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2) voted and reconsiderd the votes that were past at our last march and may meeting relating to the division of our middle and west school wards
3) voted by the town their exceptance of the jury men laid before them this meeting is adjurend to ye 26th day of August next at two a clock after noone
at a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dudley regu-
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lerly assembled at our meeting in sd town on ye 26th day of August 1760 upon adjurnment from ye 10th of july last
I) voted to put out the Building of our pound by the great
2) voted 9-10-0 lawfull money to m' Elishua Corbin for building a good stone pound By m' willm Carturs sd pound to be 3 foot and a half thick at bottom of said wall and about eighteen or twenty intichs thick at top and six foot and a half high with a teer of good flatt stons on the wall above the six foot and half high sd pound to be two rod squar within the walls with a good gate well hangd the town finding the irons sd pound to be compleated by the first of may next
. Dudley August ye 30th 1760
Worcester ss to either of the constables of the town of Dudley Timothy foster or Joseph Burnul greeting you are hearby requird forthwith to warn or notify the several inhabi- tants of the town of Dudley qualifyd to vote in town affairs to meet at our meeting house in sd town on tusday ye 9th day of Sept next at three a clock after noone then and there to act upon the following articles
I) to chuse a moderater for sd meeting
2) to se if the town will agree to the division of our middle and west school wards as they where laid before the town at our last anenal meeting in march or come into some other method as they shall think fitt
3) to se if the town will grant any sume or sumes of money to be assest on each or either of sd divisons to build there school houses and also to build sd houses
and make due return of our proceedings as you will answer your defalt at the peril of law
By order of the select men
Benja" Conant Town Clerke By vertue of this warrant I have notifyd the inhabitants of Dudley to meet at time and place within mentioned
Timothy foster Constable
warrant
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meeting
at a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dudley regu- lerly assembled at our meeting house in sd town on tusday ye gth day of Sept 1760
I) voted m' Joseph upham moderater for sd meeting
2) voted to stand by the division of our middle and west school wards as they where laid before the town at our last march meeting
3) voted 13-6-S to be raisd upon each division for building sd school houses
4) voted phinehus mixer Eben" Davison Sam" may Joshua Healy jun' Joseph Burnul Eben' Edmunds jun" Sam" Corbin philip Corb and Joseph upham for three committees to build sd school houses
Dudley September ye 22ª 1760
Know all men by these presents that I will™ Cartur of Dudley in the county of Worcester do hearby give grant and discharge for myself and heirs all my right and tittle to a certain peace of land on the west side the road near my house oposit against the old pound containing thirty eight foot squar whereon to set a pound for the towns use during the towns pleasure and whenever the town ses cause to remove the pound sd land to return to sd will" Cartur as wittness my hand
Andred Darby John Nickolls
William Carter.
warrant Worcester ss To Duncan Campbell Esq' one of his majestys justies of peace for sd county shew our earnest request and desire of us the subscribers inhabitants of the town of Dudley in sd county and being freeholders in sd town whereas we the subscribers aforsd made application to the selectmen of sd Dudley several tims in writinge under our hands by us subscribers desiring the sd selectmen to call a town meeting as
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soone as could be by law to act upon the following articles vz
· I) to chuse a moderater for sd meeting
2) to se if the will reconsider the votes that were past at our last town meeting on September ye 9th 1760
3) to se if the town will sete of a number of subscribers a school ward to keep a school in the house that was our old school house by our meeting house and to draw there propor- tion of school money yearly they paying the other inhabitants there just proportion of the money the old school house was sold for
4) to se if the town will chuse a committee to provide schooling
5) to se if the town will allow those persons on the west side of quineboge River to draw there own school money to be laid out in schooling amongst themselves
and we the subscribers pray that you would grant us a warrant for calling a town meeting to act on the articles above mentioned on the eighteth day of December next at ten a clock in the forenoone
, Sam" Newell
Joseph Sabin
Sam" Corbin
Jacob Chamberline
Joshua Vinton
Hezekiah Bellus
Elezer putney
James Corbin
Will™ Cartur
Andrew white
Sam" Eams
Eben' Bacon
Joshua Healy jun'
