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OF SUFFIELD. Att a Legal Meeting of ye freeholders and other Inhabitants of ye Town of Suffield conveened & held on the 13th Day of December 1734.1st. Deacon Joseph Remington was chosen Moderatour to order sd meeting. 2d. Voted, to allow Abraham Burbank for ¥ stocks Eleven shillings & sixpence. To Richard Austin for work at ye school House sixteen shillings. To William King for a pad lock four shillings. To James King Sen, for plank Eleven shillings & Two pence. To Lieut Abraham Adams for Two Journey, for School master fifteen shillings. 3d. Voted, to allow the Reverend Mr. Ebenezer Devotion over and above his stated Sallery--In Regard of ye fall of money, Thirty pounds. 4. Voted, and made choice Serj Abraham Burbank in the Room of Jno King to serve as constable. 5. Voted, to Raise Thirty Eight pounds in Town pay: and one Hundred and Thirty one pound in money. 6. Voted, that Iron should be In Town payments Three pounds pr Hundred, Wheat at Ten shillings pr bushell, Rie at seven Shilling pr bushell, Indian corn at five shillings pr bushell, Oats at Three shilling pr bushell, flax at fifteen pence pr pound, and Barly at six shillings pr bushell. 7. Voted, that the Select men Do Inquire Into the Town Debts and allow what they shall Judge to be Due. At this meeting Voted, that ye select men Do allow Timothy Phelps his account. At a meeting of the freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Suffield Qualified to vote In Town Meetings, being Notified to conveen and meet on the 2nd Munday of March being the Tenth Day of sd month Annoque Domini, 1734/5 for the choice of Necessary Town officers for ye year Insuing and some other things of a publick concern,. They accordingly met on sd Day and made choice of John Pengilley Jun, Moderatour to order sd meeting, and then proceeded to choice of officers as followeth. Select men - Joseph Winchel, John Austin, John Pengilley, William King, Samll Kent ye 3d. Assessors--Joseph King, John Pengilley, Samll Kent ye 3d. Town Clerk-John Austin. Constables - Benjamin Kent, and Thomas Spenser. ____________ *The Plymouth Colony Laws in 1637 required each town to be provided "with the stocks " and the whipping post, and these were the appendages of every Meeting House, one hundred years ago. (Thatcher's Plymouth.) In 1720, the Massachusetts Province Law required every town to be provided with them. They were common throughout the Colony at an early date, voluntari1y erected by the towns, as a terror to sinners. The " stocks " are once again mentioned in our records, Proprietors Book, vol. 1, p. 26, as follows: "At a Lawfull meeting of the Proprietors of the Common and undivided Lands within the Township of Suffield, December the 12th, 1737. First, By a clear vote. Capt. Joseph Winchell was chosen Moderator for sd meeting. 2ly. It was voted that notifications for Proprietors Meetings should be set up on a signpost, southward of the Meeting-House in sd Suffield, some few rods distant there from that is to say! by the stocks that stand by a White Oak tree that is there. 31y. By a clear vote said meeting was dissolved."
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