American AcornsRecords & photos · Birth, marriage and death records
Westborough loose vital records, 1732-1733 (Digital Commonwealth, 'Vital Records, 1724, 1730-1733', image 9): William and Mary Holloway's children and the death of Adam Holloway, 9 June 1733. A torn slip records the birth of a daughter of William and Mary Holloway (24 Oct 1732), the death of their son Adam (27 Dec 1732) and, in a second hand, 'Adam Holloway Departed this Life the 9th Day of June: 1733:'.
Image · dated 1732-1733 · source: Digital Commonwealth / Westborough Public Library (public domain).
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
Borne unto William Holloway and Mary his wife the 24th [?] Day of October in the yeer 1732 a Daughter Named Botty Holloway
Adam Holloway Son to the Above Named William and Mary Holloway Departed this Life the 27th Day of December 1732
(second hand, paler ink) Adam Holloway Departed this Life the 9th Day of June: 1733:
How it is shown: Complete image (full-size IIIF JPEG); no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as read at full size. The final entry is in a paler, different hand (probably added later) and is unqualified: no 'Sr.', age or parentage. The same slip records the death of a different Adam, son of William and Mary, on 27 Dec 1732, so the June 1733 Adam is the elder man only by inference from other sources. The name of the 1732 daughter reads 'Botty' or Betty. The gravestone, as copied by De Forest (1891) and Kent (1921), reads 7 June: unreconciled.