An act to change the names of Billy Hager, Silvanus Coleman
the third, Alexander McLeod Clark, John Tyler, Rodolphus Stratton, James
Allen, and John Parkman. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: That from and
after the passing of this act, Billy Hager, of Marlborough, in the county of
Middlesex, son of William Hager, of said Marlborough, shall be allowed to take
the name of William Hager; that Silvanus Coleman, the third of that name, of
Nantucket, in the county of Nantucket, son of Jonathan Coleman, of said
Nantucket, shall be allowed to take the name of Davis Coleman; the
Alexander McLeod Clark, of Medfield, in the county of Norfolk, son of Elias
Clark, of said Medfield, shall be allowed to take the name of Alexander Clark;
that John Tyler, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, son of John Tyler, late of
Mendon, in the county of Worcester, deceased, shall be allowed to take the name
of John Eugene Tyler; that Rodolphus Stratton, of Northfield, in the county of
Hampshire, shall be allowed to take the name of Adolphus Smith; that James Allen
of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, son of Thomas Allen, of Pasquetank county,
in the state of North Carolina, shall be allowed to take the name of James
Armour Allen; and that John Parkman, of said Boston, son of William Parkman, of
Concord, in the county of Middlesex, shall be allowed to take the name of John
Augustus Parkman; and said persons shall in future be respectively known and
called by the names which they are respectively allowed to take as aforesaid,
and the same shall be considered as their only proper names, to all intents and
purposes. (March 7, 1801)
An act to change the
names of the person therein mentioned. Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Moses Starbuck, a minor
son of widow Mary Ann Starbuck, of Nantucket, may take the name of Albert Wilson
Starbuck, county of Nantucket.
(April 16, 1846)
An act to change the
names of the person therein mentioned. Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
John Minot West, a
minor, of Nantucket, may take the name of Paul West; of the county of Nantucket.
(April 26, 1847)
