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Publications
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The Scratch of a Pen -- 1763 and the Transformation of North America
By Colin Calloway
Item #117
220 pages with black and white maps, photographs and sketches. This selection won the society of Coloinal Wars Book Award. Publisher's Weekly terms it "first-rate cultural history... A spellbinding tale of a year in American history. Calloway's enthralling chronicle follows the lives of settlers, Indians and immigrants.
$15.95 + $5.00 shipping & handling
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Plymouth at its Best
By Greg Derr
Item #118
60 pages of color photographs. Greg derr is a leading photojournalist of Boston's South Shore and has been named New England Photographer of the Year four times. Plymouth, Massachusetts is rich in historical significance. It is one of America's oldest and most beloved communities. Derr's stunning color photography captures the highlights enjoyed by visitors and the secret treasures taht residents know and cherish. Enjoy visiting Plimouth Plantation, Burial Hill, Manomet, the Mayflower and Plimouth Rock, the Pilgrim Progress Parade, Gurnet Point, Plimouth Harbor and Beach, Court Street, and other historic homes, buildings and monuments.
$14.95 + $5.00 shipping & handling
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Cambridge at its best
By Ulrike Welsch
Item #119
60 pages of color photographs with descriptive captions. Cambridge is a city of historic neighborhoods and educations institutions. This book lets us experience the marvelous diversity found in one of our country's most extraordinary cities. Legendary international photojournalist Ulrike Welsch ws the first woman on the staffs of both the "Boston Herald Traveler" and "The Boston Globe" newspapers, where she provided award-winning images. Her book explores Harvard Square and University, the Charles River, Frest Pond, MIT, Mount Auburn Cemetary, historic homes, public buildings, churches, statues, bridges, parks and museums.
$19.95 + $5.00 shipping & handling
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Boston: A Pictorial Celebration
Text by Jonathan Beagle, photography by Elan Penn
Item #120
160 pages of text and color photography. Respected historian Jonathan Beagle and award-winning photographer Elan Penn remind us that Boston was the city where British colonist launched a revolution to protect "life, libery and the pursuit of happiness." Their book offers informational text and photos of historic homes, public buildings, churches, statues, bridges, parks and museums. It is divided into seven sections: Beacon Hill, Back Bay, North End and Charlestown, Financial District, Waterfront, Fenway and Around the Hub.
$14.95 + $5.00 shipping & handling
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America and the Sea -- Treasures from the Collections of Mystic Seaport
Introduction by Stephen S. Lash
Essays by: Finamore, Whitman, Ronnbery, Fowler, McMannus, Howland and Cooper
Item #121
159 pages of essays and 175 exceptional color and duotone illustrations. This book features eight essays discussing Mystic Seaport's collecting of maritime art, crafts and objects; the craftsmen and artists, adn the relevance of maritime history to American life. Two hundred of the most important objects (many never before published) include paintings, scrimshaw, figureheads, ship modiels and plans, as well as rare manuscript illustrations.
$29.95 + $5.00 shipping & handling
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Tales of the New England Coast
Compiled by Frank Oppel
Item #122
472 pages of text with black and white illustrations, sketches, maps, photographs and title pages. This book is a compilation of 28 detailed accounts, written between 1884 and 1908 on a variety of subjects, including the Old Boston Post Road, the Elizabeth Islands, Cape Cod, Maine, historic Salem and the North Shore, King Philip's Death, New England Fisheries, Schooners adn Steam Navigation. Anyone with a past or current link to New England would truly enjoy reading Oppel's compilation.
$19.95 + $5.00 shipping & handling
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Tales of Old New England
Compiled by Frank Oppel
Item #123
474 pages of text with black and white illustrations, engravings and photographs. This book is a compilation of 31 detailed accounts, written between 1813 and 1910. Subjects include the Penobscott River; Maine Frogging; Old Summer Street in Boston; Glouster, Vermont; the Connecticut River Ferry; New Hampshire; Maple Sugaring; Boating on the Charles River; Old Roads; Captain Joshua Slocum; A Typical Cape Cod Town and Brother Jonathan Trumbull.
