We have discussed this before but at that time I only had a link to a Jay Mack Holbrook who has a 23 page micro-fiche on the vital records of Orange 1767 - 1891. So we know that somehow or some way vitals were kept for the town village, whatever it was. Mr. Holbrook apparently lives in Oxford Mass.I was hoping that since there are vitals that maybe there was a church. I don't know what church or if it was a church in one of the other parts of the new town. Since we know that Orange was made up of parts of three or more towns do you think that maybe I should look there? What I am looking for is the marriage of Stephen King and Sarah Demom of New Salem married in Orange 18 November 1784. The vital record that I have found gives the date and adds that both of these people were "OF NEW SALEM". If this is the case will I or should I be looking in New Salem? or one of the other parts of the towns that Orange was made up of at that time and if this is the case where will I find the vitals and the church records if they are of the older towns. What I am really looking for is the names of Stephen King's parents. I believe that his father would be William King (son of Jonathan and Sarah (Cooke) King of Salem and Sutton respectively. At some point a Rufus King of Yonkers had tried to link William King to Mary Andrew daughter of Captain Nathaniel and Mary (Higginson) Andrew of Salem. The problem with this is that the William King who actually married Mary Andrew was a first cousin son of Samuel and Widow Elizabeth Barton born in 1729 and this Mary died in 1759 while the second wife of my William had the children Amos in 1756, Sarah in 1759, Jonathan in 1761, and Stephen in about 1765 at Shutesbury but probably raised or came back to New Salem at some date before 1790 as did all the other children of William King who came back as a widower to live again with Amos Foster his deceased sister Abigail King's husband who had remarried after her death. I have them pretty well traced but I don't have the name of the four King children's mother or when she died either. Thanks Daniel > The Church in Orange at that time, is not the North Orange Community > Church. > I do not know if they have any records themselves, as Orange in that time > was in a twilight zone. When the the Orange church broke from the Athol > church and established themselves, the norm would be to found a new town. > After all, land was taken from Athol, Royalston, and Warwick to form the > new > parish. However, at that time, each town had one representitive in the > Massachusetts General Courty (legislature). The eastern towns felt that > their votes would be deluted by the creation of towns in the western part > of > the commonwelath. Therefore until 1810, Orange was a district, not a > town. > As such, it had no town functions, thought existed as a town. Thus, there > were no vital records collected, nor a representitive to the General Court > appointed. The vital records of this period, can be found in the later > Orange records, and in the records of the three towns Orange was formed > from. > > Regards, > Rob Roy > > -----Original Message----- > From: mafrankl-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:mafrankl-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of mckenzie_market@mckenzievalleymarket.com > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 2:52 PM > To: mafrankl@rootsweb.com > Subject: [MAFRANKL] Church records for Orange 1784 to 1800 > > Would anyone know of where to locate the church records and name of the > church located in Orange, Franklin County, Mass. I believe that Orange > would have still been part of Old Hanpshire County in this time frame. > > Daniel > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >