Mecom made efforts to keep her children out of debtors' prison, the almshouse, and asylums. In 1619 he founded Abbot's Hospital, an almshouse in Guildford, which is still operating. Originally built as an almshouse in the mid-19th century, it includes over of open space. The passageway running to the Lady Chapel was turned into an almshouse for six bedemen. The almshouse provided for ten poor widows. In 1866, a hospital was added to supplement the existing almshouse. The Newark almshouse opened in September 1878 as a branch of the Syracuse State School. City Hall was originally an area for the first almshouse in 1653. She describes the old hospital as being the last "almshouse" in America. The first almshouse in United States history was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1622. She was committed to the almshouse in Newark as feeble-minded. He planned an almshouse at Twickenham with a gallery for some of his works. It was established in 1855 as an almshouse. Zuyderland was resident of the Dutch Protestant Almshouse for Old Men and Women. The effort was organized by Rev. John Bartlett, chaplain of the Boston Almshouse.