Keys to Abbreviations

Abel Lunt Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts (Portland, Maine, 1963)

Ackley-Bosworth — Nathan Grier Parke II, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & His Wife, Emma Arabella Bosworth, Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (Woodstock, Vermont, 1960)

Adams Gen — Arthur Adams, Jeremy Adams of Cambridge, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., and His Descendants (Boston 1955)

AlfordPR — Reginald Charles Dudding, ed., The Parish Registers of Alford & Rigsby in the County of Lincoln … a.d. 1538-1680, Publications of the Lincoln Record Society, Register (Horncastle 1917)

Ancestral Roots — Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650, 6th ed. (Baltimore 1988)

Angell Anc — Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910 (Boston 1992)

Annis Spear Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine (Portland, Maine, 1945)

Antinomian Controversy — David D. Hall, ed., The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638 (Durham, North Carolina, 1990)

Apologia — Bernard Bailyn, ed., The Apologia of Robert Keayne: The Self-Portrait of a Puritan Merchant (New York 1965)

Aspinwall — A Volume Relating to the Early History of Boston Containing the Aspinwall Notarial Records from 1644 to 1651, in Reports of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Volume 32 (Boston 1903)

Austin — John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island ... (Albany 1887; rpt. Baltimore 1969 [with addenda et corrigenda as published in TAG])

BA — “A Book of All the Lands which Planters at First or by Alienation Since Possess[ed] Within New Haven Town Began by R[ichard] P[erry] 1645” (manuscript at Yale University Library; see GMN 13:37, 9-16, 19-21)

Backus Anc — Mary E.N. Backus, comp. and ed., The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus (Salem 1949)

Badger Gen — Alice W. Badger, comp., Four Ancestral Lines and Descendants of Erastus Beethoven and Fanny Babcock (Campbell) Badger (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1982)

Bailey — Frederic W. Bailey, Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 ... with the Addition of Plymouth County Marriages, 1692-1746 (Baltimore 1979 [a reprint of three separate volumes published in 1897, 1900 and 1914, along with Plymouth County marriages published in The Genealogical Advertiser in 1898 and 1899])

Bangs — The Pilgrims in The Netherlands, Recent Research, Papers Presented at a Symposium held by The Leiden Pilgrim Documents Center and The Sir Thomas Browne Institute, Jeremy D. Bangs, ed. (Leiden, The Netherlands, 1984)

BarbMR — Joanne McRee Sanders, comp., Barbados Records, Marriages, 1643-1800, 2 volumes (1982)

BarbPR — Joanne McRee Sanders, comp., Barbados Records, Wills and Administrations, 1639-1680, Volume 1 (1979)

BarnChR — Barnstable, Massachusetts, Church Records

BarnPR — Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Probate Records

Bartlett-Jenkins — Edith Bartlett Sumner, Ancestry and Descendants of Samuel Bartlett and Lucy Jenkins (Los Angeles 1951)

Bassett Gen — Buell Burdett Bassett, One Bassett Family in America ... (Springfield, Massachusetts, 1926)

Bassett-Preston — Belle Preston, Bassett-Preston Ancestors (New Haven 1930)

Batchelder Gen — Frederick Clifton Pierce, Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy. Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England, a Leading Nonconformist, Who Settled the Town of New Hampton, N.H. and Joseph, Henry, Joshua and John Batcheller of Essex Co., Massachusetts (Chicago 1898)

BBOP —“The Book of Possessions” for Boston, in Second Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston; containing the Boston Records, 1634-1660, and the Book of Possessions, 2nd ed. (Boston 1881)

BChR — The Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630-1868, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volumes 39, 40 and 41, Richard D. Pierce, ed. (Boston 1961)

Bethia Harris Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, 1748-1833, Wife of Dudley Wildes of Topsfield, Massachusetts (Portland, Maine 1934)

BevVR — Beverly, Massachusetts, Vital Records

Bierce-Cottrell — Thurber H. Bierce and Lisle Cottrell, Ancestors in the United States of Byron H. Bierce and His Wife Mary Ida Cottrell of Cortland County, New York (n.p. 1962)

Blackman Anc — Alfred L. Holman, Blackman and Allied Families (Chicago 1928)

Blake-Glidden — Edith Bartlett Sumner, Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake and Clarissa Matilda Glidden with Ninety Allied Families (Los Angeles 1948)

Blakeney-Sabin — Josephine C. Frost, Ancestors of Benjamin Ferris Blakeney and His Wife Stella Peronne Sabin (Brooklyn 1926)

Boardman Anc — William F. J. Boardman, The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman (Hartford 1906)

Bodge — George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip’s War being A Critical Account of That War with A Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England From 1620-1677 (Leominster, Massachusetts, 1896; rpt. Baltimore 1967)

Bond — Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts ..., two volumes in one, second edition (Boston 1860)

Boston Cemeteries — Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Inscriptions and Records of The Old Cemeteries of Boston (Boston 2000)

Boston Deaths — Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Deaths in Boston, 1700 to 1799, 2 vols. (Boston 1999)

Boston PR — Charles Wilmer Foster, The Parish Registers of Boston in the County of Lincoln, 2 volumes, in The Publications of the Lincoln Record Society, Parish Register Series, Volumes 1 and 3 (Lincoln, England, 1914, 1915)

Boston Second — Chandler Robins, A History of the Second Church, or Old North, in Boston ... (Boston 1852)

Boston Tax — First Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. 1876, second edition (Boston 1881)

Boston Third — An Historical Catalogue of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston, 1669-1882 (Boston 1883)

Bosworth Gen — Mary Bosworth Clarke, Bosworth Genealogy ... (San Francisco 1926)

Botsford-Marble — Donald Lines Jacobus, An American Family: Botsford-Marble Ancestral Lines (New Haven 1933)

Bradford — William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, Samuel Eliot Morison, ed. (New York 1952)

Bradford LB — Governor William Bradford’s Letter Book (Boston, 1906; rpt. from Mayflower Descendant, 1904-6)

Brady Anc — L. Effingham deForest and Anne Lawrence deForest, James Cox Brady and His Ancestry (New York 1933)

Brainerd Anc — Thomas Chalmers Brainerd, Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd, Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (Montreal 1948)

BranLR — Branford, Connecticut, Land Records

BrChR — Brooklyn Church Records, in Holland Society Yearbook, 1897

BridTR — Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Town Records

Bridgewater Hist — Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Including an Extensive Family Register (Boston 1840)

Briggs Gen — L. Vernon Briggs, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937, In Three Volumes (Boston 1937)

BrLR — Bristol County, Massachusetts, Land Records

Brown-Parker — Blanche Brown Bryant, The Progenitors and Descendants of Thomas Page Brown and Sarah (Sally) Parker (Springfield, Vermont, 1938)

BrPR — Bristol County, Records Massachusetts, Probate

BrTR — Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Samuel A. Bates, ed. (Randolph 1886), pp. 1-625

BrVR — Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Samuel A. Bates, ed. (Randolph 1886), pp. 627-940

BTR — Boston Town Records, in Second Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston; containing the Boston Records, 1634-1660, and the Book of Possessions, 2nd ed. (Boston 1881)

BTR2 — A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing the Boston Records from 1660 to 1701 (Boston 1881)

Bulkeley Gen — Donald Lines Jacobus, The Bulkeley Genealogy, Rev. Peter Bulkeley (New Haven 1933)

Burrage — Champlin Burrage, The Early English Dissenters, 1550-1641 (Cambridge, England, 1912)

Bushnell Anc — J. Gardner Bartlett, The Ancestry of Daniel Bushnell ... (Boston 1918)

Button Gen — R. Glen Nye, Button Families of America (n.p. 1971)

BVR — Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Ninth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1883; rpt. Baltimore 1978)

CaBOP — The Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the "New Towne" and the Town of Cambridge... (Cambridge 1896)

CaChR — Stephen Paschall Sharples, ed., Records of The Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England, 1632-1830 (Boston 1906)

Calamy — Edmund Calamy, The Nonconformist’s Memorial …, 3 volumes (London 1802)

Cambridge Hist — Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1630-1877, with a Genealogical Register (Boston 1877)

CaTR — The Records of the Town of Cambridge (Formerly Newtowne) Massachusetts, 1630-1703... (Cambridge 1901)

