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Janvary ye 12 : 17356 being a propriators meeting by ajoyrn- ment from desember the 15th : 1735 att sd meeting voted to give to Joseph Bvllard and his heirs for Ever 20 acers of land Joyning to vxbridge west line betwen shokeolog Brook and John arnalds land sd land to be laid ovt att sd Bvllards cost or charge : att sd meeting voted to alow eapt Thomas thayer five shilings for gitting the committee sworn : - att sd meeting voted to chose a com- mittee to Remeasvre or preambvlate the farms granted to provi- dence men acording to their grants or plans and the committee chosen for that service were Thomas white Jacob aldrich and daniel lovet att sd meeting voted to chose a committee of five men to consider and determine whether those persons that lost land by settling the province line and providence farms ovght to have any more satisfaction then thay have alredy had or not : and the men chosen for that service where Thomas white Jacob aldrich Daniel lovet seth chapin Jvn' and John harwood : any three of said committee agreeing how much more Eateh person shall have is to be a finall isshve to that mater and the persons conserned accepted said vote atest Jacob aldrich moderator
Jvne ye 2ª : 1736 being a propriators meeting leagaly warned sd meeting voted and chose Ebenezer Read moderator and then adjoyrned sd meeting vntill the first monday in september next vnto mendon meeting hovse there to meet at ten of the eloek in the forenoon
september ye 6th : 1736 being a propriators meeting by : adjoyrn- ment : after a long discorce on severaill things specified in the warant for sd meeting : adjoyrned sd meeting vntill the 14th day of September cvrant att 10 of the eloek in the forenoon to vxbridge meeting hovse
[18.] september ye 14th : 1736 being a propriators meeting by adjoyrnment and after a long discorse on severall things as before mentioned there being bvtt few propriators there and the whether very stormy : sd meeting was disolved
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march ye 16th : 17367 to the propriators of the former town- ship of mendon greeting these are to Reqvire yov to meet at the towns meeting hovse in said mendon on Monday the 3 front fovrth day of april next att ten of the clock in the fore- noon then and there to see if the propriators will alow any more land to pay for highways as also to take an acovmpt of their comitee that thay chose to preambvlate or Remeasvre the providence farms and to see if thay will pay said committee in money or land for there service in that afair and to see if the pro- priators will pay what is dve to any other persons for service done for the propriators and that the committee chosen to prefer a petision to the generall covrt for an aqvifelent of land for what was taken from them by settling the province line and providence farms Render an acovmpt of their proscedings on that afair and to see what the propriators will do further on that afair att the reqvest and by order of severail of the propriators
THOMAS WHITE propriators clerk
april ye 4th : 1737 being a propriators meeting leagaly warned : att said meeting voted and chose Daniel lovet moderator for said meeting : and after discorce on several things specified in the warant for sd meeting voted to ajoyrn sd meeting vntill the third monday of may next : at ten of the clock in the forenoon then to meet at mendon meeting hovse
May ye 16th : 1737 being a propriators meeting by ajoyrnment from april ye 4th 1737 att said meeting voted and chose a com- mittee to prefer a petision to the generall covrt for an aqvefelent for what land was taken from the propriaty by settling the prov- ince line and providence petisioners farms and the persons chosen for that service were capt Daniel lovet nathan tiler samvel thayer seth chapin Jvn' and John harwood : - at sd meeting voted to give vnto Thomas white propriators clerk Eighteen acers of land to be laid ovt by him the said white or his order acording to the : Regulation : of the tenth division : which said 18 acers of land is to be in full satisfaction for his writing warants
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and warning propriators meetings and Recording the propriators grants acts and votes for the time past
may ye 16th : 1737 being a propriators meeting by ajoyrnment from april ye 4th : 1737 at said meeting voted that if capt Daniel Lovet nathan tiler samvel thayer seth chapin Jvn' and John har- wood shall pay to the propriators twenty four povnds in good and lawfvl money or in good bills of creditt on the province of the massachusetts Bay in new England that then the sd Daniel Lovet nathan tiler samvel thayer seth chapin Jvn' and John har- wood att their own cost and charge shall have full power to prefer a pitision at the great and general covrt or as many and as often as thay shall see cavse in the name of the propriators for an aqvifelent for what land was taken away from the propriaty by settling the province line and providence pittioners farms and in sveh way and maner as thay shall see cavse : and the propriators do hereby Enable the sd : capt Daniel Lovet nathan tiler samvel thayer seth chapin Jvn' and John harwood to convert whatsoever thay can obtain by said petision to their own proper vse and Benifit to them and their heirs or asigns for Ever : 13 pounds and fovr shillings of the above sd 24 pounds paid as atest Daniel Lovet moderator Thomas white propriators clerk : -
