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Times of Their Lives-Life, Love, and Death in
Plymouth Colony $14.95
James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz
New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 2000
(from the end flaps) Who were the pilgrims? Far from the somberly clad,
Stern, and righteous figures children learn about in school, many of the
early settlers of Plymouth actually dressed in bright colors, drank heavily,
and often got into trouble.
A surprising new look at America's founding fathers and mothers, The
times of their lives presents a realistic, factual account of the
Plymouth colony based on contemporary archaeology, cultural research, and
living history. Taking little known trial transcripts, personal accounts,
wills and probate records, as well as physical artifacts such as shards and
spoons unearthed from old foundations, James and Patricia Deetz reveal what
life in 17th century Plymouth was really like. In the process they blow the
dust off dull, wooden figures of tradition and show the Plymouth colonists
as vibrant people who lived out complex and colorful lives in a world
profoundly different from our own.
Beginning with an eyewitness account of the first Thanksgiving, The
times of their lives offers an often startling portrait of Plymouth
colony includes aspects of the legal system, folk beliefs, family life,
women's roles and gender issues, eating habits, alcohol use, sexual
misconduct, domestic violence, suspicious deaths, and violent crimes.
The result is an impeccably researched and highly imaginative work that
shakes up our view of one of the most cherished myths of American history.
Table of contents:
Partakers of Our Plenty: the Plymouth Myth,
I Will Harry Them Out Of the Land!: The Early Years, 1606-1627,
There'd Be Witches Too Many: Glimpses of the Social World
In an Uncivil Manner: Six-Related Crimes, Violence and Death
A Few Things Needful: Houses and Furnishings
Still Standing in the Grout: the Archaeology of Early Plymouth
The Time of Their Lives: Plymouth Plantation
Sources and Notes
Index
366 pages, very good condition.
Directory of Social Agencies of Boston $10.00
Compiled and Published by the Boston Council of Social Agencies, 1924
Seventh Edition
A Reference Book of Social Service in the City of Boston.
For most of the entries there is a short paragraph detailing services
offered. There are advertisements in the back of the book.
7x4½, hardbound, good condition.
History of the Concord Country Club Concord,
Massachusetts 1895-1982 $10.00
Sally D. Parker
Table of contents
Gulf comes to America, 1888
Golf comes to Concord the Prichard links, 1895
The Concord golf club to Nashawtuc Farm, 1895-1913
The Concord Country Club, Brown Farm the Building Years, 1913-1920
The golden decade, 1920-1930
Hard times, 1930-1946
New Ideas, Old Principles, 1945-1982
Capital Expenditures Comparisons
Founding Members of the Concord Golf Club 1895
Club Presidents
Concord Golf Club Nashawtuc Farm 1897
Map of Links of the Concord Golf Club 1897
Bibliography
39 pages, 5 x 8 softbound pamphlet, good condition, some stains on the front
cover.
The Old Manse and the People Who Lived There
$6.95
Paul Brooks
Trustees of the Reservation, 1983
Table of Contents:
Introduction
William Emerson Patriot Minister
Ezra Ripley a Living Legend
William Emerson II between Two Worlds
Mary Moody Emerson-Brilliant Eccentric
Ralph Waldo Emerson-a Second War of Independence
Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne-Three Years in Eden
Samuel Ripley-Kindly Autocrat
Sarah Alden Ripley-gentle polymath
Edward Simmons-From the Old Manse to the Waldorf-Astoria
Epilogue
Bibliography
95 pages, 6 x 9 softbound, good condition, slight wear around the edges.
MASSOG Vol.
32, No.3 Fall - Winter 2008
$5.00
A Genealogical Magazine for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letter from the State President
Editor's Letter
Susannah Pratt, daughter of Thomas Gleason of Middlesex Co.,
Mass.
English Origin of Grace Cunliffe, wife of Thomas Brooks of
Concord, Mass.
Treasurer's Report 2008
Tillinghasts in America, First Four Generations, of Providence,
R.I., wins Jacobus Award
Bertha, Margretha and Catharina Basch, of Schonberg, Holstein to
Davenport, Iowa, Cynthia Winterhalter's second place writing contest
winner
Are You Confusing or Missing Days in Your Genealogy?
