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1781-04-03rd At a meeting of the Selectmen April 3 1781. Ordered the Treasurer to pay Benjamin Lovett 3/ being over tax that sum. th Ordered the Treasurer to pay William Woodberry 4 6/6 over taxed that sum in said tax. Ordered the Treasurer to pay Malachi Dodge£ 99.0.0 for abatement of his taxes in 1781, being taken and long absent. Ordered the Treasurer to pay the wife of Daniel Woodberry £ 150 in full for keeping of Susanna Ellinwood’s child until a 7th of April instant. Ordered the Treasurer to pay James Patch eighty-four pounds in full for keeping and maintaining of Miriam Presson’s child until the 7th of April instant. Ordered the Treasurer Payne Nicholas Carroll twenty-five pounds abatement of part of his tax, being under poor circumstances. th Ordered the Treasurer to pay William Woodberry 4 sixty pounds, over taxed that sum in 1780. Ordered the Treasurer to pay Henry Herrick Esq., executor £ 117 being for abatement of a Negro’s poll tax, taken, and in part for abatement of his personal estate tax for 1780. Ordered the Treasurer to pay Henry Herrick five hundred and ten pounds in full for keeping of the Grammar School one month expiring on the eighth instant. Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Sarah Thissell two hundred and eighty pounds ten shillings th in full for keeping Susanna Ellinwood’s youngest child 17 weeks expiring on the 7 instant. Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Hannah Giles one hundred pounds in full for keeping th Elizabeth Howard’s child three months expiring on the 7 instant. 1779 Oct. 16.To cash received of Francis Smith.£ 30.0.0 1779 Oct. 18To cash received of Joseph Corning36.0.0 To cash received of Joseph Knowlton15.0.0 To cash received of Benjamin Smith78.0.0 To cash received of Larkin Thorndike83.0.0 th 1780 July 4To cash received of Town Treasurer600.0.0 th 8To cash received of the Town Treasurer923.14.0 th 10To cash received of ditto720.0.0 th 11To cash received of ditto2599.4.0 th 12To cash received of ditto998.8.0 th 13To cash received of ditto1465.10.0 th Nov. 16To cash received of ditto1366.13.0 nd 1781 Jany. 2 To an order on the Town Treasurer for413.0.0 31To an order on ditto for1295.14.0 th Feb. 15To one order on ditto for300.0.0 st March 1To 1 order on ditto for764.4.0 th 20To 1 order on ditto for1000.0.0 th April 13To 1 order on ditto for3275.3.6 £15933.70.6 To cash received of the Town to pay Town mileage139.4.0 To sugar, cotton, coffee and rice3204.12.6 19277.7.0 st August 31To 30 lb. of cotton delivered to him by Joseph Wood @ £ 8 per pound.240.0.0 rd 1781 Decr. 3To and order on the Town Treasurer for £ 3.18 to be paid at 17/8 prone in new emission amounting to292.10 £ 19809.17.0 th 20To an order for the Town Treasurer to be paid in new emission at1 & 4/8 for4.14.3 st 1782 Jany. 1 To and order on ditto paid an is also.7.19.3 To one order on ditto to be paid also3.3.3 10To one order on the Treasurer for hard money of6.12.0 22.8.3 amounting in old emission to1715.16.0 To sundries received of the Lieut. Caleb Balch to the amount of1176.0.0 £ 22701.13.0 by his account allowed money paid the militia hired to go to Cleaverick in 1779.212.0.0 th May 10by your account this state exhibited and allowed as followeth. 1780To cash paid Joseph Carr one of the militia hired for this Town for 6 months.2763.12.0 To cash paid Benjamin Woodberry for ditto.3109.12.0 1780by cash paid John Gale one of the militia hired for this Town for 3 months2232.0.0 by cash paid Joseph Williams for ditto2232.0.0 for cash in part paid John Taylor for ditto1384.5.0 by cash in part paid William Patch for ditto1467.10.0 by cash paid Wm. Morgan in part for ditto1634.4.0 by cash paid Benjamin Cole in part for ditto1638.10.0 by cash received of you at th 1781 Decbr.By the order returned dated April 13 1781 not satisfied3275.3.6 of the sum of£19948.16.6 th at a meeting of the Selectmen Feb. 25 1783 by his account paid William Patch764.10.0 by his account paid Wm. Morgan597.16.0 by his account paid Benjamin Cole593.10.0 by his account paid John Taylor1897.15.0 £ 22802.7.6 Foot of debt brought forward the last page22701.13.0 To an order on the Town Treasurer for 26/8 hard money equal to in old emission100.14.6 £ 22802.7.6 th at a meeting of the Selectmen Feb. 25 1783 the foregoing accounts were allowed, adjusted and balanced in behalf of the Selectmen. Joseph Wood, T. Clerk. th 1780 July 12To cash received of the Town Treasurer1749.13.0 th 13To cash for received of ditto1186.19.0 th 15To cash received of ditto693.17.0 th August 25To cash received of ditto240.0.0 th Oct. 6To cash received of ditto255.0.0 th 19To cash received of ditto240.0.0 th 26To cash received of ditto900.0.0 th Decbr. 