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• Wine for Gospel wantons, or, Cautions against spirituall drunkenness being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon a day of publick fasting and prayer throughout the colony / by that reverend servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Shepard, deceased. (Cambridge [Mass.] printed : [s.n.], 1668), by Thomas Shepard (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. an address unto those parts of New-England which are most exposed unto assaults, from the modern teachers of the misled Quakers. In a letter, which impartially discovers the manifold haeresies and blasphemies, and the strong delusions of even the most refined Quakerism: and thereupon demonstrates the truth of those principles and assertions, which are most opposite thereunto. Withjust reflections upon the extream ignorance and wickedness; of George Keith; who is the seducer that now most ravines upon the churches in this wilderness / written by Cotton Mather. (Boston : Printed by Benjamin Harris, & John Allen, at the London-Coffee-House, 1691), by Cotton Mather (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Historical discourse. (s.n., 1906), by Edward Abbott, Mass. : Episcopal) Trinity Church (Concord, Mass.) Trinity Church (Concord, and Episcopal Church. Diocese of Massachusetts. Eastern Convocation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens et les Canadiens aux Etats-Unis (G. Desbarats, 1872), by T. A. Chandonnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens et les Canadiens aux Etats-Unis (G. Desbarats, 1872), by T. A. Chandonnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jobs, security, democracy and peace. (Communist Party of Massachusetts, 1938), by Communist Party of the United States of America. Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Centenary of the see of Boston: a newspaper man's compilation of the leading events of the one hundredth anniversary of the Diocese of Boston, Oct., Nov., 1908. (The J.K. Waters Company, 1909), by William F. Kenney (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the archdiocese of Boston in the various stages of its development, 1604 to 1943 ... (Sheed & Ward, 1944), by Robert Howard Lord, Edward T. Harrington, and John Edward Sexton (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the archdiocese of Boston in the various stages of its development, 1604 to 1943 ... (Pilot Pub. Co., 1945), by Robert Howard Lord, Edward T. Harrington, and John E. Sexton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Boston inside out! : sins of a great city! : a story of real life (Shawmut, 1883), by Henry Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fallen priest. Story founded on fact. (Shawmut publishing company, 1883), by Henry Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Denkwürdige Ereignisse im Leben (Folsom, Wells and Thurston, 1838), by Andreas Bernardus Smolnikar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Joseph Coolidge Shaw : Boston yankee, Jesuit, early Boston College patron (Boston College, 1990), by Charles F. Donovan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The course of study in English. Grades one to three. Archdiocese of Boston. (Diocesan supervisor of schools, 1941), by Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.) and Richard James Quinlan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Historical sketches : a retrospective of fifty years of St. Louis' church : with preliminary chapters on the early days of Webster and Dudley (Washington Press, 1901), by John F. Conlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Church in Worcester, New England; a modern diocese with an ancient name; [drawings] by Jack Frost. (Designed by the Hawthorne Press for the Guild of Our Lady of Providence, St. Vincent Hospital, 1956), by John G. Deedy and Jack Frost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• John Todd, the story of his life (Harper & brothers, 1876), by John Todd and John E. Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the First Congregational Church, Williamstown, Massachusetts (Sun Printing, 1916), by Mass.) First Congregational Church (Williamstown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on the late publications of the First church in Worcester, relative to the "Origin and progress of difficulties" in that church. (Printed by Manning and Trumbull, 1821) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The original constitution, order and faith of the New-England churches. Comprising the platform of church discipline adopted in 1648. Propositions respecting baptism and consociation of churches answered by the synod of 1662. A confession of faith, adopted by the New-England churches 1680. (Reprinted for A. Lyman, 1812), by William Hubbard, John Higginson, Boston synod (1648), Boston synod (1662), and Cambridge synod (1648) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on Congregationalism, including a manual of church discipline, together with the Cambridge platform, adopted in 1648, and the confession of faith, adopted in 1680. (B. Perkins, 1846), by Leonard Woods, Cambridge synod, Boston synod, and Mass.) Cambridge Synod (1646-1648 : Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambridge platform of church discipline, adopted in 1648, and the confession of faith, adopted in 1680. To which is prefixed a platform of ecclesiastical government (Congregational Board of Publication, 1855), by Nathanael Emmons, Boston synod. 1680, and Mass.) Cambridge Synod (1646-1648 : Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Woods versus Dr. Dana on the imputation of heresy, against Professor Park, respecting the doctrine of original sin. (Tappan and Whittemore, 1853), by George Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketch of the Dorchester First Parish ([s.n.], 1916), by Daniel Weld Baker and Mary Baker Ordway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patriots' Day address upon Franklin County : points in the history of the Congregational Churches and a plea for advanced religious work (s.n.], 1908), by E. P. Tenney (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sermon, delivered May 26, 1808, in Brattle Street Church, Boston, before the convention of Congregational ministers, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Printed by Belcher and Armstrong, 1808), by Daniel Chaplin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appeal to the impartial public by the society of Christian independents, congregating in Glocester. (Boston : Printed by Benjamin Edes & Son, 1785., 1785), by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defence of the answer and arguments of the synod met at Boston in the year 1662 concerning the subject of Baptism and consociation of churches against the reply made thereto, by the Reverend