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2009-100-1No2.35 |
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Bills to the Town,1810-1819 |
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Some tipical invoices |
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This file contains196 handwritten invoices to the Town for the years 1810-1819. They are for services or items authorized by the Selectmen as follows: 1. Payment of $96.73 to Henry Prentiss for rum and other things, 1810. 2. Payment of $23.72 to Robert Harris for rum, etc., 1810. 3. Request by Thomas Appleton to deliver an "order" to John Williams for his services collecting taxes for 1807. 4. Payment of $10.37 to Thomas Thompson for various materials, 1811. 5. Payment of $29.86 to Joseph Gregory & Son for various repairs, 1813. 6. Payment of $10.58 to C. Smith & Co. for paper, nails, bunting, quills, brads, 1816. 7. Payment of $34 to H&D Merritt & Co. for gin and rum, 1816. 8. Payment of $13.75 to Joseph Cloutman for attendance on selectmen and assessors, 1816-1817. 9. Payment of $10.50 to Joseph Cloutman for attendance on highwaymen, 1817. 10. Payment of $22.50 to Robert Harris for painting, etc., 1816-1819. 11. Payment of $10.04 to C. Smith & Co. for paper, nails, locks, callico cotton, 1817-1819. 12. Payment of $46.42 to Thomas B. Phillips for drilling rocks and building wall, 1818. 13. Payment of $22.17 to Joseph Gregory & Son for material and labor, various items, 1819. 14. Payment of $16.15 to Joseph Cloutman for attending to seletcmen, notifying town officers and selectmen, 1819. 15. Payment of $52.75 to William H. Reynolds for building chimneys, 1819-1820. 16. Payment of $16.65 to Joseph Gregory & Son for repairs to schools, etc., 1819. 17. Payment of $32.37 to William Thompson, 1819-1820. 18. Payment of $11.02 to Joseph Goodwin for candles, tallow, 1812-1813. 19. Payment of $31.50 to John Pedrick, 1816. 20. Payment of $44.50 to William Hawkes for travel services, 1816. 21. Payment of $34.50 to William Hawkes for travel services, horse and chaise, 1816. 22. Payment of $17.50 to Joseph Cloutman for attendance on selectmen, 1817-1818. 23. Payment of $46.42 to Jonathan Kemp and Thomas B. Phillips for drilling rocks, building wall, 1818. 24. Payment of $8.08 to J. Newhall for run, 1810. 25. Payment of $62.23 to Joshua Prentiss for office supplies for the selectmen, 1810. 26. Payment of $4.89 to Joseph Hidden for rum, 1810. 27. Payment of $2.60 to Joshua Prentiss for paper, postage, etc., 1810. 28. Payment of $18.79 to John Williams for nails, quills, ink powder, 1810. 29. Payment of $4.62 to Thomas Thompson, 1810. 30. Payment of $17 to Benjamin Loring for record books, 1810. 31. Payment of $15.57 to William Cloon for rum, etc., 1810. 32. Payment of $54.88 to Joseph Barker for board and joists, July-August 1810. 33. Payment of $11.37 to Thomas Grant for "attending" selectmen, November 1813 to March 1814. 34. Payment of $14.50 to William Hawkes for horse and chaise to Salem on multiple days in December 1813. 35. Paymennt of $2.55 to John Prentiss for rum, 1813. 36. Payment of $6.32 5o John Williams for paper, quills, locks, nails, etc., 1813. 37. Payment of $90.35 to John Traill for spikes, planks and cord wood for schools, 1813. 38. Payment of $1.49 to Joshua Prentiss for postage of selectmen's letters, 1813. 39. Payment of $5.66 to Nathaniel Phillips for repairs to pumps, 1813. 40. Payment of $6.00 to Thomas Nicholson for "warning" and setting town watch, 1813. 