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January 9th: 1748. The Selectmen of Watertown Wefton & Waltham Met at Richd. Cuttings in sd Waltham by Appoint- ment. and Adjufted & Proportioned the Charges of Repairing the Great Bridge which has Arrifen Since the Laft Adjuftmt wch was in Nov. 1746. As Recorded in Liber (2) Page (54) in the Treafurey.
which was Charged
Then Due from Wefton to
£5 -. 7-10
to Acct. of Sd Towns Page 52 48
Watertown
& from Waltham to
Watertown -
37-13 -. 3
[38] At a Meeting of the Selectmen at the Houfe of Jonas Bonds Esqr. on the Twentyeth Day of Feby: AD 1748. Ordred the Clerk to Isue out warrants Directed to the Conftables of Watertown to Warn the freeholdrs and other Inhabts. of Sd Town who are Qualified to Vote in Town Affairs to Meet at the Publick Meeting houfe in sd Town on Munday the Sixth Day of March Next at Nine of ye Clock in the Morning for the Ends following vizt.
(1) To Choofe a Moderator. (2) To choofe Selectmen to Manage the Prudential Affairs of ye Town for ye Enfuing Year. To Choofe a Town Clerk a Treafurer a Conftable or Conftables Afsefsors and all Such other Town Officers as are by Law to be chofen in the month of March. (3) To Choofe a Saxton and Agree how he shall be paid. (4) To put in their Votes for a County Treafurey (5) To know the mind of ye Town whether Swine Shall Run at Large the Enfuing Year under the Regulations of ye Law in that Refpect. (6) To hear the Town Treafurers Accts. (7) For the Town to Manifest their mind How the Intreft Money Coming to the Town this prefent Year (the Year beginning the 11th of December Laft) Shall be Appropriated (8) For the Town to Grant a Sutable Salary for ye Revd Mr Storer for the Enfuing Year the Year beginning the firft of March Next and Agree how it Shall be paid. (9) To grant money for the Support of ye School or other wife Agree how it Shall be Supported. (10) To grant money for the Support of the Poor for ye Enfuing Year. (11) To hear the Accts of thofe Perfons that the Town is Indebted to, and to Grant Money to Satisfy them (12) To Grant money for the Repairing of the Meeting houfe, and for the Town to Come into Some Methods for the better
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Securing of the Glafs of sd Houfe, if ya Se meet. (13) To Grant money for the Repairing of ye Great Bridge over Charls River in Watertown. (14) To Know the mind of the Town whether the High Ways and Town Ways Shall be mended the Enfuing Year by Rate, and if the Town comes into this Method, then to make a Grant for Sd Affair, and for the Town to State Day Labour both for men and Teems, and that Perfons may work out their Refpective Rates at wch they are set (If they Se meet) at the price the Town Agrees upon, and to Choofe the Surveyers of High Ways to be Collectors of sd Rate, or to se that it be work't out within the Year in ye way & Manner the Town Agrees on. (15) To hear the Report of ye Comtee. Chofen to Agree with Perfons wt they Sid. give for Land Lying to the Ways &c. what they have done in Sd Affair, and for the Town to Act thereon. (16) (A Number of the Inhabts. of ye Town & freeholders having Petitioned the Selectmen that the following Article might be Encerted in the Warrants for March Meeting vizt) To know whether it is the mind of ye Town that their Meeting houfe be Seated, According to the Report made by their Committe Laft Chofen to seat sd Meeting houfe, and that the Inhabts. of the Town do Accordingly take their Refpective Seats which are perticulerly set forth & Mentioned in sd Report. (17) To know ye Mind of ye Town what way or Methods they will take to recover their Land fenced in by m' John Kimbal Ad- joining to ye Land formerly Uriah Clarks, and whereas ye sd Kimbal has heitherto Neglected, and still refueses to pay for the Land (thô often asked) that the Town Granted him (Near his houfe) on Condition of his paying for the Same as Reported by the Towns Comtee. to know what Steps the Town will Take with Relation thereunto.
