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Section 2 d, from 1700 to 1774.
We now find the "Town's Book" a record distinct from the "Proprietor's Book," and as the first page is a pretty fair specimen of the ancient way of keeping records I will give you a list of its contents. It begins thus -- "Page 1. This is Falmouth Town Book, 6 shilling cost. S. P. To record all marriages, births and business and the marks of cattle and all that is needful to be taken out of the old book and placed with this, with all Town business that concerns the Town, but not lands, begins the 25th day of October, 1700. Then comes a sort of general index, after which the following record of a town meeting is inserted. "The 10th day of Dec. 1701 the town being orderly warned and assembled together it was voted that Mr. Shiverick was now of this Town minister." Next follows a record of a Town meeting that occurred some time previous to the one before recorded. Page 45, Town Officers oaths. Then the following: "The ear mark of Joseph Gifford -- gives his creatures a mackerel tail in left ear and a cut under the same."
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