New England Historic Genealogical Society

This important new genealogical work presents over four hundred transcriptions of early deeds of interest to Mayflower, Plymouth Colony, and Native American researchers. This fully indexed book includes a much-needed re-evaluation of land ownership and the relations between early-seventeenth century european settlers and their Indian neighbors.

2002 Hardcover, 688pp, Fully indexed

List Price: $50.00
S28444100

1997 Hardcover
0880820586

The second volume of this series is transcribed from Book C-2 in the Scituate Archives, and consists of land grants and transactions in the part of town known as Conihasset, which later became Cohasset. Dr. Bangs' meticulous transcription is complemented by his 30-page introduction. Surnames that occur frequently include Bailey, Barker, Booth, Chittenden, Cowen/Cowing, Cudworth, Curtis, Cushing, Damon, Dodson, Gannett, Hatherly, Hiland, Holbrook, Holmes, Jenkins, Litchfield, Mann, Merrit, Otis, Pierce, Stockbridge, Sutton, Tilden, Vinall, White, Williams, Woodfield, and Woodworth. A chronological table of contents helps make the transcriptions easily accessible and there are full indexes to persons and places.

1999 Approx. 600 pp. Hardcover.
List Price: $45.00

Edited by Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs

A powerful source for those interested in Mayflower families or southern Massachusetts, the third and final volume in this significant series is now available. The third volume, edited by "Pilgrim Life" author Dr. Jeremy Bangs, includes minutes and treasurer’s reports taken from Scituate town meetings, intentions of marriage, earmarks, and strays. In addition, the book has thirty-one appendices composed of amazing personal letters and accounts providing the reader an exhaustive look into Scituate in the seventeenth century.

ISBN: 0-88082-125-6, NEHGS, 2001, 672 pp., Hardcover, $60.00

November 17, 2002