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Jesse Dorman Constable of Topsfield
[220] At a Lawfull Town meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Topsfield on the : 16: day of September: 1720 Elezor Lake and Michel Dwinel is Chosen to serue on ye Jury of Trialls at Newbury Court on ye Last tusday of Sep- tember Instant
The inhabitants of this Town yt are Qualified according to Law for voating are required to meet at this meeting house on friday ye 4th of nouember next after ye Date here of at one of the Clock after noone first to aLow bills of Charge 2 : ly to see if ye Town will giue order for ye shingling or other wise Repairing of ye House yt William Avrell now Liueth in : 3dly to agree upon a day for ye bringing stray Cre- tours To ye pound Dated Topsfield ye: 26: of October : 1720
Iuory Houey in the name and by order of the selectmen of Topsfield Jesse Dorman Constable
At a Lawfull Town meeting of the Inhabitants of ye Town of Topsfield on ye: 4: day of nouember: 1720
Daniel Redington is Chosen moderator for ye day
The Town alowed to Lieut Joseph Gould and Ephraim
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OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
Wilds Eight Shillings for going to Ipswitch abute Sarah Greenslit
voted 080
alowed to Ivory Houey foure shillings voted 0 4 0
aLowed to Jesse Dorman for careing Sarah Greenslit out of Town five shillings voted 0 5 0
aLowed to Jesse Dorman for waits and meshours seuen- teen shilling voted 0 17 0
aLowed to John Houey two shillings voted 020
and to m' Simon Bradstreet one shilling OIO
and to John Howlett one shilling
and to Jacob Peabody two shilling voted 020
The Town Left it to ye selectmen to Repaire the house yt William Auriell now Lives in voted
The free holders and other inhabitants Qualified acording to Law for voting are to Take notis to meet here at the meeting house next tuesday which will be the fiveteen day of this month of noumber at nine of ye Clock in the forenoon first to aLow Bills of Charge secondly to see If the Town will aLow the nine pounds to add to mr Capens sallery as formerly and thirdly to agree upon a day to bring in strays to the Pound Dated Topsfield Nouember : 11 : 1720 By or- der of ye rest of ye selectmen Ephraim Wilds
Jesse Dorman Constable of Topsfield
At a Lawfull [220] Town meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Topsfield on the : 15 : day of Nouember: 1720 mr Jacob Town is Chosen moderator for this meeting
voted
alowed to Willm Auriel: 18: shillings for sweeping the meeting voted
alowed to m' Capen : Eighty pounds as his sallery was ye two Last years voted
alowed to Nath" Auerel John Howlett and Nath" Porter for Runing of Lines between the Common and Propritores and for paying artis[ts] one pound seventeen shillings and six pence voted 01 17 6
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alowed to m' Nath" Capen for mending the wach house four shillings and six pence voted 00 4 6
alowed to Jonathan Willds one shilling and six pence for voted 0 1 6
meending the watch house
The Town agreed to bring in the marks of all the stray Creatours that thay have at their houses unto the house of Daniel Clark on the first Tuesday : 1720
We who are the subscribers hereof hauing complaint made to us that Corp Jacob Towne has set up fence where the road was formerly Laid Throw the southerly corner of his Land we haue bin & vewed the place and do find that the road may convenantly be altred We do Lay out the afore sd road to be where it is now ocipied on the south side of Corp Town his fence as it doth now stand
Dated the: 24th: of nouember: 1720: Epraim Wilds Ivory Houry
Copia uari attest Nath11 Porter Joseph Town Elezer Lake Town Clark Selectmen of Topsfield
The Inhabitants of this Town qualified acording to Law for voting are to take notis to meet here at the meeting house next Tuesday which will be the twenty seventh day of this month at two of the Clock after noon first to alow Capt Perkins his Bill of Charge for going Representative Second- ly to aLow pay for the repairing the house William Auriel liueth in Thirdly to alow Pay for the making a paire of stcox dated Topsfield December the twenty third 1720 in the name and by the order of the Selectmen of Topsfield
