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CHAP. XLVII IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Jan. 19, 1778. The Selectmen gave an order in favor of Joseph Pratt for going to Boston, July, 1776, to hire soldiers to go into the war, for Chelsea, and his expenses, one day, for the sum of ten shillings, given to Joseph Pratt.12
February 5, Order to pay Capt. Samuel Sargeant, £0. 9. 0, for going to Boston to hire men to go to war.13
Feb. 27, 1778. The Selectmen gave two orders in favor of Samuel Watts for his attendance on the General Court and Pro- vincial Congress, - one for £16. 9. 1. 1, and the other for £2. 10. 10. 3, - total £19.14
1778, March 30. Voted, not to allow of an Inoculating Hos- pital for the Small-Pox to be set up in any house in Chelsea, at the Meeting-House. [That is, at the most thickly settled part of the town.] 15
April 2. Voted to draw money out of the Town's Treasury to procure Shirts, Stockings, and Shoes, for the Town's Quota of Soldiers, inlisted into the Continental Army for three years, or during the War. And that each Soldier be furnished with one Shirt, one pair of Stockings, and one pair of Shoes; it being agreeable to a Resolve or Order of the General Court.16
April 4, 1778. Paid Samuel Watts, 0-6-0, for time in going to Boston on account of carrying Soldiers to pass muster, and get- ting money to pay said Soldiers to go into the war, and expenses.
1778, April 8. Voted to have a Smoke House or Room, for to Smoke persons in, at the Winnisimmet Ferry, in order to prevent any person coming out of Boston spreading the Small-pox in any Town in the Country.17
May 18, After reading the several Resolves of the General Court, the town proceeded to the getting of five men which were sent for from the town, by order of Congress, to fill np the fifteen battal- ions; three of them to go to General Washington, and at head- quarters, for the term of nine months, and the other two to go to the North River or Fishkill, for the term of eight months, for to do service there.
Voted, that all those men of Chelsea, that have done anything or paid any sum or sums of money for or towards encouraging or hiring soldiers, in the time past, into the present war, shall be allowed therefor, or it shall be deducted out of the future taxes, that may be made for getting or encouraging soldiers for the before mentioned and other future service or services.
12 Records, i. 98.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid., 100.
15 Town Rec., ii. 22.
10 Ibid.
17 Ibid., 23.
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May 18, 1778. Voted to choose a Committee of five men to Determine what any and all men have done or paid in, or for the above-said affair [enlistment of soldiers]. Chose Capt. Sam- uel Sargeant, Samuel Watts, Capt. Jonathan Green, Dea. John Sale, and Mr. Daniel Pratt as committee.18
Voted to raise £100 to give the three men who go into the Continental army to General Washington; to give each of them who may enlist into the Continental army £100, lawful money; that the two men who may enlist to go to Fishkill or North River shall have £50 each for Encouragement to enlist into the Con- tinental service for eight months; that, if the five men sent for can be obtained before there is a draft made in Chelsea Company, then all votes passed by this meeting shall be null and void. Chose as Committee to procure the five men to go as soldiers, Capt. Samuel Clark, Lieut. Jonathan Williams, and Lieut. James Stowers; and voted also that said committee make report at the adjournment of this town meeting with respect to the getting soldiers to go to the Continental Army.19
Notwithstanding these inducements to enlist the town was obliged in 1778, and again in 1779, to resort to a draft. I have learned the names of only four citizens, on whom the lots fell in 1778: Deacon John Sale, James Floyd, Jonathan Belcher, Jr., and John Oliver. The summons was this :
Chelsea, May ye 20th, 1778. Eight of the Clock, at night.
To Deacon John Sail [Sale]. Sir: this is to Inform, you are, this Evening, Drafted, as one of the Continental men to go to General washington's head-Quarters, and you must go, or find an able man in your Room, or pay a fine of twenty Pounds, in Law. money, in twenty-four hours.
SAMUEL CLARK, Capt.
[Endorsed : ] Chelsea, May 21st, 1778. then Rec'd of Deacon Sail, twenty Pounds, Law. money, In full of the within. Rec'd By me Edward Wait, Clerk.
[Original in Chamberlain MSS. VI., 29.]
Floyd, whose summons was like that of Sail [Sale], also paid his fine; but by vote of the town, October 12, 1778, these fines were repaid. In Floyd's case, the order was,
18 Town Rec., ii. 24. 1º Ibid.
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CHAP. XLVI] IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Chelsea, Octr. 26th, 1778.
