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5-£5-Is, Robert Maklem, William Gilmore.
66 6-£5-oos, Thomas Dick, James Sloan.
66 7-04-18s, George Pettison, William Gray.
60 8-64-12s, John Dick, James Hood. 66
.66 66 9-£4-Ios, John Savige, James Harkness.
66 10-£4-8s, Hannah Lothridge, John Gray.
66 II-£4-6s, Robert King, William Crossett.
.66 12-£4-oos, Ichabod Crossett, Thomas Hamilton.
60 13-£3-14s, John Blair, Thomas Cochran.
66 66 14-63-125, John Hunter, Isaac Gray.
66 66 15-£3-Ios, Robert McCulloch, Hugh Johnson.
66 16-£3-6s, Alexander Turner, David Cowden.
17-£3-25, William Harkness, James Dunlap.
18-£3-Is, John Conkey, Elizabeth Selfridge.
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66 19-£3-oos, Jonathan Gray, John Clark.
66 20 -- £2-15s, William Fergerson, John Stevenson.
. 21-£2-Ios, Andrew Maklem, Alexander Conkey.
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66 22-£2-8s, Ephriam Cowan, John Lucore.
.66 66 23-£2-2s, John Gray Jun, James Taylor.
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66 24-{2-oos, David Huston, Alexander McCulloch.
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25-£1-18s, James McConel, John McCartney.
66 26-£1-17s, Sarah Cowan, James Cowan.
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66 27-£1-oos, John Lindsay.
The above allotment did not satisfy the people however and it was sometime before it was finally settled. At a Meeting on August 6, 1769 "It was voted that the elderly Men and their Wives be seated in the front part Seats Below, Provided they clear them on Sacra- ment Days .- Voted that the front seats all round the Gallery be . seated by the Present Valuation, and only the Heads of familys sit in said Seats.
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August 31, 1767 Alexander Conkey, Clerk of the Market acknowl -- edged the reception from the selectmen of the various Weights and Measures and gave a receipt for them.
MEETING, MARCH 31, 1768.
March 31, 1768 "Robert Hamilton was allowed 3s for One Gallon of Rum for Raising the Bridge, " and John Peebles jun Is for " Making a branding iron for the town." Nov. 16 of the same year, Samuel Hyde, James Gilmore and George Thompson were voted " Liberty to build a Pew over the Women's Stears," and James. Campbell, Andrew Hamilton, James Cowden, William Cowden, David Conkey Jun, John Harkness, John Maklem and Jonathan Hood were voted liberty to build a pew over the "Men's Stears."" From other matters of record it appears that the persons to whom these liberties were voted were young men who wished seats in the Meeting House for their own special use.
April 11, 1799. It was voted that the Town Pew be moved to where it first stood and the Nixt Pew be as Large as the town Pew and the Corner Pew to have the rest of the ground. John Dick, Hugh Johnston and Archibald Croset were chosen to provide: shingles to finish Roof of the Meeting house and to Imploy Workmen to Do Said Work.
In the town records for the year 1769 is the following entry which. shows that the trouble about the north line was still unsettled.
Pelham, March the twenty third one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine. Pursuant to a Notification issued by us the subscribers Selectmen of Pelham Requiring the selectmen of Shutesbury meet: us at the Northwest Corner of the township of Pelham and from thence pramble the line Between Said towns have attended Said Service the Day above written and there meet John Child and Silas. Wild Selectmen of Shutesbury and Preambled said Line until we- came against the Land of John Chamberline and there said Child and Wild refused further to Preamble said Line also giving the line: from thence Eastward not to be the true Line Between said towns.
ROBERT MAKLEM, WILLIAM CONKEY, DAVID COWDEN, Selectmen of Pelham.
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MEETING, MARCH 24, 1769.
