History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

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tlieii existing, so as to have one at the north,
another at the south, and the thiixl in the westerly
section of the town, was rejected. In November
the selectmen agreed with William Lawrence to
keep the school until he had com])leted the term of
eight months, the term commencing July 9, of that
year; the pay to be £6 per month (Old Tenor) and
his board. On the 2-3d of December the selectmen
of the three towns, "Waltham, Watertown, and
Weston, met at the house of Ensign Harrington,
in Waltham, to adjust the accounts of the Great
Bridge, amounting to £195 15 «. 7r/., Old Tenor.
As adjusted, they were,— to Watertown, £72 6.$. 8^/.,
to Weston, £6-l"2.s. 4 r/., to "Waltham, £59 6«. Id.
March -l, 1743-44, Captain Samuel Livermore
represented to the selectmen that there were under
his command ninety men, and that the state law re-
quired them to have a stock of ammunition amount-
ing to 150 pounds of powder, 300 pounds of bul-
lets, and 450 flints. At the town-meeting, on the
5th of the same month, tlie town voted not to
open the dams where the fish ran. ]\Ir. Lawrence
was furtlier engaged by tiie selectmen as school-
master. Captain John Cutting was again chosen
representative, and at the same meeting (May 8) a
committee was appointed to join similar committees
from Weston and Watertown in applying to the
General Court for a tract of unappro])riated land,
in consideration of the failure of tlie court to lay
out the grant of one thousand acres of meadow
previously made. (This probably refers to the
grant of fifteen hundred acres of land made to
Watertown in 1637.)
At the annual meeting in March, 1744 - 45, Cap-
tain Livermore, who seems to have acquired great
popularity among his fellow-townsmen, was again
elected moderator, clerk, and treasurer, and at the
meeting in May was elected representative. Septem-
ber 9 of the same year the town voted tiiat Captain
Livermore "should address the Great and general
Court in tlie name and behalfe of tlie Town of
Wiillham that llie millers miglit have liberty to keep
„|, (heir mill Dams as fonmrU;' It liav'ing been
bn,u-hl to the notice of Uic' M'lcclinen tlial Mr.
LinMvn.v li;ul -ivcii up the sclu.nl.aiid that the
proplc wcri' ilis^iilislii-d wilh ihcrc bciiii,' none,
HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
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