41. Payment of $9.96 to Samuel Bartoll, 1817. 42. Payment of $7.18 to Samuel Turner for rum, 1816. 43. Payment of $1.50 to Henry Rea for shingles, joists and carting poles, 1816. 44. Payment of $9.03 to Swett Kingsbury for plants, boards, timber, 1815-16. 45. Payment of $41.73 to Joseph HIdden for rum, 1816. 46. Payment of $2.16 to George Trask, 1817-18. 47. Payment of $5.00 to Joseph Cloutman for attendance on the assessors, 1818. 48. Payment of $51.80 to John Traill for boards, timber, 1818. 49. Payment of $33 to William Gardner for drilling, 1818. 50. Payment of $6.25 to John Thompson, 1818. 51. Certification of settlement of account and payment to Joseph Hidden of $146.19, August 1818. Signed y Joseph Swett, Richard Homan and John Pedrick. 52. Payment of $4.17 to Porter & Green for brooms, paper, locks, etc., 1818. 53. Payment of $7.69 to Joseph Graves for repairs, 1819. 54. Payment of $5.15 to George Trask for padlock, whitewash brush, bellows, shoes, rat trap, stock lock, 1819-20. 55. Payment of $57.97 to Joshua Prentiss for carrying votes for governors to Secretary of State's office, attending assessors' office, recording deaths and births, 1816. 56. Payment of $4.93 to H.G. Gallison for files, nails, locks, 1812. 57. Payment of $16.50 to William Hawkes for sleigh to Salem, Lynnfield, Danvers and Boston on various dates, 1817. 58. Payment of $5.34 to Levi Morse for hooks, hinges, shoes, nails, etcl, 1817. 59. Payment of $17.25 to John Pedrick for "days at" Salem, Topsfield, Amesbury, Newburyport, Ipswich, Danvers, Boston, 1814. 60. Payment of $33.90 to Richard Martin, 1809 through 1811. 61. Payment of $3.33 to Abraham F. Stone, 1813. 62. Payment of $106.81 to William Blackler for 30 cord and 4' of wood for the town, 1813. 63. Payment of $7.64 to John Pedrick for posting letters, etc., 1813-1814. 64. Payment of $7.50 to Levett Kingsbury, 1813. 65. Payment of $12.65 to Phelps & Humphreys for 12 pounds of chocolate, etc., 1813. 66. Payment of $25.77 to John Besom, 1812. 67. Payment of $7.00 to Levi Morse, 1818. 68. Payment of $.66 cents to Thomas(?) Calley, 1818. 69. Payment of $3.50 to John Pritchard for what appears to be legal fees, 1814. 70. Payment of $6.84 to Samuel Turner , 1812. 71. Payment of $18.06 to John Williams for paper, nails, quills, 1812. 72. Payment of $1.36 to Isaac Story for nails and boards, 1812. 73. Payment of $41.37 for unknown service to the town and no name, May 1815. 74. Payment of $17.50 to Henry Prentiss for travel expenses, 1813. 75. Payment of $18.22 to Samuel Knight for posting letters and travel expenses, 1814. 76. Payment of $15.75 to John Pedrick for legal services(?), 1816-1817. 77. Payment of $86 to William Hawkes for cord wood, 1814. 78. Payment of $5.25 to William Thorner for transportation services on various days and various destinations, 1814. 79. Payment of $3.00 to Thomas Kemp, 1816. 80. Payment of $11.75 to William Hawkes for chaise services to Salem, Danvers, Beverly, on various dates, 1817. 81. Payment of $23 to William Thompson for sleigh to Danvers, Salem, Boston, on various dates, 1816. 82. Payment of $8.02 to William Blackler for plank boards, 1814. 83. Payment of $19 to William Kinsman, dated Ipswich, November 1, 1818. 84. Payment of $5.00 to Ralph French for legal services, 1819. 85. Payment of $6.00 to Ralph Franch for legal services, 1816. 86. Payment of $8.00 to Joseph Cloutman for attending town meetings, April 1810. 