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History of Amesbury - Merrill.org

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238 HISTORY OF AMESBURY.<br />

side. And you will oblige your petitioners as In Duty Bound<br />

Shall Ever Pray.<br />

Dated <strong>Amesbury</strong> March 8th 1765.<br />

to the Moderator to be communicated.<br />

Ge<strong>org</strong>e Wathen William Hoyt jr<br />

Nehemiah Davis Thomas Hoyt<br />

Elijah Clough David Challis<br />

Joseph Pressey Ephraim Weed<br />

Nathaniel Weed Jonathan Bagley<br />

John Huntington Jacob Weed<br />

Moses Goodwin Orlando Sargent<br />

Moses Currier Samuel Shepherd<br />

John Currier Daniel Quinby<br />

David Hoyt Daniel Jones<br />

Thomas Hoyt."<br />

This move was approved by the town, and how much good<br />

resulted the reader must judge.<br />

Theophilus Gould was a blacksmith at the Ferry and owned<br />

a house, but had no land for his shop to stand on, and so peti-<br />

tioned the town for a piece near Col. Jonathan Bagley's "lime<br />

kiln." The exact location <strong>of</strong> this lime kiln cannot be determined,<br />

but there was one or more on the banks <strong>of</strong> the Powow<br />

river, where clam-shell lime was made to supply the wants <strong>of</strong><br />

the early settlers.<br />

The annual<br />

1766.<br />

meeting was adjourned from the Sandy Hill meet-<br />

ing house to Widow Esther Colby's, to meet on the next Fri-<br />

day. The widow's inn was an attractive place from some cause,<br />

and an excellent place to transact business.<br />

Mr. Samuel Shepherd received the thanks <strong>of</strong> the town "for<br />

his good service he did the town in respect <strong>of</strong> the poore."<br />

Mr. Shepherd had relieved the town in some measure <strong>of</strong> care<br />

about the poor, by keeping quite a number <strong>of</strong> them on his farm<br />

at White Hall, a little south <strong>of</strong> Joseph Mason's residence. The<br />

old house was standing since the memory <strong>of</strong> some now living,<br />

although a very ancient building. It was <strong>of</strong> the old style,<br />

boarded without and within, (no plastering) lined between with

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