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Marks, 99 .- Daniel S. Edwards has entered for his ear mark, by his father Joseph Edwards, a hole in the left ear and an ell under side of the right ear, which mark formerly belonged to John D. Edwards. Recorded March 1st in the year 1832, by
SAMUEL MILLER, Town Clerk.
John E. Parsons enters for his ear mark a square crop at the left ear and a half penny under the same, and a slope un- der the right ear, which mark he says he bought of William D. Parsons. Recorded the 29th day of March, 1832, by SAMUEL MILLER, Town Clerk.
Page 81 .- At an annual town meeting held at the meeting house, in the town of East Hampton, on the 3d day of April, 1832, the town officers were chosen and laws were passed as follows :
Vote 1st. That the number of five assessors be chosen.
Vote 2d. That the collector be allowed three per cent for collecting the tax.
Then proceeded to ballot as the law directs for officers.
Abel Huntington, supervisor.
Samuel Miller, town clerk.
David Hedges, Jr., Baldwin C. Talmage, Silvanus Parsons, Elisha H. Conklin, Jonathan B. Mulford, assessors.
. Henry D. Stratton, constable and collector.
Charles R. Hand, constable.
· Josiah C. Dayton, justice of the peace.
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RECORDS: TOWN OF EAST-HAMPTON.
William D. Parsons, Abel Huntington, David Hedges, Jr., commissioners of common schools.
Joseph D. Condit, Abel Huntington, Charles H. Miller, in- spectors of common schools.
Jonathan H. Stratton, Joseph Barnes, Jr., overseers of town poor.
Samuel Miller, William D. Parsons, Jonathan H. Stratton, commissioners of highways.
Eli Parsons, Samuel Edwards, John Baker, David Hedges, Jr., Nathan Conklin, Charles H. Miller, Uriah Miller, Joseph Barns, Jr., Joseph Osborn, Jr., William D. Parsons, William Hedges, Josiah Mulford, trustees.
Voted 1. That the trustees of the town paint the meeting house and pay the expense of the same out of any public money that may be in their hands.
Uriah Miller, Charles . Miller, Silvanus G. Edwards, Eli Parsons, Talmage Jones, Abner Strong, Thomas J. Mnlford, overseerseers of highways.
Samuel Stratton, Lester Bennett, Malines Osborn, Talmage Johnes, Baldwin C. Talmage, pound masters.
Talmage Jones, Baldwin C. Talmage, Lester Bennet, Elisha H. Conklin, yards are voted public pounds.
Vote 2d. That the sum of six hundred dollars be raised for the support of the poor of this town for the ensuing year.
3d. That the public grass and Jeremiah Loper's Montauk be hired out this day at auction, and the money be paid for the hire of the same on the first Monday of September next, to the Supervisor of this town.
4th. That any fence equal to a two rails with post, that is, three feeet and eight inches high in the clear, shall be consid- ered a sufficient fence.
5th. That the members of the board of excise be, and they are hereby requested, not to grant any license to any person
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to sell strong or spiritous liquors in this town for the ensuing year for any less sum than thirty dollars.
6th. That the same number of pews and slips in the meet- ing house be hired out for the ensuing year, as was the last, and the money arising for the rent of the same be appropriat- ed to the necessary repairs of the house, and the residue to- wards the payment of the Rev. Mr. Condit's salary.
7th. That the trustees of the town be requested to take care of the meeting house and prosecute all persons who do any injury to said house in any manner whatever, and to em- ploy some suitable person to sweep the house, shut the doors and windows, and ring the bell.
8th. That if any person or persons shall keep any flock of sheep, or suffer their sheep to be upon the common land or highways of this town, after the twelfth day of this month, until the twentieth day of March next, all of such sheep shall be liable to be impounded, the owner or owners of the same to pay one shilling per head for each sheep so impounded, Wainscott flock excepted, and that to be approved of by the trustees of this town.
