P. S. S' at the Close of the Year I Purpose, by the Leave of Providence to render an acc' of my Proceedings Thos Ives Esq' Treasurer Petition of Inhabitants of Scarborough. Common Wealth of Massachusetts To the Honble the Senate and the Honble the house of Representatives in General Court assembled This 13th Day of October 1784 The Petition of the Inhabitants of the first Parish in Scarborough humbly Sheweth that your Petitioners are very much wronged by the Division of the Said Town of Scarborough into two parishes: the first parish not having more than one third part of the whole Town which was never Intended at the time of Division for when the Town first agreed to Divide it was then Supposed that a bridge over Harmons Mill Creek on the County road was the Center or Midle of the Town without any Measureing or Survay which in fact is not: by which means the first parish looses, more than twelve hundred acres of the best of their lands and not only so but a Committee appointed by the General Court to settle lines between Scarborough Falmouth and Gorham Since the Division of Scarb° into two parishes have taken off from the head of the Said first parish in Scarb° near two thousand acres of land which was at the time of Division allowed to belong to the first Parish: and no Division line ever run until lately between the two parishes Your Petitioners find the first parish is in a manner ruined having a Minister to Support with other heavey Charges which they are not able to bare up under Your Petitioners have applied to the Second Parish to Settle the line of Division as was first intended but they refuse Giving any Satisfaction and your petitioners have rested the matter for Redress untill now on account of the late war which Required almost the whole attention of the General Court Now your petitioners humbly pray that your honors in your Great wisdom will give us Releaf in Such way and Manner as Shall Seem best So that the first parish have their full part of the whole town as was meant and Intended and Should your Honrs rs think best to appoint a Committee to be on the Spot and hear both Sides of the Dispute then if your petitioners Complaint is found Causeless your petitioners will pay the whole of the Committees Charges that may arise thereon, or in Such other wise as your hon in your known Wisdom Shall See Meet all which is humbly Submitted and your petitioner as in Duty bound will ever pray Sam' Small Benja Larrabe Committee in Reuben Fogg Abraham Tyler Jr behalf of S parish Memorial of the Justices of the Lincoln Court of Common Pleas Commonwealth of Massachusetts To the Hon Senate & the Hon. House of Representatives of sd Commonwealth in General Court assembled The Memorial of the Subscribers Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Lincoln Sheweth That the new Settlements on Kennebec, and parts adjacent, though greatly scattered have become considerably extensive -- that, as the distance is great, their travelling to Pownalborough the present Seat of the Court of Common Pleas is necessarily attended with much difficulty and expenceThat for these Reasons your Memorialists conceive that the appointment of another Session of the said Court, and of the Court of General Sessions of the peace, to be holden at Hallowell in the said County, on the third Tuesday of January Annually, will be of public Utility and contribute much to the ease and convenience of the Inhabitants of the more distant Plantations; as the place above proposed is at a convenient distance from the said Plantations, and the Winter a season of Leisure and tolerable travelling in this Country; and as your Memorialists conceive that the measure proposed is correspondent to the General wishes of the People, they do therefore pray that your Honours would take the matter into your wise consideration & Order that a session of the said Courts may be holden at the time & place abovementioned. And your Memorialists will pray &c Will" Lithgow James Howard Pownalbor° October 8th 1784 Petition of Samuel Goodwin. Common Wealth of Massachusetts To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of Massachusetts in General Court Assembled — The Memorale of Samuel Goodwin of Pownalborough in the County of Lincoln in the State aforesaid Esq' Humbly Sheweth That your Memorels Presented a Petition to your Honours dated the 10th of August 1782 which Petition was Read & Supported, and three orders thereon, two having miscarried; the third Came to hand in time & the high Sheriff Served attested Copies of the said Petition and order thereon on Assa Smith one of those Named in said Petition and licke Wise left attested Copies, with Thomas Gilpatrick & Jeremiah Nelson being on the Land on the 15th day of July 1783 as appears from Edmund Bridges Esq' the high Sherriffs Return the day that the advers parties was to be heard: I Never heard that any appeared-yett nothing don with the prayer of my Petition-There fore I most Humbly pray your Honours To take my memoreal into your most Serious & Wise Consideration and Grant the Prayer of my Petition to me my heirs &c and assigns With the Liberty of the Law, So that I may Obtain my Just Right, Which Asa Smith and Others is a Depriving me of & a Striping Everything of my land: I Reffer your Honours to the Petition and papers that was before your Honours for facts or other wise Releave your petitioner as your Honours in your Great Wisdom shall think proper and I as in Duty bound Shall Ever Pray Samuel Goodwin Pownalborough Octob* 12th 1784 Common Wealth of Massachusetts To the Honourable the Senet and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled The Memoriel and Petition of Samuel Goodwin of Pownalborough in the County of Lincoln in the State aforesaid Esq Humbly Sheweth unto this Great and Honourable Court: that on the 10th day of Augus 1782 your memorials, sent a petition To the Said Honourable the Great and General Court in the following words-viz-To the Great and General Court of the Common Wealth of Massachusetts. Humbly Sheweth-That Doctor Silvester Gardiner Esq had a Grant of Land in Pownalborough on the 11th of February 1761 Livery & Leazen was Given & Delivered to Said Gardiner on the 1th of April 1761 butted and bounded as follows viz beginning at the South line of Lott (No 54) on Sheeps Cut River Delineated on a plan made by Jonas Jones Surveyor dated December (20th 1759) and from Lott N° 54 to run a west North west Course two miles and a halfe, and from the Westerly Eand of the two miles & halfe To run a Northeast Course until it meets Sheepscut River & then running down Said Sheeps cut river-as the river runs, to the first mentioned bounds With the appurtenances thereof; on the 25th of March 1773 the Said Silvester Gardiner Esq Gave Samuel Goodwin Esq A Dead of a Tract of Land, within said Tract, (marked W. w N° 22) that before Said Gardiners Deed to Said Goodwin one Assa SmithHouse write & Joseph Prince Clerk: & John Hilton Went & Seet down on Said Tract of land Conveyed To Said Goodwin Neare to Sheepscut River about the midle thereof, Said Prince Went there about 1771: and Said Smith & Hilton, before, and Refuses to goe of; or settle or pay A Reasonable Price therefor, to Said Goodwin, but hath made Great Strip and Wast, and Continues So to do;- I have often offered to settle With Said Assa Smith &c &c on easy terms, but Refused; there was a Writ against Assa Smith & Said Joseph Prince dated the 16th June 1773 & Served August 9th 1773 for September Court in Said Gardiners Name and by his orders; he Said Prince went to Boston to Said Gardiners & told him if he had any land Within my bounds he Would Give it up to me as Said Gardiner in formed me, and preswaded Said Gardiner to Drope Said action and accordingly Said Gardiner wrote James Sullivan Esq, then attorney for said Prince &c to Discontinue said action as Will appear by Said Sullivans Deposition, the unhappy times hath been such I Could Geet no Redress, & they Say as Docter Gardiner is Gon I never Can Geet them off &c and they have been Striping & Carrying off my Timber & continues So to do, the Memo Mr Joseph Prince has Sold & Gon Off & Seavrale Deeds have been passed from one to another as James informed & New people put on Therefore I most humbly pray your Honours to Grant a Power to me my heirs and assigns to bring an action or |