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NORFOLK COUNTY, Massachusetts

*Created, in 1793, from Suffolk County.
*County seat: Dedham.
Norfolk County is located in eastern Massachusetts.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Avon, Bellingham, Braintree, Brookline, Canton, Chestnut Hill, Cohasset, Dedham, Dover, East Walpole, East Weymouth, Foxborough, Franklin, Holbrook, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Milton, Needham, Norfolk, North Weymouth, Norwood, Plainville, Quincy, Randolph, Sharon, South Weymouth, Stoughton, Walpole, Wellesley, Westwood, Weymouth, Wollaston, Wrentham.

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Select from the TOWN list above to view information and links specific to that community.

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Zoom and navigate through a Map of Norfolk County, Massachusetts
 

Surrounding Counties 
(North = Top)

• 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.

• A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts with Numerous Illustrations, by Rev. Elias Nason, M.A.; revised and enlarged by George J. Varney. Boston : B.B. Russell. 1890, 724 pages.

• Norfolk County, Massachusetts

• Welcome to Norfolk County

• The Indian Attack on Medfield February 21, 1676

• Canton Historical Society - Great Web Site!  (Examples below)
  1400 Washington Street - Canton, MA, USA 02021

  • Doty Tavern and the Suffolk Resolves.

  • May’s Tavern - Landmark of the Revolutionary War.

• www.StoughtonHistory.com, by David Allen Lambert

• Color Landform Atlas for Massachusetts

• USGS: Use the Query Form: to find locations of Norfolk County Massachusetts features - including cemeteries, churches, populated places and more.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.

• 1895 Map of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, by Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net

• The Political Graveyard, for Norfolk County and/or Massachusetts, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians, memorials and cemeteries.

• Minuteman Library Network

• Norfolk County Probate Court Clerk
     649 High Street  - Dedham, MA 02026.

• Norfolk County Registry of Deeds
     649 High Street  - Dedham, MA 02026.

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

  • Researching Your Family's History at the Massachusetts Archives

• Court Records Archivist (for MA Archives requests involving court records)     Supreme Judicial Court Archives - 1300 New Court House - Boston, MA 02108.

Norfolk County Communities

Avon

• Avon Community Profile - Town incorporated 21 February 1888; See Town Seal.  Parent town:  Stoughton.

• Avon, Massachusetts Municipal Web Site

  • Avon Multimedia History Project

• Avon Town Clerk    Buckley Center - 65 E. Main Street - Avon, MA 02322   Phone: (508) 588-0414.

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  Bellingham

• Bellingham, MA

• Bellingham Community Profile - Town incorporated 27 November 1719; See Town Seal.

• Bellingham Public Library

• Bellingham Town Clerk    P.O. Box 367 - Town Hall - 2 Mechanic Street - Bellingham, MA 02019
     Phone: (508) 966-5827.

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  Braintree

• Braintree Community Profile - Town incorporated in 1640; See Town Seal.

• Town of Braintree, Massachusetts, USA Government Home Page

• Braintree Historical Society

• Directory listing of G4 Tiff images of the "History of Braintree Mass.", published in 1878 by William S. Pattee, MD.  Scanned and OCRed for the Free Books Online Effort!!!  See the Index to available books for Massachusetts!!!

• Vital Records of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1793, Edited by Samuel A. Bates, 1886, online by Frank Dyer.

• Genealogies of Families of Braintree, Quincy, Weymouth, Randolph, Holbrook, Mass., from "Genealogy of the Families of Braintree, Mass., 1640-1850", by Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, AB.

• Braintree Town Clerk    Town Hall - 2 JFK Memorial Drive - Braintree, MA 02184   Phone: (781) 794-8244.

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  Brookline

• Town of Brookline, MA

• Brookline Community Profile - Muddy River a part of Boston founded in 1630; Brookline Town incorporated in 1705; See Town Seal.

• Brookline Historical Society

  • 347 Harvard Street - Brookline, MA 02446   Phone: (617) 566-5747

• Public Library of Brookline      361 Washington Street - Brookline, MA 02445    Phone: (617) 730-2368.

• Brookline Town Clerk    Town Hall - 333 Washington Street - Brookline, MA 02445   Phone: (617) 730-2010.

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  Canton

• Canton Community Profile - Ponkapoag 1650; Stoughton 1726; Canton Town incorporated in 1797; See Town Seal.

