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Voted and passed that the Trustees shall call in the whole of the said town's part of the sixty thousand pounds loan by the last of April next comtwelvemonths.
At the same town meeting, it was voted and passed that there shall or may be levied some few pounds within said town's province tax not exceed- ing ten pounds and shall be ordered into our Town Treasury, which money shall be ordered disposed of for to help bear and pay our town's charges.
At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Andover convened on the 10th of May 1734, Major John Osgood was chosen moderator for said meeting.
At the same meeting, Lt. Joseph Parker, Capt. Timothy Johnson and Capt. Chandler are and was chosen a committee for to prefer petition to the General Court faxxhakRxafxtkaxxxid in behalf of the said town of Andover that the said General Court would show the town of Andover the favor as to the stating the line between Andover and Wilmington, the said town of Andover leaving it to the aforesaid committee for the major part of them to the full power to prefer such a petition to said court in the behalf of Andover as the said committee in their prudence shall see meet.
At a lawful tom meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Andover convened on the 3rd of June 1734, Capt. Timothy Johnson was chosen moderator for said meeting.
At the same town meeting, it was voted and passed that the committee viz. Lt. Joseph Parker, Capt. Timothy Johnson and Capt. John Chandler that was chosen a committee on the 10th of May last last past for to prefer a petition to the General Court in a way of the said town of Andovers defense against xxx Wilmington. The said committee shall have full power cost of the town to employ a surveyor and chainmen to make out our six mills at the Land of Nod and to take a plan of what land layeth within the six mills; likewise a plan of the whole line as was formerly perambulated between Woburn and Andover.
At the same town meeting, it is clearly voted and passed that the said town would xupaxt support their fown Treasurer out of their Town Treasury for to sue any former or present effected constable that have not made up their accounts according to law.
At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of kkextaxxxaf Andover conxxxRd duly qualified for voting in town meeting con- vened on the 16th of September 1734, Capt. John Chandler was chosen moderator for said town meeting.
At the same town meeting, Capt. Timothy Johnson, Capt. John Chandler and Lt. John Frye were chosen a committee for to discourse the ferrying map
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namely Swan's Ferry man and Bodwell's Ferry man for to see why Andover people may not pass said ferries over to Methuen at the same price as Methuen people thus pass said ferries, bringing the terms of the said Ferrymen to Andover.
At the same town meeting, it was voted and passed that the selectmen of the said town should prefer a petition to the General Court that the said town of Andover may have the privilege of having such an accomodation or pro- portion of lands laid out for the use of their school and other towns in this province have.
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At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders of the town of Andover convened on the 4th of November 1734, Sgt. John Johnson was chosen moderator l'or the said town meeting.
John Johnson, Thomas Chandler, Jr., and Ephriam Abbott was chosen a committee for to sue the town of Wilmington for neglecting and refusing the perambulating the line between their town and Andover, as Andover and Woburn formerly perambu- lated between Woburn and Andover. The major part of said committee shall have as full power Ło prosecutes said cause in the civil law as the whole committee. The cost and the charges of the prosecution of the aforementioned cause to be supported by the said town of Andover, the said committee laying their cost before the said town for their approbation.
At a lawful annual town meeting of the town of Andover convened on the 3rd day of March 1734/5, Capt. Timothy Johnson was chosen moderator for said town meeting.
Benjamin Stevens was chosen Town Clerk for the ensuing year.
At the abovesaid town meeting, it was voted and passed that the swine shall and may go at large the ensuing year if yoked and ringed as the law directs.
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At the town's annual town meeting dated on the other side of this leaf, At the said town meeting, it was voted and passed, that is to sav granted, that the selectmen levy about one hundred pounds on the said town for to defray the said town's charges for the ensuing year.
At the same tom meeting, it was voted and passed that the selectmen shall prefer (?) a by-law to the court of sessions in reference to the preservation of the increase of the "alewives" and that the selectmen shall take care that the brooks and the rivers be cleared for the passage of the "alewives" course in Andover at the town's charge.
Voted and passed that the high ways shall be made, mended and maintained the ensuing year as in some years past, and that there shall be about ninety pounds levied on the said town for the ends of aforesaid.
