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Granted to the Inhabitants of Upper Chiccupee for Support of a School and to be Paid as it be- comes Due to John Chapin, the Sum of 5
£120
[III-404.]
Granted to the Inhabitants of the Lower Chiccupee and to be Paid as it becomes due to Henry Chapin the Sum of Four pounds.
Granted to the Inhabitants of Paucatuck and Tattum for Supporting a School there the Sum of Three pounds and to be paid when it becomes Due as the Selectmen shall order
Granted to the Inhabitants of Agawam for supporting a School there Eleven pounds, and to be paid as it becomes Due to John White.
Granted to Ephraim Colton for three dayes and Hafe as- sessing fourteen shillings.
Granted to the Inhabitants of the Place Cald Skipmugg
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the Sum of Three pound and to be paid as it becomes due to Thomas Horton for Supporting a School there.
Granted to the Inhabitants at Ireland for Supporting a School there the Sum of Four pounds, and to be Paid as it becomes Due to Joseph Ely Sent
Granted to John Ely for four Dayes and halfe assessing Eighteen shillings.
Granted to John Ferry for six days assessing and for Pa- per Twenty five Shillings and five pence.
Granted to Henry Chapin for the use of his Bull this year one Pound ten Shillings.
Granted to Benja Brooks for the use of his Bull this year Two Pounds.
[III-405.]
Granted to Thomas Horton for the use of his Bull this year Two Pounds.
Granted to Wm Warriner for the use of his Bull this year fortv Shillings.
Granted to John Burt for the use of his Bull this year for- ty Shillings.
Granted to Eben' Hitchcock for the use of his Bull this year forty shillings.
Granted to Widw Abigail Parsons for the use of her Bull this year Fifteen Shillings.
Granted to John Horton for the use of his Bull this year one Pound ten Shillings.
Granted to Eben" Warner for the use of his Bull this year forty Shillings.
Granted to John Chapin for the use of his Bull this year Thirty five shillings.
Granted to Nathal Dumbleton for the use of his two Bulls this year Four pounds.
Granted to Abel Chapin for the use of one Bull this year Twenty Shillings.
Granted to Eben' Warriner for the use of his Bull this year twenty shillings.
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Granted to Benja Stebbins Sen' for the use of his Bull this year forty Shillings.
[III-406.]
Granted to Nathal Ely Jun' for the use of his Bull this year twenty shillings.
Granted to John Bagg for the use of his Bull this year twenty Shillings.
Granted to Joseph Ely Sen for the use of his Bull this year forty Shillings.
Granted to Nathl Hitchcock for the use of his Bull this year Thirty Shillings.
Granted to Ebenz Morgan for the use of his Bull this year Fifteen Shillings.
Granted to Eben' Leonard for the use of his Bull this year forty shillings.
Granted to Henry Wright for the use of his Bull this year thirty five shillings.
Granted to Simon Colton for the use of his Bull this year forty Shillings.
Granted to Amos Stiles for the use of his Bull this year forty Shillings.
Granted to Nathal Burt Sent for the use of his Bull this year twenty Shilings.
Granted to Joseph Ely Sent for the use of his Bull this year forty shillings.
Granted to Caleb Chapin for the use of two Bulls this year 1733 twenty Shillings.
[III-407.]
Granted to Jonathan Stevenson for the use of two Bulls this year forty Shillings.
Voted that the Selectmen are hereby ordered notwith- standing any vote to the Contrary to ord' the treasurer to Pay to Joseph Ely Sen' four Pounds Granted Last year for Supporting a School at Ireland.
Granted to Timothy Dwight Esq' fifty Shillings for Run- ning & Platting the Line between Springfield and Suffield.
Granted for Support of the Poor Fifty Pounds.
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Granted for Contingent Charges ten pounds out of which the Assessors are to be Paid for making the Town Rate this. year.
Granted for Defreying the Charges of Wolves and Wild Catts fifteen pounds.
Granted to Wm Pynchon Esq' Eben" Parsons and Joseph Leonard for two Days Each and John Leonard one Day, In Running the Line between Springfield and Suffield, Six Shil- lings Pr Day being in ye whole forty two shillings.
