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15} lbs. beef, at 23 cts. per lb. . $0.43
37J. lbs. pork, at 43 cts. per lb. . 1.69
50 lbs. veal, at 2Į cts. per lb. 1.12
A pair of geese, 14} lbs., at 2} cts. per lb. 0.32
4 hens, at 8 cts. per hen 0.32
5 pecks wheat-flour 1.00
10 lbs. cheese, at 6} cts. per lb. 0.65
10} lbs. butter, at 9 cts. per lb. 0.94
1 nutmeg 0.06
Allspice and pepper 0.09
9 lbs. sugar, at 12 cts. per lb. 1.08
4 lbs. raisins, at 10 cts. per lb .. 0.40
1 lb. chocolate, at 27 cts. per lb. 0.27
1 peck malt, at 11 cts. per peck 0.11
0.09
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1 bush. apples, at 9 cts. per bush. . 1 bl. cider, at $1 per bl. . 1.00
72 galls. rum, at 55 cts. per gall. 4.25
{ gall. West-India rum, at 88 cts. per gall. 0.44
73 lbs. tobacco, at 63 cts. per lb. 0.49
3 doz. pipes, at 5 cts. per doz. . 0.15
1} bush. oats, at 20 cts. per bush. . 0.30
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The following bills of expense for the ordination were also paid out of the proprietors' treasury : -
Mr. Phinehas Byam's Account.
NARRAGANSET No. 6, Dec. 12, 1755.
To keeping horses belonging to Mr. Pond's company, fifteen s. d. days in all . 8 0
1 0)
To the Council's horses, two for one day and three horses part of a day 1 0
To bread to value of 1 4
To meat 10 lbs., at 2d. per lb.
1 8
To my trouble in making seats in the meeting-house, &c. 2 8
15 8
PHINEHAS BYAM.
Mr. Zaccheus Barrett's Account.
NARRAGANSET No. 6, Dec. 9, 1755.
8
d.
To keeping two horses, each one day 1 1
'To keeping three horses, each four days 6 5
To riding after a kettle 2 0
To carting boards to the meeting-house from Mr. Cobleigh's
and back
3
0
To entertaining Mr. Pond's company; viz., four men, three 6 5 meals each
18 11
ZACCHEUS BARRETT.
Among the items furnished for the ordination occasion appears " one pound of chocolate." This was a favorite article with Rev. Mr. Pond ; and it may be presumed that the hostess, Mrs. Whitney, understood how to prepare it better than did Mrs. Byam, in whose family Mr. Pond boarded. The anecdote, according to tradition, is, that Mr. Pond, one Sunday morning, told Mrs. Byam (wife of Jacob Byam, whose residence was at the place where now stands the house of Capt. Stephen S. Maynard) that he should
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like some chocolate after the close of the public services, and gave her a cake of the article. The good woman had never seen such a thing before, and felt a slight dis- trust of her ability to prepare it, but, like many others, was unwilling to confess a want of knowledge. So she bravely promised to have it ready. But, on Mr. Pond's return in the afternoon, the usual dinner was produced, -" a boiled dish," - but no chocolate. With disconsolate face and many regrets, she assured him she did not know how it happened : " Certainly, when the vegetables were put into the pot to boil, I put in the chocolate too ; for I meant to boil it about as long as the other things. I have taken every thing out carefully ; but nothing can I find of that anywhere."
COPY OF THE WARRANT AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETINGS FOR REV. MR. POND'S DISMISSION.
WORCESTER, SS. - Application therefor being made to me, the subscriber, by a sufficient number of the proprietors of the Narra- ganset township No. 6, - these are therefore in his majesty's name to warn said proprietors to meet at the meeting-house in said town- ship on the last Tuesday of July next, at nine o'clock in the morn- ing, to act on the following articles ; viz., First (it having pleased Almighty God to permit an unhappy difference to arise between the pastor, church, and flock in this plantation, which occasioned the appointment of an Ecclesiastical Council to sit among them on the last Tuesday of July next), to vote and act on the advice and directions we shall receive from said Council as they shall think proper. Art. 2d. To see if the proprietors will grant money for defraying the expenses of said Council. - Given under my hand and seal, at Narraganset No. 6, this twenty-seventh day of June, anno Domini 1759, and in the thirty-third year of his majesty's reign.
CHARLES BAKER,
Proprietors' Clerk.
