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CHILDREN, (by second marriage )
Charles Piper, b. Jan. 20, 1874.
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JOHN E. FRENCH
Born in Parkman, Maine, March 9, 1852. Educated in the public schools.
Engaged in horse and car- riage business.
Member of the Universalist Church, selectman of the town of Parkman, 1884-87; a mem- ber of the Board of Directors of the Guilford Trust Com- pany.
He m. Agnes S. Cousins, March 13, 1875.
CHILDREN
Annie L., b. March 12, 1880; Arthur J., b. Dec. 15, 1887.
MARCELLUS L. HUSSEY
Born in Sangerville, Maine, June 29, 1847. Educated in
the public schools of Sangerville and Guilford.
Merchant and woolen man- ufacturer.
Member of the Universalist Church; F. & A. M .; Knight Templar ; I. O. O. F .; a mem- ber of the House of Repre- sentatives in the Maine Legis- lature in 1897; postmaster of Guilford for twenty years.
He m. Sarah E. Douglass (b. Feb. 3, 1847) May 14, 1873.
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CHARLES SUMNER BENNETT
Born in Guilford, October 2, 1867.
Jeweler and Optometrist.
Member of the Universalist Church; Mt. Kineo Lodge No. 109, F. & A. M .; Good Cheer Lodge No. 37, I. O. O. F .; Moosehead Encampment No. 51, I. O. O. F .; Syracuse Lodge No. 89, K. P .; Town Clerk for the past 18 years.
He was married twice. His first wife was Clara Eton Brown (b. Dec. 29, 1870) m. June 28, 1900.
She d. in Ashland, Mass., Feb. 25, 19II.
He m. Blanche Scales (b. May 31, 1883) June 9, 1914.
CHARLES F. SCALES
Born in Corinna, Maine, Oct. 6, 1860.
Educated in the public schools, and Foxcroft Acad- emy.
Member of the Universalist Church; F. & A. M .; Knight Templars ; Mystic Shrine and K. of P.
Has been tax collector of Guilford.
A traveling salesman.
He m. Adelia A. Haskell (b.
Sept. 9, 1862) June 10, 1882. CHILDREN
Edith A., b. May 19, 1883;
James G., b. June 21, 1886;
Nelson N., b. Sept. 7, 1888.
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MELLEN F. ELLIS
Born in Guilford, May 16, 1843.
Educated in the public schools of Guilford and Mon- son Academy.
Enlisted in Co. I, 22d Maine Inft., Aug. 10, 1862; was with the Regiment every day and discharged Aug. 14, 1863.
From 1868-1900 was a resi- dent of Boston; was first en- gaged as a bookkeeper and later entered the street rail- road and paving business; in 1900 assisted his brother in establishing the Guilford Mat- ufacturing Company and served as its Treasurer until 1904.
Member of the Universalist Church ; Mt. Kineo Lodge, F. & A. M .; Logan Post, G. A.
R., of Cambridge, Mass .; has held various town offices.
He m. Sarah B. Glass (b. in Guilford, Jan. 26, 1842) Feb. 28, 1871.
CHILDREN
Vinal H., b. Nov. 29, 1871.
WILLIAM E. WISE
Boru in Willimantic, Maine, July 16, 1864.
Educated in the public schools of Willimantic and Monson.
Farmer and lumber manu- facturer.
Member of Mt. Kineo Lodge, F. & A. M., Good Cheer Lodge, I. O. O. F., and of Hope Grange, P. of H., and its present Master.
Member of Guilford school board and was a member of the House of Representatives in the 76 and 77th Legislature of Maine.
He m. Lillian E. Sears, March 14, 1867.
CHILDREN
D. Edith; Raymond C., b. Nov. 1, 1898.
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RALPH H. MARSH, M. D.
Born in Greenville, Maine, Feb. 3, 1863.
Graduated U. of M., 1888; Maine Medical School, 1893. Doctor of Medicine.
Member of F. & A. M .; I. O. O. F. ; K. T .; Town Treas- urer, 1897; President Maine Medical Society ; School Board 15 years; U. S. Pension Examiner 15 years.
He m. Myrtie A. Holbrook. CHILDREN
Helen Celia, b. 1888; Alice, b. 1893.
