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Moses Wheelock,
Calvin Wheelock,
Moses Foster,
Jesse Morse,
Samuel Robbins,
Perley Stone.
Jacob Mason."
.. ORDER.
"COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
"On the petition of Ralph Wheelock and others, inhabitants of the south-east part of Sturbridge, the south-west part of Charlton, and the west part of Dudley, praying to be set off from the towns to which they respectively belong, and to be incorporated into a parish or precinct for the purpose of a religious society.
"Ordered that the petitioners notify the inhabitants of the towns of Sturbridge, Charlton, and Dudley, of their aforesaid prayer, by serving the clerk of each of said towns with an attested copy of their said peti- tion and this order thereon, thirty days, at least, before the second Tues- day of the session of the General Court, which shall be holden next after the first of January, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and one, that they may then appear and show cause, if any they have, why the petitioners should not be incorporated into a poll parish or religious society by name; in order that they and their families may more easily obtain the advantages of public worship.
" Sent down for concurrence,
"SAMUEL PHILLIPS,
President.
" In the House of Representatives, June 9, 1800. Read and concurred. "EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. ". A true copy.
" Attest :
"EDWARD P. HAYMAN.
Clerk of Senate."
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" NOTICE.
" STURBRIDGE. October 22. 1800.
" WORCESTER. SS. :
·· Agreeable to the within directions I have notified each of the towns of Sturbridge, Charlton, and Dudley, by serving the clerk of each of said towns, with an attested copy of this petition and the order thereon.
· " Attest :
'. OLIVER PLIMPTON. " Agent for the Proprietor."
" COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
"IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND ONE.
"AN ACT
'. TO INCORPORATE A NUMBER OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE SOUTH-EAST PART OF STURBRIDGE. THE SOUTH-WEST PART OF CHARLTON. AND THE WEST PART OF DUDLEY. ALL IN THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER. INTO A PARISII. BY THE NAME OF THE 'SECOND RELIGIOUS SOCIETY IN THE TOWN OF CHARLTON.
" SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same. That Ralph Wheelock. Abel Mason. Joshua Harding. Benjamin Freeman. Jedediah Marcy. Oliver Plimpton, John AAmmidown, Luther Ammidown. Gershom Plimpton. Joseph Shaw. Robert Edwards. Calvin Ammidown. Jephthah Clark. Jeremiah Shumway. Oliver Hooker. Eleazer Putney. Junior. Sol- omon Clark, Daniel Morse. Junior. Calvin Perry. Moses Clark, Asa Walker, David Dix. Henry Pratt. Jason Morse. Junior. Lemuel Mason. James Dyer. Joseph Sabin. Eleazer Putney. Jedediah Ellis. Israel Marsh. Jonathan Mason. John Marsh. Moses Mason, Samuel Newell. Zebina Ab- bot, Elias Plimpton, Nathan Brown. John Holbrook. Duty Marsh, Den- ison Wheelock. Gershom Plimpton. Junior. Ephraim Wheelock, Wil- liam Love, Asa Morse, Jonathan Perry, Oliver Thayer, Ralph Harding. Abisha Sabin, John Plimpton, Thomas Chener, Jesse Morse, Perley Stone, John Mason. Moses Marcy, Edward Morris, Theodore Marcy, Joseph Barrett, Ephraim Bacon, Enoch Bacon, Silas Ammidown, Ralph Vinton, Jonathan Perry, 2d, Ruggles Morse, William Blood, Charles Dugar, Junior, Gload Dugar, David Clemens, Alexander Brown. Rufus Brown. John Heath, Ebenezer Clark, John Wait, Nathaniel Searle, Joseph Bar- rett, Junior, Daniel Morse, Alpheus Morse, Jeremiah Morse, Freeman Pratt, James Wheelock, John Marcy, Abel Mason, Junior, Samuel Weath-
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erly, Abisha Hooker, Fletcher Foster, Moses Foster, Moses Wheelock, Calvin Wheelock, Samuel Robbins, and Jacob Mason, with their present estates, be, and hereby are incorporated, with all the powers, privileges, immunities, duties, and obligations which other parishes in this com- monwealth are entitled or subjected to by law, provided nevertheless, that they pay all taxes assessed upon them before the passing of this act.
"SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That Oliver Plimpton, Esquire, be, and he hereby is empowered to issue his warrant to some principal in- habitant of said parish, requiring him to notify and warn the members thereof aforesaid, to meet at the meeting-house in said parish, at such time as shall be appointed in said warrant for the purpose of choosing such officers as may be necessary, agreeably to the laws of this common- wealth, to manage the affairs of the said parish; and that the members thereof qualified by law to vote be, and hereby are, empowered to choose such officers accordingly.
