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Respectfully yours, JOHN S. D'EVELYN, Auditor.
To MESSRS. GEORGE T. DAY, ARTHUR WRIGHT, ALBERT P. RICHARDSON, Selectmen of Westford.
APPRAISAL OF PERSONAL PROPERTY,
AT THE ALMSHOUSE IN WESTFORD, 1881.
4 horses. $600 00
Harnesses 165 00
Horse blankets. 6 00
1 buffalo robe. 3 00
Curry comb and brush. 1 75
11 COWS 330 00
1 bull
10 00
3 tons English hay. 60 00
18 tons stock hay.
217 00
11% tons cow fodder. 6 00
250 lbs. meal.
3 13
9 hay forks ..
2 00
15 meal boxes.
5 00
1 windmill.
4 00
1 corn sheller.
4 00
25 bushels corn 17 00
212 busliels rye 2 50
1 00
2 mowing machines. 45 00
2 flails .. 50
20 flour barrels. 4 00
8 meal bags.
60
5 sacks. .
50
1 drag rake
50
3 bushels of beans
6 00
3 harrows.
12 00
1 string bells.
1 15
75 lbs. beef.
3 75
5 iron bars.
5 00
300 lbs. salt pork. 30 00
75 lbs. ham 8 00
1 washing machine. 4 00
Meal chest and meal.
2 00
10 gals. soap and cask 2 50
60
11 gals. pickles.
4 00
Beetle and wedges.
2 00
1 ditching knife
50
3 bog hoes .
3 (0
Shafts and axle.
2 00
2 water tubs.
1 50
5 ladders and hooks 8 00
4 ox carts. 140 00
1 farm wagon.
70 00
1 hay wagon.
15 00
23 fowls 19 50
8 turkeys 8 00
Amount carried forward, $1813 68
Amount brought forward, $1813 68
1 horse wagon 40 00
1 ox sled. 1 00
1 rope 50
Neck yoke and eveners. 9 00
Carpenters' tools. 20 00
1 horse sled. 14 00
1 large 4-horse sled. 38 00
4 swine 32 00
S chains 6 00
1 cow bell. 50
1 horse rake 29 00
Scythe and snath 4 00
4 50
1 sleigh. ; 00
1 wheelbarrow 1 00
1 copper kettle 2 00
5 wood saws 5 00
4 saw horses. 2 00
6 garden rakes 3 00
7 baskets . : 00
: 00
9 tie chains . 1 80
3 40
3 ox yokes
6 ploughs
23 00
2 cultivators
5 00
4 shovels.
2 00
8 spades
6 00
2 manure hooks
1 50
3 picks ..
2 25
1 butter-worker 50
Wrenches and hammers. 2 00
33 chairs. 6 60
1 caster. 1 00
80 lbs. lard 10 00
so bushels potatoes. 48 00
313 bushels onions 4 50
10 bushels roots. 5 00
2 fly traps. 1 50
60 lbs. pop corn 1 80
Amount carried forward, $2192 08
3 manure works.
3 75
6 lbs. hard soap.
4 hoes.
1 feed basket 3 00
1 grindstone
1 hay cutter. .
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Amount brought forward, $2192 0S
2 apple parers. 1 50
75 lbs. cheese 12 00
6 lbs. butter 1 80
1 Franklin stove. 1 00
24 milk pans. 6 00
3 wash basins 75
Tin ware. 11 00
2 water pots. 1 50
Stove blacking and brush. . 10
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¿ ton of coal. 3 50
25 cords woods 75 00
4 brooms. 1 00
75
3 air tight stoves.
12 00
1 clothes wringer
6 00
1 butter worker
1 00
1 churn
2 50
11 butter tubs.
50
Candle moulds
1 50
Shovel and tongs
1 00
2 cranberry rakes.
3 00
5 candlesticks
75
30 pounds of sugar 3 00
10 chests.
5 00
3 bushels salt . 1 80
Clothes' dryer
1 00
1 garden weeder.
60
Tumblers .
