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3d. Should the parent or guardian of any boy thus named by the Managers decline to receive his portion of the Fund, it shall be transferred to the highest of those who failed at the original assignment.
4th. For all boys not included in the assignment of the Managers, the Master is authorized to present and collect his
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bills on the first of May in each year, and no boy shall be retained in the school whose fees remain unpaid on the first of June.
L. W. ANDERSON, CHAS. H. PORTER.
Committee.
After consideration this report was accepted by the Managers and it is now recommended to the Town as making a satisfactory settlement of this difficult question.
(Signed)
CHAS. F. ADAMS, For the Managers.
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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL MEETING,
MARCH 3, 1879.
NORFOLK, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Quincy, in said County,
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the Inhabitants of the Town of Quincy qualified to vote in Town Affairs, to meet at the TOWN HALL, in said Quincy, on MONDAY, the third day of March next, at 8 o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, viz : -
ARTICLE I .- To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2 .- To choose Town Officers.
ART. 3 .- To see if the town will choose three or six Com- missioners of Sinking Fund in conformity to Chapter 209, Sec- tion 7, Acts of 1875.
ART. 4 .- To act on the Reports of the Auditors of Accounts and School Committee.
ART. 5 .- To determine the method of repairing the High- ways for the ensuing year.
ART. 6 .- To determine how the Town Lands shall be im- proved during the ensuing year.
ART. 7 .- To revise the Jury Box.
ART. 8 .- To hear and act on the Report of the Selectmen on Guide Boards.
ART. 9 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars for repairing and decorating soldiers' graves ; the same to be expended under the direction of Post 88, of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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ART. 10 .- To see if the town will grant the use of the Town Hall, free, for free lectures.
ART. II .- To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to call all special Town Meetings at 7 1-2 o'clock in the evening.
ART. 12 .- To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen not to issue any licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors.
ART. 13 .- To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to preserve and keep on file, open to the inspection of the voters of the town, all petitions, remonstrances and papers of a like nature received by them.
ART. 14 .- To see if the town will allow the water-pipes to be tapped for domestic purposes, provided enough takers can be obtained to pay the expense of running the pump.
ART. 15 .- To see if the town will appoint a committee to de- vise a system of water supply and sewerage.
ART. 16 .- To see if the town will direct the Selectmen to appoint one or more night Police and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 17 .- To see what compensation the town will allow the Engineers, Members and Stewards of the Fire Department for their services for the current year.
ART. 18 .- To see if the town will purchase a Chemical En- gine and locate the same in the North District.
ART. 19 .- To see if the town will vote to pay the members of the L. W. Lovell Chemical Engine Company, for services for the year ending May Ist, 1878, the same pay as was paid to other members of the Quincy Fire Department.
ART. 20 .- To see if the town will build a reservoir on the plains, South Quincy, near the residence of Enos Ricker, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 21 .- To see if the town will extend the water-pipes from the junction of Elm and Hancock Streets to the junction of Franklin and School Streets; also, from the junction of
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Washington and Hancock Streets to the junction of Adams and Hancock Streets ; also from the engine house, through Cottage Avenue and Foster Street, to Washington Street.
ART. 22 .- To see if the town will cause two or more street lamps to be placed and maintained on Neponset Bridge.
ART. 23 .- To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to sell the land formerly used for the Crane school ; also, the piece of land owned by the town at the junction of Franklin and High Streets.
ART. 24 .- To see if the town will enlarge the Adams school- house, or make other provision for the accommodation of said school, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 25 .- To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to purchase a piece of land adjoining the Adams school-house lot, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 26 .- To see if the town will act upon the recommenda- tion of the Managers of Adams Academy, by repealing the vote of the town exempting citizens from the payment of any tuition in the Academy, and in lieu thereof, apply the entire net income of the lands given to the town by John Adams, to the payment of tuition fees of children of the citizens of Quincy attending the Academy ; or take such other action in the premises as may seem to the inhabitants expedient.
ART. 27 .- To see if the town will build a new Almshouse, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 28 .- To see if the town will accept the report of the Selectmen, to widen and straighten Cemetery Street from Cross Street to the Hall Cemetery.
ART. 29 .- To see if the town will accept the report of the Selectmen laying out Baxter Place from Elm Street to Union Street, as a town way.
ART. 30 .- To see if the town will accept the report of the Selectmen, extending Winthrop Avenue to Beale Street, as a town way.
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ART. 31 .- To see if the town will accept the report of the Selectmen, laying out Main Street from Sumner Street to South Street, as a town way.
