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Winnacunnet is allowed to be a town, & hath power to choose a constable & other officers, & make orders for the well ordering of their town, & to send a deputy to the court; & Christopher Hussey, William Palmer, & Richard Swaine [are authorized] to end all business under 20 shillings for this year. The laying out of land to be by those expressed in the former order. MGC
Abraham Perkins was an early constable (January 1641); John Moulton was the first deputy to the General Court (September 1639); the first slate of selectmen for which there is a record was voted in 1644. The three men mentioned above were called Commissioners for Small Causes. They acted as Judges for small legal matters at the local level.
