Vital Records of Hopkinton, Massachusetts 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,
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
Henry Winchester
Cunningham
Charles Knowles Bolton
Edmund Dana Barbour
Henry Edwards
Scott
F. Apthorp Foster
Editor
F. APTHORP FOSTER
Stanhope
Press
F. H. Gilson Company
Boston,
USA
THE TOWN OF HOPKINTON, Middlesex
County, was established December 13, 1715, from certain
common lands and
the plantation called Moguncoy.
June 14, 1735, part of Hopkinton included in the new town
of Upton.
April 28, 1781, part of Hopkinton
annexed to Holliston.
March 8, 1808, part of Hopkinton
annexed to Upton.
March
27, 1835, part of Milford annexed
to Hopkinton, part of
Hopkinton annexed to
Milford, and
bounds between Hopkinton,
Holliston, and Milford established.
March 15, 1846, part of Hopkinton included in
the new town
of Ashland.
Population by
Census: 1765 (Prov.), 1027;
1776 (Prov.), 1134;
1790 (U.S.), 1317;
1800 (U.S.), 1372;
1810 (U.S.), 1345;
1820 (U.S.), 1655;
1830 (U.S.), 1809;
1840 (U.S.), 2245;
1850 (U.S.), 2801;
1855 (State), 3934;
1860 (U.S.), 4340;
1865 (State), 4132;
1870 (U.S.), 4419;
1875 (State), 4503;
1880 (U.S.), 4601;
1885 (State), 3922;
1890 (U.S.), 4088;
1895 (State), 2984;
1900 (U.S.), 2623;
1905 (State), 2585;
1910 (U.S.), 2452.
EXPLANATIONS
1. WHEN places other than Hopkinton and
Massachusetts
are named in the original records, they are given in the printed
copy.
2. In all items from
town records the original spelling
is followed, and no attempt is made to
correct errors appearing in the
records or to harmonize conflicting names or dates.
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. 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, or any explanation, query,
inference, or difference
shown in other entries of the record, is
bracketed.
Parentheses are used to show the difference in the spelling
of a name
in the same entry, to indicate the maiden name of a wife, to
enclose an
imperfect portion of the original text, and to separate clauses in
the
original text — such as the birthplace of a parent in late records.
ABBREVIATIONS
a. — age
abt. — about
b. — born
bp. — baptized
bur,
—buried
C.R.1. — church record, Christ Church
C.R.2. — church record, St.
Paul's Church
C.R. 3. — church record, Woodville Baptist Church
ch. —
child
chn. — children
Co. — county
d. — daughter; died; day
Dea. —
deacon
dup. — duplicate entry
G.R.1. — gravestone record, East Hopkinton
Cemetery
G.R.2. — gravestone record, Bare Hill Cemetery
G.R.3. —
gravestone record, Hayden Row Cemetery
G.R.4. — gravestone record, Woodville
Cemetery
G.R.5. — gravestone record, St. Paul's Churchyard
G.R.6. —
gravestone record, Mount Auburn Cemetery
h. — husband
hrs. — hours
inf.
— infant
int. — publishment of intention of marriage
Jr. — Junior
m. —
married; month
min. — minutes
P.R.1. — private record, from the
Bible of Col. John Jones
Esq., now in the possession
of Mrs. F. E. Weston
of
Roxbury
P.R.2. — private
record, from the Bible of Col. John Jones Jr.,
now
in the possession of the heirs of Elijah
Fitch late
of Hopkinton
P.R.3.— private record, from a private record of Col.
John
Jones Sr. and Col. John Jones Jr., now in the
possession
of the heirs of Elijah Fitch late of
Hopkinton
P.R.4 — private record, from the Bible of Rev.
Nathaniel
Howe, now in the possession of the heirs
of Elijah
Fitch
late of Hopkinton
P.R.5. —
private record, from a family record of Johh A.
Fitch,
now in the possession of the heirs of Elijah
Fitch
late
of Hopkinton
P.R.6. — private record,
from the family record of Rev. Elijah
Fitch, now in
the possession of the heirs of
Elijah Fitch
late of
Hopkinton
P.R.7. — private record, from the Bible of James H.
