1697-07-03[Selectmen's Meeting July 3, 1697]
At a meeting of the Selectmen on the 3rd day of July, 1697, then reckoned with John Balch who was
Constable for the year 1696, for all rates committed to him the said John Balch during the time of his
Constableship, and he hath fully paid and discharged all said rates to the town and country, only he is to
pay and clear with Mr. Hale, for what money he was to gather and paid to him the said Mr. Hale.
At the same meeting of the Selectmen, then reckoned with Hazediah Smith who was Constable for the
year 1693, with respect to the overplus of Mr. Hale's rate committed to him in said year, and he the said
Smith hath fully paid and discharged said overplus, that is to say three pounds and five shillings by
discount of a judgment brought against him, according to receipt from the Selectmen of Wenham, dated
June 10, 1695, and by abatement for losses by our friends of Ryal Side and Salem Village, and other
losses, and the town now remains in said Smith's debt 9 shillings, for the which he hath an order to
Constable William Cleaves, whereby the said Smith is paid the said nine shillings.
July 3rd, 1697, an account of the distribution of the 18 bushels of Indian corn, and 6 bushels of rye, which
was sent to our town as their proportion of the contribution, sent from the colony of Connecticut, for the
relief of some poor distressed persons in this province of the Massachusetts, in the year 1697, which is as
followeth, viz.:
Indian
Rye
To Joseph Cole
3 pecks
1 peck
To William Preston
3 pecks
1 peck
To Cole's father -in -law
3 pecks
1 peck
To widow Morrill & three daughters
3 pecks
1/2 peck
To Joseph Harris, senr.
12/1 peck
2/1 pecks
To Joane Haw, third
12/1 peck
2/1 pecks
To John Williams
12/1 peck
2/1 pecks
To Robert Standford
3 pecks
1 peck
To Joseph Stephens
12/1 peck
2/1 pecks
To John Grover
3 pecks
1 peck
To Thomas Blashfield
3 pecks
1 peck
To Mary Williams
12/1 peck
2/1 pecks
To widow Hannah Swanton
2 pecks
1 peck
To widow Webster
12/1 pecks
2/1 pecks
To Mr. Denes
3 pecks
1 peck
To Joal Maddefor
2 pecks
2/1 pecks
To Lawrence Davis
3 pecks
1 peck
To widow Holeman
4 pecks
1 peck
To widow Merriam Haskell
1 1/2 pecks
1 peck
To Mary Wheeler
12/1 pecks
1 peck
To Lynard Shue
3 pecks
2/1 pecks
To John Knights, & Joshua Turland, each
2 pecks
1/2 peck
To John Drinker
To Christopher Reed & William Hoare, each
To Sarah Browne
To Mrs. Rowden
To Mary Gammon, Mary Hibbert and Goody Ashby,
each
2 pecks
1 peck
12/1 pecks
4 pecks
1 peck
0 peck
2 pecks
1 peck
1 1/2 pecks 2/1 pecks