Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the End of The
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UMASS/AMHERST 3l^DbtlDDflfi^^^^fl :^LY VITAL RECORDS LIBRARY OF THE r MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE No.l_]£?.2)_.4r-0- DATE.4r-ia-0_lD SOURCE.OTXlAJl_._cL£rflx.. V.I r F \o - 74 B35H36 v«l VITAL RECORDS BEVERLYOF MASSACHUSETTS TO THE END OF THE YEAR I 849 VOLUME I — BIRTHS PUBLISHED BY THE TOPSFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIE IV' TOPSFIELD, MASS. 1906 ST 5 NEWCOMB & GAUSS Printers Salem, Massachusetts 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 returns made to the Salem Quarterly Court ; 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 show the difference in the spelling of a name in the same entry ; and to indicate the maiden name of a married woman. When places other than Beverly and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy. Mar- riages and intentions of marriage are printed under the names of both parties. Double dating is used in the months of January,. February, and March, prior to 1752, whenever it appears in the original and also, whenever from the sequence of entry in the orig- inal the date may be easily determined. In all records the orig- inal spelling of names is followed, and in the alphabetical ar- rangement the various forms should be examined, as items about the same family may be found under different spellings. 7 BEVERLY At a session of the General Court held May 27, 166S, a peti- tion was received from " the inhabitants of y* part of Salem corn- only called Basse Riuer " praying for certain priviledges belong- ing to a town government, and the Court having heard " w* Sa- lem deputjes sajd, judge meet to grant their request, prouided the towne of Salem doe fully concurr therew''^" At a session of the General Court held November 7, 1668, the vote of the town of Salem consenting to the separation was presented and '-'The Court, on pervsall of this returne, judge it meete to grant that Basse Riuer be henceforth a towneship of themselues, referring it to Salem to accomodate them w"' lands & bounds suitably for them, & that it be called Beverly." The name was probably de- rived from the borough of Beverley in Yorkshire, England, and may have been selected at the suggestion of Maj.-Gen. Robert Sedgwick who gave to the inhabitants a bell that he had captured at St. John in 1654. (See Essex Institute Bulletin, Vol. XX, p. 1 Sept. II, 1753, part of Salem was annexed. April 27, 1857, part of the town was annexed to Danvers. March 23, 1894, the town was incorporated as a city. The population cf Beverly at different periods was as follows : 1765, 2,164. 1800, 3,881. 1S40, 4,689. 1776,2,754. 1810,4,608. 1850,5,376. i79°> 3^290. 1820,4,283. i905>i5j223. 1S30, 4,073. ^L,^^0 ABBREVIATIONS a. —age. abt.—about. b. —born. bef. —before. bet. —between. /5/.—baptized. bur.—buried. c. R. I.—church record, First Parish Unitarian Church. c. R. 2. —church record, Second Congregational Church. c. R. 3. —church record, Dane St. Congregational Church. c. R. 4.—church record, Fourth Congregational Church. c. R. s. —church record, Washington Street Congregational Church. c. R. 6. —church record. First Baptist Church. ch. —child. chn.—children. Co. —county. CT. F. —court files, Essex Co. Quarterly Court. CT. R. — court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court. d. —daughter ; day ; died. dec.—deceased. dup. — duplicate entry. a. R. I.—gravestone record, Ancient Burying Ground, Abbott St. 0. R. 2. —gravestone record, Dodge's Row Burying Ground. G. R. 3. —gravestone record. Ancient North Beverly Cemetery. a. R. 4. —gravestone record. Hale Street Cemetery. 0. R. 5. —gravestone record, Green Family Burying Ground at Rial Side. a. R. 6. —gravestone record, North Beverly Meeting House Cem- etery. a. R. 7.—gravestone record, Private Burying Ground, Elliott St., Danvers. 7 8 ABBREVIATIONS h. —husband ; hour. inf.—infant. int.—intention of marriage. jr.—junior. m.—male ; married ; month. p. R. I. —Record of deaths made by Col. Robert Hale, and for- merly in possession of James Hill, town clerk. p. R. 2,— Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Isaac H. Edgett. p. R. 3. —Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George A. Ap- pleton. p. R. 4. —Bible record now in possession of George A. Galloupe. p. R. 5. — Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George A. Gal- loupe. p. R. 6.—Bible record now in possession of Edmund Giles. p. R. 7.