King,
now in the possession of the heirs of Elijah
Fitch
late
of Hopkinton
P.R.8. — private record,
from the Lyon and Fitch family Bible,
now in the
possession of the heirs of Elijah
Fitch late
of
Hopkinton
P.R.9.— private record, from a family record of John
or
Jonathan Comee, now in the possession of Mrs. G.
W.
Temple of Clinton
P.R.10. — private record,
from a family record of Nathan
Woolson, now in
the possession of Leroy
L. Woolson of
Hopkinton
P.R.1. — private record, from the Newton and Pike
family
Bible, now in the possession of the family of
the
late J.
Newton Pike of Ashland
P.R.12.
— private record, from the Luther Bixby Bible, now
in the possession of Luther W. Bixby of Boston
P.R.13. — private record, from
the family Bible of Lemuel
Clark Jones, now in the
possession of Mrs. Lemuel
C.
Jones of
Ashland
P.R.14. — private record, from the family Bible of
James
Jackson, now in the possession of Martha
Valentine
of
Ashland
P.R.15. —private
record, from the Chickering family Bible,
now in
the possession of Francis H.
Chickering
of
Ashland
P.R.16. — private record, from the Asa
Adams family Bible,
now in the possession of Mrs.
Sophia Adams Parkhurst
of Brookline
P.R.17. —
private record, from family record of James H.
Jones, now in the possession of Mrs. Mary Valentine
Jones Houghton of Ashland
P.R.18.— private record, from the
Nathan Coburn family
Bible, now in the
possession of N. P. Coburn
of Boston
P.R.19. — private record, from the
Ezekiel Kemp family Bible,
now in the possession of
Oliver D. Holmes of
Milford
P.R.20. — private record, from the Enoch N.
Robbins family
Bible, now in the possession of
Frank P.
Rollins of
Woodville
P.R.21. —
private record, from the John Rice family Bible,
now
in the possession of Vernon Rice of Hopkinton
P.R.22. — private record, from
the Hiram Comee family Bible,
now in the
possession of Mrs. Seth Aldrich
of West
Upton
P.R.23. — private record, from the John Wheeler Bible,
now
in the possession of Mrs. John Wheeler of
Grafton
P.R.24. — private record, from' a letter of Dr. John
C.
Webster of Chicago, 111.
P.R.25. — private
record, from the John Holmes family Bible,
now in
the possession of A. C. Holmes of Holliston
P.R.26. — private record, from
the family record of Maj.
William Wood, now in
the possession of
Mrs. Helen
Marshall of Manville,
R. 1.
P.R.27. — private record, from a family register of Col.
Albert
Wood, now in the possession of Mrs. Joseph A.
Gregory
of Hopkinton
P.R.28. — private record,
from the records of the Taft and
Bridges family, now
in the possession of Mrs.
Calvin
Bridges of
Worcester
P.R.29. — private record, from the record of Seth
and
Barachias Morse, now in the possession of Miles
Morse
of Ashland
P.R.30. — private record, from
the John Jones Loring family
record, now in the
possession of Miss Sarah J.
Loring
of West
Newton
P.R.31. — private record, from the Eliab Thompson
family
Bible, now in the possession of William H.
Thompson
of Hopkinton
P.R.32.— private record,
from the William H. H. Loring
family
record, now in the possession of William
C. Loring
of Boston
P.R.33. — private record, from the Ebenezer McFarland
Bible,
now in the possession of Mrs. Emma J. Benson
of
Hop-
kinton
P.R.34. — private record, from the Aaron
Read Bible, now in
the possession of B. W, Johnson of
Hopkinton
P.R.35.— private record, from the Stimson Bible, now in
the
possession of Fred C. Homer of Yonkers, N.
Y.
P.R.36. — private record, from the Capt. John Stone
Bible,
now in the possession of Fred C. Homer of
Yonkers,
N. Y.
P.R.37.— private record, from the Charles Newton
family
record, now in the possession of Mrs. Clarence Ward
of
Hopkinton
P.R.38. — private record, from a record of
the Taft and Woods
families, now in the possession of Mrs.
