1777-02-17At a meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly legally assembled on
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Feby. 171777.
Colonel Henry Herrick chosen Moderator.
It was put to vote to see if the Town will agree to ratify and confirm their proceedings at their Town
Meeting on the tenth day of February instant relative to the giving, assessing and raising a bounty for
the noncommissioned officers and private soldiers that have or shall enlist into the Continental Army
for three years or during the war etc. as they now stand recorded in Page 115 and 116 of this book,
to which were previously read several times to said Meeting and it passed in the affirmative.
Voted that the time limited for the receiving the bounty voted by this Town should be continued, paid
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& allowed to all such as shall enlist into the Continental Army on or before the 24 instant.