ABSTRACT OF THE RETURNS 
FROM THE SEVERAL 
TOWNS, JAILS, AND HOUSES OF CORRECTION, 
IN THIS 
COMMONWEALTH, 
CONCERNING THE CONDITION OF 
PAUPER IDIOTS AND LUNATICS, 
IN 
ALMS-HOUSES, JAILS, &c. 
FOR THE 
YEAR ENDING JAN. 1, 1813. 
PREPARED IN OBEDIENCE TO AN ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- 
TIVES OF JAN. 25, 1843, FROM THE RETURNS RECEIVED IN THE 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 
Boston: 
DUTTON AND WENTWORTH, STATE PRINTERS. 
1843. ABSTRACT OF THE RETURNS 
FROM THE SEVERAL 
TOWNS, JAILS, AND HOUSES OF CORRECTION, 
IN THIS 
COMMONWEALTH, 
CONCERNING THE CONDITION OF 
PAUPER IDIOTS AND LUNATICS, 
IN 
ALMS-HOUSES, JAILS, &c. 
FOR THE 
YEAR ENDING JAN. 1, 1843. 
PREPARED IN OBEDIENCE TO AN ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- 
TIVES OF JAN. 25, 1843, FROM THE RETURNS RECEIVED IN THE 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 
X 
Boston: 
DUTTON AND WENTWORTH, STATE PRINTERS. 
1843. ^owncmWeafttj of i^assadjusttw. 
Secretary's Office, March 2d, 1843. 
To Hon. Daniel P. King, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives : 
Sir,-In .compliance with the orders of the honorable House of Rep- 
resentatives, I have prepared and caused to be printed, and now have 
the honor of communicating to the House, a Tabular View of the Idiots 
and Lunatics confined in Jails, Houses of Correction, and Alms Houses, 
(or private families,) so far as returns have been received from those 
Institutions, and the various towns in this Commonwealth. The docu- 
ment is of great bulk, in consequence of my having, in accordance 
with suggestions received from the committee on public charities, con- 
cluded to present the name of every one of those unfortunate classes, 
contained in the returns. I have, however, limited the edition to 500 
copies. 
The Returns from the Jails and Houses of Correction* exhibit the 
following facts : 
Whole No. of Idiots and Lunatics during the year, . . 76 
Of these, the number of Idiots , . . was . . 10 
The number described as Lunatics, . . " .62 
The number undescribed, was . . . " . 4 
76 
" " of males, . . . " . . 56 
" " " females, . 20 
76 
" " " white persons . " . . 73 
" " " colored and undescribed . " .3 
76 
" " belonging by birth to Mass. . " . .21 
" " " " " " other States, " .5 
" " of foreigners, . . . " . .11 
" " " unknown origin, " . . 39 
>76 
* The Jails heard from are these ;-Boston, Barnstable, Edgartown, Greenfield, 
Taunton, Concord, Lenox, Newburyport, Plymouth, Salem, Springfield, and Wor- 
cester, 12. 
The Houses of Correction are these :-Cambridge, Dedham, New Bedford, Ips- 
wich, Greenfield, Edgartown, Nantucket, Barnstable, Plymouth and Springfield, 10. IV 
PAUPER IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
These inmates have been distributed among the several Institutions, 
as follows : 
1. Jails.-Concord, 3 ; Newburyport, 1; Lenox, 2 ; Plymouth, I ; 
Salem, 3; Springfield, 1 ; Worcester, 6. Total, . . 17 
2. Houses of Correction.-Dedham, 3 ; New Bedford, 1; Cam- 
bridge, 27; Ipswich, 28. Total, . . . . .59 
76 
In all but 20 of these cases, the length of the disease is said to be 
" unknown." Five of these 20 are lunatics, whose disease has lasted 
3 years or less, viz : 
1 of 1 month ; 1 of 2 months ; 1 of 12 months ; 1 of 36 months. 
In no case is a physician said to be employed for the mental malady. 
The number described as " furiously mad " is . . .9 
Of those who are said to be " occasionally " furious, . . 19 
" " " never to be furious, . . . .44 
Total, . 72 
As there are but 66 lunatics at most, even if we reckon as such all the 
undescribed, some of the above 72 must be idiots. 
There are four cases in which some kind of bodily restraint, (viz., 
straps,) is said to be occasionally resorted to. In 69 cases, it is as- 
serted that nothing of the kind is used. In three cases, nothing is said. 
In the Lenox Jail, the two unfortunate inmates, of whom one is idiot 
and the other lunatic, are placed in the same apartments with criminals. 
They are " with a criminal confined for assault, who is in the same 
room, to take care of them ! " 
In the Cambridge House of Correction, 23 of the idiots and lunatics 
are placed 3 in a room. 
In the Dedham House of Correction, one lunatic, and she a woman 
of 65, is " occasionally " shut up with criminals, but only with female 
convicts. 
In the Ipswich House of Correction, it is said, generally, that " crim- 
inals are in the same hall and occupy rooms in the same building" with 
the innocent prisoners. It is also stated, that in this same institution, 
four females, all lunatics, and all of whom are furious occasionally, are 
confined with at least two others, in each case, and those others des- 
cribed as " criminals and insane." The names of the poor creatures 
thus confined with convicts, are PAUPER IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
V 
Rachel Adams, a white female, aged 65 years, who is supported by her 
husband, (why she is called a pauper is not stated.) 
" Betsey, a stranger," a white female, aged 45 years. 
Sukey Hornsbey, " " " " 60 " 
And Margaret Lee, " " " " 40 " 
Elijah Heath, a white male of 29 years old, is, in like manner, asso- 
ciated with criminals. 
In reply to the inquiry concerning the cleanliness of the rooms in 
which the insane are confined; they are said at Concord to be swept 
daily, and whitewashed monthly. 
At Lenox, to be cleaned " once a month." 
At Newburyport " generally kept clean : whitewashed twice a year." 
At Plymouth, " as often as required." 
At Salem, " every month." 
At Springfield, the reply is in these extraordinary terms, " that de- 
pends on the conduct of the inmates." 
Dedham, monthly. 
Worcester and Cambridge daily. 
At Ipswich, washed twice, and whitewashed once a week. 
The replies touching other matters inquired of, will appear as dis- 
tinctly in the Abstract, as I could here state them. 
The Jails and Houses of Correction, which made returns, that they 
had no such inmates, are these : 
Jails. Houses of Correction. 
Greenfield, Greenfield, 
Edgartown, Edgartown, 
Taunton, Nantucket, 
Barnstable, Barnstable, 
Boston, Plymouth, 
Springfield. 
Those from which no return has been received, are the following:- 
Jails. Ipswich, Lowell, Northampton and Nantucket, 4 
Houses of Correction. Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, North- 
ampton and Lenox, . . . . . . .5 
It will be remembered, that the returns include all who have been at 
these institutions during the course of the year, whether for one week, 
or for the whole period: and the number will, therefore, seem to be 
larger than it probably, in fact, was at any given period, or for any con- 
siderable portion of the year. VI 
PAUPER IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
Returns have been seasonably made by 235 of the 307 towns and 
cities in the Commonwealth, leaving 72 from which nothing was heard 
when the tables were prepared. Two or three of these, however, have 
subsequently made returns. 
In the towns heard from, the whole number of paupers described- 
As Insane, is ..... . 367^ 
As Idiots, ...... 243* 
Undescribed, ...... 25 
Wholenumber, of both classes, .... 635t 
Of these 635, there are 296 males, 
337 females, 
and 2 of sex not stated, . . 635 
White, 614. Colored, 17. Undescribed as to color, 4. 
The birth-places are as follows: 
Massachusetts, 539 Other States, 39 
Foreign, 18 Unknown, 39 
In alms-houses, 361. In private houses, 204. The remainder un- 
described, as to residence. 
Thirty-three of the cases are those of persons whose disease is said 
to be of not more than three years' continuance. The average length, 
however, of the disease, is given at 21 7-12 years. 
Of the furiously mad, the number is . . 32 
" " occasionally furious, the number is . . 224 
Sixty are confined wholly, or partially, in strong rooms or cages, 
which are very meagrely described. 
Among the means of coercion, I find chains, hand-cuffs, straps, " hos- 
pital muffs," wristbands, cords, and straight jacket, in cases as follows : 
Chains in . . 17 cases, 
Handcuffs in . . 1 " 
Straps in . . 5 " 
Muffs in . . 2 " 
Wristbands in . 1 " 
Cords in . . 1 " 
6 persons, not paupers, 
are said to be in con- 
finement as insane. 
Straight jacket, . 4 " In all 31. 
* The number of male idiots greatly exceeds the females. The number of fe- 
male lunatics, and especially of the " furiously mad," greatly exceeds the males ; 
and this proportion is found to exist in each and all of the counties. 
f The remark made in regard to the number of cases in the jails, &c., will ap • 
ply to the towns,-inasmuch as some of the individuals have been removed to 
hospitals, or elsewhere. PAUPER IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
VII 
Of these 367 lunatics, only 134 are said to have been at any time in 
any hospital; and in but 23, out of 635 cases, are medical attendants 
ever employed for the intellectual disease. 
Sixty-three of these poor wretches are State paupers ; and 511 are 
described as town paupers. The average cost of their support, per 
week, is $1 21. As to exercise, ventilation, warmth, cleanliness, &c., 
the tables contain such information as the returns set forth. But there 
are so many cases left blank, and so many others in which the state- 
ment is vague, that a thousand horrors may exist undetected by the law. 
The memorial of Miss Dix, with its thrilling and horrible details in 
regard to many of the places which she visited and examined, induced 
me to pay particular attention to the returns of some of those towns; 
but this inspection only served to show how slight a picture of living 
truth may be made to constitute, in the judgment of the overseers, a 
sufficient return. 
In the return from Danvers, one of the towns visited by that lady, 
four cases of lunacy are mentioned,-of which one is a male of 30, 
and three are females, of the respective ages of 29, 50 and 67. Of 
these, only three are in the alms-house. Two are said to be confined 
in rooms of ten feet by six at night, warmed by fire-places and stoves, 
cleansed daily, allowed daily exercise, furious occasionally ; no mode 
of coercion, such as chains, &c., are mentioned ; they are declared not 
to be confined in any strong room or cage; and nothing is stated that 
seems singular or suspicious. 
The return from Newburyport gives the names of Chas. Appleton, 
as confined in a strong room, seven feet by ten in size, occasionally mad, 
but " subjected to no bodily restraint latterly and Elizabeth Betton, 
aged 51, furiously mad, confined alone in a strong room of same size, 
in straight jacket. None of the others are said to be confined, and it 
is asserted that the rooms are all opened, cleansed and ventilated every 
day ; that they are warmed by stoves, and that all the inmates " go into 
the open air when convenient, weather suitable, 4*c." 
The return from Saugus is as brief and unsatisfactory as though hu- 
manity had no concern with such matters. Thus, in reply to the inqui- 
ry, how much exercise is allowed the three lunatic paupers, the single 
word " cripple"" appears in the return ; but no means are given to de- 
termine which of the three is thus deprived of exercise, nor to learn 
bow much of exercise is allowed to the two who are not crippled. 
There is no need, however, for me, in this manner, to pursue a com- 
parison which may be made by any person who has the abstract, and VIII 
PAUPER IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
from which so little can be learned that is calculated to gratify intelli- 
gent curiosity. 
The aggregate sheet of counties presents a summary of all the town 
abstracts, and may be found at the close of this document. Some 
" general observations" from the returns are hereto appended, as wor- 
thy of particular notice, and I cannot but wish that they were more full 
and voluminous. 
With great respect, 1 am 
Your obedient servant, 
JOHN A. BOLLES, 
Secretary of the Commonwealth. ABSTRACT OF THE RETURNS 
CONCERNING 
LUNATICS AND IDIOTS, CONFINED IN THE JAILS AND HOUSES OF CORRECTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH, 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 1, 1843. 2 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Lunatics and Idiots, 
NAMES. 
Age. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Colored. 
Place of Birth. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Duration of Dis- 
ease. 
Duration of Confinement. 
By what authority confined. 
* 
Is the person furi- 
ously mad, or only 
occasionally so? 
Are chains, straps, or 
any other bodily re- 
straints ever used ? 
Length and 
breadth of room 
of confinement. 
How many 
others in 
the same 
room ? 
Are the others, (in the 
same room,) Insane, Idiots 
or Criminals ? 
CONCORD JAIL. 
) 
Peter Johnson, 
• 
Male. 
• 
White. 
• 
Unknown. 
• 
1 
Unknown. 
Committed 17th Mar. 
Occasionally. 
Never. 
28 ft. by 12 ft. 
None. 
James, the colored man, 
Male. 
• 
• 
Color'd 
do 
• 
1 
do 
1837. 
do 
(Trustees of State Hospi- 
tal, at Worcester. 
do 
do 
16 ft. by 12 ft. 
do 
. 
Mirabeth Stevens, 
• 
• 
Fem. 
White. 
• 
New Hampshire. 
• 
1 
do 
Oct. 19, 1842. 
Furiously. 
do 
28 ft. by 12 ft. 
do 
• 
Total, 3 
• 
2 
1 
2 
1 
1 New Hampshire. 
2 Unknown. 
3 
1 Furiously, 
2 Occasionally. 
3 Never. 
3 None. 
LENOX JAIL. 
-■ 
Roland Perkins, 
Halsey Simmonds, . 
36 
40 
Male. 
Male. 
• 
White. 
White. 
• 
Unknown. 
do 
1 
1 
144 mos. 
96 mos. 
144 months. 
96 " 
Magistrate. 
Judge of Probate. 
Occasionally, 
do 
None. 
do 
21 ft. by 16 ft. 
do 
2 
2 
1 Lunatic & 1 Crim- 
inal. 
1 Idiot & 1 Criminal. 
Total, 2 
2 
2 
2 Unknown. 
1 
1 
* 
2 Occasionally. 
2 Never. 
Yes. 
NEWBURYPORT JAIL. 
Luther French, 
42 
Male. 
• 
White. 
• 
Newburyport. 
• 
1 
108 to 120 mo. 
Since Jan. 15, 1833. 
By a Justice. 
• 
None. 
13 ft. by 10 ft. 
None. 
• 
PLYMOUTH JAIL. 
/ 
William Hubbard, 
30 
Male. 
• 
White. 
• 
Unknown. 
• 
1 
Unknown. 
126 days. 
By a Justice. 
Furiously. 
Occasionally. 
12 ft. by 13 ft. 
None. 
• 
SALEM JAIL. 
Thomas McDonald, 
49 
Male. 
. 
White. 
• 
Unknown. 
• 
1 
Unknown. 
72 days. 
Police Court of Salem 
Occasionally. 
None. 
• 
None. 
John Shea, .... 
24 
Male. 
• 
White. 
• 
do 
• 
1 
do 
7 " 
do 
do 
do 
• 
do 
Charles Whitcomb, . 
17 
Male. 
• 
White. 
• 
do 
• 
1 
do 
5 " 
do 
do 
do 
• 
do 
• 
Total, 3 
3 
5 
3 Unknown. 
3 
3 Occasionally. 
3 Never. 
3 None. 
SPRINGFIELD JAIL. 
Catharine Ryan, 
? 
• 
Fem. 
White. 
• 
Ireland. 
• 
1 
Unknown. 
Since October, 1842. 
Sent by order of Trustees 
from the Worcester Hosp. 
Not furiously. 
None. 
16 ft. by 11 ft. 
None. 
• Confined in the Jails and Houses of Correction in the Commonwealth, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
3 
What Hospital has the person been 
in, and how long ? 
/ 
By what town is the 
person supported,- 
or by the State, or 
friends ? 
Cost of sup- 
port of each 
person per 
week. 
REMARKS. 
Materials of walls and 
floors. 
Means of Ventilation. 
How Warmed. 
How often Cleaned. 
How often exercised in open 
air. 
Size of Courts in which 
they exercise. 
Size of Halls, 
&,c. to which 
they have ac- 
cess. 
Do they come in con- 
tact with Criminals ? 
Medical Attendance. 
State Lunatic. 
u 
cc 
State & County. 
do 
do 
$1 60 
1 60 
1 60 
J 
> All incurable. 
.emoved to Cam- 
bridge, Dec. 29, '42. 
Stone. 
2 windows in two, & 
1 in the other, 3^ 
feet by 2 ft. 1 in. 
Fire-place. 
Swept every day. 
White-washed monthly. 
In summer the two first 
were in the open air 
most of the time. 
• 
No halls. 
Small en- 
tries. 
' The windows of 
two of the rooms 
opened into the 
yard where they 
sat, but they sel- 
dom talked with 
them." 
Only for bodily disease. 
3 State. 
3 State and Co. 
1 60 
average. 
State, Worcester, 10 years 
and 1 month. 
Ditto 7 years and 11 months. 
Co. of Berkshire. 
do 
$2 00 
2 00 
Stone walls, wood 
floors. 
Ditto. 
2 windows 3 by 3 ft. 
Ditto. 
Box stove. 
Once a month. 
Occasionally, under the 
jailer's direction. 
50 by 20 feet. 
21 by 5 ft. 
With a criminal 
confined for as- 
sault, who is in 
same room to take 
care of them. 
Only in case of bodily 
disease. 
State Hospital. 
2 by County. 
2 00 
average. 
Sent to Worcester, 15 Sept. 
1834; returned Dec. 9, 
1840, " incurable." 
State. 
About 85 
cents. 
Makes shoes part of 
the time. 
All stone except 
one board floor. 
2 windows 4 by 3 ft. 
Stove for 
wood. 
" Generally kept clean, 
& white-washed twice 
a year." 
" Does not go outside 
the jail." 
" Two entries 13 ft. 
long and 10 wide, 
with a window at 
each end 6 ft. by 4 
ft. 4 in. 
• 
No. 
"There is a physician 
employed when neces- 
sary, but has not been 
called to see Mr. F. 
since his return from 
the Hospital." 
Unknown. 
Removed to Lunatic Hospi- 
at Worcester. 
State. 
2 00 
• 
Stone. 
Windows 3 by 2 ft. 
Fire-places. 
" As often as required." 
" Never." 
Phy 
" None." 
sician only in case 
" Neither." 
of bodily 
No. 
disease. 
State Hosp, at Wore.; from 
Jan. 22,1842, to Oct. 14, '42. 
" Ditto, from Feb. 25 to the 
present time." 
Not known. 
State. 
do 
do 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
Removed to Ipswich. 
Ditto to Worcester. 
Ditto to Ipswich. 
Stone. 
2 windows 3 by 4 ft. 
Wood stove. 
Every month when 
used. 
None. 
None. 
60 feet by 8 
feet. 
" They can con- 
verse together." 
Only for bodily disease. 
2 State. 
1 Not known. 
3 State. 
2 00 
average. 
Lunatic Hospital, at Wor- 
cester ; time unknown. 
" Must be by the 
State." 
Unkno'n. 
Wood floors, plas- 
tered walls. 
1 window, 20 inches 
wide by 2 feet 10 
inches high. 
Stove, 
"That depends on the 
conduct of the inmates." 
"There is an opportu 
nity every day." 
16 rods by 1 rod. 
16 ft. by IC 
ft. 
No. 
Only for bodily disease. 4 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Lunatics and Idiots, 
NAMES. 
Age. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Colored. 
Place of Birth. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Duration of Dis- 
ease. 
Duration of Confinement. 
By what authority confined. 
Is the person furi- 
ously mad, or only 
occasionally so ? 
Are chains, straps, or 
any other bodily re- 
straints ever used ? 
Length and 
breadth of room 
of confinement. 
How many 
others in 
the same 
room ? 
Are the others, (in the 
same room,) Insane, Idiots 
or Criminals? 
WORCESTER JAIL. 
t 
- 
Jonathan Carter, 
49 
Male. 
White. 
• 
Millbury. 
1 
20 years. 
Rec'd from the S. L. 
Hos'l May, 1834. 
Trustees S. L. H. 
" Never." 
None. 
4 by 8 feet. 
None. 
• 
John McLennan, 
34 
Male. 
• 
White. 
Scotland. 
• 
1 
Unknown. 
Do May, 1835. 
do 
Occasionally. 
do 
do 
do 
• 
Charles Jones, .... 
27 
Male. 
• 
White. 
Unknown. 
• 
1 
8 years. 
6 years and 6 months. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
• 
Sarah Wilson, .... 
31 
• 
Fem. 
White. 
• 
Ireland. 
• 
1 
15 years. 
Rec'd from the S. L. 
Hos'l July, 1835. 
do 
do 
do 
7 by 8 feet. 
do 
Henry Peets, .... 
35 
Male. 
White. 
Unknown. 
1 
Unknown. 
4 years. 
2 Justices. 
do 
do 
4 by 8 feet. 
do 
Deane, .... 
30 
Male. 
White. 
• 
do 
1 
do 
1 month. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Total, 6 
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE OF 
CORRECTION. 
5 
1 
6 
1 Millbury. 
1 Scotland. 
1 Ireland. 
3 Unknown. 
1 
/ 
5 
3 Unknown. 
5 Occasionally. 
1 Never. 
6 Never. 
Hugh Hughes, .... 
Nicholas Francis, 
Un- 
kn'n. 
28 
Male. 
Male. 
• 
White. 
White. 
England. 
Unknown. 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
17 years. 
6 years and 7 months. 
3 years and 9 months. 
Trustees State Lun. Hos. 
2 Justices. 
Occasionally. 
Never. 
"Wrist straps oc." 
Medes 17 feet 
by Hi feet. 
3 
3 
Insane or Idiots. 
do 
Patrick Kelty, .... 
28 
Male. 
• 
White. 
Ireland. 
1 
Unknown. 
3 years and 6 months. 
do 
do 
None. 
3 
do 
Emmeline Munson, . 
25 
• 
Fem. 
White. 
Maine. 
• 
1 
do 
2 years and 8 months. 
do 
Occasionally. 
do 
3 
do 
Alice Daily, .... 
70 
• 
Fem. 
White. 
Ireland. 
• 
1 
do 
2 years. 
do 
Furious. 
do 
3 
do 
Geo. Thornton, 
30 
Male. 
• 
White. 
Unknown. 
1 
do 
2 years. 
do 
Never. 
do 
3 
do 
William Brown, 
45 
Male. 
White. 
Ireland. 
1 
do 
2 years. 
do 
do 
Wrist straps occa. 
3 
do 
Mary Boyle, .... 
30 
Fem. 
White. 
do 
• 
1 
do 
2 years. 
do 
do 
None. 
None. 
James Shannon, 
30 
Male. 
• 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
1 year and 6 months. 
do 
do 
do 
3 
Insane or Idiots. 
Josiah Heard, .... 
25 
Male. 
White. 
W ayland. 
1 
From birth. 
1 year and 6 months. 
do 
do 
do 
3 
do 
Mary Percy, .... 
31 
Fem. 
White. 
Charlestown. 
• 
1 
U nknown. 
1 year and 3 months. 
do 
do 
do 
1 
do 
Eliza Clark, .... 
26 
Fem. 
White. 
Malden. 
do 
1 year and 3 months. 
do 
Occasionally. 
do 
None. 
James Giddis, .... 
42 
Male. 
White. 
Charlestown. 
1 
do 
1 year and 3 months. 
do 
Never. 
do 
3 
Insane or Idiots. 
Lucretia Thayer, 
23 
Fem. 
White. 
do 
1 
From birth. 
1 year and 3 months. 
do 
do 
do 
1 
do 
Gideon Tirrill, 
25 
Male. 
• 
White. 
Cambridge. 
1 
Unknown. 
1 year and 2 months. 
do 
do 
do 
•- 
3 
do 
John McGill, .... 
17 
Male. 
• 
White. 
Ireland. 
• 
do 
9 months. 
do 
do 
do 
3 
In all cases. Confined in the Jails and Houses of Correction in the Commonwealth, for the year ending January 1, 1843 
5 
What Hospital has the person been 
in, and how long? 
By what town is the 
person supported,-1 
or by the State, or 
friends ? 
Cost of sup- 
port of each 
person per 
week. 
REMARKS. 
Materials of walls and 
floors. 
Means of Ventilation. 
How warmed. 
How often Cleaned. 
How often exercised in open 
air. 
Size of Courts in which 
they exercise. 
Size of Halls, 
&c. to which 
they have ac- 
cess. 
Do they come in con- 
tact with Criminals ? 
Medical Attendance. 
State, 13£ months. 
Millbury. 
$1 40 
Wood. 
With 24 lights, win- 
Coal-Stove. 
Daily. 
In warm weather in the 
100 feet by GO feet. 
One is 8 by 
No. 
For bodily only. 
• 
dows 7 by 9 glass, 
and grated doors. 
yard all day-in winter 
two hours a day. 
