A Return of the monies collected by the Board of Commissioners of the Poor for Chesterfield District, and the appropriation of the same to the 1st September, 1815, to JOHN CRAIG, Esq. Clerk of the Circuit Court for Chesterfield , by _______ to ___________.
October 1, 1814 Dr.
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Chesterfield District}
Personally appeared before me, JOHN CRAIG, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Chesterfield District, ALEXANDER McNEILL, Secretary of the Board, who being duly sworn, sayeth that the within statement is just and correct. ALEXANDER McNEILL.
Sworn to before me this 26th Sept, 1815.
John Craig, Clerk
This is a poor house list I found while browsing through local newspapers for the Chesterfield County. It interesting in that these recipients lived on 15-30 dollars of annual income provided by the the Board of Commissioners of the Poor.
That's an unusual but great resource!
ReplyDeleteYes, it has y=two surnames that I am researching on that one little short list.
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