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HIGHWAY TAX FOR 180I. Nathaniel, Maxfield's List.
Nathaniel Maxfield . . $4.15
David Smith $2.72
John Clark
2.50
Benjamin Smith 1.02
Abner Clough . 9,58
Samuel Piper 6.02
Samuel Hill . 6.27
John Sanborn . 2.00
Jamas Chase 4.57
Jedediah Danforth 1.68
Joshua Wells 2.50
Stephen Maxfield 1.50
Noah Wiggins. 4.37
Nat. Wiggina 1.37
1 16
4 17 7
..
" John Drew
3 9 0
# John Sanborn
2 5 0
" Joseph Smith
2 17 3
0 9 2
3 0
" John Sanhorn
.6 " Jonathan Smith 44
$12.95
" David Eastman
3.00
485
LOUDON.
Stephen Cate's List.
Stephen Cate .
. $4.49
Samuel Cate, Jr. . $3.96
Jonathan Lougee 2.97
Abigail Sleeper
4.22
Josiah Watson
2.55
Nat. Smith 3.94
Ezekiel Clough 2.18
Mathias Hainea 2.83
Libbey Bochelder's List.
Libbey Bachelder
.$2.41
John Lovering $ .75
William Bachelder 2.82
Timothy Gleason 2.86
Abram Bachelder 4.39
Joseph Kenniaton 1.90
Zebulen Lovering
.79
Jonathan Davis 2.01
Mosea Lovering 5.83
Leavitt Clough . 1.87
Abraham Holden .93
William Clifford . .75
David Eastman's List.
David Eastman
. $4.19
Richard Patten. . $1.37
Daniel True
3.49
Joahua Berry
4.08
Edmund Tenney
1.93
Josiah Glines 2.72
Taylor Lovering 2.63
Thomas Stevena 1.26
David Stevens 1.38
Chandler Glines 1.02
Jacob Merick's List.
Jacob Merick.
$1.80
Moses Morse $1.34
Thomas Bachelder 1.29
Jonathan Morse .75
Philip Brown
1.53
Josea Ord way 4.89
Joseph Baker
1.51
Samnel Ayer .
3.17
Joseph Dearborn
5.93
Samuel Wales 1.96
James Palmer 1.30
John Kenney 2,39
Lieutenant Jonathan Clough's List.
Jonathan Clough
$8.20
Thomas Emery . $4.87
Daniel Ordway
5.51
Stephen Clark
1.43
Lemnel Ordway .75
Nathaniel Emery 4.26
Daniel Ordway, Jr.
1.96
Davia Bachelder 2.85
Amos Currier 2.69
Elijah Moulton
1.53
Nathan Clough
4.93
Levi French, Jr 2.4G
Jeremiah Bennett 2.89
John Emery .
.75
Thomas Moore's List.
Thomas Moore
$5.17
Willabee Lovering
. $2.37
William Wheeler
3.33
Moses Lovering 2.32
Noah Sinclair
1.41
Oagood Lovering 2.68
Joseph Palmer
1.96
John Fletcher 2.65
George Peverly
2.96
Joshua Fletcher 3.18
Jesse Lovering 2.47
Samuel Neal 2.31
Isaiah Horvey's List.
Isaiah Harvey
$3.62
Samnel Currier . $4.70
Moses Rowell
4.68
Bart Winalow 4.37
Joseph Blaisdell
2.22
Jacob Bachelder 2.73
Oliver Blaisdell, Jr .75
Samuel Currier, Jr. .92
Joseph Olough's List.
Joseph Clough
$5.50
1 Joshna Sargent $1.13
Moses Ordway, Jr. 7.35
John Sanborn 2.00
Moaes Ord way (3d) 1.16
David Bachelder .75
Jethro Bachelder
5.45
Willard Fifield 3.96
Jonathan Brown 1.54
John Hoit 9,60
Theophilus Sanborn's List.
Theophilus Sanborn . $4.19
William Gibson $2.97
Oliver Morrill .
