Town of Westford annual report 1886-1895, Part 3

Author: Westford (Mass.)
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Westford (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 896


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Sob, Lie Low by the Fire. Ewing


Last of Peterkins. L. P. Hale.


Mary Weadon. 66


Queen of the Pirate Isle. Bret Harte


New Granada.


66 23 278


42


Uncle, Peep and I. M. C. Clarke.


550


With Wolfe in Canada. G. A. Henly.


552


Wrecked on a Reef. From French. 576


What Katy Did Next. S. Coolidge 564


Young Carthaginians. G. A. Henly 563


Yacht Club. Oliver Optic.


545


G.


Afraja. Theodore Mügge.


1216


Atalanta in the South. Maud Howe.


1217


Agnes Surreage. E. S. Byrnes


1260


About Money. Miss Muloch


1257


Bostonians. Henry James.


1226


Blossom Bud. Julie P. Smith


1237


Coming Race. Lord Lytton.


1206


Christmas in Narragansett. E. E. Hale


1210


Color Studies. Thomas A. Janvier.


1211


Colonel's Daughter. Capt. Chas. King.


1222


Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine. F. R. Stockton, Christmas Wreck. 66


1244


Domesticus. Wm. A. Butler


1205


Donavan. Edna Lyall.


1219


Dove in the Eagle's Nest. Author Heir of Redcliffe


795


Fair God. Lew Wallace


1263


Face to Face.


1225


Golden Mediocrity. Hamerton


1234


Golden Days. Edna Lyall


1256


House at High Bridge. Edgar Fawcett.


1254


How They Learned Housework.


C. Goodwin


1262


Happy Dodd. R. T. Cooke.


1252


Iron Crown ..


1221


Kidnapped. R. L. Stevenson


1235


Late Mrs. Null. F. R. Stockton


1228


My Lady Pokahontos. J. E. Cooke.


1212


Mill Mystery. Anna H. Green.


1214


Marion's Faith. Chas. King


1242


Midge. H. C. Bunner ...


1245


Madonna of the Tubs. E. S. Phelps.


1258


Minnie Harmon. T. W. Brown ...


262


Not Like Other Girls. Rosa Casey


1251


Our Little Ann. Mrs. Ewing


1209


On Both Sides. F. C. Baylor


1224


Old Helmet. Susan Warner.


1218


Poverty Grass. L. G. Wyman ..


1243


Queenie Hetherton. M. J. Holmes


1238


Rico and Wiseli. Louise Brooks


1194


Ruhainah. Evan Stanton


1233


Ruby's Husband. M. Harland.


1239


Rankell's Remains. Barrett Wendell.


1261


Somebody's Neighbors. R. T. Cooke.


1227


Sphinx's Children. 66


66


1232


Story of Margaret Kent. H. Hayes


1223


Sons and Daughters.


1253


Tale of a Lonely Parish. Marion Crawford.


1213


Two College Girls. H. D. Brown ..


1230


Transformed. Florence Montgomery


1246


Their Pilgrimage. C. D. Warner ...


1255


Valentine. Wm. W. Astor. 1208


Violetta. Mrs. A. L. Wistar. 1229


1207


What's Mine's Mine. Geo. McDonald


.


We Two. Edna Lyall.


. 1220


1241


Doris and Theodora. M. Vandergrift.


1250


Miss Melinda's Opportunity. H. Campbell. . . .


1236


43


Wind of Destiny. A. S. Hardy. 1231


Ways and Means. M. Vandergrift 1240 White Heron. Sara O. Jewett. 1247 Won by Waiting. Edna Lyall. 1259 When the Battle Was Fought. Craddock. 1248


Zeph. Helen Jackson. 1215


H.


American Political Ideas. John Fiske 297


Marvels of Pond Life. H. J. Slack. 301


Microscope and Its Revelations 300


New Philosophy of Albert W. Paine


299


Origin of Species. Chas. Darwin . 296


Pepacton. John Burroughs. 298


Students' Manual of Histology. Chas. H. Stowell. 302


Section Cutting, for Microscope. S. Marsh 303


Will Power. J. M. Forthergill


295


I.


