4^, BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME FROM THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF Henrg W. Sage 1891 AAQSgy6 :^// going after guns ammunition &c . . • ) ;^S -i-i Esq' Curtifs for ditto 5-16-8 To D" for Cash paid M' Lyman . . . . 1-13 To Cash paid by m' Wheelock to D' Giddinge for the ^ expence of the mimbers of y'' Continental Con- r j-j^-e grefs . . . . . . . . - 22 HANOVER N. H £1-12-0 2-18—4 0-12-0 o -8-0 0-12-0 0-13-8 I-16-O I— 16— o To 57'" of powder @ 2/8 To 100 '" Lead To Capt Freemans expence To Lieu' Durkee for Ditto To Esq' Woodward for D" To Interest on Money Borrowed To Cash paid by Cap' Storrs to L* Freeman To John Wheelock expence at the Congrefs Voted to raise a Tax of thirty three pounds and twelve shil- lings to defray the above charges &c — The Select Men and Committee appointed to Join them in laying out highways made the following returns to this Meeting^ which were accepted by Vote and ordered to be put on record The first a road leading from hills Mills to Dartm" College- and is as follows Viz [19] July 7"' 1775 we began at a pine stub near m' Hills Barn run W. 15" N. 30 rod to a heap of stones thence W. 32" S. g rod to a pine stub then S 42" W. 22 rod to a map^ Tree, then W. 5° N. 32 rod to a Hemlock tree— then W. 18° S. 17 rod to a Hemlock Tree then S. 48'' W. 22 rods to Hemlock tree then S. 25° W. 22 rods to a Black Birch Tree, thence W. 20° S. 36. rods to a pine Tree Then W. 21" N. 33 rod to a pine tree, thence W. 15° N. 74 rods to a Hemlock tree then W. 15° S. 7 rods to a Hemlock Tree then W. 5° N. 31 rods to a Hemlock Tree, then W. 15° S. 23 rods to a Hemlock Tree, then W. 15° N. 7 rod to a Beech tree — thence N. 42 W. 20^ rod to a Hemlock Tree, then N. 36° W. 40 rod to a Hemlock tree, then W. 13° N. 18 rod to a pine tree, then W. 6°'N. no road to a Birch tree then W. 15° N. 64 rod to a Hemlock tree, then N. 50° W. 28 rod to a Hemlock Tree then W. 27 rod to a Beech straddle then W. 29* N. 109 rod to Hemlock tree — then W. 35° N. 44 rod to a Hemlock Tree, then W. 10° S. 68. rod to a pine Tree then W. 40° N. 42 rod, to a Hemlock Tree, then N. 4° W. 40 rods to a Hemlock stub, then N. 43° W. 130, rod to Dartm" College the highwa^y lying on the northerly side of said line [.] 2* Highway, Began at Capt. Storrs'. House thence S. 6J° W. 30 rod thence S. 4° W. 24 rods to the Bridge where the road crofses a Valley thence on the eastern side of said TOWN RECORDS 23 Valley to Mink Brook meadow, thence as the road is now fenced and traveled to the half mile road the Highway lying on the east side of said line Ichabod Fowler Edward Smith David Woodward Edmund Freeman Selectmen and Committee 3* We the Subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Hanover and a Committee appointed to Join with them in Laying out highways in said Town have by direction of said Town pro- ceeded to view and establish the highway from the Meeting House in said Town to the Dwelling House of Benjamin Hatch, have viewed the several places propofed for a highway and exam- ined the antient survey of said road as laid out by Del' Wood- ard Jon" Freeman and John Wright (a Committee appointed for that purpose) Nov' 7"" 1769 as may appear by the record of the propriety of the Town of Hanover — and it does to us appear that the highway laid out by the abovesaid Committee is on the most suitable and convenient Land for said purpose, that by D° Ordways proposal to said Committee he had a due compensation for said road by an allowance an allowance in the two mile road, opposite to said Highway and we do there- fore recomend to said Town to Establish and open the road agreeable to the above said Survey we further advise as there is no Deed of Conveyance given to Deacon Ordway of the aboves* allowance that a Committee be appointed, to make a Deed of the same if the said D" Ordway shall require it. Han' Nov' 20"" 1775 Ichabod Fowler 1 o 1 j Edward Smith I ^nd ^" David Woodward ( ^ -^ Edm* Freeman J Committee Voted that James Murch clear out the last mentioned road forthwith Voted that Jonathan Freeman be appointed an agent to give [20] a Conveyance in behalf of said Town to D" John Ordway for the Land the road was laid on from the meeting House to Benjamin Hatches across his Land the conveyance to be given in equal Quantity on the Land appropriated for highways called the two mile road, if the said Deacon Ordway shall require it. 24 HANOVER N. H. Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants at the Town of Hanover the second Tuesday in March 1776 Voted and chose Lifeut: David Woodward Modarator of s^ Meeting Voted and chose Edmund Freeman Town Clerk — Voted and chose L' David Woodward Deacon Ichabod Fowler and L'*Thomas Durkee Select Men Voted and chose M' James Murch and Cap' Aaron storrs Constables Voted and chose Mefs'" Thomas Page and Jabez Bingham Tything men Voted and chose Mefsiers Gideon Smith Asa Parker Joseph Curtifs Stephen Benton Del' Woodard sam' slade Comfort Sevor and John Bridgman surveyors of highways Voted and chose L' Thomas Durkee Leather Sealler — Voted and chose M' W"" Taylor Sealer of weights & Meas- ures Voted and chose Rufsel Freeman & Samuel Kendreck Hog howards Voted and chose Lemuel Dowe Kee keeper — Voted and chose Mefseirs David Eaton Thomas Page and Jofeph Curtifs audittors to audit and settle accounts with the Select Men for the years 1773-1774 — 1775 & 1776 and with the Meeting House Committee and that they make return of the same to the next annual Meeting — Voted that Hogs shall not run at Large the ensuing year Voted and chose L" David Woodward & Johnathan Freeman Cap' Edmund Freeman Beza : Woodward Esq'' and Capt Aaron Storrs a Committee of Safety Corospondance and Inspection the Ensuing year — Voted the Rev'd m' Burroughs his Sallary the ensuing year to be paid in manner and by the time as in the year past and likewise that the Select Men add in with his bill the sum of ten pounds L. M. to be appropriated for the purpose of settling some rearedges now behind in his sallaries for years past and other incidental Charges — Voted to raise forty pounds to be expended on highways Voted that TOWN RECORDS 25 [21] Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Nov' 5* 1776. Voted and chose D" Ichabod Fowler Moderator Voted and chose Rufsel Freeman Clerk P. Tem. Voted to allow Cap' Aaron Storrs for service done and money paid for the Town 66/9 . . . ;^3 — [6-9]* To Lieu' John Wright for d" . . . . [ ] To the Officers and Soldiers of Cap' Woodward Com- pany S L ] Voted to Raise a Tax of £-12 for Defraying Town Charges Voted to Raise the sum of £:i,\ — 11 — withy°. Int: from July last a[nd] the Money shall be.paid in for the purpofe of pay- ing for amu[niti] on &c — Voted that the Select Men appoint some perfon if they [ ] Necessary to serve as Constable in the absence of mr James Murch Voted that the Select Men be impowered to settle and •o[pen?] Highways laid out and to exchange allowances there- for Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover {_ J of March 1777 Voted and chose Cap' David Wood- ward Moderator for sa[me?] The Report of David Eaton Thomas Page Joseph Curtifs who were appointed Auditors march 1776 was laid before this Meeting and [ ] and they werp further requested and impowered to proceed to a [ ] settlement of those accounts and to settle all accounts with the [ ] Men of those years for their services for the Town and any other accounts which became Due in those years to individuals which [ J remain unfettled. Voted to allow Lieu' John. Wright two pounds and nin [e] shillings for servifes as mentioned by the auditors — Voted to recomend to and Direct the Selectmen and collec- tors the same meafures for Collecting of Taxes and particularly Restraining on Delinquents as have heretofore been Esteemed [ ] and customary and that they do it so effectually as to *NoTE. The square brackets [ ] indicate that letters or words in the original manuscript have either been worn away (usually atithe edges of the leaves) or have become illegible. — Editors. 26 HANOVER N. H. prepare [ ] speedy settlement with the auditors above Mentioned Voted to raise a Tax of seventy pounds to pay the Rev'd m' Bur- [ ] Salary and such other Charges as belong to this part of [ ]to pay exclufive of the College Destrect The proceedings of the united Committees held at Lebanon [ ] ul' were read and unanimously approved The Committee who have been empowered by us and ac [ J behalf with the united Committees Exhibited the followi [ ] Cap' Woodward 6 Days @ 6/. 36/ cash paid 6/ ^2-[ J Cap' Freeman' 3 D"® D° o-[ ] Lieut Freeman 7 *" @ d° 42/ cash paid 6/ . 2-[ ] Cap' Storrs 7 '^° @ d° 42/ 2-[ ] Esq. Woodward 8 d" @ d" 48/ cash p" 10/ . [ ] Tot> [ J Voted to allow Cap' Woodward for going to Coos [ ] To Jonathan Freeman for Trouble and expence at plainfield ....... o [ J Voted to appoint Beza Woodward Esq' & Jonathan Freero [ J either of them to Reprefent this Town in the Conven- tion of [ ] ttees from various Towns who have united in the western [ ] this State for the purpose of securing the Liber- ties of the p [ J and profecuting such meafures as they Judge may have [ ] Effectual Tendency to Obtain a Re- drefs of [ ] [22] and Afsembly of this State, and they are Directed to take such steps Relative thereto (in our behalf) as they shall Judge proper Subject Neverthelefs to such Instructions as they shall from time to time Receive from this Town Voted the following Instructions Reference to the files for said Instructions Voted that said Instructions be signed by y' Moderator and Clerk Voted that Cap' David Woodward Beza Woodward Esq & Cap' Edmund Freeman be a Committee of Safety for the Ensu- ing year and that they or the Majority of them be instructed TOWN RECORDS 2^ and impowered to Transact any affairs which may come under their Cognezence agreeable to the former ufage and the Gen- eral practice of Other Towns in the New England States^ also that they take Cognezince of Breaches of the peace and any Criminal Disorders (during the disputes with the Afsembly of this State) so far as is Necefsary to restrain the out breaking of Disorders among us Voted that the Select Men and Committee of Safety be em- powered to Licince publick Houfes in this Town and give them- Instructions — That Tything men and Constables be Directed ta inspect such Houfes and enter Complaints of Disorders to the Committee of Safety who are empowered to proceed to Trial and pafs Judgment and Execution relative thereto agreeable ta the Recomendation of the united Committees Voted that as soon as the propriety shall pafs such Votes as to render it feasible the Select Men proceed to some effectual ' Meafures for the Settlement of highways Voted and Chofe Cap' Edmund Freeman David Eaton and Enf " Nathaniel Wright Select Men for the year Enfuing Voted and Chofe Cap' Edmund Freeman Town Clerk for the year enfuing Voted and Chofe John Bridgraan Conftable Voted and Chofe Samuel Slade and Cap' Aaron Storrs Tyth- ingmen Voted and Chofe Nath^ .Woodward Tho» page Rufsel Free- man- W" Woodward W" Dewey Benj° Davis and Cap' Hendee surveyors of Highways Voted and Chofe L' Tho" Durkee Sealer of Leather Voted and chofe Stephen Benton Sealer of Weights & Meaf- ures Voted and chofe L' John Wright L' Rufsel Freeman Tyxhall Cleaveland and Cap' Aaron Storrs Hog Howards Voted and Chofe M' Lemuel Dowe Key Keeper Voted that the Town Clerk administer the Oath of Ofi&ce to the Clerk of the Committee of Safety Voted that Beza Woodward Esq' Clerk of the Committee of Safety Administer the Oath of Office to the refpective Town. Officers ^8 HANOVER N. H. Voted that Hogs shall not run at Large Voted to accept five dollars of M'' payn together with his excufes as compensation for neglecting his office of Constable two years ago Votela to raise thirty pounds for Town Charges to be paid by the first of may next Voted to empower the Select Men to examine into the ac- counts of Surveyors of Highways and see that the Monies in their [ J be properly laid out [ ] [23] Voted that the mile Road from Jeremiah Trescotts to Wolfborough Road laid out by the Select Men be accepted by y' Town Voted to defire the Committee of Safety to Confer with the Co [ ] tees of some other Town or Towns and if prac- ticable to Join them in procuring standards for weights and Meafures — Voted that the Vacant Ground on the East side of the Meet- ing House be allowed to the ufe of the singers Voted that the Vacant ground at the N. E. corner of the Mee [ J be made into seats for the Benefit of the Town. Voted that the Select Men for the year be empowered to settle and Determine with refpect to the Road from Jeremiah Trescotts to the Mill Road — Voted to Difsolve this Meeting — Att a Meetirtg of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover — Warned and Held april y" 18* 1777 Voted and Chose D" Ichabod Fowler Moderator for said i J Voted to Raife the sum of £14.2-10-0 for encouragement of [ J Men for the Continental Service Voted and Chofe Cap' David Woodward Cap' Edmund Free- man L' John Freeman m"^ Edward Smith Enf " Del' Wood and Ty [ ] Cleaveland and Samuel Slade a Committee to pro- cure the said Men and that Each Man have five pounds paid [ J for the three years. Voted that L' John Wright and [ J Freeman be a Com- mittee to return the Thanks of the [ ] to M' Burroughs for TOWN RECORDS 29 his Kindness and Generosity in giving twenty pounds [ ] his Sallary for the Benefit of the Town Voted to adjourn this Meeting to y' 23^ Day of this Instan [ J to this place at one O'CIock P. M. Api 23 Met according to adjournment Voted to Give Moody Freeman all the Rates which laid [ ]' in the year 1775 on account of his being in y' Service Voted to give Elijah Smith his Rates in Gideon Smiths and David Chandlers Bills on s* account Voted to Reconsider the foregoing vote for raising y" of 142-10 Voted to Difsolve this Meeting Att a Town Meeting Legally Warned and met may y' [8 ?] Voted and Chofe Cap' David Woodward Moderator for said Meet [ ] Voted and chofe Lieut Jonathan Freeman as an [ ] to repair to Exeter to reprefent to the Afsembly or Com [ ] of Safety the peculiar Difficulties we Labour under in regard to raifing the Quota of Continental Men by the [ ] required of us and to endeavour to gain some red [ ] that matter Voted that y' Select Men Committee of ,[ ] Directed [ ] [24] have gone from this Town into the publick Service Voted to allow D" John Ordway for Service as Selectman in y^year 1775 £ 1-12 [ ] Voted to allow Cap' David Woodward for D° in 1774. 6 days ....... i — 4 [ ] Voted to D° . . for D° in 1776 i — 2 — o Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Legally Warned and Met June 3'^ 1777 Voted and chofe D" Ichabod Fowler Moderator for said Meeting Voted and chofe Jon" Freeman Clerk P. Tem. — Voted to raise 20/ p' month [ ] to be paid to six men who may inlist into the Continental Service for the Quota required for this Town for the Term of three years said Wages 30 HANOVER N. H. to be paid at the End of every 6 months during their contin- uing in said Service Voted that L' Durkee Cap' Woodward and L' Freeman be a Committee to write to Cap' Freeman now at Ticonderoga Defiring him to procure said men in behalf of y" Town and that y' Town will be H olden to make Good any Obligation he shall enter into in their behalf agreeable to said Vote Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover held Feb'^ 2"* 1778 Voted and Chose D^Ichabod Fowler Moder- ator Voted and Chose Jon" Freeman Clerk P. T. Voted to raise ;^i4o L. M. to be levied on the present list for the purpose of raising our proportion of Men for the Con- tinental Service to be paid in by the first of may next and that any two Men who shall hire a third for said Service and shall produce Certificates thereof and of his being Mustered for the State of N. H. shall be intitled to Draw out of the Treasury of the Town Twenty pounds untill seven men shall be hired Voted to raise the sum of two hundred and fifty L. M [ J to be levied agreeable to the Law of the State of N. Hamp- shire and that the same be paid into the Treasury of this Town by the first Day of may next to be Disposed of as the Town shall hereafter Direct for Defraying the Expenses of the War. Voted and Chose Cap' Woodward D" Ordway Esq' Woodward Lieut Durkee and Jonathan Freeman Afsefsors to estimate the Value of the Real Estate within this Town and to make a Tax Bill on that together with the Common List for the above men- tioned sum of two hundred and fifty pounds and to Commit the same into the Hands of such Collectors as shall be appoint- ed for that purpofe. Voted and Chose Cap' Joshua Hendee Collector for that part of S* Tax as is within the College Destrict. Voted and Chose Jonathan Freeman T [ ] Treasurer [25] Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hano [ ] 2* Tuesday of March 1778 Voted and Chose Cap' David Woodward Moderator for said Meeting — Voted and Chose Jonathan Freeman Town Clerk — Voted and Chose Cap' David Woodward Lieu' Jon"' Freem [ ] and Lieu' John Wright TOWN RECORDS 3 1 Select Men for the Enfuing year — Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman Town Treafurer — Voted and Chose M' Sam' Slade Constable for the Ensuing year — Voted and Chose m' Thomas page Tythingman Voted and Chofe Mefsiers John Bridgman Samuel Kendrick Nathaniel Woodward Ben j" Davis Tho' Page and William Dewey Surveyors of Highways — Voted and Chose Lieu Thomas Durkee Leather Sealer — Voted and Chose Moody Freeman and Rufsel Freeman Hog Howards — Voted and Chofe Lemuel Dowe Kee Keeper — Voted Chofe Cap' David Woodward Jon" Freeman and Lieut John Wright Com- mittee of Safety for the Ensuing year Voted the Rev'd M' Burroughs his Sallary according to Covenant for the prefent year, and that it be paid [* . J at wheat at six shillings p' Bushel Rye at 4/ p' D° Indian Corn at 3/ p"" D° or in Other articles of produce to his acceptance or in Money Equal to Grain at the aforesaid prices — Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman D" Ordway and Lemuel Dowe Auditors to audit and settle accounts of the Select Men and Collectors for years past so far as they shall find that Settlements have not been made and that they make payment of Debts Due from the Town which remain unpaid and produce an account of their proceed- ings to the next annual Meeting Voted that Jonathan Freeman be appointed to settle and adjust the accounts between the College District and the Town. Voted to raise the sum of fifty pounds L. M. to be paid in unto the Treafury by the first Day of may next — Voted to allow the follow accounts Viz. To Beza: Woodward Esq' for his agency to Exeter ;^6— 16— [ ] To 18 Days with the united Committees . 11 — 14 — [ ] To 2 Days Afsefsing . . . ' . i — 16 — [ ] To Jonathan Freeman for 8 Days with y° united Committees ..... 7 — 4-I-0 To Afefsing and making Rate Bills . i — 16 — o To Cap' David Woodward 2 Days at Win d- for ........ I — 16 — o To 4 Days at N° 4 .... 3 — 12 — o To I Day of Afsefsing .... o — 18 — o 32 HANOVER N. H. D" Ordway to i Day at D° . . . ;^o— 18— c» L' Tho= Durkee to one Day at D° . . 0—18—0 To Enf" Wright for making 3 rate Bills . o — 18 — o To David Eaton for 2 Days making List . o — 12 — o To I Day geting Lists at y' College . o — 6 — o [26] To Lieut Tim" Durkee for Bringing powder ....... o — 18 — o To Moody Freeman Benj^ Davis & Jon" Curtifs for going scout .... 2 — 14 — o Voted to raise the sum of Fifty pounds Lawful Money for to be paid in to the Treafury by the first Day of June next — Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover April 2" 1778 Chose Enf" DeF Woodward Moderator Voted to revoke and Disanul all thevotes of the last annual Meeting relative to the allowing accounts and Granting Money to Defray Town Charges — Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman to reprefent this Town in the Convention of united Committees to be Holden at Leba- non the Last Wednesday in may next — Voted that Cap' Woodward Dea" Fowler Lieut Durkee Lieut Wright Enf'» Wright Deacon Ordway and John Smith to be a Committee to give said Freemin his Instructions Voted to Allow to Jonathan Freeman four shillings a Day for his Expence whenever he has been in the service of the Town abroad and 2^ p'' mile for his Horfe Travel whenever he has rode from Home in the service of the Town, and that he be paid the Balance in his favour in money Equivalent to the Common price of provisions in the year 1774 — and that noth- ing be allowed him for his time he having Offered it Gratis — Voted that Mefsiers Jofeph Curtifs James Murch and John Tenny be ajjpointed a Committee to Settle with said Freeman on the aforesaid Conditions — Voted that the aforesaid Committee be directed to settle accounts with Cap* David Woodward on the aforesaid Conditions the whole to be paid by the last of may next Voted to raise forty pounds Lawful Money for Defraying Town Charges to be paid in by the first Day of may next TOWN RECORDS 33 Voted to raise the sum required by the State of N Hampshire agreeable to the Warrant and that the same be Deposited in the Town Treafury untill thier further order — Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover May 25"' 1778 Voted and Chose Cap' John Houfe Modera- tor Voted and Chose Cap John Houfe and Enf" Nath' Wright to attend the Convention to be holden at Lebanon in Conjunction with Jonathan Freeman heretofore appointed for that purpofe Voted That the Town will take the pews now in the Meeting Houfe into thier Hands will Build pews on the Vacant Grounds and will refeat [27] the Meeting and that thier be a Committee of seven Men for the aforesaid purpose and the apprizal of the pews already Built Voted John Tenny Deacon Fowler Stephen Bentqn Nath' Woodward James Murch Cap' Houfe & Joseph Curtifs a Committee for the aforesaid purpofes Voted that the said Committee have Due regard to age Interest and accommo- dations for singing Voted to abate the Rates of Cap' Houfe William Dewey and David Eaton in John Bridgmans Bill for Raifing Continental Men — Voted to adjourn this Meeting to Saturday 3 O'Clock in the afternoon for the purpofe of Giving the Com'' to attend the Convention at Lebanon their Instructions and for that only — Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover July 30"" 1778 — Chose Cap' John House Moderator — Voted That this Town do join with the State of Vermont for the same Reasons, and on the same Conditions that a number of the other Towns on the New Hampshire Grants have alredy joined said State — Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover held [sie] [28] Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Legally Warned and Met 2* Tuesday in March 1779 Voted and chose Cap' John House Moderator — 3 34 HANOVER N. H. Voted and chose Rufsel Freeman Town Clerk P. T. Voted and Chose Jonathan Freeman Town Clerk for the Ensuing year Voted and Chose Dea" John Ordway Cap' John Houfe and Lieu't Thomas Durkee Select Men for the year Enfuing — Voted and Chose Jon" Freeman Town Treafurer for Enfuing year Votea 9.nd Chose Jofeph Curtifs Constable — Voted and chose Samuel Haze Thomas Brown Cap' Jo" House D' Joel Brown Sam' Wright Sam'" Kendrick and Nattf Wood- ward Surveyors of Highways Voted and chose Rufsell Freeman Stephen Murch and John Smith Tythingmen — Voted and chose Lieu't Thomas Durkee Sealer of Leather — Voted and chose Stephen Benton Sealer of Weights & Meafures — Voted and chose Voted and chose Sam' Haze L' Tho's Durkee Isaac Bridgman and Asa Parker fence Viewers Voted and chose Solomon Jacobs Key Keeper Voted and chose Deacon Ichabod Fowler and Zadoc Brown Hoghowards — Voted that Hogs shall not run at Large the present year Voted and chose Jonathan Freeman Stephen Benton and John Tenny auditors to settle accounts with the Selectmen for 4 years last past — Voted and chose Jon' Freeman David Woodward and Nathaniel Wright Committee of Safety for the Enfuing year Voted to allow to Jon" Freeman for his time and expence at Cornish in Dec' last 35 Dollars — Voted to allow to Nathan West and others who have had amounts allow'd for past Service a discount of six for one — Voted to raise the sum of eighty pounds equal to wheat 6 / p' Bushel for the payment of the Rev'd M' Buroughs Salary the current year Voted to raise the sum of Fifty pounds to Defray Town charges — Voted to raise the sum of sixty pounds to be expended on highways in Labour at 3 / p' Diem TOWN RECORDS 35 [29] Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover April lo"' 1779 Voted and Chose D" John Ordway Moderator — Voted to release Jonathan Freeman from the Office of Treas- urer and Committee of Safety within this Town the present year in compliance with his request for the same. Voted and Chose D° John Ordway Town Treafurer — Voted and Lieu* John Wright one of the Committee of Safety- Voted and Chose m' Solomon Jacobs Tythingman Voted that the Instructions Given to the Committee of Safety the last year be continued to the Committee this year appointed — Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Nov' 29?'' 1779 Voted and chofe Cap* David Woodward Mod- erator Voted the the following instructions to the delegates appointed by this Town to attend the Convention at Dresden Viz That they ufe thier influence that meafures be taken to obtain an establishment of a distinct State on y° New Hampshire Grants on both sides of the River, and 2'*ly if that be obtained that the whole belong to New Hampshire — Voted to raise the sum of two hundred pounds to be paid by the 15"" (Jay of Dec'' next, as our proportion of M' Woodwards Agency to Congrefs — Voted that the two mile road be opened, from Cap' Durkee to Lime line Voted that the Select Men be directed to make out a Tax Bill to be paid forthwith at the discount of 20 for one and at that rate pay of the several accounts allowed last annual meeting Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover Jan'^ 21" 1780 Voted and chofe Capt David Woodward Moderator — Voted to raise nine men to Join Capt Bushes Company as a scouting party on the Frontier for the Term of two months and that the Town will pay them 40/ each per month in wheat at s/ p' Bushel. 36 HANOVER N. H. [30] Att a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover the second tuesday in March 1780 — Voted and chofe Cap't Thomas Durkee Moderator Voted and chofe Jonathan Freeman Town Clerk Voted and cliofe John Ordway Town Treafurer — Voted and chofe Thomas Durkee Jonathan Freeman and Solo- mon Jacobs Select Men for the enfuing year. Voted and chofe Samuel Kendrick and Moody Freeman Con- stables for the enfuing year — Voted and chofe Joel Brown Nathan West J' and Joseph Curtifs Tythingmen for y" enfuing year — Voted and chofe Thomas Durkee Otis Freeman and Samuel Haze fence viewers. Voted and chofe Thomas Durkee Sealer of Leather Voted and chofe Stephen Benton Sealer of weights and meafures Voted and chofe Rufsel Freeman Nathaniel Wright Aaron Smith Bezaleel Davis, Nathaniel Woodward Stephen Benton Highway Surveyors — Voted and chofe John Houfe John Ordway and Nathaniel Wright Committee of Safety — Voted to raife the sum of sixty pounds Lawful money equal to wheat at 5/ p'Bufhel for the payment of the Rev'd M' Bur- roughs his Sallary and incidental charges to be paid by the first day of Nov' next Voted that Hogs shall not run at large the ensufing year^ — Voted that whereas two years past the rev'd M' Burroughs did give to the Town twenty pounds of the Salary to him due, seven pounds of which yet remains in his hands, and whereas the said M' Burroughs has this day voluntarily givven in to the Town thirty pounds of his Salary for the prefent year, therefore Voted that he be releafed from the payment of the said seven pounds Voted that Jonathan Freeman and Isaac Bridgman be a Committee in behalf of the Town to return their thanks to the Rev'd M' Burroughs for his kindnefs and generofity in relin- quishing thirty pounds of his Salary. TOWN RECORDS 37 Voted to raile the sum of Forty pounds L. M. [31] to belaid out on the highways the enfuing year in labour at 3/. p' day Voted to raife the sum of thirty pounds equal to wheat at 5/ p' bufhel to be paid in to the Treafury forthwith, and that the Select Men be directed to add to said sum in making up said bill the amount of the accounts allowed last annual meet- ing which have not been paid Voted to appoint Jonathan Freeman as an ajent in behalf of the Town to settle all the past accounts of the Town to the year 1772 with the Select Men and Collectors for each year respectively, and likewife to examine into what debts the Town owes and in Cafe he can find money in said arrearages for the purpofe to settle and pay the same — [32] Att a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hano- ver June 30* 1780 Voted and chofe Cap't Thomas Durkee Moderator Voted that we will Raife five men for the Term of six months for the defence of thofe Frontiers in purfuance of orders from N. Hampshire by Col° Chafe for that purpofe Voted that each of said Men shall be intitled to a Bounty of forty shillings equal to wheat at 5/. p' Bushel — and forty shil- lings p' month in like pay during the, time the shall be held by thier enlistment, the Bounty and one months wages to be paid at the expiration of three months from thier inlistment and the other half at the time of thier discharge — and that the Town shall be intitled to such wages as they may draw from New Hampshire^- Att'an adjourned meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover July 3* 1780 Voted to raife six men to Join Cap' Steven Company agree- able to a requifition from N. Hampshire and that they be in- titled to a Bounty of forty shillings each equal to wheat at 5/. p' Bushel and forty shillings like pay p' month Wages so long as they shall continue in service the Town to be intitled to such wages as they may draw from N. Hampshire Voted that David Eaton, Beza Davis, David Woodward J' Roswell Fenton, and Zenus Coleman be excufed from paying any proportion of the above mentioned Bounty and Wages 38 HANOVER N. H. [33] Att a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Han- over Dec' 25"" 1780 Voted and chofe Cap' Thomas Durkee Moderator Voted to proceed to appoint delegates to attend the Conven- tion at Charlestown Voted that Jonathan Freeman Esq' and Col. John Houfe, or either of them be appointed and authorifed for the above men- tioned purpofe — That the be instructed to ufe thier influence and endeavour to effect a union of the whole of the Grants and to prevent a line of Jurisdiction from taking place at the River^either by a Seperate State on the Grants or a union of the whole with N. Hampshire — Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Feb^ 26"' 1 78 1 Voted and Chofe John Ordway Moderator Voted to comply with the requifition from Col Chafe for raif- ing six men to March with Cap' Nelson for the Defence of thefe frontiers Voted to said Men when inlisted 8 bushels of wheat p' month p' man, or money equivalent to be paid by the first day of april next Voted to appoint M' Asa Parker to provid for said Men while in service at the expense of the Town — Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover 2* Tuesday in March 1781 — Voted and chofe Capt° David Woodward Moderator - Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman Town Clerk Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman Solomon Jacobs and Samuel Slade Select Men Voted and chofe Ichabod Fowler Constable — Voted and chofe John Ordway Town Treafurer Voted and Chofe Nathaniel Wright Ebenezer Kendrick and William Dewey Tithingmen Voted and chofe Thomas Durkee Sealer of Leather Voted and Chofe Stephen Benton Sealer of Weights and Meafures — TOWN RECORDS 39 [34] Voted and chofe Samuel Hafe Afa Parker and Thomas Durkee fence viewers — Voted and chofe Solomon Jacobs Kee Keeper Voted and chofe John Ordway John Houfe and John Wright Committee of Safety — Voted that all Highway Surveyors heretofore appointed see to it that thier Bills are compleated and laid out on the public highways the present year Voted to abate the rates of Amos Thompson and Jonath" Houfe in Rufsel Freemans Bill Amt.g to 19/ 1-3 Voted that Hogs shall not run at Large the enfuing year — Voted and chofe Gideon Rudd Ebenezer . Kendrick and Nathaniel Lord Hogreaves Voted the Rev'd M' Burroughs his Salary the present accord- ing to agreement in wheat at 6/. p' bushel or money equivalent, and that ninety pounds be raised for that purpose and Other Town Charges to be paid in by the first day of . Sept' next Voted to raife the sum of fifty-four pounds in silver money to be paid in like money or good wheat flour at 18/ 3 p' H* for the ufe of a public Store in said Town to be paid in by the first day of May next — Voted that said flower be stored at the Houfes of Ichabod Fowler and Joseph Curtifs Voted to appoint Beza Davis Collector of the south district for said Rate Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Hanover May 31"' 1781 — Voted and Chofe Cap' Thomas Durkee Moderator Voted and chofe James Murch Collector of M' Burroughs's Salary Voted and chofe Otis Freeman James Murch William Dewey Listers Voted and chofe Solomon Jacobs Brander of Horfes [35] Voted that this Town will give 20/0 Lawful money p' month to each Man of thier prefent Quota who ingage in the States Service; thier wages to comence and end with the wages they shall receive from the State and to be paid by the 12* day of Dec' next 40 HANOVER N. H. Voted and chofe Roswell Fenton Collector of a Tax for the aforesaid purpofe Voted and chofe John Houfe Jonathan Freeman Thomas Uurkee James Murch Nath' Wright a Committee to ajust and settle accounts with such perfons as have done Service in the Militia in the several Alarms ye year past — Voted and chofe John Houfe David Woodward and John Wright J' a Committee to Confer with D" Ordway respecting the road by his Houfe Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover 2" Tuesday of March 1782 Voted and chofe John Ordway Moderator — Voted and chofe Jonathan Freeman Town Clerk — Voted and chofe Solomon Jacobs Samuel Slade and Rufsell Freeman Select Men — Voted and chofe Silas Tenny Constable Voted and chofe James Murch Asa Parker and Nath' Heaton Grand Jury Men — Voted and chofe Nathaniel Woodward Nathaniel Wright and Jared Bufsel tythingmen — Voted and chofe John Ordway Jon" Curtifs J"^ Lemuel Dowe Samuel Wright J' Jeremiah Trescott Samuel Wright and John Smith highway Surveyors Voted to raife the sum of eighty five pounds L. M. for the payment of M' Burroughs's Salary and other Town charges to be paid in by the 10"' Day of Sept' next — Voted and chofe John Ordway Town Treaf' [36] Voted to abate Richard Fords rate in M' Murches Bill Voted and chofe Nathaniel Heaton Collector of M' Bur- roughs's Salary — Voted to raife the sum of thirty five pounds L. M. to ex- pended on Highways the enfuing year at 3/. p' Day Voted that Hogs shall not run at Large the enfuing year Voted to releafe Zophar Ketchum and Jeremiah Trescott of all thier past highway rates which are unpaid — TOWN RECORDS 4 1 Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover June 10'* 1782 — Voted and chofe John Ordway Moderator — Voted that the Town will indemnify the Select Men in neglect- ing to make a Tax bill agreeable to a requifition of the State of New Hampshire requiring of the Town the sum of 11 43 .£. 7.' II. '' towards public expence — Voted that the list of the Town for the prefent year be taken and made up according to the method it was made the last year — Voted and chofe Jofeph Curtifs Thomas Page and Ebenezer Crane Listers — Voted that the List for the prefent year be given in by the 20"' day of June, what each perfon was in pofsefsion of the 10"^ day of June — Voted and chofe Edward Smith Otis Freeman and James Murch a Committee to finish the outside of the Meeting House lay the floors and make some seats in the Galleries — Voted to raife the sum of twenty pounds L. M. to be expend- ed in repairing the Meeting Houfe at the direction of the afore- said Committee — Voted and Chofe Titus Woodward Collector of said Tax Voted that the Select Men be directed to lay out a High- way from Samuel Hafes to Col° pain's Mill. Voted that the Surveyors of Highways be directed to apply to Col Houfe to open the road from [37] his Houfe to the half mile road, and if he neglects to open the same them- felves — Voted that the Select Men be directed to lay out a road from Thomas Pages to Wolfboro road — Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover July i2">i 784 — Voted and chofe Nathaniel Babbitt Moderator — Voted that the Select Men for the time being be directed to Audit and Settle all accounts with the Select Men Collectors and highway Surveyors back to the year 1773 — and in Cafe of Deficiency in any of them to profecute them in the Law if a Settlement cannot be otherwife obtained — 42 HANOVER N. H. likewife that they make such abatements in the rates of the several Bills for said years as they may Judge expedient, and that they make report of thier doings to the Town — f N. B. Y" above meeting in 1784. is thro mistake infer- ■\ ted in this place, and again recorded in the proper l^place according to the order of time — [38] Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover 2"^ Tuesday in March 1783 Voted and chofe John Houfe Moderator — Voted and chofe Jonathan Freeman Town Clerk — Voted and chofe Rufsel Freeman Samuel Slade and Samuel Kendrick Select Men Voted and chofe Jon" Freeman Collector of M' Burroughs Sallary — Voted and chofe Zenus Coleman Benj" Hatch Nath^ Babbitt Ezra Carpenter Otis Freeman Tho^ Page and Edward Smith highway Surveyors — Voted and chofe Abel Parks Constable — Voted and chofe Sam' Slade and John Tenny Tithingraen Voted and chofe John Wright Jon" Freeman and John Ord- way a Committee of Safety — Voted that the Select Men lay out a road from the Mills to Silas Tennys, and a road from Wolfboro road by the way of Dea" Wrights and William Chandlers to the Mills Voted that the Common List be taken in the manner as the last year — Voted and chofe James Murch Samuel Wright Jun' and Nathan West J' Listers — that the list be given in by the 10"^ day of may next Voted to raife thirty pounds L. M. to be laid on the high- ways the enfuing year — Voted to raife M' Burroughs Salary agreeable to Covenant and that the sum of eighty five pounds be raifed for that purpofe and that be paid in by the time as specified in said Covenant — [39] Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover Oct' 24"^ 1783 Voted and chofe Rufsel Freeman as an agent in- behalf of this Town to repair to the Gen' Afsembly of the State of new Hampshire for the purpofe of obtaining an equitable settle- TOWN RECORDS 43 ment of y" accounts of our expenditures in the late war &c — Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Nov 27"^ 1783. 1 Voted and chofe John Ordway Moderator 2 Voted and chofe Gideon Smith Scribe for said Day 3 Voted to except the Agents report from the Afsembly 4 Voted to chuse a Committee to receive in and make out the accounts of the expences done in this Town the last war — 5"^ Voted and chofe John Houfe Jonathan Freeman Nathan- iel Babbut Joel Brown and Jofeph Curtifs a Committee for the abovesaid purpose 6 Voted that this Town will lay their accounts before the Afsembly by an Ajent 7 Voted and chofe Lieut Rufsel Freeman Agent for this purfofe ' 8 Voted and chofe Rufsell Freeman Sam' Slade and Aaron Smith as a Committee to make out the Valuation of the Lists for time been and the number of poles that are Ratable in said Town 9"' Voted to Difsolve this Meeting Liet Gideon Smith Clarke For said Day [40] Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Han- over Feb^ 17"' 1784 Voted and Chofe Rufsel Freeman Moderator Voted and chofe Rufsel Freeman Jonathan Freeman and Bezaleel Woodward or either of them as Agents to attend the General Afsembly at thier next Sefsion to endeavour a Settle- ment of public, accounts with them^ Voted to raife a Tax of one penny on the pound for the purpofe of defraying the expencies of the said Agency. Voted and Chofe John Ordway Collector of s'* Tax — Voted to allow to Rufsel Freeman the sum of thirty eight shillings and three pence for his expences on his Agency in October last exclufive his time and Horse — 44 HANOVER N. H. Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover 2^ Tuesday in March 1784 Voted and chofe Gideon Smith Moderator Voted to approve the doings of the Select Men in warning out of the Town Eleazer Osmore Voted to allow to Solomon Jacobs 12/ p' year for sweeping the Meeting Houfe Voted to raife the sum of eighty pounds Lawful money to be laid out on highways Voted to Lieut Rufsel Freeman for his going to Concord on the Towns Bufinefs ;^i — 6 — o Voted and chofe Stephen Benton Nath^ Babbit Aaron Storrs Eben^' Brewster and Solomon Jacobs Select Men — Voted and chofe Jonathan Freeman Town Clerk Voted and chofe Daniel Chandler Abel Bridgman Eleazer Porter Calvin Topliff Titus Woodward Delano Wright Afa Parker Joseph Green and Jabez Bingham Surveyors of highways Voted and chofe Benjamin Hatch Constable Voted and chofe Joseph Lee Constable [41] Voted and chofe Edward Smith and Jonathan Curtifs J"" Tythingmen — Voted and chofe Benoni Dewey and Solomon Jacobs pound keepers Voted and chofe Thomas Durkee Sealer of Leather Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover July 12"" 1784 Voted and chofe Nathaniel Babbit Moderator Voted that y° Select Men for y" time being be directed to audit and settle all accounts with the Select Men Collectors and Highway Surveyors for the time past to the year 1773 inclufive — and in cafe of Deficiency in any of them to pro- fecute them in the Law, if a Settlement cannot be otherwife Obtained — Voted that the Select Men make abatements in the several Bills for the aforesaid years as they shall Judge expedient, and that they make report of their doings to the Town — TOWN RECORDS 4g Voted to raife the sura of twenty pounds Lawful money for the payment of the Town Debts said money to be paid in forth- with — Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Sep' 6"- 1784 Voted and chofe John Ordway Moderator Voted and chofe Rufsel Freeman as an Agent to attend the General Afsembly at thier next setting to transact matters for and in behalf of the Town refpeeting our expenditure in the late War — Voted to appoint James Wheelock to afsist said Freeman in said bufinefs in cafe he shall need Voted to allow Jon" Freeman for service done for the Town ...... — £2 — 6 — 6. Voted to allow John Houfe for service done and money paid for the Town . . . £\ — 4^ — o Request being made that this Town renew thier confent that the College district be erected [42] into a distinct Town- therefore Voted this Town are willing and hereby give thier confent that, that part of this Town, bounded easterly by the two mile line and the second hundred acre Lotts of the first Minister and Rufsel Freeman, the other boundaries as in the. Vote pafsed heretofore, be erected into a distinct Town with the North westerly part of Lebanon — pafsed in y* Affirmative N. C. D.— Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Dec' 30"" 1784 — Vote and chofe D" John Ordway Moderator Voted to appoint a Committee supply the pulpit Voted and chofe D" John Ordway D" John Wright and M' Solomon Jacobs a Committee to supply the pulpit the year enfuing — Voted to releaf e M' Hurlbutt of his rate in Jonathan Free- mans Bill — A protest was entered in said Meeting against the Vote for appointing a Committee to supply the pulpit by thirty seven members of the Meenting as may appear by the files — 46 HANOVER N. H. [43] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover you are hereby Notified to Afsemble and meet at the Meeting Houfe in said Hanover on tuesday the 8* day of March next at 9 O Clock in the morning then and there to act on the following articles Viz 1 To chufe a Moderator to govern said Meeting 2 To chufe a Town Clerk — 3 To chufe Select Men Town Treafurer constables Tything- men Sealers of Leather Sealers of weights and meafures Sur- veyors of Highways fence viewers and all other Town Officers the Town of Hanover are Oblidged by Law to chufe annually in the month of March — 4 To see if the Town will vote to accept any roads that shall appear to be laid out by the Select Men with a return of the same 5 To see if the Town will accept and approve of the Select Mens audiating accounts with sundry perfons as shall appear at said Meeting — 6 To allow any accounts brought in to said meeting 7 To see if the Town will allow any perfon for road that shall apply for the same Nattf Babbit / ( Stephen Benton [• ^^^^^^ Sol" Jacobs— ) M^"^ Att a Meeting pursuant to the above Warning March 8"" 1785 Voted and chofe John Ordway Moderator Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman Town Clerk for the enfuing year — Voted and chofe Nath" Babbit Samuel Slade John Wright Jun' Eben' Brewster and Aaron Storrs Select Men for the year Enfuing [44] Voted and chofe John Ordway Town Treafurer — Voted and chofe Otis Freeman and Daniel Clap Constables- Voted and chofe Solomon Jacobs John Smith and Jabez Bingham Tythingmen — TOWN RECORDS 47 Voted and chofe Thomas Durkee and Daniel Goold leather Sealers — Voted and chofe Stephen Benton Sealer of weights and meafures — Voted and chofe Abel Parks, Zadoc Brown, Elisha Warner, Nathaniel Heaton Benoni Dewey Seth West Nicholas Gilman Nath^ Lord and Roswell Fenton Surveyors of Highways — Voted and chofe Samuel Hayse Peter Knap-and Ebenezer Lane fence viewers — Voted and chofe Jonathan Curtifs Deliverance Woodard, Jn" Foster, Titus Woodward, hog reaves — Voted hogs May not run at large the enfuing year Voted and chofe Solomon Jacobs and Jabez Bingham pound keepers — The Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover are hereby Noti- fied to meet at the meeting Houfe in said Hanover on tuesday the 8* Day of March next at one O'Clock P. M. To chufe one person to reprefent the said Town in the Gen' Court the Enfu- ing year — likewife to give in thier Votes for a Prefident for said State, for a Senator for the County of Grafton, for a County Treafurer and recorder of Deeds. Dated Hanover Feb'' 23* 1786* Nath' Babbit \ Select Sol° Jacobs i Men Met according to the above Warning Voted and chofe Rufsel Freeman to reprefent this Town in the General Court the Enfuing year — Voted to adjourn this Meeting to the Houfe of ColI° Brew- ster there to be held March 14"' at 2 O'Clock P. M. Met according to adjournment received and [45] counted the Votes for a prefident for the State which were as follows Viz: For George Atkinfon Esq' 93 Votes For Elisha Paine Esq' i Vote For John Langdon Esq' 2 Votes For John Sullivan Esq' i Vote *The year should be given 17S5. Editors. 48 HANOVER N. H. Votes for a Senator for the County of Grafton were as fol- lows Viz For Elisha Paine Esq'' 79 Votes For Jonathan Freeman Esq' 6 Votes For Aaron Hutchinfon Esq"' i Vote Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover April 25* 1785— Voted and chofe John Ordway Moderator Voted to raife the sum of one hundred pounds lawful money to be laid out in making and mending highways the prefent year Voted to allow Daniel Clap 12/. for removing two persons out of the Town of Hanover Voted to allow James Murch's account 8/— Voted to allow Joel Browns account 16/6 — Voted to allow to Jofeph Lee for transporting two Families out of Town as Constable 29/. — Voted to allow to Solomon Jacobs for sundry servifes the year past as Select Man £ 1 — 10 — o Voted to allow to Col° Eben' Brewster for articles delivered to m"= Cleavland ;^i — 4 — o Voted to Benj° Hatch for service as Constable 9/. Voted to allow to Dr. Amherst Coutt for the cure of Mrs. Cleaveland ....... ^^7 — o — o Voted to raife the sum of ninety pounds Lawful money agreeable to the third article in the Warning Voted and chofe Nathaniel Heaton and Samuel Slade in Addition to the Committee to supply the pulpit — Voted that the Select Men for the prefent year compleat the audiating accounts with [46] sundry perfons who have accounts open with the Town Voted that D" John Wright M' Samuel Slade and M' Nath^ Babbit be appointed a Committee to apply to M' Burroughs and Endeavour a Settlement with him for the Damages he is or may be holden to pay the Town in Confequence of his leav- ing the pulpit in the manner which he did, either by agreeing with him what he shall alow for said Damage or submitting the matter to Indifferent Judicious Men for a Settlement and in TOWN RECORDS 49 Cafe of his refufal of both to Commence an action against the said M' Burroughs for Damages, also that said Committee be directed to find what is Due from the Town unto M' Burroughs for the time he continued with us and direct the same to be paid without delay — The Warning for the foregoing Meeting is as follows Viz. To the Legal Voters of the Inhabitants of the Town of Han- over — You are hereby Warned to afsemble and meet together at the public meeting- Houfe in said Hanover on tuesday the twenty sixth day of this Instant April at one OClock in the afternoon ; then and there to act on the following articles Viz I*' To chufe a Moderator to Govern said Meeting 2* To to Vote to raife money to make and repair Highways this year 2*iy To see if the Town will Vote to raife money and how much for preaching the Gospel and other necefsary ufes for the Town this year, 4"" To see if the Town will disanul and make void a vote of this Town at the last annual Meeting wherein to accept a road leading betwixt M' Fentons and m' Walbridgs 5"" To see if the Town will accept any roads laid out as by a plan will appear 6"" To see if the Town will allow any accounts for service done for said Town 7"" To see if the will add one or more perfons to the Com- mittee to supply the pulpit with [47] a preacher or preachers this prefent year 8"" To see if the Town will appoint a Committee to audate and accounts with any perfons indebted to said Town — 9"» To confider of what is due from the Town to the Rev* M' Burroughs, and likewife of the Damages that M' Burroughs may be holden to pay to the Town in consequence of his leav- ing the people and pulpit in the manner in which he did. and to devife and direct a method for a Settlement of both — Hanover y^ g"" of April 1785 Samuel Slade ^ John Wright ^ ^11 Nath' Babbit ) 50 HANOVER N. H. State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To the Legal voters of the Town of Hanover You are hereby- required to afsemble and Meet together at the public Meeting Houfe in said Hanover on Monday the 22^ Day of August instant at one o Clock in the afternoon then and there to act on the following particulars Viz 1 To chufe a Moderator to govern said Meeting 2 To see if the Town will accept of any roads laid out and a return laid before this meeting and also to ratify and confirm all the roads all the roads that have heretofore been accepted upon Conditions and likewife to make void that vote of accept- ing of a road lying betwixt Solomon Trescotts and D° Ordways which was done thro. Mistake — 3 To see if the Town will chufe an Agent or Agents to Meet in a Convention propofed to be held by members of the Towns in Grafton County at Col° Brewsters in said Hanover on the 30*'' Day of of August instant to confider and get all public accounts to exhibit to the General Afsembly of this State in one Similar method for a settlement [48] and to consider of and propofe a new arrangement of County lines and County Charges — 4*" To see if the Town will "Vote and determine how much of the money raifed the last Town Meeting to pay for preach- ing and necefsary Town Charges shall be for the ufe of the Town to defray thier necefsary Town charges this present year — 5*^ To see if the Town Confidered the Committee they Chofe at thier last Town Meeting to settle with M'' Burroughs as a Committee of the Select Men or a Committee seperate from the Select Men and to act relative thereto as they shall think proper when met 6** To see if the Town will accept and allow anny accounts laid before this Meeting for service done — Hanover August y'^ 6"" 1785 Nathi Babbit ^ „ , T u ,,r • u C Select John Wright A ,, ' , „, f Men Sam' Slade ' TOWN RECORDS SI Att a Meeting pursuant to the foregoing warning aug* 22* lySs.Chofe John Ordway Moderator Voted to reconfider a Vote accepting a road from Solomon Trescotts to D'^ Jn° Ordways Voted to accept the road laid out from Benj* Hatches to D° Ordways Voted and chofe Cap* A Storrs Col° Brewster Jon* Freeman and Rufsel Freeman Esq"^ to attend the Convention at Col" Brewsters for the purpofes Mentioned in the Warning Voted that 35;^ of the money raised the last Town meeting for the suply of the pulpit and necefsary Town charges be for necefsary Town charges — Voted and Chofe Rufsel Freeman Esq"^ a Committee Man in the room of Nath' Babbit, to settle with M"^ Burroughs &c accord- ing to the Vote of the last Meeting — Voted to difsolve this Meeting — [49] To M"" Otis Freeman one of the Constables of the Town of Hanover — You are hereby required to Warn the free- holders and other Inhabitants of said Hanover to Meet in Town Meeting at the Meeting Houfe in said Hanover on Wed- nesday the 21^' of this Instant at, 12, O'Clock at noon for the following purpofes Viz — 1 ■ To chufe a Moderator to govern said Meeting — - 2 To see what they will do with respect to an Extent which is said to be in the Sherriffs hands against this Town for Defi- ciency of Continental Men, in Cafe the Sherrifl should come to level the same on the Select Men or Inhabitants of said Town — 3 To see what further meafures the Town will take to obtain an allowance of their accounts at the Gen' Court — 4 To Chufe a Delegate or Delegates to attend A Conven- tion if Called by the late Conventions Committee 5 To Do any other Bufinefs they may think proper on said Day — and make Due returns — Dated Hanover ) Nath^ Babbit ^ Dec' le*'' 1785 ) John Wright Eb'^ Brewster I ^^^^^^ Sam'Slade | ' ^^" Aaron Storrs J 52 HANOVER N. H. Hanover y^ 19*^ Dec"^ 1785 Then notified the freeholders and other Inhabitants agree- able to the above Warning Otis Freeman Constable Dec"' 21'' 1785 Att a public Town meeting held purfuant to the above Warning — Chofe John Ordway Moderator Chofe Col" Houfe Doct"^ Tiffany Sol» Jacobs Lieut Kendrick and Cap* Cook a Committee to treat with the Sherriff of the Coun- ty respecting the Extent now in his hands and endeavour to prevent the same being levelled untill after the setting of the Gen^ Court- Voted to adjourn this Meeting to be held next Monday at I o'clock A. M.