Langdon Profile from Town Papers: Documents Relating to Towns in New Hampshire, Vol. XII Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by MLM, Volunteer 0000130. For the current email address, please go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000130 Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************ Full copyright notice - http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm USGenWeb Archives - http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Source: Town Papers: Documents Relating to Towns in New Hampshire, Gilmanton to New Ipswich, Volume XII, by Isaac W. Hammond, Parsons B. Cogswell, State Printer, Concord, NH, 1883 Pages 367-369 LANGDON. The town was formed from territory taken from the towns of Charlestown and Walpole, and incorporated Jan. 11, 1787. It was named in honor of Hon. John Langdon, at that time speaker of the house of representatives. Settlements were made on territory now in this town by Seth Walker in 1773, and by Nathaniel Rice and Jonathan Willard the year following. Rev. Abner Kneeland, who was ordained over a Universalist church here in 1805, was one of the leading men in that denomination in New England for some years, and published a periodical devoted to his peculiar tenets, called the Boston Investigator. In 1795 the town might have been extended to Connecticut river, but it refused, by vote, to accept the proffered addition. ------------- [6-20] [Petition for Authority to tax Non-Residents, 1789.] State of New Hampshire May 27th 1789-- To the Honable Senate and house of Representatives Conveined at Concord June 4th 1789 The petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Langdon Humbly Sheweth That your petitioners are few In number and inhabit a new Town or District of land a considerable part of which Is owned by nonresident proprietors and that they are not able to make the necessary public Roads and Bridges and in particularly a Bridge over Cold River so called which is very Rapid and in the Spring and Fall at high water is not passible and the Expense of build the Bridge and making said roads exceeds the ability of your petitioners They therefore most Humbly pray your Honors to Impower them to Leavy a Tax of one penny on each acre of the non resident proprietors Land in said town for the purposes aforesaid or grant your petitioners such other Relief as you in your Wisdom shall think Propper and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall ever pray--- John Prouty, Ezra Read, Jeremiah Howard - Select Men for and in behalf of the Inhabitants of the Town of Langdon Langdon May 27th 1789 The Committee on the within petition Report a Tax of one penny by laid on each Acre of Land in said Town for one Year & they have leave to bring in a Bill accordingly Nat Rogers for the Com [In H. of Rep., June 11, 1789, the report was adopted. Senate concurred--ED.] ------------- [6-21] [Petition for Special Tax to build a Meeting-House, 1793.] To the Honourable General Court of the State of New Hampshire to be holden at Concord on first wednesday of June Next-- The petition of the Select men of Langdon Humbly Sheweth--that whereas the Inhabitants of said town are aboute to Build a meeting House for the better Conveannance of meeting for publick worship &c as soon as thay think them Selves in a Sittuation to accomplish it and Considering that there is in said town Considerable Land of Non-residents which by building said meeting house will be likely to be more Valueable, these are therefore to pray your Hounours to Grant Liberty for said town to Tax said Lands two pence on Each acre which money to be laid out toward said building whenever said town shall see fit to build said hourse or otherways Do as you Honnours in your wisdom think best and your Petitioners as in Duty bound with Ever Pray James Egerton, Saml Prouty, John Prentiss - Select men of Langdon Langdon May 27 1793 ------------- [6-22] [Vote of Town relative to extending its North Line, 1795.] At a Legal Town meetin in Langdon the third Day of march 1795 the following Vote was taken for extending Langdon North Line to the River Connecticut thare appeared to be thirty three Votes for extending said Line to said River and thirty against Extending said Line to said River at A Legal town meeting in Langdon May 11th 1795, Called at the Requst of a Number of Free Holders to Know the mind of the Town it thay Will have Langdon North Line Extend to the River Connecticut acording to the Vote Recorded at our Last annial meeting or Not--thare appeared to be thirty seven Votes Not to Extending said Line to sd River and twenty three Votes for extending said Line to said River A Trew coppey Record atest--James Egerton Town Clark Langdon May 13th 1795 [The town of Charlestown had given its consent to the annexation of that portion of its territory lying between Langdon and Connecticut river to the latter town, and the inhabitants residing thereon had petitioned to be thus annexed (Vol. XI, p.295). Had this project succeeded, both towns would have been more symmetrical, and Langdon would have had a river front and a raiload within its borders--ED.] ********************************************************************** * * * NOTICE: Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files t other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIORto uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. * * * *The USgenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence. It is always best to consult the original material for verification.