قراءة كتاب Vital Records of the Town of Auburn, (Formerly Ward), Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1850 With the Inscriptions from the Old Burial Grounds

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Vital Records of the Town of Auburn, (Formerly Ward), Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1850 With the Inscriptions from the Old Burial Grounds

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Rice Franklin P

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said precinct was at first Erected, and will subject the said persons to an inconvenience that they had a right to Expect an Exemption from by the act of the General assembly & as the said persons who were first Exempted from belonging to S^d Precinct and who are still unwilling to be set off to S^d new Town and their Estates all lay upon the side of S^d new Town next to Worcester, this Town are humbly of opinion that a line may be run between the Town of Worcester & the S^d new Town Leaving the S^d persons & their Estates to the Town of Worcester without any Inconveniency to Either of the said Towns, which if complied with the Town of Worcester are Content.

Nathⁿ Baldwin	}	Comittee."
Nathan Perry	}
David Bigelow	}

On the 2d of February, 1778, in Worcester Town Meeting, it was voted to choose two persons to meet the Committee of the General Court, to view the proposed new township, and to fix the lines and boundaries; and on the 23d of the same month, it was voted to remonstrate against the proceedings of said Committee, and the lines established between the towns, with what effect it does not appear.

On the 10th of the following April the Precinct was incorporated as a Town and named Ward.

February 17th, 1837, the name of the Town was changed to Auburn. This was influenced largely, it is said, by the confusion in writing the names Ward and Ware by those not familiar with the two places.

The Order establishing the South Precinct or Parish of Worcester comprises the names of those who were the first residents of the new town, and the founders of the prominent families, the names of whose immediate progeny and later descendants appear in the Records embodied in this volume:

In Council, June 19, 1773, ordered that Gershom Rice, Israel Stevens, David Bancroft, Jonathan Stone, Daniel Boyden, Jacob Stevens, Thomas Drury, Thomas Drury, Jr., Henry Gale, Wm. Bancroft, Jas. Nichols, Darius Boyden, Jas. Hart, Thos. Baird, Jas. Hart, Jr., Thos. Baird, Jr., Oliver Curtis, Comfort Rice, Elizabeth Boyden, Phebe Bancroft, Jno. Boyden, Daniel Bancroft, Chas. Hart, Jas. Nichols, Peter Boyden, of Worcester; Benjamin Carter, Chas. Richardson, Timothy Carter, Phineas Rice, Benjamin Carter, Jr., Rachel Buck, Daniel Roper, Gershom Bigelow, Gershom Bigelow, Jr., Peter Hardy, Daniel Cummings, Charles Richardson, Jr., of Sutton; Samuel Eddy, Levi Eddy, Peter Jenison, Ruth Stone, Jesse Stone, Isaac Pratt, Abraham Fitts, Alexander Nichols, David Gleason, of Oxford; John Crowl, Jr., Andrew Crowl, Jonathan Phillips, John Hart, Thomas Scott, William Yong, Jonathan Stone, of Leicester; be and hereby are, with their Families and Estates, erected into a Precinct, and shall enjoy all the powers and privileges which other Precincts in this Province by Law enjoy; and it is further ordered that all other persons (with their Families and Estates) living in the towns of Worcester, Leicester and Oxford, not further than three miles (as the roads are now trod) from the Place hereinafter fixed for building the meeting-house upon, together with all such others in Sutton that live not further than one mile and a half from said place, who shall signify their desire to belong to said Precinct by lodging their names in the Secretary's office within nine months from this date, be and hereby are Incorporated and made a part of the Precinct aforesaid—Ordered that the spot for erecting the meeting-house upon be at the following place (viz)., at an Oak stump with stones upon it, Standing on the Westerly side of the County road leading from Worcester to Oxford, near the Centre of two acres of Land which Thomas Drury conveyed to Jonathan Stone, Daniel Boyden and David Bancroft; the said two acres of land lieth on the gore of land which was annexed to the town of Worcester.

Those who signified their desire to be included in the new division were:

Samuel Holman, Gershom Rice, Jr., Israel Stone, Wm. Parker, Joseph Phillips, Samuel Learned, Israel Phillips, Jacob Work, Jonathan Cutler, David Stone, John Harwood, Thomas Gleason, William Phips, Isaac Putnam, Joseph Gleason, Jonas Bancroft, Elisha Livermore, Gardner Chandler (for his land within the limits) Nathaniel Scot, David Bates, Nathan Patch, David Richards.

