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Page 178 Town of Milford Annual Town Meeting Minutes 1818 At the Annual Town Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Town of Milford held on the 3rd day of March 1818 at the house of Elisha G Barnes the following Persons were Elected Town Officers Viz. Ezra Adams Town Clerk John Badger Supervisor David L Sayres Peter Collier Afsefsors Samuel Carpenter Samuel Bixby Const & Collector Thomas Baker Overseer Simeon Walling of Poor Levi Adams Walter Fitch Comrs of Highways Wm. E. McDonald Arial Wentworth Samuel Carpenter Constables Richard FranCischo Henry Scott Ezra Adams Comrs of Schools Amos Bun David L Sayre John Badger Jacob Si___fs Inspectors Arial Wentworth of Schools Joseph Rue Jacob McDonald [New page, unnumbered] John Moore Jacob Edson Been Pete Simeon Walling Pound Masters Joseph Allen Peter Collier Nicholafs Webber George Wilcox William Barnard Joseph Mumford David Yauger Fence Viewers Elisha G Barnes John FranCischo Overseers of Highways John Kettle ..No 1 Abel Babcock 2 Richard Swarthout 3 John R. FranCischo .. 4 William Collier .5 William Cox ..6 John Beames .7 Samuel Walling 8 David Houghtaling 9 Elias Bass .10 James McDonald . 11 Bezer Read 12 Ephraim Farrington . 13 Page 180 Overseers of Highways Smith Humphrey ..15 Oren Adams ..16 John Humphrey 17 Rufus Naughton ... 18 Abel Lyon 19 Abraham Thomas . 20 David French Jun 21 Lorenzo Bates .. 22 Samuel Hotchkiss 23 Reubin Scott 24 Robert Martin ...25 Timothy Brown 26 Solomon Barnard .27 Thomas Martin .28 Ferrill Dinnenny .. 29 Nicholafs Wibber . 30 John Low Jun ..31 Silas Morey ...32 Juda Waters .. 33 Liman Stewart .. 34 Jonathan Cutting ..35 Burs Peete .36 Jacob Thare .. 37 Robert R Murray ...39 Joseph Vars ..40 Frederic Brown .41 Aaron Newkark 42 Bennoni Adams .43 Ezra Adams ... 44 Daniel Fairchild .46 [New page, unnumbered] Voted } as the by laws stood last year they shall stand the present year Resolved } That There Shall be Raised on said Town for the Support of the Poor the present year two hundred and fifty dollars Voted that the next annual Town Meeting be held at the house of Elisha G Barnes Ezra Adams } T Clk Stray Mare Taken Up by the Subscriber a sorrel mare about three years old a stripe in her face two white feet and a Switchback the owner is desired to prove property pay charges and take her away Milford 18th November 1818 Read Baker Page 182 To Ezra Adams Esquire Town Clerk of the town of Milford The petition of the Undersigned Freeholders and Inhabitants of said town of Milford Humbly sheweth That the office of Constable in the Northeast district of the said town has Recently become vacant by the removal of Arial Wentworth the late incumbent of that office Your petitioners Therefore pray that a meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said Town may be called at the house of Thomas D Alexander in the said town on the seventh day of November next to make choice of a suitable person to fill the said office Milford 28 Oct 1818 Petitioners Names Levi Stewart Nicholas Kittle Joseph Rice Samuel Bixby Joseph Meriam Henry Scott Jacob Scroop John Kittle Richard Francischo Thomas Baker Timothy Brown Leonard Baker Allen Baker [New page, unnumbered] Agreeable to the annext petition I Ezra Adams Town Clerk of the said town of Milford gave notice to the freeholders and Inhabitants of the said town according to Law that a special town meeting would be held at the house of Thomas D Alexander in Said Town on the Seventh day of November 1818 for the purpose of Choosing a Constable to Supply the place of Arial Wentworth late Constable Removed Met according to notice and Unanimously voted that Joseph Meriam to be Constable for the present year Ezra Adams T Clk Memorandum of a Survey of Road say Beginning fifty links east from t he dwelling house of Jeremiah Collins in Milford and runs from thence South 82 Degrees East 125 chaines thence South 67 Degrees East 43 Chaines thence South 54 Degrees East 29 Chaines thence South 33 Degrees East 18 Chaines where it Intersects the Road that leads from Milford Meeting house to Peter Colliers containing a distance of Two Miles and a half and fifteen Chaines or 60 Rods David L Sayre Surveyor Walter Fitch}Comrs of Milford 4th Dec 1818 Levi Adams }Highways