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Whereas the names of various Smiths and Kingsburys and Demings appear on nearly every page of the Record Book of Sandisfield’s Selectmen, I found1 only five mentions of Grandpa Daniel, over the period of his adult life:

  1. “…Monday 31 Day of March 1788…Chose Mr Daniel Hurd Constable for Capt Heman Smiths Company…

  2. Monday the 7th Day of April…Voted that they would not Excuse Mr Daniel Hurd from serving as Constable…”

  3. A few days later (17 April), Daniel Hurd, Constable, attests that he did his job by “warning” the citizens to attend a coming Town Meeting.

  4. 13 January 1800: the town accounts included a bill to pay $13.33 “to Daniel Hurd for 4 acres of ground for highway.”

  5. 28 September 1802: Daniel Hurd was one of 33 citizens compensated for their contributions to the fencing of Beech Plain Cemetery:2 credited $1.32 for 1-1/2 men and 1 ox.

1There may be more there: Norton and Willard, dear gentlemen that they are, waited patiently while I pawed through the records in the Sandisfield Historical Society’s headquarters, photographing the ones that caught my eye. The qualitative impression remains: Grandpa Daniel chose not to be a mover and a shaker in his community.
2Where, fittingly, Grandpa Daniel and Grandma Rebecca now rest, side by side.

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