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RECORDS 
 
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 TOWN OF AMHERST, 
 
 FROM 1735 TO 1788. 
 
 Rkprintkdfroai the amhkkst Record of 18t>3-4. 
 
 
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 ^MHERST, MASS. : 
 
 PRESS OF J. E. WILLIAMS, 
 
 1884. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 There are si^ns, in various parts of the 
 L'ountry, of an awakening interest in the 
 publication of historical records. Their 
 value for the pui-pose of history is becom- 
 ing better appreciated, and the danger of 
 their destruction or loss suggests nieas- 
 ires for their permanent preservation. 
 •]very few weeks the pai)ers bring news of 
 Liie total or partial loss of valuable records. 
 To anyone who knows the importance of 
 these historical sources, such destruction 
 cannot fail to be a matter of great regret. 
 
 The care and security with which our 
 Amherst records are kept greatly reduce 
 the dangers in their case ; but, still fur- 
 ther, the publication of local records makes 
 them accessible to a greater number of 
 persons, and at greater convenience, es- 
 l)ecially to non-re.>iidents. It would be 
 well if the record.? of every town in the 
 state could be pul)]ished. Tiiose already 
 printed liave proved to be of great value 
 not only to the student of local hi-story, 
 but to those interested in tlie history of 
 the State, in genealogy, in the modes of 
 thought and the manners of our ancestors. 
 
 It has been thought desirable to print, 
 at first in the columns of the Kkcoru ami 
 afterward in pamplilet form, the records 
 of tills place. This will include the rec- 
 ords of Hadley TJiird I'recinct from 1735 
 to 175;5, (when the Second I'recinct be- 
 came South Hadley), of the new Second 
 I'recinct from 1754 to 1758, of the Dis- 
 trict of Amherst from 1759 to 1775 (legally 
 
 it was a district until 1786) and of the 
 town of Amherst from 177G to February, 
 1788, the period at which Massachusetts 
 began her life under the Federal Consti- 
 tution. Beyond this point it is not at 
 present intended to carry the publication. 
 
 It is needless to point out the impor- 
 tance of the Amherst records to town his- 
 tory, genealogy, and title-hunting; their 
 usefulness, as a bit of material, to the 
 growing school of historical students of 
 local institutions is equally evident But 
 anyone wlio takes even a general interest 
 in past times will find nuich to engage his 
 attention. From the point of view of lan- 
 guage, for instance, he will notice from 
 year to year the progress toward fixity of 
 orthograpliy ; he will see, from their spell- 
 ing, that the '-rude forefathers of the 
 hamlet "' said deestrict and iii.heabitants 
 and lentil, like the Yankees of to-day; he 
 will notice the use, and sometimes the 
 gradual <lisai)pearance, of words and ex- 
 pressions now obsolete. 
 
 A careful oliserver will also learn much 
 of tile character of the farmers of Amherst 
 a century or more ago. Their upright- 
 ness ami common sense, their respect for 
 law, their scnipulous regard for the obser- 
 vances of religion, a))])ear on neiirly every 
 page of the old record-book ; but so also 
 do their dilatoriness in managing town 
 business, their closeness in money mat- 
 ters, and the narrow limitations of their 
 lives. (Jf the Yankee humor we see little ; 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the annually-recurring- joke about the hog- 
 reeves seems to have been ever fresh. 
 But, quite unconsciously, the " Inheabi- 
 tants" are very amusing in the preference 
 they exhibit for the schoolhouse near 
 Landlord Warner's tavern (often called 
 by other names) as the place to which to 
 adjourn their meetings. Doubtless the 
 meeting-house was cold; and doubtless 
 Landlord Warner knew how to warm the 
 chilled voters. It will be observed that 
 the "fathers " had a great reverence for 
 rank and position, that titles are at first 
 given very sparingly, but that their num- 
 ber increases gradually until, after the 
 Revolution, when the squires fell under 
 suspicion and disfavor and a new set of 
 men came forward, it is. comparatively 
 large. But the time when everyone was 
 Esq. and everyone Mr. had not yet ar- 
 rived. . . ■ ,.:.., 
 
 Provision for schools ^ made perhaps 
 as early as could be expected, provision 
 for preaching earlier still ; and throughout 
 the years covered by these records the 
 meeting-house is the center of the life of 
 the town. 
 
 The life of the world without seldom 
 appears in these pages. The French and 
 Indian war passes almost without notice. 
 
 and leaves scarcely a trace beyond a 
 slight increase in the number of military 
 titles. During the period of the Revolu- 
 tion, entries relating to public affairs are 
 frequent and interesting ; the troubles cul- 
 minating in Shays' Rebellion appear in 
 strong light. Subsequently, the annual 
 records of elections serves to show the 
 continuous connection of town and State; 
 and throughout the half- century there are 
 the troubles caused by the paper money 
 of Colony and State, old tenor and new 
 tenor, continental currency and the easily 
 made counterfeits of it. 
 
 But, with few exceptions, these are lo- 
 cal records. They exhibit little of larger 
 political life, little of picturesque event; 
 but surely they present a body of materi- 
 als from which it is easy for the imagina- 
 tion to reconstruct the history and life of 
 our predecessors. It is hoped that their 
 publication may help to direct attention 
 toward that history, and perhaps to en- 
 courage the publication of similar records 
 elsewhere. 
 
 In conclusion I wish to express my 
 thanks to Mr. Bangs, the town clerk, for 
 permission to transcribe the records, and 
 to Mr. Carter, ex-town clerk, for occasion- 
 al assistance. 
 
RECORDS OF AMHERST, 
 
 FROM 1735 TO 1788. 
 
 A Warrant for tlie first Mi'etiiig in 
 riaclley tliird Fresint Anno Dotn 1735 
 
 Hanipsiliere ss. In ptrseuance to tlie 
 Request of several freliolilers of the tliird 
 or East Precinct of Hadley for tlie Calling 
 of a precinct Meeting — To Ebenezer Kel- 
 logi; of sd precinct these are In his 
 IMajesties name to will and Require you 
 forth with to notefy the free Holders and 
 other Inhahetance of sd Precinct qiialle- 
 fyd f.ir Voatiiig in Town i\Ieeiiiig, that 
 they Convean & meet to getliere at the 
 House of Mr Zach'r Feild In sd Pre- 
 cinct on the Eaiyht day of October next at 
 Eaight of ye Clock in the fore noone in 
 order to Make Choyce of all nesessary 
 Precinct offerers : a Committie for the 
 Calling of Precinct Meatings for the future 
 and to do act or agree on wiiat may be 
 tliouijht [iroper Respecting hireing a Men- 
 ester Building a Meeiintr house and agree 
 iiig on a place to Set it in and in firiding 
 out what Lands may he Taxed for the 
 Defraying Charsies About the same Given 
 under my hand and Seale this 22iid Day 
 of Septendier 1735 
 
 Elezer Porter Justis Peace 
 
 Hadley Sep'tr 23rd 1735 In Per- 
 siiance of the above written wrorant thease 
 are to Notefy all parsons of ye third pre- 
 cint of Hadley afoie sd qiiallified as 
 above sd to Conveane and meate to gether 
 at the Time and place and on ye Ocation 
 above said Given under my band the Date 
 ai)i)ve said September 23 : 1735 
 
 Ebenezer Kellogg 
 
 At a Meeting Persuant to above written 
 warrant October the Eaiglit 1735 
 
 Voted Samuel Hauley sen Moderator 
 Voated John Nash Clirk Voated John 
 Ingram sen Sam'll Boultwood Sain'U 
 Haulev Coinm'y for Calling Precinct Meat- 
 ings Voted Ebenezer Dickenson Aaron 
 Smeth Jiio Nash Assessors Voted Ebe- 
 nezer Kellogg Collector Voted to Hiere 
 a Menestor half a yeare 
 
 Voted that Jno Ingram Jr Jno Coles 
 Naih'll Smith Coni'te to iiire a Minester 
 Vo'ed to Build a Meating House voted sd 
 house forty five foot in Length : and thirty 
 five in Bredtii 
 
 Voted sd meating house to be Cover- 
 ed with quarter boards of Spruse. Voted 
 also to Cover ye Roofe Spruce Shingles 
 with out sap and twenty one Inches in 
 Lentil. Voated to Set sd bouse upon the 
 Hill East of Jno Nashs House in ye most 
 Convenient place 
 
 Voted that Saui'll Boultwood Eben'r 
 Dickinson John Cole Peletiah Smith Jno 
 Ingram Jr a Cominete to order ye Build- 
 ing ye Meating House 
 
 At a Meating Novenib'r tlie 25: 1735 — 
 Voted John Ingram sen'r Moderator — Vot- 
 ed that the former Vote Respecting seting 
 of the Mejiting House upon the Hill East of 
 John Nash House to be Revoaked also 
 Voted that the Meati;:g House be set in 
 the must Convenient place neare the 
 Elartling Stake so Called — Voted that 
 John Ingram Sen'r Sam'll Boultwood John 
 Nash Ebenezer Dickinson Aaron Smith 
 
6 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 to he a Cominety to Order ye Buililinti je 
 iiifjitiii^ House 
 
 Att a Meiitiiig December 25: 1735 — 
 "N'oted Ebeiuzer ])ickiii>on Moileratur : 
 Voted to make Void a fnrmer Vote ot set- 
 iiiij ye Meaiinif House ait ye llaitlintt 
 ytacke also Voted to Set it upon ye East 
 End of Noah Smiths Lot — 
 
 At a MeatiuK in Match the 10: 17o5— 
 Voted Jolm Nash Clark: V.ned John 
 Ingram t^en Sam'll Boultwood Sain'll 
 Hiiuley Commete to Call meatiusiS Voted 
 Ebeiiezer Dickinson John Nash Aaron 
 Smiiii Assessors Voted Naih'U Smitli 
 Collector Voteil to liiis fiftt-eii pounds of 
 money to be paid towjirds \e meiii>teis 
 Kate Voted yt the Keniainder of m1 U-iie 
 be paid out of ye Nonresedent Money and 
 ye Remiiinder of sd Money to he Im- 
 proved (or ye Building of ye Mealing 
 House Voted that ye High way woik be 
 done l)y lieads and Teams and yt a Team 
 shall be Equal to a hand j)er day 
 
 Samll Haulev Moderator 
 
 Att a Lejjal Meeting Septem'b ye 16.1; 
 ITol) Voted 1 to Hire a Minister six 
 months — Voted 2 Sam'Jl Hauley Ebenezer 
 Kellogg to hire a Minister 
 
 Saji'll Hauley Modera'r 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting Jane'r ve 30 1736 
 Voated to give Ebenezer Kellogg five 
 pounds to [go] to Salem to Collect Non 
 llesident nioi^ey also to pay said money 
 out of the same 
 
 Sam'll Boui.TWooD Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting March ye 17ih 
 1737 Voated 1 John Nasii Clark Voated 2 
 John Inyrani Sam'll Boultwood Sani'li 
 Hauley Committy to Call Meeting Voated 
 3 John Ingram Jr John Coles Solomon 
 Boultwood Assessors Voaied 4 John Nash 
 Precinct Tresurer Voated 5 Jonathan 
 Authorton Collector Voated 6 to Cover 
 ye Meetitig House 
 
 Ebenezer Dickconson Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting March ye 22 1737 
 Voated 1 to frani Raise & Cover ye Meet- 
 ing House this year Ensuing Voated 2 
 
 Sam'll Hauley E'leiiezer Kellogg Eben- 
 ezer Dickconson Jonathan Atliarton 
 Aaron Smith a Comniiily to se to ye 
 Building ye Meeting House Voaied 3 to 
 do Highway work liy heads 
 
 Aaron Smith (modera'r 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting April ye 13 1737 
 Voated I to give Mr D ivid Parsons Jr a 
 Call to settle in ye Ministry. Voated lor 
 his settelment to give him tow Lots of 
 Land that was Granted lieartofore by the 
 town of iladley fir the Settlement of the 
 Gospel in this Prei;einct Voated '. to siive 
 him Eaighty pounds ye first year & five 
 pounds t I be yearly adiled until it amounis 
 to one Hundred Voated 3 also towards 
 liuihlin-i a Dwelling House to set him up 
 a frame futy fiots in Length in Bretli 
 twenty one foots & two Storys lii^'li ami 
 Cover sd House ami Btiiki ye Chimney 
 & Cellor 
 
 John Ingram Jit (Modera'r 
 
 AtL a Leaal Meetinii on July ye 4 : 1737 
 Voated 1 yt in order to Enable ns to 
 mak sum further off^r to Mr Parsons for 
 to Setila among us we will tiy to get more 
 Lands for Ins Settlement 
 
 Voated 2 that John Nash & Ebenezer 
 Dickconson should seek after sd Lands v& 
 Voaied 3 that thay shall be paid for there 
 pains 
 
 Sam'll Hauley (Moderaier 
 
 Alt a Legal Meeting Septem'r ye 20: 
 1737 Voated 1 to Give Mr David Parsi.ns 
 Jnr one liumlred and twenty Poiimls shI- 
 lery & for Settlement as was Voated 
 lieare to fore Voat-d2 John Nash Aaron 
 Smitli Assessors tor this yeaie 
 
 Ebene'r Dickconson (Moderator 
 
 Att a Letral Meeting Novem'hr ye 22 
 1737 Voated 1 to hire a Minister for five 
 Months Voated 2 to Give a Minister forty 
 shillings a sabbath > 
 
 Voated 3 Jidin Nash Richard Chauncey 
 a Committy to seek after a Minister 
 
 John Nash (Moilerator 
 
 Att a preceinct Meeting held March ye 
 IG 1738 Voated 1 John Nash Clark for sd 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 Prf-ceinct Voated 2 El)enezer Dickinson 
 Jolin Cowls John Na>h a Cominitte to 
 Issu out womints tor Meetings 
 
 Voateil 3 Jolin Nash Preceinct TreMirer 
 Voated i Ebenezer Dickconson John 
 Cowls Stephen Smith Assessors V'lated 5 
 pelitiah Smith Collector 
 
 VoHted 6 sam'l! Mauley Ehenezer Kel- 
 logg Ebenezer Dickconson Aaron Smith 
 Jonathan Artliohton Cominitty to Build ye 
 Meeting House 
 
 Voated 7 to do high way work by pools 
 [i. e. polls] Voated 8 to give Josiah 
 Chauncey teen shillings for going to Mr 
 Barbar Voated to John Nash for Hervis 
 done for ye pre(;eiiict & money paid out 
 two pound five shillings Voated to Eben- 
 e'r Dickson for S' rvioes one pound teen 
 shillings 
 
 Voated to Aaron Smith fifte- ne shilliniis 
 Voated to John Cowls for K-epiiitf Mr 
 Parsons liors five shillings 
 
 Voated to Jonathan Cowls for Keeping 
 Mr Parsons upoi the Sahbatli Eaittht 
 Shillings 
 
 Voated to Moses Sjnith five shilliiiiis 
 paid for ye precinct. 
 
 Voated to pay theas Bills out ol ye noii 
 resident money 
 
 Ebene"r Dicivinson (Moderator 
 
 Att a Preceinct Meeting held November 
 ye 14 1738 Voated 1 to Mak V..id a form- 
 er Voate of setiny the Meetinghouse upon 
 Noah Smiths Lot Voated 2 to set ye 
 Meeting House upon ye Hill East of John 
 Nashs house 
 
 John Nash (Moderator 
 
 Att a Preceinct Meeting held Decem'b 
 ye 15 : 1738 Voated 1 to Raise Nineteene 
 pounds for Thomas Temple for franeing 
 ye Meeting house 
 
 Voated 2 to Ehenez'r Kellogg for Hum 
 & Suger three pounds seventeen shillings 
 Voated 3 to Raise one Hundred pounds 
 for Mr David parsons for preaching the 
 yeare past 
 
 Voated i yt Each head & teame be Im- 
 proved to get fire wood for Mr Parsons 
 Eben'r Dickinson (Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting held on 
 ye 25 of Jenew'r 1738 — 9 Voated 1 that we 
 will sell ye L'lt granted to this preceinct in 
 ye yeare 1738 Voated 2 Ebenezer Dickin- 
 son Jonathan Smith John Nash Doc'r 
 NaJ.ha'll Sniiili & Solomon Boultwood 
 a Cominitty to sell and Dispose of ye afore 
 sd Lot in ye Behalf of ye atore sd Lot in 
 helialf of ye afore sd preceinct and lo 
 Dispose ye aff cts of sd Lands as ye 
 preceinct heare after se Best 
 
 And the Commitiy before Named are 
 hearlty Impoiiid to Convey a title to ye 
 afore sd Lot 
 
 John Cowls (Moderator 
 
 Att a Lethal Precei.'.ct Meeting held in 
 Hadley third preceinct Mareh ye 14ih 
 1738-9 
 
 Voated 1 J'din Nash Clark for ye yeare 
 Ensuing Voated 2 Joi:n Na-h preceinct 
 Tresurer 
 
 Voated 3 Jonathan Smith Solom'o 
 Boultwood Jona'n Cowls for a Committy 
 to Issu out worrants for ye preceinct Meet- 
 iiig-i Voaied i John Nash Ebenez'r 
 Dickinson Aaron Smith for Assessors for 
 ye yeare Ensuing: and to make ye Non 
 resident tax that is still be hind Voated 5 
 Solomon Boultwood : Collector Voated yt 
 John Nash Ebenezei' Dickinson to get ye 
 Minisiers Lots Laide out Voted Solomon 
 Boultwood John Nash Ehen'r Dickinson 
 David Smith John Cowls a Committy to 
 order ye Building ye Meeting House 
 
 Peletiah Smith (Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting held in Hadley 
 third preceint ye 29 of June 1739. Voated 
 
 yt the present Co itty for the Carrying 
 
 on ye Building ye Meeting House Shall 
 Dispose of ye first hundred and fifty 
 pounds yt is and shall be paid by De'n 
 Eleazor Matton as they think best 
 
 Ebene'r Dickinson (Moderator 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 A Warrant for a preceinct Meeting Had- 
 ley Third preceinct June ye 7th 1739 
 
 This is to Notifi all the freeholders and 
 other Iiiliabiiants Quallified Accordinj; to 
 Law to Voat in preceinct Meetings that 
 tiiey Convean touetiier at ye Dwelling 
 House of ye Wid'w Hannah Boultwoods 
 in this preceii>ct on ye twenty sixth of this 
 present June at one of the Clock of said 
 day : then & thare to se what ye preceinct 
 will do to settle Mr David Parsons Jn'r in 
 ye Gospel Ministry in this preceinct & what 
 may be thongiit Best towards Building a 
 house for ye Minister : also liow De'n Mat- 
 toons first Hundred & fifty pounds shall 
 be disposd with all 
 
 Given under oure liands 
 
 Solomon Boultwood 1 Committee 
 Jonathan Smith J 
 
 The meeting was opened & Aj^yrnd 
 to ye fifth of July, 
 againe A'fjoyrnd to ye 12th of July 
 
 A Worraiit for a preceinct Meeting Had- 
 ley third preceinct September ye 22iid 1739 
 
 Tills is to Notifi all >e Freeholders and 
 other Inliabitants of this preceinct Qualli- 
 fied according lo L'lW to Voat in towne or 
 preceinct Meetings that they Meet together 
 at ye Dwelling House of Doc'r Natlia'll 
 Smiths in sd preceinct upon ye twenty 
 eaith day of this Instant Septem'r at two 
 of the Clock in ye after noone then & there 
 to do what may be thought necisary for 
 to Encorage Mr David Parsons in ye 
 Work of ye Ministry in tliis place : and also 
 to do what may he thought necisary in 
 order to ordaine Mr Parsons 
 Given under oure hands 
 
 Jona'n Smith 1 ^ 
 
 T , ^ y Committy 
 
 Jona n Cowls j ■' 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting in Hadley tliird 
 preceinct apointed by them as ye Law Di- 
 rects in shuch Cases on ye fifteentii day of 
 June 1739 : & after two Adjornments first 
 to the fifth day of July : & then to the 
 twelvth of July instant : they came to the 
 following Voats : 
 
 Voated 1 to give Mr David Parsims 
 
 Jun'r an Invitation to settle with us as 
 oure Gospell Minister 
 
 For ills Settlement : 
 
 Voated 1 to give him two Lots of Lands 
 granted by the Town of Hadley for a Min- 
 ister in this preceinct one lying in the Sec- 
 ond Division the other in ye tliird Voated 
 2 for to give him one Hundred and 
 Seventy five pounds of money towards 
 Building his House 
 
 Attested 
 
 Ebene'r Dickinson [ Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting held by ye Inhabi- 
 tants of Hadley tliird Preceinct Septem'br 
 ye 28: 1739 as an Addition to oure 
 fornirr voats : for Mr David Parsons to 
 Setile among us : to Enal)le him to Support 
 ill ye Work of tlie Ministry among us 
 they came into ve following Vi>aCs 
 
 For his Salary 
 
 Voaied 1 To pay him one hundred 
 pounds ye first yeare and to make yearly 
 Aditions as ye poles and Rateable Estates 
 shall Encreass till ye salary Amounts to 
 one hundred and sixty pounds (that is to 
 say) iliose poles & Estates that are found 
 in this precienct when ye last List was 
 taken which was in January 1738 — 9 shall 
 pay ye hundred pounds — & ye Adition 
 sixty pounds salary shall be livyed & rais- 
 ed upon ye Encrease of the polls and Es- 
 tates inje preceinct this Sixty pounds to 
 be Gradually Augmented as ye poles & 
 Estates shall gradually Encrese : this 
 Salary we propose to pay in Province 
 Bills of ye old Teiiour or one third so 
 mucii of ye New : which is to be ye onely 
 fixed standard until the yeare 1741 
 
 Voated 2ly that after ye yeare 1741 ye 
 Salary Nitall be paide in Money if any be 
 passing or Some Comodity whicii shall be 
 Equivalent to money upon the footing 
 money now stands (that is to say) if the 
 Country makes Good the Credit of Prov- 
 ince Bills agreeable to promiss at the 
 Rate of six shilling & Eaight pence new 
 tennor tor one ounce of silver or twenty 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 shillings old tennor the ounce : then the 
 abovt'sd sums mentioned to be setteled 
 by that standard ; but if the Country fails 
 of theire proiniss of tlie Vallue of Money 
 above sd tlien the salary to be setteled at 
 ye Rate of twenty six sliilling ye old 
 tenor the ounce or a third part so much 
 ye New ;the tru Intente of tliis Voate is to 
 set forth the Value of money as it now 
 stands : & how it shall stand in all future 
 payments Voated Sly to Provide him all 
 his firwood Voated -Ithly to pay him his 
 Salary Annually in ye Month of March 
 Attest Elezer Mattun 1- Moderator. 
 
 Hadley 3il Preceinct Septem'br ye 28th 
 1739 Complifd with the Request of the 
 Inhabitants of ye third preceinct in Had- 
 ley 
 
 P'r me David Parsons Jn'r 
 
 At a Legal Mealing lield in Hadley 
 t'lird preceinct March ye 18th 17iO Voat- 
 ed 1 John Nash preceinct Clark for ye 
 yeare Ensuing Voated 2 John Nash 
 Ebene'r Dickinson Aaron Smith Assess- 
 ors for ye preceinct & non resido-nt taxes 
 
 Voated Sly John Cowls preceinct treas- 
 urer Voateil 4 Joseph Clary Cnllector 
 
 Voated 5 Richard Cliauncey & Do'ct 
 Natlia'U Smith & David Smith a Com- 
 mity to Issu out Warrarjts for preceinct 
 meetings 
 
 Voated 6 yt ye former Commity to 
 Build ye Meeting House to go on wt ye 
 work 
 
 Voated 7 to do high way work l>y 
 Poles 
 
 After Ajoyrnment to ye 19th of this 
 Instant 
 
 Voated 1 to pass ye Bills of Charge of 
 Building ye Meeting House with other 
 pre(;einct Charges 
 
 Voated 21v granted Ehener D'ckinson> 
 and John Cowls Bill for ?."akirig Rates 
 Voated 3 to John Nash Eleven pounds 
 for provideing for ye ordenation of Mr 
 Parsons 
 Attest Ebene'r DiciiiNsoN [-Moderator 
 
 An acount of ye Standard of Raising ye 
 Rev'd Mr Parsons rate. 
 
 Wharas in the agreement between the 
 Rev'd Mr David Parsons and this Pre- 
 ceinct att ye time of his Settelment it 
 was proposd that an adetion of sixty 
 pounds shook! be nidde to his salery of 
 one Hundred pounds which adetional 
 sixty pounds was to be Levied & Raised 
 yearly att proportion to ye Encreas of 
 pools an<l Ritahles as they ware then 
 found in this Preceinct which was in ve 
 yeare 1738 which was to be ye rule or 
 Standard of Encreas 
 
 Therfor ye following is an acount of ye 
 Number Quantity and Valuation of ye 
 Pools & Ratahl Estats as they ware found 
 & taken in ye yeare 1738 
 
 Which is to be ye miely Rule tor ye 
 Regulati-ing ye Avance of this Hundred 
 pounds Salery till it amounts to one Hun- 
 dred and Sixty pounds 
 
 Number of Pools 35 Each Valued at 
 1£ 5s Gi 
 
 Ratable Estats Vallud att 1101£ 10s 6d 
 
 and one Shilling was Laid upon ye pound 
 
 Attest PjBen'r Dicivinson 
 
 John Cowls 
 
 Assessors 
 
 At a Legal Meeting held in Hadley 
 third Preceinct March ye 16th 1741. Voat- 
 ed 1 John Nash Preceinct Clark Voated 2 
 Jonath'n Sniith Eben'r Dickinson John 
 Cowls Assessors tor this Preceinct Voated 
 
 3 John CowU Preceinct Trourar Voated 
 
 4 Kphraim Kellogg Collector : Voated 5 
 Natha'U Smith Richard Cl.auncey David 
 Smiih a Commity to uive out Worrauts 
 for Pieceinct Meetings Voated 6 Solomon 
 Boullwood John Nasii & Eoenezer Dick- 
 inson a Couimitty to proceed in finisiiing 
 ye Meeting House so farr as thay think 
 best Voated 7 that ye sd Commiity Build 
 a Pue for ye Ministers Wife and sd Pue 
 whare ye Rev'd Mr David Parsons shall 
 chuse : Voated (8) yt ye Standard for ye 
 Raising the Rev'd Mr Parsons Rate tor 
 this Present yeare shall be att ye Rate of 
 
10 
 
 Kecords of Amherst prom 1735 to 17^ 
 
 twenty six shillings the ounce of silver ye 
 old Tenner oi one tliird so nmcli ye New 
 Voated 9 John Nasli twenty shillings for 
 Eecordinj; voatx tor time past Vonted (10) 
 to pay ye Kev'd Mr Parsons R'lte u^oii 
 or betore ye tt-enth of March Annually 
 Attest John Cowls ModerHtor 
 
 Att a Legal M^eliIlg Held in Hadley 
 tiiird Preceiiict June ye IGtIi 1741 : 
 
 Voated 1 to sell to Aaron Warner fifteen 
 Rods in Breeth of ye High way Lying in 
 ye second Division of Lands in this Pre- 
 ceinct Bounded upoti Moses Warner south 
 by Libarty from ye Town of Hadley 
 
 Voatfd 2 to Give thirty seven pound 
 teen shillings of sd Money Due for abovt- 
 sd Land;* to Jonathan Arthonton 
 
 Voated 3 to Dispose of ye Remainder of 
 sd Money toward fiiii>hiny; ye Meeting 
 House 
 
 Voated 4 yt John Nasli & Ebenez'r 
 Dickinson take security t(jr ye abve sd 
 Money 
 
 Attest Eben'r Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Melting Held in 
 Hadley third Preceinct Miirch ye llth 
 1742: by ajurnment to ye House of Nath'll 
 Smith in sd precei:>ct 
 
 Voated 1 John Nash preceinct Clark 
 
 Voated 2 De Eben'r Dickinson Pre- 
 ceinct Tresurer 
 
 Voated 3 John Nash : Ehenezer Dickin- 
 son Richard ChaunCey Assessors 
 
 Voated 4 Joseph Hanley Collector 
 
 Voated 5 Aaron Smith Nath'll Smith 
 Richard Cliauncey to Ishue out Worrants 
 for Preceinct Meetings 
 
 Voated 6 yt ye Rev'd Mr Parsons Wood 
 for this yeareshiU be proportiond upon 
 pools & Estates : and that one Load of 
 wood shall be Valued at Eaight shillings 
 
 Voated 7 to do high way work by pools 
 and Estates for this yeare 
 
 After Ajornment to ye 25th of this In- 
 stant to the Meeting house 
 
 Voated 1 An aquittance to John Nash 
 as to ye Disposal of De'n Eleazor Mat- 
 tons Bond of 300 pounds 
 
 Voated 2 to Make a tax or Rate to 
 Answar all the preceinct Debts now Due : 
 Voated (3) yt ye Assessors take a List 
 and Make this Above granted tax — 
 Attestt-d Ebene'r Kellogg Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Held In 
 Hadley 3d preceinct November ye 16th 
 1742— 
 
 Voated 1 to provid f>r ye Rev'd Mr 
 Parsons sixty Loads of fire wood for this 
 yeare ' 
 
 Voiited 2 yt ye Rev'd Mr Parsons Kate 
 to be Made by ye same List yt is to be 
 taken to kei'p his wood 
 
 VoMted 3 Jr)hn Nash Ebene'r Dickinson 
 to observe ye Loads of Wood 
 Attested Solomon Boultvv^ood Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceii ct Meeting Held in 
 Hadley third Preceinct March ye 21 : 
 1743: opend & Ajornd to \e 25th of this 
 Instant to ye Meeting Hous att teeti of ye 
 Clock of sd day 
 
 After Ajornement said Meeting held lU)- 
 on ye 25th of sd March and Voated as 
 follows — 
 
 Voated 1 John Nash Preceinct Clark 
 for ye yeare Ensuing 
 
 Voated 2 De Eben'r Dickinson Pre- 
 ceinct Tresurar 
 
 Voated 3 De Elezer Mattoon : Ebene'r 
 Kellogg : John Cowls Assessors 
 
 Voated 4 Aaron Smith Nath'll Smith 
 Richard Chancey a Comuiitty to Issue out 
 warrants for preceint Meetings 
 
 Voated 5 that ye Assessors shall g > and 
 Vine ye Ratable Lands in this Preceinct 
 to Enable them to make a Just Valua- 
 tion. 
 
 Voated 6 yt High way work shall be 
 Brought into a Rate 
 
 Voated 7 to Provid 70 Loads of wood 
 for ye Rev'd Mr Parsons also to rais sd 
 wood by H Rate 
 
 Voated 8 to Build a pound and to set sd 
 pound upon or near the midle High way 
 in ye First Division in ye most Conven- 
 ient place 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 11 
 
 Voiited 9 that Solomon Boiiltwood & 
 De Eben'r Dickinson order the Buildiner 
 sd p()un<l 
 
 Voated 10 to provide fastening for ye 
 Meeting Hous Dors and to secure ye win- 
 dows : Voated 11 tiiat Solomon Boiiltwood 
 & Westwood Cook see yt sd work be done 
 
 Voated 12 to give Aaron Wornar tliirty 
 sliillings to sweep the Meeting Hous and 
 to give a Signe when to go to Meeting for 
 one yeare 
 
 Voated 13 Jonatli'n Moodey Collector 
 Attest Aaron Smith Modera'r 
 
 Hfiilley Third Pieceinct Deceni'r ye 21 
 1743 In a Legal Meeting being opend & 
 Ajornd til De John Naslies House Voated 
 to ddd teen Loads i.f wood to tlie Seveniy 
 Voated in the Spring past for the RevM 
 Mr Parsons Each Load to be set at Eaiglit 
 Shillings 
 
 Voated 2 that all the Bills then 
 Broughting [brought in] to lie alowed 
 
 Attest Eben'r Dickinson Moderator 
 
 At n Legal Meeting Held upon tlie sec- 
 ond Fryday in Marcli 1743 — 4 
 
 V<iated 1 John Nash Freceinct Cl^rk 
 
 Voated 2 Peletiah Smith De Naih'll 
 Smith Richard Chauncey C"mmitly to 
 Issu o\it warrants for Pr"ceinct Meetings 
 
 Voated 3 Lt Jonathan Smith De Juhn 
 Nash Peletiah Smith Assessors 
 
 Voated 4 De Eben'r Dickinson Pre 
 ceinct Tresurar— 
 
 Voated 5 Higii way work lo be brought 
 into a Rate — 
 
 Voated 6 to Bring ye Getmg of ye R'd 
 Mr Parsons wood into a rate 
 
 Voated 7 to pTovide Mr Par>ons Eaighty 
 Loads of wood for this year and that 
 Ench Loud to he Vallued at 8 Shillings 
 
 VoHted 8 to Lt Jona'n Smiih De Elezo 
 Mattoon John Nash to Vew ye Loads 
 
 Voated 9 to give De Nath'll Smith teen 
 shillings ould tennor to swt- ep ye Meeting 
 House this yeare 
 
 Voated 10 to give Jonnth'n Nash twenty 
 
 Eaight Shillings old tenor to sound ye 
 Signal 
 
 Attest Ebene'r Kellogg Moderntir 
 
 At a Legal Preceinct Meeting Held 
 Nove'r the 3d 1744 
 
 Voated 1 to Leuve it whiih ye present 
 Assessors to stiite tlie M-mej for ye Rais- 
 ing ye Rev'd Mr Parsons SfiUary for this 
 present yeare (Voated) 2d to Build two 
 pues in ye Meeting Hnuse : one upon the 
 womans side upon ye North West Corner 
 and one upon ye North End upon ye 
 Mens side : also to finish ye outside nf sd 
 House 
 
 Voated 3 De John Nash De Ebener 
 Dickinson to se sd work is di.'ne 
 
 Voated 4 Libarty to sum particular 
 parsons to Build pues upon thare one 
 Charg in those places as the preceinet 
 [? may approve] sd p^irsons giving ii[) sd 
 pues to ye Disposal of ye preceinct upon 
 thare Demand sd preceinct paying ye cost 
 of sd piies 
 
 Voated 5 to Build a pound : find that sd 
 pound shall be thirty feet square (Voat- 
 ed) 6 De Ebentz'r Dickinson & Westwood 
 Cook to Build sd pound 
 
 Voated 7 that Lt Jona'n Smith De 
 Ebene'r Dickinson Jobu Cowls John 
 Nash : H Cominity to agree or Let out to 
 men places for pues 
 
 Attest John Nash Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Held 
 Decem'r the llih 1744 
 
 Voated 1 lo Revoak all ye forrniir 
 [voats] respecting ye Building two pues : 
 or Letting particular parsons Build pues 
 
 Voated 2 to Build all ye pues Round ye 
 Sids of ye meeting House 
 
 Voated 3 Lt Jona'n Sini:h Soloni'n 
 Boultwood De Ebene'r Dickinson Jolin 
 Nash En's Ebene'r Kellogg John Cowls a 
 Committee to see said work atFtcied 
 
 Voated 4 and past ye Bills of preceinct 
 Debts then Brought 
 
 Att John Nash Moderator 
 
12 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Held 
 MmpcIi ye 19tli 1745 
 
 Voated 1 Jolin Nash Preceiiici Clark 
 
 Voated 2 De Ebene'r Dickinson Pre- 
 ceinct Tresurar 
 
 VoMted 3 En>'ii Ebene'r Kellogg: John 
 Cowls De Ebene'r Dickinson Assessors 
 
 Voated 4 : Joseuh Hauley Westw-od 
 Cook Aaron Wiirner a Coinmitty to Give 
 out Worrants for Preceinct Meetintrs 
 
 Voated 5 to Answar Hi^h wiiy work by 
 a Rite tliis yeare — 
 
 Voated 6 to Provide Eipjlit)' L'ads of 
 wood for ye R'vd Mr Parsons 
 
 Voated 7 to Rais forty Pounds of Mon- 
 ey old teiinor to Provide sd wood 
 
 Voated 8 to Give thirty shillings to Give 
 j-e sianel when to meet npon ye sabhaths 
 and Lecturs for iliis yeare 
 
 Voated 9 that John Nash se \tye Meet- 
 ing House lie swept this yeare 
 
 Voated lOly That John Nash En's 
 Eben'r Kellogkf John Cowls make up 
 acornpts wt ye Tresurar Ebene'r Dickin- 
 son of the preceinct Rat[e]s ;hat are not 
 Cleard up: and Mak a Returne to. ye Pre- 
 ceinct 
 Attes't Eben'r Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Ht-ld in 
 ye third Preceinct ot Haiiley Held March 
 ye 18 1746 
 
 Voated 1 Peletiah Smith Moderator 
 
 Voated 2 John Nash Preceinct Clark 
 for this year 
 
 Voated 3 De Ebene'r Dickinson Pre- 
 Ci-inct Tresurar for this year 
 
 Voated 4 VVestwood Cook Joseph 
 Hauley Aaron Warner a Comniitty to 
 Issue out Worrants for Prnct-inct Meet- 
 ings 
 
 Voated 5 Lt Jona'n Srnith John Nash 
 De Naih'll Smith Assessors 
 
 Voated 6 to Give John Nash forty shil- 
 lings to sound ye Kunk for this yeare 
 
 Voated 7 to Give ye Rv'd Mr Parsons 
 but thirty three shillings upon the Ounce 
 for his sallary this yeare — 
 
 Voated 8 to Petition ye General Cort 
 for a tax upon the Nonreseilent Propria- 
 tors Lands Lying in this third Preceinct 
 
 Voated 9 Lt Jona'n Smith De Ebene'r 
 Dickinson John Nash Lt Ebene'r Kellogg 
 a Commiity lo advise ami Promote ye so 
 Peiitioning 
 
 Attest Peletiah Smith Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting Held In Hiidley 
 third Preceinct April ye 21 : 1746 
 
 Voated 1 to Revoak a [voai] taken att 
 Meeting Held March ye IBih 1746 to Give 
 ye Rv'd Mr Parsons but thirty shillings ye 
 ounce for his S diary. 
 
 Vor.ted 21y to Give ye Rv'd Mr Parsons 
 thirty five shillings ye ounce 
 
 Attest Nath'll Smith Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Held att 
 ye Meeting House Novem'br ye 3d 1746 
 
 Voated 1 to aLow ye Debts of ye Pre- 
 ceinct as they stiind in ye Bills 
 
 Voated 2 that ye Present Assessors and 
 Lt Ebene'r Kellosig and Peletiah Smith a 
 Comniitty to agree wt ye Rv'd Mr Parsons 
 how money shall be Valued In order to 
 Raise his sallary this yeare 
 
 Voated 4 to Build a pound Vt)ated 5ly 
 yt De Ebene'r Dickinson and Moses Wor- 
 ner build sd pound 
 
 Voated 6 to Raise ye Rv'd Mr Parsons 
 wood this yeare as it was ye Last yeare 
 
 Voated 7 that Lt Jona'n Sniitii Jcdin 
 Nash De Eben'r Dickinson : In ye Behalf 
 of this Preceinct do Give Aaron Worner 
 for this Preceinct security of High way 
 Granied to this Preceinct to sell to sd 
 Aaron Worner 
 
 Ati't Eben'r Kellogg Moderator 
 
 At a Precenct MeetingJEIeld In Hadley 
 third Preceinct March ye 16ih 1747 after 
 chois of a Moderator Voated as fidlows 
 
 Voated 1 John Nash Preceinct Clark 
 
 Votited 2 Dn Ehenez'r Dickinson Pre- 
 ceinct Tresurar 
 
 Voated 3 Nehamiah Strong De Ehenez'r 
 Dickinson Nath'll Coleman assessors for 
 this present yeare 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17f 
 
 13 
 
 Voated 41y David Nash John Field 
 Alexand'r Porter a Comitty to Isliue out 
 Warrants for Preceinct Meetings 
 Attested by Ebene'r Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Held 
 Decem'br ye 2(1 1747 After Choise of a 
 Moderator they Voated as follows 
 
 Voated 1 grant Eaight shillings a day 
 for a hand : and for a Team a Day 
 
 Voated 2 to grant seven shillings Pr 
 Day for a hand and also seven shillings 
 Pr Day fur a team 
 
 Voated 3 the Assessors Eaight shilling 
 PrDay 
 
 Voated 4 Lt Jona'n Smith John Nash 
 Richard Cliancey : Solomon Boultwood 
 Nehamiah Strong De'n Eben'r Dickinson 
 Nath'li Coleman : a Commity to Agree 
 witli the Rev'd Mr Parsons how his 
 sallery shall be this yeare 
 
 Voated 5 to Give De Ebenez'r Dickin- 
 son 36£ to provide the Rev'd Mr Parsons 
 fire wood for this present yeare Begin- 
 ning the sixteenth of this present Month 
 Attested by EsENE'r Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Held in 
 Hadley third Preceinct March ye loth : 
 1748: After ye Choise of a Moderator 
 they Came into the Following Voats — 
 
 Voated 1 Jolin Nash Preceinct Clark 
 for this yeare 
 
 Voated 2 De Ebene'r Dickinson Pre- 
 ceinct Tresurar (or this yeare 
 
 Voated 3 Lt Jona'n Smith John Nash 
 De Ebene'r Dickinson Assesors 
 
 Voated 4 Ephraini Kellogg Eben'r Mat- 
 toon Sam'll Ingram a Committy to Ishu 
 out warrants for Preceinct Meetings 
 
 Voated 5 to Give De Nath'li Smith five 
 shillings adition for sweeping the Meeting 
 House for this yeare past 
 
 Voated 6 to alow pay for ye work Done 
 att ye East End of Jona'n Dickinsons Lot 
 the yeare past 
 
 Attested by Jona'n Cowls Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting Held In Hadley 
 third Preci'inct Noveni'r ye 16th 1748: 
 
 after ye Choise of a Moderator they Came 
 Into the folowing Voats 
 
 Voated 1 to Give Nehamiah Strong 51 £ 
 to Provid firewood for the Rev'd Mr Par- 
 sons for the yeare Ensuing 
 
 Voated 2 to Raise one Hundred pounds 
 of Money to be Iniprovd toward Building 
 Pues in ye Meeting House 
 
 Voated 3 Lt Jona'n Smith Solomon 
 Boultwood Eben'r Kellogg De Eben'r 
 Dickinson John Nash a Commity to see 
 ye sd work Done 
 
 Solomon Boultwood Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Held 
 Jiinaw'r ye 27th 1748 After Choise of a 
 Moderator they Came Into ye following 
 Voats 
 
 Voated 1 to Build a pound : also to 
 Build sd pound thirty one feet and one 
 half square: and to Make three Lengths 
 Each side 
 
 Voated 2 to set sd Pound In the street 
 Joining upon John Nashs North Fence 
 
 Voated 31y Solomon Boultwood Eben'r 
 Dickinson John Nash to Build sd Pound 
 
 Voated 4 Lt Jona'n Smith De Eben'r 
 Dickinson John Nash a Commety to agree 
 with ye Rev'd Mr Parsons what his sal- 
 lary shall be for this Present yeare 
 
 Voated 6 to Make this tax by the Last 
 List 
 
 Attested by me John Nash Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Held 
 March ye 13th 1749 
 
 After the Choies of a Moderator they 
 Came Into ye following Voats 
 
 Voated 1 John Nash Preceinct Clark 
 for this yeare 
 
 Voated 2 De Eben'r Dickinson Pre- 
 ceinct Tresurar for this yeare 
 
 Voated 3 John Nash Moses Smith 
 Joseph Eastman Assessors for this yeer 
 
 Voated 4 Jona'n Nash Semeon Clark 
 Daiiiell Kellogg a Committy to Issu out 
 Worrants for Preceinct JMeetings 
 
 Voated 5 that the Present Assessors 
 agree wt the Rev'd Mr Parsons : what his 
 sallary shall be this yeare 
 
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 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 176 
 
 Voated G tliat John Nash Ebpn'r Dick- 
 inson Natli'll a Committy to Hire tliree 
 scool Dames for three or four Monilis In 
 the- Summer Sesoti to Larne Childreii to 
 Read : sd Scouls to be In the Most Con- 
 venient Places In tiie Prfceiiict 
 
 Voaieii 7 Nt- ham'h Strouf; : Lt Eben'r 
 Kellogg a Committy to Hire sutable Par- 
 sons to Blow ye Kunk & sweep ye Meet- 
 ing Hous for this yeare 
 Attested By Eben'r Kellogg Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meating Held In 
 Hadley tliird Preceinct Agust ve Sd 1749 
 After ye Choise of De Ebetrr Dickinson 
 Moderator tiiey Came Into tlie folh>wing 
 Voats 
 
 Voated 1 to seate ye Meeting House : 
 and to seate ye Males together and 
 Femals to Getlier Except ye two pues 
 next ye East End the Pulpit 
 
 Voated 2 that the seators are Guided by 
 the following Ruels — that is to say : by 
 Age : Estate & Qallifications : and for Es- 
 tates to be Guided by the Last years List 
 
 Voated 3 to Make Choise of five meat 
 Parsons to seat ye Meeting House 
 Attested by Ebene'r Dickinson Moderator 
 
 At a legal Preceinct Meeting Held 
 Agust ye 25th 1749— After they Mad 
 Choise of De Eben'r Dickinson Modera- 
 tor they Came into ye following Voats 
 
 Voated 1 to Make Choise of five meat 
 parsons to seat ye Meating House 
 
 Voated 2 to Leave the Deaaiing the 
 
 seats with the seators 
 
 Voated 3 
 
 Lt Jona'n Smith ~| 
 
 Solomon Boultwood \ 
 
 John Nash |- ., -^ ,. 
 
 -r> 171 ' -r.- 1 • the Meetmg 
 
 De Ebene r Dickinson | ^r 
 
 Lt Ebene'r Kellogg J ^°^*® 
 Attested by 
 
 Eben'r Dickinson Moderator 
 Att A Legal Preceinct [Meeting] Held 
 In Hadley third Preceinct October 1749 : 
 After they Mad Choise of a Moderator 
 they Came into the following Voats 
 
 Voated 1 to Provide ye Rev'd Mr Pur- 
 
 Committy 
 to seat 
 
 sons Ninty Loads of fire wood for this 
 Present yeare— 
 
 Voated 2 to Raise one Hundred twenty 
 two pounds teen shillings to procure ye 
 Rev'd Mr Parsons fire wood for this 
 yeare 
 
 Voated 3 Mr Sam'll Hauley Lt Jona'n 
 Smith Richard Chancey a Committy to 
 Vieu ye Loads of wood 
 Attested by 
 
 Att A Legal Preceinct Meeting Held 
 Jana'r ye 18th 1749—50 
 
 After ye Choise of De Ebene'r Dickin- 
 son Moderator they Came into the follow- 
 ing Voats 
 
 Voated 1 John Nash : Moses Smith Jo- 
 seph Eastman a Committy to agree with 
 the Rev'd Mr Parsons what his sallery 
 shall be the yeare past. 
 
