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• The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams, by John Adams, ed. by C. Bradley Thompson (HTML and PDF with commentary at libertyfund.org)

• An Appeal to the World: or, A Vindication of the Town of Boston, From Many False and Malicious Aspersions, Contained in Certain Letters and Memorials, Written by Governor Bernard, General Gage, Commodore Hood, the Commissioners of the American Board of Customs, and Others, and By The Respectively Transmitted to the British Ministry (Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, 1770)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Address and Resolutions, Adopted at the Whig State Convention, Worcester, October 3, 1849, by Whig Party (Mass.) (page images at Google)
• Address of the Central Committee Appointed by a Convention of Both Branches of the Legislature Friendly to the Election of John Q. Adams as President and Richard Rush as Vice-president of the U. States, Held at the State-House in Boston, June 10, 1828, to Their Fellow-Citizens (1828), by National Republican Party (Mass.) Central Committee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Answer of the Whig Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts, Constituting a Majority of Both Branches, to the Address of His Excellency Marcus Horton, Delivered in the Convention of the Two Houses, January 22, 1840, by Whig Party (Mass.) (page images at Google)

• Journal of the Senate, by Massachusetts Senate (partial serial archives)

• The Declaration, of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Countrey Adjacent: April 18, 1689 (Boston: Printed by S. Green, and sold by B. Harris, 1689) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Revolution in New England Justified, and the People There Vindicated From the Aspersions Cast Upon Them by Mr. John Palmer, in His Pretended Answer to the Declaration, Published by the Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent, on the Day When They Secured Their Late Oppressors, Who Acted by an Illegal and Arbitrary Commission From the late King James ("E. R." and "S. S." believe to be Rawson and Sewall; Boston: Printed for J. Brunning, 1691), by Edward Rawson and Samuel Sewall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Revolution in New-England Justified, and the People There Vindicated From the Aspersions Cast Upon Them by Mr. John Palmer, in his Pretended Answer to the Declaration Published by the Inhabitants of Boston (with an added narrative of the proceedings of "Sir Edmund Androsse and His Accomplices" by Stoughton et al.; Boston: Reprinted and sold by I. Thomas, 1773), by Edward Rawson and Samuel Sewall, contrib. by William Stoughton, Thomas Hinckley, Wart. Winthrop, Bartholomew Gedney, and Samuel Shrimpton (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Few Remarks Upon Some of the Votes and Resolutions of the Continental Congress Held at Philadelphia in September, and the Provincial Congress, Held at Cambridge in November 1774 (Boston: Printed for the purchasers, 1775), by Harrison Gray
  • multiple formats (with some pages damaged) at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• An Impartial Account of the State of New England: or, The Late Government There, Vindicated in Answer to the Declaration Which the Faction Set Forth When They Overturned That Government, by John Palmer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Public Life of Joseph Dudley: A Study of the Colonial Policy of the Stuarts in New England, 1660-1715 (Harvard Historical Studies v15; New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by Everett Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times (6 chapters (all that were published); 1774-1775), by John Leacock
  • based on a 20th-century transcription: HTML at Github
  • page images of first 4 chapters as printed in Boston in the 1770s by J. Boyle: multiple formats at archive.org
• The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times: Chap. I (early printing of the first installment, sometimes attributed to Samuel Adams, but by Leacock; Boston: Printed by J. Boyle, 1774), by John Leacock (HTML at Evans TCP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (second edition, c1919), by Calvin Coolidge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Inventory of Universalist Archives in Massachusetts (1942), by Historical Records Survey (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Extract of a Letter From the House of Representatives of the Massachusets-Bay, to Their Agent Dennys De Berdt, Esq; With Some Remarks (London: Printed by J. and W. Oliver, 1770), by Massachusetts House of Representatives (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Excursions, by Henry David Thoreau, contrib. by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg text)
• From the Hub to the Hudson, by Washington Gladden (page images at MOA)
• A Loiterer in New England (New York: G. H. Doran Company, c1919), by Helen W. Henderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Old Colony Railroad: Its Connections, Popular Resorts, and Fashionable Watering-Places, by Matthew Hale Smith (page images at MOA)
• Pilgrim Trails: A Plymouth-to-Provincetown Sketchbook (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1921), by Frances Lester Warner, illust. by C. Scott White (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• New English Canaan or New Canaan: Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Bookes (London: Printed for C. Greene, ca. 1637), by Thomas Morton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• New English Canaan or New Canaan: Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Bookes (Amsterdam: Printed by J. F. Stam, 1637), by Thomas Morton
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Fire People (as published in Argosy-AllStory Weekly, 1922), by Ray Cummings (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Our Gold Mine at Hollyhurst: A Prize Story of Massachusetts (Boston: American Humane Education Society, c1893), by Mary Matthews Bray, contrib. by George T. Angell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Crux: A Novel (New York: Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (4 volumes; New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1908), ed. by William Richard Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Genealogy of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, by the Names of Adams, Bullard, Holbrook, Rockwood, Sanger, Wood, Grout, Goulding, and Twitchell (Boston: Printed for the author, 1857), by Abner Morse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Family of Bray Wilkins, "Patriarch of Will's Hill", of Salem (Middleton), Mass. (Milford, NH: Printed at the Cabinet Press, 1943), by William Carroll Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogy of the Twitchell Family: Record of the Descendants of the Puritan, Benjamin Twitchell, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632-1927 (New York: Privately printed for H. K. Twitchell, 1929), by Ralph Emerson Twitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogy of the Perrin Family (facsimile reprint; originally published 1885), by Glover Perin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Haverhill Emersons (2 volumes; Boston and Cambridge: Murray and Emerson Co., 1913-1916), by Charles Henry Pope
  • Part First: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part Second: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Hendrick Genealogy: Daniel Hendrick of Haverhill, Mass. and His Descendants, With An Appendix Containing Brief Accounts of Several Other Hendrick Families (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Co., 1923), by Chas. T. Hendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families; With Some Account of the Earlier Hyatt Families, a List of the First Settlers of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass., etc. (Providence: Printed for the author by the Providence Press Co., 1871), by David Webster Hoyt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (partial serial archives)
• Defence of Massachusetts: Speech of Hon. Anson Burlingame, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, June 21, 1856 (pamphlet; 1856), by Anson Burlingame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defence of Massachusetts: Speech of Hon. Anson Burlingame, of Massachusetts, in the United States House of Representatives, June 21, 1856 (Cambridge, MA: Printed for Private Distribution, 1856), by Anson Burlingame (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Loiterer in New England (New York: G. H. Doran Company, c1919), by Helen W. Henderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Early Massachusetts Press, 1638-1711 (2 volumes; Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1907), by George Emery Littlefield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Adventures in Contentment, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Adventures in Contentment (New York: Hurst and Co., 1907), by David Grayson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Possessions, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Adventures in Friendship, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• From the Hub to the Hudson, by Washington Gladden (page images at MOA)

• Cultural Landscape Report for Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston National Historical Park, Boston, Massachusetts (2006), by Christopher M. Stevens, Margie Coffin Brown, Ryan Reedy, and Patrick Eleey (PDF at National Park Service)

• Sketches From Concord and Appledore, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.