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Topic: Genealogy
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Phinehas Adams by Arthur P. Dodge, 25 pages A
booklet describing the life of the Honorable Phinehas
Adams of Manchester, New Hampshire
$5.00
Alexander the Great by Frank Lipsius
$3.00
Raymond E. Baldwin – Connecticut Statesman by
Curtiss S. Johnson pub 1972 Special limited edition
published by the Pequot Press, Chester, CT 297pp
This story explains why Ray became the first victim of
McCarthyism; how his resignation from the Senate was
the result of his lifetime desire to be a judge and not, as
distortedly portrayed, a desertion of his beloved
Republican Party; how he was Wendell Willkie’s first
choice for running mate until regional politics
prevailed…
$15.00
The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa by Otto of
Freising, translated by Charles Christopher Mierow
$2.00
Desert Queen
A highly readable life of one of the great British women
of the past century---Chicago Tribune
The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell; Adventurer,
adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
419 pages, by Janet Wallach 1999
$2.00
Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1987, 324 pages
Blaine - Biography of James G. Blaine 1st Edition,
1895, 722 pages, binding lifted from book,
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Bradley of Essex County, Early Records 1643-1746 –
E.B. Peters – 1915
$41.00
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Bradley, Lessons in Leadership: by Alan Axelrod
$4.00
Brown Genealogy, Volume II, Part I: Descendants of
Thomas, John and Eleazer Brown, Sons of Thomas and
Mary (Newhall) Brown of Lynn Mass. 1628 – 1915,
$58.00
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Part II, Many of the Descendants of Charles Browne of
Rowley, MA 1647 -1915, by Cyrus Henry Brown
(#260),
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of
Wm. A. Buckingham (A Senator of Connecticut)
$15.00
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Genealogies of Barbados Families – From Caribbeana
and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and
Historical Society – 1983 753pp
$70.00
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Of Permanent Value The Story of Warren Buffett
by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1996, 760 pages. The biography
of Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world.
He inherited no money from his parents, yet grew up to
be the owner of such companies as GEICO and a major
investor in Coca-Cola, Disney, and McDonalds, to name
a few. He is called, “the greatest practitioner of personal
investing”.
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Catherine the Great
$3.00
Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great
$3.00
Life of Zachariah Chandler, An Outline Sketch of his
Life and Public Services by the Detroit Post and Tribune
with an introductory letter from James G. Blaine, of
Maine 1880, 396 pages including 18 additional pages of
appendices.
Subjects include the town of Bedford, NH, Land grants
to surviving soldiers, early settlers, the Chandlers in
New England, Genealogy of the family, noted family
connections, prominence in the church, removal to
Michigan, Business start in Detroit, Cholera Epidemic,
Accumulation of property, the Commencement of
Political Activity, Record as an anti-slavery Whig, The
Formation of the Republic Party, Development of the
Southern Conspiracy-Election of Abraham Lincoln,
Outbreak of the Rebellion, The Commencement of the
Civil War, Administration of Andrew Johnson,
Presidency of General Grant, etc.
$58.00
Charlemagne, Daily Life in the World of
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Charlemagne and his World by Friedrich
Heer
$6.00
Churchill, Winston An Informal Study of Greatness,
Robert Lewis Taylor, New York: Doubleday &
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Company, Inc., 1952, 433 pages.
Jennie, the life of Lady Randolph Churchill by Ralph
G. Martin, Prentice- Hall, Inc. 1969, 404 pages. The
biography of Winston Churchill’s mother, one of the
most desirable women of her age and the focus of praise
and scandal on two continents over her lifetime.
Jennie, the life of Lady Randolph Churchill Vol. 2 by
Ralph G. Martin, Prentice- Hall, Inc 1971, 498 pages.
The biography of Winston Churchill’s mother, one of
the most desirable women of her age and the focus of
praise and scandal on two continents over her lifetime.
$6.00
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Columbus and the Age of Discovery by Zvi Dor-Ner
copyright 1991,
This is the companion volume to the epic, seven-part
PBS series of the same name, yet it stands alone as a
unique and important contribution to the literature of the
500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s journey to
the New World. Lavishly illustrated in color.
$15.00
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Courtney, Virginia Agnes, compiled by Edwin and
Donna Hablitzel 121 pages (2 copies)
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To All on Equal Terms, the Life and Legacy of
Prudence Crandall
Diana McCain
$3.00
Crossing the Borders of Time
Author Leslie Maitland
Published in 2012. Investigative reporter Leslie
Maitland grew up enthralled by her mother’s accounts of
forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis.