May ye 16th : 1737 Receved of capt daniel lovet nathan tiler samvel thayer seth chapin Jvn' and John harwood ten pounds 16 shilings : in full of what was dve of the above written 24 povnds J say Reeeved by me Daniel taft propriators treasurer
[19.] May ye 16th : 1737 being a proprators meeting by ajorn- ment from April ye 4th : 1737 att said meeting voted that Joseph taft Jvn' of vxbridge shall have a certain peace or tract of land Joyning to Jsaac : Bensons farm in the south side of vxbridge as apeared to a committee sent by the propriators to preambulate with sd Benson : and that the sd taft should have all the land that is without the plan of said Bensons farm : so far as sd Benson did claim as also one acer of land more att the norwest corner of sd claime in Ive of land that seth aldrich claims within sd Bensons
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claim : he the sd taft paying to the propriators the svm of three povnds and Eleven shilings
september the twenty third 1742 being a propriators meeting leagaly warned : - att sd meetting voted and chose Daniel Lovet moderator for sd metting : - at sd meeting votted that the re- mainder of the two 100 acers of land in vxbridge be still reserved for the propriators vse : - and att sd meeting voted that Thomas sanford or his : atorney his heirs and asignes be hereby Jmpow- ered in the propriators name and their behalf to prosecvte in the law and to: Eject Richard sprage and others that are in the posesion of that : 33 acers of land on the westerly side of the great river Joyning to the provence line which 33 acers was granted to sd sanford in lve of land taken from him on the East side sd river by the settling the province line : - and the prosecu- tion to be att the sd sanfords charge : &c and then adjoyrned sd metting to the last monday of march next
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March the 28th: 1743 being a propriators meeting by ajorn- ment from october the Eleventh : 1742 : then votted to adjorn sd meeting to the hovse of captain william Rawson : and then voted that if any propriators have any former divisions to lay ovt to do itt before the first monday of october next or Elce to lose their priveledge in sd divisions : and att sd meeting voted that no per- son evtt wood or timber on the vndivided or comon land before the time of sd adjoyrnment and then att sd meeting voted and chose nathan tiler Jonathan hayward samvel thayer John harwood John Read Jvn' to be a comittee to prosecute those persons that shall tranegres on sd lands : and then adjoyrned sd meeting vntill the first Monday of october next and then to meet at the towns meeting hovse in mendon att nine of the clock in the forenoon
october ye 3ª : 1743 being a propriators meeting by adjoyrn- ment from march ye 28th 1743 att sd meeting voted to recall that vote for pasing to an Eleventh division and then voted to make an adition to the tenth division of half an acer to a right and then voted not to begin to lay out sd adistion vntill the first of
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march next and then votted that Every propriator make ovt their rights before that time and then voted to continve the comitee chosen to see after trespases and then votted to chvse a comitee to see what money the propriators have in bank : and the inen chosen where Daniel lovett Jacob aldrich and Edmund Rawson : and then adjorned said meeting vntill the second mynday in march next to vxbridge meeting hovse att ten of the clock in the forenoon
october the 15th being a propriators meeting by ajornment at sd meeting voted to recall Every article voted or acted vpon by virtue of a warant bearing date september the 234: 1742
[21.] November ye 12th 1744 Being a proprietors meeting Legaly warned for the business hereafter mentioned at Said meeting Voted and Chose Maj Daniel Lovett Moderator at Said meeting Voted & Chose William Torrey proprietors Clerk : at Sd meeting Voted and Chose oliver Hayward Esq Surueyer at Sª meeting Voted to Chouse three men for a Commitee any one of them with the Surveyer to be a Commitee for Laying out Land and the men Chosen ware Jacob Aldrich John Read and William Torrey at Sd meeting Voted to giue John Gage twenty acres of Land Joyning to his fathers land South of Daniel Louets Land : at Said meeting Voted to pass to an a Eleventh Division but Seuen proprietors Serupled the Vote at Said meeting Chose Jacob Aldrich and Daniel Louet and Ezekiel Wood a Commitee to Recken with the proprietors Treasurer : att Said meeting Voted to the town of Vxbridge Sum Land for a Buring place and a Training field and then Voted to Give Ten Aeres of Common Land in Uxbridge at Said meeting Voted that Thomas Tinney & Daniel Corbett Should prosecute those persons that Trespass upon the proprietors Commons att Sd meeting Voted that .Jacob Aldrich Thomas Sanford & John Harwood be a Comtee to Trans- mit the Book from the old Clerk to the new one and then adjorned Said meeting to the third monday of march next Ensu- ing the Date hereof to meet at Mendon meeting house at ten of the cloek in the morning