Index
The Worcester South District Registry of Deeds
MASSOG Editorial Board
State Officers and Board of Directors
NERGC Conference — Discovering Family Treasures
31 page 12x9 magazine, good condition
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
April 2009 $10.00
Volume 163, number 650
Humphrey Blake (1494?-1558) and His Descendants in New England and
South Carolina: Blake, Richards, Selleck, Torrey, and Wolcott
Clifford L. Stott
Identifying Sally Rice (ca. 1760-1835), Wife of Eliab Brewer
of Ludlow, Vermont Christopher Challender Child
Identifying Jonathan Pinney (ca. 1754-1812) of Guilford and
Plymouth, Vermont Christopher Challender Child
Was Nathaniel Jones, Who Married Mary Rediat in 1696, a
Son or Grandson of John1 and Dorcas ( ) Jones of
Concord, Massachusetts? Ann L. Dzindolet
The Paternal Ancestry of Abigail (Salter) Hammond of Watertown
and Hannah (Salter) Phillips of Boston Leslie Mahler
Three Men Named Isaac Phelps with Connections to Windsor, Connecticut
Nancy J. Pennington
Ann Neave, Wife of Stephen Gates, 1638 Immigrant to
Massachusetts Edward J. Harrison
The Two Wives of Lionel Chute, Schoolmaster of Ipswich, Massachusetts
William Wyman Fiske
Revisiting the Family of Gershom2 Flagg of Woburn,
Massachusetts Jon Wardlow (concluded from 163:26)
Some Descendants of Nathaniel3 Mead of Greenwich,
Connecticut, Through His Son Josiah4 Gail Blankenau
(continued from 163:38)
Reviews of Books and CD-ROMs
72 pages, 9x6 softbound magazine, good condition. Cover is a little wavy.
Recollections of Stow, Massachusetts
$9.00
(Also includes the pamphlet "There is a Tavern in the Town, in
the Town")
Francis W. Warren
Stow: Stow Historical Society, 1990
Foreword
Pilot Grove Farm Owners from 1782 to 1990 Introduction.
I The People Who Came
The English
Revolutionary War Prisoners Who Stayed the Irish
The Danes
The Norwegians and Swedes
Returned Loyalists
More English, Scots, and Irish
The Finns
The Poles
The Greeks and Albanians
The Canadians
The Germans
II Farming in Stow
Dairy Farming
Princeton Pasture
Orchards
Marketing Produce in Boston Haying
Hay Crops
Market Gardening
Poultry Farming
Horses
Sleigh Bells
Veterinarians
Farm Organizations
III. Growing Up In Stow
Hanging May Baskets Hide and Go Seek
Winter Fun—Sliding Sunday School Picnics Mt. Monadnock
Dances-1920's
School in Stow 1910-1922 School Transportation
IV. Stow Businesses of the Past
Nail Cutting
Tanning
Leather Goods
Lumbering
Sawmills
Ice Harvesting
The Central Garage
V. Stories of Stow
Some Unusual Happenings, the Forty Boys Ecology
Pilot Grove Hill Tatler Birches Winter, Years Ago
The Great Blizzard of 1978
Rev. Jonathan Newell and Minister's Pond The Itinerant Trader
Organ Pumpers
Tiffany, the Cosset Lamb
VI. Town Affairs.
Stow's Part in the American Revolution Relevant to Revolutionary
History
Cornwallis Day
Slavery in Stow—Youbel Stone, Freed
Dogs in the Meeting House
Town Hall Story
Watering Places for Horses
Street Names
Boston Post Cane Depression Project Notes on World War II
Christmas Packages
The Home Call
Fire Department, Equipment, and Fires in Stow
VII. Stories about Stow Personalities
Deacon Charles W. Robinson Clarence Braman
Arthur H. Rice
Hans Christian Hansen
Robert Stillman Priest
Francis H. Stevens and Charles A. Staples
J. Albert (Pa) Addy
The Rev. Howard F. Smith, Jr. William Rodney Hendy
George P. Schultz
The Smith Family
Jonathan Priest
Marshall Parks Lewis
Jerome Dwinells and Family
Aunt Carrie (Warren) Smith and Bill Smith Honoring Norman Castle and
Stillman Priest Helen (Novick) Brown
Luke Brooks and the Great Stone Face Hearsey-Ferguson Family
Edward Jensen
VIII. Quotations and Memorabilia
Appendix A Boundaries of Stow
Appendix B Public Lands in Stow (From Town Records)
132 pages, 6x0 softbound, good condition.
"There is a Tavern in the Town, in the Town"
(included with
Recollections of Stow, Massachusetts)
Stow Tercentenary Committee, 1983
(From the forward)
There is a tavern in the town....
In fact some say there were once sixteen of them, but this is
questionable, as is some of the information about them.
This is not a scholarly production, but a lighthearted booklet giving
glimpses of an aspect of ,our past.
Many of these taverns and inns, like many of our old houses, have no
accurately known dates. Research in the Middlesex County Court House in
East Cambridge is very interesting, albeit time-consuming, and if we
could find original owners and dates it would be time well spent…..
15 page pamphlet
New England Historical Genealogical Register Vol 73
No. 330 April 1929 $6.00
Portrait of HON. WILLIAM WALLACE CRAPO, LL.D.
MEMOIR OF HON. WILLIAM WALLACE CRAPO, LL.D. By Henry Howland
Crapo, A.B.
EARLY VITAL RECORDS OF CARMEL, ME. Com. by Anna Chandler Kingsbury
RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF BERWICK (SOUTH BERWICK), ME. (Concluded).
