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 1818 that "there is now 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. 534]Town of Arundel, for board and clothing Henry Rolf, to 26th November, 1817, $ 44 00Augusta, for sundry paupers to 3d January, 1818, 81 37
Alfred, for support of John Meservy and Cornelius Evans, to 20th January, 1818, 21 42
[p. 535]Anson, for support of William James' family to 15th January, 1818, 46 12Bath, for board, clothing, nursing and doctoring sundry paupers, to 2d January, 1818, 201 66
Bristol, for support and doctoring Nancy Hill and William How, to 11th December, 1817, 136 34
Brewer, for supplies to Jonathan Roberts and family, to 14th January, 1818, 13 53
[p. 536]Cape Elizabeth, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 2d January, 1818, 124 30Cushing, for board and clothing Mary Henderson and Peggy Rowley, to 13th January, 1818, 79 40
Dresden, for board, clothing and doctoring John Cullen, to 1st January, 1818, 67 20
Eliot, for board and clothing Jacob Brewer and Abigail Randall, to 27th January, 1818, 86 32
Fayette, for board and clothing William Godfrey Martin, to 1st January, 1818, 41 20
[p. 537]Falmouth, Cumberland County, for board, clothing, doctoring and supplies to sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1818, 239 52Frankfort, for board and clothing Hatevil Colson, to 1st January, 1818, 36 00
Friendship, for board and clothing James Metcalf and Martha Bickmore, to 20th January, 1818, 71 97
Gardiner, for board, clothing and doctoring sundry paupers, to 10th January, 1818, 129 85
Gorham, for support of Robert Gillfilling, to 8th February, 1818, 55 50
Hebron, for support and doctoring William Oriley, till he left the town, March, 1817, 10 00
[p. 538]Harlem, for board and clothing William Youling, to 10th November, 1817, 162 84Hallowell, for board, clothing, nursing and doctoring sundry paupers, to 31st December, 1817, 314 10
Jay, for board and clothing Elizabeth Bell, to 5th January, 1818, 33 00
Kittery, for board and clothing Sarah Perkins, Deborah Perkins and child, to 6th January, 1818, 85 25
Limington, for board and clothing John O. Ryan, to 1st January, 1818, 57 20
Lincolnville, for board, clothing, and doctoring sundry paupers, to the 14th January, 1818, 121 78
Minot, for support of Philip Weeks and Elizabeth Phinney, to 3d November, 1817, 120 00
[p. 539]Monmouth, for the support of John Sherburne and Peggy Magner, to the 9th January, 1818, and funeral charges of John Sherburne, 83 76Montville, for board and clothing William McClary and wife, and John Gloscester, to 12th January, 1818, 278 60
Machias, for support and doctoring sundry paupers, to 31st December, 1817, and funeral charges of David McNiel, 251 70
Mount Vernon, for support of sundry paupers, to 31st December, 1817, 113 84
North Yarmouth, for boarding, clothing and doctoring George Young, to 13th January, 1818, 54 15
[p. 540]Norridgewock, for board of Jesse Rowe, to 28th May, 1817, 6 00New Gloucester, for support of Robert Forbes and wife, and Joseph Gregory, to 1st February, 1818, 218 39
New Castle, for board and clothing Lois Hodgman and children, to 2d January, 1818, and doctoring Florentine Langton, 124 30
Newry, for board, clothing and doctoring William Burk, to 28th September, 1817, 27 19
Pittston, for support of Amelia McMansfield, to 30th December, 1817, and Juda Delano, till her death, and funeral charges, to 14th July, 1817, 83 47
Prospect, for board and clothing Lydia Hayes and Benjamin Y. Shute, to 1st January, 1818, 193 90
Phipsburg, for board of Jacob Wheeler, to 10th January, 1818, 32 00
Peru, for board, clothing and doctoring James Robbins, to 29th December, 1817, 48 70
Portland, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1818, 1699 03
[p. 541]Sedgwick, for support and doctoring John Low, till his death, and funeral charges, November 22d, 1817, and his wife and children, to 22d December, 1817, 172 19South Berwick, for board, clothing and doctoring Lemuel Woodworth, to 1st January, 1818, Mary Stackpole and Molly Boice, till they left the state, 104 85
[p. 542]Saco, for support of Daniel Sargent, and doctoring Lewis Victor, to 27th December, 1815, 45 00Scarborough, for support and nursing Robert Dickerson till his death, and funeral charges, 30th December, 1816, 29 00
Thomastown, for board and clothing John Anderson, to 20th January, 1818, 78 77
Vassalborough, for board and clothing Abigail Fairbrother, to 1st January, 1818, 63 10
Winthrop, for board and clothing William Gasket, to 14th January, 1818, 38 50
Wayne, for support of Joseph Richards and wife, to 30th January, 1818, 174 00
[p. 543]Wilton, for support and doctoring Enoch Foot, wife and children, to 26th May, 1816, 98 68Warren, for support of sundry paupers, to 21st January, 1818, 221 00
York, for board, clothing, nursing and doctoring sundry paupers, to 24th January, 1818, 508 71