Ephraim Wilds Clerk
Jesse Dorman Constable
At a Lawfull Town meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Topsfield on the: 27: day of December: 1720
The Town alowed Capt Perkins his Lawful demands for going Representative this year voted
Alowed to Mr Nath" Capen and Jonathan Willds for Re- pairing ye towns house yt Will :m Auriel now Lives in
voted 3 8 00
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OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
Alowed to John Willds for making the Towns stoock and for finding ye Iorns and Lock and bringing them to the meeting house and for seeting up sd stoocks 01 04 00 voted
Ipswich the: 16: day of January : 1720-21
Received of Nathaniel Porter the full and just sum of one pound and two shillings which is the full that was due to me for Building the pew that is in the nouwest Corner of Topsfield meeting house
I say Received by me Joseph Whipple
Copia vari attest Nath" Porter Town Clark
[222] At a Lawfull Town meeting of ye Inhabitants of ye Town of Topsfield on the 7th of March 1720-21
Capt Tobijah Perkins was chosen moderator for that meet- ing voted
Jacob Peabody is Chosen Town Clerk for ye year Ensuing voted and Sworn
Joseph Robinson and Ezra Putnam are Chosen Constables for ye year Ensuing. voted. Michael Dwinell accepted and Chosen Constable by the Town for Ezra Putnam voted
Thomas Gould Lieu Thomas Baker Ivory Hovey Amos Dorman and Jacob Peabody are Chosen Selectmen for the year Ensuing voted
Eliezer Lake Joseph Andrew and John Curtis are Chosen Tithing men for ye year Insuing voted
John Redington is Chosen Sealer of Leather for ye Insu- ing year voted
mr Daniel Clark & Thomas Caves are Chosen Surveyers of highways for ye Insuing year voted
Thomas Robinson Nath1 Borman Eben" Nickols and Thom- as Perkins Jun" are Chosen fence viewers for the year Insu- ing voted
Cler Elisha Perkins is Chosen grand Juryman for ye year Insuing voted
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Joshua Town and John Willds are Chosen to serve on ye Jury of Tryals at the next Inferiour Court to be holden at Ipswich
voted
Lieut Thomas Baker is Chosen Schoolmaster for the year Insuing voted
The Town agreed to pay to lieut Thos Baker fourty shill- ings for keeping School this present year voted
Eliezer Lake and Samuel Howlett are chosen Hogreeves for ye year Insuing voted
Nat1 Porter Zacheus Gould and Amos Dorman are Chosen a Committe to agree with Edmond Towne and Richard Towne about a strip of Common land which sd Townses Im- prove and make return of their doings to the Town voted
The officers above Named Chosen to serve the Town for ye year Insuing were all Sworn to the faithfull discharge of their Respective offices (Excepting John Curtis) on the 7th day and on ye 13th day of March Currant before the Selectmen.
Attest Jacob Peabody Town Clerk for Topsfield
At a Lawful Meeting of ye Inhabitants of the Town of Topsfield on March 28th 1721 Mr Daniel Clark Chosen mod- erator for said meeting voted
Secondly. Nat1 Porter and Zacheus Gould are Chosen to Prosecute the brakers of that Law Relating to horses going on ye Town Common voted
3ly the Town agreed that hogs should go at Large from ye Last of October till the first of Aprill the year Insu- ing voted
Boston April 17th 1721 Recd of mr Jesse Dorman Const : le of Topsfield
Twenty one Pounds Eight shillings & six pence in full for my ffather
£ 21-8-6
Jer Allen Treas : r P Jas Allen
A truc Copy attest Jacob Peabody Town Cler for Topsfield
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OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
[223] Recd of Jesse Dorman Constable for ye town of Tops- field by ye hands of Ensign Timº Perkins the sum of seven Pounds Nine Shillings in full for ye sd Town for County Rate 7 9 00 Ipswich April 13 1721 P John Appleton County Treasur
Reced the 9th day of ffebry 1720-21 of Jesse Dorman Con- stable of Topsfield the sum of three Pounds thirteen shilling and six pence 03 13 06
in answer to an order from ye Selectmen of sd Town I say recived by us.
