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At sd meeting The Town voted to raise the sum of one Hundred Thirty Two Pounds Ten Shillings money, new Tenor, to defray ye necessary charges of ye Town the Pres- ent year.
Also Voted the sum of Fifteen Pounds new Tenor for ye use of ye poor in sd Town.
Plymo Novr I 1746 per warrant, A Town Meeting to be Attended on ye 10th of Novr to Consider ye Report of ye Committee in Regard to ye Schools; The Town Then at- tended, and Constable Saml Cornish's warrant sent to him not being Returned The Meeting not opened, So nothing was acted on.
At a Town Meeting Assembled & held at ye Court House in Plymo on Saturday ye 13th day of December A Dom : 1746.
At sd meeting Eleakim Tappen John Howland Cornelius Holmes and Ebenezer Rider were Chosen to serve on ye Petit Jury for ye next Inferr Court to be holden at Plym- outh on ye Third Tuesday of this Instant December.
Plymo Decr ye 29th 1746 per Warrant A Town Meeting to be attended on Monday the 12th day of January To Consider the Report of ye Committee In Regard to ye Schools &c &c. The Town Then assembled and The War- rant Dd Constable Elkanah Morton not Being Returned The Meeting not opened. So nothing was acted on.
At a Town Meeting Regularly Assembled & held In ye Court House In Plymo on Tuesday ye 20th day of January Anno Dom: 1746.
At sd Meeting Doctr Lazarus LeBaron Chosen Modera- tor.
And consequent on ye Committees Report Relateing to ye Schools which Report is In ye words following viz.
The Committee Chosen at a Town Meeting held at Plym- outh ye 19th day of May 1746 To Consider of ye Petition of Eleazar Churchell & Twelve others, and to make Report at ye next Town Meeting: Haveing met & considered there-
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of, are of ye opinion That the First thing mentioned There- in Relateing To The Continuance of Mr. Ward will Be Most Proper for The Town To Act upon after they Have Determined Whether They will Have more Schools Then one; as to the Second about Removing of The School House considering The Great charges we are and Have been at Wee Think it Not Conveniant To Remove it at Present, and as To The Third Thing whether they will Have more schools Then one we are of The Mind That one school Master Cannott Instruct all the Children as they should Be.
Therefore think it may be well If There should be a Reading & Writeing school set up, Provided it is a moving one, and that each Part of The Town Have The Benefitt of it in Proportion. Then a vote was called To Know The Towns mind whether They would Have one school more than the standing school They Now Have.
Voted in the affirmative.
Then the Vote was Called To Know if The Town Would Have another school set up so as To make Three schools.
[112] Voted In ye Negative.
Then a vote was Called if The School Voted To Be set up shall Be a moveing school so that Each Part of the Town shall have The Benefitt of it, as mentioned In the sd Report of the Committee.
Voted In ye Negative.
The Town Voted That They will Not Continue* Mr. Ward as a school master any Longer.
Then Voted That The school To Be set up shall Be for Reading Writeing and Arithmetick.
Then a vote was Called To know the Towns mind if they would Choose a committee To Consider where the School House for the School should Be erected and set up Within The sd Town.
Voted In ye affirmative.
Then The Town Proceeded and Chose Joseph Bartlett Junr Thomas Jackson Theophilus Cotton Nathan Delano & Jeremiah Howes To Be a Committee To Consider Where the sd School House shall Be Erected and set up for ye Benefit of The Town and to make Report to the Town at ye adjournment of this meeting.
* Enoch Ward was of Littleton and graduated at Harvard in 1736. He died in 1749.
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At sd meeting Messrs Haviland Torrey Thomas Foster & John Watson was Chosen and Desired to take care and Procure a school master suitable For the Grammar school for the Term of Three years from this Date.
At sd meeting Messrs Stephen Churchell Thomas Doty & Joseph Bartlett Be a Committee To Consider and view the spot of Land By Cole's Hill which Thomas Jackson & Thomas Foster By their request Desire To Buy or Hire of the Town to set a Warehouse on.
The sd Committee to make Report to ye Town at ye ad- journment of this meeting.
Then the Town Meeting was adjourned to Monday ye Second. Day of Febry next at one of ye Clock In ye after- noon.
At a Town Meeting held In ye Court House In Plymo on Monday ye 2nd day of February A Dom: 1746. By ad- journment from January ye 20th. At sd meeting The Re- port of a Committee was Read In ye words following, viz :
At a Town Meeting Regularly assembled and held In ye Court House In Plymouth Janry 20th 1746-7 The Town Voted that a school should be set up for Reading Writeing and Arithmetick.
