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RECORDS OF THE TOWN AND SELECTMEN OF HANOVER, N. H.
1761-1818
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THE RECORDS
OF THE
TOWN OF HANOVER
NEW HAMPSHIRE
1761-1818
THE RECORDS OF THE TOWN MEETINGS, AND OF THE SELECTMEN, COMPRISING ALL OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF RECORDS AND BEING VOLUME I OF THE PRINTED RECORDS OF THE TOWN
PRINTED BY VOTE OF THE TOWN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
HERBERT DARLING FOSTER GEORGE MENDAL BRIDGMAN SIDNEY BRADSHAW FAY
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE 1905
PRINTED AND BOUND BY THE RUMFORD PRINTING CO. CONCORD, N. H.
PREFACE.
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For copying and printing its early records, the town of Hanover voted one hundred dollars at the annual meeting in March, 1903, and three hundred and fifty dollars at the annual meeting in March, 1904. The selectmen appointed as an editing committee : Professor Herbert D. Foster, Mr. George M. Bridgman, Town Clerk, and Professor Sidney B. Fay.
The committee presents in this printed book an accurate verbatim copy of the volume containing the earliest records of the town meetings and selectmen, from "the first Town Meeting for the Town of Hanover met august 25th 1761," to "the 25th day of April, 1818." The copy was made by Mr. William D. Walker, and reproduces faithfully the origi- nal spelling, capitalization and punctuation. The copy and the printed book have been compared with the original, by the committee, word for word, and, where necessary, letter by let- ter. The index was made by Miss Laura Woolsey Lord.
The volume containing the original records is a parchment bound folio, 8 x 1234 inches, with 338 pages. It appears to have been bought in 1773 or 1774, for 9 s. 6 d. The entries from 1761 to October 4, 1773, were copied into this volume from an earlier record, no longer in existence. These facts are indicated by the following votes : (See pages 14 and 17.)
"Oct" 4th 1773-Voted to allow Edm'd Freeman 8/9 for a Book for the use of the Town.
" Voted that the former Votes passed in this Town be trans- mitted into sd Book
" March ye 8th 1774-Voted to allow Edmund Freeman for Town Book 9/6 "
These records were entered in the book by the same hand which had kept the original records since 1767, " Edmund
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Freeman of Hanover," who was town clerk from 1767 to 1778, and the first actual settler in Hanover, coming here from Mansfield, Connecticut, with his wife and two children, in May, 1765.
The Hanover records contain the customary actions of town meetings at that day, viz .: election of officers, some of them the same as today, some, like the tythingmen, hogreeves and deerriffs, unnecessary now, but important in the colonial life of New England ; restrictions on hogs running at large; the call- ing and difficult dismissal of the minister of the town; the building of meeting house and school house; the support of the ministry and schools ; determining of taxes, tax rates and valuation ; care of the poor and the sick, in 1788 disapproving of "annoculation of the small pox " (p. 77). The first town meetings were those of the proprietors from 1761 to 1766, all held in Mansfield, Connecticut. The first "Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover " was held in Hanover, July 22, 1767. At this time there were only twenty-six heads of families, and eleven unmarried men, with a total population of ninety-two; but they showed the native capacity of New England settlers for orderly political life, by at once instituting the fully developed and familiar system of town government, electing town officers and making arrangements for "support- ing the Gospel."
Items of more than local interest are the actions during the Revolution : adoption of the American Association in 1775, Committee of Safety, 1776, provisions for ammunition and militia (pp. 21, 24, 26ff.); elections of state and national offi- cials ; votes for Daniel Webster as representative to congress, in 1812 and 1814 (pp. 271, 283); votes on the state constitution and its revisions ; the relations with Dartmouth College; votes regarding the Embargo Act (pp. 246-9), and the War of 1812 (pp. 268-9).
The selectmens' records deal chiefly with licenses to sell " Speretous Liquors" or keep tavern, ten of these being granted in 1794. They also include surveys and alterations of roads, perambulation of town lines, and a warning to certain
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persons to depart (pp. 124, 295, 218). No separate record of acts of the selectmen, for this period, has been found, and it is doubtful whether such a record existed.
The records also include some miscellaneous items, like drawing of jurors, constable's warrants and returns, and fre- quent notices of stray horses and cattle and articles lost and found.
The larger interest of this record lies in its constant sug- gestion of that sound sense and capacity for self-government which characterized the plain people of New England, and which gives the early history of their towns so significant a a place in the rise of modern democracy.
