The Paupers of Somerset County: 1760-1800

Authors

  • Marc A. Mappen Rutgers University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v33i2.1503

Keywords:

New Jersey, poverty

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to examine the lives of a group of early New Jersey poor people—the seventy-one paupers who received assistance from the townships of Franklin and Hillsborough in Somerset County from 1760-1800.

Author Biography

Marc A. Mappen, Rutgers University

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Published

2012-05-23

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 2 (1970)

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