Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s Genealogical Records

Referencing approximately 570,000 individuals and containing 24 volumes of vital records, family histories, passenger lists, military records, census data, and cemetery records, this collection provides an excellent cross-section of early Massachusetts genealogical data.

Comprehensive in its coverage of Boston marriages from 1630-1809, Massachusetts Genealogical Records also contains Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, believed to include every entry of birth, marriage, and death recorded in Boston during its first seventy years. Here you will also find census information for both 1790 and 1800, the first two taken in the United States; census documents contain more information about regular Massachusetts people than any other government records at that time.

Overall, the largest portion of this work is designated to vital records (11 volumes). The depth and quality of information contained in Massachusetts vital records is more significant than any other state. Such vital records are of exceptional genealogical value in helping to confirm names, dates, and places.

Copyright information for each volume can be found on its copyright page. If you wish to cite information found in one of this data set's volumes, we recommend using the following format:

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Books Included in this Data Set

You'll find indexed images of the following volumes in this data set:

Pioneers of Massachusetts

The Genealogical Advertiser — A Quarterly Magazine of Family History, Vol. 1-4

A List of Alien Passengers Bonded from January 1, 1847, to January 1, 1851

Port Arrivals and Immigrants to the City of Boston, 1715- 1716 & 1762-1769

List of Freemen of Massachusetts, 1630-1691

Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Called Out by the Governor of Massachusetts to Suppress a Threatened Invasion during the War of 1812-1814

Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts

Index to the 1800 Census of Massachusetts

Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800, Vol. 1-4

Boston Marriages from 1700-1809, Vol. 1 (1700-1751)

Boston Marriages from 1700-1809, Vol. 2 (1752-1809)

Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Volume 1

Boston Births, 1700-1800, Volume 2

Epitaphs From Burial Hill Plymouth, Massachusetts

Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts: Its Monuments and Gravestones Numbered and Briefly Described, and the Inscriptions and Epitaphs Thereon Carefully Copied

Soldiers in King Philip's War

An Index of Pioneers from Massachusetts to the West Especially the State of Michigan

The Loyalists of Massachusetts