Genealogy Resources

• Directory of Family Associations

• The Genealogist's Companion & Sourcebook

• The Genealogist's Encyclopedia

• The Handybook for Genealogists

• The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy

• Felt, Joseph B. History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton. Massachusetts: 
  C. Folsom, 1834. 

• Fewkes-Darling Papers
  189 volumes of indexed genealogical records, compiled by Jonathan Fewkes and Edward Lee Darling, covering over 200 families of  Ipswich, Massachu- setts.   The entries are arranged by family surnames in loose-leaf notebooks.

• Hammatt, Abraham. Hammatt Papers: Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts 1633-1700. Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1980.

• Ipswich, Town of. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to the end of the Year 1849  and Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts from 1850 to 1906  (births, deaths and marriages). Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910.

• Johnson, Arthur W. and Ralph Eldridge Ladd. Memento Mori (Listing of gravestones in Ipswich from 1634 to 1935 with diagrams and maps). Massachusetts: Ipswich Historical Society, 1935.

•   Schofield,  George E.  Ancient Records of the Town of Ipswich. Massachusetts:  Chronicle Motor Press, 1899. 

• Waters, Thomas F.  Candlewood an Ancient Neighborhood in Ipswich with Genealogies of John Brown, William Fellows, and Robert Kinsman. Massachusetts: Salem Press, 1909. 

• Waters, Thomas F.  Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Massachusetts: Ipswich Public Library, 1962.

• Anderson, John. The Fifty-seventh regiment of Massachusetts volunteers in the war of the rebellion. Army of the Potomac. By Captain John Anderson, U. S. Army. Boston: E. B. Stillings & Co., 1896.

• Billings, John Davis.  The history of the Tenth Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery in the War of the Rebellion : formerly of the Third Corps and afterwards of Hancock's Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, 1862-1865. Boston : Arakelyan Press, 1909. 

• Boynton, Charles B. The history of the Navy during the rebellion.  VOL. I & II. New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1867-68.

• Frye, James Albert. The First regiment Massachusetts heavy artillery, United States volunteers, in the Spanish-American war of 1898. Boston: The Colonial Company, 1899.

• Gammons, John G. The Third Massachusetts Regiment Volunteer Militia in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1863. Providence: Snow & Farnham Co.,1906.

•  Headley, P. C.  Massachusetts in the rebellion. A record of the historical position of the commonwealth, and the services of the leading statesmen, the military, the colleges, and the people, in the civil war of 1861-65. Boston: Walker, Fuller and Co., 1886.

• Massachusetts Adjutant-General's Office. Massachusetts soldiers, sailors, and marines in the civil war. Massachusetts: Norwood Press. 1931.

• Massachusetts Commission on Massachusetts' part in the World War. Report of the Commission on Massachusetts' Part in the World War ... 1931. Vol. I.   
   Boston: Wright & Potter, 1931.

• Roe, Alfred S. History of the First Regiment of Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers, Formerly the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry, 1861-1865.  Boston: The Regimental Association, 1917.

• Sons of the American Revolution. Soldiers and sailors whose graves have been designated by the marker of the society. Boston: The Society, 1901.

• Stevens, William Burnham. History of the Fiftieth Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia  in the Late War of the Rebellion. Boston: Griffith-Stilings Press, 1907.

• Waters, Thomas F. Ipswich in the World War. Salem, Mass: Printed for the Society, 1920. 

• Chapman, Jacob. Edward Chapman of Ipswich, Mass., 1642-1678, and his
  descendants. Salem, Mass. : Available from Higginson Book Co., [1995] 

• The Hovey book : describing the English ancestry and American
  descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Compiled
  and published under the auspices of the Daniel Hovey Association,
  with an introductory chapter by the president. Salem, Mass. : Higginson Book Co., [199-?]

• The Hovey Book : describing the English ancestry and American
  descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Compiled
  and published under the Auspices of the Daniel Hovey Association,
  with an introductory chapter by the president. Ipswich, Mass.: Press of Lewis R. Hovey, c1914. 

• Clark chronicles : some of the descendents of Thomas Clark of
  Ipswich, New Hampshire [i.e. Massachusetts. Compiled by Joan C.
  Davis. [Uvalde, Tex. : The Author], 1996. 

•  Emerson, Benjamin Kendall.  The Ipswich Emersons  A.D. 1636-1900: a genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Emerson of Ipswich, Mass., with some account of his English ancestry. Boston: Printed for private circulation. D. Clapp & Son, 1900. 

• Forster, Edward J.  Genealogy of the Fo(r)ster family; descendants of Reginald Foster, who settled in Ipswich, Essex County, Mass. A.D. 1638.    Boston: D. Clapp, 1876. 

• Jedrey, Christopher M.   The world of John Cleaveland : family and community in eighteenth-century New England. New York : Norton, c1979. 

• Memorial of Samuel Appleton, of Ipswich, Massachusetts; with
  genealogical notices of some of his descendants.  Compiled by Isaac
  Appleton Jewett. Boston, 1850. 

• Kingsbury, Arthur M.   Kingsbury Genealogy: the genealogy of the descendants of Joseph Kingsbury of Dedham, Massachusetts, together with the descendants in several lines of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich, Mass- achusetts, and our Canadian cousins.  Minneapolis : Burgess-Beckwith, 1962. 

• Genealogy of the Waldo family : a record of the descendants of
  Cornelius Waldo, of Ipswich, Mass., from 1647 to 1900.  Compiled by
  Waldo Lincoln. Vol. I & II. Worcester, Mass. : Press of C. Hamilton, 1902. 

•  Martin, Elisabeth P.  Deacon John Burnham of Ipswich and Ebenezer Martin of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, with some of their descendants.  Baltimore : Gateway Press, 1987. 

• O'Seep, Pierre and Mary  The Perkins family from Pierre de Morlaix, 1380(?) to 1986. [S.l. : P. O'Seep], 1986. 

• Paine, Albert W.  Paine genealogy. Ipswich branch. Including a brief history of the Norman race (to which all families of "Paine" belong) from its origin
  unitl the conquest and the crusade in which Hugo de Payen served.
  Maine: O. F. Knowles, 1881. 

• Four generations of the descendants of John Webster of Ipswich in
  1635. Compiled by Cecile N. Pimental and Noreen C. Pramberg. Massachusetts : Parker River Researchers, c1984. 

• Procter, Leland H.  John Proctor of Ipswich and some of his descendants.  
  Springfield, Mass. : Research Associates, Genealogical Research Group, Genealogy & Local History Dept., Springfield City Library, c1985. 

• The Hoveys of Ipswich . Compiled by Robert Stollberg
  Redwood City, CA : Robert Stollberg, October 1988. 

• John Chapman's line of descent from Edward Chapman of Ipswich.
  Compiled by Florence E. Wheeler with an introduction by Robert
  Price. [S.l.] : Ohio Archaelogical and Historical Quarterly, 1939. 

• Wilcomb, Oliver Clifton.  Genealogy of the Willcomb family of New England (1665-1902), together with a condensed history of the town of Ipswich.
  Massachusetts: [s.n.], 1902. 

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