1,94
John Philbrick
1.08
Josiah Bachelder 3.25
Chase Osgood
3.45
Jeremiah Brown
2,80
Samuel Osgood 3,40
~~ Jesse Sanborn . 2.57
Thomas Sargent 1.78
Jonathan Rowell 2.44
Captain Thomas Sargent . . 5.09
Enoch Rowell .
1.82
Charles Sargent, Jr 1.96
Stephen Perkina
11.91
Daniel Tilton 2.64
Jonathan Gove 2.69
Captain John Sanborn's List.
John Sanborn
. $14.83
Stephen Jacobs . $1.6:1
Samnel Drew
.93
Stephen Pickering 1.35
Abraham Bachelder, Esq. .
1.26
James Palmer 2.01
Thomas Bachelder
2.51
Samuel Haines . 1.22
Abel Bachelder 1.22
Samnel Jacobs .93
Samuel French's List.
Samuel French
$10.02
James Thompson . $2.22
Samuel French, Jr
1.41
John Mathes 4.46
John L. French
3.61
Ebenezer Lowell 4.75
John Drew
9.40
Joseph Drew
.75
Jacob Osborn. .
. $5.87
Benjamin Kelley $3.85
Elijah Oaborn . 1.33
Mathias Haines. 1.82
Jacob Osborn, Jr. .75
Moses Rollina 4.11
Elliott Carr 5.71
Samuel Rollins .83
John Carr
1.49
Nat. Wells .
.33
Moses Caverly's List.
Moses Caverly . . $3.10
Jonathan Chase $8.92
Dimond Furnald .. 4.19
Levi Chase . . 1.13
Nathan Bachelder, Esq . 1.98
Abner Clough 6.96
Ebenezer Bachelder .89
Archelaus Moore's List.
Archelaus Moore $3.64
Moses Flanders . $4.73
John Moore
8.29
Daniel Lowell 3.04
Elkins Moore
3.21
Moaea Stevens 3.92
Nathaniel Hill
3.80
Caleb Sleeper 3.31
John Hill .
2,34
Benjamin Shaw, Jr. 1.27
Richard Bachelder 3.27
John Stevens. 3,52
Josiah Bachelder 77
Samuel Bagley 1.30
Cornelius Buswell 1.12
Gould Dimond . 01
William Buswell . 1,53
Phineas Bachelder 4.74
Enoch Wood's List.
Enoch Wood
$10.46
William Tenney $3.07
John Ladd . 2.34
John Sargent .
3.81
Abraham Bachelder, Jr. . . 1.12
John Sargent, Jr
1,31
Jonathan Bachelder 1.12
Isaac Sargent
1,69
Jeremiah Clifford . 1.12
Jonathan Smith
10.13
Thomas Proctor . 6.61
Eliaha Buswell
2.74
Samuel Carter 3.74
William Tilton 5.24
Nathan Tilton 4.03
Eliphlet Wood 5.73
Abel French
4.02
Isaac Smith . .75
Jonathan Smith, Jr.
2.72
Elisha Sweatt .75
Timothy French 6.75
John Rollins, Jr. 5,30
Charles Sargent 4.62
2.02
Stephen Wells .
6.55
Daniel Lane.
2.40
Eliphalet Rollins 3.48
John Oagood.
4.81
Jonathan Rollins 2.90
Abraham Bachelder 5.74
Moses Morrill
4.09
Zebulon Winslow 1.12
John Morrill.
1.73
True Palmer 1.16
Daniel Ladd Estate 5.71
1802 .- Samuel Piper, John Kenney and Eliphlet Wood, selectmen; Samuel Neall, collector of taxes. Paid John Ladd for rum at Bennett Bridge, $1.62} ; collector's services, $15.50.
