USGenWeb Genealogical Site for the Town of
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Middleborough Massachusetts (Formerly Nemasket) Plymouth County |
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Including the Villages of East Middleborough, Eddyville, Fall Brook, Four Corners, Lakeside,
Maxim Corner, Nemasket, North Middleboro, Puddingshire, Purchade, Rock, South Middleborough,
Tack Factory, The Green, Thomastown, Wappanucket, Warrentown and Waterville
See also the site for the daughter town of Lakeville
Green School, Middleborough
Constructed 1853
05-Dec-2011 — Welcome to the brand new Middleborough USGenWeb page. I'll be posting notices here as new resources are added to the site.
If you have any Middleborough material and would like to volunteer for lookups please send email to Dale H. Cook.
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Books, Newspapers and Records
You can find copies of books for sale by using the search engine at Bookfinder.com.
Books that are no longer in copyright can often be found online at Internet Archive Text Archive, Family History Archives or Google Books. Additional books are available through two sites that many libraries offer access to - Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest Online.
Barbara Lambert Merrick and Alicia Crane Williams, Editors, Middleborough, Massachusetts Vital Records, 2 Volumes. (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1986, 1990). Volume 1 (1986): Births to 1838, Deaths to 1800, Marriages to 1772; Volume 2 (1990): Births to 1838, Deaths to 1836, Marriages to 1842, Marriage Intentions to 1845.
Leonard H. Smith Jr. and Norma H. Smith, Edirors, Vital Records of the Town of Middleborough (Clearwater, FL: Leonard H. Smith, 1974, Reprinted 1981; Reprinted Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1993). Contains records reprinted from Mayflower Descendant which also form the first part of the first volume of Middleborough, Massachusetts Vital Records.
Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro Massachusetts (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906).
First Church In Middleborough, Mass.: Mr. Putnam's Century and Half Discourses, an Historical Account, and a Catalogue of Members (Boston: The Church, 1854).
Ebenezer Weaver Pierce, Historic Sketches of Hanson, Lakeville, Mattapoisett, Middleboro', Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Wareham and West Bridgewater (Boston: Ebenezer Weaver Pierce, 1873).
Samuel Hopkins Emery, The History of the Church of North Middleborough, Massachusetts (Middleborough, MA: Harlow & Thatcher, 1876).
Samuel Breck and Edward Bryant, Gravestone Records of The Parish Burial Grounds at Middleboro Green (Manuscript at Middleborough Public Library?, 1908).
Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt, Indian Names of Places In Plymouth, Middleborough, Lakeville and Carver (Worcester, MA: Commonwealth Press, 1909).
The Middleborough Antiquarian (Middleborough, MA: Middleborough Historical Association, 1959-1998). I am not certain of the publishing schedule of this journal.
Charles D. Townsend, The History of the Third Congregational Church of Middleborough Known Today as North Congregational Church (Sarasota, FL: Aceto Bookmen, 1982).
Ann Smith Lainhart, Compiler, 1855 and 1865 Massachusetts State Censuses for Middleborough (Boston: Ann Smith Lainhart, 1988).
A newspaper often had a succession of titles on its masthead during the course of its publication. Some libraries list newspapers by the last title used, followed by previous titles. Other libraries list all holdings under the most common, most familiar or most recent title. For each title library holdings are given.
The Nemasket Gazette was published from 1852 to 1857, and was continued as the Middleboro Gazette from 1857 to 1859 and as the Middleboro Gazette and Old Colony Advertiser from 1859 to 1868, and again as the Middleboro Gazette from 1869 onward. Microfilmed copies are available at the Boston Public Library Microtext Department. The Middleborough Public Library and the American Antiquarian Society also have holdings.
The Old Colony Democrat was published in 1834 and 1835, and the American Antiquarian Society has one 1835 issue.
The Middleboro News began publishing in 1881 and continued to about 1914. The Connecticut State Library has one issue from 1886.
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Published Vital Records 1669 to about 1845:
Barbara Lambert Merrick and Alicia Crane Williams, Editors, Middleborough, Massachusetts Vital Records, 2 Volumes. (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1986, 1990). Volume 1 (1986): Births to 1838, Deaths to 1800, Marriages to 1772; Volume 2 (1990): Births to 1838, Deaths to 1836, Marriages to 1842, Marriage Intentions to 1845.
Vital Records 1669 to present:
Town Clerk
Middleborough Town Hall Annex
20 Centre St.
Middleborough, MA 02346
508-946-2415
Vital Records 1841-1920:
Massachusetts Archives
220 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
617-727-2816
Vital Records 1921 to present:
Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
150 Mount Vernon St., 1st Floor
Dorchester, MA 02125-3105
617-740-2600
Or order online:
Births
Marriages
Divorces
Deaths
Massachusetts Vital Records Information from Ancestry.com
Deeds and Probate
Plymouth County Registry of Deeds
50 Obery Street
Plymouth, MA 02360
508-830-9200
Researchers can search grantor books or grantee books at no charge.
