It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.
The treasure today is the birth entry for Mehitable Grout (1726-1795) in the Watertown, Massachusetts town record book:
The birth entry is in the middle of the right-hand page:
The transcription of this record is:
"Mehetable Grout Daughter of Joseph & Mary Grout born the 5 of Feb'ry 1725/6"
The source citation for this record is:
"Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image,
Ancestry.com (
https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 December 2020), Watertown > Births, Marriages and Deaths, page 63 (image 216 of 3991), Mehitable Grout birth record, 1725.