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Seven years before the North Parish was made a sep- arate town the assessors of Sutton put into the hands of one of their highway surveyors a paper on which names appear that are largely those of North Parish people. The amount of each person's tax was also given (on the back of the paper). The paper was as follows:
"To Mr. Ezekiel Marsh, one of the Surveyors of highways for the town of Sutton, the present year, Greeting-The within is a list of assessments upon the polls and estates of the persons therein named each his proportion of fifteen hundred dollars, being the highway tax the present year, which you are to collect and expend in Labor and materials to repair the roads and bridges within your limits. Two-thirds thereof in June, and the remainder in August next. And you will allow seventy-five cents per day for a man, fifty cents for a yoke of oxen, and twenty-five cents for a cart.
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"And make return of this list to us the subscribers by the first day of Sept. next.
"Given under our hands this 23rd day of May, 1806.
JOSIAH STILES ASA PUTNAM JONAS SIBLEY
Assessors of Sutton."
The following are the names found on the list of the first tax payers in Millbury, 1813.
John Adams
Caleb Burbank
Senaca Aldrich
Abijah Burnap
Timothy Allen
Cyrus Burnap
Asa Andrews
Ebenezer Burnap (Ward)
Timothy Burnap, Jr.
Lyman T. Ball Asa Baker
Silas Carlton
Joshua Carter
Rufus Carter
John Case
Jacob Chamberlain
Reuben Barton
Nahum W. Chamberlain
Reuben Barton, Jr.
Tyler Chamberlain
Rufus Barton Amos Bigelow
Abel Chase for Jonas Bond, heir
David Bixby
David P. Chase
Samuel Bixby
Jonas Chase
Simon Bixby Amos Blake Abiather Blanchard
Joshua Chase Paul C. Chase
John B. Blanchard
Calvin Clemons
John B. Blanchard & Co.
Martin Craw
Samuel Blanchard
Prentice W. Cushing
Thomas Blanchard Isaac Bond Leonard Bond Oliver Bond Amasa Braman Moses Dunton Lemuel Briggs Amariah Brigham Charles V.Sol.Brigham (Grafton) Moses Dwinnel
Rowland Danford David Dudley John Dudley
Abraham Dwinnel John Dwinnel
John Brigham, (Grafton) Simeon Dwinnel Solomon Dwinnel Moses Brigham William Brigham, (Grafton) Josiah Brown Joseph Eager William Brown, for Goodell land Sarah Eager, widow William Brown, Jr. Abijah Burbank
Samuel Eaton Amos Eddy
Daniel Armsby
Benjamin Bancroft Joseph Bancroft Stephen Bartlett (Dudley)
Abel Chase
Thomas Chase
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Silas Eddy Andrew Elliot Andrew Elliot, Jr. David Elliot Carter Elliot
Joel Fay Joseph Farnsworth Simon Farnsworth Simon Farnsworth & Co. (Wor- Pearley Holman cester) Benjamin Fish Galannus Fish
Benjamin Flagg & S. Hayward Francis Flagg Joel Flagg Ebenezer Follinsby Jesse Foster Artemus Furness Olando Furness
Israel Jacobs, (Ward) John Jacobs (Ward) John Jacobs
Thomas Kendall, Jr. Asa Kenney
Nathan Kenney (Connecticut)
Daniel Kidder
Peter Kidder (Oxford)
William Knight
Jeremiah Learned
Phineas Longley Ezra Lovell Ezra Lovell, Jr. Moses Lovell
Asa Goodell, Jr.
