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THE EARLY RECORDS
OF THE
TOWN OF PROVIDENCE
VOLUME III
BEING PART OF THE THIRD BOOK OF THE TOWN OF PROVIDENCE OTHERWISE CALLED THE BOOK WITH BRASS CLASPS
PRINTED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF PROVIDENCE BY
HORATIO ROGERS GEORGE MOULTON CARPENTER AND EDWARD FIELD 1. 1 1 Record Commissioners
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 1898 CITY OF WASHINGTON.
PROVIDENCE SNOW & FARNHAM CITY PRINTERS 1893 L. 8.9.
2382
PROVIDENCE
"WHAT CHEER ?"
18:32
FOUNDED NGORPORATED
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PREFACE
THIS volume, like the preceding volumes of the Early Records of the Town of Providence, is printed under authority of several resolutions passed by the City Council of Providence, the first of which was approved March 6, 1891, and is as fol- lows :
"RESOLVED, That Horatio Rogers, George M. Carpenter, and Edward Field, are hereby appointed record commissioners, who shall serve without compensation, for the purpose of col- lecting and printing the early records of the town of Prov- idence. And said commissioners are hereby authorized to ex- pend the sum of one thousand dollars for collecting and print- ing said records, said sum to be charged to the appropriation for printing."
The book, a portion of which is here reproduced in type, has been designated at different times as "ye booke Called ye booke with brass Claspps," " The new Book with Brass Clapes," " The Book with Brass Clasps," and the " Third Book Town of Providence." It is now bound in two parts which are re- spectively styled Third Book Town of Providence A, and Third Book Town of Providence B. These two parts to- gether number 470 pages, and are substantially bound in dark
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red leather. The original leaves are 12} inches long and 7 inches wide, and are inlaid in sheets of heavy white paper 162 inches long and 113 inches wide. When the work of comparing and arranging this Third Book for the press was commenced, it was found to be impracticable to embrace it all within a single printed volume on account of the mass of matter contained in the closely written lines composing its pages. It was therefore determined to print it in three parts, and the first 120 pages were selected to comprise Part One.
When the book was placed in the hands of the commis- sioners for transcribing and printing, seven loose sheets, yel- low with age, torn and ragged, covered with writing more or less illegible, accompanied it. These sheets were found sev- eral years ago hidden between the leaves of an unused record book of the Trustees of the Providence Reform School, packed away in one of the cupboards in the store-room of the City Hall. They were not known to be extant when the book was repaired and bound some years ago, otherwise they would have been included within its covers. A careful exam- ination of these sheets and of the pages of the Transcript, made in 1800, show that in that year four pages of the sheets were either missing or else were considered of insufficient value on account of their mutilated condition to be included in the Transcript at all.
It was also found that four pages of the original, which are copied into the Transcript, are now missing. The commis-
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sioners then attempted to determine the proper arrangement of the loose sheets, and, from internal evidence, they are satis- fied that the pages of the printed book conform to the arrangement of the original records. These pages are desig- nated in print by a cipher with a superior number in bold faced type, thus : O1, and each page has a different superior number, the succession of superior numbers terminating with O14. The written pages in the Third Book, Town of Prov- idence, Volume A, as now arranged, commence with page one, and as five of the loose sheets just mentioned formed the earlier pages of the original record, it will be seen that fourteen pages formerly preceded what is now designated as page one in the original record, just as in the black faced side pagination of the printed volume fourteen pages with a cipher prefix precede the page marked simply 1. The re- maining two of the loose leaves belong at the end of the Third Book.
It was not until page 121 of this printed book was reached, that the Commissioners were able to assert with positiveness the correctness of their arrangement, but with the evidence contained on that page, all doubt was removed.
On that page this entry appears, viz: "Wheras Through a mistake a Record was made in ye 16th page of this booke Con- cerning the Age of Daniell Comstock which by this Towne was bound an Aprentice to the said Will Carpenter, by which mistake the said Daniell Coumstock is accounted one yeare
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older then vpon safitiant proofe we find the said Daniell to be Wee doe heareby order that his age be now recorded accord- ing as it is Testefied by Samuell Bennitt and Mary Pray the Testimonyes aboue mentioned as ffolloweth this we certainely afirme that to our Knowledge Daniell Comstocks ann Com- stocks son now Dwelling with m' william Carpenter is the next may twelue yeares old the Begining of the month f this by Mary pray and Samuell Bennitt was declared in the face of a towne meetting from ye one by word of mouth the other in writing on the 10th of febuary 1667 the former order is also hearby Repealed" On the 32ª page of the printed book the following entry appearing upon page 2 of the original, is to be found, viz: " The Age of Daniell Comstock, (whome the Towne hath put apprentis unto William Carpenter of Pau- tuxett) is the next May Ensueing, Eight yeares of Age. Dilligent inquierie having been made concerning his age, and it is so found."
