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Cornell University Library Z1217 .S16 New Enjsland history. Preface: The writin 3 1924 029 584 939 Clin The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/cletails/cu31924029584939 New^England History PREFACE The Writing Habit of the New England Yankee LIST OF Americana Pertaining to New England PRICE, 10 CENTS Published by the Salem Press Co. Salem, Mass. " CopjrriehUd, 1911 The Salem Pros Co. ■' " ^- -^ " THE WRITING HABIT IN NEW ENGLAND NE marvelous thing about New Eng- landers is their literary habit of mind — or their talent and fondness for putting a thing down in writing. This mani- fests itself in their inclination to jot down their thoughts in "journals", to keep a diary, to write entertaining let- ters to personal friends, and scribble rhymes and verse. Many an old grandsire has left among his effects well kept diaries, or an old ledger filled with ambitious attempts at verse, when no one knew this side of his character, or maybe some brave effort at poUtical essays on public questions of the day. Throughout New England it is a common thing to be able to write well. Even men and women who do not follow a vocation which stimulates the mind and develops imagina- tive genius, write most entertainingly and well. In many sections of the country it is an unusual gift to be able to write for the press, or to write a book, and when it is men- tioned of a person that he or she is a "writer", it is as awe- inspiring as though it be said he is a "congressman" or a "judge." It is this propension for literal expression that must in a large measure account for the well-known preeminence of New England men in all fields of literature. The greatest American poets are Poe, Longfellow and Whittier; the greatest novelist or romancer is Hawthorne; the four great- est of American historians are Bancroft, Parkman, Pres- cott and Motley; the greatest philosopher is admittedly Ralph Waldo Emerson; the greatest of all orators, Daniel Webster; the best literary critic, James Russell Lowell — all New England men. THE WRITING HABIT IN NEW ENGLAND In no other part of the country is the propensity to put things down in writing so great as here. From the earUest days it began, and future generations have increased the habit. William Bradford and John Winthrop, the two first governors, started their journals early, and are generally credited with being America's first historians, but it would seem that everybody in any position of authority had the habit and began making materials for future history at the same time they did. The minister of every parish kept a record of the communicants, confessions, marriages, bap- tisms, births and deaths in his parish. A "clerk of the writs" was elected in every town to keep a correct record of all the vital statistics of the community, and make a duplicate to be put on file with the county clerk. In one of the two oldest counties the county clerk was required to make a third copy for additional file and record. When the New Englander sold a piece of land he drew a deed and had it recorded; even when he agreed to build a house he drew a contract and often had it recorded; when: he went inland on a voyage of discovery he kept a journal;, when he shouldered his musket and went on a campaign against the French and the Indians he made regular reports^ to the Treasurer at War of engagements, casualties, rations- issued, muster rolls, and discharges; when he went to sea; he kept a log book, in which he entered daily events of the voyage, soundings and descriptions of new channels, har- bors, and people; every family had its large Bible, in which were entered the name and date of birth of every child, and marriages and deaths in the family; when the head of the house died he wrote a will arranging the disposition of his property down to the family cow and his musket and powder horn. Every serious act of a New Englander's life was written down and became a matter of public record. His deeds and other papers are recorded in the registry of deeds; his THE WRITING HABIT IN NEW ENGLAND wills are recorded in the probate office; his military reports are become official documents in the Secretary of State's office; and his log books have come into the hands of the historical societies. Not only did Bradford and Winthrop realize the sig- nificance to history of the journals they were writing, but it seems to be clear that these early colonists had "empire on the brain" and every one was conscious of the importance of daily events and felt the responsibility of putting in writ- ing and carefully preserving the records of those days. It is perfectly marvelous to a man from the West, where there are no records at all over 75 years old, or to Southern and Middle-Atlantic-States men, where vital rec- ords are generally scattered and fragmentary, or not to be found, to contemplate here a set of old volumes, kept by a "clerk of the writs", filled with the vital statistics of the town (births, marriages and deaths) running back in per- fectly consecutive order for nearly 300 years. Not only one, but duplicate and sometimes triplicate sets, copied and preserved with constant care, from the very beginning. Of course this habit of keeping records was one the English settlers brought with them, but not in England or elsewhere, genealogists declare, have such precautionary duplicate rec- ords been kept. Besides English entries were made only of the " noble" families. Here the records, with democratic thoroughness, made note of every man, woman and child, regardless of station or family. Any intelligent person can go to these public records today and trace his grandsire to his great-grandsire, his great-grandsire to his great-great-grandsire, and so on back to the original emigrant or grantee of the family in America. The many church records, besides, give verification of the vital records ; and furnish other interesting information, such as dates of baptisms, of communions, of confessions, of dismissals, etc. THE WRITING HABIT IN NEW ENGLAND To lawyers the most striking example of this early writing habit is the patient and minute detail in which the evidence in court cases is written out. In all the colonial days these New Englanders kept a complete record of the evidence given by each witness in court. In every case, even petty assault cases, all the evidence is written out with the greatest care. That is the only reason why we have such a minute account of the witchcraft trials. If the evidence in court had been taken as it is today history would be mute in regard to the details of these as well as the famous Quaker trials. In fact, it is doubtful if we would know a thing of them if it were not for this written testimony. This practice W'as followed carefully throughout our whole colonial period. Authorities declare that nowhere else in this country or Europe is such a full hand-written record of court testi- mony handed down to us. In the days when New England's activities were prin- cipally shipping and fishing, and half her population lived on the sea, the skippers found vent for their literary inclina- tions on the pages of the ship's log book. In ancient "logs" at Salem, New Bedford, Portsmouth, Portland, Newburyport, Newport, Gloucester and Marblehead is an Eldorado mine of rich material which a Cooper or a Mahan will some day smelt into the pages of golden tale. Thou- sands of voyages are recorded in these old sea journals, which vividly recall a vanished epoch and make it live again. No monotonous accounts of latitude, longitude, wind and weather are they. In thrilling and minute detail they tell of entering the unknown ports of the world, of captivity by pirates, of hair-breadth escapes from cannibals, of deadly actions fought with British and French men-of- war, of weary days spent in English prisons, of exciting chases, engagements and captures in the days of privateer- ing, of trophies brought home from Muscat, Madigascar, Arabia, Luzon, Sumatra, and other ports of the far East. THE WRITING HABIT IN NEW ENGLAND These literary skippers also industriously recorded accounts of trade, soundings of dangerous channels, the habits and traits of the natives, cargoes taken on and cargoes sold, charts of unknown harbors, sketches of coast lines, etc. — with the serious purpose that their observations should "tend to the improvement and security of navigation." With pen and ink they have left their record behind. A record that is simply amazing in its detail and accuracy. In one library at Salem, Mass., there are over 1,000 of these ancient, hand-written volumes, practically untouched by the historical investigator.