Worcester ss to Joseph Burnul one of the constables 01 Dudley in sd county of Worcester greeting in his majestys name you are hearby requird agreeable to law to notify and warn the freeholders and other inhabitants of Dudley qualifyd by law to vote in town affairs to meet at the meeting house in
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Dudley on monday the eighteth day of December next at ten a clock in the forenoone then and there to transact on each and every of the perticulers within mentioned and fail not and have you then this warrant with your doings thereon timly
Dated in oxford this twenty eighteth day of November in the 34th year of his majesty's reign georg the second
Duncan Campbell justice of peace
Worcester ss Dudley December ye Sth 1760
persuant to this above warrant to me directed I have warnd the freeholders and other inhabitants qualifyd by law to vote in town affairs to meet at the meeting house in dudley and on the day and clocke aforesd as above mentioned for the ends above specified
Joseph Burnul Constable of Dudley
Meeting
at a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dudley regu- lerly assembled at our meeting house in sd town on monday the Sth day of December 1760
I) voted m' Joseph Sabin moderater for sd meeting
2) voted and. reconsiderd the votes that where past at our last town meeting on Septt ye 9th 1760 relating to schooling
3) voted Cap" Healy m' mixer m' upham m' Joseph Vinton and m' Sam" Robinson for a committee to provide schooling till the money is expended thats now assest for schooling. 4) voted that the inhabitants of Dudley on the west side of quinebog river shall draw there own school money thats now assest to expend amonge themselves in schooling
December ye Sth 1760 rates made and deliverd into the constables hands with warrents for colecting the same Constable timothy Fosters province list S4-13-11- 3
and his minesters list 20-13- 1- 3
his wood list 3-10- 0- 2
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his school list 14- 2- 7- 2
and his town and county list 10-10- 0- I
and Constable Joseph Burnuls list for the province 95- 9- 6- 2 his list for the minesters rate 23-15-10- 2
his wood list his school list
3-19- 5- 2
15-18- 7- 0
and his town and county list II-17- 1- 2
Dudley February ye 20th 1761
warrant
Worcester ss to either of the constables of the town of Dudley Timothy Foster or Joseph Burnul greeting you are hearby requird forthwith to warn or notify the several inhabi- tants of the town of Dudley qualifyd to vote in town affairs to meet at our meeting house in said town on monday the second day of march next at nine a clocke in the morning then and there to act upon the following articles
I ) to chuse a moderater for sd meeting
2) to chuse town officers for the year insuing
3) to grant money for schooling and other nessisery chargs
4) to se if the town will agree to settle our school wards if not to chuse a committee
5) to se if the town will exept of a road or road which may then be laid before them
6) to se if the town will agree on some method for the mending of our highways and grant money to defray the charge thereof
7) to se if the town will allow swine to go at large
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to chuse a committee to settle with treasurer upham and
make report at may meeting and make due return of your proceedings as you will answer your default at the peril of the law in that case made and provided
By order of the select men Benja" Conant Town Clerke
By vertue of this warrant I have notifyd the inhabitants of
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the town of Dudley to meet at time and place within mentioned Joseph Burnul Constable
town meeting
· at a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dudley regu- lerly assembled at our meeting house in sd town on monday ye 2ª day of march 1761
I) voted m' Joseph Sabin moderater for sd meeting
2) voted Benja" Conant Town Clerke
3) voted to have five select men
4) voted Benja" Conant select man and dismist by a vote
5) voted m' Joseph Sabin select man
6) voted Deacon Jon" Newell select man
7) voted m' Sam" Corbin select man
8) voted m' Silas Robinson select man
9) voted Ezra Conant select man
10) voted the select men to be assessers
II) voted Cap" Sam" Newell town treasurer
12) voted Joseph Edmunds jun' constable for ye west end and Joseph Burnul exepted in his room
13) voted job ruewe constable for the east end and Andrew white exepted in his room
14) voted Timothy Foster and Abijah Newell tything men
15) voted Cap" Healy sealer of waits and measurs
16) voted Joseph polly sealer of leather
17) voted Elezer putney and Eben' Edmunds jun' surveyers ,of highways
18) voted m' Benja" Kidder Elijah gore and Sam" Robinson surveyers of highways
19) voted m' Jacob Bradbery and m' Nathaniel Healy fence vewers
20) voted that swine may go at large
21) voted Joseph putney and Fesenden hogreves
22) voted to have three wardens
23) voted Left Bradbery Left Curtis and m' phinehus mixer to be wardens
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24) voted to have five schools this year Between quinibog river and the east school ward one at the old school house by our meeting house one at or near Deacon Edmundses one at m' philip Corbins one at our school house near m' gores and one at the school house near m' Jacob Chamberlins
