Scope and Contents

Loose leaf documents relating to town meetings. Contains reports and warrants, meeting minutes, and annual records of persons elected to town offices.

Scope and Contents

Loose leaf documents relating to town meetings. Contains reports and warrants, meeting minutes, and annual records of persons elected to town offices.

Scope and Contents

Loose leaf documents relating to town meetings. Contains reports and warrants, meeting minutes, and annual records of persons elected to town offices - including Town Clerk, Selectmen, Town Treasurer, Assessors, Collectors and Constables, Surveyors of Highways, Fence Viewers, Field Drivers, Pound Keeper, Sealer of Leather, Surveyor of Lumber, and Surveyor of Hemp.

Scope and Contents For most of the 1700’s and 1800’s Town Meetings were recorded in a series of Volumes dubbed “Town Records”. In Southborought’s formative years these volumes were catch-alls for recording most local matters. In addition to including records of questions raised and decisions reached at town meetings, they document everything from land grants and property disputes to the election of town officers, and laying-out of new roads. Town Record Books from the late 19th century also include itemized...