Windham County CT Archives History .....Town Poor, Canterbury Selectmen's Journal 1785 ************************************************ 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 28, 2008, 8:40 am Canterbury, Selectmen's Journal, 1768-1785: Jan. 3, 1785: pd Silas Glass for keeping Jonathan Taynsford Jan. 5, 1785: pd expenses of warning Asa Geer out of town pd John Dodge for keeping Anna Lombard 11 days when sick Jan. 6, 1785: pd Daniel Brown for keeping old Mrs. Green 22 weeks to 12th instant pd Mary Davis for keeping Anna Lombard to date pd Silas Glass for keeping Jonathan Raynsford pd Capt. William Hebbard for Ebenezer Shaw'd service in the last 3 years of the war Jan. 20, 1785: pd Tracy Cleveland for keeping Peter Stanton's wife & child pd bill for removing Joseph Langworthy & wife to Stonington pd William Ensworth Jr. for keeping Dr. Winter in 1782 pd for coffin & grave for Dr. Winter pd Silas Glass for keeping Raynsford Jan. 31, 1785: pd Abiel Farnam in full for his service in last 3 years of the war Feb. 11, 1785: pd Mary Smith for keeping Deborah Gorham Mar. 29, 1785: pd Silas Glass for keeping Jonathan Raynsford pd Parker Adams for keeping Dr. Winter Apr. 26, 1785: pd Parker Adams for keeping Martha Shaw to date pd Mary Davis for keeping Anna Lombard pd for coffin for Lydia Smith pd Tracy Cleveland for keeping Peter Stanton's wife & child May 7, 1785: pd Mary Smith for keeping Deborah Gorham pd Tracy Cleveland for keeping Peter Stanton's wife & child May 30, 1785: pd Ephraim Lyon for use of his old house 1 year and keeping Eunice Green, Betty Green & Nichols family and moving them to the Jeremiah Mott house pd Elijah Park for keeping Eunice Green's child 4 weeks last summer pd Silas Glass for keeping Jonathan Raynsford June 6, 1785: pd for shoes for Mehitable? Nappin June 16, 1785: pd for shoes for Abigail Nichols pd Daniel Brown for keeping old Mrs. Green 7 weeks pd Reuben Adams for keeping old Mrs. Green 4 weeks pd Benjamin Fuller for keeping Betty Green & child 10 days June 21, 1785: pd for shoes for Mrs. Nichols and for moving old Mrs. Nichols from Esq. Witter's to Capt. E. Lyon's old house pd Parker Adams for keeping Martha Shaw pd Capt. William Hebard for keeping Mehitable Nappin July 19, 1785: pd Mary Smith for keeping Deborah Gorham Sept. 6, 1785: pd Mary Smith for keeping Deborag Gorham pd Thomas Pellet for keeping Philip Benjamin pd Eleazer Park for keeping Mehitable Nappin pd Parker Adams for keeping old Mrs. Green & Martha Shaw Mar. 21, 1785: pd Capt. William Hebbard for keeping Mehitabel Nappin Oct. 12, 1785: pd Mary Smith for keeping Deborah Gorham to Oct. 17 pd Tracy Cleveland for keeping Peter Stanton's wife & child to July 19 last & the child to date Oct. 24, 1785: pd for evidence in case of William Foster Jr. v. the Town in Superior Court, March term 1785 pd Jonathan Symonds in full for his service in the last 3 years of the war pd Parker Adams for keeping old Mrs. Green, Martha Shaw and Benjamin Nichols & wife to Nov. 1 next Nov. 4, 1785: pd Capt. William Hebbard for keeping Mehitable Nappin Nov. 9, 1785: pd Silas Glass for keeping Jonathan Raynsford to Nov. 7 pd Capt. William Hebbard for keeping Mehitable Nappin pd Mary Smith for keeping Deborah Gorham to Dec. 5 pd