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November 24, 1766. Voted that the Comtee chofen for Profecuting the Building of a Timber Meeting Houfe, be Defired to Draw up a Plan to Profecute the affair and make a Report at an adjourned Meeting.
December 4, 1766. And the Report of the fd Comtee was Read, Confidered and the Question Put Whether the Meeting Would Accept the Same and it was accordingly voted and accepted and the Sums Therein Mentioned was Voted and Granted to be Raifed for fd Ufe in the Manner as Expreffed in fd Report : the Report of the Comtee is as follows :
Whereas Wee the Subfcribers are Chofen a Comtee to Determine and Report a Plan or
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Scheem of Operation to Profecute the Building of a Timber Meeting Houfe for Publick Worfhip Report as follows viz that the Comtee Chofen to Manage fd Affair be Defired to Profecute fd Building as Soon as Poffibly May be in Procureing Timber Stone and all other Material Neceffary for fd Houfe in order that fd Houfe with the Leave of Providence may be Set up and Covered Next Summer and that the Precinct Raife the Sum of £67, 18, in money and alfo the fum of £233 to be paid in Labour Grain Bief Pork Good Merchant- able bords White pine Shingles at the Market price. All to be under the Direction of the Comtee who are to Allow Each Perfon for his Labour in fd Buiffnefs According to the Worth Thereof in there Judgement.
SIMON COLTON JOHN HALE JONATHAN STEBBINS NATHL ELY 2ª AARON COLTON MOSES FIELD DAVID BURT 34, Comtee.
November 28, 1766. Voted That the Affeffors Affefs the Inhabitants of the Precinct the fum of £67-18 in Monny for fd Ufe, and the Sum of £230 in Labour thereon Accord- ing to fª Report and Order the Same into the Treafury.
June 2, 1767. Voted That the Meeting Houfe now in Building be Set up the North Side of the Old Meeting Houfe as near as Conveniently may be and that fd Houfe be fet the Length way Eaft and Weft with the Steeple to the Weft. Voted that the Comtee Chofen to Profecute the Building fd Houfe Hire a fuitable Number of Men to Raife fu Houfe at the Charge of the Precinct. Voted that fd Comtee Provide all fuch Refrefh- ments Both Victuals and Drink for fd Building as they fhall think Proper at the Coft of fd Precinct.
March 9, 1768. Voted that the Comtee for the affair of the Meeting Houfe be Defired to Make Enquiry and Get the Beft Information they Can Concerning the Building the Top of the Steple of fd Houfe Whether by Building another Square or Building in the Common Form and Proceed and Finifh fd Steple According to their Judgement.
April 5, 1768. Voted that the Comtee Chofen to Build the Meeting Houfe be Impow- ered and Directed to Order the Mony out of the Treafury to Defray the Charges of fª Houfe.
The Second Meeting-House, as thus finally finished, stood without impor- tant changes for more than half a century. In 1828, however, an extensive remodeling took place, the pulpit being removed from the north side to the east end, the galleries reconstructed on the remaining three sides, the old square pews replaced by more modern slips, and the exterior porches all removed. As thus remodeled, repainted, and gradually provided with blinds, the old church maintained itself for nearly another half century as a conspicuous landmark in its commanding central position on the village green. In 1874, however, to meet a growing public sentiment, and to obtain the ben- efit of legacies conditioned upon its removal from this position, the front portion of the original burying-ground Grant was secured as a new site, to which the still staunch and strongly-knit framework of the old edifice was removed, and wholly clothed upon with new beauty under the advice of a competent architect ; the result being a gem of modern church architecture, still sacredly suffused with the sentiment and associations of the past, and giving promise of continued service for at least another half century period to come.
So endeth the story of the Old Longmeadow Meeting-House.
RES FLED LONGMEADOW CHURCH AM.
HE CHAFEL
HAVE S THE DEN FIRTINA GROUND IN THE RAIN.
AT- ES STEN FROM THE AD LAX LORD PERT ITA 2
" THE OP. S.T. MIOR OF THE SIREFT
NAV OWNED AND OG AMED ET
MR. JOHN MITETHREES. VAN A FROM THE GOTHIC GATE : OSIS TO THE CHER
.500: MIT HUNDRED FEET FINNER WENTING HOUSE SITE CITY THE CHURCH NOTED TO HIS FRESENI TOPALOV VIE.
