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Doubtless Barstow had neighbors within a half mile in Scituate, and probably within the same distance in Pembroke, but the Pioneers accepted privation and solitude without repining. Work was to be done, and brave hearts and strong hands went to- gether.
Why this particular lot of land was selected by Mr. Barstow it is of course impossible to say. Presumably the low part, thereof, was desirable for the meadow hay, and possibly the up- land may have been suitable for cultivation.
How much of the land of Hanover at this date was an unbroken forest no one can tell, but probably ninety per cent. at least. Very few of the early deeds or allotments indicate the nature of the land allotted. But at North Hanover, near the Norwell line, this level tract of land is spoken of in 1692 as the "grassy plain";
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and it is quite certain that the field on Main street on which the Curtis School House stands, was also in 1692 suitable for cultiva- tion, and the records indicate, by reference, one or two other places which must have been cleared land.
In the settlement at Scituate Harbor in 1628, the "Green Field" is referred to, and Deane says "so-called, as we understand, because it had been an Indian planting ground, and was not covered with wood as the cliffs and glades were not covered with wood." In most cases probably the earliest settlers in the differ- ent parts of the town of Hanover selected places that were in part at least clear.
The growth of Hanover was slow, but as early as 1700 scattered settlements had been made up Broadway and Elm street, as far as the Pembroke line,-up Washington street as far as East street, with one or two houses on the latter street,-on the lands east of Washington street, and south of Mill street. It is also probable that there were a very few houses at West Hanover, south of Summer street, as the Drinkwater Mill was constructed before 1694.
When Hanover was incorporated, all but the northwest and northeast part had houses scattered about, although if an east and west line had been drawn through the center of the town it is doubtful if there were more than twenty houses north of this line.
Barry says the population of Hanover at the date of her incorporation was three hundred, but probably a sixth part of these were on that part afterwards annexed to Pembroke.
Just where the first "Town Meeting" was held is uncertain. Tradition says, in the dwelling house now owned by Rev. William H. Dowden. There was a school house near the Center, and perhaps this was used. As soon as the meeting house was com- pleted, all town meetings thereafter were held in that building
until the "town house" was erected in 1826. This first town house stood very near where now stands the meeting house, and was a one story unpainted building, standing about ten feet west of the church building of that time. Both of these buildings were burned in 1862. The entrance to this town house was from the south. There was no vestibule, and the seats (benches), which were framed with the building, ran north and south, each row being about one foot higher than the one in front of it. The "Desk," as it was called, was on the north end, the space in the center of the building being perhaps twelve feet in width.
The first Town Meeting was held on the 29th day of June,
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1727, as soon as possible after the incorporation of the town. There was very little business transacted at this meeting except to elect the important town officers who were as follows, viz : Joseph Barstow, Moderator; William Witherell, Town Clerk; Benjamin Curtis, James Hatch and Charles Stockbridge, Select- men; Jonathan Pratt and Samuel Barstow, Constables; Joseph Barstow, Town Treasurer; James Hatch, Joseph Josselyn and John Bailey, Surveyors of Highways; John Woodworth and James Torrey, Tything Men.
The second Town Meeting was held August 29, 1727, and the business transacted seems to have been simply to name a com- mittee to choose a minister.
On the 13th day of Nov., 1727, the next meeting was held, and the important business at this time was to elect a committee to erect a meeting house.
On the 13th day of December of the same year, at a Town Meeting, a committee was chosen to "put the Meeting House out at contract." No other business seems to have come up at this time.
The next Town Meeting was held on the 22nd day of January, 1727, when a committee was chosen to ask Scituate for help in building the meeting house.
