Town records of 1835

1835 page 97.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Bristol S. S.. To Jireh Brownell Constable of the Town of Westport. Greeting.

You are hereby required in the name of said Commonwealth to notify and warn the Inhabitants of said Town of Westport qualified by law to vote for Representatives to the General Court. To assemble at the Town house in said Town on Monday the nineteenth day of January instant at ten o’clock in the forenoon to give in their votes for one Representative that is an inhabitant of congressional district numbered 10. To represent them in the Congress of the United States of America for the term of two years from the third day of March A.D. 1835.

Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon at or before said time of meeting.

Given under our hands and seals at Westport this eight day of January A.D. 1835.

Signed Frederick Brownell Jonathan Davis Daniel Gifford Selectmen.

Bristol S. S.. January 10, 1835. Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified and warned the Inhabitants of the Town of Westport. To assemble at the time and place and for the purpose within mentioned by posting up one notice at the Point one at F. Brownell’s store and one at the head of East River.

Signed Jireh Brownell Constable.

At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Westport qualified agreeable to law-held at the Town house in said Town on Monday the nineteenth day of January A.D. 1835-for the purpose expressed in the foregoing warrant. Votes for following persons were given in sorted, counted, record and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed viz:

for Nathaniel B. Borden three hundred and thirty votes 330.

For William Baylies eighty nine votes 89.

For Daniel Cornell one vote 1.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell town clerk.

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1835 page 98.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Bristol S. S.. To the Constable of the Town of Westport. Greeting.

You are hereby required in the name of said Commonwealth to notify and warn the freeholders and other Inhabitants of said Town of Westport duly qualified vote for Town Officers and in other Town affairs to assemble at the Town house in said Town on Monday the sixth day of April next at nine of o’clock in the

forenoon to act on the following articles viz.:

1st.to choose a moderator for said meeting.

2nd to choose all necessary Town Officers for the year ensuing.

3rd. to bring in their votes for a County Treasurer.

4th.to see if the the Town will appoint their Treasurer Collector of taxes-and determine the amount to be allowed him for services the year ensuing. The rates of abatement for prompt payment, and at what time the Collection shall be completed.

5th. to choose a committee to receive and examine all accounts brought against said Town, and also to settle with the Treasurer.

6th. to determine what sum shall be expanded in the repair of highways and in what manner in shall be appropriated.

7th. to determine the sum to be raised for the support of the Poor and other incidental expenses.

8 th.to determine the sum to be raised for support of Schools, and the manner it shall be apportioned-and to see if the Town will dispense with the ten months school provided for by law.

9th. to see if the Town wil take any measure in regard to regulating the oyster fishery.

10th. to see if the Town will refund to William Macomber the amount of a tax paid for the use if of school

district No. 7 in the year 1828.

11th.to choose such other committees or agents as may be thought expedient.

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1835 page 99.

Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon on to us the subscribers at or before said time of meeting.

Given under our hands and seals at Westport this tenth day of March A.D. 1835.

Signed Frederick Brownell Jonathan Davis Daniel Gifford Selectmen.

Westport March 14, 1835. Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified and warned the Inhabitants of said Town to meet at the time and place and for the purpose within mentioned by posting up one notice on the Town house one at the Point one at F. Brownell’s store and one at the head of the East River.

Signed Jireh Brownell, Constable.

At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Westport qualified according to law held at the Town house in said Town on Monday the sixth day of April 1835 at nine o’clock AM, for the purposes expressed in the foregoing warrant. The following Officers were chosen and votes passed viz.:

Nathan C. Brownell Esq. cap moderator.

Frederick Brownell town Clerk and sworn

Frederick Brownell town Treasurer and Collector

Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, Daniel Gifford, Selectmen and sworn

Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, Daniel Gifford, Assessors and sworn

Abraham Kirby, Jonathan Davis, James H. Handy, Committee on accounts

surveyors of highways

Joshua Potter sworn ,Joshua Wodell, Robert Lawton sworn, Stephen Howland, Stephen F. Cornell sworn, John R. Baker, Lemuel reed Jr., John Howland, Richard Lawton sworn, Benjamin Gifford, Silas Kirby sworn, Peleg Manchester sworn, Nicolas W. Kirby sworn, Isaac Francis sworn, Peleg W. Peckham sworn.

