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On June 3, 1779, when the few inhabitants of the recently settled town of Hancock, New Hampshire, petitioned the state legislature for incorporation, they begged to "Inform your Honnours that the tract of land on which we Inhabit...is so good that it will make a very commodious town or Parish." (1) Some three months later, many of the same landowners petitioned the legislature for an abatement of taxes, avowing that
We...are very poor and Low in the world, our Lands are a great part of them. Low and Sunken, we have many Large ponds and some very mountainous and Rocky Land-which are not and nor Ever Can be improved. (2)
Whatever the truth of the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, History in towns: Hancock, New Hampshire.