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During the second year of the Revolutionary struggle, and while matters were far from certain as to how the issues of the war would result, the towns west of the river had called a convention which met at Windsor, and framed a constitution and declared themselves a new and sovereign state. The sixteen recusant towns in New Hamp- shire now petitioned the acting government in 1779, for permission to ally themselves to the new state of Vermont. This, of course, was refused them by the New Hampshire government, and from that time forward, for a period of three years, the strife grew hotter. Both New Hampshire and New York had disregarded the boundary es- tablished by the king in 1764; and it seemed at one time as if the disputed territory might be divided pretty evenly between the two states, thus preventing the newly formed state of Vermont from becoming a state after all. This caused Vermont to redouble its dil- igence in the matter of securing recognition as a sovereign state. The state of New Hampshire had renewed its claim to the towns west of the river in the call for the convention in 1779. The Ver- monters now pressed their claims westward into New York as well as eastward into New Hampshire. It was at this juncture of the con- troversy that Lancaster was drawn into it. The town shared the belief that the towns west of the river should go with those east of it as granted by Governor Wentworth, some seventy-five in all, and if the towns west of the river were to go to the formation of a new state Lancaster was willing to share their destiny with them. Besides, the government of New Hampshire had done little, almost nothing, to aid the towns in this Upper Coos country.
There were living, at the time, in the Connecticut River valley many people who had come from the state of Connecticut; and if the territory west of the river was to be divided they would much rather have seen a new state formed of the dissatisfied towns on both sides of the river under the name of New Connecticut. This feeling had some advocates in Lancaster, and when a convention to consider
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that question was called to meet at Dresden, then a part of Hanover belonging to Dartmouth college, Lancaster at once called a town- meeting to convene July 12, 1779, at the house of Jonas Wilder, who had only come to Lancaster the year before from Massachusetts, to elect a delegate to the Dresden convention. Major Jonas Wilder was chosen as the representative of the town to that convention. The meeting also declared itself on the question at dispute by the follow- ing vote : " Voted by all the legal voters of this town of Lancaster that it is their minds unanimously that the whole of the New Hamp- shire Grants on both sides of the Connecticut River hold all to- gether." What action that convention took, or whether it was con- founded with the one held at Cornish, in which thirty-four towns on the east side of the river were represented, we do not know as no records of either are known to have been made. It may be inferred, however, that nothing of importance was done as the movement to form the state of New Connecticut, with Dresden, the seat of Dart- mouth college, as its capital, disappeared from the drama of state- making.
Vermont, however, seems to have gone on with her government, and welcomed some towns on the east side of the river into her legis- lature. Haverhill and Lebanon were represented in the Vermont legislature, as was also Apthorp, while Lancaster which was classed with the latter town still continued to be represented in the New Hampshire legislature. A rupture between Vermont and the towns on the east side of the river took place when the latter requested to be erected into a separate county. The most that the Vermont legislature would do was to set them off as a probate district.
About this stage of the affair the legislature of New Hampshire brought the matter to the attention of congress, while Vermont made threats of allying herself with the British. While congress took notice of the matter there was some doubt as to the powers of the new congress but in the letter of General Washington, referred to above, to Governor Chittenden of Vermont, he frankly in- formed him that congress could, and under certain condition would use its power to coerce the state of Vermont into the recognition of New Hampshire's claims to the territory east of the river. That persuaded Vermont into a peaceable settlement of the dispute, and the towns on the east side of the river returned to full allegiance with the mother state, under whose fostering care some of them had been highly favored. This kept about 13,000 of New Hampshire's 85,000 of population in the state.
