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The purpose of this project is to share resources to assist researchers document the founding families of Marblehead in the 16th century and shortly thereafter.
- Vital records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849: Volume I (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. 1903) Births
- Vital records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849: Volume II (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. 1904) Marriages and Deaths
- Vital records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 Collected by Joseph W Chapman Volume III (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. 1908) Supplementary Records
- Vital records of Marblehead, Massachusetts From 1850 Through 1976 Volume II edited by Betty J Brown, Town Clerk (Published by Town Marblehead, MA: Clerk's Office, 1984) Births (Limited Circulation In print only message Roland if you need a birth or marriage looked up from either volume.)
- Vital records of Marblehead, Massachusetts From 1850 Through 1976 Volume II edited by Betty J Brown, Town Clerk (Published by Town Marblehead, MA: Clerk's Office, 1990) Marriages (Limited Circulation In print only message Roland if you need a birth or marriage looked up from either volume.)
- Marblehead Museum's Documents from Marblehead’s History
- Marblehead Museum's Marblehead 101
- Marblehead Museum's Marblehead Soldiers, Sailors and POW’s in the American Revolution
- Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex Co. Mass., 9 vols. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1911) On Hathitrust
- Original deeds at Essex Co. Court House, Salem, Mass.
- The Essex Genealogist. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) On AmericanAncestors.org
- The Probate Records of Essex Co., Mass., 3 vols. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1916) See Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881 and Essex County, MA: Early Probate Records, 1635-1681
Sidney Perley at rocky crevice near Salem Witch Trials execution Site
- Sidney Perley (1858–1928), Marblehead in the Year 1700 (Historical Collections of the (Marblehead, MA: Essex Institute, Various Years) Available in PDF Includes a concise analysis of deeds for genealogical purposes.
- Sidney Perley (1858–1928), The History of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass.: Sidney Perley, 1924) On Hathitrust
- Essex County Historical and Genealogical Register (Ipswich, Mass.: M. V. Perley, [1894%E2%80%9395]%29 On AmericanAncestors.org
The Essex Antiquarian Vol 1
- The Essex Antiquarian, 13 vols. (n.p., 1897– 1909) On Hathitrust and on AmericanAncestors.org
- Thomas E Gray, The Founding of Marblehead (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1984)
- Glenn A Messinger, Cemetery Inscription: Waterside Cemetery, Mablehead, Massachusetts (manuscript 1982) in the personal collections of Roland Henry Baker, III This volume is important as it includes monuments no longer standing or now illegible.
- Helen Louise (Dixey) Doane (1914-1983) (manuscripts, various years) includes genealogies of many important founding Marblehead Families in rough handwritten outline (In the personal collection of Thomas E Gray and a few volumes (Green, Gilbert and Martin) are in the personal collection of Roland Henry Baker, III
Hannah Lucy Tutt (1860-1952), first secretary and historian of the Marblehead Historical Society
- Hannah Lucy Tutt (1860-1952), first secretary and historian of the Marblehead Historical Society (typed manuscrpt, various years) originally stored at Abbott Hall current location unknown. Many are in the personal collection of Helen Hunt's family in Marblehead. A copy of the Barker, Brown, Devereaux, Harris, Martin, Nicholson-Hopper and Pedrick Genealogies (only) are in the personal collection of Roland Henry Baker, III
Samuel Roads, Jr 1856-1904
- Samuel Roads, Jr (1853–1904), The History and Traditions of Marblehead (Boston, MA: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1880)
- Marblehead Magazine
- Martin Cemetery Records in the possession of Roland Henry Baker, III
- Lee Wiegand's Tree has documentation for Knott, Martin, Adams, Gale, Pittman, Proctor, Bassett, Pedrick, Peach, Nicholson, Devereaux, Stasey and a few other early families of Marblehead.
Detail of headstone of Elizabeth Goodwin d. Old Burial Hill, Marblehead
- Marblehead Cemeteries on FindAGrave.com: Waterside Cemetery,Harbor View Cemetery, Harris Street Cemetery, Hooper Tomb, Old Burial Hill, Green Street Cemetery, Hathaway Tomb, The Star of the Sea Cemetery, The Mugford Street Unitarian Cemetery, St. Michaels Episcopal Cemetery
- Marblehead Musings
- Old Marblehead Sea Captains Includes lists, Illistrations and biographies of some of Marblhead's ships and Mariners.
- National Park Service Pedrick Storehouse page
- Edward Rowe Snow Various Books about Maritime History
- Photos of the Houses of early Marblehead Families
- Richard Whiting Searle (1891-1980), Marblehead Great Neck (Salem, Massachusetts: Newcomb & Gauss Co., 1937) pp. 12-14 Available on Ancestry.com and Open Library Richard Searle was a Harvard Graduate and a pilot in World War I and II born Boston died Connecticut lived in Marblehead.
