Vital Records of Wayland to the Year 1850
Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Charge of
the
Eddy Town-Record Fund.
Boston, Mass..
1910
THIS publication is issued under the authority of a
votepassed 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
Francis Everett Blake
Charles
Knowles Bolton
Don Gleason Hill
Edmund Dana Barbour
Editor, F. Apthorp Foster
Stanhope Press
F. H. Gilson Company
Boston,
U.S.A.
THE TOWN OF WAYLAND, Middlesex
County, was formerly
East Sudbury.
April 10, 1780, a
part of Sudbury was established as East Sudbury.
March
11, 1835, the name of the town of East Sudbury was changed to Wayland.
April 26, 1850, bounds
between Wayland and Natick
were established.
Population by Census : 1790 (U.S.), 801;
1800
(U.S.), 835 ; 1810 (U.S.), 824;
1820 (U.S.), 962
; 1830 (U.S.), 944;
1840
(U.S.), 998; 1850 (U.S.), 1115;
1855
(State), 1178; 1860 (U.S.), 1188;
1865
(State), 1137; 1870 (U.S.), 1240;
1875
(State), 1766; 1880 (U.S.), 1962;
1885 (State), 1946
;1890 (U.S.), 2060;
1895 (State), 2026
;1900 (U.S.), 2303;
1905 (State), 2220.
EXPLANATIONS
1. WHEN places
other than Wayland and Massachusetts are named in the original
records, they are given in the printed copy.
2. In all records the original
spelling is followed.
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, i.e., 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
ch. -
child
chn. - children
Co. - county
C. R. 1. - church record, First
Unitarian
C. R. 2. - church record, Evangelical Trinitarian
d. - daughter;
died; day
Dea. - Deacon
dup. - duplicate entry
G. R. 1. - gravestone
record, North Cemetery
G. R. 2. -gravestone record, Center Cemetery
G. R.
3. -gravestone record, Lakeview Cemetery
G. R. 4. - gravestone record, Draper private lot, Tower
Hill
h. - husband
hrs. - hours
inf. -
infant
int. - publishment of intention of marriage
Jr. - junior
m. -
married; month
min. - minutes
M. R. - Middlesex County Record
rec. -
recorded
s. - son
Sr. - senior
w. - wife; week
wid. - widow
widr.
- widower
y. - year