Documents in this folder:

1) Payment of ten pounds from the Town of Southborough to John Hervey for enlisting in the Continental Army and passing muster (3/3/1777). Mylar Sheet 1, Document 1.

2) Payment of ten pounds from the Town of Southborough to Edmund Moore and Capt. William Winchester for enlistment in Continental Service (7/5/1777). Mylar Sheet 1, Document 2.

3) Payment of six pence to Ezekiel Collins for “belt and scabbard to a bayonet lost in the service of the three-month militia” (5/14/1777). Mylar Sheet 2, Document 3.

4) Note from the committee of Arrangement in Boston and Charlestown relative to the service of James Dunton of Southborough as a soldier under Captain Francis Greene’s company (No Date). Mylar Sheet 2, Document 4.

5) Payment of six shillings from the Town of Southborough to Captain Aaron Fay for “one and a half days numbering the people” (3/1/1777). Mylar Sheet 2, Document 5.

6) Payment of ten pounds from the Town of Southborough to William Onthank Jr. for enlisting in the Continental Army for three years (7/5/1777). Mylar Sheet 3, Document 6.

7) Payment by the Town of Southborough of “thirty pounds as a bounty for one soldier to Claverack for three months, also sixteen pounds for mileage for the same soldier” (11/9/1779). Mylar Sheet 3, Document 7.

8) Payment of ten pounds from the Town of Southborough to Joseph Fay for enlisting in the Continental Army for three years (7/5/1777). Mylar Sheet 3, Document 8.

9) Payment of twenty-four pounds made by the Town of Southborough to Hezekiah Fay for “transporting the baggage of Captain Elijah Bellows Company in a campaign to New Jersey in full” except the charge that arose from a horse that was stolen in Hartford upon his return (8/26/1777). Mylar Sheet 3, Document 9.

10)“The Town of Southborough, it’s Selectmen and Sundry found the family of Joseph Buck agreeable to a late act of the general assembly of this state to provide for the families of [...] inhabitants [..] in the continental army at the stipulated price and the overplus paid by the town”. Beginning on 10/2/1777 the family of Joseph Buck was provided 7 cords of wood, 4 pounds of lamb, 5 pounds of salted pork, 4 bushels of rye, 95 pounds of beef, 4.5 bushels of potatoes, 12 pounds of cheese, a pair of boys shoes, 7 bushels of indian meal, and 4 pounds of wool. The Town of Southborough purchased the aforementioned goods from William Onthank at the stipulated price of 21 pounds, 18 shillings, 10 pence, and 3 farthings (2/16/1778). Mylar Sheet 4, Document 10.

11) Payment from the Town of Southborough to Asahel Mathews for providing goods to the family of Joseph Bucks while he was in the Continental Service (No Date). Mylar Sheet 4, Document 11.

12) Payment of three shillings and four pence from the Town of Southborough to Thomas Stone for “making three boxes for the use of the town for bullets” (March 1776). Mylar Sheet 4, Document 12.

13) Payment of ten pounds and fifteen shillings from the Town of Southborough to Josiah Fay for “traveling to and from Cambridge to attend the provincial conference from 2/1/1775-2/17-1775”, “to travel to attend the congress at Concord”, and attend the said conference from 3/22/1775-4/15/1775. (2/16/1776). Mylar Sheet 4, Document 13.

14) Payment of ten pounds from the Town of Southborough to Jesse Amsden for enlisting in the Continental Army for three years (7/5/1777). Mylar Sheet 5, Document 14.

15) Payment of fourteen pounds from the Court Committee to the Selectmen for the purpose of purchasing fourteen blankets for the use of the continental army (3/21/1777). Mylar Sheet 5, Document 15.

16) Payment of one-hundred-ninety-nine pounds, eight shillings, and six pence from the Town of Southborough to the committee to provide clothing to Continental Soldiers.The committee was comprised of Isaac Johnson, Nathan Bridges, William Onthank, Hezekiah Fay, Elijah Brigham, and Nathan Brigham. With the money provided by the town, they were able to purchase: 13 pairs of shoes, 13 pairs of stockings, 12 shirts, 49 yards of cloth, 30 knots of thread, 31-dozen buttons, 2 coats, and 13 pairs of britches; all of which were transported to the Continental Army’s camps (5/18/1778). Mylar Sheet 6, Document 16.

17) “We the subscribers- selectmen, committee of correspondence, and militia officers received an act from the general assembly of this state to raise one fourth part of the able bodied to join the Continental Army at New York. Pursuant of said act we the respectable officers met on the 5th instant and joined into one joint body in order to raise the above mentioned men”. The town chose Lieutenant William Collins as chairman, and voted to draft persons for terms in the militia:

Jotham Bellows, Gideon Newton, John Phillips, Luke Newton, Lemuel Newton, James Stone, Amos Newton, and Carly Moore. Isaac Johnson, Edward Chamberlain, John Amsden, Ephraim Ward, Thomas Hudson, Capt. Nathan Brigham, Solomon Newton, Nathan Taplin, Moses Bruce and Solomon Lenard paid their fines.

