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First Record of Marshfield
On application of a number of credible freeholders of the town of Marshfield, County of Caledonia, and State of Vermont, that said town may be organized, according to law, I hereby warn a meeting of all the Freeholders and other inhabitants of said town, qualified to vote in Town-meeting, to appear at the dwelling house of Joshua Pitkin, in said town, on the tenth day of March next, at ten o'clock forenoon on said day.
1st. To choose a moderator to govern
said meeting.
2nd. To choose all officers that the law requires for organized
towns to have.
Joshua Pitkin, Justice Peace.
Marshfield, Feb. 24th, 1800.
March 10th, 1800
This day a Town-meeting agreeable to the above Notification was
held:
| 1st Chose Stephen Rich,
Moderator 2nd, Chose Stephen Rich, Town Clerk Joshua Pitkin, Clerk pro tem. 3rd, Stephen Rich, 1st Selectman 4th, Stephen Pitkin, 2nd Selectman 5th, Samuel Paterson, 3rd Selectman 6th, Caleb Pitkin, Town Treasurer 7th, Stephen Rich, Nathaniel Pitkin, and Robert Waugh, Listers Gideon Spencer, Constable and Collector Samuel Wilson, Grand juryman 8th, Aaron Elmer, Ebenezer Dodge, Jun., Joseph Wells, Surveyors 9th, David Benjamin, Ebenezer Wells, Nathaniel Pitkin, Fence Viewers 10th, Robert Waugh, Pound Keeper 11th, Giles Skinner, Sealer of Leather 12th, Caleb Pitkin, Sealer of Weights and Measures 13th, Giles Skinner, Tythingman 14th, Ebenezer Dodge and Aaron Elmer, Hay wards 15th, Joshua Pitkin, Caleb Pitkin and Joseph Page, auditors of accounts of Selectmen. 16th, All the above names chosen into the several Offices have taken solemn oath for the faithful discharge of their trust. |
This meeting adjourned until the 24th day of this month, by order of the Selectmen.
Monday, Mar. 24, 1800, town meeting according to adjournment.
After taking the freeman's oath, it was voted to ratify the proceedings of the annual meeting, Stephen Pitkin, Esq., chosen moderator pro tem.
"Chose Stephen Pitkin and Samuel
Paterson, Jurymen to attend the Supreme Court
Samuel Paterson, Joseph P. Page, Aaron Elmer, Elisha Benjamin,
Jr., Nathaniel Pitkin, Ebenezer Dodge, Jr., and Robert Waugh,
Petit Jurymen."
"Voted to assess a tax of 2 cents on the dollar on all polls and ratable property for the purpose of defraying town charges; to raise four days' work a year, from each voter for the year ensuing, to mend the highways; that the tax shall be worked out in June, and that the Selectmen shall credit the same on the bills."
Names of the men who took the Freeman's Oath at said meeting:
| Stephen Rich Stephen Pitkin Samuel Paterson Caleb Pitkin Aaron Elmer Ebenezer Dodge Ebenezer Dodge Jr. Elisha Benjamin Jr. David Benjamin Samuel Wilson Hart Roberts Joshua Pitkin Elisha Benjamin John Goodale Hugh Wilson Matthew Jack Joel Knox Timothy Cowles Stephen Cowles Amon Persons James English |
Edmund Harwood
Abraham Goodale Solomon Spencer George Gleason Martin Pitkin Gideon Spencer Joseph P. Page Uriah Simons Nathaniel Pitkin Joseph Wells Giles Skinner Robert Waugh Solomon Gilman Ebenezer Wells Selah Wells John Waugh Stephen Olmsted John Cutler Samuel Wilson Jr. Robert Dodge |
Chas. Gate Samuel Pratt Cyril Garnsey Caleb Putnam Simeon Dwinell Daniel Holmes Daniel Damon Calvin Elmer Job Taylor Ichabod Shurtleff John Pike Guy Benjamin Asa Spencer Josiah Hollister Andrew Jack William Jones Avara Gilman Wm. W. Powers Nathan Jones Chester Clark |
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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