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

TOWN ACTS.

land laid out to Hezekiah Parsons to a little walnut staddle by which is set a great Stone being on the East side of said Highway; thence it runs norwardly along the highest, best and fairest, and most feazable way for carting till it comes to the Brook, that is commonly called Burleson's Brook, butting upon said Brook a little Norward of Barber Meadow commonly so called where Said Brook is Stony. The said Highway being but four rods in breadth from Freegrace Norton's Land to the end thereof * (Old Book, p. 171)

Select Men.
JOHN HANCHETT.
JONATHAN TAYLOR.
JOHN BURBANK.
JOSEPH WINCHILL.

HIGHWAY TO SPRINGFIELD.

The Highay that leads to Springfield from High Street, laid out by us the subscribers 20 Rod in wedth from ye, allotment laid out to James Stevenson, to ye Southwest corner of Serj Adams, his lot.
We marked severall trees on ye North, or Northwest side of ye said way. spotted next the Highway. The Southermost tree we marked is a red oak standing a, little beyond where a highway turns out westward from Crooked Lane. About 40 rods onwards, we marked another red oak tree; and about 16 Rod beyond another, the next to which is a white Oak, and the next is a red oak. and ye, next is a red oak, and the last is a white oak, these two last standing at North East end or going down of ye hill next Serj Adams his house.

Select Men
JONATHAN TAYLOR.
JOHN HANCHET
JOSEPH WINCHILL.

At a Legall Town meeting, Jan ye 9th, 1710/11 It was proposed to ye Town, whether they would have the rules for Seating the House of God to be in ye manner, and forme following: that is to say; first, and principally to have respect to Estate, 2nd to age, 3d something to improvement: by a clear, and full vote past on ye affirmative.
2nd. By a clear vote, Corpll Thomas Granger, Peter Roe, and Clerk Kent
were chosen, for to seat ye Meeting House.
It was agreed, and by a clear vote; to leave it with the Select men, and seaters to estimate the seats in the Meeting House according to y,ebest of their judgement; who made ye following return:

THE RETURN OF THE SELECT MEN AND SEATERS ABOUT YR ESTIMATION OF SEATS.

¥ We whose names are under written, or subscribers, being by ye town imployed, and impowered to estimate ye seats in the Meeting House, have according to ye best of our Judgment done in ye manner following. first, we es-
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*The South portion of this highway across the Norton Land, was closed, after the road was opened from the Congl Meeting-House northerly, in 1833.
¥ The death of prominent men since 1702, required a new estimation and graduation of seats suited to the inherited notions of rank and caste that prevailed in the humblest provincial town.

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