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[294.] together, Each marked on four sides & the south- ermost one with P on the north side, & W on the south side, which trees stand by the side of a swamp, where it parteth & one part goeth neere East & the other part to the northward which place is two miles & a half from the Westerly bounds of the first tract of land purchased of the Indians by the town of Plimouth & sold to the proprietors of Agawam & beareth from said bounds N E & by north the course from said pond to said trees being by the best estemation we could make West one degree Northerly.
In Wittness whereof we have hereunto sett our hands this Eighth day of May Anno Domini 1772.
John Torrey, John Blackmer, Elkanah Watson, Ephrm Spooner selectmen of Plimouth.
Ebenezr Briggs, Noah Ferring, John Gibbs selectmen of Wareham.
At a meeting of the town of Plimouth regularly Assem- bled and held at the Court house in Plimouth on Monday ye 29th day of June A D 1772 Messrs Benjamin Rider Junr & Samuel Harlow were chosen to serve on the Petit Jury at the Next Court of Generall sessions of the peace & Inferiour Court of Common pleas, to be holden at Plimouth within & for the County of Plimouth on the first tuesday of July Next.
At a meeting of the town of Plimouth regularly Assem- bled and held in the Court house in Plimouth on Monday ye 28th day of Septembr A D 1772 Messrs Joseph Bartlett Junr & Samuel Jackson were chosen to serve on the Petit Jury at the Next Court of Generall Sessions of the peace & Inferiour Court of Common Please to be holden at Pli- mouth within & for the County of Plimouth on the first tues- day of Octobr Next.
PLYMOUTH £ RECORDS. 257
At a meeting of the town of Plimouth regularly assem- bled & held in the Court house in Plimouth on Monday ye 19th day of Octobr A D 1772, James Warren Esqr was chosen Moderator & sworn pr John Cotton Esqr. Then the report of the Committe chosen to take into Considera- tion the towns building a work house was read is in the words following viz :
The sd Committe having met & Considered the matter to them Committed beg leave to report, as their opinion that the expence of building a work house to answer the purposes of the town, will amount to about five hundred pounds, Ex- clusive of the land, that the advantages of such a house to the town will arrise both from saving an expence & from rectifieing the Iregulartys that proceed from Idleness & vice, & that they are of the opinion, upon a Consideration of the whole matter, Notwithstanding the expence will be Great to the town, that it will be Advantageous to the town, & There- fore best
[295.] that they should build such a House.
Thomas Jackson pr order.
Then voted the Consideration of building a work house be put of to the Adjournment of this meeting.
Then Voted that the Selectmen shall send those persons to the Almshouse that are now supported by the town, or may apply for support of the town hereafter, Excepting such persons as they think it best should be supported otherways.
Then voted to choose a Committe of three persons to En- quire what Incroachment is made on the towns land, neere the two springs, as in ye Warrent viz, that below the house Walter Rich lives in & that peace below the school house in Willingsley & accordingly Chose Deacn John Torrey, Thomas Foster Esqr & Capt Thomas Jackson for that pur- pose; they to report to the town at the Adjournment of this meeting.
Then this meeting was Adjourned to Monday ye 9th day of Novembr next to three of the Clock p. m.
At a meeting of the town of Plimouth ye 9th day of Novr 1772 by Adjournment from the 19th of Octobr last.
Voted not to take into Consideration the affair of build- ing a work house at this meeting & voted to put of the Con- sideration of sd affair to next March meeting.
Then voted & raised the sum of three hundred & thirty
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pounds for defreying the necessary charges of the Currant year.
Allso voted the Assessors shall not lett the Surplussage of the tax exceed twenty pounds. Then voted & directed the selectmen to Get a new bell for the school house, the old one being broak.
Then Voted not to prosecute the relations of those poor persons that this town hath been at expence to support in time past.
Then voted that the Committe appointed to view the two peaces of land above the two springs as mentioned at first holding this meeting be directed to report to the town at the next March meeting.
Then voted to allow Nehemiah Ripley four pounds seven shillings & ten pence, And to the heirs of Mr. William Rider Deceasd twenty one shillings & two pence, being so much expended by said Ripley & Rider in prosecuting Sundry per- sons for catching herrings in the town brook contrary to law in years past, they then being of the committe for taking care of said brook. Then voted the Selectmen shall report to the town respecting the streets & rodes in this town at next March meeting.