And to ord' ye Conftables to notify thofe perfons the Town is Indebted to to bring in their Accts to ye Selectmen on ye 3d Day of March next at ye Widw. Learneds at 3 clock after Noon. Alfo to Notify ye surveyers of Highways &c to to meet ye sd Selectmen at sd Meeting to make up y' Acct. as Collectors.
[39] At a Meeting of ye Selectmen at the Houfe of ye Widw. Mary Learneds on Fryday the 3d Day of March AD 1748. for the Reciving thofe Perfons Accts yt the Town is Indebted to, &c. The Sundry Perfons Accts. as follow's vizt.
thefe two Acc . t Benjn. Haftings for work at ye Great has been Adjufted e Towns 1 David Livermore for Speeks for Sd Bridge 6 days 1/2 at 28/ Pr £.9 =. 2 =.. with Bridge .3 =. 4 =..
John Coollidge for boarding his Brother Sam1 4 weeks & 2 days at 40/ 8-10 -..
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& three weeks before he went to Anapeles at 20/P
3 -..-..
11=10 =..
Joseph Whitney for Serving Conftable 20/ for warning 2 Meetings 6/ Carring 2 Pions 24 2=10 ..
Jonn. Bemis for Timber for a Smal Whelm 20/ for a lock for School 25/6 2 =. 5 =. 6 for a load of wood for the Widw. Stearns .3- ..- ..
For work at the Minifteral Land abot fencing 10 -..-..
For half a Day work at ye Great Bridge ..-. 8 -..
15=13 =.. 6
To Joseph Mason for work at the Minifteral place
£.6 -.. ...
for Cafh paid to ye Clerk for buy
Law 5/ half Day at ye Bridge 8/
..- 13 =..
for Service as Afsefsor £5 for a Report 2/ .5 -. 2 -..
for Service as Clerk & Treafr 20 -.. -.. - 31=15= ..
To Daniel Whitney for work at the Minifteral place .7 -.....
for Plank and Timber for 2 whelms .3=15 -..
for Boarding the Schoolmafter 33
weeks at 60/ P 99= ..-..
for four Load of wood for ye School Master .9 --. 5 -..
-£119=00 =..
To Andw. White for work at the Minifteral place .. 3= .. -..
To Joseph Harrington for work at ye Minifteral Land .. 3 -..... To Benjn. Haftings for Nails & Mending ye School- .. 1= . 8 =. 6 houfe
To Wm. William Godding for Serving
Constable & Warning 2 Meetings
Henry Spring for boarding ye Widw. Maddocks
for a plank for a whelm
Daniel Bond for Bording Nurfing & Child bed Linin for Mary Prieft at her Lying in at ye Selectmens Requeft
vizt. one half of his Acct. &c
and for Timber for a whelm
17 =. 5 -. 6 ..- 12 -..
.17=17 =. 6
Edward Harrington for a Load of Wood for ye Widw. Stearns .. 3 =. =..
.. 1 -. 6 -..
6 weeks at 16/ P .4-16 -.. ..- 10 -.. .. 5 =. 6 -..
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Wm. Coollidge for Timbr. and Plank for Smelt brook Bridge .. 5 =. 3 =. 8
Sam' Fiske for Timber for a Whelm in Whitneys Lane .1 -. 5 -.. .1 -. 3 -.. John Whitney for 2 planks for whelms Jofiah Stearns for Irons for ye Bell & hanging Thomas Saltmarfh for Serving as afsefsor Nath1 Harrington for Serving as Afsefsor ..=. 5 -.. .5 -..-.. .5 =.-. Oliver Livermore for half Day work at ye Bridge Nath1. Coollidge for 3 Weeks 12 boarding his
..-. 8 -.. Brother Sam1. .7 -..-.. .1-10 -.. .2-15 -..