— [50] Met according to adjournment Dec'' 26*'' 1785 Refolved that whereas there is now an Extent in the hands of the Sherriff against the Select Men of this Town That the said Select Men be requested to procure what money or Certi- ficates they can towards a settlement of the same ; and that it be recomended to the several Inhabitants to afford the said Select Men all the Afsistence in their power ; and this Town do agree that where individuals shall advance Money for this pur- pofe such perfons shall be intitled to receive the same again with Interest, or that it shall in like Manner be allowed to them toward the first public Tax raised for arrears — Voted to adjourn this Meeting to the Houfe of Jofeph Cur- tifs to the 6'" Day of Jan^ next 3 O'Clock. P. M. The Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover who are Legal Voters in Town Meetings are hereby Notified to Afsemble in Town Meeting at the Meeting Houfe in said Hanover on Friday the 6*^ Day of January next at 2 O'Clock in the afternoon then and there to act on the Following particulars Viz i^' To chufe a Moderator to Govern s** Meeting 2* To take into considera- tion a petition which Col° Pain and Others have prefented to the General Court for a distinct Town or precinct taking in a part of this Town, and if they see fit to chufe an Agent to shew reafon why the prayer of said Petition should not be Anfwered 3"y To hear the report of the Select Men respecting any high- ways they may make return of and to act thereon as they see fit — TOWN RECORDS 53 4**^ To do and transact any further Bufinefs respecting that may be necefsary to obtaining a Settlement with the State of NewHampshirethat may then appear of Necefsity to be done — Nath' Babbit . g^j^^^ Dated at Hanover John Wright > ^ Dec"^ 26* 1785— Sami Slade ) [51] Att a Town Meeting at time and place according to the foregoing Warning Voted and chofe Deacon John Drdway Moderator The Queftion was put whither the Town will appoint an Agent to appear at the General Court at the next Sefsion to shew reafons why the prayer of the petition of Col" pain and others should not be granted — pafsed in the Affirmative Voted to appoint a Committee to prepare the reafons why s** petition should not be granted Voted Mefs™ Nath^ Babbit Sylvester Tiffany and Otis Free- man for said Committee — Voted to Adjourn this Meeting to the last Friday in in Jan^: Instant at 2 O'Clock P. M. at the Meeting Houfe Att an Adjourned Meeting held at the 6^ Day of Jan^ 1786 Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman Esq"^ as an agent in behalf of this Town to make application to the General Court for a redrefs of thofe Grievances under which this Town have long laboured respecting their Demands against us for Arrears of Taxes, and to act and transact all matters relative to a set- tlement with the State that may be necefsary to be done — Att an adjourned Meeting Jan^ 27*'' 1786 The Committee appointed to draw up the reasons against Col" Pains petition made a report J Voted that the Town accept the same and that Jonathan Freeman Esq"^ be appointed as an Agent to prefent it to the General Court and to make such further reprefentation in behalf of the Town as may be necefsary — [52] To the freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover — You are hereby Notified to meet and Afsemble together at the publick meeting House in said Hanover on 54 HANOVER N. H. tuesday the fourteenth day of March next at nine of the Clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following Articles (Viz) 1** To chufe a Moderator to Govern said Meeting 2""^ To chufe a Town Clerk ^rdiy rpo chufe Select Men and Town Treafurer 4'* To chufe Constables and all other town Officers this Town are directed to chufe by Law annually in the month of March — And to Chufe a Prefident for the State of New Hamp- shire — and to chufe a Senator for the County of Grafton — And to to chufe a Register to record deeds for said County — And to Chufe a Reprefentative to reprefent this Town to the Gen- eral Afsembly of this State S**" To accept of any roads that a plan of the same be here prefented 6**^ To accept of and allow any accounts that may be laid before the Town to act on any matters transacted by the Select Men by their audiating any accounts or allowances made to any one wherein they have Just demands against said Town and all persons are defired to settle with the Select Men that it may be laid before the Town and see if the Town will appoint auditors to settle all accounts with those that are indebted to said Town and make such allowances they Judge Just 7** To to raife Money for repairing highways a necefsary Town Charges 8^ To raife money to supply the pulpit with preachers this prefent year 9*'' To And to chufe a Committee to provide a preacher or preachers this year To see if this Town will chufe a Collector to Collect the Money Voted last year to suply this Town with preaching which money was made into a rate Bill, and refufed by M' O. Freeman one of y" Constables of this Town Hanover Nath^ Babbit" y" 27 Feby 1786 Jno Wright Select Eb"' Brewster I Men Aaron Storrs TOWN RECORDS 55 [53] Att a meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover 2"^ Tues- day in March 1786. Voted and Chofe Deacon John Ordway Moderator Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman Esq"" Town Clerk who was Sworn accordingly — Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman Alexander Plumley and Solomon Jacobs a Committee to take into Confideration the Several accounts refered by this Meeting to a Committee to take into confideration and make report. Voted and Chofe Cap' Samuel Slade Mefsiers Otis Freeman and Nicholas Gilman Select Men for the Enfuing year, who were accordingly sworn. Voted and Chofe Deacon John Ordway Town Treaf* who was sworn accordingly Voted and Chofe Isaac Bridgman Constable who was accord- ingly sworn Voted and Chofe Eleazer Wheelock Constable Voted and Chofe Eleazer Hill Jofeph Curtifs Shadrack Hill Capt* Sam' Cook David Tenny William Chandler Daniel Kendrick Alex"^ Plumley Sylvester Tiffany Daniel Goold Ben- jamin Colt Lemuel Holt Surveyors of Highways — Vote and Chofe Dier Willis Jonathan Curtifs J' Elisha Warner Eleazer Goodrich Deliverance Woodward Hogreaves Voted and chofe Nath' Babbit and Jonathan Curtifs Jun"" Fence Viewers Voted and chofe Thomas Durkee and Daniel Goold Sealers of Leather Voted and chofe Stephen Benton Sealer of weights and meafures Voted and Chofe Captain Aaron Storrs to Represent this Town in the General Court the Enfuing year — Voted to adjourn this Meeting to a fortnight from this Day at this place — March 28"' 1786 Met according to adjournment Voted to raife the sum of two hundred pounds to be laid out on high- ways [54] The Enfuing year — to be paid in Labour at 4/ p' Diem one team work in proportion — I . 12 . 10 I . 17 • 6 I . 4 ■ I . , . 4 ;^S- -16- - . . 18- - 4- -19- - 56 HANOVER N. H. Voted to allow the following accounts to perfons who have done service for the Town Viz : To Aaron Storrs for plank for Bridge . . £1 . 4 — To d" i/. paid Cap* Slaid, 2/3 to M™ Dugitt . — 3—3 To Joseph Curtifs 5 days adjusting acct° . 0.15. o To Col» E Brewster for sundries to M™ Dugitt and M™Cleavland 1/ to Cap* Slaid . . 1.0.5 To Edward Smith for sundries to M™ Cleav- land ........ To Gideon Smith for D" .... To Cap* S. Slade for a Journey to Plimouth . To Cap* Uan^ Clapp for service as Constable . To Jonathan Freeman Esq"^ for his Agency to Portsmouth exclufive of ;^io in public secu- rities which he expended, for expences &c . To his Horfe To 33 — days service @ 3/. p"^ Diem ;£'ii— 13 .• o Voted and chofe Peter Knap and Stephen Benton Select Men in Addition to thofe chofen the last Meeting, (who were sworn accordingly Voted to raise thirty five pounds lawful money to defrey necefsary Town Charges the prefent year — Voted to raife the sum of sixty pounds L. M. for support of preaching the Enfuing year [55] Voted and chofe Cap' S. Slade Rufsel Freeman Esq and Solomon Jacobs a Committee to procure preaching Voted and chofe Lie* Silas Tenny as a Collector of the last mentioned Tax. Voted and chofe Gideon Smith to Collect the Bill made for the supply of preaching the last year. Voted to appoint John Tenny Phinihas Page and William Chandler a Committee to settle accounts with M' N. Babbit, and to make report to the next Meeting — Voted and chofe Edward Smith and Gideon Smith Tythingmen for the enfuing year TOWN RECORDS 57 Votes for Prefident for the State for the enfuing year as fol- lows Viz : For John Sullivan Esq'^^ 97 Votes For John Langdon Esq"' i D° For Mofes Dowe Esq' i D° Votes for a Senator for the County of Grafton For Elisha Pain Esq"^ 87 Votes For Mofes Dowe Esq' 14 D° For Jon* Freeman Esq"^ i D° The Meeting difsolved — The Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover who are Legal Voters in Town Meeting are hereby Warned to meet at the Meeting House in said Hanover on tuesday the 28'^ Day of March instant at 12 O'Clock at noon then and there to upon the [56] following particulars Viz : 1 5* To chuse a Moderator to Govern said Meeting 2* To hear the report of the Agent sent by this Town to the General Court at thier last Sefsion and to act upon any matters that may appear necefsary in order to obtaining a further redrefs of our grievances and allowance of accounts at the General Court. 3* To come into some meafures to refund the money to thofe perfons who have advanced the same towards anfwering an Extent to be in the Sheriffs hands against this Town 4** To see if the Town will abate the rates of sundry per- sons who apprehend themselves unjustly rated. 5* To see if the Town will take any meafures to get an alteration in the County road of late laid through this Town Hanover March is** 1786. Sam^ Slaid I Select Otis Freeman ) Men Att a Meeting in purfuance of the foregoing Warning March 28'" 1786. Chofe Rufsel Freeman Esq'' Moderator- Voted that those perfons who have lent the Town Certificates towards anfwering the Extent late in the Sherriffs hands may have the Liberty of drawing such sums as they have so lent 58 HANOVER N. H. out of the orders now in the hands of Jonathan [57] Freeman Esq' on the States Treafurer Voted and chofe Jonathan Freeman Esq'' IVF Nath' Babbit and Doctor Gideon Tiffany a Committee to prepare a petition to the General court for an altaration of the County road through the Town of Hanover, and to them where they appre- hend it will be more advantageous for the publick and for this Town — Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman Esq'' As an Agent in behalf of the Town to attend the General Court at thier next Sefsion in order to the obtaining a further allowance of our accounts against the State and redrefs of Other Grievances — Voted that M' Sylvester Tiffany may have Liberty to shut up the road from the hill on this side his Houfe to the Houfe of Benjamin Tiffany, on his opening another way for public pafsing — Meeting difsolved — The Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover are hereby Noti- fied to meet in Town Meeting at the meeting Houfe in said Hanover on the Ninth day of May next at 2 O'Clock P. M: then and there to act on the following particulars Vzi i'' To chufe a Moderator to Govern said Meeting 2"* To see if the Town will agree to chufe an Agent to Attend the General Court the next Sefsion in order for obtain- ing an allowance of accounts — [58] 3'* To see if the Town will accept of any roads that shall be shewn by plan or returns by the Select Men of said Town. 4"' To see what directions the Town will give with regard to the maintenance of Eunice Cole — Dated Hanover April 24"' 1786 — Sam' Slade ^ Otis Freeman 1 Select Stephen Benton Men Peter Knap Met according to above Warning Voted and Chofe Otis Freeman Moderator Voted and Chofe Cap* Aron Strorrs as Agent in lieu of Jon" Freeman Esq'' who declines Serving TOWN RECORDS 59 Voted that in Cafe the said Storrs shall need Afsistance in the profecution of said Agency that the said Freeman be requested to afsist him therein — Voted that the Select Men be directed to make enquiry whither James Murch is liable to support Eunice Cole and if they shall Judge him liable thereto by Law, and he refufes to profecute said Murch in the Law for her support — Voted that the Reprefentative of this Town at the Geperal Court, be directed to oppofe the taking of the Southeast corner of this Town into another Parish according to Col" Pains Petition Meeting difsolved [59] The Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover who are Legal Voters in Town Meetings are hereby Warned to meet at the Meeting House in said Hanover on tuesday the 14**' Day of Nov'' next at 12 O'Clock at noon then and there to act upon the following particulars Viz : I To chuse a Moderator to Govern said Meeting — • 2. To see what further Meafures the Town will take in order for obtaining a further allowance of accounts with the General court of this State — 3 To take into consideration the plan proposed by the Gen- eral court for Emitting paper money Hanover Ocf 1786 Sam^ Slade ^ Otis Freeman I Select Stephen Benton f Men peter Knap — Att a Town Meeting agreeable to the above Warning Voted and Cap' Otis Freeman Modei'ator, Voted and Chofe Jonathan Freeman Esq' as an Agent further to purfue a settlement of accounts with the Committee of the General Court appointed for that purpose — The Vote was put whither this Meeting do approve the plan propofd by the General Court for Emitting a paper currency, — pafsed unaminously in the Negative, Quest" Whither any alterations in said plan be propofd. which likewife pafsed in the negative Meeting difsolved 6o HANOVER N. H. [60] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs: Hanover 22* Nov' 1786 To Isaac Bridgman Constable for said Hanover Greeting — You are hereby required forthwith to Warn the Inhabitants of said Hanover who are Legal Voters in Town Meeting to Afsemble at the Meeting House in said Hanover on Wednes- day the 29*^ Day of Nov' Instant at 12 O'Clock at noon to act on the following particulars Viz : 1 To chufe a Moderator to Govern said Meeting 2 To come into some Meafures for raifing Money sufficient to to pay the Demands the State have this Town either in part or in whole — And to transact all matters that may relate thereto that may appear necefsary to be done — and you are to make due return of this Warrant with your Doings thereon at or before said time of Meeting- Returned served p' Sam^ Slade ■> I Select Isaac Bridgman Conf Otis Freeman V „ Peter Knap J Att a Meeting in purfuance of the foregoing Warning Nov' 29«' 1786— Chofe M' Nathi Babbit Moderator- Voted that this Town will proceed to make out the Taxes to the amount of Demands the State of N. Hampshire may have against us for arrears after the return of our Agent from the next Court Voted that in order that Justice to indivduals may take place, a Committee of seven Men be appointed take into con- sideration the Cafes of all thofe Individuals who apprehend themselves in Justice intitled to an Abatement of said [61] Tax in part, or in whole, and that said Committee proceed to make such Abatements as the Equity of their Several Cafes require, giving public Notice of the times and places of their meeting for said purpofe Voted and chofe Jonathan Freeman Esq'" M' Nathaniel Babbit Beza : Woodward Esq' Cap' Sam' Slade Cap' Daniel Goold a Committee for said purpofe TOWN RECORDS 6l Voted to adjourn this Meeting to the second monday in Jan^ next. The Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover that are Legal Voters in Town Meetings are hereby Warned to Meet at the Meeting House in said Hanover on tuesday the 9*"^ Day of January next at 12 O'clock at noon then and there to act on the following articles Viz. 1 To chufe a Moderator to Govern s* Meeting. 2 To hear the report of the Agent, 3. To see what the Town will do in regard to the back Rear- ages, and to transact any Bufinefs relating thereto that then shall be thot necefsary — 4 To see what the Town will do in regard to the public Lands in said Town. 5 To see if the Town will chufe auditors to settle with former Select Men, Constables, Collectors Surveyors of High- ways, and all Other perfons that have any accounts unsettled with the Town. 6. To see if said Town will chufe a Town Collector, 7 To see what the Town will do in regard to Doct"^ Colts account — against said Town 8 To Do any other bufinefs that relates to the above partic- ulars — Hanover Dec'' Sam' Slade \ 25:1786— Peter Knap I ^^^ Stephen Benton ) [62] Att a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Han- over January g**" 1786* Voted and chofe Rufsel Freeman Esq'^ Moderator Voted and chofe Jonathan Freeman Esq"^ M"^ Nath' Babbit Beza Woodward Esq"^ Cap* Sam' Slaid Cap' Daniel Goold Cap' Samuel Cook and Rufsel Freeman Esq'', as a Committee to take into consideration the Cafes of such perfons in said Town as may apprehend they have a claim in equity to an abatement in part or in whole of the Demand now lying against this Town for arrears of State Taxes previous to the year *Shouldbe 1787.— Editors. 62 HANOVER N. H. 1784. And that said Committee be directed to make out a particular list of such abaments as in their oppinon the Town ought to make on the prefent list in order to making out an Equatable Tax and that they make report to this Meeting at their adjournment. Voted to adjourn this Meeting to the 23* day of Jan^ instant at I O'clock P M. Met according to adjournment The Committee proceeded to make report which is as fol- lows Viz : To the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover in Town Meet- ing Afsembled — Gentlemen — Your Committee appointed to take into confideration the Cafes of such persons as may apprehend they have an Equita- ble Claim to an abatement in part or whole of the proportion of the Demand now lying against this Town for arrears of State Taxes — previous to the year 1784 — and to report to the Town their oppinion thereon — Having attended to said persons [63] and heard and duly confidered there reafons : Beg leave to report as follows Viz : That we find no equitable claim for abatement to any perfons who were ratable in the Town pre- vious to, and at the time of Making the List in the year 1782 as the substance of the money to be raifed is ultimately to sat- isfy the Demands of the state against us since the time of tak- ing the List in said year — That with regard to those perfons who have removed into the Town since that period and have since paid Taxes in any other State or Town, or have been soldiers in the Army We have attended to thier several and particular Cafes, and further report, as our Oppinion ; that there be an Abatement on the List for the prefent year on which said Tax is to be made (so far only as relates to said Arrears) to the several perfons hereafter Named the sums annexed to their respective names Viz To Peter Knap 15/. Peter Knap Jun"^ 10/. Samuel Cook 10/. Sam^ Cook Jun' 10/. Sam^ Hews 10/. Roger Freeman 10/. Roger Hovey 15/. Nathaniel Hurl- butt 10/. Nath' Hurlbutt J"^ 5/. Asher Hurlbutt 5/. Elijah HurL butt 5/. Israel Camp 10/. Benj'^ Tiffany 10/. Sylvester Tiffany 10/. Sam^ Carr 10/. Stephen Herrick 10/. Stephen Wilson 10/. TOWN RECORDS 63 Dani Fobes 5/. Calvin Topliff 5/. Shadrach Hill 10/. David Green 10/. Alex'^ Plumley 10/. Webster Hall 5/. Pearly Buck 5/. Charles Brown 10/. Joshua Cushman 10/. John Edwards 10/ Agustus Storrs 10/. Stockman Sweat 10/. Elijah Wooley 10/, Luther Lincoln 10/. Jofeph Smith 10/. Elisha Warner 5/. William Hall 5/. Timothy Owen 5/. Benjamin Tiffany 10/, Joseph Lamb 10/. Nehemiah Esterbrook 5/. Dan' Goold 10/, Nicholas Oilman 10/. Gam' Loomifs 10/. Adam Rice 10/, Joseph Lee 5/. Benj* Coult 10/. Ciphas Smith 10/. En'os Kellogg 10/. Dan' Clapp 10/. Jabez Kellogg 10/. Ebenezer Lomis 10/. Asa Holden 10/. Dier Willis 10/. Jonathan Sprague 10/. Jabez Bingham 10/. Thad' White 10/. [64] George Foster 10/. Habbakkuk Turner 10/. John Marshal 10/. Zach" Weston 5/. Luther Ingols 10/. Joseph Greene 5/ — Lemuel Holt 10/. Samuel Greene 10/. John Wood 10/ — George Watton 10/. Stephen Hopkins 10/. Sol" Mann 5/. Jeremiah Thomas 10/. Richard Clement 10/. W™ Rice 10/ which is submitted by Jon'' Freeman Nath' Babbit Beza Woodward Sam' Cook Dan' Gould Rufsel Freeman The foregoing report being read and confidired was accepted by Vote Voted And Chofe Jonathan Freeman Esq' Beza Woodward Esq"^ and Cap* Daniel Clapp Afsefsors to Join with and afsift the Select Men in revifing the Town Invoice, and in making out the Tax Bills for the Arrears — Voted that said Bills be made out for the sum off eleven hun- dred and twenty pounds. Voted and chofe John Durkee Asa Holden and James Murch Collectors of the aforesaid Tax — Voted to adjourn this Meeting without day — . Hanover Dec"^ 6*'" 1786 The Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover that are Legal Voters in Town Meetings are hereby Warned and notified to Com** 64 HANOVER N. H. meet at the Meeting House in said Hanover on Wednesday the 20"" Day of this Instant Dec' at 12 OClock at Noon then and there to act on the following particulars Viz I To chufe a Moderator to Govern said Meeting — 2. To see if this Town will give the rev'd M'' Salvanis Ripley a Call to settle in the Gospel Ministry in this Town 3 To see how much this Town will give the Rev'd M"^ Ripley for a Settlement for his Incouragement to settle among us [65] 4 to see how much this Town will Give the Rev'd m'' Ripley Annually for a Salary on condition he should settle amongst us 5. to Chufe a Committee to treat with the Rev"^ m"^ Ripley on the foregoing particulars 6 to transact any other matter or thing that Relates to the above mentioned particulars Sam' Slade ) , „ , ( select Stephen Benton , -j^ Peter Knap att a meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover Held in pursu- ance of the foregoing Warning Voted and Choofe Deacon John Ordway Moderator Voted and Choofe Rufsel Freeman Esq' Clerk Pr. TJ the Question was put whether this meeting will give the Rev* M' Sylvanus Ripley a Call to settle with us in the Gospel ministry. Voted in the affirmative motion being made what this meeting will agree to give the Rev"* m' Ripley as an annual Salary in cafe he should settle with us in the Ministry. Voted that if the Rev'i m' Sylvanus Rip- ley Sho"* Accept the Call from the town and Settle with us in the work of a Gospel Minister we will give him for an annual Salary beginning for the first year with the sum of sixty pounds and to Rife yearly with the list of the town till it rifes to Eighty pounds which is afterwards to be his yearly Salary from the town said sum to be paid annually by the first day of Nov' att the rate that wheat pafses in the Country as a Current market price. Voted and Choose Mifsiuers Solomon Jacobs Peter Knap & John Slap a Committee to treat with the Rev"* m' Ripley on the above proposals Meeting Disolved Attest Rufsel Freeman Clerk Pro. t^ TOWN RECORDS 65 Grafton fs Hanover Jan^ 4"* A D 1787 then Rufsel Freeman Esq"^ personally appeared and made solemn oath that he acted faithfully and impartially in his office as Clerk Protempore at the above mentioned meeting and that votes were therein just as above stated Coram Beza Woodward Just, pacis .the above Entred upon record April the 7 1787 and is a true Copy from the Records of the meeting attest Rufsel Freeman Town Clerk [66] State of New Hamshire ) the Inhabitants of the town Grafton fs ) of Hanover who are by law Qualified to vote in town meetings are hereby warned to^ afsemble at the meeting Houfe in said Hanover on the second tuesday in March next at nine OClock A. M. to act on the following Articles Viz first to Chufe a Moderator to Govern said meeting 2"^ to see whether the town will disanul and make void Cer- tain regulations by adopted by vote some years since respecting the payment of the select men and other town officers for there services 3* to allow the accounts of any perfons who have done ser- vice for the town that may be Exhibitted 4'y to chufe all necefsary town officers for the enfuing year S*"^ to raife such sum or sums of Money as may be thought necefsary for making and repairing highways and other necef- sary town Charges 6^y to Chufe Auditors to settle accounts with all such per- sons as have been selectmen or otherwise had the Charge of the town money •j^^ to hear and Accept the report of the selectmen respect- ing highways &c. — S"' to see if the town will allow M"^ Turner anything for the support of a Certain Child that he has in keeping suposed to belong to Charles timfon Feb/th26i787 Sam' Slaid ) Otis Freeman Peter Knap ). ^^^^'^^ Nicholas Gilman ^^^ Stephen Benton 66 HANOVER N. H. Att a meeting agreeable to the above warning Voted and 'Choofe m"^ Gideon Smith Moderator Voted to abate Luther Linkons Rate in the bills for arrears ■of taxes from this town to the State of N Hamshire Voted to allow Lieu' Sam' Kindrick for services ) /- f in earring mrs Cleavland bed to the College f Voted to abate Sam' Hewes Rate made for arrears of taxes [67] Voted to allow Cap' Daniel Clapp for ser- vices ....... £o . lo . o Voted to allow Jonathan Curtifs Ju' for keeping Sarah Cleavland 28 weeks @ 2/6. . . 4.0.0 Voted to Allow Deacon John Ordway for services 0:6:0 Voted to Nath' Babbit for Services . . i .. Yi .. 10 Voted to Do. for Continental money which he lent the town in 1786 . . . . o .. 9 .. o Voted to Docf Joel Brown for Doctering Eunice Cole 1 .. 4 .. II Voted to Zenas Coleman for Services . . o .. 6 .. o Voted to Cap' Sam' Slade for Keeping Dugates child 5 weeks @ 2/6 . . . . o .. 12 .. 6 Voted to Cap' Otis Freeman for services and for [ Keeping Dugates Boy 22 weeks® 2/6 ) 4 .. 12 .. Voted to Lieu' Peter Knap for Keeping mifs ) Cleavland and time and Expence in taking ( ^ •• ^ •• ° Care of her . . . . . . ' Voted to Stephen Benton for Expence in Keep- 1 ing and taking Care of Eunice Cole J Voted to Isaac Bridgman for services . . i .. 10 .. 4 Voted to Col. Elea'' Wheelock for service . o .. 4 .. o Voted to Edward Smith for paying mifs | thatcher Nursing mifs Cleavland j Voted to allow Jabez Bingham for plank . i .. 10 .. o Voted to allow John tenny for boarding and ") Nursing Eunice Cole \ Voted to Jonathan Freeman Esq'' for a Jour- ney to Exeter as agent for the town in Sep'' \- 7 1786 TOWN RECORDS 67 to Do for Journey to Portsmouth as agent in Dec"^ 1786 7 .. 18 .. 4 to Do. for services Done in town to be paid out of David Tennys highway bill . . . i .. 14 •• o Voted and Choofe Rufsel Freeman town Clerk, who was sworn accordingly Voted and choofe Stephen Benton Esq'' Lieut Silas tenny Benona Dewey James Wheelock & Simon P. Clapp selectme for the Enfuing year who were sworn accordingly [68] Voted and Choofe Phenehas Page and Dyer Willis Conftables the Infuing year who were sworn accord'y Voted and Chofe Benjamin Plumley Luther Lincoln Luther Ingols Tythingmen, sworn accordingly Voted and Chofe Isaac Bridgman Joel Brown David Wright Nehemiah Esterbrook Peter thatcher Nath' Babbit Ebe"^ Brew- ster Lemuel Dow Aaron Storrs Laban Gates Jonathan Curtifs Jun Delino Wright Highway Surveyors the insuing year Voted and Chofe Capt Daniel Gould Capt Tho^ Durkee Sealers of leather Voted and Chofe Rufsel Freeman Esq' town treasurer who was accordingly sworn to office Voted and Chofe Nathan Cobb Webster Hall Robert Mason Samuel Slade Hogreaves Voted and Chofe Mifsieurs Solomon Jacobs Daniel Gould Key keepers Voted and Chofe Stephen Benton sealer of weight and meaf- ures Voted and Chofe tho^ Durkee John ordway Jabez Bingham fence Viewers Voted to Raise the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds to be expended on Highways the insuing year @ labour four shillings p"^ Day Voted to Raife fifty pounds to be paid in grain @ wheat 5/ p"" bushel for Necefsary town Charges the Current year Voted and Chofe Alexander Plumley Nath^ Babbit and Gideon Smith Auditors to Audate accounts with former select Constables Collectors and others that have towns money in their hands and Report to the town their Doings therein 68 HANOVKR N. H. the following Report of a Highway made by the selectmen Viz the return of A Road from Nathan Wests to Seth Wests is as follows beginning at A stake and stones 4 Rods and and half west of the Dwelling houfe of Nathan Weft then run south 1 1 Degrees west 18 rods then south 35 Degrees East 8 rods then south 65 Degrees East 52 rods then south 34 "*° East 18 rods then south 3 Degrees East 14 rods then south 3 Degrees West 30 rods then south 20 Degrees west 16 rods Sum total 156 rods to a stake and stones 3 rods [69] East from Seth Wests Dwelling Houfe where a Road began as will appear by a Return made thereof in 1785 Dated Hanover Nov' 15."^ A D. 1786 Samuel Slade \ Stephen Benton y -r, ^ rr \ Men Peter Knapp J the Meeting Dissolved State of New Hamshire Grafton fs Hanover March 14"^ 1787 the free holders and other inhabitants legal Voters in said Hanover are hereby notified And Warned to meet at the meet- ing in s'^ town on on tuesday the 27*^ of march current at i o Clock P M.— i^' to Chuse a moderator to govern s* meeting 2'^ to give in their votes for a Prefident of the State the year insuing 3<' to give in their votes for the Senator for s'^ County the year insuing 4"" to give in their votes for the Register and treasurer for the County the year insuing 5*" to Chufe a person to reprefent s"* town in general afsem- bly the insuing year 6"^ to transact any other bufinefs that may be proper and expedient at s"* meeting Silas tenny -\ Benoni Dewey [ ^^^^^^ James Wheelock .' ^^" Att meeting held pufuant to the foregoing warning the votes being taken and counted for prefident were as follows TOWN RECORDS 69 Viz for Jn» Sullivan Esq' Votes 55 for Benj'^ Bellows Esq'' . . . Do-28 Jno Langdon Esq' . . . Do i Beza Woodward Esq'" . . Do-i for senator for the county as follows £70] viz for Elisha Payne Esq'' . . Votes 48 Charles Johnston Esq'^ . . D0-15 Mozes Dow Esq"" . . . Do-6 Jonathan Freeman Esq' . . Do-8 Ebe'' Brewster Esq'' . . Do-i Rufsell Freeman Esq'" . . Do-i Voted and Choofe Jonathan Freeman Esq' to Reprefent this town in General Court the insuing year Voted and chofe B Woodward E Brewster & Jonathan Free- man Esquires to settle accounts with Nath> Babbit for his ser- vices as selectman in said town which settlement shall be final Voted to allow John Bridgman the Rates of Jerimiah Triscott Henry Chandler & Gideon Smith, contain'' in said Bridgmans Rate bill he Discounting the same with the aforesaid persons in his Rate bill said Rates to be Reduced by the scale Viz Jerimiah Triscotts . ^1 •• 4 ■■ 6 Henry Chandlers . i .. 2 .. 6 Gideon Smiths . . i .. 19 .. o 4 •■ 5 •• ° Reduced by the scale to . . ;^ .. i .. i .. i the Inhabitants of Hanover that are voters in town meetings are notified to meet att the meeting houfe in said town on Wednesday the 30 day of may Instant at 2 of the Clock in the afternoon to act on the following particulars 1* to chuse a moderator to Govern said meeting 2^ to see what the town will do respecting a child that lives at rh'" Habbak'^ Turners 3"^ to see whether the town will come in to any further meas- ures respecting the County Road so called *The correct total would be 4 .. 6 .. o. — Editors. 70 HANOVER N. H. 4* to hear the Report of the Auditor. Hanover may 17* 1787 by order of the selectmen Rufsell Freeman T C pursuant to the above major John Slapp appointed moderator [71] voted that Jonathan Freeman Esq' be Desired to peti- tion the General Court to obtain an alteration in the Road laid out by the Committee from the state through this town — and in cafe it Cant be obtained, voted that the selectmen Afses the inhabitants the sum of fifteen pounds to be paid @ labour 4/ p"" Day to Clear and make said Road Choofe mifsieurs Nath^ Babbit Alex'' Plumley & Sam' Hafe Surveyors to lay out the above money voted to abate the Rates of John Houfe and Experience Davifs in David Woodward Rate bill meeting Disolved Hanover June ig"" A D 1787 the Inhabitants of the town of Hanover that voters in town meetings are notified and war'^ to meet at the meeting in s* town on the fourth day of July next one oClock PM : for the following purpofe i^' to chuse a moderator 2^ to see what sum of money they will raife to pay for preaching the present year s'y to appoint a committee to supply the pulpit the cure' year 4*'' to see if the town will agree upon some regulations with respect to making terms for the suport of preachers of the Gosple so as to release those who have separated from the Chh- and congregation in this town and covenanted with m"^ Burroughs sign* S Benton S Tenny select Men S. P. Slapp meeting oppen'' agreeable to warning appointed Deacon. John Wright Moderator — voted to raife the sum of fifty at wheat five shillings p'' bushel to be paid by the first day of dec"" next — voted and chofe mifsiuers thomas Durkee Peter Knap John Tenny & John Wright a conim** to procure preachers to sup- TOWN RECORDS 7 1 ply the pulpit from this time untill next annual meeting voted that whereas m' Burroughs and a number of others have sepa- rated from the Chh & congregation in this town & have Join** in covenant together — Therefore if those who are now in cove- nant with m^ Burroughs will lay in a list of their nam to the selectmen certified by m"^ Burroughs or by two of his Deacons that they are now members of the said m' Burroughs Chh — and they set forth on their part [72] that they will in future defift from, while in the situation they are now in, from acting in the raifing of money for the support of preachers at the meeting houfe in said town the selectmen are directed to leave them out of all Tax bills made for preaching — & to abate those rates already laid on them since the separation — which were made for preaching voted that the town Clerk be directed to Give m' Burroughs an Attested copy of the foregoing vote that it may be communicated to his hearers. voted to disolve the meeting Hanover Sep'' 29"^ 1787 the Inhabitants of said town are notified and warn'' to meet att the meeting houfe in said town on the ii*'' day of Oct'' next at Four oClock P. M — i^' to chufe a moderator 2* to see whether the town will advife the selectmen to let out to clear the county road by the great — and to act anything relative thereto that may be thot, needful and best P'' order the selectmen Rufsell Freeman T. C— Oc' 11'" 1787 Att a meeting held purfuant to the above warning appointed Lieutenant Silas Tenny moderator Voted to releafe Mifsieurs Nath' Babbit Sam' Hafe & Alex"" Plumley who were appointed Surveyors to clear the county (road so called) voted that the selectmen appoint some proper person to collect the tax made for the purpose of clear^ said road — and at their discretion they clear or let out said road to be clear'' by the great — not prohibiting any person taxed in said rate 72 HANOVER N. H. paying their proportion or rate in labour at the price affix"* for labour in said tax provided they will work the same out by 25"^ of this Instant oc"^ and the selectmen seasonably notifying them to work by posting up notice in said town — meeting disolved [73] Att a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover held Dec'" 21'^'' 1787 Jonathan Freeman Esq' Deacon John Wright & W" Dewey were appoint a com" to take care of the school Right in this Town — Cap^ Jacobs appoinf* sine in lieu of Deac" Wright the remainder part of the doings of said meet- ing on file by order of the town and not recorded Att a meeting of the Inhabitants held by warning Jan^ 29''' AD 1788 for the purpofe of appointing an Delegate to meet in state convention to investigate and act on the Constitution of the united states as they may think best Jonathan Freeman Esq"" was appointed [74] The free holders & other inhabitants legal voters in town meetings are hereby notified and warned to meet at the meeting houfe in s"* town on tuesday the 11*'' day of march next at 9 oClock in the morning — i^' to chufe a moderator to Govern s* meeting 2"* to receive the report of the Trea' of the town 3'* to allow the accounts of any persons who shall exhibits them as shall be tho' proper S"' to chufe all necefsary town officers for the year infuing 6'" to transact any other bufinefs that may be tho* expedient and necefsary at s"* meeting Hanover Feb'' 27"' 1788 Silas Tenny ^ James Wheelock I select Stephen Benton [ men S. P Slapp - - > march 11"' 1788 meeting oppen"* agreeable to the above warning Appointed Gideon Smith moderator voted the auditors for the last year be directed to compleat their bulinefs of auditing and report to the next meeting voted to allow Sephen Benton for service as selectman the past year 24/- £ i — 4 — o TOWN RECORDS 73 voted to pay Deacon John Wright for 13 ) Gal. rum he purchafed for the ufe of the >■ 11 .. 4 .. o militia who turn'^ out in the alarm to Royalton ) voted Isaac Bridgman be paid for beef crea- ) , ture taken & killed for the ufe of s* milatia ) voted that John Houfe Esq'' be paid for a ) creature killed for ufe of the above men- r S ■■ ^5 •• ° tioned militia •' voted that David Hafe be paid for one hun- ) ■^ >- I .. o .. o dred weight flour deliv"* to said militia ) [75] voted and chofe Cap' sam^ slade L' Benona Dewey U Asa Holden to Determine the sums that each person shall have for the afore s"^ articles & return the same to the Clerk for record the com" reported the sums as set against Each perfons name aforesaid Voted to abate Benjamin Davises highway rates in Each of the surveyors bills wherein he is behind in paying s"^ rates Voted to allow nicholas Oilman 38/9 for sundry articles of provifions deliver"^ for ufe of the poor of the town and for board- ing dugetts children ..... ^i — 18 — 9 Voted allow Asa parker for provifions •delivered for the ufe of the soldiers at Coos and for service in Transporting provifions 55/6 . 2 — 15 — 6 Voted and chofe Rufsull Freeman Esq"^ Town Clerk for the year insuing who was accordingly sworn voted Rufsell Freeman James Wheelock Esq' & Cap' Sam' Slade selectmen for the insuing year, who were accord- ingly sworn in to office voted and chofe Rufsell Freeman Esq'' Town Trea'' who was accod'' sworn to office voted and chofe Doc'' Joel Brown Constable who was accord- ingly sworn voted and chofe Gideon Smith Nath' Babbit Elisha Warner Joseph Curtifs Benjamin Tiffany John Durkee Benona Dewey Col Ebe'' Brewster John Wood Nath' Lord surveyors of high- ways — who were accordingly sworn voted m' Jabez Bingham Sam' Slade Tythingmen voted and chofe EF Wheelock Peter Knap Esq' Dea" John 74 HANOVER N. H. Wright and L'- sam^ Kindrick fence viewers who were accord- ingly sworn Voted and chofe m' Stephen Benton sealer weights and meafures according^' sworn voted and chofe Cap* Durkee David Middington leather sealers who were sworn voted Col Ebe' Brewster Cap"^ Solomon Jacobs Key Keepers who were sworn [76] voted and chofe Israel Camp Stephen Hopkins Hog reeves voted and chofe Solomon Jacobs Ju° Amos Coleman saxtons voted and chofe Jabez Bingham mafter of the houfe of cor- rection & appointed his houfe for that purpose voted to difolve the meeting N B George Foster was appointed one of the Constables for the prefent year who was accordingly sworn Grafton fs. Hanover March 14* 1788 the Inhabitants of s"^ town are notified and warnd to meet at the meeting houf in s"* Hanover on monday 31'''^ day of march Instant at 11. o Clock A M i^'to give in their votes for representative for the Ensuing year 2'* to give in their votes for prefident of the state senator for the county likewife their votes for Register & Tre'' for s* county R Freeman ") select S. Slade ) men March 31'''^ 1788 Att a meeting held in pursuance to the above warning voted and chofe Jonathan Freeman Esq"' to reprefent this town in the Gen^ Court the insuing year No. votes for prefident viz for Jn° Sullivan Esq^ 37 votes for Ben" Bellow^ Esq'' 16 votes for Jn° Langdon Esq' i. vote votes for senator for the county were as follows for Elisha Payne Esq'' 45 votes Ebe'' Brewster Esq' 9 votes TOWN RECORDS 75; Jon* Freeman Esq'' 7 votes Beza Woodward Esq'' i vote meeting disolved [77] Grafton fs Hanover June 24"^ 1788 The Inhabitants of s"^ town are notified to meet at the meet- ing houfe on monday j*^ day of July next at one of the Clock in afternoon to act on the following particulars viz first to chuse a moderator to Govern said meeting 2'' to appoint committee to supply the pulpit the current year 3*^ to raife such sum of money to pay for preaching as shall be tho* necefsary and to do any other businefs Expedient to be; done at said meeting sign'^ Rufsell Freeman ] select Samuel Slade j Men- July 7"^ 1788 meet agreeable to the above warning and ap- pointed Deacon John Wright moderator 'Voted and chofe Capt Thomas Durkee m'' Edward Smith & major John Slapp a Comm*' to supply the pulpit the current year Voted to raife the sum of forty pounds which is to stand the full of the afores** sum after deduction of the college district & m"^ Burroughs people which the selectmen are directed to attend to in making the afores"* tax which sum is to be paid at the rate of wheat s/ P^ bushel by the first day of dec'' next and is for the purpofe of paying Candidates who have or may preach with us meeting disolv* Grafton fs "j The Inhabitants of Hanover are hereby noti- j tied and warned to meet at the meeting houfe in said town on monday the 22'' day of Sept'' Instant at two of the Clock in the afternoon to act on the following particulars viz first to chuse a moderator to Govern said meeting 2'^ to see if the town will agree to Give the Rev'* Samuel Collins a call to settle in the work of the Gosple ministry in this town •y6 HANOVER N. H. 3'^ to see what offers they will purpose to m"^ Collins for settlement and salary — and to act anything relative to the above articles that may be tho* necefsary and best Dated Hanover Sep' 8"^ 1788 Rufsell Freeman ^ Select Sam^ Slade | Men [78] Att a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover pursuant to the foregoing warning held Sep"^ 22** 1788 voted and chofe Deacon John Wright moderator voted to Give the Rev'^ Samuel Collins late of Sandown a Call to settle in the Gospel ministry in this town Voted to give the said m'' Collins in cafe he sho* Accept the invitation to settle with us one Hundred pound as settlement the one moiety or half thereof to be paid on his so settling the other moiety or half to be paid in one year from his so set- tling — the above suras to be paid in neat cattle or grain @ wheat 5/ p' bushel Voted to the said m' Collins in case of his settling with us a salary of sixty pounds to be made on the List for the year in which he settles which is to be his salary for the first year and to rife yearly with the list of said town or in like proportion -untill it rifes to Eighty pounds, to be paid at the rate of wheat five shillings p^ bushel which sum of Eighty pounds is then to be his stated salary & is to be paid annually by the first day of Jan^ so long as he continues a settled in this town voted and chofe Deacon John Ordway Deacon John Wright & Major John Slapp a committee to treat with m' Collins on the above proposals and to receive his answer meeting Disolv"^ state of New Hamshire Grafton fs ~\ To Joel Brown one of the Hanover Oct"^ 1=' 1788 (Constables for said town Greeting whereas application has been made to us the subscriber Select men of the town of Hanover, by a number of said in- habitants, that a meeting be called of said town for the follow- ing purpofes —after the choofe of a moderator to Govern said meeting to see whether the town will approve of any person TOWN RECORDS 77 setting up annoculatin of the [79] small pox in the town, if other- wife minded to determine what method is prudent to prevent being introduce*^ into town in that or any other way — Therefore you are required forthwith to Warn the inhabitants for the aforesaid purpose, to meet at the meeting houfe in said Hanover on the sixth day of this Instant at one of the Clock in the afternoon and further to see whether the town will allow Haba* Turner pay for keeping a certain Child which belongs to one timson r . . Sign'' the above Date Serv'* and return"^ by ^ R. Freeman \ select the Constable agreeable to order ( S. Slade j Men Oto"^ 6* 1788 the meeting oppen'^ pursuant to the foregoing warning and appointed Deacon John Wright Moderator Voted that the town disapprove of any person setting up an- noculation of the small pox in this town voted that the selectmen be requested to take prudent meas- ures that the town be immeadiately clear'' of the small pox — which is said to be set up in the town already by annoculation — and if they find it necefsary to Enter any prosecutions against any person or persons in order to prevent it being further car- ried on in the town — this town do agree to indemnify the select- men in such profecutions Voted & chofe R. Freeman Esq^ Cap' Solomon Jacobs & m"' John Tenny a Committee to consider of the accou' of Hab'' Turner and report to the town meeting disolved [80] Grafton fs The Inhabitants of Hanover are hereby notified and warned to meet at the meeting houfe in s** town on . the seventeenth day of november Instant at two of the Clock in the afternoon to act on the following particulars I*' to chuse a moderator to govern s** meeting 2^ to receive the Rev** Sam' Collins' answer Given by the town to settle with us in the work of the Gospel ministry 3'' to appoint a time for his instalment — and to transact any- thing necefsary thereto Dated Hanover Nov"' 3'' 1788 sign" Rufsell Freeman "> select Sam' Slade j men 78 HANOVER N. H. Nov' 17''' 1788 the meeting oppen'' pursuant to the above warning and appointed Deacon John Ordway moderator — when the Committee appointed to treat with m"^ Collins pre- fented the following answer Given by him to the call or invita- tion of the town to him to settle with us in the work of the ■Gospel ministry Viz To the Brethren of the first Church of Christ and to the people in Hanover Beloved Brethren I have Endeavoured to take into the most serious considera- tion the call you have given me to settle amongst you in the ■Gospel Ministry — the occafion you have to Give me or any one elfe an invitation of this nature is much to be lamented — your situation I view as being critical and difficult which has given me no small anxiety of mind in determining what is duty as to a compliance with your request [81] when I consider the im- portance of the divine Honour the interest of the redeemers Kingdom, & the worth of souls immortal ; the greatnefs of the sacred w.ork and my own insufficiency for it, I am ready to tremble at the thought of undertaking for you But weighing matters on every hand your call appears to me to be the call of Providence : and therefore with a firm reliance on the alfuf- ficient grace of God, I give an affirmative anfwer thereto earn- estly solisiting a remembrance in your adrefses to the mercy- seat that God would be with me, crown my labours with suc- cefs — and make me a rich blefsing to you so long as he shall see fit to continue me in the pafcoral office and work in this place Wishing you the smiles of Heaven, the Gracious prefence and divine protection of the great Head of the Church I sub- scrib myself your cordial Friend and Pastor Elect Hanover Nov'' 1=' 1788 Samuel Collins after attending to the aforesaid answer the 25 day of Nov'' Instant was appointed for the time of m' Collins Instalment. voted that the preparation for the counsil be made on the TOWN RECORDS 79 -;^252 .. 6 .. 11 — rec* 252 .. 6 .. 11 — by Geni Court ) total of fund Total Making provifion be ;^i575 .. 3 .. i rec"* 1367 •• 12 .. 3 — due — 207 .. 10 .. 10 paid to the Trea"" of the state as p' rec* No i . ^^263 .. i .. 5 to the sheriff of the county as p"^ rect No. 2 . 298 .. 7 .. i to Do as p"" rec'' No 3 272 .. 15 .. 7 86 HA.NOVER N. H. to Do as p' rec' No. 4 to Do as p"" rec' No. 5 to Do as p"^ rec' No. 6 to Do as p' rec' No 7 . . . . to the goaler of the county in discharge of an Extent on which the selectmen were im- prisoned to Lemuel Dowe p' order the town No 8 to John Wright Jur. p'" Do No 9 to Nath' Babbit p"^^ Do No 10 to Aaron Storrs p"' Do . . No. 1 1 to Ebe"" Brewster p"^ Do . . No 1 2 to Luther Linkon p"^ Do . . No, 13 ;^S. 12 .. 8 358. 4 •• 6 128 . ,S ■ i.^ •■ 9 208 ■15- 12 II O 16 ID 3 I o 1 1 6 total paid out . 1555 ■• 15 total receiv'' . 1367 .. 12 the sum paid more than rec'' 188 .. 2.10 Rufsell Freeman > select Sam' Slade I Men the above and foregoing statement Accepted [90] Voted that the Selictmen be directed to make out a tax bill by the 20"^ day of Jan^ next for such sum as may be necefsary not Exceeding fifty pounds to be paid in wheat 4/ p'' bushel or in hard money to answer the debt due from them to Col. Payne in behalf of the town Voted that the selectmen be directed to issue Extents against any of the collectors who shall not immediately settle their tax bills made for arrears of taxes (to) from this town to the state Voted that if Deliverance Woodward will redeem a certain cow which belong'^ to his brother Jonathan woodward and sold at Vendue by Phi* Page Constable — said cow sold for taxes — the town will refund the money to said Deliverance which he must pay for the redemption of said cow. Voted to adjourn this meeting to thursday the last day of this Instant at ten of the Clock in the morning to be held at the meeting houfe in said town TOWN RECORDS 87 Dec'' 31"' 1789 the meeting oppened according to adjourn- ment the moderator being absent m'^ Joseph Curtifs was appoint'' Voted and chofe Jabez Bingham afsistant Clerk Voted to allow Rufsell Freeman Esq'^ ^ for his services in the affair of the small I r o 1 ^21 .. 2 .. 8 pox breaking in this town including j time horfe ride & Expence J Voted to allow James Wheelock Esq"^ for \ his fervice in the late affair of the small pox in- >• ;^i2 .. 17 .. 8 eluding time horse hire & Expence ) Voted to allow Cap' Samuel Slade for his \ service in the affair of the small pox including > £'i.\ .. 16 .. o time horfe ride & Expence ) Voted to allow Doctor Joel Brown for Ser- 1 vice in the affair of the small pox . . . j •• '3 •■ Voted to allow Jofeph Curtifs for himself and 3 men with him stoping up a road on ac' of the above matter [91] Voted and chofe Rufsell Freeman Esq' Agent in be- half of this town who is to receive the papers relating to the small pox of the selectmen ; and to Collect of the sundry per- fons indebted on account of their haveing the same in this town and to pay to thofe whom the town are indebted to on that account Voted to adjourn this meeting to thursday * 7 day of Jan^ next then to be held at this place at ten of the clock in the morning Jan^' 7* 1790. meeting oppen'^ according to ad- journ* Voted to allow Rufsell Freeman Esq' one of the selectmen for his time being imprifoned on an Extent against the town last Nov"^ Exclusive of Expence , £1 ■■ 10 .. o Voted to Allow James Wheelock Esq'' one the -v selectmen for the time of his imprifonment as y 7 .. 16 .. o above and for i day before — . . . ) Voted to allow Cap' Samuel Slade for time he ) ^ L o .. 9 .. o was hindred by the sheriff hireing money &c j 88 HANOVER N. H. Voted to allow Rufsell Freeman Esq' for spe- cie he has paid for Expence in 2 Journeys to carry money to the sheriff & for sheriffs and Coalers fees likewife for Expences to at and r ^6 .. 4 •• 7 from Jail when the selectmen were imprifoned on the above Extent including the whole Ex- pence of both select men Voted to said Rufsell Freeman for time horfe ^ hire &c in fettling with the sheriff sundry time I i .. 16 .. 