[296.] At sd meeting the town Treasurer laid before the Town the state of the Treasury which is as follows viz.
A list of bonds due to the town of Plimouth Octobr 1772.
Deacon Bartlett & Robert Bartlett March 4 1756
David Turner & John Harlow Febry 26 1746
13
9
4
0 16 2
Deacn Torrey & Nathl Torrey July 24 1750
4 16
0
O
O O
David Turner & Silvs Bartlett Octor 12 1761
John Finney & Nathl Warren's Feby 20 1753
6 7
0
I
3
O
2
9
O
O
O O
15
I
4
7
4
60
15 8
O
0
0
Eleaser Churchill & Josiah Churchill Apr 28 1759 with a Mortgage
20
O
O
4 I
2
8
15
5
8
0
18
4
5
I
66
13
4
8 0
0
33/4 0
Silas Morton & Ebenr Nelson May 30 1770
20
IO O
I 4 71/2
29 4 O
3 IO I
Ebenz Donahm & John Dunham Apr 25 1753 Elkanah Watson & Perez tilson Apr 10 1753 Edward Winslow's & Gideon White Sep 10 1757
Coll Warren & Nathl Goodwin Novr 15 1757
6
17 91/2 0
O 0
16 O
Elka Watson & Thos Spooner Sepr 11 1758 Josiah Morton & Seth Morton January I 1762
9
9
4
Jeremiah Holmes & Wm Holmes Augt 2 1769
8
18
259
Daniel Diman & Andr Croswell Octor 8 1770
13
6
8
0 16 0
Ezra Burbank & Stephen Churchill July 21 1771
17
IO
O
I
I
I1/2
Thos Davis & Ephm Spooner May 30 1772
32
O
O
O
O
O
Zacchs Barnes & Nathl Barnes Sep 25 1772
7
II
4
O
O
O
Nehemiah Ripley & Leml Jackson Aug 25 1772
IO
14
O
O
0
O
2
16
II/2
O
O
O
Abner Holmes Nichols & Ebenr Nelson July 6 1761
3
2
O
0
14
IO
Solomon Bartletts Mortgage Aug 3 1767
IO
12
O
I
17
33/4
£373
12
3
34
3
I1/2
Deduct Capt Watsons & Tilsons Intrest
7
4
8
26 I8 5.1/2
There are also Perez Tillson & Gershom Holmes Bond where both principal & sureties fail.
Dr the town of Plimouth to John Cotton.
Paid out since Novr 1 1770 when the accounts where set- tled by A Comitte as appears by Book & Receipts
Commissions for this sum
19 15 3
What is outstanding in the Con- stables hands :
1752 Jonathn Darling
7
7
3
1753 George Holmes
I3
2
434
1766 Jeremh Holmes
28
18
8
1767 Jeremiah Holmes
21
I7
IO1/2
Zacchs Barnes
8
IO
III/2
1768 Richard Cooper
5
8
41/2
Seth Washburn
6
6
I
1769 Robert Finney Seth Holmes
4
5
21/2
I770 Benjn Warren
99
13
I
Josiah Clark
4
I
91/4
1771 Benjn Warren Bartlett Lebaron
II9
3
33/4
John Cornish
14
5 21/2 450
8
£1260
12 7
Town of Plimouth Cr on Book
I25I
I 93/4
Ballance Due
9
IO
91/4
[297] Septr 10 Joseph Trasks order
O
12
2
July II Eleazer Stevens order
5
9
71/2
Feby 18 Elisha Morton order Josiah Clark keeping school March Coll Warrens order about
I
II
9
8
O
0
I2
O
O
1771 Dr. Thomas's 2 orders
4
8
0
1772 Sepr Jeremiah Holmes order John Watsons order
O
6
0
O
4
O
2
2
61/2
115
5
81/4
PLYMOUTH RECORDS.
Thos Fosters Esqr note May 9 1757
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PLYMOUTH RECORDS.
