EXPLANATIONS
The list of Marlborough Births, Marriages and Deaths comprised in this volume includes all that were found in the Town Books covering the period from the earliest date there recorded to the end of the year 1849. Some additions have been made from other sources, and these are indicated in each instance by proper reference.
All of the records are condenses in print as much as is consistent with intelligibility, accuracy, and explanatory or other matter which seemed necessary or desirable, appear in brackets.
Marriages and intentions of marriage are printed under this names of both parties, but the full information concerning each person is given only under his or her name. No intentions of marriage previous to 1844 were found in the Marlborough records; in entries after that date an asterisk indicates that the intention was not found recorded, and in many cases this is accounted for by the fact that neither party belonged in Marlborough, and consequently publishment was made elsewhere.
The double date is used in the months of January, February and March prior to 1752 only when it so appears in the original, and instances of the modern from after 1725 are not uncommon.
When places other than Marlborough and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy.
The Vital Records of Marlborough were copied and prepared for the press by Miss Mary E. Spaulding, of Worcester.
ABBREVIATIONS
| a
| age
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| m
| male; married; month
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| b
| born
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| MR
| Midlesex County Registry
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| bap
| baptized
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| NS
| new style
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| ch
| child
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| OS
| old style
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| d
| daughter; day; died
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| s
| son
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| Dea
| deacon
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| Sr
| senior
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| DM
| District of Maine
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| VR
| Vital Records
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| dup
| duplicate entry
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| W
| A.H. Ward record, N.E. Hist. and Gen. Soc
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| h
| husband
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| w
| wife
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| inf
| infant
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| wid
| widow
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| int
| publishment of intention of marriage
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| widr
| widower
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| Jr
| junior
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CHURCH RECORDS
| CR1
| First Church
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| CR2
| Second (West, Unitarian) Church
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CEMETERY RECORDS
| GR1
| Spring Hill Cemetery
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| GR2
| High School or Old Common Cemetery
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| GR3
| Chipman Cemetery
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| GR4
| Brigham Cemetery
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| GR5
| Farms Cemetery
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PRIVATE RECORDS
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
| PR1
| Private Record
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