HomeMy WebLinkAbout523 Report of expenses for repairing the Great Bridge, 1734 and 1744The Town of Cambridge Newton & Lexington to us the
subscribers Dr [Debtors] for Repairing the great Bridge over Charles
River in Said Cambridge in ye years 1743 & 1744
Viz to 30 Tuns of pine lumber @ 40/pr Tun -- L 60=0=0
To 5 Tuns of Chesnut timber 31 feet @ L 3=5=0 - 18-17-0
To 609 Feet of oke plank @ L 4=4=0 per hundred 25=6=6
To timber for the Sawpitt 1=12=0
To ye Sawers for sawing at timber 22=15=2
To Sam Whittemore for 36 days @ 14/ per day 25=4=0
To Capt Benjn=Reed for 3 day @ 14/per ay 2=2=0
and Expences about ye timber 0=3=6
To Mr Caleb Dana for 5 1/2 days @ 14/per Day 3=17=0
To Leut Wm Hide for 13 days @ 14/per Day 9=2=0
To Mr. Isaac Jackson for 15 1/2 days @ 14/per Day 10=10=0
To Leut Wm Hide man and Teem a day 1=4=0
To Mr. Benjn Smith for 20 Days @ 14/per Day 14=0=0
To Sundris[?] mare found by Saml Whittemore
viz to Caleb prentice 3 1/2 days 2=0=0
mare to Caleb prentice 2 1/2 days 1=11=6
To a man & Teem a day 1=4=0
To Rum & Sugar for the sawers 0=15=0
To David Champney 6 day & night 1=0=0
To Edw mannings 2 Sons a day & other help 1=17=3
To Rum 6/ nales 3/8 a bord and nales 6/6 0=16=2
To a job[?] of work paid Champney 3/ nales Spikes 2/8 0=5=8
To a man & Teem 1/2 a day 12/ and other Labours 1=1=0
To a man & Teem a day 1=4=0
To Richard Champney for 5 Loads of Ston 2=10=0
To Tools Lost 0=9=0
To Mr Stedman for Damage to his Fence 0=10=0
To Mr Bean for sundris [sundries] in his house 1=3=6
[total] L 211=0=3
Errors Excepted
Saml: Whittemore}
Ben Smith}
William Hide } Committee
Caleb Dana}
Isaac Jackson}
Cambridges proportion of ye within act is L 78=7=1
Newton propotion is 66=2=2
Lexington proportion is 53=17=3
[total] L 198=6=6
To Sundris Don by Saml Whittemeore and
Nathel paties[?] in Repairs from Apil 1743
To Novr in ye same year L 5=10=6
Timber} the new tin[?] Sold for L 12=2=0
Left} also Timber and Blocks for 6=4=3
Great Bridge
1743-44