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Genealogy
The Hurley Library at the Old Colony History Museum houses a collection of vital records and family histories from the 19th and 20th centuries. These volumes, authored by notable historians and genealogists, provide a valuable resource for tracing lineage and understanding local heritage in the Old Colony region.

From the Bend of the Little River, a Wilcox Book; Immigrant Ancestors and Allied Families with a Sketch and the Descendants of George Wilcox
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Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills, the English emigrant to New England in 1632 and of Joseph Hills, the English emigrant to New England in 1638
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Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family, containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635 to 1874. Also the first generation of children descended from females who have lost the name Newcomb by marriage. With notices of the family in England during the past seven hundred years.
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Genealogical Memoirs of the Sampson Family in America; Including a Biographical Sketch of Deborah Sampson, the Heroine of the Revolution
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Genealogical Notes of the Washburn Family, With a Brief Sketch of the Family in England; Containing a Full Record of the Descendants of Israel Washburn of Raynham, 1755-1841
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Genealogical Outline of the Ancestry of Herbert Cunningham Walsh (1885-1980) and Margaret Julia Hayes (1886-1980)
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Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family in New England; Containing the Names of Over 1500 Persons from 1633 to 1853, Numbering Eight Generations
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Genealogical Records of Henry and Ulalia Burt; the emigrants, who early settled at Springfield, Mass., and their descendants through nine generations, from 1640-1891.
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Genealogical and Biographical Records of the Banning and Allied Families; Prepared for Miss Kate Banning.
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Genealogical and Historical Record of the Carpenter Family with a Brief Genealogy of some of the Descendants of William Carpenter, of Weymouth, and Rehoboth, Mass., of Penn., and Ephraim, Timothy and Josias Carpenter, of Long Island. Including a full, complete and reliable history of the Carpenter estate of England.
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Genealogies of the Different Families Bearing the Name Kent in the United States Together with their Possible English Ancestry.; A.D. 1295-1898.
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Genealogy and Biographical Notes of John Parker of Lexington and His Descendants. Showing his earlier ancestry in America from Dea. Thomas Parker of Reading, Mass., from 1635 to 1893.
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Genealogy and Family History of the Descendants of John Clarke of Wenham, Massachusetts and Exeter, New Hampshire
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Genealogy and Family History of the Uphams, of Castine, Maine, and Dixon, Illinios; with genealogical notes of Brooks, Kidder, Perkins, Cutler, Ware, Avery, Curtis, Little, Warren, Southworth, and other families
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Genealogy of Richard Currier of Salisbury and Amesbury (1616-1686-7) and Many of His Descendants. Genealogy of Ezra Currier of Bath, New Hampshire, (1749-1825) and his descendants
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Genealogy of Samuel Williams, of Grafton, NH; Fifth in Descent from Richard Williams, of Taunton
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Genealogy of a Douglass-Donaldson Family: Ancestors and Descendants of David Stuart Douglass and Louise Elinor Donaldson
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Genealogy of the Andrews of Taunton and Stoughton, Mass.; Descendants of John and Hannah Andrews, of Boston, Massachusetts, 1656 to 1886. Comp. by Liet. George Andrews.
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Genealogy of the Chesman Family in the United States from 1713 to 1893. With Appendix and Reminiscence of His Father's Family.
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Genealogy of the Dean Family Descended from Ezra Dean, of Plainfield, Conn. And Cranston, R.I.; Preceded by a Reprint of the Article on James and Walter Dean, of Taunton, Mass., and early generations of their genealogical register, 1849.
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Genealogy of the Dexter Family in America: Descendants of Thomas Dexter, Together with a Record of Other Allied Families
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Genealogy of the One Line of the Hopkins Family, Descended from Thomas Hopkins, in Providence, from 1641 to 1692
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Genealogy of the Reverend Eleazer Carver Family; Compiled by Frederick E. Carver and Margaret R. Carver
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Genealogy: The James Francis Richards Branch of a Richards Family of New England; that of Edward Richards, Dedham, Massachusetts 1635-1684
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Gilberts of New England: Part I. Descendants of John Gilbert of Dorchester, Compiled by George Gordon Gilbert and Geoffrey Gilbert. Part II. Descendants of Matthew Gilbert of New Haven, Humphrey Gilbert of Ipswich, and script genealogy.
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Gillette and Allied Families, Genealogical and Biographical, Prepared and Privately Printed for Mrs. Lewis Singer Gillette
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Gov. Marcus Morton: An Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Old Colony Historical Soc. On Jan. 13, 1905
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Hand-Book of Hartwell Genealogy, 1636-1887; An Account of the Descendants of William Hartwell of Concord, Mass., and allied families of Bellows, Cummings, Gibson, Hill, Johnson, Jones, Kendall, Lakin, Luce, Melvin, Russell, Stiles, Stow, Tucker, Wood, Winchell, Williams, and many others.
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Hinsdale Geneaology: Descendants of Robert Hinsdale of Deham, Medfield, Hadley and Deerfield, with an Account of the French Family of Hinnisdal
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History and Genealogy of the Witherell/Wetherell/Witherill Family of New England; Some Descendants of Rev. William Witherell of Scituate, Plymouth Colony, and William Witherell of Taunton, Plymouth Colony
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History and Records of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church of Scituate, Mass., 1725-1811, of Hanover, Mass., 1811-1903, and Other Items of Historical Interest
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History of John Taylor of Hadley; Including Accounts of the Organization and Meetings of the Taylor Reunion Association of Hadley, Massachusetts, and the Genealogy of the Descendants of the Ancestor.
