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And further more the above is Offered to him the sd ME West for his Consideration & Desireing his Answer : Entered pr me
JABEZ ATHEARN Clark
Tisbury ss. That on the first Day of Septr 1758. Then a Town Meet- ing Warned To be held on sd Day was Attended upon at the school
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house in sd Town, To Receive what Answer Mr Samuel West who has been Called by the Church & Town to settle in the work of the Ministry in sd Town and Some Encouragment from sd Town for his settlment & Sallery and having Received his Answer wherein Proposals are offered to the Consideration of sd Meeting vizt whether it be not Highly Expe- dient and Reasonable That the Town should Provide a Place Suitable and Convenient for the use of the Ministry where there may be accomo- dations for fire wood and Pasturage &c
and then after Choice was made of a Moderator vizt Jabez Athearn : It was Put to vote whether or no Mr Willmott Wass & Mr Joseph Allen should be Chosen a Committee to search the Records of Dukes County Registers office & the Town of Tisburys book of Records and to take Copys of such Records as shews forth the Disposition of a Share of Land in sd Tisbury supposed to belong to the Ministree and to Lay before the Town of Tisbury Copys of what they find Relating to sd Affair Proposed at a Town meeting & it passed in the Affermative Entered pr order of sd Meeting # me JAZ ATHEARN Clerk
At a Town meeting held in Tisbury on Monday the Eighteenth of September 1758 in order to Receive the Report of the committee that was chosen at the Last Town Meeting in sd Tisbury to search the Records in order to se what Light could be had Concerning any Land or Lands belonging to the - Ministry in sd Town and upon the Committee have laid before sd Meeting sundry Copys of Records Relating to a six- teenth shere of Lands and Accomodations in sd Tisbury and upon the Perusall thereof at sd Meeting: And then Deacon silvanus Cottle was Chosen Moderator, Then upon Consideration it was put to vote in sd Meeting that Cap: Samuel Cobb & Mr Willmott Wass should be the Towns Committee or Agent to take Advice on the Records or Papers Produced to sd Meeting or what other Light or Insight they can git, To Comunicate the Same to some Gentmen of the Law for their advice in order for the Recovery of the Ministereall Lands in sd Town of Tisbury : And it Passed by vote of the Maj" Part of the voters then Present in the affirmative; Then it was put to vote whether or no the sum of fifty Pounds should be Raised by Tax to Defray the Charges that have or shall arise on sd Town, & it Passed in the Affermative
The Two foregoing' votes were Entered # order of sd meeting # me JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
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Nathaniel Hancock, Gershem Cathcart Jethro Athearn Jabez Athearn Ezra Athearn George Manter Abijah Athearn & Solomon Athearn
Entered per me JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
Tisbury ss : At a Town Meeting Warned to be held in sd Tisbury on the 20th Day of October 1758 for the Consideration whether or no there Should be a School Sett up in sd Tisbury & if a School whether a Mov- ing School or not & if a Moving School then to Consider where to be kept & what Times : in order to Proceed, Jabez Athearn Chosen Mod- erator : And it is agreed at sd Meeting that the School for the Space of Three years Shall be Stated to be held in sd Tisbury on the west side of the way that Leads noutherly from the House of Mercy Luce and the School House now Standing near the Meeting house in sd Tisbury to be removed & Sett up for the Same use on the west side of sd way near about opposite to a pair of barrs of John Luces near the Dividing Line between sd John Luces Land & the Land of sd Mercy Luce or her family & Princpully for the use of the Inhabitants of sd Town Extending from the Southermost Inhabitants to a Noatherly Line Excluding Ruben Luces & Rowland Luces, and the Rest of the Inhabitants, Northward & East- ward to have a school principully for themselves & the Spaces of Time Each Place are to Enjoy the School Shall be as followeth viz on the southerly Divsion Seven Months in Each year Togeather and five months in the other Division & Each place to provide & Maintain their School house & Provid fire wood for their use, the above written was put to vote & it passed in the affermative
Entered # me JABEZ ATHEARN
