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References
- ↑ Marriages, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917)
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Sarah, and Joseph Winslow, Dec. 24, 1719
- The vital records of Salem show an unlikely frequency of births in this family: namely Sarah bp. 19 1726-7, Sarah b. 17 Mar 1727-8, Joseph Mar -- (bp. 23) 1728-9, Joseph b. Mar 20 Mar 1729-30, Mary b. 13 Mar 1730-31. Such a pattern, all in the same month of the year, every year for such a long stretch, seems probably the result of errors. Of all months, March offers the most challenges in assigning double-dating correctly, and so this could easily happen. It seems almost certain that Sarah's two dates represent the same birth recorded in two different years, and it seems quite possible Joseph's two dates do as well. There are no death records found in this period to justify the re-use of names. But assuming Sarah, b. 1726-7, Joseph 1728-9 and Mary 1730-31 are the only real children, the resulting list would create the every two year pattern that is more typical, and that is continued by this family when the other children are added on.
Source:Babson, John J. Notes and Additions to the History of Gloucester (1876), p. 95, shows Sarah 1728, Joseph 1729, Joseph again 1730, and Mary 1731, meaning he threw out one Sarah record (probably the wrong one, considering sibling spacing: the previous child was born 1724 so 1726/1727 would be a very typical spacing), but he kept all the other records verbatim. The will of the father [Essex 30180] only names 4 daughters Sarah Hales, Mary Stearns, Hannah Prestly, and Martha Pownal decd., and his death in 1780 means they were all adults, so there was no guardian document giving the ages of his children.
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