The Town of Roxbury was one of the first towns founded in Massachusetts in 1630.  In 1846 it was incorporated as a city.  In 1851, the western part of the city, roughly the current neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, and West Roxbury, left Roxbury to become the Town of West Roxbury.  In 1868 the city was annexed by the City of Boston.  Below are links to documents produced by the City of Roxbury.

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1847

• 1- Address of the Hon. H.A.S. Dearborn, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, April 5, 1847
• 7- Public Cemetery
• 21- Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury as Made Out by the Committee on Accounts: Being a General Statement of the Finances of the City for 1846-47
• 22- Report of the Examination of the Grammar Schools in the City of Roxbury for the Year 1847

1848

• 10- Annual Report of the School Committee on the Public Schools of the City of Roxbury, 1848
• 11- Second Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1848

1849

• 1- Address of the Hon. H.A.S. Dearborn, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convenation, April 2, 1849
• 3- Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Removal of the Alms House and the Purchase of “Brook Farm”
• 6- Report of the Examination of the Public Schools of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1849
• 7- Third Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1849

1850

• 7- Fourth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1850
• 8- Report of the Examination of the Public Schools of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1850

1851

• 6- Fifth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1851
• 11- Report of the Joint Special Committee on Public Squares and the Nuisance in Stony Brook
• 12- Report of the Examination of the Public Schools of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1851

1852

• 1- Address of the Hon. Samuel Walker, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 1st, 1852
• 5- Sixth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1852

1853

• 1- Address of the Hon. Samuel Walker, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 3rd, 1853
• 2- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 3- Municipal Register, Containing the City Charter, with the Rules and Orders of the City Council: Also Ordinances and a List of Officers of the City of Roxbury, 1853
• 4- Seventh Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1853
• 5- Report of the Committee on Public Instruction in relation to More School Accommodations in Wards One, Two, and Three
• 6- An Ordinance for the Removal of House Offal and Night Soil
• 7- Report of the Examination of the Public Schools in the City of Roxbury for the Year 1853
• 8- Metropolitan Railroad Company
• 9- Proceedings of the Mayor and Aldermen relative to the Unlawful Sale of Intoxicating Drinks
• 10- Valedictory Address of the Hon. Samuel Walker, Mayor, Delivered before the Board of Aldermen , December 26th, 1853
• 11- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations

1854

• 1- Address of the Hon. Linus B.Comins, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 2nd, 1854
• 2- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 3- Municipal Register…1854
• 4- Eighth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1854
• 5- An Ordinance Establishing the Office of Commissioner of Streets and Defining the Duties Thereof
• 6- Report of the Joint Special Committee on Salaries of City Officers 1855-56
• 7- Report by the City Registrar of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the City of Roxbury for the Years 1851, 1852, & 1853
• 8- Report of the Examination of the Public Schools in the City of Roxbury for the Year 1854
• 9- An Act in Addition to an Act to Incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company
• 10- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations

1855

• 1- Address of the Hon. James Ritchie, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 5th, 1855
• 2- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 3- Report of Committee on Police Court
• 4- Report by the City Registrar of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the City of Roxbury for the Year 1854
• 5- Report of the Joint Special Committee in the Matter of City Marshall, and Ordinance “Authorizing the Appointment and Prescribing the Duties of a City Marshall”
• 6- Report of the Minority of the Joint Special Committee on Police Court
• 7- Report of the Special Committee of the School Committee in Relation to “Out of School Study”
• 8- Ninth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1855
• 9- Report of the Joint Special Committee on Salaries
• 10- Report of the Joint Special Committee to Whom was Referred the Expediency of a Survey of the City
• 11- Report of the Joint Committee on Public Instruction on so much of the Mayor’s Address as Relates to Schools, April 1855
• 12- Report of the Joint Committee on Highways on Naming Certain Streets and Changing the Names of Certain Other Streets, April 1855
• 13- An Act to Establish a Police Court in the City of Roxbury
• 14- Report of the Committee on Revision and Amendments to the City Ordinances
• 15- Remarks of Francis Hilliard, Esq., Standing Justice of the Police Court in Roxbury, at the Opening of Said Court, May 15, 1855
• 16- Report of the Examination of the Public Schools in the City of Roxbury for the Year 1855
• 17- Report of the Committee in Relation to a Drain Being Built on Fellows Street
• 17a- Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Appointment of a City Physician
• 19- Municipal Register…1855
• 20- Report of the Committee on a Public Common
• 21- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations
• 22- Address of William Ellison, Esq., before the Common Council of the City of Roxbury, December 31, 1855
• 23- Valedictory Address of the Hon. James Ritchie, Mayor, Delivered before the Board of Aldermen, December 31, 1855
• 24- Annual Report of the City Marshall for 1855

