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David Mann,
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Elisha Mills,
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Morgan Noble,
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Benjamin Parker,
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Agur Tomlinson,
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Stephen Sherman,
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William Agur Tomlinson,
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Thomas Tousey,
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William Thompson,
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Stephen Tomlinson,
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Nathan Wells,
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98
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Hezekiah Tomlison,
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Arthur Worster,
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Joseph Wells,
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Moses Walton,
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Thomas Worster, 3rd.,
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Thomas Worster, 2nd.,
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Ebenezer Worster,
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Thomas Worster, jr.,
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71
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Josiah Willard,
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80
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105
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John Wendall, Esq.,
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160
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2 78
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Samuel Averill,
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43
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Moses Averill,
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Benjamin Averill,
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Samuel Averill, jr.,
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85
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Mills
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Nathan Booth,
Stephen Curtis,
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Aaron Hinman,
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William S. Johnson,
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Joseph Tomlison,
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164
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Ezrehiah Whitmore,
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George Marshall,
Jacob Sheafe, jr.,
Samuel Sherburne,
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Beach Tomlinson,
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FIRST RESIDENT INVENTORY The following is the first resident inventory recorded :
Polls
Stations
I I H H Horses
4 year horses
3 year horses
H 2 year horses
Oxen
Cows
Stock, 4 year
Stock, 3 year
Stock, 2 year
₪ Arable land
H Mowing land
Pasture land
Wild land
Buildings
$ c
E. Day,
3 57
P. Gamsby,
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3 47
I. Johnson,
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2 68
J. Blake,
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2
2
2
2
2
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57
50
3 87
N. Baldwin,
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2
6
6
9
7
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4 406
200 I3 97
P. Nichols,
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2
3
9
5
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98
50
7 48
J. Graves,
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2
2
3
4
43
6 23
L. Fuller,
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2 20
W. Holbrook,
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5 74
E. Lambkin,
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2
2
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3 3
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467
5 17
D. Platt,
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100
3 30
G. French,
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2 77 2 96
H. Schoff,
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8
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85
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7 64
J. Schoff,
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2
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5
2
43
4 96
Haines Schoff,
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2
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47
3 32
D. Schoff,
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4 59
I. Johnson,
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8 51
A. French,
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N. Barlow,
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A. Barlow,
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E. Barlow,
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N. Hatch,
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4
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I 70 75
5 15
J. Blodgett,
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I 30
T. Blodgett,
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F. Colman,
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2
2
2
2
25
3 21
J. Brown,
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2
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8
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200
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Richard Holbrook,
2 00
Dan. Holbrook,
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2
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3 30
Daniel Holbrook,
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I. Brown,
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W. Curtis,‘
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A. Curtis,
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J. Curtis,
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E. Burnham,
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E. Brown,
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J. Borough,
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Amos Hinman,
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L. Chase,
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J. D. Blake,
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E. H. Mahurin,
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200
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N. Dodge,
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C. Chase,
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I 55
A. Allen,
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6
86
John Foster,
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I 30
S. Stone,
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2 2
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I 85
J. Isaac Schoff,
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Asa Hall,
I 30
N. Cass,
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2
4
4
2
2
7
8 90
R. Southmaid,
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I 80
J. Perry,
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J. Farnham,
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I 30
L. Curtis,
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I 85
Stephen Wood,
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$258 86
The foregoing is an Invoice for the residents for the year 1805, taken by us at Stratford, the first day of April.
AGUR PLATT, THOS. G. FRENCH,
JAMES BROWN.
Selectmen.
