An Act To Incorporate Caleb Aldrich And Others Into A Religious Society To Be Called And Known By The Name Of The First Baptist Society In Westmoreland—

[Approved December 10, 1800. Original Acts, vol. 16, p. 144; recorded Acts, vol. 13, p. 132.]

Whereas a Petition has been presented to the General Court by a number of the Inhabitants of the Town of Westmoreland, Walpole, Surry, and Keene, praying that they with such others as may hereafter be admited may be Incorporated into a religious society to be called and known by the name of the first Baptist society in Westmoreland which prayer appearing in part reasonable; Therefore Be it Enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives in General Court convened that Caleb Aldrich Junr, William Brittun, Samuel Robbins, John Brown, Noah Fuller Junr, John Chamberlin, John Chamberlin Junr, Levi Ware, Oliver Smith Nehemiah Brown, Cyrus Staple, Joshua Fuller, Amos Brown Samuel Woodward, Jonathan Winchester, Seth Brittun, Dudley Thomas, Daniel Wilber, Ephraim Brown, Joseph Whitney, Stephen Bowker, John White, Benjamin Leonard; Jonathan Wilber, Jabez Stratton Elijah A. Hall, Zephaniah Leach Junr, William Aldrich, Rufus Smith, and Joshua Hall, Inhabitants of Westmoreland with such others as may be admitted as members hereafter living within the bounds of said Town of Westmoreland, Be and they hereby are made and erected into a body Corporate and politic with continuation and succession forever; to be called and known by the name of the first Baptist society in Westmoreland and by that name may sue and be sued prosecute and be prosecuted to final Judgment and Execution, and are hereby vested with all the powers and privileges, which are by Law, incident to Corporations of a similar nature. …”

Reference Data:

Laws of New Hampshire: Second Constitutional Period, 1792-1801, by New Hampshire, Batchellor, Metcalfe and NH Secretary of State, 1917, pages 674-5