Holdings of the Library for the
Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants

 

Library Wish List

 

This is a list of books and CDs that the library would like to acquire. If you are interested in donating to the library by purchase or by money donation for us to purchase a particular item, please contact the office to ensure it has not already been purchased by emailing us.

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Source material

Dennis Source Records: Volume I, Church Records by Burton National Derick (Harwich, Mass., 2005). $50 [from Cape Cod Genealogical Society, POB 1394, Harwich MA 02645]

Vital Records of the Town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts to 1850 by Leonard H. Smith Jr. and Dorothy Marvelle Boyer (Baltimore: GPC, 1986, rep. 1993). price unknown, out of print

Paxton, Massachusetts, Burial Ground Inscriptions, to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Mass., 1906). price unknown, out of print

Index of Surnames in Early Massachusetts: from printed sources by Evelyn C. Lane (Derry, N.H., 1989), 4v. price unknown

Master Index to Early Connecticut Marriages comp. by Frederick W. Bailey (Pittsfield, Mass., n.d.). $35
Master Index to Early Massachusetts Marriages comp. by Frederick W. Bailey (Pittsfield, Mass., n.d.). $22.50
[above two available from Berkshire Family History Assn., POB 1437, Pittsfield MA 01202]

Penobscot Vital Records, 1700-1890 by Donna Hoffmann (Brewer, Me., Cay-Bel Pub. Co., 1984). price unknown

"Rutland Co., Vt., Cemetery books" by Margaret R. Jenks -- 16 separate books ranging from $12 to $30 each or the entire set for $448. [Order from author at 24 Mettowee St., Granville NY 12832]

"Washington Co., N.Y., Cemetery books" by Historical Data Services -- 14 separate books ranging from $20 to $48 each or the entire set for $408. [Order from author at 14 Clark St., Glens Falls NY 12804 or online at www.hdsgenealogy.com]

Dutchess County, NY, Probate Records, 1787-1865: Registers of wills and letters testamentary and of administration in the Surrograte's Office, Poughkeepsie, NY by Arthur C. M. Kelly (Rhinebeck, N.Y., Kinship Books, 1997). $58 from author's website at www.kinshipny.com

Quaker Meeting Records, State of New York by Josephine S. C. Frost (Typescript, feb. 1942). price unknown, out of print

Ohio Marriages Recorded in County courts, 1 Jan. 1821-31 Dec. 1830: An Index (Mansfield, Ohio, 2003). $89 in 2v. [Order from Ohio Genealogical Society, 713 S. Main St., Mansfield OH 44907]

Canadian Records:

Abstracts from the Court of Probate Records for Annapolis County, Nova Scotia (1763-1938) by Wayne W. Walker (S.l., 1994, rev. ed., 2003). $58 [on bookfinder.com]

"Will Book A (December 1770 to July 1830)" for Cumberland Co., N.S. [and seemingly old Westmorland Co. now in New Brunswick] -- a CD of images of every page totaling 352 documents, over 5000 person indexed. $38 U.S. [Order from Cumberland County Genealogical Society, POB 1071, Amherst NS B4H 4E2 (www.ccgs.ednet.ns.ca)]

Any source material books and CDs from the Kings Co., N.S., Museum. They have town, church, vital, cemetery, marriage, probate, and land records available at www.okcm.ca/giftshop.hmtl]

Cemetery material for Lunenburg and Queens Cos., N.S., from the South Shore Genealogical Society (www.ssgs.ca/index2.htm). [Note: Electronic form desired, bookstore in flux, so email them]

Cemetery books for Shelburne Co., N.S., from the Shelburne County Archives and Genealogical Society (nsgna.ednet.ns.ca/shelburne/bookshop.html) in 14 volumes. $209 for all

Protestant Marriages in the District of Bedford, Quebec, 1804-1879: from the church records of eight religious denominations representing seventy congregations by R. Neil Broadhurst (Calgary: Kintracers, 1991). price unknown [Order from Kintracers, Box 48271, Midlake RPO, Calgary AB T2X 3C7]

... dans le district judiciaire de Saint-Francois des Cantons de l'Est, Quebec, 1815 a 1879 [all non-Catholic records in the St. Francis District of the Eastern Townships]. Marriages $25 (CD #10), Births $41 (CD #9), Deaths $30 (CD #11) [each 2v. in book form]; and Mariages des Cantons de l'Est 1800-2003. All marriages from all churches in the Eastern Township. $225 (CD #63) [includes above marriages, plus three more counties for Protestants, and eight counties Catholic marriages]

 

Mayflower history

New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing by David Read (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005). $37.50

William Bradford's Books: Of Plimoth Plantation and the Printed Word by Douglas Anderson (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2003). $45

[the above books available through most larger bookstores]

 

Genealogy

A Bowerman Family History: some Descendants of Thomas Boreman (c. 1623-1663) of Barnstable, New Plymouth Colony by A. L. Bowerman (Baltimore: Gaetway Press, 1998). $55 [Order from author, 1820 W 600 N, Howe IN 46746]

Edmond Hawes and His American Descendants: Edward Hawes (1608-1683) of Yarmouth ... by Raymond Gordon Hawes (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2000). $100 [author out of copies, sometimes on bookfinder.com]

Wood Family Index by Sumner Wood (S.l., 1966). price unknown, out of print

 

 

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