Plymouth Probate and Family Court
52 Obery Street
Plymouth, MA 02360
508-747-6204
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Middleborough Public Library
102 North Main St.
Middleborough, MA 02346
508-946-2470
Middleborough Historical Association
Jackson St.
PO Box 304
Middleborough, MA 02346
508-947-1969
Historic houses include: law office (1690), Outhouse-Sproat Tavern (1700), two 1820 houses.
Plymouth County Genealogists, Inc.
PCGI is a non-profit genealogical society whose monthly meetings are held the first Saturday of each month (except July and August) at 1:00 PM at the East Bridgewater Public Library. Meetings generally feature a guest speaker and the public is welcome.
Old Colony Historical Society
66 Church Green
Taunton, MA 02780
508-822-1622
Genealogical Research: $7.00 per day
South Shore Genealogical Society
PO Box 396
Norwell, MA 02061
Meetings: The second Saturday of each month (except July and August) at 1:30 p.m. at the John Curtis Free Library, Rte. 139, Hanover, MA.
For beginners, amateurs and professionals interested in genealogical research in Plymouth and Norfolk Counties.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215-3695
617-536-1608
New England Historic Genealogical Society
101 Newbury St.
Boston, MA 02116-3007
617-536-5740
The library is closed for some holidays - call or see the website for details.
For non-members there is a daily admisssion fee for the research library.
NEHGS is nation's oldest genealogical society, founded in 1845. It offers unsurpassed resources for New England research including the Boston research library of over 200,000 volumes. Members not in the Boston area appreciate their extensive online resources including all issues of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, the nation's oldest genealogical journal, published quarterly since 1847. Online resources also include member access to vital records through 1915, an ever-growing collection of online books, and databases derived from some of the Society's immense manuscript holdings.
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Originally the Wampanoag settlement Nemasket, what would become Middleborough was visited by Stephen Hopkins and Edward Winslow during their 1621 trip to meet Ousamequin. The first English settlers in the area were were Elizabeth Poole and her company, who settled at Titicut in 1637. The town of Middleborough was incorporated June 1, 1669 and suffered greatly in King Philip's War, being abandoned by the settlers. Following the war it was rebuilt and resettled by order of the General Court. Middleborough men served in later colonial wars. The first church was established in 1694 and the first record of a school teacher is from 1703.
| 1765 | (Prov.) | 3,412 | 1776 | (Prov.) | 4,119 | 1790 | (U.S.) | 4,526 | 1800 | (U.S.) | 4,458 | |||
| 1810 | (U.S.) | 4,400 | 1820 | (U.S.) | 4,687 | 1830 | (U.S.) | 5,008 | 1840 | (U.S.) | 5,085 | |||
| 1850 | (U.S.) | 5,336 | 1855 | (State) | 4,324 | 1860 | (U.S.) | 4,553 | 1865 | (State) | 4,566 | |||
| 1870 | (U.S.) | 4,687 | 1875 | (State) | 5,023 | 1880 | (U.S.) | 5,237 | 1885 | (State) | 5,163 | |||
| 1890 | (U.S.) | 6,065 | 1895 | (State) | 6,689 | 1900 | (U.S.) | 6,885 | 1905 | (State) | 6,888 | |||
| 1910 | (U.S.) | 8,214 | 1915 | (State) | 8,631 | 1920 | (U.S.) | 8,453 | 1925 | (State) | 9,136 | |||
| 1930 | (U.S.) | 8,608 | 1935 | (State) | 8,865 | 1940 | (U.S.) | 9,032 | 1945 | (State) | 9,596 | |||
| 1950 | (U.S.) | 10,164 | 1955 | (State) | 11,119 | 1960 | (U.S.) | 11,065 | 1965 | (State) | 11,726 | |||
| 1970 | (U.S.) | 13,607 | 1975 | (State) | 14,146 | 1980 | (U.S.) | 16,404 | 1990 | (U.S.) | 17,867 | |||
| 2000 | (U.S.) | 19,941 | 2010 | (U.S.) | 23,116 |
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Commonwealth Communities page for Middleborough
Wicked Local Middleborough News
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Plymouth County, MA - USGenWeb
Plymouth County Records Online - USGenWeb
Massachusetts Genealogy - USGenWeb
The USGenWeb Project - Home Page
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Please note that although I was born and raised about 20 miles from Middleborough
I now live hundreds of miles away and do not have easy access to the town.
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USGenWeb Middleborough, MA, commenced 2006.
Original site created by and maintained until 2011 by Nancy (Simpson) (Caswell) Washell.
Current site created by and maintained since 05-Dec-2011 by Dale H. Cook.
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