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 dupliction 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 Salisbury 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.
As Salisbury and Amesbury have been so closely connected, both socially and geographically, it will be desirable to examine the records of both towns when making researches.

ABBREVIATIONS
a age   jr junior
abt about   m male; married; month
b born   NCTBK Records from the old Norfolk Co. Court book
bef before   NCTR Old Norfolk Co. Court records.
bet between   rec recorded
bp baptized   rem removed
bur buried   ret return
ch child   s son
chn children   sr senior
Co. county   TC town copy
CTF court files, Essex Co. Quarterly Court   unm unmarried
CTR court records, Essex Co. Quarterly Court   w wife; week
d daughter; day; died   wid widow
Dea deacon   widr widower
Dist district   y year
dup duplicate entry   7br September
h husband; hour   8br October
inf infant   9br November
int intention of marriage   10br December

CHURCH RECORDS
CR1 East Parish Church
CR2 Rocky Hill (West Parish) Church, Amesbury
CR3 Methodist Church (East Parish)
CR4 Baptist Church, Amesbury
CR5 Union Congregational Church, Amesbury
CR6 Christian Connection Church, Amesbury
CR7 Amesbury and Hampton Monthly Meeting of Friends

CEMETERY RECORDS
GR1 Old Corner Burying Ground
GR2 Salisbury Plains Burying Ground, Amesbury
GR3 Salisbury Point Burying Ground, Amesbury.
GR4 True Burying Ground
GR5 Maplewood Burying Ground
GR6 Burying Ground near Amesbury depot
GR7 Long Hill Cemetery
GR8 Mount Prospect Cemetery, Amesbury
GR9 private burying ground on the old ferry road
GR10 private burying ground on the P.A. True farm
GR11 Old Burying Ground, South Hampton, NH

PRIVATE RECORDS
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
PR1 Burial record now in possession of J. Wesley Patterson of Amesbury
PR2 Bible record now in possession of Edward A. Brown of Amesbury
PR3 Bible record now in possession of Miss Ellen M. Collins of Amesbury
PR4 Bible record now in possession of George E. Collins of Amesbury
PR5 Bible record now in possession of George Allen of Amesbury
PR6 Bible record now in possession of Miss Anna F. Morrill of Amesbury
PR7 Bible record now in possession of Walter W. Webb of Nashota, MI
PR8 Bible record now in possession of Albert B. Felch
PR9 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Lucy Congdon
PR10 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Louisa Greeley
PR11 Bible record now in possession of Miss Susie Deal
PR12 Bible record now in possession of Miss Hannah E. Lake
PR13 Bible record now in possession of Miss Annie Tucker
PR14 Bible record now in possession of Charles M. Pike
PR15 Bible record now in possession of Miss Susie Deal
PR16 Bible record now in possession of Joseph M. Currier
PR17 Bible record now in possession of Wesley Pettingell
PR18 Bible record now in possession of Miss Mary Buswell
PR19 Bible record now in possession of William H. French
PR20 Bible record now in possession of Charles C. Hoyt
PR21 Bible record now in possession of George W. Dow
PR22 Bible record now in possession of George C. Pike
PR23 Bible record now in possession of Horace E. Carlisle
PR24 Bible record now in possession of John B. Pike
PR25 Bible record now in possession of Miss Ella Moody
PR26 Bible record now in possession of William H. Evans
PR27 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mary C. Gerrish
PR28 Bible record now in possession of Elias P. Dole
PR29 Bible record now in possession of Miss Mary M. Gerrish
PR30 Bible record now in possession of Miss Harriet Davis of Amesbury
PR31 Family record now in possession of Miss Harriet Davis of Amesbury
PR32 Bible record now in possession of Miss Mary F. Collins of Amesbury
PR33 Bible record now in possession of Edward S. Worthen of Amesbury
PR34 Sampler record now in possession of Mrs. Augustus N. Parry of Amesbury
PR35 Bible record now in possession of Cyrus rowell of Amesbury
PR36 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Orange S. Gordon of Amesbury
PR37 Bible records now in possession of Seth Clark, 5th, of Amesbury
PR38 Bible records now in possession of Mrs. Alfred Bailey of Amesbury
PR39 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. James Williams of Amesbury
PR40 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Alfred Bailey of Amesbury
PR41 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Batchelder Stevens of Amesbury
PR42 Bible record now in possession of Samuel True of Amesbury
PR43 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Edwin W. Osgood of Amesbury
PR44 Family register now in possession of Mrs. Edwin W. Osgood of Amesbury
PR45 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George Osgood of Amesbury
PR46 Bible record now in possession of Eben True of Amesbury
PR47 Bible record now in possession of William D. True of Amesbury
PR48 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George Allen of Amesbury
PR49 Bible record now in possession of Miss Harriet Morrill of Amesbury
PR50 Bible record now in possession of Jonathan Eastman of Amesbury
PR51 Bible record now in possession of Orlando S. Morse of Amesbury
PR52 Record now in possession of John M. Joy of Amesbury
PR53 Bible record now in possession of Miss Martha B. Morrill of Amesbury
PR54 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Albert K. Spofford of Amesbury
PR55 Bible record now in possession of the Stearns Family of Amesbury
PR56 Bible records now in possession of Frank M. Swett of Amesbury
PR57 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Henry Webster of Amesbury
PR58 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mary J. Flanders of Amesbury
PR59 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George Fernald of Amesbury
PR60 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mary J. Flanders of Amesbury
PR61 Bible record now in possession of John F. Dennett of Amesbury
PR62 Bible record now in possession of William H. Currier of Amesbury
PR63 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. John True of Amesbury
PR64 Record now in possession of C.E. Hudson of Brooklyn of NY
PR65 Abstracts of marriages recorded in the "Dalton Book," formerly at Exeter, NH, and now in ossession of the Secretary of State, Concord, NH
PR66 Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Lydia A. Ring of Amesbury

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Last Updated: 9 June, 2008