----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <familyhunter@family-hunter.co.uk> To: <bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [B&D] Overseers' Accounts and Female parish officers? > This entry is also from Walton: > > At a Vestry held this 1 day of August 1784 Whereas the small pox now > broke out in this parish, We do hearby [sic] Agree for the Church > Wardens & Overseers to Gett a Man to Inoculate the inhabitence [sic] > of this parish in number about 70 And we do further agree to give the > Sum of three Guineas and half and no More as Witness our Hands ?3 13s 6d Interesting, that they thought of doing that back then. I thought that was a bit early for Jenner, and I found this by Googling. http://www.thedorsetpage.com/history/smallpox/smallpox.htm Caroline