1780-01-21st
At a Meeting of the Selectmen Jan. 21 1780.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Nicolas Woodberry £ 10 by reason of his disordered state of
mind, being the abatement of his poll tax.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Nicolas Carroll ten pounds for the abatement of his poll tax, by
reason of his age and infirmities.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay to Myhill Woodberry £ 14.16.0 abatement of his tax, he being
taken and long absent, family poor.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Bartholomew Wallis £ 6.11.0 abatement of his tax in 1779,
being taken and long absent, sick.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Dea. Robert Roundy£ 110 in full for keeping of Deborah
Roundy till the 7th of April next.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Martha Foster twenty pound being over taxed that sum in
the year 1779 in all taxes.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Elizabeth Gage three pounds over taxed that sum in 1779.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Abigail Tuck £ 15.10.0 abatement, son’s poll tax, being
taken.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. George Cabot one hundred forty-one pound six shillings
in full of his account for attending of the State Convention for the forming a new constitution in the
year 1779 as per account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Richard Obear twenty pound in full for house for him to move
into when he had the small pox and for all extraordinary charge occasioned thereby.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Francis Smith twenty-eight pound one shilling for extraordinary
charges Surveyor of the Highways.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay the wife of Daniel Woodberry sixty-one pound four shillings
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in part for keeping of Susanna Ellinwood’s child six months commencing on the 7 of October last.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Joseph Wood one hundred twenty-one pound sixteen shillings
£ 33 for five and half days making State Tax in 1779. £ 24 for recording said tax etc.
£ 13.4.0 for 3 quire of paper for the town’s use.
£ 6.0.0 for days time spent about small pox and the remainder of said account was for doing sundry
services for the Town such is procuring of money to pay mileage and bounty to the soldiers, making
out account to the General Court of the same, settling account etc. etc. as per his account on file.