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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.

Frank Leslie's Scenes And Portraits Of The Civil War By Such Well Known Artists As Becker, Crane, Beard And Others: With An Introduction By Joseph B. Carr, Major-General.
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From Grey to Beauty: an account of the industry carried on at North Dighton by the Mount Hope Finishing Company
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From the Bend of the Little River, a Wilcox Book; Immigrant Ancestors and Allied Families with a Sketch and the Descendants of George Wilcox
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From the past to the future: a history of the Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs, 1893-1988
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Frontier of Freedom; the Soul and Substance of America portrayed in one extraordinary village, Old Deerfield, Massetts
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Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills, the English emigrant to New England in 1632 and of Joseph Hills, the English emigrant to New England in 1638
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Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family, containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635 to 1874. Also the first generation of children descended from females who have lost the name Newcomb by marriage. With notices of the family in England during the past seven hundred years.
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Genealogical Memoirs of the Sampson Family in America; Including a Biographical Sketch of Deborah Sampson, the Heroine of the Revolution
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Genealogical Notes of the Washburn Family, With a Brief Sketch of the Family in England; Containing a Full Record of the Descendants of Israel Washburn of Raynham, 1755-1841
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Genealogical Outline of the Ancestry of Herbert Cunningham Walsh (1885-1980) and Margaret Julia Hayes (1886-1980)
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Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family in New England; Containing the Names of Over 1500 Persons from 1633 to 1853, Numbering Eight Generations
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Genealogical Records of Henry and Ulalia Burt; the emigrants, who early settled at Springfield, Mass., and their descendants through nine generations, from 1640-1891.
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Genealogical and Biographical Records of the Banning and Allied Families; Prepared for Miss Kate Banning.
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Genealogical and Historical Record of the Carpenter Family with a Brief Genealogy of some of the Descendants of William Carpenter, of Weymouth, and Rehoboth, Mass., of Penn., and Ephraim, Timothy and Josias Carpenter, of Long Island. Including a full, complete and reliable history of the Carpenter estate of England.
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Genealogical research; : methods and sources. Editor: Milton Rubincam; associate editor: Jean Stephenson.
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Genealogies Of Hadley Families: Embracing The Early Settlers Of The Towns Of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst And Granby.
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Genealogies of Hadley Families, embracing the early settlers of the towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby.
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Genealogies of Hadley families; Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby.
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Genealogies of the Different Families Bearing the Name Kent in the United States Together with their Possible English Ancestry.; A.D. 1295-1898.
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Genealogies, necrology, and reminiscences of the "Irish settlement"; or A record of those Scotch-Irish Presbyterian families who were the first settlers in the "Forks of Delaware," now Northampton County, Pennsylvania--a sequel to the "History of the Allen Township Presbyterian church."
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Genealogy and Biographical Notes of John Parker of Lexington and His Descendants. Showing his earlier ancestry in America from Dea. Thomas Parker of Reading, Mass., from 1635 to 1893.
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Genealogy and Family History of the Descendants of John Clarke of Wenham, Massachusetts and Exeter, New Hampshire
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Genealogy and Family History of the Uphams, of Castine, Maine, and Dixon, Illinios; with genealogical notes of Brooks, Kidder, Perkins, Cutler, Ware, Avery, Curtis, Little, Warren, Southworth, and other families
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Genealogy of Richard Currier of Salisbury and Amesbury (1616-1686-7) and Many of His Descendants. Genealogy of Ezra Currier of Bath, New Hampshire, (1749-1825) and his descendants
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Genealogy of Samuel Williams, of Grafton, NH; Fifth in Descent from Richard Williams, of Taunton
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Genealogy of a Douglass-Donaldson Family: Ancestors and Descendants of David Stuart Douglass and Louise Elinor Donaldson
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Genealogy of the Andrews of Taunton and Stoughton, Mass.; Descendants of John and Hannah Andrews, of Boston, Massachusetts, 1656 to 1886. Comp. by Liet. George Andrews.
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Genealogy of the Chesman Family in the United States from 1713 to 1893. With Appendix and Reminiscence of His Father's Family.
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Genealogy of the Dean Family Descended from Ezra Dean, of Plainfield, Conn. And Cranston, R.I.; Preceded by a Reprint of the Article on James and Walter Dean, of Taunton, Mass., and early generations of their genealogical register, 1849.
