Receipt
Item Information
- Title:
- Receipt
- Description:
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11 handwritten receipts related to the Overseers of the Poor, 1823, most allowed by Jonas Peirce A: To Abigail [Adams] Converse for work and foodstuffs, $12.15 B: To plowing the "Town grang," $4.50 C: To Gersham Swan for a dozen chairs for the "Work House," $9:50 D: To Abel Lock for "one red cow and calf," $29.00 E: To Cyrus Thorning for shoes or shoe repair for Miss Wilson, Carns, Miss Barbeck [Bathrick?], Miss Bemis, and Thos. Hill, $6.05 F: To Jacob Robinson, Jr., for "nursing Thomas Hill in his last sickness," and a coffin and gown, $20.25 G: To Andrew Wilson for the board of Mrs. Hannah Wilson, $26.00 H: To Timothy Wellington for tobacco, foodstuffs, and transactions related to Mrs. Childs, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Cutter, Jarvis, Perry, the family of Jonas Prentice, Barke and wife, Lewell Hadley, Wm. Locke, E. Hovey, Mr. [Elijah] Allen, J. [Jarvis] P. Brown, $31.06 I: To Jonathan Whittemore for foodstuffs, fabric for Hill and Miss Cutter, and for payments to P. [Philip] Whittemore and Jarvis P. Brown, $21.96 J: To Jonas Peirce for foodstuffs, fabric, and plowing and payment to P. [Philip] Whittemore for refreshments, allowed by Timothy Wellington, $43.53 K: To Jonathan Whittemore for wood for the Alms House, foodstuffs, tobacco, fabric (some for Hill), crockery, an iron kettle and a curry comb, $44.94
- Date:
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1823–1823
- Format:
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Documents
- Genre:
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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
Adams, Abigail
Whittemore, Philip Carteret
Allen, Elijah
Bathrick, Miss
Brown, Jarvis P.
Cutter, Mrs
Hill, Thomas
Hill, Thomas (1762-1851)
Hovey, E.
Locke, Abel
Locke, William
Locke, William (1762-1840)
Peirce, Jonas
Prentiss, Jonas
Robinson, Jacob Jr.
Swan, Gershom
Swan, Gershom*
Thorning, Cyrus
Wellington, Timothy
Whittemore, Jonathan
Whittemore, Philip Cartaret Jr.
Wilson, Andrew
Wilson, Hannah
Wilson, Miss
Overseers of the Poor
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- Identifier:
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2016.1.49
90F0BD5B-20A8-4553-A85C-883335111464