87. Payment of $4.00 to William Reed, May 29, 1817. 88. Payment of $2.00 to John Harris for mending six chairs, 1818. 89. Payment of $25 to George Barker for shingles delivered to John Harris, August 8, 1810. 90. Payment of $6.62 to Joshua Prentiss for travel expenses to Salem, August 1810. 91. Payment of $2.20 to Phillips & Homan mending pumps, 1809-1811. 92. Payment of $9.25 to Ebenezer Porter for repairs to wheelbarrows(?), 1810. 93. Payment of $1.00 to Thomas Nicholson for cleaning selectmen's room and washing curtains, 1810. 94. Payment of $6.00 to Thomas Appleton, 1810. 95. Payment of $63.13 to Joshua Prentiss for notifying inhabitants and recording deaths, 1811. 96. Certification that Thomas Appleton produced receipts from the state and county treasurer for payment of his taxes for 1807. Signed by Joshua Prentiss, Joseph Swett and John Pedrick, assessors. 97. Note signed by Joseph Lackey, March 1811. 98. Payment of $6.00 to Joseph Cloutman for attending 6 town meetings, 1811. 99. Payment of $5.50 to Thomas Grant for attendance on selectmen, May to January 1814. 100. Payment of $60.25 to Joshua Prentiss for salary as town clerk, 1813. 101. Payment of $8.00 to Thomas Grant for attending town meetings, May, June and September 1813(?) 102. Payment of $1.33 to Daniel Weed for repairs to lanterns, 1812-1813. 103. Payment of $6.00 to Thomas Grant for attendance on the watch, 1813. 104. Payment of $16.41 to John Sparhawk for traven expenses, 1814. 105. Payment of $5.00 to Joseph Cloutman for attending town meetings, 1814. 106. Payment of $6.00 to Joseph Cloutman for attendance on the watch, 1813. 107. Payment of $6.50 to Thomas Grant for attending town meetings, 1813. 108. Payment of $1.50 to Lot Peach for labor, 1815. 109. Payment of $10.90 to Joshus Prentiss for travel expenses to Boston with the Elections Committee, 1814. 110. Payment of $1.88 to Thomas Cloutman, December 26, 1816. 111. Payment of $38.62 to William Elliot for boards, 1816. 112. Payment of $2.50 for hauling wood, October 1815 and July 1816. 113. Payment of $1.68 to John Traill for board and timber, November 1815. 114. Payment of $1.02 to Arnold Martin for timber, September 1816. 115. Payment of $31.50 to Edmund Kimball for shingles, 1816. 116. Payment of $5.00 to Thomas B. Phillips for labor, 1817. 117. Payment of $5.00 to Jonathan Kemp for labor, 1817. 118. Payment of $20.53 to John Traill for timber, board, joists, 1817. 119. Payment of $2.33 to Caleb Prentiss, June 1817. 120. Payment of $25 to Joseph Cloutman for attending town meetings, 1817. 121. Payment of $21 to Joseph Cloutman for attending town meetings, 1818. 122. Payment of $4.14 to Joshua Prentiss for writing bond for town treasurer, recoording deaths and births, etc., 1818. 123. Payment of $3.07 to Joshua Prentiss for paper, quills, recording births and deaths, 1818. 124. Payment of $20 to James Martin for carting rocks, August 1818. 125. Payment of $3.05 to Joshua Prentiss for paper for the selectmen, recording deaths and births, 1818. 126. Payment of $50 to Joshua Prentiss for one years' salary as town clerk, 1818. 127. Payment of $.75 cents to Abigail Cloutman for cleaning selectmen's room and making window curtins, July 1818. 128. Payment of $.50 cents to Joseph Cloutman for attendance on highwaymen, March 1818. 129. Payment of $26 to Joseph Cloutman for attending town and jury meetings, 1819. 130. Payment of $8.15 to Daniel Weed, December 7, 1819. 