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1818. The principal officers were re-elected. Four hundred
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dollars were voted for schools. Peter York bid off the collectorship and was chosen constable. The town's poor were disposed of at auction. Besides the Burk family, Mrs. Mary Hemmingway was bid off by Francis Hemmingway at one dollar and fifty cents per week. For Governor, John Brooks had fifty-one votes, and Benja- min W. Crowningshield, seventy-one. Voted to approbate the selectmen for presenting to the grand jury the names of persons who unlawfully sell spirituous liquors at town meetings. A road was laid out for Elijah Bartlett beginning near Ephraim Powers' potash and ending at said Bartlett's lot. Voted not to send a representative.
1819. The meeting was called at the Center meeting house. Dr. Moses Mason was chosen moderator and Barbour Bartlett, clerk. Joseph C. Walker was one of the town officers ; also Hollica Greenwood, John Y. Dustin, Hiram Allen, Jonathan A. Russell, Jacob Ellingwood. William Russell, 2d, John Stearns and William Oliver. A road for each of the last two was accepted. Voted to raise six hundred dollars for poor and for town charges, fifteen hundred for ways and five hundred for schools. Voted to divide the first school district, near Mr. Willis' north of the river. Voted to assist the second and seventh school districts in building school houses. Voted a bounty of one dollar on full grown bears ; also a bounty on crow's heads. Voted a committee to make enquiry into the property affairs of Samuel Ayer. Dr. Moses Mason was elected representative. A road was laid out for William Oliver, beginning on the bank of the river at Sunday Rips to the road that leads from Bezaleel Kendall's to James Beattie's. Another road was laid out from Ebenezer Bean's house to the road leading from Gilead to Capt. Eleazer Twitchell's mills. Also a road for the benefit of Jedediah Grover and others, beginning near Dr. John Grover's dwelling house and ending at the house of Widow Lydia Grover. A road was laid out by Jonathan Abbot, September eighteenth, eighteen hundred and nineteen, beginning near Samuel Ayer's and Thaddeus Bartlett's, on the line between said Ayer and Bartlett, running by Nathaniel Bean's and south of Otter Pond and so on to Greenwood line. It was laid out four rods wide and called Otter Pond road. It was voted to rebuild Alder river bridge, and a committee was chosen to look after it. It was voted to pay one-half in pro- duce and one-half in labor and material. Capt. Daniel Grout took
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the job at one hundred and forty-five dollars. Voted in favor of sep- aration from Massachusetts, one hundred and seventeen ; opposed, twenty-four. Voted to send an agent to Paris to look after indicted roads. Voted to petition the Court of Sessions to send a viewing committee to see if the road from Gen. Hastings' potato hole, by Nathaniel Swan's to John Merrill's cannot be altered. Dr. John Grover was selected as delegate to Portland to the Constitutional convention. The vote stood : Eli Twitchell, twenty-two ; Timothy Carter, four ; Moses Mason, nine ; Barbour Bartlett, seventeen, and Dr. John Grover, sixty-three. Voted to build Bethel's proportion of Bear river bridge.
1820. Dr. Carter was chosen moderator and Barbour Bartlett, clerk. For selectmen, Timothy Carter, Dr. John Grover and Deacon John Holt. Peter York bid off the collectorship. Israel Kimball was chosen pound keeper. One hundred and forty dollars were raised for building Alder river bridge. Voted that suit he commenced against Samuel B. Locke provided he does not fulfil his contract respecting the public lands. The disposition of paupers was left with the selectmen. For Governor, William King had one hundred and twenty-two votes ; scattering, fifteen. For representative there was no choice until the fifth trial. At the first trial, Doctor Timothy Carter had sixty-seven, Doctor John Grover, fifty-four, Barbour Bartlett, twenty-eight, scattering, thirty. At the fifth trial, Doctor John Grover had sixty-nine votes and was elected. James Beattie bid off the building of the Bear river bridge for one hundred and thirty-five dollars, half to be paid in stock and half in produce. Voted two hundred and fifty dollars to make repairs and pay the fine on the road leading from Aaron Abbot's to the town line.
