386
1841.-
-Chap. 108—109.
the said company shall, in the conadopt such safeguards for the security
of the public as the county commissioners for the county of
Middlesex shall deem proper ; and they shall also erect and
maintain along each side of the proposed rail-road, where it
approaches within one hundred feet of the Milk row road, and
North avenue, such suitable fences as the selectmen of Charlestown shall deem essential to the security of the public travel.
[Approved by the Governor, March 17, 1841.]
or avenues upon the route,
struction of the rail-road,
An Act
Chap 109,
BE
to
change the Names of the several persons therein mentioned.
enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives,
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
it
as follotos
Change of
names of persons
in the
County of
Suffolk.
:
George Adams may take the name of George Edward Adams
James Adanis may take the name of James Henry
Adams Thomas Womersly may take the name of Thomas
Won)ersly Melbun
William French may take the name of
William Estabrooks French James Blake, Jun. may take the
name of James Gorham Blake Albert Parker may take the
name of Charles Albert Parker George Williams may take the
name of George Frederic Williams Henry Matthews may take
the name of Henry Matthews Reed
Patrick Kenny may take
the name of Tjewis Kenny
James Long, Jun. may take the
name of James Henry Long Nathaniel Shaw may take the
name of Nathaniel Burrill Shaw Leonard Stearns Payson may
take the name of Edward Webster Payson
Oliver C. Guptill
may take the name of Oliver C. Gardiner Adelaide Bangs,
minor daughter of George P. Bangs, may take the name of
Elizabeth Simpkins Bangs
Mary Jane Reed Gooch, a minor,
may take the name of Mary Jane Reed Mary Pell Grigg may
take the name of Mary Josephine Faxon
Oliver Sawyer Nichols may take the name of Prince Edward Nichols
George B.
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Farwell, a minor, an adopted child of Amasa Harrington, may
take the name of George B. Harrington ; AVilliam Townsend
Perry may take the name of William Blood, and his minor son,
William Cutler Perry, may take the name of William Cutler
Dorothy Harris may take the name of Mary Dorothy
;
Harris ; John Smith Mudget may take the name of John Smith,
and his wife, Elvira Pricilla Mudget, may take the name of Elvira Pricilla Smith, and Elvira Martha, Amanda Fiizland, Lucy
Ann, Mary Jane, Adeline, Jjevvis William, and George Edward,
children of the said John Smith and Elvira Pricilla Mudget, may
severally take the surname of Smith
Phillip Augustus Trafibrd
Blood
;
Moshier may take the name of Joseph Augustus Noble Rhoda
Luvina Hosmer may take the name of Elizabeth Hosmer and
Elizabeth Tarbox may take the name of Elizabeth Augusta Stan;
;
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of the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk.
Stickney, of Salem, may take the name of Harriet
Fowler Stickney ; Betsey Brown, 2d, of Manchester, may take
the name of Eliza Tappan Brown ; Frederick Daniel Hoyt
ley
—Eifex.
;
Judith
all
Ann
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387
Chap. 109.
1841.
Huntington, minor son of Moses Huntington, Jun. of Ames- —Essm,
bury, may take the name of Daniel Hoyt Huntington
Mary ''""ed.
