[Rarebooks] FS: Lot of 39 19th C. Bristol County (Mass.) Courthouse & Jail Documents

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A Lot of 39 1878 (& other) Documents Related to Bristol County 
Massachusetts Courthouse & Jail.  $75

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]

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