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No. 88. - JEREMIAH HOW.
Granted 1721 ; sold 1747 to Ichabod How.
No. 89. - HEIRS OF THOMAS BETTIS.
Granted 1721 ; sold same year to Obadiah Rice.
No. 90. - JOHN CLARY.
Granted 1701 ; sold to Ebenezer How. See No. 75.
NO. 91. - THOMAS BETTIS.
Granted 1701 ; sold 1721 to Obadiah Rice.
No. 92. - ABRAHAM AYRES.
Granted 1714. Within this grant were fifteen acres of meadow be- longing to Sergt. John Ayres, deceased, John Younglove, deceased, and John Warner, deceased. The lot was conveyed 1727 to Gershom Keyes, to Samuel Porter same year, and to William Ayres in 1731. The first schoolhouse in old Brookfield was located in the south-west part of this grant. [See ante, p. 200.]
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No. 93. - JOSHUA BARRUS.
Granted 1714 ; sold 1724 to Joseph Ayres.
No. 94. - JOHN GREEN.
Granted 1702 ; and he settled on the lot soon after. [See ante, pp. I72-4.]
No. 95. - ROBERT EMMONS.
Granted 1702; sold 1732 to Nathaniel Reed, who sold 1736 to Job Hinckley, " with a house kept as an Inn."
No. 96. - JOSHUA BARRUS AND HENRY DWIGHT.
Granted 1713 and 1718 ; sold to Ebenezer How of Marlboro, black- smith, and to Obadiah Rice in 1719, and in 1733 to Hugh Cunningham.
No. 97. - JOHN PARSONS.
Granted 1714; sold to Obadiah Rice, and the west part to Mirick Rice, then in 1772 to James Drake, in 1785 to Abraham Walker, in 1 790 to James Smith, then to Jude Ayres, and in 1816 to John Deland.
No. 98. - JOSEPH PERRY AND OTHERS.
Twenty acres of north-east part granted 1710 to Joseph Perry, then known as Smith's meadow, being "about a mile north-east the horse shades." The west part may have been conveyed to Hopestill Hinds.
No. 99. - JONAS HAMILTON.
Granted 1720 ; sold to John Hamilton, and 1729 to Roger Stevens.
NO. 100. - MEADOW LOTS.
Granted to John Woolcott, jr., and others.
NO. 101. - JOHN WOOLCOTT, JR.
Granted 1721, being " near the old bridge." This appears to be the lot granted Woolcott " on condition that he doth erect and build a saw mill," which he soon after set up at north-west corner of the lot.
No. 102. - ARTHUR TUCKER AND THOMAS AYRES.
The east part was granted 1714 to Thomas Ayres, and sold 1722 to Jacob Abbott ; the west part was granted 1718 to Arthur Tucker.
No. 103. - JOHN HINDS.
Granted 1710; sold 1715 to Thomas Baker ; part granted to Baker 1713, sold 1726 to John Green, and thirty acres of north-east part sold to Paul Deland.
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No. 104. - SAMUEL OWEN.
Granted 1710 ; sold 1720 "with a house " to Thomas Gibbs, who sold 1747 to Francis Dodge of Beverly.
No. 105. - EDWARD KELLOGG.
Granted 1701; conveyed 1719, together with Nos. 96 and 106, to Ebenezer How ; and in 1735 to Josiah Converse of Leicester.
No. 106. - JOHN CLARY.
Granted 1701, with three acres of meadow at "Tower hill " (the first time that name appears on the records, said meadow being at south-west corner of No. 51) ; sold 1719 to Ebenezer How, and same year to Oba- diah Rice of Marlboro.
No. 107. - STEPHEN JENNINGS.
The south part granted 1701, and sold to Eli Forbes ; the north part granted to Obadiah Rice.
NO. 108. - NATHANIEL WOOLCOTT.
Granted 1717.
No. 109. - JOHN WOOLCOTT, JR.
Granted 1687 ; a grist mill was built on the lot before 1717, and the house now, 1886, standing was built as early as 1723 ; conveyed 1725, with the new house, to Nathaniel Woolcott "to have the same after my decease and not before." Nathaniel conveys the same by will, probated 1771, to son-in-law John Waite ; who conveys 1800 to Nathaniel Waite, and next year John and Nathaniel quit-claim to Aaron Forbes, who con- veys 1808 to Jonathan Parks.
