Vital Records of Worthington, MA

EXPLANATIONS

1. When places other than Worthington and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy.

2. In all items from town records the original spelling is followed, and no attempt is made to correct errors appearing in the records or to harmonize conflicting names or dates.

3. The various spellings of a name should be examined, as items about the same family or individual might be found under different spellings.

4. Marriages and intentions of marriages are printed under the names of both parties. When both the marriage and intention of marriage are recorded, only the marriage record is printed; and where a marriage appears without the intention recorded, it is designated with an asterisk.

5. Additional information which does not appear in the original text of an item, i.e. any explanation, query, inference, or difference shown in other entries of the record is bracketed. Parentheses are used to show the difference in the spelling of a name in the same entry, to indicate the maiden name of a wife, to enclose an imperfect portion of the original text, and to separate clauses in the original text — such as the birthplaces of a parent in late records.

**ABBREVIATIONS**
a	age	inf	infant
abt	about	int	intention of marriage
b	born	Jr	junior
bp	baptized	m	married; month
bur	buried	min	minutes
ch	child	rec	recorded
chn	children	s	son
Co	county	Sr	senior
d	daughter; died; day	w	wife; week
Dea	deacon	wid	widow
dup	duplicate entry	widr	widower
h	husband	y	year
hrs	hours

**CHURCH RECORDS**
CR	Church of Christ, Worthington

**CEMETERY RECORDS**
GR1	South Worthington Cemetery
GR2	Ringville Cemetery
GR3	Cemetery near Johnson place
GR4	Cemetery near Curtis place
GR5	North Cemetery
GR6	Center Cemetery

**PRIVATE RECORDS**
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
PR1	From a Marble family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Abner Witt of Worthington
PR2	From a family Bible, now in the possession of Samuel Hills of Worthington
PR3	From a Stone family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Aaron Stevens of Worthington
PR4	From a Kelly family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Ransom Scott of Worthington
PR5	From a Perry family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. A.D. Perry of Worthington
PR6	From a Cole family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Samuel Cole of Worthington
PR7	From a Burr family Bible, now in the possession of Clement F. Burr of Worthington
PR8	From a Granger family Bible, now in the possession of William Granger of Worthington
PR9	From family Bibles, now in the possession of Alfred Stevens of Worthington
PR10	From the Sanderson family Bible, now in the possession of Frank Sanderson of Worthington
PR11	From a family Bible, now in the possession of Orville A. Dodge of Worthington
PR12	From Everett family Bibles, now in the possession of James Everett of Worthington
PR13	From a Skelton family Bible, now in the possession of Perly Skelton of Worthington
PR14	From a Brown family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Amanda Brown of Worthington
PR15	From a Cross family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. E.B. Cross of Worthington
PR16	From a Parish family Bible, now in the possession of the heirs of Milton Parish late of Worthington
PR17	From a Benton family Bible, now in the possession of Henry Benton of Worthington
PR18	From a Pierce family Bible, now in the possession of Ernest Thayer of Worthington
PR19	From the Brown family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Martha Humphreys of Worthington
PR20	From the Stone family Bible, now in the possession of Miss M.F. Stone of Worthington
PR21	From the Bartlett family Bible, now in the possession of Horace F. Bartlett of Worthington
PR22	From the Pease family Bible, now in the possession of George W. Pease of Worthington
PR23	From the Hewitt family Bible, now in the possession of Miss Caroline Hewitt of Worthington
PR24	From the Burr family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. E.S. Burr of Worthington
PR25	From the Drury family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. A.P. Drury of Worthington