Source Information

Jacobs, Steven, comp.. Suffolk County, Boston City Massachusetts, U.S., City Directory, 1810 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
Original data: Boston Genealogical Society. 1810 Boston City Directory. Boston, MA, USA: Edward Cotton, 1810.

About Suffolk County, Boston City Massachusetts, U.S., City Directory, 1810

In the early 1800s, Boston, Massachusetts, was one of America's busiest and most vibrant commercial ports. It attracted visitors and brought in goods from other ports along the Atlantic coast as well as Europe and Asia. A center of banking, shipping, and manufacturing, many of America's first large businesses called Boston their home. This directory of Boston inhabitants reveals a wide range of people and occupations, including bankers, attorneys, fruit vendors, soap boilers, shoe makers, innkeepers, sea captains, and grocery merchants. Copied directly from the 1810 Boston City Directory, this database includes first name, last name, occupation, and street address of many of Boston's residents and businesses. From the street addresses researchers can compare information in this database with census information of the same time period. Though this directory lists few women, many fathers and sons are listed together. This is especially evident when they shared both a business and an address. This database can be a valuable resource for researchers interested in learning more about their ancestors who, in 1810, lived in Boston, Massachusetts.