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shillings, as may appeare by the Docters Bill for sd cure, also there was one Gun lost being caried away by yr enemy which Gun belonged to John ffarer of Marleborough who was then slaine, & his widow & children Left in a Low condition, je Gun was worth at y Least fourty shillings which yo' Petitioner prays may be alowed to said Widow : there were two Horses killed and two wounded, one that was killed belonged to Jonathan Brig- ham being worth eight pounds & the other valued worth foure pounds belonged to Samuell Ward one of yf Horses wounded was Joseph Newtons his charge of cure & Damage was at least twelve shillings, the other Horse wounded belonged to Oliver How whose charge for cure & Damage was twenty shillings, ther was also somthing Considerable expended as was Necessary for ye Decent Buriall of three Persons Slain in said Engagement.
Your Petition' therefore Humbly Prays that your Excellency & Honts would take the Premisses into your serious Consideration & Grant such Reasonable alowances to ye Parties concerned as above mentioned : as In your Wisdom shall seem Just & Equitable & your Petitioner as In Duty Bound Shall ever pray &c. SAMI. BRIGHAM.
House of Representatives, June 16. 1708. Read & Resolved : That there be allowed & Paid out of the Publick Treasury, as follows, vizt :
To Ephraim Wilder for the cure of his wound the sum of three Pounds and for the losse of bis Time, charges &c five Pounds.
To the widow of John Farrer for a Gun lost Thirty shillings.
To Jonathan Brigham for a Horse killed four Pounds. To Samil Ward for a Horse killed Two Pounds.
Sent up for concurrence, 16 June 1708 THOMAS OLIVER Speaker ISA. ADDINGTON Secret
In Council Read & concurrd.
CONCORD June 8 1708.
These may Certify whom it may concern there is due to me for Medi- cine dressing & vuring of a wound in ye thygh of Ephraim Wilder of Lancaster which he Received by a shott from ye Enemy in a late engage- ment some time in August last under ye conduct of Let Brigham. of Mlbrow, ye sum of four pounds tenn shillings as atests
JONA. PRESCOTT Chir.
[Massachusetts Archives, LXX1, 454 et. seq.]
In Massachusetts Archives, LXXI, 421-3. is a petition from Samuel Stevens dated Nov. 10, 1707, asking aid, "his hands being both shott by ye enemy & lost many joynts which has Greatly disinable him as to his caling, being a Joyner." Twenty pounds was voted him and a pension, at pleasure of the government. of forty shillings per annum.
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1709. To his Excellency Joseph Dudley Esqr Capt General and Govern in Chief in and over her Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, and to the Most Honorable Gent of her Majesties Council, with the Honorble Gent of the house of Representatives.
Humble Pettion of us Whose Names are Under Written humbley Sheweth, we Inhabiting on y West part of ye Town of Lancaster being y" extreame front, & haveing Subsisted Capt Will" Tyngs men, are kept out of our Money to our Great damage, sume of us haveing Reco nothing since Apr" 28th 1708. Which to last April maks a full yeare besids old arers of no smal sum. Sume of us being poor & Under Ingagmts wch cannot be answered for Want hereof weh exposses to ye penalty of ye law, we hane now to Adress ourselves but to yo' Hon" as ye fathers of our Israel, hoping you will Vouhsafe to help us, that our Money so well de- served, Being alowed but 38 y" week a man, may be more easchy com at & not to pass through ye hands of perticuler men, weh has greatly hurt us sum years past, if your Hon's se cause to Graunt yor Pettin" what we pray for, will lay us Under obligations to pray for yor Hon's peace & Properity.
Yor most humble Servis Oct 28 1709.
JABEZ FFAIRBANKS JOSEPH HUICHINS JOHN GLAZEAR JOHN PRESCOT CYPRIAN STEVENS
SIMON STEVENS JOSIAH WHITE NATHANILL SAWYER
[Endorsed.]
