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V. 37
A VOLUME
OF
RECORDS
RELATING TO THE
EARLY HISTORY OF BOSTON
CONTAINING
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1814 TO 1822
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REGISTRY DEPARTMENT
OF THE
CITY OF BOSTON
RECORDS RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF BOSTON
(Formerly called Record Commissioners' Reports)
This volume, which is the thirty-seventh in the series formerly issued under the direction of the Record Commissioners, contains the proceedings of the town from March 14, 1814, to April 1, 1822, containing and completing the meetings of the inhabitants under the town government, as recorded in the tenth book of the original records of the town of Boston.
EDWARD W. McGLENEN.
City Registrar.
OLD COURT HOUSE, BOSTON.
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS.
[TENTH BOOK. ]
1814-1822.
[1.] At a Meeting of the male Citizens of the Town of Boston duly qualified & legally warned in publick Town Meeting assembled at Faneuil Hall on Monday the 14th day of March A.D. 1814 - 9 O'Clock A.M.
Prayer by the Revª Mr. Parkman.
Warrant for calling the Meeting read.
Laws respecting the Election of Town officers,-read.
Honble. John Phillips, Esq". chosen Moderator.
Thomas Clark - was chosen Town Clerk for the year ensuing, & the oath of office was administered to him by the Moderator.
Charles Bulfinch Benjamin Weld
Ebenezer Oliver Joseph Lovering
Jonathan Hunnewell
Joseph Austin &
Joseph Foster Robert Williams, Esqrs.
Nathan Webb
were chosen Selectmen for the year ensuing.
The oath was administered to them by the Moderator & the following Certificate given by him.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Suffolk ss. . . . March 14th. 1814- -
Then Charles Bulfinch, Ebenezer Oliver, Jonathan Hunnewell, Joseph Foster, Nathan Webb, Benjamin Weld, Joseph Lovering, Joseph Austin and Robert Williams Esquires being chosen Select- men of the Town of Boston for the ensuing year severally appeared & made oath faithfully to discharge the duties of their office respecting all elections and the returns thereof.
before me John Phillips Justice of the Peace.
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CITY DOCUMENT NO. 128.
[2.] William Smith
William Mackay
William Phillips
Joseph Coolidge jun.
Redford Webster
Joseph Richards
Thomas Perkins
Bryant P. Tilden
Samuel Snelling
Ephraim Elliott and
Ozias Goodwin
Jonathan Phillips Esqrs.
were chosen Overseers of the Poor for the ensuing year.
Thomas Mellvill
Nathan Webb
Andrew Cunningham
George Blanchard
John Winslow
Samuel M. Thayer
Stephen Codman
Joseph Tilden
Jonathan Hunnewell
Joseph Austin
Daniel Messenger
Benjn. Rich
William Sullivan
Joseph Lovering
Benjamin Smith
Gedney King
Nathaniel Curtis
Francis J. Oliver
Edward Cruft
John D. Williams
James Phillips
William Harris and
Bryant P. Tilden John Winslow junr. Esq18.
were chosen Firewards for the year ensuing
Thanks of the Town voted to Majr. Bray & Mr. Page.
Voted, That in addition to the Selectmen twelve persons shall now be chosen a School Committee; and the votes being collected it appeared that the following Gentlemen were chosen viz.
Revd. Charles Lowell
Charles Davis, Esq".
Revd. Horace Holley John Heard jun".
Revd. Samuel Cary Peter O. Thacher
Doctr. Aaron Dexter Francis J. Oliver
Doct". Thomas Welsh William Smith &
Doct". John C. Warren
William Welles Esqr8.
Voted, That the above named Gentlemen who conjunctly with the Selectmen are termed the School Committee, be and hereby are directed to carry the system of Education adopted by the Town into operation : and that said Committee be also authorized and empowered conjunctly to manage and regulate the Government [3] of the Schools; and to execute all the powers relative to the Schools and School Masters which the Selectmen or such Com- mittees are authorized by the laws of the Commonwealth or by votes of the Town to exercise. The thanks of the Town was then voted to Mr. Channing.
