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WORCESTER COUNTY, Massachusetts

*First created, in 1731, from Middlesex and Suffolk.
*County seat: Worcester.
Worcester County is located in central Massachusetts, with boundaries extending through Massachusetts, from its northern neighbor, the State of New Hampshire, to its southern neighbors the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island.  Worcester county is bordered to the east by the Massachusetts counties of Middlesex and Norfolk, and to the west are the Massachusetts counties of Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Ashburnham, Athol, Auburn, Barre, Berlin, Blackstone, Bolton, Boylston, Brookfield, Charlton, Clinton, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, East Douglas, East Templeton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Grafton, Harvard, Holden, Hopedale, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leicester, Leominster, Lunenburg, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, New Braintree, North Brookfield, North Grafton, Northborough, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Petersham, Phillipston, Princeton, Royalston, Rutland, Shrewsbury, South Grafton, South Royalston, Southborough, Southbridge, Spencer, Sterling, Sturbridge, Sutton, Templeton, Upton, Uxbridge, Warren, Webster, Westborough, West Boylston, West Brookfield, Westminster, Winchendon, and Worcester.
Unofficial Names include:  Wheelwright (P.O. Hardwick)



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Surrounding Counties 
(North = Top)


Cheshire County, New Hampshire

 

Franklin County, MA
Hampshire County, MA
Hampden County, MA

Worcester County, MA

Middlesex County, MA
Norfolk County, MA


Windham County, Connecticut  & Providence County, Rhode Island




Worcester County Communities



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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