Pelham March the 24 One Thousand seven hundred and Sixty Nine. Pursuant to a Notification Issued by us the Subscribers- Selectmen of Pelham Requesting the Selectmen of the District of New Salem to Meet us on the North Line of the township of Pelham aforesaid where the townships of Shutesbury and New Salem meet with said North line of Pelham have attended said service and there meet with Lieut. Foster, Isreal Richardson and Jeremiah Ballard selectmen of Said District the Day above-Said Selectmen of Said District Refused to Preamble the North line of Pelham with us Alledging the line we Claimed as the North line of the township of Pelham was Not the true line of said township but verbally agreed with us that upon a true copy of the Grant of the Equivalent Land being Procured so as thereby to obtain a certainty of the North East Corner of said Equivalent Land that they would extend a line from thence Due West Point of Compass the line between said towns.
ROBERT MAKLEM, WILLIAM CONKEY, DAVID COWDEN, Selectmen of Pelham
The following is a copy of a document which bears the heading :
" TOWN VENDUE.
Sold at Publick Vendue at ye Meeting House of Pelham ye 26 of Octhr 1769 to ye Persons Under Named Said Sums Set Down in old tenor viz.
Patrick Peebles 2 heaps of Shingles
foo -- 19s-ood
And" Ebercrombie Three heaps of Shingles
01-07 -06
Ebenezer Gray one heap of Shingles
00 -- 15 -- 00
Eisha Divenport two heaps of Shingles
01-19-06
Thos Johnston one heap of Shingles
01-12 -00
William Conkey one thousand of Nails
01-00 -00
Joseph Rinken one thousand of Nails Patrick Peebles one thousand of Nails
01-00 -00
Thos Johnston one thousand of Nails
01-00 -00
William Conkey one thousand of Nails
01-03
-00
Andw Meklem one thousand of Nails
01-00
-00
Andw Ebercrombie one thousand of Nails
01-02 -00
Patrick Peebles seven hundred of Nails
00-17 -00
John Conkey Jun one Binch
00-10
-00
Patrick Peebles two Plank
00-07
-00
Hugh Johnston 6.
00-07 -00
Patrick Peebles Nine Joyce
00-10 -00
John Dick Joyce
00-09
-00
Joseph Rinken Plank
00-09 -00
£17-06-00
GEORGE PATTISON Vendue Master."
00-19 -00
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PAID BY DICK, OLD TENOR.
Paid in Cash by John Dick to Thomas Dick for Rum Paid by John Dick in Change Paid Hamilton for Rum Troble Vendue Days For Collection
£00-178-06d 00-10 -00 CO-15 -00 02-00 -00 02-00 -00
Old tenor town Money
£6-02 -06
The town vendue 128 years ago seems to have been quite a social occasion judging from the quantity of liquor purchased by town Clerk John Dick with the town funds for use at that gathering. Just how the town came to have so many heaps of shingles and so many thousands of nails that they felt it necessary to sell to the highest bidder is not so easily determined, but probably the Meeting- house had been given a new roof after thirty years of service by the first roof that had been placed upon it, and these heaps of shingles and thousands of nails were left over and were distributed to those in need of them at vendue.
MEETING, JULY 12, 1770.
The matter of additions to Rev. Mr. Graham's "Sallery " came up for further consideration at a Meeting held July 12, 1770, and it was reaffirmed by vote that the bargain was as follows : "That there was to be a Standing Addition to Mr. Grahams Sallery of four Pounds at the End of Every three Years till it Amounts to from Sixty Pound to Eighty and there to Stand while he remains our Minister." In January, 1771, a committee was chosen to " Call the Men to an Account that had the care of the Town Stock of Ammu- nition." Osborn Brown and family were warned out of town in that same year, and James Hunter was allowed the legal fee of three shilling for executing the order.
MEETING, APRIL 16, 1772.
The record of a town meeting on the 16th of April, 1772, has the following singular entry : "Voted that Widow Graham Supply the Pulpit Four Sabbath Days." Rev. Mr. Graham died on the 25th of February, 1771, in the 32ª year of his age and in April, 1772, this vote requiring Widow Graham to supply the pulpit four Sabbaths was passed. As there were no women preachers in those days, we
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cannot believe that Mrs. Graham was to supply the pulpit by preach- ing herself, and are forced to the conclusion that from her own scanty means she was expected to pay the expense of a "Supplyer " for four Sabbaths.
