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Boylston, Massachusetts

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  • Archives
    • Boylston's Graveyards
    • Military Archives
    • Vital Records
      • Births A thru E
      • Births F thru O
      • Births P thru Z
      • Deaths A thru Z
      • Marriages A thru D
      • Marriages E thru K
      • Marriages L thru Z
  • Artifacts from History
    • Friday's Fascinating Finds (A through F)
      • A Blue Star Flag
      • A Day of Thanksgiving
      • A Magazine for the Ladies
      • A Move to Georgia after the Civil War
      • A Special Tribute to Our Military Personnel
      • A Story of Boylston Clay and Its Ties to a Line of Veterans - Part I
      • A Story of Boylston Clay and Its Ties to a Line of Veterans - Part II
      • A Story of Boylston Clay and Its Ties to a Line of Veterans - Part III
      • A Travelling Man's Dressing Case
      • A Very Cold Day in January
      • A Wild Rose Vase
      • A Wooden Noisemaker
      • Advertisement of a Not-so-Honest Rumseller
      • American Patriot: Patrick Neylon
      • American Patriot: Solomon Bigelow
      • An Unsolved Mystery
      • Antique Victorian Samovar
      • Apple Parers & Peelers
      • April In Boylston - News!
      • Arithmetic Books from the Shelves of the Boylston Historical Society Library
      • Armistice Day
      • Arrowheads & Nipmucks
      • August Brought Agitated News!
      • August in Boylston News
      • Back to School in Boylston
      • Backgammon or Parcheesi?
      • Banister Chair
      • Banister Mill and Dam
      • Bednobs, Broomsticks and...Door Knobs!
      • Blue Willow Teapot
      • Bonnets - Modesty or Practicality?
      • Boot Scraper and Polisher
      • Boston Post Cane
      • Boylston - A Maze of Trees
      • Boylston Bass Drum
      • Boylston Boy Makes Good: A brief look at the life of Phinehas Ball
      • Boylston Boy Scouts
      • Boylston Brass Band
      • Boylston Celebrates the Fourth of July
      • Boylston Garden Club
      • Boylston Had a Carnival?
      • Boylston History through Family Papers and Photos
      • Boylston in the News!
      • Boylston Memorial Monuments
      • Boylston Memories - Oral Histories
      • Boylston Philanthropist- Sarah Lamson Stearns
      • Boylston Police in the News
      • Boylston Ties to the American Civil War
      • Boylston Veteran becomes Postmaster
      • Boylston's Bicentennial 1786-1986
      • Boylston's Centennial
      • Boylston's Corn Husking Bee
      • Boylston's Fire Department
      • Boylston's Historical Calendar -February
      • Boylston's Memorial Day
      • Boylston's Third Meeting House
      • Boylstonian Manages First Branch of Y.W.C.A. in Manhattan, New York
      • Boylstonians Serve as Mayor of Worcester and Overseers of the Poor
      • Butter Churns
      • Candle Molds
      • Capes
      • Captain Robert Andrews: American Patriot
      • Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Our Country
      • Centennial Celebration
      • Charlotte A. Jones: Painter Extraordinaire
      • Chiastollites
      • Christmas Greetings
      • Christmas Stencils
      • Dancing
      • December is Eventful
      • Don't Write on that Desk!
      • Drums in the Civil War
      • Early American Foot Warmer
      • Early Boylstonians - The Kendalls
      • Early Deeds from the Estate of Elijah Ball
      • Early History of Girl Scouting
      • Early Settlers of Sawyers Mills
      • Entertainment fills Cold February Nights
      • Evangeline
      • Ever Use a Hatchel?
      • Family Roots + Heiress = Library for Boylston
      • Farm Tools
      • Farms in Boylston
      • First World War Honor Roll
      • Flag Day
      • From Modest Beginnings to the Wealthiest Man in Town
    • Friday's Fascinating Finds (G though L)
      • Girl Scouts of Boylston
      • Given Names 150 years ago and Today
      • Halloween in Boylston
      • Hamlet of Straw Hollow
      • Happy Valentine's Day
      • Have you hiked to Lamson Brook?
      • Have you seen the Toys at the Museum?
      • Heating Our Homes
      • Historic Taverns of the North Precinct
      • Holgate's Hoard of Toys
      • Ice Cream Sign
      • If a Barn Could Talk
      • Inkwell Stand
      • It is Picture Day!
      • Jenny Flagg Hill
      • Jewelry at Valentine's Day
      • July-Time to Go Boating & Swimming
      • Kepi Cap
      • Lanterns
    • Friday's Fascinating Finds (M through R)
