Lincoln Massachusetts Genealogy

Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass. 1320–1917 was compiled by Bartlett J. Gardner and published in Boston in 1918 under the auspices of the Stone Family Association. It represented the first comprehensive genealogical study of all known descendants of Deacon Gregory Stone. Gregory was an early settler of New England who arrived in 1635 from Great Bromley and Nayland, England. Gardner includes detailed research into Gregory’s English ancestry. PDF is free to read or download.

The Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771

Massachusetts and Maine Direct Tax, 1798

The Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771 contains the names and descriptions of taxable property of nearly 38,000 individuals who resided in 152 Massachusetts towns in 1771

Free Massachusetts Vital Records

Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to 1850

This is a collection of free vital records books for Massachusetts towns, most of them known as “Tan Books.” Generally, these records go up to 1850 at which, the genealogist can use the census records to assist in identifying the family connections further. They’re called “tan books” because they were bound by tan cloth. Included with this article is an account of why and how these manuscripts were published along with links to all 274 Massachusetts vital record books which can be freely read.