Boston Public Library
Boston Record Commissioner's Reports
Online Collections
The office of Record Commissioner was established in 1875 "to complete,
as far as practicable, the record of births, deaths, and marriages in the
town and city of Boston prior to A.D. 1849." In 1892 the office was
consolidated with the City Clerk's Office. In 1900 the series' name
changed to Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, reflecting a
change in the focus of the series. By the time the final volume was
published in 1909, a good portion of Boston's early historical documents had
been reprinted through the series.
Volumes
- 1. Boston
Tax List, 1674 & 1676
- 2. Boston
Town Records, 1634-1660 (2nd
edition with maps)
- 3.
Charlestown Land Records
- 4.
Dorchester Land Records (2nd
edition)
- 5.
"Gleaner" Articles (2nd
edition)
- 6.
Roxbury Land and Church Records
- 7. Boston
Town Records, 1660-1701
- 8. Boston
Town Records, 1700-1728
- 9. Boston
Vital Statistics, 1630-1699
- 10.
Miscellaneous Papers (Table of Contents)
- 11. Boston
Selectmen's Records, 1701-1715
- 12. Boston
Town Records, 1729-1742
- 13. Boston
Selectmen's Records, 1716-1736
- 14. Boston
Town Records, 1742-1757
- 15. Boston
Selectmen's Records, 1736-1742
- 16. Boston
Town Records, 1758-1769
- 17. Boston
Selectmen's Records, 1742/3-1753
- 18. Boston
Town Records, 1770-1777
- 19. Boston
Selectmen's Records, 1754-1763
- 20. Boston
Selectmen's Records, 1764-1768
- 21.
Dorchester Births, etc. to 1825
- 22. United
States Census, 1790, Tax Statistics 1798
- 23. Boston
Selectmen's Records, 1769- Apr 1775
- 24. Boston
Births, 1700-1800
- 25. Boston
Selectmen's Records, 1776-1786
- 26. Boston
Town Records, 1778-1783
- 27.
Boston Selectmen's Records, 1787-1798
- 28. Boston
Marriages, 1700-1751
- 29.
Miscellaneous Papers (see below)
- 30. Boston
Marriages, 1752-1809
- 31. Boston
Town Records, 1784-1796
- 32.
Aspinwall Notarial Records, 1644-1651
- 33. Boston
Selectmen's Records, 1799-1810
- 34. The
Town of Roxbury, by F.S. Drake
- 35. Boston
Town Records, 1796-1813
- 36. Dorchester
Births, etc. 1826-1849
- 37. Boston
Town Records, 1814-1822
- 38. Boston
Selectmen's Records, 1811- Aug 1818
- 39. Boston
Selectmen's Records, Sep 1818- Apr 1822
Vol
29, records from the Boston fire of 1760, Lists of Freemen,
names of those who took an oath of allegiance, book of
allowances (building with timber), lists of inhabitants 1698,
ships arriving in Boston 1715-1769 with passengers’ names,
lists of scholars 1768, list of cows 1774, list of persons
with arms 1775, list of watchmen 1775, list of returned arms
1778, index.
