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Massachusetts - Established Feb 6, 1788 - State Capital: Boston

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Biographies (73) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
A biographical dictionary containing a brief account of the first settlers, and other eminent characters among the magistrates, ministers, literary and worthy men, in New-England
A centurial history of the Mendon Association of Congregational Ministers with the centennial address delivered at Franklin, Mass., Nov. 19, 1851, and biographical sketches of the members and licentiates
A few milestones in the lives of Joseph and Ann Maria Sawyer of Boston with their memorial services, 1823, 1901, 1904
A history of East Boston with biographical sketches of its early proprietors, and an appendix
Abraham Lincoln, lawyer
An historical sketch of Haverhill in the county of Essex and commonwealth of Massachusetts with biographical notices
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
Archive.org
Biographical Review
Biographical review this volume contains biographical sketches of the leading citizens of Hampden County, Massachusetts
Biographical review this volume contains biographical sketches of the leading citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Biographical review, containing life sketches of leading citizens of Worcester County, Massachusetts
Biographical sketch of the residents of that part of Dedham, which is now Dover, who took part in King Philip's War, the last French and Indian War, and the Revolution together with the record of the services of those who represented Dover in the War of 1812, the war with Mexico, the Civil War, and the war with Spain
Biographical sketches of Richard Ellis the first settler of Ashfield, Mass., and his descendants
Boston of to-day a glance at its history and characteristics with biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men
Carleton-Carlton forebears a genealogy of some descandants sic of Edward Carleton, proprietor of Rowley, Mass., 1639 , 1648,9 with some biographical notes typescript (mimeographed copy)
Clara Temple Leonard, 1828-1904
Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687 assistant and major general of the Massachusetts Bay Colony his life and letters and some account of his ancestry
Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 1-63 and supplements
Directory of Open Access Journals
Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, from 1657 to 1892 with biographical and historical notes
Epitaphs from graveyards in Wellesley (formerly West Needham), North Natick, and Saint Mary's churchyard in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts with genealogical and biographical notes
Genealogies of Hadley Families
Genealogy of a portion of the Pope family together with biographical notices of Col. William Pope, of Boston, and some of his descendants
Historical collections being a general collection of interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, andc., relating to the history and antiquities of every town in Massachusetts, with geographical descriptions
History of Bristol County, Massachusetts with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men
History of Essex County, Massachusetts. with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men
History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men
History of Westminster, Massachusetts (first named Narragansett no. 2) from the date of the original grant of the township to the present time, 1728-1893 with a biographic-genealogical register of its principal families
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers
History of the town of Hawley, Franklin County, Massachusetts from its first settlement in 1771 to 1887 with family records and biographical sketches
Ipswich, Massachusetts Biographies
Jews in America
John Gage of Ipswich, Mass. and his descendants an historical, genealogical and biographical record, as developed from sources explained herein
John Humfrey, Massachusetts magistrate did he marry the daughter of the third Earl of Lincoln?
John Leigh of Agawam (Ipswich) Massachusetts, 1634-1671 and his descendants of the name of Lee with genealogical notes and biographical sketches of all his descendants, so far as can be obtained, including notes on collateral branches
Library of Congress
Major William Calder of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1735-1802
Massachusetts of to-day a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago
Mayflower ancestries
Memorial of the Thayer name, from the Massachusetts colony of Weymouth and Braintree, embracing genealogical and biographical sketches of Richard and Thomas Thayer, and their descendants, from 1636 to 1874
Memorial, genealogical, historical, and biographical, of Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants
Men of Massachusetts a collection of portraits of representative men in business and professional life in the commonwealth of Massachusetts
Midwest Genealogy Center suggested links
NARA Archival Research Catalog
New England Families Genealogical and Memorial
Newton, Garden City of the Commonwealth
Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches
Our New England ancestors and their descendants, 1620-1900
Our county and its people a descriptive and biographical record of Bristol County, Massachusetts
Perkins Research Biographical Sketches
Plymouth County Biographies
Quarter-centennial history of Lawrence, Massachusetts with portraits and biographical sketches
Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts
Richard Bullock of Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Richard Gale, yeoman of Watertown, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1614-1678
Richard Newton of Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1638-9 also an account of the Indian raid in Barnard, Vermont, August 9, 1780
The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy
The Crafts family a genealogical and biographical history of the descendants of Griffin and Alice Craft, of Roxbury, Mass. 1630-1890
The Worcester pulpit with notices historical and biographical
The biographical sketches of prominent persons, and the genealogical records of many early and other families in Medway, Mass. 1713-1886
The diary and letters of Benjamin Pickman (1740-1819) of Salem, Massachusetts with a biographical sketch and genealogy of the Pickman family
The diary of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman, of Westborough, Mass. 1737-1780
The godly pastor life of the Rev. Jeremiah Hallock, of Canton, Conn. to which is added a sketch of the life of the Rev. Moses Hallock, of Plainfield, Mass.
Thomas Gage of Yarmouth, Mass. and his descendants an historical, genealogical and biographical record, as developed from sources explained herein
Twenty Thousand Rich New Englanders
Who's Who in America
William Gage of Freetown, Mass. and his descendants an historical, genealogical and biographical record, as developed from sources explained herein
Worcester Fire Society reminiscences and biographical notices of past members
Worcester, its past and present including biographical sketches and portraits
Your Ancestors Magazine
Cemetery Records (24) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
A history of Natick, 1651-1851
Acushnet Cemetery memorial record of the dead of families of the early settlers interred in the old colonial burying ground, Dartmouth, now Acushnet, Massachusetts
Address delivered in Oak-Grove Cemetery, Medford, Mass., Sept. 6, 1866 at the consecration of the monument erected in honor of the Medford volunteers
An address delivered on the consecration of the Worcester Rural Cemetery, September 8, 1838
Cemetery Conservators for United Standards
Cemetery Records
Church records in the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1638-1845
City cemeteries, Malden, Massachusetts historical sketch of cemeteries and rules and regulations
Death records from the ancient burial ground at Kingston, Massachusetts
Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, from 1657 to 1892 with biographical and historical notes
Epitaphs from the cemetery on Worcester Common with occasional notes, references, and an index
Family records cemetery and Bible records, mainly Michigan and Massachusetts
Findagrave.com
Gravestone inscriptions of the Boston Corners Cemetery, Boston Corners, Union Cemetery, Ancram, Old Cemetery, Ancram, Vedder Church Cemetery, Gallatinville, Niver Cemetery, Craryville, Martindale Cemetery, Martindale all in Columbia County, N.Y.