The following September a Meeting was held and it was " Voted That the Selectmen is impowered to give Thomas Johnson a order on the Treasurer for the Charge of the Funerul when Mr. Graham was buried, Which is f1-18s-5d," also " voted that Thomas Dick, James Harkness, Thomas Cochran, William Crossett, John Dick and Robert Hamilton be a Committee with the Elders to treat with the Reverend Mr. Bay for a further trial in order for a settlement ; " but as no Mr. Bay was ever settled he either did not grant the further trial, or a further trial was unsatisfactory. Yet on the 14th of October, 1772, it was " Voted that there is Eighty Pound granted for the Reverend Mr. Andrew Bay by way of Settlement, provided he settle Among us."
MEETING, MARCH, 1773.
In March, 1773, it was "Voted that there is Sixty Pound Granted for the support of the Gospel provided Rev. Mr. Bay don't settle among us."
Three families were warned out this year (1773) and John Alex- ander was allowed the fees for doing the business and recording the warrants. And at the same Meeting the vote calling Mr. Bay to settle was recalled. The history of the Rev. Mr. Bay episode forces one to believe that these people hardly knew their own minds.
MEETING, Nov. 16, 1773.
At an adjourned Meeting held on the 16th of November, 1773, a committee chosen on the 9th of the same month reported as follows in answer to a communication from the committee of correspondence in Boston.
To the Committee of Correspondence in Boston, Gentlemen :
We have considered your Circular letters and are Not a little Shoked at the attempts upon the liberties of America, from Such Beginnings of Oppression upon the properties of the french Did that ill fatted & worse pated Lewis the thirteenth by the Cruel Craft of a richlieu with Bribes Lucrative posts Underhanded Treacheries fines
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imprisonments Banishments & Most treacherus and Bloody Masu- cries utterly sap the very foundations both of civil and Religious Liberty and establish arbitrary power in that new Kingdom of Slaves.
We replid back also upon the unhappy Reign of the Stuart family & bloody Struggles to subdue a free people to Nonresistance and Passive obedience. We have still a More feeling sense of the worth of our Liberties by the total loss of them in the conquered Kingdom of Ireland When altho made of the same one Blood they have a yoke of Iron Put upon there Necks & they must Serve their Conquerers with as much of their Money and Blood as they are pleased to demand and Sustain More Intolerable oppressions from these Legislative Masters & Unfeeling Landlords than some of the Barbarious Nations compared by the Ancient Romans before the Wars of there Empire.
This so greivous a yoke upon the Western Isle which neither they nor their fathers were able to Bear has driven them by hundreds & by thousands to bide a final adue to their otherwise Dear Native Land & Seek a peaceful Retreat from the bane of Oppressions in this American Wilderness.
Depending upon the faith of the Nation for all the priviliges Charterd to the American Colonies, we Cannot therfore but be greatly Alarmed at the News of the Incroachments upon the Natural and Chartered Rights of this Province where we have our abode. We drained our purses and Spiled not a little of our Dearest blood in the late War in defense of our Gracious King against frainch perfidy and Indian Barbarity in hops he would be a father to this Country and Protect our lives and all our Rights & Liberties. Nor can we tamely Surrender these Liberties Recieved with the Expense of so Much Blood and treasure from Cruel Saviges to the More unnatural invaders we cordially acquiess in Revolution Principls, we utterly Detest a Popish pretender to the throne .- We wish the Illustrous house of Hanover may long sway the Brittish Septer in truth & Justice,-we pray that in Righteousness the throns of His Present Majesty May be Established and be far from oppression & that he May Sit and Rule on a Quiet and unmolested throne in truth & Rightiousness till he Retorn at Last to a More Glorious throne above. But if When we look for Judgment behold there is a cry of
