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PLYMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY
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RECORDS
OF THE
Town of Plymouth
Published by Order of the Town.
VOL. III.
1743 to 1783.
HIR
914.48 REC
1745-1783 V.3
PLYMOUTH : MEMORIAL PRESS. 1903.
PREFACE.
After a temporary suspension of the publication of the Plymouth Records the third volume is now issued by au- thority of a vote of the Town passed at its annual meeting of last year. This volume covers a very interesting period beginning in 1743 and ending at the close of 1782. During that period the records were kept by Samuel Bartlett from 1741-2 to March, 1766; by John Cotton from March, 1766, to March, 1767, and by Ephraim Spooner from 1767 during the remaining years.
Samuel Bartlett having been referred to in the second volume no further mention of him is necessary.
John Cotton was a son of Josiah Cotton of Plymouth, grandson of Rev. John Cotton, also of Plymouth, and great-grandson of Rev. John Cotton of Boston, who came from England in 1633. He was born in Plymouth, April 5th, 1712, and graduated at Harvard in 1730. He studied for the ministry and was ordained pastor of the church in Halifax, Massachusetts, in 1736. Leaving the ministry he returned to Plymouth, and in 1756 succeeded his father as Register of Deeds for the County of Plymouth, holding that office until his death, November 4, 1789. He was a dele- gate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in 1780, and the author of a history of the First Church. He was the father of Rev. Josiah Cotton of Wareham, of Rev. Ward Cotton of Boylston, and of Rossiter Cotton, who suc- ceeded him as Register of Deeds. The following lines are inscribed on his gravestone on Burial Hill in Plymouth :
'Tis Heaven's irrevocable decree : That the great, the good, the pious shall fall, In the dark grave undistinguished to be, 'Till the last trumpet rends the azure sky ! When the virtuous immortal shall rise
To glory and joys 'bove the starry skies ; The vicious to pain, dishonor, contempt In realms below the splendid firmament.
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Ephraim Spooner was son of Thomas and Mary (Nelson) Spooner, and was descended from William Spooner, who came from Colchester, England, and settled in Plymouth in 1636. He was born in Plymouth in 1735, and for some years was a partner in business with Thomas Davis. On the 26th of October, 1775, he was appointed associate jus- tice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holding that office until July 5, 1790, when he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth County, holding his seat until the Court was abolished, June 21, 181I. He was at various times Representative, member of the Execu- tive Council, and many years Deacon of the First Church. He died in Plymouth, March 22, 1818.
WM. T. DAVIS, Editor.
PLYMOUTH RECORDS.
[105.] At a Town Meeting Regularly assembled & held at Plymouth on ye fourth day of July Anno Dom 1743.
At sd Meeting Haviland Torrey & Stephen Churchell were chosen to serve on ye Grand Jury at ye next Supr Court to be holden at Plymouth &c on ye Second Tuesday of July Instant.
At sd meeting Messrs Thomas Holmes Saml Foster Judah West Thomas Bartlett & Nathan Delano were Chos- en Petitt Jurors for sd Supr Court ..
At a Town Meeting Regularly assembled & held at Plym- outh on ye twelveth day of September Anno Domini 1743 For the Choice of Petit Jurors the Majr Part of ye select- men not being present sd Meeting was adjourned to Tues- day ye 13th currant at Eight of ye Clock In ye forenoon. September 13th 1743. At a Town Meeting then held at ye Court House in Plymo. By adjournment from ye 12th of Sept currant William Donham and Joseph Morton Junr were appointed Jurors to serve on the Jury of Tryall for Septr Court Instant.
At a Town Meeting Regularly Assembled and held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday ye 7th day of No- vember Anno Dom 1743.
At sd Meeting Doctr Lasarus LeBaron* Was Chosen Moderator.
