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HISTORY OF PARIS.
CHAPTER XXIII.
ANNALS CONTINUED.
1817.
The support of the town's poor was sold at auction. James Churchill was struck off to Perez Churchill, Miss Walton to Jonathan Shurtleff, at seventy-five cents per week for "board and tobacco," and Widow Statira Wightman with her youngest child, to Moses Mar- shall. Five hundred dollars were still raised for schools, and fif- teen hundred for roads. The town voted to grant the request of Andrew Record and others, to be set off with their estates from Paris to Hebron. This set off was from the southeast corner of the town. One thousand dollars were raised for defraying town charges. The town voted not to send a representative to the General Court.
1818.
Reuel Washburn was chosen town agent. One hundred and fifty dollars were raised for the repair of the meeting house, and Levi Hubbard, Elias Stowell and Samuel King were made a committee to expend the same. It was voted to "suspend the law prohibiting the destruction of useful birds, passed Feb. 12, 1818." It was voted to build a bridge across the river, on the road leading from Caleb Swift's to the county road near Thomas F. Chase's. "Voted to set off Levi Berry and others into a school district, beginning at the town line on the western side of said town of Paris on the late line which separates double lot 25 and 26 from double lot 27 and 28, and to continue on said lot line easterly as far as their present dis- trict extends, and including all to the northward of said line within the said town of Paris ;" also voted to annex William Berry and Stephens Drake to this district. This road. was discontinued from land of John G. Crawford to Woodstock line, and the selectmen were instructed to view all the roads in town and repair all such as needed it. Voted to discontinue a road leading from Samuel Han- mond's to Woodstock line, and one by Asa Thurlo's in said Woodstock.
1819.
Seven hundred and fifty dollars were voted for schools. Molly Walton's support was bid off by Abiezer Andrews at 92 cents per week, tobacco to be furnished her to the amount of six pounds.
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
Mrs. Statira Wightman was struck off to Joshua Carpenter at, sev- enteen cents per week for board, and her daughter to Joseph Penley at nineteen. The bird law was again suspended. A committee of three, Seth Morse. Simeon Cummings and Stephen Emery, was chosen to draft a code of by-laws for the town of Paris. The Selectmen were made a committee to build a stone pound. A com- mittee to view the timber of the old pound, reported that "they found but three sticks and they good for nothing." Moses Mar- shall's bill, a dollar a day was allowed and forty cents for spirit $9.40, and for the second item "including spirit," $25.63. The town again voted to petition the Legislature for a separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts. The vote this year stood 171 in favor and 40 opposed. Dec. 6, the town voted on the new constitution for the State of Maine, 89 in favor and 17 opposed. The first steel axles ever made in town and perhaps in the county, were manufactured on the Hill this year. The Andrews House at South Paris was built during the summer ; it has been much enlarged since.
1820.
A committee to make rules and regulations concerning schools was chosen, consisting of Cyrus Hamlin, Benj. Chandler and Stephen Emery. This committee reported that a committee of three be annually chosen by the town whose duty it should be to examine into the qualification of teachers and direct the general course of study in the public schools. This was a new departure. Heretofore agents, one for each district, had been chosen, who acted not only as agents but committeemen. The report was accepted and its recommendations adopted. Stephen Emery, Jairus S. Keitlı and Henry Prentiss were accordingly chosen the first school com- mittee of Paris. The town this year voted that from and after the first day of December to the first day of April, no neat cattle should be suffered to go at large under a penalty of twenty-five cents for each beast at any one time, and that horses and swine be restricted from going at large during the whole year, under a like penalty. This vote was in accordance with the report of the committee on by- laws, and was the first of the kind passed. William King received the unanimous vote, 180 votes being polled, for governor of Maine. The property qualification for the right of suffrage, does not appear in the warrant of this year. It was voted to complete the deck and door of the meeting house, and Dea Joseph Lindsey was chosen to
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take care of the house. Col. Ebenezer Rawson was chosen agent to rebuild the bridge near Bisco's Falls, and it was voted that he take all of the timber that "comes down from above," for that pur- pose.
1821.
