The treasure today is the Birth Certificate for my great=grandfather, Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in Medfield, Massachusetts.
The birth certificate image:
The transcription of the record (blanks underlined, handwritten in italics):
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
COPY OF RECORD OF BIRTH
Town of Medfield
I, the undersigned, hereby verify that I am clerk of the Town of Medfield
that as such I have custody of the records of births required by law to be kept in my office; that
among such records is one relating to the birth of
Frank Walton Seaver
and that the following is a true copy of so much of said record as relates to said birth, namely:
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Date of Birth June 5, 1852 Time ----
Place of Birth Medfield, Ma
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Name of Child Frank Walton Seaver
Sex Male Color W
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FATHER MOTHER
Name Isaac Seaver Name (Maiden) Lucretia ---
Residence Medfield, Ma Residence Medfield, Ma
Place of Birth Westminster Place of Birth Medfield, Ma
Occupation Blacksmith Occupation ---
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Date of Record _________________ Date of Amendment _______________
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{ } And I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from said records
{ Seal } Witness my hand and seal of said Town of Medfield
{ } on this 19th day of March 19 91
Nancy J. Preston
Clerk
Year ___________
Vol. ___________
Page ___________
No. ____________
The source citation for this birth certificate is (using the Evidence Explained template for a Birth Certificate, local level):
Frank Walton Seaver, Copy of Record of Birth - no year, no volume, no page, no number (5 June 1852, obtained 19 March 1991), City Clerk's Office, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
I don't see any problems with this record other than the record did not state his mother's maiden name (which was Lucretia Townsend Smith). The list of births supplied by the Town Clerk to the state of Massachusetts for 1852 lists Lucretia as "Lucretia T his wife."
I obtained this birth record by postal mail in March of 1991 from the Medfield Town Clerk's office.
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