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ROBERT CATHCART proprietors Clerk
voted by the propriators of Tisbury that the propriator meeting hold on the Eleventh day of March 1717 be adjorned untill fryday the fifteen Day Instant at three of the Clock in the afternoon
ROBERT CATHCART Clerk
voted at the same time by the propriators that the sum of ninteen shillings be allowed to mr Josiah Torry and the sum of six shillings be allowed to abner west for their Expences as agents at the Inferiour Court
ROBERT CATHCART Clerk
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TISBURY TOWN RECORDS.
March ye 15th 1717 this is the accompt of the names of severall who laide Down money to Defrey the above chosen agents nessary Charge in and about the above primisses which I have Delivered to him
Benjamin manter
06- 0- 0 01- 0- 0
John Manter
Samuel Athearn
01-0-0
Robert Cathcart 01-06- 0
Samuel Look 00-10- 0
Samuel Cob
00-03- 0
Isaac Robinson
Abner West
00-03- 6 00-04- 0
Joseph allen has paide out Recivd of Thomas Look
10-06-06 | 10- 6- 6 5-14-00 00-09-07
ROBERT CATHCART Clerk
at a Legal Town meeting held in Tisbury on ye 26th of march 1717 David Luce was Chosen Constable for the Ensueing year. and Robert Cathcart is Chose in the office of Town Clerk also Benjamin Manter Jabez Athearn and Joseph Allen was Chosen select men for the Ensuing year also John Manter was Chosen survayer of the highwayes for the year Ensueing
ROBERT CATHCART Town Clerk
Voted at a legal town meeting held in Tisbury on the seventh day of May 1717 that this town do send a petition to the General Court for their assistance in allowing them sum relieff in helping them to maintain their minister out of the publique treasury
ROBERT CATHCART, Town Clerk
At a Leagal Town meeting held in Tisbury on the Seventh Day of May : 1717 voted by the major part of the Inhabitants then Present that this Town Tisbury Joyn with the neighbouring town or town to wit Edgertown and Chilmark in sending a representative to sit in the Gen- eral Court at Boston the next siting to represent them and to bare their proportion of the Charge of so sending as they do agree
ROBERT CATHCART Town Clerk
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Voted on the seventh Day of May 1717 Voted that Mr Samuel Athearn be an Agent for this Town to Consult and agree with the neighbouring town or Towns or their agents in sending a representative to Boston the next General Court and to be Content with what their sd agent shall demand about that affaire
ROBERT CATHCART Town Clerk
Voted at a propriators meeting Leagally warned and held in Tisbury on the seventh Day of May : 1717 that the propriators of this Township Do send a pitetion to th General Court at Boston the next siting for the forbarence of an Execution which is like to Come upon them the sd pro- priators by Joseph Briggs of Scituate untill the next superiour Court at plymoth
ROBERT CATHCART propriators Clerk
voted at a propriator meetting Leagally warnd and held in Tisbury on the tenth Day of June: 1717 that Joseph allen Samuel merry and Robert Cathcart shall be a Committee to Examin and find out all the Common lands lying within the limmits of this Town bounds being already purchesed and undivided and make returns of theire doings to the sd propriators as soon as may be with Conveniency
ROBERT CATHCART Clerk
voted by the propriators that the meeting held on the tenth of June 1717 be adjourned untill the first Tuesday in July next at two of the Clock in the afternoon on sd day
ROBERT CATHCART propriators Clerk
voted at a propriators meeting held in Tisbury on the fourth Day of July 1717 that Benjamin manter & Joseph allen shall be agents for the sd propriators to represent them in a matter which Concerns them the saide propriators and samuel athearn of Tisbury : to witt the Saide athearn is to give bond Endemnifie the sd propriators from any molista- tion by any person or persons whatsoever that Shall molest them about a Share of Land : or Sixteenth part of the Township of Tisbury which Did formerly belong to william Pabody : if the saide propriators will or do
