1783-02-26th
At a meeting of the Selectmen February 261783.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Andrew Cleaves 60/ as extra charge and for labor done on the
Highways as Surveyor in 1782.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Anna Lovett £ 4.14.6 in two orders for keeping of Susanna
Ellinwood four weeks when she lye in at her house in 1782 and for necessaries and nursing etc. as
per account on file.
Ordered to Treasurer to pay wid. Anna Lovett 92/ for fifteen months house rent for Samuel
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Arbuckle’s family expiring on the 15 January 1783.
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At a meeting of the Selectmen February the 261783.
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They agreed and ordered that a Town meeting should be warned and held on Monday the 10 day
of March next at the stated place for holding of Town Meetings in said Town at 10 o’clock in the fore
noon.
1ly. To choose town officers for the ensuing year.
2ly. To choose a County Treasurer.
3ly. To see if the Town will mend their Highways the ensuing year by a tax on the polls and estates
of the inhabitants and determine what sum of money they will grant to be raised for the
purpose and make such regulations relative to the Highways and the repairing the same as
they in their wisdom shall think best.
4ly. To see if the Town will give Liberty for their swine to go at large the ensuing year being yoked
and ringed as the law directs.
5ly. To see if the Town will grant Asa Brown and others liberty to work out their Highway tax on
the way laid out through Col. Thorndike’s farm to the road.
6ly. To choose some person as their agent to answer to the presentment of the next Court of the
General Sessions of the Peace to be holden at Ipswich on the first Tuesday of April next for
their not settling up and maintaining a Grammar School in said Town as the law directs.
7ly. To choose some person or persons as their agent or agents with full power to settle all disputes
with the claimers of the Town Landing at Frost Fish Brook, so-called, and prosecute and
defend the Town interest in said landing to final issue in the law.
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And there was a warrant issued out to Constable Andrew Elliott 2 to warn the same by posting up
notifications agreeable to the votes of the Town.
Attest.Joseph Wood, T. Clerk
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At a meeting of the Selectmen February the 26 1783.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Benjamin Obear five pounds seventeen shillings in full of his
account for warning of Town Meetings and other services for the Town as per his account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to a Robert Standley ten pound thirteen shillings in three orders being
in full of his account for classing the Town and making of Highway, Town and Commonwealth
Taxes, taking care of the poor, settling of the Town accounts etc. etc. as per his account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Jonathan Conant five pounds seven shillings together with
£3.12.0 he heretofore hath received is in full of his account for classing the Town, making of the
Highway, Town and Commonwealth taxes, taking care of the poor and settling of Town affairs as
more fully will appear as per his account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Jeremiah Foster £ 6.13.4 for keeping District School near
Joanna Woodberry’s house.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Lieut. Peter Shaw two pounds seventeen shillings for extra
charge as Surveyor on the Highways in 1782.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Capt. Asa Leech £ 21.0.6 in three orders being in full for his
account for making of the Town into classes and making of the Town, Highway and Commonwealth
taxes, taking care of their poor and the Selectmen and Assessors’ expenses at his house and for doing
many other services for the Town as particularly will appear as per his account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Joseph Wood £ 11.10.0 together with £ 7.4.0 which by orders
on the Town Treasurer hath received is in full of his account for time in classing the Town, making
Highway, Town & Commonwealth taxes, recording the same, taking care of the poor, settling of
Town affairs and sundry other matters and things for the Town as will more particularly will appear
as per his account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Weedon Cole £ 7.18.0 in two orders, it being in full of his
account with 24/ he hath received for making the Town into classes, making of the Highway, Town
and Commonwealth taxes, taking care of the poor, settling Town accounts and doing sundry other
services for the Town the particulars of which do more fully appear as per his account on file.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Weedon Cole 68/ in full of his account for keeping of Jemime
Dodge, one of the poor of the Town of Ipswich, when [illegible] at his house in 1782 as per account.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Jeffery Thissell £ 10.16.6 together with eight pounds two
shillings which Martha Thissell owed the Town which the said Jeffery Thissell discounted out of his
account for keeping of John Brew which above said sum is in full for keeping and maintaining of John
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Brew until the 24 instant, exclusive of two orders which said Thissell had in part when settled as
above said were forgotten to be returned.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Jonathan Herrick’s heirs 15/ for his service in the militia at
Winter Hill in 1778. The former order for that service drawn in paper money he never received but
is now returned and [illegible].
Ordered the Treasurer to pay the Nicholas Currel 12/ for his wife’s service as midwife for
Susanna Ellinwood.