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Attest EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Met at the Abovesd Adjornment and at Said Meeting Voted 70ty Pounds to be Rais'd for ME Morses Sallery ye Current year Voted also 40ty Pounds to be Rais'd to Defray Town Charges and then Adjorn'd to Fryday ye 3ª of December following
Attest EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : Met at the afors'd Adjornment and at Sd Meeting it was put to Vote and Voted in the Affirmative that Fifteen Pounds Law- ful Monney Should be Rais'd on the Inhabitants of Tisbuary as an Addi- tional Sum to what is Already Voted to be Rais'd to Defray Town Charges for the Year 1790 EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
The Second time Votes were put in in the Town of Tisbuary for a Representative to Sit in Congress for the year 1790
Thirteen was put in for Peleg Coffin of Nantukett Junr and four for Walter Spooner
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
The Report of Deacon Stephen Luce & Cornelius Dunham a Com- mittee to Settle with the Town Treasurer for the year 1790 and they find Due to the Town of Tisbuary on Ballance £26: 16 : 11ª
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Tisbuary ss : This is to Certify that David Look Constable of Tis- buary for the year 1790, on the 29th Day of December A D : 1790, Made Return into the Town Clerks Office, that he had by Virtue of a Warrant to him Committed by the Select=Men of Tisbuary on the 17th Day of December A D 1790, Proceeded according to his Warrant and made Returne on his warrant that he had Warn'd the Within Said Abigil Allen Widdow, and Sarah Allen Spinstriss, as Set forth in his Warrant that they Depart the Limmits of the Town of Tisbuary within fifteen Days. December ye 29th A D : 1790
Attest EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : at A Town=meeting Legally Warn'd and held by the Freeholders of Tisbuary at the Courthouse on the 25th of January AD 1791 To See in what method the Town of Tisbuary will Proceed in for the more easy and Less Expensive Method of Suporting the Poor in Said Tisbuary and Also to hear the Proposals of the Present Overseer, or any Other Person that Shall propose any more Elegable way then what is Acted in at Present for their Support, And to Vote what then Shall be thought most propper to act in that manner for the Towns ben- efit, and at Said Meeting it was Movd and Seconded and put to Vote to Chuse a Committee to Enquire and See if they may have Some Suitable House for a Workehouse in Order to Accomodate the Poor to Live in that Shall Lawfully from time to time Stand in Need of Support from the Inhabitants of Tisbuary, And at Said Meeting it was Voted in the Affirmative that Benjamin Allen, John Davis and Ezekiel Luce Should be the Said Committee, and then Said Towns Meeting was Adjornd to Tuesday the fifth of March A D : 1791
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Met on the aforesd 5th of March 1791 and at Said meeting after Some Debate Adjornd Said Meeting To Monday ye Forth Day of April A D 1791
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Town meting Legally Warn'd and held in Tis- buary on Fryday ye 11th Day of March AD : 1791 in Order to Chuse all Town Officers as is by Law Requir'd to be Chosen in Towns annually and at Said Meeting Ezra Athearn was Chosen Town Clerk for Tisbuary for ye year 1791 and then Said March Meeting was Adjorn'd to the first Monday in April A D 1791 Attest EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
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Tisbuary ss : Met on Tisbuarys March=meeting Continu'd by Adjorn- ment from ye 11th of March to ye first Monday in April A D : 1791 and at Said Meeting Esq" James Athearn Joseph Athearn Edmund Cottle was Chosen Select Men, & Jethro Athearn was Chosen Town Treasurer, and then Said Meeting was Adjorn'd to Tuesday ye 12 of April A D : 1791 Attest EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Town of Tisbuary Met on Monday ye 4th of April agreeable to the above Adjornment Reletive to the Poor in Tisbuary and then by. Reason of much buisness Adjornd to Tuesday ye 12th of April Instant A D : 1791 EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At a Town meeting Legally Warn'd and held in Tis- buary by the Freeholders on Monday the Fourth Day of April A D : 1791 in order to See if a Vote may be obtain'd to Enable the Town Treasurer of Tisbuary to Reimburst the Monney that the Constable of Tisbuary has to Collect on the People of Homseshole their Proportion of the Ministers Tax for the year 1790 that they may apply the Same to Sup- port a Publick Teacher at Said Homseshole And at Said Meeting after Some Debate Said Meeting was Adjorn'd to Tuesday ye Twelveth Day of April 1791
