Braintree History & Genealogy EBooks

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BRAINTREE AND NORFOLK COUNTY HISTORY

An address on the occasion of opening the new town hall in Braintree, July 29, 1858 

The Ancient Iron Works at Braintree, Mass: The First in America

Annual Report of the Town of Braintree, Massachusetts for the Year 1900

Annual Report of the Town of Braintree, Massachusetts for the Year 1920

A Brief history of the town of Braintree : in Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1640-1949 Prepared for the Citizens of Braintree, Essex, England in Honor of Their Historic 750th Anniversary Celebration

Centennial Celebration at Braintree, Mass., July 4, 1876

Church manual : with brief historical notices of the First Congregational Church in Braintree and its pastors, from the date of its organization, till the close of 1859

The early schools of Braintree, by Samuel A Bates 

Historical record of the Union church and religious society of Weymouth and Braintree, with a chronological catalogue of the members of the church and their confession of faith and covenant

History of Braintree, Massachusetts (1639-1708) : the north precinct of Braintree (1708-1792) and the town of Quincy (1792-1889)

A history of old Braintree and Quincy : with a sketch of Randolph and Holbrook  by William S. Pattee

History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1622-1918

• Volume One
• Volume Two

History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men

Mills and Muskrats on the Monatiquot

Records of the town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793

BRAINTREE GENEALOGY

Adams Family

• The ancestry of Henry Adams of Braintree, New England
• The Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass., and his Descendants, also John Adams of Cambridge, Mass, 1632-1897 complied and edited by Andrew N. Adams
• Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Mass. : his English ancestry and some of his descendants compiled by J. Gardner Bartlett for Edward Dean Adams
• History of the Adams Family with Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Descendants of the Several American Ancestors including Collateral Branches compiled by Henry Whittemore

Genealogy of some of the descendants of Thomas Barrett, sen., of Braintree, Mass., 1635, Compiled by William Barrett.

Clarke’s kindred genealogies. A genealogical history of certain descendants of Joseph Clarke, Dorchester, 1630; Denice Darling, Braintree, 1662; Edward Gray, Plymouth, 1643; and William Horne, Dover, 1659; and sketches of the Orne (Horne), Pynchon, and Downing families

The Curtis family, a record of some of the descendants of Deodatus Curtis of Braintree, Massachusetts, by Laura Guthrie (Curtis) Preston, no. 124.

The history of the Faxon family, containing a genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Faxon of Braintree, Mass. With a map locating the homesteads of the first four generations; accompanied by copious abstracts from the records of deeds and probate. Also a genealogy of branches of many allied families of Ballou, Barbour, Saxton, Washburn, hitmarsh, and others

John French of Braintree, Massachusetts, by A. D. Weld French

The Haydens : descendants of John Hayden of Braintree, Massachusetts

The ancestors of General George C. Kenney, USAF (ret.), Captain Roland W. Kenney, USN (ret.) : a genealogy of the Kenney family of Boston, Braintree, Milton, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Barrington, Nova Scotia, Brookline and Beverly, Mass. by Roland W. Kenney

Genealogy of the Marsh family : outline for 5 generations of the families of John of Salem, 1633; John of Hartford, 1636; Samuel of New Haven, 1646; Alexander of Braintree, 1654; John of Boston, 1669; Wm. of Plainfield, 1675

Francis Nash of Braintree, Massachusetts, and 1550 of his descendants, , The Puritan Manuscripts August 1933 by Vernon S. Phillips, D.D.

The Penniman family, 1631-1900, by Penniman, George W; Bigelow, Paul, d. 1961; Penniman, George Dobbin, 1894-

The Penniman family to 1980 : book II : an updating of the data collected by the reverend George Wallace Penniman, D.D., Universalist minister, Stoughton, Massachusetts, with additions by Paul Bigelow, by Penniman, George W. Penniman family, 1631-1900; Penniman, George Dobbin, 1894-–

Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1639-1915, by Charles Nutt, 1868-1918

Shed Family

Daniel Shed genealogy: ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920

• Volume One
• Volume Two
• Appendix

The descendants of George Spear who settled at Braintree, Massachusetts, 1642-1988

Memorial of the Thayer name, from the Massachusetts colony of Weymouth and Braintree, embracing genealogical  and biographical sketches of Richard & Thomas Thayer, and their descendants from 1636 to 1874

The Vinton memorial, comprising a genealogy of the descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648: also, genealogical sketches of several allied families … With an appendix containing a history of the Braintree iron works, and other historical matter

Descendants of Jacob Wilson of Braintree, Massachusetts, by Stevens, Ken – borrow from the Internet Archive for 14 days

NEW ENGLAND HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England showing three generations of those who came before May 1692

• Volume One
• Volume Two
• Volume Three
• Volume Four

A genealogical register of the first settlers of New England

New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 1

Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700

SACCO AND VANZETTI

The case that will not die; Commonwealth vs. Sacco and Vanzetti, by Herbert B. Ehrmann

The letters of Sacco and Vanzetti,  by Nicola Sacco

The notorious case of Sacco and Vanzetti, by W. P Norwin

Postmortem : new evidence in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, by William Young

Report to the Governor in the matter of Sacco and Vanzetti, by Massachusetts; Michael S. Dukakis

Sacco & Vanzetti, by Eli Bortman

The Sacco and Vanzetti Case, by Michael M. Topp

Sacco and Vanzetti Labor’s Martyrs,  by Max Shachtman

Sacco and Vanzetti : the men, the murders, and the judgment of mankind, by Watson, Bruce

The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair : America on trial, by Moshik Temkin

MISCELLANEOUS

Braintree High School Yearbooks
Digitized Braintree High School yearbooks from 1935 to 2016.  Browse through any year or download as many as you like.

In colonial times : the adventures of Ann, the bound girl of Samuel Wales, of Braintree, in the province of Massachusetts Bay by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,  1852-1930

Massachusetts Digital Collections
Links to digital special collections from Massachusetts libraries that include local history monographs and pamphlets, a significant portion is manuscript material (personal and organizational papers), photographs, posters, ticket stubs, broadsides, etc.