2 00
1 clothes line. . 1 00
1 case drawers and contents
2 50
1 chopping knife and tray .
75
7 flat irons.
2 50
1 porcelain kettle. 1 25
1 rifle
3 00
Hand-cuffs.
2 00
Bed-pan
1 50
Injection pipe
00
5 rocking chairs.
5 00
Dinner bell. .
75
11 table cloths and towels .. 00
2 sickles
50
2 clocks. 2 00
Rubber blankets.
50
8 tables. 15 00
2 pairs eye-glasses 2 00
1 cook stove. 35 00
1 cradle :00
Amount carried forward, $2633 13
Amount brought forward, $2633 13
5 shawls 5 00
3 looking glasses. 1 00
1 gallon measure. 50
40 gallons vinegar 5 00
22 casks .. 11 00
5 barrels of apples. 5 00
660 gallons of cider
56 00
1 gallon of molasses.
60
15 dozen candles.
2 50
Oil and can.
1 75
3 wash tubs.
2 00
1 coal stove.
8 00
Boxes and spices
50
3 jugs.
75
Lamps and lanterns. 3 50
Knives, forks and spoons. .. 3 50
Crockery . 10 00
3 pairs steelyards. 3 50
2 earthen pots
75
Bedsteads, beds and bedding 260 00
1 cabinet chair 2 00
Mop handle and wringer.
1 00
6 window curtains . 25
150 pounds dried apples. 14 00
Total $2839 43
THADDEUS BLODGET, A. W. CUMMINGS,
Appraisers of Property.
1 sieve.
1 pound tea.
LIBRARY REPORT.
The Directors of the Public Library respectfully submit their Twenty-Sixth Annual Report, for the year ending February 11, 1881 :
Number of books purchased. 165
Public documents received from the State. 6
.6 66
66 " United States. . 20
Unitarian Monthly Review, presented by the American Unitarian Association. 12
Other books presented.
1
Whole number of books added during the year.
204
Books withdrawn from circulation on account of being worn ont . 41
Number of issues of books. 6285
Whole number of books in the Library
3853
Number added since the publication of the last supple- ment
920
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Receipts.
Unexpended balance from last year's appropriation. $ 5.13
Annual appropriation for new books, 1880-'81. 100.00
Dog tax appropriated 141.59
Fines . 5.45
$252.17
Payments.
March 25, 2nd Vol. History of Middlesex County. 7.50
May 17, Willard Small, bill of books.
41.63
June 15, 66 7.27 66 66
July 13, Lee & Shepard, bill of books. 90.81
July 30, " 66 66 66
40.51
Nov. 1, 66 66 6.49 66 66
Amount carried forward
$194.21
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Amount brought forward.
$194.21
Paid Bacheller, Dumas & Co., for binding books in 1879-'80. 23.75
Paid Bacheller, Dumas & Co., for binding books in 1880-'81. 26.20
Paid for pair of steps for library use.
1.00
Total 245.16
Balance of cash in the hands of the Directors
7.01
$252.17
The number of issues of books is not so large this year as last. This may be readily accounted for from the fact that for about six weeks of the time, in which the Town House was being repaired, the Directors were obliged to remove the books and close the Library.
This gave an opportunity to remodel the shelves. which under the old arrangement had become so crowd- ed as not to afford room for all the books belonging to the Library. By this change, made at small expense in comparison with the good accomplished, sufficient room has been secured for all books that will be added for sev- eral years.
It is now ten years since the books have been cata- logued, although two small supplements have since been printed-the last four years ago. There are now nine hundred and twenty books which appear neither in the catalogue nor supplements, and these being the latest books added are in by far the most demand. This is a cause of much complaint among those who take out books, and in consequence we consider the circulation of the Library is considerably decreased. We recommend, therefore, one hundred and seventy-five dollars to be raised and appropriated for making and printing a new catalogue to supply this demand.
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The usual wear of the Library causes an annual ex- pense for binding which your directors regret the more as the sum available for the purchase of new books is by so much diminished. Until this year the expense of binding has been included in the town's printing bill, but your Selectmen have decided that they have not the proper authority to continue this expenditure. The amount available for the purchase of new books has been seriously diminished this year from this cause.