Through all this period of doubt and disturbance Lancaster never seceded from her state. She favored the formation of a new state within the valley of the great river that formed their first and, for a time, only highway to the lower country. It is not known whether
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anybody in Lancaster ever favored the dismemberment of New Hampshire for the promotion of Vermont or any other state west of the river. The fact that Lancaster took no action to get into the state of Vermont may be taken as an evidence that her intentions were patriotic and loyal; but if a new state was to be formed by including all the towns granted by Governor Wentworth in the Con- necticut valley they no doubt favored the project. What steps they would have taken to sever their ties with New Hampshire can only be idle speculation, as not a record exists to show their attitude on the question of such severance. Lancaster never took any farther action on the question after the Dresden convention. When Ver- mont demanded of congress that she be admitted into the Union in 1780, while her controversy with New Hampshire over the boundary question was pending, she went so far as to say that if admission was denied her then she would have to make the best possible arrange- ments with the British government, when she went, so that Lancaster could not have followed her. Lancaster had taken up arms against Great Britain, and had nothing to gain by laying them down. The town had its own Independent Company of Rangers, led by Major Benjamin Whitcomb, in the field, beside nearly all its available men outside of this company were either enlisted in other companies or else doing duty as scouts or as garrison for the three forts in Northumberland and Stratford. Lancaster was unalterably opposed to the British government, for at the time they had manifested a disposition to make use of the Indians against the frontier towns, in fact, this section had suffered no little alarm from Indian depreda- tions incited by the war. The people were loyal to the cause of American independence, and would not take any risk of losing what it had then begun to promise, by allying themselves with a state that threatened to carry them into the hands of their enemies.
CHAPTER XV.
SOME EARLY MARRIAGES AND DEATHS .- 1785-1850.
By Edwards Bucknam, J. P .:
Nathan Caswell to Lois Eames, Nov. 1, 1785.
William Johnson to Polly Stockwell, Nov. 13, 1786.
George Brown to Polly Bucknam, Sept. 3, 1789.
Nathaniel Lovewell to Charlotte Stockwell, Dec. 27, 1792.
John McIntire to Sally Stockwell, March 19, 1792.
Richard Claire Everett to Persis Wilder, Dec. 17, 1793.
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John Sanborn to Sally Crawford, of Guildhall, Vt., Nov. 12, 1795. Ezekiel Bruce to Hatabel Crosby, both of Southbury, Mass., April 30, 1787.
Jacob Emerson, of Lunenburg, Vt., to Polly Hartwell, April 19, 1797.
Daniel How, of Guildhall, Vt., to Eunice Bucknam, Sept. 7, 1788. Dr. Francis Wilson to Tempa Giddings, of Hartland, Conn., Dec., 1788.
Levi Lucas to Sally Smith, Nov. 27, 1800.
Marriages by Other fustices of the Peace and Clergymen :
Titus O. Brown to Susanna Bundy, Feb. 16, 1794.
Thomas Miner, of Littleton, N. H., to Abigail Page, March II, 1795.
Jonathan Springer to Eunice Wilder, Oct. 5, 1795.
Nathaniel Babb, of Guildhall, Vt., to Olive McIntire, March 2, 1796.
Jonathan Rosebrook to Polly Monroe, of Guildhall, Vt., July 17, 1796.
Sylvanus Chessman to Betsey Blodget, Nov. 17, 1796.
William Lovejoy to Polly Moor, of Northumberland, Dec. 29, 1796. John Brackett to Eunice Clark, of Lunenburg, Vt., April 26, 1797- Francis Cram to Polly Gustin, Feb. 13, 1797.
Levi Willard to Dorcas Farnham, June 1, 1797.
James Perkins to Lucy Wilder, Nov. 2, 1797.
Joseph Twombley to Dorcas Applebee, Dec. 28, 1797.
Hope Brown to Irena Rosebrook, Dec. 3.1, 1797.
Manasah Wilder to Nancy Springer, March 29, 1798.
Joshua Hopkinson, of Guildhall, Vt., to widow Polly Rosebrook, Sept. 1, 1799.
Artemas Wilder, Jr., to Catherine Sherbon, of Conway, Oct. 26, I799.
