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Publication Date
6-2012
Abstract
From 1747 to 1765 Scarborough created a safety net to keep its maritime dependents from becoming impoverished. A web of kinship connections that permitted sailors to move between land and sea as well as between maritime roles as they aged; the employment of maritime servants; the extensive hiring of elderly seamen; the use of the Seamen’s Sixpence after legislative reform in 1747 to develop locally operated seamen’s hospitals for the benefit of sailors and their families; and strong community support of the hospitals worked together to provide a social safety net that was, by eighteenth century standards, robust and effective.
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Foy, Charles, ""Sewing a Safety Net: Scarborough's Maritime Community, 1747-1765"" (2012). Faculty Research & Creative Activity. 13.
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"This article appeared originally in the International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 24, No. 1 (June 2012), pp. 1-28. It is posted here with the kind permission of the International Maritime Economic History Association."