1821. Timothy Carter was chosen moderator but was excused, he being obliged to visit the sick. Israel Kimball was chosen first selectman, but declined and was excused. Jedediah Burbank bid off the collectorship. Among the new names in the list of town officers were James Swan, Jr., Edmund Bean, Freeborn G. Bartlett, Jonathan Wheeler, Sylvanus Twitchell, James F. Carter and Nathan A. Foster. Barbour Bartlett was chosen treasurer. Voted that the trustees of the ministerial and school funds settle with Samuel B. Locke for the lands he holds in consequence of building mills. For school committee, Dr. Timothy Carter, Dr. John Grover, Dr.
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Moses Mason, Barbour Bartlett and Elias Bartlett. The town's. poor were set up at auction. William Burk was bid off by Timothy Bean at twenty-eight cents per week for food and lodging, mending and tobacco. Ezekiel Whitman had twenty-four votes for Gov- ernor, and Albion K. Parris, one hundred and fourteen. This year Dr. Moses Mason was licensed as an inn-holder, and James Walker, O'Neil W. Robinson, John Merrill and James F. Carter as retailers of spirituous liquors. Votes were passed leaving the Ingalls family in care of the selectmen, and directing the selectmen to remonstrate against a division of Oxford county. Barbour Bartlett was elected representative. Voted one hundred dollars additional for building Bear river bridge, and that the same be assessed immediately.
1822. Peter York, Phineas Frost and Samuel Chapman were chosen selectmen. Otis Grover was elected collector and Barbour- Bartlett, clerk and treasurer. Chandler Russell, Elihu Bean, Amos Andrews, Simeon Twitchell and William Holt were among the town officers. Voted to divide the lower school district on the north side of the river, the division line to be between Jonathan Powers' and Jonas Willis'. Voted to build a bridge across Sunday river. It. was voted to allow William Pote twenty dollars for the support of Isaac Frost, provided he will withdraw his suit against the town. Susan Farewell and her child were bid off by Reuben Bartlett at two and sixpence per week. Timothy Bean bid off William Burk at two cents per week. Timothy Bean bid off the building of Sun- day river bridge at two hundred and fifty dollars. The selectmen were authorized to enquire into the case of Burry Colby, a pauper, and commence suit against Rumford, if they thought best. Eliphaz. Chapman was chosen representative. The same parties as last year were licensed as retailers of strong drink. Eleven guide boards were ordered ; one at Robbins Brown's, one at James Walker's, one at Aaron Abbot's, two at Dustin's Ferry, one in the pine woods- near Kendall's Ferry, one at Nathaniel Swan's, one at Moses Mason's, one at John Ellingwood's, one at Asa Kimball's and one at Micajah Blake's.
1823. The principal town officers were re-elected. It was voted to divide the fifth school district. Among the town officers- were John Bean, Leonard Grover, Hezekiah Moody, Calvin Stearns, Israel Kimball, Jr., John Cushman. Voted to accept and pay the.
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bill for the support of Polly Capen. The field drivers this year were Eli Twitchell, O'Neil W. Robinson, Amos Gage, Daniel G. Elling- wood, Moses Bartlett, Eli Twitchell, 3d, Curatio Twitchell, Francis Barker, Timothy M. Swan, Aaron B. Swan, Simeon Brown, James A. S. Bartlett, Peter Kimball, Calvin Stearns, George Kimball and Hezekiah Moody. Perkins P. Moulton was chosen collector of taxes. For school committee, Rev. Charles Frost, Dr. John Grover, Timothy Carter, Barbour Bartlett and Elias Bartlett. Voted to open a road over Jesse Cross' mill stream and build a bridge. Captain Daniel Grant was chosen a committee to superin- tend the work. Voted to divide the third school district, and that each district fence its own burying grounds. The road was again located between the river road and the town line near Solomon Annas' house. (This is the present road between Bean's Corner and Locke's Mills. At this time, Thomas Goss, Eli Foster and James A. S. Bartlett had settled along the line of this road.) O'Neil W. Robinson, Eli Twitchell, 2d, and Luther Locke were licensed to sell strong liquors. Voted to accept with some modifi- cations, the plan of Amos Hills, for a bridge across Mill Brook. Voted to abate the tax of Jolin Burk, who lived with Justus Bean, and to accept a road laid out for Perkins P. Moulton.