Messrs. Benjamin White John Cogswell William Clouston William Ellison Nathaniel Bradlee
Joseph Stodder Allen Bowker William Ellison junr. Nath1. Glover John Howe Jun".
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1814.
Noah Dogget
Richard Thayer
Bradock Loring
Edwd. J. Robbins
Thomas Christie
Henry Blake
William Green
Joseph Tucker and
Eleazer Homer
Moses Eayres Jun".
were chosen Surveyors of Boards & other Lumber for the year ensuing.
Messrs. Henry Purkett John Smith Benjamin Clark
Nathl1. Howe and
were appointed Surveyors of Hoops & Staves.
Messrs. Thomas Barbour John Bannister
Nath1. Howe
Thomas Lambert
Benjamin Clark
Benjn. Owen
Gershom Spear
James Brown and
Charles Pook William J Hammet
were chosen cullers of Dry fish.
Messrs. Benjamin White -- Nath1. Bradlee and William Ellison were chosen Fence Viewers for the year ensuing.
Messrs. Barney Sloan - Neddy Curtis Joseph Champney and Joseph Selaway were chosen Hogreeves & Haywards for the year ensuing.
Samuel Emmons, and John Phillips, Esqrs. were chosen Sur- veyors of Hemp -
[4.] Edward Tuckerman and Josiah Snelling, Esqrs. were chosen Surveyors of Wheat.
Messrs. John Wells and Richard Austin were chosen Assay Masters
The Selectmen were chosen Surveyors of Highways.
Messrs. Richard Homer, Francis James and Samuel Sprague were chosen Inspectors of Lime.
Votes,-for a Treasurer for the County of Suffolk were received by the Moderator & Town Clerk, [and] sorted and counted when it appeared that the whole number was one hundred & sixty nine votes, and that they were all for John Winslow Esq".
Voted, That Stephen Codman, Francis J Oliver and John Osborn Esqrs. be, and they are hereby appointed a Committee to audit the accounts of the Town Treasurer and also those of the Overseers of the Poor, and the Board of Health. And said Com- mittee are directed to report the sum necessary to be raised for the services of the present year.
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CITY DOCUMENT No. 128.
Voted, That the Auditors of Accounts for the Town of Boston be requested to take into consideration the finances of the County of Suffolk and Town of Boston, to obtain from their respective Treasurers the amount of debts due from the County and Town either to Banks or individuals - Also the amount of debts due to said County & Town from outstanding taxes, or from individuals or any other accounts ; also to obtain the amount received into the Treasury within the last five years from Justices of the Peace & other officers, arising from fines & [5] forfitures for breaches of the law - also to ascertain the amount of outstanding Taxes arising from neglecting to collect them when the persons were competent to the payment, as stated in a late report - And to consider how far the Bondsmen are answerable for the deficiency of such receiver & Collector - and to report on the same at May Meeting
The Thanks of the Town was voted to the Auditors of Accounts for the last year.
Voted - That the consideration of all money matters be re- ferred to the May Meeting
Voted-That the subject in the Warrant respecting the pas- sageway requested by the New South Church proprietors, be committed to the Selectmen, with full powers to act as the best interest of the Town may require, and make & execute such con- veyances as they may think proper, in behalf of the Town.
Voted-That the Selectmen be empowered to sell to Mr. David Greenough & his associates so much of the land of the School lot in West Street as in their opinion will not be injurious to the School house, and on such terms as shall appear to them advan- tageous to the Town - and that they be empowered to make a legal conveyance of the same.
The Petition of Deacon Joseph Field was committed to the Trustees of the land on Boston neck to consider the same and report thereon.
Voted -That the Treasurer be directed to suspend the enforc- ing the Collection of Dea". Joseph Fields Bond for the present.
Voted - The petition for a bye law against incumbering the side walks of the Town, was referred to the Selectmen to take the same into consideration & report thereon.
