----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Sullivan" <KSullivan@hvc.rr.com> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 7:45 PM > Kathy (and Essex Rootsfolks, too, since the original query went there), > > Gosh, I didn't think I'd find anything so fast, but here it is. > > In The American Genealogist, Vol. 16, p. 23, I found (exact transcription): > > "Concord (Mass.) Marriages, 1724 by Clarence S. Brigham, Director, American > Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. > > The manuscript Diary of the Rev. John Whiting for 1724, the leaves being > removed from a 1724 Almanac, contains nine marriages in Concord, Mass., > which do not appear in the Concord Vital Records. The only marriages > recorded by the Town during the period 1720 to 1728 were those performed by > Justice James Minott or Justice Houghton. > > Feb. 5 Amos Rice, Brookfield, and Mary Brabrook, Concord > Mch 31 Jonathan Davis and Abigail Brown > June 4 David Taylor and [Ruth] Davis > June 17 David Russell and Hannah Brown > July 9 Timothy Minott and Mary Brooks > Oct. 21 Enoch Stratton and Rebecca Fletcher > Oct. 29 James Wheeler and Mary Colburn > Nov. 2 Nathan Whitney and Sarah Goble > Nov. 5 Ebenezer Hubbard and Mary Billings" > > > Given the esteem in which TAG is held, I'd say it's a pretty durn good > source. And it explains why the marriage of Ebenezer Hubbard and Mary > Billings couldn't be found in the Concord VR. > > I love it when a plan comes together. > > Karen Sullivan > Visit Alden Kindred of America at http://www.alden.org/ > ------ > Once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked > other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own > thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one > generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves > shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cockcrow.-- G.M.Trevelyan > ------------------------------------------------------- > > >