22 feet, and 
one G by 44 
State, 25£ months. 
State. 
1 54 
feet. 
State, 6 years, 3 months. 
do 
1 40 
State, 14£ months. 
do 
2 03 
None. 
do • 
1 54 
7 
do 
do 
1 40 
4 State. 
1 Town. 
av. 1 55 
2 None. 
5 State. 
State Lunatic. 
State. 
2 50 
Remains Confined. 
Stone, in which the 
Flues in every room, 
Those in 
Daily. 
At all times when wea- 
43 feet by 21 feet. 
For the 
No. 
The Physician visits all 
males are confined; 
and 2 windows with 
which the 
ther will permit, they 
males 7 by 
the inmates daily. 
Unknown. 
do 
2 50 
do 
wood in which the 6 lights of 13 by 9 
males are con- 
are allowed to remain 
16, for fe- 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
females. 
glass. 
fined, by a fur- 
nace,-the 
others by 
two or three hours in 
the yard. 
males 9 by 
14. 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
stove. 
do 
2 50 
Sent to Worcester, 
July, 1842. 
State Lunatic Hospital. 
do 
2 50 
Remains Confined. 
Unknown. 
do 
2 50 
do 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
• 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
• 
State Lunatic Hospital. 
His Father. 
2 50 
do 
do 
Charlestown. 
2 50 
Discharged Dec. '42. 
do 
do 
2 50 
Remains Confined. 
Unknown. 
do 
2 50 
do 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
J 
Unknown. 
Cambridge. 
2 50 
do 
do 
State. 
2 50 
Escaped Sept. 1842. 6 
x 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Lunatics and Idiots, 
NAMES. 
Age. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Colored. 
Place of Birth. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Duration of Dis- 
ease. 
Duration of Confinement. 
By what authority confined. 
Is the person furi- 
ously mad, or onl} 
occasionally so? 
Are chains, straps, or 
any other bodily re- 
straints ever used ? 
Length and 
breadth of room 
of confinement. 
How many 
others in 
the same 
room ? 
Are the others, (in the 
same room,) Insane, Idiots 
or Criminals ? 
CAMBRIDGE H. OF CORREC. 
CONTINUED. 
Jas. Hill, .... 
22 
Male. 
• 
White. 
Charlestown. 
• 
1 
Unknown. 
10 months. 
Two Justices. 
Furiously. 
Straps occasion'ly. 
3 
Jno. Akerman, .... 
40 
Male. 
• 
White. 
Unknown. 
1 
do 
10 " 
do 
Never. 
Never. 
1 
• 
Mary, a lunatic, 
65 
• 
Fem. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
6 " 
do 
do 
do 
1 
Esther Thomas, 
70 
Fem. 
White. 
do 
1 
• 
do 
6 " 
do 
do 
do 
• 
Jno. Richmond, 
50 
Male. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
6 
do 
do 
* do 
3 
Francis Hemmenway, 
Francis Hughes, 
30 
20 
Male. 
Male. 
White. 
White. 
New Hampshire. 
Unknown. 
1 
1 
do 
do 
1 month and 20 days. 
4 months. 
Police Court. 
Two Justices. 
Came furious- 
discharged well. 
Never. 
do 
do 
3 
3 
Geo. Brown, .... 
50 
Male. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
4 " 
do 
Occasionally. 
do 
3 
Benjamin Page, 
55 
Male. 
• 
White. 
New Hampshire. 
• 
1 
do 
2 " 
Police Court. 
Never. 
do 
3 
• 
Mrs. Stevens, .... 
50 
• 
Fem. 
• 
White. 
V ermont. 
1 
do 
10 days. 
Trustees State Lunatic Hos. 
Furiously. 
do 
■ 
• 
Agnes Fletcher, 
24 
Fem. 
White. 
Boston. 
• 
1 
144 mos. 
8 " 
Two Justices. 
do 
. 
1 
[Insane. 
With other Idiots and 
None. 
Not answered. 
Total, 27 
DEDHAM HOUSE OF COR. 
17 
10 
27 
\ 
1 England. 
6 Ireland. 
1 Maine. 
1 Wayland. 
4 Charlestown. 
1 Malden. 
1 Cambridge. 
2 New Hampshire. 
1 Vermont. 
1 Boston. 
8 Unknown. 
8 
16 
3 No 
answer 
23 Unknown. 
4 Occasionally. 
4 Furiously. 
18 Never. 
1 Notanswer'd. 
3 Occasionally. 
23 Never. 
1 Not answered. 
23 
2 
2 
Lucy Bush, .... 
25 
• 
Fem. 
Color'd 
Dorchester. 
1 
2 or 3 years. 
10 years. 
Court of Common Pleas. 
Occasionally. 
Never. 
14 ft. by 4 ft. 
• 
None. 
Betsey Loomis, 
65 
Fem. 
White. 
Unknown. 
1 
Unknown. 
14 months. 
Magistrate. 
do 
do 
16 ft. by 14 ft. 
• 
Criminals occasion'y. 
.John Asher, .... 
30 
Male. 
• 
White. 
Ireland. 
1 
do 
do 
Furiously. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Total, 3 
1 
2 
2 
1 
1 Dorchester. 
1 Unknown. 
1 Ireland. 
3 
2 Unknown. 
2 Occasionally. 
1 Furiously. 
2 Never. 
1 None. 
1 With Criminals oc- 
casionally. 
1 Not answered. 
NEW BEDFORD HOUSE OF 
CORRECTION. 
' - 
One person, name unknown, 
• 
• 
Fem. 
• 
• 
■ 
Since 1841, Nov. 17. 
Two Justices. 
Inoffensive. 
/ Confined in the Jails and Houses of Correction in the Commonwealth, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
7 
What Hospital has the person been 
in, and how long ? 
By what town is the 
person supported,- 
or by the State, or 
friends ? 
Cost of sup 
port of each 
person per 
week. 
REMARKS. 
Materials of walls and 
floors. 
Means of Ventilation. 
How Warmed. 
How often Cleaned. 
How often exercised in open 
air. 
Size of Courts in which 
they exercise. 
Size of Halls, 
&c. to which 
they have ac- 
cess. 
Do they come in con- 
tact with Criminals ? 
Medical Attendance. 
State Lunatic Hospital. 
Charlestown. 
$2 50 
Escaped, Sept. 1842. 
♦ 
Unknown. 
State. 
2 50 
Remains. 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
do 
do 
2 50 
Disch'd well, Oct. '42. 
do 
do 
2 50 
Remains. 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
State Lunatic Hospital. 
do 
2 50 
do 
Unknown. 
Uncertain. 
2 50 
do 
7 State. 
6 Towns. 
2 50 
20 Unknown. 
19 State. 
average. 
1 Friends. 
- 
1 Uncertain. 
None. 
County. 
1 50 
Brick walls, stone 
Windows and floors 
Coal Stoves. 
Monthly. 
Lucy, weekly. 
One quarter of an 
None. 
With female con- 
For bodily disease only. 
floors. 
like the new prison 
acre. 
victs only. 
Unknown. 
do 
2 50 
at Charlestown. 
Betsey, twice a day. 
At Pepperell, at this time. 
do 
4 50 
• 
• 
1 None. 
3 County. 
2 83 
1 Unknown. 
average. 
1 Pepperell. 8 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Lunatics and Idiots, 
NAMES. 
Age. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Colored. 
Place of Birth. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Duration of Dis- 
ease. 
Duration of Confinement. 
By what authority confined. 
Is the person furi- 
ously mad, or only 
occasionally so ? 
Are chains, straps, or 
any other bodily re- 
straints ever used? 
Length and 
breadth of room 
of confinement. 
How many 
others in 
the same 
room ? 
Are the others, (in the 
same room,) Insane, Idiots 
or Criminals I 
IPSWICH H. OF CORREC'N. 
James Roberson, 
62 
Male. 
White. 
Unknown. 
1 
Unknown. 
8 years or more. 
2 Justices. 
Not. 
Tn no case. 
7 ft. 9 in. sqr. 
None. 
Thomas Duke, . 
38 
Male. 
• 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
do 
State Trustees. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Adolphus L. Lent, 
42 
Male. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
10 years. 
2 Justices. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Timothy Murphy, 
39 
Male.. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
10 years. 
do 
Furious. 
do 
do 
do 
Josiah Bennington, 
68 
Male. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
20 years " about." 
do 
Not. 
do 
do 
do 
Moses Calef, 
60 
Male. 
White. 
do 
1 
About 20 yrs. 
7 years. 
do 
Occasionally. 
do 
do 
do 
Abraham Shepard, 
43 
Male. 
• 
White. 
do 
1 
Unknown. 
2 years. 
do 
Not. 
do 
do 
do 
"Nothing Particular," 
33 
Male. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
2 years. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Joseph Newspeagle, 
* 
45 
Male. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
2 years. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
William Pillsbury, 
26 
Male. 
White. 
W. Newbury. 
1 
7 years. 
1£ year. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Rachel Adams, . 
65 
Fem. 
White. 
Newbury. 
1 
17 years. 
1 year. 
do 
do 
do 
12 feet sqr. 
2 
Criminals and Insane. 
John C. Kimball, 
41 
Male. 
White. 
Ipswich. 
1 
3 years. 
3 months. 
County Commissioners. 
do 
do 
7 ft. 9 in. sqr. 
None. 
• 
John Colman, 
58 
Male. 
• 
White. 
Unknown. 
1 
U nknown. 
1 year. 
Police Court. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
• 
Betsey, a stranger, 
45 
• 
Fem. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
do 
2 Justices. 
do 
do 
12 feet sqr. 
2 
Criminals and Insane. 
Sukey Hornsby, 
60 
Fem. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
8 months. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
2 
do 
Margaret Lee, . 
40 
• 
Fem. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
7 months. 
Police Court. 
do 
do 
do 
2 
do 
ElijaKHeath, 
29 
Male. 
White. 
Danvers. 
1 
10 years. 
5 days. 
2 Justices. 
do 
do 
do 
2 
do 
Kendal] Dodge, . 
23 
Male. 
White. 
Hamilton. 
1 
Unknown. 
18 days. 
do 
do 
do 
7 ft. 9 in. 
None. 
William Rand, . 
34 
Male. 
White. 
Amesbury. 
1 
do 
10 months. 
State Trustees. 
Furiously. 
do 
do 
do 
George Moore, . 
28 
Male. 
White. 
Cohasset. 
1 
do 
3 months. 
2 Justices. 
Not. 
do 
do 
do 
Enoch C. Tappan, 
48 
Male. 
White. 
Newburyport. 
1 
do 
8 months. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
John Runnell, . 
25 
Male. 
White. 
Unknown. 
1 
do 
7 months. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Daniel Pickering, 
30 
Male. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
5 months. 
Police Court. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Charles Whitman, 
17 
Male. 
White. 
do 
1 
do 
4 months. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Jacob Leatherland, 
43 
Male. 
White. 
Ipswich. 
1 
do 
2 months. 
2 Justices. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
John G. Sawyer, 
40 
Male. 
White. 
Unknown. 
1 
2 months. 
2 months. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Thomas McDonald, 
49 
Male. 
White. 
do 
1 
1 month. 
1 month. 
County Commissioners. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Antonio Knight,* 
48 
Male. 
White. 
Ipswich. 
1 
1 year. 
1 year. 
do 
Furious. 
do 
12 feet sqr. 
do 
Total, 28 
24 
4 
28 
10 from Massachusetts. 
18 Unknown. 
28 
20 Unknown. 
3 Furious. 
1 Occasionally. 
24 Never. 
28 Never. 
23 alone. 
5 with 
Criminals and Insane. 
Total, 
76 
• 
56 
20 
73 
2 
21 from Massachusetts. 
5 from other States. 
10 
62 
56 Unknown. 
9 Furious. 
19 Occasionally. 
4 straps occa'ly. 
69 Never. 
48 alone. 
30 with 
Crim'ls, Idiots or Ins. 
* 
1 not answ'd. 
11 Foreigners. 
39 Unknown. 
4 not answ'd. 
• 
44 Never. 
* Antonio Knight is in one 
of the rooms of the Jail 
which by law makes a part 
of the House of Correc'n. Confined in the Jails and Houses of Correction in the Commonwealth, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
✓ 
9 
What Hospital has the person been 
in, and how long ? 
By what town is the 
person supported,- 
or by the State, or 
friends ? 
Cost of sup- 
port of each 
person per 
week. 
REMARKS. 
Materials of walls and 
floors. 
Means of Ventilation. 
How Warmed. 
How often Cleaned. 
How often exercised in open 
air. 
Size of Courts in which 
they exercise. 
Size of Halls, 
&c. to which 
they have ac- 
cess. 
Do they come in con- 
tact with Criminals ? 
Medical Attendance. 
Worcester-time unknown, 
do 5 months. 
do time unknown, 
do do 
Worcester. 
Worcester. 
Supposed to have been at 
Charlestown. 
Charlestown and Worcester. 
Charlestown. 
Worcester. 
Worcester. 
Worcester-8 months, 
do several years. 
State, 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
West Newbury. 
By her husband. 
Ipswich. 
State. 
do 
do 
do 
Danvers. 
By his father. 
Amesbury. 
By friends. 
Newburyport. 
State. 
do 
do 
Ipswich. 
State. 
do 
Newburyport. 
$2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
Remov. to Newbury, 
do Ipswich. 
Removed to Hospital. 
Disch'd June, 1842. 
Brick walls-wood 
floors. 
■ 1 
One window in each 
room. The size of 
the lower windows 
is 2 feet by 3 feet. 
Windows of 2d sto- 
ry, 15 squares, 7 by 
1 
* 
By stove in the 
hall. 
Washed twice a week. 
White-washed once a 
week. 
\ 
Thirteen of the number 
are seldom allowed to 
leave their rooms. 
The others are out in 
open air almost daily 
in fair weather. 
The yard contains 
about an acre of 
ground. 
50 ft. by 13 
feet. 
The doors 
of the rooms 
open into 
this hall. 
Criminals are in 
the same hall, and 
occupy rooms in 
the same building. 
Arrangements have 
been made to keep 
them in separate 
buildings, wholly 
apart. 
For bodily disease 
alone. 
11 State. 
2 Charlestown. 
15 Unknown. 
7 Towns. 
18 State. 
3 Friends. 
2 00 
average. ABSTRACT OF THE RETURNS 
CONCERNING 
PAUPER LUNATICS AND IDIOTS, IN ALMS-HOUSES AND PRIVATE FAMILIES, 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 1, 1843. 12 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
SUFFOLK. 
- 
Chelsea, 
Ruth Brintnal, 
60 
1 
" 1 
Lynn. 
• 
1 
216 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
ESSEX. 
Andover, 
Jerry Long, - 
47 
1 
1 
Andover. 
1 
• 
564 
Not confined. 
1 
• 
- 
By air-tight and 
Franklin stoves. 
Elizabeth Knight, - 
22 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
75 
48 
1 
do 
Mary Foster, 
87 
1 
1 
Reading. 
• 
1 
24 
Not confined. 
< 
1 
do 
Ci 
Deborah Abbott, - 
57 
1 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
1 
• 
do 
" - 
Lydia Gray, - 
42 
1 
1 
Andover. 
• 
1 
144 
1 
• 
2 
do 
u 
Ruth Jones, - 
40 
1 
1 
do 
1 
168 
1 
do 
« _ _ 
Miss Poor, 
22 
1 
1 
do 
1 
264 
1 
do 
" - - 
Kimball, 
4 
1 
do 
1 
48 
1 
• 
do 
u - - 
Henry M. Hovey, - 
19 
1 
1 
do 
1 
228 
1 
• 
do 
a _ _ 
Hannah Barnard, - 
46 
1 
1 
do 
1 
12 
do 
" . . 
Eliza Marshall, 
30 
1 
1 
do 
1 
6 
do 
« _ _ 
William Wetherell, 
30 
1 
1 
Norton. 
1 
u 
u 
• 
do 
a _ 
Timothy Johnson, - 
48 
1 
1 
Andover. 
1 
300 
240 
do 
" - - 
Elsey Dole, - 
75 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
1 
• 
do 
Beverly, 
Israel Morgan, 
67 
1 
1 
Beverly. 
1 
324 
Par- 
Windows. 
do 
8i by 5J 
tially. 
u . 
Jonathan Clark, 
73 
1 
1 
do 
1 
84 
1 
• 
do 
Kitchen fire. 
9 by 9 
« - _ 
Jane Kelly, - 
34 
1 
1 
do 
1 
168 
1 
do 
do 
William Herrick, - 
64 
1 
1 
do 
1 
264 
1 
- 
do 
do 
• 
a 
Anna Cook, - 
68 
1 
1 
do 
1 
168 
1 
do 
do 
• 
« - . 
Elisha Burke, 
26 
1 
1 
do 
1 
- 
276 
1 
Par- 
do 
do 
8i by 5i 
tially. 
* 
a 
Joanna Stickney, - 
33 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
36 
y. 
• 
do 
do 
Nathaniel Creery, - 
50 
1 
1 
do 
1 
600 
1 
• 
do 
do 
• 
a 
Henry Fielder, 
50 
1 
1 
do 
1 
600 
1 
do 
do 
• 
Sally Conant, 
75 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
do 
do 
• in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
13 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mud. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- i 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy , 
in Alms-Houses. ; 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
1 
$1 42 
Bodily disease 
She was formerly confined, but the family 
- 
where she has lived for the last five years 
have peifect control over her, and she has 
liberty to go and come as she pleases. 
Daily. 
Large yard. 
1 
1 10 
Bodily disease 
• 
She is not furiously mad, but never sane, 
do 
1 
- 
do 
Charlestown & Wor- 
1 
1 10 
do 
Discharged from Hospital at Worcester, 
cester, 4 years, 
April 27, 1841. as incurable. 
do 
do 
1 
1 10 
do 
• 
- 
Insanity arising from old age. 
do 
1 
do 
• 
1 
1 10 
do 
• 
• 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 10 
do 
• 
• 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 10 
do 
• 
• 
do 
do 
1 
50 
do 
Unable to walk from her birth. Lives with 
father. 
do 
do 
1 
50 
do 
• 
do 
1 
do 
1 
50 
do 
• 
do 
1 
State Lunatic Hosp. 
1 
2 50 
do 
- 
do 
1 
do 
1 
2 50 
do 
• 
Discharged cured. 
do 
1 
do 
1 
2 50 
do 
do 
1 
do 
1 
2 50 
do 
• 
• 
do 
1 
Large yard. 
1 
1 10 
do 
• 
do 
1 
do 
State L. Hos. 5 yrs. 
1 
2 50 
do 
Israel Morgan. 
67 
Feb. 15, 1838. 
1 
Probably hereditary. 
do 
1 
do 
• 
1 
80 
do 
do do 
do 
do 
1 
80 
do 
• 
Religious excitement. 
do 
do 
• • 
1 
80 
do 
• 
Capable of labor. 
do 
do 
* 
1 
80 
do 
Inoffensive. 
do 
'Noi 
sv.' 
do 
1 
80 
do 
- 
i 
Filthy; said to have been bright, until 
about three years since. 
do 
do 
State Lunatic Hosp. 
1 
2 50 
do 
Joanna Stickney. 
33 
1840. 
1 
do 
do 
1 
80 
do 
Born an idiot, but some indications of mind. 
do 
do 
• 
do 
. 
- 
f Supported by their friends. Expense of 
I support not known. 
do 
do 
• 
do 
• Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics andjdiots, 
14 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Ahns 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
ESSEX-Contin'd. 
Beverly, 
Mary Gallop, 
40 
1 
1 
Beverly. 
1 
480 
1 
Yes 
Windows. 
Kitchen fire. 
9 by 9 
66 
- 
- 
Morse, - 
20 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
240 
1 
do 
do 
66 
- 
- 
Hitty Preston, 
40 
1 
1 
do 
1 
480 
• 
1 
• S 
• 
do 
do 
66 
- 
- 
Isacher Haskell, 
40 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
60 
• 
• 
• 
do " 
do 
66 
Boxford, 
- 
- 
William Dodge, 
Sarah Coburn, 
62 
86 
1 
1 
1 
1 
do 
Boxford. 
1 
1 
132 
60 
1 
1 
Par- 
tially. 
do 
do 
66 
- 
- 
Sally Runnells, 
60 
1 
1 
Methuen. 
• 
1 
156 
• 
1 
• 
66 
- 
- 
Sarah Hale, - 
44 
1 
1 
Boxford. 
1 
324 
1 
Bradford, 
- 
No Lunatics or Idiots. 
Danvers, 
66 
- 
• 
Ebenezer G. Smith, 
Hannah Putnam, - 
30 
67 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Danvers. 
do 
1 
1 
120 
240 
72 
240 
1 
1 
At 
night. 
Fire-places and 
stoves. 
do 
10 by 6 
do 
66 
66 
- 
- 
Elizabeth Heath, - 
Hannah Barrett, 
29 
50 
1 
1 
1 
1 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 
120 
120 
72 
120 
1 
1 
At 
night. 
do 
s do 
do 
Essex, 
- 
- 
Polly Burnham, 
65 
1 
1 
Essex. 
1 
240 
1 
■ 
Gloucester, 
- 
- 
Harriet Wonson, - 
40 
1 
1 
Gloucester. 
• 
1 
144 
1 
Stoves. 
66 
- 
- 
Eliza Haskell, 
37 
1 
do 
• 
1 
48 
♦ 
1 
• 
do 
66 
- 
- 
Sally Bray, - 
68 
1 
do 
• 
1 
60 
1 
do 
Hamilton, 
- 
- 
No Lunatics or Idiots. 
Haverhill, 
66 
- 
- 
Hannah Mansize, - 
Fidelia Appleton, - 
72 
41 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Haverhill. 
Andover. 
• 
1 
1 
360 
72 
1 
1 
• * 
Stoves and fun- 
nel, 
do 
66 
- 
- 
Ann Case, 
30 
1 
1 
Haverhill. 
1 
156 
1 
• 
do 
. - 
66 
- 
- 
Betsy Emerson, 
80 
1 
1 
do 
1 
960 
- 
1 
• 
do 
c: 
- 
- 
Polly Eaton, - 
75 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
900 
1 
• 
- 
do 
a 
- 
- 
Isaac Gleason, 
46 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
420 
1 
• 
do 
66 
- 
- 
George Baker, 
23 
1 
1 
do 
1 
276 
1 
• 
do 
46 
- 
- 
William Greely, 
16 
1 
1 
do 
1 
192 
1 
• 
do 15 
in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined fur 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Daily. 
Large yard. 
- 
Bodily disease 
* 
do 
do 
• 
• 
do 
. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do v 
State Lun. H. 1 year. 
• 
do 
Isachar Haskell. 
40 
1 
do 
do 
do 
• 
1 
S3 00 
do 
Idiocy caused by palsy. 
1 
1 
1 33 
do 
* 
1 
1 
1 88 
1 
Daily. 
1 
Daily. 
State Lun. Hospital 
1 
1 00 
do 
about 5 years. 
do 
1 
do 
1 
1 00 
do 
• 
Cause of disease not known. 
do 
1 
do 
• 
1 
2 50 
do 
Irritable and passionate temperament. 
do 
1 
• 
1 
67 
do 
Religious enthusiasm. 
• 
1 
1 
1 00 
• 
Semi-weekly. 
1 
do 
State Lun- Hospital 
1 
75 
do 
Emily Davis. 
30 
June 1,1842. 
about 2 years. 
- - 
do 
1 
do 
1 
75 
do 
• 
do 
1 
do 
1 
75 
do 
Daily. 
do 
1 
75 
do 
do 
do 
State Lun. H. 4 years. 
1 
75 
do 
• 
do 
1 
do 
1 
75 
do 
• 
do 
do 
1 
2 00 
do 
• 
• 
do 
• 
do 
1 
2 00 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
do 
1 
50 
do 
• 
do 
do 
1 
1 25 
do 16 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
s 
3X. 
Color. 
Confinec 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others ii 
same 
room. 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
ESSEX-Contin'd. 
- 
Ipswich, 
- 
John Smith, - 
59 
1 
1 
Ipswich, 
- 
• 
1 
192 
* 
1 
Window and scuttle in 
Stove. 
