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2-3 A-B-C 6-21-1836
INDEX

4 1-3 7-13-1836 notice & meeting Upon petition-final settlement w/ Rev. Webster

5 4-5 9-12-1836 & 9-19-1836 notices & meetings selection of jurors 9-19

6 6-7 9-26-1836


7 8 10-10-1836 notice

7 9 11-7-1836 notice







8 10 11-1836 vote returns

8 11 1-30-1837 meeting

9-10 12-15 3-14-1837 notice

10-15 15-25 3-14-1837 meeting & vote returns



















16-17 26-29 1837 oaths of office




17-18 29-30 5-1837
tavern licenses: G. Young, J. Seward, G. Perkins

18-19 & 20-21 31-33 & 34-36 4-19-1837 & 5-6-1837 Notices & Meetings and votes p33 Public monies from state to be returned to town for use as loans to individuals and banks. P34 To sell parsonage house. Votes on articles 5-22-1837. p 36 Joseph Dow (article 5) to copy part of 1st and 2nd volumes of town records as he may think proper.

21 37 7-18-1837 meeting re petition of David Blake, which is pending before court and to be heard 8-21-1837, re new hwy 3 rods wide at Lanes corner, crossing Brown's at Windmill Rd. to head of Nook Lane to ledge at Nook Lane run (so called), east to beach.

22 38 8-28-1837 notice & meeting selection of jurors

22 39 2-5-1838 notice & meeting selection of jurors

23 40
no other record of these meetings preceeding of adj'd meetings of 5-6 & 5-22-1837

23-27 41-48 3-13-1838 notice & meeting re revision of the Constitution

27 49 8-27-1838 notice & meeting selection of jurors

28 50 9-24-1838 notice & meeting

29 51 9-24-1838 meeting & Poll taken re petition building road Browns to sea (vote 68 - 0 against)

29 52 10-1-1838 meetings selection of jurors

29 53 10-8-1838 meeting selection of jurors

30 54 10-6-1838 Notification of hearing pending in Court of Common Please Congregational Society vs. Hampton

30 54 11-1838 Meeting re suit?

30 55 1-7-1839 meetings

31-33 56-61 3-12-1839 meeting & adj'd due to illness of Edmund Toppan, moderator. selection of jurors and votes

33-36 61-66 3-27-1839 meeting cont'd. Auction of Moulton Land in the Nook, mowing for 3 years, planting and one sight? in Nook for 1 year. Parsonage house set up and proceeds to be divided between Baptist & Mehhodist Societies according to taxation.

36-37 67-69 5-8-1839 meeting Sole agents per warrant article will be the selectmen. Parsonage rent to be divided equally between Baptist and Methodist Societies.Selectmen to look up the Dalton Deed and deposit it with town clerk.

38 70-71 8-26-1839 meeting selection of jurors

38 71 3-14-1840 oaths of office

39-41 72-77 2-10-1840 meeting

41 77 3-14-1840 oaths of office

42-43 78-81 3-30-1840 meeting RR and bridge over Birch Island w/ draw. Old Mill bridge repairs,, money loaned out of surplus, and dissent against cutting/hauling wood.

43 81 1840 Auction of town poor Mary and Sarah Redman, Ann Godfrey, Tabitha Tuck, Isabel Marston, Eliza Ann Green.

44 82 1840 Wood for the poor, meetings

44-46 83-86 4-20-1840 meeting To see if town will unite with Cong. Society re selling their half of said parsonage to Society. And funds to Cong., Baptist and Methodist Societies.

46-47 87-89 9-1-1840 meeting re violations of agent of Congregational Society

47-48 89-91 9-21-1839 Presented to JP Cong. Society's Schedule of notes

49 92 6-12-1840 & 6-13-1840 Letter(s) from selectmen to RR demanded to build bridge cross Drakeside pond suitable for drawing

49 93 7-1-1840 oaths of office

49-50 93-94 8-17-1840 meeting selection of jurors

50-51 95-96 8-31-1840 meeting selection of jurors

51-54 97-102 9-28-1840 meeting & returns re state-wide elections and to procure engraved plan of town

54 103 12-10-1840 meeting selection of jurors

55 104 2-1-1841 meeting selection of jurors

55-59 105-113 3-9-1841 meeting & adj'd to 3-23-1841 vote for Reps to Congress, Gov., Senator, etc. Sell Moulton land, wood lots at north end of old swamp. Accepted Black Swamp Rd. as public hwy., town poorr set up to lowest bidder, tjat the Stickney women now residing with Comfort Leach to required to furnish one half the wood... or be compeled to leave the premises. That the town accounts be printed of the past year and present year.

