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Richard Cheever 1747-52 Boston. 16
Robert Cowdin 1755 Holden. 26 & 27
Oliver Davis. 1753 Rutland 31
David Eveleth 1755 Rutland 29
Joseph Eveleth. 1753 Sudbury 26
Robert Forbush 1757 Rutland. 28
Gideon Fisher
1760 Dedham 28
John Frost . 1759 Billerica North
Daniel Garfield 1751 Shrewsbury Gardner's Farm
Moses Garfield. 1757 Shrewsbury
Gardner's Farm
William Gibbs. . 1759 Sudbury
8 Watertown
Joseph Gibbs. 1760 Westminster .
30
Phineas Gleason . 1757 Framingham .9
Ezra Gleason. 1760 Framingham .9
Peter Goodnow . 1755 Sudbury. .3
Zachariah Harvey . 1759 Shrewsbury Blagrove
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Settlers before 1761
Lots
Samuel Hastings. . 1759 Watertown. 6 Watertown
Ebenezer Jones. . 1757 Bedford. 2
William Joyner. . 1758 Sudbury North
Robert Keyes. . 1751 Shrewsbury Muzzy
Tille Littlejohn. . 1759 Lancaster. Muzzy
Thomas Mason . 1756 Medfield 29
Sadey Mason 1756 Medfield 29
Paul Matthews. 1758 Marlboro
2 Watertown
Jabez Mead . . 1760 Rutland North
Abijah Moore. . 1747-50 Sudbury 3
Boaz Moore.
. 1759 Rutland .
32
William Muzzy. . 1755-60 Sudbury. .29
Timothy Mosman 1758 Ashburnham Potash
Caleb Mirick. 1752 Weston 4
Aaron Perry . 1757 Mendon . 5
David Parker
1758 Chelmsford
31
Abel Ray. 1757 Marlboro' Mayhews (near)
Stephen Rolph 1759 Mendon 10
Joseph Rugg 1759 Holden
.28 & L
Amos Spring. . 1758 Weston ?
6 & 8 Watertown
James Spring
1759 Weston.
8 Watertown
Jabez Stratton . 1759 Lincoln. . 9
James Thompson. 1757 Holden.
. 26 & 27
Joshua Wilder. . 1742 Lancaster
Wilder's
A True List of the Voters of Princetown District According to the Valuation Taken November, 1760.
Capt. Eliphalet How
Ens. Oliver Davis
Joseph Rugg
Dr. Zechariah Harvey
Ephraim Allen
Timº Moseman
Isaac Wheeler Robt. Keyes
William Muzzy
L`. Abijah Moore
Joseph Gibbs
Peter Goodenow
James Thomson
Caleb Mirick
Joseph Eveleth 3 Assessors of Prince Boaz Moore Town District
Worcester S. S., March 30, 1761
Sworn to Before me
Jnº Murray, Justice Pea.1
Doctor Harvey. The above list of voters appears with other papers relating to a town meeting held in March, 1761, at which meeting it was alleged that the Moderator, Dr. Harvey, resorted to some unwarranted and illegal measures. (The Doctor was chosen Moderator, District
1 From Mass. Archives, Vol. 117, pages 647-652.
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Clerk, Chairman of the Selectmen and of the Assessors, and Agent to the General Court.)
A Protest was entered upon the records of the town and subsequently a petition reciting the grievances was sent to the General Court, asking that the proceedings be declared null and void. The Court, however, decided in Dr. Harvey's favor, confirming the proceedings.
Attached to the petition referred to are the following names, -
Non- Voters
Voters
Gideon Fisher
Isaac Wheeler
Thos. Mason
Joseph Rugg
Joseph Eveleth
Eliphalet How
Isaac Wheeler, Jr.
Ephraim Allen
Robert Cowdin
Oliver Davis
Sadey Mason
James Thomson
Timothy Keyes
Wm. Muzzy
Pebody How
Joseph Gibbs
The protest on the town records is signed by eight. Feb. '63, Harvey as Agent granted II.
Province of the Massa- chusetts Bay in New England
To his Excellency Francis Bar- nard Esq., Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province aforesaid.
To the Honourable the Council and House of Represen- tatives in General Court assembled on Wednesday the twenty-fifth Day of March Anno Domini 1761.
We the subscribers Inhabitants of the District of Prince- town in the County of Worcester and legal Voters in Town and District affairs, humbly shew your Excellency and Honours.