- 
John C. Kimball, - 
40 
1 
1 
do 
- 
1 
36 
30 
I 
ceiling. 
do 
a 
- 
Jacob Leatherland, 
37 
1 
1 
do 
- 
• 
1 
108 
96 
1 
do 
do 
It 
- 
John Willett, 
27 
1 
1 
do 
- 
• 
1 
84 
60 
1 
• 
do 
do 
8 by 12 
- 
Jedediah Jewett, - 
60 
1 
1 
do 
- 
1 
• 
720 
1 
do 
do 
a 
- 
Emmeline Perkins, 
17 
1 
1 
Wenham, - 
- 
1 
• 
204 
36 
1 
• 
do 
do 
10 by 10 
u 
- 
Anstis Hobson, 
38 
1 
1 
Ipswich, 
- 
1 
120 
1 
do 
do 
Lynnfield, 
- 
Aaron Nourse, 
55 
1 
1 
Lynnfield, - 
- 
1 
660 
- 
1 
Manchester, - 
- 
David Morse, Jr. - 
45 
1 
1 
Manchester, 
- 
1 
540 
480 
1 
• 
10 by 10 
u 
- 
Ne'h Goldsmith, Jr. 
35 
1 
1 
do 
- 
1 
120 
60 
1 
• 
• 
10 by 10 
a 
- 
Aurelia Hassam, - 
36 
1 
1 
do 
- 
• 
1 
300 
300 
1 
• 
10 by 10 
Marblehead, - 
- 
Lydia Skinner, 
42 
1 
1 
Beverly, 
- 
1 
• 
96 
1 
1 
1 
Overhead. 
Coal stove. 
7 by 6 
u 
- 
Elizabeth Jackson, - 
78 
1 
1 
Marblehead, 
- 
1 
600 
1 
1 
• 
do 
do 
7 by 4 
it 
- 
Sally Bettis, - 
53 
1 
1 
do 
- 
• 
1 
132 
1 
• 
• 
do 
do 
7 by 4 
« 
- 
Eliza High, - 
50 
1 
1 
do 
- 
1 
600 
1 
1 
1 
do 
do 
7 by 6 
a 
- 
Ann Besom, - 
27 
1 
1 
do 
- 
• 
1 
36 
1 
1 
• 
do 
do 
7 by 4 
Methuen, 
- 
Charlotte Hands, - 
52 
1 
1 
Methuen, - 
- 
1 
• 
• 
1 
u 
- 
Joseph Bross, 
11 
1 
1 
Canada, -' 
- 
1 
• 
1 
Newbury, 
- 
Oliver Dummer, 
64 
1 
1 
Newbury, - 
- 
• 
1 
480 
1 
G 
- 
Solon Smith, - 
29 
1 
1 
do 
- 
• 
1 
120 
1 
G 
- 
Frederick Smith, - 
31 
1 
1 
do 
- 
1 
72 
- 
1 
- 
Adin Boynton, 
36 
1 
1 
do 
- 
• 
1 
72 
1 
G 
- 
William Ramsdale, 
27 
1 
1 
do 
- 
1 
• 
1 
(( 
- 
Rachel Adams, 
65 
1 
1 
do 
- 
• 
1 
360 
1 
- 
Mary Coffin, - 
12 
1 
1 
do 
- 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
17 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
1 
Town 
Pau- 
per, 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
- 
Idiotic. 
Daily. 
• 
Common. 
• * 
1 
Earns it. 
Bodily disease 
• • 
Peaceful, faithful and industrious. 
do 
1 
• 
do 
State L. Hos. 1A yr. 
1 
• 
do 
Troublesome, filthy, reason most gone- 
do 
1. 
Sometimes. 
do 
• 
1 
$2 00 
do 
Surly and ungovernable, not dangerous. 
do 
- 
do 
State Lunatic Hos. & 
McLean 2 years. 
1 
do 
B- 
Quiet, and needs attention like a baby. 
do 
• 
do 
1 
Earns it. 
do 
A simpleton, works, goes to meeting, &c. 
do 
♦ 
do 
• 
1 
do 
Dumb, and inconceivably mischievous. 
do 
• 
do 
• 
1 
• 
do 
' 1 * 
Inoffensive, knits, and knows but little. 
• 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
Daily. 
do 
1 
1 50 
do 
<• 
do 
do 
State L. Hos. about 
1 
1 00 
do 
r 
6 months. 
do 
1 
• 
do 
• 
1 
1 25 
do 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
By night shut up in a cage. 
do 
1 
• 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
1 
do 
- 
1 
1 00 
do 
Confined by night generally, by day if ne- 
cessary. 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
1 
do 
State L. Hos. 1^ yr. 
1 
1 00 
do 
Appears to be idiotic and lunatic by turns; 
• 
♦ 
1 
43 
do 
shut up only at night when furious. 
• 
1 
43 
do 
Daily. 
Occasionally. 
Common. 
• 
1 
67 
I 
do 
• 
do 
State L. Hos. 1 year. 
1 
67 
• 
J 
do 
do 
1 
67 
• 
do 
do 
State L. Hos. 8 mos. 
1 
67 
do 
do 
• 
1 
67 
* 
do 
• 
do 
1 
67 
do 
- 
do 
• - 
1 
67 
-- , 
\ • 18 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Wanning. 
Size ofroom 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
ESSEX-Contin'd. 
Newburyport, 
Charles Appleton, - 
35 
1 
1 
Newburyport. 
1 
168 
168 
1 
1 
Doors and windows 
Stoves. 
7 by 10 
open daily. 
Cl _ 
Elizabeth Betton, - 
51 
1 
1 
do 
1 
48 
1 
1 
do 
do 
do 
" - - 
Mary Bartlett, 
50 
1 
1 
West Newbury. 
1 
264 
264 
1 
At 
Keeper 
do 
do 
do 
night. 
Lavinia Howe, 
26 
1 
1 
Newburyport. 
1 
48 
48 
1 
• 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
CC 
Moses Plummer, - 
46 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
84 
84 
• 
1 
• 
cc 
John Currier, 
46 
1 
1 
do 
1 
84 
84 
1 
• 
do 
do 
cc 
Enoch C. Toppan, - 
38 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
Rockport, 
Luther H. Kidder, - 
49 
1 
1 
Vermont. 
1 
2 
1 
• 
CC 
John Rowe, - 
45 
1 
1 
Gloucester. 
1 
144 
24 
1 
cc _ 
John Fan-, 
44 
1 
1 
do 
1 
528 
1 
cc 
Emmeline Marshall, 
31 
1 
1 
do 
1 
84 
1 
cc 
Gorham Pool, 
40 
1 
1 
do 
1 
96 
1 
Rowley, 
Enos Bishop, 
55 
1 
1 
Rowley. 
1 
660 
• 
1 
• 
CC _ 
Mary Ellsworth, 
30 
1 
1 
do 
1 
360 
1 
Salem, 
Aaron , 
81 
1 
1 
Asia. 
1 
1 
Doors and windows. 
Coal stoves. 
6 by 10 
U 
Lynch Bott, - 
66 
1 
1 
Salem. 
1 
120 
1 
do 
do 
« 
Joseph Fairfield, - 
55 
1 
1 
do 
1 
660 
1 
do 
do 
(6 
John Dowst, - 
55 
1 
1 
do 
1 
240 
1 
do 
do 
U 
William Hook, 
42 
1 
1 
do 
1 
216 
1 
do 
do 
K 
John Harrow, 
38 
1 
1 
do 
1 
426 
1 
do 
- do 
Ebenezer Learock, 
44 
1 
1 
do 
1 
528 
1 
do 
do 
George Morgan, 
29 
1 
1 
do 
1 
348 
1 
do 
do 
• 
Gustavus Newhall, 
26 
1 
1 
do 
1 
120 
1 
do 
do 
« - - 
Thomas Paul, 
59 
1 
V 
1 
Virginia. 
1 
1 
At 
times. 
do 
do 
u 
John Skerry, - 
10 
1 
1 
Manchester. 
1 
120 
1 
do 
do 
«... 
Robert Wallace, - 
52 
1 
1 
Salem. 
1 
360 
I 
1 
do 
do in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843 
19 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
✓ 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
• 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
aeneral observations in the language of the Returns. 
/ 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
- 
Idiotic. 
Daily. 
1 
Common. 
State Lun. H. 1 year. 
1 
$1 25 
Bodily disease 
John S. Titcomb. 
1 
The sleeping rooms are about 6 by 10 feet, 
1 25 
opening into the large rooms. The cells 
do 
1 
Straight jacket. 
do 9 mos. 
1 
do 
are about the same size, furnished with 
beds, &c. 
do 
1 
do 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
1 
do 
do 9 mos. 
1 
1 00 
do 
• 
1 
do 6 mos. 
1 
1 25 
do 
do 
1 
1 
1 00 
do 
• 
1 
2 00 
do 
Insane Hospital, Ipswich. 
1 
do 2 mos. 
1 
2 50 
do 
V. 
1 
1 00 
do 
1 
1 25 
do 
1 
1 00 
do 
\ 
I 
1 
1 00 
do 
/ 
1 
1 00 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
Daily. 
Common ex. 
1 
1 00 
do 
when wanted. 
do 
do 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 00 
do 
- 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
do 
State Lun. H. 1 year. 
1 
1 00 
do 
do 
1 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
- 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
• 
• 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
. Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
20 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Ahns- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
• 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
ESSEX-Contin'd. 
Salem, 
William Pennell, - 
34 
1 
1 
Salem. 
1 
408 
1 
Windows and doors. 
Coal stoves. 
« - - 
Hannah Grover, 
67 
1 
1 
do 
1 
120 
Occasional. 
1 
do 
do 
Lucy Martin, 
31 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
60 
1 
do 
do 
« 
Hannah Marston, - 
27 
1 
1 
Lynn. 
1 
324 
• 
1 
do 
do 
- 
Sally Pierce, 
63 
1 
1 
Salem. 
1 
240 
1 
• 
/ 
do 
do 
• 
Thankful Smith, 
62 
1 
1 
do 
1 
300 
Occasional. 
1 
At 
times. 
do 
do 
• 
Betsy Vincent, 
66 
I 
1 
Newburyport. 
1 
120 
do 
1 
do 
do 
• 
Salisbury, 
George Webster, - 
37 
1 
1 
Salisbury. 
1 
228 
180 
1 
1 
Door. 
No fire. 
10 by 10 
•I - 
Dorcas Bagley, 
70 
1 
1 
do 
1 
300 
1 
James Brown, 
31 
1 
1 
do 
1 
108 
1 
• 
Saugus, 
Grace Kitchings, - 
60 
1 
1 
Lynn. 
1 
240 
240 
1 
1 
Window and door. 
Stove. 
12 by 6 
« - 
Elias Sweetser, 
62 
1 
1 
do 
1 
480 
• 
1 
do 
do 
4C - - 
David P. Bates, 
23 
1 
1 
Saugus. 
1 
72 
72 
do 
do 
• 
Topsfield, 
Mehitable Dodge, - 
56 
1 
1 
Topsfield. 
1 
480 
504 
1 
do 
do 
14 by 14 
cc 
William Morris, 
76 
1 
1 
do 
1 
96 
684 
1 
do 
do 
do 
Wenham, 
No cases in this town 
that 
will 
requ 
ire a 
nswe 
rs to the questions. 
• 
• 
West Newbury, 
William Pillsbury, - 
27 
1 
1 
Salem. 
• 
1 
36 
36 
H. Cor. 
Sally Chase, - 
61 
1 
1 
Newbury. 
1 
1 
25 Towns which have 
116 
60 
55 
112 
2 
Ill of Massachu. 
42 
74 
105 av. 
27 av. 
80 
25 
11 
3 
made Returns. 
2 of oth. States. 
2 Foreign Coun- 
244 
157 
tries. 
1 Unknown. 
1 
Note.- 
n the 
addi 
tion 
)f tot 
ms ii 
Essex, Amesbury 
was on 
fitted- 
having returne 
d only a blank 
form- 
mt is ii 
icluded 
in the 
reneral aggregate. in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
21 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Daily. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Weekly. 
do 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
1 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &.c. 
Straight jacket. 
Chain or straps. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
Common. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Common. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
Charlestown 10 or 11 
mos. Pepper'l 10 wks. 
Charlestown 3£ yrs. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
$1 00 
75 
75 
75 
75 
75 
75 
1 00 
86 
84 
1 00 
1 00 
1 00 
3 00 
3 00 
2 00 
50 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Bodily disease 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
George Webster and James Brown have 
had much medical attention, but are 
deemed incurable. 
NAMES. 
/ 
. • > 
s 
Sally Wadleigh. 
David P. Bates. 
Age. 
37 
23 
When sent. 
March 1, '39. 
July, 1842. 
Lunatic. 
1 
1 
Idiotic. 
38 
5 
22 State. 
1 Worcester and 
Charlestown. 
1 Charlestown and 
Pepperell. 
1 Charlestown. 
13 
96 
av. 1 16 
104 Bodily 
.1 
r 
i 
3 Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
22 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
in Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
MIDDLESEX. 
Acton, - - - 
John T. Hunt, 
30 
1 
1 
Acton. 
1 
96 
• 
1 
Ashby, - - - 
John Bennett, 
23 
1 
1 
Ashburnham. 
1 
240 
• 
1 
• 
Hannah Hodgman, 
31 
1 
1 
Mason, N. H. 
1 
180 
60 
1 
• 
Bedford, 
No Idiots or Lunatics. 
. , 1 X 
Billerica, 
u - - 
Rebecca Balchetter, 
Abigail Tarbell, - 
67 
60 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Billerica. 
do 
1 
1 
480 
480 
1 
1 
Occasion- 
ally for a 
day. 
By a window, 
do 
Stove in the cel- 
lar, 
do 
a - - 
James Brown, 
50 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
600 
• 
1 
• 
do 
do 
" - - 
Rachel Shed, 
70 
1 
1 
do 
1 
96 
• 
1 
• 
• 
do 
do 
Boxborough, - 
Hiram Davis, 
33 
1 
1 
Boxborough. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
Brighton, 
Harriet G. Shead, - 
25 
1 
1 
1 
108 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
Burlington, - 
Mary Simonds, 
64 
1 
1 
Bedford. 
1 
66 
30 
1 
• 
a - 
Joseph Blanchard, - 
47 
1 
1 
1 
Burlington. 
1 
300 
• 
• 
1 
• 
Cambridge, - 
Patrick Nolan, 
46 
1 
1 
Ireland. 
1 
168 
144 
1 
• 
Flues in chimney and 
walls, 
do 
Stoves. 
Ct . 
Levi Bridge, - 
55 
1 
1 
Winchendon. 
1 
240 
240 
1 
• 
do 
Ct - - 
Bridgett Derby, 
32 
1 
1 
England. 
1 
1 
do 
do 
tt _ 
Maria Lynch, 
36 
1 
1 
Ireland. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
do 
do 
a - 
Alvan Harris, 
31 
1 
1 
Watertown. 
1 
120 
96 
1 
do 
do 
tt - - 
Joseph Cox, - 
22 
1 
1 
Cambridge. 
1 
264 
144 
1 
• 
do 
do 
a - - 
George Cox, - 
19 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
208 
144 
1 
do 
do 
William Cox, 
16 
1 
1 
do 
1 
192 
144 
1 
do 
do 
Carlisle, 
Betsy Green, 
70 
1 
1 
Carlisle. 
1 
• 
1 
• 
• 
Chelmsford, - 
None returned to an 
swer 
the 
que 
ries. 
Concord, 
William Brown, 
74 
1 
1 
Concord. 
• 
624 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
a . 
Nancy Barron, 
45 
1 
1 
Boston. 
1 
240 
1 
Cage. 
• 
Stoves. 
10 by 8 
tt 
Hannah Cheney, - 
75 
1 
1 
Hopkinton. 
• 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
do 
• 
Dracut, - - - 
None returned to an 
swer 
the 
que 
ries. in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
23 
Jow often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi 
ously 
mad. 
Occa 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
tn Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Daily, 
do 
1 
1 
1 
Yes. 
Common daily 
do 
Worcester, 18 mos. 
Pepperell, 3 mos. 
• . 
Charlestown, 1 year. 
1 
1 
1 
$1 00 
77 
57 
Bodily disease 
do 
do 
Labors on town farm. 
do 
1 
Yard. 
1 
do 
do 
• 
do 
1 
do 
do 
• 
do 
• 
1 
do 
do 
do 
• 
1 
do 
• 
1 
. 
1 
2 00 
do 
Disease arising from fits. 
Charlestown & Woe. 
1 
1 70 
do 
about two years. 
1 
Worcester, 2i years. 
1 
do 
1 
do 
The poor are all supported by contract 
Weekly. 
1 
Access to the 
do 
yard. 
do 
1 
do 
McLean, 6 months. 
1 
1 15 
do 
do 
1 
do 
• 
1 
1 15 
do 
do 
1 
do 
• 
1 
1 15 
do 
do 
1 
do 
• 
1 
1 15 
do 
do 
1 
do 
1 
1 15 
do 
> These three persons last mentioned in 
the table are supported in part by their 
do 
1 
do 
• 
1 
1 15 
do 
own relatives, who are respectable peo- 
/ 
pie now residing in this town. They 
do 
1 
do 
1 
1 15 
do 
are the only children of a family by 
the same mother. 
1 
1 
• 
• 
1 
1 50 
do 
Daily. 
Daily. 
State Lun. H. 1 year. 
1 
2 00 
do 
Nancy Barron is confined in a cage, with 
slats about six inches apart, in the night 
do 
do 
1 
1 50 
do 
time. In the day time she goes at large 
with the rest of the inmates. 24 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of C 
finement i 
months. 
on- 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
MIDDLESEX, 
CONTINUED. 
Dunstable, 
No Lunatics or Idiots. 
Framingham, 
Abig'l Hemmenway, 
54 
1 
1 
Framingham. 
1 
648 
1 
• 
a _ 
Fanny Pratt, - 
57 
1 
1 
do 
1 
684 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
Groton, 
James Gibson, 
32 
1 
1 
Groton. 
• 
1 
36 
36 
1 
1 
Windows. 
Furnace. 
12 by 14 
Lexington, 
No Pauper Lunatics 
or Id 
iots. 
Littleton, « 
« . _ 
Alice Haskell, 
Solo. Darracott, 
52 
36 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Harvard. 
Lancaster. 
1 
1 
432 
• 
1 
1 
Franklin or open 
stove. 
Lowell, 
Joanna Mansfield, - 
35 
1 
1 
Ireland. 
1 
48 
• 
1 
u - - 
Elizab'h Gardner, - 
33 
1 
1 
Boston. 
• 
1 
48 
• 
1 
1 « - - 
Matthew Brown, - 
13 
1 
1 
Lowell. 
1 
• 
156 
• 
1 
Franklin Caskins, - 
23 
1 
1 
Ireland. 
• 
1 
72 
• 
1 
a _ 
Rose Wilkins, 
20 
1 
1 
do 
1 
120 
96 
• 
" - - 
Electa Marshall, - 
34 
1 
1 
New Hampshire. 
• 
1 
36 
24 
« - . 
Georgian Puffer, - 
18 
1 
1 
1 
1£ 
■ 2 
• 
" - - 
Larkin Moore, 
65 
1 
1 
Lowell. 
• 
1 
360 
1 
a 
George Plant, 
27 
1 
/ 
1 
Ireland. 
1 
72 
48 
• 
4 - 
Mary Fowler, 
25 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
1 
Medford, 
Lydia Teal, - 
Betsy Hall, - 
75 
65 
1 
1 
1 
Medford. 
do 
1 
1 
480 
360 
• 
1 
1 
Slatted doors and win? 
dows. 
do 
Stoves in adjoin- 
ing rooms, 
do 
« _ . 
Nathan'l Crowell, - 
45 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
240 
♦ 
1 
1 
do 
do 
a 
Andrew Wade, 
17 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
204 
8 
1 
* 
do 
do 
Natick, 
Amasa Vickers, 
30 
1 
1 
Medway. 
1 
• 
360 
• 
1 
• 
• 
a w 
Betsy Gay, - 
55 
1 
1 
Natick. 
1 
420 
• 
• 
1 
• 
Newton, 
a - 
Elisha Robbins, 
Melinda Hastings, - 
65 
46 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Newton. 
do 
• 
1 
1 
360 
264 
240 
208 
1 
1 
• 
1 
1 
By a ventilator top of 
the room. 
By stove, 
do 
10 by 10 
12 by 12 
a 
Wm. Pickering, 
49 
1 
1 
England. 
1 
• 
360 
168 
1 
• 
do 
do 
9 by 11 in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
25 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
Occa- 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Town 
Cost of sup- 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau 
pern confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
ously 
mad. 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Pau- 
per. 
Pau- 
per. 
port per 
week. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Weekly. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Chains. 
Daily, 
do 
do 
Charlestown 6 mos. 
Charlestown 6 mos. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
$1 50 
1 50 
2 50 
1 00 
75 
1 50 
Both. 
Bodily disease 
do 
do 
George Plant. 
27 
Jul J 
14,1842. 
1 
• 
1 
do 
1 
1 50 
do 
• 
1 
do 
1 
• 
do 
• 
i 
do 
1 
• 
do 
• 
• 
1 
do 
Mass. Hos. Charles'n. 
1 
3 00 
do 
• 
1 
do 
do 
1 
• 
do 
• 
1 
do 
do 
• 
do 
/ 
♦ ♦ 
1 
do 
• 
1 50 
do 
• 
• 
1 
do 
• 
1 
2 50 
do 
F 
< 
1 
do 
1 
1 50 
do 
• 
Semi-weekly. 
• 
1 
do 
r 
do 
1 
• 
State L. Hos. 2 yrs. 
1 
• 
do 
Can at any time have liberty to walk or 
> exercise in the open air, except when 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
do 
♦ 
under raving madness. 
do 
• 
State L. Hos. 2 yrs. 
1 
- 
do 
• » 
r 
• 
• 
J 
1 25 
do 
• » 
• 
1 Neither of the persons are troublesome, 
* and have never been confined. 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
* • 
• 
Daily. 
1 
Chains. 
None. 
• . 
1 
2 00 
do 
• 
do 
1 
do 
do 
State L. Hos. 6 mos. 
1 
2 00 
do 
• 
F 
do 
Daily. 
• • 
1 
2 00 
do 
f 
• 26 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
MIDDLESEX, 
CONTINUED. 
Pepperell, 
- 
Silas Shattuck, 
70 
1 
1 
Pepperell. 
• 
1 
600 
• 
) 
1 
Doors and windows. 
Common fire- 
cc 
- 
Polly Williams, 
44 
1 
1 
do 
1 
84 
24 
1 
do 
places, 
do 
cc 
- 
Hannah Wright, - 
43 
1 
1 
do . 
1 
108 
108 
1 
do 
do 
it 
- 
Charles K. Bowers, 
27 
1 
1 
do 
1 
284 
120 
1 
do 
do 
Reading, 
- 
Timothy Nichols, - 
52 
1 
1 
Reading. 
• 
1 
240 
1 
CC 
- 
Aaron Wheeler, 
60 
1 
1 
do 
1 
3 
1 
It 
- 
Daniel Evans, 
82 
1 
1 
do 
1 
24 
1 
Ct 
- 
Ivory O. Murray, - 
19 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
72 
1 
Cl 
- 
Abigail Nichols, - 
58 
1 
1 
do 
1 
72 
1 
u 
- 
Lucinda Nichols, - 
56 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
240 
1 
• 
ci 
- 
Rebecca Floyd, 
30 
1 
1 
do 
1 
130 
1 
it 
- 
Olive Emerson, 
61 
1 
1 
do 
1 
732 
1 
Cl 
- 
Nabby Emerson, - 
47 
1 
1 
do 
1 
564 
1 
Sherburne, 
- 
Obed Hill, - 
63 
1 
1 
Sherburne. 
• 1 
720 
• 
1 
Shirley, 
- 
Daniel Holden, 
16 
1 
1 
Shirley. 
1 
1 
Stove. 
Somerville, - 
- 
No Pauper Idiots or 
Lun 
atics 
South Reading, 
- 
Sally Hale, - 
62 
1 
1 
Boston. 
1 
300 
1 
• 
Stoneham, 
- 
Lucy Buckman, 
28 
1 
1 
N. Hampshire. 
1 
24 
1 
Stow, - 
- 
Louisa Osborne, 
25 
1 
1 
Stow. 
1 
300 
• 
1 
Sudbury, 
- 
Jeremiah Robbins, - 
60 
1 
1 
Sudbury. 
1 
144 
1 
1 
Windows. 
Stove. 
6 by 7 
cc 
- 
Sarah Robbins, 
62 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
1 
1 
do 
do 
CC 
- 
Charles Puffer, 
38 
1 
1 
do 
1 
456 
1 
do 
do 
Townsend, - 
- 
Abi Spaulding, 
71 
1 
1 
Pepperell. 
1 
480 
1 
Fire-places and 
Tyngsborough, 
- 
No Pauper Idiots or 
Lun 
atics 
stoves. 
Waltham, 
- 
Henry Hagar, 
53 
1 
1 
Waltham. 
1 
636 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Wayland, 
• 
William Allen, 
42 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
96 
96 
1 
1 
• 
Window grating. 
