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![Koon and Coons families of eastern New York; a history of the descendants of Matthias Kuntz and Samuel Kuhn (two distinct families) who came with the Palatine immigration from Germany and settled on the Hudson river in New York in 1710, compiled by William Solyman Coons, aided by Kate Koon Bovey, Leon C. Hills [and] C. Carroll Koon](
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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
Just yesterday: a pictorial history of Taunton/
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Just yesterday: a pictorial history of Taunton/
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Kenrick, Kendrick, Kindrick. Some of the descendents of John Kendrick, the immigrant, with historical matter connected therewith.
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Kimball-Weston memorial. The American ancestry and descendants of Alonzo and Sarah (Weston) Kimball of Green Bay, Wisconsin, comp. by William Herbert Hobbs.
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King Philip's War
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King Philip's War: the history and legacy of America's forgotten conflict
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King genealogy. Clement King of Marshfield, Mass., 1668, and his descendants.
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Kingsley family of America: ancestry, records, sketches of John Kingsley of Dorchester and Rehoboth, Mass. With his descendants: ancestry, records, sketches of Stephen Kingsley of Dorchester, Braintree, and Milton, Mass. With some of his descendants: records, sketches of other Kingsley contemporaries with unknown ancestry
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Kitchenware
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Know About Antiques
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Know Your Antiques: How to recognize and evaluate any antique, large or small, like an expert
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Koon and Coons families of eastern New York; a history of the descendants of Matthias Kuntz and Samuel Kuhn (two distinct families) who came with the Palatine immigration from Germany and settled on the Hudson river in New York in 1710, compiled by William Solyman Coons, aided by Kate Koon Bovey, Leon C. Hills [and] C. Carroll Koon
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Kovel's Know Your Collectibles
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Kovels' New dictionary of marks
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Lakeville then and now
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Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States
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Landmarks in the Old Bay State
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Landscapes of the Civil War: Newly discovered photographs from the Medford Historical Society
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Lane families of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, memorial address at the reunion of descendants and kindred of William Lane, Boston, 1651, William Lane, Hampton, 1685, Dea. Joshua Lane, Hampton, who was killed by lightning June 14, 1766.
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Later New England Pendletons: a record of the Pendleton family from the 7th to the 12th generation
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Law and order in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1774-1821; With emphasis on its South Parish/Precinct
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Law and order in colonial Bridgewater, Massachusetts; With special emphasis on its South Parish/Precinct
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Lawrence Leach of Salem, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants
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Leading the way: a history of the Massachusetts general court 1629-1980
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Leaves from the family tree for descendants of William and Rachel French of south west Hartland, Connecticut
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Leonard Family Genealogy Vol. 1 - First seven generations
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Leonard Family Genealogy Vol. 2 - Sixth generation
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Leonard Family Genealogy Vol. 3 - Seventh generation
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Leonard Family Genealogy Vol. 4 - Eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh generations
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Leonard Family Genealogy: Ninth, tenth, and eleventh generations
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Leonard Genealogy Series
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Leonard School : A Centennial Celebration: 1888-1988
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Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the names, rank, and line, of every person placed on the pension list.
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Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting report on the organization of the Army of the Potomac, and of its campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, under the command of Maj. Gen. George B. McCellan, from July 6, 1861, to November 7, 1862.
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Letters of Henry Adams: Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford
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Letters of James Murray, Loyalist
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Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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Letters to 180
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Lewis Dary of Norton, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants
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Lexington and Concord, 1775: what really happened.
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Library of Congress subject headings
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Lieutenant Darus Nash Couch in the Mexican War
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Life Histories of North American shore birds; order limicolae, pt. 2.
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Life Histories of North American wild fowl: Ducks, geese, and swans
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Life and Work of James G. Blaine
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Life and distinguished services of William McKinley�Memorial ed.
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Life and public services of John Quincy Adams,; sixth president of the United States.
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Life in New Bedford a Hundred Years Ago; a chronicle of the social, religious and commercial history of the period as recorded in a diary kept by Joseph R. Anthony
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Life in New Bedford a Hundred Years Ago; a chronicle of the social, religious and commercial history of the period as recorded in a diary kept by Joseph R. Anthony
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Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln
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Life of Benjamin Lincoln, major-general in the army of the revolution.
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Life of Horace Mann: By his Wife
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Life of Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts
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Life on The Border Sixty Years ago
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Life with the Forty-ninth Massachusetts volunteers.
