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BRISTOL COUNTY, Massachusetts

*First created, in 1685, of Plymouth Colony.
*County seat: Tauton has been the county seat since 1746.  Prior to that year the seat was Bristol.
Bristol County is located in southeastern Massachusetts, with Massachusetts counties of Plymouth to the east, Norfolk to the north, and Dukes, to the south, across Buzzard Bay.  At its western boundary, are the counties of Providence, Bristol, and Newport in the state of Rhode Island.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Acushnet, Attleboro, Berkley, Dartmouth, Dighton, Easton, Fairhaven, Fall River, Freetown, Mansfield, New Bedford, North Attleborough, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, Swansea, Taunton, Westport.

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Surrounding Counties 
(North = Top)

 

Norfolk County, MA

Rhode Island
(Providene County, RI)
(Bristol County, RI)
Newport County, RI)

BRISTOL County, MA

Plymouth County, MA

Buzzard Bay

Dukes County, MA

Nantucket County, MA

United States: Local History and Genealogy Index page

   11 Court Street - Tauton, MA 02780.

   11 Court Street - Tauton, MA 02780     Phone: (508) 822-0502

   441 North Main Street - Fall River, MA 02720    Phone: (508) 673-1651

   25 North Sixth Street - New Bedford, MA 02740    Phone: (508) 993-2603

   220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 Phone: (617) 727-2816.

o    Researching your Family History at the Archives

o    Searchable Databases

    Supreme Judicial Court Archives - 1300 New Court House - Boston, MA 02108.


Bristol County Communities
 

Acushnet:

     88 Main Street - Acushnet, MA 02743-2117 Phone: (508) 998-0270.

Attleboro:

    74 North Main Street - Attleboro, MA 02703-2280   Phone: (508) 222-0157.

Berkley:
 

   "...Berkley was a well known Indian settlement area because of the rich shellfish and water fowl resources to be found there..."

     3 North Main Street - Berkley, MA 02779-1311   Phone: (508) 822-3329.

Dartmouth:

     732 Dartmouth Street - South Dartmouth, MA 02748    Phone: (508) 999-0726.

Dighton:

   "...Dighton, which was named in honor of a woman, Frances Dighton Williams, was founded in 1712 as the southern precinct of the Town of Taunton..."

     395 Main Street - P.O. Box 590 - Dighton, MA 02715-0590    Phone: (508) 669-6421.

Easton:

   P.O. Box 3 - North Easton, Ma. 02356   Phone: (508) 238-7774.

Fairhaven:

     45 Centre Street, Box 30 - Fairhaven, MA 02719-0030   Phone: (508) 992-5342.

Fall River:

     104 North Main Street - Fall River, MA 02720   Phone: (508) 324-2700 .

Freetown:

     5 Washburn Road - East Freetown, MA 02717-1220   Phone: (508) 763-5344.

Mansfield:


     255 Hope Street - Mansfield, MA 02048-2353   Phone: (508) 261-7380.

New Bedford:

     613 Pleasant Street - New Bedford, MA 02740-6203    Phone: (508) 991-6275.

North Attleborough:

   "...In pre-Colonial times, it was the site of the Bay Path, a major Indian trail to Narragansett Bay, the Seekonk River and Boston..."

   118 North Washington Street - North Attleborough, MA 02760-1633
   Phone:  (508) 699-0122.


Norton:

   18 West Main Street - P.O. Box 1711 - Norton, MA 02766   Phone: (508) 285-7070.

     68 E. Main Street - Norton, MA 02766-2310    Phone: (508) 285-0265.

Raynham:

     760 South Main Street - Raynham, MA 02767-1678   Phone: (508) 823-1344.

Rehoboth:

   124 Bay State Road - P.O. Box 377 - Rehoboth, MA 02769-0377
   Phone: (508) 252-4236.

Seekonk:

     410 Newman Avenue - Seekonk, MA 02771   Phone: (508) 336-8230.

Somerset:

   "...This area was originally known as the Shawamat Lands..."

     1464 County Street - Somerset, MA 02726-5234    Phone: (508) 646-2829.

Swansea:

     69 Main Street - Swansea, MA 02777-4698   Phone: (508) 674-9609.

Taunton:

   66 Church Green - Taunton, MA 02780  Phone: (508) 822-1622.

     12 Pleasant Street - Taunton, MA 02780-3203    Phone: (508) 821-1411.

Westport:

     408 Old County Road - P.O. Box N-157 - Westport, MA 02790-0157
     Phone: (508) 636-1100.


Additional Research Resources:


o        The Genealogy Page.

o        About Census Records

o        1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses Catalog of NARA Microfilm

o        1930 Census Microfilm Locator

o        The Soundex Indexing System

o        Clues in Census Records, 1790-1840

o        Clues in Census Records, 1850-1930

o        Indian Census Rolls

o        Nonpopulation Census Records

o        Prologue, Spring 1996, Vol. 28, No. 1, "First in the Path of the Firemen" The Fate of the 1890 Population Census, by Kellee Blake.

o        Native American Records

o        Immigration Records and Naturalization Records

o        "Any woman who is now or hereafter may be married... Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802-1940", by Marian L. Smith (Prologue, Summer 1998)

o        By Way of Canada: U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1895-1954, By Marian L. Smith (St. Albans Lists) (Fall 2000) — A guide to using immigration records of the U.S.-Canada border.

o        Military Records available from the National Archives



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