Population at Different Periods.—1790, 473; 1810, 540; 1830, 690; 1850, 879; 1880, 1317. The State Census of 1895 gives the number as 1598.

The Area of Auburn is about 10,000 acres.

Auburn Records.

Auburn Births,

To the end of the year 1850.

ACKLEY.

Albert-Eugene, s. Almerin-L. and Clarissa, Nov. 4, 1846.
Almerin-Lorenzo, s. Almerin-L. and Clarissa, Nov. 27, 1837. At Palmer.
Clarissa-Maria, d. Almerin-L. and Clarissa, Sept. 20, 1835. At Plymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
James-Fernando, s. Almerin-L. and Clarissa, Dec. 17, 1844.
John-Augustus, s. Almerin-L and Clarissa, Aug. 23, 1849.
——, s. William-C. and Rachel, Nov. 25, 1845.

ADAMS.

Fitts, s. Reuben and Sophia, July 16, 1815.
Henry-Parkhurst, s. Oliver and ——, Sept. 23, 1819.
Marnilla, d. Reuben and Sophia, April 12, 1818.
Mary, d. Paris Bacon and Joel Adams, reputed father, Dec. 7, 1799.
Mary-Huntington, d. Alvan-T. and Bethiah-L., June 26, 1838.
Polly, d. Reuben and Sophia, Aug. 26, 1816.

ALDRICH.

——, s. Warren-L. and Sarah-B., Sept. 3, 1846.
——, d. Warren-L. and Sarah-B., Aug. —, 1847.

ALLEN.

Amos-Smith, s. Charles and Waty, July 30, 1827.
Charles, s. Charles and Waty, Aug. 23, 1828.
William, s. Charles and Waty, Feb. 16, 1830.

ALVERSON.

Louisa, d. George and Ruth, Aug. 18, 1826.
Ruth-Maria, d. George and Ruth, June 14, 1828.
Susan-Experience, d. George and Ruth, May 20, 1822.

BACON.

Betsey, d. Jonathan and Molly, July 22, 1786.
Jonathan, s. Jonathan and Molly, May 29, 1784.
Sumner, s. Jonathan and Molly, Jan. 22, 1790.

BAILEY.

Daniel, s. Isaac and Betsey, March 19, 1785.
Isaac, s. Isaac and Betsey, May 25, 1788.
Jacob-Whitman, s. Isaac, Jr. and Jane, April 29, 1811.

BAIRD.

Azubah, d. Thomas and Mehitable, Jan. 4. 1772.
Azubah, d. Thomas, Jr. and Polly, April 3, 1792.
Betsey, d. John and Sarah, Jan. 8, 1774. At Worcester.
David, s. John and Sarah, Oct. 5, 1785.
Earll, s. John and Sarah, June 8, 1769. At Townsend.
Frank-Theodore, s. Samuel-E. and Mary-Ann, July 17, 1846.
Hannah, d. John and Sarah, Feb. 1, 1780. At Worcester.
Jane-Relief, d. Thomas, Jr. and Sally, Jan. 27, 1824.
John, s. John and Sarah, June 28, 1771. At Worcester.
Lucinda, d. John and Sarah, June 30, 1782.
Lydia, d. John and Sarah, Dec. 16, 1777. At Worcester.
Mehitable, d. Thomas and Mehitable, March 25, 1778.
Molly, d. John and Sarah, June 9, 1775. At Worcester.
Patty, d. Thomas, Jr. and Polly, Jan. 20, 1790.
Polly-Day, d. Thomas, Jr. and Polly, Jan. 11, 1804.
Relief, d. Thomas, Jr. and Polly, Feb. 27, 1795.
Sally, d. John and Sarah, Feb. 28, 1768. At Townsend.
Samuel-Eddy, s. Thomas, Jr. and Sarah, Sept 27, 1821.
Sophia, d. Thomas, Jr. and Polly, July 24, 1806.
Thaddeus, s. John and Sarah, March 11, 1784.