Health and Welfare: Helping Those in Need

A set of 90 documents, 1751-1989, including records for the town poor farm; indentures (contracts for job training in exchange for work) for young people in the town's care; payments to people who agree to board indigent persons in their homes; records of the Overseers of the Poor; and other documents concerning the well-being of Lexington people.

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Health and Welfare