Shelburne Vital Records to 1850

Location:: Deerfield, MA
Description:: Early Massachusetts communities tried (not always fully successfully) to record all births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths of town residents, enslaved and free. During the late 1800s, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Essex Institute (now part of the Peabody Essex Museum), and several towns collaborated to collect and begin publishing the extant vital records of over 200 Massachusetts towns and cities including the vital records of Shelburne, Massachusetts, from 1768-1849. Originally part of the northwest section of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Shelburne was organized as a district in 1768 and incorporated as a town in 1775.

Table of contents

Entry	Date	AA Name(s)	$	£	s	p	f	id
• Philemer, Amarilla, d. Romulus, "negro, bp. June 24, 1792. C.R.I.	1792 Jun 24	Amarilla Fenimore,						824
• Philemer, Louis, d. Romas bp. Jan. 21, 1798. C.R.I.	1798 Jan 21	,						825

Entry	Date	AA Name(s)	id
• Finemer, Romulus, "colored, s. Romulus [and] Rozannah G.R.4], Oct. 26, ...	1789 Oct 26	Romulus Fenimore, Jr.,	1554
• Way, Rachel, "colored" [Indian woman, C.R.I.], servant, b. Dighton, w....	1843 Jul 10	Rachel Power Way,	1565
• Young, Peter, "a colored man" ["slave once, pauper, C.R.I.], widr. ...	1848 May 10	Peter Young,	1666

Entry	Date	AA Name(s)	id
Chloe [Silliman] m. Noble Spencer 1794.	1794	Chloe Spencer Freeman,	1555
Chloe [Silliman] m. Noble Spencer 1794.	1794	Noble Spencer,	1556
• Spencer, Susannah and Samuel Thompson, both negroes, of S[helburne],...	1810 Jan 16	Susannah Spencer Thompson,	1557
• In 1810 a Susannah Spencer marries Samuel Thompson, both residents of...	1810 Jan 16	Susannah Spencer Thompson,	1558
• Jackson, Sarah, and David Sheldon, both negros, of S[helburne], Jan. 1,...	1811 Jan 1	David Sheldon,	1559
• Humphrey, Lydia, and John Moody, both negroes, Jan. 10, 1815	1815 Jan 10	Lydia Humphrey Moody,	1560
• Humphrey, Lydia, and John Moody, both negroes, Jan. 10, 1815	1815 Jan 10	John Moody,	1561
• Power, Rachel and Ralph Way, "people of colour, Jan. 3, 1816	1816 Jan 3	Ralph Way, Sr.,	1562
• Power, Rachel and Ralph Way, "people of colour, Jan. 3, 1816	1816 Jan 3	,	1563