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Genealogy
The Hurley Library at the Old Colony History Museum houses a collection of vital records and family histories from the 19th and 20th centuries. These volumes, authored by notable historians and genealogists, provide a valuable resource for tracing lineage and understanding local heritage in the Old Colony region.
...And A Cast of Thousands
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80 Immigrants: Our Merrill-Covell Pedigree
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A "Down-Easterner" In Missouri
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A Beginning of a Genealogy of the Wilbur Family of Taunton
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A Biographical History of Robert Randall and His Descendants 1608-1909
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A Brief Genealogical And Biographical History Of Arthur, Henry, And John Howland, And Their Descendants, Of The United States And Canada
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A Briggs Memorial: Some Ancestors and Descendants of John Briggs of Taunton, Massachusetts: With Collateral Deighton (Williams), Whitney, and Mayflower-Rogers Lines
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A Comprehensive Genealogy of the Thayer Family Of America: Descendants of Nathaniel Thayer Immigrant to America
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A Cook(e) Book: From the Mayflower to the Present
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A Copy Of The Records Of Births, Marriages And Deaths And Of Intentions Of Marriage Of The Town Of Hanover, Mass., 1727-1857
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A Declaration Of Remarkable Providences In The Course Of My Life
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A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Services of Reverend Alexis Caswell
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A Family Called Duty: 100 Generations
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A Genealogical History of That Branch of the Alger Family Which Springs From Thomas Alger of Taunton and Bridgewater: In Massachusetts. 1665-1875.
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A Genealogical History of William Shepard of Fossecut, Northamptonshire, England, and Some of his Descendants
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A Genealogical History of the Descendants Of Joseph Peck, Who Emigrated With His Family To This Country In 1638
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A Genealogical History of the French and Allied Families
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A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family In America: Brought Down From Their English Ancestor, John Carpenter, 1303
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A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family In This Country, Embracing The Descendants As Far As Known, of the Rev. John Lothropp, of Scituate, and Barnstable, Mass., and Mark Lothrop, of Salem and Bridgewater, Mass., and the First Generation of Descendants of Other Names
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A Genealogical Record of Thomas Bascom and His Descendants.
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A Genealogical Study of the American Paul/Paull Family
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A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name of the Family Stetson; from the year 1635, to the year 1847
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A Genealogical and Historical Register of the Descendants of Edward Morris of Roxbury, Mass., and Woodstock, Conn.
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A Genealogy of the Allen Family From 1568 to 1882: Compiled By Hon. William Allen. Rev. By Joshua Allen.
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A Genealogy of the Crossman Family, Descendants of John and Robert Crossman of Taunton, Massachusetts
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A Genealogy of the Cutler family of Lexington, Massachusetts: James, and Some Of His Descendants, 1634-1964
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A Genealogy of the Descendants of James Dean, One of the First Settlers of Oakham, Massachusetts
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A Genealogy of the Descendants of John May: Who Came From England to Roxbury In America 1640
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A Genealogy of the Descendants of John, Christopher and William Osgood and Who Came From England and Settled In New England Early In The Seventeenth Century
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A Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family
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A Genealogy of the Lineal Descendants of John Steevens: Who Settled In Guilford, Conn. In 1645
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A Genealogy of the Lineal Descendants of William Wood Who Settled In Concord, Mass., In 1638: Containing Also Revolutionary and Other Records
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A Genealogy of the Nye Family
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A Haskin History
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A Haskin History Volume II
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A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, The Puritan, From The Year 1617 to 1855
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A History Of Oregon, 1792-1849, Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information
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A History Of That Part Of The Fox Family Descended From Thomas Fox of Cambridge, Massachusetts: With Genealogical Records
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A History and Genealogy of the Conant Family In England and America, Thirteen Generations, 1520-1887: Containing Some Genealogical Notes on the Connet, Connett and Connit Families
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A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Taynter: Who Sailed From England April, 1638, and Settled In Watertown, Massachusetts
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A History and Genealogy of the Rockwell and Thayer Families: Prepared For The Descendants of Clara Thayer Rockwell and Willard Frederick Rockwell
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A History of The Allerton Family In The United States 1585 to 1885, and A Genealogy of the Descendants of Isaac Allerton, "Mayflower Pilgrim," Plymouth, Mass., 1620
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A History of the Cobb Family
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A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family
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A History of the Heverly Family, Including The Spellings Hever, Heverle, Heverley, Everle, Everley, Everleigh, Eveleigh, Eveley, Everly, and Eveleth, Compiled By Neal F. Mears.