Tisbury ss : At a Legall Town Meeting attended upon in sd Tisbury on the third Day of November 1758. In Order to Receive & hear an answer from M' Samuel West who has Preaced the Gospell for some Time as a candidate for the Ministry in sd Town and has been Invited to settle in sd Work in sd Town and an offer made him of a sum of money for a settlement & a yearly Sallery for his subsistance, and Whereas his Answer Implys Proposalls for ferther addition and In Order to a Reg- ular Proceeding. Jabez Athearn was Chosen Moderator It is therefore Considered and Put to vote to make Return to sd Mr West that as to His Proposals in his Answer we Dont at Present see our way Clear (Relating to our abillity) To comply therewith, but will sustain the same for further
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consideration viz untill next Thursday 1 a clock afternoon It passed in the affermative: Then further this Meeting: Is adjourned unto next Thursday one of the Clock afternoon JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
Whereas at the above adjournment being ye Last Day of Novenber by Reason of a Funerall at sd Time in the Neighbouring Town but few People Attended, It was Thought fitt to Adjourn sd Meeting to next Thrsday at one of the Clock afternoon being the seventh Day of Decem- ber 1758 :
JA= ATHEARN Clerk
Tisbury ss. At a Legall Town Meeting warned to be held in sd Tis- bury on ye 20th Day of November AD 1758 At which sd Meeting Jabez Athearn was Chosen Moderator at which sd Meeting It was Proposed whether or no the School house now Standing near the Meeting house be removed by a Committee and by a Majr vote it Passed to Adjourn this Meeting untill the Last Thursday in the Month of February next Relating to the School to one a Clock afternoon It is Considered advisable to Ad- jorn the above Meeting Relative to what the Town Will give Mr Samuel West for his Preaching in sd Town for the Time past to stand adjourned untill the Thursday next Week & then to attend the same and then on sd Next Thursday being the 23 Day of November 1758 Then it was s agreed and voted to give sd West ye sum of £9 = 10-0 pr Sabbath for 23 Sabbaths in the old Tennor
JABEZ ATHEARN Clr
Tisbury ss that ye meeting being Attended on sd 7th of sd December and then it was Considered to give m" West a Certain sum of Money for the Time he has supplyª the Pulpett in sd Tisbury as a Candidate (to wit) for Twenty three sabbaths Preaching the sum of 911 = 108 - 0 pr week
Tisbury ss : At a Legall Annaversery Town Meeting warned & held in sd Town on ye first Day of March 1759. Then Jabez Athearn was Chosen Moderator of sd Meeting: At which sd Anneversary Meeting : All Town officers were Nomenated to be Chosen, and in the first place a Constable was Proposed but for nessessary resions at Present over Lookt then nextly Jabez Athearn was Chosen Town Clerk of ye Ensusing year : Then Nextly Ezra Athearn Stephen Luce & Shubel Cottle chosen Select- men for the Ensueing year : for overseers of the Poor Silvanus Cottle
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David Butler & Jacob Robinson Chosen overseers of the Poor the year Ensueing Stephen Look & Joseph Merry Chosen Survayers of High- ways for the year Ensueing. Then Mr Jonathan Luce & Mr Benjamin Lumbert were Chosen fence vewers for the year Ensueing : Then Leivt Benj" Manter & Mr Seth Daggett were Chosen Tythingmen for sd Town the year Ensueing : Then Capt Gershem Cathcart was Chosen Town Tresurer for the Ensueing year : Then Samuel Lumbert Joseph Allen & John Lane were Chosen Hogreeves for the Ensueing year : Then again the Choice of a Constable was Proposed & then Elijah Look was put to vote & it Passed in the Affermative Chosen Constable for the Ensueing year who being Present Accepted Then the sd Meeting Proceeded upon another part of the matters Contained in the warrant for sd Meet- ing whether the Town will Reconsider what was Done at a Meeting Respecting a School in sd Town on the 20th of October 1758 And it was Then voted that all things then Acted Relating to the School Excepting that a School being Keept for the Space of three years, Should Should be void & the matter again Considered : and then it was put to vote whether or no the School for the Space of three years hence forward Should be Keept 4 months in the part where the School house now Stands near the Meeting house & 3 month in the place Commoly Called Kippigan, 3 months a Checemmoo & 2 months at homeses hole and it Passed in the affermative
Entered by order of sd Meeting $ me JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk.
