Acton Memorial Library


Acton Memorial Library

Early Town Records of Acton, Massachusetts

File/page number: 083

1748/9 February 13
Laying out of road way (continued from previous page)
1749 May 15 Selectmen's meeting: warrant for May 22 Town meeting

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where is a heap of Stones on the southerly side of Said way and then streight to the wall against the dam and then the wall is the Bound mark till it comes to the End of it and then to a Small white oke in the old fence and then to a small grey oke and then to a Small pine in Ens mark Whites land and then to a Small pine and to a Small pine and then to a pine tree and then to a pine and then to a pine and then to a pine and then to the Road that leads from Daniel Shepards and the marks from the dam above Said are on the southerly side of Said way and Said way is three rods wide the Select men that Laid Said way was
  Jonathan Hosmer
Phinehas Osgood
Samuel Davies

May ye 15: 1749
Then the Select men met and appointed a Town meeting to be at the meeting House on Monday the Twenty Second day of this instant may in Two of the Clock in the Afternoon to Consider and Conclude on the following articles (viz)
1 To See if the Town will agree to Send a Deputy this present year
2 To See How much mony the Town will add to the Rev mr John Swifts Salary this present year
3 To See How much mony the Town will raise to defrey the necessary charges that shall arise within the same this present year
4 To See if the Town will agree to have a Reading and a Writing School this present year and also to see how much mony the Town will raise to support said School and also to see How many parts the Town shall be divided into that Every family may have the Benefits of Said school
5 To See if the Town will hear and accept of the Reports of the Committee that was chosen to finish the inside of the meeting House and the same was committed to the Constables


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