25) voted the select men to provide a schoolinge the year insuing and to devid our school money that may be granted for schooling most for the publicke benifit in schooling our children
26) voted by the town there axeptance of a highway from Chalton line at m' Fosdicks south line to the south end of m' mixer. saw mill dame
27) voted 30-o-o lawfull money for the mending of our highways in the same method they did last year labour at 0-3-o a day from the firs of may to the last of September and then at 0-2-0 a day
28) voted that the first monday in march shall be our aneuel meeting for the future and that a notifycation set up at our meeting house shall be a sufficent warning for calling town meetings
29) voted insign Corbin Left marcy and m' Joseph Sabin jun' a committee to settle with treasurer upham and make report at may meeting
the town officers above mentioned have taken there oaths
february. 1761 a highway laid out by the select men of Dudley begining at a whit oake stub in the line Between Chalton and Dudley near the southwest corner of m' Eben" foskits land runing southerly to a whitoak tree markt from thence to a Blackoak tree markt from thence to a whitoak tree markt from thence to another whitoake tree markt from thence to a chesnut stadle markt from thence to a walnut stadle markt from thence to a small blackoak tree markt from thence to the south end of m' phinehus mixers sawmill dam and these sd markt trees all on the east side of sd road and sd road to be
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two rod wide and in or near where the path is now trod and this above mentioned road was brought to our ancuel meeting in march 1761 and exepted by ye town
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warrant
Worcester ss to either of the constables of the town of Dudley Andrew white or Joseph Burnul greeting you are hearby requird forthwith to warn or notify the several inhabi- tants of the town of Dudley qualifyd to vote in town affairs to meet at our meeting house in Dudley on wednesday ye 20th day of may instent at two a clock after noone then and there to act upon the following articles
I) to chuse a moderater for sd meeting
2) to chuse a representitive to represent our town at the great and general court to be holden at the court house in Boston on wednesday ye 27th of may instent
3) to se if the town will give the revd m' gleason somthing more then his salery for the present year
4) to se if the town will do somthing towards finishing our meeting house
5) to grant such sume or sums of money for schooling and other nessisery uses as may be thought proper
6) to se if the town will agree that m' Benj" Davis shall draw money out of our town treasury to purchise him a cowe during the towns pleasure
7) to hear and exept the Committees report relating to there settlement with treasurer upham
S) to se if the town will do anything further relating to our old school house by our meeting house
and make due return of your proceedings as you will answer your defalt at the peril of the law
Dudley may ye 12th 1761 by order of the select men.
Benja" Conant Town Clerke may ye 20th 1761 by vertue of this warrant I have notify the inhabitants of
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Dudley to meet at time and place within mentioned
Andrew white Constable
at a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dudley regu- meeting
lerly assembled at our meeting house in sd town on wednesday ye 20th day of may 1761
a vote being requested weather the town would send a Deputy and it past in ye negitive
I) voted m" Benja" Kidder moderater for sd meeting
2) voted not to raise money to finish our meeting house
3) voted not to raise money for schooling
.4) voted not to act any thinge relating to m' Davises affair concerning a cowe
5) voted not to act any thing relating to ye old school house by our meeting house
April ye 20th 1761
the assessers of the town of Dudley personally appeard before me Benja" Conant Town Clerke namly m' Sam" Corbin m' Sam" fairbanks and m" Joseph Sabin jun' and tooke there oaths to the faithfull discharge of there office in taking an invoice for the general court
Dudley may ye 25th 1761
warrant Worcester ss to either of the constables of the town of Dudley Andrew white or Joseph Burnul greeting you are hearby requird forthwith to warn or notify the several inhabi- tants of the town of Dudley qualifyd to vote in town affairs to meet at our meeting house in sd town on thisday ye 4th day of june next at three a clocke after noone then and there to act upon the following articles
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I) to chuse a moderater for sd meeting
2) to se if the town will do any thing towards finishing our meeting house and if they do to grant money to defray the charge thereof and also chuse a committee to procure the stuff and to gitt the worke done
3) to grant money for schooling and other nessisery charges and also chuse a committee to provide schooling and agree "were and how the money shall be spente