The records for the fifty-seven years covered in the first volume, 1761-1818, were kept, with a few exceptions of clerks pro tempore (noted in the complete list under " clerk " in index), by the following eight town clerks, five of them being of the Freeman family, prominent in the settlement and early history of the town :
I. "Edmund Freeman Jun"" of Mansfield, Conn., August, 1761-March, 1767.
2. "Edmund Freeman of Hanover," March, 1767-March, 1778.
3. Jonathan Freeman, March, 1778-March, 1787.
4. Russell Freeman, March, 1787-March, 1789.
5. William Chandler, March, 1789-March, 1794.
6. "Doct" Joel Brown," March, 1794-March, 1802 ; March, 1804-March, 1809.
7. Dyer Willis, March, 1802-March, 1804.
8. Jonathan Freeman, 2d, March, 1809-March, 1832 ; March, 1833-March, 1836; March, 1838-March, 1848.
The charter of the town, printed in the Appendix (p. 306), is a verbatim reprint of the copy in the possession of the Secre- tary of State at Concord. The supplementary grant of 1775, also given in the appendix, is reprinted from the copy in the New Hampshire State Papers, Vol. XXV, pp. 82-85, where there will also be found sketch plans of the boundaries of the town. On page 77 of the same volume is a list of books and articles bearing on the history of the town and college ; and on pages 85-90 the " Grant to Dartmouth College and Eleazar
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Wheelock, 1771" (with plan), and the " Dartmouth College Ferry, 1772."
The original Hanover Proprietors' Records (1761-1807), and the first volume of births, marriages, and deaths (1762- 1846), are of great interest and value. They would complete the records of the town for its first half century, and deserve to be printed. With these records all in print, and with the invaluable " History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover," by the late Judge Frederick Chase (to be continued in a second volume by Professor John King Lord), the town will be provided with unusually valuable material on its early history.
HERBERT DARLING FOSTER, GEORGE MENDAL BRIDGMAN, SIDNEY BRADSHAW FAY, Committee on editing and printing early town records.
State of New Hampshire, Grafton, ss. HANOVER, Apr. 3, 1905.
I, Geo. M. Bridgman, Town Clerk of Hanover, hereby certify that the following, beginning with page I and ending with page 305, is a true and correct copy of the first volume of the Rec- ords of the Town of Hanover, N. H., 1761-1818, except that the title, paging, and explanatory marks and notes have been added in the printed volume.
GEORGE M. BRIDGMAN, Town Clerk.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
HORACE F. HOYT, Justice of the Peace.
[1*] HANOVER TOWN RECORDS. 1761.
Att the first Town Meeting for the Town of Hanover in the Province of New Hampshire Legally Warned agreeable to the directions in the Charter of said Town, and met august 25th 1761.
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun™ Town Clerk.
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun™ Ebenezer Jones and Joseph Storrs Select Men for said Town the currant year.
Chose Amos Richardson Constable for said Town.
Voted that the next annual Meeting shall be held at the now dwelling House of William Cummins in Mansfield in the Col- ony of Connecticut and that said Meeting shall be Warned by inserting the time place and Business of said Meeting in the Boston Gazette three weeks before the time of said Meeting-
Att a Town Meeting of the Proprietors of the Town of Han- over in the Province of New Hampshire legally Warned and met at the dwelling House of William Cummins in Mansfield in the Colony of connecticut, March ye 9th 1762.
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun" Moderator of said Meeting
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Town Clerk --
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Ebenezer Jones and Capt John Bifsel Select Men-
Voted and chose Amos Richardson Constable-
Att a Meeting of the Town of Hanover by the proprietors Legally Warned and met at the Dwelling House of William Waterman in Mansfield in the Colony of Connecticut March 8th 1763.
* Note. The figures in square brackets give the number of the page in the origi- nal manuscript. Editors.