ART. 32 .- To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to improve the southerly end of Phipps Street.
ART. 33 .- To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to widen Granite Street.
ART. 34 .- To see if the town will build a retaining wall on Furnace Brook, at the junction of Cross and Miller Streets, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 35 .- To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to improve that part of Sea Street known as " the Causeway," from Quincy's Woods to land owned by Josiah Babcock and others.
ART. 36 .- To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of improving the private causeway between Squantum Street and the New Squantum House lands.
ART. 37 .- To see if the town will establish a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the town debt, in the manner provided by law, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 38 .- To raise money to defray the necessary expenses of the town for the ensuing year.
ART. 39 .- To hear and act on the report of any committee, and choose any committee the town may think proper.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk, on or before the day and time appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands at Quincy, this Twentieth day of Feb- ruary, A. D., One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-nine
WILLIAM A. HODGES, - JOHN CHAMBERLIN,
SELECTMEN OF
WILLIAM N. EATON, QUINCY.
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NORFOLK, SS.
QUINCY, February 21, 1879.
Pursuant to the within Warrant I have notified the inhabi- tants of the Town of Quincy, herein described, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within mentioned, by post- ing up attested copies of this Warrant at ten or more public places in said town ten days before the time set for said meet- ing, and I have likewise caused the substance of said Warrant to be published in the Quincy Patriot, a public newspaper printed in said town.
[Signed] WASHINGTON M. FRENCH, Constable of Quincy.
A true copy of the Warrant.
Attest :
GEORGE L. GILL,
Town Clerk.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
MARCH 3, 1879.
The Annual Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Quincy, qualified as therein described, was held pursuant to the foregoing warrant, March 3, 1879.
Chose John Quincy Adams for Moderator.
Voted. That after the election of Town Officers under articles 2 and 3 of the warrant, the Moderator, without entertaining any other motion, shall declare this meeting adjourned to meet at this place on Monday, March 24, 1879, at one o'clock P. M., at which time the remaining articles of the warrant shall be con- sidered.
Voted. That the Moderator of this meeting, with the Select men elect, and seven citizens to be appointed by the Moderator,
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shall constitute a committee who shall consider the remaining articles in the warrant, and report at the adjournment of this meeting what action they consider it advisable for the town to take thereon, with suitable forms of votes for carrying out their recommendations.
Voted. To proceed to vote for Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, three Selectmen and Assessors, two School Committee for three years, two Trustees of the Public Library for three years, two Managers of Adams Academy for three years, two Managers of the Mount Wollaston Cemetery for two years, three Commis- sioners for the Sinking Fund for one, two and three years re- spectively, and fourteen Constables, on one ballot.
Voted. To close the polls at 3.15 o'clock P. M.
The result of the voting was declared by the Moderator to be the election of the following officers, viz. : George L. Gill for Town Clerk, [and the oath of office was administered by the Moderator]. Horace B. Spear for Town Treasurer. John Cham- berlin, William N. Eaton and Charles H. Porter, for Selectmen and Assessors. John Q. Adams and George L. Miller for School Committee for three years. Charles F. Adams, Jr., and Charles A. Foster for Trustees of the Public Library for three years. Charles H. Porter and Luther W. Anderson for Managers of Adams Academy for three years. John Hall and Edward A. Spear for Managers of Mount Wollaston Cemetery for two years. Abner B. Packard for one year, and Rupert F. Claflin for two years, and Charles F. Adams, Jr., for three years, for Commissioners for the Sinking Fund. Charles F. Pettengill, Joseph W. Hayden, Washington M. French, Edward A. Spear, William C. Seelye, Samuel T. Allen, George B. Pray, James E. Maxim, William Parker, Michael Walsh, Patrick Garrity, 2d, Walter H. Ripley, George H. Locke and Napoleon B. Furnald for Constables.
The following town officers were elected by yea and nay vote : John Chamberlin, William N. Eaton and Charles H. Porter for Overseers of the Poor and for Surveyors of Highways. Charles S. French, George Veazie and Ebenezer Adams for
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Fence Viewers. John Chamberlin for Pound Keeper. Richard Newcomb, Richard Newcomb, Jr., and Harris Farnum for Sur- veyors of Lumber. Walter H. Ripley, Patrick Mullen, Henry H. Faxon, William R. Brown, Thomas H. Williams, Charles F. Colby, John Gordon and William Faxon for Field Drivers. John Q. Adams, John Chamberlin, William N. Eaton, Charles H. Porter, William A. Hodges, J. Q. A. Field, H. M. Federhen, John Hussey, Elias A. Perkins, George Cahill and George F. Pinkham for the committee on the articles of the warrant. Wil- liam A. Hodges, Wm. Lyman Faxon and H. A. Keith for Audi- tors.
