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The book is 110 pages, not indexed, soft cover with a plastic comb binding, and available for $18.98 + $3.99 shipping & handling charge (Add $1.00 S&H for each additional volume ordered).
All births, marriages, and deaths found in the town's records books beginning in 1673 are included in this book. The oldest vital records of Harwich are contained in the first volume of the town records, which is in a very dilapidated condition, but almost all entries are readable. The inscriptions found on many cemetery headstones are also included. Most birth date entries are arranged in family groups, but not in alphabetical nor chronological order. The type is large and easy to read. Locating the names you are researching should not be a problem.
History of Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
The Town of Harwich is a resort and residential community located on the south side of the Cape peninsula, with an extensive shoreline on Nantucket Sound. It was settled around 1665, and incorporated in 1694. Its early economy included agriculture and maritime industries and its history has included boom and bust cycles from the earliest days of the community.
When the whaling industry collapsed with the discovery of oil, the community's emphasis shifted to cod fishing. By 1802, 15 to 20 ships were shore fishing and another ships were cod fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador, and by 1851, there were 48 ships employing 577 men and bringing in thousands of tons of cod and mackerel. The eventual decline of the fishing industry in Harwich by the latter part of the 19th century was caused by increases in the size of ships which eventually outstripped the shallow port's ability to house them. Residents turned to the development of cranberry bogs and resorts for summer visitors, working side-by-side with Portuguese immigrants. The first resort hotel opened in 1880 and both the cranberry and the tourist industries remain substantial parts of Harwich's economy in the present.
In 1775, when Separatists and Baptists outnumbered Orthodox Congregationalists, Harwich burghers felt independent enough to refuse to support a minister with public tax monies and they continued refusing to do so for 18 years. The town showed religious diversity from the first, including residents who are Baptists, Methodists, Reformed Methodists (anti-Episcopal), Wesleyans and Catholics, among others.
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