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Town Meeting Legally Warnd and held in Tis- buary by the Freeholders Qallified to Vote for Representatives and Senators, Assembled and met with the Other Inhabitants at the Court- house in Tisbuary on Monday the fourth Day of April A D : 1791
and at Said Meeting 37 Votes was put in for Walter Spooner to be a Federal Senator; And 45 Votes for John Hancock to be governour and 46 Votes for Samuell Adams to be Lieutenant Gouevnour 34 Votes was put in for Benjamin Allen to be A Senator for this Commonwealth and 7 Votes was put in for Peleg Coffin Junr to be a Senetor Also; And 49 Votes was put in for Samuell Smith Junr. to be a County Register for Dukes County for the Term of five years,
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Forty=nine Votes was put in at Tisbuarys March meeting for Jithro Athearn to be the County Treasurer for Dukes County for the year AD: 1791
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And Tisbuarys March meeting was Adjornd to the Twelveth of April A D 1791 met at Sd adjornment and at Said Meeting John Holmes was Chosen Constable and Joseph Chase also was Chosen Constable to Serve ye Town of Tisbuary in the office of Constables for the Year AD 1791
Matthew Manter and William Foster ware Chosen Fence Viewers and Sm" Lumbert was also Chosen a Fence Viewer Jonathan Manter Serveyer of Highweys Sam11 Chase Serveyers of highways and Jonathan Athearn Serveyer of Highways Robart Look Serveyer of highweys William Case to Serve in the office of Hogreves W Luce also to Serve in the Office of Hogreves Jethro Athearn Town=treaseurer Jonathan Manter Overseer of the Poor John Davis Overseer of the Poor Enoch Luce Pound keeper Joseph Claghorn Tything Man Isaac Daggett Serveyer of Lumber Samll Lumbert Serveyer of Lumber Obed Luce Serveyer of Fish And then Tis- buarys March meeting Was Adjornd to Saturday ye 14th of May A D 1791
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : The Town meeting Respecting the Poor in Tisbuary Stands Adjornd to Wensday ye 18th of May AD 1791 E A Town Clerk
Tisbr ss : The Town meeting Respecting the People of Homseshole Stands Adiornd to Wensday ye 18th of May A D : 1791 E A Town Clerk
Met at the Adjornment of Tisbuarys March=Meeting on Saturday ye 14th of May A D 1791 and at Said Meeting Jonathan Hemmett was Chosen Constable to Serve the Town of Tisbuary in the Office of a Con- stable for the year A D: 1791 and then Said Marchmeeting was Ad- jorn'd to Wensday ye 18th of May at Four of ye Clock afternoon Attest EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : Met on the Adjornment of Tisbuarys March meeting from ye 14th of May to the 18th of may following A D 1791 and at Said Meeting Corn11 Davis, Ezekiel Luce and Matthew Manter ware Chosen to Appint the Time when the People of Tisbuary Should Look up their Sheep in the Spring and Fall for Shearing and Raming, And also Abijah Hammett was Chosen Constable for the year 1791 Vizd His Father give- ing Bond for his Faithfull Discharge in Said office at the Same time and
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the Town of Tisbuary also Voted that the Said Abijah Service as Con- stable is to Answer for his and his Fathers Jonathan Hammetts Turns in that Office, and Said Tisbuarys March=Meeting was Adjornd to the first Monday in July following
Attest EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : at an Adjornment of Tisbuarys Meeting Respecting the People Living in Homseshole Voted that the Select Men of Tisbuary be Impowr'd to give an Order on the Treasurer of Tisbuary to Pay the Several Persons Taxed to the Ministers Tax in Tisbuary Living to the Eastward of Teshmoo Spring So Called that are Inhabitants in Said Districts of homseshole Taxed in the Rate bills David Look Constable of Tisbuary for the year 1790 has to Colect, May ye 18th AD 1791 And then Sª Meeting Relative to the People of Homseshole was adjorn'd to the First Monday of July A D 1791
