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In 1780, Edward Russell, Benjamin Noyes and Jacob Green were chosen selectmen. After choosing other town officers, it was "Voted to allow the Con- stable sixpence upon the pound for collecting, and the selectmen Ten dollars per day for their services." Owing to the depreciation of the currency in April four thousand pounds "Continental money " was equal to one hundred pounds silver. There was no money raised for schools or preaching. "Voted to work on the highways 150 days or pay au equivalent." By the charter, the annual meeting was to be held on the first Thursday in April, which was found to be too late for the selectmen to enter into office, as the inventory was to be taken in that month.
In 1777, Edward Russell, Edward Carlton and Jonathan Clement were chosen selectmen, and Cap- tain Bean, James Moor, Esquire Bryant, John Noyes and Joseph Baker were chosen a Committee of Safety. No money raised for preaching, schools or highways. John Bryant, representative for Bow and Dunbarton at the session to be held at Exeter, June 4, 1777, and October 24th, John Bryant, Esq., on behalf of him- self and other freeholders of Bow, petitioned the Jeremiah Page, Esq., of Dunbarton, at the December session. The State tax was £40,000. £118 68. 8d., | General Assembly that the time may be changed to
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the first Tuesday of March annually, which was granted.
Jeremiah Page was chosen representative for Dun- barton and Bow.
In 1781 it was "Voted to give the selectmen, Edward Russell, Benj™ Noyes and John Brown, 30 dollars per day for their services," seventy-five hundred pounds being equal to one hundred pounds silver.
The tax for 1780, collected this year, was,-
£ 8. d.
" Continental and State.
7,900 17 6
Ditto for Beef and County . 5,743 11 5
Ditto for Corn and money for soldiers 2,085 14 4
Total . £15,730 3 3"
At a meeting held the 28th of May, 1781, it was " Voted to send Esqr. Bryant, as agent of the town, to the General Assembly, to remonstrate against a Pe- tition, preferred by Concord, to have their town In- corporated, and voted 1000 dollars to defray the expense." Bryant promised to give his time, and if an attorney was necessary, he would pay him, the town to pay Bryant's expenses while he was gone.
Mr. Russell was chosen delegate to the convention to be held at Concord.
Timothy Dix gave his services as town clerk since 1774.
At the annual meeting in 1782, Enoch Noyes, Richard Dow and James Robertson were chosen selectmen, and James Robertson clerk. "Voted. 50 dollars for schools and 50 dollars to Repair highways, at 2 shillings per day." "Voted not to accept the plan of Government as it now stands, by 37 votes." "Voted to accept of an open road from William Robertson's to Esqr. Benjm Noyes, as Laid by the selectmen in May, 1778, and to recomend John Bryant to the General Court for a justice of the peace." "Voted five dollars' bounty for each wolf killed in town for the year, and to abate John Miller's tax on the steer he lost." "Money raised last year,-New Emission State, £368 168. 2d. 2q .; County, £21 198. 6d. 2q .; Silver money, £160 08. 0d. 2q."
" Agreeable to an act of the General Court, John Robertson, Constable for the 1780 for this town, hath lawfully advertised to be sold to pay the taxes for said year, on the first Wednesday of Oct., 1782, the following Lands, viz. :
" In the 2d Division .- Nath'n'1 Stevens, Lot No. 7, Range 11, sold to Ephraim Moor, 18 acres. Benjamin Palmer, Lot No 11, Range 12, sold to Benjm Noyes, 56 acres.
