Acton Memorial Library


Acton Memorial Library

Early Town Records of Acton, Massachusetts

File/page number: 159

1760 May 22 Town meeting (continued from previous page)
1760 December 25 Town accounts
1761 January 2 Town accounts

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2 it was propounded whether the Town will Raise Twelve pounds to Defrey the Necessary Charges that have or may arise within the Same this present year voted on the affirmative
3 it was propounded whether the Town will Raise Twelve pounds to Support a Reading and a writing School voted on the affirmative and then it was propounded whether the Town Shall be Divided in to Six parts voted on the affirmative and then it was propounded whether that Each part Shall have its Equal part of Said money voted on the affirmative
4 it was propounded whether the Town will Raise Two pounds thirteen Shillings and four pence for the procuring the Revd mr Swifts fire wood for this present year voted on the affirmative
5 it was propounded whether the Town will Chuse a Committe to go to the Great and General Court on the Second friday of the Siting of Said Court to give Reasons why the Said Great and General Court should not Set of [off] any part of Said Acton voted on the affirmative and then it was propounded whether that mr John Davis Jun and mr Francis Faulkner be a Committe for Said Service voted on the affirmative
6 it was propounded whether the Town will Dismiss the Sixth article voted on the affirmative
7 it was propounded whether the Town will Raise five pounds to Support Lydia Russel and her Child voted on the affirmative and then the meeting was Dismist

December ye 25: 1760
to an order to mr Nehemiah Wheeler for Sixteen Shillings it being for his Service as a Committe man on the new Road 0=16=0

January ye 2: 1761 to an order to Jonathan Hosmer for Eighteen Shillings it being for his Service in Keeping School in the Southest part of the town 0=18=0


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