We ye Subscribers were Chosen a committee at sd meet- ing To Consider where sd school shall be set up, and to make Report at ye adjournment of sd Meeting; Haveing mett and considered thereon : are of opinion that it will be most for the Benefitt of ye whole That ye School House be *set upon ye Training Green about middway Between the House of Mr Lemuel Barnes & ye House that was formerly Capt Waites, near the Stone Wall.
Thomas Jackson, Joseph Bartlett Junr Theo Cotton Nathan Delano Jeremiah Howes.
Then the Town Considering It being a stormy day and a very difficult Time to travel The Inhabitants of ye Town in ye Second Precinct and at ye Eel River and ye North part of ye Town not Being at ye Meeting, It was thought
* Where this school house was finally built it is difficult to decide. It certainly was not built within the present bounds of Training Green, nor was it built on that part of the Green bounded by South, South Green, Pleasant and Sandwich Streets, for that was sold in 1788 to the first precinct.
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best to adjourn the meeting; and accordingly voted That this meeting is further adjourned to Monday ye 9th day of This Instant February at one of ye Clock in ye afternoon.
At a Town Meeting Held In ye Court House In Plymo on Monday ye 9th day of February A Dom: 1746 By ad- journment from ye 2nd day of this Instant February.
At sd Meeting A Vote was Called to know if ye Town would accept the Report of ye Committee as to the placeing of ye Second school (viz The Reading and Writeing school) where it should be set up.
Voted they will accept sd Report.
[113] Then a vote was Called to Know ye Town's mind if they would Reconsider the vote passd ye 20th of January Last, whereby ye 2nd school was to be a fixd, and not To be a moveing school.
Voted that they will not Reconsider ye sd vote.
Then a vote was Called to know if ye Town would Re- consider ye vote passd ye 20th of January viz that they would not have another school set up so as to make Three schools.
Voted that they would Reconsider the same, and then Voted that there should be a Third school set up for ye use of the Inhabitants of Monument Ponds and Eel River, and that sd school shall be a moveing school.
Then ye vote was called to know if the Two schools to be set up shall be continued for more then one year.
Voted in the affirmative.
Then Voted that ye two schools shall be continued For the Term of three years.
Then Voted that Capt. Josiah Morton John Blackmer Joseph Holmes Joseph Warren & John Finney Be a com- mittee to supply ye schools to be set up for Monument Ponds and Eel River.
Also voted that James Warren Esqr Deacon Joseph Bart- lett & Thomas Jackson be a Committee to supply ye school to be set up on ye Training Green.
Sd Committees to Procure Suitable school Masters for sd schools.
At sd meeting The Town Voted That ye Paragraff In- serted in ye Report of the Committe as Entrd ye 20th of January Respecting The Removeing the School House for ye Grammar School Be Adjourned to ye next Town Meet- ing; and then to be acted upon.
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At sd meeting The Town Voted (In Referrence to ye Petition of Messrs Thomas Jackson and Thomas Foster Respecting the Land Below Coles Hill as entrd Janry 20th) ; that Eleazer Churchell Nathan Delano Thomas Doty Thomas Spooner & Doctor LeBarron be a Committee to view and consider the same, and if for ye best for ye Town, To sell or hire to sd Jackson & Foster ye Land they Petitioned for and on what Terms, and to make Report to ye Town at ye next Town Meeting.
At a Town Meeting held In ye Court House In Plymo on Fryday ye 27th day of February, Anno Dom : 1746.
At sd Meeting Saml Rider Jeremiah Howes Solomon Silvester and Abner Holmes were Chosen Jury men To serve on ye Petit Jury for the next Inferiour Court to be holden at Plymouth on ye first Tuesday of March next.
At sd Meeting Deacon Haveland Torry was Chosen Moderator.
And then this Meeting was adjourned to Monday ye second day of March next. And all matters & things de- pending still remaining to be done then to be acted upon.
[114] At a Town Meeting Regularly Assembled and held at ye Court House In Plymouth on Monday ye 2nd day of March 1746.
At sd Meeting Doctr Lazarus LeBaron was chosen Mod- erator.
At sd meeting Saml Bartlett Esqr was chosen Town Clerk and sworn before Robert Brown Esqr.
At sd Meeting The Severall Town officers were chosen as Below viz :
Messrs Josiah Morton Stephen Churchell Haveland Tor- rey Lazarus LeBaron & John Watson. Selectmen.