Jonathan Green, town treasurer.
please pay to James Floyd, the
sum of twenty pounds, L.M .; it being for the above fine.
Lendorsed on the summons : ] SAM'LL SARGEANT, ) Selectmen WILLIAM LOW, of
DANIEL PRATT, Chelsea
Oct. 15, 1779. James Floyd paid a fine of £50, L.M., being drafted for three months to serve in the Continental army.
Oct. 19. Joseph Pratt received of the town authorities, £30, L.M., to pay soldiers' bounties now designed to join Gen. Wash- ington's army.
Same date, Same, received of same, £241, L.M., to pay the soldiers, for same.
Oct. 19, Same, received of Same, £50 for same.
Oct. 22. Same, received of Same, £100, L.M., to pay the sol- diers that are to join the Continental Army forthwith.
Oct. 25. Same, received of Same, £165, L.M., to hire soldiers to go into the Continental Army.
March 13, 1780. Joseph Williams was paid by the town £20- 16, L. M., for his, and his son's " service at Castle William last summer."
June 8, 1780. The town paid William Newhall £60, L. M., as part of an order the town gave him for bounties granted to his apprentice.
In 1781, the treasurer paid Sale and Oliver each £50, " for fine, paid by them in 1779." 20
May 22. The Committee to get or hire soldiers to go into the Continental army reported, that they could not hire any person to go to General Washington in the Continental army. Voted. that all votes passed on May 18th shall be null and void. Report was accepted. Voted to hire five men by tax. Chose the seleetmen a committee, to whom, May 25, Edward Wait and Isaiah Tay were added.
June 1. Voted to give £130, lawful money, to each, - Mr. John Robbins, Mr. Hugh Floyd, and Adam Tuttle, a Mulatto,
. and £100 a piece, to go into the Continental Army to Gen. Washington.
Also, that the Committee hire two more soldiers as cheap as they can to go to North River or Fishkill. And if any one of the abovenamed persons do not pass muster, the Committee may hire one more soldier and give him £130.
20 Original papers, vii. 9.
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[CHAP. XLVI
June 1. The seleetmen agreed to pay John Robbins, or order, £70, as part of his bounty as a soldier.21
June 5. The town gave a note of £80 to Hugh Floyd, in part pay for Hugh Floyd, Jun., enlisting into the Continental Service; and paid Samuel Clarke £76. 19. 4, to be used for hiring Soldiers for the same.
June 8. The Selectmen paid Hugh Floyd, Jun., £10, part of pay for enlisting . .. for nine months; and voted to give Edward Clemons two hundred and fifty Dollars to go as a militia soldier to North River for eight months, - if he should pass muster;
21 John Robbins, of good connections, but with a large family and very poor, had been a soldier in Capt. Sprague's company at the beginning of the war. At a time which does not appear he enlisted "for the war," which few were willing to do. As an indueement, besides the usual pay and bounty, the town seems to have engaged to support his wife and children; perhaps with the hope to be reimbursed in part at least by the state; for I find this aecount:
The State of the Massachusetts Bay to the Seleetmen of the Town of Chelsea, Dr.
Articles supplied the Family of John Rob- bins, from the 20 of April, 1779, to the 15 of October.
Current Prise.
Stated Priee of the Sev- eral artieles.
the sum paid by the Sol- dier' family.
Room left to draw the Bal- lance.
To two Bushel of In- dian Corn, a. £7, Per Bushel, one Bushel of Petators, from the 15 of October, to the first of Jan'y 1780. To five Bushels of Corn, at £9-10, Per Bushel.
£14 1-16
0-8
0
£47-10
1
[Endorsed : ] The Stated Priee to any Artiele to be, what was Sett in your Town, in Consequence of the aet Made in the year 1777 to Prevent Monopoly and Oppression.
The Seleetmen are allowed to Charge ten Per Cent., at the Botom, for ther Trouble: it is Expected that the amount be sworn to .- Original in Chamberlain MSS., VI. 79.
Between June 1, 1778, and October, 1783, the town paid on account of Robbins and his family, chiefly to Daniel and Elizabeth Pratt, and Samuel Sprague, £2,089. 17. 8. Though in depreciated eurreney, this was a large sum.
