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Chap. 134—135.
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preceding
Sect. 10.
The provisions contained in the four preced- Four
sections, whea
ing sections (other than that giving power to hold the shares to lake effect.
in the company or companies between the north hne of this
state and the east viUage of Braitleboro',) shaU not take
effect until the legislature or legislatures of the state or
states in which said road shall be located shall pass an act
or acts containing similar provisions, nor until said provisions shall have been accepted by the stockholders of said
respective corporations, at legal meetings held for that pur-
pose.
Sect. II.
The said corporation may enter with their May enter upoa
rail-road upon the Fitchburg Rail-road at any convenient and use the
Fiichliurs
point in the town of Fitchburg, and use the same, or any Rail-road, pro-
part thereof, paying therefor such rate of toll or compensa- vided, &c.
as the legislature may from time to time prescribe, or
that may be fixed under the provisions of any general law
of this Commonwealth, complying with the rules and regulations which may be established by said Fitchburg Railroad Company provided, however, that said Vermont and
Massachusetts Rail-road Corporation shall not enter upon
said Fitchburg Rail-road with any moti'/e povver, unless
said Fitchburg Rail-road Company shall refuse to draw
over their road, or some part thereof, the cars of said Vermont and Massachusetts Rail-road Company.
Sect. 12.
This act shall take effect from and after its When to take
effect.
passage.
[Approved by the Governor, March 15, 1844.]
tion
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An Act
to
change the names of the Persons therein mentioned.
Chap 135.
BE
it eno.cted by the Senate and House of Representain General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :
Benjamin Gilbert, a minor, may take the name of Benjamin Williams Gilbert; An)aziah Atwood, Jr. may take
the name of Francis Amaziah Atwood; Charles Parker
may take the name of Charles Sargent Parker; John Mason may take the name of John Warren Mason Rebecca
Locke may take the name of Louisa Rebecca Locke James
Colbert may take the name of Caleb Colbert Mortimer;
Ruthy Low Colbert may take the name of Sarah Lynch
Mortimer Caleb Cushing Woodman may take the name of
Caleb Cushing Emerson Alortimer William Storer Wormwood may take the name of William Storer; Jonathan
Kimball Rogers may take the name of John Kimball Rogers vMphonso Horatio Foster may take the name of Franklin Henry Foster; Louisa Cody Palmer, a minor, may take
the name of Louisa Caldwell Palmer; Prince Fdward
Nichols may take the name of Ferdinand Almy Nichols;
Francis Moore may take the name of Francis Clifford
Moore; Charles Augustus Bartlett may take the name of
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Charles Augustus Bartlelt Monroe Dominiciis Scammans
Lewis may take the name of Alfred Scammons Lewis;
Jonathan Ligersol Kendall may take the name of Henry
Ingersol Kendall
JVlary Donghty may take the name of
Mary Jane Cutter; Jeremiah JJean Monlton may take the
name of Charles Bean Monlton; Richard Hazen Fiiz may
take the name of Richard Hazen Wellington; William
Pynchon Oliver may take the name of Peter Oliver;
Ephraim N. Buyn may take the name of Ephraim N.
Bowen Sarah Livermore Coburn, a minor, may take the
name of Anna Livermore Coburn Charles Appleton EurBenjamin
zeil may take the name of Charles Appleton
Franklin Cowdin,a minor, may take the name of Franklin
Cowdin Merriam; Sarah Robbins Whitehouse may take
the name of Adelaide Austin
William Henry Cowen, a
minor, may take the name of Eleazer Porter Wells Charles
Holbrook may take the name of Charles Augustus Holbrook Eunice Fellows may take the name of Eunice Caroline Fellows
Joseph Wood Whiting may take the name
of Joseph Whiting Wood Sarah Starr Lombard may take
Harriet Morton
the name of Emily Livingi.ton Lombard
Bull may take the name of Harriet Morton Lawrence
Samuel Gooch may take the name of Samuel Henfield
Gooch, severally of the city of Boston; Edmund Bowkcr,
of Chelsea, may take the name of Jacob Henry Bowker,
all of the county of Suffolk.