Her book is both a journalist’s vivid depiction of a world
at war and a daughter’s pursuit of a haunting question:
what had become of the handsome Frenchman whose
picture her mother continued to treasure almost fifty
years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that
reporting made real and a story of undying love that
crosses the borders of time. 494 Pages
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Genealogy of the Descendants of Col. John Davis of
Oxford, Connecticut (formerly a part of Derby, Conn),
together with a parial genealogy of his ancestors in the
United States also Biographical sketches and portraits of
some of his descendants pub in 1910 338pp
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The Governor’s Lady by Thomas H. Raddall
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, by Maryse Conde
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Denny, Henry Gardner by Samuel S. Shaw 1908, 7
pages
$3.00
King Edward III, by Michael Packe and edited by L.
C. B. Seaman
Seaman finished the work after Packe's death. During
his reign (1312-1377), Edward III fought savage wars
against the Scots and French, avenged his father's
murder, and suffered a lonely, solitary death.
$5.00
Edward IV, by Charles Ross
$3.00
This Sun of York, A Biography of Edward IV
$3.00
Edward the Confessor, by Frank Barlow copyright
1970 Subjects included are Edward’s Background, The
Anointed King, Years of Struggle (1043-8), Victorious
King (1049-51), Revolution Undone, Royal Estate,
Kingdom Bequeathed, End of the Reign, Eternal
Kingdom and much more. 381pp
$30.00
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Eisenhower, Dwight, Soldier of Democracy by Kenneth
S. Davis Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City,
New York 1945, 565 pages
$19.00
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Elizabeth, Empress of Russia
$4.00
Engineers of Distinction including Scientists in
Related Fields (First Edition) copyright 1970
Engineers Joint Council is a federation of engineering
societies in the United States and serves as a focal point
through which the engineering community brings its
resources to bear on common problems and common
areas of service. 457pp
$35.00
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French - Thomas and Mary French family of Guilford,
Connecticut. Revision 1996. The French Family
Association. PB. 209 pages
Gormley- Descendants of Bernard Gormley, the
Immigrant to New Brunswick, Canada, 1982, by Verne
Raymond Spear and Theresa Marie (Gormley) Spear of
West Hawley, MA
Guillaume d’Orange translated by Joan Ferrante
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Hannibal, Challenging Rome’s Supremacy
$4.00
King Harold’s Saga
$2.00
Harvard Alumni Directory by The President and
Fellows of Harvard College, 1968, 1369 pages, vol. 1 by
The President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1968,
1001 pages, vol. 2 A vast list of alumni from Harvard
University set
$110.00
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Henry II, by W. L. Warren
(693 pages)
Subjects include Politics, The Government of England,
Henry II and the Church, The Angevin Commonwealth,
illustrations and maps included.
$12.00
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Henry V, The Scourge of God
$4.00
Henry VII, by S. B. Chrimes
$5.95
Me, Stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn,
published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1991 (195 pages)
At long last: Katharine Hepburn tells us the stories of
her life and takes us back to her childhood, into her
family life…to her early days in New York and
Hollywood…through the ups and downs of her
career…through her long friendship with Spencer Tracy
…into her close collaboration with many of the leading
actors, directors, and producers of the past sixty years.
The Abraham Holman Family Of Ross County,
Ohio: A Genealogy of Abraham and Leah Dresbach
Holman, Their Ancestors and Descendants by
Richard Holman May, April 1959, 49 pages. A Holman
family record.
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$19.00
Herbert Hoover: American Quaker by David Hinshaw
Farrar, Straus and Company New York 1950 , 469 pages
$4.00
John Humfrey, Massachusetts Magistrate by Elroy
McKendree Avery, 1912, 22 pages
$7.00
Ivan, the Terrible, by Robert Payne and Nikita
Romanoff 502pp
Jaques Family Genealogy, edited by Roger Jaques and
Patricia Jaques for the Jaques Family Association. The
undertaking of a compilation of genealogy for any given
name is an arduous task. The JAQUES FAMILY
ASSOCIATION came to be formed and many dedicated
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people have donated toward this effort. 944 pages of
genealogy was compiled by these dedicated people and
thanks to Roger and Patricia, a fantastic book was
formed.
Grace and Power, the private world of the Kennedy
White House, Sally Bedell Smith, 2004, 605 pages.
With unparalleled access and insight, Sally Bedell Smith
shows what it was really like to be inside the Kennedy
White House. Smith sheds new light on the intricate
relationships behind the high purposed and political
drama of the twentieth century’s most stored presidency.
