[6-233] [Consent of Peterborough to foregoing, 1790.]

At a Legal Town Meeting of the Inhabitant of Peterborough upon the 18 day of october 1790—

Voted to grant to the persons petitioning the General Court the east Range of Peterborough in Case they obtain from Lyndeborough and other places what they have petitioned for to be incorporated into a Town—

Peterborough october 18 day 1790

A true Coppy

Attest Thomas Steele Town Clerk of Peterboro

[6-236] [Report of a Committee on the foregoing.]

The Committee appointed by the General Court at their Session in June 1790, to consider of the petition of the Inhabitants of the Northwesterly part of Lyndbor &c and to view the situation of sd Inhabitants report as their Opinion

That the prayer thereof be so far granted, as that there be a Town incorporated beginning at a Beach Tree on the South East corner of Lyndboro addition so called and so on the East & North bounds of said addition unto the Southwest corner of Francestown then Northwardly on the line between Francestown and the Society to a heap of stones on the crotched Mountains so called, then westwardly to Contocook River, then up said River till it strike Peterboro North line then Eastwardly on said line till it come to the West side of the East range of said Town then Southwardly on said line till it strike Temple Mountain so called then Eastwardly on said Mountain till it come to the west line of Lot N° 50 in Lyndbor° near the middle of sd Lot thence North by s line to the South West corner of Lot N° 63 in Lyndbor° thence on the West line of Lots N° 63, 64 & 81 to the Southwest of Lot N° 82 thence by the South & East lines of sd Lot to the Southwest corner of Lot 98 then on the South & East lines of sd Lot to the South West corner of Lot 102 then on the South & East line of sd Lot and the East line of Lot N° 115 unto the S. W. corner of Lot N° 121 thence

on the S & E line of sd on the line between the

Lot to the N. E. corner thereof thence land belonging to Capt Huesten & Lieut Whittemore to the N W corner of the Lot belonging to said Hueston, thence East on s Huestons land to the bounds first mentioned

Which is submitted

A true copy

By Robert Wallace for the Court

Attest Joseph Pearson Sec

[The town opposed the separation by the line recommended in the foregoing report.-ED.]

[6-246] [Proceedings of a Town-Meeting relative to the foregoing, 1791.]

To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives in and for the State of New Hampshire

The Memorial of the Town of Lyndborough humbly Sheweth

Agreeable to the Order of the Honourable Senate and House of Representitives upon a petition prefered to them last June by a Number of the Inhabitance of the westerly part of this Town and Others, praying to be Set off from this Town and Incorporated into a Town by themselves—

The Town at their Meeting on the 27 Day of December Instant took the Matter into their Consideration agreeable to an Article in the warrant for Said Meeting and Voted as follows (viz)

I' that it appears Evident to us that if More of this Town Should be Set off to the Petitioners than we Voted to them at a Meeting of this Town last April it will Intirely break up the Town and that it Cannot Subsist as Such, after So large a part of it is taken off.

2ly therefore Voted that the Prayer of this Town be presented to the Honourable Court at their next Sessions at Concord on the first Wednesday of January next by our Member in Said Court, praying that the prayer of the Petitioners may not be granted, farther than this Town Voted them at the aforesaid Meeting

3ly Voted that in Case the Honourable Courts Committee Should Report different from the aforesaid Vote of this Town, or Report that more of Said Town be Set off to Said Petitioners than Said Town have Voted, and if the Reasons that may

be Offered Should not be Sufficient to Convince the Honorable Court that this Town have Voted off to the Petitioners as much of Said Town as is Consistent with Reason and Justice, then Voted to pray the Honourable Court to grant us a Committee upon the Expence of the Town to take a View of that part of Said Town Called the Old Town, that the Situation of the whole Town with all the Circumstances that attend it may be taken into Consideration as the late Honourable Committee by the Order of the Honourable Court were Confined to View the Situations of the Petitioners only

4 Chose Peter Clark Levi Spaulding Esq', and Lieut Jeremiah Carleton a Committee to Assign Reasons to the Hon' Court why the prayer of the Petitioners Should not be Granted

A true Copy of the Vote of the Town of Lyndborough at their Meeting aforesaid

attest pr Ephraim Putnam Town Clerk

Agreeable to the foregoing Vote the aforesaid Committee beg leave to Inform the Honourable Court of the Difficulties and perplexityes (like the present) that have attended the Town of Lyndborough in years past, as, also, the present Circumstances and the Consequences that will follow, Should the prayer of the present Petitioners be granted

And in the first place as to the Town being Very large as Set forth in the present petitioner, it was laid out Six Miles Square Except at the North East Corner where New Boston Corner Came in about two miles Said New Boston holding its Square Corner being the prior grant, afterwards there was a larg part of this Town taken of and added to Wilton as may be Seen by the Plan of Lyndborough) which was a great Dammage to this Town, for the Land Added on the west and North did by no Means Compensate for what was taken off by Wilton, for the Addition on the North lay So in with Francestown that they were Very Sure of having it annexed to them Sooner or later, accordingly Francestown Set their Meeting House within about one Mile of Said Addition, and in the Year 1777 Petitioned the Town of Lyndborough to have the Said Addition Set off to them, which the Town of Lyndborough then Refused to dohowever the Land then not having many Inhabitants Settled upon it, and Francestown being Very Sure that when it had, they would be for Coming to them, let the Matter Rest untill last Spring.

