Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Worcester Town Records, 1817 1832
ON the 1 1th of May, 1891, in accordance with the plan adopted in 1889, the details of which are set forth and explained in the Preface to Volume VIII. Of the Collections of The Worcester Society of Antiquity, a petition was presented to the City Govern ment of Worcester for a third appropriation, to defray one -half the expense of copying, editing, indexing and printing the Town Records from 1817 to 183 2, inclusive. This petition bore the fol lowing names Albert Curtis, George F. Hoar, George Chandler, Nathaniel Paine, Frank P. Goulding, A. G. Bullock, F. A. Gaskill, E. B. Crane, Richard o'flynn, Samuel S. Green, Samuel H. Put nam, Harvey B. Wilder, E. M. Barton, Lyman Brown, George M. Woodward, S. E. Hildreth, Clark Jillson, T. A. Dickinson, John C. Otis, Samuel E. Staples, S. D. Hosmer, James L. Estey, M. A. Maynard, Walter Davidson, George Sumner, Dwight A. Davis, J. Chauncey Lyford, Charles H. Banister, Edward R. F iske and Franklin P. Rice.
At a meeting of the City Council, June 15th, 1891, the sum of five hundred dollars was voted for the purpose above named.
The publication of this portion of the Town Records, as Volume XI. Of the Collections, was authorized by vote of The Worcester Society of Antiquity, at the regular meeting September 1, 1891.
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