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Bristol, Rhode Island
Map
Map of Bristol County highlighting Bristol
Location in Bristol County
Map of Rhode Island highlighting Bristol County
Bristol County's location in the state of Rhode Island
Facts
Founded 1680
Seat Bristol
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Address Town Hall
10 Court Street
Bristol, RI 02809
Website: www.bristolri.us/
Modern town borders of Bristol in Bristol County, Rhode Island.

Town Information

Description

Parent Towns

  • Fomerly shire town (county seat) of Bristol County, Rhode Island

Populated Places

Includes Neighborhoods, Villages, Unincorporated Communities,
Districts, and Census-Designated Places:

Adjacent Towns

Town Records

In New England most original vital records of birth, marriage, and death can be found at the town clerk's office

Bristol Town Clerk

Vital Records

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Divorce


For more resources see:

Town Reports

Resources

For more County and State resources see:

Biographies

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Cemeteries

Cemeteries

Congregational Church

  • Copies of inscriptions taken from gravestones in the Old East Burial Ground, Juniper Hill Cemetery, Congregational Church Yard, Walker Hill Cemetery FS Catalog Collection

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Bristol #9, 300 High Street at Bradfird Street

DeWolf Family

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Bristol #5, Woodlawn Avenue

East Burial

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Bristol #4, Wood Street

Juniper Hill

  • Copies of inscriptions taken from gravestones in the Old East Burial Ground, Juniper Hill Cemetery, Congregational Church Yard, Walker Hill Cemetery FS Catalog Collection
  • The Juniper Hill Cemetery: in Bristol, R.I. FS Catalog Collection

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Bristol #3, Sherry Avenue

North Burial

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Bristol #1, Hope Street

Old East Burial

  • Copies of inscriptions taken from gravestones in the Old East Burial Ground, Juniper Hill Cemetery, Congregational Church Yard, Walker Hill Cemetery FS Catalog Collection

Quinn Estate

  • Findagrave Burial site of Anthony Quinn, the actor

St. Mary's Catholic

St. Michael's Episcopal

The Miery Swamp

Walker Hill

  • Copies of inscriptions taken from gravestones in the Old East Burial Ground, Juniper Hill Cemetery, Congregational Church Yard, Walker Hill Cemetery FS Catalog Collection
  • Findagrave

Centennial Celebrations, etc.

  • Celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the town of Bristol, Rhode Island: September 24th, A.D. 1880 FS Catalog Collection

Church Records

Historically, the largest religious groups in Rhode Island were the Congregational, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist churches. For general information about Vermont denominations, view the New Hampshire Church Records wiki page.

To see the churches in TOWN, visit.

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. The following are church records available online for the town of TOWN:

Congregational

Episcopal

City Directories

Court Records

Directories

Dwellings

Genealogy

  • Bristol, R. I.'s early settlers FS Catalog Collection ▲ FS Catalog Collection
    The families covered are those of the eighty-one settlers who attended the town's first meeting in 1681 as well as those who were the original proprietors of the Mount Hope Lands that became Bristol

History

  • Settlement of Town of Bristol Genealogy Trails
  • History of Bristol Genealogy Trails
  • Blithewold: Bristol, Rhode Island FS Catalog Collection
  • Bristol, Rhode Island: a town biography FS Catalog Collection
  • The history of Bristol R. I. FS Catalog Collection ▲ FS Catalog Collection
    the story of the Mount Hope lands from the visit of the Northmen to the present time; containing accounts of the Indian wars, the character and lives of the early settlers in Bristol, the events of the Revolution, the privateers of the War of 1812; details of the commerce of the port; and sketches of its distinguished men
  • Mount Hope: a New England chronicle FS Catalog Collection
  • Sketches of old Bristol FS Catalog Collection
  • Tales of an old sea port: FS Catalog Collection
    a general sketch of the history of Bristol, Rhode Island, including, incidentally, an account of the voyages of the norsemen, so far as they may have been connected with Narragansett Bay, and personal narratives of some notable voyages accomplished by sailors from the Mount Hope lands

Land Records

The following are online land records for the town of Bristol:

Land records begins in 1747 and continuing to the present.