Stove. 
7i by 54 in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
27 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Semi-weekly. 
1 
Handcuffs. 
Daily. 
• 
1 
$0 75 
Bodily disease 
do 
1 
do 
A short time at Dr. 
1 
75 
do 
Cutler's-Pepperell. 
do 
1 
do 
• 
1 
75 
do 
do 
do 
1 
75 
do 
• 
1 
. 
1 
90 
do 
1 
1 
1 00 
do 
1 
1 
80 
do 
Insanity caused by old age. 
1 
State Lun. H. 4 days. 
1 
1 00 
do 
• 
He has fits, causing disorder of mind. 
t 
1 
1 
80 
do 
1 
• • I 
1 
80 
do 
1 
1 
80 
do 
I 
1 
1 00 
do 
1 
1 00 
do 
Supposed to be caused by fits in infancy. 
1 
1 00 
• 
Has been generally governed by persua- 
sion and flattery. 
Daily. 
Chains. 
Daily. 
• 
1 
60 
Bodily disease 
• 
His work will pay his support-chains are 
used to prevent his running away. 
• 
Worcester 11J mos. 
1 
• 
Pepperell 6 mos. 
• 
1 
50 
• 
• 
Semi-weekly. 
• 
Daily. 
State Lun. Hospital. 
1 
2 50 
Bodily disease 
• 
do 
1 
do 
1 
1 50 
do 
• 
do 
. 
do 
1 
1 25 
do 
1 
Formerly fetters, 
1 
1 00 
do 
* 
not now. 
• 
1 
1 25 
.... 
♦ 
3 times a week. 
1 
• 
State L. H. abt. 3 yrs. 
1 
2 50 
Bodily disease 28 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
> 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
MIDDLESEX, 
CONTINUED. 
West Cambridge, - 
Thomas Gill, 
80 
1 
1 
West Cambridge. 
• 
1 
480 
• 
1 
• 
• 
Marshall Cutter, 
74 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
888 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
" . . 
May Thacher, 
48 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
120 
72 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
" _ _ 
Samuel Russell, 
40 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
120 
120 
• 
1 
1 
• 
• 
• 
15 by 12 
William Prentiss, - 
56 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
144 ' 
36 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
Westford, 
William Richardson, 
60 
1 
1 
Westford. 
1 
• 
720 
• 
1 
• 
• 
Windows and doors. 
Stove. 
13 by 13 
« 
Betsy Hildreth, 
35 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
120 
108 
1 
• 
1 
• 
do 
do 
• 
Weston, 
No Pauper Lunatics 
or 
Idiot 
S. 
Wilmington, - 
Sarah Boutwell, 
20 
1 
1 
Woburn. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
/ 
• 
• 
«... 
Harriet Boutwell, - 
16 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Woburn, 
Patty Richardson, - 
66 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
Windows and doors. 
Stoves. 
• 
« - 
Patty Reed, - 
39 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
do 
do 
• 
Betsy Jorden, 
27 
i 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
do 
do 
Jefferson Reed, 
41 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
252 
1 
1 
• 
do 
do 
10 by 6 
«... 
Edmund Abbot, 
26 
1 
1 
\ 
Charlestown, N. H. 
• 
1 
180 
1 
• 
1 
• 
do 
do 
10 by 7 
39 Towns, 
85 
44 
41 
84 
1 
70 of Massachu. 
4 of oth. States. 
9 Foreign Coun- 
tries. 
2 Unknown. 
34 
50 
60 av. 
327 
26 av. 
102 
66 
15 
13 
• 
WORCESTER. 
Ashburnham, 
Herrick Munroe, - 
40 
1 
1 
Ashburnham. 
• 
1 
240 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
« _ . 
LucyMaria Manning, 
28 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
336 
• 
1 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
6 by 4 
u _ _ 
Caleb Wilder, 
34 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
408 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
« - _ 
Jesse Ward, - 
40 
1 
1 
do 
1 
480 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
ci _ _ 
Isaac Hill, 
65 
1 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Auburn, 
iNo Pauper Lunatics 
or 1 
Idiots 
- in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
29 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Daily. 
do 
3 times a week. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Furi- 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
40 
1 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Chains. 
Chains. 
7 Chains, 
1 Handcuffs. 
Leather muff. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
Daily. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State Lunatic Hosp. 
State Lunatic Hosp. 
State Lun. H. 1 year. 
McLean Hosp. 3 or 
4 mos. 
11 State. 
1 Worcester and 
Charlestown. 
2 Worcester and 
Pepperell. 
8 Charlestown, 
1 Pepperell. 
State 
Town 
Cost of sup- 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Bodily disease 
do 
Bodily disease 
65 Bodily, 
1 Bodily and 
mental. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
« 
Harmless, and allowed to go at large. 
do do do 
Left Hospital, June 11, 1842. 
Betsy Hildreth offers no abuse, but tears 
her clothes, so that we have to confine 
her. Runs away if let loose. 
In confinement half the time, 
do do do 
Insanity caused by bruise on the head. 
Insane but part of the time. 
Able to labor a little. 
/ 
ously 
mad. 
1 
10 
Pau- 
per. 
12 
Pau- 
per. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
69 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
port per 
week. 
$1 25 
1 25 
1 25 
1 00 
1 00 
75 
75 
1 00 
1 00 
1 00 
2 00 
2 00 
av. 1 29 
1 17 
1 17 
1 17 
NAMES. 
1 
Age. 
1 
Vhen sent. 
Lunatic. 
1 
Idiotic. 30 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
Sex. 
Color. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
many 
others ii 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
WORCESTER, 
CONTINUED. 
Berlin, - 
Bolton, - 
Boylston, 
G 
Charlton, 
Douglas,* 
G - 
G - 
G - 
« - - 
" - 
g _ 
G 
G 
G 
" - 
a 
a 
G 
G _ • _ 
G 
G 
G 
G 
G _ 
G 
No Pauper Lunatics 
Achsah Stratton, - 
Sukey Ball, - 
Abigail Butler, 
Mary Fletcher, 
Harvey Johnson, - 
Hannah Caswell, - 
Julia Waterman, - 
Jesse Caswell, 
Harry Balcom, 
Sylvanus Davis, 
Joseph Henderson, - 
Polly Green, - 
Betsy Jane Green, - 
Said Polly's Infant, 
Eyra Jefferson, 
Wd. Sally Stearns, 
Wd. Wheelock, - 
Leonard Taft, 
Henry Gilson, 
Alvira Gilson, 
Adeline Gilson, 
Emeline Gilson, 
Harriet Gilson, 
Ellen Gilson, - 
Mary Gilson, 
or I 
57 
51 
77 
30 
50 
8 
9 
21 
40 
35 
34 
25 
5 
1 
40 
60 
65 
40 
33 
31 
13 
11 
9 
7 
5 
diots 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Bolton. 
Boylston. 
do 
Douglas. 
do 
Cranston, R. I. 
Douglas. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Upton. 
Uxbridge. 
Thompson, Conn. 
Burrilville, R. I. 
do 
Gloucester, R. I. 
Boston. Vt. 
Hanover, N. H. 
Uxbridge. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
348 
108 
24 
72 
/ 
120 
- ' - - ?! 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
• 
Doors and windows. 
) 
Stove. 
/ ■ 
8 by 10 
* The Return from Douglas appears to include all the paupers in town not lunatic or idiotic. in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
31 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Weekly. 
1 
Very little. 
1 
$1 17 
Bodily disease 
Augusta Bangs. 
23 
June 17,1842. 
1 ? 
Sometimes with 
1 
1 00 
Ezra Atherton. 
28 
Oct. 18,1842. 
1 $ 
• 
a cord. 
• 
1 
2 00 
• 
• 
Insanity produced by falling into the fire 
Sometimes tied 
State Lun. H. 14 mos. 
1 50 
in a fit, by which accident both eyes 
♦ 
1 
• 
1 
• 
• . 
• 
came out. Her brain has been so affect- 
in an arm-chair. 
ed that she recollects nothing since that 
event. 
The Douglas Return is not included (ex- 
cept the single case of Harry Balcom) 
in the aggregates or averages, as it is 
\ 
manifestly erroneous. 
* 32 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
WORCESTER, 
CONTINUED. 
- 
Douglas, 
Charles Gilson, 
2 
1 
1 
Uxbridge. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
u - 
Harry Whitmore, - 
1 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
■ • 
• 
• 
Dudley, 
Ezra Holmes, 
60 
1 
1 
• 
1 
. 240 
156 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
cc - - 
Loas Upham, 
52 
1 
1 
Dudley. 
1 
312 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
G - 
Celestia Brown, 
23 
1 
1 
do 
1 
48 
• 
• 
• 
* 
Sophia Gore, - 
63 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Fitchburg, 
Sukey Gilson, 
54 
1 
1 
Fitchburg. 
1 
300 
1 
Large window. 
Stove in an ad- 
17 by 7 
joining chamber. 
« _ _ 
Samuel French, 
58 
1 
1 
do 
1 
360 
• 
1 
• 
do 
• 
7 by 5A 
" _ _ 
Thomas Smith, 
26 
1 
1 
West Boylston. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
do 
• 
• 
Gardner, 
No Pauper Lunatics 
or Id 
iots. 
Hardwick, 
Patience Barnes, - 
45 
1 
1 
Hardwick. 
1 
120 
1 
• 
Window and hole in 
Stove-pipe. 
• 
door. 
« _ _ 
John Ellsworth, 
65 
1 
1 
Pownal, Vt. 
1 
60 
36 
1 
1 
do 
do 
7 by 10 
« _ _ 
Lucy Freeman, 
91 
1 
1 
Hardwick. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
do 
do 
• 
Holden, 
Lucretia Rogers, - 
35 
1 
1 
Holden. 
1 
120 
• 
1 
1 
" Usual way." 
12 by 6 
" - - 
Joshua Fairbanks, - 
35 
1 
1 
do 
1 
420 
12 
1 
• 
do 
• 
Hubbardston, 
Betsy Grimes, 
58 
1 
1 
Hubbardston. 
• 
1 
396 
• 
1 
• 
• 
« _ _ 
Persis Gates, - 
27 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
Leicester, 
Achsah Washburn, 
50 
1 
1 
Leicester. 
1 
• 
600 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
a 
Polly Wheeler, 
70 
1 
1 
Worcester. 
• 
1 
12 
12 
• 
• 
• 
Leominster, - 
Wilder Carter, 2d. - 
44 
1 
1 
Leominster. 
• 
1 
144 
• 
• 
• 
• 
g 
Caroline Lincoln, - 
28 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Lunenburg, - 
Calvin Eaton, 
67 
1 
1 
Lunenburg. 
• 
1 
120 
1 
• 
• 
a • 
Susanna Stearns, - 
73 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
120 
1 
• 
• 
« _ _ 
Keziah Foster, 
52 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
240 
• 
1 
• 
- 
• 
G 
Lydia Burrage, 
65 
1 
1 
do 
1 
780 
• 
1 
• 
• 
Mendon, 
Charles Wiggin, - 
38 
1 
1 
Wrentham. 
• 
1 
132 
96 
1 
- in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843 
33 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
V 
Tien sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
• 
1 
State L. Hos. 8 yrs. 
1 
$2 65 
• 
- . 
1 
. 
1 
2 00 
• 
. 
- - ' ' ~ \ 
1 
• 
• : 
1 
1 00 
• 
* 
1 
1 
1 00 
- 
'I These cases, it is supposed, could not 
1 be benefited. French and Smith have 
Daily. 
1 
Daily. 
Charlestown Asylum, 
1 
• 
Bodily disease 
diseases which seem to be hereditary. 
3 months. 
}► Sukey Gilson is only confined to pre- 
do 
1 
do 
• • 
1 
3 00 
do 
• • 
vent her running away, and having im- 
proper intercourse with the male pau- 
do 
1 
do 
State Lun. Hosp. 
1 
1 00 
do 
J pers. 
do 
1 
. ■ . 
. 
do 
■ 
do 
1 
• 
State L. Hos. 9 mos. 
1 
1 75 
do 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
1 50 
do 
- ' I?" - 
do 
1 
Daily. 
S. L. H. about 2 yrs. 
1 
1 00 
do 
- . 
-- ■ ■ - - , " 
do 
1 
do 
. 
1 
1 00 
do 
- . 
- 
1 
. • 
1 
1 50 
do 
- 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
- 
1 
1 00 
■ . 
* 
S. L. H. since Jan. 
1 
2 50 
/ • • 
15, 1842. 
. - 
State Lun. Hosp. 
• 
• 
V 
. - 
do 
• 
. 
- . 
1 
• 
1 
50 
• - 
1 
1 
1 00 
1 
1 
67 
. * 
■ 
• 
1 
67 
• • 
i 
• 
Straps used oc 
casionally. 
State L. Hos. 8 yrs. 
1 
1 00 
Bodily disease 
■ 34 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
WORCESTER, 
CONTINUED. 
Milford, 
Holly Nelson, 
52 
1 
1 
Milford. 
• 
1 
240 
1 
• 
Common stove. 
• 
« _ _ 
Mary Beals, - 
36 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
dp 
Harriet Robinson, - 
52 
1 
1 
Massachusetts. 
• 
1 
360 
1 
do 
« _ _ 
Rosalinda Nelson, - 
56 
1 
1 
Milford. 
• 
1 
168 
1 
do 
Northborough, 
Clarissa Babcock, - 
30 
1 
1 
Northborough. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
Oakham, 
• 
• 
• 
. 
Paxton, 
Augustus Caruth, - 
37 
1 
1 
Paxton. 
1 
♦ 
444 
1 
Petersham, - 
Daniel Grosvenor, - 
29 
1 
1 
Petersham. 
1 
60 
48 
1 
• 
" _ _ 
Isaac Bragg, - 
40 
1 
1 
Vassalborough, Me 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
" _ _ 
Abel Bragg, - 
35 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
a 
Charles Bragg, 
25 
1 
1 
Petersham. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
Princeton, 
Edward Sawin, 
32 
1 
1 
Princeton. 
1 
• 
384 
< 
1 
Doors and windows. 
Stove. 
a 
Lydia Raymore, 
70 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
72 
1 
1 
do 
do 
9 by 9 
Royalston, 
Mark Batchelder, - 
49 
1 
1 
Royalston. 
• 
1 
360 
12 
• 
1 
• 
Daniel Richardson, 
50 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
324 
. 
1 
• • 
• 
u 
Susan Withington, 
22 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
264 
• 
1 
. 
cc 
Samuel Withington, 
24 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
288 
• 
1 
• 
• 
Rutland, 
Samuel Browning, - 
48 
1 
1 
Rutland. 
1 
324 
84 
1 
At 
Hole through the door, 
Stove. 
7 by 4 
night. 
8 inches square. 
Eli Wheeler, 
27 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
120 
84 
• 
1 
do 
do 
do 
7 by 4 
Rebecca Maynard, 
73 
1 
1 
• 
- 
1 
60 
24 
1 
Occa- 
do 
do 
Shrewsbury, - 
Polly Chickering, - 
35 
1 
1 
Shrewsbury. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
.. 
sion'ly. 
• 
• 
• 
u 
Child of Smith, 
3 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
. 
1 
• 
• 
Southborough, 
No Pauper Lunatics 
or Id 
iots 
nece 
ssa'y 
to c 
online. 
Southbridge, - 
Lydia Fisk, - 
29 
1 
1 
Southbridge. 
1 
48 
36 
• 
• 
• 
. 
. 
Sterling, 
Charlotte Thomson, 
57 
1 
I 
Bolton. 
1 
300 
84 
1 
1 
Stove. 
17 by 8i 
« . . 
Azuba Kilburn, 
35 
1 
1 
Sterling. 
1 
• 
420 
• 
• 
1 
- in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
35 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tai malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Daily. 
1 
Bodily disease 
The town of Milford gives the return of 
- 
1 
do 
- 
all the paupers, including insane and id- 
iotic. Only the latter classes are em- 
bodied in the Abstract. 
• 
1 
• 
do 
• 
1 
• 
do 
\ • • 
• 
• 
1 
$1 00 
• 
Otis Nye. 
35 
Feb. 1842. 
• 
1 
1 25 
• 
. 
State Lun. H. 4 years. 
1 
2 00 
Bodily disease 
• 
• 
1 
1 
2 00 
• 
• 
1 
2 00 
• 
1 
2 00 
• 
Weekly. 
• 
Daily. 
• 
1 
• 
Bodily disease 
• 
This individual supports himself by labor. 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 50 
do 
1 
f 
State Lun. H. 6 mos. 
Brattleboro', 6 mos. 
1 
2 00 
• 
1 
-• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
\ 
• 
• 
1 
40 
• 
• 
• * 
1 
40 
. 
Daily. 
1 
• 
Daily. 
• 
1 
Bodily disease 
. 
• 
do 
1 
do 
State L. H. 2 years, 
1 
50 
do 
- 
W orcester. 
do 
1 
• 
do 
Do 1 year, do 
1 
75 
do 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
67 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
State Lun. Hospital. 
1 
2 50 
- 
♦ 
Weekly. 
1 
Hospital muff. 
Daily. 
1 
3 00 
Bodily disease 
• 
• 
For general observations, see note.* 
do 
1 
• 
do 
1 
90 
do 
* Sterling.-.There is adjoining to our Alms-House a building for the safety and comfort of the insane. The dimensions, 26 feet in length by 22 feet in breadth, with an aisle on the south side and a stove 
within the aisle for warming the apartment, with a stove pipe extending the whole length of the aisle. The building is divided into three apartments. Each room is 17 by 8J feet. Rooms ventilated by windows 
from the aisle and from the roof, and the lunatic in summer has an opportunity to go into the yard and enjoy the open air. The yard is in the rear of the building, with a high and suitable fence for the safe keep- 
ing of the inmates. The yard is divided into two apartments. 36 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size ofroom 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female- 
White. 
Black. 
WORCESTER, 
CONTINUED. 
Sturbridge, - 
William Pitt Child, 
35 
1 
1 
Sturbridge. 
• 
1 
120 
• 
♦ 
a . 
Willard Richardson, 
72 
1 
1 
Brookfield. 
1 
180 
• 
1 
« * 
Esther Weld, 
72 
1 
1 
Sturbridge. 
• 
1 
156 
1 
• 
G - • 
Amasa Blanchard, - 
27 
1 
1 
Palmer. 
1 
72 
• 
1 
Uxbridge, 
Maria Tobey, 
15 
1 
1 
Uxbridge. 
• 
1 
180 
36 
1 
Westborough, 
Barnabas Broaders, 
57 
1 
1 
Westborough. 
• 
1 
360 
* 
1 
• 
West Boylston, 
No Pauper Lunatics 
or 
Idiot 
S. 
Westminster, 
Sally Baker, - 
55 
1 
1 
Westminster. 
1 
- 
1 
M - - 
Annis Dike, - 
1 
1 
Gardner. 
• 
1 
1 
• 
/* 
a - 
Rebecca Taylor, - 
72 
1 
1 
Westminster. 
• 
1 
• 
1 
« - 
Abel Whitney, r 
49 
1 
1 
do 
1 
588 
• 
1 
• 
« - - 
Eunice Gibbs, 
75 
1 
1 
• 
1 
• 
900 
• 
1 
a - 
Augustus Emerson, 
73 
1 
1 
1 
• 
60 
1 
• 
Worcester, - 
Caroline Stowell, - 
41 
1 
\ 
1 
Worcester. 
• 
1 
336 
300 
1 
• 
Slat partition. 
Stoves, hard coal 
G - - 
Lucy S. Barber, 
25 
1 
do 
• 
1 
96 
72 
1 
• 
• 
• 
do 
do 
18 by 13 
Daniel Robinson, - 
43 
1 
1 
New York. 
1 
60 
60 
- 
« - - 
Horace Boyden, 
48 
1 
1 
Guilford, Vt. 
1 
144 
108 
H - - 
Mary Harris, 
50 
1 
1 
Rutland. 
1 
240 
120 
u - - 
Laura Cook, - 
30 
1 
1 
Worcester. 
1 
24 
72 
a - 
Cyrus Aldrich, 
21 
1 
1 
Rhode Island. 
1 
24 
60 
u - - 
Isaac Eldridge, 
30 
1 
1 
Barnstable. 
1 
72 
5 
u 
Elvira Parker, 
40 
1 
1 
Cambridge. 
1 
36 
30 
a * 
Charles Jones, 
27 
1 
1 
Vermont. 
1 
72 
78 
• 
• in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
37 
1 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
1 
State Lunatic Hosp. 
1 
$0 75 
Bodily disease 
Wm. Pitt Child. 
July 15,1842. 
Supported at Hospital by his brother. 
1 
1 
75 
do 
1 
1 
75 
do 
1 
75 
do 
1 
50 
- 
1 
1 25 
1 
1 
1 50 
f • 
1 
1 
1 00 
1 
1 
1 00 
- 
1 
1 00 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
1 
1 00 
White-washed 
1 
Daily in en- 
Charlestown & State 
1 
2 50 
Bodily disease 
Miss Stowell, when insane, is in high spir- 
monthly. 
do 
- 
closed yard. 
do 
Lun. Hosp. 
its and full of conversation; when not 
insane is melancholy, seems much de- 
pressed, and avoids as much as possible 
seeing company-labors some, and is 
supported by friends. 
1 
do 
1 
2 50 
do 
• y 
4- 
• 
Cause of insanity, ill health; is at the 
Alms-house; does some chamber-work; 
is negligent of dress ; inclining to idio- 
cy ; irritable and turbulent at times. 
1 
do 
do 
do 
do 
1 
2 50 
do 
• • 
* 
Cause of insanity, religious excitement; 
works well, which fully pays his support. 
1 
2 50 
do 
• f 
1 
do 
do 
1 
2 50 
do 
• 
• 
Cause of insanity, supposed disappointed 
affection. 
1 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
• 
• 
Cause unknown. 
1 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
• 
r 
• 
Inclining to idiocy. 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
• 
• 
1 
do 
do 
2 50 
do 
r 
Supposed religious excitement. 
- 
1 
Wristbands. 
do 
do 
1 
2 50 
do 
• 38 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Sizeofroom 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
WORCESTER, 
CONTINUED. 
Worcester, - 
Ann Robinson, 
17 
1 
1 
Worcester. 
1 
192 
• 
1 
• 
Slat partition. 
Stoves, hard coal 
13 by 15 
Ct - 
Joseph Avery, 
40 
1 
1 
Connecticut. 
• 
1 
1 
1 
• 
• 
a - - 
Rebecca C. Baker, - 
22 
1 
1 
Worcester. 
. 
1 
9 
4i 
• 
• 
• 
Ruth K. Baker, 
25 
1 
1 
1 
4 
4 
• 
• 
• 
" _ _ 
David Flagg, 
58 
1 
1 
Worcester. 
• 
1 
600 
192 
• 
• 
7 by 9 
« - . 
Charles Flagg, 
49 
1 
1 
do 
1 
240 
• 
1 
• 
Slat partition. 
Stoves, hard coal 
13 by 15 
cc - - 
Polly Gates, - 
58 
1 
1 
do 
1 
456 
515 
1 
• 
• 
• 
« - - 
Jane Miller, - 
43 
1 
1 
do 
1 
240 
216 
1 
Slat partition. 
Stoves, hard coal 
• 
6£ by 8 
« - _ 
Eliza Gates, - 
18 
1 
1 
New York. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
- 
Martha Gates, 
16 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
192 
1 
« _ - 
Amos Gates, - 
4 
1 
1 
Worcester. 
1 
• 
48 
• 
1 
• 
• 
♦ 
35 Towns,* - 
92 
37 
52 
90 
2 
73 of Massachu. 
10 of oth. States. 
7 Unknown. 
27 
63 
72 av. 
228 
30 av. 
88 
48 
19 
6 
2 at 
night. 
1 occa- 
sion'ly. 
HAMPSHIRE. 
Amherst, 
Aaron Russell, 
57 
1 
1 
Chesterfield. 
1 
216 
1 
No. 
« _ _ 
Martha Clapp, 
56 
1 
1 
Amherst. 
1 
72 
1 
do 
a _ 
Maria Bassett, 
42 
1 , 
1 
do 
. 
1 
72 
1 
do 
a 
Nancy Goodale, 
32 
1 
1 
do 
1 
From birth. 
1 
do 
it 
Eliza Goodale, 
26 
1 
1 
do 
1 
do 
1 
do 
cc 
George Goodale, - 
19 
1 
1 
do 
1 
do 
1 
do 
Belchertown, - 
Solomon R. Dwight, 
59 
1 
1 
Belchertown. 
1 
" 14 or 15 ys." 
