231
Samuel  256
266, 336, 357, 363, 364, 376, 37g
425. 434. 458. 491. 496. 498. 502
504, 507, 508, 516, 5ig, 525, 535
Grimshaw, WUliam  473, 528
Griswold, Isaac  813, 826
Gross, John  105, 140, 250
Grosvenor, Leicester  832
Grout,   66, 82, 85
126, 136, 143, 150, 151, 157, ig5
David  61,155,202
Daniel  283, 285
Elijah  60
65, 108, 115, 144, 155, 157-159
167, i6g, ig5, ig7, 302, 276,336
343. 357. 360, 363, 364, 368, 370
376, 37g, 434, 446, 4go, 4g8, 502
504, 507, 508, 516, 5ig, 561, 563
Jehosaphat  424
Grover, Thomas  831
Hackett, James  471, 518, 551, 554
Hadley, George.. .611, 635, 656, 666, 696
698, egg, 75g, 761, 784, 789, 794
Seth  349
Hagar, Amos  325, 381
Haines, Thomas  320, 369
Hale,   730, 753, 757, 759
769-771. 782, 787, 791, 79g, 800
AbigaU  742, 75g, 795
Eliphalet  588
633. 725, 735. 764. 782.
Enoch  35, 51, 86
138, 163, 165, 167, 168, 174, 175
178, 179, 193, 194, 303, 309, 256
266,611, 656, 658, 666, 707, 754-
756, 761, 766, 772, 774-776. 778
784, 78g, 7gi, 7g3, 795, 798, 799
John  34
gg, 103, 133, 253, 255, 25g, 265
Jonathan  356
Joseph  2gi
Nathan  742, 7g5
Samuel  255
263, 562, 564, 610, 615, 61S, 619

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INDEX.

Hoit, Ebenezer  561, 563
Jabez  255, 264
Joseph  275
Nathan  254, 261
562, 564, 677, 700, 705, 811, 823
Holbrook, John  43, 45, 46
69, 75, 76, 94, 98, 123. 129, 170
173, 200, 204, 276.
Holland, Abraham  8og
Samuel  178, 278
Stephen  g5, 273
Holman, Jonathan  831
Holmes, John  240
Lemuel  61, 168
177, ig6, ig8, 202, 210, 213, 215
256, 265, 278, 336, 342, 346, 347
363, 370, 371, 376, 377, 379, 396
424, 434, 440, 446, 467, 504, 508
515,516, sig, 523,526, 535, 605
612, 622, 623, 632, 634, 635, 643
652, 656, 668, 6g2, 6ge, 6g8, egg
704, 753, 758, 759, 761, 767, 768
770, 772, 774 776-778, 781, 783
784, 7go-7g2, 7g4-7g7, 800, 841
Oliver  8io, 8ii, 825
Honeyford,   568
Hook, Moses  283, 285, 610, 635
63g, 656, 666, 761, 772, 774, 785
Hooper, Levi  336, 363, 364, 373
376, 379, 434, 435, 446, 48g, 4g8
Hosley, James  810, 822
House, Captain  127
Houston, James  178, 214
Samuel  164, 1S9, 280
Hovey, Nathaniel  426
Howard, Joshua  254
260, 561, 563, 810.
Howe, Joseph  233
Lord  •  856
Mark  418
Howlett, Davis  253, 260
Hoyt, Ebenezer  337
363, 364, 376, 379, 434, 439, 440
446, 498, 503, 508, 516, 519.
Joseph  78, 426
Nicholas S  271
Hubbard, Daniel  832
James  ,  466, 513
John  256, 266, 458, 490
en, 618, 621, 628, 629, 631, 635
637, 640, 645, 656, 666, 690, 691
696, 697, 699, 704, 707, 752-756
761, 765, 772, 774-776, 783, 785
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Hubbard, Leverett  33, 257, 271
Mary  852
s  476,479
Hudson, Benjamin  277
Bridget  277
Humphreys, Daniel  479
539, 588, 631, 746, 7gg, 806, 818
Hunt, Humphrey  344
Samuel  115, I5g, 252, 258
WUliam  271
Hunting, Ebenezer. . . .562, 564, 807, 822
Huntley, Rufus  203
Huntoon, Benjamin  403, 427, 43g
Charles  256, 266, 58g, 631
Joseph  245, 3g8, 42g
Hurd, Jacob  256, 267
Joseph  248
Huse, Carr  61, 126, 202, 256, 267
Hutchins, Joseph  551
553, 808, 844, 845.
Samuel  566
Simon  271
Hutchinson, Aaron  810, 823
Ingalls, Henry  561, 563, 805, 817
IngersoU, Jared  832
Jackman, George  igo, 202, 208, 256
265, 336, 347, 362-364, 376, 37g
415, 425. 434. 435. 442. 498. 503
504, en, 630, 634, 635, 640, 650
666, 696, 6g8, 6gg, 754, 75g, 761
771. 774. 778, 782, 785, 78g, 7gi
7g4. 798-
Jackson, Andrew  874
Clement  2go
Colonel  i6g, ig7
Daniel  275
HaU  102, in, 133, 151, 251, 814
82g.
James  275, 874
Jolm  102, 133, 556, 558
Jacquith, Benjamin  318, 360
Jaffrey, George. . .173, 177, 205, 212, 310
342. 377. 446, 498-
Jameson, Daniel  243
Hugh  287
Thomas  28g
Jefferson, Thomas  861
Jenks, Jeremiah.. 61 2, 631, 635, 656, 666
68g, 6g6, 6g8, egg, 75g, 761, 772
774. 785. 78g, 793. 798-
Jenness, Benjamin  231
Job  271

INDEX.

915

Jenness, Jonathan  255, 263
Richard. 255, 264, 403, 406, 43g, 444
Samuel. 58, 65, 66, 68, 6g, 75, 77, 7g
81, 88, 121, 122, 126, I3g, 135
142. 145. 156-15S. igo, igi, ig3
ig7, 202, 207-2og, 211, 212, 281
286, 334, 349. 360, 362-366, 375
376, 380, 382, 383, 387, 415, 423
-425, 428, 434, 435, 488, 489, 4g8
500-503, 508, 516, 518, 519, 521
524, 527, 535, 542, 544, 545, 609
615, 625, 630, 635, 636, 641, 643
650, 651, 653, 656, 657, 659, 662
696, eg7, 6gg, 753, 757, 760, 761
768, 770-772, 774. 775. 777, 784
785, 788, 78g, 7g4.
Simeon  256, 267
JeweU, Captain  833
David  248
Jewett, Abel  288
Edward. .336, 361, 363, 364, 376, 37g
430. 434. 440, 446. 48g. 498. 502
504, 510, 5ig, 520, 535, 541, 542
550.
Jacob, Jr  140
Jedediah . . .58, 65, 67-69, 76, 77, 80
85, 86, 119, 120, 124, 126, 128-
130, 132, 133, 135, 136, 138, 139
142, 144-147. 151. 152. 177. 182
187-191, 195-198, 202, 203, 207
213, 220, 221, 233.
Johnson, Jesse. . .477, 481, 540, 550, 552
593, 612, 628, 632, 633, 635, 641
642, 644, 646, 647, 650, 656-658
664-667, 688, 689, 692, 6g6, eg8
6gg. 754. 757-759. 761, 763. 764
769. 772-775. 778. 781, 783-785
787-78g, 7gi, 7g7, 7g8. 844,
Jesse, Jr  256, 267
John  3gi, 3g4, 414. 4i8
Jonathan  813, 827
Lois  741. 746. 791. 800
Timothy  813, 828
Johnston, Charles.. 85, 115, 159, 353, 256
259, 266, 550, 591, 5g4, 602, 637
645, 662, 7g9.
Jones, Joseph  178, 214, 278
Paul  856
Robert  177, 212, 317
Samuel. .354, 261, 312, 347, 718, 727
752. 767, 806, 818,
Judkins, Jacob  271

Kean, John  501
Kelley, Joseph  ,470, 493, 520, 755
Moses  253, 360, 281, 285
Nehemiah  395, 402, 421, 438
Kelsey, John  83 1

Moses

.290

Kanghow, Andrew .