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
This is to Certify that Abijah Hammett Constable of Tisbuary for ye year AD: 1791 in the Month of May 1791 Made Return into the Town Clerk Office that he had by Virtue of A Warrant to him Directed by the Select Men of Tisbuary on the 19th of May 1791 That he had Proceeded acording to his Warrant and warn'd Abisha Peas JuDr with his Family to Depart out of the Town of Tisbuary,
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Tisbuary ss : At A Town Meeting Legally Warn'd and held in Tis- buary at the Courthouse on Fryday the 25th of Nevember A D : 1791 in Order to Vote A Sum of Monney to Defray Tisbuarys Town Charges for the Current year and to Act upon Some Other Affairs Inserted in the Warrant for calling the Same and at Said Meeting James Athearn was 47 Chosen Moderator thereof and at Said Meeting 100 L M : was Voted to be Rais'd on the Inhabitants of Tisbuary to Defray their Charges, And at Said Meeting Ezekiel Luce & Deacon John Davis was Chosen A Com- mittee to Settle with Tisbuarys Town Treasurer Also the Same Com- mittee to Examine the Towns Accounts, And Also Shubel Cottle Esq" was Appointed to Confer With William Tilton of Chilmark Concerning his Pew Spot in Tisbuarys Meeting=House and to make Report thereof at the next Adjornment, and then Sd meeting was Adjornd to Fryday ye 23ª of December A D : 1791
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
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Tisbuary ss : At A Town=meeting Legally Warn'd by the Select Men of Tisbuary and holden at the Courthouse in Sª Tisbuary on Monday ye 26th of December A D : 1791 in Order to Chuse A Representative to Sit in Congress with the United States in America and at Said Meeting Seventeen Votes were put in for George Lenord of the County of Bristol County to be ye Said Representative
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Town : meeting Legally Warn'd and held in Tis- buary by the Freeholders at the Courthouse on Fryday ye Twenty third Day of March A D : 1792
In Order to Chuse all Such Town Officers as is by Law Requir'd to be Chosen in Towns Annually and at Said Meeting James Athearn was Chosen moderator and Ezra Athearn was Chosen Town Clerk
Ezekiel Luce Joseph Athearn and Abraham Chase was Chosen Select Men Jethro Athearn Town Treasurer 34 Votes put in by billot for Jethro Athearn to be County Treasurer, Jethro Athearn Overseer of ye Poor Jonathan Manter Overseer of ye Poor David Look was Chosen Constable Shobal Cottle Serveyer of Highways Sam" Look Serveyer of highways Ezekiel Luce Serveyer of highweys Ebenezar Allen Swine Driver Hugh Cithcart Swine Reve Enoch Luce Pound keeper Joseph Chase Hogreve James Case warden John Cleavland Serveyer and packer of Fish Cornelius Dunham Serveyer and packer of Beaf & Fish Benje. Allen Fence Viewer Sam" Look Fence Viewer Joseph Chase Fenceviewer Matthew Manter Packer of Fish and then Said March meeting was Adjorn'd to Monday the Second Day of April following attest EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk Met on Monday ye Second of April and Adjorn'd to the Second Fryday of April 1792
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Town meeting Legally Warn'd and held in Tis- buary on Monday ye 2nd Day of April AD: 1792 in Order to Chuse a Governor Lieutenant Governour and A Federal Representative And at Said Meeting 27 Votes was Put in for John Hancock Esq" to be Gov- ernour in the Common Wealth of Massachusetts for the year 1792; Five Votes was put in for James Sullivan to be Governour, 32 Votes for Sam- uell Adams to be Lieutenant Governour 34 Votes for George Leonard to be a Federal Representative, 19 Votes for Shobal Cottle to be A Senator 12 for Wm Jornagins
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Met on the Second Fryday of April by Adjornment of March Meet- ing for 1792 and after Some Debate Adjorn'd to the Third Fryday of April Instant following
