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Negative result
Negative: New England's Hidden Histories holds no pre-1690 church record for John's towns
New England's Hidden Histories (Congregational Library) holds no pre-1690 church material for John Gurney's towns - Braintree First begins 1697, Boston First 1690, Dorchester First 1727, with no Weymouth or Mendon book - so this specialist colonial-church index adds no record of him.
Search scope
- Searched: New England's Hidden Histories, Congregational Library & Archives, Boston — New England's Hidden Histories digitized colonial church records (Braintree, Weymouth, Mendon, Dorchester, Boston First)
- Coverage window: 1636 to 1690
- Search: Holdings check (2026-07-03) of the digitized colonial church-record series for any pre-1690 church book covering John Gurney's towns.
- Results reviewed: 0
- Limitations: The earliest Braintree First Church records digitized here begin 1697 (Samuel Niles journal); Boston First begins 1690 (the 1630-87 book is the CSM 39 print); Dorchester First 1727; Weymouth and Mendon are absent - nothing pre-1690 for John's orbit.; A holdings check confirms the aggregator holds no relevant book; it is not a name-level search of a book that would have covered John.; The pre-1690 Braintree church book is itself lost, so this is a coverage gap in the surviving record as much as in the digitization.
Why this conclusion
- Supports Finding Coverage: the online research-infrastructure beyond the core corpus adds no John Gurney recordThis documented database/index negative supports the synthesized coverage conclusion for the modern research infrastructure.
Sources
- New England's Hidden Histories: Colonial-Era Church Records; digital collection, Congregational Library & Archives, Boston., Colonial-era church records series; holdings check 2026-07-03
Also covered here
- Negative result Negative: Digital Commonwealth returns zero 'Gurney Braintree'
Technical details
- Evidence marker:
G13-PM-000031 - Primary research item:
G13-RI-000051 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/marker-bundles/G13-PM-000031.json