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Guide to Hanson, Plymouth County, Massachusetts ancestry, genealogy and family history, town histories, vital records, city directories, cemetery records and cemeteries, churches, town records, newspapers, maps, and libraries.

Town Information

Description

Hanson was the west parish of Pembroke and thus the area was Plymouth Colony in the beginning. The area was placed in Plymouth County when counties were formed in 1685. For a brief time, the area was part of the Dominion of New England from 1686 to 1689. The area is still in Plymouth County, though was in limbo, until the "Colony" was merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691 that became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. When incorporated, the town was part of Plymouth County where it remains.

Parent Towns

Populated Places

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

Boundary Changes

Adjacent Towns

Plymouth Co: East Bridgewater | Halifax | Hanover | Pembroke | Rockland | Whitman

Town Records

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

Hanson Town Clerk

542 Liberty Street
Hanson, MA 02341
Phone: 781-293-2772
Fax: 781-294-0884
Email: bsloan@hanson-ma.gov
Website

Vital Records

Published records
This includes, in part, church records from the First Congregational Church (C.R.1) and the Baptist Church of South Hanson (C.R.2). Deaths are included from Fern Hill Cem. formerly the Second Precinct of Pembroke (G.R.1), Hobart Cem. (G.R.2), and the Munroe Burying Ground in South Hanson (G.R.3).
Online records
  • Hanson town and vital records to 1846 are browsable (i.e. not indexed as of Nov. 2012) on FamilySearch.

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Divorce

Town Reports

Resources

For more County and State resources see:

Biographies

Cemeteries

he following is a list of cemeteries in present-day Hanson. For more details regarding these cemeteries, see the state guide under cemeteries for books on the subject.

  1. Fern Hill / Gravely Hill Cemetery, 1745-present. (A, B, Hanson, MA USGenWeb)
  2. Hobart Family Burying Ground, 1793-1899. (A, B, Hanson, MA USGenWeb)
  3. Howland Family Burying Ground, 1846-1869. (Hanson, MA USGenWeb)
  4. Macomber Tomb / Perry Tomb / Winter Street Tomb (Defunct), 19th century. (Hanson, MA USGenWeb)
  5. Munroe Family Burying Ground, 1759-1866. (A, B, Hanson, MA USGenWeb)
  6. Pomp House Gravesite, 1827. (Hanson, MA USGenWeb)
  7. Smallpox Hospital Cemetery, 1778. (Hanson, MA USGenWeb)
  8. Old Cemetery / Stetson Family Burying Ground, 1776-1872. (B, C, Hanson, MA USGenWeb)
  9. John Thomas Family tomb, 1832-1904. (A, Hanson, MA USGenWeb)
  10. Miscellaneous sites. (Hanson, MA USGenWeb)

Abstracts of the cemeteries above are marked and keyed to:
(A). Vital Records of Hanson, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, 1911) [see links above under Vital Records].
(B). Charles M. Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts (Middleborough, Mass., 1995).
(C). Stanley W. Smith, "Gravestone Records from the Cemetery in Hanson, Mass., near Monponsett Railroad Station" in the Mayflower Descendant, 9 [1907]: 140-141.
WorldCat (Other Libraries); FS Catalog book 974.4 V3.

Census

Church Records

The following is a list of churches established in town in order of organization date (if known) and condition of records in the 1889 survey if listed.

  1. First Congregational Church in Hanson, 1748, records incomplete (see published records to 1803 under town histories above).
  2. First Baptist Church, South Hanson, 1806, records good (1812+).
  3. Universalist Church, 1825-1850, records good (in priv. hands, 1889).
  4. Spiritualist Church, 1860s.
  5. St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1956.
  6. Calvary Baptist Church, 1973.

City Directories

Hanson was published in 1902/3, 1906, 1910, 1914.

The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) has one of the largest collections of city directories in the country. They are likely to own most of the years listed above. Their collection is in microfiche, microfilm, and books, but there is no online inventory of their holdings except for microfilm. See their guide online.

Other holdings:

Compiled Genealogies

Court Records

Immigration

Land Records

Local Histories

The basic data is from the "Historical Data" publication series[1] with additions from various sources.

Associated names

Hanson once was called Pembroke West Parish.

Village or section names include Bryantville, Burrage, Gurney's Corners, Indian Head Pond, Monponsett, New State, North Hanson, South Hanson, and Sodom.

Border changes
Dates Events
22 Feb. 1820 West or Second Parish of Pembroke set off as the new town of Hanson. (This was part of The Major's purchase in 1662 and made a precinct in 1746.)
3 Apr. 1903 Border between Hanson and Pembroke established.

Works written on the town include:

Maps

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

Migration

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:

Newspapers

  1. Hanson Reporter, 1984-present.
  2. Whitman/Hanson Mariner, 1990-1992.

Obituaries

Other Town Records

Probate Records

School Records

Tax Records

Websites

Research Facilities

Archives

Libraries

Hanson Public Library
132 Maquan Street
Hanson MA 02341
Phone 781-293-2151
Email hansonref@sailsinc.org

Museums

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Local Centers and Affiliate Libraries

Societies

Hanson Historical Society
PO Box 52
Hanson MA 02341
Email hansonhistoricalsociety@gmail.com

References

  1. ↑ William Francis Galvin, Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities and Towns in Massachusetts (Boston, new ed., 1997), 56. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FS Catalog book 974.4 H2h 1997
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