OF LONDONDERRY, WINDHAM, A Complete and Exact Transcript of the Records of the Clerks Relating to the Political Proceedings as Recorded in Vol. I, Complete, and Vol. II, Editor "Proprietors' Records of Tyng Township, 1735-1741," "Early Records of the Town of Derryfield, now Manchester, N. H., Vol. I, 1751-1782. M312 INTRODUCTION. In finishing the work upon Volume I, Early Records of Londonderry, N. H., it seems fitting that we should give here a few words of explanation and description. The sources from which we have drawn are Volumes I and II of the old town books. The first is devoted to records of town meetings, homesteads, and vital statistics, with a sprinkling of advertisements. About one hundred and seventy-two pages of this book are filled with vital statistics and records of the boundaries of homesteads and outlying lots. The time covered is from 1719 to 1726. Page 60 gives the Articles of Incorporation, followed by a list of the proprietors; then succeed records of roads and earmarks. Reversing the book, it begins with the "First Planting,” April 11, 1719, following with forty-six pages of political records. In addition to these are two pages of records and two of acts given out of chronological order. Volume I contains in all two hundred and twenty-two pages. Much of the writing is faded and difficult to decipher, and the book shows its age. Volume II is written from both sides, with a change of the book at different places between these transcripts, as if the recorders tried to bring the different classifications of subjects together and miscalculated on the space needed by the parts. Thus the three or four classes are mixed and somewhat difficult to separate. The records in this volume extend from 1727 to 1770. This book contains about six hundred and fifty pages, and is in a better state of preservation than the first. In order to bring the political records of the town together, to form a continuous narrative, we have thought best to 9 |