That at ye District Annual Meeting held there on the sixteenth day of March instant, among other things to choose the usual District officers for said District, there were several Votes and Transactions altogether illegal and unwarrantable and unfairly and unduly obtained by means of many persons being admitted to vote at said meeting that were not legal voters there, and some that were not even Inhabitants of the same. That as the Voters and
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Inhabitants were gathering together for the said meeting Zachariah Harvey of the same District, Physician, who was our District Clerk Selectman and Assessor the last year, without any direction or order from the Selectmen, or without their knowledge or consent, opened the same meeting and called upon the said persons present, tho but a very small number to bring in their votes for Moderator which was then done immediately by such as were present the major part of them being no legal voters.
The chief Part of the officers chosen at said meeting, and other matters transacted there, being obtained in the same way and manner, and Some Things never put to vote as the Warrant for Calling the meeting Required.
Particularly there was an article in the Warrant to see if the District would Choose an Agent to appear at the General Court, but the said Harvey instead of putting it to vote to see if they would choose an Agent, knowing there was none needed, called upon them and insisted on their bringing in their vote for an Agent, without knowing or trying if it was the mind of the District first, to send one as the warrant directed, and so by the number present not being legal voters & by some means or other for the present being inclined to please him, as the meeting was at a Tavern. Voted the Doctor in at said meeting, and by that artifice the said Harvey procured himself to be chosen the Moderator. Whereupon a number of ye legal voters having notice of the Meeting being opened contrary to their expectation, the hour for the meeting being scarce arrived, as they apprehended, hastened to said meeting to regulate matters which they were informed were carrying on in such an hasty manner there, and perceiving a con- siderable number of persons present & acting which by the List of Estate and Valuation taken for the last year they knew were not voters qualified according to law to vote at such meeting, and also some who were not even inhabi- tants of said District called upon the said Harvey who was grown the Moderator in the manner aforesaid to purge the meeting, To see by the List of Estate and Valuation
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taken by the Assessors last year and lodged in his hands who were voters & who were not of the number present & offering to vote.
He answered it could not be done for that he had not the list there, and went on calling for votes and acting on the articles of the meeting without taking further notice of what the Inhabitants & Voters offered and objected to the proceeding.
Harvey drove on and procured himself to be chosen the Moderator, District Clerk, a Selectman and an Assessor, as well as an Agent to appear at the General Court in behalf of said District all which proceedings, your peti- tioners humbly apprehend are illegal, arbitrary and de- structive of their most precious Privileges, the said Harvey being chosen into all the offices aforesaid by a majority of such as were not voters according to law, and against the Sense and Inclination of a Majority of Such as were legal Voters & personally present.
Seeing which a number of the Voters belonging to same District entered their Dissent against said Harvey's unwarrantable proceeding (see notes) voted the Doctor in their Agent. All which offices the Doctor gravely ac- cepted and still attempts to hold. Nor was his conduct at our last meeting the only instance wherein the said Doctor Harvey hath acted contrary to his duty & trust, for on the 23d. Day of October last when the District had a meeting to choose an Agent to transact some matters in Behalf of said District at the Great and General Court, Captain Eliphalet How was chosen an Agent, the said Harvey then being District Clerk, refused and neglected to record the vote of the said How's being chosen and said it was best to burn it, but after that the said Harvey himself presumed to appear as our Agent & act accordingly, under the colour of his having been once before chosen Agent for the said District, though he utterly refused.
Wherefore as matters are now carried in such a dis- orderly way & manner and as we who are the major Part of the legal Voters belonging to said District, apprehend
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is directly contrary to the true intent & meaning of the law of this Province respecting such matters, humbly pray that the proceedings of this last meeting this March may be considered as void, and that the Inhabitants of said District may be Impowered and inabled to Call another meeting, Choose new officers, accept Roads and transact all other matters at some other meeting which might or should have been done at the last, in as full & ample manner as tho the same had never been held, or Some other way Relieve your Petitioners from their oppression as in your wisdom may Seem meet and your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever Pray.
Settlers 1761-1771.1
Isaac Abbott. 1769 Pomfret, Conn .. Hartwells
Daniel Ball 1771 Shrewsbury Deadmare
John Barker . .1761. 13
George Barnard
1762 Brookline. Blagrove or Hartwell near No. 2
Richard Baxter
1769 Medfield
19 & 26 opp. Brighams
Phineas Beaman 1766 Lancaster. 20 Watertown
Samuel Bigelow
1765 Holden.
2 Watertown
Nathan Billings 1769 Hardwick
Potash (North)
Samuel Bixby 1762 Lancaster.
