Plymouth County, Massachusetts Genealogy Library and Resources

Plymouth County

Cities and Towns: Hingham, Duxbury, Norwell, Scituate, Marion, Hull, Marshfield, Hanover, Kingston, Plympton, Pembroke, Lakeville, Rochester, Halifax, Plymouth, West Bridgewater, Abington, Hanson, East Bridgewater, Whitman, Middleborough, Rockland, Bridgewater Carver, Wareham, Brockton.

Map: Plymouth County, Massachusetts 1857 (click to enlarge), Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Personal Library

North Bridgewater

Plymouth

*The Ropemakers of Plymouth, A History of the Plymouth Cordage Company, 1824–1949,* Samuel Eliot Morison, 1950.

Newspapers

Genealogy Bank, Plymouth
2005 – current
1822-1827
1866

Legacy Obituaries, Plymouth

Virtual Libraries

Digitized copy of History of Plimouth Plantation manuscript, William Bradford, 1630-1650, State Library of Massachusetts

History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches, Part 2, D. Hamilton Hurd, 1884. Ancestry, searchable

Records of the colony of New Plymouth in New England, Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633-1644, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, M.D., editor, 1855.

Plymouth Cordage News, Plymouth Library
1945 – 1947 – 1949 – 1953

Yearbooks

Plymouth, Massachusetts Yearbooks, 1930-2016

Vital Records

Town of Plymouth Births

1843 to 1845
1846 – 1847 – 1848 – 1849
1850 – 1851 – 1852 – 1853 – 1854
1855 – 1856 – 1857 – 1858 – 1859
1860 – 1861 – 1862 – 1863 – 1864
1865 – 1866 – 1867 – 1868 – 1869
1870 – 1871 – 1872 – 1873 – 1874
1875 – 1876 – 1877 – 1878 – 1879
1880 – 1881 – 1882 – 1883 – 1884
1885 – 1886 – 1887 – 1888 – 1889
1890 – 1891 – 1892 – 1893 – 1894
1895 – 1896 – 1897 – 1898 – 1899
1900 – 1901 – 1902 – 1903 – 1904
1905 – 1906 – 1907 – 1908 – 1909
1910 – 1911 – 1912 – 1913 – 1914
1915 – 1916 – 1917
1918 Jan-May, June-Dec
1919 Jan-May, June-Dec

Town of Plymouth, Birth, Marriages, Deaths, vol. 2, 1755–1842 (Family Search 007009252, 275 images). Family groups, p. 6-370, p. 378. Marriages, p. 371-437. Deaths, p. 439-440. index to death registers, p. 441-end.

Town of Plymouth, Births 1856-1911
(Family Search, 007009254, 485 images)
Vol. 5, 1856–1873, img 3-149
Vol. 6, 1874–1893, img 152-296
Vol. 7, 1894–1908, img 300-448
Vol. 8, 1909–1911, img 451-485

Town of Plymouth Deaths
1860 – 1861 – 1862 – 1863 – 1864
1865 – 1866 – 1867 – 1868 – 1869
1870 – 1871 – 1872 – 1873 – 1874
1875 – 1876 – 1877 – 1878 – 1879
1880 – 1881 – 1882 – 1883 – 1884
1885 – 1886 – 1887 – 1888 – 1889
1890 – 1891 – 1892 – 1893 – 1894
1895 – 1896 – 1897 – 1898 – 1899
1900 – 1901 – 1902 – 1903 , May -Dec
1904 – 1905 – 1906 – 1907 – 1908
1909 – 1910 – 1911 – 1912 – 1913 –
1914 – 1915 – 1916 Jan-May, May-Dec
1917 – 1918 – 1919
1920 Jan-May, May-Dec