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Table II. — Nature of Offices 



Public oflficers 



Town clerks 



Selectmen 



Town treasurers 



School-committeemen . 

 Minor town officers. . . 



State or national 



Ministers 



Physicians 



Male teachers 



Duplicates 



Female teachers 



Table III. — Inheritance of Trails 



Public officers 



Neither grandfather nor father an officer. 

 Grandfather an officer but father not. . . . 



Father not an officer 



Connected by the mother 



Father an officer 



Three generations of officers 



Four generations of officers 



Five generations of officers 



Six generations of officers 



Seven generations of officers 



In the above table, the numlx-r of 

 officers shown connected with the family 

 by the mother is much smaller than 

 that connected with the family by the 

 father, but this is largely due to the 

 incomplete data concerning some of the 

 female branches. It should be noted 

 that whenever three consecutive genera- 

 tions have been public officers, all the 

 direct ancestors back to the first indi- 

 vidual have been public officers. 



Table IV.— List of More Notable Members 



1. Two Representatives to the United States 



Congress, both serving several terms. 



2. A delegate to the provincial congresses at 



Concord and Cambridge. 



3. A clerk of courts, serving 16 years. 



Selectmen and town clerks with long terms 



of office, usually held at the same time: 



(a) Selectman, 10 years. 



{b) Selectman, 22 years; town clerk, 15 

 years. 



(c) Selectman and town clerk, 36 years, 

 died in office. 



id) Selectman, 22 years; town clerk, sev- 

 eral years. 



(e) Selectman, 19 years; town clerk, 17 

 years. 



(/) Selectman, 8 years; town clerk, 20 

 years, now in office. 



{g) Selectman, 38 years; town clerk, 20 

 years. 

 School-committeemen witli long terms of 



office: 



(a) School-committeeman, 12 years. 



{b) School-conunitteeman, 27 years; stated 

 that he had rather be a member of the 

 school committee than be President; 

 died in office. 