MICAJAH HUDSON
Born in Guilford, Nov. 23, 1854.
Son of Henry Hudson, I, and Emily F. (Martin) Hud- son.
Educated in the public schools of Guilford, Foxcroft Academy and Coburn Classi- cal Institute.
Lived in Guilford until Sept. I, 1875, where they resided on a farm in Abbot, Maine, until Aug. 15, 1885.
Was engaged in the mer- cantile business at Guilford for 17 years, since which time has been engaged in the pulp wood business.
Was chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Guilford for 21 years. Is a member of the Executive Council of Maine.
He is an attendant of the Methodist Church and is a member of F. & A. M. He m. Mabel N. Packard of Parkman (b. July 3, 1853) Jan. 22, 1876.
CHILDREN
Lettie E., b. April 14, 1877, married Arthur Drake.
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HARRY W. DAVIS
Born in Guilford, April 24, 1862.
Banking, having organized the First National Bank of Guilford in 1892, was its first Cashier, and afterward President of the Guilford Trust Com- pany, which position he still holds.
Town Treasurer for several terms; Member of the Legislature 1905-6 and also 1911-12.
Member of the Universalist Church, and Masonic Lodge.
M. Clara E. Webber, (b. Feb. 9, 1864) Jan. 1, 1887.
CHILDREN
Raymond Webber, b. Oct. 15, 1887 (now Treasurer of the Guilford Trust Co.) ; Nellie, b. Oct. 4, 1890, (now Mrs. Robert Houston) ; Manley Webster, b. March 7, 1896; Pauline Louise, b. May 26, 1901. 6
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SARAH (LUCAS) MARTIN
AUTHOR OF THE CENTENNIAL (1016) POEM
Sarah (Lucas) Martin was born in Guilford, June 5, 1844.
She was the only daughter and youngest child of Wm. W. and Sally (Latham) Lucas who moved to Guilford from Oxford County in 1833.
Mrs. Martin is of Puritan stock on both sides, and descended, on the mother's side in the ninth degree, from Mary Chilton of Mayflower fame. She was also of Revolutionary stock on both sides.
She was married Jan. 10, 1870, to Osgood P. Martin, a veteran of the Civil War and also of Revolutionary stock.
Of this marriage three sons were born :
Harold C., a promising young physician, who died in 1900; Herman S., of Maine State University, Civil Engineer of Irrigation and Railway Construc- tion in Utah; Selden S., Professor of Economics in Harvard University, and now Statistician of the American International Corporation.
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OTIS MARTIN
Born in Guilford, Nov. 14, 1844.
Educated in the public schools of Guilford.
Member of the Methodist Church ; F. & A. M .; Sher- iff of Piscataquis County, 1885-1890, and served as Deputy Sheriff 21 years; was a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1891.
He m. Annie Atwood (b. in Bangor, Maine, Aug. 17, 1845) May 29, 1872.
CHILDREN
George A., b. May 4, 1873: Frank O., b. Oct. 26, 1875; Addison, b .; Aug. 18, 1878, died March 4, 1880; Carle, b. March 4, 1880; Florence Straw, b. Feb. 21, 1883.
JOHN SCALES
Born in Corinna, Maine, March 1, 1852. Educated in the public schools of Corinna. Moved to Guilford in 1874. Was in the drug store busi- ness from 1875-1893.
Has been in the hardware business since 1893.
Member of Universalist Church, Mt. Kineo Lodge, F. & A. M., and Syracuse Lodge, K. of P.
He m. Hattie A. Mudgett (born in Sangerville, Maine, April 13, 1855) May 4, 1879.
CHILDREN
Charles Raymond, b. Feb. (. 1881 ; Blanche, b. May 31, 1883 ; Eugene Mudgett, b. May 5, 1886.
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SAMUEL H. BOARDMAN
Born in Bangor, Maine, Nov. 19, 1868.
Educated in Bangor public schools.
Left school at the age of 16 and entered business.
Early business life spent in Timber Land.
Business in Bangor, with the exception of three years spent in Typewriter business at Providence, R. I.
Has been identified with Timber Land and Lumber business during the whole of his 32 years of business experience.