Blagrove
John Bowen. 1767 Lancaster
North Everett
Micah Bowker. 1766 Sudbury
Thaddeus Bowman 1767 Cambridge 3
Charles Brooks
1764 Marlboro'
Enoch Brooks
1765 Concord
Watertown
Abial Bush. 1765 Marlboro'
Ebenezer Chamberlain, Jr.1763 Westboro'
I Watertown (Enoch Brooks)
Benjamin Childs. . 1768 Brokline
Daniel Clap. 1761 Rutland 18
Anthony Clark. 1767 Rutland 26 near Cowdins
Ebenezer Colburn 1768 Dedham II
Samuel Conant
1768 Stow
L & 7
John Cowdin 1761
Nathaniel Cutter Woburn 3 ?
Josiah Davis 1770 Bedford? . 13 (Haynes)
William Dodd . 1770 Holden. Muzzy's
Oliver Dresser
1763 Lancaster.
. Blagrove near No. I
Moses Eager . 1770 Grafton
Blagrove near I & 2
Paul Eager.
1767 Shrewsbury
L
Samuel Easterbrooks
1771 Rutland.
?
1 Only those having families included.
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Settlers 1761-1771.1
Chamberlain Eustis .. . ... 1771 Rutland ?
Joseph Eveleth (younger). 1761 Stow
3 Watertown
David Everett . 1762 Dedham II Everett
Ichabod Fisher. 1770 Dedham II Everett
Fisher . 1769 Dedham .II
William Foster
1769 Upton
F. northern half
Timothy Fuller 1768
.5
Moses Gill .
1767 Boston
Phineas Gregory
1768 Weston
.9 Watertown
Elisha Gale. . 1763 Weston
I Watertown
Elisha Gale (younger). 1767 Sutton Potash ?
Henry Gale. .
1762 Weston
I & 13 Watertown
Jonathan Geary . 1771 ..
.26
Jabez Gerould . . 1771 Dedham ? 15
Daniel Goodnow 1768 Sudbury 3
Timothy Goodnow 1771 ? Lancaster
Blagrove
Jonas Goodnow 1767
Abijah Harrington. 1769 Weston
Moses Harrington . 1770 Weston
near Woolsons
Stephen Harrington.
1765 Weston.
. 9 & 10 Watertown
Jonas
Asa Harris. 1768 Shrewsbury 28
Ephraim Hartwell. 1760 Concord
30
Joseph Haynes 1764 Sudbury 13
Elisha Hobbs 1765 Weston
8 Watertown
Benjamin Holden 1762 Dedham
28
Benjamin Houghton 1763 Lancaster
Silas Houghton 1762 Lancaster
Abner How.
1763 Marlboro'
. 7 Watertown
Adonijah How . 1765 Marlboro
14 Watertown
Daniel How.
1769 ?
F.
Joseph How. . 1769
. 9
Peabody How.
. 1770 Rutland . .24
Samuel Jewett ?
. 177 Lancaster
.27 Roziers
John Jones, Jr. . 1767 Dedham .20
Edward Joyner
1763 Leominster
North
Cyprian Keyes.
. 1771 Shrewsbury
23
Timothy Keyes 1761 Rutland. .26
Simeon Lyon 1771 Pomfret, Ct
Blagrove near Wymans
Artemas Maynard . 1761 Shrewsbury
James Mirick, Jr . 1761 Weston.
4 & A
Josiah Mirick. . 1767 Weston
Humphrey Moore.
1765 Rutland
19
Jacob Morse 1768
.30
Uriah Newton. . 1769 Wilbraham ?
Samuel Nichols. . 1761 Holden. .5
Joseph Norcross 1763 Weston. 6
1 Only those having families included.
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Early Inhabitants
Settlers 1761-1771.1
Ephraim Osgood 1768 Shutesbury North
Sylvanus Oak.
1771 Northboro'
Blagrove
Solomon Parks Parker.
1767 Needham
?
George Parkhurst
1769 Lancaster
4 Watertown
Charles Parmenter
1761 Rutland
15
Reuben Parmenter.
1768 ?.
?
Andrew Paterson
1770 Sudbury.
.II
Amos Powers.
