of Coiint Rumford. 97 



" Confiscation Papers of Benj": Thompson, Absentee. Common- v 

 wealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex, ss. 



"To MESSRS. BARTHOLOMEW RICHARDSON, JR., NOAH EATON, 

 and ABIJAH THOMPSON, all of Woburn, in the County of 

 Middlesex aforesaid, Greeting : 



" Whereas it has been represented that Benjamin Thompson, 

 late of Woburn, Physician, now an Absentee, hath fled from 

 his habitation to the Enemies of the United States for protec- 

 tion, leaving behind him real and personal Estate of more than 

 Twenty Pounds in value, and that he hath been absent from his 

 usual place of abode more than three months : 



" Pursuant, therefore, to a Law of this State in' such cases 

 provided, and the authority to me therein given, I do hereby 

 authorise and empower you, the above-named three Persons, 

 a Committee to receive and examine the claims of the several 

 Creditors to the Estate of the said Absentee ; and you are hereby 

 allowed three months' time from the date hereof, in which 

 time to transact the said business. You are in all cases to 

 proceed by the same rules as are by law prescribed for insolvent 

 Estates, and to report to me your doings at the end of the said 

 three months, and in all things deal impartially as you are 

 sworn, and you are to notify W Hunt, Esq., to contest the 

 claims before you. 



" Given under my hand and seal of office, this fifth day of 

 September, A. D. 1781. 



" OLIVER PRESCOTT, Prob. 



EARTH. RICHARDSON, -v c _ 



__ / Sworn before me, SAM^ THOMP- 



"Derf 4. NOAH EATON, . 



( SON, Justice of the Peace" 

 ABIJAH THOMPSON. ) 



" A List of the Claims exhibited and allowed agst. the Estate of 

 Benjamin Thompson, late of Woburn, Absentee. 



" To Hannah Flagg, by Legacy- 

 Principal 26 13 4 



Interest due on the Same 358 62 14 



This*Legacy was ordered to be paid to the said 

 Hannah Flagg in the Testament of Capt. Eben- 

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