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• An historical discourse delivered before the First Congregational Society in Harvard, Massachusetts, October 22, 1882 (George E. Littlefield, 1884), by Seth Chandler and Samuel A. Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief account of a religious scheme, taught and propagated by a number of Europeans, who lately lived in a place called Nisqueunia, in the state of New-York, but now residing in Harvard, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, commonly called, Shaking Quakers. / By Valentine Rathbun, Minister of the Gospel. ; [Two lines from Proverbs] ; To which is added, A dialogue between George the Third of Great-Britain, and his ministers; giving an account of the late London mob, and the original of the sect called Shakers. ; The whole being a discovery of the wicked machinations of the principal enemies of America. (Worcester [Mass.]: : [s.n.]., Printed in the year 1782), by Valentine Rathbun (HTML at Evans TCP)

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• Memoirs of old Harvard days, from 1863 to 1924, also the men and women and their descendants who made old Harvard what it is today (Still River, Mass., 1924), by Frederick Schillow Savage (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vital records of Harvard, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 ([Wright & Potter printing company], 1917), by Harvard (Mass.) and Thomas W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harvard, Mass., vital records to 1850 (Higginson Book Co., 2000), by Thomas Williams Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the town of Harvard, Massachusetts. 1732-1893. (W. Hapgood, 1894), by Henry S. Nourse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The military annals of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1740-1865. Including lists of soldiers serving in the colonial and revolutionary wars, for the Lancastrian towns: Berlin, Bolton, Harvard, Leominster, and Sterling. (W. J. Coulter, printer], 1889), by Henry S. Nourse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of old Harvard days, from 1863 to 1924, also the men and women and their descendants who made old Harvard what it is today (Still River, Mass., 1924), by Frederick Schillow Savage (page images at HathiTrust)

• An historical discourse delivered before the First Congregational Society in Harvard, Massachusetts, October 22, 1882 (George E. Littlefield, 1884), by Seth Chandler and Samuel A. Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lost Utopias : a brief description of three quests for happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, old Shaker House, and American Indian Museum, rescued from oblivion, recorded and preserved by Clara Endicott Sears on Prospect Hill in the old township of Harvard, Massachusetts (Fruitlands and The Wayside Museums, Inc., 1947), by Harriet Ellen O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sermon preached at the rededication of the house of worship of the Evangelical Congregational Church in Harvard, Mass. (The Church, 1882), by Frederic A. Reed (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lost Utopias: A Brief Description of Three Quests for Happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, Old Shaker House, and American Indian Museum, Rescued From Oblivion, Recorded and Preserved by Clara Endicott Sears on Prospect Hill in the Old Township of Harvard, Massachusetts (Boston: P. Walton, c1929), by Harriet Ellen O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands (Houghton Mifflin, 1915), by Louisa May Alcott, Clara Endicott Sears, and James C. Whitten Collection on the History of Vegetarianism (Schlesinger Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost Utopias : a brief description of three quests for happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, old Shaker House, and American Indian Museum, rescued from oblivion, recorded and preserved by Clara Endicott Sears on Prospect Hill in the old township of Harvard, Massachusetts (Fruitlands and The Wayside Museums, Inc., 1947), by Harriet Ellen O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands : with Transcendental wild oats by Louisa M. Alcott (Houghton Mifflin, 1940), by Clara Endicott Sears and Louisa May Alcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of "Fruitlands" at Harvard, Mass. ([Harvard, Mass., 1914), by Clara Endicott Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands, compiled by Clara Endicott Sears: With Transcendental Wild Oats, by Louisa M. Alcott, ed. by Clara Endicott Sears, contrib. by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg ebook)

• Lost Utopias : a brief description of three quests for happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, old Shaker House, and American Indian Museum, rescued from oblivion, recorded and preserved by Clara Endicott Sears on Prospect Hill in the old township of Harvard, Massachusetts (Fruitlands and The Wayside Museums, Inc., 1947), by Harriet Ellen O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the town of Harvard, Massachusetts. 1732-1893. (W. Hapgood, 1894), by Henry S. Nourse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Harvard, Mass., vital records to 1850 (Higginson Book Co., 2000), by Thomas Williams Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lost Utopias: A Brief Description of Three Quests for Happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, Old Shaker House, and American Indian Museum, Rescued From Oblivion, Recorded and Preserved by Clara Endicott Sears on Prospect Hill in the Old Township of Harvard, Massachusetts (Boston: P. Walton, c1929), by Harriet Ellen O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vital records of Harvard, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 ([Wright & Potter printing company], 1917), by Harvard (Mass.) and Thomas W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the town of Harvard, Massachusetts. 