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April ye 8th : 1726 being a propriators meeting leagaly warned for the busines hereafter mentioned voted and chose daniel taft moderator for sd meeting at sd meeting voted to Except the Ex- change of some of the minestry land with leftenant Edmund Rawson : and at sd meeting voted to sel six hundred acres of the vndivided lands in said mendon to pay the charges dve by Reson of providence : petioners then voted to adjorn sd meeting till monday the Eleventh of april cvrant at 9 of the clock in the fore- noon
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April ye 11th 1726 being a propriators meeting by : ajornment from april the Eighth : 1726 : At Said Meeting Voted to sell three hundred Acres of the Land before Granted to be Sold According to the method of Selling Land for that Use and the other three hundred Acres to be Sold in fifty acres Lots to be Laid not Joyn- ing to their other Lands at fifteen Shilings for acre and then SD meeting was DeSolved
May ye 19th 1726 being a propriotory Meeting Leagually Warned for the besuness hereafter mentioned at Said meeting Voted and Chose Daniel Taft Moderator of Said meeting at Said meeting pased by a Clear Vote that the three hundred Acres of Land that was Granted to be Sold in fifty acre Lots which Was to be Laid not Joyning if it Could not be Sold before the first of June next as it was Granted then the Committee were to Sell it after the Same method as they Sold the other Lands which was Granted to be Sold to Defray the charges [7.] ocationed by reason of Provi- dence petitioners and at Said meeting Voted to ExChange Two or three acres of Land with Eleazer Danels if the Comttee for Lay- ing out Land think it may not be Prejuditiol to the proprioter and then Said meeting was Desolved
desember ye 12th : 1726 being a propriaters meeting leagaly warned for the Ends hereafter mentioned at sd meeting - voted and chose James Keith moderator : to witt to take ancovmpt of the propriators committee of how much of the propriators land they had sold and how thay had : disposed of the money thay had for sd land and at sd : meeting the committees acovmpts were Read accepted and alowed by sd propriators : and at sd meeting voted that Ebenezer Read shall have liberty to lay down twenty six acers of land which was laid ovt to samvel Read on the East side of chesnvt plain and lay it ovt Joyning to his other land at hoopole hill or Joyning to his other land at a place caled the indian feelds : and then : adjorned : sd meeting till the 26th day of desember cvrant at nine of the clock in the forenoon : -
desember ye 26th : 1726 being a propriators meeting by adjorn- ment from desember the twelfth : 1726 then voted that all the per-
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sons that are perticvlarly conserned or intrested in the lands claimed by providence peticioners : shall have liberty to lay down svch lands for the propriators and to lay ovt the same qvantytie again in the towns common or vndivided lands : acording the Regulation of the seventh division acording to the Judgement of the svrvayer and committee for said division and also that thay shall have the liberty to purchase sd land of the propriators if thay defend sd land as their Rights provided thay will give as mvch for it as any other person will : as also voted that if thay see cavse to lay down sd land the propriators shall be at the charge of measvreing sd land of for the : propriators vse - and at Said meeting Voted that the Way Laid Crost Serg Seth Chapins Land Should be turned about Thirty Rod West Ward Where it Comes into Sherborn Road as it is Now marked - at Said Meeting Voted that the Lower Way by John Rockwoods be Laid Down provided he the Said Rockwood Keep gates or bars for the pro- priotors to Cart their hay over the Said way then Voted to adjoyun Said Meeting to the first munday of february next to nine of the CLock in the forenoon
[8.] February ye 6th 1726/7
Being a propriotors meeting by ajoyrnment from December 26th 1726 the propriotors met and Desolved Said Meeting -
January ye 22th 1727/8 Being a propriotors meeting Leagually Warned for the besuness hereafter mentioned then Voted and Chose m' James Keith Moderator for Said Meeting at Said meet- ing to pass to an Eighth Divition of Land at Said meeting Voted not to begin to Lay out Said Divition untill the Last Day of may next Ensueing that So time may be alowed for the Compleating the Seventh Divition or former Divitions and Such high Ways as the Town of Mendon and Uxbridge Shall think nessecary and a Compensation for the Same being made - and Such Persons as have had Lands taken away by the Providence petitioners and by the Settlement of the Province Line may have time to have their Recompence - At Said meeting Voted that Goats Shall not run at Large without being within inclosures at Said meeting Voted
