Vital Records of Plymouth, MA to 1850

In 2007, The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations granted permission to NEHGS to digitize and present this work. The original was originally published by Picton Press in 1993 and is now out-of-print.

From the introduction:

“Only half of the vital records to 1850, from the Plymouth Town Clerk's books, have previously appeared in print. These records are from volume one and part of volume two and constitute the first 318 pages of this book; they were taken from literal transcriptions by the legendary George E. Bowman, in The Mayflower Descendant quarterly magazine. We have compared his work to the original records and found his accuracy impressive; few discrepancies were of enough significance to warrant correction. Dr. Lee D. van Antwerp transcribed the balance of the vital records through the year 1849 from microfilm prints of the Town Clerk's records to form pages 318-649. His work was meticulously compared with the films and corrected as needed. These additional records are from volumes two and three, and from the Register. The appendix contains a few records copied from the published Plymouth Colony Records, some of which are identified as belonging to Plymouth people.”

This database contains 10,047 births, 15,484 marriages, and 2,942 deaths.

This volume is also available in our Boston research library, call number: F74.P8 V35 1993.

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