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Roger Gilmore, Abel Parker,
Benjamin Prescott, Joseph Thorndike, Joseph Cutter, Alexander Milliken,
Laban Price, Hiram Duncan, Jonas M. Mellville,
Peter Upton, Amasa Kennie, Stillman Clarke. Roderick R. Perkins,
David A. Wood, Spencer L. Bailey, Guerley A. Phelps, Oscar H. Bradley, Geo. W. Todd, Joseph P. Frost,
Samuel Dakin,
Robinson Perkins,
William Ainsworth, David Gilmore,
John A. Prescott, Nehemiah Adams, George Briant, Luther Cutter, Asa Baker,
James L. Bolster, Henry B. Wheeler, J. W. Fassett, Alfred Sawyer, H. B. Aldrich, L. N. Willoughby,
Edward Spaulding,
Samuel Patrick,
Benjamin Cutter, Samuel Foster,
John A. Prescott, 2d, J. P. Frost. J. E. B. Jewitt,
*Edward Spaulding, 1837-8-9.
*Samuel Patrick, 1840. John Felt, 1841-2-3-4-5, '47. Laban Rice, 1846.
Peter Upton, 1848-9-50.
*John A. Prescott, 1858-9.
* Alfred Sawyer, 1874-5. Joseph W. Fassett, 1876-7.
* Born in Jaffrey.
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VOTE FOR GOVERNOR.
Justices of the quorum :
Asa Parker, Luke Howe,
John Felt,
Adonijah Howe,
John Conant,
Alonzo Bascom,
Oliver Prescott, Levi Fisk,
Addison Prescott.
Justices throughout the state :
Abel Parker, John Fox,
F. S. Pierce,
Frederick W. Bailey, Frank H. Cutter,
F. B. Spalter.
The chief magistrate of New Hampshire was styled president by the constitution adopted by the state in 1783, and governor by the constitution as revised in 1793.
VOTE FOR PRESIDENT.
Votes.
Votes.
1784. Meshech Weare,
17 1788. John Sullivan, 2
1785. John Langdon,
6 1789. John Sullivan, 46
George Atkinson,
29 1790. John Pickering, 25
1786. John Langdon,
40 1791. Josiah Bartlett, 69
1787. John Langdon,
68 Joshua Wentworth,
I
John Sullivan, I3
1792. Josiah Bartlett,
81
1788. John Langdon,
52
VOTE FOR GOVERNOR.
1793.
Josiah Bartlett,
41
1806. Jeremiah Smith, 64
John T. Gilman,
5
John Langdon,
24
1794. John T. Gilman,
57
Timothy Farrar,
9
1795. John T. Gilman,
61 Robertson Perkins,
9
1796.
John T. Gilman,
62
Zacheus Witt,
I
1797. John T. Gilman,
65
1807. Jeremiah Smith,
72
1798. John T. Gilman,
65
John Langdon,
26
1799. John T. Gilman,
72
1808. Jeremiah Smith,
51
1800. John T. Gilman,
100
John Langdon,
51
1801. John T. Gilman,
I21
1809. Jeremiah Smith, John Langdon,
188
1802. John T. Gilman,
156
1803.
John T. Gilman,
145
1810. Jeremiah Smith, John Langdon,
219
1804. John T. Gilman,
168
200
John Langdon,
8
18II. Jeremiah Smith, John Langdon, 40
1805. John T. Gilman,
223
1812. John T. Gilman, 203
John Langdon,
30
Wm. Plumer,
23
John Langdon, 9
45
46
48
HISTORY OF JAFFREY.
1813. John T. Gilman,
207
1836. Isaac Hill, 90
Wm. Plumer,
35
George Sullivan, 109
1814. John T. Gilman, Wm. Plumer,
47
Scattering, 4
Timothy Farrar, I 1838.
Isaac Hill,
IIO
1839. John Page,
II7
1816. James Sheaf,
221
1840. Edmund Parker,
14
Wm. Plumer, 48
22I
John Page, Enos Stephens,
152
1817. Jeremiah Mason, Wm. Plumer,
48
1841. Daniel Hoit,
23
1818. Jeremiah Mason, Wm. Plumer,
48
Enos Stephens,
142
1819. William Hale, Samuel Bell, 21
I 38
1842. John H. White, Daniel Hoit,
39
1820.