Uriel Rosebrook to Susan Fowle, of Guildhall, Vt., July 15, 1800. John Waldron, of Lunenburg, Vt., to Submit Taylor, Dec. 29, 1800 .. Azariah Webb to Eliza Weeks, Jan. 1, 1801.
Richard Eastman to Persis Faulkner, May 5, 1801.
Dr. Jedediah Chapman to Eunice Wilder, Oct. 28, 1801.
John Springer to Lydia Hartshorn, of Lunenburg, Vt., Feb. 8, 1801. Geo. Ingerson to Betsey Libbey Hawley, Feb. 26, 1801.
Aaron Hill, of Canada, to Hannah Hopkins, Sept. 27, 1801.
Elias Chapman to Polly White, March 18, 1802. Jack Page to Betsey Burgen, July 13, 1802.
Sylvester Faulkner to Polly Cram, Dec. 19, 1802. Ezra Otis to Dolly Farnham, Dec. 30, 1802.
Peter Fuller, of Dalton, to Betsey Hodgson, Feb. 23, 1803.
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David White to Nabby Chapman, Feb. 29, 1803. Henry Philbrook to Betsey Stiles, Aug. 11, 1803. Samuel Glover to Rachael Taylor, Aug. 19, 1804. Thomas Jenison, of Walpole, to Martha Moore, Jan. 31, 1805. Joseph Peabody, of Northumberland, to widow Hannah Farnham, March 1I, 1805.
James Twombley to Rebekah Twombley, March 14, 1805. Jonas Benman to Abigail Layton, Nov. 3, 1805. John W. Weeks to Martha Brackett, Nov. 17, 1805. Joseph Farnham to Mary Robertson, Dec. 25, 1806. Jonathan Cram to Katy C. Chapman, Aug. 9, 1807. Seth Eames, of Northumberland, to Peggy Moore, March 6, 1808. Francis Wilson to Betsey Moore, Oct. 27, 1808. Adino N. Brackett to Mary W. Weeks, Nov. 1, 1808.
Ephraim Stockwell to Sally Greenleaf, Nov. 20, 1809. James B. Weeks to Betsey Stanley, Jan. 1, 1810. Walter Philbrook to Nancy Brown, Jan. 4, 1810. Reuben Stephenson to Mary Baker, Feb. 25, 1810. Samuel White to Sally Freeman, April 2, 1810. Joseph Balch to Eliza LeGro, Jan. 31, 18II. Timothy Durgin, of Colebrook, to Maria Page, Jan. 19, 181I. Samuel Hartwell to Martha Thomas, March 31, 181I. Joseph Pearson, Jr. to Sophia Baker, Feb. 17, 181I. Reuben W. Freeman to Betsey Hartwell, March 25, 1812. John McIntire to Susanna Bucknam, Nov. 4, 1812. William Mitchell to Rebecca Martin, April 15, 1812. Moses Darby to Ruth Gotham, April 14, 1812. Warren Porter to Celinda Cram, Oct. 14, 1813. John Kilby to Tamson Wentworth, Nov. 1I, 1813. Moses Martin to Dorcas Holmes, Feb. 8, 1814. Abner Stone to Deborah Moulton, of Jefferson, June 19, 1814. Eben Lane to Sophia Chessman, May 15, 1814.
Benjamin Hunking to Drusilla S. Everett, May 16, 1814.
E. Andrew to Nancy Greenleaf, Nov. 23, 1814. Wm. Huggins to Comfort Moore, Jan. 30, 1814. John Huckins to Lucy Hemmenway, Dec. 1, 1814. Edward Spaulding to Sally Moore, Dec. 1, 1814. John Moore to Harmony Freeman, Jan. 30, 1815. Noah White, of Piermont, to Fanny Moore, Feb. 14, 1815. Moses T. Hunt to Martha Willard, April 30, 1815. Benj. Wentworth to Lucinda Hayes, Aug. 23, 1815. Edward Boardman to Sarah Brackett Weeks, Jan. 25, 1816. Samuel A. Pearson, Esq., to Sarah Ann Boardman, June 5, 1816. James Batchelder to Betsey Holmes, Nov. 14, 1816. John Dow to Polly Swan, June 6, 1816.
