Adams
Alford
Becket
Cheshire
Clarksburg
Dalton
Egremont
Florida
Great Barrington
Hancock
Hinsdale
Lanesborough
Lee
Lenox
Monterey
Mt. Washington
New Ashford
New Marlborough
NORTH ADAMS
Otis
Peru
PITTSFIELD*
Richmond
Sandisfield
Savoy
Sheffield
Stockbridge
Tyringham
Washington
West Stockbridge
Williamstown
Windsor
 

Acushnet
ATTLEBORO
Berkley
Dartmouth
Dighton
Easton
Fairhaven
FALL RIVER*
Freetown
Mansfield
NEW BEDFORD*
North Attleborough
Norton
Raynham
Rehoboth
Seekonk
Somerset
Swansea
TAUNTON*
Westport
 
Dukes County
formed in 1695 from Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands,
which had been part of Dukes County, New York until Massachusetts gained it in 1691

Aquinnah
Chilmark
Edgartown*
Gosnold
Oak Bluffs
Tisbury
West Tisbury

AMESBURY
Andover
BEVERLY
Boxford
Danvers
Essex
Georgetown
GLOUCESTER
Groveland
Hamilton
HAVERHILL
Ipswich
LAWRENCE*
LYNN
Lynnfield
Manchester by the sea
Marblehead
Merrimac
METHUEN
Middleton
Nahant
Newbury
NEWBURYPORT*
North Andover
PEABODY
Rockport
Rowley
SALEM*
Salisbury
Saugus
Swampscott
Topsfield
Wenham
West Newbury
 

Ashfield
Bernardston
Buckland
Charlemont
Colrain
Conway
Deerfield
Erving
Gill
GREENFIELD*
Hawley
Heath
Leverett
Leyden
Monroe
Montague
New Salem
Northfield
Orange
Rowe
Shelburne
Sunderland
Warwick
Wendell
Whately
 

AGAWAM
Blanford
Brimfield
Chester
CHICOPEE
East Longmeadow
Granville
Hampden
Holland
HOLYOKE
Longmeadow
Ludlow
Monson
Montgomery
Palmer
Russell
Southwick
SPRINGFIELD*
Tolland
Wales
WEST SPRINGFIELD
WESTFIELD
Wilbraham

Hampshire County
formed in 1662 from the western part of Massachusetts

Amherst
Belchertown
Chesterfield
Cummington
EASTHAMPTON
Goshen
Granby
Hadley
Hatfield
Huntington
Middlefield
NORTHAMPTON*
Pelham
Plainfield
South Hadley
Southampton
Ware
Westhampton
Williamsburg
Worthington  

Middlesex County
one of four original counties created in Massachusetts in 1643

Acton
Arlington
Ashby
Ashland
Ayer
Bedford
Belmont
Billerica
Boxborough
Burlington
CAMBRIDGE*
Carlisle
Chelmsford
Concord
Dracut
Dunstable
EVERETT
Framingham
Groton
Holliston
Hopkinton
Hudson
Lexington
Lincoln
Littleton
LOWELL*
MALDEN
MARLBOROUGH
Maynard
MEDFORD
MELROSE
Natick
NEWTON
North Reading
Pepperell
Reading
Sherborn
Shirley
SOMERVILLE
Stoneham
Stow
Sudbury
Tewksbury
Townsend
Tyngsborough
Wakefield
WALTHAM
WATERTOWN
Wayland
Westford
Weston
Wilmington
Winchester
WOBURN


Nantucket County
formed in 1695 from Nantucket Island which had been part of Dukes County, New York until Massachusetts gained it in 1691.

Nantucket*


Norfolk County
formed in 1793 from part of Suffolk County

Avon
Bellingham
Braintree
Brookline
Canton
Cohasset
Dedham*
Dover
Foxborough
FRANKLIN
Holbrook
Medfield
Medway
Millis
Milton
Needham
Norfolk
Norwood
Plainville
QUINCY
Randolph
Sharon
Stoughton
Walpole
Wellesley
Westwood
WEYMOUTH
Wrentham
 

Plymouth County
one of three original counties created in the Plymouth Colony in 1685.