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oppression, if the Glorious things Prescribed for the Western King- dom Shall Extend there baneful Influences thrae thus American Territorys- if our money be taken from us Without our Consent, why not our Lands & Even our lives. We fear Whereunto these things May Grow. But after all the Detail of Greivances you Were pleased to Send us. We are obliged in Justice & Gratitude to acknowledge that We have many Invaluable Priviliges Not as yet Wrested from us & we take it as no Small Token of the Divine Dis- pleasure that we are so far threatened & Deprived as we are as Members of the Community Both for our own and the General Good we humbly offer as our opinions that we Study to be Quiet & do Nothing Rashly and avoid as much as Possible the Reproach of Muttny as moving Sedition, or in any Degree hurtful to King or Province. And let us have Patience alonger in our humble Suits for Justice to the British throne-in a Pious & Manly Sense of the worth of our Liberties .- Still Struggling by Lawful & Constitutional Measures to vindicate our Natural & Pactioned Rights let us do no Wrong, But Rather be wronged as we Learn by Doctor Sibs : that the wronged Side is the Safer Side. But if at length all our Humble Petitions for our own Natural or Promised Rights Shall be baffled & Refuge on Earth and Hops of Redress Shall fail us we trust We Shall be Wanting in nothing in our power by Laudable & Wholesome Counsel to Unite With our Dear Countrymen for our Mutual Good and Shall Venture our Properties & Lives in Executing any Plan Pointed out by the Supreme Ruler and as the innate and Principles of Self Preservation & love to our Posterity may oblige us. -Tho we would not be Munnors & Complainers Especially for Wrongs we do not Suffer, Nor Rashly Speak Evil of Dignities, Nor Represent those Called Benefactors as traitors to our Country Byond the truth of facts. Nevertheless we would unite our Testimony against all the Real Greivances Prescribed for us at this or any future Period, and if things Should Eare Long Proceed to an unhappy Rupture Betwixt the Mother Country and these Plantations, which Heaven forbid, We are Not at Present Much Intimidated with that Pompous Boasting on the other Side of the Water, Viz. that Great Brittain Could Blow America unto Attoms as we Cosider the Sighs of the oppressed & Good Wishes of Milions in the Mother Country to the Liberty and Weal Both of themselves and their own flesh, their Beloved Americans. We trimble not so much for our Selves in
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that Case in Particular as for the Rehealim in General and lest the Pillars of State should fall and we be left to Shift for our Selves with- out any Earthly King to Save us.
But we pray a Merciful Ruler to Avert Such a Judgement and not Suffer the things that Belong to the Nations peace to be hide from our Eyes so We Remain united with our breathren in the Common Cause of American Liberty.
ROBERT HAMILTON, JOHN HAMILTON, THOMAS COCHRAN, DAVID COWDEN, GEORGE PETTESON, Committee.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ACCEPTED NOV. 16, 1773.
The above extraordinary document was submitted to the patriotic citizens of the town assembled in town meeting at the Meeting House on that chill November day, and the record of their action follows :-
" Approved by vote of the town without Contradiction. It was also Resolved that the thanks of the town be returned With the above to the Said Committee in Boston for their honest faithful kind & Patriotit Zeal and Care in Stating our Rights & Showing us our Grievances and Giving such timely Notice.
Also Resolved at the Said Meeting that the Committee be & Remain as a Committee to Receive & Lay Before the town any further Intelligence that May be at any time Received from Boston Respecting our Liberties.
JOHN CRAWFORD, Moderator. Attest JOHN DICK, Town Clerk."
MEETING, APRIL 7, 1774.
At a Meeting of the town held on the 7th of April 1774 we find the following votes recorded.
Hugh Johnson was chosen Moderator.
£70 voted for support of the Gospel.
£30 voted for the support of Schools.
£60 voted for Making and Repairing highways.
Robert Hamilton was allowed five shilling that he lost in John Clark's Rats.
James Gilmore was allowed four shilling for "Warning Amos Whitting and family out of this town."
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George Petteson was allowed 12 shillings " that Doct' Jels Creach Kelog Charged for one visit to James Hyde in the year 1770."
Jeremiah Jackson was allowed 2 shillings for a "Warding Staff."