Granted to Increase Sikes Nine Shillings and Six Pence for a Pair of Shooes for Sarah Stevenson.
Granted to Pelatiah Glover Jun' Nine Shillings and Eight Pence for mending the School House Glass windows on the West side the River.
Granted to Joseph Millar four Shillings for Nails for the Repairs of the School House the West Side the River.
[III-408.]
Granted to Nathanl Brewer for a Window frame for the School House West side the River two shillings.
Granted to Ebenez Parsons for shingles for the School House the West side the River Eighteen Pence.
Granted to John Ely four Shillings for Repairs at the School House West side the River.
Granted to Saml Keep for Repairing Longmeadow Pound ten Shillings.
Granted to Jonathan Ely for Repairing Longmeadow School House Six Shillings.
Voted that there be and is Hereby Granted a Rate or Tax amounting to the Sum of two Hundred Pounds, to be Raised and assessed upon all the Poles and Sstates Rateable by Law in the Town of Springfield. And that the Assessors of Said town assess and Proportion the Same according to Law, on the sd Poles and Estates, and that they direct the Constable or Constables to whom they Comit the said assessment to Pay in the Same to Wm Pynchon Jun' Treasurer of said Town or his successor in Said office, by the First day of March Next for Defreying the Debts and Charges of sd Town according to the Grants made for the same.
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Voted that the Selectmen and are hereby are directed to order the Paymt of all Sums Granted at this meeting out of the Town Treasury for Discharging the same. [III-409.]
The Committee Appointed to make up acctts with Captn Wm Pynchon Juin' Treasurer of the Town of Springfield having Presented to this Meeting there Report Setting forth that they had attended the said service and upon the ballance of said Treasurers acctts there is Due to the Town the Sum of One Hundred and twenty five Pounds and Seven Pence half Penny, which the Comtee are of the Opinion that the sd Treasurer is accountable for. Voted that the said Report be accepted and the sd Treasurer is Discharged from his acctts Saving he is accountable for the sd Sum of one Hundred and twenty five Pound and Seven Pence.
Voted that Capt Wm Pynchon JunT be and Hereby is De- sired and Impowered in Behalfe of the Town of Springfield to Preferr a Petition to the General Court to obtain a Grant of some of the Unappropriated Lands in this Province the better to Enable the sd Town to Support a Grammar School.
Voted that John Leonard James Phillips and Abel Leon- ard be a Comtee to Inspect and make Enquiry in the best manner they can into the Incroachments or Trespasses of the Inhabitants of the Neighbouring Towns on the Comon Lands Rights or Priviledges of the Inhabitants of this Town and Duly make Report to a Proper Meeting.
Voted That Saml Keep Tilley Mirick Tho Stebbins and Frances Ball be a Committee to take the Care [III-410.] And Inspection of the Boundarys between the Land of Par- ticular Persons and the Highways appropriated in this Town according to Law.
Att a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Springfield Duly Quallified and Regularly assembled on Tuesday the Eleventh day of March Anno: Dom: 1734-5 To Choose Such officers as the Law Directs to Serve the Town for the year Ensuing also to appoint a Comitee to make up and adjust accotts with the Treasurer
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that shall be Chosen at this Meeting, also to Consider what is Proper to be done with Respect to John Crowfoots boy that was bound to Wm Colton Some years Past, also to Pass votes Relating to the Town Stock of Powder with Regard to have it Disposed off or Kept.
Wm Pynchon was Chosen Moderatour.
L' Pelatiah Bliss Ebenz Warriner John Burt John Ely and Luke Hitchcock 2ª Chosen Selectmen for the year ensuing.
Wm Pynchon Esq' Chosen Clerk and Treasurer of sd Town for the year ensuinge.
Japhat Chapin Saml Bliss Jun' Joshua Field Nathal Ely & Josiah Day Chosen Constables in said Town the year en- suinge.
[III-4II.]
