Vital Records of Boxborough, Massachusetts to the Year 1850
Compiled by Thomas W. Baldwin, A.B., S.B., Member of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society.
Boston, Mass.,
1915.
Number of Births printed
. . . .
.
636
Marriages . . . 362
X 2 = 724
names
Deaths . . .
. . .
372
1,732 total
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 32 Derne
Street.
Feb.
25, 1783, parts of Harvard, Littleton and Stow established as the district of
Boxborough.
Feb. 20, 1794, bounds between Boxborough and
Littleton established.
Nov. 4, 1835, the district made a town by
chapter 15 of the Revised Statutes.
April 30, 1890, bounds between
Boxborough and Littleton established.
June 14, 1906,
bounds between Boxborough and Harvard established.
June
15, 1906, bounds between Boxborough and Littleton
established.
Population by Census:
1790 (U.S.), 412;
1800 (U.S.), 387; 1810 (U.S.),
388;
1820 (U.S.),
424; 1830 (U.S.),
474;
1840 (U.S.),
426; 1850 (U.S.),
395;
1855 (State),
413; 1860 (U.S.),
403;
1865 (State),
454; 1870 (U.S.),
338;
1875 (State),
318; 1880 (U.S.),
319;
1885 (State),
348; 1890 (U.S.),
325;
1895 (State),
307; 1900 (U.S.),
316;
1905 (State),
324; 1910 (U.S.), 317.
EXPLANATIONS.
1. When
places other than Boxborough or Massachusetts are named in the original records
they are given in the printed record.
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 may be, found under
different spellings.
4. Marriages are printed under the names of both
parties. When a marriage has its intention recorded it is designated by 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 the entries of the record, is
bracketed.
ABBREVIATIONS.
a. - age: aged
abt. - about
b. - born
bp. -
baptized
bur. - buried
ch. - child
C.R. - church record
d. -
daughter: died: day
Dea. - Deacon
dec. - deceased
dup. - duplicate
entry
G.R.1. - grave record, North Cemetery
G.R.2. - grave record, South
Cemetery
h. - husband: hours
inf. - infant
int. - publishment of
intention of marriage
Jr. - junior
m. - month
md. - married
s. -
son
Sr. - senior
unm. - unmarried
w. - wife
wid. - widow
widr. -
widower
y. - year
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