Gilsom and others Preferd to the General Court Should be Granted it will be a means of removing the Present Center and frustrate our Design in Building a House for Public Worship and thro the Town into the uttermost Confusion imaginable and as we look upon your Honours as Guardians of the State your Petitioners flatter themselves that your honours in your known Wisdom Will not Erect a New Town on the ruins of older ones therefore your Petitioners pray that the prayer of the petition referd to may not be granted As in Duty Bound Shall ever pray Solomon Wardwell Select men of the town of Packerfeild Pelatiah Day Packersfeild Decem' 1st 1786 [The north-west part of the town was severed, and with portions of Gilsum and Keene incorporated into the town of Sullivan.] [7-259] [Petition of Ruth Batcheller, concerning her Husband's confiscated Estate, 1789.] State of New-Hampshire. To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives In general Court assembled. May it please your Honors. The Petition of Ruth Batchelor of Packersfield, humbly sheweth. That your Petitioner is the Widow relict of Breed Batchellor Esq' late of Sa Packersfield— Deceased. Who in the Time of the Controversy with Britain, was dissatisfied with the Measures the States Adopted, in order to obtain their Liberties, and delivering themselves from the hands of the Britons, And therefore Left his Wife, Children & Estate, and went to the British Army. Upon which the whole of his Estate, real & personal was Confiscated. And your Petitioner with her Children, was left in distressing Circumstances, her Children being then Small, And unable to earn their Living, tho your Petitioner, by the Indulgence of the honorable Judge of Probates, has been for some Years past, indulged with the Improvement of the Home Farm, which when mr Batchellor left it was new And ruff, the Fences made Chiefly of Timber, which now are mostly rotten And Decayed. And the Buildings are greatly decayed & impaired. By which our Habitations are rendered uncomfortable, And the profits of the Farm are greatly lessened and rendered insufficient to afford the Family, with all their Labour & Industry a Comfortable Support. Therefore your Petitioner humbly Prays that your Honors would take into your serious Consideration the Case of a poor widow And a Number of Fatherless Children, and grant the said Home Farm to your Petitioner & her Children And to their Heirs forever. That they may be encouraged to repair the Buildings & Fences, by which the Farm may be rendered Capable of affording the Family a Support, And Your Petitioner as in Duty bound, shall ever pray.— Packersfield June 2d, 1789. Ruth Batcheller [In H. of Rep., June 12, 1789, it was voted that Mrs. Batcheller have the use of the estate free of rent until the matter was finally settled.-ED.] [7-261] [Certificate of Number of Ratable Polls, 1794.] This Certifies that their is in the Town of Packersfield one Hundred and forty two Male Poles of twenty one Years of age and upwards paying a pole tax for them-Selves Packersfield June ye 2d 1794 Sam' Griffin) Select Men This Certifies that at a legal Town Meeting held in the Town of Packersfield on the twenty eighth Day of April Last the Inhabitants Voted unanimously that the Selectmen of Said Town Petition the General Court at their next Session for leave to Send a Representative Packersfield June ye 2d 1794 [7-262] Sam' Griffin T. Clerk [Relative to Representative, 1794.] To His Excellency the Governer the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire to be Convened at Amherst on the first wednsday of June nextHumbly Sheweth your Petitinors Inhabitants of the Town of Packersfield have for Some Years past been Classed with the Town of Dublin for Representation that Said Dublin have now Come of age and Send a Representative for them Selves by which means your Petitinors not having a Sufficient Number paying a pole Tax for them Selves are left Unrepresented Therefore Pray your Honors to take our Case into your wise Consideration and grant us releafe in the Premises Either by Classing or Granting us leave to Send a Representative by our Selves and your Petitinors as in Duty bound Shall ever pray &c Packersfield June ye 2d 1794 Sam' Griffin) Select Men Amos Child of Packersfield NEW BOSTON The township was granted by the government of the Massachusetts bay, March 20, 1735, O. S., to John Simpson. and others, who were soldiers, or heirs of soldiers, engaged in the Canada expedition of 1690. An arrangement