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MISCELLANEOUS VOTES RESPECTING .THE MEETING-HOUSE CARE might be multiplied indefinitely, covering even the minutest details of both the sanctuary and its services, but a few only must suffice :
February 20, 1765. Voted that there be Some Suitable Perfon Provided Upon the Pre- cinct Coft to Inftruct us in the Art of Singing -- And that Dean Nath1 Ely Ezra Stebbins and Eleazer Smith be a Comtee to Hire Some Perfon for fd Purpofe and Have the Whole Reg- ulation of fd affair, and order the Money for the Payment of fa Perfon out of the Treafury.
May, 1792. Voted that any perfon put curtains at any of the meeting Houfe windows if it be his pleafure.
To which record some apparently dissatisfied scribe has added the comment, " How much wifer than our Fathers were !"
March 8, 1796. Voted that it is the Will and Direction of this town that ten o'clock be the time in the forenoon of beginning Publick Worfhip on the Lord's Days in all the Months of the year except December and January and in thofe months at one half an hour after ten ; And from the first day of April to the firft day of October the time of begin- ning in the afternoon be at two o'clock. And in the months of October November Feb- uary and March at one half an hour after one o'clock, and in the months of December and January at one o'clock. Provided neverthelefs that the time of beginning Publick Worfhip in the afternoon on thofe Sabbaths on which the Lord's Supper is adminiftered be in all the months at two o'clock. Voted that the Rev M' Storrs be defired to give notice of the aforefª times of beginning Publick worfhip at the different feafons of the year and the per- fon who fhall ring the Meeting Houfe bell is hereby directed to obferve the fame.
November 4, 1811. Voted that Lieut Wm White Maj Sam1 Williams Jofiah Cooley Jofeph W. Cooley and Dean Eben" Burt be a Comtee on behalf of the Town to fee that the feveral Pafs ways into the Meeting Houfe fhall not be encumbered by people ftanding idlely in them and thereby rendering it inconvenient for people paffing in and out of the houfe at times of publick meetings on Sabbaths and other days. Voted that the beforefd Comtee fhall regulate proceedings at funerals.
May 1, 1815. Voted that the Comtee chofen to provide preaching for the Eaft Part of the Town be alfo a Comtee to confult with the Rev. Richard S. Storrs on the propriety of altering the time of the intermiffion on the Sabbath.
April 6, 1810. Voted to grant the fum of Fifty Dollars to defray the expenfe of a Stove fet up in the Meeting Houfe.
Upon the blowing down of the Church spire in the great gale of 1821 the Parish voted as follows, viz .:
April 2, 1822. Voted to repair the Spire of the Meeting Houfe the prefent feafon. Alfo that a Comtee of three be chofen to devife and prepare a plan for repairing the fame and make their report at the next or adjourned meeting of the Parish.
May 6, 1822. Voted to accept the report of the Comtee chofen to devife a plan for repairing the Spire to the Meeting Houfe, which report was made verbally as follows- viz That the Spire be repaired by fplicing the fame with a ftick of timber fo as to raife the fame as high as it was before it was broken and that an Iron fpindle be put in the Timber to fix the weather vane upon-the Vane alfo to be repaired and the Spire to be painted as far down as the walk. Voted that the Comtee be requefted to proceed and repair the Spire according to their report. Voted to grant the fum of one hundred dollars to defray the expenfe of repairing the Spire to the Meeting Houfe.
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GROUND-FLOOR OF THE OLD MEETING-HOUSE, LONGMEADOW, MASS.
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GALLERY OF THE OLD MEETING-HOUSE, LONGMEADOW, MASS.
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VOTES IN REGARD TO SCHOOL MATTERS
abound throughout the Precinct and Town Records. A few selections are made :
September 30, 1714. Voated to Gitt or have a fchool-mafter to Teach or Learn our chil- dren to Read and Write, perfuant to a vote of the Town bearing date May 30, 1706. It was furder voated that the prefent Comtee for the prudential affairs of ye precinct fhould take care to provide futch a fchoolmafter for us as aforfd voted.