Blue Jackets of '61. W. J. Abbot 427


Concord, 1635-1689. C. H. Walcott. 428


Fall of Constantinople. Edwin Pear 416


Greek Islands and Turkey After the War. H. W. Field. 414


Groton, Boundary Lines, Old Groton. S. A. Green 430


66


66 Earliest Records, 1662-1707. 431


During the Indian Wars. 60


432


66 Epitaphs, Old Burying Ground. 66


433


Lancaster, 1643-1725. H. S. Nourse. 429


Stories of the Nations :


Chaldea. Z. A. Ragozin. 423


Carthage. Arthur Gilman


. 421


Germany. S. B. Gould 422


Hungary. A. Vainberg 420


Jews. J. K. Hosmer. 426


Norway. H. H. Boyeson 418


Normans. S. O. Jewett. 425


Saracons. Arthur Gilman 419


Spain. E. E. and S. Hale. 424


Twenty Years of Congress. J. G. Blaine. 2d vol. 417


Queen's Empire. Joseph Moore, Jr. 415


J.


Aristocracy in England. Adam Badeau. 903


Bugle Echos. F. F. Browne ... 871


Democracy, and Other Addresses. James Russell Lowell. 886


Encyclopedias. 11 vols ..


892-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-900-1-2


66 Military. Edward Farrow. 3 vols. .877-8-9


Familiar Talks on Some of Shakespeare's Comedies. E. W.


Latimer 882


George Eliot's Poetry. R. E. Cleveland. 876


John Jerome. Jean Ingelow 880


Liber Amoris. II. B. Carpenter ..


Light on the Hidden Way. 884


881


Literature. II. Grimm.


870


Philosophy of Religion


874


Psychology. 875


Speeches. Josiah Quincy


SS8


Triumphant Democracy. Andrew Carnegie. 883


Wonderland of Work .. 887


Works of Chas. Lamb. 3 vols 889-90-91


Money and the Mechanism of Exchange. W. S. Jevons Outlines of Metaphysics. 872 873


885


Practical Philosophy .


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LIST OF JURORS, 1887.


The following names will be reported at the annual March meeting, to be placed in the Jury Box, subject to revision by the Town :


ASAPH B. CUTTER, W. H. H. BURBECK,


MELBOURNE F. HUTCHINS,


AUGUSTINE W. CARKIN, CHARLES GRIFFIN,


HUGH DAILEY,


ISAAC E. DAY,


HENRY HAMLIN,


A. RICHMOND LEIGHTON,


C. R. P. DECATUR,


ALEC FISHER,


JEPTHA WRIGHT,


JOHN HORAN,


FRANK L. FLETCHER,


A. R. CHOATE, NOAH PRESCOTT.


GEORGE T. DAY, ALBERT P. RICHARDSON, ISAAC W. CARKIN,


Selectmen of Westford.


Westford, Mass., February 19, 1887


SAMUEL G. HUMISTON, EDWIN GOULD,


JOHN W. DAY,


CHARLES H. FOLLANSBEE,


M. H. A. EVANS, HEZEKIAH CUMMINGS,


WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING. MARCH 7, 1887.


Commonwealth of Massachusetts.


MIDDLESEX SS.


To Isaac E. Day, one of the Constables of the Town of Westford, in said County.


GREETING :


You are hereby required in the name of the Common- wealth aforesaid, to notify and warn all the inhabitants 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 the Report of Selectmen, and act in relation to the same.


3. To see if the Town will accept the Report of the Auditor ap- pointed to audit the accounts of the Town Treasurer, or act in relation to the same.


4. To see if the Town will accept the Report of the Overseers of the Poor, or act in relation to the same.


5. To hear Report of School Committee, and act in relation to the same.


. To see if the Town will accept and adopt the Report of the Directors of the Town Library, or act in relation to the same.


7. To see if the Town will accept the Report of the Selectmen on Guide Boards, or act in relation to the same.


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8. 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 the Town Farm, Directors of Town Library, all on one ballot.


9. To raise money to defray Town debts and charges, and direct how the same shall be paid into the Treasury, or act in relation to the same.


10. To raise money for Reading and Writing Schools.


11. To choose a Collector of Taxes.


12. 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.


