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Gloucester, Massachusetts Vital Records
Births, Deaths, & Marriages
1640 - 1850
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Gloucester, Massachusetts Vital Records
Births, Deaths, & Marriages
1640 - 1850
Order item B401
FORMAT: ELECTRONIC (CD-ROM DISK)
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EXPLANATIONS
The following records of births, marriages and deaths include all entries to be found in the books of record kept by the town clerks; in the church records; in the returns made to the Salem Quarterly Court; in the cemetery inscriptions; and in private records found in family Bibles, etc. These records are printed in a condensed form in which every essential particular has been preserved. All duplication of the town clerk's record has been eliminated, but differences in entry and other explanatory matter appear in brackets. Parenthesis are used when they occur in the original record; also to indicate the maiden name of a married woman.
When places other than Gloucester or Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy. Marriages and intentions of marriage are printed under the names of both parties. Double dating is used in the months of January, February and March, prior to 1752, whenever it appears in the original, and also whenever from the sequence of entry in the original the date may be easily determined. In all records the original spelling of names is followed, and in the alphabetical arrangement the various forms should be examined, as items about the same family may be found under different spellings.
The First Church records begin in 1703 with the pastorate of Rev. John White. The original records of the Fourth Parish have not been found and it has been necessary to use the copy preserved at the City Hall.
GLOUCESTER
A company of fishermen, known as the Dorchester Company, established itself here in 1624, but the larger number of the colonists returned to England the following year, and the remainder removed to Naumkeag, afterwards Salem.
The General Court on May 22, 1639, ordered "that a fishing plantation shalbee begun at Cape Ann." A committee was appointed to lay out the plantation and none were allowed to settle without their permission. The authority of the committee was reaffirmed October 7, 1641 and another committee was appointed the same day to settle the bounds between Cape Ann and Ipswich. Their report is dated May 3, 1642 and mentions the meeting house at Cape Ann.
"Gloaster" is first mentioned in the Colony records when a tax was levied June 14, 1642. The plantation without doubt was named for the cathedral city in England, from which several of the settlers emigrated. Bounds between Gloucester and Manchester were established May 15, 1672. Part of Gloucester was set off Feb. 27, 1840 as the town of Rockport.
The population of Gloucester at different periods was as follows:
1765 - 3,763
1776 - 4,512
1790 - 5,317
1800 - 5,313
1810 - 5,943
1820 - 6,384
1830 - 7,510
1840 - 6,350
1850. – 7,786
1915 - 24,478
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