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• History of Bristol County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Compiled under the supervision of D. Hamilton Hurd, Illustrated, Philadelphia : J.W.Lewis & Co., 1883.- Online Book in progress:  Scanned and OCRed by David Blackwell 1998, for the Free Books Online Effort!!!  See the Index to available books for Massachusetts!!!
• Bristol County, Massachusetts Map (Large)
• Bristol County, Massachusetts Map (Smaller)
• Bristol County Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Bristol County & Southeastern Massachusetts:  Our History
• A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts with Numerous Illustrations / Rev. Elias Nason, M.A.; revised and enlarged by George J. Varney. Boston : B.B. Russell. 1890, 724 pages, scanned and posted online by David Kew, of Worcester!
• Massachusetts Census for Bristol County, online by Matt and Barbara
• Massachusetts 1790 Census for Bristol County.
• Massachusetts 1800 Census for Bristol County.
• Massachusetts 1810 Census for Bristol County.
• Massachusetts 1850 Census for Bristol County.
• Massachusetts 1860 Census for Bristol County.
• See also: Plymouth Colony - Notes, Bibliography and Glossary - includes useful Colonial terms such as FREEMAN; Old Style Dates, Money, etc.  by James F. Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz.
• Kendall Whaling Museum - Though the museum is actually located in Norfolk County, this is helpful for Barnstable county researchers.
  
   27 Everett Street - Sharon, MA  02067
• Visit 50 States to learn how: "... America’s highly diversified whaling industry even influenced landlocked states far from the sea..."
• Battleship Cove - National Historic Landmark in Fall River, MA.
• The Marine Museum at Fall River.
• The Titanic Exhibit and The Andea Doria.
• Battleship Cove [battleshipcove.com]
• Old Colony & Fall River Railroad Museum.
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute - Woods Hole, MA  02543  Phone: (508) 457-2000.
• Congregation of Holy Cross - North Easton, MA - a Catholic religious order.
• Stonehill College - in Easton, MA.
• Pat's Place: Pat Griffiths site places online Chapters selected from Hurd's, 1883, "The History of Bristol County, Massachusetts" and William L. Chaffin's, 1886, "The History of the Town of Easton, Bristol County, Massachusetts", (John Wilson and Son, University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts), and is planning even more as part of a New England History and Genealogy Free Books Online Effort!!!
• Welcome to Bristol County USGenWeb
• South of Boston: Bristol County Visitor's Bureau
• Bristol County Probate Court Clerk
   11 Court Street - Tauton, MA 02780.
• Bristol County Registry of Deeds (Northern District)
   11 Court Street - Tauton, MA 02780     Phone: (508) 822-0502
• Bristol County Registry of Deeds (Fall River District)
   441 North Main Street - Fall River, MA 02720    Phone: (508) 673-1651
• Bristol County Registry of Deeds (Southern District)
   25 North Sixth Street - New Bedford, MA 02740    Phone: (508) 993-2603
• Massachusetts Archives  - Policies for Research by Mail - Fees and Procedures
   220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125 Phone: (617) 727-2816.
• Court Records Archivist (for MA Archives requests involving court records)
    Supreme Judicial Court Archives - 1300 New Court House - Boston, MA 02108.

Acushnet:
• DHCD: Acushnet Community Profile - Incorporated in 1860; See Town Seal.
• Commonwealth Communities: Acushnet, MA information.
•  Russell Memorial Library - information
  
     88 Main Street - Acushnet, MA 02743-2117 Phone: (508) 998-0270.

Attleboro:
• DHCD: Attleboro Community Profile - Founded in 1694; See Town Seal.
• Commonwealth Communities: Attleborough, MA information.
• Attleboro, MA
• History of Attleboro, by John Daggett, pub. 1894 - Online Book  Scanned and OCRed by David Blackwell 1999, OCR editing by Phyllis Holmes, for the Free Books Online Effort!!!  See the Index to available books for Massachusetts!!!
  
"...parts of colonial Wrentham and Attleboro became Cumberland, Rhode Island.."
• Attleboro Public Library
  
    74 North Main Street - Attleboro, MA 02703-2280   Phone: (508) 222-0157.

Berkley:
 
• DHCD: Berkley Community Profile - Founded in 1735; See Town Seal.
   "...Berkley was a well known Indian settlement area because of the rich shellfish and water fowl resources to be found there..."
• Commonwealth Communities: Berkley, MA information.
• Berkley Public Library - information
     3 North Main Street - Berkley, MA 02779-1311   Phone: (508) 822-3329.