Capt John Day Thomas Stebbins and Thomas Colton Chosen Assessors in Said Town for the year Ensuing.
Nathal Bliss Jun' John Harmon and John Ely 3d Chosen Tythingmen in said Town for the year Ensuinge.
Willm Stebbins David Burt 2ª Timothy Bliss Christian Vanhorne Thomas Millar Sent Miles Morgan John Day Jun' Danl Parsons Thomas Warriner Benjamin Chapin Jun' and Jonathan Chapin & Saml Mirick Chosen Fence Viewers in said Town the year Ensuinge.
Lt John Burt Chosen Surveyor of Hemp and Flax in said Town the year Ensuinge.
Benjamin Colton Increase Sikes Jun' Thomas Mirick 2ª Frances Ball Saml Day Isaac Morgan John White Caleb Chapin & Jonathan Cooley Chosen Surveyors of Highways in Said Town the year Ensuing.
Tilly Mirick Chosen Sealers of Leather in sd Town the year Ensuinge.
Voted that the Present Selectmen be a Comittee to make up acctts with the Town Treasurer and make Report at the next Town Meeting for Granting Town Rates &c. [III-412.]
Voted that in Consideration of the Uneasiness of John Crowfoot and Wm Coltons desire that the sd Crowfoots son
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Josiah may be Discharged from being his Prentice that the Selectmen be and hereby are Directed to Deliver up sd Col- tons Indenture made by the Selectmen heretofore upon said Coltons Delivering up his Indenture of sd Josiah to the Se- lectmen.
Voted that the Selectmen at the Charge of the Town Pro- vide Some Suitable Place in the meeting house for the Se- curity and safe keeping of the Town Stock of Powder and ammunition and That the Treasurer Dispose of the Town Stock of Powder or such Part thereof as Shall be thought best to the best advantage he Can for the Town by Selling the Same, and the Produce thereof to be Disposed of by him to obtain a New Stock so far as it will Purchase.
Voted that Japhet Chapin and Saml Bliss Junt be Excused from serving as Constables this year they having hired a Man to Serve in there Room.
Pelatiah Hitchcock Chosen Constable in Said Town for the year Ensuinge.
[III-413.]
Att a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Springfield Quallified and assembled according to Law on the 15th day of May Annoque Dom: 1735. To Chose Such Persons to Serve as Town officers in the Room or Place of Such as were Chosen in March Meeting Last Past to Serve the Town in Respective offices and do Refuse the Same, and to Pass Such votes as may be Thought Proper to Recover the Fines of those that do Refuse to Serve in the office they were chose to-and to take into Consideration the Circumstances of Joseph Barker that is to Say with Re- gard to his Present Distressed Circumstances he Being Re- duced to a Poor and Low Condition and he with his Family In a Suffering Condition, As also to pass votes for the Pay- ing Steward Southgates Demands for Running the Line be- tween Springfield and Brimfield, and Pass on the Survey thereof According to the Return made by the Persons ap- pointed to Run the Same also to Pass votes for Reserving the Wood and Timber on the Training Place So Called on the East Side of the Great River.
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Wm Pynchon Esq' Chosen Moderatour.
John Fowler Chosen Constable in the Room of Josiah Day Chosen In March Last who Refused, for the year Ensuinge. [III-414.]
Voted that Josiah Day be Excused from Paying a fine for Refusing to Serve in the office of a Constable he Having Hired a man to Serve in his Room.
John Colton Chosen Surveyor of the Highways in the Room of Jonath" Cooley who Refused to Serve in sd office.
Voted that the Selectmen order Such Supplys to Joseph Barker for his Support of him and his Family as they Shall Judge Necessary out of the Town Treasury.
Joseph Ball Chosen Tythingmen in the Room of John Ely 3ª who Refused to Serve in sd office.
Voted that the Town Treasurer Take care that all per- sons who Refused to Serve to the offices Chosen Last March Pay their Fines.
Voted that the Sum of one Pound Sixteen Shillings and four Pence be Paid out of the Town Treasury to Steward Southgate In full of his Demands on this Town for Running the Line & between Springfield and Brimfield as by his acctt Presented to this Meeting and allow'd and that the Select- men order the Paymt thereof accordingly.