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1835 page 100.

Wanton Brightman sworn, Ichabod Kirby aff(a term), Peleg Snell sworn, Abner Kirby sworn, Weston Macomber Jr., John Dyer sworn, Obadiah Lawton, Eben Baker aff, Samuel Slade aff., Daniel Wing

affirmed, Christopher Palmer sworn, John Crossman, John H. Howland sworn ,Carmi Tripp sworn, Peter Devol aff,William T. Davis sworn,Joseph Allen sworn ,EliTripp.

Prudential committees

District 1 Uriah Brownell, 2Henry Gifford, 3 Wiliam W. Cornell , 4 John Howland ,5 Isaac palmer, 6 John Potter, 7 Howard Davis, 8, Abner Tripp, 9.Thomas W. Wood, 10 Humphrey B. Allen, 11 John Macomber ,12 Edmund Tripp Jr., 13 Howland Tripp, 14 Stephen Howland,15 Peleg L. Sanford ,16 Isaac Gifford, 17 John Wodell, 18 James Reed.

For County Treasurer John Burrage had sixty votes, Horatio L. Danforth had forty two votes..

$1400. Voted. That the sum of 1400 dollars be raised by a way of tax for repairing highways the year ensuing. To be assesed on the polls and estates of the Inhabitants and nonresident proprietors of the town of Westport and the assessors are hereby directed to assess the same as soon as may be and deliver a list of the persons named and of the sums they are assessed to each Surveyor within his limits acording to law. That one dollar be allowed by the Surveyor for nine hours work of a man or yoke of oxen and in that proportion for more or less time. 25 cents for a cart and 33 cents for a plow, for nine hours and that the aforesaid sum be expanded according to law. Whenever the surveyor of any District shall make known to the Selectmen that he has faithfully expended all the tax assessed on his district and the road is not

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1835 page 101.

Not sufficiently repaired. The Selectmen shall determine the additional sum he may expend on said road, in writing, and the Surveyor may draw orders on the Treasurer for the amount so determined.

$1000. Voted. That the sum of one thousand dollars be raised by a way of tax for support of Schools the year ensuing. That three dollars and fifty cents per month be paid to the several school districts that shall have schools taught therein five months or less previous to the first day of November next. That the remainder be apportioned among the several districts that shall have schools taught therein by male teachers recommended by the general school committee four months or less previous to the fifteenth day of March next. That the Selectmen in both cases proportion the money by the time the school is taught. For the summer schools by the first day of November and for the winter by the fifteenth of March next, and draw orders on the Treasurer in favor of the Prudential Committee-if the Prudential Committee or any other Inhabitant of the District in which a school may be taught, make returns of the time to the satisfaction of the Selectmen by said first day of November and fifteenth day of March.

Voted that this meeting stand adjourned to the first Monday in may next at one o’clock PM.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell, Town Clerk.

May 4, 1835 agreeable to adjournment from the first Monday in April last the Inhabitants of the town of Westport met accordingly and passed the following votes viz:

Voted. That the ten months school provided for by law, the dispensed with this year.

Voted. To not act on the article in the warrant respecting the oyster fishery.

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1835 page 102.

$800. Voted. That the sum of eight hundred dollars be raised by way of tax on the polls and estates of the Inhabitants and nonresident proprietors of the town of Westport for the support of Paupers and other incidental expenses. To be assessed collected and paid into the treasury by the first day of March next. And the Assessors are hereby directed to assess the same in the way in manner provided by law and deliver lists thereof to the Collector as soon as may be.

Jonathan Tripp chosen Pound keeper and sworn

Abner B. Gifford, Frederick Brownell, Stephen Howland, Peleg W. Peckham, Thomas W. Mayhew, Russell Gifford, Nathan Wood, Abner Thompson, Varnum Macomber, Thomas Winslow, David Sanford, Gideon Davis Jr. were severally chosen Surveyors of Lumber.