We recommend that the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be raised for the purchase of books the coming year.
ARTHUR WRIGHT, ELIZA A. BABBITT, ABIEL J. ABBOT,
Directors of Public Library.
LIST OF JURORS, 1881.
The following names will be reported at the Annual March meeting, to be placed in the jury-box, subject to revision by the town :
EDWARD PRESCOTT,
CYRUS HAMLIN,
WM. H. H. BURBECK,
SAMUEL G. HUMISTON,
NOAH PRESCOTT,
WM. L. KITTREDGE,
WAYLAND F. BALCH,
ALBERT P. RICHARDSON,
JOSEPH F. PRESCOTT,
ISAAC P. WOODS,
JOHN WILSON,
ALBERT S. REED,
WILLIAM C. EDWARDS,
EDWARD C. COOLIDGE, AMOS LEIGHTON,
FRANK L. FLETCHER.
GEORGE T. DAY, ARTHUR WRIGHT, ALBERT P. RICHARDSON,
Selectmen of Westford.
HEZEKIAH CUMMINGS, ALVIN G. POLLEY,
GILMAN J. WRIGHT,
WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING, MARCH 7, 1881.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To Wesley O. Hawks, one of the Constables of the Town of Westford, in said County, GREETING :
You are hereby required in the name of the Com- monwealth aforesaid, to notify and warn all the inhabi- tants of said town qualified to vote in elections and also in town affairs, to meet at the Town House in said West- ford, on Monday, the seventh day of March, being the first Monday in said month, at 9 o'clock, A. M. (the polls will be opened at 9 o'clock, A. M., and closed at 1 o'clock, P. M.), to act upon the following articles, to wit :-
1-To choose a Moderator.
2-To hear Report of Selectmen and act in relation to the same.
3-To hear Report of Committee to reckon with the Town Treas- urer and act in relation to the same.
4-To hear Report of Overseers of Poor and act in relation to the same.
5-To hear Report of School Committee and act in relation to the same.
6-To hear Report of Directors of Town Library and act in rela- tion to the same.
7-To hear Report of Selectmen on Guide Boards and act in rela- tion to the same.
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8-To hear Report of Auditor of the accounts of the Overseers of Poor and act in relation to the same.
9-To bring in their votes for Town Clerk, three Selectmen, three Assessors, three Overseers of the Poor, Town Treasurer, two School Committee for three years, three Fence Viewers, Six Constables, three Appraisers of Property at Poor Farm, three Directors of Town Library, all on one ballot.
10-To raise money to defray Town Debts and Charges, and direct how the same shall be paid into the Treasury, or act in re- lation to the same.
11-To raise money for Reading and Writing Schools.
12-To choose a Collector of Taxes.
13-To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, under the written direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time, to meet the demands on the Treasury, or act in relation to the same.
14-To see if the Town will accept the List of Jurors as reported by the Selectmen, or act in relation to the same.
15-To raise money to repair Roads and Bridges, and direct by whom and in what manner the same shall be expended.
16-To choose all other Town Officers, necessary to be chosen, by hand vote, or act in relation to the same.
17-To see if the Town will authorize and instruct the Overseers of the Poor to cause pipes to be laid to carry water to Town Farm buildings, or act in relation to the same.
18-To see whether the Town will, by its vote or otherwise, ask the Legislature to extend to women who are citizens the right to hold Town Offices and to vote in Town affairs on the same terms as male citizens.
19-To see if the Town will vote to pay the expenses of the stone steps at Town House, or act in relation to the same.
20-To see if the Town will vote to prohibit non-residents from taking or killing any kind of game within the limits of the Town, or act in relation to the same.
21-To see if the Town will choose a Committee to audit the Re- ports of the Overseers of the Poor from 1863 to the year 1879, or act in relation to the same.
22-To see if the Town will vote to change the time of holding its Annual Meeting from the first Monday in March to the first Monday in April, or act in relation to the same.
