Some interesting info sent to me. Found while researching the files of the Franconia Heritage Museum: At a Franconia Town Meeting Feb. 6, 1837, a Vigilance Committee was appointed to discourage proponents of abolition of slavery. Agitation on both sides of the issue had led to violence, and the Board of Selectmen wanted to " put a stop to agitating the subject in our town and for this purpose recommend to all to abstain from meeting with the abolitionists to discuss the subject of slavery." The first resolution read: Resolved, that we disapprove of agitating the subject of slavery in the now slaveholding states as having a tendency to excite the passion, breed ill will in neighborhoods--break up all society and scatter the seeds of disunion and rebellion in our happy country. Resolution 2nd That we will use our utmost exertions to put a stop to agitating the subject in our town and for this purpose recommend to all to abstain from meeting with the abolitionists to disuses the subject of slavery. Dr. John Calvin Colby, then a practicing physician in Franconia, was one of 18 men appointed. He is the only one who declined to serve. William Colby to serve Thomas Colby to serve