Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1684 Death Record of Martha (Russell) Gleason in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony

 It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance 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 1684 death record of Martha Gleason in the Sudbury, Massachusetts vital record book:

The Martha Gleason death record is the 3rd record down the page: 

The transcription of this record is:

"[GLEASON] Martha, w. Joseph, Mar. 2 [16]83-4. M.R."

The source citation for this record is:

Sudbury, Massachusetts Town Records, Martha Gleason death entry, 2 March 1683/4; imaged, "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2495/images/41254_265613-00297), "Sudbury > Vital Record Transcripts," page 305, image 297 of 324.

This is a Derivative Source record for the death of Martha Gleason, since it is a compilation by surname of an earlier town record.  It is Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the death date and place. The original source records are probably Sudbury town records for the time period that are either lost or unavailable to digitize, but were transcribed at a later time.

Martha (Russell) Gleason (1647-1684) is the daughter of William and Martha (--?--) Russell of Cambridge, who married Joseph Gleason (1640-1715) in 1667.  They are my 8th great-grandparents, through their daughter Susannah Gleason (1675-1756) who married Samuel Willis (1675-1758) in 1703 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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