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Court and Public Records

Massachusetts

Statewide

"Massachusetts, U.S. Wills and Probate Records, 1635–1991," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9069).

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, vol. 1, 1628–1641, vol. 2, 1642–1649, vol. 3, 1644–1657, vol. 4 , 1650–1660, vol. 5, 1661–1674, vol. 6, 1674–1686 (Boston: William White, 1853, 1854).

John Noble, Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, vol. 1, 1630–1692 (New York: AMS Press, reprinted 1973).

Plymouth Colony

Justin Winsor, "Abstracts of the Earliest Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, various issues.

"Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686–1881," database with images,  AmericanAncestors.org.

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1640, vol. 2, 1641–1651, vol. 3, 1651–1661, vol. 4, 1661–1668, vol. 5, 1668–1678, vol. 6, 1678–1691 (Boston: William White, 1855, 1866).

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Miscellaneous Records, 1633–1689 (Boston: William White, 1857).

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Judicial Acts, 1636–1692 (Boston: William White, 1857).

Barnstable County

"Abstracts of Barnstable County, Mass. Probate Records," Mayflower Descendant, various issues.

"Barnstable, MA: Probate Records, 1685–1789," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.

Bristol County

"Bristol County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686–1880," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.

Essex County

George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920).

George Francis Dow, ed., and Harriet S. Tapley, trans., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols., digitized books, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu).

"Essex County, MA: Early Probate Records, 1635–1681," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, from records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.

"Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638–1881," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.

Hampshire County

"Hampshire County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1660–1889," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, from records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives and the Hampshire County Court.

Middlesex County

"Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648–1871," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, from records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.

"Middlesex County, MA: Abstracts of Court Records, 1643–1674," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, from Unpublished abstracts by Thomas Bellows Wyman, "Abstract of Middlesex court files from 1649," n.d.

Suffolk County

"Abstracts of Early Wills on Record and on File in the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, various issues.

"Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.

Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671–1680 (Boston, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1933)

Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. 30, Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671–1680 (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1933).

Worcester County

"Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731–1881," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.

Connecticut

Statewide

Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609–1999," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9049), citing Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts.

"Connecticut: Early Probate Records, 1635–1730," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as Charles W. Manwaring, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records (Hartford: R. S. Peck & Co. Printers, 1904).

J. Hammond Trumble, The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, vol. 1 (Hartford: Brown & Parsons, 1850); vol. 2 (Hartford: F.A. Brown, 1852), vol. 3 (Case, Lockwood, & Co., 1859).

Charles J. Hoadley, The Public Records of the State of Connecticut, vols. 1–3 (Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co., 1894–1922)

Volume 1: October 1776–February 1778 with the Journal of the Council of Safety from October 11, 1776 to May 6, 1778

Volume 2: May 1778–April 1780 with the Journal of the Council of Safety from May 18, 1778 to April 23, 1780

Volume 3: May 1780–October 1781 with the Journal of the Council of Safety from May 15, 1780 to December 27, 1781

Leonard Woods Labaree, The Public Records of the State of Connecticut, vols. 4–5, (Hartford: The State, 1943)

Volume 4: 1782, with the Journal of the Council of Safety from January 17, 1782 to Dec. 16, 1782

Volume 5: 1783–1784, with the Journal of the Council of Safety from January 9, 1783 to November 15, 1783

Connecticut Colony

J. Hammond Trumble, The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, vol. 1 (Hartford: Brown & Parsons, 1850; vol. 2 (Hartford: F.A. Brown, 1852), vol. 3 (Case, Lockwood, & Co., 1859).

Charles J. Hoadley, The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, vols. 4–12 (Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co., 1868–1890).

Links to Internet Archives digitizations of these books on the University of Connecticut Library website.

