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Each year, in its Legislative Journals, the Prince Edward Island published "Pauper's Reports". These reports detailed payments made in support of some of the more unfortunate Islanders, and can be a wonderful source for finding Island residents of the time. Reasons for the payments cover a wide range, from helping widows, the aged, and infirm, to assisting poor immigrants, assisting with handicapped children, etc.

Note: Information in square brackets added from the original resolutions for the grants from pgs. 100 to 102 to assist in identifying those named, and where differing information (spellings, etc.) appears on these pages.

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Appendix
(N)
Pauper's Report

Note: From Appendix N, Journal of the House of Assembly, Prince Edward Island, Third Session of the 17th General Assembly, Charlottetown, 1849.

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Your Committee having maturely considered the subject to them referred, are of the opinion that the petitions and others, for whom aid is solicited, be relieved according to the amounts respectively attached to their names in the following scale:

Queen's County, 1st District

Recipient	£	s.	d.
Neil McSweeny, N[ew] G[lasgow] Road	1	10	0
John Brent, [Covehead]	2	0	0
Ann Byrnie	1	10	0
Widow O'Brien, [New Glasgow]	2	0	0
Sarah Geary, [Stanhope]	1	10	0
Alexander McLeod, Lot 62	1	10	0
Mary Campbell	2	0	0
Flora Nicholson, [Lot 67]	2	0	0
Amelia Gallant, [Rustico]	2	0	0
Jude Judcett, [Judith, Rustico]	1	10	0
Victoria Petere, [Petre, Rustico]	2	0	0
Two blind persons name of McKay	20	0	0
Pierce Ducett, [Pierre Doucette, Rustico]	2	0	0
Alexander McLennan, Lot 67	1	10	0
Mary McLeod, Lot 22	1	10	0
Widow McDowell	2	0	0
	46	10	0

 

Queen's County, 2nd District

Recipient	£	s.	d.
Catherine McDonald, West River	3	0	0
Patrick Kelly	2	0	0
Patrick McCarron	3	0	0
Adelaide Murphy	2	10	0
Mary Doyle	1	0	0
John Austine	1	10	0
John Ready	2	0	0
Widow Morrison	1	10	0
Duncan Shaw	1	10	0
Mary Murphy	1	10	0
Roderick McDonald	3	0	0
James Byrns	1	10	0
Donald McLean	2	0	0
Donald Nicholson, [Lot 22]	1	0	0
	27	0	0

Queen's County, 3rd District

Recipient	£	s.	d.
Mary McAulay, [for her son]	6	0	0
Magdalen Hern, [Gallow's Point]	2	0	0
Widow Marcella. Kelly, [Uig]	2	0	0
Patrick Coiley,[ Montague]	2	0	0
Laughlan McDonald, [Orwell Head, for his son]	1	0	0
McGregor's orphan children, [of which £1 is for the one at John McPhee's]	4	0	0
	17	0	0

Charlottetown

Recipient	£	s.	d.
Philip Gaudy	2	0	0
Widow Minchin	2	0	0
Moses Hayes [for son, John]	3	0	0
Widow McGuire	1	10	0
William Purcell	10	0	0
Nathaniel Gibbs	4	0	0
Elizabeth Lallow	3	0	0
Mary Britt	2	10	0
Jeremiah Keough	3	10	0
Cabet Sentner	3	0	0
Anastasia Carrigan	2	0	0
Samuel Martin	2	10	0
Margaret McArty	8	0	0
William Mahar	5	0	0
	52	0	0

 

King's County, 1st District

Recipient	£	s.	d.
Margaret Shivaree	1	10	0
Mary Connors	3	0	0
Widow Nancy McDonald	1	10	0
Robert Maine	3	0	0
Catherine Flinn	1	10	0
John Jones	1	10	0
Daniel Connors	4	0	0
Thomas Deveraux	4	0	0
Nancy McEachren	1	0	0
A poor widow on the Mill Road	1	0	0
Widow Simon Burk	1	0	0
Nancy Patchet	1	10	0
	25	10	0

 

King's County, 2nd District

Recipient	£	s.	d.
James Wilson, emigrant *	1	10	0
John McIntyre, emigrant *	1	10	0
Archibald McLeod, emigrant *	1	10	0
Ann McIntyre, emigrant *	1	10	0
Ann McAulay, emigrant *	1	10	0
Duncan McIntyre	1	10	0
Widow James Morrison	4	0	0
John De Cost	1	10	0
Nancy Nicholson	2	0	0
Pierce Welsh	3	0	0
Christy McEachern	3	0	0
Mrs. Partridge	2	0	0
Mrs. Brown	2	0	0
Mrs. Henderson	3	0	0
Angus Wilson, for his [blind] son	1	0	0
	30	10	0

* Emigrants arriving on board the Dolphin, fall of 1848.