1762 Lancaster.
5
Joseph Phelps.
1768 Pomfret Conn.
Blagrove ?
William Raymond
1769 Shrewsbury
?
Thomas Raymore
1768 Dorchester
East (Potash ?)
Henry Rice.
1762 ?.
28
Belcher Richards 1764 Dedham. 29
William Richardson.
1771 Lancaster
.9
Eliphalet Rogers
I77I.
3 or 2
Robert Rozier 1765 Sudbury 27
Joseph Sargent.
. 1765 Bolton
Seth Savage.
. 1761 Rutland
.33
William Skinner.
1765 Sudbury.
.27
Jonathan Smith.
I767
. Southerly ?
Warren Snow.
1764
Blagrove
Ichabod Standley 1767
Blagrove
Isaac Stratton. . 1767 Lexington. .9
Daniel Sumner.
1764 Mendon
5
Benjamin Taynton .1761 Shrewsbury .5
Obadiah Thacher.
176 Attleboro'
William Thompson
. 1762 Holden
33
Isaac Thompson
1761 Rutland. 15
Ambrose Tower. .1761 Sudbury I & 2
Joseph Tower.
.1761 Sudbury
1 & 2
Israel Underwood. 1766 ?. ?
Josiah Wetherbee (Jr.). . 1766 Stow. A.
Ephraim Wheeler . 1765 Sudbury ?
Samuel Woods. . 1762 Rutland I3
Ephraim Woolson . 1767 Weston. .9
Elisha Wilder
1760 Lancaster ..
Stevens
Silas Whitney .. . 1758.
.2
Isaac Wheeler & Jr. 1758 Medfield. .27
Potash
Benjamin Willard.
. 1751.
Benjamin Wilson.
. 1751 Shrewsbury
Willard's or Gardner's Farm
Benjamin Wilson. .1759 Northboro' ? East Wing
Edward Wilson . . 1759 Shrewsbury Kneeland's
Joseph Wooley 1755 Holden. 2 & 9
Robert Work. . .. . 1754 Upton. .28
Charles (De) Wyman. ... 1760 Concord. Blagrove
1 Only those having families included.
Nathan Smith. 1768 .24&Willard Parker Place
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In the above list occur the names of some who remained in town but a short time, and in a number of cases the same farm is represented by several owners during the period indicated. And the length of the list may be misleading as to the growth of the town.
According to a statement of Mr. William Dodd, for many years town clerk, there were at the time of incorpo- ration 30 families, although this does not agree with the statements given in one of the petitions for incorporation which names 25 as the number of families in the East Wing at that date. There are now no means of determining accurately the population in 1759 but it may be estimated at from 125 to 150. In 1760 there were thirteen only who possessed the required property qualifications as voters. In 1764 the census showed a very material gain in numbers: 57 dwelling houses, 55 families with population of 284 of whom 72 were males over 16 years of age. Four years later there were 97 polls which would indicate a population of some 450; in 1769 106 polls; and in 1771, 12I polls. Immediately after the incorporation of the town in 1771 there was a decided increase of population, which in 1776 was reported as 701, covering some 140 to 150 families. Notwithstanding the trials and privations during the period of the Revolutionary War the number of residents increased so that in 1781 it is estimated that there were at least 800, with 182 polls, 101 houses and 50 other build- ings, stores, mills, shops, etc.
In 1790 the number reached 1016, including three colored persons, but from this year to the present time the in- crease has been very slow, the highest point reached being in 1840 when 1347 were shown by the United States census.
Like all inland towns, it has suffered from the loss of its young men, unwilling to settle down upon the farm and there are no manufacturing facilities in the town to draw together mechanics and other laborers. The readiness with which all can travel nowadays does not help these smaller towns but tends to take and keep away many.
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CENSUS OF 1790.
Head of family.
Free white males of 16 years and upward in- cluding heads of families.
Free white males under 16 years.
Free white females in- cluding heads of families.
All other free per- sons.
Gill, Hon1 Moses, Esq.
2
I
3
Craft, Revd. Thomas
I
I
2
Willard, Artemas
I
H
3
Geary, David.
I
1
3
Dire, Nathaniel.
I
3
6
Rice, Joal.
2
3
2
Rice, William
I
·
I
Bartlett, John.
I
3
I
Everett, Joshua
4
. .
5
Wales, Abigail.
