Vital Records of West Stockbridge, 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:
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.
C. B.
Tillinghast
Francis Everett Blake
Charles Knowles Bolton
Don Gleason
Hill
Edmund Dana Barbour
Editor, Henry Ernest Woods
Stanhope
Press
F. H. Gilson Company
Boston, U.S.A.
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:
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.
THE TOWN OF WEST
STOCKBRIDGE, Berkshire County, was established March 9, 1774, from a part
of Stockbridge, as the district of West Stockbridge.
August 23, 1775, the district was made a town by
general act.
March 2, 1793, a gore of common land
was annexed to West Stockbridge.
March 2, 1829, a
part of Stockbridge was annexed to West Stockbridge.
February 6, 1830, the act of March 2, 1829, was
perfected.
March 27, 1834, bounds between West
Stockbridge and Richmond were established.
March
17, 1847, a Part of West Stockbridge was annexed to
Alford.
Population by Census: 1776 (Prov.),
370;
1790 (U.S.), 1113; 1800 (U.S.),
1002;
1810 (U.S.), 1049; 1820 (U.S.),
1034;
1830 (U.S.), 1209; 1840 (U.S.),
1448;
1850 (U.S.), 1713; 1855 (State),
1736;
1860 (U.S.), 1589; 1865 (State),
1620;
1870 (U.S.), 1924; 1875 (State),
1981;
1880 (U.S.), 1923; 1885 (State),
1648;
1890 (U.S.), 1492; 1895 (State),
1257;
1900 (U.S.), 1158.
EXPLANATIONS.
1. WHEN places other than West
Stockbridge 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 only when they occur in the original text, or to separate clauses found
there - such as the birthplace of parents, in late marriage records.
ABBREVIATIONS.
a. - age
abt. - about
b. - born
ch. - child
chn. -
children
Co. - county
C.R.1. - church record,
Congregational
C.R.2. - church record, Village Church
d. - daughter; died;
day
Dea. - deacon
dup. - duplicate entry
G.R.1. - gravestone record,
Center Cemetery
G.R.2. - gravestone record, South, or Slauter, Cemetery.
G.R.3. - gravestone record, Village Protestant Cemetery.
G.R.4. - gravestone record, Village Catholic
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 Bible of John
Easland, now in the possession of Arthur Easland, of West Stockbridge
P.R.2. - private record, from Bible of Alvan
Arnold, now in the possession of Alvan Arnold, of West Stockbridge.
P.R.3. - private record, from Bible of Thomas
French, now in the possession of Mrs. A. A. Arnold, of West Stockbridge
P.R.4. - private record, from a family
register relating to Cone, Moore and Edwards families, now in the possession of
Theodore Cone, of West
Stockbridge
P.R.5. - private record, from an account book now in
the possession of Herbert Jenkins, of West Stockbridge
P.R.6. - private record, from a family record of J. S. Moore, of West Stockbridge
prob. -
probably
rec. - recorded
s. - son
Sr. - senior
w. - wife;
week
wid. - widow
widr. - widower
y. - year
1st. - first
2d. -
second
3d. - third
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