1 
a - 
a - - 
Hannah Leavens, - 
Electa Winter, 
30 
26 
1 
1 
1 
1 
"Palmer we be- 
lieve." 
Belchertown. 
1 
1 
"From 25 to 
30 years." 
"Abt. 15 ys." 
1 
No. 
do 
Cummington, 
Thompson, - 
50 
1 
1 
Cummington. 
1 
From birth. 
1 
do 
• 
* Worcester County.-" As the State Lunatic Hospital charge all to the town from which the patient was committed, and the pay is generally made through the Overseers of the Poor, I have returned all such 
cases-some of them will probably be returned by other towns." in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
39 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State pers confined for 
Is a Physician Asylum, and when sent there. Lunacy or Idiocy 
Occa- State Town Poet of aim- use(l for the men- 
How often are their ■ sion- Means of bodily re- Amount of exer- In what Hospital has the p p nort per ta* malady, or for 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
rooms cleaned. mad straint, chains, &c. else allowed. person been. per per 1 week. bodily disease 
S0- . al°"e- NAMES. Age. 
When sent. Lunatic. Idiotic. 
White-washed. 1 . Enclosedyard. . . 1 $1 13 Bodily disease 
• . . It is difficult to determine whether idiocy 
or lunacy most predominates; idle and 
mischievous; labors considerably. 
. 1 . do State Lun. Hosp. 1 2 50 do . . 
Cured. 
1 . do do 1 2 50 do . . 
do 
. 1 . do do 2 50 do . . 
. . do 
1 do do 1 1 13 do . . 
Confined in the night time, but has liberty 
of an enclosed yard; inclines to idiocy, 
White-washed 1 do do 1 50 do . . 
Labors on the farm, and inclines to idiocy. 
monthly. 
. 1 . do . . 1 1 13 do . . 
Disappointed affection; labors some; re- 
cently died. 
White-washed 1 do . . 1 do . . 
monthly. 
1 do . . 1 do . . 
All of one family, with a widowed and 
1 do 
kind mother, who devotes her time to 
' them. Town furnishes the necessaries 
for upholding life. 
J 
2 50 1 Straps occa- 28 State. 3 77 av. 1 47 49 Bodily. 
2 
sionally, 1 Worcester and 
2 Hospital muffs, Brattleborough, 
1 Wristbands, 1 Worcester and 
1 Bound with Charlestown. 
cords occas'ly. 1 Charlestown. 
. None. . Hartford Hospital, 6 1 75 Bodily alone. None. 
None. None. 
months. 
do . . . 1 75 do do 
. do do 
. , . Worcester, 2 or 3 yrs. 1 75 do do 
. do do 
. None. . . . 1 40 do do 
. do do 
. do . . . 1 40 do do 
. do do 
. do . ... 1 40 do do 
. do do 
. . . McLean, Charlesto'n, 1 2 50 do Solomon R. Dwight. 
Jan. 30, 1833. 
about 5 years. 
. None. . None. 1 . do . . 
. 
. 1 Strapped occa- . do . do . . 
sionally. 
, 1 . . . . 1 1 00 . . . 
. 40 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
Sex. 
Color. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
i 
Age. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
Private 
Houses. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
HAMPSHIRE, 
CONTINUED. 
Easthampton, 
None. 
Goshen, 
Samuel Whitman, - 
60 
1 
1 
Goshen. 
• 
1 
480 
• 
1 
No. 
• 
• 
• 
Greenwich, - 
Ann Newcomb, 
55 
1 
1 
Greenwich. 
1 
" No disease." 
• • 
do 
None. 
• 
• 
a - - 
James Cooley, 
20 
1 
1 
Ware. 
1 
• 
do 
• 
• 
do 
do 
• 
G - - 
Mary Felton, 
74 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
" is 
not." 
do 
• 
do 
do 
• 
• 
G - - 
Widow Howard, - 
86 
1 
1 
do 
d 
0 
do 
• 
do 
do 
• 
, y . 
• 
G - - 
Roena Howard, 
40 
1 
1 
do 
d 
0 
do 
• 
do 
do 
• 
G - - 
Widow Rider, 
70 
1 
1 
Stafford, Conn. 
d 
0 
do 
• 
do 
do 
• 
U . 
G - 
Patty Kimball, 
Sally Hepburn, 
34 
62 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Greenwich. 
do 
" is 
1 
not." 
do 
do 
" 6 mos. per 
year." 
" 6 ms. 
in yr." 
do 
do 
" None 
except in Hospital." 
\ • 
• 
G - - 
George Caswell, 
72 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
d 
0 
do 
• 
• 
do 
• 
• 
Hatfield, 
Sarah Green, 
Oliver Bardwell, - 
74 
36 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Hatfield. 
do 
1 
1 
888 
108 
78 
1 
do 
• 
Common 
house. 
Hadley, 
"Louis Nash," 
50 
1 
1 
Hadley. 
1 
192 
• 
1 
No. 
• 
Middlefield, - 
Urbane Crowell, - 
44 
1 
1 
Middlefield. 
1 
264 
None. 
1 
• 
• 
G - - 
Sally Crowell, 
33 
1 
1 
do 
1 
156 
do 
1 
• 
• 
• 
Northampton, 
Coach Robinson, - 
57 
1 
1 
Northampton. 
1 
• 
1 
• 
No. 
• 
-• 
G - - 
Huit Strong, - 
45 
1 
1 
do 
1 
96 
96 
1 
• 
do 
• 
• 
G - 
Clarinda Upsom, - 
38 
1 
1 
do 
1 
180 
180 
1 
• 
do 
• 
• 
« - . 
Rosina Petton, 
33 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
396 
• 
• 
1 
• ' 
• 
• 
« _ _ 
Melissa Munyan, - 
21 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
252 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
Pelham, 
None. 
• 
Plainfield, 
James Gloyd, 
36 
1 
1 
Plainfield. 
• 
1 
120 
None. 
- 
1 
• 
• 
• 
South Hadley, 
None. 
Southampton, 
Lucretia Hannam, - 
50 
1 
1 
Southampton. 
1 
600 
• 
• 
1 
No. 
• 
• 
• 
Ware, - - - 
Lucy Davis, - 
26 
1 
1 
Ware. 
1 
• 
60 
48 
1 
do 
• 
*■ in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
41 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per- 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or I liocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
None. 
Worcester Hospital, 
1 
$0 25 
one year. 
80 
1 
do 
None. 
1 
• • 
The return from Greenwich appears to be 
80 
contradictory as to many of the answers, 
do 
do 
1 
• 
which are therefore given as stated. 
do 
do 
1 
80 
• 
do 
do 
1 
80 
• 
do 
do 
1 
80 
• • 
do 
do 
1 
80 
• 
1 
do 
Worcester. 
1 
80 
The length of confinement of Patty Kim- 
ball, in Greenwich, is not stated, and is 
1 
do 
do 
1 
80 
80 
• 
therefore given as in the return. It is 
not taken into the average. 
do 
None. 
1 
• 
do 
do 
1 
1 25 
• 
1 
3J yrs. at Worcester, 
1 
2 50 and 
Oliver Bardwell. 
8 mos. at Hartford. 
clothes. 
• 
Worcester. 
1 
1 50 
• 
• 
1 
None. 
. 
1 
1 50 
Bodily alone. 
. 
•• 
1 
do 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
1 
Seldom. 
1 
1 00 
do 
William Bliss. 
65 
About 10 yrs. 
- 
ago. 
1 
do 
1 
1 00 
do 
Thomas M. Pratt. 
27 
do 1 yr. " 
. 
1 
1 00 
• 
Eliza Mather. 
18 
do 2yrs." 
■.. .. 
• 
1 
75 
• 
• 
None. 
• 
• 
1 
1 40 
do 
• 
• 
• 
♦ 
1 
do 
At all times. 
None. 
1 
1 50 
do 
Charles Chapman. 
40 
Dec. 20,1842. 
None. 
None. 
do 
Daily. 
Worcester, one year. 
1 
1 33i 
do 
None. 
None. 
None. 42 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
• 
Sex. Color. 
Confined How 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. Age. BIRTH-PLACE. Idiot. Lunatic. Length of Dis- In Alms' Mode of Ventilation. Mode of Warming. Size ofroom 
« . ease in months. monthg House. Houses> same in feet. 
cd J room. 
-2.^0 
Ma 
Fe 
W1 
Bia 
HAMPSHIRE, 
CONTINUED. 
Westhampton, 
Ebenezer Niles, - 40 1 1 Cummington. 1 1 
Williamsburg, 
Isaac Little, - - 47 1 1 Williamsburg. . 1 396 336 . 1 1 None. "Common windows in By stove in an"8inlen. 
adjoining room." adjoining room. lOinbh." 
Irene Mukins, - 35 11 do .1 84 " Confined at 1 . " is not." 
times." 
a 
Eunice Graves, - 56 11 Unknown. . 1 48 do 1 ... . 
17 Towns, - 
37 13 24 36 1 31 Massachusetts. 12 19 26 av. 5 av. 8 19 1 
1 other State. 265 147 
5 Unknown. 
HAMPDEN. 
Brimfield, 
Thomas Corbin, - 72 1 1 Boston. 1 864 . 1 
a 
Almira Thompson, - 38 11 Paxton. 1 . 456 . 1 
a 
Prudence Clark, - 27 1 1 . , 1 324 , 1 
CC 
George Parker, - 12 1 1 Brimfield. 1 . 144 . 1 
Chester, 
Sybil Johnson, - 70 1 1 Chester. . 1 600 . 1.1. Doors and windows. Common fire- 12 by 10 
IC 
„ , . place. 
Sophia Freeman, - 50 1 1 ... 1 . . 1 do do 
a 
Lucy Combs, - 30 11 Chester. . 1 120 1 do do 
cc 
Henry Arnold, - 23 1 1 Westfield. . 1 120. 1 do do 
cc 
Francis Sym, - 50 1 1 Chester. 1 . 360 1 do do 
Holland, 
No Pauper Lunatics or Id iots. 
Longmeadow, 
Philena Whitty, - 41 11 Longmeadow. . 1 240 . 1 
cc _ 
Henry M. Billings, 16 1 1 Connecticut. 1 . 192 . 1 
j a ■ ' w':' * ' 1 . s 
Ludlow, 
Henry Olds, - 29 1 1 Ludlow. 1 . . 1 . . . 
« _ _ 
Timothy Haskell, -811 1 .. , 1 , .1... in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 184?. 
43 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person boen. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or lor 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Worcester, 3 mos. in 
1 
$1 50 
1838 and 1839. 
- 
• 
1 
None. 
None. 
None. 
• 
1 
3 00 
Bodily alone. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
" Is 
not." 
do 
Generally. 
Worcester nearly six 
1 
1 50 
- • 
months. 
• 
1 
do 
do 
Worcester, 8 months. 
1 
1 50 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
12 
1 Strapped occa- 
9 State, 
1 
34 
av. 1 11 
15 Bodily 
sionally. 
1 Charlestown, 
1 Hartford, 
1 Worcester and 
alone. 
Hartford. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 
1 00 
1 00 
These persons are peaceably disposed 
and easily managed, and have their 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 50 
• 
• 
liberty,-go abroad, and mingle with 
the other paupers of this establishment. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
J 
Weekly. 
1 
Chains. 
• 
• 
1 
• 
Bodily disease 
• 
• 
1 
• 
Daily. 
• 
1 
• 
do 
• 
The town have contracted for the sup- 
• 
1 
* • 
do 
State L. H. 2 years. 
1 
• 
do 
• 
port of the poor for a term of years, at 
a given price, and there are sometimes 
■ • 
1 
• 
do 
Do 3 years. 
1 
• 
do 
• 
more and at other times less in number. 
• 
1 
• 
do 
• 
1 
do 
• 
- 
1 
1 
1 00 
do 
The person named as lunatic is for the most 
part peaceably disposed, she being a sort 
• 
1 
• 
• 
* • 
1 
50 
do 
• 
of idiotic lunatic, occasioned by the ill- 
treatment and desertion of an intempe- 
rate husband soon after marriage. The 
boy named as idiot is possessed in some 
little degree of intelligence, yet seems 
to be utterly incapable of learning, occa- 
sioned as is supposed by the very intem- 
perate habits of both his parents. 
• 
1 
• 
• 
1 
58 
do 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
87 
do 
• 
• 44 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
- 
Sex. 
Color. 
Length of Con 
finement in 
months. 
Confined 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
birth-place. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
- 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
• 
<D 
cs 
<D 
room. 
S3 
s 
o 
d 
CQ 
HAMPDEN, 
* 
CONTINUED. 
Monson, 
• 
* 
Palmer, 
Lucinda Blanchard, 
48 
1 
1 
Amherst. 
1 
• 
- 
• 
1 
• 
• 
u - 
Vina Mores, - 
53 
1 
1 
Palmer. 
1 
• 
• 
• 
1 
• 
IC - 
Sophia Randolph, - 
17 
1 
1 
Amherst. 
1 
• 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
Russell, 
Lydia Atwater, 
60 
1 
1 
Westfield. 
• 
1 
48 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
cc - 
Norman Sears, 
16 
1 
1 
Russell. 
1 
• 
192 
• 
1 
• 
• 
- 
Southwick, - 
No Pauper Lunatics 
or Id 
iots. 
Springfield, - 
Benjamin Corey, - 
66 
1 
1 
• 
1 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
cc - 
Edward Dart, 
40 
1 
1 
Springfield. 
• 
1 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
cc - 
Rosanna Golden, - 
33 
1 
1 
New York. 
1 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
CC - - 
Elizabeth Whitney, 
16 
1 
1 
• 
1 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
ll - 
Sarepta Cotton, 
13 
1 
1 
Avon, Conn. 
1 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
44 - . 
Catharine Wariner, 
59 
1 
1 
New York. 
• 
1 
• 
1 
• 
1 
10 by 13 
Wales, - - - 
No Pauper Lunatics 
or Id 
iots. 
Westfield, 
Mrs. Bethia Hanchet, 
38 
1 
1 
Russell. 
• 
1 
60 
36 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
44 _ * 
Florinda Stocking, - 
22 
1 
1 
Westfield. 
• r 
1 
48 
36 
' • 
1 
• 
• 
<4 - - 
Mrs. Lewis, - 
45 
1 
1 
Norwich. 
• 
1 
• 
72 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
West Springfield, - 
No Pauper Lunatics 
or Id 
iots. 
Wilbraham, - 
Solo. Griswold, Jr. - 
31 
1 
1 
Wilbraham. 
• 
1 
360 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
14 Towns, 
28 
11 
17 
26 
2 
19 of Massachu. 
12 
16 
15 av. 
3 av. 
17 
11 
1 
• 
• • 
i 
4 of oth. States. 
5 Unknown. 
275 
48 in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
45 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Phy sician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
1 
$2 00 
• 
• 
• 
• 
In our annual pauper return, we returned 
three of our paupers as being insane; 
no one is confined except by weakness. 
The town own a large farm, upon which 
all the paupers reside; none of these 
insane persons have ever been to any 
hospital, nor do, we suppose they could 
be benefited by going to one. 
1 
50 
• 
• 
r 
1 
1 
1 
50 
Bodily disease 
• • 
• 
1 
1 25 
do 
. 
1 
1 
• 
do 
1 
1 
• 
do 
. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
• 
do 
do 
* 
• 
' ; J 
1 
1 
• 
do 
• 
1 
* 
1 
• 
do 
• 
• 
1 
1 
Sometimes lock- 
ed in room. 
State L. H. 3 years. 
do do 
1 
1 
Both. 
• 
- * 
1 
do 
Hartford, Conn. 
1 
• 
• 
• 
S. L. H. about 1 yr. 
1 
1 30 
• 
4 
1 
✓ 
20 
1 Chains, 
2 Sometimes 
locked in room. 
5 State, 
1 Hartford. 
8 
20 
av. 1 00 
17 Bodily, 
1 Both. 
• 
♦ 
■ 46 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female1 
White. 
Black. 
FRANKLIN. 
Ashfield, 
Levi King, 
20 
1 
1 
Ashfield. 
1 
• 
From birth. 
1 
No. 
• 
• 
- 
• 
« - . 
Keziah Gray, 
35 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
do 
• 
1 
do 
• • 
• 
• 
Bernardston, - 
Sarah Chapin, 
62 
1 
1 
Bernardston. 
1 
72 
• 
1 
do 
None. 
• 
• 
• 
Buckland, 
Josiah Spaulding, - 
52 
1 
1 
Buckland. 
1 
372 
360 
1 
Cage. 
do 
Windows and door. 
Stove. 
8 by 5 
Electa Trowbridge, 
44 
1 
1 
do 
1 
132 
108 
1 
Room. 
do 
• 
No fire. 
10 by 12 
Charlemont, - 
Eber Leonard, 
38 
1 
1 
Charlemont. 
1 
192 
144 
1 
Yes. 
Window. 
Box stove. 
7 by 5 
" _ _ 
Mariam Pierce, 
50 
1 
1 
do 
1 
264 
108 
1 
No. 
• 
• 
Conway, 
Thankful Lee, 
40 
1 
1 
Conway. 
1 
300 
None. 
1 
• 
• 
• 
Charlotte Dinsmore, 
49 
1 
1 
Suppd. Conway. 
1 
• 
do 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Deerfield, 
Angeline Arms, 
20 
1 
1 
Deerfield. 
1 
From birth. 
1 
• 
• 
• 
Erving, - - - 
None. 
Gill, - 
Mary Lawson, 
48 
1 
1 
Gill. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
No. 
• • 
- 
• 
Martha Cazier, 
36 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
1 
do 
• 
• 
• 
Lydia Carr, - 
32 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
do 
• 
• 
u - 
Charlotte Severance, 
56 
1 
1 
Gill. 
1 
168 
1 
do 
• • 
• 
Hawley, 
Zaccheus Hall, 
52 
1 
1 
Ashfield. 
• 
1 
432 
1 
No. 
• • 
• 
• 
« . . 
Jane Ford, 
20 
1 
1 
Hawley. 
1 
From birth. 
1 
do ' 
Heath, 
Lucinda Harris, 
57 
1 
' 1 
Heath. 
• 
1 
24 
24 
1 
2 
Yes. 
None. 
Fire-place. 
" Stove-pipe and 
fire-place when 
"14 ft." 
needed." 
Lydia Williams, 
55 
1 
1 
Suppd. Canada. 
• 
1 
72 
1 
No. 
do 
• 
do 
• 
« . . 
Sally Baker, - 
33 
1 
1 
Heath. 
• 
1 
48 
1 
do 
do 
• • 
do 
« - 
Oliver Harris, 
20 
1 
1 
Coleraine. 
1 
• 
From birth. 
1 
• 
do 
do 
• 
do 
" - - 
William Fisk, Jr. - 
40 
1 
1 
Heath. 
1 
48 
• 
1 
do 
do 
• • 
do 
" - - 
Silas Harris, - 
8 
1 
1 
Coleraine. 
1 
From birth. 
1 
• 
do 
do 
• • 
do 
Leverett, 
" Sor M. Holden," - 
49 
1 
1 
Suppd. Southboro'. 
1 
36 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
- 
- 
Monroe, 
Benj. Bryant, 
40 
1 
1 
Monroe. 
108 
• 
1 
• 
• 
<4 - 
Catharine Bryant, - 
37 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
- in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
47 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &.c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
None. 
• 
♦ • 
1 
$0 38^ 
• 
Alfred Elmer. 
37 
April 1, 1834. 
• 
do 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
• 
do 
1 
75 
• 
• . 
• 
Weekly. 
1 
do 
None for yrs. 
None. 
1 
2 00 
Bodily alone. 
t t 
it 
do 
1 
do 
Daily. 
Worcester, 4 years. 
* 
do 
• 
* 2 50 while at Worcester; less now. 
' About weekly.' 
1 
1 
Chains. 
None. 
None. 
1 
1 50 
do 
• r 
• ' 
Has not been confined for six years past. 
do 
At times chain'd 
do 
do 
1 
75 
do 
• 
• 
1 
None. 
do 
1 
1 00* 
do 
Mehitable Bacon. 
73 
1837. 
* Exclusive of clothing. 
• 
do 
1 
2 00* 
do 
• 
• 
* 2 to $2 50. 
• 
1 
1 00 
r 
• • 
f 
None. 
do 
1 
75 
I 
o 
• 
do 
do 
1 
87i 
• 
• 
• 
do 
do 
1 
62 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
do 
do 
1 
75 
• 
• 
• 
1 
11 None lately." 
do 
1 
50 
Bodily alone. 
> y 
y 
• 
None. 
do 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
Daily. 
1 
do 
do 
1 
2 50 
do 
None. 
None. 
None. 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 50 
• 
• 
A 
• 
do 
do 
do 
1 
• 
• 
• 
do 
1 
do 
do 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
• 
do 
1 
do 
Worcester, 3 or 4 yrs. 
1 
1 25 
• 
do 
do 
None. 
1 
75 
• 
• 
• 
Worcester, 10^ mos. 
1 
2 50* 
• 
-• 
• 
* Beside clothing. 
The return from Monroe is evidently erro- 
' r 
1 
42 
• 
• 
neous, the paupers not appearing to be 
lunatics or idiots; the names are not 
M ■ 
* f 
I 
42 
r * 
• 
counted in the aggregate. 48 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
FRANKLIN, 
CONTINUED. 
Monroe, 
Montague, 
Northfield, 
" _ _ 
Rowe, - - - 
Shelburne, - 
Shutesbury, - 
Sunderland, - 
Wendell, 
Whately, 
Carlton Bryant, 
Benj. B. Bryant, 
Charlotte Prescott, - 
Samuel Rawson, - 
Hannah Coon, 
Adelaide Field, 
Charles Alexander, 
None. 
Justin Bull, - 
None. 
Dubious. 
William Parker, 
Justus Dickinson, - 
Submit Belding, 
9 
3 
45 
43 
45 
37 
17 
55 
12 
63 
50 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Monroe. 
do 
Montague. 
do 
do 
Northfield. 
Greenfield. 
Shelburne. 
Pepperill, N. H. 
Sunderland. 
Whately. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
300 
516 
540 
336 
From birth. 
300 
240 
" 12 mos. and 
occasionally." 
" Probably fm. 
birth." 
• 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
No. 
No. 
S.room 
S.room 
None. 
None. 
Door and windows. 
" Ordinary means." 
By stove in an 
adjoining room. 
By box stove. 
8 by 9 
7 by 10 
20 Towns, 
BERKSHIRE. 
Adams, 
a - 
« - 
Alford, 
Becket, 
H - 
" - 
36 
Daniel Alger, 
Huldah Robinson, - 
Elias Williams, 
Lydia Ann Pittis, - 
None. 
Joel Putnam, - 
Ransom Putnam, - 
Sally Putnam, 
Lucretia Lester, 
46 
75 
38 
18 
38 
33 
36 
35 
15 
1 
1 
1 
1 
21 
1 
1 
1 
1 
36 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
33 of Massachu. 
1 other State. 
1 Foreign. 
1 Unknown. 
Adams. 
State of Connec't. 
Whitingham, Vt. 
Adams. 
Becket. 
do 
do 
do 
14 
1 
1 
1 
1 
18 
1 
1 
1 
1 
27 av. 
226 
528 
180 
9 av. 
100 
Five days. 
"3 mos. each 
year." 
6 
29 
1 
1 
1 
1 
6 
No. 
None. 
• 
• 
. in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
49 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
1 
$0 42 
1 • • 
. 
1 
42 
• 
• 
• 
None. 
• 
Worcester, 5 or 6 
1 
1 50 
• 
• 
• 
• 
mos. 
1 
75 
• • 
• 
. 
1 
70 
• 
• 
. ." - 
• 
1 
1 00 
.. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
Daily. 
1 
None. 
Several times 
Worcester, 9 mos. 
1 
2 10 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
a week. 
J 
• 
As occasion re- 
Straps occasion- 
Once or twice 
" Probably none." 
1 
60 
do 
do 
do 
do 
quires. 
ally. 
weekly in sum. 
• 
1 
1 00 
do 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
2 00 
• 
• 
• 
3 
8 
1 Chains occa- 
5 State. 
1 
34 
av. 1 08 
11 Bodily. 
. - 
• 
• 
• 
sionally. 
1 Straps occa- 
z • 
sionally. 
- • 
• 
1 
• 
1 
1 00 
Bodily alone. 
. 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
. 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 
41 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
4' 
✓ -• 
• 
41 
• 
. 
• 
• 
• 
• . 
• 
41 
• 
• 
• 
1 
Straps occas'ly. 
Worcester, 3 years. 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
Now rational. 50 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
75 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
BERKSHIRE, 
CONTINUED. 
Cheshire, 
Polly Cooper, 
61 
1 
1 
Rhode Island. 
