History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . enter of Public Business for the town, and alsosutes the maners and costums of the People. And your PetitionersHumbly submit this Petition to your Excelencies Grace, Believingyou Excelency in your grate Wisdom Will do the thing Right. AsWe in Duty Bound will Ever Pray. Richmond, October loth, A. D. 17S5. John Boyce,Nathan Boyce,Daniel Read,Abraham Man,Moses Read,David Barney,William Barney,John Garnsey,7 John Bools, Levi Morey,Darius Taft,Silas Taft,Edmund Ingalls,Paul Boyce,Cadis Boyce,Allen
History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . enter of Public Business for the town, and alsosutes the maners and costums of the People. And your PetitionersHumbly submit this Petition to your Excelencies Grace, Believingyou Excelency in your grate Wisdom Will do the thing Right. AsWe in Duty Bound will Ever Pray. Richmond, October loth, A. D. 17S5. John Boyce,Nathan Boyce,Daniel Read,Abraham Man,Moses Read,David Barney,William Barney,John Garnsey,7 John Bools, Levi Morey,Darius Taft,Silas Taft,Edmund Ingalls,Paul Boyce,Cadis Boyce,Allen Grant,Jonathan Sweet. .9S HISTORY OF THE SIGN-POST AND a meeting held June 4, 1784, the town Voted, That a sign post and stocks be set up in Hezekiah Mansyard, before his house or door. It is quite probable that the sign-post was really awhipping-post, as this and the stocks usually wenttogether. The location of these may have been afew^ rods east of the old Baptist meeting-house, or be-fore the Bill Buffum house, both of which at the timebelonged to Hezekiah Man. In colonial days these. TOWN OF RICHMOND. 99 appliances for the correction of criminals were com-mon ; but, except in some of the Southern states, thesehave long been disused, and are now generally con-sidered as the relics of barbarism. It is probablethat they disappeared from before Mr. Mans doorlong before the recollection of any person now living. PETITION FOR EXEMPTION FROM MILITARY His Excellency the President and Senate, together xvitk theRepresentatives in General Court assembled at Exeter, inthe State of Ne-w Hampshire :Most Honorable Gentlemen, — We the subscribers professingourselves to be peaceable citizens of our Country, and having a de-sire to live in peace with all men, not having a desire to strikeagainst the Laws or Government of our Legislators, but are will-ing to submit ourselves to the Laws and Governments of ourSujjeriors. Nevertheless we do most Ardently desire that yourHono
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