20. CONSTABLE'S RETURN "Persuant to the within Warrant I have Notified and warned the male Inhabitants of said town qualified as within acpressed to meet at the time and place and for the purpose within mentioned Jacob True Constable'! VOTES AT TOWN MEETING OF NOV let. "Pejeoscot, November lst, 1802 met according to appointment and made choice if Mr Andrew .R. Giddings as moderator for the present meeting &c "first Voted that the surveyor of New Roads work upon them this fall and make them passable and have their pay out of the next years tax on said Roads* 2ndly Voted not to Choose a Committee to Look out a Road from James Nevens by John Hanscoms to Dingleys Ferry 3rd1y Voted that to except t of the Road from James Nevens between Jordan and pebles 4th Voted to send one petition to the general Court and one to the Court of Common please to have the State and County tax worked out on the Roads True Copy of proceedings Andw R. Giddings (Moderator Recorded". WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING Jan 6, 1803. "Cumberland ss "To Jacob True Constable of the town of Pejebscot Greeting "You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to notify and warn the freeholders and other inhabitants of said town Qulaified to vote in town meetings Vitz: Such as pay to one single tax besides the poll or polls a sum equal to two thirds of a poll tax to meet and assemble at Capt Thomas Finsons house on thursday the sixth Day of January Next at ten of the oclock in the forenoon to act on the following business Vitz: lst to Choose a moderator to govern said meeting 2ly to see if the town will sine a petition to the general Court to have the District of Maine a sepperate independent Commonwealth "3ly to'-see if the town will Except of the several Roads Lately Laid out by the sellectmen. 4ly to see if the town will grant any abatement to those persons that did not appear to give in their Valuations as the Law Directs if it appear that they are over taxed. 21. 5ly to see if the town will Lay out and Except of a Road from Mr Dingleys southwest towards Newgloucester by Dominicus Libbys as far as is Convenient for a Road on said Course "Given under our hands and seals this 28th Day of December 1802 True Woodbury Benning Wentworth Selectmen,of the town of Pejepscot." CONSTABLE'S RETURN. "Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified and warned the within names Persons by Posting up the. warrants Pejepscot the 5 January 1803 Jacob True Constable',' VOTES OF TOWN MEETING* "Jany 6th 1803 met according to appointment to the adjournment voted Dec 28th 1803 at the selectmen "Voted that Mr Mills be moderator of said meeting "Voted not to make any abatements to those persons that did not give in their Valuation "Voted to Except of Road from Dinglys Ferry Northwesterly to Moses Larrabees "Voted to Except of a Road from Ebenezer Cleaves Jr to the Road that Leads to Newgloucester" 22. CERTIFICATE OF TAX "To Lemuel Dyer Treasurer of the town of Pejepscot "The following is a state of the assessments made by us upon the polls & Estates of the inhabitants of said town which we have Committed to the Collector thereof to Collect VITZ: "0ne bill Committed to Mr Jacob True) amounting to Three Hundred and eighty Dollars & 38 Cents with the overlayinfs $ 380:38 "And ten Dollars and fifty two cents overlaid on the State tax bill 10:52 "Which he is to Collect & pay into ) .the treasury on or before the first $ 390:90 Day of April next "Pejepscot Jany 20, 1803 True Woodbury selectmen and Benning Wentworth Assessors of the Ebenezer Witham town of Pejepscot." 23. 