If I give you the title of the book I could just stop there. It pretty much is self-describing: The Town Officer: Or, The Power and Duty of Selectmen, Town Clerks, Town Treasurers, Overseers of the Poor, Assessors, Constables, Collectors of taxes, Surveyors of Highways, Surveyors of Lumber, Fence Viewers, Field Drivers, Measurers of Wood [...]
Successful interpretation of an historical record requires many skills. Of course, you first need to know the record might even exist. Then you need to be able to find the record, whether online, in a state archive or in the basement of a town hall. Perhaps then you need skills in paleography, knowledge of how [...]
As genealogists in New England we are all familiar with the story of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, the pilgrim separatists and the puritans, of Governors Bradford and Winthrop, of the Great Migration, and of the vast chronicle from the Mayflower to Bunker Hill and beyond. But what about New Hampshire? I think sometimes many consider [...]