At sd meeting The Town Voted to Raise the sum of fifty five Pounds Lawfull Money to defray ye nessary charges
* Dr. Lazarus LeBarron was the son of Dr. Francis LeBarron, a French surgeon, who was wrecked in a French vessel and came to Plymouth in 1694. Francis married in 1695 Mary, daughter of Edward Wilder of Hingham, and Lazarus was born in Plymouth in 1698. Lazarus married in 1720, Lydia, daughter of Joseph Bartlett and great granddaughter of Robert Bartlett, who came to Plymouth in the Ann in 1623, and married in 1628, Mary, daughter of Richard Warren of the Mayflower. He married second in 1743, Lydia, widow of Elkanah Cushman, daughter of David Bradford and great grand- daughter of Governor William Bradford. Dr. LeBarron was one of the Selectmen of Plymouth from 1735 to 1756 inclusive, and from 1766 to 1769 inclusive. He presided at the Annual Meetings of the Town from 1743 to 1745, in 1747, from 1751 to 1757, in 1759, 1761, 1763 and 1764.
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of ye Town for this present year, Exclusive of what ye Town may raise for the use of ye poor.
The Town Voted the sum of twenty five pounds Law- full* money for ye use of the poor of sd Town to be drawn out of the Town Treasury as occasion may Require.
At a Town Meeting Regularly Assembled & held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday Decr ye 12th Anno Dom: 1743.
At sd Meeting Jonathan Bartlett William Harlow Jabez Shurtleff and Thomas Sears were appointed & chosen to serve on ye Petitt Jury for ye next Inferr Court to be holden at Plymouth on ye Third Tuesday of December Instant.
At a Town Meeting Regularly Assembled & held at ye Court House In Plymo on Monday the 5th day of March A Dom 1743. At sd meeting Ebenezer Bartlett James Lan- man John Kempton & John Nelson were appointed to serve on ye Petit Jury for ye next Inferiour Court to be holden ye first Tuesday of March Currant.
At sd Meeting Nathl Foster & Bennajah Pratt were chosen to serve as Grand jurors for the ensuing year.
At sd meeting Doctr Laz. LeBaron was chosen Modera- tor and Saml Bartlett Esqrt was Chosen Town Clerk for ye ensuing year & sworn to ye faithfull discharge of his sd office by John Murdock Esqr and Messrs Josiah Morton Stephen Churchill Doct Le Barron Nathl Thomas Esq &
* A footnote on lawful money may be found on page 346 of the second volume of these printed records. It is only necessary here to add that the first paper currency in Massachusetts was issued under an Act passed Dec. 10, 1690, authorizing the immediate issue of seven thousand pounds in bills from five shillings to five pounds. The cur- rency issued before 1737 was called old tenor. In 1737 a new issue was made calculated to rate at one for three of the old tenor and in 1741, a new set of bills was issued to circulate at the rate of six shillings, six pence per ounce of silver and these becoming the new tenor, the issue of 1737 was called middle tenor. In 1741, the old tenor was rated at twenty-nine shillings per ounce and the new at nine shillings, six pence. In 1747, the paper currency of the Colony amounted to about two millions, and of this amount £1,792,236 5s Id before June 3, 1751, had been redeemed by money received as due to the colony on account of expenses in the expedition against Cape Breton. An Act passed January 20, 1748, provided for the redemption at the rates of one dollar for forty-five shillings in old tenor and one dollar for eleven shillings and three pence in middle and new tenor.
t Samuel Bartlett was son of Joseph, and was born in 1696. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Lothrop, and was prominent in business affairs. He was descended from Robert Bartlett, who came in the Ann in 1723 and married Mary, daughter of Richard Warren, of the Mayflower.
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Haveland Torrey were chosen Selectmen and Messrs Saml Bartlett Esq Josiah Morton & Stephen Churchill were chosen Assessors and Thomas Doty Lemuell Barnes & John Blackmer were chosen Constables.
Then ye Town voted Thomas Bartlett & Benjamin Corn- ish to be Surveyors of the highways on ye same Terms & Conditions as ye Surveyors served Last year. All the above chosen at sd meeting.
[106.] At a Town Meeting held as within mentioned on ye 5th of March 1743.
At sd meeting Mr. Thomas Foster* was chosen Town Treasurer for ye ensuing year and Nathaniel Bartlett Michael Burne John Waterman & Josiah Morton Jun were chosen Tytheingmen.t
And Joseph Bartlett Benjamin Rider Joseph Warren Thos Bartlett Eleazer Churchill Eleazer Holmes Timo- thy Morton Thomas Spooner Thomas Holmes & Saml Nelson were chosen Fence Viewers & Field Drivers.