1824. Moses Mason was elected moderator and Barbour Bart- lett. clerk and treasurer. Among the names of minor town officers were Jonathan Powers, John Y. Dustin, James Wheeler, William Estes, Abijah Lapham, Joshua Bean, Peter Estes and John Stev- ens. School committee, William Frye, Timothy Carter and Elias Bartlett. Struck off the child of Sukey Farewell to Benjamin Estes, at seventy-five cents per week, and Mrs. Reynolds to Otis Grover at forty-six cents a week until her husband returns or some other provision is made for her support. Voted to abate taxes in Otis Grover's bills against Thomas Coffin, William Grover, Elias Russell, Samuel Tyler, Thomas Walden, Isaac York, Jonathan Fowler and Abiather Bean. Raised five hundred dollars for town charges and fifteen hundred dollars for roads. Jonathan Abbot was chosen collector. Samuel B. Locke was chosen agent to oppose a road laid out from Jason Sherman's to Capt. Eli Twitchell's. A road was accepted from John Estes to Thomas Cushman ; also a road from a point between Timothy Capen's and Simeon Brown's land and running east of south to Urban Shorey's land ; also a road
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from Jacob Kimball's to Solomon Annas' land. (The road over Berry Hill) ; also a bridle road from John Estes' to Arnold Pow- ers' place. Voted to accept the alteration made in the road from Grover Hill through Amasa Clark's land. Voted to examine the road, that part of the road between Thomas Cushman's and John Estes', and to accept the part laid out between Estes' and William Farewell's. The selectmen were directed to examine the road be- tween Abbot's Mills and Locke's Mills, and instruct the agent. A road was accepted beginning near Josiah Brown's barn, running by James Hodsdon's to the road leading by Elijah Bartlett, on petition of John Cushman.
1825. Moses Mason was moderator and Barbour Bartlett, clerk and treasurer. Among the minor town officers were Levi Berry, Jr., Peter Kimball, Lawson Mason, Luther Eames, Benjamin Swett, Simeon Sanborn and Nathan Eames. Voted that school districts should choose their own agents. Timothy Hastings was chosen representative, receiving fifty-nine votes to forty-three for Phineas Frost. Isaac Twombly bid off the building of the new road near Whale's Back (Rumford and Paris road) for one hundred and ninety dollars. Voted to postpone the alteration of the road near Luther Locke's store. Voted that the highway surveyors in the three nearest districts work out their delinquent taxes on the roads leading from the lower part of Bethel to Norway by way of Locke's Mills, and on the road from Abbot's Mills to Locke's Mills, in each case, to Bethel line.
1826. The old board of officers were re-elected, Barbour Bart- lett as clerk and Phineas Frost as chairman of the selectmen. Two thousand dollars were voted for the repair of roads. Elijah Grover was elected collector and constable. Among the highway surveyors were Eli Estes, Eben Richardson, Edmund Bean, Hiram Holt, Jacob Kimball, George W. Grover and Walter Mason, Jr. Field drivers were Aaron Mason, Ebenezer Bean, Foster Farewell, Sylvanus Twitchell, Jefferson Howard and Thomas Goss. Voted to pay money to the soldiers and not furnish rations. Jacob Little- hale bid off Susan Farewell's child at eighty-six cents a week. The support of Isaac Frost was struck off to Peregrine Bartlett, and that of Calvin Twitchell left with the selectmen. A road was accepted leading from James Wheeler's to the road leading from Otis Grover's to John Grover's. A bridle road was accepted running from Caleb
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Besse's northwesterly to land owned by John Twombly. George W. Chapman of Gilead was elected representative. At an adjourned meeting held at Bear river bridge, it was voted to rebuild the bridge with long stringers supported overhead with braces. The building of the bridge was bid off by Phineas Frost. The transportation of Calvin Twitchell, wife and three children, to Oneida county, New York, where they belong, was bid off by George Bean, for eighty- four dollars and fifty cents.
