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From: Bruce Bardes <>
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Researching Essex/Ipswich
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 17:15:37 -0400
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Hello, Beth --
Several years ago we visited the Ipswich Library. They had a gold mine of info about the genealogy of Ipswich families. There is a large collection of family group sheets, collected into loose leaf binders according to surname; maybe there is a "correct" name, but I've used the term "Darling papers," after the man who compiled them. My recollection is that the Darling papers (and other genealogy books dealing
with the period you're researching) treat the present town of Essex as Chebacco, which was part of Ipswich.
There was some remodeling after our visit, which I presume is now complete. It might be worth a phone call to confirm that the library, and its genealogy collection, are open. If so, you'll probably find your time there well spent.
You are having problems with the same period that gave us all kinds of trouble. The four families that have given us the most grief were Lufkin, Lord (both in Ipswich/Gloucester area), Brown (Lynn) and Robinson (Vermont>Maine). We still haven't sorted out the Brown and Robinson lines.
Bruce Bardes

Elizabeth Gorrill wrote:

> On my visit back east this summer, I'd like to track down some birth and death info for some relatives who were born in the Chebacco area between the Rev. War and early 1800's. The vitals are not listed in the "tan books" or cd. It seems as if all their predecessors were documented back into the mid 1600's but perhaps the turbulent times pushed record keeping onto the back burner, where it stayed for awhile?
>
> My questions are:
> 1. Are the tan books/Early Mass. Vitals comprehensive in recording town records? Is it worth searching further or would it be a waste of my already short research time?
> 2. For the above era, would records be in Essex or Ipwich?
> 3. Does anyone know, offhand, the summer hours for the clerks office in Essex and Ipswich?
> Any other suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Beth Gorrill
> Researching: Jones, Quimby, Lufkin, Knowlton, Andrews, Wallis,


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