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SELECTMEN .- Joshua Bliss 95, 96, 98 to LISTERS .- Jedediah Fay 95, 98, 99, 1813, Abijah Wheelock 95, 1805, 1I, Aaron Bliss 95, 1805, Samuel Fay 96, 99, 1801, 2, 3, 13, 15, 19, Jonas Comins 96, 1803, Goddard Wheelock 96, Gersham Palmer 97, 1806, Gideon Wheelock 97, 1802, 15, 16, Jonathan Tucker 97, 1809, Simon Davis 98, Levi Wright 98, 1801, 12, 44, 45, Phin- eas Davis 99, 1801, 5, Joshua Lilley 1800, Elnathan Hathaway 1800, 2, 3, Peter Wheelock 1800, Jonathan Eddy 1800, Caleb Curtis 1800, 2, 8, 9, 10, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 32, Daniel Carpenter 1801, James Gin- nings 1801, 3, Edward Tucker 1802, Rufus Green 1803, Lemuel Perry 1803, 4, 19, Ebenezer Goodnough 1804, Alpheus Bliss 1804, Remember Kent 6, 7, Noah C. Clark 6, 7, Oliver Palmer 7, Joshua Bliss 8, 11, Samuel Danforth 8, Isaac Kendall 9, John R. Densmore 10, 12, 13, 15, Gideon Hicks 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 27, 32, 33, 37, Aaron Lamb 1812, Ephraim Ladd 14. Joel Robinson 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, Joshua Bliss, 2d, 16, Caleb B. Mitchell 17, Pre- served Wright 18, Nathan B. Spaulding 19, Benjamin Page 20, Caleb Putnam 21, Isaac Davis 21, 23, Israel Dwinell 22, 24, Oliver Shipley 22, Lovel Kelton 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, Shubael Wheeler 25, 28, 29, 30, David G. Shipley 26, Lemuel Bliss 26, Welcome Wheelock 27, 30, Jabez Mower 28, Nelson A. Chase 29, 30, 34, 65, Pliny Curtis 29, 39, 40, Oliver Mower 31, Pardon Janes 31, Abdiel Kent 33, 34, 37, 42, 43, 47, Nathaniel Eaton 34, 35, 42, 43, 44, 52, Lewis Wood 35, 36, 38, 44, 45, Enoch C. McLoud 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, Charles Sibley 36, Alonzo Pearce 37, 52, John Walbridge 38, 39, Silas Wheelock 1804, 12, Edward Tucker 95, Jonas Com- ins 95, 97, Asa Wheelock 96, Abijah Wheelock 96, 97, 1812, Oliver Palmer 97, Jonathan Eddy 98, Shubael Shortt 98 to 1801, Abdiel Bliss 99, Gersham Palmer 1800 to 4, 7 to 9, Peter Wheelock 2 to 4, Caleb Curtis 5, 6, 15 to 20, Gideon Hicks 5 to 9, 13, 15 to 20, Samuel Danforth 6, Lemuel Perry 7 to 9, 13, 14, 19, 22, Rufus Green 10, II, Ebenezer Goodenough 10, II, Levi Wright 10, 11, Gideon Wheelock 12, 21, Isaac Kendall 13, 15, Samuel Fay 14, Jera Wheelock 14, Jedediah Fay 16, 17, Aaron Lamb 18, Preserved Wright 20, 21, David G. Sheple 21, Joshua Bliss, 2d, 22, Caleb Putnam 22 to 26, Lovel Kelton 23,36, Medad Wright 23, 24, Pardon Janes 24, 25, 27, Welcome Wheelock 25, 