* In the archives of the six New England States he gathered and preserved the most precious collections of old State documents to be found on the continent. In the Massachusetts state house at Boston, besides 240 mammoth volumes of papers pertaining to such subjects as "Indian Conferences", "French Neutrals", "Revolutionary Let- ters", and legislative resolves and messages of about the period of the Revolution, there are endless papers antedat- ing the Revolution by 50 to 100 years. The original papers of the French and Indian wars are there, giving lists of sick soldiers, commissary accounts, bayonet rolls and other details. Back to the "twilight of time" in American history go other documents, dealing with "public lands", as early as 1622, "Indian difficulties" in 1639, "maritime" matters in 1641, and with such ancient matters as witchcraft and the care of the Acadian fugitives from the land of Evangeline. But even now the passion for preservation is not satis- fied. Many of the records are yellow with age and badly worn. "What shall we do to re-preserve them.''" says the New Englander to himself. " We will print them in type," the answer has been, " and distribute copies of the prmted work in different libraries, so no flood, fire or dis- aster of any kind can obliterate them." *A aaggestion of the value of this material can be had bj- consulting the articles br Ralph a. Paine, which appeared In the Outing Magazine la 1908. THE WRITING HABIT IN NEW ENGLAND Each of the New England state governments has pub- lished in indexed form, every scrap and scrimption they have in reference to soldiers and sailors who participated in the war of the revolution. The State of Massachusetts has entered upon the huge project of subsidizing the publication of the original records of birth, marriage, and death of every individual on record in the books of all the town clerks of the commonwealth (nearly a hundred volumes are completed now), which gives an immense facility and impetus to the further inves- tigation of divergent branches of family lines and individuals. One historical magazine* three years ago started the sizable task of printing a biographical sketch of every commissioned officer in the revolutionary war from Massachusetts, a pro- ject made possible by this printing of the state and town records in alphabetical order. With such patient practice with the quill and the pen, writing these experiences and making these historical records from generation to generation, what wonder is it that a literary "atmosphere" was created in New England, and that sons with the gift of happy expression and large bumps of language in the tops of their heads were born there. While they were subduing the forests and accomplishing the rough work of civilization there arose such writers as Franklin, Hutchinson, Edwards and Adams; and what wonder is it that in another generation a multitude of writers appeared who made the writing of books a vocation, or an object of remuneration, and that among them should have appeared such transcendant geniuses as Poe, Longfellow, Emerson, Hawthorne, Whittier, Lowell, Webster, and Story ? What wonder is it that with this supreme appreciation of historical values and this faithful habit of making his- torical record, masters of the art of historiography should have been born in New England to write the great monu- *i;iie Hasaschnaatts Magazine, publlthed at Salem, Haaa. THE WRITING HABIT IN NEW ENGLAND mental works: Bancroft's History of the United States, and Parkman's France and England in North America, which will probably stand for all time as exhaustive studies and acknowledged authorities in their respective fields ? What wonder is it that our national history and literature have made the average American boy more familiar with such incidents of New England history as the Boston tea party, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, and Miles Standish's attempt to court Priscilla Mullens, than he is with the his- tory of his own state, and that, therefore, every son or daughter of a New Englander, and every son of a son, or every daughter of a daughter, should look back to New England with particular pride ? What wonder is it that private zeal has produced a history of nearly every old town in New England. What wonder is it that of some 4500* published gene- alogies of American families extant today, over 80 per cent of them are of New England ? What wonder is it that the descendants of these New Englanders plan historical pilgrimages to Bunker Hill and Lexington, and read up their family to see what part their sires and kinsmen took in that history? When you make a reconnoissance of this persistent writing habit of the New Englanders, what wonder is it at all ? Albert Woodbury Dennis, (A son of a New Englander.) *The Boston Public Library reports (Sept., 1910) 4662 titles on Its Bbelyes; purt of these are English genealogies, but It is also true that all American genealogies are not on their shelTes. npHE Books described on the -^ following pages are all Americana, pertaining to New jEngland .... Our publishing is devoted almost exclusively to the history, biography and genealogy of New England. There are a good many works on "Massachusetts", but in a large sense Massachusetts His- tory is New England History.* This list is perhaps the most extensive of its kind ever pub- lished. .Any lover of New England will find something here to instruct him. Like many other lim- ited editions of Americana we have published, all these editions will event- ually be "out of print," and will sell at a premium ranging from 50% to 400% of their original publication price. The Publishers The Salem Press Co., Salem, Mass. • Earlier the States of Maine, New H&mp- Bhire and part of Rliode Island were all incladed in Ma^sacliusetts. St...^ >• Dictionary of American India^n Place a^nd Proper Natmes in New Bngla^nd Taking as his motto, "Gather up the fragments that re- main, that nothing beIost,"Dr.R. A.Douglas-Lithgow has here collected into one volume the Indian place and personal names of New England, defining and locating them whenever possible. In the introductory chapter he gives a brief history of the American Indians in New England, which will stimulate the reader's interest: curiosity is fully aroused by descriptions of these aborigines. The dictionary has two main divisions, "place" and "proper" or personal names. Of these the dic- tionary of place names occupies three-fourths of the volume and is subdivided by states. The section devoted to personal names is biographical in form. We learn, for example, says the Literary Digest : — Assacambuit was a famous sachem of the Pequawkets who were in alliance with the French and in whose defense he distinguished himself from 1696 to 1705. In 1707 he joined the French in their attack on Haver- hill, Mass., and died a French knight in June, 1727. Awashonks was queen and squaw-sachem of the Soghonates. Her kingdom lay at the mouth of Seaconnet toward the cliffs of Little Compton and West Indian Light. She pledged the allegiance of her warriors to the English during King Philip's war, and thus sealed his fate. "Great Tom," Agamcus, was a daring war-captain and a dangerous Tarratine in 1703. That part of the work devoted to the principal American tribes of New England is etymological, as well as definitive, and will be frequently consulted. Mr. James Mooney of the Bureau of Ethnology of Wash- ington, D. C. — the greatest living authority on American-In- dian Onomatology — writes as follows, in The American An- thropologist, Vol. 12, No. 1. Jan. to March, 1910:— "This gazetteer is without question the most comprehensive and satisfactory compendium of New England Indian local and personal names that has yet appeared. Without claiming any philologic knowledge and very sensibly declining to attempt the profitless task of etymologic analy- sis, the author has brought together in concise grouping every important form and every notable interpretation, together with