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Box 71

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Overseers of The Poor accounts, 1771-1772 Digital

Item — Box: 71, Folder: 20Identifier: 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 1771-1772, including billets, bills for burials and schooling, letters requesting assistance, and a list of people who were witnesses to three women sent to the workhouse from the barrack house near the North End, one of whom was Sarah Stone.