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pay the Cost of sute or Judgment of Court from plymouth Last march : with theire own nessesary Charges in and about the Same : Excepting the hundred pounds : and they are also to Divide to him sd athearn two shares in a pice of Common Land which they the sd athearns Claim wherefore be it Known that we the Said propriators do allow and stand by all whatsoever our sd agents shall Lawfully do or Cause to be done in and about the primmises Either in taking or Giving Bonds as amply and fully as if we the saide propriators Could do if we our selves were per- sonally present
ROBERT CATHCART propriators Clerk
Experience Luce upon a further Consideration to Joyne and ggree withe the rest of the propriators in all the articuls above written ROBERT CATHCART Clerk
voted at a Legal propriators meeting on adjornment held the second day of July 1717 that when the common land is Divided on the south side of the mill path that Samuel Athearn shall have divided to him two shares of it that is the land as far East as the Est side of the woody val- ley in quantity and quallity as it was when it was purchased of the sachim being part of his fathers estate next northerdly adjoyning to the bounds of the great neck if he sd athearn have a good right thereunto : upon Condition that he doth become bound to Endemnifie the propria- tors of of Tisbury of any Damage or loss whatsoever which may or shall be brought against them by any person or persons whatsoever Leagally Concerning the the shares of land which formerly belonged to william Pebody in tisbury : afforsaide : only they the saide propriators is to pay all the charge of sute past against them : last Inferiour Court at plymouth that is to answer the Bill of cost and their nessasery Charge setting the athearns free : in sd Charge : and all other Charge about the same : the hundred pounds given by Judgment only excepted
ROBERT CATHCART propriattors clerk.
At a leagal town meeting held in Tisbury on July ye 22ª it was voted that 24 pounds be raised by way of rate on the poles and estats of Tisbury & district to gratifie and reward the Reverd mr Josiah Torry for his labour in ministrye for ye year 1716.
ROBERT CATHCART.
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TISBURY TOWN RECORDS.
It is voted at a Leagal town meeting held in Tisbury on the 11th august 1717 that mr Torreyes sallary be raised to thirty pounds pr annum provided that he the sd mr Josiah Torrey do accept of th sam and will be obliedged to tarry with them and preach for Ever in the work of the ministrie in Tisbury
ROBERT CATHCART Town Clerk
Voted at a leagal propriators meeting held in Tisbury August ye 11th 1717 that Esqr Pain Mayhew & Esq" Zacheus Mayhew do lay out unto Samuel Athearn the eight part of a tract of common land lying on the south side of the road way going to the old town and between the e'st side of the woody valley and the great neck in quality & quantity as purchased according to agreement made between the propriators of Tis- bury and sd Athearn; also it is voted that Robert Cathcart and Joseph Allen shall assist in laying out the above s'd land.
ROBERT CATHCART Clerk of the Propriators
Voted at a propriators meeting held in Tisbury on the 11th day of August 1717 that Experience Luce Joseph Allen and Samuel Athearn do divide the remaining part of the above mentioned tract of common land, into fourteen allotments in quantity and quallity
ROBERT CATHCART Propriators Clerk
It is voted at a Leagall town meeting held in Tisbury on the 14th S August that this Town shall be taxed the Sum of 28 to be Raised on all
Rateable poles and Estates to pay Major Skiff for Goeing a messenger to Boston to the Generall Court to pepetion an abatment in our tax which accordingly he performed to the one halfe
ROBERT CATHCART Clark
Whereas we ye subscribers hereof were Chosen & appointed by the propriators of Tisbury to Lay out unto Sam" Athearn of saide Tisbury one Eighth part of a sertain tract or parcel of the undivided land in the sd Town being bounded on the north by ye mill path on the East by the Estermost side of the woodey bottum & southardly & westerly by per- ticular mens propriatier and we haveing veived and Considered the same having respect both to the Quantity & Quallity thereof have laid out unto him ye sd Sam11 Athearn as belonging unto the Estate of Simon Athearn Late of Tisbury Desesed a sertain part of the abovesaide land being by our Estimation the Eighth part thereof adjoyning unto the great