CCCR — The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776, 15 volumes (Hartford 1850-1890)

CCL — Leonard H. Smith Jr., comp., Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, 2 vols. (Baltimore 1992)

Chapin — Howard M. Chapin, Documentary History of Rhode Island, 2 vols. (Providence 1916, 1919)

Chase-Wigglesworth — Alicia Crane Williams, Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Philip Putnam Chase and His Wife Anna Cornelia Wigglesworth (Baltimore 1990)

ChBOP — Charlestown Land Records, 1638-1802, Third Report of the Boston Record Commissioners, 2nd ed. (Boston 1883)

ChChR — Records of the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1632-1789, James Frothingham Hunnewell, ed. (Boston 1880)

Chelsea Hist — Mellen Chamberlain, A Documentary History of Chelsea, Including the Boston Precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824, 2 volumes (Boston 1908)

Chesham PR — J.W. Garrett-Pegge, A Transcript of the First Volume, 1538-1636, of the Parish Register of Chesham in the County of Buckingham (London 1904)

ChTR — Charlestown Town Records (see “Sources: Town Records: Charlestown”)

ChVR — Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, Volume I, Roger D. Joslyn, ed. (Boston 1984)

Clap — Roger Clap, Memoirs of Capt. Roger Clap (Boston 1731; rpt. Boston 1844)

Clemens — William Montgomery Clemens, American Marriages Before 1699 (Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, 1926)

Clements Gen — Mary Lovering Holman, ed., Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Clements ..., 2 volumes (Boston 1927)

Coldham — Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1660 (Baltimore 1987)

Coltman Anc — Edith Bartlett Sumner, Ancestry and Descendants of James Hensman Coltman and Betsey Tobey (Los Angeles 1957)

Conant Gen — Frederick Odell Conant, A History ... of the Conant Family (Portland, Maine, 1887)

Converse Gen — Charles Allen Converse, Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr. ... Major James Convers ... Hon. Heman Allen ... Captain Jonathan Bixby, Sr. ... (Boston 1947)

Coolidge Gen — Emma Downing Coolidge, Descendants of John and Mary Coolidge of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630 (Boston 1930)

Copp’s Hill [B] — Thomas Bridgman, Epitaphs from Copp’s Hill Burial Ground, Boston (Boston 1851; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1989)

Copp’s Hill [W] — William H. Whitmore, The Graveyards of Boston. First Volume, Copp’s Hill Epitaphs (Albany 1878)

Corbin — Corbin Manuscript Collection at New England Historic Genealogical Society (Call #SG COR 5, being “historical and genealogical material, generally pertaining to central and western Massachusetts for the period 1650-1850”)

Cotton Corr — The Correspondence of John Cotton, ed. Sargent Bush Jr. (Chapel Hill 2001)

C — The Records of the Town of Cambridge (Formerly Newtowne) Massachusetts, 1630-1703... (Cambridge 1901)

Council NE — “Records of the Council for New England,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Meeting of April 24, 1867, pp. 53-131

CoVR — Concord, Massachusetts[:] Births, Marriages, and Deaths[:] 1635-1850 (Concord, n.d.)

CP — The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, The Hon. Vicary Gibbs, ed., 13 volumes in 14 (London 1910-1940)

CSM — Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 1 to present (1895+)

CSPD — Calendar of State Papers, Domestic

CT Civil List — List of Officials Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical of Connecticut Colony... and New Haven Colony..., Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. (New Haven 1935)

CTLR — Connecticut Colony Land Records, Connecticut State Archives, Hartford, Connecticut

CTVR — Births Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut ..., Edwin Stanley Welles, ed. (Hartford 1898)

DAB — Dictionary of American Biography

Davenport — Isabel MacBeath Calder, Letters of John Davenport, Puritan Divine (New Haven 1937)

Davis Fam — Samuel Forbes Rockwell, Davis Families of Early Roxbury and Boston (North Andover 1932)

Dawes-Gates — Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, 2 vols. (n.p., 1943, 1931)

DChR — Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734 (Boston 1891)

DeChR — The Record of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths... from the Church Records in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 16381845..., Don Gleason Hill, ed. (Dedham 1888)

Deerfield Hist — George Sheldon, A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts …, 2 volumes (Deerfield 1895-1896)

DeHR — The Dedham Historical Register, 14 volumes (Dedham 1890-1903)

Delafield Gen — John Ross Delafield, Delafield: The Family History, 2 volumes (n.p. 1945)

DeTR — The Early Records of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts. 1636-1659 ... being Volume Three of the Printed Records of the Town, Don Gleason Hill, ed. (Dedham 1892)

Devil’s Snare — Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (New York 2002)

Devon Marr — Devonshire Parish Registers. Marriages, A. Terry Satterford, ed.

DeVR — The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths... in the Town of Dedham, Volumes 1 & 2..., Don Gleason Hill, ed. (Dedham 1886)

Dewey Gen — Adelbert M. Dewey and Louis Marinus Dewey, Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History (Westfield, Massachusetts, 1898)

Dexter — Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter, The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (London, 1906; rpt. Baltimore 1978)

DNB — Dictionary of National Biography

Doc Hist ME — Documentary History of the State of Maine, 24 vols. in Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series (Portland, 1869-1916)

Doc Hist NY — The Documentary History of the State of New York, 4 vols., E.B. O’Callaghan, ed. (Albany 1849)

Doc Rel NY Hist — Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, 15 vols., E.B. O’Callaghan, ed. (Albany 1853-1887)

Doggett Gen — Samuel Bradlee Doggett, A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family (Boston 1894)

Dommerich Anc — Louis Effingham deForest, Our Colonial and Continental Ancestors: The Ancestry of Mr. and Mrs. Louis William Dommerich (New York 1930)

Dorset Marr — Dorset Parish Registers, Marriages, W.P. Phillimore and Edmund Nevill, eds.

Douglas Gen —Charles Henry James Douglas, comp., A Collection of Family Records, with Biographical Sketches, and Other Memoranda of Various Families and
Individuals Bearing the Name Douglas or Allied Families of That Name (Providence 1879)

Dover Hist — John Scales, History of Dover, New Hampshire (Dover 1923; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1977)

DoVR — Vital Records of Dover, New Hampshire, 1686-1850 (Bowie, Maryland, 1977) (reprint of Collections of the Dover, N.H., Historical Society, Volume 1 [Dover 1894])

Drake’s Boston — Samuel G. Drake, The History and Antiquities of Boston, the Capital of Massachusetts and Metropolis of New England From its Settlement in 1630 to the Year 1770 (Boston 1856)

Drake’s Founders — Samuel G. Drake, Result of Some Researches Among the British Archives for Information Relative to the Founders of New England: Made in the Years 1858, 1859 and 1860 (Boston 1860)

Driver Gen — Harriet Ruth (Waters) Cooke, The Driver Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass. ... (New York 1889)

DSGRM — Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine, Volume 1 to present (Detroit, Michigan, 1937+)

DTR — Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. 1880. Dorchester Town Records (Boston 1883)

Dudley — Thomas Dudley, Letter to Lady Bridget, Countess of Lincoln, 12 and 28 March 1630/1, in Letters from New England: The Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629-1638, Everett Emerson, ed. (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1976), pp. 66-83

Dudley Wildes Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts (Portland, Maine, 1959)

DukesLR — Dukes County, Massachusetts, Deeds

Dunn — The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649, edited by Richard S. Dunn, James Savage, and Laetitia Yeandle (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996)

Durham Hist — Everett S. Stackpole and Winthrop S. Meserve, History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire, (Oyster River Plantation) with Genealogical Notes, 2 volumes (n.p. 1913}

DuTR — Copy of the Old Records of the Town of Duxbury, Mass. From 1642 to 1770 (Plymouth 1893)

DVR — Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825, Twenty-first Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1890)

Early Rehoboth — Richard LeBaron Bowen, Early Rehoboth: Documented Historical Studies of Families and Events in This Plymouth Colony Township, 4 volumes (Rehoboth 1945-1950)

Eastchester TR — Eastchester Historical Society, Records of the Town of Eastchester, Book One, typescript (Eastchester 1964)

EHTR — Easthampton, Long Island, New York, Town Records

Eddy Gen — Ruth Story Devereux Eddy, comp., The Eddy Family in America (Boston 1930)

Edgartown TR — Edgartown, Massachusetts, Town Records

EIHC — Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volume 1 to present (1859+)

Eliot Gen — Wilimena Hannah Emerson, ...Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot (New Haven 1905)

ELR — Essex County, Massachusetts, Deeds, microfilm copies

Enfield Hist — Francis Olcott Allen, The History of Enfield, Connecticut, 3 vols. (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1900)

English Adventurers — Peter Wilson Coldham, English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 (Baltimore 1984)

English Homes — Charles Edward Banks, The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers ... (New York 1929)

Entertaining Satan — John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (New York 1982)

EPR — The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635-1681, 3 volumes (Salem 1916-1920; rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1988). Citations to the unpublished probate records are to case numbers, or to register volumes (which begin with volume 301).