•274

Zachariah  274
Kemp, Thomas  97, loi, 123, 131, 241
Kempton, Samuel  274
Kendall, Samuel. . .61, 124, 126, 155, 157
igi, 256, 266, 337, 363, 364, 376
379. 424. 434. 446, 496, 498, 502
504, 508, 510, 516, 519, 520, 535
612, 629, 634, 635, 640, 646, 656
666, 698, egg, 785, 78g, 7g4, 7g8
William  288
Kennison, David  233
Kenniston, Henry  323, -377, 3g5, 421
459, 462, 470, 494, 501, 521.
Joseph Eaton  271
Nicholas  233, 235
Keyes, Stephen  245, 246
Kezar, George  104, 137
Kidder, Nathaniel  472, 527, 815
Reuben  46, 76
Kielle, Samuel  256, 268
Kimball, Abel  257, 268
Benjamin  293, 318, 366
Daniel  283, 285
George  257, 268
Joseph. .254, 309, 319, 324, 337, 347
350, 362-364, 369, 373, 374, 376
379. 380, 385, 395, 422, 444, 457
459, 465. 469, 489. 490. 494. 498
502-504, 508, 510, 516, 519, 521
524, 526, 535, 537, 612, 624, 632
635. 639, 642, 656, 696, eg8, 6gg
724, 757, 75g, 761, 762, 766, 772
-775. 778. 783-785. 787. 78g, 791
7g4, 7g6, 7g8, 810, 822.
Joseph, Jr  260
Nathaniel  256, 267
Porter  253, 259
Samuel  257, 268
Sarah  293, 3og, 318, 348, 366
Timothy  236, 372
King, Samuel  60, 68, eg, 76, 134, 136
144, 146, 155, 156, 254, 261, 708
William  814
Kingsbury,  — *. . .615, 630, 634, 635
64g, 656, 664-666, 668, 6g3, 706
707, 712, 754, 756, 772, 774, 775
785, 788, 78g, 7g8.
Absalom  256, 266, 551, 553, 611

* It is not known to which one of the Kingsburys these refer.

9i6

INDEX.

6ge, 697, 6gg, 759, 761, 765, 768
794-
Kingsbury, Sanford . . .256, 266, 611, 696
698, egg, 75g, 808.
Kinsman, Aaron. .169, 198, 276, 282, 284
812, 826.
Reuben  833
Knight, Benjamin  473, 527
Enos  349
Moses  250
William  255, 263
Knokes, James  236
Knowles, James  51, 5g, 65, 6g, 80, 83
85, g4, 122, 126, 137, 140, 141
143, 155, 200, 202, 205, 208, 211
214, 230, 255, 264^ 334, 345, 347
351. 363. 364. 375, 37g. 384. 419
433. 434. 444. 446. 469. 498. 503
516, 5ig, 523, 527, 535, 610, 623
632, 635, 640, 655, 656, 666, 667
687, 692, 696, 697, 699, 766, 774
775. 787. 792-
Knox, Samuel  230
Ladd, David  524
Eliphalet  309, 350
Ezekiel  550, 553
Simeon  567
Timothy  281, 286, 811
Laiken, William  274
Lamkin, Joshua. . . .43, 45, 46, 69, 75, 76
94, 98, 123, 129.
Lampson,   722 , 757
Benjamin  467, 517
Elizabeth. 584, 623,681, 707, 723, 758
Lang, William  510
Langdon,  . . .97, gg, 173, 175, 845
John . . .34, 35, 45, 48, 74, 7g, g3, 95
96, g8, gg, loi, 102, 104-107
III, 125, 138, 151, 158, 163-165
167-ieg, 171, 175, 177, I7g, 180
188, ig8, 201, 204, 215, 2ig, 254
255, 262, 263, 2g2, 2gg, 300, 305
-3og, 322, 344, 345, 349, 351
354. 383. 391. 418, 455. 488, 490
4g5, 4g7. 54g. 555. 556. 560, 567
575, 580, 581, 585, 603, 6og, 614
-616, 618, 623, 627, 628, 635
636, 662, 688, 6gi, 6g6, 6g7, 6gg
708, 755, 756, 758-761, 772, 774
-776, 784, 78g, 7g3, 7g8, 806
818, 83g, 840, 842, 844, 850.
Joseph  835

Langdon, Samuel  476, 480, 537, 566
747, 7gg, 816, 834, 844.
Tobias  850
Woodbury. .34, 35, 40, 41, 43, 46, 49
52, 62, 64, 82, 83, 86, g3-g6, gg
102-104, 107-iog, 113, 114, 122
125, 141, 148, 150, 158, i5g, 163
igg, 22g, 235, 253, 255, 25g, 262
283, 285, 301, 311, 314-316, 318
324, 338, 345, 356-358. 360, 362
378, 43g, 562, 563, 572, 792, 844
860.
Lapish, John  524
Robert  771
Lawrence, Micah  283, 285
Oliver  396, 423, 460, 494
Lear, Mary  456, 489
Tobias  851
WUliam  275
WiUiam, Jr  275
Learned, Abel  211, 322, 362, 471, 523
David  211, 222, 362, 471, 523
Leathers , Edward  270
Edward, Jr  270
Nicholas  231
Leavitt, Carr  394, 417, 4ig
John  283, 285
Jonathan .58, 126, 128, 133, 136, 154
igi, 201, 280, 283, 285.
Moses  41, 52, 58, 64, 80, 81, 86
121, 123, 126, i2g, 136, igo, ig5
ig8, 202, 217, 2ig, 237, 253, 25g
283, 285, 334, 342, 346, 347, 363
364, 366, 367, 370, 375, 37g, 434
48g, 4go, 503, 516, 5ig-522, 6og
619, 621, 630, 635, 641, 656, 664
666, 668, 690, 692, 694, 6g6, 6gg
752, 755. 757. 758. 761. 774. 775
777. 784. 794. 798-
Lee, Joseph  165
Leertouwer, Diederich  555
Leigh, Joseph  igo, 313, 321, 352, 373
Leonard, Abel  140
David,  140
Levius, Peter  315, 318, 357, 362
Lewis, James  288
Thomas  676, 6g8, 73g, 76g, 775
Libbey, Abraham  483, 544
Benjamin  272
Jeremiah  256, 267, 325, 381, 565
572 8ig.
Reuben  335, 363, 364, 375, 385
482, 4g8, 503, 508, 516, 5ig, 522
523. 535. 544-

INDEX.