13. To see if the Town will accept the list of Jurors, as reported by the Selectmen, or act in relation to the same ..


14. To raise money to repair roads and bridges, and direct by whom and in what manner the same shall be expended.


15. To choose all other Town Officers necessary to be chosen, by hand vote, or act in relation to the same.


16. To see if the Town will vote to License the sale of Ardent Spirits, or act in relation to the same.


17. To hear report of Selectmen in regard to Bear Hill Road, so called, and act in relation to the same.


18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to grade the yard about School House No. 8, or act in relation to the same.


19. To see if the Town will vote to cement the cellar floor of the Graniteville School House, or act in relation to the same.


20. To see if the Town will vote to raise the sum of $130, to do the work asked for in the 19th Article, or act in relation to the same.


21. To see if the Town will vote to hold its Annual Meeting here- after on the third Monday in March, or act in relation to the same.


22. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to appoint some suitable person or persons to enforce the Liquor Law, or act in relation to same.


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23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100, to pay expense incurred in enforcing the Liquor Law, or act in relation to the same.


24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $25, to pay the services of a truant officer, or act in relation to the same.


25. To choose one School Committee for one year to fill the unexpired term of the late T. A. Blodgett.


26. To see if the town will vote to discontinue the employment of Counsel by the year, or act in relation to the same.


AND YOU ARE DIRECTED to serve this warrant by posting up true and attested copies at the 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 nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.


GEORGE T. DAY, ALBERT P. RICHARDSON, ISAAC W. CARKIN,


Selectmen of Westford.


ANNUAL REPORTS


OF THE -


TOWN OFFICERS


OF TIIE


TOWN OF WESTFORD,


INCLUDING THOSE OF THE


SELECTMEN, TOWN CLERK, TOWN TREASURER, ASSES- SORS, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, AND LIBRARY COMMITTEE,


FOR TIIE


YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1888.


ALSO, TOWN WARRANT FOR ANNUAL MEETING TO BE HELD MARCH 19TH, 1888.


LOWELL, MASS. MORNING MAIL PRINT: NO. 18 JACKSON STREET, 1888.


ANNUAL REPORTS


OF THE


TOWN OFFICERS


OF THE


TOWN OF WESTFORD,


INCLUDING THOSE OF THE


SELECTMEN, TOWN CLERK, TOWN TREASURER, ASSES- SORS, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, AND LIBRARY COMMITTEE,


FOR THE


YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1888.


ALSO, TOWN WARRANT FOR ANNUAL MEETING TO BE HELD MARCH 19TH, 1888.


LOWELL, MASS. MORNING MAIL PRINT: NO. 18 JACKSON STREET, 1888.


OFFICERS


OF THE


TOWN OF WESTFORD, 1887.


TOWN CLERK. GILMAN J. WRIGHT.


GEORGE T. DAY,


SELECTMEN. ALBERT P. RICHARDSON, ISAAC W. CARKIN.


ASSESSORS.


ASAPH B. CUTTER, A. RICHMOND LEIGHTON, ISAAC E. DAY.


OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. EDWARD PRESCOTT, ISAAC W. CARKIN, GEORGE E. GOULD.


TOWN TREASURER. NAHUM H. WRIGHT.


COLLECTOR OF TAXES. ISAAC E. DAY.


SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. TRUE A. BEAN.


CULLER OF HOOPS AND STAVES. WILBERT E. PARSONS.


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BOARD OF REGISTRARS OF VOTERS.


WESLEY O. HAWKES


Term expires, May 1, 1888


FRANK L. FLETCHER, Chairman . Term expires, May 1, 1889


NELSON L. TUTTLE


Term expires, May 1, 1890


The Town Clerk is a member ex-officio, and Clerk of the Board.


The foregoing have been sworn. Of the following only those marked by a star have been sworn:


CONSTABLES.


WILBERT E. PARSONS, JOHN LANKTREE, *ISAAC E. DAY,


CHARLES E. WHIDDEN, ALFRED S. DAVIS, *FRANK C. EDWARDS.


FENCE VIEWERS.


WILLIAM KITTREDGE,


*ALVIN G. POLLEY, *WAYLAND F. BALCH.


WEIGHERS OF HAY, COAL, ETC.