6 prior to Nov' 1789 ) the meeting Disolved without proceeding further on the petition & warning [92] State of New Hamfhire f t. uv e Qth „ '- -^ ^ ^ „ r Hanover Feb^ y^ 28*^" 1790 Grafton Ss ) ■' The Inhabitence of Hanover Who are Legal Voters in town meting are hereby notified & worn'd to meet at the meeting- Houfe in s'* town on tuefday the 9*^ Day of March next at nine of the Clock in the Morning i" to Chufe a Moderator to Covern S'* Meeting 2* to here the report of the Committy appinted to Settle With the tre'^ & to audate accompts With paft Collectors & Select- men 3* to allow the accompts of thofe Who have Demands aganft the town ' 4'y. to Chufe all Necefsary town offefers for the infuing year 5^y. to Chufe a Reprefentative to attend the Gen' Cort the Infu- ing year 6^^. to Give in thair Votes for a prefedent for the State & Sen- ator & tre*' & Regifter for s'^ County for the infuing year 7'''. to see if the Town Will agree to Build a Work Houfe in Which to Set to work Idle Stroling perfons, or otherWife to appint some one Houfe for that purpose, & to appinte a Mafter for y" Same 8^5'. to see if the town Will agree on any Regular methord to Gary on Schooling in s'^ town & wheather thay will think Best to Sell the School Lands or any part thereof TOWN RECORDS 89 <)^^. to raife Sutch sums of Moneys for the making & Repair- ing of highways & for town Charges as may appear Necefsary By order of the Selectmen Rufsell Freeman town Clark Att a Legal meting Held March y^ 8*'' 1790 purfuent to the above Worning Voted & Chofe Jon" Freeman Esq'' Modarator to Govern s* meting Voted to adjourn s* meting to the Dweling Houfe of Benj* Hatch to be held Immediately, met & Open'd according to ad- journment profeed to Bufinefs, Voted to allow W™ Chandler's accompt [ r ^ J £1 = 10 = 2 Appointed Capt° Tho^ Durkee M'' Dier Wiles Leu' Silas Tenny a Committy to Exammin & Allow accompts that shall Exhibeted to them Voted & Chofe W" Chandler town Clark for y^ Year Infuing Voted & Chofe Jo^ Curtifs Dier Wiles Cap" Sam«' Kindrick Selectmen for the Year Infuing Voted & Chofe M'' Benj" Hatch town tref for y« Year Infu- ing Voted & Chofe M'' Sam^^ Wright & M"^ Luther Ingals Con- ftables for y« Year Infuing [93] Voted & Chofe Capt" Solomon Jacobs M"^ Jon'' Curtifs J' Gideon Smith M"' Umphra Farrar M'' Nath' Lord tythingmen the Year Infuing Voted Mefs™ Afa parker Eleaz'' Wheelock Benj'' plumley Leu' peter Knap Amos Colmon W™ Hall Jo* Green Barnord Wright Ifrael Camp EHfha Wornar Gideon Smith J'' Heigh way Survayors y'' Year Infuing Voted & Chofe M'' Stephen Benton Seelar of Wates and Meafures for the Year Infuing — Voted & Chofe Cap' thomas Durkee Leather seelar for Year Infuing Voted Capt" Solomon Jacobs M"^ Jabiz Bingham pound keepers for Year Infuing Voted & Chofe Mefs™ David Chandler Ifaac Bridgman & Ebenez^' Lane fence Vewers go HANOVER N. H. Voted & Chofe Mefs™ Luther Lincoln John Bridgman Selva- nus Pingra Jabiz Bingham Hogs Reves for the Infuing Year Voted & Chofe Jon^ Freeman Efq'^ Reprefentative y° Infuing Year Voted & Chofe Jon'* Freeman Efq^' Docf Laben Gates & Rufseil Freeman Efq'^ M"' Gideon Smith Cap' Sam'^^ Slade as a Committy to take up the afifare of Schooling* & make thair Report to the Next Meting Voted that y*" old Com'^'' Go on and make a final Settlement With Efq'^ Rufseil Freeman as tre'' Meting adjourn'd "to y'' 30''' Day of this Inftant March March y" 30**' 1790 Mett according to adjournment Voted to Reconfider the Vote of the Laft town Meeting in appointing a Committy to Examing & allow accompts Voted & appointed Cap* Tho^ Durkee M"^ Dier Wiles Leu* Silas Tenny as a Com'''' to Receve & Examing the accompts of any perfons Who have Demands aganft the town and make Report thereon at the Next town meeting Voted that the Selectmen have the power to Bould or higher a work houfe for the ufe of Idle Stroling perfons & app' a Master — for the Same — as thay shall think Best Voted that M' Gideon Smith have the approbation of the feary Voted to raife £1^0 for the ufe of Schooling the Infuing Year to be paid Equal to wheat at 5/. p' Bushal By the firft Day of Januay Next Voted that the Lines of the Deftricts be aftablifh'd as the affore s"^ Com** have profcrib'd Voted that Eatch Deftrict have thair Equal propotion and Benafet of Schools according to thair Lifts & money that thay pay [94] Appointed Jon^ Freeman Esq' Deacon Jo^ Curtifs & Capt" Sam'^ Kindrick as a Committy to make Sails of the School Lands that y« money thair of may be appropriated to the ufe of Schools in this town Voted to raife one Hundred and fifty pounds for the ufe of makeing mending & repairing of Heigh ways a part of Which to be Laid out on the County Road as the Selectmen Shall TOWN RECORDS 91 think proper S'' Money to be paid in Work at fore Shillings p'^ Day. the School Com*'^ be as follows Voted & Chofe M"^ Dier Wiles M'' Benona Dewey M'^^ Jo* Green for the firft Deftrict Com** Voted & Chofe Capt" Samuel Kindrick M'' Eleaz"^ poter M'' Zenus Colman for y^ 2'^'^ Deftrict Com^ Voted & Chofe Maj'' Otifs Freeman Deacon Nath^ Wright Capt" Sam^ Slade for y" f^ Deftrict Com«^ Voted & Chofe Deacon Jo» Curtifs Leu' peter Knap Rufsell Freeman Efq"" for y" 4*'^ Deftrict Com^^ Voted & Chofe Leu* Silas Tenny M'' W™ Chandler M"^ Israel Camp for y** 5'" Deftrict Com"* Voted that the above Com'^" in the Several Deftrict to which they belong Do Call the s'^ Deftricts togather and with the advice of such Deftricts Do lay out the propotion of the Money Raif'd Belonging to Sutch Deftricts for the ufe of Schooling in the same — Voted & appointed Maj'' Otifs Freeman as an agent to Collect the Sum or Sums of the Several perfons Who owe for- fitures to this town By the Way of the Small pox Votes for prefedent are as follows Viz/. John Pickering Efq'^ had .. 62 .. Votes Jon"* Freeman Efq"^. had — 12 — Votes (Judg Bartlet had — 3 ..Votes Votes for Senator are as follows Viz Jon'' Freeman Esq"^ — had^ — 81. Votes Elifha pain Col • — had — i. Vote Voted & Chofe M"^ Abel parks Selectman in the room of Capt° Sam^i Kindrick Who Declia'd Serving for y" Infuing year Meeting Defolv'd [95] Hanover Y« a""* of April A D. 1790 To the Selectmen of Hanover Gentlemen — the remonftrance and Requeft of us the Subscribers Inhabi- tance of the town of Hanover Humbly sheweth them in our Gudgment & Canded oppinnion, View that the whole Conduct of s** town in the matter of Schooling is prejuditial to the 92 HANOVER N. H. Inhabitance of this town in Refpect of Raifing money to the Value of one hundread — & fifty pounds & to put it into the hands of Certing men (Called a Committy) to Lay out s'^ money With the advice of Deftrick Whereas it ought to have been Voted that thofe men Called a Comf aught to have been confin'd to Lay out Said m^ by Direction of the magor part of the Votes in the Destrick to Which of right it belongs : We confidering the Heavy burden of Depts this town is now under that thay Do not nor Can not Difcharge With out impoverifhing there familyes to a Suffering Condition, the Debt of paying a Very Large Sum to the Selectmen for their time & trouble in the matter of the small pox, & alfo for thair Going to Gole for Not paying the Money Due to the State of Newhampshire to Gather With a number of Debts Due from s'* town to Indivi- als some in Execution others Called for of Lang Standing Likewife that the Inhabitance of this town is afsefsed to pay a large some of money Which in fact have ben before afsefsed & the Grator part have been paid therefore the Raifing the aforefaid Sum for Schooling is unrefionable unjuft & uneaquel We therefore pray the s'^ Selectmen to Call a town-Meeting of the Inhabitence thereof first to Choofe a Moderator to Govern S'' Meeting Secondley to see if this town Will Vote to Difanul & make Void a Vote pafse'* the thirtyeth of March Laft pafs for Raifing one hundred & fifty pounds for Schooling & thirdly to see if this town Will Vote & Direct that all thofe perfons Which paid a Certificate Rate to M' W" Chandler & M' Ebe'^ Lane may have their Money Wheat or Cattle forthwith according to What they paid Return 'd to them again Forthly to Choofe a Committy to se & inquire What has ben Done With the money Collected by M"' James Murch & M'' John Durkee & Cap* Asa Holding and report thereon to this town & 5^5- to Make Void the Vote Wherein the town Voted to appint Maj'' Otifs Freeman to Collect the forfitures or Debts Due on ace* of the Small pox Wherein the town Gave s"! Freeman no order or Direction What he Should Do With the Money When Collected — * *The words "carry over" are added at the bottom of the page of the original mapu- script — Editors. TOWN RECORDS 93- [96] or to act on the s" Artikles as the town Shall think beft When Meet as We in Duty Bound Shall Ever pray — We Defire this requeft may be had at the Meeting When Called &c &c.— Eliada Brown John Ordway Timothy Owen Asa parker — Bezaleel Davifs William Hall David Wright James Murch Elijah Wright, Samuel Hafe Amafa Wright John Bufwell Zadock Brown James Houfton Luther Lincoln Benj* Tiffany David Eaton J"^ Webfter Hall Jeremiah Trefcott P. S. Alfo to Se if the town Will Make a New Arrangment of Deftricks or Whether they Will any alterration in them Like- wife to se What meathard the town will take to Difcharge the Dets Due from s'^ town to Individuals. — Perfuent to the above pertition the Inhabitance of this town are Worn'd to meet at the South Meeting houfe in hanover on thurfday the 29"^ Day of April Inftant at 10. O Clock A. M. to act on the above Mentioned perticulars. Dated Hanover April y^ 13* 1790 Jo'Curtifs I sg,,^t^,„ Dyer Wiles 3 Att a town Meeting of the Inhabitence of Hanover held April y* 29'* 179° Voted & Choofe Deacon John Ordway Modarator Voted to Difanul the Vote that Was paft y" 30*^ Day of March Laft for Raifing the sum of one hundred and — fifty pounds on purpofe for the ufe of Schooling Voted not to have the Money Refunded Back to Individ- uals Which paid thair Money on W™ Chandlers & Eben'^ Lanes Rate Bills, Voted that the Selectmen be Directed to Call on the former Collectors & see that they settle up thair tax-Bills Immediately 94 HANOVER N. H. & to Issue Extents aganft Sutch Collectors as they shall think Needes Require — The Meeting Defolv"i [97] Hanover May y" 5"' 1790 Whereas a number of the Inhabitence of this town have pertitioned for a town meeting and We finding it Nefafary on other accompts as Well as thofe matters Contain 'd in S"^ pertition that the town Should be togather — Do hereby Notify & Worne the Inhabitance of s'' town Who are Legal Voters in town meetings to meet at the South Meeting houfe in s"* town on tuefday the Eighteenth inftant at one O Clock afternoon to act on the following Arti- kels Viz. Firft to Choofe a moderator to Govern s'' Meeting 2,'^y to see if the town will Direct the Selectmen to make out a tax Bill for the Sum of one hundred & fifty pound Raifed at a town Meeting held the 30**' Day of March Laft or for any part of s'' Sum or to See if thay Will Raife any Sum, for the Surport of Schools — 3.'^'' to see if the town Will make provition to Sattify an Executian if favor of James Murch aganft s* town — 4."'' to here the Report of the Committy for Allowing ace' and act thereon as the town Shall think proper — c,.'^^ to Make Such provition for payment of accompts allow'd the town — Abatements of State Rates or other matters Wherein the town is holden for payment as may then appere Nefafary , 6."y to see if the town will Give the Committy Direction to Leefe School Lands Dyer Willis ") Select y Jofeph Curtifs ) men Hanover May y^ 18*'' 1790 purfuent to the above Worning appointed Deacon John — Ordway Moderator Voted to Raife the Sum of one hundread pounds including the ;^3o— pounds Which is Raif'd by the State to be Laid out in schooling for the preafent year to be paid in Wheat at 5/.° per Bufhal TOWN RECORDS 95 Voted to Allow Docf' Jo^ Lewis's acc't £2^ — 3 — 3'^ Voted to allow M' Nath' Heatons ace* — £ i — 4 — o Entered tho Hatch has already Got his pay Voted to allow M'' Benj'' Hatch ace' £. Voted to allow Maj'' Otifs Freeman ace' £ 2- Voted to allow Efq"^ Rufsell Freemans ace' to | ^ be paid in heigh way Work — j [98] Voted to allow M'^ Ebenez'' Lanes ace' £ i- Voted to allow Cap' Sam*^ Slade^ ace' to be paid in heigh way Work — ' Voted to allow M'' David Hafe^ ace' for mooving Mrs Cleaveland to M'' heaton Voted to allow M'' Jeremiah Trifkotts ace' £6 — o — o Voted to allow Jeriel Trifkott ac' — £2 — 14 — o Voted to allow M'' Elaz'' Hill's ac' — £2 — o — o Voted to. allow M"^ James Murchs ac' — ^o — 15 — o Voted to Raife Sixty pound to be paid in — Wheat @ 5/° p"^ Buf hal for the ufe of the town Voted to Rafe twenty pounds hard Silver Money for the pur- pofe of Defraying town Charges Voted that the Committy of School Lands be Directed to Sell or Lefe s'^ School Lands as thay Shall think Beft & Moft proper Voted that the Selectmen make abatement of Rates as thay think proper the Meeting Defolv'd The Inhabitants of the town of hanover Who are Legal Voters in town meeting are hereby Notified and Wornd to meet at the South meeting houfe in s° hanover on the Laft monday of this Instant Auguft at one of the Clock after Noon to act on the following articals (Viz) firft, to Choofe a modarator to Govern s'' meeting Secondly, to Elect By Ballet three perfons having the Qualli- fication Requir'd By the Constitution of the united States to Reprefent this State in Congrefs third, to Choofe one perfon to Reprefent this town at the General — Cort of the State of New hampshire the Remaining parte of the prefent year — 96. HANOVER N. H. Forthly, to Give the Selectmen Such Directions as the town find is Beft Refpecting a Settlement With M' Nathaniel Bab- bitt and others Who have Demands aganft S'' town — and if found Nefafary to Choose some perfon to Defent S"* town aganft any Sute Which is all Ready or may be Brought aganft S"^ Inhabitants. Dated Hanover Aug' y'' 12"' 1790 Joseph Curtifs- ^ Select Dyer Wiles - f ^^„ ■' \ men Abel parks - ^ [99] perfuent to the foregoing Worning Voted and Choofe Deacon Joseph Curtifs Modarator Voted and Choofe Rufsell Freeman Efq"^ Representative to Reprefent this town in the General affembly of the State of Newhampshire the remaining part of the present Year. Voted that the Select men be Diricted to Settle With IVr Nath' Babbit in the Beft mannor thay Can The Meeting Defolv'd The Inhabitants of the town of Hanover Who are Legal Voters in town Meeting are hereby notified & Worned to meet at the South meeting Houfe in S'^ hanover on the twenty six of November Instant at ten O Clock in the fore Noon then & there to Act on the following articles (Viz) — firft to Chofe a moderator to Goven S'^ Meeting — Second to provide Sum Way for the payment for a Quantity of powder purchefed by John Lyman for the ufe of this town and act thereon as the town think proper- Third to see if the town will Vote to pay M'' James Murch the Sum of an Ejcecution Obtained aganft him in favor of Docf James More & George Eager in Confequence of his Burning the peft Houfe on Gilman If land and the Expence Which S'* Murch has been at in Defending the afore S'' Sute or any part thereof — forthly to se if the town Will Vote to Direct the Selectmen to make out a tax Bill on the poles and Ratable Eftate in S* town of Hanover for the payment of the Reverand M"^ Collins Sallery for the prefent Year or Devife and adopt any Methord the town think proper Refpecting the payment of S"* Sallery TOWN RECORDS 97 fifth to Chofe Committies in the Several Deftricts in S'' town to Receve and Lay out the hundred pounds raifed by this town for the purpos of Schooling the prefent year — [100] Sixth To act on the Matter Refpecting the County road as Set forth in a pertition to the Selectmen by a Number of the Inhabitants of Said town — Seventh to Vote to raife Sutch Sum or Sums of Money or other Articals as the town think Nefafary to Defray town Charges — Dated at Hanover this Y^ s^*" Day of November 1790 Dyer Willis ■) Jofeph Curtifs >■ Selectmen Abel parks ) Persuent to the foregoing Worning Voted & Chose M'' Abel parks Modarator Voted to ajorne this Meeting to M'' Benjamin Hatches- immediately, Meet according to adjornment Voted that the selectmen be Directed to make Serchand see if thair Can be any Rec' of M'' John Lymans Signing for the payment of Said powder if not to make a tax bill to raife money for the Settlement of y* same Voted that the Selectmen be Directed to make out a tax. bill to Raife a Sum of Money Surfitiant to Defray and Difcharge an Exacution obtained in favor of Docf James More & George Eager aganft M"^ James Murch Voted that the forth artikal in the Worning be pafs'd by Voted that the Several Committies in the Several Deftricks Which Was Chofen at the Laft annual adjorn'd meeting to Lay out the hundred & fifty pounds Stand and Receve thair Eaquil propotion of the one hundred pounds Which was Raifd in may y® 18"^ 1790 foJ" the ufe of Schooling and Lay out the Same in paying Both Marfters and Miftrefes Which are im- ployed in S** Deftricks the prefent Year Voted to adjorn this Meeting untill the 2°'' Monday of December Next at twelve O Clock profifely to be held at the South meeting Houfe is said Hanover Mett according to adjornment Voted to pafs by the six article for the preafent (Cary up) 7 po HANOVER N. H. [101] Voted that the Selectmen town tre'' & town Clark be Directed as Soon as may be to make a fair Statement to the town of the Debts that the town owe & to Whom alfo of all the Demands that the town have aganft any perfon or per- fons and on Whome and that Jon'' Freeman & Rufsell Freeman Esq'' be Requefted to afforde the aforefaid offifers Sutch afsiftants as may be in thar power Voted to Defolve the Meeting Perfuent to A prefept from the Counfel of this State to the Select men of Hanover the Inhabitants of S'' town Who are Legal Voters in town Meeting are hereby Wornd to meet at the South Meeting Houfe in Said town to Give in thair Votes by Ballets for two perfons Quallified according to Conftatution to Reprefent this State in Congrefs on the Second Monday in Defember Inftant at two O Clock P. M. Dated Hanover December the 3"^ 1790 Tofeph Curtifs ) r. ^ ^ "^ > Selectmen Dyer Willis j Att A town Meeting of the Inhabitants of S'* Hanover Duly Notified and Worn'd in purfuence to the above prefept for the purpofe of Chofeihg two perfons to Reprefent this .State in General Congrefs the Ballets Being taken the following perfons Ware Voted for (Viz) Jeremiah Smith Efq'' had — 18. Votes John Samuel Sherburne Esq' had — 17. Votes the Honorable Abiel Forfter Esq' had — 10. Votes The Meeting Defolv'd [102] The Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover Who are Legal Voters in town Meetings are hereby notified and worned to meet at the South meeting Houfe in said town on tuefday the Eighth Day of March next at nine O'Clock in the Morning to act on the following Articles (Viz) Firft, to Chofe a Moderator to Govern Said Meeting Secondly, to Chofe nefafary town Officers for y" Year infuing Thirdly, to Chufe one man to reprefent Said town at the General Court of the State of Newhampshire y° year insuing TOWN RECORDS 99 Fourthly, to Give in their Votes for prefident and Senator — fifthly — to Give in theer Votes for County treafurer and ■County Register for y® Year Infuing Sixthly — to Raife such Sum or Suras of Money or any arti- cles of produce as are found nefasary for the pur- pofe — of makeing and repairing highways in Said town and Defraying town Charges Seventh — to Raife Such Sum or Sums of Money or other articles of produce as the town Judge proper for the purpofe of Supporting Schools in said Town the Year Infuing Eightly — to hear the report of town officers and others appointed by the town to Do Businefs for the town J and may be Rady to report on Said Day and act thereon as shall be thought proper Dated Hanover Febuary 21*'' 1791 JofephCurtifs|s^j^^^^^^ Dyer Willis j Perfuent to the above Worning Voted & Chofe Jon^ Freeman Efq'' Moderator of S" Meeting Voted & Chofe W" Chandler town Clark Sworn to office Voted & Chofe Maf Otifs Freeman town tre'' Sworn to office Voted to Chufe the number of thre Select men Voted & Chofe M"' Eleaz"" portur Lieu' Silas Tenny & Lieu' phinihas page Select men Voted to Chufe two Conftables for the Infuing Year Voted & Chofe Zenos Colman & Jofiah Manord Conftables Zenos Colman Sworn to office [103] Voted & Chofe Meff^ Gideon Smith Jabiz Bingham Joiin Bridgman Lieu* peter Knap Elifha Wornar tythingmen Who are accordingly Sworn to office Voted & Chofe Meff= Titus Woodward John Durkee Lieu' Bennona Dewey fence vewers titus Woodward John Durkee Sworn to office Voted & Chofe Capt" Tho^ Durkee Seelar of Leather Sworn to office Voted & Chofe Stephen Benton Selar of Wates & mefures Who is Sworn accordingly lOO HANOVER N. H. Voted & Chofe Meffs Jon^ Bearce Nathaniel Hurlbut Eliada Brown Aaron Smith Umphry Farror Ifaac Bridgman W™ Dewey Sam^^ Wright Luther Ingals Sam^' Karr Heighway Survaors Jonathan Bearce Umphry Farror Eliada Brown Aaron-Smith Sam**' Karr Luther Ingals Sworn to office Voted & Chofe Maj' Otifs Freeman Rufsell Freeman Esq^ M'' Gideon Smith Hogg Reves Sworn to office Voted & Chofe Capt° Solomon Jacobs Jabiz Bingham pound Keepers & Jabiz Bingham Sworn to office Voted & Chofe Jon'' Freeman Esq' Reprefentitive the Year Infuing — Votes for prefedent are as follows (Viz) The honorable Jofiah Bartlett Efq' — had . 73 Votes John pickering Efq'' — . had . 7 Votes Votes for Senator are as follows (Viz) Jon'' Freeman Efq'' had .... 73 Votes Rufsell Freeman Efq'' — had ... i Vote EHfha pain — Efq'' had ' . . . . i Vote Mofes Dow Efq"^ — had .... 5 Votes Aaron Hutchinfon Efq'' had . . 2 Votes Voted & Chofe Deacon Jofeph Curtifs Lieu' peter Knap Lieu' Bennona Dewey a Committy to Look into M''^ Houfis Situation Voted to adjorn this Meeting untill Next Monday at one O clock to be held at this place — [104] March y" 14"' 1791 Met according to adjornment Voted & Chofe Rufsell Freeman Efq'' Modarator pro t"^ Voted to rafe the Sum of one hundred pounds for the ,pur- pofe of Mending & repairing of Heigh ways the Infuing Year to be paid in Labor at 4/* p' Day & team Work and plows Carts Equiverlent — Voted that the 4'^ & 5'" Deftrict be maid & Divided into three Deftricts Voted that Deacon Jofeph Curtifs Cap' Sam*' Kindrick Ruf- sell Freeman Efq"^ M'' Eleaz'' porter Lieu' peter Knap be a Com- mitty for the afore Said purpofe and make Report to the next Meeting Voted to rafe the Sum of one hundred pounds including the TOWN RECORDS lOI thirty pounds that is rafe'' by the State for the ufe of Schooling y" Infuing Year to be paid in Wheat at s/"* p"^ Bufhal Voted to adjorn this Meeting to the 28*" Day of this Inftant March one O clock in the after Noon to be held at this place — Met according to adjornment Voted & Chofe M' Daniel Kindrick Select man in Stead of Lieu'' phinihas page Who Declines serving & is Sworn to office M' Nath^ Hurlbutt Ifaac Bridgman W™ Dewey Sam'^' Wright are Sworn to office The Committy appointed for the purpofe of Makeing & Divid- ing the 4"' & 5*" Deftricts into three Deftricts Report Nothing Dun Voted and Chofe Dyer Willis hogg Reve Voted to Chufe Committys in the Several Deftricts for to Receve there Eaqual propotion of the Money according to thair List & Lay out the Same for the ufe of Schooling the Year Infuing Voted & Chofe Dyer Willis Umphry Farror Jofeph Green a Committy for the firft Deftrict — [105] Voted & Chofe W" Dewey Capt" Sam*"! Kindrick Eleaz'' poter a Committy for the 2"'' Deftrick Voted & Chofe Rufsell Freeman Efq' Deacon Jofeph — Curtifs Lieu' Peter Knap a Committy for the 3''* Deftrick Voted & Chofe Stephen Benton Capt° Tho^ Durkee Jon^' Freeman Efq'' a Conimitty for the 4"^ Deftrick Voted and Chofe Capt° Stephen Kimbel Lieu' Silas Tenny Jon^ Bearce a Committy for the 5"^ Deftrick Voted that affore Said Committies be and hereby are appointed in the Several Deftricks to Which thay belong too, By & With the advice of their refpective Deftricts Which thay are to notify for that purpofe to Lay out Sutch propotion of money as eatch of S* Deftrits pay Within the Same & to Set up Schools in Sutch place or places Within S*^ Deftricts as the Deftricts shall agree to — Voted that the former Select men town tre'' & Clark togather With Jon* Freeman and Rufsell Freeman Efq"^' Still Continue in the Bifenefs of making an arrangement of the town accompts & to make report theiron I02 HANOVER N. H. Voted to adjorn this Meeting untill Next Wednefday at — twa oClock in the after Noon to be held in the Chappel on the Colledg plain for the purpofe of taking in Votes for County & State officers March y^ 30*^ 1791 Met according to adjornment Votes for prefident are as follows (,Viz) the honorable Jofiah Bartlet Efq' — had — 6. Votes John pickering Efq'' — had — 7. Votes Votes for Senatur are as follows (Viz) J on ^ Freeman Esq' . . . had — 7. Votes Mofes Dow Esq' . . • had — 5. Votes Aaron Hutchenfon Efq' . . . had — 2. Votes said Votes are aded to & Set Down with S"^ Votes at the firft Meeting Voted to Defolve the Meeting [106] Grafton Ss, Hanover May y" 6*" A D 1791 The Inhabitants of the town of Hanover are hereby Notified and Worned to meet at the South meeting Houfe in S'' town on friday the twentieth Day of this inftant May at two of the Clock after noon to act on the following perticulars — I.'' to Chufe a Modarator to Govern S'^ Meeting — 2"'! to see What Directions the town Will Give the Select men refpecting the makeing a tax or Rate-Bill for the Rev'' M'^ Collins: Sallarythe Current Year — 3'''* to see What method thay Will agree on for payment of M'' Collins's Sallary the Laft Year for Which no Rate bill was made and act and anything relative thereto — ^fhiy J.Q raife Sutch sum or sums as may be found necefary for the payment of M"^ Collins's Sallaries and for the payment of any Candidates to Whome the town may be Indebted to for their preaching in S'^ town since the Divition took place jtuy (-Q appoint a Collector or Collectors as shall be found needfuU to Collect Such Sum or Soms as may may be raifed at S"* Meeting and finally to tranfact any Bufinefs at Said meet- ing relative to the foregoing articles as may be found moft Expedient Silas Tenny 1 Select Dan' Kendrick ) men TOWN RECORDS IO3 Perfuent to the foregoing Worning Voted & Chofe M"' Gideon Smith Modarator Voted to Chufe a Coramitty the N° of five to Give the Select- men Directions in What manner & Way thay shall profead in making out a tax Bill for the payment of M'' CoUins's Sallary for the prefent year [107] Capt° Sam^i Slade Docf Joel Brown Deacon— Edward Smith Rufsell Freeman Efq' Alex'' Plumley are appointed for the afEore S* purpofe Voted that the Select men be Directed to make the tax bill for the Rev* M'^' Collins Sallary the Curent Year in Which to Exclude the Inhabitants in Colledge Deftrict so Called & thofe who Joined Burrough's and thofe of any other perswation Who make it Known thay are Confientioufly Scrupolous of Sui- porting the preaching of the Gofpel by a tax — Voted that the Select men make out a tax bill to raife a sum for the payment of the Rev'' Sam**' Collins Sallary for the Cur- rent Year agreeable to Contract With S* M'^ Collins — Voted that M'' Collins have Intrefc of his Money after it became Due for the Laft year Voted that the Selectmen be Directed to make out a tax bill for M'' Collins Laft Years Salary on the prefent Life Voted to appoint one Collector to Collect the Rev'' M'' Collins Sallary for the prefent year Voted & Chofe M' John Smith Ju" for the affore S" purpofe Voted that a Comtt^ of 3, be appointed to make out an arrangment of all the arrears of Moneys that have Been Raifed Heretofore for the Surport of preaching and that a fair State- ment be made Whereby the town may Know What thay owe and to Whome and in Whofe hands the Moneys are in Voted & Chofe Rufsell Freeman Efq' M"^ Abel parks Lieut peter Knap a Comtt^ for the affore S'' purpofe Voted to adjorne this Meeting to the 27. Day of Next — June at I. O Clock after Noon to be held at this place — [108] June y* 27*" 1791 Met according to adjornment Voted & Chofe Capt" Sam«' Slade a Collector to Collect M"" Collins's Sallary for the Laft year I04 HANOVER N. H. Voted to abate M' Asa Hills Rate on M' Gideon Smith Bill made for preaching Dated Ap' 24 — 1786 Alfo Isaac Bridgman John Bridgman Jon" Bearce abel Bridgman Ebenez' Crane Jo^ Curtifs Jon^ Curtifs J'' Ezra Car- penter Zenos Colman Ebenez' Curtifs Jofhua Culhman Benj=- Davifs David Eaton Jon" Freeman Otifs Freeman Rofwell Fen ton Jeremiah Gillet Eleaz'" Goodrich Ebenez' Griggs Naty Hurlbutt Roger Hovey Jo^ Ketcham Zopher Ketcham Jonas Ketcham Sam<^i Kindrick Nath^ Hurlbutt J'' Ebenez'" Kendrick Nath' Ketcham Tho^ page Eleaz' porter Phillip paddleforde Gideon Rudd Elijah Smith Sam'^^ Wright J'' Sam^^ Wright Nath" Weft J'' Seth Weft Isaac Walbridg Nath' Wright Ehsha Warnor Jon" Woodward Voted to allow Capt" Solomon Jacobs his accompt to the amount of Six pound Eleven Shillings Which is payment for Bording Candidates and their Horfes and for three Hundred of hay and for Hawling ten Hundred of hay to the Colledge &, C. Voted that the Committy Give Capt" Jacobs an order for Seven pounds according to Contract for Bringing a Load of Goods from Sandown for M^ Sam"' Collins Voted that Capt" Sam'^' Slade take the tax Bill now in Capt" Jacobs's hands & Collect it Voted to Defolve this Meeting State of Newhampshire Grafton Ss. the Inhabitants of the town of Hanover Who are Legal Voters in town Meeting are hereby notified & Worn'd to meet at the South Meeting Houfe in S'' town on Monday the Eight Day of Aug* Next at fore O Clock after Noon [109] To Choofe one Dellegate to reprefent this town in the Convention to be Holden at Concord in S'' State on the firft Wednefday of Sepf^^ Next for the purpofe of Revifeing the Conftitution of this State agreeable to an act of the General Cort paffed the Sixteenth Day of June AD — 1791 Dated Hanover July y* 29'''' 1791 Eleaz'' porter ^ Silas Tenny [• Select men Dan'^' Kendrick ' TOWN RECORDS I05 Purfuant to the above Worning Voted & Chofe Jon* Freeman Efq' Dellegate to Reprefent this town in State Convention Voted to appoint a Commif the No. of 3. to Give S"* Delle- gate inftructions to act upon Rufsell Freeman Efq'' IVP' Nath' Babbit M'' James Murch is appointed for the afiore Said pufpofe Voted to Diffolve this Meeting Hanover Aug' 22"^^ 1791 We the Subscribers hereby approve of M'' Nath' Nelson's Keeping tavern in the town of Hanover for the term of one week from this Date Silas Tenny ) c- 1 ^ •' y Select men Dan^' Kendnck ) Hanover Aug' y^ 22'''' 1791 We the Subfcribors Select men of the town of Hanover approve of M'' Sam^' Hafe's Keeping tavern in S'' town of Hanover for the tearm of one year from this Date Silas Tenny ) r. 1 ^ •' )- Selectmen Dan"^' Kindrick ) [110] To the Gentlemen Selectmen of the Town of Hanover We the under Signers Inhabitants of S'^ town being imprifsed With an Idea of the danger thofe are in Who have not had the Small pox by being Dayly Expofe'd to that Diforder do pray you as soon as may to warn a meeting of the Inhabitants of S'' Hanover to act upon the following Matters (Viz) if To Choofe a modarator to Govern S'' meeting, 2"* To se if they will Suffer Inoculation for the small pox to be Carried on in S'' town under proper regulations 3'''^ If the above be Voted to appoint a proper place or Give Directions to the selectmen to appoint one for S"^ Bufinefs and alfo a phyfitian to overse the Same And your petitioners as in Duty Bound will Ever pray Hanover Nov' 30"' 1791 Eleaz"^ Wheelock the Inhabitants of Hanover phinehas Annes are hereby Notified to meet David Fogg Io6 HANOVER N. H. att the South Meeting Gamaliel Lomis Houfe in S"* Hanover on the Jeduthan Wilcox firft Tuefday of Next Jan^ Caleb Fuller at one of the Clock in the Gordg Walton afternoon to act on matters John Walton as setforth in the above Isaac Bifsell petition — Titus Woodward Jefse Heath Dated at Hanover Dec' lo*" 1791 Bela Turner }"■ Silas Tenny ") Select Mofes Bringham Eleazor porter ) Men John Jones Jofeph Lee In perfuence to the above Worning Jofeph Kellogg Voted & Chofe Co' Ebenez'^ Brufter Jabiz Kellogg Moderator to Govern S'' Meeting — Benj'' Tiffany Benj* Tiffany J' Voted that the Selectmen Clere this town of the Small pox as soon as be Confiftent so to do, that it spread no further. Voted that the Selectmen Choofe a Committy to infpect the small pox When Cafe requires. Voted to Defolve the meet- ing.— [Ill] State of Newhampshire Grafton Ss — The Inhabitants of the town of Hanover Who are Legal Voters in town meeting, are hereby notified & Worned, to meet at the South meeting houfe in Said town on Tuefday the thir- teenth of March next, at ten oClock in the morning; to act Ott the following articles (Viz) 1. to Choofe a modarator to Govern Said meeting — 2. to examine any accompts that may be exhibited — 3. to see if the town will except of the roads that have been laid out the Year paft— 4. To see if the town Will raife money for the purpofe of makeing & repairing highways, and other town Charges 5. To see if the town Will raife money for the purpofe of Surporting Schools in said town the infuing Year — 6. to Give in thair Votes for a prefident the Year infuing 7. to Give in their Votes for a Senator 'for said County for the year infuing — TOWN RECORDS IO7 8. to Give in their Votes for a County Rigefter and Treaf- urer the Year infuing — 9. To Choofe one pearfon to reprefent Said town in Gen- eral Cort the Year infuing — 10. To Choofe town officers for the infuing Year as the Law Directs 11. to see if the town Will abate Roger Freemans rate in the arrearage tax — 12. to see if the town will Give the Committy that Was appointed to Leafe out the School Lands inftructions to sell them, or any part of them — 13. to see if the town will Divide the forth School Deftrict in said town into two Deftricts between the sixth & seventh hundred acre Lots from the mile to moofe Mountain Dated Hanover Feb^ the 24''' 1792 Elez' porter \ Silas Tenny Y Select men Dan^ Kendrick ) [112] Hanover March y"* 13'* 1792 Inperfuence to the foregoing Worning Voted & Choofe Co' Ebenez'' Brewfter Moderator Voted that M'' John Durkee Rufsell Freeman Efq"^ Lieu' Isaac Bridgman be a Com** to examine the accompts that may be exhibited to them by Deacon Jo^ Curtifs & Deacon Bennona Dewy — Voted that Rufsell Freeman Efq' Capt'' Sam"*' Slade James Wheelock Efq'' be a Com" to Examine M"^ Jo' Lee's accorapt & Make report to this or Some after meeting — Voted to Choofe a Com" the number of five to view the road that was Laid out from Capt" Stephen Kimballs towards M"^ Sam^ Karr Last fall and report thair oppinion to Some after meeting — Lieu* peter Knap Maj' Otifs Freeman Cap' Sam' Slade Cap' Sam'' Kindreck Deacon Nath' Wright are appointed for the affore Said Com" — Voted to Excepted of the alteration of the heighway maid by the Select men by m"^ Durkee's — Voted to raife ;£'ioo • — for the purpofe making and repairing I08 HANOVER N. H. of heighways the Infuing Year to be paid in Labor at 4/. ?"■ Day- Voted to raife the some of ^£'30 — to be paid in Wheat at 5/. p'^ Bufhal for the purpofe of Defraying town Charges the Year Infuing — Voted to raife the sura of ;£'ioo — for the ufe of Schooling the year infuing to be paid in Wheat at 5/* p'' Bufhal Votes for prefedent as follows (Viz) The honorable Jofiah Bartlett Efq' had 85. Votes Votes for Senator for Grafton County (Viz) Jon^ Freeman Efq'^^ had 86. Votes W" Simfon Efq' had 11. Votes Voted and Choofe Jon*" Freeman Efq'' Reprefentative for y^ year Infuing — [113] Voted & Choofe W" Chandler town Clark Sworn to office Voted & Choofe Lieu* Silas Tenny Eleaz' porter Co' Ebenez^ Brewfter the Year infuing Sworn to office — Voted & Choofe Maj' Otifs Freeman town treafuer the year Infuing Sworn to office — Voted & Choofe Elisha Warnor Conftable & Sworn to office Voted & Choofe Jabiz Kellogg Conftable y^ Infuing year Voted that the affore Said Conftables be Collectors the Infuing Year — Voted & Choofe M' John Smith Baza Davifs Co' E. Brewfter Maj' Otifs Freeman Jonathan Curtifs J'' Deacon Nath' Wright Nath' Everit John D Kingfbury James Murch Robart Mafon Dillano Wright Lieu* Jo^ Green Survayors of Heighways the Year Infuing — Voted & Choofe Ebijah Durkee Survayor of Heighways the Infuing Year Voted that the forth Deftrict be Divided from the Mile Line Betwix the Sixth & Seventh hundredth acre Lots to Moofe mounting — Voted & Choofe Capt" Sam' Slade & M'' Calven ToplifE a Com*' for the North part of the 4*^^ School Deftrict Voted & Choofe Deacon Jo^ Curtifs Lieu' peter Knap for the a'" School Deftrict— TOWN RECORDS lOp Voted & Chofe Lieu' Jo^ Green Deacon Benona Dewey for the Colledge Deftrict — Voted & Choofe Lieu* Silas Tenny Jon^ Bearce a Com** for the 5"^ Deftrict— Voted & Choofe Capt° Sam' Kendrick M' Eleaz' porter M' W"' Dewey a Com" for the 2°* School Deftrick Voted & Choofe M'' Stephen Benton Selar of Wates & Meafures — Voted & Choofe Capt" Tho»' Durkee M'' Zacariah Wefton Seeler of Leather — Voted & Choofe Capt° Solomon Jacobs Co' E. Brewfter pown Keepers the Year Infuing — [114] Voted & Choofe M'^ John Bridgman Maj'' Freeman Cap* Sam'' M^Clure Lieu* peter ICnap tythingmen the Year Infuing — Voted and Choofe Cap* Durkee M' Farror M'^' David Chand- ler M' Titus Woodward fence Viewers y' Infuing year Voted & Choofe M"^ Titus Woodward Jo^ Bridgman Bela tumor John Walton hoggs Reeves for the Year Infuing — Voted that the Committee Who Ware appointed to Sell or Leefe the School Lands be irapowered if thay see fit to agree with sutch perfons as receive Leefes to have Deads in Leiu thereof When thay shall pay over to the town theprinfiple Sum of the Value of Said Land — Voted to adjorn this Meeting for 15. minits to the houfe of M'^ Benj* Hatches — Met according to adjornment Col Ebenez'' Brewfter Maj' Otifs Freeman Nath' Everit John D Kingsbury Lieu* Jo^ Green Sworn to office of Heigh- way Survayors — Ebigah Durkee Heighway Survayor Sworn to office Co' Ebenez"^ Brewfter Capt" Solomon Jacobs pound Keepers Sworn to office Maj' Otifs Freeman tyhingman Sworn to office Capt" Solomon Jacobs pound Keepor Sworn to office Meeting Defolv'd [115] The Inhabitants of Hanover are hereby Notified to meet at the South meeting houfe in S'* town on monday the no HANOVER N. H. 27* Feb'' Inftant at one of the Clock in the afternoon to act on the following perticulars i^' to Choofe a moderator to Govern S'^ meeting — 2"'! to see What thay Will do With refpect to Sallary With the rev^ M'' Collins, Concerning What is Due to him and Like wife to Candidates Who have preached With us 3'''^ to see What meafures thay Will Come into With regard to m'' Collins's Support in futer or Whether thay Will Choofe to agree With him on a Difmittion and to appoint a Com" if thought best to adjeft any matters in their behalf With m' Collins or any other to Whome we are indepted — ^and finilly to Do or transact any bifnefs refpecting the forefaid matters that may Conduce moft to the peace and well being of the people in this town — Dated Hanover the lo*^ of Feb'' 1792 Silas Tennv } c^ ^ ^ „ , ■' y Select men Dan^Kendricki Inperfueuce to the above Worning Voted & Chofe Deacon John Ordway Moderator — Voted to adjourn this meeting to the Houfe of M'' Solomon Jacobs J'' immidiately — Met according to adjornment — Voted to pafs over the 2"" article in the Warning for .the prefent — Voted to Choofe a Com" the nomber of 3 to treat With the Rev'' M' Collins and adjeft matters as Specified in the Worn- ing — and make report to the next meeting — Voted & Chofe Capt" Sam^' Slade Ruf Freeman Efq' Lieu' Silas Tenny for the affore S"^ Com*' — Voted to adjorn this meeting to the 2"'' friday in march next at i. Oclock afternoon at this place — [116] Met according to adjournment — Voted to adjorn this meeting to the 3'* Friday of this Inftant March at one O Clock afternoon at this place met according to adjornment — Voted to pafs the 2"'* article in the Worning for the prefent Voted that M'' CoUings make & Lay in propofals to the town in Writing if any he have — TOWN RECORDS III Voted to Difmifs Deacon Ordway as modarator — Voted & Chofe Capt" Sam'*' Slade moderator Voted that M'' Alex"' plumley M' Stephen Benton Capt" Sam' Slade Lieu' Silas tenny Lieu' phinihas page be a Com" to treat With m'' Collins on Conditions of a Settlement — Voted to adjorn this meeting to next thurfday one O Clock afternoon — , Met according to adjornment Voted that M'' Benton Silas Tenny Lieu* Nath** Weft be a Committy to Look into & adjest matters With m^' Collins and make report to our next meeting Voted to adjorn this meeting till the firft Wednefday of may next at one O Clock afternoon to be held at this place — Met according to adjornment — Voted that the Select men for the several years make out Serfitiant Warrants for Eatch Collector Whereby thay may be able to Collect Sutch tax Bills that are maid out for the pay- ment of m'' Collins's Settlement & Salaries put into thair hands Alfo Ingage to indemnify the Select men in So Doing Voted that M"^ Dan^ Fobes be a Collector to Collect Capt" Durkees rate bill — Voted that the Selectmen make out a tax bill for the Current year immediately for the payment of M' Collins's Salary alfo Ingag to indemnify them in So Doing Voted that David Tenny be a Collector of M' Collins rates the prefent Year — [117] Voted & Chofe Rufsell Freeman Efq^' agent to JReceive in of the Several Collectors and pay out to m'' Collins and Candidates Who have Demands on us for preaching — Voted that the Select men make out Extents on the Several -Collectors of the three firft Bills if not Settle'd up by the firft Day of July next — Voted that M'' Gideon Smith Docf Brown Capt" Durkee be a Committy to Seat the meeting houfe Voted & Chofe Edmon Conent Salmon Dow W™ Dewy J'' Edward Smith J' Quirefters of this Congragation — Voted to Defolve this Meeting 112 HANOVER N. H. State of Newhampshire Grafton Ss — The Inhabitants of the town of Hanover Who are Legal Voters in town meeting are hereby notified to meet at the South meeting houfe in S'' Hanover on monday the Seventh Day of April Next at one of the Clock P. M. — to act on the following articles namely — i^' to Choofe a moderator to Govern S'^ meeting — 2°'* to see if the town Will Except of the Conftitution as adapted by the Convention — 3''' to here the report of the Committy that was appointed to examine the road that was Laid out the Laft year from Cap' Kimballs to Labanon Line — 4*'' to see if the town Will aftablifh the Divifion in the firft North School Deftrict between the Seventh & Eight^ Hundred acre Lots from the mile Line to the half mile thence on M"' Abijah Smiths north Line from the half mile to the River as the proprietors of S* Deftrict have agreed to — 5*'' to here the report of the report of the town Trefurer refpecting the finances of the town — 6*" to Do any other bifinefs that refpects S'^ town — Dated at hanover the 22"* Ebenez^' Brewfter ) Day of april 1792 — Silas tenny >• Select men Elez' Portor ) [118] In perfuents to the fore Going Worning — Voted & Chofe Co' Ebenez^' Brewfter Moderator — on exammination of the New propofed Conftitution Votes Ware taken as follows (Viz) I. Articles of amendments . . Yeas 4. Nays 24 Yeas. 45 Nays, i 38 . o 45 . o 36 2"" 4«i th S Voted that the 2"" article in the Worning be pafsed over untill some futer Day — Voted to pospone the 3"' article in the Worning — Voted to adjorn this meeting one fortnett from Next Satter- day at 9 O clock A. M. to be held at this place TOWN RECORDS Met according to adjornment Amendments articles d*** articles, y^ article- 8*" article- 9" til article— 10 article- 11 *■ article. 12* article 13* article. 14' article- 15*'' article. 16"^ article. 17"' article. 18''' article- 19*'' article- 20* article- 21^' article- 22 article- 23 article- 24' article- 25"' article 26"' article- 27"" article- 28*^ article- 29"" article- 30"^ article- 31^' [119] article- 32 article- 33 article- 34' rd Ul nd rd th article— 35"" article- 36* article- 37*'' article- 38''' article- 39"' article- 40^"^ article- 41^' article- 42"'' 113 Yeas 14 Nays. 26 20. 2 12. I 28. 1 34- 17- I 22. 28. 28 19. 8 28. 34- 32- 38 12. 17 25- I 25- 31- 38 13- 10 22. I 20. 20. 23- I 22. 16. 2 25- 23- 7- 13 3 17 22 I 8. ■2 16 S 21 I 13 5 16 1 8. 114 HANOVER N. H • article- 43"^ . . ■ 2. 18 article- 44*^ 0. 1 1 article- 45'" 6. 4 article- 46"^ 25- article- 47"' 13- I article- 48'" 23- article- 49*'' 21. article- 50* 27. article- 51'* 26. article- 52"" 33- article- 53'* 31- I article- 54'^'^ 20. 12 article- S5«' 4- 5 article- 56* 7- 5 article- 57'" 6- 16 article- 58«> 26. article- 59'" 28. I article- 60*" 35- S article- 61^' 5- 3 article- 62™^ 33- article- 63'" 13- article- 64"' 13- article- 65'" 28. article- 66"' 35- article- 67"' 28- 2 article- 68* II. 2 article- 69''' 15- 4 article- 70"' 18. 6 article- 71''* 28. article- 72'"' 32- Voted that W™ Chandler Collect his arrearage Certificate tax at I o / . on the pound — Voted to except the Divifion of the firft North School Def- trick as requefted in the Worning Voted to Defolve the Meeting [120] State of Newhampshire Grafton S. s. — The inhabitants of the town of Hanover Who are Legal voters in town meeting are hereby Notified to meet at the TOWN RECORDS II5 South meeting houfe in S'' town on monday the twenty-seventh Day of this Inftant Augufc at i O' Clock after Noon to act on the following articles (Viz) i^' to Choofe a moderator to Govern Said Meeting 2"* to see if the inhabitants of S'* Town Will approve or regect the articles in addition to the amendments of the Con- ftitution of S'' State agread to by the Convention^ 3'''' to Vote for six Sutible perfons to be Electors of a prefi- dent and Vice prefident of the united States 4*'' to elect fore perfons Duly Quallified to reprefent this State in the Congrefs of the United States — Dated at Hanover Auguft 11* 1792 Ebenez' Brewfter ) o 1 Eleaz'' porter r yi^^ Silas Tenny ' Att a town Meeting held agreable to the above Worning Voted & Chofe Maj"^ Otifs Freeman Modarator — Votes taken for & aganft the Laft amendments of the New pro- pof' Conftitution yeas-8 — Nays i Voted to adjorn this meeting for one Weak from Nextfriday at I. O'clock after noon to be held at the South meeting houfe — Meet according to adjornment Voted to Defolve this Meeting [121] The Inhabitants of the town of hanover are hereby Notified to meet at the South meeting houfe in S'^' town on friday the twenty Eight'' Day of this Inftant Sepf at one O'clock in the after Noon to act on the following articles (Viz) i^' to Choofe a modarator to Govern S'' Meeting — 2"'' to see if be the minds of the town to agree'With the Rev'' m'' Collins on a Difsolution of the Covernent relation between him & them as it relates to his pastoral Care of the people if thay do not Choofe Sutch a method, — See What meafures thay Will agree on for his further Support and to here any propofals M'' Collins may then make and to act thare on as may be thought best-3'^-to Come into Some afEectual mef- Il6 HANOVER N. H. ures for Settlement With m' Collins on account of What majr appere to be his Due from the people and to tranfact any thing Reletive thereto that Shall be thought nefecary — 4* to agree on a plan for Settlement With any Candidate to ^yhome thay are Indepted for thair preaching in S'' town Sence the Divition tooke place — Dated at Hanover Sepf 14"' 1792 Ebenez"' Brewfter 1 r- 1 ^ \ Select men Silas Tenny — J perfuent to the above Worning Voted & Chofe Silas Tenny Modarator Voted & Chofe Joel Brown Clark pro Temporary Voted to Adjorn this meeting to the Nineteenth Day of October Next at one O' Clock P. M. at this place open'^ accord- ing to adjorn ment Voted that the prefent Select Men be Defired & Directed to take the several Bills maid for the Settlement & Sallary Voted by this town for the Rev'^ Sam'^^ Collins — alfo the several Bills maid to Collect and pay Candidates Sence y^ year 1784 & Give Warrants to the Several Bills; Simuler to a Vote pafs" Laft & that the town Indemnify the Select men in So Doing Joel Brown pro Tem — Grafton Oct'' 1792 then Docf Joel Brown made solom oath that the foregoing Votes are as thay Ware pafsed in the above town meeting and penned Down by him as Clark pro Tempor- ary for S* meeting Before me Rufsell Freeman Gefdfs pece [122] The Freeholders and others Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover are hereby notified and Worned to meet at the South meeting Houfe in S'^ Hanover on the twelfth Day of Nov"' Next at one O'Clock in the after noon then & there to act on the following articles (Viz) i^' to Choofe a moderator 2^^ to Give in thair ballets for the purpofe of Compleeting the Choice of Electors for prefedent and Vice prefedent of the United States and of Reprefentatives to Congrefs — 3"^ Elect a Reprefentative to the General Cort TOWN RECORDS 117 4"''' to see if the town Will Give there Confent that a Sutable Defstrect in the vicinity of Darkmouth Colledge (to be Dif- -crib'd by the town) be incorparated into a Diftinct town — S**" To Do any other matters proper to be Dun on S'' Day Dated Hanover Oct' 26**^ 1792 Ebenez'^ Brewfter ) Select Silas Tenny ) men Perfuent to the above Worning Voted & Chofe Rufsell Free- man Efq' modarator ' Voted not to Choose a Reprefentative to General Court Votes for Reprefentative to Congrefs as follows — Pain Wingate Efq'^ had . . . 30. Votes Voted that the College Deftrect have the Lebity of Incopor- ateing them Selves into a Defcinct town agreable to the former Vote of S'' town — Votes for Electors as follows Jofiah Bartlet Efq'' had . . . 31. Votes John. T. Gilman Efq"^ had . . . 29. Votes Benj^ Bellows Efq-^ had . . . 32— Jon^ Freeman Efq"^ had . . 31 — John pickering Efq' had . . . 12 — Ebenez'' Smith Efq'' had . . . 30 — Ebenez"^ Thompfon Efq'' had . . -3 — Thimothy farrar Efq'' had . . 21 — Dan^i Ring Efq'^ had . . . . i Timothy Walker Efq'' had . . . 2 Thomas Chogfdail Efq'^ had . . i Meeting Defolved — [123] Aplicataon being Maid to us the Subfcribors Selectmen -of Hanover by m"^ Jon'' Bearce of S"" Hanover — We hereby Give our approbation for S'' Bearce to Sell all Kinds of Speritous Liquors by retail for the term of one Year from this Date — Dated at Hanover this y" 11*'' Day of Feb'' 1793 Silas Tenny \ „ Ebenez' Brewfter J Il8 HANOVER N. H. Hanover Feb^ "" 1793 thefe may Certify that Richard Lang of Hanover Trader in the County of Grafton & State of Newhampshire haspermifion to Sel Sperituos Liquors for ye Year one thoufand Seven Hun- dred and Ninety three — Ebenez'Brewfter , Select men Silas Tenny- We the Subfcribors Selectmen of the town of Hanover by application maid to us Do hereby Give our Licence & appro- bation for Mef^ Wheeler & Brooks to Sell any Kind of Speritous Liquors as Retealer for the term of one year in Said town of hanover — March i^' 1793 Ebenez"" Brewfter ) c 1 Silas Tenny — ) We the Subfcribors Selectmen of the town of Hanover by application made to us Do hereby Give our Licence and appro- bation for M'' Jon'' Bearce to Keep tavern for y" terme of one Weak in S'^ town of hanover Hanover Merch 11* 170^ Silas Tenny ) „ , ^ ^, „ . ^ Select men Eben'" Brewfter J [124] Where as Rufus Graves now refident at hanover haveing made application to us for the priviledge for retailing- Spiritous Liquors ; this Certifies that We approve of him as a Suitable perfon for that Bufiness and pray your honors that he may be Licenced for that purpofe Hanover 16* Aug'' 1792 Silas Tenny ) Eleaz"^ porter >- Select men Eben'' Brewfter ) Whereas Co^ Eben'' Brewfter of Hanover has made applica- tion to us the Subscribors for Licence to Keep a tavern Where he now Lives ; This Certifies that we approve of him as a Suitable perfon for that imploy and therefore License him accordingly Silas Tenny ) „ , ^ ^, ^ \ ^Selectmen Eben^' Brewfter I TOWN RECORDS II9 Hanover March 12*^ 1793 this Certify that M'" Benj* Hatch has permition to sell Spiritous Liquors as a Tervener for this Year 1793 Otifs Freeman Sam" Kendrick I Select Richard Lang ' men Silas Tenny — State of Newhamfhire Grafton Ss — To Jabiz Kellogg Confcable of the town of hanover in S'^ County Greeting You are hereby Required to notify the Inhabitants of S'* hanover Qualified by Law to Vote in town affairs to meet at the South meeting houfe in S*^ hanover on the second tuefday in march next at nine O'Clock in the morning to act on the following perticulars (Viz) [125] Firft to Choofe a Moderator to Govern S** Meet- ing 2"'' to Choofe a town Clerk for Year infuing 3'^■ ,, V JMen According to order of the Jofeph Curtifs - - ) Selectmen I have drawn two Copy* of the Original One which I have affixed to Genn''' Brewsters sign post the Other TOWN RECORDS 129^ on the South meeting house in s* Hanover as the Law' Directs March 13*'^ 1794 Attest George Walton Constable Hanover March 28*, 1794 Att a Legal Town meeting Voted and Chose Genn^ Ebenezer Brewster Moderator Voted that the present select men together with Otis Free- man Treasurer Search and Examine into the Matter of Doc"^ Gid TifEeny ac* and report to some future Town meeting Voted that Hogs shall not run at large from the first of Aprill next to the last of October on pennalty of One Shilling and six pence each to be recover''^ by any freeholder, in the same way and manner the Law provides, if they run with out Yokes and ring Voted to allow Zenas Colman for sundry servises in 1791 & 1793 as on file the sum of ;^i .. 