...r. Brooks, the item of support of poor is even arger than that we quote from the town record. But there was still another outlay of which no mention is made. The town had, forty years before from Thomas Seccomb , a gift, the interest of which in perpetuity is applied to the relief of the poor. The selectmen's records of 1819 show the sum of $42.00, in sums of one and two dollars, distributed among twenty-t...