Asa Goodell, for B. Eager, land Solomon Marble
Jacob Goodnough Jonathan Gould
Hannah March Jacob March
Nahan March
Samuel March
Tyrus March
Ezekiel Marsh
Jonathan Muzzy
William Hale William Hale, 2d Henry B. Harback Joseph Hastings John Haven Henry Haynes Hartwell Hayward
Joseph Hayward Jonathan Henry John Hinds Aaron Holman Elijah Holman Eliphalet & Sim. Holman
Jacob Holman John Holman (Ward) Jonathan Holman
Alfred Hood, for Bond farm Alfred Hood Jabez Hull William Hull
Jonas Gale, 2d Jonas Gale
Jotham Gale Nehemiah Gale Benjamin Goddard Joseph Goddard (Grafton)
Pearley Goddard (Grafton) Asa Goodell, for Joshua Goodell, (heirs) Asa Goodell
Stephen Gould James Greenwood Joseph Griggs Joseph Griggs & Co. Jonathan Grout
Sullivan Newton
Job Packard Aaron Park Hervey Park John Park John Park, 2d
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Lucy Park Moses Park Rufus Parker Azor Phelps Aaron Pierce Amos Pierce Amos Pierce, Jr. John Pierce Thomas Pope Josiah S. Prentice Tartius Prentice Silas Putnam
Daniel Rice Ebenezer Richardson Jonathan Richardson Parma Richardson Moses Robbins William Robbins Benjamin Rugg
Curtis Searles Titus N. Shepard (Dudley) Rufus Sibley Stephen Sibley Zadok Sibley
Aaron Small Samuel Small Antipas Smith Dudley Smith John Smith Pascal P. Spear Stiles Stearns Josiah Stiles John Stockwell
Abijah Tainter Abijah Tainter, Jr.
Joel Tainter Stephen Tainter Daniel Tenney & Co. John Tisdale
Joseph Torrey Aaron Trask Azubah Trask, widow
Jonathan Trask
Charles Tucker
David Wait
Joshua Wait
Rufus Wait
Jonathan Walker
Asa Waters
Asa Waters, Jr.
Buckley Waters
Elijah Waters
Elijah Waters, 2d
Samuel Waters
Simeon Waters
Artemas Week
Joel Wesson
William Wesson (Worcester)
Hugh Wilson
Paul Wheelock
Reuben Wheelock (Grafton)
J. Whipple, Pelham
Elijah Waters & Co.
Elijah Waters, for March heirs
Jonathan Waters
John Waters
Nathaniel Waters
Rufus Whipple
Solomon Whipple
Amasa & Asa Wood
Josiah Woodward
Gardner Wright
AARON PIERCE SIMEON WATERS JONATHAN GROUT Assessors of Millbury, 1813- True valuation about $191,033
The following weather records, taken from notes made by Elijah Waters of West Millbury, give us some idea
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of weather conditions in the period that marked the be- ginning and the early development of the town.
1801. June 6. Frost destroyed brakes in the lowlands.
July 1. Water was remarkably high in the Spring and low in the Fall.
1802. Singletary Pond was open until the last of January. At that time snow fell with little cessation until it was three feet deep on the level.
Spring was cold and dry until the fifteenth of May, then it was cold and wet.
June 24. Apple-trees were in full bloom.
1803. Mar. 22. Plowing on dry land.
May 9. Rain fell for twelve hours after which snow fell very fast. Winter rye was twelve inches high and apple trees were in bloom. The rye and snow were frozen together and in the apple-trees the blossoms were full of ice.
May 10. Sleds and sleighs were in use.
1804. Apr. 19. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
1805. Apr. 1. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
June 9. A heavy rain fell after which it did not rain but an hour and a half until the first of August. The weather continued to be hot during this time.
Dec. 24. The first snow fell.
1806. May 23. Severe frost which killed clover leaves.
1807. Apr. 19. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond. Old snow-
banks were to be seen.
1808. Mar. 24. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
1809. Apr. 12. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
1810. Nov. 2. Very cold. Severe snow-storm continued for thirteen hours during which about ten inches of snow fell.
1811. Mar. 23. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
1812. Apr. 18. Plowing was begun.
Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
Apr. 19. Old snow-banks were to be seen.
May 4. A snow-storm continued for twenty-five hours during which twelve inches of snow fell, some remaining until the eleventh.
May 29. First warm day of Spring.
Sept. 22 & 23. Frost came that killed uncut cornstalks.
1813. Apr. 10. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
1814. Apr. 4. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
1815. Apr. 1. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
Sept. 18. A great number of hawks and eagles passed from the east to the west flying very high and forming a pro- cession which reached as far as the eye could see in each direction.
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Sept. 23. A warm wind arose with a force sufficient to blow down and break off the stoutest trees and in some places whole lots were levelled.
