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<p>Oldest bound, handwritten record of inhabitants, land and Town Meetings of Town of Leverett.  Includes "Petition to Sunderland Town", March 1773, signed by inhabitants of "easterly part of same town" to become an independent township.  Land transfers and Property Committee members names recorded pp. 15-70, (missing pages 71-162, 165-170, 173-234, 303-328, 333-335). Legal Mtgs. of Inhabitants of Town of Leverett, starting March 24, 1774 - April 6, 1807 (pp. 347 -531). Birth records; Warrants, Family records; Oldest bound, handwritten record of inhabitants, land and Town Meetings of Town of Leverett.  Includes "Petition to Sunderland Town", March 1773, signed by inhabitants of "easterly part of same town" to become an independent township.  Feb 1, 1775 list/ description of land assigned to 63 individual land owners, measured in acres, rods and inches. Includes handwritten records of deeds predating incorporation of town - earliest: 1727, includes description of laying out of roads,  Refers to Town of Sunderland "First Book of Records" p.232, Includes 1813 page list of "Establishment of Town Roads".; Land transfers, Births, Marriages, Family Records, Petition to Sunderland to Incorporate, Town Meetings: Election of Officers: Selectmen, Clerk, Moderator and various roles such as "Pound Keeper", "Sealer of Leather", "Viewer of Fences", etc., Committees to collect taxes, road charges, survey and maintain highways, collection of "Ministerial wood" and "Ministerial Taxes", setting the tax rate, allocating funds for "schooling", maintaining the "common land". "surveying wood", "telling weights &amp; measures". Statewide Election Records.  Electing representatives to state conventions, "disapproving the Federal Constitution!"
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<br>Subjects: Leverett (Mass.)</div>
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<dl><dd>Town Clerks: Joseph Clary, Jr.</dd>
<dd>Richard Montague</dd>
<dd>Alpheus Field</dd>
<dd>Silas Ball</dd>
<dd>William Bowman</dd>
<dd>Isaac Hubbard</dd>
<dd>Samuel Clary</dd>
<dd>Caleb Montague</dd>
<dd>William Scott</dd>
<dd>Joel Smith</dd>
<dd>Jeremiah Woodbury</dd>
<dd>Solomon Gould</dd></dl></div>
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