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" Voted, Capt. John Underhill, Jacob Chase, Esq', Henry moore, Esq", Capt. Stephen Dearborn and Capt. Sam" Robie to be the Committee.
" Voted, That whatsoever man or men the aforesaid Com- mittee Shall agree with and Hier into the aforesaid Servis as our proportion of men, Whatsoever Said Committe Shall agree to pay them, the Select men Shall Hier money and pay as agreed upon by said Committee, and Shall Raise Said money by a tax upon the Inhabitants as the Other Town taxes are Raised : Alowing to those persons that have Don part of their proportion Toward Suporting the warr Sence the commencement of the Same; also allowing to those men that Have alredy Inlisted into the Continentel servise for the three years the Same Bounty and Encouragement as as these shall have ther is to be hired, Saving and Stoping out what they have alredy Received from perticuler men."
May 26th, 1777,
" Voted, that the Select men Raise the whole of the money this year they have hired to pay those men that the Committee hired into the Continental Servise, agreeable to the vote of the Town."
Dec. 2d, 1777,
" Voted, That the Report of the Committee that was Chosen to allow the Soldiers an Equality pr month up to the three years men, for their Servise Done in the present war, be Excepted as they have Given it in."
The committee agreed to allow the following :
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Those that went to Cambrige in the year 1775, £ s. d. 8 months, 0 6 0 per month.
Those that went to Cambrige of the militare, 0 6 0 per month.
Those that went to Portsmouth, . 0 6 0 per month. Those that went to Cambrige, and to New York
after Leaving Cambrige, 0 10 0 per month. Those that went to Cambrige and York, and
then to Canade Twelve months after Leav- ing Cambrige, 0 15 0 per month.
Those that went to Ticontroge 5 months, . 0 10 0 per month. Those that went from portsmouth to Tye, after Leaving portsmouth, 0 10 0 per montb.
Those that went to York with Leut. Sam" Hes- seltine and Lieut. Ezekiel Worthin, 0 6 0 per month.
Sam" Robie,
Jacob Chase,
William White,
Committee.
Nathan Fitts,
1778. At the annual meeting March 27,
" Voted, that there Shall be Raised this year for the Re- pairing of the Highways, £90: 0: 0.
" Voted, That their Shall be Seven men Chosen for a Committee of Safety in this Town.
" Voted, that Leut. Sam" Hesseltine, Deacon Mathew Forsaith, Henry moore, Esq", Capt. Sam" Robie, Jethro Colby, Isaac Blasdell, and Nathan morss, Shall be the men."
At a meeting held Feb. 5th, 1778,
" Voted, Relating to the Thirteen artikels of confedera- tion proposed to be Entred into by the thirteen united States of america, they were all Carefully Read and Con- sidered, and then Put to Vote and Voted that they be Excepted and approved of.
" Voted, That our Representatives be Desired and Di- rected to propose that the assembly and Councell may forme a plan or System of Government for this State, and Send it through the state into the Severell Towns and par- ishes, in order for their Perusal, Consideration, and excep- tance."
May 12th, 1778,
" Voted, that their Shall be one person Chosen to Convene and meet in Convention at Concord, in this State of New- hampshire, on the tenth Day of June Next, for the Sole
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purpose of forming and Laying a permanent plan or Sys- tem Governments for the future Happines and well being of the Good people of this state.
" Voted, That Sam" Emerson, Esq", shall be the per- son."
March 26,
" Voted that the Widow mary Emerson be allowed and paid by the Town for her Husband, who Died on His way coming home out of the wars, as the other Solders ware allowed and paid by the Town."
Nov. 30th, 1778,
" Voted, That Leut. Sam" Hesseltine and Robert Wilson, Esqs., Shall Represent the Town in the assembly to be held at Exeter on the Third Wednesday in December Next at three o'clock in the afternoon, With full Power for one year from their first meeting to Transact such Buisness and Persue Such mesurs as they Shall Judge Nescecry for the Publick Good."
