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Catalog Number/Object ID |
2009-100-1No3.23 |
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Title |
Cemetery 1841-1888 |
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County Commissioner's Invoice |
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This file, labeled "Cemetery Dept.," 1841-1888, contains the following: 1. Memo to Wayne Butler from Margo Sullivan, Senior Clerk of the Cemetery Department, October 25, 2013, containing facts about when certain cemeteries were established, etc. 2. Receipt showing payment of $325 to Richard Peach by the Cemetery Committee for building roads at Waterside Cemetery, October 34, 1863. 3. Receipt showing payment of $150 to Richard Peach by the Cemetery Committee for building roads at Waterside Cemetery, July 23, 1863. 4. Receipt showing payment of $11.25 by the Cemetery Committee to Richard Peach for setting trees at Waterside Cemetery, October 29, 1861. 5. Receipt showing payment of $78.25 by Cemetery Committee to Richard Peach for labor on trees at Waterside Cemetery, fences, wall, road, foot for stone gate, June 30, 1861. 6. Receipt showing payment of $38.35 to Richard Peach for labor at Waterside Cemetery, May 13, 1861. 7. Receipt showing payment of $1.75 to Richard Peach for labor at Waterside Cemetery, October 1859. 8. Receipt showing payment of $198.49 to Richard Peach stone work at Waterside Cemetery, August 15, 1859. 9. Receipt showing payment of $27.50 to E.M. Usher for repairing a fence at Waterside Cemetery, May 24, 1884. 10. Receipt showing payment of $1.00 to Philip B. Tucker for "fixing lower box to pump" at Waterside Cemetery, December 29, 1884. 11. Receipt showing payment of $11.25 to George Mason for labor at Waterside Cemetery, June 1, 1884. 12. Receipt showing payment of $1.75 to Simeon Dodge for one shaft for hearse, January 1841. 13. Receipt showing payment of $12.75 to Thomas Ingalls for labor at Waterside Cemetery, June 2, 1884. 14. Receipt showing payment of $15 tp John F. Bates for labor at Waterside Cemetery, June 1884. 15. Receipt showing payment of $6.00 to Charles L. Willey for labor at Waterside Cemetery, June 1884. 16. Receipt showing payment of $7.40 to N.P. Bliss for "return of deaths." 17. Receipt showing payment of $2.00 to Simeon Dodge for axle for hearse, July 1863. 18. Receipt showing payment of $31.67 to E.G. & E.A. Burbank for repainting hearse, June 30, 1863. 19. Receipt showing payment of $3.50 to Benjamin Gale for "removing hearse from Salem, 1863. 20. Receipt showing payment of $2.50 to William Ryan for mending hearse axle and shafts, July 26, 1865. 21. Receipt showing payment of $4.72 to N.P. Bliss for labor at Waterside Cemetery, December 1863. 22. Receipt showing payment of $4.30 to W.F. Cloon for brass kaye and pick handle, June 30, 1863. 23. Recepit showing payment of $55 to Thomas T. Paine for rocks, wagon to cemetery, horse team, all for Waterside Cemetery, August-October 1862. 24. Receipt showing payment of $6.00 to Jeremiah Stone for examination of a body for the Estate of Henry Kneeland. 25. Receipt showing payment of $8.50 to William Stacey for "retrning 28 deaths," April 1888. 26. Receipt showing payment of $3.25 to Mary F. Glover for a shroud, 1883. 27. Receipt showing payment of $3.36 to A. Kimball for burial of Hannah Frost and George Broughton, July 6, 1863. 28. Receipt showing payment of $3.00 to William O. Turner for labor on trees at Waterside Cemetery, June 1863. 29. Receipt showing payment of $1.00 to Rea Nourse for "crying a notice," June 29, 1861. 30. Receipt showing payment of $40 to Samuel C. Pitman for various trees for Waterside Cemetery, 1861. 31. Receipt showing payment of $70 to Samuel C. Pitman for several trees for Waterside Cemetery, November 1861. 32. Receipt showing payment of $14.40 to James Nicholson for ringing bell for the town, taking care of the hearse, return of deaths, April 1861. 33. Receipt showing payment of $1.00 to Rea Nourse for crying notice, June 29, 1860. 34. Receipt showing payment of $19 to Thomas T. Paine for labor and horse team at Waterside Cemetery, October 3, 1860. 