And we further think that a Court held at Machias will Sarve to ogment and Incres Lawsuts and Charges that otherwise would Easily be Settled which will tend much to the Damage of the Inhabitants in perticler-and to the Publick in General - their are many more obgections which we think might be offered but these we submit to your wise Consideration

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If these be not two Late a Coming to your View We Pray your Hounors to take the afores Objection into your wise Consideration and Consider the waight as we aprehend= thereof and stop Ganting the Prayr of the Petitions from Machias and we the faithfull Inhabetants of Moundesart as Bound in Duty Shall Eever Pray

Mountdesart March ye 18th 1784

James Richardson, Abraham Somes Jesse Higgins, Stephen Richardson, Joshua Norwood, Peter Gott, Stephen Norwood, John Tinker, Thomas Richardson, Thomas Richardson Jun', John Gott Richardson, Joseph Mayo, Daniel Richardson, James Richardson Jun', Andrew Tarr, John Thomas, Ezra Young, Josiah Black, Elisha Cousins, Israel Higgens, Levi Higgins Timothy Smith, John Hamon, Daniel Rodick, David Damon, Ezra Leland, Robert Yong, Ebenezer Salsby, Edward Hodgkins, Edward Black, John Cousins, Daniel Hamon, Elkanah Young.

Objections to fixing the Court at Machias.

To the Honerarbel House of Representatives of the Common Wealth of the Massachusets Bay In Generall Court Asambled

Humbly Begg

That if there is to be a Court of Justice held in this Easterly part it may Be in a more Centrical part then Machias Witch Is In the Most Easterly part of this Common Wealth

to the Grate Damedge of your petitioners and as In Duty Bound We Shall Ever pray

Union River March the twentieth one Thousand Seven Hun

dred and Eighty four

John Smith, Benjamin Joy, Joshua Maddocks, John Merah, George Haslam, John Joy, Hanry Maddocks, Ichabod Maddocks, Josiah Graling, Benjamin Jellson, Will" Hopkins, James Smith, Thomas Mc fording, Solomon Jordan, Joseph Morrison, Samuel Joy, Samuel Davis, Nathaniel Jordan, James treworgy Sen', Edward Beal, dominicus Beal, Isaac Lord.

Petition of Sudbury Canada Bridgeton & Fryeburg.

To the honorable Senate & House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.

We the underwritten, your Petitioners, having been appointed a Committee from the Townships of Sudbury Canada Bridgeton, and Fryeburg lying on and near Androscoggin River, in behalf of the Inhabitants of said Townships and Places adjoining, to represent to the honorable Court their Exposedness, from their frontier Situation, to the barbarous Incursions and Ravages of the Indians, whose Cruelties have been already felt in one of said Towns; and as said Townships are but new Settlements, incapable of protecting themselves, while they are necessarily employed in the Cultivation of the Ground, for the support of themselves and Families; beg permission to return their acknowledgements to the honorable Court for their Compassion and care in relieving them from their Anxieties, the Summer past, by stationing a party of men at Sudbury Canada, and likewise beg leave humbly to petition the honorable Court that they would be pleased to

afford us some further Assistance which we request may be sent for our protection by the first of June next, if it shall seem convenient to the honorable Court, as we are not without apprehensions of further mischief from the Savages, who may be induced to make their attempts as early as the travelling will admit, which we hope will be our Excuse for preferring our petition at this Time. We presume it unnecessary to mention the Situation of Sudbury Canada, as an excellent Frontier for covering the Counties of York and Cumberland from the Inroads of the Enemy, it being the only avenue thro' which they may enter and where thirty Men might be sufficient to protect both those Counties from the Incursions they are exposed to from small bodies of Indians. Relying therefore on the Humanity and Wisdom of the honorable Court, for such Assistance as they in their wisdom shall think conducive to our safety Your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever Pray &c

In the House of Representatives March 22d 1783. On the Petition of the Town of Fryeburg, Bridgton & Sudbury=canada Praying for a guard to be Stationed at

Sudbury canada for the Protection of the frontiers of the Counties of York and Cumberland.

Resolved that their be raised in the Counties of York and Cumberland by voluntary Inlistment and Stationed on the frontiers of said Counties a Company of men to Consist of One Lieu and thirty men to Continue in Service till the first day of December next unless sooner discharged: and his Excellency the Governor is requested to Appoint and Commission the Officer Accordingly And to give the Necessary orders for Carrying this Resolve into Execution.

And it is further Resolved, that there be allowed the same wages and rations as officers and Soldiers received in the Continental Army; and that the Commissary General Supply the aforesaid men with Provision or money, as he shall Agree, for their rations as aforesaid.

Resolve Concerning the Artillery in the Garrison at Penobscot.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In Senate March 23 1784 Whereas the British Troops in the Garrison on Penopscot River, will soon Evacuate the same, and it being necessary that measures should be immediatly taken to secure the American Artilery that may be left there-in

It is therefore Resolved that the Governor with advice of Council appoint a Suitable person to repair without delay to that place and to take into his Custody all Artilery and also all such Stores and materials as are not the property of private persons and which may be left in and about the same Garrison when the same shall be evacuated, and that the person so appointed shall take an Exact List of all such Artilery Stores and materials as shall be found there as aforesaid and shall deliver the same to the order of the

Commissary General taking a Receipt for the same and such person so appointed shall have power to require of one of the next Commissioned Militia officers to detach so many of the militia as may be necessary to secure the said Artilery stores &c and shall return an account of Such Assistance to the General Court with an Account of his own time and Expences that the same may be paid out of the public treasury.

Resolved that the Commissary General deputize some person to procure the Artilery and Articles above mentioned and that he procure the same to be brought and delivered to the Captain of the Garrison on Castle Island to be there kept for the public benefit.

Memorial and Objections to the Petition of Inhabitants of Machias.

Gouldsborough 20 April 1784 Hon. Senate & house of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The Deligates legally appointed by the Inhabitants of the Several Townships laying between the River Penobscot and Machias in the County of Lincoln & Commonwealth aforesaid beg leave to represent to your Honors that in Consequence of an order from your Legislature dated the Twentieth of October last where in it is represented that a Petition signed by a number of Inhabitants of Machias and others had requested of the said Honble Legislature that Certain Courts Registers Office &c should be Established at that place and have Jurisdiction East of Penobscot with Liberty of Appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston in Consequence of the Said order the Inhabitants ever happy in the Indulgence of your Honors have directed that at this meeting a proper representation of the Situation of this part of the County by the Joint Voice Should be made and that