In the House of Representatives. Nov. 10: 1709. Read and ordered, That the Treasurer, be Directed, to make no Paymts either to Col Tyng, or his son Maj Tyng, for any Demands they haue to make, upon the Treasury, for any sum or sums due to them, untill they Produce Discharges, under the hands of the Petitioners, for the sums due to them, for their Billetting Souldiers (by their order,) unto this present year 1709. And That the sd Col. & his son, do notify the severall Inhabitants of Lancaster. Grotton Dunstable &c. That haue by their order Billetted, Souldiers to meet with them some time in this present month of November, at some certain place in the respective Towns, that they make up their amounts & Take Discharges from the Severall Inhabitants, for their Billetting Soul- diers for the time aforesd.
Sent up for concurrence.
JOHN CLARK Speaker
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due to Jabez ffairbanks for Billeting of men under the 1b 6 command of Capt William Tyng in the years 1707 & 1708 - 9 ,, 16 ,, 10 due to John Prescott --- 2,, 12 ,, 4
due to Joseph Hutchins -- 1 ,, 19 " 8
due to Nathanael Sawyer --- 2 ,, 8 ,, 9
due to Cyprian Steevens ---- 6 ,: 19 ", 6
due to Simon Steevens --- I ,, 17 :9 8
due to Josiah Whit - 2 ,, 8 ,, 0
LANCHASTER twenty first of November 1709
Then received of Captain William Ting for subsisting men under his command in full from the beginning of ye world to the twenty eighth of Aprill one thousand seven hundred and nine by us the subscribers
NATHANIEL SAWYER CYPRIAN STEVENS SIMON STEVENS JOSIAH WHITE JABEZ FAIRBANK
JOHN PRESCOTT his JOSEPH + HUCTHINS mark
[Massachusetts Archives, LXXI, 565-8.]
The first page of the Church Records, begun by Rever- end John Prentice after his settlement, contains a copy of the Covenant. There are no minutes of church meetings before 1728, all earlier records being those of baptisms and admissions to the church.
LANCASTER CHURCH COVENANT.
Renewed March 29 1708 before the Ordination of the Red John Prentice.
We whose Names are hereunto subscribed being Inhabitants [of the] Town of Lancaster in New-England. Knowing that we [are] prone to offend & Provoke the most high God, both in heart [word and deed] through the Prevalence of Sin that dwelleth within us, & [through] Temptations from without us, for which we have great [reason to] be Un- feignedly humbled before him from Day to Day do [in the] name of our Lord Jesus Christ, with Dependance upon the Assistance of his holy Spirit, Solemnly enter into Covenant with God, & one with another ac- cording to God. as followeth.
Imprimis That having Chosen & taken the Lord Jehovah to [be our] God, we will fear him, cleave to bim in Love, & serve [him in] truth with all our hearts giving up ourselves unto him [as his] People. In all things to be at his Direction & Sovereigne [disposal], that we may have & hold
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Communion with him as [members] of Chiists Mystical Body, according to his Revealed will [unto our] Lives End.
2. We also bind ourselves, to bring up our Children & Servants [in the] Knowledge & fear of God. by holy Instructions according to our abilities, & in Special by the Use of orthodox Catechisms [that] true Religion may be maintained in our families while we [live] yea and among such as shall Live when we are dead & Gone.
3. And we further promise, To Keep close to ya truth of Christ, endeavouring with lively Affection towards it in our hearts, to defend it against all opposers yrof, as God shall call us at any time thereunto, [which ] that we may do, We Resolve to use the holy scriptures [as our ] platforme, whereby we may discern the mind of Christ [and not the] Now found Inventions of men.
4. We also Ingage our selves to have a Careful Inspection of our own hearts, viz, so as to Endeavour by the Virtue of the [death] of Christ, the mortification of all our sinful Passions, [worldly] frames & Disorderly affections, whereby we may be withdrawn [from] the Living God.
5. We moreover Oblidge our selves (in the faithful Improvement [of our] ability and opportunity) to worship God according to all the particu- lar institutions of Christ for his Church under Gospel Administrations [with] Reverent attention unto ye word of God, to pray unto him [with] Praises, and to hold Communion each with other, in the [use of ] the seals of the Covenant, namely. Baptism & ye Supper of [the Lord.]
6. We Likewise promise, That we will peaceably submitt [unto the] Discipline appointed by Christ in his Church for offenders. obeying (ac- cording to ye will of God) them that have the Rule over us in the [Lord.]