Mr. John Davenport, pastor of the church at New-Haven, in his treatise entituled Another essay for investigation of the truth &c. : together with an answer to the apologetical preface set before that essay, by some of the elders who were members of the Synod above-mentioned. (Cambridge : Printed by S. Green and M. Johnson for Hezekiah Usher of Boston, 1664), by Richard Mather (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptisme & communion of churches : collected partly out of the printed books, but chiefly out of the original manuscripts of the first and chiefe fathers in the New-English churches : with the judgment of sundry learned divines of the congregational way in England, concerning the said questions : published for the benefit of those who are of the rising generation in New-England / by Increase Mather ... (Cambridge [Mass.] : Printed by Samuel Green, 1675), by Increase Mather and Jonathan Mitchel (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Manifesto or declaration set forth by the undertakers of the new church now erected in Boston in New England, November 17th, 1699. ([Boston [Mass.] : s.n., 1699]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Thirty important cases, resolved with evidence of Scripture and reason (mostly) by several pastors of adjacent churches, meeting in Cambridge, New-England (with some other memorable matters) ; now published for general benefit. (Boston in New England : Printed for Bartholomew Green & John Allen ..., 1699), by Cotton Mather and Increase Mather (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Quaker invasion of Massachusetts (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Richard P. Hallowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Quaker invasion of Massachusetts. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1884), by Richard Price Hallowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New-England tragedies in prose. (Nichols and Noyes, 1869), by Rowland H. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Quaker invasion of Massachusetts. (Houghtn, Mifflin, 1887), by Richard P. Hallowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wenlock Christison, and the early Friends in Talbot County, Maryland : a paper read before the Maryland Historical Society, March 9th, 1874 (Printed by John Murphy, 1878), by S. A. Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• A demonstration of true love unto you the rulers of the colony of the Massachusetts in Nevv-England (Printed in the year 1674.), by William Coddington and Richard Bellingham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Longfellow's country (The Musson Book Company, Ltd., 1909), by Helen Archibald Clarke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Longfellow's country (Doubleday, Page & company, 1913), by Helen Archibald Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The policy of the early colonists of Massachusetts toward Quakers and others whom they regarded as intruders. 1881. By Henry L. Southwick. (Beacon Press, 1885), by Henry Lawrence Southwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Quaker invasion of Massachusetts (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), by Richard P. Hallowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Quaker invasion of Massachusetts. (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1883., 1883), by Richard P. Hallowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A demonstration of true love unto you the rulers of the colony of the Massachusets in Nevv-England shewing to you that are now in authority the unjust paths that your predecessors walked in, and of the Lord's dealings with them in his severe judgments, for persecuting his saints and children ... / written by ... William Coddington of Road-Island [sic]. ([London : s.n.], 1674), by William Coddington and Richard Bellingham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A declaration of the General Court of the Massachusets holden at Boston in New-England, October, 1659, concerning the execution of two Quakers. (Reprinted in London : [s.n.], 1659), by Massachusetts General Court (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A glass for the people of New England, in which they may see themselves and spirits, and if not too late, repent and turn from their abominable ways and cursed contrivances that so the Lord God may turn away his wrath, which he will bring upon them, it they repent not, for their blasphemies against himself, and for all the murders and cruelties done to his tender people, ever since they usurped authority to banish, hang, whip, and cut off ears, and spoil the goods of dissenters from them in religious matters, while themselves disown infallibility in those things / by S. G. ([London? : s.n.], 1676), by S. G. (Samuel Groome), George Fox, and John Tyso (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An examination of the grounds or causes, which are said to induce the court of Boston in New-England to make that order or law of banishment upon pain of death against the Quakers;: as also of the grounds and considerations by them produced to manifest the warrantableness and justness both of their making and executing the same, which they now stand deeply engaged to defend, having already thereupon put two of them to death. As also of some further grounds for justifying of the same, in an appendix to John Norton's book ... whereto he is said to be appointed by the General Court. And likewise of the arguments briefly hinted in that which is called, A true relation of the proceedings against the Quakers, &c. Whereunto somewhat is added about the authority and government which Christ excluded out of his Church ... By Isaac Penington, the younger. (London : printed for L. Lloyd, next to the sign of the Castle in Cornhill, 1660), by Isaac Penington (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An answer to several new laws and orders made by the rules of Boston in New-England the tenth day of the eight moneth, 1677 by G.F. ([London : s.n.], 1678), by George Fox (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• History of the rise, progress and consummation of the rupture, which now divides the Congregational clergy and churches of Massachusetts, in a discourse delivered in the First church in Deerfield, Mass., September 22, 1857. (Greenfield : H. D. Mirick & co., printers, 1858., 1858), by Samuel Willard (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. : souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904. (Published by the parish, 1905), by Mass.) First Universalist Church (Somerville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenir portfolio of Universalist churches in Massachusetts (Massasoit Press, 1906), by Percy Metcalf Leavitt (page images at HathiTrust)

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