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1. 11050 - Document

   A certificate of the selectmen of Beverly expressing the desire to have corn and flour of Thomas Woodberry for the use of the town.

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2. 16697 - Document

   1840 printed list of Beverly town officers - (this document is two copies on one sheet) including moderator, selectmen, assessors, collector and treasurer.

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3. 4560 - Petition

   Temperance Petition, 1815 This request to the Selectmen of Beverly to reduce the number of licensed retailers of alcohol notes that "Before the war [1812]...more money was expended in this Town for Ardent Spirits...than was raised for the support of the Publick schools, & the poor, & the repair of the highways." Selectmen: Francis Lamson John Dike Ebenezer Fisk Samuel Stickney Charles Dennis Nathanial Haskell, Jr. Timothy Marshall S...

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4. 7694 - Plan

   1795 plan of a proposed school house. The school room on the plan was 31 feet square with 96 seats seats with a desk to each and included a "Select Men's Room or Library", 19 by 11 on the second floor. Joseph Wood, the town clerk signed the plan, noting it was "a plan of the New School House Proposed to be built presented to the Town of Beverly and accepted at a Town meeting on 3 April 1797" This grammar school was opened on Watch Hill in 1798 w...

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