And Solomon Silvester Israel Clark Ezekiel Rider Josiah Morton Jun Ebenezer Churchill Jonathan Churchill Nathl Warren Walter Rich Nathl Churchill Timo Burbank Ebe- nezer Bartlett & John Nelson were chosen Hogreeves.}
And Stephen Churchill & Timothy Morton were chosen Surveyors of Lumber.
And Thomas Spooner & Melateah Lothrop were chosen Sealers of Leather.
At sd Meeting the Town put in their votes for a County Treasurer and sd votes were Delivered to Epm Cobb Con- stable.
And Thomas Doty Lemuell Barnes & John Blackmer were chosen Collectors and to be allowed for Collecting ye Taxes as the Collectors were allowed ye last year they to be under ye same obligations by bonds as ye Collectors were ye last year.
* Thomas Foster was Town Treasurer from 1741 to 1756. He was a son of John Foster and father of Thomas Foster, who graduated at Harvard in 1745 and taught the Town School. He died of Small Pox in 1777.
t Under the laws of the Province, tytheingmen were annually chosen, not only for the purpose of looking after Sabbath breakers, but of in- specting licensed houses and of informing of all disorders or misde- meanors committed therein.
# Hogreeves were first chosen in 1705 when swine were permitted to wander about the streets. Within the memory of the editor they were seen every day in the streets of New York and Washington.
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At a Town Meeting assembled & held at ye Court House in Plymo on Monday the 7th day of May Anno Dom : 1744.
At sd Meeting Messrs Joseph King Joseph Shurtleff Sil- vanus Bramhall & Elkanah Morton were appointed to serve on the Petitt Jury for the next Infer Court to be holden at Plymo on the Third Tuesday of May Currant.
At a Town Meeting Regularly Assembled and held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday ye 21st day of May A D 1744.
At sd Meeting Thomas Foster was chosen Representa- tive for the Ensuing year.
At a Town Meeting Held at ye Court House in Plym- outh on Monday ye 2d of July A. D. 1744.
*James Hovey was chosen Clerk for the day (ye stand- ing clerk being absent) & was sworn to ye faithful Dis- charge of that office Before Nathl. Thomas Esq.
Doct. Laz. LeBaron was chosen Moderator. Voated that the first Precinct in this Town shall have Liberty to Im- prove a Piece of Land Twenty seven feet front & as Deep as ye old Meeting House now is (beside the Land ye old Meeting House now stands on) in order to Build a New Meeting House upon for the Public Worship of God so long as they see cause to Keep a Meeting House thereon,
Deacon Haveland Torrey & Timothy Morton was chosen to serve on ye grand jury at ye Supr Court to be held at Plymo ye 2d Tuesday of July Current & Capt. Josiah Mor- ton Saml Nelson Caleb Sherman Jas Shurtleff & Samuell Donham was appointed to serve on ye Petitt Jury at said Court agreeable to Law.
[107.] At a Town Meeting held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday the Third day of September Anno Domini 1744, Joseph Morton & John Harlow was ap- pointed to serve on ye Petitt Jury for ye next Infer Court to be holden at Plymo on ye Third Tuesday of September Currant.
At a Town Meeting assembled & held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday Oct. Ist 1744 Doctor Lazarus Le- Barron was chosen Moderator.
At sd Meeting the Town voted that they will not make
* James Hovey was a son of Ivory Hovey of Ipswich and was born in 1709. He was an Attorney-at-Law in Plymouth, and at one time owned and occupied the house now known as the Central House on Main Street. He died in 1781.
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any addition to the School Masters Salary for this year.
At sd Meeting the Town voted to raise sixty pounds Lawfull money to defray ye necessary charges of the Town for the Present year, exclusive of what ye Town may raise for ye use of the poor.
Voted the sum of Fifteen pounds Lawfull money for ye use of ye poor.
Voted by ye Town that ye Town Bell be hung on ye new meeting House, where the old one stood to be for ye use of the Town untill ye third Precinct shall have a bell of their own and then the sd Town Bell shall be and belong to the first precinct They paying to the Second & Third Precincts their proportionable parts of the Then value of sd Bell ac- cording to the Taxes the Inhabitants of sd Precincts pay to ye Town.
