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20. Joseph Baxter, .
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Samuel Smith,
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21. Joseph Wight, .
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Wm. Partridge,
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22. Henry Adams, .
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63. JOHN ADAMS, Ed ; son,
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64. Joseph Allen, Sen.,
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24. JASPER ADAMS, 5
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65. Joseph Adams,
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25. EBENEZER DANIELL, 3 5
66. John Thurston, Jr.,
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67. John Dwight,
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27. Daniel Thurston, .
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68. Elisha Bullen,
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Eleazar Leland,
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29. John Fisher, Sen.,
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70. Heirs John Barber,
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30. Samuel Wight, Sen.,
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72. Heirs Jos. Plimpton,
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32. John Pratt, . 5
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Timothy Hamant,
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33. Ephraim Wight, Sen.,
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JONATHAN ADAMS, JR., 5
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Jonathan Boyden, Jr.,
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76. Henry Smith,
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36. Henry Harding, John Plimpton,
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William Allen,
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38. Noah Clark,
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79. SAMUEL HILL, .
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39. Nathaniel Clark,
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80. Jonathan Plimpton,
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40. Benjamin Clark,
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81. John Bowers,
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JONATHAN ADAMS, SEN., . 3
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55. JOSEPH DANIELL, JR.,
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NO. NAMES,
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83. John Metcalf,
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104. Joseph Cheney,
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84. John Fisher, min.,
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JOHN RICHARDSON,
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6 106. Jeremiah Morse, Sen.,
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Jos. Plimpton,
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108. Henry Adams, Jr.,
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89. John Ad. Pet. Son.,
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Zechariah Partridge,
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Joseph Morse, .
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John Turner, Sen.,
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91. Jeremiah Morse,
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92. Ebenezer Mason,
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Nath'l Partridge,
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Abigail Smith, .
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Eleazar Ellis,
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Edward Adams,
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JOHN ELLIS, .
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Samuel Wight, Jr.,
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Nathaniel Allen, Sen.
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Samuel Morse, .
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Return Johnson,
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Bethshuer Fisk,
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Eleazar Partridge,
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Matthias Evans, heirs,
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HENRY GUERNSY,
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PETER ADAMS,
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Zachary Barber,
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Nath'l Lovell, .
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123. JOHN CLARK,
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Samuel Barber,
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The largest of these lots was that of Abraham Harding, containing twenty-three acres. The smallest was that of Henry Adams, Jr., son of Edward Adams, whose lot was four feet wide, and about two hundred and fifty rods long, containing sixty-five square rods of land.
The names of dwellers on the west side of Charles River at this date are indicated in the above list in small capitals. Ten new families had been added to the population since 1693.
EDUCATION IN THE EARLY TIMES.
In 1678 some of the inhabitants of Medfield contributed towards the " new college in Cambridge." Among the contributors were George Fair- banks, Jr., who gave one shilling and one bushel of Indian corn, and Joseph Daniell, who gave two shillings sixpence and two bushels of corn. Nich- olas Rockwood, who was afterwards on the west side of the river, was also a contributor. He had been burned out in the Indian war. It seems that the subscription was made before the destruction of Medfield, though the col- lection was not made till afterwards, and in some cases the sums promised were not required on account of the losses of the subscribers.
This is the first mention made, showing an interest in education by the people on the west side of the Charles River.
It was not, however, until 1698 that any systematic effort was made to educate the children. One is, very naturally, curious to know how the chil- dren were taught during the forty years that had intervened since the first settlement was made. The old deeds show that some could not write, while the old records leave no doubt that the art of composition was but little understood. The instruction must have been very scanty, confined to the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic. This year, twelve pounds and ten shillings were raised for schooling the children in the town, fifty
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6 107. John Adams, miller, .
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John Bullard,
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shillings of which was to be expended on the west side of the river. Two years after, three pounds was raised for the same purpose, and the selectmen " agreed with Sergt. Joseph Danill to take care of the schooling." What is meant by taking care of the schooling is not quite clear. It probably meant providing a school-room and teaching the school, for under date of March 19, 1700, Sergt. Joseph Daniell was paid for teaching school in the year 1699.
