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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6., Strangers in Medford, (continued from vol. 4, no. 2). (search)
11 the town poor were returned to Medford from Woburn, where they had been quartered, and Leonard Buckman took the contract to board the grown people at one dollar per week. These were doubtless too decrepit to be capable of labor. The annual report of the overseers in 1812 states that there were thirty-six persons supported by the town, beside children boarded in families. The cost for the support of the town poor for the preceding year was $1359.80, as near as can be calculated. December 3, 1812, Benjamin Young, as keeper of the new workhouse, was allowed for his services, and those of his wife, at the rate of two hundred fifty dollars per annum. By the terms of the agreement, Young was to maintain himself and family, and to have house rent and the use of the kitchen fire. In 1813, thirty-three persons were supported wholly by the town, and thirteen assisted. The families of soldiers of 1812 were grudgingly granted aid, for Medford, led by their pastor, Rev. David Osgoo