At a Town Meeting assembled & held at ye House of Mr. Stephen Churchill in Plymouth by adjournment from ye Court House on Monday ye 17th day of December Anno Dom: 1744 John Harlow Jun Benjamin Bartlett Mathew Lemote & Saml King Jun was appointed to serve on ye Petitt Jury for ye next Infer Court to be holden at Ply- mouth on ye third Tuesday of December Currant.
At a Town Meeting assembled and held at ye Court House in Plymo on Monday ye 4th day of March A. Dom: 1744.
At sd Meeting Doct Lazarus LeBarron was chosen Moderator.
At sd Meeting Saml Barlett Esq was chosen Town Clerk & sworn before Nathl Thomas Esq.
At sd Meeting Nathl Thomas Esq Stephen Churchill Lasarus LeBarron Haviland Torrey & Joseph Bartlett were chosen Selectmen.
And Josiah Morton Stephen Churchill & Saml Bartlett Esq were chosen Assessors.
And Thomas Swift Caleb Shareman and Ebenezer Holmes Jun were chosen Constables.
And Joseph Warren & Michael Burne was chosen Grand- jury men for the year ensuing.
And Archibald Fisher Joshua Swift Asa Hatch & Elea- ser Churchill Jun were chosen to serve on ye Petitt Jury for March Currant.
Robert Harlow Elkanah Totman Joseph Morton Jun Nathl Warren & John Torrey was chosen Tytheingmen.
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Thomas Foster chosen Town Treasurer.
Consider Howland Josiah Carver Elisha Doten Benga Cornish Eleazer Holmes & Theophilus Cotton were chosen Fence Viewers and Field Drivers.
Elkanah Totman Nehemiah Ripley Nathl Donham Jun Nathan Cobb Eleazer Churchill Jun Zaphaniah Holmes Nathl Warren Thomas Bartlett and Abial Shurtleff Nathl Bartlett and John May Jun were chosen Hogreeves.
[108.] At sd Meeting it was considered By the Town that whereas it often happens that Persons carrying their* stoves to ye meeting Houses in sd Town on the Lords Days & at other times; whereby ye meeting Houses are endan- gered of Being set on fire and consumed & the Town also Greatly endangered thereby it is therefore voted that each Person Leaving his or her stove in any of the Meeting Houses in sd Town after the People are all gone out (But ye Saxton) shall forfeit & Pay ye sum of Five shillings to be Improved as ye Law Directs; and ye stove so left to be forfeited to ye saxton finding ye same & the Saxton of each Meeting House in ye Town are Required carefully to in- spect ye Pews & seats in each Meeting House, he or they have ye care off and to take into his possession all such stoves as may be so left in either or any of sd Meeting Houses and them keep in his Possession till the owners thereof Pay him the value of sd stove or stoves so taken; and also each Saxton is Required and Impowered to Prose- cute each Person leaving his or her stove as aforesaid and to Recover ye penalty set on such offender By this act.
And Nathl Thomas & Saml Bartlett Esq were chosen to Prefer a Copy of this Town Act or By-Law to ye Court of General Sessions of ye Peace to be holden at Plymouth for ye County of Plymouth on the First Tuesday of March Curant, for their allowance and appropriation of the same.
At said Meeting the Town voted that every male head of a Family be obliged to procure Ten grown Rats heads or Ten Grown black birds heads and bring them to ye Town Treasurer and ye Town Treasurer to give a List to ye ass- essors of each head of a family that has procured his quota of sd Black birds or Rats heads; and each head of a family that shall not procure ye aforesaid Number of heads shall be assessed ye sum of six pence old Tenor pr head for each
* Foot stoves were the only means of heating the Church and the editor remembers when they were generally used.
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head that he shall fall short of sd number; and ye assessors in making Their assessments are ordered to add each De- linquents fine or penalty to his next Town Tax.
At sd Meeting Nathl Thomas & Saml Bartlett Esq were chosen Agents for ye Town to appear & answer (at ye next Generall Sessions of ye Peace to be holden at Plymouth) to ye presentment made by ye Grandjury for the deficiency of ve Publick Road near John Harlows.
At sd Meeting Stephen Churchill Timo Morton & David Turner was chosen Surveyors of Lumber.
And Nathl Thomas Esq Thoephilus Cotton Joseph War- ren Eleazer Holmes Benjamen Rider & Seth Swift were chosen Surveyors of ye high-ways.