EQC — Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, , 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975)

Essex Ant — The Essex Antiquarian, Volume 1 through 13, Sidney Perley, ed. (Salem 1897-1909)

Evans Festschrift — Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans On the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, Lindsay L. Brook, ed. (Salt Lake City 1989)

Exeter Hist — Charles H. Bell, History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire (Exeter 1888; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1979)

Fairfield LR — Fairfield, Connecticut, Deeds

Fairfield PR — Fairfield County, Connecticut, Probate Records

FANH — Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, 9 volumes in 3 (Baltimore 1974; originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, Volumes 1 through 8 [New Haven 1922-1932]; these were the first 8 volumes of TAG)

Farmington LR — Farmington, Connecticut, Deeds

Farm VR Barbour — Farmington Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut

Farr Anc — Edith Bartlett Sumner, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine, and Ninety Allied Families (Los Angeles 1959)

Farwell Gen — John Dennis Farwell, Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, 2 volumes (n.p. 1929)

Felt — Joseph B. Felt, Annals of Salem, 2nd edition, 2 volumes (Salem 1845, 1849)

Felt Church — Joseph B. Felt, The Ecclesiastical History of New England; Comprising Not Only Religious, But Also Moral, And Other Relations, 2 volumes (Boston 1855)

Fernow — Berthold Fernow, ed., The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini, 7 volumes (New York 1897; rpt. Baltimore 1976)

Fiske Notebook — The Notebook of the Reverend John Fiske, 1644-1675, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 47 (Boston 1974)

Flagg — Ernest Flagg, Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England, My Ancestors’ Part in that Undertaking (n.p. 1926; rpt. Baltimore 1973)

FOOF — Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed., History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, 3 volumes (Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930; rpt. Baltimore 1976, 1991)

Ford — William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, Worthington Chauncey Ford, ed., 2 volumes (Boston 1912)

Foster — Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714 ..., 4 volumes (Oxford 1891-1892)

Frothingham — Richard Frothingham, Jr., The History of Charlestown, Massachusetts (Boston 1845)

Gardiner — Lion Gardiner, “Relation of the Pequot War,” in Charles Orr, History of the Pequot War (Cleveland 1897), pp. 113-49

Gardiner Gen — Curtiss C. Gardiner, 1599-1890. Lion Gardiner, and His Descendants (St. Louis 1890)

GDMNH — Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Maine, 1928-1939; rpt. Baltimore 1972)

Gen Adv — The Genealogical Advertiser, v. 1-4 (Cambridge, 1898-1901; rpt. Baltimore, GPC, 1974)

Gen Bull — The Genealogical Bulletin

Gen Mag — The Genealogical Magazine (Salem, Massachusetts 1810-1915)

Gibson Gen — Mehitable Calef Coppenhagen Wilson, John Gibson of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, 1634-1899 (Washington DC 1900)

Gilbert Gen — Homer Worthington Brainard, Harold Simeon Gilbert and Clarence Almon Torrey, The Gilbert Family, Descendants of Thomas Gilbert, 1582(?)-1659 (New Haven 1953)

Gilberts of NE — George Gordon Gilbert and Geoffrey Gilbert, Gilberts of New England. Part I: Descendants of John Gilbert of Dorchester, and Homer W. Brainard and Clarence A. Torrey, Gilberts of New England. Part II: Descendants of Mathew Gilbert of New Haven, Humphrey Gilbert of Ipswich, and William Gilbert of Boston, from the Gilbert Family Manuscript Genealogy (Victoria, British Columbia, 1959)

Giles Memorial — John Adams Vinton, The Giles Memorial: Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison, Leonard, Lindall, Curwen, Marshall, Robinson, Sampson, and Webb … (Boston 1864)

Gillespie Anc — Paul W. Prindle, Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke) (New Orleans 1976)

Gleaner — Gleaner Articles, Fifth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston revised 1887)

Gloucester Hist — John J. Babson, History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Including the town of Rockport (Gloucester 1860)

Glover Gen — Anna Glover, Glover Memorials and Genealogies. An Account of John Glover of Dorchester and His Descendants … (Boston 1867)

GM — Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume I, A-B (Boston 1999)

GMB — Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston 1995)

GMC26 — John Brooks Threlfall, Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists To New England & Their Origins (Madison, Wisconsin, 1993)

GMC50 — John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists To New England & Their Origins (Madison, Wisconsin, 1990)

GMN — Great Migration Newsletter, Volume 1 through present (1990+)

GMNJ — Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Volume 1 through present (1925+)

Godbeer —Richard Godbeer, Sexual Revolution in Early America (Baltimore 2002)

Goodale Gen — Geo. E. Williams, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Goodale/Goodell of Salem, Mass. (West Hartford, Connecticut, 1984)

Good News — “Good Newes From New England: or a true Relation of things very remarkable at the Plantation of Plimoth in New England...” by E[dward] W[inslow], in Alexander Young, Chronicles of The Pilgrim Fathers of The Colony of Plymouth, From 1602 to 1625..., 2nd edition (Boston 1844; rpt. Baltimore 1974); pp. 271-375

Goodwin Anc — Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin, Hartford, Connecticut, 2 vols. (Hartford 1915)

Goodwin Gen — James Junius Goodwin, The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut, Descendants of William and Ozias Goodwin (Hartford 1891)

Goodwin Notes — Nathaniel Goodwin, Genealogical Notes, or, Contributions to the Family History of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts (Hartford 1856)

Goodwin Papers — Frank Farnsworth Starr, English Goodwin Family Papers (Hartford 1921)

Gorges — The Letters of Thomas Gorges, Deputy Governor of the Province of Maine, 1640- 1643, Robert E. Moody, ed. (Portland 1978)

Gorges Gen — Raymond Gorges, The Story of a Family Through Eleven Centuries … Being a History of the Family of Gorges (Boston 1944)

GQM — The Genealogical Quarterly Magazine, Volume 1 through 5 (1900-1905)

Granary — Gravestone Inscriptions and Records of Tomb Burials in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass. (Salem 1918)

Granberry — Donald Lines Jacobus, The Granberry Family and Allied Families (Hartford 1945)

Grant — “Matthew Grant Record, 1639-1681” in Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to The Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639-1703 (Hartford 1930)

Gravesend TR — Gravesend, New York, Town Records

Greenwich Hist — Spencer P. Mead, Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut (New York 1911)

Greenwich LR — Greenwich, Connecticut, Deeds

Gregory Stone Gen — J. Gardner Bartlett, Gregory Stone Genealogy, Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917 (Boston 1918)

GrotonTR — Samuel A. Green, ed., The Early Records of Groton, Massachusetts, 1661-1707 (Groton 1880)

Guilford Anc — Joan S. Guilford, The Ancestry of Dr. J.P. Guilford (Orange, California, 1990)

HaBOP — Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers, 1639, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 14 (Hartford 1912; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1989)

HaCR — Helen Schatvet Ullmann, transcriber, Hartford County, Connecticut, County Court Minutes, Volumes 3 and 4, 1663-1687, 1697 (Boston 2005)

Hadley Hist — Sylvester Judd, The History of Hadley, Massachusetts (1905; rpt. Somersworth, New Hampshire, 1976)

HadVR — Hadley, Massachusetts, Vital Records

HAHAC — Oliver Ayer Roberts, History of... the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888, 4 volumes (Boston 1895-1901)

Hale, House — Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Hartford 1952; rpt. Baltimore 1978)