Thomas W. Mayhew ,John W. Gifford and Elijah Blossom were severally chosen Tythingmen.

Stephen Howland, Jeremiah T. Thompson and A.B.Gifford were severally chosen Overseers of the landing at the head of the East River.

Isaac Palmer and Daniel Cornell were chosen overseers of the landing at the Point.

John Howland, Stephen Howland and Isaac L. Brightman-were severally chosen Cullers of hoops and staves.

Peleg Manchester, Wilbour Gifford, Adam Gifford, Major Allen, Humphrey A. Slocum, N.C. Brownell, Jonathan Davis, John Potter, Abraham Kirby and Nathan Wood-were severally chosen Fence Viewers and the five last named were sworn.

Gideon Davis and Jethro Howland were chosen Cullers of fish.

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1835 page 103.

Thomas Borden, Isaac Francis, Philip Davis, Humphrey A. Slocum, Philip H. Devol, Gershom Wodell, Daniel Tripp, Ephraim Manchester and Adam Bennett were chosen Field drivers and Bennett sworn.

Stephen Howland, Elijah Blossom, Samuel Wilcox, Tillinghast Sowle, Ephraim Manchester, Abner Wilcox, William Tripp, Isaac Francis-were severally chosen Hog-Reeves.

Pardon Allen, Perry Brightman, Tillinghast Tripp and Perry hazard, were severally chosen Overseers of the Fishery.

John Avery Gifford, John Avery Potter and Christopher A.Church were severally chosen General School Committee.

Abner B. Gifford chosen Town Agent.

Jireh Brownell chosen constable on condition of doing Town’s business as constable without compensation..Sworn by moderator.

The Committee on accounts made a report in writing that they had attended to the duty assigned them and found due the several persons named in the list presented by them. The sums set against their names respectively. Amounting in the whole to the sum of $2685.42.

It was thereupon voted to accept said report and direct the Treasurer to pay the sums found due by the committee to the several persons therein named and charge the same to the Town. The committee also made a report that agreeable to their appointment they had examined the accounts of the Treasurer and found that he had received for th Town the year past the sum of $2286.64.

And had paid out $2729.28.

Leaving imbalance against the Town of $ 443.34.

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1835 page 104.

The committee further reported that the Town is indebted for orders now allowed $126.49.

And to Adam Bennett for his services 175.00.

744.83.

Balance due from Collector $414.27.

From John A. Parker and others 214.76.

Oakum on hand 250.00. 879.93.

Leaving a balance in favor of the Town of $134.20.

All which is respectfully submitted Abraham Kirby, Jonathan Davis, James H. Handy, committee, Westport may 4, 1835.

Frederick Brownell and Jonathan Davis were chosen a Committee for the purpose of dividing(with a committee chosen by Dartmouth). The division road between the towns, from Petty’s old house so-called northerly to bread and cheese brook road.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell Town Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Bristol S. S.. To Jireh Brownell Constable of the Town of Westport. Greeting.

You are hereby required in the name of said Commonwealth to notify and warn the male inhabitants of said Town of Westport qualified by law to vote for Representatives to the General Court. To assemble at the Town house in said Town on Monday the fourth day of may next at one o’clock in the afternoon to bring in their written votes on one ticket for three County Commissioners and two Special Commissioners being Inhabitants of different Towns in said County.

Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon to us the subscribers at or before said time of meeting. Given under our hands and seals at Westport this seventeenth day of April A.D. 1835.

Signed Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, Daniel Gifford, Selectmen of Westport.

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1835 page 105.

Bristol S. S.. Westport April 25, 1835. By virtue of the within warrant I have notified and warned the male Inhabitants of said Town of Westport. To meet at the time and place and for the purpose within

mentioned by posting up notifications-1 at the Townhouse, one at Howland and Church’s store one at the Point-and one at the store of Frederick Brownell.

Signed Jireh Brownell, Constable of Westport.

At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Westport qualified agreeable to law-held at the Townhouse in said Town on Monday the fourth day of may A.D. 1835 for the purpose expressed in the foregoing warrant.–votes for the following persons were given in, sorted, counted, record and declaration thereof made as by law is directed.

