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Many of the older books contain out of date research, but some are invaluable such as the membership directories from the Mayflower Society from 100 years ago, or the epitaphs from Plymouth's Burial Hill written in 1896 (some of those epitaphs are now illegible). The most recent book on this list was published in 2009, but most are 100 years older than that! If you are interested in a particular book on this list, just type the title and
author into the search bar at https://books.google.com/ Also, please note that these digitized versions of the books are searchable, so you search each volume for surnames, geographic locations, or any other keyword. Sometimes this is better than having the actual volume in front of you on the desk!
The Arrival of the Pilgrims, by John Franklin
Jameson, 1920, published by Brown University.
Bradford’s History “Of Plimoth Plantation”, 1901,
published by Wright & Potter, state printers for the Massachusetts General
Court.
The Brewster Genealogy, 1566 – 1907: A Record of the
Descendants of William Brewster of the Mayflower, Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim
Church which founded Plymouth Colony in 1620, Volume 1, by Emma C. Brewster Jones, 1908.
Captain Myles Standish, by Tudor Jenks, 1905,
published by Century Company.
Chief of the Pilgrims: Or the Life and Time of William
Brewster, Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Company that Founded New Plymouth, the
Parent Colony of New England, in 1620, by Ashbel Steele, 1857,
published by J. B. Lippincott.
Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of
Plymouth, by Alexander Young, 1841, published by C. C. Little and J.
Brown.
The Colony of New Plymouth and Its Relations to
Massachusetts: A Lecture of a Course by Members of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, Delivered before the Lowell Institute, Jan. 19, 1869, by
William Brigham, 1869.
Elder William Brewster, of the Mayflower: His Books and
Autographs, with Other Notes, by Justin Winsor, 1887, published by John
Wilson and Son.
Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts
from 1657 to 1892 with Biographical and Historical Notes, by Bradford
Kingman, 1892, Brookline, Mass.: New England Illustrated Historical Publishing
Company.
The Enterprise of the Mayflower, by Amice
MacDonell, 1889, published by Walter H. Baker & Company.
The General Society of Mayflower Descendants,
1901, published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Good Newes from New England, by Edward
Winslow, 1996, published by Applewood Books.
Governor William Bradford’s Letter Book, by
William Bradford, 1906, published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower
Descendants (reprinted from the Mayflower Descendant).
The Graves of Myles Standish and Other Pilgrims,
by Eugene Joseph Vincent Huiginn, 1914.
Guide to Plymouth and Recollections of the Pilgrims,
Volume 2, by William Shaw Russell, 1846.
Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts:
Its History, Its Famous Dead, and Its Quaint Epitaphs, by Frank Herman
Perkins, 1896.
An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth,
by Francis Baylies, 1830, published by Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins.
A History of the Allerton Family in the United States,
1585 to 1885, and a Genealogy of the Descendants of Isaac Allerton, Mayflower
Pilgrim, Plymouth, Mass., 1620, by Walter Scott Allerton and Horace
True Currier, 1900, published by S. W. Allerton.
History of Plimoth Plantation, by William
Bradford, 1898, Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co.
History of Plymouth County with Biographical Sketches
of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Massachusetts, by Duane
Hamilton Hurd, 1884, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co.
History of Plymouth Plantation, by William
Bradford, edited with notes by Charles Deane, 1856, Boston: Privately Printed.
The History of the Pilgrims, Or, A Grandfather’s Story
of the First Settler of New England, 1831, Boston: T. B. Marvis for the
Massachusetts Sabbath School Union.
History of the Town of Plymouth, by William
Thomas Davis, 1885, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co.
History of the Town of Plymouth, from Its First
Settlement in 1620 to the Present Time: With a
Concise History of the
Aborigines of New England, and Their Wars with the English, etc., by
James Thacher, 1835, published by Marsh, Capen & Lyon.
The Howland Homestead, 1911, published by the
Society of the Descendants of Pilgrim John Howland, of the Ship Mayflower.
An Illustrated Guide to Historic Plymouth,
Massachusetts, by Walter F. Wheeler, 1921, Boston: The Union News
Company.
