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A memorandum recording the proceedings of a Swansea town meeting on 5 December 1684 or 1694, at which the townsmen unanimously voted to retain a Mr. Barnett (Barnet) as minister. 

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A memorandum documenting a survey of land purchased by Swansea from the town of Taunton, conducted jointly by committees from each town. The document bears the signatures of John Richman and John Hathaway. 

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A document signed by Israell Harding, indicating the receipt of ten shillings in town money from Hezekiah Luther, Swansea town treasurer. 

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A document signed by Nathaniel Luther, John Thomas, and Richard Harding, all residents of Swansea, petitioning the town selectmen on the church's behalf to convene a town meeting to ratify the choice of Elder Ephraim Whetton as minister. 

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A document written and signed by William Anthony, proprietors' clerk, recording the selection of William Chase, Joseph Winslow, and Hezekiah Luther as agents to manage a gore of land belonging to the proprietors, by "setling or emproving the same." Each agent is to receive twenty acres of the land—situated between Taunton and Rehoboth in Bristol County—for his trouble. 

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A document signed by Hugh Cole, acknowledging receipt of 24 shillings from the Swansea trustees for "Service Done for the town." On the reverse is what may be a Swansea treasurer's memorandum, including one column of figures headed "use money of our proportionable part of the Loan money 442 pound," with amounts for the years 1722 to 1726. 

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A warrant issued by the Swansea board of selectmen, directing the constable to give public notice of a town meeting on 10 November 1727 to elect a representative to the General Court in Boston. With the endorsement of Joshua Eddy, constable. 

Scope and Contents A memorandum dated 23 September 1728, showing itemized expenditures and income of the town of Swansea for 1728, signed by treasurer Benjamin Cole. The figures on this sheet include payments to the town totaling £15 made by individuals who had refused to serve as constables. The account shows a balance of £34 3s 4p. On the reverse are memoranda pertaining to several distinct issues entertained at recent town meetings, including 1) the "granting of Town debt," detailed on the recto, and 2)...

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A document giving public notice to the proprietors residing in Swansea to meet at Hezekiah Luther, Jr.'s house on 18 November 1728, to elect a committee to lease out lands belonging to the proprietors. The minutes of the 18 November meeting, with the names of those chosen for the committee, are recorded on the reverse; there are also brief memoranda from what appear to be several subsequent proprietors meetings. 

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A document signed by Edward Luther, committee treasurer, showing receipt of payments totaling £42 5s 6p made to the Swansea town proprietors' account by Edward Slade, Samuel Chase, the Showamett proprietors, Thomas Bowen, and John Kelley. A second table on the reverse, dated 15 July 1730, records a sum of £76 paid out by the proprietors committee. 

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An unsigned draft report giving the results of a highway survey, undertaken by a committee selected at the Swansea proprietors meeting of 17 December 1729. On the reverse is a notice written and signed by Samuel Lewis, dated 14 May 1745, alerting the board of selectmen that he has taken in William Higgins and family, who arrived from Dighton on 26 April 1745. 

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A warrant issued by the Swansea board of selectmen directing the constable to give public notice of a town meeting at Christopher Mason's house on 16 May 1732, for the purpose of electing a representative to the General Court in Boston. The endorsement of Abraham Baker, constable, appears on the reverse. 

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A document issued by the Swansea board of selectmen directing the constable to warn out Oliver Eddy and family (from Bristol), and Richard Bonjoy and family (from Dighton). Constable Abraham Baker's endorsement appears on the reverse, along with cancelled notes from a 22 November 1732 Swansea town meeting. 

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A warrant issued by the Swansea board of selectmen, directing the constable to give public notice of a town meeting on 12 May 1735 for the purpose of deliberating on several issues, including construction on the Myles Bridge and the need to choose a new constable for the west end of town, Aaron Clark having been judged unfit for the post. The endorsement of Theophilus Luther, constable, appears on the reverse. 

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A document written and signed by Hezekiah Luther, Jr., town clerk, giving public notice of the intended marriage of Samuel Bleathen and Elizabeth Perry. 

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A document written and signed by Hezekiah Luther, Jr., as proprietors clerk, giving notice to the proprietors of Swansea to meet at the home of Christopher Mason on the first Tuesday in November 1738. 