" Third Division .- Holdridge Kelly, Lot No 3; Richard Waldron, Lot 19 ; Mary Jones, Lot 27; Eben" Weare, Lot 49 ; Bradstreet Wiggin, Lot 17; Thos. Smith, Lot 21 ; Rob't Wilson, Lot 37 ; Jona" Wiggin, Lot 55; John Frost, Lot 60 ; Thomas Piper, Lot 61 ; Benjm Hoag, Lot 71 ; Daniel Davis, Lot 83 ; John Merrill, Lot 84; John Leavitt, Lot 85 ; 14 lote sold to Ensign Benjamin Noyes ; Benjm Mason, Lot 33 ; Joseph Merrill, Lot 39 ; Edwd Fifield, Lot 41 ; Samuel Hilton, Lot 92; 4 lots sold to Walter Bryant, Esqr., father of John Bryant, Esqr .; (Lot 92 is the lot north east of the mill lot on the Londonderry turnpike) ; Nathn' Stevens, Lot 36 ; Joseph Wiggin, Lot 120 ; Thos. Veazey, Lot 122; Col. And" Wiggin, Lot 131 (north of the old Runell lot) ; 4 lots sold to John Bryant, Eeq. ; Rev. Henry Russ, No. 86; William French, 88, two lots sold to Mr. Leonard Harriman ; George Clark, Lot 97, sold to James Robertson; The Ephraim Leavit Lot, No. 108, sold to Lieut. Ephraim Moor ; Abraham Morgan, Lot 146, across the river, sold to John Garvin ; Thoe.
Westbrook, Lot No. 4, 2d Division, 18th Range, and Lot 109, third Divi- sivo, sold to Mr. Aaron Whittemore, in behalf of Charles Coffin.
"It took the whole of the aforesaid lande to pay the aforesaid taxes with intervening charges. Attest,
"JAMES ROBERTSON, Clerk.
" Bow, Oct. 2, 1782."
In 1783, James Robertson, Enoch Noyes and Ben- jamin Noyes were chosen selectmen. "Voted to raise 75 dollars for repairing highways. State and soldiers taxes, £495 17s." " Voted to accept of the new Consti- tution," which became the Constitution of the State in June, 1784.
"The number of Polls in town, from 21 years of age and upwards, paying taxes io Bow, is 79, taken Decr 12th By Jas. Robertson, select- man of Bow.
"Sworn to Before
"SAM'L DANIELL, Just. Peace."
In 1784, the independence of the United States being acknowledged, a Constitution of the State was formed and accepted by the people, the chief execu- tive to be styled President. Meshech Weare was elected, but the voters in Bow, in their characteristic manner, cast twenty-two votes for Hon. Woodbury Langdon and nine votes for Hon. Josiah Bartlett. "Voted to raise 200 dollars for work on the highway at half a dollar a day." James Robertson, Solomon Heath and Enoch Noyes were chosen selectmen, James Robertson clerk.
The following unimproved lands were sold for taxes this year, viz. :
"The Nathn' Stevens Lot, No. 7, 11th Range, 80 acres, and the John Piper lot, No. 3, 17th Range, 40 acres, sold to Lieut. Ephrm Moore ; 30 acres of the Nicholas Wiggin lot, No. 8, 12th Range; 29 acres of the Beojamio Palmer lot, No. 11, 12th range ; 30 acres of the Joshua Hill lot, No. 4, 17th range; 50 acres of the Saml. Tibbets lot, No. 3, 14th range. In the 3d Division the Isaac Foss lot, No. 1, 20 acres, the south west corner lot in town ; the Joho Sanborn lot, No. 144, 20 acres over the river ; the Gov. John Wentworth lot, No. 18, all sold to John Bryant, Esq. The Col. Mark Hunking lot, No. 5, 15th range, 29 acres; Hon. John Wentworth, 29 acres of lot No. 6, 15th range ; 31 acresof the Noah Barker lot, No. 8, 18th range. In the 3d division the Sol. Cotton lot, No. 5; the Saml. Tibbets lot, No. 35; the Joshua Stevens lot, No. 81 ; the Col. Mark Huoking lot, No. 54; twenty-acre lots sold to Ens. Benjm Noyea ; 50 acres of the Catherine Wiggin lot, No. 8, 15th range, sold to Solomon Heath ; 30 acres of the Joseph Jewett lot, No. 6, 18th range, sold to James Moor ; the Joseph Loverin lot, 3d Division, No. 142, over the river, sold to John Robertson, and the Catherine Wiggin lot, No. 95, sold to James Robertson. (This sale was made May 25, 1784, it took the whole proceede to pay the taxes and charges.) On the third Tuesday of December the following lande were sold at Public vendue : The Wiggin lot, No. 3, 12th range; Hill lot, No. 4, 17th range, and the James Roberteon lot, 128, 3d Div. ; 20 acres from each lot sold to John Bryant, Esq. 15 acres of No. 5, 15th Range ; 21 acres, No. 6, 15th R. ; 30 acres, No. 8, 18th R. ; and 2 acres, No. 110, sold to Benjamin Noyes 20 acres, No. 6, 18th R .; the Pierce Long lot, No. 57, 3d Div., sold to Enoch Noyes. The third division lots, No. 121, and 4 acres of 126 sold to James Moor. 25 acres of No. 3, 17th range, sold to Capt. John Noyes. Part of lot No. 129 sold to Jonathan Currier.