• Town of Canton, MA

• Canton Historical Society - Great Web Site!  (Examples below) 1400 Washington Street - Canton, MA, USA 02021

  • Doty Tavern and the Suffolk Resolves.

  • May’s Tavern - Landmark of the Revolutionary War.

• Canton Town Clerk
     Town Hall - Memorial Hall - 801 Washington Street - Canton, MA 02021
     Phone: (781) 821-5013.

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  Cohasset

• Cohasset Community Profile and links - Discovered 1614; Precinct 1717; Cohasset Town incorporated in 1770; See Town Seal.

• Cohasset, Massachusetts Community Page

  • A Brief History of Cohasset Massachusetts

• Cohasset, MA by Richard Dennis Souther - Maps, History, Cemeteries, and more.

• "The Genealogies of the Families of Cohasset, Massachusetts", by George Lyman Davenport and Elizabeth Osgood Davenport, published under the auspices of The Committee on Town History, 1909.  And Cohasset Mass. Map of 1898 in 7 parts - Scanned and OCRed 1998, by David Blackwell, for the Free Books Online Effort!!!  See the Index to available books for Massachusetts!!!

• Cohasset Town Clerk    Town Hall - 41 Highland Avenue - Cohasset, MA 02025   Phone: (781) 383-4100.

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  Dedham

• Dedham Community Profile and links - Plantation begun 1635; Incorporated in 1636; See Town Seal.

• Town of Dedham, MA

• Dedham Public Library     43 Church Street - Dedham, MA 02026     Phone: (781) 326-0583.

• Dedham Historical Society

  •  P.O. Box 215 - Dedham, MA  02027    Phone: (781) 326-1385

• Dedham Town Clerk
     P.O. Box 306 - Town Hall - 26 Bryant Street - Dedham, MA 02027
     Phone: (781) 751-9200.

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  Dover

• Dover Community Profile and links - Parish in 1748; District in 1784; See Town Seal.

• Town of Dover, MA

• Dover Days Gone By !!!

• Dover Town Library    56 Dedham Street - (Box 669) - Dover, MA 02030-0669
     Phone: (508) 785-8113      E-mail:  dover@mln.lib.ma.us

• Dover Town Clerk    P.O. Box 250 - Town Hall - 5 Springdale Avenue - Dover, MA 02030
     Phone: (508) 785-1719.

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  Foxborough

• Foxborough Community Profile and links - Town incorporated in 1778; See Town Seal.

• History of Foxboro, MA

• The Boyden Library, Foxborough, MA

• Foxborough Town Clerk
     Town Hall - 40 South Street - Foxborough, MA 02035   Phone: (508) 543-1208.

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  Franklin

• Franklin Community Profile and links - Town incorporated in 2 March 1778; See Town Seal.

• Town of Franklin, MA

• Franklin Public Library -
     118 Main Street - Franklin, MA 02038     Phone: (508) 520-4940.

• Franklin Town Clerk
     Municipal Bldg. - 150 Emmons Street - Franklin, MA 02038   Phone: (508) 520-4900.

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  Holbrook

• Holbrook Community Profile and links - Cochato in 1634; Braintree 1640; Randolph 1733; Town incorporated in 1872; See Town Seal.

• Holbrook, Massachusetts Community Page

  • History of Holbrook Massachusetts

• Genealogies of Families of Braintree, Quincy, Weymouth, Randolph, Holbrook, Mass., from "Genealogy of the Families of Braintree, Mass., 1640-1850", by Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, AB.

• Holbrook Town Clerk
     Town Hall - 50 North Franklin Street - Holbrook, MA 02343   Phone: (781) 767-4314.

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  Medfield

• Medfield Community Profile and links - Town incorporated in 1651; See Town Seal.  Parent town: Dedham.

• Town of Medfield, MA

  • History of Medfield, MA

  • Medfield Links

• Medfield Public Library      468 Main Street - Medfield, MA 02052     Phone: (508) 359-4544.

• Medfield Town Clerk    Town Hall - 459 Main Street - Medfield, MA 02052   Phone: (508) 359-8505.

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  Medway

• Medway Community Profile and links - Town incorporated in 25 October 1713; See Town Seal.

• Town of Medway, Massachusetts

• Medway Public Library    26 High Street - Medway, MA 02053   Phone: (508) 533-3217.

  • Medway History

  • Medway Massachusetts: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1850-1900, by Francis D. Donovan, Medway, Massachusetts, 1995.