the reference to the authority. ***** The place names of each state are treated separately. There is 'an extended list of general names with biographic data, a very good descrip- tive list of New England tribes and bands, and a linguistic appendix. The print and binding are excellent." Price, $7.00; postage 20c extra. Historic Storms of New EngloLnd BY SIDNEY PERLEY, ESQ. An unusual work nearly out of print, describing great storms, earthquakes, comets, strange appearances in the heavens, dark days, ship wrecks, aurora borealis, hurricanes, whirlwinds, in the six New England states, from 1635 through nearly three centuries. CONTENTS: The Great Storm of August, 1635, The Earthquake of 1638, The Earthquake of 1663, The Comet of 1664, Strange Appearance in the Heavens in 1667, The Storm of 1676, and Shipwreck of Ephraim Howe, The Comet of 1680, Strange Appearance in the Heavens in 1682, The Dark Day of 1716, The Winter of 1716-17, Wreck of the Private Ship Whidah, The Aurora Borealis in 1719, The Storm of February 24, 1722-23, Earth- quake of 1727, The Winter of 1740^1, The Earthquake of 1744, The Win- ter of 1747-48, The Hurricane at Pepperell, Mass., 1748, The Drought of 1749, The Great Earthquake of 1755, The Hurricane at Leicester, Mass., in 1759, The Drought of 1762, Showers with Thunder and Lightning in 1768, The Gale of December 4, 1768, The Summer of 1769, The Great Freshet of 1770, The Summer of 1770, The Storm of October 20, 1770, The Sum- mer of 1771, The Hurricane on Merrimac river in 1773, The Storm of November, 1774, The Dark Day of 1780, The Hurricane of June 23, 1782,. The Great Freshet of October, 1785, The Tornado of 1786, The Snow Storms of December, 1786, The Cyclone of August, 1787, The Meteor of 1787, The Gale of 1788, The Whirlwind of June 19, 1794, The Long Storm of November, 1798, Hail Storm in Connecticut in 1799, The Freshet of 1801, The Great Snow Storm of February, 1802, Storm of Octo- ber, 1804, Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1806, The Freshet of 1807, The Meteor- ite of 1807, Cold Friday, 1810, The Freshet of 1814, The Tornado in New Hampshire in 1814, The Gale of September 23, 1815, The Cold Summer of 1816, The Tornadoes of September 9, 1821, The Spring Freshet of 1823,, The Spring Freshet of 1826, The Avalanche in the White Mountains, and Destruction of the Willey Family, The Wreck of the Almira, 1827, Gale and Freshet of April, 1827, The Storm of March, 1830, The Great Freshet of July, 1830, Meteoric Display of 1833, Winter of 1835-36, The Storms of December, 1839, The "October Gale," 1841, The Storm of 1842, The Freshet of 1846, The Storm of December, 1847, The Storm of October, 1849, The "Lighthouse" Storm, 1851, The Tornado of August 22, 1851, The Storm of April, 1852, The Freshet of November, 1853, Winter of 1856-57, The Gale- of September 8, 1869, The Tornado at Wallingford, Conn., in 1878, The Yellow Day of 1881, Cyclone at Lawrence, Mass., in 1890. Price, $2.5Ds postage 12 cents. History of MassoLchusetts Naval Warfotre in the American R.evolution BY FRANK A. GARDNER, M.D. More and more the historians of today are coming to rec- ognize the real effective work of whipping the British done by the wonderfully courageous and successful privateers, who preyed upon English commerce. Some go so far as to say that the independence of the na- tion was won upon the sea rather than upon the land. Ed- ward Everett Hale, in his delightfully written "Story of Massa- chusetts," has this to say in point: *'The Yankee Privateers" cruised in siglrt of the English headlands, and even be- fore France made war with England, the crossing of the English Channel was regarded as a dangerous adventure. Such losses became so considerable as to make a national calamity. The pressure they made upon public opinion in England made the war as unpopular in the end as it had been popular in the beginning. The commercial interest in England was too large ■an element of public opinion to be slighted. Before 1781 the merchants of England were 'thoroughly sick of constant losses and of high insurance. And when the news of the ■Hast blow came, and the word that Cornwallis had surrendered, it came upon a public 'in England which was heartily tired of the struggle. Strictly speaking, therefore, the independence of the nation was won upon the sea father than upon the land. This truth should be impressed in the "Story of Massachu- setts," because in such success, Massachusetts had so much to do. Probably in every year of the war, Massachusetts had more men at sea against the enemy than Washington had on land in the whole Continental army. The tendency of the writers of our history has been to describe in detail the victories and the reverses on the land, but the history of the naval warfare has been and is buried, in old log-books or in the journals of young men who are joining in this wide system of adventure. We announce in the near future the publication of this history of our naval warfare as Dr. Hale says, "so long buried in old log books," and other recesses, in four volumes, as follows: Vol. I. History of the State Navy. Vol. II History of the Privateer Navy. Vol. Ill History of the Privateer Navy. Vol. IV History of the Privateer Navy. Vol. I, now in press, begins with a general history of the State Navy and is followed by individual histories of the "Tyrannicide," Captains John Fisk, Jonathan Haraden, Allen Hallet and John Cathcart; State brigantine "Hazard," Cap- tains Simeon Samson and John Foster Williams; State brig- antine "Massachusetts," Captains Daniel Souther, John Fisk and John Lambert; State brigantine "Independence," Captain Simeon Samson; State brigantine "Freedom," Cap- tain John Clouston; State sloop "Republic," Captains John Foster Williams and Allen Hallet; State brigantine "Active," Captain Allen Hallet; State Schooner "Diligent", Captains Jeremiah O'Brien and John Lambert; State sloop "Machias Liberty," Captain Jeremiah O'Brien; State ship "Protector," Captain John Foster Williams and State ship "Mars," Simeon Samson and James Nivens. Price, $4.50; postage 24 cts. Witchcraft The witchcraft craze in America had its storm centre in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. A satisfactory explanation of the remarkable incidents — convulsive fits of children, bites by unseen teeth, apparitions and yellow birds — has never been made. It remains one of the unsolved mysteries. Two hundred years has not yet put us far enough away from the event to get a perspective that sees and explains the causes of the remarlcable manifestation recorded, with any unanimity of opinion. First, it is unquestionable that there are many persons today (some of them intelligent enough to read and write) who believe in witchcraft now as well as then. There are those who do not believe in witches, and eliminate the theory that any one was bewitched, but are of the opinion that the devil caused all the hallucination, and was back of all the mischief. There are some who believe Minister Parris to have been the arch- demon of the whole a&air; say he beat his servant Tituba, till he wrung a false confession from her, and then took upon himself the office of public prosecutor, questioning witnesses in such a way as to elicit answers that would enable him to vent his fanatical hatred and malice towards persons who bad incurred his displeasure. Then there are some who view the whole craze as a silly and inex- cusable delusion, and hang their heads in penitent shame for the credulity and folly of their ancestors. Others believe that hypnotism played a large part in the proceedings, and that fright and superstition did the rest. 1 here are others who believe that none of the theories satisfactorily explain the phenomena, and that though some of the things could be accounted for by hypnotic influence, on the whole it is much of a mystery that must be open to man's understanding at some time in the future. The modern science of psychology is making many discoveries that have an im- portant bearing upon the hallucinations attending the outbreak of the witch craze in Salem. They find that it is possible to impress upon a person of the right nervous temperament the belief that he sees a cat or dog, or any other object, by what is called hypnotic suggestion: and that it is possible to cause a subject to cry out with pain