Samuel Bell,
35
Enos Stephens, Henry Hubbard,
94
1821. Samuel Bell,
IIO
80
1822. Samuel Bell,
95
1843.
Anthony Colby, Henry Hubbard, Daniel Hoit,
34
1824.
Levi Woodbury, David L. Morril,
20
1844. Anthony Colby,
I27
Jeremiah Smith,
65
John H. Steele, Daniel Hoit.
40
1826. David L. Morril, Benjamin Pierce,
29
John H. Steele,
32
1827. David L. Morril, Benjamin Pierce,
76
1846. Anthony Colby,
127
1828. John Bell,
64
Jared W. Williams,
118
63 Nathaniel S. Berry,
39
1829.
Benjamin Pierce, John Bell,
64
1847. Nathaniel S. Berry, J. W. Williams, Anthony Colby, Scattering,
34
Benjamin Pierce,
63
I31
1830. Timothy Upham,
I73
143
Matthew Harvey,
63
2
1831. Ichabod Bartlett, Samuel Dinsmoor,
148
1848. Jared W. Williams, Nathaniel S. Berry,
I26
1832. Ichabod Bartlett, Samuel Dinsmoor,
119
1849. Nathaniel S. Berry, Samuel Dinsmoor, Levi Chamberlain,
38
1833. Samuel Dinsmoor, Arthur Livermore,
30
1850. Levi Chamberlain, Samuel Dinsmoor, IOI Nathaniel S. Berry, 42
I28
1834. William Badger,
118
1835. William Badger,
179
Joseph Healey, 88
185I. Thomas E. Sawyer, 120
92
1823. Levi Woodbury,
91
78
Samuel Dinsmoor,
49
John H. White,
4
1825. David L. Morril,
148
IIO
1845. Anthony Colby,
II5
2
Daniel Hoit,
23
90
184
176
114
126
145
224 1837. Isaac Hill, 73
1815. John T. Gilman, 237 Wm. Plumer, 43
James Wilson, 174
113
19I
John Page,
99
26
45
97
49
VOTE FOR GOVERNOR.
Samuel Dinsmoor. 96
George Stark,
I34
John Atwood, 42
I862.
Nathaniel S. Berry, 197
1852.
Thomas E. Sawyer, 119
George Stark, I22
Noah Martin,
115
1863.
Ira A. Eastman, 115
John Atwood,
33
Joseph A. Gilmore,
180
1853. James Bell, II2
II4 1864. E. W. Harrington, Joseph A. Gilmore, 200
John H. White, 34
1865. Frederick Smyth, E. W. Harrington, II5
178
1854. James Bell, 102 Nathaniel B. Baker, 94 Jared Perkins, 42
1866.
Frederick Smyth, 189
John G. Sinclair,
123
1855. Ralph Metcalf,
127
1867. Walter Harriman, 189 John G. Sinclair, 126
N. B. Baker,
82
James Bell,
19
203 I868. Walter Harriman, J. G. Sinclair, I33
John S. Wells,
107
1869.
John Bedel. 104
Ichabod Goodwin, 12
Onslow Stearns,
179
Scattering, I
1870. John Bedel,
95
John S. Wells, 116
1858. William Haile,
175
Asa P. Cate,
II4
1871. James Pike, James A. Weston,
122
1859. Ichabod Goodwin, 19I
Asa P. Cate, 109
Ezekiel A. Straw, 210
1860. Ichabod Goodwin, 198 1873. James A. Weston, 104
Asa P. Cate,
I33
Ezekiel A. Straw, 181
1861. Nathaniel S. Berry, 187
186 Lorenzo D. Barrows,
1857. William Haile,
176
Onslow Stearns,
176
1872. James A. Weston, 123
I
1856. Ralph Metcalf, 176
Noah Martin, 96
CHAPTER V.
TRAVEL-HIGHWAY-COUNTY ROAD-THIRD NEW HAMP- SHIRE TURNPIKE-MONADNOCK RAILROAD.