23 WARRANT FOR ANNUAL MEETING 1803 "Cumberland ss. "To Jacob True Constable of the town of Pejepscot Greeting "You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Notify and warn the freeholders and other Inhabitants of said town-Qualified by Law to Vote in town meetings Vitz: Such as nay to one single tax besides the poll or polls a sum equal to two thirds of a single poll tax to meet and assemble at the school house near Mr. Andrew R. Giddings on monday the fourth of April next at twelve oclock to act on the following articles Vitz: "lst to Choose a moderator to govern said meeting- "2ly to Choose a town Clerk "3ly to Choose Selectmen and assessors "41y to Choose all other town officers that the Law requires "5ly to see if the town will set off John Jordan as is others Into a District by themselves for the purpose of having a summer school, given under our hands and sels at Pejepscot,this twenty first of March, Anno Domini 1803 True Woodbury Benning Wentworth -selectmen of Pejepscot" Ebenezer Witham CONSTABLE'S RETURN* "Persuant to the within warrant I have Notified and warned the within Named Persons to meet at the Day appointed in the warrant by Posting up two warrants fourteen Days Previous to the within Date Pejepscot' 4th- 1803 -April Jacob True Constable"* 24. 24 WARRANT FOR STATE ELECTION 1803. "Cumberland SS. "To Jacob True Constable of the town of Pejepsoot Greeting "you are hereby required in the Name of the Common wealth of Massachusetts to Notify and warn the male inhabitants of the said town of Pejepscot of twenty one years of age and upwards having a freehold estate within the Commonwealth of the annual Income of three Pounds or any estate to the value of sixty pounds to meet at the school house near Mr Andrew R.Giddinges on Monday the fourth day of April Next at Eight of the oclock In the forenoon to give in their Votes for a governor Lieutenant Gov- ernor and Senators and counsellors agreeable to the Constitution of said Commonwealth "given under our hands and seals this twenty first Day of march Anno Domini 1803 True Woodbury Benning Wentworth selectmen of Pejepscot". Ebenezer Witham CONSTABLE'S RETURN. "Persuant to the within warrant I have Notified and warnd the within Named Persons to meet at the Day anointed in the within warrant By Posting up two warrants fourteen Days Previous to the within Date. "Pejepscot 4th April 1803 Jacob True Constable". RECORD OF MEETING 1803. "Pejepscot April 4th 1803 "For the Hon Caleb Strong governor 62 Votes 2 1 65 "For Lieut governor Edward H. Robbins 57 Votes 1 58 "For Senators Hon Woodbury Storer 60 Votes and the Hon John Cushing 9 Votes 25. "1ly Voted Andrew R. Giddings as moderator "21y Benning Wentworth town Clerk sworn Andrew R. Giddinge Selectman "31y Benning Wentworth Do Benjamin Arnold Do as selectman "41y Lemuel Dyer as town trasurer sworn "51y Constable and Collector Charles Mckenny Surveyors of Roads "61y onthe Road from frosts to Barkers Saml Crockett from Barkers to Jonathan Rows Stephen Row from Poland line to Mr Gidings Samuel He Haskell Road from Mr Gidings to James Nevens and from True Woodburys to Saml Eveleth Ebener Witham from Saml Eveleths to gloucester line and to Stephen mckennys John Jordan sworn from Willm Mckennys to gloucester and from moses Larrabees to the main Road Willm Plummer from Willm Mckennys to Dingleys Freey and Half Way Crost a Cross Road Willm W. Pebles from Dingleys to moses Larrabes with part of the Cross Road Dominicus Libby sworn from Dingleys to Vickerys Elias Staten sworn from Vickerys to Frosts Saml So Wentworth from James Nevens to Ebr Jordans Richd Hollis sworn from James Nevens to Beng Wentworths Joshua Row from Saml Eveleth to Willm Mckeny James Jordan Surveyors of -Boards Josiah Moody Peltiah Smith do all sworn but Elias Staten Daniel Moody- Do-,. Staten Culler of Saves Trew Woodbury Matthias Vickery. sworn Fence Viewers Stephen Row Saml Tarbox Saml S. Wentworth Moses Larrabee all sworn Field Drivers Samuel Tarbox Thomas Row Benning Wentworth John Martin Saml Royal Tythingmen sworn Lemuel Dyer Micheal Smith sworn sworn Joseph Dresser Willm Dingley 26. 