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# order of sd Town JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk Recorded # me JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
December ye 31th AD : 1734 Then Experience Luce being Chosen to the office of Town Treasurer in Tisbury was sworn to the faithfull Dis- charge of sd Office by the selectmen of Tisbury. Entered pr order of the sd selectmen
pr me JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
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At a Legall Town Meeting held in Tisbury on ye seventeenth Day of March AD 1734/5 Then George Manter was Chosen Constable Experience Luce Town Treasurer. Jabez Athearn Jonathan Lumbert Jun! & Jacob Robinson were chosen selectmen.
Sam" Athearn & Edward Hammett surveyers of highways. Sam11 Cobb & Gershome Cathcart fence viewers. Jabez Athearn Town Clerk Silvanus Cottle & John Merrey hogreeves Gershom Cathcart Pound keeper & keeper & sealer of weights & measures : all Chosen to serve in the severall offices in The Town of Tisbury for ye year Ensueing. Like- wise at sd Meeting it was voted that Twenty shillings should be paid out of the Treasury of sd Town to such person as should be hired to look after & keep ye Doors of ye Meeting house & Sweep sd house so often as was Needfull for one year next after this date. & it was voted that the five pounds Comming to the Town on ye account of ye Two pues over the stairs in the Meeting hous which was paid into the hands of Jethro Athearn be paid in to the Town Treasurer : & that the Town Treasurer out of the same pay Gershome Cathcart & George Manter for their work ' in mending the pound & stoock & for providing seals for ye Town to seal weights & Measures as ye Law Requires
Recorded ye 18th Day of March AD 1734/; + me
JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
At A Town Meeting held in Tisburry on the fourth Day of January AD 1736 Then Capt Samuel Cobb was Chosen Surveyer of Hemp & flax for ye Remaining Part of the year in sd Tisbury, and was accordingly Sworn by the Maj" part of the select men of sd Town To the faithfull Discharge of sd Trust by Administering the oath Presentd in the Law in that behalfe to him
Recorda # me JA: ATHEARN Town Clerk
At a Legall Town meeting held in Tisbury ye second Day of March AD 1736. Then Samuel Luce was Chosen Constable Jabez Athearn Jonathon Lumbert Jur & Jacob Robinson were chosen selectmen : Jabez Athearn Town Clerk : Experience Luce Town Treasurer : Sam" Athearn & Edward Hammett surveyers of Highwayes : Gershom Cathcart & Sil- vanus Cottle fence vewers. Whitten Manter to look after ye Doors of & Sweep the Meeting house in Tisbury. & all these offices are for the year Ensuing :
Recorded March ye 4th 1736
₱ me JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
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At a meeting held in Tisbury at march meeting in ye year 1736. Sam11 Look Jethro Athearn Ichabod Allen & Ebenezer Rogers Drawn for Petit Jurors.
At a Legall Propriators Meeting held in Tisbury on ye 13th Day of January 1736/, Then by the Maj" vot of ye Propriators then assembled Mr Experience Luce was chosen Moderator also at sd Meeting Jabez Athearn was chosen Propriators Clerk who was according sworn to the Discharg of sd office
Entered # me JABEZ ATHEARN Propriators Clerk
at the abovsd Meeting it was voted that Propriators Meetings in sd Tisbury shall for the future be Deemed Legally warned by a Notifica- tion sett up in some publick place in sd Town by ye Propriators Clerk with ye Consent of Three or more of ye Sª Propriators :
Enterd Janry ye 13th 1736/7 # me JABEZ ATHEARN Propts Clerk
At a Legall Propriators Meeting held in Tisbury on the 13 !! Day of January AD : 1736/, Then John Allen of Chilmark Esqr was by the major vote of the Propriators then Assembled Chosen Agent for sd Propriety who being Then Present Accepted of sd Agency.
Entered # me JABEZ ATHEARN Prop's Clerk
At a Legall Town Meeting begun & held in Tisbury on ye Ninth Day of February 1736/- for Considering & Settling a schoole in sd Town & the Matter being left to a Committee & ye Meeting adjournd unto ye 23 Day of sd month who made Return as followeth vizt Whereas we the subscribers were chosen as a committee for the Settling a schoole as to the times & places in the Town of Tisbury have Determined as followeth The aforsd schoole to be held & keept in Tisbury near the house of Whitten Manter seven months & a half in a year from the time of its Commencing.