[6.] Voted - That the Thanks of the Town be given to the Hon1. John Phillips Esqr. for his services as Moderator of this Meeting.
Then the Meeting was Dissolved.
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1814.
At a Meeting of the Male Inhabitants of the Town of Boston of twenty one years of age and upwards, qualified as the Con- stitution prescribes and legally warned in publick Town Meeting assembled at Faneuil Hall on Monday the 4th. day of April A D 1814 -9 O Clock A M.
Prayer by the Revd. Mr. Lowell.
Warrant for calling the Meeting read.
Paragraphs of the Constitution or Frame of Government relative . to the choice of Governor, Lieutenant Governor & Senators, read.
Law of the Commonwealth dividing the State into Districts for the choice of Senators & Counsellors - read.
It was then declared by the Selectmen, that no printed vote would be received, & that the votes should be put into the Box unfolded.
It was afterwards declared that the Poll should be closed at 2 O Clock - and the Bells to begin tolling at half past 1 O'Clock.
Persons voted for as Governour with the number of Votes for each person - viz
His Excy. Caleb Strong 3557
Hon1. Samuel Dexter - 1557
[7.] Benja. Austin 2. John Holmes 1.
3
Wm. Eustis 1. Henry Dearborn 1 2
William Sullivan 1
5120
Persons voted for as Lieutenant Governor, with the number of votes for each person - viz.
His Honour William Phillips
3570
Hon1. William Gray - 1550
Honble. James Lloyd 1
5121
Persons voted for as Senators for the District of Suffolk, with the number of votes for each Person - viz.
Hon1. John Phillips
3564
Hon1. Israel Thorndike
3550
Hon1. Josiah Quincy -
3524
Hon1. Thomas H. Perkins
3554
Hon1. Harrison G. Otis -
3544
Hon1. Daniel Sargent -
3548
Samuel Brown Esq". 1523
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CITY DOCUMENT NO. 128.
Russell Sturgis Esq". -
1524
Jonª. L. Austin Esq". 1524
William Little Esq".
- 1520
Caleb Bingham Esq". - 1524
David Townsend Esq".
1520 4
William Spooner Esq".
Samuel Cobb Esq".
James Lloyd Esq".
3
Caleb Loring Esq".
Joseph Hall Esq".
Thomas K. Jones Esqr.
William Sullivan Esq".
Jesse Putnam Esq". -
Thos. L. Winthrop Esq".
Stephen Codman Esqr.
Joseph E. Smith Esq".
Attested Copies or return of the persons voted for as Gov- ernour, Lieutenant Governour & Senators for the County of Suf- folk sealed up in [8] open Town Meeting, after the vote had been declared, to be transmitted to the Seeretary of the Common- wealth as preseribed by law ; and directed as follows - viz.
To Alden Bradford Esqr. Secretary of the Commonwealth .-
Votes of the Town of Boston for Governour and Lieutenant Governour, sealed up in open Town Meeting .- Also for Six Sen- ators for the District of Suffolk, directed in the same manner.
Then the Meeting was Dissolved.
At a meeting of the Male Inhabitants of the Town of Boston of twenty-one years of age and upwards, qualified as the Consti- tution preseribes at Faneuil Hall on Thursday the 12th. day of May A D 1814 - 9 o'clock A M.
Prayer by the Revd. Mr. Huntington.
Warrant calling the Meeting, read -
Paragraphs of the Constitution relating to the choice of Repre- sentatives, and the law of the Commonwealth regulating Elec- tions - read
The return of the Assistant Assessors signifying that the major & minor Polls of this Town for the present year were 8275 besides 51 that were in the United States Army, being also read .-
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The Inhabitants were directed to bring in their votes for Rep- resentatives not exceeding thirty-seven.
Votes were received by the Selectmen untill one O'Clock, when they declared the Poll to be closed.
[9.] Upon sorting and counting the votes it appeared that the whole number was 909 - necessary to make a choice 455 - the following (thirty six) Gentlemen had a Majority of the votes - and were declared to be duly elected Representatives for the Town the ensuing year. Vizt.
