1702-02-26 (2)[Selectmen's Meeting February 26, 1702]
At a meeting of the Selectmen on the 26th day of February 1701/2, Nathaniel Hayward appeared &
offered an account of work done to & in our meeting house, viz: for a well for the bell, and for casting
two thresholds of said house, & a post for one of the doors & for two brasses for the frame of the bell, and
there is due to him from the town twenty shillings.
At the same meeting of the Selectmen the town was charged debtor to William Bradford four shillings, for
a rope for our bell.
At the same meeting of the Selectmen, reckoned with Simon Leavitt, & there appeared to be due to him
from the town three pounds & two shillings, which money said Lovett owned he is paid by Constable
Benjamin Ellingwood.
At the same meeting of the Selectmen Nathaniel Hayward owned he is paid by Benjamin Ellingwood,
Constable, the sum of twenty shillings due to him from the town.
At the same meeting above said Constable Lot Conant brought the following receipt. Boston, December
the 30th, 1701. Received of Mr. Lot Conant, Constable of Beverly, thirty three pounds ten shillings, and
full of a warrant for the like sum of £33:10:00. Received for Mr. James Taylor, Treasurer.
By me Jeremiah Allen.
February the 20th day 1701/2, the Selectmen in behalf of the town, made the following agreement with
Joseph Morgan junr., the said Morgan doth by these presents promise to take care of our meeting house,
& in all respects to perform the office of the sexton in our town, for the term of one whole year from the
24th day of October last past, for which service the Selectmen in behalf of the town doth promise, said
Joseph Morgan shall have the sum of five pounds & eight shillings in money paid to him, in witness
whereof we have set hereunto our hands, the day above said.
Joseph Morgan. William Raymond, Thomas Woodbury, Jacob Griggs, Jonathan Rayment