Following these and on the 2nd day of March, 1727, the first important Annual Town Meeting was held. Following is a copy of the record of said meeting as copied from the Town Clerk's book: "At a Town meeting held att hanover march the 2nd day 1727, the town made choyce of mr Joseph Barstow for the modera- tor and Willm Wethrell for there Town Clark and Benjamin Curtis and James Hatch and Elijah Cushing for there Selectmen (and Assessors), and Job Otis and Thomas Bardin, Constables and Thomas Bardin refused to serve and the town proseded in the choyce of another Constable and made choyce of Benjamin Silvester for there Constable and Benjamin Barstow and James Hatch Jur and Joseph Curtice Survayers Samuel Harlow and Hugh Vickery for tything men and for fence vewers Amos Sil- vester Samuel Staples and Benjamin Curtis, Jur the Town voted that swine should goe at large and chose Benjamin Hanmer and Benjamin Man for hogreves and John Stoddard sealer or Clark of the Market and Samuel Stetson pound keeper and mr Joseph Barstow Town Treasurer and Caleb Barker and Abner Dwele field drivers and Bachelder Wing grand jureman for the year in- suing and James Hatch and Thomas Josselyn for pety Juremen
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to serve on the jure of trials the next Inferer Court voted that the three agants to wit Elijah Cushing Joseph House and Abner Dwele that let out the meeting house to buld are to receve of Isaac Buck the subscription money which he hath or may receive for the Towns youse and are to let it out to the workmen as they shall agree towards the payment of sd meeting house and and their recept shall be your discharge voted that sd town shall keep a skoole this presant year insuing at three plases where the selectmen shall think it most convenant for sd town
William Wetherell Town Clark."
As a matter of interest we also give on the following page a fac simile of this original record.
A word as to the fact that the first town meeting was held June, 1727, while the first annual meeting, nine months later, is recorded as having been held March, 1727. The opening of the year was then the spring time when the birds were singing, the buds swelling, the crocus blooming, and all nature smiling and full of promise. How appropriate and with what good cheer could the "Happy New Year" be wished ! It does not seem out of place to make this brief explanation of the change, and the cause therefor here, especially as many of our records, previous to 1752, relating to births, mar- riages, deaths and other town matters, such as town meetings, are confusing.
Until about 1752 Hanover followed the English custom, either of double dating or of beginning the year March 25th, instead of January 1st.
The record of two of the town meetings referred to above purport to be January and March of 1727, but we should now say 1728, as Hanover was incorporated in June of 1727, and these two meetings were held the following January and March.
After the calendar was corrected by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582, although the correction was immediately adopted by all the Catholic countries, it was not adopted by England until 1752. This was the "new style," and the year being made to commence on the first of January, instead of the 25th of March, gave occasion to the double dates which were in use here and in England for a century or more previous to 1752. Most of the Nations having at this time adopted the new style, it was thought proper by the English to pay some regard to it by double dating. It could be used only between January 1st and March 25th.
We find on our records evidence of double dating, but what is more confusing, the old style was used without double dating in many cases.
at a Town mooting Rild att Renown march the 2nd day 1727 the foun mado PRoyce of i Joseph Barstow for the moderator and Willin Withvoll for there Journ Plauk and bryanim Purity and James hatch and Elijah Pushing five there felort man (and al foroil) and for dis at
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Wing grand furman for the your Arguing and famos hatch and Thomas Lestyn for poty furo mon to farwo on the juve of Aviuly the most juforone Tout notor that the third agants to wit Elijah Cushing Jogoph house and abreve Twopo that Lol out the mu Ting Rouge to bulo avec to home of. face Buck the jubfonction money which he forth or may poric for the young yougo and avo to got it out to the workman of they Shall a gues towards the payment of nothing Largo and thrive kript Shall to your Discharge note that to Town Shall koop a Skodo this prigant your joyung at theoo plages where the forest more shall think
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To illustrate : The record of the first two births in town would indicate that there was a difference of less than six months in the ages of two children of the same parentage, whereas the true differ- ence undoubtedly was nearly eighteen months, the date of Sept., 1734, being according to our present reckoning, while the date Feb., 1735, should be according to our present reckoning, 1736. Following is a copy of the records referred to: "Samuel Bourn Son of Nathan Bourn and Lydia his wife was born the Second day of September in hanover in the year 1734" and
"Remember Bourn Daughter of Nathan Bourn and Lydia his wife born in hanover the sixteenth day of february 1735"
It may be interesting here to copy a few of the votes passed at the early town meetings, not because of their importance especially, but on account of their significance in throwing light on the methods of the time.