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Amos LeGro to Roxanna Daggett, June 9, 1816. Alpheas Hutchins to Eunice Greenleaf, Feb. 26, 1817. Hezekiah Smith to Sarah LeGro, June 26, 1817. Samuel LeGro to Fanny Marden, Oct. 16, 1817. John Currier, of Corinth, Vt., to Mary Moore, Oct. 20, 1817. Ephraim Cross, of Derby, Vt., to Lucy Messer, Dec. 30, 1817. Benj. C. Stephens to Sally Faulkner, April 2, 1818.
Lieut. Charles Baker to Margaret Notton, Nov. 29, 1818. Benj. Hayes to Eliza Twombley, Aug. 9, 1818. Benj. Stephenson to Mary Wilson, Oct. 24, 1819. Heber Blanchard to Fanny Leavens, Oct. 25, 1819. Wm. Curtis, of Medford, to Emily Johnson, Sept. 19. 1819. James Marden to Hannah LeGro, March 21, 1820. James Balch, of Lunenburg, to Nancy Moore, Nov. 30, 1820. Benj. D. Alexander, of Dalton, to Sally Brooks, Sept. 12, 1820. David Weed, of Whitefield, to Betsey -, April 27, 1820. William D. Spaulding to Debby F. Stephenson, Feb. II, 1821. Daniel Stebbins to Louisa Moore, March II, 1821.
Maj. John W. Weeks to Persis F. Everett, March 15, 1821. Shackford Wentworth to Hannah Smith, March 18, 1821. John W. Spaulding to Electa Stebbins, March 29, 1821. Greenleaf Philbrook to Lavinia Gotham, June 4, 1821. Abel Leavens to Sophronia Willard, Nov. 29, 1821. Wm. Bullard to Elmira Perkins, August 7, 1821.
Robert C. Shackford to Nancy Cutter -, June 20, 1821. Dudley Merrill to Eunice LeGro, Feb. 3, 1822. Asa Hood to Mary Putnam, July 1, 1822. Charles J. Stewart, Esq., to Eliza Austin, of Jefferson, July 4, 1822. George Darby to Eliza Farnham, April 17, 1822. Benj. Stanley to Harriet Page, June 30, 1822.
Jacob Batchelder, of Lyman, to Martha Holmes, June 2, 1823. Oliver Merrill to Sarah McIntire, Oct. 30, 1823. Wm. Moore to Eliza W. Spaulding, Jan. 29, 1823. John Willard to Sophronia Stebbins, April 10, 1823.
Francis Leavens to Abigail LeGro, June 12, 1823.
Samuel Banfield to Dorcas Twombley, April 29, 1823. William Farrar to Triphenia Burgin, Aug. 19, 1823. Willard - to Frances B. Wilson, March 18, 1824. Geo. Gamsby, of Thetford, to Olivia Hodgson, Dec. 23, 1824. John Hunt to Martha P. Moore, Jan. 2, 1826. William D. Spaulding to Sarah Ann Goss, -, 1826. Geo. Draper, of Brattleboro, to Lucy R. Barnard, Feb. 6, 1826. Charles Bellows to Elvira Wilson, June 29, 1826. Henry White to Ann Moore, Dec. 26, 1826.
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DEATHS OF PROMINENT PERSONS.
DEATHS OF PROMINENT PERSONS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO 1850.
We do not offer the following list of deaths as complete, the imperfect sources of information preventing. The names and dates here given are taken from various sources, and are reliable, though not as full as we should like to have had them.
May 11, 1800, Jonathan Hartwell.
July 31, 1801, Betsey, wife of Deacon Jonas Baker, aged 45.
Aug. 23, 1801, Joseph Farnham, Esq., aged 62.