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A. Platt,
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N. Blodgett,
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J. M. Johnson,
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D. Gaskill,
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2 20
C. Strong,
57
9 43
B. Strong,
2 40
G. Gamsby,
A. Chase,
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100 IO 25
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HISTORY OF STRATFORD
TOWN RECORDS FROM 1806 TO 1810
State of New Hampshire, Coös ss, May 13th, 1806. To the clerk of the town of Stratford, in said county; greeting :
"You are hereby required, in the name of said state of New Hampshire, upon request thereof, to notify the freeholders and other inhabitants of said town of Stratford qualified by law to vote in town meeting, to assemble and be present at the appointment of two persons duly qualified to serve on the petit jury at the court of common pleas, to be holden at Lancaster, in said county, on the first Tuesday of July next, and particularly to notify the selectmen of said town to be present at said meeting to attend the drawing of names out of the box as the law directs." Then follows the re- quirement that he notify the persons at least four days before the sitting of the court; and that he make the report of his doings to the clerk of the court at least the day before the sitting of the court at Lancaster, in the county aforesaid, the day above written.
JAMES BAKER, Clerk.
State of New Hampshire, Coös ss, May 23rd, 1805.
Under the above date, Nathan Barlow, as town clerk notifies and warns the freeholders of said Stratford, to meet at the dwell- ing of Isaac Stevens on Wednesday, the fifth day of June next, at four of the clock p. m., for the above purposes, and particularly notifies the selectmen to be present and prepare boxes for drawing according to law.
State of New Hampshire, Coös, ss.
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of Stratford, agreeable to the above warning, voted that Mr. Asa Hall be moderator of said meeting. Then proceeded to draw the petit jury and drew Isaac Stevens and Isaac Johnson, jr., and they were notified of their ap- pointment according to law.
State of New Hampshire, Coös, ss.
By virtue of a warrant to me directed from the clerk of the su- preme court of Judeume, Nathan Barlow notifies and warns the legal voters of the town of Stratford to meet at the dwelling house of Isaac Stevens, Esq., on Monday, the twelfth day of instant August, at five of the clock p. m.
First-To choose moderators to govern said meeting;
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Second-To appoint two persons to serve as grand jurors for the above purpose;
Third-To appoint two persons to serve as petit jurors, agree- able to the warrant to me directed.
Given under my hand at Stratford, this first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and five.
NATHAN BARLOW, town clerk.
Chose Isaac Stevens, moderator.
Made choice of Nathan Barlow and Benjamin Strong, be and are hereby chosen grand jurors.
Richard Holbrook was drawn to serve as petit and duly notified accordingly.
State of New Hampshire, Coös ss., 1806.
(This is the first record of annual meeting in which Coös county appears.)
The town meeting is called to meet at the dwelling house of Captain Isaac Stevens on the eleventh day of March, 1806, at II o'clock in the forenoon. One article is to see if the town will vote to raise money to build a pound.
James Curtis was chosen moderator.
Nathan Barlow, town clerk.
Nathan Cass, Thos. G. French and Agur Platt selectmen and overseers of the poor.
E. H. Mahurin, constable and collector.
Voted that the town tax themselves forty dollars, to be laid out on the roads the present year.
Surveyor in the lower district borough in the eastern district Stephen Chase.
In the middle district Samuel Johnson ; and in the upper district George Gamsby; and likewise fence viewers.
Isaac Stevens was chosen sealer of weights and measures.
Elijah Johnson, Ezekiel Brown and Elijah Chase, hog reaves.
Voted that Nathan Cass have liberty to put up two pair bares on the road from Sugarhill to his sawmill.
Voted that Agur Platt be allowed and paid out of the treasury of this town the sum of sixty dollars and seventy-five cents for perambulating the town line.
Voted that the said Platt have and receive ten dollars for serv- ices done for the town in capacity as selectman the year past.
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Voted that the town build a pound the year ensuing and that it be set near the boiling spring near Mr. Isaac Johnson's.
Voted that Louis Curtis build said pound forty feet square, of good substantial logs, agreeable to his own offer, and that he build the same by the first of June next.
Voted that the town raise, by a tax, thirty dollars, to defray the expenses of said town.
John Langdon had 33 votes for governor.
His Excellency John T. Gilman had I vote for governor Thos. G. French had I vote for governor
Wm. Fulton 28 votes for councillor
Daniel Blaisdell
Carlton 3I Joseph Peverly 28 Stephen Wilson 20 John M. Tillotson 12 2
66 senator
66 county treas.
register
The inhabitants are warned to meet April 7 at 4 p. m. for the purpose of drawing one person to serve as petit juror at Lancaster the first Tuesday of July.
