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Excerpt from Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850: Births, Marriages and Deaths; A Family Register for the People In our introduction to our Rehoboth volume we stated that a very unfortunate thing had happened in regard to the town of Pawtucket. The record book of vital matter of that town from 1828 to 1843 when the new Vital Registration Act of Massachusetts went into effect) was missing. We have had diligent search and inquiry made, and so far, have not been able to learn or hear anything definite in regard to it. This fact is only one of many that could be given to urge the most urgent necessity of having more than one copy of such very important matter in existence and at different places. In our judgment, it was a very happy inspiration of the framers of the Massachusetts Law of 1843 and of our own framers of our Law of 1850, that required a dupli cate copy to be made for the use of the state. In our record of Seekonk it will be noted that our references to the left of the page are written thus -75, - 241, others 1 32, 1 114, -2 63 2 218, etc. Those preceded by a dash refer to the record book before 1843; in brief, the record as recorded from the incorporation of the town in 1812 to the commencement of the new Registration of 1843. The others refer to the present system commenced as above stated in 1843. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.