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BET Boston Evening Transcript Genealogical Pages 1896 - 1941
Bradford William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620 – 1647, Samuel Eliot
Morison, ed. (New York 1993)
BarnVR Records of Barnstable, Mass. Boston, MA NEHGS 2002 CD-ROM
BrPR Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records.
Drapers Records of London’s Livery Companies Online. londonroll.org
ETR Early Land Grant Transcriptions Eastham MA 1650-1745. Town of Eastham
GNBF Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Vol. 1, by Amos Otis, F. & F. Goss
Publishers, Barnstable, MA, 1888
HP James Thacher, MD. History of the Town of Plymouth 3rd Ed.
(Yarmouthport 1972)
HQ The Howland Quarterly, Volume 1 to present.
KinVR Vital Records of Kingston, Massachusetts to the year 1850, NEHGS, 1911
KPW George Mason Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip’s War Boston 1906
Lechford Note-Book Kept by Thomas Lechford Esq. Edward Hale (ed.) Cambridge 1885
MarVR Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Sherman and
Sherman, eds. (n.p. 1970) Families
MD Mayflower Descendant, Volume 1 through present (1899 – 1937, 1985 +)
MF Mayflower Families Through Five Generations (Silver Books)
MiddleVR Middleborough Massachusetts Vital Records, Merrick and Williams,
(Boston 1986, 1990).
Mourt Henry M. Dexter, Mourt’s Relation or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth.,
Boston, 1865
Mss “New England Historical and Genealogical Society Archives”
NEHGR New England Historical and Genealogical Society Register,
Volume 1 to present (1847 +)
NM Nathaniel Morton, The New England’s Memorial 5th Ed. (Plymouth 1826)
PCCR Plymouth County, MA: Plymouth Court Records, 1686-1859. CD-ROM. Boston,
MA.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002.
PChR Plymouth Church Records, 1620-1859, Part I and Part 2 in Publications of
the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, volumes 22 and 23 (Boston 1920, 1923)
PCLR Plymouth Colony Deeds from microfilm
PCR Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Nathaniel B.
Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., 12 volumes in 10 (Boston1855-1861)
and David Pulsifier, 12 Volumes (Boston 1855 -1861)
PCRD Plymouth County Registry of Deeds on-line, Plymouth Colony deeds listed by
Volume.
PHJS Pilgrim John Howland Archives.
PH Pilgrim Hall Museum Archives.
PM Robert Charles Anderson, The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth
Colony, 1620 – 1633 (Boston 2004),
PTR Records of the Town of Plymouth, Volume 1, 1636 to 1705 Plymouth (1889),
Volume 2, 1705 to 1743 Plymouth (1892)
PVR Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, Van Antwerp &
Sherman (Camden, Maine, 1993)
Sewall The Diary of Samuel Sewall, Volume One 1674 -1708, Volume Two 1709-1729,
M. Halsey Thomas, ed. (New York 1973)
SwVR Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 Transcribed by H. L. Peter
Rounds, Boston1992
TAG The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present. (1932 +)
WJ John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, James
Kendall Hosmer, ed. (New York, 1908).
WP Winthrop Papers Vol III 1631- 1637 Massachusetts Historical Society 1943
Boston, Massachusetts.
