1703-03-05[Selectmen's Meeting March 5, 1703]
At a meeting of the Selectmen the fifth day of March 1702/3, Jacob Griggs who was Treasurer for the
town in the year 1701, presented the following receipt.
Beverly May 23rd, 170 1. Then received of Jacob Griggs, Treasurer of said town, the full and just sum of
three pounds, eight shillings, of current money of New England, being all that remained due to me from
said town of Beverly, for keeping and maintaining my mother -in -law Dorcas Hoare for the year 1700.
By me, John King
At a meeting of the Selectmen on the 5th day of March, 1702/3, Jacob Griggs gave an account of
£2:10:00, that constable Samuel Herrick had delivered to him of the town rate in his hands, and £1:8:0
that he received of Constable William Wallis of the town rate in his hands, which money was paid to Mr.
William Gedney, Sheriff, and gave receipt for the same as follow. Received of the town of Beverly per the
hands of Constable Caleb Wallis three pounds, eighteen shillings, money in full for paying of the jury and
etc. on the highway between Beverly and Manchester 10th February 1702/3.
William Gedney
March 5, 1702/3, then reckoned with Jacob Griggs, for seventeen shillings and four pence of the town's
money, delivered to him when Town Treasurer in the year 1701, and the said Jacob Griggs gave an
account to the selectmen, that he had disbursed upon the town's account £1:12:09 viz: to Goodman
Grover in the time of his wife's sickness in several particulars seven shillings, £.32 to nurses that tended
John Swanton in the time of his sickness of the smallpox six shillings forty two pence in provision for
said nurses, to four yards of cloth for a hat for Joshua Turland, and for a board and nails for the pew
adjoining to Mrs. Hale's pew, and for his [illegible] and drink to Joshua Bisson when building said pew
and the coat's cloth, and what was expended on the account of the pew, being nineteen shillings and two
pence, and having adjusted account with the said Jacob Griggs, and there remained due to him fifteen
shillings and five pence; and at the same time was an order drawn upon Constable Herrick for the
payment of the same.
At the same time was a bill drawn upon Constable Wallis, to pay to Joshua Bisson nineteen shillings for
repairing of the watch house, on Mrs. Woodbury senrs'. Point, and for building the pew adjoining to Mrs.
Hale's pew.