Maine Pauper Accounts, June 1815

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 June 1815 that "there are 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."

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Augusta, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing sundry paupers, to 24th May, 1815, 70 55

Belgrade, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing Abigail Odin, to 7th May, 1815, 34 78

Bristol, for board and clothing William How, to 1st May, 1815, 67 20

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Cape Elizabeth, for board and clothing James Ramsbottom, to 21st May, 1815, 31 50

Camden, for board and clothing John Bloom, to 7th June, 1815, 30 50

Durham, for board, clothing and doctoring sundry paupers, to 1st June, 1815, 351 50

Elliot, for board and clothing Jacob Brewer and Abigail Randall, to 30th May, 1815, 43 70

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Friendship, for board of Martha Bigmore, to 3d June, 1815, 20 90

Lincolnville, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 24th May, 1815, 72 37

Limington, for board and clothing John Orian, to 31st December, 1814, 67 20

Levant, for board and supplies to Lawrence Hook, to 16th May, 1815, 51 75

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Machias, for board and clothing Anthony Piper and Moses Wheaton, to 1st June, 1815, 49 50

Newry, for board and clothing William Burk, to 10th May, 1815, 22 63

Peru, for board of James and Olive Robbins, to 25th May, 1815, 36 15

Portland, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st June, 1815, 1079 73

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South Berwick, for board and clothing Lemuel Wood, to 29th May, 1815, 22 60

Vassalborough, for board, doctoring and nursing Abigail Fairbrother and Gustavus Fellows, to 16th May, 1815, 66 32

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Westbrook, for board of James Burnes, to 23d May, 1815, 62 70

Waldoborough, for board, clothing and nursing Phillip and John Handell, to 6th June, 1815, 200 00

York, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st June, 1815, 209 95