Voice of the People: Daily Life in the Antebellum Rural Delaware County New York Area

Family and Daily Life

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Background: There was no welfare system in this era. Poor children sometimes ended up as servants with little pay.

 

Courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753.

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