MASSACHUSETTS WEBSITE UPDATES

STATE WEBSITE UPDATES:

07 Jun 2008:  A brief history of King Philips War
18 May 2008: Mrs. E. Wright, of Mass crime story
7 Mar 2008: MURRAY and SHIRLEY
death notices; JEWETT crime story
1 Feb 2008:
Prison Fire News Story
9 Nov 2007:
Slavery Related Stories
6 Oct 2007: State Institutions: Poor House Laws; Trustees of the State Board of Lunacy and Charity Members in 1892; Trustees and Board Members of other state institutions; Almshouse Visitation Reports from 1898; Public Institutions in 1892; Case Histories of Minors in the Care of the State; 1892 Statistics on Juvenile Wards of the State; Newspaper Stories; Commitments and Discharges; BIOGRAPHIES of GRAY, HOAR and LONG

24 Sep 2007: The
Mayflower; Signers of the Mayflower Compact; List of those who died the first winter; List of descendants and their marriages for 2 generations after the landing

18 Sep 2007: State Data:
Mass. Physicians prior to 1878; 1858 County Judges

15 Sep 2007:
Biographical History of Massachusetts, Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State
Massachusetts in the Civil War; Bios for BESSY, BLAKE, PIERCE JAQUITH Family

26 May 2007: 1823 Snowstorm Story (EVENTS)

4 APR 2007: Newspaper "Punishment" Stories from 1660
List of Cities and Towns in Massachusetts
Jamaica Plain History
Famous Firsts in Massachusetts
Famous people born in Massachusetts
The Coming of the Quakers

COUNTY WEBSITE UPDATES:

Barnstable County

2007 Updates

23 Sep 2007: Court records- name changes in Barnstable

21 Sep 2007: death notice for Benj. Sanford

16 Sept 2007: 1895 City Directory for Yarmouth
1844 Death Records
A biography for Shearjashub Bourne
The Barnstable sections from A History Of Massachusetts in the Civil War by William Schouler, 1871

Cemetery Listings
Towns and Villages
History of Falmouth
Newspaper Story

Berkshire County

5 Mar 2008: Death Notice for WILLIAMS, DEWEY and MASON

2007 Updates

24 September 2007: Court records- Name Changes
21 September 2007: Marriage notice for Noble/Shaw, death notice for Mrs. Shaw
20 September 2007: Berkshire in the Civil War
18 September 2007: 1844 deaths, bio on Barnabas BIDWELL

17 Apr 2007: Deaths, Births, Obits, Marriage Notices from 1878 added
MELLEN Family Biography

Bristol County


01 Apr 2008:      List of Towns/Cities with Town Clerk information
29 Mar 2008:     Taunton Births to 1850 (A-F)
28 Mar 2008:     Alexis Caswell Biography
19 Mar 2008:     List of Bristol County Cemeteries Added

7 Mar 2008: Padelford death notice

2007 Updates

28 Sep. 2007: Newspaper article

24 Sep 2007: Name changes

18 Sep 2007: 1844 Death records, biography for Francis Baylies

16 Sep 2007:
New Bedford History, which also includes some Quaker records
Death Notice for Gen. Sheridan

Dukes County

5 Mar 2008: SKIFF death notice

1850 Mortality Schedule
Court Records for Name Changes

Essex County

3/4/08: Thomas Gardner Bio; SALTONSTALL; CROWNINSHIELD; DERBY; HOLTON; SAWYER; ORNE death notice

2007 Updates

11/09/07: GOULD death notice
9/30/2007: 1851 Salem Directory
9/28/2007: Updated Newspaper articles
9/24/2207: Name changes for Essex Co.
9/20/2007: 6 new death notices/obituaries
9/18/2007: Obituary for Irene Kerr
9/16/2007: 1894 Rowley City Directory; A piece about Salem Witches; Biography for Amos Abbott

7/10/07:
Lynnfield Birth Records
6/25/07:
Lynnfield Death Records; 1823 Fire of Joel Bowker building; 1823 Fire of Gen. Gideon Foster's Chocolate Mill
4/18/07: SIMPSON and DOW death notices
UNDERWOOD death listing
newspaper story of Isaiah Kidder who died of rabies
OBITUARIES FOR:
Dennison W. Brown - Betsy Chamberlain
Richard H. Grant - Jane Knap - Elijah Sanderson - Col. Amos Shelden - Nancy H. Stevens
HART/HARTT family research - burials, bios, stories, house pictures
Cemetery histories for Old Burying Ground