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neck and bounded as followeth viz : on the south by the affore sd Great neck & Easterly partly by lands formerly sould by Isaac Robinson unto the above sd Simon Athearn Disessed & partly by the land of Solomon athearn and to Extend northerly about seventy five Rods from the great neck affore sd unto a Cart way which leads across ye sd Land of Solomon athearn and bounded northerly by a streight line Drawn Directly from the place where the afor sd path or Cartway meets with ye saide Solomon athearns land afore sd unto a white oak bush marked standing in the Great neck valley at about Eighty and five rods distance from the north- west Corner of the sd Great neck and westwardly partly by athearns fence and partly the fence of John manter untill it Comes unto the Cor- ner of sd manters fence and from thence by a straight line Drawn from sd Corner of manters fence unto the above sd marked bush september ye tenth & in the fourth year of his majesties Reigne anno Domi : 1717 PAIN MAYHEW ZACHEUS MAYHEW
Entred this tenth Day of september : 1717
ROBERT CATHCART Town Clerk
it is voted at a propriotors meeting Leagally warnd and held in Tis- bury ye 19th : September 1717 that Samuel athearn Experience Luce and Joseph Allen shall Divide all the Common land on the south side of the rhod way going to the old town as far as the East side of wooddy valley into fourteen allotments as soon as they Can with Conveniency
ROBERT CATHCART propriators Clerk
It is voted at a propriaters meeting Leagally warnd and held in Tis- bury on the 19th Day of september : 1717 that Robert Cathcart shall be an agent for sd prt sd Propriators to Receive of the sd propriaters and to ask and Demand of them the above sd sum of 27-09 -00 Each per- son theire Due proportion as amply and fully as they themselves might or Could Do themselves and to give aquitances for the same
ROBERT CATHCART Propriators Clerk
At a Leagal propriotors meeting held in Tisbury in Dukes County by the propriotors of Tisbury on the ninteenth Day of september 1717 Samuel Athearn of sd Tisbury is voted and Chosen by the saide proprio- tors to be their Agent : for them and in their name and behhalfe to make plea too and Implead any action prossess or sute whatsoever which hath
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been within a year last past or hereafter shall be brought Against the sd propriotors by Joseph Briggs of scituate in New england planter ; or by any other other person or persons whatsoever and more perticularly to prosecute and bring forward a writt of Revew on our behalf on the sd Joseph Briggs on sd propriotors behalf at the next superiour Court of Judicature to be holden at Plymouth in an action which the sd briggs recovered against us the sd propriotors on the last Superiour Court at Plymouth touching lands and the same to plead to too Effect : to all Intents and purposes as if we the sd propriators were personally present and to make & Constitute one Attorney or more if need be in sd Case and the same againe to Revoke at pleasure & that our sd Agent may agree with the sd Briggs in sd Case if he think fitt on as Easie terms as he shall think fitt and hereby wee the sd propriotors doe rattifie allow and Confirm holding good whatsoever our sd Agent shall Lawfully do or Cause to be done in & about the primises by vertue of these presents ROBERT CATHCART propriotors Clerk
Whereas all the Common land on the est side of the old mill river in Tisbury was divided into sixteen lots by men appointed as appears on record bearing date March: ye 15? 1717 Wherefore be it known unto all men by these presents that the fourteenth lot in th draft of sd division fell to John Manter jenier : and is bounded as followeth viz - on th the west by the cartway that leads to Robert Luces : on the east by the path that leads to holmses hole : and on the north by the line in the first purchase
Entered this 26th day of September : 1717 ROBERT CATHCART Town Clerk :
