• Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 - (Book - Amazon.com) : Click on link to read customer reviews.
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• The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove - (Book - Amazon.com) : This is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's textile mills.
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• A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England 3rd Edition 4 vols - (Book - Amazon.com) : This is the basic genealogical dictionary of early New England settlers, giving the name of every settler who arrived in New England before 1692 regardless of their station, rank, or fortune. Alphabetically arranged for each it gives the dates of his marriage and death, dates of birth, marriage and death of his children, and birthdates and names of the grandchildren. According to the author, "nineteen twentieths of the people of these New England colonies in 1775 were descendants of those found here in 1692, and probably seven-eighths of them were offspring of the settlers before 1642."
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• Digging for Genealogical Treasure in New England Town Records - (Book - Amazon.com) : Genealogical information lies buried in town halls all over New England, locked within records such as: earmarks, licenses, mortgage books, military records, poor records, selectman's minutes, tax records, and more! "Digging" contains full descriptions of eighteen different types of records, tips on how to find and understand them, and scores of entertaining quotations from the original documents. It also lists records available in print, typescript, and microfilm.
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• Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700 - (Book - Amazon.com) : A highly esteemed guide to New England ancestry, this work consists of an alphabetically arranged list of nearly 15,000 heads of families who arrived in New England in the 17th century. For each, the known facts are supplied, and this includes the earliest place of residence in New England, the place of emigration, where the emigrant moved to in New England, occupation, dates of birth and death, the derivation of surnames, and the source citations.
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• English Origins of New England Families from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. First Series. 3 vols. - (Books - Genealogical.com) : Almost all living Americans with colonial Yankee forebears descend from several of the 1,000 immigrants and from one or more of the monographs of 200 immigrants, treated here. Click on link for a listing of the principal families covered in this exemplary publication -

• Female Index to 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England' by James Savage - (Book - Genealogical.com) : It is generally agreed that James Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England is one of the greatest works ever published on New England genealogy. This new Female Index lists all the females alphabetically by maiden name and married names (over 50,000 names altogether), and now they are as easy to locate as the males. -

• Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This voluminous work treating 18,000 individuals in all consists of genealogical notes on specific New York and New England families, as well as a miscellaneous section of source records pertaining to families of the region. -

• Genealogical Notes On the Founding of New England - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Ernest Flagg was a descendant of no less than 172 different New Englanders, most of whom settled in this country between 1635 and 1640. All 172 lines, which were concentrated primarily in eastern Massachusetts, the Connecticut Valley, Rhode Island and South Carolina, are set forth in this meticulously researched work. -

• Immigrants to New England, 1700-1775 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Listed in Harold Lancour's Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, this work consists of an alphabetical list of 2,250 immigrants to New England during the period 1700 to 1775. Entries contain important information such as place of origin and place of settlement, dates of departure and arrival, name of wife, date of marriage, and names of children. The data derives from a variety of printed sources (town records, family compendia, genealogies, local histories, etc.), and in each instance the exact source of information is cited, thus serving as a guide to further research. An eleven-page index contains the names of brides and others mentioned in the entries. -

• New England Court Records: A Research Guide for Genealogists And Historians - (Book - Amazon.com) : Discover ancestors and trace New England history in court records from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Whether you are a novice researcher--or an experienced genealogist or historian--this book will help you to research court records with confidence. Learn how to read and use court records--with clear explanations of legal terms, illustrations from real cases and step-by-step research examples. This book also shows you where to find court records --courthouses, archives, books, microfilm, and the latest CDs and Internet databases.
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• New England's Generation - (Book - Amazon.com) : The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Click on link to search inside this book.
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• Old-Time New England Cookbook -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : Over 300 wholesome, easy-to-prepare recipes include Nantucket scallop chowder, Boston baked beans, apple pan dowdy, mincemeat pie, Parker House rolls, Boston cream pie, lobster, and many more. Arranged according to the seasons and accompanied by charming observations. Final section contains favorite recipes from 41 famous New England inns. 9 illustrations. This book is also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links for details.

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• The French-Canadian Heritage in New England - (Book - Amazon.com) : A comprehensive historical, sociological, and cultural introduction to the sizable Franco-American population in New England.
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• The New England Gazetteer - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Hayward's New England Gazetteer is one of the more ambitious works of this genre, for herein the reader will find descriptions of nearly 10,000 places-counties, towns, villages, rivers, bays, streams, islands, and so forth-scattered among this six-state region. -

• Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This "Dictionary" comprises genealogical records of nearly 3,000 emigrants, giving their English homes, names of ships in which they sailed, towns in which they settled in New England, and references to the printed or manuscript sources from which the information derived. In collecting data for this work, Col. Banks made seven visits to England, searching the records of nearly 2,000 parishes in order to connect the New England immigrants with their native parishes. Additional information is provided in a series of indexes: Index to Emigrants to New England; Index of the Wives and Children of the Emigrants; Index of Parishes; Index of Ships; and Index of Towns in New England. -

• True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars - (Book - Amazon.com) : Recounts in detail the Indian attacks at Wells and York, ME, Dover, NH, and Hatfield, Haverhill, and Deerfield, MA. Focuses on a few of the participants with extensive genealogical and biographical data. The families treated are: Baker, Nims, Otis, Plaisted, Rishworth, Rising, Sayward, Sheldon, Silver, Stockwell, Stebbins, Wheelwright, and Williams. (1896) reprint, 420 pp., illus., new index, paper.
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