The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02
STATE LAW.
Commonwealth OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In the gear Of our Lord one thousand eight hun
bred and toenty-cight.
mo. z.

No. ~
AN ACT to change the names of the sew
eral persons therein described.
Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House of
Representatives IN General Court assembled.
and bg the authority of the same, That from and
after the passing of this Act, the several persons
herein named shall be called and known by the
names they are hereby respectively allowed to
assume, and the same shall be deemed their on
ly proper legal names, viz That Nathaniel
johnson Robbins Sumner, of Rutland, in the
County of Worcester, may take the name of
Robbins Sumner; that Jacob E. Fl. Richardson
may take the name of Charles Elnathan Ham
mond Richardson that Al Andrews may take
the name of Alfred All Andrews that Thomas
H. Bennett may take the name of Henry Jo-
seph Pickering, all of the city of Boston, in the
county of Suffolk that Josiah Worcester OF
Cambridge, may take the name of Frederick
Augustus Worcester that Charles Parkhurst,
of birmingham, may take the name of Charles
Thurston Parkhurst that Martha Roulstone
of Charlestown, may take the name of Martha
Teel, all of the county of Middlesex that
Lydia Osgood, of Salem, may take the name Of
Sarah Southwick Osgood that Lydia Stocker
of Salem, may take the name of Mary Stocker
that Edward A. Lummas of Lynn, physician,
may take the name Of Edward l.. Coffin that
Joseph Dagget, of Newburyport, may take the
name of Joseph Brainerd; that Ednah Dagget
wife of said Joseph, NAV take the name of Ed.
nah Brainerd that Nathan H. Dagget, minor
son of said Joseph Dagget, may take the name
of Edward Haskell Brainerd and that Samuel
Dagget, Joseph Dagget, Charles Henry Dag.
get, Amos Hale Dagget, other minor sons Of
said Joseph Dagget, may severally take the sill
name of Brainerd that William Bodwell, Jr.
of Andover, may take the name of Hiram Bod
well that Caroline SWEET, of Newburyport
may take the name of Caroline Rebecca SWEET
all Of the county of Essex that Justice F
Halves, of Worcester, may take the name Of
Milton J. Adams that Asa Whitcomb, Cd, o.
| Bolton, may take the name of Edwin A. Whit
comb that Prudence Barker Howe, of Bolton
may take the name of Ellen B. Howe, all of the
county of Worcester that Tryphena Trum
! bull, of South Hadley, may take the name o.
Mary Trumbull; Ezekiel Cheever Whitman
of Goshen, may take the name of Ezekie
Cheever; both of the county of Hampshire =
that Brownell Little, Of Westport, minor SOL
of Nicholas Little, may take the name of Johr
| Brown Little that Warden Babcocls, of TROY
may take the name Of John Warden Adams
and that the minor children of said Warder
Babcock, viz: Hiram Martin Babcock, Johr
Quincy Babcock, and Mary Babcock, may take
the sir name of Adams, instead of Babcock, al
ofthe county of Bristol land that Samuel Hud
son Billings, Of Roxbury, may take the name o
Charles Henry Billings; that Moses Tappan
of Hanover, in the county of Plymouth, may
take the name of james Moses Tappan; tina
George Barney, Of Nantucket, in the county o
Nantucket, may take the name of George II
Barney
! apprOvcd By The GopsrnOr, T,,ao II, 1898.