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that every propriotor make out his Rights to the propriotors CLerck and Carry a Certeficate to the Comttee before he Shall have his Eighth Divition Laid out - at Said meeting Voted that the Eight Divition be Regulated According to the Six and Seventh Division at Said meeting Voted to Defend the Land taken from Thomas Sanford by the Province Line Jn the Law - at Said meeting to give Me Sam" Gerry Twenty Acres of Land Joyning to his other Land or : house Lott - and then Ajoyrned Said meeting to the Last mondau in February next at nine o'Clock in the forenoon
February ye 26th 1727/8 being a propriotors meeting by ajoyrn- ment from february 22th 1726/7 at Said meeting Voted that the Eighth Divition be ,three acres to one Right at Said meeting Voted and Chose M' Thomas [9.] White to be the Survey' for the Eighth Divition and Said meeting Voted to Chuse five men for a Comttee to Lay out Said Division three in Mendon and two in Uxbridge and the Chosen were John Farnum Joseph Taft Jacob Aldrich Nathan Tyler and Thomas Sanford any two of the Comttee with the Serveyr to be Seficent for the Laying out Said Divition at Said meeting Voted that the Comttee Shall have three Shillings for Day and find them Selves at Said meeting voted that none of the Comttee Shall measure his own Land then Said meeting was Desolved
May ye 27th 1728 being a propriators meeting legaly warned for the busines hereafter menioned then at sd meeting voted and chose Thomas Sanford moderator then voted and chose two men to Joyn with the propriators clerk to Examine the Book of Record of land so far back til thay meet with a vote to stop them and to see if several persons have not laid ovt more land in their former divisions then belonged to there Rights and the men chosen for that service were Thomas saford and william Boyce at sd meet- ing voted that the select men of the towns of mendon and vxbridge shall have a convenient competency of land to make Recompence for svch highways as they shall lay ovt and the towns shall alow as the law directs and at sd meeting voted that if any person
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through any inadvertincy hath not laid ovt all his land which of Right belonged to him in any former divisions such person or persons shall have liberty to lay it ovt together with their Eighth division and at sd meeting voted that Thomas sanford shall have that land which the province line takes on the west side the great River for Recompence for trying the title of that land which the province line takes from him on the East side sd River and if there be not so mvch land left within the province line on the west side sd River as sd line takes from him on the East side sd River then sd sanford to take vp the Remainder together with his Eighth division provided he looses his land taken from him by sd line on the East side sd river : at sd meeting voted that notwithstanding at a propriators meeting on Janvary ye 22ª 1727& it was voted to begin to lay ovt the Eighth division the first of June next that none of the Eighth division be laid ovt [10.] before the first Monday of September next that So the Comttee may have Time to make Return to the Propriotors how they find things in the Book of Record then Voted to Adjourn Said meeting to the first Monday of September next at nine of the CLock in the forenoon
September ye 2th. 1728
being a propriotors meeting by adjoyrnment from January the 22th 1727/8 - at Said meeting Voted to Chose a man to supply William Boyces place in Examining the Town Records and the man Chosen for that Service was Jacob Aldrich and at Said meet- ing Voted that M' Emersons house Lott if the owners of Said Lot Desier it to be measured at their Cost by Jacob Aldrich and Thomas Sanford with the Serveyer then Voted to adjoyrn Said meeting unto the first Monday of October next and then to meet at the Meeting house in Sª Mendon at Twelue of the Clock at noon and the Eight Divition not to begin to Laid out till that time and in the mean time that the, Serveyer and Committee for the Seventh Divition Lay out any former Divition of Land as here to fore
October ye 7th. 1728 being a propriotors meeting by adjoyrn- ment from September ye 2th 1728 at Said meeting Voted that the
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Comttee Chosen to lay out the Eight Divition Shall have two weeks time alowed to be Sworn to the Discharge of their Offices for Lay- ing out Said Divition and then Sª meeting was Desolved
October : ye 26th : 1728 Jacob Aldrich was Sworn to the faith- full and Imparcial Discharge of his office in laying out the Eight Divition of Land in Mendon and Uxbridge by Jonathan Wair Justice of peace
October ye 16th 1728 John Farnum Joseph Taft and Nathan Tyler were Sworn to the faithful Discharge of as Committee-men for Laying out the Eight Divition of Land in Mendon and Ux- bridge By John Chandler Justice of Peace
October ye 17th 1728 Thomas Sanford was Sworn to the faith- full Discharge as Committee-man for Laying out the Eight Divi- tion of Land in Mendon and Uxbridge By John Chandler Justice of Peace
[11.] October ye 14th. 1729
