Thursday, April 21, 2016

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 310: List of Children of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Prescott) Hildreth

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 list of the children born to Zachariah and Elizabeth (Prescott) Hildreth in the Westford, Massachusetts town record book:


The transcription of this record (on the right-hand page of the image above) is:

Zechariah Hildreth Son of Zechariah Hildreth and Elisabeth
his wife was born January the 13, 1754
Elisebeth Hildreth Daughter of Zechariah Hildreth
and Elisabeth his wife was born October 18, 1755
Hannah Hildreth Daughter of Zechariah Hildreth & Elisabeth
his wife was born January 31, 1758
Timothy Hildreth and Esther Hildreth Son and Daughter of
Zechariah Hildreth & Elisabeth his wife was born April the 10, 1760
James Hildreth Son of Zechariah Hildreth and Elisabeth
his wife was born March the 7, 1762
Lucy Hildreth Daughter of Zechariah Hildreth and Elisabeth
his wife was born January the 18, 1764
Jonas Hildreth Son of Zechariah Hildreth and Elisabeth
his wife was born June the 25, 1766
Ruth Hildreth Daughter of Zechariah Hildreth and Elisabeth
his wife was born May the 8, 1768
Evy Hildreth Daughter of Zechariah Hildreth and Elizabeth his
Wife was born November the 3d, 1771
Jesse Hildreth Son of Zechariah Hildreth and Elizabeth his
Wife was born September 22'd, 1773
hita Hildreth Daughter of Zechariah Hildreth and Elizabeth
his wife was Born September 24'th, 1775

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Westford > Births, Marriages, and Deaths," page 65 (image 92 of 175), list of children of Zechariah and Elisabeth Hildreth; citing original data from Massachusetts town and city clerk records in Jay and Delene Holbrook, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records (Provo, Utah : Holbrook Research Institute), Microfiche collection.

This town record book is one of several for the town of Westford, which was formed from Chelmsford in 1728.  The birth records in this record book are listed by family - all of the children of a couple are listed on one page.  This may be an Original source if these births were recorded at the time of the events.  However, the first 9 of these 12 birth records are in the same hand over 15 years, but this is probably a Derivative Source - meaning that there was an earlier record book that recorded the births as they occurred, and not in an organized manner by family.

There are two other entries for these births - one is for a Westford town record book that has 1750 images, including those from the town record book above (now on image 92 of 1750), plus a separate listing of the records on another image (image 264 of 1750); the second is from the published town vital records with the names alphabetized.  

Zachariah and Elizabeth (Prescott) Hildreth are my 5th great-grandparents; I am descended from their first child, Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829), who married Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793) in 1777.

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1 comment:

mxtodis123 said...

Both the Prescott's and Hildreth's are my ancestors--Hannah Hildreth and Reuben Leighton and Dorothy Prescott and James Hildreth. Thank you for this information.
Mary