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OF SUFFIELD. 3dly. The Town made choice of Mr. John Devotion, Peter Roe, and John Kent Senr, for Trustees for said service.4thly It was agreed, and voted; that said Trustees should let out said money for six per cent anually. 5thly. It was voted that the Trustees may let out any sum of said money, under thirty Pounds, upon good bond obligatory, with good sureties, and any sum or sums of thirty Pounds, or above thirty Pounds within the limits of the law to take land security, by good deeds of warrantee, the security being of thrible vallue to the sum so let. 6thly. It was voted, that said Trustees shall on the last Tuesday of January yearly, Pay the yearly interest of said money so lent, or so improved by then, in behalf of the Town, to the Select met respectively, and said interest money to be improved for payment of the Publick Country money Taxes, and no other way. October the 21th, 1721, Mr. John Devotion, Peter Roe, and John Kent Senr were sworn to the faithful discharge of their trust, in letting Suffield's proportion of the Fifty Thousand Pounds granted Court. Att a Lawfull Town Meeting of the Inhabitants Of Suffield, December ye 8th, 1721, and held likewise by adjurnment on the 11th day of December, 1721 Dea. John Hanchet was chosen Moderator for said meeting. 2nd1y, voted to raise 12 pounds for the poor. Voted, also, to be att the charge of building four pewes* on each side of th Meeting House viz: four on the north side, and four on the South side. Voted: also, that Mr. John Devotion should have the care of building the pews. Also, voted: to repair the cushion for the pullpitt. Also, voted: to new seat the Meeting House when the pews are made. Also, voted: that the rules to be attended in seating, are first, and principly Estate; 2ndly age, 3dly, improvement. Also, vote that the Country List of valluation and all lists since that being about three, be Improved as Rules to seat by. Aft a Lawfull Town Meeting of the Inhabitants of Suffield, December ye 19th 1721: Lieut, John Austin was chosen Moderator. 1st. Voted: to give ten shillings towards building the Court House ¥ att Springfield. 2ndly. Voted, to prosecute in the law the relatives of the Widdo Froe, for their not doeing what the Court ordered them to do, towards her maintainance. 3d1y. John Burbank was by a clear vote chosen to Prosecute the relatives of the Widdow Froe Pursuant to the preceding vote. ________ *The first pews known to have been built here. ¥ Springfield Records also indicate that the, first Court House in Old Hampshire County was built in 1722-3. It was built by Town subscriptions, Sprinfield giving the sum of 90 pounds. Wm. G. Bates' printed address at the dedication of the present Court House, in Springfield April 28, 1874 Contains a cut representing the first Court House. Suffield appears to have contributed $1.66 2/3 cents. Its Tax for one now building at Hartford will be about $10,000.
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