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1844
This year the town raised seven hundred and fifty dollars for schools, nine hundred dollars for poor, and two thousand dollars for ways. The selectmen were instructed to employ some person to construct a boom above the bridge over Crooked River, to protect the bridge from injury from log-driving on said river. The selectmen were instructed to remove Josiah Hill to the town farm, and where practicable, all other paupers of the town. The reports of the location of thirty roads were recorded this year. This year the several town lines were perambulated by the selectmen in connection with the selectmen of the adjoining towns. The number of polls was three hundred and twenty-one, and of scholars six hundred and sixty-seven ; town valuation one hundred fifty-three thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars. . Jonathan Swift was representative. In the autumn of this year the house of Richard W. Houghton was burned. He resided near Steep Falls. On the night of November 19th, Holden's Mills on Crooked River were burned. The origin of the fire was unknown in both cases, but it is thought the mills were burned by an incendiary. The excitement over the predicted end of the world measurably subsided, after it was found that it did not take place in 1843. October 12th, there was a meeting of citizens at Bennett's tavern to consider the interests of Norway, with reference to the proposed railroad between Portland and Canada. Nathaniel Bennett was chosen president, and Henry C. Reed, secretary. A committee was appointed to gather information and report it at a sub- sequent meeting. The following are among the deaths of this year : January 8th, wife of Samuel Ames, eighty-five, influenza. February IIth, child of Silas Meriam Jr., eight months; child of John S. Shed, fourteen months, scalded; 29th, Samuel Cutter, fifty-six, apo- plexy. March 4th, Mrs. Herring, eighty-three; 13th, Mrs. Cushman, forty-seven, lung fever. April 16th, Thomas J. Everett, thirty-eight, brain fever. May 16th, child of Otis True, one, scarlatina. July 20th, wife of William Parsons, eighty-three; 30th, Silas Meriam, seventy-six, palsy. September 8th, Mrs. Sarah Crockett, seventy-seven, dropsy ; 13th, Theodosia E. Stetson, eighteen, consumption. October 7th, Mrs. John Swift, eighty-two; 25th, Martha Whitmarsh, twenty-seven, con- sumption ; 29th, Ephraim Brown, fifty-six. November 2d, wife of J. N. Hall, consumption.
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1845
Town valuation one hundred sixty-five thousand seven hundred and one dollars; number of ratable polls three hundred and thirty; number of scholars six hundred and sixty-four. Highway tax one thousand five hundred ninety-two dollars and twenty-nine cents; money tax two thou- sand three hundred fifty-two dollars and six cents. Mark P. Smith was elected representative. The selectmen were instructed to post warrants for future meetings in the post-office at the village. An unusual num- ber of old residents died this year. Among them were Deacon William Parsons, aged eighty-five; Benjamin Herring, aged eighty-four; Josiah Hill, eighty ; Job Eastman, ninety-five; Mrs. Asa Hicks, sixty-four; Mrs. Peter Town, fifty-nine; Mrs. Joseph Bradbury, seventy-nine; Daniel Watson, eighty-three; John Frost, seventy-seven; Joshua Crockett Jr., fifty-four; and Mrs. Mary Hall, fifty-one. The project of a railroad from Portland to Montreal begun to be agitated along the proposed line, and a meeting was held in Norway. Much enthusiasm prevailed, and
considerable stock was subscribed for. It was hoped that the road would pass at or near the village. An enthusiastic temperance meeting was held at the village in December, addressed by Neal Dow, George H. Shirley, R. K. Goodnow, Henry Hawkins, and others. James N. Hall presided. Deacon William Parsons died January 8th, aged eighty- five years. He came to Norway nearly sixty years before, and from that time continued to reside here. Benjamin Herring died February 3d, aged eighty-three. He was one of the seven original members of the Universalist Church organized in Norway in 1799, under the preaching of Rev. Thomas Barnes. Josiah Hill, an early settler, died February 22d, aged seventy-seven. Job Eastman died February 28th, aged ninety-five. Daniel Watson died December 24th, aged eighty-three, and John Frost, December 29th, aged seventy-seven. At a railroad meeting held in July, nearly twenty thousand dollars were subscribed to the stock of the proposed Atlantic and Saint Lawrence Railroad. Other deaths: January 18th, Mrs. Mary Hall, fifty-seven, consumption. April 11th, Harriet E. P. Goodnow, fourteen, diabetes; 12th, wife of Pleaman Holt, thirty-four, consumption. June 4th, wife of Asa Hicks, sixty-four, dropsy. July 6th, Harriet W. Henley, twenty, consumption ; 20th, Catherine Hobbs, seventeen, fever. August 10th, Mrs. Peter
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Town, fifty-nine, fever; 20th, child of Samuel Foster, one; child of Mr. Jordan, three. September 15th, Henry L. Crockett, twenty-eight, fever; 23d, Mary M. Phelps, twenty-one, same; 27th, wife of J. Rounds, twenty-seven, consumption. December 16th, wife of Henry Noble, fever.
