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- The earliest record of a town meeting in Bristol, is that of 1797. In that year, William Gooding was chosen Supervisor, and John Codding, Town Clerk. Other town officers: -- Fauner Codding, Nathan Allen, Nathaniel Fisher, James Gooding, Jabez Hicks, Moses Porter, Amos Barber, Alden Sears, jr., George Codding, Stephen Sisson, Amos Rice, Ephraim Wilder, Nathan Hatch, Peter Ganyard, Ehizur Hills, Theophilus Allen, Elnathan Gooding, John Simmons. Other citizens of the town in that year, were -- Daniel Burt, Moses Porter, Jonathan Wilder, Theophilus Allen, Elnathan Gooding, Chauncey Allen, Samuel Mallory, Ephraim Francis, Seth Hathaway, Constant Simmons, James Carl, Zebulon Mark.
-- From pgs 208-9 of Orsamus Turner's 1851 History of Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase, Part Third; found 26 Jan 2005, at url: http://olivercowdery.com/texts/1851Trn3.htm
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