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Mashpee, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy

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Town Information

Description

Historical data relating to counties, cities, and towns in Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997), [FS Library book 974.4 H2h 1997].

Parent Towns

Archiac name:

  • Marshpee, Popponesset, South Sea, Waquoit

Populated Places

Includes Neighborhoods, Villages, Unincorporated Communities,
Districts, and Census-Designated Places: Aquashenet, Chimquist, East Mashpee, Indian Meeting House, Maushop Village, Poponesset, Seconnet, Segreganset, South Mashpee, Succonesset, Wakeby

Boundary Changes

  • 14 June 1763: Lands belonging to the Indians...in Mashpee be and hereby are erected into a district by the name of Mashpee..." for three years. (Prov. Laws, Vol. IV, p. 639)
  • 20 March 1767: Act of June 14, 1763, revived, to be in force until July 1, 1770.
  • 9 February 1776: Act of June 14, 1763, revived, to be in force until the end of the session of the general Court enxt after Nov. 1, 1779.
  • 25 November 1779: Act of June 14, 1763, revived, to be in force until Nov.1, 1785
  • 12 June 1788: Act of June 14, 1763, repealed; in this act the spelling is "Marshpee". The act provides that three presons be appointed as Guardians at Marshpee, for ten years.
  • 30 January 1789: All former laws respecting Marshpee Indians repealed and a board of overseers established.
  • 22 January 1795: Bounds between "Marshpee" and Barnstable established.
  • 7 March 1797: Act of June 12, 1788, made perpetual until repealed by the Legislature.
  • 26 February 1811: Part of the "plantation of Marshpee" annexed to Sandwich.
  • 31 March 1834: the plantation of Marshpee established as the District of Marshpee.
  • 17 March 1841: A tract of land formerly in the plantation of Marshpee annexed to Falmouth.
  • 1 April 1859: Part of the district of Marshpee annexed to Sandwich.
  • 13 March 1860: Part of the district of Marshpee annexed to Sandwich
  • 28 May 1870: Incorporated as a town, by the name of Mashpee, formerly the district of Marshpee.
  • 19 March 1872: Part of Sandwich re-annexed.
  • 18 June 1885: Bounds between Mashpee and Falmouth established.
  • 27 May 1887: Bounds between Mashpee and Sandwich established and part of Sandwich annexed.
  • 28 March 1894: Bounds between Mashpee and Barnstable established.
  • 20 April 1905: Bounds between Mashpee and Sandwich established and part of Sandwich annexed.
  • 24 April 1916: Bounds between Mashpee and Barnstable established.

Adjacent Towns

Barnstable | Falmouth | Sandwich | Nantucket Sound to the south

Town Records

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

Mashpee Town Clerk

16 Great Neck RD NO
Mashpee, MA 02649
Phone: 508-539-1418
Fax: 508-539-1142
Email: ddami@mashpeema.gov
Website

Vital Records

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Divorce

Town Reports

Resources

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Biographies

Cemeteries


  • Ancient Cemetery aka Lakewood Cemetery (1805)
    Lakewood Dr
  • Avant-Amos-Coomb Cemetery (1838)
    Rte 130
  • Attaquin Cemetery (1849)
    Rte 130 near Ashumer Rd
  • Francis Family Cemetery (1798)
    Pimlico Pond Rd
  • Hicks Cemetery
    Falmouth-Sandwich Rd (no stones)
  • Jones-Johnson-Fowler Cemetery (1851)
    South Sandwich St and Rte 30 (no stones)
  • Roxanna C. Mye Cemetery
    Highview Ave (no stones)
  • Pocknett-Stevens (1871)
    Meetinghouse Rd
  • Punkhorn Point aka Skipper-Simon-Holland Cemetery (1835)
    Great Neck Rd
  • Tobey Cemetery Site
    Summit Pond Estate Development
  • Town Cemetery - Old Indian Cemetery (1770)
    Rte 28

Census

Church Records

City Directories

Compiled Genealogies

Court Records

Land Records

Local Histories

Maps

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World War I, 1917-1918

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World War II, 1941-1945

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