Franklin County

7 Mar 2008: BELL death notice

2007 Updates

4 Oct 2007: Newspaper Stories

24 Sept. 2007: Name changes for Franklin County

18 APR 2007: Death Notice for BASSETT; Marriage notice for SMITH-TRAVER and STILES-CONNABLE

Hampden County

2 Feb 2008: Fire in U.S. Arsenal;
STOW murder

2007 Updates


4 Oct 2007: Murder News Story

24 Sept. 2007: Court records for Name changes in Hampden Co.

21 Sept. 2007: Obit for Edward Pynchon

18 Sept. 2007: Biography for Isaac Chapman Bates; 1878 Birth, Marriage and Death Notices. Death notice for BOWEN

Hampshire County

2007 Updates

4 Oct 2007: Newspaper Weather story

25 Sept 2007:
Bio for BAKER, Obit for TUCKERMAN, 1886 Postoffices and Postmasters, Name Changes

19 Apr 2007: Birth Notices for PORTER and HADLEY; Death Notices for MILL and RICE; Marriage Notices for DUTTON, GOODWIN

11 Apr 2007:Death notice for LEE

Middlesex County

05 Jun : Lancaster Deaths H-L 1796-1841 
18 May 2008: History of Groton, MA, Caleb Butler

6 Mar 2008: HAY; MOULTON; WHITMAN; HALE; PICKMAN death notice

2007 Updates

6 Oct 2007: Poor House report of 1883

27 Sept 2007: Births 1659-1687 & prior to 1650; Death Records & Notices; Marriage Records; Bio for ALLEN; Obit for BUCHANAN, MANNING & HILL; Name Changes; Soldiers at Marlborough; Newspaper Article for HARVEY and DORSEY

18 APR 2007: Death notice for Capt. Russell
Death Notices for WRIGHT, MOORE, CORSE
Newspaper stories about a mine discovered by Charles Dunbar and the Cotton Manufactory at Waltham
Cities and Towns
Obituaries
HART/HARTT family research - burials, bios, stories
Cemetery Histories for Mount Auburn, Sleepy Hollow, and Prince Hall.
List of notable burials in Mount Auburn.

Nantucket County

29 Feb 2008: Capt. BROWN obit; HUSSEY death notice

28 Sept 2007: Court records for Name Changes; Bio for BURNELL

18 Sept 2007: 1870 Mortality Schedule; Newspaper Articles

Norfolk County

6 Mar 2008: TUFTS death notice

2007 Updates

4 Oct 2007: Medfield news

29 Sept 2007: Name Changes; Death notices for ADAMS & JABEZ; Marriages in Bellingham, Brookline, Dedham, Foxborough, Franklin, Medfield & Sharon

15 Sep 2007: Bios for Charles Adams & Oakes Ames; Marriages for Dover; Medway, Weymouth & Wrenham; "Uncle Sam's Largest Submarine" Newspaper Article

Plymouth County

23 Apr 2008: Plymouth County Cemeteries
22 Apr 2008: Early Middleboro Marriages A-T
5 Mar 2008: Death Notice for WATSON; 1815 Newspaper Item

2007 Updates

4 Oct 2007: List of Cemeteries

29 Sept 2007: Death notice; Court records for Name Changes

15 Sep 2007: 1894 City Directories for Norwell & Scituate; Bio for John Andrew

Suffolk County

6 Mar 2008 - 1859, 1890 Fire Stories; DAWES; IVERS; TORREY; HALL, LATHROP, SMITH, WARREN, WILLIAMS death notices; Murder of OBERHART

1 Feb 2008: 1824 Prison Riot News Story; Ship Capsize; COPLEY bio; 1824 Fires; Chinese Deportation Story

2007 Updates

9 Nov 2007: BONFIL death notice

29 Sept 2007: Marriage notices; Name Changes; 1830 Passenger Lists; Bio for CRONIN; Many Obits & Death Notices

15 Sept 2007: Bios for Edward Anderson & Silas Anthony

25 July 2007: 1806 Fire in Boston newspaper story

25 June 2007: Newspaper Story of 101 year old Donald M’Donald being imprisioned as a vagrant;
$100,000
hospital donation by John Mclean
Baudouin/Bowdoin family history

18 June 2007: David Davis biography


26 May 2007: George Cabot obit

18 Apr 2007: Marriage notice for Moulton-Barrows

Death Notices for Bigelow, Dodge, Hooker, Ryerson, Warren, Dearborn

Obituary of Civil War soldier T. Burton Kelly; and a newspaper gleaning about the Willis triplets; newspaper story about Lorenzo Hall convicted of libel
Hartt family data

Worcester County

4 Mar 2008: History of Leominster; Leominster 175th Anniversary Program
WARREN death notice

2007 Updates

1 Oct 2007: Cemetery History; Bios for ADAMS & ALLEN, Cemetery history, Marriage records, Birth records, Death records & Obits, Lancaster Clerks, Victims of Indian Raids

25 JUN 2007: Israel Walters contribution to the Leicester Academy


17 APR 2007:
Obits/Death Notices for CHEEVER, LEMOYNE, WARREN; Birth Notices for BARROWS, CLARK


newspaper story of a fire at a Cotton Mill owned by Asa Waters
HARTT family data

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