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HISTORY OF AMESBURY. XI<br />

1711.<br />

Meeting at Jamaco; School-master; Schools, where kept ; Road narrowed.<br />

1712.<br />

Dam at Pond's mouth; Thomas Currier; Death <strong>of</strong>; Sketch <strong>of</strong>; New clerk.<br />

1713.<br />

Schools; Wolves; Bounty on; Line next Kingstown ; Territory.<br />

1714.<br />

Meeting-house; Repairs <strong>of</strong>; New house; Two; Opposition; First one to<br />

be built at Pond Plain; Arch built; Schools; Thomas Harvey; Death <strong>of</strong>:<br />

Sketch <strong>of</strong>; Friends grant meetings to Newbury and Haverhill.<br />

1715.<br />

"Clerk <strong>of</strong> ye market "; Duties; Meeting-house at parsonage; Dimensions<br />

<strong>of</strong>; Committee to build; ^150 raised; Meeting-house at Jamaco; Remarks.<br />

1716.<br />

Land for minister ; Bounty on wolves ; School-house lot; Given the town;<br />

School-house ordered; School-master; John Challis' taxes; Deaths.<br />

1717.<br />

Town meeting; Adjournment <strong>of</strong>; School-house to be finished; Teachers;<br />

Meeting-house; not completed; Old meeting-house given to Mr. Wells;<br />

Petition <strong>of</strong> Mr. Wells granted.<br />

1718.<br />

John Barnard; Death <strong>of</strong>; Sketch <strong>of</strong>.<br />

1719.<br />

Constables; Bounds <strong>of</strong> land; Samuel Weed; Ancient; John Colby; Death<br />

<strong>of</strong>; West school-house.<br />

1720.<br />

Money for expenses; Petition <strong>of</strong> Gideon Lowell; Petition <strong>of</strong> Richard Cur-<br />

rier; Schools.<br />

1721.<br />

Constable's bond; Hunt's road; Regulation <strong>of</strong> hogs; Bills <strong>of</strong> credit;<br />

Meetings at Jamaco; Meeting-house vote reconsidered; Meeting-house<br />

ordered; Opposition; Location <strong>of</strong>.<br />

1722.<br />

Town prosecuted for want <strong>of</strong> school; Plighway to Kingstown; Schools;<br />

Annual meeting; Location <strong>of</strong> Meeting-house; Indian raids; Traditions;<br />

Way to Kingstown; Colleague for Mr. Wells; Petition <strong>of</strong> Elizabeth Colby.<br />

1723.<br />

Representative; Landing at Nichols' creek; Road to Swett's ferry;<br />

Thomas Barnard; Death <strong>of</strong>; Sketch <strong>of</strong>; Joseph Kimball; Death <strong>of</strong>.<br />

1724.<br />

West meeting-house; Assignment <strong>of</strong> pews; Support <strong>of</strong> Minister; How<br />

furnished; Division into parishes; Confirmation defeated; Rice Edwards'<br />

petition; Thomas Nichols; Death <strong>of</strong>; Sketch <strong>of</strong>.

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