4) and also that the committee that sold the old school house by our meeting house pay the money to those the house belonged to
and make due return of your proceedings as you will answer your defalt at the peril of the law
By order of the select men
Benjan Conant Town Clerke
By vertue of this warrant I have notifyd the inhabitants of the town of Dudley to meet at time and place within mentioned Andrew white Constable
meeting
at a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dudley regu- lerly assembled at our meeting house in sd town on thirsday the 4th day of june 1761
1) vote m' Joseph Sabin moderatar for sd meeting
2) voted not to do any thinge towards finishing our meeting house at presente
3) voted to raise money for schooling
4) voted 30-o-o lawfull money to defray the charge of schooling the present year
5) voted the select men a committee to provide schooling and to spend the money thats now granted for schooling a fifeth part thats now raisd Between quinebog river and the east school ward at the five placeses as the town agreed upon at our last march meeting a fifeth part at each of those placess
6) voted 6-o-o lawfull money for nessisary charges
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Dudley December 1761 rates made and deliverd into the constables hands with warrants for collecting the same
Constable Joseph Burrnuls list to the province rate 87 11-7-1 his list for the minesters rate 24-18-I-I
his list for the wood rate 4-10-8-1
his list for the school rate 17-10-2-0
and his list for the town and county rate 7-12-1-3
and his list for the meeting house rate 55- 2-I-O
Constable Andrew whites list for the province rate 70- 0-0-0
and his list for the minesters rate 19-16-0-0
his list for the wood rate 3-11-4-O
his list for the school rate 13- 8-2-2
and his list for the town and county rate 6- 1-0-1
and his list for the meeting house rate 44-10-5-1
Dudley December ye 15th 1761
Worcester ss to either of the constables of the town of Dudley Andrew white or Joseph Burnul greeting you are hearby requird forthwith to warn or notify the several inhabi- tants of the town of Dudley qualifyd to vote in town affairs to meet at our meeting house in sd town on tusday ye 29th day of this instent at one a clock after noone then and there to act upon the following articles
warrant
I) to chuse a moderater for sd meeting
2) to se if the town will proceed to do any thing further to our meeting house either the inside or outside or both
3) and if they do proceed in the affair to chuse a commit- tee to procure the stuff and to gitt the worke done
4) and to grant money to defray the charge thereof
5) to se in whate method ye the town will dispose of ye widow richs cloathing
and make due return of your proceedings as you will answer defalt at the peril of the law
By order of the select men
Benja" Conant Town Clerke
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Dudley December ye 29th 1761
By vertue of this warrant I have notifyd the inhabitants of the town of Dudley to meet at time and place within mentioned Andrew white Constable
meeting
at a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dudley regu- lerly assembled at our meeting house in sd town on tusday ye 29th of December 1761
I) voted m' Benja" Kidder moderater for sd meeting
2) voted to do sumthing further towards finishing our meeting house
3) voted to shingle the roofe of our meeting house and to claboard ye gable ends
4) voted to finish the inside of our meeting house by lathing and plastering the walls and under the great beems
5) voted three men for a committee to gitte the above sd work done to our meeting house namly m' phinehus mixer m' John tayler and mr willm Cartur and to se that the worke is well done
6) voted 100-o-o towards finishing our meeting house
7) voted to give the widow richs cloathing to her daughter or daughters
warrant
Dudley February ye 16th 1762
Worcester ss to either of the constables of the town of Dudley Andrew white or Joseph Burnul greeting you are hearby requird forthwith to warn or notify the several inhabi- tants of the town of Dudley qualifyd to vote in town affairs to meet at our meeting house in said town on monday the first day of march next at nine a clocke in the morning then and the to act upon the following articles
1) to chuse a moderater for sd meeting
2) to chuse town ofliesers for the year insueinge
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3) to chuse a committee to recken with the town treasurer Cap" Newell and also to reckon with the school committees that were chose for the years 1759 and 1760
4) to se if ye town will except of the highways that have been laid out ye present year
5) to se if ye town will agree to move our meeting house to the center of the town or repair it in any other manner then hath been voted
and make due return of this warrant with your doing thereon as you will answer your defalt at the peril of the law
By order of the select men
Benja" Conant Town Clerke
By vertue of this warrant I have notifyd the inhabitants of the town of Dudley to meet at time and place within mentioned Andrew white Constable