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Genealogy of the Dexter Family in America: Descendants of Thomas Dexter, Together with a Record of Other Allied Families
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Genealogy of the One Line of the Hopkins Family, Descended from Thomas Hopkins, in Providence, from 1641 to 1692
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Genealogy of the Reverend Eleazer Carver Family; Compiled by Frederick E. Carver and Margaret R. Carver
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Genealogy: The James Francis Richards Branch of a Richards Family of New England; that of Edward Richards, Dedham, Massachusetts 1635-1684
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Geographia Americae with an account of the Delaware Indians; based on surveys and notes made in 1654-1656, by Peter Lindestrom; translated from the original manuscript with notes, introduction and an appendix of Indian geographical names with their meanings.
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Gilberts of New England: Part I. Descendants of John Gilbert of Dorchester, Compiled by George Gordon Gilbert and Geoffrey Gilbert. Part II. Descendants of Matthew Gilbert of New Haven, Humphrey Gilbert of Ipswich, and script genealogy.
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Gillette and Allied Families, Genealogical and Biographical, Prepared and Privately Printed for Mrs. Lewis Singer Gillette
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Gospel Order Joyful To Beholders: A Sermon Preach'd At Berkley, Nov, 23, 1737. Upon Occasion Of The Ordination Of The Reverend Mr. Samuel Tobey
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Gov. Marcus Morton: An Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Old Colony Historical Soc. On Jan. 13, 1905
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Great Men and Famous Women: A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History
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Hand-Book of Hartwell Genealogy, 1636-1887; An Account of the Descendants of William Hartwell of Concord, Mass., and allied families of Bellows, Cummings, Gibson, Hill, Johnson, Jones, Kendall, Lakin, Luce, Melvin, Russell, Stiles, Stow, Tucker, Wood, Winchell, Williams, and many others.
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Handbook of the United States of America, and guide to emigration; giving the latest and most complete statistics of the government, army, navy ... etc. furnishing all the necessary information concerning the county for the settler, the business man, the merchant, the farmer, the importer & the professional man
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Henry Ward Beecher, a Sketch of his Career: With Analyses of his Power as a Preacher, Lecturer, Orator and Journalist, and Incidents and Reminiscences of his Life
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Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second Massachusetts infantry, the Second company sharpshooters, and the Third light battery, in the war of the rebellion.
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Hingham: a Story of its Early Settlement and Life, its ancient landmarks, its historic sites and buildings
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Hinsdale Geneaology: Descendants of Robert Hinsdale of Deham, Medfield, Hadley and Deerfield, with an Account of the French Family of Hinnisdal
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Historic American Buildings Survey; Historic buildings of Massachusetts: photographs from the Historic American Buildings Survey
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Historic and Archaeological Intensive Surveys : Taunton State Hospital Dam Removal: Taunton, Massachusetts
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Historic and Archaeological Resources of Southeast Massachusetts : A Framework for Preservation Decisions
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Historic and Archaeological Resources of Southeast Massachusetts: A Framework for Preservation Decisions
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Historical Addresses, Poem, and Other Exercises at the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Rehoboth, Mass., held October 3, 1894
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Historical Celebrations: a handbook for organizers of Diamond Jubilees, Centennials, and other community anniversaries
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Historical Collections, being a collection of interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c., relating to the history and antiquities of every town in Massachusetts, with geographical descriptions
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Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities, and Towns in Massachusetts; Prepared by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Division of Public Records.
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Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities, and Towns in Massachusetts; prepared by Frederic W. Cook. 1948
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Historical Sketch Of The Second War Between The United States of America and Great Britain, Declared By Act Of Congress, The 18th Of June, 1812, and Concluded By Peace, The 15th Of February, 1815.
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Historical Sketch and Centennial Anniversary of King David Lodge A.f. & A. M. Taunton, Massachusetts, 1798 - 1898.
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Historical Sketch of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company: from its formation in the year 1637, to the present time
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Historical Sketches of Andover, (comprising the present towns of North Andover and Andover), Massachusetts
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Historical View of the American Revolution; Contents are lectures written for the Lowell Institute of Boston in 1862
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Historical collections of the Indians in New England, by Daniel Gookin, Gentleman. With notes by Jeffrey H. Fiske
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History and Genealogy of the Witherell/Wetherell/Witherill Family of New England; Some Descendants of Rev. William Witherell of Scituate, Plymouth Colony, and William Witherell of Taunton, Plymouth Colony
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History and Records of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church of Scituate, Mass., 1725-1811, of Hanover, Mass., 1811-1903, and Other Items of Historical Interest
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