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The unfortunate legislation of 1903 undid much of the good that had been done in this state. Irreparable evil has resulted from "letting down the bars". In licensed towns, the arrests are very frequent, as is known, and the resulting state of morals much lower. Sullivan abides by her good temperance prin- ciples, but, unfortunately, those of her citizens who like ardent spirits are too dangerously near places where it can be procured. The only radical cure for this evil is practical common sense. Legislation can restrain, and should, the evil propensity, but, in the last analysis, it is deep-seated principle alone which can conquer the vice.
At the annual meeting of 1851, there was a referendum about the matter of exempting homesteads from execution to the extent of $500.00. The vote of the state favored it. A law to that effect was enacted by the General Court.
At the March meeting in 1860, there was a referendum with respect to buying a county farm for the poor. Sullivan was 39 to 13 against such a proposition. At the annual meet-
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ing in 1867, that matter came up again and Sullivan voted 49 to one against the proposition to abolish the custom of caring for paupers in their own towns, thus transferring them to a county farm. Still again, at the March meeting of 1868, Sullivan voted " that the select-men of Sullivan transmit to the County Com- missioners the vote of the town remonstrating against the further expenditure of money for the use of the county farm, and take measures to dispose of the property now held by the county". These votes and remonstrances were unavailing. The county, as a whole, approved the plan of buying a farm for the poor of the whole county, and bought the fine Sabin farm in Westmoreland, upon the Connecticut River. It was probably, in the end, the cheapest way to care for the poor, but such a phrase as " cheapest way to care for the poor. " does not seem to have the right ethical ring. It is probably true, but is it alto- gether merciful, humane, and just, to take them from their native soil and herd them together, as it were, without any regard for their feelings? Thrift is a virtue, but a learned man has said that "virtue pushed to an extreme may become a vice ".
On Nov. 9, 1869, a referendum was taken upon the ques- tion : " Are you in favor of an act to establish a state police ?" Sullivan voted II to 4 against the proposition. The voters of the state seem to have taken the same view as a whole. State police were not established.
At the March meeting of 1870, there were referendums with respect to the establishment of two new counties, to be called Amoskeag and Monadnock. Of the first Manchester would probably have been selected as a shire town, and of the second Peterborough. The votes of Sullivan, as well as of the state at large, were overwhelmingly against the idea of making any new counties and neither was established. There were good reasons for establishing both of these. Many towns in Hillsborough County are inconveniently distant from either county seat, and there are certain towns of Cheshire County which are not conveniently situated with respect to Keene. The expense of building new county buildings probably did more than anything to prevent a favorable vote upon the Amos- keag County scheme (which had some show of a success), and it undoubtedly was the cause of thwarting the scheme for a new county to be called Monadnock.
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REFERENDUM VOTES.
On Nov. 2, 1880, a referendum throughout the state was taken on the question of cumulative voting in corporations. According to the laws of this state, in corporations a member has one vote for each share that he holds, not exceeding one eighth part of the whole number of shares. The Sullivan vote was 26 to 14 in favor of letting the law remain as it was. There has been no change in this particular. The sentiment of the state appears to have been opposed to it.
At the annual meeting of 1893, the town voted to comply with the conditions of a state law, applicable only to such towns as accept it, in relation to a free library. The law requires annually the appropriation of $15.00 by towns of a valuation less than $250,000.00 which accept the act. The librarians and trustees of such libraries can have the advice and assistance of the state library commissioners in selecting books, cataloguing, and other matters pertaining to the administration of a library. As a condition precedent, however, the towns must provide for the custody, care, and distribution of the books in the library.
At the March meeting of 1899, it was voted to accept the provisions of the so-called Pillsbury highway law. This required the division of the town into highway districts, the appointment of special road agents in each, and the raising of a sum of money for highways amounting to one fourth of one per cent of the valuation, and as much more as necessary, the amount of the appropriation not to exceed $50.00 per mile of the highways of the town. The town can fix the rates of labor and the com- pensation for tools and teams. The whole work is to be under the direction of the select-men, who are to regulate prices of labor, &c., if the town do not do so in town meeting.
