the main on Public days Gratis which Custom was Constantly Complyed with till Very Lately when the Select men to add another Grievance to Us have Compelled the Present Occupant of the Ferry to pay his Tax who now refuses to Let us pass the River without Pay, for these and many other Reasons your Petitioners most Humbly Pray your Honors that we may be Disannexed with our Estates from the town of New Castle and Annexed to the Town of Rye which is much more Convenient to us for meetings & Schools And your Petitioners as in Duty Bound will Ever Pray Jn° Blunt [The foregoing was granted Dec. 22, 1791.—ED.] [7-175] [George Jaffrey claims an Allowance for Damage caused by building the Fort.] State of New-Hampshire Portsmouth June 8th 1792 To the Honourable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire now Sitting at Dover in general Court, in June 1792— The Memorial of George Jaffrey of Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham; and State of New-Hampshire— Humbly Sheweth That the Government of the State of New-Hampshire, in June 1775. began building a Fort on the land of your Memorialist at a place called Jerrys point, in the Town of New-Castle in Said State; and that Fort was built of the Sods, earth and Stone walls of Said place also many valuable trees were cut down on that place, to be used as materials for building or fuel for the fort-From the time of building that fort, your Memorialist was deprived of cutting the principal part of the hay for Supporting the Cattle he had upon The farm, containing about Seventy five Acres by Several years manuring the ground at Jerrys Point, by the appearance of the Grass, when the fort was begun to be built, the Tennant expected to make nine or ten loads of hay on that point of land,-Since that time, have been obliged to transport hay by water, at an extraordinary expence, to Support the Stock on that farm, and the ground on the point has been of little or no benefit-when the Government removed the Platforms Barracks &ca from the fort, in expectation that the Fort would be removed, and the materials would be replaced,-prevented application to the general Court for ample and adequate compensation for the Damage to your Memorialist, by building Said Fort-wherefore he now prayeth The Honourable General Court would appoint a Committee to view the place where the Fort is built, examine and enquire into circumstances respecting the Damage done to your Petitioner, by building The Fort, &ca and to make a full Estimate of the Same and grant him a full Compensation for the Damage he sustain's and your Petitioner will ever pray &c Geo: Jaffrey [A committee appointed to examine into the matter reported the damage at £50. Said committee was composed of Moses Leavitt, Jona. Cilley, and James Carr.-ED.] NEW DURHAM. The township was granted to Ebenezer Smith and others in 1749, and incorporated with full town privileges December 7, 1762. Major Thomas Tash, a brave soldier of the French and Revolutionary wars, was authorized to call the first town-meeting. A tract of land adjoining on the west, for some years called New Durham Gore, was incorporated as a town by the name of Alton, June 16, 1796. The town was settled to some extent by people from Durham hence its name. Col. Thomas Tash, a native of the last named place, removed to this town about the close of the Revolutionary war, and died here in 1809, at the age of 87 years. [R. 3-25] [Petition of certain Soldiers in the Expedition against Canada: addressed to the General Assembly, June 14, 1764.] Shews That your Petitioners were in his Majestys Service against his Enemies and did their duty faithfully thro' much hardships Difficulties-That they have receivd their wages for every years Service but the Year 1760 for which they have received no pay tho' for that year their Service was as hard as the rest.— That they cannot think that their leaving Crown point about a fortnight before their Dismission (which they have been told was the reason they were not paid for that year) coud be such an Offence as justly Incurrd the forfiture of a Years wages when their Circumstances there were such as made it greatly hazzardous to their health to Tarry and their Departure attended with no Il Consequences-Wherefore they most humbly Pray their case may be Considered & their wages paid according to Enlistment & time of Service [In a petition without date Mrs. Doe stated "that David Doe Her Husband went as a Continental Solder in the service For the Town of New Durham;" and, further," that she was married in New Durham and her child was born there." Sworn before Joseph Roberts.-En.] [R. 3-27] [Petition of Peter Drown, 1785.] [In a petition dated June 6, 1785, said Drown, of New Durham, stated that he "served as a Captain in Col° Stephen Peabodys Regiment in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1778." He asked to have the depreciation of his pay made up to him. The petition is signed "Tho Tash In behalf of the petitioner." Capt. Drown was murdered February 4, 1788, by Elisha Thomas.-ED.] [R. 3-29] [Samuel Runnels's Petition, Soldier.] [In a petition dated New Durham, December 30, 1788, the said Runnels stated "that he was a private in Majr Norris Company in Col. Scammels Regt for the term of three years;" that by reason of being on detatched service with General Sullivan he drew no pay from December 31, 1778, until June 30, 1779, at which last date he was appointed to an office in the Rhode Island expedition. He was allowed regular pay for the six months.-ED.] [R. 3-26] [Soldier's Order, 1784.] Newdurham decem' th 19-1784 Sir please to pay Thomas Tash Esq' the whole of my wages & bountey for my Sarvce In the Continental armey In 1781 In Cap' Livermores Company and this Shall be a discharge In full from your humble Saryt To the pay master of the New hampshire trups John Bryant [R. 3-28] [Petition of Elisha Thomas, Soldier, 1787: addressed to the General Assembly, January 4, 1787.] Humbly Sheweth Elisha Thomas of New Durham in the County of Strafford, Yeoman, that in the Year 1776, he inlisted into Capt John Gordon's Company, as a private Soldier, in the Regment under the Command of Col Thomas Tash of this State, in the federal Service, that in the Month of November in the same year, at the Alarm at Planks Point on North River State of New York in Discharging his Gun, his Left hand, was torn 'to Pieces, by bursting of said Gun, and his Thumb carried away, and his Fingers & hand rendered almost wholly useless, by Means whereof, he suffered the most excruciating Pain for a long Time, & has ever Since been in a great Measure, deprived of the Means of gaining a Subsistence for himself & a numerous Family of Children-Wherefore Your Petitioner most hum bly Prays this honorable Assembly to take his Case in their wise and equitable Consideration, and make him such Grant, or Allowance as Justice and Humanity may dictate, for the Relief of himself & a Poor & Indegent Family and as in Duty Bound he will ever Pray [See Vol. XI, page 547.—ED.] Elisha Thomas [R. 3-30] [Petition of Richard Colomy, 1791.] State of New-Hampshire Concord Feb 3° 1791 To the Honorabl the Congress of the United States of America, most humbly sheweth, Richard Colomy of New-Durham in said State-that he was a Soldier in Captain Frederick Bells Company, in Colo George Reids Regt in Gen' Enoch Poors Brigade in the late Continental Army, that on the ninteenth day of April 1777,—in Battle at Still-water, he received two wounds, one in his knee, & the other in his hip and the ball still remains in his hip-by means of which Your Petitioner and Memorialist is much disenabled that by reason of his living remote in the Country being poor, ignorant & he never made application to be enrolled as an inviled pen' in this State till the time of enrolling therein had expired, Therefore he most ardently pray Your hon' body to take his distressed case into consideration, and Grant him such relief in the premises as may appear Just and reasonabl,-and as in duty bound he will ever pray Test: Josh Atherton John Young his Richard X Colomy mark [He was put on the invalid roll.—ED.] [7-178] [Relative to Robert Karson, Soldier.] State of New Hampe To the Honorable the Council and House of Representatives in General Court convened at Exeter April 7th 1784 Humbly shew the Inhabitants of New Durham in the County of Strafford that among the Soldiers they were called upon |