917

Lincoln, Luther  531
Little, Bond  42g
Francis  gg
Henry  ig3, 350, 353, 356
Hugh  3og
Moses.. .256, 265, 282, 284, 5g8, 622
650.
Samuel  255, 263
Sarah.... 41, 42, 65, 66, 99, 105, 128
137. 473, 528, 743, 795-
Livermore, Captain  541
Edward  586, 601
Edward S  658
George Williamson  806, 815, 818
Samuel  33, 34, 36, 51, 84, 85, 105
138, 182, 221, 23s, 245, 251,254
257, 262, 278, 290, 301, 326, 382
403. 439, 572, 575, 582, 621, 622
821, 843, 845. 847. 849-
Livingstone,   855
Lock, John  242
Long,   465
George  101, 132, 243
Pierse  36. 104, 112, 138, 152, 244
253. 259. 301. 324. 378. 575. 585
627, 678, 705, 830, 840, 842, 845
Longchamps, Chevalier de  231
Loring, Daniel . . .677, 700, 725, 728, 73g
764, 768, 784.
Lovering, Dearborn  238
LoveweU, Jonathan  255, 265
Noah ...253, 259, 611, 625, 635, 639
641, 646, 691, 6g6, 699, 75g, 761
774. 775 • , ^
LoweU, Samuel  g5, 121, 165, 167, igi
ig4, 276.
Lund, Charity ...167, ig4. 310. 343. 393
396. 416-
Lurvey, WUliam  S24
Lynde, Charles  274
Mack, Silas  612, 635, 656
65g, 6g6, 6g8, 699, 759. 76i. 772
774, 785. 789. 793. 798. 817. 835
Macklin, Robert  45, 48, 73, 77
Madison, James  876
Magoon, Josiah  28g
Main, Josiah  561. 563
Maloney, Richard  104. i37
Mann, Benjamin  59. 65. 67
68, 78, 7g, 83, 122, 123, 126, 132
134, 140, 308, 2ig, 220, 256, 265
611, 615, 630, 634, 635, 63g, 640
643, 644, 656, 666, 6g6, 6g8, 6gg

704, 761, 772, 774, 775, 784, 785
78g, 793. 798-
Mansfield, Isaac  6og, 746, 7g9
Marbois,   231
March, Clement  122, 255, 263
Joseph  254
255, 261, 264, 810, 816, 822.
Stephen  122
253. 259, 287, 292.
Marden, Edward  5og
Markham, William  203
Marsh, Christopher  240
Samuel  5g, 64
126, 128, 131, 136, 140, 155, 156
188, igi, 202, 256, 266, 335,343
344, 347, 363, 364, 370, 416, 430
434. 436. 493, 498. 503-505. 507
508, 514, 516, 519, 520, 526, 530
544, 611, 623, 624, 635, 696, 6g8
699. 70s. 759-761. 774. 775. 784
Zebulon  391
414. 459. 464. 494. 505-
Marshall, Caleb  250
Marston, Simon  315, 357
Theodore  244
Martin, James  59, 6g, 78, 126
130, 131, 174, ig3-ig5, 202, 208
212, 335, 348, 363, 364, 434,446
Jonathan,  257, 368
Nathan  288
Nathaniel  540, 648
Samuel  457, 4go, 538
Thomas  g6, 125, 155, 316
327, 360, 384, 3g2, 414, 545, 83g
Mason, Jesse  833
John  779
Jonathan  45. 73
134. 309. 349. 397. 403. 423. 437
Mathes, Valentine  255, 264
Matterson, Resolve  426
Matthews, Abraham  746, 801
Francis  342
McAUister, Randall  240
McCleary, Andrew  815
John  33-35
3g, 44-47, 74. 81, 85, g3, g5-g7
gg, 100, 102, log, in, 142, 151
163, 165, 168, i6g, 173, 174, 176
205, 220, 22g-23i, 333, 334, 336
248, 255, 257, 262, 2eg, 281-283
285-287, 2gi-2g3, 2g5-2g7, 2gg
300, 305, 307, 308, 310, 311, 316
317, 320, 322, 323, 367, 371, 374
391. 392. 395. 397. 399. 401-405

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INDEX.

919

Moffat, Sarah Catherine  587
Sg5, 631, 643.
Montgomery, George  238
Hugh  277, 3g3, 415
Martin  277
Moody,   851
Mooney, Hercules  255, 264, 399
432, 544, 586, 589, 612, 621, 629
632, 635, 638, 656, 666, 678, 696
697. egg, 704, 722, 755, 759, 761
772, 774, 775, 784, 789, 7g4, 7g8
Obediah  812, 825
Moore, Archelaus  255, 263
Daniel  3g7, 403, 426, 43g, 441
John  44, 45, 6g, 75, 330, 648
Samuel  257, 268
Moores, Samuel  255, 263
Moreland, William  587, 631, 783
Morey, Ephraim  83, 144
Israel  178, 213, 471, 524
MorrUl, Amos  830
Joseph  272
Levi  58. 73
126, 154, 156. igo, 202, 334, 345
363. 364, 375, 37g. 430. 434. 503
504, 508, 516, 519,535-
WiUiam  255, 263
Morris, Governeur  861
Robert  872
WUliam  8og, 812, 826
Morrison, Abraham  236
John  402
437, 561, 563, 65g, 675, 676, eg4
6g7. 719. 753. 807, 8ig.
Joseph  392. 415
Morse, Jonathan   240, 271
Moody  ¦  255, 264
Samuel  832
Morss, John  54o
Reuben  61, 126,155,202
Moulton, Benning  255, 265
Jonathan  34. 5i. 84
IOI, i8g, 255, 262, 282, 285, 300
468, 517, 583, 647.
William  I74. 208
Munroe, Josiah  812, 836
Murray, Daniel  397. 428
Muzzy, Joseph  245
Neal, John 135, 255, 264, 460, 474, 495. 53o
John, Jr  815
Moses Leavitt  813
Newcomb, Daniel. .85, 168, 196, 204, 256
266, 514-

Newman, Ebenezer  2gi
John  245
Nichols, John  682, 712
Jonathan  426
Moses. ..115, I5g, 255, 265, 408, 448
Nicolle, Nicholas. .100, 131, 177, 181, 182
212, 219, 222, 240, 277, 278, 329
387-
Noble, Stephen  240
Norris, Eliphalet  272
James  4og, 451, 605, 667
Major  282, 284
Noyes, Edmund  i2g
Nudd, James  415
Margaret  415
Nutting, John  833
Odell, Ebenezer  721, 755, 812, 826
Odiorne, Thomas. 115, I5g, 309, 350, 383
397, 402, 422, 425, 435, 586, 628
703.
William  567
Odlin, Dudley  841
Olcott, Simeon. .35, 3g, 41-44, 46-48, 82
85, 115, I5g, ie7-i6g, 172-175
177, i7g, igg, 208, 213, 252, 256
358, 366, 408, 448.
Ordway, Nathan  174, 208
William  274
Ormsbee, Ichabod  544
Orr, Hugh  813, 826
John  270,561,563,810,823
Osborne, George Jerry  107, 1 14, 143
158, 24g, 324, 326, 380, 383, 3g8
404, 431,442, 728,763.
Oxford, Derrick  50, 84, 242
Paddleford, Elijah  426
PhUip  426
Page, David. . .5g, 81, 126, 202, 208, 255
265, 283, 285, 58g, 5g2, 621, 634
640, 845.
Daniel  256, 267
Enoch  256, 267
Jeremiah  85, 255, 265, 281, 286
594.645-
Samuel  253, 260
Thomas  255, 264, 334, 363, 364
434. 494. 498. 503. 519. 520.
WiUiam  611, 635, 638, 643, 656
666, 6go, 6g6, 6g8, 6gg, 712, 761
772. 774. 775, 784. 786, 78g, 7g4
7g8, 814, 828.
Paine,   855

920

INDEX.

