Town Annual Report of the Officers of the Town of Palmer, Massachusetts 1863, Part 1

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Part 1


ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


Receipts and Expenditures


OF THE


TOWN OF PALMER,


For the Year Ending March 12, 1864.


PALMER: G. M. FISK AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, 1864.


ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


Receipts and Expenditures


1


OF THE


TOWN OF PALMER,


For the Year Ending March 12, 1864.


PALMER: G. M. FISK AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, 1864.


SELECTMEN'S REPORT.


THE Selectmen of Palmer submit the following Report of receipts and expenses for the year ending March 12th, 1864 :


RECEIPTS.


Amount received as follows :


Balance in the treasury March 7th, 1863,


$405 74


Wm. S. Nichols, borrowed,


$900 00


Henry E. Bolton, borrowed,


800 00


Erastus B. White, borrowed,


650 00


Horace Hunn, borrowed, -


900 00


R. S. Munn, borrowed,


550 00


$3,800 00


H. J. Keith, part pay of poor farm, $1,100 00


Town of Rutland, for support of Mrs. Clark,


14 50


Rent of Sophronia Harris' house, 10 50


Circus,


15 00


Prosper Howard, borrowed, -


1,000 00


$2,140 00


State Treasurer, school fund,


$157 24


Sale of Sophronia Harris' house,


375 00


State upon adjustment,


359 00


Belchertown for support of Ephraim Squires, 1863, 22 43


Belchertown for one-half expenses for repair- ing bridge near South Belchertown meet- ing house,


95 17


$1,008 84


R. S. Hastings, collector,


$12,785 58


Amount carried forward, -


-


$20,140 16


-


4


$20,140 16


Amount brought forward, E. B. Gates for furniture sold, - $24 90 Alfred Lamb for support of Molly Ferry up to her death, March 25, 1863, 136 08


P. W. Webster for circuses, -


27 00


Shem Loomis, borrowed,


500 00


Merrick school fund,


49 50


License of dogs,


84 60


Wilbraham,


4 00


$826 08


$20,966 24


EXPENDITURES. SCHOOLS.


Balance due Districts, March 1863, -


$815 72


Amount appropriated by the Town,


2,700 00


Amount State and Town School Funds,


206 74


$3,722 46


Amount paid past year.


Overdrawn.


Amount due.


District No. 1,


$112 00


$1 68


411 61


59 83


705 64


54 11


127 66


4 45


66


5,


159 62


11 65


66


6,


128 88


51 79


36 00


13 39


90 50


1 47


66


10,


648 64*


29 80


" 11,


106 50


2 06


" 12,


731 42


273 36


$3,258 47


' CONTINGENT EXPENSES.


Amount paid as follows :


Orders outstanding March 7th, 1863,


- $235 34


C. W. Hastings, abating taxes, 1862,


4 50


Boston Five Cent Savings Bank, note,


- 4,804 84


S. G. Shaw, abating taxes, 1862,


4 50


Amount carried forward,


-


$5,049 18


66


2,


66


3,


4,


8,


9,


* $152 last year's bill.


