Scope and Content: The State Primary School, opened at the State Almshouse at Monson in 1866 and continuing after the almshouse’s closing in 1872 until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders.  Series was created to administer their admission to the institution as follows:
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Files for 1870, 1876-1878, 1883, 1886, 1889-1890, 1892-1894 only; pre-1889 files fragmentary. Box 1: 1870-1890.  Box 2: 1892-1894. Reel GSU 447: 1870-1892.  Reel GSU 448: 1892-1894
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