Volume 1: Prior to May 1665

Volume 2: 1675–1678

Volume 3: 1678–June 1689

Volume 4: August 1689–May 1706

Volume 5: October 1706–October 1716

Volume 6: May 1717–April 1726

Volume 7: May 1726–May 1735

Volume 8: October 1735–October 1743

Volume 9: May 1744–November 1750

Volume 10: May 1751–February 1757

Volume 11: May 1757–March 1762

Volume 12: May 1762–October 1767

Volume 13: May 1768–May 1772

Volume 14: October 1772–April 1775

Volume 15: May 1775–June 1776 with the Journal of the Council of Safety from June 7, 1775 to October 2, 1776

New Hampshire

"New Hampshire, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1643–1982," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8996).

Maine

"Maine: Early Wills and Deeds, 1640-1760," database with images, AmericanAncestors.

Vital Records

Massachusetts

"Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620–1988," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2495).

Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841–1915, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2101) Original data: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913).

Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1912).

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Barnstable.

Frances L. Eaton and Martha F. Duren, Vital Records of Berlin, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Marlboro, MA: Frances L. Eaton, 1935).

Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1906, 1907). vol. 1, vol. 2

Vital records of Billerica, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1908).

Vital Records of Bolton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, MA: F.P. Rice, 1910).

David Pulsifer, "Early Records of Boston," New England Historical Register, various issues.

Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Boxborough, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1915).

Vital Records of Boxford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1905).

Vital Records of Bradford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1907).

"Braintree, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1638–1850," database, Ancestry.org.

Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1916).

Vital Records of Brimfield, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1931).

Vital Records of Brookfield, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1840(Worcester, MA: F.P. Rice, 1909).

Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), vol. 1, vol. 2.

Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts: "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Charlestown, vol. 1 and vol. 2, originally published as Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984, 1995).

Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1914).

Concord, Massachusetts: Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635–1850 (Concord: Beacon Press, 1895).

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Dedham.

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Dighton.

"Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825," (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1891).

Vital Records of Dover, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908).

Vital Records of Dracut, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907).

Vital Records of Dudley, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Worcester, MA: F.P. Rice, 1908).

Vital Records of Dunstable, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1913).

Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911).

Vital Records of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1917).

George Bowman, "Eastham, Mass., Vital Records: Literally translated from the original records," The Mayflower Descendant, various issues.

"Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records," The Mayflower Descendant, various issues.

Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Framingham, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1911).

Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1923), vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3.

Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1926–1927).

Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Hardwick, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1917).

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Hatfield.

Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Harvard, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1917).

Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910, 1911), vol. 1, vol. 2.

"Hingham, MA: Vital Records, 1637–1845," database with images, AmericanAncestors.

Vital Records of Holliston, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908).

Vital Records of Hopkinton, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911).

Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1910), vol. 1, vol. 2.

Lexington, Mass.: Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths to January 1, 1898 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1898).

Records of Littleton, Massachusetts: Births and Deaths (Littleton: Littleton, 1900).

Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1905), vol. 1, vol. 2.

Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649–1850 (Cambridge: University press for the city of Malden, 1903).

Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester: F.P. Rice, 1908).

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Marshfield.

Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England History Genealogical Society, 1903).

Vital Records of Medford, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England History Genealogical Society, 1907).

Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England History Genealogical Society, 1905).

Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Mendon, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1920).

Vital Records of Methuen, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1909).

Vital Records of Middleton, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1904).

Milton Records: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1662–1843 (Boston: Mudge and Sons, 1900).

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Monson.

Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, vol. 1, vol. 3 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1925).

Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Natick, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850 (Boston: Stanhope Press, 1910).

Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911).

Vital Records of Newburyport, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911), vol. 2.

Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England History Genealogical Society, 1905).

Vital Records of Northborough, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850 (Worcester, MA: F.P. Rice, 1901).

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Pepperell.

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Plymouth.

Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1912).

James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rehoboth (Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1897).

Vital Records of Rochester, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 1914).

Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1928, 1931).

Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1925).

Vital Records of Rutland, Massachusetts, to the end of the Year 1849 (Worcester: F.P. Rice, 1905).

Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849, 6 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1916, 1918, 1924, 1925), vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, vol. 5, vol. 6.

Vital Records of Salisbury Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915).

Caroline Lewis Kardell and Russell A. Lovell, Vital Records of Sandwich, Massachusetts: To 1885, vol. 2 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996).

Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909), vol. 1, vol. 2.

Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911).

Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Springfield.

Vital Records of Stow, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911).

Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England History Genealogical Society, 1903).

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Swansea.

Vital Records of Templeton, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester: Franklin P. Rice, 1907).

Vital records of Tewksbury, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1912).

Vital Records of Topsfield, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1903).

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Truro.

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850, database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Waltham.

Watertown Historical Society, Watertown Records (Watertown: Fred G. Barker, 1894, 1900): vol. 1, vol. 2.

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850, database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Watertown.

Vital Records of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911).

Vital Records of Westford Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1915).

Vital Records of West Springfield, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1944).

Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 , vol. 1, vol. 2 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910).

Edward Francis Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Part 1 (births), Part 2, (deaths) Part 3 (marriages) (Woburn: Andrew Cutlery & Co., 1890).

"Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850, database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Worcester.

Vital Records of Wrentham, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910).

Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993)

Connecticut

"Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630–1870," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, from original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.

Bailey, Frederic William, Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, Book 1 (New Haven: Price, Lee and Adkins 1896).

Susan Whitney Dimock, Births, Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths, from the Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut, 1711–1844 (New York, Baker & Taylor, 1897).

Vital Records of Norwich, 1659–1848 (Hartford: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913).

Rhode Island

"Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org. Originally Published as: James N. Arnold, Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850: First Series: Births, Barriages and Deaths: a Family Register for the People (Providence: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company).

"Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1638–1899," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3897), citing digitized images from the New England Historic Genealogical Society of James Newell Arnold, Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636–1850, 21 vols. (Providence: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1891–1912).

Maine

"Maine, U.S., Death Records, 1761–1922," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1962)

New Hampshire

"New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654–1969," database with images, AmericanAncestors.

"New Hampshire, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1714–1904," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2559)

"New Hampshire, U.S., Birth Index, 1659–1900," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4582)

"New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Disinterment Records, 1754–1947," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5242)

"New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Burials Index, 1654–1949," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2555)

"New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1637–1947," database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2554)

"New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659–1947," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5241)

"New Hampshire, Wills and Probate Records, 1643–1982," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8996)

Vermont

"Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720–1908," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4661).

Canada

"Barrington and Argyle, Nova Scotia: Vital Records 1734–1908," database with image, AmericanAncestors.org.

Church Records

Massachusetts

"Barnstable, MA: Church Records, 1639–1892," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.

William P. Upham, Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667–1772 (Salem, Essex Institute, 1905).

James F. Hunnewell, "Record-Book of the First Church in Charlestown," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, various issues.

Records of the First Church at Dorchester, (Boston: George H. Ellis, 1891).

Joshua Coffin, Facts and Documents Concerning the Formation of the First Church in Newbury ... with a Copy of the Church Records (n.p.: handwritten, 1861), digitized as "Church Records 1634–1735," Newbury Mass. First Church, Congressional Library and Archives (https://www.congregationallibrary.org : accessed 26 November 1023).

"Plymouth, MA: First Church Records, 1620–1859," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.

George B. Blodgette, Early Records of Rowley, Mass: First Records of the First Church (Salem: Salem Press, 1898).

Walter Eliot Thwing, History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630–1904 (Boston: W.A. Butterfield, 1908).

Richard D. Pierce, The Records of the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1629–1736 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1974).

William P. Upham, Records of the First Church at Salisbury, Mass: 1687–1754 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1879).

John H. Gould, Early Records of the Church in Topsfield (Salem: Essex Institute, 1888)

Connecticut

"Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630–1920, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3032).

Richard A Wheeler, History of the First Congregational Church, Stonington, Conn., 1674–1874 (Norwich, T.H. Davis and Co., 1875).

