Research Center.

Museum staff are available to answer questions regarding the Museum’s collections, which include genealogical resources, archival materials, and museum objects.

Museum staff are happy to answer specific questions about the history of Rehoboth and resources in our collections. We often help fill in gaps in family trees, locate ownership records for historic homes, and find ancestors in local cemeteries.

We are conscientious of staff time and try to keep research for each inquiry under an hour. Arrangements can be made for more extensive questions and projects. Due to the volume of queries we receive, it can take up to two weeks to receive a response from staff.

Materials housed in the E. Otis Dyer Jr. Research Center include but are not limited to:

• Rehoboth Baptist and Congregational Church records
• General information about genealogical research
• Family genealogies
• Early Bristol County Probate Records
• Vital Records of Rehoboth and 60 other towns in MA
• American Revolutionary Vital Records and History
• MA Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War, 8 volumes
• MA Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, 17 volumes
• Early Census Records of Rehoboth and some other states
• Cemetery records of Dighton, Swansea and the early Newman, Hunt an
• Carpenter Cemeteries in East Providence, Attleboro, Barrington, & Swan Point
• Cemetery Records and locations of over 50 cemeteries in Rehoboth
• Rehoboth School history
• Histories of Rehoboth by several authors
• History of Seekonk, MA