60 114 8-23-1841 Meeting at RR House selection of jurors

60-61 115-116 9-13-1841 Meeting at RR House

61 117 1-31-1842 Meeting at RR House

62-66 118-126 3-8-1842 meeting & return of votes (adj'd one week) vote for town officials and Gov, Senator, etc.To accept public hwy (Nook Lane) laid out on petition of David Blake and others.To divide school districts.

66 126 3-18-1842 oaths of office

66 127 3-11-1842 Meeting at RR House selection of jurors

67 128 May - June 1842 oaths of office

67 129 4-19-1842 meeting selection of jurors

68 130-131 4-27-1842 meeting re repairing hwys Voted surveyor of hwys be discharged, selectmen be surveyors the present year. Surveyor to render to selectmen account of all tax worked … (if any has been worked) and if any worked over the amount, the balance to be carried to next year.

69 132-133 8-22-1842 meeting re selecting jurors

69 133 10-12-1842 oaths of office

70 134 10-3-1842 Meeting at Loring Dunbar Inn selection of jurors

70 135 1-30-1843 meeting juror selection & warrant

71 136 3-6-1843 meeting selection of jurors

71-77 137-149 3-14-1843 Meeting. Josiah Marston of Ports. to have town map presented to him. Vote for Gov, Senators, etc. To hire agent to pursue violations of license law, pass law respecting selling of spiritous licquor. To stop preceedings commenced against Thomas Leaavitt for building upon supposed hwy at or near Boarshead until other buildings and obstructions near there ... be removed.

77 149-150 April/May 1843 oaths of office

78 150 5-22-1843
care of poor, Jeremiah Tuck, transient person, & Lucinda Green. Jesse Lamprey to care for both.

78 151 8-14-1843 meetings jurors

79 152 9-25-1843 perambulation of town bounds/Godfrey ledge Hampton - North Hampton line. And the towns of Exeter and Stratham from thence run south 63 and one half degrees east to a rock in the road in front of David L. Marstons House…

79 152 10-9-1843 Perambulation of Hampton Exeter line.













79 153 12-11-1843 meeting juror selections

80 154 10-13-1843 perambualtion of town lines between Hampton and Hampton Falls.

80 155 1-22-1844 meeting juror selections

81-82 156-158 2-14-1844 meeting re Old Cong. Meeting house and bell, re town house to conduct town business, to authorize selectmen to demand Eastern RR Co. erect bridges or gates at cross road near houses of James Towle and Thomas Ward.

82-88 159-170 3-12-1844 meeting & adj'd to 3-19. Re building at Boarshead by Leavitts.

88 171 March 1844 oaths of office

89 172 8-19-1884 meeting selection of jurors

89 173 10-1-1844 meeting selection of jurors

90-91 174-176 May 1844 & to meet 8-24 at Palmers and show why petition should not be granted. Petition for new hwy commencing at a rock on Nook Lane between Palmer's and Grist mill, thence running easterly to the beach, southerly of Moses Leavitts barn, 3 rods wide. In August, all parties heard. Road laid out as follows: Beginning at northerly corner of a flat rock in the center of Nook lane, near easterly end…, said rock being four rods and nineteen links distant from the sw corner of Leavitts Mill in a direction south seven degrees west, and from said rock running north eighty degrees east, three rods and three links over said Nook Lane to a stake.....

91-92 177-179 11-4-1844 meeting & return of votes Pres/VP, warrants, abolish capital punishment

93 180 9-16-1844 notice of silver watch found

93 180 3-17-1845 Oaths of office

93 181 2-3-1845 meeting at Loring Dunbar Inn selection of jurors

94-98 182-191 3-11-1845 & 3-12-1845 meeting & votes, adj'd Vote for Senators, etc. 9thly: to pay for Nook Lane to the sea

98-99 191-193 3-19-1845 meeting re Report - districting the town anew and make boundaries more distinctly defined. East District be divided into two clavres? and two schools be kept in said district. Centre District bounds described. West District described. Bride Hill District bounds. North District bounds.

