Maine Pauper Accounts, January 1815

Source: Resolves of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Passed at the Several Sessions of the General Court, Holden in Boston, Beginning 26th May, 1812, and Ending 2d March, 1815. (Boston, Mass.: Russell, Cutler & Co., printers, 1812-15).

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 January 1815 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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Augusta, for board and doctoring John Morgan, to 2d January, 1815, 30 35

Arundel, for board, clothing, and nursing Henry Rolf, to 1st January, 1815, 88

Baldwin, for board and clothing Daniel Hickey, to 1st January, 1815, 67 20

Boothbay, for board and clothing Henry Green, to 12th January, 1815, 28 8

Belfast, for board and clothing the wife of Robert Rogers, and children, to 1st January, 1815, 90

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Belgrade, for board of Abigail Odlin, to 8th January, 1815, 29 5

Berwick, for supporting Lemuel Woodsworth, to 12th April, 1814, 15 70

Bristol, for support of sundry paupers, to January, 1815, 175 25

Cushing, for board and clothing James Walker, to 17th January, 1815, 43 88

Camden, for board, clothing and nursing John Bloom, to 1st February, 1815, 72

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Cape Elizabeth, for supporting James Ramsbottom, to 25th December, 1814, 48

Dresden, for board and clothing John Culling, to 1st January, 1815, 65 28

Elliot, for board and clothing Jacob Brewer and Abigail Randall, to 21st January, 1815, 80 23

Friendship, board, clothing and nursing Martha Bigmore, to 20th January, 1815, 167

Fayette, for board and clothing William G. Martin to 1st January, 1815, 67 20

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Falmouth, (Cumberland county,) for support of Felician Sang, to 8th January, 1815, 78 38

Gorham, for support of Robert Gilfilling, to 1st February, 1815, 52 50

Hallowell, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 31st December, 1814, 310 44

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Kittery, for board, clothing and doctoring Deborah Berks and Sarah Perkins and child, to 1st January, 1815, 146

Leeds, for board and clothing Nicholas Tallier, to 31st December, 1814, 99

Lincolnville, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1815, 125 60

Litchfield, for board and clothing Daniel Hower and Hannah Taylor's two children, to 1st January, 1815, 133 90

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Mount Vernon, for board and clothing William Basford and William Ham, to 16th January, 1815, 42 43

Minot, for support of Philip Weeks, to 1st February, 1815, 81

Machias, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1815, 191 28

Newry, for board and clothing William Burt, to 2d January, 1815, 50 69

Newcastle, for board, doctoring and nursing John Coughfran, and William Coughfran a child, to 25th [______], 1815, 77 20

New Gloucester, for board and clothing Joseph Gregory, to 31st December, 47 56

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Paris, for board of Benaiah Dow, to 18th March, 1815, 4 50

Peru, for board, clothing and nursing James and Olive Robbins, to 25th January, 1815, 104 10

Parsonsfield, for support of Lucy Miles, to 15th January, 1815, 26

Prospect, for board and clothing Ann Hinds, to 1st January, 1815, 56

Portland, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1815, 1085 73

Reedfield, for board, clothing and doctoring Edward Burgis and Coten Comerans, to 29th December, 1814, 137

Standish, for board, clothing and doctoring Ellis Noble till her death, 51

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Saco, for board and doctoring Jane Young to 11th November, 1814, with her two children, 48 5

St. George, for board of Robert Hawes to 2d February, 1815, 57 20

South Berwick for support of Lemuel Woodsworth to 23d January, 1815, 52 5

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Thomastown, for board and clothing John Anderson to 12th January 1815 67 20

Topsham, for board and clothing John Duggin, to 28th January 1815, 72

Vassalborough, for boarding Abigail Fairbrother, to 16th January, 1815, 11 97

Winthrop, for board, clothing and doctoring William Gaskell and Olive Howard, to 4th January, 1815, 152 15

Wiscasset, for board, clothing and doctoring sundry paupers, to 21st January, 1815, 136 13

Warren, for board of William Mearman and Hannah Ames, to 4th January, 1814, 104

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York, for board, clothing and nursing sundry paupers, to 1st February, 1815, 518 4