“The following are the persons appointed to do the service in person”: Elijah Bellows, Elisha Fay, Isaac Ball, John Phillips, Francis Fay, Heman Fay, Carly Moore, Edmund Moore, James Stone, Lemuel Chamberlain, Alexander Watson, Luke Newton, Nehemiah Parker, Stephen Bellows, Lemuel Newton and Gideon Newton. (12/4/1776)

“Voted that Lieutenant Matthews pay William Williams two pounds, fourteen shillings for going to York out of the fines paid by Thomas Stone 9/30/1776. Voted to allow Lt. Mathews two pounds sixteen shillings paid to Moses Brigham for going to Ticonderoga. Asahel Mathews paid the remainder of said fine four pounds and ten shillings to the within named persons. Twenty shillings of the within money deposited in the town treasurer which remained of the within money and twenty shillings in the hands of Capt. Elijah Bellows which remained of Elijah Newton’s fine paid last September”. (12/16/1776)

Gideon Newton Jr. paid a fine of 12 pounds for refusing to march in accordance with the Acts of the General Assembly (12/18/1776).

Daniel Morse was hired to serve 3 years in the Continental Army and was paid 10 pounds (12/27/1776).

Nathan Bridges paid a fine of 12 pounds for refusing to march in accordance with the Acts of the General Assembly. Lemuel Newton was substituted for his Service. (1/27/1777). Mylar Sheet 7, Document 17.

18) Agreement with the Continental Soldiers: “We the subscribers being enlisted soldiers for the Town of Southborough and mustered for the term of three years, do by these presents mutually and severally agree with the Town for one hundred Spanish milled dollars a year and in that proportion of money from this date as long as we are held in the service and till we return home with a reasonable time allowed us to return home after our discharge, and we have each of us now received of Lt. William Winchester, Heman Fay, and Joshua Smith a committee to hire soldiers, fifty Spanish milled dollars in part of the above mentioned sum. Notes for the remainder shall be due to us.” Signed by the following soldiers: Rufus Hemingway, John Amsden, Francis Moore, Silas Amsden, Hezekiah Bridges, Ebenezer Collins, Henry Collins, and James Capen (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 8, Document 18.

19) Payment of fifty pounds from the Town of Southborough to Samuel Lyscom for procuring 75 pounds of gunpowder, 230 pounds of bullets, and 250 flints (3/2/1746). Mylar Sheet 9, Document 19.

20) Correspondence sent to the Town of Southborough by the General Court’s Committee to Settle Disputes Between Towns and Companies of Men Returned More Than Once as Soldiers in the Continental Army. Southborough’s Selectmen and Militia Officers were asked to meet with the committee at the house of Samuel Waters, innholder in Sutton to resolve their disputes with Westborough and Groton (6/3/1775). Mylar Sheet 10, Document 20.

21) Agreement for Captain Seth Newton (on behalf of the Town) to pay Ephraim Breed eighty bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof for enlisting as a soldier in the expedition for three months to Claverack (7/10/1780). Mr. Breed received 200 dollars on 1/8/1781. Mylar Sheet 10, Document 21.

22) Payment of ten pounds from the Town of Southborough to Kerley Moore for enlisting in the Continental Army (7/5/1777). Kerley authorized that the payment be made to Capt. William Winchester, and it was received 7/9/1777. Mylar Sheet 11, Document 22.

23) Agreement for Captain Seth Newton (on behalf of the Town) to pay Frank Downs eighty bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof for enlisting as a soldier in the expedition for three months to Claverack (7/10/1780). Mr. Downs received 90 pounds on 2/7/1781. Mylar Sheet 11, Document 23.

24) Payment of two pounds, ten shillings, six pence from the Town of Southborough to John Amsden for taking the general invoice and making rates in 1741. This was paid to the town out of the powder rate to procure the stock of ammunition (3/29/1742). Mylar Sheet 11, Document 24.

25) In the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts Bay: “It appears to this court that the town of Southborough [was] overcharged in the last tax act the sum of 780 pounds by reason that the said town was fined the sum of 600 pounds for deficiency in not having raised six men for filling up the 16th battalion, which men were actually raised by the said town and listed into Col. Crane’s regiment at Boston, whereby the said town is actually entitled to the thirty pound bounty by the resolves of this court, which amounts to 180 pounds that [was] not allowed to [Southborough] in the said tax bill.” Therefore, it is resolved that 780 pounds be paid to the town of Southborough. (4/24/1779). Mylar Sheet 12, Document 25.

26) Correspondence sent from Moses Wheelock Lt. Col. at Westborough to the Militia Officers, Selectmen, and Committee for Correspondence in Southborough: “Gentlemen, I have received orders from Col. Denney this moment for one half of the training band and alarm list to be ordered to march toward Bennington and you are directed to order one half of your training band and alarm list [...] to proceed immediately to join the army in or about Bennington, or wherever they may be ordered to be provided with eight days provisions with arms and ammunitions according to law, and to go with hopes if possible with the greatest despatch.” On the same document, Joshua Smith included a note requesting that Maj. Champney meet him at Captain Maynard’s place at 6 O'Clock that evening (8/20/1777). Mylar Sheet 13, Document 26.

