 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1880 - 704 sider
...Bailey, 13 Allen, 541, 545. As early as 1639, it was " ordered and declared " by the General Court, " that there be records kept of the days of every marriage, birth and death of every person within this jurisdiction." 1 Mass. Col. Rec. 276. Anc. Chart. 43. In 1642, it was enacted that "the... | |
 | American Statistical Association - 1901 - 516 sider
...the general court, convened at Boston the 4th of September1, ordered and decreed, five days later,2 that " there be records kept of .... the days of every marriage, birth, and death of every person within this jurisdiction."3 The fees, which the parties bringing the certificates had to pay the recorder... | |
 | Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Division of Public Records - 1889 - 450 sider
...BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. 1639. Sept. 9. Mass- Rec.t Vol. I., p. 276. It was ordered that records be kept of the days of every marriage, birth, and death of every person within this jurisdiction. (No provision is made for the keeping of these records, unless it be by the... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Health - 1890 - 172 sider
...of vital statistics appears to have had its origin in the following act passed in 1639 : — " Item, that there be records kept ... of the days of every marriage, birth and death of every person within this jurisdiction." — Colony Laws, Chap. III., 1639. The next act having any direct sanitary... | |
 | 1894 - 498 sider
...Bailey, 18 Allen, 541, 545. As early as 1639, it was " ordered and declared" by the General Court, " that there be records kept of the days of every marriage, birth and death of every person within this jurisdiction." 1 Mass. Col. Rec. 276. Anc. Chart. 43. In 1642, it was enacted that "the... | |
 | Massachusetts, Massachusetts. State Board of Health - 1897 - 264 sider
...vital statistics appears to have had its origin in the following act, passed in 1639 : — " Item, that there be records kept ... of the days of every marriage, birth and death of every person within this jurisdiction." — Colony Laws, Chap. 111., 1639. The next act having any direct sanitary... | |
 | Frederic William Bailey - 1897 - 200 sider
...Records," by Carroll D. Wright), that as early as September 9, 1639, " It was ordered that records be kept of the days of every marriage, birth and death of every person within this jurisdiction." Mass. Rec., Vol. I, p. 276. June 14, 1642, another step was taken to secure... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams, Richard Waterman - 1900 - 364 sider
...arriving in America recognized the need of definite knowledge on this subject, and of preserving their records, which constitute the foundation stone of...birth, and death of every person in this jurisdiction". Progress in this direction during the first two centuries of the new nation's growth was slow and proportionate... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - 1900 - 1296 sider
...baptism of the living and the burial of the dead to the churches ; but by an ordinance of 1639 enacted "that there be records kept of the days of every marriage, birth, and death of every person within this jurisdiction ; " and similar statutes have been ever since in force in Massachusetts. 1... | |
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... that there be records kept of the days of every marriage, birth and death of every person within this jurisdiction;" and similar statutes have been ever since in force in Massachusetts. 