$19.95 + $5.00 shipping & handling
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Wooden Miniature Replica of West Bridgwater's First Church
7 1/2" x 4 1/2"
Item #124
A detailed description of the Church's history is on the reverse. This is a companian piece to the wooden miniature replica of the Reverend James Keith House also in our catalogue.
$18.00 + $5.00 shipping & handling
+.0265% sales tax
William Brewster
The descendants of William Brwester through the lines
of Mary, Ruth and Elizabeth Brewster. It begins with William Brewster,
born 1666 and ending with Richard Phelps Tuller, died Aug. 10, 1926.
This book has 30 pages of valuable genealogical information. Please call
for more information about this publication.
Mark Lothrop
Covering his descendants from 1620-1793. This publication
consists of 32 pages, with 8 pages of end notes. Please call
for more information about this publication.
Updates to the publications on Thomas Hayward and Experience
Mitchell, by Diane Badger Moore. See below.
PINE HILL CEMETERY - PART II
This publication is a follow-up to 'PINE HILL CEMETERY - PART I - EARLY
RECORDS' by OBHS member Barbara Copeland Birkhimer. Part II covers the
portion of the cemetery added early in the 20th century. As with Part
I, these records are listed according to site, along with a site plan
and alphabetical index. The book contains 176 pages with an alphabetical
58-page index.
$35.00, $5.00 shipping & handling
PINE HILL CEMETERY - PART I
- EARLY RECORDS
This
book is the result of five years of painstaking effort by OBHS Life
Member Barbara Copeland Birkhimer. Mrs. Birkhimer spent years compiling
the recors in a format that would be most useful to researchers and genealogists.
The result is this new publication which has 150 pages of burial records
according to site, along with an alphabetical index that is 47 pages.
There is a cemetery map at the beginning of the book showing the old
Section, which this book encompasses. PART II will be ready within
the year, which will cover the balance of the cemetery records and promises
to be equally long.
$35.00, $5.00 shipping & handling
Earliest Known Map of New England
As included in William Hubbard's 1677 "A Narrative of the Troubles with
the Indians in New England". It is a pictoral map of New England and
is accompanied by a two-page description. The map measures 11 5/8"
by 15 1/8". We have printed it on 65-pound tea-stained ivory parchment.
It is our finest map to date and certainly suitable for framing. The
accompanying two-page description is printed on matching ivory stock.
maps have been hugely popular with our membership and this artistically
rendered map includes oceans, rivers, animals, mountains, trees, Indeans,
ships and figural representations of settlements joined with the names
of places that have been "affaulted" by the Indians. It is beautiful
and OBHS President Maureen Lynn is truly excited and pleased that former
president Larry Conant has secured permission for us to print this
rare woodcut.
$15.00, $5.00 shipping & handling
Byrams in America
Second edition book by John Arnold Byram. Dedicated to Byram family emigrants,
the 570-page text includes at least eight Byram English male emigrants
and their succeeding generations.
$35.00, $5.00 shipping
New style Keith House Note Cards
A
reproduction of an original watercolor of the Keith House painted by
an OBHS member. Each card is printed on ivory stock with the Keith House
in color and accompanied by an ivory envelope. Six cards are packaged in
highlophane with ribbon and the gold OBHS seal.
$10.00 for 6 cards and envelopes, $2.50 shipping
Thomas Snell the Emigrant (1638-1716)
Written by descendant
Oakes Tirrill (1772-1862). This publication includes 16 pages of text,
plus a color plate of Thomas Snell and a forward written by Franklin
Birdsall, Jr., descendent of Thomas Snell.
$15.00, $5.00 shipping
Descendants of William Brett
21 pages of genealogical information to the 5th generation. Nine pages
of end notes and an index of 4 pages.
$15.00, $5.00 shipping
Descendants of Jonathan Copeland
29 pages of genealogical information to the 7th generation. 13 pages of
end notes and an index of 8 pages.
$20.00, $5.00 shipping
The Crane History of Bridgewater
Includes the Bridgewater section from Hurd's history of Plymouth Country,
the historical sketch of Joshua E. Crane, his son Joshua E. Crane, Jr.,
and his granddaughter Clara W. Crane. Biographical Genealogical information,
photos and more. 60 pages.