March 15, 1802, Elizabeth, wife of Maj. Jonas Wilder, aged 67.
March 10, 1804, Eunice, wife of Jonathan Springer.
July 19, 1804, Widow Deborah Turner, aged 88.
July 15, 1806, Elijah Page, aged 21.
Aug. 19, 1809, Joseph Daggett, aged 38.
Feb. 5, 1808, Martha, wife of John W. Weeks.
July 25, 1808, the wife of David Greenleaf.
April 28, 1809, Nathaniel White, aged 57.
Feb. 4, 1810, Col. Jonas Wilder, aged 79.
18II-Francis Wilson, aged 49; Lieut. Jonathan Cram, Aug. 28, of small pox, aged -; Mary, wife of Stephen Wilson, aged 45 ; Asa W. Burnap, aged 45.
1813-John Wilson, aged 80; Lieut. Humphrey Cram, aged 41 ; Nicholas White, aged 54; Col. Stephen Wilson, aged 45; Lieut. Dennis Stanley, aged 26; Jonathan Cram, aged 28; Soloman Hemmenway, aged 64; Caleb W. Wilson, aged 55; Dea. Joseph Brackett, aged 73; John Haven, aged 78; John Moore, aged 62 ; Polly, wife of Col. Stephen Wilson, aged 45 ; Lieut. Dennis Stanley, aged 64; Gen. Edwards Bucknam, aged 72; Orasmus Page, son of Moses, aged 14, died in the army. Į814-Mary, wife of the late Jos. Brackett, aged 70.
1815-Hon. R. C. Everett, aged 51 ; William Bothwell, aged 66.
1817-Mrs. Ann Hazen, aged 83; Rachel, widow of Capt. David Page, aged 69.
1818-Capt. John Weeks, aged 69; Daniel Howe, aged 54.
1819-Ephraim Mahurin, aged 78; Emmons Stockwell, aged 79;
1820-Mrs. Ruth Adams, wife of Andrew Adams, aged 83.
1821-Elisha Wilder, aged 87; Mrs. Mehitabel Wilder, aged 87.
1822-Artemas Wilder, aged 48; Mrs. Elizabeth Hunnux, aged 63.
1825-Silas Chessman, aged 84.
1826-John Aspinwall, aged 26; Rev. Joseph Willard, aged 66.
1827-Ruth Stockwell, aged 81 ; Jonas Baker, aged 74; John Bur- ~ gin, aged 76.
1829-Thomas Peverly, aged 32 ; Joel Page, aged 58.
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1830-David Page, Jr., aged 85 ; David Greenleaf, aged 80; Will- iam Lovejoy, aged 58.
1832-Andrew Adams, aged 97; Benjamin Boardman, aged 66.
1835-Bryant Stephenson, aged 76.
1836-John Mason, aged 59; Mrs. Bryant Stephenson, aged -. 1837-Charles J. Stewart, aged 46.
1840-S. A. Pearson, aged 56; Benjamin Stanley, aged 42.
1841-Coffin Moore, aged 71.
1842-Jonathan Twombley, aged 81.
1843-Ashael Going, aged 72; John Wilder, aged 80; Maj. Joel Hemmenway, aged 62; Frederick Messer, aged 70; Thomas Hodgdon, aged 86; Joanna Hays, aged 81.
1845-Edward Spaulding, aged 79; Thomas Carlisle, aged 64.
1846-Josiah Bellows, 2d, aged 72; George W. Perkins, aged 68 ; Stephen Wilson, aged 81.
1847-Benjamin Adams, aged 66; Adino N. Brackett, aged 70; Manasah Wilder, aged 78.
1849-Asa Wesson, aged 54; Stephen Hartford, aged 64; Widow Lovejoy, aged 72.
1850-Dea. William Farrar, aged 69; John McIntire, aged 85 ; Joseph C. Cady, aged 46; Samuel Wentworth, aged 93.
CHAPTER XVI.