9th. That all horses and neat cattle that shall be found grazing or going at large on Napeague or any of the beaches on the south side, from the hither end of Montauk to the west- ern bounds of this town, at any time between the sixth day of May next ensuing and the 12th day of September follow- ing, shall be liable to be impounded, provided there be a suf- ficient fence, the owner of such cattle and horses to pay fifty cents perhead for all such neat cattle and horses so impounded.
10th. That no cattle be permitted to go at large on the commons or highways of this town, from the time they are brought from Montauk in the fall or winter until they go on in the spring, under the penalty of one dollar per head for all such cattle, to be recovered with cost of suit by the super- visor, the one half to be paid to the complainant when recov-
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ered and the other half for the support of the poor of this town.
11th. That the trustees of the town manage the parsonage land for the ensuing year.
12th. That the commissioners of highways be authorized or requested to exempt from the road tax all persons who will procure wagons and will use them on the public highways, that measure four inches on the tire, for such period of three years ensuing the date hereof as they may be in possession and use of such wagon.
13th. That the trustees of the town be requested to pro- cure bulls for the use of this town, and to pay for the services of the same out of the funds of the town in their hands.
14th. That the compensation to the fence viewers be one dollar per day.
15th. That the supervisor pay any inhabitant of this town that may bring him a fox, or the skin thereof, and produce satisfactory evidence that the said fox was killed in this town the present year, shall be entitled to twenty-five cents for each and every fox so killed, and the supervisor to pay for the same out of any money that may be in his hands belong- ing to this town, and to cut the ears off said fox.
16th. That the trustees of this town pay a bill of twelve dollars to Mr. William Babcock and company for building the altar in the church, out of any money in their hands belong- ing to the town.
Meeting then adjourned to meet again on the first Tuesday of. April in the year, 1833, at ten o'clock, A. M.
April 3d, 1832, voted by the proprietors of Montauk then present, that the trustees of the town of East-Hampton man- age the affairs of said land the year ensuing.
An account of the hire of Napeague glades and other lands for one season.
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RECORDS : TOWN OF EAST-HAMPTON.
Glades at Napeague.
Lot No. 1-Samuel Schellinger. $2.25
2-Samuel Conklin 1.12₺
3-Isaac B. Edwards .50
4-William Baker 1.50
5-Samuel S. Dayton 1.75
6-David Conkling. 1.55
7-Hezekiah Edwards .65
8-Theophilus Smith, paid S. Miller .12₺
9-William Baker .11}
Flat at Accabonac. $9.572
Jeremiah P. Bennett.
2.05
Grass at Georgica.
Robert L. Hedges, paid Saml. Miller. 1.20
Jeremiah Loper's Montauk.
David Gardiner, one beast right 1.40
do. do. do. do. 1.30
Daniel Edwards, do. do. 1.30
Felix Dominy,
do
do. paid S. M.
1.30
Three-fourths of one beast right in the fatting field, David .H Miller 2.40
$7.70
Parsonage Montauk.
Charles R. Hand, one beast right
Isaac Edwards,
do. do. do. do.
1.30
1.38
1.30
Jeremiah Dayton, do, do.
paid S. M. 1.35
1.35
do. do. do. do. do. do do. do.
1.34
Felix Dominy, one right in the fatting field, paid S. M. 3.06
Charles R. Hand, one-half do.
do. 1.64
$14.07
do. do. do. do. do. do.
1.35
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RECORDS : TOWN OF EAST-HAMPTON.
Marks 99 .- William D. Parsons enters for his ear mark a slope under the right ear and a half penny over the same, and a square crop at left ear. Recorded May 15th, 1832, by SAMUEL MILLER, Town Clerk.
Marks 100 .- William D. Parsons enters for his ear mark a hollow crop at the left ear and a half penny under the same, which mark he says he purchased of his brother, Elnathan Parsons, and stands recorded on page 61. Recorded May 15, 1832, by
SAMUEL MILLER, Town Clerk.
