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At a Town meeting September-1720 the Town voated that his Excelency Governer shall shall have Laid out to him within this township a farme of five hundred acres for his Lott of Land of sixty acres with the common rights belonging there unto

October ye 14th 1720 Lieve Governer Wentworth being present in this town he ordered that Insign Blair John Mc Murphy and Hew Mnt Gumery should joyn with the Comite in the management of the publick affairs of this town.

At the same Day it was ordered by the Governer aforesaid that the Commite shall have full power to lay out highwais in this town the wais to be laid out not to be under four rhod wide

at a generall Town meeting November ye 4th 1720 It was voated by the town that thirty acres of Land shall be laid out to each propriator in this town in the most Conveneant Common or undevided Lands

January ye 11th 1720/21

at a Generall Town meeting the Town voated & Choes for moderater m me Keen on the Day above said it was voated that a meeting hous shall be built in this town as spedely as may be and that the above said hous shall be fifty foot in lenkth fourty five broad and so hygh as may be Conveneant for one set of Galeryes on the Day afore said voated that two men be Chosen as a Commite to agree with the Carpinter for building the meeting hous and oather afairs relaiting to said hous

The members Chosen for said Commite are

Mr James mc Keen
Mr Sam" more

The Commite of this town having ben some time since petitioned to by Will Aiken John Bell Andrew Todd John Wallis James Aikin and Benjamin Willson for the Grant of a streem or brook which commonly goes by the name of Aikins brook in order to the seting up a saw mill there on) and

allso one acre of land adjoining to said brook that will be conveneant for a yard to said mill th Commite having taken the pettition into Consideration and thinking that it may tend to the publick good of this town to have more saw mils set up in it) wee there fore the said Commite by virtue of the power trust Commited to us by the inhabetants of this town for the mannagement of the publick affairs there of have thought fit and do hereby grant the said streem or brook with one acre of land for a yard unto the above named Willm Aikin Andrew Todd John bell John Walis James Aikin and BenJamin Willson for the uses afore said and the part of the streem pettioned for and granted is from a spruce swamp down to David moresons Lott

David Cargill

James me Keen

John Goffe

John mc neel

James Gregg

Robtt Wear

Committ

and wee the said William Aiken John Bell James Aiken andrew todd John Wallis and Benjamin Willson do hereby prommis and ingage that what boards wee have to Dispous of the inhabetants of this town shall have the refuesall of at the rate of thirty shilings pr thousand and sawing at fifteen shilings pr thousand in wittnes where of we have here unto set our hands and seal

Recorded this 23rd of march 1720/1

Willm Aikin

John Walis

Andrew Todd

James Aikin

John bell

Benjamin Wilson

Pr John Goffe Town Clerk

october ye 28 1720 the Commite being then mett with regard to the officers of this town it was then agreed upon by the said (?) Commite that John Given and abraham Rouns shall have time alowed them untill the first of January to setle upon their Lotts, but if they refues and neglect to setl Such by the said first of January it may be in the power of the town to Dispous of said Lotts to those who will make a present setelment thereon

upon the said Day the Commite Choes four persons for saveers of the by ways the names of the men are as followeth

Nutfield March ye 25th 1721

Alexander Nicols

John mc neel

William Akin

John Goffe
James Gregg

saveers

All the Lotts in this Town have ben raited thirty shilings pr Lott from the first setlement there of unto this present Day march ye 25th 1721 upon the said Day the Commite Chozen for the setling the towns accompts mett and adjusted and setled all the accompts in this Town and the names of thoes that remain in Debt and what each person oweth to make up his thirty shilings is as followeth

John Barnard Dr......

James Anderson Dr 0-13-2

The names of the persons that have money Due to them from the Town and what Due to each person is as followeth

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At a Generall Town meeting march ye 25 1721 for the Chuesing Town of esers the Town voated that 3 men be Chos as a Commite for the publik affairs of this town

for Commite

John Bell
Joseph Simons

John more

Hew mnt Gumery
Seveyers

Samuel more
John Sentr

John Coughevin

may ye 8th 1721 m2 me Keen by vertue of an order from the Governer of this province the town being then mett did make choys of seven men for a Commite to manage the prudenshall afairs of this town and the naims of the Commite

are

Samuel more

James Gregg

James alexander

Jams me neel

Sam" Graves

John Coughrin

John Goffe

Commite

may ye 24th 1721: the Commite being then mett three men weir Chosen by ye Commite to valu the lotts in this town that are Complained of (viz)

march ye 25th 1721

Thomas Steel
James me neel
Elias Keyes

m James me neel then appearing and making som Complaint to the Commite of the greveances that he was under by reason of the threatening that haveril people gave him with regard to the land which he is now settled upon) the said Commite having considered the matter and not Knowing what trouble and Charge the said me neel may be at in defending the land which he is now at work upon supoused to be within haveril) they the said Commite by vertue of the pour and trust Commited to them by the inhabetants of this town for the mannagement of the public affaiers thereof, have thought fit and do here by prommis and ingage unto the said me neel' that he shall have a lott of land equall to oather lotts made out to him within this Township where he shall think Conveneant in the undevided land and allso that if he doth defend the land which he is now upon within haveril line that then he shall have one hundred acres of the said land for him self where he is now setled

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