Plymouth County MA

History of Kingston Massachusetts

An historical sketch about Kingston, Plymouth County, Massachusetts as abstracted from the Plymouth County Directory and Historical Register of 1867. Includes a list of the men from Kingston who gave their life during the Revolutionary War.

1867 Plymouth County Massachusetts Directory, Eating Houses to Furniture Manufacturers

Eating Houses (See also Oysters & Refreshments) Edge Tool Manufacturers  Jacobs Jos & Son, Hingham Embroidery Stamping Thomas B. O., North Bridgewater Expresses Abington, Ford, 3 Washington St. Boston Bridgewater, Alden, 5 Congress sq. Campello, Hancock, 5 Congress sq. Campello, K. B. Kinsley, 11 State East Abington, Randall, 3 Washington East Bridgewater, Sampson & Co., 5 Congress sq. …

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Descendants of Captain Michael Pierce

The Pierce family is one of the ancient Colonial families of the Commonwealth, the forerunners of the name playing a conspicuous part as masters of vessels bringing hither emigrants from England. For several generations there has lived in New Bedford a branch of the old Rehoboth and Swansea Pierce family, descendants of Capt. Michael Pierce, …

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1867 Plymouth County Massachusetts Directory, Rivet Manufacturers to Surveyors

Rivet Manufacturers Cobb Benj. & Co., Kingston Old Colony Rivet Co., Hall Bros. & Co., Plymouth Cobb & Drew, Plymouth Plymouth Tack and Rivet Works, Samuel Loring, propr., Plymouth Plymouth Mills, J. Farris, Agent, Plymouth Rolling Mills (See also Iron Manufacturers) Lazell, Perkins & Co., Bridgewater Rogers & Sheldon, East Bridgewater Robinson Iron Co., Plymouth Wood …

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1867 Hanson Massachusetts Directory

Adams Russell W. farmer Aldridge Stillman, farmer Ames John C. box maker Ames Marcus, farmer Amos Marcus F. peddler Arnold Caleb, shoemaker Banican Patrick, farmer Bailey George C. shoemaker Baldwin C. H. farmer Barker Benjamin, farmer Barker Bowen, physician Barker John, farmer Barker Josiah, farmer Barker Lot P. farmer Barker Philip H. shoemaker Barrows Alfred, …

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Ancestors of Nelson Sherman of Carver and Brockton, Massachusetts

Nelson Sherman, who was for many years extensively engaged in agricultural pursuits in the town of Carver, Mass., and is now making his home in the city of Brockton, is regarded as one of the substantial men of Plymouth county. He is a descendant of several of this Commonwealth’s earliest settled and most prominent families, and was born March 14, 1841, in North Carver, son of Henry and Christinai (Crocker) Sherman.

Chandler Family of Boston and East Bridgewater MA

This Boston – East Bridgewater Chandler family, the head of which was the late Hon. Peleg Whitman Chandler, long one of the leading counselors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and one of a family of lawyers, comes of a Massachusetts-Maine branch of the ancient Duxbury family whose progenitor was Edmund Chandler. The branch just alluded to for several generations at New Gloucester and Bangor, Maine, and at Boston in this Commonwealth, has been one of liberal education, college-bred men, men who have adorned the legal profession, and it has allied itself through generations with a number of the ancient and first families of the Old Colony. There follows in chronological order from Edmund Chandler, the first American ancestor of this branch of American Chandlers, and in detail the family history and genealogy.

Biographical Sketch of Moses Rowley

Moses, son of Henry Rowley, was born about 1630, died in 1705, at East Haddam, Connecticut. He married, April it, 1652, at Barnstable, Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Matthew Fuller, soldier and surgeon-general of the colony. She died at East Haddam, or Colchester, Connecticut, after 1714. Moses is mentioned in the will of William Palmer as …

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Historical Leaders of Plymouth County Massachusetts

Incorporated June 2, 1685 – Shire Town – Plymouth. County Officers Judge of Probate and Insolvency, Wm. H. Wood, Middleboro. Register of Probate and Insolvency, Daniel E. Damon, Plymouth. Clerk of Courts, William H. Whitman, Plymouth. Register of Deeds, William S. Danforth, Plymouth County Treasurer, William E. Sever, Plymouth. Overseers of House of Correction William …

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History of Lakeville Massachusetts

An historical sketch about Lakeville, Plymouth County, Massachusetts as abstracted from the Plymouth County Directory and Historical Register of 1867. Includes a list of the men from Lakeville who gave their life during the Revolutionary War.

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