1816. Mar. 16. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
June 7. Very cold. Water froze in troughs and tubs and people wore full winter clothing with great coats and mittens.
June 10. Heavy frost, in many places destroyed Indian corn to the ground.
Sept. 26 & 27. Heavy frost, killed Indian corn in the milk.
1817. Apr. 11. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
June 1. Water froze in troughs and tubs.
June 14. Singletary Pond was as low as it has ever been known to be.
Sept. 30. Frost killed Indian corn.
1818. Apr. 5. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
1819. Feb. 11. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
Mar. 29. Snow was two feet deep.
Apr. 8. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond for the second time.
1820. Feb. 10. Snow was three feet deep on the level. Apr. 7. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
Oct. Cider was worth fifty cents a barrel.
1821. Apr. 6. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond. Apr. 18. Men and teams were out breaking paths in the snow which was fifteen inches deep on the level in the woods.
1822. Mar. 21. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
1823. Mar. 30. Wind blew violently from the northeast. Snow began to fall about four o'clock in the afternoon and continued with great violence for twenty hours so that it was about twenty inches deep.
Apr. 7. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
Apr. 19. Snow fell fast during the forenoon.
1824. Mar. 20. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
May 14. Very cold wind blew, with squalls of snow, so that full winter clothing was needed.
May 26. Water froze in troughs as thick as window glass. 1825. Mar. 23. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
May 2. For four hours it snowed fast. Peach trees were in full bloom and grass in spots was high enough to wave. 1826. The Winter past was open with some light snows but not sufficient for good sleighing. It snowed or rained every day during the two last days of February and the first ten days of March.
Mar. 16. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
May 14. The thermometer registered six degrees above Summer heat.
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June 1. Apple-trees were in full bloom.
June 23. About two in the afternoon a slight shock of earthquake was felt.
Sept. 15. Frost bit corn badly and destroyed other crops. Oct. 4. The ground froze and ice, one-half an inch thick, formed on water
Nov. 30. No snow on the ground. So warm that it does not freeze at night.
1838. Apr. 6. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
Aug. 1. Dry weather. Singletary Pond was low.
Sept. 4. A north-east storm has caused more rain to fall than had fallen at any one time previously for a year past. Oct. 31. The night was so cold that water in the barns froze.
Nov. 29. Thanksgiving Day. Singletary Pond was frozen over.
1839. January. Moderate, fair and pleasant until the 23rd. Then the mercury dropped from twenty-eight degrees above at ten in the forenoon to ten degrees below zero by ten at night.
Jan. 24. The mercury registered fifteen degrees below zero in the morning.
February. Remarkably pleasant month.
Mar. 3. Very cold.
Mar. 4. In the morning the thermometer registered two degrees above zero.
Mar. 8. Birds and striped squirrels were out.
Mar. 18. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond. The water was low.
Apr. 12. Heavy rainfall. Singletary Pond rose two feet in eighteen hours.
Apr. 17. A foot of snow fell.
Aug. 19. At four P. M. the mercury registered ninety degrees.
Aug. 23. The mercury registered from ninety-five to ninety-eight degrees.
Aug. 30. In the forenoon the mercury registered fifty-two degrees.
Nov. 29. Singletary Pond froze over. The thermometer registered fourteen degrees above.
Dec. 1. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
Dec. 3. First snow fell but it went off during the following day.
Dec. 13. A violent snow storm raged so that the snow was two feet deep. Great damage was done at sea and along the coast, many lives being lost and much property destroyed.
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Dec. 19. Singletary Pond froze over for the second time -- a remarkable occurrence.
Dec. 27. Another violent snowstorm which did great damage to shipping and cost many lives. These storms exceed any within recollection for waste of life and property.
Dec. 30. Snow fell until it was thirty inches deep. In the county of Berkshire snow was three, four, five, six and in some places even fifteen feet deep. Some houses were almost buried.
1840. January. Commenced cold.
Jan. 2. The mercury registered five degrees below zero.
Jan. 16. Six degrees below zero.
Jan. 17. Ten degrees below zero.
Jan. 18. Six degrees below zero.
Feb. 4. Four degrees below zero.
Feb. 5. Ten degrees below zero.
Feb. 24. From Dec. 13th to this date the winter is thought to have been the hardest that has occurred since 1780.
