Town records of Dudley, Massachusetts, 1732-1754, Part 35

Author: Dudley (Mass. : Town)
Publication date: 1839
Publisher: Pawtucket, R.I. : Adam Sutcliffe ;
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Selectmen


Dudley Town Records, 1791. 353


Worcester SS. November ISth 1791. In Obedience to the within Warrant I have Warned the freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Dudly To meet at time and place within mentioned By Setting up this Warrant at the Usual place in Dudly


James Walcot Constable


At a meeting of the freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Dudley quallified to Vote in Town affairs regu- larly assembled at the meeting house in Sd Town on Fryday the ISth day of Nov' 1791.


First Voted Colº Jont Day moderator


2ly Voted to Excuse Doc' James Walcot as Serving Con- stable and Collector the Present year The Constable & Col- lector birth being Set up at Vendue M' Ezbon Carter bidd it off at Three Pence half penny on the pound


31y Voted to request the Selectmen to Lay out a Road from Capt John Eddys to m' Joseph Vintons


4'' Voted to abate John Barnes Senior Minister rate in Walcot hands 5 / o


5ly Voted to accept of M' Joseph Allen & M' Moses Healy as Bondsmen for Ezbon Carter Constable & Collector Voted to C' Asa Robinson for all Taxes unpaid due to him from John Heath


6ly Voted to Cr James Walcot for Jacob Dailys Rates to the amount 5 / II 718 Voted to C' Lem" Foster For Tom' Ingrams Rates to the amount of 12 / 2


. Meeting Dessolved


Worcester SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Dudley Greeting you are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to notify and warn


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the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of sª Town quallified by law to vote in Town affairs (viz) Such as pay To one single Tax besides the poll or polls, a Sum Equal To two thirds of a Single poll tax) to meet and assemble at the meeting house in Said Dudley on Monday the Fifth Day of March Next at Nine OClock A.M.


To act on the Following articles (viz)


First To Choose a Moderator for said meeting


2ły To choose Town officers for the Year ensuing agree- able To Law


31y To hire a Constable or Constables and Collectors for the year Ensuing on such terms as the Town shall think best 4ly To see if the Town will let their swine run at large The Current year


51y To grant money for schooling the ensuing Year


6ly To choose School Committees if the Town sees fitt


7ª For the Town to accept of the roads layed out by the Selectmen the Year past if the Town thinks best


Sły To Grant money for our highways & Bridges the Currant year and agree how the Same shall be expended


oly To grant money for Necessary Charges of said Town if needed


Ioly To see if the Town will agree that a Number of In- habitants That are about to build a Large school house in the midty of the Town may draw their money or act thereon as the Town sees fitt


IIly To heare the request of M' Elisha Corbin respecting some Dudley Land and act thereon as the Town sees fitt.


Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings theron unto the Selectmen on or before said Day Dated at Dudley aforesaid this Seventeenth Day of Feby 1792


Jona Day John Eddy Tho® Larned


Selectmen of Dudley


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Worcester SS. March 5th 1792 In obedience to the within Warrant I have warned the Frecholders and other in- habitants of said Town quallified by Law to Vote in Town affairs to meet at time and place within mentioned by setting up a True copy of this Warrant at the usual Place in Sd Dudley


Pr me Timothy Corbin Constable of Dudley


At a meeting of the Freeholders and other inhabitants of the Town of Dudley Regularly assembled at the Meeting House in Sª Town on Monday the Fifth Day of March 1792


First Voted and Choose Colo Jona. Day Moderator for the Sd Meeting


2 ly. Voted Capt John Chamberlain Town Clerk who is Sworn


Voted to have 5 Selectmen the Currant year


415 Voted Colº Jona Day First Select man


518 Voted Capt John Eddy 2ª Do


6ly Voted Lieut Thom. Larned 3ª Do


Voted M' Isaac Lee 4th


Voted Lieut Ezekiel Brown 5th Do


91. Voted to have 5 assessors the Ensuing Year


Voted Lieut Ezekiel Brown First assessor


Voted Capt John Chamberlain 2ª Do


12ly Voted Lieut John Warren 3ª Do


13ly Voted Colº Jona Day 4th Do


14ly Voted Lieut Thomas Larned 5th Do


These officers are Sworn to the faithfull performance of their Trust


15ly Voted M' Simeon Wood Town Treasurer


16ły Voted Colº Jona Day Constable and Collector for the East part of the Town he the S" Day being the loest bid- der he biding it at one penny p' Pound