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23-To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to take such steps as are necessary to secure a flagman at the Stony Brook Railroad crossing at Westford depot, or act in re- lation to the same.
24-To see if the Town will vote to prohibit the taking of fish with a spear in any of the waters within the limits of the Town, or act in relation to the same.
25-To see if the Town will vote to widen and straighten the Sarah Cummings Hill Road, so-called, or act in relation to the same.
26-To see if the Town will vote that the School year hereafter shall elose annually with the 1st of January in each year.
27-To see if the Town will vote to accept the Legacy with the con- ditions upon which it was bequeathed to the Town, by will of the late Mrs. Sally B. Burrill, or act in relation to the same.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by post- ing up true and attested copies at Town House and each Depot in said Westford, eight days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of holding the meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands and seals, this twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
GEORGE T. DAY, ARTHUR WRIGHT, ALBERT P. RICHARDSON, Selectmen of Westford.
RE-DEDICATION OF WESTFORD TOWN HALL.
The Town Hall having been repaired and improved was dedicated December 9, 1880. Exercises were held in the afternoon, consisting of addresses by Gov. Long and others and music by the Dunstable Cornet Band. A promenade concert and dance was held in the evening. The afternoon exercises were free to all. The amount of money received from the concert and dance after paying expenses was $72.00, which has been expended as fol- lows : for one chandelier for the stage, one chandelier for lower entrance hall, and for twenty single and double bracket lamps, also one large lantern for outside of building, at a cost of $66.50, leaving $5.50 in the hands of the Committee.
G. T. DAY,
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For the Committee.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF WESTFORD,
INCLUDING THOSE OF THE
SELECTMEN, TOWN CLERK, TOWN TREASURER, ASSESS- ORS, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR AND LIBRARY COMMITTEE,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 11, 1882.
ALSO,
TOWN WARRANT FOR ANNUAL MEETING, TO BE HELD MARCH 6, 1882.
LOWELL, MASS .: STONE, BACHELLER & LIVINGSTON, PRINTERS, 18 JACKSON STREET. 1882.
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OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF WESTFORD. 1881.
TOWN CLERK, EDWIN R. HODGMAN.
SELECTMEN, GEORGE T. DAY, ARTHUR WRIGHT, ALBERT P. RICHARDSON.
ASSESSORS,
ASAPH B. CUTTER, HENRY CHAMBERLIN, CHARLES H. FLETCHER.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, EDWARD PRESCOTT, ALVAN FISHER,
DAVID REED.
TOWN TREASURER, SHERMAN D. FLETCHER.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
J. HENRY READ, EDWIN R. HODGMAN, OLIVE ANN PRESCOTT,
J. MURRAY CHAMBERLIN, MOSES EDWARDS, HEZEKIAH CUMMINGS.
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COLLECTOR OF TAXES, ISAAC E. DAY.
CONSTABLES,
JOHN LANKTREE, JOSEPH WALL,
SAMUEL A. HAMBLIN,
WILLIAM C. EDWARDS, WESLEY O. HAWKS, JOHN LOGUE, ISAAC E. DAY.
FENCE VIEWERS,
WILLIAM KITTREDGE, GEORGE HUTCHINS, ALVIN G. POLLEY.
APPRAISERS OF PROPERTY AT THE POOR FARM,
ARTEMAS W. CUMMINGS, THADDEUS A. BLODGETT, JOHN M. FLETCHER.
LIBRARIAN, CLARA M. WILEY.
DIRECTORS OF TOWN LIBRARY,
ABIEL J. ABBOT,
ELIZA A. BABBITT, ARTHUR WRIGHT.
WEIGHERS OF IIAY, COAL, ETC.,
JOHN B. FLETCHER, JACOB SMITH,
ARTHUR WRIGHT,
GEORGE W. HEYWOOD,
ABIEL J. ABBOT, SAMUEL A. HAMBLIN,
W. H. H. BURBECK, WILLIAM C. EDWARDS,
SHERMAN H. FLETCHER, JOHN W. DAY,
JOHN M. FLETCHER, JOHN E. T. HAZEN,
NAHUM H. WRIGHT, CHARLES E. W HIDDEN,
EDWARD A. HAMBLIN, ARTHUR C. WHIDDEN,
JOHN A. HEALEY.