Hall-Baldwin — Edith Bartlett Sumner, Ancestry and Descendants of Amaziah Hall and Betsey Baldwin (Los Angeles 1954)

HamCCR — Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Court Records)

HamLR — Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Deeds, Springfield, Massachusetts

Hammatt Papers — Abraham Hammatt, The Hammatt Papers. Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts. 1633-1700 (Ipswich 1880-1899; rpt. Baltimore 1980)

HamPR — Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, Northampton, Massachusetts (and on microfilm)

Hampton Hist — Joseph Dow, History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire: From Its Settlement in 1638, To The Autumn of 1892 (Salem 1893)

HampTR — Hampton, New Hampshire, Town Records (from microfilm of original)

HampVR — Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire To The End of the Year 1900, Vol. 1, George Freeman Sanborn Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, eds. (Boston 1992)

HaPR — Hartford County, Connecticut, Probate Registers (two sets of records in some volumes, “probate” side and “court” side)

Hartford Inscriptions — William Hosley, By Their Markers Ye Shall Know Them: A Chronicle of the History and Restorations of Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground (Hartford 1994)

Hartford PD — Hartford Probate District, original files, Connecticut State Archives (and on microfilm)

Hartford Second — Edwin Pond Parker, History of the Second Church of Christ in Hartford (Hartford 1892)

HarVR — Louise H. Kelley and Dorothy Straw, Vital Records Town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850 (Harwich 1982)

HaVR Barbour — Hartford Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut

Hazard Gen — Caroline E. Robinson, The Hazard Family of Rhode Island, 1635, 1894, … (Boston 1895)

Hempstead Diary — Joshua Hempstead, Diary of Joshua Hempstead of New London, Connecticut (New London 1901)

Hempstead TR — Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, New York, 1654-1880, 8 volumes, Benjamin D. Hicks, ed. (Jamaica, New York, 1896-1904)

Henry Adams — J. Gardner Bartlett, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass. His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants (New York 1927)

Hewes Gen — Eben Putnam, Lieutenant Joshua Hewes (New York 1913)

HiBOP — Hingham, Massachusetts, Book of Possessions (original)

Higginson — Francis Higginson, New-Englands Plantation with The Sea Journal and Other Writings (Salem 1908)

Hingham Hist — George Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, 3 volumes (Hingham 1893; rpt. Somersworth, New Hampshire, 1982)

Hinsdale Gen — Alfred L. Holman, Hinsdale Genealogy[:] Descendants of Robert Hinsdale of Dedham, Medfield, Hadley and Deerfield ... (Lombard, Illinois, 1906)

Hinshaw — William Wade Hinshaw and Thomas Worth Marshall, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume III, New York and Long Island (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1940)

History of Grants — Samuel F. Haven, History of Grants under the Great Council For New England ... (Boston 1869)

HiTR — Hingham, Massachusetts, Town Records (original)

HiVR — Hingham, Massachusetts, Vital Records (original)

Holden Gen — Eben Putnam, The Holden Genealogy, 2 volumes (Boston 1923-26)

Hopkins Gen — Timothy Hopkins, John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants (n.p. 1932)

Hotten — The Original Lists of Persons of Quality..., John Camden Hotten, ed. (London 1874; rpt. Baltimore 1974)

Howe Gen — Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, 2 volumes (Boston 1929)

Howland Gen — Elizabeth Pearson White, John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume One (Camden, Maine, 1990)

Hoyt — David Webster Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Providence, R.I., 1897-1919)

Hubbard — William Hubbard, A General History of New England from the Discovery to MDCLXXX (Cambridge 1815)

Hull — “Diary of John Hull” in Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 3 (Worcester 1857)

Huntington TR — Charles R. Street, Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y., 5 vols. in 8 (n.p. 1887-1889, 1981)

Hutchinson — Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, 3 volumes, ed. Lawrence Shaw Mayo (Cambridge 1936)

Hutchinson Papers — The Hutchinson Papers, 2 volumes (Albany 1865)

IHSP — Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society, 29 volumes (1894-1935)

ILR — Ipswich Land Records, manuscript, Essex County Courthouse, Salem, Massachusetts

Ipswich Hist — Thomas Franklin Waters, Ipswich In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 2 vols. (Ipswich 1905, 1917)

Ipswich Licenses — Marriage Licences from the Official Note Books of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk Deposited at the Ipswich Probate Court, 1613-1674 (n.p. 1903)

ITR — Ipswich, Massachusetts, Town Records (both the originals and the limited records that have been published are muddled and unpaginated, so no volume or page citations are given with this citation)

JamaicaTR — Jamaica, New York, Town Records

JIC — A Tribute to John Insley Coddington on the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of The American Society of Genealogists, Neil D. Thompson and Robert Charles Anderson, eds. (New York 1980)

John Greene Gen — Louise Brownell Clarke, The Greenes of Rhode Island with Historical Records of English Ancestry, 1534-1902 (New York 1903)

John White — Frances Rose-Troup, John White, The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and The Founder of Massachusetts, 1575-1648... (New York 1930)

Johnson — Edward Johnson, Johnson’s Wonder- Working Providence, 1628-1651, J. Franklin Jameson, ed. (New York 1910)

Joseph Neal Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Joseph Neal, 1769-c.1835 (Portland, Maine, 1945)

Kempton Anc — Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton, 1817-1879 (Boston 1996), Part II: The Ancestry of Amanda Spiller, 1823-1873 (Boston 2008), Part III: The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892 (Boston 2004) and Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers, 1839-1879 (Boston 2000)

Kimberly Gen — Donald L. Jacobus, comp., The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family (Neenah, Wisconsin, 1950)

Kingsbury Gen — Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford 1905)

King’s ChapeI — Thomas Bridgman, Memorials of The Dead In Boston, Containing Select Transcripts of Inscriptions...in the King’s Chapel Burial Ground, in the City of Boston (Boston 1853)

Kings County Settlers — Teunis G. Bergen, Register in Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y. ... (rpt. Cottonport, Louisiana, 1973)

Kittery Hist — Everett S. Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families (Lewiston, Maine, 1903; rpt. Somersworth, New Hampshire, 1981)

KitVR — Joseph Crook Anderson II and Lois Ware Thurston, Vital Records of Kittery, Maine, To The Year 1892, Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 8 (Camden, Maine, 1991)

Lachaire — The Register of Salomon Lachaire, Notary Public of New Amsterdam, 1661-1662, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, ed. Kenneth Scott and Kenn Stryker-Rodda (Baltimore 1978)

Lancaster Records — Henry S. Nourse, The Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1752 (Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1884; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1993)

LanVR — Henry S. Nourse, ed., The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1850 (Lancaster 1890; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1993)

LCVR — James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, First Series, Volume 4, Part VI, Little Compton (Providence 1893)

Leach — Douglas Edward Leach, Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War (New York 1958)

Lechford — Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641, Edward Everett Hale, Jr., ed. (Cambridge 1885; rpt. Camden, Maine, 1988). Citations herein refer to the pagination as printed (and not to the manuscript pagination) and will therefore differ from the index entries of the 1885 edition.

