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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
Panati's extraordinary origins of everyday things
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Paroisse Saint Jacques 1904 - 1954
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Partridge genealogy: descendants of George Partridge of Duxbury, Massachusetts
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Passengers to America; a consolidation of ship passenger lists from the New England historical and genealogical register
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Pathways of the Puritians, compiled by Mrs. N.S. Bell for the Massachusetts bay colony tercentenary commission.
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Pattison, Frink, and allied families, genealogical and biographical; prepared and privately printed for Grace E. Pattison
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Paul Revere and freemasonry
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Peabody (Paybody, Pabody, Pabodie) genealogy
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Pedrick: descendants of John Pedrick of the Neck and John Pedrick of Marblehead, Massachusetts
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Peirce's colonial lists; : civil military and professional lists of Plymouth and Rhode Island colonies� 1621-1700
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Penelope Winslow, Plymouth Colony First Lady: Re-Imagining a Life
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Pennsylvania German Arts and Crafts, a picture book
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Pensioners of the Revolutionary War struck off the roll
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Perscription Filled
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Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant
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Personal recollections of distinguished generals.
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Pewter
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Pewter Down the Ages: From Mediaeval times to the present day, with notes on evolution
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Pewter of the Western World, 1600-1850
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Phaidon Guide to Pewter
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Phase 3 Data Recovery Archaeological Servey of the Northwoods Native American Site for the Proposed Northwoods Retail Development, Taunton, Massachusetts
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Photography and the American Scene: a social history, 1839-1889
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Pictorial history of Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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Picture Postcard Memories of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts/ Mattapoisett Historical Society
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Picture Postcards in the United States 1893-1918, Updated Edition
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Picture Rocks; American Indian rock art in the Northeast Woodlands
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Pictures of early New York on dark blue Staffordshire pottery; Together with pictures of Boston and New England, Philadelphia, the south and west.
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Picturesque Rhode Island; Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Scenery and History of its Cities, Towns, and Hamlets, and of Men Who Have Made Them Famous
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Pierrepont genealogies from Norman times to 1913, with particular attention paid to the line of descent from Hezekiah Pierpont, youngest son of Rev. James Pierpont of New Haven
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Pilgrim Memorials, and Guide for Visitors to Plymouth Village
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Pilgrim Memorials, and Guide for Visitors to Plymouth Village
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Pilgrim Plymouth Illustrated
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Pilgrim: a biography of William Brewster
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Pilgrims in Eden: Conservation Policies at New Plymouth
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Pilots and pilot boats of Boston Harbor: presenting stories and illustrations of the skilled resourceful men of stout hearts who, with their trim, weatherly boats of sturdy construction, have played such an important role in the maritime life of Boston.
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Pioneer Irish in New England
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Pioneers of modern design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius
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Piscataqua pioneers 1623 - 1775:; register of members and ancestors
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Plain and Fancy: New England painted furniture (exhibit) May 10-October 25, 1987
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Plans and sections of the obelisk on Bunker's Hill with the details of experiments made in quarrying the granite.
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Plymouth Colony: It's History and People 1620-1691
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Plymouth County Massachusetts probate index; 1686-1881
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Plymouth Illustrated, 1893: a Tour of Plymouth as it was Long Ago
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Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian
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Plymouth Tercentenary with a Brief History of the Life and Struggles of the Pilgrim Fathers
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Plymouth colony marriages to 1650, with Mary Chilton's Title to celebrity
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Plymouth colony vital records taken from records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, vol. 8
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Plymouth; Illustration by Cameron Wright
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Poemata Sacra---n.d.
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Polk's Somerset, Dighton, Swansea, Seekonk and Rehoboth (Massachusetts) directory, 1930 - 31
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Portraits of New England Places; twenty-fifth anniversary exhibition July 18- September 30 1984
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Portuguese Spinner; an American story: stories of history, culture, and life from Portuguese Americans in southeastern New England
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Portuguese pilgrims and Dighton Rock, the first chapter in American history
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Pottery & porcelain
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Preliminary report on the eighth census 1860
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Preservation guidlines for municipally owned historic burial grounds and cemeteries
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Preservation of library and archival materials: a manual
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Priscilla of Fall River.
