Scope and Contents This collection includes minutes, correspondence, and administrative records documenting the Board’s activities, along with copies of licenses and permits issued to both businesses and residents. Importantly, it includes a series of records pertaining to communicable diseases and public health threats in the town, which provides a detailed account of persons afflicted with Influenza during the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918-1920. The majority of licenses relate to the production, sale, and...

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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Volume contains minutes, lists of paupers and applications for aid and assistance 1830-1861, and an inventory of goods 1846-1860. Applications for assistance can include the name, age, marital status, and birthplace of the requestor along with details regarding the nature of their request and living conditions.

Scope and Contents This collection contains lists of paupers and petitions for aid and support from impoverished townspeople, correspondence relating to the disposition of paupers, updates on their care, and the names of their benefactors. Expense books also document accounts of the Overseers of the Poor with various local merchants to purchase supplies necessary for the care of paupers, such as medicine, food, clothing, and equipment. Some statewide statistics relating to the care of the poor are also...

Scope and Contents Petitions made to the Overseers for aid and relief, correspondence and memos regarding the disposition of paupers, updates on their care, and the names of their benefactors. Records of payments and reimbursements from the selectmen and overseers of the poor for the care of said individuals is also included.Part 1 is divided into 5 sections:Susannah Boddingham’s Care and Accounts (1768-1776) - 27 leaves Welfare-Warnings-Inventories Etc. (1738-1840) - 69 leaves Andrew...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes records maintained by the Town Clerk’s Office which relate to the First Church of Southborough (Congregational), and the Pilgrim Evangelical Society of Southborough. Since there was no separation of church and state in Massachusetts until 1806, the majority of records pertain to the First Congregational Church where the pastor was an employee of the town. The congregation was supported through public taxation in the form of a mandatory “Minister Tax''. Surviving...

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Membership, Sacramental Records, and Church Functions from Southborough's Congregational Church

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This notebook contains copies of church policies, sermons, and meeting minutes c. 1780-1800, along with membership records and baptisms, marriages and deaths from 1781-1793.

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This volume contains: meeting minutes, membership records, baptisms, marriages, and deaths

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This volume contains: meeting minutes, warrants and agendas, and membership records