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These Manuscript pages are from the Record Book of the First Church of Middletown, Connecticut.

Label on cover of
Record Book 1

 

Top 2/3 of right hand page of book showing Alexander's baptism as first entry on page.

Focus on top of page. Note Double line near top. This denotes the Year end.
Close up of top of page.

Very close on date. There were two Baptisms that day.

Transcription of top of page entry before double line.

Febry: 26: Alexander the son of John Harper & Roth the son
      of Obadiah Braynard & Esther the Daughter of John Foster Junr were Baptized

Double Line

1744: March 11 . . .

Bottom of Previous page. Note there is no notation of Year end between entries for December and January.
Reference: This Book is in the Manuscript Collections of the State Library of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut
and is filed in Special Collections.