Receipt
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- Title:
- Receipt
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12 handwritten receipts related to the Overseers of the Poor. 1820 to 1821, most allowed by Jonas Peirce A: To G. & H. Whittemore for goods delivered to Elijah Allen, $4.59 B: To Sarah Smith for boarding Joshua Cutter's child, $4.25 C: To Charles Cutter for soap, $7.50 D: To Jonas Peirce for paying Philip Whittemore for refreshments, for paying Mrs. Hagar for Lucretia Child's board, for paying Mrs. Elikam Nason for work, for wood and foodstuffs, $39.65 E: To John Gardner for house rent for Gershom Hall, $15.00 F: To Abigail [Adams] Convers for 36 weeks of work, $36.00 G: To Timothy Wellington for foodstuffs, tobacco, snuff, wood, cloth, L. [Lucretia] Child's board, and clothing for Maria Prentiss, Mrs. Bathrick, M. [Mary?] Bemis, Wm. Carnes [Barnes], and R. Frost, $38.29 H: To Jonathan Whittemore for foodstuffs, tobacco, snuff, wood, candles, soling R. Frost's shoes, $28. 01 I: To E. M. [Edmund Munroe] & P. B. [Phillip Bemis] Fessenden for meal delivered to the poorhouse. $23.90 J: To J. Peirce for items delivered to the almshouse (foodstuffs, wood, tobacco, snuff, cloth), and for paying James Russell for services related to Nathan Locke, Lazreth Barthrick, and, paying David Russell for carting turf, fetching Susan Perry[?], paying Mrs. Hagar for Lucretia Child's board, for shoes for R. Frost's wife, for cloth for Joshua Cutter, $76.13 K: To Timothy Wellington for "cloth for Mrs. Wilson's girl," hat for Mr. Dexter[?], for postage, to Amos Hill for damage done by cows, to attending the town's poor, for expenses related to the Bemis family (visit to Lexington, procuring depositions regarding marriage), and for travel to Cambridge "to examine registiry" [also related to Bemis family?], $36.25 L: To Thomas H. Teel for shoes and shoe repair for R. Frost, William Cutter, William Carnes, J. Perry, and Miss Barbeck [Bathrick?], $6.90
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1820–1821
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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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Overseers
Alms
Almsgiving
Almshouses
Poorhouses
Welfare
Poor persons
Adams, Abigail
Whittemore, Philip Carteret
Allen, Elijah
Bathrick, Lazarus
Bathrick, Miss
Bemis
Bemis, Mary
Carnes, William
Child, Lucretia
Cutter, Charles
Cutter, Joshua
Cutter, William
Fessenden, Edmund Munroe
Fessenden, Philip Bemis
Frost, Reuben*
Gardner, John
Hagar, Mrs
Hall, Gershom
Hill, Amos*
Nason, Mrs. Elikam
Peirce, Jonas
Perry, J.
Prentiss, Maria
Russell, David
Russell, James
Russell, James*
Smith, Sarah
Wellington, Timothy
Whittemore, Jonathan
Whittemore, Philip Cartaret Jr.
Wilson, Mrs
Overseers of the Poor
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2016.1.41
AD6E25E7-B5CF-4551-9201-196337876799