Josiah Morton Saml Bartlett Esqr & Jas Hovey, Asses- sors.
Barnabas Hedge Jeremiah Howes and Benjamin Cor- nish, Constables.
A motion being made by Mr. Barnabas Hedge To ye Town desireing they would accept of Benja Bartlett in Lieu of him as Constable. Voted in ye affirmative; also voted That ye Constables should be Collectors and to be allowed six pence on ye Pound, as was allowed ye Last year for Collecting ye money, they giveing Bonds to save the Town Harmless as Usuall.
Deacon Thomas Foster Town Treasurer.
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Thomas Holmes Haveland Torrey Joseph Warren Elkanah Churchell John Sturtevant Junr & Seth Swift, Surveyors of Highways.
Thomas Bartlett Nathl Donham Junr Nathl Bartlett John Nelson & Josiah Carver Junr, Tytheingmen.
Joshua Bramhall Eleazer Holmes Joseph Holmes Theophilus Cotton & Nathl Warren, Fence Viewers & Field Drivers.
Nathl Bartlett Consider Howland David Turner Joseph Morton Junr Ephraim Churchell Josiah Morton Junr Amaziah Churchell and Job Cobb Hogreeves.
Stephen Churchell John Harlow and David Turner, Sur- veyors of Lumber.
Thomas Spooner & Jonathan Barnes, Sealers of Leather.
Abraham Jackson & William Clark, Informers about ye Deer.
At sd Meeting The Town Voted to accept ye Report of the Committee Respecting the Petition of Thomas Jackson & Thomas Foster Praying the Town would sell them a piece of Land to Build a Warehouse on of Fifty foot in Length & Twenty in Breadth to the Northward of ye Lot of Isaac Lothrop Esqr at ye foot of Coles Hill. Sd Report is as Follows viz: We the subscribers being Appointed by The Town to view & consider whether it might be best to sell or hire the Land that Mr. Thomas Foster and Mr Thomas Jackson Petitioned for Have accordingly viewed the Land and are of the opinion that its Best to sell it, they paying the sum of Eighteen Pounds old Tenor for ye same, and Build a stone wall for the Preserving the Bank above, to [115.] the satisfaction of ye Town the Front to be bounded by the stakes that we ye subscribers shall set up.
Eleazer Churchell Nathan Delano
Thos Doty Thomas Spooner Lazarus LeBaron
The Town Accepted This Report as Entered and Voted the sale of sd Land (as expressed) to them ye sd Thomas Foster & Thomas Jackson, Provided they shall & do some- time the next summer build ye stone wall as exprest and pay ye sum of Eighteen Pounds money old Tenr for ye use of ye Town.
Messrs Haviland Torrey and Benjamin Rider were Chosen ye Grand jurors for the year Ensuing.
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At sd Meeting the votes for a County Treasurer was In- closed and Sealed up by Jonathan Diman, Constable.
Gershom Holmes was chosen Saxton & Bellman for ye year Ensuing for ye Town. And the Town Voted to al- low him Ten pounds old Tenor for ye year.
At sd meeting Thomas Spooner Nehemiah Ripley Jona Eames James Hovey & Silas West were chosen a Commit- tee to Execute the Town Act Made March ye 12th 1732-3 (Page 66) Relating to ye Ale Wives, and allowed & ap- proved of by the Court of Sessions, Voted to allow ye As- sessors for makeing Rates in 1746 but Eight Shillings per day old Tenor.
Then a vote was Called to know ye Town's mind if they would choose a Committee to take care & Build a school House on ye Training Green forthwith. Voted In ye Neg- ative.
Then a vote was Called If ye Town would have this Meeting adjourned. Voted in ye Negative.
A vote then Called to know if ye Town should Choose Deacon Foster to Build ye school House on ye Training Green. Voted in ye Negative.
At a Town Meeting Assembled and held at ye Court House in Plymouth on Monday ye 18th day of May Anno Dom 1747. At sd meeting Charles Dyre John Faunce Jacob Taylor and Robert Bartlett were chosen to serve on ye Petit Jury for ye next Inferiour Court to be holden at Plymo on ye 3rd Tuesday of May currant.
At sd Meeting Deacon Thomas Foster was chosen Rep- resentative for ye Ensuing year. At sd meeting Doctor Lazarus LeBaron Chosen Moderator. As for the fixing The House for ye 2nd school the Town Voted that sd School House shall be set up to ye Southward of Lemuel Barnes's House and Chose Messrs Stephen Churchell Haviland Torrey and Lemuel Barnes a Committee to view & Determine ye spot where ye sd House shall be set up.