1827. Peter Frost was chosen chairman of the selectmen, Adam Willis, second, and Jonathan Abbot, third. Highway surveyors were directed to keep the town roads open in winter. William Estes was made collector of taxes in the West Parish and Adam Willis in the East; the latter declined serving and Elihu Kilgore was chosen in his place. Among the highway surveyors were Joseph Holt, John Hastings, Caleb Rowe, Ayers Mason, James M. Pote, Eleazer Rowe, Abijah Lapham, Edmund Segar, and Israel Kimball, Jr. Among the field drivers were David B. Glines, Wil- liam Berry, Samuel Bean and Nathan F. Twitchell. Voted to supply the soldiers with rations and not money. Voted to accept the road from Joseph Sanborn's to Eben Greenwood's. William Frye, Esq., was chosen town agent. Voted to give the Berry dis- trict twenty dollars to build a school house. (This is the house still standing and known as the Bird Hill school house.) The pauper child of Abigail Swan was left at the disposal of the select- men. Seth B. Newell was a juryman that year. A road was laid out from near the house of William Frye to the land of Ambrose C. Cilley, and another from the old Grover Hill road to the road leading by the house of Jedediah Grover. Voted to quitclaim to Reuben Bartlett an island which was sold to the town by Isaac Frost, on condition that Bartlett take care of Frost for one year. The selectmen were instructed to discharge on certain conditions, a note given the town by Return J. Ellingwood and signed by John Ellingwood.
1828. The meeting was held March third, at the Center meeting house. Phineas Frost, Jedediah Burbank and Timothy Hastings were chosen selectmen. The collectors were re-elected. Baxter Lyon, Peter Estes, James Estes, Enoch Estes, Peter Kimball, Francis Barker, Moses Chandler, Hannibal Kimball, Barrett Howard and William Berry were among the minor town officers. Rebecca
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Beattie and all the poor of that family were left at the disposal of the selectmen. Voted to give the Lapham school district (No. 11) twenty dollars toward building a school house. Phineas Frost was chosen agent to oppose the road around Swan's Hill. Voted to petition the court of sessions to change the road between Samuel Ayer's and Greenwood line. Voted to accept bridle roads over to Staples' Ferry and over to Edmund Chapman's Mills. Voted to leave the case of Solomon Annas with the overseers of the poor. Voted that the town will make the road from Thomas Gosses to Greenwood line, if certain complainants will build from Samuel Ayers' to Gosses. Voted that the selectmen lay out a road from Elijah Grover's store to Jesse Bean's. Voted to accept a new road and discontinue an old one near Elijah Grover's Corner.
1829. Doctor Mason was chosen moderator and Barbour Bart- lett was continued as clerk and treasurer. Barrett Howard was chosen collector and constable. Voted to pay the soldiers money. William Estes was re-elected collector for the West Parish. For field drivers, Sylvanus Twitchell, Samuel Holt, William Frye, Silas Grover, George V. Ellingwood, Peter Estes, Clark Kimball and Jonathan Chapman. The trustees of the ministerial fund were directed to divide the money in their hands among the several denominations. Voted to petition the selectmen to discontinue the road over Duston's Ferry, from one county road to the other. For Governor, Samuel E. Smith had one hundred and thirty-four votes, Jonathan G. Hunton, fifty-six. Phineas Frost was chosen repre- sentative. Voted that retailers be licensed by the selectmen as they formerly were. Voted that the trustees of the school funds sell the balance of the school land, and add the proceeds to the funds.
