Woburn Records Of Births Deaths And Marriages From 1640 To 1873

Author : Edward F. Johnson
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ISBN 13 : 9781332212972
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Vol. 2 written by Edward F. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Vol. 2: From 1640 to 1873 On petition received from the Rumford Historical Association, the City Council of Woburn, in May, 1890, passed the following vote: - "Ordered, That the Mayor be and hereby is authorized to have printed twenty-five hundred copies of his manuscript record of deaths, and that the expense therefor be paid out of the Miscellaneous Department." And it is further "Ordered, That the printed copies be deposited with the City Treasurer, who shall dispose of them to any and all persons for twenty-five cents a copy, and all sums received by him therefor shall be placed to the credit of the Miscellaneous Department." In pursuance of this vote the following pages are now presented to the public. In order to add to and perfect the record, I engaged Miss J. Gertrude Menard to assist me in comparing it with the data to be found on the gravestones in both the Salem Street and Calvary Cemeteries. Our comparison has resulted in the addition of over four hundred names to the recorded list, and in the discovery of a number of discrepancies between the clerk's records and those chiselled on the gravestones. These additions and corrections have been inserted in their proper chronological place, and for the purpose of distinguishing them from the town clerk's records, the word "Gravestone" has been added to each additional or corrected entry. In order still further to complete the Woburn record of deaths and to preserve for all time memorials which are slowly but surely passing out of existence, - memorials, too, the most sacred and valuable of all which have been left to us of the fathers, - I have added as an appendix to the record of deaths a transcript of the epitaphs to be found in the First and Second Burying-Grounds. For this transcript I am indebted to my friend, Mr. William R. Cutter, whose copy of the epitaphs in the First or Park Street Burying-Ground was made almost a quarter of a century ago. The changes and removals which have taken place in the Second or Montvale Avenue Burying-Ground since Mr. Cutter revised Mr. Nathan Wyman's manuscript list, in 1870, have somewhat disarranged the chronological order which was then prepared. As, however, the epitaphs of each yard are separately indexed, this slight disarrangement will not interfere with the value of the list for reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.