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Plan of Shaw Marsh (Secretary of State Certification)

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Index

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Index

4 5 11-2-1802 Index, Bills of sale

4 6 1802-1812
strays

5 7 8-30-1802 & 10-11-1802 Notices of meetings

5 8 8-30-1802 & 1-1803 & 1-17-1803 & 4-6-1803 & 12-12-1803? Meetings selection of jurors

6 4 3-15-1802 & 1803 Notices of meeting Congressional vote

6 5 3-15-1803 meeting Officers chosen. Surveyors Shaw, Lane, Knowles, Dearborn, Brown, Coffin, Coffin, Leavitt.

7 6-7 3-15-1803 meeting cont'd. Indenture Town & Cong. Society (hard to read) Selectmen to divide the town into 4 school districts.

7 7 5-16-1803 notice & meeting. ____? certain part of Parsonage land...

8 9 3-15-1803 notice (duplicate)

8 10 3-15-1803 meeting (duplicate)

9 6 3-15-1803 meeting cont'd. (duplicate)

9 7 3-15-1803 meeting cont'd. (duplicate)

9 7 5-16-1803 notice & meeting. (duplicate) ____? certain part of Parsonage land...

10 8 5-16-1803 cont'd meeting
P. 432 10-12 9-13 3-24-1803 Indenture between Town and Congregational Society over disputes and controversies re land.

13 14 4-19-1803 Appleton vs Marston in Superior Court in Portsmouth $110 (hard to read)

13 14 8-1-1803 notice & meeting

13 15 9-26-1803 notice & meeting

13 15 11-14-1804 Joseph Kingsly: Retail license for spirits and wine at his store in Hampton

14 16 11-22-1803 Mary Fifield thorws herself before the selectmen for support in exchange for all her property.

14 16 11-30-1803 Moses Brown takes oath of surveyor.

14-16 16 -21 3-13-1804 notice & meeting (cont'd on next pages) 95 items: Parsonage lands, control cattle, consider building bridge

16-17 21-22 8-27-1804 notice & meeting adj'd to next Monday.

18 24-25 11-5-1804 notice & meeting Small pieces of land belonging to the town identified here on p 25

19 26 12-10-1804? Mary Fifield request of 11-22-1803

19 26 1-7-1805 Meeting: selection of jurors

19-20 26-29 3-12-1805 notice & meeting

20 29 4-27-1805 meeting

20 29 5-16-1800 retail liquor license to Joseph Towle

21 30 8-26-1805 notice & meeting. re to build town bridge, repair road laid out through Knowles pasture and make return.

21-22 31-32 12-9-1805 notice & meeting

22 32 ? legal meeting to select jurors.

22-23 32-35 3-11-1806 notice & meeting adj'd to 3-15, 4-15, 10-15-1806. A committee chosen to appraise the damages for new roads going through Knowles pasture.

23 35 12-22-1806 meeting (dissolved to meet again 1-26-1807?)

23 35 1-26-1807 ?meeting

24 36 8-25-1806 meeting & adj'd to 8-8-1806

24-25 37-39 1-19-1807 notice & meeting & adj'd to 3-10-1807 (pdf 26 p 40) meeting adj'd to 3rd Monday in May. To build work house for use of poor.

25 39 2-20-1807 ?

27 42 March 23, 1807 hard to read, land

27 43 4-6-807 meeting re Stephen Coffin be grand juror at next circuit court to be held at Portsmouth 5-19-1807.

27 43 4-3-1807 notice of legal voters, exclusively of Congregational Society, to meet on 20th to act upon ministerial benifts as follows … re Wm. Pigeon.

28 44-45 4-20-1807 hard to read.(last line) … above was voted as the mind of the society at said meeting to raise 220 dollars for a ministerial tax for the insuing year. ...gloom which has lately overseen us may be followed by a bright and sunny day.

28 45 4-27-1807 notice agenda (4-11-1807) : re receiving the notes given to town according to the indenture with said society and to collect same… hard to read

29 46 1807 hard to read

29 47 1807 hard to read

30 48 1807 hard to read

30 49 1807 hard to read

31 50 1807 hard to read

31 51 1807 hard to read

32 52 1807 hard to read Articles listed.
p 449 Revoke of union passed by society. 32 53 1807 Cong. Society Articles cont'd. does hereby discharge the town from all and every demand for … by said society on the parsonage house…

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Articles listed.

33 55

Articles listed.

34 54? 1-24-1808 &1-27-1808 meeting 1-24-1808 and list of 36 dissenting voters against the previous proceedings from first to last and request the town clerk to record the same. 1-27-1808

34 55? 3-8-1808 notice

35 56 3-8-1808 meeting Voted to postpone other articles in the notification until the other more worthy matters are acted upon.

35-36 57-58 1808 meeting & votes

36 58 4-5-1808 Retail liquor license to widow Marcia Greenleaf.

