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mittee appointed by both Houses on the Letters from Col Allan & Col° Lithgow

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Whereas a Dispute arising between the Town of Topsfield in the County of Essex & the Town of Gorham in the County of Cumberland both sd Towns claiming Timothy Bacon as a Soldier inlisted by s Topsfield upon the Resolve of the 2a of Dec 1780 & Application being made to me by s Town of Gorham to determine to which Town sd Man belong agreeable to s Resolve- Whereupon I notified the Parties to appear at my House in Falm° this Day who appear'd & after a full Hearing of the Parties it was fully provd that sa Tim° Bacon was at the Time of his Inlistment & long before an Inhabitant of the sd Town of Gorham & that he was inlisted muster'd & Rec'd for the sd Town of Topsfield -- Whereupon I do hereby determine agreeable to s Resolve that sa Tim° Bacon properly belongs to said Gorham

Peter Noyes Muster Master for the County of Cumberland for the Men that were rais'd upon the Resolve for the 2d of Dec 1780

This to Certify that timothy Bacon and Beniamin Libbey was Received as Continental Soldiers for the town of topsfield for three years to Compleat there Quota of men July 19: 1781

Israel Hutchinson Superintendant for the County of Essex

Danvers August 13: 1782

Petition Inhabts Massabeeseck.

To the Honourable Senate & House of Representatives in General Court Assembled

We the Petitioners Inhabitants of a Place known by the Name of Massabeeseck in the County of York and State of Massachusetts Bay-Humbly Sheweth¶ that we are Settled here and not incorporated and there Lays a Number of tax Bills against us likewise an Execution from the Treasurer for Soldiers which is not in our power to Pay at present by Reasons that we are Greatly Deminished in our Number taken into Coxhall Incorporation; Littel falls; and Huberts town; which takes away a Very Considerable part of the Estates formerly called Massabeeseck Likewise that there has been hired out of this place a Number of Soldgers into other towns against the Laws of this State & not in our power to hinder for which Reasons we Pray your Honours to Consider our Sircumstances and Put us into Som Method Either by Incorporation or any way that your Honours think fitt and we will Send a Valuation Bill of our Estates Submiting our Selves to the mercy of the Court and begg your Patience and we Shall willingly put to our Sholders to the utmost of our ability Relying on your mercy & Wisdom and we as in Duty bound Shall Ever pray for your honours and the Wellfair of the United States N B. we Like wise Inform your Honours that it is Generaly thought that all the Inhabitants Posesses would not pay the taxes that lays against us.

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At the Request of several of the Inhabitants of Massebeseck being well Acquainted With that Settlement knowing that there is not more than one Quarter of the Inhabitants Posses a Sufficianse of Provitians to Last them and there Families the Year about and one half of them Seavs anything or Very in Considerable Towards There Surport by Reason of Extreem Poverty Haveing Large Families and no oxen to help them Towards Cultivating and bringing tue Those Lands which are Very Hard to Subdue and but few oxen in the Settlement: which obliges them to seek there Supplys of Provitions at a great Distance and at a Great Disadvantage and to Pay for them in Small manufacturies which still has an attendancy to keep them under such circumstances as above mentioned

David Gile,

Morgan Lewis,
Nathe' Conant

Inhabitants of Sanford

Memorial Inhab's First Parish, Scarborough.

To the Honble General Court of the comon Wealth of Massachusetts

¶ The Memorial of the Inhabitants of the first Parish in Scarborough in the County of Cumberland Thomas Lancaster Minister of said Parish & Nehemiah Libby of sa Scarborough Yeoman humbly shews that a Tract of Parsonage Land in s Scarborough belonging to s Parish containing Eighteen Acres & one Hundred & forty one square Rods and lying on the Southeast Side of the high Way over Beach Ridge so called in s Scarborough and Bounded as follows viz Beginning at a White Maple marked four sides and the Letter P and runs Southwest Seventy three Rods to the sd High way then North four Degrees west 104 rods by the High Way

then N. E. five Rods then S. E. Eighty Rods to the maple Tree first mentioned Lies at such a Distance from where-the Minister of sd first Parish now liveth and in all Probability from where any future Minister of sd Parish must hereafter live that it is not nor ever will be of much use or Service to the Minister of sa Parish yet it is in such a Situation & the Bounds thereof so interferes with Lands belonging to s Nehimiah Libby as to be exceedingly profitable to him, and the s Inhabitants of s first Parish and their present Minister the sa Thomas Lancaster of the one part and the sa Nehimiah Libby on the other are very desirous of making an exchange of 8 Parsonage Land for sundry pieces of Salt Marsh & thatch Bed in s Scarborough containing in the whole about fourteen Acres and the property of the s Nehemiah Libby and which is handy & convenient to the present Minister of said Parish & must probably be so to any future one, Which Exchange if it could be effected would be of very great Service to s Parish to their s Minister & the s Nehemiah Libby and not the least Damage to any Person in the World as no other Person have any Interest or concern therein Where fore they humbly Pray that the Inhabitants of said parish by their Committee and the s Thomas Lancaster may be impowred to make said Exchange with the s Nehemiah Libby & they and he authorised to make and execute a good & sufficient Deed in Law of sd Parsonage Land to the sd Nehemiah Libby his Heirs & Assigns for ever on his the sa Nehemiah Libbee's making a like Deed to them of sd Salt Marsh and Thatch Bed for the use of the Ministry in s Parish in Scarborough for ever, and as in duty Bound will ever pray

Wm Tompson

W Vaughan

Thos Lancaster

Comtee of the

first Parish in s

Town of Scarborough Minister of sd Parish

Scarborough Sept 6th 1782

Certificate and Order in Favor Thomas Thomas.

This Certifies That the sum of Eighteen hundred & six pounds, seventeen shillings & six pence, for seven thirty second parts of the Arm'd Ship Vengeance, appurtenances & six pair of six pound Cannon lost on the Penobscot Expedition 1779 and Interest thereon, also thirty six pounds for Wages as Commander of said Ship, the whole amounting to the sum of One thousand, eight hundred & forty two pounds, seventeen shillings & six pence in specie, became due to Capt Thomas Thomas, the 5th Instant, which when paid will be in full for the same- 1842.17.6

Thomas Ivers

Peter Roe Dalton

Comtee for Audits the Acets

of the late Board of War

His Excell the Governor & the Honble the Council of the

Commonwth of Massachusetts

In Council Sept 14th 1782

Boston 11th Sep 1782

Rd & Advised that a Warrant be drawn on the Treas' in full of the above Certificate agreeable to Resolve of 28th Jan' 1782

John Avery Sec

Petition Selectmen Town Coxhall.

To the Honble Senate & House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in general Court assembled

September 18th 1782

The Petition of the Select Men of the Town of Coxhall in the County of York Humbly shew, that they never received the Resolve of Court passed the 2nd day of December 1780 for procuring Soldiers for the Continental Army that on or

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