1830. Sylvanus Twitchell was chosen moderator and Barbour Bartlett, clerk. Moses Mason, Israel Kimball and Elias Bartlett were chosen selectmen. The suit Bingham against Bethel was left with the selectmen. Delinquent collectors were called upon to settle their accounts on pain of suit against themselves and their bondsmen. William Estes was chosen constable and collector. The road between Jonathan Chapman's and Edmund Chapman's mill was accepted. Voted that the ministerial fund shall be divided among the several denominations in town, and that each voter be requested to state his preference. Thaddeus Bartlett, Timothy
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Ayer, George Kimball, Eli Foster, James Estes, Jacob Kimball, William Bartlett and James A. S. Bartlett were allowed to draw out their school money and expend the same elsewhere. Samuel Barker was chosen agent to open the road from Eben Greenwood's to Albany line. A vote was taken on the division of the town and decided in the negative. For Governor, Samuel E. Smith had two hundred and four votes, and Jonathan G. Hunton, seventy-four. James Burbank was chosen representative. The town clerk, treas- urer and selectmen were directed to petition the legislature for permission to transfer the school funds from the trustees to the selectmen.
1831. Sylvanus Twitchell was chosen moderator and Barbour Bartlett, clerk. Voted to allow Samuel Barker eighty-nine dollars and forty-nine cents for opening the road across the great meadows to Albany line. William Frye was appointed agent to make inquiry regarding the property of Widow Annas. Spencer Drake was chosen one of the selectmen. Barbour Bartlett was chosen treasurer and collector. Voted that Dr. John Grover shall have the land belonging to James Grover on the payment by him of the cost of the support of said James Grover. Among the highway surveyors were John B. Mason, Caleb Bessee, Eli Estes, Peter Estes and Moses Bisbee. Eli Grover, Jr., James Grover, Peter Grover and Isaac C. Cross were set off from the fifth school district and made a separate district. William Frye, Lovel P. Chadbourn and Jotham S. Lane were chosen school committee. Isaac Frost was struck off to Gilman Hodgman and Return Ellingwood to Peregrine . Bartlett. Voted to accept the road laid to Stephen Hodsdon's. A road was accepted beginning on the road leading from Locke's Mills to Thad- deus P. Bartlett's and ending at the road leading from Walker's Mills to Locke's Milis, on the east side of Bear Brook. A road was also accepted to Robert F. Farewell's house, and one from the road leading from Samuel B. Locke's to Newry, and ending at Locke's Mills in Bethel. Voted that the selectmen petition for the discontinuance of one of the roads, either on the north or the south side of the Alder river toward Locke's Mills in Greenwood. Voted that James Walker make good the road along by his canal.
1832. Two thousand dollars had been the standard sum to raise for repair of roads for several years, and for schools the amount required by law. For school committee, William Frye,
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Charles Frost and Reuben B. Foster. The selectmen were directed to have the indictment removed from the road leading from Solomon Annas' by Eli H. Cushman's. Reuben Bartlett and others were set off into a school district by themselves. A bridle road was accepted from Eli H. Cushman's to the town line near Isaac Cummings'. The selectmen were directed to license retailers of strong drink. Asa Kimball was elected representative on the fourth ballot. Ebenezer Eames was chosen agent to repair Bear river bridge.
1833 The meeting was held at the Center meeting house as usual. Moses Mason, Reuben B. Foster and Norman Clark were chosen selectmen. William Estes and Phineas Frost were chosen constables. Barbour Bartlett was chosen clerk, treasurer and col- lector of taxes. Among the minor town officers were Barbour Willis, Orson Powers, Benjamin Russell, Edward Thompson, Amos Gage, Jr., Jonathan Abbot, Jr., Robert A. Chapman, John Jordan and Nathan Stearns. Voted not to license retailers to sell liquors to be drank at the stores, and that the treasurer call on the retailers for their fees. Voted to sell wheat belonging to the town at auction. Voted to choose a committee to re-district the town into school dis- tricts. Accepted a road from David Sanborn's to the road leading to Rumford ; also a road from Timothy A. Holt's house to Peregrine Duston's house Also a road leading from Aaron Frost's to the road laid by the town of Newry. Reuben B. Foster was chosen agent to look after complained of roads the ensuing year. Voted that the selectmen try and establish the town line at the southeast corner of the town. Voted to accept the Richard Estes school dis- trict as number one, and the Eli Foster district as number two. In the list of names placed in the jury box, were Francis Barker, Luther Bean, Humphrey Bean, Nathan Grover, Eli Foster, Ayers Mason, Elias M. Carter, Robert A. Chapman, Reuben B. Foster and John Hastings. An adjourned meeting was opened at the Center meet- ing house and adjourned to Dr. Carter's wagon house. Voted to pay twelve dollars for the use of the meeting house for town purposes.
