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.tV^^:':ViliiC^^-%S<-'' '*#i?<*<^, *»' M*'0i'^S^-;/IfaAWct (Jj, iicA/ttt^^,HISTORYTHEOFTOWN OF JAFFEET,NEW HAMPSHIRE,From the Date of the JNIasoxian Charter to thePresent Time,1749-1880;WITH AREGISTERGENEALOGICALOF THE JAFFREY ANDFAMILIES,AN APPENDIXContaining the Proceedings of the Centennialin 1873.CelebrationBYDANIEL B. M. D.CUTTER,which otir childish''The hills are dearest feetHave climbed the earliest.''''N. H.:CONCORD,PRINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.1881./-.J ^-PREFACE.After of research we have at theyears length publishedof It has a work muchHistory Jaffrey. proved requiringtime and from a want of records. to in-labor, Previous theof the town no records have been found conse-corporation ;we have but little of the inhabitants.quently knowledgeAfter the a record was made of the votes oforganization,the town and officers but no of theirchosen, report doings,that the committee chosen to reckon with the select-onlymen had attended to their found all and burntcorrect,duty,their thus what should have beenpapers, destroying pre-served. We have found votes for for variousraising moneybut no record of thepurposes duly recorded, expenditurestill for the first the invoice of the townwhen, time,1793,was after a of from therecorded, period twenty years organ-ization of the town. From this time a record of the tax-was amount of and howpayers kept, ...
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