7. We also bind our selves to walk in Love one towards another en- deavouring our mutual Edification, Visiting, Exhorting, Comforting, [as occasion] serveth, and warning any Brother or Sister which offendeth [not] divulging private offences Irregularly, but heedfully following the Precepts laid down for Church dealing Matth. 18, 15, 16, 17. [While for]giving all that do manifest unto the Judgment of Charity [that they] truly Repent of their miscarriages.
Now the God of peace that brought again from the Dead Our Lord [the] great shepherd of the sheep through the Blood of the Everlasting [Covenant. ] Make us perfect in every good Work to do his Will, working that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus X to whom [be] glory for ever & ever. Amen.
Words printed in brackets are in place of those worn from edge of leaf. The writing is that of Mr. Prentice, and at the end he signed his own name, and wrote below it the names of seven of his church, perhaps at that time the only male members. They were : Thomas Wilder,
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John Houghton, Josiah Whetcomb, John Wilder, Jeremiah Willson, John Rugg, Jonathan Moor. Twenty-five other names have been signed on the same, and four on the opposite page, from time to time, as they became members of the church ; for example, Major Samuel Willard's, who joined Nov. 18, 1733, and that of Joseph Wilder, Jr., who was admitted April 14, 1734. A majority seem not to have signed this copy of the covenant.
1710. Middlesex ss. To ker Majesties Horrable Justices of said County of Middlesex convened in Quarter Sessions at Charlstowne, March ye 13th 1710/11.
The Humble Request of The Inhabitants of ye Towne of Lancaster as ffolloweth. That forasmuch as said Inhabitants have for several yeares past Sustained Great Damage by Reason of Many Cattell & Horses be- longing to other Townes being brought to feed (in ye Sumer Season) on our Coffions, although ye owners of said cattell have no Right therin & Some of our Inhabitants that live neer the outskirts of ye Towne have from time to time for several yeares past Received such cattell under their care & Inspection, whereby we are not only Damnified In our feeding land. but also most of our out medows are quite Ruined & so cat up that he can get but very Little Hay, but shall unavoidably leen our cattell. For Prevention of the Like Damage for ye future ye Tohabitants of said Lancaster at theire Towne Meeting May ye 224 1710, Voted & ordered & y" Selectmen of said Towne have Acordingly agreed & concluded that from & after ye first Day of April next beinge ye yeare of our Lord. 1711 if any Person or Persons inhabitants of said Lancaster shall Presume to take in any such cattell as above said whose owners have no Right nor Privi !- ege in said Coffions, & shall Keep such Cattell to Run at Large to ye Dam- age of ye Towne as abovesaid, every such Inhabitant so doing shall be Lyable to pay as a fine (to ye use of the Towne) five shillings pr head for every such beast so taken & Kept by them to feed on said Comons as ahovesaid, which in behalfe of ye Inhabitants of said Lancaster is hereby presented to your Hon' Humbly praying your alowance & approbation of ya same that so it may be binding to all ye Inhabitants of said Lancaster in all Respects as the Law Dirrects in such Cases, that may be approved off by your Honn & Remaine
Your Hon's most Humble Servants.
THOMAS WILDER - Selectmen
JOHN HOUGHTON JOSEPH WILDER JACOB HOUGHTON
[Middlesex Court Files.] .
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CHARLESTOWN, Mar 13 1710/11.
The Court having Inspected the by Laws of the sd Town of Lancaster as on file allow of the same for this year.
[Middlesex Court Records.]
1710-11. Middlesex ss. To her Majesties Honrable Justices of said County of Middlesex Convened in Quarter Sessions at Chartstowne.
March ye 13th 1710 II. Pursuant to a summons Wherein yº Selectmen of ye Towne of Lancaster or some of them are Required to appeare at said Sessions to Answer to a Presentment of said Towne for want of a School- master. These are Humbly to acquaint your Hon's that before the pre- sentment wee had appointed a Towne Meeting in order to ye procuring of a Schoolmaster & accordingly have agreed with Mr. John Houghton Sent. for the yeare ensuing who is now actually Ingaged for & in said work, & hath formerly been Imployed by the Towne in said service & Instructed some in Writing but under our present Dangerous Circumstances it is very Hazardous sending our children to schoole Living so scattering. yet we are willing to do herein what Possibly is to be done, not onely to ans- wer y^ Law but for our own benifitt & therefore Humbly pray there may be no farther Proceedings upon said Fresentment.
