Excerpt from History of Oxford, Vol. 1: Church Records, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Etc Two or three memories may sometimes reach back a hundred and fifty or two hundred years, but the aged sires and matrons whose fathers told them what their grandsires saw and did a century and a half ago are fast passing away. Even the old records, brown and brittle with age, are crumbling and disappearing. Three of the closely written leaves of the oldest volume of Oxford records, which evidently gave the earliest vital statistics of the ...
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Excerpt from History of Oxford, Vol. 1: Church Records, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Etc Two or three memories may sometimes reach back a hundred and fifty or two hundred years, but the aged sires and matrons whose fathers told them what their grandsires saw and did a century and a half ago are fast passing away. Even the old records, brown and brittle with age, are crumbling and disappearing. Three of the closely written leaves of the oldest volume of Oxford records, which evidently gave the earliest vital statistics of the parish, are gone, while others are so worn as not to be fully decipherable. Old documents are destroyed by accident or scattered far and wide by the migration of families. In view of this, and to bring these matters into convenient form for reference and preservation, the following pages have been compiled. The original parish records are in two volumes, one of which was kept by the pastor and contained a record of such matters as came under his direction, and the other by the clerk of the society, containing a record of the society meetings and of such business as the laws of the colony reserved to laymen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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