Before doing this, however, we will say that in 1745 the Common Lands known as the "Flats" were divided, and Hanover's portion, thereof, assigned to her. For the year 1747, the amount received for the rental of these flats was 50£ (old tenor), and in 1758 they rented for 9£ 12s. In 1730 it was "Voted to exempt Quakers from paying any part of the expense of building the meeting house."
In 1760 it was "Voted that the town flats be divided into four parts, so that it may be hired out in quarter parts."
In 1761 the town received for rental as above, 11£ 16s, and in 1795 they rented for 25€. In this latter year the town and pre- cinct tax was about eleven hundred dollars, so that the flats paid nearly one-eighth of said tax.
In 1733 the town voted quite a large number of persons twenty shillings each for killing wild cats.
In 1747 "Voted Isaac Hatch £2 10s (old tenor) for the stocks now set up at the meeting house." In explanation of this we quote from the Plymouth Colony Laws under date of Nov. 15, 1636, "That in every Constable rich there be a pair of stocks and whip- ping post erected, these to be erected in such place as shall be thought meet by the several neighborhoods where they concern, upon the penalty of ten shillings for any township which shall be defective."
In 1748 the town passed a vote looking to the erection of a Court House in Pembroke, and if that was not possible that there may be a stop put to the construction of a new Court House at Plymouth.
At a town meeting held Oct. 15, 1755, David Stockbridge pre-
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sented the town with one year's salary as representative, 21£ 16s, and the town voted to use this in paying certain bills, the "balance to be lodged with the town treasurer."
In 1760 it was voted that Bezaleel Curtis have "a right to alter the highway near where his father in his life time dwelt, to go to the north side of the orchard between said orchard and land of Elisha Randall to the Country Road, provided he make the same as good and passable as the other now is." (This was Henry's Lane, .so- called.)
The same year the town voted an allowance to David Stockbridge of £2, which he paid the Clerk of the Sessions for recording war- rants wherein transient persons were "warned" out of town. (The early law in relation to settlements required the warning out of persons who for any reason seemed undesirable citizens). Somc of the most prominent men in the Commonwealth find upon exami- nation that their ancestors were warned out of their respective towns. At a town meeting held May 17, 1762, it was "Voted that the Town are willing Mr. Robert Lenthal Eells should fish in the North River for Bass or Shad and he to run the Risque of its being against the law."
In 1788 the town chose a committee of twelve to consider the "question of the negro woman Florow and her children and other blacks that have lately come into town" and "Voted that the Selectmen take measures to clear the town of them."
At this or a succeeding meeting "Wing Rogers appeared in town meeting and declared he was dissatisfied in his conscience for taking £25 (old tenor) of the town for collecting the ministers" rate the year he was collector, and gave up the same to the town," for which he was given a vote of thanks, and it was voted "that the. money be laid out for purchasing a Bible for the town's use to be kept in the meeting house in said town." At town meeting held Oct. 19, 1778, it was "Voted to Doctor Joseph Jacobs for Docktor- ing Isaac Turner and Cuting of His Tose £9."
In 1785 Bette Bailey was paid for keeping Samuel Witherell and wife, and for the cost of the funeral.
By a vote passed at a meeting held in 1788 it appears that Joseph Curtis built the Parson Baldwin house, which was at the time of its destruction known as the "Bee Hive."
In 1790 Melzar Curtis was chosen representative, and "allowed three shillings a day, and what the Court pays for travel," and he was elected the next year on the same condition.
In 1791 it was "voted that Mr. Mellen may supply the pulpit
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TOWN HOUSE
ALMSHOUSE, MAIN STREET
HANOVER STREET AT REV. WM. H. DOWDEN'S
THE PINES ON BROADWAY
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one-sixth part of the time in the west part of Scituate, David Jacobs to acquaint him of the fact."