These Robbins papers may be seen in Chamberlain MSS., VI. 79, 95, 117, 119, 169, 191, 1197 ; and, under 30 Dee. 1782; 6 and 26 Feb., and 31 Oet., 1783.
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and, if he get another person to go along with him to the North River, he shall have $250, if they both pass muster. Also voted him three dollars, as a present, to go to Boston to procure a friend of his to go with him to North River or FishKill.
June 11. Edward Clemons had got John Ireland to go along with him as soldier to North River, and the town voted, to have the two carried over to Boston to see if they would pass muster before Colonell Hatch; but he would not accept them because they were strangers.
June 29, the committee had procured two men to go as soldiers to the North River. According to votes, passed May 18th, relative to a committee to hire five soldiers - three to go to Gen. Wash- ington, and two to Fishkill, and that the selectmen be a committee, to hire money pursuant to said vote: Raised and Granted five hundred pounds, lawfull money, to pay for said five soldiers, to be taxed and assessed on the Inhabitants and Estates of Chelsea, as soon as may be, this year.
June 30. Jonathan Belcher, Jr., paid £10, as a fine, for refusing to do a Tour of Duty for six months to Providence. [Ante, 484.]
September 28. Voted to give Lieut. Silas Clarke a certain sum of money for his services in time past as a Continental officer in the army for the support of his family, considering the extraor- dinary price of the necessaries of life, and to forgive him for his taxes for the year 1776; but, not to make Lient. Silas Clarke any present for the future time. Also, to give him £80, as a present. for the like reasons; for the like purposes; and, with the same refusal as to the future.
October 1. [sic] Voted to give some encouragement to any per- sons who may enlist as Militia men in the State's Service to go to Boston or elsewhere the Council may order them; and that Capt. Samuel Sprague, Capt. Samuel Clark, and Lieut. James Stowers [be] a committee; . . and have liberty to draw money out of the Town's treasury to hire two men to serve as soldiers as cheap as they can.
Voted to raise on Polls and Estates a sum to refund the money as has been paid as fines by all those persons that have been drawn of Chelsea Company, to go to Rhoade Island in the summer last past, either as officers or soldiers. Oct. 12. [sic]. Voted to raise £293. 14, L.M., for the above purpose.
October 12. Voted to raise £293. 14, to be refunded or paid back to those persons drawn out of Chelsea company. to go as soldiers to Providence or Rhode Island in the summer past. to be assessed on the polls and estates of Chelsea. Also to hear the Committee's report abont hiring two men to serve as militia sol-
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diers : reported that they had agreed with two men to go to Bos- ton or elsewhere for the sum of £60, for six weeks for cach man, and so, in proportion for cach man, and so in proportion for a longer or shorter time.
November 9. Town paid Capt. Samuel Sprague £36 for money advanced to pay Timothy Clark and Benjamin Boardman for Continental soldiers.
December 17, 1778. Chose Capt. Samuel Sprague, Capt. Jona- than Green, Capt. Samuel Clark, Mr. Richard Shute, and Lieut. Joshua Cheever, a committee of five, to examine the claims of all persons, that have done anything in the war since the 19th of April, 1775.22
December 31. Voted to accept the report of the Committee chosen to examine the claims of the soldiers, or other persons, with respect to what they have done in the war since April 19th, 1775, and agreeably thereto voted, not to allow anything to those men of the first eight months in 1775; to those that served but twelve months in the state's service in 1776 £5, each; Henry Blake and John Goodin 23 for staying six weeks over their twelve months, each £5 more; Lieut. Abijah Hastings £20 for 131/2 month's service in 1776-'77; Joseph Cheever £15 for 131/2 month's ser- vice in 1776-7.
Voted to allow those 12 men that went to Rhoade Island for 5 weeks £6 each man in 1777; to those 5 men that went to Nan- taskett for 6 weeks in 1777 each man £3. 12. 0; to allow Joseph Waitt for His Service at Boston £8.8.8.2, 6 months in 1778; to allow Nathaniel Belcher the third £10. 0. 9 for his services at Boston 6 months in 1778; 24 to Lieut. Jonathan Williams £7. 10 per month, for his service, 6 months at Rhoade Island, in 1778; and also Lieut. James Stowers £7. 10 per month for 6 months, when Lieut. Jonathan Williams went in the service as abovesaid ; to allow Capt. Samuel Clark £7 for his trouble of the war from the beginning; Matthew Butman, Pen Townsend Sale, Richard Boyinton, Samuel Sargeant the third, Ebenezer Sargeant, Jabez Burditt, Joseph Tuttle, Capt. Samuel Clark, Samuel Watts, jr .;
22 Town Rec., ii. 35.
23 John Goodwin and his family " came upon the town " after the close of the war, and on petition the General Court allowed for their support, between Nov., 1789, and Feb., 1793, £63. 0. 5. Acts and Resolves (new ed.) 1790-1, 251, 487. Ibid., 1792-3, 333.
