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Elizabeth, b. August 18, 1682, d. June 17, 1683.
John, b. April 21, 1685, d. May II, 1685.
Elizabeth, b. May 22, 1687, m. Ebenezer Dewey of Leb- anon.
ABEL WRIGHT, JR.
Abel Wright, Jr., son of Abel and Martha, married Re- becca Terry, daughter of Samuel and Ann, September 6, 1691. He went to Lebanon, Conn., and died there June 2, 1745. His four children as given below were born here. He went to Lebanon, Conn., and died there June 2, 1745. He had nine more born in Lebanon :-
Rebecca, b. September 7, 1692.
Samuel, b. July 4, 1694, d. July 20, 1694. Abel, b. August 24, 1695. Samuel, b. December 2, 1698.
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THE FIRST CENTURY OF SPRINGFIELD.
BENJAMIN WRIGHT.
Benjamin Wright, son of Abel and Martha, m. Mary Cha- pin, January 24, 1695. He died December 25, 1704. His widow, Mary, died January 13, 1708. She was probably the daughter of Henry Chapin. Their children were :-
Benjamin, b. May 22, 1696, m. Mary Miller.
Henry, b. May 19, 1700, m. Elizabeth Brooks.
Mary, b. May 1, 1705, Posth., m. Samuel Lamb.
HENRY WRIGHT.
Henry Wright, son of Abel and Martha, married Hannah Bliss, daughter of John and Patience, May 24, 1705. His son, Henry, and his wife were captured July 27, 1708, by the Indians. Henry died from wounds on that day, and his wife was killed later. He married second, Sarah Root, daughter of Thomas and Mary of Westfield, March 15, 171I. He went to Lebanon, afterward came here and died in 1768, aged 91. Children by his first wife were :-
Hannah, b. May 18, 1706.
Henry, b. January 9, 1708, d. from wound received from Indians, July 27, 1708.
Children by Second Wife.
Moses, b. 1713, m. Abigail Bliss.
Stephen, b. July 13, 1716, m. Mirriam Sikes.
Caleb, b. May 17, 1718, was living in Springfield in 1773. Elisha, b. March 13, 1720, m. Abigail Morgan.
Son, s. b. January 2, 1722.
Sarah, b. January 15, 1723, m. Azariah Van Horn.
Deborah, b. - , m. Thomas Ellingwood or James Warri- ner.
JOSEPH WRIGHT.
Joseph Wright, son of Abel and Martha, married Sarah Osborn, December 29, 1687. Was at Kingsfield in 1733- He died June 14, 1736. His children were :-
Mindwell, b. September 24, 1688, d. -.
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL.
Joseph, b. October 14, 1690, m. Merriam Merrick.
Sarah, b. November 26, 1692, m. Hezekiah Porter.
Benjamin, b. November 11, 1694, killed by Indians, 1712. Mindwell, b. June 15, 1698, m. Jonathan Old, or Thom- son.
Mary, b. September 24, 1702, m. John Burt.
Rachael, b. December 4, 1706, m. James Dorchester, 3d.
DEA. SAMUEL WRIGHT.
Dea. Samuel Wright was in Springfield in 1641. Went to Northampton in 1656, and died there October 17, 1665. His wife, Margaret, died in 1781. He served on various committees concerning town affairs and with others conduct- ed religious services in absence of the minister. Their chil- dren were :-
Hannah, b. - , m. Thomas Stebbins. She may possibly have been a sister of Samuel and not a daughter.
Benjamin, b. - , 1627, d. October 24, 1704.
Samuel, b. October 3, 1654, in Springfield, m. Elizabeth Burt.
James, b. - , m. Abigail Jess.
Judah, b. in Springfield, May 10, 1642, m. Mercy Burt.
Mary, -.
Margaret, b. - , m. Thomas Bancroft.
Esther, b. - , m. Samuel Marshfield.
Lydia, b. - , m. Lawrence Bliss, John Norton, John Lamb and Quartermaster George Colton.
Helped, b. September 15, 1644, in Springfield.
SAMUEL WRIGHT, JR.
Samuel Wright, Jr., married Elizabeth Burt, daughter of Henry and Eulalia, November 24, 1653. They removed to Northampton and he was killed by the Indians in 1675. His widow married Nathaniel Dickinson. Their children were: Joseph, b. - , 1657, m. Ruth Sheldon.