Is at the present time President and General Manager of the Guilford Mfg. Co., also Treas. of the Kennebec Lumber Co .; a director in M. L. Hussey Woolen Co .; a 32d Mason; member of Palestine Temple Mystic Shrine of Providence; Knights of Pythias; and Abnaki Club of Augusta, and President of Eastern Shook and Wooden Box Mfgs. Asso.
Attends Universalist Church.
He m. Sept. 8, 1891, Mary E. Sheffeld of Florence, Mass.
CHILDREN
Elliot S., now with the Kennebec Lumber Co., Augusta; Eleanor, a stu- dent at Smith College; and Kenneth S., a student at Bangor High School.
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JOHN SUMNER WILLIAMS
Born in Monson, Maine, July 24, 1864.
Educated in Monson Acad- emy, University of Maine, graduated from Boston Uni- versity Law School, L. L. B., 1890.
A lawyer.
Member of the Universalist Church; Mt. Kineo Lodge, F. & A. M., Foxcroft, R. A. C .; St. John's Commandery, K. T .; K. of P .; M. W. of A .; has been member of the Guilford Board of Selectmen and was Superintendent of schools for 10 years; was Internal Reve- nue collector from 1892-1897; Democratic Presidential elec- tor in 1908; delegate to Dem- ocratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1912; Presi- dent of Guilford Water Company and President of the Sangerville Water Supply Company, and is the present postmaster of Guilford.
He m. Helen Katherine Montgomery, (b. July 10, 1870) daughter of Reverend Hugh Montgomery of Marblehead and Lowell, Mass., Sept. 25, 1897.
CHILDREN
Hugh Montgomery, b. Sept. 4, 1898; John Haynes, b. Sept. 26, 1899; Roger, b. Feb. 28, 1901 ; Victor Francis, b. June 18, 1904; Matthew, b. April 10, 1906; Edwin Ruthven, b. March 21, 1907; Helen Anne, b. Sept. 30, 1913.
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Documentary History of the Town of Guilford
COMPILED BY THE EDITOR
FROM THE ORIGINAL PLANTATION AND TOWN RECORDS
Historical Sketch taken from first page of the Plantation Record
The Township of land numbered six in the seventh range of townships north of the Waldo Patent (so called) was granted by the Legislature of Massachusetts to and for the benefit of Bowdoin College, A. D. 1794.
In A. D. 1803 Rev. Robert Low and Dea. Robert Herring of New Gloucester having purchased a few thousand acres of land in the township, began immediately to make preparations for forming a settlement therein ; determining to admit on their part no person as a settler, but such as were industrious, orderly, moral and well disposed. In this they so far succeeded that for many years after, contentions, lawsuits, broils among neighbors, &c., were known only in name among the inhabitants.
In A. D. 1804 trees were felled in several places in the town and the next year corn was raised there.
On the eighteenth day of February A. D. 1806, the first family moved into the town' and about the middle of March the second family came' together with several men who worked during the summer and removed here the winter following" and in one or two years after Dea. Robert Her- ring added his family to the number.
From this time the settlement of the place went on sometimes slowly, and sometimes vigorously.
As early as A. D. 1806 when but seven men resided in the place; con- sidering that some established regulation was necessary to preserve good order and harmony, those seven met and made such bye laws for one year as was deemed necessary ; choosing a Clerk to keep a record of their doings and such other officers as were thought necessary to carry these laws into execution.1º
There let it be noticed that although the only barrier which supported the execution of these laws was a pledge of honor they were rarly knewn to he evaded.
Public schools were several times supported by private subscription ; and at other times private schools; parents paying in proportion to the number sent.
(1) Robert Low, Junr.
($) Robert Herring, Junr.
(9) David Low, John Bennett, Isaac Bennett, Nathl. Bennett and John Everton.
(10) This was done annually till it was organized.
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Public worship was carried on constantly from almost the first settling of the place; first by the few then in this place and Amestown (then so called) now Sangerville uniting together and afterwards by this town alone.
