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Whereas the Town of Lebanon Did on the seventeenth Day of May 1792 vote to Erect a Meeting-house near the western part of the plain on which Robert Colburn lives in s'd Lebanon, And whereas David Hough Constant Storrs, Robert Colburn, Stephen Billings, Nathl Hall and Clap Sumner are A committee appointed for that Purpose and whereas the said Comtee have undertaken to lay out money or certicutes that may be subscribed towards Erecting said house the Subscribers in Consid- eration of said undertaking do Each one promise the said Comtee to pay them the sum or sums Set against our Respective names in the Articules specified at or before the 25 day of Dec next in witness of our hands
Lebanon 21st May A. D. 1792 the above is a coppy
Stephen Billings s'd Comtee & Clerk
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HISTORY OF LEBANON.
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Floor Plan of the Meeting House on the Common, now the Town Hall.
A debit and credit account was opened with each one of the subscribers and others, of which a few examples are added show- ing the condition of things in those days :
Aaron Hutchinson Cattle or Grain
£ 15
To A Pew on the floor of the house No 21 17 10
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THE OLD MEETING HOUSE ON THE COMMON. PRESENT TOWN HOUSE.
Photographed from a Painting.
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S. đ. Money
By two cows By a note of hand against Joel Tilden Samuel Estabrooks in stock or grain
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20 Decr 1793 by one half A. Pew on the floor No 10 Contra Cridet By an order from Thos Hough
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By one yearling Hiffer
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By a Pr of two years old stears
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Nathaniel Storrs Subscription
10
18s
19 Dec 1793 by one half of A Pew on the floor No 32 20
To his Pew in the Gallery No 13
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By one Hogshead & 1/3 of Lyme at 45/
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by an order from Thomas Hough
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by flax & flax-seed & Cash
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It will be seen that the amount of cash in the subscriptions was small, £17, 13s. The remainder was paid in various articles and ways-in produce from the farm, in lumber and labor. A few of the articles turned in were the following: "A yearling Hiffer," a "pair of two year old stears," "Belfry Job," "3 creatars," "1 Gal rum" by three different persons; seven and one half gallons by one person. These, to us, are novel contri- butions to a meeting-house, but they gave what they had.
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After the house was enclosed and the pew ground laid out the committee proceeded to sell the pews according to the fol- lowing advertisement :
Advertisement
Lebanon 10th January 1793 to be sold at Public Vendue to the highest Bidder or Bidders the Pews in the New Meeting house at Lieut Robert Colburns Dwellinghouse in Lebanon on thirsday the thirty first day of Jany instant at nine o'clock in the forenoon. One fourth part of the pay to be made this Winter, and the remainder Next Christmas in wheat at five Shillings pr Bush or Neat Stock equivalent
By order of the Comtt
Stephen Billing Comtte Clerk
N. B. if the Stock is paid in the Last Payment it must be by the first of Octr next
Lebanon Jan. 31st A. D. 1793 the Vendue was opened agreeable to the above advertisement and the Nos pew was sold to the following Per- sons (viz)
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No 7 to Jesse Cook at ...
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No 31 to Simeon Peck.
32
No 8 to Sherekiah Ballard.
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No 4 to Simeon Peck ...
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No 32 to Nathaniel Storrs ..
40
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No 42 to Lieut. Samuel Lathrop ..
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No 1 to Capt. Daniel Phelps
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No 28 to Lieut Robert Colburn ..
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No. 25 to Jesse Cook ..
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No 10 to Lieut Sam! Estabrook ..
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No 2 to Dean Zacheus Downer.
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No 29 to Clap Sumner ..
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No 9 to Stephen Billing.
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No 11 to Dean Zacheus Downer ..
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No 30 to Richard Corning.
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No 41 to Daniel Hough.
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Jan. 31st 1793 this Vendue is adjourned to the twenty fifth of Feby 1793 Stephen Billing Comte Clerk
Feb. 25 1793 Met according to adjournment and opened the Vendue and proceeded to sell and accordingly we sold the following Pews to the following person (viz) Attest. Stephen Billing Clerk
No 18 to Cady Allen.
13
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No 17 to Beriah Abbott
18
No 40 to Oliver Ellis.
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Fifteenth of March 1793 met ac- cording to adjournment opened the vendue and sold the follow- ing Pews to the following per- sons (viz)
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No 43 to John Colburn Sr.
32
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No 22 to Joel Tilden.
No 44 to Richard Lyman,
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No 34 to Capt David Hough
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No 33 to Lieut Robert Colburn
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No 24 to Lemuel Davenport ..
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No 23 to Moses Persons ..
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No 19 to Capt Shuman Lathrop .. No 47 to Richard Aldrich ..
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No 20 to Capt. Asher Alden
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No 46 to Capt Joseph Wood.