At sd Meeting the Town Chose Messrs Isaac Lothrop Esqr John Watson & Thomas Foster to be a Committee to View & vallue a spot of Land Petitioned for by Capt Rich- ard [116.] Waite to Erect a barn on; and to make Report to ye Town at this meeting.
The Committees Report being Read the Town accepted the same, and voted that when sd Waite do pay to the Town Treasurer, for ye use of the Town the sum of Ten Pounds
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money old Tenor then sd Report to be Recorded in the Town Book. At sd meeting the Town Voted to allow the Assessors twelve shillings per day each, and seven shillings per day for their horses (all in old Tenor) for their takeing the valuation of ye Estates in sd Town the Last year; and also for expences thirty seven shillings & two pence old Tenor.
At a Town Meeting Assembled & held at ye Court House In Plymouth on Monday ye 13th day of July A Dom : 1747.
At sd meeting Messrs Stephen Churchell & John Watson was chosen to serve on ye Grand Jury for ye next Superiour Court, and David Turner Thomas Doty Ansell Lothrop Consider Howland & Nathl Bartlett were chosen to serve on ye jury of Tryalls at sd Court.
At a Town Meeting assembled and Held In the Court House In Plymouth on Monday ye 14th of September 1747.
At sd meeting Ephraim Churchell & Nathaniel Shurtleff was chosen to serve on ye Petit Jurey at The next Inferiour Court of Common Pleas &c To Be Holden at Plymo on the Third Tuesday of Septr Currant.
At sd Meeting the Town Voted to raise the sum of one Hundred sixty eight Pounds fifteen shillings new Tenor to Defray ye necessary charges of the Town this Present year.
At sd Meeting The Town Voted To allow Mrs Rebeckah Wethrell seven Pounds sixteen shillings old Tenor for Bording Mr. Ward ye school master for one year Last, more then twenty seven shillings per week that was allowd Her Before.
At sd Meeting then a vote was Called to know if the Town would allow Mrs. Rebeckah Wethrell anything for Her cost & Charge Respecting Bathsha Sachamus an In- dian woman who lay sick and Dyed at Her House.
Voted In ye Negative.
We the Subscribers Persuant to ye Vote of The Town Chosen as Committee To view and value a spot of Land Petitioned for By Capt Richard Waite to erect a barn on : accordingly We Have viewed The same and Have Meas- ured off twenty one feet square, on the Hill above where Capt Waite now Dwells and He is To Leave a Way of 36 feet wide from Isaac Lothrop Esqrs Garden Fence to sd Barn; & we value the sd Peice of Land at Ten Pounds (old Tenor ).
Plymouth, May 18, 1747.
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Plymouth October ye 7th 1747. Recd of Capt Richard Waite Ten Pounds old Tenor In full for a certain Lott of Land Laid out to sd Wate for a Barn Lott and sd Lott with ye quantity of Land it contains & the Place where it Lyes and the Time when it was Laid out and Granted to sd Waite is to be seen in Plymouth Town Records.
Thomas Foster,
Town Treasurer.
[117] At a Town Meeting assembled and Held at ye Court House on Monday ye 7th day of Decr A D 1747.
At sd Meeting Theophilus Cotton Nathl Donham Junr Saml Cornish & John Sturtevant Junr were Chosen to serve on ye Petit Jury at ye next Inferr Court of Common Pleas &c, on ye 3d Tuesday of Decr Currant, To Be then Holden at Plymo.
At a Town Meeting Assembled and held at ye Court House In Plymouth on Monday ye 22d day of Febry A. D. 1747.
At sd Meeting Messrs Thomas Bartlett and John Torrey were chosen Grand jurors for ye year Ensuing. And Eleazer Holmes John Holmes William Ellis & Josiah Mor- ton 3d chosen to serve on ye Petit Jury for ye next Inferr Court of Common Pleas &c to be holden at Plymo, on ye first Tuesday of March next.
At a Town Meeting assembled & Held at ye Court House In Plymo on Monday ye 7th Day of March A. D: 1748.
At sd Meeting Docter Lazarus LeBaron was chosen Moderator.
At sd Meeting Samuel Bartlett Esqr chosen Town Clerk.
At sd Meeting Messrs Josiah Morton James Hovey & Thomas Mayhew were chosen Assessors.