James Curtis was chosen moderator and Nathan Cass drawn to serve as above and notified.
The legal voters are called to meet at Isaac Stevens on the 15 day of May, 1806, at three in the afternoon, "to vote and lay a tax in order to support a yearly school in said town. To choose a collector to collect tax. To agree on a division of the town into districts or choose a committee for that purpose."
The meeting met as called and chose Ephraim Mahurin, moderator.
Voted to divide the towns into districts as follows:
One district to contain all the inhabitants east of William Curtis' land, where he now lives;
The second district from the south line of the said town to Little Bog brook, so-called;
The third district from Little Bog brook bridge to Bissel Brook bridge.
The upper district from the upper line of the middle district to the upper line of said town.
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Stratford, September 6th, 1806.
First
division valued at $2.00 per acre
Second
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1.00
Third
66
Fourth 66
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50
Undivided
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Division valued
First Second 200 Third I32
$100 Fourth
$100
Undivided
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November, 12th, 1806. James Baker, clerk of the court, makes request for one person to be appointed by the said town to serve as petit juror at the court of common pleas, to be holden at Lancaster within and for said county, on the first Tuesday of June next.
The freeholders are notified to meet on the 25th of December, at Isaac Stevens, innholder, and the selectmen particularly to be present for drawing.
The record says made choice of Noah Hatch.
1807. Town meeting met at Isaac Stevens, innholder, March IO. Voted as follows:
Benj. Strong, moderator.
Benj. Strong, town clerk.
James Brown, treasurer.
Isaac Stevens, Thos. G. French, Asa Hall, selectmen.
Eph. H. Mahurin, constable and collector.
Nathan Cass, Noah Hatch, Ahaz French, Wells Aldridge, surveyors of highways.
Joseph Daniels, Isaac Stevens, David M. Holbrook, Levi Chase, fence viewers.
Isaac Johnson, sealer of weights and measures and pound keeper.
Asa Hall, Samuel Johnson, Ahaz French, Levi Lamson, hog howards.
The foregoing town officers were sworn into office.
BENJ. STRONG, town clerk.
Voted to raise a tax of forty dollars to pay the debts of the town.
Voted to raise one hundred and fifty dollars highway tax, to be expended at the rate of 8 cents per hour for an able bodied man or a yoke of oxen.
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Voted to allow Agur Platt fifteen dollars out of the treasury for the past year's service; and to allow Nathan Barlow ten dollars and E. H. Mahurin one dollar and 25 cents.
John Langdon had 30 votes for governor Sam. Blaisdell 24
William Talton 2
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66 councillor 66
Moses P. Payson 60 29
66 senator
Joseph Peverly 33
6 treasurer
Abraham Hinds 36 66 6 register
Voted in favor of a revision of the constitution: For, 25; against, 2.
An extra meeting was held on the 25th of June to see if the town will accept the new road laid out by the selectmen in 1806 was met. Said road begins not far from the south line of Isaac John- son's farm and goes east of the present river road and comes into the river road again on the hill north of John Gamsby's.
The meeting met and voted to accept the road, and voted the selectmen have power to lease the school lot at the interest of one dollar and fifty cents per acre, and as much higher as they can, provided they lease the whole lot; of if they lease but half, they shall divide first lot according to the best of their judgement.
1808. Town meeting called to meet at Isaac Stevens, inn- holder, on Tuesday, the 8th of March. Among the articles are
To see if the town will discontinue the old road leading from Isaac Johnson's to the top of the hill northeasterly to where the new road, lately laid out, comes into the said old road.
To see if they will agree to raise money to defray the expense of the new road lately laid out on the second lift of land from the river east of said Johnson's, Esq., Benj. Strong's and said Gams- by's.
The meeting met and chose James Brown, moderator.
Benj. Strong, town clerk.
Agur Platt, Joseph Daniels and Asa Hall, selectmen.
James Brown, treasurer.
E. H. Mahurin, constable and collector.
Peletiah Nichols, Isaac Stevens, James Curtis and Jeremiah Fuller, hog reaves.
