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YATES REPORT
1824 LAW
1857 REPORT EXPLANATION
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| YATES REPORT:
Although Hamilton County was apparently established (out of Montgomery
County) in 1816, this 1824 report includes Hamilton County information in the
report for Montgomery County ... with the statement ... "[including
Hamilton county, which is not organized,]". So we recommend that
you look at the Montgomery
County section of this report.
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| 1824 LAW (required establishment of poorhouse vs. exempted):
No reference to Hamilton County.
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| 1857 INVESTIGATION:
[NOTE: This report makes no reference to any county poorhouse in
Hamilton County. And there were no Inmate Registers kept for Hamilton County.
So it appears that this county may never have established any such
institution. PHL ]
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PERSONAL NOTES FROM READERS:
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| LOCAL
NOTES:
Click here to see a scan of an original 1817
document:
Articles
of Agreement
(which resolved an issue of
which county would be responsible for the support of two
specific individuals when Hamilton County split off from Montgomery
County. (Page takes a while to load.) |
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| RECORDS:
Note: As noted above, no Inmate Registration Certificates were filed for
Hamilton County. Since there appears to have been no county poorhouse in
Hamilton County, poor relief must have been limited to "outdoor"
(non-institutional) relief. There is, of course, the possibility that
occasionally some people were sent to an adjacent county's poorhouse under
contract for their care; but we have so far found no such contracts recorded.
The records of town Overseers of the Poor (the local officials who
administered outdoor relief) were usually kept locally with summaries often
published in Annual Town Meeting reports. PHL
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