Gravestone inscriptions, Lee, Mass. including all extant of the quarter century 1801-1825
Gravestone records in the ancient cemetery and the Woodside Cemetery Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Historical Collections of the Essex Institute - 80 Volumes
History of the town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts from its earliest settlement to the year of our Lord 1891 embracing an account of Indian claims and troubles, colonial grants, sketches of its heroes, its part in the struggle for independence and the war for nationality, its burial grounds and epitaphs, its industrial success, and a record of its whole progress with a genealogical register of old families
Inscriptions from gravestones in the Old North Cemetery, Truro, Mass. from 1713 to 1840
Inscriptions from the old cemetery in Groveland, Mass. (formerly East Bradford)
Inscriptions on the grave stones in the grave yards of Northampton and of other towns in the valley of the Connecticut, as Springfield, Amherst, Hadley, Hatfield, Deerfield, andc., with brief annals of Northampton .
Interment.net
Midwest Genealogy Center suggested links
What you can learn from cemeteries
Census Records (10) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
Church Records (100) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
150th anniversary of the First Congregational Parish, in Arlington, Massachusetts
150th anniversary of the organization of the Congregational Church in Berkley, Mass., 1887
200th anniversary, Plymouth Friend's Meeting ninth month, twelve, nineteen hundred twelve
A brief history of Pilgrim Church Cambridgeport, Mass
A brief history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wellfleet, Massachusetts
A centennial discourse delivered Sept 1850, before the First Church and Society in Athol
A centennial discourse delivered to the First Congregational Church and Society in Leominster, 1843
A centurial history of the Mendon Association of Congregational Ministers with the centennial address delivered at Franklin, Mass., Nov. 19, 1851, and biographical sketches of the members and licentiates
A century of church history celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the organization of the Second Church, Newton, Mass. at West Newton, Tuesday, November 8, 1881
A historical discourse delivered at Chelsea, Mass., Sept. 20, 1866 at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Winnisimmet Congregational Church
A historical discourse delivered at the closing of the Old Episcopal (St. Paul's) Church, Dedham November 30, 1845
A history of Clapboard Trees, or, Third Parish, Dedham, Mass. now the Unitarian Parish, West Dedham, 1736-1886
A history of Natick, 1651-1851
A record of the First Parish in Watertown, Massachusetts
A record of the observance of its two hundredth anniversary by the First Congregational Church in Amherst, Massachusetts November 4-5, 1939
A sermon delivered in Worcester, January 31, 1836
A sermon preached in Marlborough, Mass., Nov. 3, 1858
Address delivered at the Unitarian Church in Uxbridge, Mass. in 1864 with further statements, not made a part of the address, but included in the notes
Address, poems and speeches delivered at the semi-centennial anniversary of the Second Congregational Society of Lynn Wednesday, April 30, 1873, at Odd Fellows' Hall
Allen F. Wood an appreciation offered at the funeral services in the First Baptist Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Sunday June 3, 1917
American Baptist Historical Society
American Catholic Historical Society
An historical address delivered in the First Parish Church, Wayland, Mass. Sunday, June 25, 1911
An historical review one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the First Church of Christ in Amherst, Massachusetts November 7, 1889
An historical sermon preached in the John Eliot Church, South Natick, Mass., Nov. 15, 1874 on the fifteenth anniversary of the church
An historical sketch of the First Congregational Church in Marlborough, Mass. with the exercises at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Rev. Sylvester F. Bucklin's ordination as pastor of said church
Annals of Chicopee Street records and reminiscences of an old New England parish for a period of two hundred years
Brewster, Massachusetts Church records 1700-1792
Brief history, articles of faith, covenant, and living members of the Orthodox Congregational Church in Manchester Mass
Brief sketches of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Barre, Massachusetts 1844-1887
Celebration of the 275th anniversary of the First Church of Christ organized June 8, 1632 Lynn, Massachusetts, Sunday, June ninth, nineteen hundred seven
Centennial celebration of the Congregational Church, Wendell, Mass. Wednesday, December 2, 1874 address of welcome
Centennial discourse delivered on the one hundredth anniversary of the organization of the Baptist Church, Haverhill, Mass. on the ninth of May, 1865
Centennial of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, (formerly Ref. Prot. Dutch Church) 1784-1884
Church Records of the Town of Chesterfield, Massachusetts, 1762-1820
Church records in the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1638-1845
Churches and pastors of Nantucket, Mass. from the first settlement to the present time 1659-1902
Commemorative services at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the gathering of the First Church in Dedham, Mass. observed November 18 and 19, 1888
Decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in a case relating to the sacramental furniture of a church in Brookfield with the entire arguments of Hon. Samuel Hoar, Jun. for the plaintiff, and of Hon. Lewis Strong for the defendant
Directory of the First Baptist Church, Malden, Mass. 1803-1915
Early American Churches
Early church records of Groton, Massachusetts, 1761-1830 containing a list of admissions to the church with lists of marriages and baptisms and various other memoranda with notes and an introduction
Epitaphs from graveyards in Wellesley (formerly West Needham), North Natick, and Saint Mary's churchyard in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts with genealogical and biographical notes
Fac-similes of the memorial stones of the last English ancestors of George Washington in the parish church of Brington, Northamptonshire, England permanently placed in the State House of Massachusetts
First Church in Middleborough, Mass. Mr. Putnam's century and half discourses, an historical account, and a catalogue of members
First Church of Christ in Pittsfield, Massachusetts proceedings in commemoration of its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, February 7th and 8th, 1914
First Congregational Church, North Adams, Massachusetts addresses and papers presented at the Diamond Jubilee, 1827- 1902 May 11-14
Gleanings from the sources of the history of the Second Parish, Worcester, Massachusetts
Gravestone inscriptions of the Boston Corners Cemetery, Boston Corners, Union Cemetery, Ancram, Old Cemetery, Ancram, Vedder Church Cemetery, Gallatinville, Niver Cemetery, Craryville, Martindale Cemetery, Martindale all in Columbia County, N.Y.
