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Library Collection
The OCHM not only had great exhibits and programs but is home to the Hurley research library which specializes in materials about Southeastern Massachusetts before 1850, with a special focus on Taunton’s early European settlers. Questions about an ancestor? Interested in who used to live in your house? Ever wondered who owned a certain store on Main Street in the 1880s? Want to see some old maps? We can help!
The library is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for on-site research. To ensure the best experience, we ask you to schedule an appointment before visiting our research library. Call us at 508-822-1622 and our staff would be happy to assist! Admission is $5 for adults. Free for OCHM members.
Learn more at https://www.oldcolonyhistorymuseum.org/research
Salt Rivers of the Massachusetts Shore: Illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II.
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Salts of the Sound: A story of steam boating on Long Island Sound from 1815 to the present
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Samplers and Samplermakers: an American schoolgirl art, 1700-1850
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Samuel E. Sewall: A Memoir
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Samuel Wildbore; Merchant of Boston and his time
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Sandwich Glass Handbook
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Sandwich Glass: The history of the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
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Sandwich Glass: The history of the Boston & Sandwich glass company
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Sanford genealogy; the branch of William of Madison, NY., of the sixth American generation.
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Sanford sampler
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Savage, Tisdale and allied families; Genealogical and biographical
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Savery and Severy Families: A genealogical and biographical record of the Savery families (Savory and Savary) and of the Severy family (Severit, Savery, Savory and Savary) descended from early immigrants to New England and Philadelphia�.A detailed sketch of the life and labors of William Savery, minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends; and appendixes containing an account of Savery's invention of the steam engine...
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School Profile Coyle and Cassidy High School: Taunton, Massachusetts 1977 - 1978
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Scotch-Irish in New England
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Scrimshaw at Mystic Seaport featuring objects from the Kynett, Howland, Townshend, and White collections
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Seafarers of Somerset
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Search for the passengers of the Mary & John 1630; : volume 11: "Mary & John II" tour to England-1988 plus new discoveries
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Search for the passengers of the Mary & John 1630; : volume 14: West Country planters to New England 1620-1643
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Search for the passengers of the Mary & John 1630; : volume 16: supplement to volume 14 West Country planters, 1620-1643
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Searching the root cellar: Bobet's Root Cellar
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Sears, Roebuck and Company Incorporated 1909 Catalog
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Seven generations of Brays of Massachusetts
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Seven generations of the descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase, compiled by John Carroll Chase, and George Walter Chamberlain.
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Seventieth annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 70th annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Seventy-first annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 71st annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Seventy-second annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 71st annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Seventy-third annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 73rd annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Several Jones families in Bristol County, Massachusetts
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Several ancestral lines of Josiah Edson and his wife, Sarah Pinney, married at Stafford, Conn., July 1, 1779. With a full genealogical history of their descendants to the end of the nineteenth century. Covering three hundred years and embracing ten generations.
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Shaker sermons, scripto-rational; containing the substance of Shaker theology, together with replies and criticisms logically and clearly set forth
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Shaker sermons, scripto-rational; containing the substance of Shaker theology: together with replies and criticisms logically and clearly set forth
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Shaking your family tree: a basic guide to tracing your family's genealogy
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Shaws of Bristol County, Massachusetts: Nathaniel Shaw and his Wife Lydia Pratt
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Sheffield, St. John and allied families, genealogical and biographical
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Sherman directory; an alphabetical listing of over 25,000 Shermans with known vital records and relationships
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Ship passenger lists; edited and indexed by Carl Boyer, 3rd
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Ship registers and enrollments of Providence, Rhode Island: 1773-1939
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Ship registers of Dighton-Fall River, Massachusetts,; 1789-1938
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Shipbuilders of Mattapoisett
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Ships and shipmasters of old Providence: a brief account of some of the famous merchants, sea captains and ships of the past together with reminiscenses of a few notable voyages made in Providence ships
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Ships of Kingston, "Good-bye, fare ye well"
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Shoe Buttons, Liberty Laces and Insulated Staples: 153 years of M.M. Rhodes & Sons Company
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Shops and services in Bridgewater, 1900-1910; Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A town in transition.
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Short Stories: the selected memoirs of Carlton A. Caron
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Signed gooseneck American copper tea kettles: a pictorial dictionary
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Silas Talbot: captain of Old Ironsides
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Silas Walker, his ancestors and descendants
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Silver & Pewter
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Silver City Bulletin; A pictorial history of Taunton/
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Silver Lake Sampler
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Silver Plated Flatware Patterns
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Silver, Pewter and Sheffield Plate
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Silverware: the autocrat of every table
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Simeon Palmer revisited or the man who had three wives
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Simon Willard and his clocks
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Sixteen Orations on Various Subjects of the Most Interesting and Important Nature Delivered to a Public Society, at the Queen's Arms, in Newgate-Street, London
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Sixteen orations on various subjects of the most interesting and important nature ...
