Hampden County, MA Early Granville Births

Hampden County, MA Early Granville Births . 1700's to 1850 .

The following information was extracted from Vital Records of Granville, Massachusetts To The Year 1850, published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society at the Robert Henry Eddy Memorial Rooms at the Carge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund, Boston, Mass., 1914. . This information now resides in the Public Domain. The file may be downloaded by private individuals for personal, non-commerical use only.

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Background . "This publication is issued under the authority of a vote passed by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Noavember 6, 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 James Parker PARMENTER Hosea Starr BALLOU John Wallace SUTER Edumund Dana BARBOUR G. Andrews MORIARTY, Jr. Alfred JOHNSON Henry Edward SCOTT, Editor ____________ Stanhope Press P.H. Gilson Company Boston, U.S.A." . Return to Menu

Population by Census . The Town of Granville, Hampden County, was established as a district January 25, 1754, from the plantation of Bedford.
August 23, 1755, the district was made a town by general act.
June 14, 1810, a part was established as Tolland.
Population by Census

YEAR	CENSUS	NUMBER
1765	Prov.	682
1776	Prov.	1126
1790	US	1979
1800	US	2309
1810	US	1504
1820	US	1643
1830	US	1649
1840	US	1414
1850	US	1305
1860	US	1385
1865	State	1367
1870	US	1293
1875	State	1240
1800	US	1205
1885	State	1193
1890	US	1061
1890	US	1061
1895	State	1005
1900	US	1050
1905	State	865
1910	US	781

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. Explanations . 1. When places other than Granville and MA are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy.

2. In all items from town records the original spelling is followed, and no attempt is made to correct errors appering in the records or to harmonize conflicting names or dates.

3. The various spellings of a name should be examined, as items about the same family or individual may be found under different spellings.

4. A baptism is not printed, if it occurs within one year after the recorded date of brith, although any variations found in the baptismal record are added to the birth record. But a baptism is printed, if it occures more than one year after the recorded date of a birth of a child of the same name and parents, no attempt being made to decide whether the child baptized is identical with the name of the birth record or is another child of the same name.

5. The birth of a married woman is recorded under her maiden name, if it is known. But if the maiden name cannot be determined, the entry appears under the husband's name, with a dash enclosed in brackets to signify that the maiden name is that of a married or unmarried woman, ? m. is placed in brackets after the Christian name.

6. 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 asterick.

7. Additional information which does not appear in the original text of an item, i.e., any explanation, query, inference, or difference show in other entries of the record, is bracketed. Parentheses are used to show the difference in the spelling of a name in the same entry, to indicate the maiden name of a wife, to enclose an imperfect portion of the original text, and to separate clauses in the original text - such as the birthplace of a parent, in late records.
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. Abbreviations

a. - age

abt. - about

b. - born

bp. - baptized

bur. - buried

ch. - child

chn. - children

C.R.1 - church record, Congreational Church

C.R.2. - church record, a Methodist circuit steward book, containing baptisms and marriages in the several "classes" (not always designated) of Granville, now in the possession of the New England Conference Historical Society.

C.R.3. - church record, Baptist Church

Co. - county

d. - daughter; day; died

Dea. - deacon

dec'd. - deceased

dup. - duplicate entry

Ens. - Ensign

G.R.1. - gravestone record, West Cemetery, Granville Centre

G.R.2. - gravestone record, Southeast Cemetery, Granville

G.R.3. - gravestone record, North Cemetry, Granville Centre

G.R.4. - gravestone record, Northeast Cemetery, Granville

G.R.5. - gravestone record, Dickinson private lot, Granville

G.R.6. - gravestone record, West Granville Cemetery, West Granville

h. - husband

hrs. - hours

inf. - infant

int. - publishment of intention of marriage

Jr. - junior

Lt. - lieutenant

m. - married; month

min. - minutes

P.R.1. - private record, from a Barlow family Bible, now [1914] in the possession of Edmund Barlow of Granville

P.R.2. - private record, from a Tinker family Bible, now [1914] in the possession of Miss May C. Noble of Granville

P.R.3. - private record, from a Gibbons family Bible, now [1914] in the possession of Miss May C. Noble of Granville

P.R.4. - private record, from a Root family Bible, now [1914] in the possession of Mrs. Harry Hartley of Granville

P.R.5. - private record, from the James Cooley family Bible, now [1914] in the possession of Ralph B. Cooley of Granville]

P.R.6. - private record, from the Rev. Timothy Mather Cooley manuscript, contatining baptisms, marriages, and deaths occurring in Mr. Cooley's parish, and funerals which he attended, now [1914] in the possession of Mrs. J. M. Stevenson of Pittsfield.

P.R.7. - private record, from a fly-leaf of a Bible of Alolibamah (Bates) Snow, now [1914] in the possession of Mrs. Barrett Hamilton of Battle Creek, Mich.

P.R.8. - private record, from a Rose family Bible, now [1914] in the possession of Miles J. Rose of Granville.

q.v. - which see; whom see

rec. - recorded

s. - son

Sr. - senior

w. - week; wife

wid. - widow

widr. - widower

y. - year

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