1777-11-07th
At a meeting of the Selectmen Novbr. 7 1777.
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Ordered a town meeting should be warned and held on Monday the 17 instant at the usual place for
holding town meetings in said town at two o’clock afternoon.
1ly. To see what measures the Town will come into for making provisions for the families of the
noncommissioned officers and private soldiers in this Town that have enlisted into the
Continental Army may be supplied with necessaries as their circumstances may require.
Agreeable to a resolve of the Great and General Court and act anything relative thereto as
they in their wisdom shall judge most reasonable
2ly. To see if the Town will give any bounty to such soldiers as have or shall enlist into the
Continental Army for three years & since the last May meeting the time for giving bounty
then expiring.
3ly. To see if the Town will reconsider their vote passed on the 10th of February last relative to
having the monies granted to be raised for the payment of the bounties of the soldiers levied
as in said vote prescribed on the ratably of the 1776 and pass a vote that the whole of said
monies shall in like manner shall be assessed on the ratably of said town that shall arise or may
be within the same agreeable to the tax account for 1777. And act anything relative thereto
as they shall think necessary.
4ly. To choose some person to serve as a Constable in the room of Richard Obear Jr. he refusing to
serve bound to sea.
And there was a warrant issued out to Constable Josiah Obear to warn the same accordingly.
Attest Joseph Wood, T. Clerk.