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Ily Voted M' John Albee West End Constable & Col- lector he the Sª Albee Giving one Shilling for the Berth I Sly Voted Lieut John Curtis and M' Royal Sayles Bondsmen For the performance of John Albee Cons. & Colle


Igły Voted Lieut. Thomas Larned & M' Simeon Wood Bondsmen For the aforesaid Day Cons. & Coll"


20ły Voted John Vorce & Reuben Ammidown Wardians


21 ly Voted Stephen Healy, & Lieu' Tim Foster Jr. Tythingmen


22ły Voted Major Nath1 Healy Scaler of Weights & Measures


23ły Voted John Healy Sealer of Leather


24ly Voted Josiah Hovey Culler of Lumber


25ly Voted Joseph Arnold & L' John Curtis Fence Viewers


26ly Voted Joseph Vinton Jr. John Gore, David Nichols Lemel Healy, John Bracket, Stephen Wood, Capt Corbin, L' J. Curtis Eleazer Putney Jr Thomas Morriss Jared Freeman & Capt John Eddy Highway Surveyors


27ly Voted to let their Swine run at large the Ensuing


Year


2Sl Voted Jon" Kingsbury Simeon Wakefield, Will™


Barker Reuben Ammidown and Samel Chamberlain Hog- reavs 29ly Voted to grant and Raise Sixty pounds for Schooling this year


30ły Voted to Choose School Committees the Currant Year


3 r ly Voted Reuben Ammidown, Jon' Day Lieut Cur- tis, Jedidiah Corbin, John Healy, Stephen Healy Ephraim Willard & Doc' J. E. Eaton School Committees


32ły Voted to grant & Raise Sixty pounds for the Cost . of the Highways & Bridges the ensuing year and the money to be expended at three shillings p' Day from the first of May to the Last of Sept following


331. Voted to put by the roth article in the warrant untill


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34ly April Meeting and a Committee appointed to view the Situation of the School Districts and report at the april Meeting


35ly Voted to have the Committee Consist of 5 persons


36ły Voted Lieut. Jona Willard, John Chamberlain David Nichols John Bracket & Lieut. Joseph Kieth Said Committee


37ły Voted to have the IIth article in the warrant Subside Meeting Disolved


A Road lay'd out by the Selectmen Nov. 1791


Begining at the Corner of the wall cast of the School house near M' Jos. Vintons thence runing Southardly as the wall now stands to the southwest Corner of the orchard East of sª Vintons house . From thence running southardly as the road is Now trod to a Stake & Stones by a wall thence running Southardly To a Black oak Tree marked thence Southardly to a black oak Tree near the Northwest Corner of Mr Joseph Vinton J' House thence Southardly to a Bass wood Tree marked Thence Southardly to a Walnut Tree marked on the Edge Of Capt John Eddy's Land Thence Southardly to a Black Oak Tree marked thence Southardly . to a Stake & Stones By the road west of Said Eddys house Said road to be Two Rods Wide and all the Bounds to be on the East Side of Said Road


Jonª Day Tho® Larned Ezekil Brown Isaac Lee


Selectmen


The above mentioned road was layed before the Town at their March meeting 1792 for Their acceptance and it was accepted on this Condition That the people where Said road goes through their land Shall have Two Years to fence out Said road


16 In favour 10 against the acceptance


One other Road layed out be the Selectmen in Dec' 1791 as follows Begining at the river by Caleb Ammidons Stone wall from thence to the road already Layed out from the Wº Sarah Cheneys to Jos. Vintons Bridge Thence North-


