Compeny with other Solders Since this Present ware-this from your Humbel Servent— Kingston august the 23d 1762 Samuel fifield Cap' [Jonathan Beede belonged to the Quakers.-ED.] [R. 2-165] [Petition of John Dent, Soldier, 1759: addressed to the General Court.] The Petition of John Dent of Kingstown in the Province aforesaid-Humbly Shews-That your Petitioner having been for more than seven years in the service of his King & Country as a Soldier: particularly in the last years Campaign_after the Reduction of Louisbourg & Territories &c (your Petitioner being a Ranger in Cap William Starks Company) which with others was sent up St John's River in the Province of Nova Scotia where by hard & Incessant Labour (in January the very dead of winter) in wet & cold; being obliged to work, in water, snow, & Ice, & extream cold; and when Nights come on; then to Lodge between the Heavens & the Earth; and besides this; had not a Sufficiency of the Common & Necessary supports of life &c-which exceeding Difficultys bro't upon your poor Petitioner such sore disorders & diseases of Body as caused a long & tedious sickness which at length fell into his feet; for which both of his feet have been cut off & yet they are not healed; and in this distressed state your petitioner was obliged to spend all his wages: which was all his substance for Chirurgery; & other Necessaries; and now tho' through Gods Rich Mercy & goodness to your petitioner he is escaped (thus far) with his life & got to his Native Town yet being without estate, & is ever entirely Incapacitated for Labor and so is now (even if he should get well) in a very distressed state & condition and inasmuch as this evil came upon this unhappy creature; by hardships endured in the service of his King & defence of his Country; he Humbly cries unto this Court praying for an Interest in their compassion; Intreating that something may be allotted to him that may at least in some measure contribute to his support & subsistance while he may exist in the present state; and so your poor & distressed Petitioner shall as in Duty Bound ever pray &c Kingstown June the 13th day 1759 Voted, dismissed Octob' 12th 1759 John Dent [R. 2–166] [Petition of Paul Pressey, Soldier, 1759: addressed to the General Assembly.] The Humble Petition of Paul Pressey of Kingston in said Province-Shews That your Petitioner was an enlisted soldier in this province Service in the year 1758, under the Command of Capt Trueworthy Ladd, of Col° John Hart Esq' Regim' for the Reduction of Canada, who proceed & went in said Service as far as any of the Regim', But so it was that on the 28th of July 1758, the Enemy Cutt off a number of Teems, & Killed many of the soldiers, & women &c, that Conveyd them, & your Petitioner with a Large number of this province Troops, were ordered by their sup' officer to march Immediately to their relief & did, & In the Fight there your petitioner had the misfortune to be shot by an Indian in the Left Breast, the bullet Logg in the back part of his shoulder, was afterward Cut out by Doc Clark. * * & when your petitioner was one hundred & fifty miles from home was obliged to sell his shoes off his feet for sustenance In order to get home. Paul Pressey [R. 2-167] [Certificate relative to foregoing.] To the Honorabile Gentelman of the House of Repreizentives of the Province of Newhampshir this is to Inform your Honours What We the Subscribers Know Concerning Mr Paul Pressey Sence he Came Home from the Lake the said Pressey was not able to Do any work of any Valy till a Bout the first of December 1758 and after that he was often Complaining of his Shoulder as he was Shuing of oxen for Sume of us and other times he was Saing that his wound hurt him in his Labour Dated att Kingston march y 12th 1759 Jeremiah Hubbard Jonathan French Joshua Webster Juner Dyer Hook Daniel Brown Jonathan French John Paige Humphrey Hook Jonathan Harvey Ephraim Paige Caleb towl Junr Aaron Quimby [Dr. John Kittredge, of Andover, Mass., testifies to having taken care of his wound. He asked for relief, and was allowed £8 sterling.