and imagine himself pinched or bitten, by merely making the mental suggestion to him. It was believed in the days of witchcraft that, never mind where a witch was she could torment a person a great distance off by making a rag doll or puppet and stick- ing pins into it or pricking it, in lieu of the person, and the person would feel the pain, which finds a surprising analogy in the discovery that it is possible with a sensitive hyp- notic subject, to make him feel the sensation of acute pain in his leg or arm by pinch- ing the leg or arm of a doll that is not within his sight or hearing. There is, further, a symptom of the mind known to physicians who are special- istsjin nervous diseases, called auto-suggestion, in which a person imagines himself tormented by others, and so strong is the hallucination that appearances of a welt or bice actually appear on the skin. These psychological phenomena open up new lines of speculation that can be followed to various conclusions in regard to the afflicted girls who were the cause of all the trouble, and may bring forth a new literature that will sift facts from superstition and clear up much of the mystery that now surrounds the history of the craze. The only book that will give you in brief a plain, unvarnished account of the whole craze, from beginning to end, telling just who the witches were, where they came from, and what they did, is called Witchcraft in Salem. It is a chapter in American history of most peculiar interest, and one that everybody is very ill-informed' regarding. Price, postpaid, 60c.; 174 pages and illustrations. Copies, bound in cloth, $1.00. The Salem Press Co., Salem, Mass. Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution BY JAMES H. STARK The newspapers made a sensation of this book when we issued it (January, 1910) and the demand for it was so great that a new edition of 1,000 copies was ordered printed within a month. We cannot give a better idea of the scope and trend of this uncommonly interesting worlc than to present the author's own words in his introductory: "At the dedication of the monument erected on Dorchester Heights to commemorate the evacuation of Boston by the British, the oration was delivered by that nestor of the United States Senate, Senator Hoar. In describing the government of the colonies at the outbreak of the Revolution he made the following statement: "The government of England was, in the main, a gentle government, much as our fathers complained of it. Her yoke was easy and her burden was light; our fathers were a hundred times better off in 1775 than were the men of Kent, the vanguard of liberty in England. There was more happiness in Middlesex on the Concord, than there was in Middlesex on the Thames." " These words by our venerable and learned senator seemed strangely unfamiliar to us who had derived our history of the Revolution from the school textbooks. These had taught us that the Revolution was due solely to the oppression and tyranny of the British, and that Washington, Frank- lin, Adams, Hancock, Otis and the host of other Revolutionary patriots had in a supreme degree all the virtues ever exhibited by men in their re- spective spheres, and that the Tories or Loyalists, such as Hutchinson, the Olivers, Saltonstalls, Winslows, Quincys and others were to be detested and their mamory execrated for their abominable and unpatriotic actions. " This led me to inquire and to examine whether there might not be two sides to the controversy which led to the Revolutionary War. I soon found that for more than a century our most gifted writers had almost uniformly suppressed or misrepresented all matter bearing upon one side of the question, and that it would seem to be settled by precedent that this nation could not be trusted with all portions of Its own history. But it seemed to me that history should know no concealment. The people have a right to the whole truth, and to the full benefit of unbiased historical teachings and if, in an honest attempt to discharge a duty to my fellow citizens, I relate on unquestionable authority facts that politic men have intentionally concealed, let no man say that I wantonly expose the errors of the fathers." But the most startling thing about the book is the fear- less or irreverent way in which the author uses strong adjec- tives to estimate time honored heroes of New England. It is never uninteresting and is very accurate as to historical fact. The biographies are much more extended than in "Sa- bines Loyalists of the Revolution," the standard authority heretofore on this subject. There are also many families not given in Sabines, 500 pages, 35 fine illustrations; postage 30 cents. Price $5.00. Home Life in Colonial Days By Alice Morse Earle A most sympathetic book of the past is this one of Mrs. Earle's. It takes the reader into the home-life of the pre- Revolutionary days, as no other book we know. There is a chapter on "Early Homes," and the construction of the houses. With minute care she describes the different meth- ods of lighting, with pine torches, tallow and spermaceti candles, fish-oil lamps, bayberry wax, etc. All the mysterious implements of the kitchen fireside she has investigated, and illustrates and describes. The uses of by-gone articles as gridirons, toasting forks, waffle irons, clock jack, and warm- ing pans, are related with great interest. The food and the meals, spinning, weaving, dressmaking, travel and transpor- tation, old time flower gardens, and all such intimate aspects of the early homes of the American Colonists are described with delightful interest. 470 pages; 142 illustrations. Price $2.50; postage 15 cts. Life of Israel Putnam General Israel Putnam was one of the characters of the Revolutionary War who seemed almost superhuman in his achievements. He is familiarly remembered as the man who left his oxen in the middle of the field, mounted his horse, and sped away to Lexington without even changing his farm clothes; as one of the commanders at the Bunker Hill fight; as the man who went into the wolf's den and killed a she- wolf alone; as one of Washington's four major-generals; etc. But, like most salient facts the popular mind seizes upon, these shed little light upon the real man. He was one of the heroic figures of that trying time, and his many hazardous exploits read like the fables of fiction. His strenuous activity, iron-like endurance and impetuous daring remind one of the Theodore Roosevelt of our day, and in fact his general phy- sique greatly resembled that of our ex-president. This bi- ography of nearly 300 pages is by George Canning Hill, edited with notes by Henry Ketcham. The style is very interesting and entertaining. Price, $1.50; postage 14 cts. The Story of Massach\isetts BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE "There are two ways in which history can be written. You may make a book which shall give as much effort and space to one year as another. Nine out of ten of the histo- rians of the old school did this, and this is the reason why their books are generally so dull. . . . The other method is that which I shall adopt. I have selected twenty occasions of^critical interest in the history of Massachusetts and to each of these I will give a chapter. But I shall not pretend to give, at length, the annals of Massachusetts. A story is not a book of annals." This is the way Dr. Hale announced his purpose to write the "Story of Massachusetts"; and this is certainly the best and most readable narrative of the intensely interesting epi- sodes in her history that has ever been published. We com- mend this book to all who would like to read a brief, reliable account of the salient features of Massachusetts's history. Price $1.00; postage 12 cents. On Plynno\ith Rock The reverent New Englander believes that the story of the Pilgrim Fathers is one that the young people should know by heart. Relating to the very beginning of our life as a nation, it is so simple and noble that no New Englander can read it without being proud of it. This book was printed for young minds, by that rare and gifted writer on New England historical subjects, Samuel Adams Drake, and would be a valuable book to place in the hands of any young American boy or girl. Small in size. Illustrated. Price, 60 cts; postage 8 cents. Old Concord Her Highwacys and Byways BY