Nath1 Capen Jonathan Willds
Janry ye 27th 1720-21 Recid of mr Jesse Dorman Constable the Sum of one pound four shillings that was alowed to me for making the Towns Stocke. I say Recd By me John Wilds
Topsfield march I : 1720-21 Recd of mr Jesse Dorman Constable of Topsfield the sum of two shillings w:ch sd Jesse was ordered to pay me out of the Town rate I say Recd by me
John Hovey
Recd This 2nd day of march 1720-21 of mr Jesse Dorman Constable of Topsfield the sum of four shillings in answer to an order from ye selectmen of sd Town; I say Recived By me
Ivory Hovey
The five Copyes above Entred are true attest Jacob Pea- body Town Cler
We whose names are under written being Chosen by ye Town of Topsfield to run and Perambulate ye lines between ye Common and ye Proprietors on ye Aprill : 1720. a Line run by mr Josiah Batcheller ye artist
Begining at a great white oak Tree near to Thos Towns which is ye old bound and so easterly 6 rods down to ye medow sides and from ye afore sd white oak westerly: 40 rods to a stake and a heap of stones and at 70: rods a stake and heap of stones at 90: rods a stake and heap of stones at IIO: rods a stake and a heap of stones at: 130: rods a stake and a heap of stones at 150: rods a stake and a heap
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of stones and so on: 27: rods to a red oak Tree near to Michael Dwinells which is one of ye old bounds: a white oak tree marked between ye Red oak and ye Last heap of stones mentioned ye whole line on yt side is: 183: rods : by this line we finde yt Edmon Town has fenced in a strip of ye Common land.
A True Copy attest Jacob Peabody Town Clerk :
Nath1 Averill John Howlett Nath1 Porter
The 7: day of Aprill: 1720: a line run by mr Josiah Bacheler the Artist from ye Red Oak, by Michael Dwinels : 27 : poles westerly a stake and a heap of stones, at : 47 Rods a stake and a heap of stones : at 67 Rods a stake and a heap of stones : at 87 rods a stake and a heap of stones at: 107 Rods a stake and a heap of stones at: 127: rods a stake and a heap of stones: at: 147: a stake and a heap of stones : at: 167: a stake and a heap of stones at: 207 a stake and a heap of stones : at : 227 : a stake & heap of stones at : 247 : a stake and a heap of stones at 274: a stake and a heap of stones : at: 294: a stake and a heap of stones at : 314: a stake and a heap of stones at: 334: a stake and a heap of stones at : 354 : a stake and a heap of stones at 374 : a stake and a heap of stones at: 394: a stake and a heap of stones at : 414: a stake and a heap of stones at 434: Rods a stake and a heap of stones: at: 474: rods a stake and a heap of stones [224] And so : 20 Rods to the black oak by John Curtises : The whole line on yt side is: 494 Rods from the Red or black oak by John Curtecis on a strait line to ye Red oak by Michael Dwinels, We finde that Amos Dorman has fenced in a strip of the Common Land : and Jacob Towne has fenced in a piece of ye Comon land, and part of his barn stands on ye Common Land
Nath' Averill John Howlett Nathaniel Porter
A true Copy attest Jacob Peabody Town Clerk for Tops- field
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OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
June. 27 day : 1720 We whose Names are under writen being Chosen and Impowered by ye Town of Topsfield to run Lines between ye Common and the Proprietors we run a line between Lieut Thos Baker and ye Comon : 12 foote from ye corner of the stone wall that goeth into float medow and fro m thence southerly about So Rods to a White oak with stones at it near the medow Commonly called ten acre medow and from thence about : 40 rods to a stake and a heap of stones and from thence southerly : 57 rods to a stake and a heap of stones and from thence about : 43 rods to a stake and a heap of stones: and from thence Southerly about 43 Rods to a stake and a heap of stones and from thence about: 60 Rods to a white oak Tree marked and from thence about: 84 rods to a black oak tree marked near bare hill plain Nath" Averill John Howlett Nathaniel Porter
A True Copy attest Jacob Peabody Town Clerk
