History of Amesbury - Merrill.org

VIII HISTORY OF AMESBURY.
1670.
Commissioners; New meeting; William Carr, townsman; Road and Land-
ing at Ferry laid out; Cellar on hill.
1671.
Firewood to minister; Mr. Hubbard's labors satisfactory; Richard Currier.
1672.
Minister's house; Salary raised; Vote against minister; Rev. Thomas
Wells; Engaged; Salary; Land ; New house ; Committee to build; Delay;
House not built; Vane lot.
1673.
Vote to build repealed; Gives Mr. Wells the Vane lot; Hoyt house; He
buys land and builds.
1674.
Philip Challis' bill of sale; New town book; Committee to revise the
Thomas Wells, a townsman.
clerk's book ;
1675.
Meeting illegal; New clerk continued; Rate; Business of town; Island
in Country pond; People seated; William Sargent; Death of; Sketch.
1676.
Division into wards; Watches; Indians; Forts; Location of; People
armed; Line next New Hampshire ; Night; Regulations.
1677.
Eastern Indians; Murder in town ; Weed family; Robert Quinby; Death
of; Sketch.
1678.
Controversy with the minister; Committee to settle; Public house.
1679.
Lecture ordered; Rates; Jurors; Lawsuit; Samuel Foot, agent.
Mr. Wells' salary increased.
1680.
1681.
General renewal of bounds ordered; To be recorded.
1682.
Officers unwilling to serve; Committee to lay out Peke land; Deposition
about saw mill.
1683.
Meeting-house lot enlarged; Minister's land to be sold or let.
1684.
Thomas Rowell ; Death of; Sketch ; Edmund
of; Where lived.
1685.
Main road renewed ; Return of ; Committee.
Elliott ; Death of; Sketch