[III-415.] Springfield and Brimfield Line.
Hampshire SS: April 22ª 1735.
Surveyed Run Renewed and Preambulated the Line be- tween the Town of Springfield and the Town of Brimfield beginning at a Heap of Stones by a Dead Pine tree old marked Standing a Little Northward of the Bay Path or (more commonly called) the Old Rhoad to which Heap of Stones we added and thence Run North by the Needle of the Surveying Instrumt Unto Chiccupee in Which line we Raised and Renewed Sundry Old Marks and made and Erected many New ones Spotted the trees with an Axe and in the Spot Setting the Mark in the Margin -o-) with the Mark- ing Iron vizt: from the sd Heap of Stones we first marked a Little White Oak by a Pine Stump then next the bottom of
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the Hill we marked a Pine Staddle and Laid Stones upon a Rock and Just over the Brook we Marked an ash Staddle then Next a Pine tree Standing on the South Side of the Country Rhoad and Laid a Heap of Stones on a flat Rock in the Rhoad and marked a Small White Oak Staddle with Letters then the Next is a white oak tree Old Marked & Re- newed the Next a Great Chestnut tree and Stones by it then a Pine Stump and Stones by it then to a Poplar then to a white oak tree then to a black oak tree Old Marked and Re- newed and Stones Laid by it, then to a Little white oak then over a Run of water to a white oak then to a Red oak Stad- dle then to a Small Pine a Little Westward of a Swamp and Small Pine meadow then to a Red Oak Staddle [III-416.] Then to a Tall Pine then three Small Chestnuts marked Suc- cessively then to a Tall Pine Going down the Hill then to a Monument of Stones Just over a Squechy Place then a Heap of Stones by a Narrow Swamp then to a Pine tree then to Pine Staddles then to a White oak Staddle going down the Hill then to a Monument of Stones on the Rocky Ledge Point of the Hill then Pine Staddle then to a Red Oak Stad- dle then to a Monument on a Flat Rock then to a white Oak over the Run then to a Staddle then to a Pine tree with Letters on Each Side near the River And Last to a Little Heap of Stones on the bank About 4 foot West of A Great Rock in the Brink of the River, From thence we Returned to where we began and Run South by the Needle Raising Sundry Old Marks-Monuments of Stones and Old Marked Trees to Which we added and Renewed and between the old marks we made and Erected many new ones most of the trees marked as abovesaid viz: from the First mention'd boundary we found an old Pine Stump old marked and we Renewed it then we marked a Great White Oak tree then a Small Pine then a Tall Pine on the Brow of the Hill Going down to a small brook Called Castallion Brook then next a Heap of Stones on a Rock and as a heap of Stones then over a Pine Hill we marked Several Pine trees then over Twelve Mile brook and then over a Little Plain to a white oak Old
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Marked and Renewed being on the South Side of a Narrow Poplar Swamp then to another White oak there up [III- 417.] a Hill to a Monument of Stones on a Rock Near the North End of the Hill then to another Monument of Stones on a Small Rock Higher up the Hill then to a Pine tree then Small Pine Staddle then to a Chestnuit tree then to a White Oak near the Swamp then to a smaller white oak over the Narrow Point of the Swamp then up a Small Brook we marked Several Trees Thro Swampy Land to a Great White Pine otherways called Spruce old Marked and Renewed then 'to a Chestnut tree Edge of the Swamp then through the Swamp and Swamp land for about fourscore Rods we we marked Several trees and came to an old Monument of Stones to which we added a small white oak marked Standing about a Rod South of it which we Renewed then next we marked a black oak staddle then a Line tree then to an oak over the Run of water then to a Poplar old marked in the North Edge of a swamp then to a Poplar in the South Edge then to a black oak and heap of Stones by it then to a black oak then to a Chestnut, then to a Monument of a small Rock then to a white oak and stones on the East side then to a white oak then to a Dead white oak and Stones by it then to a heap of Stones then to Stones on Rock then we marked Several