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March ye 18th 1744/5 Being a proprietors meeting by adjourn- ment from November ye 12th 1744 and then mett and Voted to pass to an Eleventh Division at Sd meeting Voted that Six weaks time be alowed to the proprietors to Compleat the tenth Division and if they do not Compleat their tenth Division in six weaks then to Lay it out in the Eleventh and after the Same Regulation : at Sª meeting Voted that one aere be alowed to a Right without any alowance in the Eleventh Division att Sd meet- ing Voted to alow Seven Shilling old tenor pr aere to those pro- prietors that have not Land to Lay out in the Eleventh Division if any their Land Should be wanting of one aere to a Right in Sd Division and the money to be paid out of the proprietors Treas- urey : at said meeting Voted to Dismiss oliver Haywood Esq" from being proprietors Surveyor and Sa meeting Voted to Chouse two Surveyers one in Mendon & one in Uxbridge the Mendon Sur- ueyer to Lay out all the proprietors Common Land East of Ux- bridge Line & the Uxbridge Surueyor to out on the west Side at Said meeting Voted and chose William Torrey & John Read to be [22.] the Surueyers at Said meeting Voted that Maj Daniel Louett Samuel Read & William Holdbrook be aded to the Com- mittee Chosen for to Lay out Land att Sd meeting Voted that there Shall be 300 Lotts made and put into the Clarks hands & to be put into a box and to be Drawn out by the Seueral pro- prietors that haue a mind to Draw them in the presence of the proprietors Clerk att .Said meeting Voted to allow Thomas White three pound & ten Shillings old tenor for Services for ye pro- prietors & to be Drawn out of the proprietors Treasurey att Said meeting Voted to allow John Harwood Esq' thirty Shillings old tenor for Service Done for ye proprietors for preambelating ye ministry and proprietors farm & to be paid out of the proprietors Treasurey att Said meeting Voted to allow Maj' Daniel Louett & Jacob Aldrich Sixteen Shilling old tenor Each for two Days Service in preambelating ye ministry & proprietors farm & to be paid out of ye proprietors Treasury at Said meeting Voted that the proprietors would Enable & Jmpower Thomas Sanford his heirs Executors administrators and assigns or his attorneys in their behalf at his Cost & Charge to Eject Richard Sprauge &
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others off from Lands on the westerly side of ye Great riuer (viz) thirty three acres on ye westerly Side of ye Great Riuer aboue Said now in the possession of richard Sprauge & others hereto- fore Granted by the proprietors to the Said Sanford in ye room of Land taken from the on ye Easterly Side of Said Riuer by ye province Line : at Sd meeting Voted that where Common Land Lies between two proprietors or more they Shall Notifie the persons Joyning to them to Lay out their part if any they have to Lay out according to their rights they not agreeing the Sur- ueyer & Committee to Settle ye whole affair & none to have any Laid out till they make out their Rights by a Certificate attested under the Clearks hand of Said propriety : at Sa meting Voted to Dismis oliver . Hayward Esq' as a Suruayer - at Sª meeting Voted to record part or all of ye Eleuenth Division of Land in this Book of records at Sª meeting Voted to Except of what the Comtt had Done in reckening with the proprietors Treasurer which is as followeth March ye 18th 1745 We the Subscribers being Chosen by the proprietors of the former township of Mendon to recon with their treasurer Daniel Taft Esq' haue this Day per- formed that business and we find in the S' Treasurers hands fiue pounds nineteen Shillings and ten pence old tenor money : as witness our hands
DANIEL LOUETT
JACOB ALDRICHI Comittee EZEKIEL WOOD
DANIEL TAFT Treasurer
[24.] Mendon January the 30th 1748 Being a Proprietors meeting Legualy Warned for the business :s hereafter mentioned then mett and Choose John Harwood Esq' Moderator for Said meeting
att Said meeting voted to Sell the Proprietors farm that Lyeth in Uxbridge and to Covert the money ariseing by the Sale of Said farm to the Schools to which it belongs and it passed in the afirmitine - att Said meeting Voted and Choose fiue men as a Comtt to Sell Said Proprietors farm and to Giue a Suffient Deed