MARGARET SIDNEY ?"' If you would like a quiet, tranquil, dreamy friend to take you in a low phaeton with an "easy-going" horse, and drive you about this romantic old town, with its ever-famous literary associations and its Revolutionary- war traditions — just buy this book. It will be almost as good as a day's vacation; and, if you are at a distance, the next best thing to actually taking the drive, for it is very well illustrated with over fifty photographs and pen-and-ink sketches. Price $2.00; postage 12 cents. King's County The Land of EvsLngeline DR. ARTHUR WENTWORTH H. EATON Though the title of this work may not seem to belong to New England, this famous "Evangeline Country" isvery closely identified with New England history. Massachusetts and New England conducted several offensive military campaigns against the Acadians, thousands of the French Acadians were brought to New England and distributed throughout the towns of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, "Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut at the time of the Expulsion; and hundreds of English families from Connecticut and Massa- chusetts migrated thither and resettled the lands taken from the Acadians. These historic migrations receive very full treatment by Dr. Eaton. Six years after the notable tragedy of the expulsion of the Acadians, a large number of prominent families, attracted by the offer of the rich lands of the exiled French, removed from the eastern Connecticut towns. New London, Norwich, Lebanon, Saybrook, and Lyme, and from several towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, to this beautiful Nova Scotian county, and from these planters the present population, and many notable persons in the United States and in other parts of Canada are sprung. To the story of this migration Dr. Eaton has devoted many pages of his book, and it is not too much to say that in his treatment of it what to many people will be an entirely new episode in American history, will be brought to light. The western part of the country was settled later by American Loyalists, and this historic migration, also, receives attention in the book. In thework.the county's industrial, political, educational, religious and family history have been traced. The book is a notable contribution to American local history. The table of contents is as follows: Introduction: I. The County of Kings; II. The Micmac Indians; III. The Acadian French; IV. The Acadians to the Expulsion; V. Coming of New England Planters to Corn- wallis and Horton; VI. The Township of Aylesford; VII. Tlie Township of Parrsboroughj VIII. KentTille, the Shire Town; IX. WolfTllle and Canning and Berwiclc; X. County Government, Public Oaicials; XI. Industries, Roads and Travelling; XII. Houses, Furni- ture, Dress, Diversions, Gardens; XIII. Marriage Observances, General Living, Slaves; XIV. The Anglican Church; XV. The Congregationallst Church and the Alline Revival; XVI. Later Congregationalist and Presbyterian Churches; XVII. Rise of the Baptists; XVIII. Methodists and Roman Catholics; XIX. Education in the County Newspapers, Authors; XX. Horton Academy and Acadia College; XXI. Politics, Representatives iB the Legislature; XXII. The County's Militia; XXIII. Current Events from 1751; XXIV. Genealogical Sketches (of the families of Allison, Avery, Barnaby, Beckwith, Belcher, Bigelow, Bishop, Brewster, Burbidge, Calkin, Chase, Chipman, Cleveland, Cogswell, Coldwell, Coi, Crane, Davidson, DeWolf, Dodge, Eaton, English, Fitch, Gore, Graves, and many others) ; XXV. Brief Biographies (of deceased persons) ; Appendix. , Price $7.50; postage 30 cts. History of MaLSsachvisetts Regi- ments in the War of the R^evolution BY FRANK A. GARDNER, M.D. Previous to this work no effort has been made to write a history of the make-up or organization of the different com- panies and regiments of Massachusetts men in the war of the Revolution. This work gives a history of the movements and engagements of each regiment from the beginning to the end of this war, including the Minute Men's, Provincial Army and Army of the United Colonies regiments in 1775, the Con- tinental Army in 1776, Massachusetts Line regiments in 1777- 1783, the Coast Defense Organization, the County Militia Regiments, and regiments for special service. The first volume contains histories of the following regi- ments : Col. John Glover's Marblehead Regiment, 21st Regiment, Army of the United Colonies in 1775, and 14th Regiment, Continental Army, 1776. Col. William Prescott's Minute Men's Regiment, April, 1775, 10th Regiment, Army of the United Colonies, 1775, and 7th Regiment, Continental Army, 1776. Col. Ephraim Doolittle's Minute Men's Regiment, April, 1775, 24th Regiment, Army of the United Colonies, 1775. Col. Timothy Danielson's Minute Men's Regiment, April, 1775, 18th Regiment, Army of the United Colonies, 1775. Col. John Fellows's Minute Men's Regiment, April, 1775, 8th Regiment, Army of the United Colonies, 1775. Col. Ebenezer Bridge's Minute Men's Regiment, April, 1775, 27th Regiment, Army of the United Colonies, 1775. Col. Timothy Walker's Minute Men's Regiment, April, 1775, 22d Regiment, Army of the United Colonies, 1775. Col. Theophilus Cotton's Minute Men's Regiment, April, 1775, 16th Regiment, Army of the United Colonies, 1775. Col. James Frye's Minute Men's Regiment, April, 1775, 1st Regiment, Army of the United Colonies, 1775. When completed this work will constitute seven or eight volumes. It is perhaps the largest and in some respects the most important historical work undertaken by private enter- prise in a generation, in this state. To the genealogist it will be helpful. It contains bio- graphical records of the complete service of all commissioned officers. By following the history of the regiment for a certain period, the service of every private can be noted whether at the siege of Boston, Valley Forge, on the Hudson, or at Yorktown. Volume I is now in press and advanced subscriptions are being booked at the special price of $4.50. After publication the price will be raised to $6.00. Guide to MassoccKviselts Local History BY CHARLES A. FLAGG Chief of the Department of \merican History of the Library of Congress, Washiogton, D.C. To the genealogist and historian this is a valuable work- ing tool for researches into Massachusetts history. With it the genealogist or student looking up what is in print on any city or town in the commonwealth, or on Massachusetts state history, can at one jump go right over the heads of disobliging librarians or ignorant assistants, and find at once all there is to know on any of these subjects. The genealogist so often has as his only clew to a member of the family, that he came from a certain town. Then it becomes necessary for him to look up the history of that town or other published works that may help him to get further trace of his man. This Guide is invaluable to him there! It not only lists all the works in the town's own Library, and all the work in the Library of Congress and all the other large libraries of the country, but it lists newspaper articles, his- torical manuscripts and works in preparation. If the volume is scarce and can only be seen at the Congressional or Boston or Chicago library the investigator is told of its existence and where. The bibliography of this subject has never been fully cov- ered by any other work, and for the past ten years of unprece- dented printing and publishing has not been touched at all. Its value is inestimable to the student of local history, the town library, the writer for the press, the private collector, the citizen who prepares an historical address. (From Library Journal) "Mr. Flagg has prepared a most valuable . , . work. . . . The arrange- ment is excellent. . . . The guide will inevitably be of use and value to all who hereafter have occasion to delve into the local records of the Com- monwealth. . . . No more convenient arrangement could be devised for a work dealing so particularly with local history." (James H. Stark, author of "The Loyalists of Massachusetts.") "I subscribed for your most valuable book, 'A Guide to Massachu- setts Local History' before it was published. I have found it of great value to me in preparing articles on local history and in general historical research. The country is greatly indebted to Mr. Charles A. Flagg, the author, for pre- senting in such form the amount of useful information collected within its pages. No student of local history can afford to be without it." .