The York Historical Records page represents a collaboration between Lynn Osgood, York’s current Town Clerk, and James Kences, Town Historian. Both of us believe that access to the town records should be available to everyone seeking the knowledge. Today’s technology allows us to share access to the earliest of the existing records housed at town hall.
Volume 1, completely digitized in 2022, became available to
researchers and anyone interested in the town’s history. While Volume 1 was a compendium without
underlying organization, nineteenth century York historian Nathaniel Grant
Marshall, who was Town Clerk at the time, transcribed the pages in
chronological order, making it possible to create an abstract of the
contents. Volume 1 is predominantly land
grants embracing the period from the mid seventeenth century to the first
decades of the eighteenth century.
Volume 1 is followed by additional abstracts for a total of eight
volumes, to 1925.
Similar projects will be developed to provide profiles of
the town from the seventeenth to the first decade of the twentieth
century.
The abstracts of the different volumes are a deeper
dimension to what appears in the pages of the town books, to establish the
identities of inhabitants living in York throughout the long town history.