Voted to discontinue the road leading from Wm. C. Witham's by Levi Berry's to the county road. Witham lived on part of double lot 27 and 28 in the third range, and Berry on part of 27 and 28 in the second. One thousand dollars were raised for defraying town charges. The town agent was instructed to oppose the acceptance of the road prayed for by Amos Town and others. It was voted to build a bridge over the river on the road leading to Wm. C. Witham's. This was probably at or near the site of the present bridge at West Paris. It was voted to choose a committee "to examine school masters and inspect schools agreeably to a law of the State." Three families were put up at auction and bid off by Abraham Bolster, "a cow to go with each family which is to be well supported as well as the families, till next March meeting, he, said Bolster, to have the benefit of their labor."
The first term of the Supreme Judicial Court was held here com- mencing on the second Tuesday of June. Prentiss Mellen was Chief Justice, and Wm. P. Preble and Nathan Weston, Jr., asso- ciates. Rufus K. Goodenow moved here this year, to fill the posi- tion of Clerk of Courts. A bell was purchased this year, the story of which is told in the following record of the court of sessions. It is the same bell that now swings in the belfry of the Baptist church, and has called the citizens of Paris to church and to court, since that time-over sixty years ago.
OCTOBER TERM, ( Court of Sessions, 1821. 5
"Subscription for the Bell :
Whereas the Court of Sessions for the County of Oxford have passed an order for the appropriation of one hundred and thirty dollars to be paid out of the Treasury of said County, to be applied, with such other sums as may be procured by private subscription to defray the expense of a bell for the use of said County and the persons who may become interested therein, in such manner that the use of the same by the County may never be interfered with :
We, the subscribers, therefore, in consideration thereof, and for our per- sonal convenience and benefit, and for divers other considerations there- unto moving us, hereby constitute and appoint Cyrus Hamlin, Levi Hub- bard, Simeon Cummings, Benjamin Chandler, Thomas Crocker, Ebenezer
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
Rawson. John Daniels, Jr., Moses Hammond, Jacob Jackson and Enoch Lincoln our agents and attorneys to procure and cause to be swung in the centre meeting house in Paris, in said County, a bell as aforesaid, by means of the sum so appropriated and the sums severally set by us against our respective names, and in our names to make any contract or contracts for and on account of said Bell and to bind us respectively to the payment of the sum by each of us below subscribed-and we severally promise and agree to and with our aforesaid agents and attorneys to hold them harm- less and indemnified against such contract or contracts to the amount by us severally set against our respective names and to pay over to them the said amount on or before the first day of January next.
And the said Hamlin, Hubbard, Cummings, Rawson, Chandler, Crocker, Hammond. Daniels, Jackson and Lincoln on their part severally promise and agree to and with the subscribers that they will on or before the first day of January next pay for the use and purpose aforesaid the sums by them set against their respective names and that they will appropriate all the proceeds of said appropriation from the County Treasury and the sub- scriptions of individuals to that object to procuring a bell as aforesaid and causing the same to be swung in said meeting house.
Cyrus Hamlin, $20 00
Solomon Hall,
$1 00
Benj. Chandler,
10 00
Gilbert Shaw, 1 00
Levi Hubbard,
8 00
Isaac Frost, Jr., 2 00
Simeon Cummings,
10 00
George Ryerson, 3 00
Jacob Jackson.
12 00
Edmund Dean,
1 00
Moses Hammond.
