EXPLANATIONS

The town of Malden has an extremely long explanation. Please read the Preface before going on. It will help you understand more.
NOTE: The majority of entries in the printed books have a number to the left of the entry. This corresponds to the pages listed in the Table of Contents below. They are omitted from the online version.
The Malden VRs were published in 4 sections, Births, Intentions, Marriages and Deaths. In the online records, the intentions have been merged with the marriages. In all cases, the int. before the date of the intention is a link to the page image on which that intention appears.

ABBREVIATIONS
abt about int intention of marriage
b born m married; months
bp baptized mo mother
CC County Court returns s son
ch child unm unmarried
d daughter; died; days w wife
f father wid widow; widower
hus husband y years

TOWN RECORDS
ATH Athol LN Lynn
BIL Billerica LNF Lynnfield
BOST Boston MAR Marblehead
BOX Boxford MED Medford
CAM Cambridge NEE Needham
CAN Canton NEW Newton
CHAS Charlestown REA Reading
CHEL Chelsea ROX Roxbury
CHF Chelmsford SA Salem
CON Concord SAN Sandwich
DED Dedham SCI Scituate
DOR Dorchester STON Stoneham
FRA Framingham SUD Sudbury
IPS Ipswich TOP Topsfield
LAN Lancaster WAT Watertown
LEI Leicester WOB Woburn
LEX Lexington

CONTENTS, VOLUMES 1-5
Vol. 1 1 - 20
30 - 76
77 - 178
177 -202
  Marriages. First entry, Aug. 16, 1677
Marriage Intentions and Marriages
Births. First entry, Mar. 26, 1693
Deaths. First entry, 1693
Vol. 2 203 - 248
245 - 310
311 -      
312 - 347
347 - 403
  Deaths
Births
Blank
Marriages
Marriage Intentions
Vol. 3 404 -       
405 - 453
454 -       
455 - 475
476 - 549
  Blank
Births
Blank
Deaths
Marriage Intentions and Marriages
Vol. 4 550 - 559
560 - 561
562 - 647
648 - 651
652 - 653
654 - 658
  Births
Blank
Marriage Intentions to Dec. 31, 1868
Deaths
Marriages
Blank
Vol. 5 659 - 716
717 - 729
730 - 757
  Births to Dec. 31, 1861
Marriages to Dec. 31, 1853
Deaths to Dec. 31, 1860

CHURCH RECORDS
BCR Baptist Church
FCR First Church
SCR South Church

CEMETERY RECORDS
GS Gravestones in Malden
GSM Gravestones in Melrose

PRIVATE RECORDS
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
FAM1 Lynde family records, a copy, probably from the Bible of John Lynde, found among the papers of the late Zera Estes.
FAM2 A statement of the family of Henry and Esther (Hasey) Green, written by Mrs. Green, who died at Stoneham, Feb. 26, 1747-8, aged 98. The paper is now in the possession of D.P. Corey
FAM3 Waite family records, a copy by the late William B. Shedd from the Bible of John and Ruth Waite
FAM4 Sprague family records, a copy by Mrs. Emeline M. Sprague from the Bible of John and Sally Sprague
FAM5 Dexter family records, communicated by George P. Dexter
FAM6 Information of the late John Smith Nichols
FAM7 Corey family recorrds, from the Bible of Solomon and Charlotte D. Corey
RPB Commonplace-Book of Richard Pratt [Privately printed, Lynn, 1902]


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