19^ .. o .. o Voted to refer Abel Parks ace* to the present Select Men for adjustment Voted that the ac"^ Exhibeted at this meeting shall be paid Wheat at five shillings p"^ bushel Voted to Difsolve this Meeting [136] Hanover March ii** A D 1794 This may Certify that we the subscribers have licenced Richard Lang to retail Spiritus liquor the Year Ensueing Samuel Slade ) c 1 <. Joseph Curtifs I ^^^ Ebenz' Brewster ) Hanover March 13"' AD 1794 This may Certify that M"^ Ebenezer Woodward of Hanover is licenced as a Retailer of Spiritus liquor for the Ensueing Year by us the subscribers Ebez"^ Brewster •\ o 1 ■. Joseph Curtifs I ^^^ Samuel Slade ) Hanover March 11*'' A D 1794 This May Certify that we the subscribers Give licence to 9 J30 HANOVER N. H. Levi Parks and Kellogg to retail Spiritus liquor the Ensueing Year Samuel Slade \ Select Joseph Curtifs \- ^^^^ Ebenez'^ Brewster ) State of New Hampshire Grafton fs We. the Subscribers Select men of Hanover in s* County hereby Certify that we have Licenced M' Benjamin Hatch a Tavener within s"i Hanover untill the second Tuesday in March next March 18*^ 1794 Joseph Curtifs | Select Ebenz'^ Brewster ) Men Hanover March 11*'' 1794 This may Certify that we the subscribers have licenced Genn*' Ebenez' Brewster Esq"^ as Tavener the Year Ensueing Sam^ Slade ) Select Joseph Curtifs ) men Hanover March ii"' 1794 This may Certify that we the Subscibers Give licence to David Curtifs to retail Spiritus liquor the Year Ensueing Samuel Slade \ c 1 * Joseph Curtifs I ^^^ Ebenez'' Brewster ) [137] Hanover March ii"" 1794 This may Certify that we the Subscribers have Lincenced Maj' Rufus Graves as a Retailer for the Year Ensueing Samuel Slade ) i i- Joseph Curtifs > ,, •L , '^ I Men Ebenez' Brewster j Hanover March 11*'' 1794 This May Certfy that we the Subscribers Give Licence to Elias Newton as Tavener the Year Ensueing Samuel Slade ) c 1 i- Joseph Curtifs I ^^^ Ebenez'' Brewster ) TOWN RECORDS _ I3I Hanover March ii** 1794 This may Certify that Caleb Webster has licence to retail Spiritus Lequor the Year Insueing by us Samuel Slade ) Select Joseph Curtifs i Men This may Certify that M"^ Joseph Miller is Licenced to retail Spiritus liquors the Year insueing witness our hands this first day of Octob' 1794 Joseph Curtifs ) Selectmen Sam«' Slade ) of Hanover The following is A survey of A road leading from Capt" Stephen KimboP by the Meeting House to Lime line begining at the Northeast corner of Sam^ Hayse lott being the 18"' Hundred Acre lott East of the three mile Road so Called run in the Side line to the N. W. Corner of Said lott thence N. 16° W 10° rods to Stake and Stones then N. 10° W 31 rods N 41" E 9 rods thence N 15 E 6 rods to the road by M'' Hills the Above on the Side of S''^ road then began at Stake and Stones in Old M"^ Hills Barnyard on the Easterly Side of the road thence S. 87° E 30 rods thence N 67° E 54 rod Just by the front of David Woodward Mill About 2 rods Above the dam Stake and Stones thence N° 75° E 16 rods to Hemlock Stub thence N° 54° E. 11 rods to the bank of the brook thence N° 34° E 61 rods to an Ash bush Marked 44 thence N° 65° E 19 to Stake and Stones thence N 43° E 68 rods Just to the west of M' David Chandler^ barn and M"^ Halls House Stake and Stones N. 30° E 27 rods to Stake and Stones N° 10° E 11 rods to heap of Stones N. 19° E 54 rods thence N 34 E 18 rod to A Stone Stuck up N 54 E 14 rods to Park Corner N 70° E 38 rods to Stub and Stones thence N 45° E 62 rods to large hemlock Stub and Stones thence N 53° E 60 rods to Stake and Stones N 27 ^° E 28 rods to heap of Stones N 35° JE 21 rods to the corner of Benjamin Hatch' Shed thence N 9° W 26 rods to Maple bush thence N 22" E 50 rods to the west side of Doc"^ Brown' barn thence N 23° E 64 rods to Stake and Stones thence N 51° E 60 rods to Stake and 132 HANOVER N. H. Stones thence N 37^° E 34 rods to Capt Jacobs Land thence South 64° E 14 rods to Stake and Stones the S. E. Corner of the parade thence N 21° E 70 rods to Stake and Stones N 64 W 6 R 18 links to Stake and Stones thence N 32 E 23 rods to Stake and Stones thence N 10° E 67 rods to Stake and Stones Near O Freeman^ thence N 37 E 22 rods to Stake and Stones N 43° E 60 rods to the S. E Bound of R Hovy^ Land thence N 64 E 20 rods to Stake and Stones N 47 E 16 rods Stake and Stones thence N39 E 20 rods by the front of M^ Collins House to Stake and Stones thence N 49° E 52 to Beach bush thence N 4° E 32 rods to Heap of Stones thence N 32° E 38 rods to beach marked H [138] Thenc N 38° E 44 rods to Stone thence N 65° E 21 rods Stake and Stones thence N 80° E 28 rods Stake and Stones thence N 88° E 27 rods to Stake and Stones near Capt Slade Houes from thence on the two Allow- ance to Lime line Said road is laid four rods from Hayse or the iS''^ lott Corner to David Chandler^ land and from thence to lime line five rods wide to Extend west of Said line and from S"^ Chandlr land to S"^ 18*^ lott or the first mentioned bound four rods wide and the North Side of S* Line Hanover Feb'' 26"' 1794 N° 1^' Otis Freeman ) c 1 <- Samuel Ken dreck >■ ,, c-i rr- \ Men Silas Tinny J Hanover FebJ' 26*^ 1791 A survey of A road from Capt" Sam^' Slade to the three mile line Southerly of M'' Churches began it the two mile road W. of Capt" Slade' and ran close by S end of his House S 36"* E 28 rods to a Stake and Stones then S 20 E 30 rods to the South line of S'* Slade^ lot on the Allowance then in A direct line of S"* lot to Lieut" Websters io8. R. The Above sign** by Zenas Colman Surveyor Eleazer Porter — — \ g^j^^^ Silas Tenny Y ^^^ Dan>^Kendreck J TOWN RECORDS 1 33 Nov' 12*'' 1793 We began at Lieut Websters House S W. Corner then run S 55* E 35 rods then S 35* E 30 rods to A beach bush, then S. 26^ E 68 rod to a Stake and Stones to the three mile Allow- ance we left the road on the South 4 rods wide the Above road is laid four rods wide the line is the N Side of the road Salmon Dow Surveyer No 2* Sam®' Kendrick } Select Silas Tenny — ) Men The return of a road from Nathan West' to Seth West is as follows (Viz) Begining at A Stake and Stones 4^^ rods west of the dwelling House of Nathan West then S. 11'' W. 18 rods then South 35'' E 8 rods then S 65"* E 52 rods then S. 34 E 18 rods then S. 3* E. 14 rods then S 3'' W 30 rods then S 20 W. 16 rods sum total 156 rods to A Stake and Stones 3 rods East from Seth West Dwelling House Dated Hanover Nov. 15*'' 1786 Sign* by Sam®' Slade ^ g^j^^^ ^^^ Stephen Benton >• , tt ^ (of Hanover Peter Knap ) Nov 12*'' 1793 We began against Wd° Wests House at a Heap of Stones then run S 13* W 81 rods to a heap of Stones Then S i"* E 20 rods to a heap of Stones Then S 51'' W. 25 rod to a heap of Stones Thn S g'' W. 52 rods to A Stake and Stones Then S 9'' E. 39 rods to a heap of Stones Then S. 7* E 105 rod to a heap of Stones Then S. 12* E 44 rod to a Stake & Stones Then S. 16'* W 26 rods to a Stake and Stones Against a road runing from M'' Rudds to Mink brook we left the road on the west side 4 rods wide Salmon Dow Surveyer Sam®' Kendrick ") Select N° 7,^ Silas Tenny i Men [139] Hanover Octb"' y® 2* 1785 We have laid out a road Leading from Hanover to Lebanon line to Accommodate traveling to Market for the use of s'* Hanover and the public. 134 HANOVER N. H. we began near Above M'' James Murches Saw mill in s'^ Town (Viz) three rods and half rod Northerly from s'> Mill the west side of mink brook so Called then South 18'^ East 24 rod then south 40^ E 34 rods then E lo'^ South 54 rod then South 38* E 42 rods then South 7'^ E 40 rods then south 14* E 24 rods to the Allowance the Northerly side of Jonathan Curtifs land then on the said Allowance South 64 E 60 rods the N E Corner of s"^ Curtifs lot then on Camps land E 14. S 8 rods to the Allowance north of said Camps Land then on s* Allowance south 64* E 102 rods then on a Colledge lot S 42* E 40 rods then S 37'* E 34 rods then S 21 E 12 rods then E 19 S 20 rods Then E 9<^ S 20 rods then E 40 rods then E 22 S 12 rods then E 6° n 40 rods then E 8* S 40 rods then E 40* S 28 rods then S IS"! E 16 rods then South 24* E 60 rods then S 12"* W. 28 rods then S 25* W 46 rods then South 15'' W. 15 rods then South 8'"W28 rods then S 21IE60 rods then S se"* E 18 rods then S 8'^ E 26 rods then S. 17'' E 20 rods then S 19* E 20 rod then S 8"* E 22 rods then S 17"^ W 22 rods to Leb- anon line near west of moose mountain and East of A little brook said road is laid four rods wide & is Northerly and East- erly of said lines and bounds affixed thereon by us the Subscribers Nathaniel Babbit ) Selectmen }, N° 4 John Wright ) of Hanover Hanover Dece" y" 10*'' 1785 Laid out a road Leading from M"^ William Chandlers to the road Near M' Benjamin Hatches Began the East Side of Said Chandler^ dwelling house and well by his dore yard at a heap of Stones the North Side of the road that leads by s** Chandler^ to Nathan Wests then North ten degrees West 38 rods then North 28 degrees west 35 rods then North 18 degrees West 22 rods then North I degree East 40 rods then North 49 West 67 rods near s'* Hatches house to the road Called Mink brook road said road is East & North of s'^ lines and is three rods wide John Wright •) N°s Sam^iSlade C Select Men =- Nath^^ Babbitt j^^^^^""^^"^ TOWN RECORDS I35 Hanover y" ig*"^ of August 1784 We the Subscribers have this day laid a road from M'' Wests Benton' and Wrights Neighbourhood to the mill or Mink brook road for their Con- veniancy of Going to Mill We Began near & westerly from M' Thomas Page' House at the End of A road laid from M"^ John Tinny' thence three rods from s** Pages land South 49. degrees west till it Comes to M'' Sam''' Wrights Northwest corner then we began to measure at a little fiat rock with Stones on it three rods north from s*^ Wrights Corner then South 49 degrees west as the land was laid out one hundred & Eight rods to said Wright' Southwest Corner at the South east corner of M"^ Stephen Benton land the road the said 108 rods at the Northerly part is to lye Easterly of s'^ line & at the Southerly half to lye the westerly Side of Said line then South 49 degrees West twenty rods to M"^ Nath" Wests Dwelling house the road the west side of this last line and now the road hereafter mentioned is the South Side of Said line then began at a Stake and Stones between s* Bentons & s'^ Wests Dwell- ing house then West 14 degrees North 46 rods then west forty-two rods then west 10 degrees North thirty-four rods then west thirty rods then west 10 degrees South fourteen rods then West 22 degrees South 10 rods then west 35 degrees South forty rods near W™ Chander' land then West 32^ South thirty- two rods then West 17 degrees south fifty two rods near Will"" Halls Land then west 8 degrees South thirty-six rods then west 26 degrees North forty six rods then west ten degrees South One hundred rods to a Great rock with Stones on it then west 16 degrees South twenty One rods then West 29 degrees South Eight rods to the Above mill or mink brook road at a heap of Stones the Above Said road is laid three rods Wide — An alteration of the within or above Survey Begining at Thomas Nevens' 145^ rods Westerly from the 3 mile and half line then run S 40* W 43 rods then S 43'^ W 20 rods into the Old Survey Nath^' Babbit \ , ivTn ^ c. ^. -n ^ ( Select men N° 6 Stephen Benton V „ 1 T I, \ of Hanover Solomon Jacobs J 136 HANOVER N. H. [140] September y** 29"' 1791 We the Subscribers Laid out a ,road by Capt" KimboU dwelling House in Hanover began at M'' Samuel Hayse North easterly corner of his hundred Acre lot the line we run in the Southerly Side of Said road then South sixty four degrees East twenty three rods thin South Seven degrees East forty rods then South forty six degrees East fifty Eight rods then East twelve degrees South forty two jrods then East three degrees South twenty rods than East ten degrees North 40 rods to where the road was formerly Laid out and now trod Said road is laid four rods wide Also we laid a road Leading from Capt" Kimbol to M' Samuel Karrs we began at a Stake in S* Kimbol land at the Above said road then South ten degrees East thirty two rods then South Six- teen rods then South twelve degrees East forty three rods to -the Old road by Ezekial Wells barn Said road is four rods wide and is Southerly of Said line N° 8 Silas Tenny > Select Hanover Eleazer Porter ) Men March 14*'' 1794 Rec^for Record. Attest Joel Brown T. Clerk Return of a road as Laid out Nov' 20"' 1787 from M'' Jere- miah Trescots to Dartmouth CoUige, Began at a heap of Stones About 30 rods Eastward of M'' Trescots House, and run N 64"^, W 74 rods thence N 50° W 32 rods thence N 39° W 20 rods thence N 29 W. 14 rods thence N- 61° W 24 rods thence N 81° W 14 rods thence N 88° W 32 rods thence S 67° W. 52 rods thence S. 78° W 30 rods to the half mile road thence continued the same course S. 78° W 200 rods thence to the S. E. Corner of the College Green S. 72 W 165 rods said road laid 4 rods wide Benoni Dewey ■) q 1 N° 7 Simon P. Slapp I ^^, ===^ 0-, rr.- [ Men Silas Tinney ■ ) [141] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To George Walton one of the Constables of the town of Hanover Greeting You are hereby required to warn the Inhabitants of this town to meet at the South meeting hous^ in said town TOWN RECORDS 137 on the third day of Novemb"^ next at One of the Clock P. M. then and their to Act on the following articles (Viz) i^ to Chuse a Moderator to Govern said meeting 2^^ to Act on A matter respecting A road leading from Lime Acrofs the N-E.*' corner of Hanover to Canaan ^lUy To hear the report of the Treasurer of this town respect- ing the finances thereof and to raise such sum or sums of Money for defraying town Charges as may then Appear necef- sary ^thiy To Make such provision as shall be thought necefsary for the Incouragement of those men that shall be rais'* Agree- able to Order of Congrefs as their has been Application their- for by a number of respectable Gentlemen of this Town Hereof fail not but make due return hereof According to Law N : B : You will set a warning at Eitch^ meeting house in the back part of the town & on the sign post of Gen" Brewster & at the School house in the mill Neighbourhood Hanover October 20'* 1794 Joseph Curtifs \ Select Eben"^ Brewster >- Men Sam«i Slade ) Hanover Grafton fs Octob' 20*'' 1794 In Obediance to the within warning I have drawn of four true Coppies and have affixed them to the different places directed in the warrent as the Law directs George Walton Costb® The Inhabitants of Hanover Meet According to the above warning 1^* Chose Gen"^' Ebenezer Brewster Moderator 2* Voted to postpone the Second Article respecting a road to this adj'' meeting 3* Voted to raise ^60 .. o.. o .. to be paid Eaqual to Wheat at five Shillings p' bushel to be paid by the first of Jan*' next 4*'' Voted to appoint a Committee to Wait on the Treasurer to Adjust with him All Town Ac* and mak return of their doings at the next Annual Meeting and Chose Samuel Slade Samuel Kendrick Joel Brown for the Abave Committee 138 HANOVER N. H. [142] s"' Voted Whereas by a late act of Congrefs sundry men are to be raised and to hold themselves in readinefs as minute men Agreably to said Act pafsed the ninth day of May 1794 therefore Voted that All those who will turn out Voluntary both Non Commifioned Officers and privates, Sufficient to Compleat the number called for from this town, shall have their poles Exempt from any taxes which may be made on the Inventory to be taken the next Aprill — and be it further Voted that this town will insure that the wages of said men if they are Call** into Service, shall be made up to them Eaquel to forty Shillings p'" month includeing what they may be intitled to receive from the Congrefs of the united States or from this State to be computed from the time of their march and a reasonable time for them to return after their discharge 6*"^ Voted to adjourn this meeting to the Eight day of Dec™ next at this place at One OClock P. M. Attest Joel Brown Town Clerk State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To Delino Wright one of the Constables for the town of Hanover Greeting You are hereby required to warn the inhabitants of this town who are Legal Voters in town meeting to meet at the North meeting house in said Town on monday the Eight day of December next at One of the Clock P. M. to act on the fol- lowing Articles (Viz) i^ to Chuse A Moderator to Govern said Meeting 2* To Give in their Votes by ballot for One of the following perfons (Viz) Abial Foster Esq"^ or Pain Wingate Esq'" to Rep- resent this State in Congrefs of the united States Sir you will set A Copy of the Above at Each of the Meet- ing houfes in said town & at the school house in the Mill dis- trict hereof fail not but make due return According to Law Hanover November 20*^ 1794 Samuel Slade \ Select E. Brewster y Men of Joseph Curtifs ) Hanover TOWN RECORDS 139 State of New Hampshire Grafton fs Hanover Dec™ S*"^ 1794 Att a legal Meeting Sd.rcfi Slade moderator of the inhabi- tants of the Town of Hanover duly notified and held for the purpose of Giveing their Votes for Representative to Congrefs for Said State The following perfon was Voted for by ballot being Counted the Honourable Abial Foster Esq'' had twenty six Votes and no other person was Voted for Samuel Slade ) Select Joel Brown T. Clerk. Joseph Curtifs i Men [143] Hanover Dec™ i.i"' 1794 These Certify that M' Mackey & Blyth of this Town have Licence for retailing wines and Spirituous liquors for the cur- rent year Witnefs Ebenezer Brewster ") Select ^ Sara^i Slade [ Men of Joseph Curtifs 'Hanover \ To belino Wright One of the State of New Hampshire f „ . , , r ^u ^ r tt ^ y Constables of the town of Han- Grafton fs \ /- ^• J over — Greeting — You are hereby required to Notify the Inhabitants of the town of Hanover who are legal Voters in town meeting to meet at the South Meeting House in said town on Tuesday the 10** day of March next at nin O clock A M. to Act on the following Articles (Viz) i^' to Chuse a Moderator to Govern S"* Meeting 2^ to Give in their Votes for a Govener ;f^ to Give in their Votes for A Counsellor and Senator 4*'' to Give in their Votes for a County Treasurer & Reg- ister 5*" to Give in their Votes for One person to Represent this Town in General Court the Year Insueing 6'* to hear any accompts that may be Exhibited and Act there on as Shall be thought proper 7 to Chuse all Necefsary town Officers for the Current year 8"' to Raise Money for Schoolling 140 HANOVER N. H. 9^"* to See what the town will do respecting a road acrofs the Northeast Corner of said Town 10*'' to Raise money for makeing and repairing highways ii"' to Raise money for defraying town Charges if found nesefsary hereoffail not but make due return According to Law and You are to Cause a Copy hereof to be set up at the North & South meeting house at the school house in the mill Neigh- bourhood and at Gen''^ Brewster at the Colledge Hanover Feb^ 13* 1795 Samuel Slad ) o 1 Eben' Brewster >^ ,, Joseph Curtifs ) [144] Hanover March lo*"^ 1795 Pursuiant to the within written Orders I have warned the Inhabitants of this town who are Legal Voters to meet at the time and place within mentioned as the Law directs By me Delino Wright Constable According to the within warning the Inhabitants meet this tenth day of March 1795 I Chose Gen^' Ebenezer Brewster Moderator of S"* meeting 2^ Votes for Govener His Excellency John T. Gilman had 91 3'''i Votes for Councillor the Honour Jonath" Freeman had 73 4"^ Votes for Senater Moses Baker had 53 Jonatha" Freeman Esq'' — had 6 ^th Votes for County Treasurer Bez*' Woodward Esq' had 71 6*^ Votes for County Register Samuel Brooks ^ had 75 Bez^i Woodward — had 4 7* Votes for Representative Chose Rufsel Freeman Esq' 8*" Chose Doc' Joel Brown Town Clerk Sworn g''" Chose Otis Freeman Esq' Town Treasurer Sworn 10*" Select Men Chose Samuel Slade \ Select Joseph Curtifs V- Sworn Ebenezer Brewster - - - ) Men TOWN RECORDS I4I 11*" Chose Augustus Stores Constable Sworn George Walton — Constable 12** Chose Collector of Taxes Andrew Tenney Sworn Richard Lang 13 Surveyers of Highways Chose Thomas Morrifs Sworn Webster Hall Sworn Nath<* Wright Sworn David Hayse Isaac Bridgman. Augustus Stores Sworn Jeduthan Willcox sworn Rufus Graves sworn Joseph Green Sworn Eleaz"^ Porter Sworn Joseph Pineo Sworn. John Wright Jun'' Sworn Rufsel Freeman Sworn John Smith Jun'' Joel Brown Sworn [145] Tything Men 14*'' Chose Benony Dewey Delino Wright Simeon Dewey Sam*^ Kendrick Sworn Fence Viewer 15*'' John Bridgman Jun"^ Sworn Jabez Kellogg Sworn John D. Kingsbury 16*'' Chose Rufus Graves Clerk hay market Sworn i;*'' Sealars of W** and Measures Chose Stephen Benton Sworn Jedehiah Baldwin Sworn 18 Surveyers of Lumber Chose James Murch Sworn Jeduthan Willcox sworn Solomon Jacobs Sworn Hogreeves Chose Ebenezer Woodward. Solomon Jacobs Jun'' Sworn Benj" Tiffeny Jun"^ Sworn Mason Murch sworn John Ketchan Thomas Nevens 3** Nathaniel Ketcham Pound Keepers Chose Ebenezer Brewster Sworn — Solomon Jacobs Sworn Surveyer of Wood Chose Levi Park Sealer of Lather Chose Jeduthan Willcox Sworn Thomas Durkee Sworn Voted to Raise one Hundred pound in Specie for the purpose of schooling the present year to be paid by the first of. FbBJ' next' Voted that the avails of the School lands be approprie- tated at discretion of the Select men 142 HANOVER N. H. Voted that one person be appointed within each School des- trict as a School Committee who with the advice of the Majority of the destrict Contract with a proper person or Perfons to keep a School with in the same and that S** Committee men in the respective districts to which they belond severally be Collectors of that part of the Tax which belongs to their respective districts Voted and Chose as Committee W™ Dewey Con"^ David Curtis Salmon Dow. Shadrick Hill Lemuel Stephens Zadock Brown. Silas Tinney Nath«' Wright Nath*^ West Voted to pafs over the Eleventh article [146] Voted to Chuse A Committee of three to Examine the Ground that is best for a road at the North east Corner of this Town — Chose Samuel Slade Chose Jonath" Freeman Esq"^ Rufsel Freeman Esq'' Voted to Raise One Hundred and iifty pounds to be laid out on highways at four shillings per day Voted to Allow Ebenezer Brewster Accept- £1 ,. 18 .. o Voted to Allow Sam*' Slade ac* as Select man - - 2 .. 5 .. o Voted to Allow Joseph Curtifs ac' as Select man 2 .. 5 .. o Voted to allow Sam^' Kendrick Ac' as Select man 24 day^ at 4/4 p' day .... Voted to Allow Silas Tinney Ac' as Select man for 26 days at 4/4 p"" day . I S ■■ 4" o Voted to Allow Elisha Warner for Service as ) Constable [ o .. 9 .. o State of New Hampshire Grafton fs We the Subscribers Select men of Hanover hereby Certify that we have Licenced M"^ Benjamin Hatch as a Tavener within Said Hanover untill the second tuesday in March next March 10'^ 1795 Joseph Curtifs ") Select Samuel Slade ) men This may Certify that Gen*' Ebenerzr Brewster is licenced as Tavener for the Year Insueing by us Hanover March 12"^ 1795 Joseph Curtifs ) Select Sam^ Slade I Men 4 "} Voted to Allow Otis Freeman Ac' as Selectman for 24 days at 4/4 p'' day . . . . . TOWN RECORDS I43 [147] Grafton fs State of New Hampshire To Augustus Stores one of Constables of the Town of Han- over You are hereby required to warn the Inhabitants of the town of Hanover who are legal Voters in Town meting to meet at the South meeting house in S* town on monday the 22"^ day of this Instant at 3 oClock P. M. to act on the following Arti- cles (Viz) I. to Chuse a Moderator to Govern s* meeting 2* to see if the town will discontinue any roat laid out by the Selectmen of late 3'' to say where the road shall be leading from Capt° Stephen Kimbols by Benj" Tiffeny to Labanon line and to Act on the Above Articles as Shall then be thought proper Hanover June 6"^ 1795 Ebenezer Brewster-) cgig.j Sam'i Slade I ^^^ Joseph Curtis ) Pursuent to the within request I have worrned the Inhabi- tants of this town who are legal Voters in town meeting to meet at the within mentioned time and Place Augustus Stores Conftable Att a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover June 22* 179s I Voted and Chose Rufsel Freeman Esq'' moderator 2^ that the town will appoint a Committee of three Judicious men to look and View the Ground near Capt'' Kimbols and Give their Opinion where the road Ought to be laid leading by Benj" Tiffeny to Labanon line and the Select Men be directed to lay out a road Accordingly 3"^ Voted and Chose Gen*^ Paul Brigham Joseph Skinner Esq'' Joshua Hazon Esq"^ [148] Hanover Sept" 21'' 1795 This May certify that Joseph Miller is Approbated to retail Spiritous liquor the Year Insueing Joseph Curtifs ) Select Samuel Slade ) Men Hanover 22"^ August 1795 This may Certify that we the Subscribers Approbate M' 144 HANOVER N. H. William Dewey as a Suitable perfon for an Innkeeper for the curent Year Joseph Curtis Ebenez"" Brewfter Samuel Slade Application having this day been made to us by Ebenezer Brewster Rufus Graves & Aaron Hutchinfon proprietors for building Bridges Over Connecticut river between the mouth of White river & two miles north of the mouth of mink brook, to View the Ground for laying out A road and A proper Allow- ance for a Butment to accommodate A Bridge they propose Erecting Over S'' Connecticut river near the Ferry lately kep' by Joseph Lewis — have Accordingly Viewed the Ground and are of opinion that they have the free use of the road that is now travelled from the Colledge plain to S'* river for the pur- pose of erecting & useing said Bridge and that they have free liberty to erect A butment in S'' Hanover any where within twenty rods north of the usual place of coming to the river as the road now goes in a way not to hinder the Accefs to the river at or near where the road now goes for any purposes who chuse to Go to the same draw up timber or Any thing ^^'^ ,, Samuel Slade ) Selectmen reb^27-i796 Joseph Curtifs °' ^ Hanover [149] State of New Hampshire ) Grafton fs J To Augustus Stores One of the Conftables of the Town of Hanover Greeting You are hereby required to notify the Inhabitants of the Town of Han- over who are Legal Voters in town meetings to meet at the North meeting House in Said Town on Tuesday the Eight day of March next at nine O clock A. M. to Act on the following Articles (Viz) I. To Chuse A Moderator to Govern Said Meeting 2* To Give in their Votes for Govenour 3"* To Give in their Votes for a Counciller and Senator 4"" To Give in their Votes for A County Treasurer & Reg- ister TOWN RECORDS I45 5* To Give in their Votes for One person to Represent this Town in General court the year Insueing 6 To hear Any Accompts that may be Exhibited and act thereon as shall be thought proper •j^ to chuse all Necefsary town Officers for the Year S"' To raise money for Schooling 9*^ To raise money for makeing and repairing highways lo*^ To raise money for defraying town charges 11"' to Give directions or Act on the matter respecting Woolfsborough Road & the Trescot road so Call'', for the bet- ter Advantage of S* Town — hereof fail not but make return of this warrant with your doings theiron According to Law :— Tis thought best to Cause a Coppy to be Set at the two meeting houfes- at Gen<^ Brew- ster & at the School house in the mill Neibourhood Hanover Feb^ 22'^ 1796 Samuel Slade \ Select Joseph Curtifs >- Men of Ebine"" Brewster 3 Hanover Pursuent to the within request I have Notified the Inhabitants of the Town to meet at the within mentioned time and place Augustus Stores Constable Hanover March 8'-'^ 1796 Att a Legal Town meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover Afsembled I Chose Gen**' Ebenezer Brewster Moderator to Govern S** meeting 2'' Votes for Govener John. T. Gillman Esq' had — 109 3'' Votes for Councillor Jonath" Freeman Esq"^ had 85 4 Votes for Senator Mofes Baker Esq'' had — 83 5 Votes for County register W" Woodward Esq' had- 112 6 Votes for County Treasurer Bez'^' Woodward Esq'' had loi 7*'' Chose Rufsel Freeman Esq'' to Represent the Town of Hanover year Insueing at the General Court 8*" Chose Docf^ Joel Brown Town Clerk. Sworn [150] Chose Samuel Slade \ Select Joseph Curtis - - [- and Sworn to Office David Curtis - - ) Men 146 HANOVER N. H. Chose Otis Freeman Esq'' Town Treasurer Sworn Fire Ward Chose Gen"^ Ebenezer Brewster Sworn Richard Lang Sworn Con<'' David Curtis Sworn David Wright Constable Sworn & Stephen Hopkins Sworn Collector of Taxes Stephen Hopkins Sworn & Perly Buck Sworn Survey'' of Highways Hezekiah. Huntington. Sworn Dyer Wills. Sworn. Luther Ingals. Sworn Isaa Houston. Sworn. Benj" Hatch. Sworn Zenas Colman. Sworn. W™ Dewey. Sworn Jeduthan Willcox. Sworn Chester Ingals. Sworn Jeddediah Baldwin. Sworn Zadock Brown. Sworn Israel Camp Joseph Fellows Mofes Emerson Tythingmen Bez^^ Davis. Samuel Slade. George Foot, sworn Jonath" Curtis Jun' Fence Viewers Humphry Farrer. Sworn Peter Knap Sworn Thomas Durkee Clerk of the Market Maf Rufus Graves. Sworn Seallers of W** and measures Stephen Benton Hog Rieves. Josiah Dunham. Sworn Lemuel Dow Mofes Woodward Hezekiah White Jacob Colby. Isaac Hall. Jeremiah Thomas Sworn John Tinny Jun"; John. W. Chase Corders of Wood and Survey'^ of Lumber Joseph Lee. sworn. James Murch swor Jacob Colby Sworn Pound Keeper^ Gen'^ Ebenez'' Brewster. Sworn Amos Kinney [151] Voted to Raise ;^i2o : o^ : o for the purpose of School- ling Chose (Jonathan Freeman Esq' Joseph Curtis Sam*^ Slade Andrew Huntington Joseph Pineo Luther Ingals John Wood Richard Lang Joseph Fellows.) as a Committee for the Several Destricts and Collector of the same and the Several Comit- tes are to lay out their proportion of money by the direction of the Destrict to which they belong Voted to Raise ;£'i5o — o : o - for Repairing Highways TOWN RECORDS I47 Voted to Adjourn this meeting to the last Tuesday of this Instant March at the Meeting House on Collidge Square at One O clock P. M. ■ — Open* According to Adjournment f Appointed Rufsel Freeman Esq"^ James Murch Dyer Wills as Committee to Audate with the Treasurer Voted to Raise ;^30 : o : o — to defray Town Charges Voted to Allow Elisha Warner Ac' for lofs in meafuring small quantities of Wheat as Collector £o .. 5.. o Voted to Allow Doc"' Joel Brown Ac* for two Years Service in makeing returns of State Officers and Juror men to Court £\ .. \o .. o — Voted to Allow Bela Turner Ac' for drafting Nine writs in 1788. @ 3/.. Each i^-i-7 — o — Voted to Difsolve this meeting State of New Hampshire Grafton, fs We the Subscribers Select Men of Hanover hereby Certify that we have licenced M'' Benjamin Hatch as Tavener within Said Hanover untill the Second tuesday in march next March ii"' 7796 Joseph Curtis ) ^^^^'^\ '^ J f ^-Men of David Curtis j Hanover [152] State of New Hampshire Grafton, fs To David Wright one of the Constables of the Town of Hanover, — Greeting You are hereby required to warn the Inhabitants of Said Town quallified to Vote in Town affairs as the Law directs, to meet at the North meeting house in said Town on the last monday of August Instant at One o Clock, P. M. i^' to chuse a Moderator to Govern s"^ Meeting 2'^ to Give in their Votes for four perfons duly quallified to Represent Said State in Congrefs of the united States 3'' to See if the Town will raise A Suitable sum of money to defray Town Charges ; and make return of this warrant and Your doings thereon to the Select men or Clerk of Said Town on or before Said time of meeting Samuel Slade ^ Select Hanover August. 11* 1796 Joseph Curtifs [ Men of David Curtifs ) Hanover 148 HANOVER N. H. Pursuant to the Above the Inhabitants of said Town are notified and warn"^ to meet at time and place and for the pur- pose Above mentioned Hanover August 13'''' 1796 David Wright Constable According to the Above Warning the Inhabitants of S'^ Town meet and proceeded as Above directed and the following per- sons were Voted for (Viz) Jonathan Freeman. Esq' 41 Jeremiah Smith. — Esq'' — 47 Abial Foster. Esq' 29 W" Gorden Esq' 39 Nath^' Rogers Esq' 26 Rufsel Freeman Esq' i Benj" Bellows Esq' 2 Bez'^^ Woodward Esq' 3 Voted to Raise £4.0 .. o .. o - - to defray Town Charges in addition to what was raisd last March Voted and Allow^ Gen'^' E. Brewsters Ac'' of ^2 .. 2 .. o — o Voted to Allow David Wright Constable for Warning the Above meeting £0 .. 12 .. o True Record Errors Excepted Joel Brown T. Clerk [153] Hanover lo*^ of September 1795 This may Certify that we Approbate Richard Lang of Hanover to sell All Kinds of Spirituous liquor ; Agreeable to the Laws of this State of New Hampshire for the year One thousand seven Hundred & ninety five Joseph Curtis | Select 1795 Samuel Slade ] Men Hanover August 22 Select David Curtis ) Men Grafton fs State of New Hampshire To David Wright One of the Constables of the Town of Hanover Greeting You Are hereby Required in the name of S"* State to warn the Inhabitants of said town who are legal Voters in town TOWN RECORDS 149 Affairs to meet at the North meeting house in said town on the first mondy in Novemb'' next at nine O clock .A. M. to Act on the following Articles (Viz) 1^' To Chuse A Moderator to Govern said meeting 2* To Give in their Votes for Six Perfons for Electtors of President & Vice President of the United States as the Law Directs 3* To Give in their Votes for One of the following Perfons (Viz) Jonathan Freeman Esq'' or Peleg Sprague Esq' to Represent this State in Congrefs of the United States 4"" To Appoint an Agent to prefer a Petition to the General Court to have the Land in Said Hanover Lying East of the Mounting Annex** to Canan or other Town^ as may be Convenient S"' To Allow the Accounts Exhibited Last Anual meeting or Except the report of their Committee theiron Hereof fail not but of this warrant with your doings thereon make return to the Select men or Town Clerk by the Time Above Mentioned Select Men of Hanover [154] Pursuant to the within I have warned the Inhab- itants of said town as the Law directs David Wright Constable Att a Legal meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover on the first Monday of Nov™ 1796 Agreeable to the within Warrant I Chose David Curtis Moderator 2* Gave in their Votes for Electors and the following Perfons were Voted for (Viz) His Excellency John. T. Gillman Esq' 77 Oliver Pebody Esq' . . . 77 Ebenazer Thompson Esq'' . . 77 Timothy Farrer Esq' . . 77 Benj" Bellows Esq' 77 Bez^ Woodward — Esq' 77 Hanover October 20"' 1706 Sam^ Slade • Joseph Curtis David Curtis 150 HANOVER N. H. 3'' Gave in their Vote for a Representative the following Perfons were Voted for (Viz) His Honour Jonath" Freeman Esq'' 71 Peleg Sprague Esq'' 6 ^ih Voted and Chose Jonathan Freeman Esq'' as an Agent to take care of the buisinefs respecting Refering a Petition to the General Court to anex the Land East Mofs mountain to Canan 5"" Appointed Jonathan Freeman Esq'' to Apear as an Agent at the Cour* of Common Pleas to Shew cause why there Shoul* not be a road the North End of Mofs mountain Agreeable to a Petition of the Select men of Canan and act thereon as he shall think proper 6 Voted to Adjourn to the meeting House at the Colledge meet According to Adjournment then Adjourn* to General Brewsters Voted to allow Sam"^ Slades Ac* for services as Select man in the year 1795 £2 .. ig .. 11 Voted to allow Joseph Curtis ac' for Services as Select man for the year 1795 £2 .. 16 .. o Difsolv'' the meeting [155] This may certify that we the Subscribers do Approve of Merfs'' Phelps & Elsworth Selling Spiritus Liquors in the Town of Hanover the Insuing year David Curtis ) Select Hanover Nov'" 7*" 1796 Samuel Slade, I Men for Joseph Curtis ) Hanover This May Certify that we the Subscribers do Licence M"^ John Stone as A Taven Keeper the year Insueing in the Town of Hanover Hanover March 1796 ^^^^^^ ^^^^.^^ ^ Select David Curtifs f Men for } Hanover State of New Hampshire ; Grafton fs To David Wright one of the Constables of the Town of Hanover Greeting You are hereby Required in the name of this State to Warn the Inhabitants of this Town who are Legal Voters in Town Affairs to meet at the North meeting House in Said Town on TOWN RECORDS 151 the second Tuesday of March next, at Nine Oclock. A. M. to Act on the following Particulars (Viz) i^' to Chuse a Moderator to Govern S* Meeting 2^ to Give in their Votes for A Govener 3** to Give in their Votes for A Councillor & Senator 4"^ to Give in their Votes for A County Treasurer & Register S'^'' to Give in their Votes for A Representative to the Gen- eral Court the Insueing Year 6"^ to hear and Allow Any Accounts that shall then be be Exhibited 7'''' to Raise Mony for Schooling S*'' to Raise Money for makeing and Repairing highways 9* to Raise money to defray town Charges- 10** to Appoint A Committee to Settle with the Rev'' M"^ Burroughs — [156] Article ii"" to Chuse All Necefsary town Officers Hereof fail not but make Return of this warrant with Your doings thereon to the Select Men or Town Clerk by the time Above Mentioned Hanover Feb^ 23*. 1797 Samuel Slade ■^ ^ , ^ ' Selectmen / be Joseph Curtis r r „ ■* ^ i of Hanover David Curtis > Hanover State of New Hampshire Grafton fs I have warn"* the Inhabitants According to the within as the Law directs David Wright Constable Att a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of Hanover held March 14*'' 1797 I*' Chose Ebenezer Brewster Moderator 2* Votes for Govener His Excellancy John. T. Gillman Esq'' had 146 3'^'* Votes for Councillor 'His Honor Rufsel Freeman Esq"^ had . . 132 David Houghf .... i Mofes Baker Esqr ... 4 Bezilial Woodward Esq' . . i 152 HANOVER N. H. 128 126 4^^ Votes for Senater Mofes Baker Esqr had Rufsel Freeman Esq'' . S'*" County Treafurer Bez^' Woodward Esq'^ had W" Woodward Esq'' . Charles Johnston Esq'' gth Register for the County W" Woodward Esq'' had Elisha Paine Esq'' [157] 7"' Chose Rufsell Freeman Esq"^ Representative to General Court 8 Appointed a Committee of Rufsel Freeman Esq'' James Murch Dyer Wills to Audate with the former Select Men and Town Treafurer and Report at the next Annual meeting 9'''' Voted to raise ^i 00-0-0 for Schooling and Chose (Dec" Benony Dewey John. D. Kingsbury Amos Kinney Asa Wright Abel Parks Joseph Pineo Abijah Durkee Eleazer Por- ter Lemuel Stevens) as a Committee for the Several Destricts and Collectors of the same and the Several Committee^ are to lay out their proportion of money by the direction of the des- trict to which they belong 10*'' Voted to raise ;^2oo-o-o. for mending and Repairing Highway^ to be laid out at five shillings p" diem and that three quartars of said sum be laid out within the three Summer months following iiOi Voted and Appointed Jonathan Freeman Esq'' Rufsel Freeman Esq'' Samuel Slade a Committee to Wait on the Rev** M'^ Burroughs and see what his demands are against s* Town and Report to the Town at some future meeting Chose Doc"^ Joel Brown Town Clerk Sworn Select Men Chose Samuel Slade Joseph Curtis David Curtis and sworn Town Treasurer Chose Con^^ Otis Freeman Town Treasurer Sworn Constables David Wright Sworn Chester Ingals Sworn TOWN RECORDS 153 Collecters Chester Ingals sworn Webster Hall Surveyers of Highway^ George Foot. Sworn. Samuel Kar. Sworn. Robert Mason sworn Lemuel Dow Jun' Sworn. Augustus Stores sworn Gideon Smith David Dewey. Jonath" Freeman sworn Lemuel Stevens sworn James Murch sworn [158] Tything men Maj"^ Samuel Kendrick. David Hayse. Silas Tinny Josiah Goodrich Fence Viewers John Wood, sworn. David Chandler. Nith"' Hurlbutt Clerk of the Market Jedediah Bawldin Sworn Hog Reif Jaspar Morris Jacob Colby Enoch Blood David Hurlbutt Hezekiah Huntington Perley Buck John Wright Jun"^ Nath" Wright Levi Park Tolford Duram Sworn. Dan*' Chandler Jun"^^ Corder of Wood Joseph Lee Survey^ of Lumber Jacob Colby. George Foot Voted that the Committee who wer Appointed to lease the School Lands have a right to Exchange leafes if they see fit Voted to Allow Con*' Otis Freeman^ Act of £6 .. 4. .. o for four Years Services as Treasurer Voted to Allow David Curtis as Seletman for the Year 1796 . . . . . ;^i .. 5 .. o Voted to Allow Samuel Slade Ac' as Select man for the Year 1796 . . . . j^3 .. 15 .. 6 Voted to Allow Joseph Curtis Ac* as Select man for the year 1796 . . . . ^5 ^ 5 ^ o Voted to Allow Jonathan Freeman Esq' Ac* as on file for Service in 1797 . . ;^2 .. 11 .. o Voted to Allow Doc' Joel Brown Ac* as on file for Service in 1796 .... ;^o .. 18 .. o Voted to Adjourn to the Meeting House on Colledge Square 154 HANOVER N. H. at two O Clock Next thirsday meet According to Adjourn- ment Voted to Difsolve this meeting [159] This may Certify that we the Subscribers Approve of Lieut" Caleb Webster as A Suitable perfon for retailing of Spirituos Liquors Hanover March s** 1797 Samuel Slade ) Joseph Curtis { > Hanover Hanover March 14*'' 1797 We the Subscribers do Approbate Lieut" Caleb Webster as Tavener for the Year Insueing Sam- Slade ^ g^,^^^ Joseph Curtis V ^^^ David Curtis > State of New Hampshire Grafton fs We the Subscribers Select men of Hanover hereby Certify that we have Licenced M'' Benjamin Hatch as A Tavener within Said Town untill the second Tuesday in March Next March 14"' 1797 Joseph Curtis | Select Samuel Slade ) men Grafton fs State of New Hampshire To David Wright One of the Constables of the Town of Hanover you are hereby Directed in the name of s"* State to Warn the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover who are Legal Voters in Town meetings to meet at the North Meeting House in s'' Town on Friday the 23'' of June instant at 2 O Clock P. M. to Act on the following particulors (Viz) 1 to Chuse a Moderator to Govern s'* Meeting 2'^ to hear a Petition laid in to the Select men by Joshua Cushman for the Support of M'^ Seth Allen and his Wife and Act thereon as the Town Shall think proper 3'! to see what method the Town will Adopt, for the support of M'' Asa Hill for past and future support and act any thing theron as the Town shall think proper 4^*" to rais money to defray town Charges 5*^ to See if the Town will take Any meafures to Dispose of TOWN RECORDS l55 the Old Meeting House at the South end of the Green and say what way the Avails shall be dispos'' of Here of fail not but mak due return of this warrant with your doing theron at or before the time Above mentioned Hanover June 8*^ A D 1797 Samuel Slade ) Select Joseph Curtis i Men [160] Hanover June 23"* 1797 Agreeable to the within I have Notified S'^ Inhabitants to meet at the S"* time and place David Wright Constable June 23"^ 1797 mett Agreeable to the within I Chose Samuel Slade Moderator 2* Voted to dismifs the Second and third Articles 3* Voted to Raise ;^3o .. o .. o to defray town Charges » 4*'*' Voted that this Town Appoint- A Committee to make Inquiry into the property in the Old meeting House at the South end of the Green and if found to be the Towns to dis- pose of the Same Voted to Appoint A Committee to Dispose of the Old Meet- ing House Chose Otis Freeman Samuel Slade Peter Knap Samuel Kendrick Silas Tinny and that Said Committee be Directed to lay out the Avails that is found to be the Towns property in fencing the Burying Yard State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To David Wright, one of the Constables for the Town of Hanover Greeting You are hereby Required in the Name of S'' State to Warn the Inhabitants of S'^ Town who are Legal Voters in Town meeting to meet at the North meeting House in S'' Town on the last monday in August Instant at two of the Clock. >P. M. then and ther to Act on the following Arti- cles (Viz) 1 to Chuse A Moderator to Govern S* meeting 2* to Give in their Votes for One perfon duly Quallified to Represent this State in Congrefs of the United States 3'* to Give in their Votes for Ont perfon to Represent this Town in the General Court as the town is now destitute ; Here- 156 HANOVER N. H. of fail not but make Return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Select men or Clerk by the time Aforesaid Hanover August ii"" 1797 Samuel Slade \ ggj^^.^ Joseph Curtis V- ^^^ David Curtis ) This e Certify that I have notified the Inhabitants of Said town According to Law Attet David Wright Constable [161] Meet According to the foregoing Warning i"* Chose Sam''' Slade Moderator 2'^ Votes for Representative to Congrefs Peleg Sprague Esq'' had N° 12 Timothy Farrer Esq' had N° 28 3* Chose Samuel Slade Reprefentative to the General Court State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To David Wright one of the Constables of the Town of Hanover Greeting you are hereby required in the name of S'^ State to Warn the Inhabitants of S'^ Town quallified as the Law directs to meet at the North meeting House in S'^ Town on the last Monday of Octob'' Instant at One of the Clock P. M. to Act on the following Articles (Viz) Article i^' to Chuse a Moderator to Govern S"* meeting 2* to Give in their Vote for Peleg Sprague Esq"^ or Woodbury Langdon Esq'' to represent this State in the Congrefs of the United States 3'' to hear the Report of the Select men on Account of the Support of M'' Seth Allen and his Wife and Act thereon as the Town Shall. See proper when mett Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Select men or Town Clerk by the time Aforesaid Hanover Octob'' 9*" 1797 Samuel Slade) „ , Joseph Curtis I ^^^ David Curtis ) I have Warn* the Inhabitants of Hanover to meet at the within time and place David Wright Constable TOWN RECORDS l57 Octob'' 30*'' 1797 meet agreeable to the above i^* Voted and Chose "Bez^ Woodward Esq"^ Moderator 2"^ Votes for Representative to Congrefs Peleg Sprague Esq"" had 91 [162] Lieu t"^ Caleb Webster is Recommended' as a Suit- able perfon to retail Spiritus liquor Hanover Feb^ 9*^ 1798 David Curtis ) Select Samuel Slade I Men State of New Hampshire Grafton fs^ To David Wright One of the Constables for the Town of Hanover Greeting you are hereby Required in the Name of S* State to Warn the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover who are Legal Voters in Town Affairs to meet at the New Meeting House in S* Town on the Second Tuesday of March Next at Nine O'clock. A. M. then & there to Act on the following Articles (Viz) First to Chuse a Moderator to Govern S'* Meeting 2* To Give in their Votes for all State & County Officers as the Law Directs 2^ To Give in their Votes for One person to Represent this Town in the Court the Year insueing 4*'' to hear & Allow all Accounts that may then be Exhibited 5** To Chuse All Necefsary Town Officers for the Year Insu- ing 6*'' To Raise money for the purpose of Schooling •j^ to Raise money for makeing & Repairing Highways S"" to Raise money for Defraying town Charges 9*" To Appoint A House of Correction & A Mafter 10"' To Discontinue any Road they may think best Hereof fail not but mak return of this warrant with your Doing thereon to the Clerk or Select men by the time afore- said Hanover Feb^ 7* 1798 Sam'i Slade ) ^^^^'^^ T I, <- t- r Men of Joseph Curtis ( ) Hanover 158 HANOVER N. H. Hanover March 12*'' 1798 Agreeable to the within the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover" are warned to meet at time and place as the Law Directs David Wright Constable [163] March 13*'' 1798 Agreeable to the foregoing Warn- ing the Inhabitants mett & First Chose Rufsel Freeman Esq"^ Moderator 2* Chose Doc' Joel Brown T. Clerk Sworn 3* Votes for Govener John T. Gillman Esq"^ had. 120. Votes Oliver Pebody Esq' .... had 3. Votes 4*'' Votes for Councillor Rufsell Freeman Esq' had 115 ^tii Votes for Senator David Hough Esq' had 109 Votes 6"^ Votes for County Treasurer Bez^^ Woodward Esq' had 106. Votes yth Votes for Register Bez^ Woodward Esq' had. 2 Votes William Woodward Esq' had 83 Votes Eiisha Paine Esq' had — 31 Votes Rufus Graves Esq' had i. Vote S'*' Chose Sam*^ Slade Representative to the General Court 9*** Chose Sam^^ Slade. Joseph Curtis David Curtis Select for the year Insueing all sworn lo*'' Chose Otis Freeman Esq' Town Treafurer Sworn ii"" Chose Augustus Stores Constable Sworn and Chester Ingals Sworn by R. Graves Esq' 12 Chos James Murch Collect' Sworn Burny Tisdal Sworn by Bezelial Woodward Esq' 13"' Chose Highway Surveyers Gideon Smith Joseph Bridgman Eiisha Warner Sworn Oliver Blue* Ithemer Hall Jonathan Durkee John Smith Enoch Blood Elijah Smith Rufus Graves Sworn Joseph Lee 4'" Tytheing men Chose Samuel M. Clure. Henry Chandler Delino Wright. Sworn. Samuel Wright *Or possibly Bliss — Editors. TOWN RECORDS 159 i^^ Fence Viewer Peter Knap Sworn. David Chandler Lem*^ Dow Aaron Kinsnlan 16** Clerk of the Market Maj'' Rufus Graves Esq"^ Sworn i[164] 17 Chose Jeduthan Willcox Selar of Leather 18 Chose Stephen Benton Selar of W** and Meafures ig*"* Hog Reeves Isaac Houston Benjamin True Sworn Willard Bugbee Nath«i Tole Timothy Blood Jn' Jonathan Durkee Ithemer Hall Heman Pomroy Sworn Daniel Dodge 20 Corders of Wood. Elias Weld. Survey"^^ of Lumber Joseph Lee James Murch Fire Ward. Rufus Graves Sworn Bez^ Woodward Sworn Richard Lang Sworn and have the same previliges as Voted in March 12. 1793 Benjamin Miller Pound keeper Sworn Voted to Raise ;£'6o to Defray Town Charges Voted to Raise ;£'2oo. for Highways at 4/ .. p'' day Voted to Raise .^loo. for Schooling and Chose Elisha War- ner. Thomas Whipple Joseph Ketcham Jun'^' David Chandler Elias Weld John Wood. David Tinny Elijah Smith as Commit- tee and Collect" for the Several Destricts and are to lay out their proportion of S** money by the Direction of the Destrict to which they belong Appointed James Murch^ House of Correction and the S* Murch mafter of the Same Voted that the Owners (of the Land on the road Leading to the Rope Ferry) have liberty to Erect A Gate for One Year at their Own Expence Voted to Allow the following Ac' (Viz) Voted to Allow Daniel Allen Ac' for Keeping Seth Allen & Wife ^12 — 0—0 C^by Perly Buk . . 0.. 18 .. o Voted to Allow James Murch Ac' for Keeping > Asa Hill 17 week at 8/ p'' Week . . ) . . ;£'6 : 16 : o °} l6o HANOVER N. H. • Voted to Allow Sam^' Slade Ac* as Select man for the Year 1797 . . . . . ) £2 : 10 ; Voted to Allow Joseph Curtis Ac' as Select ) man for the year 1797 . . . . ) 3 : 10 [165] Voted to Allow David Curtis Ac* as Select man for the year 1797 . . . . £3-10 Voted to Allow Otis Freeman Ac* for Servic as Treafurer for the year 1797. i : 16 Voted to Allow Joel Brown Ac* for Servic as Town Clerk for 1797 . . . . . o : 18 ; Voted to Allow David "Wright Ac* for Service" as Constable for warning Town officers to take their Oths and Warning five Town meetings at ' i . 10 . o Six Shilling Each J Hanover March 13*'' 1798 This may Certify that we the Subscribers do Approve of M^' Benjamin Hatch as a Taven Keeper the year insueing David Curtis ) Joseph Curtis i J Hanover This May certify that we the Subscribers do Approve of Decon Benoni Dewey as a Tavern Keeper the year Insueing Hanover May 15*"^ 1798 David Curtis -Sam*'^ Slade Joseph Curtis Select men of Hanover Hanover Sept" 15*'' 1798 This Certifies that, we Approve of Levi Parks as being a Suitable person for retailing foreign distilled Spirits and Wines at his store in Hanover in the Vicinity of Dartmouth Colledge Samuel Slade ^ g^,^^^ Joseph Curtis > i^ . , { men David Curtis ) [166] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To Augustus Stores one of the Constables for the Town of Hanover Greeting You are hereby required in the name of S"^ State to warn the Inhabitants of s" Town who are legal Voters in Town Affairs TOWN RECORDS l6l to meet at. the North meeting house in s*^ Town on the last Monday in August Instant at two O Clock. P. M. to Act on the following articles (Viz) i^' to Chuse a moderator to Govern s* Meeting 2* To Give in their Votes by ballot, for four perfons qualli- fied as the Law directs to represent this State in the Coiigrefs of the United State 3'' To see if the Town will direct the Selectmen to lay out a road from Lime to Canaan Acrof the North east Corner of this Town . Hereof fail not but make return of this Warrant with your doing thereon to the Selectmen or Clerk by the time Above mentioned Hanover August 9* 1798 Samuel Slade ) Selectmen Joseph Curtis C ) Hanover Agreeable to the Within requifition I have Warned the Inhabitants of this Town to meet at the within mentioned time and Place Augustus Stores. T Constable Agreeable to the above warning the Inhabitants present Proceeded and Voted for the the following Perfons Abial Foster Esq' had 81 W" Gordon Esq' 81 Jonathan P'reeman Esq' Peleg Sprague Esq' Rufsel. Freeman Esq' James Sheaf Esq' . 79 81 I I [167] Chose James Murch. and Samuel Kendrick as Com- mittee to afsist the Selectmen in the affair of the Road at the North east Corner of this Town This may Certify that we the subscribers do approve of M' Richard Lang, as A Suitable Person to retale Spiritus liquor the Year Ensueing at his store on the Colledge Squair in the Town of Hanover Hanover Sept™ 29 1798 Samuel Slade \ Selectmen Joseph Curtis >- for David Curtis ) Hanover l62 HANOVER N. H. This may Certify that we the Subscribers do Approve of M"' Eben'' Woodward as being A Suitable Person to retail Spiritus liquor the Year Ensueing at his house near the CoUedge plain Hanover Sept- 24*" 1798 j^geph Curtis ) ^^|^^^J^ David Curtis [ ) Hanover This may Certify that we the Subscribers do Approve of Joseph Curtis 2'^ as A Suitable person to retail Spiritus Liquors the Year Ensueing at his store on the Colledge Green in the Town of Hanover the year insueing Hanover Sept™ 29**" 1798 Samuel Slade \ Select Men Joseph Curtifs >• for David Curtis ) Hanover [168] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To Chester Ingals one of the constables for the Town of Hanover Greeting You are hereby required in the name of Said State to Warn the Inhabitants of s'* Town Quallified to Vote in Town Affairs According to Law to meet at the North meeting house in Hanover on monday the thirty first of this month at One O Clock on s'* day then and there i^' to Chuse a moderator to Govern said meeting 2* to see if the Town will Chuse a Committee to Carry on the Action Against Daniel & Eleazer Hill, for the support of thir Father Asa Hill or do or act as the Town shall see fit, when met 3* to see if the Town will Grant A sum of money to pay Town Charges with and Order the same made into a tax forthwith Here of fail not but make return of this Warrant With your doings thereon According to Law Hanover Deo" 16* 1798 David Curtis ) Select Joseph Curtis C "^^" °^ ) Hanover Grafton fs Hanover Dec™ 19"^ 1798 In Obediance to the within warrant I have Copied of three TOWN RECORDS 163 Copies of the within warrant and have set them up in their usual places as the Law directs Chester Ingals Constable Met Agreeable to the within i^* Chose Con^i David Curtis moderator 2 'I "Voted to Approve of What, the Selectmen have done in profecuting Eleazer and Daniel Hill and request s'' Selectmen to proceed Acording to their discretions in a final settlement, for past, and future Support of Asa Hill 3* Voted and Chofe Samuel Slade David Curtis and Joseph Curtis Agents to prosecute the suit in behalf of the Inhab- itants of Hanover Against Eleazer and Daniel Hill for the Support of their Father if necefsary [169] Hanover 12"^ Mar. 1799 We the Subscribers Approve of M'' Heman Pomroy as a suitable person to retail spiritous Liquors at his store in Han- over for the year ensueing Sami Slade -\ Joseph Curtis r Select men David Curtis 3 The Subscribers Select men of the Town of Hanover recom- mend Liu* Caleb Webster of s'* Hanover as A Suitable perfon ' to retail Spiritus liquors in s* Town Hanover March 26 1799 ^ u r^ ,.