2 : To be kept & held att Checemmoo near the Common Road betwixt the Dweling houses of David Butler & John Cottle Eleven weeks next Ensuing the aforsd Terme
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3 the Remaining part to Compleat a year, to be keept at some Con- venient place at Homeses hole :
Dated at Tisbury Feb : 14/ 1736/-
JETHRO ATHEARN ABNER WEST. GERSHOM CATHCART. JOHN COTTLE.
At a Legal Town Meeting held in Tisbury on the 16th Day of Feb- ruary 1736/- at Three a Clock in the afternoone for considering some Differences arising about Certain votes passed at a Town meeting begun & held on ye 9th of February & Continued by adjornment untill ye 23 of sd February 1736/ -. whether the vots passed at sd meeting Are Main- tainable by Law under the Notetification set up for the warning sd meet- ing or not; And for a Discision thereof it was voted at sd meeting on ye sd 16th of March & Concluded on by the Maj" Part of the voters then Present to Reffer the Consideration thereof to Coll !! Zacheus Mayhew & Enoch Coffin Esq! who are to chuse a third man if they cant agree, & their Determination or any two of them to be finall as to the standing or falling of all the votes of sd Meeting Relating to a schoole
Entered # me
JABEZ ATHEARN Clrk
At a Legall Town Meeting held in Tisbury Febry 19th 1736/- Then Jabez Athearn was chosen Moderator of sd Meeting also it was voted that there should be a Publick schoole kept in sd Tisbury for ye space of one year next Ensueing & a schoolmaster Provided for that End to Teach children & youth to Read & write &c
It was also voted that the Manner in which sd schoole should be set- tled in Regard to the severall places it shall be moved unto, the length of Time keept in such place, & the perticular times of the year in Each place, These Considered & Drawn up by Jethro Athearn Gershem Cath- cart George Manter John Cottle & Abner West as a Committee Chosen for that End who are to make Report thereof at an adjournment of sd Meeting to be held in sd Tisbury at the usuall place on wednesday ye 23ª of sd Feb : at Twelve a Clock in sª Day untill which time & place sd Meeting is adjourned.
Order of sd Meeting
JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
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And Then at ye Adjournment of sd meeting on ye 23 of February 1736/, as aforsd It was voted that there should be a schoolehouse built forthwith as Conveniently may be & to stand at the Easterly Corner of Whitten Manters field in sd Tisbury which is to be Twenty feet in Length & Sixteen feet in breadth six foot & an half between joints which is to be built & finished suitable for such a use having a Chimney to itt : & that the procuring of its being Done is Committed & be trusted with Jethro Athearn Sam11 Cobb & Sam" Manter who are to keep a true account of their Cost & Charge Expended thereon in perticulors & to lay their Account before sª Town for their Allowance & payment there of : & the sum of fifty Pounds be Assessed by sd Town & Districts & paid in to the Treasury of sd Town by the Last of June next for the Defreying the Cost & Charge thereof. All & Every of the above Articles & Clauses were agreed upon by a Major vote at sd meeting.
Entered pr me JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
These Presents Witnesseth that we the subscribers ye Selectmen of Tisbury & Chilmark being Mett to gether this 25 day of February 1737 in Order to Preambulate & Renew ye Bound Marks in the Dividing line between the said Towns & have agreed upon a lone flat great Rock lying in the sound some Little Distance from the shoar at Kiphicon, and a Rock near or at Wascoseems known by the Name of the Great Rock, And a Stake Standing in Cases field so Called with a heap of Stones laid About itt, where formerly Stood a Great Marked tree now Rotten & gone, and a black Oake tree marked with a heap of Stones laid about itt & Standing by the highway a Little to the Westward of a Slough or Mirey place not far from the house of Eliashib Adams & to the Westward thereof all which bounds we find to be the same heretofore acknowl- edged & Renewed as the bounds between the said Towns by the former Selectmen of the said Towns of Tisbury and Chilmark. In Witness whereof we have hereunto sett our hands ye Day & year abovsd
SIMON MAYHEW. Selectmen JONATHAN LUMBERT Selectmen.
