PS09RDAgostino

=Teacher Primary Source Page=

Bob D'Agostino, Everett Public Schools
== Bob's Lesson Page

The history of public poor relief in Massachusetts, 1620-1920 By Robert Wilson Kelso Google books, 1922 - 200 pages

Two key documents mentioned on pp. 61-62 of Kelso's book:

Resolve Against Foreign Paupers (1836)
p. 420 Resolves passed by the Mass General Court 1836

An Act relating to Alien Passengers (1837)
p. 270 Acts and Resolves 1837-1838 1840 amendment to 1837 Act relating to alien passengers

Massachusetts Statutes and Resolves
===Source: state library of Mass online===

Accounting of Pauper Accounts, including alien passenger revenue, appears at the end of each legislative session. For example, 1838

1839

1846

1847

1848

1849

1855 Mass Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt and to Punish for Faudluent Debtors Chap 444 p. 852 @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass185455mass 1855 Mass Act relative to State Paupers Chap 445 p. 858 @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass185455mass

1854 Act (if alien passenger becomes pauper within 5 years, taker of bond is responsible) http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass185455mass#page/144/mode/2up

1852-1853 Acts and Resolves Governor's Address p. 313-314 mentions "foreign pauperism" @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass185253mass

1853 Act to create State Pauper Institutes @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass185253mass

1853 Act concerning Transit of Alien Passengers @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass185253mass 1853 http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass185253mass#page/584/mode/2up/search/alien+passengers

1852 Act relating to Paupers having no Settlement in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Chap 275 pp. 190-193 @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass185253mass

1852 An act relating to Alien Passengers (amends 1848 act) Chap 279 pp. 195-196 (May 20, 1852) @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass185253mass

1850 Act Relating to Alien Passengers Chap 105 pp. 338-340 (March 29, 1850) @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass184951mass

1851 An Act Requiring the Appointment of Board of Commissioners in relation to Alien Passengers and State Paupers Chap. 342 pp. 847-849 (May 24, 1851) @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass184951mass

1850 expense of foreign paupers (1839-1850) @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass184951mass

1848 an Act concerning Alien Passengers [creating the superintendents of alien passengers] Chap 313 pp. 796-799 (May 10, 1848) @http://www.archive.org/stream/actsresolvespass184648mass

Massachusetts State Record ["paupers"]
NB-- stats are for the year before the publication date (ie., the 1847 Record has the 1846 stats) 1846-- no listing in state almanac 1847--"Paupers in Massachusetts" p. 258-259 @http://www.archive.org/stream/massachusettssta1847cape 1848--"Charities to Ireland and Scotland" p. 201-205 [long text reflecting on famine impact and listing charitable relief at end; has an opinion] @http://www.archive.org/stream/massachusettssta1848cape 1848-"Paupers in Massachusetts" p. 302 http://www.archive.org/stream/massachusettssta1848cape#page/302/mode/2up 1849 -- "Paupers in Massachusetts" p. 301 [includes numbers of foreign paupers, and those from Ireland and England] @http://www.archive.org/stream/massachusettssta1849cape 1850-- "Paupers in Massachusetts" p. 301 @http://www.archive.org/stream/massachusettssta1850cape 1850-- Society of Prevention of Pauperism [lists "American and Protestant" and Other for application for employment] p. 199 @http://www.archive.org/stream/massachusettssta1850cape 1851-- p. 328 http://www.archive.org/stream/massachusettssta1851cape#page/328/mode/2up 1852-- p. 331 [no longer lists Ireland and England; does list intemperance] http://www.archive.org/stream/massachusettsreg1852bost#page/330/mode/2up 1853-- no listing of Paupers in Mass., no Society for Prevention of Pauperism http://www.archive.org/stream/massachusettsreg1853bost#page/n9/mode/2up http://www.archive.org/stream/massachusettsreg1853bost#page/282/mode/2up

