Box 71
Contains 28 Results:
Overseers of The Poor accounts, 1765-1771 Digital
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.
Overseers of The Poor accounts, 1771-1772 Digital
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.
Overseers of The Poor accounts, 1771-1772 Digital
Contains records related to Samuel Abbot’s tenure as an Overseer of the Poor in Boston’s Ward No. 2, dated 1771-1772, mainly bills for schooling.