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No 37 to Jacob Ela ..
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No 35 to Abijah Chandler ..
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No 45 to Jonathan Quimby.
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No 5 to Capt Constant Storrs
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No 48 to Jonathan Bosworth of Enfield
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No 27 to John Baswell ... 14
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No 15 to Phineas Allen.
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No 14 to Coll Elisha Payne
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No 6 to Asa Woodward.
No 36 to Capt. Josiah Cleaveland ..
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No 3 to Capt Arad Simons.
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No 21 to Aaron Hutchinson Esq .... 25 Feb. 1793 this Vendue is ad- journed until the fifteenth day of March next
15 March 1793 This Vendue was adjourned from time to time &c and the remainder part of the pews was sold
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16 .. No 12 to Simeon Peck.
No 16 to Zenas Alden ..
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Sold the Town Nos 26, 38, 39.
The following are the Pews set to the several Persons as sold in the
Gallery of the house. Attest Stephen Billing
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No 16 to Capt Daniel Phelps.
16
No 20 to Abial Wills.
10
No 15 to Urial Huntington.
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No 21 to John Colburn Jr ...
8
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No 14 to Capt Sluman Lathrop
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No 4 to Capt Joseph Wood Jr. 13 15
No 5 to Capt. Constant Storrs.
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No 3 to Daniel Alden ...
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No 17 to Capt Constant Storrs
16
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No 2 to Witherell Hough.
12
No 13 to Nath! Storrs.
14
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No 1 to Noah Powers ..
15
10
No 18 to Capt David Hough.
14
10
No 11 to Rev. Isaiah Potter.
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No 27 to Jesse Cook.
13
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No 8 to Daniel Stickney of En- field ..
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No 12 to Thomas Hough
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No 7 to Lieut Sam! Estabrooks ..
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No 30 to William Corning
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No 26 to Jesse Cook ..
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No 29 to David Whitmore
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No 24 one half to Beniah Abbott. 4
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No 28 to John Porter.
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No 22 to the town.
The net sum realized from the sale of the pews seems to have been £1449, 19s., 7d., which was more than enough to cover the expense of building. Accordingly the amount of each man's subscription was refunded to him, for which he gave a receipt as follows :
Lebanon 30th Dec 1794
Rec'd of the Comte for erecting the New Meeting house in Lebanon five pounds twelve shillings being in full for my subscription, and I promise said Comtee to repay a part back if wanted to compleat sd house in a maner agreeable to the vote of s'd town Respecting subscrip- tions for said house
By me Diarca Allen.
The way in which this repayment was managed seems to have been this: When a subscriber bought a pew he was credited the amount of his subscription on the price of the pew, paying the balance. Thus Diarca Allen's subscription was five pounds and twelve shillings. He bought one half of No. 15 on the floor at : £10, 5s., which, less the amount of his subscription, would leave £4, 13s., as the amount to be paid for the pew.
The house thus built was originally fifty feet front and sixty feet rear. It was moved from its original position in 1868, en- larged and remodelled and is now occupied as a town hall.
In February, 1895, the historian became the fortunate pos- sessor of a little volume, "Early Lebanon." The Lebanon is in Connecticut. In this book there is a chapter, "The Meeting House War," the substance of which is here given :
When the settlement of Lebanon began, 1697, a broad avenue, thirty rods wide, was laid out and upon each side home-lots of forty-two acres were staked out. About midway of this broad
No 19 to Lemuel Hough.
13
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avenue a place was selected for a meeting-house, "fixed and es- tablished forever," to prevent any future controversies as the town became more populous.
In 1700 two of the settlers bought a large tract of land north of the town, which they desired to have annexed to Lebanon. To this the proprietors of Lebanon objected, having, it seems, a pro- phetic discernment of a meeting-house controversy. The pur- chasers of the new tract answered that their land was large enough for a society of its own, and that they would reserve thereon a location for a meeting-house, and that the first should never be in any way disturbed. Upon this condition the annexa- tion took place.
In 1724 the society voted to build a new and larger meeting- house on the old location, but so much opposition developed that nothing was done. In 1724 the society of Goshen was set off from the southwesterly part of the town, resulting in this: that the first house was no longer in the geographical center of the town, putting a new argument in the mouths of those desiring a change of place. Appeal was made to the General Assembly, which in 1731 appointed a committee to visit the place and de- termine the matter. After hearing the parties the committee fixed upon the original location, that being the agreement of the first settlers that it should remain forever on that spot.
The fires burned higher and hotter. The reply was that the original agreement was only a vote and, therefore, repealable; that if originally binding, the bonds were broken, because one of the parties had gone out-the Goshen society-and they pro- - tested more fiercely than ever against being compelled to pay their full share of the expense of the new building, whose loca- tion was so inconvenient for them, and that they were expecting soon to form a new society and build a house for themselves.
