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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
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
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Benjamin Franklin Butler: The Damnedest Yankee
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Bennett and allied families; addenda to Bullard and allied families
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Bennington' Pottery and Porcelain: A guide to identification
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Berkley, Freetown, and Lakeville
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Berkley, Massachusetts cemetery inscriptions
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Berkley, Massachusetts,; items from the Taunton Daily Gazette January 2, 1902 - December 15, 1919
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Best photos of the Civil War.
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Between Concord and Plymouth; The transcendentalists and the Watsons: with the Hillside Collection of Manuscripts.
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Bikes and trikes of long ago
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Biographical review� containing life sketches of leading citizens of Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
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Biographical sketch of Gen. Charles W. Darling, Utica, N.Y.
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Biographical sketch of John G. Deane: and brief mention of his connection with the northeastern boundary of Maine
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Biographical sketch of William Reed Deane, Esq.
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Biographical sketches of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.; The Declaration historically considered ; and a sketch of the leading events connected with the adoption of the Articles of confederation and of the federal Constitution.
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Biographies and legends of the New England indians
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Biography and history of the Indians of North America; from its discovery
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Birth, Marriage and Death records of the town of Ashby, Massachusetts from 1754 to 1890
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Births, marriages and deaths in the town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850
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Births, marriages, baptisms and deaths, from the records of the town and churches of Coventry, Connecticut, 1711-1844
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Black Courage, 1775-1783; Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution.
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Blast furnaces of Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
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Blue and White Transfer Ware 1780-1840
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Bompass, Bumpas, Bump, Bumpus, and allied families; 1621-1981
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Bonnets and Hats, 1840-1900
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Book #1432 (auto-assigned)
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Book A, records of the town of Swansea, 1662 to 1705
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Book B, records of the town of Swansea as published in the Boston Transcript
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Boston Tea Party: The trigger of our revolution
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Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, Boston.
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Boston and some noted Emigres: a collection of facts and incidents, with appropriate illustrations, relating to some well-known citizens of France who found homes in Boston and New England, with which are included accounts of several visits made by one of the authors to La Rochelle and to the homes of the ancestors of Paul Revere.
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Boston births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths, 1630-1699; Bosotn births, 1700-1800
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Boston furniture of the eighteenth century:; a conference held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 11 and 12 May 1972 - Boston; Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
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Boston, England, and Boston, New England, 11630 - 1930;; reproductions of rare prints with a commentary of historic notes, presented by the State street trust company, in commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of the naming of Boston.
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Bosworth genealogy; a history of the descendants of Edward Bosworth who arrived in America in the year 1634; with an appendix containing other lines of American Bosworths.
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Both Battles of Bull Run: in memory of the patriots who fell at Bull Run July 21, 1861.
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Bottle collector's treasury: A collection of information about classic and common bottles.
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Bowen's picture of Boston, or The citizens and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. To which is affixed the Annals of Boston ...
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Bradford's history "Of Plimoth plantation."; from the original manuscript.
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Bradford's history "of Plimouth plantation.":; from the original manuscript.
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Bradford's history "of Plimouth plantation.":; from the original manuscript.
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Braintree Massachusetts, its history.
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Brief memoirs of John and Walter Deane, two of the first settlers of Taunton, Mass., and of the early generations of their descendants�
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Briggs family records
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Bringing in sheaves
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Bristol County, Massachusetts; copied by Barbara Rebok.
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British pottery and porcelain
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Britten's old clocks and watches and their makers
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Brown families of Bristol counties; Massachusetts and Rhode Island, from the immigrants to the early nineteenth century
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Brown-Schutt ancestral lines; edited by Richard E. Coe; a supplemental compilation by Jessie Bruce Smith Ornes
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Brown/Walker family lines: 1590 to present
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Builders of the Bay Colony
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Built to last: A handbook on recycling old buildings
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Bullard and allied families: the American ancestors of George Newton Bullard and Mary Elizabeth Bullard
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Bunker's War: The World War II diary of Col. Paul D. Bunker
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Bures of Suffolk, England, and Burr of Massachusetts Bay colony, New England
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Burgess genealogy: descendants of the four sons of Thomas Burgess and Dorothy (Waynes) Burgress, Thomas Burgess, Jr. of Newport, Rhode Island�
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Burgoyne's invasion of 1777, with an outline sketch of the American invasion of Canada, 1775-76.
