Petitioner pregnant with a Third-Which since his Death has been born, and is still liveing-That She finds it very difficult to support herself and the three Children by the income of the said Twenty five Acres of Land- and she has now an opportunity of disposing the same by Way of exchange with Joshua Bridges and Jasper Grant for about Thirty Acres of other Land in the same Town, much to the advantage of herself and minor Children, as she apprehends, had she legal authority thus to do, Wherefore she prays this Honble Court to authorize her to Exchange the same Lands her late Husband purchased of the said Jos Parsons-with Joshua Bridges & Jasper Grant-or to sell and dispose of the same in Fee to other Persons & the proceeds of the Sale to Vest in other Lands for the use of the Petitioner and the minor children in the same way and manner the same Lands purchas" of s Jos Parsons, by Law described, and your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray &c--

York Jan' 20th 1783

Sarah Nason

Witness Nicolas Sewall

We the Subscribers are satisfied of the Truth of the Facts within mentioned are of Opinion that the Proposed exchange of Lands will, all Circumstances taken in Consideration be advantageous to the Widow and for the benefit of the Minor Children

Resolve Appointing Edward Grow.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the House of Representatives March 12th 1783 Resolved that Edward Grow Esq' be & hereby is appointed

Agent in & for the County of York to receive the price of

corn, Beef, Sheep, Wool & Sole Leather, in order to ascertain the value of the notes given to the officers & Soldiers of this Commonwealth's quota of the Continental Army for the depreciation of their wages, in the room of Mr Joseph Sewall deceased

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the House Representatives March 17th 1783 On the Representation of the Honorable David Sewall Esq Whereas the Land Lying in the plantation of Little Falls Advertised in Willises Chronicle to be sold for the payment of Taxes Assessed on the Same in 1781 Appears not to be the Estate of Lady Mary Pepperrell but appears to belong to this Common Wealth

Therefore Resolved that Joseph Chadbourne Collector of Taxes for the plantation of Little falls is hereby Directed not to Sell the said Land but to apply To Thomas Ivers Esq Treasurer of this Common Wealth to allow him the Same on the Tax of October 1781 & the Said Thomas Ivers Esq is hereby Directed to Discompt with the said Joseph Chadbourne the Sum of Fourteen pounds Nineteen Shillings & Seven pence being the Sum assessed on the said Land with

Fifteen Shillings, it being the Cost of Advertising the Said Land & it is hereby further Resolved That the Honble Benja Chadbourne & David Sewall & Nathaniel Wells Esq' be a Committee to Confer with Lady Mary Pepperrell & his Daughter Mr Sparhawk on the Subject of their Interest in the said unimproved Lands, or any other Lands which they hold in the same Manner and to make some Agreement or Composition with them for the same in Behalf of this Commonwealth and to make Report of their Doings thereon To the General Court for their Approbation

Sent up for concurrence

In Senate March 18, 1783

Tristram Dalton Spk

Read & Concurred as taken into a New Draft

Sent down for Concurrence

my

I this day reed yours of the 25th past, informing me of Appointment as a Collector of Excise for the County of Cumberland. (I had reca previous information & wrote to a Gentleman of the House respecting the matter but have reed no returns) Sir I gladly accept the appointment, and think my

self under the Highest Obligations, therefor, hoping to answer every expectation Sir, I am with much Esteem

Your faithfull Humb' Serv

John Avery Esq

James Lunt

Resolve Relative to Land in Plantation Little Falls.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the House of Representatives March 18th 1783 On the Representation of the Honorable David Sewall Esq' that certain Unimproved Lands called Lady Pepperrell's, in the plantation of Little Falls in York County app'd £14.. 19.7, & advertised for Sale in order to pay the same, are in his opinion the Property of Sir William Pepperrell an Absentee & may accrue to this Commonwealth by a Confiscation of the said Absentee's Estate

Resolved that Joseph Chadbourne Collector of Taxes for the Plantation of Little falls, be & He hereby is prohibited selling the said Land, and the Treasurer of this Commonwealth is hereby directed to stay his Execution against the said Collector for the said Tax of £14 : 19.. 7 untill the further Order of this General Court; & the said Treasurer is further directed to allow the said Collector Fifteen Shillings for Costs of advertising the said Land

And it is further Resolved That the Honorable Benjamin Chadbourne David Sewall & Nathaniel Wells Esquires be & they hereby are constituted a Committee to examine & ascertain the State of the Property, of the unimproved Lands above mentioned, & also any other unimproved Lands in the said County of York in a like Predicament; and the said Committee are authorized & impower'd, in the Cases that may appear to them necessary, to treat with Lady Mary Pepperrell & her Daughter on the Subject of their Right or Interest in any of the said Lands, to propose Terms of Agree

ment & Composition for their Relinquishment of the said Rights & Interests, to be presented to the General Court for their approbation

Certificate of Indebtedness of Absentees.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Cumberland Ss

To John Lewis, Samuel Small and Samuel Freeman Esq" a Committee appointed and impowered by the General Court of the said Commonwealth to sell the Real Estate of Absentees in the said County of Cumberland —

These certify That there is due from the Estate of Francis Waldo Esq. late of Falmouth in said County an Absentee, to the following Persons, the Sums set against there respective names, as the same has been liquidated and allowed by the Commissioners appointed to receive and examine the Claims on said Estate- viz

To Enoch Freeman Esq the sum of

To Thomas Child

To Jabez Jones, Collector

To Benjamin Bayley Coll'

To the Revd Thomas Brown

£25

10

And also to Thomas Child Esq. as Agent to

said Estate as p' his Accounts settled and al

lowed the sum of

Total

£1365-7

£254-17-8

Amounting in y° whole to the Sum of Two hundred & fifty four Pounds 17/8 lawful money

Wm Gorham

County of Cumberland

Judge of Probate

of Wills &c for said

Dated the eighteenth day of March A D 1783