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TOWN ACTS. 3d1y. Voted, That the Town Treasurer shall sue for what money is due to the Town, and for what money the Court hath ordered any persons to pay for the maintenance of good wife Froe. (See p. 190.)4thly.* Also agreed, and voted that John Burbank shall take care, and see what encouragement he can find for us to get to the Government of Connecticutt, to bring to the Town the next March Meeting. Att a Lawfull Town Meeting of the Inhabitants of Suffield February the 10th 1720/21 First it was voted that John Kent Sen, should be Moderator for said meeting. 2ndly.¥ Voted, That our Representative lay before the General Court or Assembly att their next Session a representation of the great wrong that we have sustained by the laste Establishment, fully setting forth our just claimes to those lands that are taken from our Township, and added to Windsor, and Symsbury; and Earnestly to petition, that our Township may be restored to its former bounds, and to the rightfull owners, as granted, and confirmed to us by the General Court of the late Colony of the Massachusetts Bay. 3dly, It was allso clearly voted, to chuse three men to take care to prevent incroaching on highways, and accordingly Peter Roe, John Burbank, and Joseph Winchel, were chosen to endeavour as aforesaid. Also, voted, to bare the charge of caring Liddia Granger, the wife of George Granger, to the house of correction. Att a Lawfull Meeting, viz., General Town Meeting of the Inhabitants Of Suffield, March ye 1st, 1721. In order to chuse officers as the law directs, to order the prudential affairs of the Town, and accordingly choice was made as followeth: Select Men-Jobn Kent Senr, Lieut. John Austin, James King Jun, Joseph Remington, Abraham Adams. Town Clerk-Jos. Winchel. Constable-Daniel Adams. Town Treasurer-John Burbank. Tything Men-John Huxley, John Warner Sen. Assesors-John Kent Senr, Joseph Winchel, Lieut. John Austin. Surveyors of Highways-Joseph Fuller, Samuel Copley, Benjamin Remington, John Harmon. Sealer of waits &measures-Lieut. Joshua Leavit. Sealer of Leather-Ebenezer Burbank. Fence Viewers-Joseph Harmon Jun, Jonathan Rimington, William King, Timothy Palmer, Samuel Palmer, John Kent Junr. _________ *This, and subsequent votes of the Town of a like tenor, prove conclusively that a majority of the inhabitants were unwilling subjects to Massachusetts Government, refuting the accusation found in Holland's Hist. of Western Mass., Vol. I chap. xii. This dissatisfaction was unabated for 30 years, or until 1749, when it terminated in open and successful secession. ¥ See Town lines, p. 12, foot notes, pp. 151, 183, 200-202.
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