 Voated 2 to Build a Pound 
 
 Voated 3 to Give Ebene'r Mattoon Nine 
 teen pound teen shillings to Build sd 
 Pound : as follows : to Build it thirty one 
 feet and one half square tliree Length on 
 Each Side and six Rails In Eacii Lengtii 
 & a cap peace upon ye top : temented up- 
 on Each post & ye Posts Set Neare three 
 feet in the Ground & to find Iron Hang- 
 ings & to finish sd pound workman Like 
 
 Voated 4 to seat the Meeting House A 
 Nue 
 
 Voated 6 that Lt Jona'n Smith Solomon 
 
 Boultwood John Nash Lt Ebene'r Kel- 
 logg De Eben'r Dickinson Nehamiah 
 Strong Moses Smith J(din Dickinson 
 Joseph Eastman a Committy to seat ye 
 Meeting House 
 
 Voated 6 that the seaters Make it tliare 
 Rule In seating : by Estates Aae & Qual- 
 lifications 
 Attest Ebene'r Dickinson [■ Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Held In 
 Hadley third Preceinct Mnrch ye 12tli 
 1750 they Came into the following Voats 
 after the Choise of De Ebenz'r Dickinson 
 Moderator 
 
 Voated 1 Jolm Nash Preceinct Clark 
 for this Present yeare 
 
Kecords of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 15 
 
 Voated 2 De EbiMi'r Dickinson Pre- 
 ceinct Tresurar (or this yeare 
 
 'Voated 3 Capt Jonn'n Smith De Eben'r 
 Dickinson John Dickinson Assessors for 
 tills Preeeinct for tliis present yeare 
 
 Voated 4 Alexan'r Smith Jona'n Ed- 
 wards Moses Cook a Comniitty to Issu out 
 warrants for preceiiict Meetings tiiis 
 yeiire 
 
 Voated 5 to add to ye Re'd Mr Par- 
 sons sallery wliicli was made alt fifty 
 seven shillings & Eaij^iit pence the ounce 
 to tliree pound ye ounce this yeitre 
 
 Voated 6 to Give Nelia'ni Strong two 
 pounds fitteen slliilings to Bh)W tlie Kunk 
 for tiiif< yeare 
 
 Voated 7 Jolin Nash Ricliard Ciiaiicey a 
 Conii>iitty to agree with some parson to 
 sweep ye Meeting House 
 
 Attes't Ebex'k DicivINson Moder'd 
 
 Att a Legal Preeeinct [Meeting] Held 
 in Hadley third preeeinct Novem'r ye 
 lotli 1750 after ye (.Mioise ot De Eben'r 
 Dickinson Moderator they Came into ye 
 Eollowing Voats — 
 
 Voated 1 to R-iise thirteen pounds teen 
 shillings Lawful! Money to procure ye 
 Re'd Mr Parsons fire wood for the yeaie 
 Ensuing 
 
 Voated 2 that any Parson shall have 
 Libarly to pay his parportion of above sd 
 tiiirteen pounds teen shillings in wood iitt 
 three shillings pr Load ate ye Judgment 
 of a Commilty tor that purpus 
 
 Voated 3 to provide Glass to Mend ye 
 Meeting house windows 
 
 Voated i that John Nash Lt Eben'r 
 Kellogg Moses Smiih a Comm'iy to Jiuig 
 the Loads of wood — 
 
 Voated 5 tiiat John Nash De Eben'r 
 Dickinson provide ye Glass for ye Meet- 
 ing house & put it up 
 Atte't Ebene'r DiciciNsoN Modera'r 
 
 Att a Legal Preeeinct Meeting Held In 
 lladley third prec'nt March ye 28ih 1751 : 
 After ye Clioise of De Eben'r Dickinson 
 Moderator tiiey Came into the following 
 Voats — 
 
 Voiited 1 John Nash Preeeinct Clark 
 for this present yeare 
 
 Voated 2 Alexan'dr Smith & David 
 Nash William Boultwood a Commi'iy to 
 Issu out warrants: for preeeinct Meet- 
 ings 
 
 Voated 3 De Eben'r Dickinson Pre- 
 eeinct Tresurar for this yeare 
 
 Voated i John Nash Ebene'r DiekiTison 
 Nath'U Coleman Assessors for this Pres- 
 ent yeare 
 
 Voated 5 to Raise fiffeene pounds Law- 
 ful Money to procure the Ilev'd Mr Par- 
 sons fire wood for the yeare Ensuing 6b 
 that Each Good Loiid shall be Vallued att 
 tiiree shillings 
 
 Voated 6 John Nash Solomon Boult- 
 wood De Ebene'r Dickin«on a Comm'tt to 
 prise ye Loads of sd wood 
 
 Voated 7 to Give Ricliard Chancey one 
 pound fifteen shillings to sweep ye Meet- 
 ing H(juse ye yeare Ensuing — 
 
 Voated 8 to Give John Nasii Jn foure 
 pounds old tennor to Blow the Kunk ye 
 yeare Ensuing 
 Attes't Eben'r Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preeeinct Meeting held In 
 Hadley third Preeeinct Deeeni'ber ye 2 
 1751 : After the Choise of John Nash Mod- 
 eratore they Came into ye following 
 Voats 
 
 Voated 1 to Mak the Rev'd Mr Parsons 
 Rate : & ye wood Rate by the same List 
 to be Taken this Instant Deceni'br also 
 that sd Rate to be Made twnty five pounds 
 biger than to Aiisware ye Rev'd Mr Par- 
 sons sallary : & tiiat sd twnty five pounds 
 to [lie] Loged In the Tresurers offis to 
 Answar the Debts ot this preeeinct for 
 this yeare 
 
 Voated 2 to finish ye Sleeting House 
 this yeare Ensuing 
 
 Voated 3 that Capt Jona'n Smith & De 
 Eben'r ]3iukinson John Nash Lt Eben'r 
 Kellogg: Joseph Eastman a Comniitty to 
 provide \e Matter and to se sd House 
 finished 
 
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 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Voated 4 that De Elien'r Dickinson 
 preceinct Tresurar sft" aiul yrit a Bond for 
 the Money Du to this preceinct for ye 
 Equiveland sold by ye towiui of Hadley 
 Attes't John Nash Moderjitnr 
 
 At A Legal Preceinct Meetiny; Helii In 
 Hadley third Preceinct March ye 9th 1752 
 tliey Came into the following Voats — 
 
 Voated 1 John Nash Preceinct Ci;irk 
 for tills present yeare 
 
 Voated 2 Dea Ei)en'r Dickinson Pre- 
 ceinct Tresurnr for this yeare 
 
 Voated 3 Capt Jona'n Smith De'n 
 Eben'r Dickinson Lt Eben'r Kelloyg 
 Assesors for this preceinct for tills yeare 
 
 Voated 4 Nath'U Dickinson Eben'r 
 Kellogg Jacob VVorner to serve a[s] Com- 
 niittj to Issu out Worrants for Preceinct 
 Meetings 
 
 Voated [5] to alow John N ish Jn teen 
 siiillings & Eaifjlit pence to Give ye signal 
 upon ye sabbath for this yeare 
 
 Voated 6 to Raise fifteene pounds to 
 provide ye Eev'd Mr Parsons fire wood 
 for ye Ensuing yeare : & that a Lojid -lull 
 be valued att three shillings 
 
 Voated 71y that John Nash Dea Eben'r 
 Dickinson Lt Eben'r Kellogjr a Coormiity 
 to Vallu ye Loads of wood & also to ap- 
 point one Day or More to Bring sd 
 wood — 
 
 Voated 8 that De'n Eben'r Dickinson 
 to treat with ye Owers and se if he Can 
 Get ye Money Due to this preceinct upon 
 Bond 
 Attest EsEN'r Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct [Meeiing] Held 
 III Hadley third Preceinct April ye 9th 
 1752 they Came into the following Voats 
 
 Voated 1 that ye first thirty pounds that 
 was Granted to this preceinct for scooling 
 be Improved to hire a scool Master att ye 
 fall of ye yeare 
 
 Voated 2 that the other tlierty pounds 
 Granted ye Last Jana'r by tiie Town to be 
 Iniprovd to hire Scoolo Dames In the 
 Summer 
 
 Voated Sly that Ji>hn Nash Mr Solomon 
 
 Boullwood Richard Chancey En's Josiah 
 Cmmcey Joseph Enstman Joiin Field 
 Moses Smith Nath'll Coleman & John 
 Dickinson to Hire Scooling and order 
 wliare sd scooIp sIihII be keept 
 
 Voated 4 that De El)en'r Dickinson to 
 Receive ye fir.-t thirty pounds above Men- 
 tioned & to Let it out to Interest & take 
 Bond tor sd Money upon Demand 
 Attest Eben'r Kellogg Moderator 
 
 At A Legal Preceinct Meeting Held In 
 Hadley third Preceinct March the 21 
 1753— 
 
 After they made Cliois of De Ebenez'r 
 Dickinson Mnd^rator tbey Came into ;he 
 following Voats 
 
 Voted 1 John Nash Preceinct Clark 
 
 Voated 2 De Ebene'r Dickinson Pre- 
 ceinct Tresurar 
 
 Voted 3 John Nash Aiexand'r Smith 
 Elisha Ingram Assessors for the yeare 
 En>uing 
 
 Voted 4 Selncoii Dickinson Solomon 
 Houltwood Jn & John Nash Jn : a Com- 
 niitty to Issu out warrants : & warn pre- 
 ceinct Meetings : for the yeare Ensuing 
 
 Voted 5 to Raise fifteene pounds Law- 
 full Money to provide the Rev'd Mr Par- 
 sons fire wood for ye present year 
 
 Voated 6 to alow three shillings a Load 
 LawfuU Money 
 
 Voted 7 J(din Nash Jona'n Dickinson 
 Moses Smith a Commiiy to Vallu ye 
 Loads of Wood 
 
 Voted Sly Capt Jonatb'n Smith John 
 Nash Jonath'ii Dickin>oii a Commity to 
 take advice of sum Geiitelmen Concerning 
 the Lands sequcstred for High ways In 
 this preceinct 
 
 Voted 9 to Hire fonre Bulls In this 
 preceinct & that i-lie present Assessors to 
 Hire sd Bulls for ye use of this preceinct 
 for ye space of one yeare 
 
 Voted 10 Sem-on Clark & Aaron Wor- 
 ner a Committy to Hire sum parson or 
 parsons to Give the Signal upon the sab- 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17f 
 
 17 
 
 biiili: & to sweep tlie Meeting House for 
 
 tliis present yeare 
 
 Attest Ebene'r Dickinson Modera'r 
 
 Att a Legal Pr^-ceinct Meeting Held In 
 Hadiey third Preceinot Jenew'r ye 23: 
 1753 after tliey Made Clioise of Joiin NmsIi 
 Modt'i-ator they Came Into ye foUowing 
 Votes- 
 Voted 1 to Ridse teen pounds LavvfuU 
 Money to Answer the matter that is pro- 
 vided for finisliinii the Meeting House & 
 for niiillin Bonis 8 pound thousan 
 
 VoHted 2 that ye Bills of charge that 
 was then Brought In at this Meating was 
 alowed & past 
 
 Voted 3 that Ji.lm Nash & De Eben'r 
 Dickinson : a Conimitty to Examin ye 
 state & take advice Conctrning the High 
 ways in this preceinct 
 
 Voted 4 to Rjiise foure pounds Lawfull 
 Money t() promote soooling in this place 
 
 Voted 5 to Ajorn this Meeting to fifth 
 of Pehrewary next 
 
 Sd Ajornment not attended 
 
 Attes't John Nash Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting Heht In 
 Hadley third Preceinct July ye 5tli 1753 
 tliey Came into ye followitig Voats after 
 ye Choise of De Eben'r Dickinson Mod- 
 erator 
 
 Voted 1 tliat the Committy Made 
 Clinise of the Last March Meeting- that 
 they proceed & take advice ot sum Gen- 
 telmen Concerning ye Lands that was 
 sequestered for Higliways in this pre- 
 ceinct by ye town of Hadley & act In that 
 affaire according to thare best Judgment 
 for the Interest of this preceinct 
 
 Voted 2 yt the foure pounds yt was 
 Granted by this preceinct for scooling & 
 ye twenty pounds Granted by ye townd 
 of Hadley (or ye sttme purpos be Disposed 
 to provid three scools In this preceinct 
 Kqualy Devided according to ye number 
 of scollors 
 
 Voted 3 Ens Josiah Cliancey John Field 
 Joseph Eastni m a Conimitty to provide 
 
 a scool in ye North part of this preceinct 
 In ye Most Convenient place. 
 
 Voted 4 that Semeon Clark David Nash 
 & Aaron Worner provid scooling in ye 
 Most Convenient place In ye Midele of 
 this preceinct 
 
 Voted 5 that Moses Smith John Dick- 
 inson & Alexander Smith a Conimitty to 
 provid scooling att ye South part of this 
 preceinct 
 
 Voted G to seat the Meeting House In 
 tiiis preceinct 
 
 After Ajornment to ye 9th of Agust 
 they Came to the following Voats — 
 
 Voied 1 to Make foure pues In ye 
 Meeiine House whare the Hind seats are 
 and to Move ye other seats forward to 
 make more rome for sd pues 
 
 Voted 2 that Ens Josiah Chancey John 
 Field & David Nush a Committy to pro- 
 vid matter & to Build sd pues 
 
 Voted 3 that Capi Jonatli'n Smith John 
 Nash De Ebenez'r Dickinson Richard 
 Chancey Jonath'n Moodey Nuth'U Cole- 
 man John ]3ickinson a Committy to seat 
 the Meeting House 
 
 Voted 4 that these Ruels in seating he 
 by Miens age Esiats & Quallifications 
 Attested by Erenez Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Att A Legal Preoeinci Meeting Held 
 Jenewary SOtli 1754 After they Made 
 Choise of De Ebene'r Dickinson Modera- 
 tor they Came into the following Voats 
 Voted 1 to Devide the Money Belonging 
 to this preceinct for the Equevelant Lands 
 sold by Hadley Town to be Divided by a 
 List — which the townd mad for a Rule to 
 Divide it to EmcIi preceinct 
 
 Vonted 2 to add to the Rev'd Mr David 
 Parsons salery for this yeare Ninty two 
 pounds teen shillings old tennor 
 Voated 3 Moses Smith a Committy man 
 with John Nash and Lt Ebene'r Kellogg 
 to Examin the Tresurar of this preceinct 
 Concerning preceinct Debts that are yet 
 behind 
 
 Voated 4 that Jona'n Cowls Joseph 
 
18 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Eastman John Field Jona'n Dickinson 
 seators with tliose that was Chosen Be- 
 fore 
 Attest Ebene'r Dickinson Modera'r 
 
 Att A Legal Preceiiict Meeting Held in 
 Hadley second preeeinct March ye 22d 
 1754 After they Had Made Choise of John 
 Nasli Mnderator they Came Into the fol- 
 lowing Voats — 
 
 Voated 1 John Nash preeeinct Clark 
 
 Voated 2 De Eben'r Dicluiison pri^tieinct 
 Tresurar for this yeare 
 
 Voated 3 De Ebene'r Dickinson De 
 Natli'll Smith Natli'll Coleman Assesors 
 for this preeeinct 
 
 Voated 4 to Rais fourteen pounds Law- 
 ful! money to procure the Rev'd Mr par- 
 sons firewood fur this yeare 
 
 Voated 5 that peletiah Smith Jr & Noah 
 Dickinsoti Eben'r Di('kinson a Comniitty 
 to Issu out warrants for preeeinct Meet- 
 ings that any parson that shall bring a 
 good Load of wood to Mr parsons shall be 
 aLowed three shillings towards his |iro- 
 portion In the above fifteen pounds 
 
 Voated 6 that Mr Solomon Boultwood 
 Nehamiah Strong Jonathan Dickinson a 
 Committy to vew the Loa'ls of wood 
 
 Voated 7 to R lise ioure pounds Law- 
 full money to provide Scooling 
 
 Voated 8 tliat Joseph Eastman John 
 Field Moses Warner Jonathan Nash Joiin 
 Dickinson Peter Smith a Comniiity to 
 Provide Scooling Equally in all parts of 
 this preeeinct as they Can : so far as the 
 toure pounds above Granted and what 
 may be Granted this yeare by the townd 
 for Scooling in this preeeinct 
 
 Voated 9 to Raise thirty two pounds old 
 tennor to Hire Bulls for the servis of this 
 preeeinct for ibis yeare and that the 
 Assessors Hire Bulls as they think most 
 Convenient for all parts of tlie place so 
 far as the above thirty two pounds shall 
 Hire 
 
 Voated 10 that Ebene'r Dickinson John 
 Nash Jr Noah Dickinson & Joseph Church 
 
 have Liberty to Build a pue whare the 
 two hind seats are in the front Galery on 
 the mens side upon thare own Charge 
 
 Voated 11 that the Late Seators of the 
 Meeting House to Consider if tliey Can 
 Resonably make any alteration in seating 
 the Meeting House 
 
 Voated 12 that the Late Committy 
 Chosen to se about tlie Hi<ih ways that 
 they proceed according as thej' think Best 
 upon the preeeinct Charge 
 
 Voated 13 that the [y] Grant Caleb 
 Barilet seven potiiids old tennor to Give 
 the Signiil and sweep the Meeting House 
 for this year past 
 
 Attest John Nash Moderator 
 
 thus far the Recording voats answard 
 
 At A Legal Preeeinct Meeting held in 
 Hadley Secotid Preeeinct Decem'r ye 13th 
 1754 
 
 After they Had made Choi.se of De 
 Ebenezor Dickinson Moderator they 
 Came into the following Voats 
 
 Voted 1 to add to the Rev'd Mr David 
 Parsons Sollary for this yeare niniy two 
 pound teen shillings old tennor 
 
 Voted 2 that De Nath'll Smith & Joseph 
 Cliurch provide G^ass and put it up whare 
 any is wanting in the Meeting House up- 
 on tlie preceinet Charg 
 
 Voated 3 that the Assessors Mak a Rate 
 to Raise Money to Defry the Charges as 
 the Bills ware now passed 
 Attest Eben'r Dickinson Moder'r 
 
 Att a Legal Preeeinct Meeting Held in 
 Hadley Second Preeeinct March the 24ih 
 1754 [1755] 
 
 After they Mad Choise of John Nash 
 Moderator they Came into the following 
 Voats 
 
 Voated 1 John Nash Preeeinct Clark 
 
 Voated 2 De Ebenez'r Dickinson Pre- 
 c-inct Tresurar 
 
 Voated 3 John Nash Jona'n Dickinson 
 Peter Smith assessors for this yeare 
 
 Voated 4 that the present Assessors be 
 a Committy to take Care of the pruden- 
 tials of this preeeinct 
 
Records op Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 19 
 
 Voated 5 to Kaise fourteen pounds 
 Lawful! Money to procure the Rev'd Mr 
 David Parso!is fire wood : and that Each 
 gooi) Load of wood shall be Vallued att 
 three shillings Lawfull Money 
 
 Voated G that Solomon Boultwood 
 Jona'n Dickinson : John Nash a Comniitiy 
 to vallu the Loads of wood 
 
 Voated 7 that the Commitiy I/ust 
 Chosen to seat the Meeting House that 
 they Make sum alterations : as to provide 
 seats for sum new Cummors — 
 
 Voaied 8 that oure anuel March Meal- 
 ing be held upon tlie second Munday 
 anually upon said month 
 
 Attest John Nash Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Pieceinct iVLeating held in 
 Hadley second preceint Janawr ye 12tli 
 175G after tliey made Ohoise of John Nash 
 Moderator they Came into the following 
 Voats 
 
 Voated 1 to Grant the Rev'd Mr David 
 Parsons tiiirteen pounds six shillings & 
 eaight pence addetion to his soller}' for 
 this present yeare 
 
 Voated 2ly that tlie Sealers Last made 
 Choise of that tliey Make sum alterration 
 wharf sd sfators think proper 
 
 Attest John Nash Mode'r 
 
 Att A Legal Preceinct Meating lield in 
 Hadley second preceinct March ye Eaight 
 175G— 
 
 After they made Choise of De Ebenezr 
 Dickinson Moderator they Came into the 
 following Voats 
 
 Voaied 1 John Nasii preceinct Clark tor 
 this yeare 
 
 VoMied 2ly De Ebenez'r Dickinson pre- 
 ceinct TreMirai- 
 
 Voatfd 31y De Ebenez'r Dickinson Jon- 
 athan Moodey Jonathan Edwards Assess- 
 ors for this yeare 
 
 Voated 41y that the Assessors now mad 
 Choise of be a committy to take Care of 
 the prudenshall of this preceinct 
 
 Voated 51y to Kaise fifteen pounds Law- 
 full Money to procure the fire wood for 
 
 the Rev'd Mr Parsons for the next yeare 
 
 Voated 6 that a good Load of wood 
 Shall be Vallued att three shillings 
 
 Voated 71y that the Assessors now Cho- 
 sen be a commity to Vallue the Loads of 
 wood 
 Attest Ebene'r Dickin'n Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meating Held In 
 Hadley Second Preceinct Janew'r the lOtl; 
 1757 Alter they made Choise of John 
 Nash Modera'r they came into the follow- 
 ing Voats 
 
 Voated 1 that the Debts as they have 
 been considered and have been past and 
 tlie assessors are Directed to luake a Rate 
 to answer said Debts 
 
 Voated 2 to add to the Rev'd Mr David 
 Parsons Sollery for thi.« year that is to his 
 original Sollery fifteen pounds Lawfull 
 money 
 
 Attest John Nash Modera'r 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct Meeting held in 
 this precenci March ye l-lth 1757 
 
 Attere tiiey had made Choise of John 
 Nash Moderator they Came into the fol- 
 lowing Voats 
 
 Voat 1 John Na»h Preceinct Clark 
 
 Att a Legal Preceinct meating held in 
 Hadley second Preceinct March ye Kth 
 1757 
 
 After they made choice of John Nash 
 Modera'r they came into the following 
 Voats 
 
 Voted 1 John Nash I'receiiict Clark 
 
 Voted 2 John Nash De Nath'll Smith 
 Nath'U Dickinson Assessors 
 
 Voated 3 Jona'n Dickinson Preceinct 
 Tresurar 
 
 Voateil 4: to raise fifteen pounds lawfull 
 money to procur*- th Rev'd Mr David Par- 
 sons fire wood and that the sd fifteen 
 pounds to be Levied in the Same Rate 
 with ye Rev'd Mr Parsons Rate 
 
 Voated 5 that tli'^ assessors now made 
 choise of to he a Committy to provide ye 
 Kev'd Mr Parsons wood as they think best 
 
 Voated G that the present Assessors a 
 
20 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17J 
 
 Coiiimitty to titke Care of tl)e j)rufleiUials 
 "f the i)reeeiiict for tliis one year 
 
 Attest John Nash Moderntor 
 
 Att a Legal Mt^etiny: Held in this Pre- 
 oeinct Decern veSlh 1757 After they Made 
 Choise of John Nash Moderator they 
 Caine into the following Vosits 
 
 Voateii 1 grunted ye preceinot Debts as 
 thev was Brouglit in and Considered 
 
 Voated 21y to add to the Rev'd Mr. Da- 
 vid Parsons Sollery so much as to make 
 it to amount to sixty pounds 
 
 VoHted 3iy that ye Assessors make a 
 tax to Defry sd Debts 
 
 Attest John Nash Moderytor 
 
 At a Legal Precint Meeting held in llad- 
 ley Second Precmc March ye 13 1758 after 
 tliey made choise of Dec Ebez'r Dickin 
 son Moderator they Came into the — 
 
 Voat 1 Josiah Cliauiicy Precint Clark 
 
 Voted 2 Joseph E.isuian Precint treas- 
 nrer 
 
 Voted 3 Dea Ebez'r Dickinson Mosses 
 Dickinson Dan'll Kellogg Assessors 
 
 Voted 4 filieeii Pounds to Procure the 
 Rev'd Mr Parsons fire woud the year En- 
 suing 
 
 Voted 5 that the forsd fiveteen Pounds 
 be Levied in the same tax witli the Rev'd 
 Mr Parsons Stillary & the Presaiit assess- 
 ors [be] a Com't to Procure forsd wood 
 As they think Proper 
 
 Voted 6 the Presaiu assesors a Com't 
 to take Care of the Prudentials of the Pre- 
 cint 
 
 Attest Ebz'r Dickinson Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Precint Meeting held in 
 Hadley Second Precint April 3 1758 after 
 they Made Choise of Josiah Ciiauncy Mod- 
 el ator tkey Came in into the following 
 Vote 
 
 Voted 1 Alexdr Siuith Richard Chauncy 
 Dan'll Kellogg Peier Smith Joseph Eas- 
 man Com't to settle Acounts with all former 
 treasurers & Committes that have been In 
 this Presint 
 
 Voted 2 to Chuse a Coinmiite to take 
 advice & Proceed & take such Measure as 
 
 they think Propper to be set of [f] to be a 
 destrict 
 
 Voted 3 John Nash Ebez'r Dickinson 
 Josiali Chauncy A Ccmiiuitfe for the foresd 
 Purpose 
 
 Attest Josiah Chauncy Moderator 
 at A Legall Meeiting held in liadley 2d 
 Precint June 29 1758 after Dea Ebez'r 
 Dickinsor) was Chossen Moderator they 
 Came into the following Vots 
 
 Voted 1 to send some Meet Person to 
 the Geofrall Court tn appear in liehulf 
 of the Precint Respecting A pe'iiion >d 
 Precint have luiteied sil Court tn be st t of 
 to be a Desirict 
 
 Vot 2d Josiah Chauncy to be the Person 
 to appear in Behalfe of the Pariish at tiie 
 Generall (Jourt for the foresd Purpose 
 
 Vot 3d that the Com'tt Chossen at a 
 Legal Meetiny: in April 3d 1758 by the 2d 
 Parrish to take such Measures as they 
 thought Proper to be set of to be A Des- 
 trict should be the Com'tt to Draw out of 
 the treasurers office Wliat Money their is 
 belonging to the Precint to Defray the 
 Charges the forsd Com'tt have Expended 
 in the forsd Servise of the Parish 
 
 Atest Ebez'r Dickinson Moderator 
 [By an act passed February 13, 1759, 
 the second precinct in the town of Hadley 
 was erected into a district by the name of 
 Amherst. 4 Acts and Resolves, 1759, ch. 
 12.] 
 
 At a Legal Meeting held In Amherst at 
 the Meeting House on March 19 1759 alter 
 Dea Ebez'r Dickinson was Chosen mod- 
 erator they Came IiUo the following Vots 
 Vote 1 Josiah Chauncy Destrict Olerck 
 Vo't 2 Josepli Easman treasurer 
 Vo't 3 Dec Ebez'r Dickinson sessor 
 Jona'th Dickinson sesor 
 Dec Nath'U Smith 
 Ens John Dickinson 
 Mosses Dickinson sesor 
 Vo't 4 Pelitiah Smith sworn 
 
 Isaac Goodale sworn 
 Vo't 5 Joseph Easman sworn 
 
 Jona'th Edwards sworn ^ 
 
 selectmen 
 
 Constables 
 
Recouds of Amherst from 173") to 1788. 
 
 21 
 
 Vo't 6 Giilf on Di(;kiiisoi\ sworn 
 Diin'll Dickinson sworn 
 El)ez"r Mnttoon sworn Surveyers 
 Natli'll Dickinson sworn 
 JmcdI) Wnrner 
 Vo't 7 Simeon Clark sworn fnuc" 
 
 Niitli'l! Coleman Viewers 
 
 Vii't 8 J.)sepli Clmrcli sworn 
 
 John Petty sworn Ilojr Uifts 
 
 [i.p.Ke>'ves] 
 Eeiibenlngr unsworn 
 Vo't 9 Alex'tlr Smith Clerk nmrket 
 Vo 10 that Hofis Runs^ & Yoakt Acor>l- 
 \ng to Law may Run at Large 
 
 Vo 11 That the Ilijih way work Be Done 
 tliis Year By a tax Vo't to adjourn the 
 meetiiiir to the 20 of March Instant then 
 met and Came Into the foHowing Vots 
 
 Vo'i 12 to Hire Six Bulls for the Di-<- 
 trict Service this Year 
 
 Vo't 13 the Select meti to Hire said 
 Bulls 
 
 Vo't 14 to Give the Rev'd Mr D^ivid 
 Parsons Sixty Six Pounds thirteen shil- 
 lings and four Pence LiwfuU Money In- 
 cluding the Bind f)r the year Past Ser- 
 vice — 
 
 V.)'t 15 that anually the first Day of 
 May the time To Pay Mr Parsons Sal 
 lary 
 
 Vo't 16 that from the twenty first Day 
 of March To the first Day of May that 
 Mr Pars >ns Sillary Shall Be Levied In 
 the Presant Tax & Paid him and the In- 
 terest for the foresaid time 
 
 Vo't 17 to Raise twenty P uinds for this 
 Years Sc'ooliiig In the Next Years tJix 
 
 Vo't 18 I'l D scoiitinne one R >d in 
 Width tweiiiv Rods In Leimth In the E ist 
 Street of the High Way Upon the East 
 Side of that L\nd the town i>f Lite Dis- 
 continued Begining at the Soutli Side of 
 Dan'll Kelloggs Lot & Extending Nirth 
 the forsaid twenty R ids 
 
 Vi>'t 19 To Raise fiveteen Pounds to 
 Procure the Rev'd Mr P irsons fir(> wood 
 for the year Ensuing 
 
 Vo't 20 to Allow for Work Done at tlie 
 Highways from the twenty ninth Day of 
 March To octoher the tenth Sixteen Shil- 
 lings P'r Day lor a haiul & foresd sum for 
 teme & the Remainder Part of the Year 
 twelve S'lillings P'r Day for hand & said 
 sum for teme 
 
 Vo't 21 that Ephraim Kellogg Ehez'r 
 Dickinson 3il tliomas Mortton John Field 
 Juii'r Noah Smith liave Liberty to Build a 
 pew over the Stairs In the Gallary the 
 Mens Side if it D m't Hinder Passing In 
 the Attics & Ui)- ami Down Siairs 
 
 Attest Ebez'r Dickinson Moderator 
 Apiil 8 John Ellis & Ruth Keet Both of 
 
 1759 Amherst have Had their Intention 
 of Mariadge Mad^ Publick 
 februwary 20 then Solomm Rood & Sarah 
 1759 Gould Was loyned In Mir- 
 
 iadge By Me 
 
 test JosiAH Chauncy Jus Peace 
 
 fel) 22 then J nni Young & Margeret Con- 
 1759 key Was loyned In Mariadge By 
 Me 
 
 test JuSIAH ClIAUNCY Jus Pa 
 
 fel) 22 tiien Aaron Giay & Isabel Lucore 
 1759 was loyned In Mariadge By Me test 
 
 JosiAH Chauncy Jus Pa 
 April 24 then Benj'n Harwood & C ithirine 
 
 1759 Chauncy Was loyned In Mariadge 
 By Me 
 
 test JosiAH Chauncy J P.i, 
 
 At a Legal meeting Held in Amherst at 
 the meeting Hnuse on Wednesday the 
 twenty first day of November 1759 After 
 Dec Ehezr Dickinson was Chosen Mod- 
 erator they Came Into the lollowing V.its 
 
 Vot 1 to Cnuse a Com'tt to take such 
 Measures as they think Proper in Mtkeing 
 answer to the Geiierall Court why the Pe- 
 tition that John Mortton & Nathan Dii:k- 
 inson Hath Preferd to said Cnurt siiou'd 
 Not Be Granted 
 
 Vot 2 J.'siah Chau icy Dea Eoiz'r Dick- 
 inson Joseph Eisman a Com'tt for the 
 foresd Purjiose 
 
 test Ebi:zk Dickinson Moderator 
 
22 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17J 
 
 At a Legal Meetitig Ht-ld in aiulierst at 
 tlie Meeting House on Wednesday ye 
 twenty iliird Day of Janawary 17(50 after 
 Josiali Cliauney was Cliost-n iiio'lemtor 
 tliey Came Into the follnwinsi Vots 
 
 Vii't 1 two Pounds Lawful! nioney To 
 Be- Riised & tlie St'l. ct men have Liherty 
 'J'o fay Part or all Said two Pounds T" 
 Keulieu Ingram for Keejiinii Dan'll Smith 
 if Dt'terniined By iliiiu this Due tVoin tlie 
 Destrict 
 
 Vo't 2d tliat the Bills as they have Been 
 Read & Ccmsiderd nre Parsed & the Pres- 
 ant assessors to liaise sd sums In the 
 Pre-aiit 3 ears tax «&, (jrder the same to he 
 Paid where it is Due 
 
 Vo't 3d To Give the liev'd Mr David 
 Parsons tliis Year for his Sallary Sixty 
 Six Pounds tiiirteen Shillings &four Pence 
 To Be Levied in the Presant years tax — 
 
 Vu't 4 to Raise ten Pounds thirteen 
 Shillings & four Pence L M for the LTse & 
 Benifit of Scoding to Be Lvied in the 
 Preasant years tax 
 
 test JosiAH Chauncy Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting held in amherst feh- 
 ruwary 11 1760 after Doctor NMth'li Smitii 
 was Chosen Moderator they Came Into 
 the following Vols 
 
 Vo 1 Mr Jonnilian Dickinson Ens Johti 
 Dickinson Josiah Chauncy ajienis tor the 
 Destrict of Amherst to vJomen<'e an action 
 in Law witii the town of Hadley respecting 
 tiie niHinienenee of Dan'll Smith 
 
 atest Nath'll Smith Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting in amherst Held at 
 the Meeting House '<i\ \\'ei)nes<lay the 
 18th Day of Marcli 17G0 after Dec Ehtz'r 
 Dickinson was Chosen Moderator ihey 
 Came into the followiui; 
 
 Vots 1 J,)Siali Chauncy Clerk sworn 
 
 Vo 2 Joseph Easman treasurer Alexan- 
 der Smith Simeon Dickinson Constable 
 sworn Ebez'r Mattoon sworn Mosses Cook 
 tytiiingmen Jon'th Modey Joseph Church 
 thomas Hastings Surveyers Sworn John 
 Petty Josepii Clary fence Viewers 
 
 Jonaihiii) Smith N^tiian Dickinson 
 Sworn Eilward Smith Simeon Smith Reu- 
 ben Ingram Hogvifis Sworn Noah Dickin- 
 son Elijah Baker Moses Dickinson Dear- 
 ifs [i. e. deer-reeves^ Alex'dr Smith Cleark 
 of the Markii Packer Giiger 
 
 Vot 2 Hofis Rung & Yoakt acording to 
 L iw mny Run at Large the Ye«r Ensuing 
 
 Vo Jon'th Edwards Nath'll Colnian 
 Jona'tli Modey J.isiah (^liauncy Dan'll 
 K^-llogg Selectmen taken the Previous 
 oath Josiah Chauncy Jon'th Edwards 
 Joiia'th Modey asse.-sors 
 
 Vo't to Raise thirteen Pound Six Shil- 
 lings & Eight Pence for ScooUing in the 
 Next tax 
 
 Vo't to Raise fifteen Pound to find the 
 R-v"d Ml Divid Parsons fire wood for this 
 year 
 
 Vo't Decon Ebezr Dickinson Josiah 
 Chauncy John DieUinson A Com'tt to 
 View the Higli \v;iy in the East Street & 
 fortriver & make ir^al to Exchange Land 
 wiiii Some Parsons & make Return to this 
 Meeting — 
 
 Vo Josiah Chauncy John Dickinson Jo- 
 seph Easman A Com'it to View & Judge 
 whiit Damiges Mr J.n'tli Dickinson Has 
 Received By the County Road Being Laid 
 across his Land & make Return to this 
 Meeting 
 
 Vo't to adjourn this Meeting to monday. 
 ilie twenty tourtli Day of March Curruut 
 at three of the o Cloack in the after- 
 noon then met & the meeting opened & 
 Came Into the following Vots 
 
 Vo to Build a Bridge over fort River in 
 tlie East Street or Near thereabouts Upon 
 the Destrict Cliiirtie 
 
 Vo't Solomon Boltwood Peter Smith 
 John Billings a Coai'tt to Build the Said 
 Bridge 
 
 Vo't to Seat the Meeting House 
 
 Vo't Jona'th Dickinson Capt Jonatiian 
 Smith Josiah Chauncy Dec Ebez'r Dick- 
 inson Mosses Dickinson a Com'tt to Seat 
 the Meeting House Vo't that Age & 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 23 
 
 Quallifications & Estate upon the two Last 
 Lists the Rule or Standard wherby the 
 fiiresil Oom'tt are to Seet Said meeting 
 liouse 
 
 Vo't to Ii:iise Eiglit Pounds to liire Bulls 
 for the Destrict Service this Year 
 
 Vo't that tiie high way work this year 
 Be Done By a tax 
 
 Vo't to allow for work Done at the Higli 
 ways from the 29th of March Curruiit to 
 October lOtli sixteen shillings P'r Day for 
 hand & said sum for teuie&ilie Remainder 
 Pan of the Year 12 Sliillings Pr Day & 
 Said Sum for teme 
 
 At a Legiil meeting Hekl in amherst at 
 ihe meeting House on tuesdny the 29th 
 Day of april 1760 alter Jo»iah Cliauncy 
 was Chosen Moderator iliey Came into the 
 following Vots 
 
 Vo't 1 tiiat the two tore Seats in the 
 weomaiis Gallary in ihe front Sliall Br 
 Seated with men & to Build a Ptw for the 
 weomeii upon upon the Back Part of the 
 front Vo't to Build a Pew over the Stitirs 
 for the weoman upon the D.-sirict Charge 
 
 Voted to take Some advice in the 
 County Respt-cting the Land formerly Se- 
 questered for Highways in this Destrict 
 
 Vo't that Mr Jon'th Dickickiiison & 
 Mr Dai.'il Kellogg a Com'u for Sd Pur- 
 pose 
 
 test JosiAH Chauncv Moderator 
 
 at a Legal Meeting Held it) amherst on 
 Monday the fifth Day of Jaiiawary 17G1 
 alter Josiah CliMuncy was Chosen Mod- 
 erator they Came Into the following Vots 
 
 Vo'd 1 the Deats as they Have Been 
 Read & Considered are Voted Vo't 2 the 
 Assessors To Raise sd Deats in this years 
 Tax & order the Payim-nt where Due 
 
 Voted To Build two Scool houses in 
 this Destrict at the Charge of Destrict 
 
 Votd tliat Simeon Clearlt Etis John field 
 Peter Sniitli Lev't John Dickinson Nath'll 
 Dickinson Mr Jonathan Dickinson a 
 Com'tt To View & Consider Whether it 
 Be Best To have two or three Scool Houses 
 
 & AVhere they Judg it most Convenient 
 To Place them & make Report to the Next 
 March Meetitig 
 
 Votd Sixty Six Pound thirteen Shillings 
 & four Pence To Be Raised in this years 
 tax & Paid To the Rev'd Mr David Par- 
 sons for this Years Sallary 
 
 attest Josiah Chauncy Moderator 
 
 at a Legal meeting held in Amherst at 
 the meeting house on Monday the Second 
 Day of March 1761 after Josiah Chauncy 
 was Chosen Moderator the[y] Came Into 
 the following Vots 
 
 Voted Josiah Chauncy Cleark Sworn 
 Joseph Ertsman Treasurer sworn 
 
 Voted Mr Jonatlian Dickinson Lev't 
 John Dickinson Peter Smith Joseph Eas- 
 man Ens Joon field Selectmen 
 
 Voted Mr JotiHthan Dickinson Peter 
 Smith Ens John Field asesors 
 
 Voted Serg't Thomas Hastings & Serg't 
 
 Gideon Dickinson Constables I Sworn 
 Voted Jonathan Modey Mosses Cook 
 
 Noah Dickinson Surveyers V Sworn 
 
 Voted Josepli Churcli John Pettee Tything- 
 men I Sworn 
 
 Voted Sam'U Ingram Sam'll Cliurch Fence 
 Viewers v Sworn 
 
 Voted Hezikiah Beldin David Smith Sim- 
 eon Pomroy Phillip Ingram Asael Mo- 
 dey Hogrifs i- Sworn 
 
 Voted Sollomon Boltwood Jun'r Nath'll 
 Coleman Ebez'r Mattoon V Dearifs V 
 Sworn 
 
 Voted Alexander Smith Cleark of the Mar- 
 kit V Sworn 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Dan'U Kellogg 
 Lev't William Boltwood l Wardens V 
 Sworn 
 
 Voted to Raise fourteen Pounds to be 
 Levied in the Next years Tax for Scool- 
 iiig 
 
24 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17' 
 
 Votd to acept of tlie Report of the Com'lt 
 
 Respecting the Places wliere the Scool 
 
 houses SluiU Be Built 
 Voted the hiniiways Shall Be D(>n'> this 
 
 Preasant Year hy a Tax 
 Voted that ilie Select nieii iiire Bulls fur 
 
 this Year 
 Voted that the Select men be Impowered 
 
 to Dr«w out of the Treasurer so niucii 
 
 Money as is Due to the Province for 
 
 Last years Tax & Pay it out 
 
 Voted that Mr Jonathan Dickinson have 
 Four Acres & three Quaners of the Town 
 Land Lying Between Mosses Warner & 
 the higii way that Leads to Pellinm Begin- 
 ing at tiie East End ol the said town Land 
 taking tiie whole Breadth & Extending so 
 Ffir West as to ninke up tlie fnresd Quan- 
 tity wicli is For Satlistaclion to the aliovesd 
 Dickinson for Daniiage Done to iiim By a 
 County Road Being Laid across Part of 
 his Land 
 
 Atest JosiAH Chauncy Moderator 
 
 at a Legal Meeting held at Amherst at 
 tlie ineetinij house on the tweltli Day of 
 October 1761 at two ot the Clock in the 
 attcrnoon after nir Jonathan Dickinson 
 was Chosen Moderator they Came into the 
 following Vols 
 
 Voted the Destnct will be at the Cost 
 of mending the Road from the Sawmill 
 through Edmunt Hubbards L.nd 
 
 Voted the Select men Be a Coin'tt to 
 Make Trial to See iiow they Can Exciiangc 
 Land for a high Way wiih Jon'th Coles & 
 Make Report to the Next Meeting 
 
 Test Jon"th Dickinson Moderator 
 
 at a Legal meeting Held in Amherst at 
 the meeting house the 22d Day of Decem- 
 ber 17G1 after Peter Smitli was Chosen 
 Moderator they Came into the following 
 Vots 
 
 Voted 1 to Build a Scool House in the 
 highway that Leads to Pelham Near the 
 Place where Moses Warners house for- 
 merly stood and John Billing Dan'U Kel- 
 logg Lev't Will'm Boltwood a Com'tt to 
 Build said House 
 
 Voted 2d to build another Scooll.ouse in 
 the highway that Runs East and West be- 
 tween Joaepli Churcli and Jon'th Coles 
 Near the midle of the Length of said waj' 
 and Ens John Field and Joseph Easman 
 and Sam'll Ingram a Coin'tt to build said 
 house 
 
 Voted 3d to Build Jinotiier Scool house 
 in tie high way South of Nuth'U Colman« 
 Lot East of Plum Brook upon the hill & 
 Mosses Dickinson Peter Smith Lev't John 
 Di(;kin«oii a Coin'tt to build said house 
 
 Voted 4d that a midling Load Cari* d to 
 mr Parsons Shall Be allowi d in ilie Pur- 
 son* Rate that Caries it 0—2— 4—3 & the 
 Selectmen are to Prise said Loads 
 
 Voted 5th to Give the Rev'd mr David 
 Parsons for his Sallary tlds year Sixty Six 
 Pounds tiiirteen Shillings & four Pence 
 
 Voted fi ii to Raise ten Pound to find mr 
 Parsons ^^itll lire w.md the Ensuinii year 
 
 Voted to adjourn this meeting to ihe 
 first monday in fVlnuwiiry Next at Nine of 
 tlie Clock in the morning tebruwary 1 1762 
 then Mett & Came Into the following Vots 
 
 Voted 8 10 idlow for Sunier Work Done 
 at the higli way Be two shiliinas Pr day & 
 Eighteen Pence for fall work & the Bills 
 as they have Been Considered & Now 
 Stand are Voted 
 
 Voted 9 that the assessors make a Tax 
 to answer the above said Bills 
 
 Voted 10th to Raise five Pound more 
 for Scooling 
 
 Voted 11 (o Give to the Rev'd mr David 
 Parsons thirteen Pound Six Shilling & 
 Eight Penc as a further aditilion to his 
 Sallary 
 
 Voted 12 John Field Asient to Northam- 
 ton Court to m»ke Answer to said Court 
 why tlie Petition that Ephraini Kellogg 
 hath Exhibited to said Court for altering 
 the high way ought Not to be Granted 
 
 Voted 13 to Seet the meeting house 
 
 Voted 14th Lev't John Dickinson Doc't 
 Nath'U Smith Dec Jon'th Edwards Peter 
 Smith John Field a Coin'tt to Seet the 
 meeting house 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17i 
 
 25 
 
 Voted yt the Last List age & Quallifica- 
 tions be the Kiiles tlie Seet tlie meeting 
 liousfj by 
 Voted 15th ti) Revoak the former Vole 
 that was ti.keti Respecting the Place to 
 Set the midle Suool house in tliis Des- 
 trict. 
 
 test Peter Smith Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting held in Amherst at 
 the Meeting hou.<e October 18 1762 alter 
 Josiali Chauncy was Chosen Moderator 
 they Came Into tire following Vols 
 
 Vote 1 to Choise a Coni'tt to Inspect the 
 hridge Near James Merricks house and 
 onler Such Repairs to said Bridae as is 
 Nesi'asiiry Dec Jolin Nash Doc't Nath'U 
 Smith Dan'il Kelh)gg Ens John Field 
 Simeon Clark a Com'tt for the aforesd 
 Purpose 
 Vo't 2 to Build three Scool liouses in 
 
 Amherst 
 Vo't 3 to Refer tlie Matter to a Com'tt 
 
 Wlure said Scool houses Shall Be Set 
 Vot 4 Cap'i Savage Cap'c Root Dec John 
 Gun a Com'tt to Determin Where the 
 atoresd ScooU houses Shall Stand 
 Vot Daii'll Kellogg Dec Azariah Dickinson 
 Mos-es Dickinson Simeoti Cieark a 
 Com'tt to wait on the aforsd Com'tt 
 Vot to Chuse a Cotu'tt to Build the aforsd 
 Scool housses Where the Com'tt Apoint- 
 ed Shall order and Joseph Easnian Nath'll 
 Dickinson Ens John Field Dan'U Kel- 
 logg J"hn Billings Simeon Cieark Mos- 
 ses Dickinson Peter Smith John Dick- 
 insoii a Com'tt for said Purpcjse 
 attest JosiAii Chauncy moderator 
 Att a Legal meeting held in Amherst at 
 the Meetting house i:i March 17G2 after 
 Josiah Chauncy was Chosen moderator 
 they Came Into the following Vots 
 
 Vtd Josiah Chauncy mr Simeon Strong 
 Alex'd Smith Dan'U Kellogg Mosses Dick- 
 inson — Select men Josiah Chauncy mr 
 Simeon Strong Mosses Dickinson Assess- 
 ors 
 
 Vot Josiali Chauncy Cieark Joseph Eas- 
 man treasuerer 
 
 Vo't Peter Smith SoUomon Boltwood Eli- 
 jah Baker Surveyors 
 
 Vo't Isaac Goodale Jon'th Modey Jun'r 
 Simeon Cieark tythin n\en 
 
 Vo't Jon'th Coles Benjamin Roads Fence 
 Viewers 
 
 Vo't Beuben Ingram Simeon Smith Sim- 
 eon PoMiroy Ebez Mattoon Aaron War- 
 ner Reuben Dickinson Hogrifs 
 Vo't Lev't Will'm Boltwood Ebez'r 
 
 Dickinson Jun'r Dearifs 
 
 Vo"t Alex'dr Cieark of the Markit 
 Vo't Mosses Warner Nath'll Dickinson 
 
 Dan'il Dickinson Wardens 
 
 Vo't Joseph Church Surveyor of timber 
 Vo't Isaac Goodale Sealer of Leather 
 Vo't to do the High way work a Tax 
 
 Vo't that Hogs may Run on the Commons 
 Yoak't & Rung from the First of May to 
 to the first of Semtember Next 
 
 Vo't to Allow Josiah Chauncy Bill 
 
 Vo't to Stop ail Proceedings Respecting 
 the Scool houses another Year 
 
 Vo't to Accept the Doings of the Sellect 
 men in Exchanying Land with Jon'th 
 Coles for a high way 
 
 Vo't that Joseph Easman & Peter Smith a 
 Com'tt to Setle with the town of hadley 
 Attest Josiah Chauncy Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting held in Amherst at the 
 Meeting house in April 28 1762 after Mr 
 Simeon Strong was Chosen Moderator 
 they Came Into the following Vots 
 Vot 1 thirteen Pound Six Shillings & 
 Eight Pence tor the Use of Scooling 
 Vo 2d to Chuse a Com'tt to Setle with 
 the Former Com'tt that was Chosen by the 
 Town of Hadley to apear iri behalfe of Sd 
 town Respecting the high ways 
 Vo't Peter Siuith Alex'dr Stuith Dan'il 
 Kellogg Mosses Dickinson Lev't John 
 Dickinson a Com'tt to Setle with the 
 Town Com'tt 
 
 Vo to Impowr sd Com'tt to Pay the Des- 
 tricts proprotion of Charge to the hadley 
 
 Com'tt and to borrow money on the 
 
 Destricts Cre'dt to Pay the same or to 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 Find any way to Setle the Same acording 
 to their Discresioii 
 test Simeon Strong 
 
 at a Legal Meeting held in amherst at 
 the meeting house on tuesday tlie fourth 
 day of Janawary 1763 after mr Simeon 
 Strong WHS Chosen moderator they^ame 
 Into the following 
 
 Vots 1 Sumer work from tlie First day 
 of May to the First Day of October two 
 Shillings Pr day the Reiiuiiiiing Tart of 
 the Year Eleven Shillings & tiiree Pence 
 Pr day 
 
 Vii't to Raise fourteen Pound for mr 
 Parsons Fire wood 
 
 Vo't twenty two Pound for Scooling 
 Vo't to Pass the Bills as they have Been 
 Read Vo't to Give mr David Parsons thir- 
 teen Shillings & four Pence 
 
 test Simeon Strong Moderator 
 
 At a legal meeting holden in Amlierst 
 on the 23d Day of March A D 1763 After 
 Simeon Strong chosen nmderator voted as 
 follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong District Clerk Jo- 
 seph Eastniim Treasurer 
 Vot'd EHsha Ingram John Billings Joseph 
 Eastman Moses Dickinson and Simeon 
 Clark Select men for the Ensuing year — 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Joseph Eastman 
 
 & John Billings Assessors — 
 Voted Ebenezer Mattoon and Airon War- 
 ner constables 
 
 Voted Ebenezer Dickinson Jun'r Reu- 
 ben Dickinson John Nash Jnn'r Pelatiah 
 Smith Jun'r David Smith & Jacob Warner 
 Surveyers of Highways 
 
 voted David Blodgett Moses Cook and 
 Elijah Baker Tithingmen 
 voted Alexander Smith Clerk of the Mar- 
 ket 
 Voted Isaac Goodale Sealer of Leather 
 Voted Jonathan Coles and Nathaniel Cole- 
 man Fenceviewers 
 voted Noah Dickinson Jonathan Moody 
 Jun'r Nehemiah Dickinson Nathan Dick- 
 inson Jun'r Oliver Cowls Hog Reeves 
 
 voted Joseph Williams Asahel Moody 
 
 Reuben Dickinson Deer-Reeves 
 voted Joseph Cluirch Surveyer of Timber 
 voted Simeon Dickinson Azariah Dickin- 
 son and Alexander Smith Wardens 
 voted tiiat Hogs yoked and ringed accord- 
 ing to Law may run at large from the 
 first of May to the first of September 
 next and after the Middle of October 
 next till winter 
 
 Voted To grant the Rev'd David Par- 
 sons thirteen pounds Six Shillings and 
 Eight pence in Addition to what has been 
 before Granted for his years Salary 
 Attest Simeon Strong Moderator 
 At a Legal meeting holden in Amherst 
 on the twenty first Day of April A D 1763 
 after Moses Dickinson Chosen moderator 
 voted as follows (viz) 
 
 Vot'd to approve of the Jurors ofFer'd 
 by the Select men to Supply the Box for 
 the insuing year 
 
 Vot'd To adjourn this meeting to mon- 
 day the 24th Day of April Cur't at 4 ot the 
 Clock afternoon 
 
 April 24th then the District met by ad- 
 journment and voted as follows (viz) 
 
 vot'd To Choose a Com'tee with power 
 to make wliat Repairs they shall think 
 proper in the fort River Bridge below the 
 Gristmill or to build another if tliey Shall 
 think proper 
 
 vot'd That Deacon John Nash Lieu't 
 John Dickinson John Billings be the 
 Com'tee 
 
 vot'd to choose a Com'tee to build a 
 Bridge over the Mill River where they 
 Shall think most proper 
 Vot'd Joseph Eastman Ins'n John Field 
 Lieut W'm Boltwood Josiah Chauncy 
 Esq'r & Daniel Kellogg be the Com'tee 
 Attest Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 At a Legal meeting holden at amberst 
 on the 27th Day of August A D 1763 
 Voted Sinieon Clark moderator 
 Voted that John Dickinson John Field 
 Daniel Kellogg William Boltwood be Sur- 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 27 
 
 veyors of wlieHt for tlie District of Am- 
 herst for the Ensuing yenr 
 
 attest Simeon Clark Moderator 
 
 At H Legal meeting of tiie Inhabitants 
 of the District of Amiierst liolden at tlie 
 meeting house there on tiie 19th Day of 
 December A D 1763 
 
 Voted Josepii Eastman moilerator 
 
 Voted To raise Sixteen Pounds for Sup- 
 plying the Rev'd David Parsons with Fire- 
 w(>od 
 
 Voted That the price of ordinary Load 
 of \voo<l carried to ihe Ilev'd Ditvid Par- 
 sons l)e Eighteen Shillings old Tenor 
 
 Voted To adjourn the said meetintj for 
 one hour & then to meet & iiold the same 
 at the House of Vloses Warner 
 
 Afterwards being met at Said warner's 
 House 
 
 Voted To allow those that have labour- 
 ed at Building the Bridge near Ephrjiim 
 Kellogg's mill one Shilling & Eight pence 
 p'r Day 
 
 Voted To allow Gideon Dickinson Jolui 
 Field & Ebenezer Dickinson Jiin'r two 
 Sliillings p'r Day for their labour in fall- 
 ing Timber for tlie above Said Bridge 
 
 Voted To allow the (.Common Labourers 
 at building the Lower Bridge near tiie 
 mill one Siiillinti & Eight pence p'r Day 
 
