1780-04-07th
At a Meeting of the Selectmen April 7 1780.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Marjorie Larcom two hundred pound in full for keeping
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of Joseph Larcom the year past till the 7 of April instant.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. William Langdell £ 104.0.0 in full for keeping and
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maintaining of Molly Hales and Molly Ellinwood one quarter which expired on the 7 of April 1778.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Simon Creesy nine pound, being over taxed that sum in 1779.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. George Cabot three hundred and nineteen pound sixteen
shillings in full of his account for tending of the State Convention which is as followeth viz.
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Jany. To horse hire keeping expense of road at Boston 5 days94.16.0
Feby. To passage to Boston & each with expense 6 days75.0.0
To passage to Boston & each with expense 12 days120.0.0
To passage to Boston & back30.0.0
£ 319.16.0
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Jedidiah Holt £ 11.4.0 abatement of his tax in 1780, lately come
into town.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Hannah Giles £ 59.0.0 the in full for keeping of Elizabeth
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Howard’s child to the 7 of April instant.
She also agreed to keep said child 1 quarter for fifty pounds commencing this day.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Nathaniel Clark £ 50.0.0 in full for keeping his mother the year
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past till the 7 instant together with what he hath already received and he agreed to keep her three
months commencing on this day for the sum of fifty pounds.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Mr. Jonathan Perkins £ 90 for keeping the Grammar School one
month as per agreement.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. John Woodberry£ 9.18.0 for repairs of drums in his
company.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Joseph Baker £ 173.7.0 in full for the expenses of Selectmen,
Town Meeting etc. at his house to this day.