-


-


5


Amount brought forward, $5,049 18


Chapman & Chamberlin, services rendered in 1860, 13 50


Agawam Bank, interest on note against town, 257 29


E. Brown, 48 00


D. Granger, school books furnished poor children, 1862, 41 47


M. Fox, posting town warrants, 1862, 18 50


R. S. Hastings, abatement of taxes, 1862, 14 78


Jessie Buffington, putting up railing near his place, 10 50


Nathan Knowlton, repairing town house, 1862, 2 75


J. G. Allen, services, 1861 and 1862, 12 00


J. K. Knox, services as Assessor, 1863, - 35 00


Cyrus Knox, book and paper furnished town,


1 38


C. W. Hastings, services as Assessor, 54 00


Military record book, 8 67


County taxes, 1,335 72


Franklin Morgan, plank, 1862,' 17 10


M. L. Hitchcock, putting up railing near his house, 6 37


P. D. Winter, services on School Committee, 1862, 6 75


Jacob Stever, interest on note against town, 60 00


Wm. S. Nichols, 66 42 00


95 00


John Clough, book and stationery for town, services as Assessor, 55 50


8 26


Geo. W. Randell, labor on bridge near South Belcher- town, 5 75


Agawam Bank, interest on town note, 162 50


J. F. Tannatt, printing school regulations, 3 00


John Barnes, sheep killed by dogs, 5 00


D. M. Stebbins, services as School Committee,


16 50


Abel Webber, services as Selectman, 58 00


David Knox, going with hearse, &c.,


53 00


Jonathan McElwain, going with hearse, &c., -


21 50


J. K. Knox, sheep killed by dogs, 10 00


7 83


Elias Turner, opening graves, &c.,


5 50


Luther H. Arnold, services as School Committee,


40 00


E. B. Gates, cash paid out, -


2 50


R. S. Hastings, abatement of taxes,


170 96


discount on taxes,


572 16


Hawley J. Keith, labor on town ways,


33 92


A. Webber, opening graves, &c.,


4 40


P. W. Webster, cash paid out in and out of town,


18 75


services recruiting,


95 00


cash paid out for recruits, 65 75


services as Selectman, 55 00


George Moores, plank, and repairing bridges,


62 00


Amount carried forward,


$8,562 74


E. Brown, interest on order,


66


Julia A. Scism,


6


Amount brought forward, $8,562 74 P. W. Webster, labor on bridge near South Belchertown, 16 25 John Clough, 66 3 00 66


B. H. Johnson, 66


66


15 39


Geo. W. Randall, labor on bridge near Burleigh, 1 50


L. F. Whiting, drawing stone for bridge,


5 50


Edward Shaw, stone abutment near his house, 3 00


John Maloy, labor on bridge, -


2 00


Isaac Angelier, 6 near Mr. Hastings, 11 00


Joseph King, 66 near Mr. Merrick's 1862, and 1863, 5 00


Calvin Blodgett, labor on bridge and plank,


8 50


Palmer Co., materials and labor on iron bridge, 1860 and 1861, 32 07


Charles R. Shaw, labor on Northampton road,


38 50


Abel Webber, labor on bridges at Three Rivers, 9 98


R. S. Hastings, meeting with Selectmen, 3 00


services collecting taxes, stamps, notify-


ing Representative, 105 00


Elias Turner, notifying town officers, 3 00


P. W. Webster for Committee of Volunteers, 300 00


E. B. Gates for recruiting purposes, 36 00


J. H. Blair, services, 13 00


Nathan Howard, interest on orders,


12 00


Abel Webber, services recruiting Volunteers, 66 cash paid 30 00 in and out of town, - 19 00


95 00


Insurance on Poor House and buildings, 45 00


D. Granger, services as Treasurer, 100 00


$9,919 20


SUPPORT OF THE POOR.


Amount paid as follows :