1856

• 1- Address of the Hon. John S. Sleeper, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 7, 1856
• 2- Report of the Committee on Public Property on Naming the School on Gore Avenue
• 3- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 4- Report of the Joint Special Committee on Salaries for City Officers of the City of Roxbury 1856-57
• 5- Tenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1856
• 6- Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Subject of the Donation of Hon. Linus B. Comins to One of the Public Schools of Roxbury
• 7- Minority Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Subject of the Donation of Hon. Linus B. Comins to One of the Public Schools of Roxbury
• 8- Report of the Joint Special Committee in the matter of Roxbury Color and Chemical Company
• 9- Municipal Register…1856
• 10- Report of the Examination of the Public Schools in the City of Roxbury for the Year 1856
• 11- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Burial Grounds
• 12- Remarks of the Hon. John S. Sleeper, Mayor, before the Board of Aldermen, December 29, 1856
• 13- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations

1857

• 1- Address of the Hon. John S. Sleeper, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 5, 1857
• 2- Message of the Mayor of Roxbury in Relation to the Back Bay Lands, January 19, 1857
• 3- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 4- An Ordinance to Cause the Removal of Obstructions on the Sidewalks Caused by Snow or Ice
• 5- An Ordinance in Relation to Placing, Loading, and Unloading Trucks, Carts, Wagons, &c
• 6- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations
• 7- Report of the Committee on Instruction on the Establishment of a Free Public Library
• 8- Eleventh Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1857
• 9- An Ordinance Amendatory of an Ordinance Regulating the Fire Department of the City of Roxbury (numbered as 8)
• 10- Municipal Register…1857
• 11- Report of the Committee on a Sewer in Fellows Street
• 12- Report of the Examination of the Public Schools in the City of Roxbury for the Year 1857
• 13- Report of the Surveyor of Highways in Regard to Stony Brook
• 14- Report of the Special Committee of the School Committee on the Communication of P. H. Wentworth, Esq., in Relation to the Late Examination of Candidates for Admission to the English High School &c. 
• 15- Report of the Committee on Public Instruction on the Subject of Making a Provision for an English High School for Boys
• 15a- Valedictory Address of His Honor John S. Sleeper , Mayor of Roxbury, Delivered before the City Council, Monday Evening, December 28, 1857

1858

• 1- Address of the Hon. John S. Sleeper, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 4, 1858
• 2- Report of the Committee on the Remonstrance of Wm. R. Huston relative to the Municipal Election of Ward 3
• 3- Minority Report of the Committee on the Remonstrance of Wm. R. Huston relative to the Municipal Election of Ward 3
• 4- Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Salaries for City Officers of the City of Roxbury 1858-59
• 5- Report of the Joint Special Committee on so much of the Mayor’s Address as it relates to Annexation 
• 6- Twelfth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1858
• 7- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 8- Address of His Honor John S. Sleeper, Mayor of Roxbury, to the Police Officers and Watchmen of the City, May 1858 
• 9- Municipal Register…1858
• 10-Address of His Honor John S. Sleeper, Mayor of Roxbury, to the City Council of Roxbury, Announcing the Result of the Suit Commonwealth vs. Roxbury and West Roxbury Relating to the Back Bay Lands
• 11- Report of a Joint Special Committee on Sewerage
• 12- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1858
• 13- Valedictory Address of His Honor John S. Sleeper , Mayor of Roxbury, Delivered before the City Council, Monday Evening, December 27, 1858
• 14- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations

1859

• 1- Address of the Hon. Theodore Otis, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 3, 1859
• 2- Thirteenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1859
• 3- Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Salaries for City Officers of the City of Roxbury 1859-60
• 4- Municipal Register…1859
• 5- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations
• 6- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1859
• 7- Report of the Harbor Master of the City of Roxbury

1860

• 1- Address of the Hon. Theodore Otis, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 9, 1860
• 2- Annual Report of the City Marshall for 1859
• 3- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 4- Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Salaries for City Officers of the City of Roxbury 1860-61
• 5- Fourteenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1860
• 6- Report of the Joint Special Committee on Gas
• 7- Municipal Register…1860
• 9- An Ordinance Concerning Main Drains and Common Sewers
• 10- Report of the Committee on Public Instruction on the Request of the School Committee to Discontinue the Appropriation heretofore Granted to the “Trustees of the Grammar School in the Easterly part of Roxbury”
• 11- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1860
• 12- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations
• 13- Valedictory Address of His Honor Theodore Otis, Mayor of Roxbury, Delivered before the City Council, Thursday Evening, January 3, 1861

1861

• 1- Address of the Hon. William Gaston, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 7, 1861
• 2- Annual Report of the City Marshall for 1860
• 3- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 4- Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Salaries for City Officers of the City of Roxbury 1861-62
• 5- Fifteenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1861
• 6- An Ordinance Relating to Truant Children and Absentees from Schools
• 7- Report of the Committee on the Military Fund, June 24, 1861
• 8- Municipal Register…1861
• 9- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations
• 10- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1861

1862

• 1- Address of the Hon. William Gaston, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 6, 1862
• 2- Annual Report of the City Marshall for 1861
• 3- Report of the Joint Special Committee on Rules and Orders
• 4- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 5- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations
• 5a- Sixteenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1862
• 6- Municipal Register…1862
• 7- An Ordinance Relative to Hackney Carriages
• 8- An Ordinance Relative to Nuisances, Sources of Filth and Causes of Sickness within the City of Roxbury
• 9- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1862 

1863

• 1- Address of the Hon. George Lewis, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 5, 1863
• 2- Seventeenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1863
• 3- Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Salaries for City Officers of the City of Roxbury 1863-64
• 4- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 5- Municipal Register…1863
• 6- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations
• 7- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1863

1864

• 1- Address of the Hon. George Lewis, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 4, 1864
• 2- Eighteenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1864
• 2a- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 3-  Municipal Register…1864
• 6- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations
• 7- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1864

1865

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• 1- Address of the Hon. George Lewis, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 2, 1865
• 2- Report Relative to Sewerage
• 3- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 4- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1865
• 5- An Address Delivered before the City Government, and Citizens of Roxbury on the Occasion of the Death of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, April 19, 1865, by George Putnam, D.D.
• 6-Nineteenth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending January 31st, 1865
• 7-Municipal Register…1865

1866

• 1- Address of the Hon. George Lewis, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 1, 1866
• 2- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 3- Report of the Committee on Police on Establishing Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Police of Roxbury
• 4- Twentieth Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the 15 Months Ending April 30, 1866
• 5- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations
• 6- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1866
• 7- Municipal Register…1866

1867

• 1- Address of the Hon. George Lewis, Mayor, to the City Council of Roxbury, Delivered before the Two Branches in Convention, January 7, 1867
• 2- Regulations of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury
• 3- Report of the Commissioners Appointed by the City Councils of the Cities of Roxbury and Boston, Respectively, on the Union of the Two Cities under One Municipal Government
• 4- Twenty-first Annual Report of the Committee on Accounts on the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Roxbury for the Year Ending April 30th, 1867
• 5- Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance on the Annual Appropriations
• 6- Municipal Register…1867
• 7- Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury for the Year 1867