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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
Customs and Culture of Vietnam
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Customs and fashions in old New England
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Cut Glass Handbook and Price Guide
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DAR patriot index; Centennial ed.
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Daddy-Long-Legs
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Daggett and allied families, genealogical and biographical, prepared and privately printed for Amelia Daggett Sheffield
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Danforth genealogy. Nicholas Danforth, of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N.E. (1589-1638) and William Danforth, of Newbury, Mass. (1640-1721) and their descendants.
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Daniel Shays's Honorable Rebellion: An American Story
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Dartmouth marriages 1750-1791 (including one from Yarmouth and four from New Bedford)
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David Cobb: an American patriot
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Days and ways in old Boston,; ed. By William S. Rossiter; drawings by Malcolm Fraser and Jacques Reich
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Days of History: 200 years ago, Revolutionary era
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DeMaranville genealogy: descendants of Louis DeMaranville
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Deacon Nicholas Phillips of Dedham and Weymouth, Mass., 1636-1672
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Dealing From the Heart: A Biography of Benjamin Swig
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Dear Carole and Susan: memoirs and family history
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Dear old "K"
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Deaths of various people having connection with Bristol & Plymouth counties, Massachusetts; many deaths are of local people in the Middleboro, Massachusetts area, 1820-1959
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Debts hopeful and desperate: financing the Plymouth Colony
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Dedication of the Norton Public Library, Norton, Massachusetts Wednesday, February 1, 1888.
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Deerfield Embroidery
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Dennis, Cape Cod; From first comers to newcomers, 1639-1993.
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Dennis, Massachusetts, vital records 1793-1900
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Descendants of Banfield Capron: from A.D. 1660 to A.D. 1859
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Descendants of Benjamin Hathaway and Elizabeth French
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Descendants of Edward Small and Allied Families of New England with tracings of English ancestry
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Descendants of Emmanuel Rouse of East Greenwich & Smithfield, Rhode Island
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Descendants of Francis LeBaron of Plymouth, Mass.
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Descendants of Henry Wallbridge, who married Anna Amos, December 25, 1688, at Preston, Conn.; with some notes on the allied families of Brush, Fassett, Dewey, Fobes, Gager, Lehman, Meech, Stafford, Scott
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Descendants of Jeffery and John Staple of Weymouth, Massachusetts, circa 1638
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Descendants of John Coleman: died at Dighton, Massachusetts about January 1770
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Descendants of John Dean (1650-1727) of Dedham, Mass.
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Descendants of John and Hannah Short; 1764-2007
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Descendants of Jonathan Greene: the Greene's in Taunton, Mass.
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Descendants of Leonard and Hannah Hodges of Norton, Massachusetts
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Descendants of Richard Church of Plymouth, Mass.
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Descendants of Richard and Mary Sisson: ten generations from 1608
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Descendants of Robert Lincoln
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Descendants of Samuel Sturtevant
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Descendants of Sylvester and Sarah (Kinney) White of Georgia, VT
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Descendants of Thomas Deane, of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
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Descendants of Thomas Lincoln Miller of Taunton
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Descendants of Thomas Lincoln, Jr
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Descendants of William Sherman of Marshfield, Mass
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Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield Massachusetts
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Desendants of John May of Roxbury, Mass. 1640; Second Edition
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Designation of the Three Mile River Watershed area of critical environmental concern
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Details of military medical administration
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Dewey decimal classification and relative index
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Diamond Jubilee, 1909-1984
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Diary of Anna Green Winslow :; a Boston school girl of 1771
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Diary of King Philip's War, 1675-76
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Dickerman genealogy; Descendants of Thomas Dickerman, an early settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Prepared and published by Edward Dwight Dickerman and George Sherwood Dickerman. With a supplement added by the latter in 1922.
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Dictionary of Artists in America: 1564-1860
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Dictionary of Woodworking tools 1700-1970 and tools of allied trades
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Dictionary of marks: Pottery and porcelain
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Dictionnaire genealogique des families canadiennes depuis la foundation de la colonie jusqu'a
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Dighton Rock: a study of the written rocks of New England
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Dighton, Massachusetts Genealogical notes
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Dighton, Massachusetts Genealogical notes
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Dime store deco; February 1-March 13, 1988 Watson Gallery.
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Directory of Massachusetts Place Names Current and Obsolete Compiled by Charlotte Pease Davis
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Discourse Delivered Before the New-England Historic-Genealogical Society; Boston, April 2, 1868, on the Life and Character of the Hon. John Albion Andrew, Late President of the Society
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Discovering Hallmarks on English Silver
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Discovering the History of Your House and Your Neighborhood Betsy J. Green
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Divided Hearts, Massachusetts loyalists, 1765-1790: a biographical directory.
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Divided We Fought: a pictorial history of the war, 1861-1865.