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Sixtieth annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts; Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 60th annual encampment, G.A.R.) -
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Sixty-eighth annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 68th annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Sixty-fifth annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 65th annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Sixty-first annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 61st annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Sixty-fourth annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 64th annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Sixty-second annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 62nd annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Sixty-seventh annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 67th annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Sixty-sixth annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 66th annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Sixty-third annual encampment: Department of Massachusetts: Grand Army of the Republic/ (Boston Committee on the 63rd annual encampment, G.A.R.)
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Sketch of Col. John Allan of Maine
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Sketch of the history of Attleborough, from its settlement to the present time
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Sketches of the early history of Somerset village
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Skunk Stew; A memoir of a 1930's childhood
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Slipped and Glazed: Regional American Redware
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Small arms firing manual, 1913; with text corrections to February 21,1917.
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Smashing through "the world war" with Fighting battery C. 102nd F.A. 26th division "Yankee division," 1917 - 1918 - 1919
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Smith-Joy-Sayles genealogy of Rhode Island
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Snetterton Falcons
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Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Minnesota: Secretary's Report 1904-1905-1906-1907.
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Soldiers in King Philip's War; being a critical account of that war, with a concise history of the Indian wars of New England from 1620 - 1677, official lists of the soldiers of Massachusetts colony serving in Philip's War, and sketches of the principal officers, copies of ancient documents and records relating to the war, also lists of the Narraganset grantees of the united colonies, Massachusetts, Plymouth and Connecticut.
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Some Famous Privateers of New England
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Some Legends of "Mount Hope"
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Some Statues of Boston; reproductions of some of the statues for which Boston is famous, with information concerning the personalities and events so memorialized
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Some Stories of Old Ironsides
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Some Willis families of New England
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Some Wings of old Dartmouth and their homes
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Some descendants of Nathanial Woodward, mathmetician
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Some descendants of Nathaniel Woodward who came from England to Boston about 1630
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Some descendants of Robert Pease and allied families: Robert Murdock of Roxbury, Massachusetts and some of his descendants with notes on the descendants of John Murdo of Plymouth, Massachusetts; George Murdock of Plainfield, Connecticut; Peter Murdock of Saybrool, Connecticut; William Murcoch of Philadelphia
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Some notes on the Evesham branch of the Washbourne family
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Some of the Descendants of John Read, Senior of Newport, Rhode Island and Freetown, Massachusetts 1646-1924
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Some of the descendants of Arthur Crosier (abt. 1735)
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Some of the descendants of William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth, Mass.
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Some other Jones: descendants of Increase Jones3, 1752-1825, of Minerva, N.Y. (Elijah J.2, Cornelius J.1)
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Somerset
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Somerset Ways
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Somerset, Massachusetts: Portrait of the American Experience in a New England Town
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Somerset: county of romantic splendor, with 474 places and 160 pictures. 942.38 M494
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Song and service book for ship and field
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Songs by the way: Songs of nature, songs of faith and cheer, songs of friendship and loyalty
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Songs the soldiers and sailors sing
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Sons of the American Revolution, Mass. Society: Historical memoranda, with lists of members and their revolutionary ancestors.
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Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War
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Source records of the great events of the post war period; a comprehensive and readable source record of the important events following the great war, presenting these as complete narratives in the words of eminent leaders and observers ... arranged chronologically, including outline narratives, brief introductions by specialists to connect and explain the main events, and thorough indices;
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Southbridge, Massachusetts vital records to 1850
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Southern Descendants of Jared Talbot
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Souvenir of the 50th anniversary of the dedication of Bunker Hill monument, 1843-1893
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Souvenir: twenty-fourth national encampment Grand Army of the Republic August 11-16, 1890
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Sowams: With Ancient Records of Sowams and Parts Adjacent -- Illustrated
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Spanish records extraction; : an instructionnal guide
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Sparrow-hawk: a seventeenth century vessel in twentieth century America
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Spinner: people and culture in Southeastern Massachusetts
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Spinner: people and culture in Southeastern Massachusetts
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Spinner: people and culture in Southeastern Massachusetts
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Spinner: people and culture in Southeastern Massachusetts
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Spirit of the New England tribes: Indian history and folklore, 1620-1984
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Spiritual heroes; or, sketches of the Puritans, their character and times
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Springfield, 1636 - 1886; History of Town and City, including an account of the quarter-millennial celebration at Springfield, Mass., May 25 and 26, 1886
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St. Anthony Parish, Taunton, Massachusetts,; 1903 - 2003 Centennial Celebration
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Stabbed in the Back
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Stagecoach and tavern days
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Standards and colors of the American Revolution
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Staples, Wealtha Staples; with records relating to some of the Berkley-Taunton, Massachusetts families
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State Hospital, Taunton, Massachusetts: TSH past and present: an autograph book
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State Register of Historic Places
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State census records
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State of the birds 2011: Documenting changes in Massachusetts' birdlife
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Statistical atlas
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Statistical view of the United States, embracing its territory, population-white, free colored, and slave-moral and social condition, industry, property, and revenue; the detailed statistics of cities, towns, and countries; being a compendium of the seventh census, beginning with 1790, in comparative tables, with explanatory and illustrative notes, based upon the schedules and other official sources of information.