Perambulation on the Bounds between Salem and Tops- field : and were impowered by ye Selectmen of Each Town : whereas the Subscribers have Perambulated as may appear viz : Beginning at a Red oak Tree with a heap of stones at it Commonly called Crumwels Rock near the River, from thence to a heap of stones between Three white oak Trees by a great ash Swamp, then to a heap of Stones near Nich- ollas Brook, Then to a Dry tree with a heap of Stones at it near ye head of Smiths meadow, then to a croocked Black oak tree near Wheel Brook, and then to a white oak tree with stones at near Wenham highway or causway: we have renewed all the above written bounds by casting more stones lo Each Bound : as witness our hands
Dated April 17day 1721
A True Copy attest Jacob Peabody James Houlton
Town Clerk : for Topsfield Daniel Epes
Topsfield May: 4-1721 By vertue of a warrant from ye Clerk of ye Superiour Court all ye freeholders and other In- habitants Qualified according to Law for voting in our town are required to meet here at the meeting house next Wens-
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day at three a Clock in ye afternoon to chuse three good and Lawful men Each Whereof to have a real Estate of fourty shillings per annom or other Estate Worth fifty pounds Star- ling : one to serve on ye grand Jury and two to serve on ye Jury of Tryals
Joseph Robinson Constable
At a Lawfull meeting of ye Town of Topsfield on ye Ioth day of May 1721 Capt Tobijah Perkins was Chosen to Serve on ye grand jury and Ensigne John Gould & m" Daniel Clark are Chosen to serve on ye Jury of Tryals at the next Supe- riour Court to be holden at Ipswich on the third tusday of May Instant voted
Received of Constable Jesse Dorman five pounds and ten Shillings in full of that money that was ordered him to pay to me for my being at the general Court Last year I say re- ceived by me Tobijah Perkins
Dated the IIth of May 1721
A true Copy attest Jacob Peabody Town Clerk
[225] The freeholders & other Inhabitants of ye Town of Topsfield such as are Quallified according to Law for Voting are hereby notified and warned to meet here at ye meeting house in Topsfield on munday next which will be ye fiveteenth day of this Instant may at two of ye Clock in the afternoon, Ist to Chuse a Representative. 21y to see if ye town will Justifie the Selectmen in their not Perambulating or renewing the bounds between Towns Topsfield & Boxford as ye law directs or consider of some other way & act as the Town shall see cause in yt regard. 3ly : to Chuse a Committee to Receive the Loan money that shall fall to ye share of our Town of Topsfield & to agree upon some method for ye disposing or Improving the same as the Town shall see cause: also to alow bills of charge attest ye Selectmen of Topsfield
dated ye 9th May 1721 Thomas Gould Thomas Baker Amos Dorman
Joseph Robinson Constable
At a Legal meeting of ye Inhabitants of the Town of Tops-
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OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
field on May 15th 1721 Dean Daniel Redington is Chosen Moderator for this meeting voted
mr Nath" Porter is Chosen to Represent the Town at ye voted
generall Court
The Town agreed to send for our towns part of ye fifty thousand pounds in bills of Creditt according to an act made & passed at ye general Court in March 1720 voted
Lieut Joseph Gould, Lieut Thos Baker, & Sergt John How- lett are Chosen Trustees to Receive ye said money in behalf of ye Town ; and said Trustees shall Let out sd money at four per cent : per annum and not to let above twenty pounds nor under five Pounds of sd money to any person whatsoever ; and take such security as ye Law Directs : and Shall not let out any of sd money to any out Towns person. and also ye said Trustees shall keep no more of sd money for their own perticuler use then is allowed to any other person. and shall render an account to ye town of their proceeding in yt mat- ter annually as the Law Directs voted
the Town agreed to stand by and bear out ye Selectmen in what they have done relating to Renewing bounds with boxford this year voted
the Town ordered ye Selectmen to draw three pounds twelve shillings out of the Town Treasury for Capt Tobijah Perkins voted
