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EXPLANATIONS
1. WREN places other th2n Chilmark and Massachusetts are named in the original records1
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
abi. -- about
b. -- born
ch. -- child
chn. -- children
Co. -- county
d. --daughter; died; day
Dea. -- deacon dup. Ä duplicate entry G.R. gravestone record
h. -- husband hrs. Ä hours inf Ä infant
int. -- publishment of intention of marriage
Jr. -- junior m. Ä married; month prob. Ä 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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