Explanations of the Vital Records of West Newbury, MA

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 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 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 indicate the maiden name of a wife.

When places other than West Newbury 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. 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	unm	unmarried
Co	county	w	wife; week
d	daughter; day; died	wid	widow
Dea	deacon	widr	widower
dup	duplicate entry	y	year

**CHURCH RECORDS**
CR1	First Congregational Church
CR2	Second Congregational Church
CR3	Amesbury Monthly Meeting of Friends

**CEMETERY RECORDS**
GR1	Walnut Hill Cemetery
GR2	Bridge Street Cemetery
GR3	Merrimac Cemetery
GR4	Rural Cemetery
GR5	Crane Neck Hill Cemetery
GR6	Friend's Burying place, Turkey Hill road
GR7	Sawyer private burial ground, Indian Hill Street
GR8	private burial ground on Goodridge farm, Indian Hill Street
GR9	private burial ground on C.W. Ordway farm

**PRIVATE RECORDS**
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
PR1	Family record now in possession of James L. Odiorne
PR2	Family record now in possession of Mrs. J.L. Odiorne
PR3	Family record now in possession of Alonzo Jaques
PR4	Family record now in possession of Alonzo P. Jaques
PR5	Family record now in possession of Edwin S. Jaques
PR6	Bible record now in possession of Miss Marietta Poore
PR7	Family record now in possession of Miss Harriet N. Hills
PR8	Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Ellen M. (Nelson) Poore
PR9	Family record now in possession of Joshua Hills