Cambridge City Clerk’s Office

The Cambridge City Clerk’s Office is the official record keeper for the City of Cambridge. It oversees two permanent collections: vital statistics, including birth, marriage and death records dating to the early 1800s along with domestic partnership, business and professional certificates, and legislative records that reach back to 1630, when Cambridge was first established as a town. The legislative collection has recently been published for public access.

Residents come to the office to apply for marriage licenses, order marriage certificates, schedule marriage ceremonies, file business certificates and submit public records requests. The office also supports the City Council and public meetings, and in 2026 the city moved Council, zoning board and planning board agendas, minutes and video to a new meeting management portal called OneMeeting. Historical agendas and meeting videos remain available online.

What to Know

• All public meetings are listed on the city calendar under Public Meetings.
• Residents can sign up online to give public comment at meetings.
• Meetings can be streamed, and comment given, through Zoom.
• Board and commission vacancies are posted through the city’s meeting portal.