4To cash received of ditto342.0.0 th 1780 July 7To an order on the Town Treasurer for3000.0.0 nd 1781 Jany. 2To an order on ditto for3000.0.0 th Feb. 6To one order on ditto for3000.0.0 To cash received of the Town69.12.0 th May 10To one order on Town Treasurer of14677.1.0 84.3.0 £14761.4.0 1780Capt. Isaac Chapman to Town of Beverly th June 19To cash received of the Town Treasurer600.0.0 th July 7To cash received of ditto for2402.8.0 th 8To coffee and cotton of ditto4141.4.0 th 12To sugar, cotton and coffee of ditto7543.11.0 th 13To cash received of ditto363.6.0 th 19To cash received of ditto608.14.0 th Octr. 24To cash received of ditto600.0.0 To cash received of ditto779.2.0 th Nov. 27To cash received of ditto563.2.0 nd 1781 Jany. 2To one order on the Town Treasurer for2000.0.0 th Feby 6To one order on the said Treasurer of3000.0.0 To three orders on ditto of £10000 each30000.0.0 th 15to one order on ditto for20000.0.0 £ 22601.7.0 Foot of credit brought over21574.8.0 by way stage on cotton, sugar & coffee195.0.0 by old Continental money on hand831.19.0 £ 22601.7.0 th at a meeting of the Selectmen for Feb. 25 1783 the above account was allowed, adjusted and balanced by us.Isaac Chapman by order of the Selectmen. Joseph Wood, T. Clerk th May 10 1781by your account given in to this day for money paid the militia procured for this Town for 6 months in 1780 and for three months as followeth. by cash paid Abner Raymond 6 month man3331.4.0 cash paid John Stacey 3 month man2232.0.0 cash paid Joseph White for ditto2232.0.0 by cash paid Simeon Baker for ditto2232.0.0 by cash paid William Trow for ditto2232.0.0 by your account for 15 days time and trouble in procuring and paying the above said money270.0.0 £ 14761.4.0 th Beverly May 10 1781 adjusted the above account. John Woodberry. In behalf of the Selectmen.Joseph Wood, T. Clerk th May 13 1780 by your account this day given in, examined and allowed by the Selectmen for monies etc. paid for the mileage and hire of the Militia procured for this Town in the year 1780 as followeth. by cash paid William Clark 6 month man3280.0.0 by cash paid Retire Trask 6 month man.3200.0.0 by cash paid John Trask 6 month man2466.0.0 by cash paid Richard Craft 6 month man851.0.0 by cash paid Lieut. John Flint3 month man1849.18.0 by cash paid Nathaniel Flint 3 month ditto1740.0.0 by cash paid for mileage to Nathaniel and John Flint264.0.0 by his account for time and trouble in procuring and paying of the above said men270.12.0 by cotton, sugar, cotton and coffee delivered to Lieut. Samuel Cole as per his account3204.12.0 by your account for procuring militia in the years 1779 etc.314.0.0 by an order on the Town Treasurer returned112.10.0 by his account for repair of drums etc.120.0.0 £17722.12.0 By cash received of you at bakery824.0.0 by coffee, cotton etc. delivered to Joseph Wood1851.16.0 by cash and sundries delivered to Lieut. Balch for said purpose1176.0.0 £ 21574.8.0 1780 Sept.To overplus of the State Hard Money tax to be paid by the several Constables brought from book page 34140.19.6 1781 13 AprilTo one list of Town hard money assessment committed unto Constable Benjamin Obear to collect382.2.6 To one ditto committed to Constable Ebenezer Trask to collect of104.7.1 To one ditto committed to Constable John Thissell76.0.6 To one ditto committed to Josiah Trow to collect79.3.10 1781 AugustTo one list of Town Hard Money assessment committed to Constable Ebenezer Trask to collect of97.8.2 To one ditto committed John Thissell to collect of72.18.0 To ditto committed to Josiah Trow Jr. to collect of78.1.2 To one ditto committed to Constable Benjamin Obear to collect of353.6.8 th 1782 Jany. 10 Added to the said Obear former Town ditto14.8 To one list of Town assessment committed unto Constable Josiah Trow to collect of65.8.4 To one ditto committed to Ebenezer Trask for ditto84.18.7 To 1 ditto committed to Constable John Thissell for ditto of62.15.11 To one ditto committed to Benjamin Obear to collect of369.18.2 nd added to Constable Ebenezer Trask 2 list since signing1.0 1869.3.1 th At a meeting of the Selectmen May 10 1780 they came to an adjustment of hard money accounts with Capt. James Lovett, Town Treasurer and said account stands as followeth viz. By accounts and orders this day examined and allowed to the said Treasurer.1142.5.9 ½ For the Treasurer’s premium for receiving and paying the Town’s money at 3d per pound.19.10.2 £ 1161.15.11 ½ And appears to be due to the Town from the said Treasurer to balance said hard money accounts seven hundred and seven pounds seven shillings and707.7.1 ½ 1 ½.£ 7869.3.1 ½ James Lovett, Town Treasurer At a meeting of the Selectmen April 3d 1781. Ordered the Treasurer to pay William Butman seven hundred and eighty three pounds £ 744 th of said sum for the keeping of John Martin six months expiring on the 7 of April instant and £ 39 for clothing found said Martin. Ordered the Treasurer to pay Mr. Jonathan Perkins two hundred and sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence for keeping of a District School near Wm. Dodge’s Corner.