USGenWeb Genealogical Site for the Town of
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Rehoboth Massachusetts Bristol County |
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Including the Villages of North Rehoboth, Perrys Corner, Perryville and South Rehoboth
Goff Hall, 1866, home of the
Blanding Public Library, Rehoboth
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New Information on This Site
March 18, 2008 — We have a new address! Many USGenWeb sites have relocated, and we have, too. Please bookmark our new address.
January 24, 2008 — I've added Rehoboth baptisms from 1694 to 1707, originally published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1861.
December 29, 2004 — The Cemeteries Page has been extensively revised, adding additional information, revising the maps, and consolidating information into a definitive list of Rehoboth's fifty-two cemeteries and cemetery sites.
April 6, 2004 — I've added links to historic photographs in the Library of Congress.
March 23, 2004 — Welcome to the brand new Rehoboth USGenWeb page. I'll be posting notices here as new resources are added to the site.
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Lookups and Resources
If you have any Rehoboth material and would like to volunteer for lookups please send email to Dale H. Cook.
When requesting a lookup please use the email link following the listing for that book, limit your request to one or two specific names on separate lines, and please thank the volunteer for their time and effort.
James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rehoboth, 1642-1896 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1897) — Dale H. Cook.
1790 Census Transcriptions from Matt and Barbara's Family History Page.
1850 Census Index from Matt and Barbara's Family History Page.
1860 Census Index from Matt and Barbara's Family History Page.
Rehoboth baptisms from 1694 to 1707, originally published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1861.
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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.
James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rehoboth, 1642-1896 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1897).
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James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rehoboth, 1642-1896 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1897). See above for lookups.
Rehoboth baptisms from 1694 to 1707, originally published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1861.
Vital Records 1645 to present:
Town Clerk
Rehoboth Town Hall
148 Peck St.
Rehoboth, MA 02769-3009
508-252-6502
Fax: 508-252-5342
Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Vital Records 1841-1915:
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
Bristol County Registry of Deeds - Northern District
11 Court St.
Taunton, MA 02780
508-822-0502
Fax: 508-880-4975
Hours: Mon. - Fri. 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Bristol Probate and Family Court
11 Court St.
Taunton, MA 02780
508-824-4004
Fax: 508-999-1211
Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Blanding Public Library
124 Bay State Rd.
Rehoboth, MA 02769
508-252-4236
Hours: Mon. - Thurs. 11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Sat. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Trim Room houses a superb Rehoboth genealogical collection built around the work of the late genealogist Robert Sheldon Trim.
Rehoboth Antiquarian Society and the Carpenter Museum
P.O. Box 2
Rehoboth, MA 02769
Society: 508-252-4323
Museum: 508-252-3031
The Carpenter Museum is located at 4 Locust Ave. in Rehoboth, and is open March through November on Sundays from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., and by appointment.
Old Colony Historical Society
66 Church Green
Taunton, MA 02780
508-822-1622
Hours: Tues. - Sat. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Closed Saturdays preceding Monday holidays
Museum Admission: Adults - $4.00, Children 12-18 and Seniors - $2.00
Genealogical Research: $7.00 per day
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
101 Newbury St.
Boston, MA 02116-3007
617-536-5740
Fax: 617-536-7307
Email: nehgs@nehgs.org
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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Rehoboth's land was purchased from Massasoit by Edward Winslow and John Brown of Plymouth in 1641. The town, originally known as Seacunck, was established by Rev. Samuel Newman and a group of his Weymouth parishioners on June 4, 1643, and it was incorporated in 1645. For many years in the 17th century it was the most populous town in Plymouth Colony and then in Massachusetts. It contained the beginning and the end of King Philip's War. In 1668 Swansea was set off as a town. The North Purchase was added in 1682, and in 1694 was set off as the town of Attleborough. In 1812 the town of Seekonk was set off, containing what was the original town center of Rehoboth and most of its sources of water power.
Industries in the town have included wooden wares and jewelry. Much of the industrial activity in the town was in the part which is now Seekonk. One early industry within the present town was Ebenezer Peck's iron forge and trip hammer, started about 1722 near the Palmer River.
| 1790 | (U.S.) | 4,710 | 1885 | (State) | 1,788 | 1895 | (State) | 1,810 | 1920 | (U.S.) | 2,065 | |||
| 1930 | (U.S.) | 2,610 | 1940 | (U.S.) | 2,736 | 1950 | (U.S.) | 3,700 | 1960 | (U.S.) | 4,953 | |||
| 1970 | (U.S.) | 6,512 | 1980 | (U.S.) | 7,570 | 1990 | (U.S.) | 8,656 | 2000 | (U.S.) | 10,172 |
Colonel Thomas Carpenter House Photographs in the Library of Congress.
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Rehoboth Congregational Church (Established 1721)
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Commonwealth Communities page for Rehoboth
The Web Directory for Rehoboth
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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 20 miles from Rehoboth I now live hundreds of miles away and do not have easy access to the town.
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