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X HISTORY OF AMESBURY.<br />

Haverhill line; Prosecution <strong>of</strong>; Traditions <strong>of</strong> East Meadows; Schools;<br />

Appropriation for.<br />

1700.<br />

Review <strong>of</strong> past; Lecture; Controversy with Major Pike; Letter <strong>of</strong>;<br />

Action <strong>of</strong> town : Remarks ; Sketch <strong>of</strong>.<br />

1701.<br />

Mrs. Orlando Bagley's death; Friends' treatment; Compelled to pay for<br />

preaching; Vessel registered.<br />

1702.<br />

School law; Free school; The system; Gallery room in meeting-house<br />

granted to Mary Currier and others; Their marriage; Susanna Frame;<br />

Friends compelled to pay the Minister's tax.<br />

1703.<br />

Commoner's <strong>org</strong>anization; Their action; Second meeting; Davis family;<br />

Elizabeth Colby leave to build pew; Suit <strong>of</strong> Richard Martin; Land near<br />

Moses <strong>Merrill</strong>'s laid out; Right to vote; Francis Davis; John Davis; How-<br />

ard; Thomas Challis; Hunt's lane; Friends; Vessel built.<br />

1704.<br />

School-master; Tanning; Rates; Ringing bell; Quaker's dissent; Indians<br />

and John Collins; Vessel built.<br />

1705.<br />

Road given up; Landing; Danger from Indians; Schools; meeting at<br />

Jamaco; Roads; Their condition; Highway at James' creek; Robert Ring;<br />

Death <strong>of</strong>; Mary Currier; Death <strong>of</strong>; Friends; Friends' meeting-house;<br />

Friends' marriages.<br />

1706.<br />

Rate for schools; Meeting at Jamaco; Thomas Sargent; Death <strong>of</strong>; Sketch<br />

<strong>of</strong>; Death <strong>of</strong> the Weed family; Disease; Reflections; Friends and John<br />

Cazer.<br />

1707.<br />

Pound ordered; School dames; Two masters; Schools; Constables resign ;<br />

John Pressey; Death <strong>of</strong>; John Collins.<br />

1708.<br />

Road ordered near John Challis' ; Fulling jnill ; Commoner's grants ; Con-<br />

stables prosecuted.<br />

1709.<br />

Pound at Pond plain; Burying ground fenced; Teachers; Commoners'<br />

meetings; Result; Six-rod highway fenced in ; Trouble with John Whitcher.<br />

1710.<br />

Trouble with Col. March; Suit <strong>of</strong> Joshua Bayly; Commoners' rights;<br />

Ironworks; Vessels at Jamaco; ,£30 for schools; Brand cattle; John Kim-<br />

ball; Death <strong>of</strong>; Sketch <strong>of</strong>; Ebenezer Blasdell ; Death <strong>of</strong>; Sketch <strong>of</strong>; Fran-<br />

cis Davis; Death <strong>of</strong>.

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