William D. Parsons enters for his ear mark a hollow crop at the right ear and a half penny under the same, which mark he says he purchased of his brother, Solon Parsons, and stands recorded on page 61. Recorded May 15th, 1832, by SAMUEL MILLER, Town Clerk.
Josiah Miller enters for his ear mark a slope under the left ear and a half penny over the same, and a square crop at right ear. Recorded Blay 15th, 1832, by SAMUEL MILLER, Town Clerk.
Schuyler R. Conklin enters for his ear mark an ell under the right ear and a slope over the left ear and a half penny under the same. Recorded June 2d, 1832, by SAMUEL MILLER, Town Clerk.
Book H, page 85 .- At a meeting of the commissioners of the highways of the town of East Hampton, held on the 18th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1833, it was agreed that the highway districts in said town should be divided in the following districts :
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RECORDS: TOWN OF EAST-HAMPTON.
1st., viz : The eastern or first district to be bounded west- wardly by the dwelling house of Hervey Dayton, southerly by the sea, northwesterly by the dwelling house of Hezekiah Edwards, and on the north by the bay.
2d District, bounded easterly by the first, northerly by the bay, and Accabonac creek, northeasterly by the line of fence running between the land of Martin Plato and Jeremiah King, running southwardly to the south corner of Samuel Osborn's wood lot.
3d District, bounded southeasterly by the second district, northeasterly, including Gardiner's Island, by the bay, north- erly, so far as to include Hog Creek Lane, and the highway running from the Fireplace towards the town until it comes as far as the west corner of Samuel Osborn's wood lot.
4th District, bounded southeasterly by the third district, easterly by the head of Hog Creek, from thence running west- erly by the head of Three Mile Harbor.
5th district, bounded easterly by the fourth district, wester- ly by head of North West Swamp, southerly by a line run- ning from the head of Three Mile Harbor to Long Hill, and from thence to the head of North West swamp, thence to continue south west to the slough on Sag-Harbor highway including Payne's Neck.
6th district, bounded easterly by the first, northerly by the second, third, fourth and fifth, westerly by the dwelling house of Jeremiah Huntting and Joseph Osborn.
7th district, bounded easterly by the sixth district, westerly by a line running on the south end of the dwelling house of Noah Barnes, to the slough on Sag Harbor road, northerly by a line running from the said slough to the head of North West swamp.
Sth. district, to be bounded easterly by the seventh, west- wardly by a line running from the Tan Creek, to the junction of Sag-Harbor and Buck's Kill road.
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9th district to be bounded eastwardly by the eight district and the seventh. Southampton line northwesterly, northerly by a line running from the slough on Sag-Harbor road to the Southampton line.
10th district, to be bounded southerlv by the ninth, west- wardly by the Southampton line, and eastwardly by the head of the slough, this last mentioned district, includes the Sag- Harbor highways from the slough to the Southampton line.
The aforesaid mentioned districts were recorded and consid- ered to be the proper highway districts for the town of East- Hampton.
Done at East-Hampton this eighteenth day of March in the year 1833, by the undersigned commissioners of highways.
SAMUEL MILLER, JONATHAN H. STRATTON, WILLIAM D. PARSONS. Commissioners of Highways.
Book H, page 862. - At an annual town meeting held at the meeting house in the town of East-Hampton, on the 2d day of April, 1833, the town officers were chosen and the town laws were passed as follows .
David Baker, Jr., was chosen town clerk.
Daniel Dayton, supervisor.
Henry Schellinger, William D. Parsons, Charles R. Hand, David Hedges, Jr., Elisha H. Conklin, assessors.
Samuel Miller, Silvanus Parsons, William D. Parsons, com- missioners of highways.
Stephen Hedges, Uriah Miller, overseers of the pour.
Henry D. Stratton, Charles R. Hand, constables.
Henry D. Stratton, collector.
Abel Huntington, Daniel Dayton, Charles H. Miller, com- missioners of common schools.
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RECORDS: TOWN OF EAST-HAMPTON.
