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 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. 69]Arundel, for board and funeral charges of Henry Rolf, 26 00Anson, for supplies for the family of William James, to 5th March, 1819, 22 50
Augusta, for board, clothing, nursing and doctoring sundry paupers, to 1st June, 1819, 94 55
[p. 70]Alfred, for support of sundry paupers, to 15th June, 1819, 108 32Brooksville, for support of widow Low, and six children, and removing them out of the Commonwealth, 69 00
Bethel, for board and clothing William Buck, to 18th May, 1819, 95 00
Baldwin, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing Daniel Hickey, to 1st May, 1819, 37 96
Bath, for board, clothing, nursing and doctoring sundry paupers, and funeral charges of Adam Wolf, 21st May, 1819, 113 50
[p. 71]Belfast, for board, clothing, nursing and doctoring William Blackstone, his wife, and four children, and Keene West's family, and funeral charges of said W. Blackstone, 1st June, 1819, 428 22Berwick, for support of Saviah Stackpole and Lemuel Pierce, until the death of Pierce, and removal of S. Stackpole, including funeral and removing charges, 40 04
Cape Elizabeth, for support of sundry paupers, to 20th May, 1819, 85 00
[p. 72]Camden, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing John Bloom and Richard Conway, to 22d May, 1819, 54 26Cushing, for board, clothing and nursing Mary Henderson, to 26th May, 1819, 59 25
Durham, for board and clothing Samuel Demerit, Asa Demerit and Jonathan Demerit, to 1st Jume, 1819, 217 20
Eliot, for board and clothing Jacob Brewer and Abigail Randall, to 1st June, 1819, 47 29
Fairfax, for support of Mehitable Carter and three children, to 16th January, 1819, 15 00
[p. 73]Gorham, for board and clothing Robert Gilfilling, to 31st May, 1819, 27 43Harlem, for board and clothing William Youlin, to 10th May, 1819, 33 77
Hollis, for support of Joseph Temple, to 1st May, 1819, 156 00
Hallowell, for support of sundry paupers, to 1st June, 1819, 288 40
[p. 74]Jay, for board, clothing, nursing and doctoring Elizabeth Bell and Daniel Holland, to 19th May, 1819, 41 20Litchfield, for board and clothing Jerusha Twombly, to 19th May, 1819, 62 00
Lincolnville, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing Alexander White and Edward Oram, to 27th May, 1819, 56 50
Leeds, for board and clothing Richard Creech, and board, clothing, nursing and doctoring Nicholas Tallier, to 24th May, 1819, 131 27
[p. 75]Monmouth, for board and clothing Peggy Magner, to 1st June, 1819, 18 64Minot, for support of sundry paupers, to 15th May, 1819, 160 76
Machias, for support of three Indian paupers, to 28th May, 1819, 69 30
North Yarmouth, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing George Young, and supplies for Stephen Greely, to 25th May, 1819, 44 49
[p. 76]Phipsburgh, for boarding Jacob Wheeler, to 31st May, 1819, 73 00Palermo, for board and doctoring Rachel Chase, to 1st June, 1819, 45 77
Portland, for support of sundry paupers, and funeral charges of three, to 1st June, 1819, 1302 82½
Readfield, for board and clothing Edward Burgess and Colin Cameron, to 22d May, 1819, 125 71
[p. 77]Saco, for support of Mrs. Dormore and four children, to 15th May, 1819, and funeral charges of John Dormore, 150 60Sedgwick, for support of Miriam Low and family, to 20th May, 1819, 77 47
St. George, for board and clothing Robert Hows, to 30th May, 1819, 23 10
South Berwick, for board and clothing Lemuel Wordworth, and an infant child of Mary Stackpole, to 20th May, 1819, 122 11
[p. 78]Vassalborough, for support of Abigail Fairbrother and James Brown, to 7th June, 1819, 43 87Westbrook, for support of sundry paupers, to 8th May, 1819, 246 00
Waldoborough, for board, clothing, nursing and doctoring Philip Handle, to 1st June, 1819, 39 00
Wiscasset, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing Joseph Wells, Junior, and Jane Foy, and support of John York and John Laha, to to 20th May, 1819, 110 27
Winthrop, for board, clothing and funeral charges of William Gasket, and board, nursing and doctoring James McGuire, to June, 1818, 84 95
[p. 79]Warren, for support of sundry paupers, to 27th May, 1819, 117 00Wayne, for board and clothing Joseph Richards and wife, and Peter Fisher, to 20th May, 1819, 220 00
York, for support of sundry paupers, to 29th May, 1819, 217 61