35. Receipt showing payment of $6.50 to Horace S. Traill for advertising proposals for sale of lots at Waterside Cemetery, 1860-1861. 36. Receipt showing payment of $1.50 to Charles A. Putnam for copy of plan of road leading to Waterside Cemetery, Augustu 17, 1860. 37. Receipt showing payment of $26.44 to N.P. Sanborn for labor and materials at Waterside Cemetery, October 1859. 38. Receipt showing payment of $52.58 to Thomas T. Paine for stone posts, fence, horse team, at Waterside Cemetery, July, August and October 1859. 39. Receipt showing payment of $2.00 to Rea Nourse for crying notice for dedication of Waterside Cemetery, 1859. 40. Receipt showing payment of $27 to Joseph Martin for a team and two men for labor at Waterside Cemetery, September 1859. 41. Receipt showing payment of $75 to Charles A. Putnam for services in laying out Waterside Cemetery, May 1859. 42. Receipt showing payment of $2.50 to E. Russell for labor on fence at burial hill, 1852. 43. Receipt showing payment of $4.50 to E. Russell for labor and material for fence at burial hill, 1853. 44. Receipt showing payment of $20 to P. Tufts for hearse harness. Submitted by Henry L. Pitman, October 1850. 45. Receipt showing payment of $120 to Joel Reynolds building a tomb, October 1851. 46. Receipt showing payment of $10 to John A. Felton for labor altering and painting hearse, September 1850. 47. Receipt showing payment of $20.45 to John A. Felton for repairing rails and putting up a wall at burial hill, tolling of bell, labor repairing town clock, return of deaths, 1852. 48. Receipt showing payment of $9.90 to Nathaniel Homan for care and cleaning of hearse for nine months and return of deaths to town clerk, October 1860. 49. Receipt showing payment of $6.00 to Nathaniel Homan for care and cleaning of hearse for six months, 1860. 50. Receipt showing payment of $10.90 to Nathaniel Homan for care and cleaning of hearse for six months, return of deaths to town clerk, ringing bell, 1859. 51. Receipt showing payment of $7.50 to Nathaniel Homan for care and cleaning of hearse for six months, return of deaths to town cleark, 1852. 52. Receipt showing payment of $8.70 to Nathaniel Homan for care and cleaning of hearse for six months, return of deaths to town clerk and ringing bell for 4th of July, 1852. 53. Receipt showing payment of $8.40 to Nathaniel Homan for care and clearning of hearse for six months and return of deaths to town clerk, 1854. 54. Receipt showing payment of $8.80 to Nathaniel Homan for care and cleaning of hearse for six months, return of deaths to town cleark, and ringing bell, 1853. 55. Receipt showing payment of $17.25 to Nathaniel Homan for cleaning up the "new burying ground" and payment to William Dellin and John Duggin, 1853. 56. Receipt showing payment of $7.30 to Nathaniel Homan for care and cleaning of hearse for six months and return of deaths to town clerk, 1850. 57. Receipt showing payment of $6.80 to Nathaniel Homan for cleaning hearse for six months and return of deaths to town cleark, 1848. 58. Receipt showing payment of $3.75 to Joseph Girdler for labor at cemetery, October 1854. 59. Receipt showing payment of $42 to Joseph Girdler for labor on roads at cemetery, September 1886. 60. Receipt showing payment of $.87 cents to George W. Winslow for repairing hearse, April 1852. 61. Receipt showing payment of $2.62 to George W. Winslow for repair of hearse, October 1852. 62. Receipt showing payment of $12 to Thomas Brown rent of tomb from December 1849 to May 1850. 63. Receipt showing payment of $2.00 to Thomas Brown in connection with hearse, June 1847. 64. Receipt showing payment of $2.50 to James Dinsmore for "notifying members," February-July 1884. 65. Receipt showing payment of $3.00 to James Dinsmore for notifying members, August 1884 through January 1885. 66. Receipt showing payment of $30 to Samuel Knight for work on cemetery roads, September 1884. 67. Receipt showing payment of $34.50 to William Wooldridge for labor at cemetery, September 1884. 68. Receipt showing payment of $3.00 to John S. Atkins for "notifying the committee," December 1862 through March 1863. 