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HISTORY OF AMESBURY. IX
1686.
Mr. Wells' salary; Births, marriages and deaths; Registration of; First
book; George Martin; Death of; Sketch of.
1687.
Committee to seat persons in the meeting-house; Bounty on wolves;
Indians; Richard Currier; Death of; Sketch of; Walter Taylor; Death
of; Sketch of; Thomas Jewell.
16S8.
Opposition to Mr. Wells; JohnHoyt; Death of; Sketch of; Jarret Had-
don; Death of; Sketch of.
1689.
Samuel Colby, representative; Selectmen to report; Trouble with Mr.
Wells; Royal commission; Opposed by the town; Vote on; Treatment of
Mr. Wells; John Weed; Death of; Sketch of; Widow William Hunting-
ton; Death of; Sketch of.
1690.
Indian troubles; "frountere towne " ; Petition granted; Edward Cottle:
JohnHoyt; ^50 to the minister; Samuel Foot; Death of; Sketch of.
1691.
Minister's salary continued; John Hoyt, jr.; Death of; Sketch of; Thomas
Hoyt; Death of; Sketch of; Mary Blasdell; Death of ; Indians.
1692.
Road over Ferry hill; Pay for; Treatment of Mr. Wells again; His
reply; Assent to conditions of; Susannah Martin; Trial as a witch; Convic-
tion; Execution of; Reflections.
1693.
Tything men; Office described; Representative; School-masters; Grant
to Francis Davis; John Martin; Death of; Sketch of.
1694.
Mr. Wells, school-master; Scholars; Qualifications of; Indians; Murder
of Joseph Pike and Long; Location of Indian relics.
1695.
Town meetings; Attendance on; Cutting trees; Care of common; valua-
tion taken; Widow died.
» 1696.
Mr. Wells, school-master; Bounty repealed; Indian murders; John Hoyt
and Mr. Peters killed; Sketch of; Imprisoned; Petition of; Haverhill,
descent upon; Road at Cobler's brook.; Jamaco house.
1697.
Mr. Wells' pew; Petition for; Meeting-house; Foot's garrison.
1698.
William Barnes; Death of; Sketch of; Children.
1699.
Galleries in meeting-house; Repairs: Appropriation for; Room granted;