131. Payment of $6.96 to Benjamin Smith for a pump repairs, July 1819. 132. Payment of $4.38 to Levett Kingsbury for bark and wood, November-December 1818. 133. Payment of $6.00 to Richard Lindsey for labor, August 1814. 134. Payment of $19 to Thomas Bartlett for labor, November 1814. 135. Receipt for payment of $115 to Billy Emerson for a yoke of oxen about seven years' old, February 1819. 136. Payment of $4.50 for boards, February 1818. 137. Payment to Thomas Martin, 1814. 138. Payment of $3.00 to William Sandin, October 1814. 139. Payment of $16 to Joseph Antony for 16 days' labor, 1814. 140. Payment of $8.00 to Samuel Mowatt for 16 days' labor, 1814. 141. Payment of $2.75 to William Thompson for horse and chaise to Lynn and Salem, 1818. 142. Payment of $100 to David Foster, August 18, 1816. 143. Payment of $2.00 to William Russell Shelton for labor and payment of $2.00 to William Brown for labor, 1813. 144. Payment of $60 to Richard Phillips for salary from April 1, 1813, to October 1, 1813. 145. Payment of $30 to Richard Phillips for salary, ending April 1, 1812. 146. Payment of $8.75 to Nathaniel B. Martin for travel expenses, 1813. 147. Payment of $2.92 to John Wyman, 1813. 148. Payment of $12 to the Town of Andover for supporting Sarah Smith from July to September 1813, 6 weeks at $2/per week. Signed by William Johnson, Joshua Chandler and Dean Carlton. 149. Payment of $3.87 to Ebenezer Porter, September 1813. 150. Payment of $3.02 to Levett Kingsbury for timber, 1812. 151. Payment of $1.56 to Benjamin Reed for tallow and candles, October 1812. 152. Payment to Richard Prince, June 1812. 153. Payment of $.30 cents to Isaac Story for a water bucket, November 12, 1811. 154. Payment of $15.26 to Isaac Collyer for shingles, June 1812. 155. Payment of $43.74 to John Pedrick for boards, plank, May-June 1812. 156. Payment to Benjamin Knight for chaise to Salem, 1812. 157. Payment of $3.22 to John Traill for joists and planks, 1812. 158. Payment of $48 to John Besom for 12 cord of pine wood, including wharfage and carting, January 1815. 159. Payment of $4.45 to Levi Morse, 1817. 160. Payment of $2.00 to Richard Martin for one chopping block, Januar 1812. 161. Payment of $3.60 to John Goodwin for 18 leader posts, August 14, 1812. 162. Payment of $6.00 to William French for legal services, December 1812. 163. Payment of $30 to William Hawkes, September 19, 1814. 164. Payment of $11.41 to Benjamin Dodd for balance due from Estate of John Andre(?), 1814. 165. Payment of $5.72 to Richard Homan for travel to Ipswich, Lynn, Salem and Danvers on July 5, 1814. 166. Payment to Devereux Bartlett for bushels of ashes, December 1814. 167. Payment of $112 to Captain John Pedrick on account, June 8, 1816. 168. Payment to Andrew Laskey for a wagon to Boston, Salem and downtown on numerous occasions, 1816. 169. Payment of $3.00 to Richard Homan for services at Boston, July 5 and August 21, 1816. 170. Payment of $15.70 to William P. Brown in connection with the Estate of John Brown, February 1817. 171. Payment of $5.81 to Thomas Fettyplace for wharfage of 46-1/2 cord of wood, 1816. 172. Payment of $15 to John Martin, 1816. 173. Payment of $2.75 to Richard Homan for services at Topsfield, Beverly, Danvers, March 1817. 174. Payment of $8.25 to John Pedrick for services at Danvers and Salem on various dates, 1817. 175. Payment of $6.21 to Richard Homan for services at Salem, Boston, Lynn, on varoius dates, 1815-1816. 176. Payment of $32.50 to Joseph Wilson for wood, December 28, 1814. 