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss at A Town meeting Legally warn'd & held in Tisbuary on Fryday ye 13th of April AD 1792 in Order to See if the Town of Tis- buary will make Choice of Some Suitable Person as an Agent to Repre- sent the Town of Tisbuary at the Supream Court at Barnstable in May 1792 To Answer to an Inditement found Against the Town of Tisbuary for not haveing a Town School kept in Said Town and at Said meeting Isaac Dagett was Chosen to Represent Said Town at Said Court and then Said Meeting was Adjorn'd to Fryday the 20th of April following
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Town=meeting Legally Warnd and held at the Courthouse in Tisbuary on the Thirteenth Day of April AD: 1792 Stephen Luce Moderator it was then Put to Vote that all Persons Should be Excluded from Catching Oysters in the Pond called Newtown pond to carrey to Market off the Island of Marthasvinyard or to Sell by Cart Loads on the Island without Leave of the Towns Committee who Shall or may be Appointed from time to time to take care of the Same, and that if any Person or Persons Shall trangress against the foregoing Resolve of Said Town Shall for fitt and pay as a Fine for the use of Said Town Twenty=Shillings for every Offence for the use of Said Town And that if their Should be any allowd by the Town's Committee to be catcht that the Person or Persons that Shall have the Liberty Shall pay for each Bushel two pence p" Bushel for the Use of Said Town and it passed in the Affirmative Likewise at Said Meeting Jethro Athearn Ezekiel Luce and Elijah Look Junr. was Chosen a Committee to See and take care that the foregoing Vote and Resolves were Duly Observ'd in behalf of Said Town
attest EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisb' ss : Met on the Abovesd Adjornment on Fryday the 20th of April Concerning Tisbuary being Presented for not keeping a Town School and Adjorn'd to the First Wednesday in May following
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Tisbuary ss : Met on the Aboves'd Adjornment of March Meeting and after further Debate on the Premises Relative thereto Adjorn'd to the first Wednesday in May A D 1792
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At an Adjornment on the First Wensday in May 1792 Shobal Cottle Esq" was Chosen agent in the Room of Isaac Dagett to Represent the Town of Tisbuary in Answer to an Inditement found Against the Town At the Supream Court at Barnstable in the year AD : 1791
Attest EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Town Meeting Legally Warn'd and held by the Freeholders of Tisbuary at the Courthouse on the Tenth Day of July 1792 and at Said Meeting Shobal Cottle Esq" was Chosen Moderator and then it was mov'd & Seconded and put to Vote to See whether the Voters would Vote to Raise Sixty Pound Lawful Monney to Support A Lawful School in Tisbuary for Eighteen Months and the Vote passed in the Affirmative, and then it was Movd and Seconded to See whether the Voters would Chuse five freeholders as a Committee to Divide the Town of Tisbuary into Districts and it passed in the Affirmative and then it was Mov'd to See whether Ezekiel Luce John Davis Edmond Cottle and John Gray Should be the Sª Committee to Divide the Inhabi- tants into the Sª Dristricts for the Convenancy of keeping Sd Schools in Tisbuary Voted in the Affirmative, and then Said Meeting was Adjorn'd to the Last Tuesday in September Next to Recieve the Report of Sd Commitee
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : Met at the aboves'd Adjornment on the Last Tuesday of September AD 1792 in Order to Recieve the Report of the abovesd Committee which is as followeth Viz Wee the Subscribers being ap- pointed A Committee to Devide the Town of Tisbuary into Districts in order for Schools have attended that Buisness and have Divided it into four Districts as follows Vizª To begin at the Mill Brook at Chilmark Line between the Land of the Heirs of Benjamin Allen Deceased and the Lands : of Cornelius Dunham and down Said Brook untill it comes to the Grist Mill of Ezra Athearn then East Southerly So as to leve Joseph Athearn on the Noath and Jonathan Hammett on the South Easterly to