Sam' Barnard for Timber and Plank for a whelm Samuel Stratton for Plank Speeks & Stones for whelms
£257 =. 2 =. 2
[40] At a General Town Meeting of ye freeholdrs. & other Inhabts. of Watertown Qualified to Vote in Town Affairs Regulerly Warned and Afsembled at the Publick Meeting houfe in sd Town on the Sixth Day of March AD. 1748/9 for the Choice of Town Officers & other Affairs set forth in ye Warrant Voted and chofe Jonas Bond Esq' Moderator
Voted and Chose for Selectmen
Jonas Bond Esq" Joseph Mason Esq' Mr Oliver Livermore Mr Ebenezer Thatcher Mr Isaac Sanderfon
Voted and Chofe for Town Clerk Joseph Mason Esq". Voted and Chofe for Town Treafurer Joseph Mason Esqr. Voted to Choofe Two Conftables for this Year.
Voted and Chofe Nath1 Harrington Constable. And ye Town by Vote Releafed him.
Voted and Chose Wm. Coollidge to be a Constable. And the Town by Vote Releafed him again.
Voted and Chose Nath1. Stone Constable. who Accepted.
Voted and Chose Samuel Cook Constable. Upon his plea ye Town by Vote releafed him.
Voted and Chofe Jonathan Child Constable.
(he was not prefent)
Voted and Chose for Afsefsors - Joseph Mason Esq' Mr Nath1 Bright
Mr Thomas Saltmarfh
Voted and Chose Seth Hastings Sealer of Leather
Voted and Chose for fence Viewers 5 Samuel Cook
John Whitney
Voted and Chose for Surveyers of Highways 1 Richard Clark
Jonas Coollidge
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Voted and Chofe for Tythingmen Benjamin Hastings Israel Mead
Josiah Stouel Voted and Chofe for Hogrieves) Elifha Coollidge Voted and Chofe for Surveyrs & Meafurs § Ebenezer Thornton
Jonas Coollidge
Voted and Chose for Hawards Seth Hastings
Voted and Chose for Gager of Cask Wm. Gamage
§ Thos Saltmarfh Voted and Chose for Deerrieves David Livermore Voted and Chofe for Saxton Henry Spring Tartus
Voted to pay the Saxton by Two Contrabutions as Ufual
The Votes were brot in for a County Treafer. & Delivd to a Constable
Voted
[41] Voted that Swine Run at Large under ye Regulations of ye Law in yt Refpect.
Then Treafurer Laid His Accts. Before the Town And the Sum Total of the Debt Amounted to - £917=17 =. 9
Total of ye Credit . £660=10 =. 6
In the Contables Hands 256=12= . 4
In the Treafurey (10/ a Counterfit) ...- 14=11
917=17 .=. 9
The foot of ye Acct of Intreft Recd Since Laft Meeting in March
210 =. 3 =. 9
The foot of ye Acct of Intreft money paid away
by ordr.
210 =. 3 =. 6
The Vote was put whether the Town do Accept and Alow the Treafurers Accts. and the Vote past in the Affirmative
The Treafurer Crav'd Alowance for ye Ten Shilling bill yt is a Counterfit
Voted alowance of sd Counterfit Bill to ye Treafurer.
Voted and Granted four Hundred Pounds old Tenor for the Revd m' Storers Salary for this prefent Year begining ye firft of ys Inftant March
Voted that Three hundred Pounds of Mr Storers Salary be Afsefsed and One Hundred thereof be paid out of the Intereft money.
Voted and Granted the Sum of Three hundred Pounds old Tenor for the Suport of ye Gramer School ys Year, One hundred Pounds thereof to be paid out of ye Intreft Money the other Two hundred Pounds to be Afsefsed.
Voted and Granted ye Sum of Eighty Pounds old Tener for the Support of ye Poor this Year.
