Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point

220 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcidx.htm

The Massachusetts Archives holds all state copies of vital records (1841'95); passenger lists for the Port of Boston (1848'91), including a new index expected to go online; federal census records (state copies, 1850'70, with 1880 on microfilm) with all supplemental federal schedules and state censuses for 1855 and 1865; legislative records from the General Court with land grants, petitions, tax records (1643'1787); Eastern land records for the settlement of Maine; human service institution records; all military records for the state through the Revolution; and Judicial Archives beginning with colony era courts to mid-nineteenth century courts (see Massachusetts Court Records).