J. B. FLETCHER,


*J. M. FLETCHER,


E. A. HAMLIN, *S. A. HAMLIN,


S. H. FLETCHER, *JACOB SMITH,


ARTHUR WRIGHT,


G. W. HEYWOOD,


A. J. ABBOTT,


W. C. EDWARDS,


*W. W. JOHNSON,


*J. W. DAY.


N. H. WRIGHT,


*C. E. WHIDDEN,


J. A. HEALEY,


A. F. CAMERON.


SURVEYORS OF WOOD, LUMBER, ETC.


C. L. FLETCHER,


*T. E. SYMMES,


GILMER STONE,


*C. E. WHIDDEN,


*JACOB SMITH,


G. A. PERHAM.


*THOMAS DREW, *G. H. PRESCOTT,


A. S. REED,


W. C. EDWARDS,


E. A. HAMLIN,


J. A. HEALEY, *F. H. LEWIS.


FIELD DRIVERS.


*HENRY CHAMBERLIN, JERRY SULLIVAN, 2d., J. WILLARD FLETCHER, FRANK L. FURBUSh, FRED A. SWEATT, HAMMET D. WRIGHT,


CYRUS HAMLIN, *W. W. JOHNSON,


WILLIAM M. WHITNEY, HERBERT V. HILDRETH,


ALLAN C. SARGENT, HUGH DALEY, CHARLES W. HARRIS, SAMUEL WARNER, WM. L. KITTREDGE, WARREN J. GOULD. WALTER J. SLEEPER, FRED SPAULDING.


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No oath of office is required of the remaining officers. SCHOOL COMMITTEE.


FRED A. FISHER, Chairman Term expires March, 1888


HIRAM DANE


Term expires March, 1888


ARTHUR WRIGHT


Term expires March, 1889


J. SIDNEY MOULTON, Sec'y and Supt.


Term expires March, 1889


ALVIN G. POLLEY Term expires March, 1890


J. WILLARD FLETCHER


Term expires March, 1890


APPRAISERS OF PROPERTY AT TOWN FARM. ARTEMAS W. CUMMINGS, WILLIAM M. WHITNEY, ARTHUR WRIGHT.


DIRECTORS OF TOWN LIBRARY.


MRS. JOHN W. ABBOTT, WALTER J. SLEEPER,


FREDERIC A. FISHER.


LIBRARIAN. CLARA M. WILEY.


JANITOR OF TOWN HOUSE. JOSEPH. H. WILSON.


SUPERINTENDENT OF REPAIRS ON HIGHWAYS AND KEEPER OF ALMSHOUSE. HENRY D. PIERCE.


BIRTHS, Recorded by the Town Clerk of Westford, 1887.


DATE.


NAMES.


PARENTS' NAMES.


Jan. 7. . Harold Wm. Hildreth.


Herbert V. and Stella (Reed).


Jan. 12. James Albert Hughes.


James and Melissa (Provost).


Feb. 11. Warren Wright.


Frank C. and Mary A. (Decatur).


Feb. 22. Emma Jenny Hodgman


Fred L. and Mary E. (Butterworth).


Feb. 25. James Minter Sargent.


Allan C. and Eva E. (Minter).


Feb. 25. Samuel Watson Heeley


Samuel and Rebecca.


Mar. 6. ClarenceHerbert McClenna Mar.27. Ruth Rowley


Alvin A. and Lillian P. (Spaulding). Charles H. and Martha C. (Brown). Frank and Eugenie (Lemire).


Apr. 7 Laura Agnes Fournier


Apr. 28 William Herbert Brown.


Apr. 29 Glorvina Allan.


Jos. Henry and Effie A. (Sweetser). Frank and Leverine (St. Louis).


May 2. . Elmer Leon Dow.


James M. and Maria (Fennell).


May 12. Linus Sleeper Stewart.


Cornelius and Harriet E.


May 24. Ward Augustus Palmer


Lewis P. and Jennie B. (Floyd).


May 25. Frederick Andrew Johnson June 3. Randolph Hoyt ..


Andrew and Lydia (McOskie). Hezekiah and Elizabeth.


June 3. Alice Russell Gould ..


George E. and Dora C. (Russell).