 Voted To allow DeHCon John Nash 
 Eigliteen Shillings old Tenor pr Day for 
 Eigiit Days work at the Last said Bridge 
 
 voted To allow the Bills brought into 
 this meeting as they have been read & 
 Corrected 
 
 voted That the Assessors of tliis Dis- 
 trict be impowered to raise money by a 
 Tax for payment of Said Bills & to order 
 payment of the Same to the persons re 
 spectively 
 
 voted To grant to the Ilev'd David Par- 
 sons such addition to his Stated Salary 
 for this year as to make in the whole 
 Eighty pounds 
 voted To Clear & Fence the Burying yard 
 
 in Said District 
 
 voted That Daniel Kellogs; William 
 Bollwood Josiah Cluiuncy Esq'r Jii'o 
 Field J(din Dickinson Moses Dickinson 
 Sam'll Ingram he a Committee to Clear 
 said Buryiny; yard & to Fence the Same 
 with Stone or Timber or partly witii Each 
 at their Discretion 
 
 voted To raise twenty four pounds for 
 Schooling this year 
 
 voted To grant Liberty to Joseph Na»h 
 Gideon Dickinson Jun'r John Morton 
 Jiin'r Joseph Eastman Jun'r Israel Dick- 
 inson Alexander Smith Jun'r Thomas 
 Hastings Jun'r Josiah Cowls Eneas Dick- 
 inson Joel Billing Oliver Clap Jonathan 
 Nash Jun'r to huilJ a pew in the Place of 
 tile two hind Seats in the upper Teer in 
 the Gallary in the Meeting House on their 
 own Cost "11 Oondiiion that they resign 
 the Same Pew when the District require 
 it on the Districts payiiit; back the Charge 
 of Building 
 
 Atte.-t Joseph Eastman Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhahitants 
 of the District of Amher-t holiten nt the 
 Meeting House tiiere March 12th 1764 
 Voted Moses Dickinson moderator 
 Voted ftimeon Strong Clerk for the said 
 
 District the eii.suiiisi year 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong Treasurer for 
 said District the ensuing year 
 
 Voted Peter Smith Nathanael Dickin- 
 son J(}natlian Edwards Jonathan Dickin- 
 son John Dickinson Select men 
 
 Voted Jonathan Edwards Nathanael 
 Dicki.ison & Peter Smith Assessors 
 Voted Joseph Church & Noah Dickinson 
 
 Constables 
 
 Voted Simeon Clark Samuel Church 
 Ebenezer Dickinson Jun'r John Billiuir 
 Samuel Iimrani Jonathan Moody Jun'r 
 Surveyors of Highways 
 
 Voted To amend & Repair the High- 
 ways by a Tax the following year 
 
 voted Lemuel Moody Jonathan Cowls 
 Jun'r Ebenezer Dickinson the third Hog- 
 reeves 
 
28 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17J 
 
 voted Azariah Dickinson Jolin Dickin- 
 son Isaac Goodale Fenceviewers 
 
 votedNehemiali Dickii'son Reuben Dick- 
 inson & Peter Smitli Tythiiignien 
 voted Gideon Henderson Sealer of Lea- 
 ther 
 voted Hezekiali Belding and John Nash 
 
 Jun'r Deer-reeves 
 voted Alexander Smith Survej or of Tim- 
 ber 
 voted Daniel Kellogg William Boltwood 
 John Dickinson & Samuel Ingram Sur- 
 veyors of Wheat 
 
 voted Nathanael Coleman Solomon 
 Boltwood Samuel Ingram wardens 
 
 voted to adjourn this meeting to Wednes- 
 day the fourteenth Day of March Current 
 to be holden at said Meeting House 
 
 At a Legal nie< ting of the Inhabitants 
 of the District of Amherst holden at the 
 meeting house there by adjournment on 
 the fourteenth Day of March A.D. 1764 
 
 Voted To provide a Book for Records & 
 a grave Clotii for the u>e of the Distriirt 
 
 voted that the Price of a Diywork at 
 Highways in Summer be two Shillings & 
 five i)ence 
 
 voted that a Day work in the Fall be 
 one Sliilling & Eight pence 
 
 voted to Release to Cap't Ebenezer Kel- 
 logg his Rates that are unpaid 
 
 voted That Simeon Strong prefer a Pe- 
 tition to the Court ot general Sessions o( 
 the Peace in Behalf of the District for dis- 
 continuing the Kings Highway at the Bury- 
 ing yard 
 
 voted that the present Select men Settle 
 & agree with Noadiah Lewis respecting 
 the Road that lyes through his Lot 
 
 voted To Establir.h the Highway laid 
 out by tlie Select men at the Mills at the 
 north part of the District which said way 
 is laid out & Return thereof made to this 
 meeting as follows (viz) '"The following 
 "Highway was laid out by us tlie Sub- 
 "scribers in the District of Amherst Nov'r 
 "the 8th 1763 (viz) Beginning at a Rack 
 "at the End of Mr Farnsworth's House & 
 
 "Runs South 30" East Across the Bridge 
 "above the Grist-mill nine Rods to the 
 "End of s'd Bridge then South 28" west 
 "13 Rods then South 6" East 36 Rods to 
 "a black oak Staddie with a iieap of 
 "Stones about it on the County Road — 
 Surveyed pr Ebenezer Childs 
 
 Elisha Ingram ~| 
 Joseph Eastman 
 
 T,ir T. r Select Men 
 
 Moses Dickinson 
 
 Simeon Clark j 
 
 voted To choose a Committee to Treat 
 with the Hev'd David Parsons respecting 
 tlie Settlement of hi.- Sallary 
 
 voted That Peter Smith Deacon John 
 Nash Deacon Ebenizer Dickinson Jona- 
 than Dickinson Jo-epli Eastman Josiah 
 Chaiincy Esq'r Moses Smith Sanmel In- 
 gram John Dickinson Moses Dickinson 
 Jonathan Edwards William Boltwood 
 Cap't Jonattian Smith Pelatiah Smith 
 Doct'r Nathanael Smith & Jonathan 
 Cowls l)e the Committee for the purpose 
 above>aid & make their Report to this 
 meeting 
 
 Voted to adjourn this meeting to Wednes- 
 day the twenty Eighth Day of March Cur- 
 rent 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the District of Amherst holden by ad- 
 journment at the meetiiitj iiouse there on 
 the twenty Eighth Day of march AD. 
 1764 
 
 voted That Hogs being yoked & Ringed 
 according to Law may run at Large in 
 Said District from the first of May next 
 untill the first Day of September next 
 
 voted to abate & Release to Tom Negro 
 all Rates that have been assess-d to him 
 in this District liiat are now unpaid 
 
 The Committee chosen on the four- 
 teenth Day of March Current by the afore- 
 said Inhabitants to treat witii the Rev'd 
 D ivid Parsons respecting the Settlement 
 of his Sallary now make Report & cause 
 to be read to this meeting the Proposals 
 of Settlement made & directed to the said 
 
Records of Amherst from 173') to 171 
 
 29 
 
 Itiliabitaius by ihe said David Parsons in 
 wriiing undnr liis l.uiiid in the following 
 words (viz) 
 
 To tlie I hahiiams of the District of 
 Amherst at their District Meeting holden 
 by adjournineiit on Wednesday the twenty 
 Eifjhth D:iy of March AD. 176-t 
 
 Brethren & Friends, 
 Whereas at your meeting liolden on the 
 Hth Diy ol march Cnrr't you clmse your 
 C'im'tee t" treat with me respecting tlie 
 St;iting & Settlement of my SaUary fur tbe 
 future & to know (in what Terms I am 
 Content to Settle the same I do therefiTe 
 hereby uflfer & propose to ynu the follow- 
 ing Terms of si-tilement (viz) that vote & 
 Grunt me a Sallary nt E ghty ponnd lawful 
 mo:iey to be my aiuinal Stilted S;illary for 
 tlie tuture during my ministry wiih ymi ; 
 & in Case money Siinuld become so Soiree 
 as nut to he a common Sufficient medium 
 of Trade tln-n I agree to accept the value 
 of that Sum m Grain & other necessaries 
 ot Life and that you provide my Firewood 
 annually as you have done heretofore — 
 Also in Case the aliove propoSHl ot provid- 
 ing tny Fire-wood is not agreaide to y'U 
 I miike you tlie tollowint; proposal instead 
 thereof (viz) That you gi'aiit & Voie ni\ 
 Sallary lo be Mnnually lor the future dur- 
 ing my minisiiy with you ihe sum of ninety 
 three pounds Six Shillings & Eigiit P. iice 
 lawful money & in Case money Should 
 become So Scarce as not to be a common 
 Suffirieiit medium of Trade then I agree 
 to accept the value of ihat sum in Grain & 
 other necessruies of Life & in Case you 
 Grant the Last memioned Sum then my 
 proposal is that you are torevt-r tieed from 
 any obligations to provide my Fire-wood 
 Y'r affectionate Pastor David Paksons 
 N. B. My Proposal is that in Case the 
 above said Scarcity of money should hap- 
 pen then said Sallary should be paid at 
 the following Rate (viz) wheat at the Kite 
 of tliree Shilliugs & Seven pence one Far- 
 thing p'r Bushel & Rye at the Rate of two 
 Shillings & five pence pr Bushell 
 
 After the Reading of wlii'di P'ojiosals 
 the Said Inhabitants proceed to vote in 
 maiier Allowing the same vote being re- 
 duced to writing & read to said Inhahitants 
 & taken in the following words (vz) 
 
 voted To grant & comply with the Rev'd 
 David Parsoiis's second Proposal (viz) 
 that the District vote & Grant said David 
 Parson^.'s sallary for the future during his 
 ministry with Said District the Sum of 
 ninety three pounds Six Shillings & Eight 
 pence; & in Case money Should be So 
 Scarce as not to be a (Common sufficient me- 
 dium ot Trade then sail Sum Should be 
 paid in Grain & other necessaries of Life 
 and the District be freed from any obliga- 
 tions to provide said Par^^on'j. Firewood & 
 in t;ase Said Scarcity of money should 
 happen then said Sallaiy to be paid at the 
 Rate of whrat at three Shillings & Seven 
 pence one Farthing pr Bushel and Rye at 
 the Rate ot tvvo Shillings & five pence pr 
 Bushel 
 
 Moses Dickinson Mod^ator 
 
 At a legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the District of Amherst holden at the 
 Meeting House in Said District on the 
 S.-venteeiitn Day of December AD. 1764 
 at 9 o'clock in the foienoon 
 
 Vot'd Peter Smiih Mmlerator 
 
 Vot'd to adjourn this Meeting for the 
 Si'ace of one Hour then to meet at ye 
 
 Same Place Met at said Meeting House 
 
 alter s'd Space and 
 
 Vot'd lo Release to Deacon Ehem-zer 
 Di'kinsoii his Note of about six pounds 
 old T. nor payable to the District Treas- 
 urer for his Service in .\ e office of Treas- 
 urer ten years 
 
 Vot'd to Allow two Shillings pr Day for 
 Labour done tor the District in Summer 
 
 Vot'd to allow one Shilling & Six pence 
 pr Day for fall Work 
 
 Vofd to allow all the Bills as they have 
 been read & Corrected 
 
 Vot'd to impower the Assessors to levy 
 a Tax on ye Inhahitants of this District 
 
30 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17i 
 
 lor Defrajiiig tlie Det)ts arising on sai<l 
 Bills 
 
 VolM 10 allow ihe Rev'd llol)'t Atier- 
 croml>ie twenty SluUiiigs for preachiiifi 
 i)ere one Sabhath 
 
 Vot'd to adjourn this meeting to the 
 House of Mosfs Warner to meet there 
 assooii as may be — n:et accordingly there 
 and 
 
 vot'd 10 raise twenty Pounds for the use 
 of Scho(jliiig 
 
 Vut'd to iinpower ihe Assessors to lay a 
 Tax on the Inhrtl)itant[s] of Said District 
 for Said tweniy pounds 
 
 Vot'd to build four School Houses in 
 this District 
 
 Vot'd to Choose Several Com'tees to 
 determine the Places where said Houses 
 Shall be built 
 
 Vot'd Moses Dickinson Pett-r Smith & 
 Lieu't John Dickinson be a Com'tee to fix 
 the Place for the Nortii School Uoii»e 
 
 Vot'd Josiah Chauncy Esq'r Joseph 
 EastniiU) Ens'n Joiin Fiela be a Com'tee 
 tor fixfig the Place of the South School 
 House 
 
 Vol'd Daniel Kellogg Gideon Dickin>on 
 John Billmg be a C'>ni'tee to fix the Place 
 of the west Middle School House 
 
 Vot'd Lieul Win Boltwood Isaac Good 
 ale Simeon Strong he a Com'tee to fix the 
 place of the East Middle Sciiool House 
 
 Vol'd that the District will abide the 
 Determination of the jiforesaid Com'tiees 
 
 Vol'd to choose four other Com'tees to 
 build said Houses where the afores'd 
 Com'tees Shall determine 
 
 Vot'd Elijah Baker Samuel Infjram Na 
 tbanael Dickinson be a Com'tee to build 
 the norih School House 
 
 Vot'd Simeon Clark Deacon Nash Ins'n 
 John Field be a Com'tee for building the 
 west middle School House 
 
 Vot'd Daniel Kellogg Jonathan Dickin 
 son & Thomas Hastings be a Com'tee for 
 Building the East middle School-House 
 vot'd Nathanael Coleman Lieut. Jolin 
 
 Dickinson Peter Smith be a Com'tee to 
 build the South School House 
 
 Vot'd that the four last mentioned 
 Com'tees be one Joint Com'tee for Deter- 
 mining the Size & Dimentions of each of 
 the said School Houses 
 
 Attest Peter Smith Moderator 
 
 At a legal Meeting of ihe Inhabitants of 
 the District of Amherst bolden at the 
 j\I' eting House in Said District on the 
 Eighieenth Day of March A D 1765 at 9 
 o'clock ill the forenoon 
 
 Voted Jonathan Dickinson Moderator 
 Voted Simeon Strong Clerk of said Dis- 
 trict for tlie Eiisuing year — 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong Treasurer of said 
 District 
 
 Voted John Billing Moses Dickinson 
 Simeon Clark Joseph Eistman Azariah 
 Dickinson Select Men 
 
 Voted Elijah Bitker & Jonathan Moody 
 Joi'r Constables 
 
 Voted Gideon Henderson Thomas Has- 
 tintjs & Lieut John Dickinson Wardens 
 
 Voted Ins'n John Field Lieut William 
 Boltwood Daniel Dickinson & Daniel Kel- 
 logg surveyors of Highways 
 
 Voted Daniel Keiloeg Isaac Goodale 
 Joseph Dickinson Tithingnien 
 
 Voted Jonathan Cowls & Peter Smitli 
 ITinceviewers 
 
 Voted Lieut John Dickinson Samuel 
 IngrHin Daniel Kellogg & Lieut William 
 Boltwood Surveyors of Wheat 
 
 Voted Jonathan Dickinson Jiin'r Asahel 
 Moody & Moses Cook Deer Keeves 
 
 Vote<l Josiah Moody Edward Smith 
 Ephraim Kellogg Jun'r & David Cowls 
 Hogreeves 
 
 Voted Gideon Henderson Sealer of Lea- 
 ther 
 
 Voted Joseph Church Surveyor of Tim- 
 
 lier & Lumber 
 
 Voted that Hogs yoked & ringed act^ord- 
 inti to Law may run at Large from ibis 
 Time to the first Day of September next 
 
 Voted to raise the Sum of thirty Pounds 
 for repairing Highways 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 31 
 
 Voted That tlie Assessors Assess said 
 Siiiii on the Inhabitants of said District 
 
 District Meeting March 18th 1765 
 
 Voted That from this Time to the first 
 Day of Septemlier next the price of a Days 
 w()rl{ at Highways Shall be two Shillings 
 & five pence 
 
 Voted Tiiat tiie Price of Fall Work he 
 one Shilling & nine pence pr Day 
 
 Voted that this Meeting be adjourned 
 to the next Monday at one o'ClocJt after- 
 noon to meet at this Place Monday March 
 25th at one o'Cloclf 
 
 met hy Ailjournment 
 
 Jonathan Dickinson Moderator 
 
 At a legal Meeting of the [nhabiianti of 
 the District of Amherst at tlie Meeting 
 Hou<e in Said District on the 6lh Day of 
 Jtiniiary A. D. 17G6 at 9 o"Cloclc forenoon 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong Moderator 
 
 Voted to remove the nieetioy to the 
 School House wliicli is near Landlord 
 Warners dwelling House 
 
 Voted to raise the Sum ol twenty seven 
 Pounds for the use of Sclioolmg 
 
 Voted That the Price of Summer Work 
 at the School Houses be two Shilling-^ by 
 the Day 
 
 Voted That the price of Fall Work at 
 the School Houses be one Shilling and 
 Six Pence by the Day 
 
 Voted That Carpenier's Fall Work be 
 two Shillings & four Peiitie 
 
 Voted That Carpenter's Summer Work 
 be two Shillings & Eight Peoce 
 Voted To allow the bills as read and Cor- 
 rected 
 
 Voted To grant the Kev'd David Par- 
 sons the Present year's Sallary ninety 
 three pounds Six Shillings & Eight Pence 
 
 Voted That the Assessors make an As- 
 sessment on the Inhabitants of the Dis- 
 trict for Discharging the Debts before 
 allowed 
 
 Attest Simeon Strong Moderator 
 At a legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the District of Amherst holden at the 
 
 Meeting House there on the 10th Day of 
 March A. D. 1766 
 
 Voted Josiah Chauncy Esq'r Moderator 
 
 Voted To remove the Meeting to the 
 School House near Moses Warner's dwell- 
 ing House 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong Treasurer 
 
 Voted Sineon Strong Clerk 
 
 Voted Lieut. John Dickinson Deacon 
 Jonathan Edwards Ins'n John Field Sam- 
 uel Ingrain and Alexander Smith Select 
 Men 
 
 Voted Lieut John Dickinson Ins'n John 
 Field and Deiicon Jon'th Edwards As- 
 sessors 
 
 Voted Reuben Dickinson and Justus 
 Williams Constables 
 
 Voted John Field Gideon Dickinson 
 Moses Dickinson and John Nash Jun'r 
 Surveyers ot Highways 
 
 Voted Gideon Dickinson Aaron Warner 
 and Jonathan Dickinson Junr Tithingmen 
 
 Voted Jonathan Cowls and Nathanael 
 Coleman Fence Viewers 
 
 Voted Gideon Henderson Sealer of Lea- 
 ther 
 
 Voted Wariiam Warner Robert Em- 
 mons James Merick and Eli Colton Hog- 
 reeves 
 
 Voted Peter Smith Moses Cook Elijah 
 Biker Thomiis Hastings Stirveyors of 
 Wheat 
 
 Voted Joseph Church Surveyor of Tim- 
 ber 
 
 Voted Pelatiah Smith Jun'r and Joseph 
 Dickinson Deer-Reeves 
 
 Voted Peter Smith Dr Nathanael Smith 
 & Moses Cook Wat dens 
 
 Voted To repair Higiiways by a Tax in 
 the Siime Method as was done the last 
 year 
 
 Voted That Swine yoked & Ringed may 
 run at large from the first Day of May 
 next till the first D^vy ot September next 
 
 Voted To allow Mr Benj'n Dickinson's 
 Bill of Eight Shillings tor the Interest of 
 his money due from the District 
 
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 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Voted That ye former Com'tee for fenc- 
 ing the Burying Yard proceed to gt>t the 
 Highxtay afjaiiist the Buryim; Yard Dis 
 continued and likewise fence the Burying 
 yard assoon jis may l)e hy collecting the 
 Inhabitants to labour at said Busitiess 
 
 Voted To allow of and accept a Road 
 laid out bv the Select-Men returned and 
 certified by lliem to be laid out as follows 
 (viz) "These may certify to thn Meeting 
 that We the Subscribers have laid out a 
 Highway three Rods Wide mcto-s thn Se- 
 questered Lmd btgiiining at As^ihel 
 Moody's South Line extendiiiir one Rod 
 and a Halt Each Way from said Line run- 
 ning from llie County Road West To the 
 Town Highway running West ten Detrrees 
 North attest John Billin>r Moses Dickin- 
 son Joseph Eastman Select Men 
 Attest 
 
 At a legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the District of Amherst holden at the 
 Meeting House there on the fifih Day of 
 January AD. 1767 
 
 Voted Jonathan Edwards Moilerator 
 
 Voted to remove this Meetinji to the 
 School House near Moses Warners 
 
 Voted to grant and allow (the Bills 
 brimghi in as read & Corrected 
 
 Voted to inipower the Assessors to make 
 an Assessment on the Inliabitants for Pay- 
 ment of the Bills allowed & of the R, v'd 
 David Parsons's Sallary for the ('urrtnt 
 year 
 
 Voted That Dea"n Ebenezer Dickin-on 
 In'n John Field Joseph Eastman Moses 
 Dickinson and Jonathan Dickinson he a 
 Coni'tee to Consider how much Land Shall 
 he granted to Mr Simeon Strong tor his 
 purchasing for the District the Land 
 where the Path goes from hartlin;^ Stake 
 to ye Boundary near Wolfpitt Brook and 
 to make Report to this Meeting en Ad 
 journment 
 
 Voted To Seat the Meeting House 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson John Field Jo- 
 seph Eastman Jonathan Edwards Solomon 
 Boltwood be a Com'tee for that Purpose 
 
 Voted That for the Future tlie Annual 
 Meetings of January and March be Warn- 
 ed by Notifications posted on the South 
 Door of the Meeting House fourteen Days 
 before the respective Meetintfs 
 
 Voted to adjourn this Meeting to Mon- 
 day this Day Fort niglit to Meet at this 
 Place at one o'Clock afternoon 
 
 Voted To arant and raise twenty Seven 
 pounds tor Schoolint; 
 
 Voted That those that have brought in 
 Bills to this adjourned meeting for Work 
 at raising the West Bridge on Fort-River 
 he aUi.ued two Shillings p'r Day 
 
 Voted To allow iho>e that wrought at 
 the East Bridge one Shilling and four 
 Pence p'r D>iy 
 
 Voted That ttmse th:it laboured at the 
 West Bridge at oilier Labour than raising 
 be allowed one Shilling ami Sixpenee by 
 the Day 
 
 V'>ied To allow the Bills brought into 
 this ailj .uriied Meetiiit; as read & Cor- 
 reced 
 
 Voted That the Assessors make Assess- 
 ment for Payment thereof 
 
 Voted That Lieu't John Dickinson & 
 Peter Smith he Agents for the District to 
 appear in their Behalf at the next Court 
 of general Sessions of the Peace to make 
 Defence against the Petition of Jolin Bil- 
 ling & others for a Road 
 
 Voted To take of the Seque-tration from 
 and Disc'intiniie the Town Highway be- 
 tween Pelham Road & the Burying Yard 
 fnr the whole Breadth thereof 
 
 Voted To give and grant to Simeon 
 Strong his Heirs and Assiifiis forever a 
 Certain Parcel of Said Highway between 
 Said Pelham Road and the Burying Yard 
 hounded East on the Line bounding the 
 East Side of Said Highway north on the 
 Burying Yard, South on Pelham Road 
 and Extending so far West as to make the 
 Quantity of Six Acres, upon Condition of 
 — his procuring all the Land between 
 Hurtling Stake and a Boundary near to 
 and South of Wolfpitt Brook and between 
 
Records op Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 33 
 
 liis own & Solomon Boltwoods Fenc-e on 
 one' Side and the Kings Higiiway on the 
 other Side; so that n Kings Hiyhway may 
 be laid out from said Hartling Stake to 
 said Boundary near Wolf-Pitt Brook as 
 the travelling Path now goes without any 
 Charge to the District of furchasing the 
 Land or rendring Damages to the owner 
 thereof and in Case the District cannut 
 obtain a Disoontinuance of the Kings 
 Highway where it now lies and a Kings 
 Iligiiway laid where the Travelling Path 
 now goes within one year then this Grant 
 to be Void 
 
 Voted To clioose Mr Simeon Strong 
 Agent for tlie District in their Behalf to 
 make Application to the Court of General 
 Sessions of the Peace for a Discontinuance 
 of the Kings Highway from Hartling Stake 
 to a Boundary near Wolfpitt Brook : and 
 f.ir another Highway to he laid luit be- 
 tween said Limits as the l^atli now goes 
 
 Attest Jon"th Edwards Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the District of Amherst holden at the 
 Meeting House there on Tuesday the 
 twenty Seventh Day of January AD. 
 1767. 
 
 Voted Ins'n John Field Moderator 
 
 Voted To make Such Amendments and 
 Alterations in the Meeting House as the 
 Coni'tee Chosen for that Purjiose have 
 Reported to this Meeting in Writing under 
 their Hand 
 
 Voted That Ins'n Field Gideon Hender- 
 son Joiin Billing Lieu't John Dickinson 
 and Peter Smitli be a Coni'tee lo make 
 Said Alterations and Amendments 
 Attest 
 
 Record of the Warrant for A Meeting of 
 the Inhabitants of Amherst Jan'ry 5ih 
 17G7 & the Return thereof which is omitted 
 in Proper Place & should have been re- 
 corded bef')re the Record nf said Meeting 
 3 Pages Each 
 
 [Seal] To the Constal>les in Amherst 
 
 or either of them Greeting You are 
 
 required in his Majesty's Name forthwith 
 
 to warn all Freeholders & other Inhabit- 
 ants of said District who are Qualified by 
 Law to Vote in Town-Meetings that they 
 Assemble at the Meeting House in said 
 District on Monday thefifth Day of Jan- 
 uary next at nine o'th Clock in the Morn- 
 ing then & there after the Choice of a 
 Moderator to do as fcdlows; 
 
 1st to Consider & pass the Debts which 
 have arisen in the District this year past & 
 to raise money as they shall find occasion 
 
 2illy To determine what they will do in 
 opposition to the suit of a Highway 
 tlKough Deacon Nashes Lot & onward 
 
 3dly To determine whetlier the District 
 will take off the Sequestration from and 
 discontinue the Town Highway or any 
 Part thereof lying between the Highway 
 cilled Pelham Road &the Land sequestred 
 for a Burying Yard & between the first & 
 Second Divisions of Land in Amherst 
 
 4ilily To determine wlsat Lands within 
 sai>l Limits the District will grant to Mr 
 Simeon Strong on Condition of his pro- 
 curing the Land East ot his own & Solomon 
 Boliwood's Fence & between said Fence 
 & the west Line of the Higli- Way as it now 
 lyes of sufficient Width for a King's High- 
 way from the South-East Corner of said 
 Strong's Fence as the Travelling Path 
 now goes to a boundary about six Rods 
 Soutii of Wolf-Pitt Brook so that the Dis- 
 trict shall need be at no Charge of pur- 
 chasing said Land. 
 
 othly To choose an Agent to prefer a 
 Petition LO the Hon'ble Court of General 
 Sessions of ihe Peace next to be holden 
 at Northampton that the King's Highway 
 between the Hartling Stake & Said Wolf- 
 Pitt Brook may be discontinued and laid 
 out where the Path now goes 
 
 lily Whether they will discontinue the 
 Town HighwHv on a Spot of Land lying 
 between Simeon Dickinson's South Line' 
 and the County Road against where Moses 
 Warner's House formerly Stood Suposed 
 to be about two Acres giving Liberty lo 
 Preserved Clap to take Possession thereof 
 
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 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 7thly Whether tli^y will give Liberty to 
 a Number who desire it to build a Pew or 
 Pews in the Gallery at their own Cost 
 
 8thly Whether ihey will seat the Meet- 
 ing House anew; or make any Alteration 
 in the Sitting 
 
 Otlily whether they will allow tluit an- 
 nual Meetings whicii are in January & 
 
 March be warned by Notifications and 
 
 you are to make Return (.f this Warrant 
 & of your Doings thereon to some one of 
 
 us at or before saiii Time Given under 
 
 our Hand & Seal this 29th Day of Decem- 
 ber 176G 
 
 John Dickinson ] 
 John Field [Select 
 
 Sam'll Ingram [ Men 
 Alex'r Smith J 
 Return of tiie Constable indorsed thus 
 
 (viz; 
 
 The Directions of this Warrant hatli 
 been attended by Me 
 
 Justus Williams a Constable 
 
 At a Le^al Meeting of tlie Inhabitants of 
 tlie District of Amlierst on Monday the 
 Sixteenth Day of March 1767 at the Scool 
 iiouse at Nine of the Clock in the Morning 
 after Josiah Cliauiicy was Cliosen Mod- 
 erator they Came Into the following Vots 
 Voi'd Josiah Chauncy Clark Vot mr 
 
 Simeon Strong Treasurer 
 
 Vot Jon't'i Dickinson Nath'll Collman 
 Joseph Easinan Select Men and Assessors 
 Vot Mosses Dickinson Simeon Clark Sel- 
 
 lect men 
 Vo't Hezekiah Beldin Asael Moody Con- 
 stables 
 Vo't Simeon Pomroy Josepii Dickinson 
 
 Jon'th Smith Surveyors 
 Vo't Nath'll Colman Jon'tii Coles fence 
 
 Viewers 
 
 Vo't Ebenezer Dickinson Jun'r William 
 Boltwood Martin Smitli Tithing Men 
 Vo't Mosses Warner Jun'r Jon'th Moodey 
 
 Jun'r Jacob Warner Jun'r Noah Smith 
 
 Jon'tli Dickinson Jun'r Ilogrifs 
 Vo't Ebez'r Dickinson Jun'r Simeon 
 
 Smith Dearifs 
 
 Vo't Peter Smith Elijah Baker Mosses 
 Cook Thomas Hastings Surveyers of 
 Wiieat and Flowr 
 
 Vo't Gideon Henderson Sealer of Lea- 
 ther 
 
 Vo't Joseph Cliurch Surveyer of Lum- 
 ber 
 
 Vo't Aaron Warner Isaac Goodale Peli- 
 liah Smith Wardens 
 
 Vote to keep the Scooll one Month in 
 the west Street North End 
 
 Vo't Daniel Kellogg Surveyor 
 
 Vo't to Do the lugh waj's tliis Year by a 
 Tax 
 
 Vo't to adjourn this Meeting to the 
 twenty thir<i Day of March Currant at 4 
 o Clock in tlie afternoon 
 
 Then Meet by adjournment & Voted to 
 Except of the Return of the Select Men of 
 a hifjh way Laid out as Follows Amherst 
 March ye 18th 17G7 we the Subscribers 
 liave Laid out a Town high way two Rods 
 in Widtli from the Mills to Hadley Line 
 we Began Norih of the bridge below the 
 Mills and Run Soutli twenty Nine Degrees 
 west thirty Rods thence South forty De- 
 grees west fifty two Rods 
 thence west tliirty Seven Degrees South 
 twenty Eight Rods thence North thirty two 
 Degrees west Eigiit Rods thence west 
 thirty one Degrees South ten Rods thence 
 west about Nme Degrees North Seventy 
 four Rods thence west about Eight De- 
 grees South twelve Rods thence west Nine 
 Degrees North Sixty Rods thence west 
 thirty Nine Degrees west forty Rods to 
 
 hadley Line 
 
 Jonathan Dickinson'] 
 
 Nath'll Coleman 
 Joseph Easman 
 Mosses Dickinson J 
 Test Josiah Chauncy Moderator 
 At a Legal Meeting held in Amherst on 
 April 14 1767 after, Josiah Chauncy was 
 Chosen Moderator they Came Into the 
 following Vots 
 
 Vot that ye Select Men order out of 
 the Treasury ye Sum of fifty two Shillings 
 
 {-Select Men 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 35 
 
 for the Conveying the French Neutrels to 
 Canada 
 
 Vo't to Chusp a Com'ttee to Take ad- 
 vice Respecting any Mfasures to Prevent 
 the E'-taljlislinient of the Road through 
 Jolin Niislis Lot Vo't Peter Smith John 
 Dickinson be the Coni'tee 
 
 Vot (he Said Com'tee Shall Proceed in 
 Law Up.m advice that tliey Shall Recive 
 from Such as are Skil'd in Law acording 
 to their Direclicn 
 
 Vo't that Money be Taken out of the 
 Treasury to Dt-fmy the Cost of the affair 
 
 Vo't Josiali Chauncey Esq'r & Jon'th 
 Dickinson be Cotnitty Men To Joyn a 
 former Com'tee to Seet the Meeting house 
 
 Vo't that the Coni'tee Cliossen to Seet 
 the Meeting house Shall Seet said house 
 by Age & Estate and Quallifications 
 
 JosiAH Chauncy Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting held in Amherst i>n 
 the Eleventh Day of June 1767 after Jon'th 
 Dickinson was Chosen Moderator Came 
 Into the following Vote 
 
 Vo't to Discontinue R.)ad or liiyhway 
 Lately Laid out by the Courts Cominitty 
 through Decoii John Naslies Lot he Now 
 Lives on and through David Nashes Lot 
 Jonathan Nash Lives an Near the South 
 Line of said Lot 
 
 attest Jon'th DiciiiNSON Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting held in Amherst on 
 Monday the fourth Day ot Janawary at 
 the Scool house at Nine of the t!lock in 
 the Morning after Josiah Chauncy E>q'r 
 was Chosen Moderator they Came Into 
 the following Vots 
 
 Vo't Mosses Dickinson Dan'll Kellogg 
 Martin Stnith a Com'tt to Examme the 
 Acounts of those that formerly builded 
 Pews in the Meeting house & Make Re- 
 port of the Sum to the Assessors 
 
 [pass] [heen] 
 
 Vo't that the hills as they have Read 
 and Considered And also Six Pounds 
 Granted by the District to John Hubbard 
 lor Damiges Done him by Laying a Town 
 
 Road Crost his Land and Likewise Mr 
 David Parsons Sallary be Raised in a Tax 
 on the District by the assessors & Paid 
 out where Due 
 
 Vo't twenty four Pounds further to be 
 Raised for the Use of Scooling & Paid out 
 by the asses>ors 
 
 Vo't the North Scool be kept one halfe 
 the Time in the West Street 
 
 Vo't that the Select Men Build a New 
 Pound Near Harding Stake or Repair the 
 old Pound as they think Best 
 
 attest Josiah Chadncy Moderator 
 
 [Seal] Ham>liere St. to the Consta- 
 bles, or Constabe of the Desirict of Am- 
 herst or Either of them Greeting In 
 
 his majesties Name you are requir.d forth- 
 with to warn all the freeholders and other 
 inhabitants Qualified for voting in Destrict 
 metings that they Assemble & meet at the 
 Schooihous near the hariling Stake in the 
 west Street in s'd Destrict on the first 
 nionday in March Next which is the 7th 
 day of s,d March at nine of the Clock in 
 the Morning viz to act upon the following 
 articles 
 
 1st to Chuse a Moderator 
 
 2(lly to Couse Destrict ofiicers 
 
 3dly to see if the Destrict will get 
 sum bixly to undertake to keep the bur- 
 ling yard fence, d and Clear,d for Liberty 
 to feed it and for land next to it 
 
 to see if the Destrict will take of tiie 
 Sequestoration from any higliway Land by 
 the burling yard 
 
 to Chuse a Committy to agree with some 
 Person About Keeping the burling yard 
 well fensed and Cieard for Land joining to 
 it and for liberty to feed the yard and to 
 give deed and take obligations of them 
 that they Agree with 
 
 4thly to see if the Destrict will Except 
 of a highway Laid out by the Select men 
 l)eginning north of Elijah Bakers Run- 
 i:ing into the Sawmill in Joseph Churches 
 Land and Continuing Said Rhode through 
 Mr Sharps Land 
 
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 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 5thly To see if the Destrict will Lay a 
 liigliway throngli the first Division from 
 the west Street to the Sawmil in Joseph 
 Churches Land Where they shall see fit 
 
 6tlily To see what mesures we Shall 
 Come into to keep the higli ways in Re- 
 pair fur tlie year iiisuing. 
 
 7thly To se if th^• Destrict will Except 
 the Rhode Laid tlirough the middle Divi- 
 sion on the South Side of Pelletiah Smiths 
 Lot from tlie Est End to mill River 
 
 8thly To hear Mr Strongs request to 
 Answer him the money which lie paid the 
 Conimitty for alterinji the highway against 
 the huring yard 
 
 And make returne of this worrant and 
 your Doings to one of us before S'd Day 
 Given under our hands and seal this fif- 
 teenth Day of February 1768. 
 Jon'th Dickinson] 
 Nath'll Coleman I 
 Moses Dickinson f St-lectmen 
 Simeon Clark j 
 Joseph Easman J 
 
 Return of the Constable Indos'd thus viz 
 Hams'h ss. This may Ct-rtify that the Di- 
 rections of this Worrant hath beti attended 
 by Posting a Notification fourteen days 
 before a meting according to the Vote ot 
 the Destrict Hezekiah Belding Consta- 
 ble for Amherst 
 
 Att a Legal meting of tlie Inlieabitants 
 of the Destrict of Amherst on monday the 
 seventh day of March 1768 at the school 
 hous near the hartling Stake at Nine of 
 ye Clock in ye morning After Josiah 
 Chauncy Esq was Chosen Moderator they 
 Came into ye following Vots 
 
 Vot'd Seth Coleman Clerk for the S'd 
 District the Ensuing year 
 
 Vot'd Mr Simeon Strong Treasurer 
 
 Vot'd Levt John Dickinson, Alexander 
 Smith Dea'n Jonathan Edwards Ins'n John 
 Field Moses Dickinson Select Men 
 
 Vot'd Dea'n Jonathan Edwards Moses 
 Dickinson Alexander Smith assesors 
 
 Vot'd to adjurn for the space of one 
 hour and Meet at this Place 
 
 Met at said School hous after s,d Space 
 and 
 
 Vot'd Nehemiah Dickinson John Nash 
 jun'r Constables 
 
 Vot'd Jonathan Cowls Peter Sinith Jon- 
 athan Nash fens vewers 
 
 Vot'd Joseph EsTiian Robnrd Emmons 
 Jonathan Smith John Field junr Teithing 
 Men 
 
 Vot'd Pheilnp Ingram Samuel Ailing 
 Joel Moody Oliver Clap Chileab Smith 
 Hog-reeves 
 
 Vot'd Moses Cook Elijah Baker Deer 
 reeves 
 
 Vot'd Thomas Hastings Gideon Ilander- 
 son Timothey Green John Billings Sur- 
 veyers of highways 
 
 Vot'd Joseph Church survey er of lumber. 
 
 Vot'd Gideon Honder^'on Sealer of 
 Leather 
 
 Vot'd Elisliar Ingram Dea'n Simeon 
 Clark Ins'n John Field wardens 
 
 the following Votes were Committed to 
 riting and red in the audience of liie des- 
 trict of Amherst which are as follows viz 
 Amher>t District meting March 7th 1768 
 
 Vot'd To take of the Sequestration from 
 the Liiid in the town Highway adjoining 
 to the Burying Yard Northward as far as 
 Thomas Bascoms Fence 
 
 Vot'd to Dispose of and Grant Said 
 Land the Highway adjoining to the Bury- 
 ing Yard & as far North as Thomas Bas- 
 combs Ftnce to D'n Setii Coleman in Fee 
 he giving Good Security for Erecting and 
 maintaining a Good & sufficient Fence 
 about said Yard forever & keeping the 
 same well Clear, d 
 
 Vot'd that [ns'n John Field Dea'n Sim- 
 eon Clark Joseph Eastman Daniel Kellogg 
 & Mr Simeon Strong be a Com'tee in be- 
 half of District to Dispose of & Grant Said 
 Land to Said Seth Colem'n, & to Grant 
 him Right of Feeding and Pasturing the 
 Burying Yard in such manner & for so 
 long time as S'd Com'tee shall think ■ 
 Proper and that said Com'tee be impow- 
 ered to make and Execute in Behalf of 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 37 
 
 the District a Good Deed or Deeds for the 
 Effecting the Purpose aforesaid to S'd 
 Colnian, & to take & receive of him in 
 like manner such securities & join in mak- 
 ing such obligations, Covenants Indenters 
 or to receive the same of him as Shall be 
 affectual to secure the Performance of the 
 Engagements on liis part Respecting the 
 making Maintaining said fence and for 
 Keeping said Yard always well Clear'd 
 
 and the said Com'tee are to use 
 
 their Discretion as to what Quantity or 
 part of said Land they will Dispose of; 
 and at what Price they will Sell the Same 
 for over and above the Consideration of 
 fencing & Clearing as aforesaid in Case on 
 View of the land they shall find it of 
 more Vahie than is now apprehended 
 
 Test JosiAH Chauncy Moderator 
 
 Vot'd To Repare the High-ways this 
 year by a Tax 
 
 Vot'd that hogs should run from tiie 
 tenth of may next to the first of Septem- 
 ber Ensuing being ring,d and yoked ac- 
 cording to law 
 
 Vot'd To Allow Mr Simeon Strongs bis 
 bill for altering the highway against the 
 burling yard ; which is as follows 
 May 1767 To p'd for Record of 
 
 Altering the highway North of 
 
 Hartling stake £- 
 
 To p'd for Kntry of Caution at Crb 
 To p'd Capt Dwigbtfor laying out 
 
 ye way 
 
 £1 
 
 Vot'd To adjurn this meting to munday 
 the 28th of march Currant at the School 
 hous near the Hartling stake 
 
 At a Legal meting of the Inhabitants of 
 the District of Amherst hold at the meting 
 bous on Wednesday the IGth day of march 
 AD 1768 at 4 of the Clock in ye afternoon 
 &c 
 
 Vo't Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Vo't to remove to the School hous near 
 Landlord M. Warners 
 
 Vo't that all Persons that iiave Either 
 Children or Prentices or any under their 
 
 17 
 •2 
 
 10 
 
 Care that have seats aseined them in the 
 meting bous see to it that they take & keep 
 their respective seats unless at any partic- 
 ular time they were for some speatial rea- 
 son invited into an nother seat by the -&ner 
 or oners of the same 
 
 On Monday ye 28tb of March 1768 the 
 Inbeabitants of the Destrict of Amherst 
 met by adjurnment at the School bous 
 Near the liartling Stake at fore of the 
 Clock in ye atternoon but paist no Votes 
 
 Test JosiAH Chauncy Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Meting of the Destrict of 
 Amherst Holden at ye Meting hous on 
 Monday ye IQth of May AD 1768 at two of 
 
 ye Clock in ye afternoon after the 
 
 clu.ice of Moses Dickinscm Moderator 
 Came into ye following Vots 
 
 Vot'd To adjurn this meting for ye 
 Space of a quater of an hour 
 
 Vot'd To Come into some Measures to 
 Clear off the incumbrences from the high 
 way runing East and west between Moses 
 Warners and Simeon Dickinsons on that 
 Side next to Sd Dickinsotis Land 
 
 Vot'd To Cbuse a Committe to agree 
 with Jonathan Dickinson & Simeon Dick- 
 inson about the Incumberrence on ye 
 hit'bvvay aiijoining to Simeon Dickinsons 
 Land 
 
 Vot'd That Esq Chauncy feter Smith 
 and Solomon Boltwood be the Committe 
 
 Vot.d To Adjurn this meting to Mnnday 
 ye 23d of May Currant at ye Metitig hous 
 at fore of ye Clock in ye afternoon 
 
 On Monday the 23d of May 1768 the In- 
 bealiitar.ts of ye Destrict of Amherst met 
 by adjurnment at ye Meting hous at Fore 
 of ye Clock in ye afternoon 
 
 Amherst meting May 23d 1768 
 
 Voted To Take of the Sequestration 
 from a Sartain peas of town high-way Cut 
 & bownded as follows viz Beginning at a 
 black oake Staddle markt at about thirty 
 seven rods East (as the line of ye lots 
 run) of Simeon Dickinsons South East 
 Corner thence running East upon the line 
 of Simeon Dickinsons lot twenty three 
 
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 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 rods, tlience Snuth seven rods to a Stake 
 • hence westwardley twenty three roils to a 
 stake Thence Nortli Eleven rods to the 
 former markt Black oake Steadle 
 
 Vot,d That the above bouMdtr'd lot of 
 land he granted to Preserved Clapp in fee 
 lie Paying or giving good security for tlie 
 Sum of Six Pound. 
 
