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Dean, Philip, fl. 1816 [Taunton Selectmen request the Selectmen of Middleborough, Massachusetts to remove a Middleborough citizen from Taunton]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04693 Author/Creator: Dean, Philip, fl. 1816 Place Written: Taunton, Massachusetts Type: Document signed Date: 9 April 1816 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket Height: 24.3 cm, Width: 18.7 cm Order a Copy

Partially printed document accomplished by hand. Dean, Ichabod Leonard, Thomas Lincoln, Samuel Stapels, and Abrathor Williams sign as Overseers of the Poor, also called the Selectmen, for Taunton. State that Alvina Traveller, "a black woman an inhabitant of your town" (Middleborough), "has been sick and become chargeable" in Taunton. Taunton charges the expense of Traveller's board and care from 8 January 1816, and requests Middleborough's Selectmen to remove her. Partially printed.

Dean, Philip, fl. 1816
Leonard, Ichabod, fl. 1816
Lincoln, Thomas, fl. 1816
Stapels, Samuel, fl. 1816
Williams, Abraham, fl. 1816
Traveller, Alvina, fl. 1816

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