At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders of the town of Andover convened on the 24th of March 1734/5, Maj. John Osgood was chosen moderator for said town meeting.
At the said town meeting, Deacon John Farnum was chosen selectman for the ensuing year. Said Farnum was chosen selectman in the room of Sgt. John Johnson, which was chosen selectman on our annual town meeting on the 3rd of this inst. March, said Johnson refusing to take his oath. At the same town meeting, it was voted and passed that ixxxkm town sold ye their blockhouse in Shawsheen by the Merrimack River, Sgt. John Anderson for twenty shillings.
At the said town meeting, Hannaniah Barker was chosen constable for the year ensuing, the said Hannaniah Barker paid five pounds and so was dismissed from serving as constable for the year ensuing.
At the same town meeting, Ebenezer Osgood was chosen constable for the ensuing year.
At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders of the town of Andover convened on the 28th of April 1735, Capt. John Chandler was chosen moderator for said town meeting.
Joseph Robinson was chosen an assessor to be added to the selectmen to take a list of the polls and real and personal estate in said Andover and likewise, Capt. John Chandler was chosen for the same service.
At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Andover convened on the 14th day of May 1735, Capt. John Chandler was chosen moderator for said meeting.
It was voted to see whether the town would allow the jury of trials any pay for their services attending the court and it passed in the negative.
At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants in the town of Andover convened on the 13th day of June 1735, Lt. John Frye was chosen mabrator for said meeting.
At the same town meeting, said town dismissed Mr. Thomas Chandler, Jr. Mr. John Johnson and Mr. Ephriam Abbott that were chosen a committee on the 4th of November 1734 for to sue Wilmington. Said persons were dismissed from said service and then the meeting was dissolved.
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At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Andover convened on the 27th day of August 1735, Capt. John Chandler was chosen moderator for the said town meeting.
Voted and passed that it was the mind of the town that the County of Essex may be divided into two counties.
Voted that Mr. Thomas Chandler, said town's representative, was chosen to prefer a petition for Andover to the general Court for the division of the said County of Essex.
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At said Town Meeting, it was put to vote to see if the Town would accept of Jonothan Pierson and so many of his family as were warned out of said Tow to be received in again and it passed on the affirmative.
It was voted and passed that the road laid out through the pine swamp should be nulad so far as to leave Oliver Holt sufficient room to come upon his land.
It was voted and passed that the road laid out by the selectmen from Josiah Holt's to Benjamin Holt's should be accepted by said Town upon these conditions that the said way that was nuled should pay for the way laid out by the select- men and also that Cornet Henry Holt and Josiah Holt are to make a sufficient stone wall om half of the way on each side of the way upon their own cost and this road not to be improved until the wall be made.
Oliver Holt, James Russell and Thomas Russell, we enter our dosent against throwing up the road through the pino swamp from James Russell's to John Holt's any of such road.
At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the Town of Andover convened on the 14th day of May 1739. John Osgood, Esq., was chosen Moderator for said meeting. It was voted and passed that there should be 150 lbs. of money raised for the defraying of said Tom's necessary charges, as present here.
At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the Town of Andover convened on the 30th day of November 1739.
John Osgood, Esq., was chosen Moderator for said meeting.
Sgt. Samuel Phelps, Samuel Poore were chosen to prosecute those that shall transgress the court act that was made for the preservation and increase of the deer.
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At a lawful annual town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitance of the Town of Andover convened on the 3rd of March 1739/40.
John Osgood, Esq., was chosen Moderator for said meeting.
It was voted and passed that there should be about 100 1bs. raised for de- fraying the said town's charges for the ensuing year.
It was voted and passed that the said Town's highways should be mended and maintained as they were the last year.
It was voted and passed that there should be about 150 lbs. raised for de- fraying the charges of mending the said Town's highways the ensuing year.
The said town meeting was adjourned unto the 17th day of this inst. month 12 of the clock in said day.
At said town meeting it was voted and passed that swine shall and may go at large on the common = the ensuing year if yoked and ringed, according as the law directs.
It was voted and passed that the selectmen should take care that the fish courses should be cleared so that the fish called "alewives" may have free course up and down = turn over
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At said town meeting it was put to a vote to see if the town would accept of the way laid out by the selectmen fromTimothy Farnum's along by John parrington's, Thomas Farnum Jr., and Moses Peabody's to Middleton and it passed on the affirmative.