Being a propriotors meeting Leagally Warned for the business here after mentioned At Said Meeting Voted and Chose Mr. James Keith Moderator for Said Meeting At said meeting Voted to Give to the Town of Uxbridge Thirty Acres of Land for the JnCoragement of a Minister to Settle amongst them Said Land to be Laid out by the Serveyer and Comttee for the Eight division according to the Regulation of Said Divition Said Land to be Layd out between the Lands of Ebenezer Read and John Read at the Charge of the Town of Uxbridge - at Said meeting Voted to purchis a Book to Record the propriotors transactions in, And at Said meeting Voted that Thomas Sanford Shall have that Land which James Keith Laid Down on the westerly Side the Great River Between the Province Line and Said River and Ten Acres of Land to Lay out in the Towns Commond to be Laid out ac- cording to the Regulation of the Eight Divition at his Charge- and at Said meeting Voted and Chose three men to make up ac- coumpts with the Grand Committee to be Laid before the Pro-
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priotors at their next meeting and men Chosen were John Jones Joseph Taft and David How and at Said meeting Voted that the Town of Uxbridge Shall have an Equeal propotion of the Jntrest of the three hundred pounds of money which hath arisen by the Sale of the School Lands According to their Right of proprietee from and after this time forward and also to have their part of wt Remains to be Sold in the Township of Mendon and Uxbridge and then Voted to Ajoyrn Said meeting to ye 3 day of Novem- ber next at Twelue a clock at noon -
November the third 1729 being a propriotors meeting by ajoyrn- ment from October the fourteenth Adoni 1729 to this day then the propriotors accepted and alowed their Committees Accoumpts - and at Said meeting Voted to give the Grand Comtte Twenty five pounds for there Troble and Service in Said Office - Att Said meeting to give to the Comttee for Examining the Records of Lands three and-Six pence for Day - And at Said meeting Voted that persons that have paid for Laying Down their Lands [12.] CLaimed by Providence Petitioners Shall have Recom- pence from the Grand Comttee Treasuer - and at Said meeting Voted that John Sadler take with him Ebenezer Read and Daniel Lovett and Renew the bounds of the forty Acres of Land Granted to Robert Hall in order to be Laid of Record -
November ye 20th. 1729 - Wee the Subscribers preambulated the bounds of the Fouerty Acres of Land formerly Granted to Robert Hall and we find the bounds as followeth (uiz) Easterly on a brook Commonly Know by the Name of Andrises Brook Down Stream to a pine tree marked with the Serveyrs mark this tree is a little above the Roade that Leads to Hasnernisco - then turning westerly to a grate white pine in a Swamp marked at the former this being the Southwest Corner then turning north to a heape of Stons on the Town Line a pine tree marked Likewise in this Line northerly on the Town Line
EBENEZER READ DANIEL LOVETT
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May ye 19th : 1730 being a propriators meeting leagaly warned for the business hereafter mentioned at sd meeting votd and Chose Jacob aldrich moderator for sd meeting and after dis- corce conserning the intrest of the school mony to be divided acording to their former vote : october last the propriators voted to defer that mater to fvther consideration at sd meeting after discorse of petioning the covrt for an aqvivelent for what the province line and providence petesioners taks from them voted to leave that mater to further consideration
May ye 5th : 1731 being a propriators meeting leagaly warned for the besines hereafter mentioned at sd meeting voted and chose Ebenezer Read Moderator And at sd meeting voted to pase to a ninth division of land : at sd meeting voted and chose seth chapin Jun' to Joyn with the propriators clerk in tran- scribing the propriators acts and notes into the propriators [13.] Book - at sd meeting voted to sel david draper 12 acers of land and chose to sell sd land John farnvm Jacob aldrich and Thomas white. At sd meeting voted to Chvse a committee to see if thay can find m' Emersons 40 acer lott att the owners charge the men chosen where daniel lovet seth chapin Jun" with the svrvayer then voted and adJoyrned sd meeting till the last Monday in September next at nine of the clock in the forenoon
September ye 27th : 1731 being a propriators meeting by ad- joyrnment from May the 5th: 1731 At sd meeting voted that the ninth division shall not exceed 3 acers for one for alowance for bad land at sd meeting voted that sd division shall be two acers to a one acer Right at sd meeting voted that those persons that have not compleated their Eighth division or any former divisions before thirty day of November next and those persons that do not lay ovt their former divisions before sd time to be laid ovt with their ninth division by the svrvayer and committee for sd division : at said meeting voted to chose a svrvayer and committee to lay ovt sd division then voted and chose for svr- vayer Thomas white and at sd meeting voted to chose three men for chain men and the men chosen for that service where Jacob
