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• History of Boston

• Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors (1917), by State Street Trust Company (Boston) (HTML at kellscraft.com)
• A History of East Boston, With Biographical Sketches of its Early Proprietors, and an Appendix (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1858), by William H. Sumner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)

• 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)

• The Treason Case in Boston: Speech for the Defence by Mr. Sennott, the Defender of John Brown in Virginia; A Caustic Denunciation of Puritan Smelling Committees, Yankee Sneaks, and Abolition Thugs (ca. 1862), contrib. by George Sennott (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 History and Antiquities of Boston (Boston: Luther Stevens, 1856), by Samuel G. Drake
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• St. Botolph's Town: An Account of Old Boston in Colonial Days (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1908), by Mary Caroline Crawford (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter (Ticknor and Fields edition, 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (illustrated edition; New York: G. H. Doran Co., n.d.), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illust. by Hugh Thomson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894), by Anna Green Winslow, ed. by Alice Morse Earle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 (third edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Anna Green Winslow, ed. by Alice Morse Earle (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and zipped page images)

• A Little Girl in Old Boston, by Amanda M. Douglas (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America (2 volumes; New York: S. Colman, 1839), by Rufus Dawes
  • Volume I: HTML at Northwestern
  • Volume II: HTML at Northwestern

• The Linwoods, or "Sixty Years Since" in America (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1835), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: HTML at Virginia

• My Lady Laughter: A Romance of Boston Town in the Days of the Great Siege (Boston: C. M. Clark, c1904), by Dwight Tilton, illust. by Charles H. Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Boston News-Letter, and City Record (partial serial archives)

• Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, by Richard Frothingham (page images at MOA)
• Traits of the Tea Party: Being a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, One of the Last of Its Survivors; With a History of That Transaction, Reminiscences of the Massacre, and the Siege, and Other Stories of Old Times (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by B. B. Thatcher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Recollections of the Private Centennial Celebration of the Overthrow of the Tea, at Griffin's Wharf, in Boston Harbor, December 16, 1773, in Honor of Samuel Howard, One of the Actors, at Cambridge, Mass., December, 1873 (Cambridge, MA: Press of J. Wilson and Son, 1874), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman, contrib. by M. C. D. Silsbee, Eliza W. Lippitt, Annie M. Bowen, Francis J. Lippitt, and Samuel Longfellow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, With a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, A Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots Who Drowned the Tea in Boston harbour in 1773 (copyrighted by Hawkes; New York: S. S. Bliss, 1834), by James Hawkes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
• Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents Relating to the Shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company (Boston: A. O. Crane, 1884), ed. by Francis S. Drake (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Traits of the Tea Party: Being a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, One of the Last of Its Survivors; With a History of That Transaction, Reminiscences of the Massacre, and the Siege, and Other Stories of Old Times (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by B. B. Thatcher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Boston Tea Party, December 1773 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1882), by Josephine Pollard, illust. by H. W. McVickar and Hugh McVickar
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Boston Tea Party, December 1773 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1882), by Josephine Pollard, illust. by H. W. McVickar and Hugh McVickar
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, by Richard Frothingham (page images at MOA)

• Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, by Richard Frothingham (page images at MOA)

• Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, by Richard Frothingham (page images at MOA)

• Extracts From Letters Written at the Time of the Occupation of Boston by the British, 1775-6 (From the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. XIII, July, 1876), ed. by William P. Upham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Trial of Theodore Parker, for the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping, by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
• Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns (Boston: Fetridge and Co., 1854) (page images at MOA)

• Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, by Boston Female Anti-slavery Society (partial serial archives)

• Some Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston: Being a Collection of Sketches of Notable Men and Mercantile Houses Prominent During the Early Half of the Nineteenth Century in the Commerce and Shipping of Boston (c1918), by State Street Trust Company (Boston) (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• Souvenir of the 50th Anniversary of the Dedication of Bunker Hill Monument, 1843-1893 (Charlestown, MA: Bunker Hill Times, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Loyolas and the Cabots, by Catherine Goddard Clarke (HTML with commentary at catholicism.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 Anti-Imperialist League (as published in Philippine Social Review, 1930-1933), by Maria Lanzar-Carpio (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• A Century of Town Life: A History of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1775-1887 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1888), by James Frothingham Hunnewell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Souvenir of the 50th Anniversary of the Dedication of Bunker Hill Monument, 1843-1893 (Charlestown, MA: Bunker Hill Times, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The "Mary and John": A Story of the Founding of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1630 (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Pub. Co., 1943), by Maude Pinney Kuhns (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of East Boston, With Biographical Sketches of its Early Proprietors, and an Appendix (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1858), by William H. Sumner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain, by Harriet Manning Whitcomb (Gutenberg text)

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

• Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston, by Samuel Adams Drake (page images at MOA)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston, Together With the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1850), by Boston (Mass.), ed. by Peleg W. Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Book of Boston (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co. 1916), by Robert Shackleton, illust. by R. L. Boyer (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston, by Samuel Adams Drake (page images at MOA)
• Rambles Around Old Boston (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1921), by Edwin M. Bacon, illust. by Lester G. Hornby (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Random Notes of Boston (ca.1913), by Henry Payson Dowst, illust. by John Albert Seaford (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

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