HomeMy WebLinkAbout528 Receipt for equipment for standard weights and measures, April 11, 1768April ye 11 1768 Recd of the Town of Lexington by ye
hand of ye Selectmen ye following Beams Weights and
measures to be Kept as Standard, For sd [said] Town one
Bushel one half Ditto one Peck one half Ditto one
Gallon one Quart one pint one half Ditto one Gill
one Bear Quart -- Averdupoize one Beam one
pair of Seales and weights from four pound,
to one ounce weight seven in Number Troy one
Beam one pair of Scales & weights from four ounces Down
to one half Grain Eighteen in Number [illegible]
Benjamin Meriam Trsr