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ardly from Said Amidowns Wall on the Land of Sd Sarah Cheney two Rods from the line of John Vintons land to a large rock near where the road is now Trod From thence to a White pine Trec


Thence Northwestardly to a larg Old white pine tree on land of John Ammidown From thence Straight to a heep of Stones all the boundaries from Ammidowns Wall to the bounds last mentioned are on the East and Southardly Side of the road Thence from the bounds last mentioned to the line of John Vintons Land then by Sd Vintons land to a Small white pine Tree at Charlton line the road to be on Said Am- midowns Land to be Two rods wide


This Road layed before the Town for their acceptance at march meeting 1792. and the Town accepted of the Road on the Terms of a former Vote on the Subject of Individuals bild- ing a Bridge over the river


Ditto


Road layed out by the Selectmen March 2ª 1792 Begining at the South East Corner of L' Edmands Barn Yard wall thence Southardly to a stake at Woodstock line Distance about Twenty five rods Said road to be Two Rods Wide and Bounded on the Eastardly Side of Sd Road


Jont Day John Eddy Tho® Larned Selectmen Ezekiel Brown Isaac Lce This road was accepted by the Town March 5th 1792


Worcester SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Dudley Greeting you are hereby commanded in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to warn or notify the free- holders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Dudley duly qualified agreeable to the Constitution to vote for a Gov- ernour &c. to meet and assemble at the meeting house in


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said Town on Monday the second day of April at one OClock P. M. Then & there to act upon the following articles (viz)


First To vote for a Governour Lieut. Governour Coun- sellors and Senators according to the Constitution


219 To choose a Moderator for the remainder of said meeting 20 To vote for a County Treasurer for the County of Worcester


41y To see if the Town will Reconsider their vote in the acceptance of a Road layed out by the Selectmen from the School house by M' Vintons to Capt John Eddys passed at the last march meeting


5ly To hear the Report of the Committee relative to the accomodation of the School in Said Town


61y To see if the Town will dispose of the one half of the Pew spot that was formaly Benja Newells to M' David Nichols he having purchased the building of M' Jeremiah Haskel


7ly Also the Pew spot that formaly belonged to Eb' Bacon to Tufts and Barker they having purchased the building of M' John Day


For the Town to abate such Taxes as the Constables exibit on said Day that the Town sees fitt


Hereof fail not and make Due Return of this Warrant with your doings thereon unto the Selectmen on or before Said Day Dated at Dudley aforesaid this Nineteenth day of March Anno Domini one Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Two


Jona Day, John Eddy Tho' Larned Isaac Lee Ezekiel Brown


Selectmen


Worcester April 2ª 1792. In obedience to the within warrant I have warned and notified The freeholders and other Inhabitants qualified by the Constitution To vote for a Gov'


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&c and other Town affairs to meet and assemble at time and place within mentioned by setting up this Warrant at the usual place in Dudly


Jona Day Constable


At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Dudley Le- gally assembled at the meeting house in Said Town on Monday the 2ª Day of April 1792


First The Votes being brought in for a Gov : were as follows


For his Excellency John Hancock Esq' SI Votes Lieu Gov


For his Hon' Samuel Adams Esq" 63 Do


Edward Davis Esq" 3 Do


Counsellors & Senators as follows


For the Hon. Abel Wilder


71 Votes


John Fesenden


5S Do


Salem Town


57 D°


Martin Kinsley 58 Dº


Josiah Sterns Esq's 5S Do


Moses Gill


14 Dº


Same Baker 13 Do


Jonathan Warner 13 D°


Timothy Newell 13 D°


2ly Voted Colº Jona Day Moderator for the remainder of Meeting


Voted for a County Treasurer as follows (viz) For Samel Allin Esq" 40 Votes 415 Voted not to Reconsider the vote respecting the Road by M' Vintons


51y Voted to put by the matter respecting the School affairs untill may meeting and add to the present Committee on the Subject Capt. John Eddy & John Healy and they to make Report at May meeting


