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Quick Facts
Establishment and former town name(s)
Historical data relating to counties, cities, and towns in Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997), [FHL book 974.4 H2h 1997].
6 March 1638: Certain persons were ordered to "... goe to Sanditch, and set forth their bounds of the lands graunted to them". (Ply. Col. Rec., Vol I, p. 80)
Archiac name: Pocasset, Pokesset, Sanditch, Scusset, Shaume
Section/Villages within the town: East Sandwich, Farmersville, Forestdale, Greenville (extinct), Jarvesville, Monument Village (current town of Bourne), Plowed Neck, Sagamore Hill, Sand Hill, Scorton, South Sandwich, Spectacle Pond, Spring Hill, Wakeby
Wikipedia: Sandwich, Massachusetts
Boundary Changes
2 March 1652: Bounds between Sandwich and Barnstable to be established.
10 June 1662: Bounds between Sandwich and Barnstable to be established.
7 June 1670: Bounds between Sandwich and Plymouth as established Jan. 19, 1663, ordered to be recorded.
29 October 1672: Bounds between Sandwich and Barnstable established.
7 July 1681: Bounds between Sandwich and "Suckanesset" established.
28 October 1684: Bounds established.
28 November 1735: Bounds between Sandwich and lands of the proprietors of Mashpee confirmed.
26 February 1811: Part of the plantation of "Marshpee" annexed.
1 April 1859: Part of the district of "Marshpee" annexed.
13 March 1860: Part of the district of "Marshpee" annexed.
19 March 1872: Part re-annexed to Mashpee.
19 March 1880: Bounds between Sandwich and Falmouth established.
2 April 1884: Part established as Bourne.
27 May 1887: Bounds between Sandwich and Mashpee established and part annexed to Mashpee.
20 April 1905: Bounds between Sandwich and Mashpee established and part annexed to Mashpee.
24 April 1916: Part annexed to Barnstable.
Neighboring Towns
Barnstable | Bourne | Falmouth | Mashpee | Cape Cod Bay to the north
Resources
Biography
Cemeteries
Bay View Cemetery (1864)
Main St.
Cedarville Cemetery (1805)
Rte 6A
Forestdale Cemetery (1826)
Falmouth Rd
Freeman Cemetery (1806)
Grove St.
Mount Hope Cemetery (1775)
Rte 6A
New Town Cemetery (1977)
Rte. 130
Old Quaker Cemetery (ca. 1670s)
end Quaker Road (no stones)
Old Town Cemetery (1683)
Grove St.
Percival-Hablin Family Cemetery (1831)
Farmersville Rd
Poor Farm Cemetery (1823)
Crowell and Charles Sts (no stones)
Quaker Cemetery (1694)
behind Quaker Meetinghouse
Saddle and Pillion Cemetery (1676)
at the end of Wilson Rd
St. Peters Cemetery (1865)
Grove and Pine Sts
South Sandwich Cemetery (1811)
Boardley St.
Spring Hill Cemetery (1812)
Rte. 6A
Tobey Cemetery (ca. 1788)
Quake Meetinghouse Rd.
Joe Wilson Family Cemetery (1886)
off Rte. 130
Wakeby-Goodspeed Family Cemetery (1803)
Cotuit Rd
Church History and Records
History
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