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Hurley Library
The Old Colony History Museum is home to the Hurley Library, specializing in a wide variety of Massachusetts-based subjects. Explore topics like local industries, military history, collectibles, and town histories. Uncover your family's story, learn about Taunton’s past, or delve into records on businesses, homes, and communities.

Lane Families of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Memorial address at the Reunion of Descendants and Kindred of William Lane, Boston, 1651, William Lane, Hampton, 1685, Dea. Joshua Lane, Hampton, who was killed by lightning June 14, 1766.
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Later New England Pendletons: A Record of the Pendleton Family from the 7th to the 12th Generation
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Law and Order in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1774-1821; With emphasis on its South Parish/Precinct
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Law and Order in Colonial Bridgewater, Massachusetts; With special emphasis on its South Parish/Precinct
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Leaves from the Family Tree for Descendants of William and Rachel French of South West Hartland, Connecticut
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Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the names, rank, and line, of every person placed on the pension list.
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Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting report on the organization of the Army of the Potomac, and of its campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, under the command of Maj. Gen. George B. McCellan, from July 6, 1861, to November 7, 1862.
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Life in New Bedford a Hundred Years Ago; a chronicle of the social, religious and commercial history of the period as recorded in a diary kept by Joseph R. Anthony
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Life in New Bedford a Hundred Years Ago; a chronicle of the social, religious and commercial history of the period as recorded in a diary kept by Joseph R. Anthony
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln
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Lineages of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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List of titles of genealogical articles in American periodicals and kindred works. Giving the name, residence, and earliest date of the first settler of each family.
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Manual for noncommissioned officers and privates of field artillery of the army of the United Statees; 1917
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Manuel for railroad engineers and engineering students; Containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads, as built in the United States.
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Marching together: the story of Reed & Barton during World War II; its people, its products, its policies.
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Marks and monograms on European and Oriental pottery and porcelain, with historical notices of each manufactory; Over 3500 potters' marks and illustrations
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Marriage Notices; From 1785-1794, for the Whole United States, Copied from the Massachusetts Centinel and the Columbian Centinel
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Marriage and death records for Taunton, Massachusetts and other communities as found ing the Taunton newspapers; The Cabinet and The Village Fire Fly
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Massachusetts Beautiful, Illustrated by the author with three hundred and four pictures covering all the counties in Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Civil War Centennial Commission; Massachusetts regiments in the Civil War 1861-1865.
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Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: Register for 1904 with Lists of Members and Their Revolutionary Ancestors�
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Massachusetts in Contention: a Chronological Survey, 1775-1783 Jordan D. Fiore and Jean F. Stonehouse
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Massachusetts: Colony to Commonwealth; documents on the formation of its constitutions, 1775-1780 /edited by Robert J. Taylor.
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Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, Written and Compiled by the Federal Writer's Projects of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Massachusetts.
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Massasoit of the Wampanoags: With a brief commentary on Indian character; and sketches of other great chiefs, tribes, and nations
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Material Suggested for Use in the Schools in Observance of Massachusetts Bay Colony and of the General Court and One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the Adoption of the Constitution of the Commonwealth/ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Education
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Materials of a Genealogy of Josiah Stover of Tiverton, Rhode Island; Especially with a Reference to the Descendants of Joshua Stafford
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Mathew Brady's illustrated history of the Civil War, 1861-65, and the causes that led up to the great conflict; / by Benson J. Lossing, and a chronological summary and record of every engagement ... showing the total losses and casualties together with war maps of localities, compiled from the official records of the War Department ; illustrated with facsimile photographic reproductions of the official war photographs, taken at the time by Mathew B. Brady, under the authority of President Lincoln and now in the possession of the War Department, Washington, D.C. ....
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Mattapoisett and Old Rochester, Massachusetts: being a history of these towns and also in part of Marion and a portion of Wareham.
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Mayflower Source Records: Primary Data Concerning Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard: from the New England historical and genealogical register. Selected and introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts
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Mayflower births & deaths; from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants
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Mayflower deeds and probates; from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants
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Mayflower families through five generations; : descendents of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620
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Mayflower marriages; from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants
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McClellan's Own Story: the war for the Union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to it and to them
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Meetinghouses, town houses, and churches: Changing perceptions of sacred and secular space in Southern New England, 1720-1850
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Memoir of Increase Sumner, Governor of Massachusetts; Together with a Genealogy of the Sumner Family
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Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, Vice-President of the United States (1889-1893)
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Memorial Address of the Life, Character and Public Services of the Honorable George Frisbie Hoar
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Memorial Addresses Delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States Sixty-First Congress
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Ambrose E. Burnside (a Senator from Rhode Island), Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Forty-seventh Congress, First Session, January 23, 1882, with the Proceedings Connected with the Funeral of the Deceased
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Henry Bowen Anthony (a Senator from Rhode Island) Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives : Forty-Eighth Congress, Second Session, January 19 and 21, 1885, with the Funeral Services at Providence, Rhode Island, September 6, 1884
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of James Gilespie Blaine of Augusta: (Speaker of the House of Representatives of Maine in the Legislature, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of the 41st, 42d and 43d Congress, Senator from Maine in Congress of the United States, and Secretary of State of the United States in the Cabinet of Presidents Garfield and Harrison) Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Sixty-Sixth Legislature, Jan. 31, 1893
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Thomas A. Hendricks (Vice president of the United States), Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Forty-Ninth Congress, First Session
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Memorial Sketch of Hyde Park, Mass., for the first twenty years of its corporate existence [1868-1888]; also its industries, statistics, and organizations, together with the anniversary addresses, delivered by Rev. Perley B. Davis, and Rev. Richard J. Barry.
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Memorial history of the Seventeenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry (old and new organizations) in the civil war from 1861-1865, issued by the authority of the supervisors, authorized to write and publish the history
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