The next record regarding this subject is as follows : " Feb. 21, 1700 payd unto peter Adams for his wives keeping school on that side of the River it being the full of his Due 2-9-11." It thus appears that in those early days, husbands received their wives' wages, and that ladies, long before the days of modern reform, were sufficiently educated to teach school, and were sometimes employed for that purpose. Mrs. Adams was the FIRST FEMALE TEACHER whose name has come down to us. She was already the mother of seven children, the oldest a daughter of twenty years, the youngest hardly two years of age. Her maiden name was Experience Cook.
September 13, 1704, "The town voted that the schools be kept on both sides the river proportionally to the charges of the inhabitants on either side. The inhabitants on the west side to provide a convenient room for a school this year for such time as shall be needful." No school-house had yet been built and the above vote, evidently, only contemplated hiring a room. Mrs. Adams had, before this, gathered the children into one of those large old- fashioned kitchens, perhaps in her own house.
Again, March 29, 1710, John Partridge, Sen., was paid for keeping school on the west side one month, one pound twelve shillings. It is ap- parent that the school privileges of those days were very scanty, but the records are still more scanty.
THE NEW MEETING-HOUSE.
The first meeting-house in Medfield was built before there were any in- habitants on the west side of the river. In 1705 it was proposed to build a new one, for what reason we are not told. Perhaps the old one was too small to accommodate the increasing population or it had become dilapidated in its more than fifty years of service. There is no doubt there were good and sufficient reasons, as the circumstances of our fathers did not allow any ex- travagance for the gratification of taste. It was November 13, 1705, when the vote was passed to build. It appears that the people on the west side objected to being taxed to build a house of worship so far from home, and presented their claim for one themselves. This was not an unreasonable view to take of the matter.
At a town-meeting a few days afterward it was " Voted that the inhabitants on the west side the river shall have one-half the sum they pay towards build- ing the new meeting-house refunded, if they build a meeting-house on that side within twenty years." Subsequently, December 15, 1714, this promise was fulfilled, and twenty-two pounds and nine shillings refunded.
December 12, 1705, the town was again assembled, this time at the peti- tion and request of the families on the west side, but after much debate the meeting was broken up without acting anything. What was the nature of the request does not appear from the records ; we can only conjecture that
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the selfishness of human nature still objected to being taxed for a meeting- house so far away.
The meeting-house was built in 1706. It stood on the site of the first house, and remained till 1789. John Richardson and Henry Guernsey, carpenters from the west side, worked on the building, Joseph Daniell fur- nished shingles for which he was paid £12, 14s., 6d., and boards to the amount of 18s., 9d. And after it was completed he, with George Fairbanks, was placed upon an important committee, whose duty was no less than ap- pointing seats for the people according to their titles, station, and estates.
Before this, several offices had been held by the west side men. Samuel Daniell and Joseph Daniell had held the important office of tithing men ; and in 1693 George Fairbanks and Joseph Daniell were chosen selectmen, being the first that had been so honored west of the river.
But the people on this side of the river as they increased in numbers, were not accommodated by the new meeting-house. They were dissatisfied, and therefore petitioned the town for relief. As the petition was not re- corded it is now uncertain whether they asked for a division of the town or for a meeting-house of their own. At a town-meeting, May 7, 1712, it was voted that the petition be left for further consideration. Three weeks later, the town refused to grant the petition.
The petitioners were not to be silenced so easily. Obtaining no relief from the town, it appears they applied to the Legislature, July 12, 1712. The town chose Captain Jonathan Boyden, Lieutenants Samuel Morse, Nathaniel Partridge, Jonathan Plimpton, and Samuel Barber to give reasons to the Great and General Court why the petition of the inhabitants of the west side of Charles River should not be granted. This committee were prohib- . ited by vote of the same meeting from acting in any way for the division of the town.
The General Court recommended that the town raise money towards building another meeting-house on the west side of Charles River, and some other things, but the town was not willing to accept the recommendation, so, on the 9th of March, 1713, voted to petition the General Court, declaring their inability to build another meeting-house, and bear the charges attending it, and further voted to raise ten pounds to pay charges for promoting the petition, and to pay Mr. Paul Dudley three pounds to manage the town case.
Notwithstanding the opposition, a committee sent out by the Court to look over the ground, reported in favor of a division of the town ; accord- ingly, on the twenty-fifth day of October, 1713, a bill was passed by the General Court, for the incorporation of Medway, and it became a town.
THE TOWN AND ITS DOINGS.