10 00
Elisha Fitts, 1 00
Jona. ('ummings,
2 00
Benj. Chesley,
3 00
Joseph Lindsey,
2 90
John Fuller,
2 00
Wm. S. Chesley,
1 00
David Twitchell,
1 00
Micalı Allen,
1 00
Daniel Macomber,
3 00
John F. Dyer,
1 00
Elias Partridge,
3 00
Cyprian Stevens,
2 00
Abner Rawson,
5 00
Jonas Cummings,
3 00
John Besse, Jr.,
1 50
Thomas Crocker,
10 00
Russell Hubbard,
5 00
Joseph Jackson,
5 00
Luther Lombard,
4 00
Jairus S. Keith,
2 00
Ebenezer Rawson,
6 00
R. K. Goodenow,
5 00
W. Bent,
1 00
Isaiah Whittemore,
5 00
Alden Fuller,
2 00
Thos. F. Chase,
2 00
Timothy Chase,
1 00
Asa Barrows,
1 00
Thomas N. Stowell, 3 00
Sam'l Chesley,
1 00
Amos Bartlett,
1 00
Joseph Daniels,
2 00
Jonathan Bemis, Jr.,
3 00
Isaiah Fuller,
2 00
Francis Bemis,
3 00
Ransom Dunham,
2 00
James Bemis, 3 00
Josiah Smith, Jr.,
5 00
Simeon Perkins,
1 00
John Daniels, Jr.,
6 00
Phineas Morse,
1 00
Richard Blake,
1 00
Stephen Blake,
1 00
James Daniels,
3 00 Thos. Hill, Jr.,
1 00
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
Caleb Cushman,
$4 00
Nathaniel W. Greene,
$1 00
Sam'l King,
3 00
Enoch Lincoln, 10 00
John Woodbury,
2 00
Abraham Pray,
1 00
Nathaniel Harlow,
2 00
Henry R. Parsons,
2 00
Benj. Hammond,
5 00
Aaron Fuller,
1 00
Levi Willis,
2 00
Silas Maxim,
1 00
Jairus Shaw,
4 00
Moses Twitchell,
1 00
Asa Perry,
2 00
James Hooper,
5 00
Alanson Mellen,
5 00
Stephen Emery,
2 00
Cobb Perry,
1 00
Noah Curtis, Jr.,
1 00
Edward Andrews,
1 00
John Gray,
1 00
D. Daniels,
1 00
Alva Shurtleff,
1 00
Uriah Ripley,
3 00
Luke Ryerson,
1 00
Daniel Pond,
2 00
Jerathi'l Colburn,
1 00
George King,
2 00
Geo. Ryerson, Jr.,
1 00
John Dennett,
1 00
John Prince,
1 00
Samuel Stowell,
1 00
Joseph Penly,
50
Lewis B. Stowell,
1 00
N. Smith, Jr.,
1 00
Simeon Chipman,
1 00
Micah Walker,
1 00
Rufus Stowell,
2 00
Asa Dean, Jr.,
1 00
Elias Stowell,
2 00
Isaiah Willis,
1 00
Seth Morse,
3 00
Simeon Walton,
1 00
Daniel Stowell,
5 00
Israel Record,
50
Stephen Robinson,
3 00
Benj. Jackson,
1 00
Edward Dean, Jr.,
1 00
Simon S. Stevens,
1 50
The foregoing paper having been read, the Court direct the Clerk to record it for the benefit of all concerned."
1822.
Daniel Stowell was allowed five dollars for counterfeit money received while town treasurer. The school committeemen this year were Enoch Lincoln, Stephen Emery and Elijah L. Hamlin. Joseph Morse asked for compensation for having his horse lamed by a hole in the highway. June 16th Jairus Shaw's buildings all destroyed by fire.
1823.
It was voted that the selectmen be assessors and also overseers of the poor. Twenty-three hundred dollars were raised for roads, nine hundred for town expenses and seven hundred for schools. The agent was instructed to oppose the petitions of Henry Rust and others, Peter C. Virgin and others and Simeon Cummings and others, for roads through Paris. The town voted to assume the defence in the case of Jeduthan Wellington against Aaron Fuller, Jr.
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
1824.
Five hundred dollars were raised for military and contingent expenses. The commanding officers of companies were authorized to draw from the treasurer twenty cents for each soldier in the town who should actually attend the muster. The Jeduthan Wellington case came up again, and a committee was appointed to enquire into the nature of his claims. July 25, David Twitchell's barn was struck by lightning, but by prompt action the fire was extinguished before much damage was done. In July of this year, Mr. Asa Bar- ton who kept the Oxford county Bookstore, started a weekly paper called the Oxford Observer. This was the first paper printed in the town, and the second in the county. Its appearance was hailed with delight by all classes and it received a good local patronage. Two mails per week from Portland began to be received, and one from Waterford. Benj. Woodbury and others, petitioned to be set off from Buckfield and annexed to Paris.
1825.