Dated LANE March ye gth 1710/ II.
pr yr Hon's most Humble Servants
THOMAS WILDER EPHRAIM WILDER JOSEPH WILDER
Selectmen
JACOB HOUGHTON
[Middlesex Court Files.]
CHARLESTOWN Mar. 13 1710/11.
The Selectmen of Lancaster appearing in Court to answr their present- ment of their Town for want of a schoolmaster and representing to ye Court their circumstances and their care for Instruction of youth, the Court accepts the same and allow thereof till further order of this Court as on file.
[Middlesex Court Records.]
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1711 A LIST OF THE FRONTIER GARRISONS REVIEWED BY ORDER OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOUR IN NOVEMBER 17II.
No.
Garrisons
Families
Inhabitants
Souldiers
Souls
I
Heze Willard
3
2
Mis Houghton
4
5
1
25
3
Capt Wilder
7
4
Mr Houghton
2
4
I
13
5
Mr White
6
8
2
38
6
Lieut Joslin
3
3
2
18
7
Mr Bowers
3
7
I
9
S
Mr Bennet
3
`7
0
34
9
Mr Stevens
4
4
2
19
IO
Mr Prentice
2
2
3
9
12
Mr Sawyer
5
4.
2
15
14
Mr Beaman
3
4
0
15
Mr Snow
3
4
O
18
16
Henry Houghton
3
1
7
0
25
18
Caleb Sawyer
2
3
I
19
Win Sawyer
3
3
0
12
20
Mr Whitcomb
4
4
.
22
John More
2
2
7
23
Mr Houghton
1
I
3
24
Mr Wilson
I
3
0
II
25
Jo Whitcombe
2
2
0
7
26
Mr Wheeler
3
4
0
19
27
Mr Fairbank
2
5
0
15
27
83
III
21
458
[Massachusetts Archives, LXXI. 876.]
IZII. At a town meeting held February 5, some action was taken favoring the acquisition by the town of the land bonded by Tahanto in 1701, and ninety-eight of the in. habitants signed the following contract ;
Know all men, that we the subscribers being desirous to purchase a tract of Land which lieth on the West side of Lancaster, which lands
1
2
O
23
13
Mr Prescot
3
47 4 7
2
18
21
Mr More
I
I
8
17
Mr Preist
6
17
Ensg Wilder
4
J
8
47
.
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have formerly been petitioned for to the General Court, and which the Inhabitants of Lancaster are still in pursuance of and their petition is still with the General Court for granting the same, and considerable money having been paid to George Tahanto and other Indians, towards the por- chasing of said lands though not yet consumated, We, the subscribers, do hereby bind ourselves and our heirs to pay each one his equal share of the purchase of said land, and all charges that have or shall be expended about the same, and to run equal hazard of obtaining said land, provided that if said land be obtained, we shall each one have an equal share and the said money to be paid before the 5th of March next, and shall subscribe hereto on or before the 15th of the present month or else lay no claim to. said land.
Feb. 15, 1714, a committee was chosen to apportion this land, forty acres of the best ground being allotted to each share.
LANCASTER November 21 and 22, 1713.
Whereas we the subscribers namely Jonathan prescott John Farnworth and Sam" Jones are a Comity Appointed to vew a tract of Land petitioned for by ye Inhabitants of Lancaster and to make Report theireof to the Genarall Court or Assembly for theire farther Consideration, and we have Accordingly been upon ye spott the Days above Dated and proseded their upon as foloweth.