From these and other, like regulations which were continued until the place was organized by law as a Plantation, the respectability and interest of the settlement were greatly promoted and the people prepared to enter on the duties required by a lawful organization. On the eighth of October A. D. 1812, Philip Leavitt, Esqur of Athens by virtue of a warrant from the treasurer of the county of Somerset issued his warrant for organizing the township into a plantation on the eleventh of November, from which time the before named regulations ceased, and a new order commenced with the war- rant which next follows.
ORGANIZATION OF PLANTATION NUMBER SIX.
RECORDS OCTOBER 8th, 1812
WARRANT
Somerset s. s. To Robert Herring of the plantation Numbered six in the seventh range in said County of Somerset, a principal inhabitant. Greeting :
Whereas the Treasurer of the said County of Somerset has issued his precept to me, directing me to organize the above said Plantation numbered six in the seventh range as there may be, that the said plantaton be in a situation to receive warrants for State and county taxes.
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, to summon and notify all the male inhabitants, being freeholders in said plantation to assemble and meet at some convenient place in said plantation on Wednesday the Eleventh day of November next at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of electing all needful officers for said plantation agreeably as the law directs. Fail not of making return of this warrant and your doings to me at the time and place.
NOVEMBER 11th, 1812
Dated at Athens the eighth day of October A. D. 1812 Philip Leavitt, Justice of peace. Return To Philip Leavitt, Justice of peace
Sir I have executed the within warrant by summoning and warning the inhabitants of the plantation within named and for the purposes within mentioned to meet at the dwelling house of John Bennett on the day and hour within named according to law.
A true copy
ROBERT HERRING.
Attest ROBERT LOW, Plantation Clerk.
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Nov. 11th, 1812. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant and return the in- habitants above specified assembled at the time and place mentioned in the above return, and the meeting being opened by the above said Philip Leavitt Esqur proceeded as follows, Viz.
Article Ist. Chose Philip Leavitt Esqur Moderator[.
Art. 2nd. Chose Robert Low Plantation Clerk. Oath of office admin- istered by the Moderator.
NOVEMBER 28th, 1812
3rd Chose Robert Herring first Assessor
Assessors 4th Chose Nathaniel Greaves second Assessor
5th Chose Robert Low third Assessor
Collector
6th Chose Isaac Herring for Collector
Oath
The Moderator then administered the oaths of office to the Assessors and Collector, and the meeting closed. Attest ROBERT LOW, Pln. Clerk.
November 28th, 1812. The inhabitants of the plantation num- bered six in the seventh range assembled at John Bennett's house, having heen previously warned by the Collector by virtue of a warrant from the Assessors, (which warrant was unaccountably lost before recording) and proceeded as follows. Ist Chose Nathaniel Greaves for Moderator
Moderator Method of warning
2nd Voted to accept the above named method of warning plantation meetings now, and in future
3rd Tried for a vote to raise money for a school, which was lost.
4th After some discussion and debate it was on reconsidera- tion and some stipulated conditions voted to raise money for a school
5th Voted to raise twenty one dollars for school
$21 for school 6th Agreed to fix John Bennett's former school room and have a school kept therein.
School committee
7th Chose Nath'l Greaves, John Bennett, & John Robbins, Jr., Committee for the school.
Treasurer 8th Chose Nath'l Greaves Plantation treasurer who was sworn by the Clerk
Attest ROBERT LOW, Pln. Clerk.
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ORGANIZATION OF TOWN ACT OF INCORPORATION COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF GUILFORD
Section Ist Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Conrt assembled, and by the authority of the same ; That the Township numbered six, in the seventh range north of the Waldo patent, in the county of Somerset, as described by the following boundaries, be, and hereby is, established as a town, by the name of Guilford. Viz. East by the township numbered five in the seventh range; West, by the township numbered seven in the seventh range; North, by the town- ship numbered eight in the eighth range, South by the town- ship numbered four, in the sixth range; being one of the four townships granted to Bowdoin College. And the said town of Guilford is hereby vested with all the corporate powers and privileges, and shall be also subject to all the duties, and requisitions of other corporate towns according to the Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth.
Sec. 2nd
Be it further enacted that any Justice of the Peace for the county of Somerset is hereby authorized upon application therefor, to issue a warrant directed to a freehold inhabitant of the said town of Guilford, requiring him to notify and warn the inhabitants thereof to meet at such convenient time and place, as shall be appointed in said warrant, for the choice of such officers as towns are by law empowered and required to choose and appoint at their annual town meetings.
