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 1819 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. 714]Alfred, for support of Johnbranche Dore and Trigant de Beaumont, to 7th November, 1818, 37 80Arundel, for board and clothing Henry Rolf, to 26th November, 1818, 88 00
Augusta, for board, clothing and nursing sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1819, 158 61
[p. 715]Anson, for support of Margaret James and her children, Mary, Joseph, and Jane, to 11th January, 1819, 79 20Bangor, for support and doctoring John Haycock and family, and James Johnson, till they left the town, September, 1818, 61 60
Bowdoinham, for board and clothing Betsey Parker, till her death, and funeral charges, 26 77
Bath, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing sundry paupers, to 15th January, 1819, 286 10
Bristol, for board and clothing William Howe and Samuel Hill and wife, to 11th December, 1818, 171 20
[p. 716]Clinton, for funeral charges of Ebenezer Aers, 26th January, 1819, 5 00Cape Elizabeth, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1819, 212 00
Canaan, for support of William Jones and family, to 1st August, 1817, 43 50
Cherryfield, for board, clothing and doctoring Richard Barfield, till his death, and funeral charges, May, 1818, 35 00
Camden, for board and clothing John Bloom, and house rent for Richard Conway's family, to 29th January, 1819, 86 81
[p. 717]Dresden, for board and clothing John Cullen, to 1st January, 1819, 67 20Eliot, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing Jacob Brewer and Abigail Randall, to 19th January, 1819, 134 97
Fayette, for board and clothing William Godfrey Martin, to 1st January, 1819, 67 20
Friendship, for board and clothing James Metcalf and Martha Bigmore, to 26th January, 1819, 114 40
Falmouth, Cumberland County, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1819, 252 40
[p. 718]Gardiner, for board and clothing sundry paupers, and funeral charges of Eleanor Thoms, to 10th January, 1819, 141 70Gorham, for support of Robert Gilfilling, to 31st January, 1819, 52 50
Harlem, for support of William Youling, to 10th November, 1818, 33 60
Hallowell, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing, to 1st January, 1819, sundry paupers, 456 27
Harrington, for board, nursing and doctoring William Pearce, to 10th March, 1818, 16 87
Jay, for board, clothing and nursing Elizabeth Bell, to 12th January, 1819, 37 14
[p. 719]Jonesborough, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing James Kevan and John Harrington, to 11th November, 1818, 170 08Kittery, for board, clothing and doctoring sundry paupers, to 13th January, 1819, 185 98
Lincolnville, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 14th January, 1819, 122 20
Livermore, for support of James Campbell and family, to 6th January, 1819, 33 00
Limington, for board and clothing John O'Ryan, to 31st December, 1818, 77 20
Montville, for board and clothing William McClary and John Gloster, to 26th December, 1818, 129 24
[p. 720]Machias, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing sundry paupers, to 31st December, 1818, and funeral charges of Anthony Pepper, 27th August, 1818, 186 96Monmouth, for board and clothing Peggy Magner, to 1st February, 1819, 29 70
Mount Vernon, for support and doctoring sundry paupers, to 8th December, 1818, 204 11
Newcastle, for support and doctoring sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1819, 134 02
New Gloucester, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing sundry paupers, to 1st February, 1819, and funeral charges of Robert Forbes, 155 94
[p. 721]North Yarmouth, for board, clothing and doctoring George Young, to 9th February, 1819, 60 94Pittston, for support of Amelia McMansfield, till her death, 5th March, 1818, and funeral charges, 19 15
Portland, for board and clothing sundry paupers to 1st January, 1819, 1249 59
Prospect, for board, clothing and doctoring Benjamin Y. Shute and Lydia Hayes, to 1st January, 1819, 180 89
Rumford, for support of Sally Tyler and six children, to 4th March, 1818, and expense of removing them out of the Commonwealth, 200 00
[p. 722]St. George, for board and clothing Robert Haws, to 3d January, 1819, 91 00[p. 723]Thomaston, for board, clothing and nursing John Anderson, to 1st January, 1819, 63 90Vassalborough, for board and clothing Abigail Fairbrother, to 1st February, 1819, 38 23
Wiscasset, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing sundry paupers, to 20th January, 1819, 362 25
Waterville, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1819, 144 01
[p. 724]Waldoborough, for board, clothing and doctoring Philip Handle and Phebe Andrews, to 6th December, 1818, and funeral charges of Phebe Andrews, 60 00Westbrook, for support and doctoring James Covert, to 14th January, 1819, 43 75
Windham, for support and doctoring Thomas Kenard and wife, to 11th January, 1819, 108 30
Warren, for support of sundry paupers, to 20th January, 1819, 221 00
York, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing sundry paupers, to 30th January, 1819,473 53
