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Within the lineages, family histories, vital records and historical essays
compiled and indexed in this data set, you'll find information on approximately
190,000 individuals. Originally published by the Genealogical Publishing
Company, the 22 titles reproduced here are expertly sourced and comprehensive.
Often, you'll have the opportunity to learn not only of your immigrant
ancestor's voyage to America but of his or her new life once they settled
in New England. Among the resources, you'll find:
- Biographical sketches of early settlers
- Historical essays on early New England life
- Journal entries detailing the daily struggles of early New Englanders
(including entries composed by John Winthrop and compiled by James Savage)
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- Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts
Bay, from 1623 to 1636
by Alexander Young
Based entirely on original sources, this work includes comprehensive
biographies, notices and histories on the original planters of the Colony.
The twenty-four heavily sourced chapters also reference contemporary
family members.
- Peirce's Colonial Lists: Civil, Military and Professional Lists
of Plymouth And Rhode Island Colonies, 1621-1700
by Ebenezer Weaver Peirce
In more than 100 pages, this work lists colonial, county, and town officers
and clergymen, physicians, and lawyers who lived between 1621 and 1700
in the Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies. For convenient browsing,
the book is divided into three classifications: civil, military, and
professional. Within those classifications, you'll learn details such
as office, date of service, residence, dates of election or appointment,
and dates of commission (for officers in the local militia). You'll
also find excerpts from militia laws and laws of the Colonies. The surname
index to this book contains approximately 1,000 names, most with multiple
references.
- The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England
by Frederick Lewis Weis
This work contains an annotated, alphabetical list of approximately
2,000 of New England's clergymen as well as a complete list of colonial
New England churches. The annotations furnish such useful genealogical
information as place and date of birth, names of parents, college of
matriculation, date of ordination, religious denomination, and names
of parishes.
- Directory Of The Ancestral Heads Of New England Families, 1620-1700
by Frank R. Holmes
A highly esteemed guide to New England ancestry, this work consists
of an alphabetically arranged list of nearly 15,000 heads of families
who arrived in New England in the 17th century. For members of each
family, you'll generally learn the earliest place of residence in New
England, place of emigration, place of relocation within New England,
occupation, dates of birth and death, derivation of surname, and source
citation.
- Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America
by Henry Whittemore
Originally, this work was published serially from September 1898 through
June 1906 in the short-lived periodical called The Spirit of 76.
Since complete sets of the periodical are virtually unknown, this volume
is especially valuable. The Guide consists of genealogical notices
of 10,000 seventeenth-century settlers. Generally, you'll learn dates
of arrival, places of residence and removal, spouse's name and date
of marriage, names and birthdates of children, dates of wills and other
records, names of ships, and countries of origin. Descriptions of coats-of-arms
are also given for many families.
- Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of
Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut And Massachusetts
by Nathaniel Goodwin
A cornerstone of genealogy for the two states, this volume provides
biographies and genealogies of early settlers. Among the information
that you'll learn about an individual included here is residence, name
and parentage of wife, death date, and lines of descent (usually to
the third generation, and often to the fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh
generation).
- Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England
by Ernest Flagg
In this book, the author details his lineage which includes no less
than 172 different New Englanders, most of whom settled in this country
between 1635 and 1640. All 172 lines, concentrated primarily in eastern
Massachusetts, the Connecticut Valley, Rhode Island and South Carolina,
are examined in this meticulously researched work.
- Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families
by Sebastian V. Talcott
In more than 700 pages, this work consists of genealogical notes on
approximately 18,000 individuals who were members of New York and New
England families. The notes often include dates and locations of vital
events for all members of a family (often back to the original immigrants
to America and forward to the last quarter of the 19th century) and
were extracted from Bible records, records of burials in New York from
1727 to 1757, and an index of intermarriages for both New York and New
England families.
- A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England,
1620-1675
by John Farmer
Like many of the other volumes included in this Family Archive, this
directory of the first settlers of New England is based almost entirely
on original records. Arranged alphabetically by surnames, the information
on each individual includes date of arrival, place of settlement, dates
of birth and death, and biographical highlights.
- The History of New England, Volumes I And II
by James Savage
These two volumes combine the works of John Winthrop, among the first
sources on the early history of New England, and James Savage, the leading
name in New England genealogy. Often referred to as Savage's Edition
of Winthrop's Journal, this work was inspired by the discovery in
1816 of a third part of Winthrop's History of New England. Mr.
Savage transcribed the newly discovered manuscript and integrated it
with the previously published pages of Winthrop's Journal. Savage also
added his own annotations about the men, women, and events Winthrop
referred to thereby yielding a work perhaps twice as long as the original
journal. Winthrop's History of New England is arranged in order
of journal entry and covers the patriarch's 1630 arrival in Massachusetts
Bay to 1648 (the year before his death). Turn to any page in the Savage
edition and you will find notes of great genealogical value. For example,
when Winthrop refers to a fire in the house of John Page, Savage's notes
tell us that Page was one of the first freemen admitted to the Massachusetts
General Court. When Winthrop refers to an obscure tract of land, Savage
reveals that it may now be found in the town of Middleborough. In 1637,
Winthrop records that a Captain Mason attacked a group of Pequots, but
it is Savage who identifies the same Captain Mason as having arrived
with the first settlers of Dorchester in 1637 and having a son, John,
who would be wounded in 1675 in a battle with the Narragansetts. In
addition to the notes, you'll find an index to more than 3,000 persons
and places mentioned in the History.