27) Order from the Selectmen requesting that the Treasurer of Southborough pay “persons who you shall have satisfactory evidence from Captain Benjamin Parlier that enlisted” as one of the men called for to be detached from the militia company of the Town of Southborough”. The following persons received two dollars each: John Collins, William Collins, Joseph Woods, Hollis Ward, Samuel Howe, Phineas Brigham Jr, Jonathan Pike, Joel Onthank, Elijah Ward, Ephraim Newton, Jasper Adams, Elijah Johnson, Aaron Collins, Jeremiah Newton, and Seth Newton (8/8/1807) Mylar Sheet 14, Document 27.

28) Discharge of Levi Dunton: “We the subscribers (Jonathan Grout and Amos Davis) did in the beginning of the year 1777 enlist Levi Dunton as a soldier into the service of the United States during the present War, and did pay him his hire and bounty” (8/19/1782) Mylar Sheet 15, Document 28.

29) Payment of eight pounds, sixteen shillings from the Town of Southborough to Dr. Joshua Smith for “three journeys to Boston to hire men into the army” in May and June 1778 (9/2/1778). Mylar Sheet 15, Document 29.

30) Order from the Selectmen requesting that the Treasurer of Southborough pay “three-hundred-and-twenty dollars old Continental money” to Hezekiah Fay. The said money was lent by Mr. Fay to the town for the purpose of raising soldiers (1/23/1783). Mylar Sheet 16, Document 30.

31) Disbursement of Revolutionary War Expenses from the Massachusetts Quartermaster General's Dept: 14 pounds paid to the town of Southborough for 7 blankets provided to continental soldiers in 1777 (6/23/1791). Mylar Sheet 16, Document 31.

32) Payment of eleven pounds, thirteen shillings from the Town of Southborough to William Collins, Jonathan Champney, and Joshua Smith for “a journey to Sutton” to resolve “a dispute between the towns of Westborough, Grafton, and Southborough concerning [soldiers] returned by each of the said towns (9/2/1778). Mylar Sheet 17, Document 32.

33) Payment of two pounds, five shillings from the Town of Southborough to Dr. Joshua Smith for “two thirds of a cord of wood”, and for “one powder horn and one bullet pouch found [by] Joshua Kendel in a company to Rhode Island, both [of] which he lost in the retreat from the island”. Mylar Sheet 17, Document 33.

34) Letter from Elijah Bellows and Joseph Tuttle of Princeton to the Selectmen of Southborough: “An assessment was made by the assessors of your town sometime in the year 1780, or 1781 to pay for a requisition of beef for the Continental Army in [paper currency] which was collected and paid to the treasury of your said town, at a time where paper money was not [to] be received in the State Treasury. [...] Your town did at a meeting of its inhabitants vote and agree that an assessment should be made in hard money for the same purpose which was accordingly done and collected. [...] The said paper money has remained in the treasury of your town unappropriated until very lately, it has been sold for hard money, and we did immediately after remove out of your town to Princeton, and have never received any consideration. Therefore our request of you, gentlemen, is that you would insert an article into your warrant for calling your next town meeting to see if your town will make us a consideration therefore — as it must be allowed unreasonable that we should be assessed in two assessments for one and the same sum, as well as contrary to law and common justice — and you will gentlemen, in doing so, much oblige your friends and humble servants'' (2/24/1792). Mylar Sheet 18, Document 34.

35) Promissory note from the Treasurer of the town of Southborough to Daniel Morse for “one-hundred-and-ten bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof by the first of January next in consideration for six months service in the Continental Service for which he is already engaged” (7/7/1780). Mylar Sheet 18, Document 35.

36) Payment of sixteen shillings, six pence old tenor from the Town of Southborough to Aaron Fay for “carting 300 and ¼ [pounds?] of powder bullets and flints from Boston to Southborough” (9/5/1746). Mylar Sheet 18, Document 36.

37) Payment for fifteen shillings old tenor from the town of Southborough to David Mixer for making a large box for keeping the town stock of powder in (3/7/1746). Mylar Sheet 19, Document 37.

38) Payment of twenty-six shillings from the Town of Southborough to each Captain Seth Newton and Captain Elijah Bellows pursuant to their request to be furnished with drums and fifes as allowed under an act of general court (7/5/1776). Mylar Sheet 19, Document 38.

39) Report of “the committee appointed by the Town of Southborough to examine and settle all affairs between said Town and Captain Winchester relating to Winchester’s doings with George Freehan in hiring soldiers for the Continental Army” (5/21/1787). Mylar Sheet 20, Document 39.

40) Payment of nine dollars and fifty cents from the Town of Southborough to Dexter Fay for 38 pounds of powder (9/24/1832). Mylar Sheet 20, Document 40.

41) Payment of twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents from Lemuel Chamberlain to Phineas Bemis for 100 pounds of powder (3/4/1802). Mylar Sheet 21, Document 41.

42) Payment of nine dollars and fifty-seven cents from the Town of Southborough to Swain Parker for 180 pounds of beef (2/8/1808). Mylar Sheet 21, Document 42.

