1776-02-27th
At a meeting of the Selectmen Feb. 27 1776.
They ordered a Town meeting to be called, warned and held on the eleventh day of March next at ten
o’clock forenoon at the stated place for holding of Town meetings in said Town for to act on the
following particulars viz..
1ly. To choose Town officers for the year ensuing.
2ly. To choose a Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety for the year ensuing
agreeable to the Resolves of the Great and General Court etc..
3ly. To choose a County Treasurer and County Register of Deed took s etc.
4ly. To see if the Town will mend their Highways the year ensuing by a tax on the polls and estates
of its inhabitants and determine what some of money they will grant to be raised on the same for that
purpose.
5ly. To see if the Town will give Liberty for their swine to go at-large the year ensuing being yoked
and ringed as the law directs.
6ly. To see if the Town will purchase any of those cannon that are now in their fort or possession
that are borrowed or any other cannon and act anything relative to purchasing or procuring of cannon
and ammunition for the defense and safety of the Town as they shall think most necessary and
expedient.
And there was a warrant a issued out to Constable William Hazeltine to warn the Freeholders and
other Inhabitants that are qualified by law to assemble and meet at the above said time and place etc.
by me per order of the Selectmen
Attest Joseph Wood, Town Clerk.
£...s...d
To over plus of the Province Tax in Constable Joseph Woodberry’s list for 1774.1...0...0
To one list of Town assessment committee
To Constable William Sears to collect58...12...4...2
To one ditto committee to Isaac Thorndike72...1...2
To one ditto committee and to Constable Nathaniel Creesy to collect81...3...9
To one ditto committee to Constable William Hazeltine to collect186..10..3
To over plus of the Province Tax which said Hazeltine has to pay16...2...1
To an act against Retire Trask for the improvements of Draper’s Point Landing for
1775.0...4...0
To ditto against Benjamin Creesy for the rent of Frost Fish Brook Landing for
1775.0...3...0
To one barrel of pork received of Capt. James Lovett of the Town.
To rum received at said Lovett’s of dittos.
To bread and cheese received at said Lovett’s.
To a balance due to the last adjustment.25...7...10
To cash received of the Constables for 1774 since the last adjustment.109...5...9
By cash received of the Colony Treasurer for purchasing of ammunition etc..006...0...0
To rocks had when surveyor for [illegible]
To cash received of Dea. Wallis for school house rent for 1774.000...16...0
To 12 gallons of rum of the Town and barrel.001...3..4
To arrears in the Constable hands for 1774.24...13...1
£ 583..18.7 ½
To one note of hand from Benjamin Leech and others for the rent of a Grammar
School House.16...0