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Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society v77; 1927), by Gardner Weld Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
Gen. John Glover and his Marblehead regiment in the revolutionary war : a paper read before the Marblehead historical society, May 14, 1903 (The Society, 1903), by Nathan P. Sanborn and Mass.) Marblehead Historical Society (Marblehead (page images at HathiTrust)
Massachusetts in the American Revolution (Printed for the Society, 1895), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford and Sons of the American Revolution. District of Columbia Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Souvenir of Lexington, 1775-1875. (Published by James R. Osgood & Co., 1875), by Edward G. Porter, John Greenleaf Whittier, H. M. Stephenson, and Lexington Centennial Committee (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Western Massachusetts in the Revolution. (Brown University Press, 1954), by Robert Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
The life of Artemas Ward, the first commander-in-chief of the American Revolution ... (A. Ward, 1921), by Charles Martyn (page images at HathiTrust)
Celebration of the centennial anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill. With an appendix containing a survey of the literature of the battle, its antecedents and results. (Printed by order of the City council, 1875), by Boston (Mass.) and Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
The battle of April 19, 1775 : in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts (The Author, 1912), by Frank Warren Coburn (page images at HathiTrust)
Liberty tree: with the last words of Grandfather's chair. (Tappan and Dennet, 1842), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
Historic pilgrimages in New England; among landmarks of Pilgrim and Puritan days and of the provincial and revolutionary periods (Silver, Burdett & company, 1898), by Edwin M. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
Beneath old roof trees (Lee and Shepard, 1896), by A. E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Theatrum majorum : the Cambridge of 1776, wherein is set forth an account of the town, and of the events it witnessed : with which is incorporated the diary of Dorothy Dudley, now first publish'd : together with an historicall sketch, severall appropriate poems, numerous anecdotes ... (Lockwood, Brooks, 1876), by Dorothy Dudley and Arthur Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
From colony to commonwealth : stories of the revolutionary days in Boston (Ginn & Co., 1894), by Nina Moore Tiffany (page images at HathiTrust)
Cambridge in the "centennial" : proceedings, July 3, 1875, in celebration of the centennial anniversary of Washington's taking command of the Continental Army, on Cambridge Common. (Printed by order of the City Council, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
Dedication exercises at the Massachusetts Military Monument, Valley Forge, Pa. : erected by the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Saturday, 18th November, 1911, in grateful memory of the officers and men from Massachusetts who served there between 19th Dec., 1777, and 19th June, 1778 : also list of officers in Massachusetts organizations in the Revolutionary War and list of officers in Massachusetts organizations who served at Valley Forge (Wright & Potter Print. Co., 1912), by Philip Hildreth Reade (page images at HathiTrust)
Celebration at North Bridge, Salem, July 4th, 1862 : oration (J.E. Farwell and Co., printers to the city, 1862), by George B. Loring and Salem (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Beside old hearth-stones (Lee and Shepard, 1897), by A. E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Declaration of Independence by the colony of Massachusetts Bay : May 1, 1776. ([publisher not identified], 1862), by Henry B. Dawson and Luther Bradish (page images at HathiTrust)
The administration of the Massachusetts and Virginia navies of the American revolution. ([Annapolis, Md., 1906), by Charles Oscar Paullin (page images at HathiTrust)
Celebration of the centennial anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill. (Printed by order of the City council, 1875), by Boston and Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
Milton and the Suffolk resolves (Milton Historical Society, 1921), by Lauriston L. Scaife and Mass.) Milton Historical Society (Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
From colony to commonwealth; stories of the revolutionary days in Boston (Ginn & Co., 1891), by Nina Tiffany (page images at HathiTrust)
The silver punch bowl made by Paul Revere to commemorate a vote of the honorable House of representatives of the Massachusetts Bay in 1768. (Reproduced from the "Boston Sunday herald" of January 20, 1895.) (N. Sawyer & son, printers, 1895), by Benjamin Franklin Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
The silver punch bowl made by Paul Revere to commemorate a vote of the honorable House of representatives of the Massachusetts Bay in 1768. (Livermore & Knight co., 1903), by Benjamin Franklin Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
Address in the old Concord meeting house, April 19, 1894 (Beacon press, T. Todd, printer, 1894), by E Hoar (page images at HathiTrust)
Preliminaries of Concord fight; read before the Concord Antiquarian Society (Concord Antiquarian Society, 1901), by George Tolman (page images at HathiTrust)
Declaration of independence by the colony of Massachusetts Bay ([New York, 1862), by Henry Barton Dawson and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
The relation of New Hanpshire men to the siege of Boston; delivered before the New Hampshire society of sons of the American revolution, at Concord, N. H., July 9, 1903 (Rumford printing company, 1904), by William Frederick Whitcher and Sons of the American Revolution. New Hampshire Society (page images at HathiTrust)
South Carolina and Massachusetts. Speech of Hon. J.J. Evans, of South Carolina, in reply to Mr. Sumner of Massachusetts. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, June 23, 1856. (Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1856), by Josiah J. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
The life of Colonel Paul Revere (H.W. Spurr, 1902), by Elbridge Henry Goss (page images at HathiTrust)
The Letters of Governor Hutchinson, and Lieut. Governor Oliver, & c. printed at Boston, and remarks thereon with the Assembly' s address, and the proceedings of the Lords Committee of Council : together with the substance of Mr. Wedderburn's speech relating to those letters, and the report of the Lords Committee to His Majesty in Council. (Printed for J. Wilkie ..., 1774), by Israel Mauduit and Thomas Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
The letters of Governor Hutchinson and Lieut. Governor Oliver, &c. printed at Boston, and remarks thereon, with the Assembly's address and the proceedings of the Lords Committee of Council; together with the substance of Mr. Wedderburn's speech relating to those letters. (Printed for J. Wilkie ..., 1774), by Thomas Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
The Letters of Governor Hutchinson, and Lieutenant Governor Oliver, & c. printed at Boston and remarks thereon, with the Assembly's address, and the proceedings of the Lords Committee of Council; together with the substance of Mr. Wedderburn's speech relating to those letters. (Printed for W. Gilbert ..., 1774), by Andrew Oliver, Israel Mauduit, and Thomas Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Honor roll of Massachusetts patriots heretofore unknown, being a list of men and women who loaned money to the federal government during the years 1777-1779. (Privately issued for the Massachusetts chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1899), by Bell Merrill Draper and Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution (page images at HathiTrust)
Economic conditions in Massachusetts during the American revolution (J. Wilson, 1918), by Ralph Volney Harlow (page images at HathiTrust)
An address delivered at Acton, July 21, 1835 : being the first centennial anniversary of the organization of the town : with an appendix, in which the honors of the Concord fight ... are considered .... (Printed by J.T. Buckingham, 1835), by Josiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
Liberty tree : with the last words of Grandfather's chair (Briggs, 1851), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Massachusetts : from July, 1775, when General Washington took command of the American Army, at Cambridge, to the year 1789, (inclusive,) when the federal government was established under the present Constitution. (Published by Wells and Lilly, 1825), by Alden Bradford and Wells and Lilly (page images at HathiTrust)
Grandfather's chair (McLoughlin, 1905), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
General Gage's instructions, of 22d February 1775, to Captain Brown and Ensign d'Berniere (Printed, and to be sold, by J. Gill, in Court-Street., 1779), by Thomas Gage, Matt Bushnell Jones, Harold Murdock, John Gill, Henry De Berniere, and Great Britain. Army (page images at HathiTrust)
The case of Edward Drewe, late major of the Thirty-fifth Regiment of Foot. (Printed by B. Thorn and Son, 1782), by Edward Drewe, William L. Clements, and Great Britain. Army. Court-martial (Drewe : 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)
Gage's Instructions, by Henry De Berniere and Thomas Gage (Gutenberg ebook)
A concise refutation of the claims of New-Hampshire and Massachusetts-Bay, to the territory of Vermont; with occasional remarks on the long disputed claim of New-York to the same. / Written by Ethan Allen and Jonas Fay, Esq'rs. ; And published by order of the governor and Council of Vermont. Bennington, the first day of January, 1780. Joseph Fay, sec'ry. (Hartford: : Printed by Hudson and Goodwin., [1780]), by Ethan Allen, Jonas Fay, and Vermont. General Assembly (HTML at Evans TCP)
An oration delivered March fifteenth, 1775, at the request of a number of the inhabitants of the town of Boston. By Dr. Thomas Bolton. ; [Three lines of quotations in Latin] ([Boston : s.n.], Printed in the year, M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]), by Thomas Bolton (HTML at Evans TCP)
Copy of the complaint of the House of Representatives of Massachuset's-Bay, against Sir Francis Bernard: with Sir Francis Bernard's answer. ([Boston? : s.n., 1770]), by Massachusetts House of Representatives and Francis Bernard (HTML at Evans TCP)
Sagittarius's letters and political speculations. Extracted from the Public ledger. : Humbly inscribed to the very loyal and truly pious Doctor Samuel Cooper, Pastor of the Congregational Church in Brattle Street. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts] (Boston. : Printed: By order of the Select Men and sold at Donation Hall, for the benefit of the distressed patriots., MDCCLXXV. [1775]), by John Mein and Samuel Cooper (HTML at Evans TCP)