^ Price, $6.00; postage 18 cents. Ips^vich in the MdLSsacKusetts Baty Colony, 1655-1700 BY REV. THOMAS FRANKLIN WATERS This town history, pviblished in 1905, has taken its rank as one of the most scholarly and thorough town histories in print. Like Parkman, Mr. Waters has a rare combination, be- ing a careful investigator and possessing a style entrancing and delightful. The subject was worthy of the author's talents. Though but an unimportant town in the busy world of today, there was a time when Ipswich was an important community and the home of men of learning and influence in the affairs of the Colony, such as John Winthrop, Thomas Dudley, Rich- ard Saltonstall, Simon and Ann Bradstreet, Rev. Nathaniel Ward, John Norton. Mr. Waters has developed his story on broad lines, dis- cussing the history of the town's affairs in their relation to outside political history, like the Andros revolution, the King Philips war. Common lands and Commonage. He makes a most interesting study of the homes, dress, trades, employ- ments and habits of the people of that time. The volume is handsom'ely printed on fine soft all-rag paper with deckle edges and gilt top; is generously illustrated with over 35 fine pictures of old houses, documents and maps, done in an unusual combination of sepia and buff on enduring paper, and is strongly bound in half morocco. The possessor of one of these volumes will find it one of those happy combinations of superior mind and good hand- craft that make a book a pleasure to read and to handle. It is a stimulus to what is best in local history. Chapters: Part I, Primeval Agawam, The Coming of the English, Homes and Dress, Some Notable settlers, The De- velopment of our Town Government, Common Lands and Commonage, Trades and Employments, The Body Politic, The Sabbath and the Meeting House, The Early Military An- nals, The Charter in Peril, The Grammar School and Harvard College, King Philip's War, Ipswich and the Andros Govern- ment, Laws and Courts, Witchcraft, War of William and Mary and other Indian Troubles; Part II, Houses and Lands, Names of the First Settlers, Some Early Inventories, Letters of Rev. Nathaniel Ward, Dr. Giles Firmin's Letters, Letters of Samuel Symonds, A Valedictory and Monitory Writing by Sarah Good- hue, The Narrative of Rev. John Wise. Price, $7.00; postage 36c. Antiq\ie Views of Boston BY JAMES H. STARK It is a book which greatly interests Bostonians. Every Boston home should have it. It is an exceedingly interesting and valuable collection of all the available rare old prints, representing historic homes, monuments, public buildings, churches, fortifications and other historic landmarks of the old three-hilled town. In fact it undertakes to preserve either by record or by illustration that which is connected with the topographical history of the city since its first settlement, all arranged in chronological order and with the letter press pre- sents a picture history of old Boston. It would far exceed our limits to undertake to catalogue the points of interest for the student of the history of old Boston that this book presents. Not an out of the way drawing, engraving, or plan of any kind appears to have escaped the observation of this indefatigable collector. They have been all reproduced by the photo-en- graving and half tone processes and are presented on the ample quarto pages of this volume, which affords all the space requisite for their proper display. Altogether it is a book to be commended to the attention and respect of all who take an interest in the history of Boston. It is printed in clear, large type and is evidently compiled with judgement and good taste. Hon. Samuel A. Green, ex-Mayor of Boston and libra- rian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the best of au- thority, certifies in an autograph letter, as to the general cor- rectness of the work, the authenticity of its illustrations, and the fidelity of their reproduction. This curious and almost unique book is in quarto form with an index both to the read- ing matter, and the illustrations and is handsomely bound. The first edition of this work, published in 1882 was long since exhausted, and we have republished the book with the addition of numerous valuable reproductions of paintings not included in the first volume. Price, $5.00; postage 40 cts. The following unsolicited letter was received from Professor De Sumi- chrast of Harvard College: — • Dear Mr. Stark, January 23, 1910. I had meant to speak to you at the close of the lecture, of the copy of your valuable book on "Antique Boston" which W. B. Clarke Co. sent me recently. I had no idea of the excellence of the work from the modest way in which you referred to it in our talk some time since. It is a won- derfully interesting and useful memorial of past times and appeals to me very strongly, as you can readily imagine. You have done alone what in Paris is being done by a corps of workers and with the help of the city. All interested in the history of Old Boston owe you a heavy debt of gratitude. Yours sincerely, Sumichrast. Hampton, New Hampshire BY JOSEPH DOW This is an important contribution to the history of New Hampshire, for Hampton was one of the first four towns in the Province of New Hampshire, and, united with the other three, many of its public acts, in its earlier years, are state history. The chapters in Volume I deal with the settlement in 1638-46; Labors, controversies and superstition; Townaflfairs, Hampton in the Mason and Massachusetts controversy; Town and Province under the royal government; the boundary lines; Hampton Falls; North Hampton; Regulations, lawsuits, etc.; Indian Wars; In the Revolution; In the early years of Independence; A war; The civil war; Nineteenth century hap- penings; Ecclesiastical; Rev. John Cotton's ministry; Pastors Gookin and Ward Cotton; Rev. Ward Cotton's ministry; Rev. Ebenezer Thayer's pastorate; the Presbyterian schism; last year of the town ministry ; Independent churches ; Education- al; Industrial. Volume II is entirely devoted to genealogical and bio- graphical records of Hampton families, among which the fol- lowing are some of the most prominent : Batchelder Blake Brown Chase i CliBord Coon Cram Dalton Dearborn Price, $6.00; postage 24 cts. History of Swa^nsea, N. H. BY BENJAMIN READ This is a well-prepared history covering the 150 years of existence of this little town located in the valley of the Ash- uelot river, in New Hampshire, and illustrated entirely with steel engravings or delicate prints by the gelatine process. There are 580 pages in the volume and over one-half of the book is devoted to genealogies of Swansea families, promi- Dow Hobbs Locke Perkins Smith Drake Hussey Lovering Philbrick Swaine Elkins James Mace Redman Taylor Emery Jenness Marston Robie Towle Fifleld Johnson Mason Samborne Tuck Fogg Knowles Moulton Sanborn Ward Garland Lamprey Nudd Sargent Weare Godfrey Lane Page Shaw Webster Green Leavitt Palmer Sherburne nent among which are: (Price $6.00; postage 30 cts.) Adams Clark Grimes Lombard Russell Aldrich Cook Gunn Mason Sawyer Applin Cross Hamblet Page Seaver Ballou Crouch Hammond Parker Snow Belding Cummings Hill, Hills Parsons Sprague Bennett Cutler Holbrook Perry Starkey Brown Dickinson Howard Ramsdell Searns Bullard Eames Howes Read Stephenson Capron Faulkner Kendall Richardson Stone Carpenter Graves Lane Rockwood Stratton Taft Thompson Trowbridge Ware Wetherbee Whitcomb Williams Wilson 4 Woodward Wright SdLiifordt Me. BY WILLIAM M. EMERY Sanford was the 25th town to be incorporated in the state of Maine. Rich in tradition and incident, the story of tliis progressive and energetic community (now the seat of the vast Goodall plush and worsted industry, and ever growing) is of absorbing interest, alike to its sons and daughters and to the historian and genealogist. Beginning with the pur- chase of the territory from the Indian chief Fluellin, in 1661, the narrative runs through the entire series of important events which mark the town's growth and development. The story is complete and accurate, and entertainingly told. The author, a native of Sanford, the late Edwin Emery of New Bedford, Mass., a