VITAL RECORDS
of
ANDOVER
MASSACHUSETTS
To the end of the year 1849
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The territory within the limits of the town of Andover was originally called Cochicawick. Andover was incorporated as a town May 6, 1646, and was named for the town in Hants County, England, which had been the home of many of its settlers.
A committee was appointed by the General Court on June 1, 1652, to lay out the bounds between Andover and Cambridge, and the same day the Court granted that the five or six hundred acres laid out by Rowley, without their line near Andover town, should belong to Andover.
The bounds between Andover and Billerica were established May 26, 1658.
The bounds between Andover and Wills Hill were established May 9, 1678.
June 20, 1728, a part of Andover was included in the new town of Middleton.
April 17, 1847, a part of Andover was included in the new town of Lawrence.
April 7, 1855, a part of Andover was established as North Andover.
Feb. 7, 1879, a part of Andover was annexed to Lawrence.
The bounds between Andover and Tewksbury were established May 21, 1903.
The bounds between Andover and North Reading were established Apr. 22, 1904.
The population of Andover at different periods was as follows:
| 1765
| 2,442
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| 1800
| 2,941
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| 1840
| 5,207
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| 1776
| 2,953
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| 1810
| 3,164
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| 1850
| 6,945
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| 1790
| 2,863
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| 1820
| 3,889
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| 1905
| 6,632
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| 1830
| 4,530
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