Cora. by Hon. John Clark Scates
INSCRIPTIONS FROM GRAVESTONES AT BOLTON, CONN. (Concluded). Com. by
Lucius Barnes Barbour, B.A.
WARNINGS-OUT IN CHELMSFORD, MASS., 1790, 1794. Com. by. Winifred
Lovering Holman, S.B.
RECORDS OF THE SOUTH CHURCH OF PORTSMOUTH, N. H. (Continued). Com. by
Rev. Alfred Gooding, A.B., S.T.B
MEMOIRS OF DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY (Continued). Prepared by Rev. Arthur Wilmot Ackerman, D.D.,
Historian, and Harold Clarke Durrell, A.B., Associate Historian
PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY. Com. by Henry Edwards Scott, Recording Secretary:
Proceedings at the Annual Meeting, 216; Reports for the Year 1928, 219;
Officers and Councillors of the Society for the Year 1929, 244; Officers and
Committees of the Society for the Year 1929, appointed by the Council,
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. Com. by
Henry Edwards Scott, Recording Secretary
NOTES:
Notes. — Society Notices; Additional Records of the "Mayflower," 250;
Smith-Gilbert Records, 251; Gage Bible Records, 252: Bible
Records of Buckminster Drury, 254 Historical Intelligence. — Chase
Genealogy, 254; Payne Genealogy; Genealogies in Preparation,
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is in good condition.
New England Historical Genealogical Register Vol 73 No. 331 July 1929
$6.00
PORTRAIT of FRANK HERVEY PETTINGELL
MEMOIR OF FRANK HERVEY PETTINGELL. By Harold Clarke Durrell, AB
RICHARD RICH. OF EASTHAM ON CAPE COD AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
By Evelyn Rich
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN ENGLAND. Com. by the Committee on English
and Foreign Research
RECORDS OF THE SOUTH CHURCH OF PORTSMOUTH, N. H. (Continued). Com. by
Rev. Alfred Gooding, A.B., S.T.B.
THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF RICHARD HAWES OF DORCHESTER, MASS. By
Frank Mortimer Hawes, A.M
MEMOIRS OF DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY (Continued). Prepared by Rev. Arthur Wilmot Ackerman, D.D.,
Historian, and Harold. Clarke Durrell, A.B., Associate Historian
THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY. OF DEA. SAMUEL CHAPIN OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
Com. by Howard Millar Chapin, A.B
INSCRIPTIONS FROM GRAVESTONES AT VERNON, CONN. Com. by Lucius Barnes
Barbour, B.A.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. Com. by
Henry Edwards Scott, Recording Secretary
NOTES:
Notes. — Society Notices; Martha Gosnold and Martha's
Vineyard, 373; List of Polls in Friendship, Me., 1817; Deaths in Watertown,
Mass., 1738-1754, 375; Turner Bible Records, 380; Slade Bible
Records, 381; Gilman Records; Three Inscriptions at St. Augustine,
Fla., 382; Martyn, 383
Historical Intelligence. —Resignation of William Prescott Greenlaw,
Librarian; Committee on Epitaphs and Records; The Gilbert Cope
Manuscripts, 383; History of Long Island, Casco Bay, Me.; Genealogies in
Preparation,
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About 70 pages, 6x9 softbound magazine, ragged around the edges, information
is in good condition.
New England Historical Genealogical Register Vol 73 No. 332 October 1929
$6.00
PORTRAIT of HON. MYRON TIMOTHY HERRICK, A.M., LL.D., LITT.D.
Signature of HON. MYRON T. HERRICK
MEMOIR OF HON. MYRON TIMOTHY HERRICK, .A.M:, LL.D., LITT.D. By
Harold Clarke Durrell, A.B., Associate Historian
CHAUCER'S MOTHER. Contributed by Eric St. John Brooks, M.A.,
and Com. by G. Andrews Moriarty, A.M., LL.B., F.S.A.
RICHARD RICH OF EASTHAM ON CAPE COD AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS
(Continued). By Evelyn Rich
EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF MOSES DAVIS, J P., OF EDGECOMB, ME.,
1775-1823. Com. by William Davis Patterson, Esq
RECORDS OF THE SOUTH CHURCH OF PORTSMOUTH, N. H. (Continued). Com. by
Rev. Alfred Gooding, A.B., S.T.B.
ANCESTRY OF THE BRADFORDS OF AUSTERFIELD, CO. YORK. RECORDS
EXTENDING THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD. Contributed
by William Bradford Browne
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF THOMAS EASTABROOKS OF SWANSEA,
MASS. By William Jones, A.B
PARENTAGE OF JOHN LANE OF HINGHAM AND NORTON, MASS. By Ellen
Jeannette Lane
MEMOIRS OF DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE. NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY (Continued). Prepared by Rev. Arthur Wilmot Ackerman, D.D.,
Historian, and Harold Clarke Durrell, A.B., Associate Historian
INSCRIPTIONS FROM GRAVESTONES AT VERNON, CONN. (Continued). Com. by
Lucius Barnes Barbour, B.A.
