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History and Antiquities of Every Town in Massachusetts
American historian and engraver John Warner Barber (1798–1885) was well known for his books on local, state, and national history. This work, organized by county, gives historical background on all the Massachusetts towns that existed at the time of publication in 1839. Barber supplies facts and details of each town’s...
A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries, Third Edition
This valuable town-by-town guide provides updated entries for all known burial grounds in Massachusetts with the year of consecration or oldest known burial, year of town incorporation, location and contact information for the cemetery, and a comprehensive index. This new edition also includes all updated NEHGS MSS call numbers, as...
Western Massachusetts Families in 1790, Volume 3
Building on the second volume of Western Massachusetts Families in 1790 that was published in 2016, this third volume contains another seventy-five highly detailed genealogical sketches of heads of households along with lists of their children living in what are now Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties. Sketches are contributed...
NGS Research in the States Series: Massachusetts
This title is currently on back order. All orders will ship as soon as new stock arrives in our warehouse. by David Allen Lambert Published: 2018 Paperback, 44 pages European settlers first arrived in Massachusetts in the early seventeenth century in what was primarily the territory of Algonquian Indian tribes....
Portable Genealogist: Massachusetts State Census
Massachusetts researchers are fortunate to have so many early resources for genealogical and historical research. One source that is often overlooked, however, is the 1855 and 1865 Massachusetts state census. The state census contains valuable genealogical information beyond what is available in the federal census and provides important insight into...
The Winthrop Fleet Massachusetts Bay Company: Immigrants to New England, 1629–1630
In early 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company received a royal charter that allowed the Company to carry on the work, begun earlier in the decade by the Dorchester Company and then the New England Company, of developing permanent settlements in New England. During 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company sent settlers...
Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650
Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts presents biographical information for nearly 6,000 pioneers who settled Massachusetts between 1620 and 1650. This classic reprint includes Pope's full, annotated text (published 1900) and his sixteen page supplement of additions and corrections (published 1902). This book also contains a list of abbreviations, sources, former town...
From Deference to Defiance Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629–1692
This book recreates the lost world of 17th-century Charlestown and the lives and work of the first three generations of its townspeople. By using a variety of surviving records, Thompson presents a colorful history of the town’s settlement and governance, its relationship with the land and sea, the church, local...
Plymouth County, Massachusetts Freeperson Families in 1790
AN IMPORTANT NEW SOURCE FOR RESEARCHING PERSONS OF COLOR IN MASSACHUSETTS By Mary Blauss Edwards6 x 9 paperback, 404 pagesPublished by American Ancestors in July 2024 Mary Blauss Edwards has researched every person of color who was listed as a head of household in Plymouth County in the 1790 Census—the...
E-book Edition of A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries, Third Edition
Author: David Allen LambertPublished: July 2020 (print ed. 2018)Print edition available herePurchasing this product will provide EPub and Mobi (Kindle) editions of the book. After purchase, e-book download information will be delivered by email.The e-book version of this popular title includes live links to the FindAGrave site for the cemeteries that have a...