Welcome to Rockport, MA

          Early Rockport Families -- Ancestors living in Rockport before 1700

• TARR

Rockport Roll Call

List of descendants researching their Rockport Ancestors.

• Barry Gates for GREEN family
• Barry Gates for McJANNET family
• David C. Young for POOLE family
• David C. Young for ROWE family
• David C. Young - Diana Nelson for TARR family
• Barry Gates for TUFTS family
• Barry Gates for WITHAM family

1. On the subject line enter Rockport Lookup
2. Put name of book or CD you are requesting in the first line of the message as many of these wonderful people have volunteered to look up several things.
3. Limit your request to 1 or 2 specific names on separate lines.

4. Don't forget to thank your volunteer for their time and effort.

• Rockport, Essex Published Resources and Lookup Volunteers

• .... A descriptive List, Drawn from the Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and Their Contemporaneous Documents by Charles Henry Pope, Pastor of First Church, Charleston, Boston. Facsimile Reprint Published 1991 by Heritage Books, Inc., 1540 Pointer Ridge Place, Baltimore, Maryland 20716, p 519 with index - (MS KATHARINE A ULATT)

• Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants of New England, 1620-1650, Charles Edward Banks. Edited and indexed by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell; 3rd edition; Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co. , 1963, 295 p. This is printed in chart form with headers. English County: Name of Emigrant: English Parish Name: Ships Name: New England Town: Reference:.

• Essex-Co Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 1&2 by M Van B Perley, Pub. (covers 12 issues of 1894 and 7 issues of 1895)

• Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage.

• New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey

• Higginson Book Company 148 Washington Street, P.O. Box 778, Salem MA 01970. tel. 978-745-7170 fax: 978/745-8025

Rockport Links

If you know of a Rockport link that would be appropriate to add to this page, please e-mail Connie Winterton.

• Rockport Historical Society -- Additional information soon.
• The Massachusetts Archives -- Guide to the geneaology holdings select "Family History Resources"

• http://rockportma.areaguides.net/google.html

• http://www.rockportusa.com/

• http://www.cape-ann.com/rockport.html

• http://www.capeannweb.com/rockport/Rockport.htm

• http://www.town.rockport.ma.us/

• http://www.seecapeann.com/see_rockport.html

• Mass Online-Rockport http://rockport.mass.info/   

• http://www.bluemooi.com/rockport.html  (Most painted structure in the world?)

• http://www.hometownlocator.com/City/Rockport-Massachusetts.cfm 

Newsletters, Journals and Mailing List Information

• The Essex Genealogist (TEG) is the quarterly journal of the Essex Society of Genealogists, P.O. Box 313, Lynnfield, MA 01940-0313. ESG is in the process of having Heritage Books, Inc. reprint their entire publication from 1981 through 1995. You may purchase the earlier volumes directly from Heritage Books Inc of Bowie, MD.