Braintree Massachusetts Records

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Location: Braintree Massachusetts

Contents 1 Vital Records 2 Church Records 3 Probate Records 4 Land Records

Vital Records

Records of the town of Braintree, 1640-1793 by Braintree (Mass.); Bates, Samuel Austin, Publication date 1886 Archive Link Hathi Trust Link, See also: Dyer Index to the early town records

Index to records 1640-1848 and Volumes 1-3 of the original records Filmed and available at FamilySearch under: Births, marriages, intentions of marriage, and deaths, 1640-1848 [Braintree, Massachusetts]

Vital records, 1845-1900: Microfilm of documents at town clerk's office, town hall, Braintree, Massachusetts. Family Search Link

Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA. 1640-1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. Database available on American Ancestors comprising the Notes of Waldo Chamberlain Sprague compiled from a combination of church and town records. American Ancestors Database

Church Records

United First Parish Church: first gathered in 1636 as a branch of Church in Boston, was in Braintree until 1792, when the town of Quincy was split off from Braintree Official Website. Early baptism, marriage, and membership records (1672-1708) are printed in the New England Genealogical register vol 59 p87, p153, p269, p360. NEGHS has a database of Sprauge's transcription of Quincy Church Records, 1672-1870. Records are also avalible from a Family History Center under Church records, 1688-1848 [Quincy, Massachusetts ] and on Microfilm under Church records, 1728-1921 [Quincy, Massachusetts]. Congregational meeting Minutes are also available at the Mass Historical socity under First Church (Braintree, Mass.) records transcription, 1709-1766.

First Church of Braintree MA was created in 1708 after a dispute with the United First Parish Church over location, and became known as the "Southern Precinct church", then after the creation of the First Church of Randolph in 1728 "Middle Parish". When Braintree was split in 1793 it was the only one of the three congregational churches to remain in the new Braintree limits. Official Website. Congregational Library and Archives has digital images of the following records sets "Samuel Niles's journal, 1697-1777", "Church records, 1707-1871", "Church records, 1762-1824", and "Financial records, 1708-1796". Note: Transcription is avalible on the right side of the viewer, but you may need to clear your browser history to see it. The original petition for church creation is available at Mass Achives 11:240, petition against the creation at Mass Archives 11:243, and Petition in support of the new church at Mass Archives 11:245

First Church of Randolph was created in 1728 and was known as "South Parish". When Braintree was split in 1793 it became part of the new town of Randolph. Official Website. Records of baptism, marriage and membership is avalible on Ancestry under: Church Records 1731-1899

Probate Records

Braintree was part of Suffolk County until 1793, so probate records before that date are available on Family Search under Suffolk County (Massachusetts) probate records, 1636-1899

In 1793 Braintree became part of Norfolk County, and probate records after that date are available on Family Search under Massachusetts, Norfolk County, probate case files, 1793-1900

Land Records

Braintree was part of Suffolk County until 1793, so Deeds before that date are available on Family Search under Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Records of deeds, 1639-1885; indexes to deeds, 1639-1920

In 1793 Braintree became part of Norfolk County, and Deeds after that date are available on Family Search under Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Land records - Deeds, 1793-1890 and Land deed books, 1889-1901, and grantor/grantee indexes, 1880-1910 (Norfolk County, Massachusetts)