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to the boundarys of Edgartown and all the Inhabitants to the Southward of Said Line to be the first District, And then all the Inhabitants from the Dwelling=house of the aforenamed Jonathan Hammett following the Road to the Noath Shore or the the Dwelling=house of William Luce untill it comes to the Fork of the Path called Rogerses Parth that Leads to Cornall Davises and then Noathwesterly till it Strikes the Sound Leaving Adonjiah Luce on the West and the Widdow Ruth Luce on the East and all the Inhabitants to the Westward of the Last mentioned Line to be the Second District, And then Return back to the Fork of the Aforsd Path Leading to Corn" Davis and then take the Road Leading to Homseshole till it comes to the Dwellinghouse of Silvanus Luce leaving Said Luce to the East and Thomas Cottle to the West and then Runing Northeasterly till it Strikes the Pond to the Eastward of the Dwelling House of Peter Luce and so on to the Sea and all the Inhabitants to the Westward of the Last Line till it comes to the Second District to be the third District or the North Shore District And all the Inhabitants to the Eastward of the forementioned Line from Silvanus Luces to the Pond near Peter Luces and so to the Sea to be the Fourth or Homseshole Dis- trict, By us the Subscribers Dated at Tisbuary the 7th Day of August 1792 Edmund Cottle Ezekiel Luce John Davis John Gray Abraham Chase The above Instrument being brought into Townmeeting on the 25th of Septr A D 1792 and then at Said meeting it was put to Vote to See whether the Voters then Present would make it their act and the Vote passed in the Affirmative, And also at Said Meeting it was Voted that the above Named Committee be a committee to devide the Monney already raisd for the Support of a Lawful School in Tisbuary According to the Number of Children in Each District Sett forth as above Males from (Twenty one year old and under, and Females from Eighteen years old and under, Voted also at Said meeting that Jethro Athearn William Foster and Elijah Look Junr be a Committee to Provide A Schoolmaster and an House to keep a School in in the first District, as Sett forth as above to Transact what they may find to be nesceary for Said School, Voted also that John Davis Cornelius Dunham and Timothy Luce be A Committee for the Second District Voted that Nathan Smith Edmund Cottle and Peter Norton be A committee for the third District Voted Lastly that Samuel Look Timothy Chase and Abraham Chase be A Com- mittee for the Fourth and Last District and all with the Same Power as Sett Forth in the first Distrs and then Said Townmeeting was Adjorn'd again to the Second Tuesday of October 1792
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
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Tisbuary ss : Mett at the Aboves'd Adjornment on the Second Tues- day of October 1791 and after Some Debate Adjorn'd Said Meeting to the Second Day of November following A D. 1792
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Met at the Aboves'd Adjornment and Disolvd Sª Meeting
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Delivered to John Allen Esq Eleven Dollars & S 20 old Tenor to be
zľ Improved at Barnstable in Carrying
on his Action against Eben Rogers
July ye 16 Day 1792
me JABEZ ATHEARN
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paid To Mr Gidley 27 - 15 6 Dollers & 8 5
to Winthrop 3 Dollers
paid to Rugels 5 Dollers
Tisb" ss : At a Town=Meeting Legally Warnd and held at the Court- House in Tisbuary by the Freeholders on Fryday ye Second Day of November A D : 1792 in Order to Act upon Several things Inserted in A Warrant for calling the Same and at Said Meeting Shobal Cottle was Chosen Moderator And firstly for the Choice of Representatives for Congress and firstly Sixteen Votes ware put in for Peleg Coffin of Nan- tukett to be a Representative for Congress and Secondly Sixteen Votes was put in for John Davis of Plymoth to be a Representative for Con- gress, and Thirdly 16 Votes was put in for David Cobb of Taunten to be another Representative for Congress And also Solomon Freeman of harrswich was Chosen Elector for Congress by 15 Votes, Walter Spooner of Dartmouth was Chosen Elector for Congress by 15 Votes James Athearn of Tisbuary was Chosen Elector for Congress by 7 Votes put in, William Jonakins of Edgertown was Chosen Elector for Congress by Ten Votes put in Also at Said Meeting Ezekiel Luce Cornelius Dunham and Benjamine Allen was Chosen A Committee to Settle with James Athearn Esq" Agent for Tisbuary to Sell Some Pew Spots in the Meet- ing house in Tisbuary and also at Said Meeting and Set forth in the Notification to See Wheather the Voters then Present at Sd Meeting would Reconsider a Vote passed at a Townmeeting in Tisbuary on the 25th of November A D 1792 Wherein is Sett forth at Large that the
