The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-11-30
History OF st. Adams.
Ky an old Resident.

day of March, 1859, Jonathan Hoyt
was chosen Clerk; Andrew Potter,
David Powers, and Silas Hathaway,
Selectmen; Alfred Hathaway, Town
Treasurer; Daniel b. Meigs, Consta-
BILE; David Campbell, Grand Juror;
Jesse Weldon, Poundkeeper; Andrew
Potter, Tithingman Slas Hathaway
Hog Hayward; Jesse Welden, Fence
Viewer; Andrew Potter, Jesse Wei
den and Benjamin Bradley, Surveyors
Of Highways.
it appears that the General Assem-
bly, in October 17Ss, doomed the
Town in the sum Of $500, for what
reason does not distinctly appear -
The town people considered them
selves aggrieved by the act of the
General Assembly, and at the meeting
aforesaid, hey voted to pay IA tax OF
five pence on the pound Of the Grand
List, and NJ more; which amounted
to E7Ss.5d, and O petition the Gen
eral Assembly for an abatement of the
residue They also voted to indemni-
fy the Selectmen for not assessing the
tax Of $500, to which the town had
been doomed The Grand List of the
Inhabitants for the next year, 1889,
amounted to 454015s., being an in
crease OF 4l76.10s, since the preceding
year, with very little addition to the
number OF ratab!e inhabitants The
Grand List for The next year, 1890,
amounted to LG3G 5s.; but there was
but small addition to the number Of
taxpayers. In 1891, the Grand List
amounted to 1924 From this time
forward there was steady and some
what rapid Increase Of Inhabitants in
st Adams, as well as in the other
towns in the County. This part Of
the State was not settled SO rapidly as
many OF the Western States were; but
still, for several years, after the close
OF the Revolutionary war, the settle
, ment Of the State was quite rapid.
! According to Mr. Meiga, whose narra-
tive we have referred to, Jonathan
I Hoyt was the first Representative;
> but other accounts make Andrew Pot
{ ter the first Representative. Those
persons who are DESTROYS to know the
truth in this matter can probably as
certain by examining the journals of
the Legislature.
At Town meeting, held on the 9th
day OF September 1896, Jonathan
Hoyt, Levi House, and David Nichols
we're appointed a committee to procure
minister to preach three months in
5 the town; and the committee were
: instructed to procure the services of
Rev. Aaron Collins for that purpose.
At another meeting, held on the
, 27th of the same month, it was voted
; to raise a sum on the Grand List suf-
] ficient to enable the committee to pro-
+ cure a candidate to preach three
J months, and that IS be deducted to
pay Rev. Mr.. Collins for past services.
About the same time a committee was
appointed to select a site for a meet
l. ing house. The committee afterwards
d reported that they had made a selec-
ton of a spot for the purpose What
= action was taken on the report does
not appear. But no meeting house
y was ever built at the expense, or by
the order of the Town. On the It'll OF
> March, 1893, it was voted at an adj
journed Town meeting, that Joseph
Carter, Silas Hathaway, and Jonathan
Hoyt, be Il committee to hire some
person to preach as candidate ior
settlement for such time as they
should think proper, and to engage to
pay him such sum as they thought fit,
TO be paid IN pro luce. 1t does mol
appear what action was had on this
vote of the town; At a Town meet
ing, legally warned, and holden on the
, 23d day of August, 1900, it was voted
to lay Il tax on each acre of land in
said town, (public rights excepted, J
to defray the EXPENSES of building a
Court House, to be paid in labor OF
materials, or in cattle or grain, the LIST
day of September, 1901 Amos Nor
rill, Holloway Taylor, David Powers
Levi House, and Joseph Jones, were
appointed committee for the purpose
of building said house. On the 18th