Vital Records of Abington, Massachusetts to the Year 1850
Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the
Charge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund
Boston, Mass., 1912
THIS publication is issued under the authority of a vote
passed by the NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, November 6, 1901, as follows:
Voted: That the sum of $20,000, from the
bequest of the late Robert Henry Eddy, be set aside as a special fund to be
called the Eddy Town-Record Fund, for the sole purpose of publishing the Vital
Records of the towns of Massachusetts, and that the Council be authorized and
instructed to make such arrangements as may be necessary for such publication.
And the treasurer is hereby instructed to honor such drafts as shall be
authorized by the Council for this
purpose.
Committee on Publications.
James Parker Parmenter
Edmund Dana Barbour
Henry
Edwards Scott
F. Apthorp Foster
Hosea Starr Ballou
Editor, F. Apthorp Foster
Stanhope Press
F- H. Gilson
Company
Boston, U.S.A.
THE TOWN OF ABINGTON,
Plymouth County, was established June 10, 1712, from a part of Bridgewater and
certain lands adjoining.
June 14, 1727, part was included in the new town of
Hanover.
March 31, 1847, bounds between Abington and
Weymouth were established.
Population by
Census: 1765 (Prov.), 1263;
1776 (Prov.), 1293; 1790 (U.S.), 1453;
1800 (U.S.), 1623; 1810 (U.S.), 1704;
1820 (U.S.), 1920; 1830 (U.S.), 2423;
1840 (U.S.), 32I45 1850 (U.S.), 5269;
1855 (State), 6937; 1860 (U.S.), 8527;
1865 (State), 8576; 1870 (U.S.), 9308;
1875 (State), 3241; 1880 (U.S.), 3697;
1885 (State), 3699; 1890 (U.S.), 4260;
1895 (State), 4207; 1900 (U.S.), 4489;
1905 (State), 5081; 1910 (U.S.), 5455.
EXPLANATIONS.
1. WHEN places
other than Abington 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 a
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 birthplace of a parent in late records.
ABBREVIATIONS.
a.-age
abt. - about
b. -
born
bp. - baptized
bur. - buried
ch. - child
chn. -
children
C.R.1. - church record, First Church of Abington
C.R.2. - church
record, Second Church of Christ in Abington
C.R.3. - church record, Third Church of Christ
in Abington, now Rockland
C.R.4. - church record, Fourth
Congregational Church in Abington
C.R.5.- church record,
First Baptist Church of Christ in Abington
Co. - county
d. - daughter; died;
day
Dta. - deacon
dap. -duplicate entry
G.R.1. - gravestone record, Mount Vernon Cemetery,
Abington
G.R.2.- gravestone record, Maplewood Cemetery,
Webster Street, Rockland
G.R.3 - gravestone record,
Abiah Reed Cemetery, Spring Street, Rockland
G.R.4.-
gravestone record, Samuel Reed Cemetery, near Reed's Pond, Rockland
G.R.5 - gravestone record, Old Cemetery, Liberty Street,
Rockland
G.R.6. - gravestone record, Lane
Cemetery, Rockland
G.R.7. - gravestone record, Wilkes Cemetery,
Rockland
G.R.8. - gravestone record, Beal Cemetery,
Webster Street, Rockland
G.R.9. - gravestone record, Mount
Pleasant Cemetery, Liberty Street, Rockland
G.R.10. - gravestone record, High Street
Cemetery, Whitman
G.R.11. - gravestone record, Small Pox Cemetery,
Whitman
G.R.12. - gravestone record, Mount Zion Cemetery,
Whitman
G.R.13.- gravestone record, Colebrook Cemetery, Whitman
G.R.14. - gravestone record, Old Cemetery, near Church,
Washington Street,
Abington
G.R.15--gravestone record,
Stones on north side of Beech Hill,
Rockland, said to have been victims of small pox
G.R.16. - gravestone record, Old Cemetery in
Abington, in pine grove west of track between Abington and North Abington
G.R.17- - gravestone record, West Abington
Cemetery
G.R.18.-gravestone record, Cobb Family Burying Ground, West
Abington
G.R.19.- gravestone record, The Plain Cemetery,
West Abington
k. - husband
hrs. - hours
inf. - infant
int. -
publishment of intention of marriage
Jr. - junior
m. - married;
month
min. - minutes
P. R.1. - private record, from the William
Nash Bible, now in the possession of Frederick A. Ramsdell of Whitman
P.R.2. - private record, from the Cyrus Gurney Bible, now
in the possession of Seth P.
Gurney of Whitman
P.R.3- -
private record, from the Shaw family Bible, now in the possession of Miss Clara N. Gurney of Whitman
P.R.4. - private record, from the
George H. Bates Bible, now in the possession of Miss Susan Bates of
Whitman
P.R.5.- private record, from a private record, now in the possession of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Edes of Whitman
P.R.6.
- private record,
from the Asaph Peterson Bible, now in the possession of Benjamin
Peterson of Whitman
P.R.7.- private record, from the
Seth Gurney Bible, now in the possession of Edward P. Gurney of Whitman
P.R.8. - private record, from the Almon Gurney Bible, now
in the possession of Edward P.
