Alphabetic Surname Index

Births	Marriages	Deaths
Abbott - Avery Bacan - Butters Cann - Cutter Dacy - Dutton Easty - Everett Fairbrother - Furbush Galusha - Gustus Hadley - Hyde Ingals Jaques - Judkins Keaton - Kneeland Laherry - Lyman Mace - Myers Nason - Nurs Olney - Osgood Page - Putnam Quinland Raddin - Ryan Salter - Symes Talbot - Tyler Upton Walker - Wyman York - Young Unidentified Negroes	Abbott - Avery Bacon - Butters Caldwell - Cutter Damforth - Dutton Easty - Everett Fairbrother - Furnew Garfield - Grover Hagget - Hyde Ingalls - Ives Jaco - Judkins Karkin - Kneeland Laine - Lyman MacCarty - Muzey Neal - Nutting Okell - Osgood Page - Putney Rainger - Russel Safford - Symms Tainter - Tyler Underwood - Upton Virgin Wait - Wyman York Unidentified Negroes	Abbott - Atherton Bacan - Butterfield Carey - Cutter Daland - Dyar Easty - Everett Fairbanks - Fuller Gleason - Grimes Haile - Hutchinson Jaques - Jones Kemp - Kittridge Laine - Lynd Makee - Muzzy Needham - Norton Olney - Osgood Page - Putnam Rand - Russell Sanders - Symmes Tarball - Tyler Virgin Walker - Wyman Young Unidentified Negroes

Chronologic Surname Index

Births	Marriages	Deaths
Abbott - Avery Bacan - Butters Cann - Cutter Dacy - Dutton Easty - Everett Fairbrothet - Furbush Galusha - Gustus Hadley - Hyde Ingals Jaques - Judkins Keaton - Kneeland Laherry - Lyman Mace - Myers Nason - Nurs Olney - Osgood Page - Putnam Quinland Raddin - Ryan Salter - Symes Talbot - Tyler Upton Walker - Wyman York - Young Unidentified Negroes	Abbott - Avery Bacon - Butters Caldwell - Cutter Damforth - Dutton Easty - Everett FairbrOt - Furnew Garfield - Grover Hagget - Hyde Ingalls - Ives Jaco - Judkins Karkin - Kneeland Laine - Lyman MacCarty - Muzey Neal - Nutting Okell - Osgood Page - Putney Rainger - Russel Safford - Symms Tainter - Tyler Underwood - Upton Virgin Wait - Wyman York Unidentified Negroes	Abbott - Atherton Bacan - Butterfield Carey - Cutter Daland - Dyar Easty - Everett Fairbanks - Fuller Gleason - Grimes Haile - Hutchinson Jaques - Jones Kemp - Kittridge Laine - Lynd Makee - Muzzy Needham - Norton Olney - Osgood Page - Putnam Rand - Russell Sanders - Symmes Tarball - Tyler Virgin Walker - Wyman Young Unidentified Negroes

The town of Billerica, Middlesex County, was established May 29, 1655, from common land.

May 26, 1658, bounds between Billerica and Andover, Essex County, were established.

October 10, 1666, bounds between Billerica and Woburn were established.

October 12, 1669, bounds between Billerica and Woburn were established.

June 27, 1706, bounds between Billerica and Chelmsford and Concord were established.

September 23, 1729, a part of Billerica was included in the new town of Bedford.

December 17, 1734, a part of billerica was established as tewksbury.

July 28, 1741, bounds between Billerica and Woburn were established.

February 26, 1767, a part of Billerica was annexed to Bedford.

April 28, 1780, a part of Billerica was included in the second district of Carlisle.

Population by Census:

1765,

1,776

1820,

1,380

1860,

1,776

When places other than Billerica and Massachusetts are named in the original records they are given in the printed copy.

In all records the original spelling is followed.

The various spellings of a name should be examined, as items about the same family or individucal may be found under different spellings.

Marriages are printed under the names of both parties. When a marriage appears without the intention recorded it is designated with an asterisk. There are no intentions of marriages recorded in Billerica.

Additional information which does not appear in the original text of an item, i.e., any explanation, query, inference, or differnce 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 &emdash; such as the birthplace of parents in late marriage records.

A general guide to how to use these pages.

If you are new to this site, or haven't used the site a lot, please be sure to read the rest of this page. Even if you have used this site a lot, a refresher may be helpful due to the changes that have been introduced.

You can research the records alphabetically or chronologically within surname. Images of the pages from which the transcriptions were done, and the title pages, are available for most towns. A list of abbreviations used is available.

Alphabetic - This is the most common way that the published vital records were presented. All of the same given names were arranged chronologically with names that had middle initials or middle names followed the others. Nicknames would appear alphabeticall according to the spelling, i.e. Nabby, the nickname for Abigail, would be with the names beginning with the letter "N."

In this version, the names are sorted based on the most common spelling. Abbie, Abby, Abigail, Knabby, Nabby, etc., will all appear together and will be chronological. Middle initials and middle names have no influence on the order.

Note: There are going to be errors in the indexing of the names. A woman named Abiel may have been recorded as Abby. The indexing will have her with the Abigails. Please notify me with the Contact page about errors and they will be fixed within a couple days.

Chronologic - The chronologic sort will be most helpful with surnames having lots of entries, especially births. Records that had a missing date, or part, have had the missing portions replaced with zeros and will appear ahead of the others.

Page images - The icon at the left of each record is a link to the image of the page from which the transcription was done. The transcriptions are a tool. The image is the source. It is your responsibility to copy the image for your documentation. Also, the title page should be copied. There is a link to the title page in the navigation bar on transcription pages and image display pages.

Abbreviations - Each town had its own abbreviations used in the published records. Most of these are the same. The abbreviations for the headstones (GR), private records (PR), churches (CR), etc. are all different. There is a link to a list of all abbreviations used for the town in the navigation bar of the transcription pages.

Errors - There are two types of errors.

• Errors in the published records - It is known that errors are in the published records. Not many, to be sure, but they are there. Where I have found them, or have been informed and provided sufficient documentation, the records have been annotated. This appears in red at the end of the line.]
• Transcription errors - Even with the best of proofing, errors occur. If you find one, use the Contact link at the top of the page and tell me about the error. I need to have the town name, type of record, page number, what the error is and what it should be. It facilitates matters if you copy and paste the record in error into the e-mail.

Miscellaneous - As the opportunity has provided, I have tried to research names that had only initials or an initial and a surname to find the full names. Where I've been successful I've added the name in red, i.e. J.R. appears as J[ohn] R. or J[ohn] R[ussel].

The alphabetic and chronologic sort orders and many planned improvements require that towns be transcribed. If you can spare two, or more, hours per week to help with the transcribing, write me.

With the exception of the few people helping with transcribing and indexing, I am the only person working on this project. I do all of the technical work. I correct errors. I put transcriptions into final format. I design the pages. This takes a tremendous amount of time and money. If you find this site useful, please donate what you think it is worth to you by going to the donations page.