 Test Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meting of ye Destriet of Am- 
 lierst St tile school hom on Monday ye 2d 
 Day of January AD 1769 at nine of ye 
 (.^lock in ye Morning after Josiali CliHuncy 
 was Chosen Moderator Come Into thp fol- 
 lowing Votes viz 
 
 Voteii To Allow Jolin Nash junr his 
 Bill for Money Expended far advice in ye 
 aflfare of ye Highway on his lot viz fifteen 
 Shillings 
 
 Vot.d To adjurn this Meting f)r the 
 Space of one hour and to meet at this 
 
 place the InheabitHnts being met after 
 
 sd space 
 
 Vot,d To Chuse a Comniitte to agre 
 with M'rss Nashes about the Damage dun 
 them by a highway laid out through their 
 land 
 
 Vot,d To Cliuse five men for a Com- 
 mitte for ye Purpus above 
 
 Vot,d TothatJosiah Chauncy Esq Peter 
 Smith Alex'nd Smith Ins. John Field and 
 Moses Dickinson be the Coinmitte 
 
 Vot,d that if the Committe Cannot agree 
 with M'rss Nashes they Shall Nominate 
 three men out of town to agree with the 
 
 s,d Nashes & their judgment to he Dis- 
 
 ciscive 
 
 Vot.d That Josiah Chauncy Esq Ins 
 John Field Daniel Kellogg he a Committe 
 to settle the line between our Destriet and 
 the Equevolent land 
 
 Vot,d To Chuse a Committe to Exze- 
 arain the bridge Near Mearicks and if 
 wanted to build a new one 
 
 Vot,d That Solomon Boltwood John 
 Nash junr and John Billings be a Com- 
 mitte for the Purpus above 
 
 Vot,d To Reliulde or repear that Bridge 
 Near Nathan Dickinson junr as a Com- 
 mitte shall think best 
 
 Vot,d That Peter Smith Daniel Kellogg 
 Noali Dickinson be a Committe for the 
 Purpus above 
 
 Vot,d That Simeon Strong Esq. Josiah 
 Chaun[<;y] Esq Moses Dickinson he a 
 Committe to assertain the Bounds of the 
 Town Ways in this District and to Erect 
 Snfficient Boundaries Whereby Such Ways 
 may be Clearly Known for the future and 
 to Prosecute Such Persons as have Made 
 Incroiichments Thereon Eccept in Such 
 Cases Wherein they Shall think E.xpedient 
 to Delay Prosecution in order for the Per- 
 son to Appley to the Town for Discontin- 
 uance 
 
 Vot,d To Pay the Bills as they have bin 
 Red & Considerd 
 
 Vot,d That the Assesors Shall be ini- 
 powered to rais the money that the Com- 
 mitte shall allow to the Nashes and for ye 
 Highway acros their Land 
 
 Vot,d To rais twenty seaven pound ten 
 Shillings for Schooling 
 
 Vot,d To allow Mr Parsons ninty three 
 pound six and eaigh Pence for his sallery 
 and assesors impowerd to rais the same 
 
 Test Josiah Chauncy Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meting of the Inheabitants of 
 the Destriet of Amherst on Monday ye 
 13th Day of March 1769 at the Meting 
 Hous at Nine of the Clock in ye Morning 
 After Josiah Chauncy Esq Was Chosen 
 Moderator Came Into the following Votes 
 
 Votjd Seth Colernan Clerk 
 
 Vot,d Simeon Strong Esq Treasurer 
 
 Vot,d Simeon Strong, Joseph Eastman, 
 Moses Dickinson, Nath'il Coleman, Jona- 
 than Dickinson, Selectmen 
 
 Vot,d to Adjurn this meeting for the 
 space of one Hour and then to Meat at the 
 School House Near Hartling Stake 
 
 the Inheabitants being met at time & 
 place Voted as follows (viz) 
 
 Vot,d Joseph Eastman, Moses Dickin-^ 
 son Simeon Strong Assesers 
 
Records op Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 39 
 
 Vot,d Simeon Pomeroy Ebeiiezah Dick- 
 inson Junr Constiibles 
 
 Vot.d Jonathan Coles, Natha'll Coleman 
 Fens Vewers 
 
 Vot,d Joel Moody, John Nasli junr 
 Isaac Goodaie Teiihingmen 
 
 Vot,d Henery Jonson Frankling, Thomas 
 Hastings junr Jonathan Coles junr Joseph 
 Eastman jun'r Gideon Dickinson jun'r 
 Thomas Baskcum Hogreeves 
 
 Vot,d that Hogs Shall run sum Part of 
 the year liampered according to law 
 
 Vot,d that Hogs shall run well rung and 
 Yok,d from ye first of May to the Midle of 
 August Next 
 
 Vot,d Natlianiel Dickinson 2d Moses 
 Coock Dear Reeves 
 
 Vot'd Levt John Dickinson, Alexnd 
 Smith Elijah Baker Samuel Ingram, Dan- 
 iel Kellogg, Peter Smith Surveyers of 
 Highways 
 
 "Vot'd to do the Highway worke this 
 year by the Pole 
 
 Vot'd Joseph Church Surveyer of Lum- 
 ber 
 
 Vot'd Isaac Goodaie Sealer of Leather 
 
 Vot'd Ebezer Mattoon Eli Parker Jon- 
 athan Coles Vordens 
 
 Vot'd To Clieuse a Coinniitte to Inspect 
 the ways Irom the west Street to the East 
 from the Highway by Jonathan Coles Lot 
 to the Saw mil tliat was formerly Joseph 
 Clareys & see Wliere is the best place for 
 a Heighway to be laid 
 
 Vot'd Pet^-r Smith Decn Jonathan Eil- 
 wards, John Billings, be a Committe for 
 the Purpus above, and to Make reporte to 
 the Select Men 
 
 Test Josioh Chauncy Moderator 
 
 Seal Ilampehire ss. To the Constables of 
 the District of Amherst or Either of [them] 
 Greeting 
 
 You are hereby requir'd in his majestys 
 Name forthwitli to warn the Inhabitants 
 of tlie s'd District that are Legally Qualli- 
 fied to Vote in town Metings that they 
 assemble at the Meeting Hous in Sd Dis- 
 trict on Monday the twenty third Day of 
 
 October Currant at one of the Clock after- 
 noon then and there after Moderator 
 Ciiosen to Consider of and Act on the 
 following things (viz 1st To Hear tiie 
 Report of the Comtee Chosen in March 
 Last [to] Ascertain the bounds of the 
 town ways in said Distrect 2d To Give 
 said Comtee what farther Instructions they 
 may think Proper respecting Clearing 
 said Ways and prosecuting such as have 
 made Incrochments thereon 
 
 3d To Hear the application of such as 
 may apply to the Distrect to have any part 
 of said Ways Discontinued and act and 
 Determin thereon 
 
 4th To Give Such Instructions as they 
 shall think proper to the Select Men for 
 Laying out or altering town Ways 
 
 5th To Determin What Methods shall 
 be us'd for obtaining or securing any 
 Debts due to the Distrect 
 
 Cth To Determin Whether the Distrect 
 will allow fore month Schooling in tlie 
 North Part 
 
 Hereof fail not and Make due Return 
 hereof with your Doing herein to us or 
 Some one of us at or before the time liere- 
 i 1 before Appointed for opening & holding 
 said Meting Dated at amherst the Sixth 
 Day of October in ye Ninth year of his 
 Majestys Reign A. D. 1769 
 Simeon Strong ") 
 JoNTH Dickinson |- Select men 
 Moses Dickinson J 
 
 Return of the Constables Indorsd thus 
 VIZ the Directions of this Worrant has bin 
 attended by us 
 
 Simeon Pomeroy ") ^ , , 
 
 Ebenezer Dickinson/ "-""stables 
 
 Att a Legal Meting of the Distrect of 
 Amherst at ye Meeting Hous on Monday 
 ye 23d of October A D 17G0 at one of the 
 Clock afternoon After Choice of Joslah 
 Chauncy Esq Moderator Came into ye 
 following Votes Viz Voted To adjurn to 
 the School hous by ye Hartling Stake 
 
 Voted To Allow the North and South 
 Sciiools their Proportionable Part of 
 
40 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Money for Schooling with the Middle 
 Schools 
 
 Voted That Simeon Strong Esq Treas- 
 urer of ye District belmpower'd & Direct- 
 ed lo Serve the Debts Due from John Keet 
 to the Distri(;t Either by Taking Land 
 Security or oilier wise at liis Discretion 
 
 Voted that the Commille Chosen to 
 Clear of Incuniberences from the town 
 highway shall postpone the Prosecution of 
 those Persons that have made incrochment 
 tUl ye 1st Day of October A. D. 1770 
 
 Voted To Adjourn this Meting to tlie 
 first of November Next at this Place at 
 Nine of tlie Clock in tlie morning 
 
 Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants ot 
 Andierst hoiden by Adjurnment on the 
 first Day of November being Monday at 
 nine o'Clock in the Forenoon 
 
 The Comtee Chosen in March last for 
 Assertaining and Clearing of Incum- 
 brances from tlie town Ways, And alter- 
 wards at this Meeting begin and Hoiden 
 on the twenty third Day ol October Laist, 
 Instructed to hear the Applications of 
 Such as desir'd or should Desire any Part 
 of Said AVays Discontinued for their own 
 Perticular Accomodation and to make 
 heir Report to this Meeting Now Hoiden 
 by Adjournment; heaving according to 
 their said Instructions heard and CareluUy 
 Consider'd the .Several Applications to 
 them made and the Reasons Pleas & Alii 
 gations of the Several Parties thereon do 
 Now ac. ordingly Make their Reporte as 
 follows vii; 
 
 The Following Petitions and Reports 
 were Each Seperately Voted according as 
 follows viz 
 
 Voted Upon the Petitions of Daniel 
 Kellogg according to the Comtees Reports 
 that the after described Piece of Lund 
 adjoining to the front of his Lot be discon- 
 tinued from being of the town Way (viz) 
 Beginning at the South East Corner of 
 His Lot and thence running Easterly in 
 the Line of his Lot Continued Six Rods 
 from the said Corner thence Northerly to 
 
 a Station one rod Easterly of and Directly 
 against tlie Southerly Side of his Hous 
 Then Still Northerly leaving tlie Breadth 
 of one Rod against Said House to tlie 
 North East Corner of Sd House thence 
 Northerly to the Stone Wall Whicli begins 
 at the North Ea>-t Corner of his Corn 
 house (hence Northerly by the Said Wall 
 to the End of the same, and thence North- 
 erly to fall in with the Line of the way at 
 the Distance of Six Rods from the North 
 End af Said Wall 
 
 The above Piece is to be understood to 
 Include within it all Former Discontinu- 
 ances at the Front of the same lot Said 
 Peace Containing Sixty Rods and that he 
 pay therefor the Sum of Thirty Shilling 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of Nathan 
 Dickinson, according to the Comtees re- 
 porte that the after Describ'd Part of town 
 way at the Front of his Lot be Discon- 
 tinued (viz) Beginning at a station one 
 rod north of the North West Corner of 
 his Barn and three rods West of the Line 
 of the townway thence a Line North to 
 fall in with the Line of the way at the 
 Distance of Ten Rods and Running from 
 Said Station Soutii one rod Westerly of 
 his Dwelling Uous till the Line Comes 
 Against the South West Corner thereof 
 then turning Easterly to fall in with the 
 Line of the way at the Distance of twelve 
 Rods the Same Containing Ninety two 
 Rods of Land ; and that he Pay therefor 
 the sum of forty six shillings 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of Gideon 
 Dickinson for Discontinuing apart of the 
 Way at the Front of his Lot in the third 
 Division Where Moses Hawley New 
 Dwells; according to the Comtees Report 
 that (he following Piece be Discontinued 
 (viz) 
 
 Beginning at a Birch Stake a Rod West- 
 erly of the Soutli Side of the Lot thence to 
 the west Side of a Small apple Tree Mark- 
 ed and Standing between the House & the 
 Travelled Road thence to a Station half a 
 rod West of the Northwest Corner of the 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788, 
 
 41 
 
 Barn thence Northerly twenty three rods 
 to fall in with tlie Line of tlie way, the 
 Same Piece Containing one Hundred & fore 
 Hods and that he pay therefor the Sum of 
 forty four Shillings 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of Ebenezar 
 Mattoon, according to the Comtees report 
 that all that part of tlie Way which Lies 
 within his fence at his front from the South 
 Side of his Lot tliat he Lives on to his 
 barn and within on Easterly of the Line 
 of Said fence Continued to the North Side 
 of the Lot be Discontinued and the Cointee 
 being fully Satisfied that Said Land lias 
 been once Purchased & paid for to the 
 town of Iladley while the Land beloii^'d 
 there, Report that no Farther Reconipence 
 be made therefor 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of Solomon 
 Boltwood, according to the Comtees Re- 
 port, that All that Part of the way lying 
 between his Dwelling Hous & his lious on 
 the hill lately owned by his brother Wil- 
 limn Boltwood tiiat is to say all that lies 
 within the grant made to His Father by 
 Hadley Conmiittf between Said bouses be 
 Discontinued — and that be make no Rec- 
 onipence therefor having Proved to ye 
 Conitec that the Same has been paid (or to 
 ye town of Hadley — 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of Moses 
 Warner, according to the Conitee Report 
 to Discontinue the followiui; Part of the 
 way at the Front of liis Lot (viz) Begin- 
 ning one Rod north of his House and 
 Door Yard two Rods wide from the Line 
 & Continuing tht' same Breadth Southerly 
 to the Souih Side of his garden thence to 
 a Point at tlie South Side of his Lot the 
 same Containing fifty tour Rods, and that 
 he pay therefor the Sum of forty Shil- 
 liims — 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of John Nash 
 According to the Comtee Report for Dis- 
 continuing the after Discribed Part of the 
 way at the front of his Lot (viz) Begiiiing 
 at a Stake Erected by the Comtee at ye 
 North West Corner of Said Lot as it is 
 
 Now Inclosed, thence Runing a Strait 
 Line [to] a Wliite Oake Tree about three 
 Rods South of his Barn ; the same Peicc 
 Containing twenty four Rods of Ground 
 and that he pay therefor the Sum of Fifteen 
 Shillings — 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of Elisha In- 
 gram, and John Billings, and for Strait. 
 ning as much as may be the Line of the 
 Way on that Side according to tlie Com- 
 tee Report, that the Line of the Way from 
 the South East Corner of tlie Revd Mr 
 David Parsonss Garden run Southward as 
 his Fence now Stands to a Stake Erected 
 by the Comtee thence Running to a Sta- 
 tion west of Said Fence and one rod East 
 of High lilack Oak Stump or Tree Mark,d 
 H. W. thence to a Stake about three Rods 
 Southward in the same line thence to a 
 Stake Standing ten feet East of Ingrams 
 Ditch tlience to the West End of Said 
 Ingrains Sliop thence running to a Station 
 four Feet East of an apple Tree Marked 
 in John Billings Lot and thence falling in 
 with the Line of the Way at the North 
 East Corner ot Said Billings Shop and 
 that all that Part of the townway which * 
 now lies on the west side of said Line be 
 Disconiinned, and Also the Land on 
 Which Said Ingrams Shop stands and tluit 
 said Ingriim pay for his partof S^id Lands 
 being Sixteen Rods the Sum of ten Shil- 
 lings and that Said Billings pay for his 
 part of Said Lands being twenty five Rods 
 the sum oi fourteen Shillings — 
 
 Voted Up<m the Petition of Josiali 
 Moudy According to the Comtees Opinion 
 that whereas the Accomodating of Eli 
 Parker with Lands about his Dwelling 
 hous according to the Instruciions of the 
 town will much Deform & Damnify the 
 Front of Said Moodeys Lot Lying on the 
 North Side of SaiJ Parkers and also make 
 the Line of the way in Said phice veary 
 Crooked and Inconvenient unless they pro- 
 vide therefor in bringing forward the Line 
 against Said Moodeys Lot they therefore 
 
42 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17? 
 
 Reporte that the Line of the Way in that 
 place be hs follows (viz) 
 
 Beginning at a stake standing in the 
 midle of a grate Hollow Oak Stub thence 
 Ruiiing Soutlierly to a Stake and Stones 
 Erected by the Conitee at the North End 
 of a Little Knoll thence a Line Directly to 
 the North West Corner of Eli Parkers 
 Hous and that all the Land within tlie 
 Said Lines Adjoirnng to Said Moodeys 
 Lot be Discontinued untiil it Comes to tlie 
 Distance of one rod of Said Parkers House 
 and no Farther the same being Nmety 
 Rods of Ground and that he pay tlierefor 
 the Sum of thirty Shillings — 
 
 Voted Upon the petition of Eli Parker 
 according to the Oomtees Report for the 
 Discontinuing ol the after Discribed Part 
 of the way lit ye Front of liis Lot (viz) 
 Whereon his Dwelling Hous stands and 
 one Rod at tlie North End thereof the 
 whole Breadth of ye House & Extending 
 ten leet Eastward ; Also Ten Feet before 
 Said Hous Eastward the whole Length 
 thereof also the whole Tract Contained in 
 the Following Description (viz) Begin- 
 ning about Seven Rods Easterly fmni the 
 South East Corner of His Lot at a banc's 
 of Staddels (viz) four Maples and one 
 Elm Standing Close together nil Marked 
 by the Comtee tlieiice a Straight Line to 
 the South East Corner of his Dwelling 
 Hous and Extending one Rod North ot 
 the Lane — the Same Piece Containing the 
 Quantity of two Acres «&, ten Rods and thai 
 he pay therefor — the sum of Six Pounds — 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of James Mer- 
 ick and Timothy Green According to the 
 Coiniee report that the Line of the way 
 Against the front of their Lots be as fol- 
 lows Qviz) From the Line of tlie way at 
 or against the North side of said Mericks 
 Lot to Run Southerly by said Mericks 
 Dwelling Hous So as to leave one rod 
 before or Eastward of Said House then 
 Continuing Southward to a Stake Against 
 the South Line of his Lot one Rod & half 
 Est from the Line of the way and thence 
 
 Running a Strait Line So as to leave one 
 Rod before and Eastward of the said 
 Greens Dwelling Hons thence running So 
 as to fall in with the Line of the way at 
 a White Oak Staddle Marked about four- 
 teen Rods southward of Said Hous; and 
 that all the present way lying between 
 Said Line & the Lots be Discontinued and 
 that S^tid Merrick pay for his part thereof 
 being ninety Eaight Rod the Sum of thir- 
 ty Shillings and that Said green pny for 
 his Part thereof being Sixty four Rods the 
 sum of twenty two Shillings — 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of Aaron 
 Warner for Discontinuance of Part of the 
 way against the front of liis Lot in the 
 south part of tlie Distrect, & the Comtee 
 Reporte tliat the after Descrihed part 
 thereof be Discontinued (viz) On" Rod 
 before or Westward of his Hous the hole 
 Lengtii thereof thence Running Nortlit-rly 
 to a point at the north Side of liis Lot and 
 Sutherly to a point at the South Side of 
 his Lot, the Same Containing seventy five 
 Rods, and tliat he pay therefor the Sum 
 of twenty Eight Sliillings — 
 
 Votad Upon the Petition of Lemeul 
 Moody according to the Conitee Report 
 that there he Discontinued one Rod hefire 
 & East of his Dwelling Hous the hole 
 Length thereof & to be a Line Running 
 thence Northerly to the North Si<le of his 
 Lot & Southerly to a point at the S<mth 
 Side of his Lot the Same Containing fifty 
 two rods, and that he pay therefor Nine- 
 teen Shillings — 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of Simeon 
 Stronjj Esqr and the Comtee Report that 
 that part of the way within his garden 
 Fence be Discontinued, and also one Rod 
 in Breadth at the west Side of his Barn 
 Yard ; tlience Running East so as to 
 Come to the Breadth of two Rods at the 
 Kings Highway Containing twenty Rods 
 & that he pay therefor the Sum of thirteen 
 shillings % 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of Wm Bolt- 
 wood according to the Comtee report that 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 43 
 
 tliere be Discontinued from the way Ad- 
 joining to the Front of his Lot two Rods 
 in Breadth from the South Side of his Lot 
 Extending Northward to the North End 
 of his Barn tiience to run to a point at the 
 North Side of his Lot the Same Contain- 
 ing sixty fore rods and that he pay there- 
 for the Sum of tliirty Nine Shillings — 
 
 Voted Upon the Petition of Joseph 
 Eastman according to the CouitHe report 
 that all the way be Discontinued within 
 his Wall at the west End of his Lot Con- 
 taining ten rods and tiiat he pay tiierefor 
 five Siiillings 
 
 Tlie Comtee further Reporte that they 
 have lifard and Con^iderd ihe Petition of 
 Divers other Persons for Discontinuing 
 part of the Ways for tiieir Accommoiiation 
 (viz) of Decn Simeon Chirk Dr Nathei 
 Smith, Thomas Bascomh John Morton 
 Abiier Lee, Benjimin R'lodes and are of 
 opinion that they Cannot Repori in favor 
 of ilieir Petitions Consistent with their 
 Instructions from the town 
 
 Voted that upon the application of 
 Jonatiian Dickinson the way be Discon- 
 tinued adjoining to ids lot South o( D m- 
 iel Kelloggs Lot, as follows (viz) begin- 
 ing at ibe South East Corner of the L.ind 
 now Discontinued from Daniel Kellogg 
 and thence running to a point southerly 
 the Distance of ten Rods — and that In- 
 pay therefor Seven shillings & SixPt-nce — 
 (See Page 65 the Book for D. Kellogg.) 
 Test JosiAH Chauncy Moderator 
 
 N. B. see Page 9th Ledgr 2.1 for Con- 
 tination &c 
 
 The Following is a Record of the sur- 
 veying of the Town Highways in Amherst 
 April 27ih A D 17G0 Which is as follows 
 (viz) 
 
 Amherst April 27th : 17(J9 
 Then Began to survey the town Roads 
 in Sd Amherst in order to asset tain the 
 Lines & boundaries thereof and find them 
 as follows (viz) 3d Road— We began at a 
 Large Red Oakc Tree which Stands at the 
 
 South East Corner of Moses Smiths Lot, 
 from thence we run North 11 degrees 
 East 3G3 rods to ye North East Corner of 
 Capt Moses C()ok,s Ditch then North : 9 
 degrees East 100 rods to [Marshes?] South 
 East Corner Ditch then North 9 degrees 
 East 134 rods to Mashes North East 
 Corner Ditch on the bank of which stands 
 a Large wliite Oake Tree then North 7 
 deg 30 min East 189 rods, to a white oak 
 Tree stands on the South Bank of Fort 
 River Near to the Bridg Mark,d H. W. 
 then North 13 deg 30 min East to a stake 
 and Stones the North East Corner of Levt 
 Wil liam Boltwood's Lot from thence North 
 16 (leg 30 min East 460 rods to a wliite 
 oake Tree De,n Dickinsons South East 
 Corner, then North 14 detr 30 min East t.. 
 ye End of the Division N. B. we frequent- 
 ly Measur.d across to the East Side of the 
 Road setting up stakes and setting thereon 
 the Letters H : W : 
 
 2d Road We began at a Red oak Tree 
 the South Side of Mill river by the side of 
 the DugwHy on the North Side of the 
 Hill from thence we run South 19 deg 30 
 min west 123 rods to pine tree Mark H. 
 W. then we turned at right angles and run 
 westerly 10 rods to the middle of the road 
 to a Cl'iesinut Tree Markt H. W. Standing 
 in the Middle of Sd road against Mr. 
 Eastinatis Stone wall, Setting up Stakes 
 on Each Side of the road, then South 13 
 deg 30 min west 115 rods to a ('hestnut 
 Stump, thei-i Soath 42 Rods to a Large 
 white Oake Stump, then South 10 deg 
 west 92 rods to a Swamp white Oak Stump 
 by a pond hole Standing by ye Fence oti 
 ye trot.t of the Lot Lately ownd by Josiah 
 Chauncy E-q, then South 16 deg 30 min 
 west 34 rods to a Stake snd Stones in Sim- 
 eon Strong E>q Lot, then South 36 deg 30 
 min west 38 rods to a Stake in the Middle 
 of the toad, Measuring off 10 rods Each 
 way and Setting up a Stake, from ye Last 
 mentioned Station in the middle of ye 
 road, we run to the front of Isaac Goodales 
 Lot to a Stake & Stones, near to the north 
 
44 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 East Corner of Sfl Lot from tlienee to 
 Hartling Stake ye North East Corner of 
 Mr Persdiis's Land, and from tlietioe to a 
 Stake and Stones the North-East Corner 
 of Mr Persons's original Lot, then south 
 30 min E>^^t 33 Rods to Mr Persoi s's 
 Hors.-blnck ye Same Course Continut'd 2 
 rods further tn a S[t]iike & Sto les, fr..in 
 tlipf.ce South 18 deg West 49 Rods to a 
 Black Oake tree or Stump Miirk,d H. W. 
 from thence to Eiishalngrahams Non-East 
 Corni r Ditch from thenee to the Scuth- 
 East Corner of Nathan Moody's original 
 Lot, From thence South 4 deg 30 min 
 west IGO rods to Large wliite ik S'unip 
 standing on the Di'cending ground North 
 of Mr Parkers Hous then 10 deg 30 min 
 west 20 Rods to a Stake and Stones from 
 thence S -uth 10 deg West 86 Rods to >x 
 White Oak Tree Mark,d H. W. Standing 
 on the Soutli Side of a Narrow, Valley, 
 and from s,d White Oalc, South 9 deg 
 West to apine reter,d to in the R ckord of 
 S'd R.ad a Small White Oak Staddle 
 Standing by it Mark'd 11. W. about 20 or 
 25 r<,ds South of Mr Greens ILnis, then 
 Sou 1) 15 (leg 30, west 76 rods to a Pin- 
 Stump suppose! to lie r"fer,d to (liy a 
 pine tree) in the record where we S t a 
 White Oak Slake Mark,d H. W. Then 
 South 27 deg 30 min west 63 rods where 
 it Strikes the front of Levt John Dickin- 
 sons Origiixil Farm Where we set a pine 
 Stake Mark,d II. W. Standing in the Ditch 
 ye East Side of the patli, & from thence 
 South 15 deg 30 min West to the South 
 East Corner of Sanmtl Cliurclies Lot 
 where we came tu a Ditch in which we set 
 a pine Stake Mark,d H. W. 
 
 8th Road Leying Between Levt Dickin- 
 son, s and Ebeni-zar Williams Land We 
 began at the South East Corner of s'd 
 Williams, s Lot from thence we Run West 
 7 deg Nortli to the End of the Division 
 Marking Several Trees In the Corse with 
 the Letters H. W. & Measuring across 
 S,d road frequently and setting up Stakes 
 
 7th Road Leying Between Capt Moses 
 
 Cook and Nath,ll Coleman we Began at 
 S.d Colemans South-East Corner Jilid Run 
 Southerly on the west line of the Streat 20 
 Rods to a Black Oak Stump, from thence 
 we run Westerly to the west End of the 
 Divisi >n to tlie Stump of the pine Tree 
 mentioned in the Original R-cord — N. B. 
 the 20 rods first mentioned takes in about 
 one third part of Edward Smiths House 
 
 6th Road Leying between Den Clark, 
 & Solr)mon Boltwood, we bpgan at a 
 Stake about Six lods Nortli of said Clarks 
 North-West Corner, from thence we Run 
 
 9 deir 30 min North 100 : rods to a Stake 
 SfandiniT in Den Clarks Inclosure on the 
 side Hill West of his Rons, then East 29 
 I'eg 30 min North 72 Rods within about 
 one rod South of the South Door of Solomoti 
 Boltwoods Easterraost FIous, from thence 
 Eist9deg30min Nortli to the Kings Heigh- 
 way which runs NortJierly to Sunderland the 
 width of S,d road being often Measured 
 and Stakes Set upon both sides IVIark,d 
 H. W. 
 
 5th Road Leys Between Jointhan Dick- 
 inson & Moses Warner, beginning 3 Rods 
 WestofS,d Warners North-west Corner 
 & 2 1-2 North of S,d Corner Measured 
 North 10 deg 30 min East 20 : rods to 
 a Stake the width of the road, & from 
 ihenoe it runs East 10 deg 30 min South 
 139 rods to a. White O^k Staddle by s,d 
 Dickinsons Fence Mark'd H. W. then 
 East 16 deg 30 min S luth to ye East Street 
 to a Stake Mark'd H : W • N : B : this 
 Road is 16 roads wide at the East End, 
 and the South Side of it as follows (viz) 
 Begiiiiug at tlie End of the three rods 
 mentioned first in this return & run East 
 8 deg South 45 rods to a Stake ]VIark,d 
 H:W then North 10 deg 30 min East 3 
 rods to a Stake Mark,d H : W : then North 
 
 10 deg 30 min East 4 rods to a Stake 
 Mark,d H: W : then East 16 deg 30 min 
 South untill it intersects the North Line 
 of his Land & then to the North-East Con.- 
 ner of his Land 
 
 4th Road Lays Between Den Dickin- 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 45 
 
 sou,s Land [and] Mr Townsends. We 
 begHM at a heap of Stones tlie North- West 
 Corner of S,d Townsends Lot which is a 
 Little South of his North fence, & run 
 East 15 deg 30 min South 12 rods to a 
 heap of Stones tlien East 32 deg 30 inin 
 North 16 rods to a Stake & Stones then 15 
 deg 30 min South 44 1-2 rods, to a Stake 
 & Stones then East 22 deg 30 min South 
 50 rods to a Stake and Stones then East 13 
 deg 30 min Soutli to a Large White Oak 
 Stump witli a Stake Set in it Mark,d H : 
 W: tlien East 16 deg 30 min Soutii to a 
 Stake & Stones where it straikes the West 
 Side of the East Street Number Three 
 The Above Roads Survey, d 
 Pr Ebenezar Chiles 
 Tiie Road South of Mr Nathall Cole- 
 mans Lot & ajoiiiing thereto we run the 
 South Line the[re].)f Takning the Cours 
 agreeable to tiie Record tliereof only al- 
 lowing 30 mill whicii we found was tiie 
 veariation between ye Compasses we found 
 none of tlie trees or boundaries mentioned 
 in ye record of Sd road Mr Coleiuan Being 
 Desirous ye Conitee would go again upon 
 tlie road being Determined he Could Shew 
 them the Boundaries thereof the Comtee 
 Consented and went upon ye Spot and 
 setting ye Compass at ye Soutii E.ist Cor- 
 ner of ye road Mr Coleman Shew us a 
 Mark,d Tree, which was from said Corner 
 west 3 deg Nortli. then we went to said Tree 
 whicli Mr Coleman Siiew us and he went 
 forward to a nother to which we took ye 
 Cours which was west 5 deg North agrea- 
 hle to ye reckord tlien we Continued ye 
 Same Corse Sum way furtlier where we 
 found a Large red Oik Tree Markt H : 
 W : abot one rod and one third part of a 
 rod Soutii of us, then we run the Same 
 Corse to ye End of the road and Were 
 Six paces North of a pine Markt H. : W : 
 Ebenezar Chiles Surveyer 
 The above is a True Coppey of the 
 original 
 
 Test Setii Coleman Clerk 
 
 Seel Hampshire ss Amherst To the 
 Constables of the District of Amherst or 
 Either of them Greeting — 
 
 In his Majesties Name you are required 
 fortiiwith to Notifiy and warn all the In- 
 heabitants of S'd District that are Legally 
 Quallified to Vote in town Metings tliat 
 ihey assemble together at the School hous 
 near the Dwelling Hous of Moses Warner 
 in said Amherst on Monday the first Day 
 of January next at nine of the Clock in the 
 Forenoon then and theire after Moderator 
 Chosen to Consider of and act upon the 
 follywiiig Matters (viz) 
 
 1st To Make Grant of Monies to Such 
 Persons to Whom the District is Indebted 
 2d To graint Money to Defray the 
 Charges of Schooling 
 
 3d To Impower the Assessors to Make 
 an Assessment on the Iiiiieabitan[ts] to 
 rais the Monies Granted 
 
 4ih To Make Grants of Such Lands to 
 persons requesting the Same as Shall be 
 thought proper 
 
 Sly To Consider whether the District 
 will Dispose of the way soutii of Nathll 
 Colemans Lot & purchase a way further 
 .south where it may better accommodate 
 the Inbeabitants 
 
 6ly To Consider whether the District 
 will be at any Expence for repairing the 
 new Road Leying Soutii of John Nashes 
 Lot 
 
 7iy To Choose an Agent to appear for 
 the District at the Court of General Ses- 
 sions of the Peace to answer to any Pre- 
 sentment that may be lying against them 
 
 Hereof tail not and Make due Retur[n] 
 hereof with your Doings herein at or 
 before the lime herein before Appointed 
 for the Opening and holding Said Meeting 
 to us or Sum one of us — Dated at Amherst 
 aforesaid the thirteenth Day of December 
 in the tenth year of his Majeslys Reign 
 A. D. 1769— 
 
 Simeon Strong "j 
 
 Joseph Eastman >■ Select Men 
 
 Moses Dickinson J 
 
46 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17i 
 
 Return of the Constable Iniiors,cl thus 
 Tile Directions of tliis Worrjint lias bin 
 attended by me Simeon Pomeroy Con- 
 stable 
 
 Att a LefiHl Meting of the District ot 
 Anilierst on Monday the first Day of Jan- 
 uary 1770 at Nine of the Cb'Ck in the 
 Morning at the Sciiool hou.> by the Hari- 
 ling Stake after the Choice of Josiali 
 Cliauncy Esq Moderator Came into the 
 following Votes (viz) 
 
 Voted To adjurne for the space of one 
 hour and meet at this place the Iidieabit- 
 ants being met at s,d time & place — 
 
 Voted That the Bills as they have bin 
 red and Considered Should be allow, d 
 
 Voted that Simeon Strong E-q be an 
 agent at the Court of general sessions of 
 the Peace to answer to any Presentment 
 that may [be] Leying against the Distrect 
 
 Voted That the Several tracts of Land 
 discontinued from ye town ways at the 
 Request of Sundry Petitioners at the Last 
 Meeting be granted to Each Petitioner re- 
 spectively on Conditions of his paying or 
 giving good Security to the Treasurer for 
 the sum at which Said Tracts were re- 
 spectively appraised as Appears by the 
 Report of the Comtee in the Record of 
 S,d Meting by the first Day of may Next 
 
 Voted that Assessers raise twenty nine 
 pound Six Shilling for Schooling the Pres- 
 ent year 
 
 Voted that the Assesers rais ninety three 
 pound Six and Eaight pence for the Revd 
 Mr Persons, 8 Sallery 
 
 Voted that the Assesers be Impower,d 
 to rais the Several Sums of money as they 
 have bin Voted and that they be impower,d 
 to pay the Same where they are due &c 
 
 Voted thpt tlie Selectmen Inspect the 
 Heighway adjoining south of Nath'll Cole- 
 mans Lot and See for what it may be sold 
 and also where they Can find the most 
 advantagous place to accomodate the pub- 
 lick with a rode Still farther South and 
 how it Can be obtained andLayoutthe 
 
 Heighway or omit it as they shall think 
 best and mikereiurn to March Meting 
 
 Hampshire ss Amherst To the Constable 
 of the Said Distiict Oi Amherst or Either 
 of them Greeting 
 
 In his Mnjesties Name Yon are Com- 
 manded To Notify and Warn the Inliabii- 
 ants of Amhersi that are Legally qiialli- 
 fyed to Vote in Town Meetings that as- 
 sen\t)le together at the Meeting hous there 
 on Monday the fifth Day ot March next at 
 Nine o Clock in the Forenoon then and 
 there (alter Moderator Chosen) lo Cnu- 
 sider Delermin and act upon the Several 
 Matters following 
 
 (VIZ) 
 
 1st To Choose oth.^ers for the Ensuing 
 
 Year 
 
 2dly To acce,iC and E-;tahlish Several 
 Alterations made by the Select Men in the 
 Town Ways (\iz) oi e agninsttlie East End 
 ol Deacon Jonth Edwards, s Lot ; another 
 against the Side of Gideon Dickinsons 
 Lot &. Joseph Dickinsons Lot; another 
 against the North Side of Joseph Churches 
 Lot — 
 
 3dly To accept of and Establish a Town 
 Way Laid by the Select men Leading from 
 the townway North of Eijah Bakers Lot 
 to C[r]oss the Mill River near Clarevs 
 Mill; and another way from said Clarys 
 Mill to Meet w iih the same — and Also a 
 Private way for the use of Pelatiah Smith 
 Junr Laid from his Lot on the East Side 
 of Fort River Southeriy to the Town Way 
 and Bounding Westerly onSaidRiver 
 
 4:thly To Determin Whether the ways 
 shall be repaired b\ Poll or by Rate tiie 
 ensewing Year — 
 
 Stilly To Discontinue the town Way 
 South of & adjoining to the Lot of Nathan- 
 iel Colemans 
 
 61y To grant all the Lands Contained in 
 Said Way to Said Nathaniel Coleman ; and 
 Impower a Comtee in behalf of the Dis- 
 trict to Execute to Said Coleman and his 
 Heirs a Dead thereof With Covenant for 
 quiet Enjoyment 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 47 
 
 Tilily To accept of a Deed from Said 
 NatliHiiiel Coleman i)f a fiece of Land in 
 Atntierst wliicli Said Coleman Lately 
 bought of ElisliH C'lok wliicli was Laiely 
 the South Side of Said Cooks Lot in the 
 Middle Division beins; Ten Rods In Breadth 
 & Running througli Said Division — 
 
 8thly To Make a Grant or Leas [of] the 
 Same or of the wood & Timber thereon 
 Standing or being to Sucli Person, or 
 Persons, and for Such Term of time, and 
 On Such Conditions as Shall be thought 
 proper 
 
 9tlily To agree upon what Metliod may 
 be ihought proper To preserve the B>)un- 
 daries of tlie town Ways 
 
 10!hi> To Hear the Report of tlie Com- 
 tee heretofore appointed To E-^timaie tlie 
 Damage done to Lent. William Boltwood 
 by Laying a Way on the Nortii Side of 
 his Li)t and act theron and Give him So 
 Much Land as shall be Hiougl.t proper — 
 
 llthly To appoint a Comtee to Layou 
 and ascertain the Bonds of tlie Burying 
 Yard 
 
 12ilily To Discontinue So Much of the 
 Town Way north of Landlord Moses War- 
 ners L<it as shall be agreed on, and Grant 
 the Same to Mr Jonatiinn Dickinson for a 
 Recompence for Land Taken out of his 
 Lot l)y tiie Kings Heighway 
 
 IStidy To Release Nehemiaii Dickinson 
 Constable from being accountable for the 
 Rates of Joseph Gould & Noah Gould 
 
 Hly To See if the District will be at any 
 Expence to rt'pair the town Way South of 
 John Nashes Lot — 
 
 Hereof fail not and make true return of 
 this Worrant with your Doings herein at 
 or before the Time herein appoiiited for 
 opeidng and holding said Mectinif lo us or 
 sum one of us — D.ited at Andierst the 
 Nintli Day of January in the tenth year of 
 liis Migesty,s Rei^n A. D. 1770 
 
 Simeon Strong ] 
 
 JoNTH Dickinson ! o i \ m 
 ■KT r^ y Select Men 
 
 Natiill Coleman | 
 
 Moses Dickinson: J 
 
 Return of the Constable Indoes,d thus 
 (viz) The Directions of this Worrant has 
 bin attended by Me Simeon Pomeroy a 
 Constable Att a Legal Meting of the In- 
 heabiiants of the District of Amlierst 
 bolden at the Meting hous there on Mon- 
 day the fifth Day of March A : D : 1770— 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong E<q Moderator 
 
 Voted Seth Coleman Clerk 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong Esq Treasurer 
 
 Voted Levt John Dickinson Solomon 
 Boltwood Den Jonathan Edwards Josiaii 
 Chauncy Esq and Gideon Dickinson Se- 
 lect Men 
 
 Voted Levt John Dickinson Den Jona- 
 than Edwards Josiah Chauncy Esq Asses- 
 ers 
 
 Voted To Adjurn this Meeting for the 
 Spaice of one hour and then to meet at 
 the School Hous by the Hartling Stake 
 
 After said Inheabifants were met on 
 Adjurnment at said time and place 
 
 Voted Nathan Dickinson Junr and 
 David Smitli Constables 
 
 Voted Joseph Church Hezekiah Belding 
 Jonathan Moody Junr Timothy Green 
 Moses Cook Surveyers of Heighways — 
 
 Voted Joseph Church Oliver Cowles 
 Noah Smith J<vel Billings Tiihinginen 
 
 Voted Guleon Dickinson Moses Dick- 
 inson Den Simeon Clark fence Vewers 
 
 Voted Isaac Goodale Sealer of Leather 
 
 Voted Jonathan Nash Junr John Field 
 Jun'r Barnabas Edee Enos Dickinson Hog 
 Reeves 
 
 Voted Joel Moody Joseph Dickinson 
 Dear Reeves 
 
 Voted Joseph Church Surveyer ofLum- 
 ber 
 
 Voted E[b]enezar Dickinson Junr Ed- 
 ward Sniith Smith Martain Smitli Joseph 
 Williams Wardens 
 
 Voted To accept of the R-port of the 
 Select Men for the alteration of Several 
 Town Ways (viz) at the west End of Den 
 Jonathan Edwards. s Lot — one other Lay- 
 ing south of Gi<ie()n Dickinsons Lot — An 
 noiher in the way Leying South of Jona- 
 
48 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 tlian Cowls Lot — and also of a Privite 
 way Laid South of Peletian Smiths Lot 
 adjoining to forte river 
 
 The Reporte of the Select Men for the 
 Alteration of said ways is as follows (vis) 
 
 Att the Annurtl Meeting of the Inlieab 
 itants of Amherst holden thereon the fifth 
 D^y of March A D 1770 The Select Men 
 of said Amherst make Reporie to this 
 Meeting of the following Alterations 
 made in Town Ways which they Desire to 
 be accepted and Establislied by the Dis- 
 trict one alteration at the west End of of 
 Den Jonathan Edwar<i8 the Select men 
 finding it necessary in that place to make 
 the Town Way Wider, to avoid the Sott 
 and Miry Ground through which it was 
 originally Laid; have accordingly made 
 the following addition thereto on the East 
 Side thereof (viz) Beginning at a St ike 
 Mark,d Standing in a Hollow Stump at 
 the South End of a Little Pond wliich is 
 on the East Side of the Travilled Road 
 against the Snid Edwards' Lot thence 
 thence Running South Seven Degrees 
 West '.'."enty two R 'ds to a Small White 
 Oak Staddle East of the Path & against 
 the Same Lot, thence South twenty three 
 Deiirees West, running till it falls in with 
 the Line of the town Way — One other 
 Alteration in the way lying S>uth of Gid- 
 eon Dickinsons Lot the the Said Select 
 Men finding it Necessary to make an Ad- 
 dition to the hredth of the Said Way to 
 avoid the Miry Gutter between Said Dick- 
 insons & M'r Towensends L it, have ac- 
 cordingly made the following addiiion 
 thereto (viz)-^ 
 
 Beginning at a Small White Oak Stad- 
 dle Markt with Stones about it on the 
 Side Hill on the North Side of the Path 
 and about twenty rods Westward of the 
 West Side of said Gideon Dickinsons Lot, 
 thence Running East ten Degrees North 
 twenty three Rods to a Stump Standing 
 North of & Close to the Path in the Mid- 
 dle of the gutter thence East Seventeen 
 Degrees South twenty Seven rods to a 
 
 Stake marked with Stones about it on the 
 Top of the Hill, thence East twenty five 
 Degrees Soutii to the Line of the way — 
 the Lands South of the above mentioned 
 Lines, being now added to the Way & 
 Said Lines f)r the future to be the North 
 Side of the Way — 
 
 Another Alteration, in the Way lying on 
 the South Side of Jonathan Cowls Lot; 
 the Said Select men have made an Addition 
 to the Breadth of the Road at the Bridg,in 
 the following Manner (viz) Begiiiing at a 
 Heep of Stones one R pd & Half .South of a 
 Great white Oak Tree Mark,d Standing 
 three or four rods E^st of the Bridge thence 
 running west ten Degrees South to the 
 Line of the way, & from Said Heep of 
 Stones East thirty Seven Degrees North 
 to fall in with the Line of the Way — the 
 before described Line for tiie future to be 
 the South Side of the Way at Said 
 Place— 
 
 And the Said Select Men further re- 
 porte of a private Way Laid out by them 
 on the 29. h Day of January Laist at the 
 Reque-t of Peletiah Smith Ju.'nr on the 
 East Side of Fort l^iver near said Smiths 
 Dwelling Hous in order to accommodate 
 him for traveling trom his Lot thence to 
 the town way; Which Private way is de- 
 scribed and bounded as follows (viz) It 
 Begins at the south side of Said Peletiah 
 Smiths Lot and on the East Side of Fort 
 River and thence running Southerly to the 
 town way, The River being the bounds on 
 Said Private way on the Westerly Side, 
 ami heing bounded & Limited on the Last- 
 ly Side by a black Oak Staddle near the 
 South Side of Said Smitlis Lot & three 
 Stakes Southerly of Said Tree Erected hy 
 us, the Line described by Said I'ree and 
 Stakes being the Easterly Line of said 
 way which is about Eaiuht Rods in Breadth, 
 and Laid so Wide on account of the uneven 
 Ground next to the River; and Becaus 
 the said private Way is only for tlie use 
 & Benefit of Said Smith, and not of Puh- 
 lick use to the District we further R-port 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to lit 
 
 49 
 
 tliat Siiid Ppletiali Smith ouglit to pay to 
 AiironMiittliews for his Damage occasioned 
 thereby the sum of twenty four shillings — 
 
 Simeon Strong "] 
 
 Jonathan DickiNsoN 1 g^,^^^ j^^^ 
 
 Nath ll Coleman 
 
 Moses Dickinson J 
 
 Voted To Accept of a Townway Laid 
 from the town way North ot Elijah Baknrs 
 Lot to Cross the Mill river near Clary. s 
 Mill and another way from Snid Clarys 
 Mill to Meet with tiie same — 
 
 The Report of the Select men for Lay- 
 ing of said way is as follows (viz) At the 
 Annual Meeiinii of the Inheahitants of 
 Amherst March ye fifth A. D. 1770 
 
 The Select Men of Amherst pnrsiiant to 
 the repnrte of the Com'tee Lately «ppoi(U- 
 ed by the District have Laid out the Ways 
 hereafter described for the u>e of the In- 
 lieHbitants of Andierst (vizj Beginning at 
 ihe town Way North ot E i.iah BaUers 
 Lot, and at a pine Tree Mark,d (which is 
 in the Middle of ye same way Laid out l)y 
 us) thence running North tliirty Eaight 
 Degrees and thirty Minutes west, forty 
 two rods ; thence North thirty d<grees west 
 ten rods, thence North thirty Seven De- 
 grees West Sixteen rods; thence west 
 Seven Degrees Nortli twenty rods; tiience 
 South thirty Eaight Degrees West Seven 
 Rods ; thence North forty three Degrees 
 West Six rods; thence West Eaightteen 
 Degrees North thirteen Rods; thence 
 North' twenty Eaight Degrees & thirty 
 Minutes East to Cross the Mill River — 
 the Same Way being two rods in Breadth 
 — the said Select men have also L^iid a 
 rode of the Same Breadth from the Mill 
 Called Clarys Mill, to Meet with the afore- 
 said Way (viz) 
 
 Beginning at a Place twenty Feet South 
 of the Easterly End of said Mill; tlience 
 running South thirty Eaifjht Degres West 
 to the way herein before described — 
 
 Which way So Laid out the Said Select 
 men now Return and Reporte to tliis Meet- 
 ing that they may be accepted, and allow- 
 
 ed by the District and Committed to Re- 
 cord according to Law 
 
 Simeon Strong ] 
 
 Jon'th Dickinson ^^ , , n,, 
 
 TVT ■ /-. r Select Men 
 
 Nath ll C oleman 
 
 Moses Dicivinson J 
 
 Voted To Repare the Heigh Ways this 
 year by a Tax 
 
 Voted to Discontinue 'ill that Town way 
 Soutli of Nath'U Coleinans 
 
 Voted To Grant all the Lands Contained 
 in said Way to said Nathanel Coleman, 
 and Impower a Com'iee in behalf of the 
 Di>trict to Execute to said Coleman and 
 Heirs a Deed thereof, with Covenant for 
 quiet Enjoyment 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong Esq Ins John 
 Field Jonathan Dickinson be a Com'tee 
 for the purpus aforesaid — 
 
 On Nathaniel C'olemaiis affering to this 
 meeting a deed of Conveyance ot a Piece 
 of Land in this District which Said Cole- 
 man lately Bought of Elisha Cook, Wliich 
 was Lately the South Side of Said Cooks, 
 Lot in the iVlidle Division being ten Rods 
 in Breadth and running through said Di- 
 vision 
 
 Voted To accept the Same and Receive 
 the Estate thereby Granted accordingly 
 
 Voted To Lease the Same Land So pur- 
 ched To Ahner Lee for the Term of Eight 
 Years and Grant him the wood and Timber 
 thereon 
 
 Voted To Chose a Comtee to Visit the 
 boundaries of the town amd renew such as 
 Destroyed and make them Notorious 
 
 Voted That Moses Dickinson Elijah 
 Baker John Nash Ju'nr be a Com'tee for 
 the Purpus aforesaid 
 
 Voted To Chose a Comtee to Inspect 
 the Town Way North of Moses Warners 
 & say howmuch Land and in what form 
 shall be assoined to Jonathan Dickinson 
 as a Recumppence for the County rods 
 going acros his Lot & make return to the 
 next meting 
 
 Voted Ins John Field Solomon BoltWood 
 Thomas Hastings a Com'tee for the Pur- 
 pus above 
 
50 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Voted to Chose a Comtee To say and 
 Determine how niucli Land and in What 
 Form shall be allow, d to William Bolt- 
 wood at the west End of his Lot as a Kec- 
 ompenoe for Laying a town Way on the 
 North Lide of his Lot and make return to 
 tlje Next Meeting 
 
 Voted That Josiah Chauncy Esq Moses 
 Dickinson Elijah Baker be a Com'tee for 
 the Purpus afore said 
 
 Voted That the Select Men be a Com'tee 
 to Lay out and prefix sufficient bounda- 
 ries to tiie Buring Yard and Make Reporte 
 to tiie Next Meeting 
 
 Voted That Nehemiah Dickinson be re- 
 leas, d from being accomtable for the Rates 
 of Joseph Gould and Noah Gould 
 
 Voted to Do sunitliing to tlie town 
 Heigliway between John Nash Jun'rs and 
 William Boltwoods Lot 
 
 Voted To Do Ten Days Worke to the 
 way above mentioned 
 
 Voted To begin a Granier School at the 
 first of Miiy next and the same to continue 
 through tlie year 
 
 Voted To Discontinue asertain Piece of 
 townway Nortli of Josepli Churchs Hous 
 being as follows (viz) one rod north of 
 his Hous four Rods wide runing Nortlierly 
 twenty five rods and then fall in with tlie 
 Line of the Lots and grant the same to 
 said Churcii 
 
 Voted That Hogs Shall Run from the 
 midle of May to to the First of August — 
 Attest Simeon Strong Moderator 
 
 For tiie Remaining Records See Vol- 
 ume2'd &c [On the last leaves of this first 
 book occur the following miscellaneous 
 entries] 
 
 Nov 7 1762 Taken up & Strayed by 
 Ephrain Kellogg of Amherst a Sorrel mare 
 about twelve Years old without any Mark 
 or Brand & I apointed Ebez'r Dickinson 
 Jun'r & Joseph Dickinson to aprise sd 
 Mair & they aprised her at two Pound Law- 
 tuU money 
 
 by us John Nash Nath'U Siniih Nath'll 
 Dickinson Ass'rs for this precinct to pro- 
 cure fire wood for the Rev'd M'r Parsons 
 and his Sallary : and other Cliarges as 
 follows 
 
 Commited to M'r Sam'll Ingram a tax 
 to Collect 333 13 11 
 
 Also to M'r Jonathiin Edwards 
 
 a tax of 264 17 09 
 
 598 11 8 
 the Debts Commited to tlie 
 Tresurar to pay out 576 02 
 
 In the Yeare 1758 Thare was a tax made 
 
 August 21 1759 
 
 taken Up In Damiadge feasant And 
 Straid By Epliraim Kellogg & Mosses 
 Warner a Roan Mair about three years 
 old With a Blase in her tace & a Nattural 
 Pacer Without mark or Brand 
 
 A Record of the proceeding In y'e tax 
 of two pence p'r a3or Granted by the Gen- 
 eral Coart 
 
 Pursuent to tlie Order of this Precinct 
 the Assesors proceeded to Expose to Sale 
 so Much of the Land* of the Nonresident 
 propriators (who had been Delinciiient in 
 paying the tax Assesed upon thare Lands 
 by vertu of the Grant of the Grtite and 
 General Court to this Precinct to enable 
 them to settel a Gospel Minister and) as 
 was Judged would be Sufficient to Detray 
 and pay up the Remaining part of the 
 Assesnient yet Du 
 
 Accordingly y'e Rate of Shuch Delin- 
 quentPropriators Land was posted Publick- 
 ly at Springfeild at the House of M'r Woi- 
 thontons & In Hadley 3d Preceinct att the 
 House of M'r Kellogg & att Each publick 
 House the 29th Day of August 1739 : 
 
 After which on the first Day of March 
 1739 40 Notifications of the Sale of y'e 
 Delinquent Propriators Lands was Pub- 
 lickly posted att y'e Aforesd Places In 
 Springfeild first Parish att y'e House of 
 M'r Worthoiiton & In Hadley 3d Precinct 
 att y'e House of M'r Kellogg Seting forth 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 51 
 
 ye Quantety of Lands or Number of Acors 
 Exposed to sale of Exeli Delinquent Pro- 
 prietors Lots : Allso setins foriii y'e time 
 or D <y appointed tor the Sale of Sliucli 
 Lands l)y Publick Vandue whicli is to be 
 on the first Munday of June 1740 
 
 On the tiiird Day of Jiuew'r 1739 40 
 Notifications of the Intended Sile of y'e 
 Delinquent propriators Lands ware Insert- 
 ed or Advertised In y'e Publick prints for 
 tliree several weeks Sncsesively 
 
 On tile first Mnnday in June 1740 a Lit 
 of Land belonging to the Heirs of Coional 
 Smn'll Brown Decent Containing ahoui 
 foure Hundrecl& twelve Acors Lying about 
 ye Miiidel ot the third Devesion of Lanis 
 so Called In Hadley third Preceinct— and 
 was formerly Lai<l out to the Porters •• was 
 Publickly Sold at a Publick Vandue : to 
 the Highest Bidder : f )r one Hundred & 
 forty seven pounds Bills of the ohl Ten- 
 nor : the Remainder of which Money : 
 after his Kate of Assesment : as also the 
 Incident Charges ware paide was Loml In 
 the Precinct Tresury : Cthnt is thirty 
 pounds nineteen shillings and two pence) 
 with order to y'e Tresurar John Cowls to 
 pay the same to the Heirs of Colenal Sain'U 
 Brown when & as soon as Demanded 
 
 [Second Book.] 
 Hampshire ss. May y'e 7ih 1770 — 
 
 To the Constables of the Destrict of 
 Amherst or Either of thetn Greeting. 
 
