Selected Bibliography of New England Genealogical Resources
General
- American Genealogist, The. Vol. 66- , 1991- . Warwick, R.I.: Ruth Wilder Sherman. Formerly: New Haven Genealogical Magazine. Vols. 1-8. American Genealogist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine. Vols. 8-13. New Haven, Conn.
- Bent, George Payne. Four Score and More, Bits of Biography and Humorous History. Los Angeles: Geo. P. Bent Publishing Co., 1929.
- Benton, Josiah Henry. Warning Out in New England, 1656-1817. 1911. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1992.
- Coldham, Peter Wilson. Emigrants in Chains; A Social History of Forced Emigration to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, Politcal and Religious Non-Conformists, Vagabonds, Beggars and other Undesirables, 1607-1776. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992.
- Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1660; A Comprehensive Listing from English Public Records of Those Who Took Ship to the Americas for Political, Religious, and Economic Reasons; of Those Who Were Deported for Vagrancy, Roguerty, or Non-Conformity; and of Those Who Were Sold to Labour in the New Colonies. Baltimore: Genealogcial Publishing Co., Inc., 1987.
- Farmer, John. A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England. 1829. Reprinted ed. with add. and corr. by Samuel G. Drake. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1989.
- Lainhart, Ann Smith. Digging for Genealogical Treasure in New England Town Records. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996.
- Noyes, Sybil, Charles Thornton Libby, & Walter Goodwin. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. 1928-1939. Reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988.
- Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire 1623 to 1660: A Descriptive List, drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, Churches, Courts and Other Contemporary Sources. 1908. Reprint ed. Baltimore: Clearfield Company, 1989.
- Savage, James. The Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England; Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. 4 Volumes. 1860-1862. Reprint with Supplements, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1977.
- Tepper, Michael. American Passenger Arrival Records, A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Stream. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1993.
- Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1985.
- Waters, Henry F. Genealogical Gleanings in England. Abstracts of Wills Relating to Early American Families, with Genealogical Notes and Pedigrees Constructed from the Wills and from other Records. 2 Vols. With the addition of Genealogical Gleanings in England (New Series) A-Anyon. 1907. Reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1981.
Connecticut
- Sperry, Kip. Connecticut Sources for Family Historians and Genealogists. Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, Inc., 1980.
Maine
- Bourne, Edward E. The History of Wells and Kennebunk from the Earliest Settlement to the Year 1820, at which Time Kennebunk was set off, and Incorporated, with Biographical Sketches. 1875. Reprint ed. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1991.
- Old Maps of York, Maine, in 1872, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1980.
- Perkins, Thomas Allen. Jacob Perkins of Wells, Maine and His Descendants. UMI, 3 microfiche.
- Sargent, William M. Maine Wills, 1640-1760. 1887. 2 Vols. Reprint. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1992.
- Sherman, Sylvia J. (ed.). Dubros Times, Selected Depositions of Maine Revolutionary War Veterans. August, Maine: Maine State Archives, 1975.
Massachusetts
- Allen, Kristina Nilson. On the Beaten Path: Westborough, Massachusetts. Westborough, Mass: Westborough Civic Club and Westborough Historical Society, 1984.
- Bailey, Frederic W. (Ed.). Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800, As Found On the Official Records of Worcester County. 1897. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, Co., Inc. 1968.
- Banks, Charles Edward. The Planters of the Commonwealth, A Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times: to which are added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which Brought Them; Their English Homes, and the Places of Their Settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640. 1930. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1991.
- Banks, Charles Edward. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, An Account of the Vessels, The Voyage, the Passengers and their English Homes from Original Authorities. 1930. Reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company., Inc., 1989.
- Bond, Henry, M.D. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to which is Appended the Early History of the Town. 2 vols in 1. 2nd. ed. 1860. Reprint ed. Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1981.
- Coffin, Joshua. A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury. 1845. Reprint ed. Newburyport, Mass.: Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts, Inc., 1977.
- Concord, Massachusetts, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. Photo duplication. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society.
- Currier, John J. History of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1635-1902. 1902. Reprint Ed. The town of Newbury. 1984.
- Essex Society of Genealogists. A Guide to Cemeteries in Essex County, Massachusetts. Essex, Mass.: Essex Society of Genealogists, 1991.
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Felt, Joseph B. History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton. 1834. Reprint ed. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1991.
Genealogies of Some Old Families of Concord, Mass. and Their Descendants in Part to the Present Generation. Ed. by Charles Edward Potter. Vol 1. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1887.
Holbrook, Jay Mack. Boston Beginnings 1630-1699. Oxford, Mass.: Holbrook Research Institute, 1980.
Howe, Joseph. Historical Sketch of Meuthen from its First Settlement to the Year 1876. Methuen, Mass.: E.L Houghton & Co., 1876.
Little, Eliza Adams and Lucretia Little Ilsley (eds.). The First Parish, Newbury, Massachusetts, 1635-1935. 1935. Reprint ed. Newburyport, Mass.: Parker River Researchers, 1989.
Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-Century Conflicts. Ed. by Carole Doreski. The Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1982.
Merick, Benjamin L. The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts. 1832. Facsimile Reprint Ed. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1991.
Nourse, Henry S. (ed.). Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1725. 1884. Facsimile Reprint, Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1993.
Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. 1900. Reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969.
Prescott, William, M.D. The Prescott Memorial (or a Genealogical Memoir of the Prescott Families in America) in Two Parts. Boston: Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1870.
