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History of Amesbury - Merrill.org

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312 HISTORY OF AMESBURY.<br />

pleted by the last <strong>of</strong> December, and on the 26th David Lowell.<br />

Joseph Morse and Benjamin Swett were chosen to receive the<br />

key in the name <strong>of</strong> the district. The amount required was<br />

^200, and this was divided into shares <strong>of</strong> £2 each, making<br />

one hundred shares, which were taken up by subscription. A<br />

committee consisting <strong>of</strong> Nathan Long, William Bagley and<br />

James Bailey was chosen to receive the school money from the<br />

selectmen and to hire a master. At an adjourned meeting held<br />

January 2d, 1797, the committee reported that they had hired<br />

Master "Burrows" to keep school seven months.<br />

"Mr. Burrows began his School January 16th 1797 on Mon-<br />

day The First School that was Teached in this house."<br />

"Mr Burrows" received $18 per<br />

1797.<br />

month for his services.<br />

One thousand dollars were raised for town charges and five<br />

hundred for the repairing <strong>of</strong> highways.<br />

Thirty votes were cast at the election for governor.<br />

Aug. 4th. Hon. Bailey Bartlett received seven votes for rep-<br />

resentative to Congress, which included all that were cast.<br />

The town voted to revise the school districts, and the selectmen<br />

with Capt. John Barnard and James Bayley were appointed<br />

to do it.<br />

The old habit <strong>of</strong> selling the poor was still practiced, and this<br />

year they were "put out to the best advantage," which means<br />

the cheapest, if not the best place.<br />

A brick school-house having been built on the town's land<br />

at the Ferry, the annual meeting granted a piece <strong>of</strong> land so<br />

long as the house remained thereon.<br />

David Tewksbury again comes to the front with his favor-<br />

ite society,' and the representative is instructed to oppose the<br />

incorporation <strong>of</strong> the new society.<br />

1798.<br />

The sum <strong>of</strong> $500 was voted for the repairing <strong>of</strong> highways,<br />

and the surveyors were to allow 4 s. per day for each man or<br />

yoke <strong>of</strong> oxen.<br />

"Voted To lay out a highway from the Indian Creek to the<br />

road by Mr James Bailey's farm." .This road started at the

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