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Burials and burial places in the town of Dartmouth, Massachusetts
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Butleriana, genealogica et biographica; or Genealogical notes concerning Mary Butler and her descendants, as well as the Bates, Harris, Sigourney and other families, with which they have intermarried.
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Butrick, Butterick, Buttrick in the U.S.A., 1635-1978
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Calendar of wills on file and recorded in the offices of the clerk of the Court of Appeals of the County Clerk at Albany,; and of the Secretary of State 1626-1836.
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Calvin Coolidge; His ideals of citizenship as revealed through his speeches and writings
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Cambridge sketches by Cambridge authors, ed.
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Camp and outpost duty for infantry; With standing orders, extracts from the revised regulations for the army, rules for health, maxims for soldiers, and duties of officers
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Campaigning with James Michael Curley
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Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
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Candles on the green:; 80 years of Christmas in Taunton
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Canines and felines: Dogs and cats in American art
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Cannonballs & Cranberries
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Cape Cod library of local history and genealogy:; a facsimile edition of 108 pamphlets published in the early 20th century / compiled and indexed by Leonard H. Smith Jr.
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Cape Cod, the right arm of Massachusetts.; An historical narrative
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Captain Gustavus Conyngham: a sketch of the services he rendered to the cause of American independence
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Captains of Brazil
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Care and use of individual clothing and equipment
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Caring for your collections
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Caroline Crane Marsh; a life sketch
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Carpenter and allied families; genealogical and biographical, prepared and printed for Annie I. Carpenter
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Carr family genealogy. Dighton, Massachusetts.
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Carter family genealogy
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Catalog guide to the microfilm edition of the David Cobb papers: 1708-1833
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Catalogue of Important Eighteenth Century Gold Snuff Boxes and Fine Watches
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Catalogue of newspapers, 1936
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Catalyst for Revolution: The Boston Tea Party
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Catechetical lectures on the preliminary questions and answers of the Church-catechism
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Catechetical lectures on the preliminary questions and answers of the Church-catechism
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Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic
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Celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, at West Bridgewater, June 3, 1856 ;; including the address by Hon. Emory Washburn, of Worcester ; poem by James Reed � and other exercises of the occasion. With an appendix�
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Celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the town of Bristol, Rhode Island, Sept. 24th�188o0
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Centennial in New Bedford.; Historical address by Hon. William W. Crapo, delivered on the occasion of the celebration in New Bedford of the fourth of July, 1876. To which are added an account of the celebration, and an appendix.
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Centennial of the Boston pier,; or the Long Wharf corporation
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Centennial of the Bulfinch State house.; Exercises before the Massachusetts legislature, January 11, 1898
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Certain comeovers
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Certain members of the Lord family who settled in New York City in the early 1800's, descendants from Thomas Lord of Hartford, Connecticut
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Chairs, tables, sofas, & beds.
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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
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Chests & Cases, Pewter, Bronze and other wares
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Chests, cupboards, desks, & other pieces
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Children of the past in photographic portraits:; an album with 165 prints/ edited by Alison Mager
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China and cut glass: Limoges, Dresden, Bavarian, Austrian Imperial Crown, and Cauldon China; Bohemian and gold glass; vases, Dutch pottery, Dresden clocks, cameo vases and plaques, steins, jardinieres
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Christian melodies, the new songbook: for church, Evangelistic, Sunday-school and Christian endeavor services
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Christopher Columbus was Portuguese
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Chronicles of Old Salem:; a history in miniature
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Chronology of poetry
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Churches in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1900-1910
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City charter and ordinances of the city of Taunton,; with rules and orders of the city government�
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City of Taunton :; registars of voters street lists 1939
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City of Taunton. Assessors' Street List.
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City of Taunton. Assessors' Street List.
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City of Taunton. Assessors' Street List.
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City of Taunton. Assessors' Street List.
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City of Taunton. Assessors' Street List.
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City of Taunton: assessors street list �1934
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City of Taunton:; registrars of voters street list of men and women
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City of Taunton:; registrars of voters street list of men and women
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Civil War collector's encyclopedia; arms, uniforms, and equipment of the Union and Confederacy
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Civil War medicine
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Civil War tokens and tradesmen's store cards. A tentative list of the civil war tokens and store cards issued by the merchants of the United States, and used as money during the period from 1861 to 1864.