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or Deeds for the Conveyance of the Same in the behalf of the Propriety - And the men Choosen for Said Com" weare Capt Nathan Tyler Daniel Taft Esq John Harwood Esq' Liet Jonathan Wood & Liet John Holbrook - att Said meeting Voted to add one acer more to a Right in the Eleventh Division and also Voted that the Comee Chosen to Lay out said Division haue Liberty to add half an acre more to that acre which ye Propriety hane added to the Eleventh Division for poor Land as Said Comtt thinks needfull - att Said Voted and Choose two men to add to the Comtt for Laying out the Eleventh Division and the men Choosen were Capt Robert Taft & Capt Nathan Tyler - att Said meeting Voted and Choose fiue men as a Committee to Settle bounds between man & man where they are Lost or remain Difficult and the men Choosen were Decon Jacob Aldrich John Harwood Esq' Decon Samuel Read Capt Nathan Tyler & Capt Robert Taft : Said work to be Done at the owners of Such Lands Cost and Charge -at Said meeting Voted that the time for Compleating of the Eleventh Division Shall be the tenth of June 1750 - at Said voted that the Easterly Precienet in Mendon haue ten acres of Land in the Proprietors Comons for a Buring Place- and Said meeing was Dissolued
JOHN HARWOOD moderator
[29.] Mendon october 28th 1751 being a Proprietors meeting Leagualy warned for the Business hereafter mentioned then meet and Choose Decon Jacob Aldrich moderator for said meeting - and then adjorned Said meeting to the 25th Day of November next and to meet at the towns meeting house in Said mendon at ten of the Clock in the forenoon of Said Day
Mendon November 25th 1751 being a proprietors by adjorn- ment then mett and put to vote whether the Proprietors would Choose a Com" to preamblate the north & west Lines of the former township of mendon and it passed in the Negetive at Said meeting Voted and Choose three men as a Committee to make Aaron Thayer Satisfaction for his Land that was wanting in his Land adjoyning to Land formerly Jethro Coffins and the men
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Chosen were William Torrey as Servey' Capt Robert Taft & Decon Sam" Read Comt- at Said meeting Voted & Choose three men as a Committee to Joyn with & assist the proprietors Clerk to Examin the proprietors Books to Search out the mistakes if any there be and to make Report to the propriety - and the inen Chosen were Decon Jacob Aldrich Capt Robert Taft & Ens" Josiah Taft - and then Said meeting was Desolved -
Mendon April ye 13. 1756 Being a Proprietors meeting Lea- gualy warned for the Binsiness :s hereafter mentioned then mett and Chose Nathan Tyler Esq' moderator for Sd meeting - at Sd meeting voted to give the Surveyors that were Chosen to Lay out the Proprietors Common Land the Liberty to Lay out their Comon Land in any part of the propriety -
at Sª meeting voted to Chose a man to add to the Committee Chosen to Settle Bounds between man & man where they are Lost or Remain Difficult (one of sd Comtt being Dead) and the man Chosen was William Torrey - and then Said meeting was adjourned to the Second tuseday of october next & to meet at the towns meeting house in Mendon at Nine of the Clock in the morning -
october the 12th 1756 being a proprietors meeting by adjourn- ment from April the 13 1756 then meet and put to vote whether the propriety would Chouse a Committee to Examin the propri- etors Records of their Lands So farr back as the Sixth Division and it passed in the affirmitive and at Said meeting Chose five men for Said Com" and the men Chosen were William Torrey Sam" Read Sam" Thayer John Corbett and Nanthan Tyler Esq" at Said meting Voted that the proprietors make out Every man his Rights to the Com" Chosen by Said propriety before the Last Day of December next and then Sd meeting was adjourned to the Second tuesday of Janvary next at nine of the Clock in the morn- ing at the towns meeting house in mendon
[30.] Janvary the 11th 1757 being a proprietors meeting by an Adjournment from October 12 1756 to Janvary ye 11th 1757
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and then mett and Adjourned Said meeting to Janvary 25 1757 and to meet at the towns meeting house in Uxbridge at Nine of the Clock in the morning
Janvary the 25th 1757 being a proprietors meeting by an ad- journment from Janvary the 11th 1757 and then mett and Ad- journed Said meeting to the Last tuseday of february next it being the 22 Day and to meet at the towns meeting house in Uxbridge at Nine of the Clock in the morning
febravy 22P. 1757 being a proprietors meeting by adjournment from Janvary 11th 1757 then meet and Voted that the money aris- ing By the Sale of the propriators farm Sold to David Draper be Divided to Each proprietor according to their Rights - voted in the affirmative and then Sd meeting was Disolved - attest NATHAN TYLER Moderator
