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From: "Drew Smith" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 00:07:22 -0500
In-Reply-To: <442F55A0.8030302@mindspring.com>


From the Oxford English Dictionary:

"One of a board of officers elected annually to manage various local
concerns in a ‘town’ or ‘township’ in New England."

Drew Smith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Daniels [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 11:40 PM
> To:
> Subject: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman
>
> In researching the Massachusetts Bay Company of New England a
> sentence struck me;
>
> "Robert was a New London selectman in 1651 and a
> representative for the town in the General Court meeting in Hartford in
1651."
> What is the meaning of the selectman? -- was this a noble person? -- an
elected person?

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