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1781-03-12At a Legal Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly March the th 121781. Mr. William Green was chosen Moderator. Voted. That the Town Meeting be adjourned to half after one o’clock in the afternoon and the Moderator adjourned the meeting accordingly. Town meeting met according to the above said adjournment. Moderator being absent Josiah Batchelder Esq. was chosen Moderator for the remaining business of the meeting. Voted. That the Town would proceed in the same way and manner in choosing of their Selectmen th and Assessors as they did in the last annual March meeting on the 13 of March 1780 which is as followeth. Viz. That each district shall have the nomination of their Selectmen and Assessors by each district repairing by itself and their agreeing upon some person to be by them nominated and the Town to choose them if they see cause. Then each district repaired by themselves and agreed upon some person for their Selectmen and Assessors and nominated the same accordingly. Voted. That all Town officers should be chosen by hand vote. And the following persons were after named were severally chosen to serve in the several respective offices annexed to each of their names the ensuing year. Viz. Selectmen Robert Standley and Weeden Cole Assessors Town ClerkJoseph Wood Town TreasurerCapt. James Lovett. Voted that the Town Treasurer should have the ensuing year three pence per pound for receiving and paying the Town money. ConstablesJohn Thissell, Farm District Israel Thorndike, Ferry District Nathan Smith, Royal Side [Ryal Side] District. Israel Woodberry, Bass River District Robert Patch, Bald Hill District nd Surveyorsfor ward No. 1 Benjamin Woodberry 2 ofNo. 2 Peter Pride HighwaysNo. 3 Benjamin Smith nd No. 4 John Lovett 2 No. 5 Benjamin Lovett Jr. nd No. 6 Jonathan Dodge 2 No. 7 William Butman No. 8 Lieut. Samuel Cole No. 9 Lieut. Peter Shaw No. 10 Capt. John Woodberry No. 11 Jonathan Creesy No. 12 John Batchelder George Raymond Jr. HogreevesJoseph Baker Benjamin Lovett Jr. nd Nathaniel Raymond 2 Jonathan Creesy Cornelius Woodberry John Batchelder Asa Dodge Tything John Boyles MenBenjamin Balch Lovett John Dane Jacob Edwards John Batchelder Jr. FenceSimon Lovett ViewersWilliam Elliott John Trow Bartholomew Trask Thomas Hovey William Standley FieldSamuel Cole Jr. DriversAbner Dodge Archalus Brown Benjamin Leach nd William Trask 2 Theophilus Hull Jr. Clerks ofCapt. Edmund Giles the MarketCapt. Joshua Cleaves Capt. James Lovett Mr. Richard Leech Cullers of HoopsCapt. James Lovett Staves & HidingCapt. Caleb Dodge Mr. Elisha Woodberry Capt. John Lovett Surveyors of Boards,Capt. Asa Leech Shingles, Clapboards,Capt. John Lovett and Lumber Sealers ofJohn Trow LeatherThomas Foster Cullers ofSimon Lovett FishWilliam Homan Deer reevesNehemiah Presson Joseph Corning Pound KeeperOsman Trask Weigher of Hay etc.Francis Smith County Treasurer and for a County Register of He was brought in and sealed up as the law directs. Voted. That the Town will mend their Highways the current year by a tax on the polls and estates of the Inhabitants and in the same method as in several years past has been practiced in this Town. Voted. That the Selectmen set the price of labor per day in repairing the Highways current year both as to men and teams as they shall think just and equitable. Voted. That the Swine shall go at large the ensuing year being yoked and ringed as the law directs. Voted. That the Selectmen be a Committee to supply the families of the soldiers that are in the Continental Army for three years or during the War agreeable to the Resolves of the General Court. Voted. That Asa Brown and others that petitioned shall have liberty to work out their Highways tax the ensuing year on the way between their dwelling houses and the country road under the inspection of the Surveyor of the ward No. 12. Voted. That the 7th article of the warrant be referred to be acted upon at the adjournment of this meeting. th Voted. That the Town Meeting be adjourned to Thursday the 15 day of March instant at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and the meeting was adjourned accordingly. th At a Legal Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly on the 15 of March 1781 being on adjournment. Voted Capt. Israel Thorndike should be excused from serving Constable the current year. Voted. That Mr. Nathan Smith should be excused from serving in the office of a Constable the ensuing year. Joseph Lee was chosen to serve in the office of a Constable for the Ferry District. Voted. That the above said Capt. Joseph Lee be excused from serving as Constable and Capt. Benjamin Obear chosen to serve in his room, it going for said Lee’s turn. nd William Trask 2 was chosen to serve in the office of a Constable for Royal Side [Ryal Side] ward the ensuing year. Capt. Asa Leech, Joseph Ford & Dea. William Dodge was chosen to serve in the offices of Selectmen and Assessors the ensuing year. Voted. That the Selectmen and Assessor should be allowed six shillings hard money per day or the exchange for each day they shall spend in the service of the Town the current year. Voted. That the sum of six hundred pounds hard money be assessed and raised on the polls and estates within this Town as soon as may be for the purposes of paying the money the Committee appointed by the Town at a legal Meeting on the 8th instant have hired and for paying of the men that are procured by the Town Committee for this Town to serve in the Continental Army for three years or during the War. Voted. That each person that shall pay in the aforesaid hard money tax by the first eight of June next shall be allowed 10 percent out of his tax and the several Constables are hereby directed to allow the same accordingly. Voted. That the Assessors and militia officers be desired to proceed to class the Inhabitants of this th Town is directed by a resolve of the General Court of the 26 of the border last. Voted. That the Town will indemnify and pay all finds that shall be exact in from any class in this Town for not procuring their man or man for two serve in the Continental Army for three years or th during the War provided said men or man procured by the 15 day of June next and not afterwards. At a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of Town of Beverly March 151781. Mr. Francis Smith and Mr. William Elliott was chosen to serve on the Grand Jury at the Court of the General Sessions of the Peace to be hold at the Town of Ipswich on the first Tuesday of April next and so on the several Courts of the General Sessions of the Peace successively to be holden in the County of Essex for the term of one year.