Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy

Description
Historical data relating to counties, cities, and towns in Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997), [FHL book 974.4 H2h 1997].
 * Provincetown, Massachusetts at Wikipedia

Parent Towns

 * 14 June 1727: Established as a town, formerly the Precinct of Cape Cod. (Prov. Laws, Vol. II, p. 426)
 * 1 July 1973: Town charter adopted
 * Archaic name: Cape Code Precinct

Populated Places
Includes Neighborhoods, Villages, Unincorporated Communities, Districts, and Census-Designated Places: Long Point, Mayflower Heights, Peaked Hill, Pilgrim Heights, Puritan Heights (former R.R. station), Race Point, Wood End.

Boundary Changes

 * 12 June 1813: Part of Truro annexed and bounds established.
 * 2 March 1829: Part of Truro annexed and bounds established.
 * 30 March 1836: Part of Truro annexed.

Adjacent Towns
Truro | all other sides, are Cape Code Bay to the west, Atlantic Ocean to the north and to the east.

Town Records
In New England most original vital records of birth, marriage, and death can be found at the town clerk's office

Provincetown Town Clerk
260 Commercial St Provincetown, MA 02657 Phone: 508-487-7013 Fax: 508-487-9560 Email: djohnstone@provincetown-ma.gov Website

Resources
For more County and State resources see:

Cemeteries

 * Provincetown Cemeteries List at FindAGrave
 * at FamilySearch Catalog
 * at FamilySearch Catalog
 * Barnstable County Cemeteries at FamilySearch Places
 * Shank Painter Cemetery aka Old Cemetery Number 2 (1817) Cemetery Rd
 * Gifford Cemetery (1818)  Cemetery Rd (next to Hamilton Cemetery)
 * Hamilton Cemetery (1833)  Cemetery Rd (next to Gifford Cemetery)
 * Old Cemetery (1723) Winthrop and Court Sts
 * St. Peter's Catholic Cemetery (19th century)  Winslow and Jerome Smith Rds (early burial fro 1801 from farm is earliest stone)
 * Smallpox Cemetery  off Rte 6

Maps
This selection incudes town, county, state, and historical maps


 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 618258
 * 2) Google
 * 3) Hometown Locator

Military
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