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The Expansion of New England The Spread of New England Settlement and Institutions to the Mississippi River, 1620–1865
Originally published in 1909, this history of westward expansion provides an important context and framework for anyone researching their early New England and pioneer ancestors. Topics include the socio-economic and religious impetuses for migrating first to New England and then westward, war’s impact on the ever-shifting frontier, the settlers’ relationship...
The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 — Volume I, A-Be
This first volume in the third series of the Great Migration Study Project contains new research to uncover the details of 129 immigrants with surnames beginning with A to Be who came to New England between 1636 and 1638 and appear in the Great Migration Directory. Sketches include details on...
A Roll of Arms Registered by the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Twelfth Part
The Committee on Heraldry was established in 1864 within the New England Historic Genealogical Society to study coats of arms and the people who bore them in the United States. The Roll of Arms project, begun in 1914, is a record of settlers in the colonies or immigrants to the...
The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, 1600 to 1700
Published more than 125 years ago, this important resource compiles documents listing seventeenth-century English immigrants to New England, the Chesapeake, and the Caribbean. It remains an invaluable resource for anyone with such ancestry. Includes a comprehensive index. Compiled documents include: Surviving records from the London Port Books Lists from some...
The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634–1635, Volume VI, R–S
The years 1634 and 1635 were watershed years for New England immigration, representing as much as 20% of the total for the period 1620–1640. This now-complete seven-volume set provides profiles of more than 1,400 early New England immigrants. Each volume includes a discussion on the methods and sources used, more...
The Founders of New England: Originally Collected and Published in the New England Historic and Genealogical Register
First published in the Register in 1860, this volume, much like Hotten’s The Original Lists of Persons of Quality , compiles passenger lists and other documents from the British Archives relevant to early migration to New England. Although some of the contained transcriptions may overlap with Hotten's work, it is important...
A Roll of Arms Registered by the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Eleventh Part
The Committee on Heraldry was established in 1864 within the New England Historic Genealogical Society to study coats of arms and the people who bore them in the United States. The Roll of Arms project, begun in 1914, is a record of settlers in the colonies or immigrants to the...
The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV: I-L (paperback)
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
The Benson Family of Colonial Massachusetts
John Benson was born about 1608 in England. He married Mary Williams, daughter of Robert Williams and Agnes Atkins, 14 October 1633 in Caversham, Oxfordshire. The couple emigrated in 1638, settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, and had five children. Descendants lived mainly in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island,...
The Early History of Boston Aspinwall Notarial Records, 1644–1651
William Aspinwall arrived with the Winthrop fleet in 1630, moved from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to Rhode Island, Connecticut, and back to Boston. As Recorder of the Suffolk County Court in Boston from November 1644 until October 1651, he kept careful records of every document he notarized-including letters of attorney,...