177. Payment of $9.00 to Andrew Wadden for labor, November 1814. 178. Payment of $30 to Richard Phillips for salary, 1815. 179. Payment to Thomas Standley, March 1816. 180. Payment of $66.87 to Gardner Hathaway, January 1817. 181. Payment of $10 to Peter Harrington, August 1814. 182. Payment to William Hawkes for posting letters, 1815. 183. Payment of $10 to Jonathan Small for labor, 1814. 184. Payment of $30 to Richard Phillips for salary from October 1 to January 1, 1815. 185. Payment of $6.21 to Joseph Brown for labor, July 1813. 186. Payment of $30 to Richard Phillips for salary, October 1814. 187. Payment of $8.75 to Knott Martin, February 1814. 188. Payment of $20 to H. Merritt(?), December 1814. 189. Payment of $14.10 to Benjamin Andrews for lumber, June 1814. 190. Payment of $7.36 to Levi Morse, 1818. 191. Payment of $6.65 to John Russell, 1817. 192. Payment of $1.50 to Richard Homan for one day's service at Lynnfield, September 1817. |
Subjects |
Invoices |
Date |
1810 |
Year Range from |
1810 |
Year Range to |
1819 |
Catalog date |
2023-04-11 |
People |
Andre, John Andrews, Benjamin Antony, Joseph Appleton, Thomas Barker, George Barker, Joseph Barns, Rachel Bartlett, Devereux Bartlett, Thomas Bartoll, Samuel Besom, John Blackler, William Borden, Samuel Bowen, William Brown, John Brown, Joseph Calley, Thomas(?) Carlson, Deen Chandler, Joshua Cloon, Andrew Cloon, William Cloutman, Abigail Cloutman, Joseph Collyer, Isaac, Jr. Dodd, Benjamin Eaton, Benjamin Elliot, William Emerson, Billy Evans, Simon Fettyplace, Thomas Foster, David French, Ralph H. Gallison, H.G. Gardner, William S. Goodwin, John Goodwin, Joseph Grant, Thomas Graves, Joseph Graves, Samuel Gregory, Joseph Harrington, Peter Harris, John L. Harris, Robert Hathaway, Gardner Hathaway, Jeremiah Hawkes, William Hidden, Joseph Homan, Richard, Jr. Johnson, William, 3rd Kemp, Jonathan Kemp, Thomas Kimball, Edmund Kingsbury, Leavett Kingsbury, Swett Knight, Benjamin Knight, Samuel Lackey, Joseph Lindsey, Richard Loring, Benjamin Martin, Arnold Martin, James Martin, John Martin, Knott Martin, Nathaniel B. Martin, Richard Martin, Thomas Merritt, Henry Morse, Levi Mowatt, Samuel Newhall, Joel Nickelson, Thomas Papoon, Solomon Peach, Lot Pedrick, John Phillips, Nathaniel Phillips, Richard Phillips, Thomas B. Porter, Ebenezer Prentiss, Caleb Prentiss, Henry Prentiss, Joshua Prentiss, Mary Prince, Richard Pritchard, John Rea, Henry Reed, Benjamin T. Reed, William Reynolds, William H. Russell, John Sanden, William Shelton, William Russell Small, Jonathan Smith, Cyrus Smith, John C. Smith, W. Benjamin Sparhawk, John Standley, Thomas Stone, Abraham F. Story, Isaac Suther, Calvin Swett, Joseph Thompson, John Thompson, Thomas Thompson, William Thorner, William Traill, John Trask, George Turner, Samuel Wadden, Andrew Waters, John Weed, Daniel Wheeler, Richard Williams, John Wilson, Joseph Wyman, John |
Search Terms |
Old Town records |
Lexicon category |
10: Unclassifiable Artifacts |
Lexicon sub-category |
Need to Classify |
Collection |
Gosling Collection |
Condition |
Fair |
Condition Notes |
As these papers were collected over a period of 10 years and were stored in various unknown buildings and places were retrieved and sorted by volunteers in 1965 (about 100 years or more after they were made) and remained apparently undisturbed since then the papers we have are in good condition. However some have been water damaged. |