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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 3: civil History. (search)
several orders. whereby the system of municipal government was radically changed. Hitherto, all the legal voters had met, from month to month, to manage their public affairs. Power was now delegated to a few individuals, at first styled Townsmen, and afterwards Selectmen, to transact the whole business of the town, until the next November, when a new election might be had. Perhaps the term of service was thus limited in anticipation of the proposed removal of many inhabitants. Feb. 3, 1634-5. At a general meeting of the whole town, it was agreed upon by a joint consent, that seven men should be chosen to do the whole business of the town, and so to continue until the first Monday in November next, and until new be chosen in their room: so there was then elected and chosen John Haynes, Esq., Mr. Symon Bradstreet, John Taylcott, William Westwood, John White, William Wadsworth; James Olmsted, Constable. It is further ordered, by a joint consent, [that] whatsoever th
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 5: civil History. (search)
s. I quote again from the Town Records:— Nov. 23, 1635. At a general meeting of the whole town, there was then chosen, to order the business of the whole town for the year following, and until new be chosen in their room, Mr. Roger Harlakenden, William Spencer, Andrew Warner, Joseph Cooke, John Bridge, Clement Chaplin, Nicholas Danforth, Thomas Hosmer, William Andrews: which nine men are to have the power of the Town as those formerly chosen had, as may appear in the order made the 3d Feb. 1634. （1634-5.) Further, there was chosen and sworn William Andrews, constable for the year following, and until a new be chosen. Further, there was then chosen for the year following Barnabas Lambson to be surveyor of the highways. It is further ordered, That the Town Book shall be at William Spencer's house. With a change of government came a change of customs. Some of the common planting fields became private property. Thus the Old Field, containing about sixty-three acres,