| Poultney Town
Offices, Main Street, Poultney, Vermont 05764
Town Clerks Office: 802-287-5761
Town Clerk's
Office Hours, Monday - Friday, 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM (closed 12:30 PM - 1:30
PM)
Town Managers Office:
802-287-9751
Office Hours,
Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM (after 4 PM by appointment) |
| Vermont
uses the town system of government extensively. Probate records
are found in probate districts (not entirely concurrent with
county lines), but a trip to town hall was the essential step in
recording vital events and land records, as well as numerous other
aspects of local government: taxes, dog licenses, etc. For many
reasons, vital, land, and probate records in the state are not
entirely complete. After 1857 statewide recording of vital records
became mandatory with the town maintaining the
"original" records. |
| The
town form of government is the essential unit in Vermont and each
town recorded their yearly proceedings in what is called
"Town Meeting Records." They usually contain many
interesting aspects of our ancestors' lives. Also contained are
tax records, elections of town officials, lists of children of
school age, warnings out to poor families, church disputes, ear
marks for cows or pigs, etc. |
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