1803 .- Charles Sargent, Moses Chamberlin and John Ladd, selectmen ; Jonathan Rollins, collector. Amount of money raised, $878.78. The town at this time became involved in several lawsuits in attempt- ing to collect the tax raised in previous years for the minister's salary, the last one being assessed in 1801, when the law was repealed. Paid this year for carry- ing on lawsuit, $92. Paid selectmen for services, $42.80. Paid Jonathan Rollins for service in collect- ing tax, $16. Paid for two quires of paper, forty-six cents. Paid for a chest for use of the town, $2.50.
1804 .- The same selectmen were choseu, with Thomas Sargent for collector. Amount of money raised, $1229.40. Paid for carrying on lawsuits with Smith, Bachelder and Sleeper, 892.40. The bill for collecting taxes was $26. Selectmen's services,- Charles Sargent, $17.20; John Ladd, $23.33; Captain Chamberlin, $16.45. Money in the town chest, $35.20. Received on Isaac Smith's execution, after paying Esquire Piper's bill, $23.60.
Thomas Sweatt 5.34
John Carter
Joshua French 2.44
Nat. Weeka 1,69
William W. Berry
Jonathan Perkins. 4.17
Jacob Osborn's List.
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1805 .- Stephen Wells, Samuel French, Jr., and David Eastman, selectmen ; Thomas Sargent, collector. Paid Stephen Wells, services, $12.80 ; Samuel French, Jr., $13; David Eastman, $11.44.
1806 .- Paid David Eastman for service as select- man, $16.06. Paid Samuel French, Jr., for services, $15.84; Elkins Moore, $10.72. Thomas Sargent collector. Amount raised, $1170.37. Paid Captain Chamberlin for examining selectmen's accounts, .50. Money in chest, $2.80.
1807 .- Samuel French, Jr., Thomas Brown and Elkins Moore, selectmen; Isaac S. Sargent, collector. Money raised, $1012.46. Paid Levi Brown for rum drank while repairing Dearborn bridge, $1.25.
1808 .- Samuel French, Jr., Thomas Brown and Moses Flanders, selectmen ; Stephen Ordway, collector. Money raised, $1399.92. Paid Jonathan Rollins for providing for soldiers, $5.78. Paid Enoch Wood for a burying-cloth, 87.75. Paid Joseph Baker, for provid- ing for soldiers, $4.08. Paid for powder, $14.40. Paid Enoch Wood for a gallon of rum, $1.34. Paid Esquire Piper for carrying on lawsuit with Isaac Smith, $78 .- 86. Paid Esquire Brown for service as selectman, $20.29. Paid for paper, .25. Paid Samuel French for providing meats and drink and five pounds powder for soldiers, $34.92. Paid for weights and measures, $47.90. Paid Moses Flanders, services, and Samuel French as selectmen, $34,54. Paid Stephen Ordway for collecting tax, $8. Paid Esquire Piper for expense when settling public accounts, $7.21. Paid Captain Ladd for carrying on lawsuit with Oliver Morrill, $25. Paid Lieutenant Stephen Wells and Dr. Tenney as witnesses in the Smith case, $24.64.
1810.
TAX ASSESSED FOR BUILDING THE ORDWAY SCHOOL-HOUSE.
Samuel Ayer $8.38
Jethro Bachelder $13.90
David Bachelder. 1.87
Joseph Blaisdell 5.12
Nathan Bachelder (3d) 2.90
Oliver Blaisdell .
2,36
Jeremiah Bennett 6.66
5.48
Jeremiah Clough 13,95
Sammel Clifford . 16.96
John Emery
5.63
Dr. J. Eastman 3.33
Thomas Emery
7.74
Isaiah Harvey 8.45
Samuel Haines
3.10
David Harvey 1.99
John Kenney
4.21
Jacob Mirick 5,26
Jonathan Moree
5.52
Moses Morse .43
Daniel Ordway 7.97
Daniel Ordway, Jr
7.09
Lemuel Ordway 5.93
Joses Ordway .