Then The List of the Accts. of thofe Perfons wch. the Town is indebted to was Laid before the Town and Read the whole amounting to the Sum of £257 =. 2 =. 2. Voted & Alowed ye
of Timber &c
Samuel Prentice
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Same. Voted that one hundred pounds of sd Acct. be paid out of ye Grant made for ye School Laft March to ward paying the Pfent SchoolMafters Board. and that the Remainder thereof be Afsefsed. to Satisfy the Remaining Debts.
Voted and Granted to ye Select men viz Joseph Mason Jonas Bond Oliver Livermore & Jonan Bemis 20/ P Day old Tenor for their time in procicuting the Affair of Jona" Page againit Fram- ingham Amounting to the Sum of Eighteen Pounds vizt
To Joseph Mason £7 --..-..
To Oliver Livermore 5 -.....
To Jonas Bond 3 -..-..
To Jonan Bemis 3 -..-..
Voted and Granted the Sum of Thirty Pounds for ye Reparing ye Meeting houfe
Voted and Granted the Sum of Thirty Pounds for Repairing ye Great Bridge.
Voted to Repair the High Ways and Town ways by Rate this Year.
Voted and Granted ye Sum of £300 Pounds to Repair the sd Ways.
Voted that the price of Labour be as Stated the Laft Year.
Voted and Chofe Richd. Clark & Jonas Coollidge the prefent Surveyers of ye High ways to be Collectors, to Collect sd Sum or Se that it be worked out within the Year at the prifes yt ye Town has Agre'd on
Then
[42] Then the Committes Report was Red to the Town, And the Vote was put Whether it is the Mind of ye Town to Accept of ye Committes Report and that the Land Mentioned in sd Report be and is hereby Granted and Confirmed to Sam' Cook mentioned in sd Report his heirs & Afigns upon his paying in to the Town Treafurey the Sum of Six pounds old Tenor agreeable to sd Report. and that ye Report be Recorded. And the Vote paft in the Affirmative.
Put to Vote whether it is the mind of ye Town that their Meeting houfe be Seated According to the Report made by yr Committee Laft Chofen to Seat Sd Meeting houfe and that the Inhabts. of the Town do accordingly take in their Refpective Seats which are perticulerly Set forth and mentioned in sd Report. And the Vote paft on the Negative.
At the Motion of John Kimbul
Voted and Continued the 17th Article (Relating to ye Affair of sd M' John Kimbul) to Next May Meeting. that he might have oppertunity to Accommodate sd Affair with the Committee &c.
It being uncertain whether one of ye Constables Chofen wld Accept (he not being prefent) therefor upon Motion made the
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Meeting was Adjourned unto Munday the 20th. of this Inftat march to this Meeting houfe at one of the Clock After noon. The Report of the Commtee Abovementioned
The Committee Chosen to Agree with Perfons what they sld give for Land Lying to the Ways &c. and Make Report to ye Town for their Confirmation
Report as follow's.
That on the Ninteenth Day of October 1748, They Agreed with Samuel Cook that he move out his front fence Againft the Country Road, Northward Even wth Thomas Saltmarsh's fence on his North Line againft Said Road, which is one Rod in Wydth, and to Run from the Corner of Sd Saltmarfhs Land on a Straight Line So as to Enterfect the Said Cooks fence Again at the End of Thirty Rods from Sd Corner, the Land taken in and Enclofed hereby is abot fifteen. And the Sd Cook is to pay in to the Town Treafurey therefor (for the Ufe of ye Town) the Sum of Six Pounds Old Tenor when The Town Shall Grant & Confirm the Sd fifteen Rods of Land to him his heirs and Afsigns.
Watertown Octobr. 19th: 1748.
Joseph Mason Jonas Bond
Ebenezer Stone } Commtee. Jonan Brown
[43] At a meeting of the Selectmen at the Widow Mary Learneds on the Tenth Day of March AD. 1748. The following Perfons were Sworn to the Discharge of their Respective Offices to wch they were Chofen on the Seventh of March Currant vizt.
