History of Amesbury - Merrill.org

23O HISTORY OF AMESBURY.
A separate tax was assessed, by order of the General Court,
on the Quakers, amounting to ^76, 13 s. 4 d., and the follow-
ing is a list of those taxed :— Ebenezer Currier, Peleg Challis,
David Challis, Thomas Challis, John Huntington, Abner Jones,
Ezekiel Jones, Aaron Rowell, Joseph Pressy, Jacob Weed, John
Huntington, jr., Jonathan Reed, Daniel Hoage.
The following document is found in the clerk's office :
—
"Amesbury, March 17th, 1760.
We, the subscribers, have each of us Respectively Received In
Sikes' Company
full of our wages for service as Soldiers in Cap 1
and Cap 1 Bayly's Companys, In the year 1759. Recv d the same
of Leu 1 John Currier, as witness our hands.
Richard Currier, Nathan Kimball, Enoch Flanders,
Daniel Flanders, William Hoyt, his
Jonathan Hunt* Moses Motion, -Pag? X Ring.
mark.
The following deposition may be of interest as throwing some
light on the treatment of soldiers in the old French and Indian
war :
—
"The Deposition of Enoch flanders of Amesbury and Daniel
flanders of Salsbury both in y e County of Essex & province of
y e Massachusetts bay, of Lawfull age, testifieth & saith that we
Inlisted our selves as Soldiers in y e year 1759, under Capten
Richard Seiks that we went up to lake george at Albany
we each of us Received a province arme & we went up to
y e forte at y e narrows & did Duty under General Amherst, & on
our Return home when we came to Still water we had each of
us our armes with us but by the order of y e chief ofnsser of
y e forte at y e s d Still water, Each of our armes wear taken
from us s d offisser as we wear told was a leu 1 & we wear
told his name was mecains & he gave us no Receipt for said
armes & further says not.
Dated at Amesbury, February y e 27, 1760.
Enoch Flanders,
''
1
Daniel Flanders.'
The foregoing was sworn to before Isaac Merrill, Justice of
Peace.
* Probably Huntington.