Town Poor of New Haven, CT 1786

After the new towns of Hamden and North Haven were set off from New Haven, CT, in 1786, an agreement was made diving the town poor between the original town and the daughters.  This document is among the collections of the New Haven Colony Historical Society and the following verbatim copy has been contributed [to Ancient Families of New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus] by the librarian, Miss Ethel Lord Scofield. (pp. 1535-1536)

"At a Meeting of the several Committees appointed by the several Towns of New Haven Hamden and North Haven to make an Equal Division of the Poor Persons supported by the said Towns as belonging to them as being heretofore the Towns Poor of said New Haven & now divided to each Town according to their lists on the fifteenth Day of December A. D. 1786 the aboue Division was mde and agreeed to and the said Poor are divided and set to the several Towns as above & said Towns to take and support them accordingly--in the above division Daniel McNamarra and wife and Francis Claridge and Family are not divided but still remain a charge upon all said Towns according to their sd Lists

Witness our Hands in New Haven
this 15th day of December 1786

Samuel Bishop}
David Austin}
Timothy Jones}             Comee  of New Haven
Charles Chauncey}
Stephen Ball}

Simeon Bristol}
John Hubbard}              Comee  of Hamden
Isaac Dickerman}

Ephraim Humston*}
Samuel Mix}                 Comee  of No Haven
Joshua Barns**}

[The names should read:  *Humiston; ** Barnes.]

New Haven

Joseph Mix and Wife    ₤    0  -  8  - 0
Ebenezer Wilmot                      7 -  0
Widw  Culver                          4 - 0
Andrew Reed                          6 - 0
Abigail Tuttle                           5 - 0
Timothy Thomas                     7 - 0
Widow Fry ---(?) and child     12 - 0
Stephen Beecher                      6 - 0
Mrs  Howes four Children       13 - 0
Easton Sabin                            2 - 0     
                    [Total]       ₤ 3 - 10 - 0   

Abigail Andrews
Sarah Thompson
Elizabeth Punderson
Thomas Sherman dec'ds Child
Simon King
Widw  Ruth Gordon
Hannah Bingley
Nathan Smith
Jerom Smith
Anna Gibson
Widw  Graham
Solo  Townshends Wives Child


Hampden

Widow Kimberly           0 - 6 - 0
Sarah Wilds                       3 - 0
John Melone                      7 - 0
Joel Alling                        11 - 0
Ichabod Barns** Child        3 - 0
Silas Culvers Child              3 - 0
Margaret Doyle                  3 - 0
                  [Total]   ₤ 1 - 16 - 6   

Andrew Ives
Thomas Ives
John Melones Wife
Widw  Mary Potter
Widw  Sarah H aabard (?)+

[**Barnes; + possibly Hubbard?]


North Haven

Mercy Parker                                  0 - 4 - 0
Stephen Clark                                       5 - 0
Enos Blakesley                                      5 - 0
Rachel Barns**                                     5 - 0
Nancy Doyle and infant                          9 - 0
Thankful Tuttle                                      1 - 0
Widw  Fryars boy at Timo Turners          3 - 6
Oliver Bradleys child                               3 - 0
Widw  Fryars boy at Jocelins                   2 - 9
                                       [Total]  ₤ 1 - 18 - 3

Caleb Turner
Thomas Sanford
Elias Forbes
Daniel Hotchkiss
Ebenezer Humistone*
Sarah Hunt

[*Humiston; ** Barnes]