Whereas all the common land on the est side of the old mill river namely the land between the land of zachary Hossue and the norther most part of william Pabodies purchase and so eastward to the ragged plaine was devided into sixteen lots : by men appointed by the free holder of Tisbury as doth appear by record baraing date March ye 15th 1700 - Be it known unto all men by these presents that the thirteenth lot in sd divission fell by draft to Jeremiah whitney and is bounded as followeth viz : bounded one the west by a cartway and the heads of the lots : at the pine hill : and on the east by the cartway that goeth up the bottum to Robert Luces house where he now dwells and on the north by william Pabodies purchase entered this 26? September 1717
ROBERT CATHCART Town Clerk
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The accompt of Joseph Allens Charge as agent for the Pro-
priators of Tisbury his Journey to Barnstable Comes to His Journey to Plymoth Comes to The Bill of Cost at Plymoth is 11-03-00 01-18-00 . 01-05-00 00-08-00
his wages travelling Comes to To mr Torrey and abner west at the inferior Cort agents To Eight shillings more Deviding athearns land
twenty shillings Samuel athearn gave to sd propriators to be substracted out
01-00-00
27 =09=00
the whole Charge is the 14th part of 271b - 9s is 01-19-02
and the half of that is 00-19-07
it is voted at a Town meeting held in Tisbury on the 16th Day of January 1718 and leagally warnd that this Town Tisbury & districts be taxed the sum of three pounds four shilling and seven pencs for to pay major skiff : for going to Boston the last sessions a Representative for the Island which is Tisburys proportion and . .. the sum of Eleven shil- lings more to be paide to the assessors which they have Imburst for this Town
ROBERT CATHCART Town Clark
Att A Leagel Town Meeting held in Tisbury on the 24th day of march 1718 it is voted that mr Josiah Torry pastor of the Church of Christ in Tisbury shall have thirty pounds a year. of Tisbury for his sallery in the work of the ministrie
JOSEPH ALLEN Clark
Att A Legal Town meeting held in tisbury on march the 24th day 1718 for the Choice of Town officers Benjamin manter Samuell Look and Joseph Allen are Chosen select men for Tisbur for this present year and John manter is Chosen survaier for Tisbury for this present year : and Jabez atthearn is Chosen Constable for tisbury this present year Ens" John manter is Chosen pound keeper in Tisbury
JOSEPH ALLEN Clark
Att A Legal : propriators meeting held in Tisbury on Aprel the 16 day 1718 voted by the maiger part of the propriators then present that Josep Allen should sarve in the offis of A propriators Clark for the Insu- ing year
JOSEPH ALLEN Clarke
04-05-00 09-10-00
28=09=00
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Att A Legal Town Meeting held in Tisbury on the Aprel the : 16 1718 Voted by the maiger part of the voters then present that Joseph Allen should sarve in the offis of A Tow Clark for the Insuing year JOSEPH : ALLEN Clark
Know all Men by these #sents, that Whereas Wee ye Subscribers hereunto (viz) Samuel Cobb & John Manter both of Tisbury in Dukes County yeoman ; Haveing a Lot of Land in Equal halves betwixt them and undivided; The sd Lott lying & being in Tisbury aforsd at a place Commonly Called ye hill Lotts on ye West side of ye old Mill River, & being ye fourth Lott in sd Division and was origanally Drawn by Israel Luce & John Tucker : Now therefore for a Peacable & Quiett Settlement and Division of sd Lott, We have Jointly & Mutually agreed for our selves our heris & assignes for ever, That the Dividing bounds of sd Lott shall be & begin on ye south side thereof by the path or usual way that runs up to the old clay pits & so upon a Streight line Drawn upon a Square across across ye sd Lott to the west side thereof And the aforsd Samuel Cobb his heirs & Assignes to Enjoy ye west End thereof ; And ye sd John Manter his heirs and Assignes to Enjoy the East End thereof And in Wittness & Confirmation that this is our Mutuall settlement & Division as afors! We have hereunto Sett our hands & ordered that the same be Recorded in ye Town Book of Records for Tisbury This first Day of May in ye year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred & Eighteen
SAM : LL COBB JOHN MANTER
