Return of the Town of Tisbury...
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
 

 1

 60

 white
     

 forty years
Damris Norton is been
totaly deranged for about forty
years at times is malicious but
is trustly[?] watched by her brother
and sister and is safe[?]
 

 1

 30

 white
     

 ten years
Polly Waldron
is docile at times at other
times quite infantory[?] and chaind
id[?] is boarded in a large family
where there is a strict attention by
watching supported by the town

 1
 

 30

 white
     

 thirty years
Aaron Luce
at times violint with[?] lay
violint hands on the family
totally void of sense at all
time

 1
 

 24

 white
     

 two years
Shubael Cottle
has been deranged two
years shut up in a
room part of the time
other times at liberty
but all times deranged

John P. Norton } Selectmen of Tisbury
Jonathan Luce Jr. } Tisbury 6 May 1829


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

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