Capt Thomas Jacksons order Capt Theops Cottons order
0
IO
0
O
15
71/2
Elijah Damans order
I
4
0
School House Porch order
5
0
2
Widdow Sarah Dow's order
2
2
8
Jonathan Kings 2 orders
8
2
5
Elisha Corbin orders
I
5
7
Deacn Torrey's orders
2
I2
2
Pelham Winslow Esq order
0
I3
4
Octor 9 Ebenr Bartlett order Joseph Bartlett Junr order Nathl Lothrop order &c
I
6
O
I20
0
O
176
II 81/2
Due to me for Commissions & other ways
IO
5
0
Passage for Alewives at Ealriver
20
O
O
Prosecution of Barnstable
I2
O O
Due for Capt Wait & wifes board 4 months from June 18
IO
4
0
Allow for orders not bro't in
8
0
0
Other Dues from the town for which orders not yet Given in
20
0 0
Jeremiah Holmes Commissions for 1766
23
I 11/2
Ditto Comissions for 1767
7
I2
IO1/2
Zaccheus Barnes Commissions
4
I4
7
Seth Washburn's Comissions
I
2
Richd Coopers Comissions for 1768
4
7
534
Robert Finney's Comissions for
I
19
41/4
Benja Warrens Comissions
21
I7
81/2
Additional Premiums
II
9
0
Josiah Clark Comissions
2
18
51/2
Benja Warren Comissions
9
19
9
Bartlett Lebaron Comissions
I2
15
61/4
Additional Premium
II
IO
0
John Cornish commissions
2
19
61/2
Allow for Abatements in the above Constables bill
35
C
0
Desperate debts from 2 Constables viz Jonathan Darling
7
7
3
George Holmes
I3
2
2,3/4
£431
I 3/4
At said meeting James Warren Esqr, one of the Committe chosen in May last to Enquire whether this town hath power to dispose of any part of the land Called the sheep pasture Part of which land since the originall Grants falls within the bounds of some other towns that were sett off from this town since sd Grant Reported that he had made Dilligent Enquery in that affair & find by the Best advise he could have viz of James Otis Esqr of Boston & John Adams Esqr & it is their opinion that sd land belongs the whole of it to this Town.
257
O
8
6
Seth Holmes Commissions
2
18
O
0
8
PLYMOUTH RECORDS. 261
[298.] At a meeting of the town of Plimouth Regular- ly Assembled and held in the Court house in Plimouth on tuesday ye 24th November Anno Domini 1772.
Thomas Mayhew Esqr chosen Moderator & sworn pr the Town Clerk no Justice being in the meeting.
Then the Petition of Mr. Thomas Jackson & one hundred other Inhabitants of the town of Plimouth was red & is in the words following.
To the Selectmen of the town of Plimouth.
Gentlemen
We the subscribers freeholders & other Inhabitants of the town of Plimouth deeply Impressed with a sense of the un- happy situation this country is reduced to by the violation of our rights and the repeated attacks made upon our consti- tutions and feeling that concern and Indignation which should animate every Honest Breast on recollecting the once Happy circumstances of this country & now in Constant viewing the present state of it where we are deprived of the rights of Nature and a Constitution purchased with the blood of our ancestors and the fair inheritance transmited us by them is become the prey of Vultures & Harpies who rest on the spoil of it alarmd as we have been from time to time with taxation without our consent with extention of Admir- alty Jurisdictions with the Quartering of soldiers here & the Lawless Insolence & murders they Have Comitted and been supported in with the taking from us the defence of our Capitol against a foreign enemy and Garrisoning it with regular troops in whom we can place no confidence with the contemptuous & unconstitutional treatment of our General Court from time to time and with many other Grievances from the memorable era of the Stamp Act down to the Inde- pendence of a Governor, we have nevertheless pleasd our- selves with some Hopes that Justice or Common sence might one day take place in the Administration and releive us from our Dificulties before the System of Slavery was fully com- pleated. But the last step taken by administration by pro- viding salaries for the Judges of the Superior Court has left us without any expectations of that kind by fixing the last seal to the Despotism they Have so Long endeavoured to Es- tablish here. We therefore Have reason to Consider our situation as very Dangerous if not Desperate and such as re- quiries the united attention and wisdom of the whole to pre-
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vent being irretrievably fixed on us & our posterity. We therefore Desire you to Call a town meeting as soon as Con- veniently may be that the Inhabitants of this town may unitedly take this matter into consideration and pursue
[299. Such steps as may be proper on such an occasion and at such a Day as this is.