William Smith
Nathaniel Curtis
James Robinson
Richard Faxon
Jonathan Hunnewell
Samuel Dunn
William Sullivan
John D. Howard
Stephen Codman
Lynde Walter
Benjamin Russell
Jonathan Loring
Charles Davis
Jonathan Whitney
William Hammatt
Samuel J. Prescott
William H. Sumner
Lemuel Shaw
Ephraim Thayer
Andrew Sigourney
Benjamin Weld
Thomas Barry
Benjamin Whitman
William Harris
Oliver Keating
Richard Sullivan
Nathan Webb
Joseph Pierce
Daniel Messenger
William Brown
George G. Lee
Benjamin Gorham
Sam1. M. Thayer
Thacher Goddard &
George Blanchard
William Sturgis
Then the Meeting was Dissolved.
[10.] At a Meeting of the Male Citizens of the Town of Boston duly qualified and legally warned, assembled at Faneuil Hall on Tuesday the 24 day of May A D 1814 10 O'Clock. A. M.
Warrant for calling the Meeting - read.
Stephen Codman Esqr. was chosen Moderator.
The Auditors of Accounts made the following Report - viz.
The Committee appointed by a vote of the Town of Boston on the 14th day of March last, to audit the accounts of the Town Treasurer ; and for other purposes, have attended that service
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CITY DOCUMENT No. 128.
and ask leave to report - that they have examined the enclosed account of Andrew Sigourney Esquire, the Town Treasurer & Collector; that they find the same right cast and well vouched, that there remained in his hands on the 7th day of May instant a balance of $19,162122 belonging to the Town.
Your Committee in further discharge of their duty addressed a Letter to the standing Committee of Finance, who they conceived most competent to give them such information on the general pecuniary concerns of the Town as would enable them to make such a report as the Town would expect. The Committee have received a written communication from that Committee which so fully discribes the state of the finances and other concerns of the Town and County that your Committee think proper to annex the same hereto, which they beg leave to offer as part of their report - viz.
Second annual report of the Committee of Finance.
[11.] The Committee of Finance of the Town of Boston, composed of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, and Board of Health : agreeably to the powers and instructions received from the Town, have examined the accounts of the Treasurer and Col- lector for the past year, and report as follows. -
They have been gratified to find such a system of order and perspicuous arrangement in the Books of the office, as render the examination & intimate knowledge of the accounts easy & con- venient.
By referring to the Report of this Committee in May 1813, it will be found, that there was then due on back taxes from 1804 to 1812 inclusive the sum of $86361.74 -
Since which has been received as follows.
of 1804
80.81
of 1805
179.11
of 1806
299.80
of 1807
518.90
of 1808
473.
of 1809
905.74
of 1810 -
1167.73
of 1811
1052.66
of 1812
3858.18
8535.93
The amount of taxes abated the past year
59245.63
Leaves Balance uncollected -
18580.18
$86361.74
The amount of taxes assessed in 1813 for County
and Town was -
$152400.60
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of which has been received to May 7th $141028.83 9320. 9
amount of errors & abatements -
$150348.92
Ballance uncollected
2051.68
$152400.60
from which it appears, that the whole tax for 1813 has [12] been collected or settled except 2000 Dollars, between the 18th. day of October and the 7th. day of May, a period short of 7 months : a circumstance Highly creditable to the Collector and to the inhabitants of the Town. -
The following is a statement of the Towns debts ana credits
Dr. Town of Boston
Cr.
State Tax 1813
- $9500
By Notes of several
County Dº -
30125.34 persons for land,
7486.55
N. E. Insurance office 5500. By John Brazer suit J. Bradley for oil - - 13000. rec agt. him - - 6500.
To Bank
25500.
Commonwealth
Private Notes - - 16881.17
poor -
7000.
on Selectmens dfts.
649.58 Cash in Treas-
on Overseers Do.
1372.23
ury -
19162.22
102,528.32
$40148.77
Selectmens dft. May - 7000.
