. [Provincial and state papers] . s Any other theInhabitants of Said Town can or may do Excepting what Does ormay relate to the Mending or repairing the Highways within theLimits of New Town which they & Each of them Are herebyExempt from they haveing the Liberty of Voteing with and AreSubject to the Legal Directions of the Town of South Hamptonaforesaid of All which All Persons Concerned are to take Duenotice & Govern themselves Accordingly— In Testimony whereof We have Caused the Seal of our SaidProvince to be hereunto Affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esqour Governour & Comander in Chieff
. [Provincial and state papers] . s Any other theInhabitants of Said Town can or may do Excepting what Does ormay relate to the Mending or repairing the Highways within theLimits of New Town which they & Each of them Are herebyExempt from they haveing the Liberty of Voteing with and AreSubject to the Legal Directions of the Town of South Hamptonaforesaid of All which All Persons Concerned are to take Duenotice & Govern themselves Accordingly— In Testimony whereof We have Caused the Seal of our SaidProvince to be hereunto Affixed Wittness Benning Wentworth Esqour Governour & Comander in Chieff of our Province of NewHampr aforesd the 22d Day of March in the year of our LordChrist 1749 & m tne Twenty third year of Our Reign— B Wentworth— By his Excelencys Comandwith the Advice of Council Theodore Atkinson Secry Entred & recorded Acording to the Original under the ProvinceSeal this 23d Day of March 1749— ¥ Theodore Atkinson Sery 39° CHARTER RECORDS. [Mss. Town Boundaries, p. 148.] :7*»;v»yg. NEWTON. 391 [Petition from Selectmen of Newtown, 1771.][Farmers Mss. Town Papers, Vol. 6, p. 237.] Province of New > To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq:Hampshire > Captain General, Governor, & Commanderin chief in & over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire ; &the Honourable his Majestys Council; & House of Representa-tives, in general Assembly convened. We the subscribers, being the Selectmen of Newtown, & actingon behalf of said Town, do hereby signify that we can by nomeans consent that a Committee be sent to run a line between us& South Hampton, laid under the restrictions which South Hamp-ton hath, in their Petition proposd. For, whenever there is a lineestablished between us & them we hope to be strengthned by it,& think it highly reasonable that we should. There is a number of Families between Poe River & our meet-ing house, (now of South-Hampton) whom we apprehend shouldof right belong to us. We exceedingly need them (being much we
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