24 All that I learn of Capt. Nathaniel Belcher's company is that it was at Rhode Island for six months, from July 1, 1778; and that Jona- than Williams, Lieut., Edward Wait, Sergt., and Joseph Worstley, private, were of Chelsea. Military Rolls, i. 1611/2.
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CHAP. XLVI] IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
William Low, Joseph Hasey, Samuel Pratt; the above 12 persons being for Rhoade Island.
Those that went 12 months in the State's Service in 1776 were Thomas Cheever, Samuel Lewis, Samuel Hutton Pratt, Jacob Baker, John Robbins, Jacob Parsons, John Goodin, Henry Blake, Joseph Kittle. Voted them £5 cach. [ Signed by the Committee. ]
Voted to refund to the several persons the sumn set to their names, it being for fines and money paid for the support of the present war.
William Boardinan, £10- 0
Benjamin Henderson,
£10: 0
Capt. Samuel Sargeant,
10: 0
Jonathan Fuller
10: 0
William Oliver,
10: 0
Aaron Boardman, 10: 0
David Beleher,
10:
John Tucksbury, 10: 0
Benjamin Henderson,
10:
Richard Shute,
10: 0
Capt. Samuel Stibbings,
10: 0
Lt. Joshua Cheever,
10: 0
William Low,
10: 0
Caleb Pratt,
10: 0
William Low,
10: 0
Aaron Boardman,
10: 0
Richard Boyinton,
10: 0
Moses Collins,
10: 0
Capt. Jonathan Green,
10: 0
Jesse Upham,
10: 0
Capt. Jonathan Green,
10: 0
Capt. Samuel Sergeant,
10: 0
Joseph Oliver,
10: 0
James Floyd,
10: 0
David Sargeant,
10: 0
Edward Waitt,
10: 0
Ezra Brintuall,
10: 0
Lt. Joshua Cheever,
10: 0
Daniel Pratt,
10: 0
Jonathan Williams,
10:
Joseph Pratt,
10: 0
Richard Watts,
10: 0
Samuel Watts,
10: 0
James Floyd,
10: 0
Samuel Clark,
15:18
Dn. John Sale,
10: 0
Samuel Watts,
10:
Richard Shute,
10: 0
Daniel Pratt,
10: 0
Isaiah Tay,
10: 0
Jesse Upham,
10: 0
James Stowers,
10: 0
Ebenezer Butman,
10: 0
John Tueksbury,
10: 0
Joseph Green,
10:
Jonathan Hawks,
10: 0
James Theksbury,
10: 0
Amos Porter,
10: 0
Samuel Floyd, Jr.,
10: 0
The aforesaid sums voted to be raised on the polls and estates of Chelsea, as soon as conveniently may be.
Chose Lient. Thomas Pratt, Capt. Samuel Sprague, and Capt. Jonathan Greeu a committee to wait upon the Great and General Court, with a petition for removing Mr. John Robbins, his wife and children, from Chelsea, if they cannot be removed any other way.20
Jan. 29, 1779. The town treasurer was directed to pay Timothy Clark £30 for going as a soldier, " sometime last fall," which is in full with the £30 he received on enlisting.
25 Town Ree., ii. 38.
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January 29, 1779. Voted, Joseph Waitt £2-1-3 in part for service in the year past; and March 2, £30 for same.
March 2, 1779. The town treasurer was directed to pay Joseph Waitt £6-7-5, L. M., being part of the sum voted him for his ser- vice in the war last year.26
March 8. Voted, William Boardman £30, being the half part for his son's service as a soldier, he having received the other part of his hire before.
March 8, 1779. Agreeably to a warrant from Col. Jabez Hateh to choose three militia officers, the Town elected Mr. Joseph Pratt, captain; Samuel Pratt, first lieutenant; and Edward Waitt, scc- ond lieutenant. All declined to serve.27
March 22. The town paid Wm. Oliver the third £0-9-2-, part of the present the town voted Lieut. Silas Clark. By said Clark's order.
