Poor House / Pauper Records

The following Boxford Poor House (Town Farm) and Pauper records are available online, courtesy of the Town of Boxford: 

• Incidental and Pauper Orders, 1814-1832 (financial records)

• Pauper Orders, 1832-1881 (financial records)

• Incidental, Pauper, and School Orders, 1863-1892 (financial records)

• Overseers of the Poor Records, 1825-1855 (records of Boxford residents providing support to other residents in their own homes)

• Overseers of the Poor Records, 1823-1885 (correspondence between Boxford and other towns RE: financial support of individuals; contains index of names)

• Overseers of the Poor Records, 1848-1857 (Overseers of the Poor reports)

• Pauper Register, 1868-1901 (includes records for those fully supported and also for travelers - see pg. 48)

• Almshouse Account Book, 1858-1876 (itemized expenses and credits for Town Farm)

• Almshouse Account Book, 1876-1888 (itemized expenses and credits for Town Farm)

• Almshouse Account Book, 1888-1898 (itemized expenses and credits for Town Farm)

Additional volumes on deposit at the Boxford Historic Document Center:

Itinerant Register Almshouse, 1902-1905

Resident Register Almshouse, 1902-1911

Register of Paupers, 1914-1943 (Financial support - Town Farm discontinued 1912)

Register of Paupers, 1902

Register of Paupers, 1911-1914

Old Age Assistance, 1932-1950

Old Age Assistance, 1935-1939

Town Farm – Cash Book, 1902-1908

Town Farm – Expenditures, 1899-1903

Town Farm – Expenditures, 1902-1912