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to Esq. Merrill's and southerly and southwesterly by the upland bank and extend north so far as to compleat the sd five acres ; also, that the Meeting House shall be set on this land not to exceed twenty-five rods from the head of the dugway to the north. February, 1785. Voted to sell some undivided land in the Township to the inhabitants of the Town, and to have a plan made of all and any division of land that has been made in this Town. Also chose a Committee to examine the Proprietors' Records and see if each Proprietor has his proportion according to former votes. July. Voted that the Committee shall lay out to John Boswell lands according to his petition, including his buildings and improvements. May, third Tuesday, a meeting was held in the " Meeting House." December 6, 1796. Voted to accept of the return made by the committee of the third division of land and confirm the same according to their assignment. Also, to make a draft of the acre lots called the "Centre Square " as they are numbered. Also, to allow Thomas Merrill, esq., one hundred acres of land belonging to the Proprietors on the "Green Hill " so called for his service as Proprietors' Clerk which is to be in full for his service. September, 1798. A meeting was held at the "Lower Meeting House."
ANNALS FROM TOWN RECORDS. - The first annual town-meeting was called February 20, 1770, to be held on the second Tuesday of March in accordance with the charter, by Thomas Merrill and Joshua Heath, who had been elected selectmen by the proprietors at a meeting held at Portsmouth, Angust 31, 1769. (Thomas Merrill had been elected town clerk at the same time and place.)
Province of New Hampshire March ye 13, 1770.
The Freeholders & Inhabitants of the Town of Conway having met according to the above Notication (at the house of Joshua Heath) unanimously Voted
1 Capt Tim Walker moderator
2 Thos Merrill esqr Town Clerk
3 Thomas Merrill Selectmen for sd Conway
David Page Dolloff & Page sworn
John Dolloff
4 John Dolloff Cunstable & sworn
5 Joseph Kilgore Survayer of Lumber & sworn
6 John Dolloff, Jun' Fence viewer
7 David Page Leather Sealer
8 Ezekiel [Walker] Survayer of Highways
9 Thomas Merrill, Jnr, Josiah Dolloff Hog Reaffs
John Osgood
10 Jeremiah Ferrington ? Field Drivers John Webster
11 Joshua Heath
Richard Eastman Tythingmen James Osgood
Attest
Thomas Merrill Town Clerk
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In the notification for the annual meeting in 1771, the following artieles are proposed : To see what money the Town will Raise for Preaching, and Likewise to see who they will Pitch upon for a Preacher, also to appoint a Place to meet at. To Choose a Committee to agree with any minister that the Town Shall Pitch upon and empower them to raise such money as is voted for that Purpose, and to act upon anything That shall be thought Proper at the said Meeting. March 12, 1771, voted Twelve Pounds Lawful Money to support the Preaching of the Gosple the Present Year. Also, David Page, James Osgood, and Joshua Heath to be a committee to hire a minister and appoint a place for publie worship. Religious instruction was the only subjeet voted upon aside from the election of Town officers. At the March meeting, 1772, voted to build a Pound in the most convenient place between Joshua Heath's and Ebenezer Burbank's houses; Ebenezer Burbank to be pound- keeper. In the warrant in 1773 is an article to see if the Town will raise money to pay Mr Kelly for preaching in Conway in the year 1771. At this meeting, held March 10, it was voted to raise a sum of fifteen pounds to pay for preaching and other " youses." Also, that " indgen eorn or grain or flax or Peeas shall be Excepted in the Lue of cash for the People's taxes if Brought to the town treasuery by the first day of Jenny next." April 11, 1773, it was voted to raise twelve pounds to pay Mr Kelly for preaching in 1771; " to build a meeting house in length forty-five feet, and thirty-five feet wide, and twenty foot post, and one hundred dollars toards building said house, and to elear up the five acres for the meeting house site " and to settle a minister ; chose a building committee, a committee to employ a minister on probation. This meeting had four adjourned sessions, mainly with regard to the building of the meeting house. A special meeting was called to meet on the first Tuesday of October, " to choose a good and lawful man to serve on the grand jury at the next court of General Sessions, at Haverhill." Abiather Eastman was chosen and it was " voted to pay him four shillings per day for time going and coming, and for service." In November, voted "to purches the original Rite of Land of Joseph Hiks for the use of the Town forever (for a parsonage), and that the selectmen shall take a dead of said Land and shall hire Seventy-five Pound L Money to Purches the above said Land with & defray any other charges that shall arise on that account."
