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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1793 quote.
See: county warden
Quotations
1793
. . . the said Inhabitants-Householders [are] to choose and nominate two fit and discreet persons to serve the office of Town-Warden for such Parish, Township, reputed Township or Place.
1886
The act also provided for two town-wardens. . . . These wardens were a corporation to represent the whole inhabitants of the township or parish, with the right to let or sell property, to sue and be sued.
1909
Chief of these officers were the wardens, or townwardens, as they were sometimes called.