Category: Massachusetts Research

'Gleaner' Articles

Price: $35.00

Publisher: : 1887

Seller ID: mcmab2023

Condition: Good

232 pages including index. Fifth Report of the Record Commissioners 1880 Revised Edition. In Republishing their Fifth Report, the Record Commissioners desire to renew the caution that this volume is to be regarded as a collection of valuable and interesting essays, for the correctness of which the reputation of the writer must be guaranty.
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Boston Tax Lists &c.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: : 1881

Seller ID: mcmab2000

Condition: Fair, cover page loose, some markings

183 pages, including index. City of Boston, City Document No. 92. First Report of the Record Commissioners. The ordinance creating the office of the Record Commissioners defines their duties as follows: "To complete, as far as practicable, the record of births, deaths and marriages in the town and city of Boston, prior to A. D. 1849."
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Boston Town Records 1784-1796 Thirty-First Report Boston Records

Price: $35.00

Publisher: : 1903

Seller ID: mcmab2016

Binding: Poor-loose binding

Condition: Fair

462 pages including index. [Document 101-1903.] This volume, which is the thirty-first in the series formerly issued under the direction of the Record Commissioners, contains the proceedings of the town from 1784 to 1796, completing the eight book of the original records of the town of Boston.
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Miscellaneous Papers Twenty-ninth Report Boston Records

Price: $40.00

Publisher: : 1900

Seller ID: mcmab2013

Binding: Loose Binding

Condition: Fair, some markings

389 pages, including index. [Document No. 100-1900.] Miscellaneous papers relating to the Great Fire of 1700, lists of Freemen, Timber Building Books, 1707-27, Port Arrivals, Immigrants, etc., and was the last volume compiled under the direction of the late William H. Whitmore, who served the City as Record Commissioner from 1876 to the time of his death.
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Selectmen's Minutes 1742-3- to 1753 Seventeenth Report of the Record Commissioners

Price: $40.00

Publisher: : 1887

Seller ID: mcmab2008

Condition: Fair

330 pages including index. [Document 90-1887.] The Seventeenth Report of the Record Commissioners continues the Records of the Selectmen from January 1, 1742-3, through Dec. 31, 1753. As was noted ion the preface to our last volume, the matters discussed by the Selectmen were mostly of local interest only.
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Selectmen's Minutes 1811-1818 Thirty-Eighth Report Boston Records.

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: mcmab2014

Binding: loose binding

Condition: Good

378 pages. [Document 60-1908] City of Boston Records Relating to the Early History of Boston. This volume, which is the thirty-eighth in the series formerly issued under the direction of the Record Commissioners, contains the minutes of the Selectmen's Meetings from 1811 to 1817, and part of the year 1818, completing the twentieth and twenty-first books of the original records of the Selectman's Minutes.
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The Fairbanks House: A History of the Oldest Timber-Frame Building in New England

By: Abbott Lowell Cummings

Price: $23.00

Seller ID: mcma1601

ISBN-13: 9780880821537

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used library, good

This compact, but exhaustive study of the Fairbanks House, the oldest timber-frame building, built in 1641 in Dedham, Massachusetts, gives the reader extraordinary detail of the history, architecture, building and rebuilding of the Fairbanks House in a fascinating report. Also included are over 50 photographs and illustrations, spanning over 100 years. This was written in conjunction with the Building Conservation Associates in Dedham, Massachusetts, and funding was made possible by grants from the Getty Grant fund and the Massachusetts Historical Commission. 110 pages, indexed.Names include: ...
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Colonial Massachusetts: A History

By: Benjamin W. Labaree

Price: $65.00

Seller ID: mcma2000

ISBN-13: 9780527187149

Binding: Library

Condition: Good

"Colonial Massachusetts: A History" is the first modern history of Massachusetts from its colonial beginnings to its adoption of the state constitution in 1780. By using a unique style, Professor Labaree has skillfully combined recent scholarship with established standard views on Massachusetts history, while adding his own interpretations of early Massachusetts. 349 pages, indexed.

Names include: Abercromby, Cotton, Faneuil, Kilby, Popham, Shippen
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Plymouth County 1685

By: Cynthia Hagar Krusell

Price: $12.00

Publisher: : 1985

Seller ID: mcma2100

ISBN-13: 9780940628434

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Like New

58 pages, including index. Southeastern Massachusetts was an old land. Long since abandoned by the glacier, it presented to Plymouth County settlers a varied landscape, sprinkled with kettle hole ponds, extensive swamis and bogs, conical drumlin hill, elongated glacial sand and gravel deposits known as eskers and games, tidal estuaries, fertile valleys, pine barrens, oak forests, large areas of salt marsh, barrier beaches, sand dunes and small harbors bordering an expense of sea.
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Extracted From: History of Essex County, Massachusetts:
Cities and Towns: Beverly

By: D. Hamilton Hurd

Price: $18.00

Seller ID: mcmae1800

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used library

A comprehensive history of Beverly, Massachusetts; extracted from "The History of Essex Co., Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men." Pages 674-769.

