Autograph Manuscript Order, Signed “Edwd Edes Overseer” to Samuel Whitwell requesting that he “receive Polly Ballard into the Almshouse on the Towns Account.”

by Boston Almshouse, Edward Edes

$150 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

1p., pen and ink on paper. 8 x 4 inches. Old folds, some chipping to right hand corners affecting date and text identifying ward number, two small holes in center not affecting text, else VG. Item #308540 Between 1758 and 1800 the Boston Overseers of the Poor admitted around 7,200 persons into the almshouse. Polly Ballard would have been sent to the almshouse at the corner of Beacon and Park streets, in Boston, established in 1696, to replace the

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