$5.50
Edward M. Kennedy, This book is more than a portrait
of one of the most fascinating political characters of our
time. It is also a history of the US Senate and the
Democratic Party in the final third of the twentieth
century, 1999, 692 pages
$5.50
Killing Kennedy: by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
$4.00
Kaffir Boy in America, by Mark Mathabane, 1986, 303
pages. Mathabane recounts his bewildering arrival at the
Atlanta airport, aged eighteen, separated from his family
for the first time, lost in a new world for which he was
unprepared. We experience his stormy college days at
Limestone College, in South Carolina. His impact as an
independent voice and writer begins to tell as he
complete his college years, where he becomes the first
black editor of the student newspaper, The Lion’s Voice.
$4.50
Khrushchev Remembers by Strobe Talbott Little,
Brown & Company 1990, 219 pages
$8.00
The American Ancestry of Edward Mason Knight by
M. David Sherrill, New York 1997, 127 pages. This
book chronicles the ancestry of Edward Mason Knight,
a man of entirely New England descent.
$25.00
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Abraham Lincoln: His Path to the Presidency, by
Albert Shaw, New York, The Review Corporation,
1929, 277 pages
$13.00
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Abraham Lincoln the War Years Volume 1, 2, 3, and 4;
Harcourt, Brace, & Company, 1939, 1743 pages
Abraham Lincoln the War Years Volume 1, 2, 3, and 4;
Harcourt, Brace, & Company, 1939, 1743 pages- Author
Carl Sandburg won his first Pulitzer Prize for this
biography of President Lincoln. Sandburg uses a
combination of extensive historical research and his own
mastery of the English language to tell a history so
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detailed and compelling that even those who have heard
it before cannot help but be entranced. This book is
unavailable in full through digital distribution.
Lincoln Sesquicentennial 1809-1959 Handbook of
Information
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Marcus Crassus and the Late Roman Republic, by
Allen Mason Ward
$5.00
The Maryes of Virginia 1730-1985, researched,
complied and published by Edith Whitecraft Eberhart
and Adaline Marye Robertson, 1985, 408 pages
$46.00
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Thomas McIlworth, Colonial New York Portrait
Painter
Ona Curran, the compiler of the portraits created by
Thomas McIlworth is a graduate of Hofstra University
and holds a Master of Arts in Museum Methodology and
Procedures from State University of New York at
Cooperstown. She is an Antiques and Fine Arts
Appraiser and an Art Historian as well as a museum
consultant and has lectured on American decorative arts
and American paintings of the colonial period, post
Revolution and early 19th century. 81 pages
$10.00
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Supplement to the Descendants of Nathaniel Mowry
of Rhode Island by William A. Mowry
$5.00
Biographical Notices of Distinguished Men in New
England: Alden Bradford, LL. D., S. G. Simpkins,
1842. A description of a selection men from New
England and their notable achievements, 464 pages
$36.00
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New York - Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899 A
companion volume to King’s handbook of New York
City; The Orr Press, 1899, 616 pages- This book
contains a collection of the people the author deemed to
be notable residents of New York. Two thousand three
hundred and thirty-seven portraits, as well as the name
of the subject and a line or two describing his career
make up the bulk of the work. Two indexes, one
organized by name and the other by vocation, have also
been included. This book shows hundreds of pictures
as well as bits of information on each man. Examples
such as Thomas Nast (political cartoonist), Thomas Alva
Edison and Nikola Tesla, John D. Rockefeller, William
Steinway, etc.
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The Story of Godfrey Nims by Francis Nims
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The Story of the John Nims House – Deerfield,
Massachusetts, pub 1993
$1.00
The Illinois Quest of Asahel North and John
McCollister, Sr.; compiled by Donna Turneaure
Hablitzel, illustrations by Buddy Valera revised 1997
171pp (2 copies)
$10.00
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Parker - Parker – Pond – Peck [Family Records]. by
Edwin Pond Parker, D.D. Hartford, Conn. 1636-1892.
Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company.
1892. Photocopied reprint. 51 pages
$25.00
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A Biographical History of York County,
Pennsylvania, reprinted 2007, 207 pages, Edited by
John Gibson
$25.00
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Can Anything Beat White? ~ A Black Family’s
Letter by Elizabeth Petry, University Press of
Mississippi 2005, 190 pages, 2 copies. A collection of
correspondence between African American novelist Ann
Petry’s ancestors spanning from the 1890s to the early
twentieth century
Phelps – Autobiography, with letters. William Lyon
Phelps William Lyon Phelps Autobiography, with
letters; Oxford University Press, 1939, 972 pagesPublished in 1939, this is the life story of famous writer,
speaker, and professor William Lyon Phelps, written
just four years before his death. It contains extensive
description of his childhood as well as many important
events that happened during his lifetime. Phelps also
included some more philosophical sections to his
autobiography, where he debates the whys and hows of
different issues with the reader. This book is
unavailable through digital distribution.