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A meeting was held accordingly July 31, and adjourned from morning to afternoon, then to the evening, and to the next day, and again till evening, and to the morning of the third day. " The aforesaid several adjournments," the record says, " were to wait for the result of the Ecclesiastical Council then sitting in said township." The third morning, impatient, apparently, of the delay, the meeting was dis- solved. But, during the third day, the Council finished their deliberations ; and, a few days after, another proprietors' meeting was warned to assemble Sept. 12, with an article " to see if the proprietors will agree to what the Ecclesiasti- cal Council have done with respect to Mr. Daniel Pond's dismission." On this article, it was voted " that Mr. Daniel Pond be dismissed according to the result of the Ecclesias- tical Council held here Aug. 2, 1759." Mr. Pond seems to have ceased to officiate immediately after the decision of the Council. The proceedings and result of this Council are not recorded, either on the books of the proprietors or the Church Records. Probably the minutes were retained by the scribe of the Council ; and nothing remains to show what pastors and churches were present to compose it.
At the meeting, Sept. 12, Mr. Jonas Wilder, Rev. Aaron Whitney (of Petersham), and Mr. Abraham Knowlton, were chosen " a Committee to provide preaching in said town- ship."
as it was towards the close of Rev. Mr. SPARHAWK's ministry.
The above nearly represents the ground-plan of the old meeting-house and its pews,
NORTH. - Fifty feet.
EBENEZER GOODRICH.
BENJAMIN READ, Esq.
Rev. Mr. SPARHAWK.
Pulpit.
Dea. PAUL KENDALL.
FLETCHERS.
COOPER SAWYER.
FISK HOWE.
Mr. FITTS and Jos. IIASKELL.
JOSHUA WRIGHT.
FREE SEATS FOR
OLD PEOPLE.
Men's Side.
Women's Side.
JABEZ BUSH. and JONA. HORTON.
E. FRENCH and D. UPHAM.
WEST. - Forty feet.
ADAM JONES.
SIMON STONE.
Dr. JOSIAH HOWE.
LOVELL WALKER, Esq.
EAST.
Capt. RICHARDSON.
Capt. Cook.
Capt. TURNER.
Dea. CUTTING.
L. HOWE,
SAMUEL BAKER and
Esq. FISHER.
Mr. WILKINSON.
Capt. STONE.
ISRAEL LAMB.
SIMEON HORTON.
Stairs to Gallery.
Deacon WILDER.
O. HUNT and THOS. BURRAGE.
Captain ORCUTT.
Front Double Doors. 1
ARTEMAS IIOWE and WILLIAM RICE.
ZACCHEUS BARRETT and JAMES DOLBEAR.
HEZEKIAH IIANCOCK and JONA. WHITCOMB.
Stairs to Gallery.
SOUTH.
GROUND-PLAN OF THE FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
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Mrs. TUCKER,
and
ZEBEDEE SIMONDS.
Deacons' Scat.
.
NORTH.
MEN'S GALLERY.
(Seats rising gradually higher, one above another.)
(Seats rising gradually higher, one above another.)
WOMEN'S GALLERY.
EAST.
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WEST.
SINGERS' SEATS.
SINGERS' SEATS."
(Rising like those on the
East and West Gallery.)
PEW, 4 feet by 12.
PEW, 4 feet by 12.
ELEVATED PEW.
(Raised a little above the floor of the passage way.)
ELEVATED PEW.
PLAN OF THE GALLERIES IN THE FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
SOUTH.
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At the time of Rev. Mr. Sparhawk's ordination, there was only one pew erected in the meeting-house : it was adjoining the pulpit-stairs, and was given to Mr. Sparhawk by a vote passed at a meeting of the proprietors. As the meeting- house had been built by a tax on the proprietors' lands, and not upon the polls or personal property of the inhabitants, it was considered just that the privilege of having pews should belong to the proprietors. Accordingly they voted, at a meeting held Nov. 30, 1763, " first, that we will proceed to the disposing of the pew-ground in the meeting-house ; secondly, that Jolin Whitcomb, Esq., have one pew in the meeting-house, equal to others in general ; thirdly, that those proprietors that have the most lands in Templeton draw the other pews, they building them, and ceiling the meeting-house from the lower floor to the bottom of the windows, and casing them, - they doing the ceiling in eight months, and building their pews in twenty months from this day ; and, upon the non-performance of these condi- tions, each person failing therein to forfeit his pew to the 'use of the town."