$20.00, $5.00 shipping
Descendants of Edward Fobes
18 pages of genealogical information to the 5th generation. 13 pages of
end notes, a one-page bibliography, and an index of 6 pages.
$15.00, $5.00 shipping
Descendants of Thomas Hayward
83 pages of genealogical information to the 5th generation,
including bibliography, 32 pages of end notes and a
13-page index. Completed
in 2004 by Diane Badger Moore.
$35.00, $5.00 shipping
Descendants of Thomas Hayward -- End
Notes
30 pages of End Note information on each name in the book shown above.
Each name in the book listed above is tied by number to a source reference
in this bibliography.
$8.00, $4.00 shipping
Descendants of John Howard
27 pages of genealogical information to the 3rd generation.
14 pages of end notes.
$20.00, $5.00 shipping
Descendants of John Keith -- Son of Rev. James Keith
and Susanna Edson
18 pages of genealogical information to the 6th generation.
8 pages of end notes, a one-page bibliography, and an index of 4 pages.
$25.00, $5.00 shipping
Descendants of Jonathan Kingman
13 pages of genealogical information to the 6th generation.
7 pages of end notes.
$10.00, $5.00 shipping
Descendants of Experience Mitchell
80 pages of genealogical information
to the 5th generation. Including 28 pages of end
notes, a 13-page index
and a bibliography. Completed in 2004 by Diane Badger Moore.
$35.00, $5.00 shipping
The Geneologies of Samuel Packard of Bridgewater,
Mass. and Abel Packard of Cummington, Rhode Island
By Rev. Theophilus Packard of Manteno, Illinois in
1871. This is a reprint of that book with 81 pages of genealogical information
to the 6th generation.
$10.00, $5.00 shipping
Descendants of Robert Waterman
11 pages of genealogical information to the 12th generation.
2 pages of end notes, a one-page bibliography, and an index of 3 pages.
$10.00, $5.00 shipping
Town Records of Bridgewater, Ma 1656 to 1683
By John Carey, First Clerk. 82 pages of information
and 10 pages of index.
$20.00, $5.00 shipping
History of West Bridgewater
Ancient Bridgewater section (5 pages) by Bradford
Kingman, History of West Bridgewater section (50 pages) by Francis E.
Howard. Includes photos and information on genealogy and manufacturing.
$20.00, $5.00 shipping
Index to the History of West Bridgewater
Prepared by Shirley M. Bessinger, 23 pages indexing
the book noted above.
$7.00, $5.00 shipping
Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater
This publicatio was first made as a supplement to Wiliam Lathan's work
from 1884. It contains information on the graveyards located in Bridgewater,
MA and information on the epitaphs through 1976. The document also
includes information on The Alden or Vernan Cemetery in Titicut (map
included), the Conant St. Cemetery, the First Catholic Cemetery,
etc. There is also a map of the locations of the graves and a master
index.
$15.00, $5.00 shipping
Joppa Soldier, the 29th Regiment Mass Volunteers
Joppa is a village in East Bridgewater located in Plymouth County. This
89-page publication is a story told from the letters and journal of
Thomas Conant, a soldier show lived in Joppa. This story, edited by
L.D. Conant was written during the Civil War and begins in the year
1860.
$10.00, $5.00 shipping
What Time Reveals: Restoration of the Peter Cushing
House
By H. G. Conant, edited by L. D. Conant. Documents
the restoration of an original house in Hingham. 21 pages, with photos.
$9.00, $5.00 shipping
Massacquoetnecut -- the Original Settlement of Old
Bridgewater
16 pages of information and maps of the original proprietor
records, noting deed references and results of various wills as they relate
to land transfers. Includes maps with size and locations of the lots.
$9.00, $5.00 shipping
New England Village
Compiled from letters to Thomas Conant from teenage
friends and family in the years 1855 and 1856. It also contains a map
of the Joppa Village, pictures, a map of East Bridgewater, a 2-page bibliography
and an appendix that includes excerpts from a letter by Sarah Jane Conant
(Thomas Conant's wife). 21 pages.