1834. Spencer Drake was chosen moderator and Barbour Bart- lett, clerk. George Chapman and William P. Frost were chosen constables. The following school agents were chosen : Ephraim Powers, Samuel Holt, Walter Mason, Jr., Gilman Chapman, Thaddeus Twitchell, James Grover, Jonathan Abbot, Humphrey Bean, Joel Howe, Seth B. Newell, Abner Brown, Ebenezer Eames,
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Eli Estes, Leonard Grover, Hiram Holt, Wm. P. Frost, Luther Bean and Isaac J. Town. Twenty-five hundred dollars were raised for the repair of ways. Roads on the petition of John Cushman, Geo. W. Phelps, Foster Farewell, Phineas Howard, Tilden Bartlett and Hiram Allen, all private ways and mostly bridle paths. Voted to hold the next town meeting at the upper meeting house in the West Parish, and that the selectmen be a committee to confer with the proprietors of the Center meeting house, with regard to holding future meetings there. For Representative to Congress, Dr. Moses Mason had one hundred and eighty-eight votes, Timothy J. Carter, forty-eight, and Oliver Herrick, seventy-two. Capt. Asa Kimball was elected to the legislature. Voted a road from William Bart- lett's to the old road leading to John Estes' place ; also an alteration of the road from, Isaac Estes to the Hamlin's Gore line between Sylvanus Bartlett and Robert Bearce. Voted to discontinue so much of the road from the school house near John Williamson's, by William Farewell's to the John Swift house, as there is from where it leaves Timothy A. Holt's road to the Swift house. William Frye was town clerk the last of the year.
1835. Edmund Merrill was chosen moderator and William Frye clerk, also town agent. Stephen Bartlett bid off the collectorship. Among the minor town officers were Abraham Jordan, Piram Bis- bee, Tyler P. Town, Ball Bartlett, Jonathan C. Robertson, Daniel Estes, Sumner Stearns. The election of agents showed that there were twenty-one school districts. Four hundred dollars were raised for support of the poor, besides the usual amounts for other pur- poses. Voted that teachers make reports to the school committee on blanks furnished at the expense of the town. Voted that the September meeting be held at the old Methodist meeting house on the north side of the river. (This meeting was held in the meeting house near Barker's Ferry.) Voted to accept the road laid out on petition of Samuel Bird and others. Voted that the next meeting be at the new meeting house near Capt. Timothy Hastings. The Samuel Bird road was laid out from his road through Peter Ayer's land to the road near John Bird's. Joseph Twitchell had a road accepted running from his house to the county road on Daniel Grout's land, to be a bridle road.
1836. Phineas Frost was chosen moderator and William Frye, clerk. Phineas Frost, Timothy Hastings and John B. Mason were
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chosen selectmen. Voted to allow Edmund Chapman one dollar per week for keeping Betsey Chapman. Aaron Cross was chosen collector and constable. A separate school district was formed at Walker's Mills. Peter G. Smith was annexed to the fifteenth school district. Voted that Hezekiah Moody, Stephen Estes and Tilden Bartlett be permitted to draw their school money and expend the same in the Hamlin's Gore district. As required by act of the legislature, the limitation of the two militia companies was fixed by the parish line, the lower company commanded by Moses Bartlett, and the upper by John Harris. In eighteen hundred and forty- three, the lower company was commanded by Captain William God- dard. Voted against the annexation of Hamlin's Gore to Bethel. Robert P. Dunlap had one hundred and ninety-five votes for Gov- ernor, and Edward Kent, forty-two. A road was accepted from Hezekiah Moody's to the old road leading from John Estes, 2d to Eli Estes.
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