Legal Executions — Daniel Allen Hearn, Legal Executions in New England, 1623-1960 (Jefferson, North Carolina, 1999)

Letters of NE — Letters from New England. The Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629-1638, Everett Emerson, ed. (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1976)

Lewis — Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England …, 4 volumes (London 1831; rpt. Baltimore 1996 as four volumes in two)

Little Compton Fam — Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families (Little Compton 1967)

London Depositions — Peter Wilson Coldham, Lord Mayor’s Court of London Depositions Relating to Americans, 1641-1736 (Washington 1980)

Loomis Rec — Copy of Windsor Vital Records prepared by Town Clerk and included in Barbour Index

Lydia Harmon Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, Wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston 1924)

Lyme VR — Verne M. Hall and Elizebeth B. Plimpton, comps., Vital Records of Lyme, Connecticut to the End of the Year 1850 (Lyme 1976)

Lynn Hist — Alonzo Lewis and James Newhall, History of Lynn... (Lynn 1890)

LynnHSR — The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Numbers 1 through 23, 1897-1926

Lyon-Rice — Patty Barthell Myers, Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice and His Wife Harriet Wade Rice with Related Families (San Antonio 2003)

M&JCH — Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630, Volume 1 through present (Toledo, Ohio, 1985+)

MA Arch — " Massachusetts Archives", being bound volumes of loose papers at the Commonwealth Archives of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts

MA Civil List — William H. Whitmore, The Massachusetts Civil List for the Colonial and Provincial Periods, 1630-1774 (Albany 1870; rpt. Baltimore 1969)

Macdonough-Hackstaff — Rodney MacDonough, The MacDonough-Hackstaff Ancestry (Boston 1901)

Magna Chart Sureties — Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years, 4th ed. (Baltimore 1991)

Magnalia — Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana..., 2 volumes (Hartford 1855)

Maine PR — John Eldridge Frost, Maine Probate Abstracts, 2 volumes (Camden, Maine, 1991)

Maine Wills — William M. Sargent, Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland 1887; rpt. Baltimore 1972)

Malden Hist — Deloraine Pendre Corey, The History of Malden, Massachusetts, 1633-1785 (Malden 1899)

Mansfield VR — Susan W. Dimock, Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths From the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1703-1850 (New York 1898)

ManVR — Vital Records of Manchester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem 1903)

Manwaring — A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Volume One, Hartford Probate District, 1635-1700, Charles William Manwaring, comp. (Hartford 1904)

Marblehead — Thomas E. Gray, The Founding of Marblehead (Baltimore 1984)

Marsh Gen — Dwight Whitney Marsh, Marsh Genealogy. Giving Several Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct., 1636-1895 (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1895)

MarVR — Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, eds. (n.p. 1970)

Martha’s Vineyard Hist — Charles Edward Banks, The History of Martha’s Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts in Three Volumes (Edgartown 1966)

Mason — John Mason, “Brief History of the Pequot War,” in Charles Orr, History of the Pequot War (Cleveland 1897), pp. 1-46

MBCR — Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628–1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853–1854)

McArthur-Barnes — Selim Walker McArthur, McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines, Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (Portland, Maine, 1964)

McCormick-Hamilton — Elizabeth Day McCormick and Robert Hall McCormick III, patrons, McCormick Hamilton, Lord-Day Ancestral Lines (privately printed, 1957)

MCF — Middlesex County Court Files, deposited at the Commonwealth Archives of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts

MCR — Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Court Record Books (microfilm)

MD — Mayflower Descendant, Volume 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985+)

Medfield Hist — William S. Tilden, ed., History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts. 1650-1886 (Boston 1887)

MF — Mayflower Families (the “silver” books)

MFIP — Mayflower Families in Progress (the “pink” books)

MHGR — Maine Historical & Genealogical Recorder

MHSC — Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 1 through present (1792+). This serial is divided into a number of series, so the citations will sometimes be in three parts, designating series, volume and page.

MHSP — Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 1 through present (1791+). This serial is divided into a number of series, so the citations will sometimes be in three parts, designating series, volume and page.

MidChR — Middletown, Connecticut, Church Records

Middleboro Hist — Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Cambridge 1906)

MiddleVR — Middleborough, Massachusetts Vital Records, Barbara Lambert Merrick and Alicia Crane Williams, eds., 2 vols. (Boston 1986, 1990)

MidLR — Middletown, Connecticut, Deeds

MidVR — Middletown, Connecticut, Vital Records

MidVR Barbour — Middletown, Connecticut, Vital Records, Barbour transcript

Milford LR — Milford, Connecticut, Land Records

Milford VR Barbour — Milford, Connecticut, Vital Records, Barbour transcript

Miner Anc — Lillian Lounsberry (Miner) Selleck (and Donald Lines Jacobus), One Branch of the Miner Family ... and Fifty Other Allied Families of Connecticut and Long Island (New Haven 1928)

Minor Diary — The Diary of Thomas Minor, Stonington, Connecticut. 1653 to 1684 (n.p. 1899; rpt. n.p. 1993 [with the diary of Manasseh Minor, 1696 to 1720])

Minot Gen — Joseph Grafton Minot, A Genealogical Record of the Minot Family... (Boston 1897)

MLR — Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Deeds

Monnette — Orra Eugene Monnette, First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde East New Jersey, 1664-1714, parts 1-7 (Los Angeles 1930- 1935)

Moore Anc — L. Effingham deForest and Anne Lawrence deForest, Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore (New York 1938)

Morison — Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College (Cambridge 1935) [especially for Appendix B, "English University Men Who Emigrated to New England Before 1646," pp. 359-410]

Morton — Nathaniel Morton, The New-England’s Memorial ... (Plymouth 1826)

Mourt — A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Mourt’s Relation. A Relation or Journal of the English Plantations Settled at Plymouth in New England, by Certain English Adventurers Both Merchants and Others, Dwight B. Heath, ed. (New York 1963)

Mower Anc — Lyman Mower, The Ancestry of Calvin Robinson Mower (1840-1927) (Durham, New Hampshire, 2004)

MPCR — Province and Court Records of Maine, 6 volumes (Portland 1928-1975; volumes 1-3 rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1991)

MQ — Mayflower Quarterly, Volume 1 to present (1935+)

Mulford Anc — Charles H. Cory, Jr., Lineal Ancestors of Susan (Kitchell) Mulford, Mother of Mrs. Susan (Mulford) Cory, 4 vols. (n.p. 1937)

Munsey-Hopkins — D.O.S. Lowell, A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy ... (Boston 1920)

Nantucket Land — Henry Barnard Worth, Nantucket Lands and Land Owners (Bowie, Maryland, 1992)

NanTR — Nantucket, Massachusetts, Town Records (as with many other early New England towns, this volume contains deeds, and, since the town and county are coextensive, county court records are also included)

NanVR — Nantucket, Massachusetts, Vital Records

NEA — New England Ancestors, Volume One through present (2000+)

NEHGR — New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1 through present (1847+)

Newbury Hist — Joshua Coffin, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport & West Newbury (Hampton, New Hampshire, 1845)

Newbury Hist (Currier) — John J. Currier, History of Newbury, Mass., 1635-1902 (Boston 1902)

Newell Anc — William M. Emery, Newell Ancestry: The Story of the Antecedents of William Stark Newell (n.p. 1944)

New English Canaan — Thomas Morton, New English Canaan (Amsterdam 1637; rpt. Boston 1883)

New London Hist — Frances Mannering Caulkins, History of New London, Connecticut (New London 1852)

New London PD — New London County, Connecticut, Probate District

Newport Gleanings — Jane Fletcher Fiske, Gleanings from Newport Court Files, 1659-1783 (Boxford, Massachusetts, 1998)

Newton Gen — Ermina Elizabeth Newton Leonard, comp., Newton Genealogy, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical: Being a Record of the Descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts,1638 … (DePere, Wisconsin, 1915)

NewtownTR — Newtown, New York, Town Records

New York Wills — Original wills of New York (microfilm)

NGSQ — National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 1 through present (1912+)

NHChR — New Haven, Connecticut, Church Records

NHCR — Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 1638–1649, 1653–1664, 2 volumes, Charles J. Hoadley, ed. (Hartford 1857-1858)

NHGR — New Hampshire Genealogical Record, Volume 1 through present (1903-1910; 1990+)

NHLR — New Haven, Connecticut, Land Records

NHPCR — New Hampshire Province Court Records, manuscript records at New Hampshire Division of Records Management and Archives, Concord, New Hampshire

NHPLR — New Hampshire Provincial Deeds, New Hampshire Division of Records Management and Archives, Concord, New Hampshire

NHPP — Provincial Papers, Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire from 1686 to 1722, 40 volumes, Nathaniel Boulton, ed. (Manchester, N.H., 1867-1943)

NHPPR — New Hampshire Provincial Probate Records, New Hampshire Division of Records Management and Archives, Concord, New Hampshire

NHPR — New Haven, Connecticut, Probate Records

NHTR — New Haven Town Records, 3 volumes, Franklin Bowditch Dexter, ed. (New Haven 1917-1962)

NHVR — Vital Records of New Haven, 1649-1850, 2 volumes (Hartford 1917, 1924)

NJArch — New Jersey Archives

NJHSP — New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, four series, 1845 to present

