1779-05-13th
At a meeting of the Selectmen 13 of May 1779.
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They ordered that a Town meeting be warned and held on Monday the 24 day of May instant
at two o’clock afternoon at the usual place for holding of Town meetings in said Town.
1ly. To elect and depute a representative or representatives to serve for and represent them in any
Great and General Court or assembly appointed to be convened, held and kept for the
government service at the State House in Boston in the County of Suffolk upon Wednesday
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the 26 day of May instant etc.
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2ly. Agreeable to a resolve of the General Court on the 19 of February 1779.
1ly. To see whether the Town will choose at this time to have a new constitution or form of
government made.
2ly. If the above question should pass in the affirmative to see whether they will empower
their representatives for the current year to vote for the calling of a state convention
for the sole purpose of forming a new constitution provided it should appear that the
major part of the people are in favor thereof etc.
3ly. To see what sum of money they will grant to be raised and assessed on the polls and estates
within said Town the current year to pay the Town’s debts and to defray the necessary
charges arising within the same.
4ly. To determine how the committee appointed to supply the soldiers family shall be supplied with
money to enable them to perform that service and packed a thing relative thereto as may then
be five proper.
5ly. To see if the Town will continue to supply the wid. Martha Woodberry’s family with
necessaries, her husband being dead notwithstanding agreeable to her petition, and their was
a warrant issued out to Constable Jonathan Dodge to warn the same accordingly.
Attest Joseph Wood, T. Clerk