10.59
Moses Ordway 15.64
Stephen Ordway 1.89
Moses Ordway, Jr 6.03
Euoch Osgood 9.72
Capt. Moses Rowell . 17.17
Josiah Osgood
1.89
Charles Sargent, Jr. 7.52
Bart. Winslow
9.74 William Stevens 2.96
Enoch Wood, John Ladd and Samuel Elliott, se- lectmen ; Jonathan Rollins, collector. Money raised, $1526.28. Paid Captain Samuel Osgood for providing for his company on muster-day, $19.52. Paid Joseph Baker for same, $5. Paid Samuel Elliott for powder, $45.51. Paid Enoch Wood for powder, $13.33. Paid for lawsuits, $147.58. Cash in town chest, $9.59. Paid Jonathan Rollins for building a stone pound, $71.50.
TAX ASSESSED FOR BUILDING A SCHOOL-HOUSE IN DISTRICT NO. 4 (CLOUGH'S HILL).
Ebenezer Bachelder $1.35
Moses Caverly $6.61
John Clough . 8.04
Levi Chase . 15.15
Abner Clongh 19.42
Leavitt Clongh 4.37
Samuel Cate, Jr 7.23
Jonathan Clongh, Jr 21.46
Nathan Clough 9.78
Nathan Clough, Jr 1.17
Stephen Clark
1,17
Josiah Emery 7.52
John Farnum 8.80
Levi French, Jr 5.53
John Gilman . 3.74
John Haines . 4.00
Mathias Haines 1.17
Mathias Haines, Jr. 3.97
Samuel Haines 1.39
Nathaniel Martin 7.56
Moses Morse, Jr 1.17
Jonathan Merrill 1.39
Epoch Morse . 2.47
Samnel Piper . 6.41
Jonathan Piper
3.78
Benjamin Piper 5.34
Elisha Sanborn
12.90
John Sanborn, Jr. 1.17
TAX ASSESSED FOR REPAIRING HOUSE IN DISTRICT NO. 6.
Richard Bachelder $8.62
William Bachelder $3.71
Peter Bragg
6.69
William Bragg . 1.47
Robert Bragg 2.02
Ephraim Currier 2.28
Jeremiah Clifford 1.38
Isaac Dimond 8,13
Gonld Dimond 4.64
Reuben Dearborn 2.30
Nathaniel Flanders 7.00
Moses Flanders 2.02
Thomas Furnald 8.19
David Furnald 1.20
Lewis Flanders . .35
John Hill
1.84
Dudley Leavitt 6.74
John Moore
5.66
Jacob Moore
4.42
John Moore, Jr
1.20
Archelaus Moore 7.19
Elkins Moore 5.21
John Neal
2.81
Caleb Sleeper
11,33
Moses Stevens
7.01
Isaac Smith 6.96
Jonathan Smith, Jr 6.42
Theophilne Shaw 1.56
Charles Sargent
7.03
Benjamin Welle 7 77
Cash in town chest for the year ending 1810, thir- teen cents.
1811 .- Samuel French, Jr., Nathaniel Martin and Isaac S. Sargent, selectmen ; Jacob Perkins, collec- tor. Money raised, $1460.46. Paid for carrying law- suit with Isaac Smith, $58.26. Paid for powder, and delivering it to soldiers in quarters, $33.00. Paid for soldiers' rations on muster-day, $36.18. Paid Enoch Wood for services as town clerk, and for horse lost, $5.68. Paid Nathaniel Martin for services, $16.55. Paid Samuel French, $15.95. Paid Isaac S. Sargent, $12.40. Cash in town chest, $97.34.
1812 .- Jedediah Tucker, John Ladd and Samuel Elliott, selectmen ; Jacob Perkins, collector. Money raised, $1234.05. Paid Samuel Elliott for powder, $53.67. Paid Enoch Wood for services as town clerk, and for a book, $10.00. Paid Jacob Perkins, services as collector, $4.00. Paid Samuel Elliott, services se- lectman, $12.53. Paid John Ladd, $14.67. Paid Jedediah Tucker $12.40.