well known New England educator, and for a long time instructor of cadets in the United States Revenue Cutter Service, devoted his leisure hours during a period of twenty years to assembling the material for this work, and his infinite genius for taking pains is manifest on every page of the History. Several years after his death the work was edited and prepared for the press by his son, William M.Emery, city editor of the Fall River, Mass. Evening News, such facts being added as were necessary to bring it up to the date of publication. The volume has received the highest encomiums of the press and of individuals, and it has been well said that no collection of works on Maine is complete without it. Con- siderable space is devoted to biographies and genealogies, a large number of the old families of the town being dealt with, and 23 full page portraits of prominent citizens are given. Es- pecially valuable is the chapter upon Sanford in the Revolu- tionary War. The records of more than 175 soldiers are pre- sented in detail. The town also bore its part in the other wars, and the chapters treating of the citizen soldiery are of exceptional interest. Price, $6.00; postage 24 cts. Cambridge ChxircK Records BY STEPHEN P. SHARPLES. Being a facsimile print of the church record book of the First Church of Cambridge, begun in 1704 by Rev. Wm. Brat- tle, and continued for 126 years. It comprises the ministerial records of baptisms, marriages, deaths, admission to cove- nant and communion, dismissals and church proceedings. 580 pages. Well indexed. Price $6.00, postage, 28 cents. R.ecollections of Army Life by a New ^Cngland Woman BY MARTHA SUMMERHAYES We do not know as this book properly belongs under the head of New England Americana — in fact it does not — but it is so full of New England character (recording the strenuous army life of a New England woman on the western plains), and is a book of such unusual charm that we cannot forbear including it. Mrs. Summerhayes' aim in this book of inti- mate personal reminiscences is to ''preserve the impressions made upon the mind of a young New England woman who left her com- fortable home in the early seventies to follow a Second Lieutenant in the wildest encampments of the American Army." As a '*human document" the book has value. It will become one of the *'first sources" of the litera- ture of early Western life. The first edition of 1,000 copies, modestly published in 1908 at the author's own expense, disappeared within a year without blandishments or publicity of any kind, and every mail brought her letters of congratulation, thanks and expressions of pleasure like the following : Your books came last night, and I read one of them through before morn- ing. What morecanlsay; except that there is a personal note in it all that is the very gramophone of truth. Your friend, Henry Metcalfe. ingly pathetic in its painful details; carries at alt times the sympathy and unflagging interest of the reader. It is a charming book. H. M. Lazelle. Read your book— in fact when I got started I forgot my bedtime (and you know how rigid that is) and sat it through. It has a bully note of the old army- It was all worth while— they had color, those days. I say — now suppose you had married a man who kept a drug store — see what you would have had and see what you would have missed. Yours, Frederic Remington. I have had a long quiet reading spell, and finished your book. It was so con- sumedly interesting I did not skip one word, from beginning to end; and for me, that is a rare thing to say. The spell of it all is still upon me, and I just must write a line, to tell you how greatly I have enjoyed your handiwork. Yours very sincerely, W. T. Hornaday. I finished last evening, reading aloud your volume on Army life, and we have enjoyed it immensely. The quite unaffected style, so happi- ly adapted to the subject, and so touch- Such vivid sketches! One gets sort of a Photographic impression of the whole — the country, the wandering life that you Army people had with all its deprivations, comradeships long and short, and I know not what else. We have enjoyed every chapter im- mensely. Most sincerely, Sam*l G. Stewart. It has the frankness, freshness, simplicity, dignity and charm of a "classic". Even to one who has never set foot west of the Mississippi, it is of absorbing interest from cover to cover. Told wholly from a woman's point of view, there is a "homey" color to descriptions that give it an inti- mate personal interest, and one can hardly drop it till com- pleted. Price $1.50; postage 10 cts. Family Genealogies Converse Family CONVERSE— This two-volume Genealogy of one of the most notable families in America, is an exceptionally well written and well made book. It gives both ancestry and de- scendants of Samuel Converse, Jr., of Thompson Parish, Kil- lingly, Conn., and Major James Converse, of Woburn, Mass. ; also of Heman Allen, M. C, of Milton and Burlington, Vt., and Capt. Jonathan Bixby, Sr., of Killingly, Conn., in two extensive appendices. In two volumes with large page and generous margin, 961 pages, printed on high-grade rag paper, with deckle edge, over 400 illustrations. One of the most sumptuous American genealogies yet published. Price, $15.00; postage 70 cts. Emery Family EMERY — John and Anthony Emery and their Descend- ants, of Newbury, Mass. Compiled by Rev. Rufus Emery. Over 600 pages of the numerous descendants of these two brothers, who emigrated from Romsey, Hampshire, England, in 1635. Brought down to 1890. Price, $6.00; postage 24 cts. Manning Family MANNING — The Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England, and Descendants, by William H. Manning, published in 1902, is a volume of 857 pages, durably bound, and printed on paper warranted ninety- eight per cent rag stock, an unusual feature in a day of many cheaply made books. It deals chiefly with the descendants of William Manning, Cambridge, 1634, and the Richard Man- ning family, Salem, 1662, but also gives ample information as to the miscellaneous families who were briefly of New Eng- land in the early days. A total of over 7,200 descendants are included. A prominent feature is the giving of clear, prac- tical biographical sketches, a marked departure from the old system of printing little besides dates. The compiler's motto for the work was, "All the news of the family." Sixteen years were devoted to gathering information, and all public manu- script records were examined with care, the result being an extensive collection of data. Special attention is given to the military service of members, supplying necessary facts for those who desire to join the patriotic societies. Verbatim copies are given of upwards of one hundred of the earliest gravestone inscriptions in the family. There are also chap- ters on the Manning house at Billerica, built in 1696; the Man- ning Association, incorporated about ten years ago: copies of early wills, inventories, extracts from the Massachusetts Archives, etc.; an account of the earliest Mannings known to history, and various other details of interest. Portraits and other illustrations add to the handsome appearance of the volume. Price, $10.00; postage 24 cts. Treat Family TREAT— This dignified volume, with 8 x 10 1-2 inch page- records the posterity of five Treat immigrants who settled in Connecticut in the early part of the seventeenth century: Richard at iWethersfield, Governor Robert at Milford, James at Wethersfield, Matthias at Wethersfield. The author finds that there were probably ten to fourteen Treats, Treys.Trats or Trots in Wethersfield as early as 1637, and for 250 years these descendants have continued to reside there. The work con- sists of over 600 pages and is thoroughly indexed. Compiled by John Harvey Treat. Price, $10.00; postage 32 cts. Osgood Family OSGOOD — A genealogy of the descendants of John, Chris- topher, and William Osgood, who came from England and set- tled in New England early in the seventeenth century, treated in three separate parts. 478 pages, without illustrations. Out of print. We have 3 second-hand copies at $20.00; postage 22c Fuller Family FULLER — This brief geneaology traces one line of descen- dants of Thomas Fuller, of Wobum ( 1635 ) later of Salem and Middleton, down to the ninth generation 1880. 