1771 POOR RELIEF. How Early Americans Responded to Poverty Caused British Taxation and War. ZZAffordableMiscellanea though lightly chipped at extremities

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Whose Treasure is in Heaven: Consisting of Select Texts of the Bible

We know Benjamin was working the presses in 1721 and 1722

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1771 POOR RELIEF. How Early Americans Responded to Poverty Caused British Taxation and War. ZZAffordableMiscellanea though lightly chipped at extremitiesAn inexplicably rare imprint of Pennsylvania's important 1771 complete revision of its poor laws. The Act represented a radical departure from previous treatment of the poor, authorizing the local overseer system, construction and operation of Houses of Employment, and boarding out the poor. It also provided for the apprenticing of poor children, the law of settlement, and the reciprocal three generation duty of support, and further authorized the