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    I. THE COLONIALBACKGROUND,1639-1800* ROBERT GUTMAN The registration of births and deaths became a fairly regular practice in some parts of Europe during the sixteenth century. This fact is well-known. What is less often recognized is that a system for registering vital events was established in the New World soon afterwards. In 1639, thirty-two years from the date of the first white settlement in Virginia and nineteen years after the arrival of the Pilgrims, a law was enacted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony requiring that records be kept of the date of the birth and of the death of every inhabitant of the area. The discussion which follows charts the history of the first registration laws as well as those which were enacted in subsequent periods up to 1842, when a modem vital statistics system was established in the state of Massachusetts.'N

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    I. THE COLONIALBACKGROUND,1639-1800* ROBERT GUTMAN The registration of births and deaths became a fairly regular practice in some parts of Europe during the sixteenth century. This fact is well-known. What is less often recognized is that a system for registering vital events was established in the New World soon afterwards. In 1639, thirty-two years from the date of the first white settlement in Virginia and nineteen years after the arrival of the Pilgrims, a law was enacted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony requiring that records be kept of the date of the birth and of the death of every inhabitant of the area. The discussion which follows charts the history of the first registration laws as well as those which were enacted in subsequent periods up to 1842, when a modem vital statistics system was established in the state of Massachusetts.'N

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    I. THE COLONIALBACKGROUND,1639-1800* ROBERT GUTMAN The registration of births and deaths became a fairly regular practice in some parts of Europe during the sixteenth century. This fact is well-known. What is less often recognized is that a system for registering vital events was established in the New World soon afterwards. In 1639, thirty-two years from the date of the first white settlement in Virginia and nineteen years after the arrival of the Pilgrims, a law was enacted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony requiring that records be kept of the date of the birth and of the death of every inhabitant of the area. The discussion which follows charts the history of the first registration laws as well as those which were enacted in subsequent periods up to 1842, when a modem vital statistics system was established in the state of Massachusetts.'N

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    I. THE COLONIALBACKGROUND,1639-1800* ROBERT GUTMAN The registration of births and deaths became a fairly regular practice in some parts of Europe during the sixteenth century. This fact is well-known. What is less often recognized is that a system for registering vital events was established in the New World soon afterwards. In 1639, thirty-two years from the date of the first white settlement in Virginia and nineteen years after the arrival of the Pilgrims, a law was enacted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony requiring that records be kept of the date of the birth and of the death of every inhabitant of the area. The discussion which follows charts the history of the first registration laws as well as those which were enacted in subsequent periods up to 1842, when a modem vital statistics system was established in the state of Massachusetts.'N

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