1713-1885.
THE INCORPORATION.
THE incorporation of the town of Medway came about when a consider- able number of settlers had become permanently established as residents on the westerly side of the Charles River, to whom a meeting-house and a minister in their midst, became important. And to have these, a new town must be established. In those days it was, primarily, that the inhabitants of any locality might have a meeting-house and a "learned Orthodox minister" among them, that municipal powers were sought and granted. It was to make ready for the establishment of local Christian institutions, that the Great General Court was petitioned, and an act of incorporation passed, by which was established, in 1713, the town of Medway. Thus the state furnished a cradle to the early settlers of old Boggastow in which to rock the infant church ; and for years the town, by its recorded votes, its officers, and its appropriations, nourished the childhood of the Church of Christ growing up within its limits.
The Rev. Joseph Baxter, the second pastor of Medfield, was in the sev- enteenth year of his ministry, when those of his flock living beyond the river, became a town and parish by themselves.
Medway was incorporated October 25, 1713, in the twelfth year of the reign of Queen Anne, Hon. Joseph Dudley being Provincial Governor of Massachusetts. An attested copy of this Act of Incorporation, a yellow and time-stained document, is still preserved with the records of the town, and reads as follows :
ANNO REGNI ANNE REGINE DUODECIM.
An Act for Dividing the Township of Medfield and erecting a new Town there by the name of Medway.
Whereas the Lands of the Townfhip of Medfield within the County of Suffolk lye fituate on Charles River to wit on both fides of the faid River being divided by the fame and the town plat and principal fettlement, as alfo
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the meeting houfe for the Public Worfhip of God being feated on the Eaft fide for Accommodation of the firft and Ancient Inhabitants who are now much increafed many Iffued forth and fettled on the Weft fide of the River to a Competent number for a diftinct town of themfelves and labour under many hardfhips and Difficulties by reafon of Separation by the River to Enjoy Equal benefit and town privileges with others of their fellow townfmen and neighbors and have therefore made Application to the town as alfo addreffed this Court to be made a diftinct Town, Committees appointed by this Court having been upon the Ground viewed the land and reported in their favor for proper bounds to be fet them :
Be it Enacted by his Excellency the Governour, Council and Reprefenta- tives in General Court affembled and by the Authority of the Same That all those Lands Lying on the Weft Side of Charles River now part of the Town- fhip of Medfield be Erected and made into a Diftinct and Separate Town by the name of Medway the River to be the Bound betwixt the Two Towns And that the Inhabitants of Medway have, ufe, Exercife and Enjoy So that they procure and Settle a Learned Orthodox Minifter of good Converfation among 'em and make provifion for an Hon1 fupport and maintenance for him and that in Order thereto they be Difcharged from further payment to the Miniftry in Medfield from and after the laft day of February next ..
Provided alfo that all Province and Town Taxes that are already Levied or Granted be Collected and paid And all town Rights and Common un- divided Lands remain to be divided among the interefted as if no separation had been made And Mr. George Fairbanks a principal Inhabitant of the faid Town of Medway is hereby Directed and Impowered to Notify and Summon the Inhabitants duly Qualified for Voters to Affemble and meet together for the choofing of Town Officers to ftand until the next Annual Election Ac- cording to Law.
A true Copy-examined
ISA ADDINGTON, Secry
THE FOUNDERS OF THE TOWN.
DANIEL ADAMS,
TIMOTHY CLARK,
SAMUEL HILL, JUN.,
JASPER ADAMS,
EDWARD CLARK,
EPHRAIM HILL,
JOHN ADAMS,
JOSEPH CURTIS,
MICHAEL METCALF,
JONATHAN ADAMS, SEN.,
EBENEZER DANIELL,
SAMUEL METCALF,
JONATHAN ADAMS, JUN.,
JEREMIAH DANIELL,
BENONI PARTRIDGE,
JOSEPH ADAMS,
JOSEPH DANIELL, SEN.,
JOHN PARTRIDGE,
OBADIAH ADAMS,
JOSEPH DANIELL, JUN.,
ZACHARIAH PARTRIDGE,
PETER ADAMS,
SAMUEL DANIELL,
JONATHAN PARTRIDGE,
JAMES ALLEN,
JOHN ELLIS,
SAMUEL PARTRIDGE,
WILLIAM ALLEN, JOHN BARBER,
GEORGE FAIRBANKS,
DANIEL RICHARDSON, JOHN RICHARDSON,
JOSEPH BARBER,
HENRY GUERNSEY,
JOHN ROCKWOOD,
JOHN BULLARD,
ABRAHAM HARDING,
JOSIAH ROCKWOOD,
MALACHI BULLARD,
ABRAHAM HARDING, JUN.,
EBENEZER THOMPSON,
WILLIAM BURGESS,
JOHN HARDING,
THOMAS HARDING, SAMUEL HILL,
NATHANIEL WHITING, NATHANIEL WIGHT.
