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Subject: Re: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 01:21:36 EST

In a message dated 4/2/2006 12:08:19 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

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



That is something like what we have here in New Jersey to this day. We have
a county Board of Chosen Freeholders who serve as the elected officials for
each county. We are the only state that still uses this obsolete title for
our elected officials. Originally, the officials had to be "freeholders"
(free men who owned land) in order to be elected to the position--but, of course,
today there is no such qualification.

Joan

This thread:

• Searching for a word defination selectman by Bill Daniels <>
  • RE: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman by "Drew Smith" <>
    • RE: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman by Kathy Rippel <>
      • Re: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman by "Catherine Foote" <>
      • RE: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman by "Drew Smith" <>
  • Re: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman by "Richard Pence" <>
  • Re: [APG] Searching for a word defination selectman by bob gillis <>

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