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Charlemont, MA: Vital Records to 1850

Recorded Source Name:

Charlemont Vital Records to 1850

Place:

Deerfield, MA

Contributor:

Courtesy of Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Deerfield, MA

Description:

Early Massachusetts communities tried (not always fully successfully) to record all births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths of town residents, enslaved and free. During the late 1800s, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Essex Institute (now part of the Peabody Essex Museum), and several towns collaborated to collect and begin publishing the extant vital records of over 200 Massachusetts towns and cities, including the town of Charlemont, Massachusetts, up to the year 1850. Originally referred to as Boston Township No. 1, the area was already being called Charlemont by the time the first English colonist, Moses Rice (c1694-1755) of Sudbury, Massachusetts, settled there in 1743. It was incorporated as the town of Charlemont in 1765.

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