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JAMES LEONARD Committee E. EZRA DEAN, SAMUEL SUMNER
Recorded May 6th 1737 by James Williams propr Clerk.
We have also Examined said Tisdales account further and find lie hath Rec'd of the proprietors on the account of former arrears : $21=15s=1d
and have paid out to those that have served the propr in viewing & Obtaining said Township 21=8=6
and there is still in Capt Tisdales hands £9=6=7
We also find that Joseph Eddy hath due to Ballance 5=10 --
and to Eliphelet Leonard 7=4=6
To Deacon Sumner 0=9=4
And we find that the aRears which are not yett paid to
said Tisdale are as on the other side £9=10=5
Also we find that Capt Tisdale ought to be allowed by the Treasurer 11s-6d pd by s'd Tisdale for Eliakim Walker. These accounts we have also examined at the same time as within mentioned
Attest
JAMES LEONARD EZRA DEAN Committee SAMUEL SUMNER
At a meeting of the proprietors of the Township No. 1 on the west side of Connecticutt River warned and held at the schole house in Taun- ton on the 20th Day of May 1737 and then came unto the following votes viz
1-Voted that Mr Samuel Sumner be s'd Moderator for s'd meeting
2-Voted that the whole number of the Committee Surveyors & Chainmen & Pilots that shall be imployed upon the proprietors Cost in the aLottment shall not exceed the number of Eleven men of which two of them shall be 'surveyors and imployed as Surveyors in said a Lott- ments.
3-Voted that the whole number of the Committee all Ready chosen Except Leiut. Morgan Cobb shall be and are fully impowered and chosen Chain Men; and that Jonathan Padelford Jur all Ready chosen a Chainman be added to the Committee and that each of them shall have the sum of twelve shillings per day for their time & Expense as was voted the Committee on the fourteenth of January Last
4-Voted that the major part of the Committee that Repair to the a Lottment of said Township and all present at said shall be a Quorum
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to Determine The a Lottment & to act in the whole affair as submitted to the Committee the fourteenth of January Last.
5-Voted that James Williams be added to the Committee and also That he be one of the surveyors and that he shall Receive no more for his time than fifteen shillings per Day for his time & Expense, and said Williams Declared his non acceptance of his choice in said meeting.
6-Voted that Decon Samuel Sumner he added to the Committee & be also imployed as a Chain Man in the a Lottment of said Township as allReady voted and that he have for his time and Expense the sum of twelve Shillings Per day and no more.
And then the said meeting was dissolved
Record May 26th 1737 James Williams Propr Clerk.
At a meeting of the proprietors of the township Number one on the west side of the Connecticutt River Legally meet at the School house in Taunton on Monday the Eleventh Day of July A. D. 1737 and then Came into the following votes
1-The said proprietors made choice of Mr Thomas Clap Moderator for said meeting by the major part of the votes; each one voting accord- ing to his interests
2-Voted That the Platt & Return Presented by the Committee Be accepted and the Return Recorded in said proprietors Book
3-Voted that this meeting be adjourned untill six o'Clock This af- ternoon ; and then meet accordingly.
4-Voted that the sum of Eleven pounds Be Raised upon said pro- prietors in Due proportion in full Ballance of the account of said Com- mittee & Surveyor and that the assessors be directed to make an assess- ment for the same.
5-Voted that Mr Thomas Clap the Moderator Draw Each house Lott & intervail Lott for Each Respective Person that have paid his pro- portion to former charges; or that have satisfied the Committee his just Part of said Cost & Charge.
6-Voted that there be a Committee Chosen to take into Considera- tion what method will be most proper for said proprietors to take in building a saw mill and a Grist mill and make report at the adjournment of this meeting to said proprietors and in the mean time Receive the proposalls of any Person or Persons that are willing to take said mill or mills to build, and that the Committee shall Consist of the number of five men, and the persons chosen ware Mr. Thomas Clap Capt. Joseph Tisdale, Leiut John Harvey, Leiut Eliphelett Leonard and Jonathan Barney, and then the said meeting was adjourned unto the first Monday of Sept. next at one of the Clock in the afternoon & there to meet at said School house precisely at s'd hour.
