1690-11-03[Selectmen November 3, 1690]
The 3rd of November, 1690. At a meeting of the Selectmen, said Selectmen then reckoned with constable
Samuel Morgan, for a town rate committed unto said Morgan's gathering, in the I 01 of December, 1689;
& said Morgan brought in an account of what was distributed about highways in said year, Richard Patch
being surveyor in the year 1685 by several persons work amounting to 6 pounds, & one shilling; and
likewise said Morgan brought in an account, 4 pounds & one shilling more, dispersed about highways in
the year 1688. Thomas Woodburie [i. e. Woodbury] being then surveyor, the whole amounting to
£16:03:09, brought in more by Deacon Hill's rate 8 shillings; 6 pence, and by allowing farmer West's rate
£14:8 pence which was in part of pay of said West's town rate, and likewise a bill of thirty shillings, 5
shillings of it in money that was paid unto Thomas Whittridge, for work done about the frame of the bell,
and paid unto Mr. Haskins £1:12:06 in money, more unto Deputy Dodge paid by said Morgan £1:19:06,
in money, more paid by said Morgan unto William Bath, for keeping of Joshua Turland, £5 as said Bath
acknowledged at the writing hereof.