  • Epitaphs From the Old West Medway Burying Ground, 1900, by Herbert N. Hixon.

• Medway Historical Society   223 Main Street, Medway, MA 02053-1613

• Medway Town Clerk    Town Hall - 155 Village Street - Medway, MA 02053   Phone: (508) 533-3204.

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  Millis

• Millis Community Profile and links - Town incorporated 24 February 1885; See Town Seal.

• Town of Millis, MA

  • History of Millis

  • Millis Genealogy

  • History of the Niagra Fire Engine Company in Millis, Norfolk County, MA.

• Millis Public Library    25 Auburn Street - Millis, MA 02054     Phone: (508) 376-8282.

• Millis Town Clerk
     Memorial Town Hall - 900 Main Street - Millis, MA 02054   Phone: (508) 376-7046.

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  Milton

• Milton Community Profile and links - Settled 1640; Town incorporated in 1662; See Town Seal.

• Town of Milton, Massachusetts

• Milton, Massachusetts Community Page

• Milton Public Library

• Milton Town Clerk    Town Hall - 525 Canton Avenue - Milton, MA 02186   Phone: (617) 696-5414.

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  Needham

• Needham Community Profile and links - Town incorporated in 1711; See Town Seal.  "...Though the area was used for some grazing by Dedham residents and some land grants were made, the river served as an effective barrier and the town was slow to develop..."

• Town of Needham, Massachusetts

• Welcome to Needham, Massachusetts Online!

• Needham Historical Society    53 Glendoon Road - Needham, MA 02192    Phone:  (781) 455-8860.

• Needham Free Public Libary   1139 Highland Avenue - Needham, MA 02494    Phone: (781) 455-7559.

• Needham Town Clerk    P.O. Box 663 - Town Hall - 1471 Highland Avenue - Needham, MA 02492
     Phone: (781) 455-7510.

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  Norfolk

• Norfolk Community Profile and links - Town incorporated in 23 February 1870; See Town Seal.   "There were a half dozen small farms in the town after 1669...It was abandoned during the King Philip's war, and when Norfolk was re-established settlers relied on agriculture and cattle grazing with some considerable lumbering and planting of orchards..."

• Town of Norfolk, MA

• Norfolk, MA Community

• Norfolk Town Clerk   P.O.Box 216 - Town Hall - One Liberty Lane - Norfolk, MA 02056
     Phone: (508) 528-1400.

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  Norwood

• Norwood Community Profile and links - Town incorporated 23 February 1872; See Town Seal.

• Town of Norwood, Massachusetts

  • Brief History of Norwood

• Morrill Memorial Library    P.O. Box 220, 14 Peabody Road - Norwood, MA 02062    Phone: (781) 769-0200.

• Norwood Town Clerk   P.O. Box 40 - Town Hall - 566 Washington Street - Norwood, MA 02062
     Phone: (781) 762-1240 x151.

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  Plainville

• Plainville Community Profile and links - Wrentham 1673 to 1905; Plainville Town incorporated 4 April 1905; See Town Seal.

• Plainville, MA Community and Links

• North Attleboro & Plainville Chamber of Commerce

• Plainville Public Library

• Plainville Town Clerk   P.O.Box 1717 - Town Hall - 142 South Street - Plainville, MA 02762
     Phone: (508) 695-3142 x19.

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  Quincy

• Quincy Community Profile - "...First settled in 1625 by traders, Quincy was established as a town in 1792 and incorporated as a city in 1888..."; See Town Seal.

• City of Quincy

• Thomas Crane Public Library has Quincy Now and Then

  • Historic Photographs of Quincy

• Adams National Historic Site

• Discover Quincy - History and Tourism

• Genealogies of Families of Braintree, Quincy, Weymouth, Randolph, Holbrook, Mass., from "Genealogy of the Families of Braintree, Mass., 1640-1850", by Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, AB.

• Quincy Town Clerk   City Hall - 1305 Hancock Street - Quincy, MA 02169    Phone: (617) 376-1131.

• Wollaston:  - Map of Wollaston Historical Post Office location, (includes the area south of Boston), west of Quincy, MA.

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  Randolph

• Randolph Community Profile and links - Town incorporated 1793; See Town Seal.

• Town of Randolph, Massachusetts

• Randolph Town Clerk   Town Hall - 41 South Main Street - Randolph, MA 02368    Phone: (781) 961-0900.

