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Bristol County is a county in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As of the 2020 census,the population was 579,200. The shire town is Taunton. Some governmental functions are performed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,others by the county,and others by local towns and cities. See administrative divisions of Massachusetts. The property deed records are kept in Taunton,Attleboro,Fall River,and New Bedford.
Norfolk County is located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census,the population was 725,981. Its county seat is Dedham. It is the fourth most populous county in the United States whose county seat is neither a city nor a borough,and it is the second most populous county that has a county seat at a town. The county was named after the English county of the same name. Two towns,Cohasset and Brookline,are exclaves.
Suffolk County is located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,in the United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 797,936,making it the fourth-most populous county in Massachusetts. The county comprises the cities of Boston,Chelsea,Revere,and Winthrop.
Caston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 6.37 km2 (2.46 sq mi) and had a population of 459 in 174 households at the 2001 census,decreasing to a population of 443 also in 174 households at the 2011 Censuspollas. For the purposes of local government,it falls within the district of Breckland.
The Norfolk County Courthouse is a National Historic Landmark at 650 High Street in Dedham,Massachusetts. It currently houses the Norfolk County Superior Court. It is significant as a well-preserved Greek Revival courthouse of the 1820s,and as the site a century later of the famous Sacco-Vanzetti trial. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972,and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It replaced an earlier courthouse,built in 1795.
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Michael G. Bellotti is an American politician who is the current Norfolk County Treasurer. He is the former interim president of Quincy College,the former sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts,and is a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Quincy. He is the son of Francis X. Bellotti,the state's former lieutenant governor and attorney general.
William de Chesney was a medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman and sheriff. The son of a landholder in Norfolk,William inherited after the death of his two elder brothers. He was the founder of Sibton Abbey,as well as a benefactor of other monasteries in England. In 1157,Chesney acquired the honour of Blythburgh,and was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk during the 1150s and 1160s. On Chesney's death in 1174,he left three unmarried daughters as his heirs.
Clifford Holmes Marshall was an American politician who served as a State Representative and Sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts.
John Warren Thomas was a shoemaker,and politician who twice served as the Sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts,first for one year,from 1852 to 1853,and again for 21 years,from 1857 to 1878.
Jerauld Newland Ezra Mann was sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts from 1843 to 1848.
Samuel H. Wragg was an American politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1937 to 1939 and sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts from 1939 to 1959.
Samuel Howard Capen was sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts from 1898 to 1939.
Rufus Corbin Wood was sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts from 1878 to 1885.
Thomas Adams was sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts,from 1848 to 1852,and from 1853 to January 1,1857.
John Baker II was sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts from 1834 to 1843.
Elijah Crane was a Canton,Massachusetts farmer,and inn keeper,who served as the first Town Clerk,and on the first Board of Selectmen of Canton,Massachusetts. Crane was also the first representative to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Canton,and the sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts from May 16,1810 to 1811 and from June 20,1812 to 1834.
Atherton Thayer was a Massachusetts farmer,military officer,town official,who served as the second sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts from 1794 to 1798. He was appointed to fill the vacancy upon resignation of his half-brother,and he remained in the role until his death on July,4,1798,at the age of 32.
Ebenezer Thayer,Jr. was a Massachusetts farmer,military officer,town official,and politician who served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature,as a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council;and,from 1793 to 1794,as the first sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts.
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