Captain George Gamsby, Isaac Stevens, James Curtis and Eph. Burnham, fence viewers.
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Isaac Johnson, sealer of weights and measures.
Samuel Johnson, poundkeeper.
Isaac Johnson, Ezra Lambkin and Eph. H. Mahurin, tything- men.
Peletiah Nichols, Elisha Johnson, Aaron Curtis and Levi Sampson, surveyors of highways.
Voted to raise $150 to be laid out on the highways at eight cents an hour for an able bodied man; and a yoke of oxen the same.
Voted to raise $61 town tax to defray the expense of last and this year.
Voted to raise $150 to build school houses in the town of Stratford.
Voted to allow the selectmen twelve dollars for their services last year, to be allowed out of this year's tax.
Voted to allow Benj. Strong three dollars for expenses as town clerk and taking depositions in behalf of Elizabeth Rhodes.
Voted that twenty-one dollars, the military expense for last year, be taken out of this year's tax, viz. the tax for 1808.
By command of His Excellency, John Langdon, Esq., governor for the state of New Hampshire. These are to warn all the in- habitants of said town of Stratford, who by law are qualified to vote in town meeting, to meet at the dwelling house of Isaac Stevens, innholder, on Monday, the 29th day of August, at 4 p. m. Secondly, to vote by ballot for five persons duly qualified for rep- resentatives of this state in the congress of the United States, agreeable to an act passed June 21 A. D. 1792.
AGUR PLATT, Jos. DANIELS, ASA HALL, Selectmen.
The meeting met and chose Isaac Johnson, moderator.
Nathaniel A. Haven, Thos. Hale, James Wilson, John C. Cham- berlain and Daniel Blaisdell had each 23 votes; while Clement Stower, Daniel M. Durrell, Jedediah R. Smith, Francis Gardner and Charles Cutts had each 29.
On the first Friday of November, at one o'clock p. m., the voters are called together at the same place. Assembly to vote by ballot for seven persons, inhabitants of this state, who shall not be sena- tors or representatives in congress, or persons holding, office of
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profit or trust under the United States-to be electors of president and vice-president of the United States.
Friday, the fourth day of November, the voters met and made choice of Ephraim H. Mahurin, moderator.
Voted for electors as follows, viz. Jeremiah Smith, Oliver Pea- body, Juno Farrar, Samuel Hale, Robert Wallice, Benj. West, Jonathan, Franklin, had each 17 votes, while 15 were cast each for John Langdon, Samuel Bell, Amasa Allen, John Godard, Robert Alcock, Wm. Tarlton and Nathan Shanning.
1809. The meeting is called at Isaac Stevens, inn-holder, on Tuesday, the 14th day of March. Tenth section of the town will raise money for building of school-houses; IIth, to see if the town will agree to accept of the new road lately laid out on the 2nd lift of land from the river east of Isaac Johnson's-and to dis- continue the old road running on the river as far as the new road goes, and to raise money to defray the expense of the new road; 12th, to see if they will agree to grant a bridle road to the said Isaac Johnson, Isaac Stevens and Ezra Strong, where the above road runs, by their keeping up convenient gates.
James Curtis was chosen moderator, and Asa Hall town clerk; E. H. Mahurin, Peletiah Nichols and Isaac Johnson, selectmen; Nathan Baldwin, treasurer; E. H. Mahurin, constable and col- lector. Chose Ahaz French, hog reave for the north district; Noah Hatch for the middle district; Asa Hall for the lower, and Willis Aldrich for the eastern district; Isaac Johnson, sealer of weights and measures, and Samuel Johnson, pound keeper; Isaac Stevens, surveyor for the middle district; Henry Schoff for the north, Jos. Daniels for the lower, and Willis Aldrich for the eastern district.