In 1791, "Voted £6 to purchase a Paul with."
In 1795 it was "Voted to send a representative on condition that he receive no salary, and Benjamin Bass was chosen."
In 1801 it was "Voted that Melzar Curtis be joined with the selectmen to remove Eunice Rogers from this town in the method they shall think best." In explanation of this vote we will say that it was not unusual in cases, where the question of a settlement was in doubt, to take unoffending families by force and carry them to such towns as the probabilities indicated as the ones of their settlement. In his youth, an elderly man told the writer that he was employed by the selectmen to remove a family from Hanover in this manner. He said he left Hanover after dark, travelled all night, camped the next day in the woods, at night resumed his journey and about midnight, reaching his destination, left the fam- ily in the street. Lucy Bailey (slightly demented), a daughter of Seth Bailey, went with her father's family to Maine (in her youth). She remained in that state until she was about thirty-five years old, when she was brought to Hanover and left one rainy night on "Nick Hill." She was found dazed and wandering the next morning, and passed the remainder of her hapless life in Hanover, dying at the Almshouse in November, 1859.
March 8, 1827, "Voted not to choose a tything man or tything men." Up to this date such officers had been elected annually. In the early history of the town the position was in its way an important one.
Before closing this chapter it may not be amiss to give the names of a few of those persons who were in the town for the years im- mediately preceding the incorporation, and for a few years there- after. Many of these held offices in the town. Possibly some of the names here given also appear in the genealogical part of this work; but the intention has been to simply give those families who receive little notice elsewhere.
Thomas Bardin
Samuel Harlow
Alexander Soper
Isaac Buck
John House
Joseph Soper
Abner Buck
Samuel House John Torrey
John Barker David Jenkins Benjamin Taylor
Robert Barker John Lambert John Taylor
Caleb Barker Isaac Lambert
Recompense Tiffany
Clement Bates
Hugh Vickery
John Bray
Henry Merritt Job Otis
Ezekiel Vinal
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Nathan Bourne
Joseph Perry
Solomon Wing
Daniel Crooker
Joshua Palmer
Bachelor Wing
James Cornish
Ezekiel Palmer
Ebenezer Wing
Joseph Cornish
Josiah Palmer, Jr. Sylvanus Wing
Benjamin Hanmer John Dillingham Thomas Rogers
James Rogers
Benjamin Woodworth
Ebenezer Woodworth
Abner Dwelly
Wing Rogers John Woodworth
William Ford
Joshua Staples
Thomas Whitten
Richard Fitz Gerald
Samuel Staples Thomas Wilkes
Nathaniel Gill
Samuel Skiff David Witherell
Appendix "A"-The Act establishing Second Precinct of Pem -. broke was passed August 6, 1746, by the Legislature, and was made up of parts of the towns of Bridgewater-Halifax-Abington- Hanover and Pembroke.
Laws and Resolves, Volume XV., 1753-56, Appendix X., Chapter 20-Order annexing Second Precinct of Pembroke made up out of. several towns to the Town of Pembroke.
A petition of Elijah Cushing, Esq., agent for the Second Precinct in Pembroke, showing that the said Precinct is made up out of four several towns, besides Pembroke, which is a great incon- venience, and for as much as the inhabitants in general are more advantageously situated for an union with Pembroke than any other towns. Praying that the whole Precinct may be united to the town of Pembroke according.
Ordered that the prayer of the petition be granted, and that the petitioners with their estates comprehended within the bounds of said precinct, be to all intents and purposes annexed to and made part of the town of Pembroke, that to this time they pay their respective proportion to all taxes already made and granted, and that the several towns to which said petitioners belong to abate in the Province Tax in proportion to what the petition with their estates paid in the last Province Tax, and that the same be laid on the town of Pembroke.
Passed, June 7, 1754.
Legislative Records of Council XX., 254, Massachusetts Archives ; CXVI., 627 Massachusetts Archives ; CXVI., 626 ; House Journal pp. 21-22-23; Province Laws Xill-126, Chapter 98.
