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11 handwritten West Cambridge town documents, covering 1819 to 1821 A: Overseers of the Poor pay Abigail [Adams] Convers for 16 weeks of work, $16.00 B: Overseers of the Poor pay George Swan for plowing and repairing plows $3.75 C: Overseers of the Poor pay Abijah Cutter for digging a grave and attending to the funeral of Martha [Bennett] Hill, $4.50 D: Overseers of the Poor pay Artemus Locke for "my team and day" and "my team, half day," $3.75 E: Town Treasurer Walter Russell receives $150.16 from Jonas Pierce, "it being moneys said Pierce received for Lazerus Barthrick and .. Frost F: Jonas Pierce pays John H. Smith (of Boston?) for tea, molasses, and sugar, $3.29 G: Overseers of the Poor pay Stephen Tufts for making a coffin for Mrs. Martha [Bennett] Hill, and for "husks," $4.50 H: Overseers of the Poor pay Joseph Whittemore for carting three loads of dung from Boston, $7.50 I: Overseers of the Poor pay Jonathan Whittemore for foodstuffs, wood, rum, and tobacco, and for "two days plowing at the almshouse," $27.39 J: Assessors William Locke, Jr.[?], Joshua Avery, and Isaac Locke assess the "polls and estates" of the town $2020 and given a list of these to Benjamin Hill, collector. K: Overseers of the Poor pay Timothy Wellington for foodstuffs and other items and services L: To Sarah Smith for boarding Joshua Cutter's child, $3.25 Most Overseers payments allowed by Jonas Peirce.
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1819–1821
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Documents
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- Arlington Historical Society
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Arlington Historical Society Collection
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Alms
Almsgiving
Almshouses
Poor persons
Poorhouses
Welfare
Overseers
Adams, Abigail
Avery, Joshua
Bathrick, Lazarus
Bennett, Martha
Cutter, Abijah
Hill, Benjamin
Locke, Artemas
Locke, Isaac
Locke, William
Locke, William (1762-1840)
Peirce, Jonas
Russell, Walter (1765-1848)
Smith, John H.
Swan, George*
Tufts, Stephen
Wellington, Timothy
Whittemore, Jonathan
Whittemore, Joseph
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2016.1.37
83E8D147-5855-418B-AB6F-108563143001