Orders outstanding, March 7, 1863, $115 20


L. H. Arnold, goods furnished Mrs. Potter, 1862, 6 25


Olney Fuller, goods furnished Mrs. Holmes, - 8 00


Edward Finerty, taking care of Mrs. Crossing, 3 00


Owen McCarty, taking care of Mrs. Crossing, 3 00


J. S. Loomis, coffins and shrouds furnished paupers, 25 00


State lunatic hospital, board of Asenath Green, 1862-3, 67 40


F. J. Wassum, furnishing goods and making pall, 9 25


P. P. Kellogg, furnishing goods for poor house, 76 11


Mr. Wight, wood furnished Mrs. Holmes, 6 00


Amount carried forward, -


- $319 21


7


Amount brought forward, - $319 21


Dr. Samuel Shaw, services small pox cases, 25 50


Theron McMaster, boarding Mary McMaster, 17 00


Dr. William Holbrook, medical services for paupers, to July, 1861, 10 85


M. W. French, goods furnished Crossen and Finerty families during small pox, 8 44


A. Sharp, boarding Mrs. Jackson, - 18 33


J. S. Loomis, coffins and shrouds to paupers, 22 00


A. Webber, cash paid Mrs. Looman, 12 00


David Fleming, taking care of Mrs. John Burns, -


15 00


O. F. Packard, goods furnished Ephraim Squires, 10 68


Town of Berlin, support of Asenath Green, 1862, - 20 00


F. W. Calkins, medical services, 33 25


J. S. Loomis, coffins and shrouds, 10 00


John Allen, keeping poor, 4 62


Mrs. Prindible, keeping poor, - 13 00


16 00


Mrs. Electa Graves, taking care of Mary E. Chaffee,


5 00


E. G. Murdock, goods to Mrs. Goff,


E. B. Gates, money to Mrs. Sherman, 4 00


Stephen Place, boarding Mrs. Harris, 52 00


J. M. Cornings, medical attendance of paupers, 2 50


E. Brown, nails and spikes for town, 2 40


State Reform School, for support George A. Newcomb, Jan. 1, 1863, to Jan. 1, 1864, - 18 08


Phebe Wellman, taking care of Lucy A. Calkins, 6 00


Lorenzo Shearer, taking care of John Spear, 6 00


Wm. N. Packard, goods furnished Mrs. John Burns, 5 00


P. W. Webster, provisions furnished small pox families, - 3 31 Abel Webber, keeping and carrying paupers to alms-house, 10 60 Abel Webber, cash paid Town of Ware, for support of Mrs. Hastings, and daughter, 213 69


Abel Webber, cash paid Town of Ware, for support of Freeman Bacon family, 49 03


Russell Jenks, taking care of William McDowell, and paying doctor's bill, 34 25


P. P. Kellogg, goods furnished poor-house to Jan. 1, 1864, 57 43 Hawley J. Keith, balance of services on poor farm, - 123 60


Dr. A. Davis, medical attendance on Mrs. Green, and Mary Chaffee, - 17 00


Abel Webber, wood for Ephraim Squires, 11 75


P. W. Webster, cash paid for paupers, 7 25


P. W. Webster, services as Overseer of Poor,


30 00


P. W. Webster, making certificates State paupers, - 30 00


Abel Webber, services as Overseer of Poor, - 35 00 -


$1,279 77


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1


HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.


Paid as follows :


Outstanding orders, March 7th, 1863, $75 77


14 26 Charles R. Shaw, labor in Districts Nos. 8 and 9, -


66 certificates, 3 25


31 60


66 66 66 66 1862,


5 00


Charles Anderson, labor in District No. 12, 66 66 66 66 66 certificate,


33 30


Calvin Hastings, labor in District No. 13, 43 50


Asa M. Morse, labor in District No. 11, 53 00


6 certificate, 214 75


84 69


23 00


Eugene Shorley, labor in District No. 6, 66 " 66 "


15 68


George W. Randell, labor in District No. 2, - 66 66


6 86


P. W. Webster, labor in District No. 4, -


283 24


66


66 66 30


George Fleming, labor in District No. 7, 30 07


George Moores, labor in District No. 3, 200 00


$1,286 27


STATE AID.


Paid the following persons :


Mrs. Wm. P. Allen,


144 00


Mrs. George Evans,


52 00


Mrs. Abraham Childs,


132 00


Mrs. W. H. Bullock,


104 00


Mrs. J. J. Sullivan,


8 00


Mrs. Geo. T. Roberts,


104 00


Mrs. L. P. Webber,


. 8 00


Mrs. H. B. Kibbe,


49 50


Mrs. Albert Bennett,


48 00


Mrs. Stephen Lucas,


104 00


Mrs. Daniel Hadley,


104 00


Mrs. Isaac Sutcliff,


144 00


Mrs. J. A. Witherell,


53 85


Mrs. George W. Ballou,


84 00


Mrs. James M. Knowlton,


144 00


Mrs. Wm. Holloway,


120 00


Mrs. George E. Pepper,


104 00


Amount carried forward,


- -


1,507 35


W. M. Green, labor in District No. 10, per certificates, 39 50


13 99


Hawley J. Keith, labor in District No. 5, George A. Keith, labor in District No. 1, 66 66 66 66


