Vital Records of Chilmark, Massachusetts to the Year 1850
Published by the New England Historic Genealogical
Society at the Charge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund
Boston, Mass.,
1904
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.
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 CHILMARK, County of
Dukes County, was established September 14,1694, from common land.
October 30, 1714, "the Mannour of Tisbury, commonly
called Chilmark," to have all the powers of a town.
Population by census: 1765
(Prov.),663;
1776 (Prov.), 769 ; 1790
(U.S.), 771;
1800 (U.S.), 800;
1810 (U.S.), 723;
1820 (U.S.),
695; 1830 (U.S.), 691;
1840
(U.S.), 702; 1850 (U.S.), 747;
1855 (State), 676; 1860 (U.S.),
654;
1865 (State), 548; 1870
(U.S.), 476;
1875 (State), 508;
1880 (U.S.), 494;
1885 (State),
412; 1890 (U.S.), 353;
1895
(State), 304; 1900 (U.S.), 324.
EXPLANATIONS.
1. WHEN places other
than Chilmark and Massachusetts are named in the original recorc s,
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 and
intentions of marriages are printed under the names of both parties, but
the full information concerning each party is given only in the entry
under his or her name. 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 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.
ABBREVIATIONS.
a. - age
abt. - about
b. - born
ch. - child
chn. -
children
Co. - county
d. - daughter; died; day
Dea. - deacon
dup. -
duplicate entry
G.R. - gravestone record
h. - husband
hrs. -
hours
inf. - infant
int. - publishment of intention of marriage
Jr. -
junior
m. - married; month
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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