NO. 110. - JOHN PERRY.
Granted 1701, and built upon the same year. This lot was conveyed to John Hamilton, and by him, together with No. III, was sold 1729 to Roger Stevens, in 1734 to Thomas Stevens, in 1743 to Jacob Stevens, and same year to Job Hinckley, who by will gave it to his son David ; sold 1754 to John Hamilton, 1760 to Obadiah Deland, 1771 to Samuel Hinckley, who sold to Silas Haskell, and by him to Francis Hair.
NO. III. - JOSEPH PERRY.
Granted 1721. See No. IIO.
NO. 112. - BENJAMIN BABBITT.
Granted 1770.
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No. 113. - SAMUEL OWEN.
Granted 1721.
No. 114. - MARGARET OTIS alias LE BUE.
Granted Dec. 9, 1714, on condition that she "tarry s in this Province, and marry s to Capt. Thomas Baker." This grant of forty acres of upland, took in the east part of the lot. [See ante, pp. 186.] The lot was sold to John Hamilton.
No. 115. - THOMAS BETTIS.
Granted 1701, and built upon the same year. [See ante, pp. 159, 166.] Sold by his heirs 1721 to Obadiah Rice, who conveyed same year to Daniel Walker.
No. 116. - JOHN HAMILTON.
Granted 1717, as part of an allowance for encouragement " to set up the trade of a maltster."
No. 117. - JOSEPH WOOLCOTT.
Granted 1687, and soon built upon. This was the scene of the mur- der of Woolcott's wife and two children, by the Indians July 27, 1693. [See ante, pp. 146 et seq.] John Hamilton bought out the heirs of Woolcott and sold 1721 to John Johnson, jr., of Woodstock, Ct. ; sold 1741 to Zachariah Brown, in 1764 to Jonathan Richardson of Natick, who sold 1797 to Levi Daniels of Medway.
No. 118. - JOHN WOOLCOTT, SEN.
Granted 1687. [See ante, p. 138.] Came into possession of his heirs at his decease in 1690.
No. 119. - THOMAS GIBBS.
Granted 1721.
No. 120. - JOSEPH PERRY.
Granted 1710. A house was standing on the lot in 1721, built ·probably soon after the date of the grant. Sold 1730 to John Hamilton.
No. 121. - STEPHEN JENNINGS, SEN.
Granted 1710; the first eleven acres on the north side of the road to S. J., and the remainder to several other parties.
No. 122. - JOHN GREEN.
Granted 1721.
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No. 123. - JOHN WOOLCOTT.
Granted 1720.
No. 124. - EDWARD WALKER.
Granted 1710 and 1721 ; conveyed 1740 to Jonas Clark, of Boston.
NO. 125. - PHINEHAS WALKER.
Granted 1718; sold 1736 to Jonas Clark.
NO. 126. - NATHANIEL WOOD.
Granted 1720; conveyed to Jonas Clark. The above three grants, with other lands adjoining on the southerly side, in all estimated at one thousand acres, were conveyed 1744 to George Harrington of Waltham, " with three houses, two barns, grist-mill, saw-mill, blacksmith's shop and corn houses thereon," for the consideration of £5,000, old tenor. Har- rington came to reside here.
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ADDENDA BY THE COMMITTEE.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. - ST. JOSEPH'S PARISH IN NORTH BROOKFIELD.
AT the writing of the notice of this church (ante, p. 286) the facts at hand were so meagre that it seems proper that something more definite should now be said in regard to it. Services were held for the first time by the Catholics in North Brookfield (who then numbered about fifty) in June, 1851 ; and soon after this town became a mission of Webster, and Father Levecque from there attended to its interests, and afterwards Father Mignault and Rev. James Quan of the same place. About the year 1860 the town became a mission of Ware, and was under the super- vision of Rev. P. Healy, who was succeeded by Rev. William Moran of the same town.