Impr we began at ye northwest corner of the proper Bounds of Lancas- ter plantation and from thence Run a Line upon a north west point or neer theirabouts along by ye southwest sides of Masapauge & unkachewal- unck ponds extending said line three miles & from thenc we made an angle Runing neer upon a south west poynt Crosing a River caled ye North River & so Ranging along over Hills Caled manosok Hils sd line being . about six mils in length till it meets with ye middle branch of Lancaster River at or neer a litel Hill on which y' Indians had marked a tree for a corner of said Land. Being neer five mils wide at the Southerd end bounded partly by the River & partly by Capt. Davenports farm to the South west corner of Lancaster old hounds the land Included within these lines is Rocky and mountinous and very poorly acomodated with medow. JONATHAN PRESCOTT. SAMLL. JONES JOHN FFARNWORTH.
.
In the House of Representatives Mar : 20: 17II.
Ordered that the Tract of Land as above Described be added & Con- firmed to the Town of Lancaster, as part of that Township. Sent up for concurrence. JOHN BURRILL Speaker
: In Council, 21, March, 1711. Read.
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In the House of Representatives Oct : 25 : 1712.
Ordered that the Vote of this House above written be Revived & sent up for Concurrence.
JOHN BURRILL Speaker [Endorsed.] 1713. June 5, 1713. In Council
Read and Ordered That the Tract of Land as within described be added and confirmed to the Town of Lancaster as part of that Town- ship, not prejudicing any former Grants.
Sent down for concurrance. ISA. ADDINGTON Secy. In the House of Representatives June 8 1713 Read & Concured. JOHN BURRILL Speaker
| Massachusetts Archives, CXIII, 633.1
1715. To the Hourable His Majties Justices of the County af Middlesex Convened in Quarter Sessions at Charlestown December. ye 13th 1715.
These are to acquaint your Hon" that for as much as we understand that the Towne of Lancaster is under Presentment for want of a Grammar Schooll & some of ye Selectmen of said Towne are Required to appeare in order to Answer thereto we have accordingly appointed Capt. Joslin & Mr Hooker Osgood to Inform your Hont that we having no Grand Jury man had no knowledge of ye Presentment till we were summoned to ans- wer, yet nevertheless the Towne for these severall months have Indeav- ored to Procure a schople master that may benefit ye Towne & answer ye Law, & have agred with a young Gentleman Viz: Mr Perpoint of Rox- bury who had now Probably been actually in said service but his Indispos- ition of Body hinders; we would crave leave further to acquaint your Hon's that we are humbly of oppinion that we are scarcely Liable to Presentment for we have but very Lately had ye number of families ye Law Requires, & a considerable number of them are either single Persons widows or poor families noways able to Contribute to ye Charge nor yet subsist without Reliefc, therefore Humbly pray that no fine may be Imposed upon us, nor be as yet enjoined to be constantly provided with a Gramer Schoolemaster but that a writing schoole may answer till our number be Increased. In behalfe of the Selectmen of Lancaster.
JOHN HOUGHTON
Dated LAN: Decemb! ye 12 1715
Town Clerk
1715. CHARLESTOWN Dec 13 1715
Capt. Joslin & Mr. Hooker Osgood of ye Selectmen of Lancaster appearing to answer their prsentment for want of a grammar school, In- forming the court they have agreed with young Mr Pierpont who had been with y' actually but is fallen under indisposition of Body by reason of sickness & expect him speedily, the court accept the sd answer and are dismist paying fee.
[Middlesex Court Records.]
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The law of 1647 enjoins that "where any towne shall increase to y" number of roo families or house hould's they shall set up a gramer schoole, ye mr thereof being able to instruct youth so farr as they may be fited for y" university." This law was in force, and the above action of the court fixes approximately the population of Lancaster at this date.
1715. Notandum, August, 4 1715, Att a Church meeting att y& house of John Prentice, Captain Peter Joslin & Joseph Wilder were chosen to y" Deacons office in the Church of Christ in Lancaster & accepted of said office.
[Lancaster Church Records.]
Where not otherwise stated, the following pages in the town's records are by the hand of Joseph Wilder, Sen. , proprietor's clerk.
