Vital Records
Of Mansfield, Massachusetts To The End Of The Year 1849
Published By
The Essex Institute
Salem, Mass.
1933
Newcomb & Gauss Co.
Printers
Salem, Mass.
EXPLANATIONS
The following records of births, marriages and deaths
include
all entries to be found in the books of record kept
by
the town clerks; in the church records; in the cemetery
inscriptions, and in private records found in family Bibles, etc.
These records are printed in a condensed form in which
every
essential particular has been preserved. All duplication
of
the town clerks' record has been eliminated, but differences
in
entry and other explanatory matter appear in brackets.
Parentheses are used when they occur in the original
record;
also
to indicate the maiden name of a married woman, and to
show
variations in the spelling of a name in the same entry.
When places other than Mansfield and Massachusetts
are
named
in the original records, they are given in the printed
copy.
Marriages and intentions of marriage 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 when a marriage appears without the inten-
tion being recorded, it is designated by an asterisk. In
all
records
the original spelling of names is followed, and the
various
forms of family names have been placed in one alpha-
betical arrangement.
MANSFIELD
April 26, 1770, part of Norton made the district of
Mans-
field.
August 23, 1775, the district made a town by general
act.
The population of Mansfield at different periods was
as
follows:
1790, 983 1840,
1,382 1890, 3,432
1800, 1,016 1850,
1,789 1900, 4,006
1810, 1,030 1860,
2,114 1910, 5,183
1820, 1,222 1870,
2,432 1920, 6,255
1830, 1,172 1880,
2,765 1930, 6,364
ABBREVIATIONS
a.—age.
abt.—about.
h.—horn.
bcf.—before.
bet.—between.
bp.—baptized.
bur.—buried.
Capt.—Captain.
C. R.—Book of records of the Foxborough
and Mansfield New Church Society.
certif.—certificate.
ch.—child.
chn.—children.
Co.—county.
Col.—Colonel.
d.—daughter; day; died.
Dea.—deacon.
dec.—deceased.
dup.—duplicate entry.
Ens.—ensign.
grandd.—granddaughter.
grands.—grandson.
G. R. 1.—gravestone record, Old Cemetery.
G. R. 2.—gravestone record, Spring Brook Cemetery.
G. R. 3.—gravestone record, East Mansfield Cemetery.
G. R. 4.—gravestone record, Hodges Cemetery, West Mansfield.
G. R. 5.—gravestone record, Codding
Cemetery, West Mansfield.
G. R. 6.—gravestone record, Sweet Cemetery, West Mansfield.
G. R. 7.—gravestone record, Morton Church Cemetery,
West Mansfield.
G. R. 8.—gravestone record, Happy Hollow Cemetery,
West Mansfield.
G. R. 9.—gravestone record, Leonard Cemetery, East
Mansfield.
G. R. 10.—gravestone record, White Farm.
G. R. 11.—gravestone record, Private Cemetery on Gilbert
St.
h.—husband; hour.
inf.—infant.
int.—intention of marriage.
jr.—junior.
Lt.—lieutenant.
m.—male; married; month.
M.—Mansfield.
Maj.—Major.
P. R. 1.—Genealogical material collected by W. A. Copeland
of Mansfield.
P. R. 2.—Bible record and family papers in possession
of H. Louis Sweet of Mansfield.
P. R. 3.—Bible record in possession of Miss Emma Frost
of Orange, N. J.
P. R. 4.—Private record in possession of Miss Ida F.
Hodges of Mansfield.
P. R. 5.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Alice S.
Shepard of Mansfield.
P. R. 6.-—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Mabel
W. Wheeler of Mansfield.
P. R. 7.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Beatrice
V. Houston of Mansfield.
P. R. 8.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Alfred
W. Burt of Mansfield.
P. R. 9.—Bible record in possession of Miss Evelina Fisher of Mansfield.
P. R. 10.—Bible record in possession of T. W. George
of Mansfield.
P. R. 11.—Bible record in possession of Miss Jennie
F. Copeland of Mansfield.
P. R. 12.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. William
A. Copeland of Mansfield.
P. R. 13.—Bible record in possession of Miss Mabel
Barnes of Mansfield.
P. R. 14.—Mss. record in possession of Miss Sarah B.
Day of Mansfield.
P. R. 15.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Charles
Hagerty of Mansfield.
P. R. 16.—Bible record in possession of Kenneth C.
Sherman of Mansfield.
P. R. 17.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Ethel
M. Barrows of Mansfield.
P. R. 18.—Bible record in possession of Miss Elizabeth
M. Holmes of Mansfield.
P. R. 19.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Alice
I. Cobb of Mansfield.
P. R. 20.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Harriet
E. Thompson of Mansfield.
P. R. 21.—Bible record in possession of Jesse R. Hodges
of Mansfield.
P. R. 22.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. F. I.
Sherman of Mansfield.
P. R. 23.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Hayden
E. Shepard of Mansfield.
P. R. 24.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Julia
A. Spaulding of Mansfield.
P. R. 25.—Undertaker's books in possession of Kenneth
C. Sherman of Mansfield.
P. R. 26.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Elizabeth
Greene Bodfish of Oak Bluffs.
P. R. 27.—Bible record in possession of Herbert Earle
Robinson of Harwichport
P. R. 28.—Bible record in possession of Miss Phebe M. Smith of Mansfield.
P. R. 29.—Bible record in possession of Mrs. Mary Robinson
Thompson of Nantucket.
P. R. 30.—Bible and manuscript records in possession
of Henry N. Paine.
P. R. 31.—Taunton Vital Records.
P. R. 32.—Norton Vital Records.
rec.—recorded.
rem.—removed.
ret.—returned.
s.—son.
sr.—senior.
unm.—unmarried.
w.—week ; wife.
wid.—widow.
widr.—widower.
y.—year.