■ '\ Select '^^ Joseph Curtis ) Sam*^ Kendrick I men of Hanover Hanover March 12'^'' 1799 We the Subscribers Approve of M"^ Oliver Hatch as a Suit- able perfon to retail spiritous. at his Store in Hanover for the Year ensueing Same' Slade ^^^^^^ Joseph Curtis V ^^^ David Curtis 3 [170] Grafton fs ] State of New Hampshire ) To Augustus Stores one of the Con- stables for the Town of Hanover Greeting You are hereby required in the name of said State to warn the Inhabitants of said Town Quallified to Vote in Town Affairs According to Law, to meet at the North meeting house in s** Town on the 164 HANOVER N. H. Second Tuesday of March next at nine O Clock in the morn- ing then and there I to Chuse a moderator to Govern Said Meeting 2'* to Give in their Votes forGovener Councillor and Senator County Treafurer and Register 3"* to Chuse some person to represent the Town in the Gen- eral Court the Year Insueing 4"^ to Hear and Allow all accompt Against said Town that shall be Exhibited 5** to Chuse all Necefsary town Officers for the Year Infuing 6"^ to hear the Statement made by the selectmen Refpecting the past and future support of M' Afa Hill or do or act as the Town shall see fit when met 7* to se if the Town will make any alteration or Regulation in school Destricts in said Town 8"^ to see if the Town will raise a suitable sum of money to make and Repair Highways the Year Infueing 9"^ to see if the Town will raise a suitable sum of money for supporting schools in said Town the Year Infueing 10"^ to See if the Town will raise a suitable sum of money to defray Town Charges 1 1''' to see if the Town will discontinue any Roads in said Town ; Hereof fail not but mak return of this warrant with your doings there on According to Law Hanover Feby 2i^'' 1799 Samuel Slade-\ Selectmen Joseph Curtis [- of David Curtis ' Hanover [171] Agreable to the within requisition I have Warned the Inhabitants of this Town Quallified to Vote in Town affairs according to Law to meet at the Within mentioned time & place Augustus Stores Constable Meet Agreeable to the Above Warrant. I Chose Ebenezer Brewster Moderator to Govern s'' meet- ing 2'! Chose Doc'' Joel Brown Town Clerk. Sworn TOWN RECORDS 1 65 Votes for Govener The Hon'' John T. Gilltnan Esq'' had 96 Votes for Councillors Rufsel Freeman Esq'' had . . . . 81 Charles Johnson Esq"^ had .... 2 Rufus Graves Esq"^ had . . . ... i Votes for Senator Mofes Baker Esq'' had 71 Rufus Graves Esq'' had . . . . . 18 Charles Johnson Esq"^ had .... 4 John Fairfield Esq"^ had 5 "Voles for County Treasurer Charles Johnson Esq'' had. 67 Bez'=^ Woodward Esq'' — had .... 5 W" Woodward Esq'' had ... . 2 Votes for County Register W" Woodward Esq'' had. 79 Samuel Brooks Esq"^ had. 1 1 Benj" J. Gilbert Esq"^ had i Voted and Chose Samuel Slade to Represent this Town in General Court the Insueing Year Voted to Accept the Book (Viz) (the Laws of the United States) of Capt" Samuel Slade to be lodged in the Town Clerk Office for the use and benifit of the Town [172] Voted and Chose Joseph Curtis. Ebenezer Brewster. Samuel Kendrick Select Men and Sworn Voted and Chose Otis Freeman Esq' Town Treasurer Sworn Voted and Chose Ralph. W. Goold Jonathan Durkee Sworn as Constables Voted and Chose Barney Tisdal Collector of Taxes Sworn Fire Wards Richard Lang Sworn Rufus Graves Sworn Jonathan Willcox Swor Survey er of Highways Joseph Heaton Sworn. Alexander Campbell. Sworn. Andrew Tinny Sworn Lemuel Stephens Sworn Joseph Ketcham Jun'' Gideon Smith l66 HANOVER N. H. Chester Ingals Sworn David Dewey sworn Sanford Dow sworn. Richard Foster Tything Men Capt° Samuel M Clure. Nath"' West Sworn Samuel Wright. Sworn .... Fence Viewers Otis Freeman Esq"^ Sworn George Foot Sworn James Murch Sworn Clerk of the Market Jedediah Baldwin Sworn Selar of Leather Chose Stephen Kimbol. W™ Lomis Chose Jedediah Baldwin. Sealer of W* & Meafures Sworn Chose Ebenezer Knowlton Corder of Wood Chose James Murch and Joel Huntington Survey' Lumber Sworn Hog Reeves Chose Stephen Kimbol. Sworn. Isaac Slade Sworn Lemuel Dow Jun' Sworn. Joseph Smith. Sworn Alexander Phelps Luther Lane sworn Stephen Burroughs Sworn [173] Voted to Chuse a Committee to Regulate School Destricts. Chose Samuel Kendrick Samuel Slade Barney Tisdal Joseph Pineo. Binony Dewey Elisha Warner Joseph Curtis John Wood Nathaniel West and report at a future meeting Voted not to Discontinue Any road in this Town Voted to Adjourn this meeting for One fortnit to be held at this place at One O Clock P. M. • Mett According to Adjournment and Chose Benjamin Miller pound Keeper Sworn Chose Con^ Aaron Kinsman. Master of the house of Correc- tion and that his house or one in that Vicinity is appointed as a Work house Voted that the Selectmen be requested to make nesefsary Inquirey whether it wou'^ be legal to have two pounds Erected in One Town if so that they build One in that part of the Town call'' the Colledge district TOWN RECORDS 167 Voted to Raise ;^2oo for makeing mending and Repairing highway^ at four shillings p' diem Voted to Raise ;^4S to be Approprietated on the road at the North end of Moos mountain Including the sum laid out last fall, to be under the direction of the Selectmen to be paid in Labour at four shillings p"^ day reconing Eight hours for days work to be paid by the first day of July next Other- ways to be paid in money and Chose James Murch Surveyer for the Above purpose Sworn Voted to raise ;£'ioo for schooling the Year Insueing Chose Elisha Warner sworn Nath^^ Hurlbutt^ sworn Sworn As Jonathan Huntoon sworn Barney Tisdal Sworn . School John Bridgman sworn Lauden Smith f Committee Lemuel Stephens. Levi Parks Nath° Wright and Coll"^ sworn Voted to Raise ^.100. to defray Town Charges [174] Voted that there be A Committee of three Appointed to Examine the Ace* Exhibited Against the Town of Hanover and Report their Opinion thereon at some future meeting Voted and Chose Mifs'^^ Rufsell Freeman Esq'' Benf J. Gil- bert Esq'' and George Foot for the Committee Afloresaid Voted to Accept of the report of s'' Committee as far as it elates to the following Ac' Cent Voted to Allow Daniel Allen Ac' P6. 67 and Joseph Curtis Ac' ;^S:iS . 19 . 17 Samuel Slade Ac' . 3: 8 II 34 David Curtis Ac' . . 3: 1:6 10 . 25 Otis Freeman Ac' I : 16 6 . Joel Brown Ac' : 18 3 ■ Chester Ingals Ac' 0:15 2 . SO Stephen Hopkins Ac' : 18 3 • Nathan Cole Ac' . . : 12 2 . . Augustus Stores Ac' 0.. 12 "~ 2 . . James Murch Ac' 1:14:6 S • 75 Hanover March 12"' 1 799 This may Certify that we the Subscrit )ers Selectmen of Han- I08 HANOVER N. H. # over licence Gfen'^' Ebenezer Brewster as Inkeeper within S'^ Town untill the second Tuesday of march next Joseph Curtis / Sam*' Kendrick C ) Hanover We the Subscribers Selectmen of Hanover hereby Certify that we have Licenced M'' Benjamin Hatch as A Tavener within S^' Hanover untill the 2'' Tuesday in March next March 12* 1700 , . r- .• 1 Select ' ^^ Joseph Curtis ( Eben'' Brewster ( J Hanover Hanover March 29"^ 1799 This may Certify that we the Subscribers Licence Josiah Goodrich Inkeeper for the Year Insueing Sam«*' Kendrick % g^j^^^ Joseph Curtis ^ -^^^ Ebe' Brewster ) Hanover 29"" 1799 This may Certify that we the Subscribers Licence Benony Dewey Inkeeper for the Year Insueing Select Sam*' Kendrick nien Joseph Curtis y for the Eben'' Brewster Town of Hanover [175] This may certify that, we the Subscribers Selectmen for the Town of Hanover do Approve of M'' Samuel Alden as a Suitable Person to retale Wines & Distilled Spirits for the Year ensueing at the Store lately Occupied by Col. Rufus Graves in y* Vicinity of Dartmouth Colledge Hanover August 21^' '799 Joseph Curtis ) Selectmen Ebe" Brewster [ ^°^ ) Hanover These Certify that we the Subscribers Approve of Levi Parks Selling Wines and Spiritous Liquors in Hanover- near Dartmouth Colledge i„„o^>, n„^^■,^ 1 Select men of Hanover Joseph Curtis ) ' Ebe" Brewster i TOWN RECORDS 1 69 Hanover Sepl™ 24"^ i799 These Certify that we the Subscribers Approve of M'' Rich- ard Lang Selling Wines and Spiritous Liquors at his Store in hanover ^ u /^ ^- "4 Sfelect Joseph Curtis / Ebenez"^ Brewster C ) of Hanover Hanover October 4'''' 1799 These Certify that, we the Subscribers Approve of Con'^^ David Curtis selling Wines and Spirituos Liquors at his Store in the Vicinity of Dartmouth CoUedge Joseph Curtis { Eben' Brewster \ ' of Hanover [176] Grafton fs State of New Hampshire To R. Wate Goold one of Constables for the town of Hanover Greeting You are hereby required in the name of Said State to Warn the Inhabitants of Said Town who are Legal Voters in town Affairs to meet. at. the North meeting house in s'' Town at One of the Clock. P. M. on monday the Eighteenth day of November next for the purpose of Voting by ballot for One person duly quallified for a Representative of this State in y" Congrefs of the United States to hold his place as such untill the fourth day pf March, One thousand Eight hundred &One Hereof fail not but make return of this Warrant with Your Doing thereon to the Selectmen or Clerk of S" Town by the time of S* meeting Given under Our hands and Seal this 30"* day of October 1799 Joseph Curtis ) Ebe" Brewster ( ) of Hanover State of New hampshire Grafton fs Hanover November 1^^ 1799 Pursueant to the Above precept I have Warned the Inhab- itants of S* Hanover to meet, at the north meeting house in S'' Hanover on the Eighteenth day of Nov'" at One of the Clock 170 HANOVER N. H. P. M Instant for the purpose in S*^ precept mentioned by post- ing up this day three Attested copy= One at the Colledge One at Each meeting house out in Town as the Law Directs R. W. Goold Constable Meet Agreeable to the Above precept and Chose i^* Joseph Curtis Moderator 2* Voted by ballot for a Representative of this State in the Congrefs of the united States and The Honourable James Sheaf Esq'' had — 62 Votes Hanover Nov' 16*'' 1799 We the Subscribers Selectmen of Hanover hereby Approve Hezekiah Huntington liveing at the North westerly part of Said Hanover to retail Spiritous liquors for One Year from this date Eben' Brewster ) Select Sam*^ Kendrick ) men [177] These Certify that we the Subscribers have Licenced M' James Houston Jun' as a Tavener the present Year Hanover August 20* 1799 -, h C t' ) ^^'^'^'^ Eben'' Brewster [ ) Hanover Advertisement^ Hanover Dec™ 28** 1799 Taken up by the Subscriber two stray Heifers some time in this month One of them of A Dun coulour star in forhead both ears Cropt. oif, the other a red, white face one Ear cut or Cropt. off. Supposed to be One Year Old, the Owner is Desired to prove property pay Charges and take them away. George Foot Hanover Jan'' 25"' 1800 These Certify that, we the subscribers Approve of Abijah Durkee of this Town Selling spirituos liquors the Year Insueing Joseph Curtifs > Select Eben'' Brewster ) men [178] State of New hampshire Grafton fs. ) ) To Jonathan Durkee of Hanover in said County One of the Constables of Said Hanover Greeting You are hereby required in the name of the State of New TOWN RECORDS 17I Hampshire to warn the Inhabitants in said Town who are legal voters in town Affairs to meet at the south meeting house in said Town on the Second Tuesday in March next at nine O clock in the morning for the purpose 1** to Chuse a Moderator to Govern said meeting and also to Chuse a Town Clerk- 2^ to Give in their Votes for a Govener Councillor. Senator County TreaP and Register 3'' to Chuse One person to represent the Town in the Gen- eral Court 4"^ to hear and Allow Accounts that may be exhibited Against Said Town S*"" to Appoint all necefsary Town Officers 6*'' to take the Sense of the quallified Voters on the subject of a Revision of the Constitution 7"* to hear the memorial of the Proprietors of White river falls bridge and Act thereon 8** to See if the freeholders and Inhabitants of Said Town of Hanover will Adopt ^n Act of the Legislature intitled an Act to regulate the proceedings for Extinguishing fires that may be accidentally or otherwise kindled Among buildings : to prevent the keeping fires in unsuitable houses and places : to preserve Goods indangered by such fires and to remove or demolish buildings Judged to be danger- ous to the public safety Also an Act in addition to and altering the aforesaid Act — the first of which Said act pafsed Aprill 6*" 1781 and the Second pafsed June 17"' 1794 gUi to see if the Inhabitants will Adopt any meafures respect- ing the maintenance of the poor of Said Town Other than such as are provided by law 10*'' to hear the report of a Committee heretofore Appointed to Settle with the Rev"" M'^ Burroughs and Act thereon as said Inhabitants shall Judge proper 1 1"^ to Raise Monies for the Support of Schools 12*'' to raise Money for repairing of highways 13*11 to raise Money to defray Town charges 172 HANOVER N. H. [179] 14"' to see if the Town will raise and Appropriate money to pay the Odds betwixt land of Solomon Jacobs which were exchanged by Said Jacobs with the town of Hanover for a Millatary parade and land Given to said Jacobs by said town in exchange And You the said Constable are to put up three Attested Copy^ of the Above Warrant one at Gen' Eben'' Brewster sign post and One on each of the tw meeting houfes in the Middle of said town According to Law Here of fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Select men of said Town of Han- over or to the Clerk of sad town at or before Said Second Tuesday of March next Given under our hands and Seal at Hanover Afore said the twenty fourth day of Feb'' Anno Domini 1800 Joseph Curtis ) Select Ebe" Brewster ^ Men of Sam*' Kendrick ' Said Hanover Meet Agreeable to the Above and Chose Rufsel Freeman Esq'' Moderator 2'' Chose Joel Brown. Town Clerk Sworn S"* Votes for Govener The Honour" John. T. Gillman E' had. 145 4* Votes for Councillor ine Jtionour" Kuisel ireeman tL sq' had 113 David Hough Esq"' . had 17 5"' Votes for Senator David Hough Esq' . had 113 Samuel Slade . had 2 Charles Johnston I 6^^ Votes for County Treasurer Charles Johnson Esq'' . . had 1 12 7*'' Votes for County Register William Woodward Esq' . . had . 85 Samuel Brooks Esq' ..... 25 Elisha Payn Esq' 3 8 Votes for Representative Benj" J. Gilbert Esq' Appointed to represent this Town in General Court the Year ensueing TOWN RECORDS 173 9"^ Chose Dyer Willis Town Treasurer Sworn [180] 10*" Chose Jonathan Durkee and Phineas Goold Constables and both Sworn to Office 11'" Chose Barny Tisdal Collect"" of Taxes Surveyer of Highway' Chose John Tinny Jn"^ Sworn Nath*^ West Sworn William Dewey Sworn Joseph Curtis Sworn John Bridgman Sworn Lem^' Stephens Sworn Nathan Cobb. Sworn. Isaac Houston Sworn Elijah Smith. Sworn. Benj" Smith Gideon Smith Tything Men Daniel Dodge Samuel Kendrick Sworn George Joot Sworn. Delino Wright. Sworn Select Men Chose Samuel Slade Richard Lang, and John Durkee all Sworn to Office Fence Viewers Chose Peter Knap sworn Elisha Warner sworn George Foot sworn Clerk of the Market Chose Jedediah Baldwin Surveyer* of Lumber Chose James Murch. Sworn Joseph Lee Hogg. Rief Chose Webster Hall Sworn Asa Bridgman Sworn. Nath"^ Heaton Jun"" Ebenezer Scribner. Sworn. Eben' Knowlton. Nathan Kendrick Chose Benj" Millar Pound Keeper Votes for A Revision of the Constitution. 100 Voted Samuel Slade. Rufsell. Freeman James Murch Dyer Willis. Barney Tisdal as A Committee to treat with the Memo- rilist Vote and Chose John Durkee in Addition to A former Com- mittee to confer with m' Burroughs on Ac* Voted to Adjourn this meeting to the third tuesday of this instant at the north meeting house at One O clock P. M. [181] Voted to Raise three Hundred and thirty three dol- lars and thirty four cents !J333 .. 34 Ct for the use of Schooling in S* town and the following Perfons are appointed Commit- tee and Collectors in their several destricts and are to lay out 174 HANOVER N. H. their several proportion of Said money by the direction of the destrict to which they belong Chose Jeduthan Willcox Edward Smith Jun'' Andrew. Tinny. David Wright. David Eaton Peter Knap Eli Hurlbutt. Daniel Dodge Goram Lane Richard Foster for the Above Committee Voted that James Murch continue as Survey"^ and Collect"^ ' and to Lay out the remainder of the money in his hands (as Survey') on the road at the north end of moos mountain and on the Triscot road so call'' Between Enoch Blood and Dart- mouth Colledge Voted to raise $666. and 68 Ct to be laid out in makeing and repairing highway, at 67°' p' day and other things in pro- portion Voted to Raise $300 to defray Town Charges Voted to pay Capt" Jacobs $10 as Odds between Land Voted to Allow the following Accounts Agreeable to the report of Committee as on file Aron Hutchingson Esq'' Amounting to Joseph Curtis Amounting to Samuel Kendrick' Ebenez' Brewster Esq' Doc' Joel Brown Daniel Allen .... Joel Brown .... Voted to Accept the report of the Committee on School Destricts as on file [182] Voted that the Select Men of Said town of Hanover be requested to confer with the Rev** Eden Burroughs in respect to his demand which he has Against the town of Hanover and in respect to Any and All demands which said town has Against the Said Rev'* Eden Burroughs and that Said Select men be empowered to Agree with the Said R.'' Eden Burroughs on A Submifsion of the Said Rev"* Eden Burroughs demand and the demand which said town have Against Said Burroughs, to Judicious men by rule of Court or by Arbitration and if nes- efsary in the minds of Said Select men they be empowered to Dollars Cents to $31 • 49 19 ■ 5° 14 • 17 6 ■ 25 3 . 86 • 67 8 . 8 TOWN RECORDS 1 75 bring An Action in the name of Said town Against Said Eden Burroughs for damages Accrued to Said town in consequence of Said Burroughs neglect or non fulfillment of his engagements and that the Said town of Hanover will ratify the doings of Said Select Men Voted that Benj" J. Gilbert and Rufsel Freeman Esqiiires be Appointed to council and Advise with the Selectmen on the Subjects Above mentioned Hanover March 28. — 1800 these may Certify that in Our Opinion Lieut" Caleb Webster of Said Hanover is a Suitable person to retaile Spiritous Liquors To the Super Viser for the County of Grafton John Durkee > Select Samuel Slade ) Men Broke into the Inclosure of the Subscriber on the twenty ninth Instant a dark brown horse with a white spot on his nose the Owner is Desir'' to prove property pay Charges and take him Away Hanover March 31^' 1800 Josiah Green [183] General Ebenezer Brewster is hereby licenced to keep Tavern in his now dwelling House in Hanover for the term of One Year from the date hereof And is Authorized to retail in his said House Wines and Spiritous Liquors Accord- ingly- Given under our hands this 7"" day of April Anne Domini 1800 Sam"! Slade -\ Select Richard Lang > Men of John Durkee 3 Hanover These ^Certify that we the Subscribers have licenced M"^ James Houston Jun' as a Tavener the present year Hanover May 17"' 1800 gamuel Slade ) ^"'"'=' , T 1 T~> 1 r ™en of John Durkee \ ^^ J Hanover M'^ Benony Dewey is hereby licenced to Keep Tavern in his now dwelling house in Hanover for the term of one year from 176 HANOVER N. H. the date hereof and is Authorized to retail in his said House Wines and Spiritous Liquors Accordingly Giving under our hands This 7* Day Apr^ Anno Dom 1800 John Durkee ) Select Sam^'i Slade [■ Men Richard Lang J of Hanover Take Notice Broke into the Inclosure of the Subscriber on the 12*'' day of July 1800. A. Sorel. Colour'' mare trots and paces the two off side feet white and a little white on the near hind foot Trem'' from head to foot and a remarkable white face About Eight or nine years old Shod forward the Owner is requested to prove property pay Charges and tak her Away Hanover July th 17 1800 Perly Buck [184] M"^ Benjamin Hatch is hereby licenced to Keep Tavern in his now dwelling house in Hanover for the term of One Year from the date hereof and is Authorised to retail in his said House Wines and Spiritous Liquors Accordingly Given under our hand this 2g*^ day of July A D 1800 John Durkee | Selectmen Richard Lang J of Hanover This Certifies that we Approbate Richard Lang of Hanover to Sell Spiritous Liquors & Wines at his Store in Hanover for the term of One Year Agreable to the Laws of the State of New Hampshire Hanover Sept™ 11"' 1800 Samuel Slade ) Select men John Durkee J of Hanover This Certifies that. We Approbate M'' Levi Parks of Hano- ver to Sell all Kinds of Spiritous Liquors and Wines at his Store in said Hanover for the term of One Year from the Date hereof Agreable to the Laws of the State of New Hampshire Hanover Sepl'" i6"^ 1800 — John Durkee ) ^^l^^t Richard Lang t tj » ) Hanover Taken up the fourth instant a Small bay horse some White down his face three white feet; a: trotter; Age unknown S"* horse was makeing towards Haverhill through Colledge Green TOWN RECORDS 177 the Owner is desired to Call on the Subscriber prove property pay Charges and take said Horse from -Abner Curtis Hanover g"' Octob"^ 1800 Found in the inclosure of the Subscriber the 23'* inftant a small red roan mare shod before, supposed to be ten or Eleven Years Old and with foal, the Owner is desired to prove prop- erty, pay charges and take her Away Hanover 28*'' 1800 Benoni Dewey [185] Grafton fs State of New Hamshire To Jonathan Durkee One of the Constables of Hano- ver in Said County Greeting You are hereby required in the name of the State of New Hampshire to warn the Inhabitants of Said Hanover who are quallified to Vote in the Choice of Senators for the State Legislature to Afsemble at the north meeting House (So called) in said town on the last Monday in August Current at One OClock in the Afternoon i^*' To Choose a Moderator to Govern S* Meeting 2'^ To Vote by Ballot for One person duly quallified for a Representative of this State in the Congrefs of the United States to hold his place as Such untill the fourth day of March One thousand Eight Hundred and One 3"! To Vote by ballot for four perfons duly quallified for the Reprefentatives of this State in the Congrefs of the United States to hold their places for two years from the fourth day of March next 4''' To hear the petition of John Patrick 5*^ To Chose a Committee to Settle with the late Treasurer and transmit the Town papers to the Treasurer for the present year hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant on or before the hour of said day Given under our hand and Seal this 7'^'' day of August 1800 Sam^i Slade | Select Jn° Durkie f Men in Obediance to the Above warrant I have warned the Inhabitants of said town that are Legal Voters in town meet- ing, to meet at the above time and place John Durk Constable 178 HANOVER N. H. Mett Agreeable to the Above James Murch Moderator Rufsel. Freeman Esq' had 2 Votes Samuel. Tenny Esq'' had 22 Joseph Perce Esq'' had 12 Georg. B. ITpham Esq' had 2 "W" Plummer Esq' had 16 [186] Brought forward Agreable to the foregoing Warning Samuel Tenny Esq"^ had 49 Votes George. B. Upham Esq'' 50-Vote Abial Fofter Esq'' 51 -Vote Joseph Perce Esq'' 36 Vote Rufsell Freeman Esq"" 17-Votes David Hough i Vote W" Plummer i Vote Chose a Commitee to Settle with the late Treasurer and transmit the papei-s to the present Treasurer Chus James Murch Samuel Slade Joseph Curtis for the Above purpose Chose Gen'^' Ebenezer Brewster & Joseph Curtis as a Com- mittee of the Petition of John Patrick Advertisement Brok into the Enclosure of the Subscriber some Time in the first of November last a five year Old Ox of a Yellow Colour Low horns Branded, O ± The Owner is desired to prove property pay Charges and take him Away Hanover Dec"' 6 — 1800 George Foot We the Subscribers Licence Joseph Jacobs as Tavener in this Town the Year ensueing Hanover March 9"' 1801 Samuel Slade j Select John Durkee I Men Grafton, | State of New Hampshire M"^ James Houston Jun'' of Hanover is hereby Licenced as Tavenkeeper for the Year ensueing Samuel Slade ) Select men Jn" Durkee 3 of Hanover TOWN RECORDS 1 79 [187] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To Jonathan Durkee One of the Constables of Hanover in Said County Greeting You are hereby required in the name of the State of New Hampshire to warn the Inhabitants of Said Hanover who are Legal Voters in town meeting to meet at the north meeting House in S"" Hanover on Tuesday the lo"' day of March next at nine of the Clock. A. M. then and there to Act on the fol- lowing Articles (Viz) i"' To Chuse A Moderator to Govern S^ Meeting 2^ to Give in their Votes for State and County Officers According to the Constitution 3'* to Chuse One man to represent the Town in General Court the Year insueing 4"" to hear the report of the Committee that were Appointed to Settle with the late Treasurer and to hear the State- ment of the present Treasurer 5"^ to hear & Allow Accounts that may be Exhibited Against S"* town 6* to Chuse All Town Officers as the law directs. 7"" to raise money for the Support of Schools for makeing and repairing highways and for defraying All necefsary town Charges -8"^ to hear the petition of One Patrick of Labanon concern- ing a road that is laid Out through his land in Said Hanover g**" to See if the Town will Appoint an Agent to take care of the Suits at Law between the town and the Rev* M"' Burroughs or devise Any Other way for the Settlement' of S* Suits Given under Our hands and Seals at Hanover this 19"' day of Feb'' One thousand Eight hundred and One Samuel Slade ) John Durkee C ) Hanover I have done Agreeable to the Above Jonathan Durkee Constable i8o HANOVER N. H. [188] The Inhabitants of Hanover Meet Agreeable to the within i" Chose Gen'^^ Ebenezer Brewster Moderator of S'* meet- ing 2'^ Votes for Govener His Excellancy. John. T. Gillman had 172 John Langdon Esq^ . . D° . . . i 3'^'' Votes for Councillor Rufsel Freennan Esq"^ had David Houghf Esq-- D° 117 57 David Houghf Esq' had . 96 Richard. E. Everet Esq>' D° . 42 jtii Votes for County Treasurer Charles Johnston Esq"^ had . . 138 William Woodward Esq' D° . . i 6*^ Votes for County Register William Woodward Esq' had . . 137 Samuel Brook Esq' D° . .6 Elisha Paine Esq' D° . . 3 7*^ Voted And Chose Ben. J. Gillbert Esq' Representative to the General Court the Year insueing 8 Voted and Chose Samuel. Slade John Durkee William Woodward Select men all. Swon to offis gtti Voted and Chose Joel Brown. T. Clerk. Sworn to ofis 10*'' Voted and Chose Phineas Goold and Jonathan Durkee — Constables all Sworn to Ofis 1 1"' Voted and Chose Sam''' Kendrick Collector. Sworn 12* Voted and Chose. Richard Lang. Benony Dewey Jeduthan Willcox. Fire Wards all. Sworn 13"^ Voted and Chose. Lemuel Dow David Chandler Lemuel Stevens Sworn, as Fence Vewers 14"' Voted and Chose Jedediah Baldwin Clerk of the Market TOWN RECORDS l8l [189] Surveyers of Highways igtn Voted and Chose Dan Parker James Murch Sworn Timothy Farrer Sworn Enoch Blood Gideon Smith Dyer Willis Sworn Joel Brown Sworn Chester Ingals Sworn Nathaniel West Sworn Suel. Leason Sworn. Isaac Houston Sworn Zenas Colman 16*^^ Voted and Chose William Dewey. Sworn Jabez Kellogg Sworn Nathan West, as Tytheing men 17"' Voted and Chose Jacob Colby Pound Keeper iS"' Voted and Chose. Aron Kinsman and — — James Murch. Surveyer of Lumber sworn Hog reves ig*" Voted and Chose Mills Olcot Mofes Davis Abel Parks Wright. Sworn Hezekiah Huntington Jacob Perley Jonathan Louger Jeremiah Utley Caleb Chase Doc'' Alden Sworn And — Voted that hogs shall not run at large within One mile of the Colledge for the year to come cent 20"^ Voted to raise $333 34 for the Use of Schooling in the Town to be laid Out by the direction of the destricts by their district Committees to which they belong Voted and Chose for School. Committies and Collectors for the Several districts John Smith Jun'' Dan. Parker Joseph Heaton Silas Tinny Delino Wright Jabez Kellogg Levi Parks Asa Wright Stephen Kimbol Jn' and Lem Dow Jun'' 2 J St Voted to rase $600. for makeing and repairing highway to be laid out at four Shillings p' day 22'' Voted to Appoint three Audators to recon and Adjust All Accounts for and Against the Town that the Select men of s'^ town may have for the present Year and that they or Either two of them are Empowered to do S"^ buisinefs and Bez^^ Woodward Esq'' Ben. J. Gilbert Esq' Rufsel Freeman Esq"^ for the Above purpose Cents ' s 4 $4 • 17 $1 ■ 67 $2 ■ 39 182 HANOVER N. H. [190] 23'' Voted to Allow the following Ac' Otis Freeman^ Act $18 To Samuel Slad. John Durkee y and Richard Lang, for Services > $26 as Select men for 1800 . ) Samuel Slads Ac' as Committee | ^ ^ to Settle with the Treasurer J Joel Brown Ac* for Returning \ State and County Officers for the |- $3 Year 1800 . . . ) and to Sund Visits & Medecines Deliver^ to M"^ Allen John Smith Jun'' Ac' for plank . Silas Tinneys Ac' for plank — Nathan West Ac' for plank Agreeable to Vote of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hano- ver at their meeting held in S'' town Agreeable to warning on the last monday of August now last past Appointing us the Subscribers A committee to examine and Settle the Ac' with the late Treasurer of said town of Hanover and transmit the town papers to the Treasurer of s*^ town for the present Year We have examined the Ac' of the late treasurer of said town of Hanover and fin-d that he has duly paid Over All moneys belonging to s'' town which have been paid into s** town Treas- urer and in Addition there to we find he has paid to the use of said town the Sum of forty two pounds five Shillings eleven pence half penny which Sum now Apears to be due to the Said late town Treasurer from the said town of Hanover we have Also transmitted the papers of said town to the treasurer of Said town of Hanover for the present Year Nov™ 20'^' 1800 James Murch ) Sam"^! Slade [ Committee Joseph Curtis -' [191] Voted to Adjourn this metting to the meeting house in the Colledge district to be held on monday next at 2 Oclock P. M. Meet According to Adjournment TOWN RECORDS 183 at An Annuel meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover on monday March 16^*' AD 1801 The Honorable Jonathan Freeman haveing this day Arrived from Congrefs to his seat in this town Voted that the inhabitants of the town of Hanover have a high sense of his firm Attachment and Zealous exertions for the true intrist of the United States during his four Years Service as A member of Congrefs; And do most cordially con- gratulate him on his safe return to the embraces of his family and towns men — And that the Select men be requested to wait on him with a Suitable Addrefs exprefsive of those Senti- ments Hanover Aprill 12"" 1801 Samuel Alden haveing made due Application to us the Subscribers for a recommend for the purpose of Obtaining a licence to retail Wines and Foreign destilled Spririts the pres- ent year we hereby recommend him as a person quallified for that buisinefs Sam^i Slade ) Select John Durkee i Men M' Benony Dewey is hereby licenced to Keep Tavern in his now dwelling house in Hanover for the term of One Year from this date, and is Authorized to retail in his said house Wines and Spiritous Liquors Accordingly Given under our hands this 7"^ day of Aprill A. D. 1801 Samuel Slade } ^^^^^'^^^ ^ , ^ , y Men of John Durkee ^Hanover [192] Hanover May 22"^ 1801 Came into the Inclosure of the Subscriber last week A bright bay horse with a white strip on his nose and white hind feet About four years Old fore feet Shod trotts all the Owner is desir'i to call prove property pay Charges and take him Away Zopher Ketcham This Vote belongs to the record on the page where the Votes are recorded Agreeable to A Warrant for a Meeting in March 1801 Joel Brown. T. Clerk 184 HANOVER N. H. Voted that the Select Men be and hereby are Appointed Agents to proficute the Action in the name of the town Against the Rev"* Eden Burroughs and defend in the Action Commenced by Said Burroughs Against the Town in the name and behalf of the Town of Hanover to final Judgment and Execution That the Select Men be requested to Adjust and Settle with the Rev* Eden Burroughs respecting demands subsisting between him and the Town if they can on such terms as to them shall Appear Equitable or Otherwise Agree with him on referees to deside those disputes and have Such reference carried into Effect so soon as may be That Dec" Joseph Curtis and M'' Eleazer Porter be a Com- mittee to Advise with the Select men on the Subject of Said Settlement Hanover June 29"^ A D 1801 We the Subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Hanover do hereby licence Jonathan Freeman Jun' of Said Hanover to retail Spiritous Liquors in said town for one year from this date Samuel Slade John Durkee [193] Grafton fs State of New Hampshire To Jonathan Durkee one of the Constables of the Town of Hanover in Said County Greeting You are hereby required to notify and warn the Inhabitants of the Said town of Hanover who are legal voters in town Meetings to meet at the north Meeting house in said Hanover on Saturday the ninth day of May next at One o Clock after- noon then and there to Act on the following Articles to wit I* To chuse a Moderator to Govern Said Meeting 2'^ To determine whether the town will raise money for the purpose of Selling a demand on which the Reveren"* Eden Burroughs has commenced a suit Against Said or direct the Settlement of all demands between Said town and Burroughs in any way Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings therein According to law TOWN RECORDS 1 85 Given under our hands and Seal at said Hanover this 24'''^ day of Aprill 1801 Samuel Slade \ Select Men John Durkee > of W™ Woodward J Hanover Hanover Aprill 24."^ 1801 pursuent to the Above warrant I have notified and warned the Inhabitants of said Town as Above directed by posting up an Attested copy of the said warrant at the north meeting house (so calF) in Said Hanover attest Jonathan Durkee Constable of Hanover Mett Agreable to the Above warrant I Chose Bez^' Woodward Moderator ct 2'* Whether this Town will raise ^716 — 84. for the pay- ment of M"^ Burroughs demand Against this Town , Voted in the negative 3''"^ Voted that the Select Men of this Town for the present Year or Either two of them be and hereby are Authorized and impowered in behalf of this Town to profecute in its behalf the Action commenced in its name Against Eden Burroughs & also to defend in the Action Commenced by Said Eden Against Said Town and the same action to profecute and defend to find Judgment and Execution and also to refer the Said Action and all demands to the determintion to Judicious men by rule of Court or in way of arbitration [194] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To Jonathan Durkee Constable of the Town of Hanover in said County Greeting You are hereby required & Commanded in the name of the State of New Hampshire to notify & warn the Inhabitants of Said Hanover duly quallified to Vote in town Meeting to meet at the Meeting house in the Vicinity of Dartmouth. Colledge in Said town on Saturday the 15*'' day of August next at 2 O, clock after noon then and there to Act on the following Articles 1'' to Chuse a Moderator to Govern Said Meeting 2'' To Chose According to Law Some person to Serve as l86 HANOVER N. H. Constable of Said town the remainder of the current Year in the room of Phineas Goold who has remov'' from Said Han- over Given under the hands & Seal of the Select men of Said Hanover this 29'^ day of July 1801 Fail not & make return According to Law Select Sam^i Slade John Durkee W™ Woodward men of Hanover Purfuent to the within Orders the Inhabitants of the Town Hanover who are quallified to Vote in town meeting are noti- fied to meet at the Above mentioned time and place Jonath" Durkee Constable Meet Agreeable to the Above warrant i^' Chose Maj' William Woodward Moderator 2'^ Chose Ralph W Goold Constable and Sworn in the room of Phineas Goold remov'' out of Town M' Benjamin Hatch is hereby licenced to Keep tavern in his now d willing house in Hanover for the term of one year from the date hereof and is Authorised to retail in his S'^ house Wines and Spiritous liquors Accordingly Given under our hands this Sam<^' Slade > Select Men of 29*" day of July A D 1801 Jn° Durkee ) Hanover [195] Taken up by the Subscriber damage feasand on the 12''' instant a pair of Steers Supposed to be three years Old last Spring their Colour principally red intermixed with white, the Owner is desired to prove property pay charges and take them Away Hanover Sept"' 17"' 1801 Beza Woodward Jun'' Grafton fs Hanover Sept"' 21* 1801 M'" Richard Lang is Approved as a Retailler of distilled Spiritous liquors & Wines for the year insueing at S'^' Hanover ^y"' Samuel Slade {^^^^"^ W'" Woodward { ^^^ °^ ) Hanover TOWN RECORDS 187 Grafton fs Hanover Sept"' 21" i8oi M^' Levi Parks is Aproved of as a Retailler of Foreign dis- tilled Spiritous liquors & Wines for the ensueing Year in S'' Hanover ^y"^ Samuel Slade ) Selectmen W" Woodward { °^ ) Hanover State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To Jonathan Durkee Constable of the Town of Hanover Greeting You are hereby required in the name of the State of New hampshire to notify the Inhabitants of Said town quallified to Vote in town meetings According to Law to meet at the north meeting house in Said Hanover on thirsday the 8'''^ day of Octob'^ next at two O Clock afternoon then and there to Act. on the following Articles I. to Chuse a Moderator to Govern S'^ Meeting 2* to Raise such Sum or Sums of Money as may be thought necefsary to the repairs of Any roads or Bridges in Said town 3"* to Give direction as May be thought proper respecting a further prosecution of the Action between S* town and the Rev'' Eden Burroughs fail not but make return of this warrant with your doings thereon According to Law Giving und our hand and Seal at Hanover aforesaid this ij^ day of September A D. 1801 Samuel Slade \ Select Jn° Durkee I Men of W™ Woodward ) Hanover Agreeable to the Above I have notified and warn'^'^ the Inhabitants to mett at time and place Jonath" Durkee Consta- ble Meet Agreeable to the Above warrant I Chose Joseph Curtis Moderator 2'' Voted to to Raise $100 to be laid out on highway^ at four Shilling p'^ day to be laid out by the direction of the pres- ent Selectmen lao HANOVER N. H. 3" Voted that the Select Men be directed to Review the Action of the Town Against the Rev* Eden Burroughs [196] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To Jonathan Durkee Constable of the town of Hanover in Said County Greeting You are hereby required to notify the Inhabitants of Said Hanover who are legally qualified to Vote in town affairs : to Meet at the South Meeting house in Said Hanover on the second tuesday of March next at nine of the Clock in the four- noon to Act on the following Articles Viz i^* to Chuse a Moderator and Town Clerk 2'* to Give their Votes for State and County Officers for the Year ensueing 3'' to Chuse some person to represent Said town in the Gen- eral Court the Year ensueing 4*'' to hear & Allow Any Accounts that may be exhibited Against S"! Town 5*'^ to Chuse all necefsary Town Officers 6^*^ to raise Money to make and repair highways and bridges to Support Schools, and to defray all nesefsary town Charges Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon According to Law Given under our hands and Seal this 9^"^ day of Feb.^ A. D. 1802 Samuel Slade ) ^^'^^'^ W" Woodward! ^en of ) Hanover Agreeable to the Above I have warned the inhabitants who are qualified to Vote in Town meeting to meet at the Above mentioned time and place Jonathan Durkee Con"^^ [197] Agreeable to the foregoing Warning the Inhabitants meet at time and place i^' Chose Joseph Curtis Moderator 2* Chose Dyer Willis Town Clerk Sworn TOWN RECORDS 189 euman nad 131 had 34 had 121 had 6 had . 2 had 3 had had had— III had D° 3 D° D° 3'^ Gave in their Votes for Govener His Excellency John. T. Gellman had Hono'' John Langdon 4** Vote for Councillor David Houghf. Rufsel Freeman Moses Rufsel Thomas Crawford Silas Tenny W"' Tarlton. S''' Votes for Sentor Moses Rufsell Thomas Crawford W"^ Tarlton Silas Tinny David Houghf . 501 Votes for County Treasurer Charles Johnson Esq'' had 7*'' Votes for County Register W" Woodward Esq' had Sam^ Brooks . had gtii Voted and Chose Joseph Curtis Representative at the General Court the Year ensueing gtk Voted and Chose Jeduthan Willcox Jonath" Freeman Rufsel Freeman to Examine the Ac' (of individuals in town and the Select men) for the Year insueing 10*" Voted and Chose. Samuel Slade Jn° Durkee W™ Wood- ward Select men for the Year insueing and Swon to Office [198] Jeams Wheelock Efq' is Licenced to Keep Tavern at his prefent Dwelling house in Hanover the Year ensueing- - Hanover June 29*'' 1802 Samuel Slade. \ Seelect John Durkee. V Men of William Woodward ) Hanover Grafton fs Hanover Auguft 13"" 1802 M"^ John Manffield is hereby licenced to Keep taveren in the Dwelling house formerly occupyed by Deacon Dewey next "3 130 2 190 HANOVER N. H. south of Profefsor Smiths, from the 22'' to the aS"" of Auguft currant Given under our hand Auguft 13*'' 1802 Select Samuel Slade ) - men of Hanover William Woodward t Samuel Slade ) William Woodward ( Come into the inclosure of the subscriber last week a bright bay Horse with a white strip on his nose and white hind feet about four 3'ears old fore feet shod, trots, all. — the owner is desired to call prove Property pay charges and take him away Hanover 22- May 1801 . . . Zopher Ketcham [199] Grafton fs : Hanover May 26*^ 1802 Benoni Dewey is hear by licenced to keep tavern in the house lately occupied by Genr' Ebenezer Brewfter for the year ensuing Select men of Hanover State of Newhampshire Grafton fs : — Hanover March 13*^ 1802 : Ralph W. Goold this Day took the oath of office prescribed by law as Conftable of said town of Hanover for the year ensueing Before me B Woodward Juftis peace the above recived for record and Recorded 14"^ March 1802 - - Atteft Dyer Willis | Clerk - - Take Notice Broke into the inclosure of the Subscriber on friyday last a dark sorrel mare with one white hind foot and a starr in the forehead, a natureal troter. the owner is desired to prove prop- erty pay charges and take him away Hanover June 8"^ 1802 Jefse Dewey [200] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs. To Jonathan Durkee Constable of the Town of Hanover in said County Greeting You are hereby required to notify the Inhabitants TOWN RECORDS I9I of Said Hanover who are legally quallified to Vote in town Affairs to meet at the South meeting house in Said Hanover on the Second tuesday of March next at nine of the clock in the fore noon to Act on the following Articles (Viz) i**^ To Chuse a Moderator and Town Clerk 2'' To Give their Votes for State and County Officers for the Year ensueing 3'^ To Chuse Some person to represent Said town in the General Court the Year ensueing 4*'^ To hear and Allow Any Accounts that may be exhibited Against Said Town 5"^ To Chuse All necefsary Town Officers 6* To raise money to make and repair highways and bridges, to support Schools and to defray all necefsary town charges — Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with Your doings thereon According to Law Given under our hands and Seal this g*'' day of Feb^ A D. 1802 Select Samuel Slade W" Woodward men of Hanover Agreable to the Above I have warned the Inhabitants who are quallified to Vote in town meetings to meet at the Above mentioned time and place Jonathan Durkee Constable [201] Meet Agreable to the foregoing Warning i^' Joseph Curtis Moderator 2^ Dyer Willis Town Clerk Sworn Votes for Govener John T. Gillman Esq"^ had 131 John Langdon Esq' had — 34 Votes for Councillor David Houghf had . . 121 Rufsel Freeman Esq'' ... 6 Moses Rufsel - - Esq' ... 3 192 HANOVER N. H. Thomas Crawford Esq"^ ... 3 Silas Tinny — Esq'' ... i W"^ Tarlton Esq"^ ... i Vote for Senators Moses Rufsel Esq"^ had 1 1 1 Thomas Crawford Esq'' ... i Silas Tinney Esq'' . . i W" Tarlton Esq'' ... 3 David Houghf Esq' ... i County Treasurer Charles Johnson Esq'' had 113 County Register W" Woodward Esq' had 130 Samuel Brooks Esq'' . 2 Voted and Chose Jofeph Curtis Representative Voted and Chose Jeduthan 'Willcox Jonathan Freeman Esq' Rufsel Freeman Esq'' to Examine the Ac' of the Individuals in Said Town and Settle with the Select men for the Year ensueing Voted and Chose Samuel Slade John Durkee W" Woodward Select men for the Year infueing and Sworn to Office [202] Fire Wards Voted and Chose Richard Lang Jeduthan Willcox and George Woodward, and Sworn Voted and Chose Ralph. W. Goold Sworn Jonathan Durkee Sworn Voted and Chcise James March Collector of taxes Sworn Surveyers of Highways Stephen Kimball Asa Dewey Jabez Kellogg Sworn Benj" Miller David Eaton Jun' Sworn Martin Kent Samuel Pillsbury Sworn Isaac Houston Sworn Stephen Fellows Gideon Smith Tything Men Chose Jabez Kellogg Asa Wright Solomon Jacobs Fence Viewers Chose Elisha Warner Eleazer Porter and Aaron Kinsman TOWN RECORDS _ I93 Clerk of the Market Chose Caleb Fullar Selar^ of Leather Chose John Mansfield. Sam«' Kendrick Hog reeves Chose Cyrus Perkins Sworn Jefse Bridgman Sworn. Jeremiah Page John. S. Green Ezekiel Smith Reuben Putnam Sworn Lemeul Dow Jun' Nathan Kendrick. Thomas Steel Jonathan Durke Pound Keeper Chose — Solomon Jacobs School Committee and Chose for Destrict N° I Benony Dewey N° 2 Eleaz"^ Porter Jun' N° 3 Otis Freeman N° 4 Robert Mafon N° 5 W" Chandler. N" 6 Asa Rifliy N" 7 Thomas Hurlbutt N° 8 John Huntoon N° 9 Jeremiah Utley N° 10 Jonathan Fofier [203] Votd to raise 800 dollars (for makeing and Support- ing Highways and Bridges) at 4/.. p'' diem Voted to raise $400 dollars for the Support of Schools in Said town for the Year insueing to be laid out by the direction of the destricts by their Several Committees to which They belong — Voted to raise ^200 dollars to defray Town charges State of Newhamshire Grafton County — The subscribers inhabitents & free holders in Hanover in said county desire that the free holders and others inhabitants of said Hanover qualified to vote in town affairs may be warned to meet at such time and place as may be convenient in the month of May currant as you may Judge proper — .1. To chuse amoderator .2. To see if the Town will agree to discontinue any further prosecution of an action pending to be heard and tryed at the superior court to be holden at Plymouth within and for said county on the firft tuesday in June next, in which action said town is plaintiff in review, and Eden Boroughs, is defendant 13 194 HANOVER N. H. .3. To transact any other matters relative thereto which they may Judge proper — Hanover May 12"' 1802 B Woodward Timothy Farrar Humphrey Farrar Eben'' Woodward Isac Bifsill Luke Dewey Ja' Wheelock Heman Pumroy Levi Parks Aaron Kindsman Amos A Brewfcer Moses Davis J. Wilcox R W. Goold Samuel Alden Dyer Willis Ifac Bifsell P Beza Woodward J'' Samuel Wright [204] State of Newhamshire Grafton fs To Jonathan Durkee one of the constables of the Town of Hanover in said county of Grafton. Greeting you are hereby required in the name of said state to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Hanover who are leagally qualifyed to vote in Town affairs to meet at the south meeting house (so called). in said Hanover on friday — the 26'^*' Day of May currant at two oclock afternoon to act on the following articles — i^^ To chuse amoderator 2"'^ To see if the said town will direct that the procecution of the action pending to be heard and tryed at the Superier Court of Judicature next to be holden at Plymouth within and for said county on the firft Tuesday of June next in which said town is plaintiff in review and Eden Boroughs Defendant, shall be Discontinued on the part of the Town, and that costs accrued shall be paid the said Boroughs 3 To do and transact whatever else refpecting said action which may be thought proper 4 to see if the Town will Difcontinue the road from the parade to Jonathan Freemans Ef application haveing been made by a large number of free holders and inhabitants of said town ameeting should be called to act on the above articles Fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon according to Law TOWN RECORDS Day of May A D. 1802 the inhabitants of the Town of hanover who are qualified to vote in town meetings are warned to meet at the with- in mentioned time and place J Samuel Slade ^John. Durkee William Woodward 13' Selectmen of said Hanover Jonathan Durkee [■ Constable [205] Meet agreeable to the foregoing Warning — Voted and chose Jofeph Curtifs Moderator — Voted that samuel slade John Durkee & William Woodward the selectmen of Hanover be and are hearby autherized and empowered to appear in and prosicute to final Judgment and execution in the cause and in behalf of said town, the action of review wherein the town of Hanover is plantiif and Eden Bor- oughs Defendant pending in the superier court of Judica- ture for the county of Grafton Voted that this Town relenquifh to Jonathan Freeman Efq"^ their right to Woolfsborough road from a few rods west of said Freemans Dwelling house where it intersets with a road lately laid out to the lands of Amos Kinne, when the new road from the parade to said Freemans shall be opened — State Newhamshire Grafton, fs — To Jonathan Durkee one of the conftables of the Town of Hanover in said county — Greeting — you are hearby required in the name of the state of new hamfhire to notify and warn the Inhabitants of said Hanover qualifyed to vote i n town meetings to meet at the meeting house in the vicinity of Dartmouth Colledge in said Town, on saterday the is**". Auguft next at two oclock after noon then a.nd their to act on the following articles — i^' To chose a moderator to Govern said meeting 2"* To chose according law some perfon to serve as confta- ble of said Town the remainder of the currant year in the room of Phinehas Goold who has removed from said Han- over 196 HANOVER N. H. Given under the hands & seals of the Selectmen of said Hanover this 29**" Day July tSoi Faile not & make return according to law Samuel Slade \ Select John Durkee > men William Woodward ) of hanover [206] Meet agreeable to the foregoing warening Voted and chose William Woodward Moderator Voted and chose Ralph W Goold Conftable and sworn in the room of Phinehas Goold removed out of Town — State of New hamshire Grafton fs — To Jonathan Durkee one of the Conftables of the Town of hanover in said County — Greeting — You are hereby required to notify and warn the Inhabitants of said Hanover, Qualified to vote in the choice of Reprefenta- tives of this state in the Congrefs of the united States as the law directs, to meet at the south meeting house (so called) in said Hanover on the last monday of August Ins' at two oclock afternoon i"* To choose Modrator to govern e said Meeting 2°'' To vote by ballot for one person, Duly Qualified for a reprefentative of this state in the congress of the United states to hold his place as such untill the fourth Day of March A : D 1803 — 3''^ To vote by ballot for five persons duly qualified for the representatives of this state in the Congress of United states to hold their places for two years from the fourth Day of march next 4"^ To hear a notification respecting the laying out a county road through said town and act thereon as may bee thought proper — 5"^ To see if said Town will direct the selectman to lay out a road from Gideon rudds dwelling house to Lebanon line — Hear of faile not and make return of this warrant with your doings theiron as the law Directs — TOWN RECORDS 197 Given under our hands and seals at said hanover this 13*'' Day August 1802 Samuel Slade \ Select John Durkee > men of William Woodward 3 Hanover [207] In obedience to the within I have warened the inhabitants of the town of hanover to meet at the within men- tioned time and place as the law Directs — Jonathan Durkee ) Conftable Meet agreeable to the foregoing warning Voted and chose Joseph Curtifs Moderator Voted for one person for reprefentative of this state in the congrefs of the united states to hold his place as such untill the fourth Day of march next as follows (Viz) — Samuel Hunt EP had — 100 Nathan Parker . . . . 12 Moody Bedle . . . ' . . 1 Nathaniel Oilman .... i Voted for five perfons for reprefentatives of This state in the Congrefs of the united states to hold their places for two years from the fourth-Day of march next . as follows (Viz) Samuel Tinney had 98 Samuel Hunt 100 Clifton Clagget 98 Silas Betton . 98 David Hough . 98 Clement Stone 13 Thomas Cogswell S Jonathan Smith 1 1 Nathan Parker 9 Moody Bedle . 