Daniel Gray was allowed £5-12s "for going to the Jersey Col- lege after a Minister."
William Fergerson was allowed 12s for taking care of the Meeting House the Past year.
Voted that "Timothy Ingram is Cleared of his Rats that is in John Alexander's List." (on account of sickness in his family)
MEETING, OCT. 3, 1774.
The town was beginning to feel the pressure of British power and resented all attempts at oppression. In a warrant for a meeting held on the 3d of October, 1774 was an article reading as follows:
" To see if the town will make an addition to the Committee of Correspondants " and James Harkness, James Halbert, Ebenezer Gray and Daniel Gray were added to that Committee.
The town had been without a settled Minister since the death of Rev. Richard Crouch Graham in 1771 and dependent upon "Suply- ers," but on the 23d of Nov., 1774 a call was extended to Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Merrill to settle as Minister of the town and £70 voted in the way of a settlement and £80 yearly salary so long as he con- tinued as their Gospel Minister.
MEETING, DEC. 27, 1774.
A Committee consisting of William Harkness, William Crossett, Alexander McCulloch, Hugh Johnson and John Dick was chosen and named " A Committee of Inspection " whose duty was to follow the instructions of the Continental and Province Congresses.
MEETING, AUGUST 28, 1775.
It was "Voted that there is Preperation to be made for the Instal- ment of the Rev. Mr. Merrill-and that said Preperation be for Min- isters and other Gentlemen of Liberal Education, and that there is a Committee to be chosen to Provide for Said Gentlemen-said Com- mittee is Thomas Cochran, Robert Hamilton and James Halbert."
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James Halbert was also chosen assessor at this meeting "In the Room of Ebenezer Gray now in the War."
JOHN CRAWFORD, Moderator.
Ebenezer Gray is the first town officer of whom we find mention of being in the war early in 1775, but that there were men from the town at the front early in that year is proven by the following letter which we copy from the original.
Charlestown, Agust the 4th, 1775.
Frand Dick these Linds I write to you and your famaly hoping that they will find you all Wall as they Lave my Boy and I hart hole heer all this time thank God for it and we are all pretty Wall that Belongs to Pelham and as for News you must Reed the prants because I cannot send you any that is Sarten to Depand upon for truth only you Need Not Bee afraid of the Daviel in Pelham this Summer for he has his handful to Dow heer and I know that hee is ashamed of his under taken Salfridge is wall and Sands his Love to all Inquiring frands Capt Cowden Sands his Love to you all ! Excuse my writing Sir when you Look on the paper and Reed the above writing So Know more at prasant But I Remain your Loving frand and humbul Sarvant.
JOHN WHITE.
Waltham Brown is Wall-so no more
Sir go and Reed the whole to my wife and you will abladge me much
Loving Wife and Children-I hope that these will find you all wall as they Lave us-I must Bee Short! gat 2 or 3 Bushel of Solt as quick as you Can for it will Bee Deer and what the Barn will Not Winter the Saller Sall and give them as good a Chance as you Can and as for my Coming home I Can Not if you Sant ten men in my Room-Do as wall as you Can So No more at prasant But I am your Loving Husban till Dath
JOHN WHITE
From this above interesting letter we learn that at the time it was written all the men belonging in Pelham were well, which leaves us to infer that there was quite a company of Pelham men at Charlestown. Probably Capt. Cowden and his company of Pelham men were there.
COMMITTEE OF SAFETY CHOSEN.
March 29, 1776, a Committee of Safety was chosen. Thomas Cochran, John Hamilton, George Petteson, Ebenezer Gray, Peter Bennett, Daniel Gray and James Dunlap constituted this committee.
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Jonathan Gray was allowed £1 14s expense money for bringing up Mr. Merrill and family,-and Widow Hamilton was allowed £2 2s for the journey of her late husband to the Presbyterie.
William Conkey was allowed f1 for conveying provisions to Watertown, which without doubt were for the support of soldiers from the town, or others in the army.
Up to about this time the selectmen in directing the constables to warn the voters of a Town Meeting had used the following form :
HAMPSHIRE SS.
