Town Acts "Documentary History of Suffield, by Sheldon, 1879"

OF SUFFIELD.

are Two Tall middling trees, ye one a Wallnut, ye other a red Oak, and so run west, from thence along ye old line, now marking ye trees, formerly marked, untill we came to Westfield line.

JNO HANCHET ye 1st
EBENEZER BURBANKE.

A VOTE FOR FENCING MR. RUGGLES HIS LAND, AND FOR
CLEARING THE MINISTRY LOTT.

Ata Legall meeting of ye Inhabitants, May ye sixth, 1708: Capt. Joseph Shelden engaging, to give one day of ye foot company under his command; which they should by law have served her Majesty on, in Millitary Exercises: Towards ye fencing Mr. Ruggles, his swamp: and clearing off ye Ministrey Lot. The Town by a full, and clear vote; agreed to spend ye day, in fencing sd swamp: and cutting brushe in ye front of ye Ministry Lot. And wt remains of clearing, and fencing so farr as it hath formerly been cleared; and fenced; After the Captain's Donation hath been expended upon it; The Town have agreed to do it, upon ye Town's charge. And y ye Selectmen from year, to year; shall take ye care of keeping down ye brushe in said lot; so far as it hath been formerly cut down, untill it be thorowly subdued.

2dly. It was agreed, and voted: to allow our Reverrend Pastor £18 this year, to be paid in Cord Wood at 6s. per cord.*

¥ MINES.

3dly. It was agreed, and voted: yt every Mine, or Mines yt do already, or may hereafter appear to be in any undivided land, within ye Township of Suffield: is, and shall be sequestered, and conserved. for ye whole Town's use forever.
4thly. It was agreed, and voted: yt no person whatsoever yt is a proprietor of land within ye, Township of Suffield; shall have any liberty to Cut down, and carry away any wood, or timber off from any common, or second Division Land, within ye same.
5thly. It was agreed, and voted: to add to ye vote of ye Town, past Decem: ye 31st, 1707: entred in page 121; on ye other side of this leaf backward; for ye impowering of their Committee wch they chose for to meet, and treat Windsor, and Simsbury Committees, in refference to ye setling of ye bounds betwixt each of ym, and us = These words, " or ye Major part of ym. " ¥¥

At a Legall Town meeting September the 22d, 1708: by a full and clear, vote, John Austin was chosen Town Clerk, for the remainder of the year, untill ye Generall Town Meeting.
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* 60 cords.
¥ The Copper Hill mines bad lately, been discovered. The were claimed by Suffield to be within its Grant. See Conn. Col. Rec., Vol. V. p. 104, and p. 12, Doc. Hist., and Phelp's Hist. of Simsbury, p. 113.
¥¥ The record in the hand-writing of Anthony Austin, the first Town Clerk, ends here. He was in the 27th year of that service at the time of his death, which occurred Aug. 22, 1708. His son John was his successor in office.

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