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11 handwritten receipts related to the Overseers of the Poor, 1817 to 1819, allowed by Jonas Peirce A: To Sarah Smith for boarding Mrs. [Martha?] Childs, allowed by Jonas Peirce, $11.60 B: To Mrs. Sally [Sarah] Fisk for boarding the child of the late Mr. Joshua Robbins, $12.00 C: To Joshua Avery for making coffins for Mrs. [Besty Frost] Harrington's child and for Stephen Stearns, and other services, $10.75 D: To Nancy Frost for tuition for John P. Harrington, Emeline Harrington, Darius Fillebrown, Elizabeth Fillebrown, and Julianne Bemis, $9.75 E: To Abigail [Adams] Convers for keeping the poor, for boarding William Winship, Lazarus Batharick, Stephen Stearns and his wife, and Caroline Perry, $56.75 F: To Perry and Locke for bushels of meal delivered to the poorhouse, $20.43 G: To William Gamage for "visits" and medicine for the children of William Fletcher, $38.50 H: To J. Robbins for wood delivered to the poorhouse and to Mr. Allen, $66.75 I: Jonathan Whittemore for various foodstuffs (potatoes, meal, bread, meat, etc) and wood for Stephen Stearns, Mrs. [Besty Frost] Harrington, Mrs. Hill, and Mrs. [Anne Horton] Fillebrown; also for clothes for Barthwick; also for travel to Woburn and to Charlestown ("looking to Records of the assessors") and moving expenses (Stearns, Joshua Cutter's family, and "moving the Poor to the House"), $57.97 J: To Jonas Peirce for articles (mostly food) and services for the poor, including W[idow] Fillebrown, W[idow Betsy Frost] Harrington, W[idow] M. [Martha Bennett] Hill, Stephen Stearns, W[idow] S. [Sarah?] Smith, Miss Childs, Miss Convers, and Miss Harrington, $86.65 K: Amos Whittemore for goods delivered to Mr. Allen, Mrs. [Betsy Frost] Harrington, Stephen Stearns, $40.67
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1817–1819
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Arlington Historical Society Collection
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Overseers
Welfare
Alms
Almsgiving
Poor persons
Medicine
Adams, Abigail
Avery, Joshua
Bathrick
Bathrick, Lazarus
Bemis, Julianne
Childs, Martha
Fillebrown, Darius
Fillebrown, Elizabeth
Fiske, Sarah
Fletcher, William
Frost, Nancy
Gamage, William
Harrington, Emeline
Harrington, John P.
Peirce, Jonas
Perry, Caroline
Robbins, Joshua*
Smith, Sarah
Stearns, Stephen
Winship, William
Horton, Anne
Overseers of the Poor
Perry & Locke
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2016.1.27
752A8CFF-4AC7-42BD-A0C4-091419178020