1779-09-10th
At a Meeting of the Selectmen Sept. 10 1779.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Thomas Stephens sixty-one pound fourteen shillings and six
pence in full of his account for sundry services done for the Town as more particularly appear by his
account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Mr. Isaac Thorndike forty pounds in one ordere and twenty-nine
pounds ten shillings in one other which is in full of his account to this day in making taxes & many
other services done for the Town to this date as will more fully appear by his account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. Caleb Dodge six nine pounds fourteen shillings in full of
his account for making taxes and sundry other services done for the Town to this date as will more
fully appear for his account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. William Langdell thirty-eight pounds fourteen shillings
in full of his account for sundry services to this date as per his account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Joseph Wood one hundred twenty pounds eighteen shillings and
six pence in full of his account to this date for making and reporting taxes, taking care of the poor
about the small pox, going to Ipswich County Convention, money paid for the Town and for many
other services as will more fully appear per his account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Joseph Wood forty pound for his time, journey & expenses at
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the State Convention held at Concord July 14 last for the purposes of stipulation of prices.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Thomas Stephens ten pound abatement of his taxes in 1778 by
reason of losses by sea etc.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Thomas Stephens two hundred & nine pounds and six pence
in full of his account for the expense of the Selectmen’s Committees, Assessors, Town Meetings,
Town officers when sworn etc. etc.
Ordered the Treasury to pay Francis Smith twelve pound in full of his account for mending
of Colonel Thorndike’s truck wheels which the Town had for a field carriage and for an axle tree etc.