1716. Monday Feburary the 4th 1716/17. att a Meeting of the Pro- pratee of Lancaster it being there Stated Meeting. and first made Choyce of Jabaz ffairbank as Moderater for Said Meeting Then several! Propozi- tions was Read before the Town brou into ye Selectmen
I Towit the proposition of Nahum Ward Desiers that the Hiway that Leyeth by his Hous may be altered on ye South Side the brook & Lye a little Higher & it will be upon as good Land & as Neer to pass to where it now Lyes on Divols Land
2. Josah White Desiers the Town would Grant Liberty that two gates may be sett up on the hiway through his entervail according to a former order in ye Town
3. John Houghton Sent Desieres the Town would Let him have the entervale aboue the Red Spring which was formerly granted to Danil Gaines to make up his entervale Lott the said Houghton haveing Pur- chased said Gaines Second devition entervale Lott & Cannot find where it was Laied out : or if he Cannot have sade entervale Then that the Town would Grant him some other land in Lew there off
4. Then Jonathan Houghton desiers the town to Grant him Liberty to Cutt 3 or 4 hundered pine trees & draw the Turpentine, sd pines desiered ar ajoyning to Som Land of his fathers on ye west side the hiway that Leeds to Thomas Wilders.
The collection of turpentine and manufacture of tar in the New England pine forests had become an important
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industry, and these products an article of export to Great Britain. So early as 1703 legislation was demanded to prevent the destruction of trees by those engaged in the public forests collecting turpentine.
5. Ebenezer Wilder desiers the Town would Grant bim fifty three acres of Land, or there abouts partly Jeyed out by him soposed to be but a part of what was purchased by him of John Addams; or Els that the Town would appoint som meet person to state and make bounds with him as Neer as may be according to what is Written the bounds being som of them Lost.
6 Jonathan Moor desiered the Town would Grant him a hiway through ye Land of Willm & Joseph Sawyer formerly Granted & Laied out to bare hill Medows.
7 the propozition of John Goss desiers the hiway that goes from the Scar bridge to the mill may go up by the River & so com in to the path after it com up the Hill
8 a Clame was Made by Several! Persons Represented by frances fullom to wit as followeth.
We the subscribers whose Names are under Written &sd 42
Daniel How upon the Right of Capt Henry Carley - 100-0-0
John Barns upor. the Right of Capt Henry Carley --- 050 -0-0
James Keyes upon the Right of Roper -- 050 -0-0 John Shermon upon the Right of John Moor ---
Benjamin Bayley upon the Right of John Houghton --- 020 -0-0
David Church on ye Right of Capt Carley ---
050 -- 0 -0
David Church upon the Right of Edward Breck -- 050 - 0-0
John Booker upon ye Right of Robert Houghton - Siroon Gates upon the Right of Steeven Gates -- 314 -- 0 - 0 Isaac Hunt upon yº Right of Samuell Bennit -- 030 - 0 - C Sam" Wright upon y" Right of Cypran Steevens --- 040 - 0 - 0 Fra Fullam upon ye Right of George Adams - Do Hereby Demand all & every of our Respective Rights & Divisions of in & unto all Rights & Devitions of Lands Made or to be Made in that tract of Land Last Granted by the Great & Generall Court of the Province of the Massachusets Bay in New England the 27 of May 1713 to be added & Confermed to ye Town of Lancaster as part of that Townsheep in which Tract of Land we have & Clame our Just Rights of property in proportion as being Invested with the oRiganal Rights in said Town of Lancaster JOHN SHERMON SAMT WRIGHT
DANIL HOW FRA FULLAM
JOHN BARNS DAVID CHURCH
JAMES KEYES BENJ BAILY
SIMON GATES
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In the second place they Granted the Proposition of Nahum Ward re- fering to ye Hiway.
Thirdly they Granted Josiah White Leberty to set up Gats in the Hiway foure years
forthly they Granted the proposition of John Houghton Refering to Ganes Entervail that it lie abone the Read Spring provided it be not found to be all Ready Laid out els where
In ye 5 place In answer to the Proposition of Jonathan Moor they Made Choyce of Left John Houghton Ensigne James Wilder & Josiah Wheeler to be a Commity to vew ye way proposed for by Jonathan Moor from his Hous to barehill Medow, & pertegulerly through ye Land of Willin & Joseph Sawyers Land to See if there be need there of: & if needed to Lay out yr same & make a Report to the Town.
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