And Thomas Spooner & Walter Rich was chosen Sealers of Leather.
Then a vote was called to know ye Towns mind if they would act anything on that paragraph inserted in ye War- rant to order if it be that proper to Lengthen ye Axeltrees of ye Carts so as ye ways may be made wider. Voted in ye Negative.
Then ye sd Town Meeting was adjourned to Monday ye 18th day of March Currant at 2 o'clock in ye afternoon.
At a Town Meeting assembled & held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday ye 18th day of March A D 1744 by adjournment from ye 4th day of this instant March.
At sd Meeting the Town voted to accept of Benj Bartlett as Constable for ye year ensuing in Lieu of Ebenezer Holmes Jun who was chosen Constable.
Voted also that ye Constables shall be Collectors for the Town this year and to be allowed for collecting the Taxes six pence per pound. They Respectively giving Bonds to ye Town Treasurer for their seasonable Collecting & paying in ye same.
[109.] At a Town Meeting Regularly assembled & held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday ye 20th day of May Anno Dom: 1745.
At sd Meeting Doct Lazs LeBarron was chosen Modera- tor.
And Robert Harlow Nathl Foster Josiah Finney and Saml Kempton was chosen to serve on the Petitt Jury at ye Inferr Court of Common Pleas on ye third Tuesday of Instant May.
At sd Meeting Deacon Thomas Foster was chosen Rep- resentative for the ensuing year.
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And ye Town voted to allow Ephraim Cobb the sum of Eight pounds old Tenor for his services in taking Care of ye Watch in 1744.
At a Town Meeting assembled & held at ye Court House in Plymo on Monday ye first day of July A Dom 1745.
At sd Meeting Capt. Stephen Churchill & Deacon Haver- land Torrey was chosen to serve on ye Grand Jury for next Sup. Court and Deacon John Atwood Abraham Jackson Joseph Bartlett Jun Thomas Mayhew & Jonathan Barnes chosen to serve on ye Jury of Tryalls at sd Court.
At a Town Meeting Regularly Assembled & held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday ye 9th day of Sep- tember 1745.
At sd Meeting Nathl Croade & Nathl Churchill was chosen to serve on ye Petitt Jury for the next Court to be holden at Plymo on ye Third Tuesday of Sept. Currant.
At sd Meeting the Town voted to Raise the sum of Eighty Pounds in Bills of ye new Tenor for defraying ye necessary Charges of ye Town for this present year. Ten pounds of sd Money to be for ye use of ye poor.
At sd Meeting Deacon *Haviland Torrey was chosen Moderator.
At a Town Meeting Regularly Assembled and held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Friday ye 13th day of Dec. 1745 Lemuel Barnes Joseph Holmes Josiah Clark & Saml Cornish was chosen to serve on ye Jury of Tryalls for ye next Inferiour Court to be holden at Plymouth on ye 3d Tuesday of December Currant.
At a Town Meeting Regularly Assembled and held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday ye 3d Day of March 1745.
At sd Meeting William Barnes Thomas Faunce Josiah Rider & Nathl Warren was chosen to serve on ye Petitt Jury for the next Court to be holden at Plymouth on ye First Tuesday of March Currant.
At sd Meeting Deacon Haveland Torrey was chosen Moderator.
At sd meeting Samuel Bartlett Esqr was chosen Town Clerk and sworn Before John Murdock Esqr.
At sd Meeting Stephen Churchill Haveland Torrey
* Haviland Torrey was a great grandson of James Torrey, who appeared in Scituate in 1640.
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Joseph Bartlett Lazarus Lebarron & John Watson were chosen Selectmen.
At sd Meeting Josiah Morton Stephen Churchill & Sam- uell Bartlett Esqrs were chosen Assessors.
At sd Meeting Samuell Bartlett & Joshua Bramhall were chosen Grand jurors for ye year ensuing.
At sd Meeting Elkanah Morton Jonathan Diman & Samuell Cornish were chosen Constables.
At sd Meeeting the Town voted that the Constables shall be Collectors for the Town this year & To Be allowed for · Collecting ye Taxes six Pence per Pound They Respec- tively giving Bonds to the Town Treasurer for their sea- sonable collections & Paying in ye same.