Upon their application another meeting was called and held in 1732, when it was voted that within eighteen years thereafter, but not before six years, there should be set off a new society in the northern part by a dividing line agreed upon and de- scribed in the vote; that until the new society should be so set off the northern settlers should continue to pay their share to- wards the building and keeping in repair a meeting-house on the old site; that a separate account of all the moneys so paid
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by the people north of the line described should be kept, and that when the new society was formed, and had built a meeting- house of their own, all the money so paid by them should be re- funded to them by the old society, to be applied toward the building of their own meeting-house; and that application should be made to the General Assembly for an act ratifying and con- firming this agreement. The application was made and the Gen- eral Assembly sanctioned, ratified and confirmed it.
Certainly an eminently fair bargain, which restored peace to the contending parties. The new meeting-house was built by the parties in common, and the cost to the northern settlers was carefully kept, and all was quiet until 1767, a period of thirty years. The eighteen years passed away without any movement to build among the northern people.
By this time repairs were needed upon the central house, and the question arose who should pay for them. The first society voted that if the northern people should within a reasonable time procure an act of incorporation, then the old society would pay back the sums paid by the others.
Still nothing was done by either party. The question was raised whether, since the eighteen years fixed and sanctioned by the General Assembly had long ago expired, the first society were bound by their new vote, and whether it might not be repealed at any future meeting. This was a matter of many discussions, until 1772, when at the request of the northern people, a society meeting was called, at which it was voted, by a majority of two, to take down the central house and build farther north, at the then center of population. But this would remove the house to the great inconvenience of the southern part of the town. They remonstrated and petitioned the General Assembly for their further interposition in the affair. The assembly at its October session, 1772, appointed a committee to examine the matter and report to the assembly in May, 1773. That report was in sub- stance as follows: That there was an ancient agreement that the meeting-house should stand upon Meeting-House Hill, its first site; that this agreement was made for good reasons, and ought to be held sacred and inviolable; that it was then ex- pected that the northern people would have a society of their own, and a dividing line was agreed upon and provisions were
CLEMENT HOUGH.
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made to reimburse them for whatever sums they might pay to the ancient society, and that the building should remain in its first location, and that the new society, when it should build, should have the money contributed by them refunded.
The General Assembly approved the report, fixed the location on the spot it had always occupied, ordered that it should be kept in repair by the whole society, and that if the northern people should form a new society within five years then all the money they had paid in should be returned to them.
Then it was said that the assembly had neither ratified nor disallowed the votes of the old society, and they did not know whether those votes were legally binding or not. The northern people, not feeling able to build without the certain return of the advancements which they had made to the first society, took no steps to form a society.
For a time something like harmony prevailed between the fac- tions, but it was the calm before the cyclone.
By 1802 the meeting-house again needed repairs, and at a meeting called to consider the subject, a vote was passed by a majority present, refusing to repair it. Some of the southern people again appealed to the General Assembly, reciting the facts and asking relief. After a hearing the assembly authorized and empowered the inhabitants south of the proposed dividing line for a new society, to tax themselves for repairs, to call meetings, choose certain officers, to lay and collect taxes for such purpose, and to make future repairs, exempting all the inhabitants north of the line from any liability for such taxes or repairs, but saying nothing of the legal rights, privileges or franchises which the northern people held in common with the whole society.
Under this instruction of the assembly, the southern voters met, taxed themselves, raised about $600, appointed a committee which expended the sum in repairs.
But this did not give peace. At a meeting of the whole so- ciety, March 27, 1804, it was voted by a large majority, upon a proposition made by Daniel Tilden, Israel Loomis, John Davey, Samuel Bailey, and John Hayward, that the society would relin- quish all its right and interest in the meeting-house and consent that the materials thereof should be used in the construction of a new one, upon conditions, that the said Tilden and others, as
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a committee, would give sufficient bonds that they would build a good commodious meeting-house for the use of the society at or near the then center of the whole society (about one mile north- erly) within one year from the first day of April next at their own sole expense, and give full title thereof to the society with- out any cost, and that the people living north of said center would fund their proposition for the support of the ministry forever.
The committee accepted the conditions of the above note, ex- ecuted a bond in the penal sum of $10,000. The bond was ac- cepted by the society and deposited with the clerk, and the whole matter seemed to be settled.
