History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from its settlement in 1654;

NORTHAMPTON.
qviej^t to use school-house Sunclay,
805, and note : appoints
school-committee, 30() ; instructs
them, 80(5, 807 ; meetinf^-house
repaired. 807 ; purchases
new ])ell, 8()S, 809 : old
bell sold. 80!) : land sold, 810;
new jail built, ih.; indicted
for defective highway, 811,
884 ; no opposition to division
of coiuity. 811, 314; lawsuit,
812 ; petitions to be made the
shire town, 812, 818, and note ;
new road to Westhampton,
814 young men arrested, 815 ;
;
sleigh-rides, 815, note ;
claims
island formed by mill trench,
810 ; proposes to build woi'k-
house, 817 ; new town hall. ib. ;
newCourt-House, 317-820 ; appoints
committee to consider
bill pending in legislature, 323;
town action on the same, ib. ;
declines to send delegates to
convention, 326 ; with Southampton
forms one representative
district 826, 327 ; census,
327, 828; slaves, 828; town
taxes, 828, 829 ; damage by
rain and flood, 829 ; bridge carried
away. /7).; county courts
held in. 381 ; grants Westhampton's
petition, 833. 418 ;
town-meetings. 38 8; people
warned out of town, 833,
384. 532, 583 ; bounty for
wolves, 3 34, 338; grants
Pascommiick's petition, 334,
335 : new jail built, 836 ; description,
887 ; another one
built. 887, 338 ; horse-blocks,
838, and note, 477 ; pottery,
338, 339, 526 ; burying yard
improved. 339 ; fails to respond
to Boston's appeal, 341,
343 ; Committee of Correspondence
chosen, 349 ; convention
in, 349-351 ; Committee of
Inspection. 858 ; an article in
warrant respecting Province
taxes, ib. : militia companies
in. 854, 356, 375 ; provides am-
munition, 358, 402, 408; men
start for the war, 360 ; at Rox-
bury, 361 ; prisoners sent to
jail. 367, 368, 870 ; political
parties in. 371. 872; tories in
jail, 372 : resolutions against
mobs. 374 ; tories put on town
limits, ib. ; men
in Quebec ex-
INDEX. 075
NOUTIIAMPTON.
X)edition, 377 ; their return,
379 ; Highlanders in jail, 384 ;
soldiers enlisted
muster, 886 ;
in, 885, 386 ;
mittees of
meeting of Com-
Correspondence in,
389 ; votes in favor of holding
court, 890 ; furnishes sui)plies
for the army, 391 ; warrant for
town-meeting, 392 ; votes for
permanent
ment, ib. ;
form
new
of govern-
constitution
of
accepted, 393 ; meeting
Committees of Safety, in 395 ;
doings of the convention, 896 ;
enlists men for Continental
army, 398, 422 ; bounty, 398 ;
soldiers return wnthout leave,
899 ; votes pay for soldiers,
399-400 ; men for Ticonderoga,
400-401 ;
other calls for men,
401, 408, 405, 412, 418, 432, 433,
435, 441, 442, 448, 449 ; alarm
in, 401 ; Hessian prisoners at.
402 ; men lose knapsacks and
clothing, 406 ; smallpox in,
407 ; builds pest-house, 409,
571 ; soldiers inoculated, 409
committee to prevent monopoly
and oppression, ib.; com-
mittee to procure new minister,
ib. ; soldiers' families cared
for. ib. prisoners at Quebec
;
reimbursed. 410 ; donation,
412 ; requisition for clothing,
413 ; articles of confederation
approved, 416; gives Rev.
Solomon Williams a call,
418 ; his salary, 419 ; ordination
dinner, 420 ; furnishes
wood, 420, 421 ; grants petitioners'
prayer, 421 ; refuses
King's request, ib.; makes allowances
tor schools, ib. ; in
New London expedition, 423 ;
in Claverack Tour, 424 ; sends
delegates to convention, 426 ;
appoints committee to consider
form of government,
427, 428 ; appoints committee
to make new draft of constitution,
429 ; new draught de-
bated, ib.; votes not to regulate
prices. 480 ; not represented
at Concord, 431 ; convention
in, ib.; Sheldon's
Light-Horse quartered in, 486;
removed. 437 ; horses and beef
furnished, 437, 438 ; new constitution
adopted. 438 ; system
of drafting, 441, 442 ; pays
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