1 
" 6 to 10 yrs." 
• 
1 
No. 
None. 
Fire-places and 
U - r- 
Eliza Bowen, 
38 
1 
1 
New York. 
1 
"5 or 6 yrs." 
. 
• 
1 
stoves. 
« 
Phila Whipple, 
40 
1 
1 
Massachusetts. 
1 
84 
1 
• 
" - - 
Eliza Raymond, 
25 
1 
1 
do 
1 
300 
1 
• 
" - 
Manley Randall, - 
30 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
* 
360 
* 
1 
• • 
Clarksburg, - 
None. 
Egremont, 
Betsey Daily, r 
66 
1 
1 
Egremont. 
1 
From birth. 
• . 
1 
No. 
• 
« . _ 
Reuben Van Guilder, 
31 
1 
1 
do 
1 
do 
1 
do 
• 
« . . 
Nancy Bundy, 
26 
1 
1 
Mt. Washington. 
1 
do 
" By turns." 
1 
do 
CC 
Daniel Heath, 
68 
1 
1 
Sharon, Conn. 
• 
1 
360 
360 
1 
do 
» , 
cc 
Lodawick Loomis, - 
75 
1 
1 
Egremont. 
1 
From birth. 
1 
do 
• 
Florida, 
W'illiam King, 
55 
1 
1 
Charlemont. 
• 
1 
360 
1 
Great Barrington, - 
Aaron Watson, 
84 
1 
1 
Great Barrington. 
• 
1 
" Common to ordinary 
By stoves and 
Ebenezer Ayres, - 
76 
1 
1 
Block Island. 
. 
J 
1 
• 
rooms." 
fire-places. 
CC - 
Peggy Hull, - 
78 
1 
1 
Northampton. 
• 
. 
* 
1 
• 
Barney Younglove, 
69 
1 
1 
Great Barrington. 
• 
. 
• 
1 
• 
« - - 
Lydia Cobb, - 
33 
1 
1 
do 
1 
1 
No. 
" - 
James Cobb, - 
58 
1 
1 
do 
1 
. 
1 
do 
p 
Ellen Olds, - 
72 
1 
1 
Westfield. 
» 
1 
• • 
cc 
Dimeras Comstock, 
48 
1 
1 
Ty ringham. 
1 
1 
No. 
a 
• 
a 
Bondwill Dobil, 
50 
1 
1 
Stockbridge. 
1 
1 
do 
a 
Oliver Younglove, - 
73 
1 
1 
Great Barrington. 
• 
1 
a 
Diadena Younglove, 
67 
1 
1 
Salisbury, Conn. 
• 
1 
• 
- 
a 
Lucy Porter, 
75 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
• 
cc 
Robert Voltenburg, 
54 
1 
1 
Egremont. 
. 
. 
1 
- 
cc 
Thomas McDaniell, 
11 
1 
1 
Ireland. 
• 
1 in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
51 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
80. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
1 
None. 
Unlimited. 
None. 
1 
$1 50 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
• 
1 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 50 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 33 
■ • ) 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 50 
• 
• 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 00 
• 
do 
do 
1 
1 00 
Bodily alone. 
do 
do 
1 
50 
do 
do 
1 
50 
1 
do 
do 
1 
1 to $5 
do 
• 
do 
1 
1 00 
1 
do 
do 
1 
2 00 
Generally daily. 
Unlimited. 
Bodily alone. 
< 
It would seem that there are really but 
four cases in this town fit subjects for 
the return-but all have been reckoned 
into the aggregate. 
1 
None. 
do 
• 
, I 
. 1 52 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
BERKSHIRE, 
CONTINUED. 
Hinsdale, 
« _ - 
Alfred Loveland, - 
John Nash, - 
51 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Hatfield. 
1 
1 
360 
None. 
do 
1 
1 
No. 
do 
" Common mode." 
do 
As in private 
families, 
do 
Lee, - - - 
None. 
New Marlborough, 
None. 
Otis, - - - 
None. 
Peru, _ - - 
Jonathan Burnham, 
67 
1 
1 
Weathersfield, Ct. 
• 
1 
300 
"A few days." 
1 
• 
Pittsfield, 
« - - 
Seymour Allen, 
Rensaeller Hale, - 
45 
40 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Pittsfield. 
do 
1 
1 
From birth. 
Fm. childh'd. 
1 
1 
Neith'r 
"Noventilation needed 
except in summer." 
do 
By stoves. 
do 
" - - 
Hiram W. Smalley, 
30 
1 
1 
Vermont. 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
do 
do 
Richmond, 
John D. Rossiter, - 
51 
1 
1 
Richmond. 
1 
360 
1 
• 
do 
« - 
Dorcas Burt, - 
65 
1 
1 
Connecticut. 
• 
1 
480 
1 
a . 
u . 
Harriet Tracy, 
Clarissa Dewey, 
50 
45 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Richmond. 
do 
• 
1 
1 
"Supposed 10 
or 15 years." 
120 
1 
1 
• 
(C „ 
Virtue Cone, - 
1 
1 
West Stockbridge. 
■ '• 
1 
1 
• 
Tyringham, - 
Azuba Wheelock, - 
68 
1 
1 
Tyringham. 
1 
84 
1 
"As in other families." 
By fire-places. 
a - 
Minerva Roberts, - 
34 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
• 
" Several yrs." 
1 
do 
do 
Washington, - 
Joseph Crowell, 
85 
1 
1 
Cape Cod. 
1 
• 
From birth. 
1 
No. 
• 
Enoch Crowell, 
70 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
do 
1 
• 
do 
West Stockbridge, 
Lucy Lane, - 
79 
1 
1 
Suffield, Ct. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
« _ _ 
Clarissa Oaks, 
18 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
Unknown. 
• 
1 
• 
Williamstown, 
Rachel Galusha, - 
59 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
From birth. 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
19 Towns, 
51 
26 
25 
50 
1 
33 Massachusetts. 
12 of other States. 
1 Foreigner. 
5 Unknown. 
19 
22 
25 av. 
374 
1 only, 
360 
8 
39 
None. 
None. in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
53 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
Ooca- 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
Town 
Cost of sup- 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
ously 
mad. 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
Pau- 
per. 
Pau- 
per. 
port per 
week. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Frequently. 
1 
None. 
Unlimited. 
None. 
1 
$0 60 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
do 
1 
do 
do 
* . 
do 
1 
> 
- 
• 
j s 
X 
• 
1 
• 
• 
1 
2 50 
Bodily alone. 
• 
» 
• 
• 
When circum- 
stances permit. 
None. 
do 
Unlimited. 
do 
• 
1 
1 
70 
70 
do 
Laura Bennett, 
Sally Goodrich, 
45 
Jan. 12,1841. 
Nov. 24,1841. 
None. 
None. 
* ■ ,» 
do 
do 
• 
1 
70 
Lydia Head, 
22 
Septem. 1842. 
1 
• 
Worcester, 3 mos. 
• 
• 
- 
1 
1 
1 25 
• 
4. ■ - . 
. 
1 
• 
Worcester, 24 years. 
1 
2 50 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
1 
1 25 
• 
Baily. 
1 
1 
• 
Unlimited. 
1 
do 
do 
1 
• 
• 
• 
None. 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
do 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
1 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 
1 37 
75 
do 
• 
• 
The return, by some mistake, includes all 
the paupers in the town, amounting to 
nineteen. 
• 
• 
1 
75 
• 
• 
• 
1 
16 
1 Straps occa- 
sionally. 
3 State. 
12 
19 
av. 1 07 
9 Bodily. 54 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
Sex. 
Color. 
- 
How 
- 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Male. 
Female1 
White. 
Black. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size ofroom 
in feet. 
NORFOLK. 
Brookline, 
Cohasset, 
u - - 
Dedham, 
H - 
Dorchester, - 
" _ _ 
Foxborough, - 
Franklin, 
« . _ 
Medfield, 
H 
Medway, 
Mil ton, 
Needham, 
Quincy, 
Randolph, 
H 
U 
a 
Roxbury, 
c< 
u 
y 
None. 
Judith Mann, 
Katy Guild, - 
Sally Munroe, 
Mehita. Whittemore, 
Esther Baxter, 
Susan Baker, 
None. 
Willard Pond, 
Sally Guild, - 
William W. Allen, 
Nahum Baker, 
None. 
None. 
None. 
Sally Emerson, 
Sarah Hayden, 
Cynthia Porter, 
Unity Thayer, 
Sally Sylvester, 
Royal S. Beal, 
William Duff; 
Betsey Lowder, 
Fanny Chamberlin, 
50 
60 
79 
73 
65 
56 
78 
50 
50 
35 
47 
60 
37 
61 
65 
48 
25 
25 
88 
64 
36 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Needham. 
Dedham. 
Dorchester. 
do 
do 
do 
Franklin. 
Stratton, Vt. 
Medfield, 
do 
Quincy. 
Braintree. 
Bridgewater. 
Randolph, 
do 
do 
Roxbury, 
do 
do 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
' 1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
240 
468 
240 
192 
96 
600 
48 
84 
240 
420 
From birth. 
24 
180 
240 
From birth. 
60 
900 
192 
120 
240 
468 
144 
192 
96 
84 
"Night only." 
108 
12 
None. 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
% 
1 
1 
1 
1 
S.room 
do 
Yes. 
No. 
Yes. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
do 
No. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
None. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
None. 
None. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
" By two windows." 
do 
" By a ventilator in the 
wall of the room." 
do 
do 
do 
Windows and door. 
do 
Windows and door. 
do 
do 
By an air-tight 
stove. 
By coal-fire in 
cylinder stoves, 
do 
do 
do 
.. - . * 
By a stove. 
10 ft. sqr. 
do 
9 ft. sqr. 
do 
do 
10 by 12 in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
55 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
I Persons not pau- 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State' pers confined for 
Asylum, and when sent there. 1 Lunacy or Idiocy 
| in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Weekly. 
None. 
Daily. 
None. 
1 
$1 
30 
Bodily alone. 
George Whitney, 
19 
June 28,1842. 
None. 
None. 
Partially insane, but not confined, nor has 
been. 
Nearly an idiot; peaceable and not mis- 
chievous. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 
30 
do 
• 
• 
Daily. 
1 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 
00 
do 
Marshall Floyd, 
50 
Mar. 22,1834. 
do 
do 
1 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 
00 
do 
Elisha D. Pierce, 
38 
May 1, 1837. 
do 
1 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 
00 
do 
Eliza Ann Randall, 
18 
Nov. 9, 1842. 
• 
do 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 
00 
do 
Louisa Jordan, 
58 
Dec. 19,1842. 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Daniel Dassance, 
52 
1834. 
• 
do 
Chain fetters. 
do 
Worcester, abt. 1 yr. 
1 
1 
75 
do 
None. 
• 
None. 
None. 
do 
• 
• 
do do 
1 
1 
25 
do 
• 
• 
None. 
• 
Worcester, 9 years. 
1 
75 
• 
do 
• 
1 
75 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 
25 
Medway.-This town and several others, 
which have no idiots or lunatics, made 
return of the names of all their paupers, 
and in this way they have greatly in- 
creased the difficulty of preparing the 
abstracts. 
• 
None. 
• 
Worcester Hospital. 
1 
2 
50 
• 
Sarah Hayden, 
61 
Nov. 1842. 
• 
• 
• 
■ 
None. 
1 
1 
00 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
do 
1 
1 
50 
. 
• 
• 
• 
do 
1 
75 
• 
-• 
• 
• 
- 
• 
Worcester Hospital. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Daily. 
None. 
Daily. 
None. 
1 
1 
20 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 
20 
do 
• 
• 
-- 
• 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 
20 
do 
• 
• Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
56 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Cn 
finement in 
months. 
n- 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
NORFOLK, 
CONTINUED. 
Roxbury, 
- 
Charlotte Gridley, - 
78 
1 
1 
Roxbury. 
• 
1 
" Many." 
• 
1 
No. 
Door and windows. 
u 
- 
George Burrill, 
46 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
24 
• 
1 
• 
do 
• 
do 
• 
Wm. D. Fessenden, 
47 
1 
1 
Boston. 
. 
1 
Unknown. 
• 
1 
do 
• 
do 
• 
Sharon, 
Sarah M. Wood, - 
Lucy Coney, - 
28 
63 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Sharon. 
do 
1 
1 
72 
120 
"Part of 
time." 
None. 
he 
1 
1 
• 
Cage. 
No. 
Npne. 
do 
Window. 
By a stove. 
6 by 4 
do 
« 
- 
Abigail Hill, - 
55 
1 
1 
do 
1 
84 
do 
1 
• 
do 
do 
• 
do 
Stoughton, - 
* 
Eunice Keith, 
75 
1 
1 
Randolph. 
1 
324 
• 
1 
• 
• 
« 
- 
David Goldthwait, - 
33 
1 
1 
Stoughton. 
• 
1 
108 
• 
1 
• 
• 
a 
- 
Susan Forrest, 
35 
1 
1 
Halifax. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
Walpole, 
- 
None. 
16 
30 
9 
21 
28 
27 of Massachu. 
1 of Vermont. 
2 Unknown. 
10 
20 
25 av. 
232 
8 av. 
168 
20 
7 
5 
• 
• 
BRISTOL. 
Attleborough, 
- 
Ephraim Whipple, - 
47 
1 
1 
Attleborough. 
• 
1 
120 
108 
1 
• 
• 
By a slide window with 
a grate over it, and by 
a window in the door. 
By a pipe from a 
stove in an ad- 
joining room. 
6 by 8 
« 
- 
Nelson King, 
24 
1 
1 
do 
1 
From childhd. 
• 
1 
• 
. . . 
The same as abv. 
• 
Berkley, 
- 
Elijah French, 
75 
1 
1 
Berkley. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
No. 
• 
Doors and windows. 
Fire-places and 
stoves. 
Ct 
- 
Lydia Briggs, 
62 
1 
1 
do 
1 
480 
480 
1 
Yes. 
None. 
do 
do 
12 by 12 
cc 
- 
Benj. Tew, - 
40 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
144 
144 
1 
do 
do 
do 
do 
8 by 9 
cc 
- 
Amanda Sanford, - 
35 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
No. 
do 
do 
cc 
- 
Sophia Sanford, 
43 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
do 
do 
do 
cc 
- 
Samuel Sanford, - 
40 
1 
1 
do 
1 
« 
1 
do 
do 
do 
Dartmouth, - 
- 
Sarah Potter, 
62 
1 
1 
Harwich. 
• 
1 
36 
• 
do 
• 
• 
CC 
- 
Sarah Wady, 
60 
1 
1 
Dartmouth. 
1 
Over 360 
1 
do 
• 
ll 
•- 
Margaret 0. Gallow, 
33 
1 
1 
Ireland. 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
do 
• 
cc 
- 
John Easton, - 
62 
1 
1 
Dartmouth. 
1 
. 
From birth. 
1 
• 
do 
• 
• in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
57 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Menns of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Daily. 
None. 
Daily. 
None. 
1 
$1 20 
Bodily alone. 
• 
• 
do 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 20 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 20 
do 
• 
• 
. 
Every other day. 
1 
do 
do 
Worcester Hospital, 
1 
1 25 
do 
None. 
o 
None. 
None. 
* 
18 months. 
do 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 25 
do 
• 
• 
- 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 25 
do 
• 
* 
1 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 37^ 
Mary Pope. 
60 
August, 1842. 
do 
do 
1 
1 
1 374 
• 
• 
• 
• 
- 
1 
66 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
6 
1 Chain fetters. 
6 State. 
27 
av. 1 20 
17 Bodily. 
• 
Weekly. 
1 
None. 
While the 
At Charlestown 3 yrs. 
1 
90 
Bodily alone. 
weather is 
and since at the St. 
pleasant. 
Lun. Asylum, and 
remained 6 years. 
- 
do 
do 
At all times. 
• 
1 
90 
do 
» 
• 
• 
• 
do 
Daily. 
. 
1 
1 00 
do 
None. 
• 
None. 
None. 
.' - 'H 
do 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
75 
• 
• 
do 
1 
do 
None. 
1 
1 00 
• • 
• 
• 
do 
• 
• 
1 
50 
• 
• 
• 
• 
do 
• 
• 
1 
50 
• 
• 
• 
do 
1 
50 
• 
• 
• 
do 
• 
State. 
1 
Sarah Potter. 
62 
August, 1841. 
• 
• 
1 
do 
• 
None. 
1 
1 33 
• 
• 
1 
do 
Unknown. 
1 
1 33 
• 
Nei 
then 
do 
o 
None. 
1 
1 33 
f 
.. 58 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
BRISTOL, 
CONTINUED. 
Dartmouth, - 
- 
Joseph Allen, 
40 
1 
1 
Dartmouth. 
1 
- 
From birth. 
1 
No. 
Dighton, 
- 
None. 
Easton, 
- 
Job Phinney, 
67 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
From youth. 
None. 
1 
• 
Fall River, - 
- 
Eunice Bordon, 
60 
1 
1 
Fall River. 
1 
144 
96 
1 
No. 
None. 
- 
Mary Freelove, 
50 
1 
1 
Dartmouth. 
1 
180 
84 
1 
Occa. 
• 
8 by 12 
- 
Stephen Hart, 
25 
1 
1 
Ireland. 
1 
5 or 6 
3 
1 
No. 
8 by 12 
Freetown, 
- 
Braddock Hoar, 
William Lucas, 
21 
25 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Freetown. 
do 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
None. 
do 
1 
1 
do 
do 
As all other rms. 
in the house are 
warmed. 
- 
Stephen Lucas, 
20 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
do 
1 
do 
Mansfield, 
- 
Rachel White, 
48 
1 
1 
Mansfield. 
• 
1 
576 
do 
1 
do 
None. 
Not any. 
By stoves. 
- 
Lyman Fisher, 
12 
1 
1 
do 
1 
From birth. 
do 
1 
do 
• 
do 
do 
New Bedford, 
- 
John Young, - 
55 
1 
1 
New Bedford. 
. 
1 
120 
1 
do 
u 
- 
Barna Sherburne, - 
56 
1 
1 
do 
. 
1 
144 
1 
do 
a 
- 
Joseph Pinkham, - 
37 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
. 
1 
do 
a 
- 
Betsey Wood, 
47 
1 
1 
do 
1 
1 
do 
« 
- 
Phebe Sprague, 
50 
1 
1 
New Bedford. 
1 
From birth. 
1 
do 
• 
a 
- 
John Hamilton, 
Horatio Hamilton, - 
20 
20 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Ireland. 
do 
1} 
1) 
Twins. 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 
do 
do 
• 
a 
- 
Dennis Covell, 
45 
1 
1 
New Bedford. 
. 
1 
144 
• 
• 
do 
Pawtucket, - 
- 
W. Fairbrother, 
1 
1 
Rehoboth. 
1 
• 
1 
do 
Rehoboth, 
- 
Sarah Bowen, 
54 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
z 290 
1 
do 
- 
Sarah Macomber, - 
58 
1 
1 
do 
1 
180 
1 
do 
U 
- 
Sarah A. Baker, 
24 
1 
1 
do 
. 
1 
72 
1 
do 
a 
- 
Mary A. Brown, - 
17 
1 
1 
Swanzey. 
1 
1 
do 
U 
- 
Nancy Hill, - 
48 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
. 
1 
- 
a 
- 
Asa Smith, - 
35 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
1 in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
59 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
80. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
■ • 
Nei 
ther. 
None. 
• 
None. 
1 
$1 33 
• 
• 
- 
• 
• 
do 
do 
1 
50 
• 
1 
do 
do 
1 
65 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
• 
1 
• 
1 
65 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
65 
• 
• 
As often as other 
1 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
rooms. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
Once in 24 hrs. 
1 
None. 
As much as 
do 
1 
1 25 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
they please. 
• 
do 
• 
do 
1 
1 25 
• 
• 
• 
Nev 
er. 
do 
do 
1 
95 
Bodily alone. 
A 
- 
" Both lunatics and idiots are required to 
perform some bodily labor, and a portion 
• 
do 
do 
• 
do 
1 
95 
do 
• 
• 
of the time in the open air." 
• 
do 
• 
1 
95 
do 
• 
• 
• 
do 
• 
• 
1 
95 
do 
• 
• 
do 
• 
• 
1 
95 
do 
• 
1 
49 
do 
• 
• • - ' : 
• 
• 
• 
1 
49 
do 
• 
• 
Worcester and Pep- 
2 50 
do 
"Is supported now at Pepperell." 
perell. 
• 
• 
• 
1 
2 00 
• 
• 
1 
• 
1 
1 50 
"Not" 
• 
1 
• 
• 
1 
1 50 
.. 
1 
• 
State L. H. 16 mos. 
1 
1 50 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
1 
1 00 60 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of-C 
finement i 
months. 
on- 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
CD 
Pm 
White. 
■■ 
Black. 
BRISTOL, 
CONTINUED. 
Rehoboth, 
Stephen Moulton, - 
42 
1 
1 
Seekonk. 
1 
1 
• 
• 
G - - 
J. H. Peck, - 
25 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
72 
1 
• 
• 
a - 
Philip Millard, 
30 
1 
1 
Rehoboth. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
( 
• 
« - _ 
Abby Adams, 
50 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
U - 
Eliza Whitaker, 
40 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
• 
1 
• 
• 
U - - 
Benj. Bullock, Jr. - 
40 
1 
1 
Rehoboth. 
1 
r ' 
• 
1 
• 
• 
Raynham, 
Laura Smith, - 
1 
1 
Raynham. 
1 
From birth. 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• 
Swanzey, 
a - - 
Lucy Watkins, 
James Terry, 
59 
85 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Rhode Island. 
Swanzey. 
• 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
480 
- 
1 
1 
No. 
do 
" The same as for other 
persons in Asylum." 
"Same as in com- 
mon Asylums." 
« - . 
Eliza Mason, - 
40 
1 
1 
Rehoboth. 
• - 
1 
36 
■ 
do 
• 
• • 
Westport, 
Sarah Tripp, - 
56 
1 
1 
Rhode Island. 
1 
360 
Not confined. 
1 
• 
do 
• 
u - 
Nancy Tripp, 
32 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
120 
do 
1 
• 
do 
• 
• 
Allen Tripp, - 
25 
1 
1 
Westport. 
1 
do 
1 
do 
• 
Nancy Wo dell, 
20 
1 
1 
do 
1 
- • 
do 
• 
1 
do 
• 
• 
a _ 
Caroline Pettey, 
17 
1 
1 
do 
1 
do 
1 
do 
• 
• 
14 Towns, 
52 
27 
25 
48 
4 
38 Massachusetts. 
3 Rhode Island. 
4 Foreigners. 
7 Unknown. 
28 
24 
29 av. 
224 
6 av. 
152 
42 
7 
3 
2 
1 occa- 
sion'ly. 
• 
• 
PLYMOUTH. 
Abington, 
Thankful Perry, 
46 
1 
1 
Abington. 
• 
1 
168 
• 
• 
. 
• 
• 
« - 
Samuel Noyes, 
27 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
72 
• 
1 
• 
• 
« - - 
Nancy Sampson, - 
27 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
Bridgewater, - 
None. 
Carver, 
None. 
Duxbury, 
Luna Sampson, 
77 
1 
1 
Duxbury. 
1 
• 
From birth. 
1 
• 
• 
• 
cc _ 
'Nath'l Hoges, 
80 
1 
1 
do 
1 
44 
• 
1 
• 
• 
• in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
61 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mud. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
• 
1 
$1 50 
.. 
. i 
-• 
• 
1 
• 
. 
1 
1 50 
• 
• 
. 
1 
1 00 
• 
. 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
. 
• 
1 
1 00 
- 
1 
1 00 
. . 
• 
i 
1 
75 
• 
Mehala Dean. 
35 
Oct. 19, 1833. 
• 
) 
Baily. 
No. 
None. 
At pleasure. 
None. 
1 
67 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
None. 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
1 
67 
• 
• 
• 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
1 
67 
• 
• J 
• 
do 
do 
1 
• 
t • 
.. ■ >'■ ■? 
do 
do 
1 
• 
• 
V 
9 • 
• 
• 
do 
do 
1 
• 
• 
• • 
- ■ * 
• 
• 
do 
do 
1 
• 
• • 
do 
do 
1 
• 
• 
• 
>- 
6 
8 
• 
• 
2 State. 
1 Worcester and 
Charlestown. 
1 Worcester and 
Pepperell. 
10 
41 
av. 1 02 
15 Both. 
• * 
• 
. • • - ' ■ ■ • - • 
• 
• 
• 
1 
2 61 
• 
1 
. 
1 
67 
• 
• 
r 
1 
1 00 
• • 
O 
• 
1 
• 80 
Bodily alone. 
