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Hurley Library
The Old Colony History Museum is home to the Hurley Library, specializing in a wide variety of Massachusetts-based subjects. Explore topics like local industries, military history, collectibles, and town histories. Uncover your family's story, learn about Taunton’s past, or delve into records on businesses, homes, and communities.
A plan for Taunton
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A short history of American locomotive builders in the steam era
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A short history of the Salem village witchcraft trials; illustrated by a verbatim report of the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe; a memorial of her. Map and half tone illustrations.
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A stewardship plan for the Three Mile River Watershed area of critical environmental concern in the Towns of Norton and Dighton and the city of Taunton
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A to Zax: A Comprehensive Dictionary For Genealogists & Historians
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A tribute to the principles, virtues, habits and public usefulness of the Irish and Scotch early settlers of Pennsylvania.; By a descendant.
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A view book of the many images found in Clifford Ashley's "A Chart of the Whale Coast of New England c. 1810"
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A welcome to U.S.A. citizenship
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ABC's of Old Glass
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Abel Bowen, Engraver: A Sketched Prepared For The Bostonian Society
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Abraham Among the Yankees: Abraham Lincoln's 1848 Visit to Massachusetts
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Abraham Lincoln and Mary Ann Todd Ancestry
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Abraham Lincoln visits the Old Colony
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Abraham Lincoln, the Prairie Years: With 105 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters�
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Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services.
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Abraham Shaw 1590-1638: Yorkshire Roots Replanted
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Abraham and Zerviah (Ricketson) Smith and Their Nineteen Children
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Abstract of the twelfth census of the United States 1900
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Abstracts Of English Records Gathered Principally In Devonshire and Essex: In A Search For The Ancestry of Roger Dearing c. 1624-1676 and Matthew Whipple c. 1560-1618
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Abstracts from the first book of Bristol County probate records; copied by Mrs. Lucy Hall Greenlaw
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Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts probate records, 1687-1745 / compiled by H.L. Peter Rounds
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Acores: Ilha a Ilha
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Address Delivered at the Unitarian Church, in Uxbridge, Mass, in 1864: With Further Statements Not Made A Part of the Address But Included in the Notes
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Against the Thieving Years
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Albert Gardner Boyden and the Bridgewater State Normal School. A memorial volume
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All in the family: an informal Sketch of St. Mary's Parish 1828-1958
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Almon D. Hodges and His Neighbors
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Along the Wampanoag Trail, Historical coloring book
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America and her almanacs: wit, wisdom, & weather, 1639-1970
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America's Quilts and Coverlets
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America's War for Humanity Related in Story and Picture, Embracing a Complete History of Cuba's Struggle for Liberty, and the Glorious Heroism of America's Soldiers and Sailors, Compiled from the Letters and Personal Experience of Noted Writers and Correspondents
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America: an encyclopedia of its history and biography, arranged in chronological paragraphs, with full accounts of prehistoric America and the Indians, and notes on contemporaneous history�
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American Antiques, 1800-1900: A collector's history and guide
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American Barns and Covered Bridges
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American Biography : A New Cyclopedia
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American Bravery Displayed, in the Capture of Fourteen Hundred Vessels: War and commerce, since the declaration of war by the president.
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American Chippendale Furniture: A picture book
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American Country Furniture, 1780-1875
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American Cut Glass
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American Cut Glass: a pattern book of the brilliant period 1895-1915
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American Decorative Arts; 360 Years of Creative Design
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American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
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American Furniture
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American Furniture, 1620 to the present
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American Glass
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American Glass
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American Glass
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American Historical Views on Staffordshire China
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American Home Economics Association: Textiles and Clothing Section.
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American Ingenuity: Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield village
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American Miniature Case Art
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American Oak Furniture: Styles and prices
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American Painted Furniture, 1660-1880
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American Paintings from the Collection of the Art Complex Museum
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American Paintings: a catalogue of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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American Prisoners of the Revolution
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American Silver
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American Silver
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American Silver Manufacturers
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American Silver, Garvan and other collections in the Yale University Art Gallery
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American Silver: A history of style, 1650-1900
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American Silverplate
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American Society of Arms Collectors; Book of historical handguns
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American Textile Colossus
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American Victorian costume in early photographs
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American and British Pewter: An historical survey
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American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress; preliminary catalogue comp. under the direction of the chief of the Catalogue division.
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American badges and insignia
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American colonists in English records; a guide to direct references in authentic records, passenger lists not in "Hotten," &c.