Benjamin, b. - , m. Thankful Taylor and Mary Barker.
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THE FIRST CENTURY OF SPRINGFIELD.
Ebenezer, b. - , 1663, m. Hannah Hunt.
Elizabeth, b. - , 1666.
Eleazer, b. - , 1668, m. Mary Pardee.
Hannah, b. - , 1671.
Benoni, b. - , 1675.
JOSEPH YOUNGLOVE.
Joseph Younglove, son of John, married Anna Terry daughter of Thomas and Mary, February 1, 1711. He had five children born here, two or three at Suffield, and two more at Simsbury, Conn. Those born here were :-
Joseph, b. November 2, 17II.
Sarah, b. May 19, 1713, d. November 8, 1713.
Issiah, b. April 8, 1716.
Anna, b. November 2, 1717.
Aaron, b. September 6, 1718.
CHANGES AND CORRECTIONS.
On page 153, the date of 1662, in the indenture of John Mathews' child should be 1682.
Page 256, beginning of IIth line, should read Mill River.
Page 307, 14th line from bottom, should read Edward Stebbins, instead of Edward Horton.
Page 349, James Warriner, should read James Warriner, Jr., fence viewer.
Page 535, 12th line from bottom, Hezekiah Diggeson was intended for Hezekiah Dickinson. Fifth line from bottom, James Barber should read James Barker.
Page 266, Joseph Woliston should read Joseph Williston.
Page 370, Doctor Auralt as written by the Town Clerk, should read Ayrault.
Page 377, third line from bottom, should read Samuel Bliss for Saml Blass.
Pages 404 and 414, wherever the name of Barcelett or Barclet appears, the name of Bartlett was intended.
Page 433, IIth line from top, Ebenczer Cool should read Ebenezer Cook.
Page 456, Ioth line from top, second name, should read Samuel Day.
Page 470, the name of Widow Jeremiah Colton, should read Widow Jehannah Colton.
On various pages where the Town Clerk wrote Malleford, Mallefield, Mashifield, or Massefeld, he had reference to John Mallefuild.
INDEX TO TOPICS.
Abatement of £50 on the rate of Bounds between Springfield and
£24,000 of the Public Bank, 335.
About removing the schoolhouse, 145. Absentees from Town-meeting to be fined, 51.
Accounts about building the new meeting-house, 157-163.
Accounts against the town to be pre- sented before Town-meeting, 348. Acts of the Selectmen confirmed when a majority were not freemen, 137. Addition voted to Mr. Glover's sti- pend, 140.
Allowance for killing "cattamounts" within the town bounds, 348.
All lands to be bounded, 57.
All grants of land to be to every indi- vidual, heirs and assignes forever, 169.
Allowance for dieting James Osborn, 387.
Appropriation of lands for support of schools, 344.
Arrears of rates to Mr. Glover to be collected, 150.
At Town-meeting January 6, 1724, voted that the report of the commit- tee on building the Court House be accepted, 425.
A petition to be sent to the General Court concerning line between Springfield and Enfield, 403.
At Town-meeting May 8, 1724, voted to assess the inhabitants £47 IOS IId to defray cost and charges of the Court House. 427.
At Town-meeting December 2, 1726, Committee appointed to settle differ- voted to enlarge the seat for the Judges to sit on in the Court House, 431.
A ferry to be established at the mouth of Agawam River, 439.
Autographs of 72 early settlers, 29, 30, 31, 32.
Bills of Credit, 48.
Bills of credit to be let out at £5 on the hundred, 416.
Benjamin Cooley to save the town harmless by reason of a drain, 164. Bell to be rung at 9 o'clock, 193.
Benjamin Colton to keep school on the west side, 388.
Northampton agreed upon, 182-186. Bounds between Springfield and Had- ley established, 180-182.
Bounds between Springfield and Westfield established, 103.
Boxing turpentine trees to be regulat- ed, 376.
Bridge to be made over Mill River, 359.
Brush to be cleared from the high- ways, 144.
Cattle to be marked, 62.
Cattle not to be allowed in any corn- field after the Ioth of March, 145.
Children between five and ten years to be sent to school, 205.
Complaint made concerning encroach- ments on the highway, 371. Commemorating immigrant ances- tors, 24.
Committee appointed September 10, 1722, concerning building the Court House, that some part of the inward commons be sold to meet the ex- pense, 421.
Committee chosen in reference to min- istry lands, 362.