Col. Moses Dustin, who had had the small-pox, was home from the army, and employed the wife of Elijah Pillsbury to wash his clothes. She went to a brook back in the pasture, and Joseph Norton's wife happened to pass, and took the small-pox, and the whole family, including two Palmer girls, had it. Mr. Norton, had then three children. Mrs. Norton and one of the Palmer girls died, and Mr. Norton lost one eye. Dr. Page's family also had the disease, and they purchased Merchant Blasdel's shop, and moved it into the south woods, on to the parsonage lot, and removed the family there. Two of Dr. Page's children died.
At a town meeting Nov. 30th, 1777,
" Voted, to pay for the shop that the Select men Re- moved (that belonged to Nathanel Blasdel), for Doctor Page's famely to have the Small pox in, and that it be left with the Select men to agree with said Blasdel how much to give for it, and Settle that matter with him.
" Voted to give mary Palmer her cost when she had the Small pox, Being foreteen pound, Eleven shillings, nine pence, two farthings."
They voted against giving Mr. Norton anything for his expense.
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There was a meeting of the Presbyterian parish, Dec. 8. In consequence of the high price of the necessaries of life, they voted to add - pounds to the Rev. John Wil- son's salary.
" Voted, that the Town will send one man to Joyn in the Convention, to be held at Concord the 22d Day of September Instant, in order to Regulate the price of things.
" Voted, that Jacob Chase, Esq", to be the man."
Oct. 18, 1779,
" first Put to Vote whether to except and approve of the prices set by the Convention at Concord, and past in the affermetive.
" Voted, that messrs. Jabez Hoit, Capt. Underhill, Isaac Blasdel, Deacon Forsaith, Anthony Stickney, William Lock, Ephraim Fitts, Simon Bayley, and Robtt Wilson, Esq', Shall be the Committee."
November 29th, 1779,
" first Put to Vote to see if the Town will Except of the Report of the Comittee appoynted to Regulate prices for the Inhabitants of this Town, In this Town, and Voted that it be Excepted.
" Voted, that a Committee be Chosen to See that the foregoing prices be observed ; and Voted that Jacob Chase, Esq', Deacon Forsaith and anthony stickney Shall be the Comittee.
" Voted, That any Person in this Town that Shall not comply with the prices Set by the Committee, but Shall Sell for more than the artikells are Set at, They Shall for- fit and pay the Value of the Thing so Sold To the Com- mittee ; and on their Refusal to Pay that Sum, They Shall be advertised in the publick Prints as Innimecal to their Countrey.
" Voted, that the Comittee Shall Get the proceedings of this meeting printed in the Publick prints, at the Cost of the town."
An act of the General Assembly for regulating prices, passed January 18th, 1777, has the following preamble :
" Whereas the exorbitant Prices of the Necessary and convenient Articles of Life, and also of Labour, within this State, at this Time of Distress (unless speedily and effec- tually remedied) will be attended with the most fatal and pernicious consequences."
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The act fixes among others the following prices :
s. d.
s. d.
Wheat,
7
6 Sngar,
0 8
Rye,
4
6 Molasses, 3 4
Corn,
3
6 Salt,
10
0
Oats,
2
0
Coffee,
1
4
Peas,
8 0
Cotton,
3
S
Beans, 6
0 Flax,
1
0
Potatoes, in fall,
1
4
Wool,
2 0
Potatoes at any season, 2
0
Stockings pr. pair, 6 0
Cheese,
0
6
Flannel pr. yd., 3 0
Butter,
0 10
Tow Cloth, 2
3
Pork, fr'm 100 to 140 lbs., 0 43
Coarse Linens, 4 0
Pork, fr'm 140 to 200 lbs., 0 5
Cotton, or Cotton and linen, 3 8
Raw Hides, 0
3 Good N. E. bar iron, 40 0
Sole Leather, 1
6
Farming labor in summer, 3 4
West India Rum, 6
8
N. England Rum, 3 10
Mechanics to be in propor- tion, according to usage.