Land Records

David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, Deeds &c., vol. 1, 1620–1651 (Boston: William White, 1861).

"Massachusetts Land Records, 1620–1986," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2106411), from records supplied by country courthouses and offices.

"Massachusetts: Plymouth Colony Deeds, 1671–1673," database with image AmericanAncestors.org From Scott Andrew Bartley, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Deeds, &c., Vol. III, pt. 2, 1671-1673 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019), 173.

Suffolk Deeds, vol. 2 (Boston, Rockwell and Churchill, 1883), 113–6.

Town Records

"Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620–1988," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2495)

William Aspinwall, A Volume Relating to the Early History of Boston, Containing the Aspinwall Notarial Records From 1644 to 1651 (Boston: Municipal printing office, 1903).

William T. Davis, Records of the Town of Plymouth, vol. 1 (Plymouth: Avery & Doten, 1889).

Benjamin P. Mighill and George B. Blodgette, Early Records of the Town of Rowley (Rowley: the town, 1894).

Martha O. Howes and Sydney Perley, Town Records of Salem, Massachusetts (Salem, Essex Institute, 1868).

Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1997, 1999, 2001).

Watertown Historical Society, Watertown Records (Watertown: Fred G. Barker, 1894, 1900): vol. 1, vol. 2 .

Military Records

"Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620–1775," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-Century Conflicts.

George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War (Boston: Rockwell & Churchill Press, 1896), 251.

"Revolutionary War Pensions, database with images, "Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com/publication/467/revolutionary-war-pensions), Source NARA, RG 15, Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service, compiled ca. 1800 - ca. 1912, documenting the period ca. 1775 - ca. 1900.

"Revolutionary War Service Records," database with images, Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com/publication/470/revolutionary-war-service-records). Source: NARA, RG 93, M881. Compiled service records of soldiers who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783.

"U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1755–1783," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4282). Source: NARA,  RG 93, M246 War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records.

"U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812–1815," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4281).

Immigration

John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600–1700, reprinted (New York: Empire State Book Co., n.d.).

Cemetery Records

"Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934,"database with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2900). Original data: The Charles R. Hale Collection, Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions, Hartford: Connecticut State Library.

 J.D. Champlin, “Ancient Burial Ground at Stonington, Conn.,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 13 (1859), 23–29.

"Rhode Island: Historical Cemeteries, 1647–2000," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.

Personal Records

American Antiquarian Society, Diaries of John Hull (Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1857).

Manasseh Minor, The Diary of Manasseh Minor: Stonington, Conn., 1696–1720 (n.p: published by Frank Denison Miner with the assistance of Hannah Miner, 1988).

Thomas Minor, Sydney H. Minor and George D. Stanton, The Diary of Thomas Minor, Stonington, Connecticut, 1653–1684(New London: Press of the Day, 1899).

Joseph B. Walker, editor and annotator, Diaries of Rev. Timothy Walker (Concord: NH: Ira C. Evans, 1889)

"Gov. John Winthrop Papers, Vol. 1-5, 1557-1649, database with images, AmericanAncestors.org. Originally published as: Winthrop Papers (Boston: Masssachuestts Historical Society, 1929 –).

Histories of Places

Abiel Abbot, History of Andover: From its Settlement to 1829 (Andover: Flag and Gould, 1829).

Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity (Yarmouth, N.S: n.p., n.d.).

Tollin Hillyer Cooke, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, vol. 1 (New York, Lewis Publishing Co., 1906), 87.

Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica (Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1883).

Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, (Boston : Printed for the author by Kidder & Wright,: unknown, 1990). Available on Ancestry.com.

Sidney Perley, The History of Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts (Boxford: The author, 1880).

Charles M. Hyde, Historical Celebration of the Town of Brimfield (Springfield: Clark W. Bryan, 1897)).

Richard W. Musgrove, History of the Town of Bristol, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, vol. 1. (Bristol: R.W. Musgrove, 1904), 168.

Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630–1877 (Boston: H. O. Houghton, 1877).

Wilson Waters, History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts (Lowell, MA: Courier-Citizen, 1917).

Lemuel Shattuck, History of the Town of Concord (Boston: Russell, Odiorne and co., 1835).

Nathaniel Bouton, History of Concord (Concord, NH: Benning W. Sanborn, 1856).

W.W. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, Maine (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1880)

Worcester Antiquarian and Historical Society, History of the Town of Dorchester (Boston: Ebenezer Clapp, Jr., 1859).

Ezra S. Stearns, Early Generations of the Founders of Old Dunstable: Thirty Families (Boston: George E. Littlefield, 1911).

Josiah Paine, Early Settlers of Eastham (Yarmouthport, C.W. Swift, 1916),vol. 1, vol. 2.

William Barry, A History of Framingham, Massachusetts (Boston: J. Munroe & Co., 1847)

J.H. Temple, History of Framingham (Framingham: the town, 1887)

Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley, with family genealogies by Lucius Boltwood, (Springfield, MA: H.R. Hunting, 1905).

Daniel White Wells and Reuben Field Wells, History of Hatfield, Massachusetts (Springfield: F.C.H. Gibbons, c. 1910).

George Wingate Chase, The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts (Haverhill: the author, 1861).

William F. Whitcher, History of the Town of Haverhill, New Hampshire (Haverhill: town, 1919).

History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, vol. 2 Genealogical (Hingham, MA: the town, 1893).

Thomas Franklin Waters, Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Ipswich: Ipswich Historical Society, 1905)

History of Litchfield County, Connecticut (Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis L& Co., 1881).

William S. Tilden, ed., History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1887).

D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire (Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885).

D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1890), vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3.

Albert Kendall Teele, The History of Milton, Mass.: 1640 to 1887 (Boston: Press of Rockwell & Churchill, 1887).

John J. Currier, History of Newbury, Mass., 1635–1902 (Boston : Damrell & Upham, 1902).

Joshua Coffin, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845).

Ezra S. Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher and Edward Everett Parker, Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1908).

Genealogical and Biological Record of New London County, Connecticut (Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1905)

Frances Mainwaring Caulkins, History of New London, Connecticut (New London: H.T. Utley, 1895).

Samuel Francis Smith, History of Newton, Massachusetts (Newton: American Logotype Company, 1880).

Francis Jackson, History of the Early Settlement of Newton (Boston, Stacy and Richardson, 1854)

Albert Kendall Teele, History of Newton, Mass., 1640–1887 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1887)

Edwin Hall, Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Conn.  (Norwalk: James Mallory & Co., 1847)

Ezra S. Stearns, History of Plymouth, New Hampshire, vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1906)

Librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society, The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth (Providence: E.L. Freeman & Sons, 1901).

Thomas Gage, The History of Rowley, Anciently including Bradford, Boxford, and Georgetown, From the year 1639 to the Present Time (Boston: F. Andrews, 1840)

Sydney Perley, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, vol. 1, 1626–1637, vol. 2, 1638–1670, vol. 3, 1671–1716, (Salem: Sydney Perley, 1924, 1926).

David Webster Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Part 1 (Providence: Snow and Farnham, 1897).

John J. Dearborn, The History of Salisbury, New Hampshire (Manchester, NH: William E. Moore, 1890).

Samuel Deane, History of Scituate (Boston: James Loring, 1831)

William Bigelow, History of Sherborn, Mass., (Milford, MA: Ballou & Stacey, 1830).

Abner Morse, A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants and History of the Towns of Sherborn and Holliston (Boston: Damrell and Moore, 1856). Perhaps some caution is advised: "Rev. Abner Morse [was] one of the least accomplished genealogists of any generation." [Ref, p. 355]

Richard Anson Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington (New London: Press of the Day, 1900).

Alfred Sereno Hudson, History of Sudbury (Sudbury: the town, 1889).

Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, 2nd edition (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860).

Edwin R. Hodgman, History of the town of Westford in the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts: 1659–1883 (Westford: Westford Town History Association, 1883).

Richard M. Bayles, History of Windham County, Connecticut(New York: W.W. Preston, 1889).

Ellen D. Larned, History of Windham County, Connecticut, vol. 1 (Worcester, MA: Charles Hamilton, 1874).

Samuel Sewall, The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass. (Boston: Wiggin and Lunt, 1868).

Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907)

Charles F. Swift, History of Old Yarmouth (Yarmouthport: the author, 1884).

Genealogies

Abiel Abbot and Rev. Ephraim Abbott, A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of George Abbot of Andover: George Abbot of Rowley, Thomas Abbot of Andover, Arthur Abbot of Ipswich, Robert Abbot of Branford, Ct. and George Abbot of Norwalk, Ct. (Boston: James Munroe, 1847).

J. Gardner Bartlett, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass. (New York: privately printed, 1927).

William S. Appleton, The Family of Badcock of Massachusetts (Boston: D. Clapp & Son, 1881).

David W. Dumas, ed., "Bacon - Adams - Whitney - Kingsbury Family Record," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 138 (1984), 32–38. Records compiled by John Bacon (1774–1846), record of John Bacon, son of Captain Asa Bacon and Abigail Whitney.

Thomas Williams Bacon, Bacon Genealogy: Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640 and His Descendants (Cambridge, MA: unknown, 1915).

Charles Frederic Farlow and Charles Henry Pope, The Ballard Genealogy (Boston: C.H. Pope, 1911).

Mary Isabella Preston, Bassett-Preston Ancestors (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1930): 189.

Frederick Clifton Pierce, Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy (Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., 1898).

Bradley Deforest Thompson and Franklin Condit Thompson, Blodget-Blodgett Descendants of Thomas of Cambridge, vol. 1 (Concord, NH: typewritten manuscript, 1955). Available on Ancestry.

Harriet Rosa Towne, The Boardman Family in Topsfield, Mass. (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1902), 10

Robert S. Wakefield and Lee D. van Antwerp, Mayflower Families in Progress: William Bradford of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations (n.p.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1987). Available on FamilySearch.

Emma C. Brewster Jones, The Brewster Genealogy: 1566–1907, vol. 1 (New York: Grafton Press, 1908).

Edgar J. Bullard, Bullard and Allied Families (Detroit: the author, 1930).

Anne Calef Boardman, Robert Calef of Boston and Some of His Descendants (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, 1940), 16–17, 31, 54–55.

Seth Cooley Cary, John Cary, the Plymouth Pilgrim (Boston: S.C. Cary, 1911).

Anna Chesebrough Wildey, Genealogy of William Chesebrough (Boston: Higginson Book Company, 1903)

Elias Child, Genealogy of the Child, Childes and Childe Families (Utica, NY: Curtis & Childs, 1881), 396–7.

Thomas Bellows Peck, Richard Clark and His Descendants (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1905).

Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colby Family in Early America (Concord: Colonial Press, 1970).

Philip L. Cobb, A History of the Cobb Family (Cleveland: n.p., 1907).

George Woodworth Colton, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Quartermaster George Colton (Philadelphia: John Milton Colton, 1912).

John Adams Comstock, A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America (Los Angeles: Commonwealth Press, 1949).

Albert Oren Cummins, Cummings Genealogy: Isaac Cummings, 1601-1677, of Ipswich in 1638 and Some of His Descendants (Montpelier: A.O. Cummins, 1904).

George Mooar, The Cummings Memorial: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Isaac Cummings (New York: B.F. Cummings, 1903).

Elizabeth Ellery Dana, The Dana Family in America (Cambridge: Wright & Potter, 1956). Available on Ancestry.

Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, vols. 1–3 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996). Available on Ancestry.

Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, vol. 1 (Milwaukee: Cuneo Press, 1931–1943), vol. 2 (n.p.: privately printed, 1931).