SILVANUS ALLEN. of SAMLL MANTER
of
BERIAH TILTON. Chilmark JACOB ROBINSON
Tisbury
Recorded this 27th Day of February 1737
# me JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
At a Legall Town Meeting held in ye Town of Tisbury on ye Eighth Day of March AD 1736/, Then Jabez Athearn was Chosen moderator of
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sd meeting as also Benjamin Lumbert was Chosen to the office of con- stable in sd Town for ye Ensueing year. As also Jonathan Lumbert Juner Jacob Robinson & Samuel Manter were Chosen Selectmen in sd Town for the year Ensueing as also Jabez Athearn was Chosen Town Clerk for ye year Ensuing Experience Luce Chosen Town Treasurer
Samuel Athearn & Edward Hamett Chosen surveyers of highways
sam" Look & Jonathon Luce Chosen fence vewers Capt sam11 Cobb Chosen surveyer of Hemp & Flax also Whitten Manter was Appointed to keep & sweep the Meeting house in Tisbury the Ensuing year & it was voted that he should have paid him out of the Treasury of sd Town 20s for his wages
Entered $ me JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
At a Legall Town Meeting held in Tisbury on the Eighth day of March AD : 1737. Then at sd Meeting Mr Experience Luce was Chosen Moderator, At which sd meeting Seth Look was Chosen Constable for ye Insueing year.
Jethro Athearn Samuel Manter & Jacob Robinson Chosen select men for the ensueing year. Jabez Athearn Chosen Town Clerk: Whitten Manter & silvanus Cottle Chosen surveyers of highwayes for the Ensue- ing year Thomas Look John Lewis & Joseph Merrey Chosen hog reeves for ye Ensueing year : Capt sam" Cobb M' David Butler & Mr Gershome Cathcart Chosen fence vewers for ye Ensueing year. Mr Experience Luce chosen Town Treasurer
At which sd Meeting ye Sum of three Pounds money be Raised by Rate in sd Town for payment of sending to the Generall Court for Orders to prevent ye spreading the Small Pox; & for keeping & sweeping the Meeting house in ye year 1738 : and that Jonathan Lumbert be allowed & paid him out of the Treasury in sd Town ye sum of 125 for Repairing the Pond in Tisbury Lately, all these articels were voted at ye abvsd Meeting :
JABZ ATHEARN Cl
At a Meeting Legally held in Tisbury for ye Choice of Jurors on the Eighth Day of March 1737 then Gersheme Cathcart Soloman Athearn Henry Luce Samuel Lumbert were Drawn for to serve as : petit Jurors.
At ye above meeting David Butler Nathan Chase Sam11 Gray Zepha- niah Luce George Manter were chosen Grand Jurors
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At a Legall Town Meeting held in Tisbury the 16th Day of March 1736/, Then it was voted that the selectmen of sd Town should & are hereby Instructed to Draw up some Prudentiall orders for ye Regulating of ye affairs of sd Town Relating to sheep & sheep Rams for the space of Three years next ensuing
Entered #r me JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
At a Propriators Meeting Regularly warned & held at the Meeting house in Tisbury on ye Seventh Day of February AD : 1737/s. then the Propriators meett & made Choice of Mr Benjamin Manter for Moderator of sd Meeting.
At which sd Meetting it was voted by the Maj part part of ye Pro- priatie then present that all the Commen & undivided Land Lying witin the bounds of Tisbury southward of ye great Road that Leads from sd Tisbury to Edgartown, that is to say all the Lands Lying at the heads of the Necks to witt Tississa Charleses Neck & Nohamens Neck home to the Eastermost bounds of sd Township be Devided into three Divisions vizt from ye woody botton to ye Deep bottom one & from thence to the East side of Charless neck purchase one & the Remender Eastward of thet, the third Divsun Even into Sixteen Shares or allottments and that ye abovsd Meeting was Adjornd unto the 21st Day of february Instant to be held at ye usual place at one of ye Clock in the afternoone of sd Day Agreed to & voted at sd Meeting
Entered ₺ order of sd Meeting
$ me JABEZ ATHEARN Prerpr'ors Clerk
Then on the 21st Day of febry 1737/3
the Propriators assembled & held a meeting & at sd meeting ye Maj" Part of the Prepriety present voted that Sam" Athearn Gershem Cath- cart & Thomas Luce be a committee to Lay out ye abovsd peices of Land with convenient ways & that they Do itt between this day & the midle of may next & then make return of their Doings unto a Meeting of the Propriators then to be held
Entered # order of sd Meeting JABEZ ATHEARN
Proprietors Clerk
At a Legall Town Meeting held in Tisbury on the Thirtieth Day of August at 7 a Clock in the forenoone AD 1738 for the Raiseing Money for the payment of the schoole master in the year 1739.