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JANITOR OF THE TOWN HOUSE, TRUE A. BEAN.
SURVEYORS OF WOOD AND LUMBER,
EPHRAIM A. STEVENS,
WESLEY O. HAWKS,
THOMAS DREW,
CHARLES E. WHIDDEN,
GEORGE H. PRESCOTT,
FRANK O. DECATUR,
JACOB SMITH,
GARDNER A. PERHAM,
CHARLES L. FLETCHER,
ALBERT S. READ,
GILMER STONE,
WILLIAM C. EDWARDS.
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, TRUE A. BEAN.
FIELD DRIVERS,
ABIEL J. ABBOT, JOSEPH B. HEALD,
DANIEL W. PARKER,
CHARLES W. BLOOD,
JASON E. PEEBLES,
BENJAMIN F. NUTTING,
ISAAC W. GREEN,
WILLIAM M. WHITNEY,
ALLEN FISKE,
WAYLAND F. BALCH,
JACOB SMITH,
CLARENCE A. WEBSTER,
JOHN C. MURPHY,
JOSEPH H. WILSON.
CULLER OF HOOPS AND STAVES, ALLEN R. PERHAM.
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MARRIAGES,
Recorded by the Town Clerk of Westford, A. D. 1881.
DATE.
NAMES.
AGE.
RESIDENCE.
BIRTHPLACE.
Mar. 4
George Edward Mountain. Alice Couture .
24
Westford.
Canada. Canada.
Mar.
8 Samuel Boothroyd.
31 Westford.
England.
Fanny Gandy ..
25
Westford.
England.
April 16
John William Hughes
21
Westford.
England.
Sarah Ellen Calvert .
21
Westford.
England.
April 24 Frank C. Wright
20
Westford.
Westford.
Aurilla M. Decatur
19
Westford.
Westford.
June 11 Phinehas P. Trowbridge.
58
Westford.
Westford.
Eliza S. Trowbridge.
57
Lowell.
Ashburnham.
June 22 David Reed.
57 Westford.
Acton.
Harriet Rebecca Hayden
29
Groton ..
Groton.
June 22 Frank Calvert.
55
Lowell.
Scotland.
Mary Elizabeth Flint.
44
Westford. Lynn.
Lynn.
Harriet Ann Bailey
22
Westford.
Westford.
July 26
John Feeny Jennette Carmichael
21
Westford.
Maynard.
Aug. 6 Julian Whitney. Sarah Gray.
21
Lowell.
N. Brunswick.
Aug. 31 Thomas Edward Symmes .. Nancy Almira Hale
23
Dunstable.
Nashua, N. H.
Sept. 10
Alvarado Shaw.
36
Lowell.
Lowell. England.
Sept. 15
Abbot L. Kebler.
24
Cincinnati, O. Cincinnati, O.
20
Westford.
Westford.
Sept. 17
Elizabeth Ann Wood.
27 Westford.
England.
Sept. 20
Perley Ackland Carkin. Augusta Alexander.
19
Westford.
Chelmsford.
Oct. 26
Henry Ward Church Carrie Emeline Smyth
26
Westford.
Lowell, Wis.
Nov. 2 Nath'l Abraham Taylor
44
Carlisle.
Carlisle.
Ellen Frances Davis.
36 Westford.
Westford.
Nov. 3 Charles Henry Miner.
25 Westford.
Littleton.
Clara Mabel Hildreth.
21 Westford.
Westford.
Nov. 21 John F. Callahan
23 Westford.
Lowell.
Nov. 30 Alfred Woods .
34
Westford.
St. Johns, Newf.
1 Julia Ann Wheeler
24
Boston.
Bowd'nham, Me
Dec.