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aldrich daniel lovet and Joseph taft any two of them with the svrvayer to be svficient for laying ovt sd division
December ye 1th : 1731/2 Thomas White was Sworn to the faithfull Discharge of his office as Serveyer for Laying out the ninth Divition of Land in Mendon and Uxbridge
By DANIEL TAFT Justice of Peace
December ye 1th : 1731 Jacob Aldrich and Daniel Lovet were Sworn to the faithfull Discharge of their office as Comttee men for the Laying out the Ninth Divition of Land in Mendon and Uxbridge
By DANIEL TAFT Justice of Peace
Janvary ye 11th : 17312 leftenant Joseph taft was sworn to the ofice of chain man for the ninth division of land in Mendon and vxbridge
by DANIEL TAFT Justice of peace
vxbridge march ye 10th : 17312 Joseph white was sworn to the office of chain man for the ninth division of land in mendon and vxbridge
by DANIEL TAFT Justice of peace
March ye 30th : 1732 Benjamen darling was sworn to the faith- fvll discharge of his ofice as chain man for the ninth division of . land in mendon and vxbridge :
by DANIEL TAFT Justice of peace
[14.] January ye 28th 1731/2
being a propriotors meeting Leagually Warned for the besunes hereafter mentitioned then Voted and Chose Jacob Aldrich Mod- erator for Said meeting At Said meeting Voted that the Two hundred Acres of Land Reserved for the proprietors Use Except- ing the Twelve Acres that was Sold to David Draper to Lye for the Proprietors Use as Granted - At Said meeting Voted to Chose three men to see what money of the proprietors is in per- ticuler mens hands and to Lett it out upon Jntrest for the pro-
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prietors use till further Order - and the men Chosen for that Sirvice Was Jacob Aldrich Robert Taft and James Keith - at Said meeting after Discorce for making further Recompence to those persons that Lost their Land by providence petitioners voted in the Negittive - at Said Meeting Voted to pay for the Laying out Sª Land that was alowed them for that Land that Said petitioners Took from them then ajoyrned Said meeting to the Last Monday in February next at nine of the CLock in the fore- noon
february ye 28th : 17312 being a priators meeting by adioyrn- ment from Janvary the 28th : 17312 at sd meeting voted and chose seven men to search the Records conserning the minestry land and to take copeyes of the same and the sd committee to Joyn with the debvtie in taken advice to see whether the propriators or the town can with safty sell the same so that sd lott may become servisable for the Ends it was granted for and to lay it before the propriators at their next meeting and the men chosen for that ser- vice where John holbrook Ebenezer Read Joseph white Jun' daniel taft James Keith daniel lovet and Jacob aldrich : at sd meeting voted to chvse two men to ad to the committee for laying ovt the ninth division and the men chosen were Benjamen darling and capt Joseph white : and then voted to adjoyrn : sd meeting vntill the last monday in Jvne next at noon
Jvne ye 26th 1732 being a propriators meeting by adjornment from february ye 28th : 1731 after discorse sd meeting was dis- olved
[15.] Jvne ye 26th : 1732 being a propriators meeting legaly warned voted and chose Daniel taft Esqvir moderator att sd meet- ing the propriators voted to give Samvel Cook their Right in that land taken from him by bensons farm at sd meeting voted to give Thomas white and seth chapin 24 shilings for Recording their vots acts and grants at sd meeting voted to change a peace of land with william hayward taken of by a highway to be measvred of and laid ovt by the svrvayer and committee Joyning to his other land at sd haywards charge
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march ye 19th : 1734 being a propriators meeting leagaly warned then voted and chose Jacob aldrich moderator : - and at said meeting voted to petion the generall covrt for an aqvivelant for the land taken from them by Reson of providence petisioners : and att said meeting after discorse conserning the petisions of Roberd Benham and Joseph Bvllard and samvel thayer : voted to continve said pitions vntill the ajornment of said meeting and also the chvsing a committee continved : and then ajorned said meeting vntill the 15th day of may next att two of the clock in the afternoon : -
May ye 15th : 1734 being a propriators meeting by ajornment from march the 19th : 1734 and then at said meeting voted to ajorn said meeting vntill the second tvsday in november next to meet att the meeting hovse in mendon att 9 : of the clock in the forenoon -
November ye 12th : 1734 being a propriators meeting by ajoyrn- ment from may the 15th : 1734 : - at Said meeting voted to give Robert Benham and his heirs for Ever 20 acers of land to be laid ovt in some free place or vndivided land acording to the : Regvla- tion of the ninth division, by the svrvayer and committee for said division - at said meeting voted and chose a committee to make dates to svch lands and medows as were formerly laid ovt and not dated and to make bovnds to svch lands and medows as were for- merly laid ovt and the bovnds being lost or not known said work to be done att the owners charge and the committee chosen were : Ebenezer : Read Thomas white Jacob aldrich Joseph taft seth cha- pin Jvn" : the said comittee to be sworn to the faithfull discharge of their office : and to stand in said post dvring the propriators pleasvre