Bradbury, of Newburyport, may take the name of Mary Louisa
Bradbury
Sally Forster Allen, of Manchester, may take the
name of Sarah Forster Tappau Ambros Martin, Jun., of Salem, fnay take the name of Albert Ambros Martin ; Adoniram
Weutworth, of Lynn, may take the name of George Wentwortli
Sally Hooper Tappan, 2d, of Manchester, may take the name
of Sarah Hooper Tappan
Henry Edmand Tiicomb, minor son
of Sarah L. Titcomb, of Nevvbury|)ort, may take the name of
Henry Titcomb ; William Merrill, Jun., minor son of William
J. Merrill, of Amesbury, may take the name of William Thomas
Merrill
Mary Hood, of Georgetown, may take the name of
Mary Elizabeth Hood ; Silas Ross, of Georgetown, may take
the name of Silas Gushing Everett
William Bachellor and Rebecca Carleton Bachellor, wife of said William, and George
Kendall Bachellor, all of Georgetown, may severally take the
name of William Kendall, Rebecca Carleton Kendall, and
George Kendall .John Evans, 3d, of Newburyport, may take
the name of Ferdinand Evans ; Humphrey Green, of Lynn,
may lake the name of Otis Humphrey Green William Lovett
Copelatid, of Haverhill, may take the name of William McClary
Holman Copeland ; Ferren A. Fenwood, of Danvers, may take
the name of Irville Leslie ; Elbridge Mansfield, of Lynn, may
take the name of Elbridge Gerry Mansfield ; Joseph Whitvvorth
Roberts Millet, of Lynn, may take the name of Joseph Millet ;
Olivia Kinsman Staple, daughter of Mark and Elizabeth S. Staple, of Lynn, may take the name of Lois Atkinson Staple ;
W^illiain C. W. Quimby, of Salisbury, may take the name of
William Currier Lydia McFarland, of Salem, may take the
name of Lydia Farland Thomas Lefavour, 4ih, minor son of
Thomas Lefavour, of Beverly, may take the name of Thomas
Augustus Lefavour ; Abigail Parsons, of Ipswich, may take the
name of Caroline Augusta Parsons Martha Steele Lord, minor
daughter of Levi Lord, of Ipswich, may take the name of Martha Ann Lord ; Joseph Lord, of Ipswich, may take the name
of Joseph Harrison Lord ; Joseph Bird, of Salem, may take
the name of .Toseph Stephen Mason
Lncinda Jane Phillips, of
Lynn, may take the name of Laura Ann Rodman Sylvester P.
Flint, of Lynn, may take the name of Charles P. Flint ; Abigail
C. Jackson, of Beverly, may take the name of Abigail Carrico
Boardman Adeline Smith Richards, minor daughter of Hix
Richards, of Danvers, may take the name of Martha Smith
Richards ; James Grimes and Caroline Grimes, wife of the said
James Grimes, and Area Grimes, all of Haverhill, may severally
take the name of James W. Graham, Caroline Graham, and
Area S. Graham William P. Brega, of Salem, may take the
name of William Brega Davis Lois Parsons Stone, minor daughter of Jacob Stone, of Newbury, may take the name of Louisa
Parsons Stone
Josiah Thing, Jun., of Newburyport, may take
the name of Josiah Bradlee ; his wife Eliza may take the name
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388
-Chap. 109.
1841.-
of Eliza Bradlee ; their children, Paul Bailey, Charles AugusJosiah Warren, James Henry, George William, Lucy
Ann, Mfiria Jane, and Caroline Louisa, may severally take the
name of J'aul Biiiley Bradlee, Charles Augustus Bradlee, Warren Bradlee, James Henry Bradlee, George William Bradlee,
Lucy Ann Bradlee, Maria Jane Bradlee, and Caroline Louisa
Bradlee ; Francis Henley Osgood, minor son of Joseph Osgood, of Haverhill, may take the name of John Francis FulMajor Brown, of
jingion ;
all
of the county of Essex.
Worcester, may take the name of Henry Brown ; Orrin Slayton, of Biookfield, may take the name of John Slayton ; William Henry Darling, an adopted child of John G. Woodward,
of Ashhurnham, may take the name of William Henry Woodward
Waller Sihiey, of Spencer, may take the name of WalLivermore Sibi y ; Olive Brewer, minor daughter of
ter
Thomas Brewer, of Boylston, may take the name of Lucy Ann
Brewer Danii-l Carter, 2d, of Berlin, may take the name of
Daniel Henry Carter ; Emeline Chapin Willard, of Uxbridge,
may take the nanie of Emma Chapin Willard ; Zeruiah Whitcomb, of Bolton, may take the name of Louisa Frances Whitcomb Daniel F. Mason, of Petersham, may take the name of
Daniel Mason Fales ; Alonzo Hoar, of Bolton, may take the
name of Henry Lincoln George Hoar, of Bolton, may take
the name of Geory;e Lincoln ; George Green, a minor, and
an adopted son of Francis W. Maynard, of Oakharn, may take
the name of George Francis Maynard ; Leonard Kenney, of
tus,
— Worcester,
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Spencer, n)ay take the name ol' Leonard Knights
James
Hollingworih, of Soulhbridge, may take the name of James
Milton Hollingworih
Jonah S. Bancroft, of Auburn, minor
son of Peter M. Bancroft, of Worcester, may take the name of
Charles S. Bancroft
Barnabas Stiles, of Shrewsbury, may
lake the name of Alonzo Stiles
Windsor Rice, of Warren,
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name of Windsor Drewry Theodore Lyman
AVashburn, of Warren, may take the name of Theodore Lyman,
and Clarissa Washburn, his wife, may take the name of Clarissa
Lyman Julia Cheney, of Milford, may take tbe name of Julia
JNelson
all of the county of Worcester.
