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 June 1816 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."
[p. 266]Augusta, for board, clothing and doctoring sundry paupers, to 20th May, 1816, 97 50Baldwin, for support of Daniel Hickey, to 1st May, 1816, 22 35
Belgrade, for board, nursing and doctoring Abigail Odlin, to 20th May, 1816, 35 66
[p. 267]Belfast, for board and clothing the wife and children of Robert Rogers, to 1st April, 1816, 83 50Bristol, for board and clothing William How, to 20th May, 1816, 67 20
Bath, for board, doctoring and nursing John Sinclair, till his death, and funeral charges, 27th February, 1816, 191 45
Cushing, for support of James Walker and Peggy Rowley, to 20th May, 1816, 54 00
Cape Elizabeth, for board and clothing James Ramsbottom, to 26th May, 1816, 31 29
[p. 268]Camden, for board and clothing Joseph Bloom, to 5th June, 1816, 27 40Durham, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st January, 1816, 331 30
Elliot, for board and clothing Jacob Brewer and Abigail Randal, to the 3d June, 1816, 49 68
Friendship, for board and clothing James Metcalf, and Martha Bickman, to 3d June, 1816, 72 09
Gorham, for support of Robert Gillfilling, to 1st June, 1816, 25 92
[p. 269]Hallowell, for board, clothing and doctoring sundry paupers, to 3d June, 1816, 196 94Machias, for board and clothing Anthony Pepper and Moses Wheaton, to 1st June, 1816, 54 66
Merrell, John, for doctoring sundry prisoners in gaol, at Portland, to 26th May, 1816, 32 50
[p. 270]Newry, for board and clothing William Burk, to 20th May, 1816, 25 92New-Castle, for board and clothing William Cochran, to 1st April, 1816, and Florentine Langton, till his death, and funeral charges, 59 55
North Yarmouth, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing William Matthews, till his death, and funeral charges, September, 1816, 43 51
Peru, for board of James Robbins, to 20th May, 1816, 19 80
Prospect, for board and clothing Anne Haynes and Lydia Hayes, to 8th May, 1816, 118 10
Phipsburgh, for supplies to Jacob Wheeler, to 1st June, 1816, 17 00
Portland, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st June, 1816, 1591 73
Readfield, for board, clothing and doctoring Edward Burges, and Collin Cameron, to 25th April, 1816, 118 84
[p. 271]St. George, for board and clothing Robert Hewes and Luke Keally, to 26th May, 1816, including funeral charges of Keally, 59 90Starks, for supplies to Robert Arnold, to 22nd May, 1816, 37 47
South Berwick, for board and clothing Lemuel Woodsworth, to 4th June, 1816, 30 00
[p. 272]Turner, for board and clothing William G. Martin, to 1st May, 1816, 54 00Vassalborough, for board and clothing Abigail Fairbrother and George Fellows, to 21st May, 1816, 64 50
Westbrook, for support of John Burns, to 9th May, 1816, 64 80
Waldoborough, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing Phillip Handell, to 6th June, 1816, and John Handell, till his death, 134 22
Wayne, for support of Joseph Richards and wife, to 20th May, 1816, 127 43
Wilton, for board, doctoring and nursing Esther Coombs, till her death, 68 31
[p. 273]York, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to 1st June, 1816, 175 95