Ella M. Woods
Athearn of East Corinth,
Me.
P.R.39. — private record, from the Henry Mellen Bible,
now
in the possession of Miss Nellie Valentine of
Newton-
ville
P.R.40. — private record, from a record
now in the possession
of William Nason of
Billerica
P.R.41. — private record, from the Moses Chamberlain
family
Bible, now in the possession of Miss Nellie
Valentine
of
Newtonville
P.R.42. — private record, from
a record of deaths from Aaron
Smith's Bible, now in the
possession of a Committee
in
the town of
Hopkinton
P.R.43. — private record, from Jason Hayward's
family
record, now in the possession of Miss Annie
Otis
of
Worcester
P.R.44. — private record, from
the James H. Fitch family
Bible, now in the
possession of the Otis family of
Wor-
cester
P.R.45. —
private record, from the Jesse Eames Bible, now
in the
possession of Mrs. Wellington Parkhurst of Clinton
P.R.46. — private record,
from the Morse family Bible, now in
the possession of
Augustus P. Morse of Worcester
P.R.47. — private record, from the Temple
family record, now
in the possession of James M. Temple of
Woodville
P.R.48. — private record, from the Oilman Ball Bible, now
in
the possession of Mrs. Elisha Frail of
Hopkinton
P.R.49. — private record, from the Elisha Morse Bible, now
in
the possession of Charles P. Wonderly of
Hopkinton
P.R.50.— private record, from the Fisher Hemerrway
family
record, now in the possession of Miss Alice
Hemenway
of Hopkinton
P.R.51.— private record, from the
Abraham Tilton family
Bible, now in the possession
of Homer Tilton of West
Newton
P.R.52. — private
record, from a sampler of the John Adams
family record,
now in the possession of Mrs. Katharine
A. Wells of
Wheaton, 111.
P.R.53.— private record, from the Samuel F.
Davenport
Bible, now in the possession of Adams Davenport
Claflin
of Newton Center
P.R.54. — private
record, from the Hezekiah Marshall Bible,
now in the
possession of Leonard F. Fairbanks
of Hop-
kinton
P.R.55.— private record, from the John Wales family
record,
now in the possession of Mrs. Emily
Wales
Burr of
Hopkinton
P.R.56.— private record,
from the Samuel Crook Jr. family
Bible, now in the
possession of Miss M. E. Putnam of
Hopkinton
P.R.57. —
private record, from the Adam Fairbanks family
Bible,
now in the possession of Lewis Fairbanks
of
Hopkinton
P.R.58. — private record, from the William H.
Thompson
family record, now in the possession of
Mrs.
Ida E.
Wonderly of Hopkinton
P.R.59.—
private record, from the John Eames family record,
now in the possession of Miss Ann Alecia
Eames
of
Ashland
P.R.60. — private record, from the
Albert Ellis family record,
now in the possession of
Mrs. William F. Ellis
of Ashland
P.R.61. — private record, from the Josiah
Burnham Jr. family
record, now in the possession of
Miss Adelia
Burnham
of Ashland
P.R.62. — private
record, from the Moses Greenwood Bible,
now in
the possession of Mrs. G.
G. Frankland
of
Ashland
P.R.63. — private record, from the
Phinehas Hubbard Bible,
now in the possession
of Mrs. Henry
J. Hubbard of
South
Framingham
P.R.64. — private record, from the Bezaleel Hill family
record,
now in the
possession
of Mrs. C. Holbrook of Ashland
P.R.65.— private record, from the
Appleton Howe
Gibson
family record, now in
the
possession of Mrs. H.
W.