certificate, 32 93


28 50


52 88


-


9


Amount brought forward,


$1,507 35


Mrs. Bradly Olney,


28 00


Mrs. Wm. Thompson,


56 00


Mrs. S. K. Keith,


60 00


Mrs. Charles Trim,


60 00


Mrs. Morris Breen,


28 00


Mrs. C. H. Hastings,


60 00


Mrs. R. J. Hancock,


29 00


Mrs. D. B. Packard,


40 00


Mrs. George W. Mills,


. 4.00


Mrs. Samuel S. Ferry,


48 00


Mrs. James McGrath,


20 00


Mrs. Reuben Jackson,


112 00


Mrs. J. B. Foster,


40 00


Mrs. Henry Canterbury,


4 00


Mrs. Wm. McGuire,


60 00


Mrs. Wm. F. White,


40 00


Mrs. Horace White,


104 00


Mrs. Joseph Soury,


40 00


Mrs. J. C. Fletcher,


20 00


Mrs. Eli Strickland,


32 00


Mrs. Pliny Cooley,


32 00


Mrs. Joseph T. Dwelly,


88 00


Mrs. Robert Lusty,


88 00


Mrs. John Koster,


64 00


Mrs. Samuel Brown,


28 00


Mrs. George W. Snow, -


66 00


Mrs. Ira McDowell,


60 00


Mrs. John Flarherty,


60 00


Mrs. Matilda McDowell,


12 00


Mrs. George Shaw,


68 00


Mrs. James Kavanah,


57 89


Mrs. Thomas Grang,


24 00


Mrs. John W. Looman,


4 00


Mrs. Michael McKenney,


8 00


Mrs. Stephen Clark,


24 00


Mrs. Benj. Gokey,


15.00


Mrs. Lucius Brown,


24 00


Mrs. Eben Jones,


15 00


Mrs. Frank Blair, -


15 00


Mrs. Geo. W. Pasco,


5 00


Mrs. Chas. H. Murdock,


15 00


Mrs. Asa Thompson,


15 00


$3,462 24 .


2


144 00


Mrs. F. M. Angell,


62 00


Mrs. P. S. Thompson,


60 00


Mrs. A. A. Dorman,


16 00


Mrs. John Hannifin,


10


OUTSTANDING ORDERS.


J. H. Keith, services on poor farm, 1862, - $237 50


Stephen Place, boarding Mrs. Harris (two orders), 16 00


Daniel Hannifin, services of John Hannifin, State aid, - 24 00


John Strickland, services of Eli Strickland, State aid, 24 00


Pliny Cooley, services of his son, State aid, - 24 00


Mrs. Dwelly, services of her son, State aid, S. G. Shaw, goods furnished Mrs. Crossen, -


12 00


G. M. Fisk & Co., printing Town Reports, 1862, 50 50 military bills, &c., 1862, 15 75


20 00


Abel Webber, paid town of Ware for support of Mrs. Mason and daughter, 127 00


Dr. J. M. Comins, medical attendance, small pox cases, 50 00


Geo. W. Randall, labor on highway, 206 51


Alvin Hastings, plank and labor for bridges, -


65 25


Joseph S. Hastings, plank and labor for bridges, 37 71


Abel Webber, paid Charles Lotham bounty, - 50 00


George Moores, labor on highway, 133 00


Goodrich & Co., bridge timber for South Belchertown, 96 00


E. B. Gates, timber, plank and fence railings for cemetery, 129 00


Administrators of J. B. Mirick's estate, plank, 8 82


E. B. Gates, labor on bridges and cemetery fence, 55 67


C. W. Hastings, assessing and abating taxes, 3 00


17 70


Harding Hunt, sheep killed by dogs, 22 00


18 18


C. W. Hastings, labor on highway, District No. 13, 4 00


D. M. Stebbins, services as School Committee, 12 00


John Clough, abating taxes, 3 00


E. B. Gates, Overseer of Poor, 27 00


services recruiting volunteers,


100 00


services as Selectman,


50 00


D. Granger, services as School Committee, -


50 50


making record of soldiers, -


25 00


recording births, deaths and marriages,


29 00


making deeds, stamps, postage, express, sta-


tionery, and time and expenses to Boston twice, 34 92


$1,587 68


RECAPITULATION.