In 1862 the site of the present church was purchased by Rev. P. Healy ; and in October, 1866, the erection of the present church was commenced, under the direction of Rev. William Moran. It was com- pleted in July, 1867, and a resident pastor, Rev. Edward Turpin, was appointed to take charge of the parish ; he died here only one year after his appointment, and was buried at Fitchburg. He was succeeded by Rev. Henry M. Smyth, who, after three years' service, also died, and was buried here. He was succeeded by Rev. Michael Walsh, who con- tinued in the pastorate thirteen years and six months; but his health was very poor during the last year or more of this time, so he was able to perform but little pastoral service. He died while on a visit to his brother in Natick in May, 1885 ; he was brought to this town for burial, and a very large concourse of people, not only of his own parish, but of the citizens generally, attended his funeral, filling his church to its utmost capacity. The bishop and 'a very large number of the clergy were present, and took part in the service. He was buried in a vault in front of the church. Another appointment was immediately made, and the present incumbent, Rev. James P. Tuite, was transferred from Clinton, and took charge of the parish. He soon purchased the "G. B. Dewing place " for a parsonage, and occupied it in less than two months after his appointment. The society is in a prosperous and flourishing condi- tion, owning a church, parsonage with fifteen acres of land, and a cemetery of four acres, free from all encumbrance. The society has a membership of twenty-two hundred, and a sabbath school of four hundred and fifty pupils.
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CHURCHES.
METHODIST-EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
ADDITIONAL to and explanatory of what has been said of meeting- houses (see pp. 251, 277, and 284), there is evidence that the first meeting-house (see p. 249) was vacated by the parish when it began to occupy its new house, built in 1823, and dedicated Jan. 1, 1824 ; but the old house was left standing until about 1832, and during a part of this time it was occupied by the Methodists, who evidently became the owners of the land on which it stood, and after its removal built their first house upon the same spot. The old house was sold at auction to one Southworth, who used the two side porches in the construction of a dwelling-house on the east side of North Main Street, nearly opposite to the residence of the late Hon. Freeman Walker; and the main house was taken down. The Methodists occupied their new house at the Lower Village until 1846, when, in order to be more central, they held their meetings in the Town Hall in the Upper Village, and other places (see p. 284). In 1853 they moved their meeting-house from the Lower to the Upper Village, locating it on Spring Street ; but before it had been fully repaired it was destroyed by fire, Feb. 24, 1854 ; and the Methodist- Episcopal Church and Society was without a meeting-house of their own till the one on Grove Street, now occupied by them, was built in 1860.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
IN addition to what is said (ante, p. 277) about the remodelling of the meeting-house of the First Congregational Society in 1874, the following particulars are given : The pews were appraised for $4,672, and removed to open the way for a different manner of seating. One of Hook & Co.'s organs was put in, costing $3,000. The amount expended upon the house, including the two items above named, was about $17,000. The horse-sheds upon parish land were bought in by the society, and put into good repair ; and thus all individual ownerships were extin- guished. The money to meet all the expenses was raised by subscrip- tion. After the re-dedication of the house, Oct. 15, 1874, the money for parish expenses was obtained from annual rentals of the seats, until 1885 ; since which time the seats are made free, and the money raised by subscription.
In 1886 the society, in order to meet a long-felt want, voted to erect a connecting building between the meeting-house and chapel, 55 feet long and 22 feet wide, containing a kitchen and two large, commodious parlors and two dressing-rooms.
The entire cost of this new building and its inside furnishings was about $2,000, the money for which was obtained by subscription, through the efforts of the ladies.
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TOWN HOUSES.
THE first Town House (so called) was erected in 1833 by fifty-three different shareholders, on land which appears to have been deeded by Daniel Gilbert, Esq., to the town and the parish for such a purpose (the same being now a part of the site of the Union Congregational meeting- house). These citizens organized Oct. 4, 1832, under the name of the " North Brookfield Town House Company ; " Tyler Batcheller President, Jonathan Cary Vice-President, Thomas Jones Secretary, and Joseph Doane Treasurer, after sixty-six shares (probably at ten dollars each) seem to have been subscribed for.
The building was occupied by the town, the parish, and by School District No. 2 as tenants, under certain conditions, until Nov. 2, 1836, when forty-five shares, at seven dollars and a half each, were transferred to said School District No. 2, and the company disbanded. The district continued in ownership and occupancy ; renting privileges to the town and to the parish, and renting the Hall for various purposes while the building stood.
In this Hall occurred some of the most stirring speeches and debates upon American Slavery by Garrison, Phillips, Abby Kelley, John M. Fiske, and others from out of town, and by Rev. Dr. Snell, the Walkers, Deacon Moore, and others in town, that ever resounded from the walls of any edifice in this place. Here the voices of Jonathan Walker, I .. Moody, William Johnson, Dr. Thomas Lafon, and others, were raised against slavery ; and of Elihu Burritt, Amasa Walker, and others, in favor of the cessation of international wars. Here also the tall, slim, youthful, and studious Charles Sumner made his first appearance in the town, in his lecture upon " The Value of Time," opening with these quoted words, " I have lost a day."
