A Google Book Search for Mayflower Books

Mayflower II 1957 arriving in Plymouth harbor

There are many, many books on the Mayflower and the Plymouth Colony, and many are listed on Google Books, but few are readable online.  Some are just previews, or are searchable, but not readable.  You won't find the latest research or the newly published books on the Pilgrims here, those books are still under copyright - like Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs' book Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners or Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower.

Many of the older books contain out of date research, but some are invaluable such as the membership directories from the Mayflower Society from 100 years ago, or the epitaphs from Plymouth's Burial Hill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.

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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]).