100 194-195 3-19-1845 oaths of office

101 196-197 4-7-1845 meeting re school taxes

102-103 198-200 4-28-1845 meeting

103 201 8-18-1845 meeting selection of jurors

104-105 202-204 9-23-1845 meeting

105-106 204-206 11-29-1845 meeting

106 207 11-10-1845 Petition for new hwy near Moses Blake in North District, run SE on Redman field. Land owners to be notified and meet at house of James Lane on 12-19-1845 and show cause if any why petition should not be granted.

107-108 208-210 12-3-1845 re Petition for new hwy. meeting: petition, road layout above & over land of Oliver Godfrey, etc.

108 211 3-10-1846 notice/meeting 3-1? selection of jurors

109-113 212-220 3-10-1846 meeting/oaths of office Vote for Governor, etc.

113-115 221-224 3-30-1846 meeting To see if town will adopt provisions which passed 6-22-1823 to establish a police system in Portsmouth. Adjust line of school districts. Seashore to remain without any individual reservation and will be claimed undivided, for public use forever.

115-116 225-226 4-18-1846


116-117 226-229 5-7-1846 meeting re new road Black Swamp Rd, North School District

117-118 229-231 5-7-1846 Letter to David Nudd To divide land between Nudd and Alfred J. Leavitt beginning at the north side of the hwy. Meet 5-1 at 8 am for hearing at the fence for hearing. Signed: fence viewers. Evidence examined on 5-1 and assignments made 5-7-1846.

119-120 232-234 6-15-1846 meeting re div. of north school district. Selectmen to take legal steps to ascertain where there is a road and where it is about Boarshead. Town map to be distributed to all.

120 235 8-10-1846 meeting re selection of jurors

121 236 9-28-1846 meeting re selection of jurors

121-122 237-238 9-15-1846 Fence views contacted to make division of fence at Leavitts Island near flats. Meeting 9-21 at location. Concerns A.J. Batchelder, J.W. Nudd & Oliver Dow. Division made at location.

122 239 6-15-1846 Meeting re div of north school district laid out and final 12-9-1846.

123 240 1-4-1847 meeting re funds for north school district.

124 242 2-1-1847 meeting re selection of jurors

124-129 243-253 3-9-1847 meeting re votes for Gov, Senator, etc. & adj'd to 3-10-1847.

129 253 3-15-1847 oaths of office

130 254-255 5-28-1847 meeting re enforcement of sale of spirits, cemetery wall, Moulton land, and to ascertain inforamtion about John Shaw and wife.

131 256-257 7-8-1847 meeting re: 1st Congregational District in NH as Rep. in US Congress, Moulton land.

132-133 258-260 9-13-1847 meeting notice juror selections, Moulton land, new hwy No. Hampton to Bride Hill.

133 261 1-31-1848 meeting selection of jurors

134 262 3-13-1848 annual meeting, adj'd to 3-14.

132-138 262-271 3-14-1848 meeting & adj'd to 3-15-1846. re selection of jurors, support of teachers institute, fencing new burying ground.

138-139 271-272 3-1848 oaths of office

139 272 5-1-1848 selection of jurors

139 273 5-9-1848 Office of pound keeper Pound keeper John Dearborn declines, select instead Samuel Dearborn

140 274 9-11-1848 meeting selection of jurors

140-141 275-277 11-7-1848 meeting re road from logs to Boar's Head to be opened. National vote of Pres/VP, state senators, etc.

142-148 279-291 3-13-1849 Annual meeting to select governor & state and town offices, and warrants.

149 292 9-10-1849 meeting re selection of jurors

149 293 2-4-1849 meeting re selection of jurors

150-155 294-305 3-12-1850 annual meeting re Gov., etc. taxes, hwys, hearse, selling of parsonage lands in old swamp.

156 306 3-25-1850 meeting selection of jurors

156 307 4-1850
oaths of office

157 308 9-9-1850 meeting selection of jurors

157-158 309-310 10-8-1850 meeting chose delegate to state convention, Uri Lamprey, Esq.