I
I
Dodd, William.
3
2
5
Kyes, Robart.
3
3
Bellows, Elijah.
2
3
4
Beamon, Jonas.
4
I
3
Harrington, Abijah.
2
.
3
Marbel, John.
I
2
4
Allen, Elisha ..
2
2
6
Sawen, Ezekiel.
I
5
2
Ramer, Thomas
I
I
I
Ramer, John.
I
.23 3 2
3
Keys, Ephraim.
I
I
Brown, James.
I
3
I
Houghton, Silas.
2
3
2
Roper, Benjamin.
2
5
Chandler, John
I
2
I
Richardson, Samuel
I
2
3
Lyon, Alanson
I
.
I
H
I
Wyman, Thomas
I
.
4
Deadman, Samuel.
2
.
4
Smith, Jonas.
I
4
2
Kyes, Silas.
2
2
4
Parker, Thomas
3
3
7
Fay, Silas.
I
4
3
Whiteker, William
1
4
3
Curtis, Mary
I
I
4
Whitney, Andrew
I
2
3
Murry, Jonathan
I
I
3
How, Addonijah.
3
I
6
Rogers, Eliphalet
I
3
4
Sergents, Joseph.
2 2
. .
4
Russell, John.
2
I
3
Beamon, Phineas.
2
2
4
Harrington, Moses
I
4
Hager, Abraham.
2
. .
3
Gill, John.
2
I
7
Mirick, Ephraim.
I
2
6
How, Abner.
4
I
4
Norcross, Jacob.
I
. .
5
How, Israel
I
5
Keys, John.
I
I
Lyon, Seth.
2
Ellis, James.
I
2
I
Munroe, John.
. .
. .
2
Sergents, Amos.
2
2
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Head of family.
Free white males of 16 years and upward in- cluding heads of families.
Free white males under 16 years.
Free white females in- cluding heads of families.
All other free per- sons.
Hastings, Samuel.
4
. .
2
Merriam, Amos
I
4
Merick, John.
2
I
5
Mirick, Stephen.
I
4
2
Mirick, Caleb.
4
I
5
Evelett, Joseph.
5
3
5
Mathews, Paul.
3
I
3
Hobbs, Elisha.
I
4
2
Gregory, Phinehas
2
2
4
Mirick, Dorothy
2
. .
4
Brooks, Enoch
3
4
2
Perrey, Aaron.
3
2
3
Fuller, Timothy.
I
3
6
Parmenter, Reuben
I
. .
4
Cutting, Josiah.
I
2
I
Parker, Philemon.
I
3
3
Chittendon, Isaac.
2
2
5
Mirick, Ruth.
3
Moor, Uriah.
I
I
5
Tilton, Joseph.
I
3
2
Fisher, Ichabod
3
2
6
Rice, David.
I
3
3
Thomson Isaac
I
I
2
Chase, Josiah.
I
5
4
Andras, Nathaniel
I
I
2
Underwood, Israel.
I
2
Park, Benjamin.
I
2
2
Bartlett, John.
I
2
Brigham, Stephen.
3
2
I
Davis, Solomon
I
2
4
Ralf, Stephen
3
. .
3
Rice, Solomon.
2
I
2
Bangs, Josiah.
I
3
5
Hastings, James.
2
2
4
Richardson, William.
3
I
4
Gill, Micah, Esq.
I
3
3
Brooks, David.
I
4
6
Watson, John.
2
I
3
Cheevers, Bartholomew
9
I
5
Cheevers, Daniel.
I
.
4
Holbrook, David.
I
3
2
Willard, Solomon
I
2
3
Ball, Aaron ..
I
2
5
Sergants, Daniel
I
4
2
Thacher, Obediah
I
4
4
Smith, Isaac.
I
I
4
Stevans, Jonas
I
I
3
Parker, John.
I
3
4
Newton, Charles
I
I
3
Gleasson, John.
2
.
4
Kyes, Israel.
I
3
I
Garfield, Eliakim.
I
I
4
Brooks, Charles.
2 2
4
3
Parmenter, Luther
I
2
I
How, Peabody
I
Mayson, Paul.
I
I
2
.
.
.
. . .
.
. .
·
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
·
I
.
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Head of family.
Free white males of 16 years and upward in- cluding heads of families.
Free white males under 16 years.
Free white females including heads of families.
All other free per- sons.
Straton, Samuel
2
I
4
Mayson, Silas.
