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Early Town Records of
Acton, Massachusetts |
File/page number: 073
| 1747/8 February 19 | Selectmen's meeting: warrant for March 7 Town meeting (continued from previous page) |
| 1748 March 7 | Town meeting (continued on next page) |
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| 9 | To See if the Town will agree to seat several persons that have come into town since the meeting house was seated and also to choose a Committe for that purpose also what instructions the town will give said Committe relating to that affair |
| 10 | To See if the Town will agree to let the swine run at large this present year and the same was committed to the Constables |
| 1 | March ye 7: 1748 at a General Town meeting at the meeting house in Said town it being legally warned as appeared by the returns of the Constables on their warrants Deacon John Brooks was chosen moderator for Said meeting and proceeded as follows on the first article (viz) to choose town officers Jonathan Hosmer was chosen Town Clerk and Select man and mr Samuel Davies was chosen the Second Select man and mr Phinehas Osgood was chosen the third Select man and the and the Select men was chosen assessors and mr Zachariah Emery was chosen Constable for the northeast part of of Said Town and mr Amos prescott was chosen Constable for the southwest part of the town and mr David Brooks and mr Samuel Hayward was chosen Tything men and mr Jonathan Killing was chosen Town Treasurer and mr John Cragin and Samuel Jones and Titus Law and Joseph Tarr Ebenezer Davies and Thomas White was chosen Surveyors of high ways and Ezekiel Davis and Oliver Wheeler was chosen deer reaves and mr John Barker was chosen Sealer of weights and measures and William Connant and David forbush Simon Davis and Deliverance Davis was chosen hog reaves |
| 2 | it was propounded whether the Town will raise fifty pounds of tenor to defray the charges that have arizen Relative to the line between Concord and Acton voted in the affirmative |
| 3 | it was propounded whether the Town will discontinue a bit of way leading from the Northeast part of Said town beginning at a white oak tree against where mr Davis’s Saw mill formerly stood till it comes to the westerly end of said mr Davis Barn voted on the affirmative and then it was propounded whether the town will accept of the way from said oak streight to mr Davis’s house and go between third house and barn in the former road the same to be three rods wide voted on the affirmative |
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| 5 | it was propounded whether the town will discontinue a part of the way leading from the southwest |
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