EXPLANATIONS

The following records of births, marriages and deaths include all entries to be found in the books of record kept by the town clerks; in the church records; in the returns made to the Salem Quarterly Court; in the cemetery inscriptions; and in many private records found in family Bibles. These records are printed in a condensed form in which every essential particular has been preserved. All duplication of the town clerks' record has been eliminated, but differences in entry and other explanatory matter appear in brackets. Parentheses are used when they occur in the original record; also to indicate the maiden name of a wife.
When places other than Amesbury and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy. Marriages and intentions of marriage are printed under the names of both parties. Double-dating is used in the months of January, February and March, prior to 1752, whenever it appears in the original, and also, whenever from the sequence of entry in the original the date May be easily determined. In all records the original spelling of names is followed, and in the alphabetical arrangement the various forms should be examined, as items about the same family May be found under different spellings.
As Amesbury and Salisbury have been so closely connected, both socially and geographically, it will be desirable to examine the records of both towns when making researches.

ABBREVIATIONS
a. age int. intention of marriage
abt. about jr. junior
b. born m. male; married; month
bef. before NCTR Old Norfolk County Court records
bet. between rec. recorded
bp. baptized rem. removed
bur. buried ret. return
ch. child s. son
chn. children sr. senior
Co. county TC town copy
CTF court files, Essex Co. Quarterly Court unm. unmarried
CTR court records, Essex Co. Quarterly Court w. wife; week
d. daughter; day; died wid. widow
Dea. deacon widr. widower
Dist. district y. year
dup. duplicate entry 7br. September
h. husband; hour 8br. October
inf. infant 9br. November
10br. December

CHURCH RECORDS
CR1 Copy of First Church records in Hoyt's "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury."
CR2 Second Congregational Church records, West Parish, now Merrimac
CR3 Records of the Amesbury and Hampton Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends
CR4 St. James (Episcopal) Church Records
CR5 Congregational Church records

CEMETERY RECORDS
GR1 Union Cemetery
GR2 Lower Corner Cemetery, now in Merrimac
GR3 Centre Cemetery, now in Merrimac
GR4 Colby private burying ground at Meadowbrook, near Newton town line
GR5 Tuxbury private burying ground near Lake Attitash
GR6 Private burying ground near Haverhill line

PRIVATE RECORDS
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
PR1 Copy of Rev. Paine Wingate's record of baptisms of Second Congregational Church, now in Merrimac, now in possession of Prof. Charles F. Richardson of Dartmouth College
PR2 Bible record now in possession of Ralph O. Bayley
PR3 Bible record now in possession of William Bagley of Newport, RI
PR4 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Rebecca Currier
PR5 Bible record now in possession of Miss Hannah Clough
PR6 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Fanny B. Clement
PR7 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. William Currier
PR8 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Fanny E. Clement
PR9 Bible record now in possession of F.J. Currier
PR10 Bible record now in possession of Edward A. Brown
PR11 Bible record now in possession of William D. Bagley
PR12 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Charles L. Long
PR13 Bible record now in possession of John Allen
PR14 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Jefferson Currier
PR15 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Foster Gale
PR16 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Ellen M. Osborne
PR17 Bible record now in possession of William B. Gale
PR18 Sampler record now in possession of Miss Ruth S. Gale
PR19 Bible record now in possession of George F. Kendrick of Merrimac
PR20 Bible record now in possession of William O. Smiley of Merrimac
PR21 Bible record now in possession of Frank E Bartlett of Merrimac
PR22 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Catherine Nichols of Merrimac
PR23 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. M.F. Hudson of Merrimac
PR24 Family record now in possession of Mrs. M.F. Hudson of Merrimac
PR25 Bible record now in possession of Homer Sargent of Merrimac
PR26 Bible record now in possession of William D. True
PR27 Bible record now in possession of John E. Long
PR28 Bible record now in possession of E.A. Brown
PR29 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. harriet Hardy
PR30 Bible record now in possession of Thomas W. Quimby of Haverhill
PR31 Bible record now in possession of J. Elmer Brierly
PR32 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. McLeod of Merrimac
PR33 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mary F. Morrill of Merrimac
PR34 Bible record now in possession of Philip Neal of Merrimacport
PR35 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Rebecca Currier of Merrimacport
PR36 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Chester Janvrin
PR37 Bible record now in possession of Enos B. Patten
PR38 Bible record now in possession of Joseph W. Creesey
PR39 Bible record now in possession of George W. Rowell
PR40 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Everett Sargent
PR41 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. A.W. Folger
PR42 Bible record now in possession of Benjamin F. Sargent
PR43 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. M.F. Hudson of Merrimac
PR44 Bible record now in possession of George B. Patten of Merrimac
PR45 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Rebecca Currier of Merrimacport
PR46 Bible record now in possession of Bailey Sargen of Merrimac
PR47 Bible record now in possession of Bailey Sargent of Merrimac
PR48 Bible record now in possession of Miss E.J. Bancroft of Merrimacport
PR49 Bible record now in possession of Augustus N. Parry
PR50 Bible record now in possession of Jason L. Todd
PR51 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. John Lamprey
PR52 Sampler record now in possession of Mrs. Mark Thurlow
PR53 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Alfred Bailey
PR54 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Bliss Boultenhouse
PR55 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Gilman Hoyt of Merrimac
PR56 Record now in possession of Fred W. Merrill
PR57 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mark Thurlow
PR58 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Lizzie Jordan of Merrimac
PR59 Bible record now in possession of Charles E. Rowell of Merrimacport
PR60 Bible record now in possession of Miss Judith Williams
PR61 Bible record now in possession of Rufus B. Tuxbury
PR62 Bible record now in possession of Alfred Morrill
PR63 Bible record now in possession of Homer Sargent of Merrimac
PR64 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. E.O. Sargent
PR65 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Clement of Pond Hills
PR66 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. E.O. Sargent
PR67 Bible record now in possession of Homer Sargent of Merrimac
PR68 Bible record now in possession of Homer Sargent of Merrimac
PR69 Bible record now in possession of Howard M. Williams
PR70 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. William Colby
PR71 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Augustus N. Parry
PR72 Bible record now in possession of Willard B. Kelly of Merrimac
PR73 Bible record now in possession of Alfred Wells of Merrimac
PR74 Abstracts of marriages recorded in the "Dalton Book", formerly at Exeter, NH, and now in possession of the Secretary of State, Concord, NH
PR75 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Bailey Colby
PR76 Bible record now in possession of John F. Merrill
PR77 Bible record now in possession of Miss S. Ellen Tuxbury
PR78 Lithograph mourning record now in possession of Miss Ruth S. Gale
PR79 Bible record now in possession of Homer Sargent of Merrimac
PR80 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Sally Currier

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Last Updated: 16 September, 2007