NLChR — New London, Connecticut, Church Records

NLCR — New London County, Connecticut, Court Records

NLLR — New London, Connecticut, Deeds

NLPR — New London, Connecticut, Probate Records

NLR — [Old] Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Deeds

NLVR Barbour — New London Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut

Noble Gen — Lucius M. Boltwood, History and Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Massachusetts (Hartford 1878)

Northampton Hist — James Russell Trumbull, History of Northampton, Massachusetts, From its Settlement in 1654 (Northampton 1902)

North Brookfield Hist — J.H. Temple, History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts (North Brookfield 1887)

NorthVR — Northampton, Massachusetts, Vital Records

Norwalk Hist — Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk (Norwalk 1896)

Norwalk Records — Edwin Hall, comp., The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Conn. (Norwalk 1847)

Norwich Cem — George S. Porter, Inscriptions from Gravestones in the Old Burying Ground, Norwich Town, Connecticut (Norwich 1933)

NoVR — Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, 2 volumes (Hartford 1913)

Noyes-Gilman — Charles Phelps Noyes, Noyes-Gilman Ancestry (St. Paul, Minnesota, 1907)

Nutmegger — Connecticut Nutmegger, Volume One through present (1968+)

NYCalendar — E.B. O’Callaghan, ed., Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y. (Albany 1865)

NYChR — Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Volume I (New York 1890), and Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Volume II (New York 1901)

NYCM — New York Council Minutes

NYGBR — The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 1 through present (1869+)

NYHM:D — New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch

NYHM:E — New York Historical Manuscripts: English

NYMarr — New York Marriages Previous to 1784 ... (Baltimore 1868, 1984)

NYWills — [William S. Pelletreau], Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York, 17 volumes, New-York Historical Society Collections 25-41 (New York 1893-1909)

OED — Oxford English Dictionary

Old Dover — John Scales, Historical Memoranda concerning Persons and Places in Old Dover, N.H. (Dover 1900)

ONGQ — Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly, Volume 1 through 15 (1898-1912)

Ordway Anc — Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway, 1844-1916 (Boston 1990)

Otis — Amos Otis, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families..., 2 volumes (Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1888, 1890; rpt. Baltimore 1979, in 1 volume)

Oyster Bay TR — Oyster Bay Town Records, 1653-1878, 8 vols. (New York 1916-1940)

Parke-Gildersleeve — Nathan Grier Parke II, The Ancestry of Rev. Nathan Grier & his Wife, Ann Elizabeth Gildersleeve, Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (Woodstock 1959)

Parker-Ruggles — John William Linzee, Jr., The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., and Their Ancestors and Descendants (Boston 1913)

Parsons Gen — Gerald James Parson, The Parsons Family: Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons (c.1618-1683) … (Baltimore 1984)

PCC — Prerogative Court of Canterbury, England

PChR — Plymouth Church Records, 1620-1859, Part 1 and Part 2 in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, volumes 22 and 23 (Boston 1920, 1923)

PCLR — Plymouth Colony Deeds (from microfilm; Volume 1 has been published as Volume 12 of PCR)

PCR — Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., 12 volumes in 10 (Boston 1855–1861)

PCPR — Plymouth Colony Probate Records (from microfilm)

PCY — Prerogative Court of York

Pemaquid Papers — “Pemaquid Papers,” in Collections of the Maine Historical Society, vol. 5 (Portland 1857), pp. 1-138

Penobscot Pioneers — Philip Howard Gray, Penobscot Pioneers, 6 volumes (Camden, Maine, 1992-96)

Percival Greene Gen — Samuel Abbott Green, An Account of Percival and Ellen Green and of Some of Their Descendants (Groton, Massachusetts, 1876)

Perley — Sidney Perley, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 volumes (Salem 1924- 1928)

Philip Sherman — Roy V. Sherman, Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, The First Secretary of Rhode Island (Akron 1968)

Phoebe Tilton Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, The Wife of Capt. Abel Lunt of Newburyport, Massachusetts (Portland 1947)

Pillsbury Anc — Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury ... 2 vols. (Concord 1938)

Plain Dealing — Thomas Lechford, Plain Dealing: or, Newes From New-England (London 1642)

Planters — Charles Edward Banks, The Planters of the Commonwealth, 1620-1640 (Boston 1930; rpt. Baltimore 1972

PLR — Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Deeds (from microfilm)

Plymouth Wills — C.H. Simmons, Jr., Plymouth Colony Records, Volume 1, Wills and Inventories, 1633-1669 (Camden, Maine, 1996)

PoLE — Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Land Evidences

Pope — Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts... (Boston 1900; rpt. Baltimore 1965)

Pope MNH — Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660... (Boston 1908; rpt. Baltimore 1973)

Portsmouth Misc — Loose papers at the Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Town Hall

Portsmouth TR — Frank W. Hackett, 1645-1656[,] Portsmouth Records[:] A Transcript of the First Thirty-Five Pages of the Earliest Town Book[,] Portsmouth[,] New Hampshire[,] With Notes (Portsmouth 1886)

PoTR — The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth (Providence 1901)

PoVR — Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Vital Records

PPR — Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Probate Records (from microfilm)

PrescotPR — The Parish Register of Prescot, 1573-1631, ed. by F.V. Driffield (Preston, Lancashire, 1938)

Prince — Thomas Prince, A Chronological History of New England ..., Samuel G. Drake, ed., third edition (Boston 1852)

PRO — Public Record Office, London, England

Providence Island — Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony (Cambridge, England, 1993)

PrTR — The Early Records of the Town of Providence, 21 volumes (Providence 1892-1915)

PTR — Records of the Town of Plymouth, Volume 1, 1636 to 1705 (Plymouth 1889)

Pulsifer — David Pulsifer, manuscript transcription of the Middlesex County, Massachusetts, County Court records, vol. 1, 1649-1663

Putnam’s Mag — Putnam’s Monthly Historical Magazine, Volumes 1-7 (1892-99)

PVR — Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, Lee D. van Antwerp, comp., and Ruth Wilder Sherman, ed. (Camden, Maine, 1993)

Pynchon Court — Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts (1639-1702), The Pynchon Court Record. An Original Judges’ Diary of the Administration of Justice in the Springfield Courts in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Joseph H. Smith, ed. (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961)

Pynchon Papers — The Pynchon Papers, Volume I: Letters of John Pynchon, 1654-1700 and Volume II: Selections from the Account Books of John Pynchon, 1651-1697, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volumes 60 and 61, Carl Bridenbaugh, ed. (Boston 1982)

Pynchon VR — Manuscript volume of vital records kept by John Pynchon, at Connecticut Valley Historical Museum

Rambles — Charles Brewster, Sketches of Persons, Localities and Incidents of Two Centuries, Rambles About Portsmouth, 2 series (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1869- 1873; rpt. 1967)

RBOP — Roxbury Book of Possessions in Sixth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1884), pp. 11-51

RCA — Records of the Court of Assistants, 3 volumes (Boston 1901-1928)

RChR — Roxbury Land and Church Records, Sixth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1884)

ReadingChR — James F. Cooper Jr. and Kenneth P. Minkema, eds., The Colonial Church Records of the First Church of Reading (Wakefield) and the First Church of Rumney Marsh (Revere) (Boston 2006)

ReVR — James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896... (Providence 1897)

Richard Holden Gen — Eben Putnam, Richard Holden, A Pioneer of Groton, Massachusetts … (Salem 1907)

RICR — Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations..., 1636-1692, 10 volumes, John Russell Bartlett, ed. (Providence 1856-1865)

RICR (MS) — Rhode Island Court Records, Volume One (manuscript volume, from which court records were abstracted for the published RICR; some records, mostly deeds, were not included in the published RICR, and are available only in this manuscript volume)

RICT — Rhode Island Court Records: Records of the Court of Trials of the Colony of Providence Plantations, 1647-1662, Volume I (Providence 1920) [RICT 1]; Rhode Island Court Records: Records of the Court of Trials of the Colony of Providence Plantations, 1662-1670, Volume II (Providence 1922) [RICT 2]; Jane Fletcher Fiske, trans., Rhode Island General Court of Trials, 1671-1704 (Boxford, Massachusetts, 1998) [RICT 3]

RIGR — Rhode Island Genealogical Register, Volume 1 through present (1978+)

RIHSC — Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, Volume 1 through present (1827+)