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Lighting in America: From colonial rushlights to Victorian chandeliers
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Lights On! A Century of Christmas in Taunton
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Lincoln Park Remembered, 1894-1987
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Lincoln Through the Lens: how photography revealed the shaped an extraordinary life
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Lincoln and the Lincolns: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Lincoln's Greatest Speech: the second inaugural
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Lincoln's other White House
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Lineages of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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Lion Gardiner, and his descendants; edited, with notes critical and illustrative
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Lions mountain, 850 years of Lovenburys
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List of subscribers to the capital fund drive of the Old colony Historical Society 1987-1991
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List of the Benjamin Franklin papers in the Library of Congress
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List of titles of genealogical articles in American periodicals and kindred works. Giving the name, residence, and earliest date of the first settler of each family.
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Literary New England
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Little Compton families
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Little by Little: Six decades of collecting American decorative arts
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Lives of celebrated American Indians; by the author of Peter Parley's tales
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Lives of the presidents of the United States of America; from Washington to the present time
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Lives of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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Lives of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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Local Government Records: an introduction to their management, preservation and use
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Local Philosophy and Other Rhymes
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Local history collections: a manual for librarians
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Local schools: exploring their history
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Locomotive Advertising in America 1850-1900
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Locomotive Advertising in America 1850-1900
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London Park Lane Arms Fair, Spring 2012.
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Looking Back: Historic Tales of Newport County
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Looking back at Easton, Massachusetts
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Lord's indexed street atlas of Bristol Co., Massachusetts
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Lucas family genealogy: Thomas Lucas of Plymouth, Massachusetts 1650-1678 and his descendants
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Macomber genealogy
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Maida's little village
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Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder
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Maine wills, 1640-1760
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Maiolica, With numerous woodcuts
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Major Gen. Burbank: an early paper maker
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Major radford's town:; a history of Kingston 1726-1976
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Major-General Darius Nash Couch: Enigmatic Valor
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Man and the Sea: The Portuguese participation in American whaling
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Mann family Rehoboth branch
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Mansfield, George O. and Mansfield, Floris R. Johnson
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Manual for Irish genealogy
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Manual for Italian genealogy
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Manual for noncommissioned officers and privates of field artillery of the army of the United Statees; 1917
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Manual of basic training and standards for proficiency for the National Guard
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Manual of military training
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Manual of parliamentary practice; Rules of proceeding and debate in deliberative assemblies
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Manuel for railroad engineers and engineering students; Containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads, as built in the United States.
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Manuel of bayonet exercise, Prepared for the use of the army of the United States
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Manufacturing in Bridgewater, 1900-1910; Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A town in transition.
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Maps of Early Massachusetts; Pre-History Through the Seventeenth Century
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Marching together: the story of Reed & Barton during World War II; its people, its products, its policies.
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Marks and monograms on European and Oriental pottery and porcelain, with historical notices of each manufactory; Over 3500 potters' marks and illustrations
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Marks of Lincoln on our Land
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Marriage and death records for Taunton, Massachusetts and other communities as found ing the Taunton newspapers; The Cabinet and The Village Fire Fly
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Marriage notices; from 1785-1794, for the whole United States, copied from the Massachusetts centinel and the Columbian centinel
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Marriages of St. Jacques Catholic Church, Taunton, MA 1904-1989
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Marriages of St. Matthew's Catholic Church, Fall River, MA, 1888-1986
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Marriages performed by Rev. Roland Green at Norton and Mansfield, Mass., 1762-1808
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Marriages recorded in the town reports of Norton, Massachusetts 1850-1950
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Marshfield 70°-40' W:42°-5'N The Autobiography of a Pilgrim Town
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Martin family history
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Mary Baker Eddy
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Mary Baker Eddy and the Stoughton years
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Mary Dyer: biography of a rebel Quaker
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Mason Steam Locomotives: Melodies, cast & wrought in metal
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Massachusetts 1800 census
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Massachusetts 1810 Census Index
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Massachusetts 1820 Census Index
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Massachusetts 1830 Census Index
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Massachusetts 1840 Census Index
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Massachusetts 1845 Census Index
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Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary 1630-1930, official chronicle and tribute book
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Massachusetts Beautiful, Illustrated by the author with three hundred and four pictures covering all the counties in Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Builders of Cotton Machinery and Locomotives
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Massachusetts Civil War Centennial Commission; Massachusetts regiments in the Civil War 1861-1865.
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Massachusetts From Colony to Commonwealth An Illustrated History
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Massachusetts Paper Money, 1690-1780: the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War
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Massachusetts State Directory of members and ancestors, Daughters of the American Revolution
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Massachusetts Year Book for 1908.
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Massachusetts in Contention: a Chronological Survey, 1775-1783 Jordan D. Fiore and Jean F. Stonehouse
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Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-65.
