Documents in this folder:

1. Receipt for two dollars paid by the Town of Southborough to Jeroboam Parker in port towards what he was owed for supplying the pulpit (11/13/1798). Folder: 1003-038.

2. Receipt for six dollars paid by the Town of Southborough to Jeroboam Parker in port towards what he was owed for supplying the pulpit (12/21/1798). Folder: 1003-038

3. Record of a Town Meeting where it was resolved to seek Jeroboam Parker’s settlement as the Town’s preacher. In exchange for his service the town agreed to give him five-hundred dollars for a settlement and eighty pounds salary yearly; the settlement to be paid fifty pounds a year without interest (4/22/1799). Folder: 1003-038

4. Payment of one-hundred and sixteen dollars from the Town of Southborough to Jeroboam Parker for supplying the pulpit (6/14/1799). Folder: 1003-038

5. Payment of twenty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents paid by the Town of Southborough to Cotting Williams for sitting and attending the council at the ordination of Rev. Jeroboam Parker consisting of twenty-five members, for waiting on ten of the wives and handmaids brought by the counsel, and for attending to neighboring ministers on ordination day (1/6/1800). Folder: 1003-038

6. Certification sent from the selectmen to the Town Treasurer that one-hundred and twenty dollars was due to Jeroboam Parker for supplying the pulpit in said town from June 23rd to his ordination, fifteen sabbaths (11/14/1799). Folder: 1003-038

7. Receipt for two-hundred sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents paid by the Town of Southborough to Jeroboam Parker in full for his salary for the year ending October 9th 1806 (12/24/1806). Folder: 1003-038

8. Letter from Jeroboam Parker to the parishioners of Southborough requesting an increase in his salary. Parker wrote: “Were it possible for me with my present resources [...] to support myself and family and attend to the duties of my station, I should not have addressed you on the present occasion, but unhappy experience has taught me that the sum which I annually receive as a compensation for my services is not now sufficient to procure the necessities of life, much less to enable me to discharge the duties of my office without embarrassment. Under these circumstances can I expect to be able to meet the necessary expenses of my family and discharge without disposing of my [...] obligations and demands held against me, which the present month amounted to one-thousand dollars more than what is due to me on my obligations. After having spent about twelve years in the prime of my life in this place under these difficult circumstances, after having submitted to the experiment whether I could live upon a sum which experience has taught me is little more than one half of what would be necessary to support the character and to discharge the duties of my station, and without the prospect of providing for the future exigences of my family” (11/20/1811). Folder: 1003-038