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:

• Births, 1698–1802; Marriages, 1745–1783; and Deaths 1730–1783
• Marriages solemnized in other towns (from Vol. III of town records)
• Births and Deaths by Families 1785–1841 (from Vol. IV of town records)
• Second Book of Records of Births and Deaths 1816–1846, AD 1838 (from Vol. VIII of town records)
• Records of marriage (1841–1844)
• Intentions of marriage (1796–1807 [partial] and 1841–1859)

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.

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