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From: "Cynthia " <>
Subject: [VTWINDSO] Re: [CRV] What are the duties of Tythingmen ?.......I wouldnt want the job
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:41:48 -0500

The Power and Duty of Tythingmen

" 1. Tythingmen have power and it's their duty to carefully inspect all
licensed houses, and
to inform of all disorders or misdemeanors which they shall discover or
know to be committed
in them, to a justice of the peace or to the General Sessions of the county;
and also of all such as shall
sell spirituous liquours without license."
"2. They shall also inform of all idle and disorderly persons, profance
swearers, and the like
offenders, to the end they may be punished"
"3. They may enter into any of the rooms or other parts of an inn or
pubic house of
entertainment, on the Lord's Day, and the evening preceding and succeeding.
[ if any
landlord or licensed pershon refuse such enterance he forfeits 40s ]
"4. They may examine all persons whom they shall have good cause, from
the circumstance
thereof, to suspect of unnecessary traveling on said day and to demand of
all such persons
the cause thereof, together with their names and place of abode"
"5. They are held and obliged by law to enquire into, and inform of all
offences against the act
providing for the due observation of the Lord's Day, passed March 8,1792.
The substance of which
act is as follows, viz.
a) That no person shall keep open his shop. warehouse, or workhouse, nor
shall upon
the land or water do any manner of labour, business, or work .[works of
necessity and charity only
excepted] nor be present at any concert of music, dancing, or any public
diversion, shew, or entertainment, nor use any sport, game, play or
recreation.
b) That no traveller, drover, waggoner, teamster, or any of their
servants, shall travel on
the Lord's Day
c) That no vinter, retailer of strong liquors, or innholder or other
person keeping a house of
public entertainement shall entertain, or suffer any of the inhabitants of
the town...not
being travellors[sic] , strangers, or lodgers in such houses, to abide and
remain in their houses,
yards, orchards, or fields, drinking or spending their time either idly or
at play, or doing
any secular business on the Lord's Day.
d) That no person shall be present at any concert of music, dancing, or
other public
diversion, nor shall any person or persons use any game, sport, play, or
recreation, on the land
or water, on the evening preceding or succeeding the Lord's day.
e) That any person being of able body, and not otherwise necessarly
prevented, who shall, for the space of 3 months together, absent him or
herself from the public worship of God on the
Lord's Day, providing there be any place of worship at which he or she can
conscientiously
and conveniently attend, shall pay a fine of 10s.
f)That if any person shall on the Lords Day, within the walls of any
house of public worship,
behave rudely or indecently, he or she shall pay a fine not more than 40s,
nor less than 5s.
g) That if any person either on the Lord's Day, or at any other time,
shall wilfully interrrupt or
disturb, any assembly of people met for the public worship of God, within
their place of their
assembly or out of it, he or they shall severally pay a fine not exveeding
10 pounds, no less
than 20s
h) That no person shall execute any civil process from midnight
preceding to midnight
following the Lord's Day"
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Source: Digging for Genealogical Treasure in New England town records; Ann
S.Lainhart

Cynthia
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> Anyone know what these men did?
> > 1719. Seven persons were chosen tything-men ; and, by the act of March
3,
> 1694, they were to be fined 40s. each if they refused to serve. They were
to
> carry a black staff two feet long, with one end tipped with brass.
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