1813 -Selectmen, Jedediah Tucker and John Ladd. Stephen Cate, Jr., collector. Amount of money raised, $1377.28. Paid Captain Cate for his services as collector, $6.36. Paid Esquire Wood for his ser- vices as clerk, and for a chest, $9.75. Paid Mr. Tuck- er, services, $17.54. Paid John Ladd for money and services, $140.22.
1814 .- Selectmen, Jedediah Tucker, Captain Shad- rach Cate and Nathaniel Martin; Collector, Stephen Cate. Amount of taxes, $991.64. Master Henry Jack- son was chosen town clerk, and was paid for services, $5.00. Paid for twenty-nine soldiers at Portsmouth, $100.62. Paid Eliphlet Wood, as agent in the Smith
Amos Currier 8.01
David Clongh
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cause, $18.00. Paid Isaac Sargent for spirit for his soldiers at Canterbury, $1.07. Paid John Kenney for services in the Smith cause, $14.67. Paid for six soldiers at Portsmouth, $21.65. Paid Captain Shad- rach Cate for services as selectman, $7.84. Paid Na- thaniel Martin, $15.25. Paid Jedediah Tucker, $18.67. Paid Stephen Wells, services in the Smith cause, $20.40. Paid George B. Johnson and Nathan Tilton, services as soldiers at Portsmouth, 86.66. Paid Daniel J. Smith and Jonathan Smith, Jr., services as soldiers, $5.59.
1815 .- Jonathan Rollins, Joseph Baker, John Ladd, selectmen ; Henry Jackson, town clerk ; Thom- as Sargent, collector. Amount of tax, $1606.11. Paid Captain Cate for meats and drinks for soldiers, $34.48. Paid expenses in the Smith cause, $81.20.
1816 .- John Ladd, Jonathan Rollins and David Clough, selectmen ; Jonathan Bachelder, collector of taxes. Money raised, $2269. Paid Joseph Baker for meats and drinks for soldiers, 828.64. Paid for expenses in the Smith lawsuit, $48. Paid Henry Jackson, services as town clerk, $10. Paid Jede- diah Tucker, for note against town, in part, 8663.68.
1817 .- Jonathan Rollins and Samuel French, Jr., selectmen ; Jonathan Bachelder, collector of taxes. Tax raised, $1384.08. Paid the collector for serving two years, and summons for jurymen and other ser- vices for the town, $9.75. Cash in town chest, $19,10.
" We, the subscribers, having been appointed a committee to examine the selectmen's accompts, find them, in our opinion, correct.
(Signed)
" JOHN SANBORN, " WILLIAM TENNEY, " C'ALED SLEEPER."
1818 .- Isaac S. Sargent, collector. Amount of tax committed, $1470.81. Selectmen, Jonathan Rollins, Isaac Smith. Paid Jonathan Rollins for plank, sur- veyors' warrants, paper, quills, etc., $6.84. Paid Samuel French, Jr., for services as selectman, $25. Paid collector's services, $5.50. Paid Nathaniel Mar- tin for services as town clerk, $10.
1819 .- Jonathan Rollins and Samuel French, Jr., selectmen ; Isaac S. Sargent, collector. Amount of taxes, $1591.14. Paid Captain Sargent for providing for soldiers, $33. Paid Samuel French, Jr., for ser- vices as selectman, $23.25. Paid same for services as town clerk, 86.
1820 .- Israel Davis, collector. Money raised, $1518.77. Nathaniel Martin, Richard Brown and Philip Brown, selectmen. Paid Major Zephaniah Bachelder for vietnaling soldiers, $12. Paid Cyrus Tucker for services as town clerk, $6. Paid Richard Brown for services as selectman, 828.14. Paid Philip Brown, $23.94.
1821 .- Jonathan Rollins, Philip Brown and Rich- ard Brown, selectmen ; Israel Davis, collector; Cyrus Tucker, town clerk. Money raised, $1401.68. Paid town clerk's services, $5. Paid for victualing sol- diers, $28.
John Rowell and Jonathan Rollins, selectmen. Voted to raise in money this year $1736.84. Paid Gideon Ladd, for making a coffin for Samnel Johnston, $1.25. Paid Jonathan Rollins for doctoring the town poor, $8.50.