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Proceedings at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, September 21, 1887.
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Proceedings of the John Bean (1660) Association
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1860-1862
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1862-1863
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Proceedings of the Reade historical and genealogical association; with Papers on the Family History read at its first three annual meetings
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Proceedings of the Senate and Assembly of the state of New York, on the life and services of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, held at the Capitol, April 9, 1889.
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Proceedings of the special courts and second general court, 1894 of the society of colonial wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts�
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Proceedings, Lizzie Borden Conference: Bristol Community College, Fall River, Massachusetts, August 3-5, 1992
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Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurshup and the founding of New England towns in the seventeenth century
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Progeny and ancestry of Samuel St. Clair Bumpus, Elizabeth Clementina Williams, Frank Paschal Greene, Hattie Elizabeth Livermore
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Provisional drill and service regulations for field artillery (horse and light); 1916
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Public officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Publishments, marriages, births and deaths from earlier records of Gorham, Maine
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Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685
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Puritan Migration to Connecticut: The Saga of the Seymour Family 1129-1746
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Puritan gravestone art II: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1978
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Quarter Millennial Celebration of the City Taunton, Massachusetts, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 4 and 5, 1889.
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Quarter millennial celebration of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 4 and 5, 1889.
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Quarter millennial celebration of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 4 and 5, 1889.
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Quarter millennial celebration of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 4 and 5, 1889.
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Quarter millennial celebration of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 4 and 5, 1889.
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Quilts, Coverlets, Rugs & Samplers
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Railroad, Indian and Pioneer Prints by N. Currier and Currier & Ives, compiled by Fred J. Peters; being a pictorial check list and collation
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Railroads in the days of steam
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Ralph Pain and descendants: four generations
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Rarebook librarianship
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Raymond Genealogy; descendants of Richard Raymond
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Raynham '76
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Raynham: Past and Present 1731-1999
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Reader's Digest Pocket Guide to American Antiques
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Recent history of Dighton Rock
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Record of births, marriages, and deaths to January 1, 1898
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Record of the Cook and related families for 300 years in America
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Record of the descendants of William Sumner, of Dorchester, Mass., 1636
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Record of ye births of Freetown from 1686 to 1844
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Record; : Gallup family
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Records of Littleton, Massachusetts. Births and deaths from the earliest records in the town books begun in 1715
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Records of Robert Fuller of Salem and Rehoboth and some of his descendants
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Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England; Acts of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England
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Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England; Court Orders
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Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England; Deeds and et cetera
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Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England; Judicial Acts 1636-1692
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Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England; Laws, 1623-1682.
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Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England; Miscellaneous records, 1633-1689
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Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of Massachusetts bay, 1630-1692 ...
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Records of the Massachusetts volunteer militia called out by the Governor of Massachusetts to suppress a threatened invasion during the war of 1812-14.
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Records of the Town of Plymouth; pub. by order of the town
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Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts bay in New England
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Records of the town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793
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Red coat and Brown Bess
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Reed Family Records
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Reflections of the justices, Massachusetts Superior Court: 150 years of the rule of law, 1859-2009
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Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington.
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Regimental book, Rhode Island Regiment for 1781
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Register of members of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with the constitution and by-laws
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Register of members of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with the constitution and by-laws
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Register of the empire state society of the Sons of the American Revolution organized Feb. 11, 1890; incorporated Apr. 8, 1895
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Regulations for the Army of the United States
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Rehoboth 325th Anniversary
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Rehoboth Province of ye Masachusetts Bay 1692-1778; Rehoboth Continental Congress 1776-1778; Rehoboth United States of America 1778-1812 in 2 parts: Volume 3
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Rehoboth in the Past: an Historical Oration Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1860; also an account of the proceedings in Seekonk, (the ancient rehoboth), at the celebration of the day
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Rehoboth in the past:; an historical oration delivered on the fourth of July, 1860
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Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony 1645-1692: Volume 2: a History of Rehoboth, Seekonk, Swansey, Attleboro and North Attleboro, Mass., East Providence, Barrington and Pawtucket, R.I.