" In the House of Representatives, February 26, 1801. This bill hav- ing had two several readings passed to be enacted.
"SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President.
" February 28, 1801.
" By the Governor approved. "CALEB STRONG."
ORGANIZATION OF THIE POLL PARISII.
FIRST WARRANT ISSUED.
" WORCESTER, SS. : [1 .. S.]
"To Luther Ammidown, of Charlton, in the County of' Worcester, Merchant, " GREETING :
"In the name of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are re- quired forthwith to notify and warn the inhabitants belonging to the new poll parish, qualified to vote in parish affairs, to meet at the meet- ing-house, near Col. Benjamin Freeman's, on Tuesday, March 31, 1801, at one o'clock afternoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz. :
" 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting.
.. 2. To choose parish officers according to law, or act thereon as they think proper.
"3. To grant sufficient sums of money to supply preaching, and for contingent charges for the year to come, as may be thought necessary. or hereon as they think proper.
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"4. To see what method the parish will take to promote singing amongst ns, or act thereon as may be thought best.
"5. To choose some person to take care of the meeting-house, or act thereon as they think proper.
" 6. To transact any other business that may properly come before them at that time, or act thereon as they think proper.
" Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon to the subscriber at or before the time of the said meeting, or you will answer your default in that case as the law has made and provided.
"Given under my hand and seal this eighteenth day of March, A. D .. 1801.
"OLIVER PLIMPTON, "Justice of the Peace." .. RETURN.
"CHARLTON, March 21, 1801.
"' In obedience to the within warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of said poll parish, as herein directed, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes therein mentioned, by posting a copy of the warrant on the said meeting-house.
"LUTHER AMMIDOWN."
FIRST PARISH MEETING.
" At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the poll parish, including part of the towns of Sturbridge, Charlton, and Dudley, at their meeting- house. on Tuesday, March 31. A. D., 1801.
" The meeting being called to order by Oliver Plimpton, Esq., for the purpose of the business, as specified in the warrant for the meeting, the following business was then transacted.
ARTICLE 1. Chose Luthur Ammidown. Esq., Moderator.
ARTICLE 2. Joshua Harding. Clerk.
.. Oliver Plimpton, Luther Ammidown. John Ammidown, Joshua Harding, Daniel Morse,
Assessors.
Chose Abel Mason, Treasurer.
66 David Dix, Collector.
Also voted to allow the collector five pence on the pound for services. " ARTICLE 3. Voted to raise money for supply of preaching and contin- gent expenses, for the ensuing year, by a tax on the inhabitants of the parish. Voted to choose a committee of three to report the sums neces-
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sary to be raised for the supply of preaching, and for contingent expenses, and the appropriation of the meeting-house, among the different religious denominations, for the ensuing year.
"Chose for said committee: Oliver Plimpton, Esq., Captain Abel Mason, Calvin Ammidown, Esq.
" This committee reported as follows: Two hundred and fifty dollars for preaching, fifty dollars for contingent expenses; also, that the Uni- versalists have the use of the meeting-house one fourth part of the year, and that the other denominations improve said house the other three fourths of the year. This report was accepted, and the recommendation of the committee approved by vote.
"ARTICLE 4. Voted to choose a committee of three to promote singing. Chose Jonathan Perry, Lieutenant Robert Edwards, and John Ammi- down.
" ARTICLE 5. Chose William Love to take care of the meeting-house the ensuing year.
"ARTICLE 6. Chose five persons to supply preaching the ensuing year, to wit : Captain Ralph Wheelock, David Dix, Captain Abel Mason, John Ammidown, and Asa Walker.
" It was voted that a committee of three be raised to procure subserip- tions of money from those persons within the limits of the parish who did not sign the petition for the act of incorporation. Chose Oliver Plimpton, Esq., John Ammidown, and Lieutenant Robert Edwards.
"It was voted to choose a committee of three to andit the accounts of the treasurer, and to report the state thereof, to the next annual meeting. Chose Captain Jedediah Marcy, Asa Walker, and Lieutenant Robert Edwards.
"It was voted that the parish meetings, in future, be warned by post- ing a copy of the warrant on the meeting-house.
" Then by vote the meeting was dissolved.
" Attest: JOSHUA HARDING, Parish Clerk."
The foregoing is a sample of the annual meetings held by the parish, which closed its legal proceedings, as a political body, April 24, 1816.