Tracy Cleveland for keeping Peter Stanton's wife Nov. 16, 1785: pd Moses warren in full for keeping Lydia Smith and taking care of her in her last sickness pd William Ensworth Jr. for keeping Dr. Winter in 1782 and keeping Elizabeth Green the last winter Nov. 29, 1785: pd for transporting Sarah Jordan with a proper warrant to Plainfield Constable pd Capt. William Hebbard for keeping Mehitable Nappin & child 38 1/3 weeks to date pd Eleazer Park for keeping Mehitable Nappin & child 9 weeks and Lucy Green 4 1/2 weeks Dec. 2, 1785: pd for transporting Sarah Green to Westfield pd John Smith for keeping Eunice Green's child 15 weeks pd for expenses of binding out Eunice Green's child, Sarah Dec. 5, 1785: pd Tracy Cleveland for taking Peter Stanton's child Sarah until she arrives at the age of 18 years Memoranda: June 2, 1783: bound William McCartey to Jabez Green Oct. 10, 1783: gave widow Martha Shaw a certificate to go to Wndham Oct. 27, 1783: gave Rufus Morse a certificate to go to Norwich July 1, 1784: bound John Bingham to John E. Waldo May 17, 1784?: bound Eunice Green to Capt. Lyon Jan. 20, 1785: received a certificate dated Oct. 18, 1784 from selectmen of Norwich for Anna Bragg Apr. 5, 1785: gave certificate for Isaac Allen to go to Killingly Nov. 7, 1785: received a certificate from Norwich selectmen for Enos Kimball Mar. 1, 1785: appointed David Baldwin overseer to Mary Davenport Feb. 11, 1785: appointed Reuben Harris overseer to Paul Harris Mar. 14, 1785: appointed Ebenezer Lyon overseer to Samuel Thompson Apr. 15, 1785: Philip Benjamin went from Thomas Pellet's to William Ensworth Jr.'s May 9, 1785: Jesse Ensworth agreed to keep Philip Benjamin 1 year Nov. 9, 1785: Silas Glass agreed to keep Jonathan Raynsford for 6 months from Nov. 7 Nov. 9, 1785: Mary Smith agreed to keep Deborah Gorham from Nov. 7 to Mar. 7 next July 8, 1777: warned Mary Boardman out of town Sept. 15, 1777: bound Ormsby boy to Gershom Hall Dec. 2, 1777: gave a certificate to Solomon Morse to go to Plainfield Dates of warnings out of town in 1782: Feb. 6 Betsey Sabin Mar. 6 Mehitable Hilliard Thomas Lewis Christopher Webb William Davis Hannah Heading Mar. 8 Hopeful Pratt Mar. 11 Caleb Lewis William Rice Amasa Weethy Mar. 26 William Yarrington Samuel Allen May 21 Mary Campbell June 20 Phinehas Stevens Nov. 30 John Herd Jael Lillie Jonas Hubbard Seabury Lyon Warnings in 1783: Feb. 17 Silas Roth Mar. 11 John Herd Elijah Lillie May 25 Sarah Smith May? 18 Judith Welch Nov. 24 Nathan Green May 25 Daniel West July 7 Thankful Killam John Bennet Sarah Cady Oct. 31 Lydia Holden Warnings in 1784: Jan. 30 Mary Jourdain alias Elizabeth Mar. 27 Ephraim Wheeler Apr. 14 Jael Lillie (certificate lodged with town clerk) Sept. Abner alias Asa Geer Warnings in 1785: Sept. 3 James Darby (certificate) Sept. 16 Job leason Sept. 19 Jesse Back (certificate) Jonathan Belcher Nov. 4 John Lamphere & family (gone) Oct. 4 Elijah Baker (gone out) Henry Downing Nov. 7 Elizabeth Maxfield (gone) Sept. 13 Caleb Faulkner (gone) Additional Comments: This recod is located at the office of the Canterbury Town Clerk. File at -- http://files.usgwarchives.net/ct/windham/history/other/townpoor193gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ctfiles/ File size: 8.0 Kb