Windham County CT Archives History .....Town Poor, Canterbury Selectmen's Journal 1780 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ct/ctfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara W. Brown buwbrown@comcast.net October 27, 2008, 10:16 am Canterbury, Selectmen's Journal, 1768-1785: Jan. 18, 1780: pd Ebenezer Baldwin for keeping Dr. Winter 23 weeks pd Samuel Cleveland for taking Bet Green out of jail & keeping her 3 weeks Feb. 7, 1780: pd Daniel Cushman to enable him to purchase supplies for his family pd James Delop for keeping Hugh Thompson 69 weeks to Oct. 30, 1779 pd for wood for Olive McCartey pd Joseph Raynsford for keeping Knappin 5 weeks Mar. 6, 1780: pd Thomas Pellet for keeping Philip Benjamin pd Moses Warren for keeping Olive Green's child 3 years & taking an indenture of said child Mar. 21, 1780: pd for removing the family of Caleb Austin Apr. 3, 1780: pd William Foster Jr. for clothing & boarding J. Raynsford 30 weeks & expenses of selling his land pd Capt. Joseph Raynsford for keeping Knappin 8 weeks May 21, 1780: pd Jonathan Raynsford Jr. for keeping J. Raynsford 8 weeks pd Zachariah Waldo for keeping Jonathan Raynsford 11 weeks pd for supplies for family of John McCartey pd James Ensworth for keeping Dr. Witter (sic) 4 1/2 weeks; 2 blankets for Dr. Winter pd for blanket for Elisha Austin June 5, 1780: pd Daniel Frost for supplying McCartey family and keeping widow Shaw & daughter 1 week pd for doctoring William Shaw's wife, Lydia Smith's child pd Alice Smith for finding clothes for Lydia Smith's child 2 years pd Ann Lombard for nursing McCartey's wife pd William Ensworth for keeping Dr. Winter 20 weeks Sept. 12, 1780: pd Abraham Snow for keeping J. Raynsford 30 weeks in 1777 & 1778 Oct. 9, 1780: pd for carrying Bet Green to jail Dec. 1, 1780: pd for doctoring John McCartey's wife pd James Delop for providing for Hugh Thompson pd Silas Glass for keeping Lydia Smith's child 46 weeks Jan. 4, 1781: pd Thomas Pellet for keeping Philip Benjamin pd William Ensworth for keeping Dr. Winter 26 weeks to date pd Capt. Joseph Raynsford for keeping Knaping 8 weeks Feb. 27, 1781: pd Gershom Mott for keeping Caleb Ormsby's wife 13 weeks Mar. 22, 1781: pd Shubael Cleveland for keeping Lydia Smith 27 weeks to Mar. 24, 1781 Mar. 24, 1781: pd Samuel Cleveland, Jeremiah Parrish, Elis Baldwin, Josiah Monroe, & Joseph Herrick L3 apiece, their bounty in the state service pd Jeremiah Parrish L3 towards his wages to help clothe him, etc. Apr. 15, 1781: pd Reuben Farnam for keeping widow Eliz. (?) Ladd 47 weeks pd John Adams & Berry Bowen their bounty in the state service Apr. 30, 1781: pd Charles Bentley for keeping Jonathan Raynsford 21 weeks to last of April May 8, 1781: pd for supplies of the families of Dr. David Adams, John Cleveland & Samuel Adams to May 1 pd Lieut. Josiah Cleveland, it being the overplus of the supplies of Daniel Cushman & Tias Tiken more than the pay table allowed for Dec. to Mar. pd Samuel Henry for supplies of Benjamin Shaw's family to May 8 June 1, 1781: pd Thomas Pellet for keeping Philip Benjamin to date; said Pellet to keep him 6 months longer June 16, 1781: warned Capt. Samuel Hazen to depart town June 22, 1781: pd Gershom Mott for keeping Caleb Ormsby's wife 16 weeks to date; dismissed from charge to said town July 13, 1781: pd Capt. Benjamin Bacon for procuring Charles Justin, a recruit, & taking him out of jail pd Abiel Farnam for 1 blanket to carry into the army May 24, 1781: pd Joseph Raynsford for keeping Naping 9 weeks, Jan. 25-Apr. 1; keeping Jonathan Raynsford 1 week in May Jan. 1, 1781: hard money bounty pd to Continental soldiers: David Spencer, John McCartey, Eliphaz Perkins (his Negro being a soldier), Joseph Smith Feb. 27, 1781: same: Benjamin Durfee, Silas Glass, Mason Green, Curtis