On the second Tuesday of March, 1774, voted " to hire sum Preaching for Preasent year ; to hire a Schoole for the Preasent year ; to Raise fifteen Pounds to Pay for Sehooleing; twelve pounds for making and mending the highway." In the selectmen's accounts rendered for 1773, the town is charged with cash paid Mr Chaplen for preaching one Sabbath, one pound four shillings, and credited by Mr Joshua Heath for boarding Mr Chaplen ten shillings ; also charged for supporting a school sixteen weeks, nine pounds, twelve shillings. The records for 1774 appertain to the meeting-house, settling a minister and
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exchange of minister's lot. Mr Moses Adams preached on probation in the summer of 1774; at a meeting July 20, it was voted "not to hire him any farther on probation and to give him a call to settle here in the ministry," and " to raise fifteen pounds in order to pay Mr Adams for preaching and other charges." Colonel McMillan, Captain David Page, Captain Timothy Walker, Lieutenant James Osgood, Abial Lovejoy, Esq., were chosen a committee to arrange terms of settlement to be offered by the town to Mr Adams. Mr Adams wished the meeting-house moved across the river; as this could not be done, he declined the call. March 14, 1775, voted to raise thirty pounds for highways and thirty pounds to support a school, and adjourned to April 17, when it was voted to raise fifteen pounds toward building a meeting-house and to allow the accounts of a number of men working on it. May 25, Thomas Merrill and David Page, selectmen, warn a town-meeting for the fifth of June. "First, to choose a moderator. Second, to see what method the town will take for our Safety to Preserve our Lives and Libertyes at this day of Difficulty, etc. Third, to see if the Town will agree to hire Mr Fessenden to preach in this town part of the ensuing summer and how much if it is agreeable to Fryeburgh inhabitants and Mr Fessenden." At the meeting held June 5, Andrew McMillan, esq., Thomas Merrill, esq., Captain Timothy Walker, Lieutenant James Osgood, Captain David Page, Ensign Joshua Heath, and Ebenezer Burbank were chosen a committee of Safety, and empowered " to call before them (and on proper evidence to pass on) any Inhabitants of this town who shall in any manner disturb the peace, and to examine touching any obnoxious persons who may flee to this town, and that they shall judge whether it is expedient for any such refugee to reside here or depart, and any inhabitants of the town who shall be obnoxious shall be only accountable to the committee for their conduct and no other person shall confer with any such person but if any shall know of any obnoxious person coming to town they shall give the earliest notice to the committee ; " to make application to the Provincial Congress for arms and ammunition and men for a scouting guard for our safety ; to hire Mr William Fessenden for a third part of the summer. June, 1775, David Page was chosen delegate for Conway to the Provincial Congress at Exeter.