Jonathan S. Conklin, justice of the peace.
Isaac Edwards, Charles Dimon, Abraham V. Scoy, Thomas T. Hedges, Henry D. Stratton, Jonathan C. Schellinger, David Sherry, Jeremiah Huntting, John Stratton, Charles R. Hand, David Gardiner, Henry Osborn, trustees.
Joseph D. Condit, Charles H. Miller, Abel Huntington, inspectors of common schools.
Jonathan A. Parsons, Isaac S. V. Scoy, Asa Miller, Jr., Isaac B. Miller, Silas Payne, Eli Parsons, Josoph Edwards, Josiah C. Dayton, Josiah C. Dayton, Jonathan Osborn, Jr., Jonathan C. Schellinger, overseers of highways.
Page 87 .- Samuel Stratton, Talmage Jones, Lester Bennet, Baldwin C. Talmage, Isaac Hopping, pound masters.
Jacob Hopping, Baldwin C. Talmage, Talmage Jones, Lester Bennet's yards voted public pounds.
2d, voted that the sum of twelve hundred dollars be levied and collected for the support of the poor and other necessary. town charges for the year ensuing.
3d, voted that the public grass and Jeremiah Loper's, Montauk, be hired out this day at auction and the money be paid for the hire of the same on the first Monday of Septem- ber next, to the supervisor of this town.
4th, voted that any fence equal to a two rails, with posts that is three feet and eight inches high in the clear, shall be considered a sufficient fence.
5th, voted that the members of the Board of Excise, be and they are hereby requested not to grant any license to any person to sell strong or spiritous liquoas in this town for the ensuing year, for any less sum than thirty dollars.
6th, voted that the same number of pews and slips in the meeting house be hired out the ensuing year, as were the last, and the money arising for the rent of the same be ap- propriated to the neccessary repairs of the house, and the res- idue towards the payment of the Rev. Mr. Condit's salary.
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RECORDS: TOWN OF EAST-HAMPTON.
Page 872 .- 7th, voted that the trustees of the town be requested to take care of the meeting house, and to prosecute all persons who shall do any injury to said house in any man- ner whatever, and to employ some suitable person to sweep the house, shut the doors and windows, and to ring the bell.
Sth, voted, that if any person or persons shall keep any flock of sheep or suffer their sheep to be on the commons of this town at any time during the year ensuing, all such sheep shall be liable to be impounded, the owner or owners of the same to pay one shilling per head for each sheep so impound- ed, Wainscott flock excepted, and that to be under the care of a shepherd approved of by the trustees. .
9th, voted that all horses or neat cattle that shall be found grazing or running at large on Napeague, or any of the beach- es on the south side, from the hither end of Montauk to the western bounds of this town at any time between the sixth day of May next ensuing, and the twelfth day of September following, shall be liable to be impounded, provided there be a sufficient fence, the owner or owners of such cattle or horses to pay fifty cents per head for all such neat cattle or horses so impounded.
Page 88 .- 10th, voted that no cattle be permitted to run at large on the commons or highways of this town from the time they are brought on Montauk in the fall or winter, until they go on again in the spring, under the penalty of one dol- lar per head for all such cattle to be recovered, with costs of suit, by the supervisor, the one half to be paid to the com- plainant when recovered, and the other half for the support of the poor of this town.
11th, voted that the trustees of the town manage the parsonage lands for the ensuing year.
12th, voted that the commissioners of highways be author- ized or requested to exempt from the road tax all persons who will procure wagons and will use them on the public high-
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ways, that measure four inches on the tire, for the period of three years ensuing, the date hereof as they may be in pos- session and use of such wagon.
13th, voted that the trustees of the town be requested to procure bulls for the use of the town, and to pay for the services of them out of the funds of the town in their hands.
14th, voted that the compensation to the fence viewers be one dollar per day.