Paine, Captain  243
Palmer, Jonathan  107, 145, 254, 261
WiUiam  24g
Parker, Amasa  27g, 476, 480, 538
Joim  180, 181, 217, 220, 252, 258
318, 325, 363, 381, 383, 3g7, 422
425, 730, 734. 771. 780.
Jonathan  72g, 770
Jonathan, Jr  5g7, e4g
Joseph  58g, 5g6, 632, 643
Nathaniel  813
Robert  2go
Samuel  654
WiUiam  252, 255, 258, 263, 395
422, 813, 828.
Parkis, Noah  241
Parkman, Alexander. . .321, 337, 372, 434
446, 469, 503, 504, 510, 511, 516
5ig, 523, 525, 533, 535,561,563
Parsons, Captain  244
EU  831, 833
Joseph.. 255, 264, 552, 554, 812, 816
827, 834.
Kendall  248
Thomas  121, 170, 200, 264
Pattee, Asa  8og
Patten, Matthew  255, 265
Nathaniel  2g4
Patterson, David  323, 376
Isaac  844, 845
Payne, Elisha. . .36, 61, 63-66, eg, 78-80
85, 105, 125, i2g, 132, 133, 135
136, 138, 139, 141, 143, 150, 155
157, 158, 195, 197, 198, 202, 204
205, 207, 214, 218, 252, 256, 266
281, 286, 337, 342-348, 352. 355
357. 360-364, 376, 377, 3g4, 408
413. 415. 416, 418, 421. 426, 430
431, 434, 436, 442, 446, 448, 45g
48g, 4go, 4g2-4g8, 503, 504, 507-
510, 5i6-5ig, 525, 526, 533-535
539. 574. 575. 580, 581, 583, 587
58g-S95, 5g8, 600, 615, 638, 641
642, 650, 651, 654, 662, 664, 718
-723, 726, 730, 733, 735-738
742. 752, 756. 768, 776, 779. 780
786, 808, 843, 848.
Elisha, Jr. ... 103, no, 136, 139, 148
John  107, 143
Peabody, Hannah  316, 358
Nathaniel.. 33, 34, 46, 58, 63-68, 73-
75, 81-84, 86,95, log, 115, ng
I2i-I2g, 132, 134, 137-140, 142
143, 154, 157-159. 180, i8g, ig3

-ig5, ig7, 202-205, 2og, 210, 213
-215, 217, 22g-33i, 233, 334, 237
248, 252, 255, 257, 258, 262, 26g
281-283, 285, 286, 2g2, 2g5-2g7
2gg-30i, 306-308, 310-324, 341
343. 351. 356. 357. 361. 363, 365
366, 368-370, 375, 377-379. 384
385, 391-393. 395, 398, 400-407
421, 428, 438, 442, 444, 449, 450
455-457, 459-461, 464-466, 495-
497, 509, 522, 524. 527. 531. 534
536. 537. 549-552. 554-567. 569
585, 600, 627, 658, 661, 763, 841
Peabody, Stephen  316, 358
Pearne, William  316, 360
Pearson, John  427
Joseph. . .33, 41, 50, 80, 96, 122, 123
1^2, 223, 246, 247, 255, 264, 278
295-2g7. 2gg, 32g, 386, 387, 402
408, 43g, 44g, 536, 537, 556, 56g
572, 57g, 581, 600, 605, 616, e3g
658, 683, 747, 782, 825.
Peirce, John. .g6, 125, 155, 320, 327, 404
468.
Joseph. . .g6, 125. 155, 327, 562, 564
814.
Nehemiah  5g8
Pellew, Sir Edward  856
Pemberton, James  24g
Pendall, John  .531
PenhaUow, John. .582, 5go, 6ig, 636, 736
7^3-
Samuel. . .85, 255, 262, 460, 4g5, 550
553-
Perkins, Abraham .gg, 102, no, 128, 133
146, 255, 263.
Benjamin  26g
Perkins, John  242
Joseph  28g
Perry, James  833
Peters, Absalom. .602, 612, 635, 637, 638
644, 646, 64g, 656, 661, 666, 667
6g5, eg6, eg8, 6gg, 709, 730, 755
758. 759. 761. 765. 770. 772. 774
775. 782, 784, 785, 78g, 7g4, 7gg
Pettigrew, WiUiam  237
PettengiU, Benjamin  403, 439
Jonathan  522
Matthew  60, 65, 69, 77, 126, 202
283, 285.
William  233
Phelps, Davenport  256, 267, 557, 558
814, 828.
PhUbrick, Daniel  247

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INDEX.

535. 539. 6ii. 621, 635, 642, 656
666, eg6, 699, 708, 759, 761, 765
766, 774, 775, 789, 793, 795, 798
Quimby, David  282, 284
Quinby, Jonathan  271
Zachariah  271
Quincy, Edmund  308, 350
Rand, Daniel  282
284, 312, 324, 347, 379.
Nehemiah  816, 835
RandaU, Matthew  833
Randolph, John  872
Ranlett,   722, 757
Ranney, Thomas Stow  gg, 128, 133
Rawson, Jonathan  573, 735, 73g
742. 783. 786, 7g5, 7g6, 812, 814
Ray, Silas  655
Read,   873
WiUiam  672, 688, 72g
Reed, Elisha  311
317. 345. 361. 362, 364-
Micah  311, 345, 3gg
400, 402, 432, 434, 437, 475, 534
Sylvanus  2S2, 284, 465, 514
WUliam  770
Reeve, WiUiam  478, 53g
Reeves,   52g
Reid, George  253, 255, 260,, 264, 280
300,551, 553, 573, 583. '647, 710
James  46
465. 476. 480, 510, 534, 535.
RendaU, Abraham  611, 635
e4g, 656, 657, eg6, 6g7, 699, 761
772, 774, 781, 784. 789. 794. 798
Revere,   855
Reynolds, Daniel  173
176, 253, 260, 280, 282, 284.
Rhines. WiUiam  271
Richardson, Bradbury  59
121, 126, 155, 156, 202.
Daniel  600, 656
Enoch  584, 624, 721, 755
James  45. 74
Joshua  23g
Stephen  240, 476, 480, 536
Ricker, Timothy  239
Rindge, Daniel  163
187, 562, 564, 759, 808.
Ring, Elijah  810, 825
Ripley, WUliam  256, 266
Ritter, Daniel  231
Roach, Elizabeth  6ig, 648