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CHAPTER II.
TOWN, COUNTY AND STATE OFFICERS.
By Jedediah Dwelley.
SELECTMEN.
Selectmen, as officers of the town, have always been influential and able men. Early in the history of the Old Colony, they were given large discretion and ample power. They acted as magistrates and heard all civil matters in dispute among the inhabitants of their respective towns, in cases where the amount involved did not exceed forty shillings.
The judiciary powers thus conferred were, however, transferred to Justices of the Peace, before the incorporation of Hanover. They had, for a long time, power to provide for the wants of the poor in their respective towns. This power was, later, transferred to Over- seers of the Poor (as at present).
Just when Selectmen were first elected in Massachusetts may not be fully established. It is certain that George Bunker of Charlestown, who owned a lot of land running over Bunker Hill, in Feb., 1634, signed a petition to delegate to a " Board of Select- men " the ordinary business of the town; and John Fiske (page 32, American Political Ideas) says they were first elected in 1635. Probably the first statute enacted by the General Court at Plymouth creating this office was in 1658.
At first they were elected by the "freemen " of the towns, sub- ject to the approval of the Court at Plymouth. Later, as the jurisdiction of the courts over the towns was diminished, the election rested solely with the voters of the town.
John Hancock served as Selectman of Boston and John Adams, as Selectman of Braintree.
The duties of the office are important, requiring intelligent, honest judgment. The title, "Selectman," has lost none of its early significance.
The following were selectmen of Hanover from 1727 to 1908 inclusive.
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SELECTMEN.
Name, Number of Years of Service, Date of Service.
George Bailey, 2, 1787 to 1788 inclusive.
Col. John Bailey, 4, 1768 to 1771.
Seth Bailey, 1, 1782.
Stephen Bailey, 4, 1790 to 1793.
Caleb Barker, 1, 1734.
Daniel Barstow, 1, 1786.
John B. Barstow, 2, 1797 and 1798.
Samuel Barstow, 1, 1729.
Samuel Barstow, 5, 1744 to 1745; and 1766 to 1767; and 1772.
Samuel Barstow, Jr., 2, 1776 to 1777.
Benjamin Bass, 3, 1783 to 1785.
Thomas M. Bates, 3, 1840 to 1841; and 1853.
John Bayle, 4, 1734 to 1737.
John Bayle, Jr., 1, 1743.
Zadock Beal, 1, 1837. Josiah Bonney, 3, 1842 to 1844.
Morton Bonney, 1, 1869.
Edward A. Bowker, 11, 1898 to 1908.
Curtis Brooks, 2, 1811 to 1812.
John S. Brooks, 6, 1862 to 1866; and 1868.
Joseph Brooks, 1, 1837.
Benjamin F. Burgess, 1, 1859.
Robert S. Church, 2, 1873 and 1874.
Samuel H. Church, 12, 1877 to 1888 inclusive.
William Church, 7, 1849; and 1853 to 1858.
John H. Crocker, 1, 1884.
Benjamin Curtis, 2, 1727 and 1728.
Henry J. Curtis, 4, 1873 to 1876.
John Curtis, Jr., 1, 1779.
John Curtis, 1, 1822.
Lemuel Curtis, 4, 1773 to 1775; and 1777.
Levi Curtis, 5, 1821 to 1825 inclusive.
Melzar Curtis, 3, 1783 to 1785.
Melzar Curtis, Jr., 12, 1813 to 1816 ; and 1818 to 1821; and 1823: to 1826.
Samuel Curtis, 1, 1776.
Snow Curtis, 18, 1786; 1796 to 1811; and 1817.
William Curtis, 1, 1786.
Elijah Cushing, 10, 1728 to 1734; and 1736 to 1738.
Horatio Cushing, 9, 1820, 1823, 1824; and 1826 to 1831.
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Joseph Cushing, 6, 1768 to 1771; 1773 and 1774.