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37 60-61 4-18-1808 notice & meeting (adj'd 3 weeks)

37-38 61-62 5-7-1808 Letter from Josiah Webster

38 62 & 63 1808 meetings

39 64 & 65 1808 meetings church building plans

40 66 & 67 1808 meetings new meeting house

41 68 & 69 11-1-1808 & 1809 meetings

42 70 & 71 1809 meetings

43 72 & 73 1809 meetings

44 74 & 75 1809 meetings re Eliz. Moulton, John Page suit

45 76 & 77 1809-1810 houses Abigail Vittum, Deb. Mace, Tuck & Towle houses

46 78 & 79 1810 Vote results of 3-12-1810

47 80 & 81 1810 Meetings 1810, gates, turnpike, parsonage barn, taxes

48 82 & 83 1810 & 1811
licquor license R. Greenleaf / Cong. Reps vote

49 84 & 85 1810 & 1811 Turnpike corp. / toll free

50 86 & 87 1810 & 1811
Meeting house steeple bell

51 88 & 89 3-12-1811 meeting & vote results statewide

52 90 & 91 1811 meeting

53 92 & 93 1811 meeting

54 94 & 95 1812 meeting J. Dearborn Estate division 1796

55 96 &97 1812 meeting & Ref. to 1805 Dearborn

56 98 & 99 1812 meeting & votes

57 100 & 101 1812 meetings

58 102 & 103 11-2-1812
votes

59 104 & 105 1813


60 106 & 107 1813 cont'd Betsy Souther, Deb. Mace

61 108 & 109 1813 meeting

62 110 & 111 1813 meetings Schools, North District line/Center Dist. Established

63 112 & 113 1813 meetings encroachment on hwys

64 114 & 115 1813 meetings grand jurors

65 116 & 117 1814 meetings

66 118 & 119 1815 meetings

67 120 & 121 1815 meetings

68 122 & 123 1815


69 124 & 125 1815 meetings

70 126 & 127 1815 cont'd hay, cattle at large, preserve beach

71 128 & 129 1815 cont'd gates, Thos. Leavitt gate keeper, new road

72/73 dupe 130 & 131 1815 meetings

74 132 & 133 1815 meetings

75 134 & 135 1816 meetings

76 136 & 137 1816 meetings

77 138 & 139 1816 meetings

78 140 & 141 1816 meetings pauper care/crow shooting

79 142 & 143 1816 meeting re sale of parsonage land

80 144 & 145 1816&1817 meetings votes in Nov Pres & VP race

81 146 &147 1817 vote returns juror selections / state map

82 148 & 149 1817 meetings

83 150 & 151 1817


84 152 & 153 1817 meetings Nathaniel Mason support

85 154 & 155 1817 meetings licquor license J. Lovering, D. Nudd taverner

86 156 & 157 1817 & 1818 meetings

87 158 & 159 1818 meetings

88 160 & 161 1818 meetings

89 162 & 163 1818 meetings

90/91 dupe 164 & 165 1818 meetings finances, bell ringing, districts & roads, parsonage

92 166 & 167 1818 meetings

93 168 & 169 1818 meetings

94 170-171 1818 meeting instructions re social intercourse committee (Rev. Webster) to promote piety, etc. (Lamprey, Garland, Towle, Toppan, Dow, Lovering, Page)

95 172-173 1818 meetings cont'd .

96 174 & 175 1818-1819 meeting grand jurors, petit jurors

97 176 & 177 1819 meeting Vote results, Congressional reps, etc.

98 178 & 179 1819 vote returns/meeting raise school taxes

99 180 & 181 1819 cont'd and "sale of parsonage lands" to list of different names (similar below). Paupers to lowest bidder

100 182 & 183 1819 meeting vote - dissenters list

101 184 & 185 1820 meeting poor, fences, gates, taxes

102 186 & 187 1820 County divisions

103-104 188 - 191 1820 Vote returns "sale of parsonage land" ex: / Nilas pasture to Washington Hobbs/shipward marsh to Richard Greenleaf/ poor marsh to Simon Lane. Paupers to lowest bidder. Retail liquor license to Maj. Lovering.