On May 12, 1903, occurred the last vote to the present time (1904) on a state proposition or law. It was to see whether the town would vote to grant or to refuse licenses, in accordance with the new liquor law of the state. As would naturally be expected of a respectable town like Sullivan, it was voted 32 to 5 not to grant licenses for the sale of so-called spirituous liquors. That leaves the former restrictive legislation in force in this town. It remains in force in such towns as do not vote for license under the law of 1903. It is a pity that such a law ever received the sanction of any legislature and
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executive approval. It is hoped by many certainly that, after the experiment of four years allowed for it, the voters of the towns and cities will decline to give it further life. It depends upon the will of the voters, and the will depends upon the degree of their reasonableness and saneness upon such a subject.
We conclude the subject of referendums with a note on one of the most important and interesting of all of them. At the annual March meeting of 1847, a referendum was taken through- out the state on the expediency of a new militia law. According to the old law, all able-bodied men from 18 to 45 were subject to military duty, with certain customary exceptions. They were required to drill, to attend musters, and to be subject to emer- gency calls. This referendum revealed a strong desire to change the law and be rid of obligatory militia duty. Sullivan voted for the change 24 to 23, a bare majority of one. The change came in a year or two, by a new law, which abolished the annual May inspections, although men from 18 to 45 were still enrolled as liable to do duty. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the militia service had shrunk almost to a zero. It now consists of only two regiments where there were 42 when this referendum was taken. These regiments, however, are larger and more completely organized and drilled.
VI. PUBLIC LANDS.
When Sullivan was incorporated, Sept. 27, 1787, Gilsum had not divided all her common land among those who were the proprietors of the town. The situation was peculiar. The . eastern line of Gilsum, as chartered, extended as much as a hundred rods east of the present line of Sullivan. It also extended south far enough to include the Ellis and Holt and Martin Rugg and old Wilson and White farms in what was formerly Packersfield. The Masonian towns, of which Stod- dard and Packersfield were two, reached west to the Patent Line. They had been lotted to proprietors of their own. Hence the north-easterly part of Sullivan was composed of land claimed by two sets of proprietors. The Masonian proprietors had un- doubtedly a better claim than Gilsum proprietors, for, in reality, it was a blunder that the incorporation of Gilsum took in any land east of the Patent Line.
It was only the Gilsum section of Sullivan that gave any
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land trouble. The rights of the original proprietors in the Keene, Packersfield and Stoddard sections were never disputed, except so far as Gilsum proprietors disputed with the proprie- tors of Packersfield and Stoddard. It was a blunder that Gilsum was so incorporated as to obtrude upon the land which came within the patent of the "Masonian Proprietors". Gilsum claimed the lands within her patent which were later incorpo- rated in Packersfield and Stoddard because of the priority of incorporation, but the Masonian Patent was purchased and established, July 30, 1746, long before the incorporation of Gilsum. Ignorance of the western bounds of the Patent, after- wards known as the Patent Line, was responsible for the blunder, although a blunder does not establish a claim.
After the incorporation of Sullivan, the Gilsum proprietors made a division among themselves of lands within Sullivan, east of the ninth range of the Gilsum lay-out. The land between this ninth range and the Patent Line was called the "Gore". East of the Patent Line, the lands had been regularly drawn already by the proprietors of Stoddard and Packersfield. The Packersfield proprietors were slow in selling their lots to settlers. There had not been a settler in that part of the town when Sullivan was incorporated. Immediately after this, the Gilsum proprietors began selling the lots which they claimed in the Packersfield corner of their former town to settlers. Daniel Wilson, James Rowe, and James Comstock had settled upon land originally purchased by them of Gilsum proprietors, irre- spective of Packersfield claims. The proprietors of the latter town do not seem to have given much trouble about the land, although a deed has been found where the grantor of a piece of land in this section was placed under bonds to defend the grantee against any suit that might be brought by I. Kidder, who had purchased some of that section from Packersfield pro- prietors. The settlers upon the Stoddard section purchased their lots directly from the proprietors of Stoddard. We find, however, from recorded deeds, that in almost every instance they " bought off " the Gilsum proprietors also. The price paid to the latter was a trifle. The settlers doubtless paid it to get rid of them and to clear their titles from clouds.