3 Jonathan Steel 1 1 Robert Wallice I Nathaniel Oilman I John Pierce I [208] Voted and chofe Ifac Hoston Samuel Kindrick & Barna Tifdale as a committee to wait on the committee the HANOVER N. H. Court shall appoint to lay out a county road through the Town of Hanover — Voted that the 5*'' Article in the warning be Difmifsed — Voted that this meeting be ajouned untill six oclock then to- meet at the house of Benoni Dewey is said Hanover — Meet agreeable to ajounment — Voted to Defolve this meeting — 1802 - - Accompts alowed Anual march meeting which have not been heretofore recorded The Town of Hanover in accomp' with their Selectmen for 1 J the year. 1801 ,2 ... To payment to Capt John Durkee Samuel Slade Richard Lang Otis Freeman Joel Brown John Smith j' Nathan Weft their accomp's allowed March 1801 .... To payment to william Gorden 15 Dollars To Benj. Gilbert 10 Dollars G. Granger 11 Dollars To William Woodward 7 Dollars 34, Cents as At- torney, ....... " payment to James Murch 7,50, Thomas Nevens~ 7-5°. J Bridgman 7.50, P. Knap 1.00 Joel Brown 4.00, N. Heaton 4.00, J. Gillet 5.60, Capt Wright 0.50, & B. Perkins 1.34, as witnefses in action M'' Boroughs ...... " Ditto to Joel Brown Town Clerk for Coppyes . " ditto to J. Fourfield for takeing Depofitions " ditto to J. Jacobs expences at his house while \ takeing depositions .... ) [209] " Ditto to D" Rogers & D" Coon ex- D"- - - 60.60 43-3 + I pences of Capt Durkey and Capt Slade at tending June & Nov. Court was . . ) ditto expences of ditto on their way to & from June Court ....... ditto, ditto. Capt Durkee to Enfield after wit- nefses . ...... 3894 2.00 5.00 3-S» 14.62 TOWN RECORDS 199. To ditto to William Woodward for moneys ad- vanced towards fees in profecution actions with M"^ Boroughs .... " payment expences of Capt Durkee to & from Haverhill Court — Nov .... " ditto to Jofhua Cushman towards support of Seth Alan " payment Col. Otis Freeman for taking depofions " payment to R. Lang for articles furnifhed to Turner ....... " payment to R. Lang & L. Parks for d° furnifhed Jefe Heath ... . . . " abatement on Samuel Kindricks bills " ditto, on Barna Tifdell.s d" . . . . " ditto, on Parley Bucks d° . . . . " amount of Executions of M"^ Boroughs vs Han- over And officers fees .... " payment to Barna Tifdell for colectirrg State County & Town taxes for 1798, 1799, & 1800 " balance due from Samuel Kindrick, on his bill for payment of executions deducting i.oo abated " amount due from ditto on county tax bills for 1801 " paid to witnefses in M'' Boroughs case as follows to Edmond Conant 0.40 . D. Wright 0.39 S, Benton 0.50, J. Reynolds 0.50 a Bridgman 0.50 S. Tinney 0.92 S. Jacobs 0.40 p'' recept ...... !> 17.66 > 1.83 11.00 2.46 5-33 5-69 1.00 S-S7 2.72 597-47 33-33 • 27-45 74.18 3.61 To ballance remaining hands of Selectmen as \ Treafurer not includeing School moneys ) 9S9-S& 20.70 School money paid over p' recipts Edward Smith J'. School committee Peter Knap J'^ . D" . David Eaton . . D° . $980.28 2.20 S.12 14-34 200 HANOVER N. H. Jedediah Baldwin School committee Lemuel Dow . . D° . Dilleno Wright . D" Lemuel Dow J' . D" £210] " Ballance of School money in the hands of Selectmen not accounted for ^6.00 1.27 3-75 1.47 34-15 . 8.01 $1 !■ The selectmen of the Town of Hanover C by payment in cash received of Barna Tifdale colector " ditto received of ditto by his paying orders drawn '^ by Selectmen this year taken up . . J ■" payment in Cafh received of Pearley Buck 1 colector for the year 1787 . . J ■" Difcount with Barna Tifdale on account of abate ments on his bills made this year -" discount with Pearley Buck on account of abate. ] ments made this year .... ) ■" Orders outstanding drawn this year by Selectmen two in favour of R. Lang .... cents and Levi Parks 3.17 to be paid by the Town " amount of tax bills committed to Samuel Kin- \ drick for payment of execution Boroughs against ;- Hanover ....... ) " amount of county tax bills 1801 committed to > Samuel Kindrick colector . . . i " discount towards amount due from Barna Tif- 1 dale on his bills towards his fees for colections - ) " Surtificate Given of ballance due said Tifdale ) for colecting taxes to be paid by said town \ 022.44 121. 18 47.40 46.24 S-S7 2.72 Cafh received of Dyer Willis on account of fines recived of B Woodward . ^ . • 627.45 . 74.18 14.27 19.06 $978-28 $980.28 TOWN RECORDS 20I by payment recived of Dyer Willis Treasurer | « fi School land rents ..... J [211] " ditto of Asahel Fairbanks D° . . 7.00 " ditto of Jonathan Lougee ..... 12.00 " ditto of Solomon bartlett ..... 4.00 Errors excepted $1022.44 Samuel Slade \ John Durkee - - r Selectmen William Woodward J of Hanover The committee appointed to audit and settle the accounts of the selectmen of Hanover from March 1801 to March 1802 having examined the foregoing accounts amounting to one thoufand and twenty two Dollars forty four cents, find the same properly voutched and rightly cast and are of opinion the charges are reasonable and proper — We also find that their remains in the hands of the seelect men to ballance said accounts the sum of twenty dollars and seventy Cents for defraying town charges and the sum of Eight dollars and one cent, school money not paid over to the school Committee : that by the same their appears to be due from the Town thirty nine dollars, and twenty seven cents in outstand- ing orders and obligations, which are to be paid by said Town and which were given by said seelectmen the year paft — all which is submitted, Hanover 9* March 1802 B. Woodward - - ^ Rufsell Freeman > Committee B. J. Gilbert - - ) Voted to accept this Report — [212] Ja^ Wheelock Esq"^ is hereby licenced to Keep tavern at his present dwelling houfe the ensuing year Hanover Aug' 1^^^ 1803- ^^^^^. ^^^^^ . Selectmen Sam^ Kendrick (" ) Hanover [214] D'' The Town of Hanover to Samuel Slade John Durkee May g*'" 1802. & William woodward To their services as seelectmen the year paft not including their services 202 HANOVER N. H. as agents in the cause of the actions with the reverand M"^ Boroughs $27.00 Errors Excepted Samuel Slade \ John Durkee )- Seelectmen William woodward ) March 9* Town of Hanover D'' to Joel Brown 1802 To returning Votes for state & County officers for the year 1801 . . . ) ^^_^^ and returning Juraman . . ) Alowed Joel Brown [215] State of Newhampshire. Grafton fs To Jonathan Durkee one of the Conftables of the Town of Hanover in said county . . Greeting You are hereby required to notify the Inhabitants of said- Hanover, Qualified by law to vote in town affairs to meet at the south meeting house (so called) in said Town on Tuefday the eigth day of March next at ten oclock in the forenoon to act on the following articles ..... 1 To choose a Moderator and Town Clerk 2 To give in their votes for a govenor of said state 3 To Give in their votes for Councillor & Senator 4 To Give in their votes for a county Treasurer & Register 5 To chose all necefsary Town officers 6 To choose a perfon to B^eprefent said Town in General Court the year ensueing . .... 7 To hear accounts & the report of Committees thereon & act thereon as shall be thought proper 8* To relinquifh to Amos Kinne the right of traveling in that part of the woolfsborough road (so called) which is rendered unnecefsary by aroad lately laid out by the Select men. and discontinue the same 9 To raise money for the makeing and repaireing highways and bridges the year ensueing ..... 10 To raise money for the purpose of schools, and defray town Charges the year ensueing Faile not but make return of this warrant withe your doings- theiron according to law — TOWN RECORDS 203- Given under our hands and seals at said hanover tiiis 18* Day february 1803 — Samuel Slade \ Seelectmen John Durkee C of William woodward ) Hanover [216] Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the inhabitants of the town who are qualified to vote in Town affairs are notified to meet at the within mentioned time & place Jonathan Durkee ) ^ y- , , > Conftable Meet agreeable to the foregoing warning Voted and Choose Jofeph Curtifs Moderator Voted and Choofe Dyer Willis Town Clerk, Sworn Voted for Govenor as follows John : T: Gilman Efq' had 178, votes John Langdon Efq'' had 24, votes votes for Councillor Daniel Blafdell Efq' had 112. votes Richard, C, Everet Efq' had 44, votes Moody Beadell Esq' had 5, votes More Rufsell Esq"" had 3, votes Constant Stores Eq"^^ had i, vote Vots for Senator Moore Rufsell Efq' had 153 votes William Talton Efq' had 8, votes Jonathan Franklin Efq'' had i, vote voted for County Treafurer Charles Johnfon Efq'' had 150, votes William woodward Efq' had 3. votes Voted for County Regifter William Woodward Efq"^ had 164, votes Voted and choose Deacon Jofeph Curtifs Reprefentative for the Town of Hanover at the General Court the year ensueing Voted and choose Samuel Kindreck, Augustus Stores and Deacon Benoney Dewey Seelectmen — Sworn to office [217] Voted and choose Stephen Kimball J'' and Ralph. W. Goold Conftables for the year ensueing — Swoorn to office — Voted and choose Survayers of Highways Stephen Kimball, 204 HANOVER N. H. Gideon Smith, (sworne,) Roger Hovey (sworn) Jofeph Curtis (Sworn) David woodward Ezekiel Smith (Sworn) Eli Hurlbutt (sworn) Hezekiah white (sworn) Lemuel Stephens (sworn) Jonathan Forfter (sworn) — for the year enfueing Voted to raise the sum of 800 Dollars for the purpose of makeing & repaireing highways the year enfueing to be ex- pended at four shilings p'' day (viz) to be paid in labour at four shilings p' day Voted to raise the sum of one hundred dollars for the support of particular roads in hanover to be apropriated under the par- ticular direction of the seelectmen as they shall Judge proper Voted to raise the sum of 400 dollars for the support of schools the year ensueing — Voted to raise the sum of 300 dollars for Town charges Voted and choose School Committees as follows (viz) For Deftrict N° i Capt Stephen Kimball N° 2 Jese Everet — N° 3 Benj. Hatch N° 4 Jofeph Curtifs N° 5 Webfter Hall N° 6 Jofeph Pinneo N° 7 Barnard wright N° 8 Daniel Dodge N" 9 Jabez - Kelogg N° 10 Ifac Houfton [218] Voted and chose Solomon Jacobs Ju™ Pound Keeper — Sworn Voted and chose Benony Dewey Pound Keeper — Sworn Voted and chose Silas Tinney, Eleazer Porter and Lemuel Stephens fence viewers — & sworn Voted and chose Richard Lang William woodward Efq>' and Levi Parks, Fire wards Voted and choose Stephen Benton sealer of weights & measures Voted and choose Jacob Kimball Sealer of lather sworn Voted and chose Caleb fuUar Clerk of the Market Voted and choose the following Gentlemen Hoggrieves the year ensuing — For D° For B° For D" For D° For - D° For D° For D° For D° For- -D" TOWN RECORDS 205. William woodward Efq' (sworn) David Hayse (sworn) Sam- uel Kindrick (sworn) Jonathan Freeman Efq' Eleazer D. Curtifs (sworn) Levi Smith John ■ Durkee (sworn) Nathaniel weft (sworn) Chefter Ingals (sworn) Aaron Putnam (sworn) Voted and choose Lemuel Stephens Tythingman Voted and choose Gideon Smith Tythingman (sworn) Voted and choose Lemuel Dow Jun"^ Tythingman Voted the seelectmen be requefted to Examine the situation of that part of woolfsborough road (so called) which has been laid out through Dyer Willis orchard near M'' Amos Kinneys Dwelling house and make such alterations as they may Judge proper in said road — Voted that Jonathan Freeman Efq"^ Isac Hufton and Jedu- than wilcox be a committee to examine the accounts of the seelectmen for the Town of Hanover for the laft year and also to examine the accounts Exhibited by individuals againft said Town at this meeting and report thereon at the next anual meeting, and also to audit the accounts of the Seelectmen for said Town for the year ensueing — [219] Voted this Meeting be ajorned to six oclock at the House of Deacon Benony Dewey — Meeting opened Agreeable to ajornment Voted this Meeting be Defolved State of New Hampshire ) To Ralph W. Goold one of the Grafton fs r Constables of the Town of Hanover ' Greeting You are hereby required in the name of Said State to notify and warn the Inhabitants of S'' Town (who are legal Voters in Town meetings) to meet at the south meeting house (so. call"^) in S^ Town on Tuesday the 13*'' day of March next at 10 OClock in the forenoon to Act on the following Articles (Viz) i^' To Chuse a moderator to Govern S* meeting 2'' To Give in their Votes for State & County Officers 3* To Chuse on person to Represent this Town in General Court the ensueing year 4*'* to Chuse all necefsary Town Officers 5* to hear the Report of their Committee and Act thereon 206 HANOVER N. H. 6'''' to raise money to defray Town charges to make and repair Highways and for the Support of Schools 7*'* to transact Any other buisinefs which shall be Judged necefsary Given under our hands & seal at Hanover this 17"' day of Fefay 1804 Hereof fail not & make return of your doings According to Law Sam"! Kendrick \ Select Augustus Stores >• men of Benony Dewey ) Hanover Grafton | fs Pursuant to the within I have notified and warned the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover as .with in mentioned to meet at the time and place with in mentioned by posting up in three public places in Said Town a true attested Copey of the within warrant with my orders of notice there on the same haveing been posted up at two of the Meeting houses and One Other public place in said Town Hanover Feb'' 21^' 1804 Ralph. W. Goold Constable of Hanover [220] Meeting Opend Agreeable to the within Voted and Chose Joseph Curtis Moderator Joel Brown Town Clerk being absent Benj J Gilbert was Chosen Clerk. P. Tem. and Sworn Votes for Govener John. T. Gillman Esq' John Langdon Esq' Votes for Councillor Daniel Blasdel Esq' Ezra Bartlet Esq' Votes For Senator Daniel Kimbol Capt" W" White John Fairfield Votes for County Treasurer Charles Johnson Esq' had 155 Votes for Register William Woodward Esq' had 179 ■Charles Johnson — — — — i had IS9 had — 42 had 162 had — 33 had — ISO had — 37 had — I TOWN RECORDS 207 ' Voted and Chose Dec" Joseph Curtis Representative Joel. Brown Apearing and took the Oath of Office as Town <:ierk Attest Ben. I.. Gilbert T Clerk pro tern Voted and Chose Benj I Gilbert Esq' Sworn Samuel ) Select Kendrick Sworn Augustus Stores Sworn } men Fire Ward Chose Richard Lang. Sam''' Alden Amos Brewster all Sworn [221] Voted and Chose Ralph. W. GooM. and Jonathan Durkee and Both swor to Office Voted and Chose Stephen Kimbol. Jun"" ColF of Taxes and Sworn to Office Surveyers of high Ways Voted and Chose Benony Dewey Sworn Nath^' Heaton Jun'^ Sworn Benj" Hatch Sworn Webster Hall Sworn. Zenas Colman Sworn Eli Hurlbutt. Sworn Lemuel Dow Jun' Sworn Jefse Bridgman Sworn. Jacob. Perley Sworn to Office Enoch Blood Hog Reves Chose. Abram Dunklee Eleazer Porter Jun'^ Sworn. Luther Kinney sworn Eleazer Curtis. Sworn. Chancy Bridgman Levi Smith sworn. Edmund Conant sworn Eben Fellows Jeremiah Utley Sworn Sanford Dow Sworn Tything men Chose Gideon Smith Sworn Daniel Doge Fence Viewers Chose Peter Knap sworn Lemuel Stephens sworn Elisha Warner sworn Clerk of the Market Chose Caleb Fuller Chose Stephen Stephen Kimbol. Scalar of Leather Sworn Chose Stephen Benton Sworn Sealer of Weights and Meas- ures Chose Solomon Jacobs Jun"' Pound Keeper. Sworn Chose Jonathan Freeman James Murch as Audators. to Settle or rekon with the Select men for the present Year and Report to the Town at their next Annuel meeting Voted to raise $333-^34 Cent to Defray Town Charges Voted to raise $1000. to make and repair Highway, that Said money be divided by the Select men at their discretion for Extra Epenses for Highways at four Shillings p'' diem Chose James Murch Collect^' and Surveyer of said Extra .money 208 HANOVER N. H. [222] Voted to Raise $400: for the Support of Schools in the Town of Hanover. Includeing what S"^ Town are oblig'^ to raise by an Act of the General Court and Chose Sam'^^ Alden. Nathan Kendrick John Tinney Jun'' Jeremiah Page Dan"' Chandler Zenas Colnian. Nath"' Heaton Jun' Jaspar Morris Jeremiah Utley. Aron Putnam as School Committee to lay out their. Seperate proportion by the direction of the destricts to which they belong Voted that the Select men Abate Andrew Tinney Rates in all Tax Bills that shall be made Against him the present Year Voted to Adjourn this meeting 7 o clock P. M. at Benony Dewey meeting Opend According to adjournmet Benj. I. Gilbert chosen Clerk, pro. tem and Sworn Votes for Govener John T. Gillman Esq'' had — 23 Votes for Councillor Daniel Blasdel Esq'' had 21 Votes for Senator Daniel Kimbol Esq' — had — 20 Votes for Register W" Woodward Esq'' had — 20 Votes for County Treasurer Charles Johnson Esq' had 8 . Attest Ben. I. Gilbert Clerk pro tempore Voted to Allow the following Ac* Jonathan Freeman Ac' $3. Isaac Houston Ac' 2 Rufsel Freeman Ac' 6 John Durkee — Ac' 10 c6 Samu"' Slade Ac' Samuel Slade - - ^ John Durkee - - [• Ac* W"" Woodward - - ) Samuel Kendreck Ac' Samuel Kendreck \ ^ Augustus Stores [■ ^^ 36 — Benony Dewey ) ^" 10 56 27 1 so TOWN RECORDS 2O9 [223] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs ) I To Ralph Wait Gould of Hanover in Said County one of the Constables of Said Hanover Greeting You are hereby required in the name of the State of New Hampshire to notify the Inhabitants of said Hanover qualified by Law to Vote in town affairs, to meet at the South Meeting house, so call* in Said Hanover on the tenth day of Aprill next at eleven of the clock in the fore-noon to Act as said inhabi- tants shall think expedient, upon the following Articles — viz. 1°' To choose a moderator to govern said Meeting 2^ To discontinue all that part of the highway Leading from the south west corner of College Green so called in said Hanover westward to Connecticut river which, beginning at the Gate near the toll house of White River fall Bridge, pafses round, the north Side of Said house and under the east end of Said Bridge to Said Connecticut River Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings therein as the Law directs Given under our hands and Seal at Hanover aforesaid the twenty third day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and four Sam**' Kendrick ) Select men Benj. I. Gilbert ) of Hanover Hanover March 26*'' 1804 Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified and warn'^ the Inhabitants of Said Hanover within described by posting up an Attested copy of Said warrant at the meeting house within mentioned and also at the north Meeting house in Said Hanover as the Law requests Attest Ralph. W. Gould Constable of Hanover Meeting Opened Agreeable to the within and Appointed Samuel Slade Moderator [224] Voted that the Town no.w proceed to Chuse a Com- mittee of five to Confer with Such persons as the proprietors H 2XO HANOVER N. H. of White river Bridge and the Town of Norwich may Appoint for the purpose to consider of the propriety of discontinuing the road under said Bridge in said Hanover and to take All measures relative thereto' into consideration and to report to the Select men of the Said Town on which they Are requested to call a Town meeting to Act on Said report — Chose Silas Tinney. John Durke Samuel Kendrick. James Murch. Augustus Stores for the Above Committee Voted to Difsolve this meeting Grafton, fs. Hanover May 12"^ 1804 This May certify All whom it may concern that M' William Dewey of Said Hanover is licenced to keep a tavern at the House lately Occupied by Jefsey Higgins in Said Hanover for the term of one Year from the date hereof Sam*^ Kendreck ) Benj. I. Gilbert I ) Said Hanover Broke into the enclosure of the Subscriber on the 25"^ instant an Iron Grey Colt Supposed to be two Years Old past he is natural to a trot the owner is desired to call and prove property pay charges and take him Away Hanover College plane Sept"" 27 1804 Stephen KimboU [225] State of New Hampshire Grafton, fs. To Jonathan Durkee one of the Constables of the Town of Hanover in said County Greeting In the name of the State of New Hampshire You are required to notify and the Inhabitants of Said Hanover qualli- fied to Vote in the Choice of Senators for the State legeslature to meet at the South Meeting house so call'' in Said Hanover on Monday the twenty seventh day of August Instant at One of the Clock in the afternoon to act upon the following articles viz, 1^' To Choose a Moderator to Govern Said Meeting 2'^ To Choose by Ballot five persons for Representatives from this State in the Congress of the United States TOWN RECORDS 21 1 3'' To See if Said Inhabitants will order a Survey & plan to be made of said Town the present year According to a Law past by the Legislature of this State at their last Nov™ fefsion Hereof fail not and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon as the Law directs Given under our hands and seals the lo'" day of August Anno Domini 1804 Sam^^ Kendrick \ Select Bej° I. Gilbert I men of Augustus Stores ) Hanover The Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover who are quallified to Vote in town Affairs are notified to meet at the within men- tioned time and place Jonath" Durkee Constable The Inhabitants Meet agreeable to the Above and i^' Chose Joseph Curtis Moderator 2"^ Gave in their ballot for five perfons to Represent this State in the Congrefs of the United States Silas Bitton Esq"^ 175 Clement Storer Esq' 34 Sam'^i Tinney Esq'' 175 Thomas Cogswell Esq'' 34 Caleb Ellis Esq"^ 175 Nahum Parker Esq'' 34 David Houghf-- Esq'' 175 Ezra Bartlet Esq' 34 Thomas. W.Thompson Esq'' 174 Jedediah. K. Smith Esq"^ 27 J. K. Smith Esq"- 7 Voted that the Select Men procure or make a survey and plan of this Town (the present year) Agreable to an Act of said State pafsed November 1803 and make a return to the Secretary Agreeable to Law — [226] State New Hampshire Grafton fs To Ralph. W. Goold on of the Constables of the Town of Hanover in Said County — Greeting In the Name of Said State You are hereby required to not- ify and warn a meeting of the Inhabitants of Said Hanover quallified to Vote in the Choice of Senators for the State Legis- lature Giving them fifteen days notice to Afsemble at the South Meeting house so Called in Said Hanover on Monday the fifth day of November next being the first monday in S'' month at 212 HANOVER N. H. one of the Clock in the afternoon — to Act upon the following Articles viz — I To choose a Moderator to Govern Said Meeting 2<* to Vote for Seven perfons Inhabitants of this State who shall not be Senators or Representatives in Congrefs or persons holding Offices of profit or trust under the United States, to be Electors of President and Vice President of the United States — here of fail not and make due return of this warrant and of your doings therein unto us or either of us or to the town Clerk of Said Hanover at or before the said fifth day of November next and before the hour Appointed for said meeting — Given under our hands and seal at Hanover aforesaid the Second day of October Anno Domini 1804 Augustus Stores 1 ^^ >" S I o o > Sam^' Kendrick j. ii c g Benj I. Gilbert j ^ S j^ Grafton fs In Obedience to Your warrant I have warned all the Inhabitants of Said Hanover by posting a Copy of Your warrant at three Indifferent places in Said town together with my warning as the law directs Octob' 12"^ 1804 Ralph W. Goold. Constable of Hanover Open'* the Meeting Agreable to the Above Warrant and Chose [227] i^' Joseph Curtis Moderator of Said meeting 2* Voted for Seven perfons as Electors of President and Vice president of the United States and the following persons were Voted for (viz) Oliver Pebody had 117 John Goddard had 17 John Printice 117 Levi Bartlet 17 W^Hale ir7 Jonathan Steel 17 Timy Farrer 117 [or Aleack] Robert Wallace 117 Robert Heack 17 Benj West 117 Timy Walker 17 Charles Johnson — 117 Goerge Aldrich 17 W™ Tarlton 17 Voted to difsolve the meeting TOWN RECORDS 213 [228] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To Ralph W. Goold one of the Constables of the Town of Hanover in Said County Greeting In the name of the State of New hampshire You are required to notify the Inhabitants of Said Hanover quallified by Law to Vote in Town affairs to meet at the South Meeting house so Called in Said Hanover on Tuesday this twelfth day of March next at ten of the Clock in the forenoon to Act on the following Articles Viz. I*' to Choose a Moderator to Govern Said Meeting 2* to Vote by ballot for. State and County Officers for the Year Insueing 3* to Choose Some person to Represent said Town in the General Court the Year insueing 4*'' To Choose all. necefsary Town officers for the Year insueing 5*'' to raise money for Town Charges. Schooling and for highways 6* to hear and act upon the report of the Audators Appointed to Audit the Accounts of the Selectmen 7*" to Give directions respecting the procureing a Survey & map of Said town Agreably to a late Act of the Legislature 8"^ to See if the Town will procure from the Clerk of the proprietors of Said Town an Accurate Copy of Said Proprie- tors records and a plan of Said town to be Kept for the use of Said Town and Adopt meafures therefor Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with Your doings thereon unto us the Subscribers or som one of us on or before Said twelfth day of March next and before ten O clock in the forenoon of Said day Given under our hands and seal at hanover Aforesaid the 18''' day of February Anno Domini 1805 Sam*^ Kendreck -k Select Augustus Stores > men of Benj I. Guilbert ) Hanover [229] Grafton fs Feb^ 25*'' 1805 Purseuant to the Above warning I have 214 HANOVER N. H. warned all the Inhabitants of Said Hanover to met at the South meeting house so called in said town on tuesday the twelfth day of March next at ten O clock in the forenoon by posting three Attested Copies of the Original at three public places in Said town as the Law directs Ralph. W. Goold Constable of Hanover Opened the meeting Agreeable to the above warning i«* Choose Dec" Joseph Curtis Moderator 2* Voted by Ballot for Govenour for the Year Insueing and were as follows (Viz) his Eccellancy John. T. Gillman had 209 his Hon'' John Langdon — had — 58 Voted for Councillor by Ballot and Were as follows (Viz) Daniel Blasdel Esq'' had 202 Ezra Bartlet Esq' had — S4 Voted by Ballot for Senaters Daniel Kimbol Esq'' had — 195 Jefse Johnson Esq'' had — — , 44 Daniel Blasdel Esq'' had — 2 Votes for County Treasurer Charles Johnson Esq'' had 186 Votes for County Register William Woodward Esq'' had — 207 Voted and Chose Joseph, Curtis Esq'' to Represent this Town at the General Court the Year insueing Voted and Chose Doc'' Joel. Brown Town Clerk Sworn — Select Men Voted — and Chose Samuel Kendrick Augustus Stores & James Whelock Esq''" Select men [230] Voted and Chose Jonathan Durkee and Urial Bascomi Constables and Sworn Fire Wards Voted and Chose Richard Lang John Bush & Doc'' Sam^' Alden Collectors of Taxes Voted and Chose Royal Wright Sworn Surveyaers of Highway Chose I James Whelock 2 Gideon Smith 3 Royal Wright TOWN RECORDS 215 Sworn 4 David Wright Sworn 5** Caleb Colman 6"^ Josiah Bicknal 7 Elijah Miller. Sworn 8'* Eben Fellows Sworn 9 Chster Ingals Sworn. 10*'' Isaac Houston Sworn Fence Viewers Silas Tinny Esq> Sworn Asa Wright D° Sworn Elisha Warner D° Sworn Sealers of Weights and Measures Chose Ebnezer Knolton Scalar of Leather Chose Stephen Kimbol School . Committee N° I Aran Wright 2 Sylvenus Pingry Jun"^ 3 Samuel Pilsbury Sworn 4"^ Josiah Green Sworn S"" Abel. Park Sworn 6 Abram Brown Sworn 7 John Durkee 8 Daniel Doge Sworn 9 Lemuel Stephens Sworn 10"' Stephen Webster [231] Hog Reeves N" 1 John Mansfield 2 Hezekiah Hunton 3 Jonathan Freeman Jun' 4 Nathan Knap 5 Augustus Chander Sw 6 Lewis Risley r Elijah Topliff Sworn 8 Jn" D. Kingsbury 9 Lemuel Stevens 10 Dan^i Gale Sworn Audators to Recon and Sittle with the Select Men Voted & Chose Benj" I. Gilbert. Esq'' Silas Tinny Esq"^ and Abel Parks Voted that the Select men Obtain a plan of the Town and a Copy of the Proprietors Record Voted to Raise $450 Dollars to pay Town Charges 2l6 HANOVER N. H. Voted to Raise J400 Dollars. Including what the Legislature of this State Obliges us to raise for the Support of Schools in Said Town to be laid out by the direction of the Several dis- tricts in which they belong. Voted to raise $800 Dollar for raakeing and repairing High- ways af 4/. p' day Voted to relinquish Rufsel Bridgman^ and Andrew Tinny rates for the Year Insueing Voted to Allow the following Act — 62 — 00 Voted Jonath" Freeman^ Ac' Voted James Murch Act . . . i - 00 Voted to Allow the Selectsmen Act . . $36, 00 Voted to to Accept the report of the Audators [232] Hanover April 5*^ 1805 M"^ William Dewey of Said Hanover is hereby Licenced to Keep a tavern at the house where he now lives the Year next insueing this date James Whelock ) Select Sam"' Kendrick J men Hanover May 6^^ 1805 Broke into the inclosure of the Subscriber the third instant a Black horse Star in the face a white Spot in the End of the nose Some white on the near hind foot a natural trotter Supos** to be about four Years old. — the Owner is desir'' to prove property pay charges and take him Away Sam'' Currier Grafton fs Hanover June 14"" 1805 — Benjamin Hatch is hereby licenced to Keep tavern the Year insueing at his dwelling house in S*^ Hanover T TI7U 1 1 "» Selectmen ames Whelock f L of Augustus Stores ( ) Said Hanover Take Notice Broke into the Inclosure of the Subscriber a bay horse Sup- posed to be three Years old the Owner is desired to prove property pay Charges and take him Away Hanover October 12"' 1805 Calvin Eaton TOWN RECORDS 217 Broke into the Inclosure of the Subscriber on the sixteenth of OctoV Instant two mares Age unknown one is a dark Brown Couler Shod on all her feet the other a light sorrel Couler with Some white spots in her face Shod before has white feet both said mares Appear to be natural trotters the Owners are desired to call prove their prop- erty pay Charges and damages and take them away Hanover October 21*'' 1805 Eleazer Porter [233] Grafton fs Hanover Sept™ 30"^ 1805 To Either of the Constables of Hanover Greeting You Are hereby required forthwith to notify and Warn the Inhabitants Legal Voters of S** Hanover to meet at the South meeting house in S'' Hanover on Tuesday the Fifteenth day of OctoV Current at One oClock Aftirnoon i^* to Chuse a Moderater to Govern S*^ meeting And whereas pursuant to a petition to the Court of Com- mon pleas for S'^ County that the route of the River road through Said Hanover may be Changed A Committee by Said Court was Appointed in Sept™ current 2"^ to see if S'' town will chuse a Committee to Meet S'^ Com- mittee from the Court and instruct the Committee that may be Chosen to State to the S'^ Court Committee Such Objections as may be pertinant and reasonable to All or Any of the Alter- ations contemplated in S'* road through S'' Hanover 3" to do any other buisinefs that may be tho' proper at S* meeting — Hereof fail not and make due return According to Law Given under Our hands the day before written Sam^ Kendrick \ Select men Augustus Stores > of Ja^ Whelock ) Hanover Pursuant to the within Orders the Inhabitants of the Town who are Legal Voters are notified as the Law directs Jonath" Durkee Constable Meet Agreable to the Above i^' Chose Joseph Curtis moderator 2l8 HANOVER N. H. 2'* Voted to Appoint Sam'^^ Kendrick James Whelock Augus- tus Stores Joseph Curtis Siias Tinny Richard Lang Benj°. G. Gilbert James Murch John Durkee ; as Committee to meet the Court Committee and State Such Objections to the Contem- plated Alteration^ of S'^ road in Hanover as may be reasonable and pertinant in the minds of S'' Committee and mak return to S'' Town of their doings ; and in Case the Court Committee procee"^ to Lay out a road or make Alterations in said Hanover as are materially injurious and unreasonable in the minds of S'' Committee ; that the Select men be requested to remonstrate to the Court Against the doing of S"^ Court Committee at their next Cefsion [234] Hanover November 30* 1805 Broke into the Inclosure of the Subscriber on the 29"" of November A read or dark bay horse About 6 — or 7 Years Old a natural trotter with Some white on both hind feet Shod all round the owner is requested to Call prove property pay Charges and take Said horse Away Dan Parker State of Newhampshire 1 Grafton fs 3 Hanover August 10*^ 1805 We the Subscribers hereby certify that we have this Year preambulated the Town lines between Said Hanover and Leba- non Canaan & Lime with the Selectmen of all those towns respectively Sam^^ Kendrick | Select men Augustus Stores i of S'^ Hanover Hanover June 14^'' 1805 Dec" Benoni-Dewey is hereby licenced to Keep a tavern at his present dwelling house in Hanover the Year Insueing Sam^^ Kendrick \ Select men Augustus Stores l of James Whelock ) Hanover Benoni Dewey is licenced to Keep a tavern the Year Insue- ing at his present dwelling house in Hanover Hanover June ig"' 1806 James Whelock ) „ , _ , „ . r Select men Joseph Curtis J TOWN RECORDS 2191 [235] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs To Jonathan Durkee one of the Constables of Hanover Aforesaid Greeting In the name of S"* State You are hereby requirid to notify and warn' the Inhabitants of S'' Hanover who are legal Voters to meet at the South meeting house (so called) in Said Han- over on the Second tuesday in March next at ten oclock A. M. to act on the following particulars. (Viz) i" to Chuse a moderator to Govern S*^ meeting 2* to Give in their Votes for State and county officers for the Year Insueing 3* to Chuse a perfon to Represent S'^ town in the General , Court the Year insueing 4"^ to chuse all necefsary town officers for the Year Insue- ing 5*^ to raise such sums of money as may be thought necefsary for defraying town charges for the Year Insueing 6'-^ to raise Such a Sum as may be thought necefsary for makeing and repairing highways for the Year Insueing 7*^ to raise Such a Sum as may be thought proper for the Support of Schools the Year Insueing 8 to hear the Report of Audators who were appointed to Settle with the Selectmen for the present Year & to act thereon as may be thought proper — Hereof fail not & make due return According to Law Given under our hand and Seal the day before written Sam^' Kendrick-- \ Selectmen Augustus Stores - - V- of James Whelock - - ) S'^ Hanover In Obediance to this warrant I have notified the Inhabitants who are Legal Voters to meet at the within mentioned time and place as the Law directs Jonath" Durkee Constable [236] Meet agreable to the foregoing Warrant & proceeded to businefs i^' Chose James Whelock moderator — had 92 — had- -30 had- - 13 had- - I 220 HANOVER N. H. 2'' Chose Joel Brown Town Clerk Sworn Votes for Govener Timothy Farrer Esq' Jn° Langdon Esq'' Jeremiah Smith Esq'' Oliver Pebody Esq'' Votes for Councillor Daniel Blasdel Esq' had no Ezra Bartlett Esq' had — 20 Votes for Senator Dan^i Kimbol Esq'' had ..113 Jefse Johnson Esq' had 18 Votes for County Tresurer Charles Johnson Esq'' had 88 Votes for County Register Samuel Brooks Esq' had 87 Samuel Kendrick had — i W" 'Woodward Esq' had 6 4th Voted and Chose Samuel Kendrick to Represent this Town at the General Court the Year Insueing 5"' Vote and Chose Augustus Stores James Whelock Joseph Curtis Select men for the Year Insueing and all Sworn to Office Fire Wards Voted and Chose Richard Lang. 'W'" Woodward Sworn Amos Brewster Constables Voted and Chose Jonath" Durkee Urial Bascom Sworn Voted and Chose James Murch Collector of Taxes Surveyors of Highways Voted and Chose Ebenezer Woodward Sworn John Smith Jun'' Sworn. Nath«' Bartlet Sworn Jeremiah Page Sworn. Chancy Bridgman Sworn John Smith 3* Sworn. Samuel Slade Sworn John Huntoon Sworn. Lemuel Stevens Sworn Stephen Kimbol Jun'' Sworn [237] Tything men Voted and Chose Jabez Kellogg TOWN RECORDS. 221 Fence Viewers Voted and Chose Silas Tinny Sworn. Lem<" Dow Jn'^ Sworn Elisha Warner Sworn. Benj G. Gilbert David Hurlbutt Sworn Clerk of the Market Voted and Chose Caleb Fuller Sealer of Leather Voted and Chose Stephen Kimbol Sealers of W*' & measures Voted and Chose Lemuel Stevens Sworn Hog Rief Voted and Chose Nath"' Bartlet Sworn Nath" Knap Sworn Jonathan Bafs Lemuel Devenport Sworn Stephen Benton Jn' Sworn Jefe Stephens Jn° S. Green School Committee N" I Voted and Chose Benj I Gilbert N° 2 W^ Woodward 3"^ Sworn N° 3 Royal Wright Sworn N° 4 Bez^' Woodward Sworn N° 5 Timothy Owen N° 6 Joseph Hews N° 7 Jonathan Durkee N° 8 Asa Bridgman N° 9 Jefse Bridgman N° 10 Jacob Perley — Sworn Audators to Settle with the Selectmen Voted and Chose W™ Woodward Esq'' Silas Tinny Voted to Raise $300 to defray Town Charges Voted to Raise $1200 for Repairing Highway the Insueing Year and that Such part of the Said Sum as the Selectmen may think proper Shall be laid out Extra on the River Road (so Called) by the respective surveyors under the direction of Such person or perfons as the selectmen shall appoint to Superintend the Same and that the Labour of a man shall be estimated at Eight Cents an hour Voted to Raise $400 Including the Sum that the Law requres for the Support of Schools the Year Insueing Voted that the Road leading from the road that pafses by 222 HANOVER N. H. Jabez Kelloggs and Sam''' Green to Labanon line be discon- tinued Voted that the Road Leading from Sam"' Greens to the Turn pike the way to Colledge plain be discontinued whenever and the road shall be laid from Lemuel Stevens to the Turn- pike and that the land contained in the road discontinued by this other preceeding Vote be Apropriated by the Selectmen so far as necefsary to Compensate Individuals who may have Claims for damages Against the Town [238] Voted to allow Gideon Smith Ji for a Gallon of Rum Expended on perfons working at Highways Voted that the Select men make Compenfation to those Individuals for Roads that may Go through Lands belonging to Individuals in S'' town as S'' Selectmen think proper and best — Grafton fs Hanover 22'' May 1806 M'' William Dewey is hereby licenced to Keep a tavern at the house now occupied by him in S'^ Hanover for the Year Insueing James Whelock | Selectmen of Joseph Curtis J Said Hanover Hanover August 20*'' 1806 M'' Benjamin Hatch is hereby licenced to Keep a tavern at his dwelling house in this town the Year insueing this date James Whelock ) „ , , ^ . >- Select men Joseph Curtis ) Take Notice Was taken up by the Subscriber doing damage in his Incis- ure in Hanover the Six day of November Instant a brindle two Years Old heifer Said heifer is marked on Each horn with Spanish Brown and probaly has strayed from some drove, the owner is desired to call pay charges & take her away Hanover lo'''^ Nov" 1806 Urial Bascom [239] Grafton fs State of New hampshire Hanover July 29'"^ 1806 To Jonathan Durkee one of the Constables of Said Hanover Greeting In the name of said State You are hereby required to notify TOWN RECORDS 223 and warn the Inhabitants of said Hanover quallified to Vote in the Choice of Senators for the State Legislature to meet at the South meeting house so Called in Said Hanover on the last monday of August next at ten Oclock. A. M. I to Chuse A moderator to Govern S'' Meeting 2'' to Vote by Ballot for five persons duly quallified for Rep- resentatives of this State in the Congrefs of the United States. ' which notice and warning you are to Give at least fifteen days previous to Said time of Meeting . hereof fail not and make due return of this with Your doings herein according to Law Dated at Said Hanover the day above written James Whelock ■» Joseph Curtis >• Select men Augustus Stores ) In Obedience to the within Orders I have notified the Inhab- itants of Hanover quallified to Vote in town affairs to meet at the within mentioned time and place as the Law directs Jonathan Durkee Constable Meeting Opened Agreable to the Above warning 1^' Chose Joseph Curtis Moderator to Govern S"* meeting 2^ Voted by Ballot for five perfons to Represent this State in the Congrefs of the United States Samuel Tinney had [or Batton] Silas Bolton Thomas W. Thompson Cale* Ellis David Houghf .Clement Storer Jedediah . K. Smith Daniel . M. Durell Francis Gardner Peter Carlton 57 57 57 57 57 12 12 12 12 12 Hanover Dec™ 19*'' 1806 Josiah Chandler is hereby licenced to Keep a tavern in the house he lately bot of James Whelock Esq^' and where said Whelock now lives for the Year infueing this date in Hanover Joseph Curtis \ Selectmen James Whelock Vof Said Augustus Stores ) Hanover 224 HANOVER N. H. [240] Grafton fs I The State of New hampshire To Jonathan Durkee on of the Constables of Hanover in s'' County Greeting In the name of S"^ State you are hereby required to notify & warn the Inhabitants of said Hanover who are legal Voters to meet at the South meeting house (so call'') in s'^ Hanover on the Second tuesday in March next at ten oclock A. M. First to Chuse a moderator to Govern s'' meeting 2^1 to Give in their Votes for Govenor of Said State and for Other State and county ofificers for the Year insueing Accord- ing to Law 3* to choose a person to represent said town at the General Court of s"* State the Year insueing 4*''' to Choose all necefsary town officers S"' to take the sense of the quallified Voters on the subject of a revision of the Constitution 6"^ to hear and Allow Any Accounts that may be Exhibited together with the report of Audators heretofore Appointed relative thereto 7* to Raise money to defray town charges the insueing Year 8"" to raise money for the Support of Schools 9*'^. to raise money for makeing & repairing highways Hereof fail not by [but] of this with Your doing herein make return Given under our hands and seal this 19"' day of Feb'' A. D. 1807 Joseph Curtis Jr. \ James Whelock S- Select men Augustus Stores ) In obedience to the within orders I have notified the Inhab- itants who are quallified to Vote in town meetings to meet at the within mentioned time and place as the law directs Jonathan Durkee Constable Meet and Opened the Meeting Agreeable to the foregoing warning TOWN RECORDS 2 25 1^' Chose Sam"' Kendrick Moderator to Govern s'^ meeting 2* Chose Joel Brown. Town Clerk. & sworn to Office [241] 3''- Voted by Ballot for Govenor for the Year insue- ing and were as follows , His Excellency John Langdon had 40 Timothy Farrer Esq'' had 87 4*^ Votes for Councillor as follows Daniel Blasdel Esq'' had 99 "William Tarlton Esq' had 23 5"' Votes for Sentor as follows John Fairfield Esq"" had 104 Jefse Johnson Esq'' had 19 6"' Votes for County Register Samuel Brooks Esq"^ had 102 W" Woodward Esq'" had 'i \ John Rogers Esq' had i 7* Votes for County Treasurer Charles Johnston Esq'' had . in 8"' Chose Sam"' Kendrick Representative Select Men 9"' Chose Augustus Stores. James Whelock Joseph Curtis. all Sworn to office 10'* Fire wards Chose Richard Lang. W" Woodward Esq''. Amos Brewster Constables 1 1* Chose Jonathan Durkee. Urial Bascom both sworn Collector 12 Chose Rufsel Bridgman Collector of taxes Sworn Fence Viewers Chose Israel Camp. Silas Tinny Sworn Nathaniel Woodward Sworn Clerk of the market Chose Caleb Fuller Sealer of Leather Chose Stephen Kimbol. Sworn 15 226 HANOVER N. H. Sealers of weights and measures Chose Stephen Benton Jun'" Sworn [242] Hog Reeves Chose John Holms. Nathaniel Everet Edward Freeman Sworn Nathan Knap" Joshua Cushman Jn' Sworn Zena Colman Sworn Samuel Slade Jun'' Sworn John D. Kingsbury John Stevens Sworn Rufsel Hall Highway Surveyers Chose Luke Dewey Sworn. Edward Smith Jn' Sworn Samuel. Pilsbury Sworn. Beze^' Woodward Mason Murch. Sworn. Asa Dewey. David Hurlbutt Sworn. Dan^' Dodge Sworn Jabez Kellog. Sworn. Aron Putnam Sworn Corders of Wood Chose. Caleb Fuller Jacob Ward School. Committee Chose- Amos Brewster Andrew Huntington Edmund Conant. Amasa Wright Ithemer Hall. Sworn Timothy Smith Sworn Paul. Gleason. Sworn Thomas Rofs Chester Ingals Sworn Sanford Dow Sworn Audators to Settle with the Select men Chose Benf G Gilbert Esq' Otis Freeman Esq' Voted to raise ^350 - for Town Charge Voted to Raise $500 . for Schooling. Voted to raise $1200 for to make and Repair Highways at Eight Cents p' hour Voted to Accept the. Report of the Audators to Settle with the Select men for the Year 1806 as on file Voted to Allow Joseph Curtis Ac' as Selectman $12 -00 Voted to Allow James Whelock. Ac' D° D° . .12-00 Voted to Allow Augustus. Stores Ac^ D° D° . .12-00 Voted to Allow Silas Tinney and William Wood- ward^ Ac' as Audators for the Year 1806 . . $ 2 - 00 Voted to allow Silas Tinney Ac' . . . . 3-10 Voted to Allow. Doc'^ Joel Brown Ac' Except what is Charged for M'* Turner . . . $14-39 TOWN RECORDS 227 [243] New Hampshire Grafton P Hanover June s'* 1807 To Urial Bascom on of the Constables of said Hanover Greeting In the name of said State You are hereby required to notify and warn the Inhabitants of Said Hanover who are legal. Voters to meet at the South meeting house in said Hanover on monday the twenty ninth day of June instant at One o Clock afternoon T^' to Chuse A Moderator to Govern said meeting 2"* to see if they will Divide said Town into School districts and determine the number and define the limits of such districts 3'^ to Give such directions as they may think proper to the Selectmen relative to the plan of the town made out pur- suant to an Act of the General Court and which is return'' to Said Select men as incorrect 4*'' to raise an additional sum of money to defray town Charges. Hereof fail not and make return of this with Your doings herein According to Law dated at said Hanover the day Above written Joseph Curtis ) selectmen James Whelock J Grafton fs Hanover June 11*" 1807 In Obedience to the within precept I have notified and warn* all the Inhabitants of S"* Hanover legal Voters to meet at the time & place and for the purpofes within mentioned - according to Law Urial Bascom ( Constable of Said 1 Hanover Meet Agreable to the above Warrant and 1^' Appointed Joseph Curtis Esq"^ Moderator 2^ Voted to divide the Town of Hanover into ten School districts 228 HANOVER N. II. 3* Voted that said districts be numbered and their Limits defined as follows.* [244] N° I. Including Dartmouth College and its Vicinity so Called to extend Southerly to Labanon line — Easterly & notherly so as to Include the home farm of President Whelock — Capt. Stephen Kimbol'' home farm Judge Smith' Land the farm lately Owned and Occupied by Joseph Green— Richard Lang' Land on Camp brook and Mills Olcots. farm lately Occupied and Improved by Samuel Cleveland all inclusive and Westerly to Connecticut river N° 6 Bounded westerly on Connecticut river Southerly on District Number One above defined to Extend easterly and notherly to the Easterly line of Asa Parkers land and Barny Tisdales river farm the farm of John Smith. Joseph Pineo. Levi Smith. Elijah Smith. William Ketcham, Joseph Hews and Abraham Brown whereon they all live the farm whereon Asa Thatcher now lives that whereon Asa Risley now lives and William Dewey farm' All Inclusive N° 2 Bounded Southerly by district number six last defined westerly by the River Easterly by Andrew & Hezekiah Hunt- ington' farm And the mile line and northerly by Lime line N" 9- Including the Vicinity Commonly called Greensbor- ough, and to Extend from district N° i on Lebanon line East- erly to the two mile line so called, bounded Easterly & noth- erly by College land inclufive N° 4. Bounded Southerly by district N° one & nine the Triscot farm & the Enoch Blood farm so called Easterly by David Wrights farm Titus Woodward farm Lothrop Wills land And the Willis farm so called all Inclusive Adjoining Noth- erly in district N° 6 and westerly on district N° i N° 5 Bounded westerly on district N° 9 Southerly by Laba- non line Easterly by the Wd° Blodget land Caleb Colman' farm. Silas Tinney' farm Abel Parks farm Perley Bucks farm whereon Comfort Cushman lives And William And Henry Chandlers farms all Inclusive Notherly by the Tenement ' The words " Turn over and Continued " occur at the bottom of this and several other pages of the original. In the printed copy, this direction has been omitted as meaningless, since it does not come at the bottom of the printed page. — Editors. TOWN RECORDS 229 whereon the Wd° Reynolds lives And Daniel Chandlers farm both Inclusive westerly by the 4*^^ And 9* district [245] N° 3 Bounded westelrly and southerly by district N° 6 and N° 5 a-nd Southerly Also by Jefse Deweys and Nathan Wests farms both Inclusive to Moose Mountain — Easterly by S'' Mountain notherly by Nathaniel Wrights farm Mofes Emerfons farm Otis Freemans farm And Isaac Fellows farm all Inclusive Adjoining westerly on the 6"^ and 4"^ district N° 7 Bounded Southerly by district N° 3. westerly by dis- trict _N° 2. Notherly by Lime line and Easterly by Moofe Mountain — N° 10 Bounded Southerly by Labanon line Easterly by Samuel Currier farm John Beans farm and Isaac Houston^ farm All Inclusive Notherly by Sanford Dows farm Jacob Perley farm And Ebenezer Scribners farm All. Inclusive and westerly by district N° 5 N° 8 Bounded Southerly by Labanon line Easterly by Moofe Mountain notherly by district N° 3. and westerly by diftrict N° 5. And 10— Voted to raise $150 to defray Town Charges Voted to difsolve this Meeting — Grafton fs Hanover Nov" S"" 1807 Josiah Chandler is hereby licenced to Keep a tavern at his present dwelling house for the Year insueing in S"^ Hanover James Whelock | g^j^^^ j^^„ Joseph Curtifs ) Taken up by the Subscriber a Dark bay Mare Colt one Year old past near hind foot White natural trotter Hanover Dec"" 28"^ 1807 Eleazer Curtifs [246] We the Subscribers Selectmen of Hanover have determined that in raising monies hereafter in the School dis- tricts in said Hanover Agreably to an Act of the General Court pafsed Dec"" 28'" 1805 & for the purposes therein men- tioned the Several following tenements & parcels of land in said Hanover the Owners whereof live without said town. Shall be taxed in the several . districts as follows (Viz) in district 230 HANOVER N. H. N" I Seth Adams house & lot lately Owned by Mofes Brig- ham John Manns house & lot lately Occupied by Ezra Anis the half Acre whereon stands the potters Shop now improved by Caleb Little the house & lot Owned by Jasper Murdock heirs the house & half acre lot now Occupied by William the half acre lot next easterly of the last mentioned the house and lot now Occupied by Samuel Adden John Goodwins Acre lot Opposite to Caleb Fullers David Hinkley" lot on College Green where on stands the Green Store Also his half acre Opposite D. Chandlers tavern the house & lot lately Own'' by Humprey Farrer the house & lot on the fourth N. H. turnpike lately Owned and Occupied by Josiah Green the house and lot on s*^ turpike lately Owned and Occupied by Joseph Lee the house & lot lately sold by Mofes Davis to Isaiah Thomas Juner now Occupied by Isaac Bifsel Jun'' Judge Smiths farm and river lot the tan Yard and buildings Owned by Rufus Graves Hezekiah Goodrich river lot Improved by Josiah Goodrich Elisha Tickner One Acre lot bought of John West of Boston Ezra Whitneys house and lot now Occupied by John Hub- bard Esq'' the red house and lot Owned by Seth Adams & David Hinkley the house and lot lately owned And Occupied by Abigail Ripley Rufus Graves half Acre lot Josiah Stevens house and lot Occupied by Anna Foster. All which are in district N° One and shall be taxed in the same N° 2. Jefse Everit farm so called D" Cyrus Hamilton house & lot . & William Maskeys* house and lot All in district number two N° 4 The Roger Farm so Called in district N° four *0r Mackey ? TOWN RECORDS 23 I N° 5. The Rufsel Freeman farm so called All in district N°5 N" 6. Barney Tisdals River farm so called Also s'^' Tisdals farm whereon Asa Risley now lives both in district number six all which shall be taxed in the district to which they belong And are anexed as above James Whelock '\ ggig„f n,gn Hanover Sept™ 4^ 1807 Joseph Curtifs f ^^ Hanover Augustus Stores ^ [247] Grafton, fs Hanover Feb^ is*"^ 1808 John Bush Esq'' is hereby licenced to Keep a tavern at his present dwelling house in said Hanover for the Year next ensueing the date hereof — Joseph Curtis ) Select men - of Said Augustus Stores \ Hanover State of New Hampshire Grafton, fs To Jonathan Durkee one of the Constables of Hanover in said County Greeting In the name of S* State You are hereby requested to Notify & warn the Inhabitants of Said Hanover who are quallified by law to Vote in town affairs to meet at the South meeting house (so Call'') in S'' Hanover on the Second tuesday in March next at 9 oclock A. M. to Act on the following Articles (Viz) I*' to choose a Moderator to Govern s'' Meeting 2'' to Give in their Votes for State & County Officers for the Year ensueing 3'' to choose a perfon to represent this town at the General Court the Year ensueing 4* to choose all necefsary town Officers for the Year insue- 5*^ to raise money for schooling makeing repairing highways & for defraying town charges for the Year ensueing G''' to hear the report, of Audators appointed to Settle with the Select men & Act thereon as they may think proper 2^2 HANOVER N. H. 7*" to Appoint (if they shall think proper) a work house or house of Correction in said hanover And Appoint a Mafster or Overseer to the same 8* to see if the town will Open the Wolfboroughs road so call'' over Moos Mountain or any other road over s'' Mountain in lieu thereof 9^'^ to see if the town will Accept the road laid out the last Year by the Select men from Nath"' Woodward to lime line and if when the same shall be made pafsable the Old road now travelled from s'' Woodward to lime line shall be discontinued and bow the Said Old road shall be dispofed of lo*" to se if the town will accept the road laid out the last Year by the Select men & made from Solomon Dows by Israel Camps to Slate brook, (so Call") and if the Old road there shall be discontinued and how the said Old road shall be dis- posed of [248] ii"^ to See if the Town will Accept the road laid out and the last Year made from Lemuel Stevens to the South New. Hampshire turnpike and if the old road from Said Stevens to S'' turnpike shall be discontinued — And if the road laid from Jabez Kelloggs Southerly to Labanon line Shall be discontinued And how both (if discontinued) shall be dis- posed of Hereof fail not but of this and Your doings herein mak due return According to Law Dated at Said Hanover this i6"' day of Febuary A D i8o8 Augustus Stores ) James Whelock y Select men Joseph Curtis ) Pursuant to the within orders I have notified And warn"^ the Inhabitants of the Town of Hanover who are quallified to Vote in town Meetings to meet at said time and place as the Law directs Jonathan Durke Constable Hanover March 8*'^ i8o8 Town Meeting Opend Joseph Curtis Esq' chosen Moderator had- -43 had- -67 had - - 25 — 48 — 73 TOWN RECORDS 233 Doct' Joel Brown. Town Clerk Sworn Benj J. Gilbert Town Clerk pro tem & quallified Votes for Govenor John Langdon. Esq'' Timothy Farrer Esq' Jeremiah Smith Esq' Votes for Councillor William Tarlton had David Houghf had Daniel Blasdel Esq' had — 2 John Fairfield Esq'' had i Votes for Senators John Fairfield Esq' had — 1 11 John Harris Esq'' had — 26 Daniel Blasdel Esq' had — 3 [249] Votes for County Treasurer Charles Johnson Esq' had — 77 Votes for County Rigister Samuel Brooks Esq'' had — 96 William Woodward Esq' had — 2 Mills Olcot Esq'' had — 1 Chose Mills Olcot Representative Select Men Chose Augustus Stores James Whelock Lemuel Dow Jun' all Sworn to office Constable Chose Elijah Miller Sworn Collector of taxes Chose Rufsel. Bridgman sworn to Office Surveyers of Highways Ebenezer Knowlton Sworn to office by Esq'^ Lowden Smith Sworn to Office Elisha Warner Sworn Do David Wright 5 Luther Ingals Sworn Levi Smith Sworn Chose NO I Whelock N" 2 N° 3 N" 4 N° 5 N" 6 234 HANOVER N. H. N" 7 David Hurlbutt Sworn N° 8 Daniel Dodge Sworn N° 9 Jabez Kellogg Sworn N° 10 David Blake School Committee Chose N° I Richard Lang N° 2 Elijah Carpenter N° 3 John Tinney Jun"^ Sworn to Ofice N° 4 Zadock Brown Sworn to Office N° 5 Caleb Colman Sworn to Office N° 6 Joseph Pineo N° 7 Elijah ToplifE N° 8 John Huntoon N° 9 Lemuel Stevens N° lo Stephen Kimbol. Sworn to Office Fence Viewers Chose W™ Chandler Joseph Curtis, Israel Camp All Sworn to Office [250] Audators Chose. Joseph Curtis. Benj° J. Gilbert Esq'= Selar of W" and Measures Chose Lemuel Stevens Sworn Hog Reves Chose. Ebenezer Lee Nathan Kindrick Sela Benton Sworn Joseph. A. Curtis Mofes Woodward Elijah Smith David Camp. John D. Kingsbury & Jacob Perley Swor i^' Voted to Raise $6oo dollar for the use of Schooling Includeing what the Law Obliges this town to raise 2'^ Voted to raise $1200 for makeing &: repairing High- ways 3 Voted that the Select Men Account with James Murch for a bad bill of three dollars which he receiv'^ as payment on his tax bill 4 Voted to raise $600 dollars to defray town Charges TOWN RECORDS 235 5 Voted to Appoint the house of James Murch to be for a house of Correction for the poor of said town and that • James Murch be the Overseer of the Same and that Mafon Murch be as an afsistant to his father James Murch Voted to Appoint a Committee of three to make some Arrangments and Regulations Concerning this house of Correction as the Law directs Chose Benj° J Gilbert. Esq"^ Jonathan Durkee Richard Lang for the Above purpose 6 Voted to refer the Opening of Woolfborough road to the Select Men 7 Voted respecting taxing the people on the other Side of Moos mountain be referd to the Selectmen 8 Voted to Accept the road laid out by Nath^' Woodward to Lime line And when made pafsible the Old road be dis- continued And disposed of to pay for the new Voted that the road by Israel Camps lately made pafsable to Slate brook be Accepted and the Old road be disposed of by the Select men as far as it Extend by Salmon Dow as Compenfation to S"^ Dow for the New through his land ; And that the Old road by M"' Camp And Barnard Wright Land be Given them as Compensation for taking the road from them so far as it Extends by their land Voted to Accept the New road leading from or Near Lemuel Stevens to the fourth Nfewhamshire. Turn pike [251] Hanover June 10"^ 1808 Broke into the Inclosure of the Subscriber on the tenth inst a large Black mare Supposed to be about five Years Old a natural trotter And a Star on her forehead and one white foot the Owner is desired to prove property pay Charges and take her away John Hobart State of New Hampshire Grafton, fs Hanover. May 23'' 1808 To Elijah Miller a Constable in said Hanover Greeting In the Name of Said State You are hereby required to Notify And warn the Inhabitants of Said Hanover who Aife quallified to Vote in town affairs to meet at the South Meeting 236 HANOVER N. H. house SO Call"* in s'^ Hanover on Monday the twentieth day of June next at one O clock P. M. for the following purpose 1^' to Chuse a Moderator to Govern s'' Meeting 2'' to Se what they will do relative to the Claim of Nathan West for the Support of Calvin West his Brother 3'' to hear the report of the Committee who were Appointed to make a draft of rule and regulation for the Goverment of the work house in Said Hanover & to Act on Such report as they may think proper 4"^ to Chuse another Constable in S'' town in the room of Amos Wardwell who was Chosen at the last meeting and Who declines Serving Hereof fail not but of this with Your doings herein make due return Acceding to Law Given Under our hands the 23'' day of May A. D. 1808. Above written Augustus Stores ) James Whelock V Selectmen Lemuel Dow Jun"^ ) In Obediance to the within warrant I have Notified the Inhabitants of Hanover who Are quallified to Vote in town Affairs to meet at the Above mentioned time and place as the law directs Elijah Miller Constable Town Meting June 20"^ 1808 I**' Chose Augustus Stores Moderator 2 Chose James Whelock — Clerk pro tem 3*^ Voted that the demand of Nathan West be Submitted if he will Agree to the Arbitrators & A determination of indifferent men on principles of Justice & equity 4 Voted that Ben J. Gilbert James Whelock Augustus Stores John Durkee Lemuel Dow Jun"^ be A Committee to Agree with S* West relative thereto 5 Voted that the Report now made of the Committee for Makeing rules & regulations for Governing & regulating the Work house in this town Appointed at last March meeting be Accepted ■6 Chose Urial Bascom Constable for the current Year Attest James Whelock town Clerk pro tem TOWN RECORDS 237 [252] State of New Hampshire ) "^^ ^^'^^^ ^^"«'' °" "^ ^^« p r^ y- > Constables of Hanover in ) Said County — Greeting. In the Name of S'^ State You are hereby required to Notify and warn the Inhabitants of S** Hanover quallified to Vote for Senators for the State legislature to meet at the South Meeting house so call** in S'' Hanover on the last Monday of August instant at One oClock afternoon for the following purpofses i"* To Chues a Moderator to Govern S'' Meeting 2'^ To Vote by ballot for five perfons duly .quallified for Rep- resentatives of this State in the Congress of the United States Agreably to an Act pafsed June 21^' 1792 3* to hear the report of the Comittee on the claim of Nathan West & act thereon hereof fail not but of this With Your doings herein make due return Dated at S'' Hanover this i^' day of August 1808 James Whelock \ Augustus Stores >• Selectmen Lemuel Dow Jun' ) in Obedianc to the within orders I have notified the Inhabi- tants who are Voters in Hanover by putting up three Attested Copies Elijah Miller Constable Meeting Opened Agreeable to the Above warning i"' Chose Samuel Kendrick Moderator 2'' Voted by ballot for five persons to Represent this State in the Congrefs of the United States and the following persons were Voted for — Nathaniel. A. Havern 208 W'" Hale . . .208 James Wilson . .208 John. C. Chamberlain . . 