Alfred Alder Doane, The Doane Family and Their Descendants, 2nd Edition (Boston: the author, 1960).

Rufus Emery, Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, of Newbury, Mass. (Salem: Emery Cleaves, 1890).

Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, Fairbanks Family in America (Boston: American Printing and Engraving Company, 1897).

David Parsons Holton, Farwell Ancestral Memorial: Henry Farwell of Concord and Chelmsford, Massachusetts (New York: D.P. Holton, 1879).

Frederick Clifton Pierce, Foster Genealogy: Being the Record of the Posterity of Reginald Foster, an Early Inhabitant of Ipswich, in New England (Chicago, F.C. Pierce, 1899)

William Hyslop Fuller, Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of Thomas Fuller of Woburn (n.p.: printed for the compiler, 1919).

John Card Graves, Genealogy of the Graves Family in America (Buffalo, N.Y. : Baker, Jones & Co., 1986).

Gemont Graves, Graves Genealogy (Burlington, VT: Free Press Printing Co., 1911).

William Taylor Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America Descendants of Nicholas La Groves of Beverly, Mass. (Ann Arbor, MI: the author, 1915).

Gladys Redfield McPherson, Ancestry of Addie Clark Harding : daughter of Abner Clark Harding, Jr., and Maud McCain. (Chicago: unknown, 196-?). Available on Ancestry.

H. Claude Hardy and Edward Noah Hardy, Hardy and Hardie, Past and Present (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Typesetting, c. 1935).

Augustine George Hibbard, Genealogy of the Hibbard Family (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1901).

Joseph Gardner Bartlett, John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., 1633 (Boston: Lew C. Hill, 1904).

John W. Houghton, The Houghton Genealogy (New York: F.H. Hitchcock, 1912).

Joshua Crowell Howes, Genealogy of the Howes Family in America (Yarmouthport: F. Hallett, 1892).

Joseph Lemuel Chester, A Genealogy of the Hutchinson Family of Yorkshire (Boston: D. Clapp and Sons, 1868).

Frank Best, John Keep of Longmeadow, Massachusetts and His Descendants (Chicago: Frank E. Best, 1899).

Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, ed., The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878–1908, Part I (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996).

Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich (Hartford?: Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1905).

Belle Eldredge, Lamont-Eldredge Family Records (Albion, NY: n..p., 1948). Available on Ancestry.

Robert M. Lawrence, Historical Sketches of the Some Members of the Lawrence Family (Boston: Rand Avery Co., 1888), 16–18.

Albert Leffingwell, The Leffingwell Record : A Genealogy of the Descendants of Lieut. Thomas Leffingwell, One of the Founders of Norwich, Conn. (Aurora, NY: Leffingwell Pub. Co., 1897).

Constance Leonard, John Leonard of Springfield, Mass., and Some of His Descendants (Springfield: n.p., 1929).

Howard Hurtig Metcalf, Some Descendants of Reverend Leonard Metcalf, 2nd. ed., vol. 2 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2012).

J. Howard Morse and Emily W. Leavitt, Morse Genealogy (New York: Morse Society, 1903).

Henry William Moulton and Claribel Moulton, Moulton Annals (Chicago: Edward A. Claypool, 1906), 66–69.

John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants (Boston: privately printed, 1918).

Emily Wilder Leavitt, Palmer Family Groups: John Melvin of Charlestown and Concord, Mass., and Some of His Descendants, (Boston, David Clapp & Son, 1901–1905).

George Augustus Perkins, The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass.(Salem: Salem Press, 1889).

John Mason Pettingell, Charles Henry Pope, and Charles I. Pettingell, Pettingell Genealogy (Boston: Fort Hill Press, 1906).

Juliet Porter A Porter Pedigree: Being an Account of the Ancestry and Descendant of Samuel and Martha (Perley) Porter of Chester, N.H. (Worcester, Massachusetts: n.p., 1907).