NOTES:
Notes. — Society Notices; Richard Hakluyt and John Brierton, 505;
Allen Bible Records, 507; Dolbear Records, 511; Parentage of
Ursula, Wife of Stephen Streeter, 512
Historical Intelligence. — Committee on Epitaphs and Records; A New Series
of Historical Pamphlets; Cemetery Inscriptions in Pennsylvania, 512;
Genealogies in Preparation
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About 70 pages, 6x9 softbound magazine, ragged around the edges, information
is in good condition.
Historic
Storms of New England
$95.00 (someone else is offering this for $175.00)
Sidney Perley
Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co, 1891
Its Gales, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Showers With Thunder and Lightning, Great
Snow Storms, Rains, Freshets, Floods, Droughts, Cold Winters, Hot Summers,
Avalanches, Earthquakes, Dark Days, Comets, Aurora-Borealis, Phenomena In
The Heavens, Wrecks Along The Coast, With Incidents And Anecdotes, Amusing
And Pathetic.
Table of Contents:
I. The Great Storm of August, 1635
II. The Earthquake of 1638
III. The Earthquake of 1663
IV. The Comet of 1664
V. Strange Appearance in the Heavens in 1667
VI. The Storm of 1676, and Shipwreck of Ephraim Howe
VII. .The Comet of 1680
VIII. Strange Appearance in the Heavens in 1682
IX. The Dark Day of 1716
X. The Winter of 1716-17
XI. Wreck of the Pirate Ship Whidah
XII. The Aurora Borealis in 1719
XIII. The Storm of February 24, 1722-23
XIV. Earthquake of 1727
XV. The Winter of 1740-41
XVI. The Earthquake of 1744
XVII. The Winter of 1747-48
XVIII. The Hurricane at Pepperell, Mass., 1748
XIX. The Drought of 1749
XX. The Great Earthquake of 1755
XXI. The Hurricane at Leicester, Mass., in 1759
XXII. The Drought of 1762
XXIII. Showers with Thunder and Lightning in 1768
XXIV. The Gale of December 4, 1768
XXV. The Summer of 1769
XXVI. The Great Freshet of 1770
XXVII. The Summer of 1770
XXVIII. The Storm of October 20, 1770
XXIX. The Summer of 1771
XXX. The Hurricane on Merrimac river in 1773
XXXI. The Storm of November, 1774
XXXII. The Dark Day of 1780
XXXIII. The Hurricane of June 23, 1782
XXXIV. The Great Freshet of October, 1785
XXXV. The Tornado of 1786
XXXVI. The Snow Storms of December, 1786
XXXVII. The Cyclone of August, 1787
XXXVIII. The Meteor of 1787
XXXIX. The Gale of 1788
XL. The Whirlwind of June 19, 1794
XLI. The Long Storm of November, 1798
XLII. Hail Storm in Connecticut in 1799
XLIII. The Freshet of 1801
XLIV. The Great Snow Storm of February, 1802
XLV. Storm of October, 1804
XLVI. Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1806
XLVII. The Freshet of 1807
XLVIII. The Meteorite of 1807
XLIX. Cold Friday, 1810
L. The Freshet of 1814
LI. The Tornado in New Hampshire in 1814
LII. The Gale of September 23, 1815
LIII. The Cold Summer of 1816
LIV. The Tornadoes of September 9, 1821
LV. The Spring Freshet of 1823
LVI. The Spring Freshet of 1826
LVII. The Avalanche in the White Mountains, and Destruction of the Willey
Family
LVIII. The Wreck of the Almira, 1827
LIX. Gale and Freshet of April, 1827
LX. The Storm of March, 1830
LXI. The Great Freshet of July, 1830
LXII. Meteoric Display of 1833
LXIII. Winter of 1835-36
LXIV. The Storms of December, 1839
LXV. The '-October Gale," 1841
LXVI. The Storm of 1842
LXVII. The Freshet of 1846
LXVIII. The Storm of December, 1847
LXIX. The Storm of October, 1849
LXX. The "Lighthouse" Storm, 1851
LXXI. The Tornado of August 22, 1851
LXXII. The Storm of April, 1852
LXXIII. The Freshet of November, 1853
LXXIV. Winter of 1856-57
LXXV. The Gale of September 8, 1869
LXXVI. The Tornado at Wallingford, Conn., in 1878
LXXVII. The Yellow Day of 1881
LXXVIII. Cyclone at Lawrence, Mass., in 1890
341 pages, 6x9 hardbound, good condition, corners bumped, small dent bottom
edge
The New
England Historical and Genealogical Register January 2009
$10.00
Volume 163, number 649
Editorial
Massachusetts Descendants of the Rev. Thomas Wilson, Author of the
Pilgrims' Christian Dictionarie: Theophilus Wilson, Martha (Wilson)
Bachelor, Mary (Wilson) Treadwell, and Their Nephew
Samuel Taylor Doris Schreiber Willcox
Was Elizabeth2 Kilbourne the First Wife of Hugh1
Gunnison of Boston and Kittery? Ernest H. Helliwell III
Revisiting the Family of Gershom2 Flagg of Woburn,
Massachusetts Jon Wardlow
English Origins of John Lovejoy of Andover, Massachusetts James R.
