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voted for the encouragement of the killing of Black Birds 

 within this Township, for the year ensuing, the head 

 being brought to the selectmen or any of them and burnt. 



March 9, 1735. Voted, That Henry Rolfe, Esq., be 

 chosen and desired to assist and joyn with others, that 

 are or may be chosen for to use proper means for to get 

 the county of Essex divided into two counties. 



November 7, 1739. Agreed and voted, That Benja. 

 Rolfe, Esq., be chosen to petition the General Court in 

 the name and behalf of the Inhabitants of the town of 

 Rumford, in order to get a country road laid out and 

 made from the town of Rumford to the town of Chester 

 in New Hampshire. 



At a legal meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabi- 

 tants of the town of Rumford on the eleventh day of 

 June, 1740. The Selectmen regulating said meeting, 

 Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., was elected and deputed to serve 

 for and represent them in the Great and General Court 

 or assembly now convened and held and kept his majes- 

 ties service at the Court House in Boston. 



After the choice of Representative, Capt. Ebenezer 

 Eastman* was chosen Moderator of this present meeting. 



Voted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., be hereby desired 

 and impowered in the name and behalf of the Inhabitants 

 of the town of Rumford to prefer a petition to his Maj- 

 esty, that they may be quieted in their possessions and 

 remain under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay, 

 or for any other thing that may be thought proper and 

 convenient. 



Voted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., be hereby desired 

 and impowered in the name and behalf of the Inhabitants 



4 Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, son of Philip of Haverhill, and gi-andson of Rogers, 

 the first of the name, who settled in Salisbury, Mass., in 1640, was born Jan. 10, 

 1689, married Sarah Peaslee, of Haverhill, March 4, 1710, a daughter of Col. Nath'l 

 Peaslee. He became an early settler in Concord, where he died July 28, 1748, aged 

 69. The part he took in the first settlement of the town, the services rendered and 

 the offices of trust and honor which he held will cause his name to be held in grate- 

 ful remembrance. He went to Cape Breton, March, 1745, in command of a com- 

 pany and was present at the reduction and surrender of Louisburg, June 16 of 

 that year. 