Roach, John  582
5g7, 600, 6ig, 648, 657.
Robbins, Solomon  166
ig2, 3gg, 431, 47g, 525, 538.
Roberts, Joseph  108, 255, 265
Joseph, Jr  145, 174, 207
Richard  383, 284
Robertson, James  51, 67, 75
81, g5, 122, 171, i7g, 201, 211
Robies John  256, 265
Robinson, Asa  5g2
600, 605, 640, 657, 667, 775.
Caleb  540, 648
Ephraim  220, 380
382, 567, 586, 6og, 6ig, 623, 627
628, 631, 634, 635, 638-640, 642
644, 646, 64g, 652, 656, 664, 666
67g, 688, eg2, 693, 696, 697, egg
703. 704, 706, 707, 7og, 725, 731
741. 753, 755. 758, 760,761, 764-
766, 771-774. 778, 780, 782, 784
785, 787, 789-794. 796-798-
Ephraim, Jr  743, 791
James  43,49
John  102, 106, 133, 142
Mary  5g2
600, 605, 640, 657, 667.
Matthew  371
Peter  605, 667
Thomas  833
Rockwood, Ebenezer  352
256, 258, 265, 281, 286.
Roe, John  437
Rogers, John  356, 267, 277
Nathaniel  257, 26g, 588
5g2, 603, 640, 662, 664, 805, 817
Nathaniel, Jr  634
Robert  5g7, 600, 6ig, 648, 657
Rolfe, Paul  46, 74
Rollins, Ichabod  255, 264
James  24g
John  561
563, 567, 610, 753, 754, 761, 771
772, 784, 78g, 7g8.
Rosebrooks, James  525
Ross, Sarah  113
155, i6g, 175, igS, 206.
Rounseval, Joseph  561, 563, 805, 817
Rowe, John  280

William .

 2go
Rowen, John  274
Roy, Silas  5Qg
Royce, Amos  275
Joel  275

INDEX.

923

Rundlett, James  567
599. 654, 678, 704, 723, 733, 735
746,760, 775,777, 781.
Runnels, Captain  274
Daniel  58, 65, 66
69, 75, 78-80, 86, 87, ng, 121
126, 128, I2g, 132, 133, i3g, 143
145, i88-ig4, 201, 202, 204, 205
208, 2og, 213, 609, 621, 622, 625
627, 628, 631, 635, 636, 641, 642
648-650, 652, 656, 657, 661-664
687, 68g-6gi, eg3, 694, 696, eg8-
700, 752, 754, 755, 757-760, 762
764, 772, 774-
RusseU, Eleazer  33, 572
Joel  346
Mary  346
Thomas  85, 124, 141, 256, 267
Rust, Henry  255, 264
Samuel  832
Sackett, Captain  832
Daniel  832
SackviUe, Lord  860
Salter, Michael  511
Titus  323
328. 377. 384. 745, 800, 8og, 822
Sanborn, Abner  334
362-364, 374, 428, 42g, 435, 4g8
503, 507, 508, 516, 518.
Caleb  283, 285
Daniel  287, 2g2
John  5g. 82, 136, 155, 303
Josiah  IOO, i3g, 351
Nathan  318, 365
Paul  277
Sanger, Jedediah  282, 284, 312, 324
347, 37g, 601, 647, 707, 731, 772
Sargent, Charles  275
John  275
Joseph  832
Samuel   276
SartweU, Hezekiah  244
Saunders, James. .166, ig3, 3og, 314, 322
350. 353. 356. 373. 42g. 582, 616
724, 72g, 733, 763, 770, 777-
Samuel  274
Sawyer, Abel  83, 144
Enoch  557.559
James  257, 2eg
John  426
ScadgeU, Jacob  235
Scammel, Colonel  527. 54i
Scofield, Eleazer   426

Scott, Captain 
Scranton, Stephen  ,
Scribner, Ebenezer 
Ebenezer Jr  ,
John  58, 126, 143, 146,
i8g, 203, 214, 287, 2g2.
Josiah 
Samuel 
Searle, Jonathan 
Seaver, Robert.  353,
Seaward, Giles 
Secomb, Simonds 
Sellingham, Henry 
Jacob  , 
Senter, Abraham 
Joseph. . . .61, 64, 66, 6g, 73,
igo, igi, 197, 203, 205,
283, 285, 551, 553, 808.
Severance, Thomas 
Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell 
Shannon, Nathaniel 
Richard Cutts.. 46, 75, 100,
131, 213, 218, 316, 358,
558.
Thomas  460, 495,
Shattuck, Edward 
Shaw, Moses  57, 58, 63, 126,
202, 256, 267, 334, 342,
375. 434, 446. 498. 503,
516, 5ig, 535, 6og, 610,
656, 666, 6g6, 6g8, egg,
774, 775, 7g8-
Shays, Daniel 
Sheafe, Jacob 
James... 585, 628, 734, 727,
814, 82g, 83g.
John 
William  734, 737,
Shepard, John  562,
Richard 
Shephard, Amos  60, 66, 87,
135, 143, 146, 147, 154,
ig5, igg, 302, 203, 310,
261, 2gg, 314, 336, 342,
356, 363. 364. 370. 376.
434, 445, 446. 449, 489.
4gg, 504, 507, 508, 516,
520, 525, 535, 549-552.
571. 574. 575. 579-584.
591. 593. 596. 615, 616,
641, 660, 671, 674, 676,
6gi, 718-732, 730, 744,
7g5, 805-819, 821, 822,
834, 835-

. ...ig7
. . . .242
. . . . 270
. . . .270
154-156

 427
 427
256, 265
812, 825
 148
256, 267
 280

 280
78, 188
214, 317

. . . .270
•31.371
256, 268
104, 130
428, 557
566, 816
 550
154. 157
363. 364
507, 508
614. 635
759. 772
830, 831
 629
776, 783
814, 829
776, 783
564, 808
254, 260
123, 126
188, 193
216, 254
344. 347
379.413495. 498
517,519 554-569 587-589
621, 636
677,681
780, 787
825-830

924

INDEX.

Shephard, MorriU  233
Shepherd, Daniel  277
Sherburne. Edward  860
Elizabeth  850
Henry  850
John  550, 552
John Samuel  860
Samuel. .238, 573, 731, 73g, 773, 788
Shillaber, Jonathan  345
Shortridge, Richard  3ig, 367
Shurtleff, Asa  277
Shuttlesworth, Rev.  ..57, 180, 218
278.
Sias, Benjamin  556, 558
Eliphalet  377
Joseph  255, 264, 551, 553
Simpson, John  g4, g5, g8, 120, 122
125, 250.
Levi  346
Thomas. 171, 174, 202, 206, 207, 277
William. 252, 317, 337, 342, 346, 353
360, 363, 365, 371, 377, 382, 383
385. 405. 408, 42g. 430, 434. 435
438. 440. 443. 445. 446. 448, 490
495. 498, 501. 503. 510, 511, 516
519, 526, 535. 844-
Sinclair, Noah  598, 651
Richard  253, 260
Sisco, WUlam  511, 527
Skinner. Joseph. .283, 285, 612, 635, 656
666, 696, egg, 7og, 756, 75g, 761
772, 774. 775. 785. 78g, 790. 794
798-
Slocum, Samuel  832
Sloper, Ambrose  852
Henry  853
Mary  853
Small, John  272
Smiley, William  60, 79, g4, 122, 126
139. 155. 192. 202, 214.
Smith,  630, 666, 6ge, eg8, 75g
761, 772, 774, 775, 7S1, 784.
Aaron  230, 274, 832
Benjamin  241. 2g3
Caleb  683, 711
Captain  242, 277, 2go, 746
Ebenezer. . .35, 3g, 41, 42, 44, 47-4g
5g, 66, 67, 84, 85, g3-ioo, 103,
106-108, 113, 114, i26-i2g, 132
134,' 136. 138. 142. 147. 155-157
159. 163-165, 167-169, 172-176
178, 188, 189, 194-196, igg, 202
203, 205, 206, 210, 212, 213, 217
2ig, 220, 252, 253, 255, 258, 260