Records of the Town of Cambridge (Formerly Newtowne) Massachusetts 1630-1703, The. The Records of the Town Meetings, and of the Selectmen, Comprising all of the First Volume of Records, and Being Volume II. of the Printed Records of the Town. Cambridge: The Town, 1901.
Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the "New Towne" and the Town of Cambridge with the Records of the Proprietors of the Common Lands, The: Being the records generally called "The Proprietors' Records" (1635-1829). Ed. by Edward J. Brandon. 1896. Reprint Ed. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1990.
Russell, George Ely, Descendants of William Russell of Salem, Mass., 1674. Middletown, Md: Catocin Press, 1989.
Sanborn, Melinde Lutz. Lost Babes: Fornication Abstracts from Court Records Essex Count, Massachusetts, 1692 to 1754. Derry, N.H.: The Author, 1992.
Sanborn, Melinde Lutz. Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1991.
Suffolk County Wills. Abstracts of the Earliest Wills Upon Record in the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts. From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Index by Judith McGhan. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1984.
Tapley, Charles Sutherland. Rebecca Nurse, Saint but Witch Victim. Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1930.
Tolman, George (comp.). The Wheeler Families of Old Concord, Massachusetts. 1908. Reprint ed. with additions or revisions by David Wheeler. Duplicaticated for the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Mass., 1981.
- Upham, W. P. Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Index 1638-1840. 2 Vols. Transcribed by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: Melinde Lutz Sanborn, 1987.
- Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. 2 vols. Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911.
- Woodward, Harold Edward. Some Descendants of Nathaniel Woodward Who Came from England to Boston about 1630. Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 1984
New Hampshire
Canney, Robert S. The Early Marriages of Strafford County, New Hampshire 1630-1850. 2 Vols. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1991.
Chandler, Charles Henry. The History of New Ipswich, N.H., 1735-1914, with Genealogical Records of the Principal Families. Fitchburg, Mass.: Sentinel Printing Company, 1914.
Copeley, William. Index to Genealogies in New Hampshire Town Histories. Concord, N.H.: New Hampshire Historical Society, nd.
DenBoer, Gordon and George E. Goodridge, Jr., comps. New Hampshire, Vermont Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. Edited by John H. Long. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Evans, Helen F. Abstracts of the Probate Records of Strafford County New Hampshire 1771-1799. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc. 1983.
Frizzell, Martha McDanolds. A History of Walpole, New Hampshire. 2 Vols. Walpole, N.H.: Walpole Historical Society, 1963.
Garvin, Donna-Belle and James L. Garvin. On the Road North of Boston: New Hampshire Taverns and Turnpikes, 1700-1900. Concord, N.H.: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1988.
Hosier, Kathleen. Vital Records of Rye New Hampshire, A Transcript of the Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths in this Town to the Year 1890. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1992.
Jennings, Ellen Cloutman. The History of New Durham, New Hampshire, From the First Settlement to the Present Time, Including That Part of Alton Which was Formerly New Durham Gore. New Durham, N.H.: Ellen Cloutman Jennings, 1962.
Keene History Committee. "Upper Ashuelot," a History of Keene, New Hampshire. Keene, N.H.: The City, 1968.
Lyford, James O. (ed.). History of Concord, New Hampshire from the Original Grant in Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century. 2 Vols. Concord, N.H.: The Rumford Press, 1903.
New Hampshire Genealogical Register, The. Ed. by Charles W. Tibbetts. 7 Vols. 1903-1910. Reprint ed. 7 Vols in 4. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, Inc., 1988.
Oesterlin, Pauline Johnson. New Hampshire 1742 Estate List. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, Inc., 1994.
Oesterlin, Pauline Johnson. New Hampshire Marriage Licenses and Intentions 1709-1961. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1991.
Old Maps of Belknap County, New Hampshire in 1892, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1983.
Old Maps of Carroll County, New Hampshire in 1892, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1982.
Old Maps of Cheshire County, New Hampshire in 1892, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1982.
Old Maps of Coos County, New Hampshire in 1892, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1985.
Old Maps of Grafton County, New Hampshire in 1892, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1983.
Old Maps of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire in 1892, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1983.
Old Maps of Merrimack County, New Hampshire in 1892, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1981.
Old Maps of Rockingham County, New Hampshire in 1892, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1981.
Old Maps of Strafford County, New Hampshire in 1892, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1983.
Old Maps of Sullivan County, New Hampshire in 1892, The. Frysburg, Maine: Saco Valley Printing, 1984.
Metcalf, Henry Harrison, editor. One Thousand New Hampshire Notables: Brief Biographical Sketches of New Hampshire Men and Women, Native or Resident, Prominent in Public, Professional, Business, Educational, Fraternal or Benevolent Work. Concord, N.H.: The Rumford Printing Company, 1919.
Metcalf, Henry Harrison, ed., Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire. Vols. 2-3 and 7-9. 1914-1941, reprint eds. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, Inc., 1989-1990.
Sanborn, George Freeman, Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900. Vol. 1. Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 1992.
Speare, Eva A. Colonial Meeting-Houses of New Hampshire, Compared with their Contemporaries in New England. Published under the Auspices of Daughters of Colonial Wars, State of New Hampshire, 1938.
Thompson, Mary P. Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire. 1892. Facsimile Reprint Ed. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1991.
Rhode Island
Vermont
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