EXPLANATIONS

1. When places other than Montgomery and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy.
2. In all records the original spelling is followed.
3. The various spellings of a name should be examined, as items about the same family or individual might be found under different spellings of that name.
4. Marriages and intentions of marriages are printed under the names of both parties, but the full information concerning each party is given only in the entry under his or her name. When both the marriage and intention of marriages are recorded, only the marriage record is printed, with an asterisk.
5. Additional information which does not appear in theorginal text of an item, i.e., any explanation, query, inference, or difference shown in other entries of a record, is bracketed. Parentheses are used only when they occur in the original text, or to separate clauses found there—such as the birth-place of parents, in late marriage records.

ABBREVIATIONS
a age int intention of marriage
abt about Jr junior
b born m male; married; month
ch child rec recorded
chn children s son
co county Sr senior
d daughter; day; died w wife
Dea deacon wid widow
dup duplicate entry widr widower
f female y year
h husband 2d second
inf infant


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