This meeting assembled at the house of Isaac Wheeler, Esq., on the 31st day of August, 1811. Its main purpose was to consider the question of schools.

Thomas Gilpatrick was chosen moderator, and Dr. James Parker, clerk. A committee of three, embracing Joseph Garland, Justus H. Harriman and William Blaisdell, was chosen to divide the town into school districts with instructions to report at the next town meeting of the town.

It was voted that the method of warning town meetings should be written notification, and that said notification be set up at some place at least seven days previous to said meeting, except in some extraordinary case of emergency. In such case the method should be left to the discretion of the selectmen. The last provision of this vote is significant as showing that ominous shadows of an impending national conflict were hanging over those homes in the forest, and that the purpose of the inhabitants was to hold themselves in readiness to respond to the call of their country with patriotic promptitude, come when it might.