Dukes County MA Archives History .....Births To 1850- Explanations 
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EXPLANATIONS.
  1. WHEN places other than Edgartown and Massachusetts are named in the original
records, they are given in the printed copy.

  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 might be found under different spellings.

  4. Marriages and intentions of marriages are printed under the names of both
parties, but the full information concerning each party is given only in the entry
under his or her name. When both the marriage and intention of marriage are
recorded, only the marriage record is printed; and where a marriage appears without
the intention recorded, it is designated with an asterisk.

  5. Additional information which does not appear in the original text of an item,
i.e., any explanation, query, inference, or difference shown in other entries of the
record, is bracketed. Parentheses are used only when they occur in the original
text, or to separate clauses found there — such as the birthplace of parents, in
late marriage records.

ABBREVIATIONS.
a. — age abt. — about
b. — born ch. — child chn. — children
Co. — county 
C.R.1. — church record, Church of Christ, Congregational
C.R.2. — church record, Methodist
C.R.3. — church record, Baptist
d. — daughter; died ; day 
Dea. — deacon
D.R.1. — Dukes County record, Court Vol. 1 
D.R.2. —Dukes County record, Deeds Vol. 1 
dup. duplicate entry
G.R.1. — gravestone record, Old Burying Ground
G.R 2. — gravestone record, Pease's Point Way Cemetery
G.R.3. — gravestone record, private grounds
G.R.4. — gravestone record, Indian Cemetery, Chappaquiddick Island
G.R.5.— gravestone record, First Cemetery, Chappaquiddick Island
G.R.6. — gravestone record, Belain Cemetery, Chappaquiddick Island
G.R.7. — gravestone record, Cottage City Cemetery
G.R.8. — gravestone record, Farm Neck Cemetery, Cottage City
G.R.9.— gravestone record, graves near Old House Pond, Cottage City
h. — husband 
hrs. — hours
inf. — infant 
int. — publishment of intention of marriage 
Jr. — junior
m. — married; month 
min. — minutes
P.R. — private record, from a Record of Deaths kept by the Rev. Samuel Kingsbury and
the Rev. Joseph Thaxter (with additions by Miss Harriet M. Pease), now in the
possession of Miss Harriet M. Pease, of Edgartown. 
prob. — probably 
rec. — recorded
s. — son 
Sr. — senior
w. — wife; week 
wid. widow 
widr. — widower
y. — year
1st. — first
2d. — second
3d. — third


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