DESTRUCTION OF THE BUILDING.
In the early winter of 1846, while a Sunday evening meeting was being held in the Hall by the Methodists, the preacher from his place in the desk noticed near the remote south-east corner, over a lamp, a hole burned through the plastering, and notified the congregation, which im- mediately broke up; and it was found that the attic and roof were well on fire, and, as there was no means of suppressing the fire, the whole structure was soon in ruins.
By deed dated March 5, 1847, the town bought of George H. Lowe, for two thousand dollars, the " Old White Store," and the land there- with.
The store building was sold to Edmund Smith for about three hundred and fifty dollars, and removed, at an expense to the town of sixty-six dol-
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lars, to Mr. Smith's land on the corner of Main and Maple Streets, and used as a part of his shoe manufactory ; and now (in 1887) is occupied by the Knights of Labor organization as a store and hall, it having been recently very nicely fitted up for them by the present owners, Messrs. E. & A. H. Batcheller & Co.
The town, by their building committee, Freeman Walker, William Adams, Pliny Nye, Bonum Nye, Charles Duncan, Timothy P. Clark, and Chauncy Edmands, soon after the purchase of the land, erected a new building, probably about fifty by seventy-five feet on the ground, costing a little over nine thousand dollars. The basement story was occupied as a stove and tinware shop, meat-market, etc. ; the ground story on the Main Street as a store or stores ; and the rear or west end was finished off as the "Lower Town Hall," and used for small meetings, schools, etc., until the partition was removed, and the room added to the rear end of the stores. The Town Hall and ante-rooms occupied all of the next story above, and the upper or attic story was used as a pocket-book manufactory, and for other purposes.
About six o'clock P.M., Oct. 14, 1862, a fire was accidentally started in the north store occupied by Hiram Knight (the other, or south store, being occupied by George C. Lincoln), and the whole structure with nearly all its contents, including the Town Records, the books of the North Brookfield Savings Bank (Mr. Knight being then Town Clerk and Treasurer of the Savings Bank), and various records pertaining to School District No. 2, etc., was soon reduced to ashes. Two shoe manufacto- ries, two barns, and a part of the hotel were involved in the conflagration. Total losses about forty thousand dollars.
In 1863, the town by its committee, Charles Adams, jr., Freeman Walker, Gideon B. Dewing, Erastus Hill, and Dexter Stoddard erected its present Town House building at a cost of twenty thousand dollars.
In the basement are a market, a stove-store, and the town "Lock-up ; " in the ground story on Main Street there are three stores, and a good- sized room for town officers and town books; in the story next above is a spacious Town Hall and several ante-rooms ; and the upper story is devoted to an assessors' room, and for storage purposes. Ever since the building was erected the yearly rents received for the use of stores and the Hall have amounted to considerable more than a fair rate of in- terest on the entire investment.
SCHOOLHOUSES.
IN addition to what is said in relation to schools on pp. 255 and 256, the parish records show that the first schoolhouse built at the expense of the parish was the one built in 1759, located about twenty-five rods north of the meeting-house (see ante, 255), and on the spot now occu-
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pied by the Potter house, - Daniel Potter's house at that time being located further east, on the higher ground. The location of this house was changed to near where the present house stands, just north of the old meeting-house site. It was there burnt in 1816. A new one was erected, and made long enough for two schoolrooms, continuing to be used by District No. 1 till 1871, when it was sold to William Fullam and removed to the foot of Kittridge hill; and the fine two-story school- house now standing on nearly the same location was erected by the town at a cost of nearly $6,000. The town also built a new schoolhouse in No. 8 the same year, costing $1,860.
In 1847, the year after the destruction of the so-called Town House, the inhabitants of School District No. 2 purchased the Grove lot of Daniel Gilbert, Esq., for $1,000, and erected a schoolhouse thereon 42 X 64 feet, - a one-story building, 14 feet posts, containing two spacious rooms, and costing about $2,500. About four years later the house was raised, adding two more schoolrooms under the same roof.
About twenty-five years ago District No. 3 built a new house, and the other districts repaired or reconstructed their schoolhouses from time to time.
