Vermont AHGP
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First Town Meeting
At a town meeting of the inhabitants of Montpelier, legally warned and met at the dwelling-house of Col. Jacob Davis, in said Montpelier, on the 29th day of March, 1791.
Proceeded to
choose a Moderator, &c.
1st, Voted, and chose Col. Jacob
Davis Moderator to govern said meeting.
2nd, Voted, and chose Ziba Wood worth
Town Clerk.
3rd, Voted, and chose James Hawkins
1st Select Man.
4th, Voted, and chose James Taggart
2nd Select Man.
5th, Voted, and chose Hiram Peck 3rd
Select Man.
6th, Voted, and chose Jonathan Cutler
Town Treasurer.
7th, Voted, and chose Parley Davis
Con-stable and Collector.
8th, Voted, and chose Josiah Hurlburt
Highway Surveyor.
9th, Voted, and chose Benj. I.
Wheeler Highway Surveyor.
10th. Voted, and chose .Solomon Dodge
Highway Surveyor.
11th Voted, and chose Col. Jacob
Davis Lister.
12th, Voted, and chose Benj. I.
Wheeler Lister.
13th, Voted, and chose Clark Stevens
Lister.
14th, Voted, and chose Col. Jacob
Davis Fence Viewer.
15th, Voted to adjourn said meeting
till the 1st Tuesday of .September.
The
aforementioned officers were duly sworn and affirmed to the
faithful discharge of their respective offices, before John
Taplin, Justice of the Peace for said County
Ziba Woodworth, Town Clerk.
List of Voters
On the record is the following; list of voters who took part in the organization of the town, to which we have added, whenever possible, the region from which these original freemen of the town came.
Lemuel
Brooks, Ashford, Connecticut
Clisha Cummins, born in Sutton.
Massachusetts
Jonathan Cutler
Col. Jacob Davis, Oxford, now
Charlton, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Davis, Oxford, now
Charlton, Massachusetts
Parley Davis, Oxford, now Charlton,
Massachusetts
Ebenezer Dodge, Peterborough, New
Hampshire
Solomon Dodge, Peterborough, New
Hampshire
Edmund Doty
James Hawkins
Charles McCloud
Hiram Peck, Royalsston, Massachusetts
David Parsons. Oxford, now Charlton,
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Peek, Royalston,
Massachusetts
Isaac Putnam
Jonathan Snow, Rochester,
Massachusetts
Charles Stevens, Rochester,
Massachusetts
Clark Stevens, Rochester,
Massachusetts
Smith Stevens, Rochester,
Massachusetts
James Taggart
John Templeton
Freeman West, New Bedford,
Massachusetts
Benjamin I. Wheeler, Rehoboth,
Massachusetts
David Wing, Rochester, Massachusetts
Jerathmel [B.] Wheeler, Rehoboth,
Massachusetts
Ziba Woodworth, Bozrah, Connecticut
Duncan Young, a Scotchman, from
Burgone's army
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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