It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.
The treasure today is the birth certificate for Hattie Louisa Hildreth in 1857 in Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts:
I obtained this birth certificate by postal mail from the Northborough town clerk's office on 13 September 1994.
Here is the transcription of the birth certificate (handwritten parts in italics, form lines underlined):
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
COPY OF RECORD OF BIRTH
TOWN OF NORTHBOROUGH
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am the clerk of the Town of
Northborough that as such I have custody of the records of birth required by
law to be kept in my office; that among such records is one relating to the birth of
HATTIE LOUISA HILDRETH
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 NOVEMBER 28, 1857
Place of Birth NORTHBOROUGH, MA
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FATHER MOTHER
Name EDWARD HILDRETH Maiden Name SOPHIA HILDRETH
Residence NORTHBOROUGH, MA Residence NORTHBOROUGH, MA
Place of Birth MASSACHUSETTS Place of Birth MASSACHUSETTS
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Date of Record: JANUARY 15, 1858 Volume 2 Page 28 Record 17
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And I do certify that the foregoing is a true copy from said records.
Witness my hand and seal of said Town of Northborough on
this 13TH day of SEPTEMBER 19 94
{ seal } Hillary Hamilton
Northborough Town Clerk
The source citation for this birth record is:
Northborough, Massachusetts, Copy of Record of Birth, Hattie Louisa Hildreth; citing Volume 2, Page 28, Record 17 (1858), Town Clerk's Office, Northborough, Mass. (document dated 13 September 1994).
The only obvious errors in this record are the mother's maiden name - it was Sophia Newton, not Sophia Hildreth; and her birth place should have been Vermont if other records (marriage death, census) are correct.
Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) married Frederick Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874, and is one of my great-grandparents.
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1 comment:
I was looking for a birth certificate which was too old. The time was like 1900 and around of it but I did not find it in my place and in Worcester County Birth Certificate there has the birth certificate from 1857 which is really surprising.
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