26. Hogreeve Jonath goodridge true Charles Merrill Ephriam Crockett these hog Anthony Murry Nathl Sturgis reves Thomas Row Patrick Irish sworn Ebenezer Jordan Pound Keeper True Woodbury Sworn School Committee Andw R. giddinge Ebenezer Witham Benning Wentworth Fish Committee Phinihas Frost Sworn WARRANT TOWN OFFICERS TO TAKE OATH APRIL 11, 1803._ "Cumberland SS "To Charles Mckenney constable of the town of Pejepscot Greeting "The following is a List of the names of those persons who were chosen Into office at a meeting of the inhabitants of said town holden on the fourth Day of April of whom an oath Is by Law required Vitz: Messrs Andw R. Giddings- Samuel Ho Haskell Ebenezer Witham Willm 'F. Pebles Elias Staten Joshua Row surveyors of Highways &c and Elias Staten surveyor of Boards Thomas Row Samuel Royal Field Drivers Micheal Smith Joseph Dresser, Willm Dingley tythingmen., Jacob True, Ephriam Crockett, Amthony Murry, Nathl Sturgis, Thomas Row, Partrick Irish, Ebenezer Jordan Hogreves You are hereby Requires In the Name of the Commonwealth of massachusettt within three days from the Date,hereof to Notify and summons each and every of the said persons to appear before me within seven Days from the time you shall give such NOTICE to take the oath by Law prescribed to the offices unto which they are Respectively Chosen Hereof fail not and make Return of this warrant with your doings thereon within ten days from the date hereof given under my hand and real at Pejepscot this Eighth Day of April Anno Domini 1803 ( Clerk of the Benning Wentworth town of Pejepscot" 27. CONSTABLE'S RETURN. Persuant to the within warrant I have Notified and summoned the several persons within Named to appear before the town Clerk and take the oaths of their Respective offices as I am therein Directed Pejepscot April 1803 Charles Mckinney WARRANT FQR A TOWN MEET ING FOR May 2 1803 "To Charles Mckenny Constable of the town of Pejepscot Greeting "You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn the Freeholders and other inhabitants of said town, qualified by law to vote in town meeting - to assemble at the school house In the first School District in said town - on Monday the second day of May next at one oclock pm - to act on the following articles (Viz) "l to Choose a Moderator " 2d to see what sum the town will raise to be expended in repairing and making roads in said town . 3d to see what sum the town will raise for School 4 to see what sum the town will raise to defray the contingent expenses of the town "5th to see if the town will vote money, and what sum to hire a preacher "6th to choose a committee to hire a preacher If any money is raised for that purpose "7th to examine and pass accounts against the town for the last year "8th to see what method the town will adopt if any respecting the Demands of James Nevens & Ezekiel Whitman for Damages by roads " 9th to see If the town will agree that swine shall run at large when yoked and rung accodding to law Given under our hands and seals this llth day of April 1803 Andw R. Giddinge selectmen of Benning Wentworth the town of Benjamin Arnold Pejepscot CQNSTABLE'S RETURNs Persuant to the within warrant I have notified the Inhabitants qualified as within expressed at Assemble at the time and place for the purposes within mentioned PeJepscot Charles"Mckenney Constable of Monday May 2d 1803 said Pejepscot" 28. .RECORD OF MEETING MAY 2,1803. "At a Legal meeting &c lot Voted that Andw R. Giddings as moderator for said meeting 21y Voted that 800$ be Raised for Roads 31Y Voted that 250$ for Schools 41y Voted that 150$ for town Charges 51y Voted that 60$ for preaching in said town 61y Voted that Consider Glass, Lemuel Dyer, Mathias Vickery, be a committee to hire a preacher to apply the above voted 60$ 71yY Voted that Benning Wentworths account be paid which account id $10:38 cents Sly Voted that -True' Woodburys account $36:55 cents 9ly Voted that Ebenezer Withams account $21:50 Cents 10 Voted that Jacob Truss account excepted $11:06 cents 11 Voted that Lemuel Dyers account $2:25 12 Voted that Andw Re giddings account $170:50 13 Voted Not to Consider James Nevens & Ezekiel Whitman any thing for Damage by Roads 14 Voted that swine Shall not Run at Large "the above list of votes were read to the meeting before the adjournment. and is a true Statement (Moderator Attest Andw R. Giddinge (of sd (Meetg". WARRANT FOR ELECTION OF REPRESETATIVE_. "To Charles McKenney Constable of the town of Pejepscot Greeting You are hereby required In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn the male Inhabitants of said town, being,twenty one years of age., and resident in said town for the Space