That your Memorialists Was Notified to make Answer To A Petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Topsham In the County of Lincoln That In Answer Your Memorialists, Would Set forth that the Petitioners of Topsham Agreed That the Islands Mentioned in Their petition did belong to Brunswick Also say that They Taxed A Saw Mill which Brunswick Refused to pay but do not point out where that Mill Stands. Your Memorialists would Inform Your Hon That said Mill stands on Brunswick Shoar, Within A Cove On the Falls Adjoyning A Rock On Said Falls Which they had no Right to Tax.— That the Select Men of Each Town In Nov 1778 Met by Agreement, To Renew the Bounds, And agreed that all the Islands Below The Falls Should be Tax'd in Brunswick & the Islands Above The Falls Should be Tax'd in Topsham & That the Mills on Brunswick Side Should be Taxed In Brunswick and the Mills On Topsham Side Should be Tax'd in Topsham And That The Main Channel Should be the Line Between The two Towns as we are Ready to make Appear As to their paying part in Building Cumberland Goal Could not be for Said Goal was built after the Division of the County's Your Memorialists Thinks That Topsham has not right to the Westward of the Channel of The River Which was The dividing Line. And Your Memorialists Prays that said petition May be dismis'd or determind, as Your Honors in Your Wisdom Shall See meet And Your Memorialists as in Duty bound Shall Ever Pray &c William Owen Agent for Brunswick. Common Wealth of Massachusetts In the House of Representatives february 16th 1785 On the Petition of a Number of the Inhabitants of the town of topsham praying that the Islands mentioned in their petition might be annexed to the town of Topsham therefore ordered that the prayer of the petitioners be so far Granted that the Petitioners sarve the town of Brunswick with an attested Coppy of their petition and this order twenty days before the second Wednesday of the Next sitting of the General Court that they appear on the said day and shew Cause (if any they have) why the prayer of the petition should not be Granted Sent up for concurrence Sam A Otis Spk' In Senate March 18, 1785 Read & concurred· S. Adams Presid Α INDEX Androscoggin, Abbot, Aaron, 272. Acadians, the, 29. Ackins, see Askins. Adams, Benjamin, 154. Joel, 41. John, 279. S., 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 18, Albee, Lieut. William, 74, 95, 28, 30, 53, 54, 73, 74, 75, 76, Allen, Dr. Benjamin, 343, 344. Alley, John, 117. Allin, Henry, 344. American Atlas, the, 432. States, the, 71: see also United Ames, Moses, 42, 108, 272. Anderson, Edward, 191, 362. Apthorp, Charles Ward, 92. Armstrong, John, 230. Arundel, 131, 137, 138, 172, 173, Ash, Robert, 305. Thomas, 17. Ashton, Jacob, 98. Aikins, } Robert, 441, 442, 443, 135, 136, 304, 337, 343, 344. John, Jr., 130, 342, 343, 357. Ayer, - mariner, 136, 137. Black, Edward, 331. Josiah, 331. Blake, Edward, 390. Bliss, John, 100, 101, 113. Blue Hill, 338. Boothbay, 13, 59, 116, 117, 148, Boothby, Joseph, 103. 35, 36, 38, 40, 44, 46, 47, 49, Boston, continued. 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 72, 87, 98, 111, 27, 28, 35, 36, 51, 52, 57, 62, 127, 160, 164, James, 117, 121, 128. James, Jr., 117, 121. Bowdoinham, 120, 128, 129, 268, 269, 270, 413. Bowen, Ezra, 41. Bowker, David, 191. Bowman, J., 442, 443, 445, 447, Boyd, John, 265. Joseph, 372. Samuel, 384. Thomas, Jr., 264. Boynton, Amos, 135, 302. Boyse, Vere, 273. |