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United States Massachusetts  Plymouth  Duxbury 

Brief History
This area was established as a part of Duxbury in 1645 by purchase from the Native Americans by 54 proprietors - most who did not settle there. Bridgewater was created on 3 June 1656 from Duxbury in Plymouth Colony. The town was placed in Plymouth County when counties were formed in 1685. For a brief time, the town was part of the Dominion of New England from 1686 to 1689. The town is still in Plymouth County, though was in limbo, until the "Colony" was merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691 that became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

== Historical Data == Associated names Duxbury at times has been called Ducksburrow, Green Harbor, Mattakeeset, and Namassakeesett.

Village or section names include Ashdod, Captain's Hill, Cedar Crest, Duxbury Beach, Fordsville, Gardnerville, Hall's Corner, Hatchville, Island Creek, Millbork, North Duxbury, Powder Point, South Duxbury, Tarklin, Tinertown, and West Duxbury. Border changes

Town Histories
Works written on the town include:
 * Justin Winsor, History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, with Genealogical Register (Boston, 1849) [many reprints available], viii, 360 pp.
 * The family sketches include the families: Alden, Ames, Andrews, Armstrong, Arddaton, Arnold, Baker, Barker, Barstow, Bartin, Bartlett, Bassett, Bates, Beare, Biddle, Bisbee, Bishop, Blush, Bonney, Booth, Bosworth, Bourne, Bowers, Bowman, Bradford, Brett, Brewster, Briggs, Brown, Bryant, Bumpus, Burgess, Burne, Burton, Butler, Carver, Cary, Chamberlain, Chandler, Chapman, Church, Clark, Coe, Cole, Collier, Cooper, Corvannel, Cullifer, Curtis, Cushing, Cushman, Dammon, Darling, Davis, Davy, Dawes, Delano, Despard, Devell, Dingley, Drew, Dwelley, Eaton, Ensign, Eversor, Ferniside, Fish, Fisher, Fobes, Ford, Frazer, Freeman, Frost, Fuller, Gannett, Gardner, Glass, Godfrey, Goole, Gorham, Haden, Hales, Hall, Harlow, hanbury, Handmer, Hanks, Harding, Harlow, Harmon, Harris, Hartub, Hatch, Hathaway, Hawes, hayward, hewitt, Hicks, Hill, Hillier, Holmes, House, Howard, Howland, Hudson, Hunt, Hussey, Irish, Jackson, Joyce, Keene, Kemp, Kidbye, Knight, Lambert, Land, Latham, Lathley, Lathrop, Lawrence, Lazell, Leonard, Leurich, Leyhorne, Lindall, Loring, Louden, Macomber, Magoon, Maynard, McFarland, McLaughlin, Mendall, Mendame, Menlowe, Merrick, Mitchell, Moore, Morey, Morton, Mullins, Mynor (Minor), Nash, Neal, Nelson, Norcut, Oldham, Osborn, Pabodie, Paddock, Palmer, Parris, Partridge, Peakes, Peirce, Peterson, Phillips, Pidcock, Pollard, Pontus, Prence, Prince, Prior, Randall, Read, Reynolds, Richards, Richardson, Ripley, Robbins, Roberts, Robinson, Rogers, Rose, Rouse, Rowe, Russell, Samson, Saunders, Seabury, Shaw, Shawson, Sherman, Simmons, Smith, Snow, Soule, Southworth, Sprague, Sprout, Standish, Stanford, Starr, Stetson, Stockbridge, Switzer, Sylvester, Thacher, Thomas, Thorp, Tisdell, Tompkins, Tower, Tracy, Truant, Tubbs, Turner, Ussell, Vincent, Wadsworth, Walker, Wallis, Wanton, Washburn, Waterman, Watson, West, Weston, Weyborne, White, Williamson, Willis, Wilson, Wing, Winslow, Winsor, Witherell, and Wormall.
 * Digital versions at Internet Archive, Google Books, and on Ancestry ($). Google Books. WorldCat (Other Libraries); (with link to digital version) and.


 * Copy of the Old Records of the Town of Duxbury, Mass., from 1642 to 1770, made in the year 1892 (Plymouth, Mass., 1893), 348 pp.
 * Digital versions at Internet Archive, Google Books, and on Ancestry ($). WorldCat (Other Libraries); (with link to digital version) and.


 * E. J. V. Huiginn, The Graves of Myles Standish and other Pilgrims (Beverly, Mass., rev. and enl. ed., 1914), 218 pp.
 * Digital versions at Internet Archive and Google Books. WorldCat (Other Libraries); (with link to digital version) and.


