History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts, with genealogies and notes on persons and estates . wicheWs number 20, of whom six only were in the first division. Training field. At a meeting 15 Dec, 1751, a decisive votewas passed on the subject of a Training field, a necessity of theday. It was laid out adjoining the burying-ground on the east, andfronted on the Eight-rod way near the old meeting house, and twoacres had been voted for the purpose 4 8e[)t., 1749, At this meeting,however, it was voted and determined unanimously that one acreshould be and is set oft for this purpose.
History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts, with genealogies and notes on persons and estates . wicheWs number 20, of whom six only were in the first division. Training field. At a meeting 15 Dec, 1751, a decisive votewas passed on the subject of a Training field, a necessity of theday. It was laid out adjoining the burying-ground on the east, andfronted on the Eight-rod way near the old meeting house, and twoacres had been voted for the purpose 4 8e[)t., 1749, At this meeting,however, it was voted and determined unanimously that one acreshould be and is set oft for this purpose. The record describes it asto be set ofT fronting on the eight rod way and joining on .SamuelMannings north line, said acre to always lye open and 1752 the proprietors voted to confirm the sale of the lot onwhich the old meeting-house stood to Jabez Holden, and to appro-priate money to pay expenses of committees and Mr. Campbell forhis time and trouble in recording their acts and votes in the past. I Several of Uiese by purchase owned more than one sliare, lience the reduced CHANGES IN TOWN LINES. 39 Meetings for the adjustment of various questions of possessions,compensations for roads, settlement of lines, deficiencies in measure-ments, and minor differences between adjoining owners were held upto 21 Mar., 1763. A meeting of the Proprietors of the fifth or lastdivision of land in the Village for the purpose of correcting errorsand supplying omissions in the records and also to ascertain thelocation of the west line of the village was held Dec, 1773, and sub-sequent meetings for similar purposes were continued in 1774. Therewas no recorded action thereafter. Changes in Town lines. In the plot of the present town thesouthern and a very small portion of the eastern lines only are identi-cal with the original outlines. Dudley set off. The first alteration was made in Dec, 1731,when the town of Dudley was incorporated, and Mr. Dudleys 6,000acres, excepting Paul
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