March 12, 1776, it was voted to raise four pounds fourteen shillings lawful money to pay Rev. William Fessenden for preaching in the town in 1775; to raise fifteen pounds for highway purposes. May 29. Voted Captain David Page a justice of the peace for the town of Conway; also voted David Page, esq., Thomas Merrill, esq., Ensign Joshua Heath, Andrew MeMillan, Ebenezer Burbank committee of safety; also chose military officers : Joshua Heath, captain ; Abiathar Eastman, first lieutenant ; Benjamin Osgood, second lieu- . tenant; Thomas Russell, ensign; Voted, that the town desires to remain an independent company for the reason that we are so remote from other towns;
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also, that Andrew McMillan, esq., shall present the proceedings of this meeting at the General Court at Exeter, and take out the commissions if granted. July 22, to accept of the arms and ammunition that the Committee of Safety has provided, etc. February 24, 1777. Voted that what has been reported about Thomas Chadbourn, esq., [is] sufficient to bring him to an examination before the committee ; also, voted that the old committee stand good with an addition of Joseph Odell, Abiather Eastman, Abial Lovejoy, and Ebenezer Burbank. At the annual meeting, March 11, 1777, voted twenty pounds to support the Gospel, thirty pounds to support a school, thirty pounds for high- ways, and a bounty of one pound ten shillings to any man that will kill a Woolf in said town. 1781. January 30, voted to raise five men for the con- tinental army. Annual meeting : to raise forty bushels of wheat to defray town charges; to raise £39 to pay soldiers; to give eight bushels of wheat for each wolf's head, and four for whelps ; chose a committee to examine the river between John Wilson's and Black-cat brook for a public fordway, and to establish certain roads; 100 bushels of wheat for schools; at a later meeting voted to allow 9 sh per bushel for wheat to pay the beef and silver tax. 1782, February 20. Voted to give Samuel Wilson £20 as a bounty if he serves as a continental soldier from this town through the war; also, to settle with Nathaniel Merrill for going to Plymouth for intelligence respecting the Indians ; to raise £25 to pay Charles Hill, esq., and Stephen Coffin for their Sons' Service in the Continental Army. 1783. March 11, voted to raise £30 to pay soldiers. 1785. Voted to fell and clear ten acres of land for Florence McCalley (a soldier) or pay him eight dollars an acre in lieu thereof. 1786. Voted to make application to the General Court to consider the town on account of the great freshet. (The legislature allowed the town a certain sum which was divided among the inhabitants according to their inventory.) To receive town and soldiers' taxes in produce : corn 4 sh per bushel, wheat 6 sh, rye 5 sh, peas 6 sh, flax 8d per pound, pork 4d, butter 8d, good beef 20 sh per hundred, good cows £4-4, oxen girting six feet £12. 1787. March 13, voted a bounty of one penny a head on blackbirds, to be paid in flax at Sd per pound.
1788. David Page, delegate to Exeter Convention, was instructed, " As we repose full confidence in you and as we find a great many good things in the proposed constitution blended with what we can't approve of and as there is not any alterations to be made in said constitution we desire you to act all in your power to hinder the establishment thereof." The town first divided into "classes " for schools. Bounty on blackbirds raised to two pence. Attempt made to secure iron works. 1789. Blackbird bounty made three pence. Three new schoolhouses to be built in addition to the two now standing. Accounts allowed for clearing and fencing the burying-yard. 1790. Among others the road to Goshen laid out and established. 1793. Jonathan Runnels, Thomas Newman, Lt Ezekiel Walker licensed and permitted to sell liquor
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at retail. Voted to build two meeting-houses. Roads to the back settlements (100-acre lots) laid out. Bridge built on Swift river. 1794. Benjamin Coffin or some other person to be agreed with to keep a ferry across Saco river. 1796. Voted to incorporate Stark's and McMillan's location with the town of Con- way. 1797. Several roads established, one surveyed in 1792. 1798. Bridge across the Saco, near Dolloff fordway, accepted. Town-meetings are now called at schoolhouses, or the North or South meeting-house. 1799. Road from Edmund Kelly's to Chatham laid out. Bounty offered of 23 cents " for crows' heads ; " also, six cents on grown blackbirds, and two cents for a young one. 1800. A committee is chosen to settle the difference between the Bap- tists and the other society in Conway, and voted to exempt the Baptists from all the minister's tax that now stands against them, provided they petition for incorporation as a separate society. (June 15. Sterling's and Stark's locations were annexed to the town.) A committee was chosen to secure a burying- ground near the south meeting-house. 1801. Voted to lend the proprietors of Conway sufficient money to call a proprietors' meeting. 1802. Voted four hundred dollars for the support of schools. 1803. Voted that Conway unite with other towns in Grafton and Strafford in a petition to be erected into a new county. To raise $100 additional to previous tax; voted to clear roads to Chatham line, and from Chatham line to state line. 1804. Bounty on crows, 25 cents each. Voted that the two upper classes (districts) on the east side of the Saco be joined in one, and the schoolhouse shall be a town schoolhouse. The ticket for electors of President of the United States headed by John Goddard received 51 votes, that headed by Hon. Timothy Farrar, 9 votes. 1805. Town first elects a school committee, choosing Rev. Nathaniel Porter, Nathan Whitaker, and Richard Odell. 1806. John Langdon has 118 votes for governor, John T. Gilman, 3. Raise $800 for highways. 1807. John Lang- don receives 103 votes for governor, to John T. Gilman's 6 ; a rousing Repub- lican majority. 24 votes for, 67 against, revision of state constitution. Voted to tax all the inhabitants for minister except those in the Baptist society.