Recorded Ør me JABEZ ATHEARN Town Clerk
Att A Legal Town meetin held in tisbury on the sixth day of may 1718 Instant for the Choice of an Assembly man it is voted by the maior part of the voters then present that the town of tisbury do Joyn with Edgartown and Chillmark in their Choise of Representative and do desier that mr pain Mayhew be the Representive
JOSEPH ALLEN Clark
Att A Leagal Town meeting held in tisbur on the sixth day of may 1718 for the Choise of an assembly man : it is voted that Ens" Benjamin manter be agent for Tisbury to act and Agree with the neboring tow'ns
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viz Edgartown and Chillmark in Chusing of and agreeing with an asem- bly man to represent the afore said three towns at a great and general Court to be holden on wensday the 28 Instant att boston and so die in diem : dureing sd session : and tis thought Expedient that pain mayhew Esq' be the person Impoured if he pleas to Accept JOSEPH ALLEN Clark
Att A Legal Town Meetting held in Tibury on the thirtenth day of may 1718 for the Chusing : of A Representative It is voted that Ensn Benjamin manter be agent for tisbury to act and Agre with Chillmark in their Choice of A Representative to witt Pain : mayhew Esqr to serve for and Represent Tibury as well as Chillmark Att the great and generall cort to be holden in boston on the Last wensday of may Instant and so during sd session if he pleas to Except and to Agree Touching his wages As allso to give such In struchtions as may be thought nedfull
JOSEPH ALLEN. Clarke
Att A Legal town Meetin held in tisbury on the thirtenth day of may : 1718 for the Choyse of an Assembly man it is voted that tisbury do joyn with Chillmark in theire Choyse of a Representative to wit pain mayhew Esqir. to serve for and represent tisbury as well as Chillmark att the great and genarl Court to be holden at the town house in boston on the twenty Eighth: day of may Instant and so during sd session
JOSEPH ALLEN Clarke
May the 30th 1718
Be it known unto all men by this Record that theire is A sartain tract of Land lying on the west side of the old mill broock commonly known by the hil Lots the fourth and fifth Lots in Sd devison now be- longing unto John : manter and Benjamin manter of Tisbury now unde- vided now we the sd John manter and Benjamin manter dow covenant and Agree to devide sd Lots of Land across sd Lots for A perpetual devi- sion John manter hath the Estron Eand of Sd Land Extending westerly to A black oake tree marked Standing on the north side of Sd tract of Land and from sd tree to run A p parrallel Line strate A cross sd Lots and Benjamin manter hath the western Eand of Sd Land bounded Est- erly by the above sd black oack tree Extending westerly till it doth meet with the deviding Line between Tisbury and Chillmark in Conformation
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hear of we the Above sd John manter and Benjamin manter have put too our hands the day and year Above sd
JOHN MANTER BENJAMIN MANTER
Entred +r me mayth 30 1718 JOSEPH ALLEN Town Clark
Att A Legal town meeting held in Tisbury on the fifeteenth day of August : 1718 theire is then voted and granted a tax on the Inhabitance of tisbury Amounting to the sum of six pounds Eighteen shillings and a peney to be Levid on pols and estates as the Law in such Case doth pro- vide which tax is granted for the defraing of town Charge and the man- tainace of an Asembly att Court Entred : upon the Record the 18 of August 1718 : JOSEPH ALLEN Clark
At A Leagal town : meeting held in tisbury on the 16 of september 1718 it twas voted by the miger part of the voters then present that Abner west shall sarve the Town in the offis of A Town Treshuer for the insuing year
JOSEPH ALLEN Clark
At A Legal Town meting held in Tisbury on march the 19 day 1718 for the Choice of town officers it was voted then by the mager part of ye voters then present that sam11 Cob should sarve this town in ye office of a constable for the insuing year
JOSEPH ALLEN Clark
