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Catalog Number/Object ID |
2009-100-1Pa1.18 |
Object Name |
Folders (containers) |
Title |
Overseers of the Poor 1816-1818 |
Caption of Image |
An invoice from the Commonwealth |
Scope & Content/Description |
This file contains papers to the Town of Marblehead, Overseers of the Poor. 1) Letters from Towns and Cities that had persons connected to Marblehead on the rolls of their Overseers of the Poor. They sent notice to Marblehead that Marblehead must take them into Marblehead's Poor House or pay for their care in the community in question. Of these notices there are One each from Topsfield, Lynn, Bristol, Wenham, Tewskbury , 2 from Lincolnville & 3 from Salem. 2) A note dated Jan. 30,1816 about John Davis, Born in London in 1763, arrived in Newport R.I. in 1781, to Boston in 1785 for 14 years then came to Marblehead and the Overseers of the Poor. 3) there are 18 invoices for goods and services billed to The Overseers of the Poor. Two invoices from the Commonwealth of Massachuetts with the expenses of persons supported by the Commonwealth for Marblehead. Cost $215.84 & $460.52 |
Subjects |
People |
Date |
1816 |
Year Range from |
1816 |
Year Range to |
1818 |
Catalog date |
2010-05-12 |
People |
Pa 1.18 Adams, David Andrews, Betty Bartlett, John Bassett, Elizabeth Boyer, David Bradum, J. Brown, Annie Brown, John Brown, Samuel Card, Mary Carter, Polley Castland, James Clough, James Davis, John Davison, Deborah Dawson, Edmund Dawson, Harriet Day, Susanna Dennis, B. Dismore, J. Fletcher, Sally Florence, Mary Florence, Nicholas Francis, George Francis Francis, Patty Goldsmith, Betsy Graves, Jonathan Green, Hannah Greenough, Emanuel Harris, John Harris, Mary Harris, Molly Hogan, Peter Hooker, Richard Humphrey, John Ingalls. John Makepeach, Jonathan Marshall, Hermon Marstons, J. Nicholson, Mary Osgood, G. Perry, J. O. Peterson, Vincent Pickering, John Porter, Daniel Porter, Paul Scott, John Sheffield, Aaron Capt. Theophilus, Alexander Thomas, Hannah Thompson, William Tompson, Betsy Trefry, S. Turner, Samuel Weston, Hannah |
Search Terms |
Old Town records Overseers of the Poor |
Lexicon category |
10: Unclassifiable Artifacts |
Lexicon sub-category |
Need to Classify |
Collection |
Gosling Collection |
Condition |
Fair |