Persons in Edgartown reputed to be Lunatics and furiously Mad (1829)

Return of the Town of Edgartown...
Persons in said Town reputed to be Lunatics
and furiously Mad.
(1829)

[The following was extracted from the original document stored at the Massachusetts State Archives in Boston.]

Males	Females	Age	Color	At Large	Confined	Where Confined	How long Confined	Remarks
one		75	white	--	Confined	In the Common Goal as the house of Correction, no house of Correction being otherwise provided.	about two years	Town Pauper
one		72	white	at large	--	--	--	Town Pauper
	one	69	Do	at large	Confined	In the Insane Hospital, Boston	about two years	supported by her friends
	one	50	Do	at large	--	--	--	supported by her friends
	one	70	Do	at large	--	--	--	supported by her friends
	one	50	Do	at large	--	--	--	Town Pauper
	one	40	Do	at large	--	--	--	Supported by Friends

Grafton Norton } Selectmen of
Frederick Baylies Jr. } Edgartown

Edgartown May 23rd 1829

Also see the 1829 Returns of Tisbury and Chilmark, as well as the 1842 return of Edgartown.

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