. A Committee allotted a tier of pew-spaces around the wall of the house to eighteen proprietors. After these pews were built, the central space within was filled up with ranges of long seats, occupied by women on the east side of the middle aisle, and by men on the west side. At various times during the next forty years, the central spaces were disposed of for pews, with the exception of two rows of the long free-seats, - the ones nearest the pulpit. The galleries were occupied with free-seats. In 1770, however, it was voted that Samuel Wilder, Edmond Stone, Joseph Osgood, and Abner Miles, " for their rights in the meeting- house, may build two pews, one over each pair of gallery- stairs, so high up as not to discommode the travelling up stairs nor up to the seats." Two other long pews (or four short ones), in the gallery, back of the singers, were after- wards disposed of. No other pews were ever erected in the galleries. In 1766, it was voted "to let Mr. Nathaniel
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Holman and Mr. James Peirce make windows in their pews, upon their own cost, and so as to leave the meeting-house decent." For many years, the larger portion of the congre- gation occupied the long free-seats before spoken of. The place cach one was to occupy was determined by a Com- mittee appointed by the town to " seat the meeting-house." The seats of most dignity, or those considered most eligible, were assigned to the largest tax-payers; and so on in a graduated order throughout. The town first appointed such a Committee in 1765. The duty was a somewhat delicate and difficult one. To say nothing of other points that might arise, it was a question of some moment, to be settled at the outset, as to what the order of the several seats actually was in point of "dignity." Not wishing to take too much responsibility on themselves, the Committee asked the town (an article for the purpose being inserted into the town-meeting warrant) "to dignify the seats ;" that is, determine their relative rank. But the article " passed in the negative ; " and so the Committee had to do it themselves. Another Committee "seated the meeting- house " in 1770 ; and the process was repeated in 1778 and in 1797. Throughout Mr. Sparhawk's ministry, it was cus- tomary for the whole congregation to remain in their places, after the close of the services, till the minister had left the pulpit and passed out of the house. In 1765, the town directed that " the people move out of the seats, after divine service, according to the dignity of the seats, one seat at a time."
Over the minister's head was the " sounding-board," for- merly so common. Directly before the pulpit, and facing the congregation, was the " deacons' seat." As long as the old meeting-house stood, those who held that office always occupied, during the service of public worship, the seat mentioned. There are many still living who recollect the venerable forms of Deacon BYAM, Deacon WILDER, and Deacon KENDALL, as they appeared occupying that position from Sunday to Sunday, half a century ago.
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The first meeting-house was long left unpainted ; they could not afford the expense : but the Building Committee were instructed "to see that the doors and windows are · handsomely colored." Soon after the incorporation of the town, an appropriation was made of fifty pounds " towards finishing the meeting-house." Extensive repairs were made between 1785 and 1792. It was then, for the first time, voted to paint it, - to be " of the color of Leominster."
INSCRIPTION ON REV. MR. SPARHAWK'S GRAVESTONE.
A horizontal slab is placed over Rev. Mr. Sparhawk's grave, which is near the meeting-house. The following is a copy of the inscription : -
UMIS MONUMENT IS RAISED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVEREND, LEARNED, AND PIOUS EBENEZER SPARHAWK, A.M., Pastor of the Congregational Church, Templeton, Who expired Nov. 25, A. D. 1805, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and forty-fifth of his ministry.
Early in life, he devoted himself to the service of his God and Saviour. Endued with good powers of mind, improved by education, and sanctified by grace, he proved a burning and shining light. In the pulpit he was clear and pungent, rightly dividing the Word. In the circle of his acquaintance he was ever a welcome guest, his conversation being ever pleasant and improving. From a child he knew the Holy Scriptures, and was mighty in them. In faith he was sound and evangelical; in rectitnde, pure and exemplary. A strict adherence to the order and discipline of the churches was a distinguishing trait in his character. As a Husband he was. affectionate; as a Father, tender. He ruled his own house well; and his children arise up and call him blessed. With assiduity and fidelity he persevered in his work, until called to receive his reward.
The sun shall cease to shine, and stars shall fade away, and earth and time grow old and die; but his virtues shall live :
and the eye of faith and charity now beholds him walking high in salvation and the climes of bliss.
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BURYING-PLACES. - PUBLIC COMMON.
