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Gloucester (/ˈɡlɒstər/ GLOST-ər) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore. The population was 29,729 at the 2020 U.S. Census.[2] An important center of the fishing industry and a popular summer destination, Gloucester consists of an urban core on the north side of the harbor and the outlying neighborhoods of Annisq...
Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the total population was 743,159, making it the third-most populous county in Massachusetts. It is part of the Greater Boston area (the Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan Statistical Area). The largest city in Essex County is Lynn. It has two county seats: Salem and Lawrence. P...
From the Wikipedia article on Northeastern University .Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private, research university in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1898. It is categorized as a RU/H Research University (high research activity) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.The university offers undergraduate and graduate programs leading to doctoral degrees...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Worcester County was established on April 02, 1731 and was named after the city of Worcester, England. Worcester County was formed from the eastern portion of colonial Hampshire County, the western portion of the original Middlesex County and the extreme western portion of the original Suffolk Count...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Norfolk County, Massachusetts was created on March 26, 1793, by legislation signed by Governor John Hancock. Most of the towns were originally part of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The towns of Dorchester and Roxbury were part of Norfolk County when it was created but, as Boston annexed each town, the...
Wikipedia Suffolk University is a private, non-sectarian research university located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. With 10,192 students (includes all campuses, 8,891 at the Boston location alone), it is the eighth largest university in the City of Boston. It is categorized as a Doctoral Research University by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. I...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented shared family tree for the Starbuck , Coffin , Gardner and related families, from earlier origins to near modern times Overview The Starbuck and Coffin families were a group of whalers operating out of Nantucket, Massachusetts from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Some members of the family gained wider exposure due to t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Official Website The Wampanoag Indians under sachem Massasoit (or Ousamequin) were living in this area when the earliest Europeans arrived. The county seat is the town of Plymouth, the site of the first permanent European settlement in New England (1620); Plymouth Rock State Park commemorates the lan...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Official Website Hampshire County was constituted in 1662 from previously unorganized territory comprising the entire western part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. The county is named after the county Hampshire, in England. Adjacent Counties Franklin County Berkshire County Hampden County Worc...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. For Geni projects related to Suffolk County, please see: Community Projects City of Boston Early & Notable Families of Charlestown Early Families of Roxbury Original Settlers of Dedham Scots at the Braintree Furnace (1653) Braintree Iron Works (1643-1736)
This subportal is part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Portal and the Cemeteries, Memorials & Graveyards Portal . Within the 351 towns and cities that make up the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , there are approximately 1,301 cemeteries. These range from small, private family burying grounds with only a few graves to large public cemeteries covering hundreds of acres with hundreds ...
Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country. Harvard's history, influence, and ...
Boston University (most commonly referred to as BU or otherwise known as Boston U. ) is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but is historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church.The university has more than 3,800 faculty members and 33,000 students, and is one of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, maste...
Wikipedia Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. Researchers worked on comp...
Goal is to correct and document the Shattuck Families. Send a message to a collaborator to join up, and bring your ancestors profiles to the project. Feel free to update the project page, add documents & images ...==Notables==* "widow" Damaris Shattuck 1st emigrant* William Shattock , of Boston. Not to be confused with * William Shattuck , of Watertown, "the progenitor"* Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1...
Wikipedia Milton Academy (also known as Milton) is a coeducational, independent preparatory, boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts consisting of a grade 9–12 Upper School and a grade K–8 Lower School. Boarding is offered starting in 9th grade. Milton is noted for its prestige and strong academic programs, having produced many notable alumni, including a Nobel Laureate, several memb...
School=Groton School is a private Episcopal college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, United States. It enrolls approximately 372 boys and girls, from the eighth through twelfth grades.The school is a member of the Independent School League and is widely recognized as one of the most selective, elite, exclusive boarding schools in New England and one of the world's t...
Wikipedia Western New England University is a private university in Springfield, Massachusetts. Academic programs are provided through its College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, College of Engineering, School of Law, and College of Pharmacy. In recognition of its master's and doctoral programs, the institution officially changed its name from Western New England College to Wester...
The founding heritage of the Chandler family is in the Anglo-Saxon culture that once dominated in Britain. The name Chandler comes from when one of the family worked as a person who makes and sells candles. More rarely, the surname Chandler may have been applied to someone who had the responsibility of lighting the candles in a large house or someone who owed rent in the form of wax or candles....
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Concord, Massachusetts. Official Website From Wikipedia Concord (/ˈkɒŋkərd/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. In the 2020 census, the town population was 18,491.[2] The United States Census Bureau considers Concord part of Greater Boston. The town center is near where the Sudbury and Assabet rivers join t...
Wikipedia Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The university is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and the French Alps. The university emphasizes active citizenship and public service in all of its disciplines...
This project is part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Portal and United States with Counties, Areas, & Communities Portal About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Massachusetts. You can add profiles for: People born in Massachusetts People who lived in Massachusetts People who died in Massachusetts When you find helpful...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . About the Massachusetts project The Massachusetts project is created in order to facilitate those researching ancestors or relatives in Massachusetts or elsewhere in the world but with roots or relatives in Massachusetts. We encourage everyone with links in Massachusetts to communicate and explore a common ancestry -- and to add the tag "Mas...
The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered that "the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires". Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading.[4] In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Boston annexed several adjacent cities and to...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Boston, Mass. Official Website Boston , officially the City of Boston , is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of 48.4 square miles and a populatio...