February 25, 1860 Canton, Maine, document where Selectmen Hiram A. Ellis and Elkanah Leonard direct Town Treasurer C. M. Holland to pay John Hearsey $1.50 for "Surveying Route for town way" for the present year.
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Paper scrap; minimal handwriting on the reverse.
These men were presumably:
- Hiram Augustus Ellis (1826-1904), Selectman
- Elkanah L. Leonard (abt 1800-1869), Selectman of Canton, Maine
- Cornelius M. Holland (1822-1902) or possibly his father Cornelius Holland (1783-1870), Town Treasurer
- John Hearsey (1795-1870), Payee
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