An additional act was passed April 8th, 1777, raising the price of some articles in Portsmouth-rye, 5s., corn, 4s. - and towns were to choose a committee to regulate prices in proportion as such goods have heretofore borne, com- pared to Portsmouth.
The line between Chester and Raymond was settled this year. The Rev. Mr. Wilson died Feb. 1st of this year.
At the annual meeting, March 9th, Deacon Adam Wil- son, Anthony Stickney and Maj. Jolin Tolford were chosen a committee to hire preaching, and make provision for the ministers they shall hire. They voted to raise one hun- dred and twenty pounds.
At a meeting, August 9th, they voted to raise four hun- dred dollars more. They had no settled minister until Mr. Colby was settled in 1803, but depended upon temporary and stated supplies. They got up a subscription and had a meeting Dec. 7, and chose a new committee to expend the money.
At a meeting held Jan. 26, 1779,
" Voted, That those persons that are gon into the Con- tinentel Servis for three years or Longer for this town, theyr famelyes Shall be Supplied with Such Nesicaries of
,
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Life as they Need, agreeable to the Resolve of the Generell assembly."
April 5, 1779,
" Voted, That their Shall be a Committee of Safety chosen in this Town.
" Voted, That mathew Forsaith, Joseph Lynn, Capt. Benjamin Currier, Lt. John San. Dearbon, Lt. Jabez Hoit, to be the Comitte for that purpose."
April 19,
" Voted, That the Town will advance and Raise the Bounties to Hier the Solders for the Town's proportion as Demanded or Required by the Committee of Safety for the continent and State.
" Voted, That their Shall be a Committe of three men Chosen to Inlist Twelve men as Soldiers to Serve in the Continentel Servise During the war.
" Voted, That Robert Wilson, Esq., Insin William Liteh and Capt. John Underhill to be the men.
" Voted, That the Select men Shall Hier money to Pay the Bounty allowed to the above Solders when Inlisted, and the muster master Shall muster them and Request the money to Pay said Bounties."
July 5,
" Voted, That Jacob Chase and William White, Esq., Shall be added to the former Committe in order to pro- cuer and make up our proportion of the Contentell Battel- ion according to the order of the Committe of Safety in April Last ; and that the Committe be Impowered to pro- cure and Get the men upon the Best Terms they can, and what they are obliged to Give more then the Continent and · State have allowed as a bounty, the Town Shall Repay them.
" Voted, That the above mentioned Committe (viz.), Rob- ert Wilson, Esq., Capt John Underhill, William Litch, Jacob Chase and William White, Esq', Shall procure and get five or six men for Solders to Goe to Road Island for six months upon the best terms they Can for the Town.
" Voted, That the above Committe Shall Call upon the Select men for what money they Shall Hier as Solders as aforesaid ; and the Select men Shall Ingage to pay those men they Shall Hier or Raise, and pay the Same to them or their order."
August 11,
" Voted, That we are willing to Joyn with Portsmouth,
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Exeter and other towns in this State for Redusing the prices of the Nesecerys of Life as Recomended by them to us.
.
" Voted, That the town Except and approve of what the Commite and Select men Did withe Regard to Hiering two men as solders to Goe to Portsmouth."
September 6,
" Voted, That Capt. Stephen Dearbon, Capt. David With- erspoon, Capt. Benja Currier, Shall be a Committe to Pro- cure our proportion of what men is Sent for to Goe to Portsmouth as Solders upon as Reasonable terms as they can be Got.
" It was put to Vote Whether to Except and approve of the Plan or forme of Government as now Read in said meeting formed by the Convention at Concord: and 52 Voted to Receive and approve of it, and five voted against it.
1780. At a mecting held June 20, 1780, it was
" Voted, That a Committe be Chosen to Procure our pro- portion of men for this town to fill up the Battalion in the Continential army, till the Last Day of December next, being Eleven men.
" Voted, That Capt. Stephen Dearbon, Capt. David Wetherspoon, Capt. Benja Currier, Leut. Jabez Hoit and major William White to be the Committe to Procure sd men.
