VITAL RECORDS OF MIDDLEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, TO THE YEAR 1850.
PUBLISHED BY THE
NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY,
AT THE CHARGE OF
THE EDDY TOWN-RECORD FUND.
BOSTON, MASS.,
1907.
THIS publication is issued under the authority of a vote
passed by the NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY, 6 November, 1901, as follows:
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.
C. B. TlLLINGHAST,FRANCIS EvERETT BLAKE,
CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON, DON GLEASON HILL,
THE Town of Middlefield, Hampshire County, was
established March 12, 1783, from parts of
Becket, Chester, Partridgefield (now Peru), Washing-
ton, and Worthington, and the common lands called
Prescott's Grant.
named in the original records, they are given in the printed
copy.
items about the same family or individual might be found under
different spellings.
the names of both parties. When both the marriage and inten-
tion 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.
nal 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.
a. — age
abt. — about
b. — born
ch. — child
chn. — children
Co. — county
C.R.1. — church record, Congregational
C.R.2. — church record, Baptist
d. — daughter; died; day
Dea. — deacon
dup. — duplicate entry
G.R.1. — gravestone record, General Cemetery
G.R.2. — gravestone record, Mack Cemetery
G.R.3. — gravestone record, Bell Farm Cemetery
G.R.4. — gravestone record, Wright Cemetery
G.R.5. — gravestone record, Howard Smith Farm Cemetery
h. — husband
hrs. — hours
inf. — infant
int. — publishment of intention of marriage
Jr. — junior
m. — married; month
min. — minutes
prob. — probably
rec. — recorded
s. — son
Sr. — senior
w. — wife ; week
wid. — widow
widr. — widower
y. — year
1st. — first
2d. — second
3d. — third