The fourteen pages contained in the loose sheets now found, or else in the Transcript of 1800 and in existence then, added to the first two pages of the original record volume as now arranged, make " ye 16th page of this booke " referred to in the first above entry relating to Daniel Comstock's age.
Brackets are used where words appear to be missing from these loose pages, which cannot be supplied, and only a fortu- nate discovery has made it possible to supply any of such missing words.
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Among the manuscripts of the Rhode Island Historical Society, in the volume entitled Rhode Island Manuscripts, Vol. I, is to be found the original bond which is referred to on page 3, of this printed book ; and in the same volume is to be found the original minutes made by the town clerk of the meeting whose proceedings appear on pages 6 and 7, and the missing letters and words thus supplied are printed in a heavy faced type.
In this Third Book the records of Town Meetings, Courts of Election, etc., terminate, the records being in the handwriting of John Smith, the then Town Clerk. The Indian war was then approaching and tradition has informed us how the records were saved from the general destruction which followed the breaking out of hostilities. From that time on this Third Book was used for many purposes but mainly for the record of land transfers. During the war and for many years after- wards the records were kept, when kept at all, on loose sheets of paper, most of which are probably lost, although fortunately a number of them are yet preserved among the manuscripts of the Rhode Island Historical Society.
Commencing with the year 1692, the records of the Town Meetings and of the Town Council were kept separately and these volumes follow the Third Book chronologically. There are no records of the town's proceedings between the years 1675 and 1692 in the possession of the city, but it is hoped that this deficiency can in some measure, at least, be supplied
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from the documents in the possession of the Rhode Island Historical Society. The Commissioners propose to have these documents carefully examined and to have all town records prior to 1692, found there, copied and printed.
In the preparation of the index for this volume, some de- partures from the system heretofore observed have been made for two reasons, viz : economy and convenience. Included in the index to names, will be found those of persons and places as well as of particular things mentioned from time to time in the text. The index to subjects will comprise the references to the various matters mentioned in the town's proceedings ; and the index to Indian names is continued as in the preced- ing volumes.
As before stated, the later entries of Town Meeting records in this volume are made by John Smith, the miller, the Town Clerk at the breaking out of the Indian war. If the story of the preservation of these records is to be relied on, our grati- tude is due to him for their existence, as it is related that when the town was partially burnt by the Indians in 1676, he pre- served the records from destruction by fire by throwing them into a mill-pond, and thus it is that to this day they bear marks of both elements by which they so grievously suffered.
Practically the same means have been pursued by the Com- missioners to secure accuracy in preparing this volume for the press as in the case of the preceding volumes, and which have been detailed in the prefaces of those volumes. The same
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signs have likewise been used in printing this volume as in the former volumes, and to prevent the inconvenience of recur- ring to those volumes the explanations thereof are repeated here.
The figures at the top of the pages, and enclosed in brackets, indicate the paging of this transcript.
The heavy figures enclosed in brackets represent the paging of the original book as it now stands, and of the loose sheets heretofore referred to.
Letters, words, and figures in italics, are missing or illegible in the original, and have been supplied from the transcript of 1800.
Words and letters printed in bold faced type are taken from documents in the possession of the Rhode Island Historical Society.
This mark | shows the beginning and end of interlineations in the original.
Words or letters printed in parentheses are so found in the original.
Brackets enclosing blank space, thus, [ ] signify that something is missing from, or illegible in the original, and can- not be supplied from the transcript of 1800.
The sign ₺ is used to represent a contraction or double letter, which, in the original, stands for pr, and is used as the representative of syllables containing those letters with a vowel.
In very many cases the marks made by illiterate persons to
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instruments, for their signatures, are reproduced in fac-simile on the records by the recording officer, but in print in this volume these signs are usually represented by X, it being the conventional sign commonly used for that purpose.