P REVIOUS to 1800 the inhabitants travelled on foot, sleds, carts, and horseback. The sleds and carts were drawn by oxen. The men rode on saddles, and the women on pillions behind them. At a later period the side-saddle came into use by those who were able to own two horses. Phineas Spaulding, who lived in the west part of the town, brought his wife into town at the time of their marriage in a cart drawn by oxen. The Rev. Laban Ainsworth mar- ried Miss Mary Minot, of Concord, Mass., and performed his wedding tour on horseback. He was met on entering town by a numerous cavalcade of citizens, and escorted on the way to their future home. Wheel carriages drawn by horses were not in use till later than 1800. In 1804 the two-wheeled " shay," as it was then called, was taxed. The number taxed was five, owned by David Gilmore, Alexander Milliken, Robinson Perkins, Eleazer Spofford, and Joseph Thorndike : valuation of each carriage, from $40 to $70. Horse wagons made their appearance in 1813 or 1814. The owners were Captain Eber Lincoln and Abel Marshall. In winter a rude wooden sleigh called a pung, drawn by horses, was used. In 1802, the town provided a hearse for the conveyance of the dead to the place of interment, pre- vious to which they were borne on the shoulders of men. Wagons at length came into very general use. Their form and size were much better adapted to family use than the
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COUNTY ROAD.
square top chaise. The old cumbersome chaise has long since disappeared, and but few now living have any recollec- tion of them. They were no doubt well adapted to the nar- row, ill-constructed roads of those times.
When the grant of the town was made, in 1749, the grantors, at a meeting held in Dunstable, Massachusetts, appointed Jacob Lawrence and William Spaulding a com- mittee to lay out a road from No. 2 (Wilton) to Mid- dle Monadnock No. 2, through Peterborough Slip (Sharon). When the town was incorporated, in 1773, a county road passed through the south-west part of the town, from Rindge to New Marlborough. Of the locality and condition of other roads we have no knowledge. At the first town- meeting six road-surveyors were chosen ; and at a second meeting, held a few days later, £80 was voted by the town to be worked on the roads. At the annual meeting, 1774, nine road-surveyors were chosen and £80 of money raised. In 1775, £130 of money was raised, and eleven surveyors chosen. Transcripts of roads were made by the selectmen, and presented to the town for acceptance immediately after the incorporation of the town. The first one presented was from the county road to Fitzwilliam line. Eleven transcripts of roads were presented and accepted during the year 1774. The most important ones were as follows :
From Borland's mills (East Jaffrey) to the town line of Rindge.
From lot 4, range 10, to the county road leading from Rindge to New Marlborough.
From Roger Gilmore's house, lot 13, range 6, to Bor- land's mills.
From Joseph Hogg's, lot 10, range 9, to the county road.
From the town line of Sharon, lot 22, range 5, to Roger Gilmore's, lot 13, range 6.
From the centre of the town northerly to Wm. Mitchell's (now Michael Fitzgerald's), from thence to Joseph Thorn- dike's, now Frank H. Cutter's.
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HISTORY OF JAFFREY.
In 1775 the following transcripts were presented and accepted :
From John Borland's mills, by Long pond, to Eaton's mills, now Squantum.
From Joseph Thorndike's house, now F. H. Cutter's, to Dublin line.
From the common south to the river bridge, south-east by John Gilmore's to Rindge line.
1778. From the meeting-house by the house of John Briant, east to John Davidson's (now Henry K. French's), to the town line of Peterborough, west of Thomas Turner's barn.
From Oliver Proctor's house, on the line between lots 16 and 17, range 8, to Borland's mills.
From the bridge near Joshua Thorndike's, lot II, range 3, to the road leading to Joseph Cutter's, now the residence of Joel W. Poole.
1779. From Dublin line, lot 17, range I, by the house of Benj. Cutter, now John Frost's, to Elijah Goodale's house.
1781. From Joseph Turner's house, lot 21, range I, by the house of Abel Parker's, to the road leading from Joseph Bates's to the meeting-house.
1783. From the road leading by John Briant's to Peter- borough, east of said Briant's, by James Gowing's and Moses Stickney's, to Dublin line.
1785. From Benj. Prescott's to Sharon line.
1799. From Jonathan Emery's house, south-east to the county road.
1801. From the county road, near Alexander Milliken's, south 22° east to the county road near Daniel Priest's.
1803. From the Carey house south by Abel Parker's, Samuel Dakin's, and Samuel Adams's, to the county road.
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COUNTY ROAD.
HIGHWAYS.
