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Town of Deerfield, MA, Warnings out of town

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Deerfield, MA

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During the 18th and 19th centuries, Massachusetts laws regulated care of the poor through a system of statutes and acts referred to as Poor Relief, or Poor Laws. That system included authorizing towns throughout the Commonwealth “warn out” out people, including African Americans, who lacked residential status to return to their town of origin for assistance. Eighteenth-century records warning out non-residents of Deerfield, Massachusetts, are preserved in the library of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (Town of Deerfield, MA, Warnings out of town: Box 4.)

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