of one year next preceeding, having freehold estate within said town of the annual Income of three Pounds, or any estate to the value of Sixty -pounds - to meet at the school house in the first District in said town on monday the Second day of May next at 10 oClock am. for the purpose of choosing a Representative to reprecent them at the general Court appointed to be held at Boston on the last Wednesday of May Given under our hands and seals at said Pejepscot the Eleventh day of April 1803 Andw R. Giddinge Selectmen Benning Wentworth of Benjamin Arnold Pejepscot" 29 CONSTABLE'S RETURN "Persuant to the within warrant I have notified the Inhabitants of the town of Pejepscot qualified as within expressed to meet at the time & place,and for the purpose therein mentioned Constable of said "Pejepscot Charles Mckinny Pejepscot REPORT OF SELECTMEN MAY 20 1803* "Monday May 2d 1803 "We the Selectment granting the above warrant met the town at the time and place, and found on examination that the town of Pejepscot did not Contain One hundred and fifty Rateable polls & consequently were not entitled to send a Representative Andw R. Giddinge Benjamin Arnold selectmen" WARRANT FOR MEETING SEPT* 15th. "To Mr Charles Mckinny Constable of the town of Pejepscot Greeting "You are hereby required in the Name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts To notify & warn all the Freeholders and other inhabitants being legal voters in said Town,, to Meet at the School House in the first District in said Town On Thursday the fifteenth day of September next at three oclock afternoon then and there to act oft the following articles Vitz: 1st To Choose a Moderator to govern said meeting 2 To see if the town will accent of the alterations made in the town roads and accent of those newly laid out. 3 To see if the town will allow any compensation - and to what amount to the Town Treasurer for his trouble In keeping the town accounts &c 4 To see if the town will reconsider the vote passed January the 6th last and accept of the road laid out from Mr Anthony Murrys North west to the town road leading to the river near Ephraim Crockets*--- Herof fail not and to make a return of this warrant and your doings thereon, on said day at said place and in due time "Given under our hands and seals this thirty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and three Andw R. Giddinge Selectmen of Benning Wentworth Benjamin Arnold said Town". 30. CONSTABLE'S RETURN "Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified the freeholders Inhabitants of the town of Pejepscot to meet at the time and place and for the purposes there in mentioned - by posting up a notifycation for that purpose at the school house therein mentioned at least seven days before said time Pejepscot Sept 15th Charles Mckinney Constable" 1803 TOWN MEETING SEPT 15, 1803. "At a Legal meeting called for that purpose holden at the school house In the first District in the town of Pejepscot Se-or 15th 1803 "lst Voted that And w R. Giddinge Esqr be moderator of said meeting "2d Voted to accept of a road on the dividing line between Jonathan Row's land and that occupied by Richd Goss running S.E. from the County Road 60 rods to their corner - thence S38E 60 rods thence S.56E 44 Rods to the town way near John walkers - for a way for the towns use 3d Voted to accept a Road as laid out from Dan Brannans Corner S West 64 Rods on the dividing line between the great Lots numbered four and five to the town Toad leading to Lemuel Dyers land from James Nevens's - For a private way to the use of Dan Brannan to be three rods wide one half on each side said line, 4th Voted to accept so much of the road formerly laid out by a Committee from the Court of Sessions from the eastern side of Anthony Murrys land to the County road near Androscoggin river by Dominicus Libbees land - between Jose-oh Mckenny & Jn Martins land and by Oliver Tv Jordans land and between Wm Dingleys land Elias Statens land in the same courses as liad out by skid Committee - and the same width, "5 Voted to accept the way laid,out by the selectmen from the county road leading to