The Joseph Dow trunk archive · Document gallery 51

Parsonage accounts, Revolutionary receipts and town petitions

18 photographs · 7 document groups

Photographed by Whit from the recovered Joseph Dow collection. Descriptions draw on visible names, dates and subjects; uncertain readings remain provisional. Reading copies are turned upright, and each image links to the unchanged full-resolution original.

JDT-D382 · Parsonage land and money accounts — 1750–1757

The accounts track money received from the sale of parsonage land, sums lent on bond and interest paid to the selectmen. Named entries include Jonathan Moulton, John Palmer, Philip Dow and Nathan Longfellow. A summary totals payments for successive years from 1751 through 1757.

6 photographs

JDT-D383 · New Parish petition to Governor Samuel Shute — 1718

Petitioners explain that distance and other difficulties prevent attendance at Hampton town meetings and that their votes are overruled. They seek power to choose parish officers while retaining shared town land rights. The reverse continues the signatures and dates the petition 20 May 1718.

2 photographs

JDT-D384 · Copies of Revolutionary-era receipts — 1777–1783

A folded compilation headed “Copy of Receipts 1777 to 1783” records town payments and military enlistment obligations. Entries name John Fogg and other recipients, include sums in dollars and describe service in the Continental forces.

4 photographs

JDT-D385 · Hampton and the proposed New Hampshire constitution — 1782

A manuscript address to the convention for framing a constitution for New Hampshire sets out Hampton’s responses to the proposed plan. Numbered objections and recommendations concern representation, officeholding and the structure of government.

2 photographs

JDT-D386 · Petition for a highway: endorsement and signers

The endorsement identifies a petition to the selectmen for a highway. The accompanying name list is crossed through with a large X, an alteration retained in the photographs.

2 photographs

JDT-D387 · Petition for a road through Jonathan Moulton’s land — 1764

The petition asks Hampton to use the new road Jonathan Moulton has opened between the main road and Drake’s Side Road. In exchange, the old road would be closed and given to Moulton. The signers call the proposed route more convenient.

1 photograph

JDT-D388 · Collection bundle: tied paper edges

An edge view records the layers of folded papers and the surviving string tie before the bundle is opened.

1 photograph

Collection photographs supplied by Whit. Descriptions are finding aids, not full transcriptions. Names, dates and associations remain provisional where the handwriting is uncertain.