Place:Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

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Name	Barnstable
Alt names	Barnstable	source: Getty Vocabulary Program
Type	County
Coordinates	41.667°N 70.25°W
Located in	Massachusetts, United States (1685 - )
Also located in	Plymouth Colony, Kingdom of England (1620 - 1685)

Contained Places

Cemetery: Cobb's Hill Cemetery; Cove Burying Ground; Lothrop Hill Cemetery; Massachusetts National Cemetery; Old Town Cemetery
Census-designated place: Dennisport; Monomoscoy Island; Northwest Harwich; Popponesset Island; Seconsett Island; West Chatham
Inhabited place: Barlows Landing; Barnstable (town) ( 1637 - ); Barnstable (town) ( 1637 - ); Barnstable; Beach Point; Bourne Corners; Bourne; Bournedale; Brewster; Buzzards Bay; Cahoon Hollow; Camp Burgess; Camp Edwards; Camp Mar Vel; Cataumet Station; Cataumet; Centerville; Chappaquoit; Chatham Port; Chatham; Cobbs Village; Colonial Acres; Cotuit Highlands; Cotuit; Craigville; Cummaquid; Dennis Port; Dennis; East Brewster; East Dennis; East Falmouth; East Harwich; East Orleans; East Sandwich; Eastham ( 1685 - ); Englewood; Falmouth ( 1600 - ); Farmersville; First Encounter Beach; Forestdale; Fresh Brook; Gray Gables; Harwich Center; Harwich Port; Harwich; Hatchville; Hyannis Park; Hyannis Port; Hyannis; Kingdom Hall; Le Count Hollow; Marstons Mills; Mashpee Neck; Mashpee; Maushop Village; Mayflower Heights; Monument Beach; Namskaket; Nauset Heights; New Boston; New Seabury; Newcomb Hollow; Newtown; North Chatham; North Dennis; North Eastham; North Falmouth Station; North Falmouth; North Harwich; North Pocasset; North Truro; Old Harbor; Old Quaker Meetinghouse; Orleans ( 1797 - ); Osterville; Oyster Harbors; Pilgrim Heights; Pine Tree Corner; Pleasant Lake; Plowed Neck; Pocasset Station; Pocasset; Pond Village; Pondsville; Popponesset; Provincetown Harbor; Provincetown ( 1602 - ); Quisset; Quitnesset; Racing Beach; Rock Harbor; Rock Landing; Saconesset Hills; Sagamore Beach; Sagamore Highlands; Sagamore; Sandwich; Santuit; Scorton Shores; Seabrook; Shooters Island; Silver Beach; Sippewisset; Smalltown; South Brewster; South Chatham; South Dennis; South Harwich; South Mashpee; South Orleans; South Pocasset; South Truro; South Wellfleet; South Yarmouth; Springhill Beach; Springs; Teaticket; Tonset; Truro Station; Truro; Wakeby; Waquoit Village; Weeset; Wellfleet by the Sea; Wellfleet; West Barnstable; West Brewster; West Dennis; West Falmouth; West Harwich; West Hyannisport; West Yarmouth; Wianno; Wood End; Woods Hole; Yarmouth Port; Yarmouth Station; Yarmouth

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Barnstable County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 228,996. Its shire town is Barnstable. The county consists of Cape Cod and associated islands (some adjacent islands are in Dukes County and Nantucket County).

Barnstable County was formed as part of the Plymouth Colony on 2 June 1685, including the towns of Falmouth, Sandwich, and others lying to the east and north on Cape Cod. Plymouth Colony was merged into the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691.

1 Timeline
2 Population History
3 Cemeteries
4 Research Tips
- 4.1 Bibliography
- 4.2 More
5 External links

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Timeline

Date	Event	Source
1685	County formed	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1686	Court records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1686	Probate records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1790	First census	Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1790	No significant boundary changes after this year	Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1827	Land records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources

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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990

Census Year	Population
1790	17,354
1800	19,293
1810	22,211
1820	24,026
1830	28,514
1840	32,548
1850	35,276
1860	35,990
1870	32,774
1880	31,897
1890	29,172
1900	27,826
1910	27,542
1920	26,670
1930	32,305
1940	37,295
1950	46,805
1960	70,286
1970	96,656
1980	147,925
1990	186,605

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Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States

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Research Tips

Barnstable County Registry of Deeds (Click on "Search Public Records")

The Barnstable Registry of Deeds records can now be searched online. Once completed, the database will extend back to 1703, although that date is a bit misleading due to an event that occurred nearly 180 years ago. On Oct. 22, 1827 a fire consumed the Barnstable County Court House, which stored the 93 books of the Registry of Deeds. Only one volume, Book 61 covering roughly the year of 1806, was saved. The records that do exist for dates prior to 1827 were re-created by recopying deeds and assembling paperwork held by families and attorneys.

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Bibliography

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See additional Barnstable sources.

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External links

Outstanding guide to Barnstable County, Massachusetts family history and genealogy (FamilySearch Research Wiki). History, towns and cities, county histories, birth, marriage, and death records, deeds, wills, court records, divorce records, naturalizations, tax records, warnings out, maps, and societies.

www.barnstablecounty.org

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