Alphabetic Surname Index

Births	Marriages	Deaths
Adams - Atwood Backus - Byshop Campbell - Cushmon Dammon - Dwelly Eaton - Everson Fance - Fuller Gammans - Grozer Haley - Hunt Jackson - Josselyn Kelsey - Knowles Leach - Lucas McAllister - Murdoch Nash - Nye Osborn - Osborne Packard - Pumery Randal - Ryder Sampson - Suttel Taylor - Tupper Vaughan - Vose Warren - Wyton Young Unidentified	Aatwood - Avery Babbitt - Byshop Caldwell - Cushmon Daby - Dwelle Eaton - Everson Fance - Fuller Gamman - Gurney Hacket - Hunt Jackson - Joy Kean - Knowles Lambert - Lyon McAllister - Myrick Nesmith - Nye Oldham - Osbourne Packard - Pynchon Raiment - Ryder Sampson - Sylvester Taber - Tyrrell Vaill - Voughn Wade - Wyton Young Unidentified Negroes	Alden - Atwood Babbitt - Burgess Campbell - Cushmon Darling - Dunn Eaton - Everson Faunce - Fuller Gannett - Gray Hall - Hunt Johnson - Joice King - Knowles Leach - Lukas Mackfarlin - Morse Newland - Nye Packard - Pratt Randall - Ruggles Sampson - Sylvester Taylor - Tinkham Vaughan - Virgin Warren - Wright Unidentified Negroes

Chronologic Surname Index

Births	Marriages	Deaths
Adams - Atwood Backus - Byshop Campbell - Cushmon Dammon - Dwelly Eaton - Everson Fance - Fuller Gammans - Grozer Haley - Hunt Jackson - Josselyn Kelsey - Knowles Leach - Lucas McAllister - Murdoch Nash - Nye Osborn - Osborne Packard - Pumery Randal - Ryder Sampson - Suttel Taylor - Tupper Vaughan - Vose Warren - Wyton Young Unidentified	Aatwood - Avery Babbitt - Byshop Caldwell - Cushmon Daby - Dwelle Eaton - Everson Fance - Fuller Gamman - Gurney Hacket - Hunt Jackson - Joy Kean - Knowles Lambert - Lyon McAllister - Myrick Nesmith - Nye Oldham - Osbourne Packard - Pynchon Raiment - Ryder Sampson - Sylvester Taber - Tyrrell Vaill - Voughn Wade - Wyton Young Unidentified Negroes	Alden - Atwood Babbitt - Burgess Campbell - Cushmon Darling - Dunn Eaton - Everson Faunce - Fuller Gannett - Gray Hall - Hunt Johnson - Joice King - Knowles Leach - Lukas Mackfarlin - Morse Newland - Nye Packard - Pratt Randall - Ruggles Sampson - Sylvester Taylor - Tinkham Vaughan - Virgin Warren - Wright Unidentified Negroes

The Town of Plympton, Plymouth County, was established June 4, 1707, from a part of Plymouth.

July 4, 1734, a part was included in the new town of Halifax.

December 11, 1734, a part of Middleborough was annexed.

June 9, 1790, a part was established as Carver.

February 8, 1793, bounds between Plympton and Carver were established.

March 16, 1831, a part was annexed to Halifax.

February 6, 1863, bounds between Plympton and Halifax were established and a part of each town was annexed to the other town.

Population by. Census:

1765	1,390		1830	920		1890	597
1776	1,707		1840	834		1900	488
1790	956		1850	927		1910	561
1800	861		1860	994
1810	900		1870	804		1920	469
1820	930		1880	694

The fact that a birth, marriage, or death is recorded in , Plympton does not prove that it occurred there, unless it is so stated in the record. When, places other than Plympton and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given as they appear there; but when Plympton is named, the initial letter only is used, except in unusual phrases.

In all items from town records the original spelling is followed, and no attempt is made to correct errors appearing in the records.

The various spellings of a name should be examined, as items about the same family or individual may be found under different spellings.

A baptism is not printed, if it occurs within one year after the recorded date of birth of a child of the same name and parents or if it is clear that the child baptized is identical with the child of the birth record; but variations found in the baptismal record are added to the birth record.

NOTE: The does not exist in any fonts available for the internet. For the online transcriptions, these have been omitted. Be sure to look at the images. Also, the ‡ and § are omitted from the transcriptions.

The birth of a married woman is recorded under her maiden name, if it is known. But if the maiden name cannot be determined, the entry appears under the husband's name. If it is not known whether the surname is that of a married or unmarried woman, ? m. is placed in brackets after the Christian name.

Marriages and intentions of marriage are printed under the names of both parties. When both the marriage and intention of marriage are recorded, only the marriage record is printed; and where a marriage appears without the intention being recorded, it is designated with an asterisk.

