INDEX
VITAL RECORDS OF GILL,
MASSACHUSETTS, TO THE YEAR 1850

PUBLISHED BY THE
NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY,
AT THE CHARGE OF THE EDDY TOWN-RECORD FUND. BOSTON, MASS.,
1904.

[Transcribed by Dave Swerdfeger]

BIRTHS, ABBOTT to WRISLY & UNIDENTIFIED MARRIAGES, ABBY to YONGS DEATHS - ALLEN to WYART This publication is issued under the authority of a vote passed by the New England Historical Genealogical Society, 6 November, 1901 as follows: Voted: The sum of $20,000 from the bequest of the late Henry Eddy, be set aside as a special fund to be called the Eddy Twon 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 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 Ernst Woods. THE TOWN OF GILL, Franklin County (formerly in Hampshire County, until 1811), was established September 28, 1793, from a part of Green-field. February 28, 1795, a part of Northfield was annexed to Gill. March 149 1805, the island called Great Island was annexed to Gill after April 1, 1800. Population by Census : 1800 (U.S.), 700; 1810 (U.S.), 762; 1820 (U.S.), 800 ; 1830 (US.), 864; 1840 (U.S.), 798 ; 1850 (U.S.), 754; 1855 (State), 732 ; 1860 (U.S.), 683 ; 1865 (State), 635 ; 1870 (U.S.), 653 ; 1875 (State), 673 ; 1880 (U.S.), 733 ; 1885 (State), 860; 1890 (U.S.), 960; 1895 (State), 1082; 1900 (U.S.), 1015. EXPLANATIONS. 1. When places other than Gill 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 birth-place of parents, in late marriage records. ABBREVIATIONS a. -- age abt. — about b. — born ch. -- child chn. -- children Co.— county d. ----daughter; day Dea. — Deacon dup. — duplicate entry G.R.— gravestone record. h. -- husband inf. — infant int. -- publishment of intention of marriage Jr. — junior m. — married; month prob.---probablymin. -- minutes rec. — recorded s.— son Sr. — senior w. — wife; week wid. -- widow widr. — widower y. -- year 1st.--first 2d.---second 3d.---third MA INDEX