Filed under: Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography

Jonathan Holman, a revolutionary colonel. A paper read before the Worcester society of antiquity, December 5th, 1893. (Private press of Franklin P. Rice, 1894), by John C. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
Five Framington heroes of the American Revolution : a paper read upon the invitation of the Framington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, at the rooms of the Framingham Historical Society (Lakeview Press, 1925), by John M. Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Drama

The Rebels of Nantucket (revised version of The Patriots of Nantucket; 2009), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
The Adulateur: A Tragedy, As it is Now Acted in Upper Servia (with spelling modernized), by Mercy Otis Warren (HTML at seltzerbooks.com)

Filed under: Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction

A lover's revolt (Longmans, Green, and co., 1898), by John William De Forest (page images at HathiTrust)
Daughters of the revolution and their times, 1769-1776; a historical romance (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1895), by Charles Carleton Coffin (page images at HathiTrust)
Menotomy : romance of 1776 (Richard G. Badger, 1908), by Margaret L. Sears, Gorham Press, and Richard G. Badger (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Patriot's progress /by Jospeh G. E. Hopkins. (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961), by Joseph G. E. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Privateer of Massachusetts Bay (New-York : F.A. Brady (successor to E.D. Long), [between 1870 and 1879?], 1870), by Sylvanus Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times: 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance, by Charles Carleton Coffin (Gutenberg ebook)

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