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 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 clerks' record has been eliminated, but differences in entry and other explanatory matter appear in brackets. Parentheses are used when they occur in the orignal record; also to indicare the maiden name of a wife.
When places other than Tyngsborough 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 when 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.
The records of this town being very incomplete, the town clerk, Mr. Charles Butterfield, about 1843, made a house to house canvass to collect additional information, and the new material was incorporated in the records.
ABBREVIATIONS
| a
| age
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| inf
| infant
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| abt
| about
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| int
| intention of marriage
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| b
| born
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| jr
| junior
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| bef
| before
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| m
| male; married; month
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| bp
| baptized
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| rec
| recorded
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| bur
| buried
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| s
| son
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| ch
| child
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| sr
| senior
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| chn
| children
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| TC
| town copy
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| Co
| county
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| unm
| unmarried
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| d
| daughter; day; died
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| w
| wife; week
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| Dea
| deacon
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| wid
| widow
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| dup
| duplicate entry
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| widr
| widower
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| h
| husband; hour
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| y
| year
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CHURCH RECORDS
| CR
| Congregational Church records
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CEMETERY RECORDS
| GR1
| Thompson Cemetery
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| GR2
| Drake (Tyng) Cemetery
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| GR3
| Fletcher private burying ground
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| GR4
| Sherburne Cemetery, East Tyngsborough
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| GR5
| Flint's Corner Cemetery
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| GR6
| Gould private burying ground
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| GR7
| Little Cemetery, South Nashua, NH
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PRIVATE RECORDS
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
| PR1
| Copy of Church record kept by Rev. Nathaniel Lawrence, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR2
| Copy of Samuel Kidder's Bible record, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR3
| Copy of Butterfield family record, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR4
| Copy of Kidder family record, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR5
| Bancroft Bible now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR6
| Copy of Haskell Butterfield's family record, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR7
| Copy of Bible record of Mrs. Mary E. Bucknam of Woburn, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR8
| Copy of Carkin Bible, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR9
| Copy of Jacob Drake's Bible now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR10
| Copy of Sumner Woodward's Bible, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR11
| Copy of Cummings Bible record, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR12
| Copy of Kidder Bible record, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR13
| Copy of record of Philena Carkin of Concord, MA, now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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| PR14
| Kendall Bible now in possession of Jonathan F. Bancroft
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