Annual Minutes 1831 Copied by : Jayne Davis Szaz |
Town of Milford Annual Town Meeting Minutes 1831 Page 264 At an Annual Town Meeting held at the house of Wm V White pursuant to Notice it was Resolved 1st That This Town raise by Tax a sum of Money Equal to the amount Rcd from the School fund 2nd Resolved that the By Laws remain for the Ensuing Year the same as Last 3rd Resolved that the following persons fill the different Stations in office for the Ensuing Year Peter Collier Supervisor Asa Eddy Town Clerk Eli Rose Robert Eldred Afsefsors George Coon Richard Swartwout Over the Poor Wm V White Amos Waters Com High Ways Robinson Aylesworth Tho Coon Smith Humphrey Com Common Schools Lyman I Walworth Levi Stewart Allen Baker Inspectors James Fern Jr Page 265 Isaiah E Reed Constable & Collector Tunis Snooke Andrew Stone Constables Wm H Coon Daniel Winsor Justices peace Jacob Edson Sealer of Weights & Measures Daniel H Westcott John Moore Pound masters Thomas Baker Resolved that we Elect four Constables for the Ensuing Year Resolved that we pay our Collector five percent for collection of the Tax Resolved that the path masters or Overseers of high Ways for the Several Wards be and they are as follows for Ward No. 1 Asa Eddy 2 Amos Sweet 3 Wm P Waite 4 Joseph Mumford 5 Jared Goodger 7 James Fern 10 Ephraim R Ferrington 12 Abram Yager 13 Jacob Ferrington 14 Benjamin Yeomans 15 Smith Humphrey 16 David Breese 17 Eli Rose 18 John Wilcox 19 George Lyon 20 Ralph Jordan 21 Andrew Shute Jr 22 George Wilcox 23 Joseph Whitford 24 Parker Scott Page 266 25 William Stevens 26 Philip G Schermerhorn 27 David Morris 28 Coonrad Yager 30 John Wager 31 John Low Jr 32 Charles Ellis 33 Amos Waters 34 Hezekiah Farchild 39 Alvin Lyon 40 Nathaniel Appletree 43 Bonnie Adams 44 Robinson Aylesworth 45 Bezir Reed 46 Isaac Hungerford 48 Aaron Lane 49 Nehemiah Edson 50 Alonzo Bridges 51 Samuel Russell 52 Cornelius Lane 53 John W Oliver 55 Nicholas R Schermerhorn 56 William Cunningham 57 Randolph Westcott 59 Hiram Talmadge 62 Warren Ackley 63 Henry Smith 65 Wm Crouch 66 Wm Whitford 67 John Crydenwise appointed Resolved that the vote by Ballot to designate the place where the Town Meeting be held the next Year We do hereby Certify the above to be a correct list of Town Officers Elected at the Annual Town Meeting for 1831 Dated March 1 1831 Asa Eddy Clerk Joseph Westcott }Justices of Levi Stewart }the peace Page 267 Marks of Sheep and Cattle Bridges V Moore a half crop on the upper Side of the Right Ear See page 85 formerly Isaac Edsons Henry Wilcox Mark two half penny under the left ear and a slit in the end of the right ear formerly Abijah Fairchilds mark See page 241 Thomas Edelyn Mark is A Slit on each ear formerly John Bivens mark see page 103 Bridges & Moores Mark for sheep is the Right Ear cut square off and branded with B M May 1834 [Page 268 appears to be a continuation of Marks of Sheep and Cattle but is probably a mirror image of page 267 and is unreadable for that reason and also because the photocopy is faint.]