1771 POOR RELIEF. How Early Americans Responded to Poverty Caused British Taxation and War. ZZAffordableMiscellanea We know Benjamin was working

We know Benjamin was working the presses in 1721 and 1722

and thus God hath shewn them he has more arrows than one in His quiver

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1771 POOR RELIEF. How Early Americans Responded to Poverty Caused British Taxation and War. ZZAffordableMiscellanea We know Benjamin was workingAn 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