Henderson
Some Descendants of Nathaniel3 Mead of Greenwich,
Connecticut, Through His Son Josiah4 Mead Gail
Blankenau
George1 Standley of Beverly, Massachusetts, and His
Children Deborah Kimball Nowers
The English Background of Richard Kent Sr. and Stephen Kent of
Newbury, Massachusetts, and Mary, Wife of Nicholas Easton of Newport,
Rhode Island Jane Fletcher Fiske (concluded from 162:254)
Mary (Bulkeley) Clarke's Birth Year Corrected Robert M.
Gerrity
Richard1 Godfrey of Taunton, Massachusetts, and His
Children and Grandchildren Helen Schatvet Ullmann (concluded from
162:275)
Reviews of Books and CD-ROMs
78 pages, 9x6 softbound magazine, good condition.
The “Old
Northwest” Genealogical Quarterly 1902 Vol V
$29.95
Columbus, Ohio: The “Old Northwest Genealogical Society”, 1902
(table of contents)
Villers, Villiers, Villiers-Stuart by Horace W. Whayman Esq.
Ridgway Family of Burlington County, N.J. and Columbus, Ohio by
Charles Arthur Ridgway
The Genealogical Value of Wills. Where to Look for Wills in England
by Walter Rye Esq.
Monumental Inscriptions from Rosse Chapel Cemetery, Gambier, Knox
County, Ohio by Edward A. Gorman (concluded from Vol IV, pg 136)
A List of Pedigrees in the Visitations of Oxford, 1566, 1574 and 1634 Vol V.
Harleian Society Publications Compiled by Lucius C, Herrick M.D.
Marriage Record, Washington County, Ohio July 9, 1789 – April 25, 1822 by
William H. Jennings Esq. (Continued from Vol IV, pg 131)
April 1902
Thomas Worthington by Frank Theodore Cole
Villers, Villiers, Villiers-Stuart by Horace W. Whayman Esq. (continued
from page 4)
Ridgway Family of Burlington County, N.J. and Columbus, Ohio
by Charles Arthur Ridgway (Concluded from page 6)
Ridgway Family of Pennsylvania and Winfield Iowa Contributed
by Mrs. Jennie Lindley Ridgway.
Fragmenta Genealogia No. IV Wainman-Wayneman (continued from Vol
IV pg 86) Halmote Book of Bishops Hutton and Mathew A.D. 1584-99 Contributed
by Horace W. Whayman Esq.
Marriage Record, Washington County, Ohio July 9, 1789 – April 25, 1822
by William H. Jennings Esq. (Continued from page 22)
Burials in Cove Cemetery, East Haddam, Connecticut Communicated by Edmund
Janes Cleveland
Burials in the western Methodist Graveyard Chillicothe, Ohio Contributed
by William B. Mills
July 1902
Lucius Bliss Wing By Samuel Carroll Derby
MacKenzie Family of Galouch (Gairloch) Copied by A. W.
MacKenzie from Alexander Nisbitt’s A System of Heraldry Edinburgh
1816
Gleason – Isaac Gleason Descendants by Frank T. Cole (to
be continued)
Monumental Inscriptions in the Old Cemetery of Rutland, Worcester County,
Mass. Contributed by David Everett Phillips
October 1902
Thomas Worthington by Frank Theodore Cole (continued from April
number)
Burials in the Old Cemetery at Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio
Contributed by Miss Mary Augusta Stone ( Continued from Vol IV, pg 52)
Gleason – Isaac Gleason Descendants by Frank T. Cole
(continued from pg 84) (to be continued)
Descendants of Capt. William Fowler by Daniel W. Fowler
171 pages, 6x9 hardbound, ex library with usual stickers and markings, fair
condition, covers stained, corners bumped, pages in good condition.
American
Canadian Genealogist Issue 81 Vol 25 no.3
$4.00
Table of contents:
Jean FRIGON: Canadian in Australia Roger W. Lawrence,
#1
Eastern Townships and Counties Frank Binette, #1411 Lawrence L.
Prado, #4019
George CHARETTE: Spanish-American War Veteran Richard L.
Fortin, #254
Life in Lowell's "Little Canada": Lowell, Massachusetts Robert Alfred
Neveux, #4604
Along these Lines George G. Morgan
Vesoul: Part III Donald Chaput, #2867
Grace DEREPENTIGNY-METALIOUS: Franco-America's Most Scandalous
Novelist Albert J. Marceau
More on the ROYER Line Richard L. Fortin
PELOQUIN Family in the New World Michel Péloquin Robert
A. Péloquin, #5352
Building a Lowell Repertoire Robert Alfred Neveux, #4604
Marriage in New France Roger W. Lawrence, #1
Marriages, Deaths and Baptisms from Hatley, Québec Helen Gouin-Tuttle,
#1253
About 55 pages. 9x12 softbound magazine good condition.