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Alphonso J. Shepard. p. R. 8. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Alphonso J. Shepard. p. R. 9. —Bible record now in possession of Miss Annie F, Lovett. p. R. 10. —Bible record now in possession of Miss Annie F. Lovett. p. R. II.—Bible record now in possession of Miss Annie Y. Lovett. p. R. 12.—Account book of Josiah Foster, 2d, now in possession of Miss Annie F. Lovett. p. R. 13. —Bible record now in possession of Miss Annie F. Lovett. p. R. 14.—Bible record now in possession of Lucius B. Dodge. p. R. 15. —Bible record now in possession of Lucius B. Dodge. p. R. 16.— Family register now in possession of Mrs. Benjamin L. Andrews. p. R. 17.— Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Benjamin L. Andrews. p. R. 18.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. James A. Tor- rey. p. R. 19.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Lucy Lovett. p. R. 20.—Bible record now in possession of Miss Ruth Haskell. p. R. 21.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Frederick P. Haskell. p. R. 22.—Bible record now in possession of Horace P. Foster. p. R. 23. — Bible record now in possession of George F. Allen. ABBREVIATIONS 9 P. R. 24.—Bible record now in possession of Louis H. Baker. p. R. 25. — Bible record now in possession of Louis H. Baker. p. R. 26.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Charles Good- ridge. p. R. 27. —Bible record now in possession of Louis H. Baker. p. R. 28. — Bible record now in possession of Miss Abbie A. Moul- ton. p. R. 29. —Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Hannah Appleton. p. R. 30.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Ruth Wilson. p. R. 31. — Bible record now in possession of Miss Emeline Apple- ton. p. R. 32. — Bible record cow in possession of Mrs. Charlotte Dodge. p. R. 2,Z-— Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Charlotte DodgCc p. R. 34.—Bible record now in the possession of Mrs. Adelaide Lovett. p. A'. 35.— Bible record now in the possession of Mrs. Elizabeth Weston. p. R. 2>(>- — Bible record now in possession of George Herrick. p. R. 37. —Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Fred L. Brewer. p. R. 38. — Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Elizabeth O. Abbolt. p. R. 39> — Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Susan S. Foster. p. R. 40.— Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Ralph Osborne. p. R. 41. —Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Caroline Pierce. p. R. 42.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Emily Baker. p. R. 43.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Nancy Poulin. p. R. 44. —Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Augusta H. Simonds. p. R. 45.— Bible record now in possession of Miss Esther Sheldon. p. R. 46. —Bible record now in possession of George W. Dodge of Danvers. p. R. 47. —Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Lewis A. Preston. p. R. 48.—Bible record now in possession of Henry Woodbury. p. R. 49.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Michael White house. p. R. 50.— Bible record now in possession of Levi Cole. lO ABBREVIATIONS P. ^. 5 1 . —Bible record now in possession of Levi Cole. p. R. 52. —Bible record now in possession of Levi Cole. p. R. 53-— Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Caroline F. Williams. p. R. 54.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. William Jenkins. p. R. 55.—Bible record now in possession of Miss Hattie Ray- mond. p. R. 56.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. George A. Herrick. p. R. 57.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Anna T. Cleaves. p. R. 58. —Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Delia Bryant. p. R. 59.—Bible record now in possession of Charles Butman. p. R. 60. —Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Anna Endicott. p. R. 6r.— Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Elizabeth Foster, p. R. 62. — Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Elizabeth Foster. p. R. 63.— Bible record now in possession of Miss Elizabeth Howe. p. R. 64. — Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Mary Lovett. p. R. 65.—Bible record now in possession of Frank Brown. p. R. 66. —Bible record now in possession of Miss Louisa Kilham p. R. 67. —Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Michael White- house. p. R. 68.—Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Harriet S.