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Rowley, [Essex County,] Massachusetts 
Vital Records
Births, Marriages, & Deaths

As recorded in the Town Records from 1639 to the end of 1849

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, & DEATHS
Order item B445
FORMAT: PRINT ONLY
The book is 391 pages, NOT indexed, names listed alphabetically, soft cover with a plastic comb binding, and available for $69.98 (includes shipping & handling charge; add $1.00 S&H for each additional volume ordered).

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BIRTH  RECORDS  ONLY
Order item B442
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The book is 170 pages, NOT indexed, names listed alphabetically, soft cover with a plastic comb binding, and available for $27.98 + $3.99 shipping & handling charge (Add $1.00 S&H for each additional volume ordered).

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MARRIAGE  RECORDS  ONLY
Order item B443
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The book is 293 pages, NOT indexed, names listed alphabetically, soft cover with a plastic comb binding, and available for $46.98 + $3.99 shipping & handling charge (Add $1.00 S&H for each additional volume ordered).

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DEATH  RECORDS  ONLY
Order item B444
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The book is 108 pages, NOT indexed, names listed alphabetically, soft cover with a plastic comb binding, and available for $17.98 + $3.99 shipping & handling charge (Add $1.00 S&H for each additional volume ordered).

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ALL  3  RECORD BOOKS ON CD-ROM
Order item B445.1
FORMAT: ELECTRONIC
The book's full text (444 pages) has been converted to PDF format which is easily searchable for key words, names, dates, places, etc., and placed on a CD-ROM disk.   Priced at $14.95 plus $3.99 shipping & handling charge.

EXCEPTION TO SEARCHING: a separate book consisting of 30 pages of death records kept by town ministers and not included in the official town record books kept by the town clerks is included on this disk, but this text is NOT searchable using the Acrobat Reader program. The names are listed alphabetically, however.

The Adobe Acrobat Reader software program is required in order to view these books on the disk.  Using the Acrobat Reader program you can easily search for names, dates, locations, etc., which appear in the books. You can also print paper copies of the books. The software program and installation instructions are included on the disk. 


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 Essex County 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 clerks' record has been eliminated, but differences in entry and other explanatory matter appear in brackets. Parentheses are used when they occur in the original record; also to indicate the maiden name of a married woman.     

     When places other than Rowley and 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. When both the marriage and intention of marriage are recorded, only the marriage record is printed; and when a marriage appears without the intention being recorded, it is designated by an asterisk. 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. 

HISTORY OF ROWLEY

      Sept. 4, 1639, "Mr. Ezechi Rogers plantation." 
      May 4, 1649, one-fifth of Plum Island granted to Rowley. 
      May 14, 1656, bounds between Rowley and Newbury established. 
      Oct. 13, 1675, part established as Bradford. 
      Aug. 12, 1685, bounds between Rowley and the village (afterward Topsfield) established. 
      ----- --, 1694, part established as Boxford. 
      Feb. 24, 1701, agreed bounds between Rowley and Bradford confirmed. 
      Nov. 29, 1785, part of Ipswich annexed. 
      June 10, 1808, part annexed to Boxford. 
      June 18, 1825, bounds between Rowley and Boxford established. 
      Apr. 21, 1838, part established as Georgetown. 
      Mar. 12, 1904, bounds between Rowley and Boxford established. 
      Mar. 19, 1904, bounds between Rowley and Ipswich established. 
      Mar. 27, 1905, bounds between Rowley and Newbury established.

The population of Rowley at different periods was as follows:

1765, 1,477         1830, 2,044         1870, 1,157 
1776, 1,678         1840, 1,203         1880, 1,201 
1790, 1,772         1850, 1,075         1890, 1,248 
1800, 1,557         1855, 1,214         1900, 1,391 
1810, 1,682         1860, 1,278         1910, 1,368 
1820, 1,825         1865, 1,191         1920, 1,249

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