The Records of The Town of Cambridge Massachusetts 1630-1703 Genealogy book

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Records of the Town of Cambridge (Formerly Newtowne)  Massachusetts, 1630-1703
The Records of the Town Meetings, and of the Selectmen,  Comprising all of the First Volume of Records, and Being Volume II of the  Printed Records of the Town
Volume  totaling
397
pages. Book is in excellent  condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
The town of Cambridge, Massachusetts (originally known as  Newtowne) was founded adjacent to Boston in 1631. The volume at hand--a reprint  of Volume II of the printed records of Cambridge as ordered by the Cambridge  City Council in 1901--is a transcription of the records of Cambridge town  meetings and meetings of selectmen from the town's beginnings until 1703.
Records of the Town of Cambridge
promises  to hold the interest of the historian as well as the genealogist. A casual  reading of the records reveals Cambridge's evolution from little more than a cow  pasture to that of a bustling New England town as land was parceled out, trees  felled, houses and barns erected, roads and bridges surveyed and laid out,  ministers' salaries authorized, and so on. Although the vast majority of the  records dwell on Cambridge's business affairs, they nonetheless have the great  genealogical value of placing persons in the town at a particular time. In all,  the researcher will find references to more than 6,000 17th-century inhabitants  of Cambridge, in roles as diverse as committee members, petitioners, selectmen,  fence viewers, shepherds, trespassers, constables, clergy, tradesmen, or  farmers. Thankfully, these ancestors are readily identified by means of a name  index and detailed subject index found at the back of the volume.
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