John Langdon Jeremiah Smith Benj. J. Gilbert William Tarlton 66
26 23 Moses P. Payson 23 66 Abel Merrill 66 26 Joseph Peverly 66 Abraham Hinds 66 45 46 25
had 25 votes for governor
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66
counsellor 66
66
senator 66
66
66 county treasurer register
Voted to raise $150 for the purpose of building and repairing school-houses. Voted Agur Platt, Ezra Strong and E. H. Ma- hurin, school visitors. Chose Jos. Daniels, fence viewer for lower
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district, Nathan Baldwin, north, Benj. Strong, middle, and Willis Aldrich, eastern district; $150 for making and repairing roads and $75 for town expenses. Voted to authorize the selectmen to lease the school lot at the interest of one dollar and fifty cents per acre per year of a double lease; they may let the whole or half of said lot, as may best accommodate, dividing the lot according to their best judgement for making two farms.
The above persons have all been sworn into their several offices.
ASA HALL, town clerk.
On the 25th of March, Francis Wilson of said town is given full power and license to exercise the business of a taverner until the 2nd Tuesday of March, 1810, and to sell wine, rum, brandy, gin, whiskey or other spirits by retail, that is in less quantity than one gallon, and may sell mixed liquors part of which are spiritous for the town aforesaid.
Isaac Stevens is granted the same privilege for one year from the Ist day of April.
EPHRAIM H. MAHURIN, PELETIAH NICHOLS,
Selectmen.
I hereby certify that on the 19th day of March A. D., 1809, I joined Joseph Carr and Tabitha Day, both of Stratford, in the bonds of matrimony. Recorded this 3rd of April.
ASA HALL, town clerk.
The selectmen and all the legal voters are called to meet at Isaac Stevens on the 16th day of August. Met and Isaac is chosen moderator. Then drew from the juror box, Benj Strong and Noah Hatch as petit jurors, and E. H. Mahurin grand juror for the superior court of jurisdiction to be holden at Lancaster on the first Tuesday of October next.
May 15, the same year, at a similar meeting Peletiah Nichols is chosen moderator and David Platt is drawn to serve as petit juror at the Court of Common Pleas to be holden at Lancaster on the first Tuesday of July.
On the 23rd of December, the inhabitants, legal voters are warned to meet, and doing so, E. H. Mahurin is chosen moderator. The meeting adjourned to meet on the 25th inst., and then Isaac Stevens is elected moderator, and James Curtis and Peletiah Nichols are drawn to serve at the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Lancaster on the first Tuesday of January next.
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1810. The annual meeting is called to meet at Isaac Stevens, Esq., on 2nd, Tuesday of March, being the 13th day at 10 o'clock a. m. Eighteenth, to see if the town will accept the appraisal of damages made by former selectmen, to Isaac Johnson for land taken up by turning the road across his land and whether they will vote to pay him; 19th, to see if they will vote to the old road or river road by said Isaac Johnson's.
EPHRAIM H. MAHURIN, PELETIAH NICHOLS, ISAAC JOHNSON JR., Selectmen.
The meeting according to call and chose James Brown modera- tor, Asa Hall, town clerk, who was sworn to the faithful discharge of his duty as town clerk.
E. H. MAHURIN, PELETIAH NICHOLS, THOS. G. FRENCH, Selectmen and Overseer of the poor. CONSIDER BARDEN, Jos. CARR, ISAAC STEVENS, WILLIS ALDRICH,
Hog reaves.
Joseph Daniels, treasurer. E. H. Mahurin, collector and constable.
Asa Hall, surveyor in lower district.
Noah Hatch, in middle district. Joseph Cass, in upper district. Justus D. Blake, in eastern district.
JAMES BROWN, NOAH HATCH, GEO. GAMSBY, Auditors of Accounts. ASA HALL, BENJ. STRONG, E. H. MAHURIN, School visitors. JONATHAN SAMPSON, ISAAC JOHNSON, PELETIAH NICHOLS, JAMES CURTIS,
Fence viewers.
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John Langdon had 22 votes for governor
Jeremiah Smith
16
66 66
J. M. Tillotson
I vote
Benj. J. Gilbert
2 votes
Abel Merrill 22
senator
More Russell 18
Edward Evens 22
counsellor
Benj. J. Gilbert
18
Joseph Peverly
40
county treasurer
Meltias Farrar 66
22
66 register
John Wilson I3
Voted not to discontinue the river road as passing by Isaac Johnson's.