26, 37, 38, Shu- bael Wheeler 26, 27, Jonas Hall 27, 28, 30, Alonzo Pearce 28 to 30, William Robinson 28, 29, Oliver Merritt 29, Jesse White 30, 32, 33, 49, 50, Pliny Curtis 31, 32, Nelson A. Chase 31, 32, 42, 43, 45 to 47, Charles Sibley 31, Joseph Blanchard 33, 34, 48, Asa Alden 33, 34, 47, 49, 50, Charles Dudley 34, 35, 43, 44, Richard W. Tobey ( 35, 36, 39, Alonzo Pearce 35, Samuel Rich 36, Joseph Lance 37, 38, 39, Israel Dwin- ell 37, 38, John White 39, 40, J. Harvey Cole 40, 41, 53, 54, Lewis Wood 40, 41, 47, 48, 61, 62, 68, 69, Abdiel Kent 41, 42, 44 to 46, 66, 67, Chester Bugbee 42, 43, 48, 49, 55, 56, 57, 73, Stephen Pearce 44 to 46, Rufus P. Moses 50, 51, Mason W. Wright 51, 52, Alfred P. Hicks 51, 52, 55, 56, 64, 65, 67, 70, 71, 72, Jonas G. Orms- bee 52, 53, Allen Tobey 53, 54, John V. R. Kent 54, 55, 58, 59, 65, John Morse 56, John Rich 57, William S. Orcutt 57, | 40, 56, Charles Dudley 41, 46, 47, 50, 51,
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Alfred P. Hicks 41, 43, 50, Richard W. Tobey 41, Joseph Lance 42, Elias Smith 45, 46, 64, 73, 76, Ezekiel Kent 46, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 70, 71, J. Harvey Cole 47, 59, 60, J. W. E. Bliss 48, Charles Stevens 48, 49, John Rich 48, 49, 53, 54, Allen Tobey 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 66, 74, Joseph W. Pierce 51, 57, 58, J. V. R. Kent 53, Ira S. Dwinell 53, 54, 55, J. Q. A. Allen 54, Jesse White 55, 56, Levi G. Dwinell 56, William White 57, 59, Loam Hath- away 58, Jacob Eaton 58, Chester Bugbee 60 to 63, 65, 68, 70, 71, J. Warren Leon- ard 61 to 63, I. Rich Kent 63 to 65, Lem- uel M. Cate 64, 67, Charles French 66, 67, Lewis Bancroft 66, 67, 68, John Morse 68, Alfred P. Wheelock 69, Walter P. Slay- ton 69, John Q. Haskell 69, Charles B. Marsh 70, 71, James K. Tobey 72, 73, Andrew Haskell 72, 75, 76, 81, Alonzo C. Slayton 72, J. P. Carnes 73, 74, 78, 81, Albert Dwinell 74, 75, 78, Alpheus S. Bliss 75, 76, 9, Henry C. Wells 77, 81, Jerome N. Bliss 77, 80, Harry A. Morse 77, 78, 80, Albert C. George 79, Isaac Davis 79, Willard Bugbee 80.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS .- Na- thaniel Eaton 46, Nelson A. Chase 46, 7, 50, 6, 7, 60, Lester Warren 46, 9, 51, Henry Slayton 48, Asa George 52, Silas Wheelock 53, Sidney H. Foster 54, 5, Benjamin P. White 58, 9, 61, 2, Lee H. Bliss 63, 4, J. Henry McLoud 65, 6, 8, Marcus Ide 67, Frank A. Dwinell 69, M. S. Hathaway 70, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 81, Geo. H. Gray 73, 8, W. W. Ainsworth 79, 80.
DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CON- VENTIONS .-- Samuel Fay 14, Benjamin Page 22, Thomas Cole 28, Shubael Wheeler 36, Nelson A. Chase 43, 50.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE .- Peter Whee- lock 95 to 1805, Gersham Palmer 1800 to 11, Gideon Hicks 8 to 49, Lemuel Perry 8 to 18, 22, 30 to 38, Samuel Fay 14, Gid- con Wheelock 17 to 30, Nathan Kelton 18, Caleb Curtis 18, 20 to 35, Isaac Davis 21, 2, Lovell Kelton 22, 24 to 37, Nathaniel Eaton 30 to 49, 51, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 60, 63, Medad Wright 31 to 34, Oliver Mower 31 to 36, Shubael Wheeler 31 to 49, Jacob Tewksbury 33, 4, 7, 8, 9, 40, l'liny Curtis
33, 34, 39 to 45, Nelson A. Chase 33, 34, 41 to 55, Asa George 33 to 49, 78, 9, Ja- bez Mower 33, 34, 37 to 49, Jos. Hatch 34, Wm. Robinson 35 to 39, Jedediah Fay 36, Shubael Shortt 36, Abijah Whee- lock 36, Jason Marsh 36, Alonzo Pearce 37 to 53, 55, 56, 58 to 60, 62 to 75, H. W. W. Miller 38, E. C. McLoud 38 to 49, Abdiel Kent 38 to 54, 62, Luther Morse 38 to 50, Joseph Lance 38 to 44, Richard W. Tobey 40 to 47, Herman Bliss 40, J. Harvey Cole 42, 46 to 49, 54, 57, Joshua M. Dana 42, Welcome Wheelock 42 to 49, Charles Dudley 42 to 49, Lewis Wood 46 to 49, 55 to 57, 61, Joseph Blanchard 46 to 49, Alfred P. Hicks 47 to 50, 53, 4, 8, 9, 60, David B. Fay 48, 9, Bennett Palmer 48, 9, Rufus P. Moses 49 to 57, Jonas Hall 49, A. S. Nelson 49, John Morse 49, 62 to 67, Tilnus Hathaway 49, 52 to 61, Jonas G. Ormsbee 49, Ira S. Dwinell 49, 76, 77, 80, 81, James S. Gray 49, Lemuel Perry Jr., 49, John Rich 50 to 54, E. A. Hath- away 51, H. K. Slayton 55 to 62, Charles B. Marsh 56, 7, Sidney H. Foster 56, 72, 3, J. V. R. Kent 57 to 69, 76, 7, Charles S. Bennett 58 to 60, 62 to 73, Chester Bugbee 61, William White 61, 2, Lee H. Bliss 62, Alonzo M. Foster 63 to 65, J. Warren Leonard 63 to 69, George J. Slay- ton 64, 5, Walter P. Slayton 66 to 77, 80, 81, Edwin D. Haskell 66, 67, 69 to 71, S. S. Macomber 68 to 77, Otis Slayton 68, Benjamin P. White 70 to 73, Elias Smith 70, 71, 78, 9, Benjamin Wheeler 72, 3, S. O. Robinson 74, 5, James K. Tobey 74, 75, 78, 9, Orson Putnam 74 to 77, 80, 81, M. S. Hathaway 74, 75, 78, 9, Shubael B. Fair 76, 7, 80, SI, Henry C. Wells 76, 7, J. P. Carnes 78, 9, Alpheus S. Bliss, 78, 9, Herman O. Marsh 78, 9, W. W. Ains- worth 80, 81, Harry A. Morse 80, 81, Chas. French 80, 81.
REPRESENTATIVES .-- Peter Wheelock 95 to 99, Abdiel Bliss 1800, 1, Joshua Bliss 2, Gersham Palmer 3, 5 to 10, Lemuel Perry 4, Gideon Wheelock 12, 13, 17, 21, Sam'l. Fay 14, Benjamin Page 15, 16, 22, Caleb Curtis 18 to 20, Lovel Kelton 23 to 25, 27, David G. Shipley 26, Pardon Janes 28 to 31, Shubael Wheeler 33, 34, 47, Pliny
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Curtis 35, 36, Joseph Lance 37, 38, Alonzo Pearce 39, 40, Abdiel Kent 41, 42, Chas. Dudley 43, 44, Nelson A. Chase 45, 46, Enoch C. McLoud 48, 49, David B. Fay 50, Rufus P. Moses 51, 52, Ebenezer S. Demming 53, Asa George, 54, 55, Lester Warren 56, 57, Hiram K. Slayton 58, 59, Albert Dwinell 60, 61, John V. R. Kent, 62, 63, Alonzo M. Foster 64, 65, Sidney H. Foster 66, 67, Ira A. Morse 68, 69, Walter P. Slayton 72, 73, James K. Tobey 74, 75, Erasmus L. Burnap 76, 77, Benja- min P. White 78, 79, J. Warren Leonard 80, 81.
