1782-02-28 (further entry)th
At a meeting of the Selectmen Feby. 28 1782.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. Isaac Chapman five hundred and thirty pounds eight pence
hard money as one of this Town’s Committee for procuring of the Continental Soldiers for this Town
for three years or during the war in the year 1781, to be accountable for the same.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. Isaac Chapman £ 15.0.0 for the above said purpose.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Joseph Baker £ 6.10.1 as one of the Committee for Procuring
of the above said man for enabling him to perform that service.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. John Francis 33/ hard money to balance his account as
one of the Committee for Procuring the above said Continental men.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Joseph Baker £ 13.12.3 in full of his account for Selectmen,
Committees and Town meeting expenses at his house as per his account on file in the Town Clerk’s
Office.
The orders recorded in this page are all in hard money.
To Jeremiah Foster the Treasurer was ordered to pay £ 6.13.4 for keeping of the District
School in Mackerel Cove ward this winter season.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Sarah Thissell four pound three shillings and six pence in
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full for keeping of Susanna Ellinwood’s child from the 7 of April to the 19 of August last.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay William Woodberry Jr. forty-two shillings for corn he supplied
the soldiers’ families with.