(Town Clerk P Justice Harris
Joseph Mason Esq'. to ye Office of Town Treafurer [Afsefsor 1
Nath1. Stone to the office of A Constable
Nath1. Bright
Thos. Saltmarfh to ye Office of Afsefsor
Seth Hafting to ye Office of Sealer of Lear. Sam! Cook to ye Office of fence viewer
John Whitney Richd Clark to ye Office of Surveyrs of Jonas Coollidge 3 Highways Israel Mead to ye Office of a Tythingman
Josiah Stowel
to ye Office of Hogrieve
Elifha Coollidge
Ebenz' Thornton Jonas Coollidge
to ye Office of Survey" & meafr of Timbr &c Seth Haftings to ye office of Haward
Thos Saltmarfh to ye Office of Deerrieve Richd Clark Jonas Collidge S to ye office of Collector
P Joseph Mason Jus. peace
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The Town of Watertown being Served with a Copy of ye Petition of the Old Precinct in Cambridge by order of General Court, Relating to Sundry prions and ye Estates they Improve or live upon belonging to Watertown to be Set of to Cambridge as more fully Set forth in sd Copy. At ye Abovesd Meeting Ordred the Clerk to Ifue out Warrints Directed to ye Conftables of sd Town to warn the freeholdrs. and oth' Inhabts. of Watertown Quallified to Vote in Town Affairs to Meet at the Publick Meeting houfe in sd Town on Munday the 20th of March Currant at two of the Clock After noon to hear the Copy of sd Petition and for the Town to Do and Act on sd Affair as they shall se meet or think proper.
The Meeting houfe Glafs wanting mending Defired Mr Thatcher one of ye Selectmen to Speak to m' Ebenezer Bradifh to mend Sd Glas as soon as may be. Defired Sd Thatcher to procure three hundred of Nails to Nail the pains of Glafs at sd Meeting houfe.
[44]At a Meeting of the freeholdrs and other Inhabts of Watertown on the 20.th Day of March AD. 1748/9 by Adjournmt. Jonathan Child who was Chosen a Constable at Last Meeting. At this Meeting Appeared and Made his pleas why he SId not Serve and Defired the favour of the Town to releafe him. And the Town by a Vote Releafed Sd Child
Voted and Chose David Learned Constable. And ye Town by Vote Dismifsed him
Voted and Chofe Seth Hastings for Second Constable. And ye Town by a Vote releafed sd Haftings
Voted and Chofe Henry Spring jun' Constable, ye Sd Spring having been Chofe before and gave his Note to ye Town Treafr. The Town by Vote Difmifsed sd Spring.
Voted and Chofe Samuel Nutting for Second Constable, upon his pleas the Town Voted and Dismifsed Said Nutting.
Voted and Chose James Dix for Second Constable, who Accepted and was Sworn.
Upon a Motion made and Seconded, The Vote was put whether it is the mind of the Town to Reconfider their Vote made at Laft meeting Relating to the Grant of four hundred pounds for ye Revd Mr Storers Salary for ye Prefent Year. and ye Vote paft in ye Affirmative. Then the Vote was put
Whether it is the mind of the Town to Grant the Sum of five hundred pounds old Tenor for ye Revd Mr Seth Storers Salary for this prefent Year, And the Vote paft in ye Affirmative
Voted to Choofe a Committee to Treet with a Gentleman to keep the Grammer & Englifh School in the Town for this Prfent Year
Voted and Chofe the prefent Selectmen to be sd Committee
Voted that thofe Parents & Mafters who send their Children
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and Servants to the School Shall procure fire wood for ye School Voted and Granted ye Sum of five pounds fifteen Shillings to pay for a Gun the Selectmen bought for Sam! Coollidge to Cary to the Eaftward with him.
Voted and Granted 3/ to Joseph Whitney for warning a Town Meeting
Voted that the Grant made to Henry Spring Laft meeting for ye keeping ye Widw. Maddocks Six weeks be made up Twenty Shillings P week.