The first high-school house (a frame building) was built by the town in 1856, on land purchased of Dea. Tyler Batcheller, on Grove street, costing $8,000 or more. The lower story was used as a schoolroom, and the upper was finished off as a hall.
Somewhere about 1867 the hall was taken for a high-school room, and the lower story was rented to School District No. 2 for a schoolroom until 1869. This building was burnt May 14, 1878, the fire starting (probably) from the furnace in the basement, which was also occupied as an engine-house for the fire-engines and other apparatus of a kindred nature, and these were also mostly destroyed.
During the same year the present brick high-school house was erected by the town at a cost of $15,000 or more ; and also the brick engine- house near the District No. 2 Grove schoolhouse, so called.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
AFTER the arrangement in 1765 (see School Districts, ante, p. 256), the number of schoolhouses in the parish had increased to five ; in 1871 to six ; and sometime afterward another was added.
"At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Second Precinct in Brookfield on the 30th day of March, A.D. 1791, Voted Lieut. Wil- liam Ayres Moderator. Voted to appoint a committee of nine men to take up the matter respecting schooling ; to consider the circumstances of all parts of the Precinct, and report to the Precinct the number of Districts that in their opinion will be most convenient, and to propose to
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the Precinct the division of the Districts. Voted that Lieut. William Ayres, Capt. Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Hale Esq., Capt. Jonas Brigham, Lieut. Jonas Newell, Daniel Forbes Esq., Capt. John Waite, Lieut. Isaac Church, and Mr. Rufus Hamilton be the committee."
Said committee reported Apr. 13, 1791, recommending the division of the Precinct into six Districts. It was voted to accept and adopt the report, and the meeting was dismissed.
But so much dissatisfaction was found to exist, that a new meeting was called, and held Aug. 29, 1791, and a new committee of seven men was chosen, consisting of Benjamin Adams, Thomas Hale, Esq., Lieut. Jonas Newell, Mr. Jonas Bigelow, Daniel Forbes, Esq., Lieut. Isaac Church, and Lieut. Rufus Hamilton, to take up the matter at large respecting schooling, and report to the Precinct the number of Districts that in their opinion will be most convenient ; and to propose the limits of the same, endeavoring to make them as nearly equal as the nature of things will admit ; and that they report to the Precinct the particular spots or places where, in their opinion, the several schoolhouses cught to stand.
Sept. 26, 1791, the committee reported ; but their report was debated and not accepted. Oct. 4, the same committee submitted their report, with alterations, which was accepted. They recommended that the schoolhouses by the meeting-house and by Samuel Cheever's, and the one by Theophilus Potter's, and by Nathan Moore's, and the one near Daniel Forbes', and the one near the house of William Ayres, 2d, should stand in the places where they now are, unless removed by an agree- ment of the District. They also recommended that the Southeast Dis- trict should re-unite and remove their schoolhouse to the corner of the road near Mr. Thomas Hathaway's (now Loren G. Sherman's), which removal seems not to have ever taken place. The seven Districts were to consist of the following inhabitants ; viz., -
CENTRE DISTRICT (LATER, DISTRICTS NOS. I AND 2).
William Ayres, Onesipherus Ayres, Benjamin Adams, Buenos Ayres, Jabez Ayres, Jonas Ayres, Lucy Baldwin, Thomas Bond, Abner Bartlett, Jonas Brewer, Thomas Ball, Susannah Bartlett, Wyman Bartlett, Samuel Bemis, Hugh Cunningham, Solomon Dewing, Hannah Gilbert, Wheat Gilbert, Reuben Gilbert, Rufus Hardy, Benjamin Hickox, Israel Hamil- ton, Dudley Jordan, Jacob Kittridge, Charles Knowlton, John Potter, Jonathan Pickard, Samuel Pickard, Thompson Rawson, Benjamin Gil- bert, James Smith, Solomon Barnes.
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NORTHWEST DISTRICT (LATER, DISTRICT NO. 4).
William Dane, William Dane, jr., Joseph Dane, Ephraim Cutter, Elijah Cutter, Thomas Barnes, Abiel Chase, Abijah Potter, Francis Stone, John Stevens, 2d, Nathaniel Waite, Joseph Waite, Ebenezer Nye, Thomas Hale, Thomas Hale, jr., Nathan Barns, Ezra Tucker, Josiah Cary, Samuel Cheever, Samuel Haskell, Jonas Brigham, Jason Bigelow, John Lamson, Paul Haskell, John Rainger, Joshua Rainger, Samuel Hoar, Jasiel Kendrick, Thomas Kendrick, Silas Howe, Perley Hale.