was made December 24, 1752, whereby the Masonian proprietors relinquished their claim on the territory, including a large tract in addition to the Massachusetts grant, which addition was incorporated with Francestown in 1772. New Boston was incorporated with town privileges February 18, 1763, and Col. John Goffe, of Bedford, authorized to call the first meeting. June 18, 1836, the farm of Isaac Parker, situated in the north-east corner, was severed from this town and annexed to Goffstown. Some of the grantees and settlers were from Boston, Mass., and named this town in memory of their former home. The men in the First N. H. Regt., in the Revolution, from this town were John Jordon, Thomas McNeil, Benjamin Stone, and a negro named Peter Brewer: the latter died in the service. [R. 3-9] [John Burns, Soldier, 1760.] The memorial of John Burn of a Plantation called New-Boston in the Province of New-Hampshire: Humbly Sheweth that I was an Inlisted Soldier in the Hampshire Regiment for the last Campaign-viz in the year 1759, under the special command of Capt Nehemiah Lovewell. [He further stated that he was with the army at Ticonderoga and "Chenecdada," where he was taken sick. Lieut. Ebenezer Lyon, of Amherst, and John Harvell, of Litchfield, certified to being in the same regiment, and that the statement of Burns was true. He was allowed £7-10 sterling. ED.] [7-116] [House burned, 1756.] The deposition of James Hunter, of a place Called new Boston in the province of new hampshire who testifieth and saith that in the month of march 1756 my hous in new Boston aforsaid was by acedant Burned and all therin destroyed so that nothing was left that the flams Could Consume and in it was Consumed Eghteen pounds old tener of the bills of Cridet of this province which I had in the hous and as I am Informed the Court make all such good again and further saith not James Hunter [Sworn to before Robert Boyes, Justice of the Peace. He was allowed £4-10 "out of the money in the treasury to be burnt."-Ed.] [7-117] [Petition for an Incorporation, 1760.] To His Exelency Bening Wentwoth Govener in chief in and over his Majesties Province of New-Hampshire & To the Honourable His Majesties Councill The Memorial of Thomas Cochran and others humbly Sheweth That Some Time before the War began about the Year forty Three a few famelies began to Settle upon a Tract of Land called New-Boston which Tract of Land was formerly Granted by the General Court of the Massechusets Bay to a party of Soldiers Belonging to the Canada Expedition formerly as a Reward in part for their good Service; which Tract of Land is Bounded Easterly upon Bedford and a Tract of Land called Goffs Town Notherly upon a Tract of Land called Hales Town Westerly upon a Slip of Land granted to said Proprie tors by the Purchasers of Masons Patent As also upon a Tract of Land formerly called Salem-Canada Latly Lindburrough Southerly upon a Tract of Land called Soughegan West The Contents of which is about Six Mild Square as will appear by the Plan. And altho' those few families that Settled before the War Commenced; Descerted the Settlements in the Time of the War, yet as Soon as the War concluded, immediately took possession and have made Considerable Improvement. Since which many More families have Settled upon the Same Tract of Land to the Number of Twenty families or upward—And as we are all of the Presbeterian Constetution, So we are Solicitous to Settle a Minister of our own Constetution, that we may quietly enjoy Christain Privileges. and we think an Incorporation tends greatly to promote the Same as well as to Advance the Settlement of the Town. and many other Advantages Consaquent upon it too Numerous to be incerted; So with the lowest Submission we beg leave to address your Excellency & Honours for a Charter of our Township according to the Contents above Specified and doubt not but that in your great Wisdom & Clemency will answer our reasonable Request. And So your Memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray [The plan referred to is very simple. The town was incorporated by the governor and council Feb. 18, 1763.— ED.] [7-119] [Relative to Boundary Lines.] The deposition of James Ferson of full age testifieth and Saith. that he was one of the Chainmen in measuring New Boston along with m' Sheepherd and we Gave no alowance for up hill nor down hill nor Swage of Chain nor fallen Logs nor Crook of Chain and further Saith not Jams ferson [Sworn before Robert Boyes, Justice of the Peace.] |