1779-02-02nd
At a Meeting of the Selectmen February 2 1779.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Thomas Stephens five pounds seventeen shillings & six pence
he being over taxed that sum in 1777.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Cornelius Woodberry thirty-four pounds one shilling and two
pence being in two orders one of £ 25-4-0 the other of £ 8-17-2 it being in full for all damages he
sustained by having the turf dug off of his land to build the fort with and for all other damages he
received by reason of the Town fortifying on his or nearby his land of all kinds whatsoever.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Mary Cox four pounds being abatement of a poll tax, not
of age in 1778.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay John Lovett 3d 73/ for extra charge as Surveyor on the
Highways 1778.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Henry Herrick Jr. thirty-six pounds for keeping of the Grammar
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School in this Town one month expiring on the 24 of January last.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Martha Woodberry £ 19-10-0 in full for keeping of Susanna
Ellinwood’s bastered child till the seventh day of January last.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Priscilla Trask 35/ for the abatement of her taxes for 1778,
being unable to pay the same.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Constable Zachariah Gage twenty-five pounds three shillings
and six pense 48/of said sum for warning two town meetings by notification and for warning the Ferry
Ward 4 times verbally and the remainder is for abatements in his list as followeth. viz.
Nathaniel Abbott’s taxes 3-13-9, in captivity
William Dixey’s ditto 1-11-5, in captivity
William Ellinwood’s ditto 5-9-8, in captivity
John Grove’s ditto 2-0- 3, in captivity
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Henry Herrick 2 ditto 2-0-1, long apps and, if allies
John Harmon Jr. ditto 1-11- 3, in captivity
Jonathan Herrick ditto 2-8-1, missing abroad
Benjamin Crofts ditto 1-4-2, no such person
Noah Downs ditto 1-11-5, dead, left nothing.
William Groves ditto 1-5-5, long absent