Mar. 8. The mercury registered zero.
Mar. 10. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond.
Mar. 12. Singletary Pond froze over for the third time during the Winter.
Apr. 1. About ten inches of snow fell.
May 18. The mercury registered ninety-two degrees.
June 29. The mercury registered ninety degrees.
July 16. The mercury registered ninety-two degrees.
Oct. 27. At sunrise the mercury registered twenty-seven degrees.
Dec. 4. Singletary Pond froze over.
1841. Jan. 5. The mercury registered eighteen degrees below zero.
Jan. 7. The mercury rose to thirty-five degrees above zero. In thirty-six hours Singletary Pond rose two and one-half feet.
Apr. 2. Ice broke up in Singletary Pond, all going out in a single day.
Apr. 16. Rain fell and continued until the 27th.
May 2. Six inches of snow fell.
May 3. The ground was frozen hard.
1842. January. Began pleasant and continued so until its close. The winter was the warmest within recollection without a single day of good sleighing. Singletary Pond froze over four times, the first being the middle of November, and the ice broke up for the last time about the first of March.
August. Rain fell on every day but one until the 19th.
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CHAPTER VI ANNALS 1813-1830
THE FIRST TOWN MEETING.
Pursuant to the act of incorporation an application, signed by Gen. Caleb Burbank, Ezra Lovell, Samuel Bixby, Jacob Chamberlain, Solomon Marble, Asa Waters, Jr., Jonathan Trask, Josiah S. Prentice, Simon Waters, Stephen Blanchard, and Capt. Azor Phelps, dated the 12th day of June, 1813, was presented to Aaron Peirce, Esq., Justice of the Peace, who issued a warrant directing Mr. Samuel Waters to call a meeting of the inhabitants of the town on the first day of July, following, in the Congregational Meeting-house at one o'clock, P. M.
At the meeting so-called Capt. Azor Phelps was chosen moderator for the new town of Millbury; Aaron Peirce was elected town clerk; Lieut. Asa Goodell, Capt. Azor Phelps, deacon Solomon Marble, Capt. Reuben Barton, Jr., and Lieut. James Greenwood were elected selectmen; Samuel Waters, treasurer; Aaron Peirce, Simeon Waters, and Jonathan Grout, assessors. It was "voted that the taxes be set up to the lowest bidder, with the understand- ing that whoever bid them off, i. e., offered to collect the taxes for the smallest compensation, should be chosen constable if he could procure sureties.
Therefore Alfred Hood, who bid for the collecting of taxes at the rate of three cents on the dollar, was chosen constable.
The first highway surveyors chosen were Capt. Amasa Wood, Curtis Searles, Jonathan Muzzy, Moses Brigham, Jonathan Gale, Jr., Samuel Waters, Josiah S. Prentice, Josiah Brown and Joel Wesson. Jonathan Richards was chosen tythingman.
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A few days before the incorporation of Millbury, Thomas Blanchard published the following advertisement:
"For clothiers-The subscriber having obtained a patent for a machine called the Horizontal or Circular Vibrating machine, for shearing woolen cloth, would inform clothiers in general, that he has for two years past, built and vended those machines in Vermont, New York and Connecticut. He is now building and keeps constantly on hand in Sutton, North Parish, where they may be obtained on trial, for two or three months, and, if ap- proved, can be bought for seventy-five dollars. The simplicity and utility of this machine may be discovered from the following recomendations from Simeon Waters, one recomendation from Abijah Walker, Hanover, N. H., and one from Samuel Northrup Clother, Castleton, Vt. A handsome reward will be paid to any person that will give any information of infringments."
(signed) THOMAS BLANCHARD, Patentee.
Sutton, June 1.
Boots and shoes were made in Millbury in its natal year for Orlando Furness advertised for a boot and shoe maker.
Thomas Pope, a lawyer, had his law office near the meeting-house.
Regimental reviews of the 7th Div. Mass. Militia, 1st and 2d Brigades of Artillery and Cavalry, were ordered by Gen. Caleb Burbank. Gardiner Burbank and Rejoice Newton were chosen as aids to General Burbank.