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Then itt was voted that ye sum of Sixty five pounds in Money of the old Tenor be raised upon the ratable Polls & Ratable Estates &c of the Inhabitants of ye Town of Tisbury & Districts thereof & that a List thereof be made by the assessors or selectment of Tisbury & Committed to the Constable or Collector of sd Town with a warrant to Collect the said sum & to pay in the one half thereof to the Treasurer of sd Town at on or before the Last Day of October next & the other halfe at or before the Last Day of Aprill next Ensueing & then to make up his acct of the whole sum order of sd Meeting
JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
At a Legall Town Meeting held in Tisbary on ye 16th Day of Janu- ary at Ten of ye Clock in ye year 1738/, at which time upon the Peples being Generally meet Mr Benja Manter was Chosen Moderator at which sd Meeting it was put to vote whether there should be a schoole Master provided to keep schoole in Tisbury for the Ensueing 'year & it passed in the Affirmative :
Also it was voted that Ichabod Allen Jethro Athearn & Thomas West should seek out & provid & agree with a suitable Persen to be a schoolmaster to keep schoole in sd Town the Insueing year.
also at sd Meeting the question was put whether there should be a moving schoole keept or a fixed schoole keept in the Town ye Ensueing year & it was voted that there should be a fixed schoole (viz) at one fixed place the Ensuing year also at sd Meeting the Question was put whether ye fixed school should be keept at the present schoole house in sd Town or not & it was voted that itt should not
also it was voted at sd Meeting that the sum of three ponds fifteen shillings should be Raised in sd Town by the way of Rate to make up & Compleat the sallery Engaged to the school master for the year partly past & partly to Come
all ye abovsd votes were passed at the abovsd meeting.
Entered by order of sd meeting # me
JABEZ ATHEARN CI-
At a Town Meeting held in Tisbury on ye 16th Day of February 1738/9. for the Consideration of ye Affair of a school in sd Town. At which sd meeting Jabez Athearn was chosen Moderater. & the Question was put whether sd Meeting was Legally warned & it passed in the Affermitive : Then ye Question was put whether the two vots that were
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passed at a Town meeting held in sd town on ye 16th Day of January Last vizt for ye fixing of a schoole & negativeing the holding of itt & the present schoole house should be void or stand good & it passed in the negative Then it was Proposed & put to vote whether the Consideration whether there should be a fixed schoole or a moved schoole keept for the space of ten years next Ensueing should be Determined by Mr Samuel Bassett Mr Ebenezer Smith & M" Trustrum Coffin & if they Determine a fixed schoole then to state the place.if a Moving schoole then how often to what places & for wt space of time and it passed in the affermitive
Entered pr order of sd meeting
me JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
At a Legall Town held in Tisbury on ye Ninth Day of March bugun at Eight of the Clock : AD 1738/9. and being Assemble Choice was made of Jabez Athearn for Moderator at sd meeting. At which sd Meeting Samuel Merrey was Chosen Constable in sd Town the Ensueing year. & Jethro Athearn Samuel Manter & Samuel Lumbert were Chosen select- men : & Jabez Athearn was Chosen Town Clerk. Benjamin Allen & Benjamin Foster were Chosen serveyers of high ways. Henry Luce Jon- athan Lumbert & Shubael Luce fence vewers. Experience Luce Town Treasurer.
