This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4RB.2ACE/3139.1 Message Board Post: I just got word back from the Town Clerk of Ulysses that the earliest minutes they have are from 1858. Question now is are the original minutes from the 1790's lost forever? Are they on microfilm ? Did somone borrow them and never return them? Did some previous town clerk or historian destroy them ? (this has been known to happen in my area) Did a previous town clerk or historian have them at home when they died and they got mixed into the family "stuff" (also know to happen all too often)