Documents in this folder:

1) Payment of six shillings from the Town of Southborough to Jotham Bellows for digging Nathaniel Beel’s grave (1/1/1773)

2) Payment of six shillings from the Town of Southborough to Nathan Bridges for making a coffin for Nathaniel Beals (2/10/1773)

3) Payment of five shillings from the Town of Southborough to Joseph Newton for “trouble and attendance upon the corps of Nathaniel Beal, deceased” (5/17/1773)

4) Payment of five shillings, seven pence and two farthings from the Town of Southborough to Thomas Stone for a coffin for Susanna Bodingham (10/31/1775)

5) Payment of six shillings from the Town of Southborough to Nathan Bridges for a Coffin for Beriah Newton (3/7/1774)

6) Payment of six shillings from the Town of Southborough to Jotham Bellows for digging a grave for Beriah Newton (3/21/1774)

7) List of payments totalling one pound, seven shillings, and eight pence made by the Town of Southborough to cover arrangements for the burial of the late Samuel Bellows. Includes six shillings and eight pence to Thomas Stone for making his coffin, five shillings and four pence to Ezekiel Collins for digging his grave, four shillings for a shirt and cap to be buried in, two shillings and eight pence for a winding sheet to wrap the corpse, two shillings to the widow Williams for her assistance in laying out the corps and washing it, and one shilling for “taking the number from sixteen years old and upwards” (2/24/1777).

8) Payment of seven shillings and six pence from the Town of Southborough to Thomas Stone for a coffin for Gideon Bellows (3/7/1785)

9) Payment of six shillings from the Town of Southborough to Benjamin Smith for digging the grave of Gideon Bellows (3/9/1785)

10) Payment of two pounds, seven shillings, and six pence from the Town of Southborough to Jonathan Champney for the gravestone he was to provide for the late Reverend Nathan Stone (12/19/1787).

11) Payment of six shillings from the Town of Southborough to Stephen Bellows for digging a grave for Abraham Newton (2/7/1791).

12) Payment of six shillings from the Town of Southborough to Eli Bruce for digging a grave for the wife of Andrew Newton (2/24/1794).

13) Payment of seven shillings and six pence from the Overseers of the Poor to Stephen Bellows for making a coffin for the wife of Andrew Newton (3/3/1794).

14) Payment of eight shillings or one dollar and thirty-four cents from the Town of Southborough to Eli Bruce for digging a grave for Andrew Newton (2/29/1796).

15) Payment from the Town of Southborough for a burial cloth for Andrew Newton (2/19/1796).

16) Payment from the Town of Southborough to Nathan Bridges for a coffing for Andrew Newton (2/29/1796).

17) Request that “the honorable selectmen of the Town of Southborough pay two dollars for a coffin made for Mrs. Britain and carrying to Pine Hill so called” (1/22/1801).

18) Purchase of hearse and harness from Michah Sherman for seventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents (5/4/1807).

19) Payment of forty-four dollars and four cents from the Town of Southborough to Willard Newton for building “a house for the hearse” (7/4/1807).

20) Payment of three dollars from the Town of Southborough to Ebenezer Bellows for digging Hannah Amsden’s grave (3/10/1809).

21) Payment of three dollars from the Town of Southborough to Stephen Bellows for making a coffin for Hannah Amsden (3/10/1809).

22) Report of the burying ground committee relative to finding a suitable place for a new town burying ground. The committee recommended a portion of land on Perley Whipple's farm (3/3/1828).

23) Payments made to Charles Johnson: Six dollars and fifty cents from Josiah Bemis for a coffin and grave for Asahel Bemis (11/21/1831), fourteen dollars and twenty-five cents from the Estate of Nathan Fay for a coffin, grave, and gravestone for Nathan Fay (2/24/1831), payment of six dollars and fifty cents from the Estate of Nathan Fay for a coffin and grave for the widow Lucy Fay (2/22/1834), payment of six dollars and fifty cents from the Estate of widow Mary Fay for a for a coffin and grave for Mary Fay (1/8/1833), and payment of thirteen dollars from the Estate of Erastmus Ward for a coffin and grave for Erastmus Ward and a coffin for the widow Hannah Ward (1/30/1834 and 2/20/1834).

24) Payment of one dollar and twenty cents from the Town of Southborough to Charles Johnson for repairing the hearse (3/31/1832).

25) Payment of two dollars and fifty cents from the Town of Southborough to Aaron Newton for mowing and raking the graveyard (9/5/1832).

26) Payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents from the Town of Southborough to Lovett Fay for repairing the burying yard wall (2/4/1839).

27) Payment of five dollars from the Town of Southborough to Solomon Este and Peter Fay, members of the committee to procure a new hearse (11/19/1840).

28) Payment of one-hundred-fifty dollars from the Town of Southborough to Parker Humbard for one hearse (5/13/1846).

29) Payment of one-hundred-fifty-eight dollars from the Town of Southborough to Solomon Este, Charles Johnson, and Peter Fay, committee chosen by the town to procure a new hearse (7/6/1840).

30) Payment of four dollars from the Town of Southborough to Dexter Ball for mowing and clearing the burying yard (8/25/1840).

31) Payment of eight dollars and fifty cents from the Town of Southborough to Heman Este for ringing the bell for seventeen deaths and funerals (3/30/1840).

32) Payment of eight dollars from the Town of Southborough to Benjamin Rivers for a job at the hearse house, laying the floor, and for paint and painting (6/22/1840).