The Early Records of the Town of Providence: Printed Under the Authority of the City Council of Providence, Volume 13Snow & Farnham, 1897 - Genealogy |
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27th day Andrew Harris Arthur ffenner Assembly Att a Towne Benjamin Tillinghast Capt James olney Capt Richard Waterman Chosen Constable Chosen Deputies Chosen Grand Jurymen Chosen Pettee Court of Tryals Crawfford Daniel Abbott deputies to serue desolued Ebenezer Spreague Edward Smith Geathering hath haue held att Newport held att Prouidence highway James Browne James Dexter Jenckes Chosen Moderator Jngaged John Burton John Steere Joseph Jenckes Chosen Joseph Whipple junior Last Tusday Leiu Major William Smith meeteing is adjorned meeteing is againe meeteing is dissolued Nicholas Power Phillip Tillinghast Prouidence this 27th Quarter day Quarter meeteing held Richard Browne Richard Waterman Chosen Robert Currie Samuell Wilkinson serue att ye Thomas Arnold Thomas Burllinggame Thomas Harris Thomas Olney Thomas Steere Town Clerke Towne meeting held Townes Quarter meeteing Towns Election day Tusday in march Voated and ordered vpon Whipple Chosen William Hopkins William Whipple ye 27th ye next Genr ye Towne
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Page iii - RESOLVED, That Horatio Rogers, George M. Carpenter, and Edward Field, are hereby appointed Record Commissioners, who shall serve without compensation, for the purpose of collecting and printing the early records of the town of Providence, and said commissioners are hereby authorized to expend the sum of one thousand dollars for the collecting and printing said records, said sum to be charged to the appropriation for printing.
Page 42 - Leads from thence to pautuckett may be fenced for the space of fiue years from hence next Comeing prouided there be sufficiant Gates sett vp and maintained in sd Lane and highway that may be Conueniant for both horse men and Cartes to pass through as well as foot men dureing all the said term Jt is further voated and ordered that Nathan Place shall bring what deputies Bills he hath in his hands to mr James Browne that he may Jnspect into what the sum of...
Page 54 - Joseph Whipple being absent John Potter Junr appeared before this meeteing and made excuse of his Enabilityes that disinabled him for serueing in the place of a Constable : and his alligations was accepted by...
Page 43 - Prouidence shall from and after this day haue two pence ^r head for euery head of a Gray Squirrill that shall be by them brought before the Towns Treasuror : and to be payed out of the Townes Treasurrey : and this order to Continue dureing the Towns pleasure And the sd Treasuror shall be Carefull to accept of no squirrils heads but such as are killed within this Town ship The meeteing is dissolued...
Page 42 - Jnspect into what the sum of' sd Bills amounts to and also Jndeavour to git Jnformation how big the Rate was that was Leuied vpon the Town Jn the yeare 1715 and there vpon give an account to Richard Waterman Town Clerke . . . Jt is also voated and ordered that Each free holder with in this Township of Prouidence shall from and after this day haue two pence...
Page vii - The heavy figures enclosed in brackets represent the paging of the original book as it now stands. This mark | shows the beginning and end of interlineations in the original. Words or letters printed in parentheses are so found in the original.
Page 43 - And to Jnspect into such accounts as shall be brought before them: And there vpon to allow of such accounts as to them shall seeme Legal: and draw a List of the same to be a Rule for the Treasurer to pay out the money by...
Page 52 - Westcott X & mr Joseph Brown X Mr Stephen Dexter X Mr John Dexter X Mr Ebenezer Spreague X Mr John Steere X Junr X Mr Nehemiah Sheldon X Mr Thomas Burllinggame Mr John Bolcom Mr Samuell ffisk Chosen Ratemakers Chosen Surueyors of highways those Crossed are Engaged Mr Eliezer Arnold Engaged Mr Thomas Arnold Junr Mr William Turpin Engaged Cap...
Page 28 - John Steere mr James Angell Mr Joseph ffield and mr Abraham Clarke are Chosen Pettee Jurymen to serue att ye next Genr" Court of Tryals to be held att newport ye first Tusday in September next Ensueing Voated that Cap' Richard Waterman and Ensign William Potter: shall take the Care of waybauset Bridge and Keepe it in Repaire: and haue there satisfaction for there Charge and Labour there in out of the Town Treasurrey The meeting is dissolued Att a Towns quarter meeteing held att Prouidence this 27""...
Page 42 - ... Common or in the highways nor in the water with in this Township of Prouidence or with in the Jurisdiction there of nor vpon any other persons Land. Except those that one the Geese : on the pennilty of the forfiture of all such Geese that are so found — Past : Jt is voated and ordered that Herndens Lane and the highway that Leads from thence to pautuckett may be fenced for the space of...