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Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Moderator for sd Meeting
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Town Clerk-
Voted and chose Mefs's Edmund Freeman Jun" Ebenezer Jones and Prince Freemen Select Men-
Voted and chose Amos Richardson Jun' Constable-
Att a Town Meeting of the Proprietors of the Town of Han- over in the Province of New Hampshire met at the Dwelling House of William Waterman in Mansfield in the Colony of Connecticut the 2ª Tuesday in March 1764
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Moderator for sd Meeting
[2] Voted and chose M' Edmund Freeman Jun' Town Clerk-
Voted and chose Mefs's Edmund Freeman Jun" Ebenezer Jones and Prince Freeman Select Men-
Voted and chose Amos Richardson Jun' Constable-
Att a Legal Town meeting of the Proprietors of the Town of Hanover in the Province of New-Hampshire met at the Dwelling House of William Waterman in Mansfield in the Col- ony of Connecticut the 2ª Tuesday in March 1765-
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Moderator for sd Meeting
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Town Clerk-
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Prince Freeman and Amos Richardson Jun' Select Men-
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman 3ª Constable-
Att a Legal Town Meeting of the proprietors of the Town of Hanover in the Province of New Hampshire met at the Dwell- ing House of Wm Waterman in Mansfield in the Coloney of Connecticut the second Tuesday in March 1766-
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Moderator for sd Meeting
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Town Clerk-
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Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Jun' Prince Freeman and Amos Richardson Select Men for sd Toun the year ensu- ing-
Voted and chose Jonathan Curtifs Constable-
Att a Legal Meeting of the Town of Hanover held by the proprietors the 2ª Tuesday in March 1767-
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Moderator for sd Meet- ing
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman of Hanover Town Clerk Voted and chose Timothy Smith Jonathan Curtifs and Ben- jamin Davis Selectmen for the Ensuing year --
Voted and chose Asa Parker Constable the Ensuing year- Voted and chose William Woodard Tything man-
Voted and chose Gideon Smith Jonathan Freeman and Isaac Walbridge Surveyors of Highways-
The foregoing is a Record of the Doings of the proprietors of the Town of Hanover at their Annual Meeting from the Beginning Down to this time 2ª Tuesday in March 1767
Edmund Freeman Clerk
[3] Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Han- over in the Province of New Hampshire Legally Warned and inet July 22ª 1767-
Voted and chose Timothy Smith Moderator for said ineet- ing-
Voted and chose Gideon Abba Tything man-
Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Legally warned and met Oct 26th 1767-
Voted and chose M' Timothy Smith Moderator for said Meeting
Voted to hire M' Sexton to preach with us next summer-
Voted and chose Prince Freeman John Ordway and John Walbridge a Committee to agree with m' Sexton for the afore- said purpose-
Voted to apply to the propriety for their afsistance in sup- porting the Gospel here the ensuing summer
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Att a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover the 2ª Tuesday in March 1768-Chose M' Jonathan Curtifs modera- tor-
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Town clerk
Voted and chose Mefs's Timothy Smith Jonathan Curtifs and Benjamin Davis Select Men for the year ensuing -
Voted and chose Zebulun Lee Constable for the year ensu- ing
Voted and chose Gideon Abbe & Benjamin Royce Tything men
Voted and chose Jonathan Lord John Sargent and Edmund Freeman Surveyors of Highways
Voted and chose John Smith Choirester
Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Legally Warned and met at the dwelling House of mr Isaac Walbridge in said Hanover Oct" 31st 1768
Voted and chose M' Timothy Smith Moderator for sd Meet- ing
Voted to adjourn this Meeting to the 4th day of Nov" next.
Nov 4th. Met according to adjournment. Voted to difsolve this Meeting
Att a Legal meeting of the Inhabtants of the Town of the 2ª Tuesday in March 1769 Voted and chose John Ordway Moderator of sª Meeting
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Town Clerk
Voted and chose Mefs's Deliverance Woodard John Ordway and Jonathan Curtifs Select men for the year ensuing
Voted and chose John House and Gideon Smith Constables Voted and chose m" Timothy Smith a commifsioner for Afsesment
Voted and chose Stephen Benton and Isaac Walbridge Tyth- ing men
[4] Voted and chose John Ordway Sealer of Leather-
Voted and chose David Mason William Woodard. and John Smith Surveyors of highways the year ensuing-
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Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Gideon Smith and Isaac Bridgman Afsefsors; and a committee to Examine the select- mens account
Voted and chose Alexander Keenne David Mason and Isaac Walbridge Fence Viewers for the ensuing year-
Voted that the Select shall write to the propriety to provid us with a preacher
Voted to raise a Tax of ten pounds to lie as a Town stock-
Voted that hogs may run on Commons without rings being well yoked
Voted and chose Isaac Walbridge pound keeper the year ensuing-
Voted to set a Meeting House on or near the ninth Lott near where the road comes out from Town to the half mile road-
[5] Att a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover the 2ª Tuesday in March 1770.
