Welcome to the
Middleton, Massachusetts
Genealogy Project

Serving family history research in the
Town of Middleton,
County of Essex, and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the
United States of America.

Essex County MA US GenWeb

Settled 1659 - Incorporated June 20, 1728.

Local Resources

The following local resources may be of use in your searches:

• Flint Public Library has a generous local history collection, and helpful librarians.
• Middleton Historical Society is based at the Lura Woodside Watkins Museum and Flint Library as well.
• General town information is available from the Town of Middleton.
• Phillips Library for New England history, in nearby Salem, is part of the Peabody Essex Museum.
• Local historian Lura Woodside Watkins wrote about Middleton in Old-Time New England magazine, searchable, among other publications, at Historic New England.
• Scott's Railroad Archaeology Page has pictures taken from the Essex Railroad line, which runs through town, and of the former "Middleton Colony", at the Danvers State Hospital.

Public Records

• General public record access information is provided at the Essex County GenWeb site.
• Vital Records of Middleton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, are transcribed there.
• Early vital records transcriptions for many other towns are available, as well.
• You may also purchase official birth, marriage, and death certificates, for Middleton only, within the past one hundred years, from the Town Clerk.

Volunteer Information

If your concern does not relate to Middleton, or Essex County, Massachusetts ...
... then please, do not enter your information here.

Otherwise, Middleton, or Essex County, Massachusetts, queries, lookups, and surname registrations can be posted as directed on the Essex County Query Page.

Cemetery Information

Transcriptions for some cemetery gravestones can be found here.

• Oakdale Cemetery, Maple Street
• Timothy Fuller Cemetery, Centre District, Old South Main Street
• Merriam Cemetery, Centre District, South Main Street
• Symonds Cemetery
• Fuller Cemetery, North District
• Peabody Family Burying Ground, was near East School House, East Street
• Elliot Cemetery
• Fuller Cemetery, on the Benjamin Richardson Farm
• Richardson Cemetery
• Smith Cemetery, Centre District, Mount Vernon Street
• Flint Cemetery, was near paper mills, Boston Street, South Middleton
• Howe Cemetery, North District

All of the above cemeteries were in use before 1905. Help locating and transcribing these cemeteries is welcome. Contact the Town Coordinator, for more details.

Church Information

• Middleton Congregational Church, 68 Maple Street
• St. Agnes Catholic Church, 22 Boston Street
• Jehovah's Witnesses, 70 Essex Street

Nearby Towns

The following towns are (or have been) neighboring to Middleton:

North Andover (originally Andover),
Boxford (originally Rowley),
Topsfield (originally Ipswich),
Danvers & Peabody (originally Salem),
Lynnfield (originally Lynn),
and North Reading (originally Reading)

which makes it truly a town in the middle of many others.

There are other Essex County towns nearby, as well.

You are encouraged to visit their Genealogy Projects, to further help you in your searches.

Things are still just getting underway... So keep coming back!