69. Receipt showing payment of $5.00 to John S. Atkins for notifying the committee, April-October 1859. 70. Receipt showing payment of $5.00 to John S. Atkins for notifying committee, October 1859 through October 1860. 71. Receipt showing payment of $78.07 by Cemetery Committee to various people, including William F. Cloon, Patten Gilbert & Sons, E.M. Usher, George Mason, Thomas Ingalls, John F. Bates, Charles L. Willey, James Dinsmore, James E. Alley, Samuel Knight, William Wooldridge, Joseph Girdler and P.B. Tucker, 1884. 72. Payment to several people by Cemetery Committee for the fees and costs associated with the taking of land: Dean Peabody, John Maynard, E.B. Bishop, David W. Low, Charles A. Putnam Charles Osgood. Payments included survey and plans, recording at Registry of Deeds, etc., December 17, 1888. 73. Receipt showing payment of $13.19 to W.F. Cloon for items for work at cemetery such as rake, spade, shovel, hoe, crowbar, pick and axe handle, etc., 1862. 74. Invoice showing payment of $29.98 to Potter, Gilbert & Sons, dealers in lumber, May 1884. 75. Invoice showing payment of $3.50 to Hutchinson & Skinner, printers, 33 Pleasant Street, for printing 500 blanks for Cemetery Committee, October 29, 1859. 76. Invoice showing payment of $6.50 to Horace S. Traill for advertising lots at Waterside Cemetery, 1861. 77. Invoices (2) showing payment of $25 each to Norfolk Nurseries for trees, May 1861. 78. Invoice showing payment of $10 to N.P. Bliss, dealer in caskets and coffins, lawn and cambric robes, etc., Lyceum Building at 75 Washington Street, for a coffin, November 1879. 79. Invoice showing payment of $1.70 to William F. Cloon, dealer in Hardware, shoe and farming tools, woodenware, stationery, etc., 86 Washington Street, corner of State, for nails, May 26, 1884. 80. Invoice showing payment of $60 to J.H. Merrill & Son, dealers in workers on granite of all descriptions, Salem, for contract capping at old burying ground, 1888. 81. Invoice showing payment of $7.00 to W.F. Sinclair, barge & hack stable, Sewall Street, rear of depot, for four horse barges ordered but not used and fouro horse barges ordered and a visit to the cemetery, April 1888. 82. Invoice showing payment of $775 to Hickok & Prosset, dealers in horses, Boston, for a Bay horse, August 24, 1871. 83. Invoice showing payment of $8.32 to Hiram A. Tuttle, carriage trimmer and harness maker, Salem, for washing wheels to hearse, repair of whip socket and seat, repair of coushion and stuffing, blackening and oiling straps and leather, a harness, new winkers to bridle, July 3, 1863. 84. Invoice showing payment of $1.00 to James E. Alley, boarding, livery and sale stable, Rockaway Street off Washington, branch stable on Marblehead Neck, July 1884. 85. Invoice showing payment of $14 to William Stacey, dealers in coffins and caskets, for a coffin shroud for the burial of Charles Carroll, February 1874. 86. Invoice showing payment of $11 to William Stacey for a coffin for Elizabeth Cushing and burial of same, November 1883. |
Subjects |
Cemeteries |
Year Range from |
1841 |
Year Range to |
1888 |
Catalog date |
2022-10-11 |
People |
Alley, James E. Atkins, John S. Bates, John F. Bishop, E.B. Bliss, N.P. Bradly, J.D. Broughton, George Brown, Thomas Burbank, E.A. Burbank, E.G. Carroll, Charles Cloon, William F. Cushing, Elizabeth Dellin, William Dinsmore, James Dodge, Simon Duggin, John Felton, John A. Frost, Hannah Gale, Benjamin Girdler, Joseph Glover, Mary F. Homan, Nathaniel Ingalls, Thomas Kimball, A. Kneeland, Henry Knight, Samuel Low, David W. Martin, Joseph Mason, George Maynard, John Nicholson, James Nourse, Rea Orne, J.H. Osgood, Charles Paine, Thomas T. Peabody, Dean Peach, Richard Pitman, Henry L. Pitman, Samuel C. Putnam, Charles A. Reynolds, Joel Russell, E. Ryan, William Stacey, William Stone, Jeremiah Traill, Horace S. Tucker, Philip B. Tufts, P. Usher, E.M. Willey, Charles L. Winslow, George Wooldridge, William |
Search Terms |
Old Town records |
Lexicon category |
10: Unclassifiable Artifacts |
Lexicon sub-category |
Need to Classify |
Collection |
Gosling Collection |
Condition |
Fair |