Plimouth November 13 1772
Thomas Jackson
Thos Southth Howland
Benja Rider ye 3rd
John Goddard
Thos Lewis
John Thomas Junr
Leml Drew
Joshua Thomas
Nathl Lewis
Josiah Morton
Ebenzr Churchell
Benja Drew
Thomas Mayhew
Thos Mayhew Junr
Zephaniah Holmes
James Doten Junr
Nehemiah Ripley
John Bishop
Ebenezer Churchell ye 3rd
Jonathn Morton
John Cotton
Bartlett Lebaron
Wm. Thomas
Nicholas Drew Junr
Wm Crombie
Thos Wethrell
Wm. Watson
John Harlow Junr
Zaccheus Curtis
Lazs Lebaron
Jona Diman
Jesse Harlow
John Howland
Isaac Doten
Stephn Samson
Stephn Churchill
Thos Matthews
Isaac Symmes
Thos Lothrop
Nathl Washburn
Thos Nicolson
Saml Ellis
Wm Hall Jackson
Nathan Bacon
Daniel Diman
George Dunham
Saml Pearse
Wm Bartlett Junr
Ebenz Robins
James Drew
Saml Cole
Wm Rider
Jas Waterman
Wm Lebaron
Simeon Samson
Joseph Holmes
Caleb Rider
Saml Jackson
Andrw Croswell
Joseph Barnes
Osborn Morton
Ephrm Cobb John Allen
Barnabas Hedge
Benja Warren
George Attwood
John Holmes
Thos Jackson Junr
Robert Brown Junr
John Kempton
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RECORDS. 263
Nathl Jackson
Silas Morton
Ebenr Harlow
William Weston Theophilus Cotton
Nathl Torrey
Nathl Goodwin
Thos Doten
Saml Bartlett Junr
Charles Dyer
Abiel Shurtleff
Nathl Carver
Abm Tisdale
Ebenz Nelson
Lazs Lebaron Junr
John Bartlett 3rd
George Holmes
Joseph Ryder
Richard Holmes Junr
Jeremiah Howes
Nathl Rider
Silvanus Holmes Junr
Saml Nicolas Nelson
Thos Spooner
Jobb Cobb
Joseph Trask
Job Rider
Nehemiah Ripley Junr
John Fuller
John Washburn
At said meeting voted to choose two Committes as below viz :
Ist a committe be chosen to report to the Town at the adjournment of this meeting, what it is best for the town to do & to report a Draft of such votes on resolves as they may think it best for them to come into & accordingly made choice of
James Warren Esqr, John Cotton Esqr Thomas Mayhew Esqr Deacon John Torrey William Watson Esqr Mr. Nathl Torrey & Mr. Thomas Lothrop for that purpose.
2nd A Standing Committe of Communication & Corre- - spondance be chosen freely from time to time to communi- cate & Correspond with the town of Boston and any other town on the subject of our presant Difficulties & of the meas- ures proper to be taken upon the occasion they to apply to the Selectmen to Call a town meeting upon any emergency to Consider of any Intelligence of Importance they may have Received & to act & Do what further they may then think proper. And then made choice of James Warren Esqr, Deacn John Torrey, Capt Elkanah Watson, William Wat- son Esqr, Mr. Thomas Lothrop, Mr. Isaac Lothrop, Mr. Nathl Torrey & Thomas Mayhew Esqr For that purpose.
[300.] At sd meeting Messrs Joseph Trask Samuel El-
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lis, Jeremiah Holmes & Andrew Croswell were chosen to serve on the Petit Jury at the next Inferiour Court of Com- mon Pleas &c to be holden at Plimouth within & for the County of Plimouth on the second tuesday of Decembr next.
Then this meeting was Adjourned to Monday ye 14th Decembr next to 2 a clock p. m.
At a meeting of the town of Plimouth regularly Assem- bled & held in the Court house in Plimouth, on Monday ye 14th day of Decembr A D 1772 by Adjournment from the 24th of November last.
