Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts
1850
Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Robert
Henry Eddy Memorial rooms at the charge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund.
Boston, Mass. 1932..
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.
James Parker Parmenter
George
Andrew Moriarty
Hosea Starr Ballou
John Wallace Suter
Alfred
Johnson
Walter Kendall Watkins
Henry Edwards Scott, Editor
Florence Conant Howes, Assistant Editor in charge of Vital
Records.
Haver Hill,
Mass.
Recording Publishing Co.
THE TOWN OF NEW
BEDFORD, Bristol County, was established February 23, 1787, from the easterly
part of Dartmouth. February 22, 1812, a part was set off as the new town of
Fairhaven. February 19, 1831, bounds between Dartmouth and New Bedford were
established. March 20, 1845, a part of Dartmouth was annexed. The town of New
Bedford was incorporated as a city in 1847.
Population by Census: 1790 (U.S.), 3313;
1800
(U.S.), 4361; 1810 (U.S.), 5651;
1820
(U.S.), 3947; 1830 (U.S.), 7592;
1840
(U.S.), 12087; 1850 (US.), 16443;
1855
(State), 20389; 1860 (U.S.), 22300;
1865 (State),
20853; l870 (U.S.), 21320;
1875 (State), 25895; 1880
(U.S.), 26845;
1885 (State), 33393; 1890 (U.S.),
40733;
1895 (State), 55251; 1900 (U.S.),
62442;
1905 (State), 74362; 1910 (U.S.),
96652;
1915 (State), 109568; 1920 (U.S.), 120485;
1925
(State), 119539; 1930 (U.S.),
112597.
EXPLANATIONS
1. The fact that a birth, marriage, or death is recorded in New
Bedford does not prove that it occurred there, unless it is so stated in the
record. When places other than New Bedford and Massachusetts are named in the
original records, they are given as they appear there; but when New Bedford is
named, the initial letters only are used, except in unusual
phrases.
2. In all items from town records the original
spelling is followed, and no attempt is made to correct errors appearing in the
records.
3. A baptism is not printed, if it occurs
within one year after the recorded date of birth of a child of the same name and
parents or if it is clear that the child baptized is identical with
the
child of the birth record; but variations found in the
baptismal record are added to the birth record.
4.
The birth of a married woman is recorded under her maiden name, if it is known.
But if the maiden name cannot be determined, the entry appears under the husband's name,
with
a dash enclosed in brackets, 1. e.,
[----], to signify that the maiden name is unknown. If it is not known whether
the surname is
that of a married or unmarried woman, " ? m." is placed
in brackets after the
Christian name.
5. 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 where a marriage appears without the intention
being recorded, it is designated with
an asterisk.
6. 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 to show variations 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 sep-
arate clauses in the original text.
7. Items marked with a dagger (†) are abridged
abstracts copied into the town books from the records of the Friends Monthly
Meeting.
ABBREVIATIONS
a. - age
abt. - about
b. - born
bp. - baptized
bur. -
buried
CEM. R. - records taken from an old book containing
desultory
items of gravestone inscriptions
ch. - child
chn. -
children
C.R.1. - church record, First Congregational Church
(Unitarian)
C.R.2. - church record, North Congregational
Church
C.R.3. - church record, Records of the Society of
Friends, New Bedford Monthly Meeting- These have been used to correct or add to
the abstracts of these records made by one of the town clerks
in the town books
C.R.4. - church record, First Baptist Church
C.R.5. - church record, Methodist Society on Elm Street
(now merged as Trinity
Crurch)
C.R.6. - church record, Grace Episcopal Church
C.R.7. - church record,
Trinitarian Church (now merged in "The United Church")
Co. -
county
d. - daughter; day; died
Dea. - deacon
dec'd - deceased
dup.
- duplicate entry
Eld. - Elder
enl. - enlisted
Ens. - Ensign
G.R.1.