Massachusetts State Census
1855 Mass and US population http://www.archive.org/stream/abstractofcensus1855mass#page/198/mode/2up 1855 Nativity @http://www.archive.org/stream/abstractofcensus1855mass 1855 Country of origin http://www.archive.org/stream/abstractofcensus1855mass#page/232/mode/2up 1855 Towns -- percentage foreign born http://www.archive.org/stream/abstractofcensus1855mass#page/234/mode/2up

1865 Nativity of Population--Foreign Born p. 292-294 @http://www.archive.org/stream/abstractofcensus1865mass 1865 Paupers p. 303 http://www.archive.org/stream/abstractofcensus1865mass#page/302/mode/2up

Naturalization Act Congress on March 26, 1790 (1 Stat. 103), p. 103 of [] [Also in Statutes at Large, 1 Congress, 2nd Session, Chap 3 [] ]

Also check out:

The Poor Debtor Law of Massachusetts
Author:Grinell, Charles Edward, March 1883 Available from the Cornell Law Library -- The Poor Debtor law of Massachusetts A study of the poor debtor law of Massachusetts and some details of its practice : with a chronological list of the statutes of Massachusetts, a table of the statutes of the other states, the territories, and the United States, and a list of books concerning poor debtors (1883)

http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/boston.html
 * Irish Passengers to Boston list info**

__Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders, and Fundamental Law__ by Gerald L. Neumann (Princeton University Press, 1996) Massachusetts requirements on bonding immigrant passengers pp. 22-27 -- see also the footnotes! [not all pages available in GoogleBooks preview] @http://books.google.com/books?id=dXyS5cttGlQC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=bonded+immigrants&source=bl&ots=lcLxRZIgcK&sig=gnJOvaHwLXSNLNM_I4lobgHxIPw&hl=en&ei=TWtHS9uRDdHulAe7go0P&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result
 * Secondary Source oveview of the topic** [get this book!]

City of Boston Archives and Records Management Division @http://www.cityofboston.gov/archivesandrecords/Guide%20to%20the%20City%20Council%20Committee%20on%20Alien%20Passengers%20records.xml
 * Guide to the City Council Joint Committee on Alien Passengers records**

Massachusetts State Archives Passenger Lists into the Port of Boston @http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcgen/genidx.htm The Causes of Know-Nothing Success in Massachusetts George H. Haynes The American Historical Review, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Oct., 1897), pp. 67-82 American Historical Association Stable URL: [|http://www.jstor.org/stable/18328]**[|09]**

Add'l [need to be logged into JSTOR for full article] @http://www.jstor.org/pss/30100186
 * article about NYC bonded immigrant passengers**

bonding today @http://bostonimmigration.typepad.com/boston_immigration_law_fi/2007/10/paying-an-immig.html www.indepaz.org.co/.../125_2%20Forced%20and%20Bonded%20Labour.pdf -

1891 Sacramento CA newspaper article "Bonded Immigrants" [first column, top of page] Sacramento Dail record-Union, September 26, 1891 @http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015104/1891-09-26/ed-1/seq-6/;words=IMMIGRANTS+bonds+immigrants+Immigration+immigration+bonding+bonded+Bonds+BONDED+bond

1877 Scrivner's article on immigrant passage, including bond @http://maggieblanck.com/Scribner1877/S.html

NARA -- information on Immigration Records @http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/passenger-arrival.html

@http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwac.html

Poor-laws of Massachusetts and New York, with appendices containing the United States immigration and contract-labor laws; by John Cummings. @http://books.google.com/books?id=RAFAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Poor-laws+of+Massachusetts+and+New+York,+with+appendices+containing+the+United+States+immigration+and+contract-labor+laws%3B+by+John+Cummings.&source=bl&ots=ZilQ739T4E&sig=g9A-JKB6TtEcKBGhunCjJYpkCDw&hl=en&ei=DrlhS4-uPM6UtgfVx6jYDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA

















Link to Naturalization Act of 1795 here



Link to Naturalization Act of 1798 here



1802 Act to limit debentures link here





Link to 1824 Naturalization Act here

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