[110.] At sd Meeting Deacon Thomas Foster was chosen Town Treasurer.
At sd Meeting Jeremiah Howes Benjamin Rider Sam- uell Nelson Thomas Spooner Seth Swift Thomas Bartlett were chosen Surveyors of Highways.
At sd Meeting Nathaniel Shurtleff Thomas Clark Will- iam Clark Cornelius Holmes & Joseph Morton Junr were chosen Tytheing men.
At sd Meeting Timothy Morton Bennjah Pratt John Blackmer Thomas Holmes Joseph Morton & Joseph Morrey were chosen Fence Viewers and Field Drivers.
At sd Meeting William Harlow Silvanus Brimhall Sam- uel Clark Jonathan Harlow James Clark Junr John Water- man William Ellis Junr Nathaniel Morton Joseph Rider Junr were chosen Hogreeves.
At sd Meeting Stephen Churchill Timothy Morton & David Turner were chosen Surveyors of Lumber.
At sd Meeting Thomas Spooner & Walter Rich were chosen Sealers of Leather.
At a Town Meeting Regularly Assembled & held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday ye 19th of May A Dom : 1746.
At sd Meeting Seth Swift William Morton Stephen Churchill Junr & Joshua Shareman were chosen Jurymen to serve on ye Petitt Jury for ye next Inferiour Court to be holden at Plymo on ye Third Tuesday of May Currant.
At sd Meeting Deacon Thomas Foster was chosen Rep- resentative for ye ensuing year.
At sd Meeting Doct Lazs LeBaron was chosen Modera- tor.
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Then ye Town Proceeded to act on ye Petition of Eleazer Churchill & Twelve others that something may be done about Schools, as mentioned in ye warrant agreeable to sd Petition, and Messrs James Warren Esqr* Capt Josiah Morton Saml Nelson Joseph Warren Joseph Bartlett Thomas Bartlett Thomas Jackson Nathan Delano Joseph Bartlett Junr was chosen a committee to consider ye same & to make Report to ye Town at the next Town Meeting.
At sd meeting The Town Voted and chose Mr Joseph Warren & Deacon Thomas Foster to be agents for ye Town to treat with ye agents of Barnstable County as to Repair- ing Eel River Bridge in Plymouth and so to take care that sd Bridge be well repaired.
At a Town Meeting assembled and held at ye Court House in Plymo on Tuesday ye Ist day of July A Dom : 1746.
At sd Meeting Deacon Haveland Torrey & Stephen Churchell was chosen to serve on ye Grand jury for ye next Supr Court, and Thomas Spooner Thomas Jackson John Finney Lazarus Samson Joshua Drew were chosen to serve on ye jury of Tryalls at sd Court.
At sd Meeting Doctor Lazs LeBaron was chosen modera- tor.
At sd Meeting The Town Voted to continue ye affairs Relating to ye schools (as entered at ye Last Town Meet- ing) to ye next Town Meeting.
[111.] At a Town Meeting Regularly assembled & held In ye Court House In Plymo on Monday ye first day of Sept A Dom : 1746
At sd Meeting Doctr Lazs LeBaron was chosen modera- tor.
At sd Meeting The Committee for ye school brot in their
* James Warren was the great-great-grandson of Richard Warren of the Mayflower. He was born in Plymouth in 1726 and graduated at Harvard in 1745. He was many years a Representative, and suc- ceeded Dr. Joseph Warren as President of the Provincial Congress. He was also Sheriff of Plymouth County, Major-General of the Militia, and for a time Paymaster-General of the Army during the
Revolution. He was also Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1787, and declined the office of Lieut-Governor to which he was chosen in 1780 and that of Judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, to which he was appointed in 1776. He was a mem- ber of the Executive Council and active in the affairs of his native town. He married, in 1754, Mercy, daughter of James Otis of Barnstable and sister of the patriot, and died in Plymouth at his residence, now stand- ing at the corner of North and Main streets, November 28, 1808.
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Report Relateing to ye school, and the Town Voted that the affair of ye school or schools be adjourned to ye next Town Meeting and the sd Report to be Lodged with ye Town Clerk.
At sd meeting The Town Voted That ye assessors shall take a valuation of ye Estates in ye Town (memo is in or- der for makeing ye Taxes).
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