Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy

Town Clerk
24 Town Hall Rd, PO Box 2012 Truro, MA 02666-2012 Phone: 508-349-7004 x 14 Fax: 508-349-5505 Email: [mailto:caslade@truro-ma.gov caslade@truro-ma.gov] Website

Establishment and former town name(s)
Historical data relating to counties, cities, and towns in Massachusetts ▲

16 July 1709: Established as a town, formerly a tract of land called "Pawmett", to "... be called by the name of Truroe..." (Prov. Laws, Vol. I, p. 642)

Archiac name: Dangerfield, Meeshaum, Pawmett, Tashmuit

Section/Villages within the town: Beach Point, Castle Village, Corn Hill, Dyer's Hollow, Harding's Hollow, Head Pamet, Higgins Hollow, High Head Highland, Highland Light, Hogsback, Neck, North Truro, Pond Village, South Truro, The Castle, Truro Center, Truro Station, Whitmanville.

Boundary Changes
21 October 1714: Bounds between Truro and Province Lands established.

12 June 1813: Part annexed to Provincetown and bounds established.

2 March 1829: Part annexed to Provincetown and bounds established.

30 March 1836: Part annexed to Provincetown.

22 February 1837: Bounds between Truro and Wellfleet established.

Neighboring Towns
Provincetown | Wellfleet | Cape Cod Bay to the west, Atlantic Ocean to the east

Ball (1923)
in the woods at the end of Higgins Hollow Rd

Cobb Family (1779)
in the woods off Old County Rd South Truro

H. Doane Grave Site (1781)
off Savage Rd


 * Truro cemeteries

First Congregational Parish (1813)
Town Hall Rd


 * Truro cemeteries

Methodist Cemetery (1810)
Bridge and Meetinghouse Rds


 * Truro cemeteries

New South (1994)
Old County Rd

Old North aka First Church of Christ (1713)
Rte. 6 and Aldrich Rd, near Provincetown town line


 * Inscriptions from gravestones in the Old North Cemetery, Truro, Mass. from 1713 to 1840
 * Truro cemeteries

Pine Grove (1796)
off County Rd South Truro


 * Truro cemeteries

Benjamin Rich Family (1780)
in the woods off Holsberry Rd

T. Ridley Gravesite (1776)
in the woods off Rte. 6


 * Truro cemeteries

William and Miriam Rollins (1925)
near Pilgrim Lake

Sacred Heart (1868)
Bridge and Meetinghouse Rds


 * Truro cemeteries

Snow (1817)
Bridge Rd


 * Truro cemeteries

South Pamet
South Pamet Rd

Congregational

 * First Congregational Church

Directories

 * Bourne (Massachusetts) city directories

Genealogy

 * Register of some early Provincetown and Truro (Provincetown related) families : covering a period from the early 1700's through 1850 plus)

History

 * Truro - Cape Cod, or, Land marks and sea marks

Land and Property

 * Proprietors' records, 1696-1800
 * Truro, Massachusetts marks of cattle from the original records, 1710-1768

Maps

 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 618260
 * 2) Google
 * 3) Hometown Locator

Town Records

 * Town records, 1709-1783, 1844-1870
 * Records of town meetings, votes, births, marriages, deaths; 1709-1783
 * Records of town meetings, roads, intentions of marriage; 1844-1870

Vital Records

 * Town records, births, marriages and intentions, and deaths, ca. 1771-1847
 * Truro, Massachusetts computer printout, births early to 1850
 * Vital records of the town of Truro, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 book
 * Vital records of the town of Truro, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 fiche

Marriages

 * Marriage records of Truro (Barnstable County) in Massachusetts, 1850-1899 fiche

Deaths

 * Deaths in Truro, Cape Cod, 1786-1826: taken from the diary of Rev. Jude Damon ▲

Societies, Libraries and Museums

 * Mayflower descendant legacy Note: the record is available online if visiting Family History Library. Mayflower Descendant Magazine, vols. 1-34 (1899-1937) -- Pilgrim notes and queries, vol. 1-5 (1913-1917) -- Bowman's vital records of Brewster (Barnstable Co.), Ma. - to 1850 -- Bowman's vital records of Halifax (Plymouth Co.), Ma. - to 1850 -- Bowman's vital records of Truro (Barnstable Co.) Ma. - to 1850 -- Bowman's Yarmouth cemetery records -- B.N. Derick's cemetery records of Dennis, Ma. -- Falmouth, Ma. vital records index -- Wellfleet cemetery records.