1823 .- Nathan Bachelder, Eliphlet Wood, select- men ; Josiah Sargent, collector. Paid Cyrus Tucker, for services as towu clerk, expense at his house while settling accounts, and for two days on west of Oak Hill road, $11. Paid selectmen for services, $70.55. Paid collector for service, $5.91. Paid for doctoring the poor in town, $6. Whole amount of money paid out, $1957.27.
1824 .- The same officers were chosen as last year. Paid Colonel Rollins for building Wales bridge, $200. Paid Jonathan Wood for spirit on Oak Hill, 70 cents. Paid selectmen for services, $108.27.
1825 .- John Rowell, Eliphlet Wood and Samuel French, Jr., selectmen. Paid for services, $91.38. Paid Jonathan Bachelder for supporting the town poor which were sold at auction, $150. Paid Ira Os- good, for teaching school in No.1, ยง81.22. Captain Jobn Carr was chosen collector. The whole amount of tax committed was $1951.63. Paid for his services, $6.80.
1826 .- John Rowell, Nathaniel Martin and Lewis Flanders, selectmen; Thomas Sargent, collector ; . Cyrus Tucker, town clerk. Paid Jonathan Rollins for supporting the poor, $119.78.
1827 .- Jonathan C. Perkins, collector. Amount of tax, $1759.23. Lewis Flanders, Jonathan Rollins and Russel Wheeler, selectmen. Paid John L. French, Jr., for keeping school in No. 5, $29.83. Paid Jeremiah Kenney, for keeping school in No. 1, $73.76. Paid Israel Davis, for supporting the poor, $107.60. Paid for one quire of paper, used in settling with collector, 25 cents.
1828 .- Jonathan Bachelder, collector. Amount of tax, $1580. Selectmen same as last year. Paid Philip Brown, Jr., as school committee, $13.50. Paid Eliphlet Wood, for same, $13.50. Collector's ser- vices, $13.40.
1829 .- Richard Brown, Philip Brown, Jr., and Moses Rowell, selectmen ; Thomas Sargent, collector. Se- seletmen's bill of service, $95.37. Paid David Clifford, for supporting the poor, $100.
1830 .- The Rev. Enoch Courser and Elder Dyer were chosen as school committee. Bill for services, $25.00. Richard Potter was chosen as the third com- mittee, and charged for services, $10. Stephen Cate, chosen collector ; Richard Brown, Philip Brown and Moses Rowell, Jr., selectmen. Bill for services, $96.65.
1831 .- Philip Brown, Jr., Richard Brown and John Clough were the selectmen ; Moses Morse, col- lector. Services, 818.75. Paid David Clifford, for support of the poor, $177.18, in 1830. Paid Samuel French, Jr., for same, in 1831, 8284.62. Paid Nathan-
1822 .- Josiah Sargent, collector; Eliphlet Wood, I iel Martin, services as town elerk, $6. Paid Samuel
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French, Jr., for betterments of the poor's clothing, $6.01. Paid Enoch Courser, services as school com- mittee, $16. Paid selectmen's services, $83.75.
1832 .- Nathaniel Flanders, Ira Osgood and Je- remiah Kenney were the selectmen; Zephaniah Bachelder, collector. Paid soldiers' rations, one hun- dred and forty-eight men, 31 cents each, $45.88. Paid James B. Abbott and Jonathan Garland $5 each for services as school committee. Jonathan Garland, town clerk. The parsonage and school lots were sold this year, and the interest of the money divided among the Congregational, Free-will Baptist, and Methodist societies in the town, amounting to $64.46. Paid selectmen for services, $76.25.
1833 .- Jonathan Bachelder, collector; selectmen same as last year. The town purchased the Eliphalet Wood farm for a town farm, and paid as the first pay- ment, $519.30. Elijah Osborn, Colonel Zephaniah Bachelder and Nathaniel Martin were chosen as the committee to purchase the same. John L. French was school committe. Bill for services, $5.
