Norfolk County History, Town Histories, Church Histories, Vital Records and Genealogies
| History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable County (2 Volume set) $99.00 Elroy S. Thompson New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company 1928 Table of Contents: 1204 pp. hardbound 2 volumes>P,N,C&I Cohasset Cohasset, Massachusetts Genealogies and Town History $166.00 George Lyman Davenport and Elizabeth Osgood Davenport 1909. First Edition. Cohasset Committee on Town History (from the introduction) “In 1896, when Rev. E. Victor Bigelow, a member of the committee on Town History, volunteered to write a history of the Town of Cohasset, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Davenport were engaged by the committee to write a Genealogy of Cohasset Families. The narrative history was completed and published in 1898, but the genealogy requiring infinitely more research, it was not possible to publish it with the earlier volume, and it was not until October, 1908, that the book was ready for the press. In the ten years that have elapsed since the publication of the history, there have been some changes in the town, and the committee on Town History have taken advantage of the opportunity to bring the History up to date. In the narrative history subjects were omitted which might properly have been included; we have therefore added a number of chapters containing matter which it is believed is of sufficient importance to be preserved.” Table of Contents: COHASSET GENEALOGIES By George Lyman Davenport and Elizabeth Osgood Davenport LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS Compiled by Newcomb B. Tower, with biographical sketches by Edmund Pomeroy Collier. GLEANINGS FROM THE TOWN RECORDS By Newcomb B. Tower. MUSICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF COHASSET The Tremont Serenade Band — The Atlantic Musical Association — The Cohasset Choral Union — The Cohasset Musical Association By Burgess C. Tower Cohasset’s Deep Sea Captains. By Edmund Pomeroy Collier Wrecks, Wrecking And Life Saving In Cohasset By Oliver H. Howe The Great Gale of November 27, 1898, In Cohasset By Oliver H. Howe A Short History of St. Stephen’s Church By Rev. Howard Key Bartow The Pope Memorial Church by Rev. Cecil Harper The Paul Pratt Memorial Library by Rev. William R. Cole, with a Description of the Building by the Architect, Edward Nichols Early Records of The Cohasset Library Historic Memorials By Oliver H. Howe Recent Development Of Cohasset By Oliver H. Howe 631 pages, 6×9 hardbound, good condition covers faded, corners bumped. Condition: Good Vital Records of Cohasset, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1850 $45.00 Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1916 COHASSET. April 26, 1770, part of Hingham established as the district of Cohasset. August 23, 1775, the district made a town by general act. June 14, 1823, part of Scituate annexed. March 20, 1840, bounds between Scituate and Cohasset established and part of each town annexed to the other town. April 30, 1897, bounds between Cohasset, Hingham and Scituate established. Number of births printed 4,003 Number of marriages printed . 792 X 2= 1,584 names Number of deaths printed 1,534 Total 7,121 237 pages, 6×9 hardbound, good condition, crease on front cover, corners bumped. Some light scratches. DedhamAbstract of Births, Dedham, Massachusetts. 1844-1890 $50.00 Edited by Don Gleason Hill Dedham, Mass: 1894 Alphabetical Abstract of the Record of Births, in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts. 1844-1890 206 pages, Good condition, some stains on front cover and fading. Abstract of Marriages, Dedham, Massachusetts. 1844-1890 $50.00Edited by Don Gleason Hill Dedham, Mass: 1896Alphabetical Abstract of the Record of Marriages, in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts. 1844-1890. Arranged under the names of the groom, with an index of the names of brides. 165 pages, good condition, corner wear, small tear on cloth on top part of spine. Original shipping stickers to original owner in back of book. Abstract of Deaths, Dedham, Massachusetts. 1844-1890 $50.00 Edited by Don Gleason Hill Dedham, Mass: 1895 Alphabetical Abstract of the Record of Deaths, in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts. 1844-1890 217 pages, good condition, small hole in cloth on cover, rubbing. Dover Dover, Massachusetts $10.00 Paul H. Tedesco NH: Arcadia Publishing, 2000 (from the back cover) Originally part of the Dedham Grant 1635, Dover, Massachusetts became Dedham’s fourth precinct in 1729 and the Springfield parish of Dedham in 1748. When the Commonwealth Inc. it 1836, Dover’s economy was based on farming and grazing. Several companies, including the E.F. Hodgkins Company and the Harvard apparatus company, successfully manufactured portable houses and medical instruments and Dover. However, they eventually left, is Dover remained agriculturally based. By 1896, Dover had become a suburban community. From 1900 to 1914, wealthy Bostonians-many of them members of the Norfolk club-built at least 18 spacious country estates in Dover, far from the noise and hubbub of the city. Population grew slowly after World War I, but in 1945, the town increased in numbers, as veterans returned from World War II and others saw the convenience of commuting to work in Boston while living in a pastoral environment. Once the home of Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Governor Francis Sargent, and benefactress Amelia Peabody, Dover today is an elegant country town, a mixture of estates, open fields, forests, and family neighborhoods. Arthur, educator, and local historian Dr. Paul H. Tedesco, professor emeritus at Northeastern University, is currently President of the Dover Historical Society. He is in President of the New England History Teachers Association and the Bay State Historical League. He is written, lectured and taught New England and local history for over 40 years. An innovative historian, he looks at Dover’s 20th-century history through the beautiful original photographs of the Dover historical Society and the local citizenry. 128 pages, 6×9 softbound, good condition, corners bumped. |
