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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...
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 referred to as GR2 Belleville Cemetery in the "Vital Records of Newburyport Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849" and GR4 Queen Anne's Churchyard, Belleville, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, in the "Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Volume II. Marriages and Deaths. Queen Anne's Chapel was erected in 1711 and held the first servi...