Voted and chose m' John Ordway Moderator of said meeting Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Town Clerk
Voted and chose John Ordway Deliverance Woodard and David Woodward Selectmen for the year ensuing-
Voted and chose John House Constable for the year enfu- ing-
Voted and chose Nathaniel Wright Constable for the year ensuing-
Voted and chose Jeremiah Trescott and Benjamin Davis Tythingmen
Voted and chose John House Nath1 Wright and Benjam Davis & Edd Freeman Surveyors of Highways for the ensuing year-
Voted and chose Jonathan Lord and Asa Parker fence viewers-
Voted that swine shall not run on the Common the ensuing year
Voted to raise a Tax of twenty four pound on the Inhab- itants of this Town to Defray Town charges and to Board a minister if need be
Voted and chose Nathaniel Wright Collector of said Tax-
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Voted to set a pound on the two mile road near mr Sextons frame
Voted and chose Jonathan Lord pound keeper-
Voted to chuse a Committee to inspect and view the half mile road and the road by the river and make their report which is best for publick Service, chose John Tenny John Wright stephen Benton John Ordway David Woodward a Committee for said purpose-
Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Legally Warned and met July 30th 1770-
Voted and chose M' Isaac Bridgman Moderator of sd Meet- ing
Voted to adjourn this Meet to the first monday in october next at the Dwelling House of Lieu John Ordway one o'clock P. M-
Oct" Ist 1770 met according to adjournment-
Voted to chuse a Committee to treat with Governor Went- worth and the Trustees of Dartmouth College respecting set- ting off a part of said Town as a distinct destrict to sd Col- lege-
Voted and chose John Wright John Ordway David Woodward Jonathan Freeman and Isaac Bridgman a Committee for said purpose-
Voted to adjourn this Meeting to the 2ª monday in Nov" next, at ro. oclock in the forenoon-
[6] Att a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover att the dwelling House of John Ordway the 2ª Tues- day of March 1771-Voted and chose John Ordway Modera- tor
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Town Clerk-
Voted and chose John Ordway Deliverance Woodward and David Woodward Select Men-
Voted and chose Nathaniel Wright and David Mason Con- stables
Voted and chose John Tenny John Crane and John Wright Tythingmen
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Voted and chose William Woodward Gideon Smith David Chandler John Smith John House and Jonathan Curtifs Survey- ors of Highways-
Voted and chose Timothy Smith and Jonathan Curtif Deeriffs
Voted and chose Jonathan Lord pound keeper & fence viewer
Voted and chose John Ordway sealer of Leather
Voted and chose stephen Murch sealer of Measures-
Voted and chose Deliverance Woodward sealer of weights Voted and chose Jonathan Lord and Asa Parker Howards Voted to raise a Tax of twenty five pounds L. M .* to support preaching and defray Town charges the ensuing year
Voted to call a candidate to preach on probation the Ensuing season
Voted and chose Mefs's Deliverance Woodward David Wood- ward John Wright John Ordway Jona Curtifs John Tenny and Asa Parker a Committee to pitch a place for a Meeting House, and that they have liberty to settle the same where they shall think it most convenient within two hundred rods of the two mile road where the center of the same is between Lebanon and Lime-
Voted that the abovesaid Committee make their return to this Meeting on the first Monday in May next-
Voted and chose Mefsrs John Ordway David Woodward and Isaac Bridgman a Committee to procure preaching-
Voted that the preaching the ensuing summer shall be at one place-Voted and chose Nath1 Wright Collector of rates
Voted that swine may run at Large the currant year being yoked and Ringed according to Law-
Voted to adjourn this Meeting to the dwelling House of David Mason the 26th of this instant at 10- O. clock A. M .-
[7] March 26th 1771 Met according to adjournment. Voted that the money raised be paid in by the 1st day of Sept next-
*L. M. Lawful money, according to which a pound was reckoned $3.33, and a shilling 162/3 cents. Ed.
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Voted to adjourn this Meeting to the dwelling House of John Ordway the sixth day of may next at 10, O. clock A M .-
May 6th 1771 met according to adjournment. Voted that the Committee to procure preaching shall appoint a place to hold Meeting on the sabbath the ensuing season .-
The Committee to pitch upon a spot for a meeting House made their return to this meeting which was accepted by vote and is as follows Viz. We the Subscribers being appointed a Committee by the Town of Hanover to look out and pitch upon a conven- ient spot to set a Meeting House in said Town, and to make a return to this adjourned meeting. We do therefore report that we have viewed the situation of said Town and have set up a Beech stake marked with six on a spot of ground within about 45 rod of the rear of the 10th Lott lying east of the two mile line, which spot we judge to be most convenient for said Town to set a Meeting House upon-Dated Hanover May 6th 1771
Del' Woodard
Jona Curtifs
John Ordway
David Woodard
John Wright
Committee
John Tenny
Att a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Han- over at the House of David Mason March 26th 1771
Voted and chose L' David Woodward Moderator for said Meeting
It was put to vote to see whither the Town will comply with the condition of fixing Dartmº College in the Town of Hanover required by the Trustees of sª College Viz that sª Towns of Hanover and Lebanon previously petition the Legislature that a contiguous part of at least three miles square in said Han- over and Lebanon : be set of and incorporated into a distinct and separate parrish under the immediate Jurisdiction of the College-pafsed in the affirmative-
Voted that we do agree that said tract may be set of as a parrish or Town as shall be tho,t best-Voted that said Tract be Bounded by a line to begin in the south line of said Han-
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over three miles from Connecticut river and to run Northerly to the river in such a manner as to include a Tract equal to three miles long and one and half miles wide-Voted that the Revª D' Wheelock be our ajent to petition the General Afsem- bly for the abovesaid incorporation.
