The publication of these records is progressing. They are derived from gravestone, parish, church, town, old Bible, and private records, and end with the year 1849. The following list gives the towns now ready, the number of pages in each, and the price of each:
Andover, pp. 966, $10.10; Beverly, pp. 1,027, $10.75; Boxford, pp. 274, $2.90; Bradford, pp. 373, $3.90; Danvers, pp. 915, $9.75; Essex, pp. 86, $ .95; Hamilton, pp. 112, $1.20; Haverhill, pp. 827, $8.65; Ipswich, pp. 1,125, $12.75; Lynn, pp. 1,050, $10.95; Lynnfield, pp. 98, $1.10; Manchester, pp. 296, $3.15; Marblehead, pp. 1315, $13.70; Methuen, pp. 345, $3.63; Middleton, pp. 143, $1.55; Newbury, pp. 1,323, $13.75; Newburyport, in press; Saugus, pp. 81, $ .90; Topsfield, pp. 258, $2.75; Wenham, pp. 227, $2.40.
[1]. See Perley Family History and Genealogy, pages 15, 19.
[2]. See M. V. B. Perley’s Ipswich History in J. W. Lewis’s History of Essex County, Mass., Vol. I, page 626.
[3]. In 1908 or 1909 a Dutch woman in Pennsylvania was charged in court with the misdemeanor of casting a spell on a cow, so that the cow gave no milk. The woman was fined $5 and ten days in jail.
[4]. Caldwell’s Antiquarian Papers quote Sewell: “May 19, 1701, was buried Mr. James How, a good man, aged 104 years. He died, I think, Lord’s day night, just about the time the news of the King’s death was brought from Medera.” King William died Sunday, March 8, 1701-2, O.S.; Sunday, March 8, 1702, J.S.; or March 19, 1702, N.S.]