Which is supplemented by the following agreement from the Committee Book :
Whereas the town of Springfield have given liberty for the inhabitants of Longmeadow to git a Schoolmafter to teach there children to Read and Write, and alfo that the inhabit- ants of Longmeadow have ordered the Comtee for management of the prudential affairs of the precinct that they provide fuch a fchoolmafter from time to time. According to fd vote, with ye approbation of the Selectmen of the town of Springfield we doe agree with Mr James Gareld to keep the fchool in Longmeadow for the fpace of half a year from the date hereof -- and for his faithfully attending the work of Schoolmafter in Longmeadow for the fpace aforefd wee promife to give him the fum of fifteen pounds in own pay-or eleven pounds ten fhillings in money-of which as the town of Springfield pleafe, unto the true performance of which we do fet our hands this nineteenth day of March. 1717.
JAMES GERALD.
NATH! BURT 2"ª SAML KEEP THOMAS BLISS 2nd.
The following vote preceded the building of the Old Brick School-House, so familiar to all Longmeadow people during the first half of the present century :
March 8, 1791. Voted that the new School Houfe (of the middle Diftrict) be fet 35 rods fouth of the Meeting Houfe in the middle of the ftreet. Voted to Grant the fum of £ 120 to the Middle School Diftrict for the purpofe of building a houfe for the ufe of fchools and other occafional purpofes of the Town.
The proper care of the school fund derived from the donation of Mr. Nathaniel Burt, often engaged the attention of the Precinct :
December 18, 1751. At a Precinct Meeting Dean Jonathan Ely was Chofen Modera- tor. Voted that Mr Stephen Keep be impowered to Make Serch for and bring to the Meeting (If it can be found) a Certain Deed from M' Nath1 Burt Decd to the Pre- cinct of Longmeadow of a Tract of Land in fd Precinct Called the School Lot.
December 19, 1751. Voted that Jonathan Stebbins Clerk of fd Precinct Be Impow- ered to Put on Record in the County Regifter, at the Coft of the Precinct a Deed of Gift from M' Nath! Burt Decd of Twenty Acres of Land Towards the Support of the School in the Precinct of Longmeadow. Voted that Eben' Blifs Sam1 Keep and Simon Colton be a Comtee to Enquire into and See upon What Terms the School Lot in fª Precinct May be Leafed for and Make Report to Some future Meeting.
December 5, 1755. Voted that Enfn Simon Colton Dean Nath1 Ely and Jonathan Steb- bins Sergt Sam! Keep and John Hale Jun' be a Comtee to fell and difpofe of the School Land Given to the Inhabitants of the Precinct of Longmeadow for the Support of a School forever by Mr Nath1 Burt decd and fd Comtee are Impowered to give Proper Conveyances and Security for fd Land in the Name and Behalf of the Precinct and Take Good and Sufficient Security in the Name of fd Precinct for fd Land for the ufe of a fund.
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February 20, 1756. Voted that the Bonds taken for the Security of the money the fchool land was fold for be in the Name and Lodgd in the Hands of Mr Jona Stebbs Treasurer for the ufe of the Precinct and the Intereft of fd money to be difpofed of by fª Precinct from time to time according to the true Define thereof as they fhall think beft.
March 24, 1757. Voted that Dean Nath Ely be Collector and Receiver of the Intereft Money Due to the Precinct of Longmeadow by Vertue of the fale of the fchool land Given to the Precinct by Mr Nath1 Burt Decd and that the fd Collector Pay out the Same from time to time as the Precinct Comtee Shall Direct for the ufe of the School in fd Pre- cinct. Voted that the Bonds Given for the Security of the aforefd Money to and in the Name of Jonathan Stebbins Treafur for the Ufe aforefd and One Bond Given to Capt Simon Colton and Lieut Nath1 Ely for the Ufe aforefd Be all Lodged in the Care of the Aforefd Nath1 Ely.