Voted to recall the last mentioned vote.
Voted to raise $200 for repairing roads or building bridges.
Voted not to raise $48.50 for payment of damages to Isaac Johnson for the new road passing through his land.
Voted to recall the last vote.
Voted to raise $65 for the purpose of paying damages to Isaac Johnson for the new road going through his land and for other town expenses.
Voted to raise $15.50 for the payment of an account to Isaac Stevens which he paid to Dr. George A. Bolton for doctoring Elizabeth Rhodes.
Voted to discontinue the old or river road passing by Isaac Johnson's.
The legally qualified voters of Northumberland, Stratford and Percy are warned and notified to meet at the dwelling house of Isaac Stevens, Esq., on Wednesday the 21st, day of March; 2nd, to choose by some person qualified as law directs to represent said district in the General Court of said date one year from the first Wednesday of June next
ISAAC JOHNSON, JR., PELETIAH NICHOLS, E. H. MAHURIN, Selectmen.
The meeting was called and chose Jeremiah Eames, Esq., moderator.
Chose James Lucas of Northumberland by ballot for a repre- sentation to represent the within towns of Stratford, Percy and Northumberland.
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The above warning is a true copy of the original and the above preceding a true record.
Attest :
ASA HALL, town clerk.
Isaac Stevens is licensed to keep a public house or house of en- tertainment, with liberty to sell or retail spiritous liquors by small quantities.
A. N. Brackett clerk of the court orders a meeting called and it is held at Isaac Steven's dwelling house June 30th.
Isaac Stevens as chosen moderator and Aaron Curtiss and Elisha Johnson are drawn as petit jurors.
February 10, 1810, then Mr. Samuel Brown and Miss Jude Smith both of Stratford were joined in marriage by Mr. E. H. Mahurin, Justice of Peace.
February 25, 1810, then were Mr. Henry C. Proal of Whitefield and Hannah Curtis joined in marriage by Mr. E. H. Mahurin, Justice of Peace.
December 29, 1810, this may certify to whom it may concern that Jonathan Cass and Sophy Hall both of Stratford were this day legally married, agreeable to the laws of the State of New Hampshire. By me, Lyre Burge, minister of the First church in Colebrook.
August 27th, a meeting of the legally qualified voters to vote in choice of senator in State Legislature, is held to vote by ballot for five suitable persons duly qualified for representatives of this state in this congress of the United States.
James Curtis is chosen moderator and 28 votes are cast for each, Josiah Bartlett, John A. Harper, Daniel L. Morrell, Samuel Lins- more, Olediah Hall. Four votes are cast for George Sullivan, William Hale, James Wilson, Roger Vose, Daniel Blaisdell.
At a meeting of the selectmen and legal voters held December 28, by order of A. N. Brackett, clerk of court. Agur Platt was chosen moderator and Peletiah Nichols and Thos G. French, were drawn as petit juror to serve at Lancaster at the Court of Common Pleas to be held at Lancaster first Tuesday of January.
TOWN RECORDS, 1821 TO 1834
1821. Town meeting is called to meet at Wilson's Tavern Mar. 13, 10 a. m.
NATHAN BALDWIN, ELISHA A. BARLOW, Selectmen.
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Chose Thomas Beach moderator.
2nd. Read the law concerning town meetings and chose Joshua Marshall town clerk.
3rd. Chose Francis Wilson, David Platt and Martin French selectmen and overseers of poor.
4th. Voted to set up the office of collector to the person who will give the most per cent on the amount of taxes assessed and collected.
Bid off by Sam. F. Brown who is to give the town 372 cents on the dollar on the whole amount given him to collect.
Voted S. F. Brown be constable.
George Kimball was chosen surveyor of highways for district No. I, Thomas Beach No. 2, Martin French No. 3, Joseph Daniels No. 4 and Richard Holbrook No 5.
Voted that Grant Fuller be pound keeper.
Samuel Bell had 52 votes for governor
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