The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

PORTSMOUTH.

At the annual Town-Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants held at Portsmouth, March 25th, 1763, the following Persons were chosen as Town-Officers for the present Year.

James Clarkson, Esq; Moderator.

John Penhallow, Town Clerk.

Select-Men, Andrew Clarkson, John Langdon, Captain William Knight, John Dennet, Samuel Penhallow.

Overseers of the Poor, Capt. James Stoodly, Jacob Sheafe, John Penhallow.

Assessors. Hunking Wentworth, Esq; Thomas Hart, Dr. Daniel Rogers.

Auditors, William Parker, Esq; Eleazer Russell, Esq; Mr. John Sherburne.

Clerk of the Market, Mr. John Griffith.

Firewards, Theodore Atkinson, Esq; Mark Hunking Wentworth, Esq; Major Samuel Hale, Andrew Clarkson, John Sherburne, Daniel Pierce, Esq; Capt. John Shackford, Thomas Hart, John Griffith.

Searchers and Sealers of Leather, Joseph Brewster, George Ayers, John Pierce, John Jones, Jonathan Ayers.

Cullers. Searchers and Packers, John How, George How. Humphry Fernald, Thomas Landall, John Cutt.

Pound Keeper, Samuel Cate.

To enquire who kills Deer contrary to Law, Hunking Wentworth, Esq; Capt. Thomas Pierce.

Tything Men, Doctor Daniel Rogers, Major Samuel Hale, Capt. Thomas Pierce, Jacob Sheafe, Charles Treadwell, Nehemiah Wheeler, John Beck.

Hog Reeves, Thomas Quint, Pitman Coolbroth, Benjamin Moses, James Holmes, Thomas Clark.

Fence Viewers, Samuel Sherburne, Nathaniel Peverly, junr. Moses Miller, Perkins Ayers, Leader Nelson.

Lot-Layers, Capt. Thomas Pierce, Cyprien Jeffry, John Sherburne.

Corders of Wood, George Seward, Joseph Allcock, Ebenezer Odiorne, John Shackford, Esq; William Lewis, Joseph Cotton.

Constables, Clement March, Benjamin Welch, Philip Pendexter.

Surveyors of High Ways, John Rindge, Joseph Moulten, Capt. Thomas Pierce, Major Samuel Hale, Thomas Sevey, Ephraim Dennet, John Banfield.

Attorneys for the Town, William Parker Esq; Mathew Livermore Esq;

Agents for the Town, Andrew Clarkson, John Sherburne, and John Griffith.