John Lewis Rowe, of Gloucester, may take the name of Lewis Rowe; Moses Marsh,
2d, of Haverhill, may take the name of Moses Chandler
Marsh
Proctor Perley Batchelor, of Georgetown, may
take the name of Morrison Proctor; Joseph Bradley, 3d,
of Haverhill, may take the nnme of Joseph Hildreth Bradley; Judith Bray, of Newbury, may take the name of
Maria Bray Ann Maria Bean, a minor, of Hamilton, may
take the name of Eliza Symonds Patch; Sewall Barrett, a
minor, of Lynn, may take the name of Nicholas Bowler
John Tarbox Kimball, a minor, of Methuen, may take the
name of John Tarbox; Christian Nelson, of Salem, may
take the name of Charles Nelson George Washington
Cook, a minor, of Salem, may take the name of George
Washington Emerson; Gustavus Nourse, of Lynn, may
take the name of Gustavus Frelingliuysen Nourse Isaac
Burley Horn, of Topsfield, may take the name of Burley
Orne William Groves Millett, a minor, of Beverly, may
take the name of William Groves; Jonathan Rundlett, Jr.
of Newburyport, may take the name of Jonathan D. Rundlett; James Smith may take the name of James Albert
Smith; Edward H. Brooks may take the name of John
Brooks Edwards; Stephen Phippen Hill may take the
name of Stephen Prescott Hill, severally of Salem; Eliza
and Lucy Townsend, minors, of Lynn, may take the
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names of Eliza Malvina and Lucy Maria Townsend Valeria Pew, a minor of Gloucester, may take the name of
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Pew; John Jumper, of Gloncester, may take the
Sereneth Chamberlain
of John Edward Mason
Goodrich, a minor of Aiidover, may take the name of Mary
JMary
name
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Elizabeth French Henry French Goodrich, a minor of
may take the name of Peter Henry French John
Hamilton Brown, of Lynn, may take the name of Hamilton
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Brown; John Boardman Cheney, of Georgetown, may
name of John Oseola Brown Michael Milkiey, of
Dauvers, a minor, may take the name of Warren Emerson
Harriet Newell Brookings, of Newbnry, may take
the name of Harriet Newell Bartlett
Hadassah Chase
Bragdon, of Newbury, may take the name of FMeu Chase
Bragdon Lucy Maria Cloutman. a minor of liynn, may
take the name of Lucy Maria V\ neelcr Abigail M. Hall,
may take the name of Abigail Barton and her children,
Mary S. Hall. Abby M. Hall, Susan C. Hall, Frances E.
Hall, Emily F. Hall and Maria B. Hall, of Salisbury,
may severally take the surname of Barton Daniel
take the
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Adams Emes may take the name of Daniel Adams
Ames; Lura Emes may take the name of Lura Ames;
Lovey Emes may take the name of Lovey A. Ames
Martlia Emes may take the name of Martha Sabrina
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Ames, severally of Saugus, all of the county of Essex.
Sally Prescott, of Groton, may take the name of Phidelia
Prescott
Lucretia Barnes of Marlborough, may take the
name of Lucretia Felton; Samuel Bowman Nelson, of
Waltham, may take the name of Samuel Nelson Richard
Stone, of Sherburne, may take the name of Richard Cecil
Stone; Earl H. Southwick, of Marlborough, may take the
name of George Houghton; Huldah Copeland Tribon, of
Cambridge, may take the name of Amelia Copeland Tribon David Porter Fuller, a minor of Natick, may take
John Richard C. Brown, of
the name of David F. Fiske
Charlestown, may take the name of John C. Brown S.
W. Palmer, of Newton, may take the name of Hazlitt
Arvine; Mary A. Palmer, of Newton, may take the name
of Mary A. Arvine; Charlotte Reed Gipson, of Burlington, may take the name of Charlotte Louisa Reed
Ingebor Janson, a minor of Lowell, may take the name of
Ingebor Janson Anderson
Clarissa Coburn, of Dracut,
may take the name of Clarissa Fox; Edward Richardson,
of Dracut, may take the name of Edward Everett Richardson
Andrew Blanchard, 3d, a minor of Medford, may
take the name of Andrew Delaval Blanchard; Benjamin
Thorp Henderson, of Woburn, may take the name of Benjamin Thorp Henderson Porter; James Russell JMac Curdy,
of South Reading, may take the name of James Russell;
Benjamin F. Brcding, of Cambridge, may take the name
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of Benjamin F. Bridden
Patrick Frederick Hewes, of
Groton, may take the name of William Frederick Hewes;
Clara Fiink, of Lowell, may take the name of Clara Wilson; Elizabeth Fletcher Henderson, of Littleton, may take
the name of Elizabeth Fletcher Grimes; Rebecca Grimes
Henderson, her daughter, may take the name of Rebecca
Whitcomb Grimes Polly M. Woodcock, of Lowell, may
take the name of Mary M. Wood; Thomas Womersley Melbon, of Lowell, may take the name of Thomas Womersley
Barzillai Birdet Williams, of Groton, may take the
name of John Birdet Williams, all of the connty of Middlesex.
