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Most of the following books are available for viewing online through Heritage Quest. Check with your local library to determine if it provides free access to Heritage Quest with your library card. I will add additional titles as time permits.


A Researcher's Guide to Boston, Ann S. Lainhart, NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2003
 
Anonymous. Assessors' "taking books" of the town of Boston, 1780 , Boston: Reprinted from the Bostonian Society's Publications, 1912, 67 pgs.
 
Anonymous. Books about Boston & New England
Boston, Mass.: The Board of Trade, 1930, 20 pgs
 
Anonymous. Boston, England, and Boston, New England, 1630-1930: reproductions of rare prints with a commentary of historic notes , Boston: Printed for the State Street Trust Co., 1930, 64 pgs.
Anonymous. Boston marriages from 1752 to 1809
unknown: unknown, 1903, 719 pgs.
Ayer, Mary Farwell. Early days on Boston Common
Boston: Priv. print., 1910, 110 pgs.
 
Bacon, Edwin M. Boston : a guide book
Boston: Ginn and Co., 1903, 236 pgs.
Bacon, Edwin M. Rambles around old Boston
Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914, 215 pgs.

Carver, Robin. History of Boston
Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1834, 161 pgs.
 
Drake, Samuel Adams. Around the Hub : a boys' book about Boston Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881, 270 pgs.
 
Dearborn, Nathaniel. Boston notions : being an authentic and concise account of "that village," from 1630 to 1847
Boston: Printed by N. Dearborn, 1848, 474 pgs.
Edward Ward; J W. Boston in 1682 and 1699
Providence, R.I.: Standard Print. Co., 1905, 96 pgs.
Harris, B. W. The annexation question : closing argument of B.W. Harris, Esq., for the remonstrants against the annexation of Dorchester to Boston, before the Committee on Towns of the Massachusetts Legislature, Tuesday evening, April 27, 1869. Boston: Rockwell and Rollins, printers, 1869, 50 pgs.

Hartwell, Edward M. Boston and its story, 1630-1915 : a relation, Boston: City of Boston, Print. Dept., 1916, 234 pgs.
Howe, M. A. De Wolfe. Boston Common: scenes from four centuries, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921, 99 pgs.
 
Koren, John. Boston, 1822 to 1922 : the story of its government and principal activities during one hundred years , Boston: City of Boston Print. Dept., 1923, 289 pgs.

Matthews, Nathan. The city government of Boston
Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1895, 289 pgs.
 
Parkhurst, Richard. Boston looks seaward : the story of the port, 1630-1940 , Boston: B. Humphries, 1941, 333 pgs.
Peabody, Andrew P. Boston mobs before the Revolution
unknown: unknown, 1888, 16 pgs.

Savage, Edward H. Boston events : a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years : together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order , Boston: The compiler, 1884, 218 pgs.

Scudder, Horace Elisha. Boston town, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881, 241 pgs.

Shackleton, Robert. The book of Boston , Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1916, 353 pgs.
Sullivan, T. R. Boston, new and old, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912, 138 pgs.
 
Sweetser, M. F. King's handbook of Boston Harbor
Cambridge, Mass.: M. King, 1882, 291 pgs.
Wilson, Thomas L. V. The aristocracy of Boston : who they are, and what they were : being a history of the business and business men of Boston, for the last forty years, Boston: The author, 1848, 34 pgs.




 

 


 

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