said Timothy Hodgdon of the beforementioned twenty one Acres and two thirds of an Acre of Land These may Certify whom it doth concern, that in the year 1774 I the Subscriber having full power from Sir William Pepperrell then of Roxbury in this Commonwealth (but now an Absentee) did bargain with & Sell to Mr Timothy Hodgdon of Arundel 212/3 Acres of Land or thereabouts lying in said Arundel at 12/ p' Acre for a considerable part of which said Hodgdon actually paid in his labor before the present War began. Witness my hand John Sparhawk Mr Hodgdon's Acco' of Labour which he says he is ready to make Oath to Amounts to--Lawf' Money £11..8.. Also paid Abiel Mirrell the Rates for the place in 1767 £2.. 12 Total £14 :0 John Sparhawk Order Relating to Collectors of Excise. Commonwealth of Massachusetts In Senate Febry 11th 1783 Whereas this Court have made Choice of Samuel Henshaw Esq to be Collector of Excise for the County of Suffolk Samuel Ward Esq' for the County of Essex, Elijah Hunt Esq' for the County of Hampshire, William Drew Esq' for the County of Plimouth, Joseph Nye Esq' for the County of Barnstable, Samuel Fales Esq' for the County of Bristol, Jonathan Chesley Chadbourn Esq' for the County of York, Mr Caleb Ammidown for the County of Worcester, Joseph North Esq' for the County of Lincoln, Cap' William Bacon for the County of Berkshire Ordered, that the Secretary be and he hereby is directed forthwith to notify the aforenamed Gentlemen of their Elections, and request their Answers respectively Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid In the House of Representatives February 11th 1783. Tristram Dalton Spk' Approv❜d John Hancock Resolve in re Allowance of Collectors. Commonwealth of Massachusetts The committee of Both Houses appointed to take into Consideration the proper allowance to be made to the Collectors of Excise in this Commonwealth have considered that Matter: and report the Following Resolve — Aaron Wood p' Order Resolved, that the following allowance be made to the Several Colectors of Excise for the present year which shall be in full for their Respective Services and Necessary assistance. Viz-To the Collectors for the Counties of Suffolk & Essex Two p' cent on the sums they shall respectively Collect. To the Collector for the County of Middlesex three p cent. on the sum he shall Collect To the Collectors for the Counties of York Cumberland Lincoln & Berkshier, Five p' Cent and to the Collectors of the other counties in this Commonwealth Four p' Cent In Senate Feb 10th 1782 Read & accepted Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid't In the House of Representatives Feb 11th 1783 Sent up for concurrence Having been pleased with the advice of Council in the year 1781 to nominate and appoint me Register of Probate for the County of York-I would beg leave to observe, that, the fees and perquisites thereof are too inconsiderable to enable me to give that attention to it that such an office requires As I am meditating a remove to a distant part of the County, where it will be inconvenient to have the office kept; I ask leave to resign; and, that your Excellency would be pleased to nominate some other person to that office in my stead. I am respectfully your Excellency's most obedient humble Jn° Sewall jun' servant Daniel Sewall of York Resolve directing the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court to proceed to regulate the Principal & Interest on Depreciation Rates from the returns made in the Secretaries Office returns made Lieut Aaron Skinner Resolve Relating to Indians. Common Welth of Massachusetts in Senate February 13 1783 the Committee of both Houses appointed to consider the governors message of the 7 February instant have attended that service & ask Leave to Report the following Resolve Jedidiah Preble p' order Whereas there are now in this Town two Indians of the Penobscot Tribe, Capt Neptune & a young Indian Lad and whereas the situation of our Publick affairs in the Eastern parts of this Common welth makes it necessary to keep up a Friendly intercorse with Said Tribe Therefore Resolved that the Commissary general be and he hereby is directed forth with to procure one uniform Coat, Two Hats, two Shirts, two Pare of Indian Stockins one Blanket & two pare of Shoes & two pares of Breeches & deliver the Same to Said Indians & Charge the Same to this Common welth Read & Accepted Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid In the House of Representatives Febry 14th 1783 Read and concurred Approv'd Tristram Dalton Spk' John Hancock A Two Hundred Powder one Hundred & Fifty of Balls B three Hundred Shot Two Hundred Flints Knives Sixty Hatchets fifty Tin Kittles Twenty Thred Twenty Large Needles one Thousand wormers sixty Steels to strike Fire sixty one Hundredth of Tobacco Ten small Arms Commonwealth of Massachusetts Resolves in re Abatement and Assessments of Taxes. day of In the House of Representatives Feb 13th 1783. Resolved that the selectmen & assessors of the several Towns & districts within this Commonwealth, shall meet together at some place within their respective Towns or districts, on the next, of which meeting they shall give previous notice seven days at least before the said time of meeting, by posting the same up in two or more public places, within their respective towns or districts, at which meeting they shall abate and discharge one fifteenth part of the quota, of their said towns or districts of the second moiety of the continental Tax, granted in the last session of the general court, & that the said abatement shall be credited and allowed on the taxes of those persons who in the Judgment of said selectmen & assessors, would be most distressed by the Collection thereof. And the said Selectmen shall forthwith make out fair & legible duplicate lists of the names of the persons whose Taxes they may abate as aforesaid & the sums to be to them respectively credited in the said Tax, one whereof they shall deliver to the constable or Collector in whose hands the assignments of the said Tax are & the other to the town Clerk where any such officer is, and where there is not, shall be retained in the hands of the said selectmen or assessors, And it is further resolved that the Treasurer of this Commonwealth be & he hereby is directed to credit to the several Towns, who now stand charged their respective Quota, of |