: ■ 
a s ' 
* 
F 
1 
80 
* 
f t 
• 
• 
• 
< - 62 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size ofroom 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female' 
White. 
Black. 
PLYMOUTH, 
CONTINUED. 
Duxbury, 
Susanna Dawes, - 
64 
1 
1 
Duxbury. 
1 
From birth. 
• 
1 
• 
G - 
Jno. Baker, - 
27 
1 
1 
do 
1 
do 
. 
1 
. 
• 
u w 
Keene, - 
30 
1 
1 
Pembroke. 
1 
• 
. 
• 
1 
• 
G - - 
Seneca Sampson, - 
46 
1 
• 
J 
. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
East Bridgewater, - 
Mary Wade, - 
86 
1 
1 
E. Bridgewater. 
• 
1 
• 
1 
• , 
Halifax, 
Sarah Bosworth, 
42 
1 
1 
Boston. 
• 
1 
192 
60 
. 
1 
Window and door. 
By fire in next 
Hanover, 
Lucy Bailey, - 
59 
1 
1 
Hanover. 
• 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
room. 
G - - 
Charles Palmer, 
' ' , ' N 
30 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
Hingham, 
Benja. Dunbar, 
77 
1 
1 
Hingham. 
. 
1 
540 
• 
1 
• • 
« 
Gridly Stodder, 
61 
1 
1 
do 
1 
384 
264 
1 
• 
G 
Israel Fearing, 
59 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
360 
240 
1 
• • 
a _ _ 
Kent Simmons, 
53 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
• 
1 
• 
G _ 
Allen Simmons, 
58 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
. 
• 
1 
• 
" - - 
Benj. Hammond, - 
60 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
360 
240 
1 
• 
Ephraim Andrews, - 
43 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
144 
1 
• 
• 
a 
Gilman Gardner, - 
47 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
360 
36 
• 
1 
1 
• 
Kingston, 
Lois Cook, 
40 
1 
1 
Kingston. 
1 
• 
From birth. 
• 
1 
• 
G . 
Phebe Cook, - 
50 
1 
1 
do 
1 
. 
do 
1 
• 
• 
Marshfield, - 
None. 
Middleborough, 
Jno. S. Thomas, 
60 
1 
1 
Barre. 
1 
36 
• 
1 
• 
• 
a - 
Eunice Bent, - 
65 
1 
1 
Middleborough. 
• 
1 
12 
• 
1 
• ) 
« - - 
Phebe C. Sherman, 
25 
I 
1 
do 
• 
1 
72 
• 
1 
• 
North Bridgewater, 
Bela Dike, 
43 
1 
1 
N. Bridgewater. 
• 
1 
252 
• 
1 
• 
Pembroke, 
Barza Goodwin, 
69 
1 
1 
Pembroke. 
1 
420 
• 
1 
• 
• 
« . 
Welthy Josselyn, - 
47 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
180 
• 
1 
• in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
63 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
* 
• 
1 
$0 80 
• 
• 
1 
80 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
80 
• 
"Worcester." 
1834. 
1 
• 
1 
1 00 
Weekly or of- 
Daily. 
• 
1 
1 25 
Bodily alone. 
• 
• 
tener. 
_ ■ ■ 
- 
Walks in fair 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
and warm 
weather. 
At large on 
At Worcester, 6 mos. 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
the premises. 
1 
25 
• 
• 
• 
1 
Charlestown, 6 mos. 
1 
• 
1 
75 
• 
1 
75 
• 
• 
1 
50 
• 
• 
• 
Pepperell, 2 years. 
1 
75 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
1 
50 
• 
• 
• 
1 
50 
• 
• 
• 
1 
O 
• 
• 
1 
50 
• 
-- 
Worcester, 2 years. 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
• 
Worcester, 9 mos. 
1 
• 
Bodily alone. 
• 
• 
All 
the 
A "i 
* 
1 
80 
do 
time 
in- 
sane 
do 
• 
• • 64 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
Sex. 
Color. 
Length of Co 
finement in 
months. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
0 
d 
E 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
n- 
In Alms- 
House. 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
PLYMOUTH, 
CONTINUED. 
Plymouth, 
« 
- 
Ebenezer Robbins, 
Eleazer Morton, 
61 
61 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Plymouth. 
do 
1 
1 
372 
From birth. 
1 
1 
1 
• 
Windows and doors and 
chimneys, except the 
cage, which has only 
a door. 
By Blaney's hot- 
air furnace. 
6 by 4 
U x 
- 
- 
Nathan Doten, 
49 
1 
1 
do 
1 
do 
1 
Plympton, 
- 
- 
Bartlett Churchill, - 
19 
1 
1 
do 
1 
do 
1 
• 
/ 
a 
- 
- 
Henry Churchill, - 
19 
1 
1 
do 
1 
do 
• 
a 
- 
- 
Eunice Churchill, - 
17 
1 
1 
do 
1 
do 
a 
- 
- 
Betsey Pickard, 
58 
1 
1 
Plympton. 
1 
do. 
• 
Rochester, 
- 
- 
Ruel Bryant, - 
34 
1 
. 1 
Rochester. 
• 
1 
84 
1 
• 
a 
- 
- 
Avery Snow, - 
30 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
120 
1 
• 
a 
- 
- 
Martha Besse, 
55 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
216 
1 
• 
• 
ct 
- 
- 
Mehitable Maxam, - 
60 
1 
1 
do 
1 
720 
1 
• 
• 
a 
- 
- 
Betsey Higgins, 
40 
1 
1 
do 
1 
480 
1 
• 
-- 
ct 
- 
- 
Charity Hammond, 
69 
1 
1 
do 
1 
828 
1 
• 
Ct 
- 
- 
Isaiah Standish, 
32 
1 
1 
do 
1 
384 
1 
• 
Ct 
- 
- 
Abigail Trasher, - 
35 
1 
1 
do 
1 
420 
1 
• 
• 
cc 
- 
- 
Jeremiah Smith, 
45 
1 
1 
do 
1 
540 
1 
• 
• 
W. Bridgewater, 
CC 
- 
Sally Harden, 
Mehitable Snell, 
57 
40 
1 
1 
1 
1 
E. Biidgewater. 
N. Bridgewater. 
1 
1 
From birth. 
do 
1 
1 
No. 
do 
1 
1 
Doors and windows. 
" Fire, wood and 
stoves." 
12 by 14 
12 by 14 
cc 
cc 
- 
- 
Ephraim Packard, - 
David Keith, - 
42 
35 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Grafton. 
E. Bridgewater. 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
From birth. 
"About 3 mos. 
formerly." 
1 
1 
do 
do 
• 
• 
• 
cc 
- 
- 
Otis Willis, - 
38 
1 
1 
" Suppd. Boston." 
• 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
do 
• 
Wareham, 
- 
- 
Harriet Bump, 
23 
1 
1 
W areham. 
1 
From birth. 
None. 
1 
do 
• 
• 
• 
• 
CC 
- 
- 
George Bump, 
20 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
do 
do 
1 
do 
• 
Ct 
- 
- 
Elizabeth Bump, - 
18 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
do 
do 
1 
do 
t I 
in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
65 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
Daily except the 
Yes. 
The idiots 
Worcester, 2J years. 
1 
$1 00 
Bodily alone. 
Polly Howland, 
42 
C 
>ct. 1834. 
cage, and that 
have free ex- 
Jerusha Andrews, 
47 
/ 
ipril, 1840. 
twice a w'eek. 
ercise on the 
Thomas Paty, 2d, 
44 
C 
>ct. 1840. 
premises. 
1 
1 00 
do 
Sylvanus Rogers, Jr. 
41 
J 
une, 1841. 
The lunatic 
Mary D. Sherman, 
Betsy W. Whiting, 
21 
r 
Jov. 1841. 
goes only Pm 
one cage to 
another. 
1 
1 00 
do 
32 
c 
>ct. 1842. 
• 
• 
Free as he 
1 
90 
It is supposed that the three first were id- 
pleases. 
1 
90 
iots before birth by fright in the mother, 
caused by the threats of a drunken hus- 
band. 
1 
90 
1 
90 
• 
- 
92 
Bodily alone. 
• 
• 
92 
do 
• 
• 
92 
do 
• 
1 
92 
do 
92 
do 
92 
do 
• 
• 
• 
92 
do 
• 
92 
do 
92 
do 
• 
• 
No. 
None. 
1 
50 
do 
None. 
None. 
None. 
do 
do 
1 
50 
do 
. ... 
• 
• 
1 
do 
Lun. Hosp. S. Boston, 
1 
50 
do 
about 3 mos. 
Not. 
do 
None. 
1 
50 
do 
• 
do 
do 
do 
1 
50 
do 
• 
• 
• 
1 
50 
do 
None. 
None. 
None. 
• 
1 
50 
do 
• 
• 
• 
- 
• 
1 
50 
do 
• 
• 66 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & 
TOWNS 
NAMES OF PAUPERS 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
"o 
d 
2 
PLYMOUTH, 
CONTINUED. 
Wareham, 
George Leonard, 
- 
40 
1 
1 
Wareham. 
1 
216 
60 
• 
1 
None. 
• 
• 
• 
a 
- 
Sophia Lincoln, 
- 
50 
1 
1 
Norton. 
1 
120 
None. 
• 
1 
do 
• 
• 
• 
18 Towns, 
- 
55 
30 
25 
53 
1 
55 of Massachu. 
27 
27 
46 av. 
361 
7 av. 
129 
36 
14 
2 
2 
• 
• 
BARNSTABLE. 
Barnstable, 
- 
Ann Crocker, 
- 
58 
1 
1 
Barnstable. 
• 
1 
120 
120 
1 
S.room 
None. 
Doors and windows. 
By stove. 
10 by 6 
a 
- 
Eunice Lumbert, 
- 
64 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
72 
72 
1 
Room. 
• r 
10 by 6 
u 
a 
- 
Fear Coleman, 
Nathan Crocker, 
- 
51 
51 
1 
1 
1 
1 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 
120 
180 
• 
1 
1 
• 
" Gd. size 
bed rm." 
" Large 
a 
- 
Hannah Jones, 
Olive Lawrence, 
- 
32 
1 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
4 
96 
• 
1 
• 
room." 
" Small 
house." 
u 
- 
Bash Newport, 
- 
81 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
• 
• 
- 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
a 
- 
Zoa Brister, - 
- 
1 
1 
Barnstable. 
1 
• 
144 
18 
1 
Room. 
• 
6 by 5| 
a 
- 
Esther Lovell, 
- 
34 
1 
1 
do 
1 
60 
48 
1 
do 
• 
6 by 5| 
Brewster, 
- 
Joseph Sears, 
- 
68 
1 
1 
Brewster. 
1 
276 
3 
1 
Yes. 
None. 
Windows. 
Stove and pipe. 
84 by 7 
a 
' - 
Nancy Mayo, 
- 
43 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
240 
7 
1 
do 
do 
do 
12 by 7 
ic 
- 
Tabitha Crosby, 
- 
46 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
240 
• 
1 
No. 
do 
• 
• 
a 
- 
Mark Crosby, 
- 
50 
1 
1 
do 
1 
1 
do 
do 
• 
a 
- 
Hannah Mayo, 
- 
58 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
. * 
• 
do 
• 
Chatham, 
- 
Isaac Eldredge, 
- 
49 
1 
1 
Chatham. 
• 
1 
216 
168 
• 
1 
S.room 
None. 
do 
By stoves. 
16 by 8 
u 
- 
Benj. Eldredge, 
- 
50 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
156 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Dennis, 
- 
None. 
Eastham, 
- 
None. 
Falmouth, 
- 
Nathan D. Fisk, 
- 
66 
1 
1 
Falmouth. 
- • 
1 
300 
- 
1 
S.room 
None. 
Doors. 
By a stove. 
9 ft. sq. 
- 
Martha Morse, 
- 
78 
1 
1 
do 
• 
1 
600 
372 
1 
occa. 
Room. 
do 
• iii Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
67 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns; 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
1 
i • 
Wore, and Charles- 
1 
1 
• 
town, 4 years. 
Worcester, 1 year. 
1 
$0 50 
• 
• 
- 
5 
- 
5 State. 
44 
av. 83 
15 Bodily. 
- 
- 
1 South Boston. 
1 Worcester and 
" . - ■ ■ 
Charlestown. 
1 Charlestown. 
1 Pepperell. 
As often as nec- 
1 
Chains. 
Daily. 
State Lun. Hosp. 1 to 
1 
71 
Bodily alone. 
Isaac Eldredge. 
Unknown. 
None. 
None. 
essary, accord- 
ing to circum- 
1 
None. 
do 
2 years. 
None. 
1 
71 
do 
stances. 
• 
do 
do 
do 
1 
71 
do 
• 
• 
1 
do 
do 
do 
1 
71 
do 
• 
• 
do 
do 
1 
50 
do 
• 
• 
50 
do 
• 
• 
1 
71 
do 
• 
• 
( 
None. 
Unlimited. 
do 
1 
71 
do 
• 
• 
• 
• 
do 
do 
do 
1 
71 
do 
• 
• 
" Once in two 
1 
" Yes." 
Weekly. 
Charlestown, 6 mos. 
1 
60 
Both. 
- 
weeks." 
( 
■ 
1 
do 
• 
Charlestown, 9 mos. 
1 
60 
do 
• 
* 
1 
" No." 
1 
60 
do 
- 
1 
60 
do 
• 
- ■ 
• 
1 
60 
do 
• 
Daily. 
1 
Chains. 
" Often." 
Boston Hospital. 
1 
1 50 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
* 
None. 
None. 
• 
• 
1 
50 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Zechariah Sears. 
61 
Sept. 1840. 
• 
• 
Weekly. 
1 
" Straight jacket 
at times." 
" In a large 
room." 
None. 
1 
2 75 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
1 
Chains. 
do 
1 
55 
• 68 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
'o 
5 
BARNSTABLE, 
CONTINUED. 
Falmouth, 
Lydia Turner, 
60 
1 
1 
Marshpee. 
1 
420 
• 
1 
Room. 
None. 
• 
• . 
u - - 
Desire Gifford, 
38 
1 
1 
Falmouth. 
• 
1 
72 
• 
1 
• 
do 
• 
44 _ 
Bethuel Fish, 
44 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
504 
1 
' y 
• 
• 
44 _ 
Emma Fish, - 
40 
1 
1 
do 
1 
480 
1 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Harwich, 
Samuel Tripp, 
30 
1 
1 
Harwich. 
1 
360 
360 
• 
1 
No. 
• 
Wood fire. 
• 
44 . 
Elizabeth Smith, - 
72 
1 
1 
do 
480 
1 
do 
do 
Orleans, 
Thankful Knowles, 
38 
1 
1 
Orleans. 
1 
72 
48 ' 
1 
do 
None. 
Windows. 
Stove and fire- 
14 feet. 
44 _ 
Olive Myrick, 
40 
1 
1 
do 
1 
144 
120 
1 
do 
do 
do 
place. 
14 do 
44 _ 
Tabitha Hurd, 
35 
1 
1 
do 
1 
168 
168 
1 
• 
Yes. 
do 
do 
10 do 
44 _ 
John Twining, 
32 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
From birth. 
1 
No. 
do 
• 
44 _ 
Joel Twining, 
30 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
do 
1 
• 
do 
do 
• 
• 
44 _ 
Foster Rogers, 
25 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
do 
1 
• 
do 
do 
• 
• 
a _ 
Keziah Libby, 
33 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
Unknown. 
24 
1 
do 
do 
Whole 
Provincetown, 
Levi Smith, - 
22 
1 
1 
Provincetown. 
1 
• 
• 
1 
house. 
a _ _ 
David Doane, 
33 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
1 
• 
44 . 
Mary Smith, - 
24 
1 
1 
do 
1 
1 
• 
Sandwich, 
Philip Nye, - 
38 
1 
1 
Sandwich. 
• 1 
20 to 30 yrs. 
1 
No. 
• 
a _ _ 
Zelotes Lawrence, - 
57 
1 
1 
do 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
do 
44 _ 
Sabra Lawrence, - 
46 
1 
1 
do 
1 
do 
1 
do 
44 
Joanna B. Freeman, 
48 
1 
1 
do 
1 
156 
• 
Truro, 
Thomas Small, 
40 
1 
1 
Truro. 
1 
26 
1 
No. 
- 
Wellfleet, 
Amos Rich, - 
43 
1 
1 
W ellfleet. 
1 
240 
180 
1 
• 
Room. 
None. 
Window and door. 
Stove in adjoin- 
7 feet. 
44 
Elsie Hatch, - 
45 
1 
1 
Unknown. 
1 
12 
4 
1 
• 
do 
do 
do 
ing room. 
Yarmouth, 
Susannah Rider, - 
70 
1 
1 
Yarmouth. 
1 
• 
1 
No. 
do 
By a stove. 
10 ft. sq. 
" _ _ 
Susannah Rider, 2d. 
34 
1 
1 
do 
1 
1 
do 
44 
Thomas Hawes, 
58 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
1 
• 
do 
• 
13 Towns, 
44 
18 
| 26 
41 
1 2 
40 Massachusetts. 
16 
25 
30 av. 
16 av. 
27 
13 
13 
... - , 
4 -Unknown. 
217 
137 in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
69 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
/ 
I 
1 
" Straight jacket 
at times." 
None. 
do 
1 
1 
$0 55 
55 
• 
o 
/ - ■ 
• 
• 
• 
• 
do 
1 
25 
• 
a 
• 
do 
1 
25 
• 
F 
• 
When necessary 
1 
None. 
Daily. 
do 
1 
1 00 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
• 
1 
do 
do 
do 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Deaf and Dumb, 
Baily. 
do 
do 
Worcester, 12 mos. 
1 
1 00 
Bodily alone. 
• 
• 
do 
do 
do 
None. 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
• 
1 
do 
do 
1 
75 
• • 
• 
• 
do 
1 
75 
do 
1 
75 
• 
• 
• 
do 
1 
75 
• 
• 
• 
• 
None. 
do 
1 
75 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
3 00 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 50 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
• 
• 
None. 
do 
1 
80 
Bodily alone. 
Joanna B. Freeman, 
48 
1836. 
• 
1 
do 
do 
1 
80 
• 
• 
1 
Straps occas'ly. 
" Has been 7 yrs. in 
State L. H." 
1 
1 
80 
2 50 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Weekly. 
1 
None. 
Chains occas'ly. 
1 every day, 
and 
1 not at all. 
" 1 year, 1 week and 
5 days in do." 
None. 
1 
1 
2 50 
1 00 
Bodily alone. 
None. 
do 
None. 
None. 
• 
1 
Chains. 
• 
1 
1 00 
• 
• 
• 
Daily. 
None. 
• 
None. 
1 
1 
1 
90 
90 
90 
• 
• , 
• 
• 
• 
2 
15 
6 Chains, 
1 Chains occas. 
1 Straps occas. 
1 St. jack, attim. 
- 
3 State, 
2 Charlestown, 
1 South Boston. 
1 
42 
av. 93 
15 Bodily, 
5 Both. 
• 
• 
• 70 
Abstract of the Returns concerning Pauper Lunatics and Idiots, 
COUNTIES & TOWNS. 
NAMES OF PAUPERS. 
Age. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined 
in cage 
or strong 
room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Mode of Ventilation. 
Mode of Warming. 
Size of room 
in feet. 
Male. 
Female- 
White. 
Black. 
DUKE'S COUNTY. 
Chilmark, 
« - 
Gideon Mayhew, - 
Philura Allen, 
John Mayhew, 
53 
68 
67 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Chilmark. 
do 
do 
• 
1 
1 
1 
384 
240 
336 
300 
240 
• 
1 
1 
1 
• 
• 
Windows and doors in 
each case. 
Occasionally by 
setting coals in 
the room, or by 
the family fire. 
• 
« - 
John Brown, - 
30 
1 
1 
do 
1 
• 
96 
1 
• 
Edgartown, - 
Ahilla Bassett, 
35 
1 
1 
Edgartown. 
1 
120 
• 
1 
• 
• 
Tisbury, 
None. 
• 
• 
• 
• 
■ , y 
• 
• 
• 
• 
3 Towns, 
5 
3 
2 
4 
1 
5 of Massachu. 
1 
4 
5 av. 
235 
2 av. 
270 
1 
4 
• 
• 
• 
NANTUCKET. 
Nantucket, - 
Sophia Beebe, 
53 
1 
1 
Rhode Island. 
1 
636 
240 
1 
• 
Windows. 
Wood fire. 
« - - 
a 
Sobrina Ramsdell, - 
John Roby, - 
41 
38 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Edgartown. 
London. 
1 
1 
156 
60 
156 
60 
In Ho 
at Pep 
Dit 
spital 
perell. 
to. 
• 
I 
u 
Percus Frye, - 
31 
1 
1 
Barnstable. 
1 
72 
72 
1 
• 
cc 
Franklin Joy, 
35 
1 
1 
Nantucket. 
• 
1 
120 
120 
1 
• 
• 
• 
1 Town, 
5 
2 
3 
5 
3 of Massachu. 
1 of Rh. Island. 
1 Foreigner. 
1 
4 
5 av. 
209 
5 av. 
117 
2 
1 in Alms-Houses and Private Families, for the year ending January 1, 1843. 
71 
How often are their 
rooms cleaned. 
Furi- 
ously 
mad. 
Occa- 
sion- 
ally 
so. 
Means of bodily re- 
straint, chains, &c. 
Amount of exer- 
cise allowed. 
In what Hospital has the 
person been. 
State 
Pau- 
per. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Cost of sup- 
port per 
week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men- 
tal malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Names and Age of this class of persons in the State 
Asylum, and when sent there. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the language of the Returns. 
NAMES. 
Age. 
When sent. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
1 
1 
$2 25 
Bodily alone. 
• 
1 
• 
1 
2 00 
• 
• 
1 
1 
1 75 
• 
1 
1 50 
• 
• 
• 
• 
Dou 
btful 
2 00 
• 
• 
3 
• 
• 
4 
av. 1 90 
• 
• 
/ 
Every week. 
1 
1 
• 
As much as 
they please. 
Worcester, 5 years. 
1 
1 
74 
2 50 
Both. 
Mary Macy. 
48 
2 years ago. 
• 
• 
1 
• 
• 
do 5 do 
1 
2 50 
• 
• 
• 
do 3 do 
1 
1 25 
• 
• 
do 2 do 
1 
74 
3 
4 State. 
2 
3 
av. 1 55 
S AGGREGATE OF THE COUNTIES. 
COUNTIES. 
Number of Towns from 
which Returns have been 
received. 
Number of Idiot and 
Lunatic Paupers. 
Sex. 
Color. 
BIRTH-PLACE. 
Idiot. 
Lunatic. 
Length of Dis- 
ease in months. 
Length of Con- 
finement in 
months. 
In Alms- 
House. 
In 
Private 
Houses. 
Confined in cage 
or strong room. 
How 
many 
others in 
same 
room. 
Male. 
Female. 
White. 
Black. 
SUFFOLK, 
ESSEX, .... 
MIDDLESEX, . 
WORCESTER, 
HAMPSHIRE, 
HAMPDEN, . 
FRANKLIN, . 
BERKSHIRE, 
NORFOLK, . 
BRISTOL, 
PLYMOUTH, . 
BARNSTABLE, 
DUKES' COUNTY, . 
NANTUCKET, 
1 
25 
39 
35 
17 
14 
20 
19 
16 
14 
18 
13 
3 
1 
1 
116 
85 
90 
37 
28 
36 
51 
30 
52 
55 
44 
5 
60 
44 
38 
13 
11 
15 
26 
9 
27 
30 
18 
3 
2 
1 
55 
41 
51 
24 
17 
21 
25 
21 
25 
25 
26 
2 
3 
1 
112 
84 
90 
36 
26 
36 
50 
28 
48 
53 
41 
4 
5 
2 
1 
2 
1 
2 
1 
4 
1 
2 
1 
1 of Massachusetts. 
Ill of Mass. 1 2 Foreigners. 
2 of oth. States. | 1 Unknown. 
70 of Mass. 1 9 Foreigners. 
4 of oth. States. | 2 Unknown. 
73 of Mass. 1 7 Unknown. 
10 of oth. States. 1 
31 of Mass. 1 5 Unknown. 
1 of Connecti't. | 
19 of Mass. I 5 Unknown. 
4 of oth. States. | 
33 of Mass. 1 1 Foreigner. 
1 of N. Hamp'r. | 1 Unknown. 
33 of Mass. 1 1 Foreigner. 
12 of oth. States. | 5 Unknown. 
27 of Mass. 1 2 Unknown. 
1 of Vermont. | 
38 of Mass. 1 4 Foreigners. 
3 of Rh. Island. | 7 Unknown. 
