. Cranston : a historical sketch . o a peace in the Providence Ga-zette of October 19, 1782. In the town treasury at the close of thewar was one hundred and thirty-one pounds, which was exchanged forgold and silver money on the best terms obtainable. The town tried totake an accounting of its debts, in order to levy a tax wherewith to paythem, but found its books so badly kept as to make it difficult to tellhow much it owed. In 1784 the proposition to erect a separate town-ship out of the territory lying east of the Pocasset river and a part ofWarwick was advanced again by certain Pawtuxet vot
. Cranston : a historical sketch . o a peace in the Providence Ga-zette of October 19, 1782. In the town treasury at the close of thewar was one hundred and thirty-one pounds, which was exchanged forgold and silver money on the best terms obtainable. The town tried totake an accounting of its debts, in order to levy a tax wherewith to paythem, but found its books so badly kept as to make it difficult to tellhow much it owed. In 1784 the proposition to erect a separate town-ship out of the territory lying east of the Pocasset river and a part ofWarwick was advanced again by certain Pawtuxet voters. The petitionto the General Assembly stated, as had that of June, 1765, that the townoi Cranston was very long, and the town of Warwick inconvenientlysituated for the voters of the northeastern part to participate in townaffairs; that the Pawtuxet Purchase was formerly a town (a statementnot borne out by facts), and was so mentioned in the royal charter;that the petitioners understood that the cessation of its corporate rights. Jianicl t) Wo-1 e r in a » Town ClerK J o Ji n J TOWN COUNCIL AND CLERK 25 was that there were few inhabitants, and it was difficult to travel overthe Pawtuxet river, obstacles which had been removed by the growth ofthe village of Pawtuxet to upwards of one hundred freemen and thebuilding of a bridge over the river, and that the people of Pawtuxetdesired a revival of ancient privileges. This suggestion after its firstdefeat was revived again in 1771, when ninety-five votes were castagainst it, and twelve for it, and in 1784 was killed once more by an ad-verse vote of the town of Cranston. It would be pleasant to record that the troubles of the people of thetown ended with the close of the war, and that the years following werefilled with constructive labor. But an evil genius was at work whichdid not permit an intermission from the financial perplexities fromwhich the people of the state had suffered. Rhode Island, as well as the town, was heavily i
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