[45] At a Genral Town Meeting of the freeholders and other Inhabts. of Watertown Quallified to Vote in Town Affairs Regulerly Afsembled on the 20th Day of March AD 1748/9.
Voted and Chose Jonas Bond Esq. Moderator
The Copy of the Petition of the firft Parifh in Cambridge, which the Town was Served with by order of ye General Court (wherein they pray that Several of the Inhabts. of watertown with the Estates they Dwel on SId. be Anexed to sd Parifh) to Shew reafons to sd Court why the prayer of sd Petition Should not be granted, was Laid before the Town and Red, and After Debate thereon
The Vote was put whether it is the mind of ye Town to Choofe a Committee or Agents, to Shew (in behalf of Watertown) Reafons why the prayer of sd Petition Relating to sd Watertown Should not be Granted. And the Vote past in the Affirmative Voted and Chofe Mr John Hunt Docter Jofiah Converfe & Mr Jonathan Bemis to be a Commtee. or Agents for the Ends Abovesaid.
At a Meeting of ye Selectmen at the Houfe of Jonas Bond Esq". on the Twenty firft Day of March AD. 1748.
At Sd Meeting the Surveyrs Agre'd and Set the Surveyers of High Way's their Refpective Diftricts. vizt. Mr Richd Clark Survey". His District to be as follow's Vizt. All the High Ways & Town Ways Eaft of the Town Way that Leads from ye Country Road by Justice Harris Two Acres (so called) and so by the Meeting houfe to Cambridge Line by Thos Wellingtons, and that part of sd Lane from Cambridge Line aforesd up to the Meeting houfe.
And Jonas Coollidge Surveyer of High Ways His District to be as follow's Vizt. All the High Way's and Town Way's Weft of the Town Way Leading from ye Country Road so by the Meeting houfe and So to Cambridge Line by Thos Wellingtons alfo thofe Way South of ye River and that part of ye Town way from ye Country to the Meeting houfe.
Agreed with Mr John Coollidge (P his wife) to board the Widw. Webb for one Year Next from the 25th. of this Inftant at 25/ Pr week old Tenor Exclucive of Extraordinary Charges, and
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if any Such happen thrô Sicknefs or Indifpofition of Body to be reafonably Confidred, and if thro the run of things wth. Refpect to provifions if they SId Rife beyond prefent Expectation to what yª now are the Selectmen promife that cafe shall be Confidred alfo.
[46] At a Meeting of ye Selectmen at the House of Joseph Mason Esq' on the Third Day of April 1749. The Gramer School being Vacant. the Selectmen Agre'd To offer M' Jonan Sewel the Late Schoolmafter the Sum of £250£ Old Tenor P ye Year & He to board himfelf. And if M' Sewel Se meet to take up to keep the School in Watertown for a Quarter or more after that Rate then He to be Imployed. Appointed Joseph Mafon Esq'. Mefsrs. Oliver Livermore & Eben' Thather to Treat wth M' Jonan Sewal on the premises and to Make Report.
April the 6th. 1749. The Comtee Treated wth m' Jonan Sewal abot keeping the Gramer & English School in Watertown. And after offer being made to M' Sewel He undertook to keep the School in Watertown for one Quarter after the Rate of £250 P year old Tenor & He to board himfelf and the Quarter to begin the 13th Day of this Inftant April.
At a Meeting of ye Selectmen at M' Oliver Livermores on the 4th. Day of May 1749. The Selectmen having Recd a Precipt Requiring them to Afsemble y' Town in ord' to Elect a Perfon to Reprefent Them in a General Court appointed to be held at Boston on ye 31st of this Inftant May.
Ordred the Clark to Isue out Warrants Directed to ye Conftables to Warn the freeholdrs. and Other Inhabts. Quallifyed &c. to Meet at the Publick Meeting houfe in sd Town on Munday the 15th. of May Inftant at Two of the Clock after Noon then and there to Elect a Sutable Perfon to Reprefent them at ye Court abovesd.