      • Mammoth ABC Nesting Blocks
      • Marble Solitaire
      • March News from Boylston
      • Massachusetts Bay Colony Ban on Catholicism
      • May News from Boylston
      • Memories of Boylston's Men's Club
      • Milk Bottles
      • Milk Can
      • Morningdale Chapel
      • Moss Rose Friendship Album
      • Needlework Samplers
      • Nesting Cups
      • News from 1908
      • November Life In Boylston
      • October's Sad Affair
      • One Little Red Fire Truck
      • Patty Sawyer Kendall Chair
      • Pine Grove Cemetery
      • Postcards - Greetings from Boylston
      • Postcards from Boylston and Beyond
      • Presidents' Day Origins
      • Red Barn Grain Bin Restaurant
      • Return to Boylston of Amy Williams Kendall
      • Rock-a-Bye Cradle
      • Royal Worcester China
    • Friday's Fascinating Finds (S through Z)
      • Sawyers Mills School
      • Sawyers Mills Village
      • School Bell
      • School Masters of Boylston
      • September in Boylston
      • Shining a Light on Oil Lamps
      • Silas Hastings Tankard
      • Something About Maps
      • Spring Wild Flowers of Boylston
      • Straw Hats
      • Summer Begins in June - News from Boylston's Past
      • Sword Cane
      • Teaching Civil Behavior
      • Telescopes
      • The Adventurers of a Boylston Shoemaker
      • The Blizzard of 78 - Boylston Remembrances
      • The Boylston Centennial March
      • The Crosley
      • The Golden Era of Radio
      • The next Claude Monet: Irving Taylor
      • The Old Burial Ground
      • The Skeleton Clock: A Gift to John B. Gough
      • The Smith Parlor Pump Organ
      • The Story of the War of 1898
      • The Telegraph and the Railroad
      • The Victorian Fan
      • Tick tock...Sundial
      • Time to Play a Board Game?
      • Tragedy Befalls Boylstonian
      • Two General Stores in Boylston
      • Two Victorian Portrait Albums
      • Victorian Wax Fruit
      • Vintage English Backsword
      • Vintage Paper Dolls
      • Volumes of Family History
      • Volumes of Family History
      • What Number? A brief History of the Telephone in Boylston
      • When the Stereoscope brought the World to the Living Room
      • Winter in Boylston
      • Winter Outerwear
      • Winter Wedding Season is on its Way
      • Worcester-Clinton Trolley
      • Zithers
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      • Dog Jack
      • Lost Child of Wachusett Mountain
      • Rev. Morse
    • John B. Gough
    • John B. Gough -Temperance Celebrity
    • Photographs
      • Halloween Treat or Treat at Hillside
      • Unknown Citizen Gallery
      • Unknown Citizen Gallery II
    • George L. Wright
      • Historical Notes on the town of Boylston, MA
      • Historical Phenomena
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    • Boylston History - Sawyer's Mills History & Photographs
    • Boylston History - Shrewsbury 1st & 2nd Precincts
    • Boylston History by Davenport
    • Boylston Records - Account Book of Ebenezer Morse
    • Boylston Records -Town Reports
    • Centennial Celebration of Boylston
    • Church Formation
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      • Invitation by First Congregational Church dated 1820
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    • Post Offices & Its Postmasters-Boylston
    • Post Offices and Its Postmasters-Morningdale
    • Reconnaissance Survey of Boylston
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Home » Genealogy Resources

Genealogy Resources

 

Searchable Databases

FamilySearch.org

Findagrave.com

Massachusetts Vital Records (1600-1850)

Massachusetts Vital Records (1841-1910)

Vital Records of Boylston, Massachusetts to the year ending 1850

Ellis Island Ship's Passengers (1820-1957)

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Family Genealogies & Related Research Links

 

Cotton Family

Dunsmoore Family

Hastings Family Genealogy -1866

Kendall Genealogy

Keyes Family

Lucy Keyes, the lost child of Wachusett Mountain

Morse Family of Newfane, Vt

Sawyers in America

Temple Family

 

Descendants of Abraham Temple
by Levi Daniel Temple, 1900

 

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Town Histories which include previous Boylston residents

 

History of New Ipswich
New Hampshire
1735-1914
With Genealogical Records of the Principal Families
by Charles Henry Chandler & Sarah Fiske Lee
SEARCHABLE 



 

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