Proceedings On the Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary of the Permanent Settlem
Proceedings On the Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary of the Permanent Settlem
Weymouth Mass
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Chapman's MS. And see Records, 1st March, 1731. 7 50 how different from their children. They clung very close to authority, to tradition and to precedent. The conditions by which they were surrounded changed but slowly, and they themselves changed more slowly yet. What volumes, for instance, in this respect, are contained in this single fact : in 1651 the town, in six brief articles, defined the powers of its selectmen, and more than sixty years later, in 1712, 1 find the following entry in the... records : " Voted the Selectmen the same power they had granted in the year 1651. " J Again, to cite another example : Weymouth then, as now, had among its citizens a James Humphrey, and, under' date of March 12th, 1781, I find this entry: "Voted That the thanks of the Town be given to the Hou ble James Humphrey Esq r . For his faithful services as a selectman in the Town for more than forty years past. " Unlike so many of her sister towns, the Weymouth of to-day has never, even yet, learned enough of the science of true republican government to "rotate " its town officials.
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