Maine Genealogy
Source: Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Passed at the Several Sessions of the General Court, Commencing May 31, 1815, and Ending February 20, 1819. (Boston, Mass.: Russell & Gardner, printers, 1819).
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 1816 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."
[p. 178]Baldwin, for board and clothing Daniel Hickey, to 1st January, 1816, 67 20Belgrade, for board of Abigail Odlin, to 8th January, 1816, 31 50
Bowdoinham, for board and clothing Betsey Parker, to 27th December, 1815, 113 40
[p. 179]Cushing, for board and clothing James Walker, to 17th January, 1816, 67 70Camden, for board and clothing John Bloom, to 24th January, 1816, 47 59
Castine, for board and clothing James Buckley and Catharine Mc Coy, to 1st January, 1816, 170 25
Cape-Elizabeth, for board and clothing James Ramsbottom and George Young, to 1st January, 1816, 81 60
[p. 180]Dresden, for support of John Cullen, to 1st January, 1816, 67 20Eastport, for board and clothing William Johnson and John Smith, to 24th January, 1814, 107 15
Elliot, for board and clothing Jacob Brewer and Abigail Randall, to 14th January, 1816, 79 70
Falmouth, Cumberland County, for board and clothing Felecian Sang, to 8th January, 1816, 67 20
Frankfort, for board of Hatfield Coltson, to 1st January, 1816, 30 00
Gorham, for board and clothing Robert Gillfillen, to 1st February, 1816, 132 00
[p. 181]Hallowell, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 31st December, 1815, 439 20Kittery, for board and clothing Sarah Perkins and Deborah Perkins and child, to 1st of January, 1816, 146 64
Litchfield, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing John Taylor's two children, to 1st June, and Daniel Howard to time of his death, and funeral charges, October, 1815, 82 03
Leeds, for board and clothing Nicholas Tallier, to 2d January, 1816, 61 25
Lincolnville, for board and clothing Alexander White, Timothy Cox, and Edward Oram, to 1st January, 1816, 111 32
[p. 182]Limington, for board to John O. Ryan, to 31st December, 1815, 67 20Mount Vernon, for supplies to William Hammond's family, to 4th January, 1816, 28 90
Machias, for board and clothing Anthony Pepper and Moses Wheaton, to 31st December, 1815, 75 75
Monmouth, for board, clothing and supplies to sundry paupers, to 15th January, 1816, 101 17
Minot, for board of Philip Weeks, to 15th January, 1816, 55 00
North Yarmouth, for board and clothing George Young, to August 29th, 1814, 35 50
Newry, for board and clothing William Burk, to 1st January, 1816, 41 10
[p. 183]New Gloucester. for board and supplies to sundry paupers, to 21st December, 1815, 262 86Phipsburgh, for board and clothing Jacob Wheeler, to 25th December, 1815, 22 82
Peru, for board, clothing and doctoring James Robbins, to 15th January, 1816, 15 94
Pittstown, for supplies furnished the wife and children of Robert M'Knight, to 21st October, 1815, 100 00
Parsonsfield, for support of Lucy Miles, to 15th December, 1815, 19 74
Portland, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1816, 1237 47
[p. 184]St. George, for board and clothing Robert Hawes, to 12th January, 1816, 53 90South Berwick, for board and clothing Lemuel Woodworth, to 15th January, 1816, 49 50
Saco, for board, clothing, doctoring and supplies to sundry paupers to 10th January, 1816, 52 02
Sanford, board, clothing and doctoring Rachel Jourdan and two children, to January, 1816, 28 07
Turner, for board, clothing and doctoring William G. Martin, to 26th August, 1815, 38 75
[p. 185]Topsham, board and clothing John Duggin, to 28th January, 1816, 78 00Thomastown, for board and clothing John Anderson, to 12th January, 1816, 57 20
Vassalborough, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing Gustavus Fellows, to 19th Jan'y. 1816, 195 25
Warren, for board and clothing Hannah Annis, Robert Brown and William Mearman, to 4th January, 1816, 154 00
Wiscassett, for board, clothing, doctoring and supplies to sundry paupers, to 1st February, 1816, 115 01
[p. 186]Westbrook, for board, doctoring and nursing Samuel Brown, to 26th May, 1816, 76 00Winthrop, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 4th January, 1816, 160 00
York, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st February, 1816, 526 26