264, 355, 3g7, 427, 428, 808, 814
Smith, Edward . . .45g, 464, 4g3, 506, 507
Eliphalet  810
Francis  253, 256, 258, 266
Jacob  254, 261, 801
James  810, 834
John . . .273, 316, 360, 3g6, 400, 424
431-
John, 3d  283, 285, 551, 553, 566
Jonathan  261, 557, 558, 815, 82g
Jonathan, Jr  254
Lemuel  588, 632, 733, 774, 800
Moses.. .611, 635, 656, 6g7, 6gg, 832
Nathan  831
Peter  247
Richard  5g8, 651
Robert. .336, 350, 363, 364, 375, 37g
381, 414, 427, 433, 434, 446, 4g8
502, 504, 508, 512, 516, 5ig, 611
625, 631, 635, 640, 642, 656, egi
6g7. 6g9, 764, 771, 783, 786.
WiUiam  256, 265
Snow, Henry  275
Spafford, Amos  240, 243
Andrew  832
Sparhawk, John. .164, 188, 275, 314, 333
356. 385, 388, 392, 414, 416, 418
421, 435. 478. 488, 4g5-498, 501
502, 504, 507-509, 511, 516-518
521, 523, 526, 535, 540, 541, 545
575. 587, 603, 609, 614, 621, 624
625, 627, 628, 630, 631, 635, 638
647, 656, 662, 666, 68g-egi, eg3
699. 723. 752, 753. 756. 758. 761
772. 774-776, 778. 783. 784. .786
789, 793. 795. 798. 800, 801, 839
840, 842.
Thomas  252, 256, 258, 266
Spaulding, Diah  810, 822
Levi. .60, 66, 67, 69, 75, 77, 121, 126
142, 144, i4g, 155, 156, 188, ig2
ig3, 196, 202, 217, 220, 335, 355
360, 363, 364, 415, 416, 421, 430
433. 434. 446. 450. 451. 493. 498
502, 504, 511, 512, 514, 518-520
525. 550. 552. en, 625, 629,633
-635, 648, 650, 651, 653, 656
657. 659, 665-667, 696, 698, 754
756, 759, 761, 763-766, 768, 770
774, 775, 777, 781, 782.
WUliam  291
Spear, Samuel  240
Spencer, Jeremiah  174, 208
Reuben  no, 147, 274, 310, 366

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INDEX.

Temple, Isaac  566, 567, 806, 818
Thomas, Anna  238
Captain  242
John  178, 214, 3g7, 404, 426, 441
Joseph  703
Joseph MorriU  238
WiUiam  584, 623, 707
Thomlinson, John  108, 112, 151
Thompson, Charles  862
Ebenezer  33, 35, 40, 53, 64
114, 127, i7g, 182, 183, 188, 210
214, 222, 223, 245, 255, 262,278
2g5-2g7, 2gg, 306, 325, 330, 342
351. 357. 363. 381. 410, 438. 483
541, 560, 56g, 600, 610, 658, egi-
6g3, 6g6, 6g7, 6gg, 700, 703, 730
752. 753. 755. 761, 766, 770, 774
778, 780, 782, 783. 785, 788, 7go
7g4, 7g8, 808.
John  645
Robert  728, 767
Samuel  722
730. 734. 757. 770. 777-
Thomas  551, 554
Thornton, Matthew  35, 40, 43
44, 47, 48, 63, 85, 86, 163-165
i67-i6g, 172, 173, 175, 177-179
ig4, 200, 203, 204, 218, 2ig, 254
262, 2gg, 300, 306-308, 310, 312-
314, 316, 317, 320-324, 341, 351
356, 36g. 377. 381. 383. 395. 397-
401, 403-405. 407. 437. 439. 441
443, 446. 455-457. 460,462,464-
466, 474, 504, 520, 522, 527, 528
530. 533. 535. 536. 541-544. 549
550. 555. 559-569. 574. 575. 579
581-584, 586, 587, sgo, 5g2, 5g5
5gg, 600, 62g, 630, 633, 636, 643
651, 652, 7ig-72i. 733, 735-738
741, 772, 7g5, 800, 856.
Thurston, Moses  75
Tibbetts, Henry  525
Jeremiah  43, 68, g4
103, 106, 112, 120, 134, 142, 151
Ticknor, Isaac  674, eg2
Tiffany, Sylvester  407, 448
Tilden, Charles  107, 143
Joseph, Jr  624
Tilton, Jonathan  3gg, 42g, 623
Joseph  282, 284
Joseph, Jr  583
Peter  283,285
Philip  282, 284
Tinden, Charles  107

Tinney, Samuel  639
Todd, Samuel  550
Solomon  479, 543
Tokel, Mary S  236
Roberts  236
Tolford, Joshua  256
267, 612, 635, 649, 656, 666, egg
759, 772, 775, 784. 789, 794, 798
Toppan, Christopher  4i, 52
58, 63, 64, 6g, 7g, 86, g5, 120-
122, 124, 126-128, 132, 133, 136
137, 142, 143, 147, 154, 156, 157
171, 180, 187-igo, ig6, ig8, 201
202, 204, 205, 207, 2og, 210, 213
215, 216, 2^g, 244, 255, 263, 313
314, 334, 338, 341. 342, 344-347
350, 352, 356, 357. 360, 364. 402
408, 413, 417, 421, 422, 425,430
435, 439. 440. 445. 448. 467. 483
489. 491. 492. 494. 498, 499. 503
507, 512, 516, 517, sig, 525, 526
571, S7g, 581, 605, 6og, 615, 616
618, 62g, 631-637, 641, 642, 647
648, 652, 656, 665, 666, 668, 67g
6gi, 6g6-6gg, 706-708, 741, 752
753. 755. 758. 761, 764. 771. 774
775. 781, 784. 78g, 791. 794. 797-
7gg, 805-830, 833-835.
Torr, Andrew  256, 268
Torrey, Ebenezer. 108, 140, 171, 174, 182
201, 206, 211, 222, 318, 362, 3g5
422, 444, 45g, 471, 4g4, 523.
Toscan, M  560
Towle, Brackett  280
James  2g2
Philip  8og, 821
Town, Ezra  282, 285, sgi, e3g
Israel  812, 826
Tracy, Nathaniel  45, 74
Trecothick, Barlow  108, 112, 151
John  112, 152
Tripp, Benjamin. .321,371, 3g6, 425, 468
516, 517, 520.
Triskett, Experience  674, 6g3
Trott, Samuel  257, 268
Tubbs, Abisha  203
Tucker, Isaac  g4, 120, 5g6, 64g
Lemuel  178, 180, 214, 217
Swallow  353, 3gg, 416
Turner, James... .168, leg, ig7, igg, 287
UnderhiU, John.. 58, 65, 69, 136, 148, 202
213, 214, 6og, 635, 637, 638, 656
666, 6g4, 6g7, 761, 784, 785.

