History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog
History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog
History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog
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Documentary <strong>History</strong> 49<br />
"The foregoing proposalls being according to the desire <strong>of</strong> the church<br />
aforesaid, fully and absolutely condescended to, concluded and agreed upon<br />
by and between said Captain Willett, al his associates aforesaid, and the<br />
church under the reservation and explications above written, and every <strong>of</strong><br />
them, it was sometime after propounded at a meeting <strong>of</strong> sd town, lawfully<br />
warned on the two and twentieth day <strong>of</strong> the twelfth month, 1669, that the<br />
said agreement might be by the whole town ratified and confirmed and<br />
settled as the foundation order, to which all that then were or afterward<br />
should be admitted inhabitants to receive lands from the town, should<br />
manifest their assent by subscription thereunto, whereupon the following<br />
order (the said Capt. Willett, al his associates aforesaid being present) was<br />
freely passed by the whole town nemine contradicenie.<br />
"At a town meeting lawfully warned, on the two and twentieth day <strong>of</strong><br />
the twelfth month, commonly called February, in the year <strong>of</strong> our Lord 1669,<br />
it is ordered that all persons that are or shall be admitted inhabitemts within<br />
this town, shall subscribe to the three proposalls above written, to the<br />
several conditions and explanations therein expressed, before any lot <strong>of</strong><br />
land be confirmed to them or any <strong>of</strong> them.<br />
"We, whose names are hereunder written, do fully, upon our admission<br />
to be inhabitants <strong>of</strong> this town <strong>of</strong> <strong>Swansea</strong>, assent to the above written<br />
agreement, made between the church now meeting here at <strong>Swansea</strong> and<br />
Capt. Thomas Willett and his associates, as the sd. agreement is specified<br />
and declared in the three proposalls afore written, with the several! conditions<br />
and explanations there<strong>of</strong> concerning the present and future settlement<br />
<strong>of</strong> this town. In witness where<strong>of</strong> we have hereunto subscribed.<br />
(Signed by fifty-five persons.)<br />
First Signers Admitted to the Town:<br />
Thomas Willett, Caleb Eddy,<br />
John Myles, John Myles, Jr.<br />
John Allen, Thomas Lewis,<br />
James Brown, Joseph Carpenter,<br />
Nicholas Tanner, Robert Jones,<br />
Hugh Cole, Eldad Kingsley,<br />
Benjamin Alby, John Martin,<br />
John Browne, John Cole,<br />
Samuel Wheaton, Joseph Wheaton,<br />
Thomas Barnes, Nathan'l Paine,<br />
Thos. Estabrooke, Stephen Brace,<br />
Richard Sharpe, Gideon Allen,<br />
Wm. Ingraham, John Dickse,<br />
Thos. Manning, Wm. Bartram,<br />
Wm. Cahoone, Joseph Kent,<br />
George Aldrich, Sam'l Woodbury,<br />
Nathan'l Lewis, Nehemiah Allen,<br />
John Thurber, Sampson Mason,<br />
Jona Bosworth, Job Winslow,<br />
Joseph Lewis, Obadiah Bowen, Jr.<br />
Wm. Hayward, Richard Burgess,<br />
Jno. Thurber, 2d Jno. Butterworth,<br />
Gerard Ingraham, John West,<br />
Zach. Eddy, Thos. Elliott,<br />
Hezekiah Luther, Timothy Brooks,<br />
John Paddock, Nathan'l Toogood,<br />
Samuel Luther, Jere. Child,<br />
Obadiah Brown, Senr.<br />
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