Voted that the letter &c from the town of Boston to the Selectmen of this town be read, which was done. And then the Committe who were chosen by the town at their meeting on the 24th of November last to Consider what is best for the town to do, & to report a Draft of such votes or resolves as they many think it best for them to come into, Reported in the words following viz :
The Impatiance and Indignation natural to the oppressed, the Horror & resentment natural to freemen, who know the value of their rights & see them not only repeatedly attacked, but torn from them with every mark of Insult, as well as Injustice, the pain natural to the virtuous & vigilant who see the coldness & Indifferance of some & the Prostitution & servillety of others, who Inherit with them the prise & re- ward of the Sufferings & blood of their Fathers, have more than once called the united attention of the Inhabitants of the town of Plimouth to a Consideration of the unhappy circumstances of their country, but never upon an occasion more alarming than the present, when to every other species of Injustice & Insult to every other stride of Despotism & Tryanny, is added as we hear & have abundant reason to believe, a provision made for the support of the Judges of the Superiour Court of this Province, in a way different from the usuall & constitutional method by the free Grants of the people, which has a Tendency to Poison the Fountain of Justice, upon the purity of which & the streams that Issue from them, depend the happiness & peace of a Society; & al- lso to compleat the system of Despotism by Exposing the lives & properties of this Great people, to the mercy & de- cisions of men who are not only Independant of them for their appointment, continuance in office & support, but de- pendant in effect for the first & absolutely & intirely for the
PLYMOUTH RECORDS. 265
two last, upon those who distinguish & seperate their Inter- est from ours, & who for severall years, have been so far from Discovering any one Instance of regard for our well- fare & happiness, that they are the source from whence we derive all our difficulties & Grievances & who in this verry Instance discover a partiality by no means to be Justifyd by placeing the Judges Here upon a footing very Differant from that of the Judges in England, & which as the
[301.] Doctrine of Instruction is now managed & exe- cuted may open a door for appointment to the Supream seat of Justice here, strangers whose extravagance & debauch- erys may drive them from their native land, and whose ra- pacity & Injustice in that station may be in proportion to their Poverty & Wickedness upon an Occasion. There- fore so dangerous & Important in its nature & consequences The Inhabitants of this Town in Town meeting assembled Influenced by a sense of the obligations they are under to God & their own consciences, as well as to Posterity, to do every thing in our power to Preserve entire our rights, and at least to bear our Testimony against all Invasions of them, do now to avoid the reproaches of our Consciences & the Execrations of Posterity. Resolve.
I That the People in this Province are Intitled to all the rights that the people of Great Brittain can Claim by nature & their Constitution.
2 That the rights they are intitled to have been violent- ly & most Injuriously Infracted by the Parliament of Great Brittain, and the Administration of Government there and their tools here in many Instances, which having been form- erly mentioned on like occasions & lastly by the Boston Committe under the head of Infringments & violation of rights & published & sent to this & the other towns in the province render it unnecessary to desend to particulars.
That the providing of the support of the Judges of 3. the Superior Court of this Province in any other manner than by the free Grants of the people, is an Infraction of the highest nature & tends of itself (and more especially in con- junction with the Independancy of the Governor on the peo- ple here for his support & the Influence of Instruction) to destroy every idea of a free Government; and to erect as perfect a system of Despotism in this Province as ever took place in any country.
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4. That our Representatives be & hereby, are Instructed to unite in such measures as shall place the Judges of the Supream Court of Justice of this Province upon a Consti- tutional Basis & make when that is done a suitable Provision for their support.
5. That in the opinion of this town the United thanks and Gratefull acknowledgments of every Individual who is a friend to the Constitution of this country & the Intrest of posterity is due to the Vigilance & spirit of the Inhabitants of the town of Boston upon this & many other occasions.
6. That this report is put upon the Records of this Town there to stand as a Publick monument of the sense the In- habitants have of their rights and of their Determination at all times as occasion & opportunity may offer assert Vindi- cate & suport them
Plimouth ye 14th Decembr 1772
William Watson
Thomas Mayhew
James Warren
Thomas Lothrop
Nathaniel Torrey John Cotton
John Torrey
[302.] At said meeting a vote was Called to know if the town would accept the foregoing report it passed in the af- firmative unanimously in a full Town meeting .
At a meeting of the town of Plimouth regularly Assem- bled and held at the Court house in Plimouth on Monday the 8th day of March Anno Domini 1773.
James Warren Esqr chosen Moderator & sworn pr John Cotton Esqr, Ephraim Spooner chosen Town Clerk & sworn pr Thomas Foster Esqr.
Deacn John Torrey, George Watson Esqr, Capt. Zacheus Bartlett, Mr. Nathaniel Morton Junr, & Ephraim Spooner were chosen Selectmen & the oath respecting the neighbour- ing Governments money was Administered to them pr Thomas Foster Esqr.
