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Jewett April 5 1820
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| − | and sell the [?] to pay that [?] and make an [?] sale of all the land in the town. In the first volume[?] of Massachusetts laws, page 270, the statute points out the mode of organizing a plantation & provides that the inhabitant shall be [?] & [?] "being freeholders,' there being no freeholders in that plantation. I[?] do[?] not[?] perceive how they can be legally organized or how the inhabitants can assess a legal tax. I should have settled your part of the state & county taxes according to your request[?] when I saw you in Boston, but there is nearly a hundred dollars lost[?] which they require. They have paid only thirteen dollars of the state tax to the sheriff and the proceeds[?] are still in his possession. If you think proper to pay this tax or a part of it & will direct what part you wish to pay I will pay it over for you toward a lot of land in | + | and sell the [?] to pay that [?] and make an [?] sale of all the land in the town. In the first volume[?] of Massachusetts laws, page 270, the statute points out the mode of organizing a plantation & provides that the inhabitant shall be [?] & [?] "being freeholders,' there being no freeholders in that plantation. I[?] do[?] not[?] perceive how they can be legally organized or how the inhabitants can assess a legal tax. I should have settled your part of the state & county taxes according to your request[?] when I saw you in Boston, but there is nearly a hundred dollars lost[?] which they require. They have paid only thirteen dollars of the state tax to the sheriff and the proceeds[?] are still in his possession. If you think proper to pay this tax or a part of it & will direct what part you wish to pay I will pay it over for you toward a lot of land in Kingfield[?] to take up John Thompson's notes[?] as I have bought the land you gave him for a[?] deed[?] of the north half of lot No one in the 7 Range I understand there has been one or more [?] trespassing up the Sandy Stream, on each side of it. |
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| + | Respectfully yours [?] Jewett | ||
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and sell the [?] to pay that [?] and make an [?] sale of all the land in the town. In the first volume[?] of Massachusetts laws, page 270, the statute points out the mode of organizing a plantation & provides that the inhabitant shall be [?] & [?] "being freeholders,' there being no freeholders in that plantation. I[?] do[?] not[?] perceive how they can be legally organized or how the inhabitants can assess a legal tax. I should have settled your part of the state & county taxes according to your request[?] when I saw you in Boston, but there is nearly a hundred dollars lost[?] which they require. They have paid only thirteen dollars of the state tax to the sheriff and the proceeds[?] are still in his possession. If you think proper to pay this tax or a part of it & will direct what part you wish to pay I will pay it over for you toward a lot of land in Kingfield[?] to take up John Thompson's notes[?] as I have bought the land you gave him for a[?] deed[?] of the north half of lot No one in the 7 Range I understand there has been one or more [?] trespassing up the Sandy Stream, on each side of it.
Respectfully yours [?] Jewett