After 1800 but few new roads were called for ; some were discontinued, and new ones on better ground were substituted. After carriages came into general use, a necessity was created for better roads. In many cases hills could be avoided and other improvements made by chang- ing the locality of the road. In district No. 1I, for many years the road to Dublin went over a very high hill, by the house of John Conant. In 1822-3, by the individual enter- prise of John Cutter, 2d, with a few others, the present fine level road by the residence of Joel H. Poole was built. Another, from the residence of William Hodge by Walter Carr's, lot 17, range 5, north to the road near the house of Roger Brigham, 1827; from Jacob Baldwin's, lot 18, range 5, to west of Zebediah Pierce's, now Elijah Smith's, to the road leading to Peterborough ; from Samuel Foster's to the road leading by Jacob Baldwin's to Zebediah Pierce's, 1824 ; from the road running north of Laban Rice's, lot 13, range 6, to the road that leads to John Briant's, lot 14, range 4, 1838 ; from Calvin J. Parker's, lot 20, range I, to Dublin line, built 1834; from the old factory down to the Cheshire fac- tory, 1838; from Cheshire factory to Peterborough line, 1841.
COUNTY ROAD.
The old county road from Rindge, through the south- west part of Jaffrey to Marlborough, did not meet the wants of the town. The public good required one through the centre, from Marlborough to the county line of Hillsbor- ough. At a town-meeting, held May 16, 1785, an article was presented to see if the town " will petition the Quarter Sessions for a county road through the town of Jaffrey to the county line of Hillsborough, and act thereon as they think proper."
The town chose a committee of three,-Jedediah Sanger,
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HISTORY OF JAFFREY.
Benjamin Prescott, and Roger Gilmore,-to join a committee from Rindge to petition for said road. At the next annual town-meeting, March 30, 1786, Jedediah Sanger, Roger Gil- more, Benjamin Prescott, William Pope, and Joseph Bates were chosen to meet the court's committee at Marlbor- ough. The town also voted to expend one half of the mon- ey raised for the benefit of roads on the county road, " if the said road should be laid out by the court's committee ;" and Benjamin Spaulding and Benjamin Prescott were chosen surveyors to see the same expended.
At a town-meeting, held Sept. 15, 1788, a committee of eleven were chosen to meet the New Ipswich committee, and view the county road through Jaffrey.
At a town-meeting, August 27, 1792, the town voted to have all persons living on the county road, and south of it, work out their tax on the same.
At a town-meeting, October 27, 1792, the town voted to raise a sum of money in particular, to be expended on the county road.
Voted £100 to be laid out on the sd road.
At the same meeting the town also voted to raise £200, to be laid out on the road from Marlborough line, by the meeting-house to Rindge line, on the road to New Ipswich.
From the acts of the town, it appears that the county road cost more for repairs than all the other roads in town, and even then it did not meet the requirements of the public travel. At a town-meeting held September 2, 1793, an arti- cle was presented,-
To see what the town will do in regard of the bill of indict- ment found against this town, for the neglect of the repairs of the County road.
Voted that the Grand Juryman be Directed to settle the bill of indictment at the next Court.
It cost but little to accept of transcripts of roads as pre- sented, which required no money for building the road or for damages, when it was expected that the inhabitants
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TURNPIKE.
living thereon would make such roads as suited their own convenience, and keep them in such repair as would meet their present wants ; but a county road, laid out for public travel, required a construction and condition based on different principles.
TURNPIKE.
The difficulty and wants attending a public highway probably gave rise to the building of a turnpike, to be sup- ported by toll. Accordingly a petition was presented, and a charter was granted December 25, 1799 ; the road was built the following year. Many of the inhabitants who had means, took stock in the enterprise, among whom was Col. Benjamin Prescott, who was a director and contractor. The road had a power in its operations highly beneficial to the interests of the town. It diverted the travel from the neighboring towns, and increased the same; it increased the business of inn-keeping, and enabled the inhabitants to carry with their own teams the surplus products of their farms to market.
After the road was built, it was the common practice for almost every one, when the first snow fell in December, with his own team to carry his products of pork, poultry, butter, and cheese to the Boston market. It was not un- common to see from twenty to forty teams in company, thus loaded, on their way to Boston, over the turnpike, from towns above. A line of stages was also established, by Dearborn and Emerson, from Boston to Walpole, through Jaffrey, in 1803 ; also a post-office in the winter of 1801, Peter Lawrence, postmaster.