At a Legall Town meeting Regularly assembled on ye ninth Day of March A : D : 1738/3. Then it was voted that there should be raised the sum of Ten Pounds by way of rate upon the Town of Tisbury by way of addition to the sallery formerly granted & agreed upon for the support of the Ministry in sd Town the which sum was Sixty Pounds & this addition of Ten Pounds is for the year Ensueing. The Reverend Mr Nathanael Hancock being the Present Minister :
Entered pr order of sd Meeting #' me JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
At ye abovsd Meeting it was voted that Ichabod Allen Samuel Look & Jethro Athearn should Look out & agree with a Suitable person to Teach schoole in Tisbury this year : And also it was put to vote whether for the space of three years next Ensueing a Publick schoole shall be keept for the use of the whole Town of Tisbury & Districts thereof seven months in Each year at ye Present schoole house in sd Town & five months remaining in Each year at or near ye present house of Samuel Merrey & that a house of 14 foot square Conveniently finished for that
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use be built there this year for the Towns use & that the sum of 30" be raised in sd Town by Rate for the building thereof to be paid to the undertakers at or before the first Day of July next & it went in the affirmative and at sd Meeting Jonathon Luce Samuel Lumbert John Cottle and Benjamin Allen appeared & undertook to build sd house for ye 3011 together with might be gathered by free Contribution if sd 3011 was not sufficient; who subscribed with their hands in Confirmation ye 9th of March 1738/,. Jonathan Luce Samuel Lumbert John Cottle Benja Allen all the abovsd Matters & things were agreed to & passed at sd Meeting. Whitten Manter was agreed with to look after & sweep the Meeting house the year Ensueing for 20$
Entered # order of sd Meeting # me JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
March Meeting 1738/, Jonathan Lumbert Jonathan Luce & John Cottle Shubael Luce Silvanus Cottle Grand Jurors Jonathan Dunham Thomas West Benja Lumbert Samuel Daggett Drawn for Petit Jurors
At a Meeting for Petit Jurors October ye 26th 1739. David Luce Thomas Smith Henry Luce Abner West were Chosen
February the 10th 1740 Wee the Subscribers being the Selectmen of the Towns of Tisbury and Chilmark, being Mett in Order to Perambu- late & Renew the Bounds between the sd Towns and accordingly Wee agree to Renew a Rock lying in the Wash of the Sea on the North side of the Island; and a Great Rock Lying at the East End of the Midle Line. Commonly known by the Name of the great Rock; and further to a Stake with a heap of Stones round it at a place Commonly known by the name of Cases field And to a black Oake Saplin Markt at the North side of the Road a Little to the Westward of the House of Mr Eliashib Adams : All which we find to be the Bounds Renewed by the Select men hereto for
SILVANUS ALLEN 1 Select men ELIASHIB ADAMS
of Chilmark
SAMUEL LUMBERT - Selectmen
SHUBAEL LUCE of Tisbury
Entered pr me JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
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That At a Legall Town Meeting held in Tisbury on ye forteenth Day of March AD 1739/40
Then Jabez Athearn was Chosen Moderator of sd Meeting Samuel Gray was Chosen Constable for the Ensueing year Samuel Manter Samuel Lumbert & Shubael Luce were Chosen selectmen for ye Ensue- ing year
Jabez Athearn was Chosen Town Clerk for the Ensueing year Benja Allen & Benj Foster Chosen surveyers of high wayes Benja Lumber John Luce & Nathon Chase Chosen fence vewers for ye Ensueing year
Gershome Cathcart was Chosen keeper & sealer of weights and meas- ures for ye Ensueing year.
Whitten Manter Appointed to take care of & sweep the Meeting house for Twenty shillings ye Ensueing year. Experience Luce was Chosen Town Treasurer for ye Ensueing year all The above articles were voted & ordered on Record and Accordingly Entered # order of sd Town
me JABEZ ATHEARN CV.
