United States, Early American Vital Records

Discover vital information about your ancestors in the United States and Barbados from the 1600s to the early 1900s. This large collection includes many birth, marriage, and death registers, as well as publications detailing gravestone inscriptions, wills, and the military dead of the American Revolutionary War.

Did your ancestors come over on the Mayflower? Discover details about them in Mayflower Births & Deaths, from files at Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants and Mayflower Marriages. You can find, for example, Isaac Allerton, the patriarch of one of the founding families of Virginia, in Mayflower Marriages. We learn that he married his first wife Mary Norris on 4 November 1611 in Leiden Holland. His second and third marriages, to Fear and Joanna respectively, are also listed.

As well as some records from Barbados, the following U.S. states are covered in this collection: Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Virginia.

There are 36 publications in this collection:

• Barbados Records. Marriages, 1643-1800, volume 1

• Barbados Records. Marriages, 1643-1800, volume 2 with index

• Biographical Data from Baltimore Newspapers, 1817-1819

• Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire

• Early Connecticut Marriages Prior to 1800

• Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800

• Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1657-1892

• Index of Maryland Colonial Wills, 1634-1777

• Known Military Dead During the American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

• Marriage Notices, 1785-1794

• Marriages & Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers, 1796-1816

• Marriages & Deaths from the Maryland Gazette, 1727-1839

• Maryland Marriage Evidences, 1634-1718

• Maryland Marriages, 1634-1777

• Maryland Marriages, 1778-1800

• Maryland Marriages, 1801-1820

• Mayflower Births & Deaths, from files at Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, volume 1 families A-F

• Mayflower Births & Deaths, from files at Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, volume 2 families H-W

• Mayflower Marriages

• New England Marriages Prior to 1700

• North Carolina Wills, 1665-1900

• Publishments, Marriages, Births & Deaths from the Earlier Records of Gorham, Maine

• Record of the Parish List of Deaths in Salem, Massachusetts, 1785-1819

• Records of Plymouth Colony, 1633-1689

• Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Illinois

• Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Indiana, plus Supplement

• Revolutionary War Pensions, awarded 1775-1905

• The Colonial Virginia Register

• The New North Church, Boston, 1714-1799

• The Vital Records of Kingston, New Hampshire 1694-1994

• Third Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700

• Vital Records of Londonderry, New Hampshire, 1719-1910

• Vital Records of the Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Vital Records of the Towns of Barnstable & Sandwich, Massachusetts

• Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham & Orleans, Massachusetts

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