1713-1755 Town Records Book 3 (typed transcription) (TC-53)

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Likewise Ordered ye Clerk to tend Warrants for ye .calling a Town meeting on ye 31 of May Currant to Consider; of granting money money for defraying Town charges: of a school; of chusing an assessor; about reconsidering ye Selecte mens proposals olate.ng3e..high wags about to go to meeting: & ye-eheesIng-a-Repil.esent&va (11) . Lexington December yetenth Seventeen hundred & fourteen 'we the subscribers Being Ellected and Appointed a.. Committee by ye Town afore said for the Dis- posing of the vacent Room in the new meeting hous Into pews have Attended said service By the pub - lick Directions given to us and have Assigned C the Said Room Into severall parts and unto sundry persons in manner and form as followeth 1 the vacant Room from the Esterly Ende of the pul- pet By the wall of said house to the Esterly door is Granteed to five persons firste next the pul- pet be mr matthew Bridge seven seats & one inch - next to Capt: wil1M: Reed: seven seats and one Inch,next to mr Samuel' Whittmore seven s'eets & four Inch next to mr Phillip Russell five $'eets & nine Inches: and next to mr Joseph. Teed five :poets ten Inches. which Corns to said door. and said Ronin from the Ministers pew to the weasterly door is granted to four persons first to Capt Joseph Estabrook five leets & six Inches. and to Dn John Miriam six leets & Eight Inches, and the next to Lt Thomas Cuttler five Beets ten Inches; and the neIt to mr David Fisk five teats Eleven Inches which Corns to said Door. and apon the Right hand of the Entring in at the Front Door is granted to three persons;: the first to mr: Benjamin: muzzy. five leets ten Inches the next to 2 Samuell Stone five seets six Inches and C the Lastd to mr Thomas Blogget Six teats & five Inches. and apon the Lefte. hand of the Entring in at the Front Door said Room Is allso Granted to three: persons firste to Joseph: Bow- man six seets .and one Inch the next to mr. Roburt Miriam five Leets Seven Inches: and Laste to mr Wi11m: Munroe five Suets ten Inches. and apon the Right hand of the Entring in at the westerly Door is Granted to mr John Munroe seven seats six Inches, and allso apon the Lefte hand of the Entring in at ye Esterly Door is Granted to mr James: Willson seven $eets six Inches. the Dimentions to be under stood on the wall of said hous on the. Back part of the pews and the fronts of the sake be Extenftforward to the allys Entred By Order of ye Select men Willa: Reed ) John: Miriam ) Willa: Munroe ) Committee. Thomas: Mead ) Joseph: Bowman )