JOHN CLARK, THEOPHILUS CLARK,
JONATHAN FISHER,
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The names of the above, not found located on the accompanying map of 1713, were aged men residing with their sons, or young men who, as yet, had not left the paternal roof to establish homes for themselves, except in two instances, viz. : Ebenezer Thompson, at this period, resided "North- east of Black Swamp, near the road that runs on the line of swamp lots"; and Zachariah Partridge resided " on a road running east and west." Just where the localities thus described were, it is left for the reader to determine.
THE FIRST TOWN-MEETING.
In pursuance of the Act of Incorporation, a meeting of the new town was called, of which the following record appears :
" MEDWAY, November ye 23, 1713.
At a Town meeting of the inhabitants of this Town apointed by virtue of an order of the Generall Court to choose town officers to stand untill the next annuall ellection or choise which will be in March 1713.
Voted, John Rocket is chosen Town Clark and to be one of the select men allso Serj Sam" Partridge Jonathan Adams Jun. Serj Jonathan Adams and Edward Clark are chosen select men.
Voted, that Jonathan Fisher stands constabel for Medway till the next general meeting which be in March next ensuing.
Voted, That John Rockett and Jonathan Adams Jun. Sergt Samuell Partridge and Serj Jonathan Adams and edward Clark be a comittee to take care to procure the meeting house built." Vid. THE CHURCHES.
Voted, "that abraham harding sen' John partridge and Theophilus clark to procure and cary in a petition to the Town Clerk of Medfield in order to the procuring of accommodations for the setting of the metting hous upon the place commonly called bare hills, and some conven't acomodations for the ministry near ther abouts.
Voted, that John Rockett and Zechariah partridge are chosen to go down and Recon with the honnerable comity which the genneral court sent to vew ye ground and report bounds for the Town of Medway and the charges to be leved in a town tax."
At a subsequent meeting it was
" Voted -That all the Town charges that hath ben expended for the giting of, and erecting of a township on the west sid of Charls river and naming it by the name of Midway is all sunk and never to be brought to the town any more except to paye and make the comitie satisfaction for their time which is acording to repoart Three pound and Fifteen Shillings."
One hundred pounds were granted by the town for the work of build- ing a meeting-house, in addition to the amount due the town for its right in the Medfield meeting-house, which amounted to £22, 9s., 4d. The work was at once commenced, and the committee reported June 7th, that they had reckoned with the carpenter and made the first payment to him of thirty pounds.
The location of the meeting-house on Bare Hill was on the south side of the cemetery in East Medway. It was an elevated spot, and the meeting- house was a conspicuous object for miles around.
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MAP OF MEDWAY, MASS.,
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"October 15, 1714 The selectmen being present, finished the Town tax being drawn up into two lists, the one containing £61-8-o for Ebenezer Thomson consta- bel to collect and the other list containeth £15-12-8 for John Clark constabel to col- lect and have granted A warrant two them to colect and pay in the same to the select- men at or before the 15 of november next."
October 29 the town voted " that the buriing place should be upon bare hill sum- whare with in forty Rods of the meeting house and a commity was chose by the vote of the Town to joyn with the commity yt Medfield have chose to lay out the buriing place who are Cpt george fairbanks and Zackari Partridge and John Richardson."
As it was one of the conditions of the incorporation of the town that it should provide itself with a minister, this duty came up early for settlement. It was then a matter of far graver importance than now. The minister of those times was looked up to with great reverence. He stood almost alone among his people in learning and literary attainments ; his influence, if judi- ciously exercised, was almost unbounded. Hence, it was proper that great care should be exercised in the selection of one who was expected to remain during life in that relation ; and the fitness of the candidate was carefully con- sidered. All the people, whether church-goers or not, were obliged to con- tribute by their taxes to his support, and the receipts of the minister for the payment of his salary, were, from year to year, duly recorded. It appears that until about 1750, the civil and ecclesiastical history of the town were almost identical, and all matters relating to the settlement of a minister and his support, came before the inhabitants at the town-meeting, in the same way as highways, bridges, schools, and other town matters.