In 1754, two burial-places were laid out by the proprie- tors of the township, - one at the site of the meeting-house, and one at the west part of the township. The latter was to contain one acre; and land belonging to Thomas Drury was taken for the purpose, and other land allowed him as a substitute. Mr. Drury was paid thirteen shillings and fourpence for clearing the lot. At the meeting-house, the burial-place was laid out, together with land for a common, eight acres and seventy rods in the whole. William Fletcher was the first person buried in it.
The survey of this land, made Jan. 29, 1759, is recorded in vol. i. of the Proprietors' Records, p. 37. One of the bounds then was a beech-tree ; another, a hemlock-trec; another, a maple-tree ; another, a chestnut-stump. Some difficulty arising about the boundary between this lot and Mr. Abner Newton's land, the proprietors, November, 1758, authorized their Committee to adjust it by giving or re- ceiving deeds. (Proprietors' Records, vol. ii. pp. 18, 19.) In 1759, Abner Newton was paid " for clearing the Com- mon by the meeting-house.". In 1763, the Common was further cleared of trees and stumps.
At a proprietors' meeting, May 3, 1786, when the affairs of that corporation were being drawn towards a close, a vote was passed to confirm to the town of Templeton this grant of the burying-place and Common. In 1814 and 1816, votes were passed by the town to authorize the pur- chase of land to enlarge the north part of the Common. In 1795, the town voted " to fence the burying-ground, and have the walls handsomely topped off." At various times, the town authorized the Selectmen to make repairs, and provide for the care of the burial-place.
In 1850, the town purchased the large lots now used - one at Baldwinville, and one near the Centre - for new burial
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places. They are admirably suited, by natural adaptation, to the purpose. Successful efforts have already been made by individuals to commence the ornamenting of these grounds ; and it is to be hoped they will indeed become attractive and fitting places to be associated with the hal- lowed memories of the departed. May all good citizens do their part in the work !
COPY OF THE ACT OF INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN.
ANNO REGNI
TERTII,
[L.S.] S REGIS GEORGIE SECUNDO.
An Act for incorporating the Plantation called Narraganset No. 6, in the County of Worcester, into a Town by the Name of Templetown.
Whereas the plantation of NARRAGANSET No. 6, lying in the county of Worcester, is competently filled with inhabitants who labor under great difficulties and inconveniences by means of their not being a town ; therefore -
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and House of Repre- sentatives, That the said plantation, commonly called and known by the name of Narraganset No. 6, bounding westerly on Poquioge, southerly on Rutland Distriet and Petersham, easterly on West- minster, northerly on Ipswich-Canada and Royalshire, be, and here- by is, erected into a town by the name of TEMPLETOWN ; and that the said town be, and hereby is, invested with all the powers, privileges, and immunities that any of the towns of this province do or may by law enjoy ; -
Provided that nothing in this Act shall be so understood or con- strued as in any measure to supersede or make void any grants or assessments already made or agreed on by the proprietors of said place in time past, but that the same shall remain and be as effectual as if this Act had not been made.
And be it further enacted, That Joshua Willard, Esq., be, and hereby is, empowered to issue his warrants to some principal inhabi- tant of the said plantation, requiring him, in his majesty's name, to warn and notify the said inhabitants qualified to vote in town-affairs, that they meet together at such time and place in said plantation as by said warrant shall be appointed, to choose such officers as may be necessary to manage the affairs of said town; and the inhabi-
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tants, being so met, shall be, and hereby are, empowered to choose said officers accordingly.
Feb. 23, 1762. - This Bill, having been read three several times in the House of Representatives, passed to be enacted.
JAMES OTIS, Speaker.
Feb. 23, 1762. - This Bill, having been read three several times in Council, passed to be enacted.
March 6, 1762. - By the Governor, I consent to the enacting this Bill. FRA. BERNARD.
It will be noticed that the foregoing Act of Incorpora- tion spells the name Templetown. It is so spelled also in the carliest town-records. But in the Tax Act, passed by the General Court in 1763, it was spelled Templeton. The Selectmen repeatedly called it so in their official papers in 1763. Both ways were used by the Selectmen in the same instrument in a " warning out " in 1765 ; but after Febru- ary, 1764, the name was always called Templeton in the town-meeting warrants.
There has been a tradition that the town was so called after " some person " who bore the name of Temple; but whether it was in commemoration of the family of that name celebrated in English history, or for one more obscure in station, is now unknown.
