Whately — Selectmen

Extracted from "History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, Volume II," by Louis H. Everts, 1879.


      The principal town officers of Whately, from the first meeting, in 1771, to 1879, have been as follows:

      John Wait, 1771; Edward Brown, 1771; Simeon Wait, 1771; Philip Smith, 1771-72; Salmon White, 1771, '75, 1777-78, '84, '86, '90, '92, 94; Noah Wells, 1772, '75, '78, '82, '83, '88; David Scott, 1772; Elisha Frary, 1772, '80; Thomas Sander-son, 1773, '75, 1777-78, 1783-87, '89, '90, 1792-96, '98, 1803, 1812-17; Oliver Graves, 1776-77; Joseph Belding, Jr., 1776-77, '83; John Smith, 1776-77, '80, 1787-89 Perez Chapin, 1780; Silas Smith, 1781; Noah Bardwell, 1781, 1790-91, '93, '96 David Graves, .Jr., 1781-82; Col. Josiah Allis, 1783-89, 1791-93; Major Phineas Frary, 1794-99, 1803-6, '9, 1812-15; Asa Sanderson, 1795, 1803-5, '12, '13; John White, 1795, 1798-1800, 1802-11; Capt. Seth Frary, 1800-2, 1804-5, 1814-15; Levi Morton, 1801, '3; Bezaleel Smith, 1804, '5, '11; Gideon Dickinson, 1806-8,1810-11 Zenas Field, 1807-8, 1810-11, '16; Oliver Graves, Jr., 1809, '16, '18, '19; Capt. Rufus Smith, 1811; Consider Morton, 1812-13; Capt. Salmon Graves, 1812-13; Oliver Morton, 1814-16; Orange Bardwell, 1814-15; Lemuel Wait, 1816, '18; Isaac Frary, 1817, '19; Silas Frary, 1817-18, '20; Seth Smith, 1819-21, 1824-27; Thomas Crafts, 1820-22, '25, '28, '30, 1832-36; Capt. William Fay, 1821, '29; Charles Morton, 1822; Deacon James Smith, 1822; David Stockbridge, 1823-26, '28, '31, '40, '43 Deacon Justus White, 1823-24, '31; Dexter Morton, 1823; Dr. Chester Bardwell, 1826; Calvin Wells, 1827, 1835-39, '43; David Saunders, 1827; Daniel Brown, 1828-29, '30, '45; Levi Bush, Jr., 1829; Capt. Luke Wells, 1830; Chester Brown, 1831-36, 1840-41; Luke B. White, 1832-34; Hiram Smith, 1837-39, '46, '55, '61; J. C. Sanderson, 1837, 1844-45, 1849-50; Arnold Morton, 1838, '39, 1843-44, '47, '51; Dexter Crafts, 1840; Rufus Graves, 1841, '46, '61; Stalham Allis, 1841; Rodolpllus Sanderson, 1842, '47; Plyna Graves, 1842; Capt. Seth Bardwell, 1842, '51, 1875-76; Lyman Dickinson, 1843-44, '55; Daniel F. Morton, 1846; Thomas Wait, 1847, 1849-50, 1852-53; Samuel B. White, 1848-50, 1852-53, 1856-57, 1861-66, 1868-69; John Field, 1848; Abel W. Nash, 1848; Capt. Asa Parker, 1851; Stephen Belden, 1852-53, '59; Elliot C. Allis, 1854, '74; Zebina W. Bartlett, 1854, '67 Isaac Frary, Jr., 1854; James 31. Crafts, 1855; Rufus Dickinson, 1856-57, '59, '69; J. W. C. Allis, 1856, 1868-69; Alonzo Crafts, 1857, '60, 1862-64, '67; Alfred Belden, 1858; Dennis Dickinson, 1858, '72; Edward Bardwell, 1858-60, 1862-67, 1870-73, '79; L. W. Hannum, 1860-61; Elihu Belden, 1865; Eliphas H. Wood, 1866; Harvey Moor, 1868; Samuel Lesure, 1870; Samuel C. Wood, 1 870; Elbridge G. Crafts, 1871, '73; David Ashcraft, 1871; S. W. Allis, 1872-79; Chester K. Waite, 1874-78; Hiram Bardwell, 1877-78; R. M. Swift, 1879.



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