Accordingly, at a town-meeting January 31, 1715, it was proposed to invite the Rev. David Deming to settle here and "carry on the work of the ministry," at a salary of fifty-two pounds yearly.
The pastorate of Mr. Deming and those of his successors, are more fully considered elsewhere. I'id. THE CHURCHES.
THE FIRST ROAD laid out after the incorporation of the town was that cross- ing Stony Plain, and is so well described that it is easy to identify it. " June the 4th, 1715 The selectmen met at the house of Nathaniel Wight to lay out high wais for the benefit of this Town and for the Conveniency of trav- elers to pass from town to town as foloweth, begun in the Country Rhode that leds to Mendon near twenty rods east from Nat. Wights upon a straight line across part of the plain known by the name of Stony plain, and cross a swamp place comonly called pardice island, and by the south east side of Ebenezer Thompsons field on to bare hill, along at the south west end of the meeting house, to the laid out high way through the plain comonly known by the name of hills."
The first mention of schools in the doings of the town is as follows :
" Assembled the inhabitants of Medwy on My ye 13, 1717, to chuse a [deputy] and grant mony for the building of a pound and keeping of a scool. No choyse for a deputy but by ye vote of them that was then and thear Assembled Granted four pounds of money to be raised as and put into the ministers Rate for to build a pound and keep a Scool."
The town seems then to have entered fully upon its corporate existence ; a church had been erected, a minister settled, a school established, roads laid out, and a pound had been built. The officers of the town appear to have
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been nearly the same as now, viz. : a clerk, or book-keeper as he is sometimes called, five selectmen, two constables, two highway surveyors, one fence- viewer, two tithing men, a field driver, a deer reeve, one or two persons to see "that the law relating to swine be kept and observed," and a sealer of weights and measures.
March 2, 1719, " Voted that the pew next to ye pulpit should be for the ministers family to sit in," also "voted that there should be a pair of case- ments provided by the selectmen at the Town cost against the middel pew, them not to exceed four foot of glas." In 1725 the town voted that no person should " fall or cutt Down any young tree or shrub " within twenty rods of the meeting-house under penalty of ten shillings, to be paid for the use of the town. March 7, 1726, " At ye Request of Lieut. Bullard and Sergt. Samuel Hill for liberty to Erect a smal Building for their particular use and Conveniency near the meeting house," the town voted " in Answer to this Request of ye afore named Bullard and Hill that they should have lib- erty to erect the said smal building provided they set ye said building not within Seven Rods. of ye sd Meeting House." This was a noon-house, such as were common in the vicinity of meeting-houses, where the wor- shipers could spend the time comfortably between the services in cold weather, as in those days the churches were not warmed. It required more endurance than worshipers of the present day possess, to sit out, in a freezing church, the long doctrinal discourses so highly prized by our forefathers.
THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE to the Provincial Court, Jonathan Adams, was chosen in 1726. There had been several meetings previously called for that purpose but the voters had not thought it best to send, as the record of a meeting, December 3, 1713, shows, " the town concluded by a vote to send none, accounting ourselves not obliged by law to send any."
But in 1729 it appears that the law had been changed, so that a fine was imposed on a town for delinquency in this regard of their duty to the Prov- ince of Massachusetts Bay. The following original document is still pre- served by Edson W. Barber, Esq., a lineal descendant of Mr. Joseph Barber :
" PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY. JEREMIAH ALLEN, ESQ., Treasurer & Receiver General for His Majesties said Province. To MR. JOS. BARBER, Constable or Collector of the Town of Medway.
GREETING : Assessment to you to collect
Amounting in the whole sum of sixteen pounds eleven shillings & seven pence.
This was the apportionment of a Tax assessed by the General Court of £8000 and of a further Tax of £240-13 laid on several towns for not sending a Representative as by Law they are obliged and also for further tax of £2351 15 paid the Represen- tatives Anno 1729. Issued Nov. 11 1730. 4th year of George 2d. Signed by JER. ALLEN."
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