1783-06-05th
At a meeting of the Selectmen June the 5 1783.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay William Taylor 1/8 being for the abatement of the wid. Lydia
Patch’s tax, poor, in his list.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Benjamin Obear£ 15.1.4 for abatement in his list. viz.
1.9.10 for Kinney Standley’s tax, being in captivity.
1.9.10 for Henry Higgins tax, being in captivity.
1.4.0 for Benjamin Lane’s ditto, in captivity, if alive.
1.4.0 for Alexander Murray’s tax, in captivity.
1.4.0 for Benjamin Parson’s tax, in captivity.
1.4.0 for Benjamin Sprigg’s tax, being in captivity.
1.4.0 for Thomas Wall’s ditto, died abroad.
1.6.0 for John Boyles jr’s tax, died in captivity.
1.5.6 for Thomas Eden’s tax, being in the hands of the enemy.
2.6.2 for Benjamin Batchelder’s ditto, extreme poor and sick.
1.4.0 for Hugh Pike’s ditto, in captivity.
15.1.4
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Edmund Trask 11/8 for abatement of William Dodge’s heirs’
estate tax & to Dea. Edmund Putnam as guardian.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay John Hale 20/ being over taxed that sum in 1781 & 1782.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Benjamin Ives £ 4.0.11 for abatement of part of his taxes in
1781 on account of his misfortune at sea and being taken etc.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Joseph Wood 24/ in part of his account for 1783.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Anna Herrick £ 2.0.0 abatement of part of her taxes in the
years 1781, being in poor circumstances.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay wid. Abigail Smith 24/ for abatement of part of her taxes in
1781, being under poor circumstances.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Ebenezer Trask £ 6.4.7 for abatement and lost money in his list
viz.
£ s d
16.9 for abatement of Dea. Edmund Putnam’s tax for the heirs of William Dodge.
1.18.2 for James MacDormon’s tax, very poor.
1.19.1 for Nathaniel Flint’s tax, in captivity, if alive.
1.9.9 for John Carrico’s tax, soldier in the Army, poor.
Ordered the Treasurer to pay Constable Benjamin Obear £ 16.4.3 being for sundry abatements
in his list of assessments. Viz.
£ s d
0.5.0 for Hugh Pick’s tax, being then in captivity.
1.12.8 for William Gage’s tax, missing at sea, if alive.
0.6.9 for Elisah Ellinwood’s tax, died abroad.
0.17.6 for Kinney Standley’s tax, being then in captivity.
0.10.4 for William Haley’s ditto, died in captivity.
0.12.4 for Henry Higgins, being then in captivity.
0.14.2 for Benjamin Lane’s tax, died in captivity.
0.15.10 for Alexander Murray’s, being then in captivity.
1.9.3 for John Harmon’s jr’s. ditto, then in captivity.
0.10.0 for Benjamin Persons ditto, taken.
0.4.1 for Samuel Roundy ditto, long missing at sea.
0.5.0 for Benjamin Spriggs, long in captivity.
0.5.0 for Thomas Wall’s tax, in captivity.
0.5.0 for John Boyles jr’s tax, died in captivity.
1.9.3 for Zachariah Morgan’s tax, in captivity.
0.5.0 for Matthew Costello’s ditto, long in captivity.
0.11.6 for Thomas Eden’s tax, in captivity then.
2.1.1 for Benjamin Batchelder’s tax, under poor circumstances.
1.11.3 for John Beckford, died at sea, left nothing.
1.13.3 for Joseph Pickett’s tax, on account of his misfortunes.
£16.4.3