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Early Town Records of
Acton, Massachusetts |
File/page number: 023
| 1738 October 30 | Contract between theTown of Acton and Reverend John Swift |
| 1738 December 28 | Town accounts |
| 1738 January | Town accounts |
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Where as the Town of Acton at a town meeting Duly warned on
May ye 19th 1738 did Invite ye Rev Mr John Swift Into ye
work of ye ministry among them & did allso pass a vote to
Give him two hundred and fifty pounds towards a settlement
and a hundred and fifty pounds sallary yearly
and since at a town meeting October ye 10th 1738 did vote
that said sallary should be kept up in ye value of it
paid at Every half years End yearly & did allso Charge
John Heald Joseph Fletcher Ammirnhama Faulkner John
Brooks Samuel Wheeler & Simon Hunt as a Commett [committee] to
Contract with said Mr Swift about ye said sallary the
Contract & Agreement Between Said mr Swift & Said Commtt is as folloeth
Acton December 28th 1738
[in left margin] out of [illegible] 5-0-0
| 1 | that Said Sallary Shall ^be paid According to ye ould tennor
of the Massachusetss Bills or in an Equivilency of Such Bills
of Credit or lafull [lawful] Currancy as shall pase from time to time |
| 2 | that the value of said Sallary be kept up from time
to time according as it was when voted on may affore sd
according to ye |
| 3 | That the payment of Said Salary continue So long as Said Mr Swift Shall contenue in ye work of ye min- istery in Said Acton & In witness here of Said Mr Swift and Said Committee have here under Set thair hands this 30th Day of October 1738 |
| John Swift |
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| John Heald |
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| ordered on This Book |
Joseph Fletcher |
| of Records Attest |
Ammi Faulkner |
| Simon Hunt
Town Clerk |
Simon Hunt |
| John Brooks |
| To an order to |
}9 - 7 – 6 |
| Acton December ye 28th 1738 to an order to Enoch Cleveland for four pounds out of ye town Rate for keep- ing ye widow Sheperd in full to ye 9 of January Next | }9 – 0 – 0 |
| Acton January Discounted with Mr John Barker for his sarvices being treasurer for ye three first years in full | }3 – 11 - 4 |
| Acton January 1738 to an order to Mr Joseph Fletcher out of ye town Rate for gathering ye Tax Rate in Acton | }2 – 10 - 0 |
| January 1738 to an order to Jonathan Billings out of ye town Rate for Gathering ye tax Rate | }2 – 10 - 0 |
| Acton January 1738 Mr Samuel Prescott Received of
ye towns money for keeping Mr Swift in part |
}4 – 0 - 0 |