1732-1893. (W. Hapgood, 1894), by Henry S. Nourse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harvard, Mass., vital records to 1850 (Higginson Book Co., 2000), by Thomas Williams Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inner life reveald of Jesus Anointed and of Ann the Word. ([s.n.], 1904), by William Leonard, Alonzo Giles Hollister, William Leonard, and Ann Lee (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Emancipation of Massachusetts: The Dream and the Reality, by Brooks Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Remarks on Some Rare German Prints of New York and Quebec, and on Contributions in the Year 1781 by the Churches of Massachusetts to the Distressed Inhabitants of South Carolina and Georgia (ca. 1894), by Samuel A. Green
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• An Inquiry Into the Right to Change the Ecclesiastical Constitution of the Congregational Churches of Massachusetts (with Morse's Report to the General Association of Massachusetts; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1816), by John Lowell, contrib. by Jedidiah Morse
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• An Inventory of Universalist Archives in Massachusetts (1942), by Historical Records Survey (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Massachusetts: its historians and its history. An object lesson (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emancipation of Massachusetts : the dream and the reality. (Houghton Mifflin, company, 1919), by Brooks Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Puritan commonwealth. An historical review of the Puritan government in Massachusetts in its civil and ecclesiastical relations from its rise to the abrogation of the first charter. Together with some general reflections on the English colonial policy, and on the character of Puritanism. (Little, Brown and company, 1856), by Peter Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Quaker invasion of Massachusetts (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Richard P. Hallowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church and state in Massachusetts from 1740 to 1833; a chapter in the history of the development of individual freedom. (Western Reserve University, 1930), by Jacob Conrad Meyer and Western Reserve University. Francis G. Butler fund (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summer visit of three Rhode Islanders to the Massachusetts Bay in 1651. An account of the visit of Dr. John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and John Crandall, members of the Baptist Church in Newport, R. I., to William Witter of Swampscott, Mass. in July 1651; its innocent purpose and its painful consequences (Preston and Rounds, 1896), by Henry Melville King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rights of the Congregational churches of Massachusetts : the result of an ecclesiastical council, convened at Groton, Massachusetts, July 17, 1826. (Printed by T.R. Marvin, 1827), by Mass.). Ecclesiastical Council First Parish (Groton and Lyman Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unitarianism: its origin and history. (American Unitarian association, 1890), by American Unitarian Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Checkley; or, The evolution of religious tolerance in Massachusetts bay. Including Mr. Checkley's controversial writings; his letters and other papers ... (The Prince society, 1897), by Edmund F. Slafter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emancipation of Massachusetts (Houghton, Mifflin, 1887), by Brooks Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Massachusetts a field for church missions. : A sermon preached in Boston before the "Diocesan Board of Missions", May 20, 1863. (E.P. Dutton, 1863), by F. D. Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semi-centennial celebration of the First Sabbath-school Society in Massachusetts, and the First Parish Sabbath School, Charlestown, held on the Lord's day, October 14, 1866 at the First Church, Charlestown. (Press of Arthur W. Locke, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emancipation of Massachusetts : the dream and the reality (Houghton Mifflin, 1962), by Brooks Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rev. John Myles and the founding of the first Baptist church in Massachusetts : an historical address delivered at the dedication of a monument in Barrington, Rhode Island (formerly Swansea, Mass.) June 17, 1905 (Preston & Rounds, 1905), by Henry Melville King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unitarianism: its origin and history. A course of sixteen lectures delivered in Channing Hall, Boston, 1888-89. (American Unitarian Association, 1890), by American Unitarian Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emancipation of Massachusetts (Houghton, Mifflin ;, 1899), by Brooks Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers relating to the history of the church in Massachusetts, A. D. 1676-1785. (Privately printed, 1873), by William Stevens Perry (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)
