Vital Records of Bedford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850
Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Charge of the
Eddy Town-Record Fund
Boston, Mass., 1903
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 beauthorized 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 Publication.
C. B. Tillinghast
Francis
Everett Blake
Charles Knowles Bolton
Don Gleason Hill
Edmund Dana
Barbour
Editor,
Henry Ernest Woods
Stanhope Press
F. H. Gilson
Company
Boston, U.S.A.
THE TOWN OF BEDFORD, Middlesex
County, was established September 23, 1729, from parts of Billerica and
Concord.
February 26, 1767, a part of Billerica
was annexed to
Bedford.
Population by Census: 1765 (Prov.), 457;
1776
(Prov.), 482; 1790 (U.S.), 523; 1800 (U.S.), 538;
1810 (U.S.), 592;
1820 (U.S.), 648; 1830 (U.S),
685; 1840 (U.S.), 929; 1850 (U.S.),
975; 1855
(State), 986; 1860 (U.S.), 843; 1865 (State), 820;
1870 (U.S.),
849; 1875 (State), 900; 1880 (U.S),
931; 1885 (State), 930; 1890 (U.S),
1092; 1895
(State), 1169; 1900 (U. S,),
1208.
EXPLANATIONS.
1. WHEN places other
than Bedford 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.
4.
Marriages are printed under the names of both parties, but the full
information concerning each party is only given in the entry under his or her
name. Prior to 1850, there are no records of intentions of marriage found in Bedford.
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 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.
6. The records are printed from a copy made,
and legally attested, by the Town Clerk of
Bedford.
ABBREVIATIONS.
a. - age
abt. - about
b. - born
ch. - child
chn. -
children
Co. - county
C.R. - church record (First Parish)
d. -
daughter; died; day
Dea. - deacon
dup. - duplicate entry
G.R. -
gravestone record
h. - husband
hrs. - hours.
inf. - infant
Jr. -
junior
m. - married; month
min. - minutes.
M.R. - Middlesex
County record (East Cambridge)
prob. - probably
rec. - recorded
s. -
son
Sr. - senior
w.
wife; week
wid. - widow
widr. - widower
y. - year
1st. - first
2d. - second
3d. - third
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