1 Joseph Smith ..
54
32 Pawt'ket, R.I.
Attleborough.
Dec.
7 John Barnet Carmichael
21 Westford.
Maynard.
Annie Laurie Follansbee
21 Westford.
Westford.
Dec. 16 Charles Rhodes ..
26 Maynard.
England.
Carrie May Gilson.
20 Westford.
Chelmsford.
Marriages recorded,
23
Marriages between natives,
. 12
Marriages between foreigners, 4
Marriages between native and foreign, 7 .
29
Westford.
England.
June 30
Stephen Henry Castell.
25
27
Westford.
Ireland.
2S
Westford.
Westford.
37 Westford.
Westford.
Ruth Richardson
27
Lowell.
Catharine Mabel Abbot. Herbert Busby.
21
Richmond, Me Richmond, Me
31
Westford.
Spencerp't, N. Y.
Annie Bradley.
19 Lowell.
Lowell.
Pawt'ket, R.I. England.
Mary J. Berry
23
Westford.
Boston.
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BIRTHS,
Recorded by the Town Clerk of Westford, A. D. 1881.
DATES.
NAMES.
PARENTS' NAMES.
Jan. 8. . . .
6.
11 ....
Annie May Davie.
Lewis P. and Jennie B. (Floyd) Palmer. John and Jennette (McArthur) Davie.
66
15 .... Napoleon Levasseur.
Napoleon and Eugenie (Bergeron) Levasseur.
66 25 .... George Henry Rowley.
Charles Henry and Martha C. (Brown) Rowley.
30 . ..
Fannie Elizabethi Hutchins.
Jolm Jr. and Sarah E. (Nickles) Hutchins.
Feb. 4 ....
Thomas Henry Lackin.
John and Mary (Gannon) Lackin.
66
10 . .
Georgianna Clements.
John and Mary (Peabody) Clements.
66
16 .... Helen Amanda Clark ..
Paul F. S. and Amy (Tower) Clark.
66 25. . ..
Harriet Craven Sargent.
Frederic G. and Hepsibah (Craven) Sargent.
Mar. 16.
Tucker.
66
25.
Joseph Lamott Frank Reginald McLenna
Ralph and Angelle (-) Tucker. Levi and Rosa ( Buford) Lamott. Alvin A. and Lillian P. (Spalding) Mc Lenna.
April 2 .... 6 .. . . 66 10 ....
- Sullivan.
Timothy and Ellen (Mahoney) Sullivan.
66 12 ....
Frank Trull.
Alpheus N. and Jennie (Slater) Trull.
66 20 ....
Joseph Ernest Gibson
John and Selina (Perron) Gibson.
May 6 ... .
Willard Nathaniel Millis
Mary Ella Riley.
66
30 ... Chester Earl Reed.
66 31 .. . . Cravenl
June 9 .... Clara Robinson .
Frederic and Lydia (Rhodes) Robinson.
11 .... William Handley
66 11 .... Arthur Abbot Decatur
66
13 .... Ethel Howard Woodbury
Luanna Battles Decatur
Clarence R. P. and Addie (Roberts) Decatur. David H. and Ada F. (Stanley) Shattuck.
66 26 ....
William James Donnelly.
Michael and Ellen (McGlinchy) Donnelly.
30 .... Frederic Eugene Reed.
David and Harriet R. (Hayden) Reed.
29 .... Lizzie Constantineau.
Nelson and Mary (Raymond) Constantineau.
29 .... Albert Edson Walkden.
James A. and Lydia (Kelly) Walkden.
Aug. 6. 16
- Paul
Joseph and Eliza -) Paul.
Paul
Joseph and Eliza (- -) Paul.
2 ... 2 .... 3 ... . .6 24 ....
Mabel Annie Julia Moran
David and Julia F. (Murphy) Moran.
Anna Elizabeth Larkin
Corn Neal and Bridget D. (Bradley) Larkin.
Marcella Kiernan.
Patrick F. and Mary Ann (Ward) Kiernan.
Sept.