There was a little common land in the "Gore " when Sulli-
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van became a town, which would not come within the Stoddard or Packersfield sections. There was also a dispute about the right of Sullivan to some part of the proceeds of the so-called " school right". This was a lot laid out to Gilsum, as a town, by the proprietors, for the benefit of schools. It was the land which James Comstock purchased of the town of Gilsum through their authorized agent. Sullivan put up a claim to a right to receive a part of the proceeds of that "school right ".
In the north-east corner of the present Sullivan was a lot of land originally set apart by the proprietors of Gilsum, for the use of the "Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts", a Church of England society. The Revolution would naturally nullify any claim of that society, and we hear no more about it. There were also two lots of land in Sullivan, west of the Patent Line, laid out to the "parsonage ", called the minister lots. They were taken by Rev. Elisha Fish, the first minister of Gilsum. One of these was a part of the Frost farm, where Seth Nims once lived, on the hill. The other was the old Isaac Rawson farm, on which the buildings have disappeared. Mr. Fish sold both these pieces of land and the sale was never questioned.
At the annual March meeting in 1788, Roswell Hubbard, James Locke and Zadok Nims were chosen a committee to apply to Gilsum for a division of the public lands, which must have alluded to any common land in the " Gore ", to a share in the proceeds of the "school right " or Comstock farm, and per- haps to some adjustment of the claims of the respective pro- prietors to the lands east of the Patent Line. At a special meeting, May 7, 1792, Roswell Hubbard was appointed as a committee to take advice about the public land and report. Neither his report nor that of the previously appointed com- mittee appears to have been preserved. On Sept. 19, 1794, still another committee was appointed to divide the public land with Gilsum. This committee consisted of Erastus Hubbard, Abel Allen, and Roswell Hubbard. At the annual meeting for 1797, the committee reported that it was best to "let the mat- ter rest". On April 25 of the same year, Roswell Hubbard and Elijah Carter were chosen as another committee to take action about the public land. At the annual March meeting in
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1798, the committee reported that Peleg Sprague of Keene, an eminent lawyer, had given his opinion that the "school right " in the public land should be equally divided between Gilsum and Sullivan.
The public land question seems to have narrowed down to this one subject,-the division of the "school right". As we have stated, James Comstock's farm, purchased of Gilsum, was originally set apart as this right. Although nearly a dead issue, yet, like Banquo's ghost, it would not down. On Sept. 2, 1811, the matter came up again and it was voted to choose a committee to take such action as they may deem proper about the public land. No names of such a committee are recorded, and we know nothing of any action taken. Still again, Oct. 13, 1818, Josiah Seward, Erastus Hubbard, and Elijah Frost were ap- pointed a committee to apply to James Comstock for a division of the " school right ", and, on his refusal, to take such advice as they might think fit, and otherwise to proceed in the business as they should deem proper. We hear no more about Mr. Comstock's " school right". We do not know how the matter was settled. It is very likely that he gave the town some small sum to clear his title. We find no record of such a transaction. On Oct. 10, 1821, Roswell Hubbard, Erastus Hubbard, and Samuel Locke were appointed a committee to dispose of the public land belonging to the town by the terms of the incorpora- tion. There appears no record of their transactions. This ended the action of the town upon the subject. Perhaps the committee found nothing to do, unless possibly to make some settlement with Mr. Comstock. Their authority to dispose of public land was very likely understood to be a right to sell him the town's right to the farm he had already settled. Mr. Com- stock's farm was on some of the original Packersfield territory, but the terms of Sullivan's incorporation called for an equal division with Gilsum of public lands, and this " school-right" was construed to be such by Hon. Peleg Sprague (who was consulted as an attorney), although laid out by Gilsum and not Packersfield.
CHAPTER IV. CIVIL LISTS.
I. TOWN OFFICERS .*
TOWN CLERKS.
The dates are the same as those for the election of selectmen in the corre- sponding years. Each served until the election of the one whose name is next on the list.