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Stephen Banks Leonard of Owego, Tioga County, New York
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Stephen Chipman pioneer, 1805-1868: roots, ancestors--branches, descendants.
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Stephen Lincoln of Oakham, Massachusetts, his ancestry and descendants
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Sterling Seasons: The Reed & Barton Story
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Sterling hollow ware: General catalog (in four divisions): Third Division
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Stevens genealogy; Some descendants of the Fitz Stephen family in England and New England
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Stone ornaments used by Indians in the United States and Canada; Being a description of certain charm stones, gorgets, tubes, bird stones, and problematical forms
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Storage of textiles and costumes: guidelines for decision making
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Stories of the Old Bay State
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Stories of the ancestors: Clunn, Horan, Robinson and Macintosh families of New Jersey and Pennsylvania
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Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, New Hampshire:; official guidebook/ research and commentary by James L. Garvin.
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Street Family Connections: a history and genealogy
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Stuart England
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Style in Pottery
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Suffolk deeds
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Supplement to Torrey's New England marriages prior to 1700
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Supplement to Torrey's New England marriages prior to 1700
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Supplement to the history and genealogy of the Dudley family
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Swamp Yankee
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Swansea 1675
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Taber genealogy: descendants of Thomas, son of Philip Taber
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Tact, push, and principle
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Tales around the common: Bridgewater Massachusetts
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Tales of Taunton: Interesting insights into Taunton's past
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Tales of the Observer
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Tapenum's Day : A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times
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Taunton Area...Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
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Taunton Building, Zoning and Plumbing Ordinances
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Taunton Castle: a pictorial history
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Taunton Deane Official Guide
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Taunton Massachusetts: The Revolutionary Years
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Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant: A Celebration of 125 Years
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Taunton Priory Excavation
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Taunton Public Library
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Taunton Remembered
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Taunton Rotary Club
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Taunton Rotary Club Fiftieth Anniversary, 1921-1971
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Taunton State Hospital, established 1854: an illustrated walk through time; 150 years of tradition, service, and healing
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Taunton Stewardship Plan: Taunton River Wild & Scenic River Study: July 2005
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Taunton Wild and Scenic River Study: draft report and environmental assessment, June 2007
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Taunton and Mason:; cotton machinery and locomotive manufacture in Taunton, Massachusetts, 1811 - 1861.
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Taunton and the Machinists' National Bank
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Taunton architecture:; a reflection of the city's history
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Taunton architecture:; a reflection of the city's history
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Taunton architecture; card 2
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Taunton in Old Photographs
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Taunton yesterday and today
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Taunton's Flag Officers
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Taunton's Historical Mile
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Taunton's Railroad History
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Taunton's fighting sons: A collection of articles and stories of the part many Taunton young men have played in WW II
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Taunton, Massachusetts: a directory of descendants
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Taunton, Massachusetts: special resource study
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Taunton: its history and market trust
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Taverns and stagecoaches of New England; Presenting more facts and interesting comments on the era of stagecoach service over rough and bumpy highways when the hospitable taverns were welcome haven for weary travelers at the end of the day's journey.
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Taverns and stagecoaches of New England; anecdotes and tales recalling the days of stagecoach travel and the ancient hostelries where strangers tarried
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Technical memorandum: Whittenton Dam removal
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Ten generations of the Phillips family in America
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Tercentenary of Taunton, Massachusetts, 1639 - 1939: June 4 - 10 - (Taunton, Mass.)
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Tetiquet to the Sea: A History of the Taunton River
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Textile fabrics and their selection
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Textiles in America, 1650-1870: A dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchants' papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth
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The "Mary and John"; a story of the founding of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1630
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The "blacksmith" Cobbs of Sharnbrook, Beds., Corfe Castle, Dorset, England,
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The 101st field artillery, A.E.F., 1917-1919
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The 507th parachute infantry regiment, (1942 - 1945)
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The 55th artillery (C.A.C.) in the American expeditionary forces, France, 1918
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The 98 campaign of the 6th Massachusetts, U.S. V.,
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The Abell family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English ancestry, Abell families in England
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The Abnakis and their history. Or. Historical notices on the aborigines of Acadia.
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The Administration of the American Revolutionary Army
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The Alewives' Tale: The life history and ecology of river herring in the Northeast
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The American Chair: Three centuries of style
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