- Immigrants to New England, 1700-1775
by Ethel Stanwood Bolton
This work consists of an alphabetical list of 2,250 immigrants who arrived
in New England between 1700 and 1775. Entries contain important information
such as place of origin and place of settlement, dates of departure
and arrival, names of family members, date of marriage, and names of
children. The information derives from a variety of printed sources
(including town records, family compendia, genealogies, and local histories).
Since each detail is sourced, you can easily determine where to perform
additional research.
- Marriage Notices, 1785-1794
by Charles Knowles Bolton
Arranged in alphabetical order and extracted from the Massachusetts
Centinel and the Columbian Centinel, this work cross-references
over 5,000 brides and grooms. While primarily New England marriages,
there are entries from all of the original colonies and Ohio. Generally,
you'll find age, occupation, notation of a previous marriage, and name
of the minister.
- One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families
by John Osborne Austin
These genealogies begin with the first member of the family to come
to New England and extend into the 19th century. Most of the families
detailed here migrated to Rhode Island.
- The Real Founders of New England Stories of their Life Along
the Coast, 1602-1628
by Charles Knowles Bolton
In more than 200 pages, the author describes the lives of planters,
settlers, fishermen, and traders who lived along the New England coast
years before the landing of the Mayflower. He includes an extensive
look at the Popham Colony of 1608 and valuable appendices which identify
hundreds of lesser-known early New Englanders.
- Result of Some Researches Among the British Archives for Information
Relative to the Founders of New England
by Samuel G. Drake
Compiled between 1859 and 1860 from records contained at the British
Archives, this volume contains lists of names of passengers who were
among the earliest emigrants to America. For each individual, you'll
generally learn their port of embarkation, debarkation, and dates of
travel.
- Soldiers in King Philip's War: Official Lists of the Soldiers
of Massachusetts Colony Serving In Philip's War, And Sketches Of the
Principal Officers, Copies of Ancient Documents and Records Relating
to the War
by George Madison Bodge
Called "The standard work on its subject..." by The New England
Historical and Genealogical Register, this is the definitive study of
the Indian war of New England known as "King Philip's War"
(1675-1677). Among the source documents included here you'll find muster
and payrolls of colonial soldiers (both regular and militia), biographical
and genealogical sketches, and lists of grantees and claimants of the
Narragansett townships of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut.
Altogether, this comprehensive resource references more than 5,000 individuals.
- The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623-1660
by Charles Henry Pope
A revision and supplement to the Maine and New Hampshire entries in
James Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New
England, this volume references nearly 1,000 individuals. The information
was compiled from public and private archives as well as ship passenger
lists.
- The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers
by Charles Edward Banks
This critically acclaimed work has biographical sketches of 112 passengers
who sailed on the first four ships to New England. Along with data on
the passengers' origins, family connections and later histories, it
substitutes proof for guess-work and blows holes in many cherished traditions.
The author gives first the historical evidence, then follows a list
of the passengers on the Mayflower, Fortune, Anne,
and Little James. These are dealt with, one by one, and the little-known
facts about their place of residence in England and their parentage
and ancestry are given.
- The Planters of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts, 1620-1640
by Charles Edward Banks
Scrupulous in every detail, this work contains the names of 3,600 passengers
on the ninety-six ships which brought them to New England between 1620
and 1640. Working with the same records employed by Savage, Drake, and
Hotten, and with records unknown or inaccessible to them, the author
pulls the several classes of records together to form one of the most
complete and authoritative collection of passenger lists for the period
ever published. In addition to the names of passengers and ships, places
of origin, and places of residence in America, the book includes indexes
to surnames, ships, English parishes, and New England towns.
- Topographical Dictionary of 2,885 English Emigrants to New England,
1620-1650
by Charles Edward Banks
Nearly 3,000 emigrants are included in this Dictionary. You'll
generally find reference to their English homes, the name of ships upon
which they sailed, towns in which they settled in New England, and references
to the printed or manuscript sources from which the information was
extracted. In collecting data for this work, Colonel Banks made seven
visits to England, searching the records of nearly 2,000 parishes in
order to connect the New England immigrants with their native parishes.
Additional information is provided in a series of indexes: Index to
Emigrants to New England; Index of the Wives and Children of the Emigrants;
Index of Parishes; Index of Ships; and Index of Towns in New England.
- The Winthrop Fleet of 1630
by Charles Edward Banks
This is an authoritative list of the 700 passengers who are believed
to have come to New England with John Winthrop in 1630. Based on research
undertaken in England and America, it provides as much information as
could be verified on each passenger. This information includes name,
place of departure, places of residence in England and America, occupation,
church affiliation, relationships to other passengers, and dates of
birth, marriage, and death. It also has indexes of names, places, and
subjects as well as appendices listing the passengers on the Lyon
as well as on the Mary and John which sailed at the same time
as the Winthrop Fleet.
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