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American diner then and now
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American dress pattern catalogs 1873-1909, Four complete reprints
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American family of the 1890's: Paper dolls in full color
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American family of the Civil War era: Paper dolls in full color
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American family of the Victorian era: Paper dolls in full color
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American family of the colonial era: Paper dolls in full color
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American family of the pilgrim period: Paper dolls in full color
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American marine: the shipping question in history and politics
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American military equipage: 1851-1872
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American rooms in miniature
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American sailing coasters of the North Atlantic
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Americans of 1776: Daily life in revolutionary America
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Among the Scotch-Irish; and a tour in seven countries, in Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, and Italy; with history of Dinsmoor family
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An Abridgment of the Church History of New-England from 1602 to 1804
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An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States; containing an index of all the counties, districts, townships, towns, &c., in the Union; together with an index of the rivers: also, a general view of the United States, and the several states and territories...
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An American Ancestry
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An American Battery in France
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An American Family :A History of the United States of America Viewed Through the Eyes of One Family
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An Eccentric Guide to the United States by James Dole Davidson; with photographs by Elizabeth Worthington Philip
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An Elaborate History and Genealogy Of The Ballous In America: Carefully Compiled and Edited By Adin Ballou
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An English Ancestry: An Account of the Ancestry of Edward Melvin Shove and His Siblings
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American environmental century
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An Exhibition of Connecticut Pewter
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An Historic Guide to Cambridge, comp. by members of the Hannah Winthrop chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
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An Historical Address and Poem, Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Town of Barrington, June 17, 1870
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An Historical Address, Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of Wilbraham, June 15, 1863
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An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth
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An Historical Sketch of Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
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An Historical Sketch of Groton, Massachusetts. 1655-1890
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An Historical Sketch of the First Church in Boston, from its Formation to the Present Period
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An Institution Of General History, Or The History Of The World
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An Universal Etymological English Dictionary.
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An architectural monograph: Houses in southeastern Massachusetts
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Ancestors & Descendants of an Ohio Gott family, 1628-1972: Fourteen Generations of Gotts in the United States, Beginning With The Immigrant Ancestor Charles Gott, b. 1598, From Cambridge, England.
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Ancestors and Descendants of David Paine and Abigail Shepard, of Ludlow, Massachusetts, 1463-1913
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Ancestors and Descendants of John Phipps, of Sherborn 1757-1847 Abridged From The Phipps Genealogy
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Ancestors and Descendants of Nedabiah Lincoln Sr.
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Ancestors and Descendants of Winfield Scott Starbird and Emeline Hardy (Roberts) Starbird
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Ancestors of American Presidents
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Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams: Showing Mayflower Lines Never Before Published From Myles Standish, John Alden, William Mullines and Thomas Rogers
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Ancestors of George Arthur Tickell
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Ancestors of Robert Bassett Marshall and His Wife Evelyn Louise Chew
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Ancestral lines: 144 families in England, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
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Ancestry and Descendants of Thomas Nichols of East Greenwich, Rhode Island and Danby, Vermont
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Ancestry of Annie Frances Penfield (1853-1936): The Wife of Calvin Robinson Mower (1840-1927)
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Ancestry of Mrs. Florence Dean Stickney
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Ancestry of Richard and Frances (Dighton) Williams and The Prosperity of their Son Nathaniel Williams of Taunton, Massachusetts
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Ancestry of William Dyer, "The Abington Pioneer"
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Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth
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Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth
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Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth: Part I. historical sketch and titles of estates. Part II. Genealogical register of Plymouth families.
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Ancient carpenters' tools: illustrated and explained together with the implements of the lumberman, joiner, and cabinet maker in use in the eighteenth century.
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And God Caught an Eel
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Annals Of The Town Of Dorchester, 1750
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Annals of Oxford, Maine; from its Incorporation February 27, 1829, to 1850.
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Annals of the Leonard Family
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Annals of the Town of Providence; From Its First Settlement, to the Organization of the City Government, in June, 1832
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture
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Annual Report of the Town Officers for the Town of Berkley for the Year Ending December 31, 1989.
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Annual Report: Adjutant-General's Office
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Annual Report: Adjutant-General's Office
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Annual Thanksgiving weekend auction of Americana; Saturday, November 29, 1986
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Annual report to the justices of the supreme judicial court: Massachusetts
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Annual report. 1861 - 1866; Supplement to the Annual reports of the adjutant general � for the years 18611, '62, '63, '64, '65 and 1866.
