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Brookline's Account1

Suffolk Court of General Sessions, Boston, November 1768

Docno: LJA01d102

Author: Roxbury, town of
Author: White, Benjamin
Author: Gardner, Isaac
Author: Harris, John
Author: Goddard, Jonathan
Author: Griggs, Thomas
Author: Avery, John
Recipient: Brookline, town of
Date: 1768-11-08
Date: 1769-01-31

[dateline] Brookline Novr. 7. 1768

The Town of Roxbury to the Town of Brookline
1767     Dr.  
Jan. 30   To Isaac Gardner Esqr. for boarding Jno. Shattuck and wife 3 days to two mens watching and Attendance     18      
Feby.   To 2 days spent upon said Shattuck [account?]     8      
  To 1 Day Ditto     3      
6   To Deacon Ebenr. Davis for supplying to said Shattuck family     5   8    
  To keeping said Shattuck's horse 18 days     7   8    
  To cash to said Shattuck's wife     6      
  To ½ day his mans attendance on said Shattuck     4      
  To sundry to said Shattucks Family     3   1    
  To 2½ days Attendance on said Shattuck     10      
Mh. 2   To keeping said Shattucks horse 13 weeks @ 3 per week     1   19    
  To Danl. Sanders for watching 4 Nights with said Shattuck     6      
  To Fish and Greenwood for watching with Ditto 1 night     3      
  To Antho. Marion for watching with Ditto 4 nights     6      
  To Edward Williams for Ditto 2 nights     3      
  To George Brown for Ditto 3 nights     4   6    
  To Micah Grout for Ditto 1 night     1   6    
  To Capt. Parker for 2 [ . . . ] candles for Shattuck     1   5   ¾  
Feby. 12   To Benja. White for time and expence to Andover with said Shattuck     14      
22   To time and expence to Ditto     12   11    
  To 2 days on Shattucks Account     8      
  To his mans Attendance on Shattuck     4      
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12th   To Majr. Robert Sharp for time and expence to Andover and cash to the Doctor for said Shattuck   1   13   4    
  To 2½ days Attendance on said Shattuck     10      
  To his sons Attendance on Ditto     1   6    
  To keeping Shattucks horse     3      
  To Mr. John Harris for time and expences to Andover with Shattuck   1   9      
22   To time and expence to Andover and cash to the Doctor for Ditto   1   18      
  To Wood and other Supplies to said Shattuck and family     18   5    
  To Docr. Eliphalet Downer for keeping said John Shattuck and Attendance 8 weeks from the 23d. Feby. 1767 @ 13 per week   5   6   8    
  To Alexdr. Young for Bread and milk for Breakfasts for said Shattuck while in Goal 17 weeks @ 2 per week   1   14      
    £22   2   3   ¾2  
1767            
July 29   To Mr. Enoch Brown for 2 check shirts for said Shattuck   0   15      
Apl. 19   To Benja. White for boarding Mrs. Shattuck and daughter Mary 26 weeks at 10 per week   13   0      
  To keeping Ditto 21 weeks @ 7/4 per week   7   14      
  To keeping Shattuck 24 weeks from the last Octr. @ 8 per week   7   4      
  To keeping said Shattucks horse 25 weeks to grass @ 2 per week   2   10      
1768            
March 15   To keeping Ditto 11 weeks to hay @ 5/4 per week   2   18   8    
  To keeping Mrs. Shattuck and Daughter Mary 23 weeks @ 6 per week   9   18      
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  To nursing said Shattucks daughter Mary in Sickness   0   6   8    
  To keeping Shattuck himself 8 weeks @ 5/4 per week   2   2   8    
  To nursing Ditto in his late sickness   0   5   4    
  To Stephen Brewer for house rent for said Shattucks goods and damages done to His house   1   16      
  To Docr. Jona. Davis for medicine and Attendance for Jno. Shattuck wife and daughtr. Mary from Octr. 2. 1767 to Apl. 29, 1768   4   9   8    
  To Ditto for 1 weeks board   0   12      
    53   12      
  Brot from the other side   22   2   3   ¾  
    75   14   3   ¾  
  Deduct by order the whole keeping of the horse   7   17   11    
  Allowd by the Court and Costs.   £67   16   4   ¾  
Brookline Novr. 8. 1768. Errors Excepted per Benja. White Isaac Gardner John Harris, Jno. Goddard, Thos. Griggs Selectmen of Brookline

[dateline] Boston January 31. 1769

We the Subscribers having Attended the Selectmen of Roxbury and considered the Account exhibited by the Town of Brookline relative to the Pauper Shadwick who was removed from Roxbury to Brookline do report that the Town of Roxbury pay to the Town of Brookline Seventy one pounds fourteen shillings and 3¾3 being in full for their charges in maintaining and supporting said Pauper with their legal costs of prosecution in behalf of John Hill, Samuel Pemberton Esqr. and self John Avery.
 
1. SF 102089.
 
2. Subtotal taken at the end of the first page of the MS account.
 
3. This figure is £0 1s. 7d. less than the amount for which execution issued in March 1769, perhaps reflecting an incomplete computation of costs at this stage. See note 3 above.
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