Abington
Bridgewater
BROCKTON*
Carver
Duxbury
East Bridgewater
Halifax
Hanover
Hanson
Hingham
Hull
Kingston
Lakeville
Marion
Marshfield
Mattapoisett
Middleborough
Norwell
Pembroke
Plymouth*
Plympton
Rochester
Rockland
Scituate
Wareham
West Bridgewater
Whitman


Suffolk County
one of four original counties created in Massachusetts in 1643

BOSTON*
CHELSEA
REVERE
Winthrop

 
Worcester County
formed in 1731 from parts of Hampshire County, Middlesex County, and Suffolk County.

Ashburnham
Athol
Auburn
Barre
Berlin
Blackstone
Bolton
Boylston
Brookfield
Charlton
Clinton
Douglas
Dudley
East Brookfield
FITCHBURG*
GARDNER
Grafton
Hardwick
Harvard
Holden
Hopedale
Hubbardston
Lancaster
Leicester
LEOMINSTER
Lunenburg
Mendon
Milford
Millbury
Millville
New Braintree
North Brookfield
Northborough
Northbridge
Oakham
Oxford
Paxton
Petersham
Phillipston
Princeton
Royalston
Rutland
Shrewsbury
Southborough
SOUTHBRIDGE
Spencer
Sterling
Sturbridge
Sutton
Templeton
Upton
Uxbridge
Warren
Webster
West Boylston
West Brookfield
Westborough
Westminster
Winchendon
WORCESTER*