1811. Voted not to have part of Burton annexed to Conway. The bridges across Saco and Swift trouble much; both to be repaired. 1812. Voted to allow each soldier drafted in the United States service three dollars a month in addition to government pay. Instructed the selectmen to purchase fifty pounds of gunpowder and one hundred pounds of lead or balls to be kept as a town stock. The town is now building a stone bridge near Cutts mills. 1814. 95 votes for, 62 against, a revision of the constitution. $400 voted for schools, $500 town expenses, $1,000 to support roads. Voted that the town procure ten guns; Richard Odell, Esq., chosen to bring said guns to the town. 1815. Line between Conway and Eaton perambulated. April 12. At a meeting called to see what method the town will take to pay Rev. Mr Porter his salary, Richard Eastman, Esq., Deacon Jonathan Eastman, and Benjamin Osgood, Jr, were
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chosen a committee to settle with Mr Porter, and dissolve the contract between him and the town made in 1778. 1816. Chose the selectmen a committee to hunt up all public lands and make report. Voted $20 premium on wolves' heads ; also, to sell the guns. 1819. At a special meeting at the south meet- ing-house, June 19, the " noes " had it.
Voted not to repair the bridge at Dolloff's fordway. Voted not to build a bridge over Saco river. Voted to reconsider the former vote. Voted not to build a bridge at Heaths falls. Voted not to build a bridge at Blackcat. Voted not to repair the South meeting house. Voted not to repair Blackcat and Swift river bridges. Voted to give the plank on the new bridge at Dolloffs fordway to Blackcat bridge. Voted this meeting be dissolved.
1820. Appointed a committee to appraise the value of a bridge across Saco river at Black-cat. Numerous suits and indictments against the town for the bad condition of the highways. 1821. Voted to purchase a set of weights and measures. Zara Cutler, Esq., chosen to defend the suits against the town. In favor of revision of the constitution, 77 votes, against, 16. 1822. Road from the south meeting-house to Fryeburg laid out. 1828. Voted to raise $500 towards building a bridge across Saco river, and apply one third of the highway money raised this year ($500) to this purpose. At a later meeting it was voted inexpedient to build this bridge, and to leave the money raised for the purpose in the hands of the selectmen. Later, at a meeting held to see if the town would reconsider this last vote concerning a bridge across the Saco at a place called Chautaugui, the article was "passed over." A still later meeting voted to build a bridge across Saco river at Shataugua.