June 8. Chas. Reuben Dexter Kecy


Joseph H. and Emeline S. (Sargent).


June 14 Ellen Maud Shugrue.


Chas. Francis & Rose A. (Rushworth)


June 24 William Jeremiah Murphy. June 30 Aaron Tuttle .


Nelson L. and Lizzie (Perham).


July 7. . Mary Elizabeth Shannon .. July 28. Alexand'r Daniel McCarter Aug. 13 Elmer Trull.


Edward and Kate (Dunn). William and Elizabeth.


Aug. 16 Hugh Gerald Daily


Hugh and Kate (Dufort).


Aug. 20 Grace Edith Bennett.


George L. and Mary L. (Nickerson).


Sept. 9. Edith Marion Sweatt.


Fred A. and Edith E. (Lewis).


Sept. 11 Sarah Mabel Cummings.


Irving T. and Jennie D. (Cheeney).


Joseph O. and Alfrada.


Frank C. and Sarah Jane (Griffin).


Frank C. and Sarah Jane (Griffin.) Charles H. and Almeda (Grey).


Edward A. and Mary E. (Riddick).


Oct. 28. William Carol Furbush.


Frank L. and Maggie C. (Murphy). William H. and Bertha.


Herbert C. and Mary.


Daniel and Annie M. (Star).


Alexander and Mary.


Ephraim Reed and Mary E. Brown.


Dec. 25. Alice Quinn .


Thomas V. and Mary J. (Murphy). James and Charlotte (Lowther).


Dec. 29. Christina Lowther Mann ..


John B. and Maggie J. [Marshall).


Sept. 23 Fred Cloudman Perkins


Sept. 30 Edwin Clarence Hildreth.


Sept. 30 Arthur Griffin Hildreth ..


Oct. 5. . Fred Henry Bicknell


Oct. 11. Philinda G. Moore. .


Nov. 4. George Henry Petherick.


Nov. 14 Walter Herbert Catchpole.


Nov. 17 William Robert Casey.


Nov. 24 Dennis Wainwright.


Dec. 14. William Brown


John C. and Nellie (Dailey).


Whole number recorded, 43; males, 29; females, 14. Of native par- entage, 25; foreign parentage, 12; mixed parentage, 6. One birth oc- curring in a previous year recorded, and one omitted by request from this report.


MARRIAGES, Recorded by the Town Clerk of Westford, 1887.


DATE.


NAMES.


AGE.


RESIDENCE.


BIRTH-PLACE.


Jan. S. .


Frank Corcoran


22 Lowell .


Calais, Me England


Jan. 20.


William L. Kittredge. 36


Westford 66


Feb. 1 .. Jeremiah J. Sullivan 29


66


Lowell Saxonville


Mar. 5. Edwin B. Currier. Lena Estelle Balch.


20 Westford


Westford


Mar. 12 William Henry Stone Sarah Augusta Gale. 20


28 Groton 66


Cambridge


Apr. 3. Joseph D. Wilkerson. Mary Ann Young 34


68 Westford


Roxbury


Sheffield, N.B. . . Detroit, Mich ...


June 6. James Franklin. Louisa Constantino


27 Providence, R.I. Providence, R.I. 20 Westford


June 15 Frank C. Drew 25 Jennie B. Greig. 25


66


Maynard.


Sept. 1. William Edward Symmes .. 401


66


Westford


Laura Elizabeth Noyes


35


Lowell


Sept. 7. David L. Greig


22


66


Westford Chelmsford.


Clara A. Jeffroy.


21 Chelmsford


Sept. 13 George Warren Blodgett .. 21 Harvard Charlotte Augusta Bishop. Sept. 14 Herbert E. Fletcher 25


31 Westford 66


Westford


Carrie D. Hill.


21 Sunderland, Vt ..


Oct. 12. Willie N. Nutting


Ellen Chandler. 21


Oct. 12. Edmund St. Louis


22 Lowell.


Mary Alloe


21 Westford 6€


Oct. 18. Frank Henry Hildreth 26


Annie Maria Lawrence. 24


66


Nov. 2. Samuel T. Hildreth.


37


66


Clara A. Burnham 32 66


Dec. 3 .. Stearns Maitland Knight. . Carrie M. Fletcher 18


35


66


Dec. 17. Major Simpson. 20


Hannah Rebecca Dudley . 21


Dec. 21. George Luddington.