Town/City Name	County	Date Settled	Incorporated as a Town/City
Abington	Plymouth	1668	1712
Acton	Middlesex	1680	1735
Acushnet	Bristol	1659	1860
Adams	Berkshire	1762	1778
AGAWAM+	Hampden	1635	1855 / 1971
Alford	Berkshire	1740	1773
AMESBURY+	Essex	1654	1668 / 1996
Amherst	Hampshire	1703	1775
Andover	Essex	1642	1646
Aquinnah	Dukes	1669	1870
Arlington	Middlesex	1630	1807
Ashburnham	Worcester	1736	1765
Ashby	Middlesex	1676	1767
Ashfield	Franklin	1743	1765
Ashland	Middlesex	1750	1846
Athol	Worcester	1735	1762
ATTLEBORO	Bristol	1634	1694 / 1914
Auburn	Worcester	1714	1778
Avon	Norfolk	1700	1888
Ayer	Middlesex	1668	1871
BARNSTABLE*+	Barnstable	1637	1638 / 1989
Barre	Worcester	1720	1774
Becket	Berkshire	1740	1765
Bedford	Middlesex	1640	1729
Belchertown	Hampshire	1731	1761
Bellingham	Norfolk	1713	1719
Belmont	Middlesex	1636	1859
Berkley	Bristol	1638	1735
Berlin	Worcester	1665	1812
Bernardston	Franklin	1738	1762
BEVERLY	Essex	1626	1668 / 1894
Billerica	Middlesex	1637	1655
Blackstone	Worcester	1662	1845
Blandford	Hampden	1735	1741
Bolton	Worcester	1682	1738
BOSTON*	Suffolk	1625	1630 / 1822
Bourne	Barnstable	1640	1884
Boxborough	Middlesex	1680	1835
Boxford	Essex	1645	1685
Boylston	Worcester	1705	1785
Braintree	Norfolk	1634	1640
Brewster	Barnstable	1656	1803
Bridgewater	Plymouth	1650	1656
Brighton	Suffolk	1630	1806  annexed to Boston 1/5/ 1874
Brimfield	Hampden	1706	1731
BROCKTON*	Plymouth	1700	1821 / 1881
Brookfield	Worcester	1664	1718
Brookline	Norfolk	1638	1705
Buckland	Franklin	1779	1779
Burlington	Middlesex	1641	1799
CAMBRIDGE*	Middlesex	1630	1636 / 1846
Canton	Norfolk	1630	1797
Carlisle	Middlesex	1650	1780
Carver	Plymouth	1660	1790
Charlemont	Franklin	1742	1765
CHARLESTOWN	Suffolk	1630	1630 / 1847 annexed to Boston 1873
Charlton	Worcester	1735	1775
Chatham	Barnstable	1665	1712
Chelmsford	Middlesex	1633	1655
CHELSEA	Suffolk	1624	1739 / 1857
Cheshire	Berkshire	1766	1793
Chester	Hampden	1760	1765
Chesterfield	Hampshire	1760	1762
CHICOPEE	Hampden	1652	1848 / 1890
Chilmark	Dukes	1671	1714
Clarksburg	Berkshire	1764	1798
Clinton	Worcester	1654	1850
Cohasset	Norfolk	1647	1775
Colrain	Franklin	1735	1761
Concord	Middlesex	1635	1635
Conway	Franklin	1762	1775
Cummington	Hampshire	1762	1779
Dalton	Berkshire	1755	1784
Dana			1800-1938 extinct-Quabbin Reservoir
Danvers	Essex	1636	1775
Dartmouth	Bristol	1650	1664
Dedham*	Norfolk	1635	1636
Deerfield	Franklin	1673	1677
Dennis	Barnstable	1639	1793
Dighton	Bristol	1678	1712
Douglas	Worcester	1721	1775
Dorchester	Suffolk	1630	1630 annexed to Boston 1/3/ 1870
Dover	Norfolk	1635	1836
Dracut	Middlesex	1664	1701
Dudley	Worcester	1714	1732
Dunstable	Middlesex	1656	1673
Duxbury	Plymouth	1624	1637
East Bridgewater	Plymouth	1649	1823
East Brookfield	Worcester	1664	1920
East Longmeadow	Hampden	1740	1894
Eastham	Barnstable	1644	1646
EASTHAMPTON+	Hampshire	1664	1809 / 1996
Easton	Bristol	1694	1725
Edgartown*	Dukes	1642	1671
Egremont	Berkshire	1730	1775
Enfield			1815-1938 extinct-Quabbin Reservoir
Erving	Franklin	1801	1838
Essex	Essex	1634	1819
EVERETT	Middlesex	1630	1870 / 1892
Fairhaven	Bristol	1670	1812
FALL RIVER*	Bristol	1656	1803 / 1854
Falmouth	Barnstable	1660	1686
FITCHBURG*	Worcester	1730	1764 / 1872
Florida	Berkshire	1783	1805