RILE — Rhode Island Land Evidences, Volume I, 1648-1696 (Providence 1921; rpt. Baltimore 1970)

RIRoots — Rhode Island Roots, Volume 1 through present (1975+)

RIVR — James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volumes 1 through 21 (Providence 1891-1912)

Robert Rose Gen — Christine Rose, Descendants of Robert Rose of Wethersfield and Branford, Connecticut ... (San Jose, California, 1983)

Rodgers — Robert H. Rodgers, Middlesex County in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England: Records of Probate and Administration, Volume One, October 1649-December 1660 (Boston 1999), Volume Two: March 1660/61-December 1670 (Boston 2001) and Volume Three, February 1670/71-June 1676 (Rockport Maine, 2005)

Rowlandson’s Narrative — The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1903)

Rowley Fam — George Brainard Blodgette, comp., Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts (Rowley 1933)

Rowley Records — Benjamin P. Mighill and George B. Blodgette, The Early Records of the Town of Rowley, Massachusetts. 1639-1672. Being Volume One of the Printed Records of the Town (Rowley 1894)

RPCC — Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 22 (Hartford 1928; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1987)

RTR — Robert J. Dunkle & Ann S. Lainhart, The Town Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1647 to 1730, Being Volume One of the Original (Boston 1997)

RVR MS — Roxbury Vital Records, manuscript copy at New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston

RWCorr — The Correspondence of Roger Williams, Volume One 1629-1653, Volume Two 1654-1682, Glenn W. LaFantasie, ed. (Providence 1988)

Saint Antholin PR — Joseph Lemuel Chester and George J. Armytage, ed., The Parish Registers of St. Antholin, Budge Row, Containing the Marriages, Baptisms and Burials from 1538 to 1754 … (London 1883)

Saints — George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers... (New York 1945)

Saints and Sectaries — Emery Battis, Saints and Sectaries: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Chapel Hill 1962)

Salisbury Fam — Edward Elbridge Salisbury and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, Family Histories and Genealogy, 3 vols. in 5 (New Haven 1892)

Salisbury Mem — Edward Elbridge Salisbury, Family Memorials. A Series of Genealogical and Biographical Monographs … (New Haven 1885)

Saltonstall Papers — Robert E. Moody, The Saltonstall Papers, 1607-1815, Volume 1: 1607-1789, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 80 (Boston 1972)

SandVR — Caroline Lewis Kardell and Russell A. Lovell, Jr., Vital Records of Sandwich, Massachusetts, to 1885, 3 volumes (Boston 1996)

Sarah Hildreth Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth, 1773-1857, Wife of Annis Spear of Litchfield, Maine (Portland, Maine, 1958)

Sarah Johnson Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Johnson, 1775-1824, Wife of Joseph Neal of Litchfield, Maine (Portland 1960)

Sarah Miller Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Miller, 1755-1840, Wife of Lieut. Amos Towne of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine (Portland 1939)

Sarah Stone Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone, Wife of James Patten of Arundel (Kennebunkport) Maine (Portland 1930)

Savage — James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 volumes (Boston 1860-1862; rpt. Baltimore 1965)

SayVR — The Vital Records of Saybrook Colony, 1635- 1860, ed. Elizebeth Bull Plimpton (Old Saybrook, Connecticut, 1985)

SayVR2 — Vital Records of Saybrook, 1647-1834 (Hartford 1952)

SChR — The Records of the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1629-1736, Richard D. Pierce, ed. (Salem 1974)

SCC — Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671-1680, 2 vols., in Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vols. 29 and 30 (Boston, 1933)

SCHSR — Suffolk County Historical Society Register

Scituate Hist — Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, From Its First Settlement to 1831 (Boston 1831)

ScitTR — Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth- Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 2 volumes (Boston 1997, 1999)

Scott Gen — Mary Lovering Holman, The Scott Genealogy.... (Boston 1919)

Scrapbook — The Plymouth Scrap Book, The Oldest Original Documents Extant In Plymouth Archives..., Charles Henry Pope, ed. (Boston 1918)

ScVR — Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, 2 volumes (Boston 1909)

Seversmith — Herbert Furman Seversmith, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut Being the Ancestry & Kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith ..., typescript (Washington DC 1939- 1958)

Sewall — The Diary of Samuel Sewall, Volume One 1674-1708, Volume Two 1709-1729, M. Halsey Thomas, ed. (New York 1973)

Shepard — Thomas Shepard’s Confessions, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 58, George Selement & Bruce C. Woolley, eds. (Boston 1981)

Shepard Fam — Donald Lines Jacobus, ed., The Shepard Families of New England, 3 volumes, comp. Gerald Faulkner Shepard (New Haven 1971-1973)

Shreve Gen — L.P. Allen, The Genealogy and History of the Shreve Family from 1641 (Greenfield, Illinois, 1901)

Sibley — John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, 1642-1689, 3 volumes (Cambridge 1873-1885)

Simon Stone Gen — J. Gardner Bartlett, Simon Stone Genealogy ... (Boston 1926)

Shattuck — Lemuel Shattuck, A History of the Town of Concord... (Boston 1835)

SimsLR — Simsbury, Connecticut, Deeds

SimsVR Barbour — Simsbury Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut

Sir Ferdinando Gorges — James Phinney Baxter, Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine …, 3 volumes (Boston 1890)

SJC — Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts

SLR — Suffolk Deeds, Volumes 1 through 14 (Boston 1880-1906). Citations to later volumes are from the microfilm copies of the originals.

Small Gen — Lora Altine Woodbury Underhill, Descendants of Edward Small of New England and the Allied Families with Tracings of English Ancestry, revisededition, 3 volumes (Boston and New York, 1934)

Smithtown Records — William S. Pelletreau, transcriber, Records of the Town of Smithtown, Long Island, N.Y., With Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value (n.p. 1898)

Snow-Estes — Nora E. Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 volumes (Hillburn, New York, 1939)

Southampton Hist — George Rogers Howell, The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, with Genealogies (Albany 1887)

Southampton TR — The First Book of Records of the Town of Southampton... (Sag-Harbor, New York, 1874)

Southold TR — J. Wickham Case, ed., Southold Town Records Copied and Explanatory Notes Added, 2 volumes (Riverhead 1882, 1884)

Spencer — Wilbur D. Spencer, Pioneers on Maine Rivers with Lists to 1651... (Portland, Maine, 1930; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1990)

SPR — Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records

SPR NS — Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, New Series

Spragues of Malden — George Walter Chamberlain, The Spragues of Malden, Massachusetts (Boston 1923)

Springfield Fam — Thomas B. Warren, Springfield Families, 3 vols. (Springfield 1934-1935)

Springfield Hist — Henry M. Burt, The First Century of the History of Springfield. The Official Records from 1636 to 1736, 2 volumes (Springfield 1898 & 1899)

SpTR — Springfield, Massachusetts, Town Records

Stevens-Miller Anc — Mary Lovering Holman (and Winifred Lovering Holman), Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 volumes (n.p. 1948, 1951)

Stillwell — John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey, 5 vols. (n.p. 1903-32; rpt. Baltimore 1970)

StLR — Stamford, Connecticut, Deeds

Stonington Hist — Richard Anson Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London
Connecticut, From Its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, With a Genealogical Register of Stonington Families (1900; rpt. Mystic 1966)

StonVR Barbour — Stonington Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut

Stowell Gen — W.H.H. Stowell, The Stowell Genealogy: A Record of the Descendants of Samuel Stowell of Hingham, Mass. (Rutland, Vermont, 1970)

STR — Town Records of Salem, Massachusetts, 1634-1691, 3 volumes (Salem 1868, 1913, 1934)

Stratton — Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City 1986)

StrLR — Stratford, Connecticut, Vital Records

StrVR Barbour —Stratford Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut

StTR — Stamford, Connecticut, Town Records

SuBOP — Sudbury, Massachusetts, Book of Possesions

Suffolk Sessions —Thomas W. Cooper, comp., The Records of the Court of Sessions of Suffolk County in the Province of New York, 1670-1688 (Bowie, Maryland, 1993)

SuTR — Sudbury, Massachusetts, Town Records

SVR — Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, 6 volumes (Salem 1916-1925; rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1988)