" Voted, That the above Committe be Instructed and Desired to Procure the above Number of men to Serve as aforesaid at as Reasonable a Rate as they can ; and what sum Soever the Said Committe Shall Ingage to Pay any man so Hiered, the Selectmen Shall furnish the Committe with money or Specie soficient to pay them ; and Raise the Same of the town by way of assessment."
At a meeting held July 5, 1780,
" Voted, That those Twenty men that is Required to make up our proportion of men Shall be Hired.
" Voted, To Chuse a Committe to Hire said men.
" Voted, That Capt. John Underhill, Jacob Chase, Esq', and majr William White be that Committe.
" Voted, That the Said Committe Shall Call upon the Select men, and they Shall Give theyr Securety to those men that they Shall Hier for what they shall agree with them for, and Pay them."
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At an adjourned meeting held July 10, 1780,
" Voted, That what men the Committe Have Raised, be Excepted on the Terms the committe agreed with them for (Viz.), that they have 30 Bushels of Indian Corne pr month, and 250 Dollers for three months, and in proportion for a Longer or a Shorter time.
" Voted, That the Selectmen Proceed as they have Be- gun in Respect to Beef untill they have Completed the Sum the Court Have Called on the Town for (Viz. ), that they Ingage money Equal to Corn at three Shillings pr Bushell for what they Purches."
At a meeting in November,
" Voted, That the Selectmen Shall make a Corn Rate on the Inhabitants, to Pay the Solders what Corn they have Ingaged to them."
The Presbyterians voted to raise one thousand dollars to hire preaching, and to pay the ministers fifty dollars per day.
The winter of 1780 was remarkable for its severity. Coffin's history of Newbury and Chase's history of Haver- hill both say that for " forty days, thirty-one of which were in March, there was no perceptible thaw on the southerly side of any house." It is my impression that it was in January instead of March that it did not thaw.
David Allen, Esq., of Salem, N. H., related to me, about forty years ago, the circumstances as they occurred there. He or his father owned a grist-mill, and the people wanted a path to get to it. It would snow one day and blow the next. They broke with oxen until the snow was so deep and the oxen so cross, that they gave it up and tried a sin- gle track, so that they could go to mill on horseback ; but they had to give that up also, and carry their grists on their backs, traveling on snow-shoes.
The same year is also memorable for the " dark day," the 19th of May. The sun was seen at its rising, but was soon obscured by clouds and smoke, and it was so dark in the middle of the day that the fowls went to roost and candles were needed. It continued dark through the day and first part of the night.
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1781. At a meeting held Jan. 29, 1781,
" Voted, That a Committe Shall be chosen to Procure . our proportion of Solders for three years, or During the present warr.
" Voted, That the above Committe Consists of five men.
" Voted, Capt. underhill, Leut. Jabez Hoit, Robt Wilson, Esq., Capt. Stephen Dearbon and John Graham to be the Committe to Procure the Said men.
" Voted, That the above Committe be Desired to Procure their above proportion of men upon as Reasonable terms as they can for the Benefit of the Town ; and that the Select- men Hier money and pay what they Shall Ingage them ; and as soon as Reasonable Raise ye money of the town according to Law, by way of assessment, as other town Charges are Raised."
At a meeting held March 5, 1781,
" Voted, That the Selectmen procuer in the best manner they can, and Deliver agreeable to the Court order, one third of the Beef called for by Congress for the year 1781, by the Last Day of march Instant (Vz.), 9206 pounds.
" Voted, To add four men as Committe men to joyn the Committe chosen to Inlist Continentell Solders.
"Voted, Joseph Lynn, Callab Hall, Capt Benja Currier and Capt Henry moore, for the Said Committe."
At a meeting held July 5,
" Voted, To Raise our proportion of Beef for the armey.
" Voted, To make a Beef Tax.
" Voted, That the selectmen Shall Divide the Town into classes in order to Procure the above said Beef.
"Voted, That the Selectmen be Impowered to Set a value upon Beef, that any Delinquent class Should have provided, or any Individual belonging to any Class ; and make assessments on them Soficient to purches Said Beef, and that one half of sd beef be paid within three weeks, and the other half in Septembr next.