15th, voted that the supervisor pay to any inhabitant of this town that may bring him a fox, or the skin thereof, and produce satisfactory evidence that the said fox was killed in this town the present year, the sum of twenty-five cents for each and every fox so killed, the same to be paid out of any money that may be in his hands belonging to this town, and to take the ears from said foxes.
16th, voted that the trustees pay the Rev. Mr. Phillips his demand out of money in their hands raised from the hire of the parsonage and from the hire of pews and slips, being over- plus of the year 1832.
17th, voted that the suit depending between the Mr. Hunttings and the town be referred to the care of the trustees of the town.
Adjourned to meet again on the first Tuesday of April, 1834, at nine o'clock A. M.
Account of the hire of Napeague glades and other lands for the year ensuing.
Glades at Napeague.
Lot No. 1. David Conklin $.70
2. Isaac B. Edwards .45
66 3. Robert L. Hedges .57
66 4. William Baker .55
- 66 5. Harvey Osborn. .35
6. Isaac B. Edwards. .51
66 7. Isaac B. Edwards .41
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RECORDS: TOWN OF EAST-HAMPTON.
Lot No. S. Hezekiah Edwards 13
8. William Baker .25
Sedge Flat at Accabonac.
Hired by Samuel King for . $2.80
Grass at Georgica.
Nathan Conklin. 1.75
Acct. of Jeremiah Loper's Montauk.
David Sherry, 1 beast right outside
1.25
do. do. do. do
1.31
do. do. do. do. 1.40
William Baker, do. do. 1,20
Samuel S. Dayton, three-fourths of a right in the field. .. 2.51 Account of the Parsonage Montauk.
William Baker, 1 beast right outside $1.13
do. do. do. do 1.10
do. do. do. do.
1.32
do. do. do. do. 1.25
do. do. do.
do. 1.26
do. Jeremiah Loper, do. 1.08
Samuel S. Dayton, do. do.
1.06
John Hedges, one field right 3.00
John Hedges, part of do. 1.90
Voted by the proprietors of Montauk then present that the Trustees of the town of East Hampton, manage the affairs of the said land of Montauk the year ensuing. April 2d, 1833.
Book G, page 204 .- Whereas frequent difficulties arise re- specting the boundary lines of the Town street in consequence of there being no record of said street, we, William D. Par- sons, Jonathan H. Stratton and Samuel Miller, Commissioners of Highways of the town of East Hampton, do, after much examination of such testimony as can be collected, and all cir- cumstances relative thereto, proceed by virtue of the laws of
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RECORDS : TOWN OF EAST-HAMPTON.
this State regulating highways in Suffolk county, passed Feb- ruary twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty, to survey, stake out and record such width of highway as appears to be necessary for the public convenience.
Therefore we the said commissioners commence at the south corner of the academy piazza, running on a course south 43 degrees west 16 chains and 57 links to a stake on the cor- ner between the land of William Hedges and Horace Isaacs. From thence south 39 degrees west 3 chains and 29 links to a stake on the corner between the land of Horace Isaacs and Abraham Osborn, Jr. ; from thence south 22 west 3 chains 47 links to a stake standing on Jonah Terbill's ditch ; from thence south 18 degrees west 8 chains to a stake standing, in front of Samuel Osborn's house and near by his cellar window ; from thence south 26 degrees west 1 chain to the stones on Samuel Osborn's corner ; from thence south 22 degrees west 5 chains to a stake placed near by Abraham Osborn's great gate ; from thence south and 83 three degrees east 4 chains 37 links to a stake standing on the corner of John Hedges' land and the parsonage; from thence north 15 degrees east 10 chains to a stake on the corner of William Hedges' land and the land belonging to the heirs of John L. Gardiner ; from thence north 30 degrees east 4 chains to the northwest end of Gardiner lot bars; from thence south 74 east 19 links to a stake standing on the south-east end of Gardiner lot bars ; from thence north 39 degrees east 7 chains and 42 links to a stake standing opposite Horace Isaac's garden ; from thence north 31. degrees, east. 10 chains to a stake standing near Samuel Miller's barn ; from thence north 32 degrees, east 1 chain and 81 links to a stone on the corner of the said Samuel Miller's lot, that is southerly of the meeting house ; from thence on the same course 61 links to the meeting house.