 * Ellesley Waldo Long, ed.The Story of Duxbury, 1637-1937 (Duxubry, Mass., [1937]), xiv, + 237 pp.
 * WorldCat (Other Libraries);.


 * Dorothy Wentworth, Settlement and Growth of Duxbury, 1628-1870 (Duxbury, Mass., 1973), xiv, 144 pp.
 * WorldCat (Other Libraries);.


 * Duxbury Wikipedia page.

Vital Records
The town's vital records are available in many locations: Original records
 * Duxbury Town Clerk's Office
 * 878 Tremont Street
 * Duxbury MA 02332
 * Phone 781-934-1100 ext. 150
 * Email [mailto:Town-Clerk@Town.Duxbury.MA.US Town-Clerk@Town.Duxbury.MA.US]

Published records
 * Microfilm of the originals created by the Family History Library, Town and vital records, 1645-1826, ; Births by family, 1702-1771, ; Births, 1774-1849,.
 * Microfiche of the originals created by Archive Publishing covering town records that included vital records and a few other town records, 1661-1907, on 52 fiche. Part of ‘’Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620–1988’‘ at Ancestry ($); Index
 * Official state copy of vital records started in 1841. See the guide to the state for more information here.
 * Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, 1911).
 * This includes, in part, church records from the First Church and Parish of Duxbury (C.R.1), First Society of Methodists (C.R.2), Pilgrim Church (C.R.3), and the Society of Friends of Pembroke [now (1911) with the Society at New Bedford] (C.R.4). Deaths are included from Old Cem., Chestnut Street, South Duxbury (G.R.1), Dingley Cem., Crooked Lane (G.R.2), Large Cem. (G.R.3), Ashdod Cem. (G.R.4), and the cemetery in back of the present [1911] Episcopal Church, formerly the Methodist Church (G.R.5).
 * These volumes were microfilmed by the Family History Library, ; abstracted online at PlymouthColony.net; and in digital versions at (Internet Archive and Google Books. WorldCat (Other Libraries);.

Cemeteries
The following is a list of cemeteries in present-day Duxbury. Remember that the "old" town included present-day Bridgewater, Kingston, and Pembroke. For more details regarding these cemeteries, see the state guide under cemeteries for books on the subject. The town cemetery department has created a http://www.town.duxbury.ma.us/public_documents/duxburyma_cemetery/history.pdf cemetery history] for the town. Abstracts of the cemeteries above are marked and keyed to: (A). Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, 1911) [see links above under Vital Records]. (B). Charles M. Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts (Middleborough, Mass., 1995). WorldCat (Other Libraries);.
 * 1) Ashdod Cemetery, 1811. (A, B)
 * 2) Cemetery behind old Methodist Church [now (1911) Episcopal Church], n.d. (A, B)
 * 3) Crooked Lane / Dingley Cemetery, 18th Century. (A, B)
 * 4) First Church, n.d. (B)
 * 5) Large Cemetery, n.d. (A)
 * 6) Old Burying Ground / Standish Cemetery, 17th Century. (A, B)
 * 7) Orthodox Church Cemetery, South Duxbury, n.d.
 * 8) Unitarian Church Cemetery, 1788. (B)
 * 9) Walker Cemetery, n.d.

Churches
The following is a list of churches established in town in order of organization date (if known) and condition of records in the 1889 survey if listed.


 * 1) First Unitarian Church (now First Parish Church), 1632, records lost before 1739.
 * 2) Society of Friends, 1702 [attached to the Pembroke Montly Meeting, and by 1876 to the New Bedford Monthly Meeting].
 * 3) Pilgrim [Congregational] Church (now Pilgrim Church of Duxbury) [United Church of Christ], 1843, no condition given.
 * 4) Methodist Episcopal Church, 1868, no condition given
 * 5) Christian Science Church, n.d.
 * 6) First Baptist Church of Duxbury, n.d.
 * 7) High Street United Methodist Chruch, n.d.
 * 8) Holy Family Parish [Catholic], n.d.
 * 9) St. John the Evangelsit Episcopal Church, n.d.
 * 10) St. Paul's Church of the Nazarene, n.d.

Newspapers

 * 1) Duxbury Clipper, 1969-present.
 * 2) Duxbury Reporter, 1987-present.
 * 3) Duxbury Mariner, 1996-present.

Libraries and Historical Societies
The following is list of research facilities in town:

Duxubry Free Library 77 Alden Street Duxbury MA 02332 Phone 781-934-2721

The Duxbury Rural & Historical Society 479 Washington Street Duxbury MA 02331 Phone 781-934-6106 [emailto:info@duxburyhistory.org]

Alden Kindred of America 105 Alden Street Duxbury MA 02331 Phone 781-934-9092 [mailto:aldenhouse@comcast.net]