Cleveland, Jonathan Simonds, Jedediah Adams, Benjamin Brown, Nathaniel Gates, Abiel Farnam, Ebenezer Shaw, John Crimer, James Duggan July 13, 1781: pd James Raymond for keeping Sarah Rogers to June 13 last pd Timothy Backus Jr. for taking David Enos out of jail & enlisting (him) in the Continental Army Nov. 30, 1781: pd James Dunlop for keeping Hugh Thompson to July 28, when Thomas Austin took him Dec. 7, 1781: pd Josiah Butt Jr. for necessaries for wid. Ormsby when sick in 1780 Jan. 21, 1782: pd David Hyde for keeping Lydia Smith 3 weeks in 1780 Jan. 29, 1782: pd the jailer in part for keeping Jedediah Green in 1781 pd for going to New London & Stonington after John McCartey, a deserter, & bringing him back in 1781 Feb. 11, 1781: took McCartey's cow to pay expenses of his desertion pd Asa Smith his bounty for a tour of 3 months to West Point in 1781 pd James Flint of Windham for keeping Sarah Rogers 18 weeks Mar. 26, 1782: pd Thomas Smith of Pomfret for keeping Jonathan Raynsford May 6- June 17, 1781 pd George Justin's bounty for enlisting into the Continental Army for 1 year pd George Geer's bounty for same Apr. 1, 1782: pd Capt. Joseph Raynsford for keeping Knappin to date pd Zebulon Tyler for keeping Jonathan Raynsford to date pd David Hyde for keeping Peter Stanton's wife 14 weeks to date pd Thomas Pellet for keeping Philip Benjamin 10 months to date Apr. 8, 1782: pd for doctoring Hugh Thompson, now deceased pd Jonathan Hyde Jr.'s bounty for enlisting 1 year pd the following for their wages as soldiers in the state service in 1781: John Adams Jr., Samuel Cleveland Jr., Josiah Monroe, Jeremiah Parrish, Bethuel Bond, Berry Bowen, Joseph Herrick, Joseph Hebbard, Samuel Calvin Adams, Charles Woodard pd bounty for service in 1782: Ebenezer Barstow, Frederick Curtis Jr., John Daniels, James Raymond Jr., Ebenezer Curtis, Josiah Butt 3rd, Esaias Butt, Nathan Williamson, David Ames, Nathaniel Smith, Job Barstow, John Adams Jr., Josiah Monroe May 2, 1782: pd jailer in Windham for keeping Jedediah Green pd Reuben Lillie for making a pair of fetters for Jedediah Green pd for transporting Sarah Jackways to Pomfret in 1780 Apr. 17, 1782: pd Jacob Geer for keeping Lydia Smith 46 weeks to date May 23, 1782: pd James Flint 3rd of Windham for keeping Sarah Rogers June 20, 1782: pd costs of confining Jedediah Green in jail last fall Aug. 26, 1782: pd widow Mary Smith for keeping Deborah Gorham 16 weeks until Aug. 29 instant Sept. 26, 1782: pd for doctoring Deborah Gorham & Philip Benjamin Nov. 14, 1782: pd widow Mary Smith for keeping Deborah Gorham Aug. 29-Dec. 12, 1782 pd Jacob Geer for keeping Lydia Smith Oct. 1-Nov. 22 pd William Darby Jr. for keeping Peter Stanton's wife from Sept. 26 to date pd Silas Glass for keeping Mary Winter's child 6 1/2 weeks in 1781 pd Reuben Park for keeping John McCartey's wife 16 weeks when sick Nov. 20, 1782: gave an indenture to Joseph Pellet Jr. of James, son of John & Olive McCartey, being under 4 years old Nov. 26, 1782: pd Joseph Carter fr keeping Mary Crimer & her child pd William Ensworth for keeping Dr. Winter Jan. 4, 1781 to Dec. 2, 1782 pd John Herrick 3rd for keeping Mary Crimer's child 1 year, Dec. 28, 1781-Dec. 28, 1782 pd Thomas Pellet for keeping Philip Benjamin from Apr. 1 last to Dec. 2, 1782 pd for 1 blanket for Benjamin Brown Jr., a Continental recruit, 1781 Nov. 29, 1782: pd for doctoring Hugh Thompson in 1781; also John McCartey's wife & the widow Ladd July 8, 1782: pd William Cooper to enable him to remove with his wife and goods to Pownal, Vermont Additional Comments: This record is located at the office of the Canterbury Town Clerk File at -- http://files.usgwarchives.net/ct/windham/history/other/townpoor191gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ctfiles/ File size: 9.3 Kb