1778-07-07Essex, ss. To Edward Trask, one of the Constables of the town of Beverly, Greeting.
In the name of the government and people of the State of the Massachusetts Bay you are hereby
required forthwith to notify and warn the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly
qualified by law to vote in town affairs to meet and assembled together on Tuesday the 7th day of
July next at five o’clock in the afternoon at the usual place for holding of Town Meetings in said
Town.
1ly. To see what method the Town will come into in order to procure money to supply the soldiers’
families agreeable to a vote of the Town.
2ly. To choose a Surveyor of the Highways for Ward No. 1 in the room of Malachi Woodberry,
deceased.
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Beverly June the 22 1778.
True copy.AttestJohn Conant
William LangdellSelectmen
Thomas Stephens
Isaac Thorndike
Joseph WoodT. Clerk
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At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly on the 7 day of July 1778.
Mr. Nehemiah Presson, Ezra Obear, Samuel Raymond & Lieut. Daniel Wallis was appointed as the
law directs to serve on the Petit Jury at the Court of the General Sessions of the Peace and Inferior
Court of Common Pleas to be holden at Salem on the second Tuesday of July instant.
Col. Henry Herrick was chosen Moderator for the remaining part of the business of the meeting.
Voted. That Robert Woodberry be Surveyor of the Highways in Ward No. 1 in the room of Malachi
Woodberry, deceased.
Voted. That Mr. William Hazeltine, Capt. Joseph Rae, Mr. Samuel Conant, the committee for
supplying the soldiers’ families with necessaries & be and are hereby empowered in the name
and behalf of this Town to hire two hundred pounds to enable them to supply the soldiers’
families with necessaries, they to be accountable for the same.