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This is an index for deaths covering the years 1796 to 1844.
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Index to deaths in Wayland, commencing May 1843
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Index to deaths in Wayland, commencing May 1843
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This is an index for deaths covering the years 1796 to 1844.
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["1843–1860"]
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1843
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English
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10-12
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Wayland Town Clerk
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Wayland Massachusetts Historical Town Records (AKA Sudbury, Massachusetts (1638-1780), East Sudbury, Massachusetts (1780-1835), & Cochituate Massachusetts (1848 to date))
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Vital records
Genealogy
History
History--Sources
Recording and registration
Death
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Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
United States
Wayland
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United States
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Massachusetts
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Middlesex
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Wayland
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Records include: Adams family; Adlington famly; Allen family; Ames family; Austin family; Bachelder family; Baldwin family; Bannister family; Barney family; Belcher family; Bemis family; Bennett family; Bideman family; Bond family; Bradshaw family; Braman family; Bridge family; Brigham family; Broad family; Bullard family; Bullen family; Butterfield family; Cain family; Careman family; Carernan family; Carpenter family; Carter family; Carver family; Chaloner family; Clapp family; Clark family; Clement family; Connelly family; Coombs family; Cooper family; Corliss family; Corman family; Cruden family; Cutting family; Damon family; Dean family; Devan family; Doland family; Drake family; Draper family; Drury family; Dudley family; Erwin family; Fairbanks family; Farmer family; Finnegan family; FitzPatrick family; Flagg family; Forbes family; Francis family; Fuller family; Gail family; Garland family; Gates family; Gleason family; Goddard family; Goodel family; Gould family; Green family; Hammond family; Hapgood family; Harlow family; Harrington family; Haven family; Hawes family; Hayden family; Haynes family; Heard family; Hemingway family; Hills family; Hoar family; Holmes family; Howe family; Hudson family; Jameson family; Jennings family; Johnson family; Lawrence family; Leadbeater family; Leonard family; Lee family; Loker family; Maglin family; Mann family; Merriam family; Merrill family; Moore family; Moulton family; Newman family; Noyes family; Parker family; Ordway family; Oliver family; Parks family; Parmenter family; Paul family; Perkins family; Reed family; Reeves family; Rice family; Rider family; Roby family; Russell family; Rutter family; Salsbury family; Saunders family; Sawin family; Schleicher family; Searles family; Sears family; Shay family; Sherman family; Sherry family; Shortcief family; Shortlief family; Shortliff family; Smith family; Stanton family; Stearns family; Stone family; Stratton family; Thomas family; Thompson family; Train family; Travis family; Twist family; Tyler family; Underwood family; Walker family; Ward family; Ware family; Warren family; Waterman family; Wellington family; Whitney family; Whittemore family; Wight family; Willis family; Wood family; Wyman family.
Sudbury Plantation was settled in 1838 and incorporated in 1639. By 1651, boundaries between Sudbury and Watertown were established. In 1701, boundaries were established between Sudbury and Framingham. The original plantation was divided into two separate towns on April 10, 1780. The western portion retained the original name of Sudbury while the original geographical location of the town, was called East Sudbury by order of the General Court. The name of Wayland was adopted in 1835. The town honored Dr. Francis Wayland, fourth president of Brown University, and author on moral philosophy, intellectual philosophy, and political economy, by choosing his name for their own.
The death records can be found in the printed versions entitled Vital records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 and Vital records of Wayland, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Both volumes can be located on Internet Archives for keyword searching: https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofsu00sudbur and https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028839657#page/n5/mode/2up
If a surname cannot be found in the printed version, check the handwritten book pages. Remember surnames are not necessarily spelled the exact same way year to year, town clerk to town clerk or generation to generation. Try various spelling forms when searching any surname. Transcribers may have a difficult time interpreting various forms of scrip, so check to see if an "n" is transcribed as "rr", "u", "m" or an “e”, “o” and an “a” could not be differentiated.
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