Dow History | PDF 239 total | "Page" | Date | Meeting/Land |
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Dow History | PDF 239 total | "Page" | Date | Meeting/Land | Subject |
1 | cover | ||||
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 |