For County Commissioners

Honorable Nathan C. Brownell had forty three votes.

Dan Wilmarth had twenty nine votes..

Church Gray had Twenty nine votes.

Thomas A. Greene had nineteen votes.

William Seaver had thirty one votes.

Elkanah Bates had twenty seven votes.

For special commissioners.

Joseph Gifford Esq. had thirty five votes.

Elkanah Briggs had twenty nine votes.

Lemuel May had twenty seven votes.

Adoniram Crane had twenty three votes.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell Town Clerk.

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1835 page 106.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Bristol S. S.. To Jireh Brownell Constable of the Town of Westport. Greeting

You are hereby required in the name of said Commonwealth to notify and warn the Inhabitants of said Town of Westport qualified by law to vote for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Senators in Counsellors-and cap representatives to the General Court. To meet at the townhouse in said Town on Monday the ninth day of November next at ten o’clock in the forenoon. To give in their votes for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Senators and Counselors-and to choose one or more Representatives to represent them at the General Court to appointed to be convened and held at Boston on the first Wednesday in January next.

Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon at or before said time of meeting.

Given under our hands and seals at Westport this nineteenth day of October A.D., 1835.

Signed Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, Daniel Gifford, Selectmen of Westport

Bristol S. S.. Westport November 9,1835. Pursuant to the above warrant I have notified and warned the Inhabitants of the Town of Westport qualifieed as therein expressed to meet at the time and place and for the purposes therein mentioned by posting up one notice at the Point, one at F. Brownell’s store, and one at the head of the East River 14 days prior to the date hereof.

Signed Jireh Brownell, Constable.

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1835 page 107.

At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Westport qualified agreeable to the Constitution held at the townhouse in said Town on Monday the ninth day of November being the second Monday in said month-for the purposes named in the foregoing warrant. Votes for the following persons were given in, sorted, counted, record and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed.

For Governor honorable Edward Everett had ninety seven votes 97.

Honorable Marcus Morton had thirty six votes 36.

For Lieutenant Governor honorable George Hulll had twenty two votes 22.

honorable William Foster had one hundred and twelve votes. 112.

For senators honorable Seth Whitmarsh had one hundred and thirty five votes 135.

Dr. James H. Handy had one hundred and thirty five votes 135.

Henry Williams had one hundred and thirty five votes 135.

Benjamin Rodman twenty one votes 21.

Church Gray twenty one votes 21.

Rowland Howard seventeen votes 17.

Voted. That there be three Representatives chosen to represent this Town in the next General Court Nathan C. Brownell Esq., Jonathan Davis and Christopher Church were accordingly chosen.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell, Town Clerk.

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1835 page 108.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Bristol S. S.. To the Constable of the Town of Westport. Greeting. .

You are hereby required in the name of said Commonwealth. To notify and warn the Inhabitants of said Town of Westport qualified by law to vote in Town affairs. To meet at the town house in said Town on Monday the ninth day of November next at two o’clock in the afternoon to act on the following articles.

1st. To choose a Moderator.

2nd. To know that town’s mind in regards to permitting the buildings of Thomas Winslow or any part of them now situated on the town’s landing-to remain there by his paying to the Town the value of the land

to be estimated by a committee will shall be appointed by the Town for that purpose.

Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon at or before said time of meeting. Given under our hands and seals at Westport the twentieth day of October A.D. 1835.

Signed Frederick Brownell, Daniel Gifford, Selectmen of Westport.

Bristol S. S.. Westport November 9, 1835.

Pursuant to the above warrant I have notified and warned the Inhabitants of said Town qualified as therein expressed to meet at the time and place and for the purposes therein mentioned by posting up one notice on the Town house, one at F. Brownell’s store and one at the head of the the East River fourteen days prior to this date.

Signed Jireh Brownell Constable.

At a legal meeting held at the time and place mentioned in the foregoing warrant-Jonathan Davis chosen Moderator. It was voted to not act on the second article in the warrant.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell Town Clerk.

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