1834 .- Ira Osgood, Nathaniel Martin and Moses Rowell, Jr., selectmen ; Jonathan Bachelder, collector. Paid the second payment for the town farm of $565. Gardner T. Barker and John L. French, school committee. Bill for services, $21.
1835 .- Moses Rowell, Jr., Jonathan Garland and Solomon Caverly were the selectmen ; Miles H. Cate, collector. Paid Ebenezer Bachelder for two barrels of cider for the poor, $3.50. To cash paid for testa- ments for poor on the town farm, 86 cents. Collec- tor's services, $23. Selectmen's services, $126. John L. French, school committee. Services, $6.
1836 .- Jonathan Garland, Solomon Caverly and Luther Haines, selectmen ; Gideon L. Sargent, col- lector. Paid Challis D. Carr for support of Widow Nancy Rollins and funeral charges, $24.50. Paid Jeremiah Wilson for the privilege of burying same on his land, $1.
1837 .- John Bachelder, Luther Haines and Ruel Walker, selectmen. Services, $96.75. Paid Rev. Henry White, services as school committee, $6.50. Paid John K. Cate for same, 82. Paid the Boston and Concord Boating Co., $14.20.
1838 .- Joseph Clough (3), Gideon L. Sargent and Stephen Chase, selectmen. Services, $112.50. Brad- ley H. Kenney, collector. Taxes committed, $2589.34. Theophilus B. Martin, town clerk. Paid John P. Hale for services in road matters, $16.66. Paid Cyrus Tucker, as agent for the surplus revenue money re- ceived, $14. Paid Samuel D. Bell for counsel in road matters, $10. Paid Daniel, Tilton, Jr., for damage done by boys helonging to the town to syrup and ket- tles, $4. Paid for four barrels of cider for the poor, $7.17.
1839 .- Ira Osgood, Gideon L. Sargent and Ste- phen Chase, selectmen; Jonathan Bachelder, col- lector. Amount of taxes, $1903.32. Theophilus B. Martin, clerk. Selectmen's services, $121.92. Bal-
ance of money on hand at the close of the year 1839, $33.74.
1840 .- Stephen Chase, John L. French and Win- throp True, selectmen. $128.25 charged for services. Elliott Carr, collector of taxes. Amount, $2207.12. Services for collecting, $19.25. Paid Ira Osgood's services and expenses as town agent, $90.91. Paid Ira A. Eastman, Amos P. Tuck and Samuel D. Bell as counsel for the town, $93.
1841 .- John L. French, Winthrop True and John K. Cate, selectmen ; Elliott Carr, collector. Select- men's services, $104. Paid John L. French for two barrels of cider for town farm, $3.
1842 .- Ira Osgood, John K. Cate and John Bachelder, selectmen ; Jonathan Bachelder, collector. Amount of taxes, $2405.17. Services for collecting, $20. Jonathan Chase, town clerk. Selectmen's ser- vices, $115.42. Paid Theophilns B. Martin and Abial M. Caverly, services as school committee, $9. Balance of money on hand, $65.55.
1843 .- John Bachelder, John L. French and The- ophilus B. Martin, selectmen. Services, $88.50. Jon- athan Chase, town clerk. Ira Osgood and John K. Cate, school committee. Services, $10. Zepha- niah Bachelder, collector. Services, $19.75. Money on hand, $275.99.
1844 .- Ira Osgood, Theophilus B. Martin and Hi- ram Ordway, selectmen. Services, $111.75. John S. Rollins, collector. Paid Franklin Pierce, services as counsel, $5.
1845 .- Ira Osgood, Hiram Ordway and Benjamin Cate, selectmen. Services, $110. John S. Rollins, collector. Amount of tax committed, $3352.41. Jon- athan Chase, town clerk. Ezekiel Dow and Jere- miah Clough, school committee. Services, $19.50. Cash on hand, $99.82.
