Scope and Contents

Accounts with various local merchants to purchase supplies necessary for the care of paupers, including medicine, food, clothing, and equipment. Accounts with Maynard's Store, James Long, Sullivan Fay, Frank B. Fay, Dexter Fay, F. A. Winchester, Newton and Rice, and L.W. Newton.

Scope and Contents

Accounts with various local merchants to purchase supplies necessary for the care of paupers, including medicine, food, clothing, and equipment. Accounts with Maynard's Store, James Long, Sullivan Fay, Frank B. Fay, Dexter Fay, F. A. Winchester, Newton and Rice, and L.W. Newton.

Scope and Contents

This ledger includes petitions for help and support from impoverished townspeople, and documents funds used to cover the boarding, clothing, doctoring, and nursing of various paupers in the town of Southborough. It also includes records of placements, as paupers were sometimes "disposed of to the highest bidder" and people in the town agreed to pay a weekly or annual sum for their care.

Scope and Contents This collection contains lists of paupers and petitions for aid and support from impoverished townspeople, correspondence relating to the disposition of paupers, updates on their care, and the names of their benefactors. Expense books also document accounts of the Overseers of the Poor with various local merchants to purchase supplies necessary for the care of paupers, such as medicine, food, clothing, and equipment. Some statewide statistics relating to the care of the poor are also...