Source:Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881

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Source Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881
Online database
Coverage
Subject Will/Probate records
Publication information
Type Government / Church records
Publisher New England Historic Genealogical Society
Date issued 2014
Citation
Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881: Online database. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014).
Repositories
AmericanAncestors.orghttps://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/i/13764/..Paid website
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This database was created from digital images and index contributed to NEHGS by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. The collection contains the records of 58,037 Essex County probate cases filed between 1638 and 1881. The probate cases include wills, guardianships, administrations, and various other types of probate records. The cases range in length from one to over 1,200 pages, with a total of over 950,000 individual file papers.

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