STATE SENATORS .- Nathaniel Eaton 40, 41, Albert Dwinell 78, 79, 80, 81.
ASSISTANT JUDGES OF COUNTY COURT .-- Shubael Whceler 27 to 30, Pliny Curtis 37, 8, Alonzo Pearce.
JUDGE OF PROBATE .- Gersham Palmer IO, Nelson A. Chase 68, 69.
SHERIFF .- Alonzo D. Pearce 70.
CLERK OF COUNTY COURT .- Shubael Wheeler 45 to 8, 50 to -
GRAND LIST.
The list for the year 1795 was £501, IOS; 1796, £788, 10S. The first general list under the act of March 20, 1797, is recorded : 61 polls at $20, $1220; 174} acres improved land at $1.75 per acre, $305.37 ; other property and assessments, $1670.38, total, $3195.75. 1798, 67 polls, 191 acres, $2142.73, personal, total, $3,- 816.72 ; 1799, 72 polls, 312 acres, $2702.06, personal, total, $4689.37 ; 1800, 80 polls, 400 acres, $39.50 houses, $2750.50, person- al, total, $5090.00.
For valuations, etc., upon which these and the following list are based, see sum- mary of list for 1812.
GRAND LIST OF 1801.
The first complete list now on file. The date next the name signifies the year of settlement, or near as can be ascertained ; a. signifies acre or acres of improved land ; b. and figures following, appraisal of the buildings ; cash figures alone, the whole amount of list :
Wm. Abbott, 1799 or 1800, $20; Ains- worth, Moses 1797, $6.50; Reuben, 1799,
1800, I a., $28.25, Sabin, 1797, 4 a., $3.50 ; Alvord, Isaac 1801, $26.50, Stephen, 1797, 6 a., $57; Bliss, Aaron 1795, 6 a., b. $250, $62, Abdiel, 1798, 30 a., b. $400, $148.50, Alpheus, 1799, 1800, b. $300, $72.50, Caleb, 1800, $58, David, 1797, 7 a., b. $150, $88.25, Frederick, 1795, 10 a., $90.50, Joshua, 1795, 15 a., $115.75; Joshua 2d., 1798, 17 a., $124.75, Noah, 1798, 4 a., $70; Beckwith, Joshua 1800, $40 ; Carpenter, Daniel 1800, b. $300, $59 ; Clark, Noah L. 1797, 5 a., b. $ 100, $63.75 ; Comings, Jonas 1795, 5 a., b. $200, $65.75 ; Curtis, Caleb 1798, 3 a., b. $250, $76.75 ; Daggett, David 1778, $26.50; Danforth, Samuel 1800, $40 ; Davis, Silas 1801, $20, Simeon, 1795, 8 a., $54, Phineas, 1797, 8 a., b. $250, $73.50 ; Dickenson, John 1798, $20; Doane, Elisha 1797, $33; Eddy, Edmund 1800, b. $100, $27, Jonathan, 1797, $31.50; Emerson, John 1797, 3 a., $63.25 ; Fay, Jedediah 1795, 5 a., $65.25, Samuel, 1795, 6 