1775-03-29th
At a meeting of the Selectmen March 29 1775.
I, the Subscriber, do hereby covenant, promise and agree to and with the Selectmen as
Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Beverly to keep and maintain Martha Thissell a person under
their care the full term of one-year commencing on the seventh day of April next and for to find and
provide for the said Martha good and sufficient apparel, meat, drink, washing and lodging both in
sickness and in health the whole of said term and at the expiration of said term to remove her to such
place as the Selectmen shall appoint and as well clothed as I received her, doctors and nurses always
excepted, for and in consideration of receiving the sum of five pounds thirteen shillings and four
pence to be paid in the yearly annuities that are given to the said Martha by her father in his last will
and testament at cash price at or before the expiration of said term. I also agreed to allow forty
shillings of the said sum for the use and improvement of the said Martha’s cow the ensuing year they
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to find keeping for this same. As witness my hand this 29 day of March 1775.Jonathan
Harris.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. Joshua Cleaves 7/ five shillings of said sum for a poll
taxed to him in [illegible] more than he had and 2/ for sundries done for George Leech’s clothes in
1773.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Dea. Robert Roundy 6/10 for beef for William Hale’s, delivered
by order of the Selectmen.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Lieut. Peter Shaw 5/7 for abatement of Samuel Herrick’s poll
for [illegible] who died abroad about the time that the tax was made.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Mr. William Woodberry 2d two pounds ten shillings and seven
pence for keeping, boarding, nursing and taking care of Hope Beadle and child she lay in at his house
as per his acct. She being a person belonging to the Province of New Hampshire.