-ED.] [R. 2-168] [Jeremiah Bartlett's Petition, 1778.] [In a petition, dated "Kingstown April 24 1778," Jeremiah Bartlett stated that he was 66 a soldier in the company commanded by Capt Ezra Currier, in Colo Abraham Drake's Regiment, that marched from this State Last fall and joined the northern Army near Stillwater." He further stated that he was taken with a fever near Fishkill, and wanted pay for his expences in getting home, etc. He was allowed £60. -ED.] [R. 2-169] [Soldiers' Orders.] Kingstown January 24, 1778 Please to pay to Samuel Peirson or Order all the pay due to me for my Rations as an Adj' in Colo Drakes Regt from Sep 8 to this day for which his receipt shall be your Discharge & you'll oblige yours &c pr. Nath' Bacheller [Thomas Severance, of the First Regiment, orders what is due him to be paid to John Nicolle. Witnesses, Jona. Blake and Samuel Favour. Christopher Challis, of the Second Regiment, orders his wages to be paid to same. Witness, Jeremiah Graves.ED.] [R. 2-173] [Petition of Sarah Hobart, 1797.] [In a petition, dated Kingston, November 20, 1797, Sarah Hobart,"late widow of Col Windborn Adams," who was killed at Stillwater, September 19, 1777, asked to have some interest, which she claimed to be due her, allowed and paid. -ED.] [5-255] [Relative to the Militia, 1784.] To his Excellency the President and the Honble Executive Council of the State of New hampshire-your Petitioners Humbly Shew That the Legaslative of this State at their Last Session Thought Proper to take off from the Seventh Regiment of militia in this State (Commonly Called Kingstown Regiment) the Southwesterly part thereof (viz) Salem, Plaistow, Hampstead, Atkinson, & Sandown, and Erect them into a Distinct and Seperrate Regiment, and have added to the other Part of Said Seventh Regiment the Town of South Hampton taken from the third Regiment, That in aranging the Said Regiments the South westerly Regiment altho' the youngest part of Said Seventh Regiment are by Some mistake allowed the Rank of the Seventh Regiment while the oldest Part of the Said Seventh Regiment is Reduced to the Twentieth, Your Petitioners are of oppinion the Said arrangment was made in haste and without properly Considering of the Same, and make no Doubt that when the matter is Properly Laid before the Legislature at their Next Session that the mistake will be Rectified, We therefore Pray your Excellency and Honours to Pospone the giving out any military Commitions in Either of Said Regiments till after the next meeting of the Legislature when we Expect the mistake will be amended or otherwise we are apprehensive Very great Difficulties will Ensue-and your Petitioners as in Duty bound will Ever Pray &c. Jonathan Sanborn Dudly Kinrick Thomas Elkins Henry Judkins Ebeneser proctere Jacob Foot Nathaniel garland Samuel Favour Nathanael Morrill Jonathan French 4 Jethro Sanborn Henery Dearbon John Singleton Aaron young Aaron Hunton Benja Cooper John quemby San- Solomon Wheeler [5-256] Henry Morrill Jabez Eaton Jonathan Sanborn jun' Peter Emerson Phinehas Bachalder Reuben True Ebenezer Stevens 3rd [Another concerning Militia, 1785.] To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire in General Assembly Convened at Concord the 9th day of Feb 1785. The Petition of the Subscribers humbly shew that in the last session of the General Assembly, among other alterations and arrangements of the regiments of Militia in this State, they thought proper to take off the Town of Southhampton from the Third Regiment commonly called Hampton Regiment, and annex it to the seventh commonly called Kingstown Regiment, and then to devide the last mentioned regiment into Two seperate & Distinct regiments; that with great Differance to the opinion of the Legislature your petitioners humbly conceive, that the devision of said regiment might be made in a different manner to more advantage, and beg leave to request that it may be taken up again and altered if it shall seem proper to your Honours-that in giving Rank to the said two Regts the southwesterly regiment, by much the youngest part of the said Seventh Regiment, is allowed the Rank of the Seventh Regiment, while the Northeasterly regiment by much the oldest part of said seventh Regiment, is reduced to the twentieth-that the Town of Kingstown is the first Chartered town in the State, and was first settled after the four old towns, as they are called, viz Portsmouth, Dover, Hampton, & Exeter; and your petitioners can conceive of no good reason why the said town, togather with the two parishes thereof viz East Kingston & Hawke which make up the greatest part of the said Northeast regiment, should be degraded from their former rank to which they are so Justly intitled by age, and which they |