[413] The warrant issued to the constable empowered that functionary “to distrain the goods or chattels of any person or persons who refuse to pay; and in case there be no goods or chattels, then he is to seize the body of any person who refuses, and commit him to the county jail.” To show what taxes were assessed for, it will be interesting to see a record of the entire debts of the town of Medford, April 19, 1710. It is as follows:--
| £ | s. | d. | |
| Due to Ensign John Bradstreet, for dining the ministers thirteen sabbaths, at 1s. 6d. per sabbath | 0 | 19 | 6 |
| Due to Captain Peter Tufts, John Francis, Ebenezer Brooks, and Samuel Wade, 5s. per man,--paid to Mrs. Bradstreet, for nursing Rachel Blanchard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Due to Ebenezer Brooks, for actions entered in court | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| For taking a copy out of the records, &c., about John Man | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| For pocket expenses, in tending court three days | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Due to Thomas Willis, for sweeping meeting-house, 1709 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Due to Mr. Samuel Wade, for John Man's diet eleven weeks, at 3s. per week | 1 | 13 | 0 |
| Also boarding John Man three weeks, at 4s. per week | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| Also for five weeks sickness in the eleven weeks board aforesaid | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Due to Thomas Hall, constable, for James Tufts's headmoney | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Due to Stephen Willis, sen., for pocket-money at Court of Sessions, three days | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Due to Ensign Stephen Francis, for boarding John Man ten weeks, at 4s. per week | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Due to John Francis, for money paid to the clerk about a presentment of Mistick Bridge | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| For pocket expenses at court, three days, about John Man | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Money paid for searching the records about John Man | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| £8 | 13 | 3 | |
Sept. 20, 1711: This list is a county rate that was made and perfected by the assessors, in obedience to a warrant from James Taylor, gent., treasurer, for the levying a tax on polls and estate, both real and personal.