Unliquidated Accts. - 10000.
$119528.32
Estimating the debts as above at
$120000
and adding 5000 dollars to the same to cover further unliquidated balances the amount will be - 125000
to which add the current expences of the year - 82000
$207000
being the same as last year - exhibits the sum to be provided for $207000 in manner following -
from money in the Treasury & debts coming due this year
39000
from Commonwealth support of State Poor 13000
Rents p estimate of last year 10000
Town Tax same as last year, for current expences -
75000
137000
sum necessary to discharge the balance of debt 70000
$207000
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The Committee have deliberated upon the most elegible mode of discharging the above balance and offer the following as the result .- They find [13] that the whole amount of State, County & Town taxes for 1813 was $152,400 - And that the County tax for the present year is $14000 less, than in the last; they also find that the County debt being provided for, the current expenses of the County will not require a larger tax in future
It is therefore proposed, that the sum of $14000 dollars should be raised in addition to the amount for current Town expences, and be appropriated towards the discharge of the Towns debts : and that the same amount should be assessed annually until the whole shall be discharged, which will be effected in six years, without laying on the Inhabitants any greater burthen, than what they have borne and promptly paid during the past year.
But as some of the Creditors of the Town may be urgent for immediate payment, it is proposed, that the Town should em- power the Treasurer to borrow of Individuals or of publick institutions, such sums as may be necessary to satisfy the present creditors, And that the Committee of Finance be directed to pay particular attention, that the sum raised for the gradual discharge of the old debts be strictly appropriated to that purpose.
By order of the Committee
May 21st. 1814 .- Charles Bulfinch, Chairman
Your Committee take this opportunity to add their testimony to that of the Committee of Finance on the perfect system of order and clear arrangement in the Books and Accounts of the Treasurer and Collector. and for the unexampled promptness, with which he has collected nearly the whole of the last years taxes, and of so large a portion of the outstanding taxes, which circumstance does great honour to the talents & integrity of that officer .-
[14.] Your Committee also requested the County Treasurer to give them such information from his office as would enable them to satisfy the Town as to the finances of the County, and they received from him every satisfaction they could expect .- The Committee of Finance in their report have taken notice of part of the result of those enquiries, and your Committee have to add, that the County Treasurer stated to them that there were no books in the Office by which he could ascertain the amount of fines and forfeitures received from Justices of the Peace for breaches of law within the last five years, but that since the present Treasurer had been in office had received as follows
from several Justices 1161.64 from Shubael Bell received by him for persons
committed - 493.35
and that these sums had been paid over to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth agreeable to law.
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It also appears that in 1813. there was paid to the Justices of the Peace for criminal suits before them the sum of $3303.92 of this sum (for all suits carried to the Courts by appeal or recog- nizance) was repaid by the Commonwealth $1700- Left a balance of Loss to the County of 1603 dollars.
With regard to that part of the duty of your Committee " to ascertain the amount of outstanding taxes arising from neglect- ing to collect them when the persons were competent to the pay- ment as stated in a late report." That report fully states the amount, but whether any neglect to collect them when persons were competent to the payment took place or not, the Committee have no means of [15] ascertaining - And the question "how far the Bondsmen are answerable for the deficiency of such Receiver & Collector" is a legal question which your Committee do not feel themselves competent to determine. -
All which is submitted
Stephen Codman Francis J. Oliver Committee John Osborn
Boston May 23. 1814.
The foregoing Reports of the Auditors of accounts & Com- mittee of Finance were read, considered & accepted by the Town - and ordered that the report of the Committee of Finance be published.
The Committee of Finance having examined the accounts and proceedings of Andrew Sigourney Esqr. Treasurer & Collector of the Town of Boston, as it respects both of said important offices, & are happy to state.
That they find the Treasurer and Collector has executed the duties of said offices with great ability and faithfulness, as will appear from the statements accompanying the report of the Auditors.