John Cotton Esqr, Deacn John Torrey & Mr. John Black- mer were chosen Assessors & sworn pr Thomas Foster Esqr.
John Cotton Esqr was chosen town Treasurer & sworn pr Esqr Foster.
Then the votes for a County Treasurer were brought in & sealed up in town meeting by Bartlett Lebaron Constable & committed to him. Then voted to have as many schools kept in the town this year as the last (see Folio page 155th)
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And added one month Annually to three of the schools at the Ends of the town viz : one month to Manument ponds, one month to Eellriver & one month to the north End of the town then made choice of
James Warren Esqr, Deacn John Torrey & Capt Elkanah Watson a Committe to supply the Grammer school with a suteable schoolmaster.
& Messrs Silvanus Bartlett, James Clark & Seth Holmes chosen a Committe to supply the school at Manument ponds with a suteable schoolmaster.
& Messrs Josiah Morton Junr, Ezekiel Morton & Capt John Finney chosen a committe to supply the school at Eell- river with a suteable schoolmaster.
& Messrs Ichabod Holmes, Nathaniel Morton Junr, & Samuel Bartlett chosen a committe to supply the school at Willingsley with a suteable schoolmaster.
& Messrs Theophilus Cotton, Lemuel Jackson, & Ebenezr Nellson chosen a committe to supply the school at North End of the town.
[303.] At said meeting Voted to choose a Committe to go to Eellriver & manument ponds & view the neighbour- hoods in each place & fix the place or places that the school- houses shall stand, at each place in neighborhood.
And accordingly made choice of Mr. Ephraim Cobb, Deacn John Torrey & Thomas Foster Esqr to be sd Com- mitte.
Then voted to allow the Constables twelve pence on the pound for Collectg & paying in the towns money on the same conditions as the last year.
Then voted to choose a Committe to hire a Collector for the four northern districts of Collectors in this town & ac- cordingly made choice of Deacn John Torrey, Thomas Fos- ter Esqr & Capt Theophilus Cotton a Committe for that purpose they to report to the town at the Adjournment of this meeting.
Then voted to excuse Manument ponds from paying any part of the Extraordinary premium Given the Collector.
Seth Mendall was chosen Constable for Manument ponds.
Messrs Lemuel Jackson, Elkanah Cushman, Joseph Bart- lett Junr, Jeremiah Holmes, Joseph Sylvester & Joseph Bates were chosen surveyors of the Highways.
Then voted a Committe be chosen to Consider what
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method the town shall come into respecting repareing the highways in this town for the future, & to report what they think best for the town to do in that affair, at the next May meeting, and accordingly made choice of Thomas Foster Esqr, Capt. Theophilus Cotton, William Watson Esqr, Pel- ham Winslow Esqr & Deacn John Torrey a Committe for that purpose.
Then voted to conduct respecting alewives this year in the severall brooks in this town as the last year & then made choice of Deacn John Torrey, Mr. Zacheus Curtis & Mr. John Kempton Junr a Committe to take care of the town brook so called & see that the law of this province respecting it be put in execution.
Then the Act respecting the observation of the Lords day & the choice of Wardens & their duty was read after which Messrs Joshua Swift, Thomas Morton, Nathaniel Barnes, Lemuel Drew, Seth Holmes & Benja Rider ye 3rd were chosen wardens.
Stevens Mason was chosen sexton.
[304.] At said meeting
Messrs James Drew, Benjamin Churchell, & Stephen Churchill were chosen Guagers of Casks & Packers of Fish.
Messrs John Cooper, Abraham Howland & James Clark were chosen Tytheingmen.
Messrs Benjamin Drew, & Thomas Spooner were chosen sealers of leather.
'& Levi Drew, Ellis Churchill, Benjamin Barnes, Samuel Morton, Stevens Mason, William Coye, Solomon Holmes, Phillip Leonard, & Joseph Trask were chosen Hogreeves.
& Messrs Samuel Cole, & John Russell were chosen Clerks of the Markit.
Messrs Ebenzr Samson, Robert Bartlett, Thomas Davie, Lemuel Jackson, Amaziah Churchill, Ichabod Holmes, Eleazer Churchill, Samuel Bartlett & Thomas Southworth Howland were chosen Cullers of Fish.
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