Dartmouth:
• DHCD: Dartmouth Community Profile - Founded in 1664; See Town Seal.
•   Commonwealth Communities: Dartmouth, MA information.
• Town of Dartmouth, MA.
• Dartmouth Public Library
• Southworth Public Library
  
     732 Dartmouth Street - South Dartmouth, MA 02748    Phone: (508) 999-0726.

Dighton:
• DHCD: Dighton Community Profile - Incorporated in 1712; See Town Seal.
   "...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..."
• Commonwealth Communities: Dighton, MA information.
• Dighton Public Library - information
     395 Main Street - P.O. Box 590 - Dighton, MA 02715-0590    Phone: (508) 669-6421.

Easton:
• DHCD: Easton Community Profile - Incorporated in 1725; See Town Seal.
• Easton Historical Society
   P.O. Box 3 - North Easton, Ma. 02356   Phone: (508) 238-7774.
• A History of the Town of Easton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, by William L. Chaffin,  John Wilson and Son, University Press 1886, Cambridge, Massachusetts - for the Free Books Online Effort!!!  See the Index to available books for Massachusetts!!!
• Pat's Place: Pat Griffiths site places online Chapters selected from Hurd's, 1883, "The History of Bristol County, Massachusetts" and William L. Chaffin's, 1886, "The History of the Town of Easton, Bristol County, Massachusetts", (John Wilson and Son, University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts), and "History of Taunton, Massachusetts From Its Settlement to the Present Time", by Samuel Hopkins Emery, D.D,1893 , and is planning even more as part of a New England History and Genealogy Free Books Online Effort!!!
• Town of Easton, MA
• Easton Community Page
• Commonwealth Communities: Easton, MA information.
• Ames Free Library: Easton Public Library

     53 Main Street - North Easton, MA 02356-1484    Phone: (508) 238-2000.

Fairhaven:
• DHCD: Fairhaven Community Profile - Incorporated in 1812; See Town Seal.
• Commonwealth Communities: Fairhaven, MA information.
• Millicent Public Library
  
     45 Centre Street, Box 30 - Fairhaven, MA 02719-0030   Phone: (508) 992-5342.

Fall River:
• DHCD: Fall River Community Profile - Founded 1803; See Town Seal.
• Commonwealth Communities: Fall River, MA information.
• Official City of Fall River, Massachusetts
• Fall River History and Geography
• Fall River Public Library
     104 North Main Street - Fall River, MA 02720   Phone: (508) 324-2700 .

Freetown:
• DHCD: Freetown Community Profile - Incorporated in 1683; See Town Seal.
• Commonwealth Communities: Freetown, MA information.
•  James White Memorial Library - information
     5 Washburn Road - East Freetown, MA 02717-1220   Phone: (508) 763-5344.

Mansfield:
• DHCD: Mansfield Community Profile - Precinct est. 1731; District in 1770 Incorporated town in 1775; See Town Seal.
• Commonwealth Communities: Mansfield, MA information.
• Mansfield Public Library - information

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

New Bedford:
• DHCD: New Bedford Community Profile - Founded in 1787; See Town Seal.
• New Bedford, MA.
• New Bedford, Massachusetts - The Whaling City community.
• New Bedford's History
• New Bedford: Culture, Churches and Museums.
• Commonwealth Communities: New Bedford, MA information.
• New Bedford Free Public Library - information
     613 Pleasant Street - New Bedford, MA 02740-6203    Phone: (508) 991-6275.

North Attleborough:
• DHCD: North Attleborough Community Profile - Incorporated in 1887; See Town Seal.
   "...In pre-Colonial times, it was the site of the Bay Path, a major Indian trail to Narragansett Bay, the Seekonk River and Boston..."
• Commonwealth Communities: North Attleborough, MA information.
• Richards Memorial Public Library - information
   118 North Washington Street - North Attleborough, MA 02760-1633
   Phone:  (508) 699-0122.


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Norton:
• DHCD: Norton Community Profile - Incorporated June 12, 1711; See Town Seal.
• Town of Norton, MA - official site.
• Norton Historical Society
   18 West Main Street - P.O. Box 1711 - Norton, MA 02766   Phone: (508) 285-7070.
• Commonwealth Communities: Norton, MA information.
• Norton Public Library
     68 E. Main Street - Norton, MA 02766-2310    Phone: (508) 285-0265.

Raynham:
• DHCD: Raynham Community Profile - 1652: "Site of the First Iron Works in America"; Incorporated in 1751; See Town Seal.
• Commonwealth Communities: Raynham, MA information.
• Raynham Public Library - information
     760 South Main Street - Raynham, MA 02767-1678   Phone: (508) 823-1344.