Mr Isaac Peabody mr John Hovey & mr Daniel Clark are chosen a Committee to see if Boxford will Joyn with them to Petition to ye general Court to throw up the Resolve of said Court relating to the line between Topsfield and Boxford
voted
Topsfield April : 24th : 1721 We the Subscribers were ap- pointed by ye Selectmen of Topsfield to meet the Selectmen of Boxford to perambulate and renew bounds we did accord- ingly meet at Capt Perleys and went and renewed all ye bounds we could find with them Elisha Perkins
A True Copy attest Jacob Peabody Daniel Clark
town Clerk
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Topsfield May 19th 1721
By vertue of a precept from Colo: Denison Sheriff The Inhabitants of this Town Qualified acording to Law for Vot- ing. you are notified & warned to meet here at the meeting house next Tuseday which will be ye 23 day of this instant May at Eleven of the Clock in forenoon to Chuse a Represen- tative to Serve at the great & general Court at Boston Thom- as Gould Amos Dorman Thos Baker Selectmen of Topsfield
Joseph Robinson Constable
[226] At a Lawfull Town meeting in Topsfield on ye 23 : day of May 1721 Capt Tobijah Perkins is Chosen Represen- tative for ye town for ye year Ensuing voted
We whose Names are under written being appointed by the Selectmen of our Severall Towns: viz, Wenham and Topsfield to Renew and Perambulate bounds between our Respective towns, as the Law Directs, have according At- tended Said Service, and have renewed the bounds from A heap of stones Near to Mr Porters Meadow, according to a Settlement in: 1682: about 15 or 16 Pole Southerly from ye white Oak Tree the Corner bounds between Salem and Topsfield. to ye plump of maples near Charles gotts meadow and so as the Brook Runs by a maple Stube by the way going over into the meadow to a stake and heap of stones in ye Brook from thence to the Southeasterly Corner of Pig- dens meadow to a stake and a heap of stones and so to the river according to ye settlement in the year 1694. Which bounds we do agree unto
as Wittness our hands
John How for
Samuel Kimball
for
Jacob Town Topsfield Thos Tarbox
Wenham
John Curtis
Daniel ffisk
May ye 23: 1721
A true Copy as attest Jacob Peabody Town Clerk
Received of mr Jesse Dorman Constable of Topsfield Eight Shillings we say received by us Ephraim Willds March 7th 1720-21 Joseph gould
March 7th 1721 Received of Constable Dorman Eighteen
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shillings in money for sweeping of the meeting house I say Received by me William Averill
Received of mr Jesse Dorman Constable of Topsd one shil- ling ordered by the Selectmen to me Simon Bradstreet
ffebry 20th 1720-21, Received of mr Jesse Dorman Consta- ble of topsfield two shillings in money which the Selectmen ordered him to pay to me
I say Received by me Jacob Peabody
These four receipts last Entred are true copies attest Jacob Peabody town Cler
The freeholders and other inhabitants of this town such as are Qualified According to Law for Voting are hereby noti- fied to meet here at ye meeting house in Topsfield on Tuse- day ye Eighth day of this Instant August : at two of ye Clock in the afternoon
I to Chuse a Representative : 2 to see if the Town will give Liberty for ye Erecting of a Seat at Each End of the pulpit.
Dat. August ye 1 : 1721 Amos Dorman Selectmen
Joseph Robinson Constable Thoma Gould
Thomas Baker , of
Topsfield
At a Legal meeting of ye inhabitants of Topsfield August 8th 1721 Capt Tobijah Perkins was chosen Representative
[227] At a Lawfull meeting of ye Inhabitance of ye town of Topsfield on September 12th 1721 Nat" Averill and Ensigne Timothy Perkins were chosen to Serve on ye Jury of Tryals at ye next Inferiour Court to be holden at Newbury voted
At a Legal meeting of ye Inhabitan of ye town of Tops- field on October 10 1721 Ephraim Willdes and Jacob Towne were Chosen to serve on ye grand Jury and Nat Porter is Chosen to Serve on ye Jury of Tryals at the next Superiour Court to be holden at Salem voted
There being nothing done nor to be done but Jurymen to be Chosen the two last meetings . Therefore ye notifica- tion was not Entered.