Gly Voted to pass by the matter respecting the Pews צ׳ל Voted to abate Abner Mellins Minister Rate in the Constabls hands S / 3


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Sly Voted to abate Elijah Humphreys Minister Rate in Conse Day's hands to Collect 9 / 2 gly Voted to abate Rufus Newells Taxes in Con. Smith hands


Meeting Dissolved


Worcester SS. To Jonathan Day one of the Constables of the Town of Dudley Greeting


You are hereby required in the Name of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts to notify and warn the male Inhab- itants of Said Town being Twenty One Years of age and Resident in Said Town for the space of one Year next pre- ceeding having a freehold estate to the Value of Sixty pounds or any Estate of the Income of Three pounds annually to Meet and assemble at the Meeting house in Dudley on Mon- day the Seventh Day of May Next at one OClock in the afternoon


Ist for the purpose Of Choosing a Representative to Represent them at the General Court appointed to be con- vened and held at Boston on the Last Wednesday of May Next


2ły To Choose a Moderator for the Remainder of Said meeting


315 To hear the Report of the Committee respecting The accommodation of the several School Destricts In said Town TX To see if the Town appoint a Committee to Confer with M' Joseph Vinton respecting the Road layed out by the Selectmen through his land and if posable to Save Cost to the Town


51y To hear the Report of the Committee that was choosen To Receive Donations towards the Support of the Rev. J. Johnson and act thereon as the Town see's fitt


Gly To See if the Town will agree that all Denomina- tions of Christians Except the Denomination called The Standing order or Congregationalists may be Exempted from


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Ministerial Taxation and if Not agreed to, to grant the priviledge of the Meeting House to those other Denomina- tions agreeable to their Estates


Hereof fail not and make due return of This Warrant with Your doings thercon unto the Selectmen on or before Said day Dated at Dudley aforesaid this Twenty Third Day of April Anno Domini One Thousand Seven hundred And Ninety Two


Jonathan Day Thomas Larned Isaac Lee


Selectmen


Worcester SS. May 7th 1792 In obedience to the within Warrant I have warned The frecholders and other In habitants of the Town of Dudley qualified agreeable to the Constitution to Vote for a Representative and other Town officers To meet and assemble at time and place within Men- tioned by Setting up this Warrant at the Usual Place in Dudley


Jonathan Day Constable


At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Dudley Regularly assembled at the Meeting house in Dudley on Mon- day the Seventh Day of May 1792.


First Voted and Chose Capt. John Chamberlain To repre- sent them at the General Court


2ły Voted Colº Jont Day Moderator for the Remainder of Said Meeting


31y Voted to accept the Report of the committee respect- ing The Several School Districts as it now Stands Refference To the Report on the Next page Will fully appear


415 Voted to Choose a Committee of 3 persons to Confer with M' Joseph Vinton respecting the Road Layed out by the Selectmen


51y Voted Major W" Larned, M' Jacob Warren & Dea- con Nathan Jeffords Said Committee


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6ly Voted to Excuse Esq' Davis as Serving as a Com- mittee To Reseive Donations for the support of the Rev. J. Johnson


715 Voted And Chose M' David Nichols MI Joseph Allen and Capt Samel Healy a Committee to Receive Minis- terial Donations


S'y Voted that all Denominations of Christians (Except The Standing Order so Called be Exempted from Ministerial Taxation Yeas 51. Nays 3S. Edward Davis then Entered his Dissent Against the last Mentioned Vote


See the Next page for the School affairs


Dudley May 7th 1792 The Committee appointed at March & April meeting To take into Consideration the several School wards in The Town and also to take into considera- tion the Expedency of their being a Large and Convenient School House by the meeting house on the Condition here- after mentioned. Ask leave to report the following agree- ment of your Committee