1846
The town voted to pay for clearing five acres of interval on the town farm and for putting the same into grass. Seven hundred and fifty dollars were raised for schools, five hundred for poor, and two thousand three hundred for ways. At a special meeting in September, the selectmen were made a committee to let to the lowest bidder the making of the alterations provided for by the county commissioners, in the road between David Noyes' house and Greenwood line. The number of polls was three hundred and twenty, and of scholars, seven hundred and fourteen. Isaac A. Thayer of Oxford was elected repre- sentative. Ebenezer P. Fitz came this year, also Joseph Tuttle, who was a son of John Tuttle and soon afterward went to California. He returned, kept a livery stable at the village with Edmund M. Hobbs, moved to Bryant's Pond and kept a hotel there, and then went to Providence, Rhode Island. Widow Rachel Field, formerly of Hollis, died in Greenwood January 3Ist, aged ninety-four and one-fourth years. The Norway Female Seminary was advertised in the Norway Advertiser in February; Rev. Charles Soule was principal, Emily Bailey teacher of music, and Ann N. Deering of drawing and painting. Moses B. Herring, a native of Norway, died in New York February 24th, aged twenty-six years. There was a great freshet the last of March, doing immense damage in the State. Eben Hobbs and Richard Evans carried on the manufacture of plows. Deaths this year : January 7th, wife of L. Hathaway, consumption. February, Mrs. Mercy Hobbs, same. April 11th, Daniel Young, sixty-four, same; child of Mrs. Everett, two; 27th, Miss Tarbox, eighty, jaundice. June 18th, wife of H. Rust, fifty-five, consumption; 28th, Mrs. Annie Morse, sixty-eight, same. August 4th, Mrs. Sarah Rust, eighty-three; 18th, child of D. Cummings. September Ist, Mrs. Mercy Woodman, seventy-five, con- sumption ; 22d, wife of J. B. Richardson, twenty-nine, and twin children. October 6th, wife of Lemuel Shedd, eighty-eight, consumption; 22d,
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Wilson Hill, nineteen, fever. November 19th, wife of S. Greenleaf Jr., thirty-eight ; 27th, Asa Danforth Jr., five, fever. December 16th, Mrs. Hannah Hill, forty-five, fever.
1847
The town this year voted seven hundred and fifty dollars for schools, nine hundred dollars for paupers, and two thousand for ways. Benjamin Rowe and wife were left in the hands of the overseers of the poor to provide for their support. The accounts of Drs. Danforth and Millett were left with the selectmen with instructions "to pay only what can be legally collected." On the proposed constitutional amendment with regard to loaning the credit of the State, the town voted yea, sixty-seven ; nay, thirty-one. Among the new-comers was Ebenezer P. Hinds who took charge of the Norway Liberal Institute. Rev. Charles Packard came this year, and also Franklin Manning, who went into trade at the village. On the twelfth of April, Joseph York Jr., a young man employed at the saw-mill at Steep Falls, received a fatal accident. He was assisting in placing a log upon the mill-carriage, when a hand- spike was wrenched from his hands, one end of which struck him upon the abdomen, injuring him so that he died the following Thursday, the accident occurring on Monday. November 18th, Cyrus Cobb met his death by a fall in his barn. He was upon the scaffolding pitching down hay, when a board on which he was standing gave way and he fell to the floor, killing him, as was supposed, instantly. His father was Ebenezer Cobb, the early settler, and among his brothers was Rev. Sylvanus