208 Daniel. Blasdel . .208 Clement Storer . 40 Dan^i M. Durell ... 40 Jedediah. K. Smith 40 Francis Gardner . . 40 Charles Cutts . . 40 238 HANOVER N. H. Voted to Accept Nathan West^ proposals made by him to the Committee Appointed at a meeting last June as may Appear on file [253] State of Newharnpshire Grafton fs Hanover To Elijah Miller one of Constables of Said Hanover Greeting In the name of Said State You are hereby required to Notify & warn the Inhabitants of Said Hanover who are quallified to Vote in the choice of Senators for the State Legislature, to meet at the South meeting house (so call'') in Said Hanover on the first f riday in November next for the purpose following. (Viz) i^* to choose a Moderator to Guvern Said Meeting 2'' to Vote by ballot for seven perfons Inhabitants of this State who shall not be Senators or Representatives in Congrefs or perfons holding Offices of profit or trust under the United States to be Electors of President and Vice President of the United States each Voter to Give in on One ballot or ticket the name of Every perfon that he Votes for 3'* to See and act upon the Account of John Hubbard Esq' that may be Exhibited as they may think proper Hereof fail not but of this with Your doings herein make' due return According to Law Dated at Hanover the 5'^ day of October Anno domin 1808 Augustus Stores Ja^ Whelock j Selectmen In Obediance to the within I have warned the Inhabitants who are quallified to Vote to meet at the within mentioned time and place According to Law Elijah Miller Constable Meet According to the Above precept or Warning 1 Chose Samuel Kendrick Moderator 2 Voted by Ballot as the Law directs for Seven perfons as Electors of President and Vice President of the United States the Following perfons were voted for as the Law directs His Excellency had Jeremiah Smith had 247 John Langdon had 43 Oliver Pebody . . 246 TOWN RECORDS 239 Sam'i Bell . 42 Timothy Farrer 247 Amasa Allen 42 Sam^ Hale 246 John Goddard 42 Robert Wallace 246 Robert Alcock 43 Benj'^ West 246 Nath^i Shannon 42 Jonathan Franklin 247 W"' Tarlton 43 3^^ Voted that John Hobart Ac*^ be referd to the Selectmen for them to Allow as they may think Just — ■ [254] Pocket Book found Found on the road (between Dewey* Coffe house and Capt" R. W. Goolds.) A leather pocket book Containing several letters and bank bills the Owner may have it again by prove- ing property And paying Charges Apply to Benoni Dewey Hanover October 28*'' 1808 State of New Hampshire Grafton, fs. To Elijah Miller on of the Constables of Hanover in said County Greeting I the name of Said State You are hereby required to notify and warn the Inhabitants of said Hanover who are quallified to Vote in town Affairs to meet at the South meeting hous (so 0311"*) in said Hanover on the first day of Feb^ next at One O Clock Afternoon I to Chuse a Moderator to Govern said Meeting 2^ To see what the town will do relative to the claim of Goffstown for the support of James Karr and relative to his future suport Hereof fail not and of this with Your doings here in make due return Dated at Hanover this 14*'' day of Jan^ A D 1809 ■) Select James Whelock I ^^^ ^^ Augustus Stores ) ^a Hanover In Obediance to the within I have warned the Inhabitants of Hanover who are quallified to Vote in town affairs to meet at the within mentioned time and place According to Law Elijah Miller Constable 240 HANOVER N. H. the Inhabitants of Hanover Afsembled Agreeable to the Above 1''* Chose Joseph Curtis Moderator 2'' Voted to adjourn to the house of Edmund Conant in said town Immediately 3'^ Voted that the select men of Hanover be requested After Obtaining the best council they can Git upon the question of the liability of this town to support M'' Karr, to meet the Select men of Goffstown Agreeable to the proposal in their letter And make such Adjustments or settlement of the case respecting said Karr' support as all circumstances considerd they shall think Best Voted to difsolve this Meeting [255] Hanover Feb^ 8"" 1809 M'' Josiah Chandler is hereby licenced to keep a tavern at his present dwelling house in s"* Hanover for the Year ensue- ing this date James Whelock ) Selectmen Lemuel Dow Jn' ) of Hanover John Bush Esq"^^ is hereby Licenced to keep a tavern at his present dwelling house in this town for the Year ensueing the date hereof Jam^ Whelock ) „ , Hanover Feb' 8"' 1809 Augustus Stores ) (1809,)* ,^^^ State of New Hampshire Grafton fs. ^L S^ To Elijah Miller one of the constables of Hanover in ■■^^ s" county Greeting. In the name of said State you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Hanover who are qualified to vote in town affairs to meet at the South Meeting house (so called) in s'' Hanover on the second teusday of March next at ten O'clock A. M. for the following purposes. — 1. To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting — 2. To give in their votes by ballot for all State & County officers the year ensueing — *Tlie date is repeated at tlie top of the seven following pages.— Ed. TO^VN RECORDS 24! 3. To choose a person to represent this town at the General Court the year ensueing — 4. To choose all necefsary, town Officers for the year ensueing. 5. To raise money to defray town charges — 6. To raise money to support schools — 7. To raise money for making and repairing highways — 8. To hear and act upon the report of auditors who were appointed to audit the accounts of the selectmen — 9. To see what the town will do relative to an indictment against said town & pending at the superior Court next to be holden in said County — [256] lo** To see if the town will direct the Selectmen to make any alteration on the road from Benj° Hatch's to- David Chander's in s'^ town — II. To appoint a Work house & Master or Overseer — 12 To determine on a seal for weights & measures for the use of said town — 13. To see if the town will make any alterations in the ninth School district — Hereof fail not but of your doings herein make do return according to law — Dated at S'^ Hanover this iS"' day of Feh^ A D 1809 Aug' Storrs > o 1 ^ " > Selectmen Ja« Wheelock i In obedience to the within I have warned the inhabitants, of Hanover who are qualified to vote in town affairs to meet at the within mentioned time and place according to law — Elijah Miller Constable At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Han- over qualified by the laws and constitution of this State to vote in town affairs holden at said Hanover on the fourteenth day of March in the year 1809 — Voted and chose James Wheelock Esq'' Moderator — Voted and chose Jonathan Freeman 2'' Town Clerk — Sworn 16 242 HANOVER N. H. Votes for Governor. Hon" Jeremiah Smith Esq' 235 votes — Hon^^ John Langdon 54 John Fairfield Esq"^ — i yote — W" Tarlton — i Votes for Councillor — Benjamin J. Gilbert Esq' 226 votes. — William Tarlton Esq'' 43 David Hough Esq' — i vote [257] Votes for Senator. John Fairfield Esq' 207 votes — John Harris Esq' 36 votes Mills Olcott Esq' 7 votes. ■ — Votes for County Treasurer. Charles Johnstone Esq' 118 votes — W"'H. Woodward Esq' i vote Samuel Brooks — 1 vote — Votes for County Register Samuel Brooks 1 1 1 votes — W" H. Woodward Esq' 2 votes Charles Johnstone i vote — Mills Olcott Esq' i vote Chose Mills Olcott Esq' Representative — Selectmen. Chose Augustus Storrs \ Samuel Alden & ^ Sworn Lemuel Dow Jun' ) Constables Chose Elijah Miller & ) „ -- . , _ f- Sworn Uriel Bascom J Collector of Taxes. Chose Augustus Chandler. — Sworn District N" i "3 — 4 — S — 6 — 9 Surveyors of Highways. — Chose W" H. Woodward Eleazer Porter Jun' — Sworn Edward Freeman — Sworn Nathan Wright John Williams Jun' Asa Thatcher — Sworn David Hurlbutt — Sworn Lemuel Dow Jun' — Sworn Lemuel Stevens — Sworn — 10. Stephen Webster.- TOWN RECORDS 243 [258] Fence Viewers Chose Ebenezer Fellows William Chandler & Richard Lang Sealer of Leather Chose Luther Ingalls Sworn Sealer of weights & measures. Chose Lemuel Stevens- — Sworn Hogreeves. Chose District N° i. Samuel H. G Rowley Sworn 2. Martin Hill — 3. Jonathan Freeman 2^ — Sworn — 4. Chester Brown — Sworn — 5. Oliver Chandler — — 6. Joseph Hews Jun' — Sworn — 7. Samuel Slade Jun' — — 8. Simon Ward — Sworn — 9. Rufus Durkee Jun'' — Sworn — 10. Isaac Houston — Sworn School Committe & Inspectors Chose District N° i. Ebenezer Knowlton ( Ben. J Gilbert Esq' ) Tx.ii o < Tohii Hubbard Esq' > Martm Hill-Sworn } Rev* Eden Burroughs ) Moses Emerson — Sworn Enoch Blood — Sworn Joseph Chase — Sworn Levi Smith — Sworn Benjamin Smith Sworn Daniel Dodge Jere'' Towle 10. Benj" Walker Jun' Pound Keeper. Chose Edmund Conant — Sworn [259] Auditors. Chose John Durkee Esq' & Joseph Curtifs Esq' 244 HANOVER N. H. Voted to accept the report of the Auditors for the year 1808— Voted that the selectmen may allow the account of Jona- than Freeman, Joseph Curtifs, & Samuel Kendrick if they see fit $24.00 Voted that the selectmen may accept and allow the account if they see fit of D'' Joel Brown . . . 7.22 Voted to raise $300 for the purpose of defraying towr> charges Voted to pafs over the article in the warning for raising school School money and that the selectmen raise the propor- tion of town prescribed by law — Voted to raise $1200.00 for the purpose of making and repairing highways to be paid in labour at the rale of eight cents per hour — Voted that an indictment against the Selectmen and pend- ing at the superior court next to be holden in said County be left to the discretion of the Selectmen — Voted that the Selectmen may alter the road from Benj" Hatch's to David Chandler's after all considerations of the matter if they see fit — Voted that Capt. Sam^ Blade's house be a work house for the town of Hanover & that he be the Master of it — Voted that the Selectmen determine what shall be the seal of weights and measures — Voted that John Durkee Esq"" & Joseph Curtifs Esq'' be a committe to see what alteration may be necefsary in school district N° g, and make report of the same [260] Voted that the Selectmen afses a tax on the land East of moose mountain (so called) and lay out the same in making and repairing highways in that part of the town Voted to difsolve this meeting — Broke into the inclosure of the subscriber a dark sorrel horse with blackish mane and tale with a white strip in the fais — three white feet — the owner is desired to prove property, pay charges and take him away William Ketcham. October 25*^' 1809— TOWN RECORDS 245 Broke into the inclosure of the subscriber on the i^' instant a small red ox marked with the letter G or C on his near side the owner is desired to prove property pay charges & take him away — Hanover Nov'' 2"^ 1809 Baxter Wilmarth [261] To the Hon' the Select men of Hanover — Gentlemen. It being the natural and constitutional right of the citizens of this state, " in an orderly and peaceable manner, to afsemble and consult upon the common good ; " And the present being an alarming crisis, in which the Wisdom, advice and counsel of all the wise and prudent are required : — We the subscribers request that a meeting of the inhabitants of this town may be notified as soon as may be convenient, for the purpose of exprefsing their minds upon the late acts, pafsed in the Congrefs of the United States for laying, continuing, and enforcing an embargo in said States and for taking such prudent measures as shall appear proper and suitable to the exigencies of our political situation- Dated Hanover Feb^ i»' 1809 — John L Hayse Ben. J. Gilbert Amos A Brewster David Woodward Jun'' Richard Lang Samuel H. G. Rowley John Holmes Samuel Alden W™ W. Dewey Royal Wright Mills Olcott Otis Freeman Joseph Curtis W™ H Woodward Edmund Conant Benoni Dewey Augustus Backus Roger Hovey John Hubbard Daniel Hopkins Chester Ingols Samuel Slade Increase Kimball State of New Hampshire Grafton fs. To Elijah Miller one of the Constables of s'' Hanover Greeting. Whereas application has been made to the subscribers Select- men of s'' Hanover by more than twenty freeholders inhab- itants of s"^ Hanover requesting that a meeting of the s'^ inhab- itants may called for the purpose of expressing their minds upon the late acts pafsed by the Congrefs of the United 246 HANOVER N. H. States for laying, continuing and enforcing an. embargo in s'* States. — These are therefore in the name of s* State to require you to notify and warn the s'^ inhabitants of s^ Han- over to meet at the south meeting house (so called) in s"* Han- over on thursday the sixteenth day of February current for the purpose aforesaid at one O clock P. M. Hereof fail not but of this with your doings herein make due return — Dated at S'^ Hanover the first day of Feb^ A D 1809 — Jas Wheelock ) Aug^ Storrs >• Selectmen Lemuel Dow Jun'") In obedience to the above I have warned the inhabitants who are voters to meet at the above mentioned time & place according to law — Elijah Miller Constable At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Han- over holden at the South meeting house in said Hanover on thursday the sixteenth day of Fobs' Anno Domini 1809 — at one O clock P. M. for the purpose of expressing their minds upon the late acts pafsed by the Congrefs of the U S for lay- ing and enforcing an embargo in said State. — Voted by ballot and chose Joseph Curtifs Esq"^ Moderator. — The town Clerk being absent — Voted by ballot and chose Beza Woodward Town Clerk /r(? tempore who was sworn in open meeting. — Voted that a Committee be appointed to consider and report such resolutions as they may think expedient for this meeting: at the present time — Voted that Ben. J Gilbert Sam^ Kendrick Sam^ Slade John Hubbard and W" H. Woodward Esq™ compose said Com- mitte [263] The said Committe appointed for the purpose hav- ing recommended the adoption of the following resolutions ; voted that the same be pafsed as follows Resolved i** That it is the duty and unalienable right of the Citizens of this State, especially in- times of public danger and TOWN RECORDS 247 distrefs, to afsemble in an orderly and peaceable manner and " consult upon the common good." 2"" That the present crisis is distrefsing and alarming and imperiously calls for the unanimity, vigilance, firmnefs, and patriotism of all the real friends of our Country. 3^^ That in former years the sober habits, the persevereing industry, and enterprise of our fellow citizens, under the fos- tering care of government and the smiles of Providence were crowned with succefs ; and by the blefsings of Providence on our industry the year past, our harvests have been abundant, no pestilence hath raged — no war hath desolated — and yet our fellow citizens are now impoverished and distressed and the national resources are rapidly diminishing. — 4* That in our opinion the Act laying an embargo on our ships and vessels pafsed at the last session of Congress and the several acts supplementary thereto have in their operation occasioned our present distresses — for which we have no con- solation of a patriotic nature. If we view them as measures of coercion they seem to operate almost wholly on ourselves— and as respects the two great belligerents, one of those nations gives it her unqualified approbation, and the other treats it with perfect contempt If we consider them as measures of precaution and preservation, being in their terms perpetual and implying [264] an abandonment of our rights on the ocean, they are too humiliating to comport with the spirit and dignity of a great, free and independent nation — and too dis trefsing and expensive to consist with the vital interest of our Country. 5th. That we consider the late acts of Congress to enforce and render more effectual the several acts before refered to as fraught with ills still more alarming being repugnant to a Just construction of many of the most sacred articles in our bill of rights and constitution of government and to our apprehension should it be carried into effect its continuance will forbode a train of calamities to our Country — which may Heaven avert ! among others that which excited so much " anxious solicitude " in the mind of our revered Washington — " a sep- aration of the States " An event we should as deeply deprecate 248 HANOVER N. H. as any next to a deprivation of our constitutional rights. This act we are with reluctance compelled to view as impolitic, arbitrary, and unconstitutional in its most striking and alarm- ing traits which are the following — It attempts to transfer legis- lative and Judicial powers to the Executive, and Judicial to the military — It would subject our property and possefsions to unreasonable searches and seizures and without legal warrant from, the civil magistrate — It substitutes the secret orders and instructions of the President in the place of good and whole- some laws publicly and deliberately pafsed by the Legislature, and attempts to give them the same solemnity and effect — It attempts to preclude the citizens from the benefit of a trial by jury in certain controversies concerning property — Its exe- cution will violate the eighth [265] article of the amendments to the constitution of the United States which declares that " excefsive bail shall not be required " — nor excefsive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted,, — The Agents of the Executive, under his orders, may upon the impulse of suspicion and belief, pronounce this meeting illegal, enter into this afsembly interrupt our deliberations and forcibly disperse us — It submits to the command of the Exec- utive and his agents the land and naval forces and the militia of the United States to enforce some of its dangerous provi- sions — and in fact attempts to place our Country — in this time of peace under a kind of military law which is repugnant to the principles of Republican freedom, and has ever been a direct step towards despotism. — 6th. That those members of Congrefs who have so ably opposed the pafsage of these laws, and so nobly encountered the various difficulties of a personal and public nature which have so closely invested them have displayed that wisdom and enlightened zeal, that patriotic fortitude and patience which the importance of the subject required and which highly merits the notice respect and acknowledgements of all their fellow citizens — 7th. That the early application of a constitutional remedy for the grievances of which we thus complan, is highly necefsary — and which [while] we freely and we believe justly animadvert TOWN RECORDS 249 upon the measures of government, we ought not to pass with- out just reprehension the inexcusable delinquencies of our- selves and fellow citizens in the exercise of the right of suf- frage — We have important duties to perform in a iniform and promt attendance at the poll and in an honest and wise bestowment of [266] offices- On this depends the welfare of our Country — By these means are existing evils to be remedied — S"" That we will support the constitution of this State and the United States — and are ready with our lives and fortunes to aid in any constitutional measure of the general government tending to the security honor and prosperity of our Country — But while we would inculcate and practice respect for just laws and discountenance irregular opposition to those that are griev- ous, we shall at all times esteem it our duty to guard our con- stitutional rights in a manner becoming freemen as well as against domestic as foreign violence and agrefsion — Voted that a copy of the foregoing resolutions be published in the Dartmouth Gazette — Attest Beza. Woodward Town Clerk fro tem State of Newhampshire Grafton fs Hanover Select Men Lemuel Dow J'' ) of Hanover In obedience of the within I have warned the inhabitants of Hanover who are qualiBed to vote in town affairs to meet at the within mentioned time and place according to law — Elijah Miller Constable [268] At a legal meting of the inhabitants of the town of Hanover qualified by the laws and constitution of this State to vote in town affairs holden at said Hanover on the thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1810 — The said inhabitants and voters delivered and gave in their votes for the following officers, viz — Chose Joseph Curtifs Esq'' Moderator — Chose Jonathan Freeman 2'' Town Clerk Sworn to office TOWN RECORDS 2Sr Votes for Governor His Excellency Jeremiah Smith Hon^'* John Langdon Esq'' Votes for Councillor Hon*i« Benjamin J. Gilbert Esq' Rev** Edward Evans — Hon"" David Hough Esq'^ Votes for Senator Hon"'" John Fairfield Esq' Ebenezer Hoyt Esq' Hon*''*' Charles Johnston Esq'' Votes for County Treasurer Hon'''* Charles Johnston Esq'' Jon* Robbins J'' . . John Page J"^ . . Samuel Brooks Votes for County Register Samuel Brooks .... John Page J' ■ . Charles Johnston Esq' Jon* Robbins J'^ . . . Chose Cap* Augustus Storrs — Representative Chose Cap* Lemuel Dow, Samuel Alden and Major Jonathan Durkee Selectmen (sworn to office [269] Constables- Chose Elijah Miller & Uriel Bascom — sworn Collector of taxes — Chose Elijah Topliff — sworn Surveyors of High ways Amos A. Brewster Sworn Nath' Lord — Sworn Selah Benton Sworn Lathrop Willis Timothy Owen affirmed to the faithful discharge of office Timothy Smith Sworn David Hurlbutt Lemuel Dow J'' Sworn 286 votes 73 votes 281 votes 53 votes 1 vote 244 votes 48 votes I vote 209 votes 27 votes 6 votes I vote 193 votes 26 votes I vote I votes District N° i . — 2. 3- 4. S- 6. 7- 252 HANOVER N. H. — 9. Rufus Durkee Sworn — 10. Jacob Parley Sworn Fence Viewers Ebenezer Fellows W" H. Woodward — Sworn Wm. Dewey Sworn Sealer of Weights & Measures — Lemuel Stevens — Hog Reeves- N" I. — 2 — 3 — 4 — S Josiah Goodrich Sworn Silvanus Pingrey J'' Amos Kenne Jeremiah Page Sworn David Hase N°- 6. Asa Tisdale — 7. John Miller — 8. Nathan Rofs — Sworn — 9. Jabez Kellogg — 10. Ben" Collins Sworn School Committee No District N° i . Ebenezer Woodward 2 Edward Smith J' 3 Isaac Fellows — sworn 4. Lyman Davis — Sworn 5. Chauncey Bridgman, Sworn School Inspectors — 6. Timothy Smith — 9 ID 6. Levi Smith — Sworn 7 . Samuel Slade J' — Sworn 8. Jon» Hatch Goram Lane — affirmed Sanford Dow Sworn [270] District N°. i . Roswell Shurtliff 2. Gideon Smith — 3. Nathi Wright ■ — 4. Joseph Curtifs 5. Augustus Chandler 7. Samuel Slade 8. Lemuel Dow J' 9. Chester Ingalls 10. Benj. Walker J' Voted to raise $600 to defray town charges the current 00 to make & repair highways the current year Voted to raise year Voted that the Selectmen allow school district N° 9 — $15 — of the public money for schools — the present year Voted that Cap' Samuel Slades house be appointed as a work house & he be the master — Voted to accept of the doings of the Selectmen on the road from Jacob Perleys South towards Aaron Putnams land Voted to pafs over the 1 1* Article of the warning — TOWN RECORDS 253 Voted to appoint a committee to join with the Selectmen to view the road from B. Hatch's to David Chandler's and report to some future meeting & appointed Joseph Curtifs Esq"^ Maf Sam^ Kendrick Elijah Miller Isaac Houston - Voted to accept of the road as laid by the Selectmen from Daniel Dodge's North to Nathan West's and discontinue the old road — Voted to submit the claims of any person to the Select- men — Voted to dissolve this meeting — Attest Jon" Freeman 2™' Town Clerk [271] Hanover March 24'" A D 18 10 To the Selectmen of Hanover — Gentlemen. The petition of your petition of your petitioner humbly showeth whereas I am a member of the 10'''' school district but it is very inconvenient for me to receive any advantage as it respects schooling my children in the aforesaid district and have for two years past school'd my children in the 8* school district. — And now the prayer of your petition is that you would in some warrant when you warn the inhabitants of this town to meet in town aifairs to consider my situation & remove me from the 10'* to the 8* school district & as in duty bound will ever pray — Samuel Currier — To the Selectmen of the town of Hanover, Gentlemen, We the subscribers wish you to call a meeting of the legal voters of said Hanover to see if they will raise a sum of money sufficient to level & make smooth the public parade near the center of said town — Hanover March 26th. 1810 — John Durkee Thomas Hurlbutt Benjamin Morey Thomas Slade Shelden Tenney Isaac D. Slade Samuel Slade J'' Elisha Tenney Silas Tenny Elijah Miller Calvin Topliff 254 HANOVER N. H. L S [ State of Newhampshire Grafton fs ( To Elijah Miller one of the constables for the town of Han- over — Gentleman — Greeting — Whereas application has been made to us the subscribers [272] Selectmen of said Hanover by more than ten of the freeholders, inhabitants of said Hanover requesting us to notify & warn a meeting of the inhabitants of s* Hanover who are qualified to vote in town-affairs to meet at the south meet- ing house in s"* Hanover on the i8*^ day of April at one Oclock P. M. for the following purposes — viz — T«' To choose a Moderator to govern s'' meeting 2"" To see if the town will raise money or adopt any other measure to repair the Military parade in said Hanover — 3"* To see if the town will disannex Samuel Currier from the lo"' School District & annex him to the 8^ school district agreeably to his petition — 4"^ To see if the town will appoint Auditors to audit the accompts of the Selectmen for s'' town the present year These are therefore to require you the s*^ Elijah Miller to notify and warn the inhabitants qualified as aforesaid to meet at the time & place & for the purposes before mentioned. Hereof fail not & of this with your doings herein make due return according to Law — Given under our hands & Seal at Hanover the 31^' day of March A D 18 10 Lemuel Dow Jun' \ Selectmen Samuel Alden 5- of said Jonathan Durkee ) Hanover In obedience to the within I have notified the inhabitants ■who are qualified to vote in town affairs to meet at the within mentioned time & place according to Law — Elijah Miller — Constable [273] At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Hanover, legally notified, holden on the iS*'' day of April A D 1810. Chose Cap* Augustus Storrs Moderator. TOWN RECORDS 25s Voted that the Selectmen be directed to let out the parade to be cultivated, smothed & seeded to grass without expense to the town, with a reserve of a way for pafsing on the west- erly side of s"i parade — according to the discretion of the Selectmen — Voted that M' Samuel Currier be annexed to the 8'" school district — Voted & Chose John Durkee & William H Woodward Esq''" auditors — Voted to difsolve this meeting — L S j State of Newhampshire — To Uriel Bascom one of the Constables of the town of Hanover, Greeting. You are hereby required in the name of the State of New- hampshire to notify and warn a meeting of the inhabitants of the said town of Hanover — qualified to vote in the choice of Senators for the State Legislature, to be held on the last Monday of August (instant) at the south meeting house so called one O clock P. M. for the following purposes. (Viz.) 1=' To choose a Moderator to govern s"* Meeting jna 'Yq vote by ballot for five persons duly qualified for rep- resentatives of this State in the Congrefs of the United States, agreeably to an act pafsed June 21^' A D 1792 — Hereof fail not, but this with your doings thereon make return according to law — Given under our hand & seal at Hanover this 4'*' day of August A. D. 1810. Lemuel Dow Jun 1 Selectmen of s** Samuel Alden i Hanover [274] Hanover Aug' 11'^ 1810 — In obedience to the within precept I have this day posted up an attested copy of the same at the south meeting house (so called) in said Han- over and also another attested copy on John Bridgman's sign post on College plain in said Hanover — Uriel Bascom ) Constable of said Hanover 256 HANOVER N. H. At a legal meeting, duly notified, of the inhabitants of the town Hanover on the 27''' day of August A D 18 10 Chose Joseph Curtifs Esq'' Moderator — Voted by ballot for the following men as representatives to the Congrefs of the United States (viz.) — For Hon. George Sullivan Esq' 174 votes Hon. William Hale Esq' 174 votes Hon. James Wilson Esq'' 174 votes Hon. Roger Vose Esq'' 174 votes Hon. Daniel Blaisdell Esq' 172 votes Hon. Josiah Bartlett Esq'' 45 votes John A Harper Esq' 47 votes David L. Morrill Esq' 47 votes Gen' Samuel Dinsmore — 47 votes Hon. Obed Hall Esq' — 47 votes Hon. T. W. Thompson Esq' vote Joseph Bartlett— 2 votes Voted to difsolve this meeting — I'LSl State of Newhampshire Grafton f;- To Elijah Miller one of the Constables of the Town of Hanover — Greeting. You are required in the name of the State of Newhampshire, to notify & warn the inhabitants of said Hanover, who are legal voters to meet at the South Meeting house, (so called) on the second tuesday of March next at 9 oclock A. M. to act on the following articles, (viz) — T*' To choose a Moderator to govern said Meeting 2"'' To vote by ballot for all necefsary State & County Offi- cers. — 3''* To vote by ballot for three of six persons hereafter named for representatives of this State in the Congrefs of United States viz. George Sullivan, William Hale, Roger Vose, Daniel Blasdell, John A. Harper, Obed Hall. — 4"' To choose all necefsary Town Officers. — TOWN RECORDS 257 5"' To see if the town will think best to grant thirty four cents in money to each non commifsioned officers & sol- diers of the Militia, instead of providing, the necefsary meats and drinks on muster days — 6"' To see if the town, will grant the ninth or any other school district more than their usual proportion of publick school money — j^'^ To hear the report of the Auditors, respecting accompts of the town. 8* To raise money, to defray town charges. — 9* To raise money to make & repair highways — 10*'' To see if the town will discontinue the road from Ralph Chamberlains, to Aaron Putnams land, & give it in part for the new road, that is designed for the same purpose. — 11"' To see what the town would think advisable respecting M' Annis & wife — 12"^ To see if the town will grant the petition of Sanford Dow (viz) to remove his connexion from the lo"^ to the 8* school district. [276] Hereof fail not, but this with your doings make due return according to law. — Given under our hands & seals at Hanover this i6"' day of February Ano Dom-i8i I. Lemuel Dow Jun'' •) Select Men Samuel Alden >- of Jonathan Durkee J s'' Hanover In obedience to the within I have warned the inhabitants who are qualified to vote to meet at the within mentioned time & place according to law — Elijah Miller Constable — At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Han- over qualified by the Constitution and laws of this State to vote in town affairs holden at said Hanover on the 12th day of March A. D. 181 1 — Voted and chose Joseph Curtifs Esq' Moderator — .Voted and chose Jonathan Freeman 2™' Town Clerk — Votes for Governor viz) Hon. Jeremiah Smith 265 votes. Jonathan Franklin i vote His Excellency John Langdon 66 votes — '7 258 HANOVER N. H. Votes for Councillor Hon. Jonathan Franklin 245 votes. Cyrus Hamilton i vote Rev'^ Edward Evans— 48 votes. John Harris i vote Hon. Caleb Ellis 2 votes. Jeduthen Wilcox i vote Votes for Senator Hon. Caleb Ellis— 230 votes. Edward Evans 3 votes John Harris — 48 votes. William Webster 2 votes Jonathan Franklin i vote Votes for County Treasurer William Webster 216 votes. John Page J' i vote Jonathan Robbins J'' 25 votes [277] Votes for County Register Samuel Brooks 198 votes. John Rogers i vote John Page J'' 2 7 votes. Jonathan Robbins J' i vote Votes for Representatives of this State in the Congrefs of the United States, (viz) Hon. George Sullivan 234 votes. John A. Harper 49 vo^es William Hale 234 votes. Obed Hall 49 votes Daniel Blasdell 234 votes. Voted & chose Cap' Augustus Storrs Representative for this town. Selectmen — Cap' Lemuel Dow James Poole and Maj. Samuel Kendrick — sworn by W™ H. Woodward Esq. Constables — Voted & chose Elijah Miller & Uriel Bafcom. sworn by W"' H. Woodward Collector of Taxes — Voted & chose Russell Btidgman sworn by W" H. Wood- ward Esq. Surveyors of Highways — N" I. Samuel Alden Sworn 6. Oliver Dewey Sworn — 2. Samuel Kendrick Sworn 7. Eli Hurlbutt Sworn — 3. Caleb Foster Sworn 8. Hezekiah White f Jeremiah Page declined to serve ) Joseph Curtifs — 9. Chester Ingolls Sworn TOWN RECORDS 259 5 Samuel Butler sworn 10 Isaac Houston Sworn Ebenezer Eaton (declined to serve) Abraham Kimball, sworn Samuel Willis Sworn Fence Viewers Isaac Houston — who declined to serve Joel Brown — declined to serve Enoch Blood — Sworn — Hog reeves District N" i James S. Brown, Sworn, 5. Asa Tisdale — Sworn 2. Deliverance Woodward ( Zephaniah Starks— Sworn Sworn 7- ^ Thomas Slade— Sworn 3 Abijah How— 8. Nathan Rofs— (dechned) 4. Permer Cutting 9. Lemuel Stevens (dechned) 5. Gaus McGregory 10 John Wright— Sworn Oliver Smith Sworn 1278] Sealer of Leather Cap' Samuel Slade — sworn Sealer of Weights & Measures Joseph Chase sworn — School Committe District N" i Wm H. Woodward 6. Horace Pinneo 2. Jabez Hill 7. Elijah Miller Sworn 3 . Augustus Chandler — 8 . Jonathan Hatch — Sworn Sworn g, Rufus Durkee— Sworn 4. Moses Davis /- Isaac Houston declines 5. Mason Murch — Sworn 10. ) to serve Jacob Perley. (^ Sworn Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to pay each non commifsioned Officer & soldier on muster or battalion days thirty four cents in lieu of meats & drinks as provided by the Statute of this State — Voted to adjourn this meeting to the 26"' instant at one Oclock P. M.— March 16*'' i8n — Met agreeably to adjournment. — Voted that the Selectmen allow to the School District No. 9. fifteen dollars out of rents of the School lands for the past year which shall be instead of the like sum voted by the town 26o HANOVER N. H. in March 1810— the money then voted & not having been paid them — Voted that after deducting the fifteen dollars voted to dis- trict No 9. the residue of the rents of the School lands for the year past be equally divided among the several School dis- tricts — Voted to raise 800 dollars to defray town charges — Voted to raise 1200 dollars to make and repair highways — to be laid out at the rate of eight cents per hour for actual labor and for oxen & ploughs &c. in the same proportion — Voted that old road leading from the house lately occupied by Ralph Chamberlain to Aaron Putnams land be discontinued & that [279] the same be applied so soon as the Selectmen think proper towards compensating for the new road that is designed for the same purpose. Voted, that the 11"^ Article in the Warrant, " to see what the town would think advisable respecting M'' Annis & wife" be left to the discretion of the Selectmen — Voted to pafs over the 12 Article of the warning — Voted & Chose Maj. Silas Tenney and Capt. Augustus Storrs as auditors the current year — Voted & chose Capt. Royal Wright, William H. Woodward Esq^ and Capt. Lemuel Dow as School Inspectors the current year — Voted that the Selectmen do not tax the non resident land in the town of Hanover — Voted that Maj. Silas Tenny, Capt. Augustus Storrs and Elijah Miller be appointed as a committee to prepare a place for the next annual town meeting — Voted to dissolve this meeting — Attest Jon* Freeman 2'' Town Clerk A road south of Daniel Dodges land runs N. 55° E 24 rods thence N 11° E 82 rods thence North 4° W 50 rods when it strikes the old road North of Dodges — 24 Lemuel Dow Junn Select Men 82 V 50 Jona" Durkee ) °^ Hanover Total 156 rods TOWN RECORDS 201 Surveyed by me Lemuel Dow Jun Excepted by the town March 13"' 18 10 Recorded Feb. 26"^ 1812 — Jon'' Freeman 2™' Town Clerk [2801 i T^ I State of Newhampshire Grafton fs I '. j To Elijah Miller one of the constables of the Town of Hanover — , Greeting — You are hereby required in the name of s" State to notify and warn all the inhabitants of s"^ Hanover who are qualified to vote in town affairs to meet on the second tuesday of March next at nine O clock A. M. at the South Meeting house in the -center of s** town to act on the following articles (viz) — First J To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting — ^nd "Pq choose one person a Clerk for s*^ Town the year en- sueing — 3''* To vote by ballot for all necefsary State & County offi- cers — 4* To choose one person to represent this town in the Gen- eral Court the present year — Sth To choose all necefsary Town officers the year ensueing 6^ To raise money to defray town charges — 7th. To raise money to make and repair highways — Sth. To see if the town would wish to adopt any measure dif- ferent from what has been formerly practised respecting the support of the poor belonging to said town — 9*'\ To hear the report of the school Inspectors & if necef- sary to act thereon — I oth To hear the report of the auditors — 1 1*^ To see if the town will pafs a vote respecting cattle horses swine &c running at large in the town, or in any part of it— 12''''. To hear a petition of a number of the inhabitants east of moose mountain respecting clearing Wolfsborough road & if thought proper to act thereon — 13"'- To hear any other petition or petitions that may be brought forward & act thereon — 262 HANOVER N. H. Hereof fail not but this with your doings make [281] due return according to Law — Given under our hands & seal at Hanover this 19"" day of February Ano Dom 1812— Lemuel Dow J'' ^ Selectmen James Poole V of Samuel Kendrick ) Hanover As within commanded I have notified the inhabitants of Hanover who are qualified to vote in town affairs to meet at the within named time and place according to law — Elijah Miller Constable At a legal Meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Han- over qualified by the laws & constitution of this State to vote in town affairs holden at said Hanover on the tenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1812 — The said inhabitants & voters delivered & gave in their votes for the following officers — (viz) — Voted and Chose Colo. Amos A. Brewster Moderator Voted & chose Jonathan Freeman 2'^ Clerk — (sworn — Voted & chose Capt. Augustus Storrs Representative — Voted & chose Capt. Lemuel Dow, Capt. James Poole and Maj. Samuel Kendrick, Selectmen — and severally sworn — Voted & chose Salmon Dow, collector of taxes — sworn — Voted & chose Elijah Miller and ) „ , , Urial Bascom — sworn \ No. I Amos Wardwell Sworn 2 Edward Smith J' 3 Jon''Freeman a'liSworn 4 Jer. Page Sworn 5 Amos Colman. Sworn [282] Voted & chose Joseph Chase Maj. Samuel Kendrick (sworn) & Daniel Dodge (sworn) Fenceviewers — Maj. Samuel Kendrick (sworn) Sealer of Leather — Lemuel Stevens Sealer of Weights & Measures — "I N° I HenryHutchinsonSworn I No. 6. John Bishop-sworn— Surveyor of Highways N° 6 James Spencer-sworn 7 Eli Hurlbutt 8 Hezii Wliite — sworn 9 Rufus Durlcee — sworn 10 Isaac Houston-sworn I — 2 Gideon Kendriclj sworn I Hog reeves }■ — 3. George West I — 4. IJenj. Ayres j — 5. Henry H. Chandler — 7. Nath' Woodward J' — 8. Orlando Bridgman — 9. John S. Green — 10. Richard Walker TOWN RECORDS 263 Chose Cap^ Lemuel Dow, Jon"' Freeman 2"^ & Tim" Owen J'' school Inspectors — No. 6. Elias Dewey (sworn) — 7. Uavid Camp — sworn 8. Jon" Hatch — 9. Goram Lane — sworn .10. Aaron Putnam-sworn 1 N" I. Mills Olcott Esq' School I — 2. Nathan Kendrick (sworn Committee \ " 3- Caleb Foster I — 4. Permer Cutting Sworn J — 5. Sylvester Ingolls- (sworn Justin Hinds — Corder of Wood Maj. Silas Tenny & Cap' Augustus Storrs — ^Auditors — Voted to accept the report of the Auditors — Voted to raise ^800 to defray town charges the current year Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to set up at public auction the maintainance of Paupers of the town to the lowest bidder — Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to close, or not & the continuance of any contract, respecting the auction of pau- pers, at their discretion — Voted to pafs over the 11'^ Article of the warnmg — Voted to refer the petition of Cap' Augustus Chandler respecting the collecting a tax Joseph Ketcham to the Select- men — [283] Voted to refer the petition of the people east of moose mountain to the Selectmen — Voted to appoint a committee to make arrangements respect money raised for highways — Voted to accept the report of the above mentioned com mittee as follows. Viz, — your Committee report that to take $500 of the $1200 that was raised to make & repair highways the present year & that a Committee be appointed to attend with the Selectmen when they make out the highway tax bills to apportion the money arising from the several districts to make an equallity through the town — Lemuel Dow y Joseph Curtifs Silas Tenny y Committee Samuel Kendrick j Tames Poole 1 264 HANOVER N. II. Votes for Governor Voted to appoint Capt Augustus Storrs, Cap* Royal Wright Joseph Curtifs Esq'' and Maj. Silas Tenny a committee to assist the Selectmen in arranging the highway taxes. Voted to raise $1200 to make and repair highways the cur- rent Year — (N. B The last vote should have been recorded the next after the one to raise money to defray town charges.) Voted that the highway taxes be paid in labor at the rate of eight cents per hour of actual labor — Voted to appoint Maj. Samuel Kendrick to superintend the making of a road leading to Lime line & Amos Colman the road from M'' Hatches to the mill neighborhood Voted M'' Benjamin Merrill be annexed to school district No. 10 — [284] Voted to refund a fine & cost of prosecution amount- ing to about ten dollars to Cap* Lemuel Dow & M'' Samuel Alden For Hon. John T. Oilman For Hon. William Plummer f For Hon Jonathan Franklin ,- , i r- 11 For Abel Merrill . Votes for Counsellor -< „ For John Harris . 1^ For Daniel Kimball For Daniel Kimball Esq* For John Harris Esq* — For William Webster For William Webster For Caleb Keith . For John Page J* . For Ephraim Kingsbury — For Ephraim Kingsbury Esq* For John Page J* . W™ H Woodward Esq* . Caleb Keith . Meeting difsolved by the moderator — Attest Jon'* Freeman 2* Town Clerk Votes for Senator Votes for County Treasurer Votes for County Register 230 votes 82 votes 234 votes 59 votes 4 votes I vote 225 votes 63 votes I vote 180 votes 28 votes 4 votes .3 votes 162 votes 42 votes I vote I vote An alteration in the road begining where the three mile line & the south line of Wolfsborough road intersects each other TOWN RECORDS 265 runs N. 64° E. 5 rods to stakes and stones which is the width of the road — from thence on the east side of the same — Runs S 40° E 22 rods to stake & stones — then S. 26° E 14 rods to stake & stones — then S. 11° E 28 rods to stake & stones — then S. 3° W. 40 rods to stake & stones on the line between M'' Andrew & Cap'' John Tenny when it [285] intersects the old road — From where we started (as above) the width of the road was 5 rods to Pearsons rock so called & from thence only 4 rods — Which is humbly submitted Hanover May 4th 18 12 Lemuel Dow J'' \ James Poole >- Selectmen Samuel Kendrick ) An alteration in the road leading from Hanover Meeting house to the Mill neighborhood so called — Viz bSgining on the old road west of Benjamin Hatches at stake & stones then runs South 44° W. 36 rods then S. 55° W 24 rods then S. 17° W 28 rods— S 70" W 26 rods— S 48° W i8 rods— S 66° W 10 rods S. 58° W 44 rods— S 39° W 20 rods— S 50° W 9 rods— S 40° W 6 rods— S 30° W 24 rods .S 54° W 5 rods— S. 44° W 10 rods S. 40° W 18 rods— S 10° W 16 rods— S 21° W. 28 rods — S [8° W 14 rods — S 29° W 70 rods— to the old road by David Chandler's — the above road is laid 4 rods in width Hanover June 20th 181 c — Lemuel Dow Jr \ Select Men James Poole >- of Sam^ Kendrick ) Hanover Likewise an alteration begining at stake and stones the east side of the highway against D'' Brown's cider mill south end runs N. 29° E 12 rods on D"^ Browns land thence same course on Amos Kinneys land 38 rods South west corner of his barn then N. 43° E 24 rods to the old road 4 rods in width— Han- over June 20. 