At sd Meeting Ephraim Churchell John Atwood Junr & John May Junr were chosen Constables.
Voted also that the Constables should be Collectors and To Be allowd Six Pence on the Pound as was allowd the Last year For Collecting the money, they giveing Bonds to save the Town Harmless as Usuall Heretofore.
At sd Meeting Deacon Thomas Foster Chosen Town Treasurer.
At sd Meeting Job Cobb Silvanus Bramhall John Black- mer Lemuell Morton Elisha Doten & William Elles Junr chosen surveyors of Highways.
At sd meeting Josiah Churchell Joshua Swift Jonathan
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Eames Junr Jonathan Diman Thomas Harlow & Seth Swift Tythingmen.
At sd meeting Josiah Morton Junr James Clark Junr Nathaniel Foster & Elisha Cobb chosen Fence Viewers & field Drivers.
At sd meeting Charles Morton Lemuel Jackson George Holmes Jonathan Churchell Gershom Holmes Walter Rich Jonathan Harlow & Nathll Warren chosen Hogreaves.
Capt Churchell John Harlow & David Turner surveyors of Lumber.
Abraham Jackson & William Clark chosen Informers about the Dear Act.
At sd meeting Thomas Spooner & Jonathan Barnes chosen Sealers of Leather.
At sd meeting Gershom Holmes was chosen Saxton for the Town.
At sd meeting the Votes for County Treasurer was sealed up In Town Meeting by Benjamin Bartlett Constable.
Voted at sd meeting Capt Stephen Churchell Thomas Spooner Eleazer Holmes, Deacon Haviland Torrey & Dea- con Thomas Foster Be a committee to view & value a Peace of Land petitioned for By Jacob Taylor To Build a Barn upon at the foot of Fort Hill near Capt Wates Lott and also a Committee To Take a view of the Beach or Causeway that Leads To the Swing* Bridge & To Consider what is most Proper to Be Done as To the same and to make Report Respecting the sd Barn Lott & Beach to the Town at the Next Town Meeting.
[118.] At a Town Meeting March 7th 1747 Held at Plymouth as on the other side continued.
At sd Meeting Messrs Haviland Torrey Lazarus Le : Baron Thomas Holmes John Watson & Joseph Bartlett were chosen Selectmen.
At a Town Meeting Assembled & Held In ye Court House In Plymouth on Monday ye 4th day of April Anno Dom: 1748.
At sd Meeting Deacon Haviland Torrey was chosen Moderator.
At sd Meeting ye Town Voted to accept Benjamin Bart- lett as Constable and Collector to serve in ye Room of Ephraim Churchell who was chosen, and also voted to ac-
* The Swing bridge crossed the mill pond above the Water Street bridge.
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cept of sd Benjamin Bartlett to serve as Collector In ye Room of John Atwood Junr who was Chosen (all for ye year ensuing) he sd Benjamin Giveing Bonds to save ye Town Harmless as Usuall heretofore.
Then Voted to allow Saml Kempton Junr Five Pounds money old Tenor for Beatg ye Drum at seting ye Night Watches Ten Months In ye year 1746. Messrs Timothy Burbanks John Harlow David Turner Nathl Foster & Ne- hemiah Ripley were chosen to take care of ye Herrings agreable to ye Act of ye Town-made A Dom : 1732-3.
At sd Meeting the Town Voted to accept the Committees Report Respecting the Piece of Land Jacob Taylor Peti- tioned for to set a Barn on.
Viz: Plymouth April 4th 1748. The Committee ap- pointed by ye Town at ye Annuall Meeting in March Last; upon ye Request of Jacob Taylor Praying ye Town would sell him a piece of Land a Little to ye Northward of Capt Richard Waites Barn, have viewed ye same and Estimate ye value, and are of ye opinion that ye same be Granted to ye sd Taylor upon ye Knowl about 15 or 20 feet to ye Northward of sd Waites Lott; sd Land to be measured & staked out to sd Taylor 20 feet square; and Leaveing ye Road 30 feet wide Between sd Lot and ye Land of Isaac Lothrop Esqr, and that sd Taylor pay to ye Town Twelve Pounds old Tenor for ye same. All which is submitted.
Stephen Churchell-By Order.
Then ye Town made choice of Messrs James Hovey Benjamin Bartlett & David Turner to measure & stake out ye 20 feet of Land square to ye above named Jacob Tay- lor Agreable to ye Report abov sd.