a., $70.50; Ginnings, Amos 1795, 7 a., $88.75, James, 1795, 5 a., $75.25; Goodell, David 1795, 4 a., $53.25 ; Goodenough, Ebenezer 1797, 9a., $116.79 ; Green, Rufus 1797, Ia., $49.75 ; Haskell, Moses 1795, 2 a., $56.50 ; Hatha- way, Asa 1800, 10 a., $37.50, Elnathan, 1796, 5 a., $75.25, Silas, 1797, 5 a., b. $150, $43.25, Thomas, 1797, 2 a., $55; Hicks, Gideon, 1800, 3 a., $38.75, John, 1801, $26.50; Howland, Polly, widow of Abraham, 1795, 3 a., $11.75 ; Janes, Solo- mon 1796, 6 a,, $48.50; Kendall, Isaac 1798 or 1800, 5 a., $86.75 ; Kent, Remem- ber, 1798, 8 a., $60; Kinney, Stephen 1801, $26.50 ; Lamb, Aaron 1789, b. $125, $55.50, Jacob, 1801, $33.40; Lebaron, Francis 1795, 2 a., $30; Lilley, Joshua 1797, 10 a., $145.50; Merritt, Job 1800, $53, Nehemiah, 1800, b. $150, $29.50, Oliver, 1801, $20; Marsh, Jason 1800, $38.50; Mitchel, Caleb B. 1798, 10 a., $40; Nichols, Ezra 1801, $20; Ormsbee, Nathaniel 1800, $20; Palmer, Gershom, 1797, 6 a., $103, Oliver, 1796, 10 a., $97 ; Pearce, Asahel 1795, 6 a., $81.50, Backus, 1795, 4 a., $75.50, Noah, 1795, $51.50, Stephen, 1801, $20; Perry, Lemuel 1800, $57.50 ; Pope, Winslow 1797, $26.50 ; Rich, Samuel Io a., $17.50 ; Robinson, Joel 1794,
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5 a., $61.75 ; Shortt, Shubael, 1795, 10 a., $95.50 ; Slayton, Jesse 1796, 5 a., $68.25, Simeon, 1795, 4 a., b. $100, $60 ; Steward, Ethel 1797, $26.50; Thayer, David 1798, $36.50, David, Jr., 1798, $20; Tisdale, Seth 1801, 4 a., $7; Tobey, Zoath 1799, $53; Tucker, Amasa 1797, 6 a., $73.50, David, 1800, $20, Edward, 1795, 25 a., b. $340, $153.25, Jonathan, 1797, 10 a., b. $150, $102; Wheelock, Abijah 1795, 10 a., $98.50, Asa, 1795, 9 a., $65.25 ; Gideon, 1797, 6 a., b. $400, $78, Goddard, 1795, 9 a., $103.75, Jennison, 1795, 8 a., $93.50, Peter, Esq., 1795, $76.50, Salem, 1797, $38: White, Elijah 1797, 3 a., $61.75, Samuel, 1797, 3 a., $64.75 ; Wilber, Hol- den, 1795, 18 a., $104; Willis, Edmund 1797, $6.50; Wright, Levi 1797, 8 a., $60.50, Preserved, 1800, 7 a., $53.75; Young, Duncan 1796, 4 a., $53.50.
Names on previous lists not on list of 1801: Lyman Daggett, Salmon Davis, John Crane, Stephen Fay, David Fuller, Bemis Hamilton, James Sprague, Leonard Wheelock.