43) Payment of sixteen dollars and seventy-five cents from the Town of Southborough to Jeremiah Newton for 2 quarter casks of American gunpowder (5/5/1806). Mylar Sheet 21, Document 43.

44) Payment of three pounds and three shillings from the Town of Southborough to Daniel Johnson for a journey to Boston with the purpose of hiring men into the Continental Army (9/2/1778). Mylar Sheet 22, Document 44.

45) Payment of thirteen shillings and three farthings from the Town of Southborough to Abner Ward for “taxes set to Nathaniel Chamberlain in a said ward and lists in the year 1792” (2/19/1796). Mylar Sheet 22, Document 45.

46) Payment of eight dollars and twenty-five cents from the Town of Southborough to Lowell Brigham for “two casks of powder for soldiers” (9/20/1830). Mylar Sheet 23, Document 46.

47) Payment of sixty pounds from the Town Treasurer to the Selectmen “as a bounty for two soldiers raised for a campaign to Rhode Island” (9/2/1779). Mylar Sheet 23, Document 47.

48) Payment of five-hundred pounds, fifteen shillings, and four pence from the Town of Southborough to a committee to hire men into the Continental Army (11/9/1778). Mylar Sheet 24, Document 48.

49) Payment of thirty-six pounds from the Town of Southborough to Frank Downs and Joshua Kendall “as a hire to serve in a campaign to the State of Rhode Island for the term of six months” (7/28/1778). Mylar Sheet 24, Document 49.

50) Payment of five dollars and twenty-five cents from the Town of Southborough to Timothy Bellows “for procuring camp kettles for the militia company in Southborough” (11/23/1795). Mylar Sheet 24, Document 50.

51) "Your committee chosen for the purpose of taking into consideration the federal constitution, do report as follows: It is our opinion that the federal constitution as it now stands, ought not to be ratified, but that under certain limitations and amendments it may be a salutary form of government, which limitations and amendments we think but left to submit to the wise Deliberation of the Convention fully confiding in their wisdom and integrity that they will, at the same time guard the liberties of the people and secure to Congress all those powers which are necessary to secure and maintain the federal union” (12/21/1787). Mylar Sheet 25, Document 51.

52) Note from Abel Newton to the town Treasurer: “Please [...] pay to Jonathan Pierce two dollars it being the bounty due to me as a minute manas he has taken my place”. Mylar Sheet 25, Document 52.

53) “Voted to make an addition of six dollars per month to each soldier in addition to what congress have granted, provided they have to march, also one dollar bounty to be paid on the day they enlist and one dollar on the day they pass muster” 9/8/1794. “Voted that those men that are drafted receive the same pay from the town as those that enlist. Voted that the treasurer be directed to procure money to pay the bounty voted by the town to those soldiers that have enlisted, or shall enlist or be drafted 9/15/1794 (9/29/1794). Mylar Sheet 25, Document 53.

54) Payment of three pounds, four shillings, and seven pence from the Town of Southborough to Uri Montague for “a journey to Boston to procure a stand of colors for the said town” and “a pair of woolen shirts [...] for Timothy Pierce” (11/9/1778). Mylar Sheet 26, Document 54.

55) Payment from the Town of Southborough to Joseph Bullard and Manasseh Fay in the amount of two dollars each for volunteering themselves out of the company of cavalry under the command of William Taylor Parker (12/8/1807). Mylar Sheet 26, Document 55.

56) “We the subscribers (Isaac Johnson and Jonathan Ward) having agreed with Mr. Paul Bigelow and his son John both of Westborough to go into the public service there for three months agreeable to an act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay dated 6/30/1781 namely to go for the Town of Southborough as two of the soldiers to be raised as said Southborough’s quota of soldiers for said three months, for which three months service the said Paul and John were to have fifty-two dollars each, being in the whole one-hundred-and-four dollars for three months service, and we having paid them twenty-eight silver dollars in part towards said one-hundred-and-four dollars of said silver money we do not [damaged] to pay the remainder of said one-hundred-and-four silver dollars to said Paul who received in behalf of himself and son who is a minor namely to pay to Paul seventy-six silver dollars when said three months service is completed and performed, which seventy-six dollars in full of all the remaining sum of money that is to be paid for said three months service when performed” (7/18/1781). Mylar Sheet 26, Document 56.

57) Receipt for ten pounds, one shilling, four pence received from Paul Newton, constable, “as part of an order [...] from the Town Treasurer of the silver money rate to pay the soldiers with” (2/22/1782). Mylar Sheet 27, Document 57.

58) Payment of nineteen shillings and six pence from the Town of Southborough to Daniel Johnson for “6 days and one half purchasing beef and borrowing money to pay in lieu of beef” (3/11/1782). Mylar Sheet 27, Document 58.

59) Payment of eighty-three pounds received by Jonas Ball and William Winchester from the Town Treasurer to be used “as a bounty to hire a soldier for the use of the town” (3/5/1782). Mylar Sheet 27, Document 59.