Recorded Sept 3d 1737 James Williams propr Clerk.
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September 5th 1737 being the first Tuesday of said month. The meeting of the township No. 1 adjourned from the Eleventh of July last meet according to adjournment Then said meeting was adjourned to the Dwelling house of Capt Joseph Tisdale and there to mect at Three O'Clock This afternoon: and then said meeting meet accordingly.
The Proprietors agreed and voted that the following persons That have given Bonds to the Committee of the General Court and are ad- mitted settlers in the Township number one on the west side of Cont River, shall be Esteamed and accounted the Original Owners of so many Rights as he hath Given Bonds to settle, and Every Lott that shall be Drawn in the Division of said Township shall be drawn in the names or Rights of the said Original owners: and in order to Distinguish one Right from one another Every Right is Distinguished by Number and every proprietor shall have The Number or Numbers that are affixed to there Respective names.
This is transcribed on the other side with the names of those- who Bought in there Lotts Respectively.
Voted that Mr Thomas Clap Mr Saml Sumner James Williams Esqr. & Edward Blake be a Committee to Recon with the Treasurer, Collector & Committee of this Propriety, and make Report to s'd proprietors at the adjournment of this meeting who is indebted to them and to whom the same is due Respectively. And then said meeting was adjourned untill Monday the 26 Day of Sept Currant at One O'Clock in the after- noon to meet at the schoole house in said Taunton and Also That the Clerk Post up a Notification at the Meeting house, and There in sett forth that the said proprietors are to Bring in There Lotts in Order the same may Be Recorded
Recorded Sept 5th 1737 by James Williams Clerk
At a meeting held by adjournment from thic Eleventh of July to the fifth of September, and Continued by adjournment untill Sept 26th meet accordingly : and there the Proprictors agreed and voted that the follow- ing That have Given Bond to the Committee of the General Court & are admitted settlers in the Township No. 1 on the west side of the Con- necticutt River shall be Esteamed & accounted the Originall owners of so many Rights as he hath Given Bond to settle, And Every Lott that shall be drawn in the Division of said Township shall be Drawn in the Names or Rights of the said Original owners, and in order to Distinguish one Right from another Every Right is hereby Distinguished by number: one, two, three &c and every proprietor shall have the number that are affixed to there Respective Names
Right
Capt Joseph Tisdale 1 Drawed 7 house Lott 53 Intervail Lott
Joseph Tisdale 2 Drawed 22 house Lott 23 Intervail Lott
Dito 3 Drawed 23 house Lott 22 Intervail Lott
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Right.
Dito
4 Drawed 36 house Lott 21 Intervail Lott
Ditto
5 Drawed 37 house Lott 20 Intervail Lott
Ditto
6 Drawed 41 house Lott 19 Intervail Lott
Ditto 7 Drawed 42 house Lott 56 Intervail Lott
Jolın Smitlı 8 Drawed 47 house Lott 55 Intervail Lott
Mr Samuel Sumner 9 Drawed 25 house Lott 7 Intervail Lott
Ditto 10 Drawed 11 house Lott 24 Intervail Lott
Mr Benjamin Ruggles 11
Drawed 38 house Lott 31 Intervail Lott
James Williams 12 Drawed 31 house Lott 29 Intervail Lott
Ditto
13 Drawed 49 house Lott 49 Intervail Lott
Mr Thomas Clap
14 Drawed 52 house Lott 27 Intervail Lott
Ditto
15 Drawed 33 house Lott 28 Intervail Lott
Mr Eliphelet Leonard 16 Drawed 16 house Lott 12 Intervail Lott
Ditto
17 Drawed 3 house Lott 51 Intervail Lott
Ditto
18 Drawed 53 house Lott S Intervail Lott
Ditto
19 Drawed 8 house Lott 4 Intervail Lott
Ditto
20 Drawed 27 house Lott 60 Intervail Lott
Seth Staples 21
Drawed 13 house Lott 37 Intervail Lott
Ens Seth Sumner
22
Drawed 59 house Lott 10 Intervail Lott
Ditto
23 Drawed 12 house Lott 9 Intervail Lott
Capt James Leonard 24
Drawed 46 house Lott 41 Intervail Lott
Mr Morgan Cobb 2d 25 Drawed 39 house Lott 47 Intervail Lott
Edmond Andrews 26
Drawed 51 house Lott 5 Intervail Lott
Mr John Harvey
27 Drawed 54 house Lott 32 Intervail Lott
James Leonard 3 28
Drawed 10 house Lott 22 Intervail Lott