$9.00, $4.00 shipping
Colonial History of West Bridgewater
By L. D. Conant. 70 pages, including the original
purchase, existing records and settlement information. It also contains
several maps, including one of the Division of 1724 and one of the early
roads from 1720 to 1770. Also included
is the Census of 1771, inventories and an index.
$15.00, $5.00 shipping
The Bridgewaters Illustrated
Hard-bound pictorial essay of the three Bridgewaters
and Brockton about 1900 with original advertising, reprint of two original
1900's historical booklets. Includes information about "Bridgewater
in England", the settlement in Bridgewater, MA, James Keith, West Bridgewater,
the Howard Seminary, East and North Bridgewater and Brockton.
$20.00, $5.00 shipping
Old Bridgewater Tercentenary 1656-1956
Pictures, Old Advertising, general information. 87
pages of town, church, and school histories of Bridgewater, East Bridgewater,
West Bridgewater, and North Bridgewater (now Brockton).
$15.00, $5.00 shipping
Tales Around the Common
By the Bridgewater Historical Collectors
53 pages, history of Bridgewater including photos, maps, and interesting
notes on the Bridgewater Fire Dept., education, landmarks, etc.
$15.00, $5.00 shipping
Pictorial History, Bridgewater, Mass
By the Bridgewater Historical Collectors. 63 pages
of historical photos of early houses, Fire Department, public buildings,
athletic teams, churces, etc. with notes of each.
$15.00, $5.00 shipping
Sermon of the Rev. James Keith
On June 14, 1717, Rev. James Keith preached the sermon
"A Case for Prayer" on the occasion of the dedication of a local
church. 17 pages, with a preface by Cotton Mather and Increase Mather.
$15.00, $5.00 shipping
Misc:
Rev. Keith House Stationery: 8 notecards
and envelopes with a picture of the Rev. James Keith House on the front.
Plenty of room for letter writing, excellent quality paper.
$8.00, $4.00 shipping
Map of Old Bridgewater. From 1895, in
color, suitable for framing. Shows the town boundaries of Old Bridgewater
in 1795, copied from a map filed at the State House in 1866.
$22.00, $3.50 shipping
Pairpoint Cup Plate of OBHS Museum. Limited
edition by the Pairpoint Company for the OBHS. Available in the following
colors: Cobalt Blue, Canary Yellow or Green.
$12.00, $5.00 shipping
Coloring Book
A 15-page historical coloring book of West Bridgewater, MA. Coloring
pictures include the War Memorial Monument, the Keith House, the Willowbrick
Farm Estate, the Howard House, and the Yankee Peddler Antique Store.
$5.00
350 Years, the First Church of West Bridgewater, MA
This publication includes information on the formative years (1664-1831)
to the reunion (1954-present). Also included are pictures, the names
and dates of the settled ministers of the First Chursch and one page
of historical sources.
$10.00, $2.00 shipping
The Keith House drawing
A detailed drawing print of the Keith House.
$32.00
1795 Map of Old Bridgewater
Large color map of Old Bridgewater that includes whereabouts of grist
mills, saw mills, forges, furnaces, bridges, etc.
$22.00, with frame: $52.00
Photo of the Old Bridgewater Historical Society
A beautiful color photograph of the Old Bridgewater Historical Society.
Map of the Bridgewaters - 1975
A large historical map of Old Bridgewater, MA. It includes a trail of
historical sites and a legend of streets, ponds, highways, railroads,
etc.
$15.00
Centennial Commemorative Plate --
1894-1994
This is the 100th Anniversary Plate of the Old Bridgewater Historical
Society. The plate contains pictures of West Bridgewater, the Rev.
Keith Parsonage House, the East Bridgewater Public Library, the Bridgewater
Academy Building, and Brockton City Hall.
$10.00, $2.00 shipping
What Time Reveals? A tour of the Peter Cushing House in
Hingham, MA
This publication was written by Harold Sargent Conant between 1735 and
1942. It was first published by Harold Conant's grandson, Laurence D.
Conant in 1998. The story is about the restoration of the Peter Cushing
House and also contains pictures of the house.
Keith House Notepaper (in color)
Six sheets of high quality note paper, each with a colorful artist's
rendering of the Keith House.
$8.00, $2.00 shipping
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