The overseers of the poor were instructed to put out Hector Fuller's children, "if they do not support themselves." The repre- sentative of Paris was instructed to oppose the petition of Levi Whitman and others, praying that land may be set off from Paris and annexed to Norway. The third Wednesday in September was held the first meeting of the Oxford County Society for the Improve- ment of Morals, at the Baptist meeting house. The Oxford County Bible Society, James Hooper, President, held a meeting at Paris. Levi Whitman, Joseph Shackley, Moses Ames and Daniel Young, all of Norway, petitioned the Legislature to set off certain lands from Paris and annex them to Norway. Cyrus B. Norris opened a blacksmith shop in town, Jairus S. Keith was admitted to practice law. Simeon Pond died in April, aged 91. He had been a soldier in the French and Indians wars and also in the war of the Revolu- tion. Mrs. Mary Pond died aged 80. Amos Fuller took the hotel at the hill, formerly occupied by Simeon Norris.
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Early Oxford County .- The Early Neighbors of No. 4 People .- Some Statistics of Oxford County Towns.
Paris being the shire town of Oxford county since the county was erected in 1805, a brief chapter on the settlement and progress of the towns in this vicinity may not be devoid of interest in this con- nection. The grant to Gen. Joseph Frye, was the first made within what is now or was formerly Oxford county. This grant was made March 3d, 1762, and in the following year the first settlers came from Concord, N. H. The first four were Samuel Osgood, Moses Ames, John Evans and Jedediah Spring. The town grew quite rapidly, and had a sufficient population in 1777, to justify an act of incorporation. Capt. Henry Y. Brown of Haverhill, Mass., having received a grant of a tract lying next to and south of Fryeburg, was about the same time energetically pushing a settlement in that direc- tion, and in 1768 had a dozen or more families located. This town was not incorporated until nine years after Paris. A settlement was first made in Lovell in 1779 ; Denmark in 1788 ; Hiram, 1774 ; Por- ter, 1781 ; David McWaine came to Waterford in 1775, and other settlers came a few years after. Bethel, one of the original Canada townships, was granted in June, 1768, a clearing began in 1774, but not much was done toward a settlement till 1780. There were ten families in Bethel in 1781. The first settler went into Rumford in 1780, but he with two or three others who were there at the time of the Indian raid on Bethel in August, 1781, fled to New Gloucester and did not return for a year. Benj. Spaulding felled the first trees in Buckfield in 1776, and Thomas Allen and the Buck brothers moved in a year later. Hebron, including Oxford, was granted to Alexander Shepard, Jr , March 8, 1777, and settlements were made two years later. The first settlers came to Norway in 1786, and the town was incorporated in 1797. A settlement was commenced in Newry, previously called Sunday River Plantation and Bostwick, in 1781. Among the early settlers were several from Newry in Ire- land, who gave name to the town. Ezekiel Merrill from Andover, Mass., found his way to Andover, Maine in 1786, and for two years was the sole settler. Livermore, formerly in this county, previously called Port Royal and Liverton, was first settled in 1779. Turner was granted to Joseph Sylvester and associates, and called Sylvester Canada. Its settlement was begun the year 1771 or 1772. Canton then
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
including Jay, granted to David Phipps and associates, was settled about the same time as Paris, as were also Sumner and Hartford, previously called West and East Butterfield. Dixfield once called Holmantown and named for Dr. James Dix, was settled by the Hol- mans and others in 1795. Gilead, once called Peabody's Patent, was settled soon after Bethel. Woodstock was settled in 1798, Albany in 1800 and Greenwood in 1802. The minor towns in the county came along later. Weld formerly in Oxford county, was settled in 1800 and Carthage in 1803.
When the first settlers came to Paris, their nearest neighbors on the east were in Buckfield, eight miles distant ; on the north were a few families in Rumford and still more in Bethel, but more than twenty miles away ; on the west was McWaine at Waterford, some twelve or fifteen miles distant who was troubled at the near approach of neighbors. Southwardly from Paris, a beginning had probably been made in Hebron, and there had been a settlement in Poland which then included Minot and Auburn, for several years. In 1768, eight years after the conquest of Canada, the first settler, Nathaniel Bailey, came to Poland, then called Bakerstown. When Paris was first settled, therefore, the wilderness had been invaded all along the ' line, on the Saco and on the Great Androscoggin from Gilead to Turner, and at many points within these limits. The comparative growth in population and wealth of the principal towns in Oxford county is shown in the following tables compiled from the census returns of 1790. 1800, 1810 and 1820. No returns were made from No. 4 in 1790, probably because there was no plantation organiza- tion. The same is true of several other towns and perhaps for the same reason.
