The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-01
Legislation I'm the Republic, of Guilfortl.
TBy II. A. Huse in Men of Vermont lust is
sued by Transcript Pub, Co., of Brattle-
hOrO.I

Legislation I'm the Republic of Guilforsl.
TBy II. A. Huse in Men of Vermont Just is
sued by Transcript Pub, Co., of Brattle-
borO.I
In the 9TH volume of HemenMay's Vermont
Historical Gazetteer are given the records of
| the town of GuilfOrd for many years of Judge
ShepardsOn's time. The proceedings of the
meeting of Feb. 20, 1777, of which Major Shep-
ardsOn (he wasn't elected Judge till the next
year and query whether the military title even
then gave way to the judicial) was moderator,
are, like many of the other records, well
worth reading. The meeting appointed a COM
mittee of nine "tO state the price of labor, pro-
visions, merchantile goods, ETC., to make ire
port] to the town for their APPRECIATION
March 9, 1777, at an adjourned meeting the
committee reported among other things that
'good mercantile wheat shall not exceed go
cts per bushel. Good yaIow potatoes
shall not in the spring exceed 20 cts. per
bushel. Good West India rum and New
England rum and molasses and Moscovodo
sugar shall be sold on the same as they are
stated in the New England states; Farming
labOrers in the summer season shall not eX-
coed 30 cts. per pay and so in usual proper
ton at other seasons of the year and the labor |
of mechanics and tradesmen and other labor |
to he computed according to the wages and |
customs that hath been practised among us /
computed with farm labor" Among other |
articles on which price was fixed were rye,
Indian corn, oats, peas, and beans, flag seed,
salt pork, good grass beef, raw hides, sole |
leather, neat leather shoes, wool tow cloth,
coarse linen, stripped flannel, hay, butter, tai
low, hogs fat and pine boards. Ii was voted |
if anybody i'm town should sell any named
article to any person in the neighboring towns
at a higher price than stated in the report he
should forfeit the value of the.article to the
town, and If any person directly or indirectly
took greater price than state In the report
he should forfeit the value of the article sold,
one-half TO the town and one-half to the COM
plainant. 1t was then voted that the commit
tee of nine hear and determine all cases and
in these matters and impose costs
Of suit if they should find those charged gull
fy; by unanimous vote of this town and
chose Maj. John Shepardson one of the COM
mittee of Inspections"
All this was i'm the "Repubic Of Guilford-
and there was no Coxey with his army of the
TO march TO its capital. Politi-
al economists can figure the matter out 10
.uit themselves. But this wasn't the Gull
lord which Vermont had on her hands 10
contend with-that Guilford was the ..other
.rowd,- the York adherents.
In bidding Judge Shepardson eDod-bye. we
bid goodbye TO comment on the form and
pressure of his time.
When the New Hampshire grants were tracts
Somewhat in dispufaiion,
Tracked by the most untractable
OF all the Yankee nation;
When Ethan Allen ruled the state
With steel and stolen '=criptus
Declared his beech seal war aeains,
New York and took and whipf her .
vermont's poet, Eastman Cborn i'm Main
thought makes my Uncle Jerry" sam il up wife