VITAL RECORDS

MANCHESTER

MASSACHUSETTS

To the end of the year 1849

Transcriptions of the "Tan Book"
Published by
The Essex Institute
Salem, MA
1903

Title Page

MANCHESTER

The first settlers gave the name of "Jeofferyes Creeke" to this tract of land which at that time was a part of Salem. The name Manchester appears in the Colonial Records under the date of May 14, 1645 when "It is ordered, ye Jeffeyes Creeke shalbe called Manchester." June 18, 1645, both branches of the Great and General Court concurred in the following: "att ye request of ye inhabitants of Jeofferyes Creeke, this Courte doth graunt ye said Jeofferyes Creeke hence forward shall be called Manchester."

The population of Manchester at different periods was as follows:

1765,	732.	1800,	1,082.	1840,	1,355.
1776,	949.	1810,	1,137.	1850,	1,638.
1790,	965.	1820,	1,201.	1900,	2,522.
		1830,	1,236.

EXPLANATIONS and ABBREVIATIONS

SURNAME INDEX

Births
Abbot - Ayres
Babcock - Buttler
Camell - Curtis
Daie - Dunaho
Easccoat - Esty
Farrace - Friend
Galaway - Grosvenor
Hale - Hupper
Jamieson - Jumpper
Kalham - Kuitveal
Lakeman - Lynn
McCarteny - Murry
Niccoalss - Norwood
Ober - Otorn
Paars - Pulsifer
Quimbey - Quiner
Randall - Rust
Safford - Symons
Tailor - Tuxbury
Varel - Vickre
Waldin - Worrin
Young
Negroes

Marriages
Abbot - Ayston
Babcock - Byles
Cailleteau - Curtis
Dalen - Dyer
Earle - Escot
Falker - Fuller
Gale - Gualt
Hacker - Hutchens
Ingersoll - Ives
James - Jumper
Kasey - Knowlton
Lafkin - Lyons
McCarteny - Murry
Neal - Nourse
Oakes - Owens
Padison - Pulsifer
Quiner - Quinn
Rand - Ruthford
Safford - Symons
Tallen - Tuxbery
Upton
Vennard
Wabbar - Wyatt
York - Younger
Negroes

Deaths
Abbot - Ayres
Babcock - Byer
Callahan - Crumby
Danford - Durge
Eascot - Eulin
Farley - Friend
Galloway - Gwinn
Hairs - Hunt
Ingersoll - Ireland
Jackson - Jumper
Kallaham - Kuitfield
Leach - Lyons
McCarteny - Murry
Neal - Nothee
Ober - Osmond
Palham - Proctor
Richard - Russell
Safford - Symonds
Tapan - Tucker
Upton
Walton - Woodbury
Young
Negroes