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927

Underwood, James. .. .255, 265, 281, 286
Valentine, David  833
Wadleigh, Benjamin.. .561, 563, 807, 822
Simon  427
Wadsworth, Samuel  251
Wait, Jason  241
Joseph  sgo, 636
Manha. .456, 488, 584, sgo, 623, 636
Waldron, John . . .334, 342-344, 346, 347
349.' 352, 362-364, 370, 371, 375
376. 379. 380, 408, 421. 430. 433
434. 436. 437. 440. 442. 444-446
44S, 483, 4g2, 4g3, 4g7, 4g8, 502
-504, 508, 510, 516, 517, sig
520, 523, 535, SSI, 553, 556,558
610, 615, 618, 621, 624, 628, 62g
631. 635, 638, 641, 644, 64g, 652
656, 665, 666, 671, 688, 6go, 6g6
-egg, 707, 743, 754-756, 761. 771
772. 774. 776, 778. 779. 781. 782
785. 792-7g4. 796. 798-
Thomas Westbrook  254, 262
Walford, Thomas  851
Walker, Timothy . . .34, 35, 40-44, 4e-4g
58, 63, 65, 66, 74, 85, g3-g7, gg
IOO, 102-108, 113, 114, 122, 125
130, 132, 146, 148, 152, 154, 159
160, 163-169, 171-181, i8g, ig6
207, 210, 213, 214, 218, 220, 221
252, 255, 258, 262, 278, 301, 3g7
403, 427, 428, 43g.
Wallace,  . 65, 67, 76, 87, 120, 121
126, 133, i8g, ig3, ig4, 210, 211
346, 370, 414, 416, 417, 4ig, 433
446, 447, 493. 526.
• Matthew.. 60, 132, 155, ig6, ig7, 202
213, 216, 335, 352, 375, 37g, 4g8
502, 504, 508, 510, 516, sig, 520
523, 523, 535, 550, 552.
Robert. 52, 60, 86, 123, 125, 155, 157
igi, ig2, 202, 282, 284, 336, 361
363. 364. 371. 375. 376. 379. 434
4g5, 4g8, 4gg, 507-5og, 516, 523
528, 52g, 540, 55g, 560, 605, 611
622, 623, 628, 635, 636, 638, 642
650, 656, 662, 664, 666, 668, 7og
753. 756. 757, 759. 761, 766, 772
774, 781, 782, 788.
William  24g, 257
WaUingford, Elizabeth  5gi, 5gg. 640
655. 735. 739. 780, 788.
Lydia .. .600, 657, 738, 744, 787, 7g6

Warner, Daniel  755
Jonathan  g6, 125, 155,316,320
345. 360, 371. 404. 440. 457. 469
472. 473. 478, 489, 522, 524, 526
52g. 539^
Warren, PhUip  238
Washington, George  164, 537, 855
Watkins, Phineas  832
Watson, Gloucester  271
Oliver, Jr  832
Weare, Jonathan  256, 265
Meshech . . .33, 34, 3g-4i, 53, 63, 64
88, g3, g6, 112, 147, 22g, 231
234, 236, 246-248, 2g5-2g7, 848
Nathamel  732, 776
Samuel  255, 263
Weatherbee, Hezekiah  288
Webb, Azariah. . . .83, 144, 254, 260, 462
470, 501, 504, 524, 561, 563, 588
634, 72g, 770, Sio, 822.
Webster, David . .254, 260, 281, 286, 3g8
401, 430, 437.
Ebenezer . . .212, 336, 257, 268, 282-
285, 2gg, 300, 306-312, 316-318
320, 322, 341, 358, 365, 391-393
397-399. 404. 438. 445. 455-457
459. 463-465, 472. 474. 522, 533
539. 559, 574. 575. 580-584, 586
587, 5gi-5g4, 601, 604, 615, 650
671-673, 676, 718, 720, 722, 731
736-740. 767, 78g. 801.
Peter  288
Wedgwood, James  114, 147
Weed, Elijah  3g8, 430, 522
Weeks, John  566, 567, 807, 821, 844
Joshua  562, 563
William. 281, 286, 334, 363, 364, 374
375. 379. 380, 414, 415. 434. 446
-448, 489. 498. 503. 510, 514
516, 5ig, 520, 535, 536.
Welch, Joseph . . .334, 414, 431, 434, 443
446, 448, 4Sg, 4g8, 502, 504, 507
516, 5ig, 52g, 535, 567, 610, 615
621, 624, 625, 63s, 63g, 642, 652
656, 662, 666, 688-6gi, eg3, 6g6-
6gg. 7og. 712, 73g, 75g, 761, 765
766, 774, 784-786, 788, 789, 793
7g8, 807, 8ig.
Wellman, Rev.   8og
Samuel  387
Wendell, John . . .164, i8g, 466, 46g, 474
5og, 532, 530, 783.
Wentworth,  . . .322, 324, 328, 530
533^

928

INDEX.

Wentworth, Benning  352, 73g, 788
Daniel  27g
Elizabeth  581, 585, 615, 626
J  312
John. . .35, 3g, 41, 42, 44, 45, 48, 50
77, 84, 85, g7-gg, loi, 104, 106
107, 115, 131, i5g, 170-172, 174
175, 177, 178, 180, 204, 206, 207
220, 252, 255, 258, 264, 2gi, 2gg
300, 305, 307, 308, 313, 315-317
3ig, 320, 352, 406, 408, 444, 448
458-460, 462, 464, 467, 46g, 473
474. 501. 505, 85s-
Jonathan .. .44, 48, sg, 65-67, 6g, 73
108, 113, 115, 123, 126, 133, 143
145, 146, 152, 155, 157, isg, 191
196, 197, 202, 208, 217, 221, 253
259, 334, 346, 347, 352, 363, 364
374. 375. 379. 493. 495. 496. 503
508, 518, 519, 521, 522, 535.551
553, 815, 830.
Joshua . .216, 220, 253, 259, 2gg, 300
3og. 3". 313-317. 320-323, 351
357, 358. 370. 372, 374. 376. 377
386, 416, 455-458, 460, 461, 463
464,466, 505, 510, 513, 525. 52g
530, 532-534. 536. 545. 571. 574
575. 579. 581-585, 587, 590, 593
5g6, 600, 604, 616, 630, 636, e3g
671-673, 675, 677, 680, 6go, 6gi
6g7, 718, 7ig, 721, 722, 724, 727
730. 731. 733-735. 737. 738. 743-
745, 752, 756, 760, 775, 777, 781-
783, 7g3, 805-830, 833, 834, 83g.
Mark  244
Mark Hunking  g6, 108, 112, 113
125, 146, 151, 155, 320, 327, 371
384. 473. 526.
Martha  632, 733, 774, 800
Michael .632, 733, 774, 800, 814, 828
Paul  732, 75g
Samuel  27g
Thomas  851
Wesson, Nathan... g7, loi, 123, 131, 241
West, Benjamin. . .74, 562, 564, 806, 818
842, 843, 845, 847.
Wheatley, John. . .556, 558, 58g, 632, 637
Luther  27g
Nathaniel  806
Wheeler, Adam  830, 831
Nehemiah  256, 267
Reuben  287
Solomon  172, 204, 255, 264, 610
623, 635, 640, 654, 656, 6g3, 6g6