William Lawrence Proctor and Mrs. W.L. Proctor, A. Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Proctor of Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., with Notes on Some Connected Families (Ogdenburg, New York, Republican and Journal Print, 1898).

John Adams Vinton, Richardson Memorial (Portland, ME: Brown Thurston & Co., 1876).

Samuel Pearce May, The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888 (Albany: J. Munsell, 1890).

Nora Emma Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, vol. 1 (Hillburn, NY: Snow, 1939).

Matthew Adams Stickney, The Stickney Family (Salem: Essex Institute, 1869).

M.J. Tenney, The Tenney Family, or the Descendants of Thomas Tenney of Rowley, Mass., 1638 - 1690 (Boston: American Printing and Engraving Co., 1891).

Howard H. Tidd, A History of the Tidds of Ohio (n.p.: n.p., 1958?), 20–21. Available on Ancestry.

Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Genealogy of the Twitchell Family (New York: privately printed, 1929).

Betsey Warren Davis, The Warren, Jackson and Allied Families (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippencott, 1903).

Allyn S. Kellogg, Memorials of Elder John White (Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Co., 1860).

William Ward Wight, A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield (Milwaukee: Swain & Tate, 1890).

Genealogies in Journals

Mrs. John E. Barclay, "Hannah (Swift) Tobey, Daughter of William Swift, and the Family of Ambrose Fish of Sandwich, Mass.," The American Genealogist 35 (1959).

Samuel G. Drake, "The Descendants of John and Elinore Whitney of Watertown, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 11 (1857): 113–21.

Dictionaries

John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins (Westminster, MD: Heritage Press, 2008).

Charles Thornton Libby, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, ME, USA: The Southward Press, 1928), available on Ancestry.

James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, 4 vols., (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1860–1862), vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4,

"The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

"Great Migration 1634–1635, A–B," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as:  Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume I, A–B (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999).

"Great Migration 1634–1635, C–F," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as:  Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume II, C–F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001).

"Great Migration, 1634–1635, G–H," digitized book, originally published as Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration to New England, 1634–1635, Volume III, G–H (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003)

"Great Migration, 1634–1635, I–L," digitized book, originally published as Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration to New England, 1634–1635, Volume IV, I–L (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005).

"Great Migration 1634–1635, M–P," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org,  originally published as:  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume V, M–P (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007).

"Great Migration 1634–1635, R–S," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org,  originally published as:  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume VI, R–S (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009).

"Great Migration 1634–1635, T–Y," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org,  originally published as:  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume VII, T–Y (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011).

George Thomas Little, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, vol. 2 (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1909).

"Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700–1880," digitized books, AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017), from Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975–2015).

Alicia Crane Williams, "Early New England Families, 1641–1700," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.

"New England Marriages to 1700," digitized books, AmericanAncestors, originally published as Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015).

"Massachusetts: Legislators of the General Court, 1691–1780," database. AmericanAncestors.org. From John A. Schutz, Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691–1780 A Biographical Dictionary, (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.)

"New Englanders in Nova Scotia," digitized manuscript, AmericanAncestors.org, from R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany: J. Munsell's sons, 1887).


Lists

Lucius R. Paige, "List of Freemen," New England Historical and Genealogical Register

"Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk," New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, "List of Those Able to Bear Arms in the Colony of New Plymouth 1643," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4 (1850): 255–9.

Ebenezer Pierce, Civil, Military and Professional Lists of Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995).

H.F. Andrew, List of Freemen: Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630–1690 (n.p.: Exira Printing Co., 1906), no page numbers.

History Books

Roger Thompson, From Deference to Defiance: Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629–1692 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012).

Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower (New York: Viking, 2006).

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620–1647, edited and annotated by Samuel Eliot Morison (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001).

Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620–1691 ( Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1986)

Miscellany

G. Andrews Moriarty, "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Gary Boyd Roberts, "Notable Kin," NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States 3 (1986): 237.