60) Agreement for Captain Seth Newton (on behalf of the Town) to pay William Winchester Jr. eighty bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof for enlisting as a soldier in the expedition for three months to Claverack (7/10/1780). Mylar Sheet 27, Document 60.

61) “We the subscribers (Isaac Johnson and Samuel Horne) do in behalf of the Town of Southborough promise to pay unto John Britain thirty-seven silver dollars, being the remainder of fifty-two silver dollars which he gave for a bounty or hire for his son James Britain engaging in the public service for three months for Southborough agreeable to a resolve of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts dated June 30 1781” (8/8/1781). Mylar Sheet 28, Document 61.

62) Payment of four pounds and sixteen shillings from the Town of Southborough to William Winchester in his capacity as a member of the committee to hire soldiers for the town for journeying to Sutton, Stoneham, and Boston to muster soldiers (3/7/1782). Mylar Sheet 28, Document 62.

63) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Ebenezer Pierce to pay the remainder of his salary for service. “We the subscribers (Isaac Johnson and Jonathan Wood) agreed with Ebenezer Pierce of Westborough to go into the public service for three months agreeable to an act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay dated June 30 1781, namely to go for the Town of Southborough as one of the soldiers to be raised for said Southborough’s quota of soldiers for said three months for which service the said Ebenezer was to have fifty-two silver dollars in the whole for said three month service, and the said ebenezer having received fifteen silver dollars in part towards [...] said service, we do engage and promise to pay [...] the sum of thirty-six silver dollars” (7/18/1781). Mylar Sheet 28, Document 63.

64) Payment of one pound and twelve shillings from the Town of Southborough to Jonathan Champney for journeys to Boston and Grafton purchasing and delivering Beef (3/2/1782). Mylar Sheet 29, Document 64.

65) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to John Amsden or one-hundred-ten bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof “in consideration of five months service in the Continental Army for which he is already engaged (7/7/1780). Mylar Sheet 29, Document 65.

66) Payment of seven pounds and sixteen shillings from the Town of Southborough to William Winchester in his capacity as a member of the committee to hire soldiers for “thirteen days spent [...] procuring three men to go into the Continental Service”, namely George Freeha, Francis Blandin, and Jonas Blandin (2/27/1784). Mylar Sheet 29, Document 66.

67) Three-hundred pounds received by the Selectmen from the Town Treasurer “to pay Henry Collins a soldier to go to Rutland” (1/30/1781). Mylar Sheet 29, Document 67.

68) “Received of Mr. Nathan Bridges and Captain William Winchester twelve silver dollars for waiting upon them to Boston with two soldiers for the Town of Southborough, for three years service [and] stand ready to go at one minute warning until the Fifth day of March next” (2/23/1782). Mylar Sheet 29, Document 68.

69) Receipt for five-thousand one-hundred and forty weight of beef given by the Town of Southborough’s Committee for purchasing beef to Increase Thayer, agent at Grafton (12/19/1781). Mylar Sheet 30, Document 69.

70) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Franics Moore for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 30, Document 70.

71) “I the subscriber (Jonathan Ward) as one of the Committee appointed by the Town of Southborough to borrow money to hire soldiers [...] have borrowed and received of James Bridges 2 silver dollars being 12 shillings lawful money, and promise to repay the same on demand” (7/17/1781). Mylar Sheet 30, Document 71.

72) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Henry Collins for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 31, Document 72.

73) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Ebenezer Collins Jr. for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 31, Document 73.

74) Note from Jonathan Ward, one of the Committee appointed by the Town of Southborough to borrow money to hire soldiers: fifteen shillings and five pence borrowed from David Newton (6/30/1781). Mylar Sheet 31, Document 74.

75) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to John Amsden for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 31, Document 75.

76) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to James Capen for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 32, Document 76.

77) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Rufus Hemingway for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 32, Document 77.

78) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Hacaliah Bridges for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 32, Document 78.

79) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Francis Moore for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 32, Document 79.

80) “We the subscribers (Isaac Johnson and Jonathan Ward) having agreed with Joseph Ball of Westborough to go into the public service there for three months agreeable to an act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay dated 6/30/1781 namely to go for the Town of Southborough as one of the soldiers to be raised as said Southborough’s quota of soldiers for said three months, for which three months service the said Joseph was to have fifty-two silver dollars in the whole for three months service, and the said Joseph having received sixteen silver dollars in part towards said fifty-two dollars, [promise to pay the remaining thirty-six silver dollars upon completion of service]” (7/18/1781). Mylar Sheet 33, Document 80.

81) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Ebenezer Collins Jr. for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 33, Document 81.

82) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to James Capen for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 33, Document 82.

83) Promissory note from the Treasurer of the town of Southborough to Francis Moore for “one-hundred-and-ten bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof by the first of January next in consideration for six months service in the Continental Service for which he is already engaged” (7/7/1780). Mylar Sheet 34, Document 83.

84) “We the subscribers (Rufus Hemingway, John Amsden, Hacaliah Bridges, Ebenezer Collins, Francis Moore, and Daniel Morse) being enlisted soldiers for the Town of Southborough engaged to serve six months in the Continental Army after our arrival at Springfield, for which service we have respectively received of the Selectmen of Southborough, one-hundred-and-seventy bushels of Indian Corn, or the current price of corn in Continental currency (7/7/1780). Mylar Sheet 34, Document 84.