1787. Roswell Hubbard. 1840. Selim Frost.
1788. James Locke.
1843. Hosea Foster.
1789. Roswell Hubbard. 1848. (Jan. 31) Sam. Locke, 1797. Cornelius Howlet. in place of H. Foster, moved from town.
1798. Elijah Carter.
1801. Erastus Hubbard.
1848. Rev. Josiah Peabody.
1804. Calvin Locke.
1850. C. Franklin Wilson.
1806. Roswell Hubbard.
1862. Joseph Whitney.
1816. Joseph Seward.
1867. John Symonds.
1818. Roswell Hubbard.
1870. Atwell C. Ellis.
1819. Samuel Locke.
1882. George Kingsbury.
1833. Ephraim Foster.
1839. Joseph Seward.
1897. Arthur H. Rugg ; and since.
TREASURERS.
Dates of election, same as for selectmen in the corresponding years. Each served until election of next on list.
1787. Lockhart Willard. 1810. Erastus Hubbard.
1788. James Locke, Jr. 1827. Roswell Osgood.
1789. James Rowe. 1829. John Wilson.
1794. Erastus Hubbard. 1830. Samuel Locke.
1797. Zadok Nims. 1831. Joseph Seward.
1799. Cornelius Howlet. 1834. Roswell Osgood.
1802. Roswell Hubbard.
1835. Ephraim Foster.
* For moderators and select-men, see the beginnings of the paragraphs in the MUNICI- PAL ANNALS.
1814. Samuel Seward, Jr.
1866. Atwell C. Ellis.
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TREASURERS (continued.)
1838. Dauphin W. Wilson.
1840. Joseph Seward.
1842. I. N. Wardwell.
1844. Selim Frost.
1850. Dan. H. Mason.
1855. Thomas Winch.
(Amos Wardwell was
1873. Amos Wardwell.
appointed by select- 1882. L. H. Goodnow, and since.
men, in place of T.
ASSESSORS.
1787. None. Taxes paid to 1791. The selectmen.
towns from which S. 1792. R. Hubbard and Sam. Seward.
was formed.
1788. The selectmen. 1793. The selectmen, who 1789. R. Hubbard and Tim. Dimick. have ever since per- formed those duties.
1790. E. Hubbard and Abel Allen.
COLLECTORS.
Each served until the election or appointment of next on list.
1787 to 1792, both inclusive, none appointed. The constable collected the taxes.
1793. Ben. Kemp, for 2 d. on £.
I794. Erastus Hubbard.
1795. Abel Allen, for 31/2 d. on £. 1796. Joshua Osgood, for 5 d. on £. 1797. Joseph Kingsbury, for 9d. on £; and in 1798, 5 d .- 2 f. on £. 1799. Jesse Wheeler, for 6 1/2 d. on £. 1801. Cornelius Howlet, at 3 per ct.
1803. Samuel Mason, at 3 per ct.
1805. Joshua Osgood, at 1 1/2 per ct.
1807. Ichabod Keith, at per ct.
3
1810. Josiah Seward, at 31/2 per ct.
1813 to 1822. The constable. 1823. Erastus Kemp, at 2 I-5 per ct. He did not serve. Mason Gibbs, appointed. 1824 to 1827. The constable. 1828. Hammond Keith, at 3 per ct. 1829 to 1834. The constable.
Winch, who left town. Wardwell qualified,
Apr. 13, 1855 ).
1856. Amos Wardwell.
1862. C. Franklin Wilson.
1866. C. W. Rawson.
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Since 1835, the appointment of the collector has been left with the select-
men. Since then, the selectmen have appointed the following. Each served till appointment of next on list.
1835. Chas. P. Locke. 1864. Joseph Whitney. In
1836. I. N. Wardwell.
1864, bondsmen Ist time.
1838. Ephraim Foster. (Probably, also in 1839).
1866. Franklin Buckminster.
1867. John Symonds.
1868. Asa E. Wilson.
(Probably, also in '4 I and '42). 1870. D. Adams Nims.
1843. Alonzo Mason. ( Prob- ably served 3 years).
1872. D. H. Mason.
1846. Franklin Buckminster.
1873. H. C. Rawson.
1847. T. T. Wetherbee.
1874. E. E. Rugg.
1849. D. H. Mason.
1875. D. W. Goodnow.
1850. Hersey Wardwell.
1876. M. J. Barrett.
1853. Hersey Wardwell.
1879. M. J. Barrett.
1854. D. H. Mason.
1883. Asahel N. Holt.
1855. Asa E. Wilson.
1885. H. C. Rawson.
1856. Joseph Whitney.
1886. George Kingsbury.
1859. Hersey Wardwell.
1891. Lyman Davis, and 1861. D. A. Felt.
since.
