HIGHWAY SURVEYOR, 1779 - 1925

Series primarily comprises highway bills and warrant books for the collection of highway taxes. The highway bills date from 1785 to the 1840s. Warrant books supplanted the highway bills by the middle of the nineteenth century. Both types of records contain lists of residents and the taxes they owed. The records are incomplete. The extant books only cover scattered years in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Furthermore, the records for... many districts are lacking. The bills and warrants are arranged chronologically by year. Also includes receipts for tax bills. These receipts were issued to the selectmen by the highway surveyors. Other records include two 1925 daybooks that contain notes about highway repairs and construction in Hanover.