 In his maje8>tys Name you are Requir,d 
 forthwith To w«rn all the Freeholders & 
 other Inheabitants of the Distrect of Am- 
 herst Qualified to Vote in town ami Dis- 
 trict Meetinjis that theary Conve«n & meet 
 to Gether at the Meeting Hous in 8,d Di§- 
 trect on thirsday the twenty fourth Day of 
 May Currant at four of Clock in the after 
 noon, then and there after a Moderator 
 Chosen, 
 
 1st To know the minds of the Distrect 
 whether they will accept of the List of 
 Jurors the Select men have Drawn up 
 
 2d Whether the Distrect Will accept 
 
 of the Reporte of the Select Men Respect- 
 ing the bounds of the Burying Yard 
 
 3d Wheather the Distrect think it nec- 
 essary for the Select men T> Lay a high- 
 way from Hoddens in the East Street 
 Northerly to John Adams Corn Mill — and 
 Make Return of this Warrant with your 
 Doings therein to one of us before s,d 
 Meeting 
 
 JosiAH Chancy T 
 
 John Dickinson {-Select Men 
 
 Solomon BoltwoodJ 
 
 Return of the Constable indors. thus 
 (viz) 
 
 The Directions of this Worrant has bin 
 attended by me 
 
 David Smith Constable 
 the Directions of Worrant have bin 
 answer, d by me 
 
 Nathen Dickinson Jn'r Constable 
 for Amherst 
 
 May : 24 : 1770 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting of Distrect of Am- 
 herst hohlen at the Meeting hous on 
 Thirsday the twenty forth day of May 
 1770 fore of the Clock in y'e afternoon, 
 Come into the following Votes (Viz) 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong Esq Moderator 
 
 Voted To Accept of the List of Jurers 
 as they have bin Red 
 
 Voted To Accept of the Report of the 
 Select Men Respecting the bounds of the 
 burying yard wbo is as follows (Viz) 
 
 We the Select Men of the Distrect of 
 Amherst according to the Vote of the 
 town have setup the bounds of the Bury- 
 ing Yard According to our best Judgment 
 & is as follows (Viz) 
 
 Beginning at a Siake and Stones two 
 Rods Ewsterly of Docter Coleman, s North 
 East Corner of his Ketching thence East- 
 erly Nineteen Roods to a Slake and Stones 
 thence Northerly twenty two Rods to a 
 Strtke and Stones tlienc? Westerly four 
 Roods to a St;ike and Stons thence South- 
 westerly Eaighteen Rods & one half to 
 Stake and Stones thence Southerly Eleven 
 
52 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 Rods & one half to the first Mentioned 
 Corner 
 
 JosiAH Ohauncy ^ 
 
 John Dickinson | 
 
 Gideon Dickinson }■ Select Men 
 
 Jon'th Edwards | 
 
 Sol'n Boltwood J 
 
 Voted that the Select Men Lav a Ileigh- 
 way in the E*st Street from Hoddings or 
 Eastmans Lot to Shuteshury Kode and 
 make Reporte to March Meeting 
 
 Test 
 
 August 21 1770 
 
 Att A Legall Meeting of the Distrect of 
 Amherst on tuesday y'e 21d of August 
 1770 at 5 of tlie Oh)ck in ye afternoon, 
 after tlie Clioice of Simeon Strong Esq 
 Modeialor Voted as Follows (Viz) 
 
 Voied to Come Into sum Measures for 
 Regulating or Eaising of the burden of a 
 Roade requested and About to be Laid 
 tiirough the third Division of Lots in 
 Amherst 
 
 Voted To Ciiews a Cora'tee To Inspect 
 and See if tiieir Cant lie a way found fo[r] 
 a rode through tlie third Division ot Lots 
 as Good for the Publick with Les Damage 
 to tlie Privite then tiie Way Now Ropos,d 
 through John Billings Lot in Its triangu- 
 lar Point 
 
 Voted that Ins John Field Moses Dick- 
 inson and Gideon Dickinson Be a Com 
 tee for the Purpns aforesaid, and tiiat in 
 Case tiiey Can find such a place for a Rode 
 as is Mention, d at)ove tliat tiiey reporte to 
 some one who Siiall [he] Chosen to act 
 at Court in behalf of tlie Distrect 
 
 Voted tliat Simeon Strong E^q. be an 
 Agent at Court tor the Distrect Incase a 
 Com'tee be Cliosen to Lay out S'd way 
 that if Posiable tlie S'd Com'tee may have 
 their orders Left in Sum measure at 
 Large and Not Confined to one Perticular 
 Place 
 
 Test. 
 
 January 14tli 1771 
 
 Att A Legal Meeting of the Distrect of 
 Amherst on Monday y'e 14th of Janary 
 
 A D 1771 at the Midle School-House in 
 the first Division at Nine of the Clock in 
 the morning Voted as follows (Viz) 
 
 Voted Josiali Chauncy Esq Moderator 
 
 Voted to Adjurn this Meeting for the 
 Space of one Hour & then meet at tliis 
 Place. 
 
 Voted to Allow two shillings Per Day 
 for summer worke. 
 
 Voted to Allow one Shilling and Six 
 pence for fall Worke 
 
 Voted To Allow the hills as they bin 
 Red and Consider, li and that the Assesers 
 Leavey a tax for raising the Same 
 
 Voted To allow the Re'vd M'r Parsons 
 ninety three pound Six shillings and 
 Eaight Pence & that the Assesers Leavey 
 a );ix for raysing the S.ime. 
 
 Voted to rais thirtey Pouml for school 
 and that the Assesers Leavey a tax for 
 Eaising tl'.e Same 
 
 Voted to Bui'.d a Bridge over the mill 
 River near Clareys mill So Call,d 
 
 Voted to Chews a Cointee to Settle with 
 De'n Ebenezer Di(;kinson a former Tres- 
 urer Respecting a Sum of Money Lodg,d 
 in his hands whic'i is the Eqiiivolent or 
 Reward of a sartin Tract of Land former- 
 ly Call,d the Equivolent Land 
 
 Voted that Josiah Chauncy E^q Simeon 
 Strong Esq and John Billings be a Com'tee 
 for rhe Purpus shove 
 
 Test Josiah Chauncy Moderator 
 
 (Seal) Hampshire ss. To the Consta- 
 bles of the Distrect of Amherst or Either 
 of them Greeting In his Majessfys Name 
 you are R^quir'd to Worn all the free- 
 liolders and otiier Iidieabitants that are 
 Qualified Acording to Law to Vote in 
 Town & Ditrect Meetinsjs that they Con- 
 vene and meet Together at the Middle 
 School hous in the first Sireet in Amherst 
 on Monday the twenty first Day of Jan- 
 uary Currant at two of the Clock in the 
 after Noon to Consider and Act upon the 
 following Articles 
 
 1st Wheather the Distrect will set up 
 another School 
 
Records op Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 53 
 
 - Select Men 
 
 2d Whether tlie Distrect Discontinue 
 and Sell any Part of tlie Heigliway in tliis 
 Distrect 
 
 3d Wlieatlier the Distrect will Seat 
 the Meeting hous or Make any alteration 
 — and Miike Due Return of tiiis Worrant 
 with your Doing therein to some one or 
 more of us the suhscribers before S'd 
 Meeting. Given under our hand and 
 Seals this Seventeenth Day of Janunry 
 1771 
 
 JOSIAH ChAUNCY 
 
 Jonathan Edwards 
 Sol'n Boltwood 
 Gideon Dickinson j 
 
 Return .if the Constables Iiidors thus 
 
 (viz) — the Directions of this warrant haih 
 
 bin attended by us 
 
 Nathan Dickinson Jn'rl ^ , , , 
 ,^ c< >■ Constables 
 
 David Smith j 
 
 January 21it 1771 
 
 Alt a Legal Merting of tiie Di.strect of 
 Amherst bolden at the School hous near 
 Harllins Stake on Monday y'e twenty 
 first of January A D 1771 Voted as fdlows 
 (viz) 
 
 Voted Josiah Chauncy Esq Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted that the Select Men Set up a new 
 school at tlie north End of the Distrect the 
 Space of Six weeks in addition to the 
 present school 
 
 Voted to make sum alterations in seet- 
 ing of the Meetinjf hous — 
 
 Voted that Lmi. John Dickinson De'n 
 Jonathan Edwards, Ins. John Field Josiaii 
 Cliauncy E>q and Moses Dickinson be a 
 Com'tee for tiie Purpus above 
 
 Voted that the Above Com'tee be regu- 
 lated by tiie List to be taken for the Pres- 
 ent year to Gether with Kage E-tate and 
 Qualifications 
 
 Test. Josiaii CiiMuncy Moderator 
 Andierst Distrect Meeting Jan'ry 21st 1771 
 
 Voted that there be Granted, to Lieut. 
 William Boltwood and John Nash Jur. all 
 the Land between tiie after Mentioned 
 Line and the Lots in wliicii they Dwell 
 
 that is to say Eacli of tiiem to have that 
 which lies against his own Lot that is to 
 say. Beginning at a Stake and Stones at 
 the Northwest Corner of the Said John 
 Naslies Lot on Wliich lie Dwells as tbe \ 
 Same ax now Inclos,d thence Running ^ 
 Souiherly to White Oake Tree about three 
 Rods South Said Nasbes Barn llience run- 
 ning to a Stake and Stons Near the South- 
 west Corner Said Nasli,« Lot thence Still 
 Soutlierly to a Stake and Stones at the 
 W)rthwest Corner of Said William Bolt- 
 woods Lot Crossing the townway two rods 
 wide hence to a Stake and Stones about 
 two rods & half westerly of said B dtwoods 
 Birn; tlie said Grant to Said Boltwood 
 being 111 Recoiiipese of the Damage done 
 by Laying the town Way on y'e north 
 side of his La; and the Grant to Said 
 Nash being on Condition of his paying or 
 securing to ibe District 'i'reasurer the sum 
 ot thirty two shillihgs within this Month 
 of January 
 
 Test Josiah Chauncy Moderator 
 
 N. B. See Page 9 for J. Nashs land 
 
 (Seal) Hunpshire ss. To the Cons- 
 tables of tbe Destrict of Amherst tir Either 
 of iheiii Gieeting in his Majestys Name 
 you are required forthwith to Warn all 
 the Freeholders and other Inbeabitaiits of 
 tbe Destrict of Amherst Qualified to Vote 
 in town or District meeting tliat they Con- 
 vene and meet togeiher at the School Hous 
 in tbe first Street in Amherst Near Pel- 
 ham Road Tuesday tbe fifth Day of March 
 Next at Nine of the Clock in the inorning 
 then and there after a Moderator Chosen 
 to See if the Destrict will Vote the follow- 
 ing articles 
 
 1st To Chuse Destrict officers Ensuing 
 Year 
 
 2d Wheather the Destrect will Con- 
 sider & Determine Respecting such Con- 
 ditional Grants as Have here to fore bin 
 Made by the Destrict whether the Condi- 
 tions are fuUfilled or not and to Conform 
 the Grants lo the Grantees respectively 
 
54 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17f 
 
 and make them Absolute Wliere the Grants 
 appear to have been fulfilled. 
 
 3d Wliether tlie Destrict will Discon- 
 tinue any Part of the highway in said Des- 
 trict and sell the Same iu any Veary spec- 
 ial Case or Cases — & further more to see 
 if the Destrict will accept of the return of 
 the Select men of a town road Laid out 
 from the North End of the Second Street 
 up Near to G'ulds mill So Call.d 
 
 4tli To Deterinin whot what method to 
 repare the Heighways the Ensuing Year 
 
 5tli Wheather the Distrect will Let 
 Hodgs run at Large any Part of the Year 
 Ensuing if they are rung & Yoaked accord- 
 ing to Law 
 
 6th To see whether the Destrict will 
 accept of the report of the Com'tee Chosen 
 to Seet the Meeting Hons 
 
 7ih Wheath'-r the Destrict will Vote 
 that Every Person Seated Sliall Take their 
 Seats where they are Seate.l & id be Es 
 teemed Disorderly if no. & l)e Liable to 
 such a fine as the Court Judge Proper — & 
 malce Due Eeturn of this Warrant with 
 your Doings therein to sum one of us be- 
 fore s,d meeting — Given under our hands 
 & Seal this IStli Day of February 1771 & 
 in the Eleventh year of his Majestys 
 Reign 
 
 JosiAH Chadncy ] 
 
 John Dickinson | 
 
 Sol'n Boltwood }■ Select Men 
 
 Gideon Dickinson | 
 
 Jonathan Edwards J 
 
 Return of the Constables Indors this 
 (viz) the Directons of this Warrant hath 
 Itin attended by me Nathan Dickinson 
 Jnr Constable 
 
 March 5ih 1771 
 
 Alt a Legal Meeting of the Inheabitants 
 of the District of Atnlierst liolden at the 
 School Hous. Near the hartling Stake on 
 Tusday ye 5th Day of March A D 1771 at 
 Nine of the Clock in y'e Morning and 
 Voted as Follows, (viz) 
 
 Voted Josiah Chauncy. Esq. Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted. Setli Coleman Clerk 
 Voted. Simeon Strong Esq. Treasurer. 
 Voted. Smieon Strong E«q. Ins. John 
 Field. Mose-i Dickinson Alexan'd Smith 
 an I IVter Smith Select men 
 
 Voted, to adjurn this Meeting for the 
 
 Spac • of one hour and then to meet at the 
 
 Scliool hous at or Near the Hartling Stake 
 
 Voted. Peter Smith I's Jolm Field. 
 
 Alexan'd Smith Assesers. 
 
 Voted. Jonathan Dickinson Jn'r Pliilup 
 luiiram Constables. 
 
 Voted. Simeon Dickinson De'n Simeon 
 Clark. Asael Moody Nath'll Dickinson 
 E ijah Baker Surveyers of Heighways. 
 
 Voted John Nash Ju'r Gideon Hander- 
 son Jonaihan Moody Jn'r Tithing Men 
 
 V lied Natli'll Coleman Jonaihan Cowls 
 fens Vewers 
 
 Voted John Hcddens. Oiver Cowles 
 Gideon Lee Joel. Billings. Lemuel Myody 
 Hogreeves. 
 
 Voted Moses Cook John Nash Ju'r Joel 
 Moody Joseph Eastman Ju'r Deer Reeves. 
 Voted Jonathan Smith David Blodgit 
 Robert Emmons Wardens. 
 
 Voted Isaac Goodale Sealer of Leather 
 Voted that the former Com'tee Chosen 
 to Survey the Heighway heretofore go 
 again onto the Line between De'n S. 
 Clarks Lot and the Heighway adjoining to 
 more Critically assertain if Posiable the 
 Line between s,d Simeon Clarks Lot and 
 Heighway adjoining 
 
 Voted that liie Com'tee Chosen hereto- 
 fore to Survey the town Heighway go on- 
 to the Line at the front of Hezekiah Beld- 
 iiigs Lot and Say how mucii Land if any 
 Shall be Sold to S,d Belding to accommo- 
 date him around his barn, shop & well, 
 and in what form & for how much 'he 
 shall have the Same & make return to the 
 Next Meeting 
 
 Voted to Chens a Com'tee to Vew the 
 Heighway at the East End of Id's John 
 Fields & Moses Cooks Lot and Say how 
 nmch Land if any Shall be Sold To Sam- 
 
Keicords of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 55 
 
 uel Gould in what form and for wliat Sum 
 and make return to the Next meting 
 
 Voted Si>h)ni()ii Boltwood John Nash 
 Jn'r Daniel Kellogg be a Com'tee for the 
 Purpus above 
 
 Voted to repare the Heighway this year 
 
 by a tax 
 
 Voted that hogs Shall run from ye 20th 
 
 of May To 20th of August ring,d and 
 yok.d according to Law 
 
 Voted to adjourn to the meeting hous 
 Voted to accept of tlie Com'tee report 
 in the regulation of the Seats in the Meet- 
 ing hous 
 
 Test Josiah Chauiicy Moderator 
 A Highway Laid out by us the Sub- 
 scribers in Amiierst May y'e 30th 1770 as 
 follows (viz^ We began at a Large Red 
 Oak Stump Supposed to be the North 
 East Corner of Joseph Eastmans Lot y'e 
 body of the Tree being on the ground 
 being Mark,d H. W. from thence we Ran 
 on the west Side of S,d highway north 14 
 deg 30 mill East 6o rods tts which Place 
 the Heighway is Laid 12 rods wide oppo- 
 site to which Stands a Stake & Stones on 
 ye East Side y'e Steak Mark,d H. W. 
 then the Heighway Runs on the East Side 
 North 36 deg East 9 1-2 rods to a heap of 
 Stones and a Stake Markt H. W. then 
 North 11 deg East 17 rods to a heap of 
 Stones and a Stake markt H. VV. about 
 14 or 15 rods to the South of Hoddens 
 Hous where the road is 13. rods & 6. Links 
 wide then we Went to the West Side of 
 S,d Heighway to where we Ended the 60 
 rods first Mentioned & Continued the 
 Cours North 14 deg 30 min East 12 rods 
 to a pine Stake Mark,il H. W. theji we 
 went to the Laist mention, d Station on ye 
 East Side & ran North 9 deg 30 min West 
 46 rods to a heap of Stones & Stake 
 Mark,d H. W. than we went to the Laist 
 mention, d Station on y'e West Side (viz) 
 a Pine Stake & ran North 12 deg West 42 
 rods to a Large White Oak Stump Mark, d 
 H. W. from whence forward the highway 
 is Laid 2 rods wide from said White Oak 
 
 Stump it run West 31 deg North 11 rods 
 to a heap of Stcmes & a Stake mark,d H. 
 W. then west 34 deg Nortii 28 rods to a 
 Pine Stadle niark.d H. W. then North 38 
 deg West 45 rods to a pine Stadle marked 
 H W. then North 27 deg West 5 rods to 
 a Pine Stadle Mark,d H. W. then North 
 43 deg west 7 1-2 rods to a Pine Stadel 
 mark,d H. W. then North 32 deg West 3 
 rods to a pine Stadle Mark,d H. W. then 
 Nortli 45 deg West 31 rods to a Small 
 Pine Stadle Mark.d H, W. then Nortli 36 
 deg West 9 rods to a Pine Stadel Mark,d 
 H. W. then Nortli 25 deg West 26 rods to 
 a Small Wiiite Oak Stadel Mark,d H. W. 
 then North 14 deg West 12 rods to a Small 
 Wir.te Burcii Stadel Mark.d H. W. then 
 Nortii 1 deg West 54 rods to a Walnut 
 Stadel in a run of water Mark.d H. W. 
 then North 16 deg west 39 rods t(t a White 
 Oak Stadel Mark.d H. W. then Continued 
 the Same cours 46 rods further to the 
 County Road 
 
 Survey, d By Eben'r Childs. 
 Damages as Estimted by the suscribers 
 To Ebenezer Williams £0 5 
 
 To Joseph Eastman 6 6 
 
 To Elijah Baker 10 
 
 To Noah Smith 10 
 
 Josiah Chauncy ^ 
 Gideon Dickinson I Select Men 
 Jon'th Edwards J 
 The Above lleporte of the Select Men is 
 Voted 
 
 Test Josiah Chauncy Moderator 
 Voted tiiat Daniel Kellogg Natlian Dick- 
 inson Gideon Dickinson Moses Warner 
 John Billings Josiah Moody Eli Parker 
 James Meri'-k Timothey Green Aaron 
 Warner Lemuel Moody Simeon Strong 
 Joseph Eastman & Jonathan Dickinson 
 have fullfill,d the Conditions of their Re- 
 spective Grants made to them at the Dis- 
 trict Meeting Janu'y Ist 1770 of Land that 
 were before Part of the townway and that 
 the Said Grants be & hereby are made 
 absolute to them respectively and their 
 Heirs forever — 
 
56 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 Voted that Ji)hn Niish Jn'r has fulfilled 
 the Coiidiuoii oi the Grant of Land made 
 to him rtt tiie last Jaunary Meeting and 
 tliat lie hold tlie Same Land in Fee 
 
 .Voted that Sim ■on Sirnnij ji^s fulfilled 
 the Condition of the Grant made to him of 
 that Piece of L md wiiich Lies Uftw-^en 
 Peiham Road & the Burying yard & that 
 the Same Land be & hereby is Confirmed 
 to him & his Heirs 
 
 Voted that Preseved Clnp lias fulfilled 
 the Condition of the Grant Made to liim of 
 Land on the South Side (if Simeon Dick- 
 insons Lot & that tile Same be & hereby is 
 Confermed to him and his Heirs 
 
 Test JosiAii Chauncy Moderator 
 April 22. 177L 
 
 Alt A Letjal Meeting of the Dislr. ct of 
 
 Amheist at the Meeting House on Monday 
 y'e twenty Seuond Day of April A D 1771 
 at two of the Clock in y'e afternoon, and 
 Voted as tollows (viz) 
 
 Voted Moses Dickin>on Moderator 
 
 VoLed to accept of the List of Jurers as 
 they have been red 
 
 Voted to Clmse a Com'tee to agree with 
 Eben^zar Williams respecting a Bit of his 
 Lot North of his hous wanted tor a rode 
 and make a reporte to sum futer meeting 
 
 Voted Peter Smith Moses Dickinson 
 and Nath'U Coleman a Com'tee for the 
 purpus above 
 
 Voted To accept of the Report of the 
 Com'tee Chosen to Settle with De'n Et)en- 
 ezer Dickinson &c 
 
 Test Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Seal Hampshire ss. Amherst To the 
 Constab[l]e8 of the Destrict of Amherst 
 or Either of them Greeting — 
 
 Y>u are hereby required in his Majestys 
 Name to Notify the Inheabitants of Said 
 District Qualified by Law to Vote in Town 
 affairs that tliey Meet together at the Meet- 
 ing Hons in Said District on Wednesday 
 the fifth Day of June Next at two ol the 
 Clock afternoon, then and there after 
 Moderator Chosen to Do & transact the 
 following things (viz) 
 
 1st To Hear tlie Petition of Landlord 
 Moses Warner for discontinuing that Part 
 of the town way lying on the North Side 
 of his Lot which he has incl()s,d within 
 his Fence or Such part thereof as Shall 
 be Necessary to make up the Breadth of 
 his Lot; or otherwise to make him a grant 
 of Land in some other Part of the Said 
 way sufficient to Make up the Land that is 
 wanting in his said Lot 
 
 2d To Hear the Reporte of the Com'tee 
 heretofore Chosen to Consider what Land 
 should be granted To Jonathan Dickinson 
 in said way as a Keeompence for his Land 
 taken up in the Kings Heigliway artd grant 
 so much Land t') saiil Dickinson as shall 
 be thought proper & to Discontinue such 
 part of said way as shall be granted to 
 him 
 
 3d To hear the Request of Jidin Mor- 
 ton for Discontinuing a part of the town- 
 way which lie has Inclos,d & sel to him so 
 much of said Lfind as shall be thought 
 pr.'per 
 
 4iy To Determine Wheather the Dis- 
 trict will allow Aimer Lee to keep up his 
 Fence about his Field in the town way 
 and on VViiat Condition and for what time 
 
 oly To Determine wheather the Dis- 
 trict will allow De'n Simeon Clark to 
 Keep up his fence round Ins Crop Sowed 
 in the town way Eist of his hous & tor 
 what lime & for what Consideration 
 
 Hereof fail not and make due Return of 
 this Worrant & your Doings hereiii at or 
 before the time of holding said Meeting. 
 Dated at amherst the 31st Day of May Ano 
 dotnini 1771 
 
 SiMKON Strong "] 
 
 Peter Smith I o i ^ in 
 
 iM ,, ^ - Select Men 
 
 Moses Dickinson | 
 
 Alex'd Smith J 
 
 Return of the Constables Indors. thus 
 (viz) 
 
 The Directions of this Worrant hath 
 bin attended by us 
 
 Jonathan Dickinson Jn'r 
 PiiiLUP Ingram : Constables 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 07 
 
 June 5tli A D 1771 
 
 Att a Legal meeting of tlie Distivct of 
 Ainlierst liolden at tlie Meetiny: Hous on 
 Weilnesday y'e 5tli June 1771 at two of 
 y'e Clock in y'e after noon Voted as fol- 
 lows (viz) 
 
 Voted Josiah Cliauncy Esq. Modrator 
 
 Votfd to Cliuse a Coin'tee to survey 
 Lau'd Moses Warners Lot and see how 
 much land the town has taicen of his Lot 
 for a liighway on tde Nortli side and De- 
 termin how mneli Land sliall be ascined 
 to Moses Warner where and in what form 
 
 Also to affix boundarys to h bit of Land 
 formerly ascined toJonatiian Dickinson as 
 a Rr-compence for the Land taken from 
 him for a Heighway and the survey of 
 the same &c 
 
 Voted That Simeon Strong Esq Moses 
 Dickinson Josiah Chauncy E-q be aConi'- 
 tee for tilt* Pnrpus above 
 
 Voted that the same Com'tee be direct 
 ed on the Petition of John Morton to Vt-w 
 the town way near Jolin Mortons House & 
 se what Land is nicessary for the town to 
 allow him to hold there & make Reporte 
 to the Meeting 
 
 Voted that the said Com'tee do not Pro- 
 ceed to prosecute Aaron Lee for Incum- 
 bring the way till the further order of the 
 town 
 
 Voted that a Com'tee be Chose to De- 
 termin what rent De'n Clark give to the 
 Town for his Land in y'e town way East 
 of his Hous 
 
 Voted that Isaac Goodale Moses Cook 
 and John Nash Jr be a Com'tee for that 
 Purpose. 
 
 Voted that this Meeting be adjiirned to 
 the Monday after next at ftmr of the Clock 
 afternoon 
 
 Attest Josiah Chauncy Moderator 
 
 Amherst District Meeting by Adjurn- 
 ment on Mondiy the 17th Day of January. 
 i a Clock afternoon 
 
 Voted that there be granted to Jonathan 
 Dickinson in Recompence for Land for- 
 merly taken for y'e Kings Heighway from 
 
 the Lot whereon his Son Simeon Dickin- 
 son now dwells, four Acres and three 
 Quarters of an Acre of Land in the town 
 way north of & adjoining the Lot of Moses 
 Warner in Pi.rni following (viz) Begin- 
 ning at tiie Rear of the Second Division 
 Lota the whole Breadth of the way being 
 sixi,t> n Rods thence running Westerly 
 Carryina the Whole Breadth of said Way 
 forty six rods two feet and half to Bounds 
 marked & made by the Com'tee and that 
 the whole of the Town Way Lying within 
 the before mentioned Limits be & hereby 
 is discontinued. 
 
 Voted that the southerly Line of the 
 said town way from said Jonathan Dick- 
 insons Grant westerly hereafter shall beas 
 follows (viz) Beginning at a Stake & 
 Stones in tlie Westerly Line of Said Dick- 
 inson, s Grant and nine Rods Northerly 
 from the Southwest Corner thereof thence 
 running West seven Degrees thirty Min- 
 utes north about fifty four rods to a burch 
 Slake & Stones not far Soutli of the Parth 
 thence West forty two Degrees North ten 
 rods to a Stakes & Stones thence West fif- 
 teen Decrees & thineen Minutes North to 
 a Stake Six rods : thence the same Point 
 Eighty two rods to a Stake and Stones in 
 Moses Warners Fence south from Preserv- 
 ed Claps Shop, thence West fourteen De- 
 grees South twelve rods to a Stake & Stoiit s 
 thencd west 11 deg South 6 rods to a Siaite 
 Markd H. W. & Stones, thence West 30 
 deg 30 inin north 10 rods to a Stake & Si;oiies 
 thence about thirty Rods west 3 deg North 
 to a Stake & Stones in the front Line of 
 the original Lots and that all that Part of 
 said Way which Lies south of Said Line 
 be & hereby is discontinued 
 
 Voted that all the Land in Said Way 
 south of the Line aforesaid being tour 
 Acres & half and sixteen Rjds more then 
 Moses Warner has Inclosed be and hereby 
 is Granted to Moses Warner as a compen- 
 sation for his original Lot taken formerly 
 in Said Way and which now makes a 
 Part of said Jonathan Dickinsons Grant 
 
58 
 
 Records of Aivjherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 and for what was wanting in Quantity of 
 Land formerly Granted to liim & wiiich he 
 boui^ht of the Town of Hadley 
 
 The Above Votes Piiist in District 
 Meeting 
 
 Attest JosiAH Chauncy Moderator 
 Meeting October 30th 1771 
 
 Att a Legal meeting of the District of 
 Amherst Hol(ien at the Meeting hous on 
 Wednesday the thirtieth day ut October at 
 tliree oCiock atternoon A 1771. 
 
 Voted as follows (viz) 
 
 V.ited Peter Smitli Moderator 
 
 Voted that the Select men be impowerd 
 to Draw money out of the Treasury to pay 
 the Necessary repairs of the Meeting hous 
 & School houses 
 
 Tes't Peter Smith Moderator 
 Meeting Novein'r 8. 1771 
 
 Att a Letial meeting of the District of 
 Amherst Holden at the Meeting hous on 
 Friday the E iij^th Day of November 1771 
 at two of the Cluck after noon, anil Voted 
 as follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong Esq Moderator 
 
 Voted to take sum further Measurs to 
 obtaiii an alteration of the Heighway 
 Lately Laid through the third Division to 
 Belchers town through John Billings 
 Lot. 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson be an Aiient to 
 forward a Petition to Court for the purpus 
 aforesaid 
 
 Test. Simeon Strong Moderator 
 Meeting December 21 1771 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the District of 
 Amherst Holden at the Meeting hous on 
 Monday y'e 2d Day of December 1771 ai 
 one of the clock in y'e afternoon Voted as 
 follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Peter Smith Moderator 
 
 Voted to Adjurn to the school hous iieai 
 the Heartling Stake 
 
 Voted that the Courts Cora'tee Lately 
 Chosen to vew the County rode Lately 
 Laid in the third Division in order to make 
 sum alteration or removal of said rode 
 Shall come 
 
 Voted to Chuse a Coin'tee to wait on 
 the Courts Com'tee 
 
 Voted that Simeon Strong Esq & Peter 
 Smith be a Coin'tee for y'e purpus above 
 
 Voted that the Comtee be shewed acros 
 the East End of the third Division of Lots 
 Leading from Log town ta Pelham Kode 
 and also a rode Leading from Noah Dickin- 
 sons by De'n Jonathan Edwards and 
 thomas Hasting, 8 to Come in with the New 
 County Rode Near Nath'll Pecks. 
 
 Test. Peter Smith Moderator 
 
 Meeting January 13th A. D. 1772 
 
 Att A Legal Meeting of the District of 
 Amherst holden at the School hous Near 
 Landlord Warners on Monday the thir- 
 teenth Day of January A. D. 1772 at Nine 
 of the Clock in morning Voted as follows 
 (viz) 
 
 Voted Alexander Smith Moderator 
 
 Voted to adjurn this Meeting for the 
 space of one hour and then return to this 
 Place 
 
 Voted to Allow two Shillings per Day 
 in Summer for worke & one Shilling & 
 Sixpence per day in fall 
 
 Voted to Allow the Bills as they have 
 bin red & Considerd 
 
 Voted to Allow the Re'vd David Persons 
 his Sallery as in years Paist 
 
 Voted that the Assesers be impowerd to 
 Asses the money Voted above 
 
 Voted to Allow Simeon Strong Esq 
 forty fore Shillings it being money he 
 paid to the Corts Com'tee for their Ser- 
 vices 111 December 1771 
 
 V'lted to Take sum Measures to divide 
 the District into two Pearishes 
 
 Voied To adjurn tills Meeting to the 
 14tli Day of January Current at one of 
 the Cb'ck afternoon 
 
 Amherst District Meeting by Adjiirn- 
 ment on Tuesday the 14th Day of January 
 A. D. 1772 one Clock afternoon 
 
 Voied that the Select Men be Directed 
 to Preambiilate the Line between Hadley 
 and Amherst 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 59 
 
 Voted ti) CImse (I Coni'tee to Lay out a 
 lleciimpence in Land to Josepli Clmrcli 
 fi)r his Land taken for a town way & make 
 a report to sum futer meeting 
 
 Voted that Elijaii Bdk.T & Et)enezer 
 Dickinson Jn'r be a Com'tee for tlie Pur- 
 pose above 
 
 Voted llmt the School house that is 
 near Edward Smiths lious be removed to 
 the Ertst Side of the Street upon Private 
 Expenue and tliat tiiere be a Com'tee 
 Cliosen to aay wheare it shall stand 
 
 Voted that Isaac G^xidale Solomon 
 Boltwood & .j'hn Billings be a Coni'tee 
 tor the Purpus al)ove 
 
 Voted to Make De'n Ebenezar Dickiii- 
 soti som Mllowance for his former trouble 
 in Collecting Alvords Debt 
 
 Vote<l to allow Den Ebenezar Dickin 
 sod five pounds for his former Service as 
 above nientiimed & Voted 
 
 Voted to take sum lurther measnrs for 
 the removal of the County road to lielichers 
 town 
 
 Voted that Moses Dickinson tiie f .rnier 
 Agent Should go to the Next Court at 
 Northampton & liear the report of the 
 Courts Com'tee 
 
 're>t. Alexand'r Smith Moderator 
 Meeting March lOlh 1772 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting of the District of 
 Amherst holdeii at the Meeting llous on 
 Tuesday the tenth Day of March at Nine 
 of the Clock Forenoon A. D. 1772 Come 
 Into the following Votes (viz) 
 
 Voted Alexander Smith Moderator 
 
 Voted Seth Coleman District Clerk 
 
 Voted Simeon Strong Esq Treasurer 
 
 Voted John Dickinson Natl.i'll Dickin- 
 son Moses Dickiiuon Rut)en Dickinson 
 & John Billings Selectmen 
 
 Voted John Billings John Dickinson 
 Ruben Dickinson Assesers 
 
 Voted to adju'-n for the Space of one 
 hour and then to Meat at this place 
 
 Voted Joseph Dickinson Joel Moody 
 Constables 
 
 Voted Eli P-.rker William Boltwood 
 
 David Hlotchet Joseph Church Surveyors 
 of Highways 
 
 Voted Jonathan Cowles Nath'll Coleniati 
 Fens Vewers 
 
 Voted Jonathan Moody Jn'r John Nash 
 Jn'r Dear Rives 
 
 Voted Elijah Buker Daniel Dickinson 
 David t/owles Tytbiiiti men 
 
 Voted Jacob Warner Jn'r Timothey 
 Green Jn'r Oliver Clap Robert Emmons 
 Ezerah Roode Hog Rives 
 
 Voted Joseph Cbureli Surveay of Lum- 
 ber 
 
 Voted Isaiic Goodale Sealer of Leather 
 
 Voted to Repare the Heighways this 
 year by the Pole 
 
 Voted E i»har Ingram Isaac Goodale 
 Asaliel Moody Wardens 
 
 Voted to Let Hogs run well ring,d and 
 yoked sum part of the year 
 
 Voted that liogs shall run from the 
 fifteenth of May' to the tenth of August 
 next Hamperd as above 
 
 Voted to a'ljuin to the 11th Day of 
 March Currant at Nine of the Clock in the 
 morning then meet at this Place 
 
 Amherst District Meeting by adjurn- 
 ment on Wednesday the 11th of March 
 1772 at Nine of the Clock in the morning 
 
 Voted to adjurn to the School hous by 
 Landlord Warners 
 
 Voted to adjurn for the space of one 
 hour then to meet at this Place 
 
 Voted that the Select Men Draw Money 
 out of the Treasurey to Pay for Schooling 
 this year 
 
 Voted to accept of the report of a Com'- 
 tee Chosen to Lay out a bit of Land to 
 Josepli Church which is as follows 
 
 Amherst March 9th 1775 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting on January the 13th 
 we the Subscribers being Chosen a Com'- 
 tee to Lay out sum Land to Joseph Church 
 accordingly we liave gon and laid it out as 
 follows 
 
 Beginning at the Mill Siver on the west 
 Side of the way N. then Runing Mt. seven 
 rods & half t,) a Chesnot Siadel which we 
 
60 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Markt H. W tlieii runing south forty ro.ls 
 ti> a pino Stadt^l tliat we marked H W 
 tliPiiee Mr. seven rods & half tliis jjives 
 liim one acre & seven sc..re rods cfLaiid 
 which we find by the survt-yers Plan to be 
 tlie same in quaniity that the town had of 
 him for a hi^jhway by us 
 
 Elijah Ijaker 
 
 Ebenzar Dickinson Jn'r 
 
 the Vole tnken respecting the Dividing 
 of the Distrect into two Districts or par- 
 ishes was pai,»t in ihe NejjHtive by a tie of 
 Votes 
 
 Test Alexander Smith Moderator 
 iM-eii..n April 21. A D 1772 
 
 Att a Lagal meeting of the District of 
 Amher>t H.dden at the Meeting IIous on 
 Tuesday y'e twenty fii>t day of aprii at 
 fore of the Chick aftern..on Voted as fol- 
 lows (viz) 
 
 Voted John Billings Moderator 
 
 Voted to accej)! ofihe Jurers as they 
 have bin agreed on l)y the Select Men 
 Ti-st. 
 Meeting August 17th. 1772 
 
 Att a LegHJ Meeting of the DiKtrect of 
 Amnerst liolden at the Meeting hous on 
 Monday the 17ih D^y of August 1772 at 
 three of the Clock afternoon Voted a* 
 follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Josiah Chauncy E-q. Moderator 
 
 Voted To apj)rove the Doings of tlie 
 Select Men in employing M'r Gay B>.llan- 
 tine to Keep the Grammar School 
 
 Voted to Improve M'r William Guy 
 Balleiitine for Six months from Ins first 
 Entering in the School 
 
 Voted to Chuse a Com'tee to transact 
 the affaire of schooling for the six^nonth 
 mention, (1 above 
 
 Voted that Moses Dickins Lev't John 
 Dickinson & John Billings be the Com'tee 
 above 
 
 Voted that the Com'tee ab ive Should 
 weight on Mr. William Gay Ballantine & 
 inform hitn of the Votes of the town as 
 they Stand above &c 
 
 Attest Josiah Chauncy Moderator 
 
 Meeting Aug'st 17tli [24?] A d 1772 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Distrect of 
 Amherst holden at the Meeting lious on 
 Monday y'e twente of August 1772. 
 
 Voted as follows (viz) 
 
 Voted John Billing" Moderator. 
 
 Voted to Take .-uin further measures 
 for the removal of the Coutitey Rode 
 through John Billings Lot 
 
 Voted to Shew tlie Courts Cotn'tee that 
 is Coming to vew the County rode throUjj,li 
 John Billings Lot the Kode Call,d the 
 Nonh rode 
 
 Attest 
 Meeting January y'e 18 AD 1773 
 
 Alt a Legul Meeting of the District of 
 Amherst Holden at the Meeting Hous on 
 Monday y'e 18th D»iy of January A. D. 
 1773 at Nine of the Clock in the Morning 
 Voted as follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Voted to Adjurn to the School hous 
 Near Landlord Fieles 
 
 Voted to accept of ilie Bills as they 
 have bin Red and Consider, d 
 
 VotKl to adjurn for the Space of one 
 hour and then Meet at this Place 
 
 Voted that the Assesers be Inipowered 
 to Leavey a tax sufficient to Defreay the 
 Debts of the District as they have been 
 paist & also to pay tlie Rev'd David Par- 
 son'* his Salery as in years paist 
 
 Voted upon the Petition of Peletiah 
 Smith Jn'r and Nathan Dickinson for 
 Damages that they Sustain l)y the Coun- 
 tey rode being Liid across their Liiid in 
 the third Division to Chews a Com'tee to 
 go on the Land and See wheather they 
 Shall haVB any Damages or Either of them 
 and if any how much and make Report to 
 the Next Meeting 
 
 Voted that Moses Dickinson Esq 
 Chauncy and Solomon Boitwood be a 
 Com'tee for the Piirpus above 
 
 Voted upon the Petition of Simeon 
 Strong E-^q. to Cheuse a Com'tee to see 
 Wheather M'r Strong sliall have tiie Lib- 
 erty of Purchasing a gore of Land before 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 V 
 61 
 
 Ids liouse as mention in the Warrant (viz) 
 twelve feet wide from Near tlie Placf 
 wlie;ir his old linrn formerly stood runitifj 
 to a point at the wi-st suit- dt his L •' & for 
 what sum and that ihej make report to 
 tiie Nex Meeting 
 
 Voii-d ])Mni KeliDiTK, Es(j Channey, 
 Ins. John Field, he a Com'tee for the 
 Pnrpus above &c 
 
 Voted to liaise thirtey five Pounds far 
 tlie use of sciiooling in the year Insewintj 
 
 V'lted thii 111' Ansesers he Impovvcrd 
 to rais the money mentinned almve for tiie 
 use of Schooling and give auder for tiie 
 Same 
 
 Voted tliat article of proviiiitiyr (or more 
 scliD.iiin;; for Small t.;hildri-n in li silish 
 Schools Shall Be Postponed to March 
 Meeting 
 
 Voted that tiie Self-ct men Shall waigiit 
 on Abner Lee for tiie Performance ot liis 
 agreement of repairini; the Heighway 
 across the Second Division of Lots Near 
 the South End of Amherst lill iiie Laist 
 Day of May Next and if it is not tlien 
 Repar,d the Select Men Shall aud^r the 
 Treasurer to Prosecute Abner Lee. 
 Attest. Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Meeting March y'e 8ih A D 1773 
 Att a Legal Meeting of the District of 
 
 Amherst holden at the Meeting hous on 
 
 Monday y'e 8th Day of March A D 1773 
 
 at Nine of the Clock in the morning 
 
 Voted as follows (viz) Voted John 
 
 Billings Moderator 
 Voted Seth Coleman Destrict Clerk 
 Voted Simeon Strong Esq. Treasurer 
 Voted John Dickinson Moses Dickinson 
 
 Nath'll Dickinson Ebenezar Mattoon Tlu- 
 
 ben Dickinson Select men 
 
 Vi'ted Ebenezar Mattoon Moses Dick- 
 
 ins'in Ruben Dickinson Assesers 
 
 Voted Ruben Ingram Simeon Smith 
 
 Constables 
 
 Voted to Adjurn tiiis Meeting for the 
 
 .Space of one hour and then meet at this 
 
 place 
 
 Voted Natlian Dickinson, Jomtthan 
 Smith, Isjiao Hu I)im| Daniel Dicdtinson, 
 Mariiiiii Kellogg Thomas lla>tings Sur- 
 veyers of highways 
 
 Voted Martain Smith Hezekiah Belding 
 Joseph Ciiurch tything Men 
 
 Voted Jonathan Cowles Nath. Coleman 
 fens Vewers 
 
 Voted Elishar Dickinson Elislier Good- 
 ale, Aarctn Warner Jn'r Simeon Elmer 
 Jost ph Smith Hogreeves 
 
 Voted Jonathan Dickinson Jn'r Jotiathan 
 Mooily Jn'r Deer reeves 
 
 Voted Thomas Hastings Seler of Leath- 
 er 
 
 Voted that Hogs shall run ring,d and 
 yoke,d according to Law from the Midle of 
 May Next to the lir.st of September Next 
 
 Voted Martaiu Smith oliver Cowles 
 Pliilup Ingram Wardens 
 
 Voted to allow five month schooling to 
 Each Quarter of the town in the Insuing 
 year in that Part of the year when the 
 Select men Sliall Judg most profatable 
 ior the Inlieahitanis 
 
 Voted to adjurn to the School hous 
 Near Landlord Fields hous 
 
 Voted that the Preambulatry of the Line 
 between Hadley & Amherst Lately run by 
 the Selectmen of Hadley and Amherst be 
 acctpted as follows (viz) from the bay 
 rode to the >V. M. tree Standing at the 
 Soutwest Corner of John Billings Lot and 
 no further; tiiis being the report of the 
 Selectmen as by them returned 
 
 Voted to Allow Peletiah Smith tiie Sum 
 of three pounds as reward for the County 
 rode Lately Laid a Cross his Lot in the 
 third Division 
 
 Voted to Allow Nathan Dickinson Jn'r. 
 three pounds a[s] a reward for the County 
 R lad Laid a Cross his Lot in the third 
 j Division. 
 
 Voted to accept of the Report of a Com'- , 
 tee Chosen to Set of a bit of Land to Sim- 
 eon Strong Esq. before his dore (viz) be- 
 ginning twenty feet wide against wiiere 
 his old barn stood runing to a point against 
 
^% 
 
 ^QQRD* OFTAmHEKSTi^ROM 1735 TO 17^ 
 
 Ips h>ini as it now StHnds Containing about 
 Si^ ,I,iiids,f(pprais,(i at three shillings 
 
 Voted to Allow Nathen Dickinson Jn'r 
 Preserved Clap Provence Rme ior the 
 year 1771 
 
 Attest John Billings Moderator 
 
 The Report of the Select Men for a 
 Heitihway whicli is as follows (viz) 
 
 Amherst february y'e 8th 1773 this May 
 inform that we the Subscribers have Laid 
 a town Rode through Peter Smiths Lot 
 wliear on his lious Stnn<ls (viz) on the 
 South Side Beginning at the East End of 
 Said Lot, Beyinning at a Stake and Stones 
 Runiiig Westerly two liundred & twenty 
 eaight rods west on Said Smiths South 
 Line Said w«y to be two Rods in wi<ltli 
 Moses Dickinson ] 
 John Dickinson o i ht l- 
 
 John I^illings Select Men ot 
 
 Nath-ll Dickinson | Amherst 
 
 RuBKN Dickinson J 
 
 the ahdve report of the select men for a 
 Rode Voted 
 
 Atte-t John Billings Moderator 
 
 The Report of the Select men for a 
 Heigh«ay which is as follows (viz) 
 
 Minutes of a highway Laid out by the 
 Select men of Ainlierst on the flat hills, 
 beginning at a Stake & Stones near the 
 foot of the hill and runing N. 7 deg 30 niin 
 Est 19 rods th [en] N. 22 deg Est 14 rods 
 to a black oak stadle then N 10 deg Et. 25 
 rods the N. 33 deg 30 min Et. 24 rods to a 
 black oak tree then N. 26 deg East 12 rods 
 & [half] to a Stake, then Nortii 23 rods 
 then N. 13 deg 30 min Et. 28 rods to a 
 heap of Stones, then N: 10 deg wst. 19 
 rods & 12 Links then N : 3 <h g 30 min Wi. 
 22 rods, then N 5 deg 40 min Et. 15 rods 
 to a heap of Stones then North 44 rods 
 to Shute>bury road said rode to be four 
 rods in wedth. 
 
 P'r Simeon Parsons Surveyer 
 
 the Above reporie of tiie Select men for 
 a Rode Voted 
 
 Attest John Billings Moderator 
 Meeiitig April y'e 14th. A D 1773 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting of the* Distrect of 
 
 Amhearst holden at the Meeting Hous on 
 Wednesday the forteenth Day of April A 
 D 1773 at one of the Clock after Noon 
 Voted as follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Moses D.ckinson Moderator 
 Voted to be at the Expence of twelve 
 month schooling for gramer schooling in 
 the Winter Ceason 
 
 Voted to Build two Meetinghouses in 
 the Distrect of Amherst 
 
 Voted that Timothey Green Shall have 
 Liberty to fence and Improve all tiie town 
 way between the front of his lot and the 
 County Rode for the ^pace of two year and 
 then fling it up to Commonage weell seeded 
 to grass 
 
 Voted to Exchange Sutn of the Heigli- 
 way wiih Noali Dickinson for sum of liis 
 Land 
 
 Voted to Chuse a Comt'ee for the pur- 
 piis above and thnt they make Reporte to 
 Sum fuier Meeting 
 
 Voted De'n. Jonathan Edwards Daniel 
 Kellogg and Joseph Church be a Com'tee 
 for the Purpus above 
 
 The Petition of Sundry of the Inhe ibit- 
 ants to be free,d from the Charge of Build- 
 ing two Meeting houses (as has Oin Voted 
 above) was Consider, d and Paist in the 
 Negative &c 
 
 Meetitig January 3d: AD 1774 
 Art, a Legal Meeting of the District of 
 Amherst Holden at the Meeting Hons on 
 Monday the 3il Day of January 1774 at 
 Nine of the Clock in the Morning and 
 Voted as follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 Voted to accept of the Bills as they liave 
 t)in Red and Corrected and that the asses- 
 ers he impowered to Leavey a tax for 
 raising the Same 
 
 Voted to allow the Re'vd David Parsons 
 his Salery as in years paist and that the 
 Assesers Leavey a Tax tor Raising the 
 Same 
 
 Voted to Adjurn this Meeting for the 
 Space of one Hour and then to meet at 
 this place 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Voted to Make wnswer to tlie Pi-tition of 
 Sundry of tlie Inlieahitats of Aiidierst and 
 the CitHtiiMi tlifTeby Sent from the general 
 Conn 
 
 Voted to Clioose ii Ciun'tee to Draw up 
 said answer and forward ilie Same to tlie 
 general Court. 
 