Staddles and Came to an old Monument on the Top of the Rocky Hill which we Called the End of the Third Mile from where we began Thence Down the Hill to a Great White oak by a spring then to another White oak then to Stones on a Great Rock then to a Monument on a Ledge of Rocks then to a Great Chestnutt [III-418.] then to a Pine on the Hill Chop't on the West side then a heap of stones then to a Poplar in the Narrow swamp then two Heaps of Stones to a white oak on a Rock to Stones on a Rock by black oak Staddle to monument on a Rock then to a small Poplar on the Bear Hill then to a Heap of Stones on a small Rock on the Brow of the Hill where we left off and Returned Home, And on the 6th day of May 1735 we be- gan where we Left and Continued our said line on the
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Course aforesaid and Going down the Hill we made Several Monuments of Stone upon Rocks then we marked a White oak Just over a Patlı Called Longmeadow Path we marked a Beach Edge of the Brook then a small Ash Just over the Next Bigger Brook being both branches of Scantick then Going up the Next Hill we marked two oak Staddles and Put Stones about them a Pine Staddle and Stones at the Root then a Poplar Staddle then Next a Walnut Bush Trimmed and Stones about it then Next we came to a Large old Monument on a Rocky Ledge West End of a Hill we Re- newed then we next found a white oak tree old Marked Just below the Hill then to a Tall black tree old marked then to a Monument of Stones at the foot of a Little Ledgy Hill in which had been Set a Stake which we Called the End of the Sixth Mile from the Old Rhoad then a Monument [III- 419.] In the Said Ledge Hill then over Rocky flatland we found a Small white marked & Renewed it, then Next we marked a black oak Staddle Just over a Small Brook then a Walnut Staddle then Next we found a white oak tree old marked Just by the Next Brook & Renewed it then we went up a Steep Hill and marked Several trees viz: a Chestnut a black oak and Some Small Staddles then over the said Hill being a woody Hill we marked Several Trees and Toward the South Side of it we came to a Monument upon a Rocky Ledge then to a black oak Staddle then next to a white oak then a Small Chestnut and finally to a Monument of Stones among Some Small Chestnut trees old marked faceing to- wards it Standing Round it to which monument we added and Laid a flatt Stone on the Top and Engraved on it the West End S. P. for Springfield and upon the East End B. R. for Brimfield and C on the South Side and P on the North Side which sd Monument being in or Near the Province Line we there Ended our Line of Preambulation on the Seventh day of May Anno: Dom: 1735 which said Preambulation and Renewall of the Said Line was began and Ended with the as- sistance and in the Presence of Parties Sent from both Said Towns, and by their Request to me
Stewart Southgate, Surveyor.
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Whereas we James Warriner Jun' and Ebenezer Hitch- cock being appointed by the Selectmen of the Town of Springfield and Eben' Graves [III-420.] And Nathal Hitchcock Selectmen of the Town of Brimfield after Legall warning Given and recd, We Met and began Preambulation of the Line or boundary between the Said Towns and hav- ing now Ended and Finished the Same according as it is De- scribed and Set forth by the Surveyors Return above written we do hereby Covenant Consent and agree on the Part and behalfe of our Respective Towns to Settle Establish and Con- firm the Same as a Line or boundary for Each Town accord- ing as it is Above Described Renewed & Set forth by Said Return of which we have herewith made Duplicates and Set to our hands this Seventh day of May Anno: Dom: 1735.
James Warriner 2ª Eben' Hitchcock his Eben' E Graves mark Nathanl Hitchcock
Att a Meeting at Springfield of the freeholders and other Inhabitants of Said Town Duly Quallified & Regularly as- sembled May 15th 1735 Voted that the aforegoing Line De- scribed in the Return as aforesaid be the Dividing Line be- tween Springfield and Brimfield Provided the Town of Brim- field Come into a vote of the Like Tenour and that the sd Re- turn be Recorded in Springfield Town Records with this vote.
