1777-08-05th
At a meeting of the Selectmen August 5 1777.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Mr. Isaac Thorndike £ 5.2.3 for the following particulars viz.
for warning of 2 Town Meetings 0-6-0
for a [illegible] in his list 1-0-0
for abatement of the following taxes in his list viz.
Isaac Chapman 3/11 died in the Army
Jonathan Kant 2/8 moved out of town
one Knowlton’s ditto 12/11 not belonging to Town
Nathaniel Presson 12/7 died in the Army
Joseph Pierce 16/7 extreme poor
John Williams 3/10 extreme poor
William Waddle 11/11 died in the Army
Ammi Knowlton 1/10 highway tax he soldiering
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Francis Smith twenty-nine shillings and eight pence 15/4 for Mr.
[illegible] a coffin and 14/44 Bradshaw’s coffin they dying with the small pox.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. Josiah Batchelder Jr. ten pounds fourteen shillings and
ten pence.
-8-0 for two bushels of corn for Miss Hales.
1-2-5 for hours & expense into Watertown for Seacoast men etc..
4-13-4 for 2186 feet of plank board measure for the fort at Hovey’s.
0-18-4 for 5 wt. of cotton wool for clothing for John Martin.
3-0-0 for 1000 boards for barracks at the fort.
12-10 for 400 refuse boards for ditto.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Mr. Robert Dodge 191-13/8 of said some for abatement of his
son’s poll tax not of age and the rest for [illegible]
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Mr. [illegible] William Hazeltine three pounds nine shillings and
four pence for the following abatements in his list viz.
1-0-0 Ezra Ellinwood rates turned Tory.
-11-11 Robert Pickett extreme poor.
1-3-6 James Patch 2nd died in the Army.
0-12-11 4 Ebenezer Morse extreme poor.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Hannah Elliott eight shillings in full for house rent for
Benjamin Pickett till 3rd instant.
I, the subscriber, do hereby covenant, promise and agree to and with the Selectmen of Beverly
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to keep a grammar school in said Town for the Term of three months commencing on the 24 of
Sept. last for the sum of twenty-four pounds,
As witness my hand.
Beverly Oct. 7th 1777.
Henry Herrick Jr.