Windham County CT Archives History .....Town Poor In Canterbury Selectmen's Records 1820-1823
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Canterbury, Selectmen's Account Book, 1819-1824:

June 2, 1820   pd Samuel Barstow for supplies for Mehitable Simms
Oct. 16, 1820  pd John Carver for taking Luther Herrick
               pd Dr. Campbell for expense of Bett Young
               expenses of cases v. Laura Howe, Rufus Herrick
               doctoring Mr. Graves
Jan. 24, 1820  cash received from sale of Mary Smith's land
Oct. 16, 1820  pd funeral expense of Mehitable Simms
               pd Mr. Balcom for fetching Laura Howe from Windham
               pd expenses in liberating Silas Penury from prison
               pd for clothing for Molly Dixon
               pd Luther Paine for provisions, nursing, etc. for widow Mehitable
                  Simms
               boarding and schooling of Mary (no surname given)
               pd John Carver for taking an indenture of Luther Herrick until he
                  reaches age 21
Feb. 5, 1821   pd for committing Sam Malbone to jail
               pd John Barstow Jr. for taking Lydia Herrick
Oct. 24, 1821  pd Moses Hebard's bill for brandy in getting child out of well
Nov. 5, 1821   pd William D. Foster for keeping George Learned 1 week
               pd for coffin for a child found in well
Apr. 1, 1820   Joseph R. Willoughby pd $45.00 rent for Jedediah & Lydia Brown's
                  lands (lease)
Oct. 1821      billed town of Plainfield for expense of boarding Mary Stedman 1
                  year; expense of removing said Mary to Plainfield
June 19, 1821  pd for keeping William Parker in jail
Nov. 5, 1822   pd Benjamin Smith for funeral charges for Zephaniah Wentworth; 
                  funeral expenses for Ezra Penre
May 23, 1822   pd Mrs. Lucy Bingham for keeping Ichabod Ward
Sept. 1823     pd Curtis Barstow for supporting Molly Spalding 8 weeks previous
                  to May 31, 1823

Town poor contracted:
                    Pauper                      to whom contracted
Nov. 20, 1820  Mrs. Zipporah Simons            Benjamin Smith
               Israel Durfee                   James Cary
               Lydia Parish & Lydia (sic)      Patience Carter
                  Carter
               Martha Dodge & Patty Shaw       Daniel Frost
               Sarah Adams                     Andrix Foster
               Lucy Cady                       Richard Cady
               Lydia Brown (marked dec'd)      Septimus Bliss
               Lucy Pellett                    Patience Pellet
               Lucy Clark
               Molly Campbell
               Stephen Downing                 (supplied sundries)
Lydia Brown went to Russell Willoughby's Mar. 31, 1821.  Agreed with said
Willoughby to keep Lydia one year for the $45.00 rent which will be due her 
Apr. 1, 1822 and the use of her part of her house from Apr. 1, 1821 to Apr. 1, 
1822.  Rent of the house to be $20.00.

Mov. 2, 1819   Mrs. Simons                     Rufus Hebard
               Israel Durfee                   Rufus Hebard
               Hannah Carver                   Jesse Peck
               Lydia Parish & Lucy Carter      Patience Carter
               Martha Dodge & Patty Shaw       Nathaniel Luce
               Sarah Adams                     Abijah Dewing
               Lucy Cady                       Richard Cady
               Darius Fish                     Capt. Erastus Hough
               Indian girl                     Robert Hovey

Oct. 13, 1823  Molly Campbell                  Rufus Hebard
               Lucy Pellet                     Joseph Adams
               Lucy Cady                       Richard Cady
               Mrs. Zipporah Simons            Jabez Warren
               Lucy Clark                      James Cary
               Stephen Downing                 David Downing
               Sarah Adams                     Mrs. Esther Ford
               Lydia Parish & Lucy Carter      Mrs. Patience Carter

Apr. 13, 1823  the wench at Mr. Wilson's       (Mr. Wilson)

Apr. 29, 1823  Israel Durfee                   Parker Morse

no date        Lydia Baldwin                   Jesse Sweet

Nov. 12, 1821  Mrs. Zipporah Simons            Jabez Warren
               Lydia Parish & Lucy Carter      Patience Carter
               Sarah Adams                     Capt. John Peck
               Sybil Safford & Polly Safford   Thomas Safford
               Lucy Clark                      James Cary
               Israel Durfee                   James Cary
               Martha Dodge & Patty Shaw       Daniel Frost
               Lucy Cady                       Richard Cady
               Lucy Pellet                     Joseph Adams Jr.
               Stephen Downing                 Daniel Downing of Lisbon
               Mary Campbell                   Nathaniel Smith

Nov. 11, 1822  Sarah Adams                     Mrs. Ford
               Mrs. Simons                     Jabez Warren
               Israel Durfee                   Arunah Butts
               Lydia Parish & Lucy Carter      Mrs. Patience Carter
               widow Woodward                  Parker Morse
               Jedediah Brown                  Septimus Bliss
                     
                          End of record

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