t our Representative be desired to represent said grievance to the honorable General Court, and intreat an Act of said Court that said office may forthwith be removed into our town, according to law, it being the shire-town in said county.
Samuel Phipps, Esq., of Charlestown, succeeded Captain Hammond as Register of Deeds, and kept his office and the records in Charlestown up to this time. By the records of the General Court it appears that on the 8th of June, 1716, Colonel Goffe complained
During the first century after the foundation of the town, licenses were granted to the following named persons (and perhaps others) besides those who have already been mentioned:—
Daniel Champney, 1691.
William Russell, 1696-1715.
Samuel Phipps, 1707-1709.
Elizabeth Phipps, 1710-1712.
Edward Marrett, 1709.
Susanna Stacey, 1709, 1713-1715.
Hannah Stacey, 1712, 1716-1724.
Ruth Child, 1713-1715.
Samuel Robinson, 1714-1720.
John Smith, 1715-1717.
James Ingham, 17
, and procuring Dearborn's patent Balance, with a scale attached thereto, that will weigh from half a pound to five hundred and forty weight.
To defray the whole cost, amounting to $329.94, and to provide a fund for repairs, a joint stock was established of forty shares, valued at ten dollars, each, which were immediately taken as follows: Oliver Wendell, three shares; Caleb Gannett, two; John Mellen, two; Josiah Moore, two; Samuel Bartlett, two; Israel Porter, two; Sidney Willard, one; Henry Ware, one; William Hilliard, two; Thomas Warland, one; Artenatus Moore, one; Richard Bordman, two; Eliab W. Metcalf, one; John Farrar, one; John T. Kirkland, two; Levi Hedge, including Joseph McKean's subscription, one; James Read, Jr., two; Joseph S. Read, for himself and William Brown, one; James Munroe, for himself and Torrey Hancock, one; John Warland, for himself and William Warland, one; Samuel Child, one; Samuel Child, Jr., one; Jonas Wyeth, 3d. one; Thomas Austin, one; Joseph Holmes, on
ears by the Proprietors' Records that at a meeting of the Proprietors of Cambridge, orderly convened, the 26 day of January 1707-8,—Voted, That the land where Mr. John Bunker's shop now stands, with so much more as will be sufficient to erect the Court House upon (to be built in this town), be granted for that end, in case a Committee appointed by the Proprietors do agree with Andrew Bordman and John Bunker for building a lower story under it . . . . Deac.
Nathaniel Hancock, Jason Russell, and Lieut. Amos Marrett, were chosen a committee to agree with said Bunker and Bordman about building under the said house.
The Committee reported, Feb. 9, 1607-8: PurBunker and Bordman about building under the said house.
The Committee reported, Feb. 9, 1607-8: Pursuant to the aforesaid appointment, we, the subscribers above mentioned, have agreed with and granted liberty unto the said John Bunker and Andrew Bordman to make a lower room under the said house (which we apprehend will be about thirty foot in length and twenty-four foot in width), the said lower room to be about seven or eight
ition to those who have already been mentioned, the following appear during the first century:—
John Stedman, 1653-1686.
William Manning, 1654-1686.
Edmund Angier, 1674-1686.
Samuel Andrew, 1684-1691.
William Andrew, 1701.
Mrs. Seeth Andrew, 1702-1703.
Zachariah Hicks, 1704-1717.
Martha Remington, 1705-1712.
Jonathan Remington, 1713-1735.
Nathaniel Hancock, Jr., 1707-1709.
Mary Bordman, 1708-1714.
John Stedman, 1717-1724.
Sarah Fessenden, 1720-1735.
Mary Oliver, 1731-1732.
Edward Marrett, 1733-1735.
Two of these retailers in their old age found it necessary to appeal to the County Court for relief; their petitions are still preserved on file, to wit:—
To the honored Court assembled at Cambridge, all prosperity wished.
Thease are to informe you that I wase brought up in an honest collinge in ould England, where we sould all sortes of goodes and strong waters, withought offence.
I have bine now in this land forty-nine yeres and upwa
, two; Israel Porter, two; Sidney Willard, one; Henry Ware, one; William Hilliard, two; Thomas Warland, one; Artenatus Moore, one; Richard Bordman, two; Eliab W. Metcalf, one; John Farrar, one; John T. Kirkland, two; Levi Hedge, including Joseph McKean's subscription, one; James Read, Jr., two; Joseph S. Read, for himself and William Brown, one; James Munroe, for himself and Torrey Hancock, one; John Warland, for himself and William Warland, one; Samuel Child, one; Samuel Child, Jr., one; Jonas Wyeth, 3d. one; Thomas Austin, one; Joseph Holmes, one; Royal Morse, one; John Walton, for himself and Ebenezer Stedman, Jr., one; Jacob H. Bates, one; William Gamage, one.
At their meeting, Jan. 11, 1813, the proprietors established several Regulations, the first three of which were as follows:— 1.
No person occupying said market house shall be permitted to use or vend spirituous liquors therein, except on such public occasions, and under such restrictions, as the committee may hereafter
