Subseries A. Municipal contains: town meeting notes, motions, and correspondence; financial papers including taxation information, bills, and receipts paid; voting lists and rosters, poll tax, and election results; education and school committee correspondence, surveys and reports, including information about the creation of the Topsfield Academy; charity papers; juror lists; land surveys, boundary proclamations, and surveyor’s correspondence. Found here are land surveys and correspondence regarding the Newburyport Highway. Also included are correspondence between representatives of Salem and Topsfield regarding involvement in the War of 1812 and request of payment for militia.