" Voted, That Leut. John San. Dearbon and pearson Richardson be added to the Committe for Procuring our cota of the Contentel Solders."
At a meeting July 30,
" Voted, That in order to Procure the three months men now Required, the Selectmen Shall Divide the Town into Classes according to their Poles and Estates, and make as many Classes as there is three months men Required
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ont of this Town; and that Every Class be obliged to pro- cure one man for that Service ; and if any Class, person, or persons in Said Class Shall Refuse or Neglect to pay his proportion towards Hiering or paying said man, the Select- men Shall assess him Duble his proportion for the Hier of said man ; and he or they Shall be obliged to pay it."
At a meeting Nov. 1,
" Voted, That Jethro Colby Shall be a Collector to Colect and Gather what Corn is yet Due to the Town, and that the present Selectmen Shall Give the Said Colector a warrant to Colect Said Corn, or the Value thereof in money, as the Said Selectmen Shall Judge Right and just."
Capt. John Underhill and Robert Wilson, Esq., were chosen representatives to the General Assembly " To trans- act such Business, and Pursue such mesurs as they may Judge Necessary for the Publick Good, and Particularly to vote in the Choyce of Delegates for tlie Continental Con- gress."
Mr. Flagg acknowledges the receipt of eight thousand continental dollars in full of his salary the year past. The Presbyterians voted to raise four thousand dollars this year.
1782. January 8, 1782,
" It was Put to Vote to See if the Town Will Except of the plan of Government as it now Stands, and it was past universally in the Negative; 149 Voters being present.
" Voted, That Leut. Jabez Hoit Shall carry these Votes past with Regard to the plan of Government, with the Commite's proposed alterations and amendments, to Con- cord, and Deliver them to the president of the Convention to be held there the foarth Wednesday of January Instant.
" Voted, That six more persons be added to the former Committe to make any further Remarks or amendments on the plan of Government that they may Think Neseeery, and make return at the adjournment.
" Voted, Leut. Sam" Hesseltine, Joseph Linn, Joseph Blanchard, Capt. Benja. Currier, Sam" Emerson, Esq., and the Reved mr. Flagg be the men.
" Voted, That Jethro Colby be Cleared from Colecting the Corn that Remains Not Colected."
January 14,
" Voted, That a Committe be chosen to Take the minds
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of Such Inhabitants of the Town as have not Voted in the meetings Respecting the Plan of Government.
" Voted, That the Committee Consist of five persons.
" Voted, That Lt William Lock, Theodor Shackford, Joseph Blanchard, Joseph Linn and Richard Hesseltine be the members of the Committee.
" Voted, That Hezekiah Underhill and Sam" Crumbie be Colectors to Coleet the Remainder of the Corn tax which was Due for the year 1780."
April 9,
" In order to procure our Quota of men to fill up the Contentinetel army it is Voted, that the Select men class the Town into Seventeen classes Equel as they can accord- ing to poles and Estate ; and that Each Class Shall Procuer one man Each Class ; and Further Voted, that if any class, or any Perticular person in Said Class, Shall Refuse or un- reasonably Neglect to pay his proportionable part of the charge Toward Hiering and paying Said man as afforesaid, the Select men Shall assess Such Class, or Such Perticuler man in Said Class, Duble his proportion for Such Neglect. Said money Shall be paid by the 20th Day of may next.
" Voted, That the Select men Shall pay for the Rum that will not be Received by the State as Soon as possable, and make the Best of the Rum the Town has now at Haverhill."
The following was found among the papers of Col. Ste- phen Dearborn :
To Cupt. Stephen Dearborn and Mr. Robert Rowe : -
Agreeably to an act of the General Court and a vote of the town, the following persons who are named, with the amount of their ratable estate, are to procure one able- bodied, effective man for the continental service three years, or during the war, to be ready to be mustered in, on or before the 10th day of May next, or pay the fine agree- able to law and vote of the town. You are desired to notify each one in this list to meet and prescribe such method as they shall think proper in order to procure said men.