I
3
I
Reed, Benjamin
I
4
4
Baker, Joseph
I
2
I
Hobbs, Silas.
I
.
I
Hanes, Joseph.
3
I
6
Hanes, Samuel.
I
I
I
Harris, Asa ..
2
. .
3
Wooley, David.
I
2
5
Willson, Ephraim
3
2
3
Gleason, Thomas.
2
3
5
Goodnow, Edward.
2
7
3
How, Antapas. .
I
.
5
Whitcomb, Asa, Esq.
2
2
3
Coopland, Eliphlet.
I
I
3
Woods, Samuel
2
2
5
Moor, Humprey
3
Davis, Josiah.
I
I
2
Baxter, Richard.
I
I
2
Kilbourne, Calvin.
2
2
I
Hoit, David.
I
I
4
Thompson, William
2
I
2
Smith, Nathan.
I
4
Davis, Samuel
I
3
6
Holden, Benjamin.
4
. .
3
Fisher, Jesse
I
2
5
Mayson, Sardy
I
. .
3
Mayson, Thomas
3
3
4
Beamon, Silas
2
3
Hartwell, Isaac
2
I
4
Robbins, Samuel
I
. .
I
Clarke, Norman.
3
I
5
Baxter, Joseph
2
I
4
Moor, Boz.
I
I
2
Willson, Ephraim
I
2
3
Willson, Lewis.
I
2
I
Jones, Nathan.
I
4
3
Hoit, Benjamin.
2
2
Everett, Susanna
. .
6
Rugg, Joseph
I
I
Rice, Asa.
I
2
2
Savage, Seth.
4
2
5
Davis, Oliver
4
2
3
Joyslin, Silas
I
2
Ralf, Edward
I
. .
2
Ellery, Elizabeth.
. .
. .
2
Parmenter, Charles
2
I
.
Hinds, Eli.
I
2
Princeton Town in the Gore Adjoining.
Rice, Elisha.
2
. .
3
Houghton, Abel
I
2
4
Allen, Daniel.
I
3
6
Rice, Elijah.
I
I
2
.
.
.
.
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.
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Felton, John
.
.
.
Newton, Uriah
2
2
.
2
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Copy of a paper found among the town files, supposed to relate to valuation for the U. S. Direct Tax 1798.
Square feet.
Windows and
square feet
of glass.
Stories high.
Josiah Davis,
I
On North of road to Meet- ing-house.
576
9
45
Molly Moore,
I
Road Rutland to Princeton, on 19.
804
8
48
Samuel Woods.
I On 13 town road I m. S. W. of M. H.
672
8
33
John Parker,
I 3 miles South of Meeting- House.
550
4
6
Obadiah Thacher,
I
3 miles south of Meeting- house.
702
IO
60
. .
John Whitcomb,
I North of road to Holden 2} miles.
684
4
19
Charles Newton,
I
3} miles South of meeting- house.
702
6
24
.
John Gleason,
I
On South of road from west part to Holden.
1400
6
23
2
Widow Mary Brooks,
N/H
On road from Jonas How's in Rutland to Princeton, 32 miles from Meeting- house.
450
8
44
2
Jonas & Chas. Brooks NIN
On road from Jonas How's in Rutland to Princeton, 32 miles from Meeting- house.
450
8 44
2
Charles Mirick, Peabody How,
I I
12 miles from Meeting-house South of road to Holden west by town road 22 miles from M. H.
988 798
I7 8
119 40
2
Benj. Holden,
East side of road to Rutland I I
624
8
52
...
Wood-house, I shay-house, I corn-house.
75
7 16
34 57
2
Thomas Mason,
I
East side road to Rutland. West side road to Rutland. Road to Rutland 3 miles from M. H.
1080
I2
70
. .
Samuel Davis,
I East side road to Holden on Waldo Farm.
720
20
120
2
Nathan Smith,
I East side road to Holden 22 South of Meeting-house. 3} miles Southeast of Meet- 1 ing-house.
IIIO
9
52
..
Jonas Stearns,
I North side road to Hubbard- ston } mile from M. H. Porch 12X12.
624
9
43
. .
Calvin Kilburn,
I North side road to Meeting- house 23 miles bounded on South by road, West by Thompson, East by Josiah Davis.
750
7
30
..
Elizabeth Cowdin
I East side of road to Rutland.
948|
7 22
.
