The historic documents website of the Topsfield Historical
Society and the
Topsfield Town Clerks Office is located at www.clubphoto.com, and
type in
Topsfield Historical Society where the site asks for alias.
The site is a collection of pages from the Town Clerk's
Archives, with
commentary. There is a Civil War group of images describing the
Topsfield
"Homefront". There is a contemporary manuscript copy of the
Declaration of
Independence. Early records of the Overseers of the Poor
illustrate sincere
efforts to aid the unfortunate, but also reveal the poverty and
lack of
effective medical treatment that was common two hundred years
ago. There are
a few documents on the Women's Suffrage Movement in the 1880's.
There is a
contemporary copy of the Topsfield Indian Treaty of 1701. There
are
documents about the Topsfield package liquor store of the 1860's
and a letter
from Massachusetts Anti-Cigarette League dating from the early
20th century,
and much more.