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 private records found in family Bibles, etc. 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 married woman.
When places other than Andover 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 spellin 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.
The register of deaths in the South Parish, between 1710 and 1771, referred to in the Historical Manual of the South Church published in 1859, has not been found.
The town clerk's records, Book II, 1701-1800, are badly worn, and portions of many of the entries in the first hundred pages are missing, thus accounting for the frequent use of the word torn and the dash.
The gravestone records are from copies of gravestones made in October, 1864 by Alfred Poore, M.D., and now in possession of the Essex Institute.

ABBREVIATIONS
a age inf infant
abt about int intention of marriage
b born jr junior
bef before m male; married; month
bet between rec recorded
bp baptized s son
bur buried sr senior
CC Copy of Essex Co. Court records, at the Clerk of Court's office, made by Alfred Kimball in 1856 TC town copy
ch child unm unmarried
chn children w wife; week
Co county wid widow
CTF court files, Essex Co. Quarterly Court widr widower
CTR court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court y year
d daughter; day; died 7br September
Dea deacon 8br October
dup duplicate entry 9br November
h husband; hour xbr December

CHURCH RECORDS
CR1 North Parish Congregational Church records
CR2 South Parish Congregational Church records
CR3 West Parish Congregational Church records
CR4 Christ Church records
CR5 North Andover Congregational Church records
CR6 Theological Seminary Church records

CEMETERY RECORDS
GR1 North Parish Burying Ground
GR2 South Parish Burying Ground
GR3 West Parish Burying Ground
GR4 Christ Church Burying Ground
GR5 Theological Seminary Burying Ground
GR6 Second Burying Ground, in North Andover
GR7 Ridgewood Cemetery

