The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-10-12 00:00:00, page 1

A By bis Excellency
Josiah Bartlett,^.
PreJident and Commander in
Chief of the State of
New-Hampshire.
A Proclamation
FOR A
Public Thanksgiving.
OH E benevolent
Parent of the
Universe having
been pleased to
continue to the
citizens of this
|State the invaluable blessing
'of civil and religious liberty,
and bestowed on us, in the
course of the current year,
many great and unmerited
favors and blessings, and as
gratitude and thanksgiving
for favors received is a dic
tate both of reason and re
velation, it becomes us as a
people, in a public and so
cial manner, with grateful
hearts and united voices, to
fnew forth the praises of our
bountiful Benefactor for the
many public favors he has
been graciously pleased to
confer upon us—-And the
Legislature having appoint
ed THURSDAY the Fif
teenth Day of NOVEMBER
next, to be observed as a Day
of PUBLIC THANKS
GIVING throughout this
State, I have thought fit, by
& with the advice of Coun
cil, to issue this Proclama
tion,exhorting the Citizens
of this State of every denom
ination, religiously to devote
laid day to the purpose a
forefaid,and with hearts fill
ed with unfeigned gratitude
to God, the giver of all our
mercies, and with^benevo
lence to our fellow men,ex
press by our words and ac
tions,a'juft and proper sense
of the unmerited favors we
are made the fubjeas of, in
a particular manner, that it
has pleased God to conti
nue to us the inestimable
EXET E R, (New- Hampshire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum
Newhampfhire
FRIDAY, October 12, 1792.]
blessing of civil and religious
liberty—that we still enjoy
the means of acquiring use.
ful knowledge, and for the
hope of future happinels —
that he hath prospered the
labors of the Husbandman,
and hath cau fed the earth
to yeld a competent supply
of the precious fruits of the
field—that he has preserv
ed us from wafting and des
olating judgments, and that
the voice of health is io gen
erally heard in our habita
tions—that so great adegree
of harmony, peace and con
cord prevail among us, and
that our public affairs in ge
neral wear so pleasing a
profpea—and together with
our Thanksgivings, let us
entreat the Father of Mer
cies to pardon our manifold
tranfgrellions, to continue
to us the blessings we now
enjoy, and bestow upon us
all further needful favors—
that he would be pleased to
take the General Govern
ment of the United States
and of each separate State,
and of this in particular, un
derhis peculiar guidance and
direaion—that he would
inspire those who have the
management of our public
affairs with wildom, pru
dence, integrity and patriot
ism, and the people with
virtue and knowledge and a
due submission to rightful
authority—that a stop may
be put to the depredations
of the hostile tribes of the
aboriginal natives of the
land on our weftern fron
tiers, and that an equitable
and permanent peace may
be speedily fettled between
the United States and them
—that it would please God
to extend his divine favors
to the whole world ofman
kind, that all idolatry, im
pofture,fuperftition, bigotry
and per fecution for consci
ence fake, may be abolished
by a more abundant effufion
of the spirit ofpure and un
defiled religion which is
pure, peaceable, gentle and
easy to be entreated,and that
THE
the happy time may soon
arrive, when nation shall
not lift up sword against
nation, nor learn war any
more, when the principles
ofjuftice and virtue,of cha
rity, benevolence and good
will to their fellow men shall
universally prevail among
all nations.
And it is recommended
and expeaed that all persons
religiously abstain from ail
servile labor, and from such
I recreations as are unbecom
ing the solemnity of the
day.
Given at the Council-
Chamber in Exeter, the
Firfl Day of September, in
the year of our LORD, One
Thou/and Seven Hundred and
Ninety-two, and of the Sove
reignty and independence of
the United States of Ame?ica,
the Seventeenth.
BE it enabled by the Senate
and Houje of Reprefen
datives in General Court con
vened, That no person shall
hereafter, sue or maintain
any writ of right, or make
any prelcription, title or
claim to any lands, tene
ments or hereditaments, or
to any rents, annuities or
portions issuing therefrom,
upon the possession or seizin
of his or their ancestor, or
predeeeffor beyond the term
of sixty years, next before
the test of the lame writ.
And no p^fon shall sue,
have or maintain any writ
LAW S
of the.
State °'
New-Hamp(hire.
An ACT
For the limitation of actions
and for the preventing of
vexatious Juits.
By his Excellency's Command.
Joseph Pearson, Secretary.
JOSIAH BARTLETT.
Passed June 16, 1791.
Gazetteer.
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And no person, or body
corporate, or politick, shall
sue for, have or maintain
any action for any lands,
tenements,or hereditaments,
upon his or their own seizin
or possession therein, above
thirty years next before the
test of the fame writ.
^nd be it further enabled.
That all writs of formedon
in defeender, remainder and
reverter, of any lands, tene
ments and hereditaments
whatsoever, hereafter to be
sued and brought, shall be
commenced within twenty
years next after the title or,
cause of adion, firft de
feended, and at no time af
ter the said twenty years.
And no person shall at any
time hereafter, unless by
judgment of law, make any
entry into any lands, tene
ments or hereditaments, but
within twenty years next
after his right or title, firft
defeended or accrued to the
fame ; and in default there
of, such person so not enter
ing, and his heirs, shall be
utterly excluded from mak
ing such entry thereinto.
Provided always, That
when any perlon that is, or
shall be entitled to any or
the writs of formedon afore
faid, or to make an entry
into any lands, tenements
or hereditaments, shall at
the time the said right or
title firft accrued, defeended
or fell, be within the age of
twenty-one years, feme cov
ert, noil-compos mentis, im-
of entiy upon diffeizin done
to any of his ancestors or
piedeceffors ; or any action
peffeffory upon the poffel.
fion of any of his ancestors
or predecessors, fcr any
lands, tenements or heredi
taments, unless the ancestor
or predeeeffor under whom
the demandant shall claim,
should have been seized or
possessed of the lands, tene
ments or hereditaments,-
demanded within fifty years
next before the test of the
lame writ, or bringing such
adion.