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1776 just weeks before the issuance of the Declaration of Independence

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1771 POOR RELIEF. How Early Americans Responded to Poverty Caused British Taxation and War. ZZAffordableMiscellanea 1776 just weeks before theAn 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