Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts Genealogy

Brief History

 * Springfield, Massachusetts at Wikipedia
 * Mason Arnold Green. Springfield, 1636-1886 : history of town and city, including an account of the quarter-millennial celebration at Springfield, Mass., May 25 and 26, 1886. Springfield, Massachusetts : C.A. Nichols, 1888.

Town Clerk
The town clerk is responsible for these records, and so most originals can be found at the town clerk's office

Election Commission 36 Court St, Ground Floor Room 8 Springfield, MA 01103 Phone: 413-787-6190 Fax: 413-787-6186 Email: [mailto:goyola@springfieldcityhall.com goyola@springfieldcityhall.com] Website

Vital Records

 * Springfield. Records of deaths 1880-1897 and indexes 1870-1924
 * Vital records of Springfield, Massachusetts, 1638-1887

Town Records

 * Town records, 1636-1859 (approx.)
 * Selectmen's records, ca. 1636-ca. 1857
 * Proceedings of town meetings, 1664-1852 (approx.)
 * Various civil records from the city of Springfield, Mass.

Adjacent Towns
Hampden Co.:  Agawam | Chicopee | East Longmeadow | Hampden | Longmeadow | Ludlow | West Springfield | Wilbraham

Migration
Migration routes for early European settlers to and from included:
 * Connecticut River a navigable river stretching from the border of Quebec, New Hampshire, and Vermont flowing south to through Connecticut into Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean at Old Saybrook, Connecticut
 * Alford and Egremont (MA) Turnpike 1812
 * Ancram (NY) Turnpike 1805, also sometimes called the Catskill Road, from Salisbury, Connecticut to Catskill, New York
 * Catskill Road 1750s from Springfield,_Massachusetts to Catskill, New York
 * Catskill Turnpike  (aka Susquehannah Turnpike ) from Catskill, NY to Unadilla, NY; route travelled by Europeans by 1792; toll booths opened by 1804.
 * Columbia (NY) Turnpike 1799
 * Great Barrington and Aford (MA) Turnpike 1812
 * Greenwood Road 1799 from Hartford, Connecticut to Albany, New York
 * Hampden and Berkshire (MA) Turnpike 1826
 * Hillsdale and Chatham Turnpike 1805 from Alford, Massachusetts to Albany, New York
 * Housatonic River (MA) Turnpike 1809
 * King's Highway, also known as the upper fork of the Boston Post Road, from Boston, Massachusetts to Charleston, South Carolina 1650s
 * Massachusetts 10th Turnpike 1800
 * Massachusetts 12th Turnpike 1812
 * Old Connecticut Path  1630 from Boston, Massachusetts to Hartford, Connecticut
 * Rensselaer and Columbia (NY) Turnpike 1799
 * Salisbury and Canaan (CT) Turnpike 1801-1829
 * Ulster and Delaware Turnpike 1802 from Salisbury, Connecticut to Bainbridge, New York

Military

 * A Record of officers and soldiers enlisted from Springfield during the Rebellion commenced April 12th, 1861 Includes discharges 1865-1866
 * Walter W. Ward. Springfield in the Spanish American war. Easthampton, Massachusetts : Enterprise Print. Co., 1899.