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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
"A City Upon a Hill" the Founding of Norton in Context: 1620 - 1750
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"My cup runneth over"; A choice of poems and pictures
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"Over a wide, hot, crimson plain", the struggle for the Bliss farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863
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"Remember the Ladies" outstanding women of the American Revolution
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"Viking" hoaxes in North America
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(A religious book - title page missing)
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...and a cast of thousands:
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1776: the British story of the American Revolution/; sponsored by The Times, The Sunday Times and Barclays Bank.
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1825-1876 A history of costume
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1861-1865: The Adventure of the Civil War Told With Pictures
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1880, Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:; a souvenir: historical, descriptive, and biographical sketches by various authors
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18th-century American secular music manuscripts; an inventory
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1941-1991 history, Massachusetts wing civil air patrol, United States air force auxiliary
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300 years of kitchen collectibles
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80 immigrants: our Merrill Covell pedigree.
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A "down-easterner" in Missouri
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A Bell and Its story: An Address Before the Catholic Inter-Parish Debating Society, of Fall River, Mass. Delivered December 23d, 1904
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A Biographical history of Robert Randall and his descendants 1608-1909
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A Bit of Nostalgia: The Attleboro Area in Photographs 1875-1940
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A Brief History of the Taunton Lunatic Hospital 1854 to 2016
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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 Buck A Day: Taunton men in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
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A Buck A Day: Taunton men in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
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A Centennial History of Cottage City
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A Century of Silversmithing: A brief account of the interesting development of silverware manufacture as reflected in the growth of an organization that now celebrates its centenary in this field.
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A Century of Silversmithing: A brief account of the interesting development of silverware manufacture as reflected in the growth of an organization that now celebrates its centenary in this field.
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A Civil List of Elected Officials of the City of Taunton, Massachusetts Since 1865
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A Civil War treasury of tales,; legends and folklore
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A Color Guide to Bennington Pottery
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A Cook(e) book: from the Mayflower to the present
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A Cycle of Adams letters, 1861 - 1865,; ed. By Worthington Chauncey Ford
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A Field Guide to American Houses with Drawings by Lauren Jarrett and Model House Drawings by Juan Rodriguez-Arnaiz
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A Fierce Personal Pride: a history of Mount Hope Finishing Company and its founding family
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A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts; with Numerous Illustrations on Wood and Steel.
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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 descendants of John May: Who came from England to Roxbury in America 1640
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A Guide to Collectors: 3,500 illustrations. English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, and the whole of the eigthteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth,
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A Handbook of American Pageantry
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A Handweaver's Pattern book
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A Haskin history
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A Haskin history Volume II
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A History and Genealogy of the descendants of Joseph Taynter; who sailed from England April, 1638, and settled in Watertown, Mass.
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A History of American Art Porcelain
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A History of Barrington, Rhode Island
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A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War
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A History of Rehoboth, Massachusetts; its history for 275 years, 1643 - 1918
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A History of Taunton High School
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A History of The Bristol County Savings Bank 1846 -1996
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A History of The Bristol County Savings Bank 1846 -1996
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A History of the County of Somerset Edited by R. W. Dunning
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A History of the Emblem of the Codfish in the Hall of the House of Representatives
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A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, With Many Important Statistics
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A History of the Town of Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, from 1669 to 1859.
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A History of the United States, from the discovery of the American continent�
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A History of the Winthrop Street Baptist Church, Taunton, Massachusetts, June 16, 1819
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A Histroy of the Winthrop Street Baptist Church, Taunton, Massachusetts. May 1945 - May 1999
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A Journey of Faith: St. Joseph's Parish 1896-1996
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A Lasting Memorial: Bishop Cassidy High School, Taunton, Massachusetts, Dedicated May 3, 1963.
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A Leighton genealogy: descendants of Thomas Leighton of Dover, New Hampshire
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A Little Commonwealth: family life in Plymouth colony
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A Long, Deep Furrow: three centuries of farming in New England
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A New England Typology of Native American Projectile Points
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A New England Typology of Native American Projectile Points
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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 New England town: the first hundred years:; Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736
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A New Guide to the Massachusetts State House
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A Nineteenth Century Railroad Car Builder: A Business and Technological History of the Taunton Car Company, 1869 - 1873.
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A Patch-Amsbury family chronicle
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A Patchwork History of Tiverton, Rhode Island
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A People's Army: Massachusetts soldier and society in the Seven Years' War.
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A Pictorial History of the Confederacy
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A Record of the Dedication of the Statue of Major General William Franic Bartlett; A Tribute of the Commonwealth of Massachusettes. May 27, 1904
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A Report of the Record Commissioners, Containing the Roxbury Land and Church Records.
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A Saga of Seven Bays
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A Short Account with the By-Laws, and a List of the Members of the Mass. Historical Society
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A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, 1637-1881
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A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln; A History
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A Shove family genealogy, 1638-1990
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A Sketch of Elder Daniel Hix, with the history of the First Christian church in Dartmouth, Mass., for one hundred years.
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A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845.
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A Stoughton Historical Sampler 1895 - 1995
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A Taunton River Journey: A Guide to Exploring the River, with History, Wildlife, Anecdotes, and Suggested Outings
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A Tour of Houses and Churches: September 23, 1989
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A Treasury of Gilbert & Sullivan
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A Trip Around Cape Cod; our summer land and memories of my childhood, written by E. G. Perry
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A beginning of a genealogy of the Wilbur family of Taunton
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A bibliography on historical organization practices
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A biographical dictionary; containing a brief account of the first settlers, and other eminent characters among the magistrates, ministers, literary and worthy men, in New England
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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. Together with an account of the efforts made in England to learn of their English ancestry, etc.
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A brief history of Bristol County; With an introduction by William F. Hanna
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A brief history of Old Deerfield including a description of places open to the public as well as miscellaneous information pertaining there-to
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A brief history of old English porcelain and its manufactories; With and artistic, industrial, and critical appreciation of their productions.
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A brief sketch of the early history of Teachers College
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A button collector's second journal
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A call to save: the memoir of a fire chaplain
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A census of pensioners for revolutionary or military services, with their names, ages, and places of residence, as returned by the marshalls of the several judicial districts, under the act for taking the sixth census.
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A centennial journey: St. Paul's Parish, 1904-2004
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A centurial history of the Mendon association of Congregational ministers, with the centennial address, delivered at Franklin, Massachusetts, November 19, 1851, and biographical sketches of the members and licentiates
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A century of genealogical progress; being a history of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
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A church history of New England; vol. II : extending from 1690, to 1784 including a concise view of the American War, and of the conduct of the Baptists therein, with the present state of their churches
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A commentary upon the book of Revelation...; delivered in several lectures, by that learned, laborious, and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham.
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A commentary upon the book of the revelation
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A compendium and digest of the laws of Massachusetts
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A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the assembly's shorter catechism
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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 copy of the records of births, marriages and deaths and of intentions of marriage of the town of Hanover, Mass., 1727-1857; As recorded by the several town clerks for the said town of Hanover
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A deaccession reader
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A declaration of remarkable providences in the course of my life
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A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions�
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A discourse commemorative of the life and services of Reverend Alexis Caswell�
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A discourse delivered to the First Parish in Hingham, September 8, 1869,; on re-opening their meeting-house
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A discourse on the Russian victories,; given in King's Chapel, March 25, 1813/by the Rev. James Freeman; and a catalogue of the library given by King William III to King's Chapel in 1698...
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A documentary history of Chelsea,; including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, rumney Marsh, and pullen point , 1624 - 1824;
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A family called Duty: 100 generations
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A gazetteer of the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island�/
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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 dictionary of the first settlers of New England; showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of the Farmer's Register
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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 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 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, with many biographical notes of descendants and allied families
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A genealogical history of the descendants of Joseph Peck, who emigrated with his family to this country in 1638; and records of his father's and grandfather's families in England; with the pedigree extending back from son to father for twenty generations; with their coat of arms, and copies of wills. Also, an appendix, giving an account of Boston and Hingham Pecks.
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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 register of the first settlers of New England; containing an alphabetical list of the governours to which are added various genealogical and biographical notes, collected from ancient records, manuscripts, and printed works. Reprinted with additions and corrections by Samuel G. Drake.
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A genealogical study of the American Paul/Paull family
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A genealogy of the Allen family from 1568 to 1882.; Comp. 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 Greenleaf family
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A genealogy of the Nye family
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A genealogy of the descendants of James Dean, one of the first settlers of Oakham, Mass.
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A genealogy of the descendants of John, Christopher and William Osgood,; who came from England and settled in New England early in the seventeenth century.
