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

TOWN ACTS.

18. Also in money                                                                                        45-00-0
19. Voted, ye Reveren Mr Devotion for fall of money in Town
pay                                                                                                                 80-00-0
20. Voted, to Serj Jared Huxley for keeping Ishmael Negro for
ye' time past                                                                                                  05-00-0
21. Voted, to Noah Smith constable for warning persons out of
Town                                                                                                              00-18-0
22. Voted, to Jacob Adams for Boards                                                      00-01-6
23. Voted, to Abram Burbank partly for wood and for Doing
somthing about ye pound                                                                          00-09-6
24. Voted, more to Constable Smith for *pressing a Nurse for ye
Wife of Henry Blotchet                                                                               00-03-0
25. Granted to ye Committee for Removing Incumbrances on
Highways 5s pr Day (viz)

To Dea: Remington for four Days                                                           01-00-0
To John Trumble for four Days                                                               01-00-0
To Capt Winchel for Eight Days                                                             02-04-0
To Abraham Burbank for 8 Days                                                             02-00-0

26. Voted, that what ye Committee for Highways have received for Incumbrances be put into ye Town Treasury.
27. Voted, that ye price of Town pay be as, followeth viz: Iron at Three pound five shillings pr Hundred. Wheat at Ten shillings, pr bushel. Rie at seven shillings pr bushel. Indian Corn at 4 shillings pr bushel. Barley at 6 Shillings pr bushel. Oats at Three shillings pr bushel.---Flax Eighteen pence pr pound.
28. Voted, that Joseph Remington, Capt Winchel & Samll Kent ye 3d be a Committee to Search ye Records Relating to High Way from Town to Feather Street by Benony Banes's, &-, to Lay out sd way and make Return to ye Town ye next meeting.
29. Voted, William King make Inquiry In order to field out ¥ Ishmael Negroes Master.

Joseph Remington, Moderatour.

¥¥ HIGHWAY OVER THE MOUNTAIN.

November in the year 1736, We the subscribers with the concurrence of the Selectmen of Suffield have Laid out a Highway of six Rods in breadth from the foot of the first Mountain or hill on the east side thereof, and from thence to the eastside of Mount Mannatick.---The South Side of said Way is bounded at every turn or crook with good boundaries: being fixt by the point of the Needle and the chain as hereafter exprest and set forth: that is to say; It begins at a yeallowoak Tree mark, haveing Stones about the Root, and standing neer and on the North side of a little Brook, or Rivulet; where it comes out of the Mountain, said Tree being Reputed a bounder of Lieut Joseph Kings Land: from which tree said way
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*Forcing into service.
¥ Ishmael " was probably a fugitive slave. The efforts to find his master were ineffectual. In 1744 the Proprietors gave him the use of a small parcel of land "which he had already inclosed with fence, situated on the cast side of the Springfield road. In 1752 the Town voted to give Ishmael twenty pounds
¥¥ This Road was used until 1822, when the present one around the " Short or " Coldspring " Mountain was laid out, See Town Rec, B. No. p. 385.

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