Records of Provincetown, Massachusetts 1698–1859

Provincetown, Massachusetts has been a popular destination since 1620, when the Mayflower first arrived in the New World at Provincetown Harbor. The "Province Lands" were first settled in the seventeenth century. Originally called Cape Cod Precinct, the town of Provincetown was officially formed June 14, 1727, by an act of the Massachusetts legislature. This database contains a significant portion of the ten volumes of original typescript, kept in the R. Stanton Avery Collections at NEHGS, call number MS PRO 5.

The database contains the following records:

Note: The volume containing Births, 1698–1802; Marriages, 1745–1783; and Deaths 1730–1783 does not have an actual volume number associated with it. Therefore, when the search results appear, you will see the abbreviation "BMD-Vol" (Birth, Marriage, Death Volume) under the "Volume" column instead of a number.

To locate additional genealogy and local history resources, search our library catalog.

Citation Information:

Records of Provincetown, Massachusetts 1698–1859 (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Typescript abstraction by Harry A. Smith of original records, "Records of Provincetown, Mass.," ten vols., n.d., R. Stanton Avery Collections, NEHGS, Boston, MA)

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