Committee chosen to obtain rights be- longing to James Osborn, 394.
Committee chosen concerning the bounds between Springfield and Northampton, 397.
Committee to treat with Mr. Brewer for settlement of the ministry lands, 358.
ences between Nathaniel Prichard and John Harmon about boundary line, 195.
Committee sent to the Bay to procure a minister, 330.
Committee to run town bounds report the work finished, 174-179.
Committee chosen to treat with Mr. Glover in regard to the General Court's answer, 149.
Committee of five chosen to make valuation of the town's lands, 149 . Committee concerning Mr. Glover's house to be paid 50s, 155.
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INDEX TO TOPICS.
Committee to run dividing line east- Deed from Mr. Glover concerning the ward, appointed, 164. ministry lands, 351.
Committee chosen to seat persons in Deputy to General Court instructed to the meeting-house, 72.
Committee chosen to consider high- way west side of the river 125.
Committee chosen to build a house for the ministry, 127.
Committee appointed to lay out lands at Westfield for a town, 107.
Committee chosen to finish Mr. Glo- ver's house, 112.
Conditions concerning grants for set- ting up iron works, 347.
Condition of the meeting-house to be Early
inspected, 363.
Concerning keeping a ferry over Con- - Establishing bounds of Springfield, 17I.
necticut River, 166.
Concerning hanging the bell, 173.
Concerning the highway over the mid- dle causeway, 194.
Concerning fires about fences in the fields, 154.
Concerning the length of keeping the grammar schools, 357.
Concerning ministry lands wanted by inhabitants on the west side of the river, 362.
Concerning needy condition of Philip Reed's wife, 378.
Concerning fortifying the town, 381. Concerning pay of the schoolmasters.
Thomas Tousey, John Sherman, and Samuel Ely, 385, 386.
Concerning the line between Spring- field and Brimfield, 418.
Concerning building a meeting-house, First Court House-when built, 34.
120, 122.
Concerning order for collecting mon- ey for purchase of the lands of the Four men chosen to defend at County town, 138.
Concerning highways, 68-70.
Concerning the highway damaged by Hadley men, 125.
Concerning rates paid for grants of Flax or hemp not to be washed in land at Freshwater Brook, 142.
Concerning Mr. Glover's house and General Court's decision concerning lands, 78.
Concerning
making
Woronoco
a
town, 100.
Concerning the town's powder dis- tributed to individuals, 142.
David Morgan paid 40s overplus mon- ey and was forgiven, 148.
Due for transporting corn from Hart- ford to Boston, 148.
Differences concerning bounds be- tween Westfield and Suffield to be Grants to Quartermaster Colton and composed, 194. Ensign Cooley forfeited, 152.
Desired to be freed from keeping a grammar school, 350.
get settlement for expenses of the Falls Fight, 131.
Divers young men given leave to cart clay on the west side, 383.
Early buildings in Springfield, 33.
Entertainment of the schoolmaster-
price of instructing the children, 131. Daniel Denton's allowance for teach- ing school, 140.
Each householder to keep three sheep, I44. mentioned places-Indian names, 46.
Expenses of transporting Philip Reed's wife assessed on the inhabi- tants, 381.
Every person neglecting to send a load of wood to the schoolhouse be- tween October and March to have four shillings added to his rate, 404. Elizur Holyoke's unfinished report of Town-meeting, 126.
East side inhabitants ordered to raise £50. towards building a meeting- house on the west side, 365.
Expense of administration of the es- tate of John Mallefuid, 43.
Ferry at the upper wharf let out for five years to Jolin Huggins, 432.
Fines of Japhet Chapin and John Hitchcock abated, 342.
Four shillings to be paid for killing bears, 193.
Court matter about highway on west side of the river. 146.
Four pounds to be paid the Deputy at each session, 106.
Town Brook, 60. 1 Mr. Glover's house, 73.
Grant to Richard Everett, his lot fell into town's hands, 518.
Granted to Henry Rogers and Fran- cis Ball a suitable reward for bring- ing from Middletown a tombstone for Mr. Mallefuid's grave, 455.
Grant of lands from 1665, 214-325.
Gershom Ferry's fine for disorder at Town-meeting abated, 389.
Grant of land to Daniel Denton for- feited, 152.
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INDEX TO TOPICS.
General Court to be asked to consider Illustrations .- John Pynchon's house, the town's poverty relative to the Country rates, 166. ..
