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Barnstable, Massachusetts, Probate Records 1685–1789

The town of Barnstable on Cape Cod is one of the earliest settlements in Massachusetts and home to many Mayflower families and their descendants. Gustavus Aldolphus Hinckley (1822-1905) transcribed the records from the Barnstable County Probate Court. The transcribed records include all extant Barnstable probate records for the period 1685–1723, and records of Barnstable residents only for 1723–1789.

This six-volume collection of probate records was originally published by NEHGS in 2002 as part of the Records of Barnstable, Massachusetts, CD-ROM. This database, which contains only the probate records from the CD, indexes references to 11,773 names. Images of the 1,184 record page transcriptions as compiled for the CD are available from the search results pages.

These records were taken from the Gustavus Adolphus Hinckley papers, 1883-1905, which are available to members at the NEHGS research library, call number Mss 419.  The Records of Barnstable, Massachusetts on CD-ROM is also available in the microtext department, call number F74.B14 R43 2002 CD.

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