{"id":36091,"date":"2026-08-10T12:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/?page_id=36091"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:15:11","slug":"town-meeting-records","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/town-meeting-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Meeting Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<blockquote><p>Explore how the Dartmouth Historical and Arts Society transformed more than 600 pages of Old Dartmouth Town Meeting Records into a practical resource for historical research. These release notes explain the remarkable preservation journey of records dating from 1674 to 1787-from nineteenth-century handwritten transcriptions, to microfilm, to digital images, and ultimately to an indexed online research tool. The document also shows why these records matter far beyond present-day Dartmouth: they offer a window into the people, issues, and workings of local government in the original town of Dartmouth, whose territory eventually became Dartmouth, New Bedford, Westport, Fairhaven, and Acushnet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1SlL1Ked7v_RxqsE3KwJJZr4m_7sFtEab\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1SlL1Ked7v_RxqsE3KwJJZr4m_7sFtEab\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2>Old Dartmouth Town Meetings Navigational Console [PDF]<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1NuidTLMlOgCECsN5B-OHKxFSPIZsnc7r\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1NuidTLMlOgCECsN5B-OHKxFSPIZsnc7r\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2>Topics Addressed in Town Meeting Records [PDF]<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1T53msEjxmP2KvI9s6GZHq-qrzBPlSOyT\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1T53msEjxmP2KvI9s6GZHq-qrzBPlSOyT\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2> All individuals with 1 or more mentions in the Old Dartmouth Town Meeting records ordered by first name [PDF]<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/15dvAsVfpCc5DAnaXBuGvYqKbXlje0TBr\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/15dvAsVfpCc5DAnaXBuGvYqKbXlje0TBr\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2> All individuals with 1 or more mentions in the Old Dartmouth Town Meeting records ordered by last name [PDF]<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Q42Zt1aRF6z2lMtKk6xeJII474-j-byg\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Q42Zt1aRF6z2lMtKk6xeJII474-j-byg\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2>Individuals with 10 or less mentions in the Old Dartmouth Town Meeting Records ordered by last name [PDF]<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1JeJp_IE3uHnLJIEhzvBovtbCgQO3ap2B\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1JeJp_IE3uHnLJIEhzvBovtbCgQO3ap2B\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2>Individuals with 11 or more mentions in the Old Dartmouth Town Meeting records ordered by last name [PDF]<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1RaovHqDVICo1pYVwAEJKNV4mpO09iJnm\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1RaovHqDVICo1pYVwAEJKNV4mpO09iJnm\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2>Individuals with 11 or more mentions in the Old Dartmouth Town Meeting records ordered by count descending<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/172L7RKPIN7ax9nEqN6fKSIUMXUadXy0m\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/172L7RKPIN7ax9nEqN6fKSIUMXUadXy0m\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2> Individuals with 71-75 mentions in the Old Dartmouth Town Meeting records<\/h2><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore how the Dartmouth Historical and Arts Society transformed more than 600 pages of Old Dartmouth Town Meeting Records into a practical resource for historical research. 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