Jabez Hoit, Stephen Morse,
Joseph Blanchard,
Selectmen of Chester.
Chester, April 29, 1782.
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£
d.
£ s. d.
David Richardson
1 9
1
Barnard Bricket
2 1 4
Joseph Carr 3 6 10
John Clark
1 7 0
Ezekiel H. Kelly
0 10 00 Abraham Morse
0 12 0
Wid. Ann Carr
0 9 3 Capt. S. Dearborn 2 14 0
Lieut. John Lane
2 17 7
Caleb Hall
1 12 1
Jonathan Norton
2 10 11
Jonathan Emery 1 14 4
Simeon Norton 0 12 00
Samuel White
0 16 6
Joseph Norton 2 18 8 Anthony Stickney 0 3 0
Jonathan Berry
2 14 5
Moody Chase 1 18
9
Jeremiah Griffin
1
6
0 Wells Chase
2 2
8
Robert Rowe
1 16 2 Jeremiah Underhill 1 17 2
Samuel Murray
1 13 6
Nathaniel Wood
1
. 14
2
May 23, 1782,
" Voted, To Send Two men to the Convention.
" Voted, That Jacob Chase, Esq', and major William White Shall be members of the Convention to be held at Concord the first Tuesday of June Next, by adjournment, to frame a permanent Sistem of Government for the State of Newhamp."
December 23,
" It was put to Vote to see if the Town will Except of the Report of the Committe appoynted by the Town to Revise the plan of Government ; and it was Voted that said Report be Received and sent to the Convention at Concord, as their Reasons and objections why they will not Receive Said plan as it now Stands, by the Nº of 78 yeas and not one Nay."
Jacob Hills refused to serve as constable, and paid his fine. Two others were chosen, and it was voted that they should have nothing for their service. They had the rates to collect.
The money last year was the old continental, at about its lowest point. This year it must have been' upon a specie basis.
Capt. Pierson Richardson agreed to deliver twenty cords of wood to Mr. Flagg for $28. The Presbyterians voted to raise $150.
1783. At a meeting held May 15,
" Voted, that Leut. Jabez Hoit Shall Represent the Town as a member at the Convention to be held at Con-
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cord on the first Tuesday of June Next, for the purpose of framing a permenent Plan of Government for the State of New Hampshire, in the place of Jacob Chase, Esq', who is Dismissed at his own Request."
May 26,
" Put to Vote whether to Except of the plan of Govern- ment as it Now Stands. past in the Negetive by 127; one for it. Then it was put to Vote to See if they Will Except of it withe the proposed amendments ; And it Was Voted to Except of it when the proposed amendments were made to it."
August 28,
" Voted that the Last Peace published by the Last Con- vention held at Concord, Called the Alternetive, Be Ex- cepted by the Town : 65 Votes for it ; Two against it."
There was " a great frost " August 10.
1784. Two important events transpired this year : Peace had been made with Great Britain, the independence of the United States being acknowledged and the army dis- banded ; and a constitution of State governments formed. The chief executive was a president, and Meshech Weare, of Hampton Falls, was nearly unanimously elected. The Council was to consist of a certain number from each county, and Rockingham was to have five.
The votes in Chester were nearly unanimous. Chester was entitled to one representative, and Capt. John Under- hill was elected. Two hundred dollars were voted for schools. A committee of five was chosen to sell all the wood and timber on the school and parsonage lots. The Congregational parish " Voted to take up the two Hind Seats Each Side the Broad alley in order to Build four pews for the purpose of procuring a Bell." They chose a committee to build the pews, sell them at auction, and purchase a bell. The pews were built and sold and bell bought. See 1788.
May 28, in a drunken row at the raising of Hatter Underhill's barn, Sam. Blunt struck Matthew Templeton with a stone in the forehead, and broke in the skull. Dr. Kittredge was sent for, who removed the fractured bone
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and replaced it with a piece of silver ; it healed and he lived more than forty years afterwards.
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