Sadey Mason, Reuben Hale,
1I I
I Wood-house.
Kitchen part 18×24.
722
3
IO
...
Isaac Chittenden,
1064
89
Early Inhabitants
Square feet.
Windows and
square feet
of glass.
Stories high.
Andrew Whitney, Jesse Brown,
I I
13 miles from Meeting-house. 3 miles from Meeting-house On east side road leading to County.
1073
22
I27
2
702
4
25
...
Thankful Houghton,
I 2 miles from M. H. North side road.
960
I4
87
2
Samuel Dadman, Jonas Smith, James Brown,
I 32 miles from Meeting-house 3} miles from Meeting-house. I South part of Spooner farm I East side of road.
625
5
26
... .
John Watson,
I
West side County road I mile South of Meeting- house.
792
18
I18
2
David Brooks, Josiah Cutting,
NHH WIN WIN H
miles N. by W. from Meeting-house. east side road to M. H. Near Meeting-House.
336
7
50
2
1080
27
150
2
in which he lives on road to Hubbardston, 1} miles to M. H.
500
3
15
. .
Susana Ralph,
Old house on County road to Hubbardston.
500
3
15
...
Mary Rice,
I
North side road to Hubbard- ston, I mile west from M. H. Road to Rutland, 1} miles south of M. H.
II 20
24
125
2
William Whittaker,
I
Govr. Gill road 2} miles east M. H.
990
14
92
Amos Sargent Joseph Sargent Ephraim Wilson,
I
...
25
262
2
I
other dwelling-house on westerly part of home- stead on road from Thomas Gleason's to M. H.
728
8
34
....
Thomas Gleason,
I
North side of road to Meet- ing-house.
1368
II4
2
...
Widow Lois Goodnow,
I
Not finished 15×18
woodhouse
1140
22
109
2
I
House finished, woodhouse 18×30
Joshua Eveleth,
I
Town road west of meeting- house, unfinished.
1140
24
252
2
John Jones,
I
Town road from County road to David Rice's.
540
5
I9
...
William Thompson,
I
new house 3 miles southwest of Meetinghouse.
1064
13
76
...
Antipas How,
I
On north side road to Meet- ing-house.
656
7
38
. .
Reuben Munroe,
I
On south side road to Bos- ton, 2} miles from Meet- ing-house.
684
3
I5
...
78
...
1140
8
50
. . . .
East side County road.
1000
672
23 I4
145 76
2
2
Ruth Mirick, Caleb Mirick, Solomon Rolph,
John Dana,
I
North side road to Sterling, one mile east from M. H. ¿ mile south of meeting-house east side road to Rutland. Wood house 30X12
720
I3
82
2
720
I4
72
2
1368 II4
2
...
780
6
...
990
I2
90
History of Princeton
Square feet.
Windows and
square feet
of glass.
Stories high.
John Russell,
I
South on County road west on road to Westminster. No. East by heirs Col. Sar- gent.
960
8
49
.
. ..
Adonijah How, Ephraim Mirick,
I
I
Homestead north of County road to Hubbardston, 120 rods from M. H.
II40 1080
26 I3
170 68
2
Size of house.
Windows, squares.
John Thompson.
I 38X18
7 87 7×9
County road to Hubbards- ton westerly by town road 3 miles to meeting.
David Rice.
I 36×27
IO 20 6×8
County road to Hubbards- ton westerly on Hubb.
Elisha Hobbs
I 38X18
17 220 7×9 30 6×8
Elisha Hobbs.
I 26×24
5 60 7×9
Old, unfinished.
H
38X20
II 153 6X8
2 stories, Porch 12×15.
Phineas Beaman. .. Abijah Harrington. .
I 38×30
25 350 7X9
2 stories. Porch 14X12. Barn 62×30. 2 miles to meeting.
Jonas Keyes. Black- smith shop.
43×15
3 53 7×9
23 miles to meeting.
William Everett.
I 38×30
13 195 7X9
Farm yard and bark-house, 4 miles to meeting.
Joshua Everett.
30X18 H
18 204 7X9
2 stories, 4 miles to meeting. I story.
Abigail Wilde.
I 37X28
I I5
Half upright, floors laid and chimney up.
Ephraim Osgood.
Houghton Osgood.
I 36×28
II 125 7X9 7 93 7×9
Front upright. Old addition, 34×10
Israel Howe.
I 32×16
Abner How.
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