Frosts Ferry from Neglou- cester, Beginning at a beach tree thence S68E68 rods to Dressers land, thence on the diving line between Aaron Dressers and Wm Moodys land S.E. to Jacob Trues land thence N78E 53 Rods to a large dead Pine thence 13 Rods same course to a green pine thence N52E 78 Rods thence N80E to the county road near the River androscoggin - to be of the width of three rods one half on each -side of said line, 31. "6th Voted to accept the way laid out from a tree standing on the side of Moses Hanscomes land as an alteration of the way from Cleaves's near New Gloucester line to Dingleys ferry thence N59E80 Rods on Shas Bisbys land to Crockets dividing line thence N.E. on said dividing line to the County road near the River "7th Voted to accent the alteration made in the way from Joseph Eveleths to the southern read from Gloucester to begin c at a stake in the line between James Jordans land and Wid M Kinneys land where Cap Finsons 1ine bears N26W thence S13E to the line between Edw Plumers land and William McKinnys 123 Rod thence on the dividing line between Plummer & Mckinny SE 44 Rods to the way from N Gloucester. "8th Voted to reconsider a vote passed in a meeting in January last for discontinuing a way laid out from Anthony Murrys land N.E. by Solomon Larribees to the town road leading-from Cleaves towards Androscoggin River - And accept the same as a town way leading into that from Dingleys ferry to Dominicus Libbees and Murrys as accepted by the fourth vote passed. "9th Voted that Lemuel Dyer be allowed out of any money belonging to the town in the treasury-thereof the-sum of Six Dollars Dr year for his services the last and present year for his Services as Town Treasurer "Pejebscot Sept 1sth 1803 "these Votes states and examined and read to the meeting before Adjournment At' R. Giddings Moderator" CERTIFICATE OF TOWN TAX 1803. "Pursuant to the Votes passed at the Annual meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Pejepscot for raising the sum of Four hundred and Sixty Dollars and appropriating the same in the manner and for the pruposes hereafter mentioned (Viz) "The sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for Schools "The sum of one hundred and fifty Dollars for the incidental charges of the town "And the sum of Sixty Dollars for the hire of a preacher of the gospell "We have assessed the Dolls and estates of the said Town the sum of Five hundred and forty seven Dollars and three cents - fourteen Dollars and forty six cents of which sum is overlaid on the State tax for the year of our lord one thousand Eight hundred, - and three - and the sum of Seventy two Dollars and fifty seven cents overlaid on the sums voted by said town at said annual meeting which over layings does not exceed the sum of Forty Pounds by law allowed in such cases The whole sum so assessed amounting to the sum of Five hundred and forty seven Dollars and three cents - And have committed the lists thereof to Charles M'kinney Collector of said Town with warrants in due form of Law for collecting and-paying in the same unto Lemuel Dyer Treasurer of said Town or his successor in that Office In withness whereof we have hereunto set our hand at said Pejepscot this thietieth day of October Anno Domini 1803, Andw R. Giddinge Assessors." Denning Wentworth 32 WARRANT FOR Meeting DEC . 31 1 803 Cumbe rland SS To Charles Mckinney Constable of the Town of Pejepscot - Greeting "You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . To notify and warn the Inhabitants of the town of Pejepscot being qualified to vote in town affairs - to meet, at the School house In the first School District In said town on Saturday the thirty first. day of December at two oClock pm to act on the following articles VIZ "Ist to Choose a moderator 2d to see if the town accept and confirm the present mode of div iding the town Into School Districts or make any alterations so as to opperate in the distribution of School taxes in future - and to act and do as the town shall see proper relating the premises "Given under our hands and seals this nineteenth day of December Anno Domini 1803 Andw R. Giddinge Selectmen of Benning Wentworth Pejepscot". CONSTABLE'S RETURN* "Pursuant to the within I have notified and warned the Inhabitants therein directed to meet at the time and place and for the purpose therin mentioned by posting up a notifycation therof in of the most public places days at least before the time in said town seven mentioned for said meeting Constable Charles Mckenney of said (.Pejepscot. "Dated at Pejepscot Decr 2 2, 1803." 