"The probate records for Bristol County, Massachusetts are located in the Registry of Probate in Taunton, Massachusetts. "In addition to the regular bound volumes, the Registry of Probate in Taunton also has most of the original probate documents themselves, from which these volumes were prepared"--Introd.

This book contains abstracts of the earliest surviving probate records for Bristol County, Massachusetts, part of the original Plymouth Colony and a magnet for colonists with Mayflower connections. The abstracts are a faithful rendering of the wills, inventories, administrators' accounts, receipts, divisions of estates, petitions, guardianships, and other Bristol County probate records, both bound and unbound, which exist for the period 1687 to 1745.

This book contains abstracts of the earliest surviving probate records for Bristol County, Massachusetts, part of the original Plymouth Colony and a magnet for colonists with Mayflower connections. The abstracts are a faithful rendering of the wills, inventories, administrators' accounts, receipts, divisions of estates, petitions, guardianships, and other Bristol County probate records, both bound and unbound, which exist for the period 1687 to 1745.

Contains abstracts for every item and entry, page by page, in all of the Bristol County Probate Volumes 11-17, and 124-126, covering the years 1745 to 1762. Included are wills, inventories, administrator's accounts, receipts, divisions of estates, petitions, guardianships, and other matters relating to the probate of estates.