History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

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£1,800 each; Elias Hastings, Moses Livermore,
and George Stearns, £2,270 each; Thaddeus
Gooding, Jonathan t'oburn, and Nathaniel Flagg,
£ 1,100 and sixty bushels of com each Eli Jones,
;
paid by Captain Gleason ; Lieutenant Eliphalet
Hastings, Joel Harrington, Abijah Fisk, and
Moses Gearfield, £1,770 each; Timothy Flagg
and John Robinson, £1,500 each; Habakkuk
Stearns, Joel Wellington, Asa Peirce, and Asahel
and
Stearns, £600 and sixty bushels of corn each ;
Felix Cuff, £1,500 and sixty bushels of corn.
Eunice Mixer, Samuel Kendall, Mr. Boardman,
Ruhamah Wellington, and Nathaniel Bridge's son
were paid for teaching school.
On the 8tli of January, 1781, the town voted to
hire twelve men for the army for three years or the
war, and appropriated £50,400 for that end. The
men who were the committee of correspondence,
etc., had been chosen to attend to hiring men to
fill the requisitions on the town, but for some rea-
son they seemed to lack success. They reported
in December, 1780, and in January and February,
1781, that they could not find a man at any price
in town. That this report was unsatisfactory, is
evident from the fact that at a meeting on the
12th of February the town voted to discharge this
committee, and appointed Captain Isaac Gleason,
Peter Ball, and Abner Sanderson, in their stead
but this did not prevent their being re-elected
Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and
Safety at the March meeting. At the regular an-
nual meeting it was unanimously voted to accept
Joshua Kendall for an inhabitant, provided he
could be set oft' with his estate from the town of
(/ambridge. There seemed to be unusual trouble
in electing town officers for this year. On several
previous occasions one or two electees had declined
to serve, and others iiad cither been elected in their
stead, and induced to accept, or tiie aid of the law
invoked to compel those elected to serve; but on
this occasion William ITagar and Nathan Vilcs,
chosen as constables, and William Fisk, Abraham
Peirce, and Lieutenant Samuel Slearns (three of
the four), chosen as assessors, refused to serve. In
the case of the assessors three others were elected
at a subsequent meeting in tlieir sleml ; William
Fisk was chosen constable in i)laee nf \,ilh:iii \'iles,
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