To John Rinkin & Eliot Gray Constables of the town of Pelham within the County of Hampshire Greeting. You are hereby required to warn & give Notice to all the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Pel- ham Duly Qualified to vote in town affairs to meet togither on the 31 Day of Dec Current to act upon the following Particulars &c.
WILLIAM HARKNESS, HUGH JOHNSON, JONATHAN GRAY & JAMES DUNLAP, Selectmen of Pelham. Dec. 23, 1776.
The first appearance of the new form was at the next recorded meeting and was as follows :
HAMPSHIRE SS.
To Mr Eliot Gray & John Rinkin Constables of the town of Pelham within the County of Hampshire Greeting-You are in the name of the People & Stats of the Bay Colony to warn and give Notice to all the free- holders and other inhabitants of the town of Pelham Qualified to vote in town affairs to assemble and meet togither on Monday the 17 Day of March Current.
Dated at Pelham, March 3, 1777.
WILLIAM HARKNESS, HUGH JOHNSON, JONATHAN GRAY, JAMES DUNLAP, Selectmen of Pelham.
The form was soon changed to read-" In the name of the people of the state of Massachusetts. Bay" or "In the name of the people of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay " etc.
Under date of Jan. 7, 1776 and with the underwritten marginal note we find the following :
HAND BILL FROM THE COURT FOR INDEPENDENCY.
In the House of Representatives .-- A resolve of the late House of Repre- sentatives Passed on the tenth of May, 1776 that the Inhabitants of each town in this Colony ought in full meeting warned for that Purpose, to Advise the Person or Persons who should be Chosen to Represent them in the Nixt Genrul Court, Whether, Should the Honorable Congress for the Safety of the Colonies Declare them Independents of the Kingdom of
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Great Brittain, they, the Said Inhabitants will Solemnly Engage With themselves and fortunes to support them in the Measure, and, Whereas said Resolve though Published in the Public News Papers yet it has since Been Manifest to the Present House that Some Actions in said Colony were not so Seasonably favored with the said Points as to have it in their Power to Instruct their Representative Agreable to Advice in said Resolve had they so Minded. So that the General Assembly are unable to Collect the Senti- ments of Many towns in said Colony on so Interesting & Important a Sub- ject & as towns who had Seasonable Notice Have given their Representa- tives Instructions to Comply fully with the late House aforesaid Whose number to the honor of their Constituents are Very Numerous, and as some of the United Colonies have of late Bravely Refused to subject themselves to the tyranical yoke of Great Brittain any longer by Declaring for Inde- pendence-therefore Resolved, as the opinion of this House that such towns as have not Complied with the Resolve Aforesaid Whither they are Repre- sented or not, duly warn a town Meeting for such purpose as soon as may be, that their sentimets may be fully known to this House agreeable to fermore Resolve of the late House of Representatives & that one hundred & fifty hand bills be forthwith Printed and Sent to such towns for the Pur- pose aforesaid. By Order of the House : T. WARREN, Speaker.
By order of this hand Bill We Have Warned & Given Notice to the Inhabitants of Pelham East & West of the Cross Road Qualified to vote in town affairs to meet according to orders.
Pelham, June the Eighteenth, 1776.
ELLIOT GRAY & JOHN RINKEN, Constables.
MEETING, JUNE 20, 1776.
Record of the above warned meeting :
" Att a meeting of the freeholders & other Inhabitants of the town of Pelham meet and Assembled togither on Thursday the twentieth day of June 1776 then meet and first was Chosen Daniel Gray, Moderator. Secondly, Voted by Unanimous Vote that we are willing to Come Under Independuncy from under the yoke of the King of Great Brittain, Provided the Contnental Congress see fite in their Wisdom to Establish Independence in the Colonies for their Safety.
DANIEL GRAY, Moderator.
That the town had already quite a number of men in the army is shown by action in town meeting on Dec. 31, 1776, when Abizer Edson and Andrew Abercrombie were chosen assessors "in room of John Hamilton and James Caldwell McMullen Gone to the War."
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