56 pages. Price, $1.00; postage 5 cents. Bartholomew Family BARTHOLOMEW— This well-made volume of 750 pages is in several parts, first tracing the descendants of William Bar- tholomew of Ipswich and then those of George Bartholomew of Philadelphia ; John, Daniel and Jacob of Germantown, Pa. ; Benjamin of Coventry, Pa.; Henry of Philadelphia; John of Lancaster County, Pa.; Claudius Barteleme of Derby, Conn.; Henry of Northampton and Allen Township, Pa.; Charles of Warren County, N. C; John Henry of Upper Mount Bethel and Northampton County, Pa.; Daniel of Lancaster, Pa.; Thomas Bartholome of Anne Arundel County, Md. Compiled by George W. Bartholomew of Austin, Texas. Price, $6.00; postage 22 cts. B&lch Family BALCH — The major part of this work is devoted to the de- scendants of John Balch of Weymouth, Mass., but short chap- ters are devoted to the descendants of James Balch of Bond's Hope, near Deer Creek, Md., and later of North Carolina; Rev. Hezekiah Balch, D.D., Bond's Hope, Md., and Greenville, Tenn., and William Balch of Sparta, Tenn. The volume contains 553 pages, and is fairly well illustrated with the coat of arms in colors. Price, $7.50; postage 25 cts. Fowler Family FOWLER— A record of the descendants of Philip and Mary Fowler, of Ipswich, covering ten generations. Author, Mat- thew A. Stickney. About 250 pages. Price, $3.00; postage 22c. Kinsman Family KINSMAN— A brief Genealogy of the descendants of Robert Kinsman of Ipswich, Mass., (1637) brought down to date, with an admirable sketch of the ancient neighborhood of "Candlewood," where Mr. Kinsman's land grant was located. Price, $1.50; postage 8 cents. Perkins Family PERKINS— The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass., in three parts. Part I, Quartermaster John Perkins; Part II, Deacon Thomas Perkins; Part III, Sergeant Jacob Perkins, Essex County, Mass., was the earliest permanent home of the Perkinses on this side of the ocean, and this work, written by Dr. George A. Perkins of Salem, follows the family lines into every town of this ancient county. Nearly 500 pages. No illustrations. Price, $8.00 Doane Family DOANE — This volume of 550 pages is devoted almost entirely to the descendants of Deacon John Doane of Plymouth, Mass., though the book is divided into two parts, the second of which is devoted to Dr. John Doane, of Snow Hill, Maryland, and his descendants. The book is well made with many fine illustrations printed on imperishable pure rag paper, which will endure as long as the best steel engravings or photogravures. There is also an interesting chapter on the family in England, with illustrations. Price, $7.50; postage 23 cents. Putnam Family PUTNAM LINEAGE— This bulky volume of 500 pages deals primarily with John Putnam, founder of the numerous and distinguished Salem (Mass.) family. It is a thoroughgoing study of John Putnam's ancestry as well as his posterity, tracing the English family back for five generations to the royal Puttenhams of Puttenham, at the base of the Chiltern Hills; and tracing his posterity down to the present day. A large chapter of the work is devoted to General Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary fame. There is also some account of the Putnams in the Mohawk Valley of New York and the Putnams of Connecticut and Vermont. The work is generously illus- trated with some fifty portraits and three large lineage charts. The history contains the essential parts of the "History of Putnam Family in England and America" (now out of print and commanding a price of $20.00 per copy), with much additional material concerning the English family and promi- nent Putnams of today. Price, $15.00; postage 35 cents. Very scarce. Brown Family BROWN — A considerable sketch of the descendants of John Brown of Ipswich, Mass., from 1640 down to the present day, with a delightful sketch of the neighborhood in which the John Brown farm was located. Price, $1.50; postage 8 cents. Fellows Family FELLOWS— A brief record of the descendants of William Fellows of Ipswich, Mass., for 270 years (1639 to 1909), with an extended description of "Candlewood," the neighborhood where he purchased a farm in 1659. Price, $1.50; postage 8 cents. Chute Family CHUTE — The author says: The Chute family in America is not a record of one who "came over in the Mayflower and fought in the battle of Bunker HiIl,'\nor the account of "three brothers" that came over, but rather the history and geneal- ogy of an humble schoolmaster, who came over early to Mas- sachusetts, whose descendants emigrated early to Maine and Nova Scotia and latterly to the South and to the far West. This emigrant ancestor settled at Ipswich, Mass. The book contains nearly 500 compact pages. One half of it is devoted to allied families. Price, $5.00; postage 20 cts. PaLinphlets eLi\d Smatll Cloth Books. THE SIMPLE COBBLER OF AGGAWAM IN AMERICA— A fac simile reprint of a rare religious volume published in 1647. Edition numbered. Of interest to collectors. Price 75 cents in paper; $1.00 in board binding. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE MERCHANTS' BANK AT SALEM — Illustrating the solid and substantial growth of a New England bank, under a century of conservative manage- ment, which has built up a reserve three times the size of the original capitalization. Well printed and illustrated on fine paper. $2.00. Postage 23 cents. OLD-FASHIONED GARDENS— A garden-lover's description of her typical old-fashioned New England Garden. Price, $3.00; postage 12 cents. Only a few copies. Rare! REMINISCENCES OF A NEW ENGLAND CHURCH AND PEOPLE — A fond reminiscent description of fan historic old meeting house at Salem (the South Church ) . Price, 50 cents ; postage 3 cents. ^PUTNAMS IN ^ THE REVOLUTION— A record from the State archives of the large number of persons entered on Massachusetts Revolutionary rolls under the names of Put- nam, Putman, Putnum, etc. Over 185 persons are here given, with records of their services. Price, $2.00; postage 6 cents. W GLOVERS MARBLEHEAD REGIMENT— A history of the officers and the notable services of this famous regiment, in the war of the Revolution. This is the "amphibious" regi- ment that manned the boats in Washington's famous retreat across the Delaware. Lautz' picture of Washington standing erect in the bow of the boat, surrounded with big ice floes, is familiar to all. Price, 50 cents; postage 5 cents. THE OLD ROYALL HOUSE— An historical account of the famous colonial mansion at Medford. Price, 25 cents; pos- tage 5 cents. Fine illustration of house. WHAT TO SEE IN SALEM— A short narrative description of the salient points of Salem's unqiue history, so apprecia- tive, so accurate, so interesting, that over 25,000 copies have been published. Profusely illustrated. It has six chapters — (1) The Great Antiquity of Salem. (2) The Witchcraft Craze in Salem. (3) Salem's Predominance in the Revo- lution. (4) Salem's Leadership in Sea Commerce. (5) Nathaniel Hawthorne. (6) Salem's Colonial Architecture. Price, 15 cents; postage 3 cents. WHAT TO SEE IN MARBLEHEAD— A short narrative de- scription of the salient points of the quaint town of Marble- head, on the same lines as "What to See in Salem." Price 15 cents, with 3 cents for postage. BUNKER HILL— An interesting description of the trials and delays in the building of Bunker Hill monument and its final completion by the ladies of Boston, with the funds raised by the great fair held in Quincy Hall, in 1840. Price, 50 cents; postage 3 cents. THE WRITING HABIT OF NEW ENGLANDERS— A reprint from the Magazine of History, N. Y. A study of the interest- ing literary development of New England. Price, 25 cents. A NEW ENGLAND HOUSEKEEPER'S BOOK: From Attic To Cellar— A cloth bound book of 100 pages, giving many hints and suggestions of help to New England housewife in the economical management of a home. Price, $1.00. Americana Pert&ining to New England With a few exceptions, all of the books here referred to are published by The Salem Press Co., Salem, Mass., and can be ordered from them. All good Americana goes out of print and becomes more valuable in time, selling at a premium of 50% to 400% of original publication price. We are always willing to buy ^out-of-print books with our imprint on them, at the original publication price paid* We have our own printing plant and print as well as publish most of our books , «?;' Z^i m i.. \-T s^^' I^ *s^v^