April 7, 1800. Voted to choofe a Comtee of five, Viz Jabez Colton Jofhua Trafk Thos Huntington Hezekiah Hale and Ethan Ely, whofe duty it fhall be at convenient times to vifit the feveral fchools and attend to their regulations, and alfo fee that no teacher keeps a fchool for any confiderable time without their approbation and the approbation of the minifter of the Town, as well qualified to keep fuch a fchool as the fd teacher ap- proved engages to keep. Voted that to excite an Engagednefs for Learning the Comtee chofen to infpect fchools, by order of the felectmen be allowed out of the Town Treafury a fum of money not exceeding feven Dollars to purchafe proper Premiums to be beftowed as honorary, upon fuch fchollars who fhall make the beft progrefs in the feveral Branches of Learning during the Term in which any fchool is kept.
THE CHANGE FROM PRECINCT TO TOWN ORGANIZATION
was not effected without prolonged agitation, and against the usual opposition in such matters. The earliest record upon the subject is the following from the Precinct Book, some thirty years after the Precinct incorporation :
" At a Precinct meeting April 1741 to Receive the Repoart of a Comtee Chofer to Confider whether it is beft to have this precinct Set of a Diftinct Town three of the Comtee aforefd being prefent, they Report that it was the minds of the Comtee-al things confid- erd-not to perfew that afaire at prefent. Which Report was excepted by the Precinct."
This seems to have settled the matter for another period of thirty years, when, in 1772, an agitation was again revived, which resulted, after ten years, in the desired change.
February 10, 1772, a meeting was held "to fee Whether the Precinct Were Defirous to be fet off from the Town of Springfield as a Diftinct Town or Diftrict with all the Priviledges of a Town or Diftrict by Law with Such Bounds as they Now have as a Par- rifh; alfo Such proportion of Moneys in the Town Treafury or any Other Matter or Things Relating thereto as is Common or Reafonable in Such Cafes; and It Paffed in the affirmative. A Comtee was chofen to Prepare and Prefer a Petition to the Town of Spring- field for that Purpofe at the Next Annual March Meeting.
March 27, 1772. Voted that there be a Comtee Chofen to Prefer a Petition to the Great and General Court of the Province to Pray fd Court to Set off the Parrith of Long- meadow in Springfield from fª Town a Diftinct or Separate Town or Diftrict and Proceed
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in fu Affair as to Time and Manner According to their beft Judgment. Capt Simon Col- ton, Dean Nath1 Ely Dea" Aaron Colton Enfr Sam1 Williams and Jona Stebbins were Chofen a Comte for fª Purpofe.
April 9, 1773. Voted that Dean Nath1 Ely, Capt Simon Colton, and Dean Aaron Col- ton Be a Comtee to wait on the Comtee Chofen by the Town of Springfield to look into and Confider the Circumftances of the town and Reprefent to fd Comtee the Situation that we in this Parifh ftand in to the Town in Order that Longmeadow May be Set off from fu Town as a Separate Town or Diftrict.
December 13, 1773. The Queftion was Put whether the Precinct were Defireous to be Set off from the Town of Springfield a Diftinct Town or Diftrict. And it was Voted in the Affirmative.
December 31, 1773. Voted That the Precinctt Make Application to the Great and General Court of this Province at their Next Seffions That the Precinct of Longmeadow be Set off from the Town of Springfield as a Diftinct Town or Diftrict in Such Mode and form as Shall be Agreed Upon. Voted that Enfn Sam1 Williams, Jona Hale Jun' David Burt 3rd Dea" Aaron Colton and Dean Nath1 Ely be a Comtee to Profecute fo affaire.
January 19, 1774. Voted that Two Men More be Added to the above Comtee and That Jona Stebbins and Jons Burt 2"d be of the fª Comtee. . Voted that fª Comtee be Impowered and Directed to Take all Such Advice and Counfel to Conduct in fª Affair as they Shall find Neceffary from time to Time.
January 31, 1774. Voted to accept the Springfield vote of Jany 17, 1774 viz that 'the Town Confent that the Third Parrifh in Springfield be fet off as a Diftinct Town or Dif- trict With the Limmits as they now enjoy as a Parrifh, they too take their proportionable part of the poor in the Town and their part of the flock of Monies or Securities for money in the Town Treafury. Excepting Four hundred pounds Voted to be appropriated or raifed in fª Town for the building of bridges acroft Agawam River and Chicopee River.' A Comtee was chofen to prefent this petition to the General Court ; alfo voted to " fend one' agent from Amongft ourfelves."
