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The Town of Southborough has published a Town Report since 1860. Reports contain information about town officials and appointments, and provide updates on projects undertaken by each town department and committee. Throughout the 1850’s individual town departments also published annual reports; particularly the assessor and school committee.

Scope and Contents This collection is composed of records which relate to Southborough’s militia, and document the town's role in military conflicts from the French Indian War forward. There is considerable documentation relating to the Revolutionary War, including enlistment records and payment stubs for local men who served in the continental army. The town’s records relating to the Civil War are even more expansive and provide extraordinarily thorough accounts of local soldiers and their...

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The Town of Southborough has published a Town Report since 1860. Reports contain information about town officials and appointments, and provide updates on projects undertaken by each town department and committee. Throughout the 1850’s individual town departments also published annual reports; particularly the assessor and school committee.

Scope and Contents Parts 1 and 2 of this volume include records and petitions relating to the laying-out of new roads, widening of roads, road boundaries, and locations of town lines in Southborough from 1723-1930. They also include information on the locations of existing town roads, correspondence relating to the rebuilding of Cordaville, safety inspections conducted on town roads, and reports of the Selectmen and Road Commission relating to town ways. The spines of the volumes incorrectly identify the date...

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This volume includes "true copies of the locations and laying-out of roads", and well as orders for building roads. The majority of the book is typewritten, and a chronological index of documents is included at the front of the volume. Most of the original documents can be found either in "Road Petitions and Town Lines" or "Laying-out of Roads". The volume is labeled "Roads: 1894" on its spine, however the documents contained actually span from 1723-1924.

Scope and Contents Records relating to the placement of roads in Southborough extend back to 1723, predating the Town of Southborough itself which did not break away from Marlborough until 1727. The collection includes countless citizen’s petitions requesting that new roads be laid-out in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, which afford a unique window into the Town’s growth and settlement.The majority of materials document the formation of new roads, along with subsequent maintenance, repairs, and...

Scope and Contents Meetings of the school committee include the election of officers, appointments of truant officers, lists of teachers employed during each term and the schools assigned to them, a list of books recommended for teaching, salaries, expenditures, appropriations, budgets, recommendations, resignations, etc.Also included is a list of children in Southborough who were between 5 and 15 years of age on May 1st 1875, a copy of the deed from Henry H. Peters, Esq. to the Inhabitants of...

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Includes secretary and treasurer reports of the Peters High School Reunion Association, a description of the Association’s constitution and bylaws, names of members present at the reading of the constitution and bylaws, and notes on the Old Home Week Committee for the High School Reception in 1904.

Scope and Contents This collection contains records relating to schools and education that are held by the Southborough Town Clerk’s office. It includes budgeting, salary and financial records, as well as minutes, reports and correspondence of the Schoolhouse and School Districting Committees. An extensive selection of enrollment and attendance registers are also included. They provide the names and ages of each student in the town from 1890-1895, along with records of their attendance, and the names of school...

Scope and Contents Southborough appointed its first Selectmen shortly after the town was founded in 1727. The Select Board has several important responsibilities under Massachusetts Law, which include the power to prepare the town meeting warrant or agenda, the power to make appointments to town boards and offices, the power to employ professional administrative staff and town counsel, and the authority to grant licenses and permits. The Select Board also sets policy and strategic direction, coordinates the...