POPULATION.
Towns.
1790.
1880.
1810.
1820.
Andover
22
175
264
368
Albany
69
165
288
Bethel.
100
616
975
1,267
Brownfield.
250
288
388
727
Buckfield
453
1,002
1,251
1,501
Denmark
436
972
Dixfield
403
595
Dixfield and Mexico
137
Fryeburg
547
734
1,004
1,057
Gilead.
88
215
328
Greenwood
273
392
Hartford and Sumner
189
Hartford.
243
720
1,113
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
Towns.
1790.
1800.
1810.
1820.
Hebron, including Oxford.
530
981
1,211
1,727
Hiram . . . ..
192
203
336
972
Jay, including Canton.
103
430
1,107
1,614
Livermore
863
1,560
2,174
Lovell and Sweden
147
365
Lovell .
202
430
Mexico
14
148
Newry. :
92
202
203
Norway
448
609
1,010
1,330
Paris
844
1,320
1,894
Peru .
92
343
Porter
272
292
487
Rumford
262
629
871
Sweden
249
Turner
349
722
1,129
1,726
Waterford
150
535
860
1,035
Woodstock.
236
509
Weld
318
495
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS, 1820.
TOWNS.
Acres of
Tillage.
Upland
Mowing.
Pasture.
Barns.
Horses.
Oxen.
Cows, &c.
Upland Hay.
Corn,
Wheat.
Andover
71
225
182
43
57
110
151
338
208
480-
Albany
78
196
159
36
21
60
91
196
370
142
Bethel
564 1208 1053
165
122
216
435
675 2136
905
Brownfield
119
459
281
81
52
130
211
264 1155
189
Buckfield
580 1335 1670
190
111
288
536
815 3154 1616
Denmark
184
731
994
84
49
158
242
483 1642
420
Dixfield .
183
574
399
61
51
105
199
499
872
629
Fryeburg'
412
696
585
136
85
222
354
548
2277
591
Gilead .
174
222
230
37
31
56
130
190 595
688
Greenwood
41
144
176
34
26
42
123
144
472
187
Hartford .
375 1518 2543
143
87
183
132
196
380
830
885
Howard's Gore.
17
53
66
9
6
8
18
53
56
58
Jay
551 1354 1045 79 266
58
19
56
113
129
613
109
Livermore
725
2595 1838
274
157
315
66
105 112
147
Norway
291
772 1779
168
109
254
468
772 1680
889
Newry
61
119
55
32
26
74
146
179
180
602
Paris.
580 1705 1988
244
154
274
699
102
181
362
417
Porter
71
272
167
78
26
77
141
384 1036
1398
1417
Sumner
373 1475 2637
129
85
174
61
95
243 451
185
Turner.
776 2505 2058
265
154
334
186
447
512 1935
633
Woodstock .
32
365
199
26
22
56
16
295 200 170
Weld
164
309
426
63
39
86
189
245 479
108
Rumford.
221 1225 1080
120
97
173
247 1091 1668
503
Sweden
80
381
273
39
16
301
651 1125 3057 1029
Hiram
169
489
310
74
44
129
295
618
1361 2081 2180
Mexico
37
105
72
11
11
26
Peru
100
159
114
32
20
58
414 1171 1663 1142
Hebron
460
1921 3116
183
118
Lovell.
754 1982 3652 2057
295 1091
676 1673 3168 2185
Waterford
313 1441
1533
161
110
*Fryeburg had 720 acres of fresh meadow yielding 609 tons of hay.
411
1250 1779 1345
125
189
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
EDUCATIONAL, 1825.
No. of Districts.
No. of Scholars.
Am't
Raised.
Am't Expended.
Population, 1825.
Andover
3
173
$132 00
$150 00
400
Albany
4
126
120 00
120 00
307
Brownfield.