Additional information which does not appear in the original text of an item, i.e., any explanation, query, inference, or difference show in other entries of the record, is bracketed. Parentheses are used to show variations in the spelling of a name in the same entry, to indicate the maiden name of a wife, to enclose an imperfect portion of the original text, and to separate clauses in the original text.

According to Chapter 84 of the Laws of 1857 records of out-of-town marriages prior to 1800 were returned to the place of residence of the contracting parties, and such a marriage is designated by a double dagger (‡) preceding it.

In March, 1812, Lewis Bradford became town clerk of Plympton and held this position until 1851. During his term of office he often added information to records entered by previous town clerks and recorded in his own new entries events that occurred before he took office. In compiling this volume these two kinds of records have been placed between the following characters, ( ), and the quotatioa marks employed in other entries to indicate unusual words and phrases have been omitted. He also inserted certain, marriage records taken from the church books, and these have been designated by a section mark (§).

An example of one of Lewis Bradford's entries, as printed among the births in this volume, follows.
     ADAMS, Sarah, w. John Perkias (s. Luke and Elisabeth
     (first w.)), d. Capt. Joshua of Kingston and Molly; s. Thomas of
     Kingston and Bathsheba (d. Isreal Bradford and Sarah; s. Maj.
     William and Mary (third w.); s. Gov. William and Alice, Apr. 28, 1760.
This entry should be interpreted as follows:
Sarah Adams, wife of John Perkins, who was son of Luke and Elizabeth his first wife, was daughter of Capt. Joshua Adams of Kingston and Molly. Capt. Joshua was son of Thomas of Kingston and Bathsheba, who was daughter of Israel Bradford and Sarah. Israel Bradford was son of Maj. William and Mary his third wife, and Maj. William was son of Gov. William and Alice. Sarah Adams was born Apr. 28, 1760.

A general guide to how to use these pages.

If you are new to this site, or haven't used the site a lot, please be sure to read the rest of this page. Even if you have used this site a lot, a refresher may be helpful due to the changes that have been introduced.

You can research the records alphabetically or chronologically within surname. Images of the pages from which the transcriptions were done, and the title pages, are available for most towns. A list of abbreviations used is available.

Alphabetic - This is the most common way that the published vital records were presented. All of the same given names were arranged chronologically with names that had middle initials or middle names following the others. Nicknames would appear alphabetically according to the spelling, i.e. Nabby, the nickname for Abigail, would be with the names beginning with the letter "N."

In this version, the names are sorted based on the most common spelling. Abbie, Abby, Abigail, Knabby, Nabby, etc., will all appear together and will be chronological. Middle initials and middle names have no influence on the order.

Note: There are going to be errors in the indexing of the names. A woman named Abiel may have been recorded as Abby. The indexing will have her with the Abigails. Please notify me with the Contact page about errors and they will be fixed within a couple days.

Chronologic - The chronologic sort will be most helpful with surnames having lots of entries, especially births. Records that had a missing date, or part, have had the missing portions replaced with zeros and will appear ahead of the others.

Page images - The icon at the left of each record is a link to the image of the page from which the transcription was done. The transcriptions are a tool. The image is the source. It is your responsibility to copy the image for your documentation. Also, the title page should be copied. There is a link to the title page in the navigation bar on transcription pages and image display pages.

Abbreviations - Each town had its own abbreviations used in the published records. Most of these are the same. The abbreviations for the headstones (GR), private records (PR), churches (CR), etc. are all different. There is a link to a list of all abbreviations used for the town in the navigation bar of the transcription pages.

Errors - There are two types of errors.

• Errors in the published records - It is known that errors are in the published records. Not many, to be sure, but they are there. Where I have found them, or have been informed and provided sufficient documentation, the records have been annotated. This appears in [red at the end of the line.]
• Transcription errors - Even with the best of proofing, errors occur. If you find one, use the Contact link at the top of the page and tell me about the error. I need to have the town name, type of record, page number, what the error is and what it should be. It facilitates matters if you copy and paste the record in error into the e-mail.

Miscellaneous - As the opportunity has provided, I have tried to research names that had only initials or an initial and a surname to find the full names. Where I've been successful I've added the name in red, i.e. J.R. appears as J[ohn] R. or J[ohn] R[ussel].

The alphabetic and chronologic sort orders and many planned improvements require that towns be transcribed. If you can spare two, or more, hours per week to help with the transcribing, write me.

With the exception of the few people helping with transcribing and indexing, I am the only person working on this project. I do all of the technical work. I correct errors. I put transcriptions into final format. I design the pages. This takes a tremendous amount of time and money. If you find this site useful, please donate what you think it is worth to you by going to the donations page.