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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor Overseers seek reimbursementPrince Memorial Library Legal Settlement Maine law in…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Exhibits

"… of North Yarmouth and Cumberland Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor Population Decline in Maine's Coastal…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… or if they had no home they would join the other "paupers" at the City Farm (or Poor Farm). Residents of the City Farm worked the land and produced…"

Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy

"… the sick unless they were a “seaman, lunatic, or pauper,” according to one early scholar. Sailors had access to the U.S."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"… state government was paying too much to support paupers throughout Maine – especially in Frenchboro, Athens, and Malaga, towns they called a “blot…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… considered lobsters food for servants and paupers. Some indentured servants in Massachusetts had written in their contracts that they should not be…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"Even then he refused to become a pauper of the town. A historian, Sumner R. Newell, Esq., wrote a short book titled, A Brief Historical Sketch of…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… age of twenty-one years and upwards, excepting paupers, persons under guardianship, and Indians not taxed.” Josiah Farrow represented Islesboro at…"