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Bristol, Rhode Island
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Location in Bristol County
Bristol County's location in the state of Rhode Island
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Founded	1680
Seat	Bristol
Address	Town Hall 10 Court Street Bristol, RI 02809
Website: www.bristolri.us/

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• Fomerly shire town (county seat) of Bristol County, Rhode Island

Resources

Modern town borders of Bristol in Bristol County, Rhode Island.

Archives and Libraries

• Town Hall Archives
  The Town of Bristol holds documents dating from Bristol’s earliest years; first as a town of Plymouth Colony (1680-1691), later as a Town of Massachusetts (1691-1747) and finally as a colonial Town in Rhode Island (since 1747).
  These archives include early birth, death, and marriage records in addition to the records of the Town Meetings (prior to 1971) and Town Council records that date back to the 17th Century.
  The Town Clerk’s Office is currently involved in a project to process and catalogue a set of miscellaneous documents relating to the action of the Bristol Town Council in its capacity of the head of Town government and Overseer of the Poor from the early 18th Century to about 1900.
  This project, funded through the State Archives and a grant from the Rhode Island Foundation, should be completed and available for limited public use for educational purposes during 2007.
• Rogers Free Library
  Founded in 1877
  525 Hope Street (Rt 114)
  P.O. Box 538
  Bristol, RI 02809

Biographies

Church History and Records

Cemeteries

• Genealogical collections FHL Collection

Congregational Church

• Copies of inscriptions taken from gravestones in the Old East Burial Ground, Juniper Hill Cemetery, Congregational Church Yard, Walker Hill Cemetery FHL Collection

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Bristol #9, 300 High Street at Bradfird Street

• Findagrave

DeWolf Family

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Bristol #5, Woodlawn Avenue

• Findagrave

East Burial

• History
• Bristol Cemeteries, 1689-1865 FHL Collection

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Bristol #4, Wood Street

• Findagrave

Juniper Hill

• Copies of inscriptions taken from gravestones in the Old East Burial Ground, Juniper Hill Cemetery, Congregational Church Yard, Walker Hill Cemetery FHL Collection
• The Juniper Hill Cemetery: in Bristol, R.I. FHL Collection

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Bristol #3, Sherry Avenue

• Findagrave

North Burial

• History
• Bristol Cemeteries, 1689-1865 FHL Collection

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Bristol #1, Hope Street

• Findagrave

Old East Burial

• Copies of inscriptions taken from gravestones in the Old East Burial Ground, Juniper Hill Cemetery, Congregational Church Yard, Walker Hill Cemetery FHL Collection

Quinn Estate

• Findagrave Burial site of Anthony Quinn, the actor

St. Mary's Catholic

• Findagrve

St. Michael's Episcopal

• Findagrave

The Miery Swamp

• Findagrave

Walker Hill

• Copies of inscriptions taken from gravestones in the Old East Burial Ground, Juniper Hill Cemetery, Congregational Church Yard, Walker Hill Cemetery FHL Collection
• Findagrave

Centennial Celebrations, etc.

• Celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the town of Bristol, Rhode Island: September 24th, A.D. 1880 FHL Collection

Church History and Records

Congregational

• Historical sketches of the First Congregational Church, Bristol, R.I., 1687-1872 FHL Collection
• Manual of the First Congregational Church, Bristol R. I., 1687-1872 FHL Collection

Episcopal

• Two hundred years of St. Michael's rectors 1721-1955 FHL Collection

Court Records

• The defendant's fist many blows did strike the Rev. John Usher of Bristol, RI, v. Capt Simeon Potter of Bristol, RI, 1761 FHL Collection ▲ FamilySearch Books Online

Directories

• Bristol, Warren and Barrington (Rhode Island) city directories FHL Collection

Dwellings

• Historic and architectural resources of Bristol, Rhode Island FHL Collection

Genealogy

• Bristol, R. I.'s early settlers FHL Collection ▲ FHL Collection
  The families covered are those of the eighty-one settlers who attended the town's first meeting in 1681 as well as those who were the original proprietors of the Mount Hope Lands that became Bristol.

History

• Settlement of Town of Bristol Genealogy Trails
• History of Bristol Genealogy Trails
• Blithewold: Bristol, Rhode Island FHL Collection
• Bristol, Rhode Island: a town biography FHL Collection
• The history of Bristol R. I. FHL Collection ▲ FHL Collection
  the story of the Mount Hope lands from the visit of the Northmen to the present time; containing accounts of the Indian wars, the character and lives of the early settlers in Bristol, the events of the Revolution, the privateers of the War of 1812; details of the commerce of the port; and sketches of its distinguished men
• Mount Hope: a New England chronicle FHL Collection
• Sketches of old Bristol FHL Collection
• Tales of an old sea port: FHL Collection
  a general sketch of the history of Bristol, Rhode Island, including, incidentally, an account of the voyages of the norsemen, so far as they may have been connected with Narragansett Bay, and personal narratives of some notable voyages accomplished by sailors from the Mount Hope lands

Land and Property

Land records begins in 1747 and continuing to the present.

• Bristol, Rhode Island original land records, 1690-1703 FHL Collection
• Bristol (R.I.) deeds, 1690-1893 FHL Collection
  Index to Grantors and Grantees 1747-1893
  Deeds 1690 to 1893
• Bristol (R.I.) deed records (1887-1906) and indexes (1893-1926) --, 1887-1926 FHL Collection
  Deed records 1887-1905
  Grantor Index 1893-1926
  Grantee Index 1893-1926

Probate Records

Military Hisory and Records

• Bristol (R.I.) militia records, early to 1920 FHL Collection

Newspapers

Naturalization and Citizenship

• Bristol (R.I.) naturalization records (1890-1902) and index (1896-1998) --, 1890-1998 FHL Collection

Patents

• Google Patents

Probate Records

Probate records begin in 1747, continuing to the present.

• Deeds, wills, inventories, administrations, grand deeds, grand articles 1680-1808 FHL Collection
• Books of wills and inventories, 1746-1881 FHL Collection
• Inventories (1811-1885) and administrators' accounts (1811-1877) --, 1811-1885 FHL Collection
• Bristol (R.I.) probate bonds, 1817-1890 FHL Collection
• Bristol (R.I.) probate records (1892-1923) and index (1700-2002) --, 1892-1923 FHL Collection
  Deeds of personal estate (1909-1917)
  Probate Warrants (1896-1917)
  Inventories (1900-1918)
  Administrators' accounts (1892-1920)
  Letters of Administration (1901-1917)
  Bonds (1905-1912)
  Probate Index
  Probate records (1903-1918)
  Wills (1882-1916)
• Bristol (R.I.) town council records, 1760-1877 FHL Collection
  Probate records (1760-1877)
• Letters of administration, 1815-1906 FHL Collection

Schools

• School accounts 1830-1870 FHL Collection

Statistics

• Town of Bristol: monograph FHL Collection

Taxation

• Bristol Tax List, 1695 Ancestry ($)

• Bristol, Rhode Island 1888 Tax List DistantCousin

Vital Records

• Vital records, 1680-1850 FHL Collection
• Bristol (R.I.) birth index, 1690-2002 FHL Collection
• South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955 Has listings for Bristol, RI Ancestry ($)

Societies, Libraries and Museums

• NSDAR Bristol Chapter
• Bristol Historical & Preservation Society
  48 Court Street
  Bristol, RI 02809

Websites

• FamilySearch Family History Library Catalog

References

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