" DEED
" FOR MEETING-HOUSE COMMON.
"KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Jedediah Marcy, of Sturbridge, of the county of Worcester, and commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, gentleman :
"In consideration of one dollar, paid by Daniel Morse, of Sturbridge,
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and other proprietors of a public meeting-house, built by said proprie- tors, standing in the bounds of Charlton, in the county aforesaid, the receipt whereof I ·do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant. sell, and convey unto the said Daniel Morse and other proprietors, a certain piece of land, situate and lying and being in Charlton aforesaid, and contains by measure. 'one acre and one hundred and thirty rods.' and is bounded as follows: Beginning at the south-eastward corner of the same; thence north, 39 degrees west, 22 rods; thence 40 degrees north, 1 rod : thence 39 degrees west, 8 rods: thence east, 40 degrees north, 1g rods; thence northi, 40 degrees west, 7 rods; thence west, 3 degrees south, 5 rods; thence south, 8 degrees west, 1 rod ; thence west, 24 de- grees north, 13 rods; thence south, 34 degrees east, 14 rods; thence eastwardly, 383 rods, to the first-mentioned corner.
".Nevertheless, it is to be understood, that the aforesaid Jedediah Marcy hath given the above-described piece of land to the aforesaid Daniel Morse and others, for the purpose of a meeting-house spot and common around the same, and whenever the said Daniel and others shall cease to improve the above-described piece of land for that purpose, then the said piece of land is to revert back to the said Jedediah Marey, his heirs and assigns.
" To have and to hold the aforesaid premises to the said Daniel Morse and other proprietors, their heirs and assigns, to his and their use and behalf forever. And I do covenant with the said Daniel Morse and others, their heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the afore-granted premises, that they are free of all eneumbrances, that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Daniel and others, and that I will warrant and defend the same premises to the said Daniel and others, their heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
"In witness whereof, I, the said Jedediah Marcy, have hereunto set my hand and seal this 13th day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and one.
(Signed) "JEDEDIAH MARCY. [SEAL. ]
" Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of
" JOSHUA HARDING,
" DENISON WHEELOCK.
" WORCESTER, SS :
" APRIL 13, 1801.
" Then the above-named Jedediah Marcy acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed before me.
" OLIVER PLIMPTON. Justice of the Peace. " Received May 4, 1803. " Examined by
" DANIEL CLAPP, Register.
" Recorded, Book 150, p. 399."
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DEED OF BURYING-GROUND.
" KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Benjamin Freeman of Sturbridge, in the county of Worcester, and commonwealth of Massa- chusetts. Esquire, in consideration of one dollar paid by Daniel Morse, of Sturbridge, aforesaid, gentleman, and a number of other proprietors, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell, and convey unto the said Daniel Morse and other proprietors, their heirs and assigns, a certain piece of land, situate, lying, and being in Stur- bridge aforesaid, containing one were, by measure, and is bounded as fol- lows: Beginning at the north-east corner of the same, at a heap of stones by the highway; thence south, 30° west, twenty-four rods, to a stake and stones ; thence west, 30º north, six rods and 3, to a stake and stones ; thence north, 30° east, twenty-four rods, to a stake and heap of stones ; thence east, 30° south, six rods and 3, to the first-mentioned corner.
" Provided nevertheless, it is the true intent and meaning, that the said Freeman conveys the above-described acre of land to the said Daniel Morse and others for the purpose of a burying-yard; the said Daniel and others being at the expense of fencing the same; the said Benjamin reserving to himself the privilege of the grass that may here- after grow on said acre of land, provided he shall not turn in any crea- ture that may damage or displace any graves therein.
"To have and to hold the afore-granted premises to the said Daniel Morse and others, their heirs and assigns, to his and their use and be- hoof forever.
" And I do covenant with the said Daniel Morse and others, their heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the afore-granted premises ; that they are free from all incumbrances; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Daniel Morse and others ; and that I will warrant and defend the same premises to the said Daniel Morse and others, their heirs and assigns, forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
" In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Freeman, have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and one.
(Signed) BENJAMIN FREEMAN. [ Seal. ]
" Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of
" JOSHUA HARDING, "DENISON WHEELOCK.
" WORCESTER, SS. :
" APRIL. 13, 1801.
" Then the above-named Benjamin Freeman acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed before me.
" OLIVER PLIMPTON, Justice of Peace.
" Received, May 4, 1803.
"Entered and examined, per DANIEL CLAPP, Register.
" Recorded, Book 150, p. 401."
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FENCING THE BURYING-GROUND.