February 1, 1774. Voted that the vote paffed in the Meeting Jany 31, 1774 To fend an Agent from Amongft ourfelves to Prefer our Petition to the General Court the Prefent Seffions be and is reconfidered. . Voted That the Comtee Chofen to Profecute the Above Affair be Impowered and Defired to Employ Col" Beni Day, as an Agent to Prefer the Poti- tion fª Comtee have Prepared to fend to the General Court the Prefent Seffion.
March 16, 1774. The Queftion was put whether the Parifh were Still Defirous to be Set off from the Town of Springfield and it Paffed in the Affirmative.
November 20, 1775. Voted that we will Prefer a Petition to the Great and General Court Praying that we may be Set off a Separate Town or Dittrict from the Town of Springfield. Voted to Choofe a Comtee to Prefer the aforefd Petition. Voted that this Comtee Confift of three Persons. Voted that Capt Simon Colton Dean Aaron Colton and Jona Hale Jun' be fª Comtee.
During the stress of the Revolutionary struggle the agitation seems to have ' been suspended but in
August 23, 1781, the Queftion was put whether the Meeting are Defirous that this Parifh fhould be Set off a Separate Town from the Town of Springfield and it paffed in the affirmative. Voted to afk the Town if they will confent that the Parifh of Long-
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meadow be made a Separate Town. Voted that we will prefer a Petition to the General Court praying that the Parifh of Longmeadow be made a Separate Town.
August 23, 1781. Voted to Choofe a Comtee or Agents to Tranfact the Matter of Getting off both in Town and at the General Court.
October 13, 1783. Voted that Jona Hale Jun' Lieut Nath1 Ely and Jon& Burt 2ªd be the Comtee.
Which is the last vote recorded before the passage of the act of Town incorporation.
The following memorandum among the papers of Dea. Nathaniel Ely, Jr., the representative of Longmeadow at that time at the General Court, gives a hint of the opposition then made to the change, and of the grounds of that opposition :
" Objection Ist That the Petitioners by Accident or Define Omitted to Produce a Coppy of f Petition and the Order thereon. 2nd the Il Pollicy of Dividing Towns. 31y that it will be a Damage to the Gramer Scholls. 4ly that the Diftance from one to Another is not Greater than is Common between Parifhes. 51y Altho the meatings have Com- monly been held in the firft Parifh, they are willing to hold them a Proportionable Part of the Time at Longmeadow. that 6ly the Population Eaft of the Street Can Attend meat- ings as well at the firft Parish. 7ly that Sum of them are Oppofed to a Divifion. 81y that the Lands are Better in Longmeadow than in the Other Parifhes. gly that the Refpond. ants are Traders and the Petitioners are Farmers."
The following is the vote by which the Precinct of Wilbraham had already been accorded permission to be set off if the General Court should see " fitt : "
March 10, 1740. Voted that the feveral perfons and families belonging to the precinct of Longmeadow Settled on the Eaft part of Springfield called the outward Commons be fet off a Diftinct precinct for the benefit of the Gofpel miniftry and other privileges belonging to precincts whenfoever the Honourd General Court of the province of the Maffachu- fetts Bay fhall think fitt and proper upon application made to them.
