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	Bridgewater  Massachusetts

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Nahum Mitchell
History of Bridgewater

Abbreviations

Abbreviations taken from page 83, the first page of the Family Registers:

* — added to a name or date of a birth, signifies that the person died in youth or without issue

a. — before a date, stands for about

b. — born

d. — death or died

D. — daughter

Ds. — daughters

gra. — graduate or graduated

m. — married

s. — son

ss. — sons

w. — wife

B. U. — Brown University

E. B. — East Bridgewater

H. U. — Harvard University

N. B. — North Bridgewater

S. P. — South Parish of Bridgewater, now Bridgewater

Tit. — Titicut

W. B. — West Bridgewater

Note from page 8:

   The reader is informed that besides the abbreviations noticed at the head of the Register, the initials only of the neighboring and adjoining towns are often used; as A. for Abington, C. for Canton, E. for Easton, H. for Halifax, M. for Middleborough, P. for Pembroke, R. for Raynham, S. or St. for Stoughton, T. for Taunton, &c.

Other abbreviations:

æ. — age; aged

S. B. — South Bridgewater or Titicut