Historical Collections of the Essex Institute - 80 Volumes
Historical address on the occasion of the two-hundredth anniversary celebration (1738-1938) of the founding of Second Church of Plymouth, Mass., Congregational
Historical collections containing I. The Reformation in France, the rise, progress and destruction of the Huguenot Church II. The histories of seven towns, six of which are in the south part of Worcester County, Mass., namely, Oxford, Dudley, Webster, Sturbridge, Charlton, Southbridge, and the town of Woodstock, now in Connecticut
Historical discourse delivered at the rededication of the Baptist Meeting-House in Foxborough, Mass. January 22, 1879
Historical discourse delivered on occasion of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the Congregational Church and the fiftieth anniversary of the Sunday school in Westminster, Mass. September 9, 1868
Historical discourse preached on the one hundred and sixty-second anniversary of the First Church of Christ, Medway, Mass. first sabbath in October, 1876
Historical manual of the South Church in Andover, Mass. August, 1859
Historical sketch of the Congregational Church in Marion, Mass. a sermon
Historical sketch of the founding of All Saints' Church, Chelmsford, Mass. an address
History and manual of the Pilgrim Congregational Church of Worcester, Mass
History of First Congregational Church, Wareham, Massachusetts and auxiliary bodies 1739-1939
History of the First Parish, Weston, Massachusetts
History of the rise, progress and consummation of the rupture which now divides the Congregational clergy and churches of Massachusetts in a discourse
History, year book and church directory of the First Congregational Church, Wilmington, Mass. Rev. Arthur A. Simmons, minister
Memorial of the 75th anniversary of the laying of the corner stone of St. Anne's Church, Lowell, Mass., 1899
Midwest Genealogy Center suggested links
Mundale the west parish of Westfield, Massachusetts, in the olden days
Narrative history a history of Dover, Massachusetts as a precinct, parish, district, and town
One hundred years of Unitarianism in New Bedford, Massachusetts
Our Father's Altar, a centennial sermon preached at the centennial at Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 1846
Pierpont genealogy and connecting lines particularly Rev. John Pierpont of Hollis Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts
Proceedings of the church and people of Goshen, (Mass.) in the dismission of their minister, and in the settling of another, documents from some time in the year 1816, till towards the close of the year 1821
Quakerism on Nantucket since 1800
Scituate, Massachusetts, Second church records
Sermon, proceedings and addresses in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the Rev. John Nelson, D.D. as pastor of the First Church and Society in Leicester, Mass. and in celebration of his golden wedding
Sketches of the churches and pastors in Hampden County, Mass. and also, an address delivered by Rev. T.M. Cooley, D.D. at Mettineague, September 13, 1853
St. Michael's Church, Marblehead, Mass. 1714, 1924
The First Parish, Newbury, Massachusetts, 1635-1935
The First Parish, Wayland, Massachusetts 1640-1940 the tercentenary program and an address
The Greenville Baptist Church in Leicester, Massachusetts exercises on the 150th anniversary of its formation, September 28, 1888
The Third Congregational (Unitarian) Society of Greenfield, Mass. a historical sketch
The birth, marriage, and death register, church records and epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643-1850
The centennial discourse delivered in Westhampton, Mass., Sept. 3d, 1879 on the one hundredth anniversary of the formation of the church in that town
The centennial history of the First Baptist Church, Marshfield, Mass., 1788-1888
The commemorative services of the First Church in Newton, Massachusetts 250th anniversary of its foundation, 1889
The early religious customs of New England an address at the two hundredth anniversary of the building of the meeting-house in Hingham, Mass., August 8, 1881
The founders of the First Parish, Dover, Massachusetts with descriptions of all the houses now standing which were built before the Revolution
The fruits of Congregationalism a centennial discourse
The historical discourse given on the fiftieth anniversary of the Baptist Church, South Abington, Mass. November 6th, 1872
The history of the Church of North Middleborough, Massachusetts in six discourses
The house of God historical discourse on the sesqui-centennial of the Old South Meeting-House of Newburyport, Mass
The sanctuary of our fathers a centennial discourse preached Sabbath evening, October 15, 1865, in the lecture room of the First Congregational Church, Nantucket
The story of the First Congregational Parish The Unitarian Church, Arlington, Massachusetts
Twenty years of a Massachusetts rectorship a sermon
Two centuries of church history of the Congregational Church and Parish in Essex, Massachusetts
Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the First Parish of Watertown, Mass. Sunday, November 28, 1880
Two hundredth anniversary of the First Congregational Church in Middleboro, Mass. historical discourse
Two sermons delivered on the second centennial anniversary of the organization of the First Church, and the settlement of the first minister in Wenham
Two sermons preached in the First Congregational Church in Milton on the 15th and 22d of June, 1862 and suggested by the centennial celebration on the 11th of June, 1862
Two sermons, preached in Boylston, Massachusetts, October 17 and 24, 1852, giving a history of the Congregational Church
Vital records of Lee, Massachusetts, 1777-1801 from the records of the town Congregational Church and inscriptions from its organization in 1780 to 1801
Immigration Records (24) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
A genealogy of the descendants of William Johnson of Charlestown, Massachusetts immigrant about 1630 fairly complete through the first six generations and a few lines carried through the seventh to the tenth
African-American Collections
Chinese Heritage (National Archives)
Cornell Making of America Digital Library
David O'Killia, the immigrant of Old Yarmouth, Massachusetts with his descendants and allied families, 1651-1962
Descendants of Joseph Thompson and Jennet McClellan of Colrain, Mass. four generations of Thompsons whose immigrant ancestors came from Ireland and settled in Colrain about 1760
FindMyPast
Genealogical register of Plymouth families
Gilmore ancestry, or, The direct line of descent from John Gilmore the Massachusetts immigrant ancestor to Pascal Pearl Gilmore and his grandchildren etc. also, the same in the corresponding lines of Pearl, Coombs and Spofford
History of the Puritans in England and the Pilgrim Fathers
Leading Americans of Italian descent in Massachusetts
Leonard Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic & Gulf Ports, 1820-1874
Markings on the Manifest's Left Margin
Mayflower resources at American Ancestors
New England Families Genealogical and Memorial
On the Trail of the Immigrant
Passengers and immigrants to America
Ship Passenger Lists and Records Online
Signers of the Mayflower compact, and their descendants
Silver Books and Mayflower Families
The Great Migration - Colonial America
The Mayflower Descendant, a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history
The Winthrop Fleet of 1630
Where to find passenger lists
Local Histories (652) --- CLICK TO EXPAND ---
150th anniversary of the First Congregational Parish, in Arlington, Massachusetts
150th anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Petersham, Massachusetts 1904
250th anniversary celebration of the town of Northfield, Mass. June 22, 23 and 24, 1923
250th anniversary of the first white settlement within the territory of Winchester Charlestown, 1633 Waterfield, 1638 Charlestown Village, 1640 Woburn, 1642 Winchester, 1850
275th anniversary of Malden, Massachusetts Malden Auditorium, 1924
A Calendar history of Lexington, Massachusetts, 1620-1946
A Full and graphic account of the terrible Mill River disaster, caused by the breaking of a reservoir in Hampshire County, Mass., May 16, 1874 with full details of the loss of life and property at Williamsburg, Skinnerville, Haydenville and Leeds
A Historical sketch of Auburn, Massachusetts from the earliest period to the present day with brief accounts of early settlers and prominent citizens
A Historical sketch of Boston containing a brief account of its settlement, rise, and progress with a glance at its present and prospective prosperity
A History of the Gardiner Greene Estate on Cotton Hill, now Pemberton Square, Boston
A History of the county of Berkshire, Massachusetts in two parts the first being a general view of the county, the second, an account of the several towns
A Nantucket ghost walks again, over the teacups
A Review of the first fourteen years of the Historical, Natural History and Library Society of South Natick, Mass. with the field-day proceedings of 1881-1882-1883
A Sketch of the origin, object and character of the Franklin Fund for the benefit of young married mechanics of Boston
A Sketch of the recent improvements at East-Boston January, 1836
A Tribute to the Columbian year by the city of Worcester graphic exhibit of a city of diversified industries, with an alphabetical index of its productions