A calendar showing the coincidence of the days of the week and the days of the month from 1492 to 1899 has been in- serted immediately after this preface. For the privilege of using this calendar the commissioners are indebted to the courtesy of the author, Edward F. Johnson, Esq., of Woburn, Massachusetts.
HORATIO ROGERS, G. M. CARPENTER, EDWARD FIELD.
PROVIDENCE, August, 1893.
CALENDAR
A CALENDAR Giving Every Day of the Week in American History,
1492-1892.
COPYRIGHIT, IS91, BY EDWARD F. JOHNSON, WOBURN, MASS.
In the subjoined table the day of the week for January I is given opposite each year. The day of the week for any date in other months can be readily ascertained by applying the following rule :-
In common years the day of the week is always the same for Jan. 1, Feb. 5, Mar. 5, April 2, May 7, June 4, July 2, Aug. 6, Sept. 3, Oct. I, Nov. 5, and Dec. 3.
In leap years the day of the week is always the same for Jan. 1, Feb. 5, Mar. 4, April 1, May 6, June 3, July I, Aug. 5, Sept. 2, Oct. 7, Nov. 4, and Dec. 2.
Consult the special data which are given for dates in Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec., 1752. In the following table leap years are printed in italics.
1492
Sunday 1537
Monday 1582
Monday 1725 Tuesday 1726
Friday 1765 Saturday 1766 Wednesd'y ISII Sunday |1767 Thursday
Tuesday ISIO
Monday |1855 Tuesday 1856
Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Tuesday
1497
Sunday 1542
Thursday 1585 Saturday! 1586 Sunday 1587 Monday 1588
Sunday 1730 Monday 1731
Thursday 1770 Friday 1771
Tuesday
1498
Monday 1543
Tuesday 1544
1499
1500 Wednesd'y 1545
150I
Friday 1546
Tuesday 1589 Wednesd'y 1732 Thursday 1590 Thursday 1733 Friday 1734 Friday 1591 Saturday| 1592 Sunday 1593
Tuesday 1774 Saturd'y 1735 Wednesd'y 1775 Monday| 1736
Thursday | 1776
Saturday 1819 Sunday 1820 Monday 1821
Friday 1864 Saturday 1865 Monday |1866
Friday Sunday Monday
1503
Tuesday 1538
Tuesday 1583
I493
1494 Wednesd'y 1539
Wednes'y 1584 Wednesd'y 1727 Friday 1728
Monday 1768
Friday 1813
1495 Thursday 1540 Friday 1541 1490
Saturday 1729 Wednesd'y 1769
Sunday Monday
1812 Wednesd'y 1857 Friday 1858 Saturday 1859 IS15 1816 Sunday 1860 Monday 1861 1814 IS17 Wednesd'y |1862 Wednesd'y
Saturday | 1772 Wednesd'y
Monday |1773
Friday 1818 Thursday 1863
Thursday
I 502
Saturday 1547 Sunday 1548
1504 Monday 1549
1505 Wednesd'y 1550 Wednesd'y 1595 Wednesd'y 1738
Thursday 1869
1506 Thursday 1551
Thursday 1596
Thursday 1739 Saturday 1740
Monday |1779 Tuesday 1780
Friday 1824 Saturday 1825
Saturday 1870
Sunday 1871
Sunday Monday
1509
Monday 1554
Monday 1599
Monday 1742
Friday 1782 Saturday 1783 Sunday 1784
Tuesday 1827 Wednes'y 1828 Thursday 1829
Thursday 1874
Thursday
15II Wednesd'y 1556 Wednesd'y
1512
Thursday 1557
Friday 1700
Monday 1745
Tuesday 1785
Saturday 1830
Saturday 1876
Saturday
1513
Saturday 1558
Sunday 1702
Friday 1748
Friday 1788 Sunday 1789
Friday 1835
Thursday 1880
Thursday
1517
Friday ISSI
Saturday
1518
Friday 1563
Friday 1706
Tuesday 1751
Tuesday 1791
Sunday 1837
Sunday IS82
Sunday
1519
Saturday 1564
Monday 1708
Saturday 1752
Thurs'y# 1794
Thursday 1840
Wednesd'y 1885
Thursday
1522 Wednesd'y 1567 Wednesd'y 1710
Thursday 1711
Monday 1752
Wednes§ 1796
Sunday 1842
Saturday 1887
Saturday
1524
Friday 1569
Sunday 1713
Thursday 1753
Monday 1798
Tuesday 1844
Monday 1889
Tuesday
1526
Monday 1571
Monday| 1714
Friday 1754
Tuesday 1799
Wednes'y | 1845 Wednesd'y 1890 Wednesd'y