The enterprise was successful for a time, but its success encouraged other towns to get roads of like character char- tered, which divided the travel and ruined the stock. In 1822 it was practically abandoned, the town voting to keep the road in good repair, providing the said turnpike shall become a free road. This was the end of toll-gates on the
1
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HISTORY OF JAFFREY.
Third New Hampshire Turnpike. At first the town voted to keep the turnpike road in repair, on the above conditions, for two years; and at the annual meeting in 1824 it voted to accept of the turnpike through Jaffrey, and keep the same in good repair without limitation of time. The town, from the beginning and ever afterwards, was unfriendly to the exist- ence of a turnpike. Its gates exacting a fee for travel were very distasteful. When the petition for a turnpike was first presented to the town at a meeting of the same, Nov. 18, 1799, by an article to hear and consider the substance of a petition and order of court thereon, respecting a petition of Frederick W. Geyer and others, concerning a turnpike road from Bellows Falls to Massachusetts line, and act thereon as should then be thought proper, the town voted to pass over the article.
At a town-meeting, held Aug. 8, 1800, there was present- ed an article,-
To see if the town will give up to the turnpike corporation in this State so much of the old road as is necessary to be used for sd Turnpike road. Voted to pass over the article.
Town meeting, Nov. 17, IS02 :
Art. 2. To see if the town will agree to move the gate that is erected across the River bridge or build a bridge across the river on the same ground where the old bridge stood on the road leading from Jaffrey meeting-house to New Ipswich and act thereon.
Voted that the gate be moved off the bridge south of Dea. Spofford's mills.
Voted that the Corporation have thirty days to move sª gate
Reconsidered and Voted that if sª Corporation do not move off' sª gate immediately after the tenth day of Jan. next, then the selectmen are directed to move sd gate.
Town-meeting, March 1, ISO3 :
Art. 15. To see what order the town will take upon the gate that is erected across the dam near Dea. Spofford's.
Wee the inhabitants of the town of Jaffrey, having taken into consideration the conduct of the Proprietors of the third N. H. turnpike road in fixing a turnpike gate on the public traveled
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TURNPIKE.
road, (being so before at the time sd Proprietors were incorpo- rated) at the bridge or dam across the river near Dea. E. Spof- ford's ; that sd gate was set upon sd road in violation of the act of incorporation, which expressly forbids them to erect any gate on or across any part of any road, which was at that time used and occupied as a public highway ; and as this town did at a public meeting in Nov. last vote that in case said Propri- etors should not remove sd gate by the tenth of Jan. then next. which was in our opinion showing great lenity to sd Proprie- tors, that then and in that case Lt Thomas Adams, Capt Rufus Houghton and Lt. Moses Worcester, being then Selectmen be directed to move sd gate off from said road or highway, who have shamefully neglected their duty therein, and have suffered said gate to remain to this present time tho in Justice to the said Moses Worcester the inhabitants do hereby declare that they are satisfied that he would have done his duty had he been assisted by the other Selectmen. The inhabitants of sª town farther taking into consideration the pernicious consequences which will arise from any set of men having such influence that the laws of the State cannot be duly executed, do view it a duty incumbent on them to oppose the arbitrary power exer- cised by the Proprietors of the third N. H. turnpike road in their erecting and keeping sd gate across the public road at the bridge or dam aforesaid ; therefore Voted the present Select- men (David Smiley, Roger Brigham and Jona. Fox) be direct- ed, and it is hereby solemnly enjoined upon them to re- move the gate aforesaid with everything apertaining to the same, which said inhabitants view to be a public nuisance within twenty-four hours from this time; and again in case said Proprietors shall again have the temerity to erect another gate on or across any part of the public road thro' this town which was used as such before sd Proprietors were incorpo- rated, then and in that case the said selectmen are hereby en- joned to remove the same as often as there shall be any gate erected as aforesaid ; and the sd inhabitants hereby pledge themselves that they will support and save harmless the Selectmen for doing their duty as prescribed in this vote, and to that end the inhabitants aforsd do hereby fully authorize and impower their Selectmen in case they should be prosecuted by sd Proprietors for removing sd gate or gates as directed by this vote to assess any sum or sums of money on the inhabitants aforesaid which they may deem necessary (not exceeding one thousand dollars, without farther directions from the inhab- itants of this town) to defray their expenses in defending them- selves against such prosecution or prosecutions, and commit said assessments to the collectors, with sufficient warrants to collect the same agreeable to law.