| Foxboro History and Directory of Foxboro, Mass. for 1890 25.00 1890 A. E. Foss & Company, Needham. Reprint 1989, Foxboro Historical Commission. Containing a Complete Resident, Street and Business Directory, Town Officers, Schools, Societies, Churches, Post offices, Etc., Etc. and History Of The Town From The First Settlement to the Present Time, By R. W. Carpenter. 88 pages, 6×9 hardcover, good condition. This Was Foxborough, Mass $52.50 Mr. and Mrs. Clifford W. Lane Foxborough, Mass: Rea-Craft Press, 1966 Table of contents: Introduction, Boundary Lines, The First Settler, Roads and Landholdings, Town Beginnings, The First Church and Incorporation of the Town, and Town Meeting, “Of the First Settlers of Foxborough as a Town” Revolutionary Days, Early Years of the Town Church, The First Departure from the “Meeting House” Founding of the Universalist Society, The “New” Norfolk-Bristol Turnpike (Route 1 Today) “Robbins’ Corner”, Aspects of Daily Life Early Industries, “In School Days” (1800-1865), The First Straw Hat Industry, A Civic-Minded Community, War Clouds, The Civil War Period, An Incident Relating to the Civil War, Post-Bellum Days The Centennial, Happy Village Years, Telegraph, Telephone and Town Water Supply, A Self-Contained Society, The Foxborough Historical Society Our Country Stores, II Our Country Stores, The “Electrics” and Thanksgiving The Town Water Supply, In — and Out, Early 1890’s — A Church, a Memorial and an Extensive Hospital Century’s End, Fire! Fire! Fire!, Transition, The Foxboro Company, Post World War I, The Sesquicentennial Celebration The Lean Years, World War II (Part I), World War II (Part II) — The War Bond Drive, and The Foxboro Company, World War II (Part III, 1943-45) — War’s End. 227 page 7×10 hardbound, good condition, light scratches on covers, outside edges of pages have light spotting. Franklin Valuation Tax of the Town of Franklin, Massachusetts $45.00 The early valuations also include some personal property such as cows, horses, machinery, etc. Some years include the poll tax and some years list non resident property owners. Valuation of Estates and Taxes on Polls and Estates in the town of Franklin, Mass for the Year 1859 Valuation and Tax of the Town of Franklin, Mass for the Year 1868 Assessors’ Report of the Valuation and Tax of the Town of Franklin, Mass for the Year 1879 Assessors’ Report of the Valuation and Tax of the Town of Franklin, Mass for the Year 1889 Assessors’ Report of the Valuation and Tax of the Town of Franklin, Mass for the Year 1896 Assessors’ Report of the Valuation and Tax of the Town of Franklin, Mass for the Year 1900 Assessors’ Report of the Valuation and Tax of the Town of Franklin, Mass for the Year 1906 Assessors’ Report of the Valuation and Tax of the Town of Franklin, Mass for the Year 1911 Poll Tax List 1911 400 -600 pages, hardbound, covers have faded in numerous spots, wear bottom of spine, corners bumped, spine tight and all pages firmly in place. Holbrook Inventory of Town & City Archives in Mass. Holbrook, Norfolk Co. $18.00 Boston, Mass: The Historical Records Survey, WPA, 1940 See the extensive table of contents 170 pages, 9×12 softbound, cover is worn, water stains on covers and some page margins, working copy, all pages intact. Stoughton Images of America: Stoughton, Massachusetts $15.99 (reg. $19.99) David Allen Lambert Arcadia Publishing, 2001 Originally, Stoughton was a part of old Dorchester and the land set aside for the Punkapoag Indians. First, settled by Colonial families from Dorchester, Braintree, and Dedham, the town has had many generations of descendants who have helped build this thriving community. Stoughton grew with the arrival of various industries, from home shoe shops on family farms and water-powered mills to emerging smokestacks of mammoth shoe and hoot factories. At the close of the nineteenth century, both the old Yankee families, and recent European immigrants in search of new opportunity called the town of Stoughton home. In Stoughton, many rare photographs from the arches of the Stoughton Historical Society have been carefully selected to illustrate this hook. Within these pages, yon will see Stoughton’s own namesake, Lt. Gov. William Stoughton, who was the presiding chief justice over most of the Salem witchcraft trials; images from the Great Fire of 1880, which nearly destroyed Stoughton Center; the famous, clock-towered granite train station, on Wyman Street; the Stoughton Volunteer Firemen’s Association’s famous hand tub; the majestic Stoughton Town Hall; George F. Belcher’s Shoe Last Factory; and the house of Stoughton’s own victim of the RMS Titanic disaster in 1912. A lifelong resident and town historian, author David Allen Lambert has been involved with the Stoughton Historical Society since 1980. He has served as vice president and assistant curator-historian, and is currently the society’s genealogist. He also lectures in the United States and Canada on the topics related to genealogy and history. 128 pages, softbound Wellesley Epitaphs from Graveyards in Wellesley (Formerly West Needham), North Natick, and Saint Mary’s Churchyard in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, with Genealogical and Biographical Notes $29.95 (out of print) George Kuhn Clarke, LL.B. Heritage, (1900) reprint, 236 pages, original name plus subject index, softbound, new. Wrentham Wrentham, MA (Images of America) $9.50 Charles G. Woodham, Earl T. Stewart Arcadia Publishing 1999 Wrentham Village Our Two Large Lakes The West End of Town How We Earned Our Keep Some Occasional Images Schools and Students The Human Side Buildings 128 pages, 6×9 softbound, good condition, remnants of sticker on front cover |