1527
Tuesday 1572
Tuesday 1715
Sunday 1756
Thursday 1801
1802
Friday 1847
Friday
1892
Friday
1529
Friday 1574
Friday 1717
Tuesday 1757
Sunday 1803
Saturday 1848 Sunday 1849
Saturday 1893
Sunday
I530
Saturday 1575
Sunday 1719 Thursday 1759
Monday
1804
1531
Sunday 1576
Tuesday
1532
Monday 1577
Tuesday 1720
Friday 1760
Tuesday
1805 Tuesday 1850
Tuesday 1895
Wednesd'y
I533
Wednes'y 1578 Wednesd'y 1721
Sunday 1761
Thursday |1806 Friday 1807
Thursday 1852
Thursday 1897
Friday
I534
Friday 1580
Friday 1723
Tuesday 1763
Saturday 1808
Friday 1853
Saturday 1898
Saturday
1536
Saturday 1581
Sunday 1724 Wednesd'y 1764
Sunday 1809
Sunday | 1854
Sunday 1899
Sunday
* Jan. 1, 1752. t Sept. 2, 1752. # Sept. 14, 1752. || Oct. 1, 1752. § Nov. 1, 1752.
TT The days of the week from 1601 to 1699, inclusive, are the same as those for the corresponding years from 1801 to 1899, inclusive.
tt Dec. 1, 1752.
1508
Saturday 1553
Sunday 1598
Sunday 1741
Thursday 1781
Monday 1826
Monday 1872
Tuesday 1873 Wednesd'y
1510
Tuesday 1555
Tuesday 1600 Tuesday 1743
T 1601-1699 1744
Saturday 1701 Wednesd'y 1746 Wednesd'y 1786
Thursday 1747 Thursday 1787
Tuesday 1833 Monday 1832 Sunday 1831
Tuesday 1878
Tuesday
1515
Monday 1560
Monday 1703
Saturday 1749
Monday 1790
Saturday 1836
1792
Tuesday 1838
Monday 1883
Monday
1520
Wednes'y 1839
Tuesday 1884
Tuesday
1521
Tuesday 1566
Tuesday 1709
Sunday 1752
Sunday || I795
Friday 1841
Friday 1886
Friday
I523
Thursday 1568
Saturday 1712 Tuesday 1752
Fridaytt 1797
Monday 1843
Sunday 1888
Sunday
1525
Sunday 1570
Saturday 1755 Wednesd'y |1800
Thursday 1846 Thursday 1891
Thursday
1528 Wednesd'y 1573
Thursday 1716
Saturday 1707 Wednesd'y 1752 Wednes'y*
Thursday 1752 Wednes'yt 1793
Thursday 1834 Wednesd'y |1879 Wednesd'y
1516 Tuesday 1561 Wednesd'y 1704
Sunday 1877
Monday
1514
Sunday 1559
Friday 1597
Friday 1552
Tuesday 1594 Tuesday| 1737
Saturday, 1777 Wednes'y 1822
Tuesday 1867
Tuesday
Sunday 1778 Thursday 1823 Wednesd'y 1868 Wednesd'y
Friday Saturday
I 507
I535
Thursday 1579 Thursday 1722
Monday 1762
Wednes'y 1851 Wednesd'y 1896
Monday |1894
Monday
Saturday 1718 Wednesd'y 1758
Saturday
Sunday 1565
Thursday 1562 Thursday 1705
Monday 1750
Friday 1875 Friday
THIRD BOOK
TOWN OF
PROVIDENCE
[PART ONE]
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[ ]uarter Court Aprill the 27th j66j
] Modderat™ : /
] be sent unto m' Roger Williams to Request ] Court : A Coppie there of is as ffolloweth ; (viz)
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] day Received from you A paper wherein you desired ] Consider the Estate of John Clauson unto whome hee Jr Wee doe aprehend the matter not to be so cleare Jf doth take it, There fore doe at presant desire Je the matter, rather than to answere unto yo' paper
ffrom the Court by me Tho: Olney Jun' Towne Clarke [ ] Roger Williams
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Jever shall change his howse Lott Whereon hee now Jnasquatuckett plaine ; for so much Land in the Neck ] howse Lott whereon he now dwelleth in Lew of
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[ ] Arnold of pautuxett may change 30 Acors of Ise his 60 Acors, it Lieing on the East side of Jond
[ ] Palmer his bill to change Tenn Acors of Land, be
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[ ] put in by William Arnold, And Zacariah Roades ]way fron pautuxett, to Saxaffrax, is Reffere[ ] [ Joades, Arthur ffenner, and John Sayles, shall