 V Moses Diikinson Lev't, John 
 
 Dickinson. Moses Smith Ruben Dickinson 
 Joseph VViliianis Eli Parker Ebenez ir 
 Dickinson be the Com'tee for the Purpus 
 above 
 
 Voted to Leave the Conduct of tlie 
 affears for which the Com'tee [were] 
 Chosen to be Conducted by tliein as they 
 Sliall think best for tlie Town 
 
 Voted to Divide tlie District of Amherst 
 by an East and west Line from the Cen- 
 tre of the Meeting House as it now Stands 
 by a Large Majority 
 
 Voted to Chews a Com'tee for the Pur- 
 pus above 
 
 Voted To refer it to the former Com'tee 
 Chi'sen to make Answer to tlie CduiIs Ci- 
 tation 
 
 Moses Dici^inson Modnrator 
 
 Meeting January 2(>rh AD 1774 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting of the District oi 
 Amherst Holden at the Meeting Hotis on 
 Wetnesday y'e 26th Day of January at 
 Nine of the Clock in y'e morning Voted 
 as follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Voted to Choose tWD Atretits to Refer a 
 Petition to the General Court to obtain the 
 Division of the Distr. ct of Amherst as it 
 was voted in the Laist Meeting 
 
 Voted that Moses Dickinson be one of 
 the Agents above 
 
 Voted that Rubin Dickinson be the 
 other 
 
 Voted that these Agents be impowerd 
 to Draw Money out of the Trcasurey to 
 Defray the Necessary Chardges of S,d Pe- 
 tition 
 
 Voted that the Select Men be Impowerd 
 to give auder upon the Treasurer to Draw 
 
 out twelve pound of money for the above 
 S.'d A'-'enis to Defray their Necessary 
 Chardges of S,'d Petition 
 
 Voted to Authourise two Men to Make 
 answer to the general Courts Citation in 
 Consequence of a I'etition of a Number of 
 the Inheabitaiis nf Amherst 
 
 Voted Ruben Dickinsim be one of the 
 Agents 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Be the other 
 
 V 'icl til Chews a Com'tee of Corris- 
 poiidence t > Refer with the Com'tee of 
 Cnrrispondance in the Town of iJoston 
 
 Voted Ruiien Dickinson JosephWilliums 
 Moses Dickinson Jacob McDaniel Naih'll 
 Dickinson he the Com'tee affore S,'d 
 
 Voted that the Cmn'tee Lraw up a Let- 
 ter for the Com'tee of Corrispondance in 
 Boston to Be Red m the Next iM<'eting 
 Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Meetir-.g Marcl) Hth 1774 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting of the District of 
 Amherst Holden at the Meeting lions on 
 Monday the 14ih Day of March A D 1774 
 at Nine of the Clock in the morning. 
 Voted as follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Voted Seth Coleman District Clerk 
 
 Voteil SiniecHi Strong Esq District 
 Treasurer 
 
 Voted Ruben Dickinson John Dickin- 
 son Moses Dickin»on N^tli'll Dickinson 
 Ebenezar Muttoon Selectmen 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson John Dickin-. 
 son Ruben Dickinson Assesers 
 
 Votfd Oliver Cowles John Williams 
 Constables 
 
 Voted Ilenerey Jonson Frankling Enos 
 Coleman Gideon Dickinsim Jn'r Edivard 
 Smith T> thing Men 
 
 Voted To adjiirn this Meeting for the 
 Space of one hour and then Meet at this 
 Place 
 
 Voted Abner Adorns Nath'U Dickinson 
 81 Alexaiid Smith Njithan Dickinson Jn'r 
 Noah Smith Timothey Green Gideon 
 Dickinson Surveyers of Highways 
 
64 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Voted (() D^) Ht-igliway VVorke lliis 
 year by the Pole 
 
 Voted iliat Town Heigliwnys Sluill be 
 Put in Repar Equally Wiili tlie Comity 
 Rods 
 
 Voted Asael Moody Mart. .in Kt-llogtf 
 Dearrits 
 
 Voted Jonathan Cowles Naili'll Colf- 
 niaii fens Vewtrs 
 
 Voted Tliomas Hastin^is Seler of Leath- 
 er 
 
 Vote.) M..se» Cook, Jonallian Moody 
 Jn'r Jolin Billings Daniel Church Barna- 
 bas Sabin.i Samufl Hruery Hogrif> 
 
 Voted Joseph Church Survey, r of Luni 
 ber 
 
 Voted Noali Dickinson, Lent. William 
 Boltwood Isaac Hiibhard Wardens 
 
 Voted to allow Saiwuel goiilds Bill for 
 Sweeping the Meeting hoiis and fasten- 
 ing the Dors (viz) £1-0 4 
 
 Voted to Chews a Conftee to wait upon 
 the Courts Coni'tec that is to K^ pare to 
 Ainhejstto Discide the Dispute respect- 
 ing the Divieion of Amherst &c 
 
 Vol d Kiiben Dickin.son Moses Dickin- 
 son M6se» Smith be ihe C^m'tee ab.ve 
 
 Voted to Allow ihe Coiirtee above a 
 Reason.iiiie ie«,ird For tlieir C rvic-s 
 
 Voted to Accept of the Letter of C.-r- 
 r. >.. ndahce Diaw.i up by the C .lll'lee 
 Chosen y'e Laist Meeting to Refer w.ih 
 the Com'tee of C..rrespond in B .ston as it 
 haili bill Now led 
 
 Voted thai the same should be Record- 
 ed on y'e town book &c 
 
 Att MosKs DiUKiNsox Moderator 
 
 liOrter of Correspondence 
 At a meeting of the Freeholders and 
 other loheabitinis of the District nf Am- 
 hersi in the C"uniy of Hampshire on Wed 
 nesday the 26tli of January Laist, it was 
 Voted that the Letter Receiv.l from the 
 Com'tee of CJorresuondance in the towu of 
 Boston should be red and Consider,d — 
 whereupon the f .llowing gentlemen, vizt. 
 Moses Di.-kinson Ruben Dickin-nn, Ja- 
 
 cob McDaniel, Nathain'l Dickinson, & 
 Joseph Williams were Chosen and appoint- 
 ed a Com'tee to prep ir an answer at their 
 Next Annual Meeting in March when the 
 following was submitted to the Consider- 
 ration of Said District 
 
 To the Respectable Committee of Cor- 
 respcMidence in the town of Boston 
 
 Geiit.'n 
 
 We think it needless to Recapitulate all 
 those grievancses Wideh we suffer in 
 Common with our oppre^t Brethren and 
 Neiabbois. Sufficient to Say that tiio we 
 have been L uig siUiit we are not insensi- 
 ble of th-^ oppressions we suffer and the 
 ruin whicli tlireatens us or regardiis of the 
 Diaboliral Desisjiis of our Mercenary and 
 ManevolPiit Enemies Foreign and Domes- 
 tic and are r^ady not onley to risque but 
 even to Sacrifice our Lives and Properties 
 in Defence of our just rights & liberties at 
 Present we are only Gilled not subdued 
 and think oursplves heajiv in bavintr such 
 visfilaut and faithful gardiins of our 
 rights in the Metropolis on liooni we Can 
 Depend to Call on ns in Sea»on to unite 
 with our suffering Country nen in the 
 Common Cause of Americn we hope and 
 beg that you will Still Persevere iu that 
 most Honorrble & importent Imploynient 
 of WMtcbiui; over us with the Same Care 
 and Fidelity which has hitherto Distin- 
 guish, d & grately Dignified your Charac- 
 ters in the Esiiniaiion of all who have a 
 just sence of that hest of Blessings Liber- 
 ty & an Equal abhorence of that tame sub- 
 mition which tends to Pintail on our Pos- 
 terriiy that worst of Curses Sb'Very 
 
 Every Avenue to the Royal E ir seems 
 to be blocked up by the gross falsities & 
 Dei-itrnil Misrepresentations of those from 
 sum of whom at Least we initjht have Ex- 
 pected better things but there is a King 
 who Cannot be Deceived & who will not 
 be mocked who has pointed out a never 
 failing resource when Petitions & Renion- 
 stances, Triiih & justice are iinsuccesfully 
 Opposed to Tiroiiey and Oppression fals- 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17< 
 
 65 
 
 liDOil & Coiriiptioii & when you feel that 
 iiiil)UNe wliicli will iioi hrocik I er I ' - 
 la^', llie vvixhim ot'ihe People will iiamral- 
 ly wriie ill the iiioii.- i)t the hesl ApjeHl, 
 to which }ou most Disiant Brethren Ex- 
 pect to be siinimoned unless prevent, d b> 
 ii suihiiiiy unexpected & very fnvourable 
 (.niand^-e ot fitieais. their are whom 
 Ju-tice torliids to live l)Ut whom we would 
 spare to t;.iiiviiice the world we Despise 
 thiir utMHisi li;ue & maliciiiiis Cuiuiiiik- 
 the Colonies united <ire invinciably tree & 
 we d'lUt iiiit yiiu.are Conviiic,d that the 
 rie>t-rvaiioii of llint union outweighs 
 every other ConsidHratinii and is at Pres- 
 ent our most Iinp>>rtant Concern, while 
 that is secure we have nothing to fear bui 
 may Ltugh at all attempts to Enslave us 
 we know of no punishment wliicli Can be 
 Inflicted on tluise vilros in Exalted- Sta 
 tions adi qiiate to ilieir own leflections & 
 remorse accompanyd witli our Neglect, 
 Contempt & Detestation luit at the s mie 
 time should tiiink ourselves happier if 
 Everey banefull Nnxinus weed Could by 
 aney means be Eradicated from this our 
 lair garden of Liberty, we Entirely ap- 
 prove & Concurf with you in every me s- 
 ure liitherto ad'ipted & Coiuhicted & re- 
 turn our uratefuil thanks to the People ot 
 Boston & the Neighboring towns iu n Per- 
 ticuler nianiier for tne seasonable Indeav- 
 ours & mandley opposition to prevent the 
 Lmdint; of the East Imlia Cumpanys teas 
 which Plan we are Convi,ic,d was arteful- 
 ly Projected to open the gate for the adini- 
 tioii (jf Tyrany & oppression with all their 
 Papacious followers to Stalk at Lanje & 
 niicontrnl.d to Ifavage our fare & Dear 
 bought Possessions. Everey ine'isure 
 which shall apnear Conducive to the Pub- 
 lick good we are warranted to asiire you 
 will alwa}s hp approved & support, d by a 
 Larue Majorrity in tliis District and 
 [y?]our Continual Correspondence as 
 Loiitf as you sliall think occaiion requires 
 meet with Due respect & attention we are 
 
 in behalf of the District vt^ry Ke>ptciluily 
 Gent'm 
 your oblig'd & most hble, servts 
 
 Moses Dickinson '\ 
 
 KiiUBEN Dickinson 
 
 Jacob McDaniel {-Committee 
 
 Nath i.L Dickinson 
 
 Joseph Williams 
 
 Voted that ilif above be lleconied and 
 an attes'd t'<>py be Transfer'd to the Hon- 
 ourable Com'tee of Correspondance in the 
 town of Boston 
 
 Meeting May 23d 1774 
 At a Legal Mt-eting of the District of 
 Amherst Uolden at the Meetinjj houa on 
 Monday the 23d Day of May A D 1774 at 
 two of the Clock in the afternoon Voted as 
 follows (viz) 
 
 Voieii liut)en Dickinson Moderator 
 Voted to spnd Rubi'n Dickinson as an 
 agent to the general Court to hear the lle- 
 pourt of the Couits Committee 
 
 Voted that the above said agent shall 
 Coiidui't the att'ear as he shall, think best 
 for the town 
 
 Voted to furnish the agent with money 
 
 Voted to Impower the Selectmen to 
 
 Draw out S vei. pound of money for the 
 
 agent above to Defray his Necessary 
 
 Chardges 
 
 Voted to Accept of the Jurys as they 
 have bin r . (I &,■ 
 
 KuBEN Dickinson Moderator 
 Meeting Sept. 20th 1774 
 Alt a Meeting of District of Amherst 
 ou Tuesday y'e 20th of Sept 1774 Voted as 
 follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Natli'll Dickinson Moderntor 
 Voted to Chose a Com'tee of Correspon- 
 dence as a Standing Com'tee 
 
 Voied Moses Di(;kinson Joseph East- 
 man Jacob McDaniel John Dickinson & 
 Natb'll Dickinson Jn'r l.e tiie Com'tee 
 aflfore Said 
 
 Voted to Chose three Deligates to Meet 
 in beiialf of the District at Nortliam|iton 
 on y'e 22d of Inst Sept. 
 
66 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17< 
 
 Voted Moses Dickiiisx)ii Jacob McDan- 
 iel & John Dickinson be the Deligates 
 afFore Said &c 
 
 Nathll Dickinson Moiierator 
 
 Meetirifi October 3d 1774 
 
 Att a Legnl Meeting of the Freeholders 
 and other Inheahiiants of the District of 
 Amherst Qualified by L><vv to Voie in 
 Town affairs on Monday the third day of 
 October A. D. 1774 Piu-.-u mt to the Wor- 
 rant 
 
 Voted that M'r Moses Dickinson be a 
 Moderator to Govern said me> ting 
 
 Voted Unanimously to Send one Dele 
 gate and but one to attend at the Proren- 
 tial Conyress at Concord aff"ore Snid 
 
 Voted that M'r Nath'll DicUin-on Jn'r 
 be the Person to attend to the Provincinl 
 Congir«s at Concord siOove Mentiom d 
 .V itr.'t MosKs Dickinson Moderator 
 jVleeiina dannary 2>l 1775 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting of the Freeholders 
 and Hther Iidiahitants of the Di-trict of 
 Amherst Qualified to Vote for a Repre- 
 sentative on Monday the second Day ot 
 January 1775 at Nine of the Clock in the 
 forenoon Pursuant to a Legal Worrant for 
 that purpose 
 
 Voted that NhiIi'II Dickinson Jn'r be a 
 Moderator to Govern said Meeting 
 
 Voted to Send one Delagate & but one 
 to att.-nti \ ' Pr.iVenliiii Co 'gress to be 
 h olden at Cambridge on y'e first Day of 
 febniary Next or sooner if(^iM,ii t .r 
 
 Voted that Natb'll Dickinson junr be 
 tlie 1) .. t;aie to attend the Piovential 
 Congress to be holdeii at Cambridge as 
 affore S,d 
 
 Attest Natb'll Dickinson for moderator. 
 MeeiiMti February 23d 
 
 An a Leyral \!eeing of the District of 
 Amherst holden at the Meeting bous on 
 thir-day y'e twenty third Day of February 
 1775 at Nine of the Clock in the morning 
 Voted as follows (viz) 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Voted to allow M'r Natb'll Dickinson 
 Jr's Bill for going to the two Provential 
 (^llli>r■•sses Paist 
 
 Voted to allow all the Bills as they have 
 bin r- il & Corrected tor the year Paist 
 
 Voted to allow M'r Josiah Peirs our 
 Proportional part of his Chardges for 
 goint; t<i attend the general Court Laist 
 may Cession 
 
 Voted to Impower the Assesers to Leav- 
 ey a tax Sutficieiit to Defray the Bills 
 that have hill red & Corrected & «lso to 
 Pay the Rev'd David Parsons, s Salery as 
 in years paist 
 
 Voted to Rais a sum of Monej sufficient 
 to pay for the Scbocding the Town is in- 
 debted for in tlie year Paist to be Assest 
 in the N' xt tax 
 
 Voted to Adjiirn for the space of one 
 hour and ihen to Meet at this Place 
 
 Voted lo PuriHoise one Hundred & fifty 
 weijilit .f Powder & L' d & flints answer- 
 able 
 
 Voted that the Money for the Payment 
 of tlie Same he iminedi'ately assest 
 
 Voted that all the Provence Money Still 
 R.-niaining in the banes of the Consiahles 
 & not P;dd to Hearison gray be Paid in to 
 H. nry Gardner E^q of Stow 
 
 Voted to Chose a Com'tee to Receive 
 the Money of the Constables & Pay it to 
 Henry Gardner E^^q of Stow & take his 
 R cp't for the Same 
 
 Voted to Cliose five Men as a Com'tee 
 tor the Pnrpus ahove 
 
 Voted that Joseph Eastman Natb'll 
 Dickinson Jn'r Eb-nezH Bidiwood Sim- 
 eon Clark & Moses Dickinson be the Com'- 
 tee above 
 
 Voted ibat the Constables Shall Pay in 
 all the Provence Money jet remaining in 
 their Hands & not Paid to Hearison Gray, 
 to the Com'tee above Chosen for that 
 Purpus ^ 
 
 Voted that if the Com'tee or Either of 
 them Produce a Recp't from Henry Gard- 
 ner E-q of th« Payment of any Part of the 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 67 
 
 Provence tax to him tliis Di»tiict will In- 
 dfinnifi Said Coin'tee for such money so 
 paid 
 
 Voted to Chose a Ooin'ioe who shall 
 Borrow or other wise Procure such Sum 
 or Suines of money as yet Remmii to be 
 CollfCied by the Coiistnbles Cho»en by 
 this District for the yenr ]774 and pay tiie 
 M 'ney to Henry gardner E q of Stow 
 
 Voted that Joseph Eastman Nath'll 
 Dickinson Jn'r El>enezar Boltwood Sim- 
 eon Clark & Moses Dickinson be the 
 Com'tee for y'e purpus above 
 
 Voted that when ihe Constal)les (or ilie 
 year 177-i have Collected ihe Provence 
 Tax for said year that ihey Shall Pay the 
 Same to the above Com'tee Cliosen for 
 that Puipiis 
 
 Voted that it the (.^..nsables for y'e 
 year 1771 i'roiince a recp't from y'e Com'- 
 tee or Either of ihem for the Payment ot 
 any part of the Provence Tmx to them or 
 Eitiier of ihem this District will indemnifi 
 ye Sd. Constables lor such Money so paid 
 Voted that this District will use their 
 Utmost Iiideavour to ascist the Coiistahles 
 ill Colleciiiig their taxes 
 
 Voted to Chose a Com'cee of Inspec- 
 tion who shall Exert themselves in Cans 
 ing the associaiioii of the Coniinental 
 Congress as also a Resolve of the Provin- 
 cial Congress Pais,d on y'e first Day ot 
 December laist for Carying into Execu- 
 tion the association to he truly adlie^rjd 
 to & Executed as also to suppress all Ped- 
 lers & Petty Chapmen 
 
 Voted Noidi Dickinson Nathan Dickin- 
 son Hezekiali Belding Joseph Williamsj 
 Isaac Hubliard Ehentzr Dickinson, Gid- 
 eon Dickinson John Billings Nath'll 
 Dickinson Jn'r be the Com'tee above 
 
 Voted to Cho>e a Com'tee who shall 
 Gary a subscription Paper to tiie several 
 Pheamileys within this District to give 
 them an opertunity to subscrihe such 
 things as they shall Pleas for the Relief of 
 the Poor of Boston & Charletnwn and 
 Make Return thereof to March Meeting 
 
 Voted Ehenezor Mattoon Ebenez;»r 
 Eaatnian Jonathan Dickinson Jn'r Joel 
 Moody Nathan Dickinson jnr be the 
 Com'tee atiove 
 Attest: MosKS DiCKmsoN Modemtor 
 
 At n Leirsil meetintt of the Fr^-ehohlers 
 and other Inhabitants of the District of 
 Amherst Qualified to vote in Town affairs 
 on Teusday the twenty eighth Day of 
 March A D 1775 at Nine of the Clock in 
 the forenoon Pur«ui»nt to a Legal War- 
 rant for that purpose 
 
 Voted. That Mos-es Dickinson be a 
 Moilernior to govern said meeting 
 
 Voted. That Naih'll Dickinson Jun'r be 
 tlie Clerk f..r tins District the ensuing 
 year 
 
 Voted. That Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r be 
 the Treasurer tor this District the ensuing 
 year 
 
 Voted. That Moses Dickinson, John 
 Dickinson, Reuben Dickinson, Nath'll 
 Dickinson and Elinnezer Mattoon be the 
 Select men for this District the ensuing 
 year 
 
 Voted. That Joseph Eastman, Nath'll 
 Dickinson Jun'r and Moses Dickinson be 
 the Assessors for this District the ensuing 
 year 
 
 Voted. That liohert Emmons and James 
 Merrick be the Constables for this Dis- 
 trict the ensuing year 
 
 Voted. That Timothy Green, Isaac 
 Hulibard. Reuhen Dickinson, Henry 
 Franklin, Tho nas Bascom, and Jonathan 
 Dickinson Jn'r be surveyors ol Heighways 
 tile ensuing year 
 
 Voted. Th'inas Bascom, Nath'll Dick- 
 inson 2'd, Edward Smith, Joel Billings 
 Eiezer Cowls, and Elisha Smith be the 
 Tytliinginen for this District the ensuing 
 year 
 
 Voted. That Joseph Dickinson & Eli 
 Parker be Fence vit wers for this District 
 the ensuing year 
 
 Voted. That Barnabas Edy, Abner 
 Adams, Israel Dickinson, Eiezer Cowls, 
 
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 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Samuel Boltwood, Gideon Dk-kinson Jun'r 
 ami John Billing Jun'r be Uogreaves for 
 til s District tlie ensuii\ff year 
 
 ^' .-'1. Tliat Tliorans Husiinsis be a 
 sealer of Leather for this Disnic-t !lie 
 ensuinjf yenr 
 
 Voted. That EUnIui Insiraham l)e aitded 
 to the Committee appoimeii to receive 
 and pay the Province monies to Henry 
 Gardner E>q"r 
 
 Voted. That l'liili(> In^raham be paid 
 tli' Slim f one r '■ il four >.iiilliM^s hy 
 order of the Select men out of tlie 1 ) rict 
 Treasury 
 
 Voted. That this District Doth npurove 
 of Elislia Inaraham as a Tavern keeper 
 and recommend it to the selectmen that 
 they grant him their approbation for the 
 same 
 
 Attest Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the District of Amherst assembled at 
 tbe meeting bous in S'd District on the 
 fourth Day of May 1775 — 
 
 Voted. John Billings Moilerator 
 
 Voted. To choose a Committee to pro- 
 vide Stores tor the support of the Army 
 collected at Cambridge & Towns around 
 
 Voted. M'r McDaniell, Simeon Smith, 
 John BilliiiL,'s, Daniel Keliogii, Alexander 
 Smith be a Coin'tee for that Purpose 
 
 Voted. That tbe Committee ciiosen act 
 Discretionary in providing stores 
 
 Attest John Billings Moderator 
 
 Voted. Upon the general clause in the 
 Warrant J i.epli Eastman Moderator 
 
 Tile T<iwn enters into the examination 
 of M"r Josiab Ciiauncey 
 
 Voted. Not satisfied with his answer to 
 the charge laid asiainst him. 
 
 Voted. That s'd Cbanncey should Burn 
 all his Commissions he had ever received 
 from the King, md also commit bis Fire 
 arms into the hands of tbe Select men of 
 tlie District 
 
 Voted. To Adjourn tbe meeting to tbe 
 s'd meeting bouse untill Tensday the ninth 
 Day of May Current at one of tbe Clock in 
 
 e Afternoon 
 
 Voted. Not satisfied with tbe answer 
 given by John Nash to the charge made 
 against liim 
 
 At a meeting of tbe Inhabitants of tbe 
 District of Amherst Pursuant to Adjourn- 
 ment on Teiisday tlie Ninth Day of May 
 at one of the Clock in tbe afternoon 
 
 Voted, that John Nash should Destroy 
 his Commission received from Autliority 
 tliat theti they would be satisfied 
 
 Voted. That tbe Arms of Josiab Cbaun- 
 cey should be remrned to him 
 
 Attest Joseph Eastman Moderator 
 
 Att a meeting of .the Freeholders & 
 other Inhahitams of tbe District of Am- 
 herst Qualifii-d to vote for a Representative 
 on Wednesday tbe twenty fourth of May 
 1775 at four of tbe Clock in the Afternoon 
 Pursuant to a Legal Warrant for that pur- 
 pose 
 
 Voted. To choose one Delegate to attend 
 tbe Provincial Congress lo be holden at 
 Watertown (m the thirty first instant 
 
 Voted. That said Delegate be cliosen by 
 hand vote 
 
 Voted. That Natb'll Dickinson Jun'r be 
 the Delegare to attend the Congress to be 
 holden at Watertown on the thirty first of 
 this Instant May 
 
 Voted. Tiiat tlie select men Borrow tbe 
 sum ot Six Pounds to Defray the expenoe 
 of said Delegate unless paid him hy the 
 Constables before he attends the Congress 
 
 V<ited. That tiK- Committee of Corre- 
 spondence & Inspection heretofore chosen 
 continue in their offices 
 
 Voted. That said Committees act ac- 
 cordingly to the Directions of Congress 
 
 Moses Dickinson ^ Select men 
 Attest John Dickinson !-oftlie District 
 Nath'll Dickinson J of Amherst 
 
 At a Legal meetiotJ of toe Inbeahitants 
 of the District of Amherst Qualified to 
 Vote for a Representative o^i tbe tenth 
 Day of July 1775 I' ^rsuant to a Legal 
 warrant for that purpose 
 
 Voted. To choose one Representative 
 and but one to attend at the General 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 69 
 
 1 Select men 
 ..t iiii- Disirici 
 of Aiiiliwst 
 
 Assemtily to bt- lioldeti at Watertown on 
 the Nineteeiiih Current 
 
 Vcited. Tlint M'r Moses Dickinson he 
 tiie Representative to attend the Assembly 
 abovesMJil 
 
 John Dickinson 
 Atteot 
 
 Nath'll Dickinson 
 
 At a L-giil niieting nf the Iniiabitanis 
 of iliH District of Amherst Qualified to 
 vote in Town affairs on thursday Aufifust 
 the tenth 1775 
 
 Voted Joseph Enstman Moderator 
 
 Voted — To clioose a Conunittee to go 
 to M'r Parsons & Desire him to attend the 
 nieetini; 
 
 Voted— That John Dickinson, Natli'll 
 Dickinson & John Billings be the Commit- 
 tee 
 
 Voted. To suspend any further j)ro- 
 ceeding respecting the Rev'd David Par- 
 sons for the present 
 
 Voted — That Simeon Smith, Thomas 
 Hastings, c^ D'li Simeon Clarke be added 
 to the ('oinniirttee of Correspondence 
 Att'st Joseph Eastman Moderator 
 
 [Henceforward in the records Amherst 
 is always spoken of as a town. Legally, 
 however, it did not become a town until 
 the Act of March 23, 1786.] 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhahitants 
 of the Town of Andier.^t (Qualified to votf 
 in town affairs) on Wednesday the twenty 
 fourth Day of January AD 1776 at Nine 
 O'clock in the forenoon Pursuant to a 
 Legal warrant for that purpose 
 
 Voted. Moses Dickinson Esq'r Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted — To allow the Bills tliat have 
 been read 
 
 Voted. To empower the Assessors to 
 Assess a sum on the Itihabitants of tl.is 
 town sufficient to pay the Bills that have 
 been read as also twenty six Pounds to 
 support scliooiinn and the Rev'd David 
 Parsons's salarv 
 
 Voted — To Grant a sum of money for 
 the support of schooling 
 
 Voted — That twenty six Pounds be 
 liranted for tin- i-u-iport of .-chooling 
 
 Voted. To choose a Committee of Cor- 
 respondence 
 
 Voted— that the said Committee con^st 
 i>f seven 
 
 Voted. That Capt'n Reuben Dickinson, 
 Leivt Simeon Smith, Moses Dickinson 
 E q Leivt Elijah Baker, Simon Fohes, 
 Ehen^zer Mattoon and Martin Kellogg be 
 the said Committee 
 
 Attest Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst on Monday tlie 
 iwenty fifih Day of March, 1776 
 
 Vot'd Most-s Dickinson Esq'r Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Vot'd Nath'll Dickinson Jnn'r Town 
 Clerk 
 
 Vot'd Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Town 
 Treasurer 
 
 Vot'd Joseph Eastman, J()se()h Williams, 
 Mos>'S Dickinson E>q'r L't Simeon Smith, 
 Simeon Dickinson selectmen 
 
 Voted. Moses Dicdcinson Esq'r Joseph 
 Eastman Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Asses- 
 sors 
 
 Voted — Martin Smith, & Lemuel Moody 
 Constables 
 
 Voted Daniel Kellogg, Jonatlian Smith, 
 Josiiih Warner, David Smith, L't John 
 Dickinson, Joel BillintiS, Surveyors of 
 Higii^ays — Voted 'I'homas Hastings Seal- 
 er of Leather — Voted. Joseph Dickinson, 
 Nath'll Coleman Fence Viewers — Voted 
 — Elisha Intjram, Jonathan Dickinson 
 Juti'r James Merrick John Nash, Elislia 
 Smith, Tytliintjmen — Vot'd Henry Frank- 
 lin, Ebei-iezer Boltwood, Zrtcheriah Haw- 
 ley, Elezer Cowls, John Lee, Joseph 
 Peck, Hogreeves. 
 
 Vot'd Jncoh McDaniell, Noah Dickin- 
 son, Noah Smith, Wardens. 
 
 Voted. To Choose Nine men for a Com- 
 mittee of Correspondence 
 
 Voted. That Moses Dickinson Esq'r 
 Elijah Baker, Cap't Reuben Dickinson 
 
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 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Natli'll Dickinson .lun'r James Merrick, 
 L't Simeon Smith, Joseph Eastman John 
 Billing, Ehenezer Dickinson be the Cora- 
 mitte of Correspondence 
 
 Voted— That Hogs Yoked & rung ac- 
 cording to Law he allowed to run in the 
 Commons from the iniildle of May to the 
 mid'lle of August — Voted — To raise a sum 
 of money to repair the liighways — VotM — 
 To raise Sixiy Poumis to repair tlie Heigh- 
 ways — Voteil — To allow two shillings and 
 eitilit Pence per Day for work in summer 
 anil two shillings P'r Day fur work in 
 fall 
 
 Votfd — That tliH Assessors proceed by 
 the Laist List to make tlie Assessment 
 
 Voted — That the Assessors be empower- 
 ed to assess the Sum of Sixty Pounds to 
 repair the HfighwMys — Vot'd — T'lat Sam- 
 uel Henry have Leave to take earth from 
 unch-r the meeting-house to make Salt 
 Petre 
 
 Attest Moses Dickinson Moderator 
 
 At a meetinif of ilie Freeholders and 
 other Inhahitants of the Town of Amherst 
 Qualifi-il to vote for a Representative May 
 the 22'd. 17*76 
 
 Voted — M'r John Billing a Representa- 
 tive the ensuing year 
 
 Moses Dickinson ^ select men 
 Attest Joseph Williams y of 
 
 Simeon Dickinson J Amherst 
 
 At a Legal Meetintt of Che Inhahitants 
 of the Town ot Amherst June 13th 1776 
 
 Voted Joseph Exstmau Moderator 
 
 Voted Nath'U Dickinson Jun'r to take 
 Recogeiizances of Deins 
 
 Voted — That should the Honourable 
 Congress, fir the safety of the united Col- 
 onies in America : Declare them Independ- 
 ant of the Kimidom of Great- liritnin ; We 
 the Inhahitants of the town of Amiierst 
 solemnly engage with our lives and for- 
 tunes to support them in the measure — 
 And that this Resolve be transmited to our 
 Representative in General Assemby as in- 
 fltructons to him 
 
 Attest 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of t'le Town of Amherst (qualified to vote 
 in town affairs) the 20ih Day of January 
 1777 
 
 Vot'd Joseph Williams Moderator 
 
 Vot'd two Shillings per day for work 
 Done at Bridges in the fall & Spring 
 
 Vot'd two Sliilling & eight pence pr 
 Day for work Done at iirulttes in Sum- 
 n)er 
 
 Vot'd Seven Shillings & Six Pence per 
 Hundred for two inch Oak Plank 
 
 Vot'd To allow the Bills as read and 
 corrected 
 
 Voted. To Grant twenty five pounds to 
 procuie a town Stock ol Ammunition 
 
 Voted. To Grant thirty ((ouiids to pay 
 for Schooling 
 
 Vot'd to ailjourn till tomorrow at twelve 
 O'clock 
 
 At a meeting pursuant to the above 
 adjoummeiii 
 
 Vot'd To empower the Assessors to 
 Assess a Sum on the Inhabitants of this 
 town which shall be sufficient to pay the 
 Bills that liave heen read & accepted 
 
 Vot'd To empower the Assessors to 
 Assess a sum on the Inhabitants of this 
 town which shall he sufficient to pay the 
 Rev'd David Parsons his salary untill the 
 annual meeting of the Inhahitants of this 
 town in March next 
 
 Vot'd to improve English Schoolmasters 
 only — Vot'd — That the conduct of the 
 Rf-v'd David Parsons is not friendly with 
 regard to the Common Cause 
 
 Vot'd To Choose a Committee to in- 
 inforni M'r Parsons of the preceeding 
 vote 
 
 Vot'd That D'n Clarke, D'n Edwards, 
 Joseph Williams, Moses Dickinson Esq,r 
 and Elijah Baker be the Committee 
 
 Vot'd That the Treasurer be Directed 
 to Collect tiM moiiev Due to the town to 
 procure a town stock of Ammunition 
 Attest Joseph Wilhajis Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of Amherst March 24th 1777 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 71 
 
 Viited, Joseph EHStman Moderator 
 
 Voted Nath'l Dickinson Jun'r Town 
 Clerk and Town Treasurer 
 
 Voted, Moses Dickinson Esq'r, John 
 Billing, Capt Reuben Dickinson Elijah 
 Baker, Josph Williams Select-men 
 
 Vi't'd Moses Dickinson Esq'r John 
 Billing, Nath'l Dickinson Jun'r Assesors. 
 
 Voted, John Billing, Cap't Rnuhen 
 Dickinson, Elijah Baker, Natli'l Dickin- 
 son Jiin James Merrick, J >seph Williams, 
 Joseph Dickinson he the Coniinittee of 
 Correspondence Inspection & Safety 
 
 Voted, Martin Kellogg and Moses Dick- 
 inson Jun'r Constables 
 
 Voted, Henry J. Franklin, Eben'r East- 
 man, Ezra Rood, Timothy Green Jun'r 
 David Blodgett, D'n Simeon Clarke Sur- 
 veyors of Highways 
 
 Voted, Oliver Cowls, Cliiiiab Smith, 
 Enos Coleman, Elijah Hastings Ty thing- 
 men 
 
 Vote<l, Eben'r Mattoon, Eli-<lia Ingram, 
 Simeon Dickinson, Edward Smith Reuben 
 Ingram Wardens. — Voted Simeon Peck 
 Jun'r Eliliu Hubbard Nath'l Dickinson 2d 
 Ezra Rood, Isaac Goodale Jun'r Hog- 
 reeves 
 
 Vot'd Josepli Dickinson, Enos Coleman 
 Fence Viewers — Vot'd L't Thomas Hast 
 ings Sealer of Leather — Vot'd Joseph 
 Church Surveyor of Lumber 
 
 Voted, to adjourn to Wednesday next 
 one O'clock Afternoon — At a meeting 
 pursuant to the above ailjournment. Voted, 
 to repair the Hitjhways by a rate — 
 
 Voted, to Grant forty Pounds in addi- 
 tion to what was not expended of the last 
 highway rate for tiie repair of ways the 
 present year— Voted — To allow two shil- 
 lings & eight pence for work in summer 
 and two shilltngs for work in the fall — 
 Voted — That if any Person refuse to work 
 his proportion of the Assessment tor the 
 repair of Heii^hways, the Assessors be em- 
 powered to issue their Warrant to the Sur- 
 veyor to Collect the nioney of such Delin- 
 quent. Vot'd to empower the Assessors 
 
 to Assess the sum of forty pound on the 
 inliabitaTits of this town to repair the pub- 
 lick roads — Voted That the surveyors 
 first call upon those to work who Did not 
 Pay the whiile of the last Assessment for 
 the repair of Highways 
 
 Attest Joseph Eastman Moderator 
 
 At a Towti Meeting Holden at Amherst 
 the 21st Day of April 1777 Capt Eli Par- 
 ker Chosen Moderator — 
 
 Voted — To accept the Nomination made 
 by the Select men of Amherst for filling 
 the Juror Boxes for the Superior & Infe- 
 rior Courts 
 
 Attest Eli Parker Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 Amherst holden there on the 26th Day of 
 June 1777 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Esq'r Modera- 
 tor — Voted Eben'r Mattoon, Joseph Wil- 
 liams, Henry J. Franklin, Jonathan Dick- 
 inson Jun'r, & Hezekiah Belding be a 
 Committee to prosecute Breaches of the 
 regulating Act 
 
 Voted. To Adjnurn this meeting to Mon 
 day ye 7th Day of July next at 4 o'Clock 
 P. M. 
 
 July 7th Being met according to Ad- 
 journment the Select men exhibited to the 
 Town a List of the Names of Such Per- 
 sons as ihey supposed to be Inimical to 
 the Interest of the United States (viz) L't 
 John Field, Eiien'r Boltwood, IsHac Good- 
 ale, William Boltwood 
 
 Voted To Adjourn this meeting to tues- 
 diiy \ 'e 15tli Day of July next at I'o Clock 
 afternoon July 15'th. lieing met accord- 
 ing to Adjournment. Voted that L't 
 John Fiel,d's natne be erased from the list 
 laid before the town by the Select men- 
 Voted. To reconsider the last preceeding 
 vote — Voted. Elijah Baker procure and 
 lay before the Court the Evidence that 
 may he had against the Persons thought 
 Inimical by the town — Voted. To Adjourn 
 this meeting to Teusday the 12th Day of 
 August next at I'o Clock afternoon 
 
72 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 August 12'tli being met accordins: to 
 Adjouniiiient 
 
 Voted — tliHt L't John Field's Name be 
 struck out of tlie List 
 
 Voted that Eben'r Boitwood's Name 
 be struck out of the list 
 
 Vi>ied — that Isaac Goodale'.s Name be 
 struck out of the list 
 
 Voted — that William Boitwood's Name 
 be struck out of the list 
 
 Attest MosKS Dickinson Moderator 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of Ainlierst January y'e 12'th 1778 
 
 Voted — Crip't Reuben Dickinson Mod- 
 erator 
 
 Voted to accept the Bills as read and 
 correctted 
 
 Voted — That tlie Assei'sors be empower- 
 ed to Assess a sum of money on the In- 
 habitants of this town sufficient to pay tiie 
 Bills that are accepted as also to Pay M'r 
 Parsons liis Salary for the year past and 
 to pay what was not paid him for his Sal- 
 ary ending with April 1777 
 
 Voted. To allow twelve shillings P'r 
 Hundred feet of two inch oak plank 
 
 Voted. To Grant fifty pounds to su|>p()rt 
 tlie schools 
 
 Voted — that the Assessors make the 
 town n;te by the last list taken 
 Attest 
 
 Reuben Dickinson Moderator 
 At a Letful meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of Amherst March y'e ll'th 1778 
 
 Voted M'r John Billings Moderator — 
 Voted. To consider the second Article in 
 the Warrant — Voted — That Persons uot 
 owning Independance on the Crown of 
 Great Britain agreeable to the Declaration 
 of Congress shall not vote — Voted. Nath'l 
 Dickinson Jun'r Town Clerk and town 
 Treasurer — Voted. Moses Dickinson Esq'r 
 Joseph Williams, Cap't Ruben Dickinson 
 Elijah Baker, John Billing Select men — 
 Voted. John Billing, Elijah Baker Moses 
 Dickinson E-q'r Assessors — Voted — Jo 
 seph Williams, Cap't Reuben Dickinson. 
 
 EHj ill Maker, Joseph Dickinson, Josiah 
 Warner, L't Ehen'r Matoon, John Billing 
 Conmiittee of Correspondence &c. 
 
 Voted. David Blodget & Henry J.Frank- 
 lin Constables 
 
 Voted. Stephen Smith, Waitstill Dick- 
 inson, Simeon Peck, Daniel Kellogg Jun'r 
 Noali Smith, Ezra Rood Surveyors of 
 Highways 
 
 Voted — Oliver Clapp, Joseph Dickin- 
 son, Joel Moody, Simeon Peck Tything- 
 men — Voted L't Thomas Hastings Sealer 
 of Leather 
 
 Voted John Ingram, James Hendrick, 
 Deer re* ves 
 
 V ited — Noadiah Smith, Enos Cowls, 
 Elijah Baker Jun'r Azariah Dickinson 2'd 
 Simeon Peck Jun'r Paul Newton, Aaron 
 Dickinson Hogreeves 
 
 Voted — Timothy Green, Eben'r Mattoon 
 Fence viewers 
 
 Voted, that the Select men proportion 
 the money Due on the Highway rate to 
 the surveyors for the present year 
 
 Attest John Billing Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the town of Amherst November 14th 1777 
 
 Voted Mr John Billing Moderator. 
 
 Voted to Grant fifty Pounds for the 
 purpose of maintaining schools the current 
 year 
 
 Attest John Billing Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 ot the Town of Amherst March 26th 1778 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Esq'r Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted Enos Dickinson Constable 
 
 Voted. To release Lemuel Moodey from 
 collecting the whole of the rates assessed 
 on Oliver Smith for the year 1776 — V-Jted 
 — To reimburse to Lemuel Moodey the 
 sum of four Dollars for a Counterfeit Bill 
 received by him in part for a rate collect- 
 ed by him — Voted — To allow six sl;illings 
 P'r Day for work Done at Heighways the 
 preceeding year — Voted to adjourn ot 
 thursday the 16th Day of April next at 
 Nine o'Clock forenoon 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 73 
 
 April IGtIi 1778. Then being met 
 accordiiifr to ailjouniment — Voted — To 
 C^iDose a Committee to seat the meeting 
 liouse; Tliat said Committee Consist of 
 seven : Tliat Elij ill Baker L't Tlio's Hast- 
 ings Cap't Reuben Dickinson Cap't. Eli 
 Parker John Billing, Jonath'n Dickinson 
 Jun'r and Natli'll Dickinson Juii'r be the 
 Committee aforesaid — Voted — That the 
 Committee proceed according to Age, 
 Estate & Qualifications. 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the town of Amherst April 30tli 1778 
 
 Voted Moses Dickinson Esq'r Modera- 
 tor — Voted To except of the Nomination 
 made by the Select men for Jurymen — 
 Voted — That swine Yoked & ring'd ac- 
 cording to Law he allowed to run at lar^e 
 — Voted. To Leave it to the Select men of 
 Amherst to agree with the Select men of 
 Leverett for the S;-ttlement of the Line 
 Between Amherst & Leverett by leaving 
 it to indifferent men from the Neighbour- 
 ing Towns 
 
 Attest Moses Dickinson Moderator j 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of Amherst September 4ih 1770 
 Voted Elijah Baker Moderator — 
 Voted Isaac Hubbard and Nath'll Dick- 
 inson 2'd Collectors of Taxes — 
 
 Voted. That tiie Select men Prosecute 
 an Appeal from a Judgment of the Infer- 
 ior Court in favour of Simeon Strong 
 against David Blodget — and prefer a Peti- 
 tion to the General Assembly respecting 
 the same 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the Town of Amherst Nov'r 5tli 1778 
 
 Voted John Billing Moderator. — Voted. 
 To Grant one hundred pounds for the use 
 and maintenance of schools— Voted — That 
 the Persons who send scholars shall pro- 
 vide wood for the scliools — Voted — That 
 the Select men be empowered to Draw 
 money out of the town treasury to Defray 
 the expence they have been at or may be 
 at in Defending a suit brought against 
 David Blodget by M'r Simeon Strong — 
 
 Voted — That the Town is Desirous to 
 h ive a new Constitution formed — Voted — 
 That the Committee of Correspondence &c 
 of this Town confer with the Committees of 
 the Neighbouring Towns respecting calling 
 a County Convention to consider some 
 method to procure a Constitution 
 
 Attest John Billing Moderator 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the Town of Amiierst Nov'r 1778 
 
 Voted Elijah Baker Moderator— Voted 
 that the Select men build a House for the 
 Use of the Poor of this Town of such big- 
 ness and in such place as they shall Judge 
 fit— Voted— Tliat a school be kept three 
 iiionihs at the North School house also 
 three months in the west Street in the 
 Northern part of the Town the ensuing 
 winter — 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst Dec'r 28th 1778 
 
 Voted M'r John Billing Moderator- 
 Voted — To give fifteen shillings P'r Day 
 for work Done in the summer season — 
 Voted — To give twelve shillings P'r Day 
 for work Done in the fallsei son — Voted— 
 To give Seven Dollars P'r Hundred feet 
 of Oak Plank— Voted— To allow the Asses- 
 sors three Dollars P'r Day for making 
 rates— Voted— An adilition of five shillings 
 P'r Day to (he Assessors for taking the 
 valuation List— Voted— to Allow the Bills 
 as read & corrected — Voted— To empower 
 the Assessors to assess a sum on the In- 
 habitants of this town sufficient. to pay the 
 Debts allowed, and ihe Rev'd David Par- 
 sons his yearly Salary— Vott-d-To Grant 
 the sum of One hundred & sixty six jiounds 
 for the maintenance of schools and to em- 
 power the Assessors to Assess the same on 
 the Inhabitants of this town — Vpted— To 
 choose a Committee to take some meas- 
 ures for Annexing the first Division 
 of Inner Commons in the Town of 
 Hadley to the town of Amherst — 
 Voted— That Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r 
 Joseph Eastman and Capt Parker be the 
 Committee — and report their Doings at 
 
74 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 the ne-xt meeting — Voted — To empower 
 tlie S^-lfC't men to Draw eigliteen pounds 
 out of ihe Town Treasury to Defrays 
 cliargHS in the Town — Voted — Tliat the 
 Select men Draw fifteen pound'* out of tlie 
 Treasury for ch;iry;es arisen in said town 
 A'test John Billing Moderator 
 
 At a Leaal nie.-tin^ of tlie Inliabi'ants 
 of the Town of Amherst January 7tli 1779 
 
 V..n.,l — Elijali B .ker Moderator— Voted 
 — 'I'har the money raised for the use of 
 Sc'liiioliiiy; in the North part of tliis 'I'own 
 be ex endeii in the North School lii-use — 
 Votetl — To hear the Petition of Josepli 
 Boles and choose a Committee to view 
 the Land petitioned for by liim and report 
 at the next town meeting — Voted — Cap't 
 Dickinson; Joseph Eastman, Hezekiali 
 Belding a Committee for tlie purpose above 
 mentioned — Voted — That Capt Dickinson 
 go to Hadley and exaniine the record* 
 concerning the Grant of the Priviledtjes of 
 the stream near Clarkes mill to certain 
 Persons and make report at next March 
 meeting — Voted — To adjourn the present 
 meeting to Thirsd'iy next at one O'Olock 
 afternoon to nieei at the meeting house — 
 Beintr met according to Adjournment — 
 Voted — To ratify all votes passed at a 
 meeting on the tw my eighth Day of De 
 cember 1778— Voted — That Ehen'r Mat- 
 toi>n be added to a Committee on Josepii 
 Boles's petition 
 
 On tlie report of Capt Dickinson — Voted 
 — That the Town of Amherst hath a riaht 
 to the Stream and Privileges on Fort 
 River where Clarke's and other Mills now 
 
 stand » 
 
 Attest Elijah Baker Moderator 
 
 Joseph E-istinan's Mark for Cattle and 
 Sheep is — a Crop on the Near ear and a 
 Slit on the ton of the off ear — 
 
 At a Legal meetinu of the Inhabitants of 
 the town of Amherst March 8th 1779 
 
 Voted — Joseph Williams Moderator — 
 Voted Naih'll Dickinson Jun'r Clerk & 
 Treasurer — Voted — To Adjourn for the 
 
 space of one hour — Met according to ad- 
 journment — Voted — James Merrick, Nath'- 
 II Dickinson jun'r, Joseph Dickinson, 
 Josi:i.'i Warner L't Eben'r Mattoon jun'r 
 Select men — Voted — Nath'll Dickinson 
 jun'r James Merrick D'n Simeon Clarke 
 Assessors — Voted — Isaacs Iluhbard & John 
 Penis Constables — Voted — Maj'r Nath'll 
 Peck, Timothy Green, Henry J. Franklin 
 Gideon Handerson L't Eben'r Mattoon 
 C mittee ot Correspondence &c — Voted 
 — Stephen Cole, Ezra Rood, Oliver Cowls, 
 Thiuiias Ba:»coni, Thoma'* Hastings Jun'r 
 Suiveycirs of Highways — Voted — Elisha 
 South, Alex'r Smith Jonathan Dickinson 
 J .or Simeon Clarke Jun'r Tythiiignien — 
 Voted — Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Ehenezer 
 M iit.H.ii Jun'r Waitstill Dickinson, Joel 
 Billing, Thomas Bascom, Simeon Elmore, 
 Isaac Marshall, Ho^reeves — Voted — Joel 
 Moody & Martin Kellogg Deer reeves — 
 Voted — L't Thomas Hastings Sealer 'of 
 Leather — Voted — Oliver Cowls and Timo- 
 thy Green fence viewers — Voted — Oiver 
 Clapp Collector of Taxes — Voted — That 
 the Surveyors of Highways c;ill on people 
 to work at highways and lay their accounts 
 before the Town at their meeting in Jan- 
 uary next for allowance — Voted — To ad- 
 journ to Monday next at one O'Clock 
 afternoon---Met according to adjournment 
 — Voted — To Choose a Committee to write 
 to the Town ot Hadley respeciing annex- 
 ing a certain Tract ol Land (^Lying in 
 Hadley and adjoining to the town of 
 Amherst) to the Town of Amherst — Voted 
 — Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r L't Eben'r Mat- 
 toon Jun'r Maj'r NaUi'll Peck be the Com- 
 mittee — Voted — That said Committee be 
 Directed to inform the Town of Hadley 
 that in case the whole of one Division of 
 Lots lying in Hadley ami adj ining to the 
 Town of Amherst and being North of D'n 
 Clarkes South Line is annexed to the 
 Town of Amherst the' town of Amherst 
 will maintain all roads and Bridges within 
 the bi>unds of S'd Land — Voted — That the 
 Committee heretofore chosen to view the 
 
Records op Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 75 
 
 Larnl petitii)ne(l for l»y Joseph Boles be 
 Directed to consider tlie matter further 
 and report >it tlie next meeting — Voted— 
 D'n SimeDii Clarke, Elijaii Baker & Gid- 
 eon Handerson be a Committee to view 
 the Land Petitioned for by Cwpt Eli Par- 
 ker and make report at the next meeting — 
 Voted — Tliai Joseph fi^Mstman, Maj'r 
 Nath'll Peck, L't John Dickinson be ap- 
 pointed to prosecute all Breaches of the 
 Act to prevent Monopoly and Forestallinii 
 — Voted — To Build a house for tlie Poor 
 of the Town of the same Bigness as the 
 foundation already laid for that purpose 
 near Clarkes mill — 
 
 Voted — To set said House in Cowls 
 Lane ^M called — Voted — H./.ikiali Beld- 
 ing, Eben'r Dickinson, Jonathan Dickin- 
 son Jun'r Cap't Eli Parker and Elijali 
 Buker be a Committee to build said liouse 
 — V — That I he Select men be Direct- 
 ed to procure a sum of money on Inter- 
 est or oili. rwise to pay Maj'r Naih'll Peck 
 for Boarding Moses Hawley & wife accord- 
 ing to the Agreement of former Select 
 men — Voted — That the Select men be 
 Directed to pr(jcure money on Interest and 
 agree with and Pay Simeon Peck for 
 Boarding Eunice Hawley 
 
 Joseph Williams Moderator 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Nown of Amherst March 29th 1779 
 Voted — Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Moder- 
 ator — Voted — Waitstill Dickinson & Oli- 
 ver Clapp C(nistKbles — Voted — Simeon 
 Dickinson and John Injfram Surveyors of 
 Highways — Voted — To Grant the sum of 
 three Hundred Pounds for tiie support of 
 tlie Poor of the town and replace money 
 taken out of the Treasury and that the 
 assessors tie empowered to assess the 
 same on the Iidiabitants of this Town — 
 
 Voted — To Discontinue the Highway 
 two rods in widtli in front of Cap't Par- 
 kers Barn and from thence running Nortli- 
 erly & Southerly on an Angle to the east 
 side of the Heighway so far as to contain 
 twenty rods of ground ; and grant the 
 
 same to Cap't E i Parker — Voted — To 
 Discontinue tiie Highway where Joseph 
 Boles's tan yard now is three yards in 
 widtii and six rods in length and grant the 
 same to Joseph Boles he paving the value 
 of the same — Voted — To Discontinue a 
 part of the Highway at the east end of 
 Eben'r Mattoons Lot four rods in « idth 
 and sixteen rods in lengtli and grant tiie 
 same to Joseph Boles he paying the value 
 thereof 
 
 Ai .-I Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Modera- 
 tor 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst May 17th 1779 
 
 Voted. That they cliuse at this time 
 to have a new Con-titution or Form of 
 Gi)veriiineiit maile — Voted— -That they 
 will impower their Representative for the 
 next year to vote for the calling a State 
 Convention for tlie sole purpose of form- 
 ing a new Constitutio i 
 
 Voted— To accept the List of Persons 
 to serve as Petit Jur..rs l.id before the 
 town by the Select men 
 
 Attest Eben'r Mattoon Jun'r Modera- 
 tor 
 
 At a Legal meeting of tlie Inhabitants 
 ot the Town of Anih.Tst July 12ih 1779 
 
 Voted Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Moder- 
 ator After the Duo Consideration of 
 tlie Proceedings of the Inhabiiants 
 of the Town of Boston— M'r Eben'r 
 Mai toon Jun'r was chosen to rep- 
 resent this Town in a State Convention to 
 be liolden at Concord the 1-lth instant 
 Attest Nath'll Dickinson Juti'r Mod- 
 erator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Iidiahitants 
 of the Town of Amherst August 9tli 1779 
 
 Voted L't Eben'r Mattoon Jun'r Mod- 
 erator — Voted — To cliuse a Committee to 
 consider the Doings of a State Convention 
 Begun ai'd held at Concord on tiie 14tli 
 Day of July last. Said Committee to re- 
 port to this nieetinif at the time to which 
 it slull Adjourn — Voted — Cap't Reuben 
 Dickinson, Elijah Baker, John Billing, 
 
76 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 Mosfs Dickinson Esq'r Oiileon HKiider- 
 son. Heznkiah Belding & Nath'U Dickin- 
 son Jun'r be the Committee aforesaid — 
 Voted — That John Billing, D'n Simeon 
 Clarke Cap't Eli Park-r, .Joseph Eastman, 
 Eben'r Mattoon be a Corurnittee to Con- 
 verse witli the Rev'il David Parsons re- 
 specting a settlement with him for all 
 monies Due to him from this town on or 
 before the first Day of May 1779 said Com 
 mittee to report to tliis meetinaf at the 
 lime to whicli it shall adjourn — Voted. 
 To Grant L't Ehen'r Mattoon Jun'r forty 
 Pounds for his expence and service in 
 attending a State Convention at Concord 
 on the 14rth Day of July last — Voted. To 
 Adjourn to Teu^day the 17th Instant at 3 
 O'clock afternoon 
 
