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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 251: 1777 Marriage Record of Zachariah Hildreth and Elizabeth Keyes in Townsend, Mass.

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  1777 marriage record of Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1828) and his first wife, Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793) in Townsend, Massachusetts:



The snippet for the Hildreth-Keyes marriage is on the right-hand page:


The transcription of the entry is:

"Sept 1 [1777] Zachariah Hildreth with Elisabeth Keys both of Westford"

The source citation for this entry is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 May 2012), "Townsend Births, Marriages, and Deaths," page 338 (image 793 of 1351): Zachariah Hildreth and Elisabeth Keys entry.

The Townsend Vital Record book also lists this marriage:


The source citation for this record is:

Henry C. Hallowell (editor), Vital Records of Townsend, Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992), Marriages, Book 1, page 23, Zachariash Hildreth and Elisabeth Keys entry.

The Westford, Massachusetts Vital Record book has the same marriage recorded as:

"HILDRETH, Zachariah [jr., int.], and Elizabeth Keyes, at Townsend, Sept. 1, 1777*"

The source citation for the Westford record is:

Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1915), Marriages, page 194, Zachariah Hildreth and Elizabeth Keyes entry.

Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1828) and Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793) are my fourth great-grandparents, throguh their son Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) who married Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810.


Copyright (c) 2015, Randall J. Seaver


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