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Massachusetts in the Civil War: Vol. 2 "The year of Trial and Testing" 1861-1862
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Massachusetts in the Civil War: Vol. 3 A year of crisis 1862-1863
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Massachusetts newspapers and the Revolutionary crisis, 1763-1776
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Massachusetts of Today A Memorial of the State
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Massachusetts pension abstracts of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Indian Wars
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Massachusetts society of the sons of the Amercan revolution�
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Massachusetts society of the sons of the American revolution:; register for 1904 with lists of members and their revolutionary ancestors�
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Massachusetts soldiers, sailors, and marines in the Civil War.
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Massachusetts special collections directory
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Massachusetts, Colony to Commonwealth : an Illustrated History
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Massachusetts, U.S.A. Inventors and Builders of Cotton Machinery
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Massachusetts: Colony to Commonwealth; documents on the formation of its constitutions, 1775-1780 /edited by Robert J. Taylor.
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Massachusetts: a Bicentennial History
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Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, Written and Compiled by the Federal Writer's Projects of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts: a bibliography of its history
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Massachusetts: the Anatomy of Quality. Color Photography by Ted Polumbaum.
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Massachusetts; A pictorial history.
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Massasoit of the Wampanoags: With a brief commentary on Indian character; and sketches of other great chiefs, tribes, and nations
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Masterpieces of Chinese export porcelain from the Mottahedeh collection in the Virginia Museum
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Material Suggested for Use in the Schools in Observance of Massachusetts Bay Colony and of the General Court and One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the Adoption of the Constitution of the Commonwealth/ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Education
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Materials of a genealogy of Josiah Stover of Tiverton, Rhode Island; especially with a reference to the descendants of Joshua Stafford
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Mathew Brady's illustrated history of the Civil War, 1861-65, and the causes that led up to the great conflict; / by Benson J. Lossing, and a chronological summary and record of every engagement ... showing the total losses and casualties together with war maps of localities, compiled from the official records of the War Department ; illustrated with facsimile photographic reproductions of the official war photographs, taken at the time by Mathew B. Brady, under the authority of President Lincoln and now in the possession of the War Department, Washington, D.C. ....
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Mattapoisett and Old Rochester, Massachusetts: being a history of these towns and also in part of Marion and a portion of Wareham.
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Mattingly Family
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Maximum Effort: a first-hand account of a World War II B-29 crew and their bomb group
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Mayflower II, Official souvenir book
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Mayflower ancestral index
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Mayflower births & deaths; from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants
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Mayflower deeds and probates; from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants
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Mayflower families through five generations; : descendents of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620
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Mayflower increasings; for three generations
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Mayflower marriages; from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants
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Mayflower source records; primary data concerning southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard: from the New England historical and genealogical register / selected and introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts
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Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war
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McArthur-Barnes ancestral lines
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McClellan Mynderse and allied families
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McClellan's Own Story: the war for the Union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to it and to them
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McNair, McNear, and McNeir genealogies.
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McPherson and allied families: genealogical and biographical
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Meet the Tisdales: descendants of John Tisdale of Taunton, Mass. 1634-1980
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Meetinghouses, town houses, and churches: Changing perceptions of sacred and secular space in Southern New England, 1720-1850
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Memoir of Gen. William Hull
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Memoir of Henry Clay
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Memoir of Increase Sumner, Governor of Massachusetts; Together with a genealogy of the Sumner Family
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Memoir of James Arthur Cobb
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Memoir of Leonice Marston Sampson Moulton
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Memoir of Samuel Joseph May
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Memoir of the Rev. Samuel Green; late pastor of Union church, Boston
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Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson.
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Memoirs of Gen. W.T. Sherman; written by himself ; with an appendix�
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Memoirs of Roger Clapp. 1630.
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Memoirs of the Leonard, Thompson, and Haskill Families
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Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution� the expedition of General Xavier Mina.
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Memoirs of the war in the southern department of the United States.
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Memoranda relating to the ancestry and family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, vice-president of the United States (1889-1893)
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Memorial Address of the Life, Character and Public Services of the Honorable George Frisbie Hoar
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Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress in Eulogy of Louis A. Frothingham
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Ambrose E. Burnside (a Senator from Rhode Island), Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Forty-seventh Congress, First Session, January 23, 1882, with the Proceedings Connected with the Funeral of the Deceased
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Henry Bowen Anthony (a Senator from Rhode Island) Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives : Forty-Eighth Congress, Second Session, January 19 and 21, 1885, with the Funeral Services at Providence, Rhode Island, September 6, 1884
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