Ens Edward Blake
29 Drawed 58 house Lott 11 Intervail Lott
Joseph Willis
30 Drawed 19 house Lott 16 Intervail Lott
Eliakim Walker
31 Drawed 18 house Lott 43 Intervail Lott
Josiah Linkon 32
Drawed 35 house Lott 34 Intervail Lott
Jonathan Padelford Jur 33 Drawed 56 house Lott 3 Intervail Lott Ditto
Ditto
35
Drawed 29 house Lott 57 Intervail Lott
Joseph Wilbore
37
Drawad 30 house Lott 26 Intervail Lott
Jonathan Barney 38
Drawed 32 house Lott 34 Intervail Lott
Ebenezer Deall
39 Drawed 26 house Lott 15 Intervail Lott
James Walker 2d 40 Drawed 34 house Lott 35 Intervail Lott
Ebenezer Smith 41 Drawed 60 house Lott 61 Intervail Lott
Joseph Eddy
42 Drawed 61 house Lott 13 Intervail Lott
James Leonard 2d 43 Drawed 4 house Lott 46 Intervail Lott
Joseplı Tisdale Jur 44
Drawed 1 house Lott 40 Intervail Lott
Ditto
45 Drawed 48 house Lott 38 Intervail Lott
Ditto 46 Drawed 49 house Lott 39 Intervail Lott
34 Drawed 45 house Lott 59 Intervail Lott
Joseph Barney
36
Drawed 63 house Lott 53 Intervail Lott
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Right.
James Walker 2d 47 Drawed 17 house Lott 36 Intervail Lott
Joseph Eddy 48 Drawed 62 house Lott 14 Intervail Lott
Drawed 44 house Lott 17 Intervail Lott
Capt James Leonard 49 Ditto
50 Drawed 6 house Lott 44 Intervail Lott
Ezra Dean 51 Drawed 9 house Lott 30 Intervail Lott
Liut Morgan Cobb . 52 Drawed 43 house Lott 48 Intervail Lott
Ebenezer Dean 53 Drawed 20 house Lott 18 Intervail Lott
Ephriam Dean 54 Drawed 5 house Lott 58 Intervail Lott
William Ware
55 Drawed 28 house Lott 6 Intervail Lott
Samuel Sumner
56 Drawed 2 house Lott 50 Intervail Lott
Joseplı Eddy 57 Drawed 57 house Lott 2 Intervail Lott
John Harvey
58 Drawed 55 house Lott 33 Intervail Lott
Ebenezer Cobb 59 Drawed 21 house Lott 45 Intervail Lott
Israel Tisdale
60 Drawed 50 house Lott 42 Intervail Lott
1 Ministers Right 61 Drawed 24 house Lott 1 Intervail Lott
2 Ministers
62 Drawed 15 house Lott 62 Intervail Lott
School
63 Drawed 14 house Lott 63 Intervail Lott
And then it was voted that the Clerk of said Proprietors Record the foregoing as it now stands on this Book
Attest James Williams Propr Clerk
And then the Committee appointed the Eleventh of July last made a Report according to Order Relating to That article of Building of the Mills which Report is as followeth viz
We the Subscribers being Chosen a Committe to consider of some proper meathod for the proprietors of the Township Number One on the west side of Connecticutt River to Gett a Saw Mill & a Grist Mill built in said Township & make Report &c
Accordingly we have taken the premises into Serious Consideration Do agree to Report as followeth-That any person or persons that are willing to undertake the building of said mills shall give a valuable bond with sufficient security to the treasurer of said proprietors or to his suc- cessors in said Office for the use of said proprietors That he or they will truly & faithfully build a Good Saw Mill upon that brook or stream which the proprietors have aLotted out for the use & benefit of said proprietors at or before the first Day of October anno Domini 1738 and shall saw all sorts of Bords & slit work for the proprietors after the Rate of thirty Shillings per thousand, Each proprietor finding Suitable timber at the mill that wants any sawed into bords or slitt work; and that he or they will also build a Grist Mill upon said Stream within Six Months after there is twenty families Settled in said Township and Grind for the proprietors, taking no more than two quarts ont of a bushel; and that he or they will Keep up said Mills in good Order and Repair for the
