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HISTORY OF AMESBURY. XIII<br />

1740.<br />

Tunnel at Fond Ridge; Constable's report; Petition to the king; River<br />

road.<br />

1741.<br />

Poor-house; Leave to build a wharf; Mary Fowler; Non compos; Schools;<br />

Quakers; Richard Kelley's diary; Hard winter.<br />

1742.<br />

Almshouse; Hired; Inmates; Samuel Shepherd, constable; Dismissed.<br />

1743.<br />

Workhouse; Ferry at Savage's rock; Weights and measures; Elisha Odlin<br />

at East parish; Dismissal <strong>of</strong> Edmund March.<br />

1744.<br />

Abraham <strong>Merrill</strong>; Death <strong>of</strong>; Sketch <strong>of</strong>; Cost <strong>of</strong> ordaining Mr. Odlin;<br />

Mr. March's dismissal; Cost <strong>of</strong>; His house, etc.; Captain Currier.<br />

1745.<br />

Hannah Bettel; Wants help; Refused; House built for the minister;<br />

Raising a vessel.<br />

1746.<br />

Idle persons; Bounty on wolves; Gideon Lowell's exchange <strong>of</strong> land;<br />

Hannah Eettel helped; By-laws passed; "About trees; Town's ammunition;<br />

Rate ordered; West parish sells parish land.<br />

1747.<br />

Task-master; Poor and idle persons; Road fenced in; Soldiers at Cape<br />

Breton; Churchmen; Black child; Brick-yard at Buttonwood; Deaths in<br />

the Kelley family.<br />

1748.<br />

Poor boarded out; Foot stoves; Description <strong>of</strong>; Exchange <strong>of</strong> road over<br />

Baley's hill; Landing described; Mill at Buttonwood.<br />

1749.<br />

Burying ground to be fenced; Town charges; Frog pond, etc.<br />

1750.<br />

Selectmen's salary; Their power; Jonathan Bagley's wharf; Bridge over<br />

Powow at Ferry; Lime kiln; At Ferry; Spindle <strong>of</strong> meeting-house.<br />

1751.<br />

William Challis fined; Caused trouble; Change <strong>of</strong> calendar; Military<br />

companies; Ship-yard wanted.<br />

1752.<br />

Rev. Elisha Odlin died; Gift to widow; Church dismissions.<br />

1753.<br />

Schools; Hook's ferry; Landings; Buttonwood brick-yarrd; Dr. Rogers;<br />

Death <strong>of</strong>; Patience Weed; Kimballs.<br />

,<br />

1754.<br />

New clerk; Committee to deliver books; Excise duties; Vetoed; Thanks<br />

to governor; East parish ministers; Mr. Hibbert.

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