25


Annie Bower. 23


Dec. 25. James Frederick Smith 30


Mary Luella Tower


31 So. Braintree


Dec. 30. S. Ward Moore. 23 Lowell.


Australia


Lizzie A. Moore 19 Westford


Littleton.


No. of marriages recorded 22


No. solemnized in Westford. 6 Westford grooms 15 Westford brides 16 Native grooms. 17


. Foreign grooms, .


Native brides


19


Foreign brides. .


3


Second marriages of grooms.


2


Solemnized by Westford clergy-


men.


6


5


19 Westford


Adeline M. Fisher. 26


Catherine Sweeney


30 Saxonville


21 Concord.


Carlisle.


Groton Carlisle


Apr. 20 Sterling Moore ..


Helen L. Townsend.


19


22 Littleton.


Lowell. Westford.


Westford


Leominster


24 Westford 66


Sunderland, Vt .. Groton .. Westford


Becancour, Can. Lowell. Westford . 66


Concord, N.H .. Groton .. Westford Bradford, Eng. . Ainsworth, Eng. Yorkshire, Eng. Oxfordshire, En. Brooklyn, N. Y .. Westford


..


66


66


66


Maggie Hughes


DEATHS, Recorded by the Town Clerk of Westford, 1887.


DATE.


NAMES.


AGE.


Jan. 19 ..


Eunice W. (Spiller) Fletcher-widow of George W.


86


2


Jan. 21 ..


Maria (Hildreth) Tuttle-widow of Charles ..


85


11


23


Feb. 1 ..


Ruth E. (Sargent) Young-widow of Daniel.


65


9


3


Feb. 27 .. Sarah (Walker) Holdsworth-wife of Daniel.


79


4


16


Mar. 2 .. Peter B. Prescott ..


73


6


18


Mar. 5 .. Martha Emma Searles.


21


8


17


Mar. 9 .. Robert Wilkerson.


90


8


28


Mar. 16 ..


Thomas Brown.


56


Mar. 17 ..


Amittia (Simonds) Flagg-widow of Daniel ..


74


11


10


Mar. 17 ..


Ella Maria Searles ...


13


2


14


Mar. 20 ..


Johanna (Courtney) Riney-wife of Timothy D.


41


3


.


Mar. 27 ..


Ira B. Searles. ..


20


2


7


Mar. 31 ..


Lena V. (Blodgett) Dane-wife of Lewis C.


31


7


19


Apr. 8 ..


David Leo Moran.


6


10


29


Apr. 13 ..


Clarissa (Wilkins) Nutting-widow of Asia.


90


9


11


Apr. 13 ..


Martha W. (Cummings) Prescott-widow of Jonas


75


10


2


Apr. 15 ..


Ada B. Eaton.


15


8


..


Apr. 16 ..


George N. Reed.


28


4


3


Apr. 20. .


Levi Clinton Heywood


7


27


May 7 ..


Louisa (Lawrence) Fletcher-widow of Abijah.


79


10


23


May 22 ..


Henry F. Putney ..


19


4


25


May 25 ..


Daniel Holdsworth


76


. .


..


May 27 ..


Catherine (Daly) Sheahan-wife of Andrew.


52


..


. .


May 29 ..


Mary Elizabeth Hughes


1


8


29


June 4 ..


Mary Shearon.


43


..


..


June 6 ..


Gerty May DeCatur


2


4


5


June 7 .. Nathaniel Sweetser


67


2


2


June 9. . Charles F. Coburn.


26


3


26


June 13 ..


Clara Ellen Blodgett.


19


1


6


June 14 .. Matthew A. Downs ..


14


6


..


June 17 .. Jane (Connor) Berry-wife of Alexander


75


0


24


June 18. . Mary (Parker) Farwell-widow of Samuel ...


97


1


10


June 18. .


Abigail (Bicknell) Hutchinson-wife of Hezekiah.


73


5


28


July 6 .. Edith Elizabeth Caunter


10


12


July 7 .. James Garrett ...


34


.


.


July 7 ..


Ada M. (Day) Polley-wife of David A.