Rehoboth:
• DHCD: Rehoboth Community Profile - ncorporated June 4, 1645; See Town Seal.
• Official Town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts.
• Rehoboth Historic Sites
• 1790 Federal Census Bristol County, Massachusetts for Rehoboth
• 1850 Federal Census Bristol County, Massachusetts for Rehoboth
• 1860 Federal Census Bristol County, Massachusetts for Rehoboth
• Rehoboth Congregational Church
• Rehoboth Minute Company Home Page
• Commonwealth Communities: Rehoboth, MA information.
• Blanding Free Public Library - information
  
   124 Bay State Road - P.O. Box 377 - Rehoboth, MA 02769-0377
   Phone: (508) 252-4236.

Seekonk:
• DHCD: Seekonk Community Profile - Incorporated in 1812; See Town Seal.
• Commonwealth Communities: Seekonk, MA information.
• Seekonk Public Library - information
     410 Newman Avenue - Seekonk, MA 02771   Phone: (508) 336-8230.

Somerset:
• DHCD: Somerset Community Profile - Incorporated February 20, 1790; See Town Seal.
   "...This area was originally known as the Shawamat Lands..."
• Commonwealth Communities: Somerset, MA information.
• Somerset Public Library - information
     1464 County Street - Somerset, MA 02726-5234    Phone: (508) 646-2829.

Swansea:
• DHCD: Swansea Community Profile - Settled in 1667; Incorporated in 1785; See Town Seal.
• Commonwealth Communities: Swansea, MA information.
• Swansea Free Public Library - information
     69 Main Street - Swansea, MA 02777-4698   Phone: (508) 674-9609.

Taunton:
• DHCD: Tauton Community Profile - Town in 1639; Incorporated city in 1864; See Town Seal.
• City of Tauton, Massachusetts.
• Old Colony Historical Society Museum and Library
   66 Church Green - Taunton, MA 02780  Phone: (508) 822-1622.
• MAGenWeb for Bristol County:  by Don & Evelyn Wright - Tauton, MA Cemeteries.
• Commonwealth Communities: Tauton, MA information.
• Hurd's, 1883, "The History of Bristol County, Massachusetts" and "History of Taunton, Massachusetts From Its Settlement to the Present Time", by Samuel Hopkins Emery, D.D,1893 , and is planning even more as part of a the Free Books Online Effort!!!  See the Index to available books for Massachusetts!!!
• Tauton Public Library - information
  
     12 Pleasant Street - Taunton, MA 02780-3203    Phone: (508) 821-1411.

Westport:
• DHCD: Westport Community Profile - Incorporated in 1787; See Town Seal.
• Commonwealth Communities: Westport, MA information.
• Westport Public Library - information
     408 Old County Road - P.O. Box N-157 - Westport, MA 02790-0157
     Phone: (508) 636-1100.

• Official Commonwealth of Massachusetts web site.
• Massachusetts City and Town Clerk Directory.
• Commonwealth Communities by County.
• Commonwealth Communities alphabetical.
• Massachusetts Citizen Information Service - maps and more.
• Massachusetts Phone Numbers for Public Information.
• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory + Massachusetts* Page.
• Massachusetts Archives
• Governor's - Kids Page
• Virtual Tour of the Governor's Office.
• Massachusetts Facts - Review of the History, Government, and Symbols of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Published by William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
• A Profile of Massachusetts

PART 1: Concise Facts - State Symbols / Politics / Statistics /
PART 2:  Historical Sketch
PART 3:  The New Massachusetts State House
PART 4:  Miscellaneous Massachusetts Facts
• Massachusetts Studies Project - "Educational resources for teachers, students and lifelong learners."
• Massachusetts Information and Library Network
• Public Library Web Pages
• Massachusetts Dept. of Housing and Community Development:  Community Profiles.
• USGS - Geographic Names Information System - use the query form to locate geographic features, such as lakes, cemeteries, towns, and more.
• The Political Graveyard, for Massachusetts, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
• Massachusetts Cemeteries
• Geographic Index to Politician Births and Deaths in Massachusetts.
• Massachusetts Research Tools by Jeff Simonson.
• From Revolution to Reconstruction - a Hypertext on American History.
• NARA: National Archives and Records Administration.
• The Genealogy Page.
• Library of Congress: American Memory All Collections Search - enter topic or Massachusetts town and/or county location to find available online photos, maps, and more!
• U.S. Census Bureau Interactive County Maps for Massachusetts.

• School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.