Scope and Contents From the Collection: Massachusetts law, and the Commonwealth’s Voter Registration system, require each Town or City Clerk’s Office to confirm the identity of every person residing in town at the beginning of each year. To gather that information, town censuses are collected annually. Residents of all ages are included in the census regardless of whether they are registered to vote, or how long they have resided in the town.The Town Census is mailed to all known households in late January and the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Massachusetts law, and the Commonwealth’s Voter Registration system, require each Town or City Clerk’s Office to confirm the identity of every person residing in town at the beginning of each year. To gather that information, town censuses are collected annually. Residents of all ages are included in the census regardless of whether they are registered to vote, or how long they have resided in the town.The Town Census is mailed to all known households in late January and the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Massachusetts law, and the Commonwealth’s Voter Registration system, require each Town or City Clerk’s Office to confirm the identity of every person residing in town at the beginning of each year. To gather that information, town censuses are collected annually. Residents of all ages are included in the census regardless of whether they are registered to vote, or how long they have resided in the town.The Town Census is mailed to all known households in late January and the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Massachusetts law, and the Commonwealth’s Voter Registration system, require each Town or City Clerk’s Office to confirm the identity of every person residing in town at the beginning of each year. To gather that information, town censuses are collected annually. Residents of all ages are included in the census regardless of whether they are registered to vote, or how long they have resided in the town.The Town Census is mailed to all known households in late January and the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Massachusetts law, and the Commonwealth’s Voter Registration system, require each Town or City Clerk’s Office to confirm the identity of every person residing in town at the beginning of each year. To gather that information, town censuses are collected annually. Residents of all ages are included in the census regardless of whether they are registered to vote, or how long they have resided in the town.The Town Census is mailed to all known households in late January and the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Massachusetts law, and the Commonwealth’s Voter Registration system, require each Town or City Clerk’s Office to confirm the identity of every person residing in town at the beginning of each year. To gather that information, town censuses are collected annually. Residents of all ages are included in the census regardless of whether they are registered to vote, or how long they have resided in the town.The Town Census is mailed to all known households in late January and the...

Scope and Contents Bound ledger book including the name, address, occupation, and age of the afflicted individual, the nature of their illness (i.e. chicken-pox, dog bites, eye infections, mumps, smallpox, measles, meningitis, diphtheria, dysentery, tuberculosis, yellow fever, whooping cough, scarlet fever, influenza, etc.), the date the illness began, the date notice was received by the board of health, the name of the person reporting the case (often a physician or school nurse), entities notified of the...

Scope and Contents Bound ledger book including the name, address, occupation, and age of the afflicted individual, the nature of their illness (i.e. chicken-pox, dog bites, eye infections, mumps, smallpox, measles, meningitis, diphtheria, dysentery, tuberculosis, yellow fever, whooping cough, scarlet fever, influenza, etc.), the date the illness began, the date notice was received by the board of health, the name of the person reporting the case (often a physician or school nurse), entities notified of the...

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This volume is divided into two sections and contains: Town Meetings, Petitions, and Warrants, 1785-1810 and Town Meetings, 1758-1840 The spine incorrectly identifies the volume's date range as 1785-1810.

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These volumes were transcribed as part of a Work Progress Administration (WPA) project that sought to make copies of town records. The project was never completed due to a lack of funding.