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 Essex County Quarterly Court; in the cemetery inscriptions; and in the 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 worman, and to show variations in the spelling of a name in the same entry.
When places other than Rowley 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. When both the marriage and intention of marriages are recorded, only the marriage record is printed; and when a marriage appears without the intention being recorded, it is designated by an asterisk. 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, aand the various forms of family names have been placed in one alphabetical arrangement.

ABBREVIATIONS
a age grandd granddaughter
abt about grands grandson
b born h husband
bef before inf infant
bet between int intention of marriage
bp baptized jr junior
bur buried Lt lieutenant
Ct Captain; Cornet m male; married; month
certif certificate rec recorded
ch child rem removed
chn children ret returned
Co county s son
CTF court files sr senior
CTR court records, Essex Co. Quarterly Court unm unmarried
d daughter; day; died w week; wife
Dea deacon wid widow
dec deceased widr widower
dup duplicate entry y year
Ens ensign

CHURCH RECORDS
CR1 First Congregational Church
CR2 Second Congregational Church, now in Georgetown
CR3 First Baptist Church, now in Georgetown
CR4 Second Baptist Church

CEMETERY RECORDS
GR1 Rowley Cemetery
GR2 Union Cemetery, Georgetown

PRIVATE RECORDS
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
PR1 Record kept by Rev. Moses Hale, pastor of Byfiled-Rowley Church, now in possession of Joseph N. Dummer.
PR2 Record kept by Rev. James Chandler and Rev. Isaac Bramen, pastors of the Second Church
PR3 Abstract of marriages recorded in the Provincial Court Records, formerly at Exeter, NH, performed by Samuel Dalton, Commissioner, now in possession of the Secretary of State of New Hampshire
PR4 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Eunice Haines of Georgetown
PR5 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Cornelius Baker Adams of Georgetown
PR6 Bible record now in possession of Miss Sarah Maria Hale of Rowley
PR7 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Arthur W. Peabody of Rowley
PR8 Sampler now in possession of William Stickney Ewell of Rowley
PR9 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Everett Cressey of Rowley
PR10 Family record now in possession of Miss Ellen F. Jackson of Rowley
PR11 Bible record now in possession of Charles Bradstreet of Bridgeport, CT
PR12 Bible record now in possession of Charles W. Hale of Rowley
PR13 Bible record now in possession of Harlan C. Foster of Rowley
PR14 Bible record now in possession of Paul Abbott of Rowley
PR15 Family record now in possession of Miss Annie T. Dole of Rowley
PR16 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Abby F. Elsworth of Rowley
PR17 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Bainbridge Morse of Georgetown
PR18 Bible record now in possession of Elizabeth N. Noyes of Georgetown
PR19 Bible record now in possession of George Greenleaf Tyler of Georgetown
PR20 Family record now in possession of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Tracy of Georgetown
PR21 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. F. M. Harriman of Georgetown
PR22 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Anne L. Floyd of Georgetown
PR23 Bible record now in possession of Miss Annie M. Haskell of Georgetown
PR24 Bible record now in possession of Forrest E. Bailey of Georgetown
PR25 Bible record now in possession of Miss Mary A. Palmer of Georgetown
PR26 Family record now in possession of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bateman of Georgetown
PR27 Bible record now in possession of Amos E. Jewett of Rowley
PR28 Small diary of Joshua Jewett, now in possession of Amos E. Jewett of Rowley
PR29 Richards family record now in possession of Amos E. Jewett of Rowley
PR30 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Lelia Taylor of Georgetown
PR31 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Charlotte K.N. Chaplin of Georgetown
PR32 Large diary of Joshua Jewett now in posssession of Amos E. Jewett of Rowley
PR33 Family record now in possession of Mrs. M L. Noyes of Byfield
PR34 Family record now in possession of Alic I. Yeaton of Georgetown
PR35 Family record now in possession of Mrs. Alfarata D. Adams of Georgetown
PR36 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Joseph H. Kimball of Georgetown
PR37 Family record now in possession of Fred S. Hardy of West Newton, MA
PR38 Bible record now in possession of Miss Sarah M. Holmes of Bradford, MA
PR39 Family record now in possession of Miss Sarah Jewett of Georgetown
PR40 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Hannah G. Rogers of Georgetown
PR41 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Melvin G. Spofford of Georgetown
PR42 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Clara P. Stocker of Georgetown
PR43 Bible record now in possession of Miss Susan E. Nelson of Georgetown
PR44 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George Weston of Georgetown
PR45 Bible record now in possession of Charles H. Hall of Georgetown
PR46 Bible record now in possession of Hudson S. Harriman
PR47 Bible record now in possession of George Prescott Tyler of Georgetown
PR48 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Alfarata Adams of Georgetown
PR49 Bible record now in possession of Israel F. Dwinnel of Georgetown
PR50 Family record now in possession of Mrs. William Poole
PR51 Bible record now in possession of Cornelius G. Baker of Georgetown
PR52 Bible record now in possession of Asa F. Howe of Georgetown.
PR53 Bible record now in possession of Herbert A. Dale of Georgetown
PR54 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Caroline Crawford of Georgetown
PR55 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Rodney M. Hills of Byfield
PR56 Bible record now in possession of Frank V. Noyes of Georgetown
PR57 Bible record now in possession of Horace E. Harriman of Georgetown
PR58 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Lucy W. Gay of Georgetown
PR59 Bible record now in possession of Miss Rosamond A. Plummer
PR60 Bible record now in possession of Charles H. Pingrey of Georgetown
PR61 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Gorham Jewett of Rowley
PR62 Family record now in possession of Mrs. Herbert A. Witham of Georgetown
PR63 Bible record now in possession of Harlan P. Floyd of Georgetown
PR64 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Henry J. Minchen of Georgetown
PR65 Interleaved almanac dated 1769, now in possession of the Essex Institute
PR66 Family record now in possession of George G. Kneeland of Haverhill
PR67 Bible record now in possession of James G. Noyes of Washington, D.C.
PR68 Bible record now in possession of Charles R. Weston of Georgetown
PR69 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Daniel D. Holt of Georgetown
PR70 Bible record now in possession of Luther Brown of Georgetown
PR71 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Susan Dawkins Fitch of Georgetown
PR72 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Alfred A. Spaulding of Georgetown
PR73 Bible record now in possession of Charles C. Merrill of Haverhill
PR74 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. John C. Wise of Hebron, NH
PR75 Bible record now in possession of James M. Perley of Rowley
PR76 Bible record now in possession of Charles H. Houghton of Rowley
PR77 Bible record now in possession of George Prescott of Rowley
PR78 Family record now in possession of Mrs. Catherine Mighill of Rowley
PR79 Family record, on reverse side of silhouette, now in possession of the Rowley Historical Society
PR80 Bible record now in possession of William Stickney Ewell of Rowley
PR81 Family record now in possession of Albert A. Hicken of Rowley
PR82 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Charles Gray of Rowley
PR83 Bible record now in possession of Arthur R. Moody of Rowley
PR84 Bible record now in possession of Edwin Adams of Rowley
PR85 Bible record now in possession of Charles P. Adams of Georgetown
PR86 Bible record now in possession of Rev. Bartlett Weston of Georgetown
PR87 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Sarah E. Dodge of Rowley
PR88 Family record now in possession Mrs. Noah R. Kneeland of Georgetown
PR89 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mary E. Millett of Rowley
PR90 Bible record now in possession of Miss Ellen W. Hilliard of Georgetown
PR91 Paul Jewett's family Bible record now in possession of Rowley Historical Society
PR92 Bible record now in possession of C. William Scates of Georgetown

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Last updated: 23 September, 2007