"ENOCH NOYES, Vendue Clerk.
In 1785, James Robertson, Jacob Green and Solo- mon Heath were chosen selectmen. "Toted to work fifty days on the Soucook Bridge." The meeting- house built in 1770, we suppose, was a rude structure, built of logs, and has now become unfit for public meetings. "Voted to raise 500 dollars in labor and lumber to build a meeting-house on the Hill where the old one stands, and that Solomon Heath, David
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Brown, Benjm Noyes, John Bryant and Jacob Green be a committee to provide material for the Building." " Voted 50 dollars for preaching, to be at the honse of John Bryant, near Joseph Rogers'." This house is supposed to have been the first two-story house in town, and was called the High House. "Voted 50 dollars for schooling." James Robertson was granted the right of a ferry over the Merrimack River, any- where between Moor's Brook and Soucook River.
In 1786, after making choice of Edward Russell, John Bryant and Timothy Dix for selectmen, "voted £60, at 3s. per day, for Highway, and 75 dollars to hire schooling this year." John Langdon had twenty-four votes for President of the State; no op- position.
A portion of the inhabitants wanted the meeting- house at the centre, and a committee was voted to find the centre, which they reported to be at the upper end of the Widow Clement's land, and there the place to build the house. But the town voted to build on the Hill, as last year.
At an adjourned meeting, held May 29th, "voted a committee of disinterested persons from other towns to locate the house, consisting of Col. Kelly, of Goffs- town; Capt. Farrington, ,of Hopkinton; and Esqr. Foster, of Canterbury, and voted to Disannul all votes relative to building a meeting-house prior to this day." They then "voted to build a house as large as Mr. Colbies, then minister at Pembroke, and to raise £100 in materials and labor for sª House."
Mr. Solomon Heath, Lieutenant Enoch Noyes and Mr. David Brown were appointed a committee to build said house. "Voted to hire Mr. Bradford to preach eight days."
Bow and Dunharton had been classed for electing representative and delegates since 1775. January 29, 1787, a meeting of those qualified to vote in town-meetings of both towns met at the house of Henry Putney, in Dunbarton, and made choice of Jacob Green, delegate to the convention at Exeter, to act on a new plan of government, which had been proposed by the Philadelphia Convention and already adopted by eight States, nine being necessary to make it the law of the land. It was adopted by the convention ; Jacob Green voted nay. In 1787, John Bryant, John Grushee and Enoch Noyes were chosen selectmen. In 1788, Solomon Heath, James Robertson and Jona. Clement were chosen selectmen. The votes for State President, 43, were all for John Langdon ; for repre- sentative to Congress, Joshua Atherton, Esq., had 17 ; Nathaniel Peabody, Esq., 14; Paine Wingate, Esq., 16; and 8 for others.
