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OF SUFFIELD. March ye 4th, 1689/90: -At a generall Town Meeting of ye, Inhabitants of Suffield, for choice of necessary officers to order the prudentiall affaires of this place; accordingly choice was made, and the persons chosen for this ensuing yeare, are as followeth.Select Men-Anthony Austin, Sert Tho. Hucksley, Tho. Remmington, Edward Allen, Senr, John Mighell, Senr. Recorder-Anthony Austin. Constables.-Jacob Adams, Nathaniel Harmon. Surveyors.-Thos. Copley, Walter Halladay. Land Measurers.-David Winchill, Jacob Adams. Sealer of Leather.-Jacob Adams. Sizer & sealer of weights & measures. -Victory Sikes. Fence viewers. -Victory Sikes, Edward Smith, Joseph Harmon, Peter Roe. Haward. -Robert Old, Senr. Jacob Adams proposes to the Towne for the exchange of yt part of ye lot yt was Simon Gowins, which lyes between ye rear, and ye higheway. At a legall meeting of ye Inhabitants of Suffield April ye 18th 1690: It was proposed tht, and by a clear vote carried, to petition to this Corte, to be holden at Northampton of tills instant; against * Mr. John Youngloves preaching any longer amongst us. Agreed, and voted: yt ye order of ye Towne respecting hoggs going free in ye commons, without yoakes, and rings; shall be, and is now repealed and ye Lawes of ye common-wealth to be executed. April ye 23d, 1690: There being great damage sustained within this Towne by swine; not onlv in cornfields, meadows, and pastures; but alsoe in the commons:--For the prevention whereof, it is therefore ordered: that after the publication hereof, that all swine going upon the commons, shall be sufficiently yoaked, and ring'd from the twentieth of March, to the twentieth of October; and for the prevention of Damage being done, by Swines rooting in meddows, and pastures, both before, fences are made up, and fields enclosed: and after ye fields are broken, it is ordered that all swine going at liberty shall be sufficiently ring'd the yeare round;--and if notwithstanding this order, any man shall presume to let his swine goe on the commons without yoakes, and rings; it shall be lawfull for any man to impound all such swine, provided: that no man shall impound them any where but in the common pound erected by ye Towne for ye end. And the owners, of such swine shall upon demand or otherwise as they shall agree; pay to the person that impounds them 4d per head for all such swine, as, often as they are impounded, and in case of refusall, by Warrant the Select-men to ye Constable; all such forfeitures shall be taken by distress and delivered to the person that impounded the Swine. And if any mail taking swine doing him damage in his Cornfields, meadows, pastures, being sufficiently yoakt and ring'd according to this order, and shall either by dogging or any other cruell usage, maime, or kill their neighbors swine, they ________ * See pp. 16, 84. This page update Wednesday, September 19, 2001
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