As to the School house by or near the meeting house In Dudley it is our opinion that it will be of a publick benefit pro- viding the School is Considered as a Publick School so long as the Publick money lasts and no longer And all the Persons Included in this Ward to be at the Cost of building the School House and no others


and the outlines of the Said Ward to be as Follows (viz) on the West M' Stephen Healy and L' John Lawtons North- easterly from Sd Lawtons to Doc' John E. Eatons from thence to Tim' Corbins From thence to Joshua Corbins and then to Capt Corbins Jedediah Corbins From thence to Jon" Bacon and then to Will" Fisher from thence to Eb' Fos- ter's From thence on Connecticut Line to m' Stephen Healy's aforementioned Including all Within these out lines with the Persons aforementioned As outlines


as to the ward on the West Side of Quinabogue River it is our opinion to Divide Said Ward In the following manner from M' Joseph Vinton Jr.s up the river if he the Sa Vinton Chooses to go to that Ward to the small Ward


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hereafter mentioned and from Said Vintons to M' Benja Stones and all North of this Line to make a district


As to the small District aforementioned We will name them Josiah Barnes, Lt. Ezekiel Brown, Phineas Whitney, Nathan Brown, the Farm Late belonging to Capt Stephen Comans, Joseph Inman, L' Ebe' Edmunds, John Edmunds, John Eddy, John Haskell & Royal Sayles Lieut Timº Foster Senior and M' Simeon Wood to be set In the East Ward, and M' Tho" Morris's to be set In the Ward by Jona Willard's Jr Those living in the North East part of the Town not included in this Report to be a Seperate ward by themselves


And as the Situation of the Wards are such we think It Ex- pedient for each and every ward to draw their Own Money


All of which is Humbly Submitted Jona Willard John Chamberlain David Nichols John Bracket Joseph Kieth John Healy John Eddy


Committee


Worcester SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Dudley In Said County of Worcester Greeting


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you or either of you are hereby directed forthwith to warn or no- tify the frecholders & other Inhabitants of town of Dudley duly qualified to vote for a Representative to the General Court of this Commonwealth to meet and assemble at the meeting house in Sd Town on Fryday the Second day of Nov' Next at One of The Clock in the afternoon


First to give in their Votes for four persons To Represent the Second District in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Comprehending the Counties of Worcester Hampshire & Berkshire in the Congress of the United States of whom one


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at least Shall be an Inhabitant or resident in each of those Counties


2ly To Choose a Moderator for the Remainder of Said Mceting


319 For the Town to Pass some Resolution respecting the Bridge over the French river near M' Fosters. if they see cause


To see if the Town will grant & Raise money To pay the Rev. Joshua Johnson that becomes due the first of December next


Hereof fail not & make duc return of This Warrant with your doings thercon Unto the Selectmen on or before Said Day Dated at Dudley aforesaid this Tenth Day of Oct One Thousand Seven hundred & Ninety Two


By order of the Selectmen


John Chamberlain Town Clerk


Worcester SS. Dudley Nov 24 1792. In obedience to the within warrant I have Warned The freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Dudley qualified agreeable to the Constitution To vote for a Representative to meet and assem- ble at time & place within mentioned by Setting up an at- tested Copy of this warrant at the usual place in Dudley


Pr Jonathan Day Constable


At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Dudley qualified agreeable to the Constitution to vote for a Repre- sentative Regularly assembled on Fryday the 24 of Novr, 1792 at the Close of the poll for the Choice of Federal Repre- sentatives the votes were found to be as follows (viz)


For Charles Jarvis Esq 42 Votes for the 3 destrict


Ilon. Theodore Sedwich* 42 D° for this destrict


Jonathan Grout 40 1)º for the County of Wor Sand Lyman 42 D° for the County of Ilam Thompson J. Skinner 42 Do for the County of Berks James Sullivan I D" for the 3 destricts


* Sedgwick .- En.