Approved by the Governor Feb. 8th, 1816
A true Copy, Attest, ALDEN BRADFORD, Secy. of the Commonwealth A true Record, Attest, THOMAS MACOMBER, Town Clerk
1816 March 21 1816
APPLICATION FOR A WARRANT
Plantation Numbered six seventh range March 21st, 1816 To Samuel Pingree Esqr one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Somerset and Commonwealth of Massachusetts We the undersigned in behalf of the inhab- itants of the said Plantation, (or Township) request you to issne your warrant for calling a meeting of the inhabitants of said Township (now Guilford) for the choice of town officers, together with any other business which may be necessary in the organization of the said town agreeably to an Act of Incorporation, dated the eighth of February, eighteen hun- dred and sixteen.
JOSEPH KELSEY DANIEL WALLIS
True Copy. Attest THOMAS MACOMBER, Town Clerk.
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JUSTICES WARRANT FOR FIRST MEETING
March 22 Somerset ss. To Robert Low of No. o. ; ch range ISTO (L. S.) Greeting
You are directed in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. to notify and warn the inhabitants of said No. o. now Guilford. qualified to vote in Town affairs, to assemble and meet together at the dwelling house of John Bennett in said No. o on Monday, the first day of April next. at nine of the clock in the forenoon, by reading this warrant, or furnishing a copy thereof to each individual, seven days previous to the day of said meeting. for the following purposes. Viz .:
To choose a Moderator for said Meeting.
To choose a Town Clerk, Selectmen, and all other town offi- cers necessary to be chosen in the Months of March or April annually: and you are directed to make return of this War- rant, with your doings thereon to me at or before the day of said meeting.
Given under my hand this and day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixteen.
SAMUEL PINGREE, Justice of the Peace.
RETURN
Pursuant to the within warrant. I have warned the inhabitants within mentioned. to meet, at the time, place, and for the purposes therein expressed.
March 20th. ISIO.
ROBERT LOW.
FIRST MEETING
April Ist Met in conformity to the foregoing warrant; and the meet- ing being opened, proceeded as follows. Viz .:
Article Ist Art. and
Chose Joseph Kelsey for Moderator.
Chose Thomas Macomber for Town Clerk. (Sworn by S. Pingree. Esq.)
Art. 3rd
Chose Robert Low. Nathaniel Greaves and Wm. Stevens to be Selectmen.
Art. 4th
Chose Joseph Kelsey for Town Treasurer.
Art. 5th
Chose the Selectmen to be Assessors.
Art. 6th
The office of Collector was rendered and bid off by Robert Low for five and three quarters per cent.
Art. 7th
Chose Robert Low to be Constable.
Art. 8th
Voted to do the remaining business by hand votes.
Art. oth
Chose Robert Herring & B. Loring for Tythingmen.
Art. 10th
Art. 11th
Chose Robert Herring. Jr., Isaac Wharff. Robert Herring. Isaac Bennett, and Moses Low. for Surveyors of Highways. Chose Isaac Edes. Benjamin Patten, Jr .. Samuel Morgan, and John Robbins. Jr .. for field drivers.
Art. 12th Chose John Bennett, Moses Stevens. Wm. Stevens and Isaac Herring for Fenceviewers.
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Art. 13th Chose the above Fielddrivers for Hogreeves.
Art. 14th Chose Daniel Wallis, Joseph Kelsey and Stedman Davis to be town Auditors.
Art. 15th Chose Wm. Stevens and Joseph Kelsey, for surveyors of Lumber.
Art. 16th Chose Thomas Macomber, Moses Low, and Stedman Davis to be a Committee for the examination of schools.
Art. 17th Voted to allow to Edward Washburn one dollar and sixty- eight cents, being the amount of taxes committed to said Washburn to collect of Nath'l Bennett, Jr., and Ephraim Andrews, in the year eighteen hundred & thirteen.
Art. 18th Joseph Kelsey and Robert Herring offered themselves as sureties for Robert Low, as Collector, and were accepted. Art. 19th Voted to dissolve this meeting.
