USGenWeb Genealogical Site for the Town of
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Cohasset Massachusetts (Formerly the East Precinct of Hingham) Norfolk County |
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Including the Villages of Beechwood, Black Rock, North Cohasset and Reed's Corner
See also the site for the parent town of Hingham (Plymouth County)
Souther Ice House, Lily Pond,
Cohasset (late 1800s)
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December 24, 2009 — Welcome to the revised USGenWeb Cohasset site. After many years of service Richard Dennis Souther has passed the torch to me. I'll be posting notices here as new resources are added to the site.
December 25, 2009 — The transcription of the published Vital Records of Cohasset has been moved here from my Hingham site.
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Family Researchers and Websites
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Books and Records
You can find copies of books for sale by using the search engine at Bookfinder.com.
Books that are no longer in copyright can often be found online at Internet Archive Text Archive, Family History Archives or Google Books. Additional books are available through two sites that many libraries offer access to - Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest Online.
Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Cohasset, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1916).
George Lyman Davenport and Elizabeth Osgood Davenport, The Genealogies of the Families of Cohasset Massachusetts (Cohasset, MA: Committee on Town History, 1909; repr. Somersworth, NH: New England History Press, 1984).
E. Victor Bigelow, A Narrative History of the Town of Cohasset Massachusetts, Vol. I (Cohasset, MA: The Committee on Town History, 1898).
Burtram J. Pratt, A Narrative History of the Town of Cohasset Massachusetts, Vol. II (Cohasset, MA: The Committee on Town History, 1956).
Jacob Flint, Two Discourses, Containing the History of the Church and Society In Cohasset (Boston: Printed by Munroe and Francis, 1822).
Centennial Anniversary of the Town of Cohasset, May 7, 1870 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1870). Contains a number of orations on the occasion.
Commemoration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Independent Government of the Town of Cohasset (Cohasset, MA: The Pageant Committee, 1922).
Cohasset U.S.A. 200 Years (Cohasset, MA: Cohasset Bicentennial in cooperation with Cohasset Historical Society, 1970).
Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Cohasset, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1916).
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Published Vital Records 1775 to 1850:
Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Cohasset, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1916).
Vital Records 1775 to present:
Town Clerk
Cohasset Town Hall
41 Highland Ave.
Cohasset, MA 02025
781-383-4100
Hours: Mon., Wed., Thu. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Tue. 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Vital Records 1842-1915:
Massachusetts Archives
220 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
617-727-2816
Fax: 617-288-8429
Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sat. 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Vital Records 1916 to present:
Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
150 Mount Vernon St., 1st Floor
Dorchester, MA 02125-3105
617-740-2600
Or order online:
Births
Marriages
Divorces
Deaths
Massachusetts Vital Records Information from Ancestry.com
Deeds and Probate
Norfolk County Registry of Deeds
649 High St.
Dedham, MA 02026-1831
781-461-6101
Fax: 781-326-4246
Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Norfolk Probate and Family Court
35 Shawmut Rd.
Canton, MA 02021
781-830-1200
Fax: 781-830-4310
Hours: Mon. - Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Paul Pratt Memorial Library
35 Ripley Rd.
Cohasset, MA 02025
Phone: 781-383-1348
Hours: Mon., Tue., Thu. 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Wed., Fri. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sat. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Closed on holidays.
Cohasset Historical Society
Paul Pratt Memorial Library Building
106 South Main St.
Cohasset, MA 02025
Phone: 781-383-1434
Open by appointment
Cohasset Historical Commission
179 South Main St.
Cohasset, MA 02025
Phone: 781-383-0234
South Shore Genealogical Society
PO Box 396
Norwell, MA 02061
Email: soshoregen@yahoo.com
Meetings: The second Saturday of each month (except July and August) at 1:30 p.m. at the John Curtis Free Library, Rte. 139, Hanover, MA.
For beginners, amateurs and professionals interested in genealogical research in Plymouth and Norfolk Counties.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215-3695
617-536-1608
Hours: Mon. - Weds. 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; Thurs. 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Fri. 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; Closed weekends.
New England Historic Genealogical Society
99 Newbury St.
Boston, MA 02116-3007
617-536-5740
Fax: 617-536-7307
Library Hours: Tues. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Weds. - Thurs. 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Fri. - Sat. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Winter Hours (Dec. - Mar.): Tues. - Weds. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Thurs. 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Fri. - Sat. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The library is closed for some holidays - call or see the website for details.
For non-members there is a daily admisssion fee for the research library.
NEHGS is nation's oldest genealogical society, founded in 1845. It offers unsurpassed resources for New England research including the Boston research library of over 200,000 volumes. Members not in the Boston area appreciate the circulating library of more than 30,000 volumes and online resources including all issues of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, the nation's oldest genealogical journal, published quarterly since 1847.
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Cohasset was established August 23, 1775, from the East Precinct of Hingham.
| 1776 | (Prov.) | 754 | 1790 | (U.S.) | 817 | 1800 | (U.S.) | 849 | 1810 | (U.S.) | 994 | |||
| 1820 | (U.S.) | 1,099 | 1830 | (U.S.) | 1,233 | 1840 | (U.S.) | 1,471 | 1850 | (U.S.) | 1,775 | |||
| 1855 | (State) | 1,879 | 1860 | (U.S.) | 1,953 | 1865 | (State) | 2,048 | 1870 | (U.S.) | 2,130 | |||
| 1875 | (State) | 2,197 | 1880 | (U.S.) | 2,182 | 1885 | (State) | 2,216 | 1890 | (U.S.) | 2,448 | |||
| 1895 | (State) | 2,474 | 1900 | (U.S.) | 2,759 | 1905 | (State) | 2,727 | 1910 | (U.S.) | 2,585 | |||
| 1915 | (State) | 2,800 | 1920 | (U.S.) | 2,639 | 1925 | (State) | 2,913 | 1930 | (U.S.) | 3,083 | |||
| 1935 | (State) | 3,418 | 1940 | (U.S.) | 3,111 | 1945 | (State) | 3,540 | 1950 | (U.S.) | 3,731 | |||
| 1955 | (State) | 4,729 | 1960 | (U.S.) | 5,840 | 1965 | (State) | 6,559 | 1970 | (U.S.) | 6,954 | |||
| 1975 | (State) | 7,785 | 1980 | (U.S.) | 7,174 | 1990 | (U.S.) | 7,075 | 2000 | (U.S.) | 7,261 |
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South Shore Vocational Technical High School
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Commonwealth Communities page for Cohasset
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Massachusetts Genealogy - USGenWeb
The USGenWeb Project - Home Page
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Please note that although I was born and raised about 15 miles from Cohasset I now live hundreds of miles away and do not have easy access to the town.
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USGenWeb Cohasset, MA, commenced 1998.
Created by Richard Dennis Souther.
Revised and maintained since 24-Dec-2010 by Dale H. Cook.
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