In accordance with the vote passed at the opening of the meeting it was adjourned to Monday, March 24, 1879, at one o'clock P. M.
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1879.
The Annual Town Meeting was held this day by adjournment from March 3d. !
Voted. That no motion to reconsider any vote shall be in order unless the mover thereof shall give notice of his intention so to do before the Town has passed from the consideration of the article under which the question was taken.
Voted. That the following articles of the warrant, which were acted upon in their due order, be indefinitely postponed : -
Article 14. Concerning Tapping the Water-pipes for pri- vate use.
Article 16. Concerning Appointment of Night Police. 18. 66 Chemical Engine for No. District.
66 19.
66 Pay of L. W. Lovell Engine Co.,
for 1877.
Article 21. Concerning Extension of water-pipes.
66 25.
Purchase of land for Adams School.
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66 Improvement of Squantum Cause-
way.
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Voted. To accept the reports of the Auditors and School Committee, and that the same be placed on file, and that the financial recommendations therein be considered under article 38 of the warrant.
Voted. That the highways be repaired under the direction of the Surveyors of Highways the ensuing year.
Voted. That the Town lands be improved under the direction of the Overseers of the Poor, and in connection with the Alms- house, the ensuing year.
Voted. To accept the list of Jurors as published by the Selectmen, after excusing Messrs, C. Patch, H. A. Gay, and B. N. Adams, and adding N. B. Furnald.
Voted. To accept the report of the Selectmen on guide- boards.
Voted. That the sum of two hundred dollars be appropriated, to be expended under the direction of Post 88, of the Grand Army of the Republic, in repairing and decorating the graves in Quincy of soldiers or sailors who died in the military or naval service of the United States, or the monuments erected to their memory, and that the Post submit an itemized account of the expenditures for publication in the next annual town report.
Voted. That the Selectmen shall grant the free use of the Town Hall, whenever it shall be requested by not less than two respectable citizens of the town, for a free lecture on any scien- tific, literary, or moral topic, subject to such reasonable regula- tions as they may deem expedient.
Voted. That the Selectmen arc instructed to call all special town meetings at half-past seven o'clock. P.M.
Voted. That the Selectmen are requested not to issue any licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors for the ensuing year.
Voted. That the Selectmen are instructed to preserve and keep on file, open to the inspection of the voters of the town, all petitions, remonstrances, and papers of a like nature received by them.
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Voted. That article 15, relative to a system of water supply and sewerage, be referred to a committee of five, with directions to report in the next annual book of Town Reports, upon the following points in detail. I. The general sanitary condition of Quincy. II. The actual condition of wells and other sources of supply of drinking water in use, and upon their liability to dangerous contamination. III. The condition of privies vaults, cesspools, drains, stables, yards, sinks and other sources of air and water pollution. IV. The best and most economical method of improving the sanitary state of the town. V. The feasibility and expense of a general supply of pure water, and a complete system of sewerage. The sum of two hundred dollars [$200] is hereby appropriated for this purpose, and Wm. Lyman Faxon, John A. Gordon, James H. Slade, Edwin W. Marsh and Josiah P. Quincy were chosen said committee.
Voted. To pay the Engineers of the Fire Department one hundred and twenty-five dollars [$125]. The members of the Fire Department ten dollars [$10] each. The Stewards of Engines No's. 2, 3, and 4, and L. W. Lovell Extinguisher and Hook and Ladder companies, forty dollars [$40] each. And the the steward of the W. M. French Hose Co. one hundred dollars [$ 100] for services the past year.
Voted. To build a reservoir near the residence of Enos Ricker, at South Quincy, at a point to be fixed by the Board of Engineers, provided the same can be completed for a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars [$500]. The same to be ex- pended under the direction of said Board, and said sum is hereby appropriated.
Voted. That the Selectmen are directed to place and main- tain two street lights on Neponset Bridge, the expense thereof to be defrayed from the appropriation for Street Lights.
Voted. That the Selectmen are hereby authorized to bargain, sell and convey all the right, title and interest which the town has in a certain lot of land at Germantown, formerly occupied by the Crane school-house, and as agents and attorneys for the
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town of Quincy duly empowered thereto by this vote, to exe- cute and deliver a sufficient deed thereof. ·
Voted. That the Adams school-house be enlarged and re- modeled upon plans to be approved by the School Com- mittee, provided the entire expense of such alterations shall not exceed eight thousand dollars [$8,000], and the said sum of $8,000, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby appro- priated for that purpose, the same to be expended under the direction of the School Committee.
