Explanations of the Vital Records of Boxford 1685 to 1849

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 show the difference in the spelling of a name in the same entry, and to indicte the maiden name of a married woman.

When places other than Boxford and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy. Marriages and intentions of marriages 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.

ABBREVIATIONS

a	age	dup	duplicate entry
abt	about	h	husband
b	born	inf	infant
BC	copy and compilation of town records made in 1823 by John Bacon, town clerk	int	intention of marriage
bef	before	jr	junior
bp	baptized	m	male; married; month
bur	buried	rec	recorded
ch	child	s	son
chn	children	sr	senior
Co	county	unm	unmarried
CTR	court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court	w	wife
d	daughter; day; died	wid	widow
DC	copy of town records made in 1872 by Thomas P. Dorman, town clerk	widr	widower
Dea	deacon	y	year

CHURCH RECORDS

CR1	First Congregational church, East Boxford.
CR2	Second Congregational church, West Boxford

CEMETERY RECORDS

GR1	ancient cemetery, West Boxford.
GR2	Killam-Curtis cemetery, near Ipswich River.
GR3	Harmony cemetery, East Boxford.
GR4	First Church cemetery.
GR5	ancient cemetery near the French house, East Boxford.
GR6	grave on the Marden farm, East Boxford.

PRIVATE RECORDS
(Bible records, Family records, Etc.)

PR1	Bible record now in possession of John L. Killam of North Andover.
PR2	Bible record now in possession of Miss Mary L. Eliot of Roxbury.
PR3	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Caleb M. Cole of South Groveland.
PR4	Bible record now in possession of Joshua T. Day of Haverhill.
PR5	Bible record now in possession of Stephen A. Bixby.
PR6	Bible record now in possession of Miss Mary A.B. Gould.
PR7	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George W. Twitchell.
PR8	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Abby R. Gage.
PR9	Bible record now in possession of Erwin T. Phillips of Topsfield.
PR10	Bible record now in possession of John G. Chandler.
PR11	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George M. Spofford of Georgetown.
PR12	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George M. Spofford of Georgetown.
PR13	Bible record now in possession of John T. Wood.
PR14	Bible record now in possession of Henry Perley.
PR15	Bible record now in possession of Henry Perley.
PR16	Family record now in possession of Horace Berry.
PR17	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Sarah L. Gentis of Haverhill.
PR18	Bible record now in possession of John Robinson of Salem.
PR19	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Dean Andrews.
PR20	Bible record now in possession of Samuel K. Sawyer of Danvers.
PR21	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Benjamin S. Barnes.
PR22	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Benjamin S. Barnes.
PR23	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Albert Kimball of Bradford.
PR24	Bible record now in possession of Miss Alice P. Butler of Danvers.
PR25	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. L.H. Cheney.
PR26	Bible record now in possession of John S. Dorman.
PR27	Bible record now in possession of Miss Mary A. Herrick of Danvers.
PR28	Journal of Edwin S. Adams of West Boxford, now in possession of Sidney Perley of Salem.
PR29	Private record of deaths now in possession of Miss Mary Ellen Perley.