Amount paid as follows:


For Schools,


$3,258 47


the poor,


1,279 77


" contingencies,


9,919 20


" highways and bridges,


1,286 07


aid to families of volunteers,


3,462 24


Total amount paid out by Treasurer, $19,205 75


ยท


Charles Anderson, labor on highway,


E. Brown, goods furnished town,


8 67


F. W. Calkins, medical attendance to Bancon family,


11


Total amount of receipts, -


$20,966 24


of expenditures paid,


19,205 75


Balance in treasury,


$1,760 49


AMOUNT DUE THE TOWN.


From State,-aid to volunteer families to


January 1st, 1864, - $3,825 30


State,-aid to volunteer families to March 1st, 1864, 621 50


State for recruiting volunteers, March 1st, 1864, 735 00


66 J. H. Keith, for balance of town farm, 949 50


R. S. Hastings, Collector,


95 00


Town of Brimfield, repairing bridge,


5 50


State or the Government for commuta- tion money, paid in behalf of G. Wright, 300 00


66 Town of Monson for schooling in Dis- trict No. 8. 20 00


Balance in Treasury,


1,760 49


$8,312 29


DEBT OF THE TOWN.


Note to Mrs. Julia Scism, 1862,


$1,000 00


E. Brown,


800 00


Jacob Stever,


2,000 00


Agawam Bank,


6,500 00


Wm. S. Nichols,


700 00


Reuben Rogers,


300 00


66 Robert McMaster,


425 00


$11,725 00


Interest on the above notes, -


296 56


$12,021 56


Note to Wm. S. Nichols, 1863,


$900 00


Henry E. Bolton,


800 00


Erastus B. White, "


650 00


Horace Hume,


900 00


66 R. S. Munn,


550 00


Prosper Howard,


1,000 00


Shem Loomis,


500 00


Interest on above notes,


279 00


Amount of outstanding orders,


6,737 14


to Walter Green for poor farm,


2,850 00


$27,187 70


Total amount due town, -


8,312 29


Liabilities of town, -


$18,875 41


-


-


$5,300 00


12


ADJUSTMENT WITH STATE TREASURY.


As follows :


Due from State for aid furnished, 1862, -


$2,060 99


" reimbursement of bounty, 1862, 7,550 00


Due from this town to State, taxes 1863,


$3,816 00


$9,610 99


bounty, author- ized to be assessed, 5,435 64


-$9,251 64


Balance in favor of town, - $359 35


STATEMENT OF RAISING RECRUITS.


Due from State,


$735 00


for commutation paid on account of George Wright, - 300 00 - -$1,035 00


Expenses of town on same :


Money paid out,


$444 75


Services paid, -


290 00


$734 75


Balance in favor of town,


$300 25


Respectfully submitted,


ABEL WEBBER,


Selectmen of E. B. GATES, Palmer. P. W. WEBSTER,


REPORT


OF THE


LIQUOR AGENCY,


EXPENSES.


To inventory of property on hand, March 1st, 1863, - $91 20


Balance against Agency, March 1st 1863,


75


Salary of Agent,


50 00


License of Agent, 13 33


Freight on liquors,


4 80


Liquor purchased by Agent,


358 95


Casks for liquor,


4 00


$523 03


RECEIPTS.


By inventory of property, March 1st, 1864, - $549 70


Balance in favor of Agency,


$26 67 -


Respectfully submitted, .


ABEL WEBBER, E. B. GATES,


P. W. WEBSTER,


Selectmen of Palmer.


REPORT


OF THE


OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.


For the year ending March 1st, 1864.


Inventory of personal property, March 1st, 1863,


$1,164 51


Interest on cost of poor farm,


150 00


Superintendent's salary,


237 50


Expenses out, -


150 01


$1,702 02


RECEIPTS.


By inventory of personal property, March


1st, 1864,


$1,278 11


Profits of farm and labor,


263 91


-


$1,542 02


Balance against town,


$160 00


Respectfully submitted,


ABEL WEBBER,


Overseers E. B. GATES, S of the Poor. P. W. WEBSTER,


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