Joseph Farnsworth, Esq., was elected Brig. Gen. of the 1st Brigade of the 7th Div. of Mass. Militia.
At a town-meeting, held Aug. 23, it was "voted to raise Millbury's proportion of the one thousand dollars which had been voted by Sutton for schools previous to the separation." This amounted to three hundred sixty-five dollars. On Sept. 13th, to which the meeting wa's adjourned the town "voted to raise for the support of the poor and other town charges, seven hundred dollars"; and for the Rev. Mr. Goffe, "four hundred dollars for the present year, in lieu of the sum voted by Sutton at their annual town-meeting."
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1814
January. Asa Goodell retired from the firms of S. Farnsworth & Co. and Elijah Waters & Co.
March 7. At the town-meeting William Hull was chosen moderator and Aaron Peirce, town clerk. It was "voted that horses and cattle shall not go at large without a permit from the selectmen."
April 4. At a town meeting held to vote for state officers, Caleb Strong received, for governor, one hundred and nineteen votes and Samuel Dexter forty-six.
May 2. Lieut. Asa Goodell was chosen by fifty votes as the first representative to the General Court.
At a town meeting at which Gen. Joseph Farnsworth was chosen moderator it was "voted to raise for schools this year three hundred seventy dollars; for Rev. Joseph Goffe four hundred dollars."
Asa Waters and Luther Whitmore retired from the firm of Elijah Waters & Co., which continued under the man- agement of Elijah Waters and Joseph Farnsworth.
July 29. Deacon Elijah Waters, oldest son of deacon Asa Waters and for many years at the head of the gun and scythe factory in Millbury, died at the age of forty- seven. His industry and mechanical skill had contributed to make the business very successful.
October. Simon and Joseph Farnsworth, surviving partners of the firm of Waters and Farnsworth, dissolved and the business was continued by Jacobs and Farnsworth.
November 7. The "inhabitants met at the meeting- house and voted for congressman. All who had a freehold estate of the annual income of ten dollars, or any estate of the value of two hundred dollars, and had resided in town the year last past, were allowed to vote." The Hon. Elijah Brigham, of Westboro, had ninety-four votes and John Spurr sixteen.
Maj. Gen. Burbank announced that Gardiner Burbank had been appointed as division inspector in the militia and that he should be obeyed accordingly.
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John Waters was in business as a wool-carder.
It was "voted to have the bell tolled upon the death of any of the inhabitants."
1815
In January the following notice was posted :-
"To be sold at auction :- The undivided half of the real estate of Dea. Elijah Waters, rolling and slitting mill, with the dams and water privileges, 1 gun factory, a saw and mill, iron factory and a trip-hammer shop, with land and water privileges, annealing shop, a forge shop, a hardening shop with coal houses, Sibley house, land and steel furnace thereon, the Wright house, hay scales, office and shop for depositing iron, land and buildings occupied by Joseph Farnsworth and one third part of the saw mill, a complete set of tools for said shops, all in Millbury.
(signed) SIMON FARNSWORTH, Executor."
March 6. General Burbank was chosen moderator of the town-meeting. Among the tythingmen chosen was Martin Craw, but it does not appear that he was sworn. Thomas Blanchard, Capt. Joseph Bancroft and Aaron Trask were chosen field-drivers. Stephen Blanchard, Dr. Amasa Braman, Dr. Wm. M. Benedict, Samuel Waters, Capt. Asa Goodell, Josiah S. Prentice, and Josiah Stiles, Esq., were chosen a committee on schools.
July. A sale of all the personal property of Gen. Joseph Farnsworth at and about the gun factory took place at the Tavern of S. Farnsworth. This constituted his right in equity.
October. There was an auction of the property of Elijah Waters, deceased. Asa Waters, 2d, was in posses- sion of one-half of the shops, mills, etc. Simon Farns- worth, the executor of the estate, stated that Mr. Waters was fully capable of superintending the whole establish- ment, and was a desirable partner for anyone who might purchase.
1816
May 6. The town "voted that Thomas Kendall, Jr., have leave to draw his school-money and carry it to Ox-
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ford" (where his children probably went to school). Dr. Amasa Braman was chosen representative to the General Court.