[ [ Jf the moneys which hath benn disbursted by the Jwne for the ffurther confirmation of or
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Jespose of Every mans part what they shall pay ] five and Twentye Acor men According unto A ] demaund the accountes of William Harris; An[ ] ] conclusion the next quarter day : / Je of A Writeing subscribed by the Widd[ ] [ ] Smith Widdow, doe put into the Townes handes of p[ ] ] right of my husband John Smith deaceased, Excepting [ ] ] Meddow which was due to my husband, for the secur[ ] ]hild John. wittnesse my hand this 27 of Aprill i66i Jey Deputye The marke X of An Sm[ ] ] Carpenter Deputye
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] ne hath taken this which the widdow Anne Sm[ ] ] full satisfaction for securetye, of her son John ;
[ ] that Arthur ffenner, William Wickenden, and Thoma[ ] Jte with Three of pautuxett men, and Run the Line up ] betweene pautuxett, and the Towne, begining att [ ]pauge : /
[ [ [ [ ]t is [ ] that mr Roger Williams, Thomas Olney Sen', John Br[ John Sayles and Valentine Whitt- man, shall Treat with seve[ Jdeans which Lay clayme
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unto some percells of Land within the [ ]oundes of o' planta- tion, And Labour to com to A composition w[ ] [ ]hose Indians about those Landes, to passe away all the claime or [ ]lour of claime which they doe Lay to the same unto the inhabetan |tes| [ ]f the Towne: /
[ Jobert Colwell hath this day given in Bond unto the Towne for secu[ ]ye of margarett S[ ]th a Coppie there of ffolloweth (viz)
Bee it Knowne unto all men by these presentes that I Rob- ert Colwell of providence in the Naragansett Bay of New-Eng- land, doe bind my selfe, my heirs, Exsecutors, and Administra- tors, in the sum of Tenn Poundes Sterling : to save and keepe harmelese the Towne of Providence from any Charge or Trouble that may arise, or fall out by A Little Child named margarett Smith, the child of the deceased John Smith, and I the foresaid Robert Colwell doe bind myselfe in the som aboue- said, and my heires exsecutors and Administrators aforesaid : to free the said Child Margeret from being Chargable vnto the said Towne of Prouidence vntill the said Child margeret
[02] be fforteene yeares of Age, Jn Wittnesse whereof I Haue here vnto set my hand this Twentye seaven of Aprill in the yeere 166i. /
Signed And dd unto the Towne The marke of X Robert in the face of the Colwell
Court as Wittneseth
Thomas Olney Senior, Deputye
Thomas Olney Junior Clarke
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papr Reffer ed
Ordred that the paper sent unto the Tow[ ] Concerning the Estate of John Clawson, be re[ ]
Moderat Chosen
Att A Towne Meetteing Tho : Olney Sen' Modderat"
Comra Chosen
Chosen for Comisioners to serve at the Gen" [ ] held at newport the ffirst Tuesday after [ ] William ffeild, Roger Williams,
William Ar[ ] Hennery Browne, Thomas Robertes
Roger Williams Request
ffor as much as m' Roger Williams hath d[ J they Would be pleased to despose of the Lan[ ] == sed unto him ;
y Towns graunt
Jt is Therefor Ordred by this presant A[ ] Lott of the said John Clawson, And Also [ Land which Lieth neere unto A Salt Cov[ ] ] shall be desposed on, unto the said Roger [ ]
the said Roger Williams be Accountable [ 1 ffor what he hath disbursted concerning [ ]
Jt is ordred that John Whiple Sen', And A[ ] Through the Towne to see what the Jn[ ]
