. Wells River Bridge and other Haverhill toll bridges . our cents for each additional pair ofhorses or yoke of oxen; for sheep and swine, one quarter of onecent each; for cattle and horses, three quarters of one cent each,and to each team one person only shall be allowed to pass free oftoll. The proprietors met for organization, March 8, 1804. Sept. 4, thesame year they voted to subdivide the six original shares into forty-eight shares, giving to each original proprietor, eight shares. Sev-eral meeting were held during the year, and Nov. 12, it was votedto raise one thousand dollars for the pu
. Wells River Bridge and other Haverhill toll bridges . our cents for each additional pair ofhorses or yoke of oxen; for sheep and swine, one quarter of onecent each; for cattle and horses, three quarters of one cent each,and to each team one person only shall be allowed to pass free oftoll. The proprietors met for organization, March 8, 1804. Sept. 4, thesame year they voted to subdivide the six original shares into forty-eight shares, giving to each original proprietor, eight shares. Sev-eral meeting were held during the year, and Nov. 12, it was votedto raise one thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing abridge, and that this amount be assessed upon the forty-eight cost of the first bridge, erected in 1805, was probably about onethousand dollars, since shortly after the completion of the bridge,twenty-one shares were sold at auction for the sum of $ each,the holdings of Eziekiel Ladd and James Whitelaw, being purchasedby Amos Kimball, and five of the shares of William Abbott beingpurchased by Nathaniel OTHER HAVERHILL TOLL BRIDGES. » After the loss of the first bridge by freshet in the spring of 1807,steps were taken at once to rebuild, and at a meeting held July 7, atax of $ was levied on each share for the purpose of amount appears to have been insufficient, since at a meetingheld Jan. 28,1809, it was voted to assess a tax of twenty-four dol-lars a share, (.n the several shares, including the $ voted inJuly, 1807, to be paid by the 20th of February next. The cost ofthis second bridge appears to have been upwarcs of one thousanddollars, since at the meeting March 4, 1809, accounts to the amountof $1139 were allowed. The account of Amos Kimball amounted to$, indicating that he must have furnished most of the materialand built the bridge. Mr. Kimball was the grandfather ofthe late Ezra S. Kimball, and at one time owned a large farm,comprising what was afterwards known as the Evans, theKing, the E
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