Records relating to the early history of Boston ..

Boston Public Library, William Henry Whitmore, Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept, William S. (William Sumner) Appleton, Edward W. (Edward Webster) Mcglenen, Walter Kendall Watkins

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' ' -- ft'; rA REPOET COMMISSIONERSRECORD CITY OF BOSTON, THRCONTAINING 1700 TO 1751.MARRIAGES FROMBOSTON BOSTON: OFFICE.FEINTINGMUNICIPAL 1898.150[DOCUMENT 1898.] RECORD COMMISSIONERS. The of the Record CommissionersTwenty-eighth Report contains the recorded on the town records of Bos-marriages ton from 1700 to collated with the Book of Banns for1751, same with somethe additions from othernearly period, authorities. The of this book and the of theproof-readingpreparation text have been the work of EdwardW.assistant,my special in whose I have the fullest confidence.McGlenen, accuracy isHis special report subjoined. H.WM. WHITMORE, City Registrar. Oct. 1898.BOSTON, 25,iv DOCUMENT No.CITY 150. WILLIAM H. WHITMORE, ESQ., City Registrar: been with the work ofHaving charged by you preparing the record of in Boston between 1700 and 1750,Marriages and of the book the I leave toseeing through press, beg submit the ofabstract the result.following The records hereinafter areprinted principally copied from two volumes of Boston in the ofcustodymarriages, this department. The first records fromof 188 contains thevolume, pages, 1689 to 1720 1 to inclusive entries to34, ;(pages previous 1700 were in the ninth of the Record Com-printed report missioners). This book recordwith 35 of thebegins page manuscript written town clerk from 1701 to 1721.Prout,by Joseph On of the first is the note :26, volume,page following "The Several Contained in and the twothis,Marriages foregoing were collected out the bookofpages, (written bycarefully \vast[e] in Time of his &Capt. Ephr. Savage) ye being T[own] Clerk) haveing same into order are as here recorded the 19thdigested ye Aphabetticall of 1709.Aug. P JOSEPH PROUT 1 '' Town Clerk.' of theA similar statement in the ninth volumeappears Record William S.Commissioners' Reports, compiled by and deaththe birth,Appleton, Esq., containing marriage, records of Boston from 1630 to 1700. often madeThese two statements will answer the inquiry of this office as the existence or non-existence of con-to records of these facts.temporary The in such arecords in Prout's own are writtenperiod manner as to indicate that he did not record orby day,day week but in of one or moreweek,by years, arrang-periods the entries in order.ing alphabetical The second theof 269 containsvolume, pages, marriage records from 1721 to and is in the of1751, handwriting three town clerks. The entries were made Samuelby from Ger-1721 to 1734 Samuel;Checkley 1-118) by(pp. rish from 1734 to 1740 and Ezekiel120-201); by(pp. Goldthwait (pp. 202-269).A REPORT OF THE EECORD COMMISSIONERS. v Both of these volumes have beenrecently preserved by the with and have been rebound in redsilk,pagesfacing The measure 8morocco. X and the vol-inches,pages 12^ as bound 15 inches.umes X10^ The or intentions of from 1707publishments, marriage, been withto have the records and all differ-1751, compared of noted. No earlierences arespelling publishments pre- served. The of on 348-50 of thisPurposes marriage, printed pp. were taken anfrom waste in whichvolume, original book, also entered : Boston 1693-96were Births, ; Marriages, 1695-97 and in one while in the; Deaths, 1693-96, ;part other were noted of cattle and their marks.shipments have been and reboundThese the;parts separated portion the records of andBirths, Deaths, etc.,containing Marriages, 90 has been silk-faced to is bound in blackpreserve it,pp., inand is 6 X inches size.morocco, 13^ intentions for which no record of mar-Those subsequent have been printedriage appears separately. These are in four and the entriesvolumes,publishments and allthe ofnames, town,merely give date, nearly being The names of were neverBoston. parents given. These volumes measure inches in size and are bound7x8 in morocco.ffrecn bound in vellum contains a "Record of Mar-A volume for the of 1716 to 1731."Suffolk,riages County The Boston recorded in this book havemarriages nearly all been found entered in the town records. Theproperly of from other towns have been inreturns marriages printed full. This volume is 11 X inches in size.16| as followsA note in this volume reads : " March 1879.BOSTON, 6, This volume was received from the clerk of the JudicialSupreme in the of under a resolve theCourt, Suffolk,county passed by Legis- took effect 1879.which 19,lature, February N. A. APOLLONIO, Registrar"Cityvi CITY DOCUMENT No. 150. records in theThe of church of thiscopies custody depart- ment have been and all not insearched, marriages appearing the town records have been for what areprinted they worth, as the ofthe cannot be vouched for.accuracy copying records have beenThe followed some;original closely entries have been avoidedmay appear, theyduplicate though when and when have not differed. Thepossible they orig- ininal returns have also been consulted cases.many fe\v were found the tiles ofA ofmarriages among papers the Suffolk and others from theCourt,County personal record book of Rev. Thomas Cheever. someIt should be noted that within themarriages period covered this that do not onpublication, appear record,by will be found in the volume of from 1751 to 1809 now in progress. ends withAll this for Act ofvolume,double-dating by Parliament the 1752 commenced on 1.year January are made and theMany inquiries regarding double-dating, of the from the Old to New Nochange year Style Style. can be thanbetter the late Hon. Jamesauthority quoted the Nestor of New :Savage, England genealogists For the time of or deaths in each I havebirths,[" marriages, family labored to be correct, in hundreds of casesassiduously finding wrong dates and without hesitation the true.given, commonly supplying Where is a decent weeks, and even monthsfixed, record,baptism by date of no fear in the townbefore the birth, clerk's credit caninjuring restrain belief in his mistake. Hut the source of vexation is thecopious out of the Old and New In thousand in-variety growing Styles. many to the tostances, I have turned be sure that theperpetual almanac, day of was or recorded for since the ritenot, could,baptism truly, Sunday, in first of New be on thatthe century England, performed only day. this errors be corrected. As children are oitenBy many printed may seen to be in or of the same thebaptized January February year, by that the *inancient orparents' Aprillegal reckoning, gives marriage several weeks in our modern <>i thebefore, months,May, reckoning instead of so months it is to thatafter, easy put right bymany enough notthose winter months of the eleventh and twelfth of the oldcalling a3 the statuteyear, absurdity required. Uniformly my chronology : tothe with 1 but between dates.January produce harmonybegins year for the month ofMarch is sometimes difficult. A few town officersvery to the numerals for the with the of thebegan change year opening to ask, the first month of H!79 should allow 24 ofmonth, daring why its 31 to be drilled under old while the will of the1678,days perverse rulers in the untilfatherland the 2oth andpostponed new-year's day ; some records be found, where the ended in butDecember;may year this monstrous innovation did not before and the1700.begin startling truth to when Lordmade 17,52, Maccle.sfield en-upirregular progress the and Chesterfield charmed it intolegislature,lightened consistency." the First Settlers NewSavage's Genealogical England.Dictionary of of Vol. ix.I., p. of Preface.']