May 4. John Gooden received £10, in full of a grant made him by Chelsea for services in the war as a soldier.
June 24, 1779. The freeholders and qualified voters, " together with the Training Band and 'Larram List," met at the Meeting- House according " to warrant," and " Lieut. Col. Proctor, Pres'ied [sic] as moderator, for the Choice of melitia officers." Chose Joseph Pratt, captain ; Samuel Pratt, first lieutenant; and Jona- than Hawks, second lieutenant. The town then chose a moder- ator; adjourned " for half an 'our "; and meeting aceording to adjournment finished its business.28
June 24, 1779. Voted to give five men, who are drawn out to go to the Castle to do duty there by order of Col. Jabez Hatch, ten dollars a day, so long as they are obliged to serve therein the state's service.29
August 2. Voted, that the Selectmen take care to provide Cloth- ing for the Soldiers.
Voted to draw Six guns out of the Continental Store for the use of the town. Voted, thirty-six pounds to pay for the above guns.30
Apparently the town relied in part at least on private sub- scriptions for funds to make good the payment promised by the vote of August 2, to the five men drafted to the Castle. I find, in some forgotten place, the following document which substan- tially agrees with that in the Pratt Manuscripts: The words in brackets are from the MS.
26 Chamberlain MSS., VI. 67. 20 Ibid., 47. 30 Ibid.
27 Town Rec., ii. 40, 41.
28 Ibid., 46, 47.
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Chelsea, September, the 29tl, 1779.
We, the subscribers, [paid] to hire Soldiers, to Go to the Castle [for six weeks].
Capt. Jo | na | than Green, 1-10-0; Capt. [ Samuel | Sprague, 1-10-0; [ Lieut.] Daniel Pratt, 1-10-0; Caleb Pratt, 0-18-0; James Floyd, 1-4-0; Capt. | Samuel] Sargeant, 1-4-0; Joseph Tuttel, 1-40; Benjn. Henderson, 1-40; Win. Watts, 0-18-0; L'ut. Jo [na] than Hawks, 1-10-0; Ebenezer Sargent, 0-18-0; Joseph Wait, Junr., 0-12-0; Willm. Newall, 1-10-0; Samll. Hutton Pratt, 1-10-0; Benjn. Pratt, 0-12-0; John Shutc, 0-18-0; Daniel Pratt, Junr., 0-12-0; [Lieut.] Samuel Pratt, 1-16-0. 21-6-0. Paid to Samll. Stibens[ ?] 7-0-0; Paid to Thomas Norris Hasey, 7-0-0. Subseribers to time men, to Go to ye Castle.
August 12, 1779. Voted to [raise] a sum of money [£105,] to pay those five men that went to the Castle for one week to Do Duty there.
Voted to refund to Mr. Jonathan Beleher £10 he paid as a fine when he was Drafted to Do Duty in the State Service.31
October 14, 1779. Voted, five hundred dollars for each man that inlisted or was drafted. After an adjournment of half an hour, voted to raise 220 Dollars more for each man that enlisted or was drafted for three months' service to go to General Wash- ington or elsewhere.
October 19. Voted, the lieutenant that goes in this expedition for 3 months 720 Dollars, as a bounty from the town.32
Oet. 15. James Floyd paid £50 as a fine, being drafted for 3 months' service in the Continental army. (Vide ante, 485.)
Oct. 18, 1779. William Watts, elerk of Capt. Joseph Pratt's company in Col. Jabez Hatch's regiment, took the oath of office before Joseph Greenleaf, J.P.33
Oct. 19. Joseph Pratt received of the town £241, to pay soldiers sent to join Gen. Washington's army.
October 20, 1779. We, the subseribers, do acknowledge our- selves Inlisted Soldiers in the Army of the United States for the term of three months from our arrival at Clavaraek upon Hudson River. Daniel Pratt, Juner, Caleb Pratt, Jun., Samuel Sweetzer, Ezra Farrington, William Alexander, Daniel Lord.34
October 22. Town paid Joseph Pratt £100 to pay Soldiers that are to Joyn the Continental army forthwith; and paid Capt. Samuel Sprague £99-18-0 for Soldiers' time.
11 Town Rec., ii. 48.
83 Pratt MSS.
82 Ibid., 49.
84 Ibid.
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October 25. Town paid Joseph Pratt £165 to hire Soldiers to go into the Continental Army. Chelsea Committee paid same, £75, for same purpose.