Foxborough	Norfolk	1704	1778
Framingham	Middlesex	1650	1700
FRANKLIN+	Norfolk	1660	1778 / 1978
Freetown	Bristol	1675	1683
GARDNER	Worcester	1764	1785 / 1922
Georgetown	Essex	1639	1838
Gill	Franklin	1776	1793
GLOUCESTER	Essex	1623	1642 / 1873
Goshen	Hampshire	1761	1781
Gosnold	Dukes	1641	1864
Grafton	Worcester	1718	1735
Granby	Hampshire	1727	1768
Granville	Hampden	1736	1775
Great Barrington	Berkshire	1726	1761
GREENFIELD*+	Franklin	1686	1775 / 2002
Groton	Middlesex	1655	1655
Groveland	Essex	1639	1850
Hadley	Hampshire	1659	1661
Halifax	Plymouth	1670	1734
Hamilton	Essex	1638	1793
Hampden	Hampden	1741	1878
Hancock	Berkshire	1767	1776
Hanover	Plymouth	1649	1727
Hanson	Plymouth	1632	1820
Hardwick	Worcester	1737	1739
Harvard	Worcester	1704	1732
Harwich	Barnstable	1670	1694
Hatfield	Hampshire	1661	1670
HAVERHILL	Essex	1640	1641 / 1869
Hawley	Franklin	1760	1792
Heath	Franklin	1765	1785
Hingham	Plymouth	1633	1635
Hinsdale	Berkshire	1763	1804
Holbrook	Norfolk	1710	1872
Holden	Worcester	1723	1741
Holland	Hampden	1725	1835
Holliston	Middlesex	1659	1724
HOLYOKE	Hampden	1745	1850 / 1873
Hopedale	Worcester	1660	1886
Hopkinton	Middlesex	1715	1715
Hubbardston	Worcester	1734	1775
Hudson	Middlesex	1699	1866
Hull	Plymouth	1624	1644
Huntington	Hampshire	1769	1775
Hyde Park	Suffolk	1630	1868 annexed to Boston 1/1/ 1912
Ipswich	Essex	1633	1634
Kingston	Plymouth	1620	1726
Lakeville	Plymouth	1717	1853
Lancaster	Worcester	1643	1653
Lanesborough	Berkshire	1753	1765
LAWRENCE*	Essex	1655	1847 / 1853
Lee	Berkshire	1760	1777
Leicester	Worcester	1713	1714
Lenox	Berkshire	1750	1775
LEOMINSTER	Worcester	1653	1740 / 1915
Leverett	Franklin	1713	1774
Lexington	Middlesex	1640	1713
Leydon	Franklin	1738	1809
Lincoln	Middlesex	1650	1754
Littleton	Middlesex	1686	1715
Longmeadow	Hampden	1644	1783
LOWELL*	Middlesex	1653	1826 / 1836
Ludlow	Hampden	1751	1775
Lunenburg	Worcester	1721	1728
LYNN	Essex	1629	1629 / 1850
Lynnfield	Essex	1638	1814
MALDEN	Middlesex	1640	1649 / 1881
Manchester-by-the-Sea	Essex	1629	1645
Mansfield	Bristol	1659	1775
Marblehead	Essex	1629	1649
Marion	Plymouth	1679	1852
MARLBOROUGH	Middlesex	1657	1660 / 1890
Marshfield	Plymouth	1632	1640
Mashpee	Barnstable	1660	1870
Mattapoisett	Plymouth	1750	1857
Maynard	Middlesex	1638	1871
Medfield	Norfolk	1649	1651
MEDFORD	Middlesex	1630	1630 / 1892
Medway	Norfolk	1657	1713
MELROSE	Middlesex	1629	1850 / 1899
Mendon	Worcester	1660	1667
Merrimac	Essex	1638	1876
METHUEN+	Essex	1642	1725 / 1972
Middleborough	Plymouth	1660	1669
Middlefield	Hampshire	1780	1783
Middleton	Essex	1659	1728
Milford	Worcester	1662	1780
Millbury	Worcester	1716	1813
Millis	Norfolk	1657	1885
Millville	Worcester	1662	1916
Milton	Norfolk	1636	1662
Monroe	Franklin	1800	1822
Monson	Hampden	1715	1775
Montague	Franklin	1715	1775
Monterey	Berkshire	1739	1847
Montgomery	Hampden	1767	1780
Mount Washington	Berkshire	1692	1779
Nahant	Essex	1630	1853
Nantucket*	Nantucket	1641	1671
Natick	Middlesex	1718	1781
Needham	Norfolk	1680	1711
New Ashford	Berkshire	1762	1835
NEW BEDFORD*	Bristol	1640	1787 / 1847
New Braintree	Worcester	1709	1775
New Marlborough	Berkshire	1738	1775
New Salem	Franklin	1737	1775
Newbury	Essex	1635	1635
NEWBURYPORT*	Essex	1635	1764 / 1851
NEWTON	Middlesex	1639	1688 / 1873
Norfolk	Norfolk	1795	1870