voted at the A bovesaid town meting yt sam11 Atharn and sam" Look and Abner west should sarve this town in the office of select men for the insuing year and it was voted at the same time by the mager part of the Voters then present that Ebenezer Rogers and Isaac Robonson should sarve this town tisbury in the office of survaiers for the insuing year & it was Voted at the abovesaid town meting that Joseph Allen should sarve this town tisbury in the office of a town Clark for this present year JOSEPH ALLEN Clark
Att A legall Town meeting held in Tisbury on the 19 day of may 1719 for the Choice of an assembly man : it is Lawfully voted that Tis- bury doth joyne with Chillmarke in their Choyce of an Assembly man for this present yeare who is desiered to sarve Tisbury as well as Chill mark att the great and general Cort to be held at boston on wensday the 27th day of may instant and so during sd sesions
JOSEPH ALLEN Clarke
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Att A Legal Town meeting held in Tisbury on the 19 day of may 1719 it was Voted by the magor part of the voters then present that Sam" Atharn and Joseph Allen be Agents for Tisbury to treat and Agree with the Agents of Chillmark in Choice of an Assemble man and allso to Agree with the parsen Chosen for his wages as allso to give such direc- tions as are most nessary dated may ye 19 1719
JOSEPH ALLEN Clarke
Whe whose names are under written being chosen & appointed by ye major Part of ye proprietors of ye Township of Tisbury In Dukes County ; to divide & lay out a certain tract or parcell of land on ye South Side of ye Mill path In Tisbury : Into fourteen Shears or lotts : Viz all ye Com- mon or Undivided land not yet laid out; from ye Eastermost side of ye wooddy Valley Southerly westerly & Notherly by sd Mill path; with Conveniency of way to Each mans land ; which Accordingly we have done to Effect ; as followeth ; the first Lott Is at ye wooddy Valley on ye north East corner of Sd land; bounded Easterly by a bush marked ; on ye East- ermost brow of Sd Valley; Notherly by the mill path yt crosseth ye Val- ley a little above ye Cart way ; & so Runs Westerly by ye path forty Six Rods to three Stakes In Range South & by East by ye Compass & So to Run that Range till It comes up to ye Eastermost Side of Sd Valley ; & So to run on ye brow of ye hill till It comes to ye aforsaid bush Marked; The Second lott Is about twenty Rods In breadth; bounded Easterly by ye first lott ; Notherly by ye Mill path westerly by a stake : & So to run Southerly In a parrallall line with ye first Lott till It comes up to ye Eastermost brow of sd valley ; the third lott Is about Sixteen Rods In breath; bounded Easterly by ye Second lott; Notherly by ye Mill path; westerly by a Stake; & to run South & by East parrallel with ye Second lott to ye Eastermost brow of sd valley; the fourth lott Is aboutt Sixteen Rods In breadth; bounded Easterly by ye third lott ; Notherly by ye Mill path ; westerly by a Stake & to Run upon a South & by East line parrellel with ye third lott till It comes to ye Eastermost brow of Sd valley ; the fifth lott Is about twenty four Rods, In breadth ; bounded Easterly by ye fourth lott; Notherly by ye Mill path; West- erly by a Stake and So run on a South & by East line parrellel to ye fourth lott till It comes to ye Eastermost brow of Said Valley; the Sixth lott Is about twenty four Rods In breadth; bounded on ye Easterly Side by ye fifth lott Notherly by ye Mill path westerly by a Stake & So to
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Run on a South & by East line parrallel with ye fifth lott, till It comes up to ye brow of ye aforesaid wooddey Valley; the seventh lott Is about sixteen Roads In breadth bounded Easterly by ye Sixth lott Notherly by ye Mill path; westerly by a stake & so It runs on a South & by East line parrellel to ye Sixth lott till It comes up to ye Eastermost brow of sd wooddey valley : the Eighth lott Is about Sixteen Rods In breadth ; bounded ; Easterly by ye Seventh lott Notherly by ye Mill path West- erly by a Stake & So Runs on a South & by East line parrallel to ye Seventh lott till Itt comes up to ye Eastermost brow of Sd wooddey Val- ley; the Ninth lott Is about Sixteen Rods In breadth bounded Easterly by ye Eighth lott Notherly by ye Mill path; westerly by a Stake & So It runs on a South & by East line to ye way to tisisia;
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