Receipt
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- Receipt
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11 receipts related to the Overseers of the Poor, 1823 to 1826 (mostly 1824), most allowed by Jonas Peirce A: To Amos Locke for cash paid to G. [Gershom] Swan Jr. for attending the funeral of Mrs. Cutter, for corn, and for letter, $31.60 B: To Mason Phillips for labor, $80.00, allowed by Gershom Whittemore, Joseph Whittemore, and Artemas Locke C: To Sarah Smith for boarding Joshua Cutter's child, $8.67, allowed by James Russell D: To Gridley & Blake for furniture, $26.83 E: To C. [Cyrus] Thorning for shoes (including for Crosby) and shoe repair, $5.89 F: To the town of Leominster for expenses related to the death and funeral of Gershom Hall, including digging his grave, making his coffin, use of Jacob Fuller…'s house for the funeral since Hall's child was sick at his house, sending notice to his children, and a "robe for the corpse," $8.30 G: To William Hill for work, including "setting glass on South Schoole house" and "setting glass on same [?] Schoole house," $18.01, allowed by James Russell H: To A. [Amos] Locke for foodstuffs, shoes, and bills of John Fowle, Walter Russell, Ephraim Cooke, G. [Gershom] & H. [Henry] Whittemore, and cash paid to Endor Estebrook for "time spent with J. Butterfield when delirious" and to Sarah Wheeler for "cutting a gown," $61. 04 I: To Jonas Peirce for foodstuffs, wood, tobacco, snuff, soap, fabric and for paying C. Wright for corn, and for going after L. [Lazarus] Bathrick's pension, for cash paid to L. Bathrick and for J. [Jarvis] P. Brown, $49.16, allowed by Amos Locke J: To James Russell for foodstuffs, fabric, and for a shoes for Caroline Cutter, hats for Thomas Hill, James Perry and Carnes, payment to Philip Whittemore for refreshments, to John Morrill [?] for veal, to Jarvis P. Brown, and to cash for Louisa Harrington, $78.54 K: To Mary[?] Hunter[?] for 2 months work, $30.00 L: Jonas Peirce to John Bradford for nails and brads, $6.00
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1823–1826
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Documents
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Receipt
- Location:
- Arlington Historical Society
- Collection (local):
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Arlington Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
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Alms
Almsgiving
Almshouses
Poor persons
Poorhouses
Welfare
Overseers
Bathrick, Lazarus
Whittemore, Philip Carteret
Bradford, John
Brown, Jarvis P.
Butterfield, J.
Cooke, Ephraim
Cooke, Ephraim*
Cutter, Caroline
Cutter, Joshua
Cutter, Mrs
Estebrook, Endor
Fowle, John (1796-1871)
Hall, Gershom
Harrington, Louisa
Hill, Thomas (1762-1851)
Hill, William
Locke, Amos
Locke, Artemas
Morrill, John
Peirce, Jonas
Perry, James*
Phillips, Mason
Russell, James
Russell, James*
Russell, Walter (1765-1848)
Smith, Sarah
Swan, Gershom*
Thorning, Cyrus
Wheeler, Sarah
Whittemore, Gershom
Whittemore, Henry*
Whittemore, Joseph
Whittemore, Philip Cartaret Jr.
Wright, C.
Overseers of the Poor
Gridley and Blake
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2016.1.54
857E3A78-5904-4030-8F69-307825948866