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• Proceedings of a Great Whig Meeting of Citizens of Boston, Held at Amory Hall, On the Evening of Wednesday, Oct. 10th, 1838, by Mass.) Whig Party (Boston (page images at Google)

• The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays' Rebellion, by Edward Bellamy (Gutenberg text)

• 1872: Letters Written by a Gentleman in Boston to His Friends in Paris, Describing the Great Fire (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909), by Harold Murdock (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Address Delivered Before Theodore Winthrop Encampment, Post 35, G.A.R., at Academy of Music, Chelsea, Mass., Memorial Day, May 30, 1873 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1873), by William H. Hodgkins (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Record of Andover During the Rebellion, by Samuel Raymond (page images at MOA)

• Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation", From the Original Manuscript, With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Masachusetts (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1898), by William Bradford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Emancipation of Massachusetts: The Dream and the Reality, by Brooks Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Gods Promise to His Plantation (1630), by John Cotton, ed. by Reiner Smolinski (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Hypocricie Unmasked, by Edward Winslow (HTML at delanoye.org)
• Life and Letters of John Winthrop (first editions, 2 volumes; Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864-1867), by Robert C. Winthrop, contrib. by John Winthrop
  • first volume (1588-1630): multiple formats at archive.org
  • second volume (1630-1649): multiple formats at Google
• Life and Letters of John Winthrop (second edition, 2 volumes; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1869), by Robert C. Winthrop, contrib. by John Winthrop
  • Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoranda, Historical, Chronological, &c. Prepared With the Hope to Aid Those Whose Interest in Pilgrim Memorials, and History, is Freshened by This Jubilee Year, and Who May Not Have a Large Historical Library at Hand (1870), by Henry Martyn Dexter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusets Colony Anno 1628 (1694), by Joshua Scottow (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton, With Introductory Matter and Notes (Boston: Prince Society, 1883), by Thomas Morton, ed. by Charles Francis Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Salem Witchcraft: Comprising More Wonders of the Invisible World, Collected by Robert Calef; and Wonders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather, Together with Notes and Explanations (Salem, MA: Ives and Smith, 1861), ed. by Samuel Page Fowler, contrib. by Robert Calef and Cotton Mather (multiple formats at Google)
• The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692, ed. by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
• The Women Who Came in the Mayflower, by Annie Russell Marble (Gutenberg text)
• Wood's New England's Prospect (Boston: Printed for the Prince Society, 1865), by William Wood (page images at Google)

• Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times, by Lydia Maria Child (HTML at Virginia)
• Hope Leslie (New York: White, Gallaher, and White, 1827), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
  • Volume I: HTML and page images at Virginia
  • Volume II: HTML and page images at Virginia

• The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • HTML at Eldritch Press
  • Gutenberg text

• Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation", From the Original Manuscript, With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Masachusetts (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1898), by William Bradford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820, in Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England (first edition; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821), by Daniel Webster (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820, in Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England (second edition; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821), by Daniel Webster (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820, in Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England (third edition; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1825), by Daniel Webster (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The May-Flower and Her Log, July 15, 1620 - May 6, 1621: Chiefly from Original Sources, by Azel Ames (Gutenberg text)
• Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, by Edward Winslow and William Bradford (HTML with commentary at UIUC)
• Report on the Expediency of Celebrating in Future the Landing of the Pilgrims, on the Twentyfirst day of December, Instead of the Twentysecond Day of That Month (Boston: Printed by vote of the Society, 1850), by Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Voyage of the Mayflower, by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• The Bay State Monthly (full serial archives)

• An Ode Read August 15, 1907, at the Dedication of the Monument Erected at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in Commemoration of the Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the Year Sixteen Hundred and Twenty-Three, by Madison Julius Cawein (HTML and TEI at Michigan)

• The Emancipation of Massachusetts: The Dream and the Reality, by Brooks Adams (Gutenberg text)

• Genealogy of the Perrin Family (facsimile reprint; originally published 1885), by Glover Perin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rambles Around Old Boston (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1921), by Edwin M. Bacon, illust. by Lester G. Hornby (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors (1917), by State Street Trust Company (Boston) (HTML at kellscraft.com)

• Groton in the Witchcraft Times, by Samuel A. Green (HTML at Hanover)

• Hopedale: From Commune to Company Town, 1840-1920 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Edward K. Spann (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Merrimack River: Its Source and Its Tributaries, by J. W. Meader (page images at MOA)
• The Merrimack Valley: An Address Delivered May 13th, 1896, Before the Methuen Historical Society (1896), by Robert H. Tewksbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Town of Natick, Mass., From the Days of the Apostolic Eliot, MDCL, to the Present Time, MDCCCXXX (Boston; Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1830), by William Biglow (multiple formats at Google)

• Old Plymouth Days and Ways: Eighteenth Century Celebrations of the Landing of the Pilgrims; Red Men in the Massachusetts Colonies, by Edwin Sanford Crandon and Charles Dana Burrage (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proceedings at the Consecration of the Cushman Monument, at Plymouth, September 16, 1858: Including the Discourse and Poem Delivered on That Occasion, Together With a List of Contributors to the Monument (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1859), by Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff and Henry Wyles Cushman, contrib. by Elisha Cushman and Charles T. Cushman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The History of Sherborn (1974), by Anne Carr Shaughnessy (illustrated HTML at Comcast)
• History of Sherburne, Mass., From Its Incorporation, M DC LXXIV, to the End of the Year M DCCC XXX: Including That of Framingham and Holliston So Far as They Were Constituent Parts of That Town (Milford, MA: Ballou and Stacy, 1830), by William Biglow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at HathiTrust

• Public Spirit and Mobs, by George Frederick Simmons (page images at MOA)

• Celebration by the Inhabitants of Worcester, Mass., of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, by Worcester (Mass.) (page images at MOA)

• The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2006), by Marla R. Miller (PDF files at umass.edu)

• Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815 (Boston: James Loring, 1832), by Rebecca Warren Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2006), by Marla R. Miller (PDF files at umass.edu)

• Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and MIT Press, 1962), by Sam Bass Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2006), by Marla R. Miller (PDF files at umass.edu)

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