Jane Matilda Bicknell
Loammi C. and Jenny (Pacey) Bicknell.
66
Taylor.
John and Ellen ( -- ) Taylor.
Mabel Chase Brown ...
Henry L. and Martha G. (-) Brown.
Oct. 2 .... .. 2 .... Mildred Eells Brown. 66 2 .. . . Emma Frances Castell.
Henry L. and Martha G. (- -) Brown.
66 24 .... 66 24 ....
Clarence Henry Gerry
Dec. 2 ....
Abraham Kempfield
66
Clarence Horne.
Sweatt
66 27 ....
66
29 .... 66 29 .... 66 29 .. . .
Annie Turnbull Harris
Births recorded, 52
Males, 26
Females, 26
Native parentage,
26
Foreign parentage, 17
Native and foreign,
9
23 .. . .
Ella May Shattuck .
William H. and Susan (Donahue) Decatur. Alfred and Emma (Snow) Woodbury.
66 July
1 .... Agnes Malvina Alloe.
Henry and Mary (Plaguin) Alloe.
66 25 .. .. 1 .... 21 .... 22 ....
Flora May Wright
Willie M. and Addie S. (Hosmer) Wright.
- Dufort
Stephen Henry and Harriet A. (Bailey) Castell. Solomon and Philamen (Mariseau) Dufort. George W. and Emily J. (Burgess) Gerry. Abraham and Mary (Murphy) Kempfield. Josiah W. and Lomie S. (Blanchard) Blodgett. George F. and Abby .J. (Cummings) Hoine. Oscar H. and Permelia V. (Kempton) Sweatt. George W. and Mary E. (Mellen) Heywood.
66 12 .... 18 .... 25 ....
Charles Alfred Blodgett.
Albert Whittemore Heywood. Stiles William W. and Katie (McCartee) Stiles. Charles A. and Sarah (Turnbull) Harris. Albert Mial Harris. Charles A. and Sarah (Turnbull) Harris.
Daisy Blanche Blood.
Charles W. and Flora B. (Eaton) Blood.
66 10 ....
George F. and Mary B. ( Whitney) Millis. Walker and Hannah (Pollard) Riley. Bird C. and Stella A. (Perry) Reed. Joseph and Mary M. (- --- ) Craven.
Daniel and Catherine (Mahoney) Handley.
20 ....
Jennie Elizabeth Palmer.
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DEATHS, Recorded by the Town Clerk of Westford, A. D. 1881.
AGE.
DATES.
NAMES.
YEARS.
MONTHS.
DAYS.
January
4
Lemuel C. Horton
49
4
25
George Tyler, .
37
66
19
John P. Blodgett
73
3
8
66
20
Mary F. Richardson
78
7
66
22
Jacob Blodgett
80
66
28
Roxanna Lawrence
68
3
28
February 2
66
7
Lydia P. Harwood
91
1
8
Albert W. Frederick
59
4
5
66
26
Nancy Abbot Hill
76
9
25
.6
3
Nancy E. Metcalf
59
3
29
66
12
George F. Clark
Still born
-
66
15
Ellen E. Collins
39
9
22
66
15
Betsey Read
77
4
19
60
19
-
..
2
Annie Towle
87
11
1
6.
6
Catherine Lynch .
80
-
29
14
Jane Wayne
36
. 10
23
15
Susan E. Whitney
74
4
16
66
20
Jessie Gardner
20
7
27
June
1
William Prinn .
31
8
14
66
16
Abbie P. Hodgman .
52
3
16
66
23
Parmelia Kendall
97
1
10
Rachel D. Reed
80
8
6
July
16
James D. Flynn .
3
10
28
August
13
Arabella R. Prescott
33
5
28
Septem'r 7
7
George Briggs Dupee
60
8
20
66
25
Adeline Canney
42
October
5
Michael Shearin
78
-
-
-
-
5
15
Novem'r 22
24
Ellen M. Sullivan
28
-
-
Decem'r'16
Sybil Elizabetlı Coburn
65
2
13
31
William Laws.