Hadley to be notified to help maintain Longmeadow bridge, 106.
Handwritings .- Of Henry Smith, first Town Clerk, II. Signatures of first 8 Settlers, 12. Of Henry Smith showing the begin- ning of the Town's · Name, 12.
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Of William Pynchon, 13. Of Henry Burt, 14. Of Lieut. Thomas Cooper, 15.
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Of John Pynchon, 16. Of Henry Burt, 17. Of Elizur Holyoke, 18.
Of Elizur Holyoke and John Pynchon, showing Holyoke's last work, 20.
66 Of John Pynchon,
"God having taken away Capt. Hol-
yoke," 21.
Of Deacon Chapin- Deed of land to his son, Japhet,-facing 22.
66 Of Deacon Chapin,- an agreement for sale of the Mill, 23.
Highway to Windsor to be main- tained, 68.
Headstone at Captain Terry's grave, 45.
Highway over Mill River into the pine plain, 109.
Highway back side of Longmeadow, 109.
Highways to be cleared of incum- brances, 365.
Illustrations .- First Court House, 7. Parish Church, Spring- field, Eng., William Pynchon. Warden, in 1624, 8.
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66 Interior of Parish Church, Spring- field, England, 9. Statue of The Puritan, a Memorial to Dea- con Samuel Cha- pin, 25.
66 Statue to Miles Mor- gan, 27.
33. Headstone to Captain Samuel Terry, 45.
Portrait of William Pynchon, 622.
.. Springfield, England, Church, as Seen from the Rectory, 622.
Indians not to improve any land with- out consent of the town, 189.
Invitation to Mr. Haines renewed, voted to give him $70, 212.
Invitation to Mr. Haynes to be a set- tled minister, 207.
Inability to pay rates in money, 170. It was voted that the schoolhouse be located on the lane to the upper wharf, 141.
John Sherman invited to be the schoolmaster-his pay to be in pease, rye, Indian corn and barley, 383.
John Sherman to continue as gram- mar schoolmaster, 387.
John Sherman asked to be released from teaching school. Voted in the negative, 400.
John Mathews' child indentured to Samuel Terry, 152.
John Richards to teach the town's children, 163.
John Mallefuild's money and goods left to the town let out to Thomas Ingersol for one year, 389.
John Mallefuild's tombstone-inven- tory of his estate, 37-42.
John Pynchon's house-date of build- ing doubted, 33.
John Pynchon's sons' schooling at Cambridge, 46.
Jonathan Burt's account of the burn- ing of Springfield, 516.
Joseph Parsons to be sent to the Gov- ernor concerning calling away the inhabitants to keep garrison in other towns, 381.
Lands to be recorded, 57.
Land given to Mr. Glover as due compensation for ministry house and lands, 156.
Lieut. Stebbins to get in the town's powder, 149.
Lands granted at Woronoco, 98.
Land from Pecowsic to Enfield and eastward into the woods given to Longmeadow inhabitants, 364.
Land in Chicopee field to be let out, 384
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INDEX TO TOPICS.
Liberty granted to erect a horse New highway on the west side, 144. house at the southwest end of the New bridge to be built over Long- meeting-house, 436. meadow Brook, 144.
Liberty granted to set up an iron mill, Mr. Glover given possession of lands 346.
Liberty to fish in Agawam and Chic- opee rivers, 174.
Luke Hitchcock added to the com- mittee concerning the ministry lands, 363.
Line between Springfield and Brim- field renewed, 502.
Lands not to be granted the day de- sired, 75.
Land granted for a sawmill, 118.
Land granted for a tanner to set up his trade, 120.
Lands not recorded to pay a penalty, 124.
Land granted by Stebbins on which to set the meeting-house, 129.
Land exchanged with Thomas Steb- bins for location of new meeting- house, 130.
Liberty of fishing at Chicopee, 131. List of admitted inhabitants, 77.
Longmeadow inhabitants renewed their request for a minister, 369.
Longmeadow Brook to be the bounds
between Springfield and Freshwater River, 147.
Longmeadow wants a schoolmaster, No person allowed to vote unless ad- 333.
Longmeadow's petition for a minister not accepted for the present, 370.
Longmeadow inhabitants petition for liberty to move to higher ground, 360, 361.
Longmeadow inhabitants given liber- ty to build upon the hill, 364.
Longmeadow inhabitants have liberty to get a schoolmaster. 373.