33. TOWN MEETING DE C. 31. 1803. Pejepscot Decm 31 1803 "At a legel meeting of the said town Notified according to Law .and made choice of Mr Jacob True as moderator to govern said meeting 21y Voted Not to accent of the Districts as the Selectmen Divided them &c "31y Voted to Except the first District Nathl Sturgis Ezekiel Bray,, Alden Bridgham, Jonathan Chase, Saml He Haskell, Andw R. Giddings Ebenezer Witham John Witham, Tammy Goes, Job Lane, John Merrill, Charles Merrill, Wm Saunders Jr Moses Saunders, Jeremiah Merrill, Joseph Saunders Jr, Samuel Tarbox, Michael Smith, Peter Merrill, Moses Fitz, Pelatiah Smith., Thos Rowe, Joshua Rowe Jonathan Rowe Richard Goes, Thos Goss, Thos Goss Jr Joshua Goose We the subscribers do wish to be set of as a District in the, town of Pejepscot Vizt: Phinehas Frost,, Henry Frost'. David Hildreth, Samuel Crockett, Jonathan Goodridge. Jotham Barron William Frost, Wiliam Sweet, Aaron-Dresser, William Moody, William Moody Jr., John Penley Josiah Parker Stephen Rowe Ezcerpted as the second District. We the subscribers do wish to be set of as a District in the town of Pejepscot Vitz:, James Elwell, Ephraim 'Crockett, Charles Bisbee Samuel Akerly, James Wagg, Daniel Jordan Mathias Vickery Jr. Mathias Vickery, James Vickery, John Maxwell, Robert Maxwell, Houchin Moody, Benning Wentworth, Samuel S. Wentworth, Primas Shapleigh,(the 1st Blackman to settle in Danville, Maine) Joserph Penly, Josiah Moody, Jacob True, Joseph Dresser Excepted as the third District. "To the Town of Pejepscot Gentlemen Whereas we the Subscribers freeholder of the Town of Pegepscot Do think that order and, Regulation tends to the peace and advantage of a town and As the town is about to Determine and Define the limits of School Disticks our Request is that we the Subscribers may be accepted as a School District Dated December the 29th 1803 Thomas Finson Joseph Treadwell , Humphrey Jordan,, True Woodbury, Nathaniel Sawyer, John Stinchfield, John Nevens, James Nevens, Joseph Eveleth, Consider Glass, Patrick Airish, John Walker, John Vosmus, John Brooks Jr James Lura, Samuel Royal, Benjamin Arnold, John W. Jordan, Charles Mckinney Excepted as the fourth District". 34. "John Fogg, Benjamin Dyer, Richard Hollis, Daniel Brannon, -Henry Mckenny, Moses Hanscom, George Leach, Stephen larrabee, Humphry Libbee, William W. Peables, Ebenezer Jordan, Lemuel Dyer, Clement Jordan Excepted as the sixth District". DAMAGE DEMAND OF EZEKIEL WHITMAM. "Ezeliel Whitman demands of the Town of Pejepscot Forty dollars for land Appropriated to a highway off the land owned originally by Nathl Woodbury and now by the said Whitman and for damages 'occasioned thereby in as much as the said Whitman will have to build-on said roads upwards of one hundred rods of fence anon than if no road had been taken off of said land Ezekiel Whitman Pejepscot March 31, 1803" Refused May 2, 1803 by a Vote of the town". LIST OF RETAILERS IN THE TOWN OF PEJEPSCOTS "Cumerland ss. To the Selectmen of the town of Pejepscot Gentlemen, . THE following is a List of Persons licensed by the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Cumberland, which was begun and holden at Pejebscot, in and for said County on the third Tuesday of February 1803 William Dingley Retailers Thomas Finson It is the request of the Court that the above List be communicated by you to the thingmen of your town Dated at Portland, in said County, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk." NOTE ON BACK Pursuant to the within we have sent a list of the Persons there in named as licensed Retailers in this town to the tythingmen for the year 1803 Andw R.. Giddings) Selectmen of Benjamin Arnold Pejepscot".