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... Select Men , Town Treasures , Constables , CHAPTER III . I 33 33 34 38 38 38 43 44 47 - 48 CHAPTER IV . Division of the Town , Division of the State , Against Monopoly , Hardships of the Early Settlers , Patriotism , Honorable ...
... Select Men , Town Treasures , Constables , CHAPTER III . I 33 33 34 38 38 38 43 44 47 - 48 CHAPTER IV . Division of the Town , Division of the State , Against Monopoly , Hardships of the Early Settlers , Patriotism , Honorable ...
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... Selectmen . Jonathan Whiting chosen Town Clerk . Stephen Pullen was chosen Constable . Ichabod How , Gideon Lambert and Jonathan Whiting chosen Assessors . Jonathan Whiting chosen Treasurer . Gideon Abra- Lambert and Josiah Hall chosen ...
... Selectmen . Jonathan Whiting chosen Town Clerk . Stephen Pullen was chosen Constable . Ichabod How , Gideon Lambert and Jonathan Whiting chosen Assessors . Jonathan Whiting chosen Treasurer . Gideon Abra- Lambert and Josiah Hall chosen ...
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... selectmen , shall cut off both the ears of the same , and cause them to be burned . And such selectman or men , and constable , shall give the party a receipt for the said head , expressing whether it be a grown wolf or a whelp ; and ...
... selectmen , shall cut off both the ears of the same , and cause them to be burned . And such selectman or men , and constable , shall give the party a receipt for the said head , expressing whether it be a grown wolf or a whelp ; and ...
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... Selectmen petition the Great and General Court to exempt this town from Province tax for five years . Passed in the affirmative . ” During the Revolutionary war , the people were , in common with other inhabitants of the country ...
... Selectmen petition the Great and General Court to exempt this town from Province tax for five years . Passed in the affirmative . ” During the Revolutionary war , the people were , in common with other inhabitants of the country ...
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... of twenty - five cents apiece for every crow which any person should kill and carry to either of the selectmen . " Said bounty 66 to continue one year from this day and no 32 HISTORY OF WINTHROP . Provision for the Poor.
... of twenty - five cents apiece for every crow which any person should kill and carry to either of the selectmen . " Said bounty 66 to continue one year from this day and no 32 HISTORY OF WINTHROP . Provision for the Poor.
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Abigail Albion K Amos Stevens Andrew Wood appointed April Benjamin Fairbanks Benson Bowdoin College bushel Capt committee Court David Eastman David Foster DAVID THURSTON degree of M. D. dollars Ebenezer Elijah Wood Fillebrown fish Francis Fuller Gideon Lambert gospel graduated at Bowdoin Hallowell Hannah Howard hundred Ichabod inhabitants James Bowdoin James Craig January Jedediah Prescot John Blunt John Chandler John Hubbard John Morrill Jonathan Whiting Joseph Metcalf Joshua Bean Josiah Hall July June Kennebec land March Mary Massachusetts meeting house minister moral Moses Gill Nathan Nathaniel Fairbanks November October pastor Polly Pond Town pounds procure Readfield Robbins Robert Page Samuel Wood Sarah Selectmen Sept September Snell Society Solomon Stanley Squier Bishop Stephen Pullen Susanna Timothy Foster town meeting town of Winthrop town voted voted to raise votes for Governor votes for Lieut Wadsworth Winthrop worship
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Page 110 - That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments...
Page 208 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 208 - America, and to their successors and assigns for ever, all that part of America, lying and being in breadth, from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line, to forty-eight degrees of the said northerly latitude inclusively, and in length, of and within all the breadth aforesaid, throughout the main lands from sea to sea...
Page 110 - For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children : that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children...
Page 208 - Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Page 110 - And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Page 208 - November, in the eighteenth year of his reign, hath given and granted unto the Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England in America, and to their successors and assigns for ever, all that part of America, lying and being in breadth, from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line, to forty-eight degrees of the said northerly latitude inclusively, and in length, of and within all the breadth aforesaid,...
Page 167 - Christianity teacheth people to beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and to learn war no more ; that so the wolf may lie down with the lamb, and the lion with the calf, and nothing that destroys be entertained in the hearts of people...
Page 84 - Care, (if such they have) within fifteen Days. And of this Precept with your doings thereon you are to make return into the office of the Clerk of the Town, within Twenty Days next coming, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises as the Law directs Given under our hands & seals at Gorham aforesaid this Thirteenth Day of May, AD 1791.
Page 211 - Behoof of the said WILLIAM BRADFORD, his Heirs, Associates and Assigns forever, yielding and paying unto our said Sovereign Lord, the King, his Heirs and Successors forever, one fifth Part of the Ore of the Mines of Gold and Silver, and one other fifth Part thereof to the President and Council which shall be had, possessed and obtained within the Precincts aforesaid, for all Services whatsoever, as in said Charter may more fully appear.