The treasures today are the 1790 marriage records of Nathan Gates and Abigail Knowlton in Gardner and Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts:
There are at least three pertinent records:
1) The marriage intentions record from the Gardner Town Records:
A snip of the marriage intentions record:
The transcription of this record is:
"Nathan Gates of Gardner and Abigail Knowlton
of Westminster Weare Enterd May 9th 1790"
The source citation for this entry is:
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 December 2014), Gardner, Publishments, page 2 (image 2 of 45), Nathan Gates and Abigial Knowlton intentions.
The Gardner Vital Records book also has an entry for this date, noting "intentions.":
2) The Westminster Vital Records book record:
The snip of the marriage record is:
"Nathan [Gates] and Abigail Knowlton, June 17, 1790"
The source citation for this record is:
Systematic History Fund, Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, Mass.: F.P. Rice, 1908), Marriages, page 142: Nathan Gates and Abigail Knowlton entry.
3) The Westminster town record of the marriage:
The snip of the record is:
The transcription of the marriage record is:
"June 19 1790 Nathan Gates of Gardner to Abigail Knolton of Westmin."
The source citation for this record is:
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 December 2014), Westminster, Court Records, with Births, Marriages and Deaths, page 282 (penned, image 146 of 177), Nathan Gates and Abigail Knolton entry.
In summary, I have a marriage intentions record in Gardner (home of Nathan Gates) for 9 May 1790; I also have marriage records in Westminster (home of Abigail Knowlton) for 17 June 1790 (published vital records book) and for 19 June 1790 (handwritten town records).
Which marriage entry should I use in my database? I have entered separate events for the Marriage Intentions on 9 May 1790 in Gardner and the Marriage on 19 June 1790 in Westminster. I chose the latter because the record with that date that I have is handwritten, and therefore was entered nearer to the event than the 1908 publication of the Westminster Vital Records book with the 17 June 1790 date. However, I don't know if the handwritten entry is the Original Source - there may be an earlier town record book entry at the time of the event. The difference is only two days, so this is not a significant difference in my judgment.
Nathan Gates (1767-1830) and Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855) are my fourth great-grandparents, through their daughter, Abigail Gates (1797-1867) who married Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) in 1817.
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