Middlesex County, Massachusetts Deponents, 1649-1700

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The Middlesex County Court Folios, a massive collection of unpublished court documents dating from 1649, is currently in the custody of the Judicial Archives and is stored at the Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point. No satisfactory index of the collection has yet been made. The following index is not an index to all deponents in the Middlesex court records. Only those depositions where the deponent's age was stated are indexed here. Children as young as 10 years old and seniors in their late eighties were brought to court to bear witness in matters as diverse as swearing and murder. Native American, African, Dutch, Irish, and English residents of Middlesex County are represented here, as well as sailors who were just passing through from distant ports. Overall, this online database contains the names of more than 5,200 deponents from the folios.

Sources Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, comp. Middlesex County, Massachusetts Deponents, 1649-1700. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000-. Original data: Index to the Deponent Records of the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts. Columbia Point, MA: Massachusetts Archives, 1930-.

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