It was put to a vote to see if the town would accept of the way laid out by the selectmen from David Abbott's road by Benjamin Astin's to Timothy Stevens' and it passed on the affirmative.
It was put to a vote to see if the town would accept of the way laid out by the selectmen from Lt. Nathaniel Frye's to the way that goes by Henry Gray's barn and it passed on the affirmative.
It was put to a vote to see if the town would accept the way laid out by the selectmen from Thomas Holt's house to the south meetinghouse and it passed on the affirmative.
It was put to a vote to see if the town would accept of the way laid out by the selectmen from the road that goes by the saw mill to John Barrington's to Salem Road near the bridge over Boston Brook by Daniel Kimball Jr.â and it passed on the negative.
It was put to a vote to see if the town would accept of the way laid out by the selectmen from Bradford Road to John Barker Jr. and it passed on the negative.
It was put to a vote to see if the town would allow anything for the main- tenance of the Widow Nickalls and it passed on the negative.
It was put to a vote to see if the tomwould allow the easterly part of the tom their part of schooling and money. It passed in the negative.
At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitance of the town convened on the 14th of May 1740.
John Osgood, Esq., was chosen Moderator for said meeting.
Deacon John Farnum and Capt. John Chandler were chosen a committee to search the proprietors' book to see if Mr. Samuel Osgood had any allowance made
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to him for a way laid out through his land which leads to Mr. Swan's ferry and to make return of their doings at or before the next annual town meeting, and if they can find no allowance made him toward the way, to see what allowance he ought to have.
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At a lawful annual town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitance of the Town of Andover convened on the 2nd of March 1740/41.
John Osgood Esq. was chosen Moderator for said town meeting.
As mentioned at the beginning of this typed copy, the list of officers chosen by the Town Meeting is recorded each year but has not been trans- scribed and is not of general interest. However, the complete list will be copied for this one year to show the number and variety of the Town Officials chosen at this particular date.
Benjamin Stevens was chosen Town Clerk for the ensuing year.
Ens. Ebenezer Osgood, Timothy Ballard, Ebenezer Stevens, Henry Abbott, and James Ingalls were chosen Selectmen for the year ensuing.
Noah Marble and Clerk Ebenezer Abbott were chosen Constables for the year ensuing. It not being 7 years since Noah Marble was Collector, ye Town could not make him serve as Constable.
Joshua Frie was chosen Town Treasurer for the year ensuing.
Abiel Stevens was chosen Clerk of the Market for the year ensuing.
Mr. Ebenezer Abbott paid 5 lbs. of money and was dismissed as serving as Constable the ensuing year.
Mr. Robert Swan paid 5 lbs. of money and was dismissed as serving as Con- stable the ensuing year.
Mr. Philemon Chandler and Henry Ingalls were chosen Constables for ye en- suing year and were sworn to ye faithful discharge of their office.
Sgt. John Willson, Joe Marble, Nathaniel Dane, Samuel Osgood, John Kemble, Josiah Ballard, Josiah Blanchard, Capt. Joseph Sibson (?), Steven Abbott, Cornet Henry Holt, Barachias Abbott, Timothy Moore, Jebadiah Abbott, Samuel
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Chickering, Jonothan Farnum, David Abbott, James Bridges, Timothy Farnum, Capt. John Chandler, Samuel Frie, Christopher Carleton, Joseph Robinson, John Holt, David Blunt; these were all chosen surveyors for the ensuing year.
Joseph Faulkner was chosen leather sealer for the year ensuing.
Uriah Abbott, Joseph Faulkner, Sherebiah Ballard, John Abbot Jr., were chosen fenceviewers for ye year ensuing.
Jacob Tyler and David Abbott were chosen Surveyors for the year ensuing. John Peters and Joseph Abbott were chosen poundkeepers for the ensuing year.
Peter Pevey, Abiel Frie, Asa Foster, William Osgood, Timothy Abbott, Joseph Foster, were chosen Tything for the ensuing year.