Twenty days afterward the contractors, with their workmen, peaceably began to take down the old building to obtain materials for the construction of the new. But when the people saw their familiar house of worship in which they and their fathers and mothers had met for a century to offer their prayers and praises, to receive consolation in their bereavements and trials; when they saw this building around which so many associations clus- tered, in the process of destruction, their hearts burned within; they could not endure the sight, and their indignation at what seemed to them as sacrilege threatened violence. Writs were sought and obtained and several of the workmen were arrested. The work of destruction was suspended. Soon other writs were obtained, protecting the contractors and workmen and the house was leveled to the ground. But bitterness filled the hearts of the contending parties. Men of the highest standing were ar- rested and without bail. Among these was Hon. William Wil- liams, a signer of the immortal Declaration of Independence, a man venerable by age and honored for his distinguished services throughout the land, and at that very time himself a judge of the County Court. He feels the touch of the town constable upon his shoulder, and is marched off a mile away and placed under a keeper, submitting quietly to the indignity. The only ray of light visible in this unseemly strife is the loyalty of the people on both sides to the forms of the law.
The house, so beloved by one party, whose distinguished ma- terials were so coveted by the other party, lay upon the ground, now a new cause of contention. The southern people were de-
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termined they should not be removed; the northern people were determined to have them. The contractors thought of the heavy bond resting upon them. Open violence was threatened, which the local authorities were powerless to suppress, for they differed among themselves.
But wiser counsels prevailed. Leading men on both sides ad- vised that resort be had to the higher courts. Suits in trespass were brought by the southern people against Daniel Tilden and the others of his committee for damages in demolishing the meeting-house, and the people quietly awaited the action of the court. At the trial many issues were raised, but the issue turned mainly upon the question whether the ancient agreement that the first place selected for the locating of the house "to be fixed and established forever" was still valid. The court affirmed that it was. On a further hearing upon the question of damages, the case went against the contractors for removal of the old church.
Of course a bill of exceptions was filed and the case went to the Superme Court of Errors. The whole case was gone over from the beginning, and the court affirmed the decision of the court below, and so ended the long controversy of one hundred years, involving the comfort and wishes of three generations. All parties gracefully submitted to the judgment of the court. A new meeting-house was built upon the first location, and in due time the northern people built a house of their own.
Now, most of the early settlers of this town came from the very scene of this "Meeting-house War," or its vicinity and were, therefore, thoroughly qualified to carry on a dispute about the location of a meeting-house in a different locality. The pro- clivity must have been inherited, fed in their childhood by con- stant hearing and interminable discussions, participated in as soon as they were made freemen. They knew the value of all manner of obstructions; how to vote and how to get votes re- pealed and annulled. They knew what things to let alone-excel- lent knowledge in all quarrels-hence they would have nothing to do with writs and counter writs, nor with appeals to the Gen- eral Assembly, which, as is often the case, left their affairs worse confounded than before. Lebanon, Conn., is justly proud of the multitude of eminent men born on its soil. It was the home of the distinguished Trumbull family, the pastorate of President
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Wheelock, the founder of Dartmouth College, the birthplace of Jeremiah Mason, one of the profoundest lawyers of the country, and of a host of others, yet the fathers of our own Lebanon in their wilderness home devised and executed a measure beyond the genius of all these great men of the old town. For not one of them thought of finding where the meeting-house ought to stand by measuring the land and soul travel and finding thus the equity of the whole matter.
The following transaction, common enough in those times, is found, happily, but once on our records :
Nov 27 1789 Voted to set up the maintenance of Mr. Patrick and his wife for the term of one year to the lowest bidder and that the mod- erator [Lemuel Hough] be Vendue Master, for sd purpose-to set up and make sale of said persons' maintenance-being bid off at twenty- nine pounds by James Fuller in behalf of Lemuel Hough aforesaid
Very justly they seem to see the unseemliness of such a spec- tacle and immediately vote to build a workhouse or houses for the use of the poor, thirty-six feet by eighteen; that the select- men be directed to pitch upon a spot to set said house upon and agree with some person or persons to build said house on the best terms they can.
At a meeting held June 22, 1789, to choose a representative to the Congress of the United States of America, Elisha Payne, Esq., had fifty-three votes, Benj. Bellows, Esq., and Simeon Olcott, Esq., one each.
March 1790 For President of the state John Pickering Federalist had 63 votes and Benj. Bellows 18
For State Senator Jonathan Freeman had 79 votes Edmund Freeman and Aaron Hutchinson one each.
Elisha Payne Esq was chosen representative
March 25 1790. Where as it is found detrimental to the increasing of that necessary and useful animal of sheep for the Rams to run at large in the fall of the year therefore to prevent the same
Be it enacted by the Inhabitants of the town of Lebanon in Town meeting assembled that no Sheep Ram shall be suffered to go at large out of the owners enclosure from and after the first day of September annually to the twentieth day of November; and if any ram shall be found going at large as aforesaid the owner thereof shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings Lawful money, the one half to the treas- urer of said Town for the use of the poor of s'd town, and the other moity to the person who shall sue for and prosecute the same to effect, together in the cost of suit.
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