town clerk

a town official who keeps records and issues licenses.

Origin of town clerk

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50

He removed to Lancaster, where at one time he was town-clerk, and died there on August 14, 1826.

Bay State Monthly, Volume I, No. 2, February, 1884 |Various
Bakhuizen, before he took to painting, was successively a book-keeper (his father was town-clerk of Emden) and a writing-master.

A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools |Various
This great divine was a brother of the town-clerk, and the pastor of the Brattle-Street Church.

Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 |Various
Eighty in number, and headed by their town-clerk, they joined their monarch on his entrance into England.

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Volume III (of 3) |Walter Scott

The first witness called was Mr. Serjeant Ludlow, town-clerk of Bristol.

The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 |Camden Pelham

town clerk

(in Britain until 1974) the secretary and chief administrative officer of a town or city

(in the US) the official who keeps the records of a town