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Chronological
Arrangement of Vital Records from 1620-1843.
Clerks would arrange the births, marriages, and deaths as they
happened in a separate book, as you will note in this example from
the Hingham vital records (Hingham births 1635.)
In other instances, the clerks intermixed vital records
with the town minutes as follows:
Ashburnham Miscellaneous Records
1801-1845. 369 pages. Fiches 29-34
Referenced as Book 1, this volume
contains vital and town records. The vital records include births
1775-1847, marriages 1800-1843, marriage intentions 1801-1847, and
deaths 1784-1844. Among the town records are pew deeds,
perambulations, tax assessments, earmarks, fences, stray animals,
town officers, militia lists, and certificates of religious
dissenters. The last named are found on pages 334-340.
Berkley Town Records
1735-1768. Vol 1. 278 pages. Fiche 1-5
The town records include minutes of town meetings, lists
of jurors and town payees, and animal records from about
1735-1768. Births, deaths, marriages and intentions from
1670-1824 are interspersed with the town records; most
are found after page 160. Duplicates of those vital
events dated before 1735 may have been recorded also in
Dighton, Taunton or other towns.
Family Arrangement of Vital Records from
1620-1843.
Often clerks devoted a separate book for the vital records and then
arranged the records by families. See
Charlemont births and
deaths 1803, or Douglas
births 1718.
Vital Records
from 1844-1910 Listed Chronologically in Two-Page
Registers.
Beginning in 1844, the state required town clerks to keep
the vital records in a large 17 by 24 inch double-page register
separate from the town minutes. The
state even furnished the register. The first of these registers
generally covered the years 1844 to about 1854 and combined all
the births, marriages and deaths into one volume. Once the clerk
filled this register, they began keeping separate
individual birth, marriage and death registers. Additionally,
the state passed a law in 1850 that required the clerks to keep
indexes for these vital record registers.
Specially Arranged Vital Record
Compilations
Amherst:
Amherst Genealogical Records:
Births, Marriages, Deaths 1747-1843. Vol
1. Some dates before 1747 and after
1843 are found in these vital records.
Genealogical Records, pp 1-41,
Abbott-Cowles, Fiche 1.
Genealogical Records, pp 42-83,
Collier-Dickinson, Fiche 2.
Genealogical Records, pp 84-123,
Dickinson-Hastings, Fiche 3.
Genealogical Records, pp 124-164,
Hastings-Kellog, Smith, Fiche 4.
Genealogical Records, pp 165-181,
Smith, Kellog-Murray, Fiche 5.
Genealogical Records, pp 182-188,
Vinton, Montague-Parker, Fiche 5.
Genealogical Records, p 188,
Holland, Palmer, Fiche 5.
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