desember ye 2ª 1734 the above sd committee sworn before Daniel taft Esqvr Jvstic of peace
[16.] May yº 30th : 1735 being a propriators meeting leagaly warned for the busines hereafter mentioned at sd meeting votted and chose Ebenezer Read moderator : att sd meeting votted and
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chose Daniel taft Esq' propriators treasverer to take care of the propriators money which is or shall be dve to them and to see that itt may be made servicable for the propriators vse : and att meeting votted not to grant any more land to pay for highways in mendon or vxbridge : - and : att sd meeting votted to grant a tenth division of land : - and at sd meeting votted that sd divi- sion shyld be two acers to a one acer Right : and to be Regulated acording to the Regulation of the sixth and seventh divisions : - and at sd meeting voted not to begin to lay ovt the tenth division before the first day of october next : - that the propriators may have obertvnity to lay ovt their former divisions that are not yet laid out : - and att sd meeting votted that the farm laid ovt in Uxbridge for the propriators : vse be still Reserved for the pro- priators vse dvring their pleasvre : - at sd meeting voted that if any persons have : inclosed any land : that is not laid ovt that then svch persons shall have liberty to lay svch lands ovt: if thay see cavse and have land to lay ovt or Elce to be free for any other person to lay ovt : - at sd meeting voted that the land that was found wanting in John Sprags third division which was willed to daniel thayer should be laid ovt to him in the propriators common acording to the Regulations of the seventh division.
Avgvst ye 26" : 1735 being a propriators meeting leagaly warned att sd meeting voted and chose james keith moderator att sd meeting voted not to lay ovt the tenth division vntill the 15th day of october next att sd meeting voted and chose Thomas white svrvayer for sd division : and att sd meeting voted to chose seven men for chain men for sd division and the men chosen were Jacob aldrich seth chapin Jvn' capt Joseph white Joseph taft benjamen darling Capt Robert taft and Ebenezer Read then voted sd chainmen shvld be vnder oath before thay pretend to lay ovt land in sd division and att sd meeting voted not to act anything on that clavse in the warrant conserning the ministry land vntill the next meeting of the propriators and then ajoyrned said meeting vntill the first Monday in october next to mendon meeting hovse att ten of the clock in the forenoon JAMES
KEITH moderator
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october ye 6" : 1735 being a propriators meeting by ajoyrn- ment from avgvst ye 26th 1735 att said meeting voted not to begin the tenth division vntill the first day of november next and then said meeting was disolved.
Avgvst ye 26th : 1735 voted that one chainman with the svrvayer shall be a committee for said division
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desember ye 8th : 1735 being a propriators meeting leagally warned att sd meeting voted and chose Jacob aldrich moderator for sd meeting and after considerable discorce adjoyrned sd meet- ing vntill monday the 15 day of desember cvrant to vxbridge meeting hovse att ten of the clock in the forenoon
[17.] desember ye 15th 1735 being a propriators meeting by adjoyrnment from desember the Eighth 1735 at sd meeting voted that Every person make ovt his Rights to the propriators clerk and who he had them from before he have any of his tenth divi- sion laid ovt - at sd meeting voted that Every chain man when he lays ovt his tenth division shall have another chain man with him and the svrvayer to have two chain men to lay ovt his tenth division - at sd meeting voted to begin to lay ovt sd division the 22ª day of desember cvrant att sd meeting voted that capt Eleazar daniels shvld lay down that 16 acers of land that James Keith claims and lay it ovt Elce where : - and then adjoyrned sd meeting vntill the 22ª day of desember cvrant to meet at mendon meeting hovse att ten of the clock in the forenoon : att sd meet- ing voted to chose a committee to prefer a petision to the : generall : covrt for an aqvifelent of land for what land was taken from the town by the settlement of the province line and provi- dence farms : - and the persons chose for that service were daniel taft Esqv' capt Thomas thayer : capt Joseph white John harwood samvel thayer John holbrook nathan tiler seth chapin Jvn" and seth aldrich : and then adjoyrned sd meeting vntill the 12 day of Janvary next at ten of the clock in the fore noon to mendon meeting hovse
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