Att Wm Pynchon Jun' Cler of sd Town of Springfield Entered from the Original accordingly and Exad
Pr Wm Pynchon Jun' Cler of ye Town of Springfield. [III-421.]
Att a Meeting at Springfield of the freeholders and Other Inhabitants of the Town of sd Springfield Duly Quallified and Regularly assembled for the Choice of a Representative to Represent the sd Town at the Gen1 Court May 15th 1735.
The Selectmen having the Directions of ye Meeting Di-
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rected the freeholders and other Quallified Inhabitants to bring in their votes for Some Suitable Person to Serve for And to Represent the sd Town at the Great and General Court to be holden at Boston on the Last Wednesday of May Instant Pursuant to the Sherriffs Precept to them Directd who after having Recd the votes and Sortd them Declar'd that Wm Pynchon Jun' Esq" was Chosen by a Great Majority and then Dismissed the Meeting.
[III-424.]
Att a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Springfield duly Quallified and Regularly Assembled at Springfield the 10th day of November Anno: Dom: 1735. To Make all Such Grants of money to all Per- sons to whom the Town is Indebted, and to Order the Pay- ment of the Same, And to Pass all Such votes as Shall be agreed on for Raising and Assisting all Such Sum or Sums on the Inhabitants of Said Town for the Defreying the Debts and Charges in Said Town, also to accept the Report of the Committees appointed to adjust acctts with the Present Town Treasurer and Pass Proper votes thereon.
Wm Pynchon Esq' Chosen Moderatour.
Granted to John Worthenton for one Quire of Paper Two Shillings and Eight Pence.
Granted to John Chapin for the use of his Bull this year forty shillings.
Granted to Ebenezer Warriner for the use of his Bull this year forty Shillings.
Granted to Joseph Ely Sen' for the use of his Bull this year forty Shillings
Granted to Jonathan Chapin and John Chapin Jun' five Shillings Each of them for one day Each Preambulating.
Granted to Capt Isaac Colton for one day Preambulation and Expenses Eight Shillings and Six Pence.
[III-423.]
Granted to Saml Keep Jun' for one day Preambulating Six Shillings.
Granted for the Support of a Grammar School the Sum of Fifty five Pounds.
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Granted for the Support of a School on the West Side of the Great River Thirty Pounds.
Granted for the Support of a School at Longmeadow twenty three Pounds.
Granted to the Inhabitants of the upper Chiccupee for Schooling and to be Paid as it becomes due for that End, to Jonathan Chapin the Sum of Five Pounds.
Granted to the Inhabitants of the Lower Chiccuppee the Sum of Three Pounds and to be Paid as it becomes due to Benjamin Chapin for Supporting a School There.
Granted to the Inhabitants Southward of Agawam River for Support of Schooling the Sum of twelve Pounds, and the Present Comtee for the Precinct on the West Side of the Great River are Hereby Desired to take the Inspection and Regulation of the School there for the best advantage of the Inhabitants as near as may be, and that the Same Sum be paid as it becomes due for that End, to Saml Mirick.
Granted to Sarah Horton for keeping School formerly at Skipmugg the Sum of forty Shillings and that the Same be Paid to Thomas Horton for her use.
[III-424.]
Granted to the Inhabitants at the Place called Ireland for Supporting a School there the Sum of four pounds and that the Same be Paid to Joseph Ely Sent as it becomes due for that End. and that all Grants of money made them heretofore for that End be void.
Granted to the Inhabitants of Skipmuck the Three Pounds Granted them last year for Schooling there and that the Same be paid to Thomas Horton as the Selectmen Shall Or- der.
Granted to Christian Vanhorne for the use of his Bull this year the Sum of twenty Shillings.
Granted to Benjamin Stebbins for the use of his Bull this year forty shillings.
Granted for supporting a School from Luke Hitchcock 2d to Ebenez. Hitchcocks Inclusive four Pounds and to be Paid as it becomes due to Luke Hitchcock aforesd Also Granted
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for the Supporting a School from Deac" Henry Burts to John Hancocks Inclusive the Sum of four pounds and to be Paid as it becomes due for that End to John Burt.
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