Vital Records of the Town of Auburn, (Formerly Ward), Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1850 / With the Inscriptions from the Old Burial Grounds

Collected and arranged by
FRANKLIN P. RICE.
WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS: PUBLISHED BY FRANKLIN P. RICE, Trustee of the Fund.
1900.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRINTED AND NUMBERED.
No. 133.
In Memory of
IN WHOSE HONOR THE TERRITORY OF AUBURN WAS FIRST NAMED, AND OF
The First Minister of the Town.
In this work of bringing original material into form for quick reference and practical use, the list of Births, Marriages and Deaths of a place should first be secured and printed, as personal records are the real and important foundation of local history.
—Extract from letter conferring Trusteeship of Systematic History Fund.
The Records of Auburn have a close and important relation to those of Worcester, Leicester, Sutton and Oxford, towns prominent in the history of the early settlement of central Massachusetts. Especially are these Records supplementary to the Town Records of Worcester, which have been edited and printed in full by the Trustee of the Systematic History Fund, and they may be considered in reality a continuation of the work which was comprehended in a plan formed by him for the practical development of the original historical material of this section.