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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 reolutionary and other records
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A guide to Massachusetts local history; being a bibliographic index to the literature of the towns, cities and counties of the state, including books, pamphlets, articles in periodicals and collected works, books in preparation, historical manuscripts, newspaper clippings, etc.,
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A guide to U.S. army insignia and decorations; with over 140 illustrations in color
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A guide to United States navy insignia; including U.S. Marine Corps and Coast Guard with flags and decorations
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A guide to research collections of former members of the United States house of representatives 1789-1987
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A guide to the care and administration of manuscripts
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A guide to the manuscripts and special collections in the archives of the Falmouth Historical Society
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A hand-book of etiquette for ladies.
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A handbook of Indian artifacts from Southern New England
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A handbook of Indian artifacts from Southern New England, revised from original text of William S. Fowler by Curtiss Hoffman
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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 historical sketch of the town of Hanover, Mass.,; with family genealogies.
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A history and genealogy of the Conant family in England and America, thirteen generations, 1520-1887; ; containing also some genealogical notes on the Connet, Connett and Connit families�
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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 Avon, Massachusetts 1720-1988
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A history of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts from its origin to the present period; With some account of the environs.
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A history of Bristol County, Massachusetts
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A history of New England, containing historical and descriptive sketches of the countries, cities and principal towns of the six New England states; , including, in its list of contributors, more than sixty literary men and women, representing every county in New England.
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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, Mass. With genealogical records
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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 American locomotive, it's development: 1830-1880
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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 Duxbury Rural & Historical Society 1883-1983
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A history of the First regiment Iowa cavalry veteran volunteers, from its organization in 1816 to its muster out of the United States service in 1866.; Also, a complete roster of the regiment. 973.7477 1st IOWA Cavalry
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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 history of the Myricks United Methodist Church
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A history of the United States of America
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A history of the town of Acushnet, Bristol County, state of Massachusetts.
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A history of the town of Concord;; Middlesex county, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to 1832; and of the adjoining towns, Bedford, Action, Lincoln, and Carlisle; containing various notices of county and state history not before published.
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A history of the town of Franklin, Mass;; from its settlement to the completion of its first century, 2nd March, 1878; with genealogical notices of its earliest families, sketches of its professional men. And a report of the centennial celebration. By Mortimer Blake� Franklin, Mass., Pub. By the committee of the town, 1879
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A history of the town of Freetown, Massachusetts, with an account of the old home festival, July 30th, 1902.
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A journal of travels in England, Holland and Scotland, and of two passages over the Atlantic, in the years 1805 and 1806/
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A large and complete concordance to the bible
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A legal primer on managing museum collections
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A list of the soldiers, sailors, and marines of the War of the Rebellion in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on May 1, 1905,; by cities and towns, arranged alphabetically/
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A manual for courts-martial, U.S. Army; effective April 1, 1928, corrected to April 20, 1943
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A manual for the use of the General Court for 1991-1992; the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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A manual for the use of the General Court for 1997-1998
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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 of the American patriots who fell at the battle of Bunker hill, June 17, 1775.
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A memorial sketch of Harrison Tweed
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A military guide: the British Infantry of 1775
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A military journal during the American revolutionary war, from 1775 to 1783; Describing interesting events and transactions of this period, with numerous historical facts and anecdotes, from the original manuscript. To which is added an appendix, containing biographical sketches of several general officers.
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A museum of early American tools
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A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts
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A narrative of the campaigns of the British army at Washington, Baltimore, and New Orleans, under Generals Ross, Pakenham, and Lambert, in the years 1814 and 1815; With some account of the countries visited. By an officer who served in the expedition�
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A noble pursuit: the sesquicentennial history of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1845-1995
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A nomination for an area of critical environmental concern for the Three Mile River Watershed in the Towns of Norton and Dighton and the city of Taunton
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A partial history of the Crossman-Kressman-Cressman-Crissman-Crisman family
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A pictorial guide to American spinning wheels
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A pictorial history of the Attleboro; presented by The Sun Chronicle
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A plan for Taunton
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A record of the dedication of the monument on Dorchester Heights, South Boston, built by the commonwealth as a memorial of the evacuation of Boston, March 17, 1776, by the British troops.
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A record of the descendants of William Paul of Taunton in the colony of Plymouth
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A report on the archaeology of Maine;; being a narrative of explorations in that state, 1912-1920, together with work at Lake Champlain, 1917
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A short history of American locomotive builders in the steam era
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A short history of the Salem village witchcraft trials; illustrated by a verbatim report of the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe; a memorial of her. Map and half tone illustrations.
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A short treatise of the christian's great interest; divided into two parts...
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A sketch of the history of Attleborough,; from its settlement to the division.
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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 stewardship plan for the Three Mile River Watershed area of critical environmental concern in the Towns of Norton and Dighton and the city of Taunton
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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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