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
The amateur archaeologist's handbook
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The amazing story of the Dickermans in America
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The ancestors and descendants of Daniel Weis "Gentleman at Arms" 1629
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The ancestors and descendants of Ebenezer and Martha Porter Williams of Plainsville, Ohio; of the fourth generation in America
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The ancestors and descendants of Isaac Horton of Liberty, N.Y.
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The ancestors and descendants of Milton Elmer Trumbull of Johnstown, NY
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The ancestors and descendants of Zachariah Eddy of Warren, Pa.
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The ancestors and descendants of Zephaniah and Silence Alden Hathaway with notes on allied families
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The ancestors of Charles Clement Heacock, 1851-1914. With an account of the descendants of Joel and Huldah Gaskill Heacock.
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The ancestors of Daniel Freeman Britton
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The ancestors of Moses Haskell Gilbert of Vermont and Montreal
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The ancestry and descendants of Walter Dean, 1612-1693: of South Chard, England and Taunton, Plymouth colony
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The ancestry of Augustus Greenleaf Whitaker and Caroline (Hobart) Whitaker of Leverett Massachusetts
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The ancestry of Blanche Butler Ames and Adelbert Ames; edited and arranged by Pauline Ames Plimpton
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The ancestry of Dr. J.P. Guilford
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The ancestry of Herbert Ervin Gustin and that of his wife, Julia Livingston Carlisle, and their descendants, together with some account of the Guston family in America.
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The ancestry of Job Staples of Canterbury, Connecticut and Butler County, Pennsylvania
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The ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul, now Mrs. William J. Young, jr.
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The ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul:; now Mrs. William J. Young, Jr.
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The ancestry of the children of John Peter Carl Weis and Georgina Lewis
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The architect; or, Practical house carpenter. Illustrated by 64 engravings, which exhibit the orders of architecture, and other elements of the art; designed for the use of carpenters and builders.
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The art of family: Genealogical artifacts in New England
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The biography of the principal American military and naval heroes; during the revolutionary and late wars
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The blue coats, and how they lived, fought and died for the Union
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The book of Boston
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The book of common prayer.
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The book of common prayer...according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
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The book of common prayer; and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England
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The book of common prayer; and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church
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The book of common prayer; and the administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church
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The boundary lines of old Groton
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The campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn. Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long Island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year.
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The captured scout of the Army of the James; A sketch of the life of Sergeant Henry H. Manning, of the Twenty-fourth Mass. Regiment.
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The care of antiques and historical collections
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The care of historical collections: A conservation handbook for the nonspecialist
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The celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts, September 15, 1885.
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The celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, June 15 1886.
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The ceramic art: A compendium of the history and manufacture of pottery and porcelain
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The charters and general laws of the colony and province of Massachusetts bay.; Carefully collected from the public records and ancient printed books. To which is added an appendix, tending to explain the spirit, progress and history of the jurisprudence of the state; especially in a moral and political view.
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The church of St. Mary Magdalene Taunton 1508-1908
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The churches of Christ of the Congregational way in New England
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The collector's book of the locomotive
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The collectors' Encyclopedia of Antiques
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The colonial ancestors of the Crossmans and related families
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The colonial worker in Boston, 1775
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The colonial worker in Boston, 1775. Regional report 75-2
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The colonial worker in Boston, 1775. Regional report 75-2
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The complete book of emigrants; 1607-1660
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The complete book of emigrants; 1661-1699
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The constitution by laws, and house rules of the Union club of Boston, incorporated, with a list of officers and members.
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The credit experience guide: Taunton, Mass District
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The descendants of George Holmes of Roxbury, 1594-1908
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The descendants of George Little, who came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640.
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The descendants of Humphrey Turner, John Whitman, George Spear and related families of Southeastern New England
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The descendants of John Payn: from England to America
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The descendants of John Tisdale (1614-1675)
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The descendants of Roger Chandler of Concord, Mass., 1658.
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The diaries of Rhoda Caroline Porter Deane: for the years 1864-1932
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The early records of Groton, Massachusetts.; 1662 - 1707.
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The early records of Lancaster, Massachusetts.; 1643-1725.
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The eighteenth-century records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor
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The evangelican primer, containing a minor doctrinal catechism and a minor historical catechism
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The evolution of the sad-iron
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The fair rivers of southern England
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The family Shove
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The field notes of Benjamin Crane, Benjamin Hammond, and Samuel Smith
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The first American furniture finisher's manual: A reprint of "The cabinet-maker's guide" of 1827
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The first book of the Society of Mayflower Descendants,; 1896
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The first records of Anglo-American colonization:; their history
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The first regiment Massachusetts heavy artillery, United States volunteers, in the Spanish-American war of 1898
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The first world war:; a photographic history
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The framed houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
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The garb of country New Englanders. 1790-1840: costumes at Old Sturbridge Village.
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The genealogical dictionary of Rhode Island; comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690. (With many families carried to the fourth generation.)