A Wiswall line ten generations in descent from Elder Thomas Wiswall, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1635 to James Boit Wiswall, Wakefield, Massachusetts, 1925
A bi-centennial oration made in West Brookfield, July 4, 1860 at the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the town of Brookfield
A biographical dictionary containing a brief account of the first settlers, and other eminent characters among the magistrates, ministers, literary and worthy men, in New-England
A brief account of some of the early settlers of Groton, Massachusetts being the appendix to Groton epitaphs
A brief historical sketch of the town of Boylston in the county of Worcester from its first settlement to the present time
A brief record of the physicians of Quincy, Massachusetts, from the earliest times
A brief sketch of the first settlement of Deerfield, Mass. together with a few of the events which took place there in early times
A centennial address delivered at Upton, Mass. June 15, 1835
A centennial discourse delivered before the First Congregational Society in Chicopee, Sept. 26, 1852
A centurial history of the Mendon Association of Congregational Ministers with the centennial address delivered at Franklin, Mass., Nov. 19, 1851, and biographical sketches of the members and licentiates
A century of Free Masonry in Nantucket
A century of town life a history of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1775-1887 with surveys, records and twenty- eight pages of plans and views
A chronological record of the principal events that have occurred in Amesbury, Massachusetts from the organization of the township of Merrimac in 1638 to 1900
A comprehensive history, ecclesiastical and civil, of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans, county of Barnstable, Mass. from 1644 to 1844
A comprehensive history, ecclesiastical and civil, of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans, county of Barnstable, Mass. from 1644 to 1844
A discourse pronounced at Barnstable on the third of September, 1839, at the celebration of the second centennial anniversary of the settlement of Cape Cod
A documentary history of Chelsea including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824
A gazetteer of Massachusetts containing descriptions of all the counties, towns and districts in the commonwealth
A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts with numerous illustrations on wood and steel
A genealogy of Richard Hood who came from Lynn, in England, and settled at Lynn in Massachusetts
A guide to Massachusetts local history being a bibliographic index to the literature of the towns, cities and counties of the state
A history of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts from its origin to the present period, with some account of the environs
A history of Chatham, Massachusetts formerly the constablewick or village of Monomoit with maps and illustrations and numerous genealogical notes
A history of Clapboard Trees, or, Third Parish, Dedham, Mass. now the Unitarian Parish, West Dedham, 1736-1886
A history of Deerfield, Massachusetts the times when and the people by whom it was settled, unsettled and resettled with a special study of the Indian Wars in the Connecticut Valley with genealogies
A history of East Boston with biographical sketches of its early proprietors, and an appendix
A history of Framingham, Massachusetts, including the plantation, from 1640 to the present time with an appendix containing a notice of Sudbury and its first proprietors, also a register of the inhabitants of Framingham before 1800, with genealogical sketches
A history of Hatfield, Massachusetts in three parts
A history of Natick, 1651-1851
A history of Walpole, Mass. from earliest times
A history of Williamsburg in Massachusetts
A history of the First Religious Society in Newburyport, Massachusetts
A history of the old building on the corner of School and Washington Streets, Boston
A history of the town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts from its earliest settlement to 1832 and of the adjoining towns, Bedford, Acton, Lincoln, and Carlisle, containing various notices of county and state history not before published
A history of the town of Dunstable, Massachusetts from its earliest settlement to the year of Our Lord 1873
A history of the town of Franklin, Mass. from its settlement to the completion of its first century
A history of the town of Middlefield, Massachusetts
A history of the town of Murrayfield earlier known as Township No. 9, and comprising the present towns of Chester and Hungtington, the northern part of Montgomery, and the southeast corner of Middlefield 1760-1783
A history of the town of Northfield, Massachusetts for 150 years with an account of the prior occupation of the territory by the Squakheags and with family genealogies
A history of the town of Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts from 1669 to 1859
A history of the town of Pittsfield in Berkshire County, Mass. with a map of the county
A looking glass for the times, or, The former spirit of New-England revived in this generation
A memoir of the French Protestants who settled at Oxford, in Massachusetts, A.D. MDCLXXXVI with a sketch of the entire history of the Protestants of France
A milestone planted address of Charles Francis Adams at Lincoln, Massachusetts, April, 23, 1904, on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town
A municipal history of the town and city of Boston during two centuries from September 17, 1630, to September 17, 1830
A partial (and not impartial) semi-centennial history of the Tavern Club, 1884-1934
A pioneer in New England in 1635
A record of the First Parish in Watertown, Massachusetts
A record of the Twenty-Third Regiment Mass. Vol. Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 with alphabetical roster, company rolls, portraits, maps, etc
A sketch of the Munro clan also of William Munro who, departed from Scotland, settled in Lexington, Massachusetts, and of some of his posterity together with a letter from Sarah Munroe to Mary Mason, descriptive of the visit of President Washington to Lexington in 1789
A survey of Boston and its vicinity shewing the distance from the old State House, at the head of State Street, to all the towns and villages not exceeding fifteen miles therefrom, also the intermediate distance from one place to another together with a short topographical sketch of the country the whole taken from actual survey and lineal measure in the years 1818, 1819, and 1820
A topographical and historical description of Boston from the first settlement of the town to the present period with some account of its environs
A volume of records relating to the early history of Boston
A volume relating to the early history of Boston containing the Aspinwall notarial records from 1644 to 1651
Abstract of the history of Hudson, Mass. from its first settlement to the centennial anniversary of the declaration of our national independence, July 4, 1876
Abstract of the history of Lexington, Mass. from its first settlement to the centennial anniversary of the declaration of our national independence, July 4, 1876
Account of the observance of the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the town of New Braintree, Mass. 1901
Address delivered at the opening of court in the new court house in Greenfield, Mass., March 18, 1873
Address delivered before the Literary Association, Blandford, Mass., Sept. 21, 1850 upon the history of that town
Address, poems and speeches delivered at the semi-centennial anniversary of the Second Congregational Society of Lynn Wednesday, April 30, 1873, at Odd Fellows' Hall
Addresses delivered at Groton, Massachusetts, July 12, 1905 by request of the citizens, on the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its settlement
Alluring Rockport an unspoiled New England town on Cape Ann
American Association for State and Local History
American Library Association (ALA)
An account of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts August 18-24, 1907
An account of the early land-grants of Groton, Massachusetts
An account of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Warren September 7, 1891 including The founding and growth of a New-England town, a review
An account of the physicians and dentists of Groton, Massachusetts including those who, born there, have practised their profession elsewhere
An address at the centennial celebration in Hardwick, Mass. November 15, 1838
An address delivered May 30, 1873, at the dedication of the Memorial Hall Andover, Massachusetts
An address delivered at Northampton, Mass. on the evening of October 29, 1854 in commemoration of the close of the second century since the settlement of the town
An address delivered at West Springfield, August 25, 1856 on occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the ordination of the Rev. Joseph Lathrop, D.D
An address delivered at the opening of the new town-hall, Ware, Mass., March 31, 1847 containing sketches of the early history of that town and its first settlers
An address delivered before the Columbian Society of Marblehead, on the eighth of January, 1839
An address delivered before the inhabitants of Grafton, on the first centennial anniversary of that town, April 29, 1835
An address delivered in Petersham, Massachusetts, July 4, 1854, in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of that town
