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RG 062:078, Town of Mansfield
Inventory of Records
Finding aid prepared by Connecticut State Library staff.
Copyright © 2007 by the Connecticut State Library
Overview of the Collection |
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| Repository: | Connecticut State Library |
| Creator: | Mansfield (Conn.) |
| Title: | Town of Mansfield records |
| Dates: | 1810-1950 |
| Dates: | bulk, 1810-1917 |
| Quantity: | 19 cubic feet |
| Abstract: | Adminstrative, election, school, and tax records for the town of Mansfield. There are also aerial photographs, 1950. |
| Identification: | RG062_078 |
| Accession: | Multiple |
| Language: | The records are in English. |
Historical Note
The town of Mansfield was incorporated in October 1702 and was taken from Windham.
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Scope and Content
Adminstrative, election, school, and tax records for the town of Mansfield. There are also aerial photographs, 1950.
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Restrictions
Restrictions on Access
Some of these records are stored at an off-site facility and therefore may not be available on a same-day basis.
See the Rules and Procedures for Researchers Using Archival Records and Secured Collections policy.
Restrictions on Use
See the Reproduction and Publications of State Library Collections policy.
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Index Terms
Alternate Creators:
Connecticut. Justice of the Peace (Mansfield)
Subjects:
Aerial photographs -- Connecticut -- Mansfield
Elections -- Connecticut -- Mansfield -- Statistics
Justices of the peace -- Connecticut -- Mansfield
Local taxation -- Connecticut -- Mansfield -- Registers
Property tax -- Connecticut -- Mansfield -- Registers
Public welfare -- Connecticut -- Mansfield
School enrollment -- Connecticut -- Mansfield -- Statistics
Tax assessment -- Connecticut -- Mansfield -- Registers
Taxation -- Connecticut -- Mansfield -- Registers
Voting -- Connecticut -- Mansfield -- Statistics
Voting registers -- Connecticut -- Mansfield
Places:
Mansfield (Conn.) -- Records and correspondence
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Container List
| Records, 1810-1950, bulk 1810-1917 | |||||||||||
| Accession: T000246 | |||||||||||
| Tax abstracts, 1819-1862 | Box 1-2 | ||||||||||
| Rate books, 1812-1866 | Box 3 | ||||||||||
| Highway rate books, 1848, 1879-1884 | |||||||||||
| Grand lists, 1810-1913 | Box 4 | ||||||||||
| scattered | |||||||||||
| Lists of taxes collected, circa 1870-1898 | |||||||||||
| Tax liens and tax lien releases, 1873-1912 | |||||||||||
| Bonds and notes, 1791-1903 | |||||||||||
| Bank reports of stockholders, circa 1860 | |||||||||||
| Abatements and "Doings of the Board of Relief, 1816-1912 | Box 5 | ||||||||||
| Treasurer and Town Deposit Fund records, undated | Box 6 | ||||||||||
| Records and appointments of overseers, undated | |||||||||||
| Militia records, undated | Box 7 | ||||||||||
| Annual statements of corporations, vital records abstracts, undated | |||||||||||
| Railroad and highway records, 1807-1908 | |||||||||||
| Crow bounty certificates, 1834-1835 | |||||||||||
| Assorted records and fragments, undated | |||||||||||
| Town meeting minutes, calls, and votes, 1823-1911 | Box 8 | ||||||||||
| School returns, 1847-1906 | Boxes 9-10 | ||||||||||
| School records, including reports, assessments, financial records, minutes of district meetings, 1823-1917 | Box 10 | ||||||||||
| School registers, assessments, vote for 1818 state Constitution; vote tally, list of voters, 1818-1917 | Box 11 | ||||||||||
| Oaths of office, petitions, election returns, statements of candidate expenses, certificates for religious dissenters who do not want to pay society tax, 1816-1896 | Box 12 | ||||||||||
| Lists of electors, freemen admitted, and vote returns, 1821-1910 | Boxes 12-14 | ||||||||||
| Bills, indentures, petitions, receipts, reports, survey of highways, children bound out, church records, warnings out, justice of the peace records, correspondence, circa 1820-1900 | Boxes 15-16 | ||||||||||
| Tax abstracts, 1863-1872, 15 volumes | |||||||||||
| First society, 1853, 1854, 1861, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1872 | Box 17 | ||||||||||
| Second society, 1861, 1862, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1872 | |||||||||||
| Voter lists, 1860-1910 | Box 18 | ||||||||||
| On oversize shelving. | |||||||||||
| Accession: 2007-023 | |||||||||||
| List of males in North Parish, 1891 | Shared box | ||||||||||
| Accession: 2008-030 | |||||||||||
| Index map to aerial photographs, 1950 | |||||||||||
| Shows the area of town covered by each aerial photograph. | |||||||||||
| Aerial photographs, 1950, 58 photographs | |||||||||||
| Arranged numerically 1-54. There are also photographs numbered 30A, 31A and 32A. | |||||||||||
| The number of photographs covering the town total 57. There is one additional unidentified photograph that is probably a sample provided by the firm that created the photographs. | |||||||||||
| Each photograph is approximately 35 x 35 inches and cut into halves. Each half is mounted on a panel. In some cases the panels are attached to each other but in other cases they are not. Both panels are labeled to ensure that they can be matched. For example, the left panel of Map 1 is labeled "Map 1-a" and the right side "Map 1-b". | |||||||||||
| The Town of Mansfield retains 10 x 10 inch prints of these aerial photographs. | |||||||||||