Family:Stephen Heald and Hessadiah Howe (1)

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Marriage[1] 1 Mar 1753 Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Rutland, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1905)
    p. 150.

    HEALD, Stephen and He[ph]z[iba]h How, March 1, 1753.
    [Note: removing the letters added to the wife's name, you get "Hezh", and given the way colonial writing was done, this probably was "Hezh" (an assumption, since we lost that detail in the publication of the record). The point being, this is consistent with the name given in the birth and death and children's birth records, namely [<--pun intended] Hessadiah. The strange abbreviated form was incorrectly changed to a name assumed by the compiler. Special note: the reverse record, p. 155, doesn't bother with signalling the added letters, but asserts that the name is simply Hephzibah. The same parents had a daughter named Hephzibah, but her age did not match (she would have only been 11 at the time of the marriage) and she m. Princeton 1765 Joseph How.]