Sarah Rebecca Fletcher, a minor of Leominster,
may take the name of Sarah Rebecca Adams Thomas
Smith, of Sterling, may take the name of George Richard
Smith Dorothy Allen, of Leominster, may take the name
of Dorothy Helen Allen; Miranda Hey wood, of Lunenbnrg, may take the name of Miranda Priest Heywood
Lois Brigham Nourse, a minor of Northborough, may take
Lydia Wallis Mclnthe name of Lonisa Brigham Nourse
tire, of Charlton, may take the name of Vanda I^ydia
Wallis Kilburn William H. Carlton, of Sutton, may take
Benjamin David Perkins,
the name of Augustus Carlton
a minor, of Royalston, may take the name of Benjamin
Conant Perkins; Mary Elizabeth Florence, a minor, of
Northborough, may take the name of Mary Arravilla Carter
John Cotton, a minor, of Leominster, may take the
name of John Atwood Cotton Thomas Brewer, 2d, of
Boylston, may take the name of Leander Watson Brewer;
Sarah Elizabeth Flagg, a minor, of Boylston, may take
the name of Sarah Theresa Flagg Asa Goodnow Howe,
of Northborough, may take the name of John Calhoun
Howe; Charles Albert Babbitt, of Athol, may take the
name of Charles Babbitt Albert; Alexander Hamilton, of
all
Worcester, may take the name of Edward Hamilton,
Mary Ingram, of Amherst,
of the county of Worcester.
may take the name of Mary Boltwood Ingram; Abigail
Davis, of Granby, may take the name of Abby Martha
Davis; Abner Witt and Eliza T. Witt, minors, of South
Hadley, may take the names of Abner DeWitt and Eliza
T. DeWitt; Milton Coates, of Middlefield, may take the
name of Milton Henry Coates; Franklin B. Leonard, of
JoMiddlefield, may take the name of Franklin B. Ely
seph William Strong may take the name of James William
Strong; Silas Cook may take of Silas Dwight Cook; Francis James Pepper may take the name of Francis James
Pepper Beaumont; Albert Ingram may take the name of
Ansel
severally of Northampton
Albert Barnes Ingram
Edwards Durant, of Westhampton, may take the name of
Ansel Edwards; Harriet Melvina Sears, a minor, of Williamsburgh, may take the name of Harriet Eliza Sears
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135.
David McClintock, of Ware, may take the name of David
Woods; Samuel Train, of Northampton, may take the
name of Orson Eafes Train Lyman Cook, a minor, of
Pclham, may take the name of Lyman Van Biiren Cook,
all of the county of Hampshire.
Sylva Bissel, a minor of
Ludlow, may take the name of Sylva B. Alden JMaria
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may take the name of
Thomas Ainsworth Wedge, may
Thomas Ainsworth Bradford Sophronia
wife, may take the name of Sophronia
Crosby, a minor, of Springfield,
Sarah Maria Crosby
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take the name of
Ruth Wege. his
Ruth Bradford
Sarah Adeline Wedge, their daughter,
may take the name of Sarah Adeline Bradford; Eliza Ann
Wedge, their daughter, may take the name of Eliza Ann
Bradford Thomas Waterman Wedge, their son, may take
the name of Thomas Waterman Bradford Lucy Mariah
Wedge, their daughter, may take the name of Lucy Mariah Bradford
Ellen Frances Wedge, their daughter, may
take the name of Ellen Frances Bradford, all of Brimfield
John Fostick, of Brimfield, may take the name of
John Lymam; Betsey M. Crooks, of Blandford, a minor,
may take the name of Betsey Crooks Morton Timothy
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Leary, of Springfield, may take the name of Theodore
Lyman, all of the county of Hampden. John Death and
Eunice Death, his wife, may take the names of John Dickinson, and Eunice Dickinson
Asahel G. Death, Jotham
P. Death, and Abel S. Death, their minor children, may
severally lake the surname of Dickinson
John G. Death
and Mary Ann Death, his wife, may take the surname of
Dickinson, all of Deerfield
Abby Craw, of Greenfield,
may take the name of Abigail Sawtell Nathaniel Macomber, 2d, of Shutesbiiry, may take the name of Nathaniel
Dwight Macomber; Charlotte P. Peabody, of Wendell,
may take the name of Charlotte P. Stone George W.
