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TOWN DOINGS. 269 Voted, " that what money the Church minister has drawn out and is to draw out shall be put in the next minister's rate." The assessors returned seventeen Anabaptists in towns. 1741. Matthew Allin, moderator and town treasurer ; Matthew Allen, Jabez Brown, and Josiah Humphrey, selectmen and assessors ; Josiah Humphrey, town clerk ; Edward Luther and Joseph Allen, 2d, constables ; Nathaniel Viall, James Brown, and Ebenezer Guernsey, surveyors ; Capt. Joseph Allen, Ebenezer Guernsey, and Joseph Viall were made a committee "to search the records concerning the point of land on New Meadow Neck and report." May 22. Captain Joseph Allen, John Adams, and Josiah Humphrey were chosen to expend the ;£ioo, voted for a minister for the town, "to pay the minister they have em- ployed to preach to this town and to such as they shall supply to preach for the time to come." In the summer of 1741, Messrs. James Adams, James Smith, John Adams and Matthew Watson brought suits in the Bristol Court against the town for debts claimed from the town, and Mr. Peleg Heath, Matthew Allin and Nathaniel Peck were chosen agents to defend the town in the actions before the Court. Mr. Nathaniel Peck declining to serve, Mr. Ebenezer Guernsey was chosen in his place. " Pursuant to the law of the Province for renewing bounds between townships, the subscribers, selectmen of Rehoboth and Barrington, on the i6th day of November, 1 741, have renewed the bounds between said towns, beginning at the Southwest corner of Rehoboth, being a small freshet of water, running into the salt water river ; from thence easterly on the line to a stone set up and marked with R 1734, where the stump of the tree stood at the place where Captain Willett made a bridge and from thence to a white oak tree standing Southerly of Nathaniel Paine's, late of Rehoboth, deserted house ; thence to a stump burnt with