Maine Pauper Accounts, February 1812

Source: Resolves of the General Court of Massachusetts, Passed at the Session Begun and Holden at Boston, on the Eighth Day of January, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twelve. (Boston, Mass.: Dams, Rhoades & Co., printers, 1812).

Massachusetts (of which Maine was then a part) was obliged to reimburse towns for the support of paupers who lacked "settlement" in the Commonwealth. These were often people born abroad or in other states. The Committee on Accounts reported in February 1812 that "there are due to the corporations and persons hereafter mentioned, the sums set to their names respectively; which, when allowed and paid, will be in full discharge of the said accounts to the several dates therein mentioned."

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Bath, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring Samuel Osborn to the time of his death, including funeral charges, $42 50

Berwick, for boarding Lemuel Wadsworth to 29th January, 1812, 10 40

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Boothbay, for boarding and clothing Stephen Green's child to 12th January, 1812, $85 90

Brunswick, for supplies and doctoring John Friend to 31st January, 1812, 25

Cape Elizabeth, for boarding James Ramsbottom to 29th December, 1811, 48

Cushing, for boarding James Walker to 12th February, 1812, 41 60

Castine, for boarding and doctoring Nancy James and her children, until they left the Commonwealth, and John Johnson to the time of his death, including funeral charges, 76 50

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Elliot, for supplies for Jacob Brewer and family to 30th December, 1811, $35

Fayette, for boarding and clothing William G. Martin to 1st January, 1812, 69 20

Falmouth, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring Felician Sang to 31st December, 1811, 84

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Gorham, for boarding and clothing Robert Gillfilling to 31st January, 1812, $82 83

Hallowell, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring sundry paupers to 1st January, 1812, 492

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Kittery, for boarding and clothing Sarah Perkins, and Deborah Perkins and child, to 1st January, 1812, $127 40

Limington, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring John Orion to 1st January, 1812, 67 60

Litchfield, for supplies to Hannah Taylor, and Daniel Howard and wife, to 1st January, 1812, 154 30

Lincolnville, for boarding and clothing Alexander White and Timothy Cox, to 17th January, 1812, 109 70

Minot, for boarding Philip Weeks to 14th January, 1812, 26

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Machias, for doctoring James Low to February, 1811, $25

North Yarmouth, for boarding and clothing William Elwell to 1st January, 1812, 67 20

Otisfield, for boarding and doctoring William Hurd to the time he left the Commonwealth, 40

Penobscot, for boarding and clothing Thomas Slack to 17th December, 1811, 42

Phillipsburgh, for supplies for Lemuel Woods to the 10th November, at which time he was removed to Berwick, 46 82

Portland, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring sundry paupers to 1st January, 1812, 1516 95

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Peru, for supplies for James Robbins and family to 2d January, 1812, $123 90

Readfield, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring Edward Burges and Collin Commoran to 27th December, 1811, 115

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Saco, for doctoring John Dunham to the 4th August, 1811, $29

St. George, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring Robert Hause to 2d February, 1812, and Eleanor Matthews to the time of her death, including funeral charges, 62 50

Standish, for boarding and clothing Alice Noble to 6th January, 1812, 65

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Topsham, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring John Duggen to 7th January, and William Proctor to 28th January, 1812, $145

Vassalborough, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring Abigail Fairbrother, Lydia Gordon, and Caleb Gordon, to the 1st January, 1812, James Leister, and Sally Gordon to the time of their death, including funeral charges, 151 12

Wayne, for boarding Sally Allard to the time of her death, including funeral charges, 8 97

Warren, for supporting William Moorman to 4th January, 1812, 52

Winthrop, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring Olive Howard and William Gascat, to 4th January, 1812, 123 34

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York, for boarding, clothing, and doctoring sundry paupers to 8th February, 1812, and Sarah Vandy to the time of her death, including funeral charges, $615 13