85) Receipt for seventeen pounds, eight shillings, and three pence paid by the Town of Southborough to Deacon John Fay for provisions he supplied, including beef, butter, and milk (3/6/1780). Mylar Sheet 34, Document 85.

86) Payment of sixteen pounds from the Town of Southborough to Nathan Bridges for attending a convention at Worcester (6/17/1780). Mylar Sheet 35, Document 86.

87) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Hacaliah Bridges for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/3/1782). Mylar Sheet 35, Document 87.

88) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Silas Amsden for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 35, Document 88.

89) Receipt for three-hundred-and-twenty-two pounds received by the Selectmen from the Town Treasurer for “bounty and mileage for seven soldiers destined to Claverack on Hudson River, said money being ordered by the general assembly” (10/19/1779). Mylar Sheet 35, Document 89.

90) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Hezekiah Bridges for twenty-five Spanish Milled Dollars for three months service in the Continental Army (12/3/1781). Mylar Sheet 35, Document 88.

91) Receipt for three pounds and eighteen shillings from Constable Richards to Joshua Smith “in part of the silver rate to pay soldiers” (11/19/1781). Mylar Sheet 36, Document 91.

92) Payment of four-hundred eighty-four pounds and ten shillings from the Town of Southborough to Moses Bruce for the purpose of paying soldiers (7/7/1780). Mylar Sheet 36, Document 92.

93) “We the subscribers (Rufus Hemingway, John Amsden, Hacaliah Bridges, Ebenezer Collins, Francis Moore, and Daniel Morse) by agreement made between us and the militia officers that the Town should draw all the wages and mileage that shall be due to us from the State and Continent, we hereby acknowledge the same, and the Town should reduct all the money that we shall receive in camo from what shall be due to us from the Town when we return (7/7/1780). Mylar Sheet 36, Document 93.

94) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to John Amsden for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 36, Document 94.

95) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Henry Collins for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 36, Document 95.

96) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Henry Collins for one Spanish Milled Dollar and two-hundred-ninety dollars continental currency on demand with interest for “value received for the use of the town” [as a loan] (3/5/1781). Mylar Sheet 37, Document 96.

97) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Ebenezer Collins Jr. for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 37, Document 97.

98) Payment of ninety pounds with interest from the Town of Southborough to Elijah Brigham [likely reimbursement for a loan he made to the town] (10/10/1780). Mylar Sheet 37, Document 98.

99) Agreement for Captain Seth Newton (on behalf of the Town) to pay Joseph Collins “eighty bushels of Indian Corn or the notes thereof in continental currency [...] for three months service in the continental army after his arrival at Claverack” (7/10/1780). Mylar Sheet 37, Document 99

100) Promissory note from the Treasurer of the town of Southborough to Rufus Hemmingway for “one-hundred-and-ten bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof by the first of January next in consideration for six months service in the Continental Service for which he is already engaged” (7/7/1780). Mylar Sheet 37, Document 100.

101) Payment of sixteen shillings and eight pence lawful silver money from the Town of Southborough to Paul Newton for the he was fined for “not raising three continental men” (5/30/1782). Mylar Sheet 38, Document 101.

102) Order from the Town Selectmen to the Treasurer to pay “Mark Collins, Jeremiah Newton, and Heman Fay (a committee chosen by the town to build a house to deposit the military stores belonging to the town) seventy-four dollars'' 9/28/1807. Mylar Sheet 38, Document 102.

103) Receipt for three-hundred-ninety-five pounds and ten shillings received by the Selectmen of the Town Treasurer for the town to use to pay mileage, and soldiers as part of [their] hire (7/7/1780). Mylar Sheet 38, Document 103.

104) Itemized list of expenses supplied by the town of Southborough to the General Court for responding to a resolve dated 4/22/1779 and raising teams to assist Col. Chase in forwarding public stores [ammunition and arms] from Boston to Springfield. Southborough hired horse and wagon teams and teamsters to drive them. Expenses totalled two-hundred-sixty-seven pounds and one shilling (6/7/1779). Mylar Sheet 38, Document 104.

105) Payment of one-hundred -sixty-one pounds and three pence from the Town of Southborough to Joshua Smith and William Onthank for “[twelve and a half] days of work digging and drawing rocks and laying walls [...] to fence in the land appropriated for town use east of the workhouse (5/26/1780). Mylar Sheet 39, Document 105.

106) Payment of nineteen pounds and six shillings from the Town of Southborough to Joshua Smith for “expenses while attending a state convention held at Concord 10/6/1779” and serving as the town’s delegate for six days (1/17/1780). Mylar Sheet 39, Document 106.

107) Receipt for six-thousand four-hundred and eighty weight of beef given by the Town of Southborough’s Committee for procuring beef to Joseph Baker, agent at Westborough (12/13/1780). Mylar Sheet 39, Document 107.

