12 EARLY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 



convenient place for her clensing & all & every part heare- 

 of you are to attend untill you shall reseave further order 

 & heareof you are not to fa} r le." 



At a meeting of the Selectmen January 21th, 1680-1. 



"Abraham Reads Rates are abated to Constable Jn 

 Batchelder upon consideration of his house being im- 

 proved to put a sick man in, viz : the man y e was viseted 

 with the small pox." 



" Att a metting of the Selectmen 19 : 8 : 1683. 



" There being certaine information given to the Select- 

 men, (& by M r . John Tawleys owne acknowligement) y* 

 M r . Jn Tawley who latley arived from Newfound land 

 has brought in the distemper of the small pox haveing 

 one man on board sick of the same & considering the 

 great danger of the spreading of such a distemper amongst 

 us he haveing brought home many passengers whome he 

 has landed & they are scatered a broad 



"This following warrant was given to ye Constables. 



" You & every of you are herby required in his majes- 

 ties [name,] forthwith to send ffrances Eliot on board M r 

 Jn Tawleys Katch & ther to tend ye sick man & forth 

 with to send & cary downe to the house y* Sarj a Jn Cli- 

 ford lived in all the passengers & seamen y 4 came in M r 

 Jn Tawleys from Newfound land & can be found in this 

 towne & there to confine them till further order be taken 

 and y* Mr. Jn Tawley be confined to his house & y* his 

 boy be either sent on board ye Katch or downe to the 

 aforesaid house." 



" At a meeting of the Select men 8 th 7. 85. 



"The Select men being informed that the small pox doth 

 greatly rage upon the Island of Burbados, doe therefore 

 order that all cotten wool that is now or hereafter shall be 

 imported from said Island into this harbor of Salem shall 

 be landed at Bakers Island & there to remaine untel the 