22


6


5


July 18 ..


Margaret ( Manning) Favro-widow of P. Oliver.


66


1


July 25 .. Emily (Tyng) Lew-widow of Osmond.


83


..


July 28 .. William Henry Willis.


1


7


25


Aug. 1 .. John Dane ...


88


3


3


Aug. 5 .. David G. Reed


2


6


15


Aug. 17 ..


Gracie M. Horne.


1


2


28


Sept. 4 ..


Minnie Smythe.


2


2


Sept. 7 ..


Clotch (Pelantier) Raymond-wife of Thomas.


76


4


Sept. 8 ..


Abbie Walker.


31


22


Sept. 16 ..


Mary Frances Daley


25


7


..


73


3


3


11


6


25


Oct. 10 ..


Charles H. Winchester


65


11


. .


Oct. 11 ..


Philinda G. Moore ...


..


..


1


Oct. 20 ..


Eva (Minter) Sargent-wife of Allan C.


25


18


Oct. 27 ..


Kate Callahan


16


24


Nov. 23 ..


Luther Wilkins.


72


4


6


Nov. 30 ..


Blood ..


..


. .


Dec. 15 ..


Nellie A. Heywood.


18


9


24


Dec. 10 ..


Nancy Sweetser


69


..


..


Males.


Females.


Total


Whole number recorded .


21


38


59


Whole number of deaths in town.


20


33


53


Residents of Westford ...


21


33


54


Non-residents brought to town for interment


3


3


Number of interments in town ...


13


24


37


·


.


.


1 3


27


Sept. 16 ..


Peter A. Sheahan.


Sept. 19 .. Alexander Berry


46


.


. .


..


. .


Aug. 12 ..


Allan Lawrence Blood


7


June 16 .. Bridget (Norton) Quinn-wife of John ...


..


Yrs.


Mos.


Dys.


Oct. 5 .. Lena A. Heywood.


. .


TOWN CLERK'S REPORT ON DOGS.


EAST CAMBRIDGE, May 31, 1887.


Received of Gilman J. Wright, Town Clerk of Westford, Mass., $37.20, on account of Dog Licences, as per his return of May 30, 1887. J. O. HAYDEN, County Treasurer.


EAST CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 29, 1887.


Received of Gilman J. Wright, Town Clerk of Westford, Mass., $114.60, on account of Dog Licences, as per his return of Nov. 28, 1887. J. O. HAYDEN, County Treasurer.


Total amount paid into County Treasury. $151.80 No. of Dogs licensed prior to date of last return, Nov. 28, 1887:


Males at $2.00 each, 79. . $158.00


Females at $5.00 each, 2. 10.00


$168.00


Deduct Clerk's fees, 81 licences, at 20 cents.


16.20


Balance


$151.80


Number of Dogs licensed since last return, Nov. 28, 1887-Males 41, Females 0, total 41. Total number of licences issued to date-Males 120, Females 2, total 122. Number of Dogs returned by Assessors, Males 138, Females 4, total 142.


Owners and Keepers of Dogs who have Procured Licenses for the Year Ending May 1, 1888.


Abbot & Co.


Edwards, W. C.


Hutchins, S. E.


Searles, C. J. Sheahan, A.


Bannister, F. W.


Feeney. J.


Ingalls. G. W. Irish, G.


Sherman, D. W.


Bean, M. A. Bicknell, A. Blaisdell, A. J.


Flagg, E. H.


Johnson, W. W.


Smith, G. H.


Fletcher, B. M. Keenan, W.


Stephan, R.


Blank.


Fletcher, E. E.


Larkin. J. Leighton, A. R.


Stone, G.


Burke, D.


Fletcher, H. A.


Lewis, F. H.


Sullivan. Jer. 2d.


Campbell, J.


Floyd, S.


Martin, F.


Sweatt, F. A.


Carkin, G. F.


Frederick, G. S.


Meades. D H.


Sweetser, J. F.


Carkin. I. W.


Gardner. R.


Merrill, D.


Sweetser, N.


('armichael, I).


George, R. N.


Millis. G. F.


Taylor. J. P.


Carmichael. J. Carrick, W. Carver, W. R.


Gower. W.


Morse. F. M.