[8] Att a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Sept 16th 1771 Voted and chose John Ordway Mod- erator ---
Voted to allow John Ordway for Boarding a
preacher - -
- £1-12-0
Voted to allow him for making Afesment & Rate
Bill
0-13-0 Voted to allow Otis Freeman for going to He-
bron -
Voted to allow John Tenny for going to D' Bel- - 0-6-0 lamy -
- 0-6-0
Voted to allow John House for keeping Esq™ Morey 1
- 0-6-0
Voted to give the revª M' Pomroy of Hebron a Call to settle in the work of the Ministry in this Town provided he should have a dismifsion from his people at said Hebron within six months-
Voted to grant the Rev'd M' Pomroy as a Sallary seventy pounds annually the one half to be paid in grain and the other half in money provided he settles in the Ministry with us-
Voted and chose mefsrs John Ordway and Isaac Bridgman a Committee to treat with m' Pomroy-
Voted to L' David Woodward for laying High-
ways - - - - -
£0-3-0
Voted to allow Del' Woodward for Do - 0-3-6 Voted to allow Jonathan Freeman for D° - 0-6-0 -
Att a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover the 2ª Tuesday of March 1772 Voted and chose John Wright J' Mod- erator
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Town Clerk-
Voted and chose Mefsrs Isaac Bridgman John Wright J' John Tenny Select Men for the year Ensuing
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Voted and chose Mefsr Nathaniel Wright Francis Tollet and, David Mason Constables for the year Ensuing-
Voted and chose Mefsr Josiah Goodrich John Wright Benja Davis John Crane Tything men for the ensuing year-
Voted and chose Jona Lord Timothy Smith J' Asa Parker fence Viewers for the year Ensuing-
Voted and chose John Ordway Leather Sealer-
Voted and chose Nath1 Wright David Woodward Edward Smith Isaac Walbridge Joshua Hendee Highway Surveyors-
Voted and chose Edmund Freeman & David Eaton Deer- riffs
Voted and chose Nath1 Lord pound keeper
Voted and chose Jonathan Lord Asa Parker hog Howards
Voted to raise a Tax of £20 to support preaching and other Town charges-that said sum be paid in by ist day of June next. Voted and chose John Smith Collector
[9] Voted and chose John Ordway David Woodward and Isaac Bridgman a Committee to procure preaching the year ensuing-
Voted and chose John Ordway Town Treasurer for the year ensuing
Voted to raise a Tax of thirty two pounds to be laid out in mending and making Highways, and that each man may have the Liberty to pay his rate in labour at 3/ pr day at the direc- tion of the Surveyors-Voted to difsolve this Meeting-
Att a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover June 23ª 1772 Voted and chose John Ordway Moderator-
Voted to give the Rev'd Eden Burroughs late of Killingly in the Colony of Connecticut a Call to settle in the Gospel Min- istry in this Town-
Voted the said M' Burrough (on condition of his so settling with us) a Sallary of fifty pounds Lawful Money, to be paid the one half in grain, and the other half in money and that Each person shall have Liberty of paying in the above propor- tion the grain being at the market price-
Voted that the said Sallary for the first year be made on the latest list of said Town then in being; and that his Sallary
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shall annually increase in the same proportion with the list of said Town untill it shall amount to eighty pounds lawful money, which eighty pounds shall then be yearly paid to the said Mr Burroughs as above mentioned in Money and grain so long as he shall continue a settled Gospel Minister in said Town-
Voted that the said M' Eden Burroughs on his instalment take pofsefsion of the Right of Land in sª Hanover reserved in the original Charter of said Town for the first settled Min- ister-
Voted and chose Mefsrs John Wright John Ordway and Isaac Bridgman a Committee to treat with the rev'd M' Burroughs on the above said premifses and to receive his answer-
Voted that the Rate of £32. L. M. raised at the last annual Meeting be levied on the Town list now revising and that the same be paid in 12 months from this time and laid out on highways at the direction of the highway surveyors now in Office and that the said surveyors shall collect the same within said Term as they shall see fit-
Voted Jonathan Freeman 12 / for his journey to Wocester for Mr Burroughs-
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