1692-03-07 (2)[Selectmen March 7, 1692]
At a meeting of the selectmen on the seventh day of March 1692, Hazediah Smith, William Woodberry
senrr., John Trask, Joseph Herrick, were chosen & and appointed as surveyors & and are hereby
surveyors of the general & field fences, & of all other particular fences in our town of Beverly, and see
that said fences & in special & in particular, said general field fences, be sufficiently set up & in good
repair by the 15th day of April next ensuing the date hereof, & set up as aforesaid until the 20th day of
October next ensuing the date hereof.
At the same meeting of said selectmen, the aforesaid John Coy did pay unto William Hoare senr., or least
said Hoare did accept of said Coy payment, for said Hoare's being a sexton in our town three pounds,
which said three pounds was due unto the town from said Coy, as part of pay of a rate sometime
committed to said Coy's gathering.
At the same meeting the above said Coy, did reckon with Thomas West, Thomas Woodberry senr.,
Samuel Balch, Samuel Corning junr., Robert Bradford selectmen, and balanced accounts with said
selectmen for the above - mentioned rate.
At the same meeting the said selectmen there was a rate made amounting to six pounds, nineteen shillings
& three pence, for to procure ammunition for a town stock, & said rate was sent by Thomas Woodbury
one of the selectmen unto Constable Robert Briscoe, to collect & gather forthwith in good & lawful
money of New England, & to pay said money unto said selectmen, being gathered to be improved as
aforesaid. At the same meaning of said selectmen there was a rate made amounting to six pounds,
nineteen shillings & eleven pence, for to procure ammunition for a town stock & said rate was sent by my
boy Collins unto Samuel Balch's, one of the selectmen, to be conveyed unto Constable Freeborn Balch to
collect and gather forthwith in good & lawful money of New England, & to pay said money in unto said
selectmen, being so gathered to be improved as aforesaid.