TAXES GRANTED BY THE PROPRIETORS.
While the affairs of the township were managed by the proprietors, from 1732 to 1762, the taxes granted by them, which were laid equally upon cach original right, were nearly of the following amounts : -
Various sums, in old-tenor currency, granted before any of the lots were settled, for incidental expenses in procuring the grant, dividing the lands, holding meetings, and for roads, &c., - equal in silver, for each lot, to about . 1 0 0
43 d.
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Tax on each "non-settler's " lot, mostly paid to those £ 8. d. who did settle, - equal, in lawful money, to about 1 6 8 For highways 3 10 8 For building meeting-house 1 0 For supply of pulpit, and for the "settlement " and sala- ries of Rev. Mr. Pond and Rev. Mr. Sparhawk,
before incorporation of town, about . 5 0 0
Tax for building grist-mill 1 1 8 0 6 0 Taxes for incidental expenses, at various times, about .
So that the whole amount of taxation on cach original share in the township, previous to the incorporation of the town, was not far from £13. 5s., - equal to $44.17.
TAXES IN 1763.
The town-taxes assessed in Templeton in 1763, the next year after its incorporation as a town, amounted, beside the highway-tax, to £25: namely, £15, equal to $50, for schools and town-charges ; and £10, equal to $33.33, for building a bridge over Otter River. This sum of £25 was assessed upon about eighty persons. Nearly three-fourths of the amount was laid upon polls, and only about one- quarter on the property. The highest tax to any individual on real estate was four shillings and one penny. The fol- lowing is a list of the names of the persons taxed : -
John Atwood. Charles Baker.
Zaccheus Barrett. Timothy Butterfield. Jacob Byam. Phinehas Byam. Samuel Byam. Joshua Church. John Cobleigh. James Carruth. John Chamberlin.
John Crossett. William Crossett.
Reuben Cummings. Eleazer Davis.
John Death. Thomas Drury. Caleb Fletcher. Joel Fletcher.
Timothy Haild.
Israel Hale.
Stephen Haskell.
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Nathaniel Holman.
Nathaniel Holman, jun. Jonathan Holman.
Joseph Horton.
Hezekiah Sprague.
Ebenezer Horton.
Henry Sawtell.
Joseph Kendrick.
Enoch Sawtell.
Capt. Thomas How.
John Stuart.
John How.
Jeremiah Stuart.
Abel Hunt.
Ephraim Shattuck.
Enoch Jewett.
Silas Shattuck.
Silas Jones.
Levi Sylvester.
Ezekiel Knowlton.
Jacob Spaulding.
Joshua Lamb.
John Wheeler.
Dennis Locklin.
John Wheeler, jun.
Noah Merritt.
Jason Whitney.
John Macklewaine.
Moses Whitney.
George Nicholas.
William Oak.
Jonas Wilder.
Seth Oak.
Josiah Wilder.
Samuel Osgood.
John Wilder.
James Peirce.
Ebenezer Wright.
Joshua Wright.
Samuel Rice.
Job Whitcomb.
Samuel Ross.
Joseph White.
John Richardson.
Thomas White.
Israel Richardson.
Benjamin Wesson.
The following persons were also taxed, in 1763, for real estate only ; and were therefore probably non-residents : -
David Goddard.
Daniel Goddard.
James Kendall. James Simonds.
SUMS GRANTED BY THE TOWN, EACH YEAR SINCE ITS INCOR- PORATION, FOR HIGHWAYS, FOR SCHOOLS, AND FOR TOWN- CHARGES, INCLUDING SPECIAL GRANTS.
Year.
Ilighways. .£40
Schools.
Town- charges.
1762
£00
.£10
1763
40
15
*
10 t
* School and town charges.
t For bridge over Otter River.
Thomas Sawyer. Abner Sawyer. Samuel Sawyer.
Abraham Sawyer.
Thomas Witt.
Jason Parmenter.
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Year.
Ilighways.
Schools.
Town- charges.
