Vital Records of Edgartown to the Year 1850
Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Charge of the
Eddy Town-Record Fund
Boston, Mass., 1911
THIS publication is issued under the authority of a vote passed by the
NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, 6 November, 1901, as follows:
Voted: That the sum of $20,000, from the bequest of the late
Robert Henry Eddy, beset 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 EDGARTOWN, County of Dukes County, formerly known as
Great Harbour, was established July 8, 1671, from common land, and the
name then changed. February 5, 1830, the bounds between
Edgartown
and Tisbury were established.
Population by Census: 1765 (Prov.), 944;
1776 (Prov.), 1020; 1790 (U.S.), 1352;
1800 (U.S.), 1226; 1810 (U.S.), 1365;
1820 (U.S.), 1374; 1830 (U.S.), 1509;
1840 (U.S.), 1736; 1850 (U.S.), 1990;
1855 (State), 1898; 1860 (U.S.), 2118;
1865 (State), 1846; 1870 (U.S.), 1516;
1875 (State), 1707; 1880 (U.S.), 1303;
1885 (State), 1165; l890 (U.S.), 1156;
1895 (State), 1125; 1900 (U.S.), 1209;
EXPLANATIONS.
1. WHEN places other than Edgartown 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 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 birthplace of parents, in late marriage records.
ABBREVIATIONS.
a. - age
abt. - about
b. - born
ch.- child
chn. - children
Co. - county
C.R.1. - church record, Church of Christ, Congregational
C.R.2.-church record, Methodist
C.R.3. - church record, Baptist
d. - daughter; died; day
Dea. - deacon
D.R.1. - Dukes County record, Court Vol. I
D.R.2.-Dukes County record, Deeds Vol. I
dup. - duplicate entry
G.R.1. - gravestone record, Old Burying Ground
G.R.2.-gravestone record, Pease's Point Way Cemetery
G.R.3. - gravestone record, private grounds
G.R.4. - gravestone record, Indian Cemetery, Chappaquiddick Island
G.R.5.-gravestone record, First Cemetery, Chappaquiddick Island
G.R.6. - gravestone record, Belain Cemetery, Chappaquiddick Island
G.R.7. - gravestone record, Cottage City Cemetery
C.R.8. -gravestone record, Farm Neck Cemetery, Cottage
City
G.R.9. - gravestone record, graves near Old House Pond, Cottage City
h. - husband
hrs. - hours
inf. - infant
int. - publishment of intention of marriage
Jr. - junior
m. - married; month
min. - minutes
P.R. -private record, from a Record of Deaths kept by the Rev. Samuel
Kingsbury and the Rev. Joseph Thaxter (with additions
by Miss Harriet M. Pease), now in the possession of Miss Harriet M.
Pease, of Edgartown.
prob. - probably
rec. - recorded
s. - son
Sr. - senior
w. - wife; week
wid. - widow
widr. -widower
y. - year
1st. - first
2nd. - second
3rd. - third