This printed resolution appeared in the newspapers for six consecutive weeks and as a broadside in all the towns of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The resolution of June 12, 1817, instructed the selectmen of each town to count the members of their community who were deaf and dumb, to make note of their age and sex, and further, to list “their situation” as to property ownership of the people named and that of their relatives.
Bradford, Alden. Resolve ordering Selectmen of Deerfield to record the town’s deaf and dumb population. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 25, 1817. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l00-063/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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