Moses of
Westboro
P.R.66. — private record, from the Capt. Moses Phipps
Bible,
now in the possession
of
Miss Almira Hero of Milford
P.R.67. — private record, from the Haven
family record, now
in the
possession of
Mrs. Dickinson of Holliston
P.R.68. — private record, from the
Isaac Varnum
Adams
family record, now in
the
possession of John
Clark
Adams of
Worcester
P.R.69. — private record, from the Albert Claflin family
Bible,
now in the possession
of
Mrs. John C. Adams of
Wor-
cester
P.R.70. —
private record, from the Stone family record,
now
in the possession of
Isaac
Stone of Ashland
P.R.71. — private record, from the John Cheney family
record,
now in the
possession
of Harry Cheney of Hopkinton
P.R.72. — private record, from
the Isaac Homes
family
record, now in the
possession
of Mrs.J Ella Hunt
Lowe
of
Hopkinton
P.R.73.— private record, from the Joseph Belknap
family
record, now in the
possession
of Wendell Belknap
of
Ashland
P.R.74. —
private record, from the Perry family record,
now
in the possession of
George
Perry of Hopkinton
P.R.75.— private record, from the Joseph
Woodard Bible,
now in the possession
of Miss Eva Woodard of
Hop-
kinton
P.R.76. —
private record, from the David Phipps family
Bible,
now in the possession
of
M. C. Phipps of Hopkinton
P.R.77.—private record, from the Marcus
Chauncy Phipps
Bible,
now in the possession
of Mrs. George L.
Hemen-
way of
Hopkinton
P.R.78. — private record, from the Michael Homer Bible,
now
in the possession of
Mrs.
Ellen M. Grout of Hopkinton
P.R.79. — private record, from the Abraham
Tilton Bible, now
in the
possession of
Mrs. Ellen M. Grout of Hopkinton
P.R.80. — private record, from
the Charles Osborn Bible,
now
in the possession of
Mrs.
Ellen M. Grout of Hopkinton
P.R.81.— private record, from the James
Madison Morse
Bible, now in the possession of
Elisha Franklin
Morse
of Hopkinton
P.R.82. —
private record, from the Uriah Bowker Bible, now
in
the possession of Clifton U. Bowker of Hopkinton
P.R.83. — private record,
from the Philip Briggs Bible, now
in the possession
of Clifton U. Bowker of Hopkinton
P.R.84. — private record, from the Ezra
Rockwood family
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs.
Mary E.
Kyes of
Hopkinton
P.R.85. — private
record, from the Aaron Adams family Bible,
now in
the possession of Mrs. Mary E. Kyes of
Hop-
kinton
P.R.86. — private record, from the Col. Joel Norcross
family
record, now in the possession of Arthur
Norcross
of
Minneapolis, Minn.
P.R.86.— private
record, from the Josiah Norcross family
record, now
in the possession of Arthur Norcross
of
Minneapolis,
Minn.
P.R.88. — private record, from the Elisha Haven
family
record, now in the possession of James H.
Palmer
of
South Framingham
P.R.89. — private
record, from the Gamage family Bible, now
in the
possession of Mrs. George Fred Adams of
Hop-
kinton
P.R.90. — private record, from the George Fred Adams
family
Bible, now in the possession of George Fred
Adams
of
Hopkinton
P.R.91. — private record, from
the Capt. Richard Gamage
family record, now in the
possession of Mrs.
George
Fred Adams of
Hopkinton
P.R.92. — private record, from the William Adams
family
record, now in the possession of George Fred
Adams
of
Hopkinton
P.R.93.— private record, from
the John Rice family record,
now in the possession
of Emma E. Thompson
of Hop-
kinton
P.R.94.
— private record, from the Samuel Claflin family
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Pamela H.
Claflin
of Hopkinton
P.R.95.— private record,
from the Hackliah Bridges
family
Bible, now in the
possession
of Mrs. Henry B.
Woodbury
of
Hopkinton
P.R.96. — private record, from the Burnett and Claflin
Bible,
now in the possession
of
William Bainbridge Claflin
of
Hopkinton
P.R.97.—
private record, from the David Eames
family
record, now in the
possession
of Abner Eames of
Hop-
kinton
P.R.98. —
private record, from the Simpson Jones
family
Bible, now in the
possession
of Martin V. Phipps
of
Hopkinton
P.R.99.—
private record, from the Alanson Stearns
family
Bible, now in the
possession
of Mrs. Ellen S.