New Voices on the Shores: Early Pennsylvania German
Settlements in New Brunswick $29.95
Rainer L. Hempel
Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association, 2000
Table of contents
Conditions in Europe and the Lure of America;
Origins of the Petitcodiac Germans;
Ricker
Soomer
Wortman (n)
Treiz
Lutz
The County of Wertheim
Forefathers of Michael Lutz in Hohenfer and Kreuzwertheim
The Journey Westward;
The Petitcodiac Germans in Pennsylvania;
Northbound to a Vacant Land;
Germantown New Brunswick. The story of an Unsuccessful Settlement.
The Petitcodiac Germans in ‘Monckton”
The Hillsborough Settlement
History and Stories of the Petitcodiac;
Land Deeds for ‘Monckton” and Hillsborough
Matters of the Spirit
The Sprit of Enterprise
Homesteading and Beyond;
New Names in a New Province
A Blending of Old and New
Genealogical Reference;
Beck
Copple,
Jones,
Lutz (Lutes)
Ricker,
Sommer (Somers, Summers),
Stahlecker,
Stieff (Steeves),
Treitz (Trites), and
Wortman (Wortmann)
Sources
Archival and unpublished
Published
Appendix
Index
486 pages, 6x9 softbound, good condition.
The Lost Towns of Quabbin Valley $12.00
Elizabeth Peirce
Arcadia Publishing, 2003
The Quabbin Reservoir, in central Massachusetts, was created in 1938 to
supply the state's growing population with a source of drinking water. More
than two thousand people were displaced when the Quabbin Valley was flooded.
Three branches of the Swift River were dammed, and five towns-Dana, Enfield,
Greenwich, Prescott, and parts of New Salem-were covered with water. The
Lost Towns of the Quabbin Valley highlights the life and times of these
towns from 1754 to 1938, when the inhabitants were told, "All Must Leave."
The architectural landscape of the Quabbin Valley at one time included the
churches, cemeteries, schoolhouses, post offices, homes, and businesses that
made the thriving communities. The Lost Towns of the Quabbin Valley presents
rare photographs of town life, including images of students at the first
Hillside School and Dr. Mary Walker, a Congressional Medal of Honor
recipient and Greenwich summer resident. The images are drawn from the
archives of the Swift River Valley Historical Society. Although the towns
are gone, their stories are alive and well.
Elizabeth Peirce, museum president and curator of the Swift River
Valley Historical Society, has been involved in preserving the history of
the Quabbin Valley for many years. This book is a joint effort of museum
members and former residents of the Quabbin Valley.
128 pages, 6x9 softbound, good condition.
Gardner, Massachusetts $12.00
South Gardner Historical Society, 1995
Table of contents:
South Gardner The Village
Gardner Centre Uptown
Wet Gardner The Square
The Depot Union Square
Recreation School and Sports
Entertainment, Celebrations and Parks
Industry and Commerce
(from the back cover) The History of Gardner is as fascinating as
it is long. Founded shortly after the close of the American Revolution,
it was named after one of its heroes, Colonel Thomas Gardner, who died
from wounds suffered on Bunker Hill.
The original petition for incorporation was signed by
61 people from parts of Westminster, Ashburnham, and Winchendon, who,
suffering hardship in attending public worship at the various
meetinghouses, started anew in Gardner and began a tradition of purpose
and pride that still can be seen in the city today. This tradition lead
to a thriving economy during the Industrial Revolution, with Gardner
becoming known as "chair town" for one of its most successful
industries.
While some of this rich heritage has been preserved,
much of Gardner's past now exists only as captured on film over the
years. The South Gardner historical Society has carefully selected over
200 photographs to trace the development of this dynamic and diverse
city and to give us a vivid picture of the way life used to be. The
result is a captivating visual history that stands as a moving tribute
to the people of Gardner, and also preserves the past for generations to
come.
128 pages, 6x9 softbound good condition.
An
Address In Commemoration Of The One Hundredth Anniversary Of The
Incorporation Of The Town Of Hubbardston, Mass. $19.99
Worcester: Printed By Chas. Hamilton, Palladium Office. 1867
Delivered June 13th, 1867, By Rev. John M. Stowe, Of Sullivan, NH
A Poem, Prepared By Dea. Ephraim Stowe;
Together With Other Proceedings And Exercises Connected With The
Occasion.
With An Appendix , Containing A List Of The Municipal Officers, And
Other Interesting Matter.
109 pages, softbound, fair condition, corner of front cover is gone.
Light marking on covers.
A Pictorial History of Greenfield Massachusetts
$38.00
The Greenfield Historical Society, 1953
Produced for the 200th anniversary of Greenfield. Lots of great pictures
with captions. Includes a Cities Service flyer commemorating the 200th
anniversary of Greenfield with a timeline of its history.
