1681-12-29[Town Meeting December 29, 1681]
29 December 1681. At a general town meeting legally warned it was voted and agreed that
the return made by the committee was it accepted.
Secondly it was voted that three hundred seventy pounds in silver should be raised to pay for
the building the new town meetinghouse.
At the same meeting it was legally voted that Goodman Weedon had four acres of land given
him adjoining to the land of Thomas Edwards.
At the same meeting it was voted that if there could be six acres of land procured to lay as
common to the land that the meetinghouse stands on that there shall be 20 acres of land allowed for
it out of the common about the neck that lies by the meadow called Master Conant’s Meadow &
Lieut. Thorndike is joined with the selectmen to see what may be done in this business.
The return of the committee that was employed for the town about the new meetinghouse that
is to be built for the town.
This may inform the inhabitants of the town that we who you was pleased to make choice of
as a committee have accordingly attended the work so far as to make some progress thereunto we
also treated with the workmen and according to the true intent of your dimensions so far as we
understand it it will be done in time convenient: in satisfaction it is expected three hundred seventy
pounds in silver the one half to be paid at the raising & and the other half at the delivery of the key.
Otherwise five hundred fifty pounds one half in Indian corn & the other half in pork at price current
the one half to be paid at the next May day the other at Michaelmass.