93
2
11
Whole number recorded,
Number who died in Westford,
Number brought to Westford for burial,
Male. Fem.
Fem.
Under one year,
4
5
Between 40 and 50 years,
Between 1 and 5 years,
4
0
50
60
1
2
5 " 10
.
0
0
60
66
70
66
1
4
0
0
70
66
80
66
3
6
66
80
90
66
2
5
30 ‘ 40
.
3
5
90
" 100 66
.
1
3
9
George A. Coburn
2
13
Georgianna Clements
4
March
2
Lester P. Collins
1
Helen Amanda Clark
12
18
Patrick Curry. Jr.
22
-
April
1
Harriet M. Falls
35
10
16
Infant child of Timothy Sullivan
-
-
6
9
Charles Homer Cummings
May
15
Betsey K. Groce .
86
11
16
Sally Chandler
39
1
6
14
Almira Leighton
80
6
-
Infant child of John Loftus
Still born
26
24
Caroline Regally .
79
24
Anna Elizabeth Larkin Rufus Patten
79
18
John Davie .
37
10
24
28
Abiah M. Wright
89
8
-
26
Infant child of Frederic Seiffer
Still born
Male. 1
1
10 "' 20
20 “ 30
1
2
·
.
.
30
George A. Wright
3
6
Drusilla Read .
61
-
8
12
Bridget Carroll
70
94
Lucy Adelaide Fletcher
10
Infant child of Solomon Dufort
Orville Richardson .
81
54
41
13
66
.
66
.
66
21
7
23
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT ON DOGS.
MIDDLESEX SS., December 31, 1881.
Edwin R. Hodgman, Clerk of the Town of Westford, has paid into the Treasury of said County of Middlesex One Hundred Seventy-eight 100
80 Dollars for Dog- Li- censes for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, as per his account on file .- $178.80.
AMOS STONE, County Treasurer.
OWNERS OR KEEPERS OF DOGS LICENSED, 1881.
Abbot, Abiel J.
Abbot, John W.
Fletcher, Andrew
Fletcher, Benjamin M. Perham, Gardner A.
Fletcher, Samuel
Prescott, Nathan,
Fletcher, Sherman D.
Reed, Charles W. (2) Reed, William, 1st Reed, William, 2d
Blodgett, Josiah W.
Flynn, John Ford, Moses B. Foley, Mary
Frederick, George S.
Sherman, Daniel W.
Gardner, Robert
Shugrue, Patrick Smith, Mary A.
Butterfield, Lucien O. Carkin, Charles H. Carkin, Isaac W.
Gilson, James H. Greig, John Hamlin, Cyrus
Sullivan, Florence
Chamberlin, Henry
Sweetser, Nathaniel Tower, Eli
Conley, Kate
Trull, Alpheus N.
Curren William
Vose, William M.
Day, George T.
Hutchins, John, Jr. Ireland, George H.
Whitney, Hiram
Decatur, Clarence R. P. Keecy, Joseph
Whitney, Julian
Decatur, Frank O.
Leighton, Amos
Whitney, Sidney D.
Decatur, John H.
Lewis, Frederic H.
Desmond, Fanny
Martin, Frederic Martin, John
Whitney, William M. Worcester, Israel S. Wright, Arthur
Downs, Matthew F. (3)
Wright, Edward E.
Drew, Frank
Wright, Josiah O. (2)
Drew, Thomas
Elliot, George H.
Norrie, John
Whole number, . 91
Males, Females, 5
86
Abbot Worsted Co. Alexander, George Banister, Frank W. Bean, True A. Blaisdell, Alvin J.
Blodgett, Wilford G. Burke, Dennis Burnham, Charles F.
Gerry, George W.
Stephens, Rheinhold
Stiles, William W.
Comey, William S.
Hamblin, Samuel A. Holdsworth, Daniel Hurd, Phendeus H. Hutchins, George
Wilson, Joseph H.
Day, Isaac E.
Donahue, Florence
McElligott, Patrick McGlinchy, James Nesmith, George W.
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