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List of persons whose names have been changed in Massachusetts 1780-1883
Link to read entire book by Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State; Massachusetts. General Court. Boston : Wright and Potter...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 23, 20241 min read
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The Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger Charts of the Gulf Stream
An 18th-century Gulf Stream chart, with a Ben Franklin connection Credit: Boston Rare Maps PDF by Philip L Richardson Woods Hole...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 22, 20241 min read
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Old Hopkinton Cemetery Mapping Project
Photo Credit Stan Arnold Find A Grave. PDF compiled by Alden Mitchell Eagle Scout Project Troop 77, Hopkinton, NH August 2013 Old...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 21, 20242 min read
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Research on the seventeenth century case furniture of Essex County, Massachusetts and its makers
James Symonds (American, 1633-1714) valuables cabinet, 1679, made for Joseph Pope and Bathsheba Folger of Salem Village. Courtesy of the...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 12, 20241 min read
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Celebration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the evacuation of Boston by the British Army March 17 1901
Photo Credit: Boston Public Library Archives also included in Mass Moments. Read Full Book "Celebration of the one hundred and...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 10, 20241 min read
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1942 Cherryfield Maine Flash Flood Photographs
A client Kathy Williams Curtis of Massachusetts shared some photos from her scrapbook collection. Kathy was recently accepted into the...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 3, 20241 min read
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"No Seas Can Now Divide Us": Captains' Wives, Sister Sailors, and the New England Whale fishery, 1840-1870
Charlotte Coffin Wyer daughter of Asa Coffin and Phebe Morselander Coffin. She was the wife of Captain Samuel Wyer. Credit: Nantucket...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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Journal of Charlotte Coffin Gardner Onboard the "Sarah Parker"
Charlotte Coffin Gardner Full PDF Original Transcription sent to Mrs. Lloyd O. Graves, Historian for the state of Washington by Grace...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 24, 20241 min read
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Genealogy Record Books compiled by William C Folger of Nantucket
William C. Folger Genealogical Record Books contains families A-Z. This collection contains record books, compiled by Folger, listing...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 18, 20241 min read
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Large File Nantucket Early Documents Collection Book
Contains 79 documents in total. Consists primarily of deeds. 3 BILLS OF SALE, 1786-1796: Charles Folger for Estate of Thomas Bunker,...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 18, 20244 min read
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NEW BEDFORD COMMUNITIES OF WHALING: People of Wampanoag, African, and Portuguese Island Descent, 1825–1925 PDF
PDF published by National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Northeast Region Ethnography Program
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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PDF File Alexander Starbuck's History of Nantucket
PDF File "History of Nantucket" published C. E. Goodspeed & Co. 1925 Also see the Starbuck Family Papers https://nantuckethistory.org:443...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 10, 20241 min read
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Early voyages to California: Historical Collections of the Essex Institute of Salem, Massachusetts
The Bark "Eliza" of Salem 1821 painted by Benjamin F. West From Marine Room Peabody Essex Museum. See PDF below PDF: Early voyages to...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 4, 20241 min read
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A Poem and Brief History on Browne's Hall Danvers Massachusetts
Illustration from Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, Browne's Hill, formerly called Long Hill and Leach's Hill. See PDF Below...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 3, 20241 min read
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Scrapbook of the Clam Diggers and Memories of Hope Island Maine 1935
Full PDF of Scrapbook Contributed to Maine Memory Network by Maine Historical Society The American Federation of Amiable, Avaricious, and...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jan 29, 20241 min read
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Civil War Union Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis Memoir
Charles Henry Davis (1807-1877) Wikipedia PDF File Memoir
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jan 19, 20241 min read
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125th Anniversary of Mashpee Massachusetts
PDF File Mashpee 1870-1995 A pictorial History by Rosemary H. Burns Edited by Ann Whitlow
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jan 17, 20241 min read
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Mary Elizabeth Fletcher Hale founder of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Minnesota
Illustration of a Charity Ball from the story PDF by NSCD Minnesota
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jan 11, 20241 min read
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Service of the Mashpee Indians in the American Revolution
PDF file Created by Jacob Denney 12/21/11 Also view articles Inside The Archives: A Salute To Our Veterans and Journal of the Revolution...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jan 9, 20241 min read
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The Upholstery and Chairmaking Trades of Eighteenth-Century Newport Rhode Island 1730–1790
Many families in this thesis are Quakers, or members of the Society of Friends. PDF Jennifer N. Johnson MA Program in the History of the...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jan 7, 20241 min read
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