- gravestone record, Rural Cemetery, New Bedford
G.R.2. - gravestone
record, Friends' Burying Ground, adjoining the old part of Rural Cemetery
G.R.3. - gravestone record, Oak Grove Cemetery, New
Bedford
G.R.4. - gravestone record, Griffin Street
Cemetery, New Bedford
G.R.5. - gravestone record,
Congregational Church Cemetery, Lund's Corner, New Bedford
G.R.6. - gravestone record, Peckham West Cemetery, Mount
Pleasant Street, New Bedford
G.R.7. - gravestone record,
Nye Family Burying Ground, Nye's Lane, New
Bedford
G.R.8. - gravestone record, Tobey Family Burying Ground,
Sassaquin, New Bedford
G.R.9. - gravestone record, Pine
Grove Cemetery, New Bedford
G.R.10.- gravestone record,
private Burying Ground, on the farm formerly owned by John W. Gifford, Shawmut
Avenue, New Bedford
G.R.11. - gravestone record, from
"New Bedford of the Past" by Daniel Ricketson, page 183
G.R.12.- gravestone record, Ashley Cemetery, Shawmut
Avenue, North Dartmouth
G.R.13.- gravestone record,
Ashley Family Burying Ground, Shawmut Avenue, North
Dartmouth
G.R.14. - gravestone record, Rogers Family Burying Ground,
near High Hill Reservoir, North Dartmouth
G.R.15. -
gravestone record, a single grave on the farm of Miss Emma G. Casey,
Hathaway Road, New Bedford
G.R.16.- gravestone record,
private burying ground off the north part of Rockdale Avenue, New Bedford
h. - hours;
husband
inf. - infant
int. - publishment of intention of marriage
Jr. -
junior
Lt. - Lieutenant
m. - marriage; married; month
min. -
minutes
N. B. - New Bedford when it appears alone; New
Brunswick when it follows the name of a town
N.R. -
newspaper record, occasional items from New Bedford newspapers to fill in
illegible portions of gravestone inscriptions
P.R.1. -
private record, from a memorial inscription in the History of New
Bedford by Daniel Ricketson, page 182
P.R.2. - private record, from
a Taber-Alien family Bible, now in the possession of the Old Dartmouth
Historical Society
P.R.3. - private record, from a
Russell family Bible, now in the possession of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society
P.R.4. - private record, from a loose leaf, now
in the possession of the Old
Dartmouth Historical Society
P.R.5. - private record, from the Nathaniel Pope family
Bible, now in the possession of Miss Alice Fish of
Fairhaven
P.R.6. - private record, from a diary (printed) of Joseph
R. Anthony of New Bedford
P.R.7. - private record, from
the Josiah Wood family Bible, now in the possession of Miss Lucy Fessenden Pope
of New Bedford
P.R.8. - private record, from a
Russell-Taber family Bible, now in the possession of Francis Russell Hart of
Boston
P.R.9. - private record, from the Charles
Russell family Bible, now in the possession of Charles Russell Price of
New Bedford
P.R.10. - private record, from the
Oliver Price family Bible, now in the possession of Charles Russell Price
of New Bedford
P.R.11. - private record, from a Seabury
family Bible, now in the possession of the Old Dartmouth Historical
Society
P.R.12. -private record, from the John Wood Jr.
family Bible, now in the possession of the Old Dartmouth
Historical Society
P.R.13. - private record, from
the Otis N. Pierce family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Frank H.
Gifford of New Bedford
P.R.14. - private record, from
the William B. Bennett family Bible, now in the possession of William W.
Thatcher of North Dartmouth
P.R.15. - private record,
from an Adams family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Nathaniel C. Smith of New
Bedford
P.R.16. - private record, from the
William Gordon family Bible, now in the possession of William Gordon of New
Bedford
P.R.17. - private record, from the Reuben
Russell family Bible, now in the possession of Edmund Wood of New
Bedford
P.R.18. - private record, from the Thomas Wood family
Bible, now in the possession of Edmund Wood of New Bedford
P.R.19. - private record, from the John A. Delano family
Bible, now in the
possession of Miss Alice Wood of New Bedford
P.R.20. - private record, from the Frederick Rowland family
Bible, now in the possession of Miss Alice Wood of New Bedford
P.R.21. - private record, from the Benjamin Cummings family
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Charles D. Prescott of New Bedford
P.R.22. - private record, from the Joseph Brownell family
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Eliot D. Stetson of New Bedford
P.R.23. - private record, from the Jonathan Smith family
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Horatio C. Allen of New Bedford
P.R.24. - private record, from a Thornton-Allen family
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Otis N. Pierce of New Bedford
P.R.25. - private record, from the Gideon Howland family
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Otis N. Pierce of New Bedford
P.R.26. - private record, from the Elisha Thornton family
Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Otis N. Pierce of New Bedford
P.R.27. - private record, from the William Tucker family
Bible, now in the possession of Arthur L. Tucker of New
Bedford
P.R.28. - private record, from the Jabez Gibbs family
Bible, now in the possession of Miss Harriet S. Damon of
New
Bedford
P.R.29. - private
record, from the Henry Phillips Willis family Bible, now in the possession of
Mrs. Florence B. Cashman of Fall River
P.R.30. -
private record, from two John Spare family Bibles, now in the possession of
Miss S. Flora Spare of New Bedford
P.R.31. -
private record, from the William H. Reynard family Bible, now in the
possession of Walter Thomas Almy of New Bedford
P.R.32. - private record, from a Norris family Bible, now
in the possession of Thomas Lee Norris of New
Bedford
P.R.33. - private record, from the Edward S. Tripp
family Bible, now in the possession of Miss Alice H. Tripp of New Bedford
P.R.34. - private record, from the Edmund
Freeman family Bible, now in the possession of Miss Lucy B. Fish of
New Bedford
P.R.35. - private record, from the
Samuel Waggoner family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. William Emery
Hathaway of New Bedford
P.R.36. - private record, from a
Tripp-Briggs family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Benjamin A. Tripp
of New Bedford
P.R.37. - private record, from the
Henry Soule family Bible, now in the possession of Frederick L. Soule of
New Bedford
P.R.38. - private record, from the John
Arnold Macomber family Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. A.
Martin Pierce of New Bedford
P.R.39. - private
record, from the Peleg Pease family Bible, now in the possession of Zephaniah W. Pease
of New Bedford
P.R.40. - private
record, from the Samuel Watson family Bible, now in the possession of Miss
Elizabeth Watson of New Bedford
P.R.41. - private
record, from the diary (printed) of Samuel Rodman of New Bedford
P.R.42. - private record, from a copy of a record of the
Abraham Gifford family, now in the possession of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
P.R.43. - private record, from two
Joseph Howland family records, now in the possession of Charles Eliot
Goodspeed of Boston
P.R.44. - private record, from
the Philip Bennett Cook family Bible, now in the possession of Daniel
Herbert Cook of New Bedford
qv.
- which see; whom see
rec. -
recorded
S. - son
Sr. - Senior
w. - week; wife
wid. -
widow
widr. - widower
y. - year