SOME EARLY PRIVATE ACCOUNTS WITH THE TOWN.
It will, no doubt, interest the reader to know something definite in regard to the early transactions of individuals with the town. Fortunately, among the private papers of Gen. Edwards Bucknam and " Governor" Page we have some of their accounts with the town from 1772 to 1792. These are not only curious, but they throw side lights upon the story of the development of the new community, and it is for this latter reason that we give them here. A new settlement must have one or more active men of a practical turn of mind to direct things. It happened that David Page and Edwards Bucknam possessed the requisite qualities for leadership. They both were born leaders and pioneers, and Bucknam was pos- sessed of an almost universal genius and able to do about anything that needed doing in such a new community, hence we find him connected with so many of the early transactions of the town. Page was the nominal head of the colony, which won him the hon- orary title of " Governor."
In the following accounts, kept by General Bucknam, we discover what valuable services he rendered the little community from its
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earliest days down to a time when, as we have seen elsewhere, the population was much increased and capable men were compara- tively plenty to what they were during the first thirty years of the settlement. General Bucknam had served the town, both under its proprietary and civil managements, as clerk for twenty years. He was on many of its most important committees, and often commis- sioned to perform valuable services for the people, and for that rea- son his accounts are of value and interest to the student of history. From these accounts it will be discovered that it was in the capacity of town clerk, collector, and agent of the town that he performed most of these transactions. Not infrequently, however, he per- formed some humble service in making roads, surveying the lines of the town lands, and making long journeys to perform some ser- vice for the proprietors of the town.
" The Proprietors of the Township of Lancaster to Edwards Bucknam, Dr.
" 1772, June, To 14 days work at 4 sh. £2:16:00.
". ", Nov. To 17 days work on roads at 4 sh. 3: 8:00.
1773, May, To 9 days work at 4 sh. per day I : 6:00 " ", June, To 8 days work at 4 sh. « 66 1 :12:00 1774, May, To 10} days work at 4 sh. 2: 6:00.
Paid Ezra Currier for work done sd road 1772-1773, 2: 13:00
Paid Moses Page for work on the road in 1772-1773, 3: 10:00.
Paid Emmons Stockwell for work on sd road 1772-1773, 4:12:00.
Paid David Page Esq. for work done in 1772, 1773, 1774, 15: 8:00.
Paid David Cross for work done on the road in 1772-1773, 6:15 : 6.
Paid William Marshall for work done on Marshall Bridge, and I have his receipts therefor
1 :00:00.
£49:12:00."
" To work done on the roads from the 23rd. of May 1775, to May, 1787.
£16:13:00. 1776, June 8, 2 Paid David Page Esq. for work on sd roads 21 :07:00.
to Sept. 25th. S
Paid Capt. David Page for work on roads 7:I: 3.
Paid Lt. Emmons Stockwell for work on roads 5:13:00.
and have his receipts 13: 6: 2.
Paid Col. Jonas Wilder for work on roads
7: 8: 5.
71 : 9: 5.
Brought forward
49: 12:00. .
Carried forward
. £121 : 1 : 5.
1778, Paid David Page Esq. Eighty-four Pounds which was four dollars on each right voted to him for building mill
£86: 8: 0.
To David Page Esq. said thirty Pounds voted to him to
£30 : 0: 0.
re-build the mills after being burnt
To Jacob Treadwell Paid fifteen Pounds voted by the ?
Proprietors as their proportion to cutt & open the . £15 : 0 : 0.
Road to the Eastward of the White Hills 131 : 8: 0. .
Brought forward
121: 1 : 5.
£252: 9: 5."
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" 1774, To collecting one assesment of seven dollars on each right for 72 Rights £5: 8: 0. .
To one assesment of £30 voted to David Page Esq. 5 : 8 0. To one assesment of £15 to cutt Marshall road at 4 sh. 3d. per right, collected 5 : 8: 0. . To one assesment of two dollars on each right for roads 5: 8:00. To one assesment of two dollars on each right for roads 5: 8: 0. To one assesment of two dollars a Right for lotting 5 : 8: 0. · To one assesment of three dollars a Right for lotting out said town 5 : 8: 0.
