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Online Finding Aids Charlton (Mass.), Records, 1738-1869 Contents List About this collection Folder Contents # of Items       1 1738 - 1760 9 2 1761 - 1772, January 10 3 1772, February - May 10 4 1772, June - December 12 5 1773, January - 1774, February 13 6 1774, March 13 7 1774, May - 1776, March 12 8 1776, June - 1783, March 11 9 1783, June - 1795 12 10 1812 - 1827 4       11 Loose items from the School Record Book 4 12 Misc. papers re: the collection               Octavo     Volume           1 School record book, 1800-1869   2 Church records, 1781-1836   About this collection Charlton, Worcester County, Massachusetts is located sixteen miles south-west of Worcester, Mass. It was settled ca. 1735 and incorporated in 1755. This collection contains a volume of school records for the period 1800 to 1869 for a school district in Charlton, Mass. This volume contains applications by freeholders to selectmen to issue warrants calling for school meetings, notices to voters of school meetings, proceedings of school meetings, annual accounts of expenditures of money as returned by school agents, and a description of books belonging to the school district. There is a folder of four loose items from this volume. The collection also contains a notebook that contains deaths from the Baptist Church for the period 1783 to 1784, and baptisms, 1761 to 1805, and marriages, 1783 to 1784, from the First Congregational Church. There are two notebooks of grave inscriptions, copied by George Maynard in October 1906, for several burial grounds in Charlton including the North Side Cemetery, the Charlton City Cemetery, the cemetery near Dresser Hill, the Williams Cemetery, the Towne Cemetery, the Tucker Cemetery, the Smith tomb, the cemetery at Bearfoot Corner, the Dresser Cemetery on Dresser Hill, the Darling or Fitts Cemetery, and the Mixer Cemetery. The documents in the collection include warrants; deeds; bonds; a tax list for 1820; a writ for the collection of taxes, dated 1760; an indenture, 1795; and a will of Ebenezer Davis, of Charlton, dated 3 September 1816, as well as documents concerning ecclesiastical matters. American Antiquarian Society 185 Salisbury Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-1634 Tel.: 508-755-5221 Fax: 508-753-3311 e-mail the library Contact Us Staff Directory Site Map Site Index Last updated September 2, 2004 This site and all contents © 2005 American Antiquarian Society