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Box 71

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Overseers of The Poor accounts, 1765-1771 Digital

Item — Box: 71, Folder: 19Identifier: Mss:761 1754-1819 A122
Scope and Contents:

Contains records related to Samuel Abbot’s tenure as an Overseer of the Poor in Boston’s Ward No. 2, dated 1765-1771, including bills for schooling, a burial, and medical attendance, and a warning to depart for Benjamin and Elizabeth Jones, to which a note was added that he had gone to sea and left his wife and five children indigent.