The Mayflower and its 99 passengers landed at Plymouth on 21 Nov 1620. The Fortune arrived in Nov 1621. During the 65 years all the portion of south-eastern Massachusetts and western Rhode Island was know as Plymouth County. When the division was made of Plymouth Colony, Bristol county in 1685 had the towns of Taunton, Rehoboth, Dartmouth, Swansea, Bristol, Tiverton, Little Compton, Freetown and the plantations of Cumberland Gore and Attleboro. It was bounded on the North by Norfolk county, the east by the new Plymouth county and on the south by Buzzard's, Mount Hope, and Narraganset bays and the plantation of Roger Williams. The plantation of Cohannet was incorporated on 3 March 1639 which was the Tetiquet Purchase (now Raynham, Berkley and Taunton). In 1668 the North Purchase was made (now the towns of Norton, Mansfield, and Easton). The South purchase (Dighton) was added in 1672 and then in 1680 Assonet Neck was annexed to the jurisdiction of Cohannet.
Town |
Town History | Bristol County Town Host | |
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Bristol County Organized 1685 from Old Plymouth Colony. | |||
Acushnea |
See Town of Dartmouth |   | |
Acushnet |
Organized 1860 from Fairhaven | Host Needed !! | |
Attleboro |
Organized 1694 from Rehoboth | Host Needed !! | |
Berkley |
Organized 1735 from Dighton & Taunton | Host Needed! | |
Coaksett |
See Town of Dartmouth |   | |
Cohannet |
See Town of Taunton |   | |
Dartmouth |
Organized 1664 (Acushena, Ponaganesett, Coaksett) | Host Needed! | |
Dighton |
Organized 1712 from Taunton | Host Needed! | |
Easton |
Organized 1725 from Norton | Easton Hosted by Dale H Cook | |
Fairhaven |
Organized 1812 from New Bedford | Judy Swan - Lookup VR to 1850 | |
Fall River |
Organized 1803 from Freetown (Troy 1834) | Fall River hosted by Joe Powers | |
Freetown |
Organized 1683 | Lookups Volunteer Natalie Hobbs Fix - Vital Recors of Freetown, MA - 1686 thru 1890, Compiled by Helen Gurney Thomas, copyright1988 and Myrics, Massachusetts - A Farming Settlement, A Railroad Village by Gail Terry copyright 1998. | |
Mansfield |
Organized 1770 from Norton; Incorporated 1775 | Lookups of Mansfield marriages by Judy Gillon | |
New Bedford |
Organized 1787 from Dartmouth | Host Needed! | |
North Attleboro |
Incorporated from Attleboro | Adamsdale Additional Hosts Needed | |
Norton |
Organized 1710 from Taunton | Hosted by Judy Gillon Lookups of Norton marriages by Judy Gillon | |
Ponaganesett |
See Town of Dartmouth |   | |
Raynham |
Organized 1731 from Taunton | Host Needed! | |
Rehoboth |
Organized 1645 |
Rehoboth Hosted by Dale H. Cook
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Seekonk |
Organized 1812 from Rehoboth | Host Needed! | |
Somerset |
Organized 1790 from Swansea | Host Needed! | |
Swansea |
Organized 1667 from Rehoboth (Wannamoisett) | Host Needed! | |
TauntonBristol County Courthouse |
Organized 1639 (Cohannett) | Taunton Hosted by Dale H. Cook | |
Troy |
See Ciy of Fall River |   | |
Wannamoisett |
See Swansea |   | |
Westport |
Organized 1787 from Dartmouth | Judy Swan - Lookup VR to 1850 |
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