Thomas Damon, 2nd, 1, 1839.
Reuben C. Donnell, 3, 1886 to 1888.
Abner Dwelley, 2, 1730 and 1731.
Jedediah Dwelley, 29, 1859 to 1883; and 1885 to 1888. Lemuel Dwelley, Jr., 8, 1827 to 1831; and 1842 to 1844.
Charles Dyer, 1, 1856.
Edward Eells, 2, 1809 and 1810.
Robert Eells, 3, 1806 to 1808.
Robert Eells, 2, 1867 and 1868.
Robert L. Eells, 5, 1790 to 1793; and 1805.
Sameul Eells, 2, 1837 and 1838.
Mordecai Ellis, 13, 1750 to 1762.
Thomas J. Gardner, 4, 1834, 1835, 1854 and 1855.
Israel Hatch, 2, 1763 and 1764.
James Hatch, 11, 1727 to 1729; 1732, 1733, 1735, 1736; and 1738: to 1741.
Charles Jacobs, 1, 1870.
David Jacobs, 2, 1776 and 1777.
Stephen Jacobs, 1, 1825.
Joseph Josselyn, 2, 1741 and 1742.
Oren Josselyn, 11, 1832, 1833, 1839, 1850 to 1852; and 1860 to. 1864.
Thomas Josselyn, 6, 1735; 1737 to 1740; and 1743.
Charles H. Killam, 9, 1889 to 1897.
Benjamin Mann, 1, 1744.
Benjamin Mann, Jr., 2, 1763 and 1764.
Joshua Mann, 4, 1799 to 1802.
William Morse, 10, 1832 to 1834; 1836, 1838 to 1841; 1845 and. 1846.
Alpheus Packard, 8, 1901 to 1908.
Ozias Perkins, 2, 1857 and 1858.
Israel Perry, 2, 1797 and 1798.
Joseph Ramsdell, ?, 1768 to 1771; and 1794 to 1796.
Thomas Rose, 13, 1750 to 1762.
Timothy Rose, 1, 1789.
George C. Russell, 12, 1889 to 1900.
Ebenezer Simmons, 6, 1832 to 1836; and 1838.
Joshua Simmons, 1, 1775.
Perez Simmons, 6, 1849 to 1853; and 1856.
Joseph Soper, 14, 1783 to 1785; 1787, 1788, 1790 to 1796; 1801 and 1802.
Albert Stetson, 2, 1840 and 1841.
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Benjamin Stetson, 4, 1746 to 1749.
Benjamin Stetson, 1, 1835.
Isaac G. Stetson, 18, 1865 to 1867; 1876 to 1885; and 1893 to 1897.
Joshua Stetson, 7, 1813 to 1819.
Samuel Stetson, 2, 1779 and 1780.
Turner Stetson, 27, 1803 to 1822; 1826 to 1831; and 1836.
Charles Stockbridge, 1, 1727.
David Stockbridge, 4, 1782, 1789, 1799 and 1800.
Joseph Stockbridge, 4, 1730 to 1733.
William Stockbridge, 1, 1812.
Benjamin Studley, 4, 1779, 1780, 1787 and 1788.
Robert H. Studley, 2, 1860 and 1861.
R. Miles Sturtevant, 2, 1869 and 1870.
Amos Sylvester, 1, 1742.
L. Curtis Sylvester, 2, 1871 and 1872.
Nathaniel Sylvester, 6, 1765 to 1767; and 1772 to 1774.
Nathaniel Sylvester, 3, 1794 to 1796.
Samuel Sylvester, 1, 1765.
Recompense Tiffany, 4, 1746 to 1749.
Amos Turner, 1, 1775.
Ezekiel Turner, 24, 1739 to 1755; 1762 to 1767; and 1772.
Eben C. Waterman, 16, 1889 to 1892; and 1897 to 1908.
Rodolphus C. Waterman, 1, 1875.
Thomas Wilkes, 6, 1756 to 1761.
Charles Winslow, 3, 1846 to 1848.
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