Keywords: Overseers of the Poor
Item 33431
Portland Overseers of the Poor letter on Estes family, 1832
Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library Date: 1832 Location: Portland; Cumberland Media: Printed and handwritten in ink on rag paper
Item 33428
Portland Overseers of the Poor letter regarding Jesse Estes and family, 1825
Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library Date: 1825 Location: Cumberland; Portland Media: Printed and handwritten in ink on rag paper
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Exhibit
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor
"… Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor Overseers seek reimbursementPrince Memorial Library Legal Settlement Maine law in 1821…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Exhibits
"… Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties Representative Industries…"