Patrick McElroy,
of Charlestown, may take the name of Charles McEhoy
Angeline C. Hatch, of Lowell, may t.ike the name of Angelinc C.
Brown
Claiissa Page, of Lowell, may take the name of
Clarissa Hatch
Samuel Chi|)man, .Jr., of Marlborough, may
take the name of Samuel Adams Chipman
Alcimus Fairbanks, of Marlborough, may take the name of George Fairbanks
Joseph S. Trowbridge, of Marlborough, may take the
name of Joseph S. Bradley Lucy Minerva Stearns Preston,
of Bedford, may take the name of Lucy Minerva Stearns, and
her minor son, G(>orge Warren I'resion, may take tlie name of
may
take
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—Middlesex.
the
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Slicrnijin
iel
Siearns l^iesion
;
Mead Edward Clary,
Edward Warren Clarey
ren
Oliver
Meail, minor son of JN'adian-
Mmid, of Boxborough, may take
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;
the
of Lowell,
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all
of
the
name of
may take
Warname of
Oliver
the
county of Middlesex.
389
Chap. 109.
1841.
Edward L. Death, of Noriliampton, may take the name of
Edward L. Dexter Jeremiah liaiileit, of Ware, may lake the
name of .Jolin I5arileit Oliver Smiih, Jr., of Hadley, may take
the name of Oliver Eastman Smith
Jesse Holion, of NorthJoseph
ampton, may take the name of Jesse Duren Ilolion
Hoar Patrick, of Greenwich, may take the name of Joseph
—Hampshire.
Homer
—Hampden.
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Pati ick
Dra|)er, of
Graves
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of
all
the
may
Brimfield,
county
take
Sparrow Howes Bangs, of
name of Edward Dwiglit Bangs
Westfield, formerly of
;
all of the
Sunderland, may lake
Emerson INIerrifield, of
Lonsdale
of
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;
Han)p3hire.
of Charles
name
the
Ellis
Cole
may take the
McLehose, of
name of William
George Field, of
S[)ringfield,
William C.
Scotland, may lake the
county of ijampden.
—Franklin.
name of George Kochester Field
Shelburne, may lake the name ol George
Emerson Merrilield Benjamin Montague, of Shelburne, may
Bushrod
take the nan)e of Benjan)iii Franklin Montague
Washington Johnson, of Orange, may lake the name of George
Washington Johnson
Harriet Wood Gage, of New Salem,
may take the name of Harriet Wood Sanderson, and her
minor son, Matthew Wood Gage, may take the name of
Matthew Wood Sanderson Caltib Cooley Wells, of Whately,
may take the name of ClifTord Carlton Wells John Guilford, 2d,
of Ashfield, n)ay take the name of Charles Samuel Guilford
Dickman Rowe, of Ashfield, may take the name of William
Bartholomew
all
of the county of Franklin.
Henry Rowe
Chapman, of Stockbridge, may take the name of George Chapman, and Sarah Sophia Shelden, of Adams, a minor, and an
adopted child of Harvey Arnold, may take the name of Sarah
the
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—Berkshire,
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Pepperill —Norfolk.
both of the county of Berkshire.