Longmeadow inhabitants behind on highway work, 197.
Longmeadow presented a petition to procure an orthodox minister, 367.
Moderator to be chosen at Town-Order to raise money for killing meetings, 52.
Mr. Glover proposed to leave, 10I.
Mr. Glover desired to remain in the ministerial work, 102.
Minister's cushion to be repaired, 193. Mr. Glover's claim in reference to ministry house and land to be re- ferred to the General Court, 147.
Mr. Holyoke, Deacon Burt and Sam- uel Marshfield to draw up an address to the General Court, 147.
Names mentioned in valuation list of 1685, 47.
at Chicopee, delivery by twig, 210.
Mr. Haines said it was best for him to be gone. Town dissatisfied with his answer, 329.
More time to collect the country rate, 335.
More than one not to be allowed to speak at a time in Town-meeting, 339.
Money granted for support of needy poor, and ten pounds for killing wolves, 401.
Money bequeathed to the poor of Springfield by a Frenchman, 36.
Nathaniel Munn given 20 shillings for waiting on Mr. Brewer to Boston, Names of those having liberty of vot- ing in town affairs, 115.
Names of those furnishing logs to for- tify the meeting-house, 136.
New meeting-house fortified, the work to be paid by rate, 140.
New Town Book for the Records, 49. No person to have grants of land on the same day as propounded, 140.
No lot to be sold without liberty from Selectmen, 55.
mitted to the town by the Select- men, 72.
Objections of inhabitants on the east side to be presented to General Court by Luke Hitchcock.
Objections of inhabitants on the west side to be considered by a commit- tee about settling a minister on the west side, 345.
Ordered that a house be built for Mr. Glover, 126.
Order concerning householders who have no sheep to pay the shepherd repealed, 151.
wolves repealed, 193.
Owners of swine to be fined if their swine is not rung, 61.
Owners of lots ordered to establish boundaries, 133.
Parents to pay three pence per week to maintain a grammar school, 74. Payment of the schoolmaster submit- ted to the Justices who decided that such charges be raised the same as other town charges, 375.
Pelatiah Glover desired the town to sign a deed of Chicopee lands, 342.
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INDEX TO TOPICS.
Pelatiah Glover discoursed with again School land to be let out by the Se- lectmen, 388.
concerning settlement of the minis- try lands, 207.
Pelatiah Glover asked Selectmen to sign a deed, it not being according to agreement, 33I.
Pelatiah Glover complained that there are many years arrears to his fath- er. Wants help to get them paid, 333.
Pelatiah wants more money in settle- nient of his father's claims, 343.
Persons encroaching upon the high- ways to be prosecuted, 355.'
Persons cutting pine trees and gath- ering turpentine contrary to law to be prosecuted, 359.
Persons sending children to school in winter to provide one load of wood to each scholar, 381.
Power given to Major Pynchon and lot for Mr. Glover, 150.
Deacon Burt to purchase house and Selectmen ordered to take care of John Mathews' child, 148.
Place for the country ferry to be at Selectmen's appraisement of lands ac- John Dorchester's, 167. cepted, 151.
Privilege of fishing in Chicopee River Selectmen to contract no bargain over granted, 190.
Precincts established, 399.
Repairs to be made on the meeting- house, 404.
Relating to Ensigne John Miller's broken legged mare, 44I.
Regulating the getting of turpentine, 379.
Relative to moving the schoolhouse, 420.
Repairs on the Longmeadow bridge, 173.
Report of the Committee concerning laying out Westfield, 108.
Relative to encroachments of the town of Suffield on Springfield, 493. Rev. Mr. Brewer to accept of £go in money instead of grain, 401.
402.
Right to fish in Chicopee. River grant- ed, 354.
Running line for town bounds, 190, I9I.
Salmon not to be sold for more than a sixpence apiece at the fishing place, and not over 8 pence in the town, 13I.
Sawmill logs not to be carried out of the town, 389.
Samuel Ely, Constable, given £1 17S of the overplus money, 149.
Schoolmaster's dues to be raised on rates and on the scholars, 373.
Shad to be sold not more than half pence at the fishing place, and not over one penny at the town, 131. Seat money to be collected, 338.
Selectmen to be chosen by papers, 52. Selectmen to clear their accounts yearly, 53.
Selectmen's accounts, 53.
Selectmen's dinners to be paid by the town, 105.
