Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy

Town Clerk
260 Commercial St Provincetown, MA 02657 Phone: 508-487-7013 Fax: 508-487-9560 Email: djohnstone@provincetown-ma.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 1727: Established as a town, formerly the Precinct of Cape Cod. (Prov. Laws, Vol. II, p. 426)

1 July 1973: Town charter adopted

Archiac name: Cape Code Precinct

Section/Villages within the town: Long Point, Mayflower Heights, Peaked Hill, Pilgrim Heights, Puritan Heights (former R.R. station), Race Point, Wood End.

Wikipedia:

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.

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

Cemeteries
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

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

Vital Records
The town of Provincetown kept annual town reports. These reports often contained birth, marriage, and death information. Below is a list of years when Provincetown kept town reports. (NOTE: Occasionally, these town reports missed vital statistic information from the end of the year. If you don't find your ancestor's vital information, check the following year's town report to see if your ancestor's information was recorded later.)