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HISTORY OF JAFFREY.
May 13, 1803. Art. 3. To see if the town will give any directions in regard to the defence of the action of the Proprie- tors of the third N. H. turnpike against the Selectmen of Jaf- frey or act any thing relative to the same.
Voted to pass over the sd article.
Jan. 27, 1804. Received of the town of Jaffrey forty-five dollars in full, for money expended by me in defence of the ac- tion of the Proprietors of the sd N. H. Turnpike road against David Smiley, Roger Brigham and Jona. Fox for removing the gate near Dea. Spoffords.
David Smiley.
Nov. 5, 1804. Art. 5, to see if the town will quitclaim so much of the old County road as is covered by the turnpike to thie Corporation of the third N. H. turnpike road.
Voted to pass over the article.
Aug. 29, 1808. Art. 3. To see if the town will give liberty to the Proprietors of the third N. H. Turnpike Corporation to erect a gate on the Bridge by Dea. Spoffords.
Voted to pass over the article.
The gate was erected in the town of Sharon, where it re- mained for many years, when it was removed to New Ips- wich, near Barrett mountain.
RAILROAD.
In 1864 the legislature enacted a law allowing towns and cities to make gratuities for the purpose of building railroads, by a vote of two thirds of the legal voters present at any town-meeting legally holden for that purpose. In accordance with that law, at a town-meeting, held March, 1867, the town voted a gratuity of five per cent. on the val- uation of the town for that year to the Monadnock Railroad Company, to enable them to construct a railroad from Win- chendon, through Jaffrey, to Peterborough. Vote for the gratuity, 207 ; against it, 79. The road was completed, and opened for business June 6, 1871. The first trip from Win- chendon to Jaffrey was on November 22, 1870.
KILBURN
CHAPTER VI.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY-MEETING-HOUSE.
T r HE Masonian grant or charter required that a good, convenient meeting-house be built within six years from the date of the charter, and made provision for that purpose by a gift of three hundred acres of land. No meet- ing-house appears to have been built when the town was organized. The next year after, on the 26th day of April, the matter of building a meeting-house was brought before the town. The town voted " to build one on the common, near the senter this and the ensuing year."
Voted, sd house is to be forty feet wide, Fifty-five in Lenth. Posts twenty seven feet in Lenth. Roger Gilmore, William Turner Alex' Mc-Neil a Committee to see the same affected, the above Committee to Vendue sd house to the last bider.
At a meeting in July following, the town
Voted " to Reconsider their vote in Building a meeting- house also their vote in Chose of Committee, then Voted sd meetinghouse Sixty feet in Lenth, Forty five wide, the Posts twenty seven feet in Lenth also Voted to have a Porch at each end of sd hous.
Voted Mr. Roger Gilmore Mr. Willm Turner, Mr. Mathew Wallace be a Committee to see the work affected in Building sª house.
Voted that the Comee shall Expose sd house to sail at Public Vendue by the first wednesday of Sept next, also Voted that the Great timber of sd house be hewed by the first day of Decem' next, also voted Fifteen Pounds L. M. towards build- ing sª house, to be Paid by the first day of December Next, also Voted that sª house shall be Raised by the Middle of June
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HISTORY OF JAFFREY.
Next at the towns Cost. Voted sixty Pounds to be Paid by the middle of June next towards building sd house. Also Voted that the whole cost shall be Paid by the first of June in the year 1776 as the afors'd house shall be Finished. That the Fraim be well under Pined with good stone and lime, and the outside all well Compleated, and Collored like Rindge meting- house, and lower floor lead Duble, and Pulpit like that in Rindge meting house all the above work compleated by the middle of June 1776."
At the next annual meeting, March 30, 1775, the town
Voted to Sell Lot No. 4 in the 6th Range, No. 12 and 20 in the first Range to Pay some of the Cost in Building the meet- ing house, and chose William Smiley, John Gilmore Roger Gilmore a Comee to make sail of the aforsaid Lots, also voted to sell the aforsaid Lots at Publick Vendue, to the highest Bidder, also Voted to sell the Pew Ground in the meeting- house in sd town, to pay the first cost in Building the meeting- house at Public Vendue. Voted the building Comee Provide all things necessary to rase sd meetinghouse at the town cost.
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