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


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Last Updated: 7 January, 2007