at a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dudley regu- meeting lerly assembled at our meeting house in sd town on monday ye first day of march 1762
I) voted Deacon Newell moderater for sd meeting
2) voted to have five select men
3) voted phinehus mixer select man
4) voted Sam" Corbin select man
5) voted Benja" Kidder select man
6) voted Ezra Conant select man
7) voted Sam" Fairbanks select man
8) voted Benja" Conant Town Clerke
9) voted and adjurnd this meeting to the house of m' willm Carturs in Dudley
IO) voted the select men to be assessers
II) voted Joseph upham town treasurere
12) voted Andrew Coburn constable for the west end of the town
13) voted Nathan jefferds constable for the east end of the town
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14) voted Cap" Healy sealer of waits and measurs
15) voted Sam" Kidder sealer of leather
16) voted Left John Curtis culler of shingles
17) voted David Stodder philip Corbin Joseph Healy Na- thaniel Healy Capt paul Robinson and Sam" Robinson survay- ers of highways
IS) voted Timothy Foster and Sam" may fence vewers
19) voted Daniel Newell and Steven Cartur hogrevs and that swine may go at large
20) voted Eben' Davison and Sam" Fairbanks tything men
21) voted Joseph upham Sam" Corbin and Joseph jewell jun' wardens
22) voted Eben' Scott and Joseph Sabin jun' to take care of the Dear that thers no str ]
23) voted Sam" may Sam" Fairbanks and jedediah marcy for a committee to recond with Cap" Newell town treasurer and with the school committees in the years 1759 and 1760 and to bring in there account at our next my meeting
24) voted by the town there exceptance of a highway from Cap" paul Robinsons to timothy fosters were the foot bridge is over the french river
25) voted not to move our meeting to the center by 39 to 14
26) voted to repair our meeting where it now stands by 29 to 17
note that the above named officers have taken there oaths as the law directs
Dudley February ye 24ª 1762
a highway laid out by the select men of sd town begining at the north end of Cap" paul Robinsons house from thence about a west point acros sd Robinsons corn feild by the south 'side of a certin stone wall to the town road that gos from Brackits to Sam" Robinsons cornmill from thence north in sd road to Edward Curtises south line from thence westerly on the divition line Between John Stone and Edward Curtis
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the whole of sd road hear to be on Stons land till it coms to sd Curtises southwest corner from thence about northwest to Jacob Bradbery line from thence about west to the east end of the foot bridge over the french river this road hear to be partly on Stons and partly on Bradbery land and so over the river and from the west end of sd bridge westerly on the old dam over the Brook from thence west northwest from thence to the cast end of Timothy Fosters house and so to the road laid from there to our meeting house the whole of this
road to be 2 rods wide all persons consenting that are con- cernd in sd road provided the subscribers fullfill there promise
this road was brought to our anewell meeting in march 1762 and excepted by the town
warrant
Worcester ss to eithere of the constables of the town of Dudley Andrew Coburn or Nathan jeffords greeting you are hearby requird forthwith to warn or notify the several in- habitants of the the town of Dudley qualifyd to vote in town affairs to meet at our meeting house in sd town on thirsday the 20th day of may instent at one a clocke after noone then and there to act upon the following articles
I) to chuse a representative to represent our town at the great and jeneral court to be holden at Boston on wedensday the 26th may instent
2) to chuse a moderater for sd meeting
3) to chuse a select man and also a warden in the roome of m' Sam" Corbin
4) to grant money for schooling and to agree in how many parts of the town sd money shall be expended
5) to grant money for mending our highways and how sd money shall be workt out and also to agree on sume method for repairing the bridges ovr quinibog river ₹
6) to agree on sume method and to dispose of the pewes in our meeting house that are at the towns disposal as they shall think proper
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7) to hear and grant any pitition that may then be laid before the town
8) to hear the report of the committee that was chose to recken with treasurer Sam" Newell and with the school com- mitee
and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon as you will answer your defalt at the peril of the law
Dudley may ye 12th 1762
By order of the select men
Benjan Conant Town Clerke
By vertue of this warrant I have notifyd the inhabitants of the town of Dudley to meet at time and place within mentioned Andrew Coburn Constable
town meeting at a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dudley regu- lerly assembled at our meeting house in sd town on thirsday ye 20th day of may 1762 and it being askt wether they would send a representitive to the general court and the people de- clind sending as not being ablidge by law to send
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