1682-11-06[Town Meeting November 6, 1682]
6: of November 1682. At a general town meeting legally warned there was chosen for
Selectmen this instant year Lieut. Paul Thorndike, Thomas West, Peter Woodberry, Exercise Conant
& Nehemiah Grover.
At the same town meeting there was chosen to serve upon the jury of trials at Salem the last
Tuesday of this instant month William Dodge: malster.
At a general town meeting November the 6, 1682 it was voted that the carpenters that build
the new meeting house shall be agreed with (also if we can agree upon reasonable terms) to enlarge
the galleries one seat forwards.
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The 6 9 mo. 1682. At a general town meeting it was voted that the money that was given
by contribution in Beverly for the redemption of John Hull and is in the hands of Deacon Woodberry
as likewise the money in the hands of John Dodge that was voted [and] given here for the redemption
of one Litchfield, a woman, be improved towards the defraying the charge of the enlargement of the
galleries mentioned above bearing the same date with this.
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6:9:1682 it was voted that the committee chosen the 5 of December 1681 to procure a new
meeting house built be appointed to agree with the carpenter to enlarge the galleries one seat
forwards in each gallery.
6:9:1682. At a general town meeting that was granted to Tobias Trow one acre of land at
the [illegible] by land of Mr. Hardy’s upon this condition viz that he do live in the town and improve
it ten years or be taken away by death though before the ten years be expired having lived in the town
while then, then said land to be to him and his heirs forever but if the said Trow should remove out
of the town before the ten years be expired then the said land to return to the town.
13:1:16 84 (?) Ensign Corning and Andrew Elliott sen. being then Selectmen laid out the
abovesaid acre of land.
6:9:1682. At a general town meeting there was granted to Mordechai Larcom sen..four acres
of land to be laid out by the stream near Bald Hill near the land of Nehemiah Grover which four acres
is in lieu of a former grant of six acres to have been laid out near Turnip Swamp.