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A Leighton Genealogy: Descendants of Thomas Leighton of Dover, New Hampshire
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A Memoir of Daniel Hobey Prepared For The Hovey Reunion, At Ipswich, Massachusetts, August 21, 1900
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A Memorial Sketch of Harrison Tweed
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A New England Family and Their French Connections: With Genealogical Records of Some Ancestors, Descendants and Various Affiliated Families
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A Partial History of the Crossman-Kressman-Cressman-Crissman-Crisman Family
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A Patch-Amsbury Family Chronicle
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A Record of the Descendants of William Paul of Taunton In The Colony Of Plymouth
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A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, 1637-1881
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A Shove Family Genealogy, 1638-1990
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A Sketch of the Life & Character of John Fenwick
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A Splendid Heritage: The Mayflower, Revolutionary War, Civil War, and Other American Ancestors of Robert Beckley Harris (1905-1984)
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A Supplement To The Sections Entitled Thomas Doggett-Daggett of Marshfield, Massachusetts and William Daggett of Saco, Maine: From The 1894 Edition Of A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family By Samuel Bradlee Doggett: With Miscellaneous Families and Those With Unknown Ancestry
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A Tribute to the Memory of Charles Deane
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Abraham Lincoln and Mary Ann Todd Ancestry
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Abraham Shaw 1590-1638: Yorkshire Roots Replanted
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Abraham and Zerviah (Ricketson) Smith and Their Nineteen Children
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Abstracts Of English Records Gathered Principally In Devonshire and Essex: In A Search For The Ancestry of Roger Dearing c. 1624-1676 and Matthew Whipple c. 1560-1618
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Almon D. Hodges and His Neighbors
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An American Ancestry
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An Elaborate History and Genealogy Of The Ballous In America: Carefully Compiled and Edited By Adin Ballou
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An English Ancestry: An Account of the Ancestry of Edward Melvin Shove and His Siblings
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Ancestors & Descendants of an Ohio Gott family, 1628-1972: Fourteen Generations of Gotts in the United States, Beginning With The Immigrant Ancestor Charles Gott, b. 1598, From Cambridge, England.
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Ancestors and Descendants of David Paine and Abigail Shepard, of Ludlow, Massachusetts, 1463-1913
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Ancestors and Descendants of John Phipps, of Sherborn 1757-1847 Abridged From The Phipps Genealogy
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Ancestors and Descendants of Nedabiah Lincoln Sr.
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Ancestors and Descendants of Winfield Scott Starbird and Emeline Hardy (Roberts) Starbird
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Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams: Showing Mayflower Lines Never Before Published From Myles Standish, John Alden, William Mullines and Thomas Rogers
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Ancestors of Robert Bassett Marshall and His Wife Evelyn Louise Chew
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Ancestry and Descendants of Thomas Nichols of East Greenwich, Rhode Island and Danby, Vermont
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Ancestry of Annie Frances Penfield (1853-1936): The Wife of Calvin Robinson Mower (1840-1927)
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Ancestry of Mrs. Florence Dean Stickney
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Ancestry of Richard and Frances (Dighton) Williams and The Prosperity of their Son Nathaniel Williams of Taunton, Massachusetts
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Ancestry of William Dyer, "The Abington Pioneer"
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Annals of the Leonard Family
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Anthony Bartley (1800~): Some Descendants
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Ashleys of the Old Colony Based Upon The Research of R. Eugene Ashley et al.
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Autobiography of William Reed: March 27th, 1818-November 5th, 1894
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Bacon and Allied Families: A Family Directory; Truly a "Cross Section of America," Plus Families in Scotland, England, Canada, Hawaii, and Alaska.
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Barker Family of Exeter and Bangor
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Barker Genealogy: Robert of Plymouth Colony, 1628, John of Duxbury, Mass. 1628, James of Rhode Island 1634, James of Rowley Mass. 1638, Edward of Branford, Conn. 1640, Richard of Andover, Mass. 1643, Samuel of Delaware 1682, Virgina Barkers 1700
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Barker Pedigree
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Barney
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Barney-Hosmer
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Barnstable's Greatest Son: James Otis, Lawyer and Patriot
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Barstow-Bestor Genealogy: Descendants of John Barstow and George Barstow, Including Families Named Basto, Bastow, Bestow, Beairsto.
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Bassett Family Genealogy
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Before the Bowman Boys: Being the Known American Ancestry of Alan, John and Ruel Bowman
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Beginnings: A Ten Room House on Twenty Acres of Rich Land
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Benjamin Apthorp Gould
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Bennett and Allied Families: Addenda to Bullard and Allied Families
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Berkley, Massachusetts Cemetery Inscriptions
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Biographical Sketch of Gen. Charles W. Darling, Utica, N.Y.
