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Catalog Number |
2016.1.29 |
Object Name |
Receipt |
Scope & Content |
12 handwritten receipts related to the Overseers of the Poorr, 1817 to 1819, mostly allowed by Jonas Pierce A: To Joshua Avery for making coffin for widow [Betsey Frost] Harrington and other services, $5.50 B: To David Packer for boarding Miss Cooke, $30.00 C: To Abijah Cutter for digging the grave and attending the funeral of Betsy [Frost] Harrington, $4.00 D: To Abigail [Adams] Convers for sixteen weeks work, $16.00 (minus $4.00 "recieved fore dollars in board for my children") E: To Timothy Wellington for attending to poor, $20.00 F: To Miles Gardner for house rent of Gersham Hall in Leominster, $7.50 G: To Nathaniel Fowle for boarding widow Martha Fowle in Danvers, $52.00 H: To Abijah Cutter for digging the grave and attending the funeral of a child of widow Betsy [Frost] Harrington, $2.50, and for Stephen Stearns, $4.00 I: To Alfred Locke for refreshments and meals, $8.20 J: To Isaac Locke for foodstuffs and other goods (including 5 "straw beds" and socks for A. Cooke), foodstuffs for Stephen Stearns; also for "watchers at Mr. Stearns," moving Stephen Stearns, and moving the poor of the town, $37.13 K: To Jonas Peirce for various foodstuffs and wood for the poor, some delivered to the almshouse, and for travel expenses; also for cash to Sarah Fisk for boarding "Robins child" and cloth for A. Cooke; minus money received from Ephrim Cooke for his wife's board and from Abigail [Adams] Convers for Joseph Convers's estate, $90.63 L: To Timothy Wellington, for various foodstuffs and for expenses related to visits to various individuals (R. Frost, Mrs. [Anne Horton] Fillebrown's boy[?], Pery, Hellen[?] Frost, Wilson's child, Mrs. [Martha Bennett] Hill, R. Frost's wife, G.[?] Robbins, Dr. Gamage), and for attendance and medicine for the town's poor, $55.63 |
Year Range from |
1817 |
Year Range to |
1819 |
People |
Adams, Abigail Avery, Joshua Convers, Joseph Cutter, Abijah Fiske, Sarah Fowle, Martha Fowle, Nathaniel Frost, Betsey Gardner, Miles Hall, Gershom Locke, Alfred Locke, Isaac Packer, David Peirce, Jonas Stearns, Stephen Wellington, Timothy |
Subjects |
Overseers Alms Almsgiving Poor persons Welfare Doctors |
Search Terms |
Overseers of the Poor |
Collection |
Arlington Historical Society Collection |
Copyrights |
Rights status not evaluated. (CC BY-NC-ND) Non-commercial use only. |