An address in commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Lancaster, Massachusetts
An historical address delivered at the centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Wilbraham June 15, 1863
An historical address, bi-centennial and centennial, Groton, Massachusetts
An historical discourse delivered at West Springfield, December 2, 1824 the day of the annual thanksgiving
An historical sketch of Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts with an appendix
An historical sketch of Bradford, Mass., in the Revolution (including East Bradford, now Groveland)
An historical sketch of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex, and commonwealth of Massachusetts
An historical sketch of Groton, Massachusetts 1655-1890
An historical sketch of Haverhill in the county of Essex and commonwealth of Massachusetts with biographical notices
An historical sketch of Sturbridge, Mass. from its settlement to the present time
An historical sketch of Watertown, in Massachusetts from the first settlement of the town to the close of its second century
An idyl from Nantucket with a note
An oration delivered at the commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Haverhill, Massachusetts July second and third, 1890
An oration delivered at the dedication of the soldiers' monument in North Weymouth, Mass. on Saturday, July 4, 1868
Andover, Massachusetts proceedings at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town, May 20, 1896
Annals of Chicopee Street records and reminiscences of an old New England parish for a period of two hundred years
Anti-slavery landmarks in Boston scores of places identified with the great struggle for the freedom of the black men, stirring scenes that were witnessed there, where Garrison published the Liberator, refuges for fugitives, cases of kidnapping
Appleton Farms tercentenary Ipswich, Massachusetts
Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States
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Argument for the division of Worcester County before legislative committee
Around the Hub a boys' book about Boston
Aspects of a New England town (Hingham, Mass.) from the horse and buggy days to the event of World War I with a treatise on life in the army, World War II
Assessors' taking books of the town of Boston, 1780
Bedford sesqui-centennial celebration 1879 historical discourse
Being the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held at the rooms of the Society, New Bedford, Mass., on March 31, 1904 .
Being the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held in their building, New Bedford, Mass., on March 30, 1910
Being the proceedings of the eighth annual meeting of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held in their building, Water Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts, on March 31, 1911
Being the proceedings of the fifth annual meeting of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held in their building, Water Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts, on March 27, 1908 .
Being the proceedings of the fourth annual meeting of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held in their building, Water Street, New Bedford, Mass., on March 26, 1907 .
Being the proceedings of the second annual meeting of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held at the rooms of the society, New Bedford, Mass., on March 17, 1905 .
Being the proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held in their building, Water Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts, on March 27, 1909 .
Being the proceedings of the third annual meeting of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held at the rooms of the society, New Bedford, Mass., on March 30, 1906 .
Biographical Review
Biographical review this volume contains biographical sketches of the leading citizens of Hampden County, Massachusetts
Biographical review this volume contains biographical sketches of the leading citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Biographical review, containing life sketches of leading citizens of Worcester County, Massachusetts
Boston
Boston Common scenes from four centuries
Boston a guide book
Boston and its story, 1630-1915 a relation
Boston events a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order
Boston in 1682 and 1699
Boston looks seaward the story of the port, 1630-1940
Boston mobs before the Revolution
Boston notions being an authentic and concise account of that village, from 1630 to 1847
Boston the place and the people
Boston town
Boston, 1822 to 1922 the story of its government and principal activities during one hundred years
Boston, England, and Boston, New England, 1630-1930 reproductions of rare prints with a commentary of historic notes
Boston, new and old
Bowen's picture of Boston, or, The citizens and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs to which is affixed the annals of Boston
Boxborough a New England town and its people
Boyhood reminiscences pictures of New England life in the olden times in Williamstown
Bradford's History of Plimoth plantation from the original manuscript with a report of the proceedings incident to the return of the manuscript to Massachusetts
Brampton sketches old-time New England life
Brewster, Massachusetts Church records 1700-1792
Brief historical data and memories of my boyhood days in Nantucket
Buckland centennial, September 10, 1879 addresses, poems, songs, andc
Bures of Suffolk, England and Burr of Massachusetts Bay Colony, New England
Cambridge fifty years a city, 1846-1896 an account of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2-3, 1896
Celebration of the centennial anniversary of the evacuation of Boston by the British Army, March 17th, 1776 reception of the Washington Medal oration delivered in Music Hall, and a chronicle of the siege of Boston
Celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Conway, Massachusetts at Conway, June 19th, 1867 including a historical address
Celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of Abington, Massachusetts June 10, 1862 including the oration, poem, and other exercises
Celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Westminster, Mass. containing an address
Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boston, September 17,1880
Celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Newton, Massachusetts, December 27, 1888
Celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the naming of Worcester October 14 and 15, 1884
Celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Bridgewater, Massachusetts at West Bridgewater, June 3, 1856 including the address by Emory Washburn, of Worcester, poem by James Reed of Boston, and the other exercises of the occasion with an appendix
Celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Middleborough, Massachusetts, October 13, 1869 including the oration of Hon. Thomas Russell, address by His Honor Mayor Shurtleff, of Boston, and the other exercises of the occasion with an appendix
Centennial anniversary of the town of Cohasset May 7, 1870
Centennial anniversary of the town of Heath, Mass. August 19, 1885 addresses, speeches, letters, statistics, etc
Centennial celebration at Danvers, Mass. June 16, 1852
Centennial celebration of the Congregational Church, Wendell, Mass. Wednesday, December 2, 1874 address of welcome
Centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Boylston, Massachusetts August 18, 1886
Centennial celebration of the town of West Springfield, Massachusetts 1874
Centennial celebration proceedings in connection with the celebration at New Bedford, 1864, the 200th anniversary of the town of Dartmouth
Centennial discourse delivered on the one hundredth anniversary of the organization of the Baptist Church, Haverhill, Mass. on the ninth of May, 1865
Centennial of the Boston Pier, or the Long Wharf Corporation 1873
Changes of values in real estate in Boston, the past one hundred years
Chronicles of the first planters of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623 to 1636
Chronicling America
City cemeteries, Malden, Massachusetts historical sketch of cemeteries and rules and regulations
Colonial families of the United States of America, Vol. VI
Commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of Lancaster, Massachusetts, Tuesday, June 30, 1903
Company proceedings of the Worcester Continentals 1876-1878
Concord in the colonial period being a history of the town of Concord, Massachusetts, from the earliest settlement to the overthrow of the Andros government, 1635-1689
Constitutional history of Boston, Massachusetts an essay
Copy of the old records of the town of Duxbury, Mass., from 1642 to 1770 made in the year 1892
Cornell Making of America Digital Library
Cornet Joseph Parsons, one of the founders of Springfield and Northampton, Massachusetts Springfield, 1636, Northampton, 1655 an historical sketch from original sources, viz., town, county, court, and private records
Curiosities of history Boston, September seventeenth, 1630-1880
Dearborn's reminiscences of Boston and guide through the city and environs
Dedham 1836 second centennial anniversary of the incorporation of the town
Denton Offutt, employer and friend of Lincoln at New Salem
Dictionary of Worcester (Massachusetts) and its vicinity
Discourse delivered at Boxford, Mass., May 10th, 1863
Discourse delivered before the Church of Christ and Second Parish in Pepperell, Mass.
