INDEX
Vital Records Of Boxborough, Massachusetts
To The Year 1850

Compiled by Thomas W. Baldwin, A.B., S.B.
Member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society

Boston, Mass., 1915

[Transcribed by Dave Swerdfeger]








Number of Births printed--636

Marriages--724 Names

Deaths--372

1,732 total

Feb. 25, 1783, parts of Harvard, Littleton and Stow established as the district of Boxborough.

Feb. 2(?) 1794, bounds between Boxborough and Littleton established.

Nov. 4, 1835, the district made a town by chapter 15 of the Revised Statutes.

April 30, 1890, bounds between Boxborough and Littleton established.

June 14, 1906, bounds between Boxborough and Harvard established.

June 15, 1936, bounds between Boxborough and Littleton established.

Population by Census:
  • 1790 (U.S.), 412; 1800 (U.S.), 387;
  • 1810 (U.S.), 388;
  • 1820 (U.S.), 424;
  • 1830 (U.S.), 474;
  • 1843 (U.S.), 426;
  • 1850 (US.), 395;
  • 1855 (State) 413;
  • 1860 (U.S.) 403;
  • 1865 (State) 454;
  • 1870 (U.S.) 338;
  • 1875 (State) 318;
  • 1880 (U.S.), 319;
  • 1885 (State) 348;
  • 1890 (US.), 325;
  • 1895 (State) 307;
  • 1900 (U.S.), 316;
  • 1905 (State) 324;
  • 1910 (U.S.) 317.


EXPLANATIONS.
  • I. When places other than Boxborongh or Massachusetts art named in the original records they are given in the printed record.
  • 2. In all records the original spelling is followed.
  • 3. The various spellings of a name should be examined, as items about the same family or individual may be found under different spellings.
  • 4. Marriages are printed under the names of both parties.
  • 5. Additional information which does not appear in the original text of an item, i.e., any explanation, query, inference or difference shown in the entries of the record, is bracketed.


ABBREVIATIONS.
  • a- age: aged
  • abt.— about
  • b.—born
  • bp. — baptized
  • bur.— buried
  • ch.—child
  • C.R.— church record
  • d.— daughter: died: day
  • Dea. — Deacon
  • dec.— deceased
  • dup.— duplicate entry
  • G.R.1. - grave record, North Cemetery
  • G.r.2.— grave record, South Cemetery
  • h.—husband: hours
  • inf. —infant
  • int. — publishment of intention of marriage
  • Jr. — junior
  • m.— month
  • md.—married
  • s.— Son
  • Sr.— senior
  • unm. — unmarried
  • w.— wife
  • wid. — widow
  • widr.— widower
  • y.—year


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