1778-04-08th
At a meeting of the Selectmen April 81778.
I, the Subscriber, do hereby covenant, promise and agree to and with the Selectmen of the
Town of Beverly to keep and maintain Molley, a poor child of Susanna Ellinwood under their care
the full term of one-year commencing on the seventh instant and find and provide for her good and
sufficient apparel, meat, drink, washing and lodging and nursing, except in case of sickness, and
doctors bill excepted, 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 for the sum of eighteen
pounds four shillings to be paid one half of it at the expiration of the first six months and the rest at
the year’s end, as witness my hand
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Beverly April 8 1778.