1780-05-02nd
At a Meeting of the Selectmen May 2 1780.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay William Tuck thirty pounds six shillings being abatement of his
taxes for 1779, having met with repeated misfortune.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay James Herrick £ 8.0.0 abatement of his rates in part for 1779
on account of his misfortune by sea.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Wm. Sears £ 8.10.0 being over taxed that sum in 1779.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Benjamin Obear one hundred one pound eleven shillings and
six pence it being for abatement of the several persons taxes in his list for 1779 as followeth. Viz.
wid. Abigail Larcom tax.................10.13.6 very poor
Amma Knowlton ditto.................... 7.17.6 deceased at sea
John Fall tax .................................12.15.6 in captivity
John Molson’s tax......................... 4.10.0 long missing
James Brazil’s tax.......................... 5.17.0 in captivity
Joseph Nichol’s tax........................ 26.9.0 in captivity
nd
James Obear 2 ditto..................... 10.0.0 been taken
Peter Pride jr. ditto......................... 8.13.0 in captivity
Jacob Gray Morgan ditto...............14.16.0 deceased abroad
101.11.6
Ordered the Treasurer to pay William Obear£ 12.12.0 in part abatement of his poll tax 1779,
he being in a poor state of health.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Osman Cox £ 15.0.0 it being in part abatement of his taxes in
1779, being taken, detained long in captivity.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Rebecca Wallis £ 11.4.0 being abatement of her late
husband’s poll tax, he deceasing about the time the tax was made.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Mr. William Hazeltine £ 180 to enable him to supply the soldiers
families to the first of March 1780.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Mr. Daniel Friend £ 300.0.0 in full for his keeping school one
month in this Town.