It was voted at the abovsd meeting that the sum of '11 = 38 = 9ª be paid to Benjamin Lumbert Constable of Tisbury out of the sd Town Treasury & that upon Defect of money in sd Treasury to be Raised by Rate on the next Rate that shall be made : for that sd sum is wanting in his Rate bill thro mistake of ye Assessers
Enterd #r order of sd Town
me JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
At a Town Meeting held at Tisbury on the 10th Day of April, AD 1740 Then Voted that whereas Edward Hamett hath fenced up a Cer- tain Common Road that runs about North & south along by sd Hametts house and is Accounted a Common Nusance & ought to be removed and That Samuel Manter and Jacob Robinson be Agents for the Town to Prosecute the Removall of sd Incumbrance by way of Complaint to a Justice of y Peace that Process may be Ishued Agreeable to the Second Parrigraph in the Law Book under Page 48 in the Province Law book And that the Town Defrey the Charge that they may be put to in Prose- cuting the Same Read & Voted
Attst JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
At a Legall Town Meeting held in Tisbury on the Eighth Day of May AD 1740 : Then Jabez Athearn was Chosen Moderator of sd Meet-
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ing : Then voted thet the fences that Edward Hamett hath sett up a Cross the Road by his house is an Incumbrance that ought to be removed & that the Town Proceed to gitt the same Removed & Made Choice of Capt Samuel Cobb Ensign Gersheme Cathcart & Mr Samuel Manter as Agents for sd Town to Prosecute the same in the method the Law Pre- scibes in the Povince Law Book under Page ye 48th Paragraph ye sec- ond (viz) by Complaint to a Justice of the Peace &c: And that what Charge & Expense the agents are at in the affair be Defreyed by the Town But if sd agents see Cause to make an Agreement with sd Hamett about sd way they are hereby authorized so to do & make Return of the same at a Town Meeting but if they Cant agree then to Proceed in the Law as above specified
Voted an act of sd town
Test JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
Whereas that there is Some uneasiness and Discontent among the Inhabitants of the Town of Tisbury for want of a Stated open Road for the use of sd Town across ye severall Lotts and Tracts of Land lying on the west side of the brook & to the Northward of the high way that lyeth and Runeth west from said brook between whetten Manters Land and the Land of Mr Hancock and Extend Northward over the sd brook untill you come to a Cart path that goeth from Edward Hametts place to the Indian Town; which sd Lots & Tracts of Land are now in the Tenure of ME. Nathanael Hancock, Shobael Luce Experience Luce, Zephaniah Luce, & Jabez Athearn all of Tisbury
Now therefore for a Satisfaction to the said Town and for the future Quiet & Peasable Enjoyment : We the said Nathanael Hancock, Shobael Luce, Experience Luce Zephaniah Luce and Jabez Athearn, for our selves our & Each of our Heirs & Assignes Covenant Promise and Grant to & with the Inhabitants of Tisbury their heirs sucsessors and Assigns for ever, That there shall be & Remain an open Road for the Common Use of sd Town for ever and to begin at the aforsaid High Way in the Raising of a white Oake tree marked Standing westerly of sd Mr Hancocks, now Dwelling house. and so to Extend two Rods West- ward in breadth & So to run northward a streight Road untill it comes to a Corner where was formerly ye Corner of Mr Josiah Torreys Inclos- ure & from thence to run Northrly of two rod breadth across the sd Shobael Luces Land, Experience Luces land and Zephaniah Luces land as the way now leads to the aforsd brook so acrooss ye sd Brook as the way
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now is & so along North easterly untill it comes to the aforsd way that Lead to the Indian Town as the cart path now is & in breadth as it is between ye Present fences: In witness whereof we the said Nathanael Hancock, Shobael Luce Experience Luce Zephaniah Luce and Jabez Athearn have hereunto Sett our hands this Eighth Day of May AD 1740.
NATHALL HANCOCK, SHOBAEL LUCE, EXPERIENCE LUCE,
ZEPHANIAH LUCE, JABEZ ATHEARN
Ertred # JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
At a Legal Town Meeting held in Tisbury on ye 19th Day of March AD. 1741. Then at sd Meeting Mr Experience Luce was Chosen Mod- erator.
at Sd Meeting Thomas Look was Chosen to serve in the office of Con- stable in sd Town for ye Ensuing year at sd Meeting Samuel Manter Samuel Lumbert & Shubael Luce were Chosen for selectmen.
Jabez Athearn Chosen Town Clerk : Benjamin Allen & Benja Foster were Chosen surveyers of high wayes
Ichabod Allen Silvanus Cottle. Mr Experience Luce Chosen Town Treasurer. Whitten Manter is Appointed to take Care of ye Meeting house & sweep it as often as is need for 30s ye Ensueing year and to get the Doors Repaired at ye Towns Charge
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