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space of fifteen years next after they are builded, for the service of the proprietors & Other Inhabitants: and if said mills should be Demolished by the French or Indian Enemies within the space of seven years after they are builded, the proprietors to pay thirty pounds for each mill that shall be so Demolished to the undertakers & they then at their own Cost & Charge to build said mills again for said proprietors within one year after a peace is concluded with said Enemies, in case it should so happen that a war with them should Brake out: and for the incouragement of those shall undertake the building of said mills the proprietors shall grant to them there heirs & assigns forever the mill Lott & the stream running through it which is all ready Laid Out and they also to have the mills which they shall build, and they building a mill house upon it of Eighteen feet Square & Seven feet stud shall be accounted to them as a Settlers Lott; also bring too five acres of Land to inglish Grass, and also the undertakers shall have that peace of Land to there heirs & as- signs forever that Lyeth on the south east side of the highway that now lies Common, viz that peace of Land between the mill brook & the lower Tear of Lotts, also Each proprietor for each right which he holds sball pay to the undertakers twenty Shillings, one half by the first Day of March Domi 1737 and the other half when the Grist Mill is finished. September 26th 1737
Thos. Clap by } Comittee Order of yc
September 26tlı 1737 Read & accepted and voted that said Report be Recorded and Capt James Leonard Capt Joseph Tisdale Lieut Eliplilet Leonard Jonathan Paddelford Jun appeared in said meeting & Declared that they would undertake & perform the building of said mills agree- able to the Report above said: also voted that said Capt. Leonard Capt. Tisdale Eliplilet Leonard & Jonathan Paddelford shall have & hold the Lands mentioned in said Report to them there heirs & assigns forever as also the sum of money in the old currency paid as above s'd upon giving security as afforesaid
Also voted that there be a Comitte Chosen to Lett out said mills and take bond of the undertakers agreeable to the Report afforesaid and that the Comitte shall Grant to the undertakers by deed of sale all the Lands Reported in there favor for building said mills, and the Comitte then Chosen was Mr Thomas Clap Mr Samuel Sumner & James Williams: also voted that the sum of thirty pounds be Raised by Rate in Due por- potion upon the proprietors of said Township according to the Right or Rights each one enjoys, for the first payment for incouragement of build- ing the mills, and that the assors make an assesment for the same in Due proportion at or before the firstof December next and committ the same to the Collector: and hic to account for it at or before the first day of february next with Treasurer of said Township -- and then the meet-
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ing was dissolved: and then the moderator Declared the same was Dis- solved accordingly James Williams Proprietors Clerk
Recorded November 19th 1737 by
James Williams Propr Clerk
A Return of a survey Begun on the fourth Day of June 1737 and fin- ished on the tenth of the same month by us the subscribers the Committe Chosen and impowered to Lay out sixty three house Lotts and sixty three intervail Lotts with a mill Lott and a bureing place and a meeting house platt, according to Divers votes passed at a Legall meet- ing warned for that purpose by a number of Inhabitants in the town of Taunton who petitioned The Great & General Court of the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England for a Township in some of the unapropriated Lands in said province, which petition was answered and a Township Granted to said petitioners on the west side of Connecticutt River & joyning thereto called & Known by the Name of No. 1. The bounds of the house Lotts are as followeth. (here follows the survey of the Township with the private mark of each Grantee and also the survey of the training ground and burying place and also a meeting house platt. )
Said work was done by us the subscribers the proprietors Committee Chosen to do said work. The Honse Lotts that Joyn on the River viz seven tier Lotts There is a highway or landing place of four Rods in width a Long by the River from the bank of said River by Gates or Barrs: & a peace of undivided between the mill brook & the Lower tear of Lotts
July 11th 1737
Then This Return
[ John Harvey | Joseph Eddy
Read allowed and accepted
Ebenezer Dean Committe
& voted that the Clerk Record | Jonathan Paddelford Jun
the same
| Morgan Cobb Surveyor