SwVR — Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts, To 1850, transcribed by H.L. Peter Rounds (Boston 1992)

TAG — The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932+)

Talmage Gen — Arthur White Talmadge, The Talmadge, Tallmadge and Talmage Genealogy, Being the Descendants of Thomas Talmadge of Lynn, Massachusetts, With An Appendix Including Other Families (New York 1909)

Taunton Hist — Samuel Hopkins Emery, History of Taunton, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement to the Present Time (Syracuse 1893)

TEG — The Essex Genealogist, Volume 1 to present (1981+)

TG — The Genealogist, Volume 1 to present (1980+)

Thomas Cooke Gen — Jane Fletcher Fiske, Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island, 2 volumes (Boxford, Massachusetts, 1987)

Three Episodes — Charles Francis Adams, Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, 2 volumes (Boston and New York, 1903)

Three Visitors — Sydney V. James, Jr., Three Visitors to Early Plymouth (Plymouth 1963)

Tingley-Meyers — Raymon Meyers Tingley, Some Ancestral Lines (Rutland, Vermont, 1935)

Topo Dict — Charles Edward Banks, Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, ed. (Philadelphia 1937; rpt. Baltimore 1957)

TopsHC — The Historical Collections of the Topsfield Historical Society, Volume 1 to present (1895+)

Torrey — Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 12 volumes, original manuscript, New England Historic Genealogical Society

Tracy Gen — Sherman Weld Tracy, comp., The Tracy Genealogy, Being Some of the Descendants of Stephen Tracy of Plymouth Colony, 1623 (Rutland 1936)

Transatlantic Shermans — Bertha L. Stratton, comp., Transatlantic Shermans (New York 1969)

Trelawny Papers — The Trelawny Papers, James Phinney Baxter, ed., in Collections of the Maine Historical Society, 2nd Series, Volume 3 (Portland, Maine, 1884)

Two Voyages — John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler. A Critical Edition of Two Voyages to New England, Paul J. Lindholdt, ed. (Hanover and London, 1988)

UGM — Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, 31 volumes (Salt Lake City 1910-1940)

Venn — John Venn and J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part I (From the Earliest Times to 1751), 4 volumes (Cambridge 1922-1927)

Vinton Memorial — John Adams Vinton, The Vinton Memorial, Comprising a Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648 … (Boston 1858)

Vose Descendants — Ellen F. Vose, Robert Vose and His Descendants (Boston 1932)

WaBOP — Lands, Grants, Divisions, Allotments, Possessions and Proprietors Book, Section Two in Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings ... (Watertown 1894)

WaChR — Watertown Church Records, Watertown Town Records, volume 4

Walker — Williston Walker, The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism (n.p. 1893)

WarLE — Warwick, Rhode Island, Land Evidences

WarTR — The Early Records of the Town of Warwick (Providence 1926)

Warner-Harrington — Frederick Chester Warner, The Ancestry of Samuel, Freda and John Warner, typescript (Boston 1949-55)

Waterhouse Anc — Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Joseph Waterhouse, 1754-1837, of Standish, Maine (Portland 1949)

Waterman Gen — E.F. Waterman, The Waterman Family, Donald Lines Jacobus, ed., 3 volumes (New Haven 1939-1954)

Waters — Henry FitzGilbert Waters, Genealogical Gleanings In England, 2 volumes (Boston 1901)

Watertown Epitaphs — William Thaddeus Harris, Epitaphs from the Burying Ground in Watertown (Boston 1869)

WaTR — Records of Town Proceedings - First and Second Books, Section One in Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings ... (Watertown 1894)

WaVR — Records of Births, Deaths and Marriages - First Book and Supplement, Section Three in Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings ... (Watertown 1894)

Welles Gen — Donna Holt Siemiatkoski, The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut, 1590-1658 and his wife Alice Tomes (Baltimore 1990)

Wentworth Gen — John Wentworth, The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American, 3 volumes (Boston 1878)

Westchester Court — Dixon Ryan Fox, ed., The Minutes of the Court of Sessions (1657-1696), Westchester County, New York, Publications of the Westchester County Historical Society, Volume II, Source Series, Volume I (White Plains, New York, 1924)

Westchester TR — Westchester, New York, Town Records

Westminster Abbey PR — The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, Joseph Lemuel Chester, ed. (London 1876)

WetLR — Wethersfield, Connecticut, Land Records

Wethersfield Hist — Henry Reed Stiles, The History of Ancient Wethersfield, 2 vols. (New York 1904; rpt. Somersworth, New Hampshire, 1987)

WetVR Barbour — Wethersfield Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut

WeVR — Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, 2 volumes (Boston 1910)

Weymouth Hist — George Walter Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Volumes Three and Four, Genealogy of Weymouth Families (Weymouth 1923; rpt. Baltimore 1984, 2 volumes in 1)

WeyTR — Weymouth, Massachusetts, Town Records, original manuscript at town hall, Weymouth, Massachusetts

Whiteway — William Whiteway of Dorchester His Diary 1618 to 1635 (Dorchester, Dorsetshire, 1991)

Willard Gen — Charles Henry Pope, ed., Willard Genealogy: Sequel to Willard Memoir (Boston 1915)

WiLR — Windsor, Connecticut, Deeds (microfilm of original at Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut)

Windsor Hist — Henry Reed Stiles, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut ..., 2 vols. (Hartford, 1891- 92)

Winthrop Fam — Lawrence Shaw Mayo, The Winthrop Family in America (Boston 1948)

Witchhunting — David D. Hall, Witchhunting in Seventeenth- Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1693 (Boston 1991)

WiVR — Windsor Vital Records, typescript, Connecticut State Library (1918-29)

WiVR Barbour — Windsor Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut

WJ — John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, James Savage, ed., 2 volumes (Boston 1853). Citations herein refer to the pagination of the 1853 and not the 1826 edition.

WMJ — Medical Journals of John Winthrop Jr., 1657-1669, manuscript, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts

Wolcott Gen — Chandler Wolcott, Wolcott Genealogy[:] The Family of Henry Wolcott (Rochester 1912)

Wood — William Wood, New England’s Prospect, Alden T. Vaughan, ed. (Amherst 1977)

Woolson-Fenno — Lula May Fenno Woolson, The Woolson- Fenno Ancestry and Allied Lines with Biographical Sketches (n.p. 1907)

Worthley — Harold Field Worthley, An Inventory of the Records of the Particular (Congregational) Churches of Massachusetts Gathered 1620-1805, in Harvard Theological Studies, volume 25 (Cambridge 1970)

WoVR — Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, from 1640 to 1873, 4 parts (Woburn 1890-1894)

WP — Winthrop Papers, 1498-1654, 6 volumes, various editors (Boston 1925–1992)

WPR —Worcester County, Massachusetts, Probate Records

WWP — Johnson’s Wonder-Working Providence, 1628-1651, J. Franklin Jameson, ed. (New York 1910; rpt. 1952)

Wyllys Papers — “The Wyllys Papers. Correspondence and Documents Chiefly of Descendants of Gov. George Wyllys of Connecticut. 1590-1796” in Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 21 (Hartford 1924)

Wyman — Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts: 1629-1818, 2 volumes (Boston 1879; rpt. in 1 volume Somersworth, New Hampshire, 1982)

Wyman Notes — Thomas Bellows Wyman, Abstracts of Middlesex Files, 2 volumes, manuscript at NEHGS library (abstracts of the loose papers in MCF; since Wyman produced these abstracts, many of the papers have disappeared, as a result of which these abstracts have become the best evidence for the now missing papers)

YarVR — Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, To The Year 1850, 2 vols. (Warwick, Rhode Island, 1975)

YLR — York Deeds, 18 volumes (Portland, Maine, 1887-1910)

York Hist —Charles Edward Banks, History of York, Maine, 2 volumes (Boston 1931, 1935)

York Marriages — John Eldridge Frost and Joseph Crook Anderson II, ed., Marriage Returns of York County, Maine, Prior to 1892, Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 13 (Camden, Maine, 1993)

Young’s First Planters — Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay ..., Alexander Young, ed. (Boston 1846; rpt. Baltimore 1975)

Young’s Pilgrim Fathers — Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth ..., Alexander Young, ed. (Boston 1844; rpt. Baltimore 1974)