and continued in the service till regularly dismissed; that, during our said service, each of us lost an Horse, which we have not since heard of, notwithstanding the Pains we have taken. Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray your Honors to take the above into consideration and make such compensation for the loss we have sustained as you in your Wisdom shall think fit-and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray New-Ipswich Dec 25th 1777. Francis Fletcher William Clary Ephraim Adams Exeter Feb y 19th 1778 the Horse of Francis Fletcher I think was worth £30 William McClary 28 Jonas Woolson 35 Ephraim Adams 30 the Horses was ordered forward by me with the advise of other officers Tho' Heald Leut Col [7-192] [Petition to pay for a Horse lost in the Service, 1777.] To the Honble the Council and Assembly of the State of New Hampshire, The Petition of the Subscribers, Select-Men of the Town of New-Ipswich in said State humbly sheweth That on or about the first Day of Oct 1777 we pressed on an Horse, the Property of Cap' Charles Barrett of said New-Ipswich (agreable to the Laws of said State) to carry Packs for the Men who turned out Volunteers, in Order to reinforce the Northern Army under the Command of Gen' Gates; that the said Horse was lost in the Expedition, and has not since been heard of, notwithstanding the pains taken: which Loss we estimate at sixty Pounds lawful Money. Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray your Honors to take the above into Consideration and order such Compensation for the said Loss as you in your Wisdom shall think fit and your Petitioners, as in Duty bound, shall ever pray &c New-Ipswich 23d Oct 1778. WTM Shattuck Select men Hillsboro' ss Dec' 14th 1778 The above named Wm Shattuck, I: Appleton and J. Chandler made solemn Oath, that in Appraising the Horse above mentioned, they have acted impartially & according to their best Skill and Judgment. Coram Tim Farrar Just: Pacis [7-193] [Appraisal of Estate of Absentees, 1778.] An Inventory of the Estate of John Tomlinson and John Tufton Mason Esq (supposed to be Inhabitants of Great Britain) lying in N-Ipswich in the State of N-Hampshire, taken into Custody and appraised by the Subscribers, Select-Men of sd New-Ipswich by Authority of an Act intitled An Act to prevent the Conveyance of Estate &c passed in the Year of our Lord 1777. which Estate is owned in Partnership. viz Lot 60-Acres So-Appraised at £420 Taxes due £12, 66 164 66 163 66 66 66 0-13, 0-II, 66 Total The subscribers charge for their Trouble in appraising and renting out the said Land £4-12-0 Sworn to before Timothy Farrar, Oct, 24, 1778, [7-194] [Relative to Oath of Allegiance, 1783.] To the Honourable Council and Gentlemen of the house of Representatives for the State of New-Hampshire, the Petition of the Town of New-Ipswich Humbly Sheweth; that whereas the act of the Legeslature of Said State passed June 21st 1782 which Requires all Voters in Town meetings to take an Oath of Elegiance to the State, dos not answer the Purposes thereby Intended (but Quite the Reverse) for it dos not Seperate the Enemies of the State, from its friends but has Greatly Devided and Confusd the People; Notwithstanding the arguments that has been used with the People in this Town to Induce them to Take Said Oath but Sixty-two out of one hundred and Seventy-five has taken it; they Seem Temorous of Multiplying Oaths; the hundred and thirteen that has not taken it, have Since the Contest as Cherfully paid Taxes and been as Ready to turn out on alarms as the Sixty-two that has taken Sa oath; and are greatly Dissatisfied that they must be Deprivd of Prevaliges, unless they take an oath to be True when they have always been so, and Say that if they are Subject to Taxation they have a Right to Representation; if Said act Should be held in force, we much fear the Consequences; for we Learn Said act has the Same Effect in many other Towns in the State; and further if People Cannot Recover their Dues they Cannot pay Taxes; the Effects of Said act are obvious and plain; the Continuance of Said act we apprehend will be very Detremental to the Unity and Safty of the State. therefore we your Petitioners Humbly pray for Redress by a Repeal of Said act; and that your Honorable Body may Cultivate that Union among the People that is Sure to advance a State; if your Honourable Body Shall grant a favourable answer to this our Petition, we as in Duty Bound Shall Ever pray. New Ipswich Feb. 10th 1783 Isaac Appleton Comtee for [Read, and ordered to lay.—ED.] [7-195] [Relative to Militia Regiment, 1785.] To the Honble General Court of the State of New-Hampshire. The Petition of the Subscribers, Selectmen and other Inhabitants of the Towns of New-Ipswich, Peterborough, Temple Lyndsborough, Wilton, Mason, Peterborough-Slip, Hancock, and Society-land, in behalf of our-selves and the Towns we belong to Humbly sheweth That by a vote of the General Court passed at their last Session, the Inhabitants of the Towns above mentioned were constituted the 23d Regiment of Militia: and that the Towns of Rindge, Jaffrey, Dublin, Packersfield, Marleborough & Fitzwilliam were constituted the 12th Regiment, retaining the Number which they had when connected with the greater part of the Towns first mentioned: which we conceive to be injurious, inverting the order which ought to have taken place in their Numbers. And presuming that the General Court were not rightly informed as to the circumstances of those two Regiments, beg leave to lay before your Honors some facts, in order to procure an alteration in their Numbers, which we think ought to take place for the following reasons:-The nine petitioning Towns are the oldest by about twenty years taking their age upon an average; Capt Woolson of N-Ipswich having a Commission in the 6th Regt Dated in the year 1744; before there was a single Inhabitant in any of the six Towns above named, and many years before a Commission was given to any person within their limits.-By means of being united with those Towns we lost our Number from 6, to 12; therefore ought not to lose from 12, to 23, by dissolving the Connection. -By comparing their Numbers and wealth it will appear that we pay £49-15 to the Thousand; they but £32-13-That there are eleven hundred rateable polls in this Regt; and little more than six hundred in that :-That there are four field officers in this Regt who will think it degrading to renew their Commissions in the 23a Regt: and but one in that: (and that a second Maj') Thus, Gentlemen, whatever we substitute as a Criterion to determine the right of precedence; whether Age, numbers, wealth, the residence of Field officers or whatever else we can conceive to operate in the minds of the Legislature, the preference is, most clearly, on our side. And as we would not be vainly ambitious for honour, to which we had no title; so neither would we be thought so mean, as tamely to submit to a sentence by which we are degraded below our Inferiors. We therefore apply to your Honours as the Guardians of our rights, humbly praying for a reconsideration of the vote complained of; and that we may be permitted to retain the original Number. And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c Jan 27th 1785 Tim Farrar Paul Prichard Tho Noals Reed Selectmen Timothy Fox Ju Joseph Batcheller Ithamar wheelock Nehemiah Stratton John Pratt Ju James French Thomas Fletcher William Wheeler Josiah Walton ju Simen Goold Junr John Prichard Shurmon Shattuck Samuel Chandler Aaron Kidder Joel Hildreth William Wheeler Jr David Clary Ephraim Fletcher Benj" Knight Jotham Hoar [R. 3-40] [Certificate of Service of Samuel Walker, 1782.] This may certify that I the Subscriber one of the Selectmen in New Ipswich in the year 1780 did with the other Selectmen by order of Court hire Six men to serve Six months in the Continental army of which Number Samuel Walker of New Ipswich was one who marcht off and returned with the others, and I never heard but that he faithfully Did the Service and was properly Discharged. New Ipswich August 27th 1782 Isaac How |