The freeholders and other inhabitants of this Town such
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as are Qualified according to Law for voting are hereby notified & warned to meet here at ye meeting house in Tops- field next teusday Come fourtnight at two of ye Clock in the afternoon which will be the Seventh day of November next : Ist: To alow bills of Charge
2ly To See if ye town will Pass a vote for the preventing of any Peson Coming into town to be a Town Charge
Topsfield October ye 23: 1721 Tho: Baker
in ye name of the Select
Joseph Robinson Constable men of Topsfield
Att a Legal meeting of ye Inhabitants of ye Town of Tops- field on ye 7th of November 1721
the Town alowed to Capt How 2 shillings for perambulat- ing with Wenham
The Town alowed to Jacob Perkins 16 shillings for mend- ing ye meeting house glass this year voted 00-16-00
the Town alowed Nat' Capen 98-6d for work iron and oyl & Spanish Brown to fit up the meeting house vein
voted 00-9-06
the Town alowed to William Averill 18 shillings for swep- ing ye meeting house voted 18-00
the Town alowed to Qu : master Ephraim Wilds & Amos Dorman for perambulating with Salem Last Spring
voted 00-04-00
the Town alowed to Elisha Perkins & Daniel Clark for going to Perambulate with Boxford this year voted 00-04-00 ye Town alowed to Thomas gould & Ivory Hovey 4 shill- ings for Perambulating with Ipswich this year
voted 00-04-00
The Town alowed to Jacob Town & John Curtis one shill- ing & six pence to each for perambulating with Wenham
voted 00-03-00
the town alowed to m' Capen Eighty pound in Passable money for his work in the ministry this year voted 80-00-00
the Town gave the Selectmen power to alow Capt Tobijah Perkins his Lawful Demands for serving ye town at the gen- eral Court this year voted
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OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
Ipswich November ye 6th 1721
Wee the subscribers being appointed by ye Town of Ips- wich & Topsfield to perambulate ye Line between said towns have accordingly met & perambulated [228] the Line & re- newed the marks & bounds between said Towns by throwing Each of us a stone at ye siveral trees on ye sd bounds Which Wee find to be agreeable to & exact with the antient bound formerly settled as Witness our hands
Thos gould Ivory Hovey
Nat1 Hart John Kimball
Entred P Jacob Peabody Town Cler
Recevid of mr Jesse Dorman as Constable for Topsfield for ye year 1720 ye full of what was Committed to him to Collect for my use & for ye year aforesaid I say Received ye full as afores : d this 16th Jan'y : 1721-2 per me
Joseph Capen
A true Copy : Entered by Order of Selectmen Jacob Peabody Town Clr
Boston May 24th 1720.
Rec :d of mr Simon Bradstreet constable of Topsfield P mª Tobijah Perkins Fourteen pounds, six shillings and six pence in full For my ffather Jer Allen Treasurer P Jas Allen
£ 14-6-0
Rec :d of mr Simon Bradstreet late Constable of Topsfield the sum of two pounds ten shillings and six pence which with other Receipts is in full of all that was due to me as Town Treasurer
I say Rec :d this 23d day of Novem" 1721 per me John Gould Town Treas"
the two Copies Last Entred are true Copies attest Ja Pea- body Town Cler
To Mr Joseph Robinson Constable of Topsfield greeting &c you are hereby Required in his Majesis Name: forth- with to warn the freeholders and other inhabitance of Tops- field, on ye north side of ye River; Qualified as ye Law Di- rects for Voting in the perticulers hereafter named to meet at ye meeting house in Topsfield on ye first Tuseday of march
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next after the date hereof at Fight of the Clock in the morn- ing on sd day
Ist to Choose Town officers as the Law Directs
2ly to Chuse Men to reckon with Mr Ephraim Willds and Mr Daniel Clark they having money in their hands to be Disposed of by the Town.
3ly to Choose a County Treasurer. 4thly to see if the Town will agree that the Proprietors shall Divide all the un- divided Common Land in Topsfd according to the rule they have already Voted to Divide by: with this addition; viz with adding Poll money, for one Poll to Each freehold ac- cording as they have paid to them Rats which the proprie- tors agreed to Divid by
Dat : Topsfield ffeb : 19th 1721-2
Amos Dorman
Thomas Gould --
Selectmen of
Ivory Hovey
Thomas Baker Topsf :d
Essex Topsfield march 6th 1721-2
By Vertue of this warrant I have warned the Inhabitance of Topsfield on the north side of ye river to meet according to time & place within mentioned
Joseph Robinson Constable
[229] At a Lawfull and annual Town meeting of Inhab- itants of Topsfield being Leagally warned and convened together on March ye 6: 1721-2
Mr Isaac Peabody is Chosen Moderator for said meeting
Jacob Peabody is Chosen Town Clerk for ye year En- suing
voted
and sworn voted Thomas Dwinel and David Baultch are Chosen Constables for ye year Ensuing voted
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