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Catalog Number |
2016.1.48 |
Object Name |
Receipt |
Scope & Content |
10 handwritten receipts related to the Overseers of the Poor, 1823, most allowed by Jonas Peirce A: To G. & H. Whittemore for "sundry articles" delivered to Elijah Allen, $24.00 B: To Abigail Adams [Converse] for 26 weeks of work, $26.00 C: To Jonas Peirce for vinegar, snuff, bookkeeping, and "expenses at Philip Whittemores," allowed by Timothy Wellington, $10.68 D: To William Walker for "operating on Jos. Perry for Strangulated Hernia," $29.00 E: To Cyrus Thorning, for shoes and shoe repair for Perry, Miss Wilson, Miss Bathrick, Hill, and "the boy," $7.37 F: To Timothy Wellington for cash paid to Col. Russell, wine and brandy for Mrs. Childs, fabric for Carnes, and to pay Hovey for 2 pigs, for meat, and for attendance on the town's poor, $60.60 G: Receipt from the City of Boston for cash and wood given to Cranston Cutter by Daniel Weld ($11.76) minus for the board of Timothy Bath ($8.78), received by James Phillips, $2.98 H: To Ichabod Fessenden for meal and rye, $32.30 I: To Jon[athan] Whittemore for refreshments at P. [Philip] Whittemores, tobacco, foodstuffs, and for going to see Matilda Cutter, for shoes for Mrs. ..., and for cloth for Wm. Carnes, $26.23 J: To Jonas Peirce for snuff, tobacco, foodstuffs, fabrics, household items, refreshments at P. [Philip] Whittemores, and for "power of turney" for L. [Lazarus] Barthrick, to Cyrus Thorning for shoes, to Noah Russell for removing E. [Ephraim] Cooke [and wife?] minus credit for L. [Lazarus] Bathrick's pension ($48.00), $9.67 |
Year Range from |
1822 |
Year Range to |
1824 |
People |
Adams, Abigail Whittemore, Philip Carteret Allen, Elijah Bath, Timothy Bathrick, Lazarus Bathrick, Miss Carnes, William Cooke, Ephraim Cooke, Ephraim* Cutter, Cranston Cutter, Matilda Fessenden, Ichabod Peirce, Jonas Perry, Joseph Russell, Noah Thorning, Cyrus Walker, William Wellington, Timothy Whittemore, Gershom Whittemore, Henry* Whittemore, Jonathan Whittemore, Philip Cartaret Jr. Wilson, Miss |
Subjects |
Alms Almsgiving Almshouses Poor persons Poorhouses Welfare Overseers |
Search Terms |
Overseers of the Poor |
Collection |
Arlington Historical Society Collection |
Copyrights |
Rights status not evaluated. (CC BY-NC-ND) Non-commercial use only. |