In 1789, James Robertson, Solomon Heath and Jona. Clement were chosen selectmen. In answer to an article " to see if the town will vote to be divided and be annexed to Dunbarton, Concord and Pembroke, or to set off any part of Bow to said town, voted not to set off or divide the town."
In settling with the Rumford proprietors in 1771,
they were to pay to the Bow proprietors ten pounds for each hundred-acre lot which was laid out by Bow in the Rumford grant. Thomas Stickney, Andrew McMillan and Abiel Chandler were appointed a com- mittee by the proprietors of Rumford to receive a quit-claim deed from the Bow proprietors and give them a bond on interest for the ten pounds for each one hundred acre lot. In 1773 they voted to raise six hundred pounds by assessments, which was supposed to be sufficient to pay the proprietors of Bow, and to give sixty pounds to the Masonian proprietors for their right to the land. The tax not being all col- lected, an act was passed in 1789 empowering Timo- thy Walker to collect the remainder, and to fully dis- charge the bond. In 1790 the subject of a division of the town met the same fate as it did the previous year. Jacob Green, Samuel Ganlt and James Rob- ertson were chosen selectmen. " Voted to allow Cap- tain Jacob Green three pounds for attendence at the convention at Exeter in 1788." At a meeting of the voters of Bow and Dunbarton, Major Caleb Stark was chosen delegate to a convention to revise the Constitution. The votes for representative to Con- gress was, for John S. Sherborn, 30; Abial Foster, 24; Jeremiah Smith, 8. " Voted forty pounds for building a pound and repairing highways, and none for school- ing."
The following tax-list was committed to Captain John Noyes for collection, September 14, 1790, he be- ing constable :
s. d.
s. d.
" Nathan Noyes 2 0
Lt. Jona. Clement . 4 9
Ens. Benja, Noyes 10 3
Lt. John Grushee . 6 634
Lt. Enoch Noyes 8 11
John Nicols . 2
816
Capt. John Noyes 7
9
John Ordway 5 11
John Noyes, Junr . 2
4
Sam1 Rogers. 7 8
Sam1 Alexander 6 616
Sam1 Welch . 3 11
Lt. Eph™ Moor 6 7
Eph™ Moor, Jr 2 61%
James Russell 3
0
Moses Moor 2 3
Widw Hilton 0)
3
Aaron Moor . 1 6
John Russell 1
9
James Sa unders 1 1016
Axey Russell 0 11
John Twist 0 616
5
Nathan Silver 1
6
Reuben Currier, Jr. 1 7
Jona. Currier 3
216
John Silver 1 10
Elisha Clough, Jr. 4 1116
James Colby 1 10
Sam' Silver 1
9
John Merrill 1
8
Sam1 Saunders 0
4
John Robertson 8 7%
James Robertson 1
6
Dea. Isaac White 9 0
Willm Robertson 8 101%
Joseph Baker .
7 51/2
John Baker 2
61/2
James Baker 0
Daniel Baker . 1
6
W. Eliz. Hemphill 4
John Garvin 016
John Garvin, Jr. 4
Willm Garvin . 1
6
Simeon Sargent . 2 0
Jacob Richardson 1
6
Samuel Ordway 3
9
James Robertson 6
17%
Benja. Thompson 5
5
Sam1 Rogers, Jr 7 016
David Stevens 2
0
Dea. Thos Robinson 6 1
Tho" Robinson, Jr. 1 6
Capt. Richd Dow
Solmu Dow 2
6
James Buswell 5
6
Lt. Timothy Dix 6
716
Amos Clement. 4
4
Willm Hay 1
6
Richard Clough 4
814
Thomas Wicomb . 0
6
Lt. Sammel Gault 5 101%
1
John Bryant, Esqr. .16
James Dunlap. 1
8
Reuben Currier
Benja. Whipple 8 0
John Silver, Jr 2 5
Bartholemew Stevens 3 912
Henry Benson 4 11
James Moor 3 1
Ezra Badger 2
Edward Russell . 7 7
David Silver . 2 8
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8. d.
