20 EARLY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 



inal act of 1701, authorized the removal of infected 

 persons into separate houses, by warrant of the justices 

 with the consent of the selectmen. 



" At a meeting of the Selectmen, present, Cap* Bowditch, 

 M^ Flint, M^ Orne, Tho. Barton. May 11, 1726. 



Ordered, Whereas M'' John Crowniiigshield in a sloop 

 of this place, arrived on Saturday night last from the 

 West Indies and it haveing happened in their passage to 

 have one of his men visited with the small pox & but very 

 lately recovered thereof, and for the better preventing the 

 spreading of the infection ; on Sabbath day morning early 

 a warrant was obtained from two of His Maj*^^^ Justices as 

 the law directs, & executed, to prevent and restrain all per- 

 sons belonging to the vessell from comeing on shoar as 

 also to restrain all persons from going on board till farther 

 order, and for the more effectuall accomplishing of the af- 

 fair the Selectmen did order & desire M"" Rich^ Palmer & 

 Malachie fibot to ward on the Neck, near to the place 

 where the vessell layd all that & every day till other care 

 & more effectuall provision could be made. Wherefore 

 the Selectmen do now agree & have taken up Cap* Gardners 

 little house on the point below Benj^ Holms's hi the South 

 field, to remove & place the infected persons in, and the 

 house being out of repair it is Ordered that it be forthwith 

 repaired & made convenient for the service." 



" At a meeting of the Selectmen present. Cap* Bowditch, 

 M^ Manning, M"" Flint, M^ Orne, Tho« Barton. May 27, 

 1726. 



Ordered, The Selectmen takeing into consideration the 

 case of Thomas Marston, the person lately recovered of 

 the small pox on board M"" Crowningshield in his passage 

 from the West Indies, he haveing been on shoar about a 

 fortnight, & with Abraham Cabot his nurse, confined to 

 Cap* Gardners house in the South field, and all proper 



