Poor Law Accounts 1739

An account of Disbursment made by Henry Smalley Overseer of the Poor For the lower town of Harwood for the Year 1739.

Received from the Towns Poor Books£sd
carried to14911
Disburst By monthly payments
First to John Guest i year at 4s a Month2120
remain to To the Old Clark at 4s per mon2120
To Jane Leeming at 1s 2d per Mon0140
Paid Mary Hindle 6 months at 2s per month0120
In all6100
By Charges 1739
Paid to the Old Overseer053
Jan 1739A shift for Old Guest023
Charges for carrying Isobel Leeming to Preston Sessions My Self and Horse072
Feb 1739Paid Thomas Giles wife050
Lent Robert Marcer060
Spent at signing Sarah Edleston Son’s Indentures00?
Given Jane Leeming00?
March 1739Paid Brindle Poor House2311
My expenses and Horse at same time020
Given Jane Leeming006
April 1739Given Old Clark at 3 Several times014
Paid toward Clothes for Ned Leeming son051 1/2
May 1739Paid Old Guest House Rent090
Jane Leeming House Rent060
Robert Marcer House Rent050
June 1739Given William Whalley048
July 1739Given Thomas Giles wife094
Given Widdow Foster0100
Augst. 1739Paid for Old Clark & John Leeming each a shift059
Spent at Town Meet010
Sep 1739Given Thomas Smalley by order030
Oct 1739Given Thomas Smalley – –020
Nov 1739Given Thomas Smalley – –020
By Charges in all695
Monthly Payments6100
Both added1305
Rec’d to Balance0121
1284
Recd to Balance045
12139
Seen and allowed by us
Alex’r Mercer
John Mitchell
Robert Hough