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HISTORY OF AMESBURY. 237
chosen to " prevent the fishing in Merrimack river on unlawful
days."
"Voted to give William Moulton 13 s. per week old tenor
for keeping Elizabeth Nichols one year coming he to find her
clothing and move her to his house."
"Voted to give Josiah Sargent $17 to keep Jacob Hoyt, son
of Jacob hoyt dis d to the age of twenty one years and learn
him a wavers trade." There were persons who made it a spec-
ial business to weave to supply the wants of those who either
had no looms or did not wish to make their own "home spun"
cloth, and it was quite an object to be a good weaver.
A rate of ^"150 was ordered to defray town charges.
The town voted to take care of Peter Dulosh and wife, living
at the Highlands, where he had a small house and a few acres
of land. He was, probably, a French Canadian, and may have
been taken prisoner in the French and Indian wars, although
that is not certain. He married Sarah Davis in 1 730, and in
his old age was unable to support himself and wife. He pro-
fessed to having some knowledge of the mining business, and
on examining the premises of Moses Tuxbury, sen., at the Pond,
said there was "a quarter of an acre there very valuable" for
minerals.
A movement was made looking to the regulation of the width
of sleds, as the following document shows :
"Whereas the sleds that are generally used in this town are
so Narrow that many Inconveniences attend the same upon
many accounts which those that are used to Sleding Know very
well and that if they were four feet & two inches in wedth
and the Town would agree to make them that wedth it would
be better for many & a Damage to None and many have been
Desirous in other towns as well as this that the sleds may be
mad wider.
Therefore we the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of
amesbury Desire the Moderator of this annual meeting assem-
bled this Eleventh Day of March 1765 that it may be put to
vote that the Town might shew their minds whether the sleds
for the future be four feet & two inches from outside to out-
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