Non Resident tax-list.
David Clough 4 6
Dr. Philip Carrigan . . 13
Levi Clough .
1
8
Lt. Joseph Hall . 3 11
Jonathau Clongh 5 616
Capt. Joshua Abbott . 0 712
Lt. Eliphalet Rowell . 5
3
Reuben Welch 4
Barnet Harvey 3 634
John Dow . 1 101%
Jobn Colby . 4
61/2
Abram Colby 3
1
Jonª Colby 2
9
Wid. Molly Brown 5
John Hemphill - 2
11/4
Lt. Willaby Colby 5
8
Simeon Heath 7
0
Elijah Colby 3
5
W. Green 0
4
Thos Colby 2
0
Samuel Clement. 7 10
W. Betsy Clement 1
4
Sam1 Dow . 2
2
Jobu Carter 3
6
David Lufkin . 2
Nebemiab Merrill . 1
9
Wid. Jennet Buntin 0 7
Mrs. Sarah Thompson . 1 012
Nathn1 Hall 2 111/2
Walter Bryant, Esq. 7
8
Solomon Heath 11 6
Lt. Sam1 Tarriaton 0
8
Caleb Heath . 1 9
Jeremiah Page, Esq. 0 6
John Moor 0
Maj. James Cocbran 0 10
Moses Noyes
3
9
William Walker 2 5
Capt. Benjm Norris. 2 1
Samuel Walker 1
9
John White. 0 10
Abial Walker . 1
6
Joel Farnam
0 10°
Samuel Welsh, Jr. . 2
0
Benjn Jenaess 0 10
Capt. Jacob Green 5 4
Willm Currier 0 6
Anthony Manuel 1 2
Lt. Samuel Noyes . 0 2
" The above is a true list of Taxes made by us on Bow for the year 1790. Errors Excepted.
" JACOB GREEN,
"JAS. ROBERTSON, Selectmen."
" SAMUEL GAULT,
There were one hundred and ten resident tax-payers. The number of inhabitants at this time was five hun- dred and sixty-eight.
The following names of signers of the Association Test have disappeared from the town records of to- day :
"Captain Aaron Kinman, Capt. Ephraim Foster, Ralph Cross, Capt. Benjm Bean, John Carr, David Carr, Samuel Wioslow, Thomas Hardy, Leonard Harriman, Peltiah Clement, John Brown, James Reddell, James Garvin, Edwd Carlton, David Foster.
In 1791, after making choice of James Robertson, Timothy Dix and Jonathan Clement for selectmen, and choosing other town officers, thirty-three votes were cast for Josiah Bartlett for President of the State ; no opposition. " Voted £30 for schooling, each district to hire a master or mistress, as they see fit." The road from Wood Hill easterly between laud of Abraham Colby and Willaby Colby, thence ex- tending by John Colby's to Dunbarton line, was laid out this year. Mr. Samuel Alexander was paid for boarding Mr. Stone and wife, five shillings. John Noyes was allowed six shillings for carrying them out of town and five shillings for warning persons out of town. An act was passed giving Jacob Green and Enoch Noyes, of Bow, and William Duncau and Daniel Livermore, their heirs and assigns, exclusive right to build a bridge at any place one mile above or below Isle Hooksett Falls.
January 11th, Benjamin Noyes petitioned the Gen- eral Court, "Shewing that he has kept a ferry over the Merrimack River, near the mouth of Suncook River, ever since the year 1764, in all which time he 18
has endeavored to give constant and satisfactory at- tendance, which he conceives has been greatly for the benefit of the people of this State ; and likewise thinks that a continuance of said ferry will be of great utility. And as he, from long occupancy, hath acquired, as he humbly supposes, a natural right to the privilege of owning and keeping said ferry, he humbly prays the Honorable Court to grant him, his heirs and assigns, a right to said ferry exclusively." The petition being read, was referred to a committee who reported favor- ably, and February 14th, an act was passed granting said Noyes exclusive right to a ferry in any place within one mile above or below the mouth of the Sun- cook River.