Jacob Tyler, James Allin, Solomon Martin, David Blin, Nathan Chandler, Ephraim Holt, Joseph Blanchard, Joshua Foster, Joseph Russell, were chosen - fielddrivers for the ensuing year.
Daniel Kimball Jr., Benjamin Stevens Jr., Timothy Clark, Benjamin Holt, Nicholas Holt Jr., Thomas Blanchard Jr., Samuel Peters, Samuel Farnum Jr., were chosen hograives for the ensuing year.
John Foster Jr. and Samuel Lovejoy were chosen to prosecute those that killed deer contrary to the court act for the ensuing year.
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At said town meeting it was voted and passed that there should be about 100 lbs. of money raised for defraying the town's charges for the ensuing year.
It was voted and passed that there should be about 200 lbs. raised for de- highways
fraying the charges of mending said town's/ the ensuing year.
It was voted and passed that swine shall and may go at large the ensuing year if yoked and ringed as the law directs.
Ens. Ebenezer Osgood, Samuel Astin Jr., Moses Haget Jr., and Timothy Moore were chosen to clear the fish courses in the town the ensuing year.
It was voted to see if the town would discontinue or lay down a tom or private road from Joseph Parker's pasture to the tail of the great pond and it passed on the negative.
It was voted to see if the town would allow Mr. Henry Gray and other petitioners their proportional part of schooling and it passed in the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the town would chues a committee and leave it with them to agree with Mr. Samuel Osgood and bring their return to the town for the approbation and it passed in the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the selectmen should be a committee to agree with Mr. Samuel Osgood and it passed on the affirmative and to bring their return to the town for their approbation.
It was voted to see if the town would allow Ebenezer Stevens liberty to set up two gates on the road between his house and Samuel Barker Jr.'s house and it passed on the negative.
Sgt. Daniel Moore and Sgt. Hezekiah Ballard were chosen to take care and clean the fish course in Shawsheen River so that the fish may have a free passage up into the ponds.
it a lawful tom meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitance of the town of Andover convened on the 14th day of May 1741.
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Capt. Timothy Johnson was chosen Moderator for said town meeting.
At said town meeting it was voted and passed that Mr. Samuel Osgood should receive 20 pounds, five pounds of money, of the town of Andover when said Osgood shall open the road through his land that leads to Swan's Ferry and continue it to be kept open.
It was voted and passed that the town should support our present Town Treasurer and serving some of our former Constables that were delinquent into the Town Treasury.
At said town meeting Sgt. Samuel Phelps was chosen Surveyor in the rome of Capt. John Chandler, Late of Andover, deceased, who was chosen a Surveyor.
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At a lawful annual town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitance of the town of Andover convened on the 1st of March 1741/2.
Capt. Timothy Johnson was chosen Moderator for said meeting.
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It was voted to see if the town would raise 150 pounds for the defraying of said town's necessary charges for the year ensuing and it passed on the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the Town would mend the highways as in some years past and it passed on the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the Town would raise 200 pounds for the defraying of the charges of the said town's highways for the year ensuing and passed on the affirmative.
It was voted that man and their teams should be allowed for their labor on the highways as the last year.
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At said tom meeting it voted to see if swine may go on the common the year ensuing if youked and ringed as the law directs and it passed on the affirmative. Henry Ens. Ebenezer Osgood, Sgt. William Osgood, Abbott, Benjamin Moore, Thomas Abbott, Asa Foster were chosen to take care that the fish called "alewives" may have a free passage up into the ponds the year ensuing.
John Foster, Joseph Russell, Thomas Phelps, were chosen to take care and pro- secute those that shall kill deer "contrary to the court act the year ensuing.
It was voted to see if the town would allow Mr. Philemon Chandler fiveteen shillings for carrying a woman out of our town to Bradford and it passed on the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the town would allow of the ways laid out by the select- men last year and it passed on the affirmative.
Joseph Abbott and John Peters were chosen Poundkeepers for the year ensuing.
At a lawful town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitance of the town of Andover convened on the 24th day of January 1742/3.
Capt. Timothy Johnson was chosen Moderator for said meeting.
It was voted to see if the town would accept those men that were drawn up by the committee to serve as jurors on the Seupariour Court and also on the Inferiour Court and it passed on the affirmative.