1764
£50
£10
1765
53
16
12
1766
100
20
13
1767
100
20
20
6
1769
100
25
20
1770
100
40
6
1771
100
35
42
1772
125
3.5
36
1773
140
40
40
1774
150
35
30
1775
50
20
()
1776
60
35
30
1777
80
50
45
1778
300
60 *
200 *
1779
1,200
1,200 *
1,000 *
1780
7,000 t
6,000 *
4,000 *
1781
10,500 ±
12,000
20,000 §
1782
150
100
50
1783
150
100
00
1784
150
100
00
1785
200
100
00
1786
250
100
30
1787
100
662
140 |
1788
150
50
00
1789
150
40
00
1790
150
45
00
1791
150
60
10
1792
150
60
30T
1793
150
60
20
1794
150
60
30
1795
250
75
120
1796
$1,000
**
$267
$800
1797
1,000
270
700
1798
1,000
270
500
1799
1,000
270
500
1800
1,000
270
400
1801
1,000
300
200
1802
1,000
400
150
1803
1,000
400
600
* Nominal. Paper currency depreciated.
t Nominal. 20s. an hour for a man's work.
Nominal. $5 an hour for a man's work.
§ In August, 1781, granted, instead, £350 silver, and £300 silver for the three- years' soldiers.
|| Of this grant, £120 to build and repair schoolhouses.
T And £70 additional for schoolhouses.
** After 1795, the accounts were changed from English to Federal currency.
10
1768
100
119
Year.
Highways.
Schools.
Town- charges.
1804
$1,000
. $400
$600
1805
1,000
450
300
1806
1,000
450
200
1807
1,000
450
300
1808
1,000
450
200
1809
1,000
450
200
1810
1,000
450
200
.
1811
1,000
450
000
1812
1,000
450
500
1813
1,000
450
1,000
1814
1,000
500
600
1815
1,000
550
400
1816
1,000
550
800
1817
1,000
500
1,000
1818
1,000
600
1,100
1819
1,000
600
900
1820
800
550
900
1821
1,000
500
300
1822
1,000
550
500
1823
1,000
550
600
1824
1,200
600
600
18:25
1,200
600
600
1826
1,200
600
700
1827
1,000
500
1,800
1828
1,200
500
700
1829
1,200
600
450
1830
1,200
550
550
1831
1,200
600
800
1832
600
600
500
1833
1,500
700
500
1834
1,600
700
700
1835
1,500
700
1,075
1836
1,600
954
600
1837
2,000
1,300
1,000
1838
1,500
800 t
1,000
1839
1,500
800 t
1,500
1840
1,500
800 +
1,050
1841
1,500
1,000
2,500 ±
1842
1,875
1,000
2,700 §
1843
1,800
1,000
3,000
1844
1,500
1,000
2,500
1845
1,500
1,000
2,800
This grant was assessed to be paid in money.
f For three years, $200 a year was added to the school appropriation; it being the interest on the surplus revenue.
$1,500 of this for new road.
§ $1,700 of this for road and poor-farm debts.
Il Including payment toward road-debt; about $1,000 a year.
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Town-
Year.
Highways.
Schools.
charges.
1846
$1,500
$1,000
$3,500 *
1847
1,500
1,000
3,200 *
1848
1,575
1,000
4,000 *
1849
1,500 +
1,300
3,500 *
1850
1,100 ±
1,300
3,000 *
1851
1,300
1,300
5,000 *
1852
1,400
1,300
3,500 *
1853
1,400
1,500 §
2,500
1854
1,500
1,500
2,800 ||
1855
1,700
1,500
3,500 ||
1856
2,000
2,000 T
4,000 |
SELECTMEN.
The following is a list of the Selectmen of Templeton from the beginning to the present time. From 1762 to 1786, the whole original township was together. In 1786, the town of " Gerry " was set off from Templeton.
1762. Jason Whitney. Joshua Hyde. Abner Newton.
1763. Nathaniel Holman. Charles Baker. Jonas Wilder.
1764. John Richardson.' Charles Baker. Ebenezer Wright.
Jonas Wilder. Abel Hunt.
1765. Joshua Church. Joshua Wright. Jason Whitney. Jonathan Hohnan.
Samuel Sawyer.
1766. Charles Baker. Ebenezer Wright. Abel Hunt. Jonas Wilder. Joshua Wright.
* Including payment toward road-debt; about $1,000 a year.
+ $300 of this in money.
# From 1850 to the present time, the highway-taxes have been made payable in money.
§ $141 additional expended for school-apparatus.
|| From 1854 to 1856, $3,000 additional was assessed each year for the new roads.
T $350 granted for High School, beside the $2,000 for the common schools.
** Moses Whitney was elected on the resignation of John Richardson.
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