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People of Homseshole ware Exempted from paying any More Taxes in Tisbuary for the Future Except Commonwealth Taxes,) at Said Meeting it was movd and Seconded to See whether the Voters then Present would Reconsider Said Vote and the Vote passed in the Affirmative that the former Vote be nul and Void and of no efect any more
Voted also at Said Meeting that Ezekiel Luce Cornelius Dunham and Benjamin Allen be a Committee to Examine all Town Accounts and to Settle with the Town Treasurer an to make Report at the Adjornment and then Said Meeting was Adjornd to the Last Tuesday in November A D 1792
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Met at the Above Adjornment and Voted to Raise on the Estates of Tisbuary Seventy Pounds for ME Morses Sallery the Current year and Fifty Pounds to Defray Other Town Charges and then Said Meeting was Adjornd to the Last Tuesday of December 1792
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Met on the Above Adjornment and after Some Debate Disolvd Sd Meeting E A T. C
Tisbuary ss : At A Town Meeting Legally Warn'd and held at the Courthouse in Tisbuary on Tuesday the 25 Day of December 1792 in Order to See wheather the Voters then Present at Said meeting would pass a Vote to Exempt the Babtists from paying any Sallery to Mr Morse for the year A D: 1792 and after Some Debate Adjornd Said Meeting to the Fourteenth Day of January A D 1793
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbuary ss : At A Townmeeting Legally Warnd and held in Tisbuary on the 14th Day of January A D: 1793 in Order for the Choice of A Representative to Sit in Congress for the United States in America and at Said Meeting Nine Votes was put in for John Davis of Plymoth and Sixteen Votes was put in for Shear Jeshub of Barnstable
EZRA ATHEARN Town Clerk
Tisbury ss At a Town meeting leagaly warned and held at the Court house in Tisbury by the freeholders Qualified to Vote in Town affairs met on Thursday the fourteenth day of march A D 1793 In order to
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Chuse all Such officers as the law directs to be Chosen anuely in the month of march for the Currant year and at Said meeting James Athearn Esq' was Chosen modrator and all that are herein after named were Chosen by Vote of the Town to Serve in there Respective offices Viz Ezekiel Luce Town Clark James Athearn Esqr Joseph Athearn Nathan Smith Slectmen, Jethro Athearn Town Tresuerer Elijah Look Jn, Jona- than Athearn fence vewers, Benjamin allen Edmund Cottle Abraham Chase Surveyors of high ways Isaac Dagget Surveyor of Lumber Ben- jamin Allen Elijah Look Junr Abraham Chase hog Reaves Jethro athearn Ezekeil Luce oversears of the Poor Enoch Luce Pound keeper and then Said meeting was ajourned to the first monday in april following A D 1793
EZEKIEL LUCE Town Clark
Met on monday the first day of apriel according to adjournment and at Sd meeting it was put to Vote wheather Thomas Buttler Jnr Should Sarve the Town of Tisbury in the office of Constable and Collector the Currant year in the room of Benjamin Allen and it passed in the Affarmi- tive and also at Said meeting Zacheriah Smith was Chosen Constable & Collector for the District of Homeshole and then it was put to Vote wheather abraham Chase Should Sarve as Slect man the Currant year and it passed in the Affarmitive and also at Sd meeting there was 43 Votes put in for Jethro Athearn for County Tresuerer
Attest EZEKIEL LUCE T Clark
Tisbury ss At a Leagel Town meeting Leagaly warnd and held at the Court House in Tisbury on monday the first day of apriel A D 1793 In order to Chuse a govenor Leiutenant Govnor and Senetor and at Said meeting there was Votes put in for the following Persons Viz 36 Votes for John Hencock Esq' to be govenor for the State of Massachusetts the present Year 35 Votes was put in for Samuel Adams Esqr to be Leiu- tenent Govenor & 18 Votes put in for Shoble Cottle Esq" for Senetor & 20 Votes was put in for William Jornagan for Senetor for the County, of Dukes County & Nantucket
attest EZEKIEL LUCE Town Clark
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