The Robert E. Brooker III Collection of American Legal and Land Use Documents, 1716-1930. No. 1112
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1799-1801: Multiple letters on behalf of Boston's Overseers of the Poor, to officials in various towns regarding the maintenance of indigent people from those towns in Boston's alms house. Some letters mention possibility of law suit. Some towns listed as part of Massachusetts are now in Maine.
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Names in document: C. Freeman, C. F., James Thompson, Mary Poole, Polly Pushpay, Rachel Dobbie, Elizabeth Brimhall, Patty Leatherbee, Mary Morse, Joseph Morse, William Pratt, Hannah Pratt, Francis Blake, Lettice Pearce, Rhoda Lewis, Hannah Hamblin, Elizabeth Brimhall, Jacob Lewis, W. Brooks, Lucy Day.
Other locations: Woburn, Massachusetts; Weston, Massachusetts; Medford, Massachusetts; Castine, Maine; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Westford, Massachusetts; Falmouth, Maine; Portland, Maine; Salem, Massachusetts; Dorchester, Massachusetts; Natick, Massachusetts; Barnstable, Massachusetts; Freeport, Maine.
Primary location: Massachusetts (Boston).