[ ]en [ Jeputed
1 Towardes Building of A Towne house.
The Bill put in by William Arnold, And [ ] unto the next Court; /
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Att A Court of Election The ffi[ ] Munday in June j66j, it bein[ ] 3d day of the Month; Tho: Oln[ ] Senior Modderator : /
Tho : Olney Junior Chosen Towne Clarke ;
Tho: Harris Sen': Arthur ffenner, Towne Deputyes
John Browne: Tho : Clemenc; Cunstables
Edward Smith Sergant ; John Sayles Treasurer
Tho: Olney Sen': Roger Williams, And Wil- liam Carpe[ Je aded unto the officers
to make up the coun[ ]
[ ]ohn Sayles, And Hennery Browne Sur- veiors, for the [ ]
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John Sayles Treasurer, hath this day in the fface of the [ ] given in his accountes unto John Sayles Treasurer, of wh[ ] hee hath this yeare past, Received in, And paid out, And t[ ] due unto him ffrom the Towne -, 0-14-3: /
Tho : Olney renders
acco
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Tho: Olney Senior hath this day given in his Accountes unt[ ] Towne concerning the Es- tate of John Clawson deceased, [ ] hee Re- ceived in, And what hee paid out: hee Receved 37-17-4: And paid out (the howse And Land being Re[ ] 38-14-0: so that there Re-
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maines due unto Tho: Olne [ ] o-16-8: to be paid unto him, by Roger Williams att [ ] Eight ₺ penney: /
Arnold
The Bill put in by William Arnold And Zach- ariah Ro[ ]
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At a Towne Meeteing Decembr the 6 in the yeare j66j Tho : Olney Senr Modderator:
Jt is ordred that those men that were depute[ ] to confferr with mr Williams concerning an Evidence shall declare at this present unto the Towne how farr they have proseeded in the matter ;
Those men which were deputed to confer with Mr Williams about an Evidence, have declared unto the Towne | being now met | what
[O3] [ ]onference they have had with M' Williams, And how far they have proseeded ; /
Jt is ordred that the Towne deputyes shall Cause Johannah Harrad to com before them And to see what securetye may be put in, to cleare the Towne of what Charges may arise con- cerning her, And if none will put in sufficient securetye ; Then to send her back againe unto Boston: And this to be per- fformed without delay : /
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ordred that Vallentine Whittman, And Thomas Clemence shall goe unto the Indians dwelling at pomecanssett, And unto other Jndians living neere this Towne; And warne them to Take som Course with theire Dogges, to Keep them from ffalling upon the Jnglish Cattell [ ]r Else they must Expect to haue theire Dogges Killed: /
Ordred that the Two Towne Deputyes shall goe unto the Treasurer, And demaund of him what is become of the monies which was gathered up for M' John Clarke; And to bring in Report unto the Towne
October the Tenth day in the yeare j66j Roger Mawrey Re[ ] William Burrowes into his howse having made an agree[ ] with the Towne to Keepe him: /
Att A Towne Meetting December the 13 j66j Thomas Olney Senior Modderator ;
[ ] that those men who were deputed to conffer with Mr Willia [ ] Asurance; shall also conffer with Mrs Williams to know if [ ]ll yeld thereunto: / The Court is Ended : /
Att A Towne Meetting December the 20 j66j Thomas Olney Senior Modderator; [ ] that the Two Towne Deputyes shall Receive the As- surance [ ]' Roger Williams, in the behalfe of the Towne, And to Comitt [ The Custodye of the Towne Clarke, to be Kept for the Townes [ ]
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[ ] that the Order which was made the 27 of Aprill in [ Jne now Revised, That which was made about agreeing [ Jians about Landes: /
[ ] that Thomas Olney senior shall discharge ffive shillin[ Thomas Smyth for coming from pautuxett, And atten[ Jwnes Buissenesse; And to charge it upon the Towne
That William Carpenter shall sattisffie his son Jo[ ] upon the same account /
[ That the Clarke shall be paid six shillinges, And Eight
PE ] parchment, And Wrighting of the Assurance, signed by [ Jms: / The Court is Ended; /
Att A Quarter Court Januarey the 27 : j[ ] Thomas Olney Senior Modderator ; / Jas Hackelton makeing his Request unto the Towne [ ] have Liberty to burne Lime upon the [
], And to take stones,
comon, neere abou[
And wood for the same purpose, [ ] by voate, that he may have Libertye untill [ ] [ ]next, and no longer :
E ] unto Christophar Smith that he may tak[ ]
Jere abouts, in Lew of his ffive [ ]
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The Top of the hill on the We[ ] on the west Side of the Mill [ ]
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neere unto the dwelling howse of Thomas Olney ] be not damnified,
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Towne inetting
Ordred that the Towne meete againe the E ] adjorned untill the 3ª day of ffeburarey next ; /
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