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Artemas Ward 3 D° for Worcester Coun


Samel Lyman I D° for this destrict Theodore Sedwich I D° for Berkshire


Willm Lyman I D° for Hampshire


Votes for Electors are as follows (viz)


Hon. Simeon Strong 17 Votes


Thompson I. Skinner 25 Do


Hon. Abel Wilder


17 Votes


Samuel Flagg


25 Votes


Martin Kinsley 25 D°


Samuel Fowler


9 D°


David Smead Esqr 9 D°


2 Voted L' John Warren Moderator for the remainder of Said Meeting


31y Voted to build the Bridge over the French river By M' Fosters and that the Same be Set up at the loest bider for to be built


Conditions of Sale are these


The bridge to be built of good White Oak Timber or Chesnut and to have 5 String pieces Sufficient For such a bridge with good King posts and to be Covered with Plank 14 feet long and 2 inches Thick after Seasoned and to be Com- pleatly finished by the Second day of Jan. Next and the money To be paid when the Work is done Colo Jonathan Day biding Nine pound Seventeen Shillings and being the loest bidder It was Struck off to him on the above Conditions


41y Voted not to grant & raise any money to pay The Rev. Joshua Johnson


Meeting disolved.


SEAL


Worcester SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Dudley In the County of Worcester Greeting


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you or either of you are hereby directed forthwith to warn or notify


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the freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Dudley duly Qualified to Vote in Town affairs to meet & Assemble at the Meeting House in Said Town on Wednesday the Twenty Eighth Day of this Instant at one of the Clock in the afternoon Then & there to act upon the following articles (Viz)


First to Choose a Moderator for Said meeting


2ly To see if the Town will adopt some method with Regard to the Support of the ministry in Said Town and agree on some plan for the payment of the Salery annually due to the Rev. Joshua Johnson Or act upon any matter re- . specting the Ministerial affairs that will be Conducive of the best and most Lasting hapiness & welfair of Said Town


3™ªly To Choose a School Committee man in the N. E. Ward


415 To see if the Town will Set off Jona. Bacon Lem' Corbin Jedediah Corbin & Jepthah Bacon to the N. E. Ward In Said Town if they see fitt


Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon unto the Selectmen on or befor Said day Dated at Dudley aforesaid this Tenth Day of Novr in the Year of our Lord One Thousand 792


By order of the Selectmen


John Chamberlain Town Clerk Worcester SS. Nov 28th 1792. In obedience to the within warrant I have Warned the freeholders and other In- habitants qualified to vote in Town affairs to meet at the Time & place appointed by Setting up this warrant at the usual place.


pr me Jonathan Day Constable


At a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Dudley Regularly assembled at .the meeting-House in Dudley on Wednesday the Twenty Eigth Day of Now' 1792 .


First voted Colo Jon" Day Moderator


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2ly Voted to direct the Assessors to assess all the Per- sons with their Estates to the Support of the Rev. Joshua Johnson that do actually belong To the Congregationalist and the Said Society (Meaning the Said Congregational Society) to Indemnify the assessors from law Suits if any person or persons bring in Consequence of the ministerial Taxes being made as above mentioned


3ly Voted Lieut Joseph Kieth School Committee


Voted to pass over the 4th Article in the Warrant Meeting Disolved


Worcester SS. to Either of the Constables of the Town of Dudley in the County of Worcester Greeting


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts You or eithier of you are required to warn or notify the freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Dudley duly qualified to vote for a Representative to the General Court of this Com- monwealth to assemble at the meeting House in Sª Town on Monday the fourteenth day of this instant at one of the Clock in the afternoon to give in their votes for a Representative that is an Inhabitant in the County of Hampshire and also for another Representative being an Inhabitant in Either of the Counties of Hampshire Worcester or Berkshire which Com- prehends the Second Destrict to Represent the said Destrict in the Congress of the United States of America


Hereof fail not and make Due Return of this warrant with Your doings thereon Unto the Selectmen on or before Said Day Dated at Dudley aforesaid This first day of Jan. in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Ninety Three


By order of the Selectinen


John Chamberlain Town Clerk


Worcester SS. Dudley Jan. 14th 1793 In obedience to the within warrant I have warned the freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Dudley qualified to Vote in Town




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