10 EAELY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 



Meeting of Selectmen 17:8: 1678. 



"It is ordered that Wm. Stacy who is sick of the small 

 pox doth not presume to come abroad till three wekes 

 after this date be expired & that he be very carfull y* 

 when y* time be exspired he shift his clothes & doe not 

 frequent any company till he be wholy cler. of that in- 

 fection." 



Meeting of Selectmen 25 : 10 : 1678. 



"The selectmen being informed y* Will"^ Lord Jun"" is 

 visited w*^ the small pox at his father's house, the select- 

 men doe order y* Wm. Lord Sen^ his wife & children y* 

 live wt^ him doe kepe within ther house, & y* they doe 

 not ofer to sayle any of ther ware, viz : bread, cakes, gin- 

 ger bread & the like & that they sufer non to come to 

 ther house but what nessesity requires upon the penalty 

 of twenty shillings in money for each offence. 



"And it is ordered y* Tho. Stacy doth forbare grinding 

 at the mill & y* he be carfull he doth not infect others, on 

 the penalty of twenty shillings." 



In 1680 the Selectmen of Salem seem to have found it 

 necessary to establish a quarantine of their own by the 

 following action, which, though temporary in its nature, 

 will be seen to cover a period of twenty years, in which 

 no help was had from general legislation. 



"At a meeting of the Commissions^ & Selectmen of the 

 towne, June, 1680. 



" In consideration y* it hath pleased God to visit the in- 

 habitants of Barbados with the small pox which is an in- 

 fexious distemper and severall vessells are expected from 

 thence : And it being our duty y^ all due care may be taken 

 to prevent itts being brought in amoughts us : 



"Wee doe therefore order, that not any vessell which 

 comes from the Isl. of Barbados, shall have liberty e to land 

 any cotten wooll or other goods from on Board theire vessel, 