CONSTABLES.
Each served until election or appointment of next on list.
1787. Jonathan Heaton.
1803. Samuel Mason.
1788. Roswell Hubbard.
1805. Joshua Osgood.
1789. Elijah Carter. 1807. Ichabod Keith.
1790. Joshua Osgood. 1810. Josiah Seward.
1791. Jonathan Burnham. 1814. Benjamin Kemp.
1792. Josiah Seward. 1815. Joseph Seward.
I793. Eliakim Nims. 1820. John Wilson.
I794. Samuel Seward.
1821. Joseph Seward.
I 795. Elijah Carter. 1 825. Roswell Hubbard.
1796. Cornelius Howlet. 1826. Joseph Seward.
1797. Calvin Locke.
1 829. Solomon White.
1798. Joseph Kingsbury. 1830. James Comstock.
1 799. Josiah G. White. 1831. Joseph Seward.
1801. Cornelius Howlet.
1832. Ephraim Foster.
1840. I. N. Wardwell.
1869. Henry C. Rawson.
1871. G. Washington Nims.
1852. Samuel Locke.
1877. Geo. White.
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TOWN OFFICERS.
CONSTABLES (continued.)
1834. Elijah Frost. 1877. Geo. A. Willey.
1835. Joseph Seward.
1878. Loren W. Towne.
1838. Selim Frost.
1880. Charles T. Holt.
1839. Joseph Seward. 1881. Samuel S. White.
1849. Daniel H. Mason. 1884. George Kingsbury.
1852. Joseph Seward. 1887. M. Wesley Hubbard.
1854. Hersey Wardwell.
1888. George Kingsbury.
1855. Seth Nims.
1892. George H. Davis.
1857. Joseph Seward.
1893. Alba L. Stevens.
1858. John Locke.
1862. Joseph Seward.
1865. Rev. Josiah Peabody.
1866. Joseph Seward.
1867. Geo. H. Nims.
1869. Joseph N. Nims.
1870. None elected.
1871. Ellery E. Rugg.
TITHING-MEN.
Their duty was to enforce the ordinances with respect to the Lord's Day, more especially to prevent " Sabbath travelling " and keep order in the meeting- house. There is no evidence that the Sullivan tithing-men ever brought in any complaints. Such officers were long since discontinued.
1787. None appointed.
1788. Elijah Carter & Zadoc Nims. 1797. Ichabod Keith & Jesse Wheeler.
1789. Samuel Seward & Eliakim Nims.
1790. Jonathan Burnham & Benjamin Ellis.
1791. Ezra Osgood & Jesse Wheeler.
I792. Zadock Nims & Elijah Carter.
I793. Eliakim Nims & Jonathan Kendall.
1794. Samuel Seward & Eliakim Nims.
1795. Elijah Carter & Eliakim Nims. 15
1796. Josiah Seward & Zadock Nims.
1798. Jesse Wheeler & Joseph Kingsbury.
1799. Calvin Locke & Enoch Woods.
1800. Josiah Seward & Zadock Nims.
1801. Eliakim Nims & Calvin Locke.
1802. Ichabod Keith & Jonas Stevens.
1803. Samuel Seward & Josiah Seward.
1894. Wm. B. Hastings ; d. Apr. 27. Alba L. Stevens after May II, 1894.
1895. John F. McClure.
1903. Charles W. Hubbard, and since.
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TITHING-MEN (continued )
1804. Elijah Carter & James Wilson.
1805. Benjamin Kemp & Eliakim Nims.
1815. Joseph Seward, Erastus Hubbard, Josiah Seward, & Dalphon Gibbs.
1806. William Comstock & Zadock Nims. 1816. Dea. J. Seward,
1807. Jesse Morse & Reuben Wright.
1808. Elijah Carter & Reuben Wright.
Erastus Hubbard, & Sam. Winchester.
No more were appointed, and all who held the office in town have long since been deceased.