King's County, 3rd District and Georgetown

Recipient	£	s.	d.
Mary McPhee	2	10	0
Catherine Welsh	2	10	0
Donald McDonald, emigrant *	2	0	0
Mrs. Cody, to pay passage	3	0	0
Malcolm McDonald, emigrant *	2	0	0
Edward Roach	2	0	0
John McMillan	2	0	0
Richard Cochran	1	10	0
Amount to be placed in the hands of the Hon. E. Thornton, to pay a Pauper's passage	1	10	0
James [T.] Hughes	1	10	0
John O'Neil	1	10	0
Alexander Fraser	1	5	0
M. Gardiner	1	10	0
John Griffin and sisters	5	0	0
Richard Butler	2	0	0
Samuel Le Coucq	1	10	0
Duncan Cameron [and wife]	1	10	0
Margaret Wilson, [for her mother]	2	0	0
Catherine Johnston	2	0	0
Widow McCarron, [Lot 61]	2	10	0
	41	5	0

* Emigrants arriving on board the Dolphin, fall of 1848.

Prince County, 1st District

Recipient	£	s.	d.
Samuel Bynon, for Elizabeth Snow	2	0	0
Catherine McIntyre	1	10	0
Alexander Bell	3	0	0
Ann Morris	1	10	0
Elizabeth Collins	4	0	0
George Murray	1	10	0
Sally Francis	1	0	0
Joseph Ducett	2	0	0
James Adams	2	0	0
William McNeill	2	0	0
Barbara Gallant	1	10	0
Julian Duross	2	0	0
Widow Hardy, Lot 11	2	0	0
Widow Gallant	1	10	0
	27	10	0

 

Prince County, 2nd District, Princetown and Royalty

Recipient	£	s.	d.
Benjamin Warren, Princetown	4	0	0
Sarah McDonald, Indian River	1	10	0
George Howell	2	0	0
Widow B. Perry [This grant amount changed before being printed in the appendix. - originally listed in grant as £3 for Justang Perry and wife. It is suspected that Justang died after the original grant, and the amount reduced accordingly]	2	0	0
Mrs. McKay, [Lot 16] for her daughter	1	10	0
Mary Gallant, funeral expenses	2	0	0
Samuel Cameron	2	10	0
Michael McGrath [and wife]	2	0	0
Dominic Maggot, for two idiot sons	2	0	0
Peter Richaur	1	10	0
John Morrison	1	10	0
	22	10	0

 

Prince County, 3rd District

Recipient	£	s.	d.
Ann Murphy	2	0	0
William Carvil	1	10	0
John Rice	3	0	0
Rachael Purdie	1	10	0
Judic De Ross	1	10	0
Ann Maria Baker	2	0	0
Catherine Murphy	1	10	0
Widow McInnis	1	0	0
Diana Crew	1	10	0
Thomas Condon	2	10	0
	18	0	0

 

Total Amount

County	£	s.	d.
Queen's County	141	10	0
King's County	97	5	0
Prince County	68	0	0
	306	15	0

 

Your Committee are of the opinion, that is is inexpedient to grant the Prayer of Petitions from, or on behalf of the following persons, they either having friends on the Island, or some other means of support, viz:-

Mary Quinn, James Conway, Philip Canady [Kennedy?] , John Collins[?], Catherine Barrett, William Bruce, Mary Connoly, John Pendergrast, John Nicholson, James Mahar, Widow Roderick McDonald, Richard Coughlan, John Sentiner, Donald McIsaac, Sarah Orchard, Charles Malone, Hector Johnstone, Michael Dunn, Laughlan Gillis ['s blind son], Martin Butler, Susannah McLeod, Bridget Finigen, Eleanor McCarvil, Roderick McDonald, Margaret Collins, Michael Reardon, Catherine Sherry, Anastasia Harris.

[Note: Some of these individuals appear to have been turned down after being named in a grant, others were rejected without being granted]