Vital Records of the town Scituate, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Volume #1 (Plymouth County)

By: F. Apthorp Foster, Pub. 1909, reprinted 2025, 438 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-629-1.  The city of Scituate is a seacoast town located in Plymouth County that was established in 1633.  The approximately 19,000 BIRTHS within this book are arranged in alphabetical order.  Data to be gleaned from these records: Birth person's name, date of birth, names of parents, whether parent was widowed, parents' occupation, type of record that the birth record came from public, private or gravestone, and along with other types of useful information.  The author has even included a section devoted to African American births during this time frame.