Tisbury ss : That at a Town Meeting Regulerly warned to be held in sd Tisbury on the Twenty second Day of March 1759 And then Assem- beled. and Then Jabez Athearn was Chosen Moderator of sd Meeting sd Meeting was Called in the first Place to Receive the Report of sd Towns Committee Appointed to Desire and Receive the answer, of Mr Samuel West a Preacher of ye Gospel in sd Town as a Candidate for the Min- istry. To proposals made to him for his settlement and Sallery for Encouragment for his subsistance in sd Work. and then the sd Committee Laid before ye Meeting the following Answer viz: Tisbury March 23ª 1759- To the Inhabitants of Tisbury Greeting : Whereas you have been Pleased to give me a call to the sacred Office of the Ministry Tho in my self Unworth & are now Expecting an Answer from me. - These are to Inform you that I am Obliged to you for the Kind Offers which you have made me : That I Have a Tender Regard for your Spirituall & Ever-
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. lasting wellfare am therefore Willing to serve you as far as God shall Enable me; But Considering the great Aversness my own Parents have Manifested about my settling here together with my own Bodily Infermi- ties which very much unfitt & Indispose me for studiing: for these for these and some other Reasons and some other Reasons I shall be willing if the Town Pleases to be Dismist from the Call which you Gave me yet if Providence should so order it that the Discouragements I now Labour under should be Removed I shall be Ready to settle among you, In case you are not better Provided for, and so wishing that God would Preserve you Faultless & Blameless & fit you for his Heavenly Kingdome I Remain your most Affectionate servant
SAMUEL WEST
Then At sd Meeting It was Proposed to take into Consideration the Discouragements in s! Answer by sd West Proposed, Perticularly as to the willingness or unwillingness to Dismiss Him from the Call that was given him to be sd Towns Minister, and it being Put to vote It Passed in the negative (viz) not to Dismiss Him from said Call; whereby It appears That the Town Do Manifestly Concurr with the Church in their Call of sd West to be their Pastor whereby sd M' West is become the sd Town of Tisburys Minister, and has a Legall Right to the settlment & Sallery Proposed him in Manner & forme as sett forth upon Record : Entered $ me JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
Then it was Put to vote whether or no the sum of four shillings per year for the Two years past should be paid out of the Towns Treasury to Mr Whitten Manter for his services in Door keeping & Sweeping the Meeting house in sd Two years : And it passed In the affermative Entered $ me JAZ ATHEARN Clerk - -
At a Legall Town Meeting warned to be held in Tisbury on ye 24th Day of May 1759 at three of ye Clock afternoon and then Attended In Order to see whether the sd Town would Concur with the Church in their Choice of mr Zachariah Mayhew of Chilmark for their minister : and then was Chosen Shubel Cottle moderator of sd Meeting : at said Meeting a vote being Called the Major part then assembled voted a Concurrance :
Entered pr me JABEZ ATHEARN Clr
At a Legal Town Meeting warned to be held in Tisbury on Thursday ye fifth Day of July 1759 (and then Attended) To see whether or no the Town will Chuse a Committee to Treat with Mr William Whitwill now
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Resident at M' Zachariah Mayhews at Chilmark to see whether sd Mr Whitwill will supply the Pulpit in sd Tisbury in Preaching the Gospel to sd Inhabitants for some time & to agree with him for some suitable Encouragment for his Labour