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Anthony Bartley (1800~): Some Descendants
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Antique Bottle Finds in New England
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Antique Brass & Copper: Identification and value guide
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Antique Collecting for Everyone
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Antique Fakes & Reproductions, Enlarged and revised
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Antique Tools: Our American heritage
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Antique Trader: Antiques & Collectibles
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Antique Woodstoves: artistry in iron
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Antique iron: Identification and values
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Antiques
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Antiques from the Country Kitchen
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Antiques: an encyclopedia of the decorative arts
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Appleton's Cyclopedia of Biography: embracing a series of original memoirs of the most distinguished persons of all times
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Applied genealogy
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Architectural Jewels: the Houses along South Washington street, North Attleborough, Massachusetts
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Arms and armor in colonial America: 1526-1783
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Arms and equipment of the Civil War
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Army and Navy of the United States from the Period of the Revolution to Present Day
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Army engineers in New England: the military and civil works of the Corps of Engineers in New England, 1775-1975
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Around the World in 500 Days; the circumnavigation of the merchant bark Charles Stewart, 1883-1884...
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Arrowpoints, Spearheads, and Knives of Prehistoric Times
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Art in the Massachusetts State House; Massachusetts Art Commission
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Arthur Deloraine Corey: A Memorial
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Artists of New Bedford: A Biographical Dictionary
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Ashleys of the Old Colony Based Upon The Research of R. Eugene Ashley et al.
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Asleep Beneath the Meadows: the Indian Archaeology of Rehoboth, Massachusetts
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Assassination of Lincoln: A history of the great conspiracy : trial of the conspirators by a military commission and a review of the trial of John H. Surratt.
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Atlas Of Attleboro 'Town, Mass: Compiled From Recent And Actual Surveys And Records Under The Direction Of The Publishers.
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Atlas Of Bristol County, Massachusetts: From Actual Surveys / By F.W. Beers: Assisted By Geo. P. Sanford And Others
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Atlas Of Bristol County, Massachusetts: From Actual Surveys / By F.W. Beers: Assisted By Geo. P. Sanford And Others
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Atlas Of Bristol County, Massachusetts: From Actual Surveys / By F.W. Beers: Assisted By Geo. P. Sanford And Others
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Atlas Of Massachusetts From Topographical Surveys Made In Cooperation By The United States Geological Survey And The Commissioners Of The Commonwealth, 1864-1888
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Atlas Of Massachusetts: Complied Under Direction Of O. W. Walker
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Atlas Of Massachusetts: From Topographical Surveys Made In Cooperation By The United States Geological Survey And The Commissioners Of The Commonwealth, 1864-1888
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Atlas Of Taunton City, Mass: Compiled From Recent And Actual Surveys And Records Under The Direction Of The Publishers
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Atlas Of Taunton City, Mass: Compiled From Recent And Actual Surveys And Records Under The Direction Of The Publishers
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Atlas Of The Boundaries Of The City Of Taunton, Bristol County.
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Atlas Of The Boundaries Of The City Of Taunton, Bristol County.
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Atlas of Taunton City, Mass: Compiled From Recent And Actual Surveys And Records Under The Direction Of The Publishers
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Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler: Butler's book.
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Autobiography of William Reed: March 27th, 1818-November 5th, 1894
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Aware: a retrospective of the life and work of Eric Sloane
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Azorean Folk Customs
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Babes in Birdland; a Fairy Tale
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Bacon and Allied Families: A Family Directory; Truly a "Cross Section of America," Plus Families in Scotland, England, Canada, Hawaii, and Alaska.
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Barker Family of Exeter and Bangor
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Barker Genealogy: Robert of Plymouth Colony, 1628, John of Duxbury, Mass. 1628, James of Rhode Island 1634, James of Rowley Mass. 1638, Edward of Branford, Conn. 1640, Richard of Andover, Mass. 1643, Samuel of Delaware 1682, Virgina Barkers 1700
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Barker Pedigree
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Barney
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Barney-Hosmer
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Barnstable's Greatest Son: James Otis, Lawyer and Patriot
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Barnstable; Three Centuries of a Cape Cod Town
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Barstow-Bestor Genealogy: Descendants of John Barstow and George Barstow, Including Families Named Basto, Bastow, Bestow, Beairsto.
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Basic Instruction for Home Painting in the Early American Manner
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Basic field manual: military courtesy and discipline
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Basic field manual: soldier's handbook
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Bassett Family Genealogy
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Battle Road: birthplace of the American Revolution
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Battle maps and charts of the American Revolution, with explanatory notes and school history references.
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Battles and leaders of the civil war, People's pictorial ed. Being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, condensed and arranged for popular reading.
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Bearing fruit by streams of waters: a history of the diocese of Fall River
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Beaten Paths: or, a Woman's Vacation
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Becoming Americans: Four centuries of immigrant writing
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Before 1776 The Massachusetts Bay Colony from Founding to Revolution
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Before the Bowman Boys: Being the Known American Ancestry of Alan, John and Ruel Bowman
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Beginner's Book of American Pottery: Introduction to a field of collecting
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