Thompson
of
Hopkinton
P.R.100. — private record, from the Nathaniel Loring
family
record, now in the
possession
of C. P. Loring of Boston
P.R.101. — private record, from the Col.
Nathan Phipps
Bible,
now in the possession
of Elsie A. and Mary
E.
Hastings of
Westboro
P.R.102. — private record, from the Abner Albee
family
record, now in the
possession
of Manilla H. Albee
of
Warwick
P.R.103. —
private record, from the Samuel and John
Gibbs
family Bibles, now in
the
possession of Mrs. William
A.
Temple of Hopkinton
Springs,
Westborough
P.R.104. — private record, from the Lt John Homes
family
record, now in the
possession
of Mrs. James M.
Temple
of Hopkinton Springs,
Westborough
P.R.105. — private record, from the David Young family
Bible,
now in the possession
of
Mrs. John Pingree of Hop-
kinton
P.R.106. — private record, from the William Valentine
Bible,
now in the possession
of
Mrs. Anna Richardson
Adams
of
Cambridge
P.R.107. — private record, from the Isaac D. Temple
Bible,
now in the possession
of
Dalston A. Temple of
Hopkinton
Springs,
Westborough
P.R.108.— private record, from the John S. Crooks
family
Bible, now in the
possession
of Mrs. John S. Crooks
of
Hopkinton
P.R.109.—
private record, from the Artemas C.
Putnam
family Bible, now in the possession of Miss
Mary
E.
Putnam of Hopkinton
P.R.110. — private
record, from the Daniel Eames family
Bible, now in
the possession of the Misses E.
and A. H.
Eames of
Hopkinton
P.R.111.— private record, from the Charles Daniels
family
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Charles
Daniels
of
Hopkinton
P.R.112. — private record,
from the Albert Adams family
Bible, now
in the possession of Mrs. Albert Adams
of
Hopkinton
P.R.113. — private record, from the Amaziah Claflin
family
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Daniel
Coburn
of
Hopkinton
P.R.114. — private record,
from the Daniel J. Coburn family
Bible, now in the
possession of Mrs. Daniel J.
Coburn
of
Hopkinton
P.R.115. — private record, from the Nathan Adams
family
Bible, now in the possession of Dea. John C.
Adams
of
Hopkinton
P.R.116. — private record,
from the John Sawyer family
record, now
in the possession of Mrs. James Leonard
of
Foxborough
P.R.117. — private record, from the Dea. Moses L.
Buck
family Bible, now in the possession of Edward
S.
Buck
of Hopkinton
P.R.118. — private record,
from the Anthony Jones family
Bible, now in the
possession of Mrs. John B.
Pond of
Hopkinton
P.R.119. — private record, from the John B. Pond
family
Bible, now in the possession of John B. Pond
of
Hop-
kinton
P.R.120. — private record, from
the Dexter Rice family Bible,
now in the possession
of John A. Rice of Worcester
P.R.121. — private record, from the Ezekiel Guy
family Bible,
now in the possession of Miss M. E.
Putnam of
Hop-
kinton
P.R.122. — private record,
from the Lynde Bible, now in the
possession of
Joseph Valentine Fitch of Mattoon,
Ill.
P.R.123.— private record, from
the John Sawyer
family
record, now in
the
possession of Weber Sawyer
of
Medfield
P.R.124. —
private record, from the Joseph Valentine
Bible,
now in the possession
of
Arthur H. Fitch of
Jackson,
Michigan
P.R.125.— private record, from the George Sullivan
Wood-
bury family Bible, now
in
the possession of Mrs.
John
Shurtlief of
Milford
P.R.126. — private record, from the Nathaniel H. Fitch
family
Bible, now in the
possession
of Arthur H. Fitch
of
Jackson,
Michigan
P.R.127. — private record, from a McFarland Bible, now
in
the possession of Mrs.
Emily
Burr of Hopkinton
P.R.128. — private record, from the Simpson
Bixby family
Bible,
now in the possession
of Miss Nettie
Fairbanks
of
Hopkinton
R.R. — Rebellion Record
rec. — recorded
s. — son
Sr. —
senior
w. — wife ; week
wid. — widow
widr. — widower
y. —
year