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This project is for those buried in North Beverly Cemetery, Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. This cemetery is referred to as GR6 North Beverly Meeting House Cemetery in the "Vital Records of Beverly Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849". The Massachusetts Historical Commission does not refer to this cemetery in MACRIS. The cemetery is also known as the North Beverly Meeting House C...
This cemetery is referred to as GR1 Old Cemetery in the "Vital Records of Wenham Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849" and WNH.801 Wenham Cemetery in the "MACRIS Survey of Massachusetts Cemeteries". It is located in Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts. Find a Grave Wenham Cemetery Commission
We are the town cemetery where generations of Danvers inhabitants have chosen to spend eternal life. Located in the heart of Danvers, Walnut Grove provides the ideal location for local families to visit and remember their loved ones. The peaceful, beautiful and historic grounds have served as a sanctuary in which to honor the memories of the departed since 1843. Walnut Grove is a non-denominat...
This cemetery is located on 446 Valley Road, Barre, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Find a Grave
Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The population was 11,315 at the 2020 census.[3] It is home to two prep schools: Lawrence Academy at Groton, founded in 1792 and the third-oldest private school in Massachusetts; and Groton School, founded in 1884.[4][5] Groton is served by state routes 40, 111, 119 and...
Pepperell is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,604 at the 2020 census.[1] It includes the village of East Pepperell. Pepperell is home to the Pepperell Center Historic District, a covered bridge, and the 1901 Lawrence Library. The library has a collection of Sidney M. Shattuck's (1876–1917) stuffed birds.[2][3][4] History Pepperell was first settl...
The property was originally owned by Elisha Fuller who gifted the land to the Town of Ludlow, in Hampden County, Massachusetts. The townspeople voted to accept the gift May 4, 1801. Although it is adjacent to the First Church of Ludlow (established in 1774) it is not affiliated with that church and belongs to the Town. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Wikipedia =Clark University is an American private university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887, it is the oldest educational institution founded as an all-graduate university in the United States. Clark now also educates undergraduates. The U.S. News & World Report ranked Clark 75th nationally in both 2015 and 2014, 83rd in 2013, and 95th in 2012. The accept...
The town of Billerica was founded from a deed of land from the Shawshin, or Billerica Indians. This site not only looks at the early settlers, but the making of towns that became the culture of America, the United States of America.In 1660, 40 families (mostly from Cambridge, then Woburn) had homes in Billerica. Some are as follows: Champney, Crosby, Danforth, French,Frost, Hamlet, Hide,Hubbard...
Passenger List of the Diligent 1638 Ipswich, Suffolk England to Boston Harbor Source: The Planters of the Commonwealth , Charles E. Banks, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. (1930), pages 191-194. DILIGENT, of Ipswich, John Martin, Master. She sailed from Ipswich, Suffolk, in June and arrived August 10 at Boston, with about one hundred passengers, principally from Hingham, Norfolk, destined ...
There are 16 names shown on the monument. Please do not add any others right now! 'Golgotha burial ground Cemetery notes and/or description: Found on Rt. 110 (Macy St.),in Amesbury Massachusetts about a half a mile East. It is the first burial ground in Amesbury but there are no markers. Memorial to the First Settlers of Amesbury 1654 in Golgotha burial ground 'It is possible that some of those...
Please add profiles (actions > add profiles) to the project: a list of early settlers is given below. Collaborators, feel free to add resources: images, documents, and more collaborators. Documents & images stored in the project can be tagged to profiles ...From A History of Brookline, Massachusetts, from the First Settlement of Muddy River Until the Present Time: 1630-1906; Commemorating the T...
Hingham is one of the oldest towns in Massachusetts. There were settlers here as early as 1633. Its first name was Bearcove or Barecove, perhaps due to , the exposure of almost its entire harbor at low tide. It was incorporated on Sept. 2, 1635, only eleven towns being incorporated earlier. In 1638, one hundred and thirty-three persons came over in the ship 'Diligent,' of Ipswich, and settled...
This will be an umbrella project to pinpoint the families who were early settlers of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Some of these already have their own projects, e.g., Captain John Johnson and Edward Riggs.>> It was said that the best people settled in Roxbury. >> They were people of substance, many of them farmers, none being 'of the poorer sort.' They struck root in the soil immediately and were en...
In The Vinton memorial, comprising a genealogy of the descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, Appendix G - The Braintree Iron Works - John Adams Vinton wrote:It has been a question, whether the first Iron Works in America were erected at Lynn or at Braintree. It is certain that both of these places had Iron Works In-fore they were established elsewhere on this continent. It is also certain th...
Forestdale Cemetery is a large Protestant cemetery. It holds many of the early industrialists of Holyoke. It's located on 304 Cabot Street, Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts Find a Grave
Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic 275-acre rural cemetery, greenspace, arboretum, and sculpture garden in the Forest Hills section of Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public municipal cemetery for Roxbury, Massachusetts, but was privatized when Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868. Forest Hills Cemetery is located in the south...
Bring your ancestor profiles on over! Must be set to "public." 6 May 1635 Quascacunquen is allowed by the Court to be a plantation ... and shall hereafter be called NEWBURY Background from , quoting from The League of Women Voters (Dead link July 2023) MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY In 1633, Thomas Parker and James Noyes, both nonconformist ministers, with a like-minded group of British subje...
Come on over and bring your "notable" ancestors with you. Profiles must be set to "public." ==Newburyport, Massachusetts: Founded 1764 (from Newbury)==* from history of Newburyport prior to 1764 is largely the history of Newbury. As a farming community, Newbury expanded rapidly, outgrowing the land along the Parker River. In 1642, a "New Town" was laid out beside the Merrimack River and residen...
This cemetery is located on 410 Main Street, Hudson, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Find a Grave
This cemetery was established about 1763. It became owned by the City of Fitchburg, in Worcester County, in about 1800. It sits on a hill and you can see the entire city from said hill. The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as FIT800. Find a Grave
Wikipedia Assumption University is a private, Roman Catholic university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Assumption was founded in 1904 by the Augustinians of the Assumption. It enrolls about 2,000 undergraduate students and offers 35 majors and 49 minors. The university confers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in its undergraduate program, and Master of Arts and Master of Business ...
Overview and Scope of Project=The goal of this project is to discover our ancestors involved in the notorious Salem Witch Trials , validate their family trees and our own connections to them, and create nigh-quality, genealogically-valid mini biographies for their Profiles.=About the Salem Witch Trials= The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county...
This is a sub-project for the Colonial Americas Master Project. New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. New England is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada (the Canadian Maritimes and Quebec) and the state of New York. In one of the earliest English...