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214 HISTORY OF AMESBURY.
October 20th, Mary, aged eight years ; October 29th, Deborah,
aged four years ; October 30th, Moses, aged two years. What
this fatal disease was, the record does not state ; but seldom
has it fallen to the lot of any family to be thus afflicted.
1748.
The poor were boarded out as usual to the best advantage.
Samuel Shepherd kept Mary Fowler for 17 s. per week :
George
Worthen kept Widow Hookly for n s. 6 d. per week, and
Hannah Bettel for 12 s. per week.
Dr. Ordway charged 20 s. for doctoring the poor.
David Blasdell, a descendant of Henry, sen., made two foot-
stoves for the tithing men, and received £1, 4 s. These stoves
were about eight or nine inches square and six inches high,
made of tin and wood, with a cup inside to be filled with coals,
to keep the feet warm. When meeting-houses had no stoves
to warm them, these were a great comfort. Some of them are
yet in existence, kept as curiosities—mementos of the past.
At the annual meeting Thomas Rowell, Orlando Bagley and
John Tuxbury were chosen to make an exchange of the road
over Bailey's hill for a landing at Powow river's mouth. The
exchange was made and ratified by the town, giving Mr. Gideon
Lowell all of the road through his land over the hill and
receiving two pieces of landing at Powow river, viz. : " One
piece lying near y e mouth of s d
river, being in wedth aboute
seven rods from y e northwest corner of Timothy Currier's house,
joining to a highway westerly till it comes to rainge with y e
lower cap piece of Mr. Gideon Lowell's wharfe as y e wharfe
now stands from s d highway to s d Powow river, abutting upon
Powow river to low water mark easterly, and to said Currier's
land southerly. And also one other piece of land adjoining y e
s d highway westerly, twenty-two rods in length, having a stone
fixed in y e ground at y e southwesterly corner next y e
s d high-
way, thence running easterly to Powow river to low water-mark,
six rods up said river in distance from y e northwest corner of
Capt. Currier's ware house, and having at y e northwest cor-
ner next s d highway another stone fixed in y e ground ; so
running from s d stone near as y e course of Gideon Lowell's,