 August 17th 1779 Being met according to 
 Adjournment-Voted-That Elijah Baker be 
 appointed to carry on the Suit commenced 
 against David Blodtiet by Simeon Strong 
 — Voted, That the Treasurer be Directed 
 to Tender to M'r Parsons the Nominal 
 Sum Due to him for Salary 
 Attest Eben'r Mattoon Jn'r Moderator 
 
 At A Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst October 21^t 
 1779 
 
 Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r being appoint- 
 ed Moderator — Voted — To Grant the sum 
 of four Imiidred and tliirty four pounds 
 ten sliillings to replace money taken out of 
 the Treasury to Pay Bounties & Mileage 
 to soldiers and that the Assessors be 
 Directed to assess the same and order it 
 Paid into tlie Treasury immediately — 
 Voted — To Chuse a Committee of Nine to 
 Determine how many Schools shall be 
 kept in Town the present year and at what 
 places — voted. That Nath'll Dickinson 
 Jun'r James Merrick Josiah Warner D'n 
 Clarke Moses Dickinson E^q'r Cap't Reu- 
 ben Dickinson L't Hastings be the Com- 
 mittee afores'd 
 
 Attest Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Moder- 
 ator 
 
 At a Lf-gal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 
 of the Town of Amherst January 3d 1780 
 Voted. L't Eben'r Mattoon Moderator — 
 Voted to Adjourn to the house of Elisha 
 Ingram — Voted — To adjourn the meeting 
 to tliursday the 6th instant at 12 O'Clock 
 ill the morninfi^ then to meet at the meet- 
 ing-house ; Being met according to Ad- 
 journment — Voted — To adjourn to tiie 
 house of Elisha Ingram — Voted To allow 
 two shillings and six pence p'r Day for 
 work Done at Highways in summer and 
 two shillings p'r Day for work Done at 
 Highways in the fall and spring the said 
 sums t') be Doubled twenty four for one, 
 Also to allow twenty four for one for all 
 Deiits examined and accepted by the 
 Town — Voted — That the Selectmen set- 
 tle with Aaron Warner for sounding the 
 Conque and sweeping the meeting house 
 — Voted — To Allow the Debts as read and 
 corrected — Voted — To adjourn to tliurs- 
 day next at Nine O'Clock in the morning 
 to meet at the meeting house 
 
 Being met according to Adjournment 
 voted to adjourn to the house of Maj'r 
 Wales — Voted — To Grant the sum of 
 fourteen hundred Pounds for supporting 
 schools — The Committee heretofore ap- 
 pointed to Determine how many schools 
 shall be kept in the Town of Amherst and 
 at what places, Report as follows (viz) 
 That there be six schools kept in said 
 Town, that is to say, one in the west 
 street in the Northern part of the town ; 
 one in tlie street leading from Ezra Roods 
 to Andrew Kimbals; one at each school 
 house in or near the Middle of the town; 
 one in the west street at the southern part 
 of the town : one in the school house at 
 the southern part of the Town. — Where- 
 upon voted — To accept the report of said 
 Committee with this alteration that the 
 school ordered to be kept in the street 
 leading from Ezra Rood's to Andrew Kim- 
 hal's be kept at Samuel Henry's the pres- 
 ent year — Voted — That the Assessors be 
 empowered to Assess a sum on the Inhab- 
 itants of this Town sufficient to pay the 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 171 
 
 Debts allowed nnd M'r Parsons his usuhI 
 salary and fourteen Immlred pounds for 
 the support of scliools — Voted — That tliere 
 be eighteen months schoDling in town tiie 
 present yeiir — Voted — Tliat L't John 
 Dickinson, Moses Dickinson E^q. and 
 Timothy Green be a Committee to view 
 the Land petitioned for by Daniel Church 
 and report at March meeting — Voted to 
 allow the Constables for Counterfeit mon- 
 ey — Voted-— Tliat Gideon Dickinson, Julin 
 Billing, C'lp't Eli Parker James Merrick 
 am] El)en'r Mat'0(«n be a Coninntti-e to 
 Confer with the Rev'd David PHrsons re- 
 specting a settlement with him for the 
 monies Due to him frooi tlie town. 
 Attest Eben'r Mattoox Jun'r Moderator 
 
 At a Leiial meeiing ut the Inhaliiianis 
 of the Town of Amherst Jatiu;iry 13ih 
 17S0 
 
 Voted — M'r John Billing Moderator — 
 . Voted — That the Select men Prefer a Pe- 
 tition lo the General Court praying that 
 the time appointed fir the payment of the 
 Tax last granted by said Court may be 
 postponed two months — Voted — That M'r 
 Abraham Hill be prohibited from Preach- 
 ing in this Town in future and that Cnp't 
 Dickinson, Nath'll Dickinson Jn'r & James 
 Merrick be a CommiUee to write to him 
 concerning the matter 
 
 Attest 
 
 Nathan Dickinson Jun'r his Mark for 
 Cattle and Sheep 
 
 A Crop of from the off Ear two half 
 Penny's on the same ear one on the upper 
 the other on the under side 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst March SOtli 1780 
 f Alexander Smith chosen Moderator, 
 
 the following votes passed 
 
 Voted. Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Town 
 Clerk and Town Treasurer — voted — Cap't 
 Eli Parker, L't Tim's Hastings, Alexander 
 Smith, Jonathan Dickinson and Martin 
 Kellogg, Select-men — voted — Nath'll Dick- 
 inson Jun'r Hezekiali Belding and Elisha 
 Sniitii Assessors — voted — Timothy Green 
 
 Jun'r Thomas Bascom and Ebenezer 
 Dickinson 2'd Constables — voted — Gideon 
 Dickinson, Ezra Rood Nathan Dickinson 
 Jun' John Field Jun'r Enos Coleman and 
 Joel Moody, Surveyors — voted — Samuel 
 Hastings, llezekiah Belding, John Mor- 
 ton Jn'r — Elijah Hastings, Isaac Goodale 
 and Ji)iiathan Smith, Titliingmen — voted — 
 Oiver Cowls anil Enos Coleman, Fence 
 viewers — voted — Julm Morton Jn'r and 
 Elisha Smith Sealers of Leather — vnted — 
 Joseph Church Surveyor of Lumoei — 
 voted — Tho's Hastings Jn'r &Nu!iii Smith 
 D'-er reeves — vntt-d — Israel Dickinson 
 Z icheriah Hawley, Simeon Cowls, M ses 
 Warner, Benjamin Smiih H'lgre' ve^ — ■ 
 Voted — Tliat the Surveyors lay an acuoiint 
 betore the Town at their meeting in J»iii- 
 uary next for ailownnce of all woik Done 
 in their respectivf Districts, ami that tli.-re 
 be allowed to those Persons who sludl 
 work at Highways ihe Common price of 
 labor at tiie time they shall work-r-vutt-d — ' 
 To Pay Mr David Parsons three sahirieg 
 (which will be Due to him the flist Day of 
 May next) in Silver together with the 
 inierest and that the Assessors assess the 
 same seperate from all other Taxes — 
 voted — Cap't Ell Parker, Gideon Dickin- 
 son & Hezekiah Beldinti be a Commiitee 
 to view the Land petitioned lor by Zach- 
 eriah Hawley and report to the next m^-et- 
 mg — voted — Moses Dickinson Esq Nath'll 
 Coleman and Asaliel Moody be a Commit- 
 tee to view the land petitioned for ny 
 Aaron Warner and report to the next 
 meeiing — voted — That the Committee ap- 
 pointed to view the Land petitioned for 
 by Daniel Church report to the next m.-et- 
 ing — Voted— To Grant Maj'r Nath'll Peck 
 his part of the schoolmoney — voted — To 
 Grant Wailstill Dickinson one Hundred 
 Dollars lor Counterfeit money received 
 by him for Taxes -voted — ^To Grant six 
 hundred pounds for the use of the poor of 
 the Town and the Assessors are empower- 
 ed to assess the same 
 
 Alex'r Smith Moderator 
 
78 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 At a Lejjal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town ..f Amherst April 20th 1780 
 
 Cap't Eli Parker chosen Moderator — 
 the following votes passed — 
 
 Voted — To Discontinue that part of the 
 Higliway hereafter mentioned and Grant 
 tiie same to Daniel Cliurch on Condition 
 that said Church give security for the 
 Payment of fourteen Bushels of Rie for 
 tile use of tlie Town — (viz) Beginning at 
 the south east corner of Samuel Church's 
 lot, thence Nortli 32 deg east 36 rods, 
 thence north 22 deg east 20 rods, tlience 
 North 10 deg east 21 rods and half, tlience 
 west 10 deg north 10 rods, to said Church's 
 east Line, tlience South 15 deg west to tlie 
 first mentioned corner, containing three 
 acres and seventy nine rods of ground — 
 voted — To Discontinue the Highway 
 staked cut by the C'unmittee for Zacheriah 
 Hawley and Grant the same to said Haw- 
 ley on Condition tliat said Hawley give 
 security for the payment of ten Bushels of 
 Indian Corn for tlie use of the town — 
 voted — To Discontinue the Higliway 
 (viz) twenty three rods of Ground at the 
 rear Aaron Warner's Lot and Grant the 
 same to said Hawley on Conditon that he 
 give security for the payment of seven 
 Bushels and an half of Indian Corn for the 
 use of the town — voted — To repair the 
 Doors, windows, seats, underpinning and 
 Plastering of the meeting iiouse 
 
 The Question being put whether the 
 town will be at any further charge respect- 
 ing the suit between Strong & Blodget, 
 passed in the Negative —voted — To accept 
 the List of Jurors laid before the town by 
 the Select men 
 
 Attest Eli Parker Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitantg 
 of the Town of Amherst — June 15th 1780 — 
 
 Voted Natli'U Dickinson Jun'r Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted To Grant the sum of five Hun- 
 dred Pounds for the support of the Poor 
 of the Town and for Repairing the Meet- 
 ing House and that the Assessors Assess 
 
 the same and order paid immediately into 
 the Town Treasury — Voted. To Grant 
 Waitstill Dickinson Ninety Dollars re- 
 ceived by liim in Counterfeit money re- 
 ceived by him for Taxes — Voted — That 
 Simeon Dickinson, Cap't Reuben Dickin- 
 son, Nath'll Dickinson Jr Cap't Eli Par- 
 ker, Mnses Dickinson Esq John Billing 
 and Gideon Handerson be a Committee to 
 seat the meeting house 
 Attest Nath'll Dickinson Jr Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst on Monday the 
 fourth Day of September Anno Domini 
 1780 
 
 Votes were brought in for a Governer 
 as follows — viz — 
 
 The Hon'ble John Hancock Esq'r For- 
 ty three 
 
 The Hon'ble James Bowdoin Esq'r 
 eight 
 
 Votes for a Lieutenant Governor as 
 follows — viz. 
 
 The Hon'ble James Warren Esq forty 
 Nine 
 
 The Hon'ble Artemas Ward Esq'r three 
 
 Votes for Senators as follows — viz — 
 
 Joseph Hawley Esq'r forty seven 
 
 John Bliss Esq. forty four 
 
 David Smead Esq. forty four 
 
 Samuel Mather Esq'r thirteen 
 
 Noaii Goodman Esq'r Nine 
 
 John Billing — twenty four 
 
 John Hastings E-^q four 
 
 Elisha Ingram one 
 
 John Chester Williams Esq two 
 
 Nathan Dickinson Jr two 
 
 David Sexton E«q two 
 
 Caleb Strong E^q'r two 
 
 Eleazer Porter Esq'r two 
 
 Eli Parker ] Select men 
 
 Jonathan Dickinson j and 
 
 Thomas Hastings I Town 
 
 Alex'r Smith j Clerk 
 
 Martin Kellogg | of 
 
 N ath 'll Dickinson Jr j Amherst 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst Oct'r 16. 1780 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 79 
 
 Natiril Dickinson Jun'r was chosen 
 Representative 
 
 Voted. To Grant the sum of Ten thou- 
 sand Pounds to pay for Beef agreeable to 
 a Resolve of tlie General Court of Sep'r 
 25tli 1780 and that the assessors be Direct- 
 ed tu assess the same on the Inhabitants 
 ot this Town immediately and Order the 
 same Paid accoidiiitc in saii R> solve — 
 Voted — M'r John Billing Maj'r Nath'U 
 Peck & Cap't David Rich be a Committee 
 to procure the Beef ordered by the Re- 
 solve aforewaid 
 
 Eli Parker 
 Alex'r Smith 
 Attest Tho's Hastings 
 
 Jon'th Dickinson Jn'r 
 Martin Kellogg 
 
 At H Le^al meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the District of Amherst Dec'r 4tli 1780 
 
 M'r John iiilnnti Cliosen Moderator 
 
 V • e<i. To raise three Hundred Pounds 
 to maintain Schools — Voted — that there 
 be six schools set up in the same places 
 where tliey were kept the last year — Voted 
 — Tliat each school be kept three months 
 — Voted — To accept the report of the 
 Committee appointed to purchase Beel 
 and Discharge said Committee 
 
 Attest John Billing Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst Dec'r 18th 1780 
 
 Nath'U Dickinson Jun'r was chosen 
 Moderator 
 
 Voted — To appoint a Committee to en- 
 quire and report to the town how and in 
 what manner soldiers may be best pro- 
 cured to serve in the Continental Army 
 for three years or During the war — Voted, 
 That Cap't Parker, Cap't Dickinson L't 
 Hastings, L't Smith, L't Aaron Dickinson, 
 John Billing, Elijah Baker Moses Dick- 
 inson Esq'r be a Committee for the purpose 
 above»aid — Voted — That it is tiie opinion 
 of this Town that the Tender Act shall 
 not be repealed — Voted — That Cap't Par- 
 ker, John Billing Elijah Baker L't Mat- 
 toon L't Hastings, Nath'U Dickinson Jun'r 
 
 and Joseph Dickinson be a^Committee to 
 seat the meeting house that said Commit- 
 tee proceed according to 'a^e Estate and 
 qualitications and report at next January 
 meeting 
 
 Voted, To adjourn to thursday the 28th 
 Instant at one O'Clock afternoon 
 
 Being met according to adjournment — 
 The following Report of the Committee 
 was read and accepted (viz) That the 
 Town will give to each soldier that shall 
 inlist for this town for three years or Dur- 
 ing the war the sum of three pounds hard 
 money P'r month the Town to receive 
 their wages or in Liew thereof the town 
 will give to each soldier that shall inlist 
 as atores'd forty shillings p'r month in 
 hard money in addition to their Continen- 
 tal Pay; also that the Town will give each 
 soldier that shall inlist as afores'd two 
 shirts, two Pairs (.f stockings and two 
 pairs of shoes yearly in case he fails of the 
 same from the Continent or State and the 
 Town Direct the Militia Officers to make 
 the above proposals to their respective 
 Companies in the name of the town — Vot- 
 ed. To Grant Maj'r Nath'U Peck and 
 Simeon Peck their proportion of the 
 money granted for schooling 
 Attest Nath'll Dickinson Jn'r Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Isaac Marshal's Mark for Cattle and 
 Sheep A Crop on the left Ear and a Swal- 
 lows Tail on the right Ear 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the Town of Amherst — Dec'r 28th 1780 
 
 Nah'll Dickinsou Jnr was chosen 
 Moderator — Voted To allow those Persons 
 who hired men to go into the Army for 
 six or three months the summer past the 
 several sums by the[m] advanced as a 
 Bounty or Hire to said men— Voted — 
 That the said Bounties or Hires be allow- 
 ed at the rate of fifty Dollars p'r bustiel 
 for rie— Voted— To allow each Person the 
 
80 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 whole sum by him advanced or engaged 
 to the soldiers afbrfsniil and sucli of ihera 
 as are to receive tiie soldiers wages shall 
 Pay the same to the Treasurer of this 
 Town — Voted. To Giant the SUM! ot four 
 Hundred & sixty Pounds New (^urrency 
 to procure Beef and Grain accordintj to a 
 resolve of the General Court of die 4ih of 
 December instant — Tiiat the assessors 
 assess the afores'd sum of £460 on the In- 
 habitants of this Town — Voted — That 
 John Billintf Moses Dickinson Esq'r and 
 Cap't Parker be a Connnittee to procure 
 the Beef and Grjiin aforesaid — Voted — 
 TliHt Eben'r Mattomi, Elien'r Dickinson 
 and Moses Conke be a Committee to view 
 the L>ind Petitioned U>r i y J lel iiilling 
 and report at the next March meeting 
 Attest Nath'll Dickinson Jur Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of tne Inhabitants of 
 Amherst January 8lh 1781 — Cap't Eli 
 Parker «as chosen M "I • or 
 
 Voted, To allow the Debts a^ read and 
 corrected, and that the Assessors be em- 
 powered to assess a sum on the Inhabitants 
 of this Town sufficient to Pay the same — 
 Voted. To allow three Shillings P'r Da\ 
 for work done in summer ami tw.) Shillings 
 P'r Day for work dnie in the fall — Voted, 
 To allow three shillings P'r Day to the 
 assessors — Voted, To allow nine shillings 
 P'r hundred tcir two inch o>ik Plank — 
 voted — To accept the report of the C 'in- 
 mittee for seating the meetiog house — 
 voted — i' < .oi|Onrti the meeting to thurs- 
 day next at one O'Clock afternoon — Being 
 met according to adjournment — voted — 
 That the Select men should take part of 
 the money raised for schoiding to Pay 
 Debts contracted for the support of the 
 Poor — Voted — To appropriate the remain- 
 der of the money raised to procure Beef, 
 to Pay for the Horses purchased for the 
 C Miiiiient 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst March 19th 1781 
 
 Major Nath'll Peck was chosen Moder- 
 ator 
 
 Voted — John Billing, EliJMh Baker, 
 Isnac Hubbard, Gideon Hamlerson and 
 Moses Dickinson Esq'r. Select men — 
 Voted — Nath'll Dickinson Jiin'r Town 
 Clerk and Town Preasurer — Voted — John 
 Billing, Moses I )iekinson Esq'r ami Nath'll 
 Dickitison Jun'r Assessors — Voted — John 
 Ingram, L't Aaron Dickinson and Nath'll 
 Alex r Smith Constables — Voted — Tinu)- 
 thy Green Jun'r Simeon Clark Jn'r Me- 
 (iad Diekinson, Josiah Warner and Asahel 
 Moody Tytliingmen — voted — John Billing, 
 Martin Kellogg and Oliver Clapp Church 
 Wardens-voted-Nathan Dickinson Jun'r, 
 Stephen Cole, Nath'll Dickinson 2d, Ezra 
 Iluod Jonathan Dickinson Jn'r and Ruben 
 Ingram Surveyors ut Highways — voted — 
 John Billing ami Jo epU DicKi sun Deer 
 Reeves 
 
 voted L't Tlio's Hastings Sealer of 
 Leather 
 
 voted — Joseph Church Surveyor ot 
 Lumber 
 
 Voted — Nath'll Coleman and Abner 
 Ailams Fence viewers 
 
 Voted — Ambrose Williams, Zacheriah 
 Ha^ley, Abner Adams, Tnnotiii Smi.li, 
 Giles Church, John Field Jun'r Samuel 
 Smith, Noadiah Warner and Jacob War- 
 ner Jr Hot; reeves — Voied — That Daniel 
 Kellogg, Dea'ii Edwards and L't Hastings 
 be a Committee to view the Land petition- 
 ed tor by Noah Dickinson and report what 
 is proper to be done — Voted — To Discon- 
 tinue a jiart ot the Highway at the trout 
 of Joel Billing's Lot, beginning a. the 
 northwest corner ot said Lot and extend- 
 ing Six rods in width and thirty rods in 
 lengiii and grant the same to Joel Billing 
 on Condition that he Pay the treasurer of 
 Amherst tor said Land at the rate of forty 
 shillings pr. Acre 
 
 Voted— To Appropriate co much of the 
 money raised for schooling as to Pay what 
 remains due for Horses bought for the 
 Continent 
 
 Voted — To Choose an Agent to carry 
 on the Suit Pending between M'r Strong 
 
iiECOKDs OF Amhekst fkom 17oo to 1788. 
 
 ;i 
 
 and M'r Blodget and that Elij ih Baker be 
 f the Agent 
 
 Voted —To Choose a Committee to set- 
 tle with the Heirs of the Kev'd David 
 Parsons tor the Sahiries Due to them, 
 and Elijah Baker, John Billing and Gid- 
 eon Ilanderson were chosen tor said pur- 
 pose 
 
 At a Meeting of the Inliabitants of tiie 
 Town of Amherst April 2d 1781 
 
 Votes for a G'lVernor being called for 
 were hrou^iit in as foMows (viz) for his 
 Excellency Juiin Hancock Esq'r fifty 
 seven for the IIon'!)ie James Bowdoin 
 Esq'r Nine Votes tor a Lieutenant Gover- 
 nor being called for were nrouijht in as 
 follows (viz) for his Honor Tliomas Gush- 
 ing E<q'r forty three for the Hon Mile Ar- 
 teinas Ward Esq'r Nineteen 
 
 Votes for four Senators beioif called for 
 were brought in as follows (viz) 
 
 For John Bliss Esq'r fifty seven 
 
 David Sniead Esq'r tlurty Nine 
 
 John Hastings Esq'r feriy 
 
 Noah Goodman Esq'r forty 
 
 Tiniotliy Danielson E-q'r eighteen 
 
 Samuel Mather Esq'r eighteen 
 
 Caleb Strong Esq'r eighteen 
 
 Elisha Ingram three 
 
 Muses Dickinson ] Select 
 
 John Billing | men 
 
 Atie>t 
 
 GlUKON Handerson 
 
 and 
 
 Elijah Bakek f town clerk 
 
 Isaac Hubbard | of 
 
 Nathll Dickinson Jii J Amherst 
 At a Legal meeting of the Iiihabiiants of 
 the Town of Amlierst April 2(1 1781 
 Elijah Baker was chosen Moderator 
 Voted — Tiiat ench Person who advanced 
 any money, as a Hire to the Soldiers who 
 served six or three months in the Army 
 last summer he allowed the same at the 
 rale of filty Dollars pr. Bushel for rie ; 
 and in case any Person shall Draw the 
 soldiers wages, such Person be allowed 
 oue fourth part in addition to said wages 
 and the Assessors are empoweri^d to assess 
 the Inhabitants of this Town for payment 
 of the same 
 
 Voted — To repair the Highways by a 
 Tax — Voted — That Moses Dickinson Esq'r 
 Jolm HilliiiK, and Cap't Eii Parker he a 
 Conuiiittee to settle with L't Mattoon re- 
 specting a quantity of Gun Powder in his 
 possession — Voted — To Grai>t the sum of 
 fifteen Pounils for the support of the Poor 
 — the Assessors are empowered to Assess 
 the same 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town ot Amherst May 18th 1781 
 
 Moses Dickinson Chosen Moderator 
 
 Voted. That the Select men t)e a Cora- 
 mitte to provide the town with a Preacher 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhaldtants of 
 the T>iwn of Amlierst June 25th 1781 
 
 C;ip't Eli Parker was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted. That as soon as convenient the 
 Town will he in a way for the Resettle- 
 ment of the Gospel Ordinances among 
 them. 
 
 Voted. That the Town are willing to 
 Concur with the Church in all proper 
 measures for the Resettlement of the Gos- 
 pel Ministry and Ordinances 
 
 Voted — To choose Seven Persons as a 
 Committee to join with the Committee of 
 the Churi:h to procure a resettlement of 
 the Gospel Ordinances in this Town — 
 That Mayin Kellogi/, Elijah Biker, Isaac 
 Huhb^.rd, D'r Seth C(deman, Nath'll Dick- 
 inson Jr hiislia Smith and James Merrick 
 be the Committee aforesaid. Voted. To 
 give said Committee the following instruc- 
 tions (viz) that when occasion requires 
 they shall Confer with the Committee of 
 the Chuich and endeavor a union and har- 
 mony in all measures which relate to the 
 Resettlement of Gospel Ordinances in this 
 town — Voted — That the Committee be 
 Directed to employ M'r David Parsons to 
 supply the Pulpit for the present — Voted 
 — That the Assessors take the Continental 
 money now in tlie 'J'own Treasury to Pay 
 tlie State Tax — Voted — That Nath'll Cole- 
 man, Simeon Pomroy and M'r Daniel 
 Cooley be a Conmiittee to view the Land 
 
82 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 Petitioned for by Stephen Smith apprise 
 the same and report to the Town what is 
 proper to he Done tlieron 
 
 At a I>e(iHl Meeting of the InhaV)itaiit8 
 of tiie Town of Amherst July 6tli 1781 
 
 C/it(>'t Eli Parker was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted — 'I'o f"!h()ose a Comniittee to Pro- 
 cure the Beef assessed on the Town by 
 the General Court and that John Billing, 
 Joseph Eastman and Cap't Eli Parker be 
 the C inniiir. e — Voted — Tliat t^e Com- 
 mittee be Directed to Borrow the liard 
 money to Purchase the Beet and give Obli- 
 gations in behalf of the town for the same 
 — Voted to Pay the Executor of the Eev'd 
 David Hai«..iis D'd the whole of the sala- 
 ries Due to him on the first Day of May 
 1781 in Gold or Silver with the interest 
 Due on the same and the Assessors are 
 Directed and empowered to assess the 
 same on the InhnbitHnts of this Town 
 
 Voted — To Discontinue that part of the 
 Highway hereafter ineMtioneil and Grant 
 tiie same to SiepliHH Smith on Condition 
 that Said Smith Pay the Treasurer of this 
 Town at the rate of three Pounds fifteen 
 shillings p'r acre for said Land — viz) Be- 
 ginning at the south west Corner of said 
 Smith's Lot extending two rods and tiiree 
 quarters west, then Parrellel with the 
 Street fence ten rods and an half, then an- 
 
 gurlalry lumLet-n rods an h;ilf i«o ro 
 
 join I he west end of Saul Siniili's Lot con- 
 tainintr fifty one rods of ground 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inliahitants of 
 the Town of Amherst July 30th 1781 
 
 Elijah Baker was chosen moderator 
 
 Voted — To choose a Cimimittee to Hire 
 the Men required of this Town to serve m 
 the Army for tliree months and that Maj'r 
 Naih'll Peck, L't Jonathan Dickinson, L't 
 Joei Billniti. L't Aaron Dickinson and L't 
 Ezra Ro.mI lie th- Committee — Votr^.i — 
 that the Town will Pay such sums as the 
 Committee shall engage to the Men they 
 may hire — that the (Committee give obli- 
 
 gations to the Men they may hire in be- 
 half of this Town for such sums as they 
 shall engage to Pay them — 
 
 Voted — to Pay the money engaged by 
 the Committee afores'd to the soldiers 
 they may engage on or before the first 
 Day of January next — voted that the said 
 Committee be empowered to hire such 
 sums of money as may be necessary to 
 March the men they may hire Voted. To 
 Pay the noney that may be engaged by 
 the Conmiittee appointed to Purchase 
 Beef on (ir before the first Day of January 
 next 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst Sep'r 13th 1781 
 
 Isaac Hubbard was chosen Moderator 
 
 Voted — That the Committee appointed 
 to procure a Preacher be directed to em- 
 ploy M'r David Parsons as a Preacher in 
 this Town for the space of thrte months 
 after the Term for which he is now engag- 
 ed i sexpired 
 
 Attest Isaac Hubbard Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Iniiabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst — November 7th 
 1781 
 
 Elijah Baker was chosen Moderator 
 
 Voted — To grant the sum of twenty 
 four Pounds for the mantenaiice of 
 Schools- -Voted — To choose a Committee 
 to Determine how many and at what places 
 Schools shall be kept in tiie Town the 
 present year — Voted— That L't Jolin Field, 
 Daniel Ivellogg, Elisha Smith, Josiali 
 Warner L't David Smith, L't John Dick- 
 inson and Elisha Ingram be the Commit- 
 tee afores'd — 
 
 Voted — That the Select men and town 
 Treasurer be a Committee to settle with 
 those Persons to whom the town is indebt- 
 ed as tliey Judge fit 
 
 Voted — Tliat Levi Smith and Jonathan 
 Kellogg be Discharged from paying any 
 proportion of tiie money engaged to the 
 men hired in this Town to serve three 
 months in the Army the present year 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17J 
 
 83 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inlidbitmits 
 of tlie Town ot Amherst December 17th 
 1781 
 
 Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r was chnsen 
 Moderator. 
 
 Voted — Tiiat the Committee appointed 
 to procure a Preacher have a Discretion- 
 ary power in procuring a Preacher for tlie 
 present. — And that the aforesaid Commit- 
 tee be Directed ms Soon as may be to pro 
 cure a Candidate for the Ministry to Prench 
 in tliis Town 
 
 Attest Natii'll Dickinson Jun'r Moder 
 ator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of tlie Town of Amherst January 7ili 
 1782 
 
 Josiah Clianncy Esq'r was chosen Mod- 
 erator 
 
 Voted — To allow two Shillings and five 
 pence P'r Day for work Done at the 
 Higliways in Summer and one Shilling and 
 eiglit pence P'r Day for work Done at the 
 Highways in the fall — 
 
 Voted — To allow five Shillings P'r hun- 
 dred for inch and half oak Plank — Voted 
 — To allow two Shillings P'r hurtdred for 
 Brick — Voted — To allow two shillings and 
 eight Pence P'r Day to the Assessors for 
 their Service — voted — to allow twenty 
 shillings pr. thousand feet of Boards — 
 
 Voted — To allow the Bills ! s read and 
 corrected and the assessors are Directefl 
 to make a Tax on the Inhabitants of this 
 town for the paytnent of the same — Vott-d 
 — To Grant the sum of twenty four Pounds 
 for the maintenance of Schools and the 
 Assessors are Directed to Assess the 
 same — 
 
 voted — to Discharge the Constable for 
 collecting the Taxes Assessed on Simeon 
 Peck Jun'r in the year 1780 — Voted — That 
 Daniel Kellogg, L't Tho's Hastings and 
 Cap't David Rich be a Committee to view 
 the Land petitioned for by Philip Edwards 
 and report to the town at their next Murcli 
 meeting what is proper to be Done con- 
 cerning the same — Voted — To release to 
 
 Maj'r Nath'll Peck and Simeon Peck their 
 propornoii of the School money — Voted 
 — That John Billing, D'n Eleaz^-r Smitli 
 and Josiah Cliauncy E^-q'r be a Connnittee 
 to view the Land Petitioned for by Ileuben 
 Smitli and report to the Town at their 
 next Mi<rch meeting what is proper to be 
 done respecting tlie same — 
 
 Voted — To Grant M'r David Parsons 
 five Dollars p'r Sabbath for thirty nine 
 Sabbaths and the assessors are Directed 
 to Assess the ssinir' for hi»< pityirient 
 Attest Josiah Chancy Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inliahitants 
 of the Town of Amherst January 25th 
 1782 
 
 John Billing was chosen Moderntor 
 
 Voted — Elijdh Baker and Jo-eph East- 
 man to go to Shutesbury on the 30th of 
 January to meet the Towns that meet 
 there 
 
 Voted — That the Treasurer Sell the 
 New money for Notes and Grain at the 
 best lav he can — Voted — TliHt the Treas- 
 urer exchange the Notes in iiand for the 
 Notes the Town owes 
 
 Attest John Billing Moderator 
 
 At a Legal niaeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst March y'e 4th 
 1782 
 
 Elijah Baker was cliosen Moderator 
 
 Voted, Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Town 
 Clerk and Town Treasurer the Current 
 year 
 
 Voted. Elijah Baker, Gideon Dickinson, 
 Elisha Smith, Jonathan Smith and L't 
 Jonathan Dickinson Jun'r Selectman — 
 Voted — Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Elisha 
 Sniitli and Jonathan Dickinson Jun'r 
 Assessors — Voted — David Cowls, Ehen- 
 ezer Boltwood and Nath'll Dickinson 2d 
 Constables, 
 
 Voted, to excuse David Cowls from 
 serving as Constable and Moses Cooke 
 Jun'r who was hired by Said Cowls was 
 chosen in his Stead — Voted — Martin Kel- 
 logg, Joseph Eastman Jr David Blodget, 
 Enos Coleman, Stephen Cole and Moses 
 
84 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17< 
 
 Cooke Surveyors of Hig iways. Voted. 
 E'li J 'liM iNm>Ii, Simeon Dukin^oii, Smi- 
 eoii CiHrk Jun'r Elijah Ha^tinjis lieuben 
 Ingiam hikI Mal'iin Kt-lldgK, Ty ilniigmen 
 — Voieil — Stephen Siiiiih, David Blod^el, 
 L't Divid Smiili, ami D'n Eleazer Smith, 
 Wardens 
 
 ViteM — Oliver Cowls ami E"os Colmian 
 feiic viewei> — Vut.d — Gulf"!) DickiiiNOii 
 Jun'r En.is Cowlt*, Perez Momly, Ephraim 
 Kelli'^a and Eims Dickin>oii Hug Reeves 
 — V.'ttd — L'l Thci's Hasting- Sealer ot 
 L.-aiher and Joseph Church Surveyor of 
 Liimbrr 
 
 V"ieii — To Grant the Sum of titty 
 Pu\i .,- lu ivjiair n e Highways ami the 
 A>.->eSScii » art- 1> veiled lo Assess .»aid suni 
 Oil the Inliabitants of this Town— Voied — 
 T'i allow three Mulling.-* P'r Uiy tor work 
 D me ai iiiiihways in the Summer ami 
 two 8hilliiit!S 1^'r iJ . . >^ ik .■■■i;eai 
 th.- Highways in the tall — Voted — Thai 
 Miriiii Kt-liugg, Joseph Eastman Jun'i 
 David lil'idtset, Enos C 'leman Stepiio 
 Cole aoii Mo»es Cooke he Collectors of 
 tlie Highway rate — 
 
 Voi. ii — I'hat l/'.i Eleazer Smith, Josiah 
 C f > i'J-ii'r and Enos wiciviii>oii ne a 
 
 Committee to view the LaiKi petitioned f n 
 b nil >* .1, .,:..« .iiiti rejiori, >'> u.*- Tov/n 
 
 what is proper to be Done concerning tii<- 
 saine 
 
 Voted— To accept the Report of ilie 
 Select men and establish that part ot a 
 llignway ai Described in their Report 
 (winch IS a» toilows :) to wit — 
 Aiiiiier>t March 2d 1782 — A Return of the 
 Survey oi fail oi the Town Road letliiinn 
 troin the Count} Road leading to Shutt->- 
 liury, to Williams's Mill Standing on ihe 
 Mill River 111 ihe west Division ot Ainhersi 
 HS liMiotvs (viz) Beginning at the Bridge- 
 Standing on M'r Dana's South line, run- 
 ning North Seven Degrees west Seven 
 rods to a Stak^- and Stones; thence North 
 thirty iive Degrees west tony Nine rods 
 to a Biai;k oak tree marked U. W. ihence 
 to R ui)en Ingrain's Soiuli line twenty 
 
 } Select mer 
 of 
 Aiuhersr. 
 
 two rods thence west on the North Siite 
 of Dana's farm seventy rods to theC'-unty 
 roid leading to SuncierlaiKi the above De- 
 sciibfd roHii is two rods in width 
 
 John Hilling ) Select men 
 
 till'KON H ANDERS; 
 
 Isaac Hubbard 
 
 Voted — To Discontinue that part of the 
 Highway hereatii-r De>crined ami Grant 
 tile Same to Reuben Smith on Condition 
 that Said Smith (five Snfficit-nt ScuMty 
 to tlie Town Treasurer within one m^nth 
 t > Pay tor the Same at the rate ot tiiree 
 R unds ten Shilling-' p'r Acrt*. Said 
 L .lids Descritied as follows (viz) Bejiin- 
 iiing at the trout of AI. x'r Smiili's larni, 
 near the top of the IJill hy the Mill and 
 runiiitiii west twelve r id- and an h ilt lo a 
 Stake and thence north twenty eight rods 
 to a Stake Standing ten rods «e>t troin 
 S lid A -x'r Simih's from, theiicf nojili- 
 easterly eiglneeii roil.> to said Smiili's 
 t'r,,m, containing two Acies and three 
 quarters. — Voted — I'o Discniitiiiue a Fii-ce 
 ot the Town way lying east ot L't Noah 
 D.ckmsoii's lionif ii.t and joining to it, 
 from the i"->ciuth easl corner ot Saiil Lot, 
 one rod wide, rtmning iiorthv<faidl> liiirty 
 rods and from iiieiiuf tioi ih wariily to a 
 poini at toy wo>!, line of Sai.i Town way, 
 containint; thirty two rod- and an half of 
 tiround and Grant tlie Same to L't No-h 
 Dickinson on C'ndi'ion th it the said 
 l:)ickinson give a Legal Tul-- wiihii> one 
 month to the Inhaniiants of Amherst of a 
 Piece of Land lyititf at the north east Cor- 
 ner of Said Dickinson s liome lot, Six 
 roils and an halt' wide at the east side, 
 running westwardly ten rods to a point, 
 bounded east on the Town way and Norili- 
 wardiy on the County R -ad, containing 
 thirty two rods and an half 
 
 Voted. To Discontinue a part of the 
 Highway at the east e;id of Aisnm War- 
 ner's House Lot, Lying trnm the Northeast 
 corner of Said Warner's L't eight rods 
 South, and from the west line of said 
 Highway four rods and an half east, con- 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 85 
 
 taiitiiit! thirty -ix rods (4' grouni),an(l G'^ t 
 tlie sHiiiM lo Philip Edwards, on Condition 
 that sail! E IWHrdi Sh-ill within one moiith 
 give .Miffi i> ni Sfiurity to the Town Tiea-- 
 UF' r to l'.i> for the sHiiie at tlie rale of 
 tint e p.iunds p'r acre 
 
 At a L gal Meeting of the Inimhitants 
 ot the Tiwii lit Aiidierst April Ist 17S2 
 
 Eiijiii iiaker was chosen Moderator 
 
 Voted — To accept of the List of Jurors 
 pr» >. ni^il 113 the y eci men. the rt-ni ail- 
 ing ArticlfS in the Warrant Were Negativ- 
 es li. ■ e T.vvii 
 
 Attest 
 
 At a L^sai Met iMi« ot tile laii.ildtaiits 
 ot the T.wu ol Aiulierst (Qualitieil 10 
 V''tf for a G ivei n 'f t&c on Mond-iy tlit 
 firs. D.y of Ap.ii AD. 1782 
 
 Toe Votes tor a (i >veruor were as fol- 
 lows (viz) 
 
 For iiis Excellency John Hancock E^q'r 
 Filiy Srven 
 
 F'lr the Hon'ble James Bowdoiii E-q'r 
 Twenty three 
 
 Tiie Vt'tes f'lr a Lieutenant Govermir 
 Were as f iliows (viz) 
 
 Ftir his IL.nor I'lionias Cushing Esq'r 
 tliirty three 
 
 For tlie Hon'ble Azor Orne E>q'r Twen- 
 ty MX 
 
 Votes for four Senators were as lollows 
 
 VIZ — 
 
 For tlie Hon'ble John Bliss E-q'r Fifty 
 six 
 
 For the Hon'iile Noah Goodman E.-q'r 
 Twenty four 
 
 For Capt Ebenezer Mattoon — Twelve 
 
 For iMaj'r Gen'l Tirnotliy Danielson 
 Twenty seven 
 
 For the Hon'ble Caleb Strong Esq'r 
 Tweiiiy seven 
 
 For Nathaniel Dickinson Esq'r Twenty 
 fiv- 
 
 For Oliver Phelps Esq'r Six 
 For i^avid Smead E-q'r Nineteen 
 For the Hon'ble John Hastings Esq'r 
 Fifteen 
 
 For VVarhani Parks Esq'r Eleven 
 
 F' 'T the lion l)le Samuel Mailier E-q'r 
 three 
 
 Ftir M'r Eli>ha [iigram — Four 
 For iM'r J .iin Billing — Two 
 F.f M'r EiiJMh B;.l«'r— one 
 
 Jonathan Smith ] select 
 
 (ilDKON DlUICIN.SON j men 
 
 Attest Jonathan DicivInson Jn'r }- of 
 Elijah liAicER | Am- 
 
 PjLisha Smith J herst 
 
 Naih'ii Dickinson Jnr Town Cler'k 
 
 At a Leaal mt-eting of tlie InhahitHnts 
 of tlie town of Amherst April 8th 1782. 
 
 E ijah Hakt r wms chosen Moderator — 
 
 Vied — Toloiic. M'r David Parsons 
 to I'leach here on Probaiion for St-ttle- 
 nieiii i t ilie (iospel Mini-try, fir the Spiice 
 of two months.— Voted — That the Com- 
 miitee for Supplying the Pulpit, he em- 
 powered to Draw nn ney out of the Treas- 
 ury to Pay M'r Ely tor his Services. 
 
 At a Legal m. eiing of the Iidiahiiants 
 of the To>*!i of Ann. erst May 17tn 1782 
 
 Elij ih Uaker was chosen Moderat ir 
 
 Voied; to Discontinue that part of the 
 Highway hereafii-r mentioned (viz) Be- 
 uinning at a Slake and Stones near the 
 South Side -It Aaron Warners Lot and 
 runniciti North to ihe S uth west (-orner 
 post of said Warners L-ine leading from 
 his house to the street, the said Land c n- 
 laining twenty rods, and Grant the same 
 to Aaron Warner on Condition that said 
 Warner Pay the Treasurer of this Town 
 for the use of the Inhabitants of said Town 
 at the rate of foui;teen Pounds p'r Acre tor 
 said Land 
 
 Voted, That L't John Field, Isaac G -od- 
 ale and Maj'r Nath'il Peck be a Cyomniit- 
 tee to view the Land Petiiioned lor by 
 Moses Cooke Jn'r and report to the Town 
 what is proper to be Done respeciing the 
 sanie and to sell said Land at Publick 
 Vendue 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhahiiauts 
 of ihe Town of Amherst June 17th 1782 
 
 Gideon Dickinson was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
86 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 — Voted, To Con(;ur with thy Chiircli in 
 their vote to give M'r David Pfirsoiis an 
 invitHtion to settle in the Ministry of the 
 Go-pel in this town — Voted — That in 
 Case M'r Parsons will settle in the Minis- 
 try in tills to«'n, To Grant him three hun- 
 dred pounds tor a settlement to be paid in 
 the following manner, to wit, one hundred 
 pounds within one year after his settle- 
 tntiir, and one hundred pounds within two 
 years after liis settlement and one hun- 
 dreil pounds witiiiii three years after Ids 
 Settlement; Also to grant liini Ninety 
 pounds as a Salary for the first year att<-r 
 his .S''ttlenient and Ninety five pounds for 
 the Second year after hi-- >S itleuient, and 
 one hundred pounds for each year after- 
 ward- durinsj his Miid»try here — 
 
 Voted, that the Committee for Supply- 
 ing the Pulpit be Directeij to employ M'r 
 Parsons to Supply the Pulpit untill he 
 gives his Answer to the foetioing propo- 
 sal — md that Said C'Tiinittee inform M'l 
 Parsons of the above — mentioned Votes — 
 Voted, to adjourn for the Space ot four 
 weeks to meet at the meeting house at 
 three of the Clock in the afternoon 
 
 Ju y 15th 1782. Being met aei;ordiujj to 
 Adjournment — 
 
 Voted — To Provide twentyfive Cords oi 
 fire wood for M'r Parsons the first year 
 after his Settlement in the Mirdstry here, 
 and to add five Cords annually uniill it 
 shall amount to forty Cords, which shall 
 be Himiially provi'ed for liinj afterwaids 
 Durinsi his said Ministry 
 
 Attest Gideon Dickinson Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhahitanis 
 of the Town of Amherst August 12 h 1782 
 
 Gideon Dickinson was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 [The Rev'd Davjid Parsons's Answer 
 
 to Proposals heretofore made to him for 
 Settling in the Ministry [was rece]ived 
 and read in the words following (viz) 
 
 [To the] Inhabitants of Amher»t in 
 Town meeting Assembled on the 12tli Ins't 
 Ausust 1782 
 
 Gentlemen — 
 
 Inasmuch as you have passed Sundry 
 Votes respecting my encouragement and 
 support in case I should settle with you in 
 the work of the Gospel Miinstry ; and as it: 
 is always expedient thai the meaiung of 
 Parties in Transactions of this Nature 
 should i)e well explamed and clearly un- 
 derstood, lo prevent any Dispute or mis- 
 understanding between them afterwards, 
 I beg Leave to express to you my, sense, 
 oi iiie meanintj of your Proposals as I un- 
 derstand them, which is as follows (viz) 
 The se\eial sums whicii you off"er me in 
 Settlement and Salary, I understand to be 
 in Silver money, Spanish Milled Dollars 
 at -ix shillings, or other Silver or Gold 
 .quivaient. And as to the Payment of 
 my Settlement, I understand tiiat you will 
 procure me Keal Estate to tne value, in case, 
 any suuh can be procured to my accept- 
 ance ; oth-rwise that you will pay me the 
 money according to your first vote. — And 
 as to the Article id" Wood I understand, 
 that the m.ist that I am ever to expect is 
 forty Cords of fire wood of good quality 
 in a year; unless the town shall volunta- 
 rily make addition on being satisfied that 
 forty Cords is not sufficient for my reason- 
 able U-. — Give me Lf-ave tuniier to add 
 that I must understand it to be yuur intent, 
 that no advantage shall ever be taken of 
 any Paper Ciirreui^y Depreciated, or of 
 any act ol Government that may be pass- 
 ed, to avoid the fair honest and equitable 
 intent of the Contract. If this be your 
 meaning as I have expressed my sense of 
 It, and if nothing more than I kimw of 
 shall appear to prevent you may expect an 
 Answer in the Affirmative to the Churches 
 Call 
 
 your affectionate friend and servant 
 David Parsons 
 
 Voted, To accept the foregoing answer 
 as the true intent and meaning ot the 
 Town expressed in their Votes referred to 
 by M'r Parsons in his answer aforesaid 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17{ 
 
 87 
 
 Vmed — Tliat tlif town Tr-astirer be 
 empiiwered, on behalf of the town to give 
 S cuiity to M'r Parsons or to any other 
 Person iif wlioni an Eitate may be pur- 
 chased for liis Settlement, for the sum 
 lieretoiore granted him as a settlement. 
 — Vot>^d — To Piy the usual expenct- 
 tliai niiiy attend M'r Paisois's Orilina- 
 tidii ; and that L't John Fiehl, Elijah 
 Parker, Josiali Chauncey Esq'r, Nath'll 
 DicUiiisun Jun'r M'r Daniel (Jooley, Cap't 
 Eli Parker, S'eplien Smith, L'l Aaron 
 Dickinson & M'r Eben'r Boltwood be a 
 Coniniiitee with a Disiiretionary Power to 
 make t!ie usual and Dect-nt Preparation> 
 lor the ordination and to give invitations 
 to whom they think fitfortiieir Atteridanct- 
 — Voted — Tliat the TreaNurer be empow- 
 ered to advance monies to the aforesaid 
 Committee to Pay the expeiice they ma> 
 be at i'l making said Preparations for the 
 ordination 
 
 Aiie-t Gideon Dickinson Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting ot the Inhabitanis 
 of the Town ot Amherst Aujiiist 6tn 178'i 
 
 M'r Gideon Dickinson was chosen Mod- 
 erator 
 
 Voted — John Bdling, Elijah Baker and 
 Martin Kellogg Delegntes to attend a 
 County Convention to be holuen at Hat- 
 field 
 Attest — Gideon Dickinson — Moderator 
 
 Att a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst December Otli 
 1782 
 
 Gideon Dickinson was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted — To Concur with the Church in 
 their Vote to invite an Ei-clesiastical 
 Council to look into the Affairs of the 
 Church, and {iive their advice respecting 
 the Brethren who stile them-elvns the ag- 
 grieved, and have withdrawn themselves 
 from the Communion of the Church — Vot- 
 ed — that the 'I'own will Pay the expence of 
 said Council — Voted — To choose a Com- 
 n ittee to make the necessary Provi>ion for 
 the support of the Council — Voted — That 
 
 L't John Field. Stephen Smith, Martin 
 Kellogg, M'r Daniel Cooley, L't Aaron 
 Dickinson, Tho's Hastings Jn'rM'r Ehen'r 
 Boltwo )d, L't Ezra R lod and Nath'll 
 Dickinson Jn'r be the Committee afore- 
 said — 
 
 Voted — that the Committee afores'd be 
 empowered to Draw money out of the 
 Treasury to Defray the expence they may 
 incur 
 A test — Gideon Dickinson Moderator 
 
 At a Legil uit-eting ot the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst January 20ih 
 1783 
 
 Gideon Dickinson was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted — To choose f )ur Wardeos, viz, 
 Stephen Smith, David Blodget, John Bil- 
 inii and Isaac Goodale. 
 
