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HISTORY OF AMESBURY.
Feb. 5 th. A meeting was held for the purpose of taking
measures to obtain a minister.
"At the seam metten it was agreed to seek out to obtain a
minister of the gospel to live amounst us."
"At the seam metten it was agreed to send to Mr. Hobberd
of Kettre to see if we can obtayn him to be helpful to us in
the work of the ministry."
"At the seam metten Rober Jones and Richard Currier was
chosen to goo to see if they can obtayn Mr hubberd to be
helpfull to us in the work of the Ministry."
This Committee do not seem to to have been successful in
obtaining Mr. Hubberd, as on the 19th of March Robert Jones
and John Weed were chosen to see if they could find a Minister.
This committee met with no better success, and May
7th Robert Jones was again chosen to hunt up a minister and
to invite him to make a visit. Mr. Hubberd was finally induced
to come the latter part of the year, and December 3d the town
voted him the fifty acres of land granted to the minister on
condition that he live in town four years ; but if he leave before
that time, having made improvements upon it, then to be paid
for the improvements.
The town agreed to pay John Hoyt " for Mr hobords diet."
The committee chosen January 28th had not, August 27th,
purchased a house, and, at a meeting on that day, John Hoyt
was put upon the committee in place of Samuel Foot.
John Gimson and Joseph Worthen were made townsmen.
The order forbidding persons carrying logs to the old mill
was this year repealed.
The town, at a meeting held June 7th, ordered a highway
between the river lots and minister's land, commencing near
Martin's bridge and extending westward, the north side of
Clough's* hill, to the road that leads to the Indian ground, now
known as Buttonwood road.
George Carr, jr., was at this time building vessels at the
Ferry, and took William Severance apprentice for four years.
George Carr was not well pleased with the appointment of
* Formerly Goodale's.