up to the first wednesday of June next in the room of John Prentice Esq' who is appointed Attorney Gen' of this State [6-178] [Petition of Congregationalists for an Incorporation, 1796.] To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened at Exeter in and for the State of New Hampshire June 6th 1796 Humbly sheweth That whereas the Town of Londonderry is large in its extents, and numerous in its Inhabitants, and but Two Societies established for religious worship, both of which are of the Presbyterian denomination, and that a very considerable part of the Inhabitants of said Town have been Educated under, and are in Sentiment with the Congregational denomination, and by reason of many scruples of Concience, cannot freely subscribe to the Creed of either of the societies aforesaid, And that another very considerable number of said Town, altho Educated under the Presbyterian government, have been unused to the riged & Abitrary mode of Government, adopted by the present Presbytery of Londonderry, and that the government of said society, under the present mode of Administration, is so riged, and arbitrary, as gives much occasion for complaints to those who have submitted thereto. Your petitioners therefore Inhabitants of Londonderry, being desirous of forming themselves into a Congregational society and of worshiping God in a social manner according to the dictates of their own Consciences, and when of sufficient ability, to settle, and in a corporate capacity to contract with a minister of the Congregational denomination, Humbly pray, that they with such other persons as may hereafter join them in said Town, may be incorporated into a poll Parish, and vested with such powers, rights, and privelidges, as other Parishes enjoy, And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray Jonathan Adams William Adams Levi Neal Robert McNeill [6-179] [Committee chosen to present the Petition, 1797.] At a meeting of the Petitioners for a Congregational Poll Parish in Londonderry held at the House of Isaac Thom Nov 23d 1797 Voted to chuse a Committee of three persons to prosecute their petition now pending before the General Court & that John Prentice James M Gregore & Isaac Thom Esquires should be said Committee Attest Isaac Thom Clerk for the Petitioners Londonderry Nov 23d 1797 [6-180] To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives for the State of New Hampshire to be convened at Portsmouth on the fourth wednesday of this instant November Humbly Shew that we the Subscribers, inhabitance of Londonderry in the County of Rockingham in said State, had not an opportunity to sign the petition, now pending before the Legislature of said State, praying to be incorporated into a Congregational Poll Parish in Londonderry aforesaid; and for other good Causes now pray the Honorable Legislature to consider us petitioners in the same way and manner as it would have done, had we have signed the original petition. Londonderry November 11th 1797 Benjamin Palmer Charles Cox John Dodge William Cooper William Moor [The society was incorporated by an act approved December 9, 1797.—ED.] LOUDON. This town was formed of territory taken from Canterbury, and incorporated "into a distinct parish by the name of Loudon," January 23, 1773, in answer to a petition from the inhabitants. (See Vol. XI, page 263) The first settlements were made in 1760 by Jethro and Abraham Bachelder and Moses Ordway. January 2, 1784, a gore of land which had formerly been claimed by Rumford, but which was left to Canterbury when Rumford was incorporated by the name of Concord, and incorporated with Loudon in 1773, was annexed to Concord. January 7, 1853, a small tract of land was severed from Canterbury and annexed to Loudon. [6-181] [Petition to have a Portion of the Town annexed to Concord, 1782.] To the Honorable the Council and House of Representatives of the State of New Hampshire in General Assembly convened The Petition of Samuel Chamberlain & others Inhabitants of the westerly part of the parish of Loudon humbly sheweth, That your petitioners are situated at a great distance from the Meeting House in said parish which makes it very inconvenient for them to be connected therewith-Sensible thereof your petitioners did in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty petition the said Parish of Loudon to set them off to the parish of Concord which was granted and a Committee was chosen for the purpose of settling the line said committee persuant to their appointment did attend upon the business & made report of their doings thereon to the parish of Loudon which report was by them Accepted and is as follows Viz Begining on the eastwardly banks of Sowcook River so called where said river crosses Rumford line thence running up said river on the eastwardly side within two rods of the foot of the Great falls so called thence straight across the neck of Land to the river two rods above said falls thence continueing up by the river on the Eastwardly side to the hundred Acre Lot No one hundred Ninety two thence by Ditto North about twenty two Degrees west two hundred rods to a Pitch pine marked thence North about thirty six rods to the North side of the road Leading from Canterbury to Epsom thence North seventy degrees west by said road about one hundred rods thence North sixty degrees west eighty five rods thence North forty five degrees west sixty five rods to a Pitch pine Marked thence North sixty three degrees west sixty two rods to a White pine marked thence Northwesterly a straight course to the North easterly corner of Rumford thence south seventy degrees west to the present corner of Concord Your petitioners therefore pray your Honours to take the matter into consideration and if you shall think proper Annex them to Concord Agreable to the Above described line and Your petitioners as in Duty bound shall Ever pray &c Loudon March 20th 1782 Samuel Chamberlain [A portion of this town was annexed to Concord, Jan. 2, 1784-ED.] [6-182] [Benjamin Sias recommended for a Magistrate, 1785.] State of Newhampshire Rockingham ss To his Exelency the president & honorable Council of the State of Newhampshire. The petition of the parish of Loudon humbly sheweth that it apears to us your petitioners that it is Needfull and Benifishel to the people of this parish to have another Justice of the peace appointed for s parish & County we would Not be understood to have aney thing against Esq' Bachelder our present Justice but many times we have business in the Absence of Esq' Bachelder which puts us to Extraordinary cost or our Business Must Lay unsetled we tharefore Beag that your Exelency and honors would appoint Capt Benj" Sias of this parish as Justice of the peace for s parish & County as we Look upon him to be a good Member of sociaty a man of a Good Judgment and Education More suitable for that office then aney other Man in the parish of Loudon and your petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever pray Abraham Bachelder william Bachelder william worth william Lovering osgood Lovering James Chase Abner Clough John hall Richard Rendail Solomon Gils Nathaniel Moore Ezekiel french Jacob Danforth Josiah Moore Thomas Moore Jonathan Clough Ju' Thomas Emerey Jonathan Rendail Lyonel worth Nathan Tilton Joseph Tilton Celab Pilesbury harvey Blesdail [6-183] Isaac Morill william Tilton william Goein william Buswill Eleaser watson [Vote relative to Paper Money, 1786.] At a Legal Town Meeting held in the Parish of Loudon this 24th of Novem' 1786, for emitting a Paper Currency, It ap |