Gurney of Whitman
P.R.9.-
private record, from a Reed family Bible, now in the possession of Quincy Reed of Whitman
P.R.10.- private record, from a Cook family
Bible, now in the possession of George D. Cook of
Whitman
P.R.11. - private record from the David Bates Bible, now in the
possession of George H. Bates of Whitman
P.R.12. -
private record, from the Stephen Thompson Bible, now in the possession of Andrew
W. Thompson of Whitman
P.R.13. - private record, from a
framed family record, now in the possession of Frank Barnes of Whitman
P.R.14. - private record, from the J. W. Osborne Bible, now
in the possession of Miss Lucy E. Osborne
of Whitman
P.R.15--private record, from the Phillip Reed Bible, now in the
possession of Miss Lucy Osborne of Whitman
P.R.16.-private record, from the Ephraim Gurney Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Kate Weston of
Whitman
P.R.17.-private record, from the Josiah Richmond Bible now in the
possession of Walter W. Richmond of Whitman
P.R.18. - private record, from the Edward Loring Dyer
Bible, now in the possession of Dr. E. Alden Dyer of
Whitman
P.R. 19. - private record, from the Christopher Dyer Bible,
now in
the possession of Dr. E. Alden Dyer of Whitman
P.R.20.-private record, from the Jason Hersey Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Margaret Hersey of
Whitman
P.R.21. - private record, from the Ephraim Sturtevant
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Lucy Clara Nash of Abington
P.R.22. - private record, from the Micah Nash Bible, now in
the possession of Gridley T. Nash
of Abington
P.R.23.-private record, from the Lebbeus Gurney Bible, now
in the possession of Mrs. Lucia A. Ryan of Whitman
P.R.24- - private record, from the Thankful Reed Bible, now
in the possession of Mrs. Lucia A. Ryan of
Whitman
P.R.25. - private record, from the Jacob Fullarton Bible,
now in the possession of Miss H. M. Reed of Whitman
P.R.26. - private record, from the Asaph T. Peterson Bible,
now in the possession of James Walter Soule of Meriden, Conn.
P.R.27.-private record, from the Samuel Norton Bible, now
in the possession of Mrs, Mary Packard of
Whitman
P.R.28. - private record, from the Edwin Edes Bible, now in the
possession of Mrs. Mary E. Edes of Whitman
P.R.29. -
private record, from the Nahum Reed Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Nahum Reed of
Whitman
P.R.30. - private record, from the
Robert Cook Bible, now in the
possession of Lucius Cook of Whitman
P.R.31. - private record, from a record now in the
possession of Lucius Cook of Whitman
P.R.32. - private
record, from a record now in the possession of Joshua S. Smith of
Rockland
P.R.33-- private record, from a family Bible, now in the
possession of Joshua S. Smith of Rockland
P.R.34.-private record, from a family Bible now in the
possession of Joshua S. Smith of
Rockland
P.R.35- -
private record, from the Bathshua Thompson Bible, now
in the possession of Frank Alger of Rockland
P.R.36. - private record, from a Reed
family Bible, now in the possession of Miss Martha Reed of
Rockland
P.R.37. - private record, from a Reed family Bible, now in
the
possession of Miss Martha Reed of Rockland
P.R.38. -
private record, from the Elijah Hobert Bible, now in the possession of Will E. Hobart of
Rockland
P.R.39. - private record, from the
Ezekiel Thaxter Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Emma E. T. Whitmarsh of Abington
P.R.40. - private record, from the Noah Poole
Bible, now in the possession of Charles Poole of
Whitman
P.R.41.- private record, from the Mrs. Susan Whitman Bible,
now in the possession of Mrs. Susan A. H. Vining of Whitman
P.R.42. - private record, from the Randall Cooke Bible, now
in the possession of Miss
Harriet B. Cooke of Whitman
P.R.43--private record, from the Ruth Gurney Bible, now in the possession of Miss M. Annie Harden of Whitman
P.R.44.- private record, from the Nahum Gurney Bible, now
in the possession of Mrs.
Myrtie Torrey of Whitman
P.R.45-- private record, from a record now in the
possession of Mrs. Susan A. H. Vining of Whitman
P.R.46.
- private record, from a list of Marriages and Deaths in the Union Calvinistick
Society, now in the possession of Mrs. Lucia A. Ryan of Whitman
P.R.47--private record, from a record of Marriages and
Deaths in Abington kept by Mrs. Jane Bates of
Abington
P.R.48. - private record, from a record of Deaths in
Abington kept by John Nash, with additions by Cyrus Nash
P.R.49--private
record, Pauper Register in Abington
P.R.50. -private record, from the Lawrence Paine Bible, now
in the possession of G. Lawrence Paine,
Whitman
P.R.51.
- private record, from a Foster Bible, now in the possession of Osborn F. Packard of Rockland
rec. - recorded
s. -
son
Sr. - senior
w. - wife; week
toid. - widow
widr. - widower
y.
- year
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