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Rehoboth, Swansea, and Dighton
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Remember When
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Reminiscences
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Reminiscences of Henry M. Gleason to which have been added Illinois farm life into the eighteen-eighties and the New England ancestors of Henry M. Gleason
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Reminiscences of Taunton In Ye Auld Lang Syne
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Reminiscences of Taunton. In ye auld lang syne.
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Reminiscences of Taunton. In ye auld lang syne.
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Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts regiment
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Report of the Commission on Andersonville monument . . .
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Report of the Joint committee on the conduct of the war, at the second session, Thirty-eighth Congress
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Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts, 1850
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Report of the commission on Massachusetts' part in the world war; compiled and edited by Eben Putnam.
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Report of the fifth meeting of the family in America
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Report of the proceedings of the first--& third reunion of the Bassett family association of America
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Report of the sixteenth annual re-union, at Baltimore, Maryland, May 6 and 7, 1885
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Report on the custody and condition of the public records of parishes, towns, and counties
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Report to the General Court of the Joint Special Committee on Consolidating and Arranging the General Laws
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Reports of contested elections, in the House of representatives, of the commonwealth of Massachusetts; from 1780 to 1834, inclusive: compiled from the Journals, files, and printed documents of the House, in pursuance of an order thereof, and under the direction of a committee appointed for the purpose.
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Reports of controverted elections in the House of representatives, of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, from 1780 to 1834.
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Reports of the two reunions of the Bassett family association, Massachusett Branch
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Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts; containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families
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Resident and business directory of Somerset, Dighton and Swansea Massachusetts
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Rethinking home: A Case for Writing Local History
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Rev. Erastus Maltby 1796-1883
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Reverend Mr. George Shove, gentleman 1634-1685; Minister Cohannet Alias Taunton Plantation Plymouth Colony
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Revised United States Army Regulations of 1861 with an appendix containing the changes and laws affecting Army regulations and Articles of War to June 25, 1863.
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Revolutionary Medicine, 1700-1800
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Revolutionary War period; Bible, family & marriage records gleaned from pension applications
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Rhode Island Gazetteer Compiled by the Providence Journal - Bulletin
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Rhode Island postal history: the post offices
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Rhymes of the Local Philosopher: A bequest to the younger generation
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Richard Bowen (1594?-1675), of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and his descendants
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Richard Henry Dana
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Richard Upjohn, architect and churchman
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Richard Warren of the Mayflower and his descendants for four generations
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Richard Williams Genealogy
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Richard Williams of Taunton and his connection with the Cromwell family
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Richard, William, and Hugh, sons of John Briggs of Taunton, Massachusetts
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Riding out the storm: recollections of World War II
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Rise of the Ironclads
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Rising From Cottages
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Robert Barnard of Andover Mass., and his descendants
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Robert Bartlett of the "Anne" and his descendants for four generations
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Robert Carver of Marshfield; and some of his descendants
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Robert Cushman of Kent (157701625) chief agent of the Plymouth pilgrims (1617-1625)
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Robert's rules of order
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Roger Williams of Providence, Rhode Island
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Roger Williams: Prophet and Pioneer of Soul Liberty
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Rogers groups, thought & wrought by John Rogers
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Roget's thesaurus of English words and phrases. New ed.
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Rohrbach Genealogy; Descendants of nine Rohrbach immigrants to Colonial America 1709-1754 and more than One hundred Rohrbach immigrants to America 1825-1900
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Roll of members of the Military company of the Massachusetts, now called the Ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts; with the roster of the commissioned officers and preachers, 1638-1894
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Roman Catholic Parishes in the Polish People's Republic in 1984
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Rootbeer and jelly bread: memories of America's childhood
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Roseland Dance Pavilion
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Roundabout Duxbury
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Ruf, Haight, Eddy, Sumner, Hatch and allied families, genealogical and biographical
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Rufus Hathaway: artist and physician 1770-1822
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Rules for keeping the principal record books used at department and general headquarters and at the adjutant general's office
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Running with the dogs: life in Korea with D/2/7, USMC
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Ruth Webb Lee's Handbook of Early American Pressed Glass Patterns
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Safeguarding your collection in travel
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Saga of two North American families: Andrews-Titus
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Saints and Strangers
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