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clock in the Forenoon, then and there to choose a town 

 clerk, selectmen and constables and all other ordinary 

 town officers, which officers when chosen are to stand to 

 the anniversary meeting in March next. BENJA. KoLFE 3 

 by orders of the General Court. A True Copy examined 

 by Benja. Rolfe, Town Clerk. 



ESSEX, ss. Pennycook, January 11, 1732. By vir- 

 tue of the Order from the General Court have notified, 

 the Inhabitants of the Plantation of Pennycook of the 

 within mentioned meeting by setting up the within notifi- 

 cation at the meeting house in Pennycook. BENJA. 

 ROLFE. A True copy examined by Beuja. Rolfe, Town 

 Clerk. 



January 11, 1732-3. Voted, That one hundred and 

 ten pounds be raised for the support of Rev. Mr. Timothy 

 Walker. 3 



Pennycook, March 6, 1732-3. Voted, That there 

 should be twenty shillings paid for the encouragement of 

 killing of wolves, for the year ensuing, within the Town- 

 ship. 



Voted, That there should be six pence paid for the en- 

 couragement of killing of Rattlesnakes within this Town- 

 ship, for the year ensuing, provided that the destroyers 

 of such snakes shall bring in a black joynt of the tail or 

 with the tail to the selectmen or any of them. A penny 



a Benjamin Rolfe, who is referred to in the old New Hampshire records, was a 

 son of Henry Rolfe, Esq., of Newbury, who was one of the original proprietors 

 of Pennycook. He was born in 1710, graduate of Harvard in 1727, chosen one of 

 the proprietors and grantees of Penuycook in 1731, and continued in the office 

 during the several changes of Rnmford and Concord, till 1770. He held every im- 

 portant office lii the gift of his fellow citizens, and had acquired a large property. 

 At the age of sixty he married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Timothy Walker, some 

 thirty years his junior. He died Dec. 21, 1771. His widow, Sarah, married in 1773, 

 Benjamin Thompson, afterwards distinguished as Count Rumford. 



3 Rev. Timothy Walker, the son of Deacon Samuel Walker of Wobnrn, Mass., 

 was born July 27, 1705, graduated at Harvard College in 1725, invited to settle at 

 Pennycook, Oct. 14, 1730. He married, Nov. 12, 1730, Sarah Burbeen, daughter of 

 James Burbeen, of Woburn. She was born June 17, 1701, and died Feb. 19, 1778. 

 He was a revered, faithful and devoted minister to his people, served the town 

 as a wise counsellor on many important occasions, and was justly entitled to the 

 appellation of " the father of the town." He died Sept. 1, 1782, aged 77. 