108) “This may certify that I have received Capt. Edmund Brigham thirty pounds of a bounty for enlisting into the continental army for three years, and I promise to return the same to the said Cat. Brigham again unless I go for the said Westboroguh (Signed by Nathan Champney at Westborough, 6/26/1777). Mylar Sheet 39, Document 108.

109) Receipt from Southborough’s minutemen for six shillings each agreeable to a vote of said town for paying muster. Signed by: Reuben Fay Jr., Jason Brewer, Jeremiah Fay, Jabez Newton Jr., Alpheus Newton, Alpheus Fay, Enoch Fay, Elijah Moore, Shadinah Haynes, Obed Smith, Samuel P. Emerson, Jeremiah Newton, Aaron Collins, William Alexander, Joel Moore, and John Collins (10/18/1794). Mylar Sheet 40, Document 109.

110) Schedule instructing towns on how many teams they should assemble to assist in transporting “warlike stores and other articles from Boston to Springfield for use of the army”. Southborough’s selectmen were required to send two teams (4/22/1779). Mylar Sheet 41, Document 110.

111) Letter sent from Col. Thomas Chase of Boston to the Selectmen of Southborough: “Gentlemen, I shall be greatly obliged to you to use your utmost endeavors to procure the teams ordered by the General Court as the stores are immediately wanted for the army, your compliance will greatly serve your country and oblige him who has the honor to be — your obedient servant — Thomas Chase” (4/22/1779). Mylar Sheet 42, Document 111.

112) “Whereas in provincial congress it was recommended that at the least [...] one quarter part of the militia of the province should be enlisted and equipped with warlike accouterments and proper officers to stand as minutemen to march at the shortest of notice in defense of said province if necessary in case of invasion by the enemies of the same in consequence of which we the subscribers consisting of one captain, two lieutenants, four sergeants and thirty-six rank being his Britanack majesty's legal subjects according to the constitution of the British nation having enlisted and accounted ourselves according to the resolves of said Congress and spent much time to learn military skill, and money to equip ourselves aforesaid, and heald ourselves in readiness ever since over engaging in said affair to risk our lives in support of our rights and liberties both civil and sacred.

And it being recommended by another resolve of said Congress that each town pay their minutemen what is reasonable for their service till they receive pay from the province, which resolve the town have not as yet complied with though requested, and notwithstanding said neglect to pay us, we have not disbanded ourselves from said service and do hereby engage to hold ourselves in constant readiness and if necessary and called upon to march in defense of our country, it’s rights and privileges: provided said Southborough will pay to each of us four shillings a man for our past service and expense in equipping ourselves and training, and one shilling a man for each four hours we shall exercise, and to exercises once per week till the first day of May next, or till the first day of June if it is the Towns pleasure, and to be paid by the first of July next or whenever we are called for.

And provided said Southborough neglect and refuse to pay us as aforesaid we think we ought not to bear the whole of the burden without some satisfaction, and shall accordingly disband ourselves and not stand as minute men any longer but to take our fate with the rest of our brethren.”

Signed by 44 Southborough men: Capt. Josiah Fay, Lieut. Seth Newton, Asahel Mathews, Moses Bruce, John Richards, Zacheus Witherbee, Isaac Ball, James Williams, Lemuel Chamberlain, Elisha Fay, Andrew Phillips, Jonah Johnson, Aneus Ward, Jeduthan Newton, Josiah Bridges, Charles Angier, Peter Brewer Jr., Silas Ball, Aaron Fay Jr., Jedidiah Parker, Tyrus Newton, William Williams, Ephraim Amsden, Edmund Newton, Edmund Moore, William Winchester, Jonathan Champney, John Fay Jr., Nathan Champney, Samuel Hudson Jr., Heman Fay, James Onthank, Gideon Newton Jr., Isaac Newton Jr., Job Bigelow, Samuel Horne, Joseph Onthank, Elijah Johnson, Elijah Brigham, Mark Collins Jr., Jonathan Ball, Henry Newton, Joseph Fay, Joel Brewer

(3/20/1775). Mylar Sheet 43, Document 112.

113) Agreement for Captain Seth Newton (on behalf of the Town) to pay Hezekiah Fay Jr. eighty bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof for enlisting as a soldier in the expedition for three months to Claverack (7/10/1780). Mylar Sheet 44, Document 113.

114) Agreement for Captain Seth Newton (on behalf of the Town) to pay William Collins Jr. eighty bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof for enlisting as a soldier in the expedition to Claverack (7/10/1780). Mylar Sheet 44, Document 114.

115) Promissory note from the Town of Southborough to Franics Moore for fifty Spanish Milled Dollars for six months service in the Continental Army (3/23/1781). Mylar Sheet 44, Document 115.

116) Agreement for Captain Seth Newton (on behalf of the Town) to pay Asa Fay sixty bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof for enlisting as a soldier in the expedition for three months to Claverack (7/10/1780). Mylar Sheet 44, Document 116.

117) Agreement for Captain Seth Newton (on behalf of the Town) to pay Henry Collins eighty bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof for enlisting as a soldier in the expedition for three months to Claverack (7/10/1780). Mylar Sheet 45, Document 117.