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Civil air patrol uniforms and insignia; the first ten years 1941-1951: the second ten years 1952-1961; the past twenty-two years 1962-1983
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Civil air patrol unit patches
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Civil marriages of Grafton, Massachusetts, 1843-1905
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Civil marriages of Mendon, Massachusetts, 1844-1905
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Cleaveland family history
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Clement Briggs of Plymouth Colony and his descendants 1621-1965
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Clocks and watches
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Clues to American Architecture
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Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described.; With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals, and tokens. &c., &c.
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Col. Peter H. Peirce (1788-1861): a Plymouth County life
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Collecting American Glass
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Collecting American Pewter
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Collection development; the selection of materials for libraries
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Collection of the Rhode Island Historical Society
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Collection, use, and care of historical photographs
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Collections
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Collections
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Collections of the Old colony historical society
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Collections, v. 1
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Collector's guide to country furniture
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Collectors' guide to Antique American Silver
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Collectors' guidebook to coins
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Collier's new photographic history of the world's war, including sketches, drawings and paintings made by artists at the front.; Photographs by the official photographers accompanying each army, collected and arranged by Francis J. Reynolds and C. W. Taylor.
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Collier's photographic history of the European war, including sketches made on the battle fields;; drawings by R. caton Woodville, Felix Schwormstaedt, Henry Reuterdahl etc.
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Colonel A. W. Gilbert,; citizen-soldier of Cincinnati; edited by William E. Smith and Ophia D. Smith.
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Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices
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Colonial ancestors: William Andrews of Hartford; Robert Fuller of Salem and Rehoboth; Lazarus Manley of Coventry and Mansfield; John White of Hartford and Hadley / commissioned for publication by Bernice Andrews (Livingston) Rieg; compiled in part by Mary Naomi Foster; Edward H. Little, editor.
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Colonial architecture of Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard
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Colonists of New England and Nova Scotia: Burgess and Heckman families
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Columbia Records proudly presents The Confederacy: based on music of the South during the years 1861-65
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Columbia Records proudly presents The Union; based on music of the North during the years 1861-65/by Richard Bales.
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Come walk with me
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Commerce of Rhode Island, 1726-1800� Boston
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Commodore Joshua Barney
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Commodore Joshua Barney: U.S. N., 1759-1818.
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Commonwealth history of Massachusetts, colony, province, and state
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Commonwealth: Giantess of the Sound
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Concerning the ancestors of Abner Brush and Laura Hubbard Brush
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Concerning the ancestors of Abner Brush and of his wife Laura Hubbard Brush
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Concord, Massachusetts: births, marriages and deaths 1635-1850
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Congres de la langues francais au Canada
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Contemporary Kindred of Abraham Lincoln; A paper read at a meeting of The Weymouth Historical Society March 29, 1928, By Clarence W. Fearing, A. M. Vice President of the Society.
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Contemporary poetry
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Continuation of the history of the province of Massachusetts bay, form the year 1748 [to 1765] With an introductory sketch of events from its original settlement.
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Contribution to the genealogy of the Burbank and Burbanek families in the United States
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Contributions biographical, genealogical, and historical
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Cook family records
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Cooking with Fire: From roasting on a spit to baking in a tannur, rediscovered techniques and recipes that capture the flavors of woof-fired cooking.
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Copper Heritage: The story of Revere Copper and Brass Incorporated
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Copy of the old records of the town of Duxbury, Mass.; From 1642 to 1770.
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Corona
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Costumes in Detail: Women's dress 1730-1930
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Counsel to the christian traveller...
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Country Craft Tools
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Country furniture of early American.
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Courthouses of the Commonwealth
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Covered bridges of the Northeast
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Crocker Genealogy
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Crossetts and Crosiers: some of the descendants of Anthony Ducrozat c. 1624
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Crossman quincentenary: 500 years of Crossman family history, 1509-2009
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Crozier family: one branch descended from James Crozier, who became a member of the Masonic Lodge of St. John, Dublin, Ireland, in 1808, and whose descendants settled on Prince Edward Island, Canada
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Cuba's great struggle for freedom�
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Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-bay
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Current Values of Antique Glass: Victorian glass, Sandwich glass, art glass, cup plates; the blue book of valuations.
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Currier & Ives, printmakers to the American people
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Customs and culture of Vietnam
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