158-159 311-312 11-9-1850 Perambulation of town lines/bounds B, HF, HE markings

159 313 2-3-1851 Points of compass taken by Thos. Leavitt, Esq. selection of jurors

159 313 1850 Bound Rock location near rivers mouth detailed. marked B A.D. 1657

160-165 314-325 3-11-1851 annual meeting & return of votes. Adj'ts noted. Alteration of line between Hampton & HF, changes to US Constitution, state elections

165-166 325-326 4-1851 oaths of office

166-167 327-329 5-8-1851 Petition to selectmen, meeting to be 5-26-1851 re widening road near Boar's Head from north side of Muddy Pond. Compass bearings, damages awarded signed 5-28-1851.

168 330 9-11-1851 meeting re selection of jurors

168-169 331-333 9-16-1851 & 9-22-1851 & 10-7-1851 & 10-18-1851 meetings re warrant articles re meeting house / academy report

170 334 10-27-1851 meeting selection of jurors

170 335 2-2-1852 meeting selection of jurors

171-176 336-347 3-9-1852 annual meeting & return of votes oaths of office

177 348-350 4-5-1852 meeting: Re sale of old meeting house green lot to adjoining land holder.

177-178 349-350 3-20-1852 & 4-5-1852 notice & meeting That old town records book vol 2 be copied by town clerk Josiah Dow. That state map owned by town be deposited with town clerk. Selectmen to find Dalton deed and deposit with town clerks office.

178-179 351-352 4-26-1852 meeting re road from Brown's to west end of Nook Lane

179-180 353-355 1852 Petition of Sam'l Brown re new hwy makes request the road be laid out. Order of notice 4-14-1852 in response requires owners of land be given notice to meet 5-1-1852.

181-183 356-360 4-19-1852 Petition of Aaron Coffin to selectmen re road to be straightened, widened, laid out. Vittum's Corner

183 361 9-6-1852 meeting selection of jurors

184-185 362-364 11-2-1852 meeting re vote for Senators, etc., & return of votes approved road alterations in front of Wm. B. Dodg'es farm, elections Pres/VP

185-188 365-370 4-6-1852 & 5-6-1852, adj'd to 11-1, adj'd to 11-3, adj'd to 11-8. Petition of Uri Lamprey? for new hwy & order of notice. Near Lane's Corner, run easterly to fence on west side of Sleepy Town Rd., opposite center of Westerly end of Nook Lane. All parties heard on 11-8 and examined land on which hwy was to go.

188 371 1-27-1853 meeting selection of jurors

189-194 372-383 3-8-1853 meeting & return of votes seaweed law, control of beasts, removal of bldgs. Near fish houses. Meeting postponed re petition of Joshua James & others. New hwy terminating at line of Hampton/Hampton Falls.

195 384 4-22-1853 oaths of office

195 385 5-2-1853 meeting re selection of jurors

196 386 5-6-1853 meeting; re to discontinue road laid out in 1852 to Windmill Rd. & lay a road from Marston's Corner to Sleepytown Rd.

196-197 387-388 5-6-1853 meeting, warrant articles Posting of warrant not to discontinue road, postponed, & to remove windmill of J. Hobbs.

197 389 5-1853 meeting & selection of jurors

198 390 9-5-1853 meeting & selection of jurors

198 391 2-8-1854 meeting & selection of jurors

199-204 392-402 3-14-1854 annual meeting, return of votes

204 403 3-24-1854 License retail liquor license for medical purpose to Dr. F.F. Forsaith, not to exceed 1 quart.

205 404-405 4-1854 oaths of office

205 405 5-8-1854 selection of jurors

206 406-407
meeting/hard to read hard to read re E.P. Young

207 408
hard to read

207 409 5-4-1854 meeting hard to read

208 410
return of votes hard to read

208 411 4-29-1854 meeting re warrant

208-209 411-412 5-16-1854 meeting & return of votes

209-210 413-415 7-8-1854 & 7-25-1854 meeting, election of offices, small pox vaccination





211 416-417 9-2-1854 notice of meeting & vote selection of jurors

211-212 417-418 9-29-1854 notice of meeting

212 418-419 10-5-1854 notice of meeting selection of jurors

213 420 4-18-1854
vacancy - Supt. of schools

213-214 421-422 2-5-1855 meeting selection of jurors

214-215 423-425 1857-1877
EARMARKS

216 426
blanks

217-226 449-467 1824-1831
VITALS - MARRIAGES

228-233 474-484

VITALS - BIRTHS

234-239 510-520

VITALS - DEATHS