I have farther to represent to your Excellency--That I being now arrived to the Sixty Eighth year of my age, Raisin orns & attended with the infirmities common to advanced Offices, Judge & | years, such as great Deafness, Loss of Memory dimness of Sight, and at times a paralitic tremor in my hands &* which disqualifie me for full, free & Perfect Discharge of the Offices of Second Judge of the Inferiour Court of Comon Pleas, & Justice of the Peace, which I have sustained in the County for several years last past, and having a desire to retire from Publick: business, and spend the remainder of my Days, in a calm retirement therefrom, & concern myself in

nothing else, but doing good to my numerous family & Neighbours,

& Praying for the KING, your Excellency, & all other the King's Officers, & Prepare for a Glorious Immorrauiry Therefore Humbly entreat your Excellency to appoint some other Person

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Phoinas Chandler to said Offices in my room & sted--And I beg leave Recommended. to Recommend Thomas Chandler junt Esqr as the best qualified, & who will be, as I apprehend, as well accepted in that Seat on the Bench, as any person in the County, that I have acquaintance with or knowledge of. I have yet to crave your Excellency's Patience & Leave to Recommend to your Excellencys Favour Mr John Recommented to Grout attorney at Law, who hath Suffered much by wee persons Enemical to this Government, & to him on account of his firm attachment to it, & endeavours to maintain good Order & Justice therein.--Truth itself Obliges me to say, That his Practice as an attorney in this County, has always Entitled him to the good opinion of the Court & the best Gentlemen in the County as I apprehend, altho Riotous persons & parties, Friends to New Hampshire, & enemies to good Order have given him much Trouble, which he has born with great magnenimity, & Strove in a Legal and Dispassionate way tb over come.