In 1792, James Robertsou, Benjamin Noyes and Eliphalet Rowell were chosen selectmen, and Jacob Green town clerk. Josiah Bartlett had twenty-seven votes for State President and John Pickering one. A committee was chosen to regulate the school districts, which numbered four,-No. 1, Heath District; No. 2, Centre ; No. 3, East ; No. 4, Wood Hill.
A committee, consisting of Jacob Green and John Bryant, was appointed to carry on a pauper suit which Concord had bronght against Bow for the mainten- ance of Sarah Stone, widow of Andrew Stone, who was in the French War in 1756 in John Goff's com- pany, in 1757 in Jacob Bayley's company, and in Cap- tain Joshua Abbott's company in 1775. Stone resided in Concord, near the Ira Abbot place. While in the war his house was torn down because his daughter did not behave as well as some of the neighbors thought she should, and they took refuge in Bow and became a public charge. In 1786 the town of Concord " Voted to abate Andrew Stone his rates that are due, and ex- empt him from paying taxes for the future." She was the first pauper in town, and was set up to be kept by the lowest bidder, who was Jonathan Clough, at four shillings per week The subject of building a meeting-house came up again this year. " Voted to reconsider all former proceedings concerning said house, and that Lieutenant William Page, of Goff's- town, Colonel Henry Gerrish, of Boscowen, and Ben- jamin Wiggin, of Hopkinton, fix on a place to set said house, and chose Jacob Green, Ensign Benjamin Noyes and Mr. John Carter a committee to wait on them, and to draw papers obliging the inhabitants to put up a frame, and board and shingle and lay the under floor." The meeting was adjourned two weeks, when they " Voted that Captain Nathaniel Cavis and Lieutenant Willaby Colby be added to the aforesaid committee." They then adjourned to the 12th of No- vember, when it was voted to accept the report of committee-Page, Gerrish and Wiggin-that the house be built on the hill near where the old one stood. Jacob Green was then chosen to set up the building of the house to the lowest bidder, who was Eliphalet Rowell, for £60 12s., lawful money. " Voted that Enoch Noyes, Willaby Colby and Timothy Dix he a committee to accept of the meeting-house." " Voted
Amnasa Dow 2 1
Henry Hemphill 4 3%
6 Henry Hemphill, Jr 1
4 Wid. Rach Elliot 3 0
John Sulloway 2 5
Clement Noyes 2 112
Capt. Natha1 Cavis 8
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to raise 202 Dollars to defray the charges of building the house." "Chose Benj". Noyes to defend the town on account of a complaint concerning Sowcook Bridge, near Foster's Mill, also to attend Court to shew cause why the town should not maintain the road laid by the committee on the westerly side of Merrimack River, near John Carter's mill." The vote for Presidential electors was thirty-two, unanimous for the Federal candidates. Isaac Moor, Isaac Shepard and Ensign Benjamin Noyes were approbated for tav- ern-keepers, the first in town.
In 1793, Benjamin Noyes, John Grushe and Richard Clement were chosen selectmen. Hon. Josiah Bart- lett had fifty-eight votes for President of the State; no oppositiou. " Voted £45, L. Money, to repair high- ways, one-third of each surveyor's tax to be worked on the river road, the party to work all theirs as usual." The probability is that a freshet had damaged the road badly. Samuel Alexander kept Sarah Stone for 15s. 2d. a week. Paid Benjamin Noyes for services to Portsmouth to prevent the road from being laid; also the expense of building Soucook bridge, £7 8s. 2d. Paid the committee to "Perfix a place to build the meeting-house" upon, £2 88. The dissatisfaction of some at having the house on the hill instead of at the Centre is apparent in an article in the warrant to see if the town will vote to set off those that request it, for the convenience of the gospel, which was negatived. May 21st there was a meeting " to see if the town will vote to be divided by lines in order to be annexed to other towns, or to set off parts of the town by themselves, that they may consine themselves in other towns for the benefit of the Gospel," all of which was negatived by thirty voting against by way of poll. Richard Merrill was "approbated to sell or Retale Liker." No money raised for preaching since 1781.
