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THIS
publication is issued under the authority of a vote passed by
the NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, 6 November, 1901,
as follows:
Voted: That the sum of $20,000, from the bequest of the late Robert
Henry Eddy, be set aside as a special fund to be called the Eddy
Town-Record Fund, for the sole purpose of publishing the Vital
Records of the towns of Massachusetts, and that the Council be
authorized and instructed to make such arrangements as may be
necessary for such publication. And the treasurer, is hereby instructed
to honor such drafts as shall be authorized by the Council for
this purpose.
Committee on Publications.
C. B. TILLINGHAST,
FRANCIS EVERETT BLAKE,
CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON,
DON GLEASON HILL,
EDMUND DANA BARBOUR.
Editor, HENRY ERNEST WOODS.
Stanhope Press
F. H.. GILSON COMPANY
BOSTON. U.S.A.
THE
TOWN OF WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Berkshire County, was established
March 9, 1774, from a part of Stockbridge, as the district of
West Stockbridge.
August 23, 1775, the district was made a town by general act.
March 2, 1793, a gore of common land was annexed to West Stockbridge.
March 2, 1829, a part of Stockbridge was annexed to West Stockbridge.
February 6, 1830, the act of March 2, 1829, was perfected.
March 27, 1834, bounds between West Stockbridge and Richmond were
established.
March 17, 1847, a part of West Stockbridge was annexed to Alford.
Population
by Census:
1776 (Prov.), 370; 1790 (U.S.), 1113 ; 1800 (U.S.), 1002; 1810
(U.S.), 1049 ; 1820 (U.S.), 1034; 1830 (U.S.), 1209 ; 1840 (U.S.),
1448; 1850 (U.S.), 1713 ; 1855 (State), 1736; 1860 (U.S.), 1589
; 1865 (State), 1620; 1870 (U.S.), 1924 ; 1875 (State), 1981;
1880 (U.S.), 1923 ; 1885 (State), 1648; 1890 (U.S.), 1492 ; 1895
(State), 1257; 1900 (U.S.), 1158.
EXPLANATIONS.
1. WHEN places other than West Stockbridge 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. 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, Congregational
C.R.2. -- church record, Village Church
d. -- daughter; died; day
Dea. -- deacon
dup. -- duplicate entry
G.R.1. -- gravestone record, Center Cemetery
G.R.2. -- gravestone record, South, or Slauter, Cemetery
G.R 3- -- gravestone record, Village Protestant Cemetery.
G.R.4. -- gravestone record, Village Catholic Cemetery
h. -- husband
hrs. -- hours
inf. -- infant
int. -- publishment of intention of marriage
Jr. -- junior
m. -- married; month
min. -- minutes
P.R.1. -- private record, from Bible of John Easland,now in the
possession of Arthur Easland, of West Stockbridge
P.R.2. -- private record, from Bible of Alvan Arnold, now in the
possession of Alvan Arnold of West Stockbridge.
P.R.3. -- private record, from Bible of Thomas French, now in
the possession of Mrs. A. A. Arnold, of West Stockbridge.
P.R.4. -- private record, from a family register relating to Cone,
Moore, and Edwards families, now in the possession Theodore Cone,
West Stockbridge.
P.R.5. -- private record, from an account book now in the possession
of Herbert Jenkins, of West Stockbridge.
P.R.6. -- private record, from a family record of J. S. Moore,
of West Stockbridge.
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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