Family:David Wait and Abigail Brigham (1)

From Acts and Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (from 28 May 1806 to 6 Mar 1810), p. 250:

CCXLVII.

Resolve ganting Moses Thomas, a Deputy Sheriff in Worcester county, Six dollars, thirty one cents. Feb. 14, 1809.

On the petition of Moses Thomas, a Deputy Sheriff, stating, that on the seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and two, by virtue of a warrant put into his hands, issued on the complaint of Henry Brigham, of Barre, and Abigail Wait, of Sterling, both in the county of Worcester, against David Wait, of said Sterling, a Lunatick or furiously madman, he, the said Thomas, arrested said David Wait according to the tenor of said warrant, and committed him to the goal in Worcester—that after having made due return of said warrant, he applied to the then Court of General Sessions of the Peace in the county of Worcester, for payment for the service aforesaid, but that the said Court of Sessions refused to pay him therefor, alledging that the Statute of the Commonwealth made no provision for the same—and praying the General Court that payment be allowed him for said service.

Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth to the said Moses Thomas, the sum of six dollars and thirty one cents in payment for the service set forth in his said petition.

1. ↑ The date of marriage is not given in Source:Brigham, Willard Irving Tyler. History of the Brigham Family : A Record of Several Thousand Descendants of Thomas Brigham the Emigrant, 1603-1653, nor listed in Marlborough VRs, though the fact of the marriage is clear from Abigail's father's probate documents, including one dated 30 Nov 1682, so it was before that date (see Person:Uriah Brigham (1)).