James Williams Propr Clerk The foregoing Return Recorded March 4th 1737 by James Williams Proprietors Clerk
April 3d 1738 In pursuance to a vote of the proprietors of the Town- ship No. 1: on the west side of Connecticutt River at there meeting Aprill 11th 1737 it was voted and ordered that the Clerk of said propric- tors yearly & annually should warn a meeting of said proprietors four- teen days at Least before the day of said meeting in order to make Choice of Officers Necessary for said propriety; which I have done agreeable to said vote: and said proprietors are according warned to meet at the school house in Taunton on Munday being the third day of
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Aprill 1738 by a Notification posted up at the meeting house in Taunton according to order
James Williams proper Clerk
said proprietors being meet according Ly
1-Made Choice of Mr Samuel Sumner Moderator for s'd meeting.
2-James Williams was Chosen Clerk for the year next ensuing for said propriety.
3-Made Choice of Mr Samuel Sumner treasurer for the year next ensucing.
4-Made Choice of Mr Thomas Clap Seth Staples & James Williams to be assesors for the year next ensueing. .
Made Choice of Ebenezer Dean Collector for the year next ensueing.
5-Then in said meeting said dean Refused to serve in said Trust & then Joseph Eddy was chosen collector in said Deans Room & Steed, for the next ensuing
6-Voted that said proprietors will make choice of Three men for a Committe to petition the Great & General Court in the name & behalf of said proprietors that they may be enabled by said Court by some act or Law to gather such rates or assesments as have been all Ready made & remain unpaid; as well as those as shall hear after be made & agreed upon by said proprietors for the speady settelment of the Township No. 1, on the west side of Connecticut River; that so said proprietors may bring forward there settelments & fullfill The conditions of the bonds Given The Committe of the Great & General Court-And then the Com- itte Chosen was Mr Thomas Clap, Mr Samuel Sumner & James Williams
and then the meeting was dissolved & the Moderator declared The meeting was dissolved accordingly
James Williams proprietors Clerk
June 12th 1738 Then Mr Samuel Sumner appeared & was sworn to the office of Treasurer for said proprietors before
James Williams Justice of the Peace
May 2Stlı 1739 At a proprietors meeting warned and held at the Schoole House in Taunton of the proprietors of the Township Number One, on the west side of Connecticutt River To do & act what they shall think proper Touching the several articles following:
I-To Chuse a proprietors Clerk Committee Treasurer assesors Col- lector &c
2-Whether the proprietors will by way of Rate or otherwise make some allowance or consideration to a number of those that will first Build there Dwelling houses on there house Lotts & be Leading in the fulfilling of the condition of their said Grant:
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3 Whether the proprietors will agree to fence their Intervale Lotts or so many of them as s'd proprieters shall think fitt into one or more General field, or fields as also such Other Lotts as butt on said River
1-The Moderator then Chosen was Capt James Leonard
2-James Williams was Chosen proprietors Clerk for said Township 3ly Voted that Lieut Morgan Cobb, Ens Edward Blake, & Mr Joseph Eddy be a Committe to take effectual Care that all & each proprietor or Granteee of said Township No 1. that have not paid there proportion to former Rates & taxes Granted and agreed upon, or that shall this present year be Granted & agreed upon by said proprietors for Bringing forward the Settlement of said Township, by pursuing the Law of this province on Delinquent proprietors in such cases made and provided
4ly-Treasurer Chosen for this present year is Mr James Walker Junor
5th-Collector Chosen for this present year is Mr Sethi Staples
6ly-the assesors Chosen for said year 1739 ware Lieut John Harvey James Williams & Joseph Eddy