Voted. That the vote adopted by the town, May 2, 1871, respecting the Adams Academy, viz .: " That the Managers may determine the qualifications, terms, and conditions upon which persons may be admitted to enjoy the privileges of the school, excepting that the citizens of the town shall never be charged any fee for admission or tuition in said Academy," is hereby amended by striking out the words "excepting that the citizens of the town shall never be charged any fee for admission or tuition in said Academy," and in their place inserting the fol- lowing : " but the entire net income annually derived from the lands given to the town by John Adams, shall, after the pay- ment of all proper charges for collection, care, repairs and keep- ing up the property, be applied to the payment of the tuition fee of the children of the townspeople attending the Academy."
Voted. That the location of a New Almshouse, in connection with the question of enlarging Mount Wollaston Cemetery east- ward, be referred to a committee of five persons, viz : Messrs. Edmund B. Taylor, Benjamin F. Curtis, William A. Hodges, John Q. A. Field and John H. Dee.
Voted. To accept the report of the Selectmen widening and straightening Cemetery Street from Cross Street to Hall Ceme- tery, and that the sum of two hundred dollars ($200), or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby appropriated for that pur- pose.
Voted. To accept the report of the Selectmen and accom- panying plan, laying out Baxter Place from Elm Street to Union
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Street as a town way, and the sum of two hundred and eighty- ty-five dollars ($285), or so much as may be needed, is hereby appropriated.
Voted. To accept the report and plan of the Selectmen ex- tending Winthrop Avenue as a town way from Lincoln Avenue to Beale Street, and the sum of fifty dollars ($50), or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby appropriated.
Voted. To accept the report of the Selectmen, with the plan, laying out Main Street as a town way from Sumner Street to South Street, and the sum of one hundred and ninety-five dol- lars ($195), or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby appropriated.
Voted. That all repairs needed on Phipps Street be made by the Surveyors of Highways, from the general appropriation for repairs of highways.
Voted. That the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) be expended on the widening of Granite Street, ordered by the County Commissioners, during the present season, under the direction of the Surveyors of Highways, and that the widening be begun at the westerly end.
Voted. That the Surveyors of Highways build a retaining wall on Furnace Brook, at the junction of Miller and Cross Streets, the expense thereof to be met from the general highway appropriation.
Voted. That the Surveyors of Highways are directed to ex- pend the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) in raising and improving that part of Sea Street lying east of Quincy's woods, which is lowest and most subject to overflow by the tide, said sum to be taken from the general appropriation for highway repairs.
Voted. That the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) is hereby appropriated to be assessed and set apart in the hands and under the direction of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, to be by them invested and held as a fund for the extin- guishment of the town debt.
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Voted. That the vote adopted in Town Meeting March 4, 1867, regulating the erection and care of street lights, is hereby repealed, and in its place it is voted that whoever erects and maintains lamp posts or lanterns for street lights as prescribed in said vote of March 4, 1867, shall have the same lighted at the expense of the town in such manner and under such regulations as the Selectmen may prescribe, provided. however, that no per- son shall receive for lighting any lamp more than ten dollars ($ 10) for any one year, nor shall the Selectmen contract or pay for lighting any lamp a greater sum than ten dollars ($10) for any full year.
Voted. That the Auditors for the ensuing year report in de- tail whether the method of keeping the town accounts is satis- factory, and what alteration or new method is desirable and practical.
Voted. That the Selectmen are authorized to appoint a Col- lector of Taxes, to be paid a rate of compensation to be decided by them.
Voted. That the following appropriations be made for Town expenses, viz. : -
Pay of teachers, fuel, &c., $26,480 00
Transportation of pupils,
800 00
Repairs of school buildings, &c.,
2,020 00
High school building alterations,
1,000 00
Incidental expenses of schools,
2,400 00
Books and stationery for schools,
300 00
Superintendent of Schools,
2,000 00
Enlargement of Adams school-house,
8,000 00
Support of poor, 7,000 00
Repairs of town buildings, 500 00
Pay of town officers (Chairman of Selectmen $700, two others $500 each, for all others $1,200),
2,900 00
Discount and abatement on taxes, 5,000 00
Interest on town debt, 5,000 00
Amount carried forward,
$63,400 00
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Amount brought forward,
$63,400 00
Miscellaneous expenses,
2,000 00
Repairs and care of bridges,
1,000 00
Mount Wollaston Cemetery,
800 00
Old Cemetery, Hancock Street,
100 00
Repairs of highways (general),
7,000 00
Miscellaneous expenses of highways, removing snow, &c., 2,000 00
Public library, books and expenses,
2,000 00
Fire department, pay, &c.,
4,625 00
Police station and vagrancy,
500 00
Street lights,
2,000 00
Two reservoirs at West Quincy,
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Decoration of soldiers' graves,
200 00
Reservoir at South Quincy,
500 00
Widening Cemetery Street,
200 00
Laying out Baxter Place,
285 00
Laying out Winthrop Avenue,
50 00
Extension of Main Street,
195 00
Widening and straightening Granite Street,
1,000 00
Sinking fund for town debt,
3,000 00
Committee on water and sewerage,
200 00
Total,
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Voted. To assess on the polls and estates of the Town the sum of ninety-one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dol- lars, sixty-one cents.