THE BROAD AND BEAUTIFUL LONGMEADOW STREET
has been at different times the subject of many votes, showing how narrow has been its escape from the most serious encroachments, urged in the inter- est of individuals, or even of the public itself. It may surprise some to learn that the present central section of park-like sward was originally a long sand-drift, -similar to many now found in the wood-belt eastward,-and that this was reclaimed and converted into its present verdure by a process of enrichment and cultivation extending over several years, carried on by a citizen (Capt. Calvin Burt), who was permitted for that purpose temporarily to enclose a long section of the street. The northern half of this same central section was also by town permission occupied for many years by a central series of shops, stores, and manufactories, under forty-year leases, in the same way that the front portion of the Burying-Ground grant was permitted to be
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occupied by a blacksmith's and a wheelwright's shops. These last, unfortu- nately, by unchallenged occupancy for more than forty years, gained finally a title to the land itself which it cost the Parish several hundred dollars to extinguish when this corner was desired as a site for the remodelled Church edifice in 1874. Fortunately the danger was earlier discovered in regard to the Main Street leases, and the removal of all those buildings was secured at the expiration of the lease-term ;- while a sentiment of jealous and loving care now exists which would make their renewal forever impossible. The following are some of the street votes referred to :
November 22, 1787. Voted that the Town Confent that Stephen Cooley have two rods wide out of the ftreet acrofs his home Lot in order to fet a Houfe on.
December 8, 1789. Voted the Town Confent that Mr. Jabez Colton have a piece of Land out of the ftreet to fet a Houfe on Near Henry Coltons late Deceafed if the Court fee fit.
March 16, 1790. Voted that Dea" Nath1 Ely and Nath1 Ely Jun' have the content of the Town to Extend their fence into the ftreet ten feet from the Meadow Gate to the Brow of the hill in front of their Home Lots.
May 3, 1791. Voted to give Rev. Mr. Storrs a deed of the [miniftry] land which was fold him by the Town if he will pay £40. Lawful Money for the fame with Intereft from the 3rd of May 1791.
April 2, 1792. Voted to choofe a Comtee to fell or leafe all or any of the Town Lands -that faid Comtee be impowered to give good and lawful deeds of the fame, they fecuring the Town for the Payment. that Meffrs Jabez Cotton. Lieut Nath1 Ely and Col Gideon Burt be fd Comtee.
September 2, 1793. Voted that this town give their Confent that the Court of Seffions fhould grant to certain Perfons for the term of forty years who will undertake to build fhops for the ufe of Mechanicks, the following Tract of Land in the County Road in Long- meadow, being feven Rods in length and three Rods in Width, the North End of faid Tract to be fo far South of the New Brick School Houfe as to be in an Eaft and Weft Line Parallel with the North fide of Sam1 Coomes Home Lot. and the length to be from North to South in a line parallel with the Street, and to be fo laid as to be at equal Diftances from either fide of the Street. Voted that the Selectmen be directed to make fale of the old Brick School Houfe to the beft Advantage for this Town. Voted that the town give their confent that the Court of Seffions Grant for the term of forty years to any perfon or perfons who fhall pur- chafe fª Houfe the following tract of Land-Viz the Ground on which the fa Houfe now ftandeth together the fpace of the width of the Houfe extending twenty feet north and a space extending sixteen feet eaft of fª Houfe. Voted alfo, that the Selectmen ftay the fale of the fª Houfe till they fhall know the determination of the Court of Seffions refpecting the grant of the Land.
February 18, 1794. Voted to reconfider a vote paffed April 2 1792 Empowering Jabez Colton Col Gideon Burt and Lieut Nath1 Ely a comtee to fell or leafe any or all of the Town's lands that the fame be null and void.
March 4, 1794. Voted that Robert Silcocks have the Towns confent to improve a tract of Ground in the Street 100 feet long and 30 feet in breadth to begin 10 feet north of
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the Hatter's fhop for the purpose of erecting a building for carrying on the Duck Manu- factory and that the Town confent fª Silcocks improve this ground for the fpace of forty years.
February 17, 1795. Voted that Capt Calvin Burt have the Confent of this Town to take up a piece of Ground thirty feet Square beginning fix feet fouth of the Hatter's fhop and to extend weft in a Parallel Line of fd fhop for the purpose of erecting a Store to pro- mote the Commercial Interests in the Town. Voted that Eliab Wafhburn have the Con- fent of this Town to improve a piece of Ground in the Street of thirty feet Square next north of Robt Silcock's Duck Manufactory Houfe for the Purpofe of erecting a Hatter's fhop on the fame. Voted that Jabez Colton have the Content of this Town to occupy a piece of Ground in the Street Thirty feet Square next north of the Ground purpofed to be occupied by Eliab Wafhburns fd Ground to be improved by fd Colton for erecting a fhop.
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