Explanations of the Vital Records of Marblehead 1649 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 several 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 clerk's 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 indicate the maiden name of a wife.

When places other than Marblehead 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 abouth the same family may be found under different spellings. All church records have been included, except those of the Universalist church, which were destroyed by the fire of 1888.

**ABBREVIATIONS**
a	age	int	intention of marriage
abt	about	jr	junior
b	born	m	male; married; month; minor
bef	before	rec	recorded
bet	between	s	son
bp	baptized	sr	senior
ch	child	TC	town copy of records made in 1864, by Capt. Glover Broughton, town clerk
chn	children	unm	unmarried
Co	county	w	wife; week
CTF	court files, Essex Co. Quarterly Court	wid	widow
CTR	court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court	widr	widower
d	daughter; day; died	y	year
Dea	deacon	7br	September
dup	duplicate entry	8br	October
h	husband; hour	9br	November
inf	infant	10br	December

**CHURCH RECORDS**
CR1	First Congregational Church records
CR2	Second Congregational (Unitarian) Church records
CR3	St. Michael's (Episcopal) Churche records.
CR4	First Baptist Church records
CR5	Methodist Church records

**CEMETERY RECORDS**
GR1	Old Burying Hill Cemetery
GR2	Unitarian Cemetery
GR3	Harris St. Cemetery
GR4	Green St. Cemetery
GR5	St. Michael's Cemetery
GR6	Waterside Cemetery

**PRIVATE RECORDS**
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
PR1	Private record of deaths, 1811-1825, kept by Rev. John Bartlett, now in possession of Stephen P. Hathaway
PR2	Bible record now in possession of Stephen P. Hathaway
PR3	Bible record now in possession of the Marblehead Historical Society
PR4	Bible record now in possession of Frank Broughton
PR5	Bible record now in possession of Robert Besson
PR6	Bible record now in possession of Francis Wilson
PR7	Bible record now in possession of Miss Caroline Humphrey
PR8	Bible record in possession of Mrs. Emma L. Roads
PR9	Bible record now in possession of Miss Oceana Hammond
PR10	Record furnished by Mrs. Mary O. Proctor
PR11	Record now in possession of George B. Humphrey
PR12	Bible record now in possession of George B. Humphrey
PR13	Bible record now in possession of George B. Hiller of New Troy, MI
PR14	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mary P. Martin
PR15	Family record furnished by Miss Mary A. Alley
PR16	Bible record now in possession of Miss Sarah S. Swett
PR17	Bible record now in possession of Stephen P. Hathaway
PR18	Records of Philanthropic Lodge, F. and A.M.
PR19	Bible record now in possession of John Russell Kemble of New York City
PR20	Family record now in possession of Stephen P. Hathaway
PR21	Family record now in possession of Stephen W. Phillips of Salem
PR22	Diary of Zaccheus Collins of Lynn, now in possession of the Essex Institute
PR23	Commonplace Book of Richard Pratt of Lynn, now in possession of Gilbert Hawkes of Lynn
PR24	Bible record now in possession of N. Allen Lindsey
PR25	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Emma R. Sinclair