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History of the Lincoln Family: An Account of the Descendants of Samuel Lincoln of Hingham Massachusetts 1637-1920
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Hoar-Hoard-Horr: A Record of Descendants of Hezekiah Hoar of Taunton, Massachusetts with an Historical Introduction by Nortan T. Horr
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In Memoriam: Rev. Mortimer Blake, D.D.: A Memorial Service and Addresses at the Winslow Church, Feb. 15th, 1885.
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Isaac Allerton of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations; Compiled by Robert S. Wakefield
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James Hayward, Born April 4, 1750, Killed in the Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775, with Genealogical Notes Relating to the Haywards.
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James Leonard of Taunton, Massachusetts Ironmaster. From the Research and Manuscripts of Elisha Clark Leonard and G. Marston Leonard
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James Leonard, Ironworker of Taunton, Massachusetts Generations of Seven and Eight of His Decendants with Appendices for Seth Leonard and Ruth Hoar and William Leonard and Sarah Bolton and George Leonard and Rebecca Pond and Their Decendants
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John Atwood of Plymouth, Massachusetts: Typing from the Original Unpublished Manuscript by Loraine Fair Sanford
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John French, Jr. of Taunton, Berkley, Middleboro, and Oakham, Massachusetts; and His Descendants
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John Howland of the Mayflower, vol. 1: the first five generations through Desire Howland and Captain John Gorham
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Jonah Austin of Taunton, MA, Sailed on the Hercules of Sandwich in March 1634; compiled by William Wallace Austin, Jr., William Allen Day, Edith Austin Moore (1974), edited by Shirley E. Austin Ragusa (1994).
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Jonah Austin of Taunton, Massachusetts sSailed on Hercules of Sandwich in March 1634-5; William Wallace Austin, William Allen Day, Edith Austin Moore.
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Jones Ancestors: Being an Ascending Genealogy from Merton Edward Jones to 150 Immigrant Ancestors
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Kenrick, Kendrick, Kindrick. Some of the Descendents of John Kendrick, the Immigrant, with Historical Matter Connected Therewith.
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Kimball-Weston Memorial. The American Ancestry and Descendants of Alonzo and Sarah (Weston) Kimball of Green Bay, Wisconsin, comp. by William Herbert Hobbs.
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Kingsley Family of America: Ancestry, Records, Sketches of John Kingsley of Dorchester and Rehoboth, Mass. With his descendants: ancestry, records, sketches of Stephen Kingsley of Dorchester, Braintree, and Milton, Mass. With some of his descendants: records, sketches of other Kingsley contemporaries with unknown ancestry
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Koon and Coons Families of Eastern New York; A History of the Descendants of Matthias Kuntz and Samuel Kuhn (two distinct families) who came with the Palatine immigration from Germany and settled on the Hudson river in New York in 1710, compiled by William Solyman Coons, aided by Kate Koon Bovey, Leon C. Hills [and] C. Carroll Koon
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Lane Families of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Memorial address at the Reunion of Descendants and Kindred of William Lane, Boston, 1651, William Lane, Hampton, 1685, Dea. Joshua Lane, Hampton, who was killed by lightning June 14, 1766.
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Later New England Pendletons: A Record of the Pendleton Family from the 7th to the 12th Generation
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Leaves from the Family Tree for Descendants of William and Rachel French of South West Hartland, Connecticut
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Marriage Notices; From 1785-1794, for the Whole United States, Copied from the Massachusetts Centinel and the Columbian Centinel
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Materials of a Genealogy of Josiah Stover of Tiverton, Rhode Island; Especially with a Reference to the Descendants of Joshua Stafford
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Memoir of Increase Sumner, Governor of Massachusetts; Together with a Genealogy of the Sumner Family
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Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, Vice-President of the United States (1889-1893)
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Memorial Address of the Life, Character and Public Services of the Honorable George Frisbie Hoar
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Memorial Addresses Delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States Sixty-First Congress
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Memorial of William Spooner, 1637, and of His Descendants to the Third Generation; of His Great-Grandson, Elnathan Spooner, and of His Descendants, to 1871
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Memorial of the Heirs of Silas Deane, Formerly Political and Commercial Agent in Europe; and One of the Ambassadors of the United States in France in the Revolutionary War
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Memorial of the Morses; Containing the History of Seven Persons of the Name, who Settled in America in the Seventeenth Century. With a Catalogue of Ten Thousand of their Descendants
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Memorial of the Sprague Family: A Poem Recited at a Meeting in Duxbury of the Descendants and Connections of Hon. Seth Sprague, on the Occasion of his 86th birthday
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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
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Memorial of the Walkers of the Old Plymouth Colony; embracing genealogical and biographical sketches of James, of Taunton; Philip, of Rehoboth; William, of Eastham; John, of Marshfield; Thomas, of Bristol; and of their descendants from 1620 to 1860
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Memorial: Genealogical, Historical, and Biographical, of Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and some of his decendants
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Memory of Col. Jonathan Eddy of Eddington, Me: with some account of the Eddy family, and of the early settlers on Penobscot River.
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Milton Records. Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1662-1843; Alphabetically and Chronologically Arranged
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More Descendants of William Chase of Yarmouth Being the Progeny of William Chase (1787-1843) of Wyoming County, New York, and Livingston County, Michigan
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