Carl Boyer, 3rd
6 x 9 hardcover, 706 pp.
Published: September 2015
This new book covers fifty early "North of Boston" families (Dole, Littlefield, Noyes, etc.) and about seventy-five English families in the ancestry of Percival Lowell, prolific immigrant forebear of Judge John Lowell and many other New Englanders.
Vibrant threads of ambition and persistence run through the five Finn generations detailed in this truly American story. This volume traces the line of descent from Peter Finn (ca. 1800–ca. 1847), a tenant farmer in County Longford, Ireland, through three generations, to the eleven children of William Joseph and Katherine Irene (Mullen) Finn of Canton, Massachusetts. William (1881–1942) was a Canton textile mill owner whose grandfather, James Finn (1825–1871), left Ireland for Massachusetts, alone, in 1841 as a teenage pauper.
Written by Henry B. Hoff, CG, FASG, with Nancy Sands Maulsby
Published by American Ancestors Newbury Street Press in August 2018
8-1/4 x 10-1/4 hardcover, 184 pages, illustrated
- Winner of the National Genealogical Society Award for Excellence -
By Judith Waite Freeman with Christopher C. Child and Nancy G. Bernard
Published March 2019
9 x 12 hardcover, 336 pages, illustrated
American historian and engraver John Warner Barber (1798–1885) was well known for his books on local, state, and national history. This work, organized by county, gives historical background on all the Massachusetts towns that existed at the time of publication in 1839. Barber supplies facts and details of each town’s early settlement, including original Native American place names, and he presents statistics on local industries and agriculture, descriptions of landmark architecture and cultural organizations, and brief biographical sketches of historic residents.
Between 1785 and 1825, Americans of European descent began to document their familial relationships, which had been gradually developing in a colonial and post-colonial setting. Some calligraphic and genealogical artists found ways to memorialize and celebrate these ties for current and future generations and began to advertise their talents. Decorated watercolor and embroidered registers started to appear in everyday households and were occasionally listed in probate inventories. Many were made by school children.
This ground-breaking work traces 1,500 descendants of four families from St. Mary’s County, Maryland, 800 of whom are progeny of three Georgetown Memory Project slaves sold in 1838 but who remained in Maryland for more than 200 years. After another 150 years, many are still there, but most who migrated after 1900 remain in the greater Chesapeake Bay area.
Family stories, shared memories, and a family art gallery lift the
Written by David Watson Kruger
Foreword by Rachel King
Published by American Ancestors in March 2020
6 x 9 hardcover; 348 pages, illustrated
This second volume of 180 sketches covers the rest of Windsor County, organized by town and presented in alphabetical order by head of household. These sketches provide a better understanding of the outward migration from southern New England along the northern route to the early westward settlements in New York, Ohio, Michigan, and beyond.