Then Jabez Athearn was Chosen Moderator
Then it was put to vote whether or no ME Jacob Robinson & M- Eli- jah Look should be the sd Towns Committee to Enquire of ME Whitwill would suply the Pulpit as a Preacher of the Gospell on the Lords Days in sd Tisbury so Long as untill further order from sd Town, And it passed in the Affermative that they should
Entered # order of sd Meeting
$ JAZ ATHEARN Clerk
At a Legall Town Meeting warned to be held in Tisbury on ye 12th Day of July 1759 to Receive an Answer from Mr Zachariah Mayhew of Chilmark to a Call made Him by the Church & Congregation in sd Tis- bury to be the Chch: & Towns Minister and then Assembled : Then Jabez Athearn was Chosen Moderator Then the Answer of Mr Zachariah Mayhew being Read in sd meeting which was in the Negative viz his non Acceptance :
Then was an account Certified at sd Town Meeting that on this Pres- ent Day the Chch : in sd Town had Proceeded to make Choice of three men of sd Chch viz Mr Jonathan Luce, M. Jacob Robinson & Mª Ezra Athearn to be a standing Committee for sd Chch to Proceed & to seek out and use their best Endevour to Procure a suitable Person to be the Chchs Minister & Proposed their Choice to the Town at sd Meeting whether or no they would Concur with the Chch in their Choice, & Chuse ye sd Persons to be the Towns Committee to seek for a Candidate for ye ministry on the Towns behalf : and it Passed in the affermative so sd Chch & Town Mutually Joined in the Proposed Affair
Entered on Record pr order : JABEZ ATHEARN CZ-
Tisbury ss : At a Legall Town Meeting Warned to be held in sd Tis- bury on ye 18th Day of September AD 1759 for the Considering several Things Relating to the Calling of ME William Whitwill Jun! to be sd Towns Minister and the voters then assembled made choice of David But- ler Moderator of sd meeting :
Then first the answer to a Call already made being Read it was in the negative untill he had the advice of his father at Boston, 2ly : it was
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. Proposed at sd Meeting to be Considered what the Town would give sd Whitwill for his service in Preaching in sd Town some time past & being put to it passed to Render him nine pounds & ten shillings old Tenor for each sabbath he had Preacht in sd Town: Then it was put to vote whether the Town would give Mr Whitwell a Call to the work of the ministry in sd Town & it Passed in the affermative : Then it was Put to the Consideration of sd Meeting what the Town would vote to give ye sd Mr Whitwell as an Incouragment for a settlement & what for a Sallery Annually During his work in the Gospell Ministry in sd Tisbury, and after much Debate the following Proposals were put to vote and were confirmed by the maj" part of the voters then Present & that a Copy thereof should Presented to the sd mr Whitwell by sd Towns Committee Requesting his answer whether he would accept of the sd Towns Call upon the Encouragment Offered or no: within the space of six weeks from ye Date hereof And first as to his settelment to Provid at sd Towns Cost within three years after his Taking the office of a Gospell Minister in sd Town a house and Land Conveniently scituated for a habitation of the Minister of sd Town that shall be judged by Indifferent men to be worth $266 = 13 = 4 and in Case ye sd Town should faile of the Per- S
d formance there of then to Render him the sum of $160 = 0 = 0 and a
yearly sallery of $46 = 7 = 8 : The abovsd house & Land (if Provided) to be for his use as a Parsonage During his Continuance in the work of the Ministry in sd Town JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
