At its annual meeting in March 1889, the town of Lancaster made appropriation for the preservation in print of its older records of births, marriages, and deaths. The publication was entrusted to Doctor Horace M. Nash, town-clerk, and Henry S. Nourse, who was solely designated as the author. The records included in this work were collected from several sources, including church records, town records, court records, cemeteries, and miscellaneous lists not included in the above sources, compiled by various individuals and organizations. Specifically, the book contains the Middlesex County...