1846 .- Moses Rowell, Benjamin Cate and Joshua Emery were chosen selectmen ; John S. Rollins, col- lector of taxes. Amount of money committed, $2470. Paid John L. French, True Brown and John K. Cate, services as school committee, $21.50. Joseph C. Har- per, town clerk. Services, $10. Paid selectmen, ser- vices, $135.
1847 .- Moses Rowell, Joshua Emery and John S. Rollins, selectmen. Paid for services, $120. John S. Rollins, collector of taxes. Services, $22. Amount of tax committed, $3254. Joseph C. Harper, clerk. Services, $14. True Brown and J. T. Clough, school committee. Paid services, $20.75. Paid Pierce & Fowler for counsel, $117. Received for sale of old pulpit in meeting-house, $3.02.
1848 .- Theophilus B. Martin, John S. Rollins and Joshua Emery, selectmen. Services, $143. Joseph C. Harper, clerk. Services, $12. True Brown, T. B. Martin, school committee. Services, $29. Harmon E. Bachelder, collector. Money committed, $2818.
1849 .- Theophilus B. Martin, Joseph C. Harper and Samuel P. Calef, selectmen. Services, $126. School committee, Zebina C. Perkins, J. T. Clough and
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Heury J. Osgood. Services, $30. Benjamin F. Neal, collector. Amount of tax committed, $2782. Paid for collecting, $20.
1850 .- Joseph C. Harper, Elliot Carr and William K. Holt, selectmen. Services, $97. John Fellows, clerk. Services, $10. School committee, E. F. Ab- bott, T. N. Jones, William A. Sargent. Charges, $36. Gould Dimond, collector. Tax committed, $2550.
1851 .- John L. French, William K. Holt and Gould Dimond, selectmen. Services, $106. John Fellows, clerk ; Gould Dimond, collector. Tax committed, $2709. Services, $30. E. F. Abbott, T. F. Jones and William A. Sargent, school committee. Services, $38. Indebtedness of town, $178.49.
1852 .- Ira Osgood, Luther Haynes and George W. Neal, selectmen. Services, $155. Joseph B. Sanborn, clerk. Services, $11. Jeremiah Clough, collector. Tax committed, $2776. Cash on hand, $336.28.
1853 .- Ira Osgood, Benjamin F. Neal and Ozni P. Hamblet, selectmen. Services, $128. Joseph B. San- born, clerk. Services, $13. School committee, Theo. B. Martin, True Brown and Henry J. Osgood. Ser- vices, $40. Jonathan Bachelder, collector. Tax committed, $2045. Cash on hand, $48.85.
1854 .- Hiram French, Elliot Carr and Harmon E. Bachelder, selectmen. Services, $157. David Putnam, clerk. Services, $15. School committee, T. B. Martin, True Brown and Henry J. Osgood. Services, 849. Collector, Jonathan Bachelder. Amount committed, $3395.
1855 .- Luther Haynes, Jeremiah Clough and Jos- eph C. Ordway, selectmen. Services, $219. School committee, Zebina C. Perkins, Nathaniel Shannon and John B. Moore. Services, $53. Theo. B. Martin, collector. Tax committed, $3361. Cash on hand, $247.
1856 .- Selectmen, Benjamin Cate, Jeremiah Clongh and Joseph C. Ordway. Services, $200. Robert S. Perkins, clerk. Services, $20. Theo. B. Martin, col- lector. Tax committed, $3732.
1857 .- Benjamin Cate, Joseph B. Sanborn and E. H. Robinson, selectmen. Services, $176. Henry J. Osgood, clerk. Services, $15. Nathaniel Shannon, school committee. Services, $45. Jeremiah Clongh, collector. Tax committed, 83977. Cash on hand, $7.96.
1858 .- Benjamin Cate, Joseph B. Sanborn and E. H. Robinson, selectmen. Services, $167. Henry J. Osgood, clerk. Services, $15. Nathaniel Shannon, school committee. Services, $45. Collector, Jere- miah Clough. Tax committed, $3882. Indebtedness, $586.64.
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