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Documentary history of the State of Maine
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Documents of an Era: portraits by James Sullivan Lincoln; Exhibition April 16- August 9, 1992
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Dodge genealogy: descendants of Tristram Dodge
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Don't cry "timber!"
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Donald Lines Jacobus' index to genealogical periodicals
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Dorchester births, marriages, and deaths to the end of 1825
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Dover Stamping Co., 1869; tinware, tin toys, tinned ironwares, tinners material, enameled stove hollow ware, tinners' tools and machines.
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Dow, Ball, Eaton and allied families: a genealogical study with biographical notes, compiled and privately printed for Grace Ann (Ball) Dow by the American historical company, inc
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Dr. Holmes's Boston,; ed. By Caroline Ticknor �
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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. American probate inventories
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Dunkirk, by A. D. Divine, D.S.M.
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Dunster papers
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Dust: A history of the small and the invisible
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Dynasty of Iron Founders: the Darbys and Coalbrookdale
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Early American Clocks: A collection of essays on early American clocks and their makers, a practical reference
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Early American Decorating Patterns: Drawings and color renderings by the author
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Early American Decoration: a comprehensive treatise revealing the technique involved in the art of early American decoration of furniture, walls, tinware, etc.
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Early American Furniture: How to recognize, evaluate, buy, & care for the beautiful pieces--High-style, country, primitive, & rustic
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Early American Pressed Glass: A classification of patterns collectibles in sets together with individual pieces for table decorations.
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Early American Silver
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Early American Silver and its Makers
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Early American dolls in full color: the creative genius of unsophisticated America
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Early American series: early Massachusetts Volume I 1740-1749
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Early Braintree Gravestone Art 1728-1850: Second Parish Church, Elm Street Cemetery, a portfolio.
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Early Chicago and Illinois
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Early Connecticut marriages as found on ancient church records prior to 1800
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Early Lighting: A pictorial guide
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Early Massachusetts marriages prior to 1800
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Early New England Pendeltons with some account of the three groups who took the name Pendleton, and notices of other Pendletons of later origin in the United States
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Early New England Potters and their Wares
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Early New England gravestone rubbings
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Early Percussion Firearms: a history of early percussion firearms ignition
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Early Rehoboth, Documented Historical Studies of Families and Events in this Plymouth Colony Township
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Early days in New England. Life and times of Henry Burt of Springfield and some of his descendants. Genealogical and biological mention of James and Richard Burt of Taunton, Mass., and Thomas Burt. M.P., of England.
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Early days in Wellesley Being Casual Recollections of Boyhood and Later Years - 1867 to 1881
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Early homes of Massachusetts: From material originally published as the White pine series of architectural monographs.
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Early interest in Dighton Rock
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Early tools and equipment
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Early's Antiques Auction, April 17 and 18, 1986
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Easton's neighborhoods
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Easton, Massachusetts
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Economic and social history of New England 1620-1789
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Eddyville, Middleboro, Massachusetts 1661-1987
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Education in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1900-1910; Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A town in transition.
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Edward Ball and some of his descendants
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Edward Chapman of Ipswich, Mass., 1642-1678, and his descendants
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Edward Doty of the Mayflower
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Edward Fuller of the Mayflower and his descendants for four generations
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Edward Godfrey: his life, letters, and public services, 1584-1664
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Edward Winslow of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Five Generations
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Edwin L. Holbrook and Organbuilding in East Medway, Massachusetts
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Eight years' progress of the United States: a family record of American industry, energy, and enterprise: showing the various channels of industry and education through which the people of the United States have arisen from a British colony to their present national importance ... By eminent literary men ... Extensively embellished with steel and electrotype plate engravings ...
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Eighteenth Century Vignettes
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Elder John Gorton and the Six Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich, Rhode Island
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Emily J. Leonard: by Georgia Louise Leonard
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Eminent Americans: Comprising Brief Biographies of Three Hundred and Thirty Distinguished Persons
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Emmanuel Williams of Taunton, Mass: a genealogy of some of his descendants
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Empire Furniture, 1800 to 1825
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Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the struggle for North America, 1754-1763.
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Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers
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Encyclopedia of British pottery and porcelain marks
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English and American furniture: a pictorial handbook of fine furniture made in Great Britain and in the American colonies, some in the sixteenth century, but principally in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
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English furniture from Gothic to Sheraton; A concise account of the development of English furniture and woodwork from the Gothic of the fifteenth century to the classic revival of the early nineteenth.
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English pottery and porcelain: A historical survey
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Enoch Lincoln; Read before the Main Historical Society, December 23, 1882
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Entrepreneurs:; the Boston business community, 1700- 1850
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Epitaph and Icon: A field guide to the old burying grounds of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket.
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Epperson and allied families, genealogical and biographical, prepared and privately printed for Mrs. Elizabeth Weaver Epperson
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Eulogy on King Philip, as pronounced at the Odeon in Federal Street, Boston, by the Reverend William Apes, an Indian. January 8, 1836
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European Pewter in Everyday Life (1600-1900): From the William Scollard and other private collections.
