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nor any one of theire Come or passenger that shall come 

 with them from thence shall have libertye or bee suffered 

 to come on shore, before thay are vissetted or examined by 

 James Poland or John Clifford one or Both of which wee 

 doe heareby fulley impowre to goe on Board all such ves- 

 sell or vessells and for that end to impress any boate or 

 canoe & persons sutable to attend them therein, likewise 

 to give notice to them y* thay suffer not any person or per- 

 sons to come on Board, that neither the Companyeor pas- 

 sengers come on shore nor any person or persons what 

 soever goe on Board of them upon the uttermost perrill, 

 untill a tru acc bee given to the Selectmen of theire 

 health & condition thay are in by the sayd persons im- 

 powred, that soe an order from the Selectmen may bee given 

 forth either to licence them to come on shoare, or further 

 to prohibit & forbid according as the case may justly re- 

 quire." 



"At a meeting of William Browne & Bartholomew Ged- 

 ney Esq r togather with the Selectmen who ordered a war- 

 rant to bee draw lie as followeth, June 14th, 1680. 



"To Constable Peter Chevers you are in his maj e name 

 heareby required to impress William Marston to cary over 

 the man hee hath brought into the towne, (which man is 

 visseted with the distemper of the small pox) in the same 

 boate hee brought him unto the house of Abraham Read, 

 on Royall Syde, which sayd house if the man bee not wil- 

 ling to reseave him into it & withdraw himselfe into some 

 other place for a short tyme : you are then heareby to im- 

 press the house & enter into it & leave the distempered man 

 there, & William Marston with him to tend him ; <fc to 

 provide for them all such things as are nessesary upon the 

 townes acc & to cause Abraham Read to depart, or if hee 

 bee not at home then to open the house as aforesayd, like- 

 wise to order William Marston to sink the boat in some 