Dover fifty years ago
Duxbury, Massachusetts ancient and modern a sketch, with map and key
Early History of Boston
Early Western Travels (32 Volumes)
Early bells of Massachusetts
Early days on Boston Common
Early recorders and registers of deeds for the county of Suffolk, Massachusetts 1639-1735
Eighteenth century baptisms in Salem, Massachusetts hitherto unpublished
Encyclopedia of Massachusetts
Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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A copy of the records of births, marriages and deaths, and of intentions of marriage of the town of Hanover, Mass., 1717-1787
A report of the Record Commissioners of the city of Boston containing Dorchester births, marriages, and deaths to the end of 1825
Births, marriages and deaths in the town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850
Book of births, marriages, and deaths of Dartmouth, Westport, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1664-1821
Boston marriages from 1752 to 1809
Brewster, Massachusetts Church records 1700-1792
Calendar of wills and administrations in the Consistory Court of the bishop of Worcester also marriage licenses and sequestrations now deposited in the Probate Registry at Worcester
Church Records of the Town of Chesterfield, Massachusetts, 1762-1820
Concord, Massachusetts births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850
Concord, Massachusetts marriages, 1724
Early church records of Groton, Massachusetts, 1761-1830 containing a list of admissions to the church with lists of marriages and baptisms and various other memoranda with notes and an introduction
Early records of the Town of Beverly, Essex County, Mass. births, marriages and deaths
Historical Collections of the Essex Institute - 80 Volumes
Marriages and deaths in Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Middleborough, Massachusetts vital records
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Plymouth, Massachusetts marriages 1734-1745
Record of births, marriages, and deaths, of the town of Sturbridge, from the settlement of the town to 1816
Register of births, marriages, and deaths in the town of Milford, Massachusetts
Scituate, Massachusetts, Second church records
The birth, marriage, and death register, church records and epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643-1850
The record of the town meetings, and abstract of births, marriages, and deaths in the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1887-1896
Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to 1850 (Marriages-Deaths)
Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to 1850 (Marriages-Deaths)
Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts to 1850 (Marriages)
Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts to 1849 (Marriages-Deaths)
Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to 1849 (Marriages-Deaths)
Vital records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the year 1850 - Vol 2 Marriages and Deaths
Vital records of Taunton, Massachusetts to the year 1850
Woburn records of births, deaths, and marriages
Woburn, Massachusetts, Vital Records 1640-1900 Births, Marriages, Deaths
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250th anniversary of the first white settlement within the territory of Winchester Charlestown, 1633 Waterfield, 1638 Charlestown Village, 1640 Woburn, 1642 Winchester, 1850
A record of the Twenty-Third Regiment Mass. Vol. Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 with alphabetical roster, company rolls, portraits, maps, etc
A summary military history of Worcester
American Military Records
An historical sketch of Bradford, Mass., in the Revolution (including East Bradford, now Groveland)
Bearing arms in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War 1861-1865
Biographical Review
Biographical sketch of the residents of that part of Dedham, which is now Dover, who took part in King Philip's War, the last French and Indian War, and the Revolution together with the record of the services of those who represented Dover in the War of 1812, the war with Mexico, the Civil War, and the war with Spain
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Civil War Music
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Dedication services of the Memorial Library and Grand Army Hall at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, October 13, 1887
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Historical sketches of the times and men in Ashfield, Mass. during the Revolutionary War
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History of the First Parish, Weston, Massachusetts
History of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia the Cadet Regiment
History of the Forty-second Regiment Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862, 1863, 1864
History of the Thirty-Seventh Regiment, Mass. Volunteers, in the Civil War of 1861-1865 with a comprehensive sketch of the doings of Massachusetts as a state, and of the principal campaigns of the war
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Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops
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Monument erected in 1889 by the people of Pembroke, Mass. in memory of the soldiers and sailors of the Union in the Civil War
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Proceedings at the centennial celebration of the Battle of Lexington April 19, 1875
Recollections of the Civil War
Record of the Massachusetts volunteers, 1861-1865
Record of the service of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in North Carolina, August 1862 to May 1863
Soldiers of Oakham, Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War
The American Revolution
The Braintree soldiers' memorial the record of the services in the War of the Rebellion of the men of Braintree, Massachusetts
The Fifty-Seventh Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion Army of the Potomac
The Fifty-fifth Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Colored June 1863-September 1865
The Melrose memorial the annals of Melrose, county of Middlesex, Massachusetts, in the Great Rebellion of 1861-'65
The Military history of Medway, Mass., 1745-1885 containing the names of the inhabitant soldiers in the French and Indian Wars, the continental soldiers and Minute-Men in the War of the Revolution, a mention of the War of 1812...