7ly-Voted that Mesrs Thomas Clap Janies Williams John Harvey Joseph Eddy & Seth Staples be a Commitee to take into consideration what sum or sums will be proper for said proprietors to Raise by way of Rate, or what other encouragements will be proper for said proprietors to make to a certain number of the first settlers as are leading in the settlement of there Grants, and said Committee to make report of there opinion to s'd proprietors what will be best to do thereon, at the ad- journment of this meeting and this article is adjourned to that time
8-Voted that said Committee also Take into Consideration what will be best and most convenient for said proprietors to do about fencing their Intervale Lotts into one or more field or fields and such other Lotts as do butt upon the River-and said Committe to make Report at the adjournment of this meeting
and then said meeting was adjourned by vote to Munday the Eleventh Day of June next & there to meet at twelve of the Clock in s'd Day at said schoole house in Taunton and the Moderator Declared s'd meeting was adjourned accordingly
James Williams propr Cler
The proprietors meeting adjourned from the 28th Day of May 1739 to the Eleventh Day of June 1739 then meet according to adjournment & then tlie said meeting was adjourned by vote from the schoole house in taunton to the Dwelling house of Captn Joseph Tisdale & then to meet immediately & the proprietors Did accordingly meet- - -- and then the Report of the Committee Chosen the 28th of May was Read to sum incouragements to a number of proprietors who should first Repair to s'd town ship & build there house &c-which Report is as followeth viz
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The Committee Chosen the 28th of May 1739 to take into considera- tion what sum or sums of money will be proper for s'd proprietors to Rais by way of Rate; or what other incouragement will be proper for s'd proprietors to make to a certain number of the first settlers: and such others as will be leading in the first setling of there Grants: we have duly considered thereof, are of opinion & do Report as followeth viz
1 -- That the proprietors of the Township No 1 on the west side of Connecticutt River Rais by way of Rate the sum of four pounds on Each Right in Due proportion on each right according to the number of Rights each one holds & Claims in s'd propriety, which sum amounts to two hundred & forty pounds and yt ye assessors for this present year make a rate for ye same & s'd Collector Collect & pay in the same to the treas- urer of s'd propriety at or before the first day of Aprill 1740-also that s'd proprietors at ye adjournment of there metting in ye Eleventh of June Currant make choice of a Committe to draw out the sum of one hundred & twenty pounds on the fifteenth Day of June 1740 & pay to such a number of s'd proprietors who shall this present year Repair to s'd Township & there on his Respective house Lott build a Dwelling house according to Court act: and by the fifteenth Day of June 1740 fence in & brake up for plowing or Clear & stock with Inglish Grass five acres of Land: That the number of said proprietors that shall so do or cause to be done on his or there house Lott or Lotts in s'd Township & make the same appear: so s'd Committee shall by order from said Committee to said treasurer Draw out the sum of one hundred & twenty pounds, Each one to Draw in proportion to the number of houses he shall build on his house Lotts (no person to build more than one house on one Lott, & Each Right to clear five acres as afforesaid for Each house he shall so Build in said Township
2ly-That the Remainer half part being one hundred and twenty pounds shall be paid to those that shall actually Inhabit their homes so built Either by themselves or some other Christian subject of our Lord the King for the space of three month between the said fifteenth of June 1740 & the fifteenth of November next after, & make the same ap- pear to s'd Committe, shall Each one Draw his proportion according to the number of house he shall so Cause to be Inhabited at the end of said three months, & said treasurer is Directed upon Receiving an order from said Committee or the major part of them to pay out the same according to Each ones Respective Due; all which is humbly submitted by
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