PRIVATE RECORDS
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
PR1 Bible record now in possession of Miss Charlotte Helen Abbot
PR2 Family record now in possession of Miss Ellen Richardson
PR3 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. E.A. Higgins
PR4 Bible records now in possession of Miss Anna B. Abbott
PR5 Bible record now in possession of Edward Adams, North Andover
PR6 Bible record now in possession of Frank W. Abbott, North Andover
PR7 Bible record now in possession of Charles B. Adams, North Andover
PR8 Bible records, now in possession of Mrs. S.H. Bailey
PR9 Bible record now in possession of George T. Abbott
PR10 Bible records now in possession of Mrs. William Cheever
PR11 Bible record now in possession of Ballard Holt
PR12 Bible record now in possession of Fred Andrews
PR13 Family record now in possession of Miss Florence Averill, North Andover
PR14 Account book now in possession of Miss Florence Averill, North Andover
PR15 Record now in possession of Orrin Foster
PR16 Bible record now in possession of Jacob W. Barker, North Andover
PR17 Records now in possession of Jacob W. Barker
PR18 Bible record now in possession of Miss Emily Carter
PR19 Bible record now in possession of George Caldwell
PR20 Bible record now in possession of George I. Smith, North Andover
PR21 Family record now in possession of Miss Maria D. Kimball
PR22 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Hannah Tucker, North Andover
PR23 Bible record now in possession of Mary G. Carleton, North Andover
PR24 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Edward Butterworth, North Andover
PR25 Bible record now in possession of Andrew J. Barker, North Andover
PR26 Bible record now in possession of Clifton Berry, North Andover
PR27 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Edward Cooper, North Andover
PR28 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Martha A. Russell
PR29 Bible record now in possession of Miss Angie Burtt
PR30 Bible records now in possession of Mrs. J.W. Mooar
PR31 Bible record now in possession of William A. Trow
PR32 Bible record now in possession of Miss Lucretia Bailey
PR33 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. William E. Burtt
PR34 Bible record now in possession of Miss Mary Boutwell
PR35 Bible record now in possession of John Bailey
PR36 Bible record now in possession of Frank E. Bailey
PR37 Framed record now in possession of Mrs. Charles H. Newton
PR38 Unframed record now in possession of Mrs. Charles H. Newton
PR39 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Caroline S. Rea
PR40 Bible record now in possession of Miss Laura Alden Bailey, North Andover
PR41 Bible records now in possession of Mrs. Warren Bailey
PR42 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. J.W. Barnard
PR43 Bible record now in possession of Miss Ellen Abbott
PR44 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. E. Francis Holt
PR45 Family record now in possession of George W. Foster
PR46 Note book record now in possession of Miss Florence Averill, North Andover
PR47 Bible record now in possession of George L. Averill
PR48 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Frederick P. Hannaford, North Andover
PR49 Framed family record now in possession of Miss Sarah Jenkins
PR50 Bible record now in possession of Frank Eaton, North Andover
PR51 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mary H. Lacy, North Andover
PR52 Family Register now in possession of Orrin Foster, North Andover
PR53 Bible record now in possession of Frank Goodhue, North Andover
PR54 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. John Barker
PR55 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Oliver P. Berry, Wolfboro, NH
PR56 Bible record now in possession of John Cochran
PR57 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Albert Lowe
PR58 Bible record now in possession of B.F. Wardwell
PR59 Bible record now in possession of N.E. Bartlett
PR60 Family record now in possession of Miss Sara Poor
PR61 Account book now in possession of Miss Martha Farnham, North Andover
PR62 Bible record now in possession of Miss Eldora Ellis, North Andover
PR63 Bible record now in possession of John Peters Clark, North Andover
PR64 Framed record now in possession of Mrs. S.M. Wagstaff
PR65 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. S.M. Wagstaff
PR66 Bible record now in possession of Miss Hannah E. Giddings
PR67 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Daniel Fitz
PR68 Bible record now in possession of George Goldsmith
PR69 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Frank Holt
PR70 Bible record now in possession of James Jaquith
PR71 Bible record now in possession of Miss Sarah Jenkins
PR72 Family record now in possession of Mrs. Mary A. Davis
PR73 Record now in possess ion of Ira O. Gray
PR74 Bible record now in possession of B.F. Wardwell
PR75 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Lois Manning
PR76 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. S. Jennie Marland, Griffen, GA
PR77 Bible record now in possession of Stillman Harnden
PR78 Family record now in possession of George Stevens
PR79 Bible records now in possession of Charles Johnson
PR80 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Andrew Smith, Lynn
PR81 Bible records now in possession of Miss Maria D. Kimball, North Andover
PR82 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. E.W. Moody, North Andover
PR83 Bible record now in possession of Charles W. Tucker, Swampscott
PR84 Bible record now in possession of Henry Keniston, North Andover
PR85 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Winslow, Lynn
PR86 Bible record now in possession of David Wallwork, North Andover
PR87 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Robert Peterson, North Andover
PR88 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mary E. Perkins, North Andover
PR89 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Edward Butterworth, North Andover
PR90 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George A. Rea, North Andover
PR91 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Charles H. Poor, North Andover
PR92 Bible record now in possession of Isaac Osgood, North Andover
PR93 Records now in possession Clarence W. Reynolds, North Andover
PR94 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. M.A. Russell
PR95 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. M. Warren Tuck
PR96 Bible record now in possession of Miss Abbie Hill
PR97 Bible record now in possession of A. Sewell Stott
PR98 Bible record now in possession of Augustus Upton
PR99 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Elmer Conkey
PR100 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. William Gile, North Andover
PR101 Bible record now in possession of Miss Olive Rea, North Andover
PR102 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. J.J. Abbott
PR103 Framed record now in possession of Mrs. John Holt
PR104 Record now in possession of Frank Carlton
PR105 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Eames
PR106 Bible record now in possession of Miss Kate Johnson, North Andover
PR107 Record now in possession of Miss Harriet S. Tapley, Salem
PR108 Record now in possession of C.H.A. Sanborn
PR109 Bible record now in possession of Miss Harriet L. Crosby, Methuen
PR110 Bible record now in possession of Rev. William S. Nichols, North Andover
PR111 Bible record now in possession of Miss Laura Chandler
PR112 Family register now in possession of Miss Laura Chandler
PR113 Family record now in possession of Miss Laura Chandler
PR114 Bible record now in possession of John K. Fish, North Andover
PR115 Bible record now in possession of Miss Hattie L. Erving
PR116 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Geofge Baker
PR117 Bible record now in possession of Timothy Abbott
PR118 Record now in possession of Ballard Holt
PR119 Bible record now in possession of William G. Grooks, North Andover
PR120 Bible record now in possession of Miss Sarah P. Foster, North Andover
PR121 Bible record now in possession of George Flint
PR122 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Henry A. Gould
PR123 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Sarah J. Crocker, North Andover
PR124 Note book record now in possession of Mrs. Sarah J. Crocker, North Andover
PR125 Record now in possession of Mrs. Sarah J. Crocker, North Andver
PR126 Priscilla Abbot's Bible record now in possssion of Andover Public Library
PR127 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. S.H. Bailey
PR128 Records now in possession of James F. Johnson, Waltham
PR129 Copy of a Manuscript once the property of abel Blanchard now in possession of the Bible Society, Astor Place, New York City

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Last Updated: 16 September, 2007