NOTE All officers concerning whose oath nothing is heretofore men- tioned were sworn by the town Clerk.
True Copy. Attest THOMAS MACOMBER, Town Clerk.
FIRST MEETING AFTER ORGANIZATON
WARRANT
April 2 1816
(L S.) To Robert Low Constable of Guilford (L. S.) Greeting In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are required to notify and warn all the inhabitants of the town of Guilford, qualified by law to vote in town meetings, Viz .: such as pay to one single tax beside the poll, or polls, a sum equal to two thirds of a single poll tax; to assemble at the house of John Bennett in said town on the ninth day of April, instant, at ten o'clock A. M. to act on the following articles, Viz .:
To choose a Moderator for said meeting.
Ist 2nd To raise such sum of money as shall be thought necessary to defray the needful expenses of the town for the year present and all past arrearages, for which the late treasury is insufficient.
3rd To raise such sum as shall needful, or expedient, to be expended on the roads; with all other matters thereto relating. 4th To see if the town will confirm the roads or votes now laid out and accepted by the late plantation (No. 6, 7th R.) or voted to be laid out and not yet done.
5th
To see if the town will lay out a road from the upper road (so called) from near to John, or Chandler Robbins in sontherly direction to, or near the river.
6th To see if the town will lay out a road from the upper road (so called) to accommodate Jonathan Byram, &c.
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7th To see if the town will lay out a road from, or near the house of Daniel Wallis to accommodate Daniel Rice, in such direction shall be thought proper.
8th To see if the town will make void the last vote of the late Plantation concerning the road from John Bennett's to Daniel Wallis' and the road from Dea'n Robert Herring's North West corner (so called) and accept them or either of them as town roads, &c., with such other matters as may be legally brought before them concerning any other roads.
9th To confirm the vote of the late plantation No. six, &c., con- cerning receiving Eld'r Thomas Macomber for a town Min- ister.
roth To act on all other matters which shall then be thought legal and necessary.
Given under our hands, and seals, this second day of April, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixteen. ROBERT LOW. Selectmen NATH'L GREAVES. of Guilford.
RETURN
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants as within expressed, to meet at the time, place & for the purposes within mentioned.
Guilford, April 9th, 1816. ROBERT LOW, Constable. True Copy. Attest THOMAS MACOMBER, Town Clerk.
April 9th Met in conformity to the foregoing warrant and the warran: being read, proceeded as follows, Viz .:
Art. Ist Chose Joseph Kelsey for Moderator.
Art. 2nd Voted to pass over the second article in the warran: for the present.
Art. 3rd Voted to raise three hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended on the roads this year.
Art. 4th Voted to have one third of the above sum on the polls.
Art. 5th Voted to expend one half of said sum as aforesaid by the fif- teenth day of July next; and the remainder by the first day of November next.
Art. 6th Voted to allow one dollar and twenty five cents per day for labor of men or oxen during the first term of time above mentioned; and one dollar per day for the same afterward.
Art. 7th Voted that the Selectmen shall be paid for surveying and de- termining roads by abating their highway tax to the amount of their bill.
Art. 8th Voted to confirm all votes, heretofore passed concerning roads which have been accepted by the late Plantation, (now Guil- ford).
Art. 9th Voted to lay out a road from or near to John, or Chandler Robbins to or near the river if found expedident.
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Art. 10th Voted to lay out a road where the Selectmen shall think it most convenient to accommodate Jonathan Byram.
Art. 11th Voted to drop the seventh article in the warrant.
Art. 12th Voted to make void the last vote of the late plantation No. 6, 7 R. concerning the angle road (so called) from John Ben- Angle Road nett's to Daniel Wallis', (Viz. Discontinuing it.) and again to accept it for a town road, and also to accept a continuation of it in the following directions i. e. from said Wallis' in the same direction. Viz. North forty one degrees West, four hundred and sixty rods; then North thirty seven degrees west one hundred and forty four rods; then West between the seventh and eighth ranges of lots one hundred and thirty six rods; then North forty five degrees West one hundred and eighty rods then North twenty degrees West, one hundred and . twenty four rods then north thirty nine degrees west sixteen rods to the brook.
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