(From the introduction)
For fifty-three years Mr. Charles E. Winslow of
Greenfield has been patiently gathering together these remarkable
pictures, many of them going back to the infancy of the camera. He has
given his collection to the Historical Society of Greenfield, where it
is on permanent display. The Society, in order to make this almost
direct experience of Greenfield's past available to all as well as to
posterity has published this volume. edited by Mr. Winslow. We feel that
its value will increase with the 'ears.
Greenfield has existed as a town for two centuries, but
how it may have looked before the advent of the honest and unflinching
eye of the camera, we can only guess. In this book, however, we are able
to show a very good overall picture of what one might have seen here
from 186o to about 1900. The camera does not flatter, as we all have
regretfully observed; on the other hand, it tells few lies. We all tend
to regard its record as veracious; we know that a thing in the past had
reality when we see photographic evidence. So, although our pictures of
Greenfield may not show all the romantic beauty inherent in the light
and color of a once-charming village scene, they will transmit a genuine
feeling of solid kinship with a departed yesterday.
The sequence in which the pictures are arranged was
planned, although a little loosely, to present the impressions of a
newcomer in Greenfield at any time from 186o until 1900. First he would
have been aware of the Common ("Bank Row"), the heart of the matter then
as now. Next he would have become familiar with the ways of travel in
and out of town, the river, the railroads, the trolley cars, and the
many bridges. After a few days he would have found his way up and down
Main Street, observed the schools, the post-office, and all the side
streets. After becoming an established citizen associated with one of
the growing industries he might have joined the Cycling Club or the
Comedy Club or one of the many other delightful social activities of a
pleasure-loving period.
Since the photographs of the 1860's and 1870's were taken with very long
exposures on glass plates prepared by the operator, it is little wonder
that a stage-coach rolling up the dusty street to the grateful
refinements and refreshments of the Mansion House, may be a little
blurred. The best procedure in enjoying very old photographs is to close
the eyes half-way and let imagination go to work from there, filling in
the brightness and movement of the grand old scene. Then open the eyes
wide and really use them, remembering that the most minute detail in a
photograph was something actually there, and that its nature and meaning
will reappear with patient study. These pictures deserve and need the
most careful study if we are fully to recapture the sense of the past.
The ladies will stroll once again in the handsome garden of the Hovey
house; the three shabby musicians playing on Main Street will again
strike up a haunting melody from "The Bohemian Girl"; the first trolley
will clang stubbornly at an unconvinced nag; perhaps Thackeray or
Wendell Phillips or Emerson will stroll out of the Davis house on
Federal Street. Or is it, perhaps, the late winter of 1888 with the
whole town as silent as the moon, buried in drifts of snow ten to twenty
feet deep? Or is it such a motionless moment in a breathless August
afternoon that not a rig is stirring the powdery dust on East Main
Street, and no sound is heard but one locust singing reveille from an
elm in front of the Pratt house to one sleeping G.A.R. veteran on the "piazzer"
of the "Gun Shop across the way? The final conclusion from all these
pictures is un-escapable — that a more leisurely life than ours must
have been the lot of Victorian Greenfield. We think of it, perhaps too
romantically, perhaps correctly, as a time of long afternoons, hammocks,
long novels, long snug winters with cutter-racing and sociable's, of a
generally easy pace, careful choice of language, and profound
seriousness and optimism about man and his fate.
NOTE: Many of the earliest pictures in this book were
taken by C. M. Moody; many of those taken in the period around 1900 are
by Mr. Winslow; several were taken by the late T. C. Forbes (Forbes
camera shop) The photograph of the village blacksmith was taken by the
famous Allen sisters of Deerfield....
101 pages, 7x9 hardbound, very good condition.
Some Descendants of Nathaniel Woodward
Mathematician $35.00
Percy Emmons Woodward
Newtonville: Privately Printed 1940
(from the foreword)
"In 1897, Theron Royal Woodward of Chicago, Ill., published in volume
fifty-one of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, a
slight genealogical account of some of the descendants of Nathaniel
Woodward, mathematician and surveyor, who settled in Boston, Mass.,
before November 1635. In the following account of this same family has
been incorporated most of his research with corrections of some errors
and much additional material. The book has been edited by Mary Lovering
Holman, of Boston, but for the compilation and the deductions from found
evidences she is not responsible…
PERCY EMMONS WOODWARD Newtonville, Mass., April 1940."
63 pages, 7x9 hardbound, god condition, corners bumped. Owners name
inside front cover Winifred Grace Woodward in ink along with few lines
in pencil.
A Gentleman of Much Promise The Diary of Isaac
Mickle 1837-1845, Vol I and II $35.00
Philip English Mackey, Editor
Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977
Fascinating journal of his years between the ages of 14 and 22. He was a law
student and lived in Camden New Jersey. He had an interest in politics and
gives his opinion freely on matters of the day. I enjoyed reading this
glimpse into the life of this era.