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The genealogy of George Gillette, and of John Watts Ford
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The genealogy of Orville Fisher Follett and the Follets of Attleborough Massachusetts
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The genealogy of Rev. W.H. Van Deusen (son of Jacob Dean Van Deusen and Julia Maria Custer McIntosh Van Deusen); and Custer, Henrickson, Belton, Chelf, Evans and Stayton families
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The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families
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The genealogy of the Makepeace families in the United States from 1637-1857
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The genealogy of the family of John Lawrence, of Wisset, in Suffolk, England, and of Watertown and Groton, Massachusetts.
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The graves of Myles Standish and other Pilgrims
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The great coal schooners of New England 1870-1909
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The great hunger: Ireland 1845-1849
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The great migration begins; immigrants to New England, 1620-1635
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The great migration begins; immigrants to New England, 1634-1635
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The great seal of the Council for New England.
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The great workshop : Boston's Victorian Age
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The historic trees of Massachusetts
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The historie booke; done to keep in lasting rememberance the jyous meeting of the Honorable artillery company of London and the Ancient and Honorable artillery company of the Massachusetts in the towne of Boston
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The history and antiquities of Boston� From its settlement in 1630, to the year 1770.; Also, an introductory history of the discovery and settlement of New England.
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The history and antiquities of New England, New York and New Jersey; Collected and compiled from authentic sources, by John Warner Barber
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The history of American ceramics, 1607 to the present; From pipkins and bean pots to contemporary forms
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The history of Cape Cod:; the annals of Barnstable County, including the district of Mashpee.
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The history of Massachusetts
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The history of Massachusetts, from the first settlement thereof on 1628, until the year 1750.
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The history of New Bedford, Bristol county, Massachusetts
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The history of New Bedford, Bristol county, Massachusetts:; including a history of the old township of Dartmouth and the present townships of Westport, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven, from their settlement to the present time.
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The history of New England from 1630 to 1649
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The history of New-Hampshire �; Jeremy Belknap 1744 - 1798
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The history of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts : comprising a history of the present towns of Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Pawtucket, from their settlement to the present time : together with sketches of Attleborough, Cumberland, and a part of Swansey and Barrington, to the time that they were severally separated from the original town
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The history of Taunton
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The history of the 26th Yankee division 1917 - 1919 1941 - 1945
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The history of the American revolution.
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The history of the Church family; Notes collected by the Hon. Oliver Chase of Fall River, R.I., and arranged by his nephew, Edward A. French, esq. To which has been added many new and valuable notes, collected by Vernon Wade, esq. Ed. By James N. Arnold�
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The history of the Faxon family, containing a genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Faxon of Braintree, Mass. With a map locating the homesteads of the first four generations; accompanied by copious abstracts from branches of many allied families of Ballon, Barbour, Saxton, Washburn, Whitmarsh, and others.
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The history of the Puritans, or Protestant non-conformists, from the reformation to the death of Queen Elizabeth...
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The history of the administration of John Adams, Esq.. late president of the United States.
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The history of the county of Worcester, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts: with a particular account of every town from its first settlement to the present time:; including its ecclesiastical state, together with a geographical description of the same : to which is prefixed, a map of the county, at large, from actual survey
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The history of the district of Maine
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The history of the province of Massachusetts Bay, from 1749 to 1774; Comprising a detailed narrative of the origin and early stages of the American Revolution.
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The holy bible
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The holy bible, containing the old and new testaments ...
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The holy bible, containing the old and new testaments, translated out of the original tongues...
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The holy bible.
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The holy bible.
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The home of Nicholas Danforth in Framlingham, Suffolk, England in 1635
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The homes of America: With one hundred and three illustrations.
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The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852; comprising historical gleanings, illustrating the principals and progress of our republican institutions.
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The impecunious house restorer: Personal vision & historic accuracy
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The index/; published annually by the Junior Class of the Massachusetts Agricultural College
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The instructor, or, American young man's best companion�
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The journal 1959
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The ladies garland and family magazine, devoted to literature, amusement and instruction, containing original essays.
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The lady's almanac for...
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The last of the great Wampanoag Indian Sachems: a factual story of the last days of King Philip's War, 1676. Drawings by Norris C. Tripp.
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The library of American biography
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The life and character of Mrs. Sarah Byram Dean: a monograph
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The life and times of Captain James Andrews; 1720-1789
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The life and times of Charles Sumner; His boyhood, education, and public career
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The life and times of Thomas Wilson Dorr; with outlines of the political history of Rhode Island
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The life and work of George H. Corliss
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The life of ... James Usher
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The life of Eliza Baylies Wheaton: a chapter in the history of the higher education of women, prepared for the alumnac of Wheaton seminary
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The life of George Fisher (1795-1873) and the history of the Fisher family in Mississippi
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The life of George Washington, commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States.; Compiled under the inspection of the Honorable Bushrod Washington, from original papers� to which is prefixed, an introduction, containing a compendious view of the colonies planted by the English on the continent of North America, from their settlement to the commencement of that war which terminated in their independence.