181 1. Lemuel Dow Jun' \ Selectmen James Poole > of Samuel Kendrick ) Hanover 266 HANOVER N. H. [286] To the Select Men of the Town of Hanover in the County of Grafton & State of Newhampshire — The undersigned Inhabitants of said Hanover of whom more than ten are free holders, respectfully request that a legal meeting of the legal voters of said Town, may be legally warned to convene at some proper place in said Town to consult upon the common good to exprefs their opin- ions upon the present state of our public affairs to take into consideration the expediency of adopting measures for calling a convention of the county of Grafton to concert & adopt the measures necefary therefor & to elect delegates from said Town to such convention August 1812 — Seneca Dewey Squire Shaw Ben J Gilbert Lem^ Cook Ebenezer Fogg Benj. Davis Caleb Fuller Beza Woodward Luke Dewey Hanover 13"^ William Dewey Elias Dewey John Smith Naty Everett Eleazar P. Kendrick Gideon Kendrick Eleazer Porter Ezekiel Smith John Everett Mills Olcott Isaac Bifsell Sam' Alden Ebenezer Woodward Ebenezer Adams Richard Lang Amos A Brewster Cha' Spear W" W Dewey Deliverance Woodward Zeph. Swift Moore Increase Kimball Artemas Brown Nathaniel Heaton J"" Eleazar Porter J'' Sam' Slade — Benj'' Morey Tim° Lester . Sam' Kendrick Augustus Storrs Harry Slade Otis Freeman Jon'^ Freeman 2^ Jonathan Freeman Joseph Roby Edward Freeman Dan Parker Francis Dow Jonathan Hatch Ebez'' Fellows Simon AVard Gideon Smith J' Nathan Kendrick John Smith Timothy Smith John Carpenter Samuel Bradshaw William P. Dewey Pownal Shaw Peter H. Abbot TOWN RECORDS 267 [287] State of Newhampshire L S j Grafton fs. — To Elijah Miller or Urial Bascom or either of the Constables of the Town of Hanover — in said County Greeting — Whereas a petition subscribed by a large number of the inhabitants of said town of whom more than ten are free holders and addrefsed the undersigned Selectmen of said Town has been presented to us requesting that a meeting of the legal voters of said Town may be legally warned to convene at some proper place in said Town to consult upon the common good to exprefs their opinions upon the present state of our public affairs to take into consideration the expediency of adopting measures for calling a convention of the county Grafton to concert and adopt the measures necefsary therefor and elect delegates from said Town to such convention — You are therefore hereby required in the name of the State of Newhampshire to notify and warn according to law the legal voters in the town of Hanover aforesaid to meet at the North meetinghouse in said Hanover on friday the fourth day of Sep- tember next at eleven O clock in the forenoon to choose a nloderator to govern said meeting and also to take into con- sideration and act upon the several subjects in the petition aforesaid mentioned — Hereof fail not & of this warrant with your doings thereon make due return according to law — Given under our hands & seal at Hanover aforesaid the seventeenth day August A D 1812— Lemuel Dow J'^ ) Select Men James Poole >- of Samuel Kendrick ) Hanover [288] Grafton fs. Hanover iS'^^ August 1812 — I have this day warned the legal voters in said Hanover to meet at the time & place & for the purposes within men- tioned by posting up on the fign post of William W. Poole inn 268 HANOVER N. H. keeper in said Hanover a true & attested copy of the within warrant as the law directs — Attest Urial Bafcom Constable Grafton fs Hanover 20"" August 1812. I have this day warned the legal voters in said Hanover to meet at the time & place & for the purposes within men- tioned by posting up on the South Meeting house in said Han- over a true & attested copy of the within warrant as the law directs — Attest Elijah Miller Constable — At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Han- over who are legal voters to vote in town affairs holden in said Hanover on friday the fourth day of September A D 1812 — Chose Cap' James Poole Moderator — Voted to choose a committee to prepare a sett of resolutions to lay before this meeting — Maj. William H. Woodward, Doct'' Cyrus Perkins, Ben J. Gilbert Esq' Deacon Samuel Slade & Joseph Curtifs Esq. were appointed as the aforesaid committee — Voted to adjourn this Meeting one hour to this place Met agreeably to adjournment — and heard the following report of the above mentioned committee (viz) To the inhabitants of the town of Hanover legally afsembled in town meeting — Your Committee appointed for the purpose beg [289] leave to submit the following resolutions for consideration Resolved — That in the present alarming state of our publick affairs, when our dearest rights and the best interests of the nation are placed in the utmost jeopardy, it is our indispensa- ble duty as citizens to exercise the right guaranted to us by the constitution, — "_to afsemble in an orderly and peaceable manner" freely to exprefs our opinions of publick men and meas- ures as also Ho_ consult on the common good" Resolved — That we do most cordially and unreservedly concur with our brethren and fellow citizens of the County of TOWN RECORDS 269 Rockingham, in the sentiments and opinions exprefsed in the Memorial to the President of the United States, adopted by them, at their Meeting at Brentwood, on the s*'' day of August 1812 : And that we will, in concert with them, exert all the powers vested in us by the constitution to remove from the councils of the Nation the authors of our distrefses by elevating to their stations men of intelligent patriotism, advocates of "peace and honest friendship with all Nations, entangling alliances with none." — Resolved. — That we view the private Meetings of Members of Congrefs, at the seat of the general government, commonly called Congrefsiona i Caucuses, convened exprefsly for the pur- pose of imposing on the nation candidates for President & Vice President, as [290] highly pernicious, and even fatal in their tendency ; as calculated, in an eminent degree, to undermine what, in a free Country, is the palladium of its citi- zens — The freedom of Elections. — Resolved. — That [we] view as a cause of most serious alarm the frequent attempts of the friends of administration, by threats and lawlefs violence to overawe constitutional opposi- tion ; and thereby to impair or totally destroy what no freeman can honourably survive — The Liberty of Speech & of the Prefs.— ~ ~ ■Resolved. — As the sense of this meeting, that the principle attempted to be established, by which the Militia are detached from their superior Officers and placed under the command of those of the General Government, is a principle, which under existing circumstances, is not only unconstitutional, but dan- gerous in a high degree, and in its tendency subversive of State Sovereignty, — and — that Governors Strong and Griswold , for their dignified and Constitutional vindication of the rights of their respective States, merit our unequivocal appro- bation. Hanover Sep'' 4* 18 12 by order of the Com*'" Wm H Woodward — Voted to accept of the above report by a large majority — 270 HANOVER N. H. [291] Voted to appoint three persons, delegates to a county convention & Maj. Samuel Kendrick, Maj. W" H Woodward & Deacon Samuel Slade were accordingly appointed. — Voted to adjourn the Meeting ( -r^p 1 ^ Grafton fs. Hanover — L S C State of Newhampshire To Elijah Miller or Urial Bascom or either of them — con- stables Greeting — You are hereby required in the name of s"* State to notify & Warn all inhabitants of s^' Hanover who are qualified to vote in the choice of senators — to meet on the first Monday of November next at one Oclock P M at the North Meeting House (so called) for the following purposes (viz) — First to choose a Moderator to govern s'' Meeting — 2°'' To vote by ballot for eight persons of this State for Electors of President & Vice President of the United States 3'* To vote by ballot for six persons of this State for Repre- sentatives in the Congrefs of the United States — Hereof fail not but this with your doings make return accord- ing to law — Given under our hands & seal at Hanover, this 1 2"' day of October Ano Dom 18 12 — Lemuel Dow. ]'' \ James Poole ' Selectmen Samuel Kendrick ' • Grafton fs. Hanover ryth. October 18 12 — I have this day warned the legal voters in s"* Hanover to meet at the time and place & for the purposes within men- tioned by posting up a true and attested copy of the within according to law Elijah Miller (Constable [292] At a legal Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Hanover qualified by the laws and constitution of this State to vote for Electors of President & Vice President of the United TOWN RECORDS 271 Slates— and for Representatives to Congrefs of the United States holden at said Hanover on the second day of Novem- ber A D. 1812 — The said inhabitants deUvered & gave in their votes for the following persons as Electors of President & Vice Presi- dent of the United States, viz — Electors — For Hon, Oliver Peabody 346 votes— For Hon John Goddard 346 votes - For Hon. Samuel Hale 346 votes— For Hon. Nathan Taylor 346 votes- For Hon. Timothy Farrar 346 votes- For Hon. Benjamin West 346 votes— For Hon. Caleb Ellis 346 votes - For Hon. Jonathan Franklin 346 votes- For Hon. John Langdon 73 votes- For Hon. Timothy Walker 73 votes- For Hon. Richard Dame 'j-^ votes- For Hon. Jedediah K. Smith 73 votes For Hon. Benjamin Pierce T^ votes For Hon. Amasa Allen 73 votes For Hon. Nahiim Parker 73 votes For Hon. Abel Parker 73 votes Representatives to Congrefs — For Daniel Webster — For Bradbury Cilley For William Hale For Samuel Smith For Roger Vose — For Jeduthan Wilcox 338 votes — 33S votes — 3 i8 votes — 338 votes — 338 votes — 338 votes — For John F. Parrott For John A Harper For David L. Morrill For Samuel Dinsmoor For Jefse Johnson — For Josiah Butler 69 votes — 69 votes — 69 votes — 69 votes — 69 votes— 69 votes — Voted to difsolve the Meeting — Attest Jon" Freeman 2'' Town Clerk [293] We the undersigned Selectmen of Hanover & Canaan met the 19''' day of Oct"^ by agreement being at the South East corner of Hanover & South west corner of Canaan & renewed the bounds between s'^ towns then run N. 45" E. on s* line between s** towns and preambulated s* line & renewed the marks thereon Agreeable to an act pafsed Feb'' 8th. 1791 — Dated on %^ line Ocf 20*'' 18 12 Lemuel Dow Jr ) John Currier ) We the undersigned Selectmen of Hanover & Lebanon met and preambulated the line between said towns & renewed the bounds, & marks on said line — according to law — Dated at Hanover this 5"^ Nov' 18 12 — Lemuel Dow J"^ ) Selectmen of Thomas Waterman J Hanover & Lebanon Selectmen of Hanover & Canaan 272 HA.NOVER N. H. We the subscribers do hereby certify that we have agreeably to law perambulated the line betwixt Hanover and Lime — Adolphus Dimick Lime 4'^ Nov. 1812— Samuel Kendrick [294] An alteration in the road east of Ithamar Halls beginning on the old road by a maple staddle runs N. 68° E. 30 rods then 79° E. 42 rods then N. 82° 14 rods thence N. 79° E. 20 rods — On Ithamar Halls land then on William Chand- lers land N. 86° E. 16 rods then S 85° E. 48. rods then N. 55" E. 17 rods then N. 23° E. 27 rods then N. 15° E. 31 rods to the old road west of W™ Chandlers gardain — three rods in width — all of which is humbly submitted — Surveyed by me Lemuel Dow J' Laid by us the subscribers October 20''' 18 12 Lemuel Dow ]■■ \ James Poole >■ Select men Samuel Kendrick ) L S I State of Newhampshire Grafton fs. To Elijah Miller one of the constables for the town of Han- over- Greeting — You are required in the name of s'^ State of Newhampshire to notify and warn all the inhabitants of s'^ Hanover who are legal voters to meet on the second tuesday of March next at the South Meeting house (so called) at nine Oclock A. M. to act on the following articles viz. i^* To choose a Moderator to govern said Meeting 2^' To choose a Town Clerk for the present year 3* To vote by ballot for all necefsary State and County Officers 4* To chose one or more persons to represent this town at the General Court 5th. To choose all necefsary town officers for the year ensue ing 6th To raise money to defray town charges 7"' To raise money to make and repair highways TOWN RECORDS 273 [295] 8*. To see if the town would adopt any different method respecting their poor — than what has been practised g**" To hear the report of the school inspectors loth. To hear the report of the auditors — ii'"- To see if the town would think best to build a pound 12 th To hear the petition of Jabez Kellog & others respecting their school & if necefsary act thereon — 13th. To see if the town will send two persons to represent this town in the General Court the present year — 14th. To see if the town will discontinue a part of the old road leading from Benjamin Hatches to Ithamar Halls — Hereof fail not but this with your doings herein make return according to law — Given under our hands and seal at Hanover this loth day of February A D 18 13 — Lemuel Dow J"^ \ James Poole > Selectmen Samuel Kendrick ) Grafton fs. Hanover February 20th. 1813 — I have this day warned the voters in s** Hanover to meet at the time and place & for the purposes within mentioned by posting on the Meeting house in s'^ Hanover a true and attested copy of the within warrant as the law directs Attest Elijah Miller (Constable [296] At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Hanover qualified to vote for Governor Councillor & Senator and to vote in Town affairs holden in s* Hanover on the ninth day of March A D 1813 — Col. Amos A Brewster was chosen Moderator Jon" Freeman 2^ Clerk — sworn Augustus Storrs & Capt. James Poole were chosen Repre- sentatives — Maj. Samuel Kendrick Mills Olcott Esq' and Cap' Royal Wright were appointed Selectmen and were sworn Constables — Joseph Dewey & Salmon Dow were chosen & sworn Salmon Dow chosen Collector — Highway Surveyors — 18 274 HANOVKR N. H. N» I. Amos Wardwell sworn N" 6 Abraham Brown sworn " 2, Eleazar Porter J' " 7- David Hurlbutt " 3. Amos Kinne " 8. Daniel Dodge " 4. Jeriel Trescott sworn " 9- Jefse Bridgman sworn " 5. Itiiamar Hall sworn " 10 Benj. Walker ]' Fence Viewers— Joseph Chase, (sworn) William Dewey and Ebenezer Fellows were appointed — Maj. Samuel Kendrick chosen sealer of Leather — sworn Lemuel Stevens sealer of Weights & Measures— sworn Hogreeves — N" I. Urial Bascom N" 6 Timothy Smith •■ 2. Eleazar Porter " 7- Nath^ Woodward J' " 3. Richard Foster Jr sworn " 8. Hezekiah White " 4. David L. Davis " 9- John S. Green " 5. David M. Hase " 10. John Wright— sworn [297] Surveyor of Lumber— Chose John Griffin— affirmed— Scholl Committee No I. Justin Hinds sworn N° 6. Elias Dewey sworn ■' 2. Ezekiel Smith sworn " 7. Israel Camp " 3. John Tenny sworn " 8. Daniel Freeman " 4. Asa Wright sworn " 9 Rufus Durkee " 5 Joseph Hoit " 10 John Bean sworn The report of the Auditors was accepted — Voted to raise $800 to defray town charges Voted to raise $1200 to make and repair highways to be paid in labor at eight cents per hour for the labor of a man & for teams in the same proportion — Voted that the maintainance of the town's poor be left to the discretion of the Selectmen — The thanks of the town was voted to the school inspectors for their services the past year — Prof. Ebenezer Adams Timothy Owen J'' and Prof. Zepha- niah S. Moore were appointed School Inspectors — Capt. L. Dow & Deacon Joseph Curtifs — Auditors — Voted that the Selectmen be directed to build a pound of stone and set it in such place as they may deem proper — Maj. Silas Tenny, Isaac Houston & Cap' Augustus Storrs were appointed a committee to examine the situation of school -district N° 9 & make report — Voted that Ithamar Hall have liberty to put 2 pairs of bars TOWN RECORDS 275 and M' Perley Buck i pair across the old road near their houses — [298] Voted that the old road be discontinued from the North east corner of M'' Amos Colman's land to the road that intersects the road that leads to M'" W" Chandlers — Voted to refer farther application of the road to the select- men. The votes having been sorted and counted were declared as follows For Governor — — Hon. John T. Gihnan - 286 votes His Excellency William Plumer 66 votes Daniel Kimball - i vote Enoch Colby i vote For Councillor Hon. Jonathan Franklin ■/■/ votes Enoch Co[l]by Esqr 188 votes Abel Merrill Esqr 58 votes Ziba Huntington 3 votes John T. Gilman — i vote For Senator \ Hon Daniel Kimball 254 votes Ziba Huntington Esq' 61 votes Abel Merrill Esq' 2. votes [ Enoch Colby Esq' i vote f William Webster Esq' 194 votes 1 John L. Corlifs — 46 votes For County Treas' ■! t u t> t, -^ John Page J' — — 2 votes I Ephraim Kingsbury Esq' 3 votes ^ Ephraim Kingsbury Esq' 187 votes For County Register ) John Page Jr. — — — 35 votes C Augustus Storrs i vote Voted to difsolve this Meeting — A road laid out and excepted by the town of Hanover at their annual meeting March 1810 — viz- Beginning 25 rods west of Benjamin Walkers north west corner bounds east of Jacob Perley on the old road & runs S 26° W. 50 rods on [299] Benjamin Walkers land thence on the same point 12 rods thence S. 35° W. 20 rods then S. 26° W. 30 rods on Benjamin Collins land then the same course on Isaac Houstons land 40 rods to the center road so call'd. then on Houstons land the same course on David Blake 7 rods still the same course 104 rods on Itind owned by the heirs of 276 HANOVER N. H. Stephen Kimball J"^ deceased then the same course 12 rods on Aaron Putnams land when it strikes the old road leading south to Lebanon — on Walker 50 rods Surveyed by me Lemuel Dow J' On Collins 62 Do -" On Houstons 98 D" Lemuel Dow Jun' ) Select Men On Blake 07 D" t^ , T On Kimball lo^ Do Jonathan Durkee ^ „f Hanover On Putnam 12 Do Excepted by the town March 13th. 18 10— Total 333 rods 1 Rec^ for record & Recorded March 12th 1814 — A survey of a road from the half mile road to the mile line or road (viz) — Beginning three rods Southerly of Zenas Col- mans Dwelling house at the half mile road thence running South fifty eight degrees East 10 rods thence S. 66° E. 43 rods to stake and stones, thence S. 84° E. to the line between lot N" 7 & N° 8 48 rods thence S. 66° E. 95 rods 5 rods from the east bound of the aforesaid lots thence E. 7 rods to the E. line of lot N° 7. or the mile allowance the first part of the said road for ten rods to be but one rod and a half wide then to run so as that at, ten more to be three rods in width the above Survey the Southerly side of said road with a reserve of the pine tim- ber to Zenas Coleman on his land Samuel Kendrick") Selectmen Royal Wright ) of Hanover [300] ( r^ ) To Salmon Dow one of the Constables of the ( ) Town of Hanover — — — Greeting You are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of s'^ Han- over qualified to vote for State, County and Town Officers to meet at the South Meeting House in s'* Hanover on the second Tuesday of March next at ten O Clock A. M. to act on the fol- lowing articles to wit 1*' To choose a Moderator to govern s" Meeting — 2'' To choose State County & Town Officers — 3"' To see if the Town will discontinue the half Mile road near Edward Smith J™ to Asa Risleys & from thence to Benjamin Thatchers — and also the road from Joseph Reynolds to David ' / Select Men r of Hanover TOWN RECORDS 277 Chandlers — likewise the old road from Perley Bucks to Wil- liam Chandlers — 4*^. To act on the Petition of Moses Woodward & David Woodward y & upon the Petition of Dicey Hall — S*"" To raise money for making & repairing highways — for the support of schools in s'^ Town & to defray Town charges — 6"' To take the sense of the qualified voters on the subject of a revision of the Constitution — Given under our hands and seal this this 15. day of Febru- ary A D 1814^ Samuel Kendrick ^ Mills Olcott Royal Wright Hanover Feb^ 19. 1814 — As within directed I have warned a Town meeting by post- ing up an Attested copy of the within, on College plain & another at the Meeting House as the law directs Salmon Dow Constable [301] At a legal Town Meeting duly notified & holden at Hanover on the 8_th day of March in the year 1814 — Voted and chose Col. Amos A Brewster Moderator Voted & chose Jonathan Freeman 2* Town Clerk — sworn Voted and chose Capt. Augustus Storrs & Capt. James Poole Representatives — Voted & chose ( Maj. Samuel Kendrick (sworn) ) ■] Samuel Alden sworn to office T Selectmen ' Capt. Royal Wright (sworn) ' Voted & chose j Salmon Down (sworn) \ Constables 1 Abraham Dunklee sworn i Voted & chose Salmon Dow Collector (sworn) Voted & chose the following persons Highway Surveyors (viz) District N° 1. Increase Kimball, sworn — 2. John Smith — 3. Jesse Dewey — 4. Nathan Wright — 5. Joseph Hoit (sworn — 6. Elias Dewey (sworn — 7 David Hurlbutt (sworn 278 HANOVER N. H. ' District N° 8. Daniel Dodge — 9. Jesse Bridgman (sworn) — 10. Jacob Perley (sworn) Voted & chose the following persons School Committee (viz) District N° i. James Poole sworn to office — 2. Deliverance Woodward — (sworn) — 3. Elisha Warner [302] School District N° 4. Edward B. Brown do — 5- David M. Hays — (sworn) do. — 6. Orramel Pineo (sworn) do. — 7. Thomas Hurlbutt (sworn) do. — 8. Lemuel Dow J' (sworn) do. — 9. Jabez Kellogg do. — 10. Benjamin Merrill (sworn Voted & chose Samuel Kendrick, Lemuel Dow J"" and Jacob- Perley Fence Viewers — each of whom were sworn to office. Voted and chose Luther Ingalls Sealer of Leather (sworn Voted and chose John Miller Sealer of Weights & Measures (sworn Voted and chose the following persons Hog reeves (viz) — District N° i. Jacob Ward & Moses N. Goodale do. — 2. William Woodward do. — 3. Benjamin Hatch & Asa Foster do. — 4. Joseph Ketcham do. — 5. Seneca Dewey & David Hays do. — 6. Orramel Pineo — sworn do. — 7. Elisha Tenny do — 8. Asa Bridgman do. — 9. Spencer Green do — 10. Isaac Scales — (sworn) Voted and chose Cap' Augustus Storrs, Elijah Miller and Cap' Lemuel Dow Auditors of Accounts — Voted and chose Rev. ProP^ Zephaniah S. Moore, Timothy Owen Jun' & Cap' Lemuel Dow school Inspectors — The sense of the qualified voters of Hanover was taken this 8th. day of March in the year 1814 on the subject of a revision of the consti [303] tution and voted unanimously in the Neg- ative — TOWN RECORDS 279 Voted that the road from Edward Smith J'^ to Asa Risleys & from thence to Benjamin Thatchers be discontinued when the new road is opened & pafsable — Voted that the road from Joseph Reynolds to the south line of Ithamar Hall's land be discontinued — Voted that the prayer or petition of David Woodward J"^ and Moses Woodward be granted — Voted that the prayer of the petition of Mrs. Dicey Hall be submitted to a Committee appointed in conjunction with the Selectmen & that upon their decifion the Select Men be author- ized to present M''* Hall with an order to the aforesaid deci- sion — Voted & chose Capt. James Poole, Maj. Silas Tenny & John Durkee Esq"^ the aforesaid Committee — Voted to raise the sum of $1200. to make and repair high- ways to be laid out in labour at the rate of 8 cents an hour for a man and in proportion for oxen & tools — Voted that the sum required by law for the support of schools is sufficient for the current year — Voted to accept the report of the Auditors — Voted to raise the sum of ^700. to defray Town charges Voted & chose Ithamar Hall pound Keeper — sworn to office At a legal Town meeting duly notified and holden at Hano- ver on the 8th day of March in the year 1814 the following votes in for His Excellency John T. Oilman, Governor, 311 votes — Hon. William Plumer Esq"^ 79 votes which votes have been declared in open town meeting [304] At a legal town meeting duly notified and holden at Hanover on the 8* day of March in the year 1814 the follow- ing votes were given in for Councillor, viz. Hon. Enoch Colby Esq' 311 votes — Hon. Abel Merrill Esq'' 79 votes which votes have declared in open Town Meeting — At a legal town Meeting duly notified and holden at Hano- ver on the 8th day of March in the year 1814 the following votes were given in for Senator, viz, Hon. Daniel Blaisdell Esq'' 310 votes — Ziba Huntington Esq'' 79 votes which votes have been declared in open town Meeting — At a legal Town Meeting duly notified and holden at Hano- 28o HANOVER N. H. ver on the 8th. day of March in the year 1814 the following votes were given in for County Treasurer, viz, William Web- ster Esq' 311 votes — Joseph Blifs 79 votes — which votes have been declared in open town meeting — At a legal Town Meeting duly notified and holden at Hano- ver on the 8th. day of March in the year 18 14 the following votes were given in for County Register, viz, Ephraim Kings- bury Esq' 310 votes — John Page J'^ 79 votes which votes have been declared in open Town Meeting — Voted to difsolve this Meeting — Attest Jon" Freeman 2'' Town Clerk [305] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs. Hanover April 23'^ 18 14 — The inhabitants of the town of Hanover are hereby notified to meet at M'' Jefse Dewey's store on Saturday the 4th day of May next at one O clock P. M. to act on the following pur- poses to wit — i" To choose a Moderator to govern s'^ meeting — 2™' To attend to the appointment of one man to serve as a Grand Juror & two men to serve as Petit Jurors at the Supreme Judicial Court to be holden at Haverhill on the third tuesday of May next — Jon^ Freeman 2"'i Town Clerk At a town meeting legally notified for the appointment of Jurors & holden at Hanover on the 4th day of May in the year 1814 — Voted & chose Col. Otis Freeman Moderator — M' Isaac Fellows was appointed Grand Juror, Col. Amos A Brewster & Capt. Edward Freeman were appointed Petit Jurors to serve at the Supreme Judicial Court within & for the county of Grafton to be holden at Haverhill in s* county on the third tuesday of May, instant, and were declared duly appointed in open town meeting — Jon" Freeman 2"'' Town Clerk [306] We the undersigners hereby set off & afsign to Dicea Hall of Hanover all of the old road or high way running through or lying against her thirds as a compensation for the land that is made use of for a publick road west of said Dicea's TOWN RECORDS 28 1 dwelling house and for damages for removing the road from her land to where it is now laid out & established, that is to say so much of said old road or highway as is not heretofore disposed of — Hanover May i;th. 1814 — Samuel Kendrick •» „ , ^ „ , ,,, / Selectmen Samuel Alden > ^ .,-, „ , „, . , I of Hanover Royal Wright ) The subscribers hereby set ofE and afsign to Benjamin Hatch of Hanover the following pieces or parcels of highway lands as compensation in full for a highway or road being laid out and opened through said Hatch's land in the hollow a little west of his dwelling house (viz) beginning near said Hatches house running west two rods to said Hatches lands thence on said Hatches line to Joseph Reynolds north line said piece being two rods wide — also the whole of the old road or high- way beginning at a pile of stones five rods south of said Joseph Reynolds barn thence southerly thirty four rods to a pine bush with a pile of stones round it — Hanover April 5th. 1814 Samuel Kendrick \ Select Samuel Alden V Men of ■ Rec* for record & recorded Royal Wright ) Hanover Ocf^e. 181 4. J. Freeman 2 Town Clerk [307] Record of a road from Joseph Reynolds north line to a part of the old road set off to Benjamin Hatch (as a compen- sation for the new road laid out through said Hatches land leading to the Mill neighborhood — We lay out & establish a road from the north line of Joseph Reynolds land to land sett off to Benjamin Hatch as compensation for the new road run- ning thro' his land, (viz), three rods in width of the east side of the old road — Sam' Kendrick ) Selectmen of Hanover Sep"" 21" 1814 Royal Wright I Hanover Rec'* for Record & recorded Ocf 6 th. 18x4 — Attest Jon^ Freeman 2'* Town Clerk 282 HANOVER N. H. Hanover March 9th. 1815 — We approve of the within petitioned road upon the principle of the Towns not paying damage therefor — Survey is as fol- lows (viz) Beginning Southeast of the house Francis Dow on Lebanon line where the Houston road (so called) crofses said line runs N. 10° E. 27 rods thence N. 20° E. 27 rods untill it strikes the old road leading from Hanover Meeting house to Lebanon City so called which new road we establish three rods in width Samuel Kendrick \ electmen Samuel Alden y of Royal Wright ) Hanover State of New Hampshire Grafton fs. Hanover March 10. 1815 — Rec* for record & recorded Attest Jon'' Freeman 2"'^ Town Clerk [308] |l s| State of New Hampshire Grafton fs. To Abraham Dunklee one of the Constables of the town of Hanover Greeting — You are hereby required in the name of said State to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Hanover who are qualified to vote in the choice of Senators for the State Legislature, to meet at the south Meeting house (so called) in said Hanover on the last Monday of August, ins* at one o, clock P. M. to act on the following articles (Viz.) — i^' To choose a Moderator to govern said Meeting — 2"'' To vote by ballot for one person duly qualified for Rep- resentative in the Congrefs of the United States, to repre- sent the State in the place of the Honorable Samuel Smith resigned — 3''* To vote by ballot for six persons duly qualified for Rep- resentatives of this State in the Congrefs of the United States to serve as such for two years from and after the third day of March next — TOWN RECORDS 283 4'^ To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to dis- pose of a part or the whole of the old road from Lime line to near Jeremiah Thomas' house — Hereof fail not and make return of this with your doings , thereon, on or before the last Monday of August ins' to us the subscribers — Given under our hands & seal at Hanover this ninth day of August A D 1814 — Samuel Kendrick ) Samuel Alden y Selectmen Royal Wright ) of Hanover [309] Grafton fs. Hanover Aug' 13'" 1814. I have noti- fied and warned the Inhabitants of said Hanover qualified to vote in the choice of Senators for the State Legislature to meet at the place, day & hour mentioned in the within warrant by posting up on this day at two of the most public places in said Hanover a true & attested copy of the within warrant, as the law directs — Attest Abraham Dunklee Constable fees ^1,00 At a legal town meeting dulj' notified and holden at Han- over on the 2gth day of August in the year 1814 — chose Col. Amos A. Brewster Moderator — The following votes were given in for Representative, in the place of the Hon'''' Samuel Smith resigned, in the Congrefs of the United States, viz — For David L. Morrill 75 votes For Parker Noys Esq' 268 votes. — For Daniel Webster 279 votes — Bradbury Cilley 278 votes — William Hale 279 votes — Charles H. Atherton 279 votes — Roger Vose — 279 votes — Jeduthan Wilcox 278 votes — John F. Parrott 75 votes — Nath' Upham 75 votes — David L. Morrill 75 votes — Elisha Huntley 75 votes Stephen P. Webster 75 votes Josiah Butler — 75 votes 284 HANOVER N. H. [310] Mills Olcott — 1 vote for Representatives of this State in the Congrefs of the United States to serve as such for two years from and after the third day of March next, — which votes have been declared in open town meeting — Voted that the Selectmen are authorized to convey a piece . of highway as described in the warrant for this meeting Voted to difsolve this meeting — Attest Jon"' Freeman 2* Town Clerk ! L S ! State of New Hampshire Grafton fs. \ To Abraham Dunklee one of the Consta- vbles of the Town of Hanover in said ) County — Greeting — In the name of the State aforesaid you are hereby directed and required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town aforesaid, who are qualified to vote in town affairs to afsemble at the South Meeting-house (so called) in said town on the fourteenth day of March next at nine O'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles viz, — 1°' To choose a moderator to govern said meeting — 2"* To choose State & County Officers for the ensueing years 3'' To choose two suitable persons to represent the afore- said town in the General Court the ensuing year — 4th. To choose all necefsary town officers for the ensuing year 5th. To raise money for the support of schools, for repair- ing highways & defraying other town expences — [311] 6th. To hear & act on the report of the auditors — 7th. To hear & act on the Petition of James L. Brown & others — S"' To hear the Petition of James Burnham & others and to act thereon — 9th. To hear and act on the Petitions of Joseph Reynolds & others — 10"' To see if the town will take any, and what measures to relieve District N° 9 respecting the support of their school — TOWN RECORDS 285 Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to us the subscribers on or before the fourteenth day of March next — Given under our hands and seal at Hanover this twenty third day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifteen — Samuel Kendrick ■) Selectmen Samuel Alden i- of Royal Wright ) Hanover At a legal town meeting, duly notified and holden at Han- over on the fourteenth day of March in the year 181 5 Chose Mills Olcott Esq' Moderator- Chose Jonathan Freeman 2"'* Town Clerk Chose Otis Freeman Esq'' and Maj. James Poole Representa- tives to the General Court — Chose Maj. Samuel Kendrick, Henry Hutchinson Esq'' and Augustus Storrs Esq"^ Selectmen — Chose Rufsell Bridgman & Justin Hinds Constables — Chose Rufsell Bridgman Collector of Taxes — [312] Chose Surveyors of Highways as follows, viz — District N" I. Amos Wardwell N° 6. John Smith 2'' — 2. Gideon Kendrick — 7. Thomas Hurlbutt — 3. Amos Kinne — 8. Jonathan Hatch — 4. Palmer Cutting — g. Joel Joslyn — 5. Mason Murch — 10. David Blake and John Derby & Abraham Kimball east of the mountain The following votes were given in for Governor His Exl'^' John T. Gilman 283 votes Hon William Plumer Esq'' 71 votes — The following votes were given in for Councillor Mills Olcott Esq' 274 votes Hon Enoch Colby Esq"^ 6 votes — Thomas Whip- ple Jun"^ 71 votes — Hon. Daniel Blasdell 2 votes — The following votes were given in for Senator Abiathar G. Britton Esq"^ 261 votes — Ziba Huntington Esq' 71. votes David Hough Esq'' 6 votes — Enoch Colby Esq"" 2 votes — Moses P. Payson Esq"^ i vote — The following votes were given in for County Treasurer — William Webster Esq'' 282 votes — Joseph Blifs 64 votes 286 HANOVER N. H. The following votes were given in for County Register — Ephraim Kingsbury Esq' 281 votes — Bryan Morse 65 votes — Joseph Blifs 2 votes which votes have been declared in open town meeting — Voted to adjourn to the 28th day of March instant, at one OjClock in the afternoon — J. Freeman 2'^ Clerk [313] March 28th. 1815 — Met agreeably to adjournment — Voted to postpone the choice of Tythingmen for the present Voted & chose David Chandler, Samuel Slade, Samuel Ken- drick & Richard Lang — Fence viewers Chose Luther Ingalls Sealer of Leather Chose John Miller Sealer of Weights & Measures Hog — reeves — 'ist. N° I. Joseph Dewey Dis« N° 6. Noah Coleman sworn — 2. Martin Risley — 7- Alpheus Hurlbutt — 3- Edward Freeman — 8. Francis Dow ~ 4- Palmer Cutting 9- Jefse Bridgman . S- Timo. Owen Jun'' 10. Isaac Scales East of the Mountain Abraham Kimball Voted to excuse M' Justin Hinds to serve as Constable the year ensueing — Voted & chose Abraham Dunklee Constable School Committee Dist. N" I Samuel Alden Dist. N" 6. Benj^ Thatcher — 2 John Smith 7. Daniel Kendrick — 3. Nathaniel Worth 8. Stephen Benton J"' — 4. Lathrop Willis 9. Lemuel Stevens 5. Aijah Walker 10. Richard Walker Voted & chose Rev"* Josiah Towne Timothy Owen J'' and Rev* Zephaniah S. Moore School Inspectors — Voted & chose Timothy Owen J' & Samuel Alden auditors — Voted to raise for the support of Schools that sum of money as prescribed by Statute — Voted to raise $1200 for making and repairing highways Voted to accept the report of the Auditors for the past year [314] Voted to raise for the necefsary expences of the town 600 dollars for the current year TOWN RECORDS 287 On motion voted to appoint a Committee to join with the Selectmen to alter & establish a road near Nathan Wests house John Durkee Esq'' Chauncey Bridgman & Major Silas Tenny were accordingly appointed for that purpose — On motion voted to refer the petition of James L. Brown to the decision of the Selectmen — Voted to refer the petition of James Burnham to the decision of the Selectmen & that they make report thereon — On motion voted that a committee of three be appointed to •confer with Benj" Hatch respecting a part of a highway near his house & to report thereon — John Durkee Esq' Maj. Silas Tenny and David Hurlbutt were accordingly appointed and made report that Joseph Reynolds agrees to give Benjamin Hatch a bar way & M"^ Hatch agrees to give M"^ Reynolds the land conveyed to him by the Selectmen & that the town should grant to M"^ Hatch 10 dollars — Voted to accept the report Voted to pass over the petition of School district N° 9 — An account was presented by Cap'. Lemuel Dow to the amount of 15 dollars to be allowed — voted not to allow it — Voted to excuse M"^ Rufsell Bridgman of serving as a Col- lector of taxes the current year — Voted & chose Salmon Dow Collector of taxes and Consta- ble the current year — and sworn to office — [315] Voted to reconsider the vote pafsed on the second tuesday of March, instant, to appoint four tything men Voted and chose Deacon Nathaniel Wright and Increase Kimball Tything-men the current year — severally sworn to •office — Voted to dissolve this meeting — Attest Jonathan Freeman 2^ Town Clerk State of Newhampshire Grafton fs. Hanover April 14th — 1815 — The inhabitants of the Town of Hanover are hereby notified to meet at M'' Jefse Dewey's Store on Monday the 24"^ day of April instant at one oclock P. M. to act on the following pur- poses—to wit — 288 HANOVER N. H. i«' To choose a Moderator to govern s" meeting — 2"'! To attend to the appointment of one man duly qualified to serve as a grand juror & two men to serve as petit jurors at the Supreme Judicial Court to be holden at Haverhill on the third tuesday of May next — Jon^ Freeman 2'^ Town Clerk At a legal town meeting holden in Hanover on the 24"^ day of April A D 1815 — Voted by ballot & chose Jon*^ Freeman Esq' Moderator — On motion Joseph Curtifs was duly chosen Grand juror and Eli Hurlbutt and Asa Wright were duly appointed petit jurors to serve at the Supreme Judicial Court to be holden at Haver- hill on the third tuesday of May A D 18 15 — voted to difsolve this meeting — Attest Jonathan Freeman 2'^ Town Clerk State of New Hampshire [316] Grafton fs. ( ~") To Salmon Dow one of the Constables of the town of ( ^^l^ ] Hanover in s'^ county Greeting In the name of the State of New Hampshire you are hereby required to notify all the inhabitants of said town, which are required by law to vote in town affairs, to afsemble and meet at the South Meeting house in the east part of said town on tues- day the twelfth day of March next at ten of the Clock in the forenoon to consider and act upon the following particulars — Viz— 1. To choose a Moderator to govern said Meeting 2. To bring in their votes for Governor, Councillor, Senator, County Treasurer and County Register. 3. To choose two persons to represent said town in the Gen- eral Court the year ensueing. 4. To choose all necefsary town officers. 5. To raise money for town expences, for the making and repairing of highways & bridges and for the support of Schools. 6. To hear the report of the auditors of Accounts. 7. To consider the subject of a poor house and taking care of Paupers. TOWN RECORDS 289 8. To hear the petition of James Spencer & others and the Petition of Jonathan Greeley & others. — 9. To see if the town will discontinue any of the roads in s'' town — Hereof fail not and make return of your doings therein at the time & place aforesaid to the town Clerk or Selectmen of s* Town. Given under our hands and Seal at Hanover afore- said this 22°* day of Feb'' Anno Domini 1816 — Samuel Kendrick ~\ Select men H. Hutchinson > of said Augustus Storrs .' Town. [317] At a legal town meeting duly notified and holden at Hanover on the twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord 1816— Chose Col. Amos A Brewster Moderator — Chose Jonathan Freeman 2'' Town Clerk — sworn Voted & Chose Augustus Storrs Esq"^ & Col. James Poole Representatives Voted & chose Maj. Samuel Kendrick, Henry Hutchinson Esq" & Elijah Miller Selectmen — & were severally sworn to Office. The following votes were given in for Governor, viz, for Hon James Sheafe 265 votes. for Hon William Plumer 124 votes. The following votes were given in for Councillor, viz, for Hon Enoch Colby 267 votes. for Thomas Whipple Jun' 124 votes. The following votes were given in for Senator for Abiathar G. Britton Esq' 202 votes. for John Durkee Esq' 122 votes. for Aaron Hutchinson Esq'' 59 votes. for Jonathan Franklin Esq' 2 votes. The following votes were given in for County Treasurer for William Webster Esq'' 250 votes. for Joseph Blifs Esq'' 117 votes. The following votes were given in for County Register for Hon Ezra Bartlett 1 1 7 votes 19 290 HANOVER N. H. for Ephraim Kingsbury Esq"' 249 votes — Voted to adjourn this meeting to the third tuesday of this month at ten oclock A. M. Attest Jon^ Freeman 2"" Town Clerk [318] March ig'*" 1816 — Met agreeably adjournment — Voted & chose Salmon Dow & Abraham Dunkley Constables and sworn to office — Voted & chose Salmon Dow Collector of Taxes — Surveyors of Highways District N° i James S. Brown — sworn — 2 Deliverance Woodward — — 3 Delano Wright sworn — 4 Beza. Woodward — — 5 Ithamar Hall — — 6 James Spencer — — 7 Calvin Topliff— — 8. Jasper Morrifs — sworn — g. Lemuel Stevens — — 10. Amos Tenny Samuel Willis, Bartlett Bryant & John Derby were appointed Surveyors of Highways east of Moose Mountain — Voted Sc chose Samuel Alden & Benjamin Smith J'' Tyth- ingmen School Committee — District N° i Justin Hinds — 2 Gideon Smith — — 3 Jonathan Freeman 2* sworn — 4. Elisha Hurd — — 5. Silas Chandler. — 6. Noah Coleman — 7. Nathaniel Woodward — 8. Daniel Dodge — g. Jabez Kellogg — 10. Isaac Houston Chose David Chandler, Benoni Dewey & James Woodward — Fence Viewers — Chose Abraham Dunkley sealer of Leather — sworn — Chose John Carpenter Sealer of Weights & Measures — TOWN RECORDS 29I [319] Voted and chose the following persons to the office of Hog reeves — viz — District N" i James R. Wheelock — > Sworn to office as by Certificate — 2 Asahel Smith > dated March 2i»t 18 16 — — 3 Otis Freeman — 4. Samuel Ketcham — 5 Abel Bridgman — 6 Orramel Pineo — — 7 Benjamin Morey — sworn — 8 Francis Dow — sworn — 9 Warren Day — 10 John Houston — sworn- School Inspectors — Chose Rev. Josiah Towne, Timothy Owen J' & Rev. Prof. Roswell Shurtleff— Auditors of Accounts — Chose Cap* Lemuel Dow & Maj. Silas Tenny — Voted to raise 1200 dollars for the making & repairing of Highways & Bridges — Voted to raise the sum required by law for the support of schools — Voted to, accept of the report of the auditors of the last year- Voted to raise 500 dollars to defray town expences — Voted to appoint a Committee to examine whether it is nec- efsary to build a Poor house & report relative to that businefs at some future meeting — and Samuel Slade Benjamin J. Gil- bert, Joseph Curtifs, Silas Tenny & Samuel Alden were accord- ingly appointed — Voted to accept the report of the Selectmen relative to a petition of James Burnham & others-^that the prayer of s"* petition be granted — Voted that the Selectmen be authorised to discontinue [320] a road leading from M' Zenas Colmans to M"' Edward Smith's whenever they shall establish a new road from the house occu- pied by M' Benjamin Thatcher to s^ Edward Smiths & when s"^ new road shall be opened & become pafsable — Voted to discontinue the road near Francis Dow's estab- lished March 9* 1815 — 292 HANOVER N. H. Voted to allow Francis Dow to work on the road discon- tinued near his house — Voted to appoint a Committee to examine into the expedi- ency of discontinuing a part of the highway near White river falls Bridge & report thereon — John Durkee Esq', Isaac Houston, Samuel Alden, Maj. Samuel Kendrick & Col. James Poole were appointed & chosen to constitute s*^ Committee — Chose William W. Poole Clerk of the Market — Voted to difsolve this Meeting — Attest Jon* Freeman 2^ Town Clerk Hanover June 10"' 1815 — Alteration in the road leading from Asa Bridgman's to Dea- con Stephen Benton's beginning at an apple tree opposite the house of Asa Bridgeman's east of the highway runs N. 2° E. 43 rods then N. 10° E. 26 rods then N. 6° E. 20 rods then N. 4° W. 14 rods then N. :i2° W. 60 rods then N. 34° W. 42 rods to the old road between D" Benton's house & barn — Samuel Kendrick -> L Selectmen of H. Hutchinson ) Hanover Recorded May 20"^ 18 16 — Jon" Freeman 2"* Town Clerk [321] Hanover April 23I A D 18 16— Alteration in the road by Gideon Smiths to the river road beginning west of s'* Smith's near the end of the wall on the north side of the road to a stake & stones thence N. 28° W 25 rods to a pine stub thence N. 12° E. 26 rods to a corner of Majer S. Kindricks Land thence down the valey to the river road the N. E side of the road to be three rods in width — Samuel Kendrick ) H. Hutchinson f- Selectmen of Elijah Miller ) ^* Hanover Recorded May 20** 1816 — Jon" Freeman 2°"i Town Clerk TOWN RECORDS 293 Survey of a road in Hanover to be laid out leading from the house now occupied by Benjamin Thatcher to the county Road so called — Beginning at the northerly Side of what was for- merly a road running easterly & westerly by s'' Thatchers four rods in width and at a stake opposite the corner of the stone wall the westerly side of the road running southerly from s"* Thatchers Thence north io° East 62 rods to a hemlock tree — thence north forty rods to a stake & stones — thence north 11° east 25 rods — thence North 5° east 25 Rods to a stake & stones thence North 12° west 58 rods to a stake & stones at the County road the s** line being the westerly bound of s'* road which is to be three rods wide — April 23I 1816— Samuel Kendrick ^ „ 1 ^ c I Selectmen of H. Hutchmson ka Hanover Elijah Miller ) Recorded May 20. 1816 — Jon* Freeman 2^ Town Clerk 1322] State of New Hampshire Grafton fs. Hanover April 27"^ 1816 — The inhabitants of the town of Hanover are hereby notified to meet at the North Meeting house in Hanover on Monday the 6"^ day of May next at two Oclock in the afternoon to attend to the following particulars — viz — i"' To choose a Moderator to govern s'' meeting 2* To attend to the appointment of one man to serve as a grand Juror and two men to serve as petit Jurors at the Supreme Judicial Court to be holden at Haverhill within & for s'^ County on the 3"^ tuesday of May next— and two men to serve as petit Jurors at s'^ Court to be holden on Monday next following the 3"^ tuesday of May next — Jonathan Freeman 2'' Town Clerk At a legal town meeting duly notified & holden at Hanover on the sixth day of May 181 6- — Chose Maj. Samuel Kendrick Moderator — Maj. Silas Tenny was appointed Grand Juror — Caleb Foster & John Durkee Esq' were appointed petit 294 HANOVER N. H. Jurors to serve at the Supreme Judicial Court on the third tuesday of May — 1816 — Samuel Alden & Col. James Poole were appointed to serve as petit Jurors at s"* Court on the Monday next following the third tuesday of May 1816 — Meeting difsolved — Attest Jon^ Freeman 2'' Town Clerk TOWN RECORDS 29s 1.30 70 60 80 10 40 30 20 10 5 20 20 5 i \ % 4 30 600 [323] ai d t3 9 D > <0 ■a CO 03 Names. >-i d d M n-( 60 g m u n^ "3 -, f 10 d d d •0 c •a M g ti£ P g S a •S-d S IS 4^ tc •0 ■o la ■c ■* -o djS a 'E a fl ■i-i >>F1 "2 w g v: I -* CO (N § ^ CO CO IN r ■? p a ■5 .2 n -o 3 d 6 d M d d eS '3 '3 rt g 3 a ^ tu Q Q Q Q 3 Z a 2 2.10 Cutler Rami 1.80 Coleman Caleb 1 1 2.20 Carpenter Elijah 2 1 1 1 2 5 8; 5.60 Curtis Joseph 1 1 2 2 4 4 3 • 5 17 30 m 100 1 13.45 Curtifs Joseph A 1 ; 1 2.20 Chandler Silas 1 2 i * 3 2 3 9 12 % 100 1 9.50 Coleman Zenas 1 2 2J 3 1 2 10 20 g 200 100 1 9 75 Colman Asaph 1 1 6 10 ^ 40 4.20 Colman Noah 1 2 1 2 1 4 15 4.85 Cutting Palmer 1 2 2 3 4 2 7 20 n 1 7.40 Camp Israel 1 2 3 6 2 6 24 Jg 260 1 8.05 Camp Jonah 1 2 2 2 2 6 1 1 5.00 Camp David 1 2 3 2 2 7 12:48 100 6.65 Colman Amos 1 2 3 2 2 5 81** 100 6.00 Chandler W" 1 2 2 2 9 3 6 16'30S?g 200 14.85 Chandler Cyrus 1 I 1.30 Chandler Jer' 1 2 1 4 1.90 296 HANOVER N. H. 1.30 70 50 80 10 40 30 20 t 10 6 20 20 5 4 4 4 % 4 30 500 Names 2 T3 CO •a a 60 ■a aj 01 m in in CO * ® . K m' 1 60 a '% in £ S ■a a 2 "3 B s. S 1 ■0 •a 3 S • a< 1 Q a a r) K Q W 2 1 6 4 s8 600 30 7.75 Dewey Luke 1 2 2' 2 2 2 IS 150 5.15 Dewey W" P. 1 1 2.20 Dewey Joseph L 1 1 40 2.40 Davis Nancy 400 2.00 Davenport Lemi 2 3000 16.75 Dunkley Ab» 1 1 1 200 3.25 [325] Durkee Rufus 2 1 1 2.95 Durkee Ziba 1 2 3 1 1 8.45 Dewey Ellas 2 2 6 3 9 10 80 hi 100 10.80 Dewey Andrew 1 1 6 2.00 Davis Bezaleel 1 2 3 1 2 8 8 h% 150 5.20 Davis David L. 1 2 2 2 3 3 6 % 50 4.S0 Davis Benja 1 1 1 1 4 4 2.85 Davis Augustus 1 1 2.20 Dudley Jacob 1 1 2 3 4 2 8 16 S8 i88 t 18 50 7.85 Dewey Jefse 3 1 2 1 2 8 30 100 S.uO Jacobs Dani Heirs 2 9 16 80 i 3.80 Dow Lemuel 1 2 6 2 ■4 12 40 1 4.69 Dow Salmon 2 2 6 12 100 i 5.66 Dow Lemuel J' 1 2 2 2 2 2 8 4 150 1 1 7.80 Dodge Daniel 1 2 5 1 2 8 8 70 1 6.60 Durkee John 1 1 2 1 2 4 2 7 12 70 1 6.85 Dow Francis 2 2 3 1 2 8 80 4.10 Dewey Oliver 1 2 3 60 1 3.60 Everett Jefse 2 1 1 3 12 A J8 20 4.38 Emerson Moses 1 2 2 1 3 8 60 4.20 Eaton Calvin . I 2 1 1 70 ! 2.85 Eaton Horace 2 1 1 1 4 18 60 3.16 Pox Jacob 1.30 Fox John 2 2 1 3 8 6 1% 500 5.15 Freeman Sam' 1.30 Fairservice Mathew 4 75 i 300 2.63 Fogg Ebem 1 1 4 11 1 6 11 15 60 5V0 1 17.96 Fellows Benjamin 100 1.80 French Sargent 1 2 4 15 25 51 150 1 8.84 Fellows Isaac 1 1 2 6 3 2 8 16 ?S so' 1 7.80 Freeman Otis 2 5 5 2 9 15 ss 225' 1 8.72 Freeman J on" 2-1 1 2 5 3 9 15 iS- 225 \ 1 8.77 Freeman Jon» 1 2 4 1 1 2 6 11 i=3S 400 j 1 9.70 Freeman Edward 1 2 2 3 4 5 1 7 14 MS 20 1 8.35 Foster Caleb 2 2 1 12 130 200 5.45 [326] Foster Richard 2 l\ 2 3 2 yi ! 4.90 Davis Ebenezer Oxford Freeman Daniel 1 1 2 3 3 3 2 8 7 26 10 60 48 150i 50 1 6.00 6.45 Fellows Bben> 3 3 3 1 9 12 So 70! 5.70 Freeman Peyton R. 2 5 16 300 3 4.66 Freeman Sarah Widow M 2 12 1.10 Qoold Ralph W. 2i 1 2.90 Goold Phineas 1.30 1.30 8.90 Goold Geo. W Gilbert Ben J. 1 1 J8 .300 TOWN RECORDS 297 1.30 70 60 30 10 40 30 20 10 5 20 20 B i 4 4 3 i 30 6.00 Names = ^ CO ■a fee ^ Oi 1 M S orses 5 0.4 do 0. 3 do. 0.2 do. xen 5 di 4do ows TitocF 0.2 do rable land lowing ^ 9 c9 a in a 2 "3 .3 M 1 ^ .* ■a t4 1 ■0 s 1 d. npp|Q|0 D|o;K P|i 2 112 1 2 12 30 %% 100 1 9.46 Hill Jabez 1 114 3 6 6 10 30 iVu 350 11.16 Heaton Nathi 1 1 2; 1 6 10 i% 100 20 1 4.80 Heaton Nathi Jt 1 7 4 4 3 8 30 II JOO 1 8.90 Heard Elisha 1 2 3 3 2 17 13 li 50 6.30 Hardy Daniel Lebanon 1 4 10 Is 1.60 Hurlbutt Eli 1 1 2 3 5 12 7 12 IS 100 200 9.70 Hurlbutt Tho« 1 1 2 3 2 2 2 7 12 1 100 1 7.44 Hurlbutt Amasa 1 1 3 10 A 60 3.13 [327] Hurlbutt David 2 4 12 4 2 16 26 18 160 2 13.30 Heaton Joseph 12112, 633 2 15 30 Is 80 11.15 Hatch Benjamin 1 1 2i 4 2 1 10 20 4fi, 300 1 9.10 Hall Alba 1 1 2 2 15 16 11 80 6.10 Hall Ithamar 1 6 9 4 1 312 100 11.65 Hall William 1 2.00 Hill Bleazar 1 2 2 3 3 3 8 19 -IS 160 1 7.40 Hill Abner 1.30 Hoyt Joseph Hase David 1 4 2 16 12 H 80 1 5.95 1.30 Hase John L 2 2 2 2 6 IB If 60 6.76 Hase David M. 2 2 4 1 3 4 12 20 A% 10.15 Houston Isaac 2 14 10 4 5 5 20 48 #5 300 16.76 Houston John 1 1.60 Huntoon John 1 2 4 16 12 fl 60 6.17 Hatch Jonathan 1 2 4 12 2 6 12 ^8 .70 6.06 .Heard John 1 1.50 Ingalls Chester 1 2 2 3 20:fi?i! 3.90 Ingalls Luther 1 2 4 100 2.60 Ingalls Sylvester l| 4 2.80 Joslyn Joel 1 5!?ifir 160 2.00 Kendrick Nathan 1 2 2 13 4 12 W 40 1 5.61 Ketcham Joseph 1| 2 1 510 40 A% 200 1 9.06 Ketcham Susanna 2 3 2 1.60 Kendrick Samuel 1 2 5 1 410 10 H 120 2 8.30 Kendrick Gideon 1 2 2 1 10 Is 3.36 Ketcham Zophar's heirs 2 4 n .70 Ketcham Sam' 1 1 1 2.30 Knight William 1 12 2 1 2 12 16 U 100 7.86 3.60 Knight William ^r 112 2 Kingsbury Jn» D 1 2 5 3 10 12 M 70 7.76 1.30 7.53 Kingsbury Henry Kendrick Daniel li 2 4 112 8 16 hi 100 1 Kinne Amos 1 ; 2 5 2 6 4 10 20 n 200 1 9.78 298 HANOVER N. H. 130 70 50 30 10 40 30 20 10 5 20 20 5 i i i 3 2 30 5.00 Names 1 CO ■0 &0 CO 1 CO 02 10 tn « m S S 1 1 2^20 4.02 Putnam Aaron 1 2 2 3 s! H 50 Putnam Cornelius 1 2 1 3 512 ji 50 1 4.93 Perley Jacob 1 1 2 7 2 6 2 12 20 as 150 i 9.60 Parks Abel 1 1 2 6 3 7 2 11 16 3 150 1 9.10 Plumer Sam' 1 1 2 4 •J 4.70 3.55 Plumer Caleb 1 2 1 4 40 Plumer Henry 1 1 1.65 Plumer Moses I 1 2.00 1.80 Roby Joseph 1 100 TOWN RECORDS 299 1.30 70 50 30 10 40 30 20 CD Elsley Asa J' 1 Bisle; Martin Bof s Thomas Bofs David Eeynolds Joseph Smith Nathan Sargeant Roger Spear Charles Smith Susan Stevens Lemuel Smith Francis Plainfleld Simonds Jon» B. Stuart John Stevens Lem* J' Skinner Shepard [330] Smith Gideon Smith Ezeklel Smith Lathrop Smith Bela Smith Edward Smith Asahel Smith John Smith John 2^ Smith Joseph Spencer James Scales Isaac Swett Stockman Slade Samuel Slade Isaac D. Storrs Augustus Smith Benj" Smith William Simmons John Simmons Sam' Starks Zephi> Tlcknor Elisha Towle Jeremiah Tlsdale Barna Tlsdale Barna Jf Thatcher Benj" Tllden Joseph 3^ Taylor Elizabeth Trlsket Jeriel Turner Robert Tenny David Tenny John Tenny Andrew Tenny Chester [331] Tenny Silas 'lenny Amos Tenny Silas J' Tenny Elisha Tenny Sheldon Tenny Seth Topliff Calvin Wheelook James 2 1 1 2 1 2 ^. A 100 203 10 18 6 1 3 3 8 U JJ 150 4 2 2 2 5 8^ 200 200 400 5.4a 1.55 3.30 1.30 4.20 6.30 2 60 2 70 1.70 5.37 3.85 3.00 4.00- 1.30 4.90 2.00- 5.28 3.35 1.50 1.30 9.25 2.25 9.65 12.20 3.25 5.85 3.10 1.50 10.50' i.05 12.05 10.10 11.75 l.BO 2.65 3.05 3.15 8.68 16.20 1.30 10.18 .80 2.75 5.50 ,50 5.30 10.35 7.78 1.60 11.75 2.85 1.30 4.87 3.25 1.30 8.85 7.75 300 HANOVER N. H. 1.30 70 ■o o cc 60 so 10 40 30 20 10 o 5 20 ■a 20 5 h ■a k i i 5 30 5.00 0^ Names !>. o o CO S bo t> 05 (S a a £ CO a: £ 6 ■a o ■a o o •a in a o o u 1 o o rt ® 3 cd t^ o a 1 £ 1 PI ie a '3 .Si 1 g cd 1 xi g o W 1 S (U a a o a o Q o !^ «! a a, & n 11 S o o S ■< WheeloGk Ja» E. 1 1 1.80 Wheelook John 2 1 2 2 2 a 9B0 60 8.05 Woodward Wm H. 2 4 1 6 16 32 A", 900 60 16.20 "Woodward Eben^ 1 1 1 3 4 i-8 300 40 6.00 Warren Winslow 1 2.20 Warren Jabez I 2.00 Wright Aaron 300 3.0D Williston George 1.B0 Woodbury M. G. 1 2.00 Ward Jacob 1.50 Weld Bela 1.60 Ward well Amos 2 2 2 3 3 A 600 6.80 Watson David 1] 1.30 Wheeler George 1.30 Wheeler Asa 2 200 3.70 Wheatley Ward 1 2.00 Washburn Bli 1 1 2.20 Woodward Beza 1 1 4 3 1 3 2 9 30 100 9.45 Woodward Deliv 1 2 1 4 2 2 12 4.44 Woodward Stephen 2 2 10 fi 1.B8 Woodward W" ' 2 1 1 1 2 4 10 M 60 6.32 Woodward Orange 2 3 2 2 8 it 3.36 Wright Asa 1 2 4 2 3 10 20 88 130 8.B5 Wright Nathan 1 1 2 3 3 7 3 11 20 IS IBO 9.10 Willis Lathrop 1 2 10 1 7 2 7 12 j§ 7.85 [332] Willis Dyer's heirs 8 12 1% 3.30 Wild Sami W. 1.30 Whipple Tho> 1 2.00 Whipple Ruth 1 2 2 7 A 140 3.68 Wright David 1 2 3 S 3 8 !8 76 6.93 Wright John 1 2 2 1 1 3 6 ^1 80 4.97 Wright Barnard 1 2 3 1 5 8 a 30 5.40 Woodward Nathi 1 2 2 2 1 6 10 a 60 ( 5.85 Woodward Marshall 16 a 2.22 Webster Caleb 2 1 2.90 Webster Sami 2 2 1.90 Webster Benjn 1 1 1.60 Wright Nathi 2 2 5 1 3 3 10 16 m 100 10.75 Wright Royal 1 1 1 2 9 1 4 16 30 iA IBO 13.20 West Nathan 1 1 1 8 20 a ISO 6.46 West Nathan J' 1 1.50 West George 1 2 1 2 3.10 Wright Delano 2 2 4 1 1 8 IB 18 60 8.75 Wright James 2'i 1 1.35 Wright John 2 CC to 03 Names IT V 1 S I s i 6 d CO d d •0 d 10 d ■a d •0 CO & 1 00 ■5 3 a 3 c4 a a a bo B S '3 1 u cd a E3 4J a a S £ tc a a Q ^