531 pages, good condition, some small dents on the covers. conSS
Generations, Issue 50, December 1991 $6.00
New Brunswick Genealogical Society
Table of contents:
Obituaries, Sarah Hayward & Mary McLellan (Hayward),
George H. Hayward
Ontario Vital Statistics Transferred Ontario Ministry of Culture
Genealogy, Penobscot Loyalist Timothy Roix/Roax/Roak/Rourke, Karin E
Gower (Sherrard)
The Haywood Family, Faulkner, Etta Haywood
Book ad, We Hardly Knew Ye Mary Kilfoil McDevitt
McElmon Marriages in New Brunswick Petersen, Lisa McElmon
The Stilwell Story, Ross W. McCurdy
Researcher advertisement, Deirdre O'Donnell
Old Johnville, Cemetery Carleton Co.
Queries, Betty Saunders
Miscellaneous Marriages from North. Co. Register, Andrew Stillman
N.B. Women's Diary Project, Joanne Ritchie
Genealogy, Ahnentafel Chart of Warren Hasty, Warren H. Hasty
Beyond Your Family Tree, Sharon M. Dubeau
Book review, A Hebridean Heritage, Don W. MacLean
72 page 9x12 magazine, good condition.
Generations, Issue 51, March 1992 $6.00
New Brunswick Genealogical Society
Table of contents:
Research Resources in New Brunswick, Judi Berry Steeves
N.B. Natives in Upper Wisconsin, Warren H. Hasty
Ad, Aros Co. Ltd. (The Archives of Russia) Soshnikov
Book advertisements, Ruby M. Cusack
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Cemetery, Mary Kilfoil McDevitt
Book ad, Descendants of John Tisdale, Robert L. Tisdale
The Haywood Family, Final notes and index Etta Haywood Faulkner
Book advertisements Tangled Roots
N.B. Natives in Oregon, Warren H. Hasty
Book ad, The Coulombe Family, Paul A. Coulombe
Queries, Betty Saunders
Book ad, English census on microfiche
Moore Ahnentafel Chart, Nancy R Moore
Williams Cemetery at Kouchibouguac Nat. Park, Maurice Robichaud
Gravestones Spoentgen Cemetery, Karen Holmberg
McAuliff Ahnentafel Chart, Edward R. McAuliff
Natives in Michigan, Warren H. Hasty
N.B. Natives in Minnesota & Wisconsin, Warren H. Hasty
Book ad, CANB Publications Provincial Archives of N.B.
72 page 9x12 magazine, good condition.
Generations, Issue 52, Summer 1992 $6.00
New Brunswick Genealogical Society
Table of contents:
Pioneer
Preacher - Rev. Seth Noble, George H. Hayward
Loyalists to Canada, Quakers at Passamaquoddy, Theodore C. Holmes
Marriages, Amity, Maine & Vicinity
N.B. Natives in Oregon in 1800s, Warren H. Hasty
Giberson Cemetery on Kingston Peninsula, Dorothy Wiggs
Wightman Cemetery on Kingston Peninsula, Dorothy Wiggs
Bayswater Cemetery, on Kingston Peninsula, Dorothy Wiggs
N.B. Natives in Washington in 1800s, Warren H. Hasty
Campobello Militia 1811/York Co. Militia 1873, Daniel F. Johnson
Escuminac Flats, Cemetery Quebec Ross Carter/Jackson
Marriages, selected from York Co. Records, Andrew Stillman
N.B. Natives in Western Oregon, 1800s, Warren H. Hasty
72 page 9x12 magazine, good condition.
Generations, Issue 53, Autumn 1992 $6.00
New Brunswick Genealogical Society
Table of contents:
Pioneer
Preacher - Rev. Seth Noble, George H. Hayward
Deaths, Amity, Maine and Vicinity, Bryce S. Weeks
Lower Brighton, Cemetery Carleton Co., Hubert R. Bryant
The Saint John River Planters, Alan W. Ulrich
Descendancy Chart for John McKillop of Scotland, George R.
McKillop
Gleanings from a Keith Family Bible, Sylvia Keith Rederick
Xebec Microfilming & Duplicating Contract
Book ad, Townships of the Province of Ontario Nipissing District Branch,
OGS
Cemeteries of Albert Co., Additions & Corrections, David Christopher
Compiling and Publishing Your Family History, George H. Hayward
72 page 9x12 magazine, good condition. SSC
Old Time Time New England January 1949 $5.00
The
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Boston, Massachusetts: 1949
Table of Contents
The Derry-Osborne Barn
Cocumscusoc (four illustrations) by John Hutchens Cady
New England-1630 to 1848 by Harold Kelsey Estabrook
Ruth Henshaw Bascom (Two illustrations) by Agnes M. Dods
When Boston Harbor Froze by Arthur H. Hayward
Cordwood for Locomotives by J. Almus Russell
22 page magazine, one sheet has detached. SSC