December 22. The selectmen to examine the accounts of several persons, and to allow as much as they shall think just and reason- able, and that they draw as much money out of the town's treas- ury to pay said demands, as they shall think necessary.35
Feb. 7, 1780. Paid Daniel Pratt, Jr., £156, for his bounty as a Soldier.
February 10. Paid Caleb Pratt, £164, Bounty for his son Caleb going into the war last fall, and also for the State's Bounty; and Lieut. Samuel Pratt, £113, Bounty Voted him for going into the war.
February 25. Paid Capt. Samuel Sargeant £2-2-0, cash paid to hire Soldiers.
March 13. Paid Joseph Williams £10-13-8, for his and his son's service at Castle William last summer.
May 9, 1780. Voted, Mr. Joshua Cheever take Care of the Town's Guns and ammunition. In 1780 the town was indebted to Capt. Samuel Sprague for moneys paid :
June 15. 500 dollars to Capt. Pratt as a fine when Drafted, £150. July 10. 100 to Caleb Pratt, Jr., for milige.
July 24. 500 dollars to Capt. Pratt for 3 months' men, 26. do. do. do. £150.
27. 200 dollars to Lieut. Samll. Pratt for milige, £60.
June 8. Paid William Newhall £60, in part of an order given him by Selectmen for bounties granted his apprentice.
June 12. Voted to choose a committee of three persons to assist the officers in procuring six men to join the Continental army for 6 months. Chose Capt. Samuel Sargeant, Mr. Henderson, and William Low as the committee. Voted to give each man that voluntarily enlisted to go in the service, 2000 dollars, and to pay the same, when they pass muster.
But a draft became necessary, and between June 15, and July 27, 1780, the following men paid fines of £150 each, according to receipts of Captain Joseph Pratt, or Lieutenant Jonathan Hawks, being drafted as six months' men. There is no assurance of its completeness, being made up from loose receipts.
85 In this and like cases to save space, the words, "the town," are omitted. In all cases also where the words, "voted," or "paid," are used, the words, " the town," will be understood.
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Capt. Jonathan Green, Richard Shute, Lt. Daniel Pratt, Samuel Sargeant, the third, Win. Low, James Floyd, Ezra Brintnall,
Lt. James Stowers,
Sam'll Watts, Esqr., Deacon John Sail [ Sale],
Aaron Boardman, Capt. Samuel Sprague,
Isaiah Tay,
Joseph Green,
Joseph Tuttle,
Lieut. Jonathan Williams,
Sam'll Watts, Junr.,
Edward Waitt,
Sam'll Low (£88-13-6; repaid, Dec. 30, 1780).
Jesea Upton, Wn. Boardman,
Ebenezer Sargeant,
Joseph Belcher,
Ebenezer Butman,
Solomon Shute,
William Oliver,
Sam'll Sargeant, the third.
Jonathan Belcher,
Dav'd Sargeant,
Samuel Sargeant,
Lieut. Joshua Cheever,
Richard Watts,
Wm. Oliver, Junr.,
Isaac Watts, (88:15-6; repaid, April 20, 1781.)
Reuben Warton,
John Tukesbarcy,
Joseph Hacey, Joseph Upton,
Win. Watts.
June 29. Voted to indemnify the committee, and to pay what they agreed with four men, who are to joyn the Continental army for six months. To raise a sum of money to incourage four sol- diers to go into the Continental army for six months. That, Capt. Joseph Pratt, Licut. Samuel Pratt, Lieut. Jonathan Hawks, Capt. Samuel Clark, Lient. James Stowers, Mr. Jesse Upham, James Floyd, and John Theksbury be a committee, to agree with men, as cheap as they can, to go into the service as militia soldiers for the term of three months, and voted to indemnify the said committee in hiring above men.
July 4, 1780. Voted, Nine Thousand, Six Hundred Pounds, Lawful money as a Bounty to Incourage four men to go into the Contenental army for Six months.30
July 5. Paid £300, towards paying four Soldiers that are to go into the Continental Serviee for 6 months. And. from the following paper, fonnd among the Pratt MSS., it appears that the next day several citizens contributed to raise the sum required.
Chelsea, July the 6th, 1780.
A list of those that paid money for six months' men.
30 Town Rec., ii. 55.
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