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The life of James Abram Garfield, late president of the United States�
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The life, experiences and incidents of Rev. Gardner Dean, written by himself, together with genealogies of the Gardner, Dean and Hinds families
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The life, speeches and public services of Gen James A. Garfield of Ohio
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The manual exercise as ordered by his majesty in 1764 and including the fundamentals of marching and maneuvering
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The many generations of Davis Dimock Cheever, 1851-1920.
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The martyr of Sumatra; a memoir of Henry Lyman
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The memoirs of Gen. Joseph Gardner Swift, first graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, from 1812-1818; To which is added a genealogy of the family of Thomas Swift of Dorchester, Mass., 1634
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The mentor guide to punctuation; a new easy-to-use system
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The metropolis of New England, Colonial Boston, 1630-1776; Being selections from an exhibition
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The ministry of Taunton: With Incidental Notices of Other Professions
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The ministry of Taunton:; with incidental notices of other professions
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The ministry of Taunton:; with incidental notices of other professions
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The ministry of Taunton:; with incidental notices of other professions
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The ministry of Taunton:; with incidental notices of other professions
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The naked Quaker; true crimes and controversies from the courts of colonial New England
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The natural and civil history of Vermont.
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The new American practical navigator; Being an epitome of navigation
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The new Puritan: New England two hundred years ago; some account of the life of Robert Pike, the Puritan who defended the Quakers, resisted clerical domination, and opposed the witchcraft prosecution.
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The new round table: the order of the knights of King Arthur and its affiliated societies, a handbook for leaders
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The new testament (In Latin and Greek)
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The nineteenth of April, 1775, exhibiting a fair and impartial account of the engagement fought on that day, chiefly in the towns of Concord, Lexington, and Menotomy, between a detachment of His Britannick Majesty's regular troops and the militia of the province of Massachusetts bay; with candid remarks upon certain relations of that sanguinary event set forth by other hands.
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The official guide to Confederate money & Civil War tokens, tradesmen, & patriotic.
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The old clock book
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The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton
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The old farmer's almanac ... for the year of our lord ...
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The old first: Massachusetts coast artillery in War and peace
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The old ship meeting house of Hingham, Massachusetts
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The original Scots colonists of early America; 1612-1783
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The other civil war: American women in the nineteenth century
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The other side of war with the Army of the Potomac
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The packet III; Being yet another collection of patterns, articles, and essays of particular interest to the 18th century re-enactor
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The papers of Captain Rufus Lincoln of Wareham, Mass; Comp. from the original records by James Minor Lincoln.
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The papers of James Madison, purchased by order of Congress; being his correspondence and reports of debates during the Congress of the confederation, and his reports of debates in the Federal convention; now published from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of state, by direction of the Joint library committee of Congress, under the superintendence of Henry D. Gilpin.
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The parentage and English progenitors of Nathaniel Coney of Boston, Mass.
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The pictorial encylopedia of railways
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The pictorial field book of the revolution; Illustrations by pen and pencil of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the war for independence.
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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
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The pioneers of Massachusetts; a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns, and churches, and other contemporaneous documents
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The pioneers of New France in New England
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The post office at Mirickville, Mass.:; May 9, 1848, until February 7, 1879, when the village of Mirickville became a part of the town of Berkley
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The post office at Taunton, Mass. June 12, 1792 to June 11 1892:; the first hundred years
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The post offices of Massachusetts
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The postal station named Camp Myles Standish February 15, 1942 to December 31, 1947
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The preachers tripartite, in three books ...
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The proceedings at the celebration by the Pilgrim society at Plymouth,
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The proceedings at the celebration by the Pilgrim society at Plymouth,; December 21, 1870, of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims.
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The publications of the Prince Society
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The rail lines of southern New England: a handbook of railroad history
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The record of births, marriages and deaths and intentions of marriage, in the town of Stoughton from 1727 to 1800, and the town of Canton from 1797-1845; preceeded by the records of the South precinct of Dorchester from 1715 to 1727
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The records of the town of Cambridge (formerly Newtowne) Massachusetts.; 1630 - 1703.
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The report of the School Committee of Taunton
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The romance of old New England rooftrees
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The rope makers of Plymouth: A history of the Plymouth Cordage Company 1824-1949
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The ships' locator: a reference to over 2,000 ships, schooners, and other vessels of nineteenth-century New England and the Atlantic Seaboard: with a separate index to more than a thousand vessel masters
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The soldier in our Civil War; A pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865.
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The soldier's story of his captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and other Rebel prisons.
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The sons and daughters of Elijah Crossman of Crown Point, New York 1802
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The sons of Stephen and Mercy Crossman
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The spirit of liberty and union
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The star rare coin encyclopedia and premium catalog
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The state house, Boston, Massachusetts
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The story of Bristol: from the medieval period to the present day
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The story of Essex county
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The story of our post office: the greatest government department in all its phases
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The story of the Fifteenth regiment of the Massachusetts volunteer infantry in the civil war, 1861-1864.
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