Ward. D.


Catchpole, H. E.


Greig. D. L.


Murray, A. Mrs.


Wayne. J.


Comey, W. S.


Griffin, C. M.


Nesmith. G. W. Nutting. B. F.


Whitney, II.


Cuminings, E. M.


O'Brien, C.


Whitney, J.


Cummings, I. T.


()'Brien, J.


Whitney, J. H.


Dane, H.


Hawkes. W. O.


O'Brien. J. H.


Whitney. W. M. (2)


Davis, A. S. Day. G. T. Day. I. E.


Healey, J. A. Hildreth, F. C.


Prescott, E.


Wilson, J. H.


Decatur, C. W.


Prescott. J. F.


Worcester, I. S.


Decatur, C. R. P.


Putney, S. F.


Wright, A. S.


Decatur, W. H.


Quinn, J.


Wright, C. A.


Downs. M. F. (2)


Humiston, S. G. Hutchins. J. Hutchins, M. F.


Reed. (. W. Reed, W. (2)


Wyman, W. W. Yapp, G.


Drew, F. C. Dupee, G. F.


Giles. I.


Moore, E. A.


Vose, W. M.


Gould, G. E.


Moore, S.


Wall. P.


Craven, E.


Griffin, F. A.


Healey, J. Mrs.


O'Brien, W. Fem


Wilkerson, J.


Perham. G. A.


Wilson. J.


Horne. G. F. Howard, C. L


Whitney, E. J.


Hall. J. H. Hamlin, C.


Stevens, E. A.


Blodgett, L. M. Fem. Fletcher, H. (3)


Felch. J. K


AUDITORS' REPORT.


To balance cash on hand February 12, 1887 .. $2,009 60 To cash of I. E. Day, collector, 1886 607 34 By cash paid on account schools. $1,336 95


By cash transfrered to N. H. Wright, treas- urer elect. 1,279 99


$2,616 94 $2,616 94


WESTFORD, March 7, 1887.


I have examined the accounts of J. B. Heald, from February 12th to date, and find them correct.


GILMAN J. WRIGHT, Auditor.


WESTFORD, Feb. 27, 1888.


TO THE SELECTMEN OF WESTFORD :


GENTLEMEN-I have examined the accounts of Nahum H. Wright, Town Treasurer, for the year ending at date, and find them correctly cast and properly vouched.


The receipts and payments made by him during the year are as follows :


RECEIPTS.


To balance case on hand March 7, 1887. . $1,279 99


cash borrowed 5,000 00


from state corporation tax, 1887 1,264 59


Amount carried forward.


$7,544 58


( 11 )


Amount brought forward ..


$7,544 58


To cash from state corporation tax, 1886, balance 5 76


66


66 bank tax, 1887 ..


759 42


66 soldiers' families, 1886. 612 00


66 66 indigent soldiers, 1886.


252 00


school fund, 1886-7


175 73


66 armory rent, 1887


175 00


66


County Treasurer, dog tax, 1887.


165 87


66


J. H. Wilson, janitor town house


59 00


65


A. Fisher, auctioneer's license. .


2 00


Town of Groton, scholars, No. 3.


12 50


66


M. H. A. Evans, rent Keyes' Pond.


1 00


66


J. S. Moulton, books sold.


19 00


66


George Webster, old iron.


6 15


billiard table license.


3 00


66


I. E. Day, collector, 1885, in full.


726 53


66 1886


765 53 66


66


66 1887, before Oct. 6 ....


9,045 37


66


66 1887, before Dec. 6. . .


1,048 44


66


66 1887, after Dec. 6 .. ... 153 60


$21,532 48


PAYMENTS.


By cash for notes and interest


$7,147 50


state,tax, 1887. .


1,372 50


“ county tax, 1887.


641 70


" Overseers of Poor.


1,576 72


on orders for incidental and other ex- penses.


6,368 43


on account of schools


4,415 31


on hand


10 32


$21,532 48 -


J. HENRY READ, Auditor.


ASSESSORS' REPORT.


The Assessors of the Town of Westford submit the following report :


Value of buildings exclusive of land, May 1, 1887 . . $484,315 00 land exclusive of buildings, May 1, 1887 377,723 00




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