Likewife to Order the Conftables to Notifie & warn the free- holdrs. & other Inhabts. of Watertown Quallified to Vote in Town Affairs to meet at the Publick Meeting houfe on Munday the 15th Day of May Inftant at Three of the Clock after noon for ye ends following vizt.
1. Whereas Several Perfons who are Nonrefidents are Afseit for famlty ( ?) to ye Tax in Watertown for ye great Timber Trade which they carry on in the Town who Refuse to pay the Collectors choofing to Stand a Trial in the Law wth. Relation to sd Affair. To know the mind of ye Town with Relation thereunto. And to Do And Act what they shall se meet and proper Relating to ye same Affair.
2. To hear ye Requeft of Amos Bond Late Conftable for ye Sinking of Wm. Vafsells Rates in his Lifts for Reafons wch may be given and for ye Town to Act y' pleafure there upon
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3. To know the Mind of ye Town whether they will Revive the Town buy Law Relating to horfes as it now Stands only with the Addition of Afsertaining the Difpofition of the forfiture.
Warrants were Isued out Accordingly
Att. J Mafon Clerk /
[47] At a General Town Meeting of ye freeholdrs. and other Inhabts. of Watertown Quallifyed to Vote in ye Choice of a Reprefentative, Regulerly Afsembled at the Publick Meeting houfe in sd Town on the fifteenth Day of May 1749 for the Election of a Sutable Perfon to Reprefent the Town of Water- town at the Great and General Court Appointed to be conven'd and held at the Court houfe in Boston on the 31 Day of May Currant.
The Meeting was Opned, the Major part of ye Selectmen prefent, The Vote for the Choice of a Representative was Called for, And after the Votes Were brot in Sorted and Counted it Appeared That Jonas Bond Esq' was Chofen to Represent the Town at ye Court abovesd by the Major part of the voters Prefent.
At a General Town Meeting of the freeholdrs. and other Inhabts. of Watertown Quallified to Vote in Town Affairs Regulerly Afsembled on the 15 Day of May 1749. At the Publick Meeting houfe in sd Town.
Voted and Chose Joseph Mason Esq" Moderator for sd Meeting.
The Seventeenth Article in the Warant for ye Warning of Laft March Meeting relating to John Kimbal, at Sd Kimbals Motion was yn Continued to May Meeting for his Accommodating sd Affair with the Comtee formerly Chofen to Agree with Perfon's for Land Lying to the ways &c. At this Meeting the sd Commtee. Made Report to the Town Relating to what yee had done in sd Affair, which Report was Red to the Town, And the Vote there upon was Put Whether it is the mind of Report Recorded Page (48) ye Town to Accept of sd Report and that the Lands Contained & mentioned in sd Report Relating to John Kimbal be granted and Confirmed to the sd John Kimbal his heirs and Afsigns on the Condition mentioned in the Sd Reporte, and alfo that a Small piece of Land mentioned in sd Report be granted and Confirmed to Jonas Bond Esqr his heirs & Afsigns upon the Condition mentioned in sd Report, And that the sd Report of the Comtee be Accordingly Record in the Town Records. and ye Vote paft in ye Affirmative
Then the firft Article in the Warrant for this Meeting was Red relating to Some Perticler Perfons who are Nonrefidents there being Rated in Watertown for the Timber Trade in sd Town, was Red to the Town and After Debate thereon. The Vote was Put whether it is the mind of the Town to Choofe a
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Comtee. to Take Advice in Sd Affair of Councel knowing in the Law, and that if the Committee upon Advice Shall find yt yr is Sufficiant foundation for the Town to proceed in sd Affair, That then the Conftable proceed According to the Advice of sd Comtee. and that the Town will indempnify the Conftables He proceeding According to the sd Commtees. Advice. & ye Vote paft in the Affirmative
Voted and Chofe Joseph Mason Esq' M' John Hunt & Jonas Bond Esq' to be sd Committee.
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