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Records of the Town of Plymouth
Author: Records of the Town of Plymouth, Vol. 3
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332232222
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Excerpt from Records of the Town of Plymouth, Vol. 3: 1743 to 1783 After a temporary suspension of the publication of the Plymouth Records the third volume is now issued by authority of a vote of the Town passed at its annual meeting of last year. This volume covers a very interesting period beginning in 1743 and ending at the close of 1782. During that period the records were kept by Samuel Bartlett from 1741-2 to March, 1766; by John Cotton from March, 1766, to March, 1767, and by Ephraim Spooner from 1767 during the remaining years. Samuel Bartlett having been referred to in the second volume no further mention of him is necessary. John Cotton was a son of Josiah Cotton of Plymouth, grandson of Rev. John Cotton, also of Plymouth, and great-grandson of Rev. John Cotton of Boston, who came from England in 1633. He was born in Plymouth, April 5th, 1712, and graduated at Harvard in 1730. He studied for the ministry and was ordained pastor of the church in Halifax, Massachusetts, in 1736. Leaving the ministry he returned to Plymouth, and in 1756 succeeded his father as Register of Deeds for the County of Plymouth, holding that office until his death, November 4, 1789. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in 1780, and the author of a history of the First Church. He was the father of Rev. Josiah Cotton of Wareham, of Rev. Ward Cotton of Boylston, and of Rossiter Cotton, who succeeded him as Register of Deeds. The following lines are inscribed on his gravestone on Burial Hill in Plymouth: 'Tis Heaven's irrevocable decree: That the great, the good, the pious shall fall, In the dark grave undistinguished to be, 'Till the last trumpet rends the azure sky! When the virtuous immortal shall rise To glory and joys 'bove the starry skies; The vicious to pain, dishonor, contempt In realms below the splendid firmament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Records of the Town of Plymouth (vol. 3)
Author: Records of the Town of Plymouth, Volume 3 1743-1783
Author: William T. DavisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556131837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
These volumes contain a complete, verbatim transcription of the town records of Plymouth, Massachusetts for the years 1636 to 1783. They record all the formal business of the town, such as town meetings, elections, laying out of roads, and land grants by the town; vital records were kept in separate books and are not included here. These records begin early in the life of the town and continue down through the end of the American Revolution. They provide a quite detailed picture of life at the time. Here you will find the local residents registering their cattle marks, being elected hog-reeve, or to some other minor town post, receiving permission to set up fishing stages or erect a fence, listed as voting at the town meeting, receiving a grant of land or cattle, assisting in the care of widows and orphans, having a road laid out past their property, and all manner of other interesting things. These records can be very helpful because they name a great many people, some of whom probably do not show up in many other records. There is a complete index in each volume.
Records of the Town of Plymouth: 1636 to 1705
Author: William Thomas DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
These volumes contain a complete, verbatim transcription of the town records of Plymouth, Massachusetts for the years 1636 to 1783. They record all the formal business of the town, such as town meetings, elections, laying out of roads, and land grants by the town; vital records were kept in separate books and are not included here. These records begin early in the life of the town and continue down through the end of the American Revolution. They provide a quite detailed picture of life at the time. Here you will find the local residents registering their cattle marks, being elected hog-reeve, or to some other minor town post, receiving permission to set up fishing stages or erect a fence, listed as voting at the town meeting, receiving a grant of land or cattle, assisting in the care of widows and orphans, having a road laid out past their property, and all manner of other interesting things. These records can be very helpful because they name a great many people, some of whom probably do not show up in many other records. There is a complete index in each volume.
Records of the Town of Plymouth: 1743-1783
Author: Records of the Town of Plymouth
Author: William T. DavisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556131820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
These volumes contain a complete, verbatim transcription of the town records of Plymouth, Massachusetts for the years 1636 to 1783. They record all the formal business of the town, such as town meetings, elections, laying out of roads, and land grants by the town; vital records were kept in separate books and are not included here. These records begin early in the life of the town and continue down through the end of the American Revolution. They provide a quite detailed picture of life at the time. Here you will find the local residents registering their cattle marks, being elected hog-reeve, or to some other minor town post, receiving permission to set up fishing stages or erect a fence, listed as voting at the town meeting, receiving a grant of land or cattle, assisting in the care of widows and orphans, having a road laid out past their property, and all manner of other interesting things. These records can be very helpful because they name a great many people, some of whom probably do not show up in many other records. There is a complete index in each volume.
Records of the Town of Plymouth
Author: Plymouth (Mass )Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781340858131
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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Records of the Town of Plymouth (1636-1705, 1705-1743, 1743-1783)
Author: William T. DavisPublisher: Clearfield Company
ISBN: 9780806345628
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1193
Book Description
Records of the Town of Plymouth: 1743 to 1783
Author: Plymouth (Mass.)Publisher: Plymouth, Avery & Doten, book and job printers
ISBN:
Category : Plymouth (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description