West Stockbridge Massachusetts vital records

The Town of West Stockbridge, Berkshire County, was established March 9, 1774, from a part of Stockbridge, as the district of West Stockbridge.

Vital records of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850

When places other than West Stockbridge and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy.
In all records the original spelling is followed.
The various spellings of a name should be examined, as items about the same family or individual might be found under different spellings.
Marriages and intentions of marriages are printed under the names of both parties. When both the marriage and intention of marriage are recorded, only the marriage record is printed; and where a marriage appears without the intention recorded, it is designated with an asterisk.
Additional information which does not appear in the original text of an item, i.e., any explanation, query, inference, or difference shown in other entries of the record, is bracketed. Parentheses are used only when they occur in the original text, or to separate clauses found there-such as the birthplace of parents, in late marriage records.

Abbreviations	Meanings
a.	age
abt.	about
b.	born
ch.	child
chn.	children
Co.	county
C.R.I.	church record, Congregational
C.R.2.	church record, Village Church
d.	daughter; died; day
Dea.	deacon
dup.	duplicate entry
G.R.I.	gravestone record, Center Cemetery
G.R.2.	gravestone record, South, or Slauter, Cemetery
G.R.3.	gravestone record, Village Protestant Cemetery.
G.R.4.	gravestone record, Village Catholic Cemetery
h.	husband
hrs.	hours
inf.	infant
int.	publishment of intention of marriage
Jr.	junior
m.	married; month
min.	minutes
P.R.1.	private record, from Bible of John Easland, now in the possession of Arthur Easland, of West Stockbridge
P.R.2.	private record, from Bible of Alvan Arnold, now in the possession of Alvan Arnold, of West Stockbridge.
P.R.3.	private record, from Bible of Thomas French, now in the possession of Mrs. A. A. Arnold, of West Stockbridge
P.R.4.	private record, from a family register relating to Cone, Moore and Edwards families, now in the possession of Theodore Cone, of West Stockbridge
P.R.5.	private record, from an account book now in the possession of Herbert Jenkins, of West Stockbridge
P.R.6.	private record, from a family record of J. S. Moore, of West Stockbridge
prob.	probably
rec.	recorded
s.	son
Sr.	senior
w.	wife; week
wid.	widow
widr.	widower
y.	year
1st.	first
2d.	second
3d.	third

Barber, Edmund Dana, editor, Vital records of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Boston : Stanhope Press, 1907.