Cobb. Deaths : January 17th, Mrs. Lydia Tubbs, sixty-one, consumption ; 19th, Mrs. Rebekah Frost, eighty; she was the widow of Nathaniel Stevens, one of the early settlers. February 17th, child of J. Bancroft, twenty months. March 31st, Mrs. Sargeant, twenty-two. April 16th, Helen M. Noyes, five, dropsy; 17th, William Cox, seventy- three, consumption ; 20th, widow of Amos Upton, consumption; 26th, Mrs. Nancy Hobbs, fifty-nine, consumption. May 2d, child of Cephas Sampson, two, croup. June 3d, son of Andrew Mills, thirteen, con- sumption ; 13th, Lucy Jane Perry, twenty, same; 16th, wife of John Frost, seventy-two, fit; wife of William Lord, fifty, fever. July 3d Mrs. Mercy Bartlett, eighty, consumption; 11th, child of Lyman Bird,
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two; 16th, George E. Smith, fifteen; 23d, wife of Jacob Parsons, suddenly ; 27th, Mrs. Esther Jordan, seventy-five, consumption. Sep- tember 3d, wife of John March, seventy-seven, same; 10th, child of William C. Pierce, two; 30th, wife of Aaron Shackley, forty-seven, cancer. October 7th, child of William Brown, six; 8th, child of Amos F. Noyes, three, fever ; 24th, wife of Col. A. Town, sixty-seven, fall, and dropsy. November 18th, Cyrus Cobb, fifty-four, killed by a fall in his barn ; 25th, David Morse, seventy-five, dropsy. December 6th, John Parsons, eighty-five; 7th, child of J. S. French, twenty months; 20th, child of M. P. Smith, nine months.
1848
The valuation this year reached one hundred ninety-three thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars; number of polls three hundred and sixty-three; number of scholars seven hundred and fifty-two. Road tax one thousand forty-two dollars and forty-one cents; money tax four thousand five hundred thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. Benjamin Richards, of Oxford, served as representative. Moses B. Bartlett's name appears on the list of tax-payers this year. He was a lawyer, and the son of Barbour Bartlett, Esq., of Bethel. He remained here a few years, and then went west. Otis True, who afterward kept the Elm House, came this year. There was a large influx of temporary residents, occasioned by the operations on the line of the proposed rail- road. The road was opened this year between Portland and Yarmouth, and its building was under contract all along. The mortuary record for this year was as follows : January 16th, Caroline Pike; 29th, Emily Chandler, twenty-seven, consumption. February Ist, Asa Barton, fifty- four, same; 10th, Matthias Smith, forty-two, found dead; 21st, James Packard, eighty-nine, old age. March 5th, Mary C., daughter of Jacob Herrick, fourteen, dropsy; 27th, Mrs. David Gorham, eighty, consump- tion. April 20th, Mrs. Merrill, eighty-five. May 30th, Jonathan G. Town, twenty-eight, brain fever. June 11th, Sarah, wife of Matthew Lassell, fifty-three, consumption; 29th, child of E. L. Knight, four and one-half, fever. July 19th, Rufus Bartlett, eighty-seven, old age; 25th, Zephaniah Frost, sixty-three; 29th, Ann Lassell, twenty-seven, con- sumption. September 4th, Joseph Small, seventy-four, same; 7th, wife
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of Amos Hobbs, eighty-nine, old age -one of the first settlers; 16th, John Case, seventy-five, cancer. October 2d, Mrs. John Parsons, eighty. November 2d, child of Mr. Rowe; 26th, William Walton, forty-five, fever; 28th, William Reed, the first post-master, seventy-three, con- sumption. December 29th, Ellen Flint, seventeen, same. The Norway Liberal Institute was dedicated October 24th; address by Mr. Prince, of New Gloucester.