- Marblehead Historical Commission See Catalog Search and Resources
- Essex Society of Genealogists, Inc.
- "Colonial Marblehead: From Rogues to Revolutionaries" Paperback – July 10, 2008 by Lauren Fogle
Original Founders of Marblehead
The following list includes those listed to be taxed in Marblehead on 1 Jan 1637 as well as those listed as stinted by 1647 and those listed with lots before 1650:
- Timothy Allen
- Isaac Allerton (His daughter Remember m Moses Maverick starting the Marblehead Mayflower lineage.
- William Barber
- John Bartoll
- Philip Beare
- John Bennett
- Thomas Bowen
- Robert Burrows
- William Charles
- William Chichester
- George Chinn
- John Clement
- John Coite
- Henry Coombs
- Roger Conant
- Richard Cooke
- Samuel Corwithen (Carwithey)
- David Corwithen (Corwithy, Corwinge)
- Richard Curtice (Curtis)
- Samuel Dalliber (Dollaber)
- Joseph Dalliber (Dollaber)
- John Devereaux
- John Gatchell
- Samuel Gatchell
- John Goyt
- Thomas Gray
- Richard Greeneway
- John Hart
- Thomas Hicks
- Mack Huckstable
- Erasmus James
- Francis Johnson
- Robert Knight
- Christopher Latimor
- John Legg
- Nicholas Listen
- William Lucke
- John Lyon
- Nicholas Mariott
- Moses Maverick
- Nicholas Merritt
- Edmund Nicholson
- Richard Norman
- John Norman
- John Northy
- Benjamin Parmitor (Parmeter)
- John Peach
- William Pitt or Pitts
- Peter Pittford
- Thomas Pittman
- Richard Rowland
- John Russell
- Thomas Sams
- Arther Sanden
- Richard Seers
- Francis Simson
- James Smith
- John Stacie (Stacey)
- Henry Stacie (Stacey)
- William Stephens
- Anthony Thatcher
- David Thomas
- Archibald Tomson
- George Vickary
- John Wakefield
- Mr Walsingham
- Mr Walton
- Whitaker Whittier
Later Founders of Marblehead
The following can be found shortly after 1650 (most of them by 1674) with a few genealogically important families coming later in the 17th century or the turn of the 18th century (feel free to add to this list):
- John Brimblecomb
- William Brown
- James Dennis
- Edward Diamond
- Elias Fortune
- Robert Gifford
- Richard Goss
- Francis Grant
- Peter Green
- John Green
- John Hoyle
- Richard Knott
- John Martin
- John Pedrick (Pederick)
- Mark Pitman
- Andrew Tucker
- William Waters
- Mishael West
- Philip Alley
- William Bartholemew
- Robert Bartlett
- William Beal
- Widow Boatson
- Thomas Bourne
- George Bradfield
- David Cartwithey
- Matthew Clarke
- John Codnar
- Josiah Codnar
- Thomas Cowley
- Richard Crocker
- Samuel Curdy
- George Darling
- Thomas Dixie
- Thomas Dodd
- Thomas Ellis
- Nicholas Fox
- Ambrose Gale
- Alexander Gilligan
- George Godfry
- Francis Godler (Girdler)
- S. Griggs
- Philip Harding
- John Harris
- Richard Hemeford
- Elias Henly
- Robert Houper (Hooper)
- John Houper (Hooper)
- William Lightfoot
- Samuel Morgan
- Samuel Nicholson
- William Nick
- George Picke
- William Post
- Thomas Pousland
- William Pow
- Edward Read
- Richard Read
- Thomas Read
- Thadeus Redden
- Samuel Reed
- Richard Reith
- John Roads
- John Roads
- Edward Roman
- Thomas Rose
- Mr. Samuel
- Samuel Sarding
- James Smith
- Dinson Stilson
- Thomas Tainors
- Henry Trevett
- Thomas Trevy
- John Tribby
- John Waldern
- Samuel Ward
- James Watts
- Thomas White
- John Williams
- William Woods
- John Darby
Mablehead Family Genealogies
- Derby, Perley.The descendants of Thomas White of Marblehead, and Mark Haskell of Beverly, Mass. With a brief notice of the Coombs Family. (Salem, Massachusetts. 1872)
- Webster D. Derby, (1840-) Derby genealogy : a record of the descendants of John Darby of Marblehead, Mass., ten generations (Keene, MA: Darling & Co., Printers, 1903)
- Ben H. Swett, THE SWETT FAMILY OF MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS (Database Online 2002)
- The Louis Russell Genealogy Part 1 PDF and Part 2 PDF
- Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone, Wife of James Patten of Arundel [Kennebunkport], Maine (Portland, Me.: Southworth Press, 1930)
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