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Biographical Sketch of John G. Deane: And Brief Mention of his Connection with the Northeastern Boundary of Maine
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Biographical Sketch of William Reed Deane, Esq.
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Birth, Marriage and Death Records of the Town of Ashby, Massachusetts from 1754 to 1890
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Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850
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Births, Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths: From the Records of the Town and Churches of Coventry, Connecticut, 1711-1844
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Bompass, Bumpas, Bump, Bumpus, and Allied Families; 1621-1981
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Book A: Records of the Town of Swansea, 1662 to 1705
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Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699; Boston Births, 1700-1800
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Bosworth Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Edward Bosworth who Arrived in America in the Year 1634; with an Appendix Containing Other Lines of American Bosworths.
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Briggs Family Records
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Brown Families of Bristol Counties; Massachusetts and Rhode Island, from the immigrants to the early nineteenth century
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Brown-Schutt Ancestral Lines; Edited by Richard E. Coe; a supplemental compilation by Jessie Bruce Smith Ornes
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Bullard and Allied Families: The American Ancestors of George Newton Bullard and Mary Elizabeth Bullard
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Bures of Suffolk, England, and Burr of Massachusetts Bay Colony, New England
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Burgess Genealogy: Descendants of the Four Sons of Thomas Burgess and Dorothy (Waynes) Burgress, Thomas Burgess, Jr. of Newport, Rhode Island
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Burials and Burial Places in the Town of Dartmouth, Massachusetts
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Butleriana, Genealogica et Biographica; or Genealogical Notes Concerning Mary Butler and her Descendants, as well as the Bates, Harris, Sigourney and Other Families, with which they have Intermarried.
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Butrick, Butterick, Buttrick in the U.S.A., 1635-1978
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Carpenter and Allied Families; Genealogical and Biographical, Prepared and Printed for Annie I. Carpenter
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Carr Family Genealogy; Dighton, Massachusetts.
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Carter Family Genealogy
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Certain Comeoverers
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Certain Members of the Lord Family who Settled in New York City in the Early 1800's, Descendants from Thomas Lord of Hartford, Connecticut
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Clement Briggs of Plymouth Colony and his descendants 1621-1965
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Cleveland Family History
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Col. Peter H. Peirce (1788-1861): a Plymouth County life
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Colonial Ancestors: William Andrews of Hartford; Robert Fuller of Salem and Rehoboth; Lazarus Manley of Coventry and Mansfield; John White of Hartford and Hadley / commissioned for publication by Bernice Andrews (Livingston) Rieg; compiled in part by Mary Naomi Foster; Edward H. Little, editor.
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Colonists of New England and Nova Scotia: Burgess and Heckman Families
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Commodore Joshua Barney
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Commodore Joshua Barney: U.S. N., 1759-1818.
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Concerning the Ancestors of Abner Brush and Laura Hubbard Brush
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Concerning the Ancestors of Abner Brush and of his Wife Laura Hubbard Brush
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Concord, Massachusetts: Births, Marriages and Deaths 1635-1850
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Contemporary Kindred of Abraham Lincoln; A Paper Read at a Meeting of The Weymouth Historical Society March 29, 1928, By Clarence W. Fearing, A. M. Vice President of the Society.
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Contribution to the Genealogy of the Burbank and Burbanck Families in the United States
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Contributions Biographical, Genealogical, and Historical
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Cook Family Records
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Crocker Genealogy
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Crossetts and Crosiers: Some of the Descendants of Anthony Ducrozat c. 1624
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Crozier Family: One Branch Descended from James Crozier, who became a member of the Masonic Lodge of St. John, Dublin, Ireland, in 1808, and whose descendants settled on Prince Edward Island, Canada
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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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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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DeMaranville Genealogy: Descendants of Louis DeMaranville
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Deacon Nicholas Phillips of Dedham and Weymouth, Mass., 1636-1672
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Dear Carole and Susan: Memoirs and Family History
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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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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 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 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 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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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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Dighton, Massachusetts Genealogical Notes
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Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge
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Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825
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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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Dunster Papers
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Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800
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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 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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Easton, Massachusetts
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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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Emmanuel Williams of Taunton, Mass: A Genealogy of Some of His Descendants
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Enoch Lincoln: Read before the Main Historical Society, December 23, 1882
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Epperson and Allied Families, Genealogical and Biographical, Prepared and Privately Printed for Mrs. Elizabeth Weaver Epperson
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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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Ezekiel Cheever and Some of His Descendants
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Ezekiel Cheever: The Cheever MSS. And Letters
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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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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 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 by Shepherd Knapp
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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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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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First Book of Raynham Records; Taken from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 51, 1897
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