1781-02-06th
At a meeting of the Selectmen Feby. the 61781.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Nehemiah Presson £ 107.10.0 For labor and extra charge as
Surveyor on the Highways in Ward No. 1 in 1780.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. James Lovett to pay the honorable Michael Farley,
County Treasurer, the sum of two hundred and sixty-five pound eight shillings, it being a County Tax
for 1780 sent for from this Town.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Joseph Raymond twenty-four pound in part abatement of his
highway tax, it appearing he had worked out that sum and not credited by the Surveyor.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. John Woodberry, one of the Committee appointed to
procure militia for the Town, three thousand pounds for the purpose.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. Isaac Chapman, one of the Committee for procuring the
militia for this town, three thousand pound for to pay of the militia etc.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay to either of the Committee appointed to procure the men for
this Town to serve in the Continental Army for three years or during the war the sum of thirty
thousand pounds in three orders of ten thousand pounds each to enable them to perform that service,
they to be accountable for the same.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay to Benjamin Lovett twenty-five pounds over taxed that sum.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Dea John Conant’s heirs seventeen pounds abatement of his
poll tax for the beef, he deceased.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay James Patch £ 105 in full for keeping of Miriam Presson’s child
until 2nd of February instant.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Jacob Oliver thirty-two pounds 2/ abatement of his taxes in
1780, in captivity.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Eleazar Giles £ 87.0.0 in full for keeping of Mary Woodberry
the year 1779.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay the wife of Daniel Woodberry£ 120 for keeping of Susanna
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Ellinwood’s child three months expiring the 7 January last.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Hannah Giles £ 100 for keeping of Elizabeth Howard’s child
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three months expiring the 7 January 1781.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Benjamin Shaw seventeen pounds for abatement of his son’s
poll in Beef Tax 1780, he being in captivity.