NORTH DISTRICT (LATER, DISTRICT NO. 5).
Theophilus Potter, Silas Potter, Thomas Potter, William Hunter, An- drew Hunter, Jesse Cutter, Josiah Witt, Lydia Wyman, Robert Hatha- way, Solomon Foster, Bryant Foster, Lemuel Foster, Joseph Poland, Charles Wetherbee, Samuel Knight, James Parkis, Rebecca Hubbard, Joshua Dodge, jr., Nathaniel Dodge, 2d, Artemas Dodge, Joshua Barnes, Nathan Carruth, James Weston, James Weston, jr., Jonas Bigelow, Aaron Kimball.
NORTHEAST DISTRICT (LATER, DISTRICT NO. 6).
Jonas Newell, Daniel Potter, Nathaniel Snow, Joseph Snow, John Hunter, John Bell, Robert Cutler, Abigail Wright, Nathan Moore, Seth Babbit, George Townsend, Ebenezer Parkman, jr., Abijah Cutler, jr., Aaron Forbes, Peter Washburn, Eli Ayres, Samuel Edmands, John Ed- munds, Joseph Bush, Samuel Edmands, jr.
EAST DISTRICT (LATER, DISTRICT NO. 7).
Roger Bruce, William Hubbard, Eli Howe, Ephraim Howe, John Raymond, Barnabas Brigham, Lucy Jenks, Nicholas Jenks, David Wat- son, Oliver Hinds, Jonathan Goodale, Josiah Goodale, Nathan Bartlett, Eleazer Bradshaw, William Taylor, Daniel Forbes, Ezra Richmond, John Hinds, Joseph Watson, Eli Hall, John Drake, Stephen Bridges, Nathaniel Bartlett, Eli Bartlett, John Stevens, Thomas Hardy, Ebenezer Harwood, Peter Harwood, John Rice.
SOUTHEAST DISTRICT (LATER, DISTRICT NO. 8).
Ezekiel Stevens, Jeduthan Stevens, Roger Stevens, Silas Stevens, Jude Stevens, Samuel Hair, Daniel Ball, Lemuel Adams, Thomas Hathaway, Enos Hathaway, Timothy Skinner, John Wolcott, John Wolcott, jr., John Waite, Joseph Waite, Nathaniel Waite, Lemuel Waite, John Waite, jr., Thomas Moore, Isaac Moore, Joshua Moore, Jonathan Richardson, John Jennings, Thomas Moore, jr., Elisha Harrington, Isaac Church.
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SOUTHWEST DISTRICT (LATER, DISTRICT NO. 3).
Moses Ayres, Moses Ayres, jr., Jude Ayres, Increase Ayres, Samuel Hinkley, Moses Barnes, James Converse, William Ayres, 2d, Nathaniel Dodge, Philip Deland, Jedediah Deland, Merrick Rice, Cheney Rice, Perez Samson, William Barnes, Joseph Rainger, Timothy Green, Thomas Ayres, Nathaniel Dodge, jr., Daniel Gilbert, Humphrey Gilbert, Rufus Hamilton, Peter Hill, Thomas Hill, Peter Hill, jr., John Tyler, Gideon Tyler, Jonathan Barnes, Frederick Barnes, Francis Barnes, Elkanah Babbit.
The Precinct ratified the doings of the committee ; and with the ex- ception of the division of the Centre District into No. I and No. 2, in 1833, district lines remained substantially the same until 1869, when the district system, as such, was abolished by the town, under legislative authority, all the school-district property passing into the ownership of the town, the property having been appraised by a committee, as follows, to wit : District No. 1, $400 ; No. 2, $6,800 ; No. 3, $542 ; No. 4, $591 ; No. 5, $336 ; No. 6, $620 ; No. 7, $407; No. 8, $225 ; total, $9,921; to pay which sum a tax was assessed upon the whole town, with overlay- ings of $89.49, making a total tax of $10,010.49 ; on each poll $1.90 ; on each dollar 51% mills ; and from this tax there was remitted to each tax-payer his proportion of the appraised value of the school property in the district to which he belonged.
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