1849
The same amount was raised for schools as last year. Nine hundred dollars were raised for poor and town charges, and one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars for ways. Several roads were accepted as laid out by the selectmen. The town valuation this year was two hundred thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars, a decided increase during the last three years; number of polls, three hundred and sixty- nine; of scholars seven hundred and forty-two. Henry C. Reed was elected representative to the Legislature. At the annual town-meeting in March, the town adopted a code of by-laws which are given below. Judging from the remarks made by Mr. Noyes upon the subject, they were not very rigidly enforced. The railroad was opened during the year to Mechanic Falls. The dysentery was fatal among children, as shown in the list of deaths. March Ioth, child of J. Morse, ten weeks; 17th, child of James Merrill, two; Timothy Jordan, eighty-two, old age; child of Hiram Millett. April, Ezra Stevens, forty, fits; 25th, Sophia L. Frost, thirteen; Susannah Tubbs, ninety, non compos mentis. May 13th, widow Ripley, sixty-eight, cancer ; 26th child of A. P. Burnell, fourteen months. June 9th, child of Mr. Tucker; 2Ist, Uriah Holt Esquire, seventy-three, gravel. July 12th, Charles Tubbs, sixty-eight, consumption ; 21st, widow Anthony Bennett, seventy, same; 24th, wife of Solomon Millett, seventy-six, same; 27th, Rebekah Everett, fourteen ; 31st, child of Asa S. Pool, fourteen months. August 21st, Frederic Tucker, two and one-half, dysentery; 24th, child of A. Smith, same ; 25th, Annie Shattuck, two, same; child of J. H. Merrill, two and one-fourth, same; 28th, child of Mr. Stevens. September 3d, child of F. Manning, same; 4th, Mrs. Ridlon, fifty, same; 5th, Mrs. Stevens, thirty-one, same; 6th, Gilbert Noble, twenty-one, same; 10th,
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child of E. Ames, fourteen months, same; 11th, child of P. L. Pike, eleven months, same; 12th, child of J. Morse, four, same; 15th, child of E. P. Fitz, nineteen months, same; 19th, child of Ezra Shackley, nine months, same; 20th, child of J. H. Morse, one, same ; 21st, child of Mr. Raymond, nine months, same; 22d, Mr. Woodbury, sixty-five, same; 23d, child of Thomas Higgins, same; 24th, child of Mr. Holden, one, same ; child of J. Merrill, three, same. October 11th, Mrs. Chloe Holt, eighty, consumption; 13th, Mrs. Mason, fifty, dysentery ; child of Mr. Sargent, two, same. November 5th, Aaron Chandler, thirty, same.
BY-LAWS OF THE TOWN OF NORWAY, ADOPTED MARCH 5, 1849. ART. IST.
Appointment, Power and duty of the Inspector of Police.
SEC. I. Be it enacted by the town that there shall be annually appointed by the Selectmen of the town of Norway, or a majority of them, a Police Officer, to be called Inspector of Police, who shall have power to remove all unlawful obstructions and nuisances in any public street in said town which shall come to his knowledge, at the expense of the owner thereof, and whose duty it shall be to collect penalties for any violation of these By-Laws, and to pros- ecute therefor at the expense of the town, and in case of the death, removal, or resignation of said Police Officer, the Selectmen for the time being, or a major part of them shall have the power to fill the vacancy whenever they may think proper, and the said Selectmen, for the time being, shall have power to allow such Police Officer from time to time such compensation for his services as they shall judge reasonable and proper to be paid by the town.
SEC. 2. Be it further ordered by the town, that in case of the neglect of said Police Officer to collect or prosecute for any penalty or forfeiture incurred by reason of the violation of these By-Laws for the space of ten days from and after the forfeiture is incurred, or in case of a vacancy in said office of Inspector any inhabitant of said town is authorized to prosecute therefor.
ART. 2D.
SEC. I. Be it ordered by the town, that no person shall play at any game of Ball in any street or public place in said Norway, within ten rods of any dwelling-house, store or shop, or throw in any such place any snow-ball, brick-bat, stone, or other thing liable to injure any person or property, under penalty of one dollar for each and every offence.
SEC. 2. Be it further ordered by the town, that if any person or agent of any person or corporation shall keep a shop, house, or other place resorted to for the purpose of playing at Bowls or any other noisy game or play within one half mile of any dwelling-house, or meeting-house used for public worship or school-house wherein any school is kept or within eighty rods of any public highway or street in said town of Norway, and shall permit any person to play at Bowls or any such noisy game in any such shop, house, or other place aforesaid, such person, agent, or corporation shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for each
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offense and every person so playing at Bowls or any other such noisy game or play in any such shop, house, or place shall forfeit and pay two dollars for each offense.
SEC. 3. Be it further ordered by the town, that all prosecutions for the violation of these By-Laws shall be commenced within sixty days from the time of the commission of the offense, and all forfeitures incurred by these By-Laws shall be to the use of the town of Norway.
SEC. 4. Be it further ordered by the town, that this and the three preceding sections of Article 2, and the two sections or [of] Article I shall constitute the code of By-Laws of the town of Norway, and that the same shall take effect from and after their approval by County Commissioners for the County of Oxford.
