Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13


cemetery. This is the inscription on his
gravestone:
In Memory Of Moir John Arms Esq.
Who Departed this Life
Mar. ye 9th no in the iSth
year of his age.
Beneath the sacred Honuurs Of the Tomb.
In awful Silence and Majestic Gloom,
The man Of mercy here conceals his head,
Amidst the awful mansions of the Dead
No more his liberal hand shall help the poor
Relieve Distress and scatter JOY no more.
AT meeting June 10, ITO, they voted
to hire the Rev. Abner Reeve to preach
two Sabbaths for settling, one at Gulford
and one here. On July 3 they voted:
That we will join with Gulford for three years
they to pay half of the salary and unesiXth
part of the settlement and have Mr. Reeve to
preach half the time for them they losing the
time when Tad weather prevents his preaching
there.
And to raise $50 pounds New York cur
rency for his settlement and the same for
a years salary. a formal agreement was
entered into between committee and Mr..
Reeve for supplying the pulpit in Brattle-
boro half the time for three years, ''sick-
ness only excepted" for $50 New York
currency, one-thrd of it yearly, toward
his settlement, and $50 the first year, e32
the second and ga the third, for his sala-
ry. He lived next east of Ebenezer Fish
er on the road from Nathaniel Churchs to
the Westinghouse. A meeting was held
November u, 1910, when this agreement
presented by Mr.. Marshall, which had
been previously drawn up by Judge Wells
in handsome writing upon parchment, was
dated and probably largely signed. Here
is a copy of it:
Whereas il is the Desire of us the subscribers
Inhabitants of the Township If BrattlebOro, to
come into some measures for the settlement and
maintaining of an Orthodox Gospel Minister in
the Town, and in order to put in Execution such
necessary and salutaTy scheme, and likewise to
prevent any misunderstanding that might other
wise arise We the subscribers do hereby severally
agree, covenant and promise to abide and stand
by the following articles, viz:
LIST That at all meetings of the subscribers for
the Future, all matters that shall be transacted,
whether the raising of money or any other thing
relative to the settling and maintaining "A minis
ter, shall be governed by the majority of votes of
the subscribers that shall I've present: A Record OF
said votes to be made by the Town Clerk or by
some other person the subscribers may appoint
their clerk, which votes, so recorded shall be
binding upon us the subscribers during our Resi-
denCe in the Town of marlborough.
2d. That when and so often as six or more of
the said subscribers shall signify under their
Hands to the clerk their Desire 70 have u meeting
of said subscribers called for any of the aforp-
said Purposes, and IN their application to the
clerk for any such meeting shah insert every par
tiCular Article that is to be acted upon then the
clerk shall warn said meeting by setting Motif
cation at some Public Place in said Town fourteen
Days before said meeting is to be held, and in said
Notification insert every Article to be acted upon
And all votes passed at said meeting. so called as
aforesaid and relative to such Matters are nOti-
fled by the Notification aforesaid, shall be- binding
upon us the subscribers: And that any Matter or
| thing that shall or may he voted or determined
that is not so inserted in SAID application for a
meeting, shall not be binding upon us the sub
/ ScrberS.
Sd. That this Covenant shall. for the future,
he kept 10y the clerk aforesaid or his successor
till it shall be otherwise determined by majority
/ of votes of us the subscribers.
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