At a Town meeting held in Tisbury on the fifth Day of october 1759. then David butler was Chosen Moderator, Then it was Proposed at sd Meeting to Consider what Money was needfull to be Raised to Defray the Charges arisen on sd Town; then it was put to vote whether the sum of one hundred Pounds should be Raised by Rate or Tax to Defrey the Charges of sd Town this Present year, and it Passed in the Affirmative; Then it was put to vote whether the sum of nine pounds Ten Shillings Old Tenor pr Week for the Space of Eight Weeks or Eight Sabbath Dayes Mr Samuel West preacht in sª Tisbury and to be paid to Him sd West & to be Drawn out of the sd Towns Treasury viz being part of sª Hundred Pounds : and it Passed in the Affermative :
At a Town Meeting held in Tisbury on the 23ª Day of October 1759 Then it was voted that Willmot Wass should have 12s out of the Town Treasury of sd Tisbury for sevice he had Done for sd Town : Entered pr me JAZ ATHEARN Clerk
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At a Town Meeting Held in Tisbury on ye 30th Day of November 1759 Then mr Benjamin Allen was Chosen Moderator (Then it was put to vote whether or no Samuel Lumbert & Ransford Smith should be a Committee to seek out for a minister for sd Tisbury & to be a standing Committee untill the Town be Supplyed with a minister passed in Affer- mative then it was put to vote whether or no the Committee Shall apply to M' Samuel West to obtain him & it Could not be Descided by vote.) and that the Committees Reasonable Charge of sd Committe be paid out of sd Towns Trasury. affermative
Entered pr JABEZ ATHEARN Clerk
At a Town Meeting Held in Tisbury on ye 30th Day of November 1759. Then among other things that were proposed to be Considered it was Considered & put to vote that whereas there was money Granted to be Raised & Lodged in the Town Treasury to Defrey Town Charges; what Charges should be allowed to be paid out of sd Money and then at s! Meeting Samuel Cobb brought in an Account of £4 = 4$ = 2ª for his Charges as an Agent for sd Town in a Case Commenced against sd Town by mr Nathanel Hancock which was Allowed to be paid
Then Silvanus Cottle as an Agent with sd Cobb brought in an Account s
d of his Charges to the sum of £1 = 0 = 2 = 2 which was also Allowed to be paid : out of sd Money Raised
Allowed to Samuel Manter 8$ Lawfull money for Keeping mr Whit- well & his Horse 7 sabbaths
Entered pr me JABEZ ATHEARN CI
Tisbury ss At an aniversery Town Meeting held in sd Tisbury on the first Day of march AD 1760 Then David Butler was Chosen Moderator of sd Meeting Then were Chosen for Selectmen Stephen Luce Shubael Cottle & James Athearn Jabez Athearn Town Clerk Isaac Chace Chosen Constable Jethro Athearn & George Manter overseers of the Poor Capt Samuel Cobb & Samuel Lumbert Surveyers of Highways Jonathan Man- ter & Thomas Look Tything men
Benja Manter Jonathan Luce & Jacob Robinson fence viewers
Town Treasurer to be Capt Gershom Cathcart the abovsd Meeting Adjourned untill next fryday Come seven nights for the Considering further whether ye Constable Chosen will accept or no
JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
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Then on fryday as adjourned.
To being ye 14th Day of sd March ye Meeting again assembled & whereas the abovsd Isaac Chace being Absent & not warned to Attend the office of Constable & the Time of Warning being Elapsed, The meet- ing on Consideration Passed their vote of choice of sd Chace for sd Towns Constable for the Ensueing year, & Likewise adjourned sd meeting fur- ther to a fortnight hence to 3 of ye Clock afternoon on sd Day to know whether sd Chace would serve or no
pr order of sd Meeting JABEZ ATHEARN Clr.
