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EXPLANATIONS
The 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 several private records found in family
Bibles. 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. Parentheses are used when they occur in the original record; also
to show the difference in the spelling of a name in the same entry and to
indicate the maiden name of a wife.
When places other than Wenham and
Massachusetts
are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy.
Marriages and intentions of marriages 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.
WENHAM
The first settlers, as early as 1638, gave the name of Enon to this
territory which was originally a part of
Salem
. The General Court on September 7, 1643, ordered "that Enon shalbe
called Wennam. Wennam is granted to bee a towne, & hath liberty to send a
deputy." The present name is supposed to have been derived from the
parish of Wenham, near Ipswich, in
Suffolk County
,
England
, from which some of the early settlers are said to have emigrated.
The
populations of Wenham in 1900: 847
