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A request to call the first town meeting of the inhabitants of Sebasticook is the first entry in the town clerk’s book. Sebasticook, March 24, 1842 To William H. Weeks, one of the justices of the peace within and for the County of Kennebec --- We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town and free holders of said town, request you to issue your warrant and warn and notify the inhabitants of the town of Sebasticook qualified to act in town affairs to assemble on the first Monday in April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two at ten o’clock in the forenoon at the school house near the meeting house in said town to act on the following articles, viz:-- Article 1. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting. Article 2. To choose a clerk for said town. Article 3. To choose selectmen and all other town officers. Article 4. To see what sum of money the town will raise for the support of schools during the present year. Article 5. To see what disposition the town will make of the poor of said town the present year and to see what sum of money the town will raise for the support of said poor. Article 6. To see what sum of money the town will raise to defray all other town charges. Article 7. To transact any other business that may legally come before them. Thomas B. Stinchfield Bryant Fly Madison Crowell Thos. J. Hinds John Joy Crosby Hinds The warrant calling the first town meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Sebasticook was as follows: To Madison Crowell: You are hearby required in the name of the State of Maine to warn and notify the inhabitants of the town of Sebasticook by law qualified to vote in town affairs to assemble at the school house near the meeting house in said town on Monday the 4th day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two at ten o’clock in the forenoon then and there to act on the following articles, viz: Article 1. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting. Article 2. To choose a clerk for said town. Article 3. To choose selectmen and all other town officers. Article 4. To see what sum of money the town will raise for the support of schools during the present year. Article 5. To see what disposition the town will make of the poor of said town the present year and to see what sum of money the town will raise for the support of said poor. Article 6. To see what sum of money the town will raise for the support of roads and bridges and in what manner the same shall be raised and expended. Article 7. To see what sum of money the town will raise to defray all other town charges. Article 8. To transact any other business that may legally come before them. Hereof fail not to make due return of this warrant with your doings thereunto me at or before the time of meeting. Given unto my hand and seal at Sebasticook this 23rd day of March in the year of our Lord 1842. Wm. H. Weeks, Justice of the Peace In accordance with the above warrant the inhabitants of the town of Sebasticook met at the time and place therein named. The meeting called to order and the town warrant being read by Wm. H. Weeks, Esq. The articles named in the above warrant were disposed of as follows: Moderator, James B. Farnsworth Clerk, Charles H. Winn Selectmen: Daniel H. Brown, Andrew H. Richardson, Andrew Grant. Treasurer, James W. North Superintending School Committee: Crosby Hinds, Wm. H. Weeks, Seward Garcelon. Constables: James Bradford, Luke Brown, 2nd, Royal Brown. Culler of Hoops and Staves, James B. Farnsworth. Surveyors of Bark and Lumber: Gershom Flagg, Stephen Getchell, Benjamin Hinds. Tythingmen: Alexander Buzzell, John Grace. Surveyors of Wood and Bark: Japheth Winn, Stephen Getchell, John Clark, Samuel Gibson, James Bradford. Pound Keeper, Hiram Haskell. Sextons: Wm. Winn, Zebulon Wyman, John Reed. Committee to Settle with the Town of Clinton: James W. North, Samuel Foster, Asher Hinds. Voted that the inhabitants of each school district choose their own school agent. Voted that they who pay their tax (or any part of their tax) to the treasurer between the time the tax is assessed and on or before the fourth day of July shall have eight percent discount and those who pay their tax after the 4th of July and on or before the second Monday in September shall have four percent discount. Voted to adjourn to this place to the 11th day of April inst. at 10 o’clock in the forenoon. Charles H. Winn, Town Clerk
Note 1: Etching above (THE SPIRE) from POEMS by Amos Lunt Hinds. The etching was contributed to the book POEMS by Jane Porter Robertson. Note 2: The above 'history' was copied from: Sebasticook-Benton
Maine
1842-1942
by
Chester E. Basford
Elizabeth Reed
Hortense W. Piper
Oscar S. Piper
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