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Everett Hesmer Barney; : his family connections: a record of his life work: George Murray Barney
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Everts and Richards; firm, publishers
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Every day but Sunday;; the romantic age of New England industry
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Everyday dress of rural America 1783-1800, with instructions and patterns
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Everyday dress of the American colonial period: Coloring book
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Everyday fashions of the forties as pitured in Sears catalogs
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Everyday fashions of the twenties as pictured in Sears and other catalogs
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Everyday fashions, 1909-1920 as pictured in Sears catalogs
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Exhibition of British pewterware through the ages from Romano-British times to the present day
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Exhibits for the small museum, a handbook
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Expository notes ... on the new testament
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Expository notes with practical observations on the New-Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
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Extracts concerning the Wilder family taken from the History of the Town of Hingham Massachusetts
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Extracts from John Marshall's Diary, January, 1689 -- December, 1711
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Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents in his life.
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Ezekiel Cheever and some of his descendants
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Ezekiel Cheever: the Cheever MSS. And letters
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Fabrics for Historic Buildings: a guide to selecting reproduction fabrics 3rd ed
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Facts and illustrations of interest to members; some genealogical data and related matter: also a Report of ye annual meeting at Duxbury, Massachusetts .29. July, 1925, together with ye Treasurer's report for ye year previous: proposed revision of ye constitution: new members and other matters of import. Organized .11. Sept 1901. Incorporated .24. Apr. 1906.
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Fall River
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Fall River Historical Society; Proceedings of the society� 1921/26-
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Fall River Indian reservation.
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Fall River in history�some of the historical objects and places in and about Fall River; compiled by the Tercentenary Committee of Fall River
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Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity.
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Familia Dabney; : The Dabney Family, 1804-1892.
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Familiar Letters of John Adams and his Wife Abigail Adams: During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams
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Families of the pilgrims: Francis Cooke
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Family History: A family history, recording the ancenstors of Russell Snow Hitchcock
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Family Stories: From James Leonard (about 1620-1691) of Taunton, Massachusetts, to Nicholas William Knight (1906-1989) of Manchester, Connecticut
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Family memorial; Part 1. Genealogy of fourteen families of the early settlers of New-England, of the names of Alden, Adams, Arnold, Bass, Billings, Capen, Copeland, French, Hobart, Jackson, Paine, Thayer, Wales and White� All these families are more or less connected by marriage, and most of them of late generations, the descendants of John Alden. Part II. Genealogy of Ephraim and Sarah Thayer, with fourteen children...
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Family memories
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Family register of Richard Paul, born in England and emigrated to America during the early part of 1635. Also of his descendants as far as ascertained.
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Family register of the inhabitants of the town of Shrewsbury, Mass., from its settlement in 1717 to 1829, and some of them to a later period
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Family stories; : from James Leonard (about 1620-1691) of Taunton, Massachusetts, to Nicholas William Knight (1906-1989) of Manchester, Connecticut
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Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles, 1840-1900
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Field Guide to Early American Furniture
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Field genealogy; being the record of all the Field family in America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700. Emigrant ancestors located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia. All descendants of the Fields of England, whose ancestor, Hurbutus de la Field, was from Alsace-Lorraine
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Fifty years of National Sojourners
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Fighting gear of World War I: equipment and weapons of the American doughboy
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Fighting the Devil with the Marines
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Final Edition: Furniture Catalog
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Final report on the geology of Massachusetts
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Fine Points of Furniture: early American; Foreword by Israel Sack; Introd.. By John Meredith Graham II
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Fire on the hearth: The evolution and romance of the heating stove. With 145 illus. from photos, and drawings showing and amazing variety of heating devices; also entertaining anecdotes, excerpts from old diaries and other papers, alluring advertisements and interesting bits of information pertaining to their manufacture and uses
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Fire service, 1844-1910; Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A town in transition.
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Fireside Tales told 'longside the stove in Sanderson's
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Fireside pictures
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First Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts volunteer militia
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First aid for the trenches
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First book of Raynham records; taken from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 51, 1897
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First book of records of the town of Pepperellborough now the city of Saco; printed by vote of the City counchil, March 18, 1895
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First record book of the society of colonial dames in the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ending August 31, 1896.
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Flintlock and tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War.
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Flintlock fowlers, the first guns made in America: American fowling pieces from 1700-1320
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Floating Palaces: New England to New York on the Old Fall River Line
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Floor coverings in New England before 1850
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Flow Blue China and Mulberry Ware: Similarity and value guide
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Flow Blue China: An aid to identification
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Flying minute men: the story of the Civil Air Patrol
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Folk Art in American life
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Folk Art: imaginative works from American hands
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Folk Painters of America
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