NORTH ADAMS	Berkshire	1737	1878 / 1895
North Andover	Essex	1644	1855
North Attleborough	Bristol	1669	1887
North Brookfield	Worcester	1664	1812
North Reading	Middlesex	1651	1853
NORTHAMPTON*	Hampshire	1654	1656 / 1883
Northborough	Worcester	1672	1775
Northbridge	Worcester	1704	1775
Northfield	Franklin	1673	1723
Norton	Bristol	1669	1711
Norwell	Plymouth	1634	1849
Norwood	Norfolk	1678	1872
Oak Bluffs	Dukes	1642	1880
Oakham	Worcester	1749	1775
Orange	Franklin	1746	1810
Orleans	Barnstable	1693	1797
Otis	Berkshire	1735	1773
Oxford	Worcester	1687	1713
Palmer	Hampden	1727	1775
Paxton	Worcester	1749	1775
PEABODY	Essex	1626	1868 / 1916
Pelham	Hampshire	1738	1743
Pembroke	Plymouth	1650	1712
Pepperell	Middlesex	1720	1775
Peru	Berkshire	1767	1771
Petersham	Worcester	1733	1754
Phillipston	Worcester	1751	1786
PITTSFIELD*	Berkshire	1752	1761 / 1891
Plainfield	Hampshire	1770	1807
Plainville	Norfolk	1661	1905
Plymouth*	Plymouth	1620	1620
Plympton	Plymouth	1662	1707
Prescott			1821-1938 extinct-Quabbin Reservoir
Princeton	Worcester	1743	1771
Provincetown	Barnstable	1700	1727
QUINCY	Norfolk	1625	1792 / 1888
Randolph	Norfolk	1710	1793
Raynham	Bristol	1652	1731
Reading	Middlesex	1639	1644
Rehoboth	Bristol	1636	1645
REVERE	Suffolk	1630	1846 / 1914
Richmond	Berkshire	1760	1765
Rochester	Plymouth	1638	1686
Rockland	Plymouth	1673	1874
Rockport	Essex	1623	1840
Rowe	Franklin	1762	1785
Rowley	Essex	1638	1639
Roxbury	Suffolk	1630	1630 / 1846 annexed to Boston 1868
Royalston	Worcester	1762	1765
Russell	Hampden	1782	1792
Rutland	Worcester	1686	1713
SALEM*	Essex	1626	1626 / 1836
Salisbury	Essex	1638	1639
Sandisfield	Berkshire	1750	1762
Sandwich	Barnstable	1630	1639
Saugus	Essex	1630	1815
Savoy	Berkshire	1777	1797
Scituate	Plymouth	1630	1636
Seekonk	Bristol	1636	1812
Sharon	Norfolk	1650	1775
Sheffield	Berkshire	1726	1733
Shelburne	Franklin	1756	1775
Sherborn	Middlesex	1652	1674
Shirley	Middlesex	1720	1775
Shrewsbury	Worcester	1722	1727
Shutesbury	Franklin	1735	1761
Somerset	Bristol	1677	1790
SOMERVILLE	Middlesex	1630	1842 / 1872
South Hadley	Hampshire	1659	1775
Southampton	Hampshire	1732	1775
Southborough	Worcester	1660	1727
SOUTHBRIDGE+	Worcester	1730	1816 / 1973
Southwick	Hampden	1770	1775
Spencer	Worcester	1721	1775
SPRINGFIELD*	Hampden	1636	1636 / 1852
Sterling	Worcester	1720	1781
Stockbridge	Berkshire	1734	1739
Stoneham	Middlesex	1645	1725
Stoughton	Norfolk	1713	1726
Stow	Middlesex	1681	1683
Sturbridge	Worcester	1729	1738
Sudbury	Middlesex	1638	1639
Sunderland	Franklin	1713	1714
Sutton	Worcester	1704	1714
Swampscott	Essex	1629	1852
Swansea	Bristol	1667	1667
TAUNTON*	Bristol	1638	1639 / 1864
Templeton	Worcester	1751	1762
Tewksbury	Middlesex	1637	1734
Tisbury	Dukes	1660	1671
Tolland	Hampden	1750	1810
Topsfield	Essex	1635	1650
Townsend	Middlesex	1676	1732
Truro	Barnstable	1700	1709
Tyngsborough	Middlesex	1661	1809
Tyringham	Berkshire	1735	1762
Upton	Worcester	1728	1735
Uxbridge	Worcester	1662	1727
Wakefield	Middlesex	1639	1812
Wales	Hampden	1726	1775
Walpole	Norfolk	1659	1724
WALTHAM	Middlesex	1634	1738 / 1884
Ware	Hampshire	1717	1775
Wareham	Plymouth	1678	1739
Warren	Worcester	1664	1742
Warwick	Franklin	1739	1763
Washington	Berkshire	1760	1777
WATERTOWN+	Middlesex	1630	1630 / 1980