May it please yi" Excellency and this Honble board so far to take the premisses into y^ consideration as that the sayd Inhabitants of Erookhaven may bee obliged to pay and sattisfy unto yr peticonr his sayd debt of Sixty pounds and observe and performe on their parts the sayd agreem* yo"" peticoner on his being thereto ready and wilhng and hee as in duty bound shall ever pray &c

Samuel Eburne.

December the 13'h 1686. This petition Read and ordered that if the within namea Inhabitants of Brookhaven do not forthwith pay unto thepetitioner the within mentioned sume of Sixty pounds that then and in such caice they bee and appeare in their behalfs before this board on the first Thursday in ffebry next Ensueing to show cause if any they have to the contrary.

• da ;:JiiT'i:; - POPULATION OF EAST HAMPTOxM; 1687. ,.;'

Easthampton, January the 12th 168b-7

To the Shirrefe in obedience to his Warrant

The Number of Male parsons men and children is twoe

hundred twenty three 223

The Number of famals women & children is twoe

hundi'ed and nineteene , . , 21 J>

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The Nimiber of male Saruaiiis is twenty six . 02G

Tlie Number of famale Saruants is nine 009

The Number of male Slaues is aleuen Oil

The Number of famale Slaues is fourteen 014

And out of the account aboue : The Number of such as are

cajjable to beare amies is ninty aight of wiiicli in the list of the