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HISTORY OF AMESBURY. 213
The following is from the East parish records :
£ s. d.
"March 24, 1747, Ordered to Stephen Barnard
being in y e sarvice at Cape Brittian
To Jacob Bagley jun being in captivity
149
260
To Jacob Bagley being rated for a vessel that
was taken 1 13 9"
David Hoyt and Isaac Tuxbury received ^15 each for "fenc-
ing stuff" for the parsonage land.
Rev. Matthias Plant received ^15, 11 s., 2d., from the par-
ish rate on account of the churchmen, of whom the following
is a list : John
Bartlett, Ehod Bartlett, Frank Bartlett, William
Currier, John Huntington, Samuel Huntington, Jonathan Hunt-
ington, Gideon Lowell, Samuel Lowell, John Hook, and Batt
Moulton. Their tax was ^20, 3 s., 6 d., out of ^897. The
foregoing is the first list found.
Among the items of expense this year was "^15 for keep-
ing Worrens Black child for y e time past." Capt. Sargent kept
her and agreed to keep her till she was eighteen years of age
for ,£20.
"Ordered to Dr Robert Rogers for medsens for M s Weed
and y e Widow Hookley 16 s."
William Whittier petitioned the town for leave to set up a
brick-yard "near the Button tree and was allowed to do so."
This brick-yard was just west of the Buttonwood road at the
bank of the Merrimac river, near the house of Thomas Page.
How long Mr. Whittier occupied this yard is not known ; but,
probably, for a number of years. On this Buttonwood road,
about half way up to Daniel F. Morrill's, are the sights of two
more brick-yards, where many bricks were once made. The
"Button tree" here spoken of is named in the records of 1703
and has been a very noted tree for a century and a half. It
was the eastern bound on the river of the landing, as defined
at that date.
Mr. Daniel Kelley was greatly afflicted this year by the death
of five children in fourteen days, as follows : October
—
1 7th,
Marcy C, aged ten years; October 19th, Lydia, aged six years;