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At a lawful annual town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitance of the town of Andover convened on the 7th day of March 1742/3.
John Osgood Esq. was chosen Moderator, for said meeting.
It was voted to see if the town would choose four Constables for the year en- suing and it passed on the affirmative.
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At said annual town meeting it was voted to see if swine may go at large on the common if yoaked and ringed as the law directs and it passed on the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the town would raise 150 pounds an old tenor or new tenor equivalent for defraying the said tom's necessary charges for the year ensuing and it passed on the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the town would raise 200 pounds old tenor or new tenor equivalent for defraying the charges of mending said town's highways for the year ensuing and it passed on the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the town would mend their highways as in some years past and it passed on the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the town would accept of a way or road that was laid out by the selectmen that leads from Jebadiah Chandlers' to Samuel Lovejoy's, John Foster's and Asa Foster's in gauging to defend said Town from any charge arising from Timothy Moore and it passed on the affirmative.
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It was voted to see if the town would accept of a road that leads from the Barrington's saw mill and so leads to the road that goes to Salem and it passed on the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the town would accept of a driftroad laid out through Samuel Sesson's land to Ebenezer Stevens' wildcat plain and it passed on the neg- ative.
It was voted to see if the town would accept of a private or drift way begin- ning at pond meadow dam and so on. It passed on the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the town would allow money to be drawn out of the Town Treasury to buy plank for the bridges by Ballard's Mill and it passed on the negative.
It was voted to see if the town would answer John Foster's petition and it passed on the negative.
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It was voted to see if the Town would alter a road formerly laid out from Ephraim Abbott's to Allen's Meadow from an open road to a driftway and it passed in the negative. Joseph Foster was
excused from serving as Constable the year ensuing.
David Blunt was chosen Constable in said Foster's room for year ensuing. Said tom meeting was adjourned to the 22nd day of said inst. month to 9:00 on the clock in the forenoon.
met The town i ye day it was adjourned to and the meeting was dissolved.
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At a lawful annual town meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitance of the Town of Andover convened on the 5th day of March 1743/4, John Osgood Esq. was chosen Moderator for said town meeting.
It was voted and passed that swine may go on the common the year ensuing if yoked and ringed as the law directs.
Samuel Ashton, Jr., Sgt. John Johnson, Samuel Phelps Jr., Hezekiah Ballard, were chosen to clear the courses in Andover for the fish called "alewives" the year ensuing.
David Abbott and Timothy Chandler were chosen to prosecute all those who killed deer contrary to the Court Act the year ensuing.
It was voted to see if the Town would raise 200 pounds old tenor for defray- ing the town's necessary charges for the year ensuing and it passed on the af- firmative.
It was voted to see if the town would # mend their highways as in some years past and it passed on the affirmative.
It was voted to see if the tom would raise 200 pounds old tenor to mend their highways the year ensuing and it passed on the affirmative.
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At said town meeting, Capt. Timothy Johnson, Capt. James Stevens, and Ens. James Ingalls were chosen a committee to join with a committee from Boxford to settle a bound and line between Andover and Boxford near John Peabody's, there being a dispute and to take a plan at said line and this committee are to per- ambulate the line from Middleton to Bradford between Andover and Boxford and to take a plan of said bounds.
Capt. Samuel Frye, Capt. Timothy Johnson, Sgt. John Johnson, were chosen a committee to view the claypits near Miller's Meadow by Mr. Robert Swans land to the town at the next town meeting.
Ye said meeting was adjourned the 15th day of said month at 10 of ye clock in the forenoon and the town met on the abovesaid day
At said town meeting, it was voted to see if the town would make a fish course through, by, or around the dam called Ballard's Mill Dam and it passed on the negative.
Asa Foster and Joseph Abbott were chosen poundkeepers for the year ensuing. It said town meeting, it was voted to see if the town would accept of a way laid out by the selectmen to Shawsheen Field and it passed in the negative. tard It was voted to see if the town would accept of a way out by the selectmen beginning near James Farnum's and laid out to a road that leads from Henry Ingalls' to Solomon Martin's and it passed on the affirmative, and it was also voted to see if the town would accept of a way laid out through Ebenezer Fisk's land to ye way that was laid through Francis Ingalls' land and it passed in the affirmative.
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