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Collections of Maine Historical Society

First Series

Vol I 1865 Title Page

Vol II 1847 Title Page Collections (Volume 2)

Vol IV 1856 Table of Contents

Vol V 1857 Table of Contents

Vol VII Collections (Volume 7)

VolVIII 1881 Title Page E. E. Bourne

Vol IX 1887 Title Page

Index of 1-9 1891 Title Page

Second Series

Vol I 1890 Title Page

Vol II 1891 Table of Contents

Vol III 1892 Table of Contents

Vol IV 1893 Table of Contents

Vol V 1894 Title Page

Vol VI 1895 Title Page

Vol VII 1896 Table of Contents

Vol VIII 1897 Table of Contents

Vol IX 1898 Title Page

Vol X 1899 Table of Contents

Third Series

Vol II 1906 Table of Contents Collections (Volume 2)

Collections of Massachusetts Historical Society

1801 Title Page

Vol II 1835-1855 Title Page

1855-1858 Title Page

1858-1860 Title Page

1863-1864 Title Page

1864-1865 Table of Contents

1867-1869 Table of Contents

1871-1873 Table of Contents

1885-1886 Table of Contents

1886-1887 Table of Contents

Vol VIII 1802 Title Page

Second Series

Vol I 1814 Table of Contents

Vol II 1814 Table of Contents

Vol III 1846 Table of Contents

Vol VI Title Page

Third Series

Vol IX 1846 Table of Contents

Fourth Series

Vol I 1852 Title Page

Vol III 1856 Table of Contents

Vol V 1861 Title Page

Vol VI 1863 Table of Contents

Vol VII 1865 Table of Contents

Vol VIII Table of Contents

Vol IX 1871 Table of Contents

Fifth Series

Vol II 1877 Table of Contents

Vol IV Table of Contents

Vol V1878 Page iii

Vol VIII 1882 Table of Contents

Sixth Series

Vol I 1886 Table of Contents

Vol II 1888 Table of Contents

Vol III 1889 Table of Contents

Vol IV Title Page

Vol V 1892 Table of Contents

Vol VIII Table of Contents

Vol IX 1897 Table of Contents

Vol X 1899 Table of Contents

Seventh Series

Vol II 1902 Table of Contents

Vol IV 1904 Table of Contents

Vol V 1905 Table of Contents

Vol VI 1907 Title Page

Collections of New Hampshire Historical Society

Vol II 1827 Table of Contents

Vol III 1832 Title Page

Vol V 1837 Title Page

Vol VI 1850 Table of Contents

Vol VII 1863 Table of Contents

Vol VIII 1866 Table of Contents Province Records Court Papers 1680-1692

Vol 9 1889 Title Page

Favorite Links

www.ancestry.com (Ancestry)

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/ (NEHGS)
http://www.bpl.org/electronic/index.htm (Boston Public Library)

http://www.york.me.us.landata.com/ (York Co Registry of Deeds)

www.godfrey.org

Favorite Free Sites

http://www.mainegenealogy.net/ (Great site. Includes Wills and Deeds)

http://www.knights.hls-inc.net/index.htm (York County directories and cemeteries)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~megenweb/census/ (Maine free census)

http://searches.rootsweb.com/ (Rootsweb search engines)

http://www.raynorshyn.com/MEGenWeb/york/courtvue.asp (York Co court index search form)

http://portalx.bisoex.state.me.us/pls/archives_mhsf/archdev.marriage_archive.search_form (Maine marriage index search form)

http://portalx.bisoex.state.me.us/pls/archives_mhsf/archdev.death_archive.search_form (Maine death index since 1960 search form)

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp (Latter-Day Saints)

http://genforum.genealogy.com/ (genealogy forums)

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/ (Savage 4 volumes Early New England Settlers)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~mekenneb/sprague/table.html (Index to Sprague's Journal of Maine)

http://www.raogk.org/ (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness)

http://www.cyndislist.com/me.htm (Cindi's List)

http://www.theshipslist.com/ (early immigration)

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html (Civil War Soldiers and Sailors)

http://www.usgenweb.org/ (Lots of good Maine documents)

http://books.google.com/ (always use "s around a phrase for more efficient searching)

www.archive.org (like google books but also film and audio)

http://www.loc.gov/index.html (Library of Congress)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ (Making of America documentery sources)

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm (Avalon project at Yale)

http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/ (Mayflower)

http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/ (Mayflower)

http://www.winthropsociety.org/ (Early migration. Documents)

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM (Salem Witch Trials)

http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/ (Salem Witch Trials)

Individual Document Links

1620 - Charter of New England; November 3

1622 - A Grant of the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, esq., August 10

1635 - The Act of Surrender of the Great Charter of New England to His Majesty; June 7

1639 - Grant of the Province of Maine; April 3

1643 - The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19

1664 - Grant of the Province of Maine; March 12

1674 - Grant of the Province of Maine; June 29

A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register, by James Savage (HTML at usgennet.org)

Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast, by Samuel Adams Drake (page images at MOA)

The Andros tracts: being a collection of pamphlets and official papers issued during the period between the overthrow of the Andros government and the establishment of the second charter of Massachusetts (Volume 3) - Whitmore, William Henry, 1836-1900

Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: A Pensioner of the Navy of the Revolution, Written by Himself - Page 250
by Andrew Sherburne - 1831 - 312 pages

The History of the State of Maine: From Its First Discovery, A. D. 1602, to the Separation, A. D.... - Page 353
by William Durkee Williamson - 1832

Boston Public Library has wonderful online resources if you have a library card http://www.bpl.org/electronic/index.htm

Commercial Orders to Governor Andros (1686-1687)
James II Creates the Dominion of New England, April 7, 1688

Parliament Invites William of Orange to England (1688)

Orders For Sending Sir Edmund Andros To England (1689)

The Boston Uprising, Samuel Prince (1689)

http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa/

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

http://www.bartleby.com/

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html

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