John Oliver is appointed the first Town Clerk.

He is succeeded by James Penn (1645), Anthony Stoddard (1650), Thomas Savage (1652), Thomas Marshall (1654), William Davis (1655), Hezekiah Usher (1662), John Joyliffe (1668), Joseph Bridgman (1692), Ephraim Savage (1693), William Griggs (1697), Joseph Prout (1701), Samuel Checkley (1721), Samuel Gerrish (1734), Ezekiel Goldthwait (1742), William Cooper (1761), and Thomas Clark (1810-1822.*)