1780-04-17th
At a Meeting of the Selectmen April 171780.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Joseph Wood £ 600 for the purposes of supplying of the
soldiers’ families with necessaries agreeable to the Resolves of the General Court.
I, the Subscriber, do hereby covenant, promised and agree to and with the Selectmen of the Town
of Beverly to keep and maintain Martha Thissell, the person under their care, the full term of one-year
commencing on the 7th of April last and for to find and provide for and unto the said Martha good
and sufficient meat, drink, washing and lodging, both in sickness and health, during the whole of said
term has also apparel, doctors and nurses excepted, and at the expiration of said term to remove her
to such place as the Selectmen shall appoint and deliver her up as well clothed as I received her for
and in consideration of the sum of six pounds to be paid in the annuities given to the said Martha and
her honored father’s last will and testament at the following prices. viz.
corn at 3/4 per bushel
cider at 6/ per barrel and wood at the price usual been sold in 1774 and to allow forty shillings for
the use of the cow for the year.
As witness my hand.
Beverly May 2nd 1780.Jeffrey Thissell
To one ditto delivered to said Wood on said Treasurer for supplying as above said of 000.0.0.