A member of the local government board of a New England town:[as title]:Selectman Gordon’s supporters...
In 1843 Levi Suydam, a 23-year-old resident of Salisbury, Connecticut, asked the town's board of selectmen to allow him to vote as a Whig in a hotly contested local election.
Thomas Wilmore, too, was boarded out by the selectmen of the town.
I was elected by my town to the board of selectmen.