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Record Group Number 18SurryCompiled by Alan F. Rumrill - Keene, New Hampshire April 1983 This group comprises five series, SUBJECT FILE, AMOS POLLARD, REVOLUTIONARY WAR, TOWN FINANCIAL RECORDS, and TOWN GOVERNMENT, NON-FINANCIAL, which are housed in four archival boxes. Unless otherwise indicated, documents are arranged chronologically within each subject. Surry, New Hampshire was granted and incorporated in 1769. 12,212 acres of the towns of Gilsum and Westmoreland were taken to form the town. Peter Hayward was the first settler, arriving in 1764. Captain Thomas Harvey, Moses Field, Lemuel Holmes, and Abner Skinner followed soon thereafter. 215 people lived in the town in 1775, and by 1790 there was twice that number of residents. CONTENTSIntroduction Introduction The business records in Series I include a list of 127 tavern keepers licensed in the town between 1793 and 1815. Also included are 45 pieces, mostly receipts, from the records of Jonathan R. Field, a farmer, dated from 1845 to 1871. Materials under "census" include census records compiled by J. Sturtevant, Assistant Marshall, for the year 1850. These provide information on the number of free inhabitants, mortality and other social statistics, and are a particularly good source on ages, occupations, educational levels, causes of death, length of ill nesses, real estate values, and the details of agricultural and industrial production. Under "proprietors' records" there is an undated document which appears to be a portion of a draft of minutes of the proprietors' meeting of August 30, 1763. CF Kingsbury, History of the Town of Surry, 1925, p. 33. Series II contains correspondence and copies of documents about Amos Pollard, M.D. who died at the siege of the Alamo in 1836. Series III consists of names, backgrounds and military biographies of Surry men who served in the Revolutionary War. The town financial records in Series IV date from 1780 to 1891, but the greatest volume falls into the period 1840-1870. The documents in Box 3 are arranged topically: Roads, Schools, Taxes, Welfare, etc. These are supplemented by a large number of payment orders arranged chronologically in Boxes 3 and 4. These orders appear to be complete for the years 1861, 1821 and 1890, and are nearly so for 1831, 1858, 1867, 1876, 1884, 1886, and 1891. There are none for 1823, 1863, 1864, or 1865. SERIES I, SUBJECT FILEBox 1, Folders 1-8 SERIES II, AMOS POLLARDBox 1, Folder 1, Pollard, Amos SERIES III, REVOLUTIONARY WARBox 1, Folder 1, Surry's Revolutionary Soldiers Box 1, Folder 2, Surry's Revolutionary Soldiers - Notebook SERIES IV, TOWN GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL RECORDSBox 2, Folders 1-30 Box 3, Folders 31-65 Box 4, Folders 66-87 Series V, TOWN GOVERNMENT, NON-FINANCIAL RECORDSBox 4, Folders 1-5  |
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