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Early Families of Gloucester/Rockport, Essex Co, MA

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Gloucester MA References

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Rockport Deeds & Probate Records - Records of our Rockport Ancestors.

Gloucester, Essex, Published Resources.

• Fred Bodin has a 9,000 negative collection (1877-1940) of mostly Gloucester and Rockport. Many of the portraits are identified. They can all be seen in his gallery, Bodin Historic Photo, 82 Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 (978) 283-2524. About 50 photos can be viewed on my web site: http://www.bodinhistoricphoto.com/  Anyone researching family names can visit, call, or e-mail him and he will search his photo database for a name.

  Planters of the Commonwealth, by C.E. Banks

  Immigrant Ancestors, by F.A. Virkus

  Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America 1625-1825, by David Dobson

  Pioneers of Massachusetts .... A descriptive List, Drawn from the Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and Their Contemporaneous Documents by Charles Henry Pope, Pastor of First Church, Charleston, Boston. Facsimile Reprint Published 1991 by Heritage Books, Inc., 1540 Pointer Ridge Place, Baltimore, Maryland 20716, p 519 with index - (MS KATHARINE A ULATT)

  Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants of New England, 1620-1650, Charles Edward Banks. Edited and indexed by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell; 3rd edition; Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co. , 1963, 295 p. This is printed in chart form with headers. English County: Name of Emigrant: English Parish Name: Ships Name: New England Town: Reference.

  Essex-Co Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 1&2 by M Van B Perley, Pub. (covers 12 issues of 1894 and 7 issues of 1895)

  Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage.

  New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey

  Higginson Book Company 148 Washington Street, P.O. Box 778, Salem MA 01970. tel. 978-745-7170 fax: 978/745-8025

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