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A document recording votes taken and various committee reports delivered at one or more Swansea proprietors meetings. The memoranda on the recto all derive from a meeting held on 1 February 1738/9; those on the verso are of uncertain date. The document is signed on the verso by moderator Richard Harding. 

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A warrant issued by the Swansea board of selectmen. directing the constable to give public notice of a town meeting on 4 December 1744, for the purpose of selecting two constables. Constable Oliver Mason's endorsement appears on the reverse, along with a later record of votes taken at a town meeting on 25 November 1745. 

Scope and Contents A document written on the authority of Swansea selectmen Hezekiah Luther, Jr., Edward Head and Esek Brown, and signed by Michael Eddy, of Swansea, binding Godfrey Sheldon, "Son of Ephraim and Rebeka Sheldon a poor Child," to Eddy as an apprentice servant for a term of 15 years and 6 months. The terms of the indenture show that Sheldon is to be trained as a weaver, and will be taught "to Read Write and Cypher Sufficient to be Capable of Keeping a Book of Accompts." The endorsements of Brostol...

Scope and Contents This manuscript contains two unsigned copies of separate petitions addressed to William Shirley, Royal Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, by the Swansea board of selectmen. The first, dated 28 May 1746, reports that Joseph Mason, constable for the western portion of Swansea, failed to collect a tax due to the general treasury of the province, Mason claiming that he never received a warrant authorizing him to do so. The petitioners seek the governor's permission to designate an...

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A document issued by the Swansea board of selectmen, directing constable Andrew Cole to give public notice of a town meeting on 2 September 1746 for the purpose of selecting a tax collector. Cole's endorsement appears on the reverse. 

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A manuscript sheet recording votes taken during at least three separate Swansea town meetings, ranging from May 1747 to February 1747/8. An actual tally for one of these votes appears on the recto of the sheet, revealing the choice of Esek Brown as Bristol County registrar with 21 out of a possible 39 votes (the remaining 18 votes were split between three other candidates). 

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A document issued by the Swansea board of selectmen, directing the constable to warn out George Barker and his family, who have come from Warrentown, Rhode Island "Without Liberty from the Select men and contrary to Law." The endorsements of Ephraim Salisbury, constable, and Timothy Fales, Bristol County clerk of the writs, appear on the reverse. 

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A warrant issued by the Swansea board of selectmen, directing the constable to give public notice of a town meeting on 1 March 1747/8. The agenda is to include the choice of "select men assessors Town clerk constables and all other Town officers;" the repair of the Myles bridge; and a bounty for the killing of foxes. 

Scope and Contents A memorandum recording expenses incurred by the town treasury between 20 December 1749 and 24 March 1749/50, to conduct the 1750 town lottery. Expenditures represented in the account include the cost of printing the tickets, various travel expenses, and payments to several individuals for time spent selling tickets and paying out winnings. The total cost is figured at £259 18s. A note at the bottom of the sheet dated 16 January 1753 indicates that the account was finally settled for the...

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A document written and signed by Andrew Cole, petitioning the Swansea board of selectmen for aid in caring for Elisabeth Bushe, a poor woman staying at Cole's house. Cole reports that Bushe is sick "and not likely to Gitt well in any little time if Ever. Although she hath been Docktered a burdane which hath Been a great charg." 

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A memorandum recording loans made from the Swansea treasury to Edward Slaid, Elisha Mason, and Nicholas Thomas, totaling £12 16s. 

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A memorandum signed by Elnathan Walker and Ephraim Atwood, selectmen of Dighton, and Elisha Mason, Nicholas Thomas, and John Anthony, selectmen of Swansea, recording a joint survey or perambulation of the boundary between the two towns. The verso of the document contains two drafts of a Swansea selectmen's ruling on a complaint by several townspeople regarding a "high way Laid out in the ten acre Division" of the town; the second of the drafts is dated 11 March 1755. 

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An unsigned document directing Edward Luther, constable, to levy a tax on the residents of Swansea, and authorizing him to attach the property of any who refuse to make payment, to the value of the taxes owed. 

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A "True Coppy" of an inventory of the estate of the late Joseph Cole, of Swansea. The appraisers, whose signatures are appended, are Hezekiah Luther, Jr., Levi Wheaten, and William Buffinton. Twenty-five lots are appraised, including Cole's house and 50 acres of land, valued at £250.