105 192 & 193 1820 meetings re vote Cong. Reps, Pres & VP

106 194 & 195 1820-1821 meetings & ballot returns

107 196 & 197 1821 Meetings - Articles & revision of constitution

108-111 198-204 1821 Ballot returns Revisions: 76 vote for, 4 against and sale of parsonage lands

111 205 1821 Ballot returns Liquor license to D. Nudd, T. Shaw

112 206 & 207 1821 meetings court of sessions against new road

113 208 & 209 1822 meetings

114 210 & 211 1822 Ballot returns & meeting

115 212 & 213 1822 Ballot returns sale of parsonage lands

116 214 & 215 1822 Ballot returns

117 216 & 217 1822 meetings

118 218 & 219 1822-1823 Ballot returns & meeting

119 220 & 221 1823 meetings

120 222 & 223 1823 meetings

121 224 & 225 1823 meetings

122 226 & 227 1823 & 1828 meetings Liquor license to R. Greenleaf/Separation list w/ Rev. Webster / no longer to pay Rev. Webster

123 228 & 229 1824 meeting

124 230 & 231 1824 Ballot returns & meeting 14th Article voted down

125 232 & 233 1824 meeting cont'd

126 234 & 235 1824 meeting's cont'd 1808 seaweed act reviewed

127 236 & 237 1824 & 1825 meetings

128 238 & 239 1825 meetings

129 240 & 241 1825


130 242 & 243 1825
3-18-1825 Ballot returns

131 244 & 245 1825 meeting & votes vote to discontinue road building/consult w/ Director of Causeway Turnpike Corp.

132 246 & 247 1825 meetings

133 248 & 249 1825 & 1826 meetings

134 250 & 251 1826 meetings Causeway Tpk Corp. (CTC) North Hampton, Hampton & Hampton Falls

135 252 & 253 1826
Shareholders in CTC

136 254 & 255 1826 meeting & ballot returns, Annual March meeting

137 256 & 257 1826 meeting & votes gates/beasts controlled, taxes

138 258 & 259 1826 meeting & votes Road layouts, town poor

139 260 & 261 1826 meetings tolls to cease

140 262 & 263 1826 meetings CTC / Court of Common Pleas, Road between No. Hampton, Hampton, Hampton Falls discontinued.

141 264 & 265 1826 meetings CTC

142 266 & 267 1826-1827 meetings

143 268 1825 meetings Road from meeting house green to landing laid out.

143 269 1826
Road to North Hampton on west side of Joshua Lane house laid out.

144 270 &271 1826
damages re road layout

145 272 1827 meetings election of reps in Senate and Congress

145-147 273-276
meeting & vote returns

147 277 8-9-1827 meetings

148 278 1-1828 & 2-1828 meetings

148-149 279-281 1828 meetings re highway

150 282 & 283 1828 meeting

151 284 & 285 1828 meeting

152 286 & 287 1828 meetings

153 288 &289 1828 meetings re elections for Pres/VP

154 290 & 291 1828 vote returns & meeting Toppan estate furniture schedule of 1820

155 292 & 293 1828 meeting Toppan marsh dold

156 294 1823 meeting taxes re 1805 legislature

156 295 1829 Annual March meeting

157 296 & 297 1829 meeting

158 298 & 299 1829 cont'd oaths of office per vote results

159 300 & 301 1829 cont'd

160 302 & 303 1829 meetings grand jurors, petit jurors

161 304 & 305 1829 Notice retail liquor license to E. Johnson & J. Seward

161 305 1830 Notice S. Fifield retail liquor license

162 306 1829 Meeting juror selection

162 307 1829 notice Retail liquor license Moses Leavitt

163 308-309 1829 meeting juror selection

164 310 1830 meeting juror selection

164 311 1830 meeting state-wide elections/town elections

165-167 312-316 1830 meeting vote returns

167-168 317 & 318 1830 meeting

168 319 1830 meeting

169 320 1830 meeting juror selection

169 321 1830 meeting Hampton Academy

170 322-323 1830 meeting Burrying grounds fence, Widow Garland's belongings

170-171 323-324 1829 Perambulation of bounds between towns

171 325 1830 meeting selling of spiritous liquor

172 326 1830 meeting

172-173 327-328 1830 meeting Widow Mary Jenness

173 329 1830 meeting petit jurors

174 330 1830 meeting Superior Ct. at Portsmouth

174 331 1830 meeting Court of Common Pleas

175 332-333 1831 meeting

176-179 334-340 1831 vote returns

179 340 & 341 1831 meeting

180 342-343 1831 Oaths of office

181-182 344-346 1831 meetings

182-183 347-349 1832 meeting

184-187 350-356 1832 meeting & vote returns

187 357 1832 & 1833
Rev. Webster, D. Page & E. James vs Rev. Josiah Webster. Support by Baptist, Jos. Towle

188 359 1832 meeting juror selection

189 360 & 361 1832 meetings

190 362 & 363 1832 meeting

191 364 & 365 1832 meeting & vote returns

192 366-367 1832 meetings juror selection

193-194 368-370 1-26-1833 vote returns Fire engine #3 & subscribers

195-196 372-374 1833 meeting

196-201 375-384 1833 vote returns North & south meeting house/Revision of Constitution.

201 384 1833 licenses D. Brown - taverner at David Nudd's Hotel on Boar's Head. License to S. Fifield.