New names appear in the list from year to year, 1802, Amasa, Parley, Wareham, and Welcome Ainsworth, Hannah Butter- field, Joseph Ginnings, Thomas Haskell, Nathan Janes, Uriah Johnson, George and James Kelton, Calvin Pearce, Joseph Perry, William Thayer, Isaac Wells, Medad Wright. 1803, Ezra Bliss, James Dawson, William Drown, John Eddy, Artemas Fos- ter, Joseph W. Gilman, John Martin, John Ware. 1804, Benjamin Andrews, Chester Clark. Isaac Davis, Eliphalet Huntington, Enoch Kelton, Nathaniel Ladd, James Short. 1805, Luther Ainsworth, Amasa and John Bancroft, Squire Bullock, Ethan Powers, Prince Sears, Oliver Shipley, Buck- lin Slayton, Amos Wheelock, Reubin Wilber, Philip Vincent. 1806, Jacob Ains- worth, Benjamin Bancroft, Amos Barnes. George Brown, John Goodale, Phineas Goodenough, Ebenezer Goodenough, Jr., George Ide, Ephraim Ladd, Richard Pitts, Jonathan Pray, Cyrenus Shortt. 1807, Vial Allen, Thomas Anderson, Charles Bliss, Stephen Bates, Henry Fish, David Fuller, Jr., Martin Gilbert, Jessa Holmes, Pardon Janes, Elijah Nye, Stephen Olm-
stead, Samuel Pratt, Phineas Slayton, Uriah Simons, Reubin D. Waters, Nathan Wheeler, Jared Wheelock, Suel White, Daniel and John Young. 1808, Thomas Andrews, Galen and Charles Bliss, Moses Blanchard, William Crosby, Thomas Fos- ter, Abraham Hawkins, William. Lougee, John McKenzie, Samuel, Isaac and Wil- liam Robinson, John Waugh, Almond Wilber. 1809, Nathaniel Bancroft, John R. Densmore, Jonathan Green, Jonas Hall, Isaac Hawkins, Barnabas and Ebenezer Kelton, John Martin, Jr., Daniel Nealey, Peleg Redway, Oliver Shipley, Jr., Lem- uel Tobey, Isaac Vincent, Welcome Whee- lock.
The lists for 1810 and 'II are not pre- served. 1812, Smith Ainsworth, George and Ira Brown, Isaac Corey, Jabez Carver, John Cate, John Chapman, Salvin D. Col- lins, Israel Dwinell, Gload Dugar, Na- thaniel Davis, Jonathan Eaton, Luther Farnum, Luke Fletcher, Benjamin Gray, Simeon Guernsey, Seth Gary, Salathiel Hammond, George Holbrook. Ona Kelton, William LeBarron, William Le Barron, Jr., Andrew Nealey, Beniah Shortt, Henry Stone, David G. Shipley.
GRAND LIST RECORD FOR 1812.
From 1801 there was a steady increase in valuation : 80 polls at $20, $1600 ; 1679 acres of improved land at $1.75, 2938; houses assessed in the whole at $182; 112 oxen at $10, $1120; 405 cows and other cattle of 3-years old at $6.50, 2632.50 ; 178 cattle of 2-years old at $5, $890; 101 horses of 3-ycars old, and upwards, at $13.50, $1363.50; 10 of 2-years old at $6.50, $65 ; 16 of I-year old at $3.50, $56; 7 house clocks at $10, $70 ; 3 gold watches at $10, $30; 12 common do. at $5, $60; 2750 dollars of money on hand and debts due, at 6 per cent., $165 ; I practitioner assessed at $25 ; mechanics and owners of mills and machines assessed in the whole at $143; total, $11340. Deduct for 5 minors subject to military duty and equip- ped by parents at $20, $100; deduct 54 militia polls at $20, $1080 ; deduct 5 horses of cavalry at $13.50, $67.50; leaving list for State taxes, $10092.50
At that time the law required that all
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dwellings, stores and shops (log-houses excepted) should be assessed at two per cent. of their value, if in the judgment of the listers their value did not exceed $1000. And if valued at more than $1000, at three per cent. The law also specified how per- sonal property should be set in the list, as above. Wooden clocks were not taxed. Attorneys, physicians, merchants, mechan- ics, etc., were assessed in proportion to their gains.
1820 : 86 polls at $20, $1720 ; 1990 acres of improved land at .08 of appraised value, $1366.42 ; 103 houses and lots at .04 ap- praised value, $247.06; 9 mills, stores, etc., at .06 appraised value, $48.60 ; 140 oxen at $10, $1400 ; 429 cows and three- year olds at $6,- $2574; 169 cattle, two- year olds at $5, $845; 132 horses, three years old and upwards, at $14, $1848 ; 26 two-years old at $7, $182 ; 22 one-year old at $4, $88; I stallion at $50, $50; 5 brass clocks at $10, $50; I gold watch at $10, $10; 20 common do. at $5, $100; $1100 money at .06, $66; total, $11295.08; 34 militia polls and 9 cavalry horses were ex- empt from State taxes.