 Votf-d — To allow three shillings p'r Day 
 to the Assessors for their Service — Vot^J 
 — To allow three Shilling'* p'r Day to the 
 Committee who have been appointed by 
 ihe town to attend Conventions — Voted — 
 To allow (»ne Shilling tor Horsf hire to 
 the mt-n >»ho attended the Convention at 
 Hatfield and one shilling ami four pence 
 lo those who attended the Convention at 
 Shutesbitry — Voted — To accept the Bills 
 as read and corrected — and to empower 
 the Assessors to assess a Sum on the In- 
 habitants of this Town sufficient to Pay 
 the same — Voted — To Grant thirty six 
 pounds for the maintenance of Schools in 
 this Town and that there be six Schools 
 kept in said Town — Voted — That the 
 Assessors be empowered to Assess such 
 sum as shall he Due to the Rev'd David 
 Parsons for his Salary on the first Day of 
 May next, also to Assess one hundred 
 pounds granted to M'r Parsons in purt for 
 his Settlement 
 
 Attest Gideon Dickinson Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst March 3d 1783 
 
 M'r Jacob MuDaniell was chosen Mod- 
 erator 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 Voteil — That the Town will make an- 
 swer til (ii l^etition of'NHthan Dickinson 
 and others lar.Hiy prefeffil to tiie General 
 Court — Voted — That Simeon Strong E-q'r 
 Natiril Dickiii- 11 J <'r Moses (^ooke, D'n 
 Eleazer Smitii, i^ap't En Parker E'n John 
 Nash, M'r Daniel Cooley, Tho's Hastinjis 
 Jun'r and Jusiah Ciiauncy Esq'rbe a Com- 
 mitter to prepare the said Answer — Voted 
 — Tiiat the Assessors he Directed to Post- 
 pone making the Town Rate untill tlie 
 General Court sUmH tli.Hy i)<;ie lume 
 respectiiiii the above mentioned Petitioti — 
 Voted — To Adjourn for the space of four 
 weeks 
 
 March 31st 1783 Being Assembled ac- 
 cording to Adjournment — Voted— That 
 the Commitce." appointed to make answer 
 to the Petition of Nathan Dickinson and 
 otiiers, be empowered to appoint an Agent 
 to Appear in Behalf of the towti to make 
 answer to said Petition before the Gene- 
 ral Court — Voted — that the Answer be 
 Signed by the Town Cierk hy order and 
 in belialf of th'- Town — Voted— That the 
 Committee be empowered to Draw money 
 out of the Tr -asury to Pay the expence of 
 the Agency 
 
 Aitest Jacob McDaniel Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 ot the Town of Amherst Marcli luth 
 1783 
 
 M'r Elislia Smitli was chosen Modera- 
 tor — Voted — Nath'll Dickinson Jnr Town 
 Clerk and Treasurer — 
 
 Voted— Cap'i Eli i'arker D'n Eleazer 
 Siuuh, Martin Kellogtj, L't Joel Billing 
 and Tho's Hastings Jiin'r Select-men — 
 Voted — Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Ji.nathan 
 Dickinson Jn'r and Elisha Smith Asses- 
 sors — Voted — Stephi-n Cole, J .hn Field 
 Jun'r and Ephraim Kellogg Constables — 
 Voted— Timothy Clapp, Josiah Warner, 
 Siine<m Clark Jun'r Enos Coleman, Tim- 
 othy Green Jun'r Giles Church, and R- u 
 ben Cowles Tithinginen Voted — En s 
 Dickinson, Noah Smith. L't Noah Dickin- 
 son and L't Ezra Rood Wardens— Voted — 
 
 Josiah Warner, Moses Cooke, Simeon 
 Peck, Simuel Hastings, Timothy Green 
 Jun'r, Dnniel Kellogg Jun'r surveyors of 
 
 Highways Vote<l Gideon Dickinson, 
 
 Nath'll Coleman and John Billing Fence 
 viewers — 
 
 Voted — L't Tho's Hastings Sealer of 
 Leather — 
 
 Voted — John Billing Surveyor of Lum- 
 ber — Voted — John Field Jnr Aaron Bil- 
 ling, John Kellogg, Samuel Bolt«ood 
 and Beiij'a Smith, Hog reeves — Voted — 
 To repair the Highways by a Rate and to 
 Grant sixty pounds for that Purpose — 
 Voted — To give three Shillings p'r Day 
 for work Done at tlie Highways in Sum- 
 mer and two shillings p'r Day for work 
 Done in the fall. — Voted — That the Hiah- 
 wiy Rate Committed to the Surveyors the 
 last >ear be committed to the Surveyors 
 the present year — Voted — Josiah Warner, 
 Moses Cooke, Sim'n Peck Saniuel Hast- 
 ings, Timothy Greeu Jnr and Daniel Kel- 
 loyg Jnr Collectors 
 
 Attest Elisha Smith Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 ot the Town of Amherst April 7ih 1788 ' 
 
 M'r Jacob McDaniell was chosen Mod- 
 erator 
 
 Voted — To accept the List of Jurors 
 laid before the Town by the Select men 
 
 Voted — That Elisha Smith, John Lee 
 and Stephen Cole be a Committee to view 
 the Land Petitioned for by Jonathan War- 
 ner aud report to the Town wiiat is proper 
 to be Done respecting the <<ame 
 
 At H Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst on Monday the 
 Seventh Day of April AD. 1783— The 
 Votes tor a Governor were as follows (viz) 
 
 For his Excellency John Hancock E-q'r 
 — twenty eight 
 
 For the Hon'ble James BowJoin E-q'r 
 — Nineteen 
 
 For the Hon'ble Joseph Hawley Esq'r — 
 two 
 
 The Votes for a Lieut. Governor were 
 as follows (viz) 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 89 
 
 For Ills Honor Tlionms Cusliin« Esq'r 
 Three— 
 
 For tlie Hon'iile Az'ir (J-ne E q'r — thir- 
 ty eiglit 
 
 The Votes for Senators were !is follows 
 (viz) 
 
 For the Hon'l)le Josepli Ilnwley E>q'r 
 — Niiieieeii 
 
 For the llon'ble John Bliss E-q'r — 
 twenty nine 
 
 For the Hon'ble John Hastings Esq'r — 
 Nineteen 
 
 For David Srnead Esq'r — Seventeen 
 
 For the Hon'ble Timotliy Danielson 
 Esq'r Eleven 
 
 For the Hon'ble Caleb Strong E>q'r — 
 Tliirteen 
 
 For ilie Hon'iile Samuel M-ither Esq'r — 
 
 Eleven 
 
 F'T ilie Hon'ble Noah Goodman E^q'r 
 — Two 
 
 For Gideon Burt Esq'r Three 
 
 Eleazer Smith \ select men 
 
 Attest 'I'ho's Hastings Jun'r >- of 
 
 Mahtin Kellogg J Amiierst 
 
 Naili'll Dickinson Jnr Town Clerk 
 
 Al a Legal Meetint; of he Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst May 13ih 1783 
 
 was chosen Moderator — 
 
 Voted — That En's Jolin Nash, Moses 
 Dickinson E»q'r and Capt Eli Parker he a 
 Committee to settle tlie Line between Am- 
 iierst and Hadley — Voted — That Capt Eli 
 Parker Moses Cooke and L't John Field 
 he a Commitiee to Preanibulate ihe Line 
 Between Amherst and Leverett — Voted — 
 'I'o Grant the west street their Proportion 
 of Schonl money to be by them used to 
 employ school Dames — 
 
 Voted— To Grant Maj'r Natiril Peck 
 leave to build his fence on the Bank of the 
 Kiver to secure the west end of his L i — 
 Voted — That Dea'n Edwards L't Tho's 
 Hastings and L't Joel Billins; be a Com- 
 mittee to view the Land Petitioned tor by 
 Simeon Pomeroy and report what is proper 
 to be Done respecting the same 
 Attest 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Andierst October 16th 
 1783 
 
 D'n Eleazer Smith was chosen Moder- 
 ator 
 
 Voted, To accept the Report of the 
 Committee appointed to Perambulate the 
 Line between Hadley and Amherst; and 
 t the same be recorded as follows (viz) 
 
 Ji ginning at the li ly-road at a Stake 
 and Stones, thence North 12 deg East 670 
 rods to a heap of Stones, thence North 8 
 deg 15 mill East 144 rods, to a Black Oak 
 t te inarkeil W M — thence North 8 deg 
 E t . ID rods, to a Stake on the South 
 side of M'r Parsons's lot — thence North 
 11 deg 30 min east 197 rods, to a Pine 
 Stubb, thence North 13 deg east 93 rt)ds, 
 to Sir eStaddles; thence Nortii 8 deg 
 east 336 rods, to Porters Ditch, thence 
 North 13 deg east 370 rods to a Stubb by 
 the river, ih. nee North 11 deg east 380 
 rods to Suinlerland Line 
 
 V.)ted— To accept the Report of the 
 Committee appointed to Peranit)ulate the 
 Line lietween Leverett and Amherst, 
 which is as f..llows (viz) That the Line be- 
 tween Leverett and Amherst runs East 
 three Degrees and forty five minutes North, 
 which in general is agreeable to the old 
 markeil trees ; said Line examined from 
 Mohawk- Brook to Shntesbnry, at a Stake 
 and Stones — 
 
 Voted, M'r Elijah Baker be a Member 
 of the County Convention to be convened 
 at Hatfield October 20tli 1783— Voted— 
 that the Select men take such care of 
 Mos>-s Hawley and family as they think 
 necessary — Voted — To grant thirty Pounds 
 for the Support of Schools 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst January 19th 
 1784 
 
 M'r Ebenezer Boltwood VFas chosen 
 Moderator 
 
 Voted, To allew three Shillings P'r 
 Day for work Done at the Bridges in sum- 
 
90 
 
 Kecords of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 mer and tvvro shillings per Day for work 
 Done in the fall 
 
 Voted — That Zacheriah Hawley may 
 take up a Note that lies against him in 
 the Treasury with an Order he has upon 
 the Treasurer and a Bill he has against 
 the Town; if said suras are sufficient 
 to Pay said Note 
 
 Voted — To Grant the sum of forty five 
 Pounds to make up three months School- 
 ing in each School house and other past 
 expences 
 
 Voted — To Grant a sum sufficient to 
 Pay a Note given to L"t John Field by the 
 town Treasurer in behalf of the Town and 
 Payable in October next 
 
 Voted, to Allow the Bills as read and 
 Corrected 
 
 Voted. That the Assessors Assess the 
 Several Sums Granted on the Inhabitants 
 of the Town 
 
 Voted, That Simeon Strong Esq'r Nath'll 
 Dickinson Jun'r and L't John Field be a 
 Committee to Petition the General Court 
 for Abatement of the fine laid on the Town 
 for not sending a Representative 
 
 Voted — That the Treasurer call on the 
 Constables to Pay the Debt Due to the 
 Heirs of the Late Rev'd Duvid Parsons for 
 Salaries ; as soon as may be 
 
 Attest Eben'k Boltwood Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the InhabiiHUts 
 of the Town of Amherst March 22cl 1784 
 
 Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r was chosen 
 Moderator 
 
 Voted — Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Town 
 Clerk and Treasurer 
 
 Voted — Joel Moody, Jonathan Dickin- 
 son Jun'r, Enos Dickinson, Stephen 
 Smith xnd M'r Ebenezer Boltwood, Select 
 men 
 
 Voted — Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Enos 
 Coleman and Elijah Baker Assessors 
 
 Voted, Thomas Hastings Jun'r and 
 Noah Smith Constables 
 
 Voted — Moses Cooke Jun'r Timothy 
 Handerson, Joel Dickinson, Joseph Pettis, 
 Ebenezer Eastman, John Eastman, Oliver 
 
 Clapp, and Joseph Williams Tything- 
 men 
 
 Voted — Gideon Dickinson Jun'r Mar- 
 tin Kfllofjg, Samuel Boltwood, David 
 Cowls, Enos Coleman Nathan Dickinson 
 Jn'r and John Lee Surveyors of Heigh- 
 ways 
 
 Voted— L't John Field, M'r Daniel 
 Cooley, David Trowbridge, M'r El)eii'r 
 Boltwood Calvin Rich and L't Noah Dick- 
 inson Hog reeves 
 
 Voted. Gideon Dickinson Jun'r Mnr- 
 tin Kellogg, Samuel Boltwood, David 
 Cowls, Enos Coll man Nathan Dickinson 
 Jun. and John Lee Collectors of Taxes 
 
 Voted — Simeon Clark Jun'r, L't Noah 
 Dickinson, Oliver Cowls and Elijah Bak- 
 er Wardens 
 
 Voted — Oliver Cowls and Enos Cole- 
 man, Fence viewers 
 
 Voted— Joseph. Church Surveyor of 
 Lumber 
 
 Voted L't Thomas Hastinijs Sealer of 
 Leather — Voted, that ihe Assessors issue 
 their Warrants to the Collectors to enable 
 tbeni to Collect the Highway rate Com- 
 mitted to them the last year — Voted — To 
 allow three shillings per Day for work 
 Done in the Summer and two shillinss per 
 Day f'T woikDone in ihe month of Sep- 
 tember and one shilling and cix pence tor 
 work Done in the tall atier September — 
 
 Voted — To Grant the sum ot seventy 
 Poutids to repair the Heigbways the pres- 
 ent year 
 
 Voted— To Discharge Enos Ralf (rom 
 Paying the Town Taxes in the Constables 
 hands against him 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst April 5th 1784 
 
 The Votes for a Governor were a* fol- 
 lows — viz — 
 
 For his Excellency John Hancock Esq'r 
 thirteen 
 
 For the Ilon'hle James Bowdoin Esq'r 
 twenty one 
 
 The Votes tor a Lieutenant Governor 
 were as follows viz — 
 
Records op Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 91 
 
 For the Hon'ble Azor Orne Esq'r six- 
 teen 
 
 His Honor Tliomns dishing Esq'r 
 
 eighteen 
 
 Votes for Senators for tlie County of 
 Hampshire were as as follows (viz) 
 
 Timothy Danielson Esq'r twenty 
 
 Caleb Strong Plsq'r — twenty six 
 
 Samuel Matlier E-q'r — nineteen 
 
 John Bliss E-q'r forty 
 
 Noah Goodman Esq'r two 
 
 M'r Eben'r Boltwond three 
 
 John Hastings E^q'r twenty three 
 
 Eben'r Mattoon Esq'r eleven 
 
 Joseph Hartley Esq'r twelve 
 
 Ezra Rood one 
 
 John Billing three 
 
 Simeon Dickinson one 
 
 John Ingram one 
 
 Ruggles Woodhridge Esq'r four 
 
 David Sniead Esq'r three 
 
 Simeon Strong Esq'r five 
 
 Martin Kellogg one 
 
 Josiah Warner one 
 
 Gideon Handerson one 
 
 Noah Smith two 
 
 Oliver Cowls two 
 
 Luke Coffeen one 
 
 Jomth'n Dickinson J'r "| g^,ie(.t 
 Eben'r Boltwood | 'jyjj,,, 
 
 Attest Joel Moody }■ r 
 
 Enos Dickinson | ^niherHt 
 
 Stephen Smith J 
 
 Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Town Clerk 
 
 Att a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of tiie Town of Amherst April 5tli 1784 
 
 Nath'll Dickinson was chosen Moder- 
 ator 
 
 "Voted — To Accept the list of Jurors 
 laid before the Town by the Select men 
 
 Voted— that John Billing, Cap't Eli Par- 
 ker, Jonathan Dickinson Jun'r Joseph 
 Dickinson and Moses Cooke be a Com- 
 mittee to Build a Town Pound 
 Attest Nath'll Dickinson Jun'k Moder" 
 ator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst May 10th 1784 
 L't John Field was chosen Moderator 
 
 Voted — That Moses Dickinson, John 
 Billing and Moses Cooke be a Committee 
 to Confer with the Select men or Commit- 
 tea of the Town of Belciiertown gin order 
 to settle the Line Between said Towns — 
 and report at some future meeting 
 
 At a Legal meeting of tiie Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst Angust 18th 
 1784 
 
 Natli'll Dickinson Jun'r was chosen 
 Moderator 
 
 Voted, That the Town will Indemnify 
 Jonatlian Dickinson Jun'r and Elisha 
 Smiih res[)eiting ihe Action Commenced 
 against them by Hezekiah Belding — Voted 
 — To Choose a Committee to make De- 
 fence against the before mentioned Action 
 — Voted— That Simeon Strong Esq'r L'j 
 John Field and Capt Eli Parker be the 
 Committee aforesaid — Voted — That the 
 Treasurer be Directed to receive into the 
 Town Treasury so much Paper money of 
 the New Emission as L't Aaron Dickinson 
 hath collected for Town Taxes; and that 
 tlie Town will make recompence to Said 
 Dickinson for all Losses he hath neces- 
 arily Sustained, by nreans of Losses in 
 collecting Taxes, Provided Said Dickinson 
 return into the Treasurers Office Such 
 Notes as he hath against tor the same Sum 
 or Sums as he gave for them 
 Attest Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Moder- 
 ator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst Nov'r 15th 
 1784 
 
 Eben'r Mattoon Esq'r was chosen Mod- 
 erator 
 
 Voted — That the Select-men Set up Six 
 Schools within the town four of which to 
 be in the places they usually have been 
 kept in, and the other two in Such places 
 as the Select men think fit 
 
 Voted — To Grant thirty Pounds to 
 maintain the Schools and the Assessors 
 are empowered to Assess the same 
 
 At a Legal tneting of the Inhabitants of 
 the Town of Amherst Janua'y 3d 1785 
 
92 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 Nath'll Dickinson Juri'r was cliosen 
 Moderator 
 
 Voted— To accept tlie Bills as read and 
 corrected and the Assessors are empower- 
 ed to Assess a Sum on tlie Inhabitants of 
 tills Town Sufficient to Pay the Same — 
 
 Voted— To allow Six SliillioKS p'r Hun- 
 dred feet of two inch Oak Plank and five 
 Shillings p'r Hundred for inch and half 
 Oak Plank — Voted— To Grant the sum of 
 thirty Pounds far the support of Schools 
 —Voted — That the Schools be kept three 
 months in ejich part of the town where 
 Schools ate kept 
 
 Voted— That Capt. Eli Parker, Nath'll 
 Dickinson Jun'r and Moses Cooke he a 
 Committee to examine the Petition of 
 John Billings and others and report what 
 is proper to be Dme 
 
 Voted — That the Assessors be empower- 
 ed and Directed to Assess the sum of one 
 hutidred pounds on ihe Inhahitants of this 
 Town for the Payment of a Note given to 
 L't John Field iti behalf of t!:e Town 
 Attest Nath'lt. Dickinson Jun'r Mod- 
 erato r 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the InhabitHuts 
 of the Town of Amherst January 28th 
 1785 
 
 M'r Eben'r Boltwood was chosen Mod- 
 erator 
 
 Vott-d — Elisha Smith an Assessor — Vot- 
 ed — that the Assessors Assess a Sum Suf- 
 ficient to Pay the Bills exhiliited by D'r 
 Cutler— Voted — To Grant the Sum of Six 
 Founds in Addition to the Bounty of the 
 Commonwealth to -any Inliabitant of this 
 Town, who shall Kill a Wolf witiiin Ten 
 miles of Amherst meeting House, or tak- 
 ing the track of a Wolf withm said limits, 
 shall pursue and kill the same in any place 
 whatever 
 
 Attest Eben'r Boltwood Moderator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst March 14th 1785 
 
 Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r was chosen 
 Moderator 
 
 Voted— Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Town 
 Clerk and D'n Seth Coleman Treasurer 
 
 Voted — Joseph Church, Noah Smith, 
 Elisha Smith, Jonathan Dickinson Jn'r 
 and En. John Nash Select men — Voted-— 
 Joseph Cliurch, Elisha Smith and Nath'll 
 Dickinson Jn'r Assessors — Voted — 
 Stouglitou Dickinson Surveyor of Shin- 
 gles — Voted — Barnabas Sabin and Simeon 
 Clark Jn'r Constables — Voted — Oliver 
 Clapp, Eben'r Eii>tman, Josiah Warner, 
 Stephen Smith Timothy Green Jn'r and 
 L't Aaron Dickinson Surveyors Of High- 
 wa}s — Voted — Elijah Dickinson, D'n Sim- 
 eon Clark, Timothy Handerson, Joel 
 Moody, Stephen Cole and David Blodgett 
 Juu'r Tyihingmfn 
 
 Voted — Jonathan Moodv Jn'r — John 
 Ingram 2il and Sitneon Dickinson War- 
 dens — Voted — Elisha Smith Sealer of 
 Leather — Voted — Samuel Boltwood and 
 L't Joel Billing Fence Viewers — Voted — 
 VVilliam Clapp, Jonathan Barnes Zaelie- 
 riah Hawley, Eleazer Cowls, Moses Cooke 
 and John Morton Jn'r Ilogreeves 
 
 Voted — That Hogg 3'oked and Rung 
 according to Law may run on the Com- 
 mons from the middle of May to the mid- 
 dle of August 
 
 Attest Nath'll Dickinson Jn'r Moder- 
 ator 
 
 At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst Qualified accord- 
 ing to the Constitution to Vote for a Gov- 
 ernor &c April 4th 1785 
 
 The Votes for a Governor were as fol- 
 lows — viz — 
 
 For the Hon'ble John Worthington 
 Esq'r — Sixteen 
 
 For the Hon'ble James Bowdoin Esq'r 
 Nine 
 
 His Honor Thomas Cushing Esq'r — Two 
 
 For the Hon'ble Azor Orne Esq'r — 
 Ten 
 
 For the Hon'ble Benjamin Lincoln E«q'r 
 Two 
 
 The Votes for a Leiutenant Governor 
 were as follows (viz) 
 
Records of Amherst b^rom 1735 to 111 
 
 93 
 
 For liis Honor Tliomas Cashing Esq'r 
 — tliirty two 
 
 For til.' Ilon'ble Jiunes Bowdoin E-q'r 
 — one 
 
 For the Ilon'ble Benjaman Lincoln Esq'r 
 — -two 
 
 For tlie Ilon'ble Azor Oine Esq'r — 
 one 
 
 For the Ilon'ble John Wortliington Esq'r 
 
 — -ix 
 
 The Vo'ea for Senators were as follows 
 
 (viz) 
 For David Sniead E-^q'r Eleven 
 For John Hastings Esq'r Ten 
 For Noah Goodman Esq'r — eitiht 
 For John Bliss Esq'r — twenty three 
 For Timothy Danielson Esq'r — Ten 
 For C^Hleb Strong Esq'r — wenty eight 
 For Warhani Parks E q'r — thirteen 
 For Moses Bliss Esq'r — twenty 
 For Doct'r Eben'i" Hunt — seven 
 For M'r John Williams — three 
 For Simeon Strong Esq'r — five 
 For N ith'U Dickinson Esq'r — tiiree 
 For M'r Jolm Nush — five 
 For M'r Jonathan Arms — three 
 For M'r John Billing — three 
 For M'r Phineluis Htebbiiis — two 
 For M'r Caleb West — two 
 For Samuel Mather Esq'r — four 
 
 Joseph Church "] Se- 
 
 NoAH Smith | lect 
 
 Attest Elisha Smith \- men 
 
 Jonathan Dickinson Jun'r I of 
 John Nash J Am- 
 
 herst 
 Nath'U Dickinson Jn'r Town Clerk 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst April 4th 1785 
 
 Ensign John Nash was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted — To Grant the Sum of Seventy 
 Pounds to repair the Highways and the 
 Assessors are enspowered to Assess the 
 same on the Inhabitants of the Town — 
 Voted — To allow three shillings p'r Day 
 for work Done at the Highways from the 
 first Day of May to the first Day of Octo- 
 ber and one Shilling and Six pence for 
 work in the fall — 
 
 Voted— Cap't Eli Parker, John Billing 
 and Moses Dickinson a Committee to en- 
 deavour a Settlement of the Lines between 
 Belchertowii, Pelliam and Andierst and 
 that they report to the Town — Voted — To 
 accept the list of Jurors — Voted — Asahel 
 Mooily, D'n Eleczer Smith Moses Dickin- 
 son he a Conunittce to view the Lands 
 Petitioned for by Elijah Hastings and 
 Daniel Cooley and report wliat is proper 
 to he Done 
 
 Attest 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Iidiabitants of 
 the Town of Amherst May 2d 1785 
 
 Noah Smith was chosen Moderator 
 
 Voted — To allow to John Fielil Jun'r 
 the Rates ctmmitted to him to Collect of 
 Josiah Chauncy, Isaac Chauncy, Moses 
 Chauncy and Lemuel Root unless he shall 
 have opportunity to Collect them of said 
 Persons abovenamed — 
 
 Voted — To Discontinue that part of the 
 Hitthwav Petitioned for by Elijah Hastings 
 and Grant the same to him on Condition 
 that said Hastings give his security to the 
 Treasurer of the. Town within one niontli 
 for the Payment for the same at the rate 
 of eight Pijunds for sin acre 
 
 Vott'd — To Discontinue that part of the 
 Heighway Petitioned for by'Daniel Cooley 
 and Grant the same to him on Condition 
 that said Cooley give his security to the 
 Treasurer of the Town, within one montli 
 for the Payment for the same at the rate 
 of eight Pounds for an acre 
 
 Voted — That the Select men and Treas- 
 urer have a Discretionary Pow-r to call 
 into the Treasury the monies Due to the 
 Town on Notes of hand 
 
 Attest 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst May 16tii 1785 
 
 Elisha Smith was chosen Moderator 
 
 Voted — unanimously not to consent to 
 a Division of the County of Hampshire 
 
 -Voted — That Eben'r Mattoon Esq'r 
 John Billing and M'r Eben'r Boltwood be 
 a Committee to make answer to the Peti. 
 
94 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 tion presented to the General Court for 
 tlie Division of the County aforesaid 
 
 Voted — Tliat in Case a Division of 
 said County should be obtained the Inhab- 
 itants of tliis Town request to belong to 
 the south part of the County 
 
 Attest Elisha Smith Moderator 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 tlie Town of Amherst October 13ili 1785 
 
 D'n John Billing was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted — To Grant forty Pounds for main- 
 tenance of scliools 
 
 Attest John Billing Moderator 
 At a Lecfal meeting of tlie Inhabitants 
 of the Town ot Amherst Jaimary 9tli 1786 
 Joseph Churcii was chosen Moderator 
 Voted — to allow the Bills as read and 
 corrected, and to empower the Assessors 
 to assess a sum sufficient to Pay the same 
 — Voted — to Grant eight Pounds ten Shil- 
 lings to support the schools — Voted — That 
 the Town of Hadley and annexed to the 
 Town of of Amherst will Refer the mat- 
 ters contained in a Petition signed by John 
 Field and others lately Prefered to the 
 General Court (Praying that their Lands 
 Lying in the first Division of Hadley inner 
 Conmions may be Disannexed from the 
 Town of Andierst) to Arbitrators mutual- 
 ly to be chosen by Committees appointed 
 by each of said Towns, wliich said Com- 
 mittee sliall have a Discretionary Power 
 to appoint tlie time and Place for said Ar 
 bitrators to meet, and Conduct the Busi- 
 ness relating to Said Petition in Behalf of 
 said Towns in the same manner as Individ- 
 uals might Do in References Depending 
 between Party and Party 
 
 Voted — Nath'll Dickinson Jn'r Cap't 
 Eli Parker and En'sn John Nash be a 
 Committee for tlie abovemeniioned pur- 
 pose- Voted — To Allow; Nathan Dickin- 
 son Jun'r the sum of one Pound one shil- 
 ling and eight pence money paid by him 
 for a Continental Soldier — Voted — To 
 Discharge the Rev'd M'r Parsons's Heirs 
 from Paying a Tax assessed on them Dat- 
 
 ed September 18th 1781 for the sum of five 
 Pounds four shillings — Voted — To Allow 
 a reasonable reward to tiiose Persons who 
 built the schoolhouse in the Northerly part 
 of the Town on the road leading to Sun- 
 derland — Voted — To Direct the Select 
 men to lay a Town Road from the road 
 leading from Eben'n Eastman's to Kelloggs 
 Mill, to the road leading from Maj'r Peck's 
 to Leverett — Voted To all[ow] Six Sir.l- 
 lings p'r hundred feet of two inch Oak 
 Plank and four shillings and six pence p'r 
 hundred feet of inch and half Oak Plank. 
 Voted That Timothy Green Jun'r he paid 
 his Bill for work at Highwnys by monies 
 Due on the Highway Rate and that the 
 Assessors issue their Warrant to Collect 
 ihe same — Voted — To allow two shillings 
 and eitjlit pence p'r Day for work Done at 
 Bridges 
 
 Attest Joseph Church Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the Town of Amherst March 6th 1786 
 
 Leiut John Field was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted — Nath'll Dickinson Jun'r Town 
 Clerk 
 
 Voted — Doct'r Beth Coleman Town 
 Treasurer 
 
 Voted— D'n Elisha Smith, Cap't Moses 
 Cooke, Joseph Church, Joseph E..stman 
 Jn'r and M'r Ebenezer Boltwood, Select 
 men 
 
 Voted — Cap't Moses Cooke, D'n Elisha 
 Smith, and Eben'r Mattoon Esq'r Assess- 
 ors 
 
 Voted — Stephen Stnitli, John Eastman 
 
 and Daniel Kellogg Jnr Constables 
 
 Voted — Stephen Cole, Cap't Eli Parker, 
 Elijah Dickinson, Joel Moody Andrew 
 Kimlial Jn'r Elijah Elmer and Moses 
 Hastings Surveyors of Highways and Col- 
 lectors of Taxes 
 
 Voted Samuel Hastings, Timothy 
 
 Handerson, Simeon Cowls, Edward Smith 
 Simeon Dickinson Jn'r and John Eastman 
 Tythingmen 
 
 Voted — E'n Elijah Hastings, Moses 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 95 
 
 Cooke Hiui L't Noah Dickinson — Wardens 
 Voted — William Clapp, Israel Dickin- 
 son, Tiniotliy Green Jnr. David Warner 
 Andrew Kiuibal Jnr and David Ingram — 
 Hay wards 
 
 Voted — Jacob McDai'ieli, Oliver CuwU 
 and Timothy Green Jn'r Fence viewers 
 
 Voted — Josepli Church Surveyor of 
 Shiii^jles and Clapboards 
 
 Voted — L't Thomas Hastings, Sealer of 
 Leather 
 
 Voted — To Grant the sum of seventy 
 Pou.ds to repair the Highway 
 
 Voted — To Allow three shillings p'r 
 Day for work Done at Heighways from 
 the first Day of May to the first Day of 
 September and two shillings p'r Day in tlu- 
 month of September and one shilling and 
 six pence afterwards 
 
 Voted — Tliat Hogs yoked and ringed 
 according to Law may run on the Com 
 mons from the Middle of May to the Mid 
 die of August 
 
 Voted — To Build a Suhoolhouse in the 
 Northeast part of the Town 
 
 Voted — Tliat Elijah Baker, Josiah War- 
 ner and Enos Dickinson be a Committee 
 to build the same 
 
 Voted — John Billing, Eleazer Smith and 
 Jacob McDaniell be a Committee to ex- 
 amine the Siate of the Treasury 
 
 Voted — to accept the following report ot 
 the Select men for laying out a road from 
 tlie road which leads troiii Ebenezer East- 
 man's to Kellogg's Mill, into the Road by 
 Jonatlian Howard's House, said Road is 
 laid out three rods in widih till it comes 
 to the top of Pine hill, then two rods wide 
 to the road leading by Howards liouse — 
 Described as follows — 
 
 East 87 rods on Amariah Dana's North 
 line to a Town road — then East crossing 
 the abovesaid town way 4 rods to a Stake 
 and stones it being a Corner of David and 
 Eleazer Cowls Land — them East 1 deg 30 
 min North on the abovesaid. Cowls Land 
 24 rods to a stake — then East 24 deg south 
 on Eben'r Eastman's land 17 rods and 12 
 
 links to a stake and stones, tlien Ka^^t 13 
 deg Norili on said E istman's land 8 rods 
 to a stake ar.d stones ; then East 28 
 deg North on said Eastman's land l(j rods 
 to a stake and stones, them easterly to a 
 white Oak, then East 11 deg North 16 rods 
 to a white Oak, then East 5 deg 30 min 
 North 10 rods to a stake; then East 28 
 rods to the road North of Howard's — the 
 line between Eleazer Cowls, David Cowls 
 and Ebenezer Eastman to be the Centre of 
 the road 
 
 Attest John Field Moderator 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of Amiierst April 3d 1786 
 
 Votes, for a Governor were as follows 
 (viz) 
 
 For his Excellency James Bowdoin 
 Esq'r twenty three 
 
 Hon'ble Benjamin Lincoln Esq'r eleven 
 Hon'ble Joliii Hancock Esij'r one 
 Votes for a Lieutenant Governor were 
 as follows (viz) 
 
 For the Hon'ble Nathaniel Gorham 
 Esq'r twenty three 
 
 His Honor Thomas Cashing Esq'r seven 
 Votes for the Senators were as follows 
 (viz) 
 For Timothy Danielson Esq'r thirty two 
 Caleb Strong Esq'r forty three 
 John Hustings Esq'r thirty three 
 Oliver Piielps E?q'r forty one 
 William Shephard Esq'r seventeen 
 Simeon Strong Esq'r three 
 Samuel Mather Esq'r three 
 
 Joseph Church "j selectmen 
 
 Attest Eben'r Boltwood V of 
 
 Joseph Eastman Jn'r J Amherst 
 Nath'll Dickinson Jn'r Town Clerk 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of Amliersl April 3d 1786 
 
 Joseph Eastman Jnr was chosen Moder- 
 ator 
 
 Voted — To Accept the List of Jurors 
 laid before the Town by the Select men 
 
 At a Legal meeting of thelnliabitants of 
 Amherst May 1st 1786 
 
 L't John Field was chosen Moderator 
 
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 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 Vated — That Simeon Strong Esq'r be 
 requested to Continue the Action brouglit 
 by the Executors of the Rev'd David Par- 
 sons Dec'd against the Town untill Au- 
 gust Term — 
 
 Voted — To Direct the Treasurer to Col- 
 lect the Debts Due to the Town from in- 
 dividuals as soon as he can by Law — 
 
 Voted — L't Moses Rowe, John Billing 
 and L't John Field a Committee to view 
 the Land Petitioned for by Martin Kellogg 
 and report to the Town what is proper to 
 be Done respecting the same 
 
 Voted — That Martin Kellogg and Moses 
 Dickinson Esq'r be Joined to the Com- 
 mittee appointed to examine into the 
 State of the Treasury 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of Amherst May 1st 1786 
 
 Nath'U Dickinson Jun'r was cliosen 
 Moderator 
 
 Voted — Eben'r Mattoon Esq'r and Cap't 
 Eli Parker Delegates to meet in County 
 Convention to take into Consideration tlie 
 expediency of a Division of the County or 
 any alterations as to the places of holding 
 the Courts and Register's OflSce in said 
 County 
 
 Voted — That the Treasurer be Directed 
 to Pay Elisha Porter Esq'r liis Demands 
 on an Execution he hath against ilie 
 Town 
 
 Attest Nath'll Dickinson Jn'r Moder- 
 ator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inliabitants of 
 the Town of Amlierst June 12tli 1786 
 
 D'n Elisha Smith was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted — To Discharge Nath'll Dickinson 
 Jn'r late Treasurer of tliis Town from all 
 Demands against him as Treasurer and 
 said Dickinson hereby Discharges the 
 Town from all Demands against them as 
 Treasurer — Voted — That each Surveyor 
 expend the money Committed to him within 
 the District he is ordered to repair — Vot- 
 ed — That upon either of the Surveyors of 
 Highways for tlie year 1786 presenting hia 
 
 Rate Bill to the Town Treasurer and Cer- 
 tifying on the same that the whole sum 
 committed to him has been by him collect- 
 ed and expended in repairing that part of 
 the Heigliway committed to his care, or a 
 part thereof being collected in Labour 
 with a Sum of money amounting in the 
 whole to the sum Committed to him To 
 Direct the said Treasurer to receive such 
 rate bill so executed as above or a part in 
 money as above Described and give the 
 Surveyor presenting the same a Discharge 
 therefrom — Voted — The Select men a 
 Committee to find how much is Due from 
 the Town to the Heirs of the Rev'd David 
 Parsons Deceas'd — Voted — That L't Moses 
 Rowe Cap't Moses Cooke and Eben'r 
 Mattoon Esq'r be a Committee to view the 
 Land Petitioned for by L't Zebina Mon- 
 tague and report to this meeting— Voted 
 to adjourn to friday 16th inst at three of 
 the Clock in the afternoon, being met 
 according to Adjournment — Voted — Cap't 
 Jonathan Dickinson, Major Mattoon and 
 M'r Isaac Goodale a Committee to view 
 and Apprise the Land Petitioned for by 
 Martin Kellogg — Voted— to Discontinue 
 that part of the Highway hereafter De- 
 scribed and Grant the same to L't Zebina 
 Montague he giving security to the Town 
 Treasurer for Payment for the Same at 
 the rate of fifteen Pounds P'r acre on or 
 before the first Day of May next; said 
 Lands are Described as follows — viz — Be- 
 ginning at the North west corner of said 
 Montagues shop and runs east 19 deg 30 
 min North ten rods, thence east 5 deg 
 north 14 rods and 12 feet thence East 26 
 deg South 14 rods and 11 feet — thence 
 south four feet — thence west 37 rods and 
 3 feet adjoining Moses Warner's north 
 Line — containing one Acre and fourteen 
 rods 
 
 Attest 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst August 7th 1786 
 
 Major Eben'r Mattoon was chosen mod- 
 erator — Voted To reconsider the vote 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 97 
 
 passed the last meeting Directing the 
 Treasurer to Postpone Collecting tlie town 
 Debts, and that he be Directed to Collect 
 them immediately agreeable to a former 
 vote of the Town respecting the Treasur- 
 ers collecting the town Debts without 
 
 Delay 
 
 Attest Eben'r Mattoon Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the Town of Amherst July 13th 1786 
 
 M'r Eben'r Boltwood was chosen Mod- 
 erator—Voted — That Cap't Eli Parker, 
 Moses Cooke and Isaac Goodale be a Com- 
 mittee to Apprise the Land Petitioned for 
 by Titus Stevens 
 
 Voted— To Grant the Sum of two Hun- 
 dred and fifty Pounds to Pay the Debts 
 Due to the Heirs of the Rev'd David Par- 
 sons Deceas'd and the Assessors are em- 
 powered to Assess the Same 
 
 Attest Eben'r Boltwood Mod'r 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the Town ot Amherst Jan'y 1st 1787 
 
 Cap't Moses Cooke Jun'r was chosen 
 Moderator 
 
 Voted — To allow Six Shillings for two 
 inch Oak Plank and five Shillings for inch 
 and half Oak Plank 
 
 Voted — To allow tlie Bills as read a:id 
 corrected, and that the Assessors be em- 
 powered to Assess a sum on the Inhabi- 
 tants of the Town sufficient to Pay the 
 
 same 
 
 Attest 
 
 At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Am- 
 herst January 12th 1787 
 
 M'r Daniel Cooley was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 The following Petition was read and 
 passed ; and thereupon ordered that the 
 Moderator send an attested Copy of the 
 same as the General Court for their con- 
 sideration at their next Sessions 
 
 The Petition is as follows, to wit — 
 Comnionwealtii of Massaciiusetts 
 
 To the Honorable the Senate and House 
 of Representatives in their present Ses- 
 sions — A Petition 
 
 Wherein your Petitioners the Inhabi- 
 tants of the Town of Amherst Humbly 
 Sheweth — That your Petitioners being 
 Deeply aflfected with the Calamities and 
 Distresses that attend and embarrass the 
 Good People of this Commonwealth; your 
 Petitioners being sensible that there aro 
 many things in the transactions of our 
 Publick Affairs that have a Direct tenden- 
 cy to involve the Common People in a 
 State of Slavery and Poverty without 
 some speedy relief. 
 
 Your Petitioners therefore think it their 
 Duty and Do encourage themselves in 
 presenting this their Petition to your Hon- 
 ors for relief in the following Articles all 
 which we apprehend are within your Hon- 
 ors power to redress — The Existance of 
 the Court of Common Pleas ; a grievance 
 as all matters cognizable before may be 
 brouglit to a final Issue by a Jury of 12 
 men Drawn out of the Box by order of a 
 Justice — Tlie General Court Sitting in 
 Boston — a Grievance — as there is an undue 
 influence upon the Members by the Mer- 
 chants and other Inhabitants of said Town, 
 together with many other Diversions by 
 attendance to Trade, and much noise and 
 Claims stretched, likewise as eatables are 
 much Dearer at the second or third hand 
 — The Grants made to the Officers of 
 Government — far beyond their Deservings 
 or the Principles of the Constitution and 
 the Peoples abilities to Pay — The Present 
 mode of Paying State Securities without ■ 
 any Description between the original 
 Owners and those who purclmse them — 
 Tiie present appropriation of the Excise 
 and Impost money ; as it ought to be im- 
 proved to answer the Demands of the 
 foreign Debt — The late great Tax imposed 
 on the People for far beyond their abilities 
 to Pay under their Distressing circum- 
 stances together with the speedy collection 
 of the same — The present mode of Taxa- 
 tion, as it operates unequally between 
 Poles and Estates, and the Mercantile and 
 Landed Ir.terest a grievance — The want of 
 
98 
 
 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 17^ 
 
 a sufficient Medium of Trade to prevent 
 the mischiefs arising from a scarcity ot 
 money, n Grievance. To which your 
 Petitioners add their most fervent Desires 
 that your Honors would Repeal the Sus- 
 pension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus 
 likewise tlie Riot Act; the continuance of 
 those Acts your Petitioners apprehend 
 will be greatly subversive of the Constitu- 
 tional Protection of the good People of 
 this Commonwealth — Your Petiiioners 
 request your Honors to empower the 
 Select-men of the Several Towns in tliis 
 Commonwealth to effect the whole malterx 
 of Licencing Inniiolders and Retailers, 
 likewise the registering of Deeds in every 
 Town — That tlie Treasurer of each Town 
 be empowered to collect the Excise money 
 —The often Sitting of the Court of Ses- 
 sions, a Grievance, as we think one ses- 
 sion of said Court in a year would Serve 
 to all intents and purposes — We likewise 
 Pray your Honors to send to all the 
 Towns in the Commonwealth to Know 
 tlieir minds witli regard to the Revival of 
 the Constitution as your Petitioners appre- 
 hend great improvements may be made 
 upon the same — That the Settlement of 
 Estates or all Probate matters be accom- 
 modated and settled in CHch Town, as it 
 will be a vast saving to the Fatherless and 
 Widows — To all which your Petitioners 
 beg leave to suggest, that the gratifying 
 the above requests will be a happy means 
 to prevent a strenuous movement of the 
 western Counties to be formed into a sep- 
 arate State — all which is humbly submit- 
 ted to your Honors Candor and Wisdom — 
 as in Duty bound shall ever Pray 
 by order 
 The forementioned meeting being as- 
 sembled January 12th 1787 made choice of 
 John Billing, Cap't Eli Parker, Moses 
 Dickinson Esq Martin Kellogg and E'n 
 John Nash to Draught the foregoing Pe- 
 tition and adjourned to the Wednesday 
 following when being met according to 
 adjournment the same was read and ac- 
 
 cepted and ordered to be Recorded in the 
 Town Book of Records 
 
 Attest Daniel Cooley, Moderator 
 
 At a LeLjal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst March 26lli 1787 
 
 M'r Zebina Montague was chosen Mod- 
 erator 
 
 Voted, NatirU Dickinson Jun'r Town 
 Clerk — Voted — D'r Seth Colemau Town 
 Treasurer — Voted — L't John Field, D'n 
 Elisha Smith, M'r Eben'r Boltwood, 
 Joseph Church and Jonathan Dickinson 
 Jun'r Select men — Voted — D'n Elisha 
 Smith, D'n Seth Coleman and D'n Heze- 
 kiah Belding Assessors; — Voted — Zebina 
 Montague, Daniel Cooley, Elijah Baker 
 David Blodgett and Solomon Boltwood 
 Wardens — Voted — Capt'n Moses Cooke 
 Major Eben'r Mattoon, Simeon Clarke 
 Jun'r E'n Joseph Pettes, and D'n Heze- 
 kiah Belding. Ty thingmen — Voted — Gid- 
 eon Dickinson, Stoughton Dickinson, 
 Gideon Parsons, David Blodgett, Eleazer 
 Cowls, Simeon Clarke Jun'r Surveyors of 
 Heighways — Voted — Joseph Eastman Ju'r 
 and Enos Cowls Constables — Voted L't 
 John Field and L't Noah Dickinson Fence 
 Viewers-Voted-Gideon Dickinson, Stough- 
 ton Dickinson, Gideon Parsons, David 
 Blodgett, Eleazer Cowls, and Simeon 
 Clark Jun'r Collectors of the Heighway 
 rate — Voted — Joseph Church, surveyor 
 of Shingles — Voted — D'n Elisha Smith 
 Sealer of Leather- Voted — E'n Elijah 
 Hastings, Levi Cooke, David Cowls, 
 Nath'il Edwards and Eldad Moody and L't 
 John Field Haywards — Voted — Jonathan 
 Dickinson Jun'r Packer of Beef — Voted — 
 To grant the sum of Seventy Pounds to 
 repair the Heighway and the Assessors are 
 empowered to Assess the same— Voted — 
 To allow three Shillings p'r Day for work 
 Done at Highways from the first Day of 
 May to the first Day of September and 
 two Shillings p'r Day in September and 
 October and one Shilling and six pence 
 the remainder of the year — Voted — To 
 Grant to Isaac Hubbard Six Pounds for 
 
Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 99 
 
 killing a grown Wolf and the Assessors 
 are empowered to Assess the same — Vot- 
 ed, that Hogs yoked and rung according 
 to Law may run on the Common from tlie 
 first Day of May to tl»e first Day of Sep- 
 tember 
 
 Attest 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst on the first Mon- 
 day of April A D. 1787 
 
 Voted for Governor as follows — viz, 
 
 His Excellency James Bowdoin Esq'r 
 thirteen 
 
 The Hon'ble John Hancock Esq'r 
 eight 
 
 Voted for Lieutenant Governor as fol- 
 lows, viz, the Hon'ble Benjamin Lincoln 
 Esq'r twenty two — 
 
 Voted — for Senators as follows — viz 
 
 For David Smead Esq'r Seventeen 
 
 William Shephard Esq'r Nineteen 
 
 Caleb Strong Esq'r twenty one 
 
 John Bliss Esq'r twenty one 
 
 Oliver Plielps Esq'r four 
 
 J»hn Hastings Esq'r one 
 
 John Field 1 Select 
 
 Eben'r Boltwood I men 
 
 Attest Elisha Smith > of 
 
 Jonathan Dickinson J'k J Amherst 
 Joseph Church J 
 
 Natli'll Dickinson Jun'r Town Clerk 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst May 14th 1787 
 
 M'r Daniel Cooley was chosen Moder- 
 ator 
 
 Voted — To relinquish to Isaac Hubbard 
 a Town Tax against him and committed 
 to Stephen Cole to collect, he having 
 paid the same or Similar Tax in another 
 Town — Voted — To empower the Select 
 men to give an order to Isaac Hubbard to 
 Draw Six Pounds out of the Town Treas- 
 ury for his killing one gruwn Wolf — Vot 
 ed — to accept the List of Jurors laid be- 
 fore the Town by the Selectmen — Voted — 
 That the Select men be empowered to 
 give an order to Stephen Smith to Draw 
 Seven Shillings and Six pence out of the 
 Town Treasury for removing a Poor 
 
 Family to Sunderland — Voted — That the 
 Town Tax which should have been com- 
 mitted to Daniel Kellogg Jun'r be com- 
 mitted to the Constables for the present 
 year and the Assessors are Directed to 
 Issue their warrants accordingingly 
 
 Attest Daniel Cooley Moderator 
 
 At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of 
 the Town of Amherst August 13ih 1787 
 
 The votes for a Register of Deeds for 
 the middle District in the County of Hamp- 
 shire were as follows 
 
 For Solomon Stoddard Esq'r thirty 
 eight 
 
 For Eben'r Hunt Esq'r two 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst Oct'r 15th 1787 
 
 L't John Field was chosen Moderator 
 
 Voted — To Grant fifty Pounds to Sup- 
 port Schools 
 
 Voted — to keep the Schools the ensuing 
 year 
 
 Voted — that the east School in the mid- 
 dle, shall have one month more than the 
 others to make up what they wanted of 
 their proportion the last year 
 
 Voted — that each District or School 
 shall have a sixth part of the [sum] that 
 is granted for the Support of Schools 
 
 Voted — To choose a Committee to In- 
 struct our Representative 
 
 Voted— That D'n John Billing, Martin 
 Kellogg, L't Moses Rowe Elijah Baker, 
 Moses Cooke Cap't Eli Parker and Joseph 
 Dickinson be the Committee aforesaid 
 
 Voted — to Adjourn to Iriday the 19th 
 instant at three O'Clock P. M. then to 
 meet in this place 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of Amherst Oct'r 29th 1787 
 
 Cap't Eli Parker was chosen Modera- 
 tor 
 
 Voted to adjourn this meeting unto the 
 12th Day of November next 
 
 Nov'r 12th 1787. Being met according 
 to adjournment — 
 
 Voted — to Sell some part of the Town 
 Heighway — Voted — That the Heighvyays 
 
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 Records of Amherst from 1735 to 1788. 
 
 d^.. 
 
 North }ind South shall be in no place less 
 than Six rods wide where they are now so 
 wide — Voted — That the Committee act 
 Discretionary as to the width of the Cross 
 Highways — Voted— To choose a Commit- 
 tee to Dispose of said Highways or any 
 part thereof as tliey think proper — Voted 
 — Cap't Eli Parker, Moses Dickinson 
 Esq'r Simeon Strong Esq'r L't John Field 
 M'r Daniel Cooley, Joseph Churcli, Jo- 
 siah Warner, Enos Dickinson, and Noah 
 Smith be tiie Committee aforesaid — Voted 
 — To allow the People in the Nortiieast 
 part of Amlierst, eighteen pounds, in Case 
 they shall build for the Town such a 
 School house as is built in the Nortliwest 
 part of the Town — 
 
 Voted — To Abate to L't Ezra Rood the 
 Rates that were made against him when 
 in Nortliampton Goal — Voted — To Dis- 
 charge L't Ezra Rood from all other Rates 
 in the Constables hands against him pro- 
 vided he give a Note to the Town Treas- 
 urer for the same sum on interest, for the 
 use of the Inhabitants of this Town 
 
 Attest Eli Parker Moderator 
 
 At a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants 
 of the Town of Amherst January 14th 
 1788 
 
 Joseph Church was chosen Moderator 
 
 Voted — to adjourn to Monday next at 
 one of the Clock afternoon then to meet at 
 ihe first Parisli meeting house — being met 
 according to Adjournment — 
 
 Voted — to accept the Bills as read and 
 corrected and to empower the Assessors 
 to Assess a Sum of money on the Inhabi- 
 
 tants of this Town sufficient to Pay the 
 same — Voted — six shillings P'r Jmndred 
 feet for two inch Oak plank and five shil- 
 lings for inch and half Oak Plank — Voted 
 — three ^shillings P'r Day to the Assess- 
 ors — 
 
 Voted — three shillings P'r Day for work 
 Done al Bridges and three shillings and 
 four pence P'r Day for Hewers of Tim- 
 ber — 
 
 Voted — two shillings P'r Day to each 
 of the Committee appointed to Ascertain 
 the Town and County Heighways — Voted 
 — To Adjourn to the Seventh Day of Feb- 
 ruary next at one of the Clock afternoon 
 then to meet at the first Parish meeting 
 house — Being met according to Adjourn- 
 ment — 
 
 Voted — To allow thirty Pounds for 
 Building the schoolhouse in the north 
 east part of the Town — 
 
 Voted — To Abate to Nath'll Dickinson 
 2d the rates he had to collect against 
 Daniel Clieney, Enos Rolph and William 
 Moores — Voted — To abate to Thomas 
 Marsliall the whole of the rates Due from 
 liim to the Constables of this Town not by 
 them collected — 
 
 voted — To choose a Committee to pro- 
 portion the money that may arise from 
 the sale of Highways to each Parish in 
 this Town— Voted— That D'r Setli Cole- 
 man Col. Eben'r Mattoon, D'n John Bil- 
 ling, L't Zebina Montague be the Commit- 
 tee aforesaid 
 
 Attest Joseph Church Moderator 
 [the end]. 
 
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