Mashpee, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy

Brief History

 * Mashpee, Massachusetts at Wikipedia

Town Clerk
16 Great Neck RD NO Mashpee, MA 02649 Phone: 508-539-1418 Fax: 508-539-1142 Email: ddami@mashpeema.gov Website

Establishment and former town name(s)
Historical data relating to counties, cities, and towns in Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997), [FHL book 974.4 H2h 1997].

14 June 1763: Lands belonging to the Indians...in Mashpee be and hereby are erected into a district by the name of Mashpee..." for three years. (Prov. Laws, Vol. IV, p. 639)

20 March 1767: Act of June 14, 1763, revived, to be in force until July 1, 1770.

9 February 1776: Act of June 14, 1763, revived, to be in force until the end of the session of the general Court enxt after Nov. 1, 1779.

25 November 1779: Act of June 14, 1763, revived, to be in force until Nov.1, 1785

12 June 1788: Act of June 14, 1763, repealed; in this act the spelling is "Marshpee". The act provides that three presons be appointed as Guardians at Marshpee, for ten years.

30 January 1789: All former laws respecting Marshpee Indians repealed and a board of overseers established.

7 March 1797: Act of June 12, 1788, made perpetual until repealed by the Legislature.

28 May 1870: Incorporated as a town, by the name of Mashpee, formerly the district of Marshpee.

Archiac name: Marshpee, Popponesset, South Sea, Waquoit

Section/Villages within the town: Aquashenet, Chimquist, East Mashpee, Indian Meeting House, Maushop Village, Poponesset, Seconnet, Segreganset, South Mashpee, Succonesset, Wakeby

Wikipedia:

Boundary Changes
22 January 1795: Bounds between "Marshpee" and Barnstable established.

26 February 1811: Part of the "plantation of Marshpee" annexed to Sandwich.

31 March 1834: the plantation of Marshpee established as the District of Marshpee.

17 March 1841: A tract of land formerly in the plantation of Marshpee annexed to Falmouth.

1 April 1859: Part of the district of Marshpee annexed to Sandwich.

13 March 1860: Part of the district of Marshpee annexed to Sandwich

19 March 1872: Part of Sandwich re-annexed.

18 June 1885: Bounds between Mashpee and Falmouth established.

27 May 1887: Bounds between Mashpee and Sandwich established and part of Sandwich annexed.

28 March 1894: Bounds between Mashpee and Barnstable established.

20 April 1905: Bounds between Mashpee and Sandwich established and part of Sandwich annexed.

24 April 1916: Bounds between Mashpee and Barnstable established.

Neighboring Towns
Barnstable | Falmouth | Sandwich | Nantucket Sound to the south

Cemeteries
Ancient Cemetery aka Lakewood Cemetery (1805)  Lakewood Dr

Avant-Amos-Coomb Cemetery (1838)  Rte 130

Attaquin Cemetery (1849) Rte 130 near Ashumer Rd

Francis Family Cemetery (1798) Pimlico Pond Rd

Hicks Cemetery  Falmouth-Sandwich Rd (no stones)

Jones-Johnson-Fowler Cemetery (1851)  South Sandwich St and Rte 30 (no stones)

Roxanna C. Mye Cemetery  Highview Ave (no stones)

Pocknett-Stevens (1871)  Meetinghouse Rd

Punkhorn Point aka Skipper-Simon-Holland Cemetery (1835)  Great Neck Rd

Tobey Cemetery Site  Summit Pond Estate Development

Town Cemetery - Old Indian Cemetery (1770) Rte 28

Maps

 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 618256
 * 2) Google
 * 3) Hometown Locator