Oxford ss. At the Session of the County Commissioners holden at Paris within and for the County of Oxford on the second Tuesday of May, A. D. 1849, the foregoing Code of By- Laws having been presented and duly examined is by said Commissioners approved.
Attest, WM. K. KIMBALL, Clerk.
A true Copy,
Att, SIMON STEVENS, Town Clerk.
1850
The railroad was opened to South Paris this year, and traffic over the line between there and Portland began quite early in the year. The valuation of the town was two hundred thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars ; polls four hundred ; scholars seven hundred and seventy-nine; population of the town as shown by the census of this year, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two. Ebenezer R. Holmes of Oxford was the representative. The highway tax was one thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents ; money tax three thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and eighty-nine cents. Mark H. Dunnell's name is on the tax list of this year. He succeeded Mr. Eveleth in the Liberal Institute. Peter Kimball also moved here from Woodstock. He was the father of Charles P. Kimball, who had already established a large carriage manufactory here. In December the grist-mill at the head of the village was burned. The establish- ment was owned by a company composed of Levi Whitman, Ezra F. Beal, Eben Hobbs, and Nathaniel Bennett, all of Norway, and John B. Brown of Portland. The mill was large and first-class in every particular ; it had four runs of stones, two bolts, and other machinery. The list of deaths this year embraced the following: January 12th, wife of E. J. Pottle, thirty-five, consumption ; 15th, wife of A. Thayer, forty, fever ; Mrs. Clark, fever ; William C. Brooks, seventy-four, dys-
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entery ; child of William Hall, same; child of Daniel Hobbs, same ; Daniel Davis, twenty-four, consumption. February 15th, Jeremiah Hobbs, sixty-four, same; Joel Stevens, ninety-five, old age; wife of G. W. Seaverns, twenty-five, consumption ; Josiah Hill, thirty, same. May, Michael Welsh, nine, scrofula; Harriet N. Noyes, thirty, con- sumption ; Harriet B. Morse ; child of Reuben Noble. July 20th, Jonathan Woodman, seventy-eight, sudden ; child of A. Smith, thirteen. July 30th, wife of Jonathan Pottle, eighty-two. August 3d, wife of James Crockett, fifty-nine, diarrhea ; 10th, William Churchill, fifty-four, consumption ; 12th, David Woodman Bartlett, nineteen, brain fever ; child of J. Hannaford Jr., dysentery ; Mrs. Brown, seventy, consump- tion. August 18th, child of Ephraim H. Brown, two, dysentery ; 24th, daughter of John Bird, nineteen, brain fever ; child of Edmund Merrill, two. September 3d, daughter of Sewall Crockett, twenty-one, fever ; IIth, child of Charles Parsons, eight, same; 22d, Eli Grover, thirty- four, same; 25th, child of Henry Small, fourteen months. October 5th, wife of L. Hathaway, thirty-four, consumption ; 6th, child of William Cox, four months ; 10th, wife of Simeon Walton, seventy-two, fever ; 13th, child of M. P. Smith, eighteen months; 23d, William Beal, eighty-one, old age; 28th, Eunice Bancroft, twenty-eight, con- sumption. November 3d, wife of Sewall Crockett, fifty, fever ; 14th, wife of S. S. Hall, thirty, consumption ; child of J. Greenleaf, eight weeks. November 24th, wife of D. Pottle, forty-four, consumption ; child of William C. Pierce, seven, dysentery. December 7th, child of A. T. Murphy, one, scalded ; 30th, Ansel Ross, thirty, consumption.
