1780-07-04th
At a Meeting of the Selectmen July 4 1780.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Cornelius Woodberry £ 11.4.0 for abatement of his son’s polling
tax for 1779, he being long missing.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay widow Abigail Elliott twelve pound being overtaxed that sum
in 1780.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Benjamin Obear one hundred and fifteen pounds seventeen
shillings and six pence it being for the following abatement in his List viz. for 1779.
£ 14.8.0 for Peter Prides Jr.’s tax, in captivity
34.1.0 for Eli Servy tax, died abroad.
33.2.0 for Andrew Foster tax, lost at sea.
34.6.6 Cesar Davis tax, lost at sea, supposed.
£ 115.17.6
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Hannah Giles£ 80 in full for keeping Elizabeth Howard’s
child three-month expiring on the 7th instant.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay the wife of Daniel Woodberry one hundred fifteen pound in full
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for keeping of Susanna Ellinwood’s child till 7 instant.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. William Langdell one hundred and sixty pounds in full for
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keeping of Molly Hales and Molly Ellinwood three months expiring on the 7 instant.