55 of Massachusetts. 
40 of Mass. | 4 Unknown. 
5 of Massachusetts. 
3 of Mass. 1 1 Foreigner. 
1 of Rh. Island. | 
42 
34 
27 
12 
12 
14 
19 
10 
28 
27 
16 
1 
1 
1 
74 
50 
63 
19 
16 
18 
22 
20 
24 
27 
25 
4 
4 
216 
Of 105 the av- 
erage is 244 
Of 60 the av- 
erage is 327 
Of 72 the av- 
erage is 228 
Of 26 the av- 
erage is 265 
Of 15 the av- 
erage is 275 
Of 27 the av- 
erage is 226 
Of 25 the av- 
erage is 374 
Of 25 the av- 
erage is 232 
Of 29 the av- 
erage is 224 
Of 46 the av- 
erage is 361 
Of 30 the av- 
erage is 217 
Of 5 the av- 
erage is 235 
Of 5 the av- 
erage is 209 
Of 27 the av- 
erage is 157 
Of 26 the av- 
erage is 102 
Of 30 the av- 
erage is 88 
Of 5 the av- 
erage is 147 
Of 3 the av- 
erage is 48 
Of 9 the av- 
erage is 100 
1 only 
360 
Of 8 the av- 
erage is 168 
Of 6 the av- 
erage is 152 
Of 7 the av- 
erage is 129 
Of 16 the av- 
erage is 137 
Of 2 the av- 
erage is 270 
Of 5 the av- 
erage is 117 
80 
66 
48 
8 
17 
6 
8 
20 
42 
36 
27 
1 
2 
1 
25 
15 
19 
19 
11 
29 
39 
7 
7 
14 
13 
4 
1 
11 
13 
( 6 
< 2 At night. 
( 1 Occas'ly. 
1 
1 
6 
None. 
5 
2 
1 Occasion'ly. 
2 
13 
3 
None. 
2 
Total Cities and Towns which 
have made Returns, 
235 
635 
2 
96 
337 
614 
17 
539 of Massachusetts. 
39 of other States. 
18 Foreigners. 
39 Unknown. 
243 
367 
av. 
259 
av. 
142 
361 
204 
60 
25 not answer- 
ed. 
a 
2 sex not 
nswered. 
4 color 
not an- 
swered. 
The Return from Hopkinton was received after the above had been prepared, and states as follows:-Rachel Desper, aged 63-Roger Hayden, aged 79-Mellicent Clark, aged 64-all whites, and of 
Massachusetts. Of tiese, 1 is an Idiot, 2 Lunatics Length of Disease, av. of 2, 156 mos.-Length of Confinement, one only 72 mos.;-all in Alms-House ;-1 confined in strong- room-2 occasionally mad-1 
has been in State Hospital-all town paupers-average cost of support, $1 67. - AGGREGATE OF THE COUNTIES. 
Furious- 
ly mad. 
Occa- 
sionally 
so. 
Means of bodily restraint, chains, &c. 
In what Hospital has the person been. 
Sta 
Pa 
pe 
te 
u- 
r. 
Town 
Pau- 
per. 
Average 
cost of 
support 
pr week. 
Is a Physician 
used for the men 
tai malady, or for 
bodily disease 
alone. 
Persons not pau- 
pers confined for 
Lunacy or Idiocy 
in Alms-Houses. 
General observations in the lan- 
guage of the Returns. 
Lunatic. 
Idiotic. 
7 
38 
1 
• 
22 State, 
1 Worcester & Charlestown, 
1 Charlestown and Pepperell, 
1 Charlestown. 
11 
1 
96 
$1 
1 
1 
42 
42 
X 
16 
1 Bodily. 
104 Bodily. 
3 
• 
Chelsea only has made a 
Return from the Coun- 
ty of Suffolk. 
10 
40 
7 Chains, 
1 Handcuffs. 
11 State, 
1 Worcester & Charlestown, 
2 Worcester and Pepperell, 
8 Charlestown, 
1 Pepperell. 
IS 
69 
1 
29 
65 Bodily. 
1 Both. 
1 
2 
50 
1 Straps occasionally, 
2 Hospital muffs, 
1 Bound with cords occas'ly. 
1 Wristbands. 
28 State, 
1 Worcester & Brattleboro', 
1 Worcester & Charlestown, 
1 Charlestown. 
s 
77 
1 
47 
49 Bodily. 
2 
• 
1 
12 
1 Straps occasionally. 
9 State, 
1 Charlestown, 
1 Hartford, 
1 Worcester and Hartford, 
] 
34 
1 
11 
15 Bodily. 
• 
• 
20 
1 Chains, 
2 Sometimes locked in room. 
5 State, 
1 Hartford. 
f 
20 
1 
00 
17 Bodily. 
1 Both. 
• 
3 
8 
1 Chains occasionally, 
1 Straps do 
5 State. 
] 
34 
1 
08 
11 Bodily. 
• 
1 
16 
1 Straps occasionally. 
3 State. 
IS 
19 
1 
07 
9 Bodily. 
• 
• 
• 
6 
1 Chains. 
6 State. 
27 
1 
20 
17 Bodily. 
• 
• 
6 
8 
• 
• 
2 State, 
1 Worcester & Charlestown, 
1 Worcester and Pepperell. 
IC 
r 
41 
1 
02 
15 Both. 
5 
• 
5 State, 
1 South Boston, 
1 Worcester & Charlestown, 
1 Charlestown, 
1 Pepperell. 
44 
83 
15 Bodily. 
• 
• 
2 
15 
6 Chains, 
1 Chains occasionally, 
1 Straps occasionally, 
1 Straight jacket at times. 
3 State, 
2 Charlestown, 
1 South Boston. 
] 
42 
93 
15 Bodily. 
5 Both. 
• 
• 
3 
. 
4 
1 
90 
• 
3 
4 State. 
2 
3 
1 
55 
32 
224 
15 Chains, 
2 Chains occasionally, 
1 Handcuffs, 
5 Straps occasionally, 
2 Hospital muffs, 
1 Wristbands, 
1 Bound with cords occas'ly, 
2 Sometimes locked in room, 
1 Straight jacket at times. 
* 
103 State, 
5 Worcester & Charlestown, 
1 Charlestown & Pepperell, 
14 Charlestown, 
3 Worcester & Pepperell, 
2 Pepperell, 
1 Worcester & Brattleboro', 
2 Hartford, 
1 Worcester & Hartford, 
2 South Boston. 
& 
511 
$1 21 
318 Bodily. 
23 Both. 
6 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
ESSEX. 
Andover.-We have returned the average expense of the whole number of in- 
mates in our almshouse ; as these individuals do not labor, and are all 
adults, probably the actual expense is double the amount here returned. 
The town are now paying about double this sum per week, for two pau- 
pers out of the house, that do not require more attention than some of 
these lunatics. Many of our answers are not strictly correct, and it is 
not in our power to make them accurate, particularly the exact ages. 
John Long, Miss Poor, H. M. Hovey, and Franklin Kimball Child, were 
idiotic from birth, Congenital.-The others are lunatic. 
MIDDLESEX. 
Billerica.-P. S. As the objects to be attained in the answers to the foregoing 
queries are deeply interesting to the benevolent portion of our commu- 
nity, we have taken the liberty to be more particular relating to the cir- 
cumstances of the above-named persons than could be embraced in the 
space allowed in the above columns for that purpose. The said Rebecca 
Batcheller is a widow-woman, having been twice married. We learn 
that in her youth, she was always violent in her passions, and as she ad- 
vanced in life, the malady increased upon her, and she became more and 
more uncontrollable in her conduct; it is thought her conduct hastened 
the death of her last husband ; after his death, having some property, she 
was taken care of by her friends.-She was kept sometimes locked up in 
her room, at other times she was permitted to roam at large ; at times she 
would become so delirious and unmanageable, that they would be 
obliged to lock her up again, at last became so troublesome that the 
town authorities were obliged to take her into their care. At that time 
the town had a small almshouse establishment which they let out to the 
lowest bidder by the year to support the paupers upon the same, but as 
the contractor did not live at the almshouse, it was found to be a bad 
way, as the crazy inmates were not properly taken care of. This woman 
during her violent paroxysms caused immense trouble : her friends then 
took her again, and tried to take care of her, but found it totally imprac- 
ticable.-At this time the town purchased a farm on which to support 
their paupers. On this, order and regularity were maintained, and ex- 
perience has taught us that the insane in this way being accustomed to 
a regular routine of duties, are much less troublesome and more happy 76 
IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
For two or three years past, no restraint has been necessary.-She can 
now afford some considerable assistance in the domestic employments. 
Abigail Tarbell is also a widow and the mother of a number of chil- 
dren ; her malady is more idiocy than lunacy, she sings the most of her 
time, she performs no labor. In the warm season she is about in the 
door yard, and they watch to prevent her wandering off. She rooms 
with the inmates. James Brown has always been what he is now, 
partially idiotic, or rather non compos mentis, he has wit about some 
things, he knows when he does wrong, is sometimes ugly, performs 
some labor, such as cutting wood at the door, fetching in wood and wa- 
ter, he is sometimes angry, and is then quite ugly,-sometimes correct 
him by shutting him up a few hours in the lobby, sometimes, some tri- 
fling corporeal punishment; he is able-bodied and possesses a hardy con- 
stitution. Miss Rachel Shed is a single woman, and has always been a 
very cleanly woman, but as old age creeps upon her, she' seems inclined 
to be very loquacious, and rather disposed to be too busy about the 
house, gives the superintendent some trouble in that way; not neces- 
sary to use much restraint with her, perhaps to lock her in her bedroom 
at night.- 
We believe we have thus given you a correct statement regarding the 
insane and idiotic in our establishment. They all live in the family and 
are apparently the most happy among them. 
There are one or two others who may be considered rather deficient 
in intellect, below mediocrity, but cannot be classed among the insane 
or idiotic. 
HAMPSHIRE. 
Amherst.-Nancy, Eliza and George Goodale, supported in the family of their 
parents. 
The case of Mrs. Bassett at the hospital, a very bad one, necessary to> 
be confined often, and considered by Dr. Woodward a hopeless case,, 
and that she would never be any better, but after a few months' resi- 
dence at the almshouse, she improved very much, is now perfectly 
harmless, contented and happy, and able to perform light work. 
Belchertown.-Hannah Levens, disease caused by fits from infancy. 
Electa Winter, was in infancy bright and promising, disease occa- 
sioned by fits. 
Hatfield.-Oliver Bardwell. In his younger days bright and active, na 
cause known for disease. 
Southampton.-Lucretia Harmum, for the most part inoffensive, but occasion- IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
77 
'ally very troublesome and difficult to manage, and little hope is enter- 
tained that she will ever be in a better condition. 
Williamsburg.-Isaac Little has two rooms 8 by 10 feet separated by a strong 
partition of hard wood scantling set at a little distance from each other 
to admit heat and air from the room opposite to the one in which he is 
confined, and which is warmed by a stove, and lighted by common 
windows ; no windows in his room. The above-named was placed here 
by his father, who supported him solely the twelve first years. Since that 
time brother has taken care of him at the expense of the town ; he is 
removed from one room to the other twice a week, and never leaves 
them to exercise in the open air. 
Ware.-Lucy Davis. This person about five years since became insane, and 
the last four years, idiotic. 
Westhampton.-Ebenezer Nile, since his return from Worcester early in 
1839, has lived with his family, been sober and industrious, until about 
1st of August last, when symptoms of insanity again appeared, and 
he was taken from his own family, and placed in a private one in our 
own town, where, under kind treatment and medical aid, he soon began 
to amend, and may now perhaps be called well again. The last attack 
far less severe than the former, and we have entertained doubts whether 
on the whole the case is one that comes under the meaning of the legis- 
lative requisition. 
FRANKLIN. 
Ashfield.-Keziah Gray. Supported by the town of Ashfield, in the state of 
New York, in the family of her mother. 
Buckland.-Josiah Spaulding, has not been allowed any exercise for a number 
of years ; never has been taken out of his cage, but a few times, since 
first confined. 
Mrs. Trowbridgeis allowed to walk daily with a keeper. 
Conway.-Miss Lee is occasionally mad, she is in the family with her married 
sister, and well taken care of. 
Miss Dinsmoor has for many years been subject to fits of epilepsy;- 
has a season of derangement, and is sometimes very violent: about once 
in every month.-She is very weak, and hardly moves about; the last 
few years of her life was taken care of by sister, always in a private 
family,-died July, 1842. 
Heath.-J^ydia Williams, thinks she shall be killed, and frequently asks 
others to kill her, often secretes herself in the woods. 78 
IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
Oliver Harris, has been taught to perform some kinds of work, such 
as piling wood, &c. 
Leverett.-There is one other person furiously mad, and it is considered dan- 
gerous for him to run at large ; - he is confined by a chain in his fa- 
ther's house by order of the selectmen, and at present supported by his 
father ; his name is Luther Field, aged 30 years. 
BERKSHIRE. 
Adams.-Daniel Alger, Is more uneasy nights and cloudy weather, they think 
the full and change of the moon has considerable influence on him. 
Huldah Robinson has been for some time back losing her reason, her 
ideas are rather confused and scattering, and she is irritable and childish, 
requiring considerable care. 
Elias Williams. The person that takes care of the poor has a strong 
man with him that he stands in fear of, and they have not had much 
trouble with him for a year back ; he has a wife about seven miles from 
where he is taken care of; he will occasionally talk about her, but has 
not attempted to go to see her for almost a year; if any one attempts to 
talk to him on religion, it makes him raving in a short time. 
Lydia Ann Pittis. The most we can say about her is, that there is a 
general lack in her mental faculties, there is nothing malicious in her 
disposition, she is not capable of being taught to count or read. 
Alford.-No lunatics or idiotic paupers in this town. 
Becket.-Lucretia Lester. This person, set down as lunatic, is now rational. 
Cheshire.-Polly Cooper is blind entirely and has been for 20 or 25 years. 
Eliza Raymond. This person cannot walk nor even sit up ; we think 
she is lawfully a state pauper, although the town has supported her 
heretofore. 
Clarksburgh.-No idiot or lunatic paupers. 
Eg remont.-As it respects expenses in the case of Reuben Van Pinlder and 
Nancy Bundy, there is much uncertainty. For Nancy in particular 
there has been different prices paid, and in addition to the sums paid for 
board, the town is liable for all medical aid which may be required in all 
cases. This bill some years is as high as from 20 to 25 dollars ; for the 
last year we are unable to state the amount, though it will probably be 
less than either of these sums. Another case of insanity may be men- 
tioned, Milo Fields, a white male, about 26 years of age, he is not con- 
tinually mad, only occasionally so : six years since, he was in the lunatic 
asylum in Worcester, at the expense of the state, he has been there IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
79 
again the past summer, but has returned and is still far from sane ; his in- 
sanity is supposed to be caused by inflammatory rheumatism, he was 
born in Hillsdale, N. Y., has no legal residence in this state. 
Florida.-None. 
Great Barrington.-Dimerus Comstock, stern but not severe treatment is all 
that is required. 
Hinsdale.-We have not been able to ascertain precisely the age, place of 
birth and duration of disease in the case of Loveland, probably he is 
sixty years old, was born in Connecticut and has been deranged about 
fifteen years. Loveland and Nash are but partially insane, yet needing 
overseers ; they are placed with farmers where they are kindly treated, 
and by their labor pay for their subsistence, except in sickness, and ex- 
cept in clothing in the case of Loveland. 
Lee.-No paupers, lunatics or idiots. 
New Marlborough.-None. 
Otis.-None. 
Peru.-Jonathan Burnham was deranged for ten years, probably between the 
ages of 16 and 30, he was then rational perhaps 15 years, in the time 
married, was very industrious, labored on a farm which he owned. Since 
the return of the disease, he has had his liberty except a few days, he 
was confined in a great chair, made for that purpose, but as the effect 
was bad, it was thought best to give him his liberty; there have been no 
medical means used to restore his reason, as the disease is considered 
constitutional, his mother and brother before him were diseased in a sim- 
ilar way, and two of his sons, young men rising of 20, give sad evidence 
of the same disease. 
Pittsfield.-Seymour Allen, is quiet, and generally quite good-tempered. 
Rensceller Hale, labors on the farm with suitable oversight. 
Hiram W. Smalley. He has been with us but a few days, and his 
disease is said to have proceeded from too intense application to study. 
We have a farm for our town and state paupers, and they are all with 
them, the average price of keeping, over and above what they save by 
their labor, is about 70 cts per week. 
Tyringham.-Both are supported with the other paupers. 
Washington.--Joseph Croivell has been deaf for many years, enjovs good 
health, walks about where and when he pleases, but knows little or 
nothing more than to eat and drink, is very harmless. Enoch Crowell 
has been able to labor some from a child, is now infirm and unable to 
walk, was always foolish and harmless. 80 
IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
NORFOLK. 
Brookline.-There are no pauper lunatics or idiots in the town of Brookline. 
Cohasset.-We have in our almshouse one person, aged 50, a female, par- 
tially insane, not in confinement, nor has been, very peaceable and quiet. 
Also, one, a male, aged 60 years, nearly an idiot, a peaceable person, 
not mischievous-rooms with other members of the house. 
Dedham.-None. 
Dorchester.-None, 
Foxborough.-None. 
Franklin.-Fetters are only used to prevent his absconding, (Willard Pond,) 
has his liberty day-times. He was not a pauper until his return from 
the hospital. 
Medfield.-None. 
Milton.-None. 
Needham.-None. 
All the above persons live in common with the rest of the inmates, 
share the same rights and privileges, eat at the same table, partake of 
the same food, and are attended with no greater care, trouble or ex- 
pense, than the other inmates-and conduct themselves to the accept- 
ance of the keeper of the house, and the board of overseers of the poor, 
and all the inmates are contented and happy in their situation. That 
class of persons intended to be represented in this return, were never 
chained, strapped or imprisoned. For intemperance and disobedience we 
sometimes confine them, not over twenty-four hours, in the black-hole, 
so called, in the cellar. It is rarely that we are under this necessity. 
Sharon.-None. 
Stoughton.-None. 
Walpole.-None. 
BRISTOL. 
Attleborough.-Ephraim Whipple was discharged from the State Lunatic 
Hospital, in consequence of the crowded state of that institution, and 
sent to this town, 24th Oct. last. We find no trouble in managing him. IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
81 
He has his liberty all the time, except nights, when he is fastened in his 
room. 
Mansfield.-The boy is not in one sense an idiot. He is kept to school and 
meeting, in order to associate with children, and learn from them ; he 
has no memory, and cannot be taught to drop five in dropping corn, or 
any other practical method of counting. Yet, on being told, he will call 
any one of the family, or get wood. 
PLYMOUTH. 
X 
Bridgewater.-In the town of Bridgewater, at the present time, there is not 
a lunatic or idiot, either supported by the town or residing in the town. 
Carver.-None. 
Duxbury.-Nathaniel Hodges, the only insane person in the almshouse, for- 
merly a master blacksmith, has not been in close confinement; has had 
no lucid spells since in the almshouse. The idiots are none of them 
confined. Baker formerly was shackled to keep him from running 
away, but has not been for three years past. Seneca Sampson, furi- 
ously mad, has been in the Insane Hospital at Worcester, since the 
month of Oct. 1834, at an expense to the town of about 140 dollars per 
annum. 
Hingham.-Benjamin Dunbar. The time confined unknown to us. 
Gridley Stoddar, confined until within ten years. 
Isaac Fearing, " " " " " 
Benj. Hamond, 11 " " " " 
The town purchased a farm and built a house thereon, in 1832. Since 
that time the insane have usually assisted in the farming operations, and 
have been much improved. 
Kingston.-Patience Ring, an inmate of our almshouse, is not really an idiot, 
yet she has spells when she is not far from it, although she works out 
the greater part of the year, and very near earns her living. Her 
grand-father was a lunatic, confined in chains years before her birth. 
His daughter, Patience's mother, gave him his food, and took care 
of him until his death. 
Marshfield.-There are no paupers, lunatics or idiots, in this town. 
Middleborough.-Eunice Bent. Her children pay the remainder of what it 
costs to keep her. Phebe C. Sherman. Her mother pays the remaind- 
er of what it costs to keep her. 
North Bridgewater.-Bela Dick, is not confined, resides with the family in 
the almshouse. 82 
IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
Plympton.-The first-named person, Bartlett Churchill, is a twin brother of 
the second-has free access to air at any time-not restrained from 
going out at all times-is able to perform some ordinary kinds of labor- 
is in good health-cannot learn to read. The second, named Henry 
Churchill, brother and twin of the first, is not able to speak any word in 
our language, but by some guttural makes known his wants-has less 
sense than the first-performs no labor of any kind-is not confined to 
the house, but generally sits in his chair all day, very quietly-feeds 
himself, but has no judgment to determine the quantity of food. The 
third named, Eunice Churchill, cousin to the former, is more of an idiot 
than the first two, though not confined often ; generally gives some sign 
in the day-time of nature's calls, but cannot speak any word-is more 
troublesome than the former, frequently striking her head and beating 
her hand, but not to draw blood-has a crook in the spine. The fourth, 
Betsey Rickard, can speak some words, and is able to pick oakum-is 
very fleshy, but not very troublesome. 
Rochester.-There is no person in this town that is furiously mad, or that 
needs to be confined. The within-named persons are permitted to go 
at large, but require the particular care and attention of the overseer of 
the almshouse. The cost of support of each person per week, we 
have included in the average support of all the inmates in our alms- 
house, at 92 cents per week. 
Wareham.-The cost of support of George Leonard, nothing, except when 
crazy. 
West Bridgewater.-Sally Harden, unable to walk. 
Mehitable Snell, " " " 
Ephraim Packard, generally able to labor-supposed 
to be incurably insane-seldom furiously mad. 
Otis Willis, blind, deaf, and growing dumb. 
BARNSTABLE. 
Barnstable.-Ann Crocker, is only occasionally furiously mad, but the most of 
the time is about the house, and when not mad is good help in the house. 
Eunice Lumbert, is only occasionally mad, and when she is, no means 
of restraint are used or are necessary, as she will not leave her room 
when mad. 
Fear Coleman, is only low-spirited, and has not been at any time, to 
my knowledge, mad, or furiously so. IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
83 
Nathan Crocker has been insane for a great number of years, but not 
lately furiously mad, and is allowed exercise out of doors daily. 
Hannah Jones, is in a small house near her parents. She likes be- 
ing alone, and therefore had a small house built for her. 
Olive Lawrence is in her mother's care, and has never been in the 
almshouse. Her age is not known to me. 
Barb Newport is a negress. She has been supported by our town 
for a great number of years. She is not confined at all, and is only 
occasionally light. 
Zoa Brister has been with her friends until about 18 months since. 
Brewster.-Joseph Sears is insane about three months in each year, generally 
in the fall or winter months; the remaining part of the year he is about 
his occupation, at his house. 
Nancy Mayo.-She is furiously mad about every three years. 
Chatham.-Isaac Eldredge has been insane about 18 years, sometimes 
•very furious. At first he was sent to Boston, and was under the care of 
physicians for nearly two years-was then pronounced incurable-since 
then he has been chained in a building joined to his mother's house. 
Benjamin Eldredge, after a fit of sickness, was left in an insane con- 
dition, and has ever remained so. He is harmless and goes at large. 
Dennis.-We have no lunatics in the town that answer your description in the 
columns. 
Eastham.-None. 
Falmouth.-None. 
Harwich.-None. 
Orleans.- Thankful Knowles has been at the hospital in Worcester, and was 
pronounced incurable. Her derangement was religious excitement. 
She is now in a private family, and is perfectly harmless. 
Olive Myrick is supported in a private family, and for the most part of 
the time is harmless. 
Tabithy Hurd has been here unless till within a year, and has had the 
liberty of the whole house. She is now confined in a room ten feet 
square, with a bed in it, but comes out every day. The rest have the 
privilege of the whole house. 
Keziah Libby is an insane person. Came here in 1839, and was put 
into our almshouse in 1840. She is perfectly harmless, and has the 
liberty of the house. 
Provincetown.-The persons named in the foregoing list, {Levi Smith, David IDIOTS AND LUNATICS. 
84 
Doane, and Mary Smith,) are boarded with their relatives, and have alt 
the privilege that would be proper for such persons to have. 
Sandwich.-Nona. 
Truro.-There are two females in our almshouse, something deranged, and 
one idiot, a female-all three white. Are not confined at all. They 
were born in Truro, and are supported wholly at the expense of the 
town. Ages 70, 68, 40. 
Yarmouth.-The within named persons, (Susan Ryder, Susannah Ryder, Hd^ 
and Thomas Hawes,) were bom idiots, but we have none that we have 
to confine.