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TOWN ACTS.
3d1y. It was voted in said meeting to send a petition to the General Court,
plainly laying before them our whole difference with respect to our land, and also an agent to manage the same.
Suffield May yr 15th, 1718, in a Town Meeting We, whose names are underwritten do entre our decents, and votes against the towns being att any charge to send any person, or persons to the Great and
General Court att Boston for a further explaination of what they have done, relating to their confirmation of the explanation that the Justices of the Peace for the County of Hampshire drew up on their act passed att a Special Court holden att
Suffield on January the10th 1715. (See p. 194.) And likewise against any persons, or person being chosen Agents or Trustees, concerning the differance in said Town. The General Court and Sessions having already done what we judge to have been sufficient for settling our differance about land, and therefore no occasion for a meeting for that purpose, or a
Moderator to maniage in said Meeting.
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Jonathan Taylor,
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Nathaniel Hambling,
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Thomas Copley, |
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John Devotion,
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James Philleps,
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Asaph Levit,
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Thomas Huxley,
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Timothy Palmer,
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Ebenezer Nash,
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| Richard Austin,
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Joshua Levit,
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Nathaniel Austin,
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Benoni Banes,
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Matthew Copley,
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Ichabod Smith, |
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James King,
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John Hanchet Junr,
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John Austin,
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Anthony Austin,
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Benjamin King,
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James King Junr,
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Fearnot Burleson,
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Wm King,
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Medad Pumrey,
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| Edward Burleson,
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William Huxley,
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Samuel Palmer,
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| Joseph Fuller,
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Thomas Granger Senr,
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John Pengilly, Jr, |
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John Rising Jun.,
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John Hanchet,
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Thomas Granger Jun, |
| Edmund Marshall,
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Martin Kellog,
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Nathaniel Hale,
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| Timothy Hale,
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John Marshall,
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John Rising Sen. |
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Samuel Hale,
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Jared Huxley,
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Att a Legall Town meeting May 29th, 1718, first, the Town did by a clear vote make choice of John
Burbank to be the moderator for said meeting. 2d, they made choice of John
Kent Jun, to serve the Town in a journey to Boston, to carry a Petition to the General Court, and to be the Towns Agent to
manage the same in said court; said Agent to deliver the Petition to John Austin, who is now there on the Towns service.* Said
Austin to deliver it, or present it to that Court. and that our said Agent
shall serve the proprietors in such things as he shall think fitt, or according to their instruction when
he is there.
3d1y. That the Select men should write the Towns Petition.
At a Lawfull Town meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Suffield, Nov. the
13th, 1718, first, John
Burbanks was chosen Moderator.
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*John Austin, son of Anthony Sen, was Representative at Boston, 1718, 19, 20, and 1723, four
years.
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