The treasure today is the 1852 marriage certificate for my great-great-grandparents, Edward Hildreth and Sophia Newton in Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
The transcription of this document is (typed information underlined, handwritten information italicized):
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
COPY OF RECORD OF MARRIAGE
TOWN OF NORTHBOROUGH
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am clerk of the Town of
Northborough that as such I have custody of the records of marriages required
by law to be kept in my office; that among such records is one relating to the
marriage of:
EDWARD HILDRETH and SOPHIA NEWTON
and that the following is a true copy of so much of said record as relates to
said marriage, namely:
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Date of Marriage DECEMBER 25, 1852
Place of Marriage NORTHBOROUGH, MA
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GROOM BRIDE
Name EDWARD HILDRETH Maiden Name SOPHIA NEWTON
Age/Birth Date 21 Age/Birth Date 18
Residence NORTHBOROUGH, MA Residence NORTHBOROUGH, MA
Number of Marriage 1ST Number of Marriage 1ST
Place of Birth TOWNSEND, MA Place of Birth VERMONT
Name of Father (NOT LISTED) HILDRETH Name of Father THOMAS NEWTON
Name of Mother NOT LISTED Name of Mother NOT LISTED
Name, Residence and Official status of person by whom married:
S.S. ASHLEY, MINISTER; NORTHBOROUGH, MA
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Date of Record: JANUARY 1, 1853 Volume 3 Page 1 Record 10
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I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from said records.
Witness my hand and seal of said Town of Northborough on
{ Seal } this 13th day of SEPTEMBER 1994
Hillary Hamilton
Northborough Town Clerk
The source citation for this document is:
Northborough, Massachusetts, Copy of Record of Marriage, Edward Hildreth and Sophia Newton; citing Volume 3, Page 1, Record 10 (1853), Town Clerk's Office, Northborough, Mass. (document dated 13 September 1994).
I received this document in 1994 by postal mail from the town clerk of Northborough.
Since this certificate was created 142 years after the marriage event, it is an official certified record of the marriage. It is a Derivative Source, with Primary Information and Direct Evidence as to the names, marriage date and place. The information was obtained by the Town Clerk from the Town Clerk's record book - Volume 3, Page 1, entry 10. I found the Town Clerk's record on Ancestry.com, but it's not the original town clerk's record - it's the list of marriages submitted in 1852 by the town clerk to the State of Massachusetts. It does provide Edward's father's name as Zachariah, his occupation as combmaker, and Sophia's father's name as Thomas J. Newton.
This is the only record I have that provides the name of Sophia Newton's father. I also have a marriage record for Sophia's brother, Thomas J. Newton, that provides his father's name and his mother's name.
Sophia (Newton) Hildreth's death record in 1923 lists her birthplace as Springfield, Vermont. In the birth and death record for her son, Clarence Hildreth (1874-1878), and the death record for her daughter, Hattie (Hildreth) Seaver in 1920, her birthplace is given as Cambridge, Vermont.
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