In most towns it was the custom of tithing-men to carry staves, as a badge of their authority, and with which to hit the sleepers in church. They were trimmed on one end with brass with which to hit the men, and, sometimes, had some feathers at the other end, with which to brush the faces of women. The town, on Mar. 10, 1789, refused to furnish any staves to such officers.
HOG-REEVES. (Often called hog-constables).
Their nominal duty was to impound stray swine, but, after the first few years, the comical custom obtained of electing to this undesirable position all men who had been married during the previous year. The list, therefore, after the first four or five years, is a curiosity. This silly custom disappeared from Sullivan after 1837, much earlier than in many other towns.
1787. None appointed. 1792. Calvin Wilder, Thorley Belding, Oliver Osgood, & Jonathan Kendall
1788. Jonathan Burnham, John Chapman, Jr., Joshua Osgood, & Zadock Nims.
1789. Simeon Ellis, Nathan Bolster, & Ebenezer Burditt.
1793. Thos. Beels (or Beals), Luther Wilder, Erastus Hubbard, & Ebenezer Kendall.
1794. Dr. John M. Field & Calvin Locke.
1795. Joseph Ellis, Enos Bailey, & David Chapman.
1790. Nathan Ellis, Timothy Dimick, Samuel Seward, & John Chapman. 1791. Benjamin Ellis, Cornelius Howlet, Nathan Bolster, & Hinds Reed.
1809 to 1814. None.
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TOWN OFFICERS.
HOG-REEVES (continued.)
1796. Calvin Locke,
1810. John Wilson,
Ephraim Adams, Silas Shattuck, &
Oliver Osgood.
Roswell Nims, Samuel Seward, Jr., Charles Carter, & Philip Proctor, Jr.
1797. Samuel Osgood, Ebenezer Kendall, Thomas Powell, & Jehiel Wilcox.
ISII. Joseph Seward, Ephraim Aplin, & Alpheus Nims.
1798. Samuel Seward & Erastus Hubbard.
1812. None.
1813. None.
1799. Jesse Wheeler & Ichabod Keith.
1814. Joshua Osgood, Caleb Winch, & Ichabod Keith.
1800. James Comstock & Samuel Clarke.
1801. Nathaniel Mason & Elijah Carter.
I802. William Carter & Abraham Clarke, Jr.
1803. Thomas McLeod & Josiah Coolidge.
1804. Erastus Hubbard, James Wilson, & Abraham Clarke, Jr.
1805. Asahel Nims, Abraham Clarke, Jr., Daniel Wilder, & John Farrar.
1806. Jasper White & Cornelius Howlet.
1807. None chosen.
1808. William Winch & Philander Nims.
1809. Amos Wardwell, Dan. Brown Brooks, & John Cannon.
1815. Samuel Winchester, Breed Osgood, & Aaron Baker.
1816. Benjamin Kemp, Jr., Cephas Brown, Rufus Mason, & George Baker.
1817. Ellsworth Hubbard, Hammond Keith, Roswell Osgood, & Roswell Hubbard, Jr.
1818. None.
1819. Hammond Keith, James Bolster, George Hubbard, Ben. Tyler, &
Eliakim N. Kemp.
1820. Solomon White, Sparhawk Kendall, Abijah Seward, & Oliver Heaton.
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HOG-REEVES (continued. )
1821. John Proctor & David Boynton.
1822. James L. Proctor, Nathaniel Heaton, & Ira Ellis.
1823. John Farrar, Oliver Stone, & Benjamin Kingsbury.
1824. Roswell Osgood, Selim Frost, Stephen Foster, Jr.
Joseph Chapman,
Oliver Stone, &
Harrison Rugg.
1825. Selim Frost, 1835. David Holt.
Harrison Rugg, Samuel Osgood, 2d,
William Brown,
George Nims, &
Emerson Baker.
1826. Timothy L. Lane,
Aaron Miller,
Martin Rugg, Asa Ellis, Dexter Spaulding, & David Chapman.
1827. William Brown,
Jacob Spaulding,
Ephraim Foster, & Roswell Osgood.
1828. Abijah Hastings, Edmund Nims, & Henry Nims.
1829. Chauncy W. Rawson, Reuben Morse, Jr., & Abijah Seward.
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