Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Volume LXIX

Officers of the Society

Frederick D. Ballou, President

Danel R. Coquillette, Vice President

Celeste Walker, Vice President

Robert J. Allison, Vice President

Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary

Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary

William B. Perkins, Treasurer

Committee of Publications

Pauline R. Maier, Chair

Robert Anderson

Frederick D. Ballou

Christopher Jedrey

Conrad Edick Wright

Editor of Publications

John W. Tyler

The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor

The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor

Editors

Eric Nellis

The University of British Columbia

Anne Decker Cecere

boston     The Colonial Society of Massachusetts     2006

Distributed by the University of Virginia Press

Copyright © 2006 by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

ISBN 978-0-9620737-4-8

Printed from the Income of the Sarah Louise Edes Fund