Selectmen and Deacons to seat per- sons in the meeting-house, 72.
Selectmen to meet next Monday af- ter election, 50.
Strangers not to be admitted without consent from Selectmen, 55.
Selectmen and the committee to have full power to set up the house for the ministry, 132.
£20 for the inhabitants to pay by rate, 171.
Schoolmaster invited to continue- parents to be enjoined to send their children, 173.
Schoolmaster to be agreed with on the best terms, 194.
Selectmen instructed to use diligent care to get a schoolmaster, 200.
Selectmen instructed to get a good smith, 203.
Selectmen and Deacons instructed to seat persons in the meeting-house, 204.
Selectmen instructed to assist Peter Swink in his suffering condition, 208.
Selectmen to declare vote of the town to Mr. Haines. He did not see it in his way to continue, 330.
Selectmen's accounts to be presented to the town Treasurer five days be- fore the annual meeting, 339.
Sale of the ministry land under act of Selectmen to demand payment of par- the General Court, 48.
ents sending children to school, 375. Selectmen to look after trespassers against the order about boxing tur- pentine trees, 377.
Selectmen instructed to provide bulls for the town's use, 395.
Settling bounds between Woronoco and Springfield, 99.
Seven shillings granted to William Warriner for load of stones at Mr. Mallefuid's grave, 452.
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INDEX TO TOPICS.
Strangers not to be permitted to make Three men chosen to inquire after the
turpentine without consent of the Selectmen, 354.
Strangers and improper inhabitants not permitted to box any trees for turpentine, 357.
Six shillings granted to the west side for their minister's rate, 398.
Skipmuck Indians behind on high- way work, 197.
Surveyor to be chosen in regard to highway over Mill river, 143.
Ten pounds voted for relief of the Town borrowed 18 shillings in cash to
poor, 365.
Those refusing to serve when chosen to office to be fined, 54.
To be fined for taking any man's ca- noe without leave, 59.
To petition about setting the bounds between Springfield and Hadley and Springfield and Northampton, 166. The new meeting-house to stand on the hill in Serj. Stebbins' lot, 126.
The committee for the meeting-house to finish the whole work, 128.
The new meeting-house to be forti- fied, 136.
The lands on which purchase money is to be raised, 139.
The question of building a boat for conveying inhabitants on the west side of the Connecticut to public worship, referred to a committee, 141.
The watch house to the new meeting- house to serve as a schoolhouse, 138. Timber granted for use of sawmill to be built at Schonunganuck Falls, I38.
The Constable to be secured from damage by reason of taking grain instead of money, 147.
The King's Declaration read in Town- meeting, 167.
The ferryman to have liberty to sell drink and be freed from military training, 167.
The new house to be set on Mr. Glo- Two persons to be chosen at a meet- ver's lot, 133.
The house and land bought of Mr. Moxon could not be given to Mr. Glover, 133.
The town having paid the Country tax in corn an addition was voted to pay freight to Boston, 200.
The town voted to stand by the Treas- urer for detention of four barrels of turpentine owned by Judah Wright, Two persons to be chosen to examine 359.
Those receiving grants to pay pur- chase money, 139.
overplus money in hands of the Constables, 146.
Three days' warning to be given for · Town-meetings, 51.
Town granted the pine ledge at Chic- opee relative to fishing, 370.
Town voted to pay Judah Wright for detaining four barrels of turpentine, 367.
Town-meeting day changed from February to May, 196.
enable the Deputy to bear his charg- es at Boston, 199.
To be fined Ios if a true account of cattle not returned to the assessors, 167.
Town bounds to be laid out speedily, 169.
Town purchased Edward Stebbins' house for a schoolhouse, 186-187.
Town voted to add one-third to the payment of the money rate, 202.
Town-meeting called to settle with Pelatialı Glover concerning house and lands that were given to his father, 205-207.
Town chose a committee to settle dif- ferences with Pelatiah Glover.
Town voted to pay Pelatiah Glover £350 about ministry house and lands, 208.
Town voted thanks to the arbitrators in settling the differences between the town and Mr. Glover, 208.
Town-meeting called to make assess- ment to pay Mr. Glover, 209.
Town-meeting first Tuesday in Feb- ruary, 49.
Town-meeting to begin at 9 o'clock, 50.
Town Clerk to be chosen annually, 54. Town voted to give Mr. Glover lands. bought of Mr. Moxon, 81.
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