Sophia Arnold
Frost Scammon, of Canton, may take the name of John Frost
Scanwnon ; Zejjhaniah Spurr Williams, a minor son of Joshua
Howard Williams, of Roxbury, may take the name of Howard
Spurr Williams Joseph Maynard, Jr., of Needham, may take
;
;
Lucy Campbell Lillie,
name of Joseph Warren Maynard
minor daughter of John Lillie, of Milton, may take the name of
tiie
;
Elizabeth Baker Lillie ; William E Ayers, of Dedham, may
all of the county of
take the name of W'illiam E. Andrew ;
Elizabeth Ann Endley, of New Bedford, in the
Norfolk.
county of Bristol, may take t!ie name of Elizabeih Endley
James Ligham, minor son of Mary Otis, of Siiluale,
Gibbs.
may take the name of James Otis ; Thomas G. Drinkwater, of
Abington, may take the name of George Thomas ; Zilpha
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Stetson Rogers, of Hanover, may lake the name of Zilpha
Stetson ; Cyrus Dyer, of Abington, may take the natne of
Cyrus Aurelius Dyer Dolly Wood Savary, of North Bridgeall of the
water, may take the name of Ellen Maria Savary
county of Plvmoiiih.
Edwin Keiih, of Sandwich, may take
.Fonatlian French Bakfr,
the name of Edwin Aberdeen Keith
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minor son of Isaac Baker, of Welifieet, may take the name of
Edward Whilden, Jr., of Yarmouth, may
Isaac French Baker
of
all of the county
take the name of Silvanus Whilden ;
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Brisiol.
— riymoaih.
—BarnsiaWe.
Chap. 109—110.
1841.
390
—and Nan-
Moses Barnard, of Nantucket, may lake the name
Barnard
and Rebecca R. Eldridge, of Nanmay take the name of Heromine Angeline Melville, both
Barnstable.
"•^ket.
^j.
jyj^^g^
tucket,
j_
;
And the several persons before
of the county of Nantucket.
mentioned, from and after the passing of this Act, shall be known
and called by the names which by this Act they are respectively
allowed to assume as aforesaid, and the same shall hereafter be
[Jlpproved by
considered as their only proper and legal names.
Governor, March 17, 1841.]
the
An Act
CAflJ&llO.
*
for
establisliing
Hampden, Frankhn and
'
a House of Correclion
the counties of Hampshire,
for
Berkshire.
BE
Provision for
bu^kiin" *''^&c*!
by anyu'irec of
count^es'^^'*
Senate and House of Representatives,
it enacted by the
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows :
Sect. 1, There shall be established at the charge of the
counties of Hampshire, Hampden, Franklin and Berkshire, or
of any three of them which shall unite as is hereinafter provided,
house of correction, with all necessary and
fit and convenient
suitable grounds, yards, workshops and other acconirnodaiions, at
a
of said counties as shall be designated in the
and such house of correction and its
;
appurtenances shall be the property of, and dedicated to the use
of said counties, or of any three of them, which shall unite in the
manner hereinafter provided and said house and appurtenances
shall be deemed in law the house of correction for each of said
counties which shall so unite for accomplishing the several ob-
such place
manner
in either
hereinafter provided
;
jects and purposes set forth in the one hundred and
Application of
ch^V^SR.s.
Appointment
of overseers,
forty-third
chapter of the Revised Statutes.
Sect. 2. The said house of correction, and all officers, inn^^tes and other persons having any connexion therewith, shall be
subject to all the provisions of the said one hundred and fortythird chapter, relating to houses of correction, so far as the same
may be applicable thereto, except as is herein otherwise provided.
Sect. 3. One Suitable and discreet person sluill be appointed
j^y (|,(j respective Commissioners of each of said counties which
shall so unite, which persons so appointed shall be the overseers
of said house of correction, with all the powers and privileges,
and subject to all the duties and liabilities, set forth in said one
hundred and forty-third chapter, in relation to overseers of houses
the several counties of the Commonwealth, other
and each of said overseers shall hold his office during the pleasure of the commissioners of the county for which he
was appointed.
ConcerningapSect. 4. The said oversccrs shall appoint a suitable person
^
poiuimeniofa
r-ii
r
to be the master o\ said house ol correction, with the same powmaster—
ers as the masters of other houses of correction in this Commonwealth, and said master shall hold his office during the pleasure of
—rules, rpsfus;)j(j ovetscers
and theysh:ill also make and ordain all such rules
laiioiis, 6i.c.
and orders in relation to said house of correction, its officers, inmates and other persons, as the commissioners of the several
of correction
than Suffolk
in
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