Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy

United States &gt; Massachustts &gt; Barnstable County &gt; Sandwich

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].

6 March 1638: Certain persons were ordered to "... goe to Sanditch, and set forth their bounds of the lands graunted to them". (Ply. Col. Rec., Vol I, p. 80)

Archiac name: Pocasset, Pokesset, Sanditch, Scusset, Shaume

Section/Villages within the town: East Sandwich, Farmersville, Forestdale, Greenville (extinct), Jarvesville, Monument Village (current town of Bourne), Plowed Neck, Sagamore Hill, Sand Hill, Scorton, South Sandwich, Spectacle Pond, Spring Hill, Wakeby

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Boundary Changes
2 March 1652: Bounds between Sandwich and Barnstable to be established.

10 June 1662: Bounds between Sandwich and Barnstable to be established.

7 June 1670: Bounds between Sandwich and Plymouth as established Jan. 19, 1663, ordered to be recorded.

29 October 1672: Bounds between Sandwich and Barnstable established.

7 July 1681: Bounds between Sandwich and "Suckanesset" established.

28 October 1684: Bounds established.

28 November 1735: Bounds between Sandwich and lands of the proprietors of Mashpee confirmed.

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

1 April 1859: Part of the district of "Marshpee" annexed.

13 March 1860: Part of the district of "Marshpee" annexed.

19 March 1872: Part re-annexed to Mashpee.

19 March 1880: Bounds between Sandwich and Falmouth established.

2 April 1884: Part established as Bourne.

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

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

24 April 1916: Part annexed to Barnstable.

Maps

 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 618259
 * 2) Google
 * 3) Hometown Locator