  • Vital Records Information

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  Sharon

• Sharon Community Profile and links - 2nd Precinct in 1740 Stoughton; Sharon Town incorporated in 1765; See Town Seal.

• Town of Sharon, Massachusetts

• Chestnut Hill: at the northeastern edge of Sharon, MA.

• Sharon Public Library

• Sharon Town Clerk   Town Hall - 90 South Main Street - Sharon, MA 02067    Phone: (781) 784-1505.

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  Stoughton

• www.StoughtonHistory.com, by David Allen Lambert

• Stoughton Community Profile - Town incorporated in 1726; See Town Seal.

• Town of Stoughton, MA

• Stoughton, MA Chamber of Commerce

• Stoughton Historical Society    Phone: (781) 344-5456

• Stoughton Public Library     84 Park Street, P.O. Box 209 - Stoughton, MA  02072  Phone: (781) 344-2711

• Stoughton Town Clerk   Town Hall - 10 Pearl Street - Stoughton, MA 02072    Phone: (781) 341-1300 x269.

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  Walpole

• Walpole Community Profile and links - Town incorporated in 1724; See Town Seal.  "...The route of the Post Road traversed Walpole in which weekly postal service began in 1693 between New Hampshire and Baltimore; then later the first stagecoach line in New England which began in 1718..."

• Town of Walpole, MA

• Walpole Public Library

• Walpole Town Clerk   Town Hall - 135 School Street - Walpole, MA 02081   Phone: (580) 660-7296.

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  Wellesley

• Wellesley Community Profile and links - Town incorporated 6 April 1881; See Town Seal.  Parent town:  Needham.

• Official Town of Wellesley, Massachusetts Web Site

• Wellesley Free Library    530 Washington Street - Wellesley, MA 02482    Phone: (781) 235-1610.

• Wellesley Town Clerk   Town Hall - 525 Washington Street - Wellesley, MA 02482    Phone: (781) 431-1019 x250.

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  Westwood

• Westwood Community Profile and links - Part of Dedham 1636 to 1897; Westwood Town incorporated 2 April 1897; See Town Seal.

• Town of Westwood, MA

• Westwood Public Library

• Westwood Town Clerk   Town Hall - 580 High Street - Westwood, MA 02090    Phone: (781) 326-3964.

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  Weymouth

• Weymouth Community Profile and links - Wessagusset 1622; Weymouth Town incorporated in 1635; See Town Seal.

• Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts

  • Weymouth History

• South Shore Network : Weymouth community page

  • Weymouth Massachusetts History

• Weymouth Historical Society    P.O. Box 56 - Weymouth, MA 02190

  • History of Weymouth

• Tufts Library
     46 Broad Street - Weymouth, MA 02188

• Town of Weymouth, MA        75 Middle Street - East Weymouth, MA 02189   Phone: (781) 335-2000
       Town Clerk:  Phone: (781) 335-2000.
  East Weymouth, North Weymouth, South Weymouth

• Weymouth Town Clerk   Town Hall - 75 Middle Street - Weymouth, MA 02189    Phone: (781) 335-2000 x346.

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  Wrentham

• Wrentham Community Profile and links - Located 1660 (Wollonopaug); Town incorporated in 1673; See Town Seal.

• Wrentham, MA community page

  • Wrentham History

• Wrentham Historical Society

• Fiske Public Library

• Wrentham Town Clerk
    Town Hall - 79 South Street - Wrentham, MA 02093     Phone: (508) 384-5415.

Additional Research Resources:

• Official Commonwealth of Massachusetts web site.

  • Massachusetts City and Town Clerk Directory.

• 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.

• Use the query form, at USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and more.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.

• NARA: National Archives and Records Administration

  • The Genealogy Page.

  • About Census Records

  • 1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses Catalog of NARA Microfilm

  • 1930 Census Microfilm Locator

  • The Soundex Indexing System

  • Clues in Census Records, 1790-1840

  • Clues in Census Records, 1850-1930

  • Indian Census Rolls

  • Nonpopulation Census Records

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

  • Native American Records

  • Immigration Records and Naturalization Records

• Massachusetts 1895 Atlas, by Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net

• 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.

Professional  Research
Ann McRoden Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching onsight, and with the vast resources of The Allen County Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America.  Search the Library's online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a location or topic.

Printed resources for this page include:

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

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