Records of the First Church of Eastham (Orleans), in The Mayflower Descendant

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Record

Held by
The Mayflower Descendant (printed transcripts by G. E. Bowman)
Reference
MD 10:166, 231, 233; 15:13, 77
Seen as
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What it says

The church book of the south parish of Eastham, later Orleans, as printed in The Mayflower Descendant and read in the archive.org full text (vol. 10 at the link; vols. 15-16 at https://archive.org/details/mayflowerdescendv1516mass). Used for the Holdershaws and Coles (research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md):

  • “March 29 : 1773 John Holdershaw was rec’d a Member of this Chh in full Communion” (15:13); his name in the list of male members (10:166).
  • “William Son of Jn° Holdershaw was baptised March 27 . 1774” (10:231); “jan. 26 1777 . Delilah D’r of Jn° Holder[shaw]” (10:233).
  • “Decem. 30 . 1787 — Mary Holdershaw” admitted (15:77, as Gray gives it).
  • Joseph Cole Jr. and his wife Sarah admitted 2 May 1774 (as the Nickerson genealogy has it).
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