Quincy vital records

Quincy, Massachusetts was incorporated as a separate town from Braintree on February 22, 1792 and incorporated as a city May 17, 1888. The primary source records for this town were transcribed by Waldo C. Sprague from the originals held by the Quincy City Clerks Office, various churches and private sources.

The records that form this database are part of the collection donated from estate of Mr. Sprague in 1962 to NEHGS. Included with his notebooks were thousands of small paper slips (the entire collection includes some 34,000 slips) measuring 6 x ½ inch in size. Sprague used these slips as an alphabetical index after he transcribed the records into his notebooks. The slips were sorted alphabetically, and tied into bundles..

Introduction to the Vital Records and Church Records of Quincy, Massachusetts

Waldo C. Sprague Biography

This original text is the part of the R. Stanton Avery Collections, call numbers are SG/SPR/17/3 and SG/SPR/17/4.

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