£37:16: 0.
Brought forward
252 : 9: 5.
Carried forward
£290: 5: 5."
" 1767. The Proprietors of the Township of Lancaster to Edwards Bucknam, Dr.
March Ioth. To attending their meeting at the house of David Page, Esq. as their clerk at 6 sh. .
£o: 6: 0. To I day myself attending their meeting of Mar. 12 by adjournment, as clerk o : 6: 0. Oct. 23rd, 1772, To myself going from Hampton to Portsmouth to advertise a Proprietors' meeting, 35 miles, three days myself & horse & expenses I : 4: 0.
To paying of the Printer for printing ye Warrants 0:18: 0. 1773 ye ? To myself one day attending the Proprietors' meeting as June 8 S clerk 0: 6: 0.
I773 To myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk o: 6: 0. August 26
£3: 6: o.
I774
March To one day attending their meeting
o: 6: 0.
May. To I Day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk
o: 6: 0.
June. To I Day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk
o: 6: 0. Aug. Ioth. To I Day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk o: 6: 0. 1775 To I day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk . o : 6: 0.
May. 1780 To I day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk Apl. 4th. o: 6: 0. 1783 To I day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk
Oct. 14th.
0 : 6: 0. 1785 To I day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk . 0 : 6 0.
Feb. 25th.
Aug. 18th. To I day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk · 0: 6: 0. I786 To I day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk 0 : 6: 0.
May 9th.
June 20th. To ¿ day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk : 3: 0.
Nov. 20. To & day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk
0:3: 0.
1787 To 3 day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk 0:3 0.
May 15th. Dec. 25th. To ¿ day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk : 3: 0.
1788 Jan Ist. S
To ¿ day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk
0 : 3: 0.
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SOME EARLY PRIVATE ACCOUNTS WITH THE TOWN.
June. To 3 day myself attending Propr. meeting as clerk . 1780. 2 To myself & horse three days going from Hampstead to .
£º: 3: 0. Feb. S Exeter & to Col. Thornton to git him to call a Propr. meeting for the Proprs. of Lancaster & my expenses to paying Col. Thornton o: 6: 6. . 1780 To one Bound Book to Recording the Proprs. Proceedings 0 :10 : 0.
Feb.
Brot Forward in Silver £300 : 7: 5."
'. July 2d. 1790. Settled the above acct: and Due to the Pro- prietors of Lancaster from Edwards Bucknam Esq. as Collector Eighteen Pounds, Sixteen Shillings and four pence-half-penny.
Jonas Wilder Committee of the Emmons Stockwell Proprietors of John Weeks Lancaster."
On the above settlement the following receipt, in the handwriting of Capt. John Weeks, was given Bucknam :
" Lancaster July 2nd. 1790,
" Received of Edwards Bucknam Esqr. Three hundred and Ninety pounds, twelve shillings in full of all Demand against him and against the late David Page Esqr : deceased as Collectors of Taxes for the Township of Lancaster Excepting Eighteen pounds, Sixteen shillings and four pence-half-penny which sum the said Bucknam is now Indebted to the Proprietors of said Lancaster as Collector for said Proprietors.
Jonas Wilder Committee of the Emmons Stockwell Proprietors of John Weeks Lancaster."
" 1790 The Proprietors of the Township of Lancaster to Ed- July 9th. S wards Bucknam, Dr.
To 5 days myself serveying in running the Town plot Planing the same into 74 lots & assertaining the quantity of undivided Land in said Town at 12 sh. per day £3: 0: 0.
To 3 men I day with me at 5 sh. 6 d. per day 0:16: 6.
To myself 3 days surveying at 12 sh. 1 :16: 0.
To myself 6 days at surveying at 12 sh.
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