201 385 1833 tax collection

202 386-387 1833 meeting fence viewers report

203 388 1833 licenses G. Young taverner, W. Nudd taverner

203 389 1833 meeting

204-206 390-394 1833-1834 meeting

206 395 1832- 1833 meetings

207-208 396-399 1833 meetings

209 400 1833-1834 Oaths of office

210 402 & 403 6-14-1832
Corporation Hampton Academy

211-212 404-406 12-16-1833 Deed- Sale Lovering to Lovering, list of items

212-213 407-408 1833 meeting

213-214 409 & 410 2-27-1834 will of Sarah, Widow of Christopher Toppan re. E. Willoughby Toppan & Abigail Toppan

214 411 1834 meeting

215 412 1834 meeting

215-216 413-414 3-10-1834 Deed - sale of horses Bodman to Tuxbury

216 415-416 1834 meeting

217 417 4-11-1834 meeting at East meeting house

218-221 418-425 1834 vote returns

221 425 3-1834 meeting appraisal of real estate

222-223 426-428 3-3-1834 bridge agreements proprietors of Hampton Canal

223-224 429-430 5-1-1834 Deed - dale of household items Fifield to Folsom

224-225 431-432 1834 meeting

225-226 433-444 12-29-1829 Sale of items: Sarah Towle, widow, to son A. E. Towle

226-227 435-436 10-5-1834 Sale of harvested crops Philbrick to G. E. Towle

227 437 10-13-1834 Sale of Towle Store C. Toppan to D. Towle & A. E. Towle

228 438-439 1834 meetings

229 440 3-3-1834 Sarah Toppan gives wagon & sleigh to E. W. Toppan

229-231 441-444 12-30-1834 Sale of Household items, S. Fifield to J. Upham

232 446 &447 2-1835 meeting

233 448 3-9-1835 meeting

233-237 449-457 3-1835 meeting and vote returns

239 460 & 461 4-29-1835 Sale of goods & chattel Bartlett to town of North Hampton

240 462-463 5-30-1835 Oaths of office

241 464 5-15-1835 Appointment of tax collector, Simon Towle, Sr.

241-242 465-466 6-9-1835 Layout Fence line division between David and Henry Elkins' pasture and that ofThomas Marston's "ridge pasture."

242-243 467-470 11-1835 Sale of goods / wares/ merchandise Lovering to Lovering

244-245 471 & 472 10-3-1835 Sale of goods & chattel/crops Philbrick to Leavitt

245-246 473 & 474 9-19-1835 & 10-5-1835 meeting & juror selections

246-247 475 & 476 8-27-1835 Sale Hawley corn & shelling machine Gerish to J. Dow & a. Garland with right to keep money made during period of obtaining letters of patent.

247-248 477 - 480 2-20-1836 & 3-3-1836 & 3-8-1836 Notice of posting of Annual town vote & articles

249-253 481-493 1836 Return of votes

253 489
Return of votes sale of parsonage lands

253 489
Return of votes Petition for road from Joshua Lanes corner to the sea by Nook Lane be posponed indefinately.

254 490
Return of votes Auction of wood

255 493
Return of votes end of voting

256 494 & 495 1836 Exam of parsonage land sales, wood, bank notes of 1835

257-258 496-499 4-6-1836 Oaths of office

259-265 500-512 1835-1852
EARMARKINGS

266 514 4-2-1836 notice of meeting

266-267 515-516 4-18-1836 notice of meeting notice certified of warrants posted

267 517 4-16-1836 notice of meeting

268 518 5-2-1836 meeting selection of juror

268-270 519-521 5-23-1836 notice & meeting notice given 5-7-1836

270-271 523-524 6-3-1836 Bill of Sale, goods & chattel Philbrick to Lane

271 524-525 6-19-1837 sale of chair Philbrick to Lane

272 526-527 9-26-1836 J. Webster relinquishes claim on town

272 527 6-17-1837 sale of wagons & harness Philbrick to Dearborn

273 528 1-16-1837 Deposition to be taken 1-30-1837 re Congregational Society (plaintiff) vs Town. To be heard at Court of Common Pleas in Portsmouth, Tuesday, Feb. 1837 Re Congregational Society is plaintiff against the town of Hampton.

273-274 529-530 3-16-1837 Sale of stone & shed located opposite house of Josiah Dearborn w/ all fixtures. Lovering & Ballard of Boston to Forsyth of Boston

274-275 531-532 3-27-1837 Sale of cooper shop now on Lane property w/ benches & fixtures Philbrick (cooper) to Ebenezer Lane

276 534 2-3-1837 Dept of War letter to Samuel Cushman Simon Brown, soldier of Lt. Dragoons, enlisted 1812 and reported in confinement at Canandaqua since 4-15-1815

276 535 6-15-1842 Property deliniation Line drawn between property on Boar's Head of David Nudd & Thomas Leavitt

278 538 8-1-1851
Stray black mare found, 12 year old, in public hwy.