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HISTORY OF AMESBURY. 345
to the door. What became of him is not known, as he
spent the last part of his life at the eastward.
1831.
The town concluded to fix the compensation of the school
committee as follows : "Voted that the School Committee
who shall serve in future shall each be allowed six dollars
a year as a compensation for his services."
William Nichols, Esq., of West Amesbury, was this year
chosen state senator.
Oct. ioth. A town meeting was held to consider the peti-
tion before the county commissioners for a new road from
Moses Sawyer's, at the River, to Joseph Merrill's. The meet-
ing took strong ground against this new road, offering all the
opposition possible, but without effect, as it was laid out by the
commissioners and ordered to be built.
Jacob Bagley Currier, a soldier of the Revolution, died August
3d, at the age of eighty years. He owned and lived in the
house now owned by John E. Cowden, Esq., at the Ferry.
On the 28th of December Ephraim Weed died at the Pond
Hills, where he was born December 29th, 1750, being eighty-
one years old lacking one day. He was town clerk twenty-
seven years and selectman three years. The old house in
which he was born and died stood just south of Mr. O. Everett
Sargent's. It was a very ancient house and may have been
built by the first Ephraim Weed, son of John Weed, 1st. It
was torn down soon after his death.
The organization of the Congregational church of Salisbury
and Amesbury Mills was completed December 6th. Eleazer A.
Johnson was chosen clerk and held the office more than forty
years. Jonathan A. Sargent and George Perkins were chosen
deacons. No minister was settled at this time.
1832.
The "middle road," laid out last year by the commissioners,
was unpopular with a large majority of the people and it was
determined to get rid of it if possible. At the annual meeting
the selectmen were authorized to build it, but, in May, the
selectmen were ordered to notify the commissioners that the
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