VITAL RECORDS OF HOLDEN, MASSACHUSETTS, To the year 1850

WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS:
PUBLISHED BY FRANKLIN P. RICE,
Trustee of the Fund.
1904.
Stanbope  Press
P. H. GILSON   COMPANT
BOSTON, U.S.A.
Publisher's Note.

THE  list of Holden Births, Marriages and Deaths comprised in
this volume includes all found in the Town Books  during the
period from the earliest date there recorded to the end of the year
1849.  Some additions and corrections have been made from other
sources, these being indicated in each instance by proper reference.
  All of the records are condensed in print as much as is con-
sistent with intelligibility, accuracy, and completeness of infor-
mation.  Differences'in duplicates, and explanatory or other mat-
ter which seemed necessary or desirable, appear in brackets.
  Marriages  and Intentions of marriage are printed under the
names of both parties, but the full information concerning each
person is given only under his or her name. An asterisk after a
marriage indicates that the Intention was not found recorded,
and in many  cases this is accounted for by the fact that neither
party belonged in Holden, and  consequently publishment was
made  elsewhere.
  The double  date is used in the months of January, February
and March  prior to 1752 only when it so appears in the original,
and instances of the modern form after 1725 are not uncommon.
  When  places other than Holden and Massachusetts are named
in the original records, they are given in the printed copy.
ABBREVIATIONS,

a. - age
dbt. - about
b. - bom
ch. - child
chn. - children
co. - county
C.R. - church record
d. - daughter; day; died
Dea. - deacon
D.R. - Death record
dup. - duplicate entry
f. - female
G.S. - Gravestone record
h. - husband
inf. - infant
int. - publishment o* Intention of marriage
Jr. - junior
m. -  male; married; month
P.R. - Private record
rec. - recorded
s. - son
Sr. - senior
w. -wife
wid. - widow
widr. - widower
y. -  year
2d. - second
The age given in the Deaths is in years unless otherwise indicated.
Holden.

THIS  town was taken wholly from the original ter-
ritory of Worcester, and was incorporated Janu-
ary 9, 1741. It received its name from Hon. Samuel
Holden, a generous benefactor of the Province and-
of Harvard University.
  In  1804 and 1808 portions of the town were an-
nexed  to Paxton and West  Boylston;  and in 1831
and 1838 further changes in territorial limits were made
between Holden  and Paxton.
  Population at different periods: 1765, 495; 1790,
1,077; 1800,1,142;  1810,1,072; 1820,1,40251830,
1,719; 1840, 1,874; 1850, 1,888.
  Population in 1900, 2,464.
Number of Births printed.........      3,172
    Marriages................. 1,396 = 2,792 names
           Deaths  ..................  1,340
                                       7,304 total
HOLDEN  RECORDS.