Year 1740 Treasurer's Account
Town of Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony
A _very_ rough transcription of the first page....
| 1739 |
Notes on? Constables to pay on? Town? Accts from 14 May 1739
to 12?.May 1740. |
|
| 1 June | To Note on Const. N. Kidder to pay Col. Goffe? for Rich? Cooper | £ · 7 · 10 · 0 |
| To Ditto to pay N Kidder . . . . . . . | · 0 · 18 · 0 |
| 30 Nov | To Note on Const. Tho? Heill to pay W m Robbins | · 16 · 13 · 6 |
| 3 Dec | To Ditto to pay Andrew Wilson for digging J Mullins grave | · 0 · 10 · 0 |
| To Ditto to Jon? Weinhipp in full for J. Mullin | · 4 · 07 · 4 |
| To Ditto to Jon Adams for Mullin funeral | · 0 · 04 · 8 |
| To Ditto to Jason Weinhipp Wf for laying out J. Mullin | · 0 · 05 · 0 |
| To Ditto to Jason Weinhipp for keeping R. Nixon from 29 ?? to 30 Apr | · 2 · 11 · 0 |
| To Ditto to Jon? Butterfield for ?oon? for J Bulcher & D Bull | · 1 · 09 · 0 |
| 3 Dec | To Note on Const. ? Cook to pay ??? J. Hovey for keeping school to May 17 | · 40 · 00 · 0 |
| To Ditto to Jon? Dickson for a Coffin for Jon? Mullin | · 0 · 18 · 0 |
| 17 . . | To Ditto to Deed? Bowmeen Apep?? 1739 | · 3 · 04 · 0 |
| To Ditto to Eo? Dickson for keeping J. Mullin fro 11 May to 11 June | · 1 · 14 · 6 |
| To Note on Const. Tho? Thu??ing to pay Deed? Spew hawke Apep? 1739 | · 3 · 04 · 0 |
| To Note on Const Tho? Hall to pay on Acct of Rep? of ? H Ways | |
| To Henry Dunster | · 0 · 02 · 0 | James Cutler | · 0 · 12 · 6 | James Cutler J??d | · 0 · 06 · 0 |
| Wm Cutler | · 0 · 06 · 0 | Wm F?on | · 0 · 08 · 0 | Walter Rupil | · 0 · 11 · 0 |
| John Weinhipp | · 0 · 14 · 9 | Wm Weinhipp | · 0 · 12 · 6 | F??a Loch | · 0 · 08 · 0 |
| Wm Cutler | · 0 · 04 · 0 | Mosy Hanfington | · 0 · 04 · 0 | Jos Weinhipp | · 0 · 05 · 6 |
| Ger? Cutler | · 0 · 06 · 6 | Tho? Williams | · 0 · 10 · 6 | Wm Withington? | · 0 · 08 · 0 |
| Tho Tron? | · 0 · 08 · 0 | La? Hill? | · 0 · 11 · 6 | Jon Butterfield | · 0 · 09 · 0 |
| James Swan | · 0 · 04 · 0 | Wm Robbins | · 0 · 04 · 0 | Tho Moores? | · 0 · 12 · 0 |
| Eph? Cook | · 0 · 07 · 0 | Jon? Dickson | · 0 · 02 · 6 | | · · · |
| Jonas Butlerfield | · 1 · 00 · 0 | Jonas Butlerfield Jr? | · 0 · 03 · 0 | Ed? Rupel | · 0 · 01 · 3 |
| Wm Rupel | · 0 · 01 · 0 | Jason Rupel | · 0 · 05 · 0 | Jon Wilson | · 0 · 05 · 0 |
| Capt. Tron? | · 0 · 05 · 0 | Roh Bull | · 0 · 02 · 6 | Wm Butterfield | · 0 · 02 · 6 |
| To Ab? Hill for clothing Jon Butehed?? as pay Acct 1738&9 | · 4 · 03 · 6 |
| To Jonat. Butterfield J?? Apep?? 1739 | · 3 · 04 · 0 |
| To Jon Swein?? in full for Wm Bull | · 1 · 00 · 0 |
| === | | |
| 16 Jan 40 | To Note on Const. Tho? Th?ing on Acct of Rep? ??? Hways?? | |
| More names as above... | |
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Comments encouraged. - Mitchell N Charity
<mcharity@lcs.mit.edu>
Where is this doc from? Upon the death of a long retired
Cambridge government person, his family tossed papers and photos in
the dumpster. I salvaged some in case they changed their minds
(they didn't), and later found this document in a photo's folder.
As Cambridge currently lacks an archives (a proposal is in the
works; most stuff like this is apparently scattered in boxes in
attics), I'll probably turn this over to Harvard, or perhaps the
Cambridge Historical Commission. But for a quirk of fate, this
document would now be landfill. Along with who-knows-how-many-other
documents which are.
My thanks to Keith Glavash of MIT Document Services, and to Donald
York of the Cambridge Public Library.
Notes:
All urls but this one are subject to change.
I've run out of time for the evening. Contributions/comments welcome.
Doables:
This is all very crufty. Cleanup would be nice.
Type out the second page. Review the first.
Put original scans online.
Scan Camb.Hist.Comm. map of 1775 Cambridge to provide context.
What is Camb. 1740 population?
Printable version.
Single image per page.
Describe physical form.
Add search keywords like: budget, mid eighteenth century,
united states colonies, 1739.
History:
2001-Dec-08 Changed title. The page never actually said "account". Sigh.
2000.may.26 Doc scanned. This page created. All very quick-and-dirty.
2000.apr.18 Doc discovered. (Surprise!:)
2000.winter Doc unknowingly salvaged from a garbage dumpster.
1739-1740 Doc written.