Likewise Duxbery School Farm with part of Amherst and the Inhabitants on the South East part of this Town in the year 1777 petitioned the Town of Lyndborough and also the General

Court to be Incorporated into a Town by them Selves, but the Honourable Court Viewing the Cituation of Lyndborough Resolved that the prayer of Said petition Ought not to be granted

the Town then had Rest from an Invasion untill the Year 1774 when Lyndborough Slip So Called and Some of the Inhabitants of the westerly part of this Town Petitioned the Town, also the General Court, to be Set off by the Same lines the present petition Sets forth, and they had a Committee from the General Court, who after viewing the Situation of the Town Reported Unanimously that the prayer of Said Petition be not granted

thus Matters Rested untill last Spring at which time the Inhabitants that were Settled on the four Lots in the Southwest Corner of this Town petitioned to be Set off to Temple likewise the present Petitioners to be Set off by the Same lines as heretofore as may appear by their petition now before the Honourable Court-likewise the Inhabitants on the before Mentioned part of this Town lying next to Francestown, again Petitioned together with the Town of Francestown to have Said land with the Inhabitants thereon Annexed to Said Town.—

The Town being thus Harass with petitions from So many quarters at their Meeting Chose a Committee to Consider of the Matter, and Report to the Town which they did accordingly, which Report was accepted by the Town, Said Report being had may more fully appear—

The next Movement was made by those petitioners who wish to be annexed to Francestown together with the Selectmen of Said Town who again petitioned the Town of Lyndborough at their meeting held on the 30th Day of August last to be Set off to Francestown by Such bounds as Set forth in their petition now before the Hono" Court-the prayer of which Petition the Town at Said Meeting Voted to grant―

Thus by the before going Memorial the Honourable Court may See how this Town has been Harassed-and to prevent any farther Difficultyes in this way the Town has Voted off to the Several Petitioners all the Land that was added on to this Town to make up for what Wilton took from us amounting to above Six Thousand Acres and have Reduced the Town to the bigness of about five Miles and a half one way and about five Miles and one quarter the other, Excepting the South East Corner which brings the Meeting House near the Senter and Should we be permitted to Reap So much benefit from the Charter heretofore granted to this town as to only Suffer the loss of what Wilton took from us and Injoy only what they left us without any part of the additions we might possibly remain as a Small Town, but if the lines that the Town has prescribed

for them Selves and wish to hold to, are broken Over, or if the prayer of the petitioners is granted farther than the Town has Voted them, we Expect nothing but Contention Divisions and finaly the braking up and Distruction of the Town, to prevent which we humbly present the prayer of this Town to the Honourable Court (whom we Esteem as the Guardians of and Defenders of our Rites) that the prayer of the Petitioners may not be grantedSigned Peter Clark for ye Committee

Lyndborough January 5 1791

[6-237] [Remonstrance of sundry Inhabitants to being set off, 1791.]

To the Honourable Senate and House of Representatives in and for the State of New Hampshier.

The petition of a Number of the Inhabitants of the Town o Lyndeborough Humbly Sheweth.—

That whereas the Town of Lyndeborough at their meting on the 30 Day of August last past Agreable to our petition to them Voted the Following tract of Land being of the Town of Lyndeborough Should be Set off and annexed to the Town of Francestown with all such of the Inhabitants on said tract that chuse to be thus Annexed (provided the Honourable Court would Confirm it) Said tract of Land bounded as follows (viz) Begining at the South east Corner of Ithamar Woodwards Land then running Westwardly by the North Line of Lt Amas Whittemor's Land and Enoch Ordway and Noah Lawrence Land until it comes to the East line of the East teer of Large lots so Called then Running Northwardly untill it Comes to the South Line of the Lot Moses Lewis and John Stiles is Setled upon, then running Westwardly on the Line of Said Lot untill it comes to the Southwest Corner of Said Lot then running North on the Line of Said Lot to Francestown Line, Bounded Northwardly and Eastwardly on Francestown Line to the first Mentioned Bounds. Furthermore we would observe that we have Never Signed any petition or manifested any Disire of being Set off with the Inhabitants of the west part of Lyndeborough in the way and manner Expressed in their petition but on the Conterary have ever Been averse there unto and have Constantly acted Accordingly. Therefore we Pray your Honours to take the premises into your Consideration and assign us to Francestown or Otherways Let us Remain as we are Inhabi