" At a parish meeting, held January 24, 1804, it was voted to choose a committee of three to ascertain the persons who desired to be proprietors in the burying-ground which was given to the parish by Colonel Benja- min Freeman, and to take measures to fence the same. Chose for this committee, Oliver Plimpton, Esq., Captain Samuel Newell, and Lieu- tenant Jason Morse."
The following is a copy of the subscription paper prepared and signed for the above object, to wit :
SUBSCRIPTION PAPER.
" Those persons wishing to be proprietors in the burying-ground near the new meeting-house, which was generously given to the parish by Colonel Benjamin Freeman, for that purpose, are desired to subscribe and set their names to this paper, that some method may be adopted to fence and secure the same.
"STURBRIDGE, February 27, 1804.
Benjamin Freeman, Ralph Wheelock,
Jedediah Marcy, Oliver Plimpton,
Calvin Wheelock,
Ephraim Wheelock,
Gershom Plimpton, Jr., Jonathan Perry,
James McKinstry, Moses Foster,
John Plimpton, James Wheelock,
Jephthah Clark,
Elias Plimpton,
Joshua Harding,
Samuel Fiske,
Samuel Newell,
Denison Wheelock,
Reuben Harrington, Ebenezer Clark, William Morris, David Dix, Jason Morse, Jr., Fletcher Foster, Elijah Marcy, Samuel Robbins,
Abel Mason, Jr.,
Oliver Mason, Ralph Harding,
Oliver Mason, Jr., Amasa Dow,
Asa Walker,
Moses Mason,
John Holbrook, Keziah Brown."
Caleb Dresser, Nathan Brown,
Smith Foster, Calvin Perry, William Love,
Edward Morris,
Abel Mason, John Marsh, Zebina Abbot,
There had been several burials in this cemetery before it was inclosed by the wall, which was crected for that purpose in the spring of 1804. The first burial was two infant children, twins, of the family of Gershom Plimpton, August 9, 1801; the next was Jeremiah Shumway, October 24, 1801; and then Lieutenant Robert Edwards, November 24, 1801.
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This part of the present cemetery remains of the same dimen- sions as it was when originally granted and fenced, except on the front, where a piece was taken off for an improvement of the road in straightening the south side of Main street from its north-east corner westward to Elm street.
CHAPTER II.
MOVEMENT FOR A TOWN.
THE first movement for a change from the original terms
of the parish charter was a meeting held on January 24, 1804 ; this arose through an important defect in the act of incorporation. By the terms of this act, it extended only to certain individuals and their estates, having no regard to terri- torial limits ; thus as one by one of these original corporators deceased the number of corporators and taxable property of the parish correspondingly decreased.
And by this effect it was foreseen that, at no distant day, the existence of the parish would cease.
To remedy this defect in the act incorporating the parish, a petition was framed, which received the signatures generally of those within what is now the territory of the town, which was presented to the General Court, in accordance with a vote of a meeting of the inhabitants then expressed, held on Decem- ber 17, 1807, requesting amendments to said act, defining and establishing limits to said parish, and giving the right to tax all the real and personal estate within such limits for all legal objeets, as occasion might require for the support of the same.
The committee who drafted this petition was composed of the following names : Oliver Plimpton, Joshua Harding, and Daniel Morse. To this committee were added another com- mittee, with regard to the lines of the parish to be established, which included the following gentlemen : Mr. Joshua Hard- ing, Jason Morse, and Jonathan Perry.
All the preliminaries having at this meeting been estab- lished, it was voted, that Oliver Plimpton, Esq., be a delegate
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to the General Court, to present their petition and act in their behalf in the support of the same.
The parish records do not show the result of this movement. but it appears by the printed acts of the Legislature, preserv- ing the established laws enacted by that body, that the labor of their delegate was successful in effecting the end then desired, as the following copy of the act of amendment to the original act will show.
POLL PARISH.
" ADDITIONAL ACT OF INCORPORATION, MARCH 8, 1808.
"AN ACT,
"IN ADDITION TO AN ACT ENTITLED 'AN ACT TO INCORPORATE A NUMBER OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE SOUTH-EAST PART OF STURBRIDGE, THE SOUTH-WEST PART OF CHARLTON, AND THE WEST PART OF DUDLEY, ALL IN THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER, INTO A PARISH, BY THE NAME OF THE SECOND RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF CHARLTON.'
" Passed the 28th day of February, 1801.
