Mashpee, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy

Brief History

 * Mashpee, Massachusetts at Wikipedia

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

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12 June 1788: Act of June 14, 1763, repealed; in this act the spelling is "Marshpee".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30 January 1789: All former laws respecting Marshpee Indians repealed and a board of overseers established.

7 March 1797: Act of June 12, 1788, made perpetual until repealed by the Legislature.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