Town History
In 1637 residents of nearby petitioned to settle a new plantation in the area now known as Sudbury. Though originally the home of Native Americans, it was largely unpopulated due to a smallpox epidemic a few years before.

On September 6, 1638 the General Court issued a 5-mile land grant that included areas currently in Sudbury, Wayland and northern Framingham. Later that fall the first lean-tos were erected on the east side of the Sudbury River. One year later on September 4, 1639, the General Court incorporated the new plantation. Sudbury was the nineteenth town of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Compiled from the Town of Sudbury archives.

Concord Road c.1888. More info.

Town Stats
Settled in 1638. Incorporated in 1639.
2003 population 17,423.
24.7 square miles.
Town zipcode is 01776.

Vital Records
Search the Town Archives
Vital Records (births, marriages, deaths) from 1639 to 1850. Compiled from town and county records. Publication images are not available online, but much of the detail is in the record itself. These records were published by the New England Historical & Genealogical Society as Vital Records of Sudbury Boston, MA 1903.

Vital Records of Sudbury 1639-1691
Middlesex County Register from New England Historical & Genealogical Society. (Be sure to scroll down the page. There is more than one birth section listed.)

Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
470 Atlantic Avenue, 2nd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02210-2224
617-753-8600
Click here for fees and other info.

Write to the Town Clerk at
Town Hall
322 Concord Rd.
Sudbury, MA 01776
978-443-8891 x351

Goodnow Library
21 Concord Road
Sudbury, MA 01776
978-443-1035
Click here for more info.

Sudbury Families
Compiled by Jodi Salerno.

Adams	King (w/Clapp & Rice)
Bigelow	Howe John Howe | Samuel Howe
Brown	Rice (w/Clapp &King)
Clapp (w/Rice & King)	Slater
Goodnow	Ward Ward | William Ward

Houses of Worship
Baptist Church
First Baptist Church of Sudbury
162 Landham Road
978-443-7171
Website

Catholic
Our Lady of Fatima
160 Concord Road
978-443-2647
Website

St. Anselms Roman Catholic
100 Landham Road
978-443-8981
Website

Episcopal
St Elizabeth's Episcopal Church
1 Morse Rd
Sudbury, MA 01776-1746
978-443-6035
Website

Lutheran
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church
16 Great Road, Route 117
Subury, MA
978-443-8350
Website

Methodist
United Methodist Church
251 Old Sudbury Rd
Sudbury, MA 01776-1842
978-443-4351
Website

Non-Denominational
Martha-Mary Chapel
72 Wayside Inn Road
Sudbury, MA
978-443-1776
Website

Presbyterian
Presbyterian Church in Sudbury
330 Concord Rd
Sudbury, MA 01776-1819
978-440-9030
Website

Synagogues
Congregation Beth El of Sudbury (Reform)
105 Hudson Rd
Sudbury, MA 01776-1666
978-443-9622
Website

Congregation B'nai Torah
225 Boston Post Road
Sudbury, MA 01776
978-443-2082

Swedenborgian
Swedenborg Chapel
138 Maynard Rd
Sudbury, MA 01776-1654
978-443-6531
Website

Unitarian Universalist Church
First Parish In Sudbury
Sudbury Center
Sudbury, MA 01776
978-443-2043
Website

United Church of Christ
Memorial Congregational Church
26 Concord Road
978-443-3885
Website

Cemeteries
There are no active cemeteries in Sudbury, however there are several historical ones.

Sudbury Research
Town of Sudbury Archives
Chamber of Commerce

Sudbury Historical Society
Loring Parsonage Old Sudbury Road
P.O. Box 233
Sudbury 01776
978-443-6672

Local Sudbury Sites
Town of Sudbury
Chamber of Commerce
Wayside Inn
Sudbury Savoyards (Gillbert & Sullivan)

Sudbury Town Crier Newspaper | Obituaries
Google Map
Epodunk.com

Last updated Wednesday, 12-Jul-2006 11:12:42 MDT

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