Yates County Poorhouse

https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/41121 Poor House Enumeration from the 1865 Census, page 5, (June 7, 1865) under the Town of Jerusalem, Yates County, in the County Clerk's Office, Penn Yan, New York.

https://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/ny-genealogy/yates-county/1865_jerusalem_new_york_state_census_poor_house_enumeration.htm 1865 Poor House, Jerusalem, N.Y.

AVES, Nancy, 15, born in Michigan AVES, Thomas, 14, born in Yates County BARKER, George, 68, born in New York City CALKINS, Levi, 67, born in Vermont CLARK, Elish, 50, born Yates County CONER, William, 40, born in Ireland CONNER, Margaret, 3 yrs. 4 mos., born in Michigan CONNER, Mary, 16, born Seneca Co. CONNER, Rachel, 51, born Ireland COOLY, Albert, 1 yr. 2 mos., born Yates County COOLY, Mary A., 18, born in Yates County CORY, Charles, 70, born in Rhode Island COTTER, Josephine, 4, born Monroe County COTTER, Margaret, 41, born in Ireland COTTER, Mary A., 7, born in Monroe County CRAGGONS, Christopher, 5, born in Steuben County CRAGGONS, Ella, 9, born Yates County CRAGGONS, Timothy, 2 yrs. 9 mos., born Tompkins County CRAGONS, Ellen, 40, born in Ireland CRAGONS, Timothy, 40, born in Ireland CRESS, Joseph, 62, born in Pennsylvania DAVIS, Frank, 8, born Yates County DAVIS, Lewis, 5, born Yates County DAVIS, Seneca, 11, born Yates County EASTON, Hannah, 54, born in Yates County GRAHAM, Hugh, 63, born in Scotland GRISWOLD, Charity, 39, born in Yates County GRISWOLD, Edward, 8, born in Yates County GRISWOLD, Mary, 18, born in Yates County HALL, Lucy, 54, born in Yates County HAMILTON, Abraham (Black), 47, born in Seneca County HOUGHTAILING, Rhuana, 65, born Connecticut HULL, Mary, 56, born in Onondaga County HULSE, William, 56, born in Orange County IRISH, Margaret, 50, born in Ireland JOHNSON, Samuel (Black), 64, born in Montgomery County KELSEY, Miles, 28, born Yates County KNAPP, Jane, 69, born in Orange County KNICKERBOCKER, David, --, born Yates County KNICKERBOCKER, Peter, 72, was born Dutchess County LAMBERT, Aaron, 18, born in Orange County LAMBERT, Mahetible, 50, born in Orange County LANG, Josephus, 19, born in Yates County LATHROPE, Mary, 80, born in Connecticut MALANY, Cornelia, 24, born in Seneca County MALANY, Thomas, 35, born in Ireland MCELROY, Eliza, 33, born in Yates County MCELROY, Elizabeth, 1 1/2, born in Yates County MCELROY, Ella, 8, born Erie County MCELROY, John McElroy, 43, was born in Ireland MCELROY, Mary, 6, born in Wyoming County MCGURK, Neal, 58, born in Ireland MITCHELL, John, 68, born in New Hampshire O'BRIEN, Bridget, 63, born Ireland PRATT, Seth, 65, born in Vermont PROPER, John, 72, born in Queens PULLMAN, Elsey, 64, born in Yates County RHODES, William, 36, born Yates County ROOT, John, 34, born in Yates County SABACOOL, Sarah, 64, was born in New Jersey SHAW, Abijah, 63, born in Chenango County SHEPHERD, Alexander, 52, born in Seneca County SPRAGUE, Eli, 65, born in Columbia County SPRAGUE, George, 6, born in Yates County STRYKER, Cornelius, Farmer, 77, New Jersey THORPE, Jonathan, 67, born Steuben County VANDOREN, Ella, 5, born in Seneca County VANDOREN, William, 2 yrs. 5 mos., born Yates County WALLACE, William, 70, born in Columbia County WHEATON, James, 36, born Yates County WHEATON, Reubin, 74, born Albany County WHEELER, Paul, 70, born in Connecticut WHITAKER, Electa, 51, Unknown WHITBECK, Katy (Black), 57, Unknown WILKINSON, Margaret, 78, New Jersey

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Yates County. - The poor house of this county was visited on June 4, 1883. It then sheltered 29 inmates, of whom two were insane women. One of these, Phebe Newson, a widow, had been an inmate for about five months, being sent to her relatives in this county from Illinois, where she had probably been insane for some time. She was elegant and clean in her person and habits, but being at times quite disturbed, I advised her removal to the Willard Asylum, in which the county now has about 30 patients. The other woman was a quiet, harmless case, and said to be a good laborer. Among the inmates, who were mostly very aged and infirm, there was one feeble-minded woman, 27 years old, who had been in the house about six months. She is badly scarred upon the chest, from a burn by hot water, when a child, and lacks physical vigor. During the past winter, an attempt was made by a tramp, lodging overnight in the house, to outrage her person, but it is said without success. Given her helpless condition, I advised the superintendent to endeavor to secure her early admission to the Newark Asylum.

a fire destroyed the nearly 50-year-old Yates County Poor House in June 1922

https://genealogytrails.com/ny/yates/countyhistory.html

The foregoing is a record of the public buildings of the county of Yates which have been and are in use in connection with its administration and governmental affairs. But the county has one other property which demands some notice in this place. Yates County had not been a separate organization for more than four or five years before its people and officers began discussing the question of establishing a home for the unfortunate and indigent element of the local population. In 1824 the State Legislature passed an act which made a general provision for the maintenance of the poor of the several counties of the State and under this law the supervisors of the county took the initial steps toward the establishment of a county infirmary. The matter was under discussion early in October 1829 at which time the supervisors filed with the clerk a certificate that read as follows: "In compliance with the tenth section of an act passed the 27th of November, 1824, relative to County Poor-Houses, we hereby determine that it will benefit the county of Yates to erect a county poor-house therein. "Given under our hands this 10th day of October, 1829. "Jonathan Whittaker, George Youngs, Clarkson Martin, Alfred Brown, Asher Spicer, James Christie, Abraham Maxfield." Thereafter the supervisors of the county agreed upon the purchase of lands for poor house purposes. The deed was executed on April 14, 1830, by Alfred Brown of Jerusalem, to the superintendents of the poor of Yates County, Elijah Spencer, Joel Dorman, Jabez French, John Warner, and James C. Robinson, whereby in consideration of the sum of $1,200 the grantor conveyed to the grantees, or their successors in office or legal representatives, 125 acres of land in the town of Jerusalem. This is the same tract of land now in part used by the county as a poor house farm, although the area of the same has been increased to now contain 180 acres. The Yates County poor house and its management have at times been the subjects of much discussion and no little anxiety on the part of the supervisors, the press, and the people of the county as well. There have been charges of corruption and extravagance which may not have been wholly groundless. It was during the period extending from 1855 to 1860 that the subject was uppermost in the public and official mind, but eventually, the matter was adjusted or settled and affairs resumed their usual quiet state. From that to the present time there has been no serious disturbance concerning the county's poor house management.