.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of' the same, That any person who since the 28th day of February, 1801, or may hereafter own or occupy any of the estates formerly owned or occupied by any of the persons named in the act of incorporation before named. such person, with his or her family and estate, shall be considered in all parochial affairs and concernments, and to all legal intents and purposes, the true and lawful successors of the persons and estates of those who, by death or any other cause, have ceased to occupy such estates, in as full and ample a manner as if the present possessor had been one of the original number incorporated by the said act; and the present or future occupant of such estate shall ex- ercise and enjoy all the parochial privileges, and be alike subject to all the duties and requisitions of the original possessor; Provided, That this act shall extend only to such of the successors and occupants as afore- said, as already have or hereafter may join with and become members of said society."
This act of amendment was the best thing, under the cir- cumstances, that could then be obtained, and was a substantial improvement upon the original grant ; although it was not a fulfillment of the desires of the inhabitants, as the records of
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the parish show, which intent was the procuring of an act giving them full town privileges and territorial bounds. The next movement was on November 11, 1811, by a petition to the parish assessors for a meeting to institute proceedings in favor of a town, as follows:
" To Major Olirer Hooker, Ensign Wheelock, and Lieutenant Edward Morris, parish assessors : Your petitioners pray that said parish may be called together as soon as convenient, to see if they will petition the next General Court to be set off as a town ; also, to choose a committee in aid of the same; signed as follows: Samuel Newall, Oliver Plimpton, Ger- shom Plimpton, Daniel Briggs, George Sumner, Lemuel Clark, John Mckinstry, Calvin Clemence, William Morris, Morris Marcy, and Moses Wheelock."
The assessors called a parish meeting, November 25, fol- lowing, when Oliver Plimpton presided. A vote was then taken in favor of a town. This meeting was then adjourned to the first Tuesday of January, 1812 ; at which time Gershom Plimpton presided, when it was voted to refer the further consideration of procuring an act for a town to the next parish meeting, and that the committee now raised for aiding the proposed object shall draft a petition and use their endeavors to circulate the same, and get all the signatures they can in favor of the object before the next meeting. This committee was as follows: Joshua Harding, Luther Ammi- down, and Reuben Harrington.
At the annual parish meeting, held March 31, 1812, Gershom Plimpton, Esq., was chosen moderator. After the transaction of the regular business affairs of the parish, it was voted to add three to the committee, on being set off as a town, and have the petition copied anew and the plan improved, in order to be sent to the General Court. Chose for the addition to said committee, Oliver Hooker, George Sumner, and Asa Walker.
Then voted to adjourn the meeting to the third Tuesday in May next, at two o'clock, P. M.
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PARISH MEETING, MAY 19, 1812.
At this meeting, Gershom Plimpton, Esq., was chosen agent for the parish, to present to the next General Court the petition of the inhabitants, and to have the old plan of said parish (for being set off as a town), furnishing him with a copy of the votes of the parish relating to the same, certified to by the parish assessors, and attested by the clerk.
Voted : " That the name for the town be left blank in the petition for the same."
The acts of this agent do not appear upon the parish records.
The parish committees ehosen at the two former meetings, held on November 25, 1811, and March 31, 1812, had engaged Major Samuel Freeman to prepare a plan of the territory, embraced in the lines as surveyed by Caleb Ammidown, Esq., in 1796, and presented the same for the consideration of the parish meeting, held on May 17, 1813.
Major Freeman made the following remarks written upon his plan :
" The outside lines, as also the lines between the towns, on this deline- ation, were laid down from minutes taken from the late Caleb Ammi- down, Esq. The river and principal roads were protracted from minutes taken by me.
(Signed) " SAMUEL FREEMAN. " STURBRIDGE, May 12, 1812."
At the meeting held as last above named, James Wolcott, Jr., was chosen as the agent of the parish, to attend the Gen- eral Court at its next session, to obtain a grant for a town ; and Oliver Plimpton, Esq., and Major Oliver Hooker were chosen as an advisory and consulting committee, to aid said agent in the objeet contemplated ; and it was ordered further, that the old petition be revised for the purposes aforesaid.
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This movement proving unsnecessful, a parish meeting was held, January 11, 1814, in pursuance of the object for obtain- ing an act for a town, at which time the meeting was organized by the choice of Oliver Mason, Jr., as moderator.
It was now decided to postpone the choice of an agent to attend the General Court, to choose a committee of five to draft a new petition, and to obtain as many signatures to the same as possible, before the 26th instant, to which time this meeting was adjourned. Chose for said committee : Oliver Hooker, George Sumner, Oliver Mason, Junior, Calvin Am- midown, and Reuben Harrington.
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