• Annual report (Press of T.R. Marvin, 1844), by Massachusetts Home Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctor Robert Child, the remonstrant (J. Wilson and Son, 1919), by George Lyman Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Massachusetts, its historians and its history : an object lesson (Houghton, Mifflin, 1894), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• First Church of Christ in text and picture : 1637-1912. (The Two Hundred and Seventy-fifth Anniversary Printing Committee, 1912), by Mass.) First Church of Christ (Springfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of St. Stephen's Parish : Lynn, Mass. (Printed by order of the vestry, 1882), by F. D. Huntington and James R. Newhall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Puritan age and rule in the colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685 (Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by George Edward Ellis (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)
• Unitarianism, its origin and history : a course of sixteen lectures (American Unitarian Association, 1895), by Francis Tiffany, Samuel B. Stewart, Thomas Roberts Slicer, Grindall Reynolds, Andrew P. Peabody, Francis Bickford Hornbrooke, Brooke Herford, Charles Carroll Everett, George Edward Ellis, James De Normandie, George W. Briggs, Seth Curtis Beach, George Batchelor, Joseph Henry Allen, and American Unitarian Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emancipation of Massachusetts (Houghton Mifflin, 1962), by Brooks Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Baptists defended : a review of Dr. Henry M. Dexter's account of the visit to William Witter in "As to Roger Williams" : a paper read by Rev. Henry M. King, D.D., at the semi-annual meeting of the Backus Historical Society, held in the Bowdoin Square Baptist Church, Boston, Dec. 8, 1879, and published by vote of the Society. (Howard Gannett, 1880), by Henry Melville King and Mass.) Backus Historical Society (Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• New-England's Jonas cast up at London. 1647. (W. P. Lunt, 1869), by John Child, William Vassall, and William T. R. Marvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first charter and the early religious legislation of Massachusetts. (Press of J. Wilson and Son, 1869), by Joel Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse delivered in the West Church in Boston, December 31, 1820 (S. Phelps, 1820), by Charles Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A century discourse delivered in Hamilton on Thursday, October 27, 1814 (Printed by Thomas A. Cushing, 1815), by Manasseh Cutler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some passages in the history of the First Church in connexion with the Shepard Congregational Society in Cambridge : together with its confession of faith, form of admission, ecclesiastical principles, and rules, and names of members. (Thurston and Torry, 1842), by Mass.) First Church (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the town of Shirley, Massachusetts : from its early settlement to A.D. 1882 (Chandler, 1883), by Seth Chandler (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)
• Massachusetts; its historians and its history : An object lesson. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1893), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and the parish in Massachusetts : usage and law : address delivered at the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the gathering of the First Church in Dedham, Mass. : as observed jointly by the First Parish and the First Congregational Church on November 19th, 1888 (Beacon Press, 1889), by George Edward Ellis and Mass.) First Church (Dedham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Massachusetts, its historians and its history : an object lesson (Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The semi-centennial volume of the Eliot church, Lowell, Mass. : containing a sermon from each pastor, papers and letters furnished for the jubilee celebration, confessions of faith, etc. (The Church, 1881), by Mass.) Eliot Church (Lowell, John M. Greene, and John M. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why did not Massachusetts have a Saybrook platform? : a paper (s.n., 1892), by Williston Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Street Congregational Church : fortieth anniversary; Lowell, Mass., May 9th and 11th, 1879. (Vox Populi Print, 1879), by Joseph B. Seabury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semi-centennial manual Winthrop Church (Charlestown) Boston, Mass. with historical sketch and list of members from Jan. 9, 1883, to Jan. 9, 1883. (Alfred Mudge, 1883), by Mass.) Winthrop Church (Charlestown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The manual of the First Church in Cambridge Congregational ; corner of Garden and Mason Streets, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Fort Hill Press Samuel Usher, 1920), by Mass.) First Church (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the Second Congregational Church of Newton at West Newton, Mass. Sunday, Oct. 21, 1906 (Second Congregational Church of Newton, 1906), by Theodore Philander Prudden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emancipation of Massachusetts. (Houghton, 1886), by Brooks Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The centennial anniversary of the dedication of the Old church on the hill; Lenox, Massachusetts June twelfth, nineteen hundred and six. (Sun Printing, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New-Englands Jonas cast up