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 Haverhill 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.

ABBREVIATIONS
a age h husband; hour
abt about inf infant
b born int intention of marriage
bef before jr junior
bet between m male; married; month
bp baptized rec recorded
bur buried s son
ch child sr senior
chn children TC town copy
Co county unm unmarried
CTF court files, Essex Co. Quarterly Court w wife; week
CTR court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court wid widow
d daughter; day; died widr widower
Dea deacon y year
dup duplicate entry a a

CHURCH RECORDS
CR1 First Parish Church records
CR2 North Parish Congregational Church records
CR3 West Parish Congregational Church records
CR4 East Parish Fourth Congregatioanl Church records
CR5 Centre Congregational Church records
CR6 Second Baptist Church records
CR7 South Christian Church records
CR8 Records of the Quaker Monthly Meeting, Amesbury and Hampton

CEMETERY RECORDS
GR1 Pentucket Cemetery
GR2 North Parish Burying Ground
GR3 Ancient West Parish Cemetery
GR4 Walnut Cemetery
GR5 Greenwood Cemetery
GR6 Linwood Cemetery
GR7 Second West Parish Cemetery
GR8 Hillside Cemetery
GR9 Hilldale Cemetery

PRIVATE RECORDS
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
PR1 Record of marriage licenses among the Wheatland Papers, Vol. VII, now in possession of the Essex Institute
PR2 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Alice (Nichols) Gardner
PR3 Bible records now in possession of Mrs. Clara Carleton Pearl
PR4 Record now in possession of Miss Elizabeth Goodrich
PR5 Bible record now in possession of Miss Caroline Duncan
PR6 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Florence L. Hayden
PR7 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. L. P. Irving
PR8 Bible records now in possession of Mrs. Sarah A. Newcomb
PR9 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Elbridge Gerry Kimball
PR10 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. John Ward Cook
PR11 Record now in possession of Mrs. A.J. Woodman, Danvers
PR12 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. James Davis
PR13 Bible record now in possession of Robert A. Emerson
PR14 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Walter Nickols
PR15 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Frank H. Russ
PR16 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George E. Elliott
PR17 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Rufus L. Chase
PR18 Bible record now in possession of James How
PR19 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. S.A. Strickland
PR20 Bible record now in possession of Miss Anna Gile
PR21 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George W. Kimball
PR22 Sampler now in possession of Miss Mary West
PR23 Bible record now in possession of George C. Martin
PR24 Bible records now in possession of Mrs. Henry Merrill
PR25 Bible record now in possession of Henry LeBosquet
PR26 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Jackson Haynes
PR27 Parchment record now in possession of Jackson Haynes
PR28 Record now in possession of Moses Riland Chase
PR29 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Emily Webster
PR30 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. John C. Tilton
PR31 Bible record now in possession of Miss Florence Tolman Blunt
PR32 Bible records now in possession of Amos Davis
PR33 Bible record now in possession of Frederick Kimball
PR34 Bible record now in possession of Mr. Jessie Atwood
PR35 Bible record now in possession of Charles F. Morse
PR36 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Charlotte Pettengill
PR37 Bible record now in possession of Hazen Moody Chase
PR38 Bible record now in possession of Philip C. Swett
PR39 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mary Olive Weeden, Plaistow, NH
PR40 Bible record now in possession of Arthur N. Currier
PR41 Sampler now in possession of Mrs. Florence E. Hopkinson
PR42 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Florence E. Hopkinson
PR43 Bible record now in possession of Charles Henry Wells
PR44 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Julia Ann Webster
PR45 Records now in possession of Otis Ladd Johnson
PR46 Bible records now in possession of Mrs. A.H. Johnson
PR47 Family Register now in possession of Charles H. Burnham
PR48 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. A.H. Brown
PR49 Bible record now in possession of Leslie K. Morse
PR50 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Henry H. Johnson
PR51 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Milton Chase
PR52 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Walter Ford
PR53 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Ann E. Butters
PR54 Bible record now in possession of Miss Lucy Ann Brickett
PR55 Sampler now in possession of Mrs. Abbie S. Foster
PR56 Bible record now in possession of Albert E. Kenison
PR57 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George W. Kimball
PR58 Ledger now in possession of Mrs. Nason
PR59 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George How
PR60 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. William H. Dixon
PR61 Bible record now in possession of William Sargent
PR62 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Amos Haseltine
PR63 Records now in possession of George Franklin Webster
PR64 Bible records now in possession of Mrs. L.S. Irving
PR65 Bible record now in possession of George W. Russ
PR66 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Frances G. Plummer
PR67 Sampler now in possession of the Haverhill Historical Society
PR68 Bible record now in possession of Ebenezer Webster
PR69 Manuscript record now in possession of Harrison Whitaker
PR70 Bible record now in possession of Amos Haseltine

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Last Updated: 26 March, 2008