Voted. That this meeting be dissolved.
A true copy of the record.
Attest : GEO. L. GILL, Town Clerk.
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APPENDIX.
REGISTRY.
OF
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, IN 1879.
NOTE. - It is desirable that the Town Clerk should be noti- fied of all errors and omissions, that a correct record may be obtained.
BIRTHS.
Date.
Name.
Parents.
Jan. 6, Dora Matilda Johnson.
6, Emily M. Smith.
6, John A. Kelly.
John and Anne.
-7, Walter S. Mckenzie.
Gordon and Katy.
8, Warren P. Coon.
George W. and Emily E.
9, Sarah E. Lord.
James J. and Sarah C.
10, Ann E. Harkins.
William and Mary.
16, Mary E. Crowley. 16, - Gardner.
Timothy and Julia.
20, Mary M. McGuane.
Frank and Casilda. Michael and Hannah.
24, Bernard H. Gerry.
24, Daniel F. Shea.
26, Edward Moynihan.
26, Margaret A. White.
26, Paul E. Foley.
26, Timothy White.
27, Alfred E. Dell.
28, Ethel H. Sparrow.
30, Isabella Fletcher.
30, Helen Gavin.
30, Flora B. McDonald.
Thomas J. and Mary E. Patrick and Catherine. Alfred A. and Aola H. Edmund S. and Maria D.
James B. and Lucy S.
Patrick H. and Margaret T.
James and Margaret.
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John and Betty.
Francis and Kate.
Thomas H. and Katy.
Daniel and Catherine. Michael and Maria. Benjamin and Mary J.
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Date.
Name.
Parents.
Feb. I, Henry P. Miller.
2, Emma H. R. McLean.
3, Thomas McGunnigle.
4, Arthur LeClair.
5, Daniel Moriarty.
6, Charles N. Baxter.
Charles N. and Louise.
Josiah V. and Emily A.
Edward and Mary Ann.
Warren B. and Ellen S.
8, --- Stoddard.
8, Catherine E. Follen.
II, Mary G. Miller.
II, Charles A. Wickson.
13, Henry W. Moore.
15, Thomas F. Curley. 17, Victoria M. Mabie. 18, Robert McAuliffe.
19, John H. Lingley. 24, Mary A. Curley.
25, Maggie M. McDonald.
25, Catharine J. Gilrain. 25, George T. Dunn. 26, Arthur C. Jones.
Mar. I, Francis A. Tate. I, Robert G. Ford. 2, Maggie I. Burnet.
5, Henry N. Sanborn. 5, Daniel P. Cullinnan. 6, John J. Fitzgerald. 6, John M. Clements. 6, - Kimball.
Io, Mary A. Graham. 10, Frankie McGrath. 10, George H. McGrath. Io, Arthur J. Delory. Io, Lauretta Delory. 13, Honora Moriarty.
John L. and Lizzie A.
William and Sarah.
Thomas and Ann.
Charles D. and Sarah. Michael and Ellen.
6, Clara A. Packard.
7, Isabella J. Byrne.
8, Ellen G. Cobbett.
Charles H. F. and Maria M. Michael and Catherine. Fabian and Mary J. Amos R. and Lydia G.
John G. and Louisa W. John P. and Anne E.
Thomas and Amarilla. Robert and Mary.
John W. and Catherine. Patrick and Mary.
Angus E. and Maggie.
James and Bridget.
James and Catharine.
Charles H. and Isabella.
James and Kate. Robert and Bessie.
John and Catherine K.
Eben P. and Cora F.
Jeremiah J. and Margaret. Timothy and Hannah. David and Hannah.
Francis E. and Hannah. John R. and Mary E. B. Terrence and Anne. Terrence and Anne. .
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