The Spalding memorial a genealogical history of Edward Spaulding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay, and his descendants with a record of their military service in the colonial, revolutionary and civil wars, together with information concerning various other branches of the Spalding family
The Tenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1864 a western Massachusetts regiment
The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865
The colonial and revolutionary history of Haverhill a centennial oration
The history of the Tenth Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery in the War of the Rebellion formerly of the Third Corps, and afterwards of Hancock's Second Corps, Army of the Potomac 1862-1865
The military annals of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1740-1865 including lists of soldiers serving in the colonial and revolutionary wars for the Lancastrian towns, Berlin, Bolton, Harvard, Leominster, and Sterling
The proceedings at the dedication of the soldiers' monument at Pittsfield, Mass. September 24, 1872 including the oration of Hon. Geo. Wm. Curtis
The proceedings of the dedication of the Soldiers Monument Dover, Massachusetts, 1910 dedication of the new grammar school house in 1910, the unveiling of headstones to the memory of Revolutionary soldiers in 1911 and dedication of the tablet erected in memory of the Indians in 1912
The story of the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1864
Three years in the army the story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16, 1861, to August 1, 1864
U.S. Register of Army Enlistments (1798-1914)
Veterans History Project
Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts to 1850 (Marriages)
Westfield and its historic influences 1669-1919
Worcester Light Infantry, 1803-1922 a history
Worcester in the War of the Revolution embracing the acts of the town from 1765 to 1783 inclusive with an appendix
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A copy of the records of births, marriages and deaths, and of intentions of marriage of the town of Hanover, Mass., 1717-1787
A report of the Record Commissioners of the city of Boston containing Dorchester births, marriages, and deaths to the end of 1825
Births, marriages and deaths in the town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850
Book of births, marriages, and deaths of Dartmouth, Westport, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1664-1821
Brewster, Massachusetts Church records 1700-1792
Cemetery Records
Church Records of the Town of Chesterfield, Massachusetts, 1762-1820
Concord, Massachusetts births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850
Death records from the ancient burial ground at Kingston, Massachusetts
Early records of the Town of Beverly, Essex County, Mass. births, marriages and deaths
Family Histories (Southern Massachusetts)
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Historical Collections of the Essex Institute - 80 Volumes
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Records of Littleton, Massachusetts - births and deaths, from the earliest records in the town books begun in 1715
Register of births, marriages, and deaths in the town of Milford, Massachusetts
Scituate, Massachusetts, Second church records
Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Springfield, Massachusetts Births 1638-1887
The Mayflower Descendant, a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history
The birth, marriage, and death register, church records and epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643-1850
The record of the town meetings, and abstract of births, marriages, and deaths in the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1887-1896
Vital Records of Athol, Massachusetts to 1849
Vital Records of Becket, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to 1850 (Births)
Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to 1850 (Marriages-Deaths)
Vital Records of Brockton, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Brookfield, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to 1850 (Births)
Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to 1850 (Marriages-Deaths)
Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to 1849
Vital Records of Chester, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Chilmark, Massachusetts to 1849
Vital Records of Conway, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Dalton, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Dana, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Danvers, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Deerfield, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Dorchester, Massachusetts 1826-1849
Vital Records of Dunstable, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts to 1850
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Vital Records of Fitchburgh, Massachusetts from 1764
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Vital Records of Gill, Massachusetts from 1764
Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts to 1850 (Births, part 1 of 2)
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Vital Records of Great Barrington, Massachusetts to 1850
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Vital Records of Lee, Massachusetts to 1850
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Vital Records of Malden, Massachusetts from 1649 to 1850
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Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to 1849 (Supplemental)
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Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts to 1849
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Vital Records of Middlefield, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Millbury, Massachusetts to 1849
Vital Records of Montgomery, Massachusetts to 1849
Vital Records of New Salem, Massachusetts to 1849
Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to 1850 (Vol 1)
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Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to 1850 (Vol 2 pt 2)
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Vital Records of Raynham, Massachusetts
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Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to 1849 (Vol 3)
Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Shirley, Massachusetts to 1850
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Vital Records of Tewksbury, Massachusetts to 1849
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Vital Records of Tyngsborough, Massachusetts to 1850
Vital Records of Upton, Massachusetts to 1850