1830. Zara Cutler, Esq., Nathan Whitaker, William Knox, Thomas Eastman, William Knapp chosen a committee to consider altering the South meeting-house into a town-house and meeting-house, estimate the expense, and consult with its proprietors concerning it. 1832. The town voted to raise $500 to purchase fifty shares in a toll-bridge to be built across the Saco near David L. Harriman's, and Gilbert McMillan chosen agent to purchase them. 1833. A town-house to be built, and the situation of the site left with the selectmen. The Democratie ticket for members of Congress receives 90 votes, the Whig ticket 23 votes. 1834. Nineteen votes cast for a revision of the constitution, one hundred eleven against. 1835. William Badger has one hundred eighteen votes for governor; Joseph Healy ninety-six. Swift River bridge receives attention all through the records. This year " voted to not rebuild Swift River Bridge. Voted to reconsider the Vote not to build Swift River Bridge. Voted to raise $300 to buy Timber for Swift River Bridge." A committee is chosen to locate the bridge. Joel Eastman is chosen agent to contest the indictment of the bridge and to defend suits against the town. The above committee report bridge should be built across Swift river where the old bridge was. 1836. The town voted against
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dividing Strafford county, ninety-six votes, for said division, twelve. Building of Swift River bridge left to the selectmen. In November the town gave 108 votes in opposition and 5 votes in favor of division of the county. 1837. Hon. Isaac Hill receives 119 votes for governor. A committee chosen to see if it be expedient for the town to establish a poor-farm. Chose Nathaniel Abbott agent of the town in the Pequawket Bridge Corporation (chartered 1828-31). 1838. Votes for governor this year stood : Isaac Hill 159, James Wilson 179. Again the division of the county is voted upon : 123 votes against dividing it into three parts; 102 votes against any division. 92 votes against revision of the constitution ; none in its favor. 1839. Vote close ; senator, councillor, and county officers vote stands 180 on one side, 179 on the other. $800 raised for town expenses, $1,500 for highways. Again voted against a division of the county in three parts. Voted to pass the article authorizing the town to purchase the Pequawket bridge. A committee of nine chosen to give their views on the probable expense of building a town- house, and where it should be built. Later the town votes to build one "near James Howard's." Vilruvius Hurd, Thomas and Joel Eastman appointed Building Committee.
1840. Annual meeting met at the town-house. Voted that the town-house be open for religious purposes. James Willey, Mark Broughton, Jacob Lewis chosen a committee to locate a site for a bridge across the Saco between Odell's and Heath's falls. The Whig ticket for electors of President receives 171 votes, the Democratic ticket, 170. 1841. Joel Eastman, agent of surplus fund, reports due, March 10, on outstanding notes, etc., $2,139.76; cash on hand, $12.36, from which sums have been paid upon town-house $1,239.34; this leaves after other legal deductions $156.34 to be divided among schools if the town see fit. Benjamin Bean and Vilruvius Hurd chosen grand jurors for the first session of the court of common pleas held in Carroll county ; William E. Chase and Jacob Lewis petit jurors for the same court. 1842. Henry Hubbard, Democrat, receives 177 votes for governor; Enos Stephens, Whig, 151; Daniel Hoit, Abolition, 1. (One person voted this last ticket for state and county officers, and this is the first that a vote is cast in Conway for abolition candidates. It would be a pleasure to be able to record the name of this brave man.) $1,500 raised for highways; $1,500 for town expenses. 109 votes (all cast) against a revision of the constitution. Voted to divide the surplus money of the town among the ratable polls. This amounted to $2,228.11. There are 413 tax-payers, of whom 67 paid taxes amounting to ten dollars each. The selectmen submit a report of their action in locating Swift river road and bridge and expense of building them, which amounted to $998.11. 1843. Four tickets for state officers : Henry Hubbard, Democratic Republican, has 146 votes for governor ; Anthony Colby, Whig, 120; John H. White, Democratic Republican, "2d," 20; Daniel Hoit, Liberty, 17 votes. This resolution was passed at the annual meeting : -
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Resolved that leave be granted by the Town of Conway, to those persons who may feel an interest in the subject. to put a stove into the Town House, upon their own expense, - provided that it shall be done in the manner directed by the selectmen of the Town.