John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers, A Study
of his Life and Times, by Walter Herbert Burgess, 1920, published by
Williams & Norgate.
The Last of the Mayflower, by James Rendel
Harris, 1920, published by the University Press.
Lives of the Governors of New Plymouth and
Massachusetts Bay, by Jacob Bailey Moore, 1848, New York: Gates &
Stedman.
The Mayflower, edited by Robert Hamilton, 1846,
originally published in Boston by Saxton & Kelt.
Mayflower Essays on the Story of the Pilgrim Fathers
as Told in Governor Bradford’s History of the Plimoth Plantation: With a Reproduction of Captain John Smith’s
Map of New England, by George Cuthbert Blaxland, 1896, published by
Ward & Downey.
The Mayflower: Or, Scenes and Sketches Among the Descendants
of the Pilgrim Fathers, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852, published by
Knight and Son.
The Mayflower Pilgrims: Being a Condensation in the
Original Wording and Spelling of the Story Written by Gov. William Bradford of
their Privations and Trials, and the Voyage of the Mayflower and Settlement at
Plymouth in the Year 1620, by William Bradford and John Tyler Wheelwright,
1921, published by McGrath-Sherrill Press.
The Mayflower Descendant: A Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim
Genealogy and History, Volume 23 (1921) and others published by the
Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two
Generations After Landing, 1922, published by the Bureau of Military
and Civic Achievement, Washington, DC
The Mayflower Pilgrim Descendants in Cape May County,
New Jersey, by Paul Sturtevant Howe, 1921, published by A. R. Hand.
Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth,
1986, published by Applewood Books.
Mourt’s Relation Or Journal of the Plantation at
Plymouth, contributors Edward Winslow, Henry Martyn Dexter, and William
Bradford, 1865, published by J. K. Wiggin.
The New England’s Memorial, by Nathaniel
Morton, 2009, published by Applewood Books.
The Pastor of the Pilgrims: A Biography of John
Robinson, by Walter Herbert Burgess, 1920, published by Harcourt, Brace
& Howe.
Pilgrim Alden: The Story of the Life of the First John
Alden in America, by Augustus Ephraim Alden, 1902, Boston: James H.
Earle & Company.
Pilgrims and Puritans: The Story of the Planting of
Plymouth and Boston, by Nina Moore Tiffany, 1888, published by Ginn
& Company.
The Pilgrims and Their Monument, by Edmund
Janes Carpenter, 1911, published by D. Appleton and Company.
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, In New England,
Volume 7, by Nathaniel Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, 1861, Boston: the press of
William White.
Records of the Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts,
Volume 1 1636 to 1705, 1889, Plymouth: Avery & Doten.
Richard Warren of the Mayflower and Some of His
Descendants, by Emily Warren Roebling, 1901, published by David Clapp &
Son.
The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims: And Its
Place in the Life of Today, by Albert Christopher Addison, 1911,
published by L. C. Page.
Signers of the Mayflower Compact, by Annie
Arnoux Haxtun, 1896.
The Signers of the Mayflower Compact and Their
Descendants, by Henry Whittemore, 1899, published by the Mayflower
Publishing Company.
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of
Michigan, 1915.
Stories of the Pilgrims, by Margaret Blanche
Pumphrey, 1912, published by Rand McNally.
A Tribute to the Memory of the Pilgrims, and a Vindication
of the Congregational Churches of New England, by Joel Hawes, 1836,
published by D. Burgess & Company.
The Voyage of the Mayflower, by Blanche
McManus, 1897, published by E. R. Herrick & Company.
The Women of the Mayflower and Women of Plymouth
Colony, by Ethel Jane Russell Chesebrough Noyes, 1921, published by Memorial
Press.
The Women who Came on the Mayflower, by Annie
Russell Marble, 1920, published by the Pilgrim Press.
To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Google Book Search for Mayflower Books", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 23, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-google-book-search-for-mayflower-books.html: accessed [access date]).
A great idea and very helpful list. I have added this post to today's Saturday Serendipity post. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, John! https://filiopietismprism.blogspot.com/2020/01/saturday-serendipity-january-25-2020.html
DeleteI wish there was a way to copy this list so I could use it to do some searching.
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