At sd Meeting the Town Voted to accept ye Report of ye Committee (which is on file) Respecting ye Beach or Causway by ye Swing Bridge, and made choice of Messrs Stephen Churchell Thomas Foster & Haviland Torrey to view (and act agreeable to ye sd Report) in ye premises; and to make Report to ye Town at ye next Town Meeting as to ye affairs of Plymouth Beach as expressed in ye war- rant Is & shall be continued, To ye next Town Meeting.
[119] Pursuant To a vote of ye Freeholders and others of ye Inhabitants of the Town of Plymo qualified as the Law Directs, at a Town Meeting Holden at Plymouth on ye fourth day of April A. D. 1748. We have bounded out unto Jacob Taylor a piece of Land Granted to him at ye sd
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meeting near to ye Barne Lott of Richard Waite in sd Plymouth, and is twenty feet square; Bounded Beginning at a stake set into ye Ground thirty feet distant from Coll Lothrops Fence, and from thence rangeing Westerly twenty feet to another stake, and from thence Northerly twenty feet to another stake, and from thence Easterly toan- other stake which is distant from sd Coll Lothrops fence thirty feet; and from ye last mentioned stake twenty feet to ye Bound first mentioned.
James Hovey Benjamin Bartlett David Turner
Committee.
Plymo Aprill 5th 1748.
Recd Aprill ye 5th 1748 Of Mr. Jacob Taylor Twelve Pounds old Tenour being the sum the Town of Plymouth voted, said Taylor should Give to ye Town of Plymouth, for ye Premises above Described, I say Recd for ye use of ye Town of Plymouth.
Thomas Foster, Town Treasurer.
At a Town Meeting assembled & held In ye Court House In Plymouth on Monday ye 9th Day of May A D 1748.
At sd meeting Edward Stephens Isaac Little Zephaniah Morton & Thomas Clark Chosen to serve on ye Petit Jury for ye next Inferiour Court, to be holden at Plymo within & for sd County of Plymo, on ye 3d Tuesday of May Cur- rant.
At sd meeting Thomas Foster Esqr was Chosen Repre- sentative for the Ensuing year.
And Doctr Lazarus LeBaron chosen Moderator. Then a vote was Called to Know ye Town's mind If they will act on that Paragraff In ye warrant, Relateing to ye sheeps going at Large. Voted In ye Negative.
Then ye Town Voted to allow Mrs. Sarah Little (Re- lict Widdow of ye Late Revd Mr Epm Little Deceased) the sum of twenty five pounds old Tenour, as an addition to ye fifteen Pounds formerly, annually to her allowed.
Then ye Town Voted To Repaire ye old wharfe adjoyn- ing to the Northerly side of ye Bridge over ye Creek, and that Messrs Stephen Churchell Deacon Haviland Torrey & Thomas Foster Esqr take care that sd Piece of Wharfe be well Repaired, and bring in their accots of ye charges, To ye Town at ye next Town Meeting.
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Also Voted that ye whole affairs Respecting ye Causway to ye No-ward of sd old piece of wharfe be continued to ye next Town Meeting.
Then a vote was called to Know if ye Town would now act upon ye affair of Plymouth Beach as mentioned In ye warrant.
Voted In ye affirmative.
And Proceeded viz: whereas many Persons Frequently Drive numbers of Neat Cattle, Horse Kind & sheep to feed upon ye Beach (yt formes Plymo Harbour) whereby Great damages, hath accrewed, as also, by Persons Takeing stones of sd Beach, great damage has been sustained, by all which ye sd Harbour Lys much Exposed. If not Timely Pre- vented there is Danger of ye sd Harbours being Ruined. For Remedy whereoff The Town voted That a Petition be prefered to ye Generall Court, for ye Purposes aforesd; and that Thomas Foster Esqr be agent for ye Town to Prefer sd Petition.
[120] Plymouth ye 25th of October 1705. Then Pur- suant to a vote of ye Proprietors of ye Town of Plymouth, at their meeting, the sixty acres of Land was voted to Ebenezar Bonum whereof 42 acres was Laid out in a neck Between Sampsons pond and his other Land, and bounded as followeth viz: A White Oak Bush marked In ye Range of James Barnaby's Land, and from sd Bush to Extend west southwest about 48 pole to another white oak saplin marked, and from thence to Extend south southeast to Sampsons pond, and then bound on ye west side by sd pond till it comes to his 20 acre Lott and then bounded by ye sd Bonums 20 acre Lott and James Barnaby's, on ye East side till it comes to ye Bounds first mentioned.
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