Names include: Abbot, Batchelder, Endicott, Kittredge, Peabody, Thorndike
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NGS Research In The States Series Massachusetts

By: David Allen Lambert

Price: $24.00

Publisher: NGS Publication

Seller ID: ngs1500MA

ISBN-13: 9781935815396

Binding: saddle stitch

Condition: like new

European settlers first arrived in Massachusetts in the early seventeenth century in what was primarily the territory of Algonquian Indian tribes. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Massachusetts was a gateway of English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish emigrants. It also was a slave-holding state until 1783. During the nineteenth century, emigrants from Canada, Eastern Europe, Great Britain, Italy, and Portugal, and freed African Americans settled in Massachusetts. Research in Massachusetts provides a solid framework and useful tool for researchers who may be looking for subject mat...
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Roundabout Duxbury

By: Dorothy Wentworth

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: mcr1756

Binding: Pamphlet, staplebound, paperback

Condition: Good

An updated printing: Roundabout Duxbury has been a guide to historic Duxbury for many years. The new historic spots are in widely separated locations, and are not all on a continuous tour, but each is well worth a special excursion. For some, the drive to an unfamiliar part of town will be an adventure, for all it will be a pleasure Every part of Duxbury is historic and all the highways inviting. 19 pages.
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Bolton Soldiers and Sailors in the American Revolution

By: Esther K. Whitcomb & Dorothy O. Mayo

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: mcrw2003

ISBN-13: 9780917890567

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair - Some staining on pages

This slender volume presents documented biographical sketches on over 400 Bolton soldiers and sailors. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname and typically include: given name; military service; date and place of birth, names of parents; date of marriage and name of spouse (with additional information as available); date and place of death; names of children with dates of birth, baptism and death (as available); and reference. Some entries contain a "Note" which provides additional information. A cross-index "covers all names which do not appear in the correct alphabetical order, inclu...
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PIERSON Genealogical Records

By: Lizzie B Pierson

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Albany, NY, Joel Munsell : 1878

Seller ID: fhp1400

Binding: Green Cloth

Condition: NEW

107 indexed pages on the Pierson and related families.
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Records of ye Towne Meetings of Lyn 1701-1717, Part Two

By: Lynn Historical Society

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: mcmal2001

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Town meeting records from Lyn, Massachusetts, from the year 1701-1717; a followup to Part One, which covered 1691-1701. 107 pages, indexed. Names include: Breed, Chadwell, Dwin, Ivory, Pool, Stocker,
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Genealogy in America Volume 1 Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine

By: Norman Edgar Wright

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Deseret Book Company : 1968

Seller ID: r2224

In this book the author offers concise histories of the three states, and gives detailed information on the genealogical source materials available in each state.

Index. 299 p. &
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The kin patch: A path to the past

By: Page Laubach Warden

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Brandylane Publishers : 1997

Seller ID: fhw2104

ISBN-13: 9781883911171

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The author's thoroughly researched genealogy focuses on the Virginia, New York and Massachusetts lines of the following families: Armistead, Beverly, Burwell, Carter, Cooke/Booth, Dandridge/Langborne, Grymes, Harrison, Higginson, Jones, Ludwell/Lee, Martiau, Nelson, Page/Mann/Nelson, Peyton, Randolph, Reade, Smith, Throckmorton, Todd/Bernard, Warner, Vandegrift, Withers, Dunham, Franklin, Morris, Mott-Merritt.
447 p. &
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The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Massachusetts Bay

By: Peter Orlando Hutchinson

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: fhh2015

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Used - Good

The diary and letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of His Late Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in North America; with an account of his administration when he was a member and Speaker of the House of Representatives, and his government of the colony during the difficult period that preceded the War of Independence. Compiled from the original documents still remaining in the possession of his descendants. 594 pages, indexed.
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Miscellaneous Docket Index Suffolk County, Mass. Probate Records 1639-1866

By: Picton Press

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: mcmas2000

ISBN-13: 9780897253338

Binding: Pamphlet, staplebound, paperback

Condition: Fair

An index to a book entitled "Miscellaneous Docket", which was and is the only key to hundreds of early probate cases. 31 pages. Names include: Bosworth, Coddington, Hearsay, Ottis, Scappel, Whiting
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Mary Coffin Starbuck and the Early History of Nantucket

By: Roland L. Warrne

Price: $60.00

Seller ID: mcma1800

ISBN-13: 9780942861013

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used, fair

Here is the dramatic history of the early days of Nantucket seen through the eyes of its foremost settlers, the island's "great woman," the legendary Mary Coffin Starbuck. The story recounts her family's voyage from England to the Bay Colony in 1642, and then her life in New England. 286 pages.
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The Pilgrim Story

By: William Franklin Atwood

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1940

Seller ID: mcr2084

Condition: New

78 pages, free shipping media mail. A story of the faith, fortitude and determination of purpose exemplified by the band of devout souls who landed at Plymouth in the winter of 1620. Being largely a compilation from the documents of Governor Bradford and Governor Winslow, severally and in collaboration; together with a list of Mayflower passengers.
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Category: Massachusetts Research