[Rarebooks] FS: Lot of 1870s Documents re: Bristol County Mass. Courthouse & Jail.

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#20. A Lot of 1878 (& other) Documents Related to Bristol County 
Massachusetts Courthouse & Jail.

An interesting lot of documents, comprising:
-January 1878: Receipt for $200 from J.G. Carrier “salary as Keeper of 
Jail from October 1st 1877 to date $200.00”
-May 1878: 2-sheet account of payments to jurors for their time and 
mileage for the past court term.
-May 1878: “Bristol Co.” receipt for work “cleaning and rep clock”.
-June 1878: Statement of payment for the “Services of Engineer”.
-July 1878: Bill from Taunton Water Works for service at the Bristol 
County Jail.
-July/August 1878: 3 billheads from Fairhaven tack company for supplies 
to the Bristol County House of Correction.
-August 1878: receipt for labor for “two and one half days labor Steam 
pipe fitting at Taunton jail”.
-August 1878: Boston retail billhead to Bristol County House of 
Correction for “3 dozen Russet Linings”.
-August 1878: New York manufacturers billhead to Bristol County House of 
Correction for “30 dozen calf faced Russet (illegible)”.
-August 1878: Boston leather & hide merchant’s billhead to “Bristol 
County”.
-August 1878: Boston boot & shoe machinery dealer billhead to “Bristol 
County House of Correction”.
-August 1878: 3 Boston leather merchant billheads to the “Bristol County 
H. of C.”
-September 1878: Statement of payment from the “County of Bristol” for 
the “Services of Engineer”.
-September 1878: Statement of payment from the “County of Bristol” to a 
cook at the “jail in Taunton”.
-September 1878: Statement of payment to the clerk at the First District 
Court of Bristol.
-September 1878: Statement of payment to the “justice” at the First 
District Court of Bristol.
-September 1878: Statement of payment to a cook at the “jail in 
Taunton”.
-October 1878: Statement of payment from the “Bristol County” for “one 
months work”.
-October 1878: monthly statement of payments for “Sundry articles 
furnished jail and Family” to J.G. Carrier.
-October 1878: Taunton stove lining merchants billhead to the Bristol 
County Jail for fire bricks.
-October 1878: Statement of payment from the “County of Bristol” for the 
“Services of Engineer”.
-October 1878: Receipt for one month’s religious services (billed by 
J.G. Carrier, Keeper of the Jail)
-October 1878: Bill for one month’s board for a Boston man “at work at 
the jail”.
-October 1878: Statement of payment to a cook at the “jail in Taunton”.
-October 1878: Statement of payment to a watchman at the “jail”.
-October 1878: 2 invoices to the “County of Bristol” for potatoes.
-October 1878: 2 page demand and payment for expenses related to jury 
duty.
-November 1878: payroll for “excused jurors”.
-1890/91: Eight handwritten and typewritten documents related to the 
condemning of lands adjacent to the Court House for the purpose of 
enlarging the Court House.
-November 1896: 2 page bill/receipt for work “Summoning three 
witnesses”.
-May 1904: Bill for one month’s service as constable at the court house 
and committing insane patients.
-July 1908: 3 part bill for moving book cases at the Bristol County 
Court House.

Lot of 39 documents. Overall clean and good.  [42860]  $150

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