1805 Minutes
A statement of the division of the Town of Palmyra into Road Districts (viz.)
1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Road District the same as in 1804.
5th District bounded east by the east line of Township No. 12, 2nd Range, south by the 4th Road District, north by the town line, west by the west line of a road on Howard Post's east line, thence north to the town line.
6th District bounded east by the 5th Road district, north by the north line of the town, south by the 2nd Road District and west by a line beginning on the north bank of Red Creek in direction with Job Durfee's west line, thence northerly to said Durfee's north line, thence northerly to the southwest corner of Jenkins' land, thence northerly on the west line of said land to the town line.
7th District bounded east by the 6th Road District, north by the town line, south by the north bank of Red Creek, and west by the west line of Township No. 12, 2nd Range.
8th District: The same as the 7th in 1804.
9th District. The same as the 8th in 1804.
10th District: The same as the 9th in 1804.
11th District: The same as the 10th in 1804.
12th District bounded north by the 10th Road District, east by the 11th Road District and Lots No. and 8 and 17, west by the town line and south by a line beginning on the town line at the northeast corner of David Baker's farm, thence easterly to the east line of a road running by Jeremiah Smith's, thence southerly on said line to a bridge across Mud Creek, thence east to the east line of Lot No. 8.
13th District bounded south and west by the town lines, north by the 12th Road District and east by Lot No. 8.
14th District: The same as the 12th in 1804.
15th District: The same as the 13th in 1804.
March 19th, 1805. Charles Bradish, Lemuel Durfee, and James Reeves, Commissioners of Highways.
A true copy of the original. Stephen Phelps, Town Clerk
At an annual town meeting held on the first Tuesday in April, 1805, at the Town House in Palmyra. John Swift, William Rogers, and Pardon Durfee - First Peace (?) Inspectors of said meeting.
John Swift, Esq. chosen Moderator.
Stephen Phelps – Town Clerk
John Swift – Supervisor
Edward Durfee, James Reeves, and William Rogers – Assessors
Edward Durfee, James Reeves, William Rogers – Commissioners of Highways
Thomas Goldsmith and Noah Porter – Overseers of the Poor
William Rogers, Jr. – Collector
Voted to choose two constables. William Rogers – First Constable
Edward Durfee – 2nd Constable
Pearly Phillips – 1st Road District Overseer of Highways
Thomas Goldsmith – 2nd District
James Parshall – 3rd District
Gideon Durfee, Jr. – 4th District
George Culver – 5th District
William Willcox – 6th District
Stephen Durfee – 7th District
Isaac Thayer – 8th District
Thomas Glover – 9th District
Barnabas Brown – 10th District
Jacob Gannett – 11th District
Joseph Pratt – 12th District
David Baker – 13th District
Bryer Aldrich – 14th District
Webb Harwood – 15th District
Voted the Path(?) Masters serve as Fence Viewers. Isaac Kelly chosen Pound Master.
Voted that rams be confined from August 15th to November 1st; penalty the same as last year.
Voted not to alter the last year's vote concerning swine, stud horses, and wolves.
Voted that the supervisors be authorized to raise money to the amount of certificates for all wolves killed previous to the supervisor's annual meeting.
Voted that the Poor Masters pay over the money in their hands and what shall come into their hands this year to the supervisor by taking his receipts for the same to be appropriated toward the contingent charges of the town.
Voted to pay a bounty of $.02 a head for each squirrel, crow, blackbird, and woodpecker killed in the town to July 1st and that any person or persons to entitle them to the bounty shall kill to the amount of ten and produce their heads to the Supervisor or Justices of the Peace, who shall give them a certificate on their making oath if required that they killed them in said town and being inhabitants thereof. Money to be paid the same as for wolves killed.
Voted this meeting be dissolved.
Record of the survey of a public highway beginning at a stake and stones on the town line between No. 12 and 13 the 2nd Range intersecting with a highway from Samuel H. Caldwell’s by Humphrey Shearman’s saw mill to said place of beginning, thence south 10 degrees, east 54 rods, thence south 26 degrees, east 14 rods, thence south 11 degrees, east 48 rods, thence south 15 degrees, east 56 rods, thence south 80 rods, thence south 12 degrees, east 44 rods, thence south 20 degrees, east 100 rods, thence south 30 degrees, east 40 rods, thence south 45 degrees, east 28 rods, thence south 40 degrees, east 60 rods to intersect with a highway leading by Benjamin Hopkins’.
Explored and approved April 6, 1806, by William Rogers, Edward Durfee, and James Reeves, Commissioners.
Survey of a public highway beginning at the west line of No. 12, 3rd Range intersecting with a highway leading from Northfield to the west line of Palmyra through Lot No. 3, 4th Range in said Northfield to a dry maple tree standing on or near the town line, thence east 29 degrees, south 102 rods, thence south 29 degrees, east 42 rods leading through William Peters’ and Arnold Hopkins’ lands intersecting with the state road leading by Caleb McCumber’s in Palmyra. Explored and approved April 19th, 1805, by: William Rogers and Edward Durfee, Commissioners.
Survey of the alteration of a road (viz.) running east and west between Watson Robinson’s and John Fuller’s in No. 12, 3rd Range is hereby altered from the west line of the above said lots of land east to the highway running by Ebenezer Still’s and the aforesaid Fuller’s, which is 80 rods is hereby moved south 2 rods, which makes the survey of the road on the line of the lots between the said Fuller’s and Robinson’s.
Explored and approved May 16th, 1805, by: William Rogers and Edward Durfee, Commissioners.
Record of the survey of the continuance of a highway leading from Nathan Harris’ to Stephen Durfee’s north to the town line of No. 13, 2nd Range beginning at the center of a highway leading east and west by Stephen Durfee’s a little west of his house, thence running north 3 degrees, east on said Durfee;s land 88 rods, thence north 8 degrees, west 72 rods, thence north 23 degrees, west 54 rods, thence north 12 degrees, west 108, thence 25 degrees west, 42 rods, thence north 6 degrees, west 20 rods, thence north 60 rods, thence north 20 degrees, west 26 rods, thence north 37 degrees, west 10 rods, thence 10 degrees, west 20 rods, thence north 230 rods, thence north 30 degrees, west 40 rods to the town line of No. 13, 2nd Range. Explored and approved august 16, 1805 by: William Rogers and Edward Durfee, Commissioners. (See pages 17, 95, 128. See pages 129, 107, 187, and 198.)
Survey of the continuance of a public highway leading from the west line of No. 12, 3rd Range eastward by Alexander McEntire’s and Watson Robinson’s beginning at the north end of a crossroad running between John Fuller’s and Ebenezer Still’s lands, thence east on the line of the lots between said Robinson and Still extending east on said lot line 58 rods to a highway running north and south on the east line of said Robinson and Still’s lots of land.
Also, we do hereby disannul and make void the highway running north and south between John Fuller’s and Ebenezer Still’s land.
Explored and approved August 16th, 1805, by: William Rogers and Edward Durfee, Commissioners.
A true copy of the original. Stephen Phelps, Town Clerk
Record of the survey of a public highway beginning on the southeast corner of Lot No. 58, thence north 36 degrees, west 52 rods, thence west 30 degrees north, 132 rods, thence north 145 rods to intersect a road leading to the northwest corner of the Town of Palmyra.
Explored and approved August 30, 1805, by: William Rogers, Edward, Durfee, and James Reeves, Commissioners.