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Vital Records of Rockingham, Vermont
From the Beginning of the Records to January 1, 1845
Compiled from the Town Records by THOMAS BELLOWS PECK
pub. George E. Littlefield, Boston, 1908


         PREFACE:
         
         The first eight-six pages of this volume are reprinted from
       The Vermont Antiquarian, the publication of which was discon-
       tinued in March, 1905. The remaining one hundred and twenty
       pages have not before appeared in print.
       
         The volume supplements the "Records of the First Church of
       Rockingham, Vermont," published in 1902, and the two volumes
       taken togehter, comprise the vital statistics of the town of
       Rockingham from the settlement to January 1, 1845, as far as
       they were recorded by the early ministers and town clerks.
       
         In addition to the ordinary vital records, other records,
       such as "Religious tests," "Warnings out of town," the "Free-
       man's Roll," and lists of Revolutionary soliders, have been
       included on account of their historical value.
       
         "Warnings out of town" are of especial interest, because
       they furnish the approximate dates of the arrival of families
       in town and give the Christian name of the wife, and the names
       of all the children at the time of arrival.
       
         This volume is offered as the attempt of a volunteer to do
       for a town in Vermont the work which the "New England Historic
       Genealogical Society" is doing in a systematic way for the
       towns in Massachusetts. For convenience of reference the Church
       Records referred to above have been bound with the present
       volume.
       
                                      THOMAS B. PECK
                                      
       Walpole, N. H., Nov. 1, 1907
       
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