1830: 252 polls at $10, $2520; 3690 acres of land at .06, $1558.60 ; 541 houses and lots at .04, $1401.40 ; 14 mills, stores, etc., at .06, $62.40 ; 281 oxen at $2, $562 ; 712 cows and other cattle of three years old, at $1.25, $890; 254 cattle of two years old at .75 each, $190.50; 25 horses und mules, three years old, appraised at ess than $25, at $1, $25; 180 over $25 nd less than $75, at $3, $540 ; 6 at $75, t .06, $36 ; 43 two years, at $2, $86 ; 33 one ear, at $1.25, $41.25 ; 2797 sheep at . 10 ach, $279.70 ; 7 carriages at .06 of ap- raised value, $6.30 ; 8 brass clocks at $3, 24; 20 watches at $1, $20; $3350 money hand, etc., at .06, $201 ; $90 bank stock .03, $2.70 ; 2 practitioners of medicine sessed, $35 ; I merchant and trader, do., o; total, $8511.85 ; 148 militia polls and cavalry horses, exempt.
In 1840, the list amounted to $10373.54. ter lists were assessed nearly as at pres- t, and are as follows :
Polls.
Real.
266
$281.774
Personal. $32,023 46,547
Gd. List. $3,675
312
304,473
4,134
340)
374,573
71,936
4,848
326
296,652
67,807
4,269
FAYSTON.
BY MRS. LAURA BRIGHAM BOYCE.
This township is in the S. W. corner of the County, 20 miles from Montpelier ; b. N. by Duxbury, E. by Waitsfield, S. by Warren and Lincoln, W. by Huntington and Buell's Gore ; 6 miles square ; land el- evated, lying in large swells, except along Mill brook and Shephard's brook, where there is some intervale. Shephard's brook runs through the North part of the town, and empties into Mad river in Waitsfield. It affords ample water power, and several flourishing mills are in operation on its banks.
There was an extensive beaver meadow on this stream, and many of the trees on its banks were partly cut down by these animals. The brook received its name from one Shephard, who used to hunt beavers here.
Mill brook runs through the South part of the town, in an Easterly direction, and empties into Mad river in Waitsfield ; this stream has good water-power, and several mills and one tannery are located on it. There is considerable good lumber in town, especially in the more mountainous parts, the most valuable of which is spruce. As many as 7,000 or 8,000 clapboard logs are annually cut in Fayston, besides the com- mon lumber, ash, basswood, etc. There is also a good deal of hemlock, the bark of which is used extensively in tanneries. The spruce and hemlock lumber is a source of profit to the inhabitants. The maple is abundant, and there are many valuable sugar orchards; some have a thousand handsome second growth trees in one body. This adds an item to the income of the farmer, at the prices that have prevailed for maple sugar and syrup of late years.
The soil is strong and fertile, though not as easily tilled as a more sandy loam. These fertile upland farms are well adapted to dairying, as the sweetest grass is found here, and water as pure and soft as ever drank, two indispensable requisites for the dairy. Dairying is the chief source of in- come of a greater part of the inhabitants, though wheat and oats are raised here in
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abundance, but potatoes more especially. Corn is often a remunerative crop ; but not so sure as on the intervales.
Fayston was granted Feb. 25, and char- tered Feb. 27, 1782, to Ebenezer Wal- bridge and his associates. It was first set- tled by Lynde Wait in 1798. In 1800, there were 18 persons in town.
Lucia Wait, daughter of Lynde Wait, better known as Squire Wait, was born in 1801, the first child born in town ; subse- quently, Wait Farr, a son of William Farr, was born, and received a lot of land from Griswold Wait, as being the first male child born in town. From which we see in those primitive days the weaker were oppressed by the stronger, as they are still. There was no orthodox reason why Lucia Wait should not have had that lot of land as her birthright-except that she wasn't a boy
The town was organized Aug. 6, 1805. James Wait was the first town clerk ; Thomas Green the first constable; and Lynde Wait, Rufus Barrett and William Williams the first selectmen. Aug. 27, 1805, there was a town meeting called to petition the General Assembly to be set off with other towns from Chittenden County, which was not granted until some time in 1810 or ISII, when Fayston became a part of Jefferson County.