698, 699, 704, 708, 713, 743. 759
761, 765, 772, 774, 77'i, 777, 784
789, 794. 796. 798-
Wheelock, Eleazer  573
John  i7g. 181, 780
Whidden, Michael  327
Whipple, Joseph  254
256, 261, 266, 324, 328, 337, 344
346, 347, 361, 363, 364, 374, 37g
-381, 385, 413, 417. 418. 483. 493
496, 4g8, 503. 504. 506, 516, 518
526, 53g, 545. 572, 673, 6go.
Moses  ;  254
256, 260, 266, 810, S22.
Oliver  371, 550, 552, 806
WUliam  33
242, 251, 254, 257, 262, 301, 856
Whitcomb, Benjamin  74
Elisha  60, 64, 66
67, 74, log, ng, 121, 124-127
I2g, 133. 137. 138. 147. 150. 151
155. 157. 191. 196. 202, 205, 213
214, 222, 223, 253, 260, 282, 284
336. 344. 345. 347. 352, 360, 361
363, 364, 376, 277, 379. 414,415
428, 430, 431, 434, 438, 441, 442
446, 488, 48g, 4g2, 4g5, 4g7, 4g8
502, 504, 505, 508-510, 5ig, 520
524, 525, 530, 532, 535, 537-539
Jonathan Priest. . .282, 284, 562, 564
White, Elizabeth  378
James  278
John  287, 2g2
Mary  587, 630
Phillips  252
255, 258, 262, 587, 630.
Stephen  240
William  3-54
261, 333, 345. 363-365, 380, 420
446, 4g8, 503, 510, 516.
Whitehorn, John  725, 764
Whiting, Benjamin  50
86, 170, ig6, igS.
Leonard  50, 7g, 86
170, 175, 178, ig6, ig8, 208, 213
393. 396, 416, 420, 587, 630, 765
WiUiam  833
Whitney, .Aaron  514
Josiah  7eg
Whittemore, Amos  47, 78, 82, 130
Whittier, Captain  288
Reuben  ,  816
Whortley, Timothy  257, 268
Wiggin, Andrew  742, 7g5

INDEX.

929

Wiggin, Andrew, Jr  471, 518
Mark  58
67, 74, 141, 145, 152, 155, 158
igi, ig3, ig4, ig7, igg-206, 208-
210, 214, 217, 223, 253, 255, 25g
263, 334. 344. 345. 347. 350. 358
363, 364, 370, 371, 374.375. 377
37g. 380, 423. 432-434. 442, 446
451. 503. 508, sog, 516, Sig, 535
543, 544, 610, 616, 625, 626, 62g
633-637. 640, 641, 647, 64g, 655
656, 660, 662, 664, 666, 668, 68g
ego, egg, 704, 706, 75g, 761, 762
764, 772, 774-776. 783. 784. 786
78g, 7g2, 7g4, 798-801, 830.
Simon  256, 267, 283, 285
Wight, Henry  52, 57, 87, 239
John  245
Wilbore, Elisha  96, 124
Joseph  60, 63
122, 124, 126, 133, 145, 155,202
Wiley, John  832
Robert  832
Wilkins, EU  812, 826
Hezekiah  42, 67, 10 1, 131
Robert B  813, 826
Samuel  562, 564
WiUard, Allen  466
513, 5gg, 602, 652, 662.
Josiah  471, 525, 674, 6g2
Samuel  832
Simon  60
126, 131, 155, 157, 202, 336,363
364. 376. 379. 434. 446. 469. 498
516, sig, 523, 535, 538.
Solomon  403, 440
WUder  242
WiUiams, Elijah  173
206, 276, 405, 443, 462, 4gg.
Isaac  585, 5g6, 625, 644
John  115, 158
245, 32g, 386, 482, 545, 745, 7gg
Thomas  271
Willie, Josiah  28g
WiUiam  28g
Winthrop  540, 648
Wilson, David  6g8
Joshua  272
Robert  255, 263, 287, 2g2
Susannah  698
Wingate, Aaron  811, 823
Jo.shua  255, 265, 808
Paine  873
Winn, Abiathar.  726, 765
60

Winslow, Simon  232
Winthrop, Governor  851
Winton, James  531
Wise, Robert  393, 417
WoodaU, Mary  27g
Timothy  ,27g
Woodbury,   853
Woodcocic, Jonathan. .461, 465, 4g6, 513
Woodman, Captain  23g, 242, 248
Woodward, Bezaleel  85, 252
256, 266, 281, 286, 550, 553, 780
James  182, 223
252, 256, 267, 281, 286, 550, 553
Moses  106, 143, I5g, 165
191, 394, 419, 460, 474, 495, 530
WooUey, Jonathan  273
Worcester, Francis  256, 267, 29g
300, 306-308, 310-313, 315, 316
320-323, 341, 3gi, 3g3, 401, 435
455, 457, 463, 472, 516, 532, 53g
Noah  IOI
131. 243. 256, 265, 337, 363, 364
368, 36g, 374, 376, 37g, 382,430
431, 434, 446, 827.
Noah, Jr  256, 267
Samuel  807, 821
Works, Samuel  336
363, 364, 371, 376, 37g, 418, 434
446, 503. 504, 516, 519, 535, 538
562, 564, 611, 634, 635, 656, 6g6
6g7, 6gg, 766, 768, 770, 772, 774
780, 784, 78g, 7g3, 7g7, 7g8.
Worthen, Ezekiel  3og, 315, 347, 356
Wright, Oliver  410
^ 451, 461, 465, 4gg, 511.
Phineas  274
Silas  254
261, 562, 564, 7og, 753.
Wyman, Colonel  ig2
Yeaton, Samuel  566
York, Richard Jr  45, 73
Young, James  2go
Jesse  257, 2eg
John  61, 6g, 84, 85, 120
122-124, 126, 129, 136, 138, 140
141, 143, 144. 148. 151. 154, 155
157. 179. 188, 213, 214, 216, 254
261, 316, 337, 343, 344, 346, 356
363. 364. 376, 378, 379. 385-387
396, 404, 405. 407, 409, 415, 425
426, 428, 434, 442. 444. 446, 450
451, 461, 464, 471, 490, 4g4, 501
503. 505. 507. 508, 512, 515.516

930

INDEX.

5ig, 521, 523, 526, 535, 612, 615
617, 623, 633-635, 638, 641-643
647, 650, 651, 654, 656, 666, 687
688, 6gi, 6g2, 6g6, 6g7, 6gg, 705
706, 708, 752, 753, 756, 758, 75g
761, 765, 771, 772, 774, 775, 782-
784, 786, 788-7gi, 7g3, 7g4, 7g8
Young, Joshua  257

26g, 310, 320, 343, 370, 407, 448
5gS, 644, 741, 810, 822.
Young, Josiah  7gi
Nathan  336, 353, 356, 363
364, 376, 37g, 434, 446, 503, 507
508, 516, 5ig, 526, 535, 562, 564
Robert  256, 267
Samuel  551, 554, 844

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