9
360
249 06
298 80
850
Buckfield
13
706
529 50
607 16
1700
Bethel
14
600
468 10
502 84
1400
Canton
6
290
200 00
239 13
700
Carthage
4
81
68 99
68 99
210
Denmark
12
397
299 77
333 28
800
Dixfield
7
400
240 00
240 00
800
Fryeburgh
14
490
400 00
490 00
1250
Gilead
3
144
112 00
127 06
400
Greenwood
9
255
202 00
202 00
650
Hartford.
15
597
453 00
453 00
1250
Hebron
17
726
691 00
691 00
1750
Hiram
11
381
381 00
381 00
800
Jay ..
8
482
339 23
417 29
1800
Lovell
9
236
100 00
225 08
470
Livermore
14
966
703 75
871 31
2400
Mexico
3
109
100 00
100 00
225
Norway
10
637
550 00
563 70
1500
Newry
2
160
122 00
122 00
340
Porter
5
255
194 80
218 91
620
Paris
16
817
700 00
830 08
2200
. Peru.
6
205
152 23
152 23
450
Rumford.
10
413
306 96
348 99
1100
Sweden
5
167
100 00
164 00
380
Sumner
8
497
408 87
416 00
1200
Turner.
16
932
599 00
799 00
2000
Waterford
9
394
344 82
414 96
1200
Woodstock.
8
211
150 00
161 25
450
Weld
282
200 00
200 00
500
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CHAPTER XXV.
ANNALS CONTINUED.
Esq. Stowell's Certificate .- Redistricting for Schools .- Resignation of Elder Hooper as Minister of the Town.
1826.
Thomas Webster was chosen town clerk. The town's poor were all struck off to John Daniels, Jr., for four hundred and thirty-five dollars for one year. It was voted that the cows belonging to the town now in the hands of the town's poor, be sold by the selectmen. Among the returns of qualifications of officers this year, the follow- , ing is recorded :
"To Thomas Webster, Esq., clerk of the town of Paris, &c. Be it known unto you and I hereby make it known as aforesaid, that on this fifteenth day of April, A. D., 1826, Capt. John Millett of said town resid- ing in and near the city or village of Cape Ann, appeared on the day afore- said, with his head uncovered, his naked arm uplifted in High street, to wit in Mechanic's Row, and under no other covering than the blue arch of the celestial canopy, made solemn oath before me the subscriber, one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace within and for the county of Oxford, that he being duly chosen one of the Hogreeves of, in and for said town during the current year, that he would well and faithfully execute the duties of said office according to the best of his ability and understand- . ing
Before me,
LEVI STOWELL, Justice of the Peace."
The town voted to oppose by all fair means the location or open- ing of a road leading from Fuller's Corner in Norway to the guide board near Capt. Samuel Rawson's, and a committee was appointed to carry out the wishes of the town, which at an adjourned meeting reported it inexpedient to continue any further resistance to the road, and that measures ought to be taken to open the same. The report was accepted, and five hundred dollars raised to be expended on the road under the direction of the selectmen. This vote was recon- sidered at a subsequent meeting, and the job of building the road, and bridge across the river, was let to Moses Hammond for six hun- dred and fifty dollars. A meeting was called Nov. 27th, to choose a representative in place of Enoch Lincoln, resigned. While cele- brating the fourth of July by firing a cannon, the charge prematurely caught fire and Henry Young, Hannibal Hamlin, John Willis and a son of Robert Wightman were more or less injured. One morning
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
the citizens at the Hill awoke and found that the local paper office, the Observer, had disappeared during the night, and were much chagrined to learn that Barton had moved it to Norway. By means of an ox-cart and in the still hours of the night, the entire estab- lishment, press, types and paper had been smuggled away. April 19, Dr. Levi Willis of this town, died in Pearlington, Miss. A campmeeting was held in town in September, the managers of which publicly expressed their thanks to those who attended "for their good decorum, religious regard and polite behavior."
1827.
An article in the warrant was to see what action the town would take with regard to a road proposed to be built from Rumford to Paris. The matter was left with the town agent and a committee who were instructed to attend the court and also to show the different routes to the viewing committee of the court.
1828.
The committee on defining the limits of the several school Dis- tricts in town, consisting of the Selectmen and Stephen Emery, sub- mitted an extended report which was spread upon the records. Leaving out the boundaries as specified in the report, the following are the lots embraced in each district :
No. 1-DANIEL STOWELL'S.
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