Birth Records of Colrain, Massachusetts

These records were originally in the form of notes and cards made by Mrs. Katherine Holton Cram. They were later compiled by Oscar Frank Stetson, of Barrington, Rhode Island, who wrote in the introduction:

"About forty years of the records of Colrain were destroyed by fire. Mrs. Cram spent many years searching family Bibles, cemeteries and private as well as such public records as she could find and this compilation is the edited result of her work. There will be found many records which never were on town books, some of the records of adjoining towns and over the line into the state of Vermont, but they are records which have to do with Colrain families."

The town of Colrain was established in 1761. It is in Franklin County.

The original manuscript is part of the R. Stanton Avery Collections. It can be viewed by NEHGS members at the our research library in Boston. The call number is MSS MS COL 512 and 512a.

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