Then we, the aforesaid commissioners do proceed to regu- late the width of such highways as are bounded by the above .
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RECORDS: TOWN OF EAST-HAMPTON.
mentioned courses and distances. Therefore we do agree and determine that it shall be a public highway commencing at the south corner of the Academy piazza and running from thence south 43 degrees, west 13 chains to a stake placed op- posite William Hedges' land ; from thence across the street on a course bearing south 54, east 4 chains and 31 links to a stake standing opposite Horace Isaac's garden ; from thence on the original courses and distances to the meeting house, we do record all within the said boundary lines as a public high- way forever.
Then we do also agree and record that there shall be a highway on the southeast side of the street, two rods wide from the original boundary lines of the plot, and running from the line that runs across the street from William Hedges' land to Horace Isaac's garden, twelve chains and seven- ty-six links to the south end of the burying ground, and we do consider the burying ground to lie on the north- west side of this two rod highway, and is four rods wide on the northeast end, and one rod fifty-two hundreths of a rod wide on southwest end, the western boundaries of which are as follows : running from a stone placed on the line that runs across the street, four rods from the two rod highway, to a stone placed on the west side of said burying ground and bearing from the corner between William Hedges' land and Horace Isaac's, south 31 degrees, east 2 chains and 31 links ; from thence to another stone placed on the same side of said ground, bearing from the stake on Josiah Terbell's ditch, south 63, east 2 chains and 69 links ; from thence to a stone on the west corner of the burying ground which is placed 1 52-100 of a rod from the south end of the 2 rod highway, the remainder of the enclosed land by the original above- mentioned courses and distances, we, the said commissioners, do record as a public highway forever.
Then we proceeded to record the width of the town street
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from the meeting house to Newtown lane, and in the first place we placed a stone in the centre of the street, opposite the Academy and the corner of the land belonging to Jonathan Mulford, Jr., and we record the highway to be four rods and twenty-eight one-hundredths of a rod wide, east side of this store, then we run on a course from this stone in the center of the street, north 41 degrees, east 3 chains and 54 links, to another stone placed in the middle of the street, where we record the highways to be three rods and ninety-two one- hundredths of a rod wide each side of this stone; then we run on the same course in the centre of the street, 10 chains and $1 links, to another stone placed in the centre of the street opposite Daniel Osborn's and Henry Osborn's front, and measured off the same distance for the highway as at the above last mentioned stone, which is 3 rods and 92-100 of a rod.
From thence we run on a course north 43, east in the middle of the street 20 chains and 90 links to Newtown Lane, and placed a stone again at the end of said distance in the centre of the street and measured off each side of said stone three rods and ninety-two one-hundredths of a rod for the width of the highway.
On the succeeding pages we have drawn a plot of the said street and recorded a field book which contains all of the different courses and distances as are now staked off and meas- ured, which will serve to give a better illustration of the matter than you otherwise can have.
FIELD BOOK.
First course commencing at the south corner of the Academy.
South
43
deg.
west
16.57 chains.
66
39
66
3.29
66
22
3.47
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RECORDS : TOWN OF EAST-HAMPTON.
South
18 deg.
west
8.00
chains.
66
1.00
22
5.00
66
43
east
4.37
North
15
10.00
66
66
30
4.00
South
74
66
00.19
66
North
39
7.42
31
66
66
10.00
66
32
=
1.81
"
On the same course as the one last mentioned 61 links to the meeting house.
We, the Commissioners of Highways of the town of East- Hampton do record the above mentioned highways to be and remain open highways from this date.
Dated at East Hampton this 1st. day of April, A. D,, 1833. SAMUEL MILLER, JONATHAN H. STRATTON, WILLIAM D. PARSONS. Commissioners of Highways.
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