118) Agreement for Captain Seth Newton (on behalf of the Town) to pay Daniel Graves eighty bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof for enlisting as a soldier in the expedition for three months to Claverack (7/10/1780). Mylar Sheet 44, Document 118.

119) Correspondence sent to the Town of Southborough by the General Court’s Committee to hear and settle all disputes concerning soldiers returned more than once into the Continental Service. Southborough’s Selectmen and Militia Officers were asked to meet with the committee at the house of Col. Cushing in Shrewsbury (5/12/1778). Mylar Sheet 45, Document 119.

120) “To Mr. John Wait of Brookfield, agent for the county of Worcester for receiving clothes for the soldiers in the Continental Army and also to deliver the same to the state committee appointed for that purpose. This is to inform you that the town of Southborough have delivered to the following persons one suit of clothes as a donation from said town, and we have received their receipts for the same:

Samuel Hudson Jr. (Wigglesworth Reg., Heyns Co.)

Jacob B. Winchester (Wigglesworth Reg., Heyns Co.)

Ezra Ward (Wigglesworth Reg., Heyns Co.)

John Harvey (Wigglesworth Reg., Heyns Co.)

Joseph Fay (Wigglesworth Reg., Heyns Co.)

William Onthank Jr. (Wigglesworth Reg., Heyns Co.)

Edmund Moore (Wigglesworth Reg., Heyns Co.)

Jonathan Bruce (Samuel Brewer’s Reg., Nathan Walkin’s Co.)

Rufus Hemingway (James Weston’s Reg., Abraham Child’s Co.)

Levi Dunton (Timothy Bigelow’s Reg., Daniel Barnes’ Co.)

Nathan Champney (Greaton Reg., Slayton Co.)

Jonathan Hastings (Timothy Bigelow’s Reg., Smith’s Co.)

Joseph Buck (James Weston’s Reg., Abraham Child’s Co.)

There now remain twelve persons to be provided for, and the clothes required by the general assembly of this state we now send you by the bearer and desire your receipt for the same.” (Signed by the Selectmen: Joshua Smith, Elijah Brigham, Ezra Taylor, 6/12/1778). “Received twelve shirts, twelve pair of stockings, and twelve pair of shoes by the hand of Capt. John Lyscom” (Signed by John Waite, Agent, 12/4/1778). Mylar Sheet 46, Document 120.

121) Directions For Standing Companies, Adjutant General’s Office (1/1/1823). Mylar Sheet 47, Document 121.

122-123) “Roll of the Company of Infantry in the 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, and 6th Division of the Militia, under the command of Capt. Artemis Ward, as corrected on the first Tuesday of May, 1828.” Lists Privates and Commissioned Officers along with their uniforms, weaponry, and other supplies. Mylar Sheets 48-49, Documents 122-123.

124-125) “Roll of the Company of Infantry in the 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, and 6th Division of the Militia, under the command of Lt. Lucius Parker, as corrected on the first Tuesday of May, 1829.” Lists Privates and Commissioned Officers along with their uniforms, weaponry, and other supplies. Mylar Sheets 50-51, Documents 124-125.

126-127) “Roll of the Company of Infantry in the 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, and 6th Division of the Militia, under the command of Lt. Lucius Parker, as corrected on the first Tuesday of May, 1830.” Lists Privates and Commissioned Officers along with their uniforms, weaponry, and other supplies. Mylar Sheets 52-53, Documents 126-127.

128-129) “Roll of the Company of Infantry in the 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, and 6th Division of the Militia, under the command of Capt. Heman Este, as corrected on the first Tuesday of May, 1831.” Lists Privates and Commissioned Officers along with their uniforms, weaponry, and other supplies. Mylar Sheets 54-55, Documents 128-129. 130) Promissory note from the Treasurer of the town of Southborough to Hacaliah Bridges for “one-hundred-and-ten bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof by the first of January next in consideration for six months service in the Continental Service for which he is already engaged” (7/7/1780). Folder at end of volume, Document 130.

131) Receipt for six pounds received by William Winchester (member of the committee to hire Continental Soldiers) from the Town Treasure “for use of the town [...] to pay soldiers with” (4/8/1782). Folder at end of volume, Document 131.

132) Receipt for three pounds received by Jonas Ball (member of the committee to hire Continental Soldiers) from the Town Treasure “for use of the town [...] to pay soldiers with” (2/4/1783). Folder at end of volume, Document 132.

133) Agreement for Captain Seth Newton (on behalf of the Town) to pay Benjamin Collins ninety bushels of Indian Corn or the value thereof for enlisting as a soldier (8/8/1780). Folder at end of volume, Document 133.

134) Payment of six pounds from the Town of Southborough to Isaac Johnson Jr. and Joseph Johnson Jr. for “mileage to serve as guards at Rutland for six months” (11/24/1779). Folder at end of volume, Document 134.

135) Payment of twenty pounds from the Town of Southborough to Silas Hemingway and Rufus Hemingway, his son, for enlisting in the Continental Army (4/5/1777). Folder at end of volume, Document 135.