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OF SUFFIELD. next coming; the present year being sit a quarter part abutement, provided he accept thereof, and manifest the same in writing to the Select men.3d1y. It was voted to raise eight pounds for the future support of ye poor. 4thly. Voted, to be att the charge to repair the meetinghouse glass. 5thly. It was voted to pay the widow Holcomb nine shillings for her husbands assisting Mr. Kimbole about proving the line, or bounds of Symsbury. 6thly. Granted to Jobn Burbanks fifteen shillings, for his Copper Committeeship. (Seep. 183.) At a Lawfull Town Meeting of the Inhabitants of Suffield June the 23d 1717/18 It was voted: 1st. That Joseph Winchel should be moderator for said Meeting. 2ndly. It was voted to pay Constable Joseph Harmon Jr., sixteen shillings and eight pence in money in liew of the twenty shillings in Town pay granted him for his Constableship. The Freeholders, and the other Inhabitants of the Town of Suffield being duly warned, did assemble on the tenth day of March 1717 in order to chuse persons to certain offices and places of trust and accordingly choice was made as followeth: 1st. John Burbank was chosen Moderator for said meeting. Select Men-John Kent, John Burbank, Peter Roe, Joseph Rimington, Joseph Winchel. Town Clerk -Joseph Winchel. Constable - Samuel Lane. Tything Men - George Norton, Josiah Hale. Town Treasurer -John Burbank. Surveyors of Highways- John Huxley, Samuel Remington, Abraham Adams, Samuel Harmon. Fence Viewers-John Hanchet Jun., William King Land Measurer-Joseph Winchel. Sealer of waites & measures -Joshua Levit. To regulate the law relating to swine - Samuel Sikes, Samuel Spencer. March the 10th 1717/18, Samuel Lane sworn; John Huxley, Abraham Adams, George Norton, sworn. March ye 17th 1718, William King, John Hanchet Jun., Samuel Harmon, Josiah Hale, John Burbank, sworn. Joseph Winchel, sworn to the office of town clerk. Assessors sworn, August ye 12th, 1718, John Kent, Senior, John Austin, Joseph Winchel. At a Lawfull Town Meeting of the Inhabitants of Suffield, May the 15th, 1718: 1st, John Kent by a clear vote was chosen Moderator for said meeting. 2nd1y. Voted in said meeting that the Town will bare the charge of clearing the burying place, and fencing thesame, so farr as in their part and proper for them to do.
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