August 26. The town voted to pay the bills, amounting to twenty-three dollars and twenty-six cents, exhibited by John Goodell and Simon Farnsworth for refreshment given to those persons who searched for Mr. Packard's children.
Dana A. Braman and Wm. M. Benedict formed a partnership and dealt in English and West India goods at the store formerly occupied by Dr. Asa Braman by the Old Common.
"The Millbury Rolling Mill Co." (situated near the dam on the Cordis property) whose business was the rolling and slitting of iron were dealers in nail-plates and rods. The company consisted of Josiah Prentice, Martin Craw, Aaron Trask, Wm. Brown, Jr., and Amasa Braman.
The latter was agent of the company. Their adver- tisement announced that the "Millbury Rolling Mill Co. have machines for cutting and heading nails. It keeps cut nails and brads."
This "Rolling Mill lot" contained about two acres and lay north of the Blackstone River just below a saw-mill that was then standing. It embraced the dam and part of the canal now owned by the Cordis Mills. Through the property ran the road to Grafton and also the canal which conducted water to the mills of Asa Goodell and Trask & Co. farther east on the present Cordis property.
A tanyard was advertised for sale by the late firm of Capt. J. Grigg & Co.
1817
March 3, at the annual town-meeting, Asa Waters, Esq., was chosen as moderator; Dea. John Peirce, Rufus Barton, Maj. Josiah Woodard, Capt. Daniel Rice and Gen. Caleb Burbank, selectmen; Josiah Stiles, Josiah S. Prentice and Elijah Waters, assessors; and John B. Blanchard tything- man, in place of General Burbank.
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On May 5th, the town "voted to discontinue the road leading from Joshua Wait's, by his saw-mill to Capt. Josiah Brown's. "
The town refused to send a representative to the General Court.
Capt. Andrew Elliott died in Millbury, aged seventy- three years.
Cloth made in Millbury, was exhibited at the Brighton cattle show.
The Rev. Aaron Bancroft of Worcester acknowledged, in behalf of the Worcester Auxiliary Bible Society, the receipt of one dozen twelve mo. Bibles from General Burbank.
Goodell, Trask & Co., consisting of John Goodell, Asa Goodell, Asa Goodell, Jr., John Goodell, 2d, Orra Goodell, Aaron Trask, and Nathaniel Lyon, dissolved partnership, and Aaron Trask and Nathaniel Lyon retired. The new firm was Asa Goodell & Co.
In the previous year a post office had been established in Millbury. Regular offices were being established by the government and the mails were carried from office to office by post riders on horse-back. Charles Preston was post rider for Millbury.
Samuel Waters, Amasa Braman and Luther Whitmore dissolved partnership.
Dr. William M. Benedict was landlord of the Braman Tavern.
Stephen Blanchard kept a store.
1818
Ithran Harris, having received a land warrant for military services in the War of 1812, transferred this (160 acres in Illinois) to Solomon Dwinell and Seneca Simon Dwinell for one hundred and fifteen dollars, March 19, 1818. He had been a sergeant in Foster's Company, Ninth Regt. of Infantry.
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May 4. The town again refused to send a representative to the General Court.
It was "voted to accept the meeting-house upon the conditions as recorded in the Proprietors' Book." The town could use the building but the ownership lay with the parish as a corporation.
It was "voted to raise twenty-five dollars for supporting a Singing School."
It was "voted that the town will appropriate out of the money due the town from individuals a sum of money, which, being added to the present school money, shall amount to five hundred dollars for a permanent school- fund."
August 17. At a town meeting, John B. Blanchard was chosen moderator. It was "voted to paint the meeting- house the present year," for which two hundred and twenty-five dollars was appropriated, "to be assessed upon the Congregational Society, as parochial charges." General Burbank, Dea. John Peirce and Elder Samuel Waters were chosen to superintend the work and the town also chose a committee to ask the people to assist.
August 20. Lyman Peck of Rehoboth, for the sum of sixty dollars, transferred to Seneca Simeon Dwinell his land warrant received for service as sergeant in Perry's company, 40th regt. of Infantry.
September 5. Solomon Dwinell, Jr., paper maker, transferred his land in Illinois, which came to him from Ithran Harris, to Seneca Simeon Dwinell.
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