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Definition of Selectmen
1. selectman [n] - See also: selectman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selectmen
Literary usage of Selectmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Council of Safety (Conn.), Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1885)
"The selectmen of Sharon exhibited their account of sundries, ... Resolved by this
Board, that said sum be paid said selectmen out of the public treasury, ..."
2. Records Relating to the Early History of Boston by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept (1893)
"The selectmen received several Petitions from a great Number of the Inhabitants,
... The selectmen having considered the application for a Town Meeting, ..."
3. The Origin of the Moving School in Massachusetts by Harlan Updegraff (1908)
"which covered, evidently, executive acts only. The selectmen, however, fixed the
salary and determined for two succeeding masters how it should ..."
4. The Origin of the Moving School in Massachusetts by Harlan Updegraff (1908)
"The selectmen, however, fixed the salary and determined for two succeeding masters
how it should be raised, presumably under instructions from the town. ..."
5. A Sketch of the History of Attleborough: From Its Settlement to the Division by John Daggett, Amelia Daggett Shellfield (1894)
"To Chairman of the selectmen. Mayor's Office, City Hall. ... Chairman of the
selectmen of the town of Attleborough, twenty eight hundred dollars, ..."
6. Early New England Towns: A Comparative Study of Their Development by Anne Bush MacLear (1908)
"Of this number five were usually the selectmen proper and the other two the
constables, ... Cambridge began by choosing seven selectmen; then, in 1635, ..."
7. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1887)
"The selectmen of several towns in this Colony and private persons exhibited their
accounts for supporting and doctoring persons who by law are to be ..."
8. Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New York by New York state, John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1856)
"Letter to the States-General from the selectmen in New ... Extract of a letter
from the selectmen to Adriaen van der Donck—condition of things at the ..."
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