Town Acts "Documentary History of Suffield, by Sheldon, 1879"

OF SUFFIELD.

Clerk of the Market. -Deacon Jonathan Taylor.
Searchers, & Sealer, & Gager of Cask.-James King Sen,' John Kent, John Burleson.
Sealer of Leather. -Jacob Adams.
Surveyors of Highways. -John Rising, Nathaniel Harmon, Daniel Adams, & Samuel Palmer.
Fence Viewers. -Josiah Hale, Samuel Copley, Abraham Adams, & Caleb Allen.
Constable-Jared Huxley.

At this Meeting, it was agreed, and voted, to give Deac. Jonathan Taylor forty shillings as money, for his Committeeship, with respect to ye Meeting House.

Town Officers sworn, March ye 15th, 1714: Caleb Allen, Abraham Adams, & Samuel Allen.
March ye 9th, Jared Huxley, Constable.
March ye 8th, Ichabod Smith, Daniel Adams, & John Rising,
March ye 17th Josiah Hale, Samll Copley, sworn fence viewers.
March 8th, Joseph Winchill, John Burbank, & John Austin, Sworn Assessors.
April ye 5th, John Remington, sworn.

Select Men
JACOB ADAMS,
EBENEZER BURBANK,
THOMAS COPLEY,

At a Legal Town Meeting, March ye 22nd, 1713/14:
1st. It was agreed, and voted to give *Mr. Nathaniel Griswold, Twenty-Eight pounds in money, for his keeping Scooll this year ensuing.
2ndly. That all votes of the Town, shall be written in the Meeting where they are voted: And also read to the Town, and that all votes of the Town which the Select Men cannot Attest to be so written, and Read in the Meeting, and signified to The town Clerk in their order to Entre them that they were so written, & read: shall be illeagal, and not to be put upon Record.
3d. That the Select Men from time to time shall sign no votes to the Land Measurer, to lay out Land to any person, but what they have good satisfaction from the Record; such persons have a Legal Right unto.
4th. Neither shall they sign any of the Land Measurers Returns to the Town Clerk to be put into the Record; but what by the Record they do judge to be Legal to be put there, and that when notes come in to be Recorded, the Town Clerk doth judge them not fit, or Legal to be Recorded, he shall suspend the Recording of them, till the matter be decided between himself, and the Select men, and in case they agree not; Then to be Decided by the proprietors at their Meeting.

Forasmuch: as there hath been many Errours Committed by the Select Men in the year past, or by the major part of them by their Irregular manner of giving order to ye Land Measurer (Contrary to the Custom of the Town) for
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* Ens. Nathl., of Poquonoc

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