The Town of Boston will therefore feel, that a Compensation for services rendered, so essential to their interests, becomes a duty, which will give them pleasure to execute.
The Committee would state, that they find said Treasurer & Collector has expended the sum of one thousand, eighty three dollars 33 cents for necessary Clerk hire in his said offices, from the first day of July 1813 to the 1st. day of June 1814 and the sum of ninety two dollars 15 Cents expences attending [16] the delivery of Bills & summonses to delinquents, for which no com- pensation has been, or can be by him received.
This expence to the Treasurer & Collector has in a great measure arisen from his very able & faithful attention to the collection and settlement of such back taxes as became due, before he was appointed to said offices.
The Committee would therefore report -That there be allowed to the said Andrew Sigourney Esquire out of the Treasury of the said Town of Boston, the sum of eleven hundred seventy five
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dollars, forty five cents, the same being the amount of the sums aforesaid by him expended in said offices, as Treasurer & Collec- tor, for said Town, on their account, up to said first day of June 1814 - And considering that the sum of one hundred & forty thousand dollars, taxes, have been received and paid the past year ; and eight thousand five hundred dollars back taxes have been collected - and Fifty nine thousand dollars have been set- tled by abatements, all of which the said Treasurer & Collector has attended to, with that accuracy and faithfulness, which have characterized all his proceedings - The Committee whould fur- ther report, That there be allowed & paid to Andrew Sigourney Esquire out of the Treasury of the Town of Boston, the further sum of Two thousand dollars, in full for his services as Town Treasurer & Collector of Taxes for the year ending the first day of July next. - All which is respectfully submitted, by order of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, & Board of Health of the Town of Boston, said Committee of Finance.
Charles Bulfinch, Chairman.
Boston, May 24th 1814.
[17.] The foregoing Report of the Committee of Finance was read, & accepted by the Town.
Edward Tuckerman
William Brown
William Hammatt Peter O. Thacher and
Joshua Davis Thomas Dawes, Esquires,
were chosen Trustees of Neck Lands.
The following gentlemen were chosen Inspectors of the Market for the year ensuing - viz. :
Gedney King Ward No. 1 John P. Thorndike Ward No. 7
John D. Howard 66
2 Caleb Haywood
8
Turell Tuttle 3 Isaac P. Simpson 9
Samuel Hichborn 66 4 Joseph Allen 10 Turell Tuttle, jun". 5 John Roulston 11
George W. Otis 6 Samuel Sprague 66 12
Neddy Curtis and Abel Hewins, were chosen Fence Viewers for South Boston.
Romanus Emmerson, was chosen Hayward and Pound Keeper.
Samuel Holmes and Elisha Copeland, were chosen Tythingmen for the year ensuing.
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The Petition of Mr. William Bigelow, late Master of the Latin School was committed to
Benjamin Whitman,
[18.] Benjamin Russell, Lemuel Shaw, William Mackay and William Sullivan, Esquires,
to consider this and report at the next adjournment.
The Trustees of lands upon the Neck, to whom was referred the Petition of Joseph Field Esqr., having attended to the sub- ject, having heard and considered the statement of the petitioner, and by a part of their body viewed the premises, now ask leave respectfully to report, that in their opinion, the petitioner has no legal claim against the Town arising from any injury which he may be supposed to have sustained from the alteration in the scite of the burying ground upon the neck, inasmuch as their was never any stipulation or engagement restricting the town from making such alteration if the publick good should render it necessary. The trustees further consider that, the house of the petitioner being protected in front by a high fence & by a row of trees, very little inconvenience can arise or be felt by him, or by those who occupy the same, from the funeral processions, which occasionally enter the burying ground; and that any inconve- nience which may arise from this cause is more than compensated by the advantage which will result to the estate from the land in front of the house being forever kept open. It further appeared upon enquiry, that the rent of this estate had not sus- tained a greater depression, than that of other estates in the vicinity - The Trustees are therefore of opinion that the peti- tioner is not entitled in law or in equity to [19] compensation from the town according to the prayer of his petition.
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