The abovesd meeting as above Adjourned being attended on then the abovsd Isaak Chase being Notified by the sª Elijah Look the stand- ing Constable of his being chosen the Constable
The Constable of sd Tisbury for ye year 1760, by Leaving a Noti- cattion thereof in Writing under his hand with his wife & family at his Dwelling House (he not then to be found) and Charging his wife & fam- ily to give it him sd Chase but have had no account from him of his acceptance or Refusall to serve
Then the meeting further Adjourned to the first Tuesday in may next
JABEZ ATHEARN Clr
Then on the sd first Tuesday in May being the sixth Day then a few meett and Adjourned sd Meeting to fryday next to be held at the Meet- ing house in Tisbury at four of the Clock afternoon
JAZ ATHEARN Clr
At a Legall Town Meeting Warned to be Held in Tisbury on the ninth Day of May 1760 and then Attended in Order to Proceed to have the Ministry of the Gospel Resettled in sd Tisbury; then first David Butler chosen Moderator
Then it was Proposed to Chuse an Adition to a former committee to take the Care for the Resettling thereof then was Chosen Jacob Robin- son & Benjamin Allen to Joine the former Committee viz Samuel Lum- bert & Ransford Smith
Tisbury ss : At a Legall Town Meeting warned to be held in sd Tisbury on the sixteenth Day of June anno Domini 1760, and then Assembled : Then
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firstly David . Butler was Chosen Moderator of sª Meeting : S! Meeting being Called to Consider & Do many things as sd Meeting Should See need- full & Proper that are Mentioned in the warrant for sd Meeting Touching and Concerning the settling Mr George Daman in the office a Regular Gospell Minister in sd Town : And these being Presented to sd Meeting a vote of the Chchs Call & Choice of Mr George Daman to the Pastorial office in sª Chch : and on Consideration of sd vote as being Presented for Concurance a vote being Called thereon. It Passed in the affermative viz, Concured and Lik wise Chosen for the Towns minister Then it was Consideied what Encouragement should be offered him for his Com- plyance with sd Choice, and it was put to vote whether or no the sum of four hundred Pounds old Tenor a year Should be Raised in sd Town for & paid him During his Continuance in the work of the Ministry in sd Town as a salery and also one Thousand Pounds in the Old Tenor for his sette- ment to be paid in ye space of Three years next after his acceptence of the work of the Ministry in sd Town & to be paid by a Third in Each of sd 3 year and It Passed in the affermative; Then a vote was Called whether or no the sum of Ten pounds a Week should be paid to sd M! George Daman for his Supplying the Pulpit since his Invitation to Preach in sd Town & further Continuance to Preach untill Settled or Dismist & it Passed in the affermative and Ordered that Mr Samuel Lumbert a M! Jacob Robinson should wait upon and Present a Copy of these votes to sd ME Daman Requesting an Answer in Some Reason- able time Recorded by order of sd Meeting by me JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
At a Town Meeting Lawfully Warned and Held in Tisbury on Wednesday the 30th Day of July anno Domini 1760 For the Receiving Hearing and Considering what Answer the Rever'd George Daman Should make to proposalls made by sd Town & Chch therein for his Set- tling in the work of Gospell Ministry in sd Town, as On Record on the sixteenth Day of June anno Domini 1760 and offered to Him Requesting His Answer whether Affermative or Negative; The which was then at sd meeting Received & Publickly Read & Proved to be in the Affirma- tive (viz) His Acceptance And then Voted to be Recorded, which is now Done And is in the following forme : - :
To the Church and Town of Tisbury Greeting : Hond & Beloved, You are not (Doubtless) Insensable that not long since you Invited me to Take the Pastoral Charge of Christs flock in this place : -. Accordingly I have
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taken Matter In to the Most Serious Prayerfull Consideration : Have asked Counsell of God, And have not Neglected to take the Advice of my Parents and Christian friends =-. And from Eying the Stand of Providence in the Extraordinary Unanimity of this People, After so long a Time spent without Having the Gospell Ordinances Regularly Admin- istered; Althô I Look upon my self a Person UnEquall & Unworthy of such an office; yet have I been lead to Think that it is the Mind & Will of Christ the Great Head of the Church That I Take the Pastoral Charge of this His flock; From this Consideration Alone (and not for the sake of Filthy Lucer) Do I feele my Mind Disposed to Comply. - And Accordingly Do now Accept of the Call of this Church & Town To be Their Minister - : And Promise by Divine Assistance to Devote my self to the work of the Ministry in this Place; And to Labour among you in word and Doctrine -. And as I Depende upon you under Providence for my support I Expect you will make such Additions from Time to Time as I shall stand in need off. - Desire your Earnest Prayers & Supplycations to the God of all Grace for me, That I may be a Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, That I may Rightly Divid the word of Truth to this People, And be the Instrument of Turning many to Righteousness - . & Oh That we may all so Live Together Here that we may Meet in Zion above & Shine as the brightness of the Fermament & as the Stars for Ever & Ever :
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