1851
The valuation took another upward stride this year and stood at two hundred eleven thousand three hundred and twelve dollars. The number of polls was four hundred and thirty-four ; number of scholars eight hundred ; highway tax two thousand one hundred and ten dollars; money tax three thousand and seventy-five dollars and forty cents. Lee Mixer went representative. The mills at the head of the village, burned last year, were rebuilt this year. The mills were enlarged and furnished with every modern improvement. Western wheat was received from Portland by rail, and ground in this mill during the year. Dr. Jesse
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Howe commenced practice here about this time. He was the son of Jesse, and grandson of Jacob, our first mail-carrier and post-rider. Rev. John L. Stevens came here this year as pastor of the Universalist Church. He was from the Kennebec, and soon returned there, settling in Augusta. He was for a time editor of the Kennebec Fournal; has been minister to two of the South American Republics, and later minister to Sweden. There was a very destructive fire on the night of the twenty-second of September. The fire took in the stable of Anthony Bennett who then kept the Railroad House. The fire extended rapidly. Joseph Shackley lost his house and outbuildings ; Adna C. Denison a large store, stable, and shed; Isaac A. Denison and Joseph A. Kendall a heavy stock of goods in the store; Benjamin Tucker Jr. his house, barn, and two sheds filled with hay, grain, carriages, harnesses, and other property ; Henry Rust a large, well finished and furnished house, and three large out-buildings. It was a sad blow to the prosperity of the village and a severe loss to the town. The origin of the fire is still unknown. A son of Jeremiah Foster was severely injured while at a serenading party on the twenty-eighth of December. Some one in the house fired a gun loaded with shot, twenty or thirty of which entered the young man's face and neck. It was feared that he was fatally hurt, but he eventually recovered. The following are among the deaths of this year : January 2d, daughter of Horsley Shed, seven, canker-rash; 15th, child of Mr. Golderman, one ; 17th, Hannah Jordan, seventy-six ; 25th, Betsey Witt, forty-eight, consumption. April, Mrs. Forbes, seventy, palsy ; 21st, Lois T. Cobb, fifteen, consumption. May 22d, Ann M. Woodbridge, nineteen, same ; 25th, Levi Shed, fifty-five, same. June, daughter of M. Parsons, fifteen, same ; 17th, Daniel Watson, fifty, same; 25th, wife of Samuel Foster, same. July 14th, child of J. B. Stuart, eight months ; 26th, James Foster, six, fever. August 4th, child of Thomas J. Needham, four, canker-rash ; Mrs. Benjamin Jordan, sixty, consumption ; 23d, Mrs. William Frost, forty-eight, same; 27th, child of Rev. E. F. Quinby, four, croup; child of Lewis Shackley, three weeks. September 2d, Mrs. Wentworth, seventy-two, jaundice; 10th, child of W. W. Hobbs, four, cholera morbus; 10th, wife of H. W. Strong, thirty-seven, con- sumption ; 18th, Lydia E., wife of William Frost 3d, twenty-eight, same.
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October 7th, child of H. W. Strong, five months; 24th, Abigail Parsons, fifty-four, fits ; 30th, wife of Titus O. Brown, eighty-two, congestion of the lungs. November 4th, wife of Daniel Holt, sixty-eight, consump- tion ; 24th, child of Clark Knight, four. December 25th, child of Mahalon Crockett.
1852
Voted to raise two thousand two hundred dollars for repair of ways. The selectmen were authorized to publish five hundred copies of the annual reports of the town officers, and place the same, directed to the several voters in town, in the post-office. The selectmen were instructed to appoint a liquor agent for the town. Nine hundred and fifty dollars were raised for schools, and one thousand dollars for poor and town charges. John Bird and William Young were permitted to draw their school money from the district where they belong and expend it where it would be most convenient for them. The valuation this year was two hundred eight thousand, eight hundred and eighty- seven dollars ; polls four hundred and six ; scholars seven hundred and ninety-seven ; voters in March four hundred and seventy-eight; in September five hundred and three. Daniel H. Witt, son of Benjamin and grandson of Benjamin, the old settler, was killed on the railroad, May 11th. He was fireman. The additions to the tax list this year were numerous, both in new-comers and in young men who became of age. They numbered over fifty. Deaths in 1852 : January 4th, child of Charles Walton, five, croup; 14th, Elizabeth Cobb, twenty, consump- tion ; John Richardson, eighty, same ; 27th, H. McIntire, eighty-three, dropsy ; 28th, Widow Ellis, eighty-two, consumption ; 29th, child of Reuben Noble, five, canker-rash. February 2d, A. Dunham, forty-six, decline. March Ist, I. Merrill, thirty-two, consumption ; 6th, Mrs. Frances Chandler, fifty-eight, stoppage; 8th, Mrs. Sarah Farwell, sixty-three, consumption ; 18th, Samuel Ames, ninety-three, palsy ; 28th, Nancy Morse, eight. April 9th, Nathaniel Millett, eighty, dropsy and apoplexy ; Ellen F., seven, 22d, Rebecca G., one and five-sixths, daughters of Dr. Jesse Howe, both congestion of the lungs. June 15th, Mrs. Mary Frost, sixty-eight, consumption ; William K. Emery, fifty-four, same; July 12th, wife of John Bird, seventy-six, same; 21st,
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