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Vital Records of Worthington, Massachusetts to 1850
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Vital records of Andover, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849
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44 of my ancestors born in Massachusetts:

Title
Branch
Date
Place
Aaron Huntley Sr
HOLLENBECK
1654 Apr 15
Boston
Margaret Hewett
HARVEY
1694 June 23
Boston
Damaris Cary
DECKER
1706 Oct 10
Bristol
Temperence Willis
HARVEY
1636
Cambridge
Margaret Choat
LEONARD
[Unknown]
Ipswich
Sarah Wheeler
HARVEY
1640 Mar 30
Concord
Abigail Goble
HARVEY
1668/69 Jan 19
Concord
Joseph Dudley
HARVEY
1666
Concord
Jane Dudley
HARVEY
1693 Mar 9
Concord
John Mason
HARVEY
1657 June 6
Dedham
Hannah Hawes
HARVEY
1654/5 Feb 1
Dedham
David Gould
HARVEY
1701
Abigail Dodge
HARVEY
1704
Joshua Eaton
LEONARD
1721 July 1
Framingham
Jedediah Strong
DECKER
1638 May 7
Hingham
David Stowell
HARVEY
1660 Apr 8 (baptism)
Hingham
Mary Stedman
HARVEY
1670
Hingham
Simon Thompson
LEONARD
1610 (est.)
Ipswich
Mary Knowlton
HARVEY
1653
Ipswich
Robert Fitts
LEONARD
1690 July 19
Ipswich
Benjamin Fitts
LEONARD
1727 Apr 16 (bapt.)
Ipswich
Abraham Fitts Jr
LEONARD
1655-1656
Ipswich
Samuel Moody Sr
HARVEY
1634
Bradford D. Shirley
HARVEY
1781
Levi Sherman
LEONARD
1815-1817 (est.)
Jonathan Stowell Sr
HARVEY
1697
Newton
John Eaton
LEONARD
1645 Oct 10
Reading
Corp. Jonas Eaton
LEONARD
1680 May 18
Reading
Samuel Wood Jr
HARVEY
1716 Apr 3
Rowley
Samuel Pearson
HOLLENBECK
1648 May 29
Rowley
Elizabeth Pearson
HOLLENBECK
1677 Apr 25
Rowley
Ebenezer Abbey Sr
HARVEY
1682/83 July 31
Salem
Samuel Abbe
HARVEY
1646-1650
Wenham
Sarah Rood
HARVEY
1769 Feb 10
Sturbridge
Solomon Rood
HARVEY
1735
Sturbridge
Ezra Rood
HARVEY
1760 Nov 18
Sturbridge
Caroline Fitts
LEONARD
1786 Aug 4
Sutton
Daniel Fitts
LEONARD
1753 Apr 14 (or 1758)
Sutton
Job Shirley
HARVEY
1757 Oct
Taunton
Elizabeth Feake
DECKER
1633
Watertown
Sarah Fairfield
LEONARD
1725 May 16 (Baptism)
Wenham
Datus Ensign Jr
HARVEY
1752 May 21 (baptism)
Westfield
Royal Ensign
HARVEY
1792 Jan 22
Westfield
Mary Crowell
HARVEY
1653
Yarmouth

40 of my ancestors married in Massachusetts:

Title
Branch
Date
Place
Ezra Rood
HARVEY
1788 Feb 11
Parthena Warner
HARVEY
1788 Feb 11
Amherst
David Stowell
HARVEY
1692 Apr 7
Cambridge
Mary Stedman
HARVEY
1692 Apr 7
Cambridge
Sarah Wheeler
HARVEY
1665 Oct 26
Concord
Francis Dudley
HARVEY
1665 Oct 26
Concord
Abigail Goble
HARVEY
1690/91 Feb 25
Concord
Joseph Dudley
HARVEY
1690/91 Feb 25
Concord
Edward Hawes
HARVEY
1648 Apr 15
Dedham
Eliony Lombard
HARVEY
1648 Apr 15
Dedham
Hannah Hawes
HARVEY
1676/7 Nov 5
Dedham
John Mason
HARVEY
1676/7 Nov 5
Dedham
Abigail Ford
DECKER
1630
Boston
Elder John Strong
DECKER
1630 or 1635
Boston
Robert Fitts
LEONARD
1717 Jan 1
Amesbury
Samuel Pearson
HOLLENBECK
1672 Apr 16
Haverhill
Dorcas Johnson
HOLLENBECK
1672 Apr 16
Haverhill
Mary Farrow
HARVEY
1649 Oct 25
Hingham
Samuel Stowell II
HARVEY
1649 Oct 25
Hingham
Nathaniel Stedman
HARVEY
1664
Hingham
William Knowlton Jr
HARVEY
1640/41 Jan 10
Ipswich
Elizabeth Ann Balch
HARVEY
1640/41 Jan 10
Ipswich
Corp. Jonas Eaton
LEONARD
1705 Mar 10
Ipswich
Hannah Dike
LEONARD
1717/18 Jan 1
Ipswich
Margaret Choat
LEONARD
1685
Ipswich
Abraham Fitts Jr
LEONARD
1692 Feb 28
Ipswich
Caroline Fitts
LEONARD
1809 Mar 9
Oxford
Joshua Burrill
LEONARD
1809 Mar 9
Oxford
Job Shirley
HARVEY
1778-1779
Raynham
Jonathan Stowell Sr
HARVEY
1722/23 Mar 6
Boston
Benjamin Fitts
LEONARD
1749 Oct 31
Sutton
Sarah Fairfield
LEONARD
1749 Oct 31
Sutton
Chloe White
LEONARD
1778 Apr 9
Sutton
Daniel Fitts
LEONARD
1778 Apr 9
Sutton
Samuel Wood Sr
HARVEY
1713 Mar 23
Watertown
Jane Dudley
HARVEY
1713 Mar 23
Watertown
Mary Knowlton
HARVEY
1672 Oct 12
Wenham
Samuel Abbe
HARVEY
1672 Oct 12
Wenham
Datus Ensign Jr
HARVEY
1780 Feb 9
Westfield
Abigail Woolworth
HARVEY
1780 Feb 9
Westfield

Ancestors who died here

Title
Branch
Date
Place
David Gould
HARVEY
1763
Amherst
Deborah I. Hall
HARVEY
1844 Mar 26
Amherst
Samuel Wilbur Sr
DECKER
1656 Sep 29
Boston
Sarah Wheeler
HARVEY
1713 Dec 12
Concord
Francis Dudley
HARVEY
1702
Concord
Joseph Dudley
HARVEY
1702 Nov 3
Concord
Abigail Goble
HARVEY
1705 Dec 19
Concord
Nathaniel Stedman
HARVEY
1678 Nov 9
Corp. Jonas Eaton
LEONARD
1727 Aug 13
Framingham
Gov. John Webster
HARVEY
1661 Apr 5 (or 1655)
Hadley
Sarah Cox
HARVEY
1671 Nov 4
Hadley
Samuel Moody Sr
HARVEY
1689 Sep 22
Hadley
Sarah Deming
HARVEY
1717 Sep 29
Hadley
Samuel Stowell II
HARVEY
1683 Nov 9
Hingham
John Farrow
HARVEY
1687 Jul 7
Hingham
Frances Carpenter
HARVEY
1688/9 January 28 (or 29)
Hingham
Mary Farrow
HARVEY
1708 Oct 24
Hingham
William Knowlton Jr
HARVEY
1655 July 17
Ipswich
Elizabeth Ann Balch
HARVEY
1688
Ipswich
Abraham Fitts Jr
LEONARD
1714 Aug 18
Ipswich
Jane Dudley
HARVEY
1800
Mansfield
John Abbe
HARVEY
1689 (est.)
Sarah Fairfield
LEONARD
1759-1762
Samuel Wood Jr
HARVEY
1807 Jan 27
Hannah Dike
LEONARD
[Unknown]
Temperence Willis
HARVEY
1678 or later
Boston
Isaac Stedman
HARVEY
1678 Dec 19
Brookline
David Stowell
HARVEY
1724 Sep 9
Newton
Mary Stedman
HARVEY
1724 Sep 27
Newton
Abigail Ford
DECKER
1688 July 6
Northampton
Elizabeth Johnson
DECKER
1690 Aug 13
Northampton
Elder John Strong
DECKER
1699 Apr 14
Northampton
Freedom Woodward
DECKER
1681 May 17
Northampton
Henry Woodward
DECKER
1685 Apr 7
Northampton
Daniel Fitts
LEONARD
1837 Feb 13
Oxford
Chloe White
LEONARD
1837 Jan 22
Oxford
Benjamin Fitts
LEONARD
1803 Feb 14
Oxford
Robert Fitts
LEONARD
1753 May 15
Oxford
Thomas Wood Sr
HARVEY
1687 Sep 12
Rowley
John Pearson
HOLLENBECK
1693 Dec 22
Rowley
Dorcas Pickard
HOLLENBECK
1703 Jan 12
Rowley
Samuel Wilbur Jr
DECKER
1678 (est.)
Taunton
Robert Feake
DECKER
1662
Watertown
Samuel Abbe
HARVEY
1698 Mar 8
Wenham
Datus Ensign Sr
HARVEY
1787 Nov 11
Westfield
Lucretia Seymour
HARVEY
1814 Apr 12
Westfield
John Crowell
HARVEY
1672 (burial Jan. 7)
Yarmouth
Elishua Yelverton
HARVEY
1688
Yarmouth

17 of my ancestors buried in Massachusetts

Title
Branch
Place
Cemetery
Francis Dudley
HARVEY
Concord
South Burying Ground
Sarah Wheeler
HARVEY
Concord
South Burying Ground
Joseph Dudley
HARVEY
Concord
Abigail Goble
HARVEY
Concord
Agnes Smith
HARVEY
Hadley
Old Hadley Cemetery
Samuel Moody Sr
HARVEY
Hadley
Old Hadley Cemetery
Sarah Deming
HARVEY
Hadley
Old Hadley Cemetery
Samuel Stowell II
HARVEY
Hingham
Fort Hill Cemetery
John Farrow
HARVEY
Hingham
Abraham Fitts Jr
LEONARD
Ipswich
Highland Cemetery
Sarah Cox
HARVEY
Samuel Wilbur Jr
DECKER
Abigail Ford
DECKER
Northampton
Bridge Street Cemetery
Elder John Strong
DECKER
Northampton
Bridge Street Cemetery
Gov. John Webster
HARVEY
Hadley
Old Hadley Cemetery
Daniel Fitts
LEONARD
Oxford
South Cemetery, Oxford, MA (Stone #201)
Deborah I. Hall
HARVEY
Worthington
North Cemetery

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