Hotchkiss. a minor, of Montague, may take the name of
George W. PufiTer; Frederick Ross, of Deerfield, may
take the name of Frederick Clapp Ross; William Harrison Hanks, a minor, of Shutesbury, may take the
name of William Hanks Spear; Jacob Quackenbush, of
Bernardston, may take the name of Jacob Bush all of the
county of Franklin. Thomas Crode Gushing, of Lenox,
may take the name of Edward Gushing, of the county of
Berkshire.
Martha Mary Worcester Curtis, a minor, of
Sioughton, may take the name of Martha Mary Crane
Worcester; Joseph S. Mutchmore, of Braintree, may take
the name of Joseph S. Pratt; Joseph Henry Jackson and his
wife, Susan Hatch Jackson, of Braintree, may take the
surname of Thayer, in addition to their present names;
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Sarah Adams, of Q,uincy, may take the name of Sarah
Hard wick Adams; Sally Wilkinson Lewis, of Walpole, may
take the name of Sarah Wilkinson Lewis; William Dudley
Berkshire,
Norfolk.
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Wells, of Roxbiiry, a minor, may take the name of George
William Wells, all of the county of Norfolk. Ann Elizabeth Nichols, of New Bedford, may take the name of Ann
Elizabeth Nichols Eddy; Caroline H. Jenney, of New Bedof the
ford, may take the name of Caroline Bartlett Hall,
county of Bristol. Mason McLauthlin may take the name
of Henry Mason; Hannah McLauthlui, his wife, may take
George Mason McLauthlin,
the name of Hanna'i Mason
their minor son, may take the name of George Mason, all
of Duxbury
Albert Torrey, a minor, of Scituate, may
take the name of Henry Albert Torrey Return Tilden, of
Marshfield, may take the name of Elliot Return Tilden
Jacob Stetson, of Abington, may take the name of Jacob
Shaw Merrill Whitmarsh, of East Bridgewater, may
all of the
take the name of Mary Livingston Whitmarsh,
county of Plymouth. Warren Fish Baker, of Falmouth,
may take the name of Henry Baker Nathaniel Hopkins,
a minor, of Truro, may take the name of Sylvanus Rich
Hopkins; John Cogswell, a minor, of Yarmouth, may take
Albert Dunbar,
the name of John Bear Doane Cogswell
jr., a minor, of Yarmouth, may take the name of Albert
Henry Dunbar; Daniel A. Rich, of Truro, a minor, may
take the name of Henry Holmes Rich; Horace C. Davis,
of Barnstable, a minor, may take the name of Daniel Davis,
all of the county of Barnstable.
And the several persons before 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 considered as their only
proper and legal names, [Approved by the Governor, March
1(3, 1844.]
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An Act
ChaplSe.
BE
porated.
Location of the
road.
Stoughton Branch Rail-road Company.
it enacted by the Senate and Honse of Representain General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as folloios :
Israel Tisdale, junior, Lyman Kingsley and
Sect. 1.
Martin Wales, their associates and successors, are hereby
made a corporation with all the powers and privileges, and
subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth
in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes, and in
thatpart of the thirty-ninth chapter of the said statutes, and
the statutes subsequently passed, relating to rail-road corporations.
Said company may construct a rail-road from
Sect. 2.
a point, at or near the depot of the Boston and Providence
Rail-road Corporation, in the town of Canton, and thence
running in a southeasterly direction to Taunton road, near
a stone dwelling-house belonging to the heirs of Elijah
Crane, deceased, thence crossing the Forge Pond, so called,
tives,
Persons incor-
to incorporate the