The selectmen make report that they have received for the year 1842, $2,668.96 ; they have disbursed $2,489.83; this shows a good financial condi- tion of the town. 1844. The Liberty vote has increased to twenty-seven at the March meeting. October 15. At the fall election the tickets for electors of President headed by William Badger, Democrat, had 157 votes; that by Joseph Low, Whig, 154; that by Jesse Woodbury, Liberty, 6. Voted that capital punishment should not be abolished, and not to alter the constitution. 1845. The town at annual meeting instructed the selectmen to lease the clay- bank (originally reserved as the property of the town) for five years for the manufacture of brick. 1846. Adopted a by-law fining fast driving over the new bridge across the Saco, and selectmen to put up a sign to that effect on the bridge. Voted that the selectmen require every tax-payer to give in his inventory under oath. Conway and Eaton line established. 1847. Voted to raise $1,000 for town expenses ; $1,000 toward paying for bridges; $1,500 for highways ; also to borrow $2,355 towards paying the damages assessed by the road commissioners in laying out highways over the Pequawket bridge and the new bridge near the old fordway. 1848. Voted to license three persons to sell spirituous liquors, and the selectmen are instructed to prosecute all others who sell. The Democratic presidential ticket has 152 votes, the Whig 94, the Freesoil 19. 1849. Voted to grant no license to sell liquor, and to prosecute all who sell it for any purpose. Twenty school districts laid out in town. September 1. Voted to raise $1,904 to pay for rebuilding a bridge across Saco river at the old toll-bridge.
1850. Lines between Conway and Albany, and Conway and Chatham, perambulated. 1851. Raised $1,000 for town expenses; $1,300 to apply on liabilities ; $1,500 for highways. Richard K. Odell, Daniel Chase, Mark Brotton made a committee to "prosecute every person, male or female, who shall sell liquor in the town without license." A committee chosen to locate site and character of bridge over Swift river. 1852. Voted to raise $1,000 town expenses; $2,000 to pay on liabilities; to borrow $2,000 for building bridge across Swift river. The selectmen are instructed to sell all the land owned by the town except the site of the town-house. Democratic ticket for President has 126 votes, Whig ticket 69. 1854. Voted to purchase a town- farm, value not to exceed $2,000. 1856. Ralph Metcalf has 172 votes for governor, John S. Wells 160, Ichabod Goodwin 10. The ticket for electors of President headed by W. H. H. Bailey had 218 votes ; that by Daniel Marcy, 151. 1857. Voted to raise $1,200 for town expenses ; $2,500 to apply on town debts ; $1,500 for highways. The literary fund, as is the custom, divided among the school districts.
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1860. Voted to raise for schools $500 more than required ; to divide school money and literary funds one half equally among the districts, and one half according to the scholars. The Republican ticket for President has 206 votes, the Democratic 159. 1861. Raised $500 for town debts; $500 for town expenses ; $500 over the obligatory sum for schools; $2,000 for highways. Voted 61 to 3 in favor of revising the constitution. 1862. On purchasing a county-farm and building a jail, the vote stood : yes, 13; no, 81. 1863. For member of Congress Joel Eastman receives 190 votes, Daniel Marcy 221. 1864. The selectmen were instructed "to abandon entirely the practice of disposing of the poor to the lowest bidder for their support, and to procure such places for their support as in their judgment are suitable, and where they can be assured of good, wholesome, and comfortable support and kind treat- ment." Republican ticket for President receives 152 votes, the Democratic one 217. 1865. Voted to raise $5,000 to pay town expenses, interest on town notes, etc .; also $1,500 for highways in summer and $500 in winter, if needed. 1866. Voted to raise $2,600 to discharge town debts ; $5,000 to defray town expenses and pay interest on town notes; to authorize the selectmen to fund $10,000 of the town debt and issue town bonds ; empowered the selectmen to sell and convey the "parsonage and meeting-house lots." 1867. Authorized the selectmen to fund $5,000 of the town debt and to hire $10,000 to pay notes. One hundred and thirty-seven votes for, five against, subscribing five per cent. of the town's valuation ($21,600) to the stock of the Portland & Ogdensburgh railroad. The Republican national ticket receives 180 votes ; the Democratic, 190. 1869. Voted to raise $5,000 for town expenses ; $2,000 to pay first instalment of New Hampshire Savings Bank note; $4,000 for roads and bridges. Selectmen authorized to fund $5,000 by issuing town bonds ; also to renew the loan of $6,000 due the New Hampshire Savings Bank. Rebuild- ing of the covered bridges across the Saco and Swift rivers, swept away by freshets, referred to the selectmen.
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