At the annual meeting in 1794, Benjamin Noyes, Nathaniel Cavis and John Carter were chosen select- men. At "a meeting warned by the selectmen of Bow and Allenstown, holden at the house of Benj" Noyes, for the purpose of choosing a man to represent said towns in the General Court the present year, Benjamin Noyes was chosen the selectman of said towns to petition said Court that said Noyes be al- lowed a seat." November 3d a meeting was held " to see what method the town will take to raise eleven men to hold themselves in readiness to march at a minuite's warning." "Voted to make, with what the state and continental gives, seven dollars a month, with one dollar as a bounty, and if called for, two dollars more." It is supposed they were never called for. The probable cause for the order for these men was the resistance to the collection of taxes on dis- tilled spirits in Western Pennsylvania, called the Whiskey Rebellion. For representative to Congress Abial Foster had twenty-three votes ; Paine Wingate, none.
John Carter, constable, "requiring him forthwith to notify and warn the following persons to depart out of Bow to the last places of their abode within four- teen days after said warning, viz. : Kimball Colby and Sarah, his wife, and three children; Widow Hannah Foster; Hannah, wife of Jacob Chisemore, and her daughter; Jacob Perkins Burnham and Sarah, his wife; also one James Clements ; all of whom came into Bow to reside from Dunbarton less than one year ago ; also Jacob Wheeler, and Betsy, his wife, and Sirus Bradford, the said Wheeler's ser- vant from Deering ; also Thomas Chandler and Sarah, his wife, and Sarah Goodnough, their grandchild, from Concord, less than one year ago, and have no visible means of support." This was done in the name of the State of New Hampshire, and the con- stable was to make return to the next Quarter Ses- sions for Rockingham County. By warning new- comers out of town he deprived them of gaining a residence, and the town was not liable for their sup- port if they became a public charge.
In 1795 the selectmen were Thomas Robertson, Benjamin Noyes and Caleb Heath. "Voted that the lowest bidder be collector of taxes and constable." Willaby Colby bid three pounds and was chosen for the year. John Taylor Gilman had thirty-nine votes for Governor ; no opposition. In 1796, Jacob Green, Willaby Colby and Samuel Clement, Jr., were chosen selectmen ; John Carter, Jacob Green and James White, fish wardens. John T. Gilman had forty- nine votes for Governor. Jonathan Freeman had twenty-one votes for member of Congress ; Peleg Sprague, none. Benjamin Noyes was chosen to rep- resent Bow and Allenstown in General Court. In 1797, Enoch Noyes, Jacob Green and Willaby Colby were chosen selectmen. Governor Gilman had forty- four votes this year ; no party lines yet. "Voted the selectmen lay out the school districts and report at an adjourned meeting; also provide Guide Posts in town." "Paid Willaby Colby 14 shillings for a coffin and expense of burying Mrs. Stone, and 18. 6d. for Jury Box."
American vessels had been captured by the French ; men were called for by Congress. A town-meeting was called January 1, 1798, "To see what method the town will take to get 16 men ordered by Congress." "Voted to give them a hansom treat for listing and ten dollars a month, with what Congress gives them, if orders come for marching, and one month's ad- vanced pay." It is not known that any went from Bow. At the annual meeting Enoch Noyes, Jacob Green and John Grushee were chosen selectmen. Forty-five votes were cast for Governor Gilman, and sixty pounds were ordered to be raised for the sup- port of the gospel, the first raised since 1781, proba- bly owing to the different views respecting the meeting-house and religious faith. "Voted that each district shall build a school-house, and that the
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