The first highways were surveyed in 1807, by Edmund Rice, surveyor. The first school district was organized in 1809, and consisted of the whole town, but subse- quently, in 1810, we believe, it was di- vided into two districts. The first tax levied on the grand list was in 1807, which was 5 cents on a dollar, to be worked out on the highway. The first tax levied on the grand list to be paid in money was in ISIO. It was I cent on a dollar, and we have no doubt was as hard for these people as were the excessive taxes during the war for their descendants. The taxes levied on the grand list in Fayston during the war in one year were $10.79 on a dollar of the grand list, making a poll tax of $21.58, and school and highway taxes besides, which must have made another dollar. This was in 1864. There were several other bounty
taxes raised during the war, but this was the heaviest. Fayston paid her war debt as she went along, and can show a clean record. In 1812, the town voted to raise I cent on a dollar for the support of schools, which was to be paid to the town treasurer in grain. At this time there were 25 children in district No. I, between the ages of 4 and 18.
In March, 1809, William Newcomb, William Rogers and Marjena Gardener were elected "hog howards," an office now obsolete, and exactly what its duties were, even then, we are unable to learn. But it was an old-time custom to elect newly- married men to that notable office, which might have been no sinecure after all, as the swine in those days all ran where they listed, and unless they were much less vicious than their modern descendants, it must have needed three " hog constables " to a town to have kept them in order.
In April, 1808, William and Paul Boyce, two Quakers, emigrated from Richmond, N. H., and settled near beaver meadow, on Shephard's brook. This was the first open- ing in what is now called North Fayston. There is a little romance connected with this same William Boyce. It seems tha William's susceptible heart had been touch ed by one Irene Ballou, a Quaker maider of his native place, and when he had mad a beginning on his new home in the wood he began to be lonely, and feel the need ( a helpmate to wash his wooden plates an pewter porringer, and also to assist him i picking up brush, planting potatoes, an several other things wherein the goc wives made themselves useful in " tl olden time," being then truly helpmates f men, instead of helpspends, as many of tl more modern wives are. · So William jou neyed to Richmond to claim his brid He tarried long, and when he returned was not the gentle Irene who accompani him. Whether he met with a fairer Quak ess than she, and lost his heart with I against his will, or whether Irene v averse to going into the new count among the bears and wolves, tradit saith not, but that it was not the late reason we may infer from her farewell
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him : " William, I wish thee well, I hope the Lord will bless thee, but I know He wont." Says one of his descendants : "I think He didn't, for he was always in some sort of trouble or other." Let the fate of William be a warning to all young Quakers, as well as those who quake not at all, to always keep their promises.
BOYCE FAMILY OF FAYSTON.
PAUL BOYCE married Rhoda Palmer, of Waitsfield, and here on the farm they first rescued from the wilderness, they lived to a ripe old age, and were finally buried in the cemetery not far away.
Their son, ZIBA WENTWORTH BOYCE, always resided in town until his death, 1877, age, 63. He received but a common school education, but by his own efforts, ultimately became a thorough scholar, and taught school many terms. Later he served the town in various capacities, and up to the time of his death was noted for his fine mental endowments. He was often jo- cosely called the " wisdom of North Fays- ton," and not altogether without reason. He was a writer of considerable ability, both in prose and verse. His two daugh- ters inherited his talent for writing, more especially his younger daughter, Mrs. Em- ongene Smith, now a resident of Dubuque, Iowa. The eldest daughter, Mrs. S. Mi- nerva Boyce, has always remained at the homestead.
When Ziba W. was quite a young lad, his father sent him one night with his orother after the sheep, but they having strayed from their usual pasture, they failed to find them. In the morning they ound what there was left of them, eleven having been devoured by the wolves during he night.
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