• Reference
    P8/12/1
  • Title
    Overseers' account books
  • Date free text
    1713 - 1761
  • Production date
    From: 1713 To: 1761
  • Scope and Content
    Originally consisting of loose sections in an advanced state of decay owing to damp, repaired by the County Record Office and bound up in three sections as follows: A. 1713 - 1739 B. 1739 - 1746 C. 1746 - 1761 The contents of these volumes include: Disbursements, 1713-15 and 1722-7; Lists of Churchwardens (2) and Overseers (3), 1725-52; List of Settlement certificates, removal orders and apprenticeship indentures in the "town chest in Vestry", 1711-49 [chiefly settlement papers - 46 items listed in all]; Summary accounts, 1727-30; Detailed disbursements, 1734-1761; [at end] Contracts for maintanance of the poor and for mutual employment of roundsmen, 1761.
  • Reference
  • Level of description
    item