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Information includes: name, gender, race, date, and notes with links to primary sources.
Sources: First Church Records, US Censuses, Town Vital Records on Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Tax Lists, and Probate Records.
Primary Sources
Primary Sources
1790 US Census - Roxbury.pdf1800 and 1810 Census _Roxbury.pptx.pdf1790 Dorchester Census.pdf1800 and 1810 Census_Dorchester.pptx (1).pdf1790 US Census - Brookline.pdf1800 and 1810 Brookline Census.pptx.pdf1802-1804 First Parish of Roxbury Tax List.pdf1802-1804 First Parish of Roxbury Tax Payers
First Church in Roxbury (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.). Records,
1630-1956. Church record book, 1733-1815. bMS 626/1 (1),
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School.
https://nrs.lib.harvard.edu/urn-3:div.lib:23161710?n=285
Eliphalet Porter Will.pdfWill of Rev. Eliphalet Porter
Norfolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1793-1877 Pages(s): 14901:1 Volume: Norfolk Cases 14000-15999. American Ancestors.
Open Access ARchives & REcords
Open Access ARchives & REcords
First Church in Roxbury (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.). Records, 1630-1956. Church record book, 1733-1815. bMS 626/1 (1), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School.
Walter Eliot Thing, with an introduction by Rev. James De Normandie, D.D., 1908. Internet Archive.
First Church in Roxbury (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.). Records, 1630-1956. New meetinghouse contracts and correspondence, 1802-1803. bMS 626/3 (3), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School.
Committee Minutes for building new meetinghouse, 1802-1804
First Church in Roxbury (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.). Records, 1630-1956. Minutes of committee for building new meetinghouse, 1802-1804. bMS 626/3 (1), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School.
Link to Transcriptions
Link to Transcriptions
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