  • Bristol, Rhode Island original land records, 1690-1703 FS Catalog Collection
  • Bristol (R.I.) deeds, 1690-1893 FS Catalog Collection
    Index to Grantors and Grantees 1747-1893
    Deeds 1690 to 1893
  • Bristol (R.I.) deed records (1887-1906) and indexes (1893-1926) --, 1887-1926 FS Catalog Collection
    Deed records 1887-1905
    Grantor Index 1893-1926
    Grantee Index 1893-1926

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Maps

This selection incudes town, county, state, and historical maps

Military

Some Records are Searchable by Town

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

For more Revolutionary War Military Records see:

Civil War, 1861-1865

For more Civil War Military Records see:

World War I, 1917-1918

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World War II, 1941-1945

For more World War II Military Records see:


Naturalization and Citizenship

  • Bristol (R.I.) naturalization records (1890-1902) and index (1896-1998) --, 1890-1998 FS Catalog Collection

Newspapers

Other Town Records

In Rhode Island, most records are kept at the town level and generally began being kept at the founding of the town. These records may include the following:

  • Births
  • Marriages
  • Deaths
  • Burials
  • Cemetery records
  • Appointments
  • Earmarks
  • Estrays (stray animals)
  • Freemens' oaths (men eligible to vote)
  • Land records
  • Mortgages
  • Name changes
  • Care of the poor
  • School records
  • Surveys
  • Tax lists
  • Town meeting minutes
  • Voter registrations
  • Warning outs (of town)

The following are TOWN town records available online:

Patents

Probate Records

In Rhode Island, most probate records are kept at the town level. The following are online probate records for the town of Bristol:

Probate records begin in 1747, continuing to the present.

  • Deeds, wills, inventories, administrations, grand deeds, grand articles 1680-1808 FS Catalog Collection
  • Books of wills and inventories, 1746-1881 FS Catalog Collection
  • Inventories (1811-1885) and administrators' accounts (1811-1877) --, 1811-1885 FS Catalog Collection
  • Bristol (R.I.) probate bonds, 1817-1890 FS Catalog Collection
  • Bristol (R.I.) probate records (1892-1923) and index (1700-2002) --, 1892-1923 FS Catalog Collection
    Deeds of personal estate (1909-1917)
    Probate Warrants (1896-1917)
    Inventories (1900-1918)
    Administrators' accounts (1892-1920)
    Letters of Administration (1901-1917)
    Bonds (1905-1912)
    Probate Index
    Probate records (1903-1918)
    Wills (1882-1916)
  • Bristol (R.I.) town council records, 1760-1877 FS Catalog Collection
    Probate records (1760-1877)
  • Letters of administration, 1815-1906 FS Catalog Collection

Schools

Statistics

Taxation

Websites

Research Facilities

Archives

  • Town Hall Archives
    The Town of Bristol holds documents dating from Bristol’s earliest years; first as a town of Plymouth Colony (1680-1691), later as a Town of Massachusetts (1691-1747) and finally as a colonial Town in Rhode Island (since 1747).
    These archives include early birth, death, and marriage records in addition to the records of the Town Meetings (prior to 1971) and Town Council records that date back to the 17th Century.
    The Town Clerk’s Office is currently involved in a project to process and catalog a set of miscellaneous documents relating to the action of the Bristol Town Council in its capacity of the head of Town government and Overseer of the Poor from the early 18th Century to about 1900.
    This project, funded through the State Archives and a grant from the Rhode Island Foundation, should be completed and available for limited public use for educational purposes during 2007.

Libraries

Museums

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Local Centers and Affiliate Libraries

Societies

References

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Towns in Bristol County in Rhode Island articles
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