at London, or, A relation of the proceedings of the court at Boston in New-England against devers honest and godly persons, for petitioning for government in the common-wealth, according to the lawes of England, and for admittance of themselves and children to the sacraments in their churches ... (Printed for T.R. and E.M., 1647), by John Child and Edward Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church and state in Massachusetts, 1691-1740 (University of Illinois, 1970), by Susan Reed Stifler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rights of the Congregational churches of Massachusetts : the result of an ecclesiastical council, convened at Groton, Massachusetts, July 17, 1826. (T.R. Marvin, printer, 1827), by Mass.). Ecclesiastical Council First Parish Church (Groton and Lyman Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecclesiastical councils, controversies, tracts, &c. (Boston [etc.], 1816) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emancipation of Massachusetts (Houghton, Mifflin, and company, 1887), by Brooks Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Puritan age and rule in the colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685 (Houghton, Mifflin, 1891), by George Edward Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church and state in Massachusetts, 1691-1740. (University of Illinois, 1914), by Susan Reed Stifler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The transformation of Massachusetts (Congregational Home Missionary Society, 1920), by John L. Kilbon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain dealing (London : Printed by W. E. and I. G. for Nath. Butter ..., 1642), by Thomas Lechford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The copy of a letter written by Mr. Thomas Parker, pastor of the church of Newbury in New-England, to his sister, Mrs Elizabeth Avery,: sometimes of Newbury in the county of Berks, touching sundry opinions by her professed and maintained. Novemb. 22. 1649. imprimatur John Downame. (London : Printed by John Field for Edmund Paxton, at Pauls-Chain, over aginast the Castle Tavern, near the Doctors Commons, 1650. [i.e. 1649]), by Thomas Parker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Nevv Englands teares, for old Englands feares.: Preached in a sermon on July 23. 1640. being a day of publike humiliation, appointed by the churches in behalfe of our native countrey in time of feared dangers. / By William Hooke, minister of Gods Word; sometime of Axmouth in Devonshire, now of Taunton in New England. Sent over to a worthy member of the honourable House of Commons, who desires it may be for publick good. (London : Printed by T.P. for Iohn Rothwell and Henry Overton, and are to be sould at the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard, and in Popes-head Alley, 1641), by William Hooke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The humble petition and address of the general court sitting at Boston in New-England,: unto the high and mighty Prince Charles the Second. And presented unto his most-gracious majesty Feb. 11. 1660. ([Cambridge, Mass.] : Printed [by S. Green], in the year 1660), by Massachusetts General Court, Charles King of England, and John Endecott (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Severall questions of serious and necessary consequence,: propounded by the teaching elders, unto M. Iohn Cotton of Boston in New-England. With his respective answer to each question. (London : Printed for Thomas Banks, and are to bee sold in Black-Friers on the top of Bride-well Staires, and in Westminster Hall, at the signe of the Seale, 1647), by John Cotton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Lord Jesus Christ the only, and supream [sic] head of the church. A sermon, delivered, in publick, to the assembly of Ministers, at their anniversary convention, in Boston; which was followed with a collection for the propagation of the Gospel, June 1. 1738. / By John Barnard, A.M. Pastor of a church in Marblehead. ; [Two lines from Matthew] (Boston: : Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, for H. Foster, at his shop in Cornhill., 1738), by John Barnard and Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts (1738 : Boston) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An expostulatory and pacifick letter, by way of reply to the Revd Mr. Gee's letter of remarks, on the printed testimony of the late convention of pastors in Boston, against several errors and disorders in the land: address'd to the Revd Mr. Nathanael Eells their moderator. / By John Hancock, Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Braintree. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts] (Boston, : Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-Street, next to the prison., 1743), by John Hancock (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Yankee spy. Calculated for the religious meridian of Massachusetts; but will answer for New-Hampshire, Connecticut, and Vermont, without any material alterations. / By Jack Nips. ; [One line of Scripture text] (Boston: : Printed for John Asplund., [1794]), by John Leland (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A brief account of the state of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, civil and ecclesiastical. By a lover of his country. (Boston: : Printed by T. Crump, for Gillam Phillips, and sold at his shop, over against the west end of the Town-House., 1717), by Ebenezer Pemberton and Cotton Mather (HTML at Evans TCP)

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