1777-02-07At a meeting of the Selectmen February the 7th 1777 they ordered that a town meeting be warned
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and held on Monday the 10 day of February instant at 9 o’clock in the forenoon at the usual place
for holding Town Meetings in said Town.
To see if the Town will give any further encouragement or bounty beside what is already given by
Government to such soldiers that shall enlist into the Continental Army for three years or during the
war and determine how and in what way and manner said bounty and encouragement shall be
procured, assessed or raised and coming to such ways and methods for accomplishing the same as
they in their wisdom shall think best. And there was a warrant issued out to Livermore Whittridge
a Constable to warn verbally the Inhabitants of the First Parish in said Town and one other warrant
issued to Samuel Woodberry a Constable to verbally warn the Inhabitants of the Precinct of Salem
and Beverly within said Town agreeable to the above said order.
Attest Joseph Wood, T. Clerk.