Jn Answer to a Request to me by 20ty proprietors of the former township of mendon Requesting a proprietors meeting - These are therefore to warn & give notice to the proprietors that have any Jntrest in the proprietors Lands belonging to the former township of mendon as aforesaid that tuesday the 13th Day of april next is appointed to be a proprietors meeting & to meet at the towns meeting house in mendon at ten of the Clock in the four noone of Sd Day - first for ye proprietors to Choose a mod- erator for Sª meeting : 2 :ly to See if the proprietors will Choose a Comee to Examine the Records belonging to Sd propriety as far back as the proprietee Shall think proper in order to prevent persons having Rights allowed more then once that the Comtt for Laying out the proprietors Lands & the proprietors may not. be Imposed upon by having Demands made more than once or twice on them to have Lands Confirmed to them on pretended Rights when no Just Clame Can be Laid to any of the Comou in Sa propriety and Sd Com" or a former Com" may be Imposed upon where the Clame or Jntrest Doth appear to be Lame or not to be made out that they Shall notitie persons to make out their Rights & if they are unable or Refuse then to Jnform Said Com-
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mitte where & how Such Land Doth Lye that So it may be Laid out or to order the affare Some other way or as the propriety Shall think proper - 3 to See if the proprietors will Recall their vote for appropreating money to the use of their Schools the money being Raised by the Sale of lands Called the proprietors farm in Uxbridge Sold to David Draper & to Dispose of the money as the proprietors Shall think more proper 4 to See how the proprietors will Dispose of the Ceder Swamp that is not Laid out according to the proprietors Records
[31.] Mendon October the 17 1757
Jn answer to 13 Proprietors of the former Township of Men- don who have Requested of me a proprietory meeting & to meet at the towns meeting house in Mendon on Tuesday the Eight Day of November next at Nine of the Clock in the forenoon -
These are therefore to warn & give Notice to the Proprietors of Said Township that Tuesday the Eight Day of November next is appointed to be a proprietors meeting & to meet at the Towns meeting house in mendon at nine of the Clock in the fore Noone - first for the Proprietors to Choose a Moderator for Said meet- ing 2ly To See if the Proprietors will Choose a Committee to Pre- ambulate the Lines or Bounds Round the former Township of Mendon and also the Grant of Lands Called the North Purchas ; and to Jmpower the Said Com" to Notifie the Proprietors or Pro- priety Ad Joyning to Sª Propriety to Preambulate the Lines or Bounds With them According to Law : - 3dly : to See if the Pro- priety will choose a Com" : to Reckon with the Proprietors Treas- urer - 4ly : to See if ye Proprietors Will Choose a Commit : to Reckon With the Commit : that was Chosen to Sell the Proprie- tors farm Jn Uxbridge And to take the Money that the Said farm Was sold for into their Hands for the Proprietors use And to Render an Account of Said Money to the Proprietors as soon as may be & of their Proceeding thereon -
5ly : to See if the Proprietors Will Set a time for each Proprie- tor to Bring in their Rights to the Proprietors Com" : in order to have the Money Belonging to the Propriety Divided According to the Vote of the Sd Propriety - & also to See if the Propriety
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Will pass their Vote that all those Persons that Refuse or Neglect to Make out their Rights to the Proprietors Commit : at or before the time the Proprietors Shall Sett Shall forever After be Secluded & Debarred of his or their Rights of the Money belong- ing to Said Propriety - & also to See if the Proprietors Will Choose a Comm" : to Subdivide the Money belonging to the Sa Propriety to the Proprietors that shall Make out their Rights according to their Interest according to the Proprietors Vote - And Also for all Persons that have any Demands on the Pro- priety of Mendon to Bring their Accounts to the Propriety in Order for their Allowance
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WILLIAM TORREY Proprietors Clark.
Mendon November 8th 1757
being a Proprietors meeting Leagally warned and then meet and Choose Decon Sam" Read moderator for Said meeting - at Sª meeting Voted & Chose Sam" Read Capt Phinchas Lovett & William Torrey a Committee to preambulate the Lines Round the former township of mendon and also the grant of Land to the town of mendon Called the north purches - at Said meeting Voted to Choose a Comtt of three men to Reckon with the pro- prietors Treasurer and the men Chosen were. Capt Robert Taft Doctr John Corbett & Sam" Thayer and to make their Return of [32.] their Doings at the adjournment of Said meeting - att Said meeting Voted & Chose three men for a Com" to reckon with the Comtt that was Chosen to Sell the proprietors farm in Uxbridge and to take the money that the Said farm was Sold for with the Income of the Same into their hands for the proprietors use and to Render an account of Said money to the proprietors at the Adjournment of Said meeting -and the men Chosen for Sa Comtt were Ens" Ezekiel Wood Liet John french & Capt Phin- chas Lovett - and then the Said meeting was Adjourned to the last monday of febrvary next and to meet at the towns meeting house in mendon at twelve of the Clock at noone
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