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Manuel Komroff
$5.00
Puffer – Descendants of George Puffer, Braintree
Massachusetts, 376 pages
$25.00
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Fifty Puritan Ancestors: Elizabeth Todd Nash, the
Turtle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1902 (pages:
171) The genealogy of the Nash family's Puritan
ancestors.
$36.00
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 2 1933-1938 by Blanche
Wiesen Cook.
This volume encompasses the monumental era of the
Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering
storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts’
greatest challenges and accomplishments. Cook restores
Eleanor Roosevelt to her place as a visionary
policymaker and social activist with her own agenda,
often ahead of her more circumspect husband. (686
pages)
$7.00
Remembrance Rock by Carl Sandburg Harcourt Brace
and Company New York 1948, 1067 pages
$6.00
Santayana – Persons and places the background of my
life by George Santayana, 1944, 262 pages
$25.00
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Scarritt, The History of the Clan in America, Vol. 2 –
R.E. Pearson – 1948
$19.00
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Shapleys, Westward the American Shapleys; The
family and Descendants of David Shapley, a
Seventeenth Century Marblehead Fisherman, 1987, 466
pages
$46.00
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Smith - Genealogy of Eleazer Smith, Grafton, NH –
revised 1999.
$7.00
Memorial: genealogical history of Edward Spalding
of Mass. Bay, & his descendants (Hardcover): by S. J.
Spalding. 619p. 1872. Higginson reprint. This book
contains 10 generations of Spalding descendants starting
abroad in England and covering multiple states in the
US.
$85.00
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Bob Steele’s 50th Anniversary: an Affectionate
Memoir by Jane Moskowitz and Jane Gillard,
Spoonwood Press 1986, 143 pages. A memoir of radio
program host Bob Steele for the 50th anniversary of his
program being on air.
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Towner – A genealogy of the Towner family
Truman – by David McCullough, The life of Harry S.
Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled
with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George
Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- dramatic
events. 1117 pages
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Benjamin
Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, Vol 2 Mark Twain
stipulated that his complete, uncensored Autobiography
remain unpublished for a century after his death.
Published to rave reviews in 2010, the first volume
became an instant bestseller, hailed as offering fresh
insight into the man and his career. The Autobiography
captures the unique voice of one of the liveliest minds of
the nineteenth century, brimming with ideas and
opinions. The eagerly awaited Volume 2 delves deeper
into Mark Twain's inner world. It ranges from his
earliest childhood to his final years, when he sat down to
record his life story on his own terms.
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Daniel Wadsworth, Patron of the Arts by Richard
Saunders with Helen Raye 108pp
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The Life & Times of Washington by Mario Rivoire,
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore & The Curtis Publishing
Company 1967, 1965, 75 pages. A biography of
General George Washington
The Whiton Family in America, The Genealogy of
the Descendants of Thomas Whiton (1635) compiled
by Augustus Sherrill Whiton of New York published by
the Whiton Family Association, Inc. 1932 258 pgs
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Thomas Whiton, son of William and Catherine Ardene
Whiton immigrated to Massachusetts, probably from
Oxfordshire, England. He settled in Plymouth in 1637
and later died in 1664. Descendants lived in
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and elsewhere.
Includes Amidon, Back, Bancroft, Beal, Chism,
Ingersoll, Cushing, Gardner, Hopkins, Houghton, King,
Lee, Lincoln, Newton, Richards, Ripley, Seymour,
Smith, Starbuck, Swett, Tuckerman